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An admirable book which your grandchildren and mine will call the very last word on
the subject of childhood vaccination. Read it if your blood pressure will permit.
—Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
Dr. Tedd Koren’s book is one that should be taken along to visits with the pediatrician.
Parents need to insist that each question be answered to their complete satisfaction...
or refuse the shots. —Sherri Tenpenny, D.O., author of Say No To Vaccines.
Some of the questions discussed:
• Are vaccinated children healthier
than non-vaccinated children?
• What are the chances that my child
may be hurt or killed by a vaccine?
• Do vaccines have any long-term
side effects or damage that may
not surface for months or years?
• Do the (assumed) benefits of
vaccination outweigh the risks?
• Doesn’t research show vaccines are
safe?
• Can vaccines cause cancer or fertility
problems?
• Is vaccination why we have so much
cancer today?
• Do vaccines cause SIDS (Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome also known as Crib
Death)?
• Didn’t vaccines get rid of acute
infectious childhood diseases?
• What about polio? Wasn’t it
eliminated due to vaccination?
• Was the polio shot given in the 50’s
and 60’s contaminated with monkey
virus? Is it causing cancer? Did it
cause AIDS?
• Are there benefits to getting acute
Tedd Koren, D.C. is an internationally known and respected Doctor of Chiropractic.
In addition to his work as an educator, publisher, author and researcher, Dr. Koren
has developed and now teaches Koren Specific Technique, which is being used
worldwide by doctors of chiropractic, osteopathy, medicine, dentistry and other
healers to improve the quality of their patient care.
For more information go to www.korenpublications.com.
HEALTH
$19.95 U.S.
Childhood
accination
V
Questions All Parents Should Ask
TEDD KOREN, D.C.
Dr. Koren and his wife Beth live in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with their
two children Seth and Shayna. It was his becoming a father that led Dr. Koren to
investigate the need for, and the safety and effectiveness of, childhood vaccinations.
CHILDHOOD VACCINATION: QUESTIONS ALL PARENTS SHOULD ASK
Dr. Koren’s book is comprehensive, well-balanced and quite accurate. In my medical
career I’ve treated vaccinated and unvaccinated children and the unvaccinated children
are far healthier than the vaccinated ones. This book is a must-read for parents
interested in answering the question ‘should I vaccinate my child?’ —Philip Incao, M.D.
Tedd Koren, D.C.
CHILDHOOD VACCINATION:
Questions
All Parents
Should Ask
TEDD KOREN, D.C.
Foreword by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
Author, Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality
Co-author (with Barbara Loe Fisher), A Shot in the Dark
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QUESTIONS ALL PARENTS SHOULD ASK
Dedication
To those who paid the price.
I cannot comprehend how a parent can go on after their child is
killed or badly damaged.
I hear those parents tell their stories, show photographs, or quietly
push wheelchairs holding their once perfect babies at vaccine
conferences; I stare at them with awe.
They stand in defiance of government and pharmaceutical denials.
No amount of so-called “scientific” studies “disproving” vaccine
damage can deny these tragic lives.
No amount of paper can cover those graves.
Because of their stories perhaps my children or yours were spared
the same fate. It is to these parents and their children that this book
owes its genesis.
This book is also dedicated to my wife Beth who patiently waited
as I studied and researched the childhood vaccination philosophy
and whose insights and ideas have been invaluable. And to our
children Seth and Shayna who were the reasons why I first became
so interested in this subject.
Contents
FOREWORD by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D. .................................. vii
PREFACE TO THE 2010 PRINTING
Ten Years Later ........................................................................... xi
PREFACE TO THE 2000 PRINTING
Childhood Vaccination: Medical Sacrament or Golden Calf? ........ xxvii
INTRODUCTION
The Philosophies of Health .............................................................1
Understanding Infection by Philip Incao, M.D. ................................... 5
PART ONE
Prologue .....................................................................................21
Questions For Our Children .........................................................23
Answers To Questions ..................................................................27
PART TWO
Post-Encephalitic Syndrome .........................................................99
PART THREE
Legal Issues...............................................................................105
PART FOUR
Are Vaccines Responsible For The Increase In Childhood
Cancers? .............................................................................111
Michael Belkin’s Testimony Before The CDC.............................113
Raymond Gallop’s Questions To Vaccine Manufacturers ............115
EPILOGUE
The “Experts”............................................................................117
RESOURCES
Books .......................................................................................121
Websites ..................................................................................123
Foundation for Health Choice ..................................................125
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Foreword
A
merican politics since 1789 has seen a series of
successful efforts by the majority to curb the crimes and
depredations of one minority after another.
The overweening influence and unchecked excesses of the railroads
led to passage of the Interstate Commerce Act in the 1880s. The
power of the liquor industry sparked passage of the prohibition
law in 1922 and the errors and incompetence of the stockbrokers
during the 1929 crash led Roosevelt to propose the Securities and
Exchange Commission in 1934. Numerous other such laws and
regulations have been adopted by Congress but have not loomed as
large in the public consciousness.
The learned professions, however, have been largely excluded from
this process because would-be reformers have not trusted their own
ability to legislate rules for such highly technical areas.
Possession of technical knowledge has shielded medicine, in
particular, from society’s normal response to errors and abuse.
Needed were scientists and scholars who would provide the database
for the needed reform effort.
Dr. Koren’s Childhood Vaccination: Questions All Parents Should Ask
shows us how dearly society has paid for this foot-dragging. It is a
summary of the history to date of society’s indignant refusal to be
further victimized by the medical profession’s childhood vaccination
program.
Your and my grandchildren and great grandchildren, reading this
book later in this century, will ask themselves, “How could they
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ever have let such things happen?” The harm being done, after all,
was perfectly evident to anyone who chose to look, specifically to
anyone who was not tied financially to the perpetrators of all this
evil.
Alas, the pharmaceutical industry is a past master at bribing or
otherwise buying out any present or future critics of its sins using
techniques which it elaborated during its 19th century assault on
the homeopathic profession (the “alternative medicine” of those
times) and then further perfected in its fight against osteopathy and
chiropractic.
Their techniques have included in particular, pressuring and
persuading journalists and columnists who start out in life giving
advice on how to get along with your mother-in-law and then, for
unclear reasons come to imagine themselves qualified to give their
readers advice on such technical matter as vaccinations.
Needless to say, they do not read up on this issue, just merely make
a phone call to some friend who is now chairman of a department
of immunology somewhere. In this way they become spokesmen
or spokeswomen for the drug industry – which thus acquires
employees without having to pay for them.
In fact, the medical profession and drug industry perfected a
system of censorship unmatched anywhere in the world outside the
Soviet Union.
The first scratchings on this Berlin Wall of Silence were the books
by Robert Mendelsohn in Confessions of a Medical Heretic (1979), by
Barbara Loe Fisher and myself in DPT: A Shot in the Dark (1985),
and by myself in Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality (1990).
Since then the walls have been tumbling down faster and faster as
more and more information comes to light, information which has
been very ably summarized by Dr. Koren in this admirable book
which your grandchildren and mine will call the very last word on
the subject of childhood vaccination. Read it if your blood pressure
will permit.
Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
Washington, D.C., January 2000
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Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., one of the world’s premier medical historians, is
the author of numerous groundbreaking works dealing with medical issues.
His magnum opus Divided Legacy, Volumes 1-4 is a history of the 2,500+
year battle between the philosophies of Empiricism and Mechanism that
is replaying itself today as the current revolution in healthcare.
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Preface To The 2010 Printing
Ten Years Later
If the people let government decide what foods they eat and
what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a
state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
I once asked Dr. Harris Coulter, the brilliant medical historian,
researcher and co-author of the groundbreaking book DPT: A Shot
in the Dark and author of Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality
if the intervening years since his books on vaccination were written
had changed his opinion about vaccine dangers. “No,” he answered,
“the passage of time has reconfirmed my earlier observations.”
So it is with this reprinting of Childhood Vaccination: Questions
All Parents Should Ask. In the few years since the book was first
published the world of childhood vaccination has grown even
more dangerous. For that reason this book’s message to parents is
unchanged and more emphatic: don’t vaccinate your child.
Why Not Vaccinate Your Child?
Vaccinations designed to “protect” children from disease do not
work and never did work. While there is no benefit to childhood
vaccination there is much risk. Vaccines damage children. The
damage may be subtle, insidious and barely noticeable or it may be
obvious, severe and life threatening.
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Hundreds of thousands of parents have seen vaccines turn
their happy, healthy babies (and children) into neurological and
immunological cripples. Most shocking is that the majority of
parents of children suffering from a plethora of health, brain,
personality, immune and nervous system disorders have no idea
that the vaccines their child was trustingly given might well be the
reason why their once healthy baby is chronically ill.
What Exactly Is Vaccination?
Vaccination is an unnatural and bizarre medical procedure from the
1700s when bloodletting was widely practiced by medical doctors.
It is a lone medical holdover from that unscientific era. Vaccination
introduces bacteria, viri, cells and genetic information (often from
different animals) and a host of toxic chemicals into a body.
Vaccination is theoretically supposed to protect us from disease
but in fact it does the opposite: it creates disease. From smallpox
to polio, whooping cough to the flu, vaccination never worked to
“prevent” these diseases and instead created epidemics.
Vaccination Does What The Immune System Is Designed
To Prevent
Vaccine chemicals are injected directly into our blood, bypassing
our defenses – skin, mucous membranes and other levels of immune
system defense – and giving these chemicals direct access to our
blood and internal organs.
The role of the immune system is to prevent harmful substances
from gaining access to our brain and internal organs. The goal of
vaccination is to expose our brain and internal organs to harmful
substances. Vaccination does what our immune system is designed
to prevent.
We’re Tampering With Mechanisms We Don’t Understand
Science does not fully understand how our brain, nervous system
and immune system work and interact. Yet that hasn’t prevented
governments from condoning and mandating a procedure that
deliberately manipulates those systems in the hope that something
good will come out of it.
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Why not drop a computer off a cliff and expect it to function
better?
The Bell Curve
Death from vaccination is an accepted fact. How many die after
vaccination? No one really knows since doctors rarely write “vaccine
death” on death certificates. They instead use the term “crib death”
or “sudden infant death syndrome” (SIDS). That the death often
happens shortly after vaccination is considered coincidental.
But it is a biological truism that it is impossible for a stress to cause
either death or have no effect at all on a population. Whenever a
population is stressed, whether from a toxin, a drug, an explosion
or some natural disaster, we will see the same general distribution
of effects: some people will be hurt/killed, some will be completely
unaffected while the vast majority will be affected to a greater or
lesser extent.
Vaccination injuries must follow that pattern: a minority, those
at the ends of the curve, will be either killed/severely injured or
unaffected. The vast majority will be in the middle of the curve.
They are the walking wounded, expressing milder damage such as
asthma, allergies, dyslexia, depression, learning disorders, vision,
hearing and/or cranial nerve problems, stuttering, tics, personality
disorders – and other pediatric/neurological conditions that were
rare or non-existent before vaccination.
Even within vaccine injury there is a bell curve. For example, after
being injected with vaccine toxins some children become severely
autistic, perhaps diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder;
some have a milder form of autism such as Asperger’s syndrome
while others are diagnosed with brain “processing disorders.” That’s
why the term autism spectrum disorder is used. It’s a spectrum or
gradation (or bell curve) of damage.
As a result of the numerous vaccinations children receive we are
seeing a generation of immunologically and neurologically damaged
children. The numbers are staggering.
Children’s health has declined significantly since vaccines began
to be widely used ... a shocking 31% of U.S. children today have a
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chronic health problem, 18% require special health care and 6.7%
have a disability due to a chronic physical or mental condition.
— Philip Incao, M.D.
Autism is increasing as the shots increase. It was reported as
occurring in one in 10,000 births in the 1970s. A more recent study
by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues of the Autism
Research Centre at Cambridge University, published in the British
Journal of Psychiatry, showed that, when the undiagnosed cases
were included, one in 66 children had the condition, equivalent
to 1.5 per cent of the population. [Baron-Cohen S, Scott FJ, Allison C.
Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study. The
British Journal of Psychiatry. 2009;194:500-509.]
The Baron-Cohen study was done in the U.K. where less shots are
given than in the U.S. What are the U.S. numbers?
When are they going to stop the shots – when autism affects one
in two?
Effect On Future Generations Is Unknown
Vaccination’s effects on future generations are unknown. There is a
suspicion that we are weakening our children and grandchildren.
We do know that dogs and cats who can reproduce a new generation
in a year can very quickly reveal the intergenerational damage of
vaccination. Our intensely vaccinated pets are now suffering from
allergies, arthritis, cancer and other autoimmune disorders that
until recently barely existed.
Why Do We Call Them Childhood Diseases?
When I give talks on this subject and ask the question above
people wonder if it’s a trick question. It isn’t. We call measles,
mumps, chickenpox, whooping cough and the rest childhood
diseases because we’re supposed to get them when we’re children.
That’s when we can best handle them. They are not called newborn
diseases or disease of infancy or adult diseases. They are, or are
supposed to be, childhood diseases. We’re supposed to get them
when we’re children.
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But vaccination changes the age of occurrence of disease. Instead
of getting these diseases when we’re best able to handle them,
newborns, infants and adults are contracting “childhood” diseases
such as measles, chickenpox, mumps and whooping cough. At
those ages these diseases are far more dangerous, even fatal.
Why Is That Happening?
Vaccination appears to interfere with transplacental immunity,
the immunity a woman gives to her unborn child through the
placenta.
For example, when a baby girl is vaccinated her immune system
does not develop properly. When she becomes pregnant years later
she may not be able to give her unborn child, through the placenta,
all the immune factors that she would have if she had not been
vaccinated and had developed natural immunity.
That is why newborns and babies are coming down with measles
and whopping cough, diseases that are far more dangerous at that
age. Add to that immune damage a lack of breastfeeding and poor
nutrition and we’ve got a seriously immune-deficient baby.
Years ago no one ever heard of high school students getting
measles, or colleges having mumps epidemics because everyone got
these diseases as kids and developed natural, permanent immunity.
That’s all changed, our populations are weakened and we can thank
vaccination for it.
As a result of transplacental interference, vaccination has taken
what had become relatively benign diseases due to improvements
in the standard of living and turned them again into killers because
newborns have less protection today.
Naturally immune mothers have considerably more antibodies than
those who had been vaccinated. The same applied to their babies –
babies of vaccinated mothers had significantly lower antibody levels
than infants of naturally immune women. [http://www.medicalnewstoday.
com/articles/189251.php]
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Medical Denial And Duplicity – Doctors Behaving Badly
Let’s say a patient said to his doctor, “After I took the drug you
prescribed I got terrible digestive pains.” The doctor may think
nothing of it, “It’s only one patient and the drug company’s product
information doesn’t mention it. Must be a coincidence.”
But what if another patient tells him the same thing?
What if ten or twenty or fifty patients tell him the same thing?
A logical person would think, “This drug appears to be causing
digestive pain in my patients. The information provided by the
drug company is incomplete.”
So let’s say a parent tells their pediatrician, “Right after you
vaccinated my son he started screaming, dropped to the floor,
stopped making eye contact, stopped speaking, stopped letting me
hold him....” The pediatrician may think, “Probably a coincidence,
after all they told us in medical school these shots are safe.”
But what if a second parent, then a third, then ten, twenty, fifty say
the same thing?
Today over a million parents can say, “My child was healthy and
normal and after getting his shots he became very, very physically
and mentally ill.”
Wouldn’t a prudent person ask, “Are these shots hurting kids?”
A prudent person yes, but not a brainwashed person. Even though
the majority of parents with autistic children say that their child
became autistic shortly after receiving vaccinations that doesn’t
matter to the true believers. It doesn’t matter to the drug companies
or the medical profession who go blindly in denial and mindlessly
repeat the mantra, “The shots are safe, we’ve proven the shots are
safe.”
They’ve proven nothing of the kind.
Is Science Always Scientific?
Professional researchers write scientific-looking papers “proving”
their shots are safe. These papers are published in journals filled
with pages of full color, glossy, expensive drug and vaccine ads.
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When I was in chiropractic school a friend who worked for a
tobacco company as a researcher visited my roommate.
“What are you researching?” I asked.
“I’m proving that cigarette smoking doesn’t cause cancer,” he
said.
“You could prove that?” I asked, somewhat incredulous.
He looked at me as if I were a lower life form, which, being a
student, I guess I was.
He said to me, “Tell me what you want to prove and with enough
money I’ll set up the research to prove it.”
The public doesn’t know from junk science or good science. “Science
is science,” most people think. Such people should remember all the
scientists working for the tobacco industry who repeatedly created
scientific studies “proving” cigarettes did not cause cancer or heart
disease. Such people should think of the myriad of drugs that were
approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as safe and
effective after millions of dollars of scientific study. Yet these drugs
were later taken off the market because they were either killing or
seriously damaging people or were not effective.
There’s a great scene in the movie “Thank You For Smoking” where
the tobacco lobbyist introduces us to a scientist who is proving
cigarette smoking doesn’t cause heart disease or cancer. “Give him
enough money and this guy could prove gravity doesn’t exist.”
Don’t biomedical journals have peer reviewers who give thumbs
up or thumbs down as to whether a paper is worthy of publication?
Sure they do, and they have ties to drug companies.
Gordon T. Stewart, M.D., one of the leading British critics of
vaccination stated:
As soon as questions begin to be asked about [the] vaccine, the ranks
close with amazing unanimity.... The editors tend to print pro-vaccine
articles which can be challenged only in letters – they will not print
anti-vaccine articles. [Coulter HL and Fisher BL. DPT: A Shot in the Dark.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985:255.]
This is commonplace when it comes to vaccination research. Ignore
all the research except that which you want to see. Sadly, the junk
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science gets as much press (or more) than the good science. The
tragedy is that vaccines shown to be safe and effective using poor
or junk science are approved for use. Later reviews showing the
studies that “proved” the value of the vaccines were actually flawed
usually don’t cause the vaccine to be recalled. For example, here’s
a headline about the pneumococcal vaccine designed to protect
against pneumonia. [Science Daily. January 7, 2009.]:
Pneumococcal vaccine does not appear to protect against
pneumonia
The study, a systematic review and meta-analysis, looked at 22
clinical trials, reviews and meta-analyses.... Unlike other similar
studies the authors examined the reasons why different clinical trials
produced different results. They found that the quality of the studies
substantially affected the results. When only high quality trials were
included, there was no evidence that PPVs could prevent pneumonia.
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105175313.htm]
As Marcia Angell, M.D., the former editor of the New England
Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth about Drug Companies
said: “Trials can be rigged in a dozen ways, and it happens all the
time.” [Angell M. The Truth about Drug Companies. NY: Random House, 2004:95.].
Here’s an example:
A review of 74 clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found
that 37 of 38 positive studies were published. But of the thirty-six
negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published
in a form that conveyed a positive outcome. [Turner EH et al. Selective
publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacy. The
New England Journal of Medicine. 2008;358:252-260.]
How Do We Know Something Is “Good” Science?
Good science is objective. Therefore research to test vaccines
should be done by independent researchers without ties to the
pharmaceutical companies that produce vaccines or the government
or medical organizations that promote vaccination. Their findings
should be able to be duplicated by other independent researchers.
The hallmark of objective science is that the findings can be
duplicated.
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Foxes Guarding Henhouses
The government continues to ask the following people if
vaccinations are safe:
• The pharmaceutical companies who made the vaccines
• The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) that approved
the vaccines
• Medical doctors who benefit from vaccinating children
• Politicians who pass laws forcing people to have their
children vaccinated
• Bureaucrats and school nurses whose careers promote
vaccinations
Those who promote vaccination are asked if the shots are safe. We
continue to ask the fox if the henhouse is safe.
Whistleblowers?
Those medical doctors, nurses, health department workers,
independent researchers, scientists and bureaucrats who question
the safety of vaccination (however mildly) face career destruction:
loss of jobs, loss of funding, loss of career advancement and any
professional future; they are also shunned.
A few brave souls in healthcare, research and media have raised
their voices in alarm. But who will listen to them? The medical
journals that get their funding from full-page drug ads? The media
that run drug and pharmaceutical ads? The reporters who risk
ruining their reputations? The politicians who risk questioning a
sacred cow?
Recently Dr. Sarah Myhill was stripped of her license to
practice medicine in the U.K. because she questioned the safety
of vaccination. State medical boards in the U.S. participate in an
inquisition against doctors who don’t toe the party line. [http://www.
theoneclickgroup.co.uk]
Dr. Howard Urnowitz, a world-class microbiologist, left the U.S.
for Europe where he found more scientific freedom. Speaking
at the National Vaccine Information Center convention in
Bethesda, MD, Dr. Urnowitz observed that the vaccination myth is
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perpetuated by two syndromes – DBB (doctors behaving badly) and
MBB (media behaving badly).
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who knows too well the price that is paid
for doing research that questions vaccine safety, once said, “Autism
causes bad behavior – in doctors.”
