Sandra Finley

May 032025
 
Video: We Are CHD

April 30, 2025

Neurodiversity Is a Strawman

Personal Stories

A dear friend had a beautiful, healthy, engaged baby boy.
After his first round of childhood vaccinations he went blind, non-verbal, started head banging, having seizures, lost all engagement, and fell into the abyss of autism. Today that child is 40. He is incontinent, cannot speak or feed himself, and is totally dependent upon his father to survive.

Another friend had a son and a daughter.
The daughter, following her first round of childhood shots, experienced almost exactly the same scenario described above, minus the blindness. At the time my friend did not connect the dots and when it came time for his son to be vaccinated, the child began to seize. In the room, my friend put it together and stopped the rest of the shots. Today, his son is only mildly autistic while his daughter, at 26, is non-verbal, incontinent, and often uncontrollable. Since the son is only mildly autistic, I suppose we shouldn’t look into the cause of his issues? It’s a gift, right?

A mother (a client in one of the many tragic cases) had a teenage daughter who, after a round of the Gardasil vaccine, suffered a seizure and went into a coma. The young girl had been captain of her volleyball team, top of her class, poised for a full and happy life. Today, at nearly 20, she lives in total darkness because she has seizures every 30 seconds – cannot have any light. The neurodegeneration is unquantifiable. She cannot read or watch TV, let alone go on her first date, go to prom… experience the life she should have and would have.

Another friend had a perfect, beautiful young daughter who was exceeding all of her milestones. After her second round of jabs, she locked in, stopped talking or making eye contact, developed a severe learning disability, and is still struggling today, at 6. She, too, will never experience the “normal” milestones we all would like to see for our children.

Those stories, anecdotal though they may be, are the tip of the iceberg.
I could share thousands, each one worse than the next, that would make most people sit in a room and cry forever.

Media Normalization and Misdirection

The media machinery has conflated mild spectrum disorder with what I just described above specifically so that people will have the reaction they are having right now. This is normalization of extremes by conflating them with non-extremes so that it’s a step-by-step incremental (and coordinated) attack on those who would expose the root cause of the terrible suffering experienced by so many. It’s executed so that people like RFK, Jr. are hobbled from doing their job.

Neurodiversity vs. Harm

How does questioning the environmental harms and risk factors for autism and/or neurodegenerative disorders threaten or even conflict with the idea of autism as neurodiversity?
Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.

No other disease has people normalizing a spectrum (no pun intended) of symptoms ranging from terrible to non-debilitating in order to argue that it’s actually great. We don’t say there’s a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorder from paralysis to neuropathy and there are benefits to neuropathy therefore neurodegeneration is great. This is normalization at its best.

Suddenly everyone’s kid is Rain Man. Suddenly everyone is “on the spectrum.” Ergo, it’s normal. Being a little bit weird is beautiful and normal and we are all a little bit weird so that’s not a disorder.
This is a psyop and everyone is falling for it.

No one is saying there is something wrong with neurodiversity or that we shouldn’t also be looking into that. But when it comes to discovering the contributing factors and co-factors, the environmental insults, and the increase itself in autism to date, we’re not talking about that.
We are talking about, and have only ever been talking about, the above scenarios.

Silencing Investigation

The tactics to muzzle debate and halt real investigation are duplicated across all levels.
(This should all sound eerily familiar when we recall the conflation, normalization, media machinations, and strawmen to emotionally activate opposition tactics used during Covid.)

Unanswered Questions & Red Flags

  • Pharmaceutical companies have no liability for vaccines.

  • The pediatric schedule increased from 3 to 72 in one generation.

  • HHS draws a hard line at 1989 for autism – the year combination vaccines emerged after 1986 liability protections.

The media is adept at keeping dots that should be connected in silos so that most people do not connect them.

The Burbacher Study & The Mercury Debate

The Burbacher Study, if anyone were to know about it, SHOULD have at least sparked research into these potential harms.

Instead, Paul Offit – spokesperson for the pharmaceutical industrial complex – dissects a strawman.
The strawman? Ethyl vs. methyl mercury.

How the Strawman Works:

Offit’s argument:

Ethyl mercury (Thimerosal) clears from the brain faster than methyl mercury.

The problem?

  • There are organic and inorganic types.

  • For the organic type, Offit is right.

  • For the inorganic type, he’s wrong.

Key points:

  • Both ethyl and methyl mercury break down into organic and inorganic forms.

  • The organic form of ethyl mercury clears from the brain faster.

  • The inorganic form of ethyl mercury does not clear – it remains forever.

  • Even methyl mercury clears better, including its inorganic form.

So Offit’s comparison is flawed twice:

  1. It’s irrelevant (no one is proposing methyl mercury injections).

  2. It’s incorrect if considering clearance rates of inorganic forms.

Simply put:
The Burbacher study proves mercury crosses the Blood Brain Barrier.
Did we pause and investigate? No. We ended animal studies for mercury.

