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Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 124:", "text": "A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. 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"Bulgarian", "roman": "zaključenie", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "заключение" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "razsǎždenie", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "разсъждение" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "usuzování" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "inference" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "odvození" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "word": "afgeleid gegeven" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "word": "conclusie" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "word": "päättely" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "inférence" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "déduction" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "Schlussfolgern" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Schlussfolgerung" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Folgerung" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "act or process of inferring by deduction or induction", "tags": [ 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