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Censorship and Show Trials on Vaccines INSIDE THIS ISSUE and AIDS By Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD ; March 3, 2010 2: VRANews 9: H1N1 pandemic scam cost $bil- lions worldwide guilty of all charges. One observer who Two tenets of today’s health care are has followed this case notes that the head 10: Will the FDA Eat Their Words on the Safety of Vaccines? that a human immunodeficiency virus of the Panel, Dr. Kumar, holds shares in (HIV) causes AIDS and vaccines are ef- GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s largest vac- 13: Are Current Childhood Vaccine programs compromising the ge- fective and safe. Investigators who have cine maker. the temerity to question this official netics of present and future generations? dogma see their work blocked from publi- The charges the GMC and this jour- cation, grant requests rejected, and in one nalist have made against Andrew 16: Joan Cranmer’s Fateful Decisions signal case can even find themselves be- Wakefield are all without foundation, as and the Suppression of Autism ing subjected to a Soviet-style show trial. Melanie Phillips shows in “The Witch- Science Hunt Against Andrew Wakefield” in the 19: Vaccination Without Doctor Ap- Andrew Wakefield (b. 1957) recently Spectator, and Mark Blaxill, in “Naked proval In a U.S. Hospital underwent such a trial in the UK held by its Intimidation: The Wakefield Inquisition 21: Forced Vaccinations, Govern- General Medical Council (GMC) Fitness is Only the Tip of the Autism Iceberg,” ment, and the Public Interest to Practice Panel. Along with two other on the AgeofAutism.com website. Dr. 24: From The Roman to The Wake- well-respected gastroenterologists, he was Wakefield rebuts the charges made field Inquisition subjected to the longest, most expensive against him—see Note #1. 26: The Inquisition of Doctors Wake- trial in that council’s 148-year history. field, Murch, and Walker-Smith Parents of autistic children support 26: Letters In 1998, Dr. Wakefield and twelve Dr. Wakefield. After the verdict parents 30: Newsclips colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital in held street demonstrations in protest, car- 32: VRAN Membership and Order London identified a new kind of bowel rying signs reading “Scape-goat,” “With Form disorder in twelve children with autism. Wakefield,” and “Guilty of helping our This case series of “autistic enterocolitis” damaged kids.” One parent said, “I firmly was published in the Lancet. The parents believe these doctors are going to be hung Andrew Wakefield and of eight of these children reported that out to dry because they dared to question the Suppression of In- their child became autistic and developed MMR.” Another, “Dr. Wakefield and his tellectual Dissent disabling intestinal symptoms shortly af- colleagues are the only doctors who ever ter receiving the MMR (measles, mumps, really listened to us. I fear now that no By Edda West and rubella) vaccine. Noting this, Dr. doctor will want to have anything to do “Suppression of Dr. Wakefield’s find- Wakefield and his colleagues raised the with helping any child that is harmed by ings is not only a violation of scientific possibility that the MMR vaccine might any vaccine in the future.” principle and an abuse of power, but have something to do with this syndrome. also a truly frightening example of They concluded the Lancet paper with Dr. Wakefield helped found the misguided disregard for the health this statement: “Further investigations Thoughtful House Center for Children of children.” —Richard Deth Ph.D, are needed to examine this syndrome in Austin, Texas in 2005 and was its Ex- Neuropharmacologist and signa- [autistic enterocolitis] and its possible re- ecutive Director until recently when he tory to Dr. McCandless petition to the lation to this [MMR] vaccine.” stepped down from this position in the Wakefield Inquisitors at the British wake of the GMC trial. General Medical Council (GMC). A UK journalist, Brian Deer, “in- vestigated” Dr. Wakefield and wrote an Shortly after the verdict the editor of This issue of the VRAN newsletter expose about him in 2004 that was pub- the Lancet, Richard Horton, announced is dedicated to Dr. Andrew Wakefield, lished in the Sunday Times. Acting on that the journal was retracting Wakefield persecuted and prosecuted by the vac- the allegations this journalist made, the et al.’s 1998 paper. If you have access to cine establishment for raising a cautious GMC charged Dr. Wakefield with unethi- the electronic archive of past issues of alarm that a number of children regressed cal conduct, various conflicts of interest, the Lancet, you will see the word “RE- into autism and developed inflammatory and “callous disregard” for children. TRACTED” stamped across each page bowel disease soon after receiving the Last month, the GMC Fitness to Practice MMR shot. Panel, after a 2½-year trial, found him Censorship and Show Trials continued on page 4 Editorial continued on page 3 VRAN NEWSLETTER VRANews It is especially fitting that Adena and Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. Chantal are the first generation of unvac- P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 cinated children to make a donation to Coordinator and newsletter editor: Edda West Thank you to the Encontre Family [email protected] 250-355-2525 the vaccine informed consent movement. They have been educated by their mother VRAN Board of Directors: By Mary James Mary James—President to be independent thinkers, to ask many Rita Hoffman—Vice-President On behalf of the VRAN Board of questions and to search for the truth. Edda West —Secretary/Treasurer Directors, I offer sincere thanks to One can only imagine the accomplish- Dr. Jason Whittaker—Director VRAN Speakers Bureau Adena and Chantal Encontre and ments that these young women will make Leona Rew—Board Member their parents Lise and Denis for their in their lifetime! Gloria Dignazio—Board Member Susan Fletcher—VRAN Researcher generous donation. Thanks to Catherine Orfald for the newsletter layout. Thank you Adena, Chantal, Lise and Statement of Purpose: A few months ago Adena age fif- Denis. • VRAN was formed in October of 1992 in re- teen and Chantal age thirteen, donated sponse to growing parental concern regarding a portion of their allowance toVRAN. the safety of current vaccination programs in Included with their cheque was a lovely Honouring the life and death of Lynda use in Canada. note. “Thank you for the gift of sharing • VRAN continues the work of the Committee Boychuk Against Compulsory Vaccination, who in 1982, and caring about the welfare of children challenged Ontario’s compulsory “Immunization and families who still need you. This A year ago, in the Spring 2009 let- of School Pupils Act”, which resulted in amend- donation has been made by Adena and ters section of the Newsletter, we offered ment of the Act, and guarantees an exemption Chantal and matched by our parents Lise Lynda Boychuk’s story in which she of conscience from any ‘required’ vaccine. and Denis Encontre.” outlined her struggle with ALS, a rap- • VRAN forwards the belief that all people have the idly progressive and fatal neuromuscular right to draw on a broad information base when Adena and Chantal were babies when disease. As a nurse working at a long deciding on drugs offered themselves and/or their children and in particular drugs associated with their mother, Lise became involved with term care facility, Lynda was required potentially serious health risks, injury and death. The Association for Vaccine Damaged to get the flu shot, something she had VACCINES ARE SUCH DRUGS. Children, (AVDC), and subsequently previously declined, but the pressure • VRAN is committed to gathering and distributing infor- with VRAN. mounted and she finally submitted to her mation and resources that contribute to the creation of employer’s demand. Within a few weeks, health and well being in our families and communities. While pregnant with Chantal, Lise frightening symptoms set in which at first VRAN’s Mandate is: thoroughly researched the controver- were thought to be MS (multiple sclero- • To empower parents to make an informed deci- sion when considering vaccines for their children. sial childhood vaccination issue. After sis). Eventually ALS (also known as Lou • To educate and inform parents about the risks, adverse much serious thought and consideration, Gehrig’s disease) was diagnosed. reactions, and contraindications of vaccinations. Lise and Denis decided that they did not • To respect parental choice in deciding whether want to put their daughters’ health at risk or not to vaccinate their child. from a possible serious adverse reaction Lynda will always be a hero in • To provide support to parents whose children to the vaccines. They worried about the my eyes—a wonderful brave have suffered adverse reactions and health in- chronic illnesses that are often reported spirit, struck down in the prime juries as a result of childhood vaccinations. • To promote a multi-disciplinary approach to following immunization. of life by this insidious thief child and family health utilizing the following (flu vaccine) that has stolen modalities: herbalist, chiropractor, naturopath, While caring for two toddlers, Lise the health and life of countless homeopath, reflexologist, allopath (regular doc- mastered the art of soap making. Lise’s people. tor), etc. creative touch ensured that her hand • To empower women to reclaim their position as crafted soap sold well. She decorated Lynda wrote “In my heart of hearts I primary healers in the family. her soap with dried rose buds, some were am convinced it was the flu vaccine that • To maintain links with consumer groups similar to ours around the world through an exchange of information, studded with cloves, others were swirls started me on this journey. Recently I research and analysis, thereby enabling parents to of different colours. Her soap truly was have been made aware of two women— reclaim health care choices for their families. a work of art, and the proceeds were do- one with ALS and one with MS—who • To support people in their fight for health free- nated to AVDC and VRAN. strongly maintain that within about ten dom and to maintain and further the individual's days following a flu vaccine, their symp- freedom from enforced medication. It is especially fitting that Adena toms started.” VRAN publishes a newsletter 2 to 3 times a year as and Chantal are the first a means of distributing information to members and the community. Suggested annual membership fees, generation of unvaccinated Lynda’s husband Daniel contacted including quarterly newsletter and your on-going children to make a donation to us recently to say she had passed away support to the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network: the vaccine informed consent on February 16, 2010. He writes, “The $35.00—Individual $75.00—Professional movement. memorial was beautiful, and we will We would like to share the personal stories of our always remember the beauty of her membership. If you would like to submit your story, The money Lise so generously donat- person and her spirit. We are still con- please contact Edda West by phone or e-mail,as ed to the AVDC helped pay for many of vinced that the flu shot contributed in indicated above. our ongoing expenses and also assisted a major way to her contracting ALS. VRAN website: www.vran.org √ in paying for the cost of incorporating VRAN as a not-for-profit society. VRANews continued on page 3 VRANews cont. from page 2 Lina Moreco’s powerful new documenta- Editorial cont. from page 1 If there is anything we can do to help ry, Shots in the Dark. The documentary When The Lancet published his 1998 you please let me know.” is in DVD format. case study of 12 autistic children suffer- ing from a severe new bowel syndrome, When I (Edda) contacted her last Please remember the fundraising it elicited a firestorm of fury and hatred year, I was amazed that despite her ex- bonus goes to anyone who donates that led to a protracted trial in which a treme disability, she continued to fight $150 or more over and above their an- kangaroo court found Wakefield and two for justice, writing letters to politi- nual membership donation. research colleagues at the Royal Free cians—letting them know of the risks Hospital guilty of misconduct and unethi- associated with the flu vaccine. I spoke Please also remember that annu- cal treatment of the children. Following to Linda through a friend who was car- al membership donations are due the GMC (General Medical Council) find- ing for her that day. What shone through in January at the beginning of each ing in February 2010, the Lancet retracted so beautifully was her strength of spirit calendar year. the study, expunging the case study from and her clarity despite the gravity of the official scientific literature. her condition. I am so glad I had the Please send your donation to: opportunity to converse with her brief- VRAN Fundraising, P.O. Box 169, Just over a decade ago, Andrew Wake- ly. Lynda will always be a hero in my Winlaw, BC, V0G 2J0 field was a rising star in the world of eyes—a wonderful brave spirit, struck experimental medicine. As the recipient down in the prime of life by this insidi- Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts is a of numerous awards and scholarships for ous thief (flu vaccine) that has stolen the small book that tells a big story—the sto- original research in the pathogenesis and health and life of countless people. ry of Edward Jenner, the revered father of etiology of inflammatory bowel disease, vaccinology. Jenny Craig, herself a PhD he had a bright future ahead of him. That Perhaps there will be a way in which in nursing, minces no words in recount- is until he agreed to work with children Linda’s devastating journey will alert ing the story of this charlatan who, by suffering from both severe inflammatory more people to the risks of flu vaccines, deceit managed to wrangle himself into bowel disease and autism, reported by and inspire them to embrace the many the medical societies of the late 1700’s. the parents to have started soon after they non-invasive ways to protect their health. Jenner convinced them that by apply- were injected with MMR vaccine. ing pus from cowpox pustules into small cuts made with a lancet on a healthy By suggesting that the triple vi- VRAN Fundraising—An Ongoing person, that it would prevent smallpox. rus MMR vaccine may be linked to Effort The story of the origin of vaccination is a severe bowel syndromes in some fascinating one—a story that reveals the autistic children, Wakefield -un We thank you,���������������������� our members for con- foundation of deceit on which the vac- knowingly hit the touchiest nerve in tinuing to support our efforts to bring cine paradigm is constructed. monopoly medicine, triggering the vicious you the controversial other side of this assault on his character and his research. vaccine issue—the side that is rarely Shots in the Dark is the best docu- Similar to a fingerprint proving culpabili- given fair exposure in the popular me- mentary produced in many years. The ty, testing also showed that measles virus dia. VRAN receives no government or film was created by Lina Moreco and particles found in the gut tissue of affect- corporate support which is why we can funded and released by the National Film ed children was genetically identical to speak the truth! We thank you for keep- Board. The film’s sensitive interviews vaccine virus. Taken as an unforgivable ing VRAN alive over the years and for with affected families is enriched by the act of heresy and seen as a direct attack your commitment to helping us continue critical insights of dedicated doctors and on sacrosanct vaccine policies, Wake- this work by putting VRAN at the top of scientists whose cutting edge research re- field and his line of research had tobe your “to give” list. veals the biomedical mechanisms which suppressed at all costs. Never mind the trigger the neurological injuries vaccines toll out of control vaccine policies are As fundraising bonuses, we continue are capable of causing. wreaking on the health of young children to offer Catherine Diodati’s timeless in whom autism rates are now estimated classic, “Immunization: History, Eth- The film is an international inquiry to be 1 in 67. (1) ics, Law and Health, along with Neil into the tragedy shared by families Miller’s “Vaccine Safety Manual”. whose once healthy children fell into the Retaliation from the establishment was abyss of autism spectrum disorders and ruthless and swift. Despite the study’s con- Please remember the other neuroimmune illnesses following clusion that no causation had been found, it fundraising bonus goes to vaccination. √ was nevertheless seen as pointing an accu- anyone who donates $150 or satory finger at MMR vaccine safety, and more over and above their by extension a direct threat to the security annual membership donation. of the almighty vaccine industry and its most protected class of drugs. The study would be shredded and trashed by the mass Two additional bonuses we offer this media which obediently regurgitates the year are: Jennifer Craig’s new book, lies fed to it by the medical industry. Un- “Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts” and Editorial continued on page 7 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 3 Censorship and Show Trials cont. from page 1 tologists has explosive implications. ficials could be severe.” The authors of of the paper, which makes it hard to read. this second primate vaccine study will For a clean copy of this study see Note # The editor of Neurotoxicology accept- have a hard time getting it published. 1 . Elsevier owns the Lancet. ed the paper and published it online on October 2, 2009, “epub ahead of print,” In “On Evidence, Medical and Le- None of Dr. Wakefield’s subsequent as most medical journals now do with gal,” Clifford Miller, an attorney in the 32 published, peer-reviewed papers important studies before they appear UK (no relation) and I show that there is have been retracted, which include his in a printed issue of the journal months good evidence, from a legal standpoint at finding vaccine-strain measles virus in later. But soon after Andrew Wakefield least, that the MMR vaccine causes au- the gut of autistic children, a finding that was found guilty in the GMC show trial tism in susceptible children (J Am Phys has been corroborated by other investi- Elsevier, the owner of Neurotoxicology, Surg 2005;10(2):70–75,—see Note #1.) gators. Until now. instructed its editor, Joan Cranmer, to de- Courts resolve disputes in civil mat- ters with a standard of proof that is “more likely than not,” or in some cases in the U.S., “clear and convincing.” In criminal cases, the level of evidence required to render a guilty verdict has to be “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Evidence-based medicine seeks to attain a scientific level of proof and considers randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and systematic reviews (“meta- analyses”) of multiple RCTs to be the highest level of evidence in medicine. A scientific level of proof requires evidence that is “irrefutable.” Randomized con- trolled trials and meta-analyses of those trials, however, are subject to sufficient bias that their level of evidence rarely Dr. Wakefield supporters in London at the GMC Hearing is irrefutable, and sometimes does not even reach the level of “more likely than Perhaps the principal reason the lete the online edition of the paper and not not” (JAMA 1999;28:1054–1060; BMJ medical-government-pharmaceutical es- publish it. Reluctantly, (see Note# 1), she 2005;330(7497):753). tablishment has worked so hard to trash did what she was told and sent the paper Dr. Wakefield is this: Along with re- down the Orwellian memory hole, with- The only kind of medical evidence that searchers at the University of Pittsburg, out any explanation given from Elsevier approaches a scientific level of irrefut- University of Kentucky, and the Uni- or the journal’s editors. Fortunately, 2010 ability is a single, well-documented case versity of Washington, Dr. Wakefield is has not (yet, anyway) become Orwell’s report of a challenge/de-challenge/re- a coauthor of a signal semi-randomized, 1984, and you can access the complete challenge response to a drug or vaccine. double-blind, placebo-controlled study study online (see Note # 1). The pharmaceutical literature recognizes on the effect of Hepatitis B vaccine on that such a response is strong evidence of newborn monkeys. This same team of researchers recent- causation and label it an “adverse drug ly completed another primate study that reaction.” Hepatitis B vaccine was given to 13 followed 14 monkeys through the U.S. male macaque infants; 7 more served as childhood vaccine schedule over a multi- In heart surgery we give heparin to thin controls (receiving a saline placebo or no year period. The difference in outcome the blood to reroute the patient’s circula- injection). The vaccinated ones exhibited for the vaccinated monkeys versus the tion through a heart-lung machine (and a significant delay in the acquisition of unvaccinated controls is said to be “both not have it clot) so oxygenated blood can three important survival reflexes – the stark and devastating.” In the statement keep flowing through the body when we root reflex, where the animal turns its that Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey stop the heart to repair it. In some people head in response to a brush on the cheek; made after Dr. Wakefield’s show trial, this drug will destroy platelets (special- snout, opening his mouth in response to “Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censor- ized cells that assist in blood clotting). a brush on the forehead; and the suck re- ship, and Fourteen Monkeys,” they say: When heparin is given to such a person flex, sucking on a nipple placed in the “There is no question that the publication (“challenge”) she will drop her platelet mouth. This study shows that one mercu- of the [new fourteen] monkey study will count from a normal level of 240,000 to ry-containing birth dose of the Hepatitis lend substantial credibility to the theory a dangerously low 40,000. Over a sev- B vaccine can cause significant harm. that over-vaccination of young children is eral week period without any heparin This carefully done study carried out by leading to neurological damage, includ- (“de-challenge”) the count will recover highly respected, NIH-approved prima- ing autism. The fallout from the study for vaccine makers and public health of- Censorship and Show Trials continued on page 5 Page 4 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Censorship and Show Trials cont. from page 4 cluded Joan Shenton, from London, UK, widespread throughout the biomedical and go back up to 200,000. When given speaking on “Censorship in the AIDS and climate sciences. (See “The Govern- another dose of heparin (“re-challenge”), Debate—the Success of Stifling, Muz- ment Grant System: Inhibitor of Truth and the platelet count promptly drops back zling and a Strategy of Silence”; David Innovation?” in the Spring 2007 Journal down to 30,000. This single case of Rasnick on “HIV Drugs Causing AIDS”; of Information Ethics, see Note #1.) challenge/de-challenge/re-challenge evi- Marco Ruggiero, from Florence, Italy, on dence proves beyond a reasonable doubt, “Religion, Politics, and AIDS in Italy”; As with Dr. Wakefield and his col- if not irrefutably, that heparin can cause a and Christian Fiala, from Vienna, Austria, leagues’ primate (Hep B) vaccine study, low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) in on “AIDS in Africa—a Call for Sense not another journal, Medical Hypotheses, did susceptible individuals. The medical ac- Hysteria.” (For the full list of speakers at the same thing with a paper that Peter ronym for it is “HIT”—heparin-induced this conference see reference #1.) Henry Duesberg, et al. wrote on African AIDS. thrombocytopenia. Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry The journal accepted the paper and put and Science Studies and former Dean of it online prior to print publication. Else- The same thing happens with the MMR the College of Arts and Sciences at Vir- vier also owns Medical Hypotheses. It vaccine and autism/autistic enterocoli- ginia Tech, spoke on “[The] HIV/AIDS made this journal, over its editor’s pro- tis. At age 14–16 months, following the Blunder is Far from Unique in the An- tests, permanently withdraw the study CDC immunization schedule, a health nals of Science and Medicine.” Dr. Bauer and send this one also down the memory practitioner challenges a normally devel- has written what is perhaps the best book hole, along with another AIDS paper that oping child with the MMR vaccine/drug, on this subject, titled The Origin, Persis- the journal had accepted and was await- and he quickly regresses into a state of tence, and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory ing print by Ruggiero, et al. titled “AIDS autism with bowel dysfunction. Over the (2007). In a clear, well-written fashion he Denialism at the Ministry of Health [in next several years, with applied behav- thoroughly and convincingly refutes the Italy].” Bruce Charlton is the editor of ioral analysis and biomedical treatment, HIV/AIDS theory. Medical Hypotheses. during a period of de-challenge, the boy recovers neurologically and regains nor- Peter Duesberg (b. 1936), the leading mal bowel function. Then, between the HIV skeptic, presented a paper at this The practice of placing studies age of 4 and 6, as per the CDC’s sched- meeting titled “HIV-AIDS Hypothesis online ahead of print now adds ule, he is re-challenged with a booster out of Touch with South African AIDS a second level of censorship... If shot of MMR vaccine/drug and regress- —a New Perspective.” As a Professor certain factions in the medical- es, once again, into a state of autism with of Molecular and Cell Biology at the government-pharmaceutical bowel dysfunction. University of California, Berkeley, Dr. establishment don’t like what Duesberg rose to fame in 1970 when he they see, they can put pressure No randomized, placebo-controlled (and co-worker Peter Vogt) biochemi- on the owners of the journal in trials have ever been done to prove that cally defined the first retroviral oncogene question and have them make vaccines, given singly or together, are (a gene associated with cancer) in birds. its editor delete the offending safe. Epidemiologic studies, funded The NIH (National Institutes of Health) study and not publish it. mainly by vaccine makers, show that awarded him a long-term Outstanding vaccines are safe. But epidemiologic Investigator Grant. He was a candidate evidence, with its statistical founda- for the Nobel Prize and was invited to The practice of placing studies online tion, are open to manipulation and bias. join the prestigious U.S. National Acad- ahead of print now adds a second level Such evidence touting the safety of vac- emy of Science in 1985 at the young age, of censorship. The first is peer review. cines is like that obtained by tobacco for its members, of 49. But in 1988 Dr. The peer-review process works primar- companies in the epidemiologic studies Duesberg published a paper in Science ily to enforce orthodoxy. Experts who they conducted in the 1940s and 1950s titled “HIV is Not the Cause of AIDS.” review and referee papers submitted to that showed cigarettes do not cause lung Since then he has been subjected to the medical and scientific journals will look cancer. The evidence provided by even punishment accorded modern-day her- disapprovingly on ones that question a single MMR challenge/de-challenge/ etics. Among other things, the NIH and state-sanctioned paradigms or promote re-challenge (CDR) case report over- other funding agencies stopped awarding new ideas of a contrarian nature. Con- shadows that provided by epidemiologic him grants. Since 1988, all of his grant troversial studies that make it over this studies—and RCTs on vaccine safety, applications have been rejected—24 of hurdle and are accepted for publication if there were any. CDR case reports of them. (For more on Peter Duesberg see are now put online for all to see before MMR vaccine causing the adverse drug Note # 1.) they appear in print. If certain factions (vaccine) reaction of autism and autistic in the medical-government-pharmaceu- enterocolitis can be found at Note # 1. This is one form of censorship in- tical establishment don’t like what they vestigators with new ideas confront. In see, they can put pressure on the own- (For more on vaccines see “Vaccines: addition to vaccines and AIDS, scientists ers of the journal in question and have Get the Full Story: Protect your child and who question state-sanctioned paradigms them make its editor delete the offending yourself,” see Note #1.) such as cholesterol and saturated fats study and not publish it. Before there was cause coronary artery disease, mutations “epub before print,” groundbreaking pa- An international conference ques- in genes cause cancer, and human activity pers that made it past peer review would tioning HIV/AIDS dogma was held in causes global warming are denied grants Oakland, CA last November. Speakers in- and silenced. This form of censorship is Censorship and Show Trials continued on page 6 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 5 Censorship and Show Trials cont. from page 5 change your life forever. You could lose no longer simply being ridiculed. This get into print before the establishment friends, your relationships, your health in- truth has moved on to the next stage. It would know about them, as happened surance, your job, the custody of your kids. is being violently opposed, with charac- with Wakefield et al.’s Lancet paper Even your sanity. We want you to know a ter assassination, censorship, and show in1998. Not now. few facts before you agree to take what’s trials. Withstanding such attacks, these called an HIV test. Facts that doctors and truths then will pass into the third and fi- The Duesberg et al. African AIDS medical staff probably won’t tell you. A nal stage. They will become accepted as study is important because it discredits positive result does not mean you are in- self-evident. a widely quoted one published by Har- fected with a deadly virus. It can be caused vard researchers Chigwedere, et al. in the by non-health-threatening factors, although Peter Duesberg and Andrew Wake- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency it also may be a warning that your immune field are two tenacious, brave men. They Syndromes (2008;49:410–5). In line with system is damaged. If you are sick you may struggle against the medical-govern- the politically correct view of African not need medications to get well, especially ment-pharmaceutical complex’s efforts AIDS, these researchers estimate that not dangerous AIDS medications. to disenfranchise them, and they have 300,000 South African deaths occurred to endure a withering barrage of ad ho- from AIDS each year from 2000–2005; The Hepatitis B vaccine (Lancet minem attacks. But they do not flinch in and they believe that taking anti-HIV 2002;339:1060) and Flu shots (Am J their efforts to see truth reign, Duesberg drugs could have prevented these deaths. Epid 1995;141:1089–96) are two of 70 with AIDS and Wakefield with vaccines. These Harvard professors blame those things that can cause false positive HIV who question the hypothesis that HIV test results. One hopes that in the not too dis- causes AIDS, particularly South African tant future both of these truths will pass President Thabo Mbeki and Peter Dues- C. Walton Lillihei, a pioneer in heart through Schopenhauer’s third stage and berg for those deaths because they did surgery, put it this way: “For centuries become accepted as self-evident. Once not support giving Africans anti-retrovi- there has been a fascinating yet perplexing fully accepted the pandemic of autism ral drugs to prevent them. paradox between the search for truth and spectrum disorders and the chronic dis- new information on the one hand, and on eases that now afflict so many children In their study, Duesberg and his coau- the other, the often vigorous, sometimes —asthma, allergies, arthritis, enterocoli- thors show that vital statistics in South ruthless opposition to the acceptance of tis, and diabetes—will abate; and AIDS Africa report only 12,000 HIV-positive that new information.” He adds, “Accep- by prescription, AIDS caused by taking deaths occurring each year during that tance of new ideas, new concepts, new anti-retroviral drugs that doctors pre- period—a figure 25-times lower than theories, has virtually always been sur- scribe to HIV-positive people—DNA that estimated by Chigwedere, et al. The rounded by opposition and controversy.” chain terminators, like AZT, and prote- population in South Africa increased by ase inhibitors—will cease. The day will 3 million during 2000–2005, from 44.5 come when the CDC withdraws its child- to 47.4 million, even though 25–30% of The same thing is happening hood immunization schedule and stops population is HIV positive. Likewise, be- with vaccines and AIDS, as has recommending that vaccines be given fore the “African HIV/AIDS epidemic” happened throughout history, to children under two years of age. HIV began in 1984 (according to HIV/AIDS notably when Galileo said the tests will no longer be done and anti-ret- researchers), the total Sub-Saharan popu- earth rotates around the sun, in roviral drugs will be outlawed. lation doubled from 400 million in 1980 the 17th century, and Ignaz to 800 million in 2007. Despite the jour- Semmelwiess, in the 19th This will be real health care reform. nal having erased it, you can still access century, showed that doctors this paper online, see Note #1. could reduce the mortality from Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon maternal childbirth (puerperal) and Professor of Surgery at the Uni- (The real cause of AIDS is four- sepsis from 20% to less than 2% versity of Washington in Seattle. He fold: heavy-duty recreational drug use, simply by washing their hands. is a member of Doctors for Disaster anti-retroviral drugs, receptive anal inter- Preparedness and writes articles on a course, and malnutrition. See Note # 1. variety of subjects for LewRockwell. Outside of Africa, where the main cause The same thing is happening with com. of AIDS is malnutrition, 98% of all AIDS vaccines and AIDS, as has happened cases still occur in just two groups: gay throughout history, notably when Galileo Note #1. References in this article to males, accounting for about two-thirds of said the earth rotates around the sun, in the other articles & sources can be accessed the cases, and IV drug users, male and 17th century, and Ignaz Semmelwiess, in through the online version of this ar- female, one-third.) the 19th century, showed that doctors could ticle at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/ reduce the mortality from maternal child- miller/miller32.1.html √ Anyone thinking about getting an birth (puerperal) sepsis from 20% to less HIV test should first read the brochure than 2% simply by washing their hands. “The AIDS Trap” with illustrations by R. Crumb. Rethinkingaids.com published it, Regarding Arthur Schopenhauer’s see Note #1. Its opening statement reads: three stages that new truths pass through, the truth HIV does not cause AIDS is ridi- A positive result on an HIV test will culed. The truth vaccines cause autism is Page 6 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Editorial cont. from page 3 Throughout history, new discoveries with soap and water and rinse them in der no circumstances would the controllers in science and medicine have been sub- chlorinated lime solution before en- of vaccinology allow this upstart young jected to ferocious attack prior to being tering the wards. With each student, gastroenterologist to rock the lucrative vac- accepted as self-evident truth. When an the death rate dropped to less than cine boat. Nor were they going to tolerate entrenched belief system is challenged by 1.5 percent, only to return to the previous the suggestion that the viral components new discoveries that threaten to dislodge high levels when the [hand-washing] pro- in MMR be separated into three vaccines, it, the new discovery and its author(s), cedures were curtailed. He dared collect thereby giving parents an alternative to in- often face the threat of obliteration by data which indicated the life-saving merit jecting their children with a triple live virus powerful opponents. It is almost axi- of having physicians wash hands when vaccine. There would be zero tolerance for omatic to state that the more vicious the proceeding from one obstetrical patient to a possible proving that MMR is indeed a attack by the medical industry, the closer another. He also dared publish his findings, causative factor in children’s descent into we are to the truth. along with admonitions that physicians ac- autism. The children be damned—onward quire the hand-washing habit.” (4) with the vaccine program! C. Walton Lillihei, a pioneer in heart surgery, put it this way: “For centuries “Semmelweis’s work should have The public hanging of Andrew Wake- there has been a fascinating yet perplex- proved a boon to medicine, motherhood field’s is intended as a warning to other ing paradox between the search for truth and life. Not so: his colleagues greeted scientists researching a link between vac- and new information on the one hand, his paper with jeers and scathing attacks cines and the epidemic of autism, and on the other, the often vigorous, on his character. They simply refused to neurological, behavioural and autoim- sometimes ruthless opposition to the ac- believe that their own hands were the ve- mune disorders now rampant in our ceptance of that new information.” He hicle for disease. Instead, they attributed highly vaccinated society. The medical adds, “Acceptance of new ideas, new it to a spontaneous phenomenon arising industry is willing to do almost anything concepts, new theories, has virtually al- from the ‘combustible’ nature of the par- to maintain the assumption of a priori ways been surrounded by opposition and turient woman. Semmelweiss’ academic benefit of this protected class of drugs. controversy.” rank was lowered, his hospital privileges restricted. Despondent, he was commit- British journalist Lynne McTaggart Only 150 years ago, the simple life ted to an insane asylum, where he died of observes that “Vaccination is now per- saving discovery of Ignaz Semmelweis blood poisoning, a disease not unlike the formed for its own sake—whether or not [1818–1865] was met with vicious deri- puerperal fever he had almost conquered.” it is necessary, beneficial or even safe. To sion and vilification. His is perhaps one attack anything about any jab has come of the most tragic stories of medical ig- “Ultimately, Semmelweis’s findings to be viewed as treason.” (2) norance and arrogance resulting in the were in “Conflict with established medi- deaths of untold numbers of birthing cal opinions” and stand as precedent for To Andrew Wakefield’s credit, he has women. Dr. Semmelweis found that if how Andrew J. Wakefield, M.D., has persevered, moved forward with his line of doctors washed their hands before at- been the primary focus of the Inquisition research and published numerous studies tending a birthing woman, deaths were by the General Medical Council in the in various scientific journals. He remains dramatically reduced. Prior to the ac- United Kingdom.” dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the ceptance of the germ theory of disease, sick children parents bring to him. Semmelweis succeeded in controlling The findings and fate of Ignaz- Sem the spread of puerperal (childbed) fever, melweiss is a classic example of the The ruthlessness of monopoly medi- caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. dynamics set in motion when entrenched cine and its determination to obliterate medical paradigms are challenged: at a any science contrary to its entrenched He reasoned that dirty hands were the minimum new data are ignored, while belief system soon struck again. Almost cause of puerperal fever. It was routine those which hit a nerve and threaten to simultaneous to the recent retraction of for medical students to go straight from expose a flawed paradigm, are ruthlessly the Lancet paper, another pivotal study dissecting dead bodies in the autopsy attacked & discredited. led by Dr. Wakefield was erased from chambers to attending labouring moth- the medical literature. Namely his recent ers. They never washed their hands, but The history of medicine and science primate study which demonstrates a link wiped them instead on aprons already is strewn with martyrs who, along with between mercury containing hepatitis coated with body fluids from the cadav- their brilliant discoveries, have suffered B vaccine given to newborn monkeys ers, and would then insert their filthy suppression, unspeakable persecution, and their subsequent developmental de- hands into the birth canals of the moth- imprisonment and even death because lay. [See Mark Blaxill’s article, “Joan ers, resulting in a mortality of one in they dared shed light on a new and better Cranmer’s Fateful Decisions and the 10 women. By contrast when midwives way of doing things. Andrew Wakefield Suppression of Autism Science” in this attended births, (they did not handle follows in their footsteps, struggling for issue of the newsletter.] (3) corpses), the mortality rate was reduced survival in a scientific milieu poisoned by to three percent. the deceit, cronyism and greed of the cor- This study has also now been quashed poratized multinational medical industry and prevented from reaching print pub- Researcher Teresa Binstock writes, which itself now poses a significant threat lication. Fortunately, the online version “Semmelweiss ran several experiments to the health and well being of society. can still be accessed through various ar- requiring students to wash their hands chives within the autism community. Editorial continued on page 8 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 7 Editorial cont. from page 7 porations and governments that have a ence over the randomness of Nature.” Binstock observes that,“The medical vested interest in keeping the status quo.” Unfortunately the corporate scientific estab- industrial establishment is re-enacting lishment is unwilling to honestly examine the Ignaz Semmelweiss scenario when Research that indicates that an accept- what it’s ‘triumph’ has really achieved. new data are ignored on behalf of an ed theory is incomplete, severely flawed, ‘old guard’ and its outmoded paradigm; or completely mistaken, will be rejected Parents in the vaccine truth movement autistic children and their parents—and on the grounds that it “contradicts the and autism communities have witnessed indeed science itself—deserve far more. laws of nature”, and therefore has to be the regression of thousands of their pre- A paradigm-shift in the study of autism the result of sloppiness or fraud. At the viously healthy children into the abyss will inevitably occur as more children are heart of this argument is the incorrect of autism following vaccinations - in disabled by autism spectrum disorders.” notion that theory overrides evidence. particular following the MMR vaccine. Despite the obstacles which prevent new Rochus Boerner’s fascinating 2003 ar- In true science, theory always sur- findings from reaching full view of the ticle, “The Suppression of Inconvenient renders to the primacy of evidence. If scientific community, the work continues Facts in Physics”, examines the suppres- observations are made that, after careful to be done. Parents know what happened sion of new ideas in science. Whereas verification and theoretical analysis, are to their children and credible studies the ideal in science is a ‘noble search for found to be inconsistent with a theory, are now pointing toward a vaccine link, truth’, and where progress depends on than that theory has to go—no matter where denial has ruled for too long. questioning established ideas, many sci- how aesthetically pleasing it is, or how entists know that this is a cruel myth. prestigious its supporters are, or how Recently, Andrew Wakefield -ex many billions of dollars a certain indus- pressed optimism that by working with “They know from bitter experience try has bet on it.” the support of a larger set of autism or- that disagreeing with the dominant view ganizations he would be able to focus is dangerous—especially when that view The theory that vaccines are always attention back on the exploding popu- is backed by powerful interest groups. beneficial and benign has been chal- lation of affected children and their Call it suppression of intellectual dissent. lenged since the introduction of smallpox families, “which is where it belongs”, The usual pattern is that someone does vaccine in the 18th century when people he emphasized. “I have always followed research or speaks out in a way that threat- were imprisoned for refusing vaccina- the principle that good medicine, and ul- ens a powerful interest group, typically tion. They did so from bitter personal timately good science, begins and ends a government, industry or professional experience, seeing their children, loved with the patient. We need to remember body. As a result, representatives of that ones and neighbours succumb to the that the purpose of medical science is group attack the critic’s ideas or the critic ravages of this crudely inflicted blood not to serve the medical industry but personally-by censoring writing, block- poisoning. It took the death toll of count- rather the interests of the patients the ing publications, denying appointments less people, the fuelling and escalation industry serves.” or promotions, withdrawing research of smallpox epidemics, the transmis- grants, taking legal actions, harassing, sion of vaccine induced diseases such as Notes & References: (5) blacklisting, spreading rumors.” tuberculosis and syphilis before the gov- 1. Raymond W. Gallup & F. Edward Yazbak, ernment finally took a closer look at the MD, FAAP—When 1 in 150 is really 1 in 67: Wakefield’s crime was to get too disaster it had created. (6) http://www.whale.to/v/yazbak44.html close to the biomedical truth that links 2. Lynne McTaggart—What Doctors Don’t MMR vaccine to severe damage in some After seven years of British Royal Tell You : http://community.wddty.com/blogs/ children. Shielded and indemnified by Commission hearings, the hated compul- lynnemctaggart/archive/2010/03/29/Monkeying- governments, vaccines are a class of sory vaccination law was finally repealed with-the-truth---.asp specially protected drugs placed above at the turn of the 20th century, and with it 3. Mark Blaxill—Joan Cranmer’s Fateful Deci- sions and the Suppression of Autism Science: ordinary scrutiny and immune from as- smallpox epidemics finally subsided. http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/joan- sociation with injuries. What needs to be cranmers-fateful-decisions-and-the-suppression- put on display is not an honest scientist Today’s challenge to the vaccine the- of-autism-science.html like Wakefield, but the level of deceit that ory is graphically and tragically manifest 4. Teresa Binstock - Andrew Wakefield & is now routine in the medical industry— in the autism epidemic, the autoimmune Ignaz Semmelweis: MMR concerns for the all in the name of the public interest. disease epidemic, and the widespread UK’s GMC: http://www.generationrescue.org/ collapse of children’s overall health. binstock/100204-uk-gmc-semmelweis-wakefield. Boerner observes that, “Science is in a The grand vaccine experiment has failed htm state of crisis. Where free inquiry, natu- abysmally. The question remaining is 5.© Rochus Boerner 2003 The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics http://www. ral curiosity and open-minded discussion how bad do things have to get before world-mysteries.com/sci_supr.htm and consideration of new ideas should there comes a reckoning? 6. Jenny Craig, Ph.D—Jabs, Jenner & Jugger- reign, a new orthodoxy has emerged. nauts This ‘new inquisition’, as it has been Lynne McTaggart observes, “The safe- 7. Wikipedia on Semmelweiss: http:// called by Robert Anton Wilson consists ty of the vaccine is now beside the point. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis √ not of cardinals and popes, but of the edi- Wakefield’s error was to challenge medi- tors and reviewers of scientific journals, cine’s most sacred cow: vaccination is now of leading authorities and self-appointed in a sense a standard-bearer for a certain “skeptics”, and last but not least of cor- mindset. It represents the triumph of Sci- Page 8 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter H1N1 pandemic scam cost $billions worldwide European Parliamentary Assembly holds public hearing to investigate “what went wrong” by Ingri Cassel http://www.proliberty.com/observ- Wodarg, Dr. Ulrich Keil, Dr. Keiji Fu- and then exploited the alleged Mexico er/20100234.html kuda and Dr. Luc Hessel. outbreak for their own purposes. Being a dogged activist and optimist, Wodarg Strasburg, Germany—On January claimed the investigation was likely to 26, 2010, the Parliamentary Assembly The WHO’s flu chief, Dr. Keiji Fu- recommend an end to the undue influ- of the Council of Europe (PACE), a 47 kuda, defended his organization, saying ence of pharmaceutical companies on nation body encompassing democrati- its advice was not improperly influenced public health institutions in Europe. cally elected members, began hearings by the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Luc to investigate whether the World Health Hessel, representing the European Vac- Organization’s declared H1N1 swine flu cine Manufacturers group, stressed that Since the WHO is under the authority pandemic was falsified or exaggerated in the motion was inappropriate, claiming of the United Nations, Wodarg pointed an attempt to profit from vaccine sales. their companies respond strictly to the out, “There is no law for WHO, there requests of governments in providing is no one who punishes those people in The public hearing was made possible necessary vaccines to combat a potential WHO, we only have national law, so this by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg who made the threat. Surprisingly, Dr. Ulrich Keil, di- is very important that we collect the in- initial motion on December 18, 2009 to rector of the WHO collaborating center formation and on the national level we recommend an investigation into “Faked for epidemiology and prevention of car- try to find those people responsible and Pandemics—a threat for health” which diovascular and other chronic diseases, we try to punish them.” he authored and was signed by 13 other clearly agreed with Dr. Wodarg’s asser- concerned parties from member nations. tions in his presentation, noting that the “Have investigations, have a deep The motion stated: H1N1 virus is not new but has a long and look, we cannot tolerate such a develop- sordid history with the vaccine industry ment, we cannot have this next winter “In order to promote their pat- and yet the general public was being con- again, we don’t want such fake pandem- ented drugs and vaccines against flu, ditioned by “hysterical announcements ics,” concluded Wodarg. pharmaceutical companies have influ- and reactions of ministries, scientific enced scientists and official agencies, bodies and not least the media, sharply Wodarg said that vast quantities of un- responsible for public health standards, contrasting the epidemiological evidence used vaccines were now being dumped to alarm governments worldwide. They of a mild viral infection compared to on the third world and that other countries have made them squander tight health previous influenza seasons.” Being an (such as the U.S.) were simply trying to care resources for inefficient vaccine expert in non-communicable diseases push ahead with vaccination programs strategies and needlessly exposed mil- (NCD), Keil noted that while 70 percent even though the virus has proven not to lions of healthy people to the risk of of deaths worldwide are attributed to be a major threat. unknown side-effects of insufficiently NCDs, 10 percent of public health mon- tested vaccines. ies are targeted in this direction. What he neglected to mention was the fact that all 194 UN nation states are “The ‘bird-flu’-campaign (2005/06) The hearing ended with a decision for subject to the 2005 revised International combined with the ‘swine-flu’-campaign Paul Flynn of the Socialist Group in the Health Regulations (IHR). All 194 na- seem to have caused a great deal of dam- UK to prepare a report for possible de- tions had until June, 2007, to implement age not only to some vaccinated patients bate by the plenary Assembly in July or IHR which included passage of legisla- and to public health budgets, but also to October 2010. Already there are rumors tion empowering state surveillance and the credibility and accountability of im- of threats from the pharmaceutical cartel monitoring of their citizens under the portant international health agencies. The to quash any meaningful debate on the guise of a potential worldwide pandemic definition of an alarming pandemic must topic. (smallpox, polio, SARS or human cases not be under the influence of drug-sellers. of new strains of influenza). Stockpiling On February 3, 2010, radio show host specific vaccines and anti-viral medica- “The member states of the Council of Alex Jones had Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg tions are part of compliance with IHR. Europe should ask for immediate inves- on his show. Wodarg said there was “no tigations on the consequences at national other explanation” for what happened What is even more horrifying is the as well as European level.” than the fact that the WHO worked in ca- media blackout of continuing adverse hoots with the pharmaceutical industry to reactions to the H1N1 vaccine—deaths, PACE’s Committee on Social, Health manufacture the panic in order to gener- chronic disabilities, and over 200 re- and Family Affairs held the hearing into ate vast profits, claiming the entire farce ported miscarriages in the U.S.—while the handling of the H1N1 pandemic and was a hoax. healthcare workers are still being told it addressed the question, “Are decisions is required for continued employment. √ on pandemics taken on the best scientific He also explained how health authori- evidence only?” There were four papers ties were “already waiting for something presented by the experts: Dr. Wolfgang to happen” before the pandemic started VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 9 Will the FDA Eat Their Words on the Safety of Vaccines? Christina England 3/15/2010 March 12th 2010 saw six very special Reports from USA, Spain, Australia, “In September 2008 I was looking women from around the world, pres- New Zealand and UK, show girls have for music on Youtube and I ended up ent documents and research about the suffered from: watching a video the father of Brooke HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix to Petkevicius made. Brooke died 14 days the FDA by request. Never before have • Chronic Fatigue after her first dose of Gardasil from a the FDA turned to members of the pub- • Digestive Problems pulmonary embolism or blood clot on lic regarding vaccine safety but in an • Dizziness and Nausea March 26th, 2007. I was shocked by her extraordinary move this is exactly what • Encephalitis story. In our family we have a rare blood happened. Dubbed the ‘Little Women’ by • Facial Paralysis clotting disease. I have had a pulmonary the FDA the group presented evidence • Hair Loss embolism twice myself. Few weeks later that will shock the world and could have • Headaches I saw a Dutch documentary about the the FDA eating their words. • Joint and Muscle Pain marketing tactics of Merck that alarmed • Loss of vision me even more. My daughter was in the The six women who had become in- • Menstrual Problems age group to get the HPV vaccine so I creasingly concerned about the HPV • Paralysis started to do my own research.” vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix presented • Rashes/allergies a power point presentation accompanied • Respiratory and Heart Problems She has since studied the VAERS re- with documents showing the dangers • Seizures porting system and now firmly believes of the HPV vaccines to the FDA. Their • Syncope that the reporting system is only the tip hope was to prove to the FDA that these • Miscellaneous of the iceberg because it only has a small two vaccines are so dangerous that they • Death number of the actual side effects from should be removed from the vaccine these vaccines on. She was shocked to schedule as soon as possible. learn that many of the doctors she spoke There is a clear pattern from many to had not heard of the reporting system The women who were involved in countries, of girls suffering from the and said: this unusual move are Karen Maynor; same side effects and yet up to now this mother of the late Megan Hild, New fact has not been picked up, by either the “Adverse reactions do not always start Mexico; Rosemary Mathis: mother of committees who regulate our vaccines, within a minute after inoculation like Lauren, adversely injured; co-founder or the Governments who sanction them. some people think. A lot of physicians of WWW.TRUTHABOUTGARDA- More worryingly the six women found have never heard of VAERS or know SIL.ORG, North Carolina; Freda that there were a huge number of deaths how to file a report. I was surprised when Birrell; political activist,Scotland/UK; recorded on VAERS after HPV vaccines. I heard this the first time. Physicians do Leslie Carol Botha; women’s health VAERS is the Vaccine Adverse Events not agree with parents when they tell educator and broadcast journalist, and Reporting system in the U.S. that they think theirs daughter got sick founder of Holy Hormones Honey , because of the HPV vaccine and do not Colorado; Cynthia Janak: research Strangely however, the system does want to file a report. Mothers who find analyst, journalist writing for Renew not appear to be examined in great detail their way to the Gardasil groups did not America and founder of Only the by the either Big Pharma or the Govern- always succeed in getting a report filed Truth Illinois; and Janny Stokvis: re- ment and many adverse events are not at VAERS. search analyst, Netherlands. even recorded at all, as it has now been discovered that some doctors are com- HPV-vaccine victims can be very ill, but The reports that were presented, detailed pletely unaware of it’s existence. tests can show-up to be normal. Girls who worldwide data, proving that women and have seizures several times a day or who are young girls have suffered severe adverse The six women involved in the pre- paralysed get diagnosed as “Psychogenic”. reactions, including death, after being vac- sentation to the FDA have been able to cinated with the HPV vaccines. show research papers from top scientists Parents are often told the illness of and researchers showing that blindness their daughter is not vaccine related. This Detailed charts were shown to the can occur after the HPV vaccine . Papers has to change, because too many girls are FDA clearly outlining evidence of girls on Menstrual evaluation were also seen not getting the proper treatment yet.” from around the world showing very for the first time as were papers on Vac- similar adverse reactions after having cine and Autoimmune problems. She said up until she looked into these vaccines. Only a few of these ad- the HPV vaccines she had always be- verse reactions have ever been listed by Janny Stokvis one of the women who lieved in the Governments vaccine either manufacturer on their leaflets. It is researched the side effects of these vac- programmes but her confidence has my belief that Merck and Glaxo Smith cines after watching a YouTube clip said now been badly shaken. Kline should study the findings very that she was horrified that so little has carefully indeed. been done to protect women. She said she became involved completely by chance. FDA Eat Their Words? continued on page 11 Page 10 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter FDA Eat Their Words? cont. from page 10 worth of research off the parents and allows varix in subjects with impaired immune Rosemary Mathis whose daughter was them to quickly identify what occurred and responsiveness.” changed after she had Gardasil vaccine what can be done to help the victims.” and one of the six women told me she Leslie said that the FDA does not just became involved with the group because Since her research began Rosemary contact people but that they respond to she wanted answers. She says: says she has met thousands of girls who letters. They contacted Karen and Karen have been adversely affected by the Gar- knowing that she could not do what the “My 12 year old daughter was dis- dasil and the Cervarix vaccines. FDA wanted alone asked the other wom- abled by Gardasil. Her life as she knew en if they were prepared to help her. it completely changed after her third I asked Leslie Botha how the FDA had vaccination. She could no longer attend become aware of the six women and had We were in discussion many times school, go to church, or live a normal asked the group to do the presentation. about how to proceed—and found the life. She was always in pain and we spent people in the Patient Representative Pro- thousands of dollars and many hours go- Leslie said that originally Karen gram Office of Special Health Issues—to ing to doctors who could not help her. Maynor had contacted the FDA after her be open, and supportive as they shared I spent countless hours on the internet daughter had died after she had the Gar- the guidelines for the presentation. The researching how to treat my daughter. I dasil vaccine. Her letter to Dr Margaret FDA has just initiated “listening ses- quickly learned that I was not alone and Hamberg MD contained many reports sions” and our group was one of the first many other parents were doing the same and details of young girls who have ei- to participate in them. It has been an hon- thing. Every night was spent researching ther died like her daughter Megan, or had or and a very positive experience from trying to figure out what do to not only become seriously ill. beginning to end. help my daughter, but many others. The reports contained in her letter do We started out by gathering data, Rose- This led me to Gardasil Mom groups not make comfortable reading. She wrote mary, Freda and Janny did a fabulous job on Yahoo Groups, Twitter, and Facebook. how one child ‘Samantha Hendrix’ who of creating and presenting graphs, and That is where I met Marian Greene, an- had once been described as a ‘walking outlines of VAERs deaths. Freda was in other mother whose girl was affected encyclopaedia’ has been left with no con- contact with women in Spain, New Zea- that lives about 30 minutes from me. centration and failing her exams. land and Australia as she gathered reports Her daughter was disabled also. Both of adverse injuries from the girls in these our daughters were disabled by the exact “Also����������������������������������� as in the case of young Saman- countries. same lot # 0067X. Night after night, we tha, she had a serious history of illnesses were trying to help the mothers figure out prior to vaccination. Have you ever dis- Cynthia and I kept coming from dif- what to do and trying to comment on sto- covered if Merck carried out research ferent angles on what was causing the ries on the internet to warn others. on impaired immune responsiveness to problem with this vaccine—mine was on establish if young girls with a medical menstrual cycle influence and she was We quickly learned that many of the history would be well enough to have focused on histamine and IgE. We spent girls stories are not recorded in VAERS. this vaccine? In the case of Cervarix, hours on the phone searching for studies. Either the parents do not know about GlaxoSmithKline did not carry out this We would then do searches on histamine VAERS and haven’t reported them or research prior to the commencement of and IgE and the menstrual cycle and that the doctors do not. I filed my daughter’s the vaccination programme in the Unit- is when we realized that our differing report in VAERS and then asked my doc- ed Kingdom. This young girl had many angles were beginning to blend into one tor to after continuously expressing that health problems before being vaccinated perfect storm. It was the peer reviewed the vaccine is what made her sick. The but now she is far worse off and what the study that came out on the blind girl and parents were struggling to find a way future holds for her we just do not know HPV that nailed this for us—and we re- to express their stories and to find data. alized that we had discovered the REAL Each night, new victims were appearing “Perhaps, if more care and attention DANGERS with this vaccine. on the boards with no idea of what to do. had been given by the pharmaceutical company in all of this, if they had taken We were shocked and awed that we That is when we decided to created more time to carry out the research into had come across something no on had WWW.TRUTHABOUTGARDASIL. all aspects of safety and just had given it a ever considered that founded both of our ORG. The board represents the TRUTH as few more years, exactly the same advice concerns.” we the parents of the victims of Gardasil that Dr Harper gave to the UK regard- see it. It is a central repository used to house ing Cervarix, then perhaps these young The conclusion slide #52 in the power- the girls stories for view by others, has the ladies would not be so ill and I would not point shows exactly what was discovered latest news, and has a Guardian Angel page be writing to you today asking for your and one has to agree the implications this by location to give the parents contacts in help. With respect to Cervarix, many of has is quite shocking. their area who may be able to help them. It the same “Gardasil” illnesses are occur- has videos, other site links, a forum so you ring in the United Kingdom also so there “During the follicular phase of the can talk to other parents/victims, etc. It has appears to be a common thread that ex- menstrual cycle, the production of es- made it easier for parents to quickly iden- ists between these two HPV vaccines. trogen releases histamine. During the tify side effects, treatments that may have helped victims, etc. It takes about one year “There are no data on the use of Cer- FDA Eat Their Words? continued on page 12 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 11 FDA Eat Their Words? cont. from page 11 help, saying that her daughter Bridget fact that neither vaccine worked if the luteal phase the protective effects of es- had become injured after the Gardasil girls already had an HPV infection. tradiol sharply decline, the production of vaccine. Freda said that she asked me to progesterone increases and the immune find out if Cervarix was having the same Slide 15 states:- system becomes more easily compro- effect on British girls as the Gardasil mised; succumbing to the overdose of vaccine. After research I found that both “Conclusions: Evidence detailed here histamine from three sources: L-Histi- vaccines were having serious adverse re- regarding the poor efficacy of both Gar- dine in the vaccine, increased amounts of actions. dasil and Cervarix on already infected estradiol in the body from natural produc- women has to be investigated further. If tion plus environmental toxins (estrogen Freda feels disillusioned with the this is occurring in established infected mimickers) and the body’s own natural British and Scottish Governments she groups of women, then what will be oc- production of histamine. The rise and de- said: “Both of the Health Ministers are curring in the bodies of adolescent girls cline in hormones; the rise and decline in too ready to come back with the usual who in many cases may already be sexu- immunity and the overproduction of his- information – any incidents which have ally active and be infected at the time tamine—may be a factor as to why the occurred are either coincidental or part of of vaccination? In the United States health of the girls adversely affected by population related illnesses. At no time, and United Kingdom, HPV SCREEN- the HPV vaccines is not improving. to my knowledge or satisfaction, do they ING DOES NOT TAKE PLACE TO investigate any of these illnesses. There DETERMINE IF HPV INFECTION IS Both HPV vaccines contain VLP’s are serious cases of arthralgia after vac- ALREADY PRESENT.” (virus like particles). This can be termed cination with Cervarix and this condition ‘molecular mimicry’ and when an anti- has been researched and it is known that The group had discovered that con- gen in a vaccine is structurally similar to it is and can be vaccine related. Sadly, trary to belief HPV is not only a STD but an antigen in the host antibodies are pro- our Ministers do not wish to recognise can be transmitted through other means. duced that react with the host’s normal that fact. There are many other serious This was discussed on slide 9. There is tissue. Allergy sufferers with moderate illnesses which have occurred, eg a rare growing evidence that HPV infection is to severe asthma have IgE levels greater form of encephalitis, paralysis, blind- acquired through non-sexual routes and than 1,000 U/ml. ness, seizures to name but a few. They are that one potential route is mother-to-child hiding their heads in the sand in the hope transmission in the perinatal period; ref- Normal serum IgE levels in individu- that it will all go away. That will never erenced as vertical transmission. It was als without allergies is less than 70 U/ml. happen where the lives of our young girls also noted that HPVs have been detected An increase in IgE means more free IgE are involved.” in virgins, infants/children, and juvenile is available for binding to the activated Laryngeal papillomatosis was shown to mast cells. More mast cell activation and I asked Freda as she had studied both be caused by these viruses. degranulation may lead to an increased vaccines in detail if she felt that Cervarix release of inflammatory histamine. This was as dangerous as Gardasil. She said:- Another very important point raised reaction also leads to TH2 cytokine and was the fact that over 250 girls who have leukotriene secretion, resulting in sys- “For the most part Cervarix elicits had the vaccine have since had abnormal temic anaphylaxis in the form of allergy. a much higher percentage of adverse PAP Smear tests. This was thought to be events in the initial days after inocula- because this group already had the HPV This proves an increased risk of injury tion over Gardasil. The comparison virus when they had the vaccine. due to an overload of histamine being re- suggests that Cervarix is much less safe leased from the mast cells causing a more than Gardasil. High percentages of fa- We now await the FDA’s verdict on severe inflammatory response through- tigue, headache and myalgia may also the impressive array of documents and out the body. Tissue damage due to this be initially construed as the flu and not factual information that this group of so process can cause hypertrophy of smooth Cervarix related and therefore would not called ‘little women’ put before them. muscles. Smooth muscles are evident in be reported as an adverse event related to Will the FDA acknowledges that far from the heart. With the rechallenge to an al- the vaccination until the symtpoms per- the wonder vaccines that Gardasil and ready active immune response we could sist past the one week time frame for the Cervarix were supposed to be, these vac- have more smooth muscle damage es- flu, Gardasil has incurred many deaths. cines were more like poison darts thrown pecially to the heart and damage to the Only one girl to our knowledge has died at girls in a crucial stages of their sexual Central Nervous System. following a Cervarix vaccination and her development? These vaccines were giv- case was attributed to her underlying ill- en to young girls in many different stages With all our research completed, due ness, cancer. She was undergoing tests of puberty and at many different stages to the lack of safety testing in regards to apparently at the time. Whilst we can- of their menstrual cycles. We are now left hormone, histamine and IgE level effects not say that Cervarix caused her death, wondering if the manufacturers Merck due to challenge and rechallenge on the the authorities likewise cannot say with and Glaxo Smith Kline considered this female and male physiology, the risks of 100% proof that it didn’t. What we can when developing these vaccines. the HPV vaccines outweigh the benefits.” say with 200% certainty is she should not Note: For the complete article & Power have been vaccinated whilst undergoing Point Presentation to FDA: http:// Freda Birrell another member of the medical testing” vactruth.com/category/by-vaccine/ group became involved in 2009, when gardasil-by-vaccine/ √ her friend wrote to her asking for her Also discovered by the group was the Page 12 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Are Current Childhood Vaccine programs Grossly Overlooked Mutational Risks compromising the genetics of present and future generations? Viral vaccines, composed of mainly genetic material, may pose as much, or By Harold E. Buttram even greater, potential risk for causing genetic hybridization than other forms “The facts evidenced herein compel urgent attention to this “hostile takeover” of vaccines (i.e., live viral or attenuated and crisis in stewardship of the healing arts and sciences.” vaccines). This warning is supported by Abstract childhood health patterns have run parallel a study reported in Viral Research, in with increasing numbers of vaccines being which a nuclear polyhedrosis virus was Previously published parts of this “Vac- administered (now up to 32 inoculations sent through 24 serial passages of culture cine Overview” series reviewed the U.S. before school), common sense would have media resulting in both “genetic inser- Congressional Hearings on Vaccine Safety us suspect a causal relationship. tions into and deletions from the virus,”(5) (1999-December, 2004) which revealed suggesting a propensity of viruses to ac- gross deficiencies in vaccine safety testing From a conceptual standpoint it is in- cept, carry, and transfer genetic material by federal health bureaucracies (FDA, CDC, conceivable that these adverse childhood from host to host. NIH, etc.), as defined by Evidence-Based health trends are not accompanied by Medicine (EBM) and Quality of Evidence corresponding genetic compromise and This research and consideration takes Ratings (QER).(2,3) Because of these de- hybridization, the sources of which would on more gravity when we consider the ficiencies, we have no means of proving be large-scale vaccine contamination with extent of foreign genetic contamination adverse vaccine reactions when they do oc- retroviruses and their reverse transcrip- in current vaccines: cur. Since the growing patterns of adverse tase enzymes, capable of imprinting viral childhood health patterns have run parallel DNA into the genetics of our children. “Among the 32 vaccines in current with increasing numbers of vaccines being use, seven contain chick embryo fluid administered (now up to 32 inoculations Although the human immune system or protein, three contain cells from mon- before school), it is reasonable and respon- is of almost inconceivable complexity keys, one contains sheep’s red blood sible to suspect a possible or likely causal in its detailed functions, the basic prin- cells, one contains mouse serum, one relationship, and test this hypothesis. It is ciples are quite simple, which might be contains material from guinea-pig em- conceivable that adverse childhood health compared with a medieval castle with an bryos, and four have cells from human trends are accompanied by corresponding outer mote, an outer wall with parapets, aborted fetal tissue.”