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The following article presents testimony and statistics which any health freedom advocate or parent will find useful in considering whether they want to be vaccinated or have their child vaccinated against their will.
Vaccinating For Profit – From Cradle to Coffin News
February 2, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle
Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the rising medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will soon go through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to face the unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.
And when that happens, government officials had better not even think about trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and medical experts have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine injuries, from one end of the country to the other, since the 1990s, and the fact is that lawmakers knowingly allowed it to happen.
Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide experiment on our country’s youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions.
In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex’s war on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of other prescription drugs, for the scheme’s developers.
The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking into consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on developing brains of infants.
Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999, vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines but they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and children continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more years. Even today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies and pregnant women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.
Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent much of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the pharmaceutical industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine injured children. A handful of shameless Congressional Republicans remained lurking around in the shadows for years, just waiting for the right moment to attach the protective provision to some “anti-terror” spending bill until they succeeded in December 2005.
Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20 injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first grade, they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in compliance with the CDC’s 2005 Immunization Schedule. [By the time they reach age 18, if they have been vaccinated according to the American Academy of Pediatrics schedule, they have received fully 78 vaccinations! Comment by Dr. Rima]
For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24 injections for diseases they have never heard of [and another 58 by age 18! Comment by Dr. Rima]. However, government officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic sanctions for refusing to comply.
Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance; denial of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for poor children including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and food, under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.
Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice of the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14, 1999, Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of American Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government reform and said:
“Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal association with an increase in vaccination rates,” she said. “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.”
“There is no explanation for this increase,” Orient added.
“Even more alarming,” she told lawmakers, “is the huge increase in reports of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating, life-long impacts.”
“Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of childhood diseases are a far less serious threat,” Orient warned, “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.”
About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, testified before the California Senate Committee on Childhood Immunization Mandates: Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002. Fisher acknowledged that the CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics, vigorously deny that the vaccines could have anything to do with more children being chronically ill.
“Yet, the haunting question remains,” she said, “if we have wiped out polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood diseases with vaccines – why are so many of our children stuck on sick?”
“Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can’t find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally disturbed, sick children?” Fisher asked.
Since 1982, she charged, “the numbers of American children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children.”
Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries. Dr Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for over 30 years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink database controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the connection between vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.
In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers reported: “we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship exists between mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders.”
“Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75% of the cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed to about 15%,” they said. “The remaining 10% of the cases were related to mercury in Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other sources of neurotoxicity.”
On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling, was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally begging Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in children with neurological disorders all over the country.
“Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest generation, and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going on with our children,” he said.
He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining that one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. “Furthermore,” Weldon reported, “one in 7 children is being diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral disability.”
On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified in Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned lawmakers about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.
“ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those 420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on $3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected).”
“So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required if we stopped creating new cases today,” Bradstreet said.
“Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly conservative estimate” he added. “The societal cost could easily be $3-4 trillion.”
On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the Don Imus Show on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is allowing drug companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use on children in other countries.
“They’re giving this now to kids all over the third world,” Kennedy warned. “In China, autism was unknown five years ago,” he said. “They started giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now they’ve got 1.8 million cases of autism,” he added.
Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.
“What’s going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that the United State’s most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating the children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third world children?” he warmed.
“This is just a disaster,” Kennedy told Imus.
But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has resulted in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical industry. After poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now making record profits from drugging their victims.
And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership with compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most of it off on the tax payer’s dime. Federal and State government programs, are the largest buyers of vaccines, administered “free” beginning with pregnant women all the way up to seniors citizens in nursing homes.
The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more vaccines were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US than in any other country. The current immunization schedule calls for 3 doses of Hepatitis B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB, IPV, Prevnar, and one dose of flu vaccine before a child’s first birthday.
The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year costs $340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US Average, 2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, US, 2005.
For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590. Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do the math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above. Suffice to say that the total amount represents major profits for vaccine makers especially when most of the bill is sent directly to the tax payers.
As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and 2003, the number of children treated for “severe behavioral conditions” related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%, according to Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York Times, May 17, 2004.
Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63% of all mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more than 50% since 2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America’s Mental Health System, Progressive Policy Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest US Payer, Daily Health Policy Report, March 30, 20005.
Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public trough. The National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the number of children aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in 1997 to 4.4 million in 2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention deficit stimulant drugs rose 56% among children, according to data compiled Medco Health Solutions, one of the largest prescription benefit managers in the nation.
According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr Gianna Rigoni, of the FDA’s Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted for about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.
In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much of that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to the July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.
As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with infants, according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 / 54(RR08);1-40, actual deaths from influenza are uncommon among children with and without high-risk conditions. A study that modeled influenza-related deaths estimated that annually, an average of 92 deaths, or 0.4 deaths per 100,000, occurred among children under 5 during the 1990’s.
So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal into 4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the benefits, if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/vaccine-profit.html
Food prices are rising as biofuel uses up farm land and farmer’s time. Worse, Codex compliant foods, shipped long distances, add much more to global warming than locally produced and consumed foods (whose nutrients are more available and taste better, too). But all over the world, food is becoming so expensive, and the food shortages of food in storage are becoming so extreme that the ability of the poorest members of society to obtain food is becoming more and more difficult.
