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...prevention of any disease." Yet Hubbard's writings still manage to imply miracle cures: "You use Dianetics much the way you would use any remedy. When a fellow is burned, you audit out the burn. When a woman loses a loved one, you audit out the loss." Even germ-based diseases such as tuberculosis are said to respond to auditing...
...Varsity Spa is in. Hostess cupcakes are out; green salads with minced clams are in. Eating with utensils is out; using hands and other foods to eat with is in. Spooning plain yogurt into half an avocado is in, as is wheat germ, which always has been: dining hall veal cutlets which look like wallets are out. Putting Wheatena in your mouth is out; putting it on your mouth...
...body cells contain the defective chromosome; it is an inherited abnormality. But no such chromosome was found in the body cells of either the father or the mother of the deformed infant. Something must have happened during the parents' lifetime to change the chromosomes in their germ cells, either the father's sperm or the mother's ova -most likely the ova. That something may well have been identified by the Mount Sinai doctors. The mother, the doctors found, had taken three doses of LSD nine months before her infant was conceived. The father had taken...
...While coincidence cannot be excluded," say the doctors, "the possibility of chromosome damage to germ cells by LSD, with production of abnormal offspring, must be emphasized...
...physical symptoms fitted the concept of an infectious disease: headache, sore throat, malaise, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea. Since the Royal Free's expert microbiologists could find no bacteria to blame, they concluded that the cause of the outbreak was an even smaller and more elusive germ, an unidentified virus...