1. SEMINARS 2010   Vaccine/ Detox

So far this year the main seminar we have scheduled is the full day Vaccine/ Detox Seminar

Dallas, TX – 20 Mar 10
Orange County CA – 3 Apr 10
San Ramon CA – 17 Apr 10
Montrose, OH – 22 Apr 10
Lansing MI – 29 Apr 10
Oslo, Norway – 8 May 10
Danbury, CT – 15 May 10
Palm Springs – 22 May 10
DCS – 16 Jun 10

I tried this survey-course format last year in Seattle and Denver and it went well. In short, we cover Vaccines in the morning and Nutrition in the afternoon. I summarize some of the most important material from the full day vaccine seminar, with an emphasis on new events, like swine flu as a Boutique Epidemic. We also talk about the history of vaccines, how to exempt a child from vaccines, mercury levels, autism and other vaccine injuries stemming from damage to myelin and cerebral microcirculation, as well as a discussion of some individual vaccines. The current Schedule is compared with that of other countries. Remarks from many world experts in immunology. We are using the vaccine book as the text for the seminar.

Then in the afternoon we turn to Nutrition and Detox and I include as much information as possible from that full day seminar.

We begin with a distinction between natural and processed foods. We talk about the history of the natural diet, and the type of health picture it produced. The crucial topic of GMO is introduced, with excellent resources being suggested: current books and DVDs. We then begin a discussion of the 60 day Detox Program, beginning with the self-evident New West Diet. For the patient in survival mode, or one who simply wants to get back on track, we thoroughly discuss the vital importance of

• enzymes
• chelated minerals
• florabiotics
• collagen
• oral chelation
• megahydrate
• colon detox

The tools for a complete patient nutrition program are provided.

It’s really a trade-off, condensing this amount of information down to a morning and afternoon. The attendee certainly does get exposed to a wide variety of well- researched, thoroughly documented subjects, all in one day. The inevitable downside is that some important topics in both areas get just a cursory look. After doing both these seminars for so many years, even the full day versions were beginning to cut short certain topics that are extremely important. One obvious example is, the rise of GM foods which has taken over world food production and consumption in the past 14 years. This shocking and monumentally important information is simply not available in mainstream media, with good reason. And so unless the doctors avail themselves of at least an introductory level of resources on the subject, they simply will not be aware why 80% of commercial foods today are Genetically Modified.

But don’t worry, the full day seminars are still available on new DVD sets at the website www.thedoctorwithin.com For the more serious student. I will also be doing the original seminars at certain locations somewhere on earth during the coming year: See website under Seminars.

Most of the seminars above are 12 hour relicensing seminars, including technique for DCs.
Please call office to register for any event 408.298.1800

or email doc@thedoctorwithin.com

for product orders: 915.307.1055

2. New Book Coming Soon

Vaccination Is Not Immunization 2010

This book will be a sequel to the 13 editions of The Sanctity of Human Blood. But it’s a complete re-write that contains critical new information from the past year that is nothing less than vital for new parents in their decision about vaccines. As the the swine flu hype fades out, the real significance of that phenomenon is shown in its proper context: a new pattern has been created now that can strike up a wave of unfounded hysteria right on cue, generate several billion dollars in funding, and then fade quietly into the woodwork. Five times in the past 8 years have we seen this very sophisticated sequence being played out in national media, each time totally successful in garnering the target funds. These issues are then further framed within the larger picture of the enormous new marketing push that has been under way nonstop since 2001 to give more, more, and more vaccines to children. The whole social phenomenon of vaccines today is nothing like it was even as recently as the 1990s. Parents need to know the new dangers of the vaccine industry always putting marketing first and science second. In today’s uncertain world, there is no debate: the child needs every possible advantage in order to have the best chance at a strong immune system. The purpose of the new book is to provide parents with enough solid information to make an informed decision, meticulously cited with a slant that truly promotes education before vaccination.

3. Bill Gates, Vaccines, and Global Population

An amazing event took place last month that was banned from mainstream media but which was well represented on the internet, especially at youtube.com In a very prestigious convention in southern California, Bill Gates rose to the occasion with a PowerPoint presentation that sounded like an out-take from V For Vendetta. You can see it yourself by searching youtube with the phrase Bill Gates Vaccines. Then watch the clip that comes up. Don’t be deterred by seeing the extreme titles that various sites have given the talk– just watch it yourself, very carefully. Then watch it 2 more times to make sure you got it. No kidding, just do it, and then call me and convince me that Gates didn’t just say unequivocally and with no ambiguity that one of the main reasons he just invested $10 billion in global vaccines is that they are one of the 3 chief instruments that will reduce global warming by doing away with 1.5 billion people. I know, I know. Just watch it and tell me I’m wrong.

But I’m not.

4. GOODBYE SWINE FLU

It’s over. Don’t miss the latest and final installment in the recent attempt by Big Pharma to unload a completely untested vaccine on the American public for a disease that never existed. The data is all in, but you have to know how to put it together. Don’t miss it! Aren’t you sick of hearing about this shaky subject? You won’t have to read anything more about it ever again. Did all the homework for you in this new chapter.

5. NEW COMPANY FOR PRODUCTS

Beginning this year, thedoctorwithin has turned over all the products and supplements recommended on the site to a new company, Immunition Ltd. We certainly apologize for any delays as we made the transition, but it’s pretty well worked out now.. It has really simplified ordering, tracking and delivery, so the transition was worth it. Books, CDs, DVDs, and supplements will now be shipped directly to you.
To order products please call 915.307.1055, but it’s actually faster to simply order directly from the website. Just click on either Books and CDs or else Supplements, in the left hand column anywhere on the site.

6. Consultations

Many people read the chapters at the site, especially the Last Resort and the 60 Day Program and get new hope that their incurable conditions might not be quite as hopeless as they thought. For those in California, the in-office consult is available, in which a complete medical history and lifestyle analysis is coupled with a specifically detailed application of the 60 Day Program.

For those who can’t make it in, they can do almost as well with the one hour phone consult. Specializing in difficult, confusing, incurable and hopeless cases, these consults are for those who believe they’ve ‘tried everything.” News flash: they haven’t, because they’re still sick. When your doctor tells you there’s nothing more he can do for you, he’s telling the truth. Your misfortune is that he didn’t tell you sooner.

See website for details of both types of consult.

UPCOMING SEMINARS

The full day Two-Seminars-In-One vaccine/detox seminar has been a great success so far this year. Attendees like the idea of getting an introduction to the material in the two full day seminars.

“Best seminar I’ve taken since graduation. Instead of the typical supervised nap, I forgot that these relicensing deals could be interesting and valuable. This one should be mandatory.” Dr JCM, Salinas

We’ve scheduled the following all day venues so far:

Ontario CA — 13th March 2010
Dallas TX — 20th March 2010
Orange County — 3rd April 2010
Montrose OH — 22nd April 2010
Oslo Norway — 8th May 2010
Danbury CT — 15th May 2010

Here’s a flyer for the seminar:

A synthesis of the newest and most vital information from both the Vaccine and Nutrition seminars:

Swine flu de-mythologized
2010 Schedule: 68 vaccines by age 18

“Had to take 204 CE hours all in one year…your Nutrition Seminar was the best by far.” – Dr MM

“Best CE seminar I’ve taken in 25 years.” – Dr JCM, San Mateo

Cost: 12 hours CE credit: DCs $169 advance, $199 at door
General Public $99

Registration: Call (408) 298-1800 or email doc [@] thedoctorwithin.com

Course material available on DVD/audio CD 2009 vaccine book: $25

Approved for 12 hours by BCE: CAA 0911 4811

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In 2010, Dr. Tim O’Shea will be appearing as a speaker at a number of uniquely enlightening events:

Ontario CA 14 Mar
Freedom Law School
HEALTH AND FREEDOM CONFERENCE 2010
March 12-15, 2010 Ontario, California
Hilton Ontario Airport (909) 980-0400

Free, if you pre-register by February 26th, 2010

Sally Fallon Weston A. Price Foundation
Dr. Tim O’Shea “Goodbye Swine Flu: The Boutique Epidemic”
Dr. Nancy Appleton., “Lick the Sugar Habit”
Ramiel Nagel, author of Cure Tooth Decay
Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures Raw Dairy
Hollie Greenwood MS, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and Chef Kim Thompson, OptimizedMovement.com
Scott Tipps, President of the National Health Federation
Dr. Orly Taitz Peymon Mottahedeh, founder of Freedom Law School

* ATTAINING OPTIMAL HEALTH IN THE 21st CENTURY
* Truth about vaccines and the flu/Swine flu shot dangers!
* A Cure for tooth decay.
* new health care laws to limit your choices and what you can do.
* How Sugar is responsible for a great number of diseases a
* How you can prepare Healthy Nutritiously dense foods.
* What are the health benefits of raw milk?
* Are animal fats good for you?
* U.S. Constitution and how it still applies in our day.

Freedom Law School, (760)868-4271, www.livefreenow.org

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THE BATTLE OF IDEAS CONFERENCE
April 24, 2010
Lansing, MI
For details, email: sobranevents [@] gmail.com

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PHYSICIANS ROUND TABLE
April 30, 2010
St. Louis, MO

Dr. Tim O’Shea 2 lectures:

1. Childhood Immunology and the New Boutique Epidemics
2. Nutrition and Detox at the Cellular Level: The New Human Genome

2010 Physician’s Round Table
The Westin, St. Louis, MO
April 30 – May 2, 2010

Contact Sue Vogan (252-566-4461)

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CHIROPRACTIC PHILOSOPHY
May 8, 2010
Helsinki, Finland
(Location to be announced)

Dr. Brad Glowaki, Practice Maven and Dr. Tim O’Shea will do a memorable, no holds barred presentation:

Chiropractic Philosophy: Its Role in Practice Survival and Breakthrough

For more info, email:
doc [@] thedoctorwithin.com
drbrad [@] championsealbeach.com

GOODBYE SWINE FLU

the newest chapter at http://www.thedoctorwithin.com

Did you know the swine flu scare is over, except for the shouting? Learn the story that is so hard to get from media, about how this disease never existed in the first place, how the vaccine isn’t new, how the entire program was a thinly-veiled and desperate attempt to offload unused flu vaccine stocks. Learn how all this is being corroborated by an EU investigation into collusion between the World Health Organization and the vaccine industry to create this false pandemic. Might sound like conspiracy stories, but this is happening right now, totally documented. The value of knowing this information is that you’ll be ready for the next phony scare, which is sure to pop up at any time.

THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN BLOOD:
VACCINATION IS NOT IMMUNIZATION
– 13th edition, 2009 –

New book:

Attention All Parents…

Have you had doubts lately about the safety of vaccines? Now you can make a fully informed decision about vaccination risks for your child.

Suppose you could read an authoritative book and know as much as any doctor about the risks, facts, and brief history of vaccination and immunization?

THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN BLOOD:
VACCINATION IS NOT IMMUNIZATION - 13th edition, 2009 –
by Dr. Tim O'Shea

In order to keep up to date, this is the 12th edition of the book in the past 9 years. If you think you know this material because you read an older edition, think again. So many new events are taking place all the time in the area of vaccines, events which are simply left out of the news media. For example:
here is a chart of the required number of childhood vaccines in recent years:

1980 20 vaccines
2003 40 vaccines
2004 53 vaccines
2005 58 vaccines
2006 63 vaccines
2008 68 vaccines

Why is this number going up every year now, and you never read about it in any popular media?

A fearsome battle is lining up today in our brave new world. It's as though we're being forced to draw the line to a new threat - an assault on the blood of our children. This is not just a figure of speech. New vaccines are being invented every year, all with the same hope - to be included in the mandated Immunization Schedule. It's very big money. Today we're up to 68 vaccines mandated for use before a child is eighteen years old. Our infant mortality rate and the health of our children are appalling. The incidence of both infectious diseases and degenerative diseases among adult Americans is skyrocketing.

“The most comprehensive book I have read over the past 25 years on this subject.” - Roy Kupsinel, MD Autism and the Vaccine Connection

"In his book Dr. O'Shea records the shameful history of what has been done by the drug companies and the institutions that are supposed to make sure they are honest... the role played by vaccinations over the past 100 years has been grossly exaggerated and the harm that this has done has been carefully hidden from public view. " - Abram Hoffer, MD -- Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

"Every new mother and father should have the opportunity to read The Sanctity of Human Blood before subjecting their children to mandatory vaccinations." - Kilmer McCully, MD The Heart Revolution

"The Sanctity of Human Blood is the most well documented analysis of the vaccination cult of modern medicine. Be informed of the dangers, lack of scientific proof of immunity, and other health concerns of vaccines. As the best source for public and professionals, I highly recommend `The Sanctity of Human Blood`. - William Deagle, MD GCN syndicated radio

"This book is the best source I have in my library about the history and the horrors of the vaccine industry. ... the three generations of wholesale poisoning.. Thanks for doing the research for the rest of us." - Gary Kohls, MD Duluth, MN

"You are right about pure blood .... that is the key ..." - Ted H Spence, DDS, ND

"Wow! Yours is the most current, best referenced presentation on vaccines I have ever seen. You have taken a very complex subject and organized it so that it can be comprehended by the average person." - Dr. TF, Tustin CA

"…a careful collection of irrefutable facts…spent several days reading and re-reading it, and it is fantastic!" -Hans Raible, Esq., Stuttgart Germany

"This book is the complete package, … over 300 references, .. dispels the myths and blatant lies that the public is told by their pediatricians and community leaders, as well as the propaganda, politics, and money in U.S. vaccine policy … an absolute must for any parent." - Dr. Mark Cymerint, Mission Viejo CA

"your sharing of this knowledge will save lives. It's pure awareness." - Turid Sandberg, Norway

"Keep going after the truth -- just make sure your bulletproof vest fits." - Hal Huggins, DDS, Colorado Springs

"Life-changing information, thoroughly researched. Thank you so much for putting all the pieces together and shining the light of day on an immoral greed-driven industry." - Dr BN, St. George MT

Cost: $25 plus shipping

The SANCTITY OF HUMAN BLOOD: VACCINATION IS NOT IMMUNIZATION!
To order please call Immunition at (915) 307-1055 or email orders [@] thedoctorwithin.com

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DVD Sets

Both full day vaccine and nutrition seminars are now available on DVD.
Cost : $100
to order please call Immunition at (915) 307-1055

NEW SERVICES

Phone consultation

After reading the health chapters and testimonials at thedoctorwithin.com many patients want to discuss their case with Dr. O’Shea in detail. Phone consults are now available, usually scheduled on weekday evenings.

Such a consultation would benefit someone who has read the chapters recommended in The Last Resort but has specific concerns about how to apply the whole program to a particular situation.

The patient is required to read the following chapters before the consultation:

* A Normal Life
* Enyzmes: The Key to Longevity
* The Last Resort
* The 60 Day Colon & Blood Detox Program
* Journey to the Center of Your Colon
* Allergies: The Threshold of Reactivity
* New West Diet
* Sugar: The Sweet Thief of Life

The patients who might benefit from such a consultation are those who have reached that point where they realize standard medicine has nothing more to offer them, and that if they are to have any hope whatsoever, it’s going to be the result of their own initiative. These people will do whatever it takes to make a radical change toward life, toward survival, and therefore have prepared themselves for the consultation.

To schedule please call (408) 298-1800 or email doc [@] thedoctorwithin.com

In person Nutritional consultation is also available.

