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jdc 325, on June 29, 2010 at 8:29 pm said:
An open letter to Clifford Miller:
Clifford, your graph is misleading, out-of-date, and inaccurate. Acute measles infection has claimed lives in years when your graph predicted no deaths would occur (and this prediction was said to hold even if no-one were vaccinated according to CHS). No amount of goalpost-shifting (or exclusion of deaths that are proving to be so inconvenient to you and your daft graph) can possibly save your out-of-date and misleading graph.
The text on Child Health Safety is even worse. I can only hope (for the sake of your reputation) that you are not the author of the following:
By 2007 the chance of anyone in England and Wales dying of measlesif no one were vaccinated was less than 1 in 55 million.
This is a truly moronic statement. The graph is not only inaccurate, misleading and out-of-date, but also contains figures for deaths from measles in a country with measles-containing vaccine coverage that has been at or above 80% since the introduction of MMR in 1988. How on earth can you (or anyone else) possibly justify using the figures for measles mortality in a country with 80%+ levels of vaccination to suggest that the chances of death if no one were vaccinated would be less than 1 in 55 million? Quite simply, you can’t.
Do you genuinely believe that, in the event of a zero rate of vaccination, measles mortality will decrease as incidence of measles increases? If so, then you’re even dafter than your graph.
In the first half of the 1980s, when measles coverage was around 52-62% [WHO figures], there were roughly 450,000 cases of measles (about 90,000 per year), there were 80 deaths (16 per year) and the mortality rate was 5-6,000 (cases of measles per death from measles infection). [Figures from the HPA.] In 1988, the year single measles vaccine was phased out in favour of MMR, there were 86,000 cases of measles and 16 deaths from measles. In 2006, there were nearly four thousand cases of measles and one death from acute measles infection. In 2008, there was at least one death from acute measles infection and there were 5,000 cases. [HPA, provisional data for 2008.] Mortality from measles was around 1 in 5000 in the 1980s – the same as it is now. A return to the levels of vaccine coverage seen in the early 1980s would see a return to the level of deaths from acute measles infection that we had during the 1980s. [And it isn't 'just' people with immunodeficiency who are at risk of dying from acute measles infection. Take, for example, the case of the Duisburg outbreak in Germany. [Note: link goes to a PDF.] The two children who developed encephalitis and died were aged 2 months, and 2 years. The infant was too young for vaccination and would have relied upon herd immunity for protection. It’s also perhaps worth noting the following: “Measles-related complications were more common in younger children.” … “Overall, 77 (15%) interviewed patients were hospitalized for a median duration of 6 hospitalization days (range 2–97) and a total of 693 days.” That 15% of cases required hospitalisation for an average of six days does not suggest that measles in 2006 is ‘nothing to worry about’ as so many anti-vaccine campaigners are keen to imply. For all of us, but especially for those with younger children, measles is certainly something to fear.]
All it would take to kill hundreds in the next decade would be for vaccination coverage to drop sufficiently. It wouldn’t even have to drop to zero – somewhere between 55-75% ought to do it. And this is, apparently, what the anti-vaccine lobbyists (which includes those such as you, John Stone, and Child Health Safety) are striving for, using your daft graph with its odd trend line as ‘evidence’ to support its wacky ideas.
To end on a happier note… since vaccine coverage dropped to a decade low of 80% in 2003, rates are beginning to rise again and from 2007-2009 were back up to 86%. Hopefully, we will soon see vaccine coverage reach the level that provides herd immunity and deaths and serious complications from measles infection will be considerably less likely to occur. This rise in vaccine coverage might suggest that some of those initially concerned by the false claims of Wakefield, Jabs, Child Health Safety and others that MMR was associated with regressive autism have realised that they were misled. Increased awareness of the risks of measles may also be a factor in this rise.
You are losing the battle, Clifford…
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childhealthsafety, on June 29, 2010 at 10:51 pm said:
Thanks for your comments.
There is a graph and there is a trend line. A trend line is not a “prediction” but shows a trend. The trend shows measles mortality falling away to a probability less than 1 in 55 million by 2007 in England and Wales. These are official statistics. It is difficult to escape what the evidence shows.
The claimed vaccination rate to prevent measles epidemics [and they used to be 600,000 cases a year] is 95% coverage. In south-east London, England the official statistics show that only 50% of under 5′s have had both doses of MMR. 20% have had one dose and 30% have had neither. No epidemics. No deaths.
As we noted in our previous post this is fully backed up by the data from the Health Protection Agency.
There were only two deaths from acquired measles infection since 1992. So that is well below an average of 1 in 55 million. Both individuals were very sick children whose immune systems were compromised, one by serious illness and the other was on immuno-suppressant drugs – he could have died from anything – a common cold. These were not healthy ordinary kids. Why risk the adverse reactions on millions of ordinary kids and the chronic conditions which result in millions of people?
Even you can see that. Maybe you are genuinely concerned to come here to post. What you have to appreciate is that other people are genuinely concerned. This is not about “anti-vaccine” but about risk vs risk – benefit has dropped away. It is about risk of the vaccines vs risk of the natural disease.
Is that what these disagreements are truly about?
The fact is the risk equation is very different in 2010 to that in 1910.
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childhealthsafety, on July 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm said:
jdc 325 says about himself on his blog [jdc 325.wordpress.com/about/] that he is James Cole and he is formerly unemployed and now employed as a barman and as an admin worker.
“Res ipsa loquitur” as we say in Barnsley.
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jdc 325, on July 1, 2010 at 8:24 pm said:
Res ipsa loquitur? I’m not quite sure how that particular phrase relates to the information in your comment. The legal term doesn’t seem relevant, so I guess you’re arguing that my employment status “speaks for itself”. Not sure how that’s relevant to my or your comments on measles though…
I’m also somewhat amused by the fact that someone who remains anonymous seems to think that the job I do is somehow relevant to the points I make here. If your arguments rest on appeals to authority or, rather, my lack of authority – then how about you show me yours (I have, after all, shown you mine).
I’m touched by your interest in my employment status, but I fail to see its relevance.
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sbnaturally, on August 7, 2010 at 12:46 am said:
You mentioned:
Incidence rates are also misleading. Medical professionals are notoriously poor at diagnosis. At the moment in the UK cases of measles are over-diagnosed a minimum of 10 times to 16 times. Official UK data comparing reported cases to laboratory confirmed cases shows this. Diagnosis goes through fads in the medical professions and where there is a great deal of publicity over-diagnosis shoots up.
Can you tell me where the source of this information is so I may read more about this?
Thanks!
[ED: It is well-known. For an example take a look here:-
"Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics""Doctors substantially overdiagnose measles cases especially when they believe it is a possible diagnosis. Doctors were told the vaccine prevented children getting measles when introduced in the late 1960′s so after that time a substantial reduction in diagnoses would be expected.Examples of recent overdiagnoses of measles when there are measles “scares” are proportionately up to 74 times (or 7400% overdiagnosed). Figures and sources follow the next paragraph."]
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www.thetruthhurts.co.uk » Blog Archive » Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics, on August 11, 2010 at 11:37 am said:
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Homeopati fungerar » Blog Archive » Vaccin är inte mänsklighetens räddning, on August 13, 2010 at 7:52 pm said:
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Sandra, on October 1, 2010 at 4:24 pm said:
This is a FABULOUS compilation of data! Thank you so much!!
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Jane Citizen, on October 13, 2010 at 11:57 am said:
I dunno…..
The pro vaccinators are convincing in their concern over deaths. I just wish they’d turn their efforts to other things that cause deaths. Like cars and guns. But somehow I doubt they would support banning cars or guns. So their logical concern about non vaccination and resulting deaths is lost on me.
The pro vaccinators are convincing in their concern over deaths. I just wish they’d turn their efforts to other things that cause deaths. Like cars and guns. But somehow I doubt they would support banning cars or guns. So their logical concern about non vaccination and resulting deaths is lost on me.
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Vaccines Did Not Save Us! Two Centuries of Official Statistics « Truth on Medecine, on October 25, 2010 at 2:00 pm said:
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drjalgajer, on October 30, 2010 at 5:48 pm said:
This is awesome work. Thank you for pouring yourself into this. I will passing this information on to everyone I know.
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Ursula, on October 30, 2010 at 8:22 pm said:
Somebody asked if anybody had seen an unvaccinated autistic child. One of my granddaughters is severely autistic, with zero speech development and no attachment to anybody (she doesn’t distinguish between her parents, siblings and total strangers at all). She has had a severe seizure disorder from the age of three months, and this has caused brain damage.
She is an exception, as I believe that most cases of autism are caused by vaccines. Which is evidenced by the fact that the Amish don’t have autistic children (they also generally don’t vaccinate). The only two autistic Amish children I’ve heard of were adopted, and were vaccinated before adoption.
http://www.endowmentmed.org/index.php?Itemid=38&id=284&option=com_content&task=view
http://www.endowmentmed.org/index.php?Itemid=38&id=284&option=com_content&task=view
[ED: are you sure about the vaccines? On the US schedule the Hep B vaccine is given at birth and another shot in the second and third months. It does happen that the shot is given at birth and parents may not even be aware it was done.]
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debra, on October 31, 2010 at 5:23 pm said:
I see bias and defensiveness in both parties here…those for the vaccines, and those againse. It would seem to me that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. While, granted, some of the diseases are not as serious as others, (mumps or rubella for children) and maybe not require vaccinations, and some maybe should not be given so early (hep B) the unaltered facts (from both parties) should be laid out before the parents and let the parents make a clearly unclouded choice as to what is best for their child. It seems that the writer(s) of the article are crediting vaccinations for the rise in such things as diabetes, asthma, etc., in children. There is a plethora of other causes for an increase in these diseases…and, the greatest among them may be childhood obesity. Be cautious about throwing around ideas which are unsubstantiated. A reason that more research has not been done is not a simple matter of the medical profession and drug companies not wanting to do it; rather, consider the possibility that it may be unethical to have clinical trials where some children are refused a vaccine, or vice versa. You may decide what is ethical in your own minds. Good luck in all of your research—both sides!
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jbird, on November 1, 2010 at 2:32 pm said:
Dear Ed, thank you, again and again. I knew it in my heart not to vaccinate my child, since then i have found much back up for my thoughts. Sustainability, environment friendly, health and good food, to the government, is not a profitable organisation. War, death, NHS, is what the government spends money on, it is a profit which will increase, until the money runs out. Fear, sickness and depression is what the officials thrive off.
I love to talk to doctors to inform them what else happens, and help with their contradicting conformism.
Ed what you are saying, is gold dust and more and more we are finding cures to these from nature. Just today i read info on hemp, and psilocybin, curing the health and wellbeings of the human kind, and of the earth wellbeing. There are ways of improving our lives and what you displayed here is at the point where we understand and more forward. People on this comment box who have negatively answered against you, have their right full say, but are also a massive victim of the fear tactics. They have so been believed against what you are saying that the anger comes into play resulting from the fear. Its not their fault, they just got conditioned when they were younger.
Blessings to you, lets move forward….one love
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Vaccines Did Not Save Us! – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics | Sovereign Independent, on November 2, 2010 at 8:43 am said:
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wendy, on November 2, 2010 at 1:42 pm said:
I’m very grateful to all the professionals who do the right thing and provide these stats and education. My kids are 20 and 17 now, never vaccinated and extremely healthy. I’m so glad I took the time to properly research all of this when they were born.
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Nick, on November 2, 2010 at 4:47 pm said:
Harmful vaccines given to kids, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
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NeueserAuto, on November 2, 2010 at 5:38 pm said:
First, test the vaccines to see if they work. A humoral response to an immunogenic challenge does not equate to immunity. Most current testing is inadequate.
Determine safety of the vaccines.
Avoid all fraudulent research, which is rampant.
If safe and effective, provide people to opt in or opt out of the vaccines. No mandates, no nazis.
Allow people to sue for vaccine damage.
Solves the current crisis.
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Lisa, on November 2, 2010 at 6:50 pm said:
Thank you for this. I’ve read a lot about vaccinations and have heard about these statistics, and have studied a few. But so glad someone really took the time to put all this together. My children and I are vaccinated. I used to be content with what our doctors would tell us. But, the Swineflu made me wonder, and I started to do some studies on my own. I would not have vaccineted my children when I know what I know today. Glad to say we are healthy though.
Could not find info about the sender of this site. Who is? Background?
Could not find info about the sender of this site. Who is? Background?
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Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics | Dprogram.net, on November 2, 2010 at 10:39 pm said:
[...] (ChildHealthSafety) – This is the data the drug industry do not want you to see. Here 2 centuries of UK, USA and Australian official death statistics show conclusively and scientifically modern medicine is not responsible for and played little part in substantially improved life expectancy and survival from disease in western economies. Read More Here [...]
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Marilynn, on November 3, 2010 at 8:47 am said:
Thank you for all the work you put into compiling this information. I hope it will dissuade many from having their children injected with industrial toxins.
I don’t need graphs to tell me how bad immunizations are. My firstborn was given the DPT combination and his reaction was extreme: raw, excoriated flesh in the diaper area and non-stop blood-curdling screaming. A friend gave me an herbal tea to calm him and it helped the poor exhausted infant sleep. (That was my introduction to alternative medicine, which I used while raising four children.)
My son & his wife decided in favor of vaccinations, but waited until their firstborn was a toddler to have him injected. He exhibited many symptoms of autism (withdrawal, moodiness, rejecting affection) immediately following the shot. Fortunately the symptoms gradually subsided over several weeks and he returned to being a cheerful, loving child. We’ll never know if the temporary effect was due to being older and how severe the reaction might have been had he been injected as a newborn. God save the children!
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Robin, on November 4, 2010 at 5:02 am said:
Well done, I am deeply thankful you have compiled such a comprehensive and in my opinion conclusive article on the dangers of vaccinations. One day I’m sure you will be properly thanked for your contribution to the well being of mankind.
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Vaccines Did Not Save Us! – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics | The Paradise Post, on November 4, 2010 at 6:39 am said:
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Jeff, on November 4, 2010 at 9:54 pm said:
Thanks for the time you’ve put into this.
My son was vaccine damaged. It’s taken us years to heal him, and will take years to pay the debt. We tracked it back to the MMR.