To that he could add politicians, bureaucrats and drug companies.
How Much Is Your Baby Worth?
How much is your baby worth? If the U.S. government vaccine
court decides that vaccines are the cause of your child’s death you’ll
receive $250,000.
Washington attorney James S. Turner, author of The Chemical
Feast and former Nader’s Raider, spoke on “Our Misguided National
Vaccine Program” at the American Rally for Personal Rights, May
26, 2010 at Grant Park, Chicago, IL:
Over the past two decades the United States government has paid
two billion dollars to families of children who have died or been
permanently harmed after receiving required vaccinations. The
governments that require individuals to be vaccinated—particularly
individual children—know that some of them will die and others will
be permanently handicapped as a cost of mass vaccine programs.
Defenders of these programs argue that the damage caused to
individual children by these vaccine programs is a cost that society
must bear for the benefit of all who are helped by vaccination. The
government asserts that it knows best the trade between risks and
benefits for all. Everybody else, it says, should stand aside while
government allows the collateral damage of dying and damaged
children to continue.
In addition to the $2 billion given out thousands more cases have
yet to be adjudicated.
But what about the hundreds of thousands of children on the
autism spectrum? The government mostly doesn’t recognize
autistic children as vaccine damaged. Insurance doesn’t cover these
children.
The lifetime cost of raising an autistic child has been calculated
as over $1 million but that number is probably conservative. The
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stress of a couple raising an autistic child leads to a divorce rate
as high as 80%. What is the cost of a broken family? What of the
siblings? What businesses were not started because all the extra
cash went to care for the vaccine-damaged child? What vacations
were not taken? What books not written? Can those costs ever be
determined? What of the child whose life was stolen – the braininjured child who will not become the productive, creative person
he/she was meant to be?
What about the other vaccine-injured children? Those suffering
from personality and behavioral disorders not on the autism
spectrum? Those suffering from bizarre, unusual symptoms that
no one can classify? That no one can understand? None of them
are included in the price. The government only recognizes a few
conditions as caused by vaccination. If your damaged child is not
on the list, you’re out of luck.
Today government gives up its moral authority by requiring children
to take vaccines it knows will cause some to die and others to be
permanently damaged ... as government continues to defend vaccinecaused deaths and disability and forces families to put their children
at risk, confidence in vaccines will decline, resistance to their use will
grow, and whatever value they might have will be lost.
From all that I know, having been aware of vaccine regulator failure
for the past forty years, this I know to be true. In a moral society, there
can be no mandated vaccines ... without vaccine choice society risks
both public and individual health. Vaccine choice is a fundamental
human right. [Ibid. Turner.]
Cost Of Vaccination To Schools
School districts are especially hard-hit with the cost of dealing
with vaccine-injured children. The April 28, 2010 New York Times
reports New York City’s problems:
Enrollment in special education programs has climbed to some
177,000 students, or more than 17% of the system, up from roughly
13% in 2003. Experts in special education say it is difficult to know
what has caused the increase....
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The city now spends $4.8 billion annually on special education,
up from $3.8 billion five years ago. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/
education/29schools.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all]
Swine Flu Fiasco
The 2009-2010 swine flu (H1N1) fiasco highlighted how the
media easily manipulates us and the media is easily manipulated by
medical organizations such as the WHO.
I remember the scene well. I was in the lobby of a hotel one morning
before a seminar and CNN in Mexico City said people were dying
from a killer flu that was going to spread all over the world. The
death toll was climbing, the bodies were piling up and unless we
did something, and soon, millions upon millions of people all over
the world would be dead. Shades of 1918.
People were panicking; tourists returning from Mexico were
treated as if they were pariahs. H1N1 was on everyone lips – we
were facing disaster.
A doctor at one of my seminars asked me what was going on. I
told him I didn’t know, we first need the dust to settle.
The dust settled, and the reality was that H1N1 was milder than
the regular seasonal flu. As with bird flu, SARS and the 1976 swine
flu, H1N1 was a non-issue but the medical profession and media
once again panicked.
“We’re overdue for a pandemic,” we’re being told so stay tuned;
another fanatical announcement will come, sooner or later.
All this hysteria over nothing should awaken people to the lack of
scientific accountability that permeates vaccine science.
The 1918-1919 Swine Flu Pandemic
What really killed all those people during the 1918-1919 swine
flu pandemic? Evidence indicates the suppressive medical care that
attempted to “treat” the disease was what killed so many millions.
Recent research reveals that the millions of people who died in
the 1918-1919 killer flu pandemic did not die of the flu. Most of
the deaths were found to be due to bacterial infections. [Klugman
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KP, Astley CM, Lipsitch M. Time from illness onset to death, 1918 influenza and
pneumococcal pneumonia. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2009;15(2):346-347.]
Look at the following:
Deaths Under Medical Care
• The mortality rate in U.S. military hospitals averaged 36%.
• The mortality rate in U.S. medical hospitals was 30%-40%.
• A rate of 68% was reported in medical hospitals in New York
City.
[Patterson MM. Osteopathic methods and the great flu pandemic of 1917-1918. J
Am Osteopath Assoc. 2000;100:309-310. ]
Deaths Under Osteopathic Care
• 2445 osteopaths treating 110,122 patients with influenza
reported a mortality rate of 0.25%.
• The 400-bed Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital, in Boston,
also reported a mortality rate of 0.25%.
[Walter GW. The First School of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville, Mo: The Thomas
Jefferson University Press at Northeast Missouri State University. 1992:95.]
Deaths Under Chiropractic Care
• Chiropractors at the Palmer School of Chiropractic saw 1,635
cases with one death.
• Iowa DCs overall reported 6 deaths out of 4735 cases.
• Davenport, Iowa: M.D.s lost one patient out of every 15 (6,116
deaths from 93,590 patients).
[Rhodes WR. The Official History of Chiropractic in Texas. Austin, TX: Texas
Chiropractic Association. 1978 also see Chiropractic statistics. The Chiropractic
Research and Review Service. Indianapolis, IN: Burton Shields Press. 1925.]
Deaths Under Homeopathic Care
• W.A. Dewey, M.D. reported that homeopathic physicians in
Philadelphia, for example, reported a mortality rate of 1% for
the more than 26,000 flu patients they treated.
• Homeopaths do not suppress fever or other symptoms and
promote the patent’s natural healing abilities.
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[Winston J. Influenza-1918: homeopathy to the rescue. The New England Journal of
Homeopathy. Spring/Summer 1998;7(1):112-115.]
Why were there so many deaths under medical care? Rather
than dying from the flu, those under medical care instead died of
pneumonia due to the massive use of aspirin, quinine and cough
syrups, which suppressed their fevers, compromised their immune
systems and prevented them from expelling mucous and phlegm.
Death By Aspirin
Frank L. Newton, M.D., observed: “There is one drug which
directly or indirectly was the cause of the loss of more lives than
was influenza itself: aspirin.... Aspirin was taken until prostration
resulted and the patient developed pneumonia.”
[Winston J. Influenza-1918: homeopathy to the rescue. The New England Journal of
Homeopathy. Spring/Summer 1998;7(1):112-115.]
As noted, those who opted for non-medical care (homeopathy,
osteopathy and chiropractic) fared far better than those who chose
allopathic (medical) care.
Bill Gates’ $700 Million Polio Fiasco
The April 23, 2010 Wall Street Journal had a front-page story
entitled “Gates rethinks his war on polio.”
Gates gave $700 million to wipe out polio in Africa. At World Health
Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva he was informed that
polio was not being wiped out, rather, it was spreading in Africa.
Gates asked, “So what do we do next?”
My answer would be: stop vaccinating people with a useless and
dangerous vaccine and deal with the flagrant use of chemical toxins,
pesticides, fungicides and other chemicals that has been shown to
be the real cause of polio.
I guarantee the WHO will say they need more money. Hey, what can
a measly $700 million buy these days? Of course no one questions
the possibility that perhaps the vaccine doesn’t work and no virus
causing polio was ever isolated (in other words it was never proven
that a “polio virus” even caused polio).
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The polio fiasco, swine flu fiasco, SARS fiasco and bird flu fiasco
– the list goes on and on. Our kids are increasingly pumped full of
toxic chemicals and are increasingly ill with diseases from autism
to ADD, allergies to eczema and the pharmaceutical companies
scramble to publish more and more “research” that “proves” there is
no connection between chronic illness and vaccination.
We live in a dangerous world – and much of the danger is caused
by medical care in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.
Long-term Studies
Long-term safety and efficacy studies of vaccination have yet to be
done. We really don’t know what these injected chemicals are doing
to our children.
What Kind Of Immunization Really Works?
There is one form of immunization that really does work: natural
immunization, the immunization that occurs when we encounter a
germ and we develop permanent immunity. In reality infection is the
norm; we are all infected with germs all the time. Illness, however,
is the exception rather than the rule. If our immune systems are
strong we can deal with the germs all around us.
Vaccinations are sometimes referred to as “artificial immunization.”
There is no such thing.
Vaccination – injecting foreign proteins and biological and
chemical toxins into the body – is incompatible with a healthy life.
Don’t we have enough chronically ill children?
Tedd Koren, D.C.
Gwynedd Valley, PA
June 2010
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Preface To The 2000 Printing
Childhood Vaccination:
Medical Sacrament or Golden Calf?
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass
immunization....There is no convincing scientific evidence that
mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.... While the myriad short-term hazards of most
immunizations are known (but rarely explained), no one knows
the long-term consequences of injecting foreign proteins into
the body of your child. Even more shocking is the fact that no
one is making any structured effort to find out. Have we traded
mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?
— Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., How To Raise A Healthy Child In
Spite Of Your Doctor (Chicago: Contemporary Books 1984)
Today the major threat to our children’s health is not infectious
disease but chronic illnesses of the immune, nervous and other organ systems. We see epidemics of allergies, asthma, autism, developmental disorders, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders
and hyperactivity (ADD/ADHD), cancer, multiple sclerosis, cerebral
palsy, eating disorders, diabetes, epilepsy, Tourette’s syndrome, stuttering, anorexia and bulimia ... the list is long and depressing. Most
of these conditions were rare or unknown before mass vaccination
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and there is increasing evidence that it’s not a coincidence that this
is so.
As Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of
American Physicians & Surgeons, stated in an address to the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
of the Committee on Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives (June 14, 1999):
Asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelongmorbidity and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since the introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Government recommends that healthy children are to be injected with
at least 45 vaccines by the age of six months, at least 64 vaccines
by 18 months of age and at least 74 vaccines by the time they are
ready for school (4-6 years of age). We say at least because children
six months of age are now recommended to take yearly flushots
– the first shot is a series of two, one month apart. [Recommended
childhood and adolescent immunization schedule–United States, July–December
2004. MMWR Weekly. April 30,2004/53(16);Q1-Q3 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5316-Immunizationa1.htm]
In addition, there are over 200 different vaccines currently in development. Are we justified in turning our children into pin cushions?
Although health agencies of the U.S. government are given the
charge to both promote vaccination coverage and investigate vaccine adverse effects they have been largely ignoring their second
mandate. However, while they “sleep” an increasing amount of
clinical, scientific and medical findings are calling into question the
safety and efficacy of this medical procedure.
As the number of vaccines given to our children has increased,
we have not seen a corresponding improvement in health. On the
contrary, children today are sicker than ever and as our intensively
vaccinated population ages we find that chronic disease is increasingly widespread.
In 1987, 90 million Americans were living with chronic conditions,
39 million of whom were living with more than one chronic condi-
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tion. The majority of persons with chronic conditions are not disabled, nor are they elderly. Chronic conditions affect all ages. Because persons with chronic conditions have greater health needs at
any age, their costs are dispro-portionately high. [Hoffman C, Rice D,
Sung H. Persons with chronic conditions. Journal of the American Medical Association.1996;276(180):1473-1479.]
Are vaccines, an 18th century medical procedure, the cause of this
explosion of chronic diseases? Are we unwittingly creating a generation of chronically ill children?
I believe that we must pause in this mad dash to vaccinate every
child with increasing numbers of vaccines and carefully re-evaluate
what we have been doing. This re-evaluation must be done by independent scientists or researchers.
More and more parents are questioning the wisdom of injecting
known toxins into their children. They must continue to be free
to openly question this procedure since it is they who must live
with the consequences of their healthcare decisions – not their doctors or nurses, not government bureaucrats, not politicians, nor the
American Medical Association – all of whom force or intimidate
people into accepting childhood vaccination.
The freedom to choose one’s healthcare should be a basic right of
a free people.
Tedd Koren, D.C.
Gwynedd Valley, PA
January 2000
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Introduction
The Philosophies of Health
Vitalism (Empiricism) vs. Mechanism (Rationalism)
Childhood vaccination is an extreme application of a pseudoreligious philosophy of life and health.
Modern Western Medicine (allopathy) is based on philosophical
premises that practitioners and researchers cling to as rigidly as any
religious fundamentalist.
For example, it believes that your living body can be understood
by studying it as if it were a lifeless machine. “Know the parts and
you‘ll know the whole. The whole is merely the sum of its parts.”
This philosophy is called Mechanism or Rationalism.
There is an alternative belief system known as Vitalism or
Empiricism. It believes that your body is more than the sum of
its parts and the whole exhibits qualities that the individual parts
cannot. “You can only know the whole by studying the whole. The
whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Many of today’s “natural” disciplines such as traditional chiropractic,
osteopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, Chinese and Ayurvedic
(Indian) Medicine and others follow this vitalistic belief system.
Philosophical Differences Between Vitalism And
Mechanism:
• Vitalism: The body is intelligent and behaves so. Living creatures
respond and learn – things a mere collection of chemicals can
never do.
• Mechanism: The body is a mere collection of chemicals obeying
general laws of chemistry, physics and mechanics.
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• Vitalism: Illness is a reactive, curative response and symptoms
are beneficial phenomena which should not be suppressed or
eliminated.
• Mechanism: Symptoms are harmful and must be removed or
combated.
• Vitalism: Strengthen the patient’s powers of resistance and
compensate for the predisposition to become ill.
• Mechanism: Fight the “disease.”
Medical historian Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., in his four-volume
magnum opus Divided Legacy, discusses the 2,500+ years battle
between these philosophies and reveals that the pendulum of
acceptance and power has swung between them.
Mechanism’s recent domination began early in the 20th century,
however its limitations and extremes (of which childhood vaccine
is one example) have resulted in many individuals turning to the
vitalist approach found in many alternative healing practices gaining
wide acceptance today. We appear to be in a transition period today.
Historically the swing to vitalism has helped spark needed reforms
in mechanism.
Vaccination is an expression of orthodox medicine’s mechanistic
philosophy that believes that germs (bacteria, viri, etc.) are the cause
of disease, symptoms are bad and must be suppressed, and it’s safe
(and possible) to manipulate one system, the immune system, by
introducing toxic chemicals into the body.
Here are some ways in which mechanism and vitalism differ in
practice:
Mechanism: Germs cause disease, so let’s kill the germs and there
won’t be any more disease.
Vitalism: Germs can only grow out of control in fertile soil. Even in
the worst of epidemics, the vast majority of the population does not
become ill. Further it is impossible to kill all the germs on earth; nor
should we. Microorganisms are part of a vastly complex ecosystem
that we do not fully understand. By trying to kill them we may
cause other problems. For example, antibiotics have unwittingly
created “super germs” that are resistant to antibiotics and rampant
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in medical establishments. Now one in ten individuals who enter a
hospital acquires a hospital infection which can be deadly, causing
an estimated 103,000 deaths per year in hospitals.
Mechanism: We are made of separate parts so we can tamper
with one of our parts and not affect any other body part. We can
inject materials directly into people and give them a tiny infection
to prevent their getting a major infection.
Vitalism: The body is divided into systems for convenience of
study. It is impossible to tamper with one system and leave the
other systems unaffected. Introducing bacteria, viri and toxins into
the bloodstream, bypassing the mucous membranes (an important
part of your immune system), is unnatural and dangerous.
Mechanism: Acute infectious disease is bad and symptoms must
be suppressed.
Vitalism: Fever, rash and other signs of inflammation are the body’s
way of cleansing, strengthening and healing itself. Suppression of
these acute symptoms generally interferes with healing and may
result in chronic disease later in life.
Mechanism: Drugs restore the body to health.
Vitalism: Healing comes from within. Your body is the world’s
greatest drugstore making all the medicines you need to live your life
to its fullest. The healer’s job is to remove anything which interferes
with your body’s optimal function.
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Understanding Infection:
Not A Battle, But A Housecleaning
© Philip Incao, M.D. September 2004
I
once saw a young African man in my practice who impressed me
with his calm dignity and his radiant good health. I asked him
what his parents had done when, as a child, he had come down
with a fever. He replied that they had wrapped him in blankets to get
him sweating. “Did they ever take your temperature?” I asked. He
laughed and shook his head saying, “No, it was different from what
is done here.” We often hear that American medicine is the most
advanced in the world. This is true in some areas of healthcare, but
in other areas we could use a little of the deeply rooted wisdom that
still informs some of the folk medicine in the developing world. I
think this particularly applies to our modern concept and treatment
of the illnesses we commonly call “infections.”
When we come down with a cold or a flu most of us imagine that
some stress or other has weakened our “defenses” or our “resistance”
and allowed “a bug” (a virus or bacterium) to enter our body, where
it multiplies and attacks us from within. We think of this as “an
infection,” that the new bug within us is making us sick, and that
we will feel better as soon as our immune system has killed it off.
When we don’t feel better soon enough, we might seek remedies or
antibiotics to kill the bug more effectively.
This pretty much describes the way almost everyone today,
physicians included, thinks about what I refer to in this article as an
acute infectious/inflammatory illness like a cold, flu or sore throat.
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Yet this commonly held picture does not correspond to the facts. It
is a deceptive misunderstanding that in itself is a characteristic sign
of the simplistic, weakened and fear-based thinking that hinders
progress in many areas of life today.
If we define infection as the presence within us of foreign microorganisms i.e., bacteria and viruses, then all of us are continually
infected from the day we are born until we die. We all harbor
trillions of microbes all the time, including various disease germs,
yet we only occasionally get sick.
Most of us are quite happy to never or seldom come down with
an acute infectious/inflammatory fever, cold or sore throat, thinking
that we therefore must have a strong immune system which guards
our body from becoming “infected.”
That too is a deception, and a dangerous one, that fools us into
thinking we are healthy when the reality is otherwise.
It is a shock to learn that for over one hundred years the evidence
has shown that our immune system does not prevent us from
becoming infected by germs. In the early years of Pasteur’s germ
theory in the nineteenth century, it was first assumed that healthy
people were uninfected by bacteria and only sick people were
infected. This assumption was soon disproven, as science found
that the great majority of those infected with disease germs were
healthy, and only a small fraction of them ever got sick. The majority
of people infected with the bacterium of TB, for example, never got
sick from tuberculosis, but only from the same coughs and colds
that we all get.
Infection alone is not enough to make us come down with a
manifest illness. Something else is needed. Most of the time we
are able to live in harmony with certain numbers of disease germs
in our body without becoming ill. For this blessing we can thank
our immune system, which is continually vigilant and active below
the surface of our awareness in keeping the extremely varied and
extensive germ population of our body under control. Thus it is not
necessarily the entrance of new germs into our body that makes us
ill, it is the sudden and excessive multiplication of certain germs
that have already been in us for a longer or briefer time. In some
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cases the entrance of a new germ into the body is quickly followed
by its rapid proliferation and in other cases the germ can remain
dormant or latent in us for many years or even a lifetime while we
remain healthy.
This important fact receives far too little attention and is often
totally forgotten in medicine today. Most of the trillions of germs
that “infect” or inhabit our body from infancy onward are peacefully
co-existing in us or even helping to maintain our inner ecological
balance, like the acidophilus bacteria that live in our intestines. They
are our “normal flora.” Science has also identified a small minority
of germs, called pathogens, that participate in human disease, like
strep, staph, TB, diphtheria, etc., but these too have surprisingly
more often been found peacefully coexisting in us rather than being
involved in illnesses.
This is called latent or dormant infection, or simply the carrier
state. Typhoid Mary was a famous example in the early 1900’s of a
cook who, though healthy herself, was a carrier of the salmonella
bacterium and passed it on to others, some of whom became
seriously ill and many others of whom remained healthy despite
being infected. As the prominent microbiologist Rene Dubos stated
in a 1950’s textbook,
“…the carrier state is not a rare immunologic freak. In reality,
infection without disease is the rule rather than the exception…. The
pathogenic [germs] characteristic of a community do commonly
become established in the tissues of a very large percentage of
normal persons and yet cause clinical disease only in a very
small percentage of them.” (Emphasis mine)1
This leads us to the question which Rene Dubos, apparently alone
among his colleagues, pondered for the rest of his life: if most of the
time we are able to peacefully coexist with a disease germ in our
body (a fact which Pasteur did not adequately reckon with), what
is it that happens when it suddenly starts multiplying rapidly and
we get sick? Have our defenses weakened and allowed the germs to
proliferate and go on the attack (which is the thought that frightens
us so terribly) or are they merely multiplying because our body’s
biochemistry has been disturbed and is making available to the germs
a suddenly increased supply of their preferred nourishment?
