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This is an RFK letter in response to a critic who did not address RFK's supporting information. (...) Similarly, in 1977, Boston University epidemiologists (and husband and wife) John and Sonja McKinlay published their seminal work in the Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly on the role that vaccines (and other medical interventions) played in the massive 74% decline in mortality seen in the twentieth century: “The Questionable Contribution of Medical Measures to the Decline of Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century.” In this article, which was formerly required reading in U.S. medical schools, the McKinlays pointed out that...

Americans Waste Vast Amounts of Edible Food BY DRU SEFTON    Adam Weissman finds bagels, croissants and other baked goods discarded in a trash bin in Hackensack, N.J. (Photo by Michael Falco) Passersby look on as "Freegans" Adam Weissman (l), Anji Shirai and Wendy Scher hunt through garbage for still-edible food outside a New York City restaurant. (Photo by Michael Falco)   Marge Danser still feels pangs about "the great freezer debacle." Two years ago she opened the freezer in her Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment and faced a pile of long-frozen packages of meat -- about $20 worth. "I thought,...