If anyone is interested, look up how many girls have died from the Gardasil vaccine. Don’t believe the casual references saying that there’s no link between the deaths and receiving the vaccine. Check it out for yourself.
I have worked in healthcare for the past 9 years. One organization that I previously worked for has a world renowned research center. Three years ago they released the results from a long term study showing that it could not be proven that the annual flu shot proved affective for seniors. Later that same year the clinical side of the organization still encouraged seniors to “Get their flu shot”. This year’s shot for seniors has a triple concentrated dose. It has not been tested.
Do your own research before getting any vaccine. Your health may depend on it.
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mario, on November 7, 2010 at 3:22 am said:
please generate a pdf version of this article to download.
thanks
thanks
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keith, on November 13, 2010 at 12:46 am said:
I see a lot of people saying “these graphs show mortality rates, not incidence rates so therefore it means nothing”. Mortality rates are the most reliable indicators of disease. One of the most commonly used lies in medical science is to quote incidence rates as those are not reported correctly and easily manipulated. This is covered in a classic statistics book called How To Lie With Statistics.
Mortality rates are the most reliable disease statistic to use. If you see someone using incidence rates then you must question the source and the motive behind it. You must also check so many variables that you will not have access to.
There are also graphs for incidence rates of diseases that show the same as these for mortality, however they are not honest.
I recommend anyone confused by this to read How To Lie With Statistics. It is a very useful book if you’re going to be reviewing any medical studies or statistics of any kind, especially those performed and skewed by the pharmaceutical industry. They constantly rely on lying with statistics and understanding how they lie can help you understand the truth.
I’m glad this site presented the truth honestly and transparently. I hope more people will learn to understand statistics and the important of using mortality rates.
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Jason, on December 9, 2010 at 3:42 am said:
I myself am a vaccine victim. Anthrax vaccine in 2000 caused my immune system to turn on itself. Of course, the military doctors were plugged in and programmed to play stupid and deny it, even though I had symptoms THE SAME DAY. Following years of alternative therapy to regain my health (somewhat) I vowed to make sure that I never put my children through the hell I went through with vaccines. We just had a beautiful baby boy four days ago, and we refused the Hep B shot. That, in combination with good nutrition while his mother was pregnant has resulted in a very healthy (jaundice level 2) baby.
I can’t believe how incompetent our doctors are. They lie and tell everyone that they will never get their children in to day care or school if they don’t submit to foolish vaccinations such as hep B. I will NEVER let anyone vaccinate my child EVER!!!!! It’s so sad the people in this country are like sheep.
I can’t believe how incompetent our doctors are. They lie and tell everyone that they will never get their children in to day care or school if they don’t submit to foolish vaccinations such as hep B. I will NEVER let anyone vaccinate my child EVER!!!!! It’s so sad the people in this country are like sheep.
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grace, on December 11, 2010 at 4:52 am said:
Interesting. A note to start with: I don’t care what authorities in your country say. They might be in some conspiracy, they might be acting, because they care and are convinced. “Saved millions of lifes” is probably an exaggerated claim. Whatever.
Couple of questions though:
1) Why is you first graph “deaths per 55 mln”? This is a rather unusual way of repporting mortality, although I don’t know if it matters. A lot happened to the population of England and Wales since 1900….
2) “Correlation does not imply causation”
Your graphs do not PROVE anything, although they provide us with interesting correlations. The fact that you CAN provide alternative explanations doesn’t mean they do explain the whole situation. How much do you think nutrition and health care actually improved since 1968? I don’t know that, but you haven’t even tried to convinced me that they did.
Your graphs do not PROVE anything, although they provide us with interesting correlations. The fact that you CAN provide alternative explanations doesn’t mean they do explain the whole situation. How much do you think nutrition and health care actually improved since 1968? I don’t know that, but you haven’t even tried to convinced me that they did.
3) There is scientific evidence that vaccination prevents infections and/or disease (ever heard of secondary immune response?). Are you suggesting we should stop vaccinating because MOST people would not die of eg. measles in developed countries? What about those that would die, because they didn’t get the vaccine (and were unfortunate enough to be susceptible, malnourished, immunocompromised etc)?
4) Now, incidence (and there are some limits to how overreported it WAS) is also important for health care, at least in financial terms. Maybe it’s simply cheaper to provide nation-wide vaccination than rescue those infants in ICU?
5) Leicester is a (probably) good example that you can prevent an epidemic of a deadly, immediately and always symptomatic disease by sanitation. Now, measles for example, as you mentioned, is not always symptomatic, moreover it spreads like wildfire. It it ANYTHING but smallpox. Another explanation could be that Sheffield was for example less densly populated during the outbreak in other cities.
5a) Smallpox is actually a very good example of an eradication that succeded thanks to vaccination (unless you want to claim there’s been a considerable improvement in living conditions in the 3rd World).
6) Mumps is the least necessary of routine vaccines. Funny that the article (BMJ, Gupta et al) you claim proves people should be exposed to mumps naturally, actually claims the opposite. The outbreak in question is correlated with drop in vaccination rates. So it’s probably not the low efficacy of the vaccine. Moreover, have you heard that viruses tend to mutate in the wild? Like flu does it each year. So what’s better, vaccinate or give the virus thousands of hosts so that it gets better at what it does? Not to mention hospitalization costs again.
7) No link between autism and MMR has been proven.
For the future – less graphs, more analysis (with all due respect, it’s all a little difficult to follow). Take a statistics, virology and immunology courses or read some coursebooks. Talk to some open-minded doctors/scientists, who aren’t just claiming things. Know your enemy, before you start fighting them.
[ED: Ha, ha, ha. Obviously a comedian.]
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grace, on December 11, 2010 at 9:56 pm said:
I am sort of flattered that while you’re taking on much less serious comments, you decided to dismiss mine.
Maybe I just lost the ability to see my own irony, but I don’t see much of a joke in my comments (maybe besides the first and last paragraph).
I challenge you to respond to my arguments. Otherwise you’re no better than the people you’re rightfully criticizing for claiming “mlns saved by measles vaccine in UK”.
[ED: It is pretty funny for you to lecture on statistics.Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Jeremiah Chapter 5 - Verse 21The only sensible and the simplest way to normalize a graph covering 100 years of statistics across an entire population where mortality steadily fell before vaccines were introduced from 15,210 per 55 million in 1901 to 112 per 55 million in 1967 [a fall of 99.26%] is to present the data in the way it has been done.So are you saying the vaccine miraculously jumped in a time machine and was responsible for the 99.26% fall in mortality all by itself and no one noticed? Perhaps you think it was aliens vaccinating people in their sleep and erasing their memories.And despite the evidence showing the steady year on year fall in mortality you want to suggest the steady fall in mortality over the prior 67 years just halted when the vaccine was introduced?That is ridiculous or comedic or both. Either way it would be a bit of a miracle.Lets have sense and science please – not this mumbo jumbo rhetoric.
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grace, on December 13, 2010 at 7:36 pm said:
Glad we’re talking. Glad we agree on sense and science. Sad you didn’t read my post, answer most of the questions and used reductio ad absurdum on claims I didn’t make.
I actually agreed with you on measles vaccine not being the primary cause of mortality drop and you haven’t even noticed. Let’s make it clearer:
I actually agreed with you on measles vaccine not being the primary cause of mortality drop and you haven’t even noticed. Let’s make it clearer:
1) Do you, or do you not agree that there is scientific evidence that vaccines can prevent contracting the disease (NOT necessarily mortality)?
2) Do you, or do you not agree that contracting the disease is necessary condition for dying from it (if you exclude disease-related homicide)?
3) Do you, or do you not agree that if measles vaccine prevents contracting the disease, using it might be commendable, taking into account the fact that measles might require hospitalization and/or may cause pneumonia, encephalitis and corneal ulceration leading to corneal scarring?
4) Do you claim constant improvement in sanitation and health care in England and Wales since 1901 till 1999 is the ONLY conceivable explanation for measles mortality reduction? What is the scientific basis for your claim?
6) Do you claim that the same kind of improvement lead to eradication of smallpox WORLDWIDE?
7) Do you, or do you not agree that smallpox and measles are two different viruses in terms of genome, genome size, symptoms and transmission (among others)?
8) If I show you a graph in which a straight line marks the relation between amount of sold ice cream and violent crime, would you think eating ice cream causes violence or vice versa?
9) There’s no scientific evidence that MMR causes autism. In fact there’s good evidence that it doesn’t (eg. a review by Wilson et al. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2003).
[ED: Still hilarious.You make a list of statements without setting out any case or evidence to back them up and then expect someone else to say if they agree or disagree.We can do that too. Do you agree that serious adverse reactions to vaccines are substantially under reported? Do you agree that vaccines have been causing asthma and allergy on a wide scale? Do you agree that the risks of vaccines outweigh the alleged benefits?You also confuse evidence with proof and substitute "scientific" evidence for any form of evidence regardless of how good or even superior to scientific evidence it might be.If evidence is collected in a "scientific" manner or according to a "scientific" method that might be called scientific. So if your graph correlating ice cream sales to violent crime was collected in a scientific manner it might be classed as "scientific" evidence - but as proof it might be junk or it might not - one would have examine the "evidence" to form any view.I love the smallpox example. It is scientifically impossible for smallpox to have been eradicated by vaccination. Take a look here:-Of course medical professionals could not admit to any of that because they would have to admit to allowing themselves to being duped their entire careers. But an impartial and objective scientific analysis will have some difficulty accepting the medical profession's "consensus" opinion on the matter.Let us hope the western military wake up to this before there is a military and security catastrophe [albeit Gulf War Syndrome already has been something of a catastrophe - particularly for the many victims and their families in our armed forces].And of course there is scientific evidence that MMR causes autism.Why else do you think we can quote statements made by very senior health officials and government agencies on the matter:That is aside from the fact that the original Wakefield Lancet study is “scientific evidence”. Dr Ben Goldacre has admitted to its validity in a recent interview:-“Also, this was a 12 subject case series report – it was a description of only 12 children’s clinical anecdotes, and while this is not good evidence to say MMR causes autism, it is a perfectly legitimate thing to publish.”
Health info – sorting the wheat from the chaff [Posted: Mon 22/11/2010 by Niall Hunter, Editor –http://www.irishhealth.com
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grace, on December 15, 2010 at 5:10 am said:
Dear George,
Still no answer (I kind of start liking our little, internal jokes).
I didn’t make any statements there, barring one about no evidence for linkage. Otherwise than that – you are the one who challenges the consensus, burden of the proof lies with you.
Ice cream. A graph with accompanying statistical tests can never be a proof of anything else than a correlation. Then you may interpret it.
Your interpretation of measles graph, based on two rather nice articles, is that sanitation/health care is the ONLY explaining factor. I agree this is something worth considering. I have a reasonable doubt, however, that sanitation and healthcare have improved so substantially since about 1950s as to be the WHOLE explanation henceforth.
Moreover, something I haven’t noticed before – if you make a regression on years 1955-65 your curve will have a slope that is not significantly different from zero. 10 years of no improvement and suddenly off we go. Here you have it – evidence (as in “not proof”) that it would not at all be hilarious that sanitation improvement stopped being the decisive factor and vaccination took over.
Now let me answer my own questions since you’re not bold enough to confront them:
1 – vaccines work) There are years of scientific studies into the nature of human immune system. Our understanding of it is not perfect, but proofs of immune memory and secondary immune response are copious. Even you’d agree that contracting many diseases provides you with immunity to them. Ever since Lady Montagu started using variolation we know that using attenuated (non-virulent) or killed pathogens may provide us with similar kind of immunity without the same danger as exposing ourselves to the virulent agens. It is true, unless you purport that millions of intelligent and diligent people that SOME scientists are made it all up and live in denial ever since.
Admittedly, there are cases of vaccines going astray (Urabe, oral polio that we still give to 3rd World Countries, Thimerosal), but this doesn’t mean vaccines don’t work.
Admittedly, there are cases of vaccines going astray (Urabe, oral polio that we still give to 3rd World Countries, Thimerosal), but this doesn’t mean vaccines don’t work.
2 – infection precedes death) No doubt about that (unless your rabbid neighbor kills you in a fit of rage).
3 – being healthy better than sick) Excellent questions. Here btw comes an answer to one of your questions (about allergy and benefit ratio).
Yes, I believe using measles vaccine is commendable even if it just prevents the disease. Two reasons: personal suffering/complications and hospitalization/epidemics control costs.
Complications – pneumonia, encephalitis and corneal scarring – are associated with wildtype infection. Maybe it’s somewhat more attenuated now than used to be, but why take chances of it mutating? Why take the chances of children getting encephalitis, which in some cases leads to — why, autism.
Now there is some substantial piece of untruth on you website – there IS a difference between a wildtype virus that you think we should be contracting and a live-attenuated virus that is in MMR. MMR viruses are not virulent (there’s been Urabe strain, but they don’t give it to Brits anymore).
Give evidence/proof that this is not the case. Give me links to alleged allergy connection, I will consider it.
Yes, I believe using measles vaccine is commendable even if it just prevents the disease. Two reasons: personal suffering/complications and hospitalization/epidemics control costs.
Complications – pneumonia, encephalitis and corneal scarring – are associated with wildtype infection. Maybe it’s somewhat more attenuated now than used to be, but why take chances of it mutating? Why take the chances of children getting encephalitis, which in some cases leads to — why, autism.
Now there is some substantial piece of untruth on you website – there IS a difference between a wildtype virus that you think we should be contracting and a live-attenuated virus that is in MMR. MMR viruses are not virulent (there’s been Urabe strain, but they don’t give it to Brits anymore).
Give evidence/proof that this is not the case. Give me links to alleged allergy connection, I will consider it.
4 – other theories) I made my case at the beginning.
6 – “sanitation eradicated smallpox”) Obviously not. We still have favelas, slums and dilapidated Indian villages. We don’t have smallpox though. Nobody denies isolation works best (Leicestre), but how feasible is it in a crowded city with no real health facilities? Ever read “La Peste” by A. Camus? Leicestre doesn’t prove or isn’t even evidence that the same tactic was used all over the world.
Your website is fighting some claims that “ring vaccination” didn’t save the day and I’m inclined to agree (who cares now if it was “ring” or not?) as long as you agree with the article you’re quoting [Kaplan et al.] which provides a very nice correlation between vaccination and incidence of smallpox.