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The latter is not a new thought; it was postulated by Pasteur’s
contemporaries. Scientists of Pasteur’s time including Claude
Bernard, Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Steiner and Max Pettenkofer held
the conviction that the decisive and determining factor in infectious
diseases was not the microbe itself but rather the particular
condition of the patient’s “host terrain” that favored the growth
of a particular microbe. In this view, microbes were not predators
but were scavengers which fed on toxic substances produced by
imbalance, disease and decay in the host body’s terrain just as flies
feed on dung and garbage. For these scientists, killing microbes
without improving the host terrain imbalances that fed the microbes
was like killing flies in a messy, untidy kitchen without cleaning up
the kitchen. Pettenkofer even drank a test tube of virulent cholera
bacteria to prove his point that they would do no harm if the inner
terrain was healthy. Pettenkofer’s terrain apparently was healthy,
because he suffered no ill effects at all from his bacterial brew.
Nevertheless, the germ theory was an idea whose time had arrived,
and for many reasons the concept of germs as vicious predators
soon prevailed over the view that they were merely opportunistic
scavengers.
The triumph of the germs-as-predators concept has led to a
sea change in the way people think about acute illnesses such as
colds, measles, pneumonia, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid,
smallpox, etc. Since ancient times these illnesses had been called
inflammations, literally meaning “a fire within.” In the first century
A.D. an early Roman author, Celsus, gave the classical definition
of inflammation which is still taught today to physicians: a firelike process in the body which manifests in “calor, rubor, tumor
and dolor,” i.e. warmth, redness, swelling and pain. These cardinal
symptoms of inflammation, even when not externally visible, were
understood to characterize all inflammations from a pimple to a
pneumonia. Our ancient ancestors also knew from hard experience
that many acute inflammations like plague, smallpox, measles, TB
etc. were “catching” or contagious from one person to another.
What they did not know was the intimate relationship of germs or
microbes to these acute inflammatory and contagious illnesses.
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Since Pasteur, we now erroneously consider these illnesses to be
“acute infections,” assuming that the entrance of a new microbe into
the host’s body (the infection) triggers the illness. As we saw earlier,
it is not the initial entrance of, or the infection with, the microbe
which triggers the illness, but rather the sudden proliferation of
a microbe already residing in the host body for some time which
initiates an acute infectious/inflammatory illness.
Human beings become infected with a great variety of the
microbes in their environment, continuing life-long as they change
environments, yet this fact of life-long infection does not explain
why illness happens, anymore than auto accidents are explained
by the fact that the victims are life-long drivers. An infection is not
itself an illness, rather it is the normal human condition and the
context in which acute infectious/inflammatory illnesses occur. As
we said earlier, something else must happen to cause a certain tribe
of germs (like strep, with which almost everyone is infected to some
degree) to suddenly proliferate and trigger what should correctly
be called “an acute strep-related inflammation” rather than “an
acute strep infection.” We need to fit our thoughts and words to the
reality. The fact that a strep infection might precede a strep-related
inflammation by days, months or years is essential to understanding
how and why illness happens. Thus, the term “acute strep infection”
commonly used by physicians and lay people is incorrect, and
it creates an incorrect picture in our mind of the illness at hand.
The incorrect picture is that strep bacteria have invaded our body
from the environment and are injuring us. Most importantly, this
incorrect picture leads to inappropriate feelings and actions of
the physician, the caregiver and the patient who must respond to
an illness. Thus the grave mischief caused by a “mere” incorrect
mental picture becomes enormous–such is the power of this idea.
The consequences of the germs-as-predators idea are millions of
unnecessary prescriptions written for antibiotics, and thousands
of injuries and deaths from drug reactions, including 450 deaths
per year from Tylenol alone. The engine driving this inappropriate
and dangerous use of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs is the
fear generated by our common misconception that we are under
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attack by predatory microbes whenever we experience fever, pain,
congestion and other symptoms of typical acute inflammations such
as coughs, colds, flu or sore throats.
Now we will move on to consider another important and common
misconception about acute infectious/inflammatory illness. The first
misconception was that infection is abnormal and causes illness,
the truth being that infection is really the normal human condition
because we all harbor disease germs frequently, yet become sick
only occasionally.
The second misconception is that the symptoms of an acute
infectious/inflammatory illness like scarlet fever, polio, smallpox or
flu are caused by the viciousness, the virulence, of the bacteria or the
viruses which we imagine are attacking the cells and tissues of our
body. The sicker we are, that is, the more intense our symptoms, the
more vicious we assume the attacking viruses and bacteria to be.
In over thirty years of practicing medicine, I’ve found that this
assumption, shared by almost all physicians and their patients,
provokes more unreasoning fear and unnecessary use of drugs than
any other.
The confusion stems from the fact that in an acute infectious/
inflammatory illness we are witnessing not one happening but
two polar opposite happenings which occur together. The first
happening is that bacteria or viruses are proliferating in our body. If
these microbes were predators, we would expect their proliferation
to coincide with the worst of our symptoms, but this is not the case.
Most of the germ proliferation, which we falsely imagine as an inner
attack, happens during the incubation period of the illness when
we have little or no symptoms. Viruses and bacteria may enter our
blood stream in large numbers, and may even start to leave our
body, excreted in mucus and feces, without any awareness of illness
on our part besides possible minor malaise, headache or tiredness.
These symptoms might appear at the end of the incubation period
during the few days of prelude or “prodrome” just before the fullblown illness begins. When the incubation period is over and the
clinical illness comes on with all its strong symptoms of fever,
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pain, weakness, irritation and often anxiety, it may feel as if we are
being attacked but in reality the inner process causing our illness
symptoms is not a battle, but an intense housecleaning.
I’ve said that an infectious/inflammatory illness is a joint appearance
of two separate and distinct happenings. These two happenings
become related to each other in the context of the illness as a reaction
is related to an action. Comparing illness to a housecleaning, the
action is the gradual, mostly unnoticed accumulation of dirt and
dust (along with the tiny creatures who make their home in dirt and
dust) in the house, and the reaction is the sudden decision of the
housekeeper to turn the house upside down in order to clean it from
top to bottom. In a house, as in the human body, the housecleaning
is a much bigger disturbance, though a necessary one, to the orderly
routine of the household than the accumulation of dirt and dust.
Our immune system is the housekeeper of our body. Usually our
inner housekeeper keeps well abreast of her work quietly, escorting
dead and dying cells to the exits of our body and making sure that
waste matter and poisons are cleared from the body. This is the very
important ongoing maintenance-housecleaning work of our immune
system-housekeeper in maintaining the health and integrity of our
human organism. From birth until death, this ongoing maintenance
work never rests, and is responsible for our keeping healthy and
free of illness. But occasionally our immune system-housekeeper
determines that a deep cleaning is needed. That’s when the dust
flies and we get sick! If you are wondering where the germs are
in this comparison of the human body to a household, they are
the flies, ants, cockroaches, or the mice which live in the house’s
inner recesses unreached by the housekeeper and which feed on the
crumbs and kitchen scraps that accumulate in the house.
The function of the immune system is to create inflammation.
Inflammation, as the word implies, is like a fire in the body which
burns up the waste and debris, along with the germs which feed
on waste and debris, and cleanses the body. Thus it is our immune
system which causes us to become sick, by creating inflammation
to drive out infection and renew us.
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The first step in an acute infectious/inflammatory illness is the
accumulation of cellular waste materials and toxic by-products of
our body’s biochemical metabolic processes. This accumulation may
go on for hours or years before the acute illness, and is unnoticed by
us because the body has various ways it can store toxic substances
to keep them from irritating and poisoning us. The second step is
the beginning of the release of certain toxins from storage and the
proliferation of bacteria which are attracted to the now accessible
toxins just as flies are attracted to garbage. This release from storage
may be triggered by our exposure to an ill person to whose acute
infectious/inflammatory illness we are open and unguarded. Thus we
“catch” the illness and this second step defines its incubation period,
in which bacteria or viruses rapidly proliferate while causing minor
or no symptoms. This second step differs according to whether the
illness is bacterial or viral. In a bacterial illness specific types of
bacteria are attracted to the particular types of toxins released from
storage and made available to them during the incubation period.
In a viral illness the viruses themselves are a special form of toxic
waste product which cells release when they are provoked by stress
(as in an outbreak of herpes or shingles) or by “catching” an illness
from another person.
These two steps, the gradual accumulation and storage of toxins
for days or years followed by their rapid release from storage and the
proliferation of microbes during the incubation period, constitute
the action which provokes the third step, the reaction of the immune
system to clean house. The intensity of the symptoms of our illness
is a direct expression of the intensity of the reaction of our immune
system. The stronger our immune system-housekeeper is, the more
dust and debris she will stir up and the sicker we will feel.
If I am correct in asserting that an acute infectious/inflammatory
illness is really an intense housecleaning and not a battle against
predatory invaders, then people with stronger immune systems
and thus stronger housecleanings would be expected to have more
intense acute inflammatory symptoms, and stronger discharges than
those with weaker immune systems. By inflammatory symptoms I
mean pain, redness, swelling and fever followed by a good discharge
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of mucus, pus, rash or diarrhea. In my medical practice I have
repeatedly found that the stronger and more robust children become
ill more intensely and acutely (with good outcomes nevertheless)
than the weaker, pale and allergic children. I remember well one
boy in my practice who, I later discovered, had a certain familial
immune system defect. His mother often brought him to the office
because he felt unwell and weak. Usually in children who complain
of feeling sick, one can find some evidence of an inflammation in
the body, a red throat, a red ear, congested lungs or sinuses, some
degree of fever, swollen glands etc. In this boy I could find nothing.
There were no signs of inflammation and no symptoms other than
subjective fatigue and feeling unwell. Blood tests revealed a problem
with his immune system.
This case brought home to me the fact that a weak immune system
has difficulty reacting to a gradually accumulating infection of
uncleared cellular waste and microbes in the body. Without a strong
reaction of the immune system, there is no acute illness, but only a vague
malaise and fatigue, which are symptoms of a low-grade poisoning
or toxicity in the body – the result of our housekeeper being too
weak to do her job and allowing kitchen debris to accumulate,
followed inevitably by the flies and ants. When I would see this boy
with the immune system defect in my office feeling unwell, it was
as if he were stuck in the incubation period of an acute infectious/
inflammatory illness, unable to become properly acutely ill because
his immune system was too weak to react with the inflammatory
healing crisis he needed to clear out his body.
Children who are able to have their normal childhood healing
crises, consisting of fevers and discharges, thereby exercise and build
their cellular immune systems to be strong and resilient, which is
a great benefit for their overall health. Vaccinations, antibiotics and
anti-inflammatory drugs like Tylenol and ibuprofen all interfere with
this inflammatory cleansing of the body and the immune systemstrengthening which results.
All the experts agree that antibiotics are massively overprescribed in
the U.S. – used in conditions that don’t require them. Why does this
overprescribing continue unabated despite large efforts to educate
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physicians about the proper use of antibiotics? Upon reflection, any
physician can answer this question because all of us see almost daily
patients who come into the office seeking antibiotics. These patients
have two chief concerns: either their symptoms are too intense or
they’ve been going on too long, or both.
If we understand the illness to be a housecleaning, then these
concerns are very much minimized. “Your immune system is
doing a good job – you will soon bring this healthy, much-needed
housecleaning to a successful conclusion” is what a physician of the
housecleaning persuasion might say.
If we believe the illness to be an attack of hostile predatory
microbes, then physician and patient are both anxious to get rid of
the symptoms along with the nasty microbes we mistakenly assume
are causing the symptoms. As we saw earlier, the immune system,
not the microbes, causes the symptoms. The microbes however
are an important stimulus which provokes the immune system to
react, causing symptoms of acute inflammatory illness. Therefore,
when we kill or inhibit the microbes with antibiotics, we inhibit the
immune system at the same time. This inhibits the inflammatory
symptoms that belong to an active working immune system, creating
the illusion that we have healed the illness when in reality we have
suppressed the symptoms and interfered with the immune system’s
work before its job was done. This is a suppression, not a healing,
and it is crucial to understand the difference between the two.
If we make our housekeeper stop her hectic cleaning in order to
have some peace, we will have to put up with an untidy house. An
untidy house and an inactive housekeeper are conditions which in
the short run lead to a return of flies and ants, and in the long run
lead to chronic disease and cancer.
This is why I’ve been saying for fourteen years that an important
way to prevent cancer is to appreciate the great wisdom and benefit
of our occasional inflammatory housecleanings and to refrain
from obstructing them unnecessarily with antibiotics and antiinflammatory drugs.
This point was recently confirmed by the publication of research
showing that antibiotics increase the risk of breast cancer.
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Nevertheless, antibiotics are lifesaving drugs when an acute
infectious/inflammatory illness becomes dangerous. This danger
stems not from the intensity of the inflammation directly, but from
the toxicity and the sheer volume of the metabolic wastes and
poisons which are stirred up and mobilized by the inflammation.
If our organism has the strength to clear out all these toxins and
discharge them from our body, the illness usually resolves itself. If
we lack this strength, then the discerning physician will attempt to
support and promote the discharging, detoxifying process, keeping
a watchful eye on the patient’s strength, and will use an antibiotic
if needed to prevent complications or death from the poisons
that have been stirred up by our overzealous housekeeper – our
immune system. This is a toxic or septic inflammation, and in such
a crisis, an antibiotic is a blessing. But the likelihood of our ever
having to experience such a toxic crisis will be greatly diminished
if we understand how to allow all our smaller, non-threatening
inflammatory crises to do their housecleaning work that our wise
inner housekeeper knows we need.
How, therefore can one treat an acute infectious/inflammatory
illness so as to work with the cleansing and discharging process
of the immune system and not against it? I have discussed these
practical pointers in the chapter “How to Treat Childhood Illnesses”
in the book The Vaccination Dilemma edited by Christine Murphy
and also in an article published in Mothering magazine in JulyAugust 2003 entitled, “The Healing Crisis: Don’t Worry Mom, I’m
Just Growing.”
These treatment guidelines apply to adults every bit as well as they
apply to children. They are designed to support and facilitate the work
of the immune system, to relieve symptoms, prevent complications
and to promote a successful outcome and completion of the task
begun by the immune system itself. A more detailed discussion of
these treatment guidelines can also be found, along with directions
for use of the appropriate homeopathic/anthroposophic remedies
for specific symptoms, in my Home Remedy Kit available from the
Weleda Pharmacy at 800-241-1030. Perhaps the most important
points to remember in treating acute infectious/inflammatory
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illnesses are that fever is good, toxicity is bad, and discharge of toxicity
is very good.
The danger of an acute infectious/inflammatory illness is not
the 105 degree fever nor the yellow thick mucus drainage from
the nose, but the amount of retained toxicity that is poisoning the
patient because it is unable to be discharged from the body quickly
enough. It is normal for the ill patient to be weak, lethargic and
oversensitive. Symptoms of excessive retained toxicity poisoning the
body include increasing irritability and restlessness, an increasing
look and feel of desperation or anxiety, and a decreasing ability to
maintain consciousness and eye contact. If these are happening, call
the doctor.
Toxicity that is stirred up within the body more quickly than it can
be cleared and discharged from the body is the primary danger and
cause of complications in an acute infectious/inflammatory illness.
We physicians should be advising our patients how to recognize
and treat toxicity. Up to 106 degrees F, the degree of fever is not
a sign of the seriousness of the illness, but is rather a sign of how
strongly the immune system is working to detoxify and clear out
the illness. Therefore it is best to avoid fever lowering drugs.
Here are some very effective age-old ways to support the immune
system and to promote a good outcome of an acute infectious/
inflammatory illness:
1. Total rest and sleep, with as little distraction as possible. No T.V.,
radio, tapes or reading.
2. Keep the patient very warmly dressed and covered. Sweating is
good. Avoid chilling.
3. A liquid diet of vegetable broth, herb teas, citrus juices. Add
rice, millet, carrots or fruit if hungry. Absolutely no meat, fish,
eggs, milk products, legumes, beans, nuts or seeds. The digestive
power of the body must focus on the illness and not be burdened
with food.
4. Elimination through bowels, bladder and sweating is essential to
treat toxicity and prevent its complications, therefore encourage
drinking of lukewarm clear fluids, and use prune juice or Milk of
Magnesia to promote loose BMs once or twice daily.
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5. Provide a sick room environment with warm, soft colors and
textures and natural soft light. Include plants and flowers. The
caregiver should be cheerful, peaceful, attentive, observant,
encouraging, loving and respectful of the profound healing
wisdom of the inner housekeeper in which she is assisting.
Reference List:
1. Dubos, Rene J, Bacterial and Mycotic Injections of Man. Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott, 1958, P. 21-31.
The author is grateful to Charlene Thurston, Christine Maggiore and
Bob Dudney, M.D. for their kind help and advice with this article.
Resource List: Related Reading (in chronological order based on
publication date)
• De Kruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1926,
1954.
• Dubos, Rene. “Second Thoughts on Germ Theory.” Scientific
American 192 (May 1955): 31-35.
• Dubos, Rene. Bacterial and Mycotic Infections of Man. Philadelphia:
J.B. Lippincott, 1958.
• Dubos, Rene. Mirage of Health. New York: Harper, 1959.
• Rosebury, Theodor. Microorganisms Indigenous to Man. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1961.
• Rosebury, Theodor. Life on Man. New York: Viking, 1968.
• Selye, Hans, M.D. The Stress of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1976.
• Sonea, S. and Panisset, M. A New Bacteriology. Boston: Jones and
Bartlett, 1983.
• Sagan, Leonard. The Health of Nations: True Causes of Sickness and
Well-Being. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
• Sagan, Leonard. “All in the Family.” MD Magazine (July 1988):
99-107.
• Payer, Lynn. Medicine and Culture. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
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• Geison, Gerald. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton:
Princeton U. Press, 1995.
• Incao, Philip, M.D. “Supporting Children’s Health.” Alternative
Medicine Digest. Issue 19 (September 1997): 54-59.
• Murphy, Christine, Ed. The Vaccination Dilemma. New York:
Lantern Books, 2002.
• Bott, Victor, M.D. An Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine.
Rudolf Steiner Press ISBN 1-85584-177-0.
• www.aliveandwell.org
• www.lilipoh.com (Philip Incao writes a regular medical column,
“The Doctor Speaks,” for Lilipoh Magazine.)
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Questions &
Answers
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Prologue
W
hen my son Seth was born I was against having him
vaccinated. Initially my thinking was that vaccinations were
unnatural, did not confer true immunity and had the potential
to hurt my child. I thought it safer to take a chance with disease.
But ... in the back of my mind, as family members questioned our
decision, I began to wonder: “Am I really doing the right thing? Am I
endangering him in some way? Is it worth bucking the system? What if
something should happen?”
I wanted to ground my philosophical opposition to vaccination with
sound scientific research. As a caring parent I began exploring this issue.
It didn’t take long before I realized that I opened a can of worms.
To my shock and fascination I discovered that the world of
vaccination was not one of objective, compassionate scientists creating
accurate research to understand this issue; it was not one of caring
politicians, concerned pharmaceutical houses and well-informed
healthcare professionals objectively studying vaccine safety and
efficacy.
Instead I found a world filled with conflicts of interest – people
who make money from vaccines in charge of promoting them,
scientists who depend on pharmaceutical houses for their grants
producing sloppy “scientific” papers filled with skewed statistics that
even professional statisticians can’t figure out, political intrigue, bad laws,
violations of constitutional rights and healthcare professionals who are
poorly trained in this issue.
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This is a world full of “junk science” with professionals giving advice
to patients based on that science or drug company advertisements. It is a
world of denial. It is a world that threatens professionals with damage to
their careers if they stray from accepted medical dogma.
But there is another world of vaccination.
A world populated by dead babies, damaged children, shattered lives,
wounds that will never heal. A world of grieving, angry parents who gave
birth to healthy infants that will never be the son or daughter they were
meant to be. Many of these parents have no idea their child was vaccine
damaged and instead blame themselves (bad genes) or “bad luck.”
When it comes to the vaccine decision, parents are often led to believe
that they didn’t have a choice, or weren’t given the information that
was available for them to make a fair choice (i.e. they were not fully
informed).
The world of vaccination raises many unanswered questions. Among the
most ominous: are we damaging the genes of our children, grandchildren
and still future generations?
Almost four years after Seth arrived we were blessed with our daughter
Shayna. By then I was convinced we had done the right thing by not
vaccinating Seth; Shayna would also remain untouched by this medical
procedure.
Both children are free of allergies, ear infections, skin conditions, asthma
and learning problems, unlike some of their cousins and many of their
classmates.
As of this writing the world of vaccination is changing at a dizzying pace.
There have been congressional hearings on the safety of vaccination, an
approved vaccine (rotavirus) was pulled from the market for safety reasons,
and vaccines are being reformulated to remove mercury in them.