The following Australian article notes that a the price of a cow has increased in the past year from $700 Australian dollars to $1400 this fall. What this means to the poorest is cataclysmic. What it means to the middle class is difficult. What it means to the international corporations that control the production of food (Big Agribiz and Big Biotechna) is what disease means to Big Pharma and the rest of the illness care industry: profits, and big ones at that.
The David Suzuki Foundation notes that a basic North American meal could travel about 1,500 miles to get to your dinner table?
Transporting food causes greenhouse gases that lead to global climate change while locally grown foods help conserve farmlands and wildlife habitats. Local food also reduces the environmental costs of food transportation and is more likely to be fresh than food shipped long distances.
In fact, local eating has a new name: locovores. People whose diet consists primarily of food grown in their local areas have taken on the characteristics of a new type of human. Locovores celebrate the seasons and eat what their region produces all year long. Locovores can be meat eaters, non meat eaters, vegans, raw foodists or whatever they please. But whatever they fill their plates with, it did not travel long to get there. They are saving fuel, saving time, saving costs and saving the planet. And their food tastes better, too. Not a bad deal.
Grow and eat local organic produce to stem this tide of manipulated sticker shock and failing food supplies. Better yet, grow some or all of your own food in your own gardens or in community gardens. Find out more about community gardens from Canadian Health, the American Community Gardening Association (http://www.communitygarden.org/).
Do yourself and the planet a favor. Help counter the global food shortage by buying and eating locally.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Food fear beats climate change
Article from: The Advertiser, Australia
CLARE PEDDIE, SCIENCE REPORTER
January 17, 2008 09:30pm
A WORSENING global food shortage is a problem far more urgent than climate change, top Australian scientists have warned.
The Australian Science Media Centre briefing heard why prices for some staple foods had risen by as much as 60 per cent in the past year, and how dramatic price rises are expected to sweep across all staples in the near future.
Executive director of the Australian Farm Institute Mick Keogh said dairy products, grain and poultry had seen the strongest price rises in recent months.
Beef and lamb were forecast to follow, with nationwide livestock shortages taking the average price for a cow from $700 a head 12 months ago to $1400 a head going into autumn.
Key speaker at the national science briefing Professor Julian Cribb said the security of our food supply is “the global scientific challenge of our time”.
The problem was more urgent even than climate change, said Professor Cribb, from the University of Technology in Sydney, because it will get us first . . . through famine and war. “By 2050 we will have to feed the equivalent of 13 billion people at today’s levels of nutrition,” he said.
“This situation brings with it the very real possibility of regional and global instability. Investment in global food stability is now defence spending and requires proportionate priority.”
A “knowledge drought” – the lack of innovation to address farm productivity challenges – had added to the crisis, Professor Cribb said.
He called for a massive increase in public investment in agricultural research and development.
Farmers face challenges posed by drought, climate change, rising oil prices, erosion and nutrient loss combined with more demand for food stocks and biofuels.
Global grain stocks have fallen to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1960, while Australia’s sheep flock is at its lowest since the mid-1920s, with about 86 million.
In September last year 2007 the Australian Bureau of Statistics found consumers were paying 11.9 per cent more for basic food items than they were two years before. That is almost double the Consumer Price Index rise of 5.9 per cent during the period.
The United States Government has given itself the authority to declare a pandemic (at any time) and require mandatory universal
forced vaccination under Patriot I, Patriot II, Bio Shield I, Bio Shield II, Bio Shield III and various Homeland Security Directives, Executive Orders and Signing Statements. Under these Acts and authorizations you may be (legally) subjected to experimental drugs – drugs which have no track record at all – without any informed consent rights, without right of refusal (unless you are willing to go to a quarantine center for an indefinite period of time) so it is now more important than ever that the real truth about vaccines be widely and quickly disseminated. There are reported to be more than 200 new vaccines “in the pipelineâ€. If they, along with the ones in use now, are not safe, we, and our children, are not safe.
All of us have been carefully conditioned to believe that vaccines are safe. But the truth is ugly and more than a little frightening. Here are the cold, hard facts:
Cold, Hard Fact # 1: Vaccines are not safe: vaccines are dangerous. The evidence is abundant that the tragic cost of loading babies and children up with toxic brews of mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, injected foreign protein, stealth viruses and, in the second generation vaccines, the deadly immune enhancer squalene, is unacceptably high. Lives are ruined and lost in these children when toxins overwhelm their immune systems and brains and cause tragic, totally preventable suffering and death. Autism(occurring in 4 children per 10,000 when I graduated from medical school in 1970) now afflicts a minimum of 1 child in 168 in the US. Children have not changed: the poisons we give them have. Gulf War Syndrome, a pervasive, progressive, deadly auto-immune disease afflicting over half a million US veterans, appears to be a deadly vaccine reaction to an experimental vaccine (Anthrax) which the US used on soldiers without their consent in clear violation of the Helsinki Declaration and the Nuremberg Protocols, international conventions and agreements which prohibit human experimentation without fully informed consent. Vaccinated people come down with the diseases they are supposedly vaccinated against with astonishing frequency.
The concept of informed consent, is, of course, is meaningless in the face of compulsory vaccination with secret ingredients and no manufacturer accountability.