A Larger Pattern

This is just one strawman used to marginalize and sideline risks and harms.

Others include:

  • Autism and HHV-6?

  • Autism and glyphosate, PFAS, and forever chemicals?

It’s not ignorance – it’s profit protection and regulatory capture.

Flawed Logic & Confirmation Bias

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Only ONE vaccine has ever been properly tested – and even that, never fully.

If you search one lit area of a dark street and find nothing, do you conclude the entire street is empty?
Do we pour concrete on our confirmation biases? Or search for the truth?

The former is happening. The latter is being suppressed.

What’s Really Being Prevented

The assertion that these issues have been addressed is false.
In fact, it has been disallowed.

A strawman causes outrage.
Outrage creates chaos.
Chaos halts real progress.

That’s the model. It’s coordinated. It works.

The Cultural Psyop

People predictably snatch up the dog treats thrown to them by the mainstream.

The perpetually offended contingent muddies the water by coming unhinged.

We apologize for using a Whole Foods bag at Trader Joe’s.
We’ve become reactive to everything, including the trivial, while ignoring the existential.

What Matters Most

RFK, Jr’s job is not to be Gandhi, but to stabilize a floundering nation.

We cannot prioritize the weakest subset of our population from a government perspective, or we die.
We cannot produce caregivers as fast as we are producing people with autism.
We have to scale back the rate of increase.
That starts with finding and mitigating the cause(s).

A Final Word to Skeptics

To the skeptics:
You likely have friends or children affected by these injuries.
They are terrified to speak out.
They do not have the bandwidth to fight the mob.

I hear from them.
They are grateful for this work.
They are begging not to be “outed.”
Forward-facing, they appear compliant.
But it’s not the truth. Not for them.

They are living it, every single day.
Without a break. Not ever.

Sofia KarstensSofia Karstens is an activist in California who worked closely with publisher Tony Lyons and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on several projects, including Kennedy’s best-selling book: The Real Anthony Fauci. She collaborates with several organizations in the legal, legislative, medical science, and literary spaces and she is co-founder of Free Now Foundation, a non-profit preserving medical freedom and children’s health.
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Apr 23, 2025

 

You’re hearing this straight from the horse’s mouth — our rather, our guest dental experts — that tooth fillings and water fluoridation are not as safe as public health officials and practitioners would like us to believe. They touch on the following:

  • Are fillings really made of silver or something else entirely?
  • Scientific arguments for the banning of amalgams
  • The power of consumer choice
  • Mercury in fish, brain damage and reproductive toxicity
  • Should we be consuming fluoride?
  • Litigation to protect the public from drinking industrial waste
  • Removing sources of neurological impairment
Apr 242025
 

 

https://www.rebelnews.com/update_ostrich_farmers_fight_to_save_flock_continues

 

While the farmers are relieved to be permitted to have a judicial review of the culling order, they continue to face what they consider to be unreasonable restrictions and punishments from the agency while awaiting those proceedings.

The most recent measure taken against them is a fine they received on March 18. The CFIA issued the penalty due to their claim that the farmers “failed to notify the nearest veterinary inspector of the presence of a reportable disease or toxic substance,” an allegation Pasitney claims isn’t true.

“They slapped us with a $10,000 fine yesterday morning saying that we did not, that we failed to report this illness which is absolutely false,” she said. “All documentation has been given that this is the first case of H5N1 in Canadian history.”

According to Pasitney, when some of birds fell ill they initially believed it was the same non reportable flu that some in their flock caught a few years prior and they handled the onset of the illnesses the same way. “When we started having symptoms, which presented exactly like they did in 2022, we did absolutely exactly what we should have and we went right to our vet.”

The farm and their counsel has been in court this week for examinations for discovery, where both parties have been questioned about their positions and evidence in preparation for the judicial review.

The farm’s expert witnesses who are set to testify include viral immunologist and vaccinologist Dr. Byram Bridle, University of British Columbia Department of Medicine neurology professor Dr. Steven Pelech, and outbreak specialist Dr. Jeff Wilson, who holds doctorates in veterinary medicine, pathology, and epidemiology.

 

Pasitney expressed continued frustration with the CFIA’s refusal to conduct a thorough assessment to confirm whether or not the animals are even carrying the illness any longer.

“They have not done soil samples. They continue to not do water samples. They deny us testing and still the threat of a $200,000 fine or six months in jail if we shall test our animals ourselves,” she explained. “We have survivors and I think we need to be looking at them as survivors and see how we can use them to better science, not kill them and just keep killing the next animal and the next animal.”

According to Pasitney, thanks to supporters of the cause donating at the farm’s crowdfunding site, the farm has already spent $70,000 in legal fees, but expects to owe an additional $75,000 for the next wave of legal costs.

