Autumn 2012

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Vaccine Illusion—How Mass Vaccination Com- INSIDE THIS ISSUE promises Immunity By Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD 02: VRANews 04: Autism and 05: Peanut on the Rise Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych earned her PhD in Immunology at the Rockefeller Univer- 09: Letter to My Old Pediatrician sity, New York, NY and has done postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, 10: Will a Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? Boston, MA and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Tetyana is 15: Walene James Memorial the author of a new book “ Illusion,” in which she presents a view on vac- 19: Book Reviews cination that is radically different from mainstream theories. The birth of her child 20: Breastmilk Stem Cells inspired her to probe deeply into the vaccine paradigm, which made her realize the 21; Family in Search of Justice flaws in the interpretation and application of immunologic theory. She is an educa- 22: Causal Link: Acetaminophen and tor on immunity and . The following excerpts from Vaccine Illusion and highlights from her recent interview with consumer health researcher and author, 22: Letters Catherine J Frompovich reveal the disparity between natural and artificial immunity. 23: Study Questions the Primary Justification for Vaccines Introduction 26: Newsclips postdoctoral research training programs 28: VRAN Membership / Order Form Concerns about vaccine safety and ef- in immunology at renowned US research ficacy are being raised by an increasing institutions, I had to admit to myself number of scientists and medical profes- that in its current state of development, The Tyranny of Forced sionals with a wide range of professional immunology offers little help in under- Vaccination expertise and perspectives on vaccina- standing what one can do to strengthen By Edda West tion issues. My own expertise is in the the immune system. I gradually came to field of Immunology, the centuries-old realize that immunology is ultimately not Everywhere we turn, the pressure to research discipline that has brought us a science about health but rather a sci- vaccinate is intensifying. VRAN receives the vaccine invention. ence about vaccination. more inquiries from adults seeking vac- I never imagined myself becoming As we hear more and more about cine exemptions for employment and for critical of vaccination, least so in the very vaccine injuries, many individuals are post secondary education than any other beginning of my Ph.D. research training starting to view vaccination as a neces- vaccine question. Forced vaccination for in Immunology. In fact, as a graduate sary evil that has helped us initially to employment and college level schooling student, I was very supportive of vacci- overcome raging epidemics of deadly has become the new tyranny. nation, just like the rest of my field still diseases but now causes more damage With flu season officially launched, is. Originally, I felt very strongly that the than benefit to our children. As an immu- healthcare workers are increasingly un- immunologic theory provides strong foun- nologist, I have a different and perhaps der the gun to submit to flu shots and dation for the practice of vaccination, and a very unique perspective. I have real- nowhere more so than in British Colum- based on that textbook-instilled feeling, I ized that the invention of vaccination in bia where officials are about to launch a saw no reasons to question or scrutinize the 18th century has precluded us from draconian forced flu vaccine policy. Any- the proclaimed virtues of vaccination. To seeking to understand what naturally one who works directly with patients will my dismay, I have later realized that the acquired immunity to diseases really is. have to submit to the policy and wear a justification of vaccination is based on Had we pursued a different route in the badge indicating they’ve had the shot. incomplete and often misapplied knowl- absence of that shortsighted invention, The policy targets just about anyone who edge of the immune system. Furthermore, we could have gained a thorough under- works in any facility where patient care this justification persists by disregarding standing of naturally acquired immunity is given. Healthcare workers across the much of the unfitting experimental and and arrived at a truly effective and safe province are up in arms and resistance is epidemiologic evidence. way of disease prevention compared to mounting. My impetus for re-evaluating immu- what vaccination can possibly offer. As When BC health bureaucrats an- nologic paradigms and their applicability of now, we still do not understand how nounced plans to impose mandatory flu to health started at the professional level immunity is acquired naturally. vaccination on healthcare workers or al- and was further bolstered by a personal The term immunity refers to a wide- ternatively, the option of wearing a mask necessity: I have myself become a parent ly observed phenomenon of becoming at every shift for months at a time, the determined to raise a healthy child. Af- ter all I have learned in the doctoral and Vaccine Illusion cont. on page 11 Tyranny of Forced Vaccination cont. on page 7 VRAN NEWSLETTER VRANEWS have not reduced infant mortality rates. Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. The study will then be submitted to med- P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 ical journals for publication. Coordinator and newsletter editor: Edda West VRAN Annual General Meeting [email protected] 250-355-2525 Rita Hoffman also serves as VRAN’s VRAN Board of Directors: VRAN annual general meeting was webmaster and does regular uploads to Susan Fletcher—President held by telephone conference on June 26, our and Twitter pages. She cre- Rita Hoffman—Vice-President 2012. In attendance were Board members ates and sends out HTML E-Bulletins on Edda West —Secretary/Treasurer & Executive, Mary James, Rita Hoffman, a regular basis. The first E-Bulletin with Mary James—Board Member Susan Fletcher and Edda West. After the new design was sent in July. It’s co- Susan Fletcher—VRAN Researcher, Board Member many years as VRAN President, Mary lourful and bright, and has a professional Thanks to Catherine Orfald for the newsletter layout. James resigned her post. Board members look. Thank you Rita! We are very grate- Statement of Purpose: • VRAN was formed in October of 1992 in re- thanked Mary for the many years she has ful to longtime VRAN member, Scott sponse to growing parental concern regarding dedicated to vaccination risk education Hunter for designing the new logo. It’s the safety of current vaccination programs in outreach both provincially in Manito- beautiful. Thank you Scott! use in . ba and nationally in Canada. Mary is a Edda presented the annual financial • VRAN continues the work of the Committee founding member of both VRAN and the report which is available to all members Against Compulsory Vaccination, who in 1982, Association for Vaccine Damaged Chil- in good standing on request. Fundrais- challenged Ontario’s compulsory “Immunization dren. We are grateful that Mary has ing was discussed, as it is at every AGM. of School Pupils Act”, which resulted in amend- ment of the Act, and guarantees an exemption chosen to remain on as a Director on the Fundraising is an ongoing challenge and of conscience from any ‘required’ vaccine. VRAN Board. we ask that people renew their annual • VRAN forwards the belief that all people have the Elections for Executive positions were membership at the beginning of each cal- right to draw on a broad information base when held for a 3 year term, and long term endar year. VRAN needs a fundraising deciding on drugs offered themselves and/or their Board member Susan Fletcher was ac- Director. If you are interested in helping children and in particular drugs associated with claimed as President. Rita Hoffman was with fundraising, please consider volun- potentially serious health risks, injury and death. re-elected as Vice President, and Edda teering for this position. VACCINES ARE SUCH DRUGS. • VRAN is committed to gathering and distributing infor- West continues as secretary-treasurer. mation and resources that contribute to the creation of We welcome Susan as VRAN’s new Fundraising health and well being in our families and communities. president! With her science background, VRAN’s Mandate is: Susan is able to analyze and interpret VRAN fundraising is an ongoing ef- • To empower parents to make an informed deci- complex scientific articles. She is a fort. VRAN is solely supported by the sion when considering vaccines for their children. prolific and enthusiastic writer who cri- generosity of our members. 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Suggested annual membership parent whose child suffered a severe and BONUS ITEMS fees, including quarterly newsletter and your on- going support to the Vaccination Risk Awareness fatal reaction to the oral polio vaccine. • The Greater Good—A new docu- Network: $35.00—Individual $75.00—Professional Susan gave an update on John Jones’ mentary—an excellent tool to help We would like to share the personal stories of our study on infant mortality rates as relates further awareness of the health risks membership. If you would like to submit your story, to vaccination. The study was complet- posed by vaccines. “There are severe please contact Edda West by phone or e-mail,as ed some months ago and submitted for consequences due to our current vac- indicated above. peer review. The writer was advised by cine policy and schedule, many of VRAN website: www.vran.org √ the reviewers to rework the study from which are simply dismissed as coinci- the perspective that infant mortality rates dence or diagnosed improperly.” The (IMR) hinge on standard of living more than any other factor and that vaccines VRANews cont. on page 3 Page 2 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter VRANews cont. from page 2 health officials, school officials and the and school suspensions, but fail to film highlights personal stories of vac- media routinely omit information about inform the public of legal vaccine ex- cine injuries and includes interviews legal vaccine exemptions when vaccine emptions. with scientists and medical doctors on update notices are distributed in schools Additional Concerns: both sides of the issue. A good intro- The philosophical exemption clause • Informed Consent violations—the ductory film for anyone who has not has been a part of Ontario’s Immuniza- absence of risk disclosure to students given much thought to this issue. tion of School Pupils Act since 1984. prior to vaccination is particularly • The Vaccine Religion, by Walene Health units across the province rou- worrisome and the fact that students James. In this book, the author tran- tinely omit exemption information from are prevented from exercising their scends the ‘debate’ pro and con vaccine demand letters in which they right to fully Informed Consent prior vaccination. She sheds a new light on threaten students with expulsion if they to a medical procedure which carries the belief system that keeps the prac- are not up to date with vaccines. They documented risks. tice alive, the fear which feeds the know that fear works, and they use co- • Most parents are unaware that their need for such a belief, the exploitation ercion and intimidation to achieve their children can be vaccinated without of this fear, and the way in which we goal of vaccine compliance. their permission at school. Under the are all recruited as willing soldiers in School administrators and teachers are Health Care Consent Act, the health the ‘mission’. Please see the book re- also unaware of the availability of legal professional providing the treatment view in this issue of the newsletter. exemptions, largely because health of- determines whether the person is • Fooling Ourselves On the Fun- ficials subvert the information in order capable of consenting to a medical damental Value of Vaccines, by to force compliance with vaccine regu- treatment. Commonly referred to as Greg Beattie. Beattie meticulously lations embedded in the Act. Today, 28 the “Mature Minor Ruling”, children documents the historical decline of years after the Act was amended to in- as young as 11 or 12 are encouraged infectious diseases prior to mass vac- clude philosophical exemption from to consent to vaccines without hav- cination and reveals the fallacy of the vaccines, the majority of parents in On- ing the maturity and life experience to cultural belief in the practice. This tario still don’t know they have the legal even know how to question it. book should be placed into the hands right to refuse vaccines for their children, • Media lack of disclosure—it should of anyone who is still locked into and that children can still go to school be mandatory for Health Units to in- the belief that vaccines=disease pre- whether they are partially vaccinated, or clude clear exemption information in vention. A small book packed with unvaccinated. their press releases when speaking to powerful information. In her 10 page cover letter to the Om- the media • Vaccine Epidemic—The contributing budsman, Rita frames the complaint VRAN makes important recom- authors explore how corporate greed, as follows: VRAN (Vaccination Risk mendations: biased science and coercive govern- Awareness Network) complains that • All consent forms should clearly ad- ment threaten our human rights, our the Ministry of Health and Long-Term vise that there is no vaccine injury health, and our children. The second Care fails to ensure that Ontario citi- compensation in Ontario recently expanded edition is now zens are adequately informed of their • Parents and students to be directed to available with added chapters. Over right to exemption from the vaccina- sources, i.e. manufacturers’ package 20 authors expose the bitter truth tion requirements as set out in the inserts for full disclosure of risks and about the impact of vaccines on their Immunization of School Pupils Act side effects lives and society as a whole. (Ontario) and the Day Nurseries Act • All Health Units should have clear and • Vaccine Safety Manual, by Neil Mill- (Ontario). concise information regarding vaccine er—A complete guide to all childhood VRAN’s initiatives over the years to exemptions in all print material and vaccines, the diseases and the risks remedy the following concerns: websites targeting students and parents entailed by both. It is an important ref- • Legal letter sent to the Ministry of • Health Units should be required to in- erence manual for all parents, and is a Health requesting that vaccine exemp- clude clear exemption information in scholarly resource that presents mate- tion information be included in all press releases, print material, and vid- rial in a clear and concise way. vaccine related literature distributed eos when being interviewed by media across the province to schools and • The Ontario Ministry of Health and Ontario Ombudsman Initiative parents, Long Term Care should at the very • Outreach to all school Trustees in On- least have a link to the “Form 2” For many years, Rita Hoffman has tario advising them of students’ legal exemption form on their website, ‘Im- painstakingly gathered evidence of the right to vaccine exemptions, media munization: Your Best Protection’. failure of Ontario health units and the articles that carry suspension threat Links to manufacturers’ package in- Ministry of Health to adequately inform messages from health units which ex- serts should also be available. students and their families of the avail- clude exemption information, We do plan to upload the entire Om- ability of legal vaccine exemptions which • Contacting regional Medial Officers budsman’s complaint to the VRAN all students and children in daycare are of Health outlining our concerns that website. Please do contact us by email or entitled to. On behalf of VRAN, Rita vaccine exemption information is ex- phone if you’d like to obtain more infor- has initiated a complaint to Ontario Om- cluded from vaccine demand letters mation on the broad spectrum of issues budsman Andre Marin, accompanied by • Letters to media requesting they cor- covered in this report. √ an extensive dossier of several hundred rect factual errors in articles that pages of evidence demonstrating how report on “mandatory” vaccination VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 3 Autism and allergy… it seemed to happen overnight By Heather Fraser

Confused and worried parents see the Denial and avoidance of the growing Index” would be a good idea: growing number of allergic and autistic allergy problem has persisted. When I Such an index would consist of the children in their schools. You can hear began writing about peanut allergy two best mix of stocks that have good lower what they are thinking. “We didn’t have years ago I received several emphatic multiples that will supply the arms in our this when I was at school. What’s hap- emails from a Canadian allergist Dr. ongoing war against autoimmune diseases. pening? And it seems to have happened Weisnagel. He wrote: “There is no such The author goes on to list the drugs almost overnight.” thing as an epidemic of peanut allergy!!” created for these conditions, their manu- In fact, something did happen in many Dr. Weisnagel is a medical advisor to facturers, the status of their stocks and western countries about 20 years ago to Anaphylaxis Canada. He claims that the their billion dollar profits. make many children suddenly unwell: epidemic is an illusion caused by false And then without flinching he offers • Severe food allergy: teachers, prin- over-diagnoses of peanut allergy. Dr. up causes for the pediatric epidemics: cipals were surprised by a surge of Weisnagel writes on his web site: The increase in autoimmune illnesses severely allergic children entering … according to published reliable ar- and allergies in children may be due to kindergarten in the early 1990s. Chil- ticles in the medical literature, there is high exposure to antibiotics and vaccines dren born in the late 1980s and early no such thing as an epidemic of peanut at an early age… 90s were the first wave. Confirmed allergy. There is an increase in peanut Inferred is that the products making by hospital ER records – kids were allergy as other food allergies but as doc- the children sick are made by the same reacting to foods, bee venom. Cohort umented, it is a reflection of the increase companies making more products to treat studies on peanut allergy in the UK in allergy generally over the years. There them. You can make money at both ends made news “Rise of the killer food”. is no documented evidence that the so- of the epidemics, if you want to. • Autism: In the early 1990s, increasing called epidemic is caused by or related to Naomi Klein calls this disaster capitalism. reports of autism alerted the CDC. One immunizations (or vaccinations). startling report of a ‘cluster’ of autism In contrast, Dr. Scott Sicherer’s 11 Unsustainable traditions in Brick Township, NJ drew the atten- year follow up survey indicates a tri- tion of the CDC in 1997 (see Blaxill pling of the allergy among US children We want answers, we want the epi- and Olmsted, Age of Autism (2010). between 1997 and 2010. The CDC has demics to stop now and the children to Children born in the late 1980s and reported a 265% rise in food allergy hos- recover. These goals are at odds with early 90s were most affected. pitalization among children. those of our own institutions and tradi- This was the beginning of the allergy The same peculiar denial emerged tions. Parents sense and many are even and autism epidemics. Today, across the as the prevalence of autism climbed convinced of the connection between US and Canada about 1 in 13 children during the 1990s. We’ve always had de- the epidemics and pharmaceuticals and (8%) under 18 have food allergies with bilitating autism, the doctors claimed. chemicals—toxic insults from vaccines, 1 in 40 (2.5%) being life threatening. 