Contaminants make vaccines tremendously dangerous. Swine flu (for a pandemic which never materialized) was contaminated with polio virus in 1976. Over 45 million Americans were vaccinated in just 77 days and although there were only 6 cases of Swine
flu in the entire country the vaccine reportedly caused at least 565 cases of polio paralysis (renamed “Guillain-Barre Syndrome†for the occasion), 60 deaths and other serious problems, including blindness and impotence. (There is no reason to feel reassured
because this particular disaster occurred in the past: every flu vaccine is capable of passing along Guillain-Barre (polio) and other unsuspected viral diseases.)
In February, 2008, the CDC announced that the seasonal flu vaccine being pushed, and required, of children, adults and the elderly was strikingly ineffective, missing more than 60% of the viruses circulating this flu season. That did not stop them, States, schools, hospitals, the New York City Department of Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics and myriad other “Health” organizations from continuing to insist on its use, despite its well characterized dangers.
Cold, Hard Fact # 2: Vaccines have not eradicated diseases: vaccines spread diseases. Attenuated viruses (infective, weakened versions of the dangerous ones) are commonly used in vaccines so that your body will develop an immune ‘memory’ for that virus. The next time your immune system meets that specific virus, it rapidly combats it by producing large numbers of antibodies. This practice and theory derive from the dawn of vaccination: Edward Jenner’s pioneering use of cowpox pus inoculations to eliminate
smallpox. This innovative and surprising medical treatment is touted as one of the triumphs of modern medicine. It makes a wonderful story but, in fact, inoculation not only spread smallpox, it caused well-documented epidemics of syphilis and leprosy in
inoculated people, especially babies (who have immature immune systems). In spite of the documented associated dangers of leprosy, syphilis, smallpox, death and blindness, England provided free vaccination in 1840, made it compulsory in 1853, and punished
lack of vaccination with seizure of property and imprisonment in 1857 (which should sound familiar). It took a British Royal Commission some 41 years more to put a stop to the deaths and disease that Jenner’s unproven technique caused. Finally, in 1898,
England’s compulsory smallpox vaccination laws were overturned.
In 1854, the first year of British compulsory vaccination, deaths from syphilis in infants under 1 year increased by 50% and continued to rise steadily after that. In 1802 Jenner was paid 10,000 pounds by the House of Commons. Shortly afterwards, it became clear
that vaccines did not work. Rather than lose face, the House of Commons granted Jenner another 20,000 pounds in 1807 and 3,000 pounds a year thereafter.
Jenner knew that milk maids who milked with active pus-filled sores on their hands transmitted pox to their cows. Local superstition held that the cow’s pus was a preventive against small pox. Jennings learned from a local farmer, Benjamin Jestey, that he had inoculated his wife and 3 children with cowpox pus by jabbing them with a darning needle and they did not contract small pox. Jenner assumed that this meant they were protected against smallpox. To the modern ear this is absurd. In Jenner’s day, neither methodology nor the scientific method were part of the culture.
Jenner, a village apothecary who purchased a University of Edinburgh MD for 15 pounds, was a showman who made much of his “discovery†and hastened to induce Sarah Nelmes, a young milk maid with a fresh lesion on her finger, to allow him to collect pus from her sore. He inoculated an 8 year old named James Phipps who developed a fever and a pustule on his skin. Seventeen days later he inoculated the boy again, this time with small pox. Since the boy did not develop smallpox, Jenner concluded that “protection was completeâ€.
Jenner hawked his inoculation but people started to complain because they were developing smallpox (and syphilis) after vaccination with Jenner’s cowpox. Jenner switched to infected material from horses’ heels instead (“Horse-greaseâ€). John Baker, the child he inoculated with horse-grease, however, died before he could expose him to small pox. Undeterred, he inoculated 6 more children, including James Phipps, with horse-grease and was so convinced that the results would be positive that he rushed to London to publish them before there were any results. The [untested] “success†of James Phipps’ inoculation and his London paper established Jenner’s method and his success. Revolted by the idea of horse-grease inoculations, people demanded cowpox inoculations again. Jenner
complied.
But just what is cow pox? In tropical countries it is cutaneous smallpox plus leprosy (a non-lethal disease often present along with leprosy) while in more moderate climates the milk maids were transferring syphilis to the cattle along with their cutaneous smallpox.
Jenner was making his brew from the cowpox pus and the results were nothing short of disastrous for untold numbers of people.
Modern small pox vaccines are produced in much the same way: lesions are induced on the skin of calves and, after they are “sacrificed†[and sold for veal?], the harvested material from their lesions is cultured in eggs and prepared as vaccines.
However, although immunity fails to develop more than 80% of the time, serious side effects are distressingly common from the modern small pox vaccines: At least 52 people out of every million will have life threatening events and 1-2 will die. Permanent damage to heart, brain, skin and GI effects are also well known side effects. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) notes that serious side effects and dangers probably occur much more often since many people can be harmed by live virus vaccines: immune compromised people (on steroids, with eczema or psoriasis, nursing babies, pregnant women and their fetuses, people with HIV/AIDS, transplant patients, chemotherapy and radiation patients, people with auto-immune diseases, young children, asthmatics, etc.) are at serious risk for contracting the same disease that the inoculation is designed to prevent or worse.
In the US, the CDC classifies more than 60 million people as immune compromised. People who are re-inoculated after many years are particularly susceptible to severe and life threatening reactions. Those who are ill are likely to develop sever effects as well.
In fact, Tommy Thompson, former Health and Human Services boss, said that he would not take the vaccine although the US is stock piling “a dose of smallpox vaccine with every American’s name on itâ€. Perhaps the one with his name has been changed so it
reads, “To Whom It May Concernâ€.