Despite the mounting costs and government pressure, Pasitney and her team remain determined to fight for the lives of their ostriches and the sovereignty of all BC farmers.

“We don’t know what will happen next, that they could come in and still murder all these animals,” she said. “We are in a huge battle to save our animals that in turn can save your animals. Let’s not allow this to be another mistake the government makes,” said Pasitney.

 

Apr 232025
 

Viruses,  organisms, vaccinations,  Immune Systems, . . . and Serendipity!    Encounter with a woman who knows a man to whom I am most grateful.

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Recently I was asked  “What alerted you to the covid vaccination?”  (not safe and not effective)

My reply:    I had an unfair advantage.  I was diagnosed with TB  20 years ago (2005).   It was a dress rehearsal for covid.  I learned a lot by having TB.    For one thing,  TB is not immediately contagious.  The Doctor and I had 8 months in which to test hypothesis BEFORE the TB would become contagious.  The experiment was successful.

A different man,  a different doctor,  would not have agreed to enter into the experiment with me.  He did, and we succeeded, working together with a Naturopathic doctor.

I think of those ostriches near Kelowna.  400 adults to be killed, without any chance to investigate whether their Immune Systems might have played a role in their healthy survival.

RELATED:  (there’s more, but this is enough!)

025-04-12 VIRUS  Ostriches: Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Adherence to Policy. APRIL 15 – 16 in FEDERAL COURT

2025-03-0 Ostriches, with thanks to Drea Humphrey, Rebel News (Vaccines / Immune Systems)

2024-04-09. Updated 2024-10-12 A list of “PFIZER” postings from my blog, in case you’re wondering about their Earned Reputation. First one Sept 2004. (My Dad taught me that you don’t make deals with crooks.)

 

Apr 232025
 

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REAKING — RFK Jr. Launches Long-Awaited Offensive Against Deadly COVID-19 mRNA Shots

RFK Jr. breaks silence on mRNA injections — cites risks of myocarditis, stroke, and death on national TV.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
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By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

As millions of Americans anxiously await action from the new HHS leadership against the deadly COVID-19 mRNA injections—injected into over 9 million children this year—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has finally gone publicly on the offensive:

Let’s go over each key point made by RFK Jr.:

The recommendation for children was always dubious. It was dubious because kids had almost no risk for COVID-19. Certain kids that had very profound morbidities may have a slight risk. Most kids don’t.

In the largest review to date on myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 infection vs. COVID-19 vaccination, Mead et al found that vaccine-induced myocarditis is not only significantly more common but also more severe—particularly in children and young males. Our findings make clear that the risks of the shots overwhelmingly outweigh any theoretical benefit:

The OpenSAFELY study included more than 1 million adolescents and children and found that myocarditis was documented ONLY in COVID-19 vaccinated groups and NOT after COVID-19 infection. There were NO COVID-19-related deaths in any group. A&E attendance and unplanned hospitalization were higher after first vaccination compared to unvaccinated groups:

So why are we giving this to tens of millions of kids when the vaccine itself does have profound risk? We’ve seen huge associations of myocarditis and pericarditis with strokes, with other injuries, with neurological injuries.

The two largest COVID-19 vaccine safety studies ever conducted, involving 99 million (Faksova et al) and 85 million people (Raheleh et al), confirm RFK Jr.’s concerns, documenting significantly increased risks of serious adverse events following vaccination, including:

  1. Myocarditis (+510% after second dose)
  2. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (+278% after first dose)
  3. Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (+223% after first dose)
  4. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (+149% after first dose)
  5. Heart Attack (+286% after second dose)
  6. Stroke (+240% after first dose)
  7. Coronary Artery Disease (+244% after second dose)
  8. Cardiac Arrhythmia (+199% after first dose)

And this was clear even in the clinical data that came out of Pfizer. There were actually more deaths. There were about 23% more deaths in the vaccine group than the placebo group. We need to ask questions and we need to consult with parents.

Actually, according to the Pfizer’s clinical trial data, there were 43% more deaths in the vaccine group compared to the placebo group when post-unblinding deaths are included:

We need to give people informed consent, and we shouldn’t be making recommendations that are not good for the population.

Public acknowledgment of the grave harms of COVID-19 vaccines signals that real action is right around the corner. However, we must hope that action is taken for ALL age groups, as no one is spared from their life-reducing effects:

Alessandria et al (n=290,727, age > 10 years): People vaccinated with 2 doses lost 37% of life expectancy compared to the unvaccinated population during follow-up.

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Here is the other piece, from Charles Eisenstein that I wanted you to see.  But really it made a great impression on me when I read it!  I had to go and sit quietly for about half an hour.  D.

