Vaccines and autism. There has been some confusion caused by Helen Petousis-Harris's seeming misunderstanding of my comments on Radio Rhema last night. Yes, I believe that vaccines can cause autism. Read Vaccines and Neonatal Immune Development, then How a baby fights infection and develops the immune system, then Can vaccines become cranial and immunological cluster bombs. There is absolutely no doubt that children with autism not only have deranged inate immune systems, but they also have cognitive disorder, and crohns. There is no doubt that aluminium adjuvants make the brain produce pro-inflammatory cytokines, and there is also no doubt that the use of aluminium adjuvant causes excessive amounts of host DNA to be released which in some children could result in autoimmunity. There is no doubt at all in my mind, that repeated vaccination results in autoimmunity.
I was not saying that at all. Did the vaccinations trigger it, or did the mutation? Why? Why have I never discussed Wakefield before? Cannabis cannot harm the brain. Every major investigation held about cannabis has found that the harms presented by cannabis use have been exaggerated, and that prohibition creates more harm than it prevents. The claim that the medical and psychological effects of Cannabis are so “dangerous and harmful” that we must not change the cannabis laws, has increasingly been seen to be unsupportable, particularly in light of the known effects of tobacco and alcohol. As the 1979 Sackville Royal Commission into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in South Australia found: … even a cursory glance at the modern history of Cannabis shows a repeated pattern of widely believed myths which often fly in the face of the available evidence.
The World Health Organisation in 1998 released a report that agreed with the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s report Cannabis: the public health issues 1995-1996 in acknowledging that the consumption of alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than the use of cannabis. Dr J. H. Cannabis is remarkably safe. Dr. Apricot kernel cancer cure. Apricot kernels have been promoted as a natural alternative therapy for cancer. However, there’s no reliable scientific evidence they work as a cure. The hydrocyanic acid in the kernels can cause cyanide poisoning. Between 2003 and 2013, there were 20 calls to the New Zealand Poisons Information Centre about people who had eaten apricot kernels.
Two kernel-selling websites we visited make no mention we could find of the health risks. Tauranga-based website apricotkernels.co.nz sells 10kg bags for “when 5kg is just not enough”. We also looked at apricotseeds.co.nz, which says “although there are many therapeutic claims for using apricot kernels - we do not endevour (sic) to make any claims”. Both websites sell 500g of kernels for about $50-$60. The ban has been supported by the Cancer Council Australia but is opposed by the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council, which has recommended mandatory labelling instead.
The 1080 debate. What is all the fuss about? The use of the poison 1080 has been under the microscope because of widespread concerns about the toll it is taking on wildlife and the environment. The Department of Conservation says it is the most suitable poison for aerial drops to kill possums which are destroying native bush. The New Zealand possum population is estimated at more than 70 million and chomps its way through seven million tonnes of vegetation a year.
Destroying possums limits the spread of tuberculosis from the pests to livestock on farms. Left unchecked, it is estimated TB could could cost the deer, beef and dairy industries industries up to $5 billion over 10 years. But opponents say the poison kills not only pests, but also native birds and wildlife such as kiwi. Hunters oppose 1080 because it kills deer and recreationists say it makes a mockery of New Zealand's claim to be clean, pure and green. What is 1080? Sodium monofluoroacetate, commonly known as 1080, is a fine white powder. Moon Man - Ken Ring. Last updated 13:23 05/10/2011 Controversial speaker Ken (Moon Man) Ring predicts Wellington can expect a magnitude 7 earthquake between 2013 and 2016. Mr Ring gained widespread attention after he claimed there would be another large Christchurch earthquake in March and TV3's John Campbell apologised after yelling at him during an interview. He visited Upper Hutt Library on Monday to speak about his weather prediction techniques and says we are due for another earthquake.
"I do expect earthquake activity exceeding 7 on the Richter to come about every 11 to 13 years, as they have done in Wellington in February 1893, August 1904, August 1917, July 1929, August 1942, May 1968 and May 1992. "As the last in the series of above-7s was in 1992 we can reasonably expect a 7 mag between 2013 and 2016. " Mr Ring says he also believes Upper Hutt will suffer a polar blast next year. Mr Ring uses previous weather cycles for his predictions and believes big events such as floods repeat after 36 to 38 years. Benefits & Risks of Artificial Intelligence. Many AI researchers roll their eyes when seeing this headline: “Stephen Hawking warns that rise of robots may be disastrous for mankind.”
And as many have lost count of how many similar articles they’ve seen. Typically, these articles are accompanied by an evil-looking robot carrying a weapon, and they suggest we should worry about robots rising up and killing us because they’ve become conscious and/or evil. On a lighter note, such articles are actually rather impressive, because they succinctly summarize the scenario that AI researchers don’t worry about. That scenario combines as many as three separate misconceptions: concern about consciousness, evil, and robots. If you drive down the road, you have a subjective experience of colors, sounds, etc.
The fear of machines turning evil is another red herring. The consciousness misconception is related to the myth that machines can’t have goals. The robot misconception is related to the myth that machines can’t control humans. How clean are our waterways? Our waterways are in dire straits Recent statistics about our waterways are not good news. 44% of all monitored lakes are polluted beyond the point of eutrophication, and 62% of our lowland rivers have more pathogens than are safe to swim in. The stats are even worse for lowland lakes in farmland – a whopping 84% are so polluted they become eutrophic. In fact many of our waterways are so bad that even our native fish have disappeared. It’s not the clean green image we associate with New Zealand is it? What streams should be like Before humans arrived in New Zealand, a majority of our lowland waterways were heavily shaded by forests.
What went wrong? Over the last several hundred years, a large proportion of lowland forest has been cleared for farming, forestry, horticulture and, of course, human habitation. On top of that, intensive farming and other industrial practices have also contributed to the problem: And it doesn’t stop there. Riparian planting – a solution worth investing in. New exoplanets discovered. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a new exoplanet discovery: the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water–key to life as we know it–under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.
“This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Media contacts: