Beachcomber May 19
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5/21/2010 9:26 AM
Two pieces got my interest, the editor’s op-ed and the sincere but muddled letter from Twisdale.
The dustup over the scuffle at Sporty’s was a lose-lose reporting obligation for the Beachcomber because political correctness and bigotry in the readership get in the way. Put differently, emotional conflict can’t be resolved in a newspaper. Instead and ideally, Vashon would have a degree of self-government that would include a forum for resolving disputes. Absent the Council’s dollar umbilical to the County, the Council would have had the witnesses and participants, all sober and presentable, line up in front of a full house at Bangasser Court and speak their pieces. Then the Beachcomber could weigh in, but not before. Dream on.
Twisdale stresses the risk of vaccination with words I cannot summarize fairly. So I refer to her letter only to introduce the risk of vaccination using my own muddling. Here goes. The way to get a handle on current uneasiness regarding vaccination begins by partitioning vaccines into good and bad. Good vaccines are those developed before WWII while bad vaccines are those developed later for profit. (One might call profit a disease.) This partition is based on the fact that increasingly we the public have lost faith in our government. We no longer believe what the CDC says. We believe instead that profit was a very real element in the vaccine’s hasty development and proclamations thereon. With that partition firmly in mind, one can advance to rational judgment of particular vaccines. Judging the swine flue vaccine to have been a hoax then would not have cast retroactive pejoratives upon other vaccines.
In closing, here from Reuters is a related bit of lying to the public that addresses cancer:
Americans "bombarded" with cancer sources: report
Excerpt: "Although most experts agree that as many as two-thirds of cancer cases are caused by lifestyle choices like smoking, poor diet and lack of exercise, the two-member panel said many avoidable cancers were also caused by pollution, radon gas from the soil and medical imaging scans. The incidence of some cancers, including some most common among children, is increasing for unexplained reasons," wrote the two panel members, Dr. LaSalle Leffall, professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington and Margaret Kripke, an emeritus professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. … A White House spokesman indicated he had not yet seen the report and the National Cancer Institute declined comment.…The American Cancer Society said the report downplayed known risks that cause most cases of cancer including tobacco, obesity, alcohol, infections, hormones and sunlight.
Well, well, well. The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute do not think that the cumulative effect of chemicals in food and food packaging, for example, is not an important cause of cancer. Menwomen, it is as obvious as the number 7 in the little recycle triangle on the bottom of that orange juice jug from a Coca-Cola subsidiary that our major anti-cancer organizations are in the deep pockets of industry. You also have found it obvious that health care for breast cancer is framed to the public as consisting entirely of early detection and treatment.
(Recycle type 7 contains Bisphenol A)