addendum to 2 previous articles on swine flu
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Dr Tim O'Shea
Author of The Sanctity of Human Blood 13th ed.
Although the H1N1 panic is at a fever pitch at this time, it's a safe bet
that by summer 2010 the swine flu issue will have faded off into the
boneyard of vaccine memorabilia.
Remember you read that here.
Policymakers have well discerned that this particular illusion has a finite
shelf life, due in no small part to the ever-shortening attention span of
the collective American mentality.
We must recall that the commotion in recent years over smallpox, anthrax,
SARS, and Avian flu lasted only as long as necessary for the drug and
vaccine funds to be allocated. Once that happens, there is no longer any
motive to continue to fan the flames of pandemic hysteria - a media campaign
like that requires so much effort, and costs so much money to maintain,
especially for a disease that never existed in the first place.
The template for this type of disease diversion is now firmly established -
so why tamper with a working model? Our textbook refers to the abrupt media
blackout which routinely signals the end of the line for these creations -
we call it The Case of the Disappearing Threat. Once it becomes evident
that the vaccine and the drugs assigned to the current pandemic du jour,
that these are dangerous and completely ineffective, the global threat
itself, which has been hawked incessantly for months and months as the
disease threat may bring the human race to extinction - is suddenly gone.
Poof. Like it never existed. Just like.
And no one ever asks where it went, or thinks it odd that something
presented so urgently suddenly vanished. And then magically no more cases
of the horrible global killer are ever heard of again - not even one. This
is precisely what took place not only with smallpox, anthrax, SARS, and
avian flu phantasms of recent years, but with the 1976 swine flu vaccine
disaster as well. Remember? One might be grateful for the good manners of
these individual pathogens who were gracious enough to simply disappear just
because we were unable to come up with any drugs of vaccines that actually
worked. Such politeness.
Anyone paying even moderate attention to the parade of emergencies that
have been making their appearance lately with almost routine regularity,
might begin to be desensitized to the urgency of these situations, vaguely
remembering that since they survived the last one, well they'll probably
survive this one as well. The slightly more vigilant might begin to notice
that most of the programs result in a viable vaccine being developed, and
thereby the threat to themselves and their families will eventually be
neutralized.
LICENSED AND UNTESTED
This is exactly wherein lies the clear and present danger of the current
swine flu vaccine program. This swine flu vaccine is actually being brought
into existence for dissemination among the general public, starting with
children. With 5 manufacturers having begun clinical trials only in August
2009, none scheduled for completion until next April, it is an astounding
lesson in vaccine politics that the FDA approved the untested H1N1 vaccine
on 15 Sep 09, just one month after the testing began!
[ www.sanofipasteur.com ] Licensed and untested.
We see precisely the same sequence of events that led to the last swine flu
fiasco in 1976 - 50 million were vaccinated with that untested vaccine. 21
deaths 565 paralyzed, withdrawn in 10 weeks. And never replaced. Never
replaced - that's the point. Why not? If the threat was so urgent that we
had to start vaccinating before the vaccine was even tested, then where did
that threat go? Why didn't we just withdraw the toxic vaccine and then
continue with researching and testing to develop one that worked?
CHANGE THE DEFAULT
With just a little research, independent of the popular media, a cognition
begins to take shape in the mind of the discriminating reader, that there
may be an ulterior agenda here, one that is not necessarily directed toward
the overall well-being of children. If such a reader is a responsible
parent, the next realization might be to change the default setting with
respect to the decision to vaccinate. At present most parents default in
favor of - when in doubt, vaccinate.
Many today are changing that default setting: no more vaccines until it is
proven to me beyond a doubt that
- the vaccines have been tested and found to be 100% safe with
no chance of harming the child
- that the child absolutely needs the vaccine for optimum immune
development
- there are no economic or political agendas involved in the
vaccine being recommended
Change the default. It is becoming increasingly clear that natural selection
will favor the lines of those parents who take these extra precautions to
protect and safeguard the inner immunity of their children.
Who else is going to come forward?
The FDA, who does no testing of their own before making a decision, but
relies entirely on the research submitted to them from the companies who
stand to make billions in profits if the vaccine is approved?
The vaccine manufacturers, who have been granted 100% immunity from
liability for any deaths or injuries? The other regulatory agencies - NIH,
CDC, HHS - whose political connections to the vaccine companies are a matter
of public record?
But that's exactly what all the hurry, all the hyperbole, all the outright
misdirection is about. They know that they don't have time to come up with
a fully tested vaccine - that would take a year. But by that time the
imaginary disease will be gone, with no hope of raising it from the dead.
The market is here and now. And everyone - the clinics, the manufacturers,
the regulators, and the media - all want their share of the rewards.
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by Alan G. Phillips, J.D.
I’m deeply concerned about the upcoming distribution of seasonal flu shots through public schools in North Carolina (and elsewhere), and you should be, too—for several important reasons.