While we have yet to see the wall of mandatory vaccination fall in the
US, cracks are beginning to appear in what has formerly been a vast
monolithic force as more parents are studying and openly questioning
this issue.
Following are some of the more salient questions. They involve some of
the basic issues surrounding the decision whether one should or should
not have their child vaccinated.
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Questions For Our Children
(To ask your M.D. or yourself)
1. Are vaccinated children healthier than non-vaccinated
children?
2. Do vaccines have any long-term side effects or damage that
may not surface for months or years?
3.
Does research show vaccines are safe?
4.
Can vaccines cause cancer or fertility problems?
5.
Do vaccines cause SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome also
known as Crib Death)?
6.
What are the chances that my child may be hurt or killed by a
vaccine?
7.
Do the assumed benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks?
8.
Didn’t vaccines get rid of acute infectious childhood diseases?
9.
What about polio? Wasn’t it eliminated due to vaccination?
10. Was the polio shot given in the 50’s and 60’s contaminated
with monkey virus? Is it causing cancer?
11. Is vaccination why we have so much cancer today?
12. Are there benefits to a child having acute infectious childhood
diseases?
13. Are the ingredients in vaccines safe?
14. How do vaccines work on a cellular level? How do vaccines
affect the immune system/nervous system on a cellular level?
How do vaccines cause damage on a cellular level?
15. Do vaccines affect genetic material? Are we hurting future
generations?
16. Is there a conflict of interest in vaccine policy decisions?
17. Can a person legally avoid vaccinations?
18. Is there hope for the future?
Answers to Questions
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Q
one
Are Vaccinated Children Healthier Than
Non-vaccinated Children?
In my medical career I’ve treated vaccinated and
unvaccinated children and the unvaccinated children
are far healthier than the vaccinated ones.
Isn’t this the most basic question we can ask? Parents vaccinate their
child because they are assured the result will be a healthier child.
There must be many research studies showing that a vaccinated
child is healthier than an “unprotected” non-vaccinated child. Aren’t
there?
There are not. There is no proof a vaccinated child is in any way
healthier than a non-vaccinated child or that a non-vaccinated
child is less healthy than a vaccinated child. There is increasing
evidence that vaccinated children are, in fact, much sicker than
non-vaccinated children.
No drug companies or government agencies appear to be interested
in this question. However an increasing number of scientific papers
as well as observations of healthcare workers and parents is revealing
that childhood vaccines may be the cause of the increase in allergies,
ear infections, asthma, diabetes, skin disorders, attention deficit/
hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, Crohn’s disease, cancer,
arthritis, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and other chronic and
degenerative diseases; diseases and conditions that are observed to
be rare in non-vaccinated children.
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Among the formerly rare conditions exploding in occurrence is
autism. Autism and related conditions (autism spectrum disorder)
have increased from 1 in 10,000 children to approximately 1 in 100
children in a few decades.
There is increasing scientific evidence that childhood vaccines
are causing this epidemic. Autism began to be diagnosed shortly
after the pertussis vaccine was introduced and has exploded
since the early 1980s, when the number of required vaccinations
increased. However, autism is only an extreme example of vaccine
damage; we live in a world of chronically ill children suffering from
allergies, cancer, asthma, developmental delays, speech, vision and
hearing disorders and personality disorders that are related to brain
damage.
While there are no major studies comparing the health of vaccinated
to non-vaccinated children there are a few small studies where
researchers limited their comparison to allergies and asthma:
• Children vaccinated with DPPT (DPT plus Polio) or MMR had
14 times more asthma and 9.4 times more eczema than nonvaccinated children. [McKeever TM, Lewis SA, Smith C. Does vaccination
increase the risk of developing allergic disease?: A birth cohort study. Winter
Abstract supplement to Thorax. 2002;57:Supplement III.]
• 23.1% of immunized children had asthma, 30% had other
allergic illnesses. O% of the non-immunized children had
asthma or other allergic illness. [Kemp T, Pearce N, Fitzharris P et al. Is
infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology.
1997;8:678-680.]
• 10.69% of children immunized (with pertussis) got asthma.
There was but one case of asthma out of 91 who had no
vaccinations at all. [Odent ME, Culpin EE, Kimmel T. Pertussis vaccination
and asthma: is there a link? Letter. JAMA. 1994;272(8):593.]
There is no proof that vaccinating your child gives you a healthier
child and there are repeated indications that vaccination of children
causes chronic disease.
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Q
two
Do Vaccines Have Any Long-term Side
Effects Or Damage That May Not Surface
For Months Or Years?
No one knows because the studies that would tell us have not
been done. These kinds of studies are not required by government
agencies and have not been done by pharmaceutical companies.
Think of it – we are forced to inject toxic substances that have not
been studied to determine whether or not they might cause longterm damage.
Most parents would be shocked if they read the product insert
of the Hepatitis B vaccine (from pharmaceutical company Merck).
They’d learn that the children in the test (vaccinated) group were
observed a total of four days to see if the vaccine had any longterm effects. This is remarkable, since autoimmune or neurological
damage may take weeks, months or years to arise or be discovered.
Unfortunately, this kind of limited testing is typical for vaccines.
Our children are really part of an experiment to see if vaccines have
any long-term effects.
In the pharmaceutical business this is known as “post marketing
surveillance.”
U.S. Representative Dan Burton’s (R-IN) grandchild developed
autism after receiving 9 vaccines on a single “well baby” visit. (Note:
it’s easy to receive 9 vaccines in a day. MMR = 3, DPT = 3, + HiB,
Hepatitis B, Polio = 9). In a letter to the Los Angeles Times (April 24,
2000) Rep. Burton writes:
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Instead of hiding our heads in the sand to protect the status quo, it
is time to admit that the US Government has failed the American
public by not funding adequate studies to determine the long-term
affects of vaccines on our children and future generations.
We have yet to conduct adequate scientific research to rule out a
connection between vaccines and autism, or to determine whether
low-birth weight or pre-term babies should receive the same dose of
vaccine and use the same shot schedule.
We have not funded studies or research to indicate whether it is okay
to vaccinate a child who has repeated ear infections and rounds of
antibiotics, or to determine what children are likely to be adversely
affected by vaccines.
In September 1993 the U.S. government’s Institute of Medicine
(IOM) released a report Adverse Events Associated With Childhood
Vaccines: Evidence Bearing on Causality. The report examined
serious adverse consequences associated with diphtheria and tetanus
toxoids; measles, mumps and measles-mumps-rubella vaccines;
oral polio vaccine, inactivated polio vaccine; hepatitis B vaccines;
and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines.
After reviewing the scientific and medical reports the committee
found evidence of a relationship between diphtheria and tetanus
toxoids and Guillain-Barre syndrome, brachial neuritis and
anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction), between measles vaccine
and anaphylaxis, between oral polio vaccine and Guillain-Barre
syndrome, polio and death from polio and between Hib vaccine
and Hib disease; measles vaccine and death from measles infection,
measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and thrombocytopenia and
anaphylaxis; and between hepatitis B vaccine and anaphylaxis.
Perhaps most frightening was the IOM’s admission that for 33
vaccine-related adverse events, the evidence was “inadequate” to
accept or reject a causal relationship. That means that there was
no good research. This is incredible! We are forced to inject toxic
chemicals into our children and yet the research on its safety is
“inadequate!”
Further, there are no genetic or laboratory screening tests available
to determine which children will react to a vaccine [Pharmaceutical
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Research and Manufacturers of America’s New Research and Development
Database, www.phrma.org/webdb/phrmawdb.html].
That is important because no one knows which shot may be the
one to cause damage. It may be the first one or the fifth or the
25th!
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Q
three
Does Research Show Vaccines Are Safe?
Most people would be shocked to discover the poor quality
of vaccine safety research. These studies, usually paid for by
pharmaceutical companies, can be best described as meaningless
or junk science.
Junk Science – Manipulation of data
Most of the cheats in science are M.D.s.
— Linus Pauling, M.D. (two time Nobel Prize winner)
There is little or no objective research into the possible adverse
effects of vaccines. There has never been a study comparing
vaccinated to unvaccinated children. The only explanation for this
is bias and political pressure.
A major technique of the medical establishment is to publish an
article purporting to support certain conclusions and then to refer to it
endlessly in the literature. When an analysis of the article demonstrates
that it does not support such conclusions at all, this makes no difference,
as the article and its references have already taken on an independent
life of their own – well beyond any feeble attempts at criticism.
A technique used in the earlier decades of this century was to refer to
certain medical journal pages which, when examined, turned out to be
paid advertisements for the medicine in question.
— Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., medical historian
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The medical establishment derives [its] powers from three sources:
(1) enforced consensus through peer review, (2) through
commercialization, and (3) the fear of disease, particularly
infectious disease.
— Peter Duesberg, Ph.D.
A “scientific” study can be set up to prove anything. During wellpublicized tobacco company trials it was revealed that a study can
“prove” cigarettes don’t cause cancer or that cigarettes do cause
cancer; it all depends on how the research is designed. It’s the same
with vaccine research.
Because vaccines are big business ($5.4 billion in 2001, 11 billion
in 2006 and estimated to grow to $20 billion by 2012) [www.kiplinger.
com/businessresource/forecast/archive/a_shot_in_the_arm_for_the_vaccine_industry.
html] there is an intense effort to keep this golden goose alive. Lobbying
groups and “consumer” organizations are created by drug companies
to promote the continued growth and forced use of their products.
How to breathe some science into this? Studies on vaccine safety/
efficacy must be done by researchers who are independent of
government and drug company affiliations. Their work must be
verified by other independent researchers.
Do You Own a Drug Company?
Let’s say you own a drug company and want to know if your
vaccine is safe for children. How would you find this out?
Simple. You’d take two groups of more or less similar children
(age, weight, ethnicity, health, etc.), you’d vaccinate half of them and
not vaccinate the other half. You’d watch them. You’d look for any
physical or mental changes – after all the vaccine goes through the
entire body and may affect any organ, system or body function.
You’d watch the children for weeks, months and years since
adverse drug reactions may take a long time to surface. (You should
use the data for a longitudinal study to see if there is a difference in
their children’s children.*)
*Longitudinal studies, for example, found that when the hormone DES
(diethylstilbestrol) was given to pregnant women it later caused rare vaginal cancers
in their children. In the same way, the first generation of vaccinated people may
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You’d then compare both groups. Is there a difference in the
children? Is one group healthier? Is one group developing differently?
Does one group have more allergies? Asthma? Hearing or vision
problems? Neurological disorders? Psychological problems? Autism?
Tics? Tourette’s? Stuttering? Cancer? Infertility? Dyslexia?
You get the idea; you’d want to know if there is any difference
between the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated children.
Would you do this research? You would? Well, now you know
why YOU don’t own a drug company. That is precisely the research
you DON’T want done!!!
Not only is good research not done, it is not required to be done
by government agencies. Why should it? Government agencies work
very, very closely with vaccine manufacturers. Government employees
may get high paying jobs working for the very same industry or
companies they are now regulating. That is, if they play ball.
Let’s See How A Vaccine Safety Test Is Really Done
If you are really interested in owning a drug company you should
take a page from the following study that appeared in the esteemed
New England Journal of Medicine [Santosham M, Wolff M, Reid R et al.
The efficacy in Navajo infants of a conjugate vaccine consisting of Haemophilus
influenza type b polysaccharide and Neissereia meningitidis outer-membrane
protein complex. NEJM. 1991;324(25):1767-1772.].
The researchers were ostensibly testing the safety of the Hib or
Haemophilus influenza b vaccine. They took two groups of infants.
One group was vaccinated and they compared this group to a “nonvaccinated” group. Only the “non-vaccinated” group was vaccinated!
They just weren’t vaccinated with the Hib vaccine; they were
vaccinated with other vaccines. Then they compared the groups.
• The vaccine group of 2,588 Navajo infants was injected with
Hib, DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) and OPV (oral polio
vaccine).
seem relatively unaffected, but the next generation may begin to show various
mild auto-immune problems (i.e. allergies) and the following generations may
have more severe auto-immune problems (i.e. cancer, arthritis, infertility)! Only
longitudinal studies can reveal if this scenario is accurate.
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• The “placebo” group of 2,602 Navajo infants was injected with
DPT, OPV AND lactose!
• However the study was ended early because of the large number
of deaths and injuries in both groups. Death and injury from a
placebo?
It may sound like bad science (and it is!) but they did not compare
vaccinated with non-vaccinated kids; instead they compared kids
vaccinated with an approved vaccine and kids vaccinated with an
experimental vaccine. If both groups of children have a similar
amount of neurological disorders, seizures, shock and deaths then
the experimental vaccine is approved. After all, it’s no worse than
what’s already been approved.
It is a pretty bad habit of vaccine researchers to give several vaccines
simultaneously where the effect of only one of them has to be studied
and evaluated. Obviously this leads to confounding results ... for
evaluation of side-effects in most studies was restricted to 48 to 72
hours. Needless to say that many serious adverse effects show up long
after that time span; by definition they could never be mentioned in
those studies. Nevertheless most of these studies pretend to prove the
safety of the vaccine.
— Kris Gaublomme, M.D.
Another problem is – this research was done only on Navajo
babies. Would there be more or less damage in English, Irish,
Italian, Korean, Japanese, German, French, African, Polish, Russian
or other babies? We don’t know.
There’s another problem, one permeating nearly all vaccine studies:
this is not independent research. The people doing this research are
financially tied to drug companies.
Where are the large-scale studies to find out if chronic diseases
such as autism, childhood diabetes, Crohn’s disease, attention
deficit disorder, childhood arthritis and other conditions show up
more in vaccinated children? They don’t exist.
Research testing children before and after vaccination is likewise
not done. The studies are designed so that damage is not detected.
A great example of this is found in the following.
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The Marie Griffin Study
(The kids are alright)
One of the most blatant examples of junk science is “Risk
of Seizures and Encephalopathy after Immunization with the
Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine” [Journal of the American Medical
Association. 1990;263(12):1641-1645.].
The lead author Marie Griffin, M.D. has financial ties to a drug
company that manufactures the DTP vaccine.
The study was ostensibly designed to find out if the DTP vaccine
was safe.
Did they look at a lot of vaccinated kids and compare them to nonvaccinated kids? Oh no, they didn’t look at a single child! Instead
Griffin et al looked at the medical records of 38,171 children. Since
doctors underreport vaccine damage from 90-98% (see question
number 6, page 53), relying on M.D. records to find out how much
vaccine injury is present won’t give you accurate information. This
study is, from the start, useless.
And yet, even with all the medical underreporting of vaccine injury,
1,187 children were reported to have seizures or encephalopathy
(brain injury) after the shots. Who knows the true number? For
some reason seizures and encephalopathy were the only forms of
damage the authors decided to look for.
Vaccine injury in 1,187 is 3% of the children vaccinated. This is
substantial especially since M.D.s tell parents that the chance of a
serious reaction is very rare or “one in a million.”
What to do with that number? Although the authors never saw
any of the children, they apparently knew what was wrong with
them better than their doctors. Sight unseen they began whittling
the number down, apparently making up the rules as they went
along:
• They arbitrarily excluded 359 because they said they didn’t have
their records.
• They excluded an additional 470 because they did not match
the exact type of seizure the authors were looking for. Here’s the
breakdown:
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— 150 had “chronic preexisting neurological abnormality
without seizures” (How can a 2 - 3-month-old baby have a
chronic problem?)
— 34 had neonatal seizures (How did they determine that
the seizures were not vaccine related?)
— 18 had “spells that were not clearly seizures”
— 82 had a failure to thrive diagnosis
— 121 had “other non-neurological events”
— 65 records were “miscoded”
So from 1,187 we now have 358 children. But there’s more – two
babies developed encephalopathy more than 2 weeks after their
shots (and were hospitalized). They were also excluded because the
authors felt their condition wasn’t related to the shots. This left 356,
a much better number.
Now they really went to work. They had to answer the question: “Is
356 higher or lower compared to non-vaccinated children?” Again,
the authors didn’t dare do that comparison, instead they compared
the children to ... themselves!!! How did they do it?
They compared how many seizures the children had 0-29 days
after the shot with how many the same children had 30+ days after
the shot. Now comes the amazing part: the number of seizures were
similar so they concluded “serious neurological events are rarely, if
ever, caused by DTP immunization.”
Garbage In/Garbage Out
Why did they compare seizures 0-29 days after vaccination with
the same child 30+ days after vaccination? It makes no sense.
Neurologic damage may take weeks or month to surface. There is
no science to justify this arbitrary standard.
Why did they exclude the two children who had encephalopathy
two weeks after the shot. Vaccines can cause encephalopathy more
than two weeks after the shots. [www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section14/
chapter176/176c.htm]
Most importantly, there is no “background” incidence statistic for
non-vaccinated children. There is no way to tell if the number of
events is more or less than those of non-vaccinated children.
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Why did they limit the damage to seizures and encephalopathy
when many different conditions can be caused by vaccination?
Why did they not include children who had seizures after the
study? Ten previously normal children developed epilepsy after the
shot. But because their epilepsy occurred more than 30 days after
immunization the authors said it was not vaccine related. How do
they know this?
How can Drs. Griffin et al write “serious neurological events are
rarely, if ever, caused by DTP immunization?” when almost 10% of
those who had seizures developed epilepsy?
Thus we have another paper to reassure pediatricians (who will
reassure parents) that vaccination is safe.
How did this terrible paper pass peer review? It is because peer
reviewers for JAMA include James Cherry, M.D. who defends
vaccine manufacturers against vaccine-injured children in court?
Dr. Cherry was apparently so impressed with the Griffin paper he
wrote an editorial claiming that vaccine-induced encephalopathy
was a “myth.” In searching pro-vaccine papers one will often find
Dr. Griffin’s papers and Dr. Cherry’s editorial cited as “evidence”
that vaccines are safe.
The Danish Study
“MMR is ok by us”
With MMR increasingly linked to autism and other neurological
disorders something had to be done. Enter the “Danish study” by
Madsen et al. [Madsen MK, Hviid A, Vestergaard M, Schendel D, Wohlfahrt
J, Thorsen P, Olsen J & Melbye M. A population based study of measles,
mumps and rubella vaccination and autism. New England Journal of Medicine.
2002;347(19):1477-1482.]
Considered the “most exhaustive” and therefore “most convincing
study,” the “last word” “proving” that MMR vaccination did not play
any role in the recent increase in autism, this study influenced the
authors of the May 2004 U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) Special
Committee Report that absolved MMR vaccines from causing autism.
Madsen and compatriots reviewed the records of 537,303 children
born in Denmark from January 1991 to December 1998. 440,655
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received the MMR vaccine. The authors claimed to find similar rates
of autism whether or not the children were vaccinated.
One must ask, how did they get those numbers? The answer:
creatively. The raw data from pre-1995 (when the mercury vaccines
were used) only included hospitalized autistics while raw data from
post-1995 (when the mercury vaccines were not used) included
hospitalized PLUS outpatient autistics. Since outpatients exceed
inpatients by a ratio of 131/2 to one (in Denmark), the post-1995
numbers had to be much higher.
In addition, no patients from a large Copenhagen clinic, which
accounted for 20% of the cases of autism in Denmark, were included
in the pre-1995 data but they were included post-1995.
The raw data is so poor that the authors stated that if a child received
only the DTP shot they were considered “non-vaccinated” even if they
became autistic!!! This is a fantastic manipulation of the data since
the DTP vaccine itself has been observed to cause autism.
Further, the definition of autism was very narrow and many
children considered autistic by other researchers were not considered
autistic in this study. That may be why this study revealed a Danish
autism rate of one in 600, a fraction of the one in 200 rate in many
European countries.
One must keep in mind that as a result of publicity linking shots
to autism it is possible that many parents with an autistic child
refused to have their next child vaccinated. Excluding children who
are potentially more sensitive to the shots would skew the study
population.
Perhaps most unsettling was that nearly 32% of the children in
this study were one or two years old – too young to be immunized
with MMR or too young to be diagnosed with autism. Autism is
usually diagnosed at age 5 or older. Children who were vaccinated
and quite possibly developed autism later were therefore excluded.
This study, financed by the CDC, a body that promotes vaccines,
and the Danish NAAR, a body that receives money from vaccine
manufacturers, was quoted uncritically in the press as proof that
vaccines do not cause autism.
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Interesting tidbit from this study: In touting the superiority of their
study the authors stated that previous attempts to refute the MMRautism hypothesis were too poorly designed to reach definitive
conclusions.
The authors spoke too soon; their paper was no jewel.
Independent investigation of the raw data reveals the opposite
of Madsen’s findings: autism did in fact increase 400% after the
introduction of the MMR vaccine in Denmark. [Goldman GS, Yazbek
FE. An investigation of the association between MMR vaccination and autism in
Denmark. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Fall 2004;9(3):70-75. www.
jpands.org/vol9no3/goldman.pdf]
The editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons asked
Drs. Stott, Blaxill and Wakefield, who are recognized authorities in
the field, to comment on the Madsen paper.
