Category: Vaccines

Information on vaccines

▶ Interesting Information: “Why Some Parents Fear Vaccines” Video

Interesting Information:  May 5, 2016

 “Why Some Parents Fear Vaccines” Video

Statistics:

54% of children are chronically ill or disabled

9 million have skin allergies

8 million have respiratory allergies

7 million have asthma

5 million have learning disabilities

1 in 400 children have diabetes

1 in 50 have autism

Studies link these conditions to vaccines.  Yes, they do.

Vaccine makers have no liability.

If your child is harmed by a vaccine, you will be totally on your own.

Please watch this 11 minute video on why some parents fear vaccines and understand why you must inform yourselves before you choose to vaccinate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLSZKJDfY-k&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Interesting Information/Vaccines: British Court Throws Out Conviction of Autism/Vaccine MD: Andrew Wakefield’s Co-Author Completely Exonerated

Interesting Information:  May 2015

The Dr. Andrew Wakefield Vaccine Saga

Dr. Andrew Wakefield was an early casualty in the vaccine wars.

He and his team published a research article that suggested that there MAY BE a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism.  The result:  all hell broke loose for Wakefield and his team.  The paper was retracted–for unscientific and unfair political reasons; many on the team bailed out so their careers would not be ruined; and Wakefield and Walker-Smith were hauled before a UK regulatory board and thoroughly and unfairly demonized, smeared, and ruined.

It’s an old story when dollars are at stake and industry is powerful.

Walker-Smith’s insurance paid for his defense; Wakefield’s did not.

Their premise has since been confirmed–but Wakefield has not been reinstated.  It is pretty hard to appeal when you’ve fled the country and have no money.

AND, Wakefield’s name is still invoked as a quack, a charleton, and so forth by those who did not get to the end of the story.  Wakefield’s name has been invoked here in Maine by a local doctor in a local paper and attempts to set the record straight have been met with a refusal to print.  So, the doctor can lie/or miss the actual history, and it does not matter.  That’s how myth stays in place.

Here’s a quote:

In a stunning reversal, world renowned pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. John Walker-Smith won his appeal against the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council regulatory board that had ruled against both him and Andrew Wakefield for their roles in the 1998 Lancet MMR paper, which raised questions about a link to autism. The complete victory means that Walker-Smith has been returned to the status of a fully licensed physician in the UK, although he had already retired in 2001 — six years before the GMC trial even began.

Justice John Mitting ruled on the appeal by Walker-Smith, saying that the GMC “panel’s determination cannot stand. I therefore quash it.” He said that its conclusions were based on “inadequate and superficial reasoning and, in a number of instances, a wrong conclusion.” The verdict restores Walker-Smith’s name to the medical register and his reputation to the medical community. This conclusion is not surprising, as the GMC trial had no actual complainants, no harm came to the children who were studied, and parents supported Walker-Smith and Wakefield through the trial, reporting that their children had medically benefited from the treatment they received at the Royal Free Hospital.

– See more at: http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/british-court-throws-out-conviction-of-autismvaccine-md-andrew-wakefields-co-author-completely-exonerated/#sthash.XtVFBt1D.dpuf

 

British Court Throws Out Conviction of Autism/Vaccine MD: Andrew Wakefield’s Co-Author Completely Exonerated.

Interesting Information/Vaccines: STONEWALLED, Sharyl Attkinsson

Interesting Information:  May 2015

STONEWALLED

Sharyl Attkinsson

 

Sharyl Attkisson is a five-time Emmy Award winning investigative journalist whose television career spans more than three decades. She was the reporter who, in 2009, blew the lid off the swine flu media hype, showing the hysteria was completely unfounded and manufactured.

Why Conventional Media So Rarely Tells You the Truth About Health

One industry that wields a great deal of power within the media today is the pharmaceutical industry. It’s rare to sit through an evening of television without viewing several drug ads. They also advertise heavily in print and online media. The advertising dollars they spend not only generates sales, it also gives them the power to influence what’s being reported in the news. Here’s just one example:

“There’s a story in my book about former executive producer of mine who got a phone call from the sales division, which was very inappropriate. He said the sales person from CBS was kind of screaming at him because we’d been doing a lot of stories looking at side effects and problems with the very popular and billion-dollar-selling cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins.

