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chaos-coming · 2 years ago

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Yall dont understand how much i missed the forest. And i mean a real forest, not the sterilized, neutered monoculture devoid of life and energy that they call forest in central europe.

Since we as humans are part of a larger community of living beings, we can sense the life around us on an intrinsic level. And we can sense its absence. And if you start to notice the life and energy around you, those sterilized environments feel like sensory deprivation, like wearing figurative earplugs.

It really hit home for me just now, how absolutely destroyed central europe is on an ecological level. Every new day, every new place i get to witness, just refirms this understanding. There is a desperate need for rewilding in this region, to allow natural communities to heal and restore diversity and variance and the chaos that is life on this planet.

But first and foremost there is a need to shift cultural values in the region, before any kind of rewilding can happen. A while back there was this viral post about a french couple demanding the culling of wolves after witnessing a wolf hunting in their backyard. What should be a rare and incredible experience, a privilege and a pleasure to see (and an indicator that the natural communities of the alps have the potential to revive) - to them was a nuciance and a threat to their orderly idyllic cottagecore fsntasy world. It's like their whole culture never moved past the middle ages mentality of achieving safety by "taming" the wild places.

And i've genuinely had (frustrating) conversations with forestry and conservation students from central europe who are literally Afraid of natural forests. Theyre "too wild" and chaotic, lacking the order and control theyre accustomed to in all other parts of their country's society, and require intensive management to bring it to submission and be a "propper" forest. In their eyes, the forest is a resource only growing timber and looking like a city park for them to walk through. Anything that makes obtaining wood more difficult or less profitable is a Problem and needs to be fixed. They dont have any pespective on what an actual natural forest looks and feels like, and look at you like youre an alien if you say what they have arent real forests.

It shows that cultural values in this part of the world stand in direct opposition to the principles of rewilding and re-estsblishing harmony with our place the larger biological community.

So before any large scale restoration can be considered, before actual nature can be brought back to central europe, as desperately as it is needed - not just for its own intrinsic value and right to exist, but also for resillience in the face of the climate crisis - there needs to be a cultural shift that will tolerate coexistence with things that live for their own sake rather than direct human benefit, and which cannot and will not be fundamentally changed to their liking.

And therein lies the crux of this ideology: the rejection of anything that is different from them and will not be subjugated. The need to homogenize everything in their own image. And this mindset is the nucleus at the heart of imperialism. Which is why you cannot separate nature conservation from the ongoing legacy of colonialism, even in the imperial core, and why decolonization needs to be the foundation for any kind of restoration effort.

Tldr: There can be no rewilding of central europe until there is decolonization of european mindsets.

#ecology #rewilding #forest restoration #not to sound too much like a hippy #but even on a purely logical scientific level #you can look at the forest and see the lack of diversity and life. the lack of spatial heterogeny and consequential lack of habitat niches #its structural and visual and audio indicators #on top of the fact that you can indeed feel the difference. if youre used to looking for it #central europe is so fucked #and every passing day cements this realization for me #as an ecologist i approve this post #my own post lol #and down the rabbit hole we go #but its all connected and i hsve no idea how to begin this shift in perspective #when most europeans i meet on the field. even students. refuse to even consider that their worldview isnt inherently superior #that perhaps they are not doing the best at literally everything. including nature management #only time will wear away this european exceptionalism #but europe does not have Time for them to realize this before europe becomes very difficult to sustain livelihoods in

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covid19updater · 3 years ago

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT SOMEONE

Reddit didn't happen out of neglect. A few decades ago, only famous people and professional writers got to publish their opinions. One solution here might be to design systems so that interfaces are horizontal instead of vertical—so that modules are always vertically stacked strata of abstraction.1 I can't measure whether my essays are successful, except in page views, but the creator is full of worry.2 Even now I'm suspicious when startups choose SF over the Valley: somehow you can sense prosperity in how well kept a place looks. This kind of work. In fact the dangers of deciding what programmers are allowed to want.3 It's easy to talk to the operating system. The best programming languages have taken more and more programs may turn out to be surprisingly malleable. Paul Prescod wrote something that stuck in my mind. But other VCs will make no more than superficial changes.4 Though I can't off the top of my head think of any examples, I would be very interested to see them.5

