Vaccines Debate

You have no credentials, you haven't disproved anything

You don;t know anymore than i do, all you are doing is trying to bury the articles i'm posting with bullshit

You can take your guess and keep it because i'm only interested in informed posts and you are not informed

You have no credentials, just opinion

I on the other hand am posting information from people who do have credentials

For you this seems to be a game but for me i am trying to prevent peopel reading this from poisoning themselves or their children

Did you even read past my part about ADEM? I wasn't talking about that. My point was my list of symptoms and death causes by diseases that are curable as well as the commonality of those diseases in both America and worldwide.

Lol, why don't you show me where your people with credentials says that my description of the symptoms of any of those diseases is wrong. if you can show that accurately, I would be impressed for you would have rewritten the medical encyclopedia and journals I pulled that information out of.

your misunderstand the value of an argument of authority. you could find someone somewhere with "credentials" spouting just about anything. Some famous people with "credentials' who are complete nut jobs are Deepak Chopra, Ken Ham, and Dr. Sircus to name but three. And you used one of them in the past. You fail at arguing with logic, that's why you argue with persuasion. That's why you think an appeal to authority is effective, but it isn't. How am I wrong about what I said? Can you answer that? or can you only say that I don't have a PhD therefore I can't know what I'm talking about. That's your challenge. Explain how diphtheria doesn't cause tissue damage through toxin production or how pertussis cant cause coughing to such an extent that it can cause hypoxia.
 
Read the article i posted before about this

They sent the vaccine to

4 DIFFERENT LABORATORIES THAT ALL SAID THE VACCINES CONTAINED THE STERILISING AGENT
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-...terilize-women

Your massive letters is unnecessary. However if those labs all had the same error in procedure, that wouldn't matter. That's why you need the studies done by other groups. How do you know that the catholic group doesn't have an ulterior motive in lying about this? Maybe some rich conspiracy theorist is paying them to tamper with the results to have that outcome. Or perhaps they are using this as leverage to get more funding? Or recognition and publicity for the area they are trying to help? This is why your arguments about conspiracy theories is pointless.
 
Your massive letters is unnecessary. However if those labs all had the same error in procedure, that wouldn't matter. That's why you need the studies done by other groups. How do you know that the catholic group doesn't have an ulterior motive in lying about this? Maybe some rich conspiracy theorist is paying them to tamper with the results to have that outcome. Or perhaps they are using this as leverage to get more funding? Or recognition and publicity for the area they are trying to help? This is why your arguments about conspiracy theories is pointless.

No the massive letters are necessary because you do not listen

It was clear in the article

Also when you discuss what i've supposedly argued in your wall of text posts you TWIST what i'm saying

You tell me that my arguments about conspiracy theries is 'pointless' so you tell me now what my ''argument about conspiracy theories'' is
 
Did you even read past my part about ADEM? I wasn't talking about that. My point was my list of symptoms and death causes by diseases that are curable as well as the commonality of those diseases in both America and worldwide.

Lol, why don't you show me where your people with credentials says that my description of the symptoms of any of those diseases is wrong. if you can show that accurately, I would be impressed for you would have rewritten the medical encyclopedia and journals I pulled that information out of.

your misunderstand the value of an argument of authority. you could find someone somewhere with "credentials" spouting just about anything. Some famous people with "credentials' who are complete nut jobs are Deepak Chopra, Ken Ham, and Dr. Sircus to name but three. And you used one of them in the past. You fail at arguing with logic, that's why you argue with persuasion. That's why you think an appeal to authority is effective, but it isn't. How am I wrong about what I said? Can you answer that? or can you only say that I don't have a PhD therefore I can't know what I'm talking about. That's your challenge. Explain how diphtheria doesn't cause tissue damage through toxin production or how pertussis cant cause coughing to such an extent that it can cause hypoxia.


I read your post all you do is squrim your way around what many people are telling you

You do not listen to other people

You say that one person ate something and that maybe it was his food and not the vaccine

This shows that youi are not listenign to the countless voices out there telling you that what has happened to their child is the result of vaccines

Then you are told how peope have found toxic stuff in the vaccines and you still do not listen

Then you are told how the admitted ingrediants of vaccines are toxic and how whislteblowers have admitted as much but STILL YOU DO NOT LISTEN

You are illogical because you refuse to face reality
 
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]WHY VACCINES ARE HARMFUL[/FONT]​
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The United States legal standard applied to vaccines defines them as "unavoidably unsafe products that are quite incapable of being made safe for their intended and ordinary use". The reason why vaccines are unsafe, or in other words harmful, is because they are made up of chemicals and other elements that are poisonous to the body. [/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Some of these chemicals and elements include formaldehyde which is commonly used to embalm corpses and is a known carcinogen (capable of causing cancer), thiomersal, a derivative of mercury which is a toxic heavy metal, aluminium phosphate which is a toxin used in deodorants. Other toxic ingredients include phenol (carbolic acid), alum (a preservative), and acetone which is a volatile solvent used in fingernail polish remover. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Vaccines contain not only poisonous chemicals but also foreign proteins such as chick embryo, calf serum, rabbit brain tissue and monkey kidney cells. These foreign proteins can trigger numerous allergic and inflammatory reactions and can produce anaphylactic shock in susceptible infants.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]When these vaccine ingredients enter the child's bloodstream (either through injection or taken orally), the child's body will take immediate action to eliminate these poisons either through the normal organs of elimination or through acute reactions such as fever, swelling or skin rashes. As long as these latter reactions are not suppressed through drugs, it is possible for the child's body to successfully eliminate these vaccine poisons thereby ensuring that no long term damage will occur.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]However, should the child have insufficient vitality to mount an eliminative reaction, or should the eliminative reaction (fever, swelling, skin rash) be suppressed with drugs, then the vaccine poisons will be retained within the body's tissues. It is the retention of these vaccine poisons, which in susceptible infants, can trigger or at least contribute to the development of illnesses such as juvenile diabetes, autism, asthma, neurological disorders, leukaemia and even cot deaths.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]In many children, the retention of vaccine poisons within the body may not cause any acute or noticeable symptoms, but it will cause a lowering of the child's vitality, which in turn, weakens and impairs it's intellectual, creative and imaginative powers, it's physical energy and strength, and all of its internal metabolic functions and immune activities. What this means is that the child will operate at a level well below its true potential.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The toxic build-up within the child's body and the subsequent depletion of its vitality through vaccines, drugs, fluoridated water, food additives, pesticide residues, atmospheric pollutants, electromagnetic radiation and other adverse factors in the lifestyle makes the child more susceptible to chronic disease at an earlier age, and it's worth noting that the dramatic rise in childhood cancer, autism, juvenile diabetes, asthma and neurological disorders over the past fifty years, has directly coincided with the era of drugs, vaccines and chemical poisons in our food, water and environment.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Further Reading[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Dr Mark Randall - Vaccine Whistleblower[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]What you do when you vaccinate. Dr Stanley Bass

Immunisation Studies: Scientific and Medical References
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Vaccines and Immune Suppression

Janine Roberts Website

Whale's Vaccine Website
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Former Pharma Employee Speaks out about Vaccines
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:53:15 -0800 Dear Members and Friends -
Great interview of a former pharma employee who is now retired...speaking out after realizing the ramifications of FORCED vaccination. Wish a few more would speak up instead of seeing their security in a retirement check as this guy apparently does....
Ingri