The advertisers didn’t like that. Therefore, someone from the CBS corporate apparently didn’t like that, and called down and said something like, ‘If you keep doing these stories, it’s going to be really, really bad for CBS…’

I think that happens more often than we know explicitly. But this time, it was followed by what I see as all of the media backing down on pharmaceutical-related stories. We were doing very aggressive coverage of problems within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – not just me, but all the networks and a lot of print publications – about vaccines side effects, and about other medical issues. That all has virtually stopped. You can almost point to a time period when it seems someone made a phone call and said, ‘That’s it fellas. There are advertisers.’

And you won’t see these stories now even when there’s a multi-billion-dollar criminal settlement against drug companies for mismarketing drugs that are commonly used. That’s a huge story that should be leading the news in my opinion. But most people probably never heard of it because those are things that offend the sensibilities of advertisers, who now control to some degree the editorial content of networks, publications, and print publications that are advertising.

And, as you know, they have several lobbyists for every member of Congress on Capitol Hill so they can make sure certain hearings don’t happen. As recently as last year, they were able to stop a planned vaccine-related hearing. The control is almost total in my view. That’s just one example of a corporate influence.”

STONEWALLED, Sharyl Attkinsson

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/04/26/media-obstruction-intimidation-harassment.aspx

Interesting Information: The New Gardasil: Is It Right For Your Daughter?

Interesting Information:  May 16, 2015

The New Gardasil:  Is it Right For Your Daughter?

Kelly Brogan, MD

From the article:  

Dr. Kelly Brogan is boarded in Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine/Reproductive Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine, and practices Functional Medicine, a root-cause approach to illness as a manifestation of multiple-interrelated systems. After studying Cognitive Neuroscience at M.I.T., and receiving her M.D. from Cornell University, she completed her residency and fellowship at Bellevue/NYU. She is one of the nation’s only physicians with perinatal psychiatric training who takes a holistic evidence-based approach in the care of patients with a focus on environmental medicine and nutrition. She is also a mom of two, and an active supporter of women’s birth experience. She is the Medical Director for Fearless Parent, and an advisory board member for GreenMedInfo.com. Visit her website.

Here’s a quote about fear-based marketing of Gardasil:

In the marketing and licensure of the HPV vaccine, changes to cervical cells have been equated with death. This is called using a “surrogate marker” and in vaccine research, this is considered acceptable because we can’t otherwise prove a non-event is attributable to an intervention. There are leaps in logic and in science inherent in this practice, that render conclusions nothing more than false marketing.

In fact, none of the HPV vaccines have ever been proven to prevent a single case of cervical cancer.

And:

The cervical cancer diagnosis rate in the United States is 7.9/100,000. Given that only 5% of HPV infections progress to neoplasia (CIN) and that 91% of early stage cases resolve spontaneously within 36 months, with 70% of CIN 1 and 54% of CIN 2 cases doing the same within 12 months, using these pathologies as surrogate markers for cancer incidence represents a scientific shortcoming.

Built on this house of cards, and defying pre-existing FDA criteria for fast-tracked approval, Gardasil was brought to market in 6 months and is now one of our great human experiments. Several countries including Japan, France, and India have banned and/or filed criminal lawsuits about Gardasil, but, as Americans, not only are the “one less” commercials still running, but the latest and greatest version of Gardasil is now available.

The New Gardasil: Is It Right For Your Daughter? | GreenMedInfo.

Interesting Information/Vaccines: TV2 Denmark Documentary on HPV Vaccine Shows Lives of Young Women Ruined

Interesting Information/Vaccines:  May 16, 2015

TV2 Denmark Documentary on HPV Vaccine Shows Lives of Young Women Ruined

Our media is refusing to cover the vaccine issue appropriately.

Kudos to Denmark’s TV2 for this documentary–which is one of the best I’ve seen done by any mainstream media

Are there problems with it?  Yes.  See below.  But they do a really good job, too, of showing that there is a problem that is being ignored.

TV2 Denmark Documentary on HPV Vaccine Shows Lives of Young Women Ruined.