First, a number of studies reveal that flu shots provides little if any protection to people of any age, perhaps due in part to the fact that vaccine manufacturers have to guess which flu strain will be dominant months in advance—and they often guess wrong. Children with asthma who get the flu shot are actually at a greater risk for hospitalization than those who do not get the vaccine.[i] A review of more than 51 studies involving more than 294,000 children it was found there was "no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than placebo.”[ii] Similar results have been found in studies for adults and the elderly.[iii] Recent Canadian data submitted for publishing shows that the seasonal flu shot doubles the odds of contracting the H1N1 ”swine” flu.[iv] Tom Jefferson, a Cochrane Collaboration epidemiologist who “knows the flu vaccine literature better than anyone else on the planet,” says the vast majority of flu studies favoring seasonal flu vaccines were deeply flawed. He stated: “Rubbish is not a scientific term, but I think it’s the term that applies.”[v] A majority of health care professionals don’t get annual seasonal flu shots[vi], and a majority also object to getting this year’s seasonal and H1N1 flu shots[vii]; what do they know that the rest of us don’t? In New York, where seasonal and swine flu shots were mandated under the state health department’s recently declared “emergency,” the response was a series of health care employee protest rallies around the state and court cases that resulted in a Temporary Restraining Order from the NY State Supreme Court, preventing enforcement of the mandate.[viii]
Next, the distribution of seasonal flu shots through public schools amounts to a questionable State endorsement of one of several different modalities. The North Carolina Supreme Court has stated, “To limit progress by establishing allopathy as the state system of healing, and forbidding all Others . . . would be as foreign to our system as a state church for the cure of souls.”[ix] Yet, this is precisely what the State has now done, and not for lack of proven alternatives. Last fall, Cuba carried out a successful use of homeoprophylaxis on a population of 2.5 million Cubans in their annual Leptospirosis epidemic; the results substantially exceeded those obtained previously with conventional vaccinations at a fraction of the cost,[x] and with none of the deaths and permanent disabilities we routinely tolerate with vaccines. Studies also show that Vitamin D is protective against the flu.[xi] So why aren’t schools providing these more cost-effective and successful means of preventing the flu—and others also proven effective against the flu such as chiropractic[xii] and acupuncture?[xiii] The answer seems obvious: These other protections aren’t profitable for the pharmaceutical industry. This assertion is not mere cynicism. Conflicts of interest abound—members of the FDA and CDC committees who license and recommend vaccines often have ties to vaccine manufacturers.[xiv]
Finally, “free” vaccines in public schools are anything but free. We the taxpayers pay for them, and at a far greater cost than the price of the vaccines themselves—we also pay for their unintended but sometimes devastating consequences. The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out nearly two billion dollars in taxpayer money since 1986 for deaths and injuries caused by vaccines in the United States,[xv] and this may represent only a drop in the bucket. The vast majority of vaccine injuries are not reported,[xvi] and few of the reported cases result in compensation due to the strict requirements. The result? Private vaccine manufacturers have more than the usual business profits with a captive market, but none of the usual business liability—we pay for both.
Few doubt that State educators have the best of intentions for our children, but they have seriously missed the boat on this one. Government should not be in the health care business, but if it is going to be, its policy and practice should be driven by facts—by what actually works—and not by any one industry’s clout and propaganda. Better yet, health care is a personal matter that should be decided one person at a time, privately, between each person or parent and the health care provider of their choice. As wonderful as our educational institutions may be, it is not appropriate for them to promote—let alone distribute and administer—any one industry’s healthcare products to our children.
Flu vaccines should NOT be distributed through the schools.
Alan G. Phillips, J.D.
P.O. Box 3473
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3473
919-960-5172
[i] The American Thoracic Society’s 105th International Conference, May 15-20, 2009, San Diego.
[ii] The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2 (2008).
[ix] State v. McKnight, 131 N.C. 717, 42 S.E. 580,
[xvi] Statement of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Hearing of the House subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, “Compensating Vaccine Injuries: Are Reforms Needed?” September 28, 1999. Less than 1% according to Barbara Fisher, citing former FDA commissioner David Kessler, 1993, JAMA, in the Statement of the NVIC. Less than 10%, accordingly to K.M. Severyn, R.Ph., Ph.D. in the Dayton Daily News, May 28, 1993.
By Dan Schultz, DC I recently reviewed the Institute for International Research's article, What Are the Top Ten Challenges Cited By Scientists in Vaccines Development? . Wow. Oddly, there were no concerns cited whatsoever regarding the many, many safety issues that stare us in the face. So, I compiled my own top ten list -- you may call it a rebuttal or a reality check -- of the concerns for our future. Top Ten Concerns About the Future of Vaccination 1. Overvaccination Many scientists have serious concerns that the human immune and nervous systems did not evolve with any adaptive mechanisms to parenteral (injected) administration of substances. We simply don't know what kind of long-term effects injecting chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, and many other toxic compounds like genetically modified, chemically denatured viruses and bacteria directly into the human blood stream. (See New Study: Americans May Be Overvaccinated) Vaccination is an offense against nature. In the 1800s, we started with just one vaccine -- smallpox -- and in 1982, it was 23 doses of seven vaccines. Until recently it was 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age 6 and now they've added annual flu shots for our kids, HPV and there's more to come. Many more. Meanwhile, there has never been even one long-term safety study for any vaccine in the history of vaccines. 2. Aluminum ToxicityIt took hundreds of years to eliminate (and we still haven't fully accomplished it) mercury from all of medicines "cures." From Blue mass, to Mercurochrome, to "silver" fillings, to thimerosal, this extremely neurotoxic chemical has been approved, used, and banned in so many cases now that pretty much everyone knows that mercury is not a good thing to have in your body. What about aluminum? Well, aluminum has been conclusively linked to Alzheimer's Disease, fibromyalgia, and other neurological disorders. No one knows what else, because no one is much interested in studying what happens, especially, when aluminum is parenterally (injected) into the human system. If history is any barometer, we do know it will take decades to get it out of vaccines. (See Is Aluminum the New Thimerosal? and Aluminum in Vaccines at www.novaccine.com) 3. Microbial Adaptation
