United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) working paper tracking "the rise of online anti-vaccination sentiments in Central and Eastern Europe"

UNICEF Surveils, Defames Health Sites Over Vaccines - GreenMedInfo, Mothering.com, Mercola.com, NaturalNews

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Thursday, August 29th 2013 at 9:45 am

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Sayer Ji, Founder

Cover page of the UNICEF report.

A stunning new report reveals that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has been monitoring independent health sites and their users in an attempt to identify 'anti-vaccine influencers' and their effect on lackluster vaccine uptake.

A newly fashioned United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) working paper tracking "the rise of online anti-vaccination sentiments in Central and Eastern Europe" identifies independent health websites, including GreenMedInfo.com, Mercola.com, NaturalNews.com and VacTruth.com, as contributing to lackluster vaccine uptake.

The UNICEF report, titled "Tracking anti-vaccination sentiment in Eastern European social media networks," obtained data using "state-of-the-art social medial monitoring tools," and confirmed that parents are using social media networks to decide whether to vaccinate their children.

Tracking anti vaccine-sentiment in Eastern European social media networks from UNICEF CEECIS

The 47-page report attempts to answer the following questions:

• Why parents are refusing vaccination?
• What are the concerns about vaccines?
• What are their ideals/perceptions?
• Who is influencing the discussion?
• Which networks are being used?
• Where are they located?
• How to respond?

Opening with the Mark Twain quote: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," the report lists the following 'anti-vaccine influencers' shaping the online conversation:

• GreenMedInfo.com
• Mercola.com
• Vactruth.com
• Mothering.com
• Dr. Tenpenny on Vaccines
• Thinking Moms' Revolution
• The Refusers
• Natural News
• Worldtruth.tv
• Cafemom.com
• VaccineInjury.info
• EverydayHealth.org
• LeftBrain/RightBrain
• Zen Gardner – Just Wondering

UNICEF's opening reference to the "lie" (misinformation) spread by the above-mentioned web-based organizations indicates that while the document purports to be analytical and descriptive, it has proscriptive and defamatory undertones, and only thinly conceals an agenda to discredit opposing views and voices.

Slide #30 from the PPT presentation of the report.

UNICEF's derogatory stance is all the more surprising considering that websites such as GreenMedinfo.com aggregate, disseminate and provide open access to peer-reviewed research on vaccine adverse effects and safety concerns extracted directly from the US National Library of Medicine, much of which comes from high-impact journals. [see data set here: vaccine research ]. In turn, websites such as Mercola.com and NaturalNews.com often simply cite the same data and report on its implications.


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Mini Human 'Brains' Grown in a Dish

By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer   |   August 28, 2013 01:00pm ET

A magnified image of a cerebral organoid showing cerebral tissue adjacent to developing retinal tissue (brown pigmented region).
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The first complete living model of the developing human brain has been created in a lab dish.
Researchers grew human stem cells in an environment that encouraged them to form pea-size gobs of brain tissue, which developed into distinct brain tissues, including a cerebral cortex and retina.
The minibrains were used to model microcephaly, a human genetic disorder in which brain size is dramatically reduced. Though not capable of consciousness or other higher cognitive functions, the minibrains allow scientists to study aspects of the developing human brain that are difficult to model in animals. [Inside the Brain: A Photo Journey Through Time]

"The mouse brain is not always a good model system for the human brain," study researcher Jüergen Knoblich, of the Austrian Academy of Science's (IMBA) Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, said at a news conference. "Our system allows us to study human-specific features of brain development."
Other groups have grown small pieces of neural tissue in the lab before, but none has been able to successfully grow tissue that contained both a cortex — the specialized outer layer of the brain — and other brain regions, Knoblich said.
To create the minibrains, Knoblich and his team took human embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells — both types of cells with a capacity to develop into any kind of tissue — and grew the cells in conditions that allowed them to form a tissue called neuroectoderm, which develops into the nervous system. The researchers embedded fragments of the tissue in droplets of gel to create a scaffold to guide further growth. They then transferred the droplets to a spinning bioreactor that increased nutrient absorption.


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Human Guinea Pig: 8 Year Old Girl May Hold Key to Immortality

Susanne Posel
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August 19, 2013
Gabby Williams is 8 years old and has not aged because of a “mysterious condition” that keeps her trapped in an infant’s body.
Mary Margaret Williams, Gabby’s mother, explained that her daughter has not changed much since she was born.
Williams said: “She has gotten a little longer and we have jumped into putting her in size 3-6 month clothes instead of 0-3 months for the footies.”
Mainstream television played a documentary based on Gabby in 2011; which also featured a 40 year old man who still resembles a 10 year of child.
A woman in Florida has retained her childhood appearance, and a 31 year old Brazilian woman looks like a toddler.
Gabby’s story will be replayed on television when The Learning Channel (TLC) airs a follow-up documentary this week.


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Medical University of South Carolina telemedicine program to connect ICU specialists with rural hospitals

August 16, 2013 1:12 pm by HOLLEMAN, JOEY

The telemedicine revolution in South Carolina is expanding to hospital intensive care units.

The Medical University of South Carolina on Wednesday announced a partnership with Advanced ICU Care to connect the Charleston facility's intensive care physicians with rural hospitals.
A $12 million state telemedicine grant approved this year will help fund the tele-ICU services, slated to begin late this year. MUSC will work with rural hospitals to equip them for the effort using the grant funds.
Telemedicine programs link facilities using interactive audio, video and data systems, allowing a physician in Charleston, for instance, to consult on a case in a rural area. Successful telemedicine programs already have been established in South Carolina for psychiatry, pediatrics and neurology.


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Chicken McNuggets contain strange fibers - microscopic forensic investigation by the Health Ranger

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Published on Aug 15, 2013

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is the director of the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, and in this video he takes a close look at McDonald's Chicken McNuggets under a high-powered digital microscope.

See the strange fibers, blue objects, red coloring and other odd shapes the Health Ranger found in his forensic investigation.


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McDonald's Chicken McNuggets found to contain mysterious fibers, hair-like structures; Natural News Forensic Food Lab posts research photos, video

Friday, August 16, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) Today we announce the first investigation conducted at the Natural News Forensic Food Laboratory, the new science-based research branch of Natural News where we put foods under the microscope and find out what's really there.
Earlier today I purchased a 10-piece Chicken McNuggets from a McDonald's restaurant in Austin, Texas. Under carefully controlled conditions, I then examined the Chicken McNuggets under a high-powered digital microscope, expecting to see only processed chicken bits and a fried outer coating.
But what I found instead shocked even me. I've seen a lot of weird stuff in my decade of investigating foods and nutrition, but I never expected to find this...

Strange fibers found embedded inside Chicken McNuggets

As the following photos show, the Chicken McNuggets were found to contain strange fibers that some people might say even resemble so-called "Morgellon's."
We found dark black hair-like structures sticking out of the nugget mass, as well as light blue egg-shaped structures with attached tail-like hairs or fibers.


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