JON RAPPOPORT
http://www.nomorefakenews.com/ Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the hallmark of good medicine.
A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won't say which ones.
Q: Why not?
A: I want to preserve my privacy.
Q: So you think you could have problems if you came out into the open?
A: I believe I could lose my pension.
Q: On what grounds?
A: The grounds don't matter. These people have ways of causing you problems, when you were once part of the Club. I know one or two people who were put under surveillance, who were harassed.
Q: Harassed by whom?
A: The FBI.
Q: Really?
A: Sure. The FBI used other pretexts. And the IRS can come calling too.
Q: So much for free speech.
A: I was "part of the inner circle." If now I began to name names and make specific accusations against researchers, I could be in a world of trouble.
Q: What is at the bottom of these efforts at harassment?
A: Vaccines are the last defense of modern medicine. Vaccines are the ultimate justification for the overall "brilliance" of modern medicine.
Q: Do you believe that people should be allowed to choose whether they should get vaccines?
A: On a political level, yes. On a scientific level, people need information, so that they can choose well. It's one thing to say choice is good. But if the atmosphere is full of lies, how can you choose? Also, if the FDA were run by honorable people, these vaccines would not be granted licenses. They would be investigated to within an inch of their lives.
Q: There are medical historians who state that the overall decline of illnesses was not due to vaccines.
A: I know. For a long time, I ignored their work.
Q: Why?
A: Because I was afraid of what I would find out. I was in the business of developing vaccines. My livelihood depended on continuing that work.
Q: And then?
A: I did my own investigation.
Q: What conclusions did you come to?
A: The decline of disease is due to improved living conditions.
Q: What conditions?
A: Cleaner water. Advanced sewage systems. Nutrition. Fresher food. A decrease in poverty. Germs may be everywhere, but when you are healthy, you don't contract the diseases as easily.
Q: What did you feel when you completed your own investigation?
A: Despair. I realized I was working a sector based on a collection of lies.
Q: Are some vaccines more dangerous than others?
A: Yes. The DPT shot, for example. The MMR. But some lots of a vaccine are more dangerous than other lots of the same vaccine. As far as I'm concerned, all vaccines are dangerous.
Q: Why?
A: Several reasons. They involve the human immune system in a process that tends to compromise immunity. They can actually cause the disease they are supposed to prevent. They can cause other diseases than the ones they are supposed to prevent.
Q: Why are we quoted statistics which seem to prove that vaccines have been tremendously successful at wiping out diseases?
A: Why? To give the illusion that these vaccines are useful. If a vaccine suppresses visible symptoms of a disease like measles, everyone assumes that the vaccine is a success. But, under the surface, the vaccine can harm the immune system itself. And if it causes other diseases -- say, meningitis -- that fact is masked, because no one believes that the vaccine can do that. The connection is overlooked.
Q: It is said that the smallpox vaccine wiped out smallpox in England.
A: Yes. But when you study the available statistics, you get another picture.
Q: Which is?
A: There were cities in England where people who were not vaccinated did not get smallpox. There were places where people who were vaccinated experienced smallpox epidemics. And smallpox was already on the decline before the vaccine was introduced.
Q: So you're saying that we have been treated to a false history.
A: Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. This is a history that has been cooked up to convince people that vaccines are invariably safe and effective.
Q: Now, you worked in labs. Where purity was an issue.
A: The public believes that these labs, these manufacturing facilities are the cleanest places in the world. That is not true. Contamination occurs all the time. You get all sorts of debris introduced into vaccines.
Q: For example, the SV40 monkey virus slips into the polio vaccine.
A: Well yes, that happened. But that's not what I mean. The SV40 got into the polio vaccine because the vaccine was made by using monkey kidneys. But I'm talking about something else. The actual lab conditions. The mistakes. The careless errors. SV40, which was later found in cancer tumors -- that was what I would call a structural problem. It was an accepted part of the manufacturing process. If you use monkey kidneys, you open the door to germs which you don't know are in those kidneys.
Q: Okay, but let's ignore that distinction between different types of contaminants for a moment. What contaminants did you find in your many years of work with vaccines?
A: All right. I'll give you some of what I came across, and I'll also give you what colleagues of mine found. Here's a partial list. In the Rimavex measles vaccine, we found various chicken viruses. In polio vaccine, we found acanthamoeba, which is a so-called "brain-eating" amoeba. Simian cytomegalovirus in polio vaccine. Simian foamy virus in the rotavirus vaccine. Bird-cancer viruses in the MMR vaccine. Various micro-organisms in the anthrax vaccine. I've found potentially dangerous enzyme inhibitors in several vaccines. Duck, dog, and rabbit viruses in the rubella vaccine. Avian leucosis virus in the flu vaccine. Pestivirus in the MMR vaccine.
Q: Let me get this straight. These are all contaminants which don't belong in the vaccines.
A: That's right. And if you try to calculate what damage these contaminants can cause, well, we don't really know, because no testing has been done, or very little testing. It's a game of roulette. You take your chances. Also, most people don't know that some polio vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, rubella and hep A and measles vaccines have been made with aborted human fetal tissue. I have found what I believed were bacterial fragments and poliovirus in these vaccines from time to time -- which may have come from that fetal tissue. When you look for contaminants in vaccines, you can come up with material that IS puzzling. You know it shouldn't be there, but you don't know exactly what you've got. I have found what I believed was a very small "fragment" of human hair and also human mucus. I have found what can only be called "foreign protein," which could mean almost anything. It could mean protein from viruses.
Q: Alarm bells are ringing all over the place.
A: How do you think I felt? Remember, this material is going into the bloodstream without passing through some of the ordinary immune defenses.
Q: How were your findings received?
A: Basically, it was, don't worry, this can't be helped. In making vaccines, you use various animals' tissue, and that's where this kind of contamination enters in. Of course, I'm not even mentioning the standard chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, and aluminum which are purposely put into vaccines.
Q: This information is pretty staggering.
A: Yes. And I'm just mentioning some of the biological contaminants. Who knows how many others there are? Others we don't find because we don't think to look for them. If tissue from, say, a bird is used to make a vaccine, how many possible germs can be in that tissue? We have no idea. We have no idea what they might be, or what effects they could have on humans.
Q: And beyond the purity issue?
A: You are dealing with the basic faulty premise about vaccines. That they intricately stimulate the immune system to create the conditions for immunity from disease. That is the bad premise. It doesn't work that way. A vaccine is supposed to "create" antibodies which, indirectly, offer protection against disease. However, the immune system is much larger and more involved than antibodies and their related "killer cells."
Q: The immune system is?
A: The entire body, really. Plus the mind. It's all immune system, you might say. That is why you can have, in the middle of an epidemic, those individuals who remain healthy.
Q: So the level of general health is important.
A: More than important. Vital.
Q: How are vaccine statistics falsely presented?
A: There are many ways. For example, suppose that 25 people who have received the hepatitis B vaccine come down with hepatitis. Well, hep B is a liver disease. But you can call liver disease many things. You can change the diagnosis. Then, you've concealed the root cause of the problem.