Emergency vaccinations for a Homeland Security emergency, that is, a pandemic, will allow absolutely no exemptions
for medical conditions or personal conviction. None.
Dr. Mike Lane, former director of the CDC’s so-called “smallpox eradication program†in the 1970’s, is a proponent of mass vaccination with no exemptions saying, “Medical contraindications would not apply… there would be NO exceptions. [In India] I’m sure that we killed a few people, but we did the best that we could….If the person is exposed there will be no exemptions, medical or otherwise.â€
When a live virus is used in the vaccine, infective virus is shed for anywhere from 4 to 21 days (or more) and, during that time, inoculated persons can give the disease, or the side effects of the inoculation, to any vulnerable person they come into contact with.
So, while it may be true that vaccines have spread disease, isn’t it true that vaccines have eliminated the epidemic diseases of the past? No, actually they have not. Neither Jenner’s cowpox inoculation nor modern smallpox inoculation did anything to eliminate
smallpox (quite the contrary). The fact is, Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell discovered that smallpox is transmitted by the flying bedbug, Cimex lectularius, and that eliminating this parasitic insect from human habitation eliminates smallpox, too. Personal hygiene and
better housekeeping eliminated the deadly scourge. (Dr. Campbell also discovered that the disfiguring pocks of the disease could be prevented by a diet high in Vitamin C.)
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the planet “smallpox free†in 1980, they did so administratively, not medically: small pox incidence was reduced, but not gone, despite nearly universal vaccination. What to do? WHO solved the problem
cleverly: they renamed the disease “cowpox†and “monkey poxâ€. Shazam: a smallpox free planet, quicker than you can say, “Junk Science!â€
Other epidemic diseases were in sharp decline at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries as a direct consequence of improved hygiene and other life-style changes. Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Polio and Hepatitis B were all in sharp decline
long before vaccines were introduced. The contribution to the decline made by vaccines, however, was negligible or non-existent. Scarlet Fever, typhoid fever and cholera, for which inoculation either did not exist or was never wide-spread, declined on the same
sharp curve for the same reasons. So do we need inoculations because of the public health hazard? Despite the considerable hype, in fact, there is no unbiased evidence which connects disease prevention with inoculation.
Cold, Hard Fact # 3: Flu vaccines do not protect people from flu-related deaths. The CDC claims that an astonishing 36,000 people die from flu in an average year. But according to the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, 68 people under 65 die from flu each year in the US. The truth i,440 people, mostly elderly, died from flu, no where near the CDC’s touted 144,000 deaths. While that figure is great for flu vaccine sales, it derivers not from reality but
from the CDC’s industry-friendly statistical trick of classifying all pneumonia-related deaths, despite any lack of evidence, as flu deaths. Discussing this nonsense, Lone Simonsen of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/NIH, writes in The
Archives of Internal Medicine “We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational
studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.”1
Cold, Hard Fact # 4: Potential pandemic viral diseases like the Bird Flu do not have safe and effective vaccines to prevent them and there are no drugs to treat them effectively. Despite that fact, on September 15, 2005 the US purchased $100 Million of a French experimental flu vaccine designed to protect against bird flu. It’s so experimental, in fact, that although we have purchased megabucks worth of the stuff, the French manufacturer, Sanofi-Pasteur, is planning to experiment with adjutants (immune response enhancers) to rev up human response to it. Perhaps the adjuvant is the same one that the Army used in the deadly Vaccine A against anthrax: squalene. The purchase is real, but there is currently no such thing as a vaccine for pandemic bird flu. None the less, the US has announced recently that it has stock piled enough “Avian Flu Vaccine” to inoculate every man, woman and child in America. With what? Against what?
Unfortunately, even if vaccines did work (they don’t) and were safe (they’re not), a virus has to actually exist before you can make a vaccine that can control the disease. The pandemic version of the latest bird flu does not yet exist. Vaccines are very specific: they
train the immune system to make antibodies to a particular protein sequence. Because those antibodies are highly specific, guessing wrong on which flu strain is coming soon to a droplet near you has led to an embarrassing history, year after year, of ineffective flu
shots against the wrong strain of virus. People developed side effects, but the shots did not ward off the flu since the vaccine misfired with regard to the virus it was supposed to be protecting people against. And, oh by the way, experimental vaccines are not even
alleged to be safe. No one knows what effects they will have. Now that the FDA, the Courts and Congress have relieved vaccine and drug manufacturers from any consumer liability whatsoever once their product has been approved by the FDA for any use whatsoever, the entire question of receiving compensation from a manufacturer for vaccine damage is moot. Vaccine damage is an uninsurable risk because no insurance underwriter in the world wants to bet that you (or your child) will NOT be damaged by the vaccines tampering with your immune, neurological and other systems. The US has paid out over 2 billion dollars through its Vaccine Injury Compensation system and recently announced in a concession that vaccines could have precipitated the autism in a child who received 9 shots on one day and then collapsed into autism. Another 49,000 cases making their way through the same Court system may be settled in the same way because of this decision. But if the damage is not autism, but, for instance, encephalitis, cancer, sterility or death, there is no system of compensation for you.