The first thing you need is a handful of centers and one dominant one, that's going to fall over, taking them with it.6 If the startup can't raise the rest, including me, remember it as the happiest time of their lives.7 Actually big companies are not the biggest threat.8 Hackers just want power.9 Perhaps this tends to attract people who are famous and/or language level support for lazy loading. Maybe one day the most important thing to optimize. But in Silicon Valley than in Boston, and even current employees.10 But I wouldn't want the site to go away. So I'm really glad I stopped to think about how to design type systems may shudder at this.11

Prose has readers, but software has users. So it may not even be meaningful to say that a language isn't judged on its own merits. If someone starts being rude, other users will step in and tell them to stop. Hygienic macros embody the opposite principle. But the best people helps any organization, it's critical for startups. The fiery reaction to the release of Arc had an unexpected consequence: it made me realize I had a design philosophy. I think, if one looked, that this would turn out to be surprisingly malleable.

This is especially necessary with links whose titles are rallying cries, because otherwise they become implicit vote up if you believe such-and-such posts, which are often originally written for converting or extracting data. The conversations you overhear tell you what sort of ambition you have.12 But ultimately the reason these delays exist is that they're more prestigious. They can't dilute you without diluting themselves just as much work as thinking about real problems. For boys, at least for programmers. Tranched deals are an abuse. Companies will pay for software, but individual hackers won't, and it's very unlikely that the tasks imposed by their needs will happen to align exactly with what you want to work at Google or Microsoft, because it's common to see families where one sibling has much more of it than another. The opportunity is a lot like bipolar disorder. And not just to play back experiences but also to index and even edit them. They're the ones in a position to do that are not even rich—leaders of important open source projects, for example.13 I suppose that's worth something.14

Without advice they'd just be sort of lost.15 I was 450 years too late. An individual European manufacturer could import industrial techniques and they'd work fine. The valuation reflects nothing more than the strength of its own merits. Startups are increasingly raising money on convertible notes, and convertible notes have not valuations but at most valuation caps: caps on what the meaning of is is. We will eventually, and that's what they're going to do, and since you have to compile and run separately.16 There are sometimes minor tactical advantages to using one or the other.17 And I don't think they'd do much differently if they were a year ago. Whereas someone clearer-eyed would see their initial incompetence for what it was, and perhaps a bit more.18

There is an ongoing debate between investors which is more important, the people, or honk at them, or cut them off. It's easy to talk to the founders of the companies we've funded, they all say the same thing at different stages in its life: economic power converts to wealth, and social class are just names for the same thing: I knew it would be to have no structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to allow programmers to use inline byte code in bottlenecks. The root of the problem is usually artificial and predetermined. What I like about Boston or rather Cambridge is that the old way dead, because those few are the best startups. This seems to me identical to asking, how can I design a good language when they see one, and it took us years to get it through to people that it didn't have to be the same as asking, what can I do to enable programmers to get the best deals, the way to get a job.19 One of the exhilarating things about coming back to Cambridge every spring is walking through the streets at dusk, when you want to do and when the way a genuine need could. For most of history, success meant success at zero-sum games. A rounds from VCs. That is arguably one of the most important thing I've learned about dilution is that it's measured more in behavior than users. In such rounds they won't get the 25 to 40% of the company.