1. SEMINARS 2010 Vaccine/ Detox

So far this year the main seminar we have scheduled is the full day Vaccine/Detox Seminar

I tried this format last year in Seattle and Denver and it went well. In short, we cover Vaccines in the morning and Nutrition in the afternoon. I summarize some of the most important material from the full day vaccine seminar, with an emphasis on swine flu, as a Boutique Epidemic. (Next section)

In addition, we also talk about the history of vaccines, how to exempt a child from vaccines, mercury levels, autism and other vaccine injuries stemming from damage to myelin and cerebral microcirculation, as well as a discussion of some individual vaccines. The current Schedule is compared with that of other countries. Remarks from many world experts in immunology.

We are using the 13th edition of the vaccine book as the text for the seminar.

Then in the afternoon we turn to Nutrition and Detox and I excerpt as much information as possible from that full day seminar.

We begin with a distinction between natural and processed foods. We talk about the history of the natural diet, and the type of health picture it produced. The crucial topic of GMO is introduced, with excellent resources being suggested: current books and DVDs. We then begin a discussion of the 60 day Detox Program, beginning with the self-evident New West Diet. For the patient in survival mode, or one who simply wants to get back on track, we thoroughly discuss the vital importance of:

• enzymes
• chelated minerals
• florabiotics
• collagen
• oral chelation
• megahydrate
• colon detox

The tools for a complete patient nutrition program are provided.

It’s really a trade-off, condensing this amount of information down to a morning and afternoon. The attendee certainly does get exposed to a wide variety of well- researched, thoroughly documented subjects, all in one day. The inevitable downside is that many important topics in both areas get left out.

After doing both these seminars for so many years, even the full day versions were beginning to cut short certain topics that are extremely important. One obvious example is, the rise of GM foods which has taken over world food production and consumption in the past 14 years. This shocking and monumentally important information is simply not available in mainstream media, with good reason. And so unless the doctors avail themselves of at least an introductory level of resources on the subject, they simply will not be aware why 80% of commercial foods today are Genetically Modified.

But don’t worry, the full day seminars are still available on recent DVD sets at the website www.thedoctorwithin.com for the more serious student. I will also be doing the original seminars at certain locations somewhere on earth during the coming year: See website under Seminars.

Most of the seminars above are 12 hour relicensing seminars, including technique for DCs.

Please call office to register for any event 408.298.1800
or email doc[ @ ]thedoctorwithin.com
Same contacts for Nutritional Consultations.

for product orders: 915.307.1055

2. GOODBYE SWINE FLU

Don’t miss the latest and final installment in the recent attempt by Big Pharma to unload a completely untested vaccine on the American public for a disease that never existed. The data is all in, but you have to know how to put it together. Don’t miss it! Aren’t you sick of hearing about this shaky subject? You won’t have to read anything more about it ever again. Did all the homework for you in this new chapter:
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/swine/goodbye-swine-flu-faux-pandemic-of-2009/

3. NEW COMPANY FOR PRODUCTS

Beginning this month, thedoctorwithin has turned over all the products and supplements recommended on the site to a new company, Immunition Ltd. We certainly apologize for the slightly longer than normal delivery times of products and supplements some of you may have noticed since the first of the year, as we made the transition. These growing pains will pay off by simplifying ordering, tracking and delivery from now on. Books, CDs, DVDs, and supplements will now be shipped directly to you.

To order products please call 915.307.1055, but it’s actually faster to simply order directly form the website. Just click on either Books and CDs or else Supplements, in the left hand column anywhere on the site.

4. FREEDOM LAW SCHOOL CONVENTION

I have been chosen to be a presenter at the Freedom Law School Health and Freedom Convention on 14 March in Ontario CA. It will be an honor to be presenting with other authorities in the area of holistic nutrition, whose general principles are those supported by the information in my Nutrition Detox seminars. Actually I will be talking about The Boutique Epidemic, as described above.

There will be hundreds of people at this informative and important event throughout the weekend. Don’t miss it!

More info: www.freedomlawschool.com

Wondering if thedoctorwithin website can do anything for you? Please see Testimonials section under Chapters, in the left hand column.

Thanks for sharing all your great success stories. Very inspiring for others to see the value of personal initiative – no one can put limits on what can be accomplished once the patients take back responsibility for their own health. You live on your own schedule, you die on your own schedule, not theirs! Listen first to thedoctorwithin.

A standard hook now in vaccine marketing repertoire is ‘pandemic,’ since the nonexistent Avian flu of 2005. As that chimera faded off into the boneyard of plague hysteria memorabilia, [15] the sales team next scored a sterling success with the 2009 swine flu ‘outbreak.’

The first and most important rule in creating any epidemic is that the marketing of the disease cannot outpace the rate of the disease itself. When the doom and gloom predictions are too overstated, the purpose of the whole program is defeated – which was, selling the vaccine. Getting people to show up for it.

The 2009 swine flu/H1N1 fiasco made that fatal error, hiring the best publicists money can buy. The scenario they painted was so grim, the threat so dire that no set of actual events short of the Bubonic Plague could have lived up to it. So we witnessed the unravelling of a pandemic before enough people showed up to participate in it. Sheep though they are, even the impaired mentality of the general public saw through that veil. After all those months of threats and hysteria from every level of government, in all media, the American people said no thanks, we’re not buying swine flu.

A background summary of the 2009 H1N1 sideshow may be found online in the chapter Swine Flu: Global Pandemic or Just Makin’ Bacon. [37] So much bad science and self-serving propaganda was dumped on the public regarding this cheap vaccine promotion that it would fill a book, but the important lesson we must take from it is to apprehend the pattern of the made-to-order pandemic that has become firmly established in our culture, and can now be trotted out on command.

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THE ORIGINAL SWINE FLU – 1976

In January of 1976, a soldier at Fort Dix NJ collapsed during a training exercise. He was hospitalized, diagnosed with flu, and developed pneumonia. In a few days he was dead. On autopsy, a virus was reportedly isolated from his body which was immediately identified as having possibly originated in swine. [13]

Prior to that date swine flu had never been seen in humans. After that date, there was not one other case of swine flu, until the spring of 2009.

Notwithstanding those facts, the National Institutes of Health took up the gauntlet, with massive media coverage hawking the beginning of a global pandemic, conjured up out of nothing. Although the soldier died from a combination of exhaustion and hospital care rather than from any viral disease, and although there had never been a previous case of pig flu being transmitted to humans – despite all this, during the next several months a swine flu vaccine was quickly created.

The vaccine was never tested in any large setting. Abundant data were available however documenting the unpredictability and dangers of this untested new vaccine. Little wonder: the new vaccine wasn’t even made from the original mild swine flu pathogen.

CDC had been poised to launch a global vaccine program, and the unexpected appearance of swine flu was a godsend.

The only holdup in mandating swine flu vaccine was that no one was willing to step forward and be responsible for damages in the event of death or injury from the new vaccine, especially not Congress. So it looked like the 1976 swine flu vaccine program was going to be scrapped.

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LEGIONNAIRE’S DISEASE

A week or so later, 34 people in a Philadelphia hotel suddenly died from a mysterious disease, which had been characterized before and wasn’t really new. But with the NIH poised to raise the spectre of a possible new flu pandemic spreading from that one death at Fort Dix, the suspicion was introduced that perhaps these Legionnaire’s cases were actually the same disease.

An eyewitness to the insider decision-making policy at that time was a Washington DC lawyer, Jim Turner. In a 2001 speech, Turner recounts the daily intrigues and media posturing that led up to the swine flu disaster of 1976. [13]

Each day the pandemic furor grew, fueled largely by government officials, like HEW Secretary F. David Matthews:

“The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976.” (Feb., 1976) [16]

Notice that he didn’t say that 1 million people would get the flu – he said 1 million would die from it.

After a week of unrelenting media panic, Congress was cornered. At the end of the week CDC announced:

1. The Legionnaires Disease cases were definitely not swine flu

2. Congress decided the government would accept responsibility for any deaths or damages from a swine flu vaccine program

3. The swine flu vaccine program was adopted.

After that decision it was a runaway train. Rushed into a commitment to come up with millions of doses of a brand new vaccine in just a few weeks, manufacturers took extravagant shortcuts. Normally it takes at least a year for a vaccine to go through clinical trials. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was invented in a few weeks.

In their hurry, the US Public Health Service mixed the wild strain of the alleged swine flu virus with an extremely virulent manmade strain of flu virus in order to trigger a much stronger immune response, in their words to “get the immunity out” faster. [13] Rushed through the manufacturing process in this irresponsible way in just a few short weeks, the vaccine ultimately had little to do with the original pathogen – which had never even been shown to be the cause of the one soldier’s death in the first place, let alone a global threat.

The result of this bad judgment and egregious departure from established scientific protocol is too well known: 565 of the newly vaccinated people became paralyzed from a nerve disorder called Guillain Barre syndrome, 25 of whom died. So the 1976 swine flu vaccine program was halted in just 10 weeks, after over 50 million people had received it. Their stated goal had been to vaccinate the entire population. The media at the time estimated that up to 60 million Americans could become infected unless they vaccinated, 1 million of whom would die. [16]

Let us note well: after the money was spent, the threat disappeared.

Eventually the government paid out almost $400 million in claims. [13]

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SWINE FLU APRIL 2009

With a history like that, it is astounding that policymakers would want to use that same label again. The next mention of swine flu was not until 30 years later, in April 2009. It began with conflicting reports of several hundred Mexicans ‘infected’ with swine flu, 150 of whom were ‘believed to have’ died from it.

Even in the first 4 days, the word pandemic was already present in all media stories – a tip-off for the massive promo about to be unleashed.

The hysteria gathered momentum as government officials fell over each other to make the most dire predictions possible, lest anyone accuse them of being too indecisive about promoting a vaccine for a undefined disease.

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MARGARET CHAN: ANY RELATION TO JACKIE?

Americans got a valuable lesson from the rabid way the government spokesmen kindled the fire those first weeks. Rather than report simply that there was a possible new illness identified and that it’s under investigation, everyone immediately rang the Doomsday Bell. With no solid data, WHO’s Margaret Chan immediately declared “a public health emergency of international concern.” (WHO Health Advisory, April 2009, [36])

Chan followed that up with the unfounded 11 June declaration of a Phase 6 “Pandemic Emergency.” She was quoting SAGE, the WHO’s committee whose members have the most direct financial ties to vaccine manufacturers, like GSK. Media had a bloodfest over that announcement. [38]

Chan’s next ludicrous outburst came on 16 July 09:

“modeling suggests that swine flu has an attack rate of 30% — once it enters a country, the likelihood is 30% of citizens will catch it at some point….”

[36]

Modeling? Is that like channeling? Obviously a vaccine is being promoted here. But it was her next phrase that really hung the WHO out to dry:

“One should be available soon, in August. But having a vaccine available is not the same as having a vaccine that is proven safe. Clinical trial data will not be available for another two to three months.” [33]

Chan knew she was overboard here. As we have seen, swine flu vaccine clinical trials only began in August, none scheduled for completion till April 2010. The second lie was that Chan knew no vaccine can possibly be invented in 2 or 3 months. Even six months is unrealistic.

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WHAT IS WHO?

The World Health Organization has always seemed little more than a mouthpiece for Big Pharma but in recent years, they’re forgetting to dissimulate. Remember in 2006 when they made the absurd recommendation that every nation should aim for a 75% stockpile of flu vaccine every year, per population? [2] Fortunately, this is completely impossible since the manufacturers would never make more than they know they can sell.

For the 2009 H1N1 show, WHO’s prime source of information was a committee calling itself European Scientific Working Group on Influenza, who it turns out is funded entirely by the 5 manufacturers who ended up with the H1N1 vaccine contracts. JP Morgan estimated that as a result of that one WHO declaration of pandemic, the vax manufacturers stood to gain up to $15 billion US. [39]

What we’re seeing by 2009 is the privatization of WHO. Along with its collaborators, they have now built a machine around the impending pandemic. [40] No problem when H1N1 fizzles; we now have the technology to schedule another at any time. With five faux epidemics in the past eight years, the pattern is now well set. And that was the prime lesson we must take from swine flu 2009.

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THE NUMBERS GAME: WHAT ARE THEY COUNTING?

Let’s back up a little here. Thousands of people get the flu each day and recover from it, and some people who are already sick may die from it. Of the 80,000 people who die every year in the US of hospital infections that are completely resistant to all known antibiotics, a large percentage of these are flu deaths.

But suddenly in April 2009 we had media alleging that a novel flu virus causing a brand new disease is afoot. In order to substantiate such a claim, it was necessary to know if the patients were tested for the same disease.

That was the first jumping off point – the departure from scientific method: within just one week of the ‘outbreak’ the media had begun its daily tally sheet of numbers infected and numbers dead, which established the scorecard pattern we’re so familiar with. But with no screening test available, any case of any flu was being counted as swine flu, diagnosed by symptoms only. It was simply artificial re-categorization of ordinary flu cases in order to create the image of a new threat.

Without a specific pathogen, there is no new disease – no pandemic.

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ENTER H1N1

For the first 2 months, H1N1 was not even mentioned. The cases were just called swine flu – some weird new strain of pig virus. It was only when the bacon industry kept complaining to Obama that the H1N1 characterization was hit upon. (Kugler [12])

The first cases of swine flu were coming from Third World areas where even basic medical services are lacking, let alone a sophisticated screening test for a brand new disease. That procedure would take months to create, even in the most modern of clinical settings.

So once again we ask, without a screening procedure, exactly what were they counting, in Mexico, in Texas, wherever? What set these cases apart from ordinary flu cases?

The other question no one was asking: what was the incidence of regular flu in these Mexican towns the same time last year? How about last month?

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H1N1 – A SUBCATEGORY OF VIRUSES

In classical pathology, influenza is a disease that is associated with a type of viruses known as orthomyxoviruses. Within this group are subgroups of virus:

Influenza A
Influenza B
Influenza C

What separates viruses into these 3 groups is the type of antigen present in the virus. [17]

Now, within the Influenza A category there is a smaller grouping called the H1N1 viruses. According to the FDA, there are over 700 strains of H1N1. The CDC only claims to have tested about 50 different strains of H1N1. [19]

According to classical pathology, for an infectious disease to be identified and characterized, it must be proven to be caused by a specific single pathogen.

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THE EVANESCENT THREAT OF SWINE FLU

There are literally hundreds of strains of influenza virus present at any given time across the US. During any given season, the flu virus mutates several times, not only in any given locale, but within any given individual. This simple fact explains why the flu vaccine has never been effective at reducing either deaths or incidence of influenza in this country during the past 20 years.

CDC soon realized they had shot themselves in the foot by calling it swine flu in the first week. Since there was no epidemic in 1976, in light of the ensuing vaccine debacle, it’s quite clear that swine flu never existed.

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WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE

Caught in that deception, CDC’s brilliant solution was H1N1, even though they knew that made no sense either, with over 700 strains. But by June 2009 the CDC’s official title for the new pandemic was the 2009 H1N1 Influenza A. [18]

Ludicrously apparent to anyone who was eventually going to put the pieces of the puzzle together, suddenly switching names and calling the new disease H1N1 flu was a patent attempt to lump any Class A flu into the H1N1 category.

Equally embarrassing was the CDC statement of 3 Oct 09 in which they printed the utterly insupportable pronouncement that “a total of 99% of circulating influenza viruses in the United States were 2009 H1N1 influenza.” (Barclay [18])

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THE ELUSIVE SCREENING TEST

By the end of May 2009 the CDC finally claimed they had a test for swine flu, which was described both on the CDC website, as well as by calling them on the phone. The criterion for a positive diagnosis for swine flu was simple: a positive test for Influenza A. Any type of Influenza A, out of hundreds and hundreds of strains. This remains the current screening test: the patient isn’t required to be positive for any of the 700 strains of H1N1. [18]

Marketing the vaccine for the flu season of 2009 began without delay. On 20 May 09, Associated Press reported there would be a combo vax by the end of the year that would be good for

* Swine flu
* Avian flu
* Regular flu.