Q: And that happens?
A: All the time. It HAS to happen, if the doctors automatically assume that people who get vaccines DO NOT come down with the diseases they are now supposed to be protected from. And that is exactly what doctors assume. You see, it's circular reasoning. It's a closed system. It admits no fault. No possible fault. If a person who gets a vaccine against hepatitis gets hepatitis, or gets some other disease, the automatic assumption is, this had nothing to do with the disease.
Q: In your years working in the vaccine establishment, how many doctors did you encounter who admitted that vaccines were a problem?
A: None. There were a few who privately questioned what they were doing. But they would never go public, even within their companies.
Q: What was the turning point for you?
A: I had a friend whose baby died after a DPT shot.
Q: Did you investigate?
A: Yes, informally. I found that this baby was completely healthy before the vaccination. There was no reason for his death, except the vaccine. That started my doubts. Of course, I wanted to believe that the baby had gotten a bad shot from a bad lot. But as I looked into this further, I found that was not the case in this instance. I was being drawn into a spiral of doubt that increased over time. I continued to investigate. I found that, contrary to what I thought, vaccines are not tested in a scientific way.
Q: What do you mean?
A: For example, no long-term studies are done on any vaccines. Long-term follow-up is not done in any careful way. Why? Because, again, the assumption is made that vaccines do not cause problems. So why should anyone check? On top of that, a vaccine reaction is defined so that all bad reactions are said to occur very soon after the shot is given. But that does not make sense.
Q: Why doesn't it make sense?
A: Because the vaccine obviously acts in the body for a long period of time after it is given. A reaction can be gradual. Deterioration can be gradual. Neurological problems can develop over time. They do in various conditions, even according to a conventional analysis. So why couldn't that be the case with vaccines? If chemical poisoning can occur gradually, why couldn't that be the case with a vaccine which contains mercury?
Q: And that is what you found?
A: Yes. You are dealing with correlations, most of the time. Correlations are not perfect. But if you get 500 parents whose children have suffered neurological damage during a one-year period after having a vaccine, this should be sufficient to spark off an intense investigation.
Q: Has it been enough?
A: No. Never. This tells you something right away.
Q: Which is?
A: The people doing the investigation are not really interested in looking at the facts. They assume that the vaccines are safe. So, when they do investigate, they invariably come up with exonerations of the vaccines. They say, "This vaccine is safe." But what do they base those judgments on? They base them on definitions and ideas which automatically rule out a condemnation of the vaccine.
Q: There are numerous cases where a vaccine campaign has failed. Where people have come down with the disease against which they were vaccinated.
A: Yes, there are many such instances. And there the evidence is simply ignored. It's discounted. The experts say, if they say anything at all, that this is just an isolated situation, but overall the vaccine has been shown to be safe. But if you add up all the vaccine campaigns where damage and disease have occurred, you realize that these are NOT isolated situations.
Q: Did you ever discuss what we are talking about here with colleagues, when you were still working in the vaccine establishment?
A: Yes I did.
Q: What happened?
A: Several times I was told to keep quiet. It was made clear that I should go back to work and forget my misgivings. On a few occasions, I encountered fear. Colleagues tried to avoid me. They felt they could be labeled with "guilt by association." All in all, though, I behaved myself. I made sure I didn't create problems for myself.
Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?
A: First of all, there is no "if." They do harm. It becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of research which should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the reasons. As you've said many times, at different layers of the system people have their motives. Money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and so on. But, at the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but it's true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests. There is an underground, shall we say, in Africa, made up of various officials who are earnestly trying to change the lot of the poor. This network of people knows what is going on. They know that vaccines have been used, and are being used, to destroy their countries, to make them ripe for takeover by globalist powers. I have had the opportunity to speak with several of these people from this network.
Q: Is Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, aware of the situation?
A: I would say he is partially aware. Perhaps he is not utterly convinced, but he is on the way to realizing the whole truth. He already knows that HIV is a hoax. He knows that the AIDS drugs are poisons which destroy the immune system. He also knows that if he speaks out, in any way, about the vaccine issue, he will be branded a lunatic. He has enough trouble after his stand on the AIDS issue.
Q: This network you speak of.
A: It has accumulated a huge amount of information about vaccines. The question is, how is a successful strategy going to be mounted? For these people, that is a difficult issue.
Q: And in the industrialized nations?
A: The medical cartel has a stranglehold, but it is diminishing. Mainly because people have the freedom to question medicines. However, if the choice issue [the right to take or reject any medicine] does not gather steam, these coming mandates about vaccines against biowarefare germs are going to win out. This is an important time.
Q: The furor over the hepatits B vaccine seems one good avenue.
A: I think so, yes. To say that babies must have the vaccine-and then in the next breath, admitting that a person gets hep B from sexual contacts and shared needles -- is a ridiculous juxtaposition. Medical authorities try to cover themselves by saying that 20,000 or so children in the US get hep B every year from "unknown causes," and that's why every baby must have the vaccine. I dispute that 20,00 figure and the so-called studies that back it up.
Q: Andrew Wakefield, the British MD who uncovered the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, has just been fired from his job in a London hospital.
A: Yes. Wakefield performed a great service. His correlations between the vaccine and autism are stunning. Perhaps you know that Tony Blair's wife is involved with alternative health. There is the possibility that their child has not been given the MMR. Blair recently side-stepped the question in press interviews, and made it seem that he was simply objecting to invasive questioning of his "personal and family life." In any event, I believe his wife has been muzzled. I think, if given the chance, she would at least say she is sympathetic to all the families who have come forward and stated that their children were severely damaged by the MMR.
Q: British reporters should try to get through to her.
A: They have been trying. But I think she has made a deal with her husband to keep quiet, no matter what. She could do a great deal of good if she breaks her promise. I have been told she is under pressure, and not just from her husband. At the level she occupies, MI6 and British health authorities get into the act. It is thought of as a matter of national security.
Q: Well, it is national security, once you understand the medical cartel.
A: It is global security. The cartel operates in every nation. It zealously guards the sanctity of vaccines. Questioning these vaccines is on the same level as a Vatican bishop questioning the sanctity of the sacrament of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.
Q: I know that a Hollywood celebrity stating publicly that he will not take a vaccine is committing career suicide.
A: Hollywood is linked very powerfully to the medical cartel. There are several reasons, but one of them is simply that an actor who is famous can draw a huge amount of publicity if he says ANYTHING. In 1992, I was present at your demonstration against the FDA in downtown Los Angeles. One or two actors spoke against the FDA. Since that time, you would be hard pressed to find an actor who has spoken out in any way against the medical cartel.