As for attenuation – you provide some very weak circumstantial evidence in form of “there was an attenuated strain”. It takes more to prove it contributed. Can you provide any evidence/proof?
And I don’t know where you’re going with monkey pox. It’s a different virus. It’s like saying “polio is on the brink of extinction, but maybe not because we have hepatitis A” (FYI they’re in the same family).
Your website is fighting some claims that “ring vaccination” didn’t save the day and I’m inclined to agree (who cares now if it was “ring” or not?) as long as you agree with the article you’re quoting [Kaplan et al.] which provides a very nice correlation between vaccination and incidence of smallpox.
As for attenuation – you provide some very weak circumstantial evidence in form of “there was an attenuated strain”. It takes more to prove it contributed. Can you provide any evidence/proof?
And I don’t know where you’re going with monkey pox. It’s a different virus. It’s like saying “polio is on the brink of extinction, but maybe not because we have hepatitis A” (FYI they’re in the same family).
7 – smallpox v measles) Smallpox is an extremely complex DNA virus that changes so little we could vaccinate ourselves with its distant cow pox cousin. Small pox is symptomatic before it’s infective – and hell, you don’t want to be near a person that’s symptomatic. Measles on the other hand is relatively small RNA virus that starts being infective before it’s symptomatic. It spreads by aerosol, which is somewhat easier to catch (ever tried dodging common cold or flu?) than in case of smallpox (blood and mucosal transmission). Bottom line – smallpox and measles are different, isolation is even more unlikely to work for measles than smallpox.
8 – ice cream) Oh, it was of course about “confounding variable” – heat. Warm days make children buy ice cream and adults entertain themselves in violent ways. But you know all about it (somewhere on the website you mentioned it).
9) Who is Dr Ben Goldacre? Also I love your out-of-context quotation (paragraph preceding the one you quoted): “But you have to remember this paper didn’t actually say MMR causes autism, it didn’t even speculate on that. It was accompanied by an editorial that said by the way people should be very clear that it doesn’t mean that MMR causes autism.” The study has been RETRACTED (because of ethical considerations) by Lancet, a thing they didn’t do “in the heat of the moment” (it was at the beginning of 2010) and they don’t do very often. More importantly, the study could not be replicated by other researchers and a lot of cohort studies showed no correlation between MMR and measles.
Take the most recent one: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100210/Measles-vaccine-does-not-increase-risk-of-autism-in-children-reveals-Polish-study.aspx
So what’s that scientific evidence, again? Hannah Pollings case, who received 5 shots agains 9 different diseases and probably had an underlying condition? Baylie Banks possibly suffering from “non-autistic developmental delay”. Even if – one boy against millions.
10) “Do you agree that serious adverse reactions to vaccines are substantially under reported?” (your question) No, is it a consensus I’ve missed? But bring it on, I want to see evidence. And funny that measles incidence is overreported, but serious consequences of the vaccine are underreported. Funny that CDR is constantly reporting that most (if not all) confirmed cases of measles are in unvaccinated people (but you’re not against efficacy of vaccines, are you?)
Sample: http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2005/cdr2505.pdf (also the one you’re quoting to prove 74 times overdiagnosis).
FINAL STATEMENT: I wish you were a reasonable guy willing to be a watchdog over something that should be watched. I have no doubt that wrong decisions were and are going to be taken for bad and good reasons alike, that journals publish unreliable science sometimes, that some scientists have ulterior motifs etc. But you have to be better than them. Are you willing to meet me on middle ground or are you just going to ignore everything as some internet troll would? (I hope this sound pompous enough).
Take the most recent one: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100210/Measles-vaccine-does-not-increase-risk-of-autism-in-children-reveals-Polish-study.aspx
So what’s that scientific evidence, again? Hannah Pollings case, who received 5 shots agains 9 different diseases and probably had an underlying condition? Baylie Banks possibly suffering from “non-autistic developmental delay”. Even if – one boy against millions.
10) “Do you agree that serious adverse reactions to vaccines are substantially under reported?” (your question) No, is it a consensus I’ve missed? But bring it on, I want to see evidence. And funny that measles incidence is overreported, but serious consequences of the vaccine are underreported. Funny that CDR is constantly reporting that most (if not all) confirmed cases of measles are in unvaccinated people (but you’re not against efficacy of vaccines, are you?)
Sample: http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2005/cdr2505.pdf (also the one you’re quoting to prove 74 times overdiagnosis).
FINAL STATEMENT: I wish you were a reasonable guy willing to be a watchdog over something that should be watched. I have no doubt that wrong decisions were and are going to be taken for bad and good reasons alike, that journals publish unreliable science sometimes, that some scientists have ulterior motifs etc. But you have to be better than them. Are you willing to meet me on middle ground or are you just going to ignore everything as some internet troll would? (I hope this sound pompous enough).
[ED: zzzz zzzz zzzz. Oh hi, sorry dropped off reading all that. And without references to back it up too.]
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grace, on December 15, 2010 at 6:14 pm said:
That’s the spirit! To lose by default…
I congratulate you on identifying yourself as a troll. May grace be with you.
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Larry Cook, on December 26, 2010 at 9:44 pm said:
Hey, great page! I’ll be posting a link to it in my next video interview with a mom who was able to completely reverse Autism in her son with biomedical treatment. I’m putting this web address link on her commentary about vaccines and why she won’t ever vaccinate again, and what happened to her son after she had vaccinated. You can look for the video on autismisreversible.info in a few days; I hope to have it on youtube within the next 24 hours (my channel is larrycook333) – feel free to post the video into this page because it’s a great interview.
Larry
larry@thenaturalguide.com
Larry
larry@thenaturalguide.com
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Raymond Obomsawin, on December 27, 2010 at 4:47 pm said:
In the British Medical Journal (1928) Dr. L Parry made the following observations:
Smallpox is five times as likely to be fatal in the vaccinated as in the unvaccinated
In highly vaccinated areas e.g. Bombay & Calcutta – smallpox is rife, while in minimally vaccinated areas, such as Leicester, it is almost unknown.
80 percent of the smallpox cases admitted into the hospitals have been vaccinated, with 20 percent unvaccinated
80 percent of the smallpox cases admitted into the hospitals have been vaccinated, with 20 percent unvaccinated
Germany – the best-vaccinated country in the world – has more smallpox deaths proportional to the population than England. HOwever – in 1919, there were 28 smallpox deaths in England, compared to 707 In Germany
L. A. Parry; Fatality Rates of Small-Pox in the Vaccinated & Unvaccinated; British Medical Journal; Jan. 21, 1928; p. 116 (http://www.bmj.com/content/1/3498/116.1.full.pdf+html)
[ED: Thanks for that most interesting reference.]
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Cristen, on February 3, 2011 at 10:33 am said:
Hi, I thought you’d like to know that I came to your page absolutely against vaccination in most cases, but your arguments in the comments section have really made me change my mind. I’m really concerned that you seem to ignore or obfuscate anything which goes against your point of view.
For example, ‘Grace’ makes gracious and logical arguments, in fact very convincing points, which you seem unable to answer, and instead resort to insults and demand references, when most of Grace’s arguments are not based on research but straightforward logic. This helps no-one.
Please, if you genuinely believe in what you are saying, answer questions put to you with the respect they deserve. Despite what Grace suggests, I hope that you are not a troll, and I’m writing this in the trust that you are not.
I genuinely suspect that there is something wrong with vaccination programmes, but there doesn’t seem to be a wise, clear and reasonable voice saying this. The most gracious arguments always come from those in favour of vaccination. This is so frustrating, and leads me to think that maybe I’m mistaken about this whole thing.
I really don’t think you’re helping your case.
Best Regards
Cristen
Cristen
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Cristen, on February 3, 2011 at 10:34 am said:
when I say ‘really made me change my mind’, I mean *nearly
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Rob, on February 7, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:
Some fascinating and well-documented research offered here. God bless.
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Coralee Fishbeck, on February 13, 2011 at 6:10 pm said:
I like this weblog so much, saved to fav.
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Mike Watson, on March 16, 2011 at 6:21 pm said:
Thank you so much Ed for your due diligence in doing the research and organizing this vital information.
Vaccines are absolutely useless and are entirely based on profit. Prevention of disease is all about a healthy lifestyle. Humans were not born with dysfunctional immune systems. Logic would dictate that if people needed vaccines to stay healthy and alive, that we would of been extinct thousands of years ago.
I think its crazy how the data is so obvious and people still argue against it! Why do people defend vaccinations so much? I’m scared for the future of the human race. Now with over 69 vaccines given to new born babies, this can be the biggest travesty of modern medicine. The irony of it all is that most medical doctors claim to be evidenced based, but there are zero unbiased double blinded studies which prove vaccines work. Yet the MD’s still peddle the vaccines!
If anyone would like further insight into the lunacy of vaccines you should read this book which comes with references:
“The Sanctity of Human Blood : Vaccination is Not Immunization” by Tim O’Shea
Thank again Ed! Your work is greatly appreciated. You are SAVING LIVES for every parent that opens there eyes and refuses vaccinations for their babies!
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Aishath, on April 20, 2011 at 8:39 am said:
Hi, I’m a medical doctor working as senior medical officer in a department of paediatrics in the tertiary hospital in Male, Maldives. I’m studying epidemiology and came across your site while searching on vaccines, which I’m studying in detail these days.
It is interesting to note from the graphs you have put up (Figure 1: Reported measles cases and death per 100,000 population, United States, 1912-1975) that while measles mortality dropped before vaccination, due to improved sanitation and better nutrition, the incidence remained the same at 200-400 cases per 100,000 population until the 1960’s, since when, incidence has dropped markedly to a minimum, with a later peak which still didn’t go above 40 per 100,000 population! The beginning of the decline coincides with the introduction of Measles vaccination in the early 1960’s.
You seem to be having problems interpreting graphs and available information. See, it is a known bias in scientific research that when we look for information with a particular objective in mind, we are generally biased to find more on what we seek, and neglect available information on what we don’t want to see.
Same with Diphtheria. You seem to be misinterpreting graphs by showing overlapping graphs in the same picture on 2 different scales. The all age deaths show an obvious decline from the 1940 nationwide campaign for diphtheria immunization. This is obvious in the deaths in all ages graphs from above 50-70 per 1 million to almost baseline. The deaths in infants graphs are drawn in deaths per 1500 infants. A drop from 100 to 50 per 1500 after 10 years of vaccination campaign corresponds to a 50% decrease in disease over 10 years. If shown in the same scale as all deaths, it would correspond to 0.075 per 1 million, in this graph with the correct scale, it both values would be touching the baseline! Not very useful to show a visual difference, but shows that the difference of scale make huge differences in interpretation. Such graphs drawn in different scales should be interpreted with caution.
I’m sorry you are misleading many people with such misinterpretation of some actually good data that you have by highlighting the aspects you personally believe in and ignoring the rest of it that may give different information.
As you rightly say, the decision to vaccinate is based on risk vs. benefit. I’m neither a promoter of vaccines nor anti-vaccines, but simply would like to promote good health. No single intervention against disease works on its own. Hygiene, sanitation, clean water supplies and good nutrition at the turn of the 19th century have been the most effective measure in reducing illness from communicable diseases. Vaccines are shown to be the 2nd most effective measure, next to clean water in reducing disease burden. (WHO). This is why governments spend large amounts in providing vaccines at affordable costs or free to their populations. You could see the effects of both these from most of the graphs through the early 20th century, where disease or deaths start dropping early, before introducing vaccination, timed with improved sanitation and nutrition, then continue to drop even more after introduction of vaccination. What we need to understand, though, is that several measures carried out together make a health intervention more effective. Vaccination goes hand-in-hand with good nutrition and sanitation and other preventive measures. No single measure can prevent disease by 100%, as interaction of various factors lead to disease. Any medicine or any herbal product, for that matter can have side-effects. The choice to vaccinate should be an informed decision based on risks vs. benefits. Risks are possible adverse effects plus how common they are, and for those with religious concerns, what goes into vaccines and how it is prepared. Benefits include what diseases do the vaccines prevent, what are the problems and long-term complications of the disease, and how common are these complications (vs. those of the vaccine to prevent the disease? Often unanswered questions also include the prevalence of the disease where one lives, if it is not common, why vaccinate? (Answer: because if a disease is introduced into a non-immune population, it could spread very fast and cause huge losses in lives and disability) Doctors and health workers unfortunately often don’t know the answers and details of risks and benefits, or don’t have this information at hand when their patients ask them, and this is a common reason for vaccine failure (not vaccinating children).(Deters et al, 1997). Most people then resort to the internet for info, which may often be biased, or focus on risks only (adverse effects of vaccines) overlooking the effects of the disease that is targeted to prevent. I found the New Zealand Immunization Advisor Centre website: http://www.immune.org.nz/?t=622 very useful for health professionals and anyone who could understand the medical information to check out the actual complications of vaccine preventable diseases along with frequency of occurrence and the reasoning behind vaccination. It’s a good resource for anyone who wishes to compare benefits of vaccination (under individual disease giving details of the disease) vs. risks (adverse effects given under ‘vaccinology’.
Vaccines are not the best means of prevention for all diseases. Scarlet fever and typhoid are diseases that are treatable by antibiotics and preventable by good hygiene. Although vaccine is available for typhoid, the efficacy is lower, and public health officials do not promote universally vaccinating all children against typhoid! Influenza another disease that may not benefit everyone from vaccination. Note that in most countries, it is available commercially (for sale) and not subsidized by governments. The disease is not severe, except in extremes of age, and the virus continuously mutates, so the vaccine strain may only be effective for a short epidemic of the particular vaccine strain (generally for about 1 year or a season). It may benefit elderly, who carry higher risk of death from influenza.
Vaccines that have been used extensively in humans over long periods of time with proven reduction of death and disease burden include vaccines included in childhood vaccination programmes (EPI programmes) in most countries. These vaccines are given to reduce diseases with high burdens of death and/or disability (eg. polio, measles), where effective curative treatment (eg. antivirals) is not available or limited in efficacy (eg. Hepatitis B). These are fully funded (available free) or subsidized by governments after considering (with technical advice form agencies like the WHO) whether these diseases are prevalent in their countries, or may cause huge losses if introduced into a non-immune community, and the benefits of the vaccines, vs. risks.
