Most Americans are not aware that in 1986 Congress gave pharmaceutical companies immunity from lawsuits. Why? Was it because their vaccines had been causing serious illnesses and deaths?
That law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. We are now required to file a claim with the U.S. Government in a special “vaccine court” called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program funded through a tax on vaccines. Now for the question: Should you get the flu shot, or should you pass?
The government has a vested financial interest in promoting vaccines, because if we all stop getting these unnecessary flu shots, who will compensate those before us who have been injured or died from them?
Accordingly, we are being lied to by our own government, but there should be no surprise here, except for those who suffer from cognitive dissonance, which is the inability to face facts.
There should also be no surprise that the vaccine industry views the 320 million people living in the United States as a large profit center; moreover, when you consider the population of the world, the figures become staggering. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in the 2014-15 flu season 47.1 percent of Americans had a flu shot at an average cost of $31.99. Imagine if that percent were to be duplicated around the globe? What a windfall for a product that has not been proven necessary, safe, or effective.
This begs a serious question being asked about these vaccines. Should you get the flu shot or should you pass?
Today, flu shots can be obtained everywhere. You no longer have to visit your doctor to get one. Anyone can give you your annual vaccination. How nice and caring of the industry to make these vaccinations so available for us.
It would seem that they really care about our health, right? Wrong, it’s all about the money.
Flu shots make a lot of money for the drug manufactures who promote the vaccine, which has been approved by both the FDA and the CDC but has never been proven necessary or even effective.
Vaccinations have become a way of life as we are overdosed with television commercials filling us with the fear of the consequences of not getting our annual vaccination. But no one tells us of the deaths of those who do.
Unfortunately, we have become so abused by for-profit media hype that we so easily fall prey to any new drug. As the ads always say, “Ask your doctor if ‘cyanide’ is right for you.” Then the class action lawsuits will follow: “If you or a loved one took ‘cyanide’ recently, contact our office you may be entitled to compensation.” The dos and don’ts of the real world.
Why did we not think before we react to the commercials in the first place?
We consider ourselves to be intelligent beings, but we are so easily led astray by the media and the alleged gatekeepers of our health: the CDC and the FDA.
It is axiomatic that an intelligent population will learn from history, but whoever said homo-sapiens are an intelligent species? (Not me!) We are a race that is led around not only by government agencies but the media as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
Our not-too-distant history should have taught us not to rely on the CDC for health advice. The H1N1 swine flu vaccine of 1976 actually killed people taking it. Yet the CDC, aware of death reports all around the world, continued to lie to us, saying that these vaccines were perfectly safe. Not only are they unsafe, there is no evidence they do anything more then inject a live virus into us.
As the CDC says on its website, “During years when the flu vaccine is not well matched to circulating viruses, it’s possible that no benefit from flu vaccination may be observed.” Nevertheless, get your flu shot and be protected … from what?
So at best, taking a flu shot is like going to Vegas: You can play red or black and hope to win. But what is the real prize? The shot costs $31.99, and the benefit isn’t even for you.
Even today, the CDC and the FDA continue their campaign in the U.S. and abroad to promote a vaccine that has not been proven safe, effective, or even necessary.
The first obvious observation when we examine the value of these vaccines is that as the level of vaccines increase, so do pharmaceutical company profits.
In the early 1950’s, there were only four diseases for which there were vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox. We received 13 doses of four vaccines by the time we were two with not more than three vaccines in a single visit. But at the current rate, children receive 37 doses of 14 vaccines by the same age and as many as eight vaccines in a single visit!
Surely these vaccines at the level we are getting them should be questioned? At least ask yourself, “Is this really necessary or safe?” Listen to the advice of your medical provider, but think for yourself and do some research.
The CDC, FDA, and your MD recommend 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age six and 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18. The CDC also recommends an annual flu shot for all Americans from six months of age. What is fueling this rise in the number of vaccines the CDC is recommending?
Follow the money.
When we do, we will find a trail of bribery. These vaccines are one of the most lucrative profit centers for drug manufacturers.
As investment bank J.P. Morgan estimates, pharmaceutical profits from swine-flu-related drugs showed earnings between $10 billion and $15 billion in 2009 ,and today they are even higher.