Allegedly, the bird flu pandemic version has not yet mutated and therefore does not exist so there is no way whatsoever to make a vaccine against it. Not even the US Government can make a vaccine against an imaginary virus. But that is just what the government
wants us to believe they can do. Clearly, the French experimental flu vaccine purchase is a political, not a public health one. IF the bird flu mutates and becomes pandemic, it would take between 4 and 18 months to gear up to make commercial quantities of the vaccine.1 (http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/3/265) In the meantime, anyone getting the bird flu and surviving it would have natural antibodies to the disease. But right now, unless the already-mutated pandemic H5N1 virus is being stock-piled in a laboratory for convenient release at an opportune moment
(which is certainly possible), the virus needed to make a real bird flu vaccine exists only in fearful imagination. So what would the government inoculate you with? Who knows? A nanochip to track you, perhaps? The technology exists. An experimental drug, maybe? Something that someone wants to test on huge numbers of people whether they like it or not? An FDA approved sterility vaccine already used in sub Saharan Africa by the WHO and in South and Central America? Squalene? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Only the government would know. You won’t.
The US government has set itself above the law and beyond investigation. Consider: the anthrax vaccine currently being tested on US 2nd and 3rd graders contains squalene. The experiment is therefore not about anthrax (the vaccine is only approved for cutaneous anthrax, a non- life threatening disease highly unlikely to be used, therefore, as a bio-weapon) but rather about what happens to children given a deadly substance which stimulates their immune systems to destroy their bodies over time. After World War II, the managers of IG Farben, the vast German industrial combine, were imprisoned for Crimes Against Humanity for precisely this kind of activity. Who will be convicted this time? The head
of the FDA? The Secretary of Homeland Security? The Secretary of Health and Human Services? On what secret evidence? This is what the US government/pharmaceutical cabal is setting up in full view of the public and of Congress under the false flag of Homeland Security. Can you imagine what would happen if there were no public scrutiny at all and no legal liability for any ill deeds whatsoever? Only if you can imagine medical fascism – and it is no dream.
Under the banner of Homeland Security the US government has established a medical Gestapo. It has given itself the power to initiate a medical marshal law from which the only escapes would be prison, death, fleeing the country or rebellion.
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Here is where we are going if we do not act together to stop it.
The Polio vaccine is known to carry the CMV-40 virus which is a proven cause of leukemia. it also confers huge dangers (http://thepowerhour.com/news/polio_dangers.htm) including paralysis and death (http://www.whale.to/a/mcbean5.html#CHAPTER%20X:%20THE%20HIDDEN%20DANGERS%20IN%20POLIO%20VACCINE). In fact, authorities examining the results of Polio vaccination concluded in 1955
“The interval between inoculation and the first sign of paralysis ranged from 5 to 20 days and in a large proportion of cases it started in the limb on which the injection had been given. Another feature of the tragedy was that the numbers developing polio were far greater than would have been expected had no inoculations been given. In fact in the state of Idaho, according to a statement by Dr. Carl Eklund, one of the Government’s chief virus authorities, polio struck only vaccinated children in areas where there had been no cases of polio since the preceding autumn; in 9 out of 10 cases the paralysis occurred in the arms in which the vaccine had been injected.” (News Chronicle, May 6, 1955)
According to the Daily Telegraph (June 18, 1955) Mr. Peterson, State Health Director of Idaho, stopped further inoculations and stated: “We have lost confidence in the Salk Vaccine.” He also stated that he “holds the vaccine, together with the instructions for its manufacture, directly responsible for the outbreak of polio and the deaths that had occurred.”
Nonetheless, Polio vaccination is a huge business and, despite the well documented dangers associated with it, mandatory vaccination has become an item of public health dogma in many places around the world. In fact, in Belgium, polio vaccination is compulsory and is taken so seriously that two parents who refused the infection for their child have been fined and jailed. Here is the story as reported in the British Medical Journal.
If this is not an acceptable public health policy, now would be a good time to act since State ordered (as well as school and college ordered) compulsory vaccination scenarios are becoming more common by the day in the US. The US government has given itself the authority to institute compulsory vaccinations without proof, scientific input or medical review. Frighteningly, it has announced that it has stock piled enough Avian Flu vaccine for every man, woman and child in the US.
Of course, virologically, that is impossible if, as they maintain, the pandemic form of the H5N1 virus does not exist yet since a vaccine cannot be made against a virus that does not exist. So just what is in that vaccine? And why is this such a vital issue to the US government and the World Health Organization (WHO)? Could the Health Minister of Indonesia be correct? Could it be true that the WHO gave Indonesian Avian Flu samples to a bioweapons laboratory at Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico? And could her belief be accurate that the US and WHO are manipulating the alleged dangers for their own political and economic gain?
And, oh, by the way, just what is in that vaccine (or any other, for that matter)? Would it contain the material to stimulate antibodies to the hormone that women make when they are in early pregnancy, HCG, (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) so that woman become sterile? That technology was used by the WHO in Africa by mixing it with other vaccines, according to Dr. William Deagle, to “eliminate 150 million excess sub Saharan Africans” since it rendered woman receiving it sterile. The same technology was used, under the support of the US, the Norwegian Government and the WHO in South and Central America when women of child bearing age got tetanus shots (which also contained this material, although they were not informed that they were receiving a vaccine against getting pregnant.) Significantly, men and boys did not receive this vaccine although they are probably just as likely to step on a rusty nail as a woman or girl.