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There is nothing “wrong” with anyone, and…

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I saw a post recently arguing that RFK Jr. is a Nazi for sounding an alarm about rising autism rates, and calling to make prevention and treatment a high priority. The argument is that by labeling autism a disease (autism spectrum “disorder”), we pathologize and shame people who are not sick, but merely different. We make them wrong when there is nothing wrong. It is but a short step from there to classic Nazi eugenics to cleanse society of the people it deems inferior or who deviate from social norms.

Indeed, many autistic people say things like, “There is nothing wrong with me. I like myself the way I am.”

On one level that rings true, and it is important to say. I remember when I was in elementary school, one of the classrooms was “special education.” It contained the children who were politely known at the time as “mentally retarded.” Today the term is regarded as nearly a slur, but then it was considered a compassionate euphemism—perhaps these children were merely slower to develop than the rest. In any case, the compassionate motivation was lost on my classmates, who quickly adopted “retard” and “sped” (short for special ed) as epithets to direct at those kids and each other.

I felt uncomfortable in the presence of the ridicule of the special ed kids, but I was too much a coward to speak up about it.

So there is truth in “there is nothing wrong with the autistic.” But I would like to hold that truth side by side with perspectives like the following, starting with this Facebook post. I will refrain from linking to it, as the poster wants to remain relatively private.

This [photo of the poster’s bruised face] was taken 4 years ago. We were in the midst of the worst crisis we’d ever been in with our son.

I don’t recall what he was raging about that day. Dale was at work. I was home waiting on a large delivery. Just as the driver showed up, he started his daily violent meltdown. Normally I’d lock myself out in the garpartment for safety, but this always drove him outside into the yard and that day the delivery driver was a woman.

I ran outside to warn her and to get her to come back later. He chased me outside, grabbed me by the hair and yanked me to the ground. He got one hand in my mouth and tried to rip my cheek open. He went for my eyes to gouge them out. As I fought him off, I felt a great peace. I thought “I’m gonna lose my eye but it’s ok.” I was able to sweep his legs out from under him and he went down. As I sat in the safety of the delivery truck with the gracious, understanding driver, I watched my son rip the front door off our house.

I don’t dwell on this or any of the other times like this. They are not who my son is. He’s a wonderful, loving, funny person. I adore him with all my heart. He has severe autism. He is verbal but he can’t have a normal conversation. He can’t tie his shoes, make his own dinner, or hold a job. He will never live independently. When Dale and I are gone, he will likely live in some type of institutionalized care facility. It breaks my heart just thinking about it.

When he is on any type of anti-inflammatory type drug, he gets better. This is because one of his diagnoses is encephalopathy. He has extensive brain damage from the shots he was given when he was 3 years old, including his first MMR and Varicella. He began showing signs of brain swelling and seizures two days later.

I don’t like anyone to know the extreme struggles we’ve had with him over the years. I’ve talked here and there about it but don’t share the worst of it. I’m a pretty private person, so talking about this is very hard for me. And I don’t want people to get the wrong impression of my precious son.

The reason I’m sharing this now is because I hope that when you see people talking bad about RFKjr (who has long been a hero in our house), you will know that he was referring to cases like my son’s. This type of autism absolutely devastates families with the financial, emotional, physical, and psychological toll it takes on you. It isolates you. The stress undoes you and shortens your life expectancy. When Dale had a heart attack two years ago, it drove home how difficult this would be without him.

I love each of you and take a lot of comfort in knowing that you care about our family and Micah. Thank you for that!

This is not an isolated story. At least a quarter of people on the autism spectrum are classified as “profoundly autistic”; many others have severe disabilities. I began to pay attention to autism back in the late 1990s. Based on a gut feeling and a general sense of a pervasive wrongness in civilization, or maybe because I am mentally ill with opposition defiant disorder, I refused to vaccinate our first child and received a lot of pushback, incredulous reactions from friends, family, and pretty much everyone else. So, in a classic exercise of confirmation bias, I started looking to see whether there was anything to confirm my suspicions. I got on mailing lists run by people like Anne Dachel and Barbara Loe Fisher, and read story after heartbreaking story, hundreds of them, from parents, especially mothers, who coalesced into the movement that eventually got RFK Jr.’s attention. Here is a typical one:

Hi, my name is Ashley, I’m here to tell my son’s story of vaccine-induced autism. My son was taken into his well-baby visit at almost five months old for his four-month-old well baby shots. We took him in, he received eight vaccines, and he’s never been the same since that day. He went in a happy, healthy, chubby baby boy, and came out one we could barely recognize, shaking his head violently back and forth, no longer able to look at us, no longer wanting to be touched or held, not able to even latch on to breastfeed, falling off the weight chart, blood-streaked diarrhea so acidic it was burning his butt and legs and had to be hosed off in the sink. Most importantly, he’s never returned to that same baby boy that we had.

Ashley’s testimony is part of this compilation. More stories here and here. Often the response from pediatricians is to say that the reaction was a coincidence, or to blame the mothers for being hysterical. I don’t think anyone could read or listen to hundreds of stories like that and not be radicalized.