Q: Within the National Institutes of Health, what is the mood, what is the basic frame of mind?
A: People are competing for research monies. The last thing they think about is challenging the status quo. They are already in an intramural war for that money. They don't need more trouble. This is a very insulated system. It depends on the idea that, by and large, modern medicine is very successful on every frontier. To admit systemic problems in any area is to cast doubt on the whole enterprise. You might therefore think that NIH is the last place one should think about holding demonstrations. But just the reverse is true. If five thousand people showed up there demanding an accounting of the actual benefits of that research system, demanding to know what real health benefits have been conferred on the public from the billions of wasted dollars funneled to that facility, something might start. A spark might go off. You might get, with further demonstrations, all sorts of fall-out. Researchers -- a few -- might start leaking information.
Q: A good idea.
A: People in suits standing as close to the buildings as the police will allow. People in business suits, in jogging suits, mothers and babies. Well-off people. Poor people. All sorts of people.
Q: What about the combined destructive power of a number of vaccines given to babies these days?
A: It is a travesty and a crime. There are no real studies of any depth which have been done on that. Again, the assumption is made that vaccines are safe, and therefore any number of vaccines given together are safe as well. But the truth is, vaccines are not safe. Therefore the potential damage increases when you give many of them in a short time period.
Q: Then we have the fall flu season.
A: Yes. As if only in the autumn do these germs float in to the US from Asia. The public swallows that premise. If it happens in April, it is a bad cold. If it happens in October, it is the flu.
Q: Do you regret having worked all those years in the vaccine field?
A: Yes. But after this interview, I'll regret it a little less. And I work in other ways. I give out information to certain people, when I think they will use it well.
Q: What is one thing you want the public to understand?
A: That the burden of proof in establishing the safety and efficacy of vaccines is on the people who manufacture and license them for public use. Just that. The burden of proof is not on you or me. And for proof you need well-designed long-term studies. You need extensive follow-up. You need to interview mothers and pay attention to what mothers say about their babies and what happens to them after vaccination. You need all these things. The things that are not there.
Q: The things that are not there.
A: Yes.
Q: To avoid any confusion, I'd like you to review, once more, the disease problems that vaccines can cause. Which diseases, how that happens.
A: We are basically talking about two potential harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin with. Or two, he doesn't get THAT disease, but at some later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That condition could be autism, what's called autism, or it could be some other disease like meningitis. He could become mentally disabled.
Q: Is there any way to compare the relative frequency of these different outcomes?
A: No. Because the follow-up is poor. We can only guess. If you ask, out of a population of a hundred thousand children who get a measles vaccine, how many get the measles, and how many develop other problems from the vaccine, there is a no reliable answer. That is what I'm saying. Vaccines are superstitions. And with superstitions, you don't get facts you can use. You only get stories, most of which are designed to enforce the superstition. But, from many vaccine campaigns, we can piece together a narrative that does reveal some very disturbing things. People have been harmed. The harm is real, and it can be deep and it can mean death. The harm is NOT limited to a few cases, as we have been led to believe. In the US, there are groups of mothers who are testifying about autism and childhood vaccines. They are coming forward and standing up at meetings. They are essentially trying to fill in the gap that has been created by the researchers and doctors who turn their backs on the whole thing.
Q: Let me ask you this. If you took a child in, say, Boston and you raised that child with good nutritious food and he exercised every day and he was loved by his parents, and he didn't get the measles vaccine, what would be his health status compared with the average child in Boston who eats poorly and watches five hours of TV a day and gets the measles vaccine?
A: Of course there are many factors involved, but I would bet on the better health status for the first child. If he gets measles, if he gets it when he is nine, the chances are it will be much lighter than the measles the second child might get. I would bet on the first child every time.
Q: How long did you work with vaccines?
A: A long time. Longer than ten years.
Q: Looking back now, can you recall any good reason to say that vaccines are successful?
A: No, I can't. If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination. I would move out of the state if I had to. I would change the family name. I would disappear. With my family. I'm not saying it would come to that. There are ways to sidestep the system with grace, if you know how to act. There are exemptions you can declare, in every state, based on religious and/or philosophic views. But if push came to shove, I would go on the move.
Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get vaccines and appear to be healthy.
A: The operative word is "appear." What about all the children who can't focus on their studies? What about the children who have tantrums from time to time? What about the children who are not quite in possession of all their mental faculties? I know there are many causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the government to have the last word. Government medicine is, from my experience, often a contradiction in terms. You get one or the other, but not both.
Q: So we come to the level playing field.
A: Yes. Allow those who want the vaccines to take them. Allow the dissidents to decline to take them. But, as I said earlier, there is no level playing field if the field is strewn with lies. And when babies are involved, you have parents making all the decisions. Those parents need a heavy dose of truth. What about the child I spoke of who died from the DPT shot? What information did his parents act on? I can tell you it was heavily weighted. It was not real information.
Q: Medical PR people, in concert with the press, scare the hell out of parents with dire scenarios about what will happen if their kids don't get shots.
A: They make it seem a crime to refuse the vaccine. They equate it with bad parenting. You fight that with better information. It is always a challenge to buck the authorities. And only you can decide whether to do it. It is every person's responsibility to make up his mind. The medical cartel likes that bet. It is betting that the fear will win. _________________________________________________________________
Dr. Mark Randall is the pseudonym of a vaccine researcher who worked for many years in the labs of major pharmaceutical houses and the US government's National Institutes of Health.
Mark retired during the last decade. He says he was "disgusted with what he discovered about vaccines."
As you know, since the beginning of nomorefakenews, I have been launching an attack against non-scientific and dangerous assertions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
Mark has been one of my sources.
He is a little reluctant to speak out, even under the cover of anonymity, but with the current push to make vaccines mandatory -- with penalties like quarantine lurking in the wings -- he has decided to break his silence.
He lives comfortably in retirement, but like many of my long-time sources, he has developed a conscience about his former work. Mark is well aware of the scope of the medical cartel and its goals of depopulation, mind control, and general debilitation of populations.
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We've already had that clip of those two aggressive so and so's posted here