Most people already know that flu viruses mutate faster (See Cause of Flu Epidemics Uncovered) than we can make vaccine for them, and a lot of it's guesswork anyway. For example, the medical industry admitted that this year's flu vaccine was worthless. But there are more serious consequences for messing with Mother nature. Germs fight back with vengeance. “Nature abhors a vacuum,” University of Texas microbiologist Danielle Garsin, PhD explains. “If you kill off some of the harmful bacteria, you leave an opening in which another strain can take advantage of that situation.” The superbugs that developed as a result have been a frightening example of the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. (See A Superbug Evolves). A recent Journal of American Medical Association found that "strains not included in the Prevnar vaccine were becoming more numerous and more resistant to standard antibiotics." (See Drug-Resistant Infections Gaining Traction in U.S.)4. ImmunosupressionPeople are getting more and more sick. We don't need studies, just ask around. Ask your grandmother, aunts and uncles how many medications their taking and for how many illnesses. Ask you high school administrator for the numbers of students on Ritalin and Anti-depressants. Viera Scheibner, PhD states "the New England Journal of Medicine published in 1984 that tetanus booster injections result in the same derangement of T4 and T8 cells as seen in AIDS patients. A 'mysterious' new syndrome emerged in the US: thousands of children are developing AIDS symptoms (with deranged T4 and T8 cells) without being HIV positive. My well-considered opinion is that it comes from that T (standing for tetanus) in the DPT vaccine." ( Viera Scheibner Quote) 5. Widespread Allergic and Asthmatic Conditions
When substances are parenterally administered into the human blood stream, the body reacts to the foreign proteins and often creates an allergy, which is exactly what has been shown to happen with latex and gelatin, among other ingredients in vaccines (See Allergy and Vaccinations). One University of Manitoba researcher found that vaccines can cause an allergic reaction and researchers are speculating whether children's immune systems are better able to handle the vaccine's side-effects when they're older. "Children who have their first routine vaccination delayed by more than four months cut their risk of asthma (a form of allergy) in half." Reaction can be acute and more severe, as well. "Three schoolchildren were taken to the intensive care of the city hospital with the most serious allergic reaction - Quincke's edema – after vaccination against influenza. Three boys aged 7, 10, and 11 were taken to hospital from three different schools (See Three Children Taken to Intensive Care After Vaccination Against Influenza). An article in the Guardian recently stated "The number of people prone to severe, sometimes fatal, allergic reactions has accelerated dramatically over the last two years… possible causes could include pollution or vaccines, but experts stressed more research needed to be done. Of particular concern is the sharp rise in the number of young children who are suffering."
6. Future Pandemics/Epidemics.
As one researcher, Andrew Moniotis, PhD convincingly demonstrates in How to Predict Epidemics, that it's uncanny how vaccination has preceded epidemics throughout history. The medical people like to parrot claims that vaccines have eradicated disease, but it's simply not true. Read your history. Get educated. While some are already recognize epidemics of diabetes, obesity, chronic inflammatory disease, and neurological conditions -- all of which can be linked to increased vaccinations -- I wonder what other kinds of epidemics can result from such human experimentation.
7. New Man-Made Diseases.
One must consider the disastrous potential of "monkeying with nature" and the very real possibility of creating new and more dangerous organic matter (bacteria or viruses) that nature did not equip us to handle. No one knows what will happen, but we do know what happened when they made the polio vaccine. Millions of doses of the polio vaccine were contaminated with SV40, a virus picked up from monkey kidney tissue in vaccine production, it was conclusively determined to have caused an untold number of cancers. I invite you to consider the facts involved in the creation of a man-made virus called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. I recommend viewing the video The Origin of AIDS.
8. Full Corporate Control. Many argue that the pharmaceutical companies already have pervaded all aspects of health care and government policy-making. No longer does the government or universities conduct independent studies on safety or efficacy, but, in most cases, rely on drug company grants or the drug companies simply do the studies themselves. Big pharma representatives occupy most government policy-making positions, and/or influence the decision makers. As in the recent HPV marketing blitz, the drug companies have massive monetary resources available to lobby and push their products through approval and mandates. Nearly every approved vaccine eventually has been mandated nationwide. But it can get worse.
9. Adult Mandates
As the growth potential of the vaccine market taps out the child/infant demographic, the next target is adults. Demographic targets have been shifted before. The Hepatitis B target group was initially adults (IV drug users and homosexuals) and the drug companies mandated it for newborns when they couldn't sell enough. Now it appears that adult revaccination (boosters) and new adult vaccines (like experimental AIDS vaccines) may be the best financial opportunity for vaccine manufacturers. Watch for the resurgence of government fines, tax penalties, jail time, withholding welfare benefits, etc., and a national registry.
10. The AIDS Vaccine
Because HIV is not the cause of AIDS (See the video HIV: The Greatest Medical Hoax of Our Time) and simply the scapegoat for newly named immunosupression, there can never be any legitimately "effective" vaccine, but political and profit-making forces will likely create one. And since, historically, vaccines have proven their ability to cause the disease they are made to protect people from, lining up and getting this shot in the arm may be dicey. (See Vaccines That Caused the Disease They Were Meant to Prevent.)
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By K. Paul Stoller, M.D.
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so."
-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953
As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find the AAP’s approach to the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing.
Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason for all the notice given to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put on notice at the CDC’s Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the mercury in the preservative Thimerosal was causing speech delays and learning disabilities, they obfuscated and hid that information. They never made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal eliminated from vaccines and almost a decade later joined in the protest against a fictitious TV show (Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine. Out of 132 million doses of the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season, 8 million doses are Thimerosal free. That means 94% contain the full amount of Thimerosal.
If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flu shot recommendations, the baby/fetus would have received six flu shots with the full amount of Thimerosal by the year 2005.
Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not contain Thimerosal, but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the only ones who know whether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise) actually are mercury free are the manufacturers themselves.
Vaccines with "trace" amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain less than 1 microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml is the same as 2 ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms per liter is parts per billion [ppb] [2])
0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).
2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water (http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).
20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).
200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste (http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)
25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis B vaccine vials, administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.
50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current "preservative" level mercury in multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines.
For years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have said the reason for the dramatic increase in autism is due to "better diagnosing" and "greater awareness." They have encouraged those like the AAP to manufacture uncertainty by publishing articles that were less than truthful. The AAP shamefully played along, perhaps encouraged by the largesse of vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP’s yearly budget.
There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autistic Americans under the age of 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on Social Security in coming years as these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that have found the previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older Americans. They simply aren't there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.
As there are no genetic epidemics that leaves an epidemic linked to some sort of exposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the increase in mercury exposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally, through increased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal - no controlled, randomized study regarding the safety of amalgam or Thimerosal exists.
A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative) concludes that environmental contaminants are an important cause of learning and developmental disabilities.
Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions (required for the correct expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters), which further adversely affects growth factor derived development of the brain and attention abilities. Phospholipid methylation, which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.
In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had described a 7.6 to 11.4 fold increase of autism risk in children at one month, with the highest mercury exposure levels compared to children with no exposure. In four subsequent separate generations of the analysis, which involve the exclusion of children with no Thimerosal exposure and less than two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared. This is what was published by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know the truth?
Again, they were present at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, a meeting that was illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a meeting together with representatives of private industry (all the vaccine manufacturers were represented at this meeting) without opening the meeting to the public.
Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients in this "study" died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use was simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of mercury in vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best, at worse it is an example that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the junk scientists they employ.
How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active participant in this skullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained silent as mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world and second world countries.
We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated the junk science that has covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost to science, the public, and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that by putting our collective heads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for the destruction of our very civilization?
Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven’t pediatricians come forward to demand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to advocate for the treatment of these children before it is too late? Why are they not at the front of the line protesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of coal-fired power plants? Why aren’t they leading the charge to stop the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings that are placed in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?
The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell about environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabled citizens did less than remain silent because they have become arms of the very corporations that profit from selling and distributing poisons. Just look who sits on the FDA's Scientific Advisory Boards – the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to suggest that the FDA has become a trade arm of Big Pharma.
Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.(3) Pediatricians will no longer be able to hide behind the skirts of “Standard of Care” if they are giving autistic children heavy-metal laden vaccines. That is only one step away from giving vaccines and making normal children autistic.
The AAP should be bringing in risk management specialists and be proactive towards how this could affect pediatricians in civil litigation for following the CDC recommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of any type of neurodevelopmental delay in a child. This is what they are afraid of and this is what the law of attraction will bring in upon the AAP and the minions of those that just followed the recommendations and drank the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.
For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party to the damage that is being done to the world’s children by sending in my dues for a third decade. It is a token protest, but it has to begin with someone.
1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80
2 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v1
3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html
K. Paul Stoller , MD is the President of International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc and Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.
This column and all future Scandals columns will be dedicated in loving memory to Nicholas Regush, my mentor, my adviser, my inspiration, but most of all, my friend.
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Forced Vaccinations - Musings on what the road to Hell is paved with
Call me naive, but I don't think that most people who unquestioningly promote vaccination as the end-all and be-all of preventive health care are evil or have evil intent. In fact, other than a possible select few, I think most ardent vaccine supporters honestly believe they are helping humanity.
Perhaps they are. And if properly designed studies ever are conducted, time will tell.
Regardless of their intent, however, I do not view their unwavering support as benign, fair-minded or responsible.
For as the saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
In the past week, pavement of that road has appeared to bring us closer than ever to that wretched place. I am referring, of course, to recent efforts to force vaccination in Maryland by threatening parents with jail.
There are so many aspects of this story that are alarming, it is hard to know where to begin. But let me start with what I once said in a speech, from which I will be quoting: "We parents deserve the right to choose what we feel is best for the children we love, and for whom we are responsible. No one else will be expected to care for our children if the vaccines or diseases maim them. No one else’s heart will be broken like ours if they are killed or otherwise harmed."
No one, indeed.
Of course, the all-trusting supporters of vaccination will argue that vaccine damage is minimal and that the benefits outweigh the risks. But as anyone who has read my column knows, from what I can tell and have provided credible evidence for, those studies that purport to show zero to minimal damage are based on flawed research, which includes, in part 1) improper comparisons between vaccinated groups and the failure to include any never-vaccinated people as controls, 2) outright dismissal of virtually all anecdotal and other evidence, as well as failure to properly follow up on any of it, and 3) dismissal of biological evidence in support of damage claims.
