Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #43. Week ending Mar 28th, 2010
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1. Fraud Scandal By Phoney Autism Researcher Rocks Science
2. The Learning of Love
3. The Best Wrinkle Cream To Date
4. Both Men and Women Love BIG Breasts But...
5. Is The Mona Lisa Smiling?
6. What's In A Word?

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This Week's Quote:

“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.” [these days he would have to be politically correct and add Eve too]

Alfred Whitney Griswold, American educator, 1903- 1963.

(see item 5 below)

1. Fraud Scandal By Autism Phoney Researcher Rocks Science

You may have read this one. If you did, don't give up here. Because I have an important announcement you won't get with other writers who have an "agenda".

For those of you who haven't heard, the story recently broke that Dr. Poul Thorsen, one of the researchers involved in two well-known autism reports debunking the mercury connection, was accused of fraud last month by the Aarhus University, where he had been employed. Apparently 10 million kroner (about $1.8 million) has gone missing and police are now involved. Thorson has skipped town and they believe he is currently in the USA.

All this will no doubt become clearer in time and need not delay us here.

The reason for the shock waves in medical circles is that it seems certain that Thorson’s “research” was fake and no more than made up figures to please the drug companies.

Thorson led two major reports which both appeared in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine: the first was supposedly based on studies of over 500,000 children born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 and showed conclusively that there was no connection between measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines and autism.

The other report used a much smaller group in its study but came to the same conclusion.

These two studies, it has to be said, have been very influential in suppressing any claim there is a connection between vaccination and autism. A spokesman for the US Surgeon General’s Office called Thorson’s two reports ‘irrefutable’ evidence that no connection between vaccination and autism exists. He’s going to have to eat his words! Thorson is likely to emerge a liar and a cheat.

Now here’s where common sense has to take a firm grip. The Internet and alternative doctors and advisors are claiming this now “proves” that mercury is to blame for autism.

IT DOES NOT.

Even if Thorson faked every word, it does not prove that mercury added to vaccines is the cause of autism. I don’t believe mercury is the guilty party and may be the only alternative MD with the voice of caution here. Joe Mercola and others are getting carried away in their own belief that mercury is the real culprit in this problem.

Let me tell you why they are wrong:

1. I know of cases where a kid got autism, who had no vaccinations whatever. The first child was vaccinated; the parents refused any and all vaccinations for the second child; but the subsequent child was autistic anyway.
2. In Denmark, where mercury was removed from vaccines in 1992, the incidence of autism has continued to rise (this is official figures, not from Thorson).
3. Autism cases are continuing to grow, despite the fact that mercury vaccinations are falling off, worldwide.

It makes no sense to just pick a target and then try to make that fit in with the evidence, as most writers are doing. You have to look at FACTS. Only facts.

We need a different model and I know what the correct model is. Nobody is listening. Please start to circulate this other, more reasoned view. It will save more kids. This is what I believe, based on the current evidence:

Mercury is not the problem; altered viruses due to vaccination are causing the problem. Autism is an infectious condition. It is acquired!

That would explain a case where one sibling is autistic and then the second child, whose parents will not allow further vaccination, gets autism anyway. The first child infects the second child.

Rogue measles vaccine is the #1 suspect, as Dr. Andrew Wakefield has clearly shown. They trashed his work by claiming he was financially compromised (as if the drug companies were as pure and clean as driven snow!) But Wakefield actually isolated the rogue virus from the intestines of autistic kids. Measles virus is notorious for its tendency to cause encephalitis (brain inflammation).

An infectious process would explain why vitamin D was so effective in many cases of autism. Vitamin D cathelicidins are powerful antivirals.

It would also explain why autism is spreading like an epidemic in the Western World, notably the USA, even though vaccinations are falling somewhat.

Am I saying mercury is safe and harmless? Of course not! Am I saying it’s OK for vaccines to have mercury or other junk in them? Of course not.

Am I saying mercury is the wrong target and a big mistake by the holistic community? Yes…

2. The Learning Of Love

You know I like to write of love, not as some arrogant and cocksure teacher, but as someone who has learned the hard way just how precious and healing this blessing truly is.

OK, this is only a lightweight piece… or is it?

I watched my youngest son shopping for a gift for someone special to him. He spent days trying to make up his mind. Being a man, his idea was that the bigger or more amazing the gift, the more intense the gesture of love. Even if it was not a question of finding the most costly gift, he still wanted something that would impress her...