We also have some great information by people who aren't being paid propagandists for big pharma, like the post before that which has an interview with a whistleblower telling you the truth

That whistleblower worked on the vaccines whilst pen and teller just work on being aggressive
 
http://thinktwice.com/studies.htm

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GSB)
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] A recent study conducted by the CDC found that children who were vaccinated (but not fully) tend to come from homes run by poor, unmarried, badly educated mothers who trust their doctors, whereas children who were never vaccinated tend to come from homes where they are well-provided for, with married parents who possess a college degree and do not permit doctors to influence their vaccination decisions.
[Fox, Maggie. "Reasons Differ for Unvaccination and Undervaccination of Children." Reuters. July 6, 2004.]
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No the massive letters are necessary because you do not listen

It was clear in the article

Also when you discuss what i've supposedly argued in your wall of text posts you TWIST what i'm saying

You tell me that my arguments about conspiracy theries is 'pointless' so you tell me now what my ''argument about conspiracy theories'' is

As quoted from when I explained your fundamental error in conspiracy theories before.

Notice where you said if here. That is your fundamental assumption and it is two part. First that there is an underlying causal intent and that this case takes part in that underlying causal intent. The relevant assumption here is the second one. You come in with the assumption that it is a part of the conspiracy, but the thing is you can rationalize almost any situation as being a part of the conspiracy. This is the error.
Consider this. Let's assume there is a conspiracy of causal intent. Now we must accept that there are events that are caused by the conspiracy, and there are events that are not caused by the conspiracy. This is what you would see as the objective truth. Now you have a set of situation that you are considering (real world situation) and you don't know which are and which are not a part of the conspiracy. Now, what I've seen you do, like in this case, is you will say that it could very well be that because of this conspiracy, this is the intent and this is what is going on. The problem is that every situation that you don't know the cause, the intent, or even all of the facts you have the opportunity to perceive the situation in a way that is compatible with your view. This is called rationalization to fit in your theory. and you are smart enough to do that. I must also accept the case of events that you cannot rationalize as being part of the conspiracy (like maybe the orbit of the moon or something like that). So now we have events that are a part of the conspiracy, events that aren't a part of the conspiracy, and you have events that you can rationalize as part of the conspiracy and events you can't rationalize as part of the conspiracy. So now we can consider the last two as fitting into the first to which is to say there are events that are a part of the conspiracy that you can rationalize as part of the conspiracy (what you would consider 9/11 or the Iraq war etc.) and events that are a part of the conspiracy that you cannot rationalize as part of the conspiracy (hidden things that you might have missed). Then there are events that are not a part of the conspiracy that you cannot rationalize as part of the conspiracy (the moon effecting the tides) and events that aren't a part of the conspiracy that you can rationalize as part of the conspiracy (per my opinion, I will limit to this topic, the example of this exit poll). Now the problem is you are human and you are smart. Because you are human, you are subject to a large number of biases. Also, you are very driven about these conspiracies. Because you are smart, you can rationalize the events very effectively, and you could even rationalize to yourself so that you don't notice the biases. Because of this, the likelihood of the four groups changes. For those events that are a part of the conspiracy and you can rationalize as part of the conspiracy, there's really no consideration. For those events that are a part of the conspiracy that you can't rationalize, this group becomes drastically reduced because of your drive and intelligence. This is the good side of this behavior and the side that you see in yourself. However, for those events that are not a part of the conspiracy and that you can rationalize as part of the conspiracy, you will consider as part of the conspiracy because your bias doesn't mean you really check for the truth in these cases, and your drive and intelligence will also mean that this group is the majority of the set of events that are not a part of the conspiracy. For those events that are not a part of the conspiracy and that you cannot rationalize as part of the conspiracy, this set will be very small as I mentioned in the previous sentence, because of your drive and biases and intelligence. However I expect you will have a consideration for some situations that you think are certainly not a part of the conspiracy to rationalize to yourself that you are not biased in such a way as to mistake events that are not a part of the conspiracy as being part of the conspiracy. Notice though that this is a rationalization after the fact. You've already decided what is or is not part of the conspiracy, but you cling to that which isn't to say to convince yourself that you are not biased.
The conclusion from this is because of your combination of bias and intelligence and drive, you will see what parts are of the conspiracy, but you will also consider some events that objectively are NOT part of the conspiracy to be part of the conspiracy simply because of your ability to rationalize it as such. This is a fundamental attribution error.
You ask far to often "could this be a part of the conspiracy" without asking "could this not be a part of the conspiracy". You see, I have shown you that you can rationalize so many events as not being part of the conspiracy, while you rationalize it as being part of the conspiracy. What you need to figure out is what is objectively part of the conspiracy, and what is not. Not just what could be part of the conspiracy.

And all of that doesn't even get into questioning the initial assumption of there even being a conspiracy, but I can't logically prove or disprove it as it is a hypothesis that is untestable.
 
We've already had that clip of those two aggressive so and so's posted here

We also have some great information by people who aren't being paid propagandists for big pharma, like the post before that which has an interview with a whistleblower telling you the truth

That whistleblower worked on the vaccines whilst pen and teller just work on being aggressive

Aggressive or not, they were demonstrating a good point.
 
Aggressive or not, they were demonstrating a good point.

No they weren't

Please go over this thread and learn how they are talking out of their overly aggressive butts
 
As quoted from when I explained your fundamental error in conspiracy theories before.

No i want you to tell me what conspiracy i'm talking about. not your bullshit rationalisation about whay you don't want to look at the facts

You displace yourself from reality by using (missuisng) words like 'logic', 'confirmation bias', 'occams razor' and so on as if you have ownership of the truth by avoiding facts, when in fact you are just blowing empty bullshit out

You cannot say a conspiracy is not true if you don't know what it is...so come on...what is the conspiracy?
 
10 Vaccine Myths—Busted

Sitting through your baby's immunization-induced meltdown can be as painful for you as it is for her. That is, if the nagging worry that these routine shots could do more harm than good doesn't get to you first. No wonder a recent study from the University of Michigan found that 93 percent of pediatricians had at least one parent who refused a vaccination for their child during the past year.

Why are vaccines under fire? Some experts say it's due to their success. "It's the natural evolution of a vaccine program," says Paul Offit, M.D., chief of infectious diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "As you eliminate the diseases, people are not as compelled to get vaccines." Adds Kathryn Edwards, M.D., spokesperson for the National Network for Immunization Information, "Many diseases are out of sight and then out of mind. So people don't see the value of vaccines."

Yet high immunization rates are necessary to keep diseases like measles and even polio from making a dangerous comeback. Here are ten myths about vaccines—and the truth behind them.

Myth 1: Getting so many vaccines will overwhelm my child's immune system.


No doubt about it, the immunization schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) can seem daunting. Your child can receive up to 23 shots by the time she's 2 years old and as many as six shots at a single doctor visit. So it's not surprising that many parents have concerns about how vaccines might affect a child's developing immunity and often cite these as a reason to refuse a vaccine.

But it should be the least of your worries. "Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines," says Dr. Offit. "A baby's body is bombarded with immunologic challenges—from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean." In fact, Dr. Offit's studies show that in theory, healthy infants could safely get up to 100,000 vaccines at once.

The bottom line: It's safe to give your child simultaneous vaccines or vaccine combinations, such as the five-in-one vaccine called Pediarix, which protects against hepatitis B, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (also known as whooping cough). Equally important, vaccines are as effective given in combination as they are given individually.

Myth 2: As long as other children are getting vaccinated, mine don't need to be.


Skipping vaccinations puts your baby at greater risk for potentially life-threatening diseases. "The ability of immunizations to prevent the spread of infection depends on having a certain number of children immunized," says Thomas Saari, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. "Scientists refer to this as 'herd immunity.' Unfortunately, the level of immunization required to prevent diseases such as measles from spreading from child to child is high—95 percent." In 2003, the national vaccination rate in children ages 19 to 35 months was only about 80 percent—though that number increases to the mid-90s when children reach school age.

These rates may not be high enough to provide herd immunity, especially as exemptions from school vaccines are on the rise. In studies from Colorado, where residents claim high numbers of vaccine exemptions for medical, personal and religious reasons, kids who are not immunized are at greater risk for disease. Case in point: They're 22 times more likely to come down with measles.

Myth 3: Now that major illnesses have largely disappeared, we really don't need vaccines anymore.

Don't bet on it. Despite our relatively high vaccination rates in the U.S., many American communities still have outbreaks of diseases like measles and pertussis, a respiratory illness characterized by spasms of coughing that can last for weeks or even months. In 2003, 13 children died of the infection.

Unvaccinated children can also spread infection to vulnerable family members. "Those children are more likely to give a disease to those who can't fight it off, such as a six-month-old or a grandparent living at home," says Dr. Saari. The incidence of whooping cough has been increasing since 1980, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended a pertussis booster shot for 11-year-olds because the risk of passing the disease to a vulnerable relative is so high.

What's more, diseases are spread by people from foreign countries who travel here. "Air travel has extended the range of diseases from countries where people aren't immunized," says Dr. Saari. "We're no more than one airplane ride from being exposed to many diseases."

Myth 4: Vaccines cause autism and other disorders.