1 The difference now is that we’re better antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals in the in 88 children have an at diagnosing it… which then had doc- environment, our air, water and food. disorder. tors out looking for the hidden hordes of Allergist Dr. Sicherer now in theory autistic adults. They were never found. implicates vaccines and antibiotics in al- Denial of the epidemics tering the microbiome of children, their Undeniable disaster… leads to gut flora leading to life threatening al- The sudden surge of severely allergic disaster capitalism lergy. He was quoted on US National kids took educators by surprise in the Peanut Day by Fox News (Sept. 12/12): early 1990s. The massive rise in allergy and au- The leading theory is about hygiene— One principal in Ontario, Canada who tism in children is today undeniable for with less infection thanks to city living, had observed the trend decided finally to most doctors. In the 20 years since the smaller families, vaccines, sanitation, poll other elementary school principals in first huge wave of injured children ‘prog- antibiotics, etc., the immune system is The Prince Edward and Hastings board to ress’ has been made in treatments. The less ‘busy’ with germs and may become confirm her suspicions. The results of her epidemics are a windfall for investors in more prone to attack harmless food pro- confidential 2000 survey revealed that in pharmaceuticals. teins… the 26 responding schools there were 86 In a 2009 Wall Street Journal article In fact, history shows a correlation children with severe allergy. The chil- “Save the children (and make money)” between the use of the Hib b conjugate dren were born between 1987 and 1996: writer James Altucher noted the massive vaccine in a five-vaccine combination 40 were allergic to nuts and 30 were al- rise in the last two decades in peanut al- and the rise in peanut allergy. This coin- lergic to bee stings. lergy, asthma, Crohn’s disease and more cidence was documented first in western The principal buried her survey, long among children. This was something old- countries including the UK, the US, forgotten until it made its way to me 11 er investors were barely affected by these Canada, ACT Australia where the al- years later. A stray photocopy had been when they were kids, he observed. lergy emerged in children with fast tucked into the files of a local anaphy- Sadly, the trend is deepening, Altucher rising prevalence starting around 1990. laxis group. Naturally, I contacted the continued. The kids are sick and getting principal. She refused to comment. sicker. So, he thought an “Autoimmune Autism and Allergy cont. on page 6 Page 4 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter give the MMR to children with egg al- Peanut Allergies on the Rise lergies, children who are allergic or report, the exact ingredients in all of the Yet another study confirms that peanut sensitive to eggs still have significant in- growth media. Therefore, we may not allergies are on the rise. In September, flammatory reactions after the injection know whether peanut antigen is used in a Reuters newsclip reported that “Re- of the MMR. The lack of an anaphylac- the vaccine manufacturing process just searchers reviewed the medical records tic response in children who ingest egg by reading through the package inserts. of several hundred children in Olmsted protein after they’ve been sensitized by Our lack of knowledge about it does County, in southeastern Minnesota, and an injection of egg protein in the MMR, not mean it isn’t knowledge waiting to found that new diagnoses of peanut al- does not mean they lack a reaction to, or be discovered. And, it may, or may not, lergy rose from two out of every 10,000 lack the development of inflammatory have anything to do with an attempt to kids in 1999 to nearly seven out of every symptoms as a result of the injection and purposely hide the information that pea- 10,000 in 2007. It’s believed that food al- ingestion of egg protein. nut antigen is present in vaccines. lergies affect 8% of American children, The Prevnar vaccine contains soy with the most common culprits being protein, and we’ve seen a large rise in al- cow’s milk, wheat, egg, soy, peanuts, tree ...I do believe it is a screw-up on the lergies and sensitivities to soy protein in nuts and some seafood.9 part of the FDA, CDC, and all other the population.5 Why this ominous trend? The leading agencies in charge of reviewing A large subset of patients with In- current theory centres around the “hy- vaccine constituents prior to licens- flammatory Bowel Disease have positive giene hypothesis”, which proposes that a ing, to turn their heads away from antibodies to Saccharomyces cerevisae, “cleaner” life style, smaller families, less the role vaccine food antigens play a known marker for diagnosing Crohn’s infection, less exposure to dirt, means we in contributing to the significant rise Disease.6 Saccharomyces cerevisiae have fewer challenges to the immune sys- in food allergies in the pediatric and is brewer’s yeast, and is used in the tem. According to the theory, when our adult populations, and thus the rise manufacturing of several vaccines, spe- immune systems are “less busy” deal- in chronic disease. cifically, the Hepatitis B vaccine, where ing with germs, they are somehow more up to 5% of the vaccine can still contain prone to attack by harmless food proteins. Nonetheless, I do believe it is a screw- this yeast.7 Children receive 3 Hepatitis The fact that most children are injected up on the part of the FDA, CDC, and all vaccines, starting at less than 12 hours of with multiple vaccines containing traces other agencies in charge of reviewing life. Brewer’s yeast is used a lot in foods of food proteins in early infancy when vaccine constituents prior to licensing, to and in the manufacturing of supplements, the immune system is still immature, is turn their heads away from the role vac- so an inflammatory immune response not seriously considered as a contribut- cine food antigens play in contributing to to ingested Sacchraromyces can flare ing factor to the epidemic of allergic the significant rise in food allergies in the up into major symptoms of disease in a disorders. Yet Charles Robert Richet won pediatric and adult populations, and thus subset of patients who have developed a the 1913 Nobel Prize for discovering that the rise in chronic disease. significant immune reaction against the our immune systems are so constituted The tetanus portion of any DaPT, injected Saccharomyces from vaccines. that “we can never receive other proteins tdaP, Dt, Td or Tt vaccine is grown on The ingestion of food proteins, that are into the blood, than those that have been a Fenton-Latham medium derived from also found as antigens in vaccines, and modified by digestive juices.” Medical bovine casein, which can still remain as are injected into the body and automati- science has known for 100 years ago that an antigen in the final vaccine product. 1 cally perceived by the immune system you cannot inject proteins into the body Children receive 6 of these vaccines by as foreign proteins, especially in the without risking severe allergic reactions the time they are 11 years old, and then as presence of an adjuvant like aluminum, like anaphylaxis.10 Yet we continue to do adults once every 10 years. Milk allergies is going to contribute to inflammatory exactly that, and wonder why our chil- and sensitivities have been exponentially symptoms that manifest in a myriad of dren are so sick. on the rise, and these sensitivities are ways, depending on the genetics and found to contribute to the inflammatory the constitution of each person affected. Are vaccine food antigens linked symptoms found in children and adults Some of these immune responses may to the rise in food allergies? with many different chronic illnesses not be IgE reactions. This is basic Immu- such as chronic otitis media, eczema, nology 101. By Lawrence B. Palevsky, M.D asthma, autism, and even bipolar disease Peanut allergies are on the rise. Gluten and schizophrenia.2 sensitivities are on the rise. By an ex- There is adequate scientific evi- Another source of casein that is poten- tension of how much we already know dence that peanut oil has been used in tially injected into the body is from the that vaccine food antigens are a likely vaccines since the 1960’s. If current Menactra vaccine. Casein hydrolysate is contributor to the development of food vaccine package inserts do not contain used to make the Mueller-Hinton agar allergies and sensitivities in children and the specific evidence that peanut oil, or 3, which is the growth medium for the adults, and a contributor to the develop- peanut meal, is contained within the fi- manufacturing of the Menactra vaccine, ment of chronic inflammatory symptoms, nal vaccine product, it does not mean the meningococcal A,C,Y, W-135 poly- I believe it is reasonable to question, and that peanut antigen is not in the final saccharide, diphtheria toxoid conjugate seek to prove, whether peanuts and glu- vaccine product. Vaccine manufactur- vaccine. ten are used somewhere in the vaccine ers use different growth media on which The MMR is one of a few vaccines manufacturing process. I think it would to manufacture the vaccines. They do not that contains egg protein4, and despite report, and I believe are not required to a recent study claiming that it is safe to Peanut Allergies Rising cont. on page 6 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 5 Autism and Allergy cont. from page 4 the facts of the peanut allergy epidemic: note of the rise in allergies to these foods The same scenario unfolded in Tasma- ER records, cohort studies and eye-wit- in the general population, and be able to nia, Singapore and Hong Kong starting ness accounts prove that around 1990 make the link that the development of in 2001—peanut allergy coincided with thousands of children suddenly devel- these allergies is due to the body’s im- the mass administration of this combi- oped severe allergy—again, in the same mune rejection of ingested food proteins nation vaccine. And now in India where period of time, just in certain countries resulting from a prior immune reaction to peanut allergy was virtually unknown, and just children. Society was unaware injected vaccine food proteins. It would the surprising and sudden rise of this al- that anything had happened until these also be nice to think that at least the lergy again has coincided with the mass children showed up for kindergarten. proper safety studies would be done to administration of the same five in one Yes, it started almost overnight …. see if the injection of these food proteins vaccine with Hib b. Note: Heather Fraser is a historian manifests in a clinically significant way The adverse impact of the Hib b and author of The Peanut Allergy Epi- in humans. Many clinicians, and parents, vaccine itself may be a further disas- demic published by Skyhorse, NY, 2011., are already seeing this connection. I be- ter waiting still to push the prevalence a powerful book that provides compelling lieve, however, that these experts are not of autism higher. Brian Richmand in evidence that the epidemic of severe al- doing their due diligence, and are look- “Hypothesis, Conjugate vaccines may lergies afflicting children today parallels ing right past the evidence. There seems predispose children to autism spectrum the expansion of the vaccination sched- to be a concerted effort to avoid doing the disorders” (2011) suggests that the Hib ule in the late 1980’s. We are grateful for studies that would solidify our scientific vaccine given in combination with 4 Heather’s kind permission to reprint this knowledge. Until then, I support the pre- others starting at 2 months of age has dis- article, originally posted on her blog: cautionary principle. rupted nerve myelin in the brain: http://heatherfraser.me/2012/08/29/ This period of hypo-responsiveness part-iv-autism-and-allergy-it-seemed-to- References: to carbohydrate antigens coincides with happen-overnight/ • DTaP vaccine ingredients: http://us.gsk.com/ the intense myelination process in infants products/assets/us_pediarix.pdf and young children, and conjugate vac- References: • Casein Dietary Antigens in Bipolar Disorder cines may have disrupted evolutionary 1. James Altucher, “Save the children (and make & schizophrenia http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ forces that favored early brain develop- money),” The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 10, pubmed/21176030 http://www.schres-journal. ment over the need to protect infants and 2009. com/article/S0920-9964(09)00621-5/abstract 2. Brian Richmand, “Hypothesis, Conjugate • Mueller-Hinton agar: http://en.wikipedia.org/ young children from capsular bacteria. wiki/Mueller-Hinton_agar But the story does not end here. As- vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders,” Med Hypotheses, (Dec. • MMR Vaccine ingredients: http://www.merck. ymptomatic girls given this vaccine carry com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ 2011): 940-7. √ antibodies that could lead to autism in the ii_pi.pdf next generation: • Prevnar ingredients: http://www.fda.gov/down- The passive transfer from mother to loads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/Ap- fetus of IgG1 antibodies to antigens tar- Peanut Allergies Rising cont. from page 6 provedProducts/UCM201669.pdf geted by these vaccines could result in be naive of us to turn our back on the • Saccharomyces cerevisae: http://www.ncbi.nlm. exposure to these antibodies at an even possibility, and even the probability of nih.gov/pubmed/11252413, http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14745572 earlier stage of brain development and, this link, especially since we can rea- sonably deduce that the current rise in • Hepatitis B vaccine may still contain this yeast: due to the effects of somatic hypermuta- http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_engerixb. tion and affinity maturation, expose the casein, egg, and soy food allergies, and chronic inflammatory symptoms that im- pdf fetus to higher affinity/ avidity IgG1 than • Vaccine Refusal & Self-report of Atopic would be produced immediately follow- prove once these foods are removed from Disease: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ing vaccination. people’s diets, are due to a prior injec- pubmed/15805992 tion of these food antigens in vaccines. • Peanut Allergies Seen on the Rise —Reuters Ar- Conclusion Just because we don’t see the food anti- ticle: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/ gens listed in the package inserts, doesn’t us-peanut-allergies-idUSBRE88A1AK20120911 mean they aren’t in there. • Anaphylactic Children – Canaries in the public The excessive dosing of our chil- health mine shaft?: http://vran.org/health-risks/ dren with vaccines, antibiotics and Let’s compare the number of food al- anaphylaxis-allergies-and-asthma/anaphylactic- environmental chemicals is a wholly un- lergies and sensitivities to dairy, eggs, children%E2%80%94canaries-in-the-public- sustainable practice. An inured corporate soy, peanuts, and gluten in vaccinated health-mine-shaft/ culture, senseless investors, acquiescent children, to the number seen in unvacci- • Doctor Palevsky is a renowned board certified doctors, unbalanced media and flawed nated children.8 Maybe it is a clinically pediatrician, sought-after lecturer, and author thinking in health management has significant difference . Or better yet, let’s who utilizes a holistic approach to children’s resulted in a man-made biomedical fund a study that does independent as- wellness and illness. He courageously voices his nightmare the liability for which seems says on all of the vaccines, looking for concerns about the impact of multiple vaccines on children’s health. This article is reprinted to lie with no-one…. the several million the peanut and gluten protein antigens with gratitude from Dr. Palevsky’s website: affected children and their families are residing inside them. We already know http://www.drpalevsky.com/articles_pages/346_ left to absorb the costs of damage while that casein, eggs, soy and yeast are in the Peanut_Oil_in_Vaccines_Since%20the_1960s. the rest of society looks on dazed and vaccines. asp √ seemingly unmoved. It would be nice to think that experts For those who are still uncertain about who sit on the committees that approve what’s going on they might ponder again vaccine safety and licensing would make Page 6 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Tyranny of Forced Vaccination cont. from page 1 The exaggerated claim of 4,000 to flu vaccine uptake. The public has been steady stream of exemption inquiries 8,000 deaths annually due to influenza duped into believing that a flu shot will VRAN receives increased dramatically. is a statistical artifact unsupported by protect from “the flu” and has no idea The unspoken threat hangs in the air, forensic or laboratory testing. that most cases of “the flu” cannot be i.e. if a worker refuses to comply with 8. Health officials are able to exaggerate prevented by the vaccine. The promot- the agenda, termination of employment influenza deaths because post mortem ers of medical dogma with a lot of help could follow. In talking to nurses and testing to determine whether the de- from the compliant media, have spun a others working in the ‘health’ field, al- ceased had influenza or any one of the sophisticated propaganda campaign to though many have a gut level resistance other viruses, is not routinely done. perpetuate the myth that a flu shot will to this vaccine, most are unaware that a 9. The Centers for Disease Control protect you. It is time the propaganda large body of medical literature supports (CDC) in the U.S. uses a simple for- and its myth be exposed and the health their aversion, and have found flu shots mula to calculate the numbers of bureaucrats who push it down our collec- are an exaggerated hype. deaths that can actually be attributed tive throats be brought to account. Since 2005, large international reviews to influenza. The CDC “estimates that Of the arsenal of vaccines the Canadian of thousands of studies have concluded only 8.5% of all pneumonia and government buys with our tax dollars, this that flu vaccines have little to no effect on influenza deaths and only 2.1% of one takes the cake as the least effective and reducing the burden of seasonal influenza- all respiratory and circulatory deaths most costly with a price tag of over $100 like-illness (ILI). This is because most cases were influenza-related.”1 Applying million annually. Imagine what could be of “the flu”, are NOT caused by the influ- this formula to Canadian statistics en- done with this money if it weren’t ear- enza virus A or B, but are associated with ables us to approximate the number of marked for drug company profits. many other viruses that can cause identical deaths related to “the flu” that are ac- Lead flu vaccine researcher, Dr. Tom symptoms which cannot be prevented by tually occurring in Canada. Jefferson at the Rome based Cochrane the vaccine. The meta-analyses confirm Collaboration offers this after many years that on average only 10% of cases of “the Flu mortality in Canada—the real of independent flu vaccine analyses— flu” are actually true influenza. Most cases numbers “Cochrane reviews estimate that “flu of “the flu” (85-90%) are caused by other vaccines could only affect at most (i.e. viruses on which the vaccine has no impact In the ten year period from 2000 to if they had 100% efficacy) some 7-15% whatsoever. This information is kept under 2009, Statistics Canada records of all cause of the annual flu burden, since this is the a tight lid by health officials. mortality show that deaths from the com- proportion of people with the flu who truly bined category, influenza and pneumonia, have influenza…..[and]…“Based on more What health officials don’t want ranged between 4,966 deaths in 2000 to than a decade of Cochrane reviews in you to know about “the flu” 5,826 deaths in 2009. In 10 years a total adults, children, [the] elderly, and health- of 52,787 deaths were counted in the com- care workers, there is no credible evidence 1. Health officials never inform the pub- bined category of influenza & pneumonia. that the inactivated vaccines have any ef- lic that “the flu” is a term applied to a Applying the CDC 8.5% formula, we cal- fect other than saving on average half a large constellation of 200+ respiratory culate that on average, 488 people, i.e less working day in healthy adults and avoid- viruses, all of which can cause influ- than 500 die from influenza each year. ing symptoms in those who least need it: enza-like-illness (ILI) with similar or This is a far cry from the inflated statistics healthy adults and adolescents. Depending identical symptoms. health officials use to coerce the public into on the season, you need to immunize 33 to 2. Without laboratory tests, doctors rolling up their sleeves each year.2 99 adults to avoid one set of symptoms.” cannot tell whether you have true in- More insight into the real death sta- fluenza or one of the other viruses that tistics buried in hard to find government Sparks fly at the Vancouver Sun cause the same symptoms. documents: During the 2010-2011 influ- 3. Health officials never inform the pub- enza season, information obtained through At the beginning of November, Dr. Per- lic or media that on average, only 10% the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Sur- ry Kendall, the public face of the forced of all cases of “the flu” are caused by veillance Program(excluding BC, Quebec flu vaccine policy, insinuated in a Van- the influenza virus. and New Brunswick), 831 adults were couver Sun editorial that even Cochrane 4. Health officials never inform the pub- hospitalized of which 87% had underly- reviews endorse vaccination of healthcare lic that 85-90% of cases of “the flu” are ing health conditions and approximately workers in order to protect patients from caused by the other respiratory viruses 14% of adult cases required intensive care influenza, pneumonia, doctor’s visits, hos- which the vaccine CANNOT prevent. treatment. Among these 831 adult cases, pitalizations and even death. 