A hollow prediction, considering that two of the three vaccines didn’t even exist, and also that the flu vaccine we have been using for the last 5 years has had no effect whatsoever on the numbers of people who are getting the flu or dying from flu in this country.

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HIGH RISK GROUPS

Even though the entire population was the eventual target of the vaccination program, pregnant women and young healthy children were picked as the preferred targets, as those at highest risk of the new disease. Proof? None, no clinical trials, no new tests comparing demographics. The Project just announced the connection and never looked back. The reality was the polar opposite: pregnant women and young children were the most susceptible to injury from a vaccine that is untested and has unlimited mercury levels. All subsequent marketing held fast to this unverified claim.

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THE SWINE FLU PROGRAM UNRAVELS

The first death knell for the 2009 vaccine hoax was sounded on 22 Sep 09 in an article that appeared in Associated Press. [3] The article was supposed to be introducing the first of the swine flu vaccines which were to come out in October.

National Institutes of Health was recommending four separate flu shots to kids younger than 10 years old. Two of the shots will be the brand new untested swine flu vaccines, and the other two will be the ‘regular’ flu shot.

National Institutes of Health director Fauci and CDC’s Ann Schuchat proclaimed:

- children 9 and younger will need 2 flu shots and 2 swine flu shots
- everybody else will need 1 of each
- swine flu vaccine will be ready in October
- we’ll have 251 million doses
- swine flu targets young children
- they can get both shots the same day, one in each arm
- NIH has studies involving 600 children
- children 10 and older showed protection from the new vaccine
- younger children didn’t show protection, since they don’t have a mature immune system
- a second dose is necessary to ‘rev up’ the immune system

The AP article is nothing more but an erroneous version of the NIH’s own article [4] which came out the same day

“Early Results: In Children, 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine”

Without one bit of independent research, commentary, criticism, or analysis, the AP article obediently adopted the NIH’s new pet word “protection” across the board: “Protection kicks in for older children within eight to 10 days of the shot…”

Only a tested and proven vaccine could even pretend to provide protection. Trying to make believe that giving a 6 month old infant 4 flu shots would be ‘normal,’ Fauci: … “the very young often need 2 doses of vaccine against regular winter flu.” Really? Why has he never shared that secret with anyone before now? CDC has never recommended 2 flu shots for children.

Flu shots were added to the vaccine Schedule back in 2005, beginning at 6 months of age, and yearly thereafter. (CDC [18]) One shot. What was Fauci trying to pretend? He then bumbles on… “this is very good news for the vaccination program.” At $1 billion per shot approved, we guess it would be good news for the vaccination program. What does that have to do with the health of our kids?

CDC’s Schuchat, another towering medical genius, obviously off her meds that day, then piped in “it will be OK for kids to get one shot in each arm on the same visit.” Excuse us, Dr Mengele? Did you remember in first quarter med school when you learned that both arms were attached to the same body? Exactly what clinical trials confirm this personal hallucination of yours? And this from a principal representative of the CDC?

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NIH: PRELIMINARY SLEIGHT OF HAND

The AP article continues: “To determine the right child dose, the NIH set up studies involving 600 children, from babies to teenagers.” [3]

That was actually true. Beginning in August 2009 there were 5 separate swine flu vaccine trials being done on sample sizes of about 600 children. [4] But AP’s next statement is a deliberate misrepresentation: “About 76 percent of 10- to 17-year-olds showed strong protection after one H1N1 shot.”

Looking to the actual studies themselves [45] we learn that none of them will be finished until April 2010! So what is Fauci talking about here? Answer: preliminary findings based on a select group of 25 children!! For that fact you have to go to the NIH site, and read the article that AP is supposed to be reporting on. [4]

Here’s the dodge: the AP article pretends these high numbers were conclusive final evidence from complete studies. 76% favorable response would be a gratifying long term result in any major study, but we find out that is only after 10 days, looking at only 25 children within the entire sample of 600 subjects. [4]

Preliminary findings are meaningless in formal science. That’s why they do the entire study, and await the final outcome before making conclusions.

One of the most disconcerting characteristics of the new swine flu sales program was enlisting mainstream media to portray preliminary findings as definitive, conclusive scientific results. This only happens in the world of marketing. Real scientists are embarrassed by it.

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THE FORMATIVE INFANT IMMUNE SYSTEM

One final comment from Tony Fauci, Director of the NIH:

“Younger children simply don’t have as mature an immune system,” Fauci explained. “So a first dose of vaccine against a flu strain they’ve never experienced acts as an introduction for their immune system, and a booster shortly thereafter revs up that immune response.” [4]

Wow. Let’s take a breath here. For the first time in history we have the director of the National Institutes of Health enunciating in a worldwide forum one of the principal reasons why young children might not be vaccinated at all: they don’t have a mature immune system. Absolutely true. No child is born with an intact immune system. That very complex biological symphony of interrelated allergic responses, antibodies, antigens, self recognition, cell response, etc. — about which we still have only the most fragmented and vaguest knowledge — struggles its way into existence during the early years of the child’s life. It needs no help, no interference, no enormous experimental toxic load, especially one so politically contrived, in its fight to survive.

True to his training, Fauci immediately sidetracks us from that fact of nature to a landmark illusion of American pseudo-science: pretending that a flu shot in a 6 month old is a gentle natural gradual immune-building stimulus that will coax the infant’s immune system into being: “…an introduction to their immune system…” What a fraud. Each flu shot contains 30x the adult safe level of mercury, according to FDA’s own toxicity index.

Fauci then closes with the sublimely daft: the subsequent booster shot ‘revs up the immune system.’ Revs up the immune system.

This is not the president of Harley Davidson talking here, my friends. This is the director of the branch of government that directs funding for all medical research done in this country, controlling an industry that is approaching $2 trillion annually. And this is his perception of the normal development of an infant’s immune system: an engine that needs to be ‘revved up’ by experimental vaccines. This is the individual who guides policies and decisions on what substances will be mandated into your child’s bloodstream.

Revs up the immune system.

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SWINE FLU VACCINE CLINICAL TRIALS

The five clinical trials on the new swine flu vaccine all began in August, all scheduled to be complete after 6 months: spring of 2010. [45] And yet the AP article informed us that the swine flu vaccine would be available in less than one month – October 2009! Untested.

Going now to the published report (15 Sep 09) of one of the five swine flu vaccine clinical trials, the one by Sanofi Pasteur [6] we learn that their trial began in August 2009 and will go until April 2010. The sample size is 650 children. The shocking fact in the article is that Sanofi stated that the after 5 weeks of testing, the FDA had just approved their H1N1 vaccine!

These children received doses of a manmade H1N1 vaccine, although whether it’s all the same strain is never addressed. As we learned in the swine flu chapter [7] there are over 700 strains of H1N1 virus, none of which has ever been proven to be the cause of any disease in humans.

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EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES

One of the five H1N1 vax contractors – Novartis – in their rush to get a vaccine to market in just a few short weeks, without even completing the six month trials, decided to try something new. In order to make a very powerful vaccine that could trigger an immediate immune response, they used a bioreactor on a group of cancerous cells to create an experimental H1N1 vaccine. [46] This process has never before been employed in vaccine manufacture. There was simply no time to test the vaccine in the 
laboratory by the delivery deadline. And it was licensed.

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SEPT. SURPRISE: UNRESTRICTED MERCURY IN NEW VAX

A few days after the Associated Press article, another shocking bit of information arrived: the new swine flu vaccines will contain unlimited levels of mercury! Washington State Health Secretary Salecky announced [45] that the state of Washington just lifted allowable limits of thimerosal in the new swine flu vaccines, with no new levels set.

The announcement was masterfully phrased, obviously the work of Bernays-type publicists:

“Lifting mercury limits for H1N1 vaccine will give pregnant women and parents or guardians of children under three the option of getting the vaccine if they want it.”

Couching the issue in terms of availability sidesteps the obvious: it would also give these women the option of exposing themselves and their unborn children to unrestricted levels of the third most lethal neurotoxin known to man: organic mercury, not to mention manmade viral mutations.

The Washington State declaration quoted Sanofi Pasteur – from its 15 Sep 09 announcement [6] that their new swine flu vaccination had just been licensed by the FDA.

Why are vaccines being licensed at the very beginning of the clinical trials? Completion was not till April 2010.

Wayne Pisano, CEO of Sanofi Pasteur:

“Obtaining FDA licensure of this vaccine for A (H1N1) pandemic response is a key milestone that will enable Sanofi Pasteur to provide a licensed vaccine to the U.S. government to support pandemic immunization efforts.” [6]

The spectre of thimerosal having been raised portends that the manufacturers who have just been awarded these huge contracts to rush a vaccine onto the market — that the new vaccines may not be new at all, but rather old stockpiled vaccines that have been sitting around for years: either old flu vaccines or Avian flu vaccines, or virtually anything with a fragment of any flu virus.

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NEW OR RECONDITIONED?

If the vaccines are going to be brand new, why would they have to contain thimerosal at all? Why not just leave it out? There are thimerosal-free vaccines, and have been for years. Even Salecky notes this in her statement. So why add this neurotoxin to a vaccine we’re going to be giving to a 6 month old infant – 2 shots – when the connection with autism has been so clearly documented?

For years, the ‘regular’ flu shots have contained 25 mcg of mercury, which is 30 times the adult safe level. And now we have unlimited levels of thimerosal in the new vaccines……?

Another company, Baxter, was recently caught by the Czech government for selling unlicensed avian flu vaccine as swine flu vaccine. That was a major worldwide scandal, in world news in September 2009. [10]

When the Czech government pre-tested the vaccine on ferrets before giving it to humans, all the ferrets died! Again, why wouldn’t Sanofi or any of the others try the exact same ruse, trot out old stockpiles of vaccines?

The stock excuse was offered by the FDA – there was no time to test the vaccine because of the ‘imminent danger’ of the ‘pandemic.’ And so the vaccines were rushed through the approval process 5 weeks into the clinical trials.

The urgency over the 2009 swine flu program was being stoked almost daily by inflammatory news stories, all with the same slant: there simply isn’t time to test these new vaccines. So let’s just get them out there to the children and pregnant women such as they are. We’ll sort out the details later.

Details like toxicity, lethal side effects, permanent neurological damage, autism, genome alteration, etc.

Despite H1N1 vaccine’s lack of standard scientific testing, here’s CDC Director Thomas Frieden on “60 Minutes”:

“We’re confident it will be effective, and we have every reason to believe that it will be safe.” [42]

Without complete clinical trials, nothing is really known about either the safety or the efficacy of any vaccine. From a national health perspective, we will have taken a dodgey turn indeed if we can now replace standard protocols for testing and licensing vaccines merely by flat statements from regulatory officials, implying clinical testing is no longer necessary. If the substances being thus green-lighted had no side effects, that would be one thing. Quite another here, in light of the limitless amounts of allowable mercury, as well as the other potential effects of an untested vaccine being not only licensed for use, but also most aggressively marketed and promoted for the general public, especially children and pregnant women.

One fact is certain: without hyperbole or sensationalism, the new swine flu vaccine – unidentified, untested and untried – would be the most dangerous immunological experiment on this country’s children in the past 30 years.

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CBS REPORT LEARNS ALL STATS BOGUS AFTER JULY 2009

On 21 Oct 09, CBS News ran a serious piece of investigative journalism demanding answers about the way the CDC has presented the H1N1 swine flu vaccine program from its inception, back in April. [42]

Their first shocking discovery was that many people who had been diagnosed in recent months as having swine flu, not only in all probability did not have swine flu – it’s very likely they had no influenza at all. Most had other conditions, such as a cold or some temporary respiratory ailment.

Instead of relying only on statements from the Centers for Disease Control, CBS news did their own independent research state by state, in a three month investigation.

CBS learned that the CDC ordered all states to stop counting cases of swine flu back in July 2009, and to cease keeping track of the number of cases! The CDC’s shaky rationale for the cessation:

“why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there’s an epidemic?” [42]

But wasn’t the epidemic declared because of the reported statistics?

Such a decision was severely criticized from many quarters within the scientific community.

The entire swine flu media event had only begun 3 months earlier, in April 2009. It wasn’t until June that the association with H1N1, a subcategory of Influenza A virus, was made. Then one month later in July, the counting is ordered to stop? That means that accurate counting of swine flu cases only lasted for one month! And these are the total epidemiological statistics upon which the entire swine flu H1N1 mirage has been based, from the start.

But even those numbers during that single month were inherently inflated, since the CDC was counting any Influenza A viral infection as a swine flu case, not just the ones limited to the 700 species of H1N1. There never has been nor probably ever will be a true screening test for a particular strain of H1N1.

So then, any numbers of cases of swine flu incidence and deaths CDC claimed after July are fictitious. Including the ridiculous Yahoo headline of late November 2009 of “4000 deaths from H1N1″ – that was total fiction. Which is why it was never mentioned again, by any media.

The individual state records showed very few actual confirmed positive test cases for verified H1N1 influenza. So it appears that the CDC deliberately misinterpreted the statistical data they had been provided by the individual states, or what is more likely, that they ignored it altogether.

It was as though everything possible were being done to magnify and dramatize the H1N1 threat as something much more serious than it actually was.

CDC did not cast itself in a favorable light when it refused to respond to any of CBS’s questions and formal requests for information. The inevitable question: was the H1N1 vaccine being so aggressively and hastily promoted because the CDC and the vaccine makers were worried that the epidemic furor might die down long before April when the clinical trials are scheduled for completion? The only opportunity to reap windfall benefits from the vaccine would be at the present time.

Not to be outdone by other bureaucrats, three days after the CBS report, Obama fetched the stick with his shrill and irresponsible declaration of a national emergency, with all evidence to the contrary. [5]

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SAME OLD GERM THEORY

Until we finally come to grips with the inadequacy of the Germ Theory as a tenable scientific explanation for disease processes, we will continue to be misled by whatever new media-conceived threats are served up for mass consumption. Germs don’t cause disease. Sick people with a chronically toxic internal milieu provide hospitable environments for disease processes to develop, some of which culturing situations may then involve propagation of pathogenic microbes, true.

But that’s a far cry from the simplistic, popular version that we were perfectly healthy until this pig virus came along out of nowhere and made us sick by taking over our normal immune systems, and killed us. That just doesn’t happen.

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GOODBYE SWINE FLU

What happened to SARS? Where is it? What happened to anthrax, smallpox, Avian flu, mad cow — they’re gone. And they won’t be back. They served their purpose – terrorize and distract – spend billions for new research, new pharmaceuticals, unproven and ultimately unnecessary. Afterwards the threats always vanish, like the dew off the new grass in the morning sun — gone.

Despite last-ditch attempts to salvage sales of unwanted vaccines, by early 2010 the swine flu ‘pandemic’ had all but disappeared:

“with the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks.” (Stein [41])

As demand fell, many states as well as EU countries returned stocks of unused H1N1 vaccine. [47] Norway in particular is demanding an investigation into the WHO’s collusion with vaccine makers.

In Feb. and Mar. 2010, desperate attempts were made to try and salvage the sinking H1N1 ship, by proclaiming the ‘pandemic’ was still a threat and could re-emerge anywhere, etc. Anxious to move dead stockpiles of a vaccine nobody wanted, promoters never backed off their original recommendations for everyone to get the swine flu shot. Then in Feb 2010, they decided to include the unpopular H1N1 vaccine into next year’s regular flu shot.