But even if vaccines had been genuinely shown to be mostly safe, there are some very insidious things going on here. As the National Vaccine Information Center has aptly warned, "If it happens to your child, the risks are 100%". Thus, implied in the argument that damage is minimal is a dismissal of the harm done to some children. I would submit that the amount of harm vaccines do is unknown. But even if it were small, the implication is that vaccine damage or death is less important than disease damage or death, or that all that matters is sheer numbers. And although most would not say this directly, also implied is that vaccine-harmed children are less important than disease-harmed ones.
Vaccine-damaged children are also often treated like drafted casualties in our war again disease. It is as if being drafted for this purpose is inherently a good thing, an honorable thing, that vaccine risk is obviously a risk well worth taking. Even if it were a good thing, however, isn't it a risk that the parents of the potentially damaged child should be allowed to take? Is it right to force vaccinations on anyone? Does the end justify the means?
And isn't the very subtle implication that only death or harm from disease is "bad"; that death or harm from a vaccine is somehow okay or "good", because it is in support of the "cause" of "public health"?
Also implied in the argument that it is okay to force vaccination is the notion that "you", an unwilling vaccine participant, should be forced to vaccinate your child(ren) to protect "my" (the one who seeks protection) child(ren) from disease. There are two major problems with this argument, First, why should someone be required to risk their child for another? What makes the child being "protected" more important than the "protector"?
Second, if the vaccines work, anyone choosing them will be protected. If they don’t prevent the spread of the disease to the vaccinated, why are we vaccinating? It hardly seems right that those who don’t want to be vaccinated should have vaccination forced on them because vaccines don’t always work.
And to whatever extent vaccines are being required because the 'immune suppressed' cannot be vaccinated, and are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of disease, while my heart goes out to such people, they are not more important than children who are harmed by vaccines. Nor should the notion that vaccination may in itself be creating immune suppression be left out of this equation.
Besides there is documented proof of outbreaks in 100% vaccinated populations.
The irony is, of course, that even if they don't recognize it, those who support forcing vaccination are doing so precisely because they don't believe in the effectiveness of vaccines.
Besides, where is the sense of history, the recognition that medicine as practiced and promoted has often been found to be lacking or even just plain, dead wrong?
But even if we were to assume virtually 100% effectiveness and safety of vaccines, is forcing vaccines in a free society ever justified? As I said in that speech, "I also consider any notion of 'public health' to be suspect, which sacrifices the individual to some alleged higher goal. Many of us find it way scarier that the state would sacrifice children to someone's idea of the common good, than to take our chances with Mother Nature. Who decides? What's the right number? Who's counting? Even in wartime, the draft of adults is only used very judiciously and sparingly. We also go to considerable effort to avoid enemy civilian casualties. Yet we seem to think nothing of sacrificing our own innocent children."
Our brave soldiers have fought and died, and will continue to fight and die, in order to protect us from tyranny which threatens our freedom and way of life, including what the Declaration of Independence "hold(s) to be self-evident", the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
Do we really want to force vaccination and violate this most basic American right? Do we really want to pave that road?
by Sandy Gottstein (aka Mintz)
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)
Sandy Gottstein (aka Mintz) is the publisher of the website "Vaccination News, A Non-Profit Corporation", and writer of the columns "Scandals" and "Out of Control".
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with Comments by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
The greatest of medical detectives, the most loving of parents and the most genius of scientists can't seem to unravel the world of autism and the mystery of what may cause it. Now growing numbers of parents and doctors are declaring war to help find answers for the millions not yet touched by it.
As we searched for answers, we met some young warriors in the fight to defy science and stereotypes: Students of Miami's pioneering Victory School. Some of their parents share the nightmare Rick Blackburn lives. His son showed common symptoms of the onset of autism within days of getting vaccinated and was near death at only 18 months.
"We immediately took him to the emergency room and they couldn't do anything about the high fever, listlessness and the vomiting so they admitted him. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with him and they were warning us that he may perish. That he was not going to make it," said Blackburn.
What followed was chilling. "What really was amazing was that we started running across parents in large numbers with the same exact story," said Blackburn That's no surprise says, pediatrician, Dr. Eric Ryndland who is considered one of the nations foremost experts on autism and controversial in his public concerns over what he considers a potential safety risk of vaccines for some children and the urgent need he says for all parents to take charge of the decision to vaccinate or not.
When asked if the decision to vaccinate or not could put a child in danger, Ryndland responded, "Absolutely. The vaccines sometimes are the straw that breaks the camel's back. The question is if the immune system is overloaded with too many vaccines over too short a period of time, or sometimes, in some cases where children are very susceptible, even one vaccine might cause a problem."
Rydland says there are many theories of why the mercury based preservative thimerisol captured headlines and was, according to the CDC, removed at their request from most childhood vaccines. Ryndland says it might not be the mercury but injections of multiple viruses into young children who may have compromised immune systems that could present a possible risk of triggering a variety of neurological problems. The CDC reports that no link has been found between the common measles, mumps and rubella Vaccines and neurological disorders. Frank Maye treats hundreds of autistic children and says he is haunted by the faces of parents struggling with the horror of the so-called lost children. As a former Miami-Dade detective turned holistic clinician, he is in the investigation of his life, trying to determine if there is a link between children getting vaccinated and autism, which he says is presenting in high numbers at the 18-month mark. "To me there are too many kids that have come in that have regressed at 18 months for it not to be something for us to look at," said Maye.