5. Health officials prefer the public remain 41 deaths were reported—the majority When asked to respond to Kendall’s under the misimpression that all cases of of which were in those older than 65. distortion of Cochrane findings, Dr. Jef- “the flu” are caused by the influenza -vi The following season from Sep- ferson fired back a scathing rebuttal rus in order to increase vaccine uptake. tember 2011 to end of April 2012, 858 saying the Cochrane Collaboration drew 6. Health officials fail to inform that there influenza-associated hospitalizations no such conclusion. “In other words, we are no credible studies proving that vac- were reported. There were 72 influenza- report that no effect of the influenza vac- cinating healthcare workers prevents associated deaths in adults, 78% of which cines was detectable on influenza and its transmission of “the flu” to patients or were in those 65 years and older.3 complications such as death.” reduces deaths from pneumonia. This basic information is deliber- In a follow-up commentary he wrote, 7. Mortality from influenza and pneu- ately withheld from the public and from monia are combined into one statistic. healthcare workers in order to bolster Tyranny of Forced Vaccination cont. on page 8 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 7 Tyranny of Forced Vaccination cont. from page 7 children in grade 4. Within a few years, a hard place”. Defy the rules and refuse the flu “There is no evidence in any literature that the rest of Canada followed suit with the vaccine, or submit to the humiliation and day- the vaccine avoids person-to-person spread provinces targeting various age groups long discomfort of having to wear a mask for as (chief health officer for B.C.) Kendall starting first with primary school children hours at a time, or walk away from your liveli- seems to imply. Another of his statements in grades 4 through grade 7, then high hood. So much for our democratic freedoms shows just how ideologically-driven his pol- school students if they’d been missed in and the right to protection of personal safety icies are. “When asked how many patients the first go-around, and finally embedding guaranteed by the Canadian Charter. die each year because they pick up viruses hepatitis B vaccine in the infant schedule. The deceitful propaganda that health like the flu, Kendall said he didn’t know BC was also the first province to inject officials have been spinning for years because the information is not routinely two month old infants with hepatitis B vac- is starting to wear thin. The deliberate collected.” If he does not know how many cine which then rolled its way across the distortions of research findings, cherry people die because of influenza, how does country, and is now incorporated as a rec- picked studies with biases, conflicts of in- he know it’s a problem of such proportion ommended vaccine in the infant schedule terest (many studies funded by industry), to justify coercive policies? Also, how will by the National Advisory Committee on and methodological errors are what health he evaluate his policy which has caused so Immunization. It is also the first province to bureaucrats use to justify their coercive flu much resistance? If he does not know what inject babies with Infanrix, the 6 in 1 vac- vaccine policy at a time when “evidence the “before” looks like, how is he going to cine that contains DTaP+Polio+hib+hepB. based” medicine is the accepted standard compare it with any “after” to assess wheth- How many cases of hepatitis B were there of care. Unsurprising perhaps in a climate er Canadian taxpayers’ cash is well spent?” in children across Canada when these in which public health agencies embrace Dr. Jefferson’s responses prompted policies took hold? According to Health a cozy partnership with the drug industry. the B.C. Nurses Union to demand that Canada statistics, in the five year period BC health employers immediately with- between 2000 – 2004, the number of chil- References & additional sources: draw their punitive policy on flu shots for dren diagnosed with hepatitis B under age The VRAN website’s In The News column offers healthcare workers, in light of scientific 19 averaged 28.2 cases a year in the EN- a number of indepth analyses of flu vaccine sci- reviews questioning the credibility of the TIRE country. Rates of the disease in the ence, and the struggle to bring truth and integrity studies they’re using to justify it. birth to age 19 group were so infinitesimal into the debate: www.vran.org The Union went on to say, “In a dev- that the policy can only be rationalized as a • CDC – U.S. deaths from influenza: http://www.cdc. astating letter in today’s Vancouver Sun, a pure marketing strategy to bolster sales for gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm • Statistics Canada – table of deaths caused by representative of the UK-based Cochrane the drug manufacturers. respiratory diseases: http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/ Collaboration effectively shredded the Increasingly, nurses and the public are cansim/a05?lang=eng&id=1020530&pattern=10 credibility of the rationales being put for- speaking out against forced vaccination. 20530&searchTypeByValue=1&p2=35 ward by provincial health officer Perry There’s a visceral reaction against the • Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for Kendall and others to try to force health- idea of having to submit to a drug against 2012-2013: Adult hospitalizations and deaths: care workers to get the shot or wear a your will and an injected one at that. It http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr- mask for the duration of flu season. flies in the face of human rights codes, rmtc/12vol38/acs-dcc-4/index-eng.php It’s incomprehensible that the BC the informed consent ethic, and the Ca- • Vancouver Sun articles : Jefferson commentary Nurses Union was unaware of the many nadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Nov. 19/12 : http://www.vancouversun.com/ health/Opinion+Scientist+fires+latest+shot+man Cochrane reviews published over the years When government officials dictate the datory+vaccine+debate/7572719/story.html and widely reported in medical journals drugs a person must take as a condition • Jefferson commentary Nov. 13/12: http://www. like the British Medical Journal (BMJ) as of employment, you know the line has vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/Cochrane+rev well as mainstream media. They’ve been been crossed into tyranny. iew+vaccine+definitive+health+officer+sugges asleep at the switch while the bureaucrats There’s something particularly unnerving ts/7543272/story.html run roughshod over their members. about having to submit to forced medication to • Dr. Kendall’s distortion of Cochrane research: Concluding his first volley to the Van- maintain one’s employment. In these hard eco- http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/letters/ couver Sun, Dr. Jefferson said, “It is not nomic times, people are afraid of losing their Mask+vaccine+ultimatum+health+care+workers my place to judge the policies underway jobs and find themselves between a “rock and +defended/7488140/story.html √ in British Columbia, but coercion and Tests positive for Total samples Percent forcing public ridicule on human be- Date ings (for example by forcing them to influenza tested influenza 12 yr totals and wear distinctive badges or clothing) is 158,262 1,373,122 11.5% 4 % usually the practice of tyrants.” 2011/2012 12,191 132,667 9.2% 2010/2011 17,573 140,945 12.5% BC leads the way 2009/2010 39,018 204,247 19.1% 2008/2009 23,376 214,067 10.9% 2007/2008 12,256 124,953 9.8% BC is the test ground and health bu- 2006/2007 8,133 100,864 8.1% 2005/2006 7,422 87,303 8.5% reaucrats across Canada are watching to 2004/2005 12,879 101,258 12.7% see how this plays out. If healthcare work- 2003/2004 11,435 92,998 12.3% ers in BC fail to stop this fraudulently 2002/2003 3,517 60,725 5.8% 2001/2002 6,258 58,010 10.8% conceived vaccine policy, there’ll be a 2000/2001 4,204 55,085 7.6% domino effect across the country, just as Fluwatch archives show: For the last twelve flu seasons, from the end of August of one year there was when BC was the test ground to the end of August the following year. 2009-2010 was the H1N1 pandemic year when for imposing hepatitis B vaccine on all more flu cases where submitted for lab analysis. Page 8 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter The Letter I Wish I you replied“that’s strange?” What’s my son’s future. Pediatricians should be Could Send To My Old strange? That a mom knows the word looking harder at Autism than anyone ‘Mitochondrial’? Certainly not that an else. They should be the most worried. Pediatrician Autistic child has a Mitochondrial is- You are, as a group, guiltiest of refusing Dear Dr. Asshat, sue? The UMF, the United Mitochondrial to acknowledge the enormity of the Au- Foundation, estimates Mito Dysfunction tism crisis. The silence from the pediatric You probably haven’t even noticed is possible in as many as 80% of Autistic community on Autism is deafening. Your that I pulled my child out of your practice kids. Mito dysfunction should be one of colleagues are ignoring their role in the but I wanted to take a minute to explain the first things you look for in a child that decimation of a generation of children. why I did. You SUCK! Your lack of regresses like Nick did. You are practicing a form of medicine curiosity about my son’s medical decom- you cannot defend. There have been no pensation and subsequent Autism after studies on the full vaccination schedule’s his over-vaccination under your care is subsequent effects on a baby. You have offensive. Apparently “do no harm” re- no research to fall back on. The studies ally means “do not care”. don’t exist. Pediatric medicine has left Do you know that my husband hates common sense behind. you so much that I can’t mention your It disgusts me that as a pediatrician name in his presence? Yes, we blame you can get continuing education credits YOU. Since the American Academy of for seminars that teach you how to deal Pediatrics (AAP) had the forethought with parents who question vaccine safe- to indemnify all pediatricians with zero ty. It’s not the parent’s problem that your legal liability before implementing the work life as a pediatrician has become harshest vaccine schedule in the world, so untenable that the 15 extra minutes it my only recourse is this letter. “Oh, takes to review a family history for the but…” you whine, “we don’t know that red flags of auto immunity or weigh the vaccines cause Autism.” Actually, if you pros and cons of a certain vaccine could read the vaccine package inserts we do ASSHAT cause pediatricians so much aggravation. know and they do. What other profession could survive with I saw that glint of panic in your eye Or the office visit when we realized the ‘my way or the high way’ tenor of so when I brought Nick in at 18 months, that Nick had gone from the 95th percen- many pediatric practices today? Can you three months after receiving the MMR, tile in height and weight down to the 33rd imagine if an interior decorator took that Dtap and Hib in one visit. Over those in nine months. You told me there was tone? “You do the whole house in ‘Retro three months we had been in the Emer- no cause for alarm because obesity was ‘50’s Suburban’ or I walk”. We are con- gency room, spent countless hours with the greater concern in children’s health. sumers of your care. We pay for your On-call pediatricians and Sick visits for When I told you I had put Nick on a services. If we cannot partner with you in unrelenting ear infections, bronchitis, and gluten free/casein free diet and his hor- our child’s health than how can we work endless rounds of antibiotics. At that 18 rific diarrhea had decreased by 50% and with you? month visit I told you Nick had stopped he had started putting two words together My God I hope you are learning as speaking and I saw the faintest shadow you tried to dissuade me from continu- children crash from vaccine damage in cross your face. That was your suspicion ing. You said “but food is social and these your practice. But if you are not, know about what had happened. If you’d had kids are too isolated already”. Let me tell this; The moment it hits you… the total the balls to say it out loud then; “Vaccine you, there is nothing social about chronic sum of the damage you, individually, are Adverse Event”, we could have begun acidic diarrhea. You called it “Toddler responsible for, there is nothing I could the healing immediately. Instead you Diarrhea” and told me I gave him too say to you that will hurt as much as the abandoned the truth and left Nick and I much juice. We gave him no juice. It cracking blow of that realization. helpless to figure it out. was Clostridia that you had failed to di- Now that I have put my anger where ASSHAT agnose. And the condescending CYA it’s due I’m going to fill my heart with (cover your ass) note that you wrote in the loving I need to heal my son There were so many moments when the chart about ‘mom not following your and breathe in the hope and grace of all you failed my son. The most shocking advice’ was a nice touch too. Following of the courageous Autism parents I get to realization came when I called you to tell your advice not to try new bio medical hang out with at Autism One next week you Nick had been formally diagnosed interventions to heal my sick and injured in Chicago. Let the healing begin! with Autism at 21 months. You told baby would have had far more toxic re- Sincerely, me you had an Autistic daughter. I had sults than anything we have tried. Alison MacNeil – also known as asked you at Nick’s 15 month shots, if ASSHAT you had the decision to make again for Mama Mac at the Thinking Moms your children, would you still vaccinate You broke my child. You took a Revolution website where this article with the MMR? You assured me it was healthy baby boy and by 18 months you is retrieved with appreciation from: safe. Guess that MMR may not have left me with a yard sale of medical prob- http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/ worked out all that well for you either? lems and neurological damage. Your the-letter-i-wish-i-could-send-to-my- When I told you Nick had been diag- response was one lousy referral to Ear- old-pediatrician/ √ nosed with Mitochondrial dysfunction ly Intervention. Quite simply, you stole VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 9 Will a Flu Shot Keep a fool.” That’s the advice that Dr Tom influenza and influenza-like illness and Jefferson offers when I ask him about can produce symptoms similar to the ev- You Healthy? his research around flu vaccines and flu eryday flu. It is estimated that 80 percent By Alan Cassels, October 2012 drugs. He has spent over a decade ex- of flu-like illness reported during the “flu amining and summarizing the evidence season” is not caused by influenza. As The Cochrane Collaboration’s exami- around one of the most stockpiled drugs well, influenza viruses constantly evolve nation of flu vaccines in healthy adults, a in the world, oseltamavir (also know as and mutate and since it takes up to nine body of literature spanning 25 studies and Tamiflu), and tells me over the phone months to develop the right vaccine, by involving 59,566 people, finds an annual from his office in Rome: “I can only say the time flu season arrives, the flu shot flu shot reduced overall clinical influenza that I have acted as an unpaid salesperson may or may not match strains circulating. by about six percent. How many diseases for Roche [the maker of antiviral drug Which is to say, fighting the flu is are important enough to have their own Tamiflu] for the last ten years!” largely a hit-and-miss affair. season? Not many, but we do have one, Now a researcher with the Cochrane Jefferson wants to make sure flu poli- and it strikes every year: the flu. Collaboration, working on acute respira- cies affecting millions of people are Arriving in the fall and exiting in the tory infections and vaccines, Jefferson based on proper, undeniable proof. Of spring, flu season strikes with the pre- essentially confirmed what I’d heard the many health authorities around the dictability of clockwork. For some the from other researchers: that much of the world who support mass flu vaccine flu might be a mild inconvenience, per- published research on all kinds of drugs campaigns—those he irreverently refers haps embraced as a way to stay home and treatments found in peer-reviewed to as “bioevangelists”—he claims the and get a few days couchside wrapped in medical journals is incomplete. It only science shows they are mostly wrong: the unpleasantness of high fever, aches, gives half the story. “There is no reliable evidence that inac- sniffles, and daytime reality TV. Yet for In the case of Tamiflu, a drug that is tivated influenza vaccines [the standard others, usually the elderly or those with supposed to prevent the spread and the se- types of vaccines of today] affect either compromised immune systems, the flu verity of the flu, Jefferson and colleagues person-to-person spread of influenza or can be deadly. It can lead to hospitaliza- have proven that the drug’s published complications such as death or pneumo- tions, pneumonia, and sometimes death. dataset delivers a biased and misleading nia…and [this] relates both to healthcare Victoria might be on an island but its picture of the drug because the company workers, community-dwellers and peo- residents are not immune to viruses. So has only released a portion of it. If your ple in institutions.” we prepare, stockpiling flu vaccines and job is to find, summarize and synthesize drugs, hectoring the public to get an an- what is in the published literature—as it The flu vs. influenza-like illness nual flu shot and, with a new twist this is for a meta-analyzer like Jefferson—in- season, giving an ultimatum to health complete data sets are a major problem. Jefferson didn’t intend to become a flu workers: either get a flu shot or wear a Over the past few years he and his col- researcher. He spent the early part of his mask while at work. leagues have frequently asked Roche to medical career as a physician in the Brit- BC’s Provincial Health Officer Dr release Tamiflu’s full data set, but so far ish Army, serving tours in the Falklands, Perry Kendall is betting that our prov- the company offers up mostly “the dog Bosnia and Croatia. A wide handlebar ince’s health workers need such strong ate my homework”-type of excuses for mustache that some said made him a car- medicine to stop them passing on the flu why they can’t cough it up. icature of the Modern Major General was to their patients, and he’s launched the The scourge of hidden data is not new perhaps a decoy, hiding the fact he was a most aggressive flu policy in Canada, in medical research, but this just adds rebel at heart. one which could set the trend for the rest to the sense of how shaky the global in- In the spring of 1984, Jefferson was of the country. fluenza apparatus might be. When the stationed in Germany with the 3rd Bat- But Dr Kendall and his public health companies that study the drug stand talion Royal Anglian Regiment. He was colleagues around the world are fac- to gain billions on how that research is ordered early one morning to report to his ing an uphill struggle as their anti-flu presented, we have a problem. Jefferson commanding officer, who told him that policies and public health mandates are has written that poor science, coupled the Army had a terrible medical problem increasingly criticized because of the with “media business, pharma business, that needed his immediate assistance. strong-armed ways they are being en- pandemic business and unaccountable What was it? A new tropical disease forced. Add to this the growing cynicism decision-making,” are making a mockery needing investigation? A spate of injuries around the fear-mongering of recent flu of global policies around the flu. due to hostilities? No, nothing as excit- pandemics, and the overzealousness with The problem starts with a semantic ing as that. The CO said that his unit had which vaccines are promoted, and you one, where “the flu” is equated to “in- a terrible problem of acute respiratory have a recipe for a cynical public. fluenza,” a falsity which Jefferson writes disease, with the kind of chills, wheezing But of most concern is the determi- “is now so ingrained in the popular and high temperatures associated with nation by some respected international and sometimes professional mind that garden-variety flu. He ordered Jefferson scientists and researchers that annual in- governments and public fall prey to its to “look into it.” fluenza campaigns are likely an utter greatest consequence: that of overesti- With access to decent surveillance waste of time and money. mating the impact of influenza, which is data collected from the barracks by the usually a benign self-limiting infection.” Army’s medical teams, Dr Jefferson was Half the story Beyond semantics, we need to con- shocked at the numbers, saying, “We had sider the basic epidemiology of the flu. “Don’t be like me, and be taken for There are over 200 viruses that cause Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? cont. on page 16 Page 10 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Vaccine Illusion cont. from page 1 diseases are dwarfed by the dangerous Many viral diseases are sometimes re- unsusceptible to most viral and some consequences it brings to the society in a ferred to as childhood diseases, because bacterial diseases through prior infec- long term, apart from individual vaccine prior to the routine childhood vaccination, tion. Because of the phonetic similarity injuries. These effects include the ero- these diseases occurred mainly in chil- between the words immunology and im- sion of immunity in the adult population dren. Infants were protected from these munity, it is tempting to assume that and irreversible destruction of the mater- diseases by maternal immunity (placental immunology is a science that studies the nal immuno-protection of the young. and breast milk), whereas adults were pro- acquisition of immunity, but this is not We have created a schism in our tected by their own permanent immunity, the case. Immunology is a science that society between those who oppose vacci- which nearly all of them had acquired studies an artificial process called immu- nation due to vaccine safety concerns and in the childhood via disease experience. nization—i.e., the injection of foreign those who oppose vaccine exemptions The introduction of mass vaccination has matter into the body in order to stimulate due to the fear of diseases. This schism drastically changed the natural and safe the immune response against it. has brought us enormous social strain by pattern of disease distribution. Immunology does not attempt to study dividing families, friends, and health pro- Vaccines do not protect us for a and therefore cannot provide understand- vider communities. This is unnecessary, lifetime. They simply postpone the sus- ing of natural infections and immunity as we all have the same goal in mind. We ceptibility to the corresponding diseases that follows them. Yet, we are tempted to want to see none of our children injured by rather than extinguish this susceptibility infer the knowledge about the function vaccines and we want our society be free completely. When children are vaccinat- of the immune system during the natural of deaths and complications from infec- ed, say against chickenpox, they become process of disease from contrived immu- tious diseases. We do not need to choose vulnerable to it again once the vaccine’s nologic experiments. Such experiments one goal over the other. Both goals are protective effect expires. By that time typically consist of injecting laboratory- achievable by seeking the real solution to they might be adolescents or adults, grown microorganisms (live or dead) or the problem of disease complications and when chickenpox is much more difficult their proteins into research animals to rep- mortality instead of continuing to com- to bear. Additionally, other mild child- resent the state of natural infection. The