Concerns about a link between a combination vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella—called the MMR vaccine—and the developmental disorder autism got kicked up by a case report from England seven years ago. But it has been roundly discredited. The notion has persisted because autism tends to emerge around the time that the vaccine is given—when a child is a year old. Experts stress, however, that this does not mean the vaccine caused the problem. "Not only is there no evidence that it causes autism, there's evidence that it doesn't cause autism," Dr. Offit says. "In fact, there have been 14 studies that show your risk of getting autism isn't any different if you got the MMR vaccine or if you didn't."

The Institute of Medicine backed up that conclusion in a report issued last summer. Worries linger, Dr. Offit adds, because "it's hard to unring the bell. People reasonably assume that if there is nothing to it, why was there so much smoke?" Parents have expressed similar fears about vaccines and the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). "Numerous vaccines are given to little babies over that first year, just when a lot of developmental changes are occurring," says Dr. Edwards. "If something happens around the time a vaccine is given, it's easy to think the vaccine caused it."

Myth 5: My baby might get the disease it's supposed to prevent.

"Most vaccines we give today, such as meningitis and DTaP, contain killed vaccines—not live agents that could replicate," says Dr. Edwards.

That's true of the scariest diseases doctors vaccinate against, such as polio, which was once made with live weakened polio virus. Until this type of vaccine was phased out, around 1994, a tiny fraction of people—one in 2.4 million—contracted polio from the vaccine itself. But since then, children in the U.S. have received polio vaccine made from killed virus, so there's no risk of contracting the disease from the shot. A few vaccines that are on the schedule do, however, contain live weakened virus to provoke an immune response. These include the MMR and chicken pox immunizations. "These vaccines have the potential to cause some mild illness—a little fever and rash," explains Dr. Edwards. "But the illness is much less severe than if a child naturally contracted measles or chicken pox."

Myth 6: Vaccines can contain preservatives that are dangerous.

Until recently, many vaccine concerns centered on the safety of thimerosal, a compound that prevents the vaccine from being contaminated by bacteria and contains a form of mercury called ethylmercury. Mercury in large quantities is known to be harmful to a child's developing brain. Worries about thimerosal's effect on children prompted its removal from nearly all childhood vaccines in 1999. (Thimerosal is still present in some flu vaccine—though you can ask your doctor for a thimerosal-free shot.)

Yet it's become clearer since then that ethylmercury does not pose the same health hazard as its cousin, methylmercury, a metal found in the environment that's known to accumulate in the body and cause harm to developing children. "The body is able to eliminate ethylmercury much more quickly than it can eliminate methylmercury," says Dr. Offit.

University of Rochester researchers confirmed that when they compared mercury concentrations in the urine, blood and stools of children who got vaccines containing thimerosal with those of kids who received only thimerosal-free vaccines. All the children had mercury levels well below the EPA's most stringent public safety limits.

Even if your baby received a vaccine that contained thimerosal, the overwhelming majority of data support a lack of association between the substance and neurological problems, says Margaret Rennels, M.D., the chair of the committee on infectious diseases of the AAP, who points out that children are exposed to mercury from many environmental sources. "The reality that a lot of people seem to miss is that the largest source of organic mercury is the environment: the air we breathe, the water we drink and the fish we eat. That's due to the burning of coal," she says. You can lessen your child's mercury exposure by limiting the amount of fish she eats. The Food and Drug Administration says that it's safe for young children to eat albacore tuna once a week and fish that are lower in mercury (such as "chunk light" tuna, pollack, salmon, and catfish) twice a week. (Shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish, which have high mercury levels, are off the menu.)

Myth 7: You shouldn't give a vaccine to a child who has a cold.

It's reasonable to think that a sick child would be more likely to have a bad reaction to a vaccine or that it might present an added burden to her immune system if she's fighting off a cold. Yet studies show that having a mild illness doesn't affect a child's ability to react appropriately to the vaccine.

"Certainly if a child comes in with a fever of 102 and a rip-snorting ear infection, it's not the best time for a vaccine," says Dr. Rennels. "But a low-grade fever, mild respiratory infection or a little diarrhea shouldn't be reasons to delay one, especially if the illness is on the way out."

Of course, vaccines can themselves trigger side effects, including fever and rash, as well as soreness at the site of the injection, but these are rarely cause for alarm. The five-in-one Pediarix is more likely to cause a low fever than the individual shots are, but many moms say the fewer injections for their child, the better. Call your doctor right away if your child has hives (which can indicate an allergic reaction), a fever of 105 degrees or higher, or convulsions.

Myth 8: I had chicken pox when I was a kid and it isn't a big deal.

Like several common childhood diseases, chicken pox isn't a big deal for most kids. "But on rare occasions children can die from it," Dr. Rennels observes.

Before the vaccine was introduced, many children were hospitalized each year with serious complications, including pneumonia and dangerous skin infections. "Chicken pox lesions can become infected with staph, including necrotizing fasciitis—the 'flesh-eating' bacteria," says Dr. Rennels. Getting the vaccine is especially important now that less of the chicken pox virus is in circulation. "Children who don't get chicken pox or the vaccine are at risk of getting it as an adult, which is a much more serious illness."

Myth 9: Vaccines can provide 100 percent disease protection.

Not quite. The best vaccines are those made with live weakened virus, such as MMR and chicken pox, which are about 95 percent effective. The effectiveness of vaccines made with killed, or inactivated, virus is between 75 and 80 percent. That means there's a chance you could be vaccinated against a disease and still get it. But, says Dr. Edwards, if all children are vaccinated against an organism, it's less likely to hang around. That's why vaccinating an entire population is so important. "Not getting vaccinated is like failing to stop at a four-way stop," Dr. Edwards says. "If three people get vaccinated but one doesn't, the risk is not bad. But if two people don't get vaccinated, the burden of risk is greater on everyone."

Myth 10: It's best to wait until children are older before starting to give them vaccines.

Immunization schedules are designed to protect the most vulnerable patients from disease. If you wait to give the vaccine, you may miss the window when a child is most vulnerable. "When you get off the schedule, you really put your child at risk," Dr. Saari says.

Case in point: Last year in Wisconsin 300 children under age 1 came down with whooping cough, 177 of them less than 6 months old. Of these, half were hospitalized and three died. Yet, says Dr. Saari, "for a child to die from whooping cough in this day and age is criminal."

As our readers know, we supports parents' rights to make up their own mind about how to raise their kids. We try our hardest to avoid using the word "should"—except when it comes to safety. You should put your baby to sleep on her back, you should strap her into her car seat and, yes, you should make sure she gets every vaccine on the schedule.


http://www.parenting.com/article/10-vaccine-myths---busted
 
I read your post all you do is squrim your way around what many people are telling you

You do not listen to other people

You say that one person ate something and that maybe it was his food and not the vaccine
No, what I said was that because they don't know how the condition is triggered, then its equally likely that some environmental factor triggered the condition. I gave food as an example.

This shows that youi are not listenign to the countless voices out there telling you that what has happened to their child is the result of vaccines
Just because a bunch of parents think that their child was made sick by vaccines doesn't make it true. A huge portion of America thinks Evolution is wrong, but that doesn't mean they are right. Since those people are necessarily wrong, it should be clear now how just because a group, or even large group, think one thing, that doesn't mean it is right or reasonable.

Then you are told how peope have found toxic stuff in the vaccines and you still do not listen
What I said is that another group should test this. An independent third party. Is that unreasonable? That I'm not just taking that single group at their word? Any reasonable scientist would do the same thing. Do you think that's wrong? To ask for an independent opinion?