In their commentary, the authors agreed that autism had increased
after the introduction of MMR vaccination in Denmark and that
there were problems with the Madsen study. They found that
autism cases in Denmark increased by 14.8 per cent each year since
MMR was introduced. [Scott C, Blaxill, M, Wakefield A. MMR and autism in
perspective: the Denmark story. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Fall
2004;9(3):89-91. www.jpands.org/vol9no3/stott.pdf]
Additional comments on the Danish (Madsen) study:
The study appears to be a dreadful example of scientific
dishonesty and brings Danish science into disrepute.
— Alan Rees, Danish translator, interpreter, vaccine victim and
father of a vaccine victim
Another propaganda piece intended to assuage the public’s
concerns rather than shed light on the MMR-Autism connection.
— Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. world famous autism researcher
All the sources of error identified in the study distort it in the same
direction: obscuring the role of the MMR vaccine and exonerating it
from any suspicion that it may cause autism. This strongly indicates
deliberate fraud. The reason is not hard to guess. Most of the authors of
the report are medical doctors and it is safe to assume that they are – or
have been – ardent pro-vaccinator … there is now an autism epidemic.
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Only the vaccinated are affected and autism always occurs after
vaccination and not before. In other words the authors of this report are
people with blood on their hands, who fear the retribution of parents,
whose children they have killed, mutilated and rendered autistic. People
who are prepared to kill and injure helpless children for money will
hardly hesitate to lie and cheat if it will keep them out of jail and enable
them to avoid paying compensation to their victims. This report is a
desperate and despicable attempt by child abusers to remove the noose
that is tightening around their necks. Their report (and this one) belongs
in the hands of the prosecutor.
— Ulf Branell, Swedish researcher and translator
The Mercury Ooops!
(We should have hired someone who could add)
Hatters, in 19th century England, were found to suffer personality
changes, trembling, dementia and other symptoms of brain damage
from breathing mercury fumes used in hat production. The
character The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland was based on
this observation.
Mercury, one of the most toxic substances known, has a special
affinity for nerve and kidney tissue; its long-term effects are barely
known. Yet, in spite of that, mercury has been used in vaccines as a
preservative for many decades.
In 1997 the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring the FDA (Food
and Drug Administration) to review the amount of mercury in
products, including vaccines, and a frightening fact emerged. No
one in the FDA, CDC (Centers for Disease Control), NIH (National
Institutes of Health), AMA (American Medical Association) or
other watchdogs over public health ever bothered to add up all
the mercury in the shots children are mandated to receive. They
just kept insisting on more and more shots each year. When the
addition was finally done a shocking fact emerged: children given
the recommended vaccines could receive over 100 times (!!!) the
EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) safe limit for mercury.
What to do? See below.
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The CDC Scandal
(L’affaire Verstraeten)
We can push and pull this data any way we want
to get the results we want.
— CDC researcher
They found the truth and then swept it under the rug.
— Lyn Redwood, mother of an autistic child,
President of SafeMinds
Researchers at the CDC had a problem. They studied 120,000
children from the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Vaccine
Safety Datalink (VSD) records (a collection of vaccine records
involving millions of people) to see if children receiving vaccines
containing mercury had more neurological problems. They did!
The data revealed a strong relationship between mercury exposure
from vaccines and speech and language delay, tics, attention deficit
disorder, neurological developmental delays (NDDs) and autism.
What to do? Hold a secret meeting of course.
The meeting, officialy titled “Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety
Datalink Information,” was held on June 7-8, 2000 at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, Georgia. Fifty-one scientists
and physicians, five of whom represented vaccine manufacturers
(SmithKline Beecham, Merck, Wyeth, North American Vaccine and
Aventis Pasteur), plus representatives from the CDC, FDA and the
AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics, whose doctors receive a
substantial part of their income from giving shots), were present.
No members of the public, consumers or media were invited; they
weren’t even told about the conference.
Documents obtained from The Freedom of Information Act revealed
people trying desperately to get rid of the damning evidence. Despite
“running, rethinking, rerunning and rethinking” their analyses, the
thimerosal effect did not disappear. Lead researcher Dr. Thomas
Verstraeten wrote, “It just won’t go away.”
A transcript of this meeting quotes attendees as saying:
We found a statistically significant relationship between exposures
and outcomes…. The association with language delay is quite large.
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We can push and pull this data any way we want to get the results
we want.
We can alter the exclusion criteria any way we want, give reasonable
justifications for doing so, and get any result we want.
We could exclude the lowest exposure children from our database. We
could remove the children that got the highest exposure levels since
they represented an unusually high percentage of the outcomes.
I will not give mercury-containing vaccines to my grandson until I
find out what is going on here.
We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits
if they were initiated and I am concerned.
This information should be kept confidential.
It took numerous drafts of reworking the numbers until the
authors produced a paper showing no association between mercury
in vaccines and autism, ADHD, NDDs, speech delay, etc. In fact the
numbers were manipulated so much they actually could show that
mercury was protective for certain neurological problems! It was this
(final) draft that was submitted to, and published in Pediatrics (a
publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics). [Verstraeten T,
Davis RL, DeStefano F et al. Safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines: a two-phased
study of computerized health maintenance organization databases. Pediatrics.
2003;112:1039-1048.]
Rep. Dave Weldon, Florida Republican and a physician, in a letter
to Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) wrote:
I have read the upcoming Pediatrics study and…transcripts of a
discussion at Simpsonwood, GA between the author, various CDC
employees, and vaccine industry representatives…rather than
seeking to understand whether or not some children were exposed to
harmful levels of mercury in childhood vaccines in the 1990s, there
may have been a selective use of the data to make the associations in
the earliest study disappear.
It was later revealed that Pediatrics failed to disclose that Dr.
Verstraeten, the lead author of the study, left the CDC to work for
vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline after the final report was
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released. GlaxoSmithKline may be facing a large number of lawsuits
on the very issue that his paper discusses.
In his defense it should be noted that Dr. Verstraeten was concerned
about the manipulation of the paper and wrote:
I feel that we should use sound scientific argumentation and not let
our standards be dictated by our desire to disprove an unpleasant
theory.
But it appears that that is exactly what was done.
How can we discern good from bad research? How do we know
if anything published in the journals is any good? There’s one tried
and true way of finding out if science is legit or junk:
Let Others Do It
A hallmark of scientific investigation is reproducibility. That is,
will scientists doing the same research get the same results? Dr.
Mark Geier and MedCon, Inc. President, David Geier attempted to
do just that. It took congressional intervention to allow them to see
a limited amount of the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) data. They
found a link between thimerosal and autism that was comparable to
the link between smoking and lung cancer.
The Geiers found that children receiving 100 micrograms of
mercury were over ten times more likely to have autism than the
kids who had no mercury in their vaccines.
The Geiers are no longer permitted to review any more VSD data
used in the study.
Note: Mercury-containing vaccines are still being produced. Even
“mercury free” vaccines can still have “trace” amounts of mercury
in them. Legislation is now afoot banning the use of mercury in
vaccines in various states.
See more junk science exposed at: www.vaccinationnews.com/
Out_of_Control/2003/Sept_9/OOC1.htm
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Q
four
Can Vaccines Cause Cancer
Or Fertility Problems?
Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?
— Robert Mendelsohn M.D., How To Raise A Healthy Child In Spite
Of Your Doctor. Chicago: Contemporary Books. 1984.
Measles vaccination in childhood was related to the following diseases
in adult life: autoimmune diseases … skin diseases, degenerative
diseases of bone and cartilage and certain tumors.
— Renne T. Measles virus infection without rash leads to
disease in adult life. Lancet. 1985;5(1):841-849.
If you search the Physicians Desk Reference or check the vaccine
manufacturers’ product inserts you’d probably be surprised to
find that vaccines have not been “evaluated or tested for their
carcinogenic potential, mutagenic potential, or for impairment of
fertility” or “impairment of reproductive capacity.” (See the article
titled “Are Vaccines Responsible For The Increase In Childhood
Cancers?”)
Today a large number of couples are unable to get pregnant. Is this
lack of fertility due to the vaccines they received in childhood? We
don’t know since the research to find out has not been done and is
not being done.
Why doesn’t the FDA require vaccines be tested for their ability
to cause cancer, mutations or fertility problems? Cosmetics and
shampoos are required to be tested for their ability to cause cancer;
vaccines are not.
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Q
five
Do Vaccines Cause SIDS
(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Also
Known As Crib Death)?
In 1985 in Australia, Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., a retired principal
research scientist with over 90 published scientific papers in refereed
journals to her credit, and Leif Karlsson, a biomedical electronics
engineer specializing in patient monitoring systems, developed the
Cotwatch, a breathing monitor used for babies thought to be at risk
of crib death or SIDS. Their findings surprised them:
“Without endeavoring to do so ... [we found that] the babies’
breathing was affected in a certain characteristic manner and over a
long period of time [40-65 days] following DPT injections.... We also
learned from the parents of crib death infants that most commonly
the child had died after DPT injection,” said Dr. Scheibner.
As she continued her research the link between crib death and
vaccination became painfully obvious and undeniable. “There was
a significant and clear clustering of these (crib) deaths around the
time of vaccination.” Yet when approaching pediatricians with her
findings she was shocked by their reactions. “We realized that we
had touched a very serious and contentious issue.... The resistance
we encountered in pursuing this research ... became the best and
most effective goad to us to continue. So I wish to thank those who
would not speak out against the silent killer of babies,” said Dr.
Scheibner.
According to medical historian Harris Coulter, Ph.D., “There is no
way that a pathologist can tell the difference between crib death and
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death from vaccination. I called attention to this fact at a vaccination
committee meeting in Washington, D.C. where they had a panel of
people from about ten countries and I asked, ‘How can you tell the
difference between sudden infant death syndrome and death from
vaccination?’
“The Americans simply could not answer the question. They waffled
and couldn’t state any guidelines. But the European representatives
were more honest and said, ‘Indeed, there is no way in the world
that we can tell the difference between them and it is a very big
problem for us.’ It appears that M.D.s invented the term sudden
infant death syndrome to explain away the ‘coincidence’ that babies
die about the same time they receive vaccines,” says Dr. Coulter.
Dr. Coulter estimates that about two thirds of the cases of crib
death are vaccine related but he may be conservative.
When Japan moved the age at which children start vaccination
from two months to two years in 1975, crib death, meningitis and
infantile convulsions virtually disappeared. [Cherry JD, Brunell PA,
Golden GS, Karzon DT. Report of the task force for postponement of immunization.
Japan then recorded the lowest
incidence of infant mortality in the world. (American babies often
receive their first shot shortly after birth! America has a distressingly
high infant mortality rate – in nearly twenty industrialized nations
a newborn’s chances of survival are better than that of a baby born
in the U.S.)
Pediatrics. 1988;Supplement:93-94.]
Dr. Coulter, in Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, studied
the long-term effects of vaccination and has found them to be related
to a single neurological disturbance: “Autism and SIDS appear to be
generated in the same way – by an encephalitis most commonly
caused by vaccination.... The child who would have grown up
autistic dies instead of ‘sudden infant death syndrome.’”
Dr. Coulter suggests one mechanism of crib death: “Vaccination
affects in particular the top of the spine and the back of the
skull through which the cranial nerves pass and has the effect of
weakening the cranial nerves. Sudden infant death syndrome is
probably caused by an effect of vaccination on the vagus nerve,
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which provides the neural impulse to the lungs, which causes us
to breathe. If the nerve is palsied by the vaccination the impulse
doesn’t pass through and the baby simply stops breathing. Parents
who have witnessed this in their child have told me, ‘The child
was lying there and all of a sudden I heard no breathing.... ’ In
these cases the parents have rushed up, given the baby a shake and
the baby starts breathing again. If the parent hadn’t been there the
baby wouldn’t have started breathing again.” According to Coulter,
“When the cranial nerves are affected, the result is weakness of the
eyes, ears, voice, and respiratory system [i.e. asthma], the latter
condition being responsible for the cases of ‘sudden infant death’
following upon vaccination.”
Quotes of Dr. Scheibner are from: Vaccination: The Medical Assault
on the Immune System. All quotes of Dr. Coulter are from: Vaccination,
Social Violence and Criminality and his audiotape collection Forward
Thinking on Healing.
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Q
six
What Are The Chances That My Child
May Be Hurt Or Killed By A Vaccine?
No one knows.
Although we are repeatedly told by medical and government
authorities that “the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks,” and
vaccine damage is “minimal” or “infinitesimal,” these statements are
based on faith rather than fact.
Why? Because pediatricians and nurses who give shots rarely
report vaccine damage, even though it is required by law. According
to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), only one case of
vaccine damage in 10 (10%) is ever reported to a higher authority.
However, according to a Connaught Laboratories study reported
at an Institute of Medicine meeting, only one case in 50 (2%) is
reported [James Froeschle, Connaught Laboratories. Adverse Events Associated
with Childhood Vaccines. Evidence bearing on causality. Institute of Medicine.
May 11, 1992, Washington, D.C., Appendix B.]
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) did its own
study and found similar underreporting. Why? Among the reasons
given are fear of malpractice, lack of training to recognize vaccine
damage and outright denial that vaccine damage occurs. Medical
and health professionals risk professional censure, loss of funding
and their own advancement in health departments, research centers,
government and in the vaccine industry if they openly question
vaccines. Most doctors and researchers who question vaccination
keep quiet.
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For a pediatrician to attack what has become the ‘bread and
butter’ of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest’s denying
the infallibility of the Pope.
— Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., The medical time bomb of
immunization against disease. East West Journal, November 1984
Government bureaucrats are also guilty of spreading incorrect,
misleading or outright fraudulent vaccine information. For example,
when a measles vaccine/autism connection was discovered by
a researcher, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) put out this
misinformation. Go to www.pkids.org/im_us_mmr.php.
Question to the CDC: “I heard that measles virus was found in
specimens from intestines of children with autism. Have these data
been reviewed by other scientists?”
CDC answer: “The recently released finding has not yet been
published in a scientific journal. This means that it has not been
reviewed by other medical experts, before and after publication, to
assure the methods of the study are sound. No other laboratories
have had similar findings.”
Fact: The CDC answer was a lie. Professor John O’Leary discovered
measles virus in the intestines of autistic children. His findings were
reviewed by the Royal College of Pathologists in December 1999
and were found to be sound.
Another question was answered by the CDC in a manner showing
the reflexive denial that is so often seen among government
functionaries:
Question to the CDC: “What if measles virus is shown to be
associated with autism? Would that mean we should stop vaccinating
against measles?”
CDC answer: “If measles virus is shown to be associated with
autism, it would be most likely that the wild measles virus would
be a greater cause of autism than vaccine virus.”
Fact: A Japanese research team not only found measles virus in
the intestines of children with autism but determined it was measles
from the vaccine and not wild measles. [Kawashima H, Mori T, Kashiwagi
Y, Takekuma K, Hoshika A, Wakefield A. Detection and sequencing of measles
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virus from peripheral mononuclear cells from patients with inflammatory bowel
disease and autism. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2000;45(4):723-729.]
The medical juggernaut often fires back with papers of their own
that “prove” vaccination is safe. Such was a sloppily written paper
by Dr. Brent Taylor that supposedly “proved” that there was no
relationship between the MMR shot and autism. This paper has
been severely criticized by The Royal Statistical Society as being
of inferior quality with confusing statistics. In spite of that it is
often cited by U.S. and U.K. government officials to show that the
MMR vaccine does not cause autism. [Taylor B, Miller E, Farrington CP,
Petropoulos M-C, Favot Mayaud I, Li J, Waight PA. Autism and measles, mumps
and rubella vaccine: no epidemiological evidence for a causal association. Lancet.
1999;353:2026-2029.]
An example of the medical profession’s unwillingness ever to admit
fault is seen in the history of bloodletting. Phlebotomy was phased out
slowly in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century,
but it was never stated to have been an error; indeed, the medical
profession held, in the late 19th century, that the “nature of diseases”
had changed from earlier times, that bloodletting was justified then, but
was no longer needed in the new circumstance.
— Harris Coulter, Ph.D., medical historian, personal
correspondence to author
It has been noticed that, at times, the European media is more open
than the U.S. when it comes to acknowledging vaccine damage. For
example, The Parisian 25 May 2000 stated: “The public authorities
… officially recognize the link between the vaccine and … multiple
sclerosis.”
However, even with all the denial and underreporting of vaccine
injury, between 1990 and June 2010 the National Childhood Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program had paid nearly two billion dollars
in damages to families for injuries and deaths following vaccine
reactions. [National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, “Monthly Statistics
Report,” www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/statistics_report.htm#statistics_report]
In the 1980s there were so many lawsuits and settlements against
vaccine manufacturers by parents of vaccine-injured children that
the vaccine companies threatened to stop making vaccines.
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Congress responded to the threat by creating The National Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program in Washington, D.C. or “vaccine
court” in 1986 to shield vaccine makers from liability. You couldn’t
sue the vaccine makers; first you had to go through the vaccine
court. If you lost then you had other options.
Every year the Food and Drug Administration receives around
30,000 reports sent to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting
System (VAERS) of hospitalizations, injuries and deaths following
vaccination. [The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, [VAERS] www.
vaers.hhs.gov/about/index#number_reports] As mentioned previously, this
figure may only be 1-10% of the true number [Journal of the American
Medical Association. June 2, 1993;269(21):2765-2768.]
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Q
seven
Do The Assumed Benefits Of Vaccination
Outweigh The Risks?
This is perhaps the most important question of all. A person may be
willing to undergo, or have his/her child undergo, a risky procedure
if they are assured that the benefits will outweigh the risks.
Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Since no one knows the risk (i.e. how many children are hurt or
killed) because of doctor underreporting there is no way to assess a
risk/benefit analysis. Our government and medical system demand
that children be subjected to a medical procedure of unknown
safety. Actual benefits, if any, are not established (see questions 8
and 9).
Government bureaucrats and medical doctors chant the refrain
“The benefits far outweigh the risks” over and over as if repeating it
will make it true, but there is no evidence it is so.
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Q
eight
Didn’t Vaccines Get Rid Of Acute
Infectious Childhood Diseases?
Deaths from acute infectious diseases had been dropping
dramatically (as much as 98%) before the vaccines were in general
public distribution. The rate of the decrease did not change after the
vaccines were introduced. As the renowned sociologist Ivan Illich,
Ph.D. writes in his classic Medical Nemesis [Chapter 1 – The Epidemics of
Modern Medicine. New York: Bantam Books. 1976.]:
The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough, and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly
90% of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had
occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread
immunization. In part this recession may be attributed to improved
housing and to a decrease in the virulence of micro-organisms, but
by far the most important factor was a higher host resistance due
to better nutrition. In poor countries today, diarrhea and upperrespiratory-tract infections occur more frequently, last longer, and
lead to higher mortality where nutrition is poor, no matter how much
or how little medical care is available.
When vaccines are introduced, statistics are sometimes manipulated
to artificially decrease the number of reported cases for a disease.
When the whooping cough vaccine became widely distributed,
physicians tended to stop diagnosing whooping cough in their
patients. It is estimated that only 10% of whooping cough cases are
ever diagnosed. This creates the illusion of effectiveness.
One of the nagging facts questioning the benefits of vaccination is
the epidemics of infectious disease that occur in vaccinated children.
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A collection of studies revealing outbreaks in highly vaccinated
populations can be found at: www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals
/july_5_02/outbreaks _in_highly_vaccinated.htm. Review a sample
below.
• Buchholz U, Moolenaar R, Peterson C, Mascola L. Varicella
outbreaks after vaccine licensure: should they make you chicken?
Pediatrics. 1999;104(3 Pt 1):561-563.
Note: Varicella outbreaks were found in child care centers with both
high and low vaccination coverage.
• Simondon F, Guiso N. Genetic evolution under vaccine pressure: the
Bordetella pertussis model. Bull Soc Pathol Exot. 2000;93(3): 202-205.
Note: Outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations have been
reported, raising the issues of vaccine efficacy, of the long-term
effect of vaccines on the transmission of the disease, and of genetic
selective pressure.
• Transmission of measles among a highly vaccinated school
population – Anchorage, Alaska, 1998. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly
Rep. 1999;47(51-52):1109-1111. This was the largest outbreak of
measles in the United States since 1996.
• Cox MJ, Azevedo RS, Massad E, Fooks AR, Nokes DJ. Measles
antibody levels in a vaccinated population in Brazil. Trans R Soc Trop
Med Hyg. 1998;92(2):227-230.
Note: The study suggested that, within highly vaccinated populations,
a proportion of individuals had measles antibody levels which may
be insufficient to protect against reinfection or clinical disease.
• Pertussis outbreak – Vermont, 1996. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly
Rep. 1997;46(35):822-826.
Note: This report describes a statewide outbreak of pertussis in
Vermont in 1996 in a highly vaccinated population.