Here is an excerpt from another all-too-typical story. (Worth reading the whole thing, but this gives the flavor.)

When he got his MMR at 12 months we had a serious reaction. 104 fever, and a horrible rash all over his body. He was sick for 10 days. We were told that this was normal. Then, he started hand flapping and his eyes started crossing. Again, another sign — and more assurance that “this is normal, many kids hand flap, his eyes look normal— it’s a phase.” He also slowed down in terms of language. We continued to listen to our doctor that vaccines were safe, and effective. And that there are virtually no side effects. So, we continued to vaccinate.

It gets worse from there.

I understand that these anecdotes won’t convince anyone that vaccine injury is real. Maybe if you read hundreds such stories, you would change your mind, especially when you really examine the science that supposedly debunks the vaccine-autism link. Following a pattern that is by no means limited to the pharmaceutical industry, corporations and captured government agencies wage a campaign of propaganda, tendentious science, persecution of whistleblowers and dissidents, and cover-ups. Read this overview of the persecution of Dr. Andrew Wakefield to get a sense of the machinery that keeps reigning paradigms and profits in place. If you want to also look him up on Wikipedia, I’ll save you the trouble. His bio starts with: “Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is a British fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and disgraced former physician.” Then, if you dare, read Vax-Unvax or Dissolving Illusions and observe how the critiques of those books touch very little of the substance of their arguments.

That will take a lot of work. Why would you do that if you already know they must be wrong? Why must they be wrong? Because if they are right then the whole edifice of modern society — its systems of knowledge production, its public institutions, academia, government, and the ideology of progress — must be unsound, for the core medical practice of vaccination is embedded within them. You can’t believe “We got this one item wrong” without impugning the rest of the edifice along with it.

I don’t understand (well actually I kinda do) how vaccine skepticism has been labeled these days as “far-right,” or how those who listen to moms instead of corporate-funded science are deemed fascists. I thought it was the Left that challenged corporate power and establishment narratives, and championed the citizen in her struggle against oppressive institutions.

Anyway, hopefully the foregoing makes it clear that those who advocate for the prevention and treatment of autism are not intolerant Nazis with a secret eugenics agenda.

To name something as an illness is not to shame the ill. The same argument that to pathologize autism is to shame the autistic is also applied to obesity—to mention it as a problem is to engage in “fat-shaming.” Indeed, there is nothing intrinsically wrong on a moral or spiritual level with obese people. Those who judge them do not understand what it is like to have a metabolic disorder, or an addiction-generating trauma, or to be too impoverished and busy to buy and cook healthy food, or to grow up deskilled in a ruined food culture, or to spend a childhood mostly indoors, or to be desperately lonely with only food to maintain an experience of connection, or to be bereft of intimacy’s sweetness with only sugar’s available instead. There are many causes for obesity, and few if any are the fault of the obese. But that does not mean we should ignore the causes or celebrate the condition.

Is it “poor-shaming” to critique predatory neoliberal capitalism for its impoverishment of the Global South? Is it “addict-shaming” to point out that addiction is destroying people’s health? Such arguments would be very convenient for those profiting from the poor or the addicts. The functional medicine practitioner Mel Koppelman makes the point emphatically:

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by the stunted growth of the right cerebral hemisphere. This hemisphere gives rise to embodiment, emotional connection, empathy, and most types of attention.

But these data [autism diagnosis in 1 in 31 children] don’t include the exponential rise in the stunted growth of the left side of the brain, characterized by dyslexia, dyscalculia and emotional regulation disorders, which is actually more common.

Both of these conditions give rise to Functional Disconnection Syndrome, where the two halves of the brain don’t operate as a functional unit, resulting in all kinds of emotional, cognitive, neurological and biological symptoms and diseases. Other examples of symptoms or diagnoses in this category, in addition to autism and dyslexia, include Tourette’s and tics, OCD, sensory processing disorders, and ADHD.

This includes the majority of all children in the United States.

We have literally poisoned and brain-damaged an entire generation of kids.

And then those doing the poisoning told parents and children to celebrate it.

And to be angry and distrustful of anyone trying to help them.

But we could do something else. We could stop poisoning the kids. We could look for the causes and collectively insist that they stop.

There is, however, a deeper level to what is happening through the autism phenomenon. In adapting to their condition, autistic people often develop gifts, both mental and emotional, that society needs right now; for example, the abilities of the Spellers described in the podcast the Telepathy Tapes. More generally, in adapting to the specific challenges of each stage of civilization, human beings develop the capabilities necessary for humanity to move to the next stage.

Each one of us is soul made flesh; Life made human. If a tree grows in rocky soil, shaded by other trees, and it twists and reaches for the light, we do not say it is a bad tree for being misshapen. It is doing what life does. Life wants to live. Life adapts to overcome all difficulties. Life evolves because of its difficulties.