Do you suppose any government would want to spend more money compensating or treating children disabled by vaccines than what they spend on vaccination or treating the vaccine preventable diseases?
The adverse effects of most EPI vaccines and their frequency of occurrence are monitored, reported and well known as these have been used extensively. They are available on medical websites, including the one I’ve mentioned above, so that people may compare these with effects of the disease. They are continuously under surveillance, and changes continue to be updated. Eg. SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Sydrome) which actually has a peak occurrence at the same age that infants are vaccinated, was thought to be associated with vaccination, some early studies seemed to support it, but more extensive controlled studies showed that the incidence is purely coincidental. Some parents later thought that measles vaccine caused autism in their children. Autism is another disorder that is generally noticed and diagnosed at approximately the same age as that when measles vaccination is administered. This is the age when children begin to communicate with meaning and interact socially. However, many controlled studies have not shown a link, and the measles vaccine does not even contain the incriminated agent (thiomersal) many blame for autism.
Do you suppose any government would want to spend more money compensating or treating children disabled by vaccines than what they spend on vaccination or treating the vaccine preventable diseases?
The adverse effects of most EPI vaccines and their frequency of occurrence are monitored, reported and well known as these have been used extensively. They are available on medical websites, including the one I’ve mentioned above, so that people may compare these with effects of the disease. They are continuously under surveillance, and changes continue to be updated. Eg. SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Sydrome) which actually has a peak occurrence at the same age that infants are vaccinated, was thought to be associated with vaccination, some early studies seemed to support it, but more extensive controlled studies showed that the incidence is purely coincidental. Some parents later thought that measles vaccine caused autism in their children. Autism is another disorder that is generally noticed and diagnosed at approximately the same age as that when measles vaccination is administered. This is the age when children begin to communicate with meaning and interact socially. However, many controlled studies have not shown a link, and the measles vaccine does not even contain the incriminated agent (thiomersal) many blame for autism.
Hope this enlightens you and the readers of this site to look at information in a more balanced way, so you could make better informed decisions.
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childhealthsafety, on April 20, 2011 at 10:42 am said:
Thanks for the lecture. There are a number of significant errors in your thinking. You choose to take particular inferences from data as if true without challenge. As you say:-
“it is a known bias in scientific research that when we look for information with a particular objective in mind, we are generally biased to find more on what we seek, and neglect available information on what we don’t want to see.”
But that is not limited to scientific research.
You choose diphtheria vaccine as an example when it is abundantly clear that the vaccine could not have been responsible for the dramatic fall in diphtheria mortality between 1940 and 1946. The majority of children went unvaccinated during that perid, until a catch-up campaign in 1946.
You choose to believe that the fall in reported measles cases in the US was due to vaccination. The simplest explanation – Occam’s razor – is that measles cases ceased to be over-reported and began being under-reported. The US CDC told US doctors that measles would be eradicated in 12 months by vaccination. Doctors diagnose what they believe and not what they see. That is well-known.
There is much more but until you can take off the blinkers, you will not see. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
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Chris Hemmings, on May 9, 2011 at 5:05 pm said:
Yes, I too must add thanks for a clearly deep trawl into the existing data. As I keep writing three billion years of evolution have honed our immune response to be a very sensitive system that we should not have the audacity to attempt to improve upon. Far better to respect its deep subtleties and seek to assist them gently through nutritional, lifestyle and clean healthy living. The medico-industrial complex live in a bizarre world where the simple is complex but conversely they see complexity as simple. So “a jab gives lifelong protection” looks at profound interference as a neat done deed without considering all the knock on ramifications and distortions that ensue.
Clear examination of all the facts time and again demonstrates this. Do we have a momentum for change building or must we just let a few realise in each generation and hope that’s enough? I want the former!
Clear examination of all the facts time and again demonstrates this. Do we have a momentum for change building or must we just let a few realise in each generation and hope that’s enough? I want the former!
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Chris Hemmings, on May 9, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:
Sorry, I must just add a bit more as I spent the last five minutes reading the good doctor’s letter, above. Really I try so hard to see their World, to try to understand how the can remain so terribly blinkered. I go with your reply, site, but must just add how the last two paragraphs epitomised how far the medics have to go. Given that vaccine damaged kids and adults must be helped and supported as much as is possible perhaps there should be a form of amnesty offered. You know so we can all agree how terrible it has been and that we’ll all work together to develop a new and non damaging approach to maintaining health. But we’ll not resort to the courts and let them retrain and re-educate themselves. We know that they thought it was the right thing to do.
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ewebb16, on May 29, 2011 at 1:36 pm said:
hey have you guys ever had smallpox? yeah me neither, weird…
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Johnson L, on July 30, 2011 at 12:16 am said:
Nice article. But I must say lot of BIG PHARMA shills commenting here. These fu*** should be put in jail together with other people involved who know these things are bad but still don’t admit to it because of self interests. Hopefully one day we start caring about actual health instead of big profits.
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Paula, on August 23, 2011 at 2:10 pm said:
Ed,
So sad that you could not reply to Cristen’s comment.
Paula
So sad that you could not reply to Cristen’s comment.
Paula
[ED: It is. It is sad we cannot publish comments which have never been posted. Who the hell is Cristen? The only recent comment on this article we did not post is the one blaming everything on people of the Jewish faith - so if that is Cristen you have nice friends.]
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Colin Bishop, on August 27, 2011 at 3:12 am said:
I love reading your material. I love reading the “replies” from the “plants” – they are obviously “medical people” that are desperate for the truth to be kept hidden from us “low forms of intellegience”.
I am a silicofluoride fighter – you know the stuff that they put in your “pure” drinking water? We have the same people writing their insane comments in our forums – the good thing is that we can do exactly the same as you do – tell them the truth and point them to the evidence – this educates our own people at the same time – this is how we share!
And what is remarkable is that no one has a clue what happens, or what interactions occur, when we put all of this shit inside of a person – especially children!
Clearly we are dealing with “terrorists”
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I am a parent of an autistic diagnosed child. My son is now five years old, he was diagnosed at the age of three. I know this is a controversial issue, and as with most controversial issues there or truths on both sides of this dispute. One thing I do know is that I know my child. As with most parents I know what every facial expression means. I know by the look on his face if he is sad, I know if he is happy, I know if he is mad, I know if he does not feel good. I also know that I watched my child change they day he had his vaccination, never to be the same again. This once happy, giggling carefree child within hours of his vaccinations changed. He became distant, irritated, irrational and inconsolable. He would not longer look us in the eyes as he done just days earlier. The hardest part of this journey has been the blatant disregard as we told people what we witnessed our child change in the blink of an eye. They claim that the vaccinations are safe and that it is just coincidence, and that we have made this up so that we have someone or something to blame for our child’s diagnosis. I have had people tell me that I hate my child for his issues and that is why I am looking to blame someone. I had no idea that people could be so cold and heartless when a parent is crying out for help, by talking about what we saw in our child just hours after his vaccinations. We are not the only parents who have seen this happen. I speak with more and more of them every day. For my full story and many other parent stories pertaining to vaccination damage please visit http://www.kodawe.com/?page_id=655
I applaud the media for reporting in an unbiased manner when I see articles such as this one. Thank you!
I applaud the media for reporting in an unbiased manner when I see articles such as this one. Thank you!
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Linda Allison, on October 21, 2011 at 2:55 am said:
Vaccines do not protect. Do not get any vaccines made by xxxxxxxxx. xxxxxxxxxxx’s Chicken Pox vaccine is worthless. My son got 2 doses (3 years apart) and he got the Pox. I am never going to trust another vaccine. Spread the word and don’t make the Drug companies richer.
[ED: Minor edits].
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Jay W. Chaplin, on October 27, 2011 at 7:20 am said:
You can construct essentially the same graph showing a decline in USA mortality from all cancers, down from 54.5% in 1977 to 35.2% in 2001. Obviously better sanitation and nutrition are making cancer go away too! Yay! As a matter of fact, according to your logic cancer will completely disappear due to our vast improvements in hygeine (all occurring after 1977) by 2040. Well within my lifetime! I think I’ll celebrate with a cigarette.
Your logic has now been falsified. You really should have paid more attention to Aaron Schurger, he was trying to save you from your own stupidity. Incidence data is required and cannot be substituted with mortality data. Please get a clue.
[ED: Yawn. Don't just have the one cigarette. LOL.Read and weep:-"New Cases of Cancer Decline in the U.S. By RONI CARYN RABIN, New York Times November 25, 2008..... according to an annual report by the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and other scientific organizations.The incidence of new cancer cases has been falling in recent years in the United States, the first time such an extended decline has been documented, researchers reported Tuesday.
......The report attributes the reductions to adoption of healthier lifestyles ......"Healthier lifestyles? Hmmmm. Maybe people are eating healthier foods like fresh fruit and vegetables - helps the body manufacture glutathione - essential to cellular health]
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Vaccines save lives, on November 10, 2011 at 9:29 am said:
You are criminally irresponsible evil people.
[ED: Unlike the drug industry.]
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Jay W. Chaplin, on November 20, 2011 at 6:22 am said:
Dear Ed,
Read the second line in the link you posted, and weep at your own stupidity. Diagnosis rates began to drop in 1999. Mortality clearly began to drop in 1977. Your logic remains falsified.
Read the second line in the link you posted, and weep at your own stupidity. Diagnosis rates began to drop in 1999. Mortality clearly began to drop in 1977. Your logic remains falsified.
As long as you persist in using mortality as the measure for disease incidence you are provably false, and the moment you switch to using incidence as the disease measurement you are clearly wrong.
And… You either can’t read the articles you link to or you can’t do the basic math to realize that 1977 is 22 years before 1999.
Sad.
[ED: LOL. Jay, the reason you first posted here was to claim "You can construct essentially the same graph showing a decline in USA mortality from all cancers" and alleging healthier living conditions had nothing to do with that. And that is just wrong.We sent you off with your little tail between your legs having showed you that improvements in cancer mortality was being attributed by experts at the US National Cancer Institute to healthier lifestyles but still you would not accept the position. You also failed to take any notice of the graph in the NY Times article clearly showing that lung cancer mortality was rising sharply through the 1970s to the 1990s and not declining as you were claiming that "You can construct essentially the same graph showing a decline in USA mortality from all cancers".You now come back here after 3 1/2 weeks to peddle more pseudo science and be just plain rude and insulting - with abuse "stupidity", claiming others cannot read or do basic math. Jay, you are clearly someone incapable of rational dialogue and presumably spend your free time editing Wikipedia.So Jay, go back to your immunology workbench at UW, pick up a first grade book on science and start reading. Work your way through all the books in all the grades and guess what, you will still come back here to peddle more woo and junk science.Graphs depicting overall cancer incidence and mortality are uncommon, and there appear to be reasons for this.Here are a few suggestions. This quote indicates reasons:-“Of special note, childhood cancer incidence rates (rates of new diagnoses) continued to increase while death rates in this age group decreased. Childhood cancer is classified as cancers occurring in those 19 years of age or younger.Overall cancer incidence rates in men were essentially unchanged. There was a very small uptick in prostate cancer rates, and if these rates were excluded from the analysis, there would be a continued decline in overall male incidence rates.“Here is the graph from the National Cancer Institute which accompanies the New York Times story.
That shows the incidence of lung cancer was rising, not falling from the 1970′s to the 1990′s so your initial premise in your previous post that “You can construct essentially the same graph showing a decline in USA mortality from all cancers” is confounded. Clearly different factors were in play causing cancer mortality rates to increase and not decrease from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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Better Natural Healing » Blog Archive » Vaccines: Protect or Harm?, onDecember 1, 2011 at 12:56 am said:
[...] This site shows statistics from US and UK from before vaccines came out until recently to show how it had not been the reason diseases were ‘eradicated’- like polio. Check out the number of deaths from polio vaccine and polio itself. Maybe vaccines don’t even do what they claim…forget the safety issue. Notice the same trend for those diseases that have no vaccines available. Browse that link- it’s pretty informative. [...]
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The Folly Of Bill Gates’ Polio Eradication Campaign – Journal of General Virology | The Refusers, on December 1, 2011 at 4:20 pm said:
[...] This article does not mention the issue of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), which is the new psuedo-scientific definition for polio symptoms with a negative polio virus lab test. Guess what? The paralysis symptoms of polio are the same thing as those of vaccine adverse reactions. The multiple doses of vaccines they are cramming down third world bodies are creating an epidemic of neurological damage that they are shunting into a new medical definition, polio without polio virus (AFP). The sooner Emperor Bill Gates with his beautiful suit of clothes declares victory and goes home, the better for impoverished third world human beings. If he really wanted to do something for public health, he would devote his billions to improving sanitation. The elimination of contaminated drinking water had more to do with disease eradication in the develo… [...]
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Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics | Sovereign Independent, on December 6, 2011 at 12:32 pm said:
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics [...]
Hannah, on December 11, 2011 at 6:51 am said:
I have a bachelors in microbiology, and while i know it isnt much i am working on my doctorate now, however i do know enough to know this is complete and total crap.
I did my undergraduate thesis on vaccinations and herd immunity, which is something you obviously haven’t heard of. you think that the implementation of vaccines to maybe 10 % of the population of Africa is going to have a substantial effect on the reduction vaccine preventable diseases? no that’s ridiculous, the virus/bacteria still has 90% of the population to infect and propagate through.
Also you might want to look up the danish study that debunks the relation between autism and vaccination. Of the over 500000 participants in the study the rates of autism were the same for those who both received and did not receive their vaccinations, furthermore there was no relation between age of vaccination and incidence of autism.
And if you think for one minute it would be better to not vaccinate your child and expose them to measles(which is still the leading cause of child deaths in countries that cant vaccinate due to finances) or polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and the countless other diseases out there, maybe you should listen to the sound of a child dieing from coughing to death from pertussis, or see them writhing in pain form their lesions caused by measles, or locked joints caused by tetanus. Ive seen it. and it is something that will stay with me till the day i die. I only pray that your children never become exposed to these horrendous diseases.
