Hilary's Desk

Ever wondered about paediatricians who blog? This is one time where it would be of educational value to read all the embedded links. The full implications of some types of medical "practice" might not sink in, unless you do. Once upon a time, when I was still on Mothering, a mother told her story of her child who had seizures after her first DPT (whole cell vaccine) and who died aged 8 and a h...

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I notice that you made a "resume" on the 18th October 2008, which you have put on your website. There's just a few problems and they are big ones in my opinion. A CV is supposed to be a professional document.  I've downloaded the pdf, and I'm putting it up here on my blog, just so that people can see for themselves what it looks like, in the event you decide to change it. Questions 1)   Is...

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Flooding back into my brain, as I read this headline, were headlines you might not remember, from 1976; "World is on Brink of Killer Flu Epidemic"..."Swine Flu immunization: 'Go' at last" ... "World-wide alert for Killer flu virus"... "President takes swine flu injection to allay scare".  All of which added up to one case which was ordinary swine flu, no killer virus at all.  But that's not wha...

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To those offended by "Pure Fiction", it is not my intention to accuse vaccine defenders of fabricating information. It is my intention to point out key weaknesses in the manner in which very important issues are approached or presented. If people don't care about how others will perceive professionalism, quality of proof and studied analysis, fine. I do, and I also think that transparency is i...

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Screenplay Title. Mouldy Morals. Page 187: Scene: "The Bunker" Setting: Board room. Yellow light from upper left to focus on wooden table centre stage: light to expand to encompass a scene of many people talking loudly, eating finger food off plates scattered across a U-shaped table. Justina Fogg (minute taker of the meeting) rings the bell on the table. "I just need quiet to think." (curls...

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"Ah yes. Strange title. In fact, Hilary, you have altered it somewhat...." That I have.  This stunner of an article in the Herald from Reuters had me shaking my head. We shouldn't be talking about mice: lets talk about mothers! The article says: "Mice forced to swim endlessly until they surrendered and just floated, waiting to drown, could be conditioned to regain their will to live when a ton...

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“Orgasmic Birth” is an awesome film, in the true sense of the word, talking to the deepest needs of women, at the gut, emotional, and intellectual level. In one sense, words fail me. The film follows home birthing parents growing and being reborn as different people, fulfilling their full potential of parenthood, and in particular womanhood. Interwoven are scenes of emotionally...

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Today, Yahoo news reported a New Zealand Doctor item saying that the uptake of Gardasil in New Zealand was "underwhelming". Anne Mulloy from Ratanui Medical Center in West Auckland was reported as saying, "I was expecting this big influx, but nothing happened." Lesley Manning from Kelburn Medical Centre in Wellington, believed that women who were already sexually active needed to be "reassure...

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No doubt you have all read book reviews about Paul Offit’s book, “Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure”, like this one here: It always amazes me that any doctor can possibly make the claim that vaccines have been the greatest medical advance in the history of medicine. You wonder just what they get taught in medical school. Here are three medical art...

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"The sun is rising. See?" said Peter. "The glow on the curtain!" "The... sun... is... not.... rising! Got that?" I mumbled from under the covers. "That's a lie. The sun does not move and you know it."  "Everyone knows the sun doesn't actually rise," whispered Peter in my ear. At which I shot upright, and retorted  "Oh, do they? Do they really? How many kids grow up assuming that the sun rises ...

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Painkiller doses boost child asthma risk, study finds Open letter to the Herald: Dear Sir, Professor Robin Taylor said in the Herald today, that the benefits of giving children paracetamol when they are sick, may strongly outweigh any potential risks. That statement is unethical, and a nonsense. The medical literature shows consistently, that the use of paracetamol during sickness, not o...

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Today, the New England Medical Journal published a study hailing the influenza vaccine given to mothers, as a valuable protection to stop babies getting the flu. The study project from Bangladesh was called “Mother’s Gift”. A bit like Gardasil’s inventor’s medical article, before Gardasil was licenced, called, “God’s gift to women: The Human Papilloma Virus vaccine.” [PMID:16920633] The unwritt...

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The Herald today has an article about how a mother’s love can show ways to banish pain. Yet again, scientists have “discovered” what those “sucking eggs” have known for a very long time… that certain types of touching alleviates pain. Yet, how many parents have been told in the past, to stop stroking their babies in neonatal units, because it “stimulates” the babies and causes them to waste ene...

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Geneticists just love clamouring about how genes cause everything from obesity, to disease to cancer. Anyone with an ounce of commonsense knows that that’s not the whole story. So when the Herald runs a story which shows why Amish people with the gene which makes other people fat, don’t get fat, it’s a reason to celebrate. So how come they don’t get fat? They actually use their bodies every d...

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" Bonding stronger if birth is natural". So read the heading on page A17 of the New Zealand Herald today. The article isn't available on the website because it originally came from the Independent. Way back, even before some readers of this column were born, the majority of labouring mothers were falling under the "spell" of the medical profession which held what looked like a 'progressive' ne...

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I sit here looking at the latest Ministry of Health HE2013 taxpayer funded propaganda for the "Cervical cancer Vaccine", Gardasil.  It's a 21 board-page 'quick flipchart', which tells you nothing more than the two websites mentioned in the last blog. Being information for Health Professionals and young women (which makes you think that they are treating young women with as much respect as ...

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The e-mails and phone calls have finally stopped.  Thank you everyone.  If interpretations are true, the performance on TV last night, of teenage giggling and Nikki Turner's elation at the introduction of Gardasil in New Zealand was a very happy clappy occasion. Perhaps. However, I had already checked out the two new websites: one put together at Nikki Turner's request by non-questioning AUT st...

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Today's Sunday Star Times, has a letter penned by Paul Rutherford, Karori, Wellington. It's tragic that Rutherford (hopefully) "believes" the words he actually penned; sobbingly sad that the Sunday Star Times printed them at all, and indicative of the appalling state of knowledge in the media today, when editors and journalists at the Sunday Star Times, can't see how off the mark the letter was...

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Dr Renate Klein, a biologist and social scientist, has written an opinion piece on Gardasil, which is spot on. So that's my blog for today. Go and read what she thinks. Oh.. and you should read the forum as well. Fascinating.  Sort of.

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