Anyone who thinks that their own virtue and willpower distinguishes them from the obese, the depressed, the addicted, the poor, the lazy, the ignorant, the unjust, or the violent has a humbling lesson in front of them.

When a child is injured by vaccines or other environmental insults, and the life within him takes a form different from the rest of us, this is cause for celebration — life lives! — not shame. Yet that does not justify the injury.

The autistic are not the only ones who’ve suffered injury from the world-destroying life-destroying Machine. The modern way of life, birth, child-rearing, and death, its sundering of ties to community and nature, its entrenched cycles of trauma, its denial of spirit, its relentless artificial scarcity, and its pollution of the body and the environment with toxic chemicals compose the rocky soil and occluded sunlight in which we have all grown. The life in each of us adapts to these conditions as best it can.

We call this basic truth compassion. “But for the grace of God, I too would be autistic. I too would be obese. I too would be addicted.” Or, “I too would be a migrant. I too would be on welfare. I too would drop out of school.” And even, “I too would be a criminal. I too would be greedy. I too would cheat and lie and steal and do others harm.” Not only would I, but surely I have, in some way and form. As Thich Nhat Hanh said, “I am the pirate.” What is in you, is in me, some echo of it, some holographic trace of it. Let he who be without sin cast the first stone.

Those we stone with our insults and shaming and denunciation are ourselves. Understand a person’s backstory, and you will realize, “That could have been me.” None of us are made of better or worse stuff than the rest. We all are life, doing what life does in the circumstances it is in. Yet neither is anyone a helpless victim of circumstance. That’s because life is not static. We grow new capacities in evolving within and against trying conditions, until they no longer imprison us but become the material for creative choice. That is the moment when the truth of “It is not your fault; you are victim of forces beyond your control” gives way to a new truth: “Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You are no longer a prisoner of your past, you the author of your future.” The former had been true, but no longer. From the victim, comes the master. From the illness comes the medicine.

So, when I meet someone profoundly challenged by injury, illness, tragedy, or persecution, I am always curious. What capacities have been forged in the crucible of your suffering? Again and again, I discover generosity among the impoverished, inner freedom among the incarcerated, compassion among the judged, kindness among the brutalized, joy among the bereft. Sometimes it is hard to see, just a glint of something still forming. Sometimes it is radiant like the sun.

It is by those who have grown strong by overcoming the injuries dealt to them by civilization that a new kind of civilization will be born.

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Apr 172025
 

These lying candidates,  “doctors” no less,  have to be challenged and defeated.   Please help spread the word on this political candidate.   Thanks.    /Sandra

Source:  Dr Bryam Bridle, an early voice on problems with the Government narrative on covid.   A bona fide  doctor.  A Father of young kids.  My introduction to Dr Bridle:  he did very informative educational presentations and practical demonstrations of the lies.   Amateur videos were done by people in his own community who attended a presentation in their school gym.   Bridle has been a relentless educator, serving the interests of ALL parents and children.   I encountered him in person at a presentation and spoke with him.   When you encounter “the real thing”,  you cannot help but be grateful for the generosity of spirit of these people who give, and then give MORE,  oblivious to the effects on their own circumstances.

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I thought that you might be interested in this, with great questions for candidates running for election at the end.  (not too long!)   D.

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The Green Party’s ‘Unprofessional’ ‘Bully’

Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik’s History Raises Concerns About Political Aspirations

Dr. Byram W. Bridle
Apr 17

 

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During An Election, Character Carries More Weight Than Campaign Promises

Canada is in the middle of a snap election. It is a weakened country with a massively divided population thanks to politically-fueled hatred and division that reached fever-pitch levels during the declared COVID-19 pandemic. The vote on April 28th has major implications.

When considering who to vote for, promises stated on the campaign trail are, for most candidates, a poor indicator of their future performance in parliament; talk is cheap. Instead, evaluating a person’s historical ‘walk’, in the form of their demonstrated character, is more reliable.

When a person has an established history of behaviours that would be deleterious should they get elected into our federal parliament, this should be disclosed. Enter Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik, a candidate for Canada’s Green Party in the Guelph riding.

Online Character Assassinations Directed at Genuine Subject Matter Experts

During the declared COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Zajdlik became notorious for her antics in social media. She incessantly spewed rhetoric and resorted to applying negative labels to those whose opinions did not align with her own. Her posts often spread demonstrable misinformation, while lacking rationale and scientific rigor when summarily dismissing concerns raised by real experts. Worse, she seemed to delight in attempted character assassinations by defaming genuine subject matter experts as she strayed well outside her lane of knowledge.