[ED: "Hannah", you are so typical. Despite your claims to a higher education you have not been equipped to analyse critically studies like the "Danish" study to which you refer. You mean the Madsen study. That study is deeply flawed and typical of the "tobacco science" people like you cite to defend and indefensible position. Madsen has never emerged to answer any of the criticisms of the paper including the criticism that when properly analysed the paper shows the opposite of what Madsen and people like you claim.The Editor of the journal which published the Madsen paper refused to publish a letter from Suissa, an epidemiologist from Magill, who also pointed out basic flaws.If a medical journal cannot publish valid and damning scientific criticism then medicine should jump off the "science" stage and stop pretending it has any credentials to use the "science" word. That of course applies to you just in case you did not realise it.People like you are responsible for the carnage amongst children and teenagers killed and injured by vaccines all because you people will neither recognise nor report the most obvious of adverse reactions, serious and less so.And if you really really believe vaccines do not cause autistic conditions and that people like you are not in denial then have a read of this:
Simpson Wood, on December 13, 2011 at 11:54 am said:
Hannah , I believe the study you mention in your argument was sponsored by SSL , a vaccine manufacturer . And the lead author Dr Poul Thorsen of that study went on the run with $2m of stolen research funds , and the last I heard he is wanted by Interpol .
Look all of this up if you dont believe me . So your bachelors degree didnt teach you any of these dirty little secrets . But it wouldnt would it ? Why dont you try and find out what happened at SimpsonWood 2002 (another secret little event shrouded in mystery)?
Come and have a look at my vaccine damaged daughter … its a crime against humanity I live with everyday . And the pertusis vaccine has such major doubts about its effectiveness its been withdrawn in several major countries .
Your facts are straight out of a Merck sponsored text book (aka Muck to their friends)….. plain for all to see.
Look all of this up if you dont believe me . So your bachelors degree didnt teach you any of these dirty little secrets . But it wouldnt would it ? Why dont you try and find out what happened at SimpsonWood 2002 (another secret little event shrouded in mystery)?
Come and have a look at my vaccine damaged daughter … its a crime against humanity I live with everyday . And the pertusis vaccine has such major doubts about its effectiveness its been withdrawn in several major countries .
Your facts are straight out of a Merck sponsored text book (aka Muck to their friends)….. plain for all to see.
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Dr Jerzy Jaśkowski: Ukryte podatki, czy naciaganie społeczeństwa – na marginesie pewnej rozmowy telewizyjnej., on December 15, 2011 at 5:23 am said:
[...] Nie opublikowano także nigdy zasad na jakich wprowadza się daną szczepionkę do przymusowego stosowania.http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/ [...]
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Polish Gazette - Dr Jerzy Jaśkowski: Ukryte podatki, czy naciaganie społeczeństwa – na marginesie pewnej rozmowy telewizyjnej., onDecember 16, 2011 at 2:17 am said:
[...] Nie opublikowano także nigdy zasad na jakich wprowadza się daną szczepionkę do przymusowego stosowania.http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/ [...]
La heretique, on December 26, 2011 at 8:30 pm said:
You’ve made a basic mistake in assuming there would have been a continued downward trend in deaths. Since the Victorian era there has been a consistent improvement in the standard of living thats led to an increase in height, IQ scores and overall health, which has led to the lower mortality from infectious diseases like rubella and flu. However, this improvement seems to have peaked in the seventies and eighties. There’s been no improved resistance to disease, or increase in height/IQ etc since. I also object to your ridiculous claim that ‘By 2010 overall measles mortality in the USA was to fall to around 1 in 25 million without vaccines’. Which I’d like to state now is utter BS. Particularly since the measles mortality with vaccination based herd immunity (low chance of exposure) now is higher than that. Non-vaccination in the US and UK has killed several children.
Here is a chart showing the deaths from measles in the UK per year:
http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733835814
http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733835814
You’ll notice in 1988, when the MMR was intrduced there was a drop from 16 to 3 deaths. Since then we’ve had about 1 or 2 a year, mainly older adults.
You also seem to miss the point that it’s the live virus part of vaccines (like the socially accquired diseases herpes, chickenpox, measles) that cause the encepahalitis that causes the vaccination injuries. Not the thimerasol. I’m not making some statement that thimerasol is safe, just stating that you don’t seem to grasp what actually caused the damage in the vaccine. You should google ‘herpes encephalitits’ for information. Encephalitis can occur with expose to some fairly mild diseases, and the incidence with vaccines is about one per two million doses. Herpes encepahalitis can cause late onset autism, so there’s no good reason for any other virus (in a vaccine or ‘wild’) not to. The point is that it’s really, really rare. Vaccines are not risk free, but you get fewer deaths and disabilites with them than without them. Way more rare than the brain damage,encepahlitis, blindness and deaths from rubella etc in an unvaccinated population. In Ierland, a healthy, well cared for population, rubella infected 1,220 with three deaths. Japan had about 17 deaths a year. Also, an outbreak in an unvaccinated European community had three deaths from rubella; many of the infected had serious complications. Quote:
“The three measles-related deaths and 68 hospitalizations that occurred among 2961 cases in the Netherlands indicate that measles can be severe and may result in death even in industrialized countries.”
So, rubella; not nice and still a danger even today. Even with one of the world best healthcare systems. You’ve made a the provably wrong claim that if we were all unvaccinated we’d have nearly no deaths. Well going by a combination of Ireland and the Netherlands mortality rates (1/700 ish) , and assuming a low 30% rate of infection, an unprotected population of sixty million people would have over 85,000 deaths. Compared to about a dozen vaccination deaths and injuries. Which is why we vaccinate.
NOT ONE IN 25 MILLION.
[ED: Attentuation is a well-known phenomenon. Good luck with your opinions. Immunity can be afforded by asymptomatic infection - you know, where the "disease" circulates amongst those who suffer no symptoms but thereby have their immunity constantly topped up - a well-known phenomenon with chickenpox.]
La heretique, on December 30, 2011 at 2:47 pm said:
[ED: Readers are invited to visit the website of this commenter to see examples of the kinds of misleading information people like this commenter publish on the web. Death is around every corner if you subscribe to these people's opinions and only vaccines can save us and our kids. Utter BS, but there you are, there is no accounting for taste.]
Well lets see..
:”Attentuation is a well-known phenomenon. Good luck with your opinions. Immunity can be afforded by asymptomatic infection – you know, where the “disease” circulates amongst those who suffer no symptoms”
Utter BS.
The death rates for these diseases for the unvaccinated but otherwise healthy in developed world in the last couple of decades world are well known. Your focus on smallpox, an extinct disease is baffling.The death rates make a nonsense of your claims:
Mortality rates from measles in America and the developed world in the unvaccinated are 1/5000, not 1 in 25 million.
Mortality rates from rubella are about 1/300 in the US, and about 1/900 with one of the worlds best healthcare system (Netherlands outbreak in unvaccinated children in religious groups).
Whooping cough mortality is about 1/250 in infected unvaccinated babies(New Zealand outbreak and US outbreaks). Not including other lung and brain damage.
Diptheria mortality is 1/5 for young children, about 1/10 for adults.
The vaccinated don’t get these diseases. If you flipped the UK magically to being unvacinated for all things, a couple of million people at least would die. Compared to perhaps a hundred or so dead or brain damaged from vaccines. And no, they aren’t 100% safe, no medicine is.
I’ve noticed you’ve avoided posting modern mortality rates here. Also, no direct comparisones of before vaccination to after vaccinated death rates. You don’t show the change in different death rates, you just show the improvement in survival rates due to the improvement of living standards and health care over the 20th century.
“their immunity constantly topped up – a well-known phenomenon with chickenpox.”
Well, chickenpox has a mortality rate too. About 90 people die in the US, mainly adults with complications, but also healthy children The death rate is about 1/100,000,000 for healthy children, but 1/300,000 for adults. I’m in the UK, where we don’t vaccinate. Introduction of the chickenpox vaccine in the US saves about 70-80 lives a year.
I’d also to like point out Encephalopathy is caused by viral infections. These are a known but rare kind of vaccination injury. Not caused by thimerasol by by the virus vaccine. A non vaccinated person is at higher risk of encepahalitis when they catch ‘wild’ variants of rubella /measles etc. Herpes (cold sore) encephalitis is a known cause of ASD type brain injury. This kind of brain damage from encephalopaty is really rare.
And the overwhelming results from scientific studies into autism find that there has been no real increase in the rates of autism over the past few decades, just increased diagnosis. I’ve dug through the studies, only one Californian study supports in increase, about a dozen others support no change/better diagnosis.
Studies against a meaningful increase in autism incidence.
Autism and diagnostic substitution: evidence from a study of adults with a history of developmental language disorder.
“Some children who would nowadays be diagnosed unambiguously with autistic disorder had been diagnosed with developmental language disorder in the past. This finding has implications for our understanding of the epidemiology of autism.”
Pervasive developmental disorders in preschool children: confirmation of high prevalence.
“The rate of pervasive developmental disorders is higher than reported 15 years ago. The rate in this study is comparable to that in previous birth cohorts from the same area and surveyed with the same methods, suggesting a stable incidence”
Epidemiology of autistic disorder and other pervasive developmental disorders.
Epidemiology of Pervasive Developmental Disorders pdf
There is evidence that the broadening of the concept, the expansion of diagnostic criteria, the development of services, and improved awareness of the condition have played a major role in explaining this increase, although it cannot be ruled out that other factors might have also contributed to that trend. …. Although it is clear that prevalence estimates have gone up over time, this increase most likely represents changes in the concepts, definitions, service availability, and awareness of autistic-spectrum disorders in both the lay and professional public.
Epidemiology and possible causes of autism
“A major cause of the recent large increase in the number of boys diagnosed with autism probably is due to changing diagnostic practices.”
Incidence of autism spectrum disorders: changes over time and their meaning.
“The true incidence of autism spectrum disorders is likely to be within the range of 30-60 cases per 10 000, a huge increase over the original estimate 40 years ago of 4 per 10000. The increase is largely a consequence of improved ascertainment and a considerable broadening of the diagnostic concept. However, a true risk due to some, as yet to be identified, environmental risk factor cannot be ruled out. There is no support for the hypothesis for a role of either MMR or thimerosal in causation, but the evidence on the latter is more limited”
The Contribution of Diagnostic Substitution to the Growing Administrative Prevalence of Autism in US Special Education
Prevalence findings from special education data do not support the claim of an autism epidemic because the administrative prevalence figures for most states are well below epidemiological estimates. The growing administrative prevalence of autism from 1994 to 2003 was associated with corresponding declines in the usage of other diagnostic categories.
Vaccines and the changing epidemiology of autism.
“The recorded prevalence of autism has increased considerably in recent years. This reflects greater recognition, with changes in diagnostic practice associated with more trained diagnosticians; broadening of diagnostic criteria to include a spectrum of disorder; a greater willingness by parents and educationalists to accept the label (in part because of entitlement to services); and better recording systems, among other factors. The cause(s) of autism remains unclear. There is a strong genetic component which, along with prenatally determined neuro-anatomical/biochemical changes, makes any post-natal ’cause’ unlikely.”
The validity of the autism spectrum disorders-diagnosis for intellectually disabled adults
Prevalence of autism and related conditions in adults in a mental handicap hospital.
Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adults in the Community in England
“To our knowledge, there is no published information on the epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in adults. If the prevalence of autism is increasing, rates in older
Conclusions Conducting epidemiologic research on ASD in adults is feasible. The prevalence of ASD in this population is similar to that found in children. The lack of an association with age is consistent with there having been no increase in prevalence and with its causes being temporally constant.”
Conclusions Conducting epidemiologic research on ASD in adults is feasible. The prevalence of ASD in this population is similar to that found in children. The lack of an association with age is consistent with there having been no increase in prevalence and with its causes being temporally constant.”
Three Reasons Not to believe in an Autism Epidemic
ABSTRACT—According to some lay groups, the nation is experiencing an autism epidemic—a rapid escalation in the prevalence of autism for unknown reasons. However, no sound scientific evidence indicates that the increasing number of diagnosed cases of autism arises from anything other than purposely broadened diagnostic criteria, coupled with deliberately greater public awareness and intentionally improved case finding. Why is the public perception so disconnected from the scientific evidence? In this article we review three primary sources of misunderstanding: lack of awareness about the changing diagnostic criteria, uncritical acceptance of a conclusion illogically drawn in a California-based study, and inattention to a crucial feature of the ‘‘child count’’ data reported annually by the U.S. Department of Education.
Increase in autism due to change in definition, not MMR vaccine
Social Influence Plays Role in Surging Autism Diagnoses, Study Finds (can’t locate paper)
the study, by researchers from the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, found that children living near a child who has been previously diagnosed with autism have a much higher chance of being diagnosed themselves in the following year. The increased likelihood of being diagnosed is not due to environmental factors or contagious agents, the study found. Rather, it is due mainly to parents learning about autism from other parents who have a child diagnosed with the disorder.
The Changing Prevalence of Autism in California
These data suggest that improvements in detection and changes in diagnosis account for the observed increase in autism; whether there has also been a true increase in incidence is not known.
Analysis of prevalence trends of autism spectrum disorder in Minnesota
We could not assess changes in actual disease incidence with these data, but federal and state administrative changes in policy and law favoring better identification and reporting of autism are likely contributing factors to the prevalence increases and may imply that autism spectrum disorder has been underdiagnosed in the past.
Is autism more common now than ten years ago?
Even though the prevalence rates refer to slightly different age cohorts, it was concluded that the apparent increase is in part due to better detection, but also to new cases born to immigrant parents. Typical cases of autistic disorder accounted for 75% of cases, and 20% had normal or near-normal IQs.
Reevaluating the incidence of pervasive developmental disorders: impact of elevated rates of detection through implementation of an integrated system of screening in Toyota, Japan.
An approximately 11-fold increase was noted in prevalence of PDD compared to a previous survey two decades ago, and two main factors were believed to account for this apparent sharp increase. First, inclusion of high-functioning subjects detected during infancy, and second, higher rates of diagnosis resulting from an integrated process of screening.
I’m in my forties, I’ve known five autistic boys, one is a relative. Back in the eighties and seventies, only one would have been diagnosed with autism, the others all have fairly mild Aspergers. Even the obviously autistic one would probably be have been labelled as retarded not autistic.I’ve asked older teachers and doctors if there’s a higher incidence now. The answer has been a mix of ‘better diagnosis and awareness’ from the GP and ‘we just used to call them naughty’ from older teachers.
