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10. I just last week saw a news story about two parents...

Reply to Aristus (Reply #8)

Mon May 13, 2019, 12:45 AM

May 2019

Their child has leukemia, and now a judge has ordered them to let the child get chemo.

They wanted to use just "alternative" medicines like herbs and junk.

Science works.
Woo doesn't.

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I just last week saw a news story about two parents... Archae May 2019 #10

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