Not surprisingly, the doctors from the World Health Organization who supported the flu shots in general had financial interests in the vaccines they promoted.
In 2009, four companies together controlled the vaccine market with 71 percent of the vaccines marketed worldwide.
With some of the highest vaccine rates on earth, does the United States have the world’s healthiest children? Statistics show this is far from the case; our children are actually getting sicker.
During the past 30 years, the number of vaccines has tripled. During that same period of time, the number of children with learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma, and diabetes has also more than tripled!
No scientific evidence exists that demonstrates that vaccines are not contributing to the increasing incidence of chronic illness and disability in our children. On the flip side, there is no scientific evidence these vaccines are necessary, safe, or effective.
Tests on an influenza vaccine, FluLaval, made by GlaxoSmithKline, revealed a level of toxic mercury over 25,000 times higher than the maximum allowable levels in drinking water set by the EPA.
As Dr. David Brownstein M.D. states, “Mercury is one of the most poisonous substances known to mankind. The mercury levels in the flu vaccine are higher than found in tuna and other ocean fish. Keep in mind that an injection of the flu vaccine guarantees that 100% of the mercury in it is absorbed since it bypasses the gastrointestinal tract.”
There is no level of exposure to Mercury deemed safe.
Mercury occurs naturally in air, water and soil. A highly toxic form, methylmercury, builds up in fish, shellfish, and animals that eat fish. Fish and shellfish are the main sources of methylmercury exposure to humans.
Mercury can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system. Methylmercury delivered to the developing fetus during pregnancy can impair the ability to think and learn, peripheral vision, speech, hearing, and walking as well as cause disturbances in sensations, a lack of coordination, and muscle weakness.
There are two different compounds that contain mercury: ethylmercury and methylmercury. The low levels of ethylmercury used in vaccines are stated to be broken down by the body differently and clear out of the blood more quickly than methylmercury. But when we are getting a continuing dose of mercury or a high level that is 25,000 times more than allowed, those factors should be considered.
Notwithstanding this CDC report, 25,000 times the allowed level of mercury is far from a safe level. In fact, if no level is recommended, 25,000 times the allowed level could in fact be toxic. This could also be the reason for the increase in the level of diseases such as ADHD since vaccines have been introduced and administered.
Evidence supports mercury levels in the vaccines are related to ADHD.
More than twice as many children have chronic brain and immune system dysfunction today than they did in the 1970s when half as many vaccines were given to children.
Studies have shown that children with mercury poisoning show they have trouble with language skills, attention, and coordination.
To add insult to injury, drug companies have been found falsifying drug study results, paying bribes, and covering up or omitting side effects and deaths. In 2012, GlaxoSmithKline was fined $3 billion for bribing doctors. Without falsified research, bribery, and corruption, the industry would have no research to point to.
According to an ABC News story from 2010, representatives from Eli Lily were told by GlaxoSmithKline to regularly give lavish gifts to doctors and push more profitable drugs at higher doses in order to maximize profits, regardless of safety concerns.
The Mercury content in vaccinations may be creating a disaster of unprecedented proportions:
—1 in 6 children are diagnosed with a learning disability
—1 in 9 children suffer from asthma
—1 in 25 develop autism
—1 in 450 become diabetic
Clearly, more and more vaccines are not solving the health problems currently affecting our children. The fact is, and evidence suggests, that vaccines could actually be the problem.
There is no evidence the flu shot is necessary, safe, or effective!
Even without considering the hazards of mercury, the flu shot is the most dangerous vaccine in America. The government pays out millions of dollars every year due to injuries and deaths from flu shots, and not only is there very little evidence that the flu shot even helps prevent the flu, there’s plenty of evidence that it can make it worse.
Now you have the facts, so what will be your choice? Should you get the flu shot or should you pass?