It turned out that I was one of her favourite targets. Personally, I never delved into Dr. Zajdlik’s sordid world of social media. However, I also could not fully escape it because many members of the public who were outraged at her behaviour regularly informed me about her posts. Zajdlik’s utter lack of professionalism, profound immaturity, and propensity for spreading misinformation was embarrassing. I can confirm that she has never apologized to me, despite many of the concerns that I raised about COVID-19 having been proven many times over in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Influencing Public Health Policies While Promoting Censorship of Experts

Dr. Zajdlik had substantial influence over regional pandemic policies. She was friends with local medical officer of health, Dr. Nicola Mercer, and served on Mercer’s advisory committee. She supported censorship of experts with views that differed from the mainstream narrative, which has now proven to be based, at least in part, on lies and inaccurate data, with simultaneous lack of disclosure of information that was essential for proper informed consent.

I will never forget attending an online town hall meeting with Drs. Zajdlik and Mercer about COVID-19 policies and how they completely ignored my questions and those of several of my concerned colleagues, while cherry-picking narrative-promoting questions that were submitted later. Indeed, my colleagues and I tested this by submitting an ‘easy question’ towards the end, that was readily addressed before they ‘ran out of time’ for any additional questions.

It is important to note that Guelph instituted some of the most draconian policies in the country, including one that appeared in only a handful of school districts across all of Canada. It was an ‘isolated quarantine’ policy for school children that was to be implemented should any classmate receive a positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2. The policy failed to follow proper science and was nothing short of child abuse. The Toronto Sun published my concerns about it here. A local paper also reported it here.

A Physician and Informed Consent

Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik is a physician. I had some of her patients approach me at the height of the ‘COVID craziness’ to express concerns about how coercive she was being and how discouraged they were that she was attacking experts like me instead of engaging in reasonable discussions to learn about legitimate concerns. A particularly notable concern I heard from her patients was whether Zajdlik was providing proper informed consent for pregnant and breastfeeding women when pushing them to get COVID-19 shots.

The Supreme Court of Canada says the standard for informed consent is to be measured by what a reasonably thinking pregnant or breastfeeding woman would have expected to hear before consenting to receiving a COVID-19 shot.

Dr. Zajdlik, did you know that long after you pushed COVID-19 shots on pregnant and breastfeeding women, Health Canada stated the following in their response to Federal Order Paper Question 2163?…

None of the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers sought indications for use in pregnant or lactating women or submitted RCTs in pregnant/lactating women for regulatory evaluation. The Product Monographs included statements about the uncertainties related to pregnancy and lactation.

As indicated in the specific Product Monographs, it is noted that the safety and efficacy of these vaccines in pregnant women have not yet been established. No indication for use in pregnant or lactating women was sought by the vaccine sponsors or authorized by Health Canada.

Health Canada has not approved any safety claims with regard to pregnant and lactating women.

…what about the manufacturers stating in their product monographs that “No data are available yet regarding the use of COMIRNATY during pregnancy”, “No data are available yet regarding the use of COMIRNATY during breast-feeding“, and “A risk to the newborns/infants cannot be excluded“?

…or, did you rely on the following product insert that accompanied the vials to inform these women?…

Do you think women would have wanted to know these things as part of the decision-making process? I could have ensured you were aware of these uncertainties within Health Canada had you allowed me to have a conservation with you.

COVID Crankiness Was Part of an Established Pattern of Disconcerting Behaviour

Disconcertingly, Dr. Zajdlik’s inappropriate approach to engaging with professionals during the declared pandemic was not new. It has been brought to my attention that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) identified equally serious breaches of professional conduct a couple of years prior. Specifically, this is what the CPSO’s ruling against Zajdlik stated:

The MI [Medical Inspector] noted the fact that three of the charts reviewed belonged to Dr. Dr. [sic] Zajdlik’s children. The Committee found that this violated the College’s policy on treating one’s family members. The policy, Physician Treatment of Self, Family Members, or Others Close to Them, sets out that physicians must only treat family members for minor conditions or in an emergency situation and then only when another qualified health care professional is not available to provide care. Even if no other physician was available at the time to attend to the children’s medical needs, it seemed clear to the Committee that Dr. Zajdlik was actively involved in her children’s care (e.g. issuing prescriptions, writing referrals, requesting consultations, ordering investigations), and did not just provide isolated care for only minor conditions or in emergency situations. Since Dr. Zajdlik stated that she understands the College’s policy on treating family members, the Committee felt this reflected a disregard for the policy and was a serious error in judgment.

As well as…

The originating information included e‐mails which Dr. Zajdlik had sent to physician colleagues. In the Committee’s view, the tone of Dr. Zajdlik’s e‐mails is both bullying and threatening and demonstrated a lack of professionalism in communicating with colleagues on Dr. Zajdlik’s part. Further, one of the charts the MI reviewed reflected unprofessional behaviour with a patient. Of further concern, is that this is not Dr. Zajdlik’s first complaint regarding her professionalism. The Committee noted that it has already cautioned her in person for unprofessional behaviour.

