Updates made to The Millenium Project in February 2001

Too late for baby Alan (3/2/2001)
I want you to think about a dead baby. This baby was ten weeks old when he died. The autopsy revealed bleeding around the brain, in the eyes and in the spinal column. There were bruises on the sides of his head. Another thing that the autopsy showed was four broken ribs. These fractures had started to heal, and therefore indicated a pattern of physical abuse prior to the date of death. The father admitted to holding the baby by his feet and hitting him shortly before he died. I now want to you to form an opinion of the father. If you are the sort of person who opposes vaccination, you would see this man as a hero. You would see him as a martyr to the cause and would try to get him released from prison. In a breathtaking demonstration of what it can mean to believe that the end justifies the means, the anti-vaccination liars have adopted Alan Yurko as a symbol that they can use to frighten parents into refusing vaccination for their children. You can read a loathsome justification for this murderer at http://www.woodmed.com/ShakenBabyAlan.htm.

In the latest effort by the anti-vaccinationists to assist Alan Yurko, people were asked to write to an official in the Florida corrections system to complain about a proposed change to prisoners' email allowances. Writers were told not to mention Yurko's name in case of retaliation against him, but to pretend they were writing for some other friend in prison. In other words, the writers were asked to lie about their real intentions. Following Edmund Burke's maxim that "all it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing", I wrote to the official concerned and warned her of the deceit. I copied my email to the person who had suggested "Shaken Maybe Syndrome" as a slogan for this particular anti-vaccination campaign (see the Anti-Vaccination Liars page for more details) and to someone who has suggested using Yurko as a consultant for other people charged with beating their children to death. One wrote back accusing me of a "heinous and spiteful act" and suggested that I "have placed Alan Yurko in danger". The other just told me "May you burn". The murderer's wife also wrote to me and said that "is not I or anyone else, that can stop you from eradicating yourself". Interestingly, she did not mention vaccination once, confirming for me that the Yurkos are just pragmatically using the anti-vaccination liars to achieve their own goal, which is to get the killer out. These people deserve each other. The tragedy is that children may die because of their actions. They all make me want to vomit.

Missed out for 2001 (3/2/2001)
Nominations have officially closed for the 2001 Nobel Prizes, and yet again nobody with a guaranteed cure for cancer has come forward. That doesn't mean they aren't out there, of course. I see web sites all the time from people who say they have the cure for cancer, and they wouldn't say it if it wasn't true, would they? I guess they are just shy about the publicity that the award would bring them. It can't be the work, because in the Cancer 100 Challenge I have offered to do the paperwork for them. Yes, it must be modesty. It couldn't be that they are lying about curing cancer and just saying they can do it so that they can steal the savings of desperate people, could it?

Tim's off his meds again ... (3/2/2001)
One of our favourite people here at The Millenium Project is Tim Bolen, spokesapostle for not-a-medical-Dr Hulda Clark. Tim has issued another press release addressed to "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters". You can read it in all its Shakespearean magnificence on the Tim O'Ranter page.

When you think things can't get worse (18/2/2001)
When I wrote the article above headed "Too late for baby Alan", I was being sarcastic when I suggested calling the murderer a hero. But someone has done it! A group of chiropractors has actually formally declared murderer Alan Yurko to be a "Chiropractic Hero" and are collecting money for him. The web site where this was announced is being reconstructed, but I managed to download the important part and you can read it here. Also, I have added a page with a bit more information about the murder of baby Alan.

Hey, Tim, where's the press release? (18/2/2001)
Somebody is finally doing something about the cancer quacks hiding out in Tijuana. One of the ones to feel the heat was a place run by not-a-medical-Dr Hulda Clark. I am waiting for her spokesranter, Tim Bolen, to issue the press release to millions of health freedom fighters telling us the bad news. Well, he might think it's bad news, but the rest of us will want to read the good news here.

Harassment Update (18/2/2001)
The Gutless Anonymous Liar decided to get involved in the baby Alan murder discussion. Proving that it is stupid as well as gutless, anonymous and a liar, it had to be told three times which murderer I was talking about. In the meantime, it told me lies about the Australian Federal Police. What a joker! It should try for a TV show - it could be called "The One Stooge". In another incident, I have been banned from the Australian Vaccination Network's mailing list. I thought they might be ashamed of what they say and don't want me to read it, but then I remembered that they are incapable of shame.

The unthinkable happens ... (25/2/2001)
Yes, it has finally happened, and I now face a crisis of conscience. Someone (maybe more than one someone) has purchased some of not-a-medical-Dr Hulda Clark's books from links on this site. When the commission comes in from Amazon I will donate the proceeds of the Clark sales to the Millennium Foundation at Westmead Hospital. I have chosen that organisation because a) they do real research into the causes and cures of cancer, b) I know and like the people who do the fund-raising, c) it is convenient to drop off the donation because their building is across the road from my daughter's school, and d) I like the name. Not-a-medical-Dr Clark will probably need her share of the sales to pay some bribes following recent events in Mexico.

Harassment Hiatus (25/2/2001)
Shhh! They're asleep. Either the new medication is working or the modem is broken at the asylum. Maybe there will be a breakout at the next full moon.

Administration stuff (25/2/2001)
The people who provide the Mind-it service that announces changes to web pages have told me that the service will no longer be free. From next month, web sites who want to have the buttons and have visitors told about changes will have to pay. If the cost was going to be reasonable I wouldn't care, but they want $US795 per year. I suppose some genius multiplied the number of buttons by a number of dollars and said "Wow! Look what we are missing out on!" I see a lot of web sites and an enormous majority of those with a Mind-it button are non-commercial or hobby sites like this one or belong to quite small businesses. These aren't the sort of people who have a spare $795 lying around, so my two predictions are that hardly anyone will pay the money and Mind-it will disappear in the next twelve months.

So, what am I going to do about it? Mind-it suited me because I didn't particularly want to know who visited the site unless the visitors chose to email me directly (I had no access to the Mind-it list of registered visitors). As soon as I can write an acceptable privacy and reassurance statement, I will have a form here so visitors can register an email address to be told about changes.