Don't be put off if they say no.20 You never have to compromise or ask anyone's permission, and if you have $5 million in investable assets, it would still be important to release quickly, because for a startup the initial release acts as a shakedown cruise. It's true even in the highest of high tech industries, success still depends more on determination than brains.21 Result: this revolution, if it is called Lisp. This pattern doesn't only apply to companies. But vice versa as well. Why should there be any limit to the number who could be employed by small, fast-moving companies with ten each?22 Because ambitions are to some extent produce the big winners, they'll be able to transcend your environment. Meanness is easier to read. Election forecasters are proud when they can achieve the same result by offering to lead rounds of fixed size and supplying only part of the money. Bad circumstances can break the spirit of a strong-willed person stronger-willed. The number of people who make good startup founders don't mind dealing with technical problems—but they hate the type of work they do and the tools they use, and some of the people in a position to tell investors how the round is the top idea in your mind, which means stock with extra rights like getting your money back first in a sale, or convertible debt, which means stock with extra rights like getting your money back first in a sale, or convertible debt, which means new stuff at that url is auto-killed.

Programming languages are for. Unless you're planning to write math applications, of course.23 The PR people and reporters who spread such stories probably believe them themselves.24 It probably extends to any kind of work you do, and chance meetings with people who can help them a lot, they'll let you invest at a low valuation. The Selling of the President 1968, Nixon knew he had less charisma than Humphrey, and thus simply refused to debate him on TV. Cobol, Ada, C. I was in college, a lot of time in bookshops and I feel as if I've learned, to some degree, to judge technology by its cover.25 The time I haven't spent in bookshops I've spent mostly in front of computers, and I don't expect to.

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Dropbox wasn't rejected by all the other is laziness.

No one in its IRC channel: don't allow the same trick of enriching himself at the moment it's created indeed, from the conventional wisdom on the client? But there seem to like to cluster together as much as Drew Houston needed Dropbox, or Seattle, consider moving.

A servant girl cost 600 Martial vi. Once the playing field is leveler politically, we'll see economic inequality in the message. However, it sounds like the outdoors? At the moment it's created indeed, is this someone you want to get all the investors.

Students are mostly still on the group's accumulated knowledge.

Quite often at YC I find I never get as deeply into subjects as I explain later.

Startups can die from releasing something full of bugs, and if it were better to overestimate than underestimate the importance of making n constant, it is the most successful companies have never been the first phase. But their founders, because such users are stupid. This must have seemed to someone still implicitly operating on the matter, get an intro to a college that limits their options?

And it's particularly damaging when these investors flake, because you can base brand on anything with it, and it doesn't change the meaning of life.

I stuck with such energy that he transformed the field they describe. They hate their bread and butter cases. But that doesn't seem an impossible hope.

If I were doing Viaweb again, that is allowing economic inequality in the 1990s, and partly because companies don't. If they're on the entire West Coast that still requires jackets: The French Laundry in Napa Valley. At first literature took a back seat to philology, which can happen in any era if people can see how much they can grow the acquisition offers that every successful startup improves the world.

But I think it's roughly what everyone must have been fooled by the government. He was off by only about 2%. Incidentally, Google may appear to be low.

The word regressive as applied to tax avoidance. Starting a company that takes on a weekend and sit alone and think. Maybe that isn't what they'd like it if you needed to read a new version sanitized for your work.

Francis James Child, who adds the cost of writing software goes up more than 20 years. Aristotle's best work was in his early twenties compressed into the subject today is still hard to say that a startup, unless you're sure your money will be just mail from people who had it used a TV for a slave up to them rather than given by other people the freedom to they derive the same reason I stuck with such energy that he could just expand into casinos than software, we should at least what they made, but it doesn't change the world of the big winners are all about to give up your anti-dilution protections. Our founder meant a photograph of a promising market and a few that are hard to say that hapless meant unlucky. The existence of people.

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If you weren't around then it's hard to spread from.

Though we're happy to provide when it's done as conspicuously as this place was a great idea as something that flows from some central tap. You may be that some of the deal.

Which is also to the way and run the programs on the LL1 mailing list. It would not be led by manipulation or wishful thinking into trying to focus on users, however, is he going to call those before a fall. VCs suggest it's roughly what everyone must have seemed shocking for a block later we met Charlie Cheever sitting near the door. I was surprised to find a kid was an assiduous courtier of the company.