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EU BEGINS INVESTIGATION OF WHO FOR CREATING A “FALSE PANDEMIC”

In the first weeks of 2010 the EU was mounting a concerted investigation of what they called the false pandemic engineered by the WHO in league with drugmakers. [46] Their investigative body – the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – called the swine flu campaign of 2009 one of the greatest medical scandals of the century. Chaired by Germany’s Wolfgang Wodarg, MD, PACE saw how the 2009 swine flu pandemic was created by artificial re-categorization of normal flu cases, and then marketed into an illusory global pandemic. This group of doctors and scientists then set out to track down the precise nature of the collusion between politicians and the drugmakers who received “sealed contracts” for vaccine production, before any legitimate science had validated an actual biological threat. Price tag for the new pandemic: $18 billion. [48]

Dr Wodarg discovered that in May 2010 the WHO had suddenly changed its definition of pandemic. The previous definition was that a pandemic had to be spreading in several countries, and had to be a very serious threat with an unusual number of proven deaths. Suddenly the new revised definition left out those requirements. The new pandemic had only to be a disease, not necessarily serious or deadly, that seemed to be spreading – within any country. [46, 48]

The Assembly also noted that there had been no new science to validate the sudden doubling of the regular flu shot requirement for children, tacked onto the swine flu shot recommendations.

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THE LESSON OF SWINE FLU

Goodbye Swine Flu. Till next time. The pharmaceutical industry is always desperate for new markets. Now that the Boutique Epidemic protocol is so well refined in every detail, we would be naïve indeed not to expect to see them in the future with increasing regularity. Smallpox, anthrax, SARS, avian flu, swine flu – with five in the past eight years, the recipe for pandemic vaccine sales is now perfected:

1. assert a lethal new disease has been discovered
2. begin a campaign of relentless media hysteria
3. dire predictions of pandemic deaths and infections
4. hope of salvation in the form of vaccines and drugs
5. spend the money
6. the threat disappears

Amazing we didn’t notice the pattern.

(excerpted from the new book:
Vaccination Is Not Immunization 2010 )
www.thedoctorwithin.com

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The CDC’s mandated schedule is the brass ring that all vaccine manufacturers are going for – approval of a vaccine can mean annual revenues of $1 billion or more, which is about what Merck pulls in for their current Hepatitis B vaccine.

Hepatitis A vaccine appears in a brand new category on the mandated schedule called the ‘high risk’ category. The significance of this new category will soon become apparent. But before we get into that, let’s take a look at Hepatitis A the disease and assess the necessity for a mandated vaccine.

WHAT IS HEPATITIS A?

As every doctor knows, Hepatitis A is an acute viral disease of the liver. Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has supposedly been isolated:

“a 27-nm RNA picornavirus (enterovirus) with only one serotype…”

- American Academy of Pediatrics, Dec 1996

The infectious agent is passed from human to human either through:

• the oral – fecal route, waterborne, often from raw shellfish or dirty water
• blood and body secretions

Hepatitis A is a mild, self limiting disease, resolving on its own with no treatment in 4-8 weeks.

Most infections are subclinical, meaning that most people who get the disease never even know it because they never manifest symptoms. (Merck Manual, p 377) The journal Pediatrics agrees:

“Most HAV infections in young children are asymptomatic… Clinical hepatitis occurs in fewer than 10% of infected children.”

This disease is so mild that 90% of kids who get hepatitis A never even know it.

Even the National Institutes of Health states that:

“Most people who have Hepatitis A get well on their own after a few weeks.”

- NIH Manual: What I Need To Know About Hepatitis A

Most cases of hepatitis A are found in Third World areas, outside the US. The question pops up: then why are we the only country in the world who recommends the vaccine on a mass scale?

That billion dollars hanging in the balance wouldn’t be in the equation, now would it?

Diagnosis of hepatitis A is supposedly by IgM antibody. But more often, diagnosis is by symptoms alone.

SYMPTOMS OF HEPATITIS

According to Merck Manual, the chief symptoms of hepatitis A are:

• loss of appetite
• NVD
• hives
• joint pain
• dark urine

- p 382

Hardly life-threatening situations. Jaundice may also occur, but it usually indicates the beginning of recovery. By the time these symptoms appear, the disease is no longer infectious.

Unlike hepatitis B, Type A hepatitis disappears completely after acute infection, and does not contribute to chronic liver disease or to cirrhosis. It is important to note that after the patient recovers, he has lifetime immunity. True immunity.

Hepatitis A is a disease of poor personal hygiene, bad sanitation, poverty, overcrowding – Third World scenario. Even well-groomed, well-fed junkies are not high risk for Hepatitis A. They’re more apt to get Type B. Medline indicates the lack of sewers in Third World locales as the biggest contributor to Hepatitis A. Again from the journal Pediatrics we find that:

“The major method for prevention of HAV infections is improved sanitation and personal hygiene.”

Bottom line here: Hepatitis A is not common in most of the United States.

OTHER CAUSES

It’s shocking to discover that hepatitis can be caused by both hepatitis B and hepatitis C vaccines! This fact is found in a disclaimer that GlaxoSmithKlein makes about Havrix, that it can’t cure the hepatitis caused by these other 2 vaccines. So can we infer from this that Havrix itself also causes hepatitis? We don’t need to infer it. The manufacturer states it on p 1545 of the 2002 PDR: a possible side effect of Havrix is hepatitis!

Another source of hepatitis A for children is nosocomial infection. That means infants in hospital intensive care units pick it up there. We never hear about it because the new literature is leaving it out. (AAP Policy Statement, 1996)

SO THEN WHAT’S THE VACCINE FOR?

The question arises – did we really need another vaccine beyond the 40 already mandated for schoolkids, and specifically did we need a vaccine for a rare disease that resolves by itself in a few weeks?

To answer the first, we must ask were there any studies done which prove that the new vaccine is safe when Havrix is added to the other 40 mandated vaccines? No, there are none. This concept of the cumulative viral load is discussed at length in the latest edition of The Sanctity of Human Blood.

Secondly, to substantiate the necessity for any vaccine, we must look at two criteria:

• incidence of disease
• severity

HOW MANY CASES REALLY ARE THERE?

This is tricky – research roulette. In the 2002 Physicians Desk Reference, the manufacturer of Havrix cites 13-year old studies which supposedly show the incidence of hepatitis A and state that the case death rate is six-tenths of one per cent. (p 1545) This is claiming that about six out of a thousand who get hepatitis A die from hepatitis A. It seems like a rather high death rate until one realizes that these are not US figures, but global figures, meaning that they were taken primarily from Third World countries because that’s where the majority of hepatitis A is found! So that means that these patients are trying to recover from a disease of poverty, filth, and malnutrition in an environment of poverty, filth, and malnutrition. Hardly applies in the rare instance of a patient in most of America. But these are the studies and figures that the vaccine manufacturer has used to convince the FDA that Hepatitis A is such a serious disease in the US that a vaccine is necessary.

Numbers, numbers, numbers. Different sources, different stats. From the American Academy of Pediatricians website we see only half the death rate reported by the PDR:

“Mortality is rare, especially in children. The case-fatality rate has been estimated as

“3 per 1000 clinical cases in the United States…”

- http://www.aap.org/policy/01207.html

Looking at the true incidence of the Hepatitis A in the US is an academic artifice, a daunting challenge indeed. A standard government reference for epidemiology is Statistical Abstracts. On p 137 of the most recent edition (2000), we find that the overall incidence of Hepatitis A has been declining for the past 2 decades:

• 1980 — 29.1 cases per 100,000
• 1998 — 23.2 cases per 100,000

This decline is good news, and of course has nothing to do with the vaccine. The vaccine just came out. But the figures still seem a little high, don’t they? On closer inspection, getting out the magnifying glass and reading the microprint footnote on that same page, we read:

“Includes cases imported from outside the United States”

Huh? ‘Cases imported from outside the United States’? We’re not talking Pinot Noir here. No one doubts that the vast majority of hepatitis A cases are foreign. It’s a disease of poverty, filth, and malnutrition. Unfortunately in a disease which only manifests symptoms less than 10% of the time, and with the immense amount of immigration and international travel going on, there is simply no way to separate foreign from domestic origin.

To further illustrate the low credibility of government figures for hepatitis A cases, we need only look at a CDC report which claimed more than 10 times higher incidence: 30,000 cases, which is about 300 cases per 100,000. (Hepatitis Surveillance Report No. 55)

That’s a little different from 23 cases per 100,000. So which study is right?

Who knows? Results depend on who funded it, who wrote it, and who was responsible for verification.

The truth is no one can really say with authority how many cases of hepatitis A occur in the US annually.

THE REAL NUMBER OF DEATHS

In an earlier part of that same reference – Statistical Abstracts, p 90 – we find that the total number of annual US deaths from all 3 types of viral hepatitis put together (Types A, B, and C) in 1998 was only 4700.

Remember this 4700 also includes complications of autoimmune diseases, terminal infectious diseases, and other serious illnesses, most in communities of poverty and malnutrition, alcoholics, drug addicts – individuals of this nature. This lowest common denominator of life supposedly represents the necessity of a vaccine for all.

Looking at the PDR’s global figures above – a mortality of 6 out of 100,000 – we see the usual attempt by the vaccine manufacturers to grab the credit for saving us from an already declining disease. As we learned from the Michael Alderson figures cited in The Sanctity of Human Blood (p 45), virtually every infectious disease of the past century had almost disappeared by the time vaccines came on the market. This is the perfect time to make the same claim for Hepatitis A, before it disappears completely on its own. Masterful PR in action, a l? The Doors of Perception – www.thedoctorwithin.com

We may be sure that future studies on US hepatitis A incidence will show vast decreases, for which the vaccine will doubtless be given credit. Just remember the virtual impossibility of determining incidence at this time, when the vaccine is being introduced.

Stats game aside, almost all sources agree that children are not the group dying from hepatitis A:

“hepatitis with mortality occurs mostly in people with underlying conditions, such as chronic liver disease, and in older age groups”

- http://www.aap.org/policy/01207.html

THE VACCINE ITSELF

This is fun. Hepatitis A vaccine is made from infected human connective tissue cells. Not kidding. Not from just one guy, but rather each batch of vaccine is made from an infected mass of cells which had 1000 donors. (Pediatrics) Imagine that party. They are infected with hepatitis A virus, the causative vector presumed to be present in every case of hepatitis A disease.

The agents are filtered, and attenuated with aluminum, formaldehyde, and phenoxyethanol – a synonym for ethylene glycol – a component in antifreeze.

Someday we’re gonna pay for this…….

ALUMINUM AND FORMALDEHYDE

Just for the sake of argument, let’s make the colossally irresponsible concession that the attenuated viral agent in this vaccine is necessary to stave off the “epidemic” of Hepatitis A about to sweep through our children’s bloodstreams. All right, we’ll concede that unlikely situation. So do the science wizards then want to explain the additional presence of one of the most potent of all human neurotoxins and also of a well known carcinogen in this supposed life-saving elixir? Of course I am now referring to the aluminum and formaldehyde which GlaxoSmithKline thought so vital to the composition of Havrix. (PDR, p 1544)

As Drs. Russell Blaylock and Theo Colburn have well explained, it is not just the connection with Alzheimer’s that makes aluminum such a danger to human physiology. It’s that aluminum can interfere with the formation, development and survival of virtually any human nerve tissue in an unpredictable fashion, beyond any timetables yet devised. (Excitotoxins, Our Stolen Future) We simply don’t know.

As for formaldehyde, let’s just ask how much danger of cancer is an acceptable risk in the pure, perfect blood of a newborn? Cancer occurs first in just one cell. So where are the studies that prove that this “trace” of formalin or antifreeze will not be sufficient to cause that first cell mutation that develops into cancer? Where are they?

We aren’t just assuming that there are no studies to see whether Havrix might cause cancer. Again, the manufacturer is kind enough to state it flatly:

“Havrix has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic potential, mutagenic potential, or potential for impairment of fertility.”

–PDR, 2002, p 1545 col.3

Translation: if this vaccine were making children sterile and causing cancer in an epidemic manner, no one would know. The possibility was never investigated!

Thanks, guys.

As long as we’re talking about scientific probability here, let’s take the discussion one step further. This single causative viral agent that has been identified for hepatitis A is a presumption in itself. Remember – diagnosis is most often by symptoms and by the presence of IgM in the blood. Viral infections are not cultured for diagnosis – it’s largely theoretical. So then doesn’t the isolation, concentration, and dissemination of an infectious viral agent seem at least a little presumptuous if not enormously reckless, especially when we’re talking about the unformed immune systems of the newborn infant population?

That seems like a reasonable question, doesn’t it?

MASS DISSEMINATION OF AN UNPROVEN AGENT

Here’s the key point — is it really necessary to introduce an attenuated infectious vector into our entire population of children in order to theoretically prevent a disease which is extremely rare in the vast majority of US communities, and getting rarer? And is self limiting, does not contribute to chronic liver disease, and confers lifetime immunity to the ones who get it? What are we doing?

Even the manufacturer does not claim that the vaccine confers immunity, but only delay of the disease. Thus the need for boosters. Get the idea – if the vaccine worked, we wouldn’t need boosters after 6 months or a year. Following this shaky logic, if the immunity only lasts a year, the child should get boosters every year for the rest of his life. Now, the booster shot and the first vaccination shot are identical. So why does the first shot supposedly last for a year but the last one is going to be effective for the rest of the patient’s life?? Anybody ever think of that??

The other big issue is that the Hepatitis A virus is supposedly a specific agent that has been photographed, sequenced, and catalogued, and occurs the same in every case of the disease. Classical diagnosis is by symptoms and the presence of the antibody, remember? IgM. But acute viral liver infections can be of a variety of completely different agents and disease scenarios. To pretend that they can all be cured by the dissemination of one single type of attenuated viral agent is disingenuous at best and scientifically ludicrous, even criminal, at worst. Mass inoculation must be absolutely proven to be necessary, beneficial and free from side effects, or else it shouldn’t even be considered. Havrix meets none of these criteria.

THE NEW HIGH RISK CATEGORY

The most disconcerting – make that horrifying – aspect of the new Mandated Vaccine Schedule that has just sneaked up on us will prove to be the creation of this new High Risk category, in my opinion. As we would expect, this ingenious addition was tacked onto the program with no fanfare, no general public attention. Suddenly the most vaccinated children in the history of the world are still not getting sufficient injections, even at 40 vaccines now mandated. So for further protection, the CDC has now created the new High Risk category which they’ll christen with just 2 vaccines: Hepatitis A and influenza. Now folks, these extra shots aren’t really part of the mandated schedule, but are intended for the child who needs that extra protection because he is what we doctors call ‘high risk.’ Which according to the American Pediatrics Association means any child who seems to have a tendency to get colds, asthma, allergies, the flu, or is generally sick.

What percentage of kids does that include? Like, all of them?

They state it like this: these extra vaccines are for anyone in the High Risk group…

“and can be administered to all others wishing to obtain immunity.”

(http://www.aap.org/family/parents/immunize.htm)

Step right up. It’s such a slick set-up. The script will go something like, well, little Johnny and little Suzie just got their regular shots, so they should be fine. By the way, Mrs. Jones, do these children have a tendency to get allergies, colds, or the flu? Oh, they do? Well, then the newest recommendations, just to be on the safe side, are that for extra protection for Johnny and Suzie we should add just two more shots today, while they’re here. And that’s the new Hepatitis A shot and the flu shot. Yes, and then they should be good for a year. Yes, all the other kids are getting the 2 extra shots. You can’t be too careful these days, you know.

Who’s going to argue with a rap like that? Only the most informed.

SET-UP FOR FUTURE VACCINES

The most insidious consequence of the new High Risk category, however, is the door that it opens up for future vaccines. With all the hysteria surrounding bioterrorism and anthrax, we’ve certainly been inundated with beaucoup worries about coming vaccines:

• anthrax
• AIDS
• smallpox

and a whole string of others waiting in the wings. That’s where Hepatitis A vaccine was last year.