He confirmed that 80% of children diagnosed with autism develop problems at 18 months of age, and not at birth--a percentile he found shocking. "Absolutely shocking. We need to do something that is going to investigate that 18-month aspect and come up with and answer. I've looked all over the country. The pattern seems to be that the children that have a problem around 18-months have reacted to every vaccination whether they have had a 101 fever for about 24 hours and it has gone away," said Maye. Again, the CDC reports there is no link between autism and vaccines but that its major study into this is due out next year. COMMENT: If it was negligence or ignorance, the CDC, the FDA, the IOM, and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would at least occasionally err on the side of parents and admit that at least some children become autistic after vaccination. But the stanch, uniform and steel-hard agreement that there is NO POSSIBLE LINK between vaccines and autism increases the suspicion about a cover-up and lessens the trust in those persons who make the decisions. Remember that humans make those decisions, not institutions. How can those humans remain so completely disconnected from the rest of our society? Is it arrogance? Is it to protect their reputations? Is it that they simply do not want to admit that they have been wrong? Or, is it like most areas of concern in this country...is it really about money? Nearly 32% of the CDC's annual $8.2billion budget is allocated to vaccines....and CDC members, such as Dr. Walter Oreinstein and the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP) are complaining that it isn't enough and many more billions are needed to ensure that we are all vaccinated. If you think that you are past having to worry about vaccines because your children are already in school, think again. In May, 2007, the CDC announced its new initiative called "The Promise and Challenge of Adolescent Immunization." Your teens are now in the cross-hairs of the vaccine manufacturers and considered "untapped market share." For example, Menactra, the college meningitis vaccine, focused on specific risk groups. The new recommendation will be routine vaccination of all adolescents 11 through 18 years of age, even though FDA has issued a warning that this vaccine can caused Guillian-Barre syndrome. All teens will now be at risk of contracting this deadly complication. Here's a sampling of what is under development for Teen Vaccines:
- Modifications in the adolescent health care infrastructure to support the additional needs generated by new vaccines. [fabricating need is implied~ST]
- Standardization and clarification of consent laws for the administration of vaccinations to minors. [Changing laws to enforce vaccination ~ST]
- Creation of novel communication strategies to facilitate information dissemination to the parents, guardians and the adolescents themselves on the importance of immunization. [Develop propaganda pieces to scare parents into vaccinating ~ ST]
- Generation of financial strategies for the public and private sector to make administration of immunizations to adolescents financially viable to patients and providers. [New vaccines are going to be more than $100 per dose, the CDC is calling for more government funding and more insurance dollars to pay for vaccines, making insurance even more expensive.~ST]
- Development of long-term surveillance strategies to assess vaccination coverage, and vaccine impact among adolescents.
Ready to revolt?
Join the Coalition Against Mandatory Vaccination, an initiative I am spearheading through The American Association for Health Freedom. We need a million voices/members by June 1, 2008 to push back against the plans of these bureaucrats.
Those who are joining the Movement come from a wide range of backgrounds, including those who are in favor of vaccines. Even those who choose to vaccinate do not want to be forced to be medicated by judges and police or be injected in the presence of patrolling police dogs. We are speaking out about the #1 health freedom issue that still remains in this country: The right to refuse being injected with substances that can cause harm.
More information will be forth coming in January. For now, please join with your email at www.DrTenpenny.com or join the the American Association for Health Freedom now (for $50) at www.HealthFreedom.net
Posted by Dan Schultz, DC
Belief is a funny thing and I do find the whole idea very interesting.
I recently had a discussion that provoked new thoughts on the subject. A very casual conversation turned deep the moment this (previously unknown) person said that "everything either contained demons or God." "Everything?" I responded. "Yes, everything." As usual, I'm actually not very interested in WHAT people believe, but I much more interested in why they believe it -- so I quickly went to work to get to the bottom of it, where all the juicy tidbits are found.
"Can I ask you some questions?" I said and she was most obliging in agreeing and answering honestly. I asked if she had thought of this idea on her own and she said she did not. I asked who told her that and she admitted it was a preacher, from church. I asked if she had ever seen any demons or heard them and she confessed that she had never sensed them in any way. I asked if all churches believe this and she supposed that they did not. I asked if mathematics contained either demons or God and she scratched her head. No answer to that one. I summed it all up. "So your saying that someone at a church told you about this idea, not all churches say this but this one does, you hadn't thought it all through yet, but you're telling others about this idea, stating it as fact, and even saying others should be believing this, too.
Why? "Why did you choose to believe this?" I asked, and a few minutes later she was kind of fuzzy on the whole thing.
When I arrived home, the same kind of questions came to mind regarding vaccination. I've had countless conversations on the subject. The vast majority, say 99 to 99.999 perent, I'm estimating, throw out something like, "well, why would they recommend them, then" or "I trust my doctor" or "I don't want to catch these diseases" which is as valid of a responses as any other, but doesn't answer the question. Very few will actually answer the question and I can tell you from experience that when they do, the answer is... FAITH. They have faith in technology, their doctor, the "system" or the like. And I've never met anyone who has researched the topic of vaccination with an open mind (not vested or biased) that still chose to "believe" in vaccines.
Belief. there's that word again. It has religious connotations, doesn't it. So I conducted a search. Here's some of the things I found:"Vaccination is considered a sacrament of modern medicine," says Dr. Richard Moskowitz, Ph.D., M.D., a Harvard-trained doctor who has written extensively on the possible connection between vaccines and chronic diseases."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/22/152342.shtml?s=he"
As public health physician
I believe in vaccines. Those people who believe that vaccines like the flu cause the flu, I think they're wrong."