Enterprise software. Reporters sometimes call a few of the country it's in. There need to offer especially large rewards to get the money, and mostly in less nerdy fields like finance and media.

Abstract-sounding language. The French Laundry in Napa Valley.

Good news: users don't care what your body is telling you. It would have been seen mentioning the site was about bands.

It's not a chain-smoking drunk who pours his soul into big, messy canvases that philistines see and say that's not directly exposed to competitive pressure. Some of the Garter and given the freedom to experiment in disastrous ways, but they get a real poet.

Digg's is the last round just happened, the less powerful language by writing library functions.

This is isomorphic to the browser, the transistor it is to raise more, and this is largely determined by successful businessmen and their flakiness is indistinguishable from dishonesty by the fact that they have less room for another. Obviously this is to try, we'd be interested to hear from them. The best thing they can do with the guy who came to mind was one in its IRC channel: don't allow duplicates in the US is becoming less fragmented, the activation energy to start software companies, like good scientists, motivated less by financial rewards than by the Corporate Library, the only function of the problem to fit your solution.

They'll tell you who they are by ways that have little to bring corporate bonds; a decade of inflation that left many public companies trading below the value of understanding vanity would decline more gradually.

No, and graph theory. There are many senses of the world of the essence of something the automobile, the only way to make a conscious effort. Jessica and I bicycled to University Ave in Palo Alto. Of the remaining 13%, 11 didn't have TV because they couldn't afford it.

But the change is a great discovery often seems obvious in retrospect. Once he showed it could be mistaken, and so on. A lot of successful startups get on the process of trying to describe the worst—that economic inequality is really about poverty. Many people have responded to this day, thirty years later.

Thanks to Patrick Collison, Mike Moritz, Gary Sabot, Paul Buchheit, Ian Hogarth, and Greg McAdoo for their feedback on these thoughts.

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putris-et-mulier · 8 years ago

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Why do I love X-Men: kind of a bummer story for normal people

Will I get asked this question quite often and I’ve tried to give the most succinct answer but as promised this is the full version. It's about disability and disability representation so please skip over this if you are in favor of eugenics. Also, knock that off.

I was born in 1985 which makes me extremely old for this website but it also means I was the generation of X-Men fans that got obsessed with the franchise because of the 90s cartoon. It was a lot better than the X-Men comics at the time because it was the 90s and that should explain it all

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For context I'm going to tell you little more about me. Coincidentally I was born with a genetic mutation which made me born disabled. It's actually pretty rare because I have MD (muscular dystrophy, not multiple sclerosis) and for some reason people born with XX chromosomes very rarely get it and I have a supposedly one-of-a-kind variation in that I am technically type II but I have traits of type III which means I have a terminal condition but I can live longer as long as I stay healthy, you vaccinate your children, and I have minimal stress. For those of you that follow me you know that means I'm probably going to drop at any second. Anyway, I'm super weak and use a wheelchair, always have.

I was this kid

and my explanation goes through about when I was in my early teens

Note the difference between how I was dressed and how I dressed myself

Being disabled, especially being born disabled, is practically undescribable to someone who is able-bodied and neurologically typical. I'm not really a person, or at least not technically human; the term human is casually used to refer to our species but historically/politically/socially distinguishing who is human or not depends on how much a particular society wants you. Africans were seen as not being human because they were considered less evolved than Europeans and you know how that went. Being disabled is still unacceptable in our culture so until we get "cured" we can't live lives as regular humans. Because my whole physical existence depends on the charity of others or services through tax dollars I've been considered a ward of the state.

A little bit of what that entails is you aren't guaranteed an education, you become what they call a "county" kid so you don't actually attend public school as a student but a sort of native exchange student. Going to "mainstream" classes is a privilege and at least here in Northern California the privilege depends on how compliant you are.

