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$cientology en geboorte-afwijkingen.
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De 'Church' of $cientology verkoopt een cursus genaamd:
De Purification Rundown.
Prijs: ergens tussen f 5.000 en f 10.000.

De cursus komt erop neer dat je je 2 a 3 weken het apelazerus
rent, zeer veel in de sauna zit EN... vrachtladingen (vitamine)
pillen slikt.

In Duitsland is de baas van Narconon overleden aan de gevolgen
ervan...

Hieronder een posting (alt.religion.scientology) over de
gevolgen van deze 'Purif' voor ongeborenen. Ik ben er erg
van geschrokken.               ~~~~~~~~~~~

IS ER IEMAND DIE DIT MEDISCH KAN/WIL BEOORDELEN??

Het komt mij namelijk voor dat: als dit alles correct is, de
Co$/Stichting $cientology Kerk Amsterdam kan worden aangeklaagd.
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From: baba@jones.neu.sgi.com (Baba ROM DOS)
Subject: Scientology Causes Birth Defects
Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:21:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <53uedk$ha1@murrow.corp.sgi.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: jones.neu.sgi.com
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 I recently posted, under a less provocative subject line, some
information I had received on the consequences of taking vitamin A
in the doses prescribed by "Dr" Hubbard in the Purification Rundown.
I'll risk being redundant by  reposting the key reference and
abstract below.  The key facts are that (a) Hubbard's vitamin
cocktail calls for doses of 50,000 IUs of Vitamin A, (Source: Clear
Body, Clear Mind: the Purification Rundown by L. Ron Hubbard) and
(b) doses greater than 15,000 IUs of vitamin A during the first 7
weeks of pregnancy have been strongly linked to birth defects
(Source: New England Journal of Medicine - see below).

 Now, the Purification Rundown has been around for decades, and if
one is naive enough to believe the "Church"'s figures, there have
been millions of Scientologists[tm] for much of that time.  So how
many people have undergone the "Purif"?  Can we make a "back of the
envelope" estimate?
 How many pregnant women - and they may not have known they were
pregnant at the time - undewent the "treatment"?  How many dead or
deformed babies have resulted?  If *any* documented cases turned up,
it would make for the sort of copy that national media people,
ghouls that they are, get excited about.  And with the precedents
being established by the internet community, legal threats by the
"Church"'s lawyers would be less likely to keep it quiet.

 Reference:
  Rothman KJ; Moore LL; Singer MR; Nguyen US; Mannino S; Milunsky
  A. Teratogenicity of high vitamin A intake [see comments].
  New England Journal of Medicine, 1995 Nov 23, 333(21):1369-73.

 Abstract:

BACKGROUND.
Studies in animals indicate that natural forms of vitamin A are
teratogenic. Synthetic retinoids chemically similar to vitamin A
cause birth defects in humans; as in animals, the defects appear
to affect tissues derived from the cranial neural crest.

METHODS.
Between October 1984 and June 1987, we identified 22,748 pregnant
women when they underwent screening either by measurement of
maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein or by amniocentesis. Nurse
interviewers obtained information on the women's diet, medications,
and illnesses during the first trimester of pregnancy, as well as
information on their family and medical history and exposure to
environmental agents. We obtained information on the outcomes of
pregnancy from the obstetricians who delivered the babies or from
the women themselves. Of the 22,748 women, 339 had babies with
birth defects; 121 of these babies had defects occurring in sites
that originated in the cranial neural crest.

RESULTS.
For defects associated with cranial-neural-crest tissue, the ratio
of the prevalence among the babies born to women who consumed more
than 15,000 IU of preformed vitamin A per day from food and
supplements to the prevalence among the babies whose mothers
consumed 5000 IU or less per day was 3.5 (95 percent confidence
interval, 1.7 to 7.3).  For vitamin A from supplements alone, the
ratio of the prevalence among the babies born to women who consumed
more than 10,000 IU per day to that among the babies whose mothers
consumed 5000 IU or less per day was 4.8 (95 percent confidence
interval, 2.2 to 10.5). Using a smoothed regression curve, we
found an apparent threshold near 10,000 IU per day of supplemental
vitamin A. The increased frequency of defects was concentrated
among the babies born to women who had consumed high levels of
vitamin A before the seventh week of gestation.

CONCLUSIONS.
High dietary intake of preformed vitamin A appears to be
teratogenic. Among the babies born to women who took more than
10,000 IU of preformed vitamin A per day in the form of supplements,
we estimate that about 1 infant in 57 had a malformation
attributable to the supplement.
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