• Sutcliffe PA, Rea E. Outbreak of measles in a highly vaccinated
secondary school population. CMAJ. 1996;155(10):1407-1413.
• Cheek JE, Baron R, Atlas H, Wilson DL, Crider RD Jr. Mumps
outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population. Evidence
for large-scale vaccination failure. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
1995;149(7):774-778.
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• Earhart KC, Beadle C, Miller LK, Pruss MW, Gray GC, Ledbetter
EK, Wallace MR. Outbreak of influenza in highly vaccinated crew of
U.S. Navy ship. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(3):463-465.
Note: An outbreak of influenza aboard a U.S. Navy ship despite 95%
of the crew’s having been appropriately vaccinated.
• Fine PE, Zell ER. Outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations:
implications for studies of vaccine performance. Am J Epidemiol.
1994;139(1):77-90.
• Hersh BS, Fine PE, Kent WK, Cochi SL, Kahn LH, Zell ER, Hays
PL, Wood CL. Mumps outbreak in a highly vaccinated population.
J Pediatr. 1991;119(2):187-193.
• Briss PA, Fehrs LJ, Parker RA, Wright PF, Sannella EC, Hutcheson
RH, Schaffner W. Sustained transmission of mumps in a highly
vaccinated population: assessment of primary vaccine failure and
waning vaccine-induced immunity. J Infect Dis. 1994;169(1):77-82.
• Hersh BS, Markowitz LE, Hoffman RE, Hoff DR, Doran MJ,
Fleishman JC, Preblud SR, Orenstein WA. A measles outbreak at
a college with a prematriculation immunization requirement. Am J
Public Health. 1991;81(3):360-364.
Note: over 98% of students had been vaccinated.
• Strebel P, Hussey G, Metcalf C, Smith D, Hanslo D, Simpson
J. An outbreak of whooping cough in a highly vaccinated urban
community. J Trop Pediatr. 1991;37(2):71-76.
• Edmonson MB, Addiss DG, McPherson JT, Berg JL, Circo SR,
Davis JP. Mild measles and secondary vaccine failure during a
sustained outbreak in a highly vaccinated population. JAMA.
1990;263(18):2467-2471.
• Chen RT, Goldbaum GM, Wassilak SG, Markowitz LE, Orenstein
WA. An explosive point-source measles outbreak in a highly
vaccinated population. Modes of transmission and risk factors for
disease. Am J Epidemiol. 1989;129(1):173-182.
• Nkowane BM, Bart SW, Orenstein WA, Baltier M. Measles
outbreak in a vaccinated school population: epidemiology, chains
of transmission and the role of vaccine failures. Am J Public Health.
1987;77(4):434-438.
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Note: Outbreak of measles occurred in a high school with a
documented vaccination level of 98%.
• Shasby DM, Shope TC, Downs H, Herrmann KL, Polkowski J.
Epidemic measles in a highly vaccinated population. N Engl J Med.
1977;296(11):585-589.
• Measles outbreak among vaccinated high school students – Illinois.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1984;33 (24):349-351.
Note: Transmission of measles occurred within a school population
with a documented immunization level of 100%.
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Q
nine
What About Polio? Wasn’t It Eliminated
Due To Vaccination?
It is commonly believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting
the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 1940s and
1950s. If so, why did the epidemics end in Europe, where polio vaccine
was not so extensively used?
— Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., How to Raise A Healthy Child In Spite
Of Your Doctor. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984.
Evidence suggests that infantile paralysis (polio) was caused by
massive spraying of crops with various toxic chemicals including
lead arsenate and DDT. The chemicals were shown to cause paralysis,
acute flaccid paralysis or polio in animals and humans shortly after
they were introduced.
Endocrinologist Morton Biskind said the spread of polio after WWII
was caused by the “most intensive campaign of mass poisoning in
human history” – the spraying of some 3.1 billion pounds of pesticides.
— Janine Roberts, Polio: the virus and the vaccine,
The Ecologist, May 2004.
It does seem odd that polio first appeared in wealthier, cleaner,
industrialized nations, not in poor countries. For millennia pestilence
– epidemics – would appear in overcrowded towns and cities due
to filthy water, open sewers and poor sanitation, malnutrition and
other factors that weakened the immune system. Polio, however,
was an exception. It was a disease of industrialized nations. It was
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called “The American Disease” but also struck in England and
Sweden. It was not a disease of the third world.
And, for an epidemic there was something equally odd – it was
not contagious. You didn’t get polio from someone with polio. How
can it be caused by a virus if it wasn’t contagious?
When third world nations began to use toxic pesticides they too
experienced polio “epidemics.”
Paralysis epidemics can also be caused by vaccination and revaccination. This is known as provocation poliomyelitis.
There is as much polio today as ever before, only it’s not called
polio. Rather, it’s called acute flaccid paralysis.
According to Janine Roberts:
During the first half of the 20th century infantile paralysis surged
like a bush fire, moving from place to place, afflicting large numbers
of children, but only in the industrialized West. Prior to these
outbreaks it affected very few and was often called `palsy’. In the
19th century scientists gave it the name `poliomyelitis’, referring to
the inflammation of the grey nerves of the spinal column in cases of
paralysis.
Poisonous metals were suspected of causing this disease, particularly
lead, arsenic and mercury. In 1824 the English scientist John Cooke
stated: `The fumes of these metals, or the receptance of them in
solution into the stomach, often cause paralysis.’
By the time Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was introduced in America in
1955, the level of infantile paralysis in the country was already a third
of what it had been in 1952, due to legislative restrictions on the use of
pesticides.
The Name Of The Game Is The Name
Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is rampant worldwide. It is increasing
concurrent with the use of toxic agricultural chemicals.
In order to protect the vaccine myth, when a vaccinated person
gets polio-like symptoms, the disease is no longer diagnosed as
polio. Instead it is diagnosed as AFP. There are many thousands of
AFP cases each year in the U.S. and worldwide.
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This is well researched in the Neenyah Ostrom paper: “Was There
Ever a Poliovirus Epidemic? With So Little Poliovirus Detected
Around the World, What Is Causing Today’s Outbreaks of Acute
Flaccid Paralysis?” [www.chronicillnet.org]
Ostrom highlights the shocking fact that the polio virus was never
isolated and therefore never proven to cause paralysis:
Dulbecco and Vogt did not isolate pure poliovirus in any of the
experiments described in this 1954 report. While they write of seeding
their cultures with “virus,” they actually used unpurified suspensions,
not pure viral isolates. For example partially processed spinal tissue
or feces from a paralyzed person was injected into an animal to see if
it produced paralysis. True isolation did not take place.
Salk and Sabin polio vaccines’ poliovirus was not actually isolated …
they successfully grew “filterable agents,” which they assumed to be
poliovirus, in human embryonic tissues. Like Landsteiner and Popper
40 years earlier and like just about everyone else in the field during
its first 60 years or so Enders and co-workers called this diseasetransmitting suspension of tissue “virus.”
While they write of seeding their cultures with “virus,” they
actually used unpurified suspensions ... none of these poliomyelitis
researchers truly isolated poliovirus ... they were injecting monkeys
with experimental fluids that were probably contaminated with other
disease-associated agents.
Janine Roberts in “Polio: the virus and the vaccine” [The Ecologist, May
2004] described the Landsteiner and Popper experiment (mentioned
above) that “proved” acute flaccid paralysis was “caused” by a virus
as follows:
In 1908 two scientists working in Austria, Karl Landsteiner and
Erwin Popper, reported that they might have found an “invisible virus”
that had caused these epidemics. They had made their discovery,
they claimed, after making a suspension in water of minced diseased
spinal cord from a nine-year-old victim of infantile paralysis.
They had tested this noxious suspension by injecting one or two cups
of it directly into the brains of two monkeys. The monkeys fell severely
ill (as might have been predicted). One died and the other had its legs
paralyzed….
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Today the World Health Organization (WHO) still credits Landsteiner
and Popper as having found the poliovirus with this experiment. Why
it does so is inexplicable…. Nonetheless this crude science inspired a
40-year hunt for the infantile paralysis virus.
[Roberts J. Polio: the wrong virus, the wrong diagnosis, the wrong vaccine
and the wrong cure. The Ecologist. June 2004. www.theecologist.org/article.
html?article=456 and www.vaccines.plus.com/Polio%201%20LR.pdf]
Saving Face
After the Salk polio vaccine came out polio increased dramatically
in vaccinated populations. In order to save the government from
public ire the diagnosis for paralytic polio was changed to show that
polio was decreasing. For example, in Canada, a 1958 Dominion
Bureau of Statistics annual report revealed, “It may be noted that
the Dominion Council of Health at its 74th meeting in October
1958 recommended that for the purposes of national reporting
and statistics the term non-paralytic poliomyelitis be replaced by
‘meningitis’, viral or ‘aseptic’ with the specific viruses shown where
known.”
Another example of such statistical manipulation may be found in
figures from the Los Angeles County Health Index: Morbidity and
Mortality, Reportable Diseases:
Date
Viral or aseptic meningitis
July 1955
50
July 1961
161
July 1963
151
September 1966
256
(5 year median)
October 1966
312
Polio
273
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So while diagnoses of polio diminished, diagnoses of meningitis
increased! According to the report: “Most cases reported prior to
July 1, 1958 as non-paralytic poliomyelitis are now reported as viral
or aseptic meningitis.” Since the polio vaccine “worked” these kids
couldn’t have polio, it had to be meningitis!
In testimonies given at U.S. Congressional Hearings in 1962,
Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the Department of Biostatistics of
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the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, testified
that not only did polio actually increase substantially (50 percent
from 1957 to 1958 and 80 percent from 1958 to 1959) after the
introduction of the Salk vaccine, but statistics were manipulated
to give the impression that polio decreased. Dr. Greenberg gave the
following reasons that polio appeared to decrease after the vaccine
was given:
• Redefinition of an epidemic: More cases were required to refer to
polio as epidemic after the introduction of the Salk vaccine (from
20 per 100,000 to 35 per 100,000 per year).
• Redefinition of the disease: In order to qualify for classification
as paralytic poliomyelitis, the patient had to exhibit paralytic
symptoms for at least 60 days after the onset of the disease. Prior
to 1954 the patient had to exhibit paralytic symptoms for only
24 hours. Laboratory confirmation and the presence of residual
paralysis were not required. After 1954, residual paralysis was
determined 10 to 20 days and again 50 to 70 days after the onset
of the disease. “This change in definition meant that in 1955 we
started reporting a new disease, namely, paralytic poliomyelitis
with a longer lasting paralysis,” testified Dr. Greenberg.
• Mislabeling: After the introduction of the Salk vaccine, “Cocksackie
virus and aseptic meningitis have been distinguished from paralytic
poliomyelitis, where as prior to 1954 large numbers of these cases
undoubtedly were mislabeled as paralytic polio,” explained Dr.
Greenberg.
[Intensive Immunization Programs, Hearings before the Committee on Interstate &
Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, 87th Congress, 2nd Session on H.R.
10541, Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962; pp. 96-97.]
Nor is the polio vaccine as safe as we have been led to believe.
According to the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System (VAERS), in a little less than a five year period the number of
individuals hurt or killed from the oral polio vaccine (OPV) were:
The number of vaccine associated events that occurred ...13,641
The number of events requiring emergency room visits.....6,364
The number of life threatening events ..................................236
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The number of events requiring hospitalization ................1,726
The number of events with unknown recovery status .......1,695
The number of events resulting in permanent disability .......133
The number of events resulting in death ..............................540
[The above from Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS] OPV Vaccine
Report. Master list of lot numbers reports from 7/1/90 through 5/31/95. Prepared
by the National Vaccine Information Center operated by Dissatisfied Parents
Together [DPT] March 1994 Report.]
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Q
ten
Was The Polio Shot Given In The 50’s And
60’s Contaminated With Monkey Virus?
Is It Causing Cancer?
The polio virus used in production of the vaccine was grown on
monkey kidney tissues that were unknowingly contaminated with
a monkey virus, SV-40.
When the polio vaccine was injected into research animals it
produced brain cancer. In order to avoid a public panic and discredit
the public health service, the vaccines were not recalled, and the
government quietly ordered the manufacturers to find a monkey
free of SV-40 and continue production. Between the years of 1955
and 1963 as many as 98 million Americans had received doses of
live polio virus vaccines tainted with SV-40.
The incidence of SV-40-linked cancers, including brain cancer,
has risen dramatically.
In the early 1990’s, Michele Carbone, Assistant Professor of
Pathology at Loyola University in Chicago, isolated fragments of the
SV-40 virus in human bone cancers and in a particularly nasty form
of lung cancer called mesothelioma. SV-40 appeared in 33% of the
osteosarcoma bone cancers studied, in 40% of other bone cancers,
and in 60% of the mesotheliomas. Dr. Carbone believes this could
explain why 50% of the current mesotheliomas being treated were
no longer occurring in association with their traditional cause of
asbestos exposure.
An Italian team of researchers from the Institute of Histology
and General Embryology of the University of Ferrara lead by Dr.
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Femanda Martini discovered SV-40’s presence in brain tumors:
83% of choroid plexus papillomas, 73% of ependymonias, 47% of
astrocytomas, 50% of glioblastomas, and in 14% of meningiomas.
The virus was found in 2.3% of blood samples and 45% of sperm
fluids taken from normal individuals – “normal” meaning free of
disease at the time of testing. The virus could be transmitted sexually
and through blood transfusions. Now SV-40 appears in 61% of
all new cancer patients – patients too young to have received the
contaminated vaccine from forty years ago. It is also suspected that
SV-40 is transmissible from mother to child during pregnancy.
SV-40 is associated significantly with brain tumors, bone cancers,
malignant mesothelioma, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. [Vilchez RA,
Kozinetz CA, Arrington AS. Simian virus 40 in human cancers. The American
Journal of Medicine. 2003;114(8):675-684.]
• 62 studies from 30 worldwide laboratories link the polio vaccine
to brain tumors, bone cancers, lung lining cancers and leukemia.
• Pediatric cancer has been rising 1% a year since 1974 and is the
2nd leading cause of death in children (after accidental injuries).
• Leukemia and brain tumors are the most common childhood
malignancies; there has been a 35% rise in pediatric brain cancer
between 1973 and 1994. [Science. 1999;286:1832.]
• Vaccines are not tested for their ability to cause cancer, mutations
or developmental malformations, nor for their affect on the
reproductive system.
• Shampoos and cosmetics are tested for carcinogenicity, vaccines
aren’t.
There are studies confirming previous reports that SV-40 is present
in a significant proportion of human brain tumors. [Martini F et al. SV40 early region and large T antigen in human brain tumors, peripheral blood cells,
and sperm fluids from healthy individuals. Cancer Research. 1996;56:4820-4825.]
[Bergsagel DJ et al. New England Journal of Medicine. 1992;326:988-993.]
SV-40 has also been detected in a high proportion of human
mesotheliomas [Carbone M, Pass H, Rizzo P et al. Simian virus 40-like DNA
sequences in human pleural mesotheliomas. Oncogene. 1994;9:1781-1790.]
[Carbone M, Pass HI, Miele L and Bocchetta M. New developments about the
association of SV-40 with human mesotheliomas. Oncogene. 2003;22:5173–
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5180).] and in bone tumors called osteogenic sarcomas. [Carbone M,
Rizzo P, Giuliano MT et al. SV40-like sequences in human bone tumors. Oncogene.
1996;13:527-535.]
SV-40 may not be the only reason that childhood and other
cancers are increasing. By “preventing” a child from having acute
inflammatory childhood diseases we may be making them more
susceptible to cancer (see question number 12). In this study, having
mumps appeared to be protective against ovarian cancer:
The benign controls gave a history of mumps parotitis far more often
than did the patients with ovarian malignancies. A causal association
with a possible protective value is suggested. [West RO. Epidemiological
study of malignancies of the ovaries. Cancer. 1996;19(7):1001-1007.]
In another study chickenpox infection appeared to protect adults
from getting brain cancer.
Adults with glioma were less likely than controls to have had prior
chickenpox infection….” [Wrensch M, Weinberg A, Wiencke J. Does prior
infection with varicella-zoster virus influence risk of adult glioma? American
Journal of Epidemiology. 1997;145:594-597.]
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Q
eleven
Is Vaccination Why We Have So Much
Cancer Today?
Years ago, when most people were never vaccinated, it was much
easier to see if there were a correlation between the vaccine and
unusual or rare conditions such as cancer and heart disease. That
was when the observations below were made. Today, since most
everyone is vaccinated (and cancer rates are at record levels), the
vaccine-cancer connection cannot be so easily observed.
Cancer was practically unknown until smallpox vaccination began....
I have never seen a case of cancer in a non-vaccinated person.
— W.B. Clark, M.D.
I am convinced that some 80% of these cancer deaths are caused by
[smallpox] vaccinations. These are well known to cause grave and
permanent disease of the heart also.
— Dr. Herbert Snow, surgeon, London Cancer Hospital
I am convinced that the increase of cancer is due to vaccination.
— Forbes Laurie, M.D., Medical Director of the
Metropolitan Cancer Hospital, London
The most frequent disposing condition for cancerous development is…
vaccination and re-vaccination.
— Dennis Turnbull, M.D., 30-year cancer researcher
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Q
twelve
Are There Benefits To A Child Having
Acute Infectious Childhood Diseases?
There is increasing evidence that having an acute infectious disease
of childhood strengthens and matures the child’s immune system
and that having acute diseases in childhood is protective against
chronic disease including cancer, asthma, certain skin conditions
and auto-immune disorders.
One of the best ways to ensure your children’s health is to allow them
to get sick. At first hearing, this concept may sound outrageous. Yet
standard childhood illnesses, such as measles, mumps, and even
whooping cough, may be of key benefit to a child’s developing immune
system and it may be inadvisable to suppress these illnesses with
immunizations. Evidence is also accumulating that routine childhood
vaccinations may directly contribute to the emergence of chronic
problems such as eczema, ear infections, asthma,
and bowel inflammations.
An MSNBC report (April 19, 2000) headlined: Measles may help
to prevent asthma.
An early case of the measles may help some people avoid asthma,
according to new research…. This is based on the research of Dr.
David Gooden of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Gooden
and his colleagues made a 30-year study of a variety of bacteria,
antibodies and a range of infections in more than 300 people. Measles
was the only one that came up with an association with asthma.
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Dr. Viera Scheibner, an Australian researcher, says it quite well:
There is no need to protect children from contracting infectious
diseases of childhood. These diseases are there to prime and mature
their immune system.
An unvaccinated child will have a couple of common colds within the
first year of life while chronic ill-health, a constant stream of common
colds, otitis media, and upper and lower respiratory tract diseases is
well-documented in vaccinated children.
A well-nourished child will go through rubella, whooping cough,
chicken pox and the rest with flying colors. Only the vaccinated
develop atypical forms of the diseases (atypical measles, mumps and
whooping cough) which are much more dangerous.
Having measles not only protects against measles later on, it has been
demonstrated that suppressing measles fever and rash by vaccination
leads to cancer and degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage as
documented in Lancet 1985 September 5. According to the British
Medical Journal suppression of skin eruptions like eczema leads to
cancer.
In 1958 there were 800,000 cases of measles and from 1974-1976
there were only 30,000 cases. Today about 800,000 die of cancer
each year. Is the upsurge of child leukemia and cancer coincidental
with the mass use of vaccines (especially the polio vaccines)? [Scheiber
V. Vaccination: The Medical Assault on the Immune System. Blackheath, NSW,
Australia: Scheibner Publishing, 1994.]
The Lancet study Dr. Scheibner mentions above is: “Renne T.
Measles virus infection without rash leads to disease in adult life.”
[Lancet. 1985;5(1):841-849. Department of Epidemiology State Serum Institute,
The author of this study found that measles
vaccination in childhood was related to the following diseases in
adult life: “immunoreactive diseases, sebaceous skin diseases,
degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage, and certain tumors.”
Copenhagen, Denmark.]
Some researchers conclude that having an acute disease in
childhood is protective against cancer. [Albonico HU, Braker HU, Husler J.
Febrile infectious childhood diseases in the history of cancer patients and matched
controls. Dept of Mathematical Statistics, University of Berne, Switzerland. Medical
Hypotheses. 1998;51(4):315-320.]
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From the abstract:
This study was designed to investigate the hypothesis that febrile
infectious childhood diseases (FICDs) are associated with a lower
cancer risk in adulthood…. We collected 424 cases; of these we could
analyze 379 matched pairs. The study consistently revealed a lower
cancer risk for patients with a history of FICD.
Another study showed a decreased cancer risk in persons with a
history of acute disease (in this case common colds or gastroenteric
influenza). [Abel U, Becker N, Angerer R, Frentzel-Beyme R, Kaufmann M,
Schlag P, Wysocki S, Wahrendorf J, Schulz G. Common infections in the history of
cancer patients and controls. Tumorzentrum Heidelberg/Mannheim, FRG. J Cancer
Res Clin Oncol. 1991;117(4):339-344.]