Or might it have a new virus, or an old one like the one allegedly disseminated in small pox vaccinations in Africa? Might it have the double dose of thimerisol (compared to US vaccines) that the vaccines so generously supplied to the children of the developing world by high profile philanthropies are reported to contain. Perhaps a new genetically engineered plague? Who knows. Without public comment and scientific review, the harm done by new vaccinations will only emerge later, perhaps much later. And in that context it would be well to recall that the FDA has removed your right to sue the manufacturer of any drug or vaccine for any damage it causes if it has been approved by the FDA for any purpose at all. So if you roll up your sleeve (or your child’s sleeve) for that “jab” as they call them in the UK, you are accepting whatever risks and damage comes your way without recourse or recompense.
if that does not work for you, now would be a very good time to take action to make it clear to our legislators that we do not accept the notion that our health freedom can be tossed aside at the whim of a government or school official and that we will not accept compulsory vaccination. Visit the home page of the Natural Solutions Foundation at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org to take the action steps listed there to stop compulsory vaccinations. And while you are there, take a moment to sign up for the Health Freedom eAlerts and make a tax deductible donation (https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189) to keep health freedom free! Recurring donations are especially helpful.
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Two parents face jail for refusing polio jab
21 February 2008
Two sets of parents in Belgium have been sentenced to prison after they refused to vaccinate their children against polio. The vaccination is compulsory in Belgium.
The parents have been fined £4,100 ($8000) and sentenced to five months’ imprisonment.
They failed to appear in court, and the judge sentenced them on the basis of police evidence. He suspended the prison sentence, and has given the parents a second chance to have their children vaccinated.
Belgian law allows exceptions to the vaccine only if parents can prove that their child would have an adverse reaction to it.
(Source: British Medical Journal, 2008; 336: 348).
Vaccine Case Settled by US With Admission that Vaccine Injury Associated with Autism
In a striking admission, the US government has finally agreed to the fact that vaccines can cause autism, at least in one landmark case. In a Federal Vaccine Court case, the Department of Health and Human Services, the parent body for the FDA (and the CDC and the other organizations which impact and control vaccines in the United States) acknowledged that a little girl who collapsed into autism within days of simultaneous vaccination against 9 different diseases was, in fact, damaged by the vaccines. Although they asserted that the child had an underlying disorder of the mitochondria (the energy producing organelles upon which we rely for cellular energy) they did concede that “The vaccinations received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of ASD.”
The other 4900 pending cases in which vaccine damage is alleged will, according to our legal sources, probably be settled the same way. In this case, the little girl will receive the life-long care she will need because of this settlement. Nothing the government does, of course, can restore her life, or her family’s normality, to her. In my experience as a physician, there are ways to retrieve autistic people, but they do not involve drugs. They involve nutrition, detoxification, frequency therapies and other non-pharmaceutical approaches. But they are all long, arduous and demanding. And not every autistic child has access to these methods. For most, the risk of vaccination is not only the risk of infection with the disease supposedly being “protected” against, but a collapse of the immune system, neurological damage or death, cancer and other potentially lethal consequences. When do we, as a people, say “NO” to the uninsurable risk presented by vaccines?
Insurance companies refuse to insure vaccine risk because the risk is simply too great. But the US and the individual States in the Union continue to insist on more, and more dangerous, vaccines. According to Barbara Fisk, a New Jersey Health Freedom advocate fighting against compulsory vaccination, by the time a child reaches adolescence in New Jersey (which is not much different from the rest of the US), he/she will have received 74 vaccinations! Remembering that each one contains cumulative poisons like formaldehyde, heavy metals like mercury, toxins like aluminum, dangerous adjuvants like squalene (thought to be responsible for Gulf War Syndrome in soldiers vaccinated with the required Anthrax vaccine and present in most modern vaccines), neurotoxins like MSG (also toxic to the pancreas), cancer-causing viruses like CMV-40, bits of foreign protein and stealth viruses, the wonder of our modern, and somewhat insane, age is that there are any children left who are NOT autistic. Of course, given the numbers of children diagnosed with neurological and psychiatric disorders and the number of children with diabetes (MSG puts the pancreas into overdrive) and cancer, as well as auto immune diseases, perhaps that is too optimistic an assessment. Perhaps the only really healthy children are those who have never been vaccinated at all!
So vaccination benefits the manufacturers of vaccines in several ways: first, through direct profits from the huge sales of ever more vaccines and second from the drug sales engendered by the many diseases precipitated by vaccination. By the way, according to FDA documents, that would include cervical cancer in girls and women vaccinated with the HPV vaccine since the vaccine is associated with a four fold increase in cervical cancer BUT the types of HPV which it supposedly protects against are self-limited, benign viruses which do not cause cancer.
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Read David Kirby’s article on this land mark settlement:
Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court – Now What?
Posted February 25, 2008 | 12:42 PM (EST)
After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.
The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff’s identify. It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case.
The claim, one of 4,900 autism cases currently pending in Federal “Vaccine Court,” was conceded by US Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other Justice Department officials, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the “defendant” in all Vaccine Court cases.
The child’s claim against the government — that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism — was supposed to be one of three “test cases” for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.
Keisler wrote that medical personnel at the HHS Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation (DVIC) had reviewed the case and “concluded that compensation is appropriate.”
The doctors conceded that the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, when she received vaccinations against nine different diseases all at once (two contained thimerosal).