promise the individual and the greater hood diseases, if pushed into adulthood, immune system’s real function is then good via mass vaccination. may have dire consequences. Mumps is viewed through the prism of unrealistic dangerous for males after puberty due laboratory simulation of the natural pro- The Vaccine Paradox—Pro- to the potential of causing sterility, and cess. Immunology has confined the scope longed Mass Vaccination rubella is dangerous for pregnant wom- of its research pursuits to the phenomena Endangers the Very Young en due to the potential of causing birth discoverable via experiments that bear defects in the developing fetus. But we very limited relevance to natural infection. Let us examine how naturally acquired are generally not informed about the The paradigms of immunology stand in immunity to viral diseases works in the consequences of the vaccine-induced the way of seeking the solution to the ac- population to protect its most vulner- delay in susceptibility to viral diseases, tual problem of infectious diseases, which able segment, infants, against infectious both for our children and for their own is health complications and mortality. diseases, and how prolonged mass vac- off-springs. Furthermore, with prolonged Despite the fact that the biological cination eliminates such protection and childhood vaccination, we are creating basis of naturally acquired immunity thereby endangers the very young. a herd of vaccinated but non-immune is not understood, present day medical The immune system of infants is im- adults—the herd non-immunity. practices insist upon pre-emptive artifi- mature and not capable of effectively Let us take an example of . At cial induction of the immune response dealing with natural viruses or even with the time when measles was still a very via vaccination as a surrogate of real artificially attenuated vaccine viruses. common childhood disease in the USA, immunity. However, while inducing the This might in part be due to the reduced an American epidemiologist Alexander immune response with its inherent health capacity of the immune system to pro- Langmuir and colleagues in the article burdens, vaccination is not a durable duce an important anti-viral substance “The importance of measles as a health method of disease prevention—vaccine- called interferon during the neonatal pe- problem” (1962) describe measles as a based protection is short-lived. Yet, being riod. Instead, infants for millennia have self-limiting infection of short duration, limited by its own paradigms, immunol- been relying on maternal protection moderate severity, and low fatality1. Yet, ogy has nothing better to offer. against common viral diseases, and such the current perception of modern American It has often been stated that the greater diseases were extremely rare in infants in pediatricians is that measles is a dangerous good that came with vaccination far out- pre-vaccination era. even deadly disease. What might be behind weighs any individual sacrifices of the Naturally immune mothers—i.e., those such a drastic shift in perception? vaccine-injured minority. However, in who have had natural exposure to viral dis- The last measles epidemic in the USA my view, there has never been a conflict eases during their own childhood—protect happened in the 1990s. The unusual char- between the individual and the greater their babies from those same diseases by acteristic of that epidemic was that the good as far as the effects of vaccination passive transfer of their immunity via the disease was targeting an unprecedented are concerned. With mass vaccination, placenta during pregnancy and via breast proportion of infants (24% of measles cas- we have unknowingly sacrificed both milk after birth. This passively acquired es), exactly the segment of population that the individual good of the injured minor- protection is robust and lasts for 6-9 months cannot withstand measles. Remember that ity and the greater good of the herd (i.e. in the absence of breastfeeding (simply due historically measles did not occur in in- ). The short-term benefits to placental transfer prior to birth) and then of mass vaccination against childhood continues for the duration of breastfeeding. Vaccine Illusion cont. on page 12 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 11 Vaccine Illusion cont. from page 11 of children, then serves as a false sense in childhood. The examples of such dis- fants. Furthermore, an ominous trend was of security in the minds of public health eases would be measles, mumps, rubella, documented that infants whose mothers officials that “protects” whose who can- or whooping cough, to name a few. were born after 1963 (when mass child- not be vaccinated. Naturally acquired immunity is, in a hood vaccination for measles commenced We have come to accept that although way, a tautological expression because in the USA) were more susceptible to vaccination may cause injury to a rare immunity can only be acquired naturally measles than were the infants of mothers baby, it is still beneficial to the society at this point, only through the exposure born before that year.2 as a whole. It is for the greater good, to an infected individual, although oc- Vaccination took away the chance we are told. But we must realize that it casionally such exposure would go of many mothers-to-be to experience is not. The vaccine paradox is that mass asymptomatic while still establishing measles at a safe age and to acquire real vaccination reduces the overall incidence immunity. Nevertheless, because there is immunity that would protect their babies of childhood diseases, yet makes them a common misconception that vaccines as well. The measles vaccine, being itself inherently more dangerous for the next also confer immunity, it is sometimes a live virus, is rightfully contraindicated generation of babies. necessary to use a qualifier “natural,” for infants and pregnant women, which when referring to immunity, to distin- leaves them unprotected against mea- Tetyana in conversation with guish it from vaccine-based protection.” sles, should exposure occur. Yet, their Catherine J. Frompovich CJF—Vaccinated children are com- vulnerability to measles (and other viral ing down with the same infectious diseases) is a direct consequence of for- CJF—We know pig viral DNA (por- diseases for which they have been fully feiting our reliance on naturally acquired cine circovirus) was found in Rotarix vaccinated. Why do you think vaccine immunity and attempting to replace it vaccine; SV40 cancer virus in the first ‘immunity’—if we can call it that—is so with vaccination, which does not pro- polio vaccine used in the 1950s to early short lived and not adequate? duce the same effect as real immunity. 1970s; Hepatitis A, rubella, and varicella Tetyana—“We would expect that In well nourished societies, measles, (chickenpox) were cultured on human vaccinated individuals would not be in- mumps, and rubella were mild child- diploid cells WI-38 and MRC-5; and re- volved (or very minimally involved) in hood diseases in the not-so-distant past. combinant DNA was found in the HPV any outbreak of an infectious disease for But they are now diseases to be dreaded vaccine, Gardasil®. What do such post- which they have been vaccinated. Yet, and to be referred to as a scare tactic for marketing findings portend from your when outbreaks are analyzed, it becomes promoting further vaccination. There is perspective as an immunologist? apparent that most often this is not the indeed a good reason to dread these dis- Tetyana—“As an immunologist, I case. Vaccinated individuals are indeed eases, just not the one being told! These have a concern that the practice of man- very frequently involved and constitute a mild childhood diseases now appear to ufacturing vaccines using yeast, egg, high proportion of disease cases. be dangerous, because we made them so animal, or even human fetal cells implies I think this is happening because via prolonged mass vaccination. that vaccines by necessity include some vaccination does not engage the What other still mild childhood dis- small amount of protein or other prod- genuine mechanism of immunity. Vac- ease is next in line to join the ranks of ucts from these cells or media, in which cination typically engages the immune the dreaded diseases? Chickenpox, of the cells are being cultured. I would re- response—that is, everything that im- course. In the US, we have started vac- ally want to know whether and how well munologists would theoretically “want” cinating for the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine manufacturers test their final to see being engaged in the immune sys- virus in the mid-1990s and we will soon vaccine products for such unspecified tem. But apparently this is not enough to establish a generation of mothers and vaccine “ingredients” and how much confer robust and durable protection that their infants without naturally acquired contamination they discover. matches naturally acquired immunity. immunity to chickenpox before com- The reason I am concerned about such Our knowledge of the immune system is plete eradication of the varicella virus is contamination is because I believe that the far from being complete.” achieved. It can be predicted that under exposure to yeast, egg, animal, or human CJF—What’s the difference between such conditions, chickenpox will become proteins in the context of immunogenic (an- the focus of the science of immunology a dangerous disease for the generation of tibody producing) stimuli has the potential and natural immunity? our grandchildren, just like measles is to- to result in sensitization to these proteins Tetyana—“Immunology does not day for our own babies. or even to break human immunologic tol- study immunity. Immunology studies Disrupting the natural cycle of the erance to “self.” The latter is especially how the immune system responds to mother-infant immunity transfer is a relevant to infants, since their immune sys- immunization—that is, to the injection dangerous and irreversible consequence tem is only starting to make the distinction of a “foreign” protein or particle (virus, of prolonged vaccination campaigns. The between “self” and “foreign.” Setting this bacteria). Immunologic research focuses risk of contracting the disease is simply distinction the wrong way from the start, in mainly on the long-term changes that oc- pushed from childhood into adulthood, my view, is likely to pave the road to aller- cur in immunologic organs and bodily while vulnerable pregnant women and gic or autoimmune manifestations.” fluids following immunization. Such infants are left without any protection CJF—Please explain what you mean changes are collectively referred to as whatsoever. The herd non-immunity by natural immunity. immunologic memory. among previously vaccinated but non- Tetyana—“Immunity is an ancient But the question is: what makes im- immune adults, masked by the lack of concept that refers to the observation munologists think, as they surely do, frequent viral expose and assured by con- that many acute infectious diseases oc- tinuing vaccination of new generations cur only once in a person’s life, usually Vaccine Illusion cont. on page 13 Page 12 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Vaccine Illusion cont. from page 12 chances of seeing the problem with the then I am afraid that vaccination cam- that immunologic memory is the basis of most basic assumption becomes nil. The paigns have ensured that it is long gone. immunity? I see no evidence in immuno- power of “believing” in definitions set up All of this is a direct outcome of the logic research to allow me to conclude by the field is very strong.” “desired” vaccination effects, the impact that this is the case. If anything, I see im- CJF—Can we then rely on immu- of which has not been carefully thought munologic memory as being the basis for nology to give us answers about natural through in advance of introducing mass sensitization rather than for immunity. I immunity? vaccination. We thought that vaccines am starting to doubt that immunologic Tetyana—“I don’t think so. As I work just like naturally acquired immu- memory is beneficial to us.” mentioned before, none of the well-es- nity. Well, apparently they don’t and we CJF—What led you to that conclu- tablished and well-respected research in are now reaping the consequences of that. sion after having earned a doctorate in immunology studies the natural process As for vaccine safety, we are totally the science of immunology? directly. Instead, it sets up contrived in the dark regarding who will and who Tetyana—“Immunology, as a science, (unnatural) models of infection/immuni- won’t suffer a severe vaccine injury and started with the invention of the vaccine zation in research animals and studies the from which vaccine. No guarantees can (the smallpox vaccine) before the immune immune responses within those unnatu- be made. Basically, vaccinate yourself at system was even defined as such. After- ral and non-human settings. your own risk.” wards, basic immunologic research was How can we possibly be sure that such CJF—Can you give us a quick tuto- and still is performed in the context of in- research has any applicability to natu- rial on antibodies and why immunology jecting something “foreign” into a research ral process? We simply can’t. Yet, we places supposed efficacy in vaccines pro- animal, rather than studying natural disease are tinkering with the human immune ducing them? or natural state of immunity to disease. system by means of vaccines, simply Tetyana—“The concept of antibodies Perhaps, it is easier to design an experi- because this seems to be justified by con- evolved from the research on toxins, such ment around an injection rather than around trived immunologic models of research, as diphtheria or tetanus toxins. Initially, a natural disease in a laboratory setting. even though such research can only give antibodies were referred to as ‘anti-tox- Perhaps, it is only a matter of expediency us partial if not completely misguided ins’—some mysterious entities that were of research. But whatever the reason might understanding of the role of the immune appearing in the blood of toxin-injected be for conducting the study of injection system in the disease process.” research animals that could neutralize the (vaccination) rather than the study of natu- CJF—Wouldn’t tinkering with nature pathological effects of those toxins. ral disease/immunity, it has led us to amass with such misguided and partial knowl- I would like to mention that based on the knowledge of the artificial process. edge be dangerous and hasn’t it led to the clinical research described in the book by Not surprisingly, the system that we apparent health mess a great percentage Dr. Thomas Levy “Curing the Incurable,” now refer to as the “immune system” is of our young children find themselves ascorbic acid (vitamin C) would fall into the one that responds to the injection of experiencing? the definition of an “anti-toxin,” as it is a foreign antigen. The immune system, Tetyana—“I completely agree with known to effectively curb the symptoms in essence, got defined by the process of such concerns. I have described some of most toxin-mediated as well as infec- vaccination, not by the natural process of of my immunologic concerns with vac- tious diseases when given intravenously acquired immunity. cination in Vaccine Illusion and I will at very large doses. But if the purpose of the genuine “im- summarize them here. But immunologic research on anti- mune” system is to establish life-long I am very concerned that “immuno- toxins went into a very narrow direction immunity following disease experience, logic memory” of adjuvant-containing and led to the idea that anti-toxic ability what is that system that does the trick? vaccines is actually the basis of sensiti- is restricted to a certain class of immuno- Is it the same system that responds to the zation rather than the basis of immunity. globulins, which we now call antibodies. injection of a foreign antigen or is it a to- Furthermore, I am very concerned that Immunologists then realized that such tally different system? “successful” prevention of childhood “antibodies” could be raised not only This is the biggest concern I have: diseases by means of short-term pro- against toxins, but also against practical- among all the things we have discov- tective effects of live attenuated viral ly any substance that is presented to the ered about the immune system in the vaccines during childhood has led to the immune system in a certain way. Some context of injection, is any of that even loss of maternal ability to transfer im- of the requirements for such “immunoge- relevant to immunity? And if so, how muno-protection to their young, thereby nicity” (i.e.—ability to induce antibody would we even know what is relevant leaving infants vulnerable to those dis- production) are: 1) a substance must be if we never study naturally acquired eases, should the exposure occur. of non-self origin; and 2) it must be ac- immunity directly? I am also very concerned that vac- companied by a “danger” signal, usually You are asking me what led me to cination campaigns work by disrupting provided by an irritating or cell-dam- see the problem with how the science of disease transmission, which reduces the aging substance called adjuvant or by Immunology construed the “immune” chances of exposure, rather than by es- pathogen-associated pattern molecules system after having earned a PhD in Im- tablishing a population’s immunity. By of bacterial or viral origin. munology. You should rather ask me what doing so, vaccination campaigns wipe The science of Immunology then got miracle led me to see this problem despite out population’s immunity to childhood caught up in uncovering excruciatingly earning a PhD in Immunology. I can tell diseases rather than help to maintain it. minute details of the antibody production you that once you commit yourself to the If in prior decades there was naturally process, none of which needs to be of inter- study of Immunology, you are so heavily established herd immunity to childhood invested in the “truth” of the field that the diseases among the adult population, Vaccine Illusion cont. on page 14 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 13 Vaccine Illusion cont. from page 13 so flawed compared to naturally acquired by the government, pharma, or private est to non-immunologists. Yet, most of the immunity. foundations with very strong pro-drug or 20th century in basic immunologic research It is a taboo to discuss public or even pro-vaccine agendas. This determines the was devoted to this endeavor, encouraged personal concerns with vaccination. Any priorities and the focus of biomedical re- and rewarded by numerous Nobel prizes. attempt to bring these issues up for dis- search in a way that gives all the power to This only reinforced the notion of the cussion, to raise even a slightest hint of the funding sources, and little power of importance of antibodies, creating the an- concern about lack of properly done sci- knowledge to individuals to make their tibody-centered paradigm in immunology. ence behind vaccine safety, efficacy, or own informed decisions. Needless to say, the sole purpose of necessity is bound to encounter the wrath vaccines is to raise antibodies that bind and indignation of colleagues. The man- Questions we must ask: the microorganisms and toxins, based on tra that vaccines are safe and effective the antibody-centered paradigm of pro- and that they save lives is taken beyond • Why don’t we have science that sys- tection. But seeing so many reports of faith and beyond the need for even slight- tematically and adequately addresses disease outbreaks occurring in properly est examination. parents’ concerns with vaccines? vaccinated individuals, as well as reports So, on the one hand, basic immu- • Why don’t we have science that sys- of the disease in vaccinated individuals nologists entertain themselves with the tematically and adequately studies with documented high titers of antibod- artifact-prone theory without bothering natural factors determining mild ver- ies only reinforces my conviction that an themselves to take a look at how their sus severe courses of any infectious antibody-centered paradigm needs to be theory plays out when applied in the form disease or even disease susceptibility re-examined with great scrutiny.” of vaccines to the human population at itself? CJF—Mother’s breast milk contains large. On the other hand, epidemiologists • Why don’t we have science that gives macrophages that kill bacteria, viruses and public health officials hardly know us understanding of natural immunity? and fungi, so why does immunology enough of the intricate immunologic • Wouldn’t we, as individuals, be able to want to mess with Mother Nature? theory to realize that vaccines do not make good use of this kind of knowl- Tetyana—“I am aware of plenty of perform as expected by the theory. They edge? science confirming the benefits of breast- simply introduce more and more booster • If we want to have this kind of di- feeding, both nutritional and in disease vaccines as a quick-fix solution for ap- rect relationship between scientists protection. How can it be otherwise, if parent vaccine failures. and society, then scientists have to we relied on breastfeeding for the mil- This compartmentalization and this be sponsored differently from how it lennia of mammalian evolution? tunnel vision that permeates the science is done right now. We can’t possibly Maybe if we had more feminine in- is what stands in the way of any single expect pharma or government to spon- volvement in science, we would have specialist to search for the bigger picture sor the kind of science that takes their been paying more respect to Mother Na- on vaccination and get horrified by what power away from them, can we? ture. We would study how Mother Nature transpires from such a search. And what • And we can’t expect scientists to protects us from disease and would at- transpires is the realization that some- starve their families while they are try- tempt to aid and reinforce that process, thing about the