Don’t miss the implication here: the High Risk Category is now providing the infrastructure for any new vaccine that has to be rushed to the population in a hurry because of supposed bioterrorist threats. This is the set-up for the administration of the edicts which may come down if the draconian Model Emergency Health Powers Act should ever pass through Congress. (www.mercola.com/2001/dec/26/mehpa.htm)

As you may have read, by this Act the governor of any state would be given absolute, dictatorial powers to proclaim virtually any situation a terrorist emergency, and to summarily decree that all or any part of the population must submit to whatever health measures are deemed necessary, including experimental vaccines. Those who refuse may be quarantined, prosecuted, imprisoned, or forced to submit, and property may be burned or confiscated.

Why not toss in the guillotine?

You know, I missed that part of the Constitution where it gives the boys in Washington the right to do all this.

It seems unlikely that legislation this extreme would ever pass through all the states. But just the fact that it is being considered at all should make us ask ourselves – who is behind these totalitarian proposals and at what point we might actually want to become involved in state politics… Given these two options, Nazis-R-Us or Terrorists Might Pop Up Here and There, give me the threat of terrorism any day of the week. We’ve seen how well the government can protect us from anything. The answer is obviously not to give them another bigger chance, in this writer’s opinion.

THE ILLUSION OF HIGH RISK

The big trouble with the High Risk Category is that it doesn’t target high risk groups – it hoses down everybody. In a semantic bait-and-switch, typical of organized medicine, they will call the category High Risk, and then proceed to hustle every possible individual into it by the absurdly overbroad and indiscriminate criteria of anyone with a tendency towards

• allergies
• colds
• the flu

Very selective. There are true high risk groups for hepatitis A, including those living in overcrowded, unhygienic surroundings, improper diet, and certain racial selections as well. But here’s where politics controls science – imagine the furor that would emerge if the vaccine were mandated according to living environment and race. That would be interesting – trying to convince those groups that the vaccine was for their own good. But if the CDC recommends it for almost everybody, hey then everybody’s equal – the American way, right? And no one whines.

PROPAGANDA VS. INFORMATION

With uncharacteristic foresight, in 2000 the National Institutes of Health published a booklet whose goal was to prepare the public for the addition of Hepatitis A vaccine to the 2002 Schedule. As a study in language alone, the book is a frightening representation of the NIH’s presumptions about the public’s intelligence, which are probably accurate. Written in Basic Retard, What I Need To Know About Hepatitis A spoonfeeds the ninth grade mentality some idiotically simplistic propaganda, dumbing them down in the most patronizing and condescending manner. Some excerpts:

“A vaccine is a drug that you take when you are healthy that keeps you from getting sick.”

Really? First of all vaccines aren’t drugs, nor do people “take” them. As for keeping people from getting sick, perhaps we should ask the hundreds of VAERS parents whose children have suffered fatal injury or permanent damage from vaccines about how well vaccines kept their child from getting sick. This is classic Edward L Bernays. (Propaganda, 1928)

Or this gem:

“Vaccines teach your body to attack certain viruses, like the hepatitis A virus.”

This myth has survived intact since Jenner first propounded it in 1797. If it were true we would not have the ridiculous situation where the only cases of diseases for the last 35 years have occurred in the vaccinated population, as with smallpox and polio. (Salk, Sabin)

Here’s another jewel from the same NIH booklet:

“Children can get the vaccine after they turn 2. Children age 2-18 will need 3 shots. The shots are spread out over a year…. Adults get 2 shots over 6 -12 months. … You need all of the shots to be protected.”

Yes, 2 years is the recommended age for the vaccine. And where are the studies showing the guaranteed safety of injecting aluminum and formaldehyde into the unformed neurophysiology of a 2 year old? Where?

CALL IT IN THE AIR

What is shocking about these statements is the cavalier, arbitrary fashion in which dosages are recommended. I mean, reading it like this, it seems so scientific, doesn’t it, and you assume that an enormous amount of scientific study is behind this very sober recommendation for “3 shots over a one year period.” So why is it that in the PDR, the manufacturer has a totally different dosage recommendation and the AAP still another?? (Policy Statement)

On p 1545 of the new PDR, the manufacturer of Havrix states that the child may get an initial dose, and then get one booster 6-12 months later.

What is this – Spin the Bottle?

Yes, actually it is. That’s exactly what it is. These dose recommendations are just guesswork – not the result of clinical trials. A year from now they may change completely, as we just saw with other vaccines on the new schedule. That’s why different sources recommend different dosages.

Nothing is more obvious in studying government publications than inconsistency and ignorance of the most fundamentally pertinent literature and policies of related health offices, even within the same office. The classic left hand and right hand thing. There’s no real “oversight” which is a bureaucratic word that means “watching over” an entire field of inquiry. Each office just sort of says what it wants, and then the doctors or lawyers or health officials quote the parts they can use. There’s really no such thing as objective science when it comes to legislated health policies. Either you know this or you don’t. The unfortunate thing for those who don’t is that they follow blindly what they assume to be health policies and decisions made with the physical welfare of the child in mind. Discovering their mistake too late, the consequences can be physically disastrous.

Some other arbitrary, unscientific recommendations by the AAP for the new experimental hepatitis A vaccine include just-in-case shots for

• travelers to practically any destination that doesn’t have a US zip code
• military personnel
• Persons living in or moving to areas that have a high rate of HAV infection.
• Persons who may be exposed to the hepatitis A virus repeatedly due to a high rate of hepatitis A disease, such as Alaskan Eskimos and Native Americans.
• Persons engaging in high-risk sexual activity, such as homosexual and bisexual males.
• Persons who use illegal injectable drugs.
• Persons living in a community experiencing an outbreak of hepatitis A.
• Persons working in facilities for the mentally retarded.
• Employees of child day-care centers.
• Persons who work with hepatitis A virus in the laboratory.
• Persons who handle primate animals.
• Persons with hemophilia.
• Food handlers.
• Persons with chronic liver disease.

Again, this is just guesswork and does not have to make any particular sense. No special studies of these groups with the vaccine were done. If the vaccine doesn’t confer true lasting immunity, then why would it be good for any of the above groups? If the disease itself is mild and self limiting and confers true lasting immunity, wouldn’t it be better for that very low number of people just to get the disease and forego the addition of carcinogens and neurotoxins into their bloodstream?

Another question about the persons using illegal injectable drugs – how would a virus know whether or not the injections were illegal? With all the serious side effects from prescription drugs and vaccines, legal – illegal: why would one be higher risk than the other? This is nonsense.

Why on earth would someone who already has chronic liver disease want to take a risky vaccine that only claims to protect him from a mild, temporary type of liver disease? Especially one which has a hepatitis as a possible side effect and one which is going to further stress the liver with toxic adjuvants?

Even though the above bullets are pure conjecture, they do represent groups that are being designated as High Risk. The question then becomes – why isn’t the vaccine recommended ONLY for these groups instead of for the majority of the childhood population? What was that – one billion…?

PREGNANT? DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT

Under no circumstances should Hepatitis A vaccine be given in pregnancy. The manufacturer states that pregnancy studies simply have not been done. (www.aap.org/policy/01207.html) So unless you want to be in the experimental group, when that doctor who has not read the manufacturer’s insert tries to give you this vaccine “just to be on the safe side” – pass.

WRAP UP

So what have we learned? Well, there’s a new vaccine for hepatitis A being recommended for most children over 2 years old, as part of a brand new category in the Vaccine Schedule. And the disease itself – hepatitis A is not a big problem because in the vast majority of cases the individual never even knows the disease is present. And even if he gets the disease, it almost always resolves in a few weeks with no permanent after effects whatsoever.

And there are a few problems with the vaccine:

• aluminum
• formaldehyde
• ethylene glycol
• many side effects, including hepatitis itself
• the dosages are best guesses
• the manufacturers can pull in a billion new dollars per year
• the vast majority of hepatitis A occurs outside the US, yet no other country has mass vaccines
• the mass dissemination of an infectious agent in to the childhood population
• adding to the cumulative viral load of the most vaccinated children in world history

Outside of that, everything should be fine.

SOMEWHERE MACHIAVELLI SMILES

Perhaps the darkest consequence of all the foregoing is that most of us have lost our confidence in the inner curative power of Nature – the body’s inborn wisdom. A hundred media snippets a day, week after week, year after year, have undermined our ability to even consider the notion that 99.9% of infants may be perfect as they are. Or that their pure blood is the most sacred medium in the universe, the crucible in which the human genome itself was meant to be safeguarded and passed on from age to age. Or that the immune system can only develop to its full potential if left to its own devices, largely unknown to human science.

Such natural, vital postulates as these sound foreign to our ears, even fanatical, cultist. Clear, rational independent thinking has become so rare, so unwelcome, so feared in this world where Conventional Wisdom on all topics of consequence is locked down tight, top to bottom. Adrift in this gallery of manufactured illusion, no effort is spared to keep one idea from surfacing: that we have all but lost the ability to trust our own instincts, to find the truth, and then to act on it.

Copyright — 2002

REFERENCES

1. NIH — What I Need To Know About Hepatitis A — 2000.

2. US Dept of Commerce — Statistical Abstracts of the United States — p.137 — 2000.

3. Medical Economics — Physicians Desk Reference — 2002.

4. Beers & Berkow, MD — The Merck Manual — Centennial Edition — 1999.

5. National Library of Medicine

6. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/hepatitisavaccineinactivatedsy202902.html#Brands

7. Blaylock, R MD — Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills — Health Press — 1997.

8. Colburn, T, PhD — Our Stolen Future — Plume — 1997.

9. O’Shea, T — The Sanctity of Human Blood — New West — 2002.

10. American Academy of Pediatrics — Policy Statement: Prevention Of Hepatitis A Infections: Guidelines For Use Of Hepatitis A Vaccine And Immune Globulin Pediatrics — vol 98 no 6 — p 1207-1215 Dec — 1996.

11. Committee on Infectious Diseases — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hepatitis Surveillance Report No. 55. p 1-34 1994.

12. Bernays, E — Propaganda — Liveright, New York 1928.

13. Micromedex — National Library of Medicine

14. Sabin, Albert MD — La Stampa — Torino Italia 8 Dec 1985.

15. Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) Turns Governors into Dictators

16. http://www.mercola.com/2001/dec/26/mehpa.htm

17. Salk, Jonas, MD quoted in Science Abstracts 4 Apr 1977.

]]> http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/hepatitisa/hepatitis-a-creating-a-market-for-another-superfluous-vaccine/feed/ 0 http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/bioterrain/bioterrain-analysis/ http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/bioterrain/bioterrain-analysis/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:27:47 +0000 Dr. Tim O'Shea http://wp.com-qualify.info/?p=391 A classical European technique of blood assessment has been developed and clinically refined during the past 85 years. The essentials of darkfield microscopy were first systematized in the early 1900s by the German scientist Gunter Enderlein in order to look at blood imbalances and toxicity.

Phase contrast microscopy is an improved version of live cell analysis which makes the blood elements more visible in a three dimensional format.

The setup consists of a microscope with a special camera attached, which feeds into a TV monitor. In effect, the patient may see his blood on TV. Only one drop is required, which is painlessly taken from a fingertip. From this one drop a whole world unfolds: the condition of the rest of the patient’s five liters may be inferred with great accuracy.

What we are looking for is the condition of the blood cells. We know what normal healthy blood should look like. We also know what many of the standard toxicities and imbalances look like. Normal erythrocytes should be round and separate. The patient who eats mostly processed foods or who is dehydrated will demonstrate a clumping or rouleaux formation of red cells.

Such clumping makes circulation much more difficult, and obviously puts greater stress on the heart. Red cells are only the size of the inside diameter of the capillaries – the smallest blood vessels. The red cells should go through the capillaries in single file. Since red cells are responsible for oxygen transport throughout the whole body, this clumping condition reduces the amount of oxygen that gets delivered to the individual’s cells and tissues and organs. The results can be diminished function, premature aging, chronic fatigue, or eventual breakdown of any particular part of the body that become oxygen starved.

Many other imbalances in the blood are clearly visible on the TV monitor: cholesterol crystals, plaque, iron deficiency, free radical damage, excess white cells, undigested fats, undigested proteins, undigested carbohydrates, indications of abnormal intestinal flora, indications of Candida albicans, vitamin deficiency, odd formations of obstructive debris, etc.

After the first sample is viewed and recorded, patients are given a whole food enzyme and an antioxidant. After 30 minutes a second sample is taken. Usually, comparing the before and after results is dramatic: the red cells separate, free radical damage is reduced, and much of the debris that may have been present in the serum is gone.

Seeing such obvious results, most patients want to know how to keep their blood the way it appears on the AFTER test. The answer to that is a simple 60-Day blood detox program.

Prior to the live cell blood test, the patient must fast for 4 hours. At the office, a complete lifestyle history is taken, and the patient is required to bring in all drugs and all supplements currently being used. Now we have a very good idea of the individual’s inner milieu history.

Depending on the results of the test, dietary corrections are then made and the details of the 60 day Blood Detox Program are presented to the patient. If the recommendations are followed religiously for 60 days, a follow-up test is done. The majority of patients are either resolved completely or well on their way to recovery.

The results from this simple program can equal or surpass results from dozens of complicated, expensive BioTerrain Analysis, hormone therapy, cell cleansing, detox, or other holistic supplement programs. It’s not flashy, trendy, overintellectualized, or tricked out. This program relies on fulfilling the two basic demands of the body’s cells:

waste removal
nutrient intake.

Until these fundamental cellular needs are met on a consistent basis, other approaches to healing will fail, even though they may include some useful products.

Because of the prevalence of prepared, processed dead foods, blood toxicity has now reached epidemic proportions throughout the world. Many of the specifics of this trend are outlined in chapters on www.thedoctorwithin.com. The endless contamination of the human bloodstream may be seen as a controlled poisoning process whereby most people are unaware that they are gradually losing their health and their immune system until some system of the body breaks down. By that time, the individual has been sick on the inside for a year or more.

Live cell analysis in the “healthy” patient works as an early warning system. Generally, the body is sick on the inside long before any signs of illness appear. Many people with very imbalanced blood pictures do not yet have symptoms.

Unlike with prescription drugs, the blood detox program requires full participation of a very motivated patient. If that can be secured, there is virtually no physiological imbalance that cannot benefit significantly from the 60 Day Program. No matter how sick you may be, as long as the body is still alive, its cells must respond to the same principles of cell physiology as anyone else’s.

Blood detoxification can be the missing component in the treatment of many persistent conditions:

• autism
• allergies
• chronic fatigue
• heart disease
• lupus erythematosis
• migraines
• colitis
• liver dysfunction
• thyroid disease
• eczema
• Crohn’s Disease
• asthma
• arthritis
• MS
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• Gastric reflux

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The 60 Day Program

The Last Resort

Enzymes: The Key to Longevity

Journey To the Center of Your Colon

Allergies: The Threshhold of Reactivity

A Normal Life

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- Morpheus The Matrix

True to the principles set forth in the chapter Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything, I try to avoid newspapers and TV as much as possible, mainly because it’s obvious that that is NOT what is going on in the world. Global affairs are certainly much more complicated, multilayered, with a thousand more points of view than the ridiculous Media stories that focus on one or two extremely basic “facts,” eschewing subtlety in favor of black and white.

Even so, I could not avoid watching CNN for a couple of hours on a recent Sunday. It was an interminable documentary supposedly to show what was going on in Afghanistan. But all we saw were a few shoeless Afghanis riding their mules in the mountain wastelands of Afghanistan, armed with what had to be the oldest rifles known to man. And it went on and on and I’m thinking OK we have all these thousands of UN troops and all those ships and the most sophisticated war gear in history assembled somewhere in the vicinity of Afghanistan, for the invasion, right? So, like where is the army? Where is the enemy? Why are we watching this endless footage about these ragged nomads, as if they had something to do with blowing up the WTC or something. Or like they’re our target, and killing them is going to solve everything.