Days later, the girl began spiraling downward into a cascade of illnesses and setbacks that, within months, presented as symptoms of autism, including: No response to verbal direction; loss of language skills; no eye contact; loss of “relatedness;” insomnia; incessant screaming; arching; and “watching the florescent lights repeatedly during examination.”
Seven months after vaccination, the patient was diagnosed by Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a leading neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Children’s Hospital Neurology Clinic, with “regressive encephalopathy (brain disease) with features consistent with autistic spectrum disorder, following normal development.” The girl also met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) official criteria for autism.
In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was “aggravated” by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis.
“The vaccinations received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder,” the concession says, “which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of ASD.”
This statement is good news for the girl and her family, who will now be compensated for the lifetime of care she will require. But its implications for the larger vaccine-autism debate, and for public health policy in general, are not as certain.
In fact, the government’s concession seems to raise more questions than it answers.
1) Is there a connection between vaccines, mitochondrial disorders and a diagnosis of autism, at least in some cases?
Mitochondria, you may recall from biology class, are the little powerhouses within cells that convert food into electrical energy, partly through a complex process called “oxidative phosphorylation.” If this process is impaired, mitochondrial disorder will ensue.
The child in this case had several markers for Mt disease, which was confirmed by muscle biopsy. Mt disease is often marked by lethargy, poor muscle tone, poor food digestion and bowel problems, something found in many children diagnosed with autism.
But mitochondrial disorders are rare in the general population, affecting some 2-per-10,000 people (or just 0.2%). So with 4,900 cases filed in Vaccine Court, this case should be the one and only, extremely rare instance of Mt disease in all the autism proceedings.
But it is not.
Mitochondrial disorders are now thought to be the most common disease associated with ASD. Some journal articles and other analyses have estimated that 10% to 20% of all autism cases may involve mitochondrial disorders, which would make them one thousand times more common among people with ASD than the general population.
Another article, published in the Journal of Child Neurology and co-authored by Dr. Zimmerman, showed that 38% of Kennedy Krieger Institute autism patients studied had one marker for impaired oxidative phosphorylation, and 47% had a second marker.
The authors — who reported on a case-study of the same autism claim conceded in Vaccine Court — noted that “children who have (mitochondrial-related) dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism might be more prone to undergo autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have infections or immunizations at the same time.”
An interesting aspect of Mt disease in autism is that, with ASD, the mitochondrial disease seems to be milder than in “classic” cases of Mt disorder. In fact, classic Mt disease is almost always inherited, either passed down by the mother through mitochondrial DNA, or by both parents through nuclear DNA.
In autism-related Mt disease, however, the disorder is not typically found in other family members, and instead appears to be largely of the sporadic variety, which may now account for 75% of all mitochondrial disorders.
Meanwhile, an informal survey of seven families of children with cases currently pending in Vaccine Court revealed that all seven showed markers for mitochondrial dysfunction, dating back to their earliest medical tests. The facts in all seven claims mirror the case just conceded by the government: Normal development followed by vaccination, immediate illness, and rapid decline culminating in an autism diagnosis.
2) With 4,900 cases pending, and more coming, will the government concede those with underlying Mt disease — and if it not, will the Court award compensation?
The Court will soon begin processing the 4900 cases pending before it. What if 10% to 20% of them can demonstrate the same Mt disease and same set of facts as those in the conceded case? Would the government be obliged to concede 500, or even 1,000 cases? What impact would that have on public opinion? And is there enough money currently in the vaccine injury fund to cover so many settlements?
When asked for a comment last week about the court settlement, a spokesman for HHS furnished the following written statement:
“DVIC has reviewed the scientific information concerning the allegation that vaccines cause autism and has found no credible evidence to support the claim. Accordingly, in every case under the Vaccine Act, DVIC has maintained the position that vaccines do not cause autism, and has never concluded in any case that autism was caused by vaccination.”
3) If the government is claiming that vaccines did not “cause” autism, but instead aggravated a condition to “manifest” as autism, isn’t that a very fine distinction?
For most affected families, such linguistic gymnastics is not so important. And even if a vaccine injury “manifested” as autism in only one case, isn’t that still a significant development worthy of informing the public?
On the other hand, perhaps what the government is claiming is that vaccination resulted in the symptoms of autism, but not in an actual, factually correct diagnosis of autism itself.
4) If the government is claiming that this child does NOT have autism, then how many other children might also have something else that merely “mimics” autism?
Is it possible that 10%-20% of the cases that we now label as “autism,” are not autism at all, but rather some previously undefined “look-alike” syndrome that merely presents as “features” of autism?
This question gets to the heart of what autism actually is. The disorder is defined solely as a collection of features, nothing more. If you have the features (and the diagnosis), you have the disorder. The underlying biology is the great unknown.
But let’s say the government does determine that these kids don’t have actual “autism” (something I speculated on HuffPost a year ago). Then shouldn’t the Feds go back and test all people with ASD for impaired oxidative phosphorylation, perhaps reclassifying many of them?
If so, will we then see “autism” cases drop by tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people? Will there be a corresponding ascension of a newly described disorder, perhaps something like “Vaccine Aggravated Mitochondrial Disease with Features of ASD?”
And if this child was technically “misdiagnosed” with DSM-IV autism by Dr Zimmerman, how does he feel about HHS doctors issuing a second opinion re-diagnosis of his patient, whom they presumably had neither met nor examined? (Zimmerman declined an interview).