Then you are told how the admitted ingrediants of vaccines are toxic and how whislteblowers have admitted as much but STILL YOU DO NOT LISTEN
This was based on your misunderstanding of toxicity. Do you remember earlier this year when a PhD toxicologist on this forum agreed with me and not you? There's argument of authority that you so love. Just because some toxic substance is in something does NOT mean it will be harmful. Not to mention the few times that you posted supposed slip ups for your conspiracy like bill gates or some supposed CDC whistleblowers and you literally interpreted what they said only in the way you wanted to. Not what it actually meant. You don't even spare a second thought towards rationalizing what they might mean, you just immediately assumed what they were saying was what you wanted.

You are illogical because you refuse to face reality
no muir. You THINK i'm illogical because I refuse to face YOUR reality. But muir we can't all live in your little fantasy world.
 
No they weren't

Please go over this thread and learn how they are talking out of their overly aggressive butts

I don't need to go over this thread. I know enough about the topic to know that they are correct regardless of the methods they use to get their point across.
 
10 Vaccine Myths—Busted

Sitting through your baby's immunization-induced meltdown can be as painful for you as it is for her. That is, if the nagging worry that these routine shots could do more harm than good doesn't get to you first. No wonder a recent study from the University of Michigan found that 93 percent of pediatricians had at least one parent who refused a vaccination for their child during the past year.

Why are vaccines under fire? Some experts say it's due to their success. "It's the natural evolution of a vaccine program," says Paul Offit, M.D., chief of infectious diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "As you eliminate the diseases, people are not as compelled to get vaccines." Adds Kathryn Edwards, M.D., spokesperson for the National Network for Immunization Information, "Many diseases are out of sight and then out of mind. So people don't see the value of vaccines."

Yet high immunization rates are necessary to keep diseases like measles and even polio from making a dangerous comeback. Here are ten myths about vaccines—and the truth behind them.

Myth 1: Getting so many vaccines will overwhelm my child's immune system.


No doubt about it, the immunization schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) can seem daunting. Your child can receive up to 23 shots by the time she's 2 years old and as many as six shots at a single doctor visit. So it's not surprising that many parents have concerns about how vaccines might affect a child's developing immunity and often cite these as a reason to refuse a vaccine.

But it should be the least of your worries. "Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines," says Dr. Offit. "A baby's body is bombarded with immunologic challenges—from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean." In fact, Dr. Offit's studies show that in theory, healthy infants could safely get up to 100,000 vaccines at once.

The bottom line: It's safe to give your child simultaneous vaccines or vaccine combinations, such as the five-in-one vaccine called Pediarix, which protects against hepatitis B, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (also known as whooping cough). Equally important, vaccines are as effective given in combination as they are given individually.

Myth 2: As long as other children are getting vaccinated, mine don't need to be.


Skipping vaccinations puts your baby at greater risk for potentially life-threatening diseases. "The ability of immunizations to prevent the spread of infection depends on having a certain number of children immunized," says Thomas Saari, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. "Scientists refer to this as 'herd immunity.' Unfortunately, the level of immunization required to prevent diseases such as measles from spreading from child to child is high—95 percent." In 2003, the national vaccination rate in children ages 19 to 35 months was only about 80 percent—though that number increases to the mid-90s when children reach school age.

These rates may not be high enough to provide herd immunity, especially as exemptions from school vaccines are on the rise. In studies from Colorado, where residents claim high numbers of vaccine exemptions for medical, personal and religious reasons, kids who are not immunized are at greater risk for disease. Case in point: They're 22 times more likely to come down with measles.

Myth 3: Now that major illnesses have largely disappeared, we really don't need vaccines anymore.

Don't bet on it. Despite our relatively high vaccination rates in the U.S., many American communities still have outbreaks of diseases like measles and pertussis, a respiratory illness characterized by spasms of coughing that can last for weeks or even months. In 2003, 13 children died of the infection.

Unvaccinated children can also spread infection to vulnerable family members. "Those children are more likely to give a disease to those who can't fight it off, such as a six-month-old or a grandparent living at home," says Dr. Saari. The incidence of whooping cough has been increasing since 1980, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended a pertussis booster shot for 11-year-olds because the risk of passing the disease to a vulnerable relative is so high.

What's more, diseases are spread by people from foreign countries who travel here. "Air travel has extended the range of diseases from countries where people aren't immunized," says Dr. Saari. "We're no more than one airplane ride from being exposed to many diseases."

Myth 4: Vaccines cause autism and other disorders.

Concerns about a link between a combination vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella—called the MMR vaccine—and the developmental disorder autism got kicked up by a case report from England seven years ago. But it has been roundly discredited. The notion has persisted because autism tends to emerge around the time that the vaccine is given—when a child is a year old. Experts stress, however, that this does not mean the vaccine caused the problem. "Not only is there no evidence that it causes autism, there's evidence that it doesn't cause autism," Dr. Offit says. "In fact, there have been 14 studies that show your risk of getting autism isn't any different if you got the MMR vaccine or if you didn't."

The Institute of Medicine backed up that conclusion in a report issued last summer. Worries linger, Dr. Offit adds, because "it's hard to unring the bell. People reasonably assume that if there is nothing to it, why was there so much smoke?" Parents have expressed similar fears about vaccines and the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). "Numerous vaccines are given to little babies over that first year, just when a lot of developmental changes are occurring," says Dr. Edwards. "If something happens around the time a vaccine is given, it's easy to think the vaccine caused it."

Myth 5: My baby might get the disease it's supposed to prevent.

"Most vaccines we give today, such as meningitis and DTaP, contain killed vaccines—not live agents that could replicate," says Dr. Edwards.

That's true of the scariest diseases doctors vaccinate against, such as polio, which was once made with live weakened polio virus. Until this type of vaccine was phased out, around 1994, a tiny fraction of people—one in 2.4 million—contracted polio from the vaccine itself. But since then, children in the U.S. have received polio vaccine made from killed virus, so there's no risk of contracting the disease from the shot. A few vaccines that are on the schedule do, however, contain live weakened virus to provoke an immune response. These include the MMR and chicken pox immunizations. "These vaccines have the potential to cause some mild illness—a little fever and rash," explains Dr. Edwards. "But the illness is much less severe than if a child naturally contracted measles or chicken pox."

Myth 6: Vaccines can contain preservatives that are dangerous.

Until recently, many vaccine concerns centered on the safety of thimerosal, a compound that prevents the vaccine from being contaminated by bacteria and contains a form of mercury called ethylmercury. Mercury in large quantities is known to be harmful to a child's developing brain. Worries about thimerosal's effect on children prompted its removal from nearly all childhood vaccines in 1999. (Thimerosal is still present in some flu vaccine—though you can ask your doctor for a thimerosal-free shot.)

Yet it's become clearer since then that ethylmercury does not pose the same health hazard as its cousin, methylmercury, a metal found in the environment that's known to accumulate in the body and cause harm to developing children. "The body is able to eliminate ethylmercury much more quickly than it can eliminate methylmercury," says Dr. Offit.

University of Rochester researchers confirmed that when they compared mercury concentrations in the urine, blood and stools of children who got vaccines containing thimerosal with those of kids who received only thimerosal-free vaccines. All the children had mercury levels well below the EPA's most stringent public safety limits.