What’s wrong?  No one asked (or answered appropriately) if Gardasil cures or prevents cervical cancer–which is a rare cancer that is completely detectable with a Pap smear which does not have any side effects.  The ads for Gardasil are misleading.  Cervical cancer takes 20 to 30 years to develop–and there is evidence now that Gardasil might be CAUSING cervical cancer problems.

 

Here’s a quote from Health Impact News about this documentary;

Are those in charge of the Danish Health and Medicines Authority willing to risk the 2500 serious adverse reactions per 100,000 Gardasil recipients disclosed in Merck’s latest prescribing information packet to try and avoid 12.1 cases of cervical cancer per 100,000?

Are the women of Denmark willing to accept the same risk? Do the women of Denmark think it is reasonable to trade 2500 potentially devastating medical conditions to save 12 people per 100,000 users from the diagnosis of a very treatable cancer?

– See more at: http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/tv2-denmark-documentary-on-hpv-vaccine-shows-lives-of-young-women-ruined/#sthash.PaLzAcJ4.dpuf

 Be sure to read more of the Health Impact News analysis that is on the same page as the documentary.

▶ Interesting Information/Vaccines: Laura Hayes NO ON SB277 Speech, Sacramento, At The Capitol on April 8, 2015

Interesting Information:  May 4, 2015

A Mother Speaks

Scratch an anti-vaccine activist, and you’re going to find either a parent with a damaged child or someone who has witnessed vaccine damage first hand.

California is one “hotspot” for the move to mandate vaccines for EVERYONE and, as a result, for unscientific hysteria and political incompetence.

Before this mandating vaccines gets to your state, or if it has already as is true in Maine, you may want to hear what this mother has to say.  Spend 14 minutes with someone whose child has been damaged–just as YOUR child could be damaged. Damage is much more frequent than you are being told, and much damage is permanent.  Vaccine damage is far riskier than whatever childhood disease is being supposedly subverted.

Not long ago, I heard myself referred to as “you people,” as if I were an out-of-control quack.  Yet I have a PhD and know how to research, how to vet sources, how to critically think.  The “you people” person had done no research and had no understanding or comprehension of how corrupt our government and our medical system has become.

Scratch an anti-vaccine person, and you’ll find also someone who has done good research and who often has higher educational degrees.  So, yes, I’m one of the “you people.”

So, please don’t stick your heads in the sand on this issue.

California’s mandate likely will not stand as it violates California’s own constitution.  And, likely, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.  I just read that the ACLU is now part of the legal protests beginning in California.

▶ Laura Hayes NO ON SB277 speech Sacramento at The Capitol on April 8, 2015 – YouTube.

Interesting Information/Vaccines: ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported

Interesting Information/Vaccines:  May 12, 2015

ZERO Measles Deaths in Ten Years/100 Confirmed Measles Vaccine Deaths

What interests me most in this article is the chart I have (successfully) copied–because it shows what historical research shows about diseases and the introduction of vaccines.

No vaccine is introduced until the disease that is its target is already nearly gone.

Why does a disease disappear?  We don’t really know.  Maybe a true herd immunity?  Maybe better sanitation and nutrition?

Anyway, here’s a quote and the chart:

 

And while health authorities are blaming measles outbreaks in recent years on unvaccinated children, when you mention the fact that nobody is dying from measles in the U.S., they are quick to turn around and claim vaccines have eliminated measles deaths (even though they cannot eliminate the disease itself apparently.)

Besides the obvious contradiction in reasoning with such a claim, the historical evidence just does not support it either:

– See more at: http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/#sthash.JgPsE0aI.dpuf

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ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported.

Interesting Information/Vaccines: RFK Jr. Slams CDC in Vermont Vaccine Testimony

Interesting Information/Vaccines:  May 2015

RFK Jr Slams CDC in Vermont Vaccine Testimony

Vermont is one of the states trying to pass vaccine mandates.

From all accounts, the process in Vermont stinks with corruption.  Citizens have not been able to speak to the issue, etc.

RFK Jr. flew in to make a statement.

RFK Jr. is NOT anti-vaccine.  He vaccinated all of his children.

He is against government corruption and for a safe vaccine program.

