Tuesday, October 10, 2017

#1908: Sandy Lunoe

David Lowe’s article “The Sun Is Not A Star” seems to be a spoof, just so you know. There is nothing funny about Sandy Lunoe. Lunoe is an antivaxxer who at least occasionally writes for the antivaccine conspiracy website VacTruth. Lunoe is an adherent of the familiar toxins gambit, mostly because neither Lunoe nor her readers understand basic chemistry. Her post “Excuse Me Waiter – There’s a Fly in My Vaccine Soup!” is discussed in some detail here. It’s … idiotic.

According to Lunoe “it is no joke that vaccines may contain residue from insect cells, yeast, mouse brains, tissue from pigs, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, calf lymph, hens’ eggs, chick embryos, monkey kidney and testicle cells, retinal cells, aborted human fetal cells [a classic, dishonest and ridiculous misrepresentation] and cancer cells! These are amongst the many substrates present in the huge cultivation soup tanks which are used in vaccine production. The implications may be horrendous.” Yes, she even tries theold “monkey virus in vaccines” claim, which remains as stupid as it ever was. And the list? Basically, it’s names antivaxxers give various proteins when they occur in vaccines (but not when they push supplements). Lunoe also tries to argue that there is DNA in the HPV vaccine, but is predictably nebulous about what that is supposed to mean or why it is harmful. (The answer seems to be that her convictions has led her to classify it as “unclean”).

She also has, uh, assertions. “Most vaccines are contaminated with a number of known and yet-to-be discovered viruses, bacteria, viral fragments, and DNA/RNA fragments. And, further, our science demonstrates that these contaminants could lead to a number of slowly-developing degenerative diseases, including degenerative diseases of the brain,” says Lunoe, and “researchers who worry that the stray DNA is being incorporated into the recipient’s DNA …” And from “worry that”, Lunoe concludes that “DNA particles from disease matter can get into our DNA and alter us and in my opinion these vaccines are turning us into genetically modified organisms” (my emphasis). You wouldn’t want to be turned into a genetically modified organism, would you? And the “researchers” and “science” she refers to? Ah, that would be Suzanne Humphries, Sherri Tenpenny and Mike Adams. She cites no researchers. Nor science.

Lunoe has actually written a separate post, in much the same style, about the use of cancer cells in vaccines: “Vaccines Will be Made from Human Cancer Tumors.” The claim, from which Lunoe concludes that vaccines may lead to cancer, is, shall we say, misleading. To bolster her case, though, she points out that 60 years ago medical scientists were unable to detect certain potentially cancer causing factors, therefore vaccines are dangerous. Also, the FDA is in a conspiracy to hide the truth, because Lunoe can quote mine scientists at an FDA hearing to sound that way by judicious use of ellipses.

Diagnosis: Crazy conspiracy theorist. We don’t know how influential she is, but the antivaxx movement is loud and are causing real harms, and real deaths, so she still deserves a healthy dose of disgust and rebuke. Shun her.


6 comments:

  1. Lunoe is from the UK. But she lives here in Norway. She is the admin in the largest antivaxx FB-page here in Norway. When you give her critics she claims it is bullying and takes the part as a victim. She is nearly 80 years old and is a retired pharmacist.
    Her most famous claim here in Norway is that 1 in 912 girls who receives the HPV-vaccine dies within days after the shoot.
    She also claimed to have worked at the University in Oslo with vaccine research. The university had to publicly deny this.
    According to herself she gives advise on a daily basis to renowned vaccine researchers all over the world. They contact her because og her great knowledge!
    Luckily Norwegians are smart. Our vaccine rate is still above 95% and it goes up every year.

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  2. Sandy was a pharmacy lecturer for 13 years and examination censor for over 20 years at Oslo University. Employment was by contract engagements, renewed for each year. At that time such contracts were not registered digitally but were written in the university protocols.

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    1. This is wrong.
      According to this statement from the University in Oslo she had a short engagement in 1997. This lastet a few months.

      Being a sensor is not the same has holding a position at the University in Oslo.

      Sandy Lunoe was informed about the statement and she is sorry that she gave wrong information about her engagement at the University in Oslo.

      http://www.dagensmedisin.no/artikler/2009/10/19/om-faglig-tyngde/

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  3. As previously explained Sandy’s contracts, as others at that time, were registered manually and not digitally and are present in the written protocols.
    Her university contracts were combined with a position as a control pharmacist for the Oslo municipality where she was responsible for manufacturing control of sterile products and control of sterilisation procedures. She also lectured nursing students in medical calculations at two major hospitals in Oslo.

    Sandy held courses and censored at the university in pharmaceutics and was also for many years course leader in galenical pharmacy for final year Master students. The courses focused mainly on formulation of sterile products and on their production, both on small and industrial scale.
    She has authored routine procedures for hospital departments and for several pharmacies in Norway and has been in charge of a pharmacy laboratory.

    Sandy has wide professional experience internationally, was co-editor for International Pharmaceutical Abstracts for five years, has held a position as hospital pharmacist in Scotland and has lectured in pharmaceutics and pharmacognosy for ten years in Ethiopia and Zambia.

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  4. Please take down this defamatory ‘article’.
    How much is big-Pharma paying you to print such lies? I hope they are paying you well or else you’ll lose a small fortune in court when found to be lying.
    Please delete this blog and you will not get into any more trouble. Or else I hope you have the money and time to pay for your lies.

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