From the abstract:
The association between the frequency of manifest infectious diseases
and cancer risk was investigated. A total of 255 cases with carcinomas
of the stomach, colon, rectum, breast, and ovary, as well as 255
population controls and 230 hospital controls were interviewed using
a standard questionnaire. Controls were matched to the cases for age,
sex, and region of residence at the time of the interview. A history of
common colds or gastroenteric influenza prior to the interview was
found to be associated with a decreased cancer risk.
While the above studies are not conclusive, they appear to support
the hygienic theory of disease that considers acute disease to be a
process which cleanses and purifies the body and promotes health
and healing. Vaccines appear to interfere with the acute expression
of disease.
[Vaccination] subverts the immune response, the ability to clear that
virus. The rash is the body’s eradication of the virus. If you do not
have a typical measles rash you are not invoking an adequate cellular
immune response … measles [may] persist in the body … children who
do not develop the rash … have an excess risk of delayed mortality.
— Statement by Andrew Wakefield, M.D. at the National
Vaccine Information Center Conference, Arlington, VA,
November 7-9, 2002.
This information should not be interpreted as saying that an ill
child should not be comforted and cared for. On the contrary, a
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child who is ill needs special attention. His/her needs must be met
so that a usually benign disease stays benign. Most children who
become seriously ill from childhood diseases often have some other
condition (malnourishment for example) that has damaged their
immune system.
There are many healing systems parents may avail themselves of in
order to keep their child’s immune system functioning at its optimum
so he or she may derive the most benefit from their illness. These
include nutritional and vitamin therapy, chiropractic, homeopathy,
naturopathy, herbal therapy, aromatherapy, CranioSacral therapy,
acupuncture and acupressure among others.
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Q
thirteen
Are The Ingredients In Vaccines Safe?
A major cause of the Roman Empire’s decline, after six centuries of
world dominance, was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes
for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the
best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples.
Today our own “best and brightest,” with the best of intentions, achieve
the same end through childhood vaccination programs yielding the
modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism,
appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.
— Harris Coulter, Ph.D.
Vaccines contain known toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, viruses,
bacteria and bacterial toxins, and human- and animal-derived
host tissues. A number of researchers maintain that these vaccine
components are inherently hazardous and can cause disease,
disability and death. Others are bothered by the use of aborted
fetuses in developing certain vaccines.
There is very little research as to whether these substances are safe
to inject into an infant’s bloodstream.
One of the toxic substances in many vaccines is the mercury
compound thimerosal. Mercury is the most poisonous nonradioactive element in nature – only plutonium is more toxic.
Mercury has an affinity for brain tissue and has been suspected as
a cause of Alzheimer’s disease and autism. Aluminum, antifreeze,
formaldehyde and other substances are also included in vaccines.
A month after the Institute of Medicine, in a controversial report,
said there is no causal link between vaccines and autism (2004), the
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journal Molecular Psychiatry revealed that the mercury in childhood
vaccines can cause autism-like symptoms in newborn mice and
behavioral and neurological changes in the developing brain. [Hornig
M et al. Neurotoxic effects of postnatal thimerosal are mouse strain dependant.
Molecular Psychiatry. 2004;9(7):646-663.]
Vaccine Ingredients (partial list)
• Thimerosal (mercury disinfectant/preservative): Mercury toxicity
can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease.
• Aluminum (additive to promote antibody response): Aluminum
is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and seizures.
• Formaldehyde (disinfectant): Formaldehyde is a known cancercausing substance. It is a hazardous waste and is no longer
permitted as an ingredient in building insulation. There is no
acceptable safe amount of formaldehyde if it’s injected into a living
human body. It is a toxic substance and should be avoided at all
costs.
• Phenol (disinfectant/dye)
• Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
• Benzethonium chloride (disinfectant)
• Methylparaben (antifungal/preservative)
Note: In June 1999 the FDA revealed that some infants who receive
multiple doses of vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal
could be exposed to total amounts of mercury that exceed federal
guidelines.
Too Much Mercury?
Currently, babies who are two months old receive the following
four vaccines:
• DTaP (for immunity to diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis)
• Polio
• Hib
• Hepatitis B
A review of the vaccine manufacturers’ inserts (the written
descriptions that are shipped with the actual vaccines) indicates
that these vaccines include three chemicals that are known to
be harmful to humans at concentrations specified by the U.S.
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Environmental Protection Agency: mercury, formaldehyde and
ethylene glycol. These vaccines contain other potentially harmful
additives (such as aluminum) as well. The amount of mercury
injected into infants is discussed below.
Mercury
The harmful effects of mercury are documented and well-known.
The U.S. EPA has established a daily “reference dose” or Rfd, which
is the maximum amount that humans should be exposed to in a
24-hour period. For mercury, this amount is 0.1 mg for each kg of
body weight. So, let’s assume that a typical two-month-old weighs 5
kg (11 lbs). Following the EPA’s guideline, a two-month-old should
have no more than 0.5 mg of mercury in one day.
Let’s take a look at the amount of mercury in each recommended
vaccine that a two-month-old would receive during one “well baby”
visit.
• DTaP
25 mg
• Polio
(polio contains formaldehyde as a preservative)
• Hib
25 mg
• Hepatitis B
12.5 mg
Note: Calculations are based on information provided in vaccine
inserts and a presentation by Neal A. Halsey, M.D., Director of the
Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University. According to
Dr. Halsey, thimerosal contains 49.6% methylmercury by weight.
The total amount of mercury is 62.5 mg. So, a two-month-old
receiving all four vaccines at two months receives 125 times the
Rfd dose. According to the EPA’s web site (www.epa.gov/ngispgm3
/iris/subst), the Rfd for methyl-mercury has an uncertainty factor of
10. Therefore, the two-month dose is 12.5 times the Rfd when we
consider the uncertainty factor.
Currently, thimerosal-containing vaccines are being replaced
by thimerosal-free vaccines. Unfortunately, some states did
not begin administering the newer vaccines until the older
ones had been used up. According to the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), removing mercury is only a precautionary
measure. They assert that the amounts of mercury included
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fall within known safety ranges [www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/concerns/
thimerosal/thimerosal.htm]. Obviously, the CDC’s claim conflicts with
the above analysis. These numbers indicate that the CDC is clearly
telling lies on their web site.
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Q
fourteen
How Do Vaccines Work On A Cellular
Level? How Do Vaccines Affect The
Immune System On A Cellular Level?
How Do Vaccines Affect The Nervous
System On A Cellular Level?
How Do Vaccines Cause Damage On
A Cellular Level?
No one knows. For example, Philippe Kourilsky, director of the
Paris-based Pasteur Institute discusses vaccinations in New Scientist
Magazine (May 27, 2000) in an article entitled “Behind the Magic”
saying: “I’m amazed by the amount of basic science we don’t
know.”
In the same paper Neal Nathanson, director of the U.S. Office of
AIDS Research says:
The assumption that successful vaccines work by simply producing
antibodies is almost certainly wrong.
The Hepatitis B vaccine, says Nathanson, possibly works by:
Probably stimulat[ing] some protective effect relying on killer T cells.
But no one knows how it does it or what exactly the process is – even
though the vaccine has been widely used for nearly ten years. [www.
newscientist.com:80/news/news_224027.html]
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Do Vaccines Affect Genetic Material?
Are We Hurting Future Generations?
No one knows. Richard DeLong, Professor of Biology at DelMar
College in Texas, in a letter in Science News July 31, 1976 warned:
There are dangers … uncontrolled genetic manipulation [is being
conducted by] the mass administration of attenuated viral vaccine
to animal and human populations. Attenuated vaccine viruses are
infectious, therefore they infect the recipients cells … [and] have the
potential to be transmitted … through generations. The damage that
could result in the future from such uncontrolled genetic manipulation
is incredible. This is to say nothing whatever of the other potential
dangers the vaccine recipients must bear as a result of other aspects of
vaccine viral infections such as mutations, chromosomal aberrations,
birth defects, cancer and reversion to virulence.
In the journal Medical Hypothesis (April 1984) DeLong writes:
During the last twenty years a number of new and very serious
diseases have arisen. Some of these are Reyes syndrome, Kawasaki
disease, Lassa fever, Marburg disease, non A- non-B hepatitis, Ebola
hemorrhagic fever and acquired immune deficiency syndrome [AIDS]
…viral vaccines may be the reason for the appearance … all [these]
diseases appeared after the administration of the live poliomyelitis
vaccine and followed by mass immunization with other live viral
vaccines….
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Q
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Is There A Conflict Of Interest In Vaccine
Policy Decisions?
Members of government vaccine committees are asked to judge the
safety and efficacy of vaccines. They are asked if a vaccine should be
added to the “recommended” schedule of mandatory vaccinations.
These very same committee members may own patents for vaccines,
own stock in drug companies that make vaccines and actually work
for drug companies.
Rep. Dan Burton, Chairman of the Committee on Government
Reforms, held a conference on Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 1:00 PM
(2154 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515) in
which the following was revealed:
1. The Chair of the FDA and CDC advisory committees who
make [vaccination] decisions own stock in drug companies that
manufacture vaccines.
2. Individuals on both advisory committees own patents for vaccines
either under consideration or affected by the decisions of the
committee.
3. Three out of five of the members of the FDA’s advisory committee
who voted for the rotavirus vaccine had conflicts of interest that
were waived.
4. Seven individuals of the 15 member FDA advisory committee were
not present at the meeting, two others were excluded from the
vote, and the remaining five were joined by five temporary voting
members who all voted to license the product.
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5. That the CDC grants conflict-of-interest waivers to every member
of their advisory committee a year at a time, and allows full
participation in the discussions leading up to a vote by every
member, whether they have a financial stake in the decision or
not.
6. That the CDC’s advisory committee has no public members - no
parents have a vote in whether or not a vaccine belongs on the
childhood immunization schedule. The FDA’s committee only has
one public member.
These are just a few of the problems we found.
See more at “FACA: Conflicts of Interest and Vaccine Development: Preserving the Integrity of the Process,” www.house.gov/
reform/hearings/healthcare/00.06.15/index.htm.
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside
sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette
by giving him away.
— George Bernard Shaw
Parents need to understand that the system providing the vaccines
injected into their children’s veins is corrupt and scientifically flawed.
— Michael Belkin in UPI Investigates: The vaccine conflict by
Mark Benjamin, Investigations Editor, 7/20/2003 www.upi.com/
print.cfm?StoryID=20030718012134-4422r
The CDC is a disgrace. It is a corrupt organization….
The drug companies have them on their payroll.
— Stephen A. Sheller, an attorney who has sued vaccine makers
for what he says were bad vaccines. Ibid. UPI
The CDC routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to
serve on influential advisory committees … they are supposed
to be unbiased.
— Rep. Dan Burton, (R-IN): Ibid.
www.thinktwice.com/congress.htm
Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American
Physicians & Surgeons, criticizes the “incestuous ties” between
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the pharmaceutical companies and the regulatory agencies that
make vaccine policy in the following address to the Subcommittee
on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the
Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives
(June 14, 1999):
Critical medical decisions for an entire generation of American children
are being made by small committees whose members have incestuous
ties with agencies that stand to gain power, or manufacturers that stand
to gain enormous profits, from the policy that is made. Even if such
members recuse themselves from specific votes, they are permitted to
participate in discussions and thus influence the decision.
The relationship of patient and physician is dramatically altered: in
administering the vaccine, the physician is serving as the agent of
the state. To the extent that the physician simply complies without
making an independent evaluation of the appropriateness of the
vaccine for each patient, he is abdicating his responsibility under
the Oath of Hippocrates to “prescribe regimen for the good of my
patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm
to anyone.”
…Traditionally, public health authorities restricted the liberties of
individuals only in case of a clear and present danger to public health.
For example, individuals infected with a transmissible disease were
quarantined. Today, a child may be prevented from attending school
or associating with others simply because of being unimmunized. If
there is not an outbreak of disease and if the child is uninfected, his or
her unimmunized state is not a threat to anyone. An abridgement of
civil rights in such cases cannot be justified.
All coercive means for increasing the immunization rate should be
immediately discontinued. Fully informed consent should be sought
before vaccine is administered. This requires full and honest disclosure
of the risks and uncertainties of the vaccine, in comparison with the
risks of the disease.
Information given to parents about [the Hepatitis B] vaccine often
does not meet the requirement for full disclosure. For example, it
may state that “getting the disease is far more likely to cause serious
illness than getting the vaccine.” This may be literally true, but it is
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seriously misleading if the risk of getting the disease is nearly zero
(as is true for most American newborns). It may also be legalistically
true that “no serious reactions have been known to occur due to the
hepatitis B recombinant vaccine.” However, relevant studies have not
been done to investigate whether the temporal association of vaccine
with serious side effects is purely coincidental or not.
An independent review of the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System) data; publications by governmental, pro-vaccine,
and anti-vaccine groups; and a sample of the medical literature leads
to the following conclusion:
For most children, the risk of a serious vaccine reaction may be 100
times greater than the risk of hepatitis B.
Asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong
morbidity and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled
in incidence since the introduction of many new, mandatory
vaccines….
Even more alarming is the huge increase in reports of autism and
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating, life-long
impacts. Much of this could be due to over diagnosis (now rewarded
by numerous government subsidies). The change in behavior that
many parents observe related to vaccines could be coincidental, or
it might reflect a desperate need to explain a disastrous occurrence.
Nonetheless, the implications are so grave that immediate
investigation is needed. Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and
the whole panoply of childhood diseases are a far less serious threat
than having a large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with
learning disability and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because
of an impassioned crusade for universal vaccination.
Public policy regarding vaccines is fundamentally flawed. It
is permeated by conflicts of interest. It is based on poor scientific
methodology (including studies that are too small, too short,
and too limited in populations represented), which is, moreover,
insulated from independent criticism. The evidence is far too poor to
warrant overriding the independent judgments of patients, parents,
and attending physicians, even if this were ethically or legally
acceptable.
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AAPS opposes federal mandates for vaccines, on principle, on the
grounds that they are:
1. An unconstitutional expansion of the power of the federal
government.
2. An unconstitutional delegation of power to a public-private
partnership.
3. An unconstitutional and destructive intrusion into the patientphysician and parent-child relationships.
4. A violation of the Nuremberg Code in that they force individuals to
have medical treatment against their will, or to participate in the
functional equivalent of a vast experiment without fully informed
consent.
5. A violation of rights to free speech and to the practice of one’s
religion (which may require one to keep oaths).
Scientists Who Do Not Cooperate Are Disciplined
Researchers who persist in probing vaccine safety can see their funding
dry up. Dr. John Martin, a pioneer investigator into the transmission
of stealth viruses from monkeys to humans, lost his funding when
he continued to research the relationship of vaccines to such viral
transmission. Other researchers have simply lost their jobs.
— Doug Collins, Washington Free Press, January 23, 2003
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the gastroenterologist who brought the
autism-gut connection to the professional journals, was forced
to resign from the London Free Hospital after his research on
autism and bowel disorders and their link to the MMR vaccine was
published.
More recently, Dr. Mark Geier, who researches mercury toxicity
and vaccine damage, mentions the “personal assaults on us and
on the journals in which we publish” in the Fall 2003 Journal of
American Physicians and Surgeons. [Geier MR, Geier D. Thimerosal in
childhood vaccines, neurodevelopmental disorders, and heart disease in the United
States. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. 2003;8(3):6-11.]
As Dr. Wakefield puts it: “Autism does cause behavior problems
– in doctors.”
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Q
seventeen
Can A Person Legally Avoid Vaccinations?
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us,
we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
— U.S. Representative Ron Paul
Using the coercive apparatus of the state to force people to submit to the
ministrations of doctors of medicine is persecution in the name of health,
exactly as using the coercive apparatus of the state to force
people to submit to the ministrations of doctors of divinity was
persecution in the name of God.
— Thomas Szasz, M.D.
In the U.S. there are three kinds of vaccination exemptions:
religious (in all states except West Virginia and Mississippi),
medical (every state) and philosophical (20 states).
To find exemptions in your state:
• Vaccine Rights
www.vaccinerights.com
• Vaccine Liberation Organization
www.vaclib.org/exemption.pdf
• National Vaccine Information Center
www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx
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Q
eighteen
Is There Hope For The Future?
In the early 1800s in the U.S., the public, disgusted with
bloodletting, mercury drugs and other forms of “heroic” medicine,
voted to overturn the medical boards of nearly every state
eliminating licensure laws that restricted healing rights to medical
school graduates only.
The United States then experienced a dramatic improvement in
its citizens’ health as naturopaths, eclectic healers, homeopaths and
later osteopaths and chiropractors took root and flourished.
Though this period of healthcare freedom was later eliminated as
the medical machine returned to political dominance and reinstated
restrictive state licensing laws, this episode reveals that healthcare
freedom does work.
People are demanding great autonomy in their lives. The
vaccination controversy reflects the greater issues of freedom and
personal responsibility that should be the core of any healthcare
debate.
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Post-Encephalitic
Syndrome
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Post-Encephalitic Syndrome
H
ow can vaccine damage affect children in so many ways,
from allergies and immune disorders to behavioral
changes to brain damage to death? Harris Coulter,
Ph.D., in Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, The Medical
Assault on the American Brain [Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1990],
gives evidence revealing that vaccines cause a mild or sub-clinical
form of encephalitis (brain inflammation) and that a large number
of children today are suffering from post-encephalitic syndrome.
Nearly every childhood vaccine is known to cause encephalitis. In
fact pertussis toxoid, a component of the pertussis shot (the P in
DTP), is used to cause encephalitis in experimental animals.
Listed below are symptoms of post-encephalitic syndrome. They
appear identical to many health conditions prevalent today:
• Allergies and immune system abnormalities: food allergies
(wheat and milk especially), arthritis, lupus, celiac disease,
pernicious anemia.
• Anorexia (stop eating, death due to “cachexia”) and bulimia
(morbid hunger): “post-encephalitic obesity” or “pathological
obesity.”
• Hyperactivity and attention span difficulties: perpetual urge
to move about, often with excessive talkativeness (more rare).
Hypoactivity (sluggishness).
• Developmental delay (physical, emotional or intellectual)
disabilities: “minimal brain damage;” stuttering; dyslexia;
hypoactivity, learning disabilities (“Physical immaturity of the
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nervous system due to impairment of the myelination process
– or even its undoing”).
• Gender identity disorders: confused sexual identity, homosexuality and bisexuality. Hypersexuality.
• Cranial nerve (vision, hearing, voice and speech) impairments:
Taste and smell are preserved unimpaired in autistics. These cranial
nerves are not myelinated. The fact that encephalitis – including that
caused by vaccination – can cause demyelination has been known since
the 1920’s! [Rivers TM. Encephalomyelitis accompanied by myelin destruction
experimentally produced in monkeys. J Exp. Med. 1935;61:689-702.]
• Hypotonia (loss of muscle tone)
• Mental retardation (from slight decline in intellectual potency
to total idiocy)
• Epilepsy and seizure disorders, infantile spasms, cerebral
palsy and paralyses
• Respiratory problems: asthma and SIDS (due to vagus nerve palsy)
• Developmental delay in all areas of physical, emotional, and
intellectual development (walking, talking, growth, bed-wetting)
• Ego weakness, alienation, egotism
• Related disorders: Tourette’s Syndrome, uncontrollable temper,
impulsive rage and anger, uncontrollable violence, head banging,
self mutilation
Dr. Coulter writes:
Developmental (learning) disabilities are nearly always generated
by encephalitis. And the primary cause of encephalitis in the United
States and other industrialized countries is the childhood vaccination
program ... A large proportion of the millions of U.S. children
and adults suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation,
hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other shoots and branches of the hydraheaded entity called ‘developmental disabilities’, owe their disorders
to one or another of the vaccines against childhood diseases. The socalled ‘sociopathic personality’, which is at the root of the enormous
increase in crime of the past two decades, is also largely rooted in
vaccine damage. Thus, the vaccination program ....has contributed to
the wave of violent crime which is turning our cities into jungles where
the strong and the vicious prey upon the weak and unprotected.
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Between 15 and 20 percent of American school children are considered
to be learning disabled with minimal brain dysfunction directly
caused by vaccine damage.
In 1965 Congress passed the Immunization Assistance Act, and
more and more states extended their vaccination programs and made
them obligatory. Four or five years thereafter physicians encountered
a whole new group of neurologically damaged four- and five-yearolds. [Cherry JD, Brunell PA, Golden GS, Karzon DT. Report of the task force for
postponement of immunization. Pediatrics. 1988; Supplement:93-94.] A 1986
National Health Interview Survey found that between 1969 and
1981 the prevalence of “activity-limiting chronic conditions” in
persons younger than seventeen increased by an inexplicable fortyfour percent – from 2,680/100,000 to 3,848/100,000; almost all
the increases occurred between 1969 and 1975.
