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Note, August 2008:  I have been energized by the gathering of practitioners and parents at the Autism 2008 conference hosted by Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D. The sobering events that were described there about the grave risks facing humanity were accompanied by hopeful possibilities that we can turn things around. In response to the call to help spread the news I have put up this page where I can place information that is timely and more newsy than the other pages in this teaching website.

Formation of the

Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology

Academy Site

My introduction to his work

"The Klinghardt Academy is the official resource for Dr. Klinghardt's information, protocols, articles, educational materials, audio and video files and training. You are invited to join his newsletter for periodic updates and notification of forthcoming events..."

 

New book with hopeful conclusion:

Sick Planet.

[site for book info]

 

The book is written by Stan Cox, published by Pluto Press, London 2008.

A review of the book begins:

Familiar territory with a new slant: There are currently many books on the harm that is being done to our health and to our environment. Most of them cover much the same ground: chemicals, agribusiness, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and so on. This is no bad thing; every author manages to find some new information or put a new slant on things. There is also no shortage of new outrages coming to light, as regular readers of SiS will know.

 
In Sick Planet, Stan Cox covers a lot of familiar territory and highlights points that others have missed. His targets include disease mongering (the practice of convincing people that they are suffering from some ailment that requires a drug), the marketing of unnecessary food products such as bottled water, the pollution caused by overuse of fertilisers, the hazards of fluoropolymer chemicals such as Teflon, and more.

 
Because he has spent substantial time in India, he is able to describe some of what has been happening there. The dangers to health caused by the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries are given wide coverage in the popular media; but we are not told about the serious damage being done in the Patancheru area of India where so many of the world’s bulk drugs and intermediate compounds are made. There, sickness rates are more than double the national average, and good farmland is uncultivated because the groundwater has become unfit even for irrigation. 


 As Cox will convince you if you do not already know, much of what is happening to our planet is due to human ignorance and greed, expressed through the agency of big corporations and with the connivance of governments. Of course ignorance and greed are common human failings, and this might lead us to conclude that there is little we can do to save ourselves. Cox disagrees, and this makes him go beyond what most other writers on the subject have done.
 
Read the rest of this article here: [>> book review on site of Institute of Science in Society: Science Society Sustainablity]