So I guess we’re supposed to believe what, that our real enemy the Taliban terrorists who set up 9/11 are hiding out in caves somewhere making calls on their cell phones to their colleagues on the east coast, directing the anthrax mailings. And bin Laden is like the fox of the hunt and just as soon as we find him, America will be vindicated. And that’s why we need all these troops, and it’s going to take months to check out all the mountains, etc., right? It’s getting vaguer by the day, but I guess that’s pretty much the morning line.

And then it occurred to me to simply apply the principles from the Doors of Perception to this situation, and it came a little clearer into focus. OK so if this is the smokescreen, then what is it that’s being covered up?

How are we being distracted? We’re being distracted by what we see most of in the news. Just like always. Like Sherman McCoy in Bonfire of the Vanities, it’s not about portraying the factual truth. It’s about dinner. And these days dinner is served, and we’re having war and anthrax.

And smallpox for dessert.

In the creation of public opinion on most subjects, there is always the underlying financial upside. Propaganda – Edward L. Bernays – spin control (Doors of Perception – thedoctorwithin.com – a prerequisite to this chapter). There’s big money in the hysteria surrounding anthrax – big money for Bayer, producer of the dangerous antibiotic Cipro, and big money for Bioport the Saudi-owned holder of the exclusive contract to produce anthrax vaccine in the United States. Big money for new vaccines.

And bigger money in war.

EVERYBODY’S AN AUTHORITY

The subject of anthrax has brought all sorts of experts with columns and websites out of the woodwork, lords of hearsay and unsubstantiated conspiracy and hallucination, many working for syndicated news services, exhibiting the full spectrum of wacky contentions:

* George W engineered WTC so that a war could boost the economy
* the drug companies are sending anthrax spores to mailrooms and Congress in order to create a demand for anthrax vaccine and antibiotics
* bin Laden indirectly owns the anthrax vaccine company
* the FBI knew about 9/11 beforehand but let it happen anyway
* a few people have died from inhaling anthrax spores
* someone is trying to terrorize the American people
* no one really knows what is going on

These days anyone can claim anything. Actually anyone can prove anything now – all they have to say is that their source is speaking “on condition of anonymity.” What a ridiculous new device. Or else that they have such a great journalistic reputation that readers will believe them without references. When did all these tenured journalists become such primadonnas that they think people actually take their uncited, unsourced ruminations seriously? Fortunately, most people buy newspapers for the sports and movie sections, being as sensitized to the daily war scores as they are to advertising.

THE OLDEST PROFESSION

Crowd control. Media is the only business in the world that gets to pretend it isn’t a business. They maintain this supercilious air of selfless dedication – of uncompromising responsibility for ‘reporting the truth.’ Please! Like there are no depths to which they wouldn’t stoop to jangle just one more nerve ending from a story. To serve their advertisers, media has one focus only: to keep readers in a perpetual state of fear and uncertainty so that they will be sure to tune in tomorrow or to buy tomorrow’s paper to see if things got worse. And what kind of news sells most? Right – bad news. If it’s bad today, it’s gotta be worse tomorrow. So if nothing bad enough really happened today, then the main story will seek to foster some unformed fear about what very likely might be happening soon that will be even worse than the actual bad stuff going on now. Generally they’ll wreak the worst possible scenario from any given situation.

Leo Tolstoy nailed it over a century ago:
“All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.”
- Letter to Prince V. 1871

But we digress. For now let’s consider the two new issues separately: anthrax and war.

With anthrax, what is the popular perception that has been crafted since October 2001? Well, let’s see – some white powder has been mailed to a bunch of offices and some people have died from anthrax. Because they didn’t get ahold of Cipro soon enough. And now we’re all at risk because terrorists want to kill all Americans. And more outbreaks are likely soon. And that to be on the safe side, we should take Cipro ‘just in case.’ And maybe the vaccine, if we can find any.

In this chapter we will hold a little different standard from the popular press by asking, what can really be verified about what is going on lately with anthrax? We will leave paranoic theorizing to the journalists – servants to the commandment that the primary goal of media is to perpetuate fear and uncertainty from one day to the next.

ANTHRAX THE DISEASE

Let’s start from the beginning. What is anthrax? According the most recent Merck Manual, a standard medical text, anthrax is a

“highly infectious disease of animals, especially ruminants, transmitted to humans by contact with animals or their products.”
- Merck p 1157

It is infectious, but not contagious. Causative agent: Bacillus anthracis – a gram positive anaerobic bacterium. Standard medical knowledge of the disease is sketchy. That’s probably because anthrax is so rare. Until lately, there have only been 18 cases in the past century. (Associated Press, 8 Oct 01)

Although rare as a naturally occurring disease, anthrax has been intensely studied as a bioweapon since the 1940s. FDR set up a center for developing bioweapons at Camp Detrick, Maryland. The program was headed up by none other than George Merck, drug czar. After years of experimentation with anthrax, a method for inducing spore encapsulation was invented. In this way anthrax the disease was crafted into anthrax the weapon. (Broad) And not by Islamic terrorists. We created anthrax the bioweapon. In Maryland.

In the 1950s, our scientists produced thousands of gallons of ‘weaponized’ anthrax. Operating out of Fort Detrick Maryland for two decades, a group of scientists led by Bill Patrick succeeded in:

* testing experimental anthrax on hundreds of soldiers and prisoners, with or without their consent
* killing some of their own workers in testing unknown germs
* spraying American cities like San Francisco, St Louis, and New York with experimental germs to monitor how they would spread (Cole, also Christopher)
* forcing the anthrax bacillus and smallpox virus to convert into spores, thus creating weapons that can be stored for decades
* aerosolizing germs so they could be sprayed
* developing an arsenal of germ agents, including anthrax and smallpox

These facts are referenced in Miller’s new book Germs, and in several more legitimate sources. Although this book is generally a confused, overblown narrative of drug industry propaganda, written in that style of feigned omniscience that is customary with journalists writing about scientific issues they don’t understand very well, it does point to some valuable sources.

The above listed facts did take place, and can be verified by collateral references. It is true that in 1969, for political reasons, Nixon officially brought the US bioweapons research program to a close. Although biological research went out of favor as far as lavish funding was concerned, up until the present time, we find out that stockpiles of anthrax that were supposed to be destroyed were not. And also that the research went on, disguised as “defensive” in nature. What a big surprise. Gee, you mean the army and the CIA weren’t up front with the public?

Even after the Biological Weapons Treaty was signed in 1972 by more than 100 nations, the US and Russia continued to develop and stockpile anthrax, and still do. (Germs p 63)

When engineered into a weapon, the anthrax bacillus is protected by spores which can exist in the soil or in animal products for decades.

According to the recent Merck Manual, there are 3 ways humans can get the disease: skin, eating infected meat, inhaling spores (Woolsorter’s Disease)

Funny thing is, in this medical text (Merck) the same paragraph says that inhaled anthrax is “often fatal” and “almost always fatal.” Recent events have shown otherwise.

This is typical of medicine’s approach to anthrax. Despite boatloads of ink used up on the topic of anthrax, 99% of it is from the popular press. Very little legitimate scientific research has been done about the cause and cure of anthrax, especially the biowarfare version. Even from our “experts,” estimates of how many spores are necessary to cause the disease vary so widely that it’s obviously guesswork. Dr. Meryl Nass states that the infective dose for inhaled anthrax is “a million spores.” Yet in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the estimate is between 8,000 and 50,000. (Franz) Conclusion: we really have no idea.

Let’s talk about the two supposed treatments for anthrax: antibiotics and the vaccine.

ANTHRAX ANTIBIOTICS

According to Merck, the following antibiotics have traditionally been the treatment of choice:

skin anthrax pulmonary anthrax penicillin streptomycin tetracycline penicillin erythromycin cipro chloramphenical

These are listed in order of preference, with the most harmful choices listed last. Now there are a couple of odd things here. First of all, notice that as of 1999, Cipro is not even on Merck’s list for the inhaled version. It was a only fourth choice for the skin version. Reason: the prodigious amount of side effects listed on p 850 of the 2001 Physicians Desk Reference for Cipro:

NVD phobia hearing loss rash intestinal perforation hemolytic anemia palpitations GI bleeding high triglycerides fainting jaundice high cholesterol hypertension damage to wt. bearing jts. seizures heart attack nephritis tendon rupture thrombosis urethral bleeding exfoliative dermatitis hallucinations nosebleeds manic rx dizziness pulmonary embolism blurred vision

Some of these can be fatal. Probably the only antibiotic more dangerous than Cipro is chloramphenicol, as any drug rep will tell you.

Therefore it seems odd that suddenly in September 2001 the media just upgraded Cipro to the #1 choice for anthrax. Why did they do that? Because Bayer, Cipro’s manufacturer is a huge patron of media advertising? Not that the media would be swayed by financial concerns, of course not… Cipro sales are up 1000% since 9/11. (New York Times 21 Oct 01)

Remember Baycol, the killer cholesterol drug that was pulled off the market earlier this year after at least 32 people had died from it? (The Baycol Recall) That was Bayer. Remember IG Farben – the German drug giant under Hitler? ( Horowitz) That’s also Bayer. A very classy company, always with the interests of human health first and foremost.

The other odd thing is that in the same PDR where the above side effects are catalogued, there’s a whole list of bacteria that Cipro is supposed to be used for. But anthrax bacillus isn’t one of them. And in fact all the ones listed are aerobic bacteria. Anthrax is anaerobic. Isn’t that odd?

Now, Cipro was only recently put on the list for inhalation anthrax by the FDA, in Aug 2000. (Enserink)

Going back to the 1991 Gulf War, each soldier was given a 5 day supply of Cipro — like that would do something. (Miller p 119) Since then, Cipro has stayed in the driver’s seat with respect to military opinions on anthrax antibiotics. In typical military tunnel vision, the terrible side effects of Cipro are not even considered. Nor the fact that efficacy has never been determined for humans younger than 18. (PDR)

But it’s only in the military that Cipro has been the preferred antibiotic for anthrax. Elsewhere it’s always been penicillin and doxycycline. So why the fanfare over Cipro?

Many scientists are wondering the same thing lately. In the 26 Oct 01 edition of the journal Science, there’s an article titled “Researchers question obsession with Cipro.” The article calls Cipro a “drug manufacturer’s heaven.” Fort Detrick official CJ Peters remembers right before the Gulf War when he was deciding which antibiotic to give to soldiers for anthrax, the decision went to Cipro because of its limited success with test monkeys, and because Cipro was the newest antibiotic. The reasoning there was that the Iraqis might have created a new strain of anthrax that was resistant to older antibiotics like penicillin. Just a hunch – no real evidence. But today, 10 years down the road, Peters says that newness has worn off and Cipro is no better than the other less harmful, less expensive antibiotics.

But whether it’s Cipro or penicillin or doxycycline, the biggest deception by the unlettered press is that people are safe taking any antibiotics just on the suspicion that they might possibly have been exposed to anthrax. This is the conventional wisdom that has been created by a hundred media pieces per day. Such a perception is erroneous, unscientific, and extremely dangerous.

Antibiotic resistance is always the Demon to be feared in any mass campaign of preventive antibiotic administration. In The Post Antibiotic Age (thedoctorwithin.com) we learned that the discoverer of penicillin himself Alexander Fleming, warned against the creation of superbugs from the very beginning. That chapter should be reviewed to understand the issues of natural selection of superbugs.

Superbugs don’t just happen naturally. Superbugs are created by indiscriminate use of antibiotics. Anthrax presents two particular dangers in this respect:

1. it’s almost a brand new disease among humans and therefore at first will be very susceptible to standard old-fashioned antibiotics, like penicillin and doxycycline. This initial effectiveness may cause undue expectations of lasting success.

2. since the anthrax bacillus is encapsulated in a spore, it can remain in the lungs for weeks after being inhaled, without escaping that protective covering. During this time the subject would not react – no immune response, no inflammatory response. Now if a patient were known to be exposed to anthrax and prophylactic antibiotics were begun and continued for several weeks, see the danger? As the millions of inhaled spores gradually come open a few thousand at a time, like time-release capsules, the same strain of anthrax would be exposed to the same antibiotic over a period of time. This is a perfect textbook scenario to encourage slight mutation of the microbe in order to survive the everpresent never-changing antibiotic. The patient becomes a walking Petri dish, and this month’s lab assignment is to evolve a superbug. Ideal set-up.

The current recommended duration of antibiotic therapy for inhalational or cutaneous anthrax is 60 days. (Lane — JAMA) The reason the course is so long is that spores may remain in the lungs for weeks before opening up. Actually the 60 days is just an estimate – we really don’t know how long the spores can remain in the lungs.

This recommended dosage does seem to have been effective, however, because there have been no cases of anthrax among those who have taken the preventive doses of antibiotics in the offices in which anthrax exposure may have taken place. But the question remains regarding the advisability of creating unnecessary antibiotic resistance. Would a life-threatening infection have taken hold in the absence of these antibiotics? In how many cases? With a 40% fatality rate, what is the wisdom of waiting till the disease manifests, weighed against creating antibiotic resistance? Nobody knows.

Remember – anthrax is a new disease. Antibiotics have their greatest effect when diseases first appear.

Many postal and government workers today are clamoring for ‘protective’ antibiotics. In all, over 30,000 people have taken prophylactic doses of antibiotics since 9/11, because of “possible” exposure to anthrax! (Lane) And because of the robotic media, there is an outcry for more millions of doses to be manufactured in case of outbreak of an bioterrorist attack. Yak yak yak.

There’s a little problem with all these individuals taking antibiotics at this time. Most of them have not even been exposed to anthrax. So if they continue to take unnecessary antibiotics, what will happen to their immune systems? Several things:

1. they will destroy all their body’s natural flora, primarily in the colon

2. by starting with the most dangerous antibiotics, the risk of side effects is much higher

3. in the unlikely even that they do inhale some anthrax spores, the above mentioned resistant mutations may be created by the constant antibiotics

In a few years or less, individual resistance to antibiotics will become species resistance. That’s why so many people are resistant to penicillin today. The infectious agents have evolved; only the mutants survive. For some of these modern germs, penicillin is like a trip to Baskin-Robbins.

A University of Flagstaff study has already been looking for Cipro-resistant strains of anthrax. The chief researcher, Dr Paul Keim, says he has a paper “ready to go” at present but that he’s holding onto it for now. Such altruism – actually puts national security before his own career. (Science, 26 Oct 01)

No matter what you read in the illiterate, pandering media, remember this fact: antibiotics have always had, and still have, only one proper application: the life-threatening infection. Not colds, not sniffles, not just-in-case anything. A life-threatening situation. Period.

Cipro is not the solution to disaster; it’s the marketing of disaster.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT ANTHRAX

At present 10 people have contracted inhalation anthrax and 4 have died. (Lane – JAMA) All were treated with antibiotics – a 40% mortality rate – making new inroads in our very sketchy knowledge of this disease:

“The fact that 6 of these patients have survived provides hope that the published mortality rates of 86% to 97% for inhalational anthrax may not be accurate in the year 2001..” — J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2001;39:85-100

With this relatively rare new disease, real life is ahead of research here. So just our current experience brings the mortality rate down to 40%. Now of course this wasn’t a real clinical study and 10 people aren’t a very large sample. But this is a vivid demonstration of the difference between scientific theory and reality.