virtues of vaccination ing to establish research they are not if it goes wrong. Instead, we are trying to doesn’t quite add up. In the mainstream going to be funded for or promoted override the natural process with clever science, however, the impetus for taking for, can we? artificial applications that bring very a broad look at vaccination is definitely • Can we then establish the direct re- short-term and limited benefits at ex- lacking and instead there is a lot of pres- lationship between the scientists and pense of long-term liabilities.” sure to keep your head down in the sand. society to promote research that places CJF—What is the reality for a mod- I want to share with the readers my view the power of knowledge into our own ern-day immunologist that makes the on why we need to change the way we do hands, not into the hands of the Estab- majority of them, if not all, close their science. We have indeed created a mess lishment? eyes to what is going on outside their with vaccination, yet we don’t have to keep As a scientist, I personally want to be labs in the vaccine-damaged world? ourselves in this mess. But first, I want the accountable to society directly and to be Tetyana—“I would like to give the readers to see what perpetuates the kind of able to address the concerns/needs for readers a taste of what it feels like to be science that keeps us in the mess. scientifically researchable information in the field of Immunology. In the U.S., scientists are mere slaves of society without the filters that are put I found that basic immunologists, and of the Establishment, they can only do in-between society and the scientists by I was like that too for a long time, do research on what they are funded for. Not government/pharma’s agendas. Just like not typically educate themselves about only their research money, but also their the U.S. Constitution principle of the anything other than the narrow area of career development and salaries depend separation between religion and the state research they are involved in, not even on grants, especially during early phases has brought us tremendous prosperity, about epidemiologic research that reveals of career development. Why would any- imagine what we can achieve with the profound amount of vaccine failures. Im- one be surprised that scientists are not separation between science and the state. munologists do not “know” that vaccines able to or do not feel too secure attempt- I encourage everyone to pause and think fail to protect. Or perhaps, it is the collec- ing to do research that is not in line with for a moment how to accomplish this.” tive professional pride that doesn’t allow the agenda of the funding sources that them to see that vaccination, the cher- support their most basic livelihood? Editor’s note: ished fruit of their research endeavors to It is not a secret that the vast major- which they devote their whole lives, are ity of our biomedical research is funded Vaccine Illusion cont. on page 19 Page 14 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter munization; The Reality Behind the In Memory of Walene Monson James Myth, she soon “realized that the vac- March 20, 1926—August 8, 2012 cination issue was much larger than Walene James was 86 years old when Handbook for Educating in the New Age vaccinations per se. It was as though a she passed away in the morning in her (1977); Immunization: The Reality Behind hologram opened up for me, and I saw home in Spirit Lake, Idaho with her daugh- the Myth (1988, 1995); and The Vaccine in the very small the very large, for the ter Ingri and husband Paul James by her Religion: Mass Mind and the Struggle for vaccination issue touches the very core side. Although her body died, her Spirit Human Freedom (2012). of who we are and what we stand for as lives on in her vision for a vaccine-free When her oldest daughter Tanya was a nation. It also gives us a glimpse into world now beginning to manifest as more charged with child neglect for not vac- the kind of world we seem bent upon cre- and more people say “no” ating.” Walene believed to the vaccine religion. that vaccination is also a Walene James will be telling symbol of where remembered as a cou- we are in consciousness. rageous and passionate Walene was particular- visionary who inspired ly known for her brilliant people to open their and innovative writing. minds—to think out- Many big names in the side the box through her vaccine awareness move- books, articles, radio in- ment have noted that it terviews and lectures. Her was her second book, brilliant book, Immuniza- Immunization: The Real- tion: The Reality Behind ity Behind the Myth, that the Myth became THE compelled them to put definitive guide for those fulltime energy into “the seeking a deeper under- most important health standing of the immune freedom issue of our system, and how vaccines time”, as Walene would thwart natural immunity say. A few of these are and health. Neil Z. Miller, Sherry Walene was a retired Tenpenny, and Viera English teacher who also Scheibner. had a passion for music One example of her and the arts and gradu- brilliant mind on the vac- ated from the University of cine issue is her use of the Utah with a bachelor’s de- term “stupefactions” with gree. She went on to UCLA the first stupefaction be- where she received her ing “the medicine I take teaching credentials and won’t work unless you was a high school English take it, too”. Walene fur- teacher in the Los Ange- ther elaborates about the les city schools for several idiocy of herd immunity years where she earned a and the concept of this reputation for inspiring her “one size fits all” mindset students through exposure to poetry and in her last book, The Vaccine Religion, great English literature. One example of her brilliant mind on where you can read about all eight stupe- Walene was also an activist who the vaccine issue is her use of the term factions as applied to the absurd thinking promoted home birthing and frequently “stupefactions” with the first stupefac- processes of vaccine zealots. spoke out against water fluoridation, tion being “the medicine I take won’t She abhorred the concept of war; forced vaccination and infant circum- work unless you take it, too”. her writing reflected the absurdity of cision. In 1955, she was a leader in the the war mentality while advocating for effort to prevent fluoridation in Santa cinating her son, Walene created several peaceful solutions to our world’s prob- Monica, California and became the exhibits of her research into the fallacy of lems. She comments that “[t]he medical 75th member of the National Health the vaccine paradigm which were present- model is essentially a military model. Federation, writing articles for their ed to the judge. The entire experience led We speak of ‘fighting’ disease, ‘waging publication on the vaccine issue. She to her writing Immunization: The Reality war’ against cancer and ‘battling’ heart endeavored to live a holistic lifestyle in Behind the Myth and to found Vaccination disease. Are the images and rhetoric which yoga, eating organic foods and Liberation, a well-respected all-volunteer of war compatible with the creation of supporting farmer’s markets were an association that helps thousands annually health? Are they compatible with a heal- integral part of her life. obtain legal exemptions to vaccine man- ing attitude or presence?” In 1973, she moved to Virginia Beach, dates (VacLib.org and VaccineTruth.com.) Virginia where she authored three books: When writing the first edition of Im- Walene James Memorial cont. on page 18 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 15 Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? cont. from page 10 diers.” In his opinion, “High rates of ILI five to seven days. What was most illu- a system to calculate the working days were associated with stress, overcrowd- minating was the authors’ conclusion: lost, and it was astronomical.” ing and, of course, combat.” “There is not enough evidence to rec- That clearly stoked his interest: “Most ommend universal vaccination against other medical researchers were interested Just not enough evidence influenza in healthy adults.” in fancy stuff, exotic stuff, people killed Jefferson and his colleagues found in action and so on, as that was the stuff Nearly two decades later, Jefferson that most influenza studies are poorly that got into the newspapers. But some- worries about the absence of quality designed and fail to prove the influenza thing as simple as colds and flu—which research around other potential causes vaccine is effective or safe for certain knocked out a brigade’s worth of soldiers of flu-like illness, including the role of groups, such as the elderly and children every year—now that was something stress. Compared to the serious global under two. (In Canada, parents might be worth looking into.” moneymakers—the vaccines and antivi- surprised to hear that Canada’s National What Jefferson saw that day at the rals which bring billions to the coffers of Advisory Committee on Immunization base was a sudden and inexplicable in- drug companies every year—something recommends flu shots for kids six to 23 crease in ILI—influenza-like illness, and as simple as stress and its relation to the months old.) it left him scratching his head. flu is simply not studied. There are some Canada isn’t the only country with “I couldn’t really understand what efforts to study methods to prevent virus recommendations out of sync with the was happening. There was no real activ- transmission (masks and handwashing), evidence. Earlier this summer, the UK’s ity outside the battalion—soldiers had but compared to the huge annual drug National Health Service reported that it, the families had it, the children had and vaccine enterprise focused on a vi- they needed to find 1000 extra school it—wives had it…and I thought, what is rus, these efforts seem pitifully small. nurses to give the flu vaccine to healthy this?” The fact that a physician steeped in children for the upcoming flu season. He recalls that at that time, a rumour military tradition and respect for author- This was in response to government was circulating that the battalion was go- ity would turn out to be one of biggest plans to expand the vaccination program ing to be deployed to Northern Ireland, a anti-authoritarians in the influenza world to all children aged two to 17. tour of duty they completed several times is a delicious irony. Jefferson admits it This decision was based on a series in the 1970s and ’80s. The regiment had is “absolutely heresy” to even imply that of computer models estimating that if lost 18 soldiers during these previous de- stress may play a role in causing the flu. 30 percent of the population were vac- ployments, a fact fresh in the minds of He adds, it “undermines the living of very cinated for the flu, then there could be a the soldiers and their families. The up- many people, and goes against the dogma reduction of 2000 deaths and 11,000 few- coming deployment was understandably of people selling vaccines and pills.” er hospital admissions. Expanding the causing a lot of stress on the base and Dr The best way to counter the dogma is program to children, seniors, pregnant Jefferson surmised that stress “perhaps to find the most reliable evidence—pref- women, and people who are considered explained why the battalion was hit with erably from an overview of all relevant at “higher risk,” would cost about $150 a high incidence of ILI.” studies, known as a meta-analysis. And million per year, as reported in the UK’s Five years later, he was able to work that’s Jefferson’s game as part of the Co- Guardian newspaper. But will all that alongside Dr David Tyrrell who was tu- chrane Collaboration (www.cochrane. money actually deliver fewer deaths and tored by some of the original discoverers org), an international organization of hospitalizations? of the influenza virus. Jefferson says that consumers, scientists and researchers, The answer is “probably not.” Jef- one of the most vital things he learned gathering and systematically examining ferson and others contend that using a from Dr Tyrrell is the imprecision of the all the studies ever conducted to see how computer model as the justification for word “flu.” Tyrrell said that what people well a treatment works. Cochrane’s work an expanded flu vaccine program is very referred to as “the flu” was a “dangerous is unique in at least two ways: it won’t problematic. Tweak any of the assump- colloquialism,” and he stressed it was take money from the drug or vaccine tions in the model and you get what you more appropriate to call the collection manufacturers to fund its research, and want. Such an expanded program surely of symptoms “influenza-like illness.” As it uses the highest gold-standard method- would please British-based pharmaceuti- Jefferson says, “the confusion between ologies when synthesizing research. cal giant GlaxoSmithKline, a big player influenza and influenza-like illness has in the flu game—and should remind us led to an obsession with a single agent of the politics of money behind any large [the influenza virus] which is not based [Alan Cassels]... currently refuses to public health program. on any sound evidence.” With most of the get an annual flu shot. extra illness suffered during flu season Immunizing BC’s healthcare not caused by a verifiable flu virus, the workers situation, says Jefferson, is “potentially The Cochrane examination of flu dangerous and misleading” because even vaccines in healthy adults, a body of In late August, Provincial Health Of- if the best vaccine can prevent a proven literature spanning 25 studies and in- ficer Dr Perry Kendall announced that flu virus, you’re only able to help a small volving 59,566 people, finds an annual BC’s health care workers must either portion of the people who become ill. flu shot reduced overall clinical influenza wear a mask or get the flu shot this sea- Jefferson served with the UN during by about six percent. It would reduce ab- son. His stated rationale was to improve the Yugoslav crisis, and reports: “I also senteeism by only 0.16 days (about four the level of vaccination amongst health observed the effects of ILI in terms of hours) for each influenza episode, a small working days lost on British and UN sol- effect given that the average flu bout lasts Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? cont. on page 17 Page 16 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? cont. from page 16 and colleagues found the effects on ILI served after use of so-called pandemic workers, which currently hovers around and death such an unusual finding, they vaccines.” When you’re injecting your- 40 percent. said that conclusion was due to bias, poor self with something, there is always the When I asked why so many health care study design and reporting, and not a true potential—even if very remote—for workers weren’t getting the shot, Kendall effect. Claiming that the flu shot saved harm. Since the vast majority of people referred to surveys showing they avoid peoples’ lives from “all causes” strikes recover quite nicely on their own from a the shot for the same reasons as every- Jefferson as absurd: “They would have bout with the flu, are the risks worth it? one else: they think they don’t need it, are us believe that to avoid granny drown- And how will we know if BC’s new concerned about the side effects, or got ing in a pool (death from all causes) she program for healthcare workers is work- vaccinated in the past and still got the flu. should be vaccinated.” ing? Kendall says BC will collect data In the press release announcing the new BC’s Dr Kendall tends to agree that on how many wear masks, how many policy he wrote the “influenza vaccine is absurd findings often come out of ob- workers are immunized and so on, es- extremely safe and the most effective way servational trials and is aware of the sentially the “easier to measure” stuff to prevent illness from the influenza virus, Cochrane work, but still stands behind such as compliance, coverage and ab- helping to prevent infection in healthy his recommendations for vaccinating senteeism. But we won’t be measuring adults by as much as 80 percent.” health care workers, saying, “Overall I to see if the policy translates into fewer Yet like most health statistics, that would say the preponderance of evidence deaths and illness in patients, because, as 80 percent is misleading. In Jefferson’s shows a strong benefit in vaccination, Kendall says: “To do that kind of study opinion, “The best-conducted and larg- particularly if you get a good match. I you need a very large budget, you’d est trials in the healthiest populations would still say that immunization cam- need to be able to have a substantial show that you need to vaccinate 33 to paigns have an outstanding safety record. sampling of patients, you need to be cul- 100 healthy people to avoid one set of I’d say they are a whole lot better than turing patients for influenza-like illness symptoms of influenza (a ‘case’).” Pe- nothing.” on admission and discharge. You could ter Doshi, a researcher whose graduate That sounds reassuring, but in those do it, but it would be a multimillion-dol- thesis from Johns Hopkins School of jurisdictions with high flu vaccination lar proposal.” In other words we won’t be Medicine focused on the politics of in- rates among health care workers (some measuring those things because it’s too fluenza policies, wrote in the British as high as 95 percent)—is there a huge expensive to find out if the vaccination Medical Journal: “If CDC [Center for number of lives saved? The real answer: policy does what it’s intended to do. Disease Control] viral surveillance data no one knows. And outstanding safety? Dr Jim Wright of UBC’s Therapeutics is correct, then in recent years true influ- Maybe, but recent research shows things Initiative is aware of the science around enza viruses have only caused an average might be a bit more complicated. the flu vaccine. He used to get his annual of 12 percent of influenza-like illness.” Just this September, Canadian re- shot until he looked a bit closer at the sci- Since influenza vaccines do not work searchers revealed a study showing that ence and determined that there was no against non-influenza viruses or against at the start of the 2009 “pandemic,” those proof such vaccinations reduced deaths all influenza strains, why do health de- who got the seasonal shot in the 2008- and hospitalizations. He concluded that partments around the world claim that 2009 flu season were more likely to get promoting annual flu shots is one of the vaccines are the “best way to prevent infected with the pandemic virus than biggest uncontrolled trials of our time. He seasonal flu”? people who hadn’t received it. Because told me he is willing to roll up his sleeve This is not a trivial, or inexpensive researchers had noticed the phenomenon or recommend his patients to do so, “but question. BC already buys 1.1 million in the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr only as part of a randomized placebo- doses of vaccines each year to provide to Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert controlled trial designed to determine the those in the province who want one, at a at the BC Centre for Disease Control benefits and harms of flu vaccination.” cost of about $17.5 million. Moving to 95 in Vancouver, and a strong supporter of And he disagrees with Dr Kendall, say- percent coverage of BC’s health workers annual flu vaccine campaigns, more re- ing, “A proper trial could be done with (assuming about 110,000 health workers) cently conducted a blinded test using minimal expense and is badly needed to would cost in the neighbourhood of $1 ferrets (a mammal with human-like sus- direct future flu vaccine policies.” million more per year. ceptibility to colds and flus). She found So will immunizing health care work- that those ferrets who got the seasonal Follow the money ers prevent the spread of the flu to patients flu shot got sicker when they were ex- and save their lives? Jefferson’s exami- posed to the pandemic H1N1 virus. Such Let’s cast our minds back to June 11, nation at the Cochrane Collaboration of research indicates there might be many 2009, when the World Health Organi- four cluster randomized trials and one potential unknowns capable of playing zation declared the H1N1 flu outbreak cohort trial of nearly 20,000 health care havoc with our immune systems. a pandemic. Governments everywhere workers showed “no effect on specific Health authorities routinely tell us flu ordered billions of dollars worth of vac- outcomes: laboratory-proven influenza, vaccines are perfectly safe. But there cines and antiviral drugs as fear of an pneumonia or deaths from pneumonia.” is a problem with the word “perfectly.” epidemic spread like a contagion around Another research study observed the In Dr Jefferson’s words, “The potential the world. But critics accused the WHO same phenomena as he did, but noted harms of inactivated influenza vaccines of crying wolf and scaring member gov- the vaccine was effective for ILI, hos- have not been seriously studied and their ernments with predictions of a deadly pitalizations for ILI, and death from all reporting in small formal studies is very pandemic. Within a year the entire en- causes. poor.” He reminds us that officials have Regarding the latter study, Jefferson cited “rare neurological syndromes ob- Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? cont. on page 18 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 17 Flu Shot Keep You Healthy? cont. from page 17 John Kenneth Galbraith: “Faced with the Walene James Memorial cont. from page 15 terprise would be revealed as fraudulent, choice between changing one’s mind and Walene compiled several charts il- with two studies charging that the WHO proving that there is no need to do so, al- lustrating her uncanny ability to bring inexplicably changed the definition of most everyone gets busy on the proof.” a spiritual dimension to the vaccine a pandemic and that WHO’s decision- So in BC we now have a flu vaccination awareness movement. Her astute analy- making was rife with conflicts of interest. policy