(6) genetic compromise and hybridization. One and an inner defense wall, all of which potential source of this being large-scale serve to protect the king (brain and ner- Additional research shows that vaccine contamination with retroviruses and vous system) and queen (genetic system). vaccines containing aluminum, the mer- their reverse transcriptase enzymes, capable cury-based preservative (Thimerosal), of imprinting viral DNA into the genetics of Following this model, the human im- and formaldehyde, pose additional risks children and future generations. mune system is divided into two major for prompting genetic mutations follow- classes: Cellular Immunity, located in the ing intoxications.(6a-d) mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal Introduction and respiratory tracts and their respective lymph nodes (outer defenses), and Humoral As reviewed by Roberts in “The Previously published parts of this Immunity, with production of antigen-spe- Dangerous Impurities of Vaccines:” “Vaccine Overview” series reviewed the cific antibodies by plasma cells in the bone steadily increasing patterns of physical marrow (inner defenses). For eons of time “In 1998 and 1999 scientists representing and mental health problems which have the mucous membranes of the gastrointes- the World Health Organization (WHO) met taken place since the relatively innocent tinal and respiratory tracts have been the with the senior vaccine regulatory scientists times of the 1930s, largely involving the primary sites of infectious microbe entry from the USA and UK at the National In- “4-A Disorders” (i.e., Autism, ADHD, into the body so that, of necessity, muco- stitutes of Health (NIH) in Washington D.C. Asthma, Allergies), now afflicting sal immunity has evolved as the primary to discuss the safety of the manufacturing roughly one third of America’s children. defense system, with humoral immunity methods employed to produce vaccines. No (1) They also reviewed the U.S. Con- serving a secondary or backup role. As re- journalists were present, but official tran- gressional Hearings on Vaccine Safety viewed earlier, vaccines are reversing these scripts were kept. What they record is that (1999-December, 2004) which revealed roles,(4) attempting to substitute vaccine- all the many experts that spoke expressed gross deficiencies in vaccine safety induced humoral immunity for the far more grave concern over the safety of the manu- testing by federal health bureaucracies efficient mucosal immunity, the latter in turn facturing process currently employed to (FDA, CDC, NIH, etc.), as defined by undergoing a process of “atrophy of disuse” make the licensed vaccines, such as MMR, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and as a result of this role-switching. flu, yellow fever, and polio. Quality of Evidence Ratings (QER).(2,3) The present article addresses some of It was reported by leading experts that Because of surveillance and reporting the known pathways whereby some viral the vaccines could not be purified, were deficiencies, we have no means of proving vaccines may be implanting their genetic “primitive,” made on “crude materials,” adverse vaccine reactions when they do oc- material into the DNA of our children, cur. Since the growing patterns of adverse and of the possible consequences. Current Childhood Vaccines continued on page 14 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 13 Current Childhood Vaccines cont. from page 13 and the manufacturers could not meet lowered government standards. WHO specialists reported the widespread and continuing presence in the MMR vaccine of chicken leucosis virus. Others spoke about the presence of foamy virus, many other viruses, toxins, foreign proteins, enzymes and possibly prions and onco- genes, (which, being of equal or smaller size than the desired viral vaccines, can- not be filtered out). Grave concerns were expressed about the levels of foreign residual DNA and RNA contaminating the vaccines. It was feared that this (con- tamination) could be causing cancers and autoimmune diseases.”(7, 8)

Immune Suppression as a Co-Factor in Mutagenesis

In addition to the proneness of viral vaccines to exchange and transfer ge- netic material from host to host, another danger is that viral vaccines are inher- Anti-vaccination meeting, Toronto City Hall, 1920 ently immunosuppressive, as reflected in the fact that viral infections tend to lower Retroviruses and Reverse Known sources of retrovirus/reverse white blood cell (WBC) counts in con- Transcriptase transcriptase contaminations include trast to bacterial infections, which raise the avian leukosis virus subgroup E and WBC counts. Furthermore, in the field of “A retrovirus is a virus that does not endogenous avian virus in measles and chemical toxicology it is universally rec- enter host cells with a DNA genome, but mumps vaccines(17) the influenza vac- ognized that combinations of toxins may an RNA genome. The most common way cine,(18) the sources being traced back to bring exponential increases of toxicity; the RNA genome is replicated is via the en- cultures in fertilized chicken eggs. that is a combination of two chemicals zyme reverse transcriptase to make DNA may bring a 10-fold increase in toxicity, out if its RNA genome. The DNA is then three chemicals 100-fold increases.(9, 10) incorporated into the host’s genome by M.G. Montinari and Immunogenetics This same principle almost certainly ap- an integrase enzyme. The virus thereafter plies to the immunosuppressive effects replicates as part of the host cell’s DNA. Dr. Montinari and colleagues are best of viral vaccines when administered in Retroviruses are enveloped viruses that known for investigating the relationship be- combination, as with the MMR vaccine, belong to the viral family, Retroviridae.”(14) tween postvaccine central nervous system among which the measles vaccine is ex- (CNS) diseases and mutation of human leu- ceptionally immunosuppresive.(11-13) “Reverse transcriptase, also known as kocyte antigens, (HLA) which essentially RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, is an strip the body’s brain and nerve tissues of Returning to the medieval castle model enzyme that transcribes single-stranded their outer coating of myelin.(19) The HLA of the human immune system, it is proba- RNA into double-stranded DNA…Nor- system is one which aids an individual’s im- ble that the powerful, immune-suppressant mal transcription involves synthesis of mune system to differentiate that which is effects of viral vaccines, when given in RNA from DNA; hence, reverse tran- “self” from that which is “nonself.” combination, may paralyze first-line cellu- scription is the reverse of this.”(15) lar (mucosal) immune defenses sufficiently Although the mechanisms are to allow viral DNA-grafting to take place It is not necessary to understand these complex, it is a system which, during em- into the genetics of many infants. technical terms to know their underlying bryonic life, learns to recognize healthy meanings. As outlined in Dr. Sherri Ten- or normal cells of the body as “self” so Considering that these vaccines will penny’s scholarly text, “Fowl! Bird Flu: that these cells will remain unmolested also be carrying elements of foreign bo- It’s Not What You Think”: by the search and destroy mechanisms of vine (from gelatin), chicken, monkey, and the immune system, leaving the immune human proteins, which will also be trans- “Because of the way reverse tran- system free to eliminate foreign invad- planted into infant genetics, it might not scriptase works in living cells, it is ers. Of special concern is the fact that be far amiss to consider viruses as nature’s possible that genetic material from the HLA system also carries an increased ultimate polluters, all the more insidious chicken viruses (and other retroviruses) proneness to mutations, which may re- because the process remains unrecognized. is being woven into human DNA, espe- sult in an impairment of self-recognition. cially that of our children.”(16) Current Childhood Vaccines continued on page 15 Page 14 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Current Childhood Vaccines cont. from page 14 the MMR vaccines, but conceivably also cination Liberation Index; Co-factors in mutagen- This process may be the fundamental in combination with chicken pox and esis, see: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ cause underlying autoimmune disorders, influenza vaccines in today’s vaccine reaqqy3re1wy9xdu/. For aluminum in mutagenesis in which the immune system attacks the schedules, in spite of the toxicology prin- in plants, see: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ reaqqy3re1wy9xdu/ For formaldehyde mutagenesis, cells of its own body. ciple that combinations of toxins may see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science bring exponential (10-fold or 100-fold) 7. Roberts J. The dangerous impurities of vac- Montinari found that certain alleles of increases in toxicity. cines. Medical Veritas, 2008; 5:1897-1905. HLA (A3 and DR7) were more frequent in 8. Available online at http://www.fda.gov/Cher/ patients with postvaccine-induced illness, With some of today’s routine viral vac- advisory/vrbp/vrbpmain.htm. 9. Schubert J, Riley EJ, Tyler SA. Combined effects which implicates an immunogenetic ba- cines known to be contaminated with in toxicology: A rapid systematic testing procedure: sis for such illnesses. What caused much retroviruses and administered under con- cadmium, mercury, and lead. Journal of Toxicology concern was that Montinari and other re- ditions likely to bring varying degrees of and Environmental Health, 1978; 4: 763-776. searchers implicated vaccine adjuvants immune paralysis in the recipient, these are 10. Abou-Donia MB, Wilmarth KR, Ochme F, (additives), such as mercury-containing conditions under which genetic hybridiza- Jensen KF, and TI Kurt. Neurotoxicity resulting Thimerosal, as causing genetic mutations tion would appear to be likely or inevitable. from coexposure to Pyridostigmine bromide, by modifying the amino acids in present- DEET, and Permithrin: Implications of Gulf War ing antigen proteins.(20-22) Admittedly, this is indirect evidence chemical exposures. Journal of Toxicology and which does not constitute proof, but Environmental Health, Part A, 1996; 48: 35-56. 11. 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Rev Medical Virology, 2006; 16:49-63. 14. Retrovirus – Wikipedia, the free encyclope- grated into the parental chromosomes. This America unquestionably has the scien- dia, on the internet. is the first time a virus has been shown to tific technology to work out the proof that 15. Reverse Transcriptase—the free encyclope- become a part of the human DNA and then is needed to mandate a reduction and modi- dia, on the internet. get passed to subsequent generations. fication of current vaccine programs. The 16. Tenpenny, Sherri J. Fowl! Bird Flu: It’s Not question is whether or not we have the nec- What You Think, NMA Media Press (Private This unique form of congenital infection essary insights and determination to do so. Company) , 2006: 78. may be occurring in as many as 1 in 116 new- 17. Tsang SX, Switzer WM, Shanmugam V, borns according to the report. The long-term Note: Article accessed from Medi- Johnson JA, Goldsmith C, Wright A et al, Evi- consequences for a child’s development and cal Veritas online journal: http://web. dence of avian leucosis virus subgroup E and (23) endogenous avian virus in measles and mumps immune system are unknown. mac.com/len15/CURRENT_CHILD- vaccines derived from chicken cells: Investiga- HOOD_VACCINE_PROGRAMS/ tion of transmission to vaccine recipients. Journal Since it is known that viral DNA can Harold_E._Buttram.html of Virology, 1999; 73: 5843-51. be engrafted into parental DNA and then 18. Weiss R, RNA tumor viruses, RNA Tumor passed on to subsequent generations, Viruses. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Labora- should we not be investigating today’s live References: tory Press, 1982. pp 1109 – 1203. 19. Montinari, M.G., Favoino, B., Roberto, A., virus vaccines from this standpoint and 1. Bock K. Stauth C. Healing the New Childhood Diagnostic role of immunogenetics in post- looking into the possible consequences? Epidemics, Autism, ADHD, Asthma, Allergies. vaccine diseases of the CNS: preliminary results. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007. Mediterranean Journal of Surgery and Medicine, 2. Donohoe M. Evidence-based medicine and 1996; 4(2):69-72. Shaken Baby Syndrome. Part I: Literature Re- Summary and Conclusions 20. Miglore, L., and Niere, M. Evaluation of view, 1966-1998. American Journal of Forensic twelve potential aneuploidogenic chemicals by Medicine and Pathology, 2003; 24:239-242. As outlined above, there are several the in vitro human lymphocyte micronucleus as- 3. Guyatt GH, Haynes RB, Jaesche RZ, Cook DJ, factors indicating a possibility that the say, Toxicity in Vitro, 1991; 5(4):325-336. Green L, Naylor CD, User’s guides to the medi- 21. Miller, B.M. and Adler, I.D., Aneuploid soaring incidence of physical and men- cal literature, XXV. 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This is rendered more likely Rochester University Medical Center entitled, Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus “Virus Weaves Itself into the DNA Transferred because of the cavalier regard with which to cell culture. Virus Research, 1987; 7:335-49. from Parents to Babies,” which can be accessed combinations of viral vaccines are now 6. Rense.com’s List of Vaccine Ingredients; Vac- being administered, primarily involving under this title. √ VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 15 Joan Cranmer’s Fateful Decisions and the Suppression of Autism Science By Mark Blaxill

importance of Dr. Wakefield’s work on and instead referred Redwood to an Else- On February 12, 2010 the journal this primate project—an analysis of the vier executive named Elizabeth Perill Neurotoxicology made a quiet change health outcomes of vaccinated and un- (Elsevier is a division of Reed Elsevier on its web-site to an “in-press” article vaccinated macaque monkeys (see note PLC, a large scientific publishing corpo- that had previously been available as # 1 ). Sadly, true to our prediction, and ration and owner of Neurotoxicology). an “epub ahead of print.” There was despite the quality of the work and the Perill wrote the following note to Ms. no press release or public announce- importance of the findings, it appears that Redwood on February 4th. ment, simply an entry change. The entry the “attempts to nullify the evidence” for the article, “Delayed acquisition of have been successful. neonatal reflexes in newborn primates Dear Dr. Redwood [sic], receiving a thimerosal-containing Hepa- Aside from any authorship concerns, on titis B vaccine: Influence of gestational Over the least several weeks, Age of reflection the paper is not suitable for age and birth weight”, was first modi- Autism has tried repeatedly to contact publication in this journal. The deci- fied to read “Withdrawn” and has since the journal and spoke briefly with Joan sion was based on the fact that the paper been removed altogether from the Neuro- Cranmer, the editor-in-chief of Neuro- should not have been accepted in Neuro- toxicology web-site. The only remaining toxicology. She declined comment on the toxicology and the paper is not suitable official trace of the paper is now a listing issue. We have obtained evidence, how- for the audience of Neurotoxicology. on the National Library of Medicine’s ever, that Cranmer has participated in “PubMed” site. Neurotoxicology. 2009 two separate communications on her de- It’s hard to find much evidence to Oct 2. [Epub ahead of print] with this cisions regarding the primate paper. The substantiate Perill’s claim. Quite the con- notice, “This article has been withdrawn first of these came last November, in the trary, available evidence shows that the at the request of the editor. The Publisher form of a response to a threatening letter primate paper lies squarely within Neu- apologizes for any inconvenience this she had received, at which time Cranmer rotoxicology’s suitable topic range: a may cause.” gave a strong defense of Neurotoxicol- recent search of the journal’s publication ogy’s review procedures. history identified 17 papers on thimero- How can a scientific study simply van- sal, 280 papers on mercury, 12 papers on ish? This paper had cleared every hurdle “As Editor of Neurotoxicology this is vaccines, 738 papers on animal models, for entry into the public scientific record: to inform you that the referenced manu- 64 papers on primates, 28 papers on au- it had passed peer review at a prestigious script has been subjected to rigorous tism and 63 papers on neurodevelopment. journal, received the editor’s approval independent peer review according to Furthermore, this oddly inconsistent se- for publication, been disseminated in our journal standards. If you have issues quence of decisions by the editor-in-chief electronic publication format (a common with the science in the paper please sub- of a leading scientific journal--to publish practice to ensure timely dissemination mit them to me as a Letter to the Editor a scientific study on vaccine safety, to de- of new scientific information), and re- which will undergo peer review and will fend that decision to a critic and then to ceived the designation “in press” as it be subject to publication if deemed ac- refer questions to her publisher once the stood in line awaiting future publication ceptable.” journal reversed its previous decision— in a print version of the journal. Now, raises an important question. and inexplicably, it has been erased from That response, of course, came be- the official record. For practical scientific fore the subsequent media storm over the Did Cranmer make her publication purposes it no longer exists. GMC findings and the decision by anoth- decisions based on the scientific merits er journal, The Lancet to retract a paper of the work involved or did the publisher The answer, of course, is that this is no co-authored by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Elsevier contravene Cranmer’s editorial ordinary scientific study. Age of Autism the last listed author (a slot typically re- authority with a corporate decision to reported previously on its importance, served for a project’s senior scientist) on suppress unpopular research? where we noted that “one likely tactic of the primate paper. critics of the study will include attempts Any way one looks at it, the need for to nullify the evidence based on the al- Shortly before the primate paper an Elsevier executive to speak for Joan leged bias of those involved.” vanished in February, a second com- Cranmer on this subject raises important munication involving Cranmer took questions about her own editorial inde- The obvious risk, of course, was that a place, when she received a query from pendence. And in a world where autism co-investigator on the paper, Dr. Andrew Lyn Redwood of SafeMinds who had science, especially the science surround- Wakefield, might make the study a target, learned from the study authors that ing controversial questions of vaccine especially in light of the hearings then there might be a problem with publi- safety, is increasingly influenced by the underway at the U.K.’s General Medi- cation. As a co-funder of the project, pervasive power of the medical indus- cal Council (GMC). In the wake of last Redwood wrote to Cranmer asking try, Cranmer’s decisions deserve more month’s GMC findings of misconduct why Neurotoxicology would consider explanation than she has been willing to of Dr. Wakefield and two colleagues, not publishing the primate paper. provide. we also reported on the calls by Genera- tion Rescue to recognize the even greater This time, Cranmer declined comment Joan Cranmer’s Decisions continued on page 17 Page 16 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Joan Cranmer’s Decisions cont. from page 16 detail in tissue since the animals can be torial decisions of Neurotoxicology? The unique importance of the sacrificed. We’ve reported extensively on recent animal studies that address vac- primate project In wake of last month’s GMC findings, cine safety concerns, much of it focused a rapid-fire series of events followed. The In the ongoing controversy over on rodents (mice, hamsters and rats) editor-in-chief of The Lancet, Richard the potential role of vaccines and their and thimerosal (see note #1). A number Horton, issued a retraction of Wake- components in autism causation, the of years ago, however, private funding field’s case series report published by the publication of the Neurotoxicology emerged for the gold standard animal journal in 1998. Although regrettable the article in October provided a crucial experiment on vaccine safety, this one retraction was not especially surprising, pivot point. Despite the oft-repeated using primates. This multi-year project since Horton’s well-documented betrayal talking points from public health officials has been conducted by some of the na- of Wakefield has placed him at the center and medical industry representatives that tion’s leading primate researchers and of what we have called the Wakefield In- any and all concerns have been “asked led by scientists affiliated with Thought- quisition (see note #1 ). and answered”, the scientific support for ful House of Austin, Texas. these assurances is weak. Such claims Although Horton has consistently rely exclusively on a controversial set of From the beginning of the primate defended his scientific judgments in pub- epidemiology studies of varying quality, project, Andrew Wakefield has been a lic, including the decision to publish the ignore epidemiology that provides con- senior scientist. With philanthropic sup- 1998 case series, Horton claimed to be tradictory evidence and neglect the fact port from autism families, he started surprised to learn that Wakefield was that none of the exculpatory evidence Thoughtful House in 2005. Even before assisting autism parents in the U.K.’s considers the interactions between differ- that, work on the primate project had al- equivalent of vaccine court. He then used ent elements of the expanding childhood ready begun. The first results from the the occasion to set the Inquisition in mo- vaccine program. Instead, the studies (re- team’s research were reported at an au- tion, admitting in his 2004 book, MMR: viewed in depth—see note #1) cover only tism conference in London in May 2008 Science and Fiction, to meeting with an one vaccine product (the MMR vaccine) (see note #1). unnamed medical regulator and counsel- and one vaccine component (thimerosal) ing him on how to build their case against in isolation. Then, in October 2009, the first Wakefield (see note #1). peer-reviewed output of the effort, the For many years, autism parents have Neurotoxicology paper, was published Unlike Cranmer, Horton has made called for higher quality research into (see note #1). In that initial paper (clearly himself one of the primary agents in the vaccine safety. Inspired in part by Age of the first of many), Wakefield and his col- suppression of inconvenient science. In Autism Editor Dan Olmsted’s pioneering leagues reported convincing evidence that scientific terms, however, The Lancet work on the low frequency of autism in the birth dose of thimerosal-containing case series carries far less significance less-vaccinated populations such as the hepatitis B vaccine caused developmen- than the primate paper. Contrary to the Amish, parent groups have long called tal delay involving brainstem damage bulk of media coverage on this issue, for human studies comparing vaccinated in infant primates. Despite the obvious the 1998 “early report” provided neither and unvaccinated populations. These importance of these animal experiments, evidence nor claims of causation. By calls have received support from many Age of Autism has been virtually the sole contrast, the primate project was careful- quarters. Representative Carolyn Malo- news outlet covering this story. ly designed to test causation hypotheses ney (Dem. NY) has introduced a bill in front of Congress asking for a vaccinated/ When Joan Cranmer accepted the So if Horton’s decision to retract the unvaccinated study. In June of last year, primate paper in Neurotoxicology, her 1998 paper was unsurprising, Neuro- the National Vaccine Advisory Group decision could not have been an easy one. toxicology’s decision not to proceed with (NVAC) issued a similar call, asking The study subject and one of the study au- publication of the primate paper was a the CDC to consider the “strengths and thors, Andrew Wakefield, were known to different story; it shocked many of those weaknesses, ethical issues and feasibility be highly controversial. All of the infor- close to the project. Despite protests including timelines and cost of various mation about the GMC proceedings and from study