ANTHRAX VACCINE

Anthrax vaccine was first developed by the US government at the Fort Detrick facility in the 1950s. (Miller, p 86) The US bioweapons program was at its peak at that time. At a facility in Lansing Michigan, millions of doses of anthrax vaccine were produced and stockpiled. The original vaccine testing at that time was done on monkeys. Results were inconclusive (Germs, p99)

Very quietly, anthrax vaccine was first licensed by the FDA in 1970 (Nass, Saga) even though it still was extremely “reactogenic.” To apply for license approval, the Michigan company used the same untested vaccine developed by Merck in the 1950s.

Then in 1969, Nixon sought political currency by proposing a treaty to ban bioweapons research worldwide. The US stated by this treaty that it would never use biological weapons under any circumstances whatsoever. (Christopher in JAMA) Looked great in the papers for a few months but the bottom line was that everybody signed the treaty and then continued to store the old stockpiles of deadly germ weapons, and to quietly research new ones. That’s when George Bush ran the CIA, remember?

Before the Gulf War, anthrax vaccine held little interest. A 1985 review by the FDA concluded that:

“Immunization with this vaccine is indicated only for certain occupational groups with risk of uncontrollable or unavoidable exposure to the organism … Inhalation anthrax occurred too infrequently to assess the protective effect of vaccine against this form of the disease.” – Nass, Saga

Then suddenly in 1988, the army wanted enough vaccine to inoculate all military personnel. The only licensed manufacturer of anthrax vaccine was still that state-owned facility in Lansing Michigan. The company promised it could produce enough vaccine in 5 years to cover all US military.

SELLING ANTHRAX TO IRAQ

Iraq began its buildup of anthrax in the 1980s. They bought their starter germs from a company in Manassas, Virginia called American Type Culture Collection, continuing to do so as late as 1988. (Gulflink.org, 28 June 88; Germs, p 88) This company had obtained the anthrax samples as a result of original research done just up the road at Fort Detrick in the 1950s. American Type Culture (phone number 703 365-2700) specialized in variants of the original diseases – stronger versions.

Now why would we sell a lethal biological agent to Iraq, you might wonder. Because up till the late 1980s we considered Iraq an “ally” more or less – a buffer power between us and Iran. In CIA-speak, Iraq was an ‘asset.’ And their money was as green as anyone else’s.

Surrealistically, it wasn’t until 1989 that the US decided to stop biological weapons to foreign countries, including Iraq. (Miller p 89)

But they could still sell to any red-blooded American. In 1995 an Ohio civilian bought 3 vials of plague bacteria for $300 from this same company. (Danzig – JAMA) Get the picture? Economics rules, as always.

Getting back to Iraq here, in 1991 during the Gulf War, the CIA and the army began to freak out because they thought that Iraq had at least 3 biological agents ready to go as weapons. (Sanctity, p 125) And where did Iraq get these bugs from? From us, of course. Yes, Iraq had the agents, but turning biological pathogens into weapons is something very sophisticated — something only an advanced nation like the US could figure out. At that time, there was no evidence that Iraq had learned how to turn these agents it had purchased from us into mass weapons. (Germs, p105)

Nevertheless, DoD (Dept of Defense) paranoia fueled the panic to force vaccines on soldiers, even though Iraqis never used germ weapons. A lot of anxiety was created and the issue of vaccines became a political issue between the generals and the FDA. There was an absurd amount of disagreement between the top brass: Schwarzkopf, Griffith, Cheney, Powell, etc. After the usual blustering, politicking, and measuring of external genitalia, the FDA finally gave DoD the OK to use the unproven, untested vaccine for anthrax, even though it was still in the experimental stage after 30 years, and even though it was known to be useless against the type of anthrax agents the Iraqis supposedly had. (Rockefeller) Moreover, the vaccine was never licensed for aerosol exposure, which is the way that bioweapons are deployed. (p190 Miller)

Result of this collective idiocy with no one driving the bus: 80,000 cases of Gulf War Syndrome. (Rockefeller)

This is the exact type of reasoning and the exact same people that are bringing anthrax vaccine back today.

After the vaccine was approved, the original dosage recommendation was 6 shots over 18 months, which remains today. Why? Nobody knows. It was complete guesswork. ( p 190, Miller)

THE SCIENCE OF ANTHRAX VACCINE

One expert on anthrax vaccine is certainly Meryl Nass, MD. Dr. Nass is an internationally acknowledged authority on biological warfare, and for the past 15 years has been extensively quoted and published in the top medical journals all over the world. From her very thoroughly documented website http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/ we find out the scientific and economic aspects of anthrax that we’re not seeing in the daily Matrix media. Anyone who expects salvation from anthrax vaccine is directed to that site for a reality check. A few of the highlights from Dr. Nass:

Before the Gulf War, the FDA permitted manufacturers to keep rotating old vaccine stocks from 1970. This includes anthrax vaccine.

Anthrax vaccine is an “investigational” vaccine. By FDA regulations, doses of investigational vaccines never expire!

The lots of vaccine produced by the Michigan facility are inconsistently powerful – some lots may be as much as 40x stronger than other lots!

The FDA did not require efficacy in humans in order to license anthrax vaccine.

The Department of Defense has spent $150 million studying Gulf War Syndrome. None of those studies even looked at the possibility of a connection between anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome even though that was one of the 3 vaccines given to Gulf War personnel.

The DoD said that it was impossible to do a study like that because “all records have been lost.”

Dr Philip Pittman of Fort Detrick found that 44% of personnel who received anthrax and botulism vaccines had systemic reactions.

Kathlerine Zoon, the Director of the FDA’s CBER, and the one who has final say in approving military anthrax vaccine recently stated:

“After these vaccines are licensed and administered, the safety and adverse reactions should be assessed.”

Appalled by this cavalier, irresponsible attitude of an FDA director, Dr. Nass states:

“Ignoring Federal law, Dr. Zoon is suggesting that biowarfare vaccines be licensed and used on humans and only afterwards should their safety profile be ascertained. Should the military be given carte blanche to field biowarfare vaccines and then determine whether they cause adverse reactions…?

“Dr. Katherine Zoon, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at FDA, who is in charge of assuring that federal laws are followed and that public health is protected with respect to vaccines, has forgotten where her primary responsibilities lie. For advocating that vaccines be administered before their safety and adverse reactions are known she should immediately lose her job. ” – The Anthrax Vaccine Saga

In a Mar 2000 report to the DoD, the Institute of Medicine admitted that the few peer-reviewed studies on anthrax vaccine in humans did not evaluate adverse effects from multiple doses. Great news. So where are the studies substantiating the need for the current recommendation of 6 doses in 18 months? There are none!

HARMFUL ADDITIVES

One little item most researchers omit is the presence of a potent neurotoxin – aluminum hydroxide – in the only anthrax vaccine that now exists. (J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2001;39:85-100) The implications of injecting aluminum directly into the human bloodstream were discussed at length both in Blaylock’s book Excitotoxins as well as in The Sanctity of Human Blood. Many of the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome correlate exactly with well-known side effects of this neurologic poison.

Another scary component of anthrax vaccine is squalene, likely a biotoxin, which was a big media issue for several weeks. Notice how all that came and went? Well the squalene didn’t. Squalene is an unapproved adjuvant discovered in the anthrax vaccine given during the Gulf War. Work done at Tulane University by virologist Robert Garry, PhD actually used squalene antibodies as a marker for Gulf War Syndrome. (Metcalf) Congressman Jack Metcalf exposed the DoD’s efforts to hide the presence of squalene in anthrax vaccine from the public. As it sparks an immune response, squalene has been correlated with arthritis and neurological problems through a mechanism of autoimmunity. (The Extra Pharmaacopeia, p 233)

VACCINE MONOPOLY

Keep in mind that since 1998 one company has the exclusive license to produce anthrax vaccine for the military: Bioport.

Dr Nass points out some annoying data about Bioport’s current inventory of anthrax vaccine:

“All 6-7 million vaccine doses now held by Bioport have up till now been unapproved for human use. They fall into one of the following three categories:

1. Lots which the FDA quarantined because of significant manufacturing lapses, which include among others inadequate potency, contamination by gasket material and lack of sterility (and they may be up to eleven years old, having expired several times and been redated with only cursory testing)

2. Lots for which former Secretary of Defense Cohen ordered ’supplemental testing’ to assure potency, purity, safety and sterility–and which failed this test battery on at least two occasions. These lots also may be up to eleven years old.

3. Lots which were produced by the pilot plant after it was rebuilt, but during a period when FDA did not approve the procedures used. This led to some vaccine being sent to Washington State for bottling, as Bioport’s bottling suite could not assure sterility. But some lots were bottled in Bioport’s unacceptable suite. These lots are up to two years old. “

- 1 Nov 01 Anthrax Bioterrorism Meryl Nass MD

Before we take a closer look at Bioport, it may be helpful to have just a brief overview of

THE POLITICS OF ANTHRAX VACCINE.

When we read the daily nonsense in the paper about the necessity for anthrax vaccine, one fact is conveniently left out: the original 1970 FDA license for the vaccine given to the Michigan facility drew no distinction whatsoever between the skin form and the inhaled form of the disease. In other words, the vaccine wasn’t licensed FOR anything; it was just licensed. (Gilbreath)

It is also inconceivable that no federal agency is doing any research whatsoever to understand what is wrong with the vaccine, nor are there any studies currently under way to learn about the post-vaccine illnesses and how they can be treated.

After the Gulf War vaccine disasters, the political controversy waved back and forth all through the mid 1990s about whether or not to keep vaccinating the armed forces. Yak yak yak. The rationale was never about health complications, side effects, or whether the vaccine worked.

In 1995 Gen Ron Griffith, vice chief of the army, was against anthrax vaccines, not because they were dangerous or ineffective but because it would make alliances with other countries more difficult – you know, ‘our guys are protected and yours aren’t’ kinda thing … (Miller p 195)

As we will see, the entire notion of anthrax vaccine has been totally political and had nothing to do with science. Why? Because in reality there has never been nor is there now an effective vaccine against weaponized anthrax. It doesn’t exist, and it almost certainly will never exist. The reason is simple, as Dr. Nass explains – the enemy can simply alter the strain of the germ agent slightly by genetic engineering. This will defeat the vaccine.

Even Congress figured that out:

“The anthrax vaccination.. is a well intentioned but overwrought response to the threat of anthrax as a biological weapon…. their reason for the inadequacy of anthrax vaccine: gene splicing to create vaccine-resistant strains of anthrax.” (Burton, Apr 2000)

Six months later the Pentagon itself saw other problems with the vaccine. A 2000 study at the National Academy of Sciences, requested by the Pentagon, concluded that there was insufficient and inadequate evidence to be able to tell whether or not anthrax vaccine caused long-term health problems. All the pertinent science totaled only “a few short-term studies.” (Institute of Medicine, 30 Mar 00) The study stated that the Pentagon had been relying all this time upon incomplete research done on 1500 employees of Fort Detrick in order to decide if the vaccine were safe and effective. Suddenly they noticed after all these years that they forgot to ask the subjects questions about long-term symptoms! In addition, they didn’t question anyone who had left the company.

This fact flies in the face of the pompous claims made in a recent issue of JAMA (12 Nov 01) about the vaccine’s proven efficacy in humans: those Ft. Detrick employees are the same ones JAMA cites!

But politics never lets a little thing like physical reality stand in the way when there’s power and money involved. Since the time of Edward Jenner, vaccines have been a source of massive revenues, especially in situations involving groups of people with little or no rights, such as military personnel.

BIOPORT – THE GOLDEN GOOSE THAT LAYS NO EGGS

Let’s take a quick look at who this Bioport is, and see what kind of an outfit would buy a state-owned operation with a 7-year track record of failure. After 7 years of problems, the state of Michigan considered the Lansing facility a losing proposition, overburdened with problems. Michigan was very happy to unload it to Bioport in 1998.

Considering the facility’s past, it’s amazing that anyone in his right mind would view the production of anthrax vaccine as a good business venture. It’s more than amazing: it’s highly suspicious. For starters, the facility had not produced any vaccine since the Gulf War. Why not? Because they could never pass the periodic FDA inspections for safety, purity, and production protocols.

For example, anthrax work was supposed to be done at Biosafety Level 3. What they were doing could scarcely pass level 2. (Miller p 199) Such safety levels are illustrated in Dustin Hoffman’s 1996 movie Outbreak.

When the demand for anthrax vaccine was raised by the military in 1991, they approached every one of the pharmaceutical companies for help. No one wanted to take it on because the army would not indemnify the producer of the vaccine. This is why by 1998 the Michigan facility still held the only contract: no one else wanted it.

A 1997 FDA report on the Michigan facility shows numerous violations, including

* * rusting equipment
* * failure to clean and sanitize utensils
* * dead insects in clean room

- Nass – Saga

Exactly who is Bioport? The current CEO of Bioport is Fuad El Hibri, a Saudi national. Most of the stock of the company is owned El Hibri’s family. This is not a joke, and can be easily verified by checking the citation below wherein El Hibri identifies himself to the 106th Congress.

El Hibri is at the top of a huge Saudi conglomerate, diversified into many areas of commerce, controlling billions of dollars. So why would an internationally savvy billionaire want to take a chance on this disaster of a company, a venture that all the pharmaceutical companies themselves had turned down when pursued by the US military? Well let’s see if we can piece this little puzzle together.

The DoD decided to start vaccinating all military personnel again in 1998, using the same anthrax vaccine from the Gulf War. The exclusive contract to produce that vaccine was transferred to Bioport, just before that decision came out.

Such a contract with Bioport would generate at least $60 million over a five year period. In order for the Saudis to get wind of the amazing opportunity before it took shape, they needed an insider. In Apr 1999, ABC News ran an article that reported that the founder of Bioport was Former Joint Chief of Staff member Adm. William Crowe, who holds 13% of Bioport’s stock. (Rosenberg) Crowe obviously had connections at the Pentagon to alert him to their new decision to vaccinate for anthrax. Crowe and El Hibri – the ancient marriage of military and industry – till death do us part.

The Pentagon finally resumed vaccinating all US troops for anthrax in March 1998, after talking about it for 7 years. (p 244, Germs )

What kind of volume are we talking about? Since 1998, the U.S. military has administrated 2.1 million doses of the vaccine to 521,000 people, said Army Lt. Col. John Grabenstein, deputy director of the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program Agency. A full vaccination requires six doses administered over 18 months. Eventually, the Pentagon expects to vaccinate 2.3 million service members, Grabenstein said. (CNN, 26 Oct 01)

Now if the state-owned facility had been unproductive for all those years, and if Bioport itself has not produced any salable doses then where did all these doses come from? The scary answer: stockpiles. Old stuff. This is one reason why there have been over 400 personnel who have refused anthrax vaccine no matter what the consequences. By mid 2001 hundreds of reserve pilots quit the military rather than be vaccinated for anthrax. In addition, over 400 military personnel faced courtmartial, imprisonment and discharge rather than take the anthrax vaccine. In all there were 51 court-martials. (majorbates.com, Miller p 269)

Not that Bioport cares one way or the other about the fate of the recipients of their vaccine. A recent report by NBC news (Avila) pointed out:

“Adverse reactions to anthrax vaccine, even fatal ones, are not investigated by Bioport.”

OK, we can see the money motive for Bioport taking over. But what about the production problems? A 1998 FDA inspection at the time of purchase turned up shortcomings in every stage of production. Why did Bioport think they could succeed in meeting vaccine quotas when Michigan state had been unable to produce for all those years?

This is the brilliant part – one really has to admire Bioport’s genius and resourcefulness. They don’t have to produce. They would operate at a loss, make excuses, and get subsidies from the military to tide them over. And they could still keep all the old vaccine stockpiles from the original facility because by law, investigational drugs never expire. And since approval is only politics and not science, eventually all these pesky FDA inspections would get ironed out and they could sell the bogus lots. Hell, the vaccine can’t possibly work anyway, so what difference does it make what’s in it?