in place that affects every single ses have enabled countless people to We learned that the 2004 WHO commit- health care worker in BC, in the hopes that shift their belief system from unques- tee which ordered world governments to it will save the lives of patients. We spend tioning obedience to fear based medical set up immunization programs and stock- a lot of money convincing people to get dogma, to the infinite health creating pile antiretroviral drugs in the event of a vaccinated, and on the vaccine program and wholistic principles that are in alli- flu pandemic, was stacked with scientists itself. Yet the science is controversial and ance with nature’s intent. The charts can with ties to drug companies. contradictory. Obviously, we need better be found in her last two books and on Jefferson believes that there is just too science, but that’s not likely to happen; the internet. A few examples are: much money in, and reputations staked BC’s new pol- • Two Theories of on, flu vaccines for many involved to icy won’t be Disease: The Germ be objective about them. He wrote “The evaluated thor- Theory vs. the Cel- main proponents are decision makers oughly to see lular or “Terrain” who are riddled with conflicts of inter- if it’s wasting Theory est: they make policy, evaluate it, update our time and • Mindfulness vs. it, commission research and sometimes money. Mindlessness carry out—and in extreme cases have a And we cer- • Violent vs. Non- stake in—the production of the pharma- tainly won’t be Violent Healthcare ceuticals.” any closer to • Old Versus New The key thought here is stunning: The understanding Immunology push from health departments around the if other fac- One of her more world to annually vaccinate their popula- tors might be famous quotes is, tions against the flu are based on poor, playing a role “Liberating our- incomplete, or wildly-spun evidence. in who does selves from the Scientific bodies such as the Cochrane or does not nursery of non- Collaboration that refuse to take mon- come down think in which ey from the pharmaceutical industry with the flu this blind belief flour- produce reviews that challenge the gran- season. And ishes is to begin diose pronouncements of public health that’s too bad. the journey, not authorities the world over. Unfortunately, After all, the only to freedom, the authorities that drive global policies average per- but to maturity.” around the influenza vaccine and antivi- son just wants “ Do you ever feel we’re having Walene’s daugh- ral drugs are ignoring those challengers. to feel well, too many inoculations forced on us?” ter, Ingri shares a When I asked Kendall if he is possibly regardless of remembrance of influenced by the vaccine marketers hang- whether their her mother: ing around the Ministry of Health, and aches, chills and headaches are caused “More than being my mother, Walene whether pharma money is shaping the de- by a virus, by stress, or by some other was my mentor and peer, both of us cisions, he denied being influenced at all. mechanism. As Dr Jefferson maintains, sharing the same passion advocating for I believe him, but unfortunately too many “the unknown causes and other organ- human freedom. We loved the same mu- in positions of medical leadership avoid isms are far more frequent. They are sic and loved sharing the same “paradigm questioning vaccines for fear of excommu- largely ignored probably because of the shifting” books. “As the director of Vac- nication. Even though much of the vaccine fatal attraction represented by the avail- cination Liberation, I have my own style research is tainted, spun and unreliable, and ability of pharmaceutical interventions communicating the “VacLib” message paid for and promoted by the very compa- such as antivirals and vaccines.” but have adopted many of her brilliant nies that stand to profit, the reason vaccines Note: Article is retrieved from: http:// alliterations when I speak. Walene has are embraced with such religious fervour, focusonline.ca/?q=node/447 We are been my inspiration to dig deeper for in my view, is the belief system proclaim- grateful to Alan Cassels and to Focus the truth and to see the bigger picture. ing that since vaccines have saved lives, Online for their kind permission to re- “Walene taught me that what is most and have caused us to turn the corner on print this article. Alan Cassels is a drug important in my life is my relationship many childhood diseases, they must be al- policy researcher at the University of with God and to always seek His coun- ways good, for everyone, all the time. And Victoria and the author of the recently sel through prayer when I am troubled we need more of them. released Seeking Sickness: Medical and need His guidance. I will always You can’t tell vaccine proponents they Screening and the Misguided Hunt for treasure the memory of my mother are wrong, or that maybe we need bet- Disease. As a former Canadian naval Walene, and her spirit for making me ter and more reliable research before we officer and UN peacekeeper he believes the person I am today.” √ start sticking everyone with a needle, he has been vaccinated for every dis- because they’ve already made up their ease under the sun. He currently refuses minds. This harkens to that saying of to get an annual flu shot. √ Page 18 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Book Reviews Those who have previously investigat- of them pathogenic, yet most of us re- ed this issue will know that vaccination is main healthy. Beattie puts to rest through The Vaccine Religion: Mass Mind & exhibited on the one hand as a cut and sheer logic, the shortcommings of the the Struggle for Human Freedom by dried example of scientists in unanimous “microbe= disease” paradigm. Walene James is a high quality paper- and triumphant agreement, while, on the While Beattie draws on Australian back, referenced and indexed, 279 pages. other hand, it is guarded ferociously from disease history and archival material, The founder of Vaccination Libera- dissenting voices. Discussion is actively the reader can be assured that the rate of tion has written another powerful book stifled. It is a procedure which science decline of various infectious diseases is on vaccines that combines the paradigm can neither explain satisfactorily, nor a universal phenomenon and what hap- shifting information from her first vaccine produce robust evidence for. In fact, be- pened in Australia can be extrapolated to book, Immunization: The Reality Behind lievers have ruled that vaccines are not any other developed nation in the world the Myth, with even more insights into to be tested via the rigorous randomised whose medical systems have propandized the societal trance of disease-scare. This controlled experimental standards which the public to submit to mass vaccination. book effectively dispels the myths of herd apply to other treatments. He recounts the bizarre history of polio immunity, the germ theory of disease and In this book, the author transcends the and its vaccines, how its redefinitions the current ‘one size fits all’ mass vaccine ‘debate’ and sheds a new light. Readers make comparisons of numbers before and program aggressively promoted to an ig- explore the belief system that keeps the after the vaccine, utterly meaningless. norant public through the CDC and their practice alive. The fear which feeds the Beattie writes, “ The horrific iatrogenic state health department minions. need for such a belief, the exploitation of aspect that has been acknowledged, but Due to the persistence of the “Vac- this fear, and the way in which we are all rarely discussed, places it as a contender cines eradicated smallpox and polio” recruited as willing soldiers in the ‘mis- for one of the greatest medical blunders myth today, pharmaceutical companies sion’, are all examined. of modern times”. now have free rein to develop a drug for Thoreau said, “There are a thousand As Ingri Cassel writes in her review of every bug and a pill for every ill. The hacking at the branches of evil to one who Greg’s book, “For many of us who have Vaccine Religion exposes this erroneous is striking at the root”. In this book, James freed our minds from the vaccine para- mindset by retracing the real history of guides us from mindlessness to mindful- digm, we will want to get this book into the both smallpox and polio from relatively ness; from mass-mindedness to individual hands of anyone we encounter who is still unknown historical sources. Walene also and responsible growth. This is the real locked into the belief that vaccines=disease challenges the reader to take responsi- issue. For those who feel there is no sci- prevention. Brilliantly crafted and well- bility for their health through a more entific justification for continued belief in documented, Fooling Ourselves proves to holistic understanding of dis-ease while vaccines, this is the only remaining issue. the world that the vaccine paradigm is not discovering what creates true immu- To understand why it continues we must based on sound science.” √ nity and health. Being a former English understand our collective emotional needs, teacher, Walene’s engaging writing style as well as the societal and commercial forc- Vaccine Illusion cont. from page 14 makes The Vaccine Religion a fun and es that operate at various levels. Only then With appreciation to Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych compelling read. This book is guaranteed can we map our way out of the quagmire for her kind permission to adapt material from to take the reader from viewing vaccines we have fallen into with vaccines.” Vaccine Illusion, and to Catherine J. Frompovich as a micro issue to the most important for permitting us to use segments of her interview health freedom issue we face today. ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ with the author. Vaccine Illusion is available Writer and vaccine truth activist Greg at Amazon.com as a Kindle book. Catherine J. Beattie adds these words of praise: Fooling Ourselves On the Fundamen- Frompovich’s excellent 3 part interview with the author is published on The International Medical “When Professor of Pediatrics and tal Value of Vaccines by Greg Beattie Council on Vaccination website: http://www. best-selling author, Robert Mendelsohn vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/06/13/interview- MD, described her first book as “the most Greg Bettie’s new book is another valu- with-phd-immunologist-dr-tetyana-obukhanych- valuable gift you can present to the moth- able contribution to the growing volume of by-catherine-frompovich/ er of a newborn baby”, he was echoing the literature that demonstrates the insignificant Disclaimer: The information presented in this thoughts of many who ‘discovered’ the role of vaccines in the decline of infectious article is for educational and informational pur- controversy lurking behind vaccination diseases. Living up to the promise of its poses only and is not to be construed as medical through Walene James’ ground-breaking title, Fooling Ourselves reveals the fallacy advice. The author is not a licensed medical prac- work, “Immunization: the Reality Behind of the cultural belief in vaccination most of titioner and does not recommend for or against vaccines. the Myth”. Now the author presents her the world is immersed in. Beattie exposes second and final volume on the issue— the shaky ground upon which vaccines “The Vaccine Religion”. have been promoted as a means of disease References: Walene James passed away in August prevention by drawing on historical data 1. Langmuir, A.D., D.A. Henderson, R.E. Ser- 2012, shortly after this book was published. that reveals the large rate of disease decline fling, and I.L. Sherman. 1962. The importance Penned 10 years previously, it exposes the before vaccines, and the pattern of decline of measles as a health problem. Am J Public mindlessness which chains many of us politi- following mass vaccination programs. Health Nations Health 52(2)Suppl:1-4. cally, socially, emotionally, morally, and even Beattie revisits the Germ theory of 2. Papania, M., A.L. Baughman, S. Lee, J.E. spiritually, to a procedure which started out as disease and illustrates quite succinctly Cheek, W. Atkinson, S.C. Redd, K. Spitalny, L. Finelli, and L. Markowitz. 1999. Increased a middle-age superstition, and grew into what why specific microbes cannot be equated susceptibility to measles in infants in the some consider a horrendous thorny bush sit- to specific diseases, revealing that our United States. Pediatrics 104:e59. √ ting uncomfortably at modern science’s side. bodies are teeming with microbes—15% VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 19 tem says that older people’s blood is cells by the truck load. Even more spec- Breastmilk Stem Cells too thick, so they prescribe warfarin, to tacularly, these stem cells are identical By Hilary Butler – October 10, 2012 thin the blood. How does it do that? By to embryonic stem cells, so that there A long time ago—2007 to be precise, completely screwing with the vitamin K is no need for scientists to use ethically the first medical article was published cycle, so that older people’s blood be- questionable aborted babies. Naturally, showing that breast milk contained stem comes thinner than baby’s blood because the focus of the medical system appears cells. Perhaps the mainstream media there is no vitamin K in it. The medical to be the of harvesting breastmilk for didn’t know what to do with this infor- system doesn’t give a thought to the fact drug companies.... because...... “Human mation. After all, most discussion is that that also means that older people breast milk may be more than just nour- about the use of stem cells from aborted without vitamin K2 will also have bone ishment for newborns. It may contain foetuses, for trying to correct disease, problems as a result! hope for a multitude of diseases. Hope or parents who stored their child’s cord Baby’s blood thickened with vitamin that does not require the destruction of blood, then want to use it to cure the K, causes a situation where stem cells innocent human life”. child of some disease. have to move through sludge, not nicely Hassiotou et al, have not figured out greased blood vessels full of blood which what stem cells in breastmilk are all Stem cells are a big deal! can allow stem cells easy access to any- about in terms of benefits to the baby, where. Maybe one day it will dawn on but they must suspect some because they And frankly, cord blood should not the medical profession that not only are say: “Future research should elucidate be stored, because the primary reason cord blood stem cells important and use- the role of these cells for the breast- for stem cells in cord blood is that the ful to the newborn baby, but that stem fed infant, generating implications for baby NEEDS that stem cell transfusion cells need thin blood for a reason. But I public policy related to early infant nu- at birth. It’s not “medical waste” as it digress... trition.” Clearly, one of the functions was once called, ... it’s nature’s firststem of stem cells also appears to be, to alter cell transfusion. These cord blood stem Back to breast milk. gene expression. I would suggest that cells can go anywhere in the body, and do the functions of stem-cells are huge. As anything—because they are pluripotent, Recently, a Lifenews media article I’ve always said: and can be used by the body to repair any announced more findings by Hassiot- cells. But only if the baby has them. They ou, that indeed, ... breast milk has stem Breastmilk Stem Cells cont. on page 21 are no use to the baby stored in a cord blood bank. Testimonial, by Edda West Thirty percent of naturally born ba- bies have intracranial haemorrhages and When my youngest daughter suffered a severe reaction to MMR vaccine in 1977 other birthing issues as a result of being at the age of 15 months, I was still breastfeeding her. Within about 7 days, she de- squeezed down a 10 cm wide drain pipe... veloped a high fever and then descended into a semi conscious delirium that lasted which are best dealt with by cord blood for days. I had never seen either of my two older children so ill through all the infec- stem cells getting in there and mopping tious diseases they had had, and I was very, very afraid. up. Nothing else will do it, as colostrum Both older children had been through measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and milk is not yet on tap. In order to go whooping cough—the whole gamut of childhood illness. But the sickness brought anywhere though, it also makes sense on by the vaccine reaction exceeded anything I’d witnessed as a mother. I’d been that stem cells require easy thin blood to reluctant to allow this new vaccine, only recently introduced to the Canadian vac- maneuver through. cine schedule. My maternal intuition twinged a warning, but it was muted by the The medical profession however, has pediatrician’s adamant insistence that she needed this vaccine, and without it could this strange idea that the very thin blood die. I bought into the fear tactic—big mistake! which babies naturally have in the first The one bright and hopeful light was that my baby could still nurse, and through 7 days, must be “abnormal” because it’s those endless hours of sickness, I held her in my arms night and day, nursing her, not like adult blood, so they inject vita- praying for her, and hearing my higher wisdom say, “as long as she’s able to nurse, min K at birth. she will be fine”. The problem is that this vitamin K When the fever finally began to break and consciousness returned, the rash began raises the vitamin K levels much higher to appear. First all along the hairline, then slowly moved down her face, then to her than in adults. Since 1985, the medical torso and finally out to her extremities. It was a rough, grainy red rash that covered profession has known that oral vitamin her body. I’d seen that rash before. My baby had the measles—vaccine induced K raises blood levels 300—4,000 times measles—a severe case. Certainly not the same ordinary measles my older children higher. The injectable vitamin K, results had had a few years earlier which they’d sailed through. This was something differ- in vitamin K levels 9,000 times thicker ent—something I’ll never forget as long as I live. Deep in my maternal heart I knew than adults blood. Why? Because the had it not been for the miracle of my breastmilk, my child may not have recovered. medical profession says that baby blood Now I understand 35 years later, that the stem cells in my breastmilk helped repair is deficient of vitamin K which makes the vaccine injury and enabled her to recover from the crisis. the blood not clot properly and can cause Hilary Butler’s message is clear and powerful. Nature has given us the means to haemorrhages. God didn’t know what protect our children so that they can withstand illnesses and injuries. It is up to us he was doing. So vitamin K is given, to however, as mothers and fathers to trust in the powerful survival tools we have been “thicken” up a baby’s blood. given, and to be wary of medical ignorance that works against nature’s intent. √ By the same token, the medical sys- Page 20 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Breastmilk Stem Cells cont. from page 20 cal profession admits to parents, and that is why breastfed babies have far Family in search of • Breast milk is NOT just food— justice Breast milk has functions which go lower rates of infections, diseases and far beyond nutrition. health issues short or long term, than On October 13, 2009 an Interim Order • Breast milk has a dramatic and formula fed babies. was issued by Minister of Health Leona long term effect not only on the im- What you eat during pregnancy can Aglukkaq to allow the authorization for mune system development, but gut also have a big impact on the long term sale of a vaccine for the novel Influenza flora, allergy, brain development, health of your child. A H1N1 virus based on limited clinical and other health parameters. In short, real commitment to health testing in humans. By October 21 Glaxo- • Breast milk is an immune regula- and “lifestyle”, matters. All the “little” SmithKline’s Arepanrix™ vaccine was tor, a hormone conductor, a bone things—nutrition, rest, plenty of sun, approved and “judged safe and effective density wizard and a genetic blue- good water, natural birth, long term for use in Canada...” With a media blitz print scanner. breastfeeding—avoiding all medical Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer Arlene • It is a gene methylator, and two system interference, and doing things— King, Public Health Agency of Canada years of breast milk stabilizes and dare I say it... “God’s way....” add up to (PHAC) head David Butler-Jones and solidifies the core genetic manual of one very big result. Whether it’s either a Aglukkaq were urging Canadians to get health for your child, for that child’s plus, or a minus, comes down to which the vaccine. Summoned to her family whole life. voices you listen to and which choices doctor’s office, a Toronto mother May you make. Abudu and her two children received the Add stem cells to that list. Note: This article is reprinted with ap- vaccine on November 23. On November preciation from Hilary Butler’s website, 28, 2009, five year old Amina Abudu was There is absolutely no doubt that Beyond Conformity, where her cutting pronounced dead at Scarborough Gener- breastfed babies have completely dif- edge research and articles enhance a al Hospital. ferent and far healthier health profiles growing body of literature that contrib- Amina had received a vaccine, had a than formula fed babies, both short and utes to the knowledge base on vaccine fever, couldn’t breathe, and was vomit- long term. Formula feeding parents are injuries and the means by which we can ing. Amina’s mother and brother were kidding themselves if they believe that is heal and protect our children. We thank also experiencing side effects. The fam- not the case. Hilary for her many years of dedication ily was perplexed as to why the cause of Previous research had found that to this work. Amina’s death was initially suspected to stem cells are present