| cathyb 2006-07-30, 8:26 am |
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Peter Bowditch wrote:
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> Remember Thomas Navarro? He was a kid whose parents wanted him to be
> treated by a quack and the state intervened. It was a cause celebre
> among alternuts, with many of the same things said then as are being
> said about Abraham.
>
> For six weeks after Thomas Navarro died the web site begging for
> donations to fight the authorities stayed unchanged. You might think
> that the owners of the site would eventually at least acknowledge that
> the boy had died. You would think wrong. The site was simply emptied
> of content and the campaigners for "health freedom" went looking for
> another sick kid to use as a means to an end.
>
> Just as Alan Yurko was abandoned by his anti-vaccination "friends" as
> soon as they couldn't use him any more, Abraham will be forgotten by
> the quacks before his body is cold.
And don't forget Christine Maggiore, the HIV mother who didn't believe
that HIV causes AIDS, breastfed her daughter, and left this on her
"Alive and Well" website for many weeks after the AIDS-related
pneumonia death of her daughter:
http://groups.msn.com/AliveandWells...ourwebpage.msnw
"Since testing positive in 1992, Christine has lived without illness or
AIDS medications and is the mother of two exceptionally healthy
children, both born with no medical interventions."
Not since her daughter Eliza Jane tragically died of AIDS-related
pneumonia.
The website has now changed that part: they no longer mention her
children at all. They certainly don't point out the circumstances of
her death:
http://www.aliveandwell.org/
Nor, in her personal statement fact does she even mention the fact that
she has children, previously trumpeted as such a success for HIV/AIDS
denialists.
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