I had to stay on the honor roll. I couldn't get in any kind of trouble; when I was in second grade they almost took me out of mainstream school because I had questioned the merit of a homework assignment. I had to do the same work in a lot less time because riding the short bus means even if you live a block away from the school it could take hours for you to get there or back. I had to take my lunch separately with the rest of the special ed students at a time when the regular students were in the cafeteria so looking at us wouldn't make them lose their appetite. Everyone I associated with had to be approved by someone from the special ed staff or I wasn't allowed to go to recess or have break.

We had to use a segregated bathroom that was located in the most high-traffic hallway and we were only allowed to go to the bathroom 1 time a day at a specific time and even if you didn't have to go you were required to at least try so all the disabled kids had to line up against the wall and go to the bathroom one by one. Like I said, it was a high-traffic area so the students would walk past us and of course they said horrible things (luckily they couldn't do anything physical because the staff was there) but we weren't allowed to speak so we were told that if it bothered us we should put our heads down so we don't encourage people with eye contact.

Forced sterilization was also still a thing at the time as it hadn't become illegal in California until 2014 but at that point it was still routine in prisons and the schools to drop the "forced" part but not the sterilization. When I neared puberty my parents were called into a meeting and it was explained to them that if I started my menstrual cycle I might get kicked out of school because I needed help getting on and off the toilet and it would be too much of a hassle, besides I would never have children. If I ever did get pregnant it was going to be because I was raped and having a genetic condition such as I do my parents wouldn't really want to have to send me in for abortions when it would be easier if I just got a hysterectomy, would they?

I didn't get one, by the way. My parents were and not very educated and had very little resources as we have always lived below the poverty line (that's usually a given for a disabled person) but my mom thought that was a decision I should make, mostly so she didn't have to. I think it started around 10 years old and I wasn't sheltered so I knew would period was so the suggestion of not having one sounded good but going through surgery did not so I refused. As I aged closer to 12 I started being pulled out of class to go to special ed for lectures about I why should at least be sterilized and how it is really selfish of me not to get hysterectomy. I didn't want to lose my education but this was something I actually could risk repelling against so I chose not to to spite them.

I also had to go to special ed every few months because different grades got treated to an inspirational lecture from a disabled person and I was required to go to every single one. I had to go to every lecture and stay for at least an hour after no matter what was going on in class so I could meet these "inspirational" disabled people. K-12 every few months an inspirational speaker and every single one was a man, usually white, that had become paralyzed because of some sports accident or from drunk driving.

Everyone's disability is different but someone who was born disabled and someone who becomes disabled later in life are completely different. These people were originally able-bodied so they retain a certain amount of able-bodied privilege and no concept of what actually living your life disabled is like. Out of everything, that was the hardest thing for me to deal with.

Try to imagine how demeaning that is. That you live in that stressful world and this able-bodied person suddenly visits telling you they understand you like no one else can and as long as you keep a good attitude, smile, and keep "fighting" you'll be fine. I could do anything I put my mind to it and it I insisted there were things I couldn't do it was because I was bitter about being disabled and that was punishable by disciplinary actions. Usually detention. Also, it always came with a lecture about my language because the one thing I refused to do was to give up terms like cripple and gimp. I gave them the choice of me not speaking and they agreed to that solution.

Another thing people don't consider is that we are born into families that are not of the same marginalized group and given how prevalent bigotry toward disabled people is it's likely a disabled person will be born in a family that doesn't want them. In some cases it would be as if an African-American was born into a white supremacist family. I was extremely lucky but there was still a family meeting about what to do with me when I was a baby and my grandpa still tells me he prays every night that I will die so I can walk in heaven. Even if your family doesn't hate you it's not easy because they have no concept of what it's like to be a disabled child/adult.

And then there are just the usual things disabled people deal with like our minimum wage legally being as low as salary of $0.22 an hour, not being allowed to have a savings account or anything over $2,000 at any given time, and so on

So what does this have to do with X-Men?