Ladies: tell him!

It isn’t how big the gift, or even what the gift: it’s the gifting of the gift that wins a woman. I remember a lecture last year by John Gray (Mars and Venus guy) in which he explained, for those that didn’t get it, that giving 2 dozen roses didn’t get you any more points than giving just one rose, sweetly meant.

In fact giving just one rose 24 times was the best option, because it counted as 24 gifts; a bunch counted as only one!

But what can I tell him? I’ve been in the exact same place many times. One sweetheart (between wives) expressed a desire to play the saxophone—so I bought her one.

She never played it, to my knowledge. But when I sang her a love song, it softened her more than a king’s ransome would do!

3. The Best Skin Wrinkle Cream To Date

I hope not many of you are impressed by the pseudo-science of TV ads, which try to persuade you that skin cream X will remove all your wrinkles in a week. But of course we Boomers inevitably accumulate the scars of aging and see more and more evidence of the years, as we look in the mirror.

I get shown a number of anti-aging products, as you might imagine. The very best I ever saw truly was a miracle. The startling demonstration of the product was to put it on only one side of the face and compare the two. In less than 10 minutes it was possible to see just to what extent that wrinkles had gone and it really worked.

Unfortunately, the developer was very greedy and he wanted $100 a small tube. He left no room for anyone to market it for him! Not surprisingly, it seems to have disappeared, since there are many competing products with HUGE marketing budgets to get them into the hands of the public.

However, all is not lost. Dr Al Sears has developed an amazing and effective anti-wrinkle cream, based on brillliant science that actually won a Nobel Prize. It's all about blocking the decay of teleomeres.

He calls his product "Revive" and, as I reported a few weeks ago, my wife Vivien is using it and swears by its powers. Of course I would be an unfair judge, since I see her beauty always!

Read more here and, if you have a mind, get yourself some to try:

Revive skin cream

Notice that Dr. Sears has impeccable references for what he says.

4. Both Men And Women Love BIG Breasts

I've often pointed out that Puerari mirifica, the herbal remedy from Thailand (HRT, get it?) leads to nice breast enlargement. Women who don't get an effect are probably taking fake Pueraria.

But a recent letter from a woman who got enlarged breasts but a certain amount of pain with the swelling has prompted an important posting.

Read about safe big boobies in this blog:

http://alternative-doctor.com/blog/pueraria-mirifica-big-breasts-are-great-but

5. Is The Mona Lisa Smiling?

No, this is not really an art question. It’s a psychological one!

Rafael’s La Velata (woman with a veil) was recently in town and I went to see it. The young turk’s masterpiece invited comparisons with the much more famous Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci. I think I prefer La Velata but the famous “Giaconda Smile” has deep layers of mystery which some scientists have been trying to uncover.

If you look at La Giaconda*, you may notice that her facial expression shifts depending where you focus your gaze. If you look at her eyes, your peripheral vision sees a subtle smile on her lips. If you stare straight at her mouth, the smile vanishes.

Da Vinci was able to accomplish this using the sfumato (smokey) technique, in which layers of paint are added on top of one another to create subtle changes in shading, but no harsh lines.

Sfumato plays tricks on the human eye. Where there are abrupt lines of demarcation, the eye sees one thing. But if the boundaries are “smoked” or smudged, the eye sees something different.

That's why the soft, smoky layers of shading that create the slight smile around Mona Lisa's mouth can only be viewed when you're looking her in the eyes and her mouth is blurred.

You can investigate this here by clicking the image as a link, which will take you to a much larger image on Wikipedia (click the image on that page and it will grow HUGE):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Mona_Lisa.jpg

Now a new study has looked at the "Mona Lisa effect", by switching images as people looked at a variety of composite faces, and researchers concluded we quickly analyze faces holistically but are not aware of this process. Our assessments of trustworthiness and attractiveness are affected in powerful ways by very subtle factors.

*Giaconda or Joconda, means the laughing one!

6. What's In A Word?

Harpy (or harpie)

A bit unkind to call a woman this. Make sure you don't marry one.

1. Greek Mythology. One of several loathsome, voracious monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, wings, and talons of a bird.
2. A predatory person.
3. A shrewish woman.

It originally meant "snatcher". It's now most often used to describe a woman you'd rather not go on a date with!

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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