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2006/s2009522.htm
"There's an almost religious conviction that they must see this through," said Dr. Samuel Katz, an infectious diseases specialist at Duke Universityand co-inventor of the measles vaccine.
Associated Press; Experts weigh giving up on killing polio
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070303/ap_on_he_me/polio_problems
"British scientists are on the verge of producing a revolutionary flu vaccine that works against all major types of the disease. Described as the "holy grail" of flu vaccines."
Daily Mail; The vaccine to prevent every strain of flu
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=425227&in_page_id=1774
And then there was the doosey, the vaccine sermon, given, appropriately, in a church, where they all but pandered to the frightful that the end was near (an "impending influenza pandemic")
"The Episcopal church in Enterprise is taking a proactive approach to the upcoming flu season, serving as host site for an Emergency Preparedness Workshop and working with health and emergency officials to heighten the public’s awareness of what has been labeled an impending influenza pandemic."
http://www.eprisenow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=ENT/MGArticle/ENT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353221432&path=!news
Churches? Sacraments? Holy Grails? Religious convictions? Beliefs? All have become the common lexicon of what can only be called the Church of Modern Medicine. I didn't coin this phrase. Robert Mendelson, M.D. did -- a renowned, respected, celebrated authority within the profession/church of medicine. I implore anyone who wishes any kind of light to be shed on the subject, the seekers of Truth, to divorce themselves of faith and belief when it comes to what we put inside our bodies. Something else must be embraced here; logic, common sense, anything but faith. Even the state of our scientific community, corrupted by profit, politics, and special interests as it is, will show the seeker that vaccination, in the vast majority of cases, is a really bad idea.
by Dan Schultz, DC
This is the story of the Feebles Disease and the Little Feebles Vaccine. It’s an unlikely story, but one you’re probably heard before -- if you had the ears to hear it.
Once upon a time there was a neverland ruled by a Big Bad Pharma Giant. This heartless, insatiable Pharma Giant wanted nothing more than to own all the gold in the land, so the sent the Little Feebles Vaccine out to get it. Let’s see if the extraordinary cast of characters can help the Little Feebles Vaccine work its way through the neverland maze of obstacles to get to the pot of gold on the other side!
The Little Feebles Vaccine was sad, because he didn’t have a purpose in life. The Feebles Disease was very rare, had been on the decline on it’s own for many years, and didn’t do much harm anyway. The Feebles Disease wasn’t much of an arch-enemy, as it could even be good for you!
But Big Pharma was a clever giant and worked up a scheme. And he knew that a steady decline of a Disease was the perfect time for Little Vaccines to rescue the Ignorant Townspeople and his best chance to snatch up the gleaming, sought-after pots of gold. The Giant’s statisticians, psychologists and writers knew just what to say in their press releases and the Obliging Senationalizing Media was happy to print them, word for word:
”Feebles Disease Running Rampant In Certain Areas Of Neverland; Epidemics May Follow.”
”People Suffered Horribly, Lose Time From Work Because Of Devastating Feebles Disease.”
“Purchased Government Officials Say Feebles Disease Could Mutate And Kill Over 2.8 Billion People.”
“Come get a Feebles Vaccine: It’s FREE, And It Could Save Your Life.”
The Ignorant Townspeople were scared. Now the Little Feebles Vaccine could begin his big adventure, because people stop thinking when they’re scared.
Soon, the Little Feebles Vaccine journeyed throughout neverland. Surprisingly (for a little fellow), he hurt many of the Ignorant Townspeople. The people were angry. But the Pharma Giant and his minions went on repeating that the Little Feebles Vaccine could not possibly hurt anyone, because he was good. They knew that if you keep repeating something, most people will start to repeat it, too. Besides, the Ignorant Townspeople were too busy to investigate the cause of the suffering for themselves. It was easier just to blindly trust someone and to follow the rest of the Ignorant Townspeople. Whew! That feels better.
Still, many people were complaining about serious conditions that the Little Feebles Vaccine had caused on his adventure – and they were suing the Big Pharma Giant, who was losing many pots of gold. Oh, no! But because the Giant had lots of gold left, and gave some to some Purchased Government Officials who fixed it so that none of the Ignorant Townspeople could ever sue the Giant again. That’s a relief!
But too many of people throughout the land still weren’t accepting the Little Feebles Vaccine. The Giant was angry. Not nearly enough gold was being collected -- never enough. What to do? Then the Giant got to thinking some more. What if the Purchased Government Officials forced the people to accept the Little Feebles Vaccine? He thought that it was crazy enough that it just might work. And it did!
Now, the Big, Bad Pharma Giant could send out more Little Vaccines into the world, even against diseases that the Little Vaccines had caused! It was marketing genius.
So the Big, Bad Pharma Giant, the Little Feebles Vaccine and their impressive cast of supporters lived happily ever after…. That is, until the sequel comes out. It’ll written by Truth and Justice. It’s sure to be a best seller because Truth, it has a certain ring to it and Justice, she always prevails -- coming out soon.
by Dan Schultz, DC
People come to me essentially expressing concerns that symptoms have become unbearably uncomfortable and inconvenient. The average person will tolerate unbelievable amounts of the body’s distress signals. After weeks, months, or years of suffering and drugging themselves into other disease processes, they come to me, mostly, as a last resort.