participants, on February study designs to examine outcomes in the accusations against Wakefield were 2nd, the same day Horton announced The unvaccinated, vaccine delayed and vac- well known to the editors and peer re- Lancet’s decision, Neurotoxicology in- cinated children.” So far, however, little viewers. Despite that knowledge and the formed the primate study authors of their progress has been made. risks involved, Cranmer and her editorial decision not to proceed with publication team judged the science to be sound and in the print edition and soon removed One important alternative to epi- decided to go ahead. We complimented the epub from its web-site. In a further demiology studies that investigate them at the time, noting that “the journal ripple effect, within days of the Neuro- vaccine safety in human populations is editors at Neurotoxicology have taken a toxicology decision, Thoughtful House to conduct more invasive research us- courageous stand in publishing what is announced Wakefield’s resignation. In ing animal models. Animal models offer sure to be unwelcome evidence in some the middle of the media frenzy sparked many advantages over human epidemiol- circles.” It appears, however, that Cran- by The Lancet’s actions, the decision at ogy studies; the vaccine exposures and mer’s superiors within Elsevier did not Neurotoxicology went largely unnoticed outcomes can be tightly controlled and share those views. measured, while precise biological out- comes can be measured in far greater Did Reed Elsevier interfere in the edi- Joan Cranmer’s Decisions continued on page 18 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 17 Joan Cranmer’s Decisions cont. from page 17 cently appointed to the board of GSK One of the reasons that Needleman At first glance, the two journals--The is James Murdoch, publisher of News is revered in the neurotoxicology com- Lancet and Neurotoxicology--couldn’t Corp., which owns The Times of Lon- munity is because he had to surmount be more different: The Lancet, a general don, the newspaper which launched the formidable obstacles and fight powerful purpose medical journal founded in 1823 media attack on Wakefield). opponents in order to protect children and named after a device used to bleed from dangerous exposures to heavy met- patients under the now obsolete theory of In 2008, vaccines accounted for als. Like Wakefield, Needleman once the humors, is headquartered in London; 12.5% of GSK’s worldwide revenues. served as an expert witness in a legal pro- Neurotoxicology, founded in 1979 and And although Reed Elsevier has no ceeding, in this case on behalf of a child headquartered in Arkansas, is a special- known vaccine liability risk, GSK has from Utah who had been injured by lead ized journal focused on “dealing with the been directly exposed to two of the most pollution. Also like Wakefield, Needle- effects of toxic substances on the nervous prominent autism/vaccine controversies. man found himself facing off against system of humans and experimental ani- GSK manufactured Pluserix, a version powerful industry forces, in this case mals of all ages.” of the MMR vaccine introduced in the the oil and gas industry and their sup- UK in 1989 and withdrawn in 1992 due pliers of lead, companies such as Ethyl There is, however, a critical connec- to safety concerns. GSK also produced Corp and E.I. DuPont de Nemours. Most tion between the two. Both journals a thimerosal containing vaccine similar notably, in order to defend their profits, are published by Elsevier, a division to the one examined in the primate pa- the lead industry mounted an aggressive of publishing giant Reed Elsevier, a per (which was a Merck product) named effort to discredit Needleman. In 1991, multi-billion dollar corporation. Else- Engerix B, for hepatitis B. GSK lists its he was called before the Office of Sci- vier publishes close to 2400 scientific financial exposure to thimerosal litigation entific Integrity at the National Institutes journals and also distributes millions of in the U.S. under the “legal proceedings” of Health (NIH) on charges of scientific scientific articles through its online section in its 2008 Annual Report. misconduct. site ScienceDirect. According to Reed Elsevier’s 2008 Annual Report, “Sci- Tensions between publishers, who at- NIH referred the hearings to his uni- enceDirect from Elsevier contains over tend to a publication’s profitability, and versity, a fortunate turn of events for 25% of the world’s science, technologi- editors, who attend to independent con- Needleman, who was able to blunt a cal and medical information.” tent, are well known. In their normal skillfully orchestrated private attack by operations, there is little reason to believe opening up the proceedings to the public As a leading publisher of scientific that Reed Elsevier executives might in- and to his university colleagues (interest- and medical journals, Reed Elsevier pos- volve themselves in the scientific review ingly, he noted that in a crisis “you learn sesses enormous power over what studies process. However, when scientific publi- who your friends are. My friends were actually make it into the scientific record. cations that can threaten the profitability not people in the medical school but the Moreover, in its quest for profits, the (and commercial sponsorship) of valued faculty in the university at large”). Even company has displayed an inclination to partners of Reed Elsevier such as Glaxo- more fortunately for the health of chil- provide privileged access to that record smithkline and Merck are suppressed, dren, Needleman successfully defended to its commercial partners. Reed Elsevier’s actions should raise con- his work and reputation and prevailed cerns among the scientists who lend their in the trial. As a consequence, we now In 2009, Elsevier acknowledged pub- names and reputations to the journals the all fuel our cars with unleaded gasoline lishing nine journals, with titles such as company distributes. and decorate our houses with lead free “Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint paint. Yet despite Needleman’s victory, Medicine” that were entirely sponsored What should Joan Cranmer do? the ruthless industry attacks he endured by mostly undisclosed pharmaceutical clearly disturbed and offended him, and advertisers (one was solely sponsored by In October 2008, Neurotoxicology he subsequently wrote an account of his Merck and published articles favorable hosted its annual conference in Roch- experiences for the journal Pediatrics to products like Vioxx and Fosamax). ester, New York. One of the featured in a paper he called, “Salem Comes to Although Reed Elsevier doesn’t speakers at the meeting was an elderly the National Institutes of Health: Notes manufacture drugs or vaccines, as a for- pediatrician named Herbert Needleman. From Inside the Crucible of Scientific In- profit publisher it clearly has an interest Now in his eighties, Needleman is re- tegrity.” The title speaks to the intensity in generating revenue from commercial vered in neurotoxicology circles as the of emotion that Needleman brought to partners in the medical industry. man responsible for identifying the de- the conflict and the jeopardy in which he velopmental risk of lead exposure in felt himself. Suspicions over the editorial indepen- children. His pioneering work led to the dence of Reed Elsevier on the question removal of lead additives from paint We like to assume that in conflicts of vaccine safety draw support from and gasoline. I had the opportunity to like this the good guy always wins. But evidence of board level conflicts of in- attend the conference and even to meet what if that isn’t always the case? What if terest involving Reed Elsevier’s CEO, Needleman briefly. As I watched him the product involved hadn’t been leaded Sir Crispin Davis. Davis, who retired speak I observed with interest the high gasoline and the companies Needleman in 2009 as CEO of Reed Elsevier, has regard with which the other attendees was up against were more influential served since July 2003 on the board of held him. It was clear that Needleman than the oil and gas industry? What if directors of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has attained iconic status in the field of a major vaccine manufacturer (also re- neurotoxicology. Joan Cranmer’s Decisions continued on page 19 Page 18 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Joan Cranmer’s Decisions cont. from page 18 these moral choices have flowed most at Neurotoxicology conferences. Safe- the hearings had been closely controlled clearly to two journal editors. One, Rich- Minds is a co-funder of the primate by commercial interests and the com- ard Horton [The Lancet] made his choice project and has been a sponsor of past mittee that investigated Needleman had in favor of industry and has success- Neurotoxicology conferences. gone against the evidence and found him fully turned much of the world against guilty of misconduct? What if the scien- Andrew Wakefield. Another, Joan Cran- Note 1. See online version of this tific record he created had been erased mer, now faces a different choice. Last article for access to various embedded and his work on lead “withdrawn” from October, she made an honorable, sci- references: http://www.ageofautism. scientific journals? ence-based decision and then found her com/2010/03/joan-cranmers-fateful- editorial judgment superseded last month decisions-and-the-suppression-of-au- The progress in eliminating danger- by the publisher Elsevier. This reversal tism-science.html √ ous toxins from our environment is represents a clear violation of scientific something we now take for granted, but values, the values of the neurotoxicology Needleman certainly didn’t see the situ- community and the interests of children. Vaccination Without ation that way. Looking back, however, But Joan Cranmer is not a passive partic- ipant in this controversy. She has a moral Doctor Approval In a the difficulties Needleman faced seem U.S. Hospital almost quaint by comparison to the choice to make herself. blitzkrieg-style character attacks of our By S. Humphries, MD—January 22, modern media; the story of his conquest So what should Joan Cranmer do? 2010 over the evils of corporate America ap- pearing nostalgically Capra-esque when I submit the answer is obvious. H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccines compared to the slick public relations Cranmer should oppose the corporate are now being given to sick hospital techniques of the global corporation. interventions of Elsevier. She should patients with or without their doctor’s Indeed, since Needleman’s experiences defend the primate project, the health consent. This is being done despite there twenty years ago, the threat of corporate of children and her previous decision to being no data on the safety of doing so. power has become far more menacing publish the primate paper. More than any and the opportunity for miscarriages of other human being on the planet, she can I am a licensed, board-certified -ne justice many times greater. make a statement showing that medical phrologist, otherwise known as a kidney science need not cower before the power specialist, working in a large, city-based Seen from this perspective, what if the of the medical industry. The best way to hospital. Because I rarely admit patients next-generation incarnation of Herbert do that is for her to resign as editor of to the hospital other than for specific pro- Needleman is Andrew Wakefield, but in Neurotoxicology in protest over Elsevi- cedures, such as a kidney biopsy, I only today’s version of the story, the balance er’s interference. recently became aware of my hospital’s of power has shifted in critical ways? In policy regarding flu shots for sick people. Wakefield’s case the product is neither What better way to honor the legacy Waking up to this new rule made me real- gasoline nor paint, but vaccines, one of of Herbert Needleman? ize that Big Pharma is getting closer and the most privileged product categories closer to bypassing doctors completely to UPDATE: After publishing the ar- ever invented, products that are produced deliver direct patient “care”. ticle, Age of Autism received this and promoted by the medical industry statement from Joan Cranmer: with missionary zeal. In contrast to the We have an elaborate electronic chart- limited scientific influence of the oil and “Scientific integrity and good- sci ing system at our hospital. All of the gas industry, the medical industry Wake- ence are fundamental principles for medications and procedure orders are field faces is far more powerful, pursues publication of research articles in Neu- placed into the patient’s record by doc- its interests with greater skill, controls rotoxicology. Although rare, the journal tors and nurses so that every person has the flow of scientific information and withdraws papers whenever these essen- access to all that is happening with the effectively dictates media coverage. It tial principles are cast into doubt. The patient. A few weeks ago, I arrived to see appears now that the medical industry January 28, 2010 UK General Medical my first patient of the day, a patient with is so powerful that it can rewrite scien- Council ruling of research dishonesty by a kidney ailment that leaks protein and tific history when it wants and even erase Dr. Andrew Wakefield cast into doubt the usually progresses to complete kidney important scientific publications in a rep- scientific integrity of a new related paper shutdown. When I opened her electronic utable journal. co-authored by Wakefield*. However, it chart, I expected my section to be empty. would be inappropriate for either me or Instead, I saw an order for an influenza This is a pessimistic view of course, the other editors to discuss the specific vaccine with my name on it. Even more for scientists can and do stand up against factors publicly.” shocking was that the order was high- corporate influence and frequently do lighted bright blue, meaning, the shot had the right thing for children. But taking —Professor Joan M. Cranmer, Editor, already been given. I thought perhaps I a stand can be more difficult in some Neurotoxicology had opened the wrong chart or some sort situations than others. When it is diffi- Mark Blaxill is Editor-at-Large of Age of mistake had been made. But it was the cult to stand for scientific principle, the of Autism and a Director of SafeMinds. right file; her name in the upper left hand toughest moral choices often fall to in- He is a co-author of a paper published corner. And my electronic signature was dividuals who find themselves caught in in Neurotoxicology and a past presenter the middle. In the area of vaccine safety, Without Doctor Approval continued on page 20 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 19 Without Doctor Approval cont. from page 19 I wondered to myself and then later in- For years, I have suspected that vac- on the page after the order. My patient, quired: How do you know that is true? cines affect the immune system in an with kidney failure and an autoimmune Is it because nobody filed a formal- re unnatural way. Those who are trained in disorder had been given a flu shot with- port? If a patient became more ill after the sciences should know this has to be out my consent. the shot, did you consider his condition true. For starters, the partial and tempo- to be a side effect of the vaccine, or was rary effect of a vaccination is significantly I was informed that according to a hos- it simply called an unfortunate complica- different than the precise and long-lasting pital policy that had been in effect since tion to the patient’s current illness? What cellular responses that come from a natu- 2007, a pharmacist is permitted to visit a if the patient was discharged from the ral infection. Vaccines contain more viral patient and offer them a flu vaccine. If the hospital but readmitted several weeks and bacterial particles than what we are patient agrees, the RN is instructed to ad- later. Was the reason logged simply as told; there are known allowable contami- minister the shot and document the event a progression of his existing disease… nants in vaccine cultures and in vaccine in the chart. The attending physician’s or was the cause an overlooked, delayed vials(2). The solutions also contain heavy signature stamp is used to complete the side effect of the vaccination? If vac- metals, carcinogenic chemicals and toxic order. No one called to ask, “By the way, cine reactions are not considered as part preservatives. Vaccine-induced antibod- your patient wants a flu shot; can we give of a patient’s differential diagnosis, how ies can become “confused”. They can her one?” I’m not sure what was said do you know? Without taking a vaccine then adhere or deposit in small blood to her, but she obviously agreed, and I history when considering a timeline of vessels and the kidney filters called didn’t need to be involved. The pharma- events, how could anybody possibly glomeruli, causing inflammation and de- cist had written an order for an injectable make the connection between a vaccine generation, known as an “autoimmune substance that I considered toxic and and a subsequent illness? How does any- response”; the person’s own antibodies inappropriate for my patient, and it was one else know for that matter—that there attack and destroy the body. The inci- administered by the RN before I even got were no side effects from the “routine” dence of autoimmune disease has sharply to the floor. administration of flu shots, ordered by a increased in recent years, and I believe pharmacist and given by a nurse, with- that vaccines have played a role. That My dissatisfaction eventually made out doctor consent? The truth is, there is why it has never made sense to me it to the Chief of Internal Medicine who is no real tracking and reporting system to vaccinate anyone, let alone someone challenged me to produce peer-reviewed in place. And nobody is enthused about who is sick—but especially someone al- journal articles in support of my objec- trying to start one. What has essentially ready sick with an autoimmune disease. tion. There were dozens of case reports happened is that the guards have all been While patients who are immunocompro- of kidney disease or small blood ves- told to go home and nobody is thinking mised may be at a disadvantage when sel inflammation following influenza to even look for the wolf. faced with infectious pathogens, giving vaccination. In fact, one paper cited 16 them a flu shot with toxic chemicals can- patients in its written report(1). Under- I am sure there are thousands of un- not, in my estimation, possibly protect reporting of adverse vaccine reactions reported cases of kidney failure—and a them. Moreover, it is known that elderly is a known phenomenon. The National wide range of other serious health con- patients and those who are losing protein Vaccine Information Center estimates ditions—because doctors fail to ask a in the urine don’t necessarily mount a that only about two percent of adverse very simple question as part of the ad- strong or protective response to flu vac- vaccine reactions ever get reported. It mission evaluation: “When was your cine injections. Despite these facts, the would follow that written and published last vaccine?” And few doctors suspect CDC and various medical organizations case reports found in medical journals any connection because the party line still recommend injecting sick, elderly represent a miniscule sampling of the screams, “Vaccines are safe, effective patients with flu vaccines. totality of vaccine injury cases. These and harmless. They keep people healthy implications should evoke at least some and prevent infection.” If nobody looks, There is no scientific basis for this. Vac- curiosity on the part of doctors and health vaccine-related side effects and compli- cine research is conducted on healthy care advocates. cations won’t be found. people. Vaccine research does not include double blind placebo studies; rather they The peer-reviewed literature was de- There was a law passed in 1986, the Na- use a false placebo which is often the pri- livered to the department head. His tional Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, or years’ flu vaccine. Once a vaccine is initial response was to suggest that fu- that made vaccine manufacturers and ad- approved for general use, the shot is rou- ture vaccination orders be signed off by ministering physicians immune from legal tinely given to everyone. Case reports(1, another physician so I didn’t have to be recourse in the event of a vaccine injury. 3-7) support the notion that it is highly involved with the process of a nurse giv- This has given manufacturers a danger- possible that an unhealthy person could ing a “routine” flu shot. But the point ously long leash and has enabled them to develop an exacerbation of an underlying had been missed; flu shots should not be push vaccines through FDA approval with kidney disease or that a healthy person given to sick patients. little need to create a safe product. Now could develop a new kidney disease after drug companies have extended their reach a vaccine. It should be common sense that I was challenging “routine orders” that into the hospital right past doctors, and patients who are sick and have advanced had been in place since 2007. The de- put the power to vaccinate in the hands kidney disease are much more vulnerable fense for supporting the policy was that of pharmacists and executive committees, to the 25 micrograms of mercury in multi- no side effects had been reported since allowing them to make decisions about the standing order had been instituted. what is best for a patient. Without Doctor Approval continued on page 22 Page 20 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Forced Vaccinations, Government, and the Public Interest By Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., December 2009 When public-health officers are asked to their favorite justification, the Holy even the common childhood infections for the legal justification for such draco- Grail of the vaccine proponents—herd such as chickenpox, measles, mumps, nian measures as forcing people to accept immunity. This concept is based upon the and rubella. vaccines that they deem either a clear and idea that 95% (and some now say 100%) present danger to themselves and their of the population must be vaccinated to Then they discovered an even greater loved ones or have had personal expe- prevent an epidemic. The percentages problem, the boosters were lasting for rience with serious adverse reactions to needing vaccination grows progressive- only two years or less. This is why we are such vaccines, they usually resort to the ly. I pondered this question for some now seeing mandates that youth entering need to protect the public. All of such time before the answer hit me. Herd im- colleges have multiple vaccines, even policies strongly resemble those poli- munity is mostly a myth and applies only those which they insisted gave lifelong cies found in National Socialist empires, to natural immunity—that is, contracting immunity, such as the MMR. The same Stalinist countries, or Communist China. the infection itself. is being suggested for full-grown adults. Ironically, no one in the media or medical One quickly concludes that if the vac- field is asking what is going on. They just cines are as effective as being touted Is Herd Immunity Real? accept that it must be done. by the public-health officials, then why should one fear the unvaccinated? Obvi- In the original description of herd That vaccine-induced herd immunity is ously the vaccinated would have at least immunity, the protection to the popu- mostly myth can be proven quite simply. 95% protection. This question puts them lation at large occurred only if people When I was in medical school, we were in a very difficult position. Their usual re- contracted the infections naturally. The taught that all of the childhood vaccines sponse is that a “small” percentage of the reason for this is that naturally-acquired lasted a lifetime. This thinking existed for vaccinated will not have sufficient pro- immunity lasts for a lifetime. The vac- over 70 years. It was not until relatively re- tection and would still be at risk. Now, cine proponents quickly latched onto cently that it was discovered that most of if they admit what the literature shows, this concept and applied it to vaccine- these vaccines lost their effectiveness two to that vaccine failure rates are much higher induced immunity. But, there was one 10 years after being given. What this means than the 5% they claim, they must face major problem—vaccine-induced im- is that at least half the population, that is the the next obvious question—then why munity lasted for only a relatively short baby boomers, have had no vaccine-induced should anyone take the vaccine if there period, from 2 to 10 years at most, and immunity against any of these diseases for is a significant chance it will not protect? then this applies only to humoral immu- which they had been vaccinated very early nity. This is why they began, silently, in life. In essence, at least 50% or more of When pressed further, they then resort to suggest boosters for most vaccines, the population was unprotected for decades.