And…

The MI noted that some of the charts reviewed contained information regarding other patients. In the Committee’s view, the charts that the MI identified with other patients’ information in them create a significant risk that patients’ health information may be inappropriately shared, since the patients to whom the charts belong are entitled to access their medical records and, were they to do so, they would be privy to the personal health information of other patients. In the Committee’s opinion, this reflected a significant lapse in judgment on Dr. Zajdlik’s part.

Consequently,…

On April 18, 2018, the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (the Committee) ordered Dr.  Zajdlik to complete a specified continuing education and remediation program (SCERP). The SCERP requires Dr. Zajdlik to:

  • Attend and successfully completethe next available PROBE [Professional, Problem-Based Ethics]Ethics and Boundaries Education Program
  • Successfully complete individual instruction on ethics, professionalism and communication

The official documentation is publicly available under the “Public Notifications” tab at this link.

Failed Reformation Attempt

Dr. Zajdlik’s inappropriate behaviours during the declared COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate that the effort to reform her tendencies to bully and threaten and to restore professionalism failed. I wouldn’t be too concerned if the negative behaviours were a ‘one-off’, but there is now an established pattern. Who wants to risk strike three occurring while holding parliamentary powers?

Deceit on the Campaign Trail

Last week, two volunteers working for Dr. Zajdlik’s campaign came to my home. I was not there but my wife was. She was tired and trying to rest, so she did not answer the door when the volunteers knocked; but she saw them on our porch. Dr. Zajdlik was apparently not with them. So, I was disturbed when I learned the facts about this campaign flyer that was left in our mailbox…

…it states, “Sorry I missed you!” and is hand-signed (or so I am led to assume) by Dr. Zajdlik. When I first came home I told my wife that I was impressed that the candidate had attempted a conversation and hand-delivered the note. I was upset to learn instead that it was likely a form of deceit. If this was not hand-delivered, then it is misleading at least some people into thinking that she is attempting to make personal visits when she is not.

Six Questions for Green Party Candidate, Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik:

Anne-Marie, I genuinely want to give you an opportunity to justify why I and local readers of this article should consider voting for you despite your consistent history of concerning attitudes and behaviours towards professionals that disagree with you. I believe it is possible for people to change, but the onus is on those people to provide convincing evidence of such change. So,…

  1. Should you get elected, how can you assure voters that you won’t use parliamentary powers to amplify your bullying and threats?
  2. An elected official needs to fairly and objectively represent all How do you propose to do this for constituents that you have bullied and defamed?
  3. How can you convince people that you would be the consummate professional in parliamentary service?
  4. Do you support free speech, especially as it relates to open scholarly debate about novel scientific and medical crises? If so, how can you convince voters that your historical promotion of censorship will not be a problem moving forward?
  5. As a physician, do you support the concept of informed consent? If so, when it came to the COVID-19 shots, do you think that a reasonably thinking pregnant or breastfeeding woman would have wanted to know that [summarize facts]?
  6. Why are you leaving notes at people’s homes that imply you were there when you weren’t; and why should you be trusted with the position of Member of Parliament?

I invite you to answer these questions in the comments section, which is read by many constituents in the Guelph riding.

[Note: this will be sent to the candidate to give them a fair opportunity to address the concerns and questions.]

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Apr 152025
 

I think this is what is called  “AI Generated”.   (Artificial Intelligence)

I don’t know how to evaluate its value to us.  Is it at least somewhat representative of what actually transpired?   At the moment I don’t have time to track down the source.

Do you?

 

Apr 152025
 

was heard in Canada’s Federal Court on April 15 and 16, 2025.  (Vancouver)

Ostriches: Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Adherence to Policy

The Court of Public Opinion is Important

Dr. Byram W. Bridle
Apr 12

 

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There is a case before the Canadian Court for which a decision is pending. It focuses on ostriches. Why is this relevant to most people? Because it is weighing the validity of naturally acquired immunity and unique local/regional considerations versus adherence to policies dictated by a global health organization; specifically, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) that is headquartered in France. This case has implications for animal welfare, animal and human health security, food safety, accessibility to animal-derived products and foods, and the cost of eating.

I recommend that everyone do their own research into this case, including a review of recent shifts in opinions in the USA on WOAH’s stamping-out policy, which calls for the slaughter of every animal on a farm upon confirmation of even a single case of avian influenza, followed by repopulation of the farm with immunologically naive animals. Keep in mind that avian influenza is endemic in the wild bird population, which regularly crosses country and continental boundaries via migration.

If you would like to attend the case of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency versus Universal Ostrich Farms Inc., it will be heard in Canada’s Federal Court on April 15 and 16, 2025. Court starts at 10:00 a.m. pacific standard time (PST) and likely will end at ~4:00 p.m. PST each day. Here is the link:

https://cas-satj.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_40CPTqOGTYC03EKIEkla6A

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