PASS! It’s a sure bet for me. Watching every president roll up his sleeve for this makes me want to vomit. Such stupid propaganda. Like some politician is going to influence me. Right. Sheesh
“Was it because their vaccines had been causing serious illnesses and deaths?” No, it was not — although anti-vaccine fanatics love to repeat this lie, while simply ignoring the truth. The truth is that the government had to step in especially because unfounded lawsuits were flooding the courts, thanks to the fradulent “flu vaccine causes autism” scare. They had to encourage pharmaceutical companies to manufacture enough vaccines to prevent regular and recurring shortages. http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/vaccine-injury-compensation-programs
Seriously??? The College of Physicians is a industry insider. This is similar to Merck writing the history of the Polio Vaccine. Mythical.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/vaccine-injury-compensation-programs
Wakefield FACT: It was not a study, it was a report. The Lancet supposeably removed the paper for some sort of abuse which a British High Court dismissed:
England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court)
Decision Between: PROFESSOR JOHN WALKER-SMITH Appellant- and – GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL- Respondent.
MR STEPHEN MILLER QC AND MS ANDREA LINDSAY-STRUGO
(instructed by EASTWOODS SOLICITORS) for the Appellant MISS JOANNA GLYNN QC AND MR CHRISTOPHER MELLOR (instructed by FIELD FISHER WATERHOUSE LLP) for the Respondent
Hearing dates: 13th. 14th, 15th, 16th & 17th February 2012
____________________
But following the successful appeal of the paper’s senior clinical investigator – John Walker-Smith – the GMC findings that served as the basis for Lancet’s retraction have since been overturned.
-With regard to the GMC’s false claims that the patients in the paper were not “consecutively referred”:
“157. …Thus construed, this paper does not bear the meaning put upon it by the [GMC] panel. The phrase “consecutively referred” means no more than that the children were referred successively, rather than as a single batch, to the Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology.”
-Similarly, the GMC’s rulings that the children in the Lancet paper were subjects of a research project that did not gain ethical approval also proved unfounded:
“158. …The [GMC] panel’s finding that the description of the patient population in the Lancet paper was misleading would only have been justified if its primary finding that all of the Lancet children were referred for the purposes of research as part of Project 172-96 is sustainable. Because, for the reasons which I have given, it was not, this aspect of its findings must also fall.”
The judge found only one misleading statement in the paper, but it was not because investigations undertaken were unethical experiments described as gaining ethical approval in the paper according to the now-overturned findings on which the paper’s retraction was based. On the contrary, it was because
investigations in the paper were described as being ethically approved when most were clinically indicated and required no such approval, although a few investigations were ethically approved. This may require an erratum, but it does not justify keeping the paper fully retracted.
Read the entire adjudication at: http://www.bailii (dot) org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/503.html.
Hmm, lets see. Dr. Wakefield Report was so egregious that it took the British Medical community 12 years to discover it?????
Timeline:
The BMJ, a medical journal that is more open to controversial subjects than most, published an investigative piece and editorial claiming that Andrew Wakefield et al’s research on children with developmental and gastrointestinal disorders and the MMR vaccine was “fraud.” Wakefield’s original research paper was retracted by the Lancet, following a decision by the General Medical Council (GMC) to pull Wakefield’s license to practice medicine in the UK on the basis of his work on autism, 12 years AFTER initial publication. The paper had been, in its day, the exemplar of research on vaccine safety problems until Wakefield suggested it would be safer to separate the shot.
This is what Brian Deer has to say today: “Who Can Say?” — Journalist Who Alleged Wakefield Committed Fraud Backs Off.
Key Claim: http://www.ageofautism (dot) com/dr-andrew-wakefield/. Brian Deer finally admitted he filed the complaint. Not the parents of the children, not another doctor-a journalist-and not a very good one. He currently trolls the comment boards looking for his name so he can explain his part in the Wakefield witch hunt.
“Acute Encephalopathy Followed by Permanent Brian Injury or Death Associated With Further Attenuated Measles Vaccine: A Review of Claims Submitted to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.” Pediatrics Vol. No. 3 March 1998
This Pediatrics abstract says the same thing that Wakefield and his co-horts reported on. The Peds article was posted in the journal less than a month after the Wakefield’s report. The difference: Wakefield suggested it may be prudent to separate the combo shot and there needed to be more research into the affects of the combo shot on the neurological system of children. Ironically, Dr. Wakefield was not opposed to vaccination. Never spoke against it. Never questioned the science.
The abstract discussed, shows that DHHS ( Dept of Health & Human Services) doctors came to a similar conclusion (that measles vaccine and neurological damage in children should be investigated) the same year as Wakefield. Those authors were never put on trial, had retracted nothing.