I wonder how many deaths you’ve caused with this site.
Kristen, on January 3, 2012 at 9:02 am said:
I am not a scientist and I try not to take a side, I want to look at all the facts and make a logical decision as best I can. But please realise this. This site is biased, the information provided is obviously one sided. You are doing everything that science is not meant to do. Research emotional attachments to ideas, learn how to control your mind a little better and start researching again.
Critical thinking for the win.
[ED: Hmm. Biased?Must be just like Merck's Director of Vaccine Division, Julie Gerberding, or the US Health Resources Services Administration, or the US Federal Court all of whom have confirmed vaccines can cause autistic conditions:-Or maybe it is like the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Health and Human Services on whose behalf the DoJ acted and the medical and scientific experts who agreed that Hepatitis B vaccine causes lupus and the death of a little girl:-Or maybe it is not biased like Professor Sir Michael Rutter and the Japanese Hideo Honda and his colleague who published a paper claiming the MMR vaccine could not be the cause of autistic conditions when they clearly overlooked evidence to the contrary published only a couple of years earlier in Japan and were unscientific to a high degree:-Or maybe this site is biased like the 200 years of official statistics from the USA, Australia and United Kingdom which show that:-Yawn. Or maybe it is you are so biased you will not accept any evidence which does not accord with your beliefs. Or maybe it is something else about you like other people who come on this site to make comments that white is black and vice versa.]
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pryorka82, on January 29, 2012 at 5:06 pm said:
A lot of commenters kept saying death rate isn’t an accurate show of the damage done by disease, but the book How to Lie With Statistics says just the opposite, that death rates are the most accurate way to monitor a disease. This is because the media, the government, and different medical organizations, all influenced by pharma change diagnostic codes at a whim. Death rates and causes of death are reported because a death certificate is always filled out. The best way to manipulate people [xxxxxxx ED edited] is to quote incidence rate because it is under the control of pharmaceutical controlled organizations. If you want to show a drug or vaccine is effective, just release the drug and simultaneously persuade government, the media, and health authorities to change diagnostic criteria. Like this site points out, 90% of claimed cases of swine flu, measles and other such diseases are actually not what they were reported to be. The testing is never done. So I appreciate this site for being accurate and NOT being biased. Those that think this site is biased, yet choose to believe pharma propoganda i ask you to read How to Lie With Statistics and you’ll see this site is the honest one.
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Angie, on January 31, 2012 at 10:54 pm said:
Thank you for all the hard work and research you have shared here. It is much appreciated. I am trying to educate my mind-controlled doctor who trusts (and I can’t fully blame him since who wants to believe we’re being lied to by an “authority”?) the seminars he’s been to. The charts don’t lie. People who don’t want to believe them or who call them “lies” just don’t get it. I’d like to see them prove historical statistics to be “lies.” You have presented facts, the naysayers have nothing to back their naysayings. Yu have done the WORK, indeed, and the fact that most of these communicable diseases were already in decline before vaccines were introduced (due to a better understanding of germs and increased sanitation, etc.) is the truth, and it speaks volumes. The charts are invaluable and I am printing them along with your article and will share them with my doctor. There is hope yet.
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Angie, on January 31, 2012 at 10:59 pm said:
Cristen, if you genuinely had your mind changed by the facts presented here, then *nothing*–not even the host’s attitude–would have changed your mind. The charts and data more than speak for themselves. Don’t cheat yourself out of wonderful knowledge because of how you feel someone else behaves. The facts are the facts regardless of the presenter. 
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Kris, on January 31, 2012 at 11:27 pm said:
Oh give me a break, they can’t truly link autism and vaccines. Just because you pick studies that appear to have made a link does not make it true. As much as you may like to believe in ‘conspiracies’ and that the whole world is out to get you and wear your tin foil hats doesn’t make it a reality. Humans aren’t very good at keeping secrets, especially when these actions are extremely unethical. Things come out eventually and research clearly begins to show the truth. You act as if there aren’t scientists, and intelligent people in the medical industry out there who have searched for the truth and come to the opposite conclusion as you. There are, plenty of them. But no, they must be corrupt and blinded by the truth. I am still researching this topic and learning more my mind isn’t made up but there is no real reason to believe what you do yet. Eh, I’ll send someone with more experience who deals with people who work in the medical / vaccine industry as well to talk to you. Hopefully you can learn a thing or two, grow up a wee bit and shut down this site. Might save a few lives.
[ED: Ha. Read the following. It might help save not just a few but lots of children getting autistic conditions as a result of vaccines. And gimme a break - stop pretending plain old greed and corruption is a "conspiracy theory". It is not. It is just plain old greed and corruption:
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Kristen, on February 1, 2012 at 11:38 am said:
How hard is it to understand you are presenting HALF the argument! Even on the sites you posted, in the comments below, some people present VERY valid fantastic arguments. Yet we just seem to ignore them. How are you making rational decisions if you do this?! How are you being fair if you don’t present these other sides…
Why do I need to go into this…
[ED: Kristen, like many others of the genre, trolls around the internet posting comments like this designed to sow doubt where there need be none. No half arguments are presented here only 200 years of official statistics showing a clear picture that the people Kristen adores have been telling us far less than half the story.]
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Angie, on February 2, 2012 at 3:58 pm said:
Kristen, the pro-vaccine paradigm presents only half of the argument. This site presents the other (ignored) half.
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Angie, on February 2, 2012 at 4:02 pm said:
And, Kristen, the pro-vaccine paradigm doesn’t present “the other sides”, so why don’t you take up a beef with them? Or does your scale of “fairness” tip only to the side you choose to be on? This site presents facts, data, numbers, historic records, etc. The pro-vaccine paradigm has fear and emotionalism as its strongest weapon. Facts are objective, yet emotions and fear are untrustworthy.
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Kristen, on February 2, 2012 at 10:30 pm said:
Good point, however the anti-vaccine campaign definitely uses fear as one of it’s major weapons. This definitely is a complicated issue, however I truly feel there isn’t enough strong evidence to say that vaccines are bad / dangerous. To be sure of it anyway, which this site is.
By the way, in regards to the above. Someone said, “don’t act like plain old greed and corruption is a conspiracy theory.” Greed and corruption are not, however the fact they keep these dark secrets about vaccines which they are making money off and actually HURTING people with is. The fact no moral or ethical person has the balls to stand up and say the truth, or spill the beans does make it a conspiracy theory. Let me guess, they don’t because they are being ‘mind controlled,’ or they will be killed? That has never been enough to stop people in the past.
[ED: Good grief.The "anti-vaccine campaign" what tosh. What campaign? Who funds it? Where is it? What a conspiracy theorist you are, dear.There are concerned people who are pro-safety for children. Its you anti-vaccine-safety zealots who are the problem.History is littered with examples of government officials and experts coming forward to claim this or that is perfectly safe and "there is no scientific evidence" to the contrary. Is that conspiracy or just was government always does? Yep it is just what government always does. And they do it about vaccines just as much as anything else.Then we find later it was total bunk. Example of experts and officials telling the public total bunk: Gulf War Syndrome being non-existent. Meat and meat products being perfectly safe despite BSE/"mad cow disease". Camelford, England - aluminium sulphate tipped into the local water supply. The serious health effects on the population were dismissed as either non-existent or nothing to do with the incident. Don't ask for more or better examples which can likely be found because it is such an obvious point we have other things to do than to look them up right now.]
Kristen, on February 2, 2012 at 10:33 pm said:
Also in regards to emotionalism…Lots of people who are anti-vaccine have had things happen to them or their children…I don’t really need to explain the obvious struggles parents have with this. Having someone to blame focus’s there anger and becomes a strength (in a sense) and helps them feel a lot less out of control. A lot of the stories I have ready are ‘instant transformations’ of their children within 10mins of getting a vaccine, emotionally rife memories to be sure (again I am sure we all know that emotions DO tamper with out memories).
[ED: Good grief again. "Lots of people who are anti-vaccine".Really. Where are they? How many are "lots"? Where is your reference for the research to back this up?"have had things happen to them or their children" - Yep. Its called vaccine damage and it is acknowledged vaccine adverse reactions are substantially under-reported.What bunk - so you say they just want something to blame. What a bizarre claim. You anti-vaccine safety people cannot be taken seriously.What you claim is just not applicable such as to parents who witness their child have a serious reaction just after getting the vaccine when there is nor can be any other explanation.Vaccines are not safe for everyone - just read the product inserts. So how many serious adverse reactions are unreported and unacknowledged? We just don't know because they are not reported.People should know the risks and they just don't and neither do the "experts" of the family doctors.]
Angie, on February 3, 2012 at 2:54 pm said:
It’s not fear, Kristen, it is solid information given to people about side effects from the gook (that shouldn’t be there) placed into vaccines that most kids, as over 100 years of statistics clearly details, DO NOT NEED. Vaccine injuries are numerous and serous. Research VAERS. Most children who end up with serious vaccine injuries and/or death were healthy children who would have been able to recover normally from most “childhood disease” if they had ever been infected with them in the first place. I know plenty of non-vaccinating families and none of their children developed any of these diseases, and they know many other people who are non-vaccine with the same outcome. However, you can’t go anywhere any more without meeting someone who has a child with autism or someone who knows someone with a child with autism, or some other strange neurological issue. Thimerosal was not the only problem; people forget about the formaldehyde, fluoride, aluminum (neuro-toxic), aborted fetal cell lines, Simian Virus 40, Polysorbate 80 (known as a cause of infertility), etc. that is in vaccines.
I’m tired of the argument that we are exposed to a lot of these toxins in our environment (mostly in our food). When you eat food it goes through your gut where your body purges and cleanses out what it doesn’t need and what is not good, and it spares your blood stream from receiving the largest amount of it, which also protects your brain from a full onslaught of poison. However, when it is injected into your muscle it goes straight into your blood and to your brain and the rest of your body without a shield of defense. Now, apply this to a small infant or child whose immune system is not fully mature and a blood-brain barrier that hasn’t yet closed, and these toxins are courting potential disaster–especially in those who are more sensitive to having a reaction from the toxins. Toxins in the environment should never be an excuse for intentionally injecting it into the bodies of children.
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Angie, on February 3, 2012 at 3:01 pm said:
“A lot of the stories I have ready are ‘instant transformations’ of their children within 10mins of getting a vaccine…”
And, Kristen, a LOT of vaccine injuries also do not happen within 10 minutes of receiving the vaccine. Some children, after spiking high fevers, with or without convulsions, several hours after vaccine(s) actually have died up to several days following. These children were perfectly normal before vaccine administration. They had no illness, no fevers, were alert, bright, no history of seizures. Their bodies, following vaccine, experienced systemic injury and neurological damage. Many who don’t die end up with autistic symptoms that did not exist before certain vaccines were administered. Parents KNOW their children better than anyone else. If you have children I don’t doubt you know this.
There is also research showing the DTaP being linked with an increase in SIDS deaths, and there are even doctors who know this and warn their patients about it, so they can make a more informed choice.
Angie, on February 3, 2012 at 3:05 pm said:
Kristen, read these testimonials:
There are MANY more.
When it’s your child, it makes all the difference in the world.
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La heretique, on March 2, 2012 at 1:29 pm said:
Hmm… well my website is currently posting mainly on how the media ignores Muslim hate crimes in the UK, and has zero relevance to the subject of vaccinations. I don’t think I mention vaccinations once on it, in the eight or so posts I made.
Apparently this makes the information which I gathered from widely available publications wrong? No.
The ‘attenutation’ you claim is bullshit. The death rates from rubella I quote are from unvaccinated religious groups with ‘undamaged’ immune systems and are very real and easily verifiable.
Unlike you I have bothered to access ALL the data for the autism/vaccines, I only posted the antidote to your POV as you seem desperate to have people think this argument is one sided. The issue is that there are about half a dozen papers that suggest vaccines/thimerasol as a source of autism and about fifty plus that don’t, not counting the masses of research that has led to the observation that autism has a major genetic component and seems to be present from birth on, something you neglect completely on this site. I’ve looked at ALL the evidence with an open mind, and the evidence for any vaccine/autism link other than the the occassional case of post-vaccine encepahlitis (caused by exposure to live virus, not thimerasol) is very weak, but the evidence for it being congenital is very strong. This is why most legitimate scientists researching autism have ditched the ‘vaccine as suspect’ line. It’s a dead end.
They stopped using thimerasol in childhood vaccines in California and the rate of autism diagnoses there continued to climb. Does this not at least give you reason for thought? Apparently not.
You completely ignore all the work done that shows there has just been an increase in diagnosis of autism, not in the actual incidence. You show only the evidence that suits you here. I posted the stuff you decided people didn’t ‘need’ to see.
Obviously the fact that someone who independently (and I’m not the only one judging by the other comments here) went through all the research and came to a very different conclusion to you offends you greatly. I know damn well the bulk of current researchers share my opinion, not yours.