On Herd Immunity

The idea of herd immunity as a benefit of vaccination is a myth promulgated as fact by vaccine promoters. The myth is based on the observation that prior to widespread mass vaccination programs, in the case of measles for example, it required approximately 68% of naturally immune people (immune because they themselves had had measles) to suppress the circulation of the disease.

But when that ceiling dropped, and fewer than 68% of people were immune, the next crop of young children whose mater- nally acquired immune protection faded, then became the susceptibles, and measles would start circulating in the community again. These periodic cycles would enable children to develop measles thereby endowing them with life-long immunity. As well, it benefited the larger adult segment of the population, who themselves also require that periodic re-exposure to the dis- ease, a kind of boosting of their own immunity in order to maintain vigorous protection.

This is where the term “herd immunity” came from and what it actually refers to. The current use of it is a meaningless measure, and even if 100% vaccine coverage were reached, there would always be a percentage of people who remain vulner- able. Much of this has to do with the fact that the only measure of immunity used in medicine today is presence of antibodies —a very flawed belief. There are people who never develop antibodies when exposed to a disease, yet still are able to acquire immunity from infectious diseases.

The current medical system believes that if you have antibodies to any given disease, you are then immune, which is a totally flawed concept and was proven so some years back. Antibodies are the end product of a complex immune response, and vac- cines don’t elicit the same quality of immune response that recovery from a disease does.

• Some info on Hedrich, who coined the term “herd immunity” http://www.lowellsfacts.com/herdimmunity.html • More reading on herd immunity : http://www.whale.to/a/herd.html

Forced Vaccinations continued on page 22 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 21 Without Doctor Approval cont. from page 20 product that can be trusted and relied 10 year of being vaccinated, most of us dose flu vaccines than healthy persons upon by those who hope to have their were without the magical 95% number with normal kidney function. health guarded and restored. needed for herd immunity. This is why vaccine defenders insist the vaccines Doctors take note: You are not in Article from: Medical Voices: http:// have 95% effectiveness rates. control anymore. Your patients can be www.medicalvoices.org/vaccination/ harmed by vaccines that you have not or- articles/vaccination-without-doctor- Without the mantra of herd immunity, dered—while your back is turned. approval-in-a-us-hospital.html these public-health officials would not be able to justify forced mass vaccinations. Patients: Be vigilant and ask ques- References: I usually give the physicians who ques- tions. Big Pharma has dozed past another 1. Kelsall, John T. et. al. Microscopic Poly- tion my statement that herd immunity is barrier and now its reach has expanded angiitis After Influenza Vaccination, Journal of a myth a simple example. When I was a past your doctor and right into your hos- Rheumatology. Vol.24:6, pp1198-1202. medical student almost 40 years ago, it pital room. Propaganda about vaccines 2. Tenpenny, Dr Sherri J, FOWL! Bird Flu: It’s was taught that the tetanus vaccine would and the flu will be posted around the hos- not what you think, 2006, pg. 74. last a lifetime. Then 30 years after it had pital. If ever there was a time to become 3. Yanai-Barar, et al., Influenza vaccination been mandated, we discovered that its highly suspicious of the motives in the induced leukocytoclastic vasculitis and pauci- protection lasted no more than 10 years. world of hospitals and pharmaceutical immune crescentic glomerulonephritis. Clinical Then, I ask my doubting physician if he Nephrology, vol 58. No. 3/2002 business, it is now. Take these sugges- 4. Damjanov, Ivan, Progression of Renal Disease or she has ever seen a case of tetanus? tions to heart: in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura After Influenza Most have not. I then tell them to look Vaccination, JAMA 1979, vol. 242, No.23. at the yearly data on tetanus infections • When somebody other than your p2555-2556. —one sees no rise in tetanus cases. The doctor enters your hospital room and 5. Ulm, S et. al., Leukocytoclastic vasculitis and same can be said for measles, mumps, offers you anything, even if they tell acute renal failure after influenza vaccination in and other childhood infections. It was, you the doctor ordered it, do not be- an elderly patient with myelodysplastic syn- and still is, all a myth. lieve that you must accept it without drome., Onkoligie, 2006, vol. 29, No. 10, 470-2. first talking to the doctor in charge of 6. Tavadia, S, Leukocytoclastic vasculitis and The entire case for forced mass vac- influenza vaccination. Clin Exp Dermatol., 2003, your care. You have a right to know vol 28, No 2, 154-6. cination rest upon this myth and it is why you are being injected and what 7. Kielstein, JT, Minimal Change nephrotic important that we demonstrate the falsity the risks are. syndrome in a 65-year-old patient following of this idea. Neil Z. Miller, in his latest • If there is ever a good time to get a influenza vaccination.,Clin Nephrol, 2000, vol book The Vaccine Information Manual, vaccine, it is not while you are sick. 54, no 3, 246-8. provides compelling evidence that herd Please consider both sides of the vac- 8. Narendran, M, Systemic Vasculitis follow- immunity is a myth. cination debate before agreeing to ing influenza vaccination—report of 3 cases and one. You won’t be given a fact sheet literature review., J Rheumatol, 1993, vol 20, no 8, 1429-31. √ with balanced pros and cons by a con- The Road to Hell is Paved with Good ventional medical doctor or by the Intentions hospital. Forced Vaccinations cont. from page 21 • You have the right to refuse any drug, Those pushing mandatory vaccination any shot and any intervention at If we listen to present-day wisdom, we for an ever-growing list of diseases are a any time, as long as you are psycho- are all at risk of resurgent massive epi- mixed bag. Some are quite sincere and logically competent. demics should the vaccination rate fall truly want to improve the health of the Mine is only one story, but it represents below 95%. Yet, we have all lived for at population. They believe the vaccine-in- things to come with the corporate take- least 30 to 40 years with 50% or less of duced herd immunity myth and likewise over of medicine and the massive push the population having vaccine protection. believe that vaccines are basically ef- for vaccines. It has been insidious but it That is, herd immunity has not existed fective and safe. These are not the evil is now showing up everywhere: In the in this country for many decades and people. schools, in Wal-Mart, in the mainstream no resurgent epidemics have occurred. press. The doctor-patient relationship is Vaccine-induced herd immunity is a lie A growing number are made of those no longer valued or honored. Guidelines, used to frighten doctors, public-health with a collectivist worldview and see recommendations and one-size-fits-all officials, other medical personnel, and themselves as a core of elite wise men treatment programs of all comers for the the public into accepting vaccinations. and women who should tell the rest of sake of profit are the real driving forces. us what we should do in all aspects of Our “health care system” has little to do When we examine the scientific lit- our lives. They see us as ignorant cattle, with health. Even the word “health” has erature, we find that for many of the who are unable to understand the virtues been mutated and twisted to represent vaccines protective immunity was 30 to of their plan for America and the World. some distorted picture that looks more 40%, meaning that 70% to 60% of the Like children, we must be made to take like desperation for survival than thriv- public has been without vaccine protec- our medicine—since, in their view, we ing vitality. Health care centers that tion. Again, this would mean that with a have no concept of the true benefit of the vaccinate with complete disregard for 30% to 40% vaccine-effectiveness rate bad-tasting medicine we are to be fed. the truth about what they are actually do- combined with the fact that most people ing to people, are not delivering a sound lost their immune protection within 2 to Forced Vaccinations continued on page 23 Page 22 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Forced Vaccinations cont. from page 22 fear that the public might soon catch on to it took over 40 years just to get this far. I have also found that a small number the fact that the entire vaccine program is Linking vaccine contaminations and im- of people in the regulatory agencies and based upon nonsense, fear, and concoct- munoexcitotoxicity to the drastic rise in public health departments would like ed fairy tales. One special fear of theirs neurodegenerative diseases will probably to speak out but are so intimidated and is that the public might discover the fact take even longer because of the wide- threatened with dismissal or destruction that most vaccines are contaminated with spread growth of entrenched powers high of their careers, that they remain silent. As a number of known and yet-to-be discov- in government and their control of the for the media, they are absolutely clueless. ered viruses, bacteria, viral fragments, media, which is equally extensive. The and DNA/RNA fragments. And, further, fact that powerful, enormously wealthy I have found that “reporters” (we have that our science demonstrates that these foundations, such as the Ford Founda- few real journalists these days) rarely un- contaminants could lead to a number of tion, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, derstand what they are reporting on and slowly-developing degenerative diseas- and Rockefeller series of foundations, always trust and rely upon people in po- es, including degenerative diseases of the are supporting forced vaccination greatly sitions of official power, even if those brain. This is rarely discussed but is of enhances the power of governments all people are unqualified to speak on the major importance in this debate. over the World. subject. Most of the time they run to the Centers for Disease Control or medical The idea that adults and their children These foundations operate in the university to seek answers. I cannot count would be forced to submit to being in- shadows, influencing legislation and the number of times I have seen univer- jected with dozens of these organisms government actions through the World sity department heads interviewed when and organic fragments is terrifying. No Health Organization and individual gov- it was obvious they had no clue as to the regulatory agency is tracking to see if ernmental bodies. Behind every call for subject being discussed. Few such profes- chronic diseases are rising in the vacci- forced vaccinations, mandated quaran- sors will pass up an opportunity to appear nated, yet we have compelling evidence tines, and home invasions, one can find on camera or be quoted in a newspaper. of a massive rise in all autoimmune dis- one of these foundations providing the eases, neurodegenerative diseases, and money as well as experts. Remember, One must also appreciate that such certain cancers since the advent of a dra- the largest of the pharmaceutical-vac- reporters and editors are under an enor- matic increase in the number of vaccines cine manufacturers are also providing mous economic strain, as vaccine being mandated. much of the money for the foundations manufacturers are major advertisers in and serving on the boards of these foun- all media outlets and for an obvious rea- Of special concern is the finding that dations. The Rockefellers either owned son—it controls content. A number of many of the contaminant organisms can outright or had controlling interest in excellent stories on such medical sub- pass from generation to generation. For all of the major pharmaceutical compa- jects are spiked every day. That means example, new studies have found that nies. This has given them absolute and we will always be relegated to the “fringe SV-40, a major contaminant of the po- extremely powerful access to the reins media” as our media outlets are called. lio vaccine until 1963, not only existed of power at all levels. Yet, they can be Despite the high quality of the journalism as a latent virus for the lifetime of those defeated by the truth. in many of the “fringe” outlets, they have exposed to the vaccine but was being a much smaller audience. And despite passed on to the next generation, primar- Dr. Blaylock’s article originally ap- this we are having an enormous effect on ily by way of sperm, something called peared on the National Health the debate. vertical transmission. This means that Federation website: http://www.thenhf. every generation from now on will be com/vaccinations/vac_299.htm infected with this known carcinogenic As the Public Awakens, the Collectivist virus. There is also compelling evidence Dr. Blaylock is a board-certified neurosurgeon, author and lecturer. Becomes Desperate that some polio vaccines manufactured after 1963 may contain SV-40 virus. Dr. Blaylock is a visiting professor of John Jewkes, in his book Ordeal by biology at Belhaven College and serves Planning, observed that as the British col- What makes the SV-40 contamination on the editorial staff of the Journal of lectivists began to see opposition rise to disaster of such concern is its associa- the American Nutraceutical Associa- their grandiose plans, they became more tion with so many cancers—including tion, the editorial staff of the Fluoride desperate and aggressive in their reaction. mesothelioma, medulloblastoma, ep- Journal and is on the editorial staff of They then initiated a campaign of smearing endymoma, meningioma, astrocytoma, the Journal of American Physicians their opponents and blaming every fail- oligodendroglioma, pituitary adenoma, and Surgeons, official journal of the ure on the unwillingness of the people to glioblastoma, osteosarcomas, non-Hodgkins Association of American Physicians accept the planner’s dictates without ques- lymphoma, papillary thyroid carcino- and Surgeons. He is also a regular lec- tion. We certainly have seen this in this mas, and anaplastic thyroid carcinomas. turer for the Fellowship for Anti-aging debate—opponents to forced vaccinations and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Blay- are referred to as fringe scientists, kooks, The Federal government has gone lock has written numerous books and uneducated, confused, and enemies of pub- to enormous lengths to cover up this articles some of which can be viewed at lic safety—reminiscent of Stalin’s favorite association, despite the powerful scien- his website at: http://www.russellblay- phrase, “enemy of the people.” tific evidence that this vaccine infected lockmd.com/ √ at least a hundred million people world- This desperation is based upon their wide with this carcinogenic virus. And, VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 23 proached him as a specialist in pediatric From The Roman to The Wakefield Inquisition gastroenterology. They told him, “Our by Mark Blaxill—Jan 27, 2010 children are not defective, they are sick” and Wakefield listened. Also like Galileo, As the year draws to a close, all of us support to the theory of heliocentrism, Wakefield didn’t originate the idea that at the Age of Autism are very pleased to the idea that the earth revolved around vaccines might play a role in autism, but honor Dr. Andrew Wakefield. As we’ve the sun and not the other way around. As has become the most prominent devel- reported here many times during the past with his telescope technology, Galileo oper of the idea. year, Dr. Wakefield has been the subject was not the first to propose the -helio of a remarkable and unprecedented cam- centric theory: that distinction belongs As Galileo’s telescopes allowed him paign to discredit his work and character, to Nicolai Copernicus. Yet Copernicus, to discover the moons of Jupiter, so did most notably in a show trial that is still a Polish mathematician, was well aware Wakefield’s use of new ways of seeing, underway in London, in hearings of the of the personal risk of disseminating his in this case an endoscope to see into a General Medical Council. In the face of ideas and delayed their publication for child’s intestines, allow him to discover extraordinary attempts to silence him, many years. Copernicus’ major work, De a distinctive gut pathology in autism. He Wakefield has stood up to these attacks revolutionibus orbium coelestium, was named what he saw autistic enterocoli- with grace and determination and has published only shortly before his death at tis, and it was a finding that quite literally continued his research and clinical work age 70 in 1543. turned the brain-centric view of autism on behalf of children and families suffer- upside down. But this was no ordinary ing from autism. That makes him our first Galileo, by contrast, was an aggres- finding, for Wakefield’s specific chal- Age of Autism Galileo Award recipient. sive advocate for the truth as he saw it. lenge to the orthodox view of autism He used his telescope to provide clear science made him a target for the medi- Like many of our awards this year, this visual evidence that the sun occupied cal establishment. He published his first wasn’t a difficult decision. In fact, this the center of the solar system. He then major work in the prestigious journal The may be one of those unusual cases where published his evidence fearlessly in the Lancet, where the editor Richard Horton the recipient of an award in some ways prime of his life, starting while in his had full awareness of its controversial po- outshines its namesake. To understand 40s. And although for a while he ob- tential. But when the controversy turned why that might be so, you need to under- tained the approval of the Vatican to too hot to handle, Horton lost his nerve stand a bit more about why we chose to publish some of his work, he was even- and in a perfidious betrayal that - his name the award after the Italian scientist tually forced to spend most his later life tory should remember (see John Stone’s Galileo, what he represents to the history defending himself and his findings. For wonderful essay on Horton at note # 1), of science and how his experience com- as the significance of his observations Horton turned on Wakefield. pares with Wakefield’s. for the prevailing Catholic orthodoxy became increasingly clear, Galileo was Thanks to Horton’s perfidy, and again Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy derided as a heretic, denounced publicly like Galileo, Wakefield now finds- him in 1564. And while he was a physicist and and finally given an ultimatum: renounce self on trial for his license to practice mathematician of some note, Galileo was your theory or else. In 1633, he was put medicine in front of the General Medi- as much a practical mechanic as he was a on trial by the “Supreme Sacred Con- cal Council (GMC). And although the grand theorist; indeed it was his tinkering gregation of the Universal Inquisition”, GMC might defend the validity of its with convex and concave lenses that gave known today as the Roman Inquisition, allegations, it is plain to all who have fol- him the tools to leave his lasting mark on and convicted of heresy. Barely escaping lowed the case closely that the trumped the world. As a skilled inventor of early prison, Galileo spent the rest of his life up charges hold little merit. Still, the working telescopes, he did not design the under house arrest, where he died nearly outcome of the proceedings lies in con- world’s first telescope, but he was the ten years later. siderable doubt, for Wakefield has not first to make them powerful enough for been subjected to these months of review scientific use. In fact, the word telescope As Galileo’s telescopes allowed on the basis of any actual medical mis- (derived from the Greek roots skopein, him to discover the moons of conduct (not surprisingly, no parent with “to see”, and tele for “far”) was coined in Jupiter, so did Wakefield’s use of whom he worked supports the GMC’s 1611 to describe one of Galileo’s first in- new ways of seeing, in this case case). Quite clearly, and again like Gali- struments. For the accomplishments that an endoscope to see into a child’s leo in the face of the Roman Inquisition, flowed from his pioneering work, he has intestines, allow him to discover the offense for which Wakefield is really been described by many as The Father a distinctive gut pathology in on trial is heresy. And whenever an Inqui- of Modern Physics; Albert Einstein even autism. sition has begun to confront the conflicts went so far as to name him The Father of between religious orthodoxy and incon- Modern Science. venient evidence, one can never predict The many parallels between the Ro- how the High Inquisitors will render their But Galileo is celebrated today not man Inquisition and the Wakefield judgment. The only thing we can predict as much for his engineering talent as for Inquisition are uncanny. Like Gali- is that a process like the Wakefield -In the suffering he endured in support of leo, Wakefield came to autism both as a quisition is always more concerned with an unpopular scientific theory. Because