Here are some excerpts from his statement:

“I think we need to begin that process by making sure that the vaccines are safe, they are efficacious and have a regulatory agency which recommends vaccines to the schedule, monitors them, has integrity and creditably. And unfortunately that is not the case at the moment.”

“The CDC is a troubled agency. There have been four separate scathing Federal studies about the CDC. I’m not talking about the whole agency; I’m talking about the vaccine division. One by the United States Senate; a three year study, one by the House, another by HHS by the Inspector General and a study this year by The Office of Research and Integrity. And all of together and separately paint a picture of an agency that has become a cesspool of corruption.”

“All of the barriers that are suppose to protect American Kids from that industry (pharmaceutical) have been leveled.”

I have no idea who Jefferey Jaxen is, but it does not matter.  What does matter is that you can scroll down this blog post and hear RFKs statement–which concerns the corruption at the CDC and the way media has been defanged by industry so that it is not reporting the vaccine issue in any way but pro-industry.  The video is about 15 minutes.

http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/blog/robert-f-kennedy-jr-publically-slams-cdc-in-vermont-vaccine-testimony

 

 

Interesting Information/Vaccines: Herd Immunity: Myth or Reality?

Interesting Information:  May 11, 2015

Herd Immunity:  Myth or Reality?

Tetyana Obukhanych

In Maine today, the vaccine hearings are taking place.

What is at stake is the sovereign individuals right to refuse vaccines.  What is at stake is giving the state the right to deny education.

The operating theoretical idea is “herd immunity”–so that the unvaccinated are seen to be disease carriers.

Predictable, a terrible article appeared in The Portland Press Herald over the weekend–an article filled with myth and which helps to create public hysteria.

Here’s immunologist Tetyana Obukhanych’s SCIENTIFIC explanation of why “herd immunity” is not a valid or effective philosophical concept.

If you believe “herd immunity” to be valid, I would urge you to read this piece–before you demonize any unvaccinated child again.  Vaccinated children shed disease from vaccines and are just as much carriers as the unvaccinated.  At-risk children need to be asking “are there any recently vaccinated in the room,” rather than the opposite.  And that child needs to stay out of crowds.

Here are, also, two small quotes from the piece:

Herd immunity is not an immunologic idea, but rather an epidemiologic construct, which theoretically predicts successful disease control when a certain pre-calculated percentage of people in the population are immune from disease.

And:

The belief in herd immunity has no doubt been influencing vaccine-related legislation in many U.S. states and other countries.  This notion is used as a trump card to justify and mandate legal measures aiming to increase vaccination compliance.  An implicit assumption is that liberal vaccine exemptions somehow compromise this precious herd immunity, which the public-health authorities strive to establish and maintain via vaccination.

Herd Immunity, a Flawed Concept

            Although the evidence for vaccination-based herd immunity is yet to materialize, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. 

Herd Immunity: Myth or Reality? | GreenMedInfo | Blog Entry.

Interesting Information/Vaccines: An Open Letter to Legislators Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych

Interesting Information/Vaccines:  May 9, 2015

An Open Letter to Legislators Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD

Tetyana Obukhanych is an immunologist with work credentials from Stanford and Harvard.

She offers one of the clearest explanations regarding vaccines I have found to date.

In this piece, which is widely available all over the internet now, she explains why mandating vaccines for ALL children is unnecessary.  AND why discriminating against unvaccinated children is nothing but public hysteria–which has been fueled by media’s total failure in covering this issue fairly and (I would add) the vaccine industry.  (I’ve heard that 70% of media funding now comes from Big Pharma–and I’d like to research that fact.)

Here’s Obukhanych’s opening statement:

My name is Tetyana Obukhanych.  I hold a PhD in Immunology.  I am writing this letter in the hope that it will correct several common misperceptions about vaccines in order to help you formulate a fair and balanced understanding that is supported by accepted vaccine theory and new scientific findings.

If you are interested in the actual science of this issue, an immunologist would be one of the first places to go.  Obukhanych’s statement peels away the myth that is rampant in our society today.

http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/an-open-letter-to-legislators-currently-considering-vaccine-legislation-from-tetyana-obukhanych-phd-in-immunology/

Obukhanych is the author of VACCINE ILLUSIONS, which is an easy read, easy to download, and full of dependable information from someone whose field this is.