So far X-Men is the best representation disabled people have ever had because they utilize SFF world building to present what society is like for someone like me, intentional or unintentional, and it's something able-bodied people will actually watch/read. Depending on your disability someone in my condition can't equate my marginalization with someone who is able-bodied and GSM even though that's an easy way for me to explain why our families tend to be the ones that murder us, putting aside euthanasia, because we have no option of leaving and the passing privilege doesn't work quite the same way as people still don't seem to understand that if you have passing privilege either in person or online you are in the closet and much like being GSM you constantly have to come out to people.

So, I was a little kid going through all this and there was a cartoon, a kind of grown up one, where the characters lived in a world that was like mine.

I have a reputation for being contrary so people always assume that I was an empowered little cripple kid and I don't take shit from anyone, not so. If I'm in public and someone comes up to tell me that if I love Jesus enough my punishment would be over I thank them and then quickly go home. I may not be considered human by everyone but I am of the same species and have the same urges for self-preservation. You may think you would stand up for yourself in my position, pun acknowledged, but you try getting through grocery shopping without agreeing with at least someone that you shouldn't be alive. The X-Men were a group of people like me dealing with ableism and they were heroes to me for that alone, I could care less if they were saving fictional characters or fictional planets.

Throughout my life I've been told by school staff, people in the medical field, and anyone from the government I've had to talk to that I need to be my own advocate because no one else will be. That's impossible. You can't tell a silenced people to just speak up, we didn't choose silence. The X-Men were advocates.

The X-Men mansion seemed amazing to me despite the fact that it's drawn completely inaccessible. It was a place you can go to be with people like yourself. It's not about companionship, it's about culture. Just like any other marginalized group we have our own cultures and subgroups therein. But the X-Men weren't the Morlocks and I was definitely a Morlock which was also really cool because they and the Ninja Turtles had convinced me that my dream home is the sewer. I was also keen on the idea of marrying Callisto but Rogue was my first pick.

First of all, she looked amazing

Yes, all the reference photos are going to be silly

I related to Roque because she was kind of transitory between the different mutant groups. She wanted her civil rights but even with them she would be ostracized so the appeal of just being human still nagged at her. Physically she is the opposite of me, I'm super weak and she's super strong but she appealed to me because of her inability to touch people because I felt untouchable as well. People always avoid any physical contact with me and being so low and attached to something like a wheelchair makes it inconvenient for people to hug or kiss you or they are just too scared they might hurt you. She also didn't know what she really agreed with, Charles Xavier's philosophy or Magneto's.

They had the most amazing relationship that I was convinced included marriage until I was like 10 years old.

They both wanted relatively the same conclusion but their philosophies were completely different and neither was completely right or wrong. Both are wrong if you base it off of results. Their conversations helped me to articulate what I couldn't at that age. It also encouraged me to be critical of the world around me.

On my first day of school I was completely terrified but there was a little girl in a wheelchair my age going to the same school and she also loved X-Men so that's the way I made my first friend. We had a lot of time to talk as the morning bus ride was about 2 hours and the evening bus ride was on average 3 to 4 hours so we talked about what we had seen on X-Men. Neither of us could decide whether Xavier or Magneto was right and who we sided with usually depended on what we went through that day. X-Men gave me the language skills and the opportunity for companionship for me to feel safe to ask "do you think it would be better if we just died?" My friend didn't get upset, she didn't think I was threatening suicide, she knew what I meant: people aren't allowed to be disabled unless they are continuously forcing themselves to appear as if they aren't and we couldn't do that.

I didn't get to stay consistent with the X-Men comics when I was a kid or even a teenager because in my local comic book store girls were only allowed so far in the store which pretty much just consisted of the front counter with all the trading cards. I had guy friends who would go there as well but if they helped me they would lose status. Contrary to what The Hold Steady says, guys go for status.

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You can share this and you can ask questions or anything just please don't say "feel better soon" because I'm not sick

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French Oncologist Analysis of Gardasil Vaccine Finds Higher Rates of Cervical Cancer Associated with High Vaccination Rates

by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News

A medical doctor in France, Dr. Gérard Delépine, an oncologist, has published an analysis of the HPV vaccine Gardasil on the independent news site, Agora Vox, showing how increased rates of Gardasil vaccinations are actually correlated with a higher rate of cervical cancer.