Even if your baby received a vaccine that contained thimerosal, the overwhelming majority of data support a lack of association between the substance and neurological problems, says Margaret Rennels, M.D., the chair of the committee on infectious diseases of the AAP, who points out that children are exposed to mercury from many environmental sources. "The reality that a lot of people seem to miss is that the largest source of organic mercury is the environment: the air we breathe, the water we drink and the fish we eat. That's due to the burning of coal," she says. You can lessen your child's mercury exposure by limiting the amount of fish she eats. The Food and Drug Administration says that it's safe for young children to eat albacore tuna once a week and fish that are lower in mercury (such as "chunk light" tuna, pollack, salmon, and catfish) twice a week. (Shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish, which have high mercury levels, are off the menu.)

Myth 7: You shouldn't give a vaccine to a child who has a cold.

It's reasonable to think that a sick child would be more likely to have a bad reaction to a vaccine or that it might present an added burden to her immune system if she's fighting off a cold. Yet studies show that having a mild illness doesn't affect a child's ability to react appropriately to the vaccine.

"Certainly if a child comes in with a fever of 102 and a rip-snorting ear infection, it's not the best time for a vaccine," says Dr. Rennels. "But a low-grade fever, mild respiratory infection or a little diarrhea shouldn't be reasons to delay one, especially if the illness is on the way out."

Of course, vaccines can themselves trigger side effects, including fever and rash, as well as soreness at the site of the injection, but these are rarely cause for alarm. The five-in-one Pediarix is more likely to cause a low fever than the individual shots are, but many moms say the fewer injections for their child, the better. Call your doctor right away if your child has hives (which can indicate an allergic reaction), a fever of 105 degrees or higher, or convulsions.

Myth 8: I had chicken pox when I was a kid and it isn't a big deal.

Like several common childhood diseases, chicken pox isn't a big deal for most kids. "But on rare occasions children can die from it," Dr. Rennels observes.

Before the vaccine was introduced, many children were hospitalized each year with serious complications, including pneumonia and dangerous skin infections. "Chicken pox lesions can become infected with staph, including necrotizing fasciitis—the 'flesh-eating' bacteria," says Dr. Rennels. Getting the vaccine is especially important now that less of the chicken pox virus is in circulation. "Children who don't get chicken pox or the vaccine are at risk of getting it as an adult, which is a much more serious illness."

Myth 9: Vaccines can provide 100 percent disease protection.

Not quite. The best vaccines are those made with live weakened virus, such as MMR and chicken pox, which are about 95 percent effective. The effectiveness of vaccines made with killed, or inactivated, virus is between 75 and 80 percent. That means there's a chance you could be vaccinated against a disease and still get it. But, says Dr. Edwards, if all children are vaccinated against an organism, it's less likely to hang around. That's why vaccinating an entire population is so important. "Not getting vaccinated is like failing to stop at a four-way stop," Dr. Edwards says. "If three people get vaccinated but one doesn't, the risk is not bad. But if two people don't get vaccinated, the burden of risk is greater on everyone."

Myth 10: It's best to wait until children are older before starting to give them vaccines.

Immunization schedules are designed to protect the most vulnerable patients from disease. If you wait to give the vaccine, you may miss the window when a child is most vulnerable. "When you get off the schedule, you really put your child at risk," Dr. Saari says.

Case in point: Last year in Wisconsin 300 children under age 1 came down with whooping cough, 177 of them less than 6 months old. Of these, half were hospitalized and three died. Yet, says Dr. Saari, "for a child to die from whooping cough in this day and age is criminal."

As our readers know, we supports parents' rights to make up their own mind about how to raise their kids. We try our hardest to avoid using the word "should"—except when it comes to safety. You should put your baby to sleep on her back, you should strap her into her car seat and, yes, you should make sure she gets every vaccine on the schedule.


http://www.parenting.com/article/10-vaccine-myths---busted

I'm going to save us all some time by bringing you upto speed

Sites like that one are controlled by powerful interest groups

There's literally no point posting those sistes with their opinions

We are now at the stage of posting information directly from doctors and scientists

Please as i have asked you reasonably already, go back over the thread and educate yourself before filling the thread up with more of the kind of stuff we dispensed with at the start of the thread

Also as i asked please look at that article before your penn and teller post with the interview with the whistleblower; he explains as do other articles already posted that go into even more detail how health has been improved not by vaccines but by clean water, improved housing, sewage removal, nutrition etc
 
I don't need to go over this thread. I know enough about the topic to know that they are correct regardless of the methods they use to get their point across.

No you do need to go over the thread

No you do not know as much as you think you do
 
No i want you to tell me what conspiracy i'm talking about. not your bullshit rationalisation about whay you don't want to look at the facts

You displace yourself from reality by using (missuisng) words like 'logic', 'confirmation bias', 'occams razor' and so on as if you have ownership of the truth by avoiding facts, when in fact you are just blowing empty bullshit out

You cannot say a conspiracy is not true if you don't know what it is...so come on...what is the conspiracy?

As quoted at the end of my earlier quote, seeing as it directly answers the question that you just asked....kinda makes me think you didn't even read it...again.

And all of that doesn't even get into questioning the initial assumption of there even being a conspiracy, but I can't logically prove or disprove it as it is a hypothesis that is untestable
I literally cannot prove a conspiracy is true no matter what. And neither can you. you just think you can and do even though you are necessarily wrong, lol. I use logic to say why your supposed facts are misunderstood, misrepresented, or necessarily wrong. And also to explain why you think they are right, namely your biases.
What I say is that you can't use your conspiracy theory as proof of anything. It's illogical and unreasonable.

Really I think you need to read philosophy on what knowledge, things that are knowable, truths, and proofs are. Because you often times get that wrong.
 
No, what I said was that because they don't know how the condition is triggered, then its equally likely that some environmental factor triggered the condition. I gave food as an example.


Just because a bunch of parents think that their child was made sick by vaccines doesn't make it true. A huge portion of America thinks Evolution is wrong, but that doesn't mean they are right. Since those people are necessarily wrong, it should be clear now how just because a group, or even large group, think one thing, that doesn't mean it is right or reasonable.


What I said is that another group should test this. An independent third party. Is that unreasonable? That I'm not just taking that single group at their word? Any reasonable scientist would do the same thing. Do you think that's wrong? To ask for an independent opinion?


This was based on your misunderstanding of toxicity. Do you remember earlier this year when a PhD toxicologist on this forum agreed with me and not you? There's argument of authority that you so love. Just because some toxic substance is in something does NOT mean it will be harmful. Not to mention the few times that you posted supposed slip ups for your conspiracy like bill gates or some supposed CDC whistleblowers and you literally interpreted what they said only in the way you wanted to. Not what it actually meant. You don't even spare a second thought towards rationalizing what they might mean, you just immediately assumed what they were saying was what you wanted.


no muir. You THINK i'm illogical because I refuse to face YOUR reality. But muir we can't all live in your little fantasy world.

No i am not incorrect about toxicity it was you that was incorrect...remember you kept arguing that point about flourdie until i showed you the world leading expert on flouride explaining how you were WRONG WRONG WRONG

But you have left these issues and are now coming back and claiming you didn't lose them...you did

Go back into the thread and review the toxicity issue
 
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