in breast milk for http://www.beyondconformity. be an underlying heart disorder and not as long as a baby is breast fed. What does co.nz/_blog/Hilary’s_Desk/post/Breast- at all related to the H1N1 vaccine. Why this mean for a baby in practical terms? milk_stem_cells/ would Amina have a fever of 39.5 de- Let’s hypothesize, since science isn’t Addendum: In another companion grees Celsius at the time of death if she yet talking about that. If the baby for article in this vein titled, Why Immedi- died of an underlying heart disorder? instance has an illness, what might the ate Cord Clamping Should Cease, Hilary Amina’s doctor faxed a ‘Report of stem cells do? Heal the child? Butler draws from a research paper pre- Adverse Events Following Immuniza- If a baby is involved in a car accident, sented to the 10th annual meeting of the tion (AEFI)’ to Toronto Public Health on what might stem cells do? Fix brain American Academy of Pediatrics in 1940 December 8, 2012, 10 days after Amina’s damage? Bone damage? Liver damage? which indicates they knew then that im- death. Under the Ontario Health Protec- Interestingly, in my 30 years of work- mediate cord cutting is bad. “In view of tion and Promotion Act, a physician who ing with parents of children who have the facts that the placenta contains one- “recognizes the presence of a reportable been damaged after vaccines, by far the fifth to one-fourth of the total fetal blood event and forms the opinion that it may worst damage I’ve ever seen, has been at birth and that all this blood does not be related to the administration of an im- seen in formula-fed children. It’s got to pass into the infant at birth until all the munizing agent shall, within seven days the point where, if a mother comes to me uterine contractions have had a chance after recognizing the reportable event, wanting help with a child with serious to compress the placenta, we believe that report thereon to the medical officer of health issues showing up after vaccines, the rather common practice of promptly health of the health unit where the pro- I can pretty much predict the answer to clamping the cord at birth should be fessional services are provided.” the question, “Is your baby breastfed?” condemned. Of course this will make The cause of death was determined I can pretty much predict the answer it impossible to salvage placental for to be “Unascertained (Sudden arrhyth- to the question, “Was your baby born “blood banks”. However, the collection mic death syndrome, not excluded)” on naturally?” of usable quantities of placental blood January 16, 2010. The Ontario Coro- Mothers with children affected robs the infant of blood which belongs to ner’s office instructed the family to get after vaccines have another trait as him and which he retrieves under natural a referral from the same doctor who well. Their children are often at the conditions.” Read the full article here: administered Amina’s vaccine so they doctors and are given a lot more an- http://www.beyondconformity.co.nz/ could undergo clinical tests for inher- tibiotics, pamol (acetaminophen/ BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=1598 √ ited heart problems; the family asked tyleonl) and other needless drugs another doctor for the referral; the Coro- than breastfed babies. ner’s office asked where the tests would It’s my contention that the “non- be done; the Abudus refused to disclose; nutritive” functions of breast milk are far more valuable than the medi- Family Search for Justice cont. on page 24 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 21 been instructed by their pediatricians to Causal Link Suggested between Acetaminophen dose their children with acetaminophen use and Asthma (tylenol) before and after vaccination to By Dr. Palevsky, MD relieve the range of symptoms precipi- This drug is best never used by any- chronic illness is, is a failure of the body tated by vaccines. Fever phobia has been one. There are over 100 chronic illnesses to remove wastes and toxins that threaten encouraged by the pediatric profession where a deficiency in glutathione stores the health and integrity of the body to who tell parents to give the child tylenol has been found to be one of the core survive and thrive. for every little fever and complaint. pathologies in people who have these Dr. Palevsky comments reprinted The medical literature affirms the ben- diseases. Many of these... diseases hit with appreciation from his webpage: efits of fever: There is overwhelming our families closely—asthma, allergies, http://www.drpalevsky.com/articles_ evidence in favor of fever being an adap- eczema, inflammatory bowel disease, pages/234_asthma_link.asp tive host response to infection… as such, autism, pervasive developmental dis- The Association of Acetaminophen it is probable that the use of antipyretic/ ease—and are well on the rise even in and Asthma Prevalence and Severity anti-inflammatory/analgesic drugs, when families that have no family history of Pediatrics; Abstract; August 12, they lead to suppression of the fever, re- these diseases. We need glutathione to 2011: The epidemiologic association sult in increased morbidity and mortality handle and remove the load of accumu- between acetaminophen use and asthma during most infections; this morbidity lated wastes and toxins in our bodies. prevalence and severity in children and and mortality may not be apparent to The use of the drug described in this adults is well established. A variety of most health care workers…” ( Infect Dis article, however, forces the body to use observations suggest that acetaminophen Clin North Am1996 Mar;10(1):1-20.) up our glutathione stores so the drug me- use has contributed to the recent increase Now we have the resulting health tabolites don’t destroy the liver cells. It’s in asthma prevalence in children: (1) the disaster—a stark example of iatro- a simple case of taking from Peter and strength of the association; (2) the con- genic disease, caused by the doctors giving to Paul. We most need our gluta- sistency of the association across age, themselves. First the child’s immature thione stores to help our bodies remove geography, and culture; (3) the dose- immune system is bombarded with mul- our wastes when we have fever, pain, and response relationship; (4) the timing of tiple vaccines, followed by the inevitable are stressed. And, with the use of this drug increased acetaminophen use and the reactions. Then the kids are liberally during these conditions, and especially asthma epidemic; (5) the relationship be- dosed with acetaminophen which sets when we get a vaccination, body’s stores tween per-capita sales of acetaminophen off the downward spiral into asthma and of glutathione will become depleted, and asthma prevalence across countries; other disorders. Then the drugs needed and diminish one of the most important (6) the results of a double-blind trial of to control the disease and the heartbreak- processes inherent to the body—to do ibuprofen and acetaminophen for treat- ing toll on the families who now fear for whatever is necessary to keep the body ment of fever in asthmatic children; and their children’s lives. √ safe and remove any and all wastes and (7) the biologically plausible mechanism toxins that threaten the health and wel- of glutathione depletion in airway mu- LETTERS fare of our cells. cosa. Until future studies document the The need to remove wastes and toxins safety of this drug, children with asthma or Re: Doctors Bullying is especially crucial during times of acute at risk for asthma should avoid the use of illnesses and stress when this drug is so acetaminophen. http://pediatrics.aappub- I just joined VRAN and have spent often used and abused. What we need, lications.org/content/early/2011/11/04/ hours this evening, reading all the infor- and what we don’t have, is the kind of re- peds.2011-1106.abstract?sid=70497646- mation provided. Thank you. I’ve done a search that helps us understand if the use 5636-479d-a369-46f4a3245e40 lot of research, mostly on the web, over and abuse of this drug over time effects Positive associations exist between the past months, in order to gain much how well our genes can continue to pro- acetaminophen use and asthma in chil- more knowledge about not vaccinating duce the glutathione stores in our cells. dren. my baby. Does the use of this drug down-regulate From Pediatric Journal Watch; Dec. My story begins with my daughter our genetic capacity to continue produc- 21, 2011; who is now 11 years old. When she was ing our own glutathione stores? And, if “Also noted in the review are stud- 12 months, she reacted to her vaccine and so, do we hand that reduction in capacity ies that have shown dose-response had to be rushed to Children’s Hospital in to produce glutathione stores through our associations, the observation that asth- London, Ontario. The opinion of the doc- genes to our children who are then born ma prevalence and acetaminophen sales tor in the ER was that she had reacted to with a reduced capacity to produce suf- have increased in tandem during recent her vaccination and had experienced an ficient glutathione to handle the degree decades, and a plausible mechanism of allergic reaction. They suspected it was of wastes, toxins, poor food choices, en- action by which acetaminophen could the egg in the vaccine and gave her an epi vironmental products, medical choices, increase susceptibility to asthma by de- pen. We were then referred to Dr. Mi- and life stressors? pleting airway mucosal glutathione.” chael Reider of Children Hospital, whose If we do hand that reduced capacity http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/cgi/content/ sole practice is treating children with ad- down to our children, we are self-select- full/2011/1221/1 verse reactions to drugs and vaccines. ing for the creation of many of these She had all remaining vaccines done in diseases in our children who have ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ER at CH, in case she reacted. reduced resilience to survive in an ever- increasingly toxic world. After all, all Editor’s note: For years, parents have Letters cont. on page 24 Page 22 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Study Calls Into Question Primary Justification for Vaccines By Sayer Ji—June 28, 2012 According to the Centers for Disease tive immunity. It is believed that this is in no way ensured; to the contrary, the Control and Prevention (CDC), “Immu- why the immune system has developed immune response is likely to become nity to a disease is achieved through the a series of innate defenses, including misdirected, or disproportionate to the presence of antibodies to that disease in complement, type I interferon, and other threat. a person’s system.”[i] This, in fact, is the “stopgap measures,” which work imme- Also, valuable immune resources are main justification for using vaccines to diately to lower pathogen burden and wasted by generating “false flag” re- “boost” immunity, and a primary focus “buy time” for the much slower adaptive sponses to threats which may not readily of vaccine research and development. immune response to develop. exist in the environment, e.g. there are And yet, newly publish research has This view, however, has been called over 200 forms of influenza A, B & C revealed that in some cases no antibodies into question by the new study: “Al- which can cause the symptoms associ- are required for immunity against some though this concept may apply to other ated with annual influenza A,* so the viruses. viral infections, our findings with VSV seasonal trivalent flu vaccine only takes Published in the journal Immunity in turn this view upside down, indicating care of little more than 1% of the possi- March, 2011, and titled, “B cell mainte- that during a primary infection with this ble vectors of infection—and often at the nance of subcapsular sinus macrophages cytopathic virus, innate immunity can be price of distracting resources away from protects against a fatal viral infection sterilizing without adaptive immune con- real threats, as well as exhausting and/or independent of adaptive immunity,” re- tributions.” damaging the entire immune apparatus. searchers found that mice infected with Does this strike a mortal blow to the It is clear that one can create a synthet- vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) can suf- antibody theory which underlies vac- ic immune response through vaccination, fer fatal invasion of their central nervous cinology, and constitutes the primary but it is not likely to result in enhanced system even in the presence of high con- justification for the CDC’s focus on us- immunity, insofar as real-world effective- centrations of “neutralizing” antibodies ing vaccines to “boost” immunity? ness is concerned, which is the only true against VSV.[ii] Indeed, in vaccinology, which is the judge of whether a vaccine is valuable The researchers found that while science or method of vaccine develop- or not. One might view the basic crite- B-cells were essential for surviving a ment, vaccine effectiveness is often ria used by vaccine researchers, namely, systemic VSV infection through the mod- determined by the ability of a vaccine to that generating elevated antibody titers ulation of innate immunity, specifically increase antibody titers, even if this does proves the value of the vaccine, oppo- macrophage behavior, the antibodies they not translate into real-world effective- sitely: proving the vaccine is causing produce as part of the adaptive immune ness, i.e. antibody-antigen matching. In harm to the body, especially that of the response were “neither needed nor suf- fact, regulatory agencies, such as the developing infant and child, by generat- ficient for protection.” These findings, FDA, often approve vaccines based on ing unnecessarily elevated antibodies by according to the study authors, “… their ability to raise antibody titers, also any means necessary, i.e. throwing the contradict the current view that B cell- known as “vaccine efficacy,” without re- chemical and biological kitchen sink at derived neutralizing antibodies are quiring proof of vaccine effectiveness, as the immune system, e.g. aluminum, phe- absolutely required to survive a primary would seem logical. nol, diploid(aborted fetal) cells, peanut cytopathic viral infection, such as that The obvious problem with these oil, pertactin, etc. caused by VSV.” criteria is that the use of vaccine adju- We leave the reader with a series The discovery that antibodies are not vants vaccine like mercury, aluminum of quotes addressing the inherent required for protection against infection, hydroxide, mineral oil, etc.—all of weaknesses of the antibody theory of while counterintuitive, is not novel. In which are intrinsically toxic substances immunity: fact, not only are antibodies not required —will increase antibody titers, without “Just because you give somebody for immunity, in some cases high levels guaranteeing they will neutralize the a vaccine, and perhaps get an antibody are found in the presence of active, even targeted antigen, i.e. antibody-antigen reaction, doesn’t mean a thing. The only lethal infections. For example, high serum affinity. To the contrary, many of these true antibodies, of course, are those you levels of antibodies against tetanus have antibodies lack selectivity, and target get naturally. What we’re doing [when been observed failing to confer protection self-structures, resulting in the loss of we inject vaccines] is interfering with against the disease. A report from 1992 self-tolerance, i.e. autoimmunity. a very delicate mechanism that does its published in the journal Neurology found Here is another way of under- own thing. If nutrition is correct, it does severe tetanus in immunized patients with standing vaccine-induced antibody it in the right way. Now if you insult a high anti-tetanus titers, one of whom died elevations… person in this way and try to trigger off as a result of the infection.[iii] Introducing foreign pathogenic DNA, something that nature looks after, you’re These research findings run dia- chemicals, metals, preservatives, etc., asking for all sorts of trouble, and we metrically opposed to currently held into the body through a syringe will don’t believe it works.”- Glen Dettman beliefs regarding the process by which generate a response not unlike kicking Ph.D, interviewed by Jay Patrick, and we develop immunity against infectious a beehive. The harder you kick that bee- quoted in “The Great American Decep- challenges. Presently, it is a commonly hive, the greater will be the “efficacy” tion,” Let’s Live, December 1976, p. 57. held view that during viral infections, (i.e. elevated antibodies), but the actual “The fallacy of this (antibody theory) innate immunity must activate adaptive affinity that these antibodies will have for responses in order to achieve effec- the antigen (i.e. pathogen) of concern is Study Calls Into Question cont. on page 24 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 23 Study Calls Intro Question cont. from page 23 Family Search for Justice cont. from page 21 Letters cont. from page 22 was exposed nearly 50 years ago, which the Coroner’s office called the Catholic She did have future reactions, but even- is hardly recent. A report published by Children’s Aid Society to investigate the tually they became less severe until she the Medical Research Council entitled family, furthering the family’s trauma seemed to grow out of it? In reading some ‘A study of diphtheria in two areas of and grief. Test results excluded any in- of the stories on your website however, I Gt. Britain, Special report series 272, herited heart problems; the CCAS court remember her having night terrors as an HMSO 1950 demonstrated that many of case was thrown out by the Family Court infant and as well, hallucinations during the diphtheria patients had high levels of Division around November 2010. the night, as a toddler. As well, over the circulating antibodies, whereas many of Data for the fast-tracked Arepanrix™ years, she has had severe stomach prob- the contacts who remained perfectly well vaccine was supposed to be continuously lems that go undiagnosed...they come in had low antibody.”—Magda Taylor, In- monitored by GSK and Health Cana- cycles. Over all she’s healthy and happy. formed Parent da. Adverse events, including Amina’s I regret that while she was going “Human trials generally correlate “an- death, were piling up across the country, through this over the years, it never oc- tibody” responses with protection—that with health officials denying any vac- curred to me once that perhaps she is if the body produces antibodies (pro- cine involvement. Canadians for Health shouldn’t continue her vaccine regime! I teins) which bind to vaccine components, Freedom started a blog page which lists had NO idea that vaccines were not man- then it must be working and safe. Yet Dr hundreds of reaction reports. One lot of datory in Canada!! We were behind in March says antibody response is gener- Arepanrix™ vaccine was recalled due to her schedule as a result of her reactions ally a poor measure of protection and no high numbers of anaphylaxis—the reac- and needing to have vaccines done in ER. indicator at all of safety. “Particularly tions happening immediately after the We started getting nasty letters from the for viral diseases, the ‘cellular’ immune shot could not be discounted. health unit, telling us she would be sus- response is all important, and antibody pended from school if we didn’t provide levels and protection are totally uncon- One lot of Arepanrix™ vaccine was the proof she had been fully vaccinated. nected.”- Private Eye 24/1/2002 recalled due to high numbers of ana- My career is working with adults with “Whenever we read vaccine papers the phylaxis—the reactions happening special needs and that includes working MD researchers always assume that if there immediately after the shot could not with adults with autism. Over the years, are high antibody levels after vaccination, be discounted. I have also worked with children with au- then there is immunity (immunogencity). tism in school and home settings. I have But are antibody levels and immunity Amina’s father received an undated not yet met a parent who doesn’t associ- the same? No! Antibody levels are not letter from the PHAC’s Chief of Vaccine ate the 18 month vaccines as a cause of the same as IMMUNITY. The recent Safety in December 2010 stating: “The the first onset of symptoms. MUMPS vaccine fiasco in Switzerland has Agency has reviewed all of the adverse Over the years, the subject of vac- re-emphasized this point. Three mumps event reports received and found no cor- cines intrigued me and I wondered just vaccines-Rubini, Jeryl-Lynn and Urabe relation between the H1N1 vaccine and how safe they really are, but I never gave (the one withdrawn because it caused en- sudden death. PHAC is unable to provide it much thought as my kids were older. cephalitis) all produced excellent antibody any further assistance to you.” Access to My son is 14 and seemed to get through levels but those vaccinated with the Rubini Information reports from various levels all vaccines fine. I had made the deci- strain had the same attack rate as those not of government for the adverse events sion quickly after my daughter’s ongoing vaccinated at all, there were some who received by the family didn’t contain ordeal, that we would never get ‘extra said that it actually caused outbreaks. Ref: Amina’s reaction. vaccines’...such as flu shot, HINI, etc... Schegal M et al Comparative efficacy of On Jan 16, 2012, two years after her and I will not allow my daughter to get three mumps vaccines during disease out- death, an interesting adverse event report Hep B or Gardasil. break in Switzerland: cohort study. BMJ, was made by a “health professional”. It I recently had another baby—a little 1999; 319:352-3.”- Ted Koren DC now appears on the Canada Vigilance boy who is 3 months old. When I became * star symbol in the article leads to Adverse Reaction Online Database as pregnant (huge surprise!), I realized I was 2010 Cochrane review of effectiveness “circulatory collapse, sudden death” going to have to really look into vaccines of flu vaccines:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. of a child Amina’s age who’d received so I could make an informed choice. Af- gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0010949/ Arepanrix™. ter talking to a couple local parents who Note: We appreciate Sayer Ji’s kind A lawsuit launched by the family in have not vaccinated their children, and permission to reprint this article from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice doing my own research, I made the con- the GreenMedInfo.com website, a widely was dealt a blow when the lawyer han- fident decision not to vaccinate my baby. referenced, evidence-based natural med- dling the case, Charles Roach, died in As his 2 month birthday approached, icine resource that serves as a valuable October of 2012. The case has been for- I started getting nervous about letting my online library of information on diverse warded to August of 2013 and the family doctor know my decision as I assumed he aspects of health and wellness. To fol- has retained a new lawyer. VRAN will be would not agree, I just didn’t know exactly low up on the references cited in this following this case very closely. If you what to expect in the way of his reaction. article, please go to the article online would like to contribute to the legal trust Recently, I took him to the doctor for his at: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/ account please contact VRAN at info@ well baby check up. The nurse asked if study-disproves-cdcs-primary-justifica- vran.org for details. √ he was getting his vaccines that day and tion-vaccination √ when I said no, she was very supportive

