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Big Brother

Cris Italia

by Cris Italia

He might just be a moron or maybe he’s autistic like his mother proclaims. Maybe he can’t control his behavior and stupidity, but one thing is certain, Adam Jasinski was able to outsmart, scam and outplay his fellow contestants on CBS’s Big Brother in order to win a prize of $500,000. The New Jersey native won Big Brother 9, Sunday night and proclaimed that he would make good on his promise of helping children with special needs. Now he must help the "retards" he swore he would help.

The same person who stunned the autism community when he called children with the disorder “retards” might just be able to do some good for the people he insulted just weeks ago. On the season’s final episode after accepting his prize, Jasinski professed that he would donate $100,000 to United Autism, the non-profit organization he was fired from just weeks before his entry into the Big Brother house.

In a few days, after all the partying and after all the press, Jasinski will come home to find out what’s been happening since he was shut out from the world. He’ll find out that his comments in the season’s second episode about opening a hair salon for “retards” didn’t go over so well. He’ll find out that his words made the cover of newspapers around the country. He’ll realize that he hurt f...

The Next Hannah Poling

David Kirby

     In February, I leaked news of the Federal government’s admission that vaccines had triggered autism in a little girl named Hannah Poling. The stunning revelation, though still reverberating around the world, was roundly downplayed by US officials, who insisted that Hannah had      Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rushed to the airwaves, exhorting parents to adhere to the nation’s intensive and virtually mandatory immunization schedule, and brushing off their legitimate anxieties by saying: “We've got to set aside this very isolated, unusual situation.”
     Well, the days of setting aside are over: Hannah Poling is neither isolated nor unusual.
     In fact, the boy who was selected to replace Hannah Poling as the first-ever thimerosal “test case” in so-called Vaccine Court, has just been found with many of the same unusual metabolic markers as… you guessed it, Hannah Poling.
     Hannah’s case was scheduled to be heard in Federal Claims Court on May 12 -- as one of three “test cases” of the theory that thimerosal (a mercury-based vaccine preservative) can cause autism.
     Test cases will help address general causation issues in all 4,900...

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