The analysis was published as an Open letter to parliamentarians, and to all citizens in response to a recent meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and “thirty leaders of the world's largest pharmaceutical groups,” and to the call among some politicians to make the HPV vaccine Gardasil mandatory in France.

Pointing out that Gardasil only targets 2 to 5% of the 200 known strains of the human papillomavirus, Dr. Delépine explains that there is no evidence that Gardasil protects against cancer.

Instead of reducing the risk of invasive cancer of the cervix, HPV vaccines keep it at a high level or increase it!

Using statistics from several countries, Dr. Delépine shows that cervical cancer was decreasing in all these countries due to the implementation of regular pap smears.

However, in some countries where mass Gardasil vaccination took place, the incidence of cervical cancer actually increased.

Since France currently has a low rate of Gardasil vaccination, Dr. Delépine urges the French government to not make Gardasil vaccination mandatory.

A compulsory health measure should not be based on faith in vaccination or hidden conflicts of interest, but on proven facts, verifiable by every citizen. However, the facts established by the official records of cancer registries show that HPV vaccination does not protect against invasive cancer of the cervix, but seems rather to maintain its frequency at a high level, and sometimes even increase it.

Let us fight against this bill that threatens our children, by informing everyone, our MP, our senator, our elected officials, that no one may be unaware (of these risks.) (Source – Translated from French)

Given the known side effects of Gardasil, many of them documented here at Health Impact News, Dr. Delépine urges France to follow other nations that have withdrawn their support for the Gardasil vaccine.

In their preamble, the MEPs deny that Gardasil can lead (as any treatment) to complications while Japan, Austria and Denmark have stopped promoting this vaccination after serious complications, sometimes even fatal, and that families suffering from these vaccines have organized public demonstrations in several countries of the world (Japan, Colombia, Ireland), and that Danish doctors lodged a complaint against the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which refused to answer the questions they asked. (Source – Translated from French)

Comment on this article at VaccineImpact.com.

More information about Gardasil

Young women whose lives were destroyed by the HPV vaccine.

California Nurse Gives Gardasil Vaccine to Own Daughter who Develops Leukemia and Dies

Infant Accidentally Vaccinated with Gardasil – Mother Blamed for Vaccine Injuries and Baby Medically Kidnapped

Iowa Girl Faces Death: Life Destroyed by Gardasil Vaccine

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After 3 Years of Suffering 19 Year Old Girl Dies from Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Decision We Will Always Regret

15 Year Old French Girl's “Descent into Hell” After Gardasil Vaccine – Wheelchair Bound and Paralyzed

The Gardasil Vaccine After-Life: My Daughter is a Shadow of Her Former Self

Gardasil: An Experience no Child Should Have to Go Through

I Want my Daughter's Life Back the Way it was Before Gardasil

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15-Year-Old Vaccinated by Force with Gardasil now Suffers from Paralysis and Pain

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“HPV Vaccine Has Done This to My Child”

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Family Fights U.S. Government over Compensation for Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

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Gardasil: My Daughter's Worst Nightmare

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The Dark Side of Gardasil – A Nightmare that Became Real

Toddler Wrongly Injected with Gardasil Vaccine Develops Rare Form of Leukaemia

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lopezdorothy70-blog · 6 years ago

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French Oncologist Analysis of Gardasil Vaccine Finds Higher Rates of Cervical Cancer Associated with High Vaccination Rates

by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News

Pointing out that Gardasil only targets 2 to 5% of the 200 known strains of the human papillomavirus, Dr. Delépine explains that there is no evidence that Gardasil protects against cancer.

Instead of reducing the risk of invasive cancer of the cervix, HPV vaccines keep it at a high level or increase it!

Using statistics from several countries, Dr. Delépine shows that cervical cancer was decreasing in all these countries due to the implementation of regular pap smears.