practical man and a scientist; his initial appearances than justice. it was Galileo’s work with telescopes in involvement in autism was simply in the early 17th century that lent critical response to a group of parents who ap- Wakefield Inquisition continued on page 25 Page 24 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Wakefield Inquisition cont. from page 24 now declared that the temple of the sa- Wakefield Inquisition. It’s also why the Wakefield’s heresy comes at a- par cred program must never be defiled, and passionate call on a U.K. parents’ web- ticularly difficult time for the medical certainly must not be subjected to con- site, Cry Shame, is so deeply correct. profession that has placed him on tri- ventional safety research. So the obvious al. The twin pillars of its quest for the research project of comparing the total I wouldn’t in any way diminish the causes of human disease, germs and health outcomes in vaccinated vs. unvac- importance of Galileo, but in an interest- genes, have failed for years to explain cinated individuals has been rejected not ing way, Wakefield’s steadfastness in the the scourge of chronic disease: a scourge merely as too expensive, now it simply face of adversity outshines the man in that has replaced infectious disease as must not be done. In the Orwellian log- whose name we honor him. For, although the main public health problem of the ic of the CDC, such studies in humans Galileo finally agreed to recant his sup- developed world. In the face of a sim- would be “prospectively unethical” and port for heliocentrism, Wakefield has mering disquiet over what has become “retrospectively impossible.” never buckled under the pressure. Instead an increasingly embarrassing scientific he has stuck to his guns and continued failure, it has become ever more impor- Let’s be frank here. This is an episte- to fight for families with autism. Sup- tant to the profession’s high priests to mological obscenity: It’s not just that we ported by private funding, his research distract attention from the crumbling don’t know some very basic things about work has continued (stay tuned for some bulwarks of their belief system and take the safety of the sacred program, we more blockbuster results next year). And action to defend the tools and targets of also cannot know and should not seek to along with the terrific medical team at those pillars: the germ theory of disease know. This stance should offend even the Thoughtful House, courageous doctors that was medicine’s greatest contribu- most skeptical scientists. Still, the farce like Arthur Krigsman, Bryan Jepson and tion to human civilization and provided continues. Doreen Granpeesheh, he also continues its two principle tools, vaccines and anti- his clinical practice. biotics; and the genetic model of human I wouldn’t in any way diminish disease that has been medicine’s great the importance of Galileo, but in In the meantime, the heresy trial hope to succeed germ theory and the pre- an interesting way, Wakefield’s staggers onward towards its uncertain cious disease targets such as autism that steadfastness in the face of conclusion; the GMC’s verdict may well it hopes to explain. Seen in this context, adversity outshines the man in come shortly in the New Year. But our Wakefield’s heresies have been unusu- whose name we honor him. For, judgment at the Age of Autism is clear. ally threatening because they operate on although Galileo finally agreed Andy Wakefield represents the very best both fronts: they compete with the genet- to recant his support for helio- of the scientific tradition. He has perse- ic explanations of autism with a causal centrism, Wakefield has never vered in the face of obstacles that would model that threatens to tarnish the heroic buckled under the pressure. have stopped lesser men in their tracks. triumphs of germ theory. Instead he has stuck to his guns He has published continuously and fear- and continued to fight for lessly. He has pushed important research So like Galileo’s compelling work in families with autism. projects forward despite countless at- support of heliocentrism, Wakefield’s tempts to declare the work irrelevant, the dual challenge to vaccine development issues “settled.” He has dealt with oppos- and autism science has evoked a strong In the meantime, there remains a body ing evidence with the professional spirit response from the highest levels of of published evidence that must be dealt of a scientist while also following the ad- authority. In Wakefield’s case, his pros- with. And for this, since the retraction vice of Karl Popper that “he who gives ecutors have determined not only that of every published study is well-nigh up his theory too easily in the face of he must be shown to be wrong, he must impossible (some of Wakefield’s less apparent refutations will never discover also be punished. That means his work courageous co-authors famously “re- the possibilities inherent in his theory.” on autism (as well as others doing sup- tracted the interpretation” of the Lancet Along the way, he has unfailingly repre- portive work) must be stopped while he paper, but they couldn’t retract the evi- sented the issues in autism and the best must also be stripped of his credentials dence) there is only one answer left. principles of the scientific method with as a member of the medical profession. Nullify the source of the heresy itself. dignity and restraint. Most important of The modern punishment for heresy may Practically speaking, when establish- all, he has refused to be intimidated. not include death, but it can be exile and ment voices can no longer claim the excommunication. absence of causal evidence, the fallback For all this and more, we would like position must be that there is “no credible to honor Dr. Andrew Wakefield with our Casting the treatment of Wakefield as evidence” linking vaccines and autism. first Galileo Award. And like so many a religious response is the only way to Removing credibility from the evidence others in our community, I feel proud to make sense of the behavior of the medi- requires that the high priests get person- call him my friend. Let’s be sure to stand cal establishment over the last several al: they must mount a systematic attack behind him in the uncertain times ahead. years. If it were not so serious, its esca- on the personal reputations and integrity lating absurdity would begin to resemble of scientists who pursue and publish he- Mark Blaxill is Editor at Large for Age farce. One example is the latest defense retical lines of investigation. of Autism: http://www.ageofautism. of the ever-expanding childhood immu- com/2010/01/from-the-roman-to-the- nization program. Instead of embracing And this is why, decades after Stalin wakefield-inquisition.html#more √ the importance of improving vaccine and Mao, we now have the travesty of safety, the program’s defenders have a 21st century show trial in London, the VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 25 The Inquisition of Doctors Wakefield, Murch, Letters and Walker-Smith MMR Not Exonerated A Petition to General Medical Council (GMC) in United Kingdom (UK) Vaccines are the most lucrative prod- Sponsored by: Jaquelyn McCandless, MD and co-signers ucts of the legal drug market. They As a US board-certified psychiatrist these parents and evaluate their children contribute to the wealth of their makers and specialist in treating children with have no doubt of the significance of Dr. and shareholders, the media, researchers, Autism Spectrum Disorder, I want to Wakefield’s findings for this subgroup of statisticians, health authorities and those register a complaint regarding the UK’s autistic children. who administer them. In Britain, where General Medical Council (GMC) judg- gastroenterologist, Andrew Wakefield ment (28 January 2010) concerning The GMC stands in irrational denial of was recently professionally torched, doc- Andrew J. Wakefield, M.D., and two Dr. Wakefield’s now replicated findings tors receive a bounty on every patient colleagues. As with Semmelweis and and thereby stands in denial of appropri- they inject with vaccine. Little wonder puerperal fever, history will show that ate treatment for children affected with he was convicted for daring to suggest Dr. Wakefield should have been exoner- pathologies which Wakefield’s and other MMR vaccine might cause autism. ated, apologized to, and thanked for his researchers’ studies have elucidated(eg, original evaluations and findings in au- 5-9) . While the GMC ignores volumi- The point that’s rarely aired is that tistic children. nous anecdotal reports from parents of Wakefield never claimed to have proven children who regressed into autism, the a link. He’d found live measles viruses Since 1998, the findings reported and GMC portrays Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 pa- growing in the inflamed intestines of discussed in Wakefield et al 1998(5) have per as causing a turning away from the children who’d regressed into autism and been replicated and expanded. For in- MMR and reports one or two children were suffering from unrelenting stom- stance, a newly published study by U.S. dying of measles, while neglecting to ach problems. Upon testing the viruses, gastroenterologist Dr. Arthur Krigsman mention the thousands of children in the he’d discovered they were genetically et al(1) corroborates Wakefield’s findings same time period who became afflicted identical to the measles viruses in MMR. of lymphoid hyperplasia in a subgroup with autism. I daresay if you asked any He concluded what anyone but a quack of autistic children. Similar findings by large group of parents which they would would have: that further investigation another group have been presented as a choose—regressive autism or a bout of was necessary and high priority. Upon conference abstract(2) and are soon to be measles—do you believe anyone would researching the science literature, Wake- submitted for publication. choose autism? field learned that atypical concurrent exposure to multiple viral childhood in- I and numerous medical colleagues In their 1998 paper, Dr. Wakefield and fections has been associated with autism. who are trying to help suffering autistic coauthors made clear that they “did not Reasoning that injection of the three live children, various researchers, and many prove an association between measles, viruses in MMR might have a similar ef- parents of autistic children believe that mumps, and rubella vaccination” and fect, he recommended MMR be dropped the GMC has focused on trivial matters autism. Instead, they described an asso- and replaced with separate vaccines for as a way (i) to deflect justified criticism ciation between chronic enterocolitis and measles, mumps and rubella spaced sev- of the vaccination program and, as a autistic-like brain function and clearly eral months apart. Of course, this would direct result, (ii) to turn attention away stated that more research is necessary(5). likely have resulted in reduced uptake from the GMC’s complicity in ignoring of mumps and rubella vaccines since a subgroup of severely suffering children I affirm my appreciation of the research mumps and rubella are generally very injured by vaccinations (eg, 3-4). by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues and mild diseases. And, to some extent it believe his persecution by the GMC aris- would have increased the bounty pay- Importantly, none of the parents es because calling attention to subgroups ments government had to pay doctors. whose child participated in the original who have been injured by vaccinations Most of all, it would threaten what has Wakefield et al study(5) has filed a com- inappropriate for some children stands as become the very profitable religion of plaint against Dr. Wakefield. Instead, an act of heresy amid the strident ortho- “immunization”. numerous parents support Dr. Wakefield doxy of contemporary vaccination policy and his research and attest to the fact and related profits for patent-holders and In 1992, after analyzing 320 relevant that they have been ignored or criticized makers of vaccines. science articles, 180 Swiss physicians had for implying that vaccines may have found no medical evidence for advocating Jaquelyn McCandless, been involved in their children’s severe combination of the three viruses. Yet the M.D. & co-signers gastrointestinal disorders and autism. British Medical Association prohibited doc- Note: Dr. Jaquelyn McCandless’s peti- tors from using the single-virus vaccines. tion to GMC was accompanied by 1572 In 2006, Peter Fletcher, former UK Dept of Clinicians repeatedly hear case histo- co-signers: http://www.thepetitionsite. Health Chief Scientific Officer and Medi- ries of children whose parents describe com/1/complaint-regarding-the-uks-gen- cal Assessor to the Committee on Safety of their child’s adverse reactions to the eral-medical-council-gmc-judgment-28- Medicines, stated: “There are very power- MMR vaccines, including regression and january-2010-concerning-andrew-j √ ful people in positions of great authority the onset of significant and persistent gut problems. Clinicians who listen to Letters continued on page 27 Page 26 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 26 Take me for example. I am the grand- to summarize in one word our Royal in Britain and elsewhere who have staked father of one of those children. I am a Free experience that word would be their reputations and careers on the safety pediatrician, a former assistant clinical “SPECTACULAR”. of MMR and they are willing to do almost director of a teaching hospital and a for- anything to protect themselves… It’s en- mer director of pediatrics in a community Now if I had to describe in one tirely possible that the immune systems of hospital. I know and understand “Quality word my perception of the GMC a small minority simply cannot cope with of Care” inside out: I taught it to resi- hearings, that word would have to be the challenge of the three live viruses in the dents and required it from staff. “OUTRAGEOUS”. MMR jab and the ever-increasing vaccine load in general.” I certainly can state without hesitation What is happening to Professor Walk- that we were always treated with utmost er-Smith, Professor Simon Murch and MMR is likely also contributing to courtesy and that our boy received out- Dr. Andrew Wakefield, three dedicated much more pervasive, albeit less dev- standing care at the Royal Free. Thanks and wonderful physicians is unjust, un- astating problems than autism. In the to Professor Murch, who was his doc- fair and unforgivable! Foreword to Neil Miller’s outstanding tor, the awful GI difficulties subsided F. Edward Yazbak, Pediatrician ‘Vaccine Safety Manual’, retired neu- gradually and never recurred. Sometimes Falmouth, Massacusetts 02540 rosurgeon, Russell Blaylock, discusses Professor Walker Smith would see him what can happen when live measles virus in coverage and help us immensely. Both ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ from MMR migrates to a child’s brain. He writes, “Any subsequent vaccinations or infections will greatly aggravate the immune/excitotoxic degeneration of the child’s brain. This can result in devel- opmental language problems, learning problems, behavioral problems (irrita- bility, anxiety, depression, and violent episodes), in addition to seizures.” The M-M-R® II monograph lists many pos- sible reactions including rash and fever, parotitis (commonly known as mumps), eye and ear disorders, blood problems, arthritis, seizures, Guillain-Barré syn- drome, and encephalitis. Susan Fletcher, Sechelt ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤

How Unfortunate! Letter to the British Medical Journal, March 2, 2010 Meeting Dr.Wakefield again at a March 2007 Editor’s note: Dr. Yazbak points a finger autism conference in Vancouver, Kieran and Cynthia of shame at Dr. Wakefield’s Inquisitors,at gentlemen were at all times caring, kind, In Support of Dr. Wakefield the General Medical Council (GMC), courteous and as everyone knows most the protracted hearing/trial which lasted knowledgeable. I’m a Canadian mom, and share my fam- a number of years in their persecution of ily’s story, since the decision regarding Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues and what I also met Dr. Wakefield at the time Wakefield’s research effects us all globally. has been overlooked by the media – the and was thoroughly impressed with his exemplary treatment of all the children on-going research and his prior achieve- My child fell into autism directly after involved in treatment and studies at the ments. I have yet to find a single valid his 12 month MMR vaccine. He had the Royal Free hospital. reason for his persecution. typical triple-threat 3-part trigger of:

The question is really not “What took Our family was simply jubilant when a) Genetic susceptibility (I myself the Lancet so long?” The question is: our big boy was accepted in the “study” became learning disabled (also on the “Why did the GMC take so long and and we can attest that all his testing was autism spectrum), after contracting mea- spend all this money and effort without justified, fully and clearly explained and sles, as did another close relative. interviewing all available parents and expertly carried out. He was never hurt grandparents of the children who suppos- or injured in any way. In fact he looked b) Toxic overload from, among other edly were tortured and traumatized at the forward to his trips to Hampstead. things, multiple times above the stated GI unit at the Royal Free Hospital?” If after all this time we were asked Letters continued on page 28 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 27 “safe” levels of heavy metals (mercury and sue, to be able to envision what’s been development. aluminum) in his baby vaccines, and finally; causing my son’s pain. It would have been easy for him to ignore the obvi- When Connor was born in 1998, he c) Three live viruses (measles, mumps, ous truth, as so many others have done. was a healthy 9lb boy. His birth was and rubella) having been directly injected But he pursued the truth, having to move induced, and my labour lasted from into his body, bypassing the normal first away from his family, his country, and Tuesday at 8:00pm until 3:45pm on Fri- defenses of his underdeveloped immune at risk of losing his very livelihood. I am day afternoon (June 26th). Connor was system—an immune system already so grateful to him. He is my biggest hero. very healthy, and alert and I was able to crippled by toxins which had set up shop successfully breastfeed until he was a in his gut tissue because he was unable to I am only one in a great sea of parents, year old. excrete them. who had been told that what happened to our child was a “coincidence”, even I too was absolutely religious about I first met Dr. Wakefield at an NVIC “normal”. Dr. Wakefield had the decen- following the vaccination schedule for my conference in the US in 2000. My 27 cy and respect to listen to his patients, son. He reacted violently to every needle, month old son had been diagnosed with and the scientific curiosity to investigate and many times he suffered from explo- autism 7 months before, and was tod- the possibility of a link between MMR sive diarrhea, which resulted in a horrible dling about at his feet. I approached him vaccine and severe bowel problems in red rash on his bottom. Then the ear infec- to ask if he would see my son. I told him children with autism - at great risk to tions started. From 12 months old until 36 he’d been having unimaginably horrible himself when he suggested that the The months old—Connor had 9 confirmed ear gastrointestinal (GI) problems since the MMR Emperor “has no clothes!” infections—all treated with antibiotics. It day after his 12 month MMR, including was like a round robin of antibiotics, diar- burning GERD (reflux), explosive diar- When our beliefs about the perceived rhea, rashes and high fevers for him. It rhea and vomiting, and a refusal to eat benefits and risks of the nature of our also resulted in a temporary loss of hear- anything but milk (by then soy milk), medicine and science fail us, as so of- ing for Connor. I could see a problem chips and black plums. He also had a ten they do, from the Earth not being the with his speech and how he was reacting grapefruit-size impaction of constipation center of the universe to ignoring global to things around him. seen on a recent x-ray. My son had been warming, we can’t run around shooting miserably sick for 15 months by then, the messengers. We have to pick our- At three, he had tubes in his ears. They with no end in sight. Our local Children’s selves up off the floor and do what’s fell out a year later. At the same time, Hospital GI specialist said it was “nor- right, no matter the cost to our wallets he developed what looks like ringworm mal” for a child with autism to be so sick. and egos. on his legs. To me—it looks bacterial. It has never gone away completely. It Dr. Wakefield listened compassion- I made the mistake of leaving my seems to have changed the texture of the ately, gave me the contact information to son’s medical decisions to perceived ex- tissue under the areas. The rings spread see a colleague, and then asked “Do you perts, and my son has paid the price. We out, and fade in colour but they stay. The think the MMR caused your son’s au- need true scientists like Dr. Wakefield to dermatologist had no idea what it was, tism? I gave a resounding YES! I was so look at what really happens, and to tell and still does not. Then, I was given a used to doctors telling me it was just a us all of the information, no