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Campaign to rename colorful California tunnel after Robin Williams gets first legislative approval

BY NANCY DILLON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, March 30, 2015, 5:11 PM

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The drive to rename a famous rainbow-painted tunnel in honor of Robin Williams has cleared another bureaucratic speed bump.

The legislative plan to rename the so-called Waldo Tunnel just north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge passed unanimously through the transportation committee of the California State Assembly last week on a 16-0 vote.

The resolution was introduced in December by Assembly Member Marc Levine of San Rafael in response to an online petition with more than 60,000 supporters.

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"Robin Williams always wore those rainbow suspenders as Mork," she said, referring to Williams' iconic character on the hit 70s sitcom "Mork & Mindy," and "he did a famous comedy routine about going through the tunnel."

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Senior CDC Scientist and Whistleblower Dr. William W. Thompson:

"You know in the United States the only vaccine it's still in is for pregnant women.

I can say confidently I do think Thimerosal causes tics so I don't know why they still give it to pregnant women, like that's the last person I would give mercury to.

Thimerosal from vaccines causes tics. You start a campaign and you just make that your mantra.

Do you think a pregnant mother would want to take a vaccine that they knew caused tics? Absolutely not! I would never give my wife a vaccine that I thought caused tics.

I can say tics are four times more prevalent in kids with autism.

There is biologic plausibility right now to say that Thimerosal causes autism-like features."

CDC Whistleblower Dr. Thompson on Thimerosal and Pregnant Women
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March 26, 2015

...We at AofA received an email from Frontline, asking us to help promote the program, Tweet during it etc. I was at the New York City debut of Trace Amounts and missed Frontline. Shucks.... Here's a post JB Handley wrote after the first version of Frontline appeared in 2010. KS

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Los Alamos schools top NM in vaccine exemptions

By Mark Oswald / El Norte
PUBLISHED: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 12:02 am

The tally is in, and the major New Mexico school district with the largest percentage of students opting out of vaccinations against contagious diseases is not in one of the state’s known hotbeds for crystal gazing, cradle therapy or psychic readings.

Nope, the highest percentage of vaccine exemptions is in New Mexico’s, and one of the world’s, science centers: Los Alamos.

According to a recent report by the state Department of Health, 2.3 percent of students in the Los Alamos Public Schools have exemptions from having to get vaccinations.

That’s a higher percentage than in the public schools of our New Age-friendly and alternative thought capitals of Santa Fe and Taos. The statewide average is less than 1 percent.

The rating for Los Alamos seems demographically in line with the findings of a 2014 survey by the Health Department of 794 vaccine-exemptor parents – 74 percent were Anglo and 67 percent had at least four years of college.

But one would think Los Alamos would be different. It’s a town founded on science, and the scientific evidence is overwhelming that vaccines don’t cause autism or other developmental disabilities. Many people in Los Alamos don’t just have college degrees – they’re scientists, with lots of degrees. Los Alamos National Laboratory in fact has done some heavy research on infectious disease and development of an HIV vaccine.

“That’s a curiosity to me, as well,” said Los Alamos schools superintendent Gene Schmidt of his district’s relatively high rate of vaccination exemptions among what he called “a pretty scientific and literate community.”

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Exemption Rates

Highest vaccine exemption rates among school New Mexico public school districts with at least 600 students:

* Los Alamos 2.3%
* Taos 2.0%
* Santa Fe 2.1%

Highest vaccine exemption rates among New Mexico counties for children 4 to 18 years old (state average is 0.8 percent):

* Taos 3.2%
* Los Alamos 3.1%
* De Baca 3.1%
* Santa Fe 2.6%