And along those lines, aren’t Bush administration officials somewhat wary of making long-distance, retroactive diagnoses from Washington, given that the Terry Schiavo incident has not yet faded from national memory?
5) Was this child’s Mt disease caused by a genetic mutation, as the government implies, and wouldn’t that have manifested as “ASD features” anyway?
In the concession, the government notes that the patient had a “single nucleotide change” in the mitochondrial DNA gene T2387C, implying that this was the underlying cause of her manifested “features” of autism.
While it’s true that some inherited forms of Mt disease can manifest as developmental delays, (and even ASD in the form of Rhett Syndrome) these forms are linked to identified genetic mutations, of which T2387C is not involved. In fact little, if anything, is known about the function of this particular gene.
What’s more, there is no evidence that this girl, prior to vaccination, suffered from any kind of “disorder” at all- genetic, mitochondrial or otherwise. Some forms of Mt disease are so mild that the person is unaware of being affected. This perfectly developing girl may have had Mt disorder at the time of vaccination, but nobody detected, or even suspected it.
And, there is no evidence to suggest that this girl would have regressed into symptoms consistent with a DSM-IV autism diagnosis without her vaccinations. If there was such evidence, then why on earth would these extremely well-funded government attorneys compensate this alleged injury in Vaccine Court? Why wouldn’t they move to dismiss, or at least fight the case at trial?
6) What are the implications for research?
The concession raises at least two critical research questions: What are the causes of Mt dysfunction; and how could vaccines aggravate that dysfunction to the point of “autistic features?”
While some Mt disorders are clearly inherited, the “sporadic” form is thought to account for 75% of all cases, according to the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. So what causes sporadic Mt disease? “Medicines or other toxins,” says the Cleveland Clinic, a leading authority on the subject.
Use of the AIDS drug AZT, for example, can cause Mt disorders by deleting large segments of mitochondrial DNA. If that is the case, might other exposures to drugs or toxins (i.e., thimerosal, mercury in fish, air pollution, pesticides, live viruses) also cause sporadic Mt disease in certain subsets of children, through similar genotoxic mechanisms?
Among the prime cellular targets of mercury are mitochondria, and thimerosal-induced cell death has been associated with the depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, according to the International Journal of Molecular Medicine among several others. (Coincidently, the first case of Mt disease was diagnosed in 1959, just 15 years after the first autism case was named, and two decades after thimerosal’s introduction as a vaccine preservative.)
Regardless of its cause, shouldn’t HHS sponsor research into Mt disease and the biological mechanisms by which vaccines could aggravate the disorder? We still do not know what it was, exactly, about this girl’s vaccines that aggravated her condition. Was it the thimerosal? The three live viruses? The two attenuated viruses? Other ingredients like aluminum? A combination of the above?
And of course, if vaccine injuries can aggravate Mt disease to the point of manifesting as autism features, then what other underlying disorders or conditions (genetic, autoimmune, allergic, etc.) might also be aggravated to the same extent?
7) What are the implications for medicine and public health?
Should the government develop and approve new treatments for “aggravated mitochondrial disease with ASD features?” Interestingly, many of the treatments currently deployed in Mt disease (i.e., coenzyme Q10, vitamin B-12, lipoic acid, biotin, dietary changes, etc.) are part of the alternative treatment regimen that many parents use on their children with ASD.
And, if a significant minority of autism cases can be linked to Mt disease and vaccines, shouldn’t these products one day carry an FDA Black Box warning label, and shouldn’t children with Mt disorders be exempt from mandatory immunization?
8) What are the implications for the vaccine-autism debate?
It’s too early to tell. But this concession could conceivably make it more difficult for some officials to continue insisting there is “absolutely no link” between vaccines and autism.
It also puts the Federal Government’s Vaccine Court defense strategy somewhat into jeopardy. DOJ lawyers and witnesses have argued that autism is genetic, with no evidence to support an environmental component. And, they insist, it’s simply impossible to construct a chain of events linking immunizations to the disorder.
Government officials may need to rethink their legal strategy, as well as their public relations campaigns, given their own slightly contradictory concession in this case.
9) What is the bottom line here?
The public, (including world leaders) will demand to know what is going on inside the US Federal health establishment. Yes, as of now, n=1, a solitary vaccine-autism concession. But what if n=10% or 20%? Who will pay to clean up that mess?
The significance of this concession will unfortunately be fought over in the usual, vitriolic way — and I fully expect to be slammed for even raising these questions. Despite that, the language of this concession cannot be changed, or swept away.
Its key words are “aggravated” and “manifested.” Without the aggravation of the vaccines, it is uncertain that the manifestation would have occurred at all.
When a kid with peanut allergy eats a peanut and dies, we don’t say “his underlying metabolic condition was significantly aggravated to the extent of manifesting as an anaphylactic shock with features of death.”
No, we say the peanut killed the poor boy. Remove the peanut from the equation, and he would still be with us today.
Many people look forward to hearing more from HHS officials about why they are settling this claim. But whatever their explanation, they cannot change the fundamental facts of this extraordinary case:
The United State government is compensating at least one child for vaccine injuries that resulted in a diagnosis of autism.
And that is big news, no matter how you want to say it.
David Kirby is the author of “Evidence of Harm – Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, A Medical Controversy” (St. Martins Press 2005.