matter how host of treatments for the condition. “coincidence” that I felt a rush of hope to uncomfortable or unpopular it may be, so finally feel a doctor maybe believed me. we can make informed decisions. By this time, Connor was ready to start school. And after an assessment, I A little while later, one of the confer- We’ve been on the media as well. The discovered (as I already suspected) that ence speakers asked “If you think the links are: the hearing loss had altered his normal MMR caused your child’s autism, please http://www.vran.org/news-art/news/news_files/ development. His speech at five was still stand up.” It was an amazing shock to me Van-Courier-Shot-Down.htm garbled, and he was unable to sequence to see so many other parents standing up http://aboutautism.blogspot.com/2005/10/safe- or organize ideas. and look at each other in disbelief, sud- from-what.html (paragraphs 11 & 12 denly realizing we weren’t alone. This http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ By this time, I was starting to develop wasn’t an isolated event affecting just ubcreports/2004/04may06/04may06.pdf (page 7) a distrust for any treatment prescribed to our own child. I was stunned. In the spirit of truth, Cynthia Stark Connor, or my younger son Aidan. In- ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ stead of accepting that Connor would I made the decision to speak publicly always be a “slow” kid—I began look- about what happened to my son, in or- ing into teaching him on my own, using der to encourage other parents to do Vaccination reaction techniques used to teach autistic chil- the research they need in order to make dren. I also began to radically change an informed decision about this and any My name is Jocelyn Burzuik, and I am many things in our environment. I threw other medical procedures that may carry the mother of my 11 year old son Connor out all kinds of household cleaners, and serious risk of injury to their child. Dunitz, and 9 year old son Aidan Dunitz. chemicals, stopped using gallons of sun- screen on the boys, and began to look I’ve seen Dr. Wakefield occasionally at While reading the story Clayton’s at the family’s nutritional plan. I began autism conferences, and it’s fascinating story on your website—I was horrified to see his slides of normal and injured tis- to see the similarities to my own son’s Letters continued on page 29 Page 28 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 28 that professionals trained in this field are ing cough, as well as the other childhood removing processed foods, increased or- giving us the right information? I took diseases, means that s/he will be immune, ganic foods, began raising many of our the time to find out, to be pro-active and probably for life. So called ‘protection’ of- own animals for food, and turned to natu- trust my instincts as a parent. How many fered by a whooping cough vaccine lasts ral therapies for everyday concerns. parents are able to do that? How many only a few years which explains the many have the resources available to do that? outbreaks in 95% vaccinated populations. As a new mother, I clung to the words From ages 5–8, Connor was able to Jenny L. Craig rebound in his overall development. To- given to me by my doctor. Now, I take day, he is a relatively healthy, very bright nothing at face value. ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ 11 year old and right where he should be Jocelyn Burzuik in his educational development. ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Flu preventative made in the From age 3 to 9, Connor also suffered Kootenays from constant bouts of “impetigo”. When he was nine, I realized it was actually Whooping Cough Outbreak To the Editor of the Nelson Daily News MRSA. Once again, our dermatologist To Editor, Nelson Daily wanted to put Connor on powerful anti- News—February 5, 2010 I want to announce an AMAZING dis- biotics to “treat” the MRSA and told me covery!! A flu preventative. One that is he could never get rid of it. I refused Whooping cough (pertussis) is endem- made in the Kootenays! treatment for Connor, and we began ic in this area of the Kootenays in BC, treatments using coconut oil, oregano and there are outbreaks every 3–4 years. All you need is a horse’s hoof, oil, tea tree oil, and ionic silver. Since In healthy children, that is, those whose (detached from the horse of course), pref- then, the spread of it has stopped com- immune systems have not been damaged erably from a horse that died of a noxious pletely. And where the open sores were by vaccines, the disease is usually mild. disease. (Following the tradition of using —there is now healthy tissue growth. He So there is no reason for the media to go decaying animal parts in vaccines). This still has some scarring from the sores on into the frenzy it should reserve for the hoof should bear a horseshoe. (Preferably his arms and legs, but it is getting better current epidemics of autism, cancer, leu- one that fits, but it doesn’t really matter every single day. kaemia, asthma etc. that are the result of as the hoof will not be used to walk on). the vaccination programs. My son Aidan also followed the vac- Having acquired your shoed hoof, you cine schedule until age two. Then he had Whooping cough is undoubtedly an store it in a Styrofoam box in the fridge. one shot to go to school at age five. The uncomfortable experience for a child. (It keeps for ever so you don’t need to date result to the vaccination I believe, was They can be helped to handle the experi- it). When you are ready to use it, bring it that he developed asthma. After vac- ence by: out so it reaches room temperature. cination, over a period of a few weeks, he would go through periods where his • Steaming the room. Gather interested friends around you breathing was extremely laboured. For • Taking Vitamin C 200-500 mg. twice in a candle lit room at any time of the day 18 months, I was told nothing was wrong a day. or night. Sit cross-legged on the floor. —until they saw Aidan’s weight. Aidan • Avoiding cough suppressants. (Unless you are over 65 and you may had gained only 2lbs in 18 months and • Using rescue remedy – for both child use a small stool.) Solemnly pass the almost nothing in height. Then they ad- and parent! hoof around from person to person. Each mitted there was a problem. He used an • Consulting a homeopath or naturopath person kisses the hoof three times as the inhaler for about six months, and this as there are many useful homeopathic others chant, “Timendi causa est nescire” coincided with the determination of Con- remedies. meaning “Ignorance is the cause of fear.” nor’s MRSA. Everything in our home Naturally, because they don’t know went natural, and our diet has continued any better, official sources will recom- And that’s all there is to it! I tried to eliminate all kind of processed foods, mend vaccination. Pertussis vaccine this on eight friends and NONE of them white refined sugars and more. contains: aluminum hydroxide and got flu. I also interviewed eight people aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, gel- who had had flu and not one had kissed I also refused any type of vaccination atine, polysorbate 80 and the good old a hoof. This shows that hoof-kissing is for either boy including the Hep B and degradation products in every vaccine. EQUALLY as effective as a vaccine! flu shots. Degradation products are parts of de- cayed viruses or cells, unknown bits and Think how much money the govern- Now, I have two boys that are healthy, pieces, foreign protein particles, viral ment could save if it simply provided active, and right where they need to be oncogenes (might cause cancer), added horse hooves instead of vaccines. We both physically and intellectually. chemicals and DNA fragments that the might even get our hospital staffed and industry doesn’t want you to know about. our ambulance workers back. And I don’t My concern has always been why does Aluminum is a neurotoxin. In fact, per- hold a patent; I offer my discovery with it have to be up to the parent to verify tussis vaccine is actually used to induce best wishes for your health. every bit of information coming from a encephalitis in experimental animals. J.L. Craig √ doctor, or pharmacist? Why does a parent have to go above and beyond to ensure Allowing your child to have whoop- VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 29 CHUM—Hôpital Notre-Dame, told CTV. a March 17th ‘Vancouver Sun’ article for Newsclips ca, “For most individuals who develop which she interviewed Dr. Gina Ogilvie, Flu study review irks Allison genital warts, it’s just a matter of time BCCDC associate director of sexually when their bodies will fight it off. It can transmitted diseases prevention and con- The value of giving flu shots to nurs- take six months, two years, three years, but trol. Ogilvie suggests Quebec’s highest ing home workers has been scrutinized in for 95 per cent of individuals, the immune Canadian uptake of 80% was due to the latest Cochrane review on influenza. system will fight off the infection…Warts French language media not carrying as Drs Roger Thomas and Tom Jefferson don’t kill but you have to go for treatment many anti-HPV-vaccine stories as their analyzed five studies conducted between and retreatment for recurrences. So there English language counterparts. 1997 and 2009. Lead author, Thomas of is a psychological and physical burden of the U of Calgary, reported, “What troubled getting infected with genital warts.” With over 120,000 doses injected us is that [shots] had no effect on laborato- to date and, according to Fayerman, ry-confirmed influenza… What we were But whether Gardasil will reduce the in- “only one adverse reaction in a girl who looking for is proof that influenza ... is cidence of genital warts remains to be seen. experienced an allergic response,” Ol- decreased. Didn’t find it. We looked for Coutlée notes “there are about 40 genital gilvie crows, “The vaccine has, in my proof that pneumonia is reduced. Didn’t types around”. And, just as for cervical mind, an excellent safety profile...with find it. We looked for proof deaths from cancer, the major effect of HPV vaccine a .01-per-cent adverse-event rate!” Not- pneumonia are reduced. Didn’t find it.” In could be an increase in cases due to shifts withstanding this very dubious data, a similar study in 2008, Jefferson found to predominance of non-vaccine HPVs. Fayerman reports Olgilvie does admit, “it little evidence that flu shots had any im- http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CT- will take about 10 years to learn if there pact on the length of hospital stays, time VNews/20100223/gardasil_men_110223/2010022 is a reduction in pre-cancerous lesions.” off work and death rates in healthy adults. 3/?hub=CalgaryHome and, “The vaccine is known to offer full Even biochemist Graeme Laver, co- protection [against some HPV infection] inventor of the flu shot, has “never been ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ for at least seven years, but a booster shot very impressed with its efficacy.” may be required if its effect wanes.” http://www.vancouversun.com/health/officials+se But Allison McGeer, infectious disease Conflicted ruling negates ek+boost+vaccinations+girls/2692238/story.html specialist at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hos- mercury-autism connection pital, claims that injecting workers with ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ influenza vaccine reduces the amount of The long awaited verdict of the US influenza-like illness and the number of Court of Federal Claims re three ‘test cases’ deaths from all causes in nursing-home for establishing vaccine mercury as an ac- Pregnant women offer their residents. Apparently unable to see the ab- knowledged cause of autism is negative. unborn babies to science surdity of her claim, McGeer shows her Thousands of pages of scientific documen- incredible lack of self-awareness by add- tation and testimony showed that thimerosal “Immunology” forges ahead with a ing, “Scientists are passionate about what more likely than not contributed to the au- study to test the theory that shots containing they do. All of us have belief systems and tism of petitioners, William Mead, Jordan antigens of tetanus, diphtheria and pertus- sometimes, as with any human endeavour, King and Colin Dwyer. But in ‘Vaccine sis, along with toxic ingredients, could be your belief system overwhelms the scien- Court’, as Mary Holland, Esq remarks: injected into pregnant women to protect tific evidence…The purpose of scientific “Government attorneys defend a govern- their unborn babies. The Canadian Center method, the purpose of publication is to ment program, using government-funded for Vaccinology is conducting a 2-phase get back the objectivity and we are not do- science, before government judges.” Is this study, the first phase on 50 “healthy” ing that effectively with Dr. Jefferson.” In situation any better than that in Canada? The pregnant women. If their babies’ antibody McGeer’s home province, annual flu shots fact that, except for Quebec, we have no levels are maintained up to 7 mos “as ex- are “free” to anyone who wants them while vaccine compensation system, effectively pected”, phase 2 will commence with 390 taxpayers are bled another $23 million. rules out any admission that any vaccines other pregnant women. The test vaccine have caused any injuries to anybody. is ADACEL®, the so-called placebo, Td. ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ The April, 2009 ‘Consent and Authoriza- [email protected] tion Form’ states that protecting infants by ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ vaccinating pregnant women “is routinely Gardasil for Canadian males done with tetanus vaccine”. http://www.centerforvaccinology.ca/page.php?page=47 In February, Health Canada approved HPV vaccine given extra push in BC Gardasil for use in boys and men aged nine ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ through 26. The intent is to prevent genital Disappointed that only 62 % of BC warts in both sexes said to be caused by HPV girls have been vaccinated against HPV strains 6 and 11 plus cervical cancer in females (second only to Canada’s other laggard, Head of Danish junk research said to be caused by HPV types 16 and 18. Ontario at 50%), “BCCDC plans to put investigated for fraud more effort into educating health profes- Dr. François Coutlée, who’s been re- sionals in regions across the province so On the heels of the infamous Wakefield searching the use of Gardasil in men they can share more information with at the Molecular Virology Laboratory, parents.” So says Patricia Fayerman in Newsclips continued on page 31 Page 30 ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ VRAN Newsletter trial comes damning news about Paul But, oblivious to this possibility and even Serious Lung Infections in Children Thorsen, MD, an author of a 2002 study denying the study’s conclusions, Dr Al- which purported to provide “strong evi- lison McGeer, Canada’s outspoken flu Jump After Introduction of Pneu- dence against the hypothesis that MMR “expert” maintains that not just children mococcus Vaccine—Jan 11, 2010 vaccination causes autism.” According to but everyone, needs the flu shot! A comprehensive national study by ‘The Copenhagen Post’, Thorsen was head http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/ UC Davis researchers has found that the of a joint research project of the US CDC, CTVNews/20100309/flu_vaccination_100309/2 introduction of an early childhood vac- the University of Southern Denmark and 0100309?hub=Health and http://www.nytimes. cine for bacterial pneumonia (Prevnar 7) Aarhus University, Denmark, investigat- com/2010/03/10/health/10flu.html nearly a decade ago has decreased the in- ing possible causes of autism. It’s alleged ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ cidence of pneumonia, but the drop was that, although he resigned from this post accompanied by a dramatic increase in at Aarhus a year ago, he continued to pass the incidence of a serious and sometimes himself off as head of the research. Aarhus Drug maker accused of unsafe life-threatening complication. The re- University also claims that the researcher searchers conjecture that the doubling of took another permanent position at Emory practices gets FDA & Health Canada vaccine approval the incidence of empyema, the complica- University in Atlanta, USA (home of the tion which causes pockets of purulence, or CDC) while still employed by Aarhus. December 22, 2009—Following a pus, around the lungs, may partly be the re- Priority Review, Health Canada has sult of the vaccine eliminating certain types Police have filed charges relating to approved Prevnar 13 [Pneumococcal of pneumococcus, creating the opportunity apparently forged applications for fund- 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diphthe- for other bacteria to take its place. ing of the research for a total of 10 million ria CRM197 Protein)] The new vaccine kroners, one-eighth of the project’s to- includes the seven strains in Prevnar (4, Though responsible for less pneumo- tal budget. Meanwhile, the 2002 MMR 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F and 23F) as well nia overall, those serotypes may lead to study and the three other Danish studies as six additional strains (1, 3, 5, 6A, 7F more complicated pneumonias, such as which claim to have shown there’s no and 19A) It is intended for children aged empyema, when they do occur. In addi- link between vaccine mercury and au- six weeks through five years for active tion, the incidence of empyemas caused tism have all been thoroughly debunked. immunization against invasive pneu- by staphylococcus, another bacterial Nevertheless, health authorities includ- mococcal disease. There are over 90 cause of pneumonia not addressed by ing those who trashed the meticulous serotypes of the pneumoccoal organisms. pneumococcal vaccines, appears to be in- research of Wakefield and colleagues, creasing. This increase in staphylococcal continue to claim it’s proven that vac- Prevnar 13 is to replace Prevnar 7. empyemas may be due to more virulent cines don’t cause autism. The six extra types of man-made sub- and antibiotic-resistant forms of staphy- http://www.cphpost.dk/component/con- stitutes for pneumococci which are in lococcus, such as methicillin-resistant tent/48525.html?task=view Prevnar 13 are said to cover 10 % more staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). of all pneumococcal disease in the US ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ than its predecessor . If, as health offi- The researchers also found that since cials say, pneumococci cause dozens of the introduction of the PCV7 vaccine, the US deaths annually, anywhere from one average age of children with empyema is Hutterite children grant hope to a few extra deaths might be prevented. decreasing. For children younger than 5 Also prevented could be flagging rev- years old, the rate of empyema hospitaliza- With flu shot validation once again enue for Pfizer once Lipitor, its top drug, tions increased 100 percent, from 3.8 per obliterated by a Cochrane review, Hutterite loses patent protection next year. 100,000 in 1997 to 7.6 per 100,000 in 2006. children have provided a glimmer of hope for health officialdom. A study by Dr Mark The problem with vaccine suppression of In March, Pfizer was taken to court by Loeb of McMaster U showed a 60 percent organisms with multiple serotypes is that as a former employee who accuses the cor- “protective effect” for the whole community some serotypes are artificially suppressed, poration of unsafe lab practices. Becky when the children were vaccinated. In 25 other serotypes rush in to fill the void. When McClain, a molecular biologist involved Hutterite colonies, all 3–15 yr olds received one is eliminated, it creates an opportuni- in vaccine development, suspects her acute flu shots in late 2008; by last June, more ty for another to take its place. In the US, intermittent paralysis was caused by genet- than 10 percent of everyone in placebo- where Prevenar 7 was introduced in 2000, ically engineered lentivirus being studied vaccinated colonies had had lab-confirmed researchers have reported an emergence of while protective equipment was faulty. non-‘pandemic’ influenza whereas less than “sero-replacement” disease—types of pneu- http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/ 5 percent of those in flu shot colonies had. monia not covered by the vaccine. Children_s_Health_200/Serious_Lung_Infec- Hutterites were chosen for the study be- tions_in_Children_Jump_After_Introduction_of_ cause their lifestyles were considered ideal As we tinker with the microbial world Pneumococcus_Vaccine.shtml to demonstrate a possible “herd effect”. and dislodge the natural balance of organ- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/ isms in relationship to each other, we risk business/25vaccine.html The glaring flaw is the Hepatitis A even more severe manifestations of disease. http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc- vaccine was used as placebo. One won- pfizer-virus-lawsuit-0314.artmar14,0,1763939. ders if the “herd effect” would have been ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ story √ reversed if a true placebo such as saline solution or no vaccine had been used. VRAN Newsletter ¤ Spring 2010 ¤ Page 31 VRAN Membership and Order Form Suggested Annual Membership—$35 or $75 professional Includes Newsletter 3X a year & ongoing support of vaccination risk education P.O. 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