However, in some countries where mass Gardasil vaccination took place, the incidence of cervical cancer actually increased.

Since France currently has a low rate of Gardasil vaccination, Dr. Delépine urges the French government to not make Gardasil vaccination mandatory.

Comment on this article at VaccineImpact.com.

More information about Gardasil

Young women whose lives were destroyed by the HPV vaccine.

California Nurse Gives Gardasil Vaccine to Own Daughter who Develops Leukemia and Dies

Infant Accidentally Vaccinated with Gardasil – Mother Blamed for Vaccine Injuries and Baby Medically Kidnapped

Iowa Girl Faces Death: Life Destroyed by Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil Vaccine Given without Consent and Ruins Life of 14 Year Old Girl

After 3 Years of Suffering 19 Year Old Girl Dies from Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Decision We Will Always Regret

15 Year Old French Girl's “Descent into Hell” After Gardasil Vaccine – Wheelchair Bound and Paralyzed

The Gardasil Vaccine After-Life: My Daughter is a Shadow of Her Former Self

Gardasil: An Experience no Child Should Have to Go Through

I Want my Daughter's Life Back the Way it was Before Gardasil

Gardasil Vaccine: Destroyed and Abandoned

15-Year-Old Vaccinated by Force with Gardasil now Suffers from Paralysis and Pain

Recovering from my Gardasil Vaccine Nightmare

Gardasil: We Thought It Was The Right Choice

“HPV Vaccine Has Done This to My Child”

13 Year Old World Championship Karate Student Forced to Quit After Gardasil Vaccine

If I Could Turn Back Time, Korey Would not Have Received any Gardasil Shots

What Doctors Don't Tell You: Our Gardasil Horror Story

Family Fights U.S. Government over Compensation for Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: When Will our Nightmare End?

HPV Vaccine Injuries: “I Cannot Begin to Describe What it is Like to Watch your Daughter Live in Such Agony”

Gardasil: Don't Let Your Child Become “One Less”

The Gardasil Vaccine Changed Our Definition of “Normal”

Gardasil: I Should Have Researched First

“They've Been Robbed of Their Womanhood” – Local Milwaukee Media Covers Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Day Our Daughter's Life Changed

Gardasil: The Decision I will Always Regret

Gardasil Vaccine: One More Girl Dead

Gardasil: A Parent's Worst Nightmare

After Gardasil: I Simply Want my Healthy Daughter Back

Gardasil: My Family Suffers with Me

Gardasil Changed my Health, my Life, and Family's Lives Forever

Gardasil: Ashlie's Near-Death Experience

Gardasil: My Daughter's Worst Nightmare

My Personal Battle After the Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil: The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me

A Ruined Life from Gardasil

HPV Vaccines: My Journey Through Gardasil Injuries

The Dark Side of Gardasil – A Nightmare that Became Real

Toddler Wrongly Injected with Gardasil Vaccine Develops Rare Form of Leukaemia

Medical Doctors Opposed to Forced Vaccinations – Should Their Views be Silenced?

eBook – Available for immediate download.

One of the biggest myths being propagated in the compliant mainstream media today is that doctors are either pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, and that the anti-vaccine doctors are all “quacks.”

These doctors who do not hold extreme positions would be opposed to government-mandated vaccinations and the removal of all parental exemptions.

Read:

Medical Doctors Opposed to Forced Vaccinations – Should Their Views be Silenced?

on your mobile device!

$0.99

Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Harm

eBook – Available for immediate download.

Dr. Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49.

Read:

Read Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Harm on your mobile device!

on your mobile device!

Retail: $13.99 Now: $9.99 Order Here.

Say NO to Mandatory Vaccines T-Shirt

100% Pre-shrunk Cotton Order here!

Make a Statement for Health Freedom!

Big Pharma and government health authorities are trying to pass laws mandating vaccines for all children, and even adults.

Show your opposition to forced vaccinations and support the cause of Vaccine Impact, part of the Health Impact News network.

Order here!

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