Why did the Lancet retract the paper? The editors list two reasons: the children were not “consecutively referred” and the studies weren’t approved by the local ethics committee. Well, after the many prior investigations of this paper, I am astonished that it took 12 years for Lancet to discover the lack of IRB approval. No one was surprised that the British High Court adjudicated the way it did. (see above)
Did you bother to read this paper or do you suffer from cognitive dissonance? The Lancet paper stated:
The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9713, Page 445, 6 February 2010
Retraction—Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children.
We did not prove an association between measles,mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described.Virological studies are underway that may help to resolve this issue.
If there is a causal link between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and this syndrome, a rising incidence might be anticipated after the introduction of this vaccine in the UK in 1988. Published evidence is inadequate to show whether there is a change in incidence or a link with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. A genetic predisposition to autistic-spectrum disorders is suggested by over-representation in boys and a greater concordancerate in monozygotic than in dizygotic twins…
We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine.
Now the Pediatric Journal study published about 3 weeks after the Lancet report:
CONCLUSIONS: This clustering suggests that a causal relationship between measles vaccine and encephalopathy may exist as a rare complication of measles immunization.
Basically the same conclusion. So the paper was removed not for fraud or ethical reasons-it was POLITICAL. Wakefield made the mistake of voicing a concern for the children that this stuff was being pumped into them and “suggested” that maybe, just to be cautious, the combo shot be be separated so children can have just the measles part. Blasphemy !!!! Do you know how much it would cost to separate the combo shots. They were combined to save money even thought none of the shots had been studied for their combined affect of a human body. The idea is to make money -not spend it. That’s the Wakefield saga.
Next time you comment don’t forget to mention:
Jenny McCarthy
conspiracy theory
there is more mercury in a tuna sandwich than in a vaccine
there is more formaldehyde in a pear than in a vaccine
the seat belt analogy
the “I’d rather have an autistic child than a dead one from not having them vaccinated”
you have blood on your hands
you’re a baby killer
keep your unvaccinated child away from mine
-you know, the list you are paid to post.
“The truth is that the government had to step in especially because unfounded lawsuits were flooding the courts, thanks to the fradulent “flu vaccine causes autism”
First, could you substantiate this statement with documentation?
Also, the lawsuits were not for the Flu vaccine which BTW is the most compensated vaccine injury paid out by the Justice Dept-NVICP, the lawsuits were primarily for vaccine damage caused by the Pertussis & MMR vaccine.
The facts are:’
-There is not one Independent double-blind, placebo-controlled study that can prove that vaccines work.
-There is not one Independent double-blind, placebo-controlled study that can prove the safety and effectiveness of vaccines
-The CDC cannot provide any Independent scientific evidence on ANY study which can confirm the long-term safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
-The CDC cannot provide Independent scientific evidence which can prove that disease reduction in any part of the world, at any point in history was attributable to inoculation of populations.
-The CDC cannot provide Independent scientific justification as to how injecting a human being with a confirmed neurotoxin is beneficial to human health and prevents disease.
-The CDC & Pharma cannot provide Independent scientific justification on how bypassing the respiratory tract (or mucous membrane) is advantageous and how directly injecting viruses into the bloodstream enhances immune functioning and prevents future infections.
-CDC & pharma cannot provide any Independent studies that prove that vaccinated children are healthier and don’t get the targeted diseases, compared to un-vaccinated children? There are none, those studies have never been done by a government or vaccine maker. They have been done in countries outside the US.
-The CDC or Pharma have never studied a group of vaccinated people , after they leave the hospital or doctor’s office, which proves that people who get vaccines don’t fall ill after the shot? There are none, those studies have never been done.
-The CDC & pharma has never provided scientific evidence which can prove that disease reduction in any part of the world, at any point in history was attributable to inoculation of populations.
Thank you. This is well written. In your future work, you may also wish to delve into the the science behind the *anti-science* of pushing annual flu shots and, even worse, firing health care professionals who don’t comply.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209321/
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/downloads/ccivi_report.pdf
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/09/analysis-finds-limited-evidence-hcw-flu-vaccination
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Opinion+Scientist+fires+latest+shot+mandatory+vaccine+debate/7572719/story.html
http://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-to-prevent-influenza-in-healthy-adults