What’s seems odd to me is that there is often no regard whatsoever for their health and only a distant worry about accumulating permanent damage -– only the short-sighted desire to be symptom-free. The fact is that the average American hasn’t any tangible idea of what health really is, nor do they have the time or inclination to consider it in the busy, overwhelming lives they have chosen. It is unfortunate and it is true. Ours has become a culture of convenience and comfort.
Examples of this are varied and plentiful. Pain, muscle spasm, inflammation, and fevers are well known to be an integral and necessary part of the reparative, healing process, but they are fearfully avoided like the proverbial plague. For example, instead of actually restoring a healthy cardiovascular system, people take a pill to lower their blood pressure when they know perfectly well that they could lower it naturally making better lifestyle choices. But that might be uncomfortable. And the pill is so convenient.
In the same way, the entity of disease is a good and necessary cog in Mother Nature’s natural machine. Scientists know full well the benefits of disease in priming and maturing the human immune system. Immunity is learned by an intelligent system and it was designed by Nature or God or Evolution to do so with all of the symptoms and conditions that we pejoratively label “disease.” Vaccination is merely an attempt to cheat the body of this process in the name of comfort and convenience.
Even death from disease has an undeniable benefit to humanity, although it may be unfashionable to say it. I’m saying it. In the same way that we now understand that forest fires are necessary to sustain healthy forests, we must also accept that disease is nature’s means to pare away the genetically susceptible with disease. Microbes maintain a healthy gene pool for humans just as wolves pick off sickly moose and leave the herd with strong survival qualities. There is no other way.
Diseases, like the symptoms of joint pain, are there for a reason and are not meant to be “eradicated.” This is a larger perspective of what happens, microscopically, within us. Microbes are always there, but only begin replicating (and creating symptoms) when we lack life-force; they eat up dead or dying cells when true health or vitality is diminished.
Mankind tends to be extremely arrogant in dismissing this truth. I’ve heard it said, “if our vaccine can just save one human life, it’s worth poisoning entire generations.” They didn’t use those words exactly or emphasize the deaths and mass-scale suffering caused by their artificial, invasive experiments -- but that’s what they say.
Our culture is most definitely one of comfort and convenience. Vaccination is merely one example. Just as mankind has created nuclear and biological weapons, vaccinationists have unwisely asked "can we?" before we have asked "should we?"
Vaccination is man’s futile attempt to avoid the unpleasant processes of life at any cost. It is our foolish effort to dominate nature in yet another way. It highlights the feeble idea of regarding educated intelligence over innate intelligence. It is, in the end, stupidity.
by Dan Schultz, DC
Vaccination, since it’s formal inception in 1796, has been a subject of violent controversy. Controversy, by it’s very nature, maintains some degree of rigidity in it's opposing views. Debate follows: Are the risks worth the benefits? Is the disease worthy of mass or forced vaccination policies? How do we measure efficacy or long-term adverse effects?
For many people, just following the crowd is good enough for them. Others simply abdicate their responsibilities to a “professional.” They “trust” another to know and decide for them. The underlying question lingers, “Is the crowd mentality or popular medical opinion worthy of our trust without further individual analysis?”
The baby boomers broke loose from blindly following authority as their distinct generational signature and succeeding generations have continued this trend. Increasingly, as a result of this new, independent thinking paradigm – and regardless of generation or demographic -- parents are questioning the value of vaccination. But, who and which information does the individual trust to make decisions?
To avoid feelings of doubt, guilt or remorse, two methods can be used to arrive at solid conclusions; induction and deduction. Recruiting the perspectives of both are necessary to arrive at certainty -- and certainty is what people are looking for.
Inductive thought
Inductive reason gathers data from multiple sources, then tabulates and evaluates their interrelated meanings. This means doing your homework. This site (www.novaccine.com) is designed to redress the balance of information and provide you with a comprehensive palette of resources available for your study. Even after one has made their decision, educating ones’ self allows them the ability to competently educate others and explain or justify their position.
We induce from both empirical (experiential) and the scientific sources understanding that there is significant bias involved in forming nearly everyone’s conclusions. The ever-changing popular opinions and flip-flopping conclusions of poorly designed "studies" can be frustrating. For example, 20 years ago the newspapers and magazines touted with certainty that butter was bad for you. They highly recommended margarine, instead. This position was abruptly followed by the authoritative belief that just the opposite was true. But people who educated themselves in a broader sense – from other than headlines and hearsay – gained the perspective and foresight to choose responsibly.
Personally, I have never met anyone who objectively and thoroughly studied vaccination from both sides and nonetheless chose to inject their children with vaccinations. In fact, many studies show that the more highly educated a parent is, the less likely they are to vaccinate.(1) My experience also has shown me that ignorance, it seems, is the breeding ground for the irresponsible to point, blame and to become victims.
Deductive thought
The deductive process is entirely different.. As opposed to looking outside yourself for the answers, it means looking inside. What lasting principles or truths have you come to rely on? Deep philosophical tenets of natural principle, tradition, religion, or metaphysics can guide you. Possibly you have come to trust axioms like "Natural is always better" or "God doesn't make mistakes." Some choices need no structured knowledge and come in the form of intuition. Indeed, relying on inner wisdom can be a freeing experience. Deducing means utilizing timeless or trusted truths -- and it's every bit as valid as inductive reason -- sometimes more so.
May your journey with both processes bring you a degree of wisdom, peace and health into your life.
1. Children’s Immunization Status Worsens as Mothers’ Income, Education Rise. NewsWise January 5, 2007.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526333/
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