[ED: You don't even know how to spell "thiomersal" so you obviously do not know what you are talking about and get your information from blogs. You wrote "thimerasol". There are two spellings of this brand name - the other is "thimerosal".And a mystery as to why you have popped up here to post. No idea who you are. And you write as if replying to something posted on your website.As for hate crimes you seem full of hate. Eg. "The 'attenutation' you claim is bullshit." Thanks for the abuse and disparagement in your post. It makes those who take a contrary view to yours seem very much more reasonable in contrast. [And attenuation is a medically known fact].You seem to know little about vaccine injuries to children and protecting them from them. But you suddenly think you are an expert on the basis of “information which I gathered from widely available publications“.Stick to hate. It is what you know. As you say “my” [ie. your] “website is currently posting mainly on how the media ignores Muslim hate crimes in the UK, and has zero relevance to the subject of vaccinations. I don’t think I mention vaccinations once on it, in the eight or so posts I made.”As for your “I’ve looked at ALL the evidence with an open mind” anyone reading your comment above can see your mind is closed. So thanks for making that clear to anyone reading this.So shall we pick some things which you clearly do not understand?You say “You completely ignore all the work done that shows there has just been an increase in diagnosis of autism, not in the actual incidence.”Well, as the Israeli evidence shows, from highly reliable data sources and contemporary diagnostic criteria and methods [which you have ignored completely despite claiming looking at "ALL" the evidence] there has been a real and substantial increase and it is not just diagnosis. And we try to give references to original sources for our claims, unlike you: “Time trends in autism” IMAJ • VOL 12 • p711 November 2010.You say “They stopped using thimerasol in childhood vaccines in California and the rate of autism diagnoses there continued to climb. Does this not at least give you reason for thought? Apparently not.”But you fail to understand that it is not just mercury in vaccines which can cause autistic conditions – Merck’s Director of Vaccine Division Julie Gerberding conceded vaccines in general can cause autistic conditions when head of the US CDC and she did it on US national broadcast TV news. The US Health Resources Services Administration [HRSA] also conceded vaccines in general can cause autistic conditions. You can read about it here [with links to sources of course unlike you]: “Vaccination Causes Autism – Say US Government & Merck’s Director of Vaccines“.You also seem to wholly fail to understand that the numbers of children diagnosed with autistic conditions will continue to increase even if we stopped all vaccines today worldwide. The average age of diagnosis for Asperger’s Syndrome is 9, so children will continue to be diagnosed to age 18 and some albeit fewer even to ages like 25 and in very rare cases, older.So go away and read up another topic on the internet and then write about it on your blog as if you are an expert – Oh, sorry, hate – you already appear to be an expert in that.]
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Israeli, on March 3, 2012 at 4:50 pm said:
Speaking of Israeli data, Please take note of the fact that as far as autism being “congenital”, There’s a much stronger piece of evidence then the one you cited, and you’ll find it here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15052396
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15052396
[ED: We agree the paper you cite is significant.The importance of the IMAJ information to which we linked [“Time trends in autism” IMAJ • VOL 12 • p711 November 2010.] is that it destroys the claim the increase in autistic conditions is not real but is better diagnosis and greater awareness.17 year olds born in the 1980s in Israel were diagnosed according to modern diagnostic standards and procedures. The outcome was that for those born in the 1980s in Israel 8.4 in 10,000 had autism. There were very few cases of any with Asperger syndrome. “autism” in this figure is that defined under DSM IV/ICD10 or what is sometimes referred to as “classic,” “typical,” “infantile,” “Kanner,” “childhood” autism).The figure is more reliable than others.Other papers published show there has been an increase in diagnoses but this seems to be the first time a reliable comparison between children born now and children born in the 1980s.We hope that assists.]
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Brian Warner, on March 12, 2012 at 1:21 am said:
Gee you do get some ratbags making comments on things they know nothing about ….
They do not take the overall view of health.
Most diseases were dying out as the hygiene improved BUT the food additives were increasing and the Fluoridation began after milk began to be pasteurised which killed the good bacteria and began to bring about allergies.One needs to put everything together to see what is occurring.Take for instance milk ..the cow gives one milk But how many can you buy in a supermart??? A study showed that the additive 202 caused
hyperactivity in children in 2002 but it is still in the bread.Bread is made with Fluoridated water but the Fluotride remains after baking.
Drinks on the shelf have been shown that different colour additives cause hyperactivity in children BUT it is still being used so over the last 70 years with GMOs and the different chemicals in use and additives ARE THE MAIN CAUSE OF A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF HEAILTH PROBLEMS TODAY .
They do not take the overall view of health.
Most diseases were dying out as the hygiene improved BUT the food additives were increasing and the Fluoridation began after milk began to be pasteurised which killed the good bacteria and began to bring about allergies.One needs to put everything together to see what is occurring.Take for instance milk ..the cow gives one milk But how many can you buy in a supermart??? A study showed that the additive 202 caused
hyperactivity in children in 2002 but it is still in the bread.Bread is made with Fluoridated water but the Fluotride remains after baking.
Drinks on the shelf have been shown that different colour additives cause hyperactivity in children BUT it is still being used so over the last 70 years with GMOs and the different chemicals in use and additives ARE THE MAIN CAUSE OF A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF HEAILTH PROBLEMS TODAY .
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The government lies. Big government tells big lies. Small government tells small lies.
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matheus, on June 21, 2012 at 9:02 pm said:
What a bunch of baloney, gimme some bread and butter, please!
How people fall for this is beyond me… to bad Americans are like sheep…
How people fall for this is beyond me… to bad Americans are like sheep…
Chris, on June 28, 2012 at 4:57 pm said:
Well I am pleased to see intelligent people having a reasonable discussion, a little sad about the name calling and anger demonstrated by both sides of the debate. I am a research scientist working in the field of sepsis, after having my first child I became very interested in vaccines for obvious reasons.
To the author of this blog, first of all great job in putting this information together, the pro vaccine agenda clearly has more money, influence, and the advantage in promoting the pro vaccine view when compared to the anti-vaccine group. That being said as a scientist who knows a little bit about basic immunology, would you deny the basic immunological principles of T-cell and B-cell memory cells? Sorry if I bore people but very basic simplified immunology describes that upon an initial infection cells such as neutrophils, macrophages and dendritic cells migrate to the site of infection this process is termed the innate immune response, as the infection persists macrophages, B-cells and dendritic cells phagocytose antigen/bacteria and present them to T-cells this later process is termed the adaptive immune response, in addition B-cells begin to undergo isotype switching and will produce antibodies. After the infection has been cleared there will be antibodies left to that foreign pathogen and memory T-cells to that pathogen. These memory cells remain and if that same pathogen is encountered again these memory cells are capable of removing the pathogen much faster than the initial infection, this process is called immunological memory. Taken together vaccines are nothing more than a replication of these basic immunology principles. A live virus, partial virus (cell wall, specific proteins) or a whole inactive virus at low doses are used to generate an immune response to create immunological memory. If this process occurs naturally in nature, why is their so much fear about the practical application of vaccines that replicate this natural process? Vaccines are based on sound scientific principles. I was born in 1980 so I took the entire cascade of vaccines and more when I started working due to patient contact.
However to the pro vaccine people, even though I do believe in the basic principles of vaccines I have some major concerns! When I was a kid I had 6 vaccines before entering school, my son was offered 12, I took 6 of them, basically the ones that I took as a kid and nothing more.http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=867&tbm=isch&tbnid=Wwm24XWXlWEMHM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwrc559.com%2F2012%2F04%2F06%2F6477%2F&docid=8ZxMH13ywj4jTM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwrc559.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F04%2F529320_10150664399451446_190824176445_9653252_763068781_n1.jpg%3Fw%3D588%26h%3D368&w=588&h=368&ei=OF3rT765DtL9rAG5t-HCBQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=181&vpy=168&dur=4622&hovh=177&hovw=284&tx=194&ty=48&sig=104218682195758790020&page=1&tbnh=128&tbnw=205&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t%3A429%2Cr%3A0%2Cs%3A0%2Ci%3A76
How can 46 does of 14 vaccines by the age of 6 be normal? What are the long term effects of priming a child’s immune system that many times. In addition to autism look at the all the auto immune disorders that have been popping up, psoriasis for example, look at the increased amount of allergic response that occur in the West due to hyper-active immune systems. I am also concerned about thimerosal, they tell pregnant women to watch their fish consumption for mercury but it is ok for infants to get this many doses. I am also concerned about squalene and others agents found in vaccines that cause infertility. Most importantly I am concerned about the marriage of big pharma with our health and doctors, allopathic medicine more often than not tends to want to cure everything with pharmaceuticals and than cure the side effects with more pharmaceuticals and none the while never looking at natural alternative remedies.
In summary I believe in the practical application of vaccines and the science of vaccines. I am against immunizing against every disease big pharma can think to increase their profit motive and I am certainly against mandatory vaccinations. Moreover, viral vaccinations against the flu and swine flu which are viruses that constantly mutate are semi-protective at best and may cause more harm than good. In fact the only time I was sick from the flu was the one year I took the vaccine never again will I take another Flu shot. My goal in this discussion is mixed I believe in vaccines but I believe big pharma lobbying crocked politician are to blame for the diminishing effect of vaccines. I believe we should to get rid of all these questionable preservatives and adjuvants and come up with the safest form of vaccines possible that can stimulate immunological memory. More research needs to be done on the cumulative effect of taking this many vaccines at once before it can be deemed safe for the public especially for vaccines against mutating viruses.
To the author of this blog, first of all great job in putting this information together, the pro vaccine agenda clearly has more money, influence, and the advantage in promoting the pro vaccine view when compared to the anti-vaccine group. That being said as a scientist who knows a little bit about basic immunology, would you deny the basic immunological principles of T-cell and B-cell memory cells? Sorry if I bore people but very basic simplified immunology describes that upon an initial infection cells such as neutrophils, macrophages and dendritic cells migrate to the site of infection this process is termed the innate immune response, as the infection persists macrophages, B-cells and dendritic cells phagocytose antigen/bacteria and present them to T-cells this later process is termed the adaptive immune response, in addition B-cells begin to undergo isotype switching and will produce antibodies. After the infection has been cleared there will be antibodies left to that foreign pathogen and memory T-cells to that pathogen. These memory cells remain and if that same pathogen is encountered again these memory cells are capable of removing the pathogen much faster than the initial infection, this process is called immunological memory. Taken together vaccines are nothing more than a replication of these basic immunology principles. A live virus, partial virus (cell wall, specific proteins) or a whole inactive virus at low doses are used to generate an immune response to create immunological memory. If this process occurs naturally in nature, why is their so much fear about the practical application of vaccines that replicate this natural process? Vaccines are based on sound scientific principles. I was born in 1980 so I took the entire cascade of vaccines and more when I started working due to patient contact.
However to the pro vaccine people, even though I do believe in the basic principles of vaccines I have some major concerns! When I was a kid I had 6 vaccines before entering school, my son was offered 12, I took 6 of them, basically the ones that I took as a kid and nothing more.http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=867&tbm=isch&tbnid=Wwm24XWXlWEMHM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwrc559.com%2F2012%2F04%2F06%2F6477%2F&docid=8ZxMH13ywj4jTM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwrc559.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F04%2F529320_10150664399451446_190824176445_9653252_763068781_n1.jpg%3Fw%3D588%26h%3D368&w=588&h=368&ei=OF3rT765DtL9rAG5t-HCBQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=181&vpy=168&dur=4622&hovh=177&hovw=284&tx=194&ty=48&sig=104218682195758790020&page=1&tbnh=128&tbnw=205&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t%3A429%2Cr%3A0%2Cs%3A0%2Ci%3A76
How can 46 does of 14 vaccines by the age of 6 be normal? What are the long term effects of priming a child’s immune system that many times. In addition to autism look at the all the auto immune disorders that have been popping up, psoriasis for example, look at the increased amount of allergic response that occur in the West due to hyper-active immune systems. I am also concerned about thimerosal, they tell pregnant women to watch their fish consumption for mercury but it is ok for infants to get this many doses. I am also concerned about squalene and others agents found in vaccines that cause infertility. Most importantly I am concerned about the marriage of big pharma with our health and doctors, allopathic medicine more often than not tends to want to cure everything with pharmaceuticals and than cure the side effects with more pharmaceuticals and none the while never looking at natural alternative remedies.
In summary I believe in the practical application of vaccines and the science of vaccines. I am against immunizing against every disease big pharma can think to increase their profit motive and I am certainly against mandatory vaccinations. Moreover, viral vaccinations against the flu and swine flu which are viruses that constantly mutate are semi-protective at best and may cause more harm than good. In fact the only time I was sick from the flu was the one year I took the vaccine never again will I take another Flu shot. My goal in this discussion is mixed I believe in vaccines but I believe big pharma lobbying crocked politician are to blame for the diminishing effect of vaccines. I believe we should to get rid of all these questionable preservatives and adjuvants and come up with the safest form of vaccines possible that can stimulate immunological memory. More research needs to be done on the cumulative effect of taking this many vaccines at once before it can be deemed safe for the public especially for vaccines against mutating viruses.
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Elizabeth, on August 7, 2012 at 8:22 pm said:
I believe the above comment is very well stated, however, I have read that the immune response from vaccines is different than the natural immunity acquired through “normal” exposure. I can’t quote off the top of my head where I read this, but Dr Russell Blaylock has a lot of great info on this topic. The constant and persistent activation of the immune system (sp. the brain’s microglia) by multiple vaccines (including adjuvants and contaminants) over a short period of time in a developing brain and nervous system seems a major culprit. In vulnerable bodies (malnourished, poor kidney function, or other environmenal stressors) this sets the stage for complications and adverse effects– most of which seem to be permanent or long term.
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peacefulchange, on September 22, 2012 at 9:25 pm said:
Fear of death IS often used as a motivator to encourage the use of vaccinations and the evidence of the reality pointed out in this post makes the death argument mute.
As I come across a lot of pro vaccers arguments, the cry about preventing death is popularly consistent. It was also my experience with my sons doctor, when I turned down the swine flu vac for my son. The doctor said, “there will be more deaths”… my main concern at the time, was the safety of this new, barely tested vaccine & the reports by parents about how their children are affected by other vaccines began to concern me and those who were supposed to know, were & are literally denying it occurs… I would turn into an angry mother bear if my child suffered from an adverse reaction & the health organizations & the doctors ignored the obvious cause… I determined it was much better to err on the side of caution and see how it all played out while maintaining good old fashioned nutrition & cleanliness practices.
I’ve done much research since the Swine Flu days which has lead me to many conclusions & more questions.
The first thing I think it’s important for people to know is that you don’t have to vaccinate your children in order for them to attend public grammar school. In MOST states you just go in and sign a waiver. They make it seem like you have to vaccinate, but you don’t. There are a few states that you may have to do a little more work to get out of it, but I’m not sure which states those are. In AZ all you have to do is sign a paper, it’s very simple. If there is an outbreak in the school of one of the diseases your child is not vaccinated for, then you may be requested to keep your child home for a while.