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Page 24 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 24 I am trying to figure out how to prepare www.medicine.usask.ca/pediatrics/ saying, ‘there’s a lot of information out for the next visit, armed with information services/childhood-immunization-sched- there about dangers and vaccines’….con- to give him. How do I get the actual in- ule-1/pertussis.pdf cluding with, ‘it’s completely fine that you serts that come with the vaccines? There was no follow up on the aren’t vaccinating him’. Not for a second do I think he’ll change hundreds of children hurt by this vac- When the doctor came into the room, his mind or attitude, but he may back off cine. However, anecdotal evidence from he did a physical check up of my baby if he realizes I have not made this deci- some parents whose children are now in and commented several times that he was sion lightly and that I have done proper their late teens indicates that the damage healthy, on track, happy and doing just research. I was SOOOO taken back by has been life-long. fine. He then said ‘I’ll send the nurse in to his reaction on Dec 9, that I really didn’t I would be happy to address the other give him his vaccines’...and I replied ‘no, know what to say and couldn’t recall all incorrect statements in this poorly re- I’ve decided I am not going to give him the information and statistics. I tried my searched article. his vaccines’. His demeanor changed best to present my argument, but being Heather Fraser, MA, BA, B.Ed completely and he became hostile, irri- yelled at and having a foot stomped at Toronto, ON Canada tated, angry and confrontational. He told me...left me not able to think properly http://www.facebook.com/notes/ me very bluntly I was being irresponsible in the moment. He acted completely dis- heather-fraser/letter-to-the-editor-of- and putting all his other patients at risk. gusted with me quite honestly. the-globe-in-toronto/413387815373627 The doctor told me that autism most Any info you can provide me with, in Link to Globe & Mail article can also be definitely is not connected to vaccines in the way of vaccine ingredients and side found here. any way and told me that it’s been proven effects...or anything you suggest I bring that a doctor who had once said there was to my doctor next visit (which will be ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ a link, admitted to being paid by anti-vac- mid Feb 2012), I truly appreciate it! cine groups to say so. He challenged me Alynn F, Ontario Flu shot policy sparks backlash —‘so, have you come across THAT arti- cle during your research?’ He then told me Globe & Mail, Nov. 21,2012 comment my research was all wrong and I was not ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ to article: making an informed choice. He also told As a nurse I take the flu shot as I frequent- me that diseases we are vaccinated against Letter to Editor of Globe & Mail ly work with babies under the age of sick are no longer around BECAUSE of vac- months who are too young for this shot. All cines. He said he didn’t feel comfortable July 16, 2012 chronically ill over the age of 6 months are even letting me leave the office because There are so many incorrect statements entitled to the flu shot free. Not all take it. my son is now a public health hazard! in Mr. Picard’s recent article “Comeback People should keep a close eye on the out- He was very disrespectful and unprofes- of a deadly disease...” that it would take come of this grievance against coercive sional during the visit and challenged me several letters to address them all. So I immunization as it could well be a bell- to bring information that could convince will choose one: that the vaccination wether of things to come in Public Health him vaccines aren’t safe. He left the room cannot cause damage or death. Policy. This nurse (pro-immunization) in a huff, telling me I MUST bring my son I have on my desk a stack of adverse asks the question: Where does the line for his 4 month appointment, REGARD- events reports from Health Canada relat- between individual rights and societal LESS and then chastised me for waiting ed to the administration of two vaccines rights fall and who gets to determine that? until he was almost 3 months old for the (DPT-polio and Hib PRP-T) injected as If it is determined that coercive health pol- well baby check up. one vaccine into Canadian infants be- icies are acceptable does this now mean To say I was rattled after the appoint- tween 1994 and 1997. This vaccine was anyone who has a chronic health condi- ment is an understatement. In no way called PENTA and was produced by tion will face immunization or end up does his approach or attitude change Connaught. Doctors reported to the gov- responsible for health care costs incurred my mind. I do not feel guilty at all for ernment that this vaccine had resulted in should they develop complications of the my decision, in fact, I’m more than ever a variety of adverse outcomes including flu? Does that mean the MHO can decide motivated to make sure my son is not anaphylaxis, convulsions, inconsolable unilaterally that all children be immunized injected with any vaccine! The doctor’s screaming and death. for all preventable illness? Could your extreme defensive reaction alone scares This vaccine was withdrawn in 1997 children be forcefully taken from you and me into wondering why he’s so intent because of this widespread damage immunized? Will you be deemed as unfit that my son be injected! I had read about blamed in part on the whole cell per- as the healthcare workers who are refus- such doctors’ reactions during my re- tussis component of this 5 vaccines in ing the shot? The list goes on... search, but I did not for a minute think 1 needle. In 2004, a Saskatchewan pe- I believe as a society we need to make I’d be facing that myself. I have NO idea diatric paper on line dared to state what these determinations in a democratic what the future holds in the way of my everyone knew: “Significant side effects way. Creating conditions of employment family doctor and my relationship with were observed after Penta vaccination, that force a personal health decision are him... I will NOT be treated like that at commonly blamed on the whole cell per- wrong. I urge all Canadians to closely every visit and I will not look forward to tussis component. Penta was also only watch this little storm in a teacup out being accused over the years, of being an about 60-80% effective against pertussis. West. ...it is more than meets the eye. irresponsible parent. Also, every sniffle Penta was not used in persons older than Read full article here: http:// my son gets, I fear I will be blamed be- 7 years of age because the side effects cause he’s not vaccinated. are more severe in older persons.” http:// Letters cont. on page 26 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 25 Letters cont. from page 25 ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ the US VAERS database found a steady www.theglobeandmail.com/news/ BC Nurses ramp up fight increase of the word, “autism”, at the end of the last century during a period when british-columbia/mandatory-flu-shot- against mandatory flu shots sparks-backlash/article5547136/Health/ aluminum adjuvant increased as vaccine Canadian Press article, Nov 14, 2012: mercury was being withdrawn. During the ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ 2 Comments: same period, “cellulitis”, seizure”, “depres- Admittedly, the vaccine only creates sion”, “fatigue”, “pain” and “death”, all New study disputes flu shot an antibody response in at best, half of of which are significantly associated with aluminum adjuvant, also increased. The dogma those injected. why wouldn’t everyone need to wear masks since follow up of authors suggest that the correlation shown Letter to Editor Coast Reporter, Oct. antibody production is not being test- between MMR vaccine and autism “may 26, 2012 ed. The mandate is faulty and the mask be partially explained via an increased sen- wearing is clearly punitive in nature sitivity to acetaminophen administered to Considering the damning findings in and not based on science. Studies have control fever.” While this may be true, acet- the latest scientifically rigorous review shown no benefit from mask wearing for aminophen is also commonly administered of flu shot efficacy/effectiveness (Oster- asymptomatic workers. And, increased when vaccines containing aluminum have holm et al, U of Minnesota), perhaps it’s hand to mouth activity , such as in mask been injected. So, why does the title of time to review how we came to accept wearing, only increases transmission of the review, ‘Empirical Data Confirm Au- annual flu shot campaigns. The first mass viruses. and, only 7 out of 100 diagnosed tism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and injection of flu vaccine was into the US with flu, have influenza. I smell a rat in Acetominophen Exposure’ mention only military in 1945. Following the 1957-58 this mandate! aluminum and acetaminophen, but not pandemic, the US Surgeon General rec- Toni Bark, MD, Medical Director at Cen- MMR? We suspect that, since Wakefield’s ommended annual flu shots for persons ter for Disease Prevention and Reversal ‘assassination’, the authors and journal are with chronic debilitating disease, seniors, sensitive to following suit. http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/14/11/2227 and pregnant women. This recommenda- ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ tion was based upon suboptimal studies of young, healthy military recruits, not Wear badges? Does that mean that Bill and Melinda helping save lives high-risk groups. In 1964 the US ACIP, every health care worker that is a carrier the committee which recommends vac- of Hepatitis or HIV must do the same? Not content to merely continue contrib- cines, noted the absence of appropriate It infringes on human rights. I would uting to population-reducing polio vaccine data, but reaffirmed the recommendation never have a flu shot, and I’m never sick. campaigns, the Bill and Melinda Gates nonetheless. In fact, the original three flu If you are sick, you don’t come to work, Foundation has granted $100,000 to Seth C. campaign populations have been exclud- that’s accountability; something that we, Kalichman, professor at the Department of ed from placebo-controlled randomized as nurses, are trained in. Wearing a mask Psychology, U of Connecticut, for establish- US clinical trials since they were first spawns bacteria after it becomes moist. ing an internet-based global Anti-Vaccine targeted fifty years ago. Why? Because Which is worse? Handwashing and cough Surveillance and Alert System. This is in- the campaigns were gullibly accepted etiquette is appropriate. It is the number tended to counteract “misinformation” such and the ACIP supports the unscientific one preventative for spread of disease ac- as our website’s April news article which assumption it would be unethical to al- cording to the CDC. The CDC also states discusses a surge of Indian paralysis/death low placebo- receiving trial participants to change the surgical mask between pa- as polio vaccine rounds increased. to forego a flu shot. tients? So tell me, Health Authority, can http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/gates-founda- Since Canada’s vaccine-recom- you afford to supply nurses with THAT tion-funds-surveillance-anti-vaccine-groups) mending committee, the NACI, usually many masks considering you’re always follows in lock-step with the ACIP, here belly aching about budget? It’s time con- More and more and more shots we are in 2012 with flu shots Osterholm suming, ineffective and inappropriate. et al recommend be replaced. And, it’s LM Wards, South Peace A Nov 2012 study in Pediatrics has found not even as if seasonal influenza is a big Secondary School that when a high percentage of grade 6-12 deal; FluWatch records for the last eleven For more comments following this students in a small community received a non-pandemic flu seasons show an aver- article, go to: http://www.vancouver- third dose of MMR after they and most other age of only 10% lab-confirmed influenza sun.com/health/nurses+ramp+fight+ag students had received the standard two dos- out of all influenza-like-illness tested. ainst+mandatory+shots/7550072/story. es, the subsequent rate of contracting mumps Meanwhile, even more sub-populations html#Comments √ was reduced by 75.6%. Unfortunately for than the original three are being urged the students, the longer they continue to lack to receive the near-useless but “free” NEWSCLIPS natural mumps immunity, the more likely injection, hospitals are mandating them, they’ll be told they need even more shots; and all us taxpayers are paying the bill. Autism, aluminum, MMR, “Oops! their babies will lack the protection of natu- Let’s not repeat this folly by funding a re- We mean acetaminophen.” ral maternal immunity conferred at birth and placement shot, and especially not while via breastfeeding. Ditto for the measles and continuing to fund today’s dud. More A Nov 2012 review in the Journal Entro- rubella components which may have been info and references at www.vran.org py provides “strong” evidence that vaccine implied as an extra ‘bonus’. Susan Fletcher aluminum and MMR vaccine are linked to Sechelt autism. An analysis of word frequencies in Newsclips cont. on page 27 Page 26 ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Newsclips cont. from page 26 Asthma, antibiotics and vaccines riages and stillbirths reported to VAERS in http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-mmr- the 2009/2010 flu season.” Until this study, vaccine-dose-curtail-mumps.html#jCp) In March, UBC researchers headed by no one had seen that the CDC recommend- microbiologist, Brett Finlay, told the Van- ed both regular flu vaccine AND untested Stealth Canada’s Protocol VI: couver Sun that the antibiotic vancomycin, H1N1 vaccine with mercury. (a) hide vaccine injuries (b) hide when used early in life, can increase the The aim of the study was to asses the drug therapy injuries incidence and severity of allergic asthma, number of vaccine related miscarriages the common form of the disease triggered and stillbirths reported to VAERS (vaccine In September, the Toronto Star fea- by things such as pollen, mites or molds. adverse event reporting system) in con- tured reports by David Bruser and Andrew Their experiments on rodents showed that secutive flu seasons starting in 2008/2009 Bailey re Canadian children’s adverse reac- this antibiotic kills gut bacteria which help and compare to the two-vaccine dose rec- tions and deaths probably due to prescribed develop a healthy immune system and thus ommendations in 2009/2010 season. ADHD drugs. Although they’re not ap- encourages development of asthma. Of “The facts that Goldman exposed are proved for use in children younger than 6 course, there’s also evidence that the nu- extremely disturbing. He highlights the yrs, the authors found reports of 19 reac- merous childhood vaccinations can weaken fact that the safety and effectiveness of tions in children 4 and 5 yrs old; ten serious immunity, cause asthma, and encourage in- the A-H1N1 had never been established in cases included, “a 5 yr old boy hallucinat- fections such as otitis media which may be pregnant women and that the combination ing and crying and a 5 yr old girl suffering treated with antibiotics. According to the of two different influenza vaccines had amnesia, anxiety and a speech disorder.” Sun, “Asthma rates have soared in recent never been tested on pregnant women at Health Canada removes many details from decades in developed countries such as all. Even more worrisome is the fact that the reports before storing them “in a mas- Canada, where 12 per cent of children are the A-H1N1 vaccine inserts from the vari- sive public database so difficult to search affected by the disease.” ous manufacturers contained this warning: that doctors and parents have little hope http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Common “It is also not known whether these of extracting meaningful information.” +antibiotic+linked+asthma+research/6312842/ vaccines can cause fetal harm when And since, according to Health Canada, story.html administered to pregnant women or “It is primarily the (drug company’s) re- can affect reproduction capacity.’’ sponsibility to monitor the safe use of their Nurses refuse to be vaccinated, (emphasis added) products,” what little info there is will no follow orders for clients “Dr. Goldman also pointed out that doubt have been considerably diluted due the developing fetus is indirectly exposed to conflict of interest. Nevertheless, the au- An Israeli study published in Vac- to mercury when thimerosal-containing thors were able to uncover 22 suicides and 2 cine sought to find why many nurses in vaccines are administered to a pregnant attempted suicides among boys 8-18 yrs old Mother and Child Healthcare Centers re- woman. He outlined a study written by and 4 non-suicidal deaths. Reports showed fused to comply with an official request A.R. Gasset, M. Itoi, Y. Ischii and R.M. that, in the past ten years, the ADHD drugs, that they consent to vaccination. It found Ramer who examined what happened after Strattera and Concerta, were suspected of that, “Trust in health authorities was low rabbits were vaccinated with thimerosal– being the second- and third-most-common mainly following the A/H1N1 purported containing radioactive mercury. Goldman cause of adverse events from any drug tak- influenza pandemic.” (Note the word stated that from one hour post-injection to en by Canadian children. Other such drugs “purported” in a mainstream journal!) six hours post-injection, the level of radio- approved for use in Canada are Adderall This mistrust appeared to be extended to active mercury in the blood dropped over XR (an extended-release formula), Ritalin, a subsequent request which was for per- 75 percent. Yet from two hours post-injec- Vyvanse, Biphentin and generic versions. tussis vaccine compliance. Although they tion to six hours post-injection, there were http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/ followed protocol by vaccinating infants significantly increased radioactivity levels article/1262220--adhd-drugs-suspected-of- in their care with pertussis vaccine, they in the fetal brain, liver, and kidney.” hurting-canadian-kids and http://www.thestar. refused to be governed regarding their “Dr. Goldman concluded that because com/news/canada/article/1263560--ottawa-keeps- own healthcare. They also thought their the rates of miscarriage reported to the adhd-reports-secret clients had the right to accept or reject Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Sys- vaccines for their children. tem (VAERS) for the single flu vaccine Why inject vaccine when you http://vaccineliberationarmy.com/peer-reviewed- were relatively low, health care providers can just use grapes? study-why-are-nurses-becoming-anti-vaccinists/ developed a false sense of security that flu vaccines administered during pregnancy Starting in Sep 2013, all UK babies 4,250 percent increase in miscar- were safe. Goldman explained that just will be able to receive a taxpayer-funded riages following H1N1 vaccine because a single vaccine has been tested new vaccine against norovirus and the and considered to be relatively safe, this related rotavirus. But grape seed extract A recent article by health activist Chris- does not mean that vaccinating pregnant would work as well and without the pos- tina England reports on Gary Goldman’s women with two or more Thimerosal sible side effects. Scientists at Ghent new study that confirms the increased num- containing vaccines will be safe for them University in Belgium have found that, ber of miscarriages following the H1N1 or their unborn babies.” depending on dosage, it deforms the cell vaccine. “This year, on September 27, Full article: http://vactruth.com/2012/11/23/ wall of norovirus or kills it outright. http:// 2012, the Human and Environmental Toxi- flu-shot-spikes-fetal-death/?utm_source www.wddty.com/UtilityPages/Print. cology Journal (HET) published Dr. Gary =The+Vaccine+Truth+Newsletter&utm_ aspx?nodeId=5832136251994366335 Goldman’s study that confirms a 4,250 campaign=e89506d904-11_22_2012_vaers&utm_ percent increase in the number of miscar- medium=email √ VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2012 ¤ Page 27 VRAN Membership and Order Form

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