Most of these “activity-limiting chronic conditions” are readily seen
to be associated with the post-encephalitic syndrome. Childhood
“respiratory diseases” increased forty-seven percent, childhood
asthma sixty-five percent, and deaths from asthma in children
aged five and older also increased; “mental and nervous system
disorders” increased eighty percent, personality and other nonpsychotic mental disorders (including behavioral disorders, drug
abuse, and hyperactivity) went up 300 percent, and diseases of the
eyes and ears – especially otitis media – 120 percent; reported cases
of hearing loss in both ears rose 129 percent.
The increase was virtually identical in high-income and lowincome families, excluding poverty as a major cause. [Newacheck
PW & Halfan N. Trends in activity-limiting chronic conditions among children.
Conditions not associated with
vaccine damage – injuries, genitourinary disorders, diseases of the
circulatory system, infective or parasitic diseases, and deformities
– remained stationary during this time or actually declined.
A.J. Public Health. 1986;76(2):178-184.]
By 1980 the overall number of disabled children (many, of course,
with multiple conditions) had more than doubled. Over two million
children in the U.S. had some “limitation of activity,” up from one
million in 1960.
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Legal Issues
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Legal Issues
I
f you decide not to vaccinate, schools may tell you that your
child will not be admitted without vaccines, but all states allow
exemptions to vaccination. Some states allow a philosophical
exemption, which means that parents can choose not to give vaccines
based on their personal beliefs. All states except Mississippi and
West Virginia allow a religious exemption (however, Mississippi
does allow an automatic exemption for home schooled students).
Obtain a copy of your state’s immunization regulations from your
state health department and read the requirements. A religious
exemption should be worded to conform to the language of the law.
Attorneys who specialize in this area can help you obtain a religious
exemption. (See below for information on locating an attorney; also
see the Resources section of this book.)
Religious exemption statutes simply codify the protections of an
individual’s right to freely exercise their religious belief as guaranteed
by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and parallel portions
of the state constitutions. These religious exemption statutes have
been in place for decades without posing any major risk to public
health. Faith-based decisions concerning vaccinating one’s children
have consistently been protected by the courts. See Berg v. Glen
Cove City School District, 853 F. Supp. 651 (E.D.N.Y. 1994); Sherr
v. Northport-East Northport Union Free School District, 672 F.
Supp. 81 (E.D.N.Y. 1987).
Parents have a fundamental right to direct the education and
upbringing of their children, as guaranteed by the Liberty Clause
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of the Fourteenth Amendment. And the U.S. Supreme Court has
recognized this foundational freedom of parental liberty in a long
line of cases (see Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 1076, 1078
[1925]). Since parental rights are fundamental, the courts must apply
a higher standard of review whenever there is a conflict between a
parent and the state. The “compelling interest test” requires that
a state prove its regulation is essential to fulfill a compelling state
interest and is the least restrictive means of fulfilling that interest.
The state must also prove this burden with evidence.
It has long been recognized that the state has a compelling
interest in the public health and safety of its citizens. But there is
no conclusive proof that mandatory vaccinations are essential to
protect the public health. Nor is there conclusive evidence that
mandatory vaccinations are the least restrictive means to fulfill the
state’s compelling interest in protecting the public health. The most
effective deterrent to these infectious diseases are the enactment and
enforcement of public sanitation laws. According to the Centers for
Disease Control, states allowing for conscientious choice exemptions
do not have higher rates of “vaccine preventable” illnesses. [Summary
of Notifiable Diseases, United States, 1997, November 20, 1998, Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).]
If you are in one of the states without a philosophical exemption,
your state has obliterated your parental rights and has appointed
itself as a better judge of what is in the best interest of your child
than you, the parent. Hopefully this gets you angry enough to
want to help change the laws to add a conscientious exemption
in every state where it does not exist. Contact your state senator,
state representative and congressional representatives and senators
and ask them what they will do to restore your parental rights
with regard to vaccines that your state took away. A great article
dealing with this issue can be found at www.hslda.org/docs/
000002/00000231.ASP.
An excellent paper on the legal issues of vaccination is: Informed
Consent: Should it be Extended to Vaccinations? by Karin
Schumacher. It appeared in the Thomas Jefferson Law Review, Vol 22,
No 1, Fall 1999. It should be required reading for anyone interested
in this important issue.
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To find exemptions in your state (U.S.):
• Vaccine Rights
• Vaccine Liberation Organization
www.vaclib.org/exemption.pdf
• National Vaccine Information Center
www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.
aspx
For a list of websites specializing in military vaccine concerns,
including healing protocols for damage, please go to: www.think
twice.com/military.htm.
For a list of lawyers who specialize in vaccine law: www.vaccine
rights.com.
Note: One nurse has given the following information to new
parents to avoid the hepatitis B shot: the mother gets a blood test
that shows she tests negative for hepatitis B. She writes a letter to the
pediatrician saying she doesn’t want the hepatitis B vaccine given to
her child since she tests negative for hepatitis B (attach copy of lab
results). Follow up with a phone call.
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Are Vaccines Responsible For The
Increase In Childhood Cancers?
None of the vaccines injected into children have ever been tested for
their carcinogenic (cancer causing), mutagenic (mutation causing),
or teratogenic (developmental malformation causing) potential.
Therefore federal and state governments are mandating that infants
and children swallow and be injected with substances that have
never been tested for their ability to cause cancer, mutations or
developmental malformations.
Vaccine/Mfgr/Brand Name/Ages/Studies On Carcinogenic
Or Mutagenic Potential According To Manufacturer
Chickenpox (Varicella), Merck, Varivax, 12 months and older:
“No studies conducted.”
DTP Lederle, Tetramune, 2 months to 5 years: “Tetramune has not
been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential.”
DTP Lederle, Tri-Immunol, 2 months to 7 years: “No studies
conducted.”
DTP Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux), Tripedia,
15 months to 7 years: “Tripedia has not been evaluated for its
carcinogenic or mutagenic potential.”
DTP Lederle, Acel-Immune, 17 months to 7 years: “AcelImmune has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic
potential.”
DTP (whole cell pertussis), SmithKline Beecham, 6 weeks to 7
years: “Animal and human studies concerning possible carcinogenic
or teratogenic effects have not been done.”
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Hepatitis A, SmithKline Beecham (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux)
Havrix, over two years old: “Havrix has not been evaluated for its
carcinogenic or mutagenic potential.”
Hepatitis B, Merck, Recombivax, “infants”: No studies conducted.
Influenzae type b, Haemophilus b conjugate with diphtheria
protein, Lederle HibTITER, 2-71 months: “HibTITER has not been
evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential.”
Influenzae type b, Haemphilus b conjugate with tetatus toxoid
conjugate, Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) ActHIB, 2
months to 5 years: No studies conducted.
Measles live, Merck, Attenuvax, 15 months and older: No studies
conducted.
Measles, Mumps, Rubella live, Merck M-M-R, 15 months and
older: No studies conducted.
Measles, Rubella (live) Merck, M-R-Vax, 15 months and older: No
studies conducted.
Mumps (live) Merck, Mumpsvax, 12 months and older: No studies
conducted.
Polio (live) Lederle, Orimune, 6 weeks to 18 years: No studies
conducted.
Poliovirus (inactivated), Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux),
IPOL “infants, children and adolescents….Studies in animals to
evaluate carcinogenic potential have not been conducted.”
Rubella and mumps (live) Merck, Biavax II, 12 months and older:
No studies conducted.
Rubella (live) Merck, Meruvax, 12 months to puberty: No studies
conducted.
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Michael Belkin’s Testimony
Before The CDC
[Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices (ACIP) – Centers
For Disease Control And Prevention – February 17, 1999 – Atlanta,
Georgia]
My name is Michael Belkin. I am a father, businessman, former
quantitative strategist at Salomon Brothers and Director of the Hepatitis
B Vaccine Project of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).
The NVIC has studied Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act covering the last
nine years on hepatitis B vaccine adverse events – and in 1996 there
were more than three times as many reported serious adverse reactions
as reported cases of the disease in the 0 to 14 age group. Of the total
2,424 adverse event reports made between 1990 and October 1998 in
children under age 14 who only received hepatitis B vaccine, there were
1,209 serious events and 73 deaths. Thus, one half of the reports for
children under age 14 who received only hepatitis B vaccine were for
serious events that required an emergency room visit, hospitalization, or
caused life-threatening health problems or permanent disabilities.
As a UC Berkeley graduate and advisor to some of the largest financial
institutions in the world, I am qualified to analyze and make conclusions
about statistics. Based on that experience, I am astonished that the
scientists on this Committee would disregard or cover up data showing
the number and severity of adverse reactions to this vaccine.
Science is observing and learning from what is observed. The assertions
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of the CDC that the many reported adverse reactions to this vaccine do
not exist or are a coincidence violates the basic principle of science, which
is rooted in the observation and analysis of data.
A benefit/risk analysis of the hepatitis B vaccine for the average infant
in America, not born to infected parents, must conclude that the VAERS
data on adverse reactions shows the real-world risk of a newborn infant
dying or being injured by the hepatitis B vaccine is a greater threat than the
remote chance of contracting the primarily blood-transmitted disease.
My 5-week old daughter, Lyla Rose, died within 16 hours of her hepatitis
B vaccination, which she received because of the universal vaccination
policy this Committee instituted in 1991. At her death, Lyla had four of
the eight highest-reported symptoms in the VAERS hepatitis B vaccine
adverse reaction data. The NY Medical Examiner observed brain swelling
at the autopsy but refused to record that or mention the hepatitis B vaccine
Lyla received in the autopsy report.
I hold each one of you who participated in the promulgation or
perpetuation of that mandated newborn vaccination policy personally
responsible for my daughter’s death and the deaths and injuries of all the
other beautiful, healthy infants who are victims of the hepatitis B vaccine.
Your negligence is the proximate cause of my daughter’s death and you
have failed to exercise reasonable care.
At the NVIC, we are overwhelmed following up constant new reports
of deaths, seizures and autoimmune reactions following hepatitis B
vaccination.
Because the CDC refuses to acknowledge this large number of serious
adverse reactions, hospitals and doctors who have been misled about
the risks continue to administer the vaccine and then deny any vaccine
connection when children die, get ill or have seizures within hours or
days. CDC officials tell parents they have never heard of hepatitis B
vaccine reactions. That is a lie. For this government to continue to insist
that hepatitis B vaccine adverse reaction reports do not exist is negligent,
unethical – and is a crime against the children of America.
It is a sad day for the US when the nation’s children need protection
from the official medical authorities who are charged with protecting
them from disease. Thank you.
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Raymond Gallop’s Questions
To Vaccine Manufacturers
[Mr. Gallop is president of the Autism Autoimmunity Project and
father of Eric, an autistic child]
1. Why have there been no independent, long-term safety studies
done on any of the vaccines? There is an autism pandemic and many
parents, including M.D.s and R.N.s, see a connection to adverse
events of vaccines, in particular the MMR, DTP and Hepatitis B
vaccines (either separately or in combination). Many parents have
gotten immune panel blood tests finding elevated measles titers/
antibodies as well as other abnormal immune readings. Additionally,
measles has been found in the gut through biopsies.
2. Why aren’t vaccine companies interested in vaccine safety, trying
to make a product 100% safe? These events are not RARE as the
CDC and the medical community report but are an epidemic.
Shouldn’t there be funding of independent research studies to find
out what is happening and a way to make these vaccines safe (and
if not, taken out of the market place permanently)?
3. Why are parent reports of adverse events to vaccines discounted
as if we are all stupid? The burden of safety is your responsibility
since you, the vaccine manufacturers, are making a product for our
children. If there is an automobile with an exploding gas tank or a
child car safety seat that is unsafe, it is examined and pulled from
the market place. Why should an unsafe vaccine be kept in the
market place?
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4. How do you people sleep at night knowing that children are
being damaged constantly by your unsafe products?
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Epilogue
The “Experts”
Let us not fall into the dull sleep of blindly accepting the
views of “experts”:
Experts said DDT is harmless.
Experts said asbestos is safe.
Experts said cigarette smoking is good for you.
Experts said formula is just as good as breast milk.
Experts said aspirin doesn’t cause Reyes syndrome.
Experts said the polio vaccine isn’t contaminated with monkey
virus.
Experts said even if it is, it’s still OK because animal genes can’t
affect humans (then came mad cow disease).
Experts said thalidomide is safe.
Experts said DES is safe.
Experts said irradiating tonsils and thymus glands is safe (until
thyroids became cancerous).
Experts said tonsillectomies are necessary.
Experts said bloodletting is a cure.
Experts said fluoride is safe.
Experts said mercury amalgam fillings were safe.
Experts said aspartame was safe.
Experts said VBACs (vaginal births after caesarian) should not be
done.
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Experts said it wasn’t necessary to wash hands before delivering
babies.
Experts said the swine flu is coming. (twice – 1976 & 2009)
Experts say childhood vaccination is safe.
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Resources
Books
Websites
Foundation for
Health Choice
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Books
All of the following are available from Koren Publications,
800-537-3001, www.korenpublications.com. Many of the books
below may also be available from local booksellers and distributors.
Divided Legacy, Vol. 4: Twentieth-Century Medicine: The
Bacteriological Era by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D. A masterpiece! A
must read to properly understand chiropractic in light of the 2500year-old rivalry between vitalistic therapeutics (i.e., chiropractic,
homeopathy, acupuncture) and mechanistic therapeutics (allopathic
medicine). The most intelligent explanation of Vitalism I’ve ever
read. The 30-page introduction is worth the price of the book. 776
pages.
Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality by Harris L. Coulter,
Ph.D. Reveals long term effects of childhood vaccine damage:
autism, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders; dyslexia, allergies
and other conditions that barely existed 30 years ago – before the
compulsory mass vaccination programs. A powerful case is made.
Confessions Of A Medical Heretic by Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.
Dr. Mendelsohn reveals sometimes disturbing information you
need to know to maintain your health. Is your doctor helping or
hurting you? “If you’re ready to protect yourself from your doctor,
you should keep reading,” so says the author of this insider’s look
at today’s medical profession. Topics discussed include: pre-natal
care, childbirth, drugs, vaccines, surgery and lots more. A doctor
examines his own profession – and the results are shocking. A
fascinating read!
How To Raise A Healthy Child ... In Spite Of Your Doctor by Robert
Mendelsohn, M.D. Dr. Mendelsohn once again challenges doctors’
skills in treating child illnesses. Learn what to expect in childhood
ills, how to treat them, and how to work with your doctor to care
for your child. Subjects addressed are: fevers, ear infections, strep
throat, accidents, hospital stays, vaccinations, stomach aches and
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more – with a quick reference guide to common childhood health
problems after every chapter. An excellent gift to friends, relatives
and patients with children.
Your Personal Guide to Immunization Exemptions by Grace
Girdwain. Legal recourse for vaccination waivers for those entering
school, the military, traveling; sample exemption forms; do’s and
don’ts when confronting school officials for the first time; waivers for
those on welfare; new section on divorce/custody and vaccination.
Vaccine Guide for Dogs & Cats: What Every Pet Lover Should
Know by Catherine J.M. Diodati. Veterinary vaccines are given to
prevent disease, yet studies show they are often debilitating and
fatal, being linked to autoimmune and neurological disorders such
as cancer, diabetes, arthritis, tumors, seizures, allergies, digestive
problems, organ failure and others.
The Coulter Reader by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D. edited by Tedd
Koren, D.C. Coulter is the premier medical historian of our times.
His works on medical philosophy, homeopathy, the controlled
clinical trial, AIDS and childhood vaccination have had a profound
impact on science, politics and the health freedom of choice
movement. Includes never before published materials including the
“lost chapter” from Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality.
The Sanctity Of Human Blood: Vaccination Is Not Immunization
by Tim O’Shea, D.C. Are vaccines safe? Are they effective? Are
they dangerous? Written in a very easy-to-read style. Dr. O’Shea
discusses childhood diseases, Gulf War Syndrome, vaccine research,
AIDS, polio, and the legality of avoiding vaccines. Great charts. This
illuminating book is a powerful package.
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Websites
The Foundation for Health Choice, an organization fighting to
reform laws so as to permit greater healthcare freedom, can be
found at:
www.foundationforhealthchoice.com
These sites have valuable information:
www.vaclib.org
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
www.healthy.net/vaccine
www.healthychild.com
www.thinktwice.com
www.thedoctorwithin.com
www.drtenpenny.com
www.ageofautism.com
www.safeminds.org
www.generationrescue.org
www.909shot.com
For information on military vaccinations, please see:
www.thinktwice.com/military.htm
www.mvrd.org
www.vaclib.org/legal/stateresource.htm
Vaccine refusal forms and other information can be found at:
www.scribd.com/doc/21066591/Vaccine-Refusal-Forms-andLots-of-Backup-Information
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Foundation for Health Choice
Choice, Information, Safety and Redress
• Do you want healthcare consumers and providers to have the
freedom to choose to pursue, teach and practice the health
approaches of their choice without fear of government
harassment?
• Why, in the “Land of the Free,” do consumers and practitioners
suffer coercion, harassment, threats and disinformation from
entrenched backward-looking special interests?
• Do you want the freedom to say no to vaccinations?
• Should organized medicine, the pharmaceutical companies and
government agencies refuse to change this state of affairs, and in
fact continue to support it?
Had enough? Want to go on the offensive? Then join us.
We’ll defend:
• Your children’s freedoms!
• Your personal freedom!
• Your professional freedom!
Our Vision, Mission and Strategies
Our Vision
A world in which the health of the community is advanced by
each individual and family having the broadest possible choice
of affordable healthcare options and the legally protected right
to choose the approaches that they believe will maximize their
individual health.
Our Mission
To advance the rights of patients and their families to choice,
information, safety and redress in healthcare; to protect the rights
of health educators and practitioners; and to raise the awareness of
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policy makers and the public about healthcare options, regulatory
decisions that affect health rights, and the efforts of special interests
to limit healthcare choice and access.
Our Strategies
• Provide information so individuals can make healthcare choices
that reflect their needs, wants and philosophies.
• Defend the Constitutional right of all Americans to be free from
unreasonable intrusion on their persons and their privacy by
opposing all coercive medical procedures and invasions of health
privacy whether public or private.
• Support the right to free expression of patients, practitioners and
educators.
• Strengthen the patient-practitioner contract and advocate reform
of unreasonable practice of medicine rules.
• Inform practitioners and the public about the array of available
health options and their choice and privacy rights.
• Promote the use of informed choice as a new standard for informed
consent.
• Support research into the safety, efficacy and cost of emerging
health options.
• Challenge monopolization of the healthcare industry by special
interest groups.
Support the fight for the freedom to heal and be healed, the fight for
healthcare freedom – for providers, for patients, for everyone. Join
the Foundation for Health Choice.
Foundation for Health Choice
www.foundationforhealthchoice.com
An admirable book which your grandchildren and mine will call the very last word on
the subject of childhood vaccination. Read it if your blood pressure will permit.
—Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
Dr. Tedd Koren’s book is one that should be taken along to visits with the pediatrician.
Parents need to insist that each question be answered to their complete satisfaction...
or refuse the shots. —Sherri Tenpenny, D.O., author of Say No To Vaccines.
Some of the questions discussed:
• Are vaccinated children healthier
than non-vaccinated children?
• What are the chances that my child
may be hurt or killed by a vaccine?
• Do vaccines have any long-term
side effects or damage that may
not surface for months or years?
• Do the (assumed) benefits of
vaccination outweigh the risks?
• Doesn’t research show vaccines are
safe?
• Can vaccines cause cancer or fertility
problems?
• Is vaccination why we have so much
cancer today?
• Do vaccines cause SIDS (Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome also known as Crib
Death)?
• Didn’t vaccines get rid of acute
• What about polio? Wasn’t it
eliminated due to vaccination?
• Was the polio shot given in the 50’s
and 60’s contaminated with monkey
virus? Is it causing cancer? Did it
cause AIDS?
• Are there benefits to getting acute
Tedd Koren, D.C. is an internationally known and respected Doctor of Chiropractic.
In addition to his work as an educator, publisher, author and researcher, Dr. Koren
has developed and now teaches Koren Specific Technique, which is being used
worldwide by doctors of chiropractic, osteopathy, medicine, dentistry and other
healers to improve the quality of their patient care.
For more information go to www.korenpublications.com.
HEALTH
$19.95 U.S.
Childhood
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Questions All Parents Should Ask
TEDD KOREN, D.C.
Dr. Koren and his wife Beth live in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with their
two children Seth and Shayna. It was his becoming a father that led Dr. Koren to
investigate the need for, and the safety and effectiveness of, childhood vaccinations.
CHILDHOOD VACCINATION: QUESTIONS ALL PARENTS SHOULD ASK
Dr. Koren’s book is comprehensive, well-balanced and quite accurate. In my medical
career I’ve treated vaccinated and unvaccinated children and the unvaccinated children
are far healthier than the vaccinated ones. This book is a must-read for parents
interested in answering the question ‘should I vaccinate my child?’ —Philip Incao, M.D.
Tedd Koren, D.C.

Childhood Vaccinations - Nepute Wellness Center

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