Some of my findings & observations:
I now believe that my sons hearing loss now stems from the over use of vaccines… The denial by the “system” in general on transparency about vaccine safety & side effects is disconcerting, however, as someone pointed out above, first comes ridicule, then denial, followed by acceptance… It seems like there is more transparency over drug side effects advertized on TV than there is about vaccinations… The FDA does not readily provide the statistics about adverse reaction reports, you have to send a request, then they charge you money & you don’t even know if you’ll get the answers you seek… Once you begin to understand more about the system & learn that the vaccine manufacturers are immune from responsibility, you are likely to become even more concerned…
I now believe that my sons hearing loss now stems from the over use of vaccines… The denial by the “system” in general on transparency about vaccine safety & side effects is disconcerting, however, as someone pointed out above, first comes ridicule, then denial, followed by acceptance… It seems like there is more transparency over drug side effects advertized on TV than there is about vaccinations… The FDA does not readily provide the statistics about adverse reaction reports, you have to send a request, then they charge you money & you don’t even know if you’ll get the answers you seek… Once you begin to understand more about the system & learn that the vaccine manufacturers are immune from responsibility, you are likely to become even more concerned…
If you want to make an informed decision about whether or not to vaccinate, the following are a LOT of key questions that one might want to consider seeking the answers to:
How can you weigh the options correctly without knowing what the chances of an adverse reaction are vs knowing what the chance of getting the disease is? This post does a good job of letting you know what the chances of dying from any of the vacc diseases are, so that question is answered. Although, one probably should consider that the numbers fluctuate, but that’s why God invented averages LOL and of course, as pointed out above… If one contracts a disease, how might that negatively affect ones health or ability to function for life?
What are the possible adverse reactions? What are the immediate steps I need to take before emergency services are made available for whatever the adverse reaction is? Can an adverse reaction occur months or years after a vaccine is given? What resources can I turn to if I am faced with having to care for my child who suffers from a debilitating adverse reaction?
What about the testing for safety? What did that entail?
How do I know the vaccine works? What is the efficacy rate?
What are the ingredients? Who is the manufacturer?
How do I know the vaccine works? What is the efficacy rate?
What are the ingredients? Who is the manufacturer?
What kinds of negative side effects do vaccines lead to? Some say vaccines contribute to the incidence of asthma, allergies, ear infections, skin conditions & possibly other side effects … If these begin to show up in my child, is this something I should report to VAERS? Will the system cover the costs for treatments for these, or am I responsible? If I begin seeing these conditions in my child, can the vaccination schedule be slowed down? Are single shots available? If I want to vaccinate less than the recommended schedule, which vaccines might be the best to consider to forego? If I were to choose 5 vaccinations, which would be the most prudent to protect my child from a likely threat of existing, debilitating, deadly disease?
I hope more people begin to insist that accurate answers to these & other questions be readily available so that people can make informed decisions.
In the meantime, it is evident that our children in the Western Civilization are highly UNLIKELY to die of any of the diseases they are vaccinated for. What a relief!
heather Copeland, on October 14, 2012 at 6:27 pm said:
I have two boys, 18, 14. Never had one vaccine. Though they were exposed countless times in their life, never had an illness vaccines were made for. I’m very happy and I don’t regret, that I never had them vaccinated.
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Shane, on December 10, 2012 at 6:02 am said:
Can someone please explain how those graphs constitute proof, or even evidence, that vaccines don’t work. Start with answering the question: “How can 20 cases of smallpox constitute a statistically relevant sample?”
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[...] Vaccines Didn’t Save Us – 200 Years Of Official Stats [...]
Global Cape Breton-Nova Scotia Daily Alternative News « Global Cape Breton-Nova Scotia, on January 10, 2013 at 9:41 am said:
[...] Vaccines Didn’t Save Us – 200 Years Of Official Stats [...]
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics (Child Health [...]
Jak przez dekady nakręcono psychozę strachu przed zwykłą grypą – dr Jerzy Jaśkowski « Portal Polityczny Jarka Kefira, on January 17, 2013 at 11:19 pm said:
[...] Dlaczego więc ludzie spoza medycyny, specjaliści Zdrowia Publicznego, San -epidu nagle , w ślad za WHO odkryli nowego wirusa A H1N1 dopiero w 2009 roku ? Czyżby w tej grupie urzędników miała miejsce aż tak mała znajomość piśmiennictwa naukowego była? Czy też główną rolę odgrywają względy pozamerytoryczne? Musisz się Szanowny Czytelniku sam domyśleć!http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/government-media-manipulation-with-leveson-inquiry-reports-on-murdoch-and-uk-media-standards-due-next-week/http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/most-uk-medics-refusing-flu-vaccines-uks-new-chief-medical-officer-resorts-to-bullying/http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/new-study-flu-vaccine-doesnt-work/ http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/uk-fakes-flu-death-numbers/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/22/health-workers-urged-winter-flu-jab http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17443504http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/andrew-wakefield-demolishes-ignorant-us-vaccine-lobby/http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/EmergencyPreparedness/BioterrorismandDrugPreparedness/UCM133684.pdfhttp://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/ [...]
PETER FRANKS, on January 20, 2013 at 12:34 am said:
please go to google for Every Second Child
a book by Dr Archie Kalokerinos and follow the leads – it details information re use of vitamin C and vaccination.
Also the use of vitamin A before and during a measles infection greatly diminishes the effects of measles as per WHO studies. Yet virtually no mother I have spoken to about this has been aware of this.
a book by Dr Archie Kalokerinos and follow the leads – it details information re use of vitamin C and vaccination.
Also the use of vitamin A before and during a measles infection greatly diminishes the effects of measles as per WHO studies. Yet virtually no mother I have spoken to about this has been aware of this.
How UNICEF Harms Third World Children And Misleads About Their Deaths « ________________Child Health Safety_________________, onJanuary 21, 2013 at 10:12 am said:
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics [...]
Daxsly – How Global Agencies Harm Third World Children. « Ndsram's Blog, on January 22, 2013 at 1:30 pm said:
[...] known to be the key factors in improving child health and preventing deaths from infectious disease:Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics. UNICEF however airbrushes out the effect of economic growth. UNICEF instead claims the credit: [...]
Cómo UNICEF perjudica a los niños del Tercer Mundo e induce a error sobre sus muertes. « Disiciencia, on January 23, 2013 at 1:36 pm said:
[...] Esto también se puede observar en los siguientes gráfico: Las vacunas no nos salvaron – 2 siglos de estadísticas oficiales. [...]
At least 50 African children paralyzed after receiving meningitis vaccine « Sheeple: People unable to think for themselves, on January 23, 2013 at 3:03 pm said:
[...] Full article with graphs and statistic is here [...]
Cómo UNICEF perjudica a los niños del Tercer Mundo e induce a error sobre sus muertes. | R-evolución 2012, on January 23, 2013 at 4:18 pmsaid:
[...] Esto también se puede observar en los siguientes gráficos: Las vacunas no nos salvaron – 2 siglos de estadísticas oficiales. [...]
Vaccination studies and statistics – 200 years of data – Vaccines are questionable at best « Sheeple: People unable to think for themselves, on January 23, 2013 at 5:32 pm said:
[...] Read the full story with graphs, references and diagrams here [...]
Obecna grypa i dezinformacje handlarzy szczepionek. cz.5 | Wolne Centrum Informacji, on January 24, 2013 at 1:16 pm said:
[...] Mass media jako odkrywcę szczepień wylansowały angielskiego medyka Edwarda Jennera. Nie jest to prawda. Jenner zastosował tylko “przemysłowy” sposób zarabiania. Wprowadził ropę z krowianki pod skórę pacjentów. Jego syn przypłacił to życiem. Jenner podpatrzył “swój” sposób szczepień u francuskich lekarzy , którzy z kolei nauczyli się tego 100 lat wcześniej od Turków. Ale ani Francuzi ani Turcy nie wstrzykiwali ropy pod skórę ale dmuchali wysuszony proszek do nosa. Reklama jaką robił Jenner spowodowała, że zaszczepił sporo osób bez żadnego dowodu skuteczności takich szczepień. Ta fałszywa reklama Jennera zaskarbiła uznanie króla Jerzego II, co przełożyło się na nagrodę porównywalną z dzisiejszymi 500 000 dolarów. O tym, że szczepionka była nieskuteczna przekonano się już w roku 1872 roku, kiedy wybuchła olbrzymia epidemia. Pomimo tego, dzięki zręcznej reklamie nadal szczepiono obowiązkowo ludzi i w 1895 zaszczepiono już 95% społeczeństwa. DZIĘKI SZCZEPIENIOM ŚMIERTELNOŚĆ Z POWODU OSPY WZROSłA PIĘCIOKROTNIE. W okręgu Laincast… [...]
Bill Gates – Buying Immortality In History – By Beating An Already Beaten Disease & Killing Kids « ________________Child Health Safety_________________, on January 28, 2013 at 12:47 pm said:
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics [...]
Bill Gates Polio Eradication Plans – To Cause The Polio Equivalent of 235 Years of Cases Of A Twice As Deadly Disease « ________________Child Health Safety_________________, on January 30, 2013 at 4:00 pm said:
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics [...]
Vaccines Did Not Save Us - 2 Centuries of Official Statistics - otherhealth.com, on February 12, 2013 at 1:47 pm said:
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics This is the data the drug industry do not want you to see. Here 2 centuries of UK, USA and Australian official death statistics show conclusively and scientifically modern medicine is not responsible for and played little part in substantially improved life expectancy and survival from disease in western economies. The main advances in combating disease over 200 years have been better food and clean drinking water. Improved sanitation, less overcrowded and better living conditions also contribute. This is also borne out in published peer reviewed research: Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics ________________Child Health Saf… [...]
[...] Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics [...]
Wie die UNICEF den Kindern der 3. Welt schadet und die Hintergründe ihres Todes falsch darstellt | S I R I U S N E T W O R K, on February 27, 2013 at 8:01 pm said:
[...] kann man auch aus den Grafiken hier ersehen: Vaccines Did Not Save Us… 2 Centuries of Official Statistics (Impfungen retteten uns nicht – 2 Jahrhunderte offizieller [...]
Guard Your Children Against Gardasil’s Death and Destruction | HealthAndHealing.ws, on March 1, 2013 at 5:29 am said:
[...] two centuries of statistical data proves that vaccinations did not save us, each to their own, but it is our human and civil right to [...]
Zastrzyki kalectwa, racjonalny strach, czyli artykuł Marcina Rotkiewicza, skorumpowanego dziennikarza “Polityki” « Portal Polityczny Jarka Kefira, on March 16, 2013 at 3:55 am said:
[...] Istotną sprawą całkowicie pominiętą w ww. artykule jest fakt, że ten kalendarz szczepień jest całkowicie arbitralny. Nie ma żadnych dowodów, że został on opracowany w oparciu o rzetelne badania, które by wykazały, że podawanie niemowlętom szczepień według takiego schematu i w takich kombinacjach jest bezpieczne i skutecznie chroni przed chorobami zakaźnymi. Natomiast coraz więcej danych wskazuje, że nie są one ani bezpieczne, ani skuteczne. Dalekie od prawdy jest też twierdzenie, że szczepienia wyeliminowały większość zakaźnych chorób. Dane demograficzne z kilku krajów ujawniły, że to nie szczepienia, ale poprawa higieny i warunków życia ludności oraz wprowadzenie antybiotyków w radykalny sposób zmniejszyły zachorowalność i umieralność na choroby zakaźne już na wiele lat przed wprowadzeniem szczepień. (http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/; http://www.columbia.edu/i…_2/mckinlay.pdf ). [...]
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thelma, go away unless you can behave in a civil manner. You have absolutely no right to talk to anyone in that way. Please ignore any future posts from this cyber thug until they offer information rather than insults. I will.
You replies (above) did not really address either of my two questions:
What a load of deceitful nonsense the measles mortality graph is.
It force fits a line of best fit through data that is confounded by major changes. Anyone with any knowledge of medical statistics would realise you have to do “before & after” Lines when major changes have occured that could impact the data.
The UK measles mortality had essentially bottomed out at c 100 deaths in the UK/year for 15-20 years before the introduction of the single measles vaccine in the late 60s, its introduction led to a sharp change of gradient in your graph, reducing the death rate and then in the late 80′s the introduction of MMR led to a precipitous drop in the death rate which essentially eliminated measles deaths from the UK.
How can you ignore what is a clear association between reductions in the mortality rate & the introduction of mass vaccination?
The incidence graph shows the impact of vaccination even more clearly.
Are you really serious in saying you can extrapolate the line of best fit to say that measles mortality would have disappeared in 2005 or whenever without the introduction of vaccination.
Try looking at the data, start with the period 52/53 to 66/67, the mortality is clearly flat with downward trend. Please show me the contradictory data in your/Clifford Miller’s graph. The evidence stares out at you, and on in introduction of the single vaccine it starts falling again. What happens in 1986/87…MMR’s introduced & look at the change in the slope, a greater than10 fold drop in 2 years, that has been sustained, hadn’t seen that in the previous 100 odd years.
I’m sorry Ed but fitting a single line of best fit over major confounding changes that could influence the data fully deserves the last comment! It is such a basic error, any undergraduate will tell you to fit lines before & after major events to statistically test for significance in changing the parameter you are measuring, mortality rates in this case.
The effect is also shown with the larger numbers of measles notificationshttp://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733756107I guess you have seen that graph before.
I’m not substituting notifications for mortality, look at the tabulated numbers of deaths if you don’t believe the graphs:http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733835814
Individual small numbers may be woobly Dear Ed but that arguement isn’t valid when you see how consistent those small numbers are.
“The flaw in your hypothesis regarding the 1987/8 period is that you are looking at a logarithmic graph where each graduation represents a 10 fold reduction.”
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Whatever anyone says, no matter how reasonable, passionate or even regardless of whether they are right or wrong, people will believe what they want, as they always have.
Until we develop ways to enshrine honesty and a lack of bias into science (by divorcing ALL research from commercial sponsorship) we will never find the truth in any argument of this type.
By all means continue to ague the toss with each other, but please don’t infect the world with views that can at best be described as incomplete and at worst as positively damaging.
In short, if you don’t actually know (which, on the basis of the arguments put her, you don’t) please don’t pretend you do.
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Where can I pick up a PDF version to print and put up in our Notice Board as well as to circulate it among parents coming to our Neuro-Rehab cenmter for children with Autism at delhi, India?
Measles Mortality England and Wales 1901-1999 is misleading when regrettably James Cole is trolling. His comments are more than misleading. He omitted crucial information which demonstrates that.