Subsidized by the government, founded by a professional troughsman, Bioport knew how government facilities should act: shuck and jive, delay, and make excuses. And ask for handouts. And that’s exactly what they did.

Since they took over, Bioport has been plagued with “production problems.” They have consistently failed to pass every FDA inspection, for reasons such as hygiene, safety, purity, efficacy. An amazing list of original FDA inspection reports can be viewed at http://www.gulflink.org/Vaers/inspection.htm

Again, since 1998 Bioport has not produced one saleable dose of vaccine. Until very recently when the shots were suspended, the military were receiving the old stockpiled doses. A 26 Oct 2001 article from CNN reported the CDC stating that Bioport’s current stock

“… of vaccine equals about 10,000 doses.” – Cohen & Garrett

That same CNN article has Bioport making the ridiculous promise to produce 1 million doses of anthrax vaccine in the next year! Considering this company’s track record, Bioport has about as much chance of meeting that quota as Michael Jackson has of winning the Preakness.

As with any unregulated organism, these “production problems” continued unabated. Finally, the total disregard for FDA protocols led to suspension of anthrax vaccine production in 2001. At that time all doses were coming from old stock – Bioport still hadn’t produced even one dose.

You keep reading all these details about anthrax vaccine in Dr. Nass’s research, in Rep. Burton’s Congressional investigation in 2000, and in Miller’s book Germs and it finally dawns on you: obviously there is some big financial motivation to keep funding this company as long as it remains unproductive. The less it produces, the more money it gets. Who would benefit from such a set -up? Gee, let’s think about it…the owners, the stockholders, the employees, the middlemen in the float transactions …it’s millions. The history of the production of anthrax vaccine since the Gulf War reads like a treatment for a new Coen brothers movie.

Administration of the vaccine is slated to resume very soon into 2002, but don’t hold your breath. It’s the standard formula with any government operation: keep emphasizing the importance of the program, the threat of disease, and that the only solution is to continue subsidizing the illusion of future production. Poetry in motion.

BIOPORT’S BOTTOMLESS TROUGH

So where does the money keep coming from? Partly from the DoD’s Joint Vaccine Acquisition program, which was set up by Congress in 1997 with an initial funding of $322 million. Since its inception, some 40 or 50 vaccines have been under discussion for military personnel – it’s big, big business. (Nass, Saga) Being one of the 3 vaccines from the Gulf War, and especially in view of its recent limelight, anthrax vaccine is at the top of the list for its share of the pie.

Back in Aug 1999, after again failing FDA inspections for numerous violations of hygiene and procedure, Bioport was given $24 million from the military to keep it afloat even though it was producing no vaccine (Miller, p 267) And at the same time the Pentagon voted to increase the price per dose paid to Bioport from $4.36 to $10.64! (Myers) Actually in the three years after Bioport took over the anthrax vacine gig, the DoD has given them some $126 million. (Avila, NBC News – 8 Oct 01

What’s going on here? Incentive to keep screwing up?

Even after that money was granted, a second FDA inspection of Bioport in Nov 1999 prevented resumption of production because of over 30 deficiencies – including inconsistent composition from lot to lot. (Germs, p267)

Just like government itself – unlimited funding with no accountability. It’s a beautiful thing.

NOT MY FAULT

Now for the mandatory excuses – de rigeur for any government subsidy. In a statement to Congress on 13 Jul 00, Fuad El Hibri was making excuses about why Bioport wasn’t producing any doses of vaccine despite the generous underwriting. El Hibri stated:

“Bioport has one customer – the Department of Defense – and one product – anthrax vaccine.” – House Armed Services Committee hearing, 106th Congress

Like a professional bureaucrat getting paid by the word, El Hibri waxes plaintively with numerous non sequiturs about production problems and whose fault they really are, closer relations with the FDA and the DoD, and hopes for a bright future, etc. Yak, yak, yak..

Sounds like a 101 course in Business, the lesson being – if you plan on running a screw-up company which plans to default on all its commitments, fail government inspections, and have no product to show after 3 years in business, make sure you get an exclusive contract from the US military. Avoid the main issues and never cop to anything. The guy is good.

It worked. Bioport is still rolling.

It’s like a company operating in the private sector has awakened from a dream by realizing how stupid and unnecessary it was to struggle with all those irksome production costs, overhead, taxes, deadlines, personnel nightmares, quotas, bookkeeping – all the concerns of any American business. Why worry about any of that when we can lock onto the gravy train – government support, with no oversight, no limits, and a guaranteed, ever-growing demand for its product, assured by the willing participation of the media, which is rabidly focusing on the imagined threats of biological terrorism. It’s a serendipitous nirvana of events, a business Valhalla.

ANTICIPATION OF TERRORISM IS WORSE THAN TERRORISM ITSELF

As it turned out, all the hysteria of the CIA and the DoD during the Gulf War was based on speculation — bioterrorism never happened. Iraq never used any of their lethal bioweapons – we don’t even know if they had them ready. CIA reports were of the unconfirmed James Bond variety. After the war US inspection teams didn’t find any biowarfare germ agents in Iraq. (Spielman – Associated Press, 19 Apr 91)

One reason why none of these scenarios ever happened is that bioweapons are too unreliable. Obviously they’re not field tested. Lethal germ agents released into the wind can affect either side in a battle situation. The results are just too unpredictable to be logistically useful. That’s why even idiots don’t use them in actual combat.

Speaking of idiots, here’s a glowing example of the level of US intelligence and the use that we make of information, that flies in the face of all of the above-cited hysteria. In the Gulf War, we identified what were supposed to be refrigerated storage areas for bioweapons in the Iraqi desert. Against any common sense, we blew up all of them despite the threat of releasing lethal pathogens into the atmosphere. (p122, 199 Germs) So it turns out that the greatest threat of biowarfare casualties in the Gulf War came from US military actions, not Iraqi. The Pentagon even admitted as much on 21 Jun 96, when they admitted that tens of thousands of soldiers may have been exposed to nerve gas after we blew up an Iraqi depot.

What a surprise.

It’s the same today. The issue is never the danger to US troops. That’s the cover – the threat of terrorism. Decisions aren’t made for the health and welfare of our personnel. Look at all the courtmartials. No, this is about the only thing that it’s ever about: money. Vaccine sales. Government funding for counterterrorism rose from $6.5 billion in 1998 to $9.3 billion in early 2001. (Miller p 277) And that was before 9/11.

Threat of terrorism vs. reality of terrorism. Only with great effort can we keep this distinction in mind. Even JAMA got it right: With all the paranoia and fear and money spent, “… there has never been a major BW terrorist attack.” (Simon) It is the threat of biological terrorism that drives huge economic forces – government spending for police and military and “security” offices, and preventative drugs and vaccines. Not to mention media imaging. The marketing of disaster – political currency – everybody’s got an angle.

FOUR DEATHS

Look at all the fanfare, all the money, all the posturing, all the maneuvering that has resulted from 4 anthrax deaths. Four confirmed deaths. Because of four deaths we’re throwing out the Bill of Rights, spending billions creating superfluous new government agencies, buying millions of doses of ineffective vaccines, and letting the irresponsible media whip us into a frenzy.

Chill. All this because of 4 deaths? Let’s get some perspective here. A few years ago JAMA came out with the shocking statistic that 180,000 patients die each year from medical mistakes, being injured by drugs in the hospital. At least. This is from Journal of the American Medical Association, July 5, 1995, p 29. (Bates) What action was taken after that revelation? None whatsoever! And now we’re altering our entire social structure because of 4 deaths? Shall we wake up? Perhaps this outrage about 4 deaths is a little overdramatized, a little too choreographed. This is marketing here – it’s all about spin, the creation of perception. (Doors)

Pop quiz: what is the common thread between these two completely unreasonable phenomena:

- doing nothing about an ongoing convention that kills at least 180,000 per year

- major social infrastructural upheaval because of 4 deaths

Answer: both designs have the same intention – sell drugs.

THE FUTURE OF ANTHRAX VACCINE

Keeping the above history in mind will help the reader assess the coming media phantasms:

* – US military will be protected by the “new, improved” anthrax vaccine
* – the vaccine should be available to civilians exposed to terrorist dispersions of spores
* – the vaccine will cure those who have been exposed
* – the vaccine should be mandated to the general population
* – anyone suspected of exposure to anthrax spores should be forced to get the vaccine

Notice we haven’t heard much about anthrax lately? What, are the terrorists on vacation or something?

SMALLPOX VACCINE WAITS IN THE WINGS

The second biggest media fiction today regarding vaccines is the “new” threat of smallpox. Again, it’s a marketing tool right out of Edward L Bernays ( Doors of Perception – thedoctorwithin.com)

It doesn’t matter that smallpox disappeared in 1941 from the US, except in a few cases of vaccinated people. Nor that all states but nine had individually suspended smallpox vaccine by 1929 because of its dangers. (Anderson) Nor that mass smallpox vaccination programs caused vast increases in smallpox deaths in several countries, including England, Germany, the Philippines, and South Africa. Nor that there has been no new smallpox vaccine developed since we stopped using it in 1971. Nor that smallpox is not even a threat a present: there have been no reported cases, terrorist or otherwise. Nor that the vaccine we had never worked! (Sanctity)

No, these things are insignificant. What is important is that big money can be made if people can be spooked by the possibility that this disease will be brought back by terrorists; and that we all need to be inoculated against that possibility. And where will all this money go? To a former CDC scientist from Fort Detrick – Tom Monath. And to a British vaccine company named Acambis.

Monath is the owner of OraVAx, a vaccine company vying for a Pentagon contract to make smallpox vaccine. (NY TIMES, 7 Aug 98) Acambis is a small biotech company who recently secured a share in a $428 million government contract to make enough smallpox vaccine for everyone, in the event of a terrorist action.

A ridiculous article in the 3 Dec 01 Washington Post reports that Tommy Thompson has just seen the urgency to order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine to “protect” the entire country. This cheap, sensational piece has great value as a textbook example of propaganda, junk science, and the worthlessness of popular media.

The article starts by saying that Thompson speaks to a nation “panicked about bioterrorism.” That’s certainly not true. Despite all efforts by the media to panic people during the past months, there’s no evidence of general hysteria. Next, the article states that the government plans on diluting 20 year old smallpox vaccine stock 5 to 1 in order to save money on the first 77 million doses of the “required” 300 million doses.

First of all, we stopped vaccinating for smallpox in 1971 – so it’s likely that the stockpiled doses would be closer to 30 years old. And despite what the article suggests, the original vaccine never worked, so how will they “prove” that the 5-1 dilution will work? And by February? Please! There are no cases of smallpox to test anything on… hello?

Oddly editorializing for his masters, the journalist opines: “But the vaccine certainly worked.” Who’s reassuring whom here? He continues to sermonize:

“Vaccinia virus has been used for 200 years to induce an immune reaction that protects people against smallpox.”

This is propaganda and junk science. Smallpox vaccine never protected anyone from anything. It never worked; the disease resolved on its own. What was he before he was the health writer? Sports? Local cuisine? Excuse us if we do not defer to the expertise of this unlettered pop columnist.

And this is costing how much? Another $428 million has just been tacked onto a standing order for 40 million doses. This $428 million will pay for another 155 million doses. But all these figures are theoretical because of the low likelihood that the deadlines will be met. The original 40 million doses weren’t scheduled for completion until 2005. Which makes you wonder what had occasioned that order to be placed before 9/11 ever happened – an order for a vaccine against a disease that virtually disappeared in 1941. Something rotten in Denmark here. Also the article points out that the price just went up from the original $1.70 per dose to $3 per dose, practically overnight. The marketing of disaster, right?

Now just think about this for a minute. Beyond our wildest paranoia, beyond anything that has ever taken place in history, why would we need enough vaccine for our entire population? Even if the vaccine worked, which it doesn’t, we’re not subject to the type of epidemic that ran through Europe hundreds of years ago. Two main reasons: sanitation and geography. We’re way cleaner and less crowded.

But the main point here is that we have no evidence that terrorists are about to use weaponized smallpox. It’s never happened. No one has smallpox now. To be prepared is one thing, but to freak out and go into debt for millions of dollars over an unsafe, untested, ineffective vaccine is quite another. Following this logic, theoretically any infectious disease is a potential threat and we should be building up stockpiles of vaccines against each one of them. Which is probably in the offing. It all drains back into the same sewer: who benefits most from all this hysteria? The drug companies and their friendly policymakers.

The Clinton administration had been quietly stockpiling smallpox vaccine since 1998. There were two separate companies: one trying to produce smallpox vaccine for the military and the other for the general public. Actually neither program was going well. The military contract went to one company at $70 per dose and the civilian contract went to another company at $2 per dose. The civilian contract went to Monath. Both companies said they wouldn’t be ready until at least 2005. (Germs p 311) Looks like the same dog and pony show we saw with Bioport. Why should it be any different – it’s government subsidized. The last thing they have to do is produce, right?

“…in the Clinton years..biological defense turned into an entitlement program for federal agencies, private contractors, and government comsiultants.” (Miller, p 319 – Conclusion)

Ring a bell? This explains the current mania with smallpox — getting the people ready. Justifying these enormous new expenditures, which are beginning to line up like kids at the ice cream store.

FIRST FIND A DISEASE, THEN CREATE A MARKET

We’ve been using this time-honored formula over and over for decades, so why stop now? We saw it with cancer, bacterial infections, colds, menopause, ADD, AIDS, childhood diseases, and a host of others cited throughout thedoctorwithin.com. That is, identify a disease, magnify it with unrelenting media focus and spurious science, then take an unproven drug and claim it as the solution. With the newest wave of mindless mania, we aren’t even waiting for a disease to happen. For this new market, all we are using is the threat of disease – one which is supposedly spread by biological terrorism. The answer: prophylactic vaccines and antibiotics. Who cares if they’re untested and unproven? We haven’t got time for details like that. We’re under attack! Sound familiar? In an article in JAMA four years ago, we were warned that this might happen:

“Many if not most diseases caused by biological agents present with nonspecific signs and symptoms that could be misinterpreted as natural consequences…..The potential exists for hysteria to be confused with actual disease.” – Franz

What a God-given marketing device! We can’t tell the difference between a natural disease and one caused by terrorist germ agents. Since we invented modern bioweaponry in the 1950s, there have been many allegations of the use of lethal germs both by military and by terrorists, but far fewer have been confirmed. (Christopher) All we’re really doing now is vamping on an old theme, fueled by recent fears and uncertainty – media’s stock in trade. It goes hand in hand with the drug companies who never miss an opportunity to make false claims about the ability of organized medicine to diagnose and treat victims of these supposed attacks.

Despite the force of a thousand innuendoes in the past months, there has as yet been “no proven connection” between the events of 9/11 and the anthrax mailings. (Lane – JAMA) But that doesn’t prevent the author of the same article to add to the hysteria by making the oddly unscientific political prediction in the same article:

“There is no reason to believe this will be an isolated act of bioterrorism. In fact, it is likely that additional attacks involving B anthracis and perhaps other pathogens will occur.”

Just what we need – medical journals doubling as hawkers of doom, oracles of future catastrophe. There is no reason to believe that the current anthrax mailings will NOT be an isolated act of terrorism. This soothsaying is a little beyond the expertise of medical science, and is perhaps a bit too flagrant about representing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry, ensconced as it is between the full page drug ads. They should at least keep up the veneer of objectivity, don’t you think?

Keep this in mind: WE created bioweapons. WE brought them into existence. Not a bunch of camel-riding terrorists. And we also created the threat of biowarfare. And our latest trick is to create the necessity for the “solution” to bioweapons: vaccines. Are any other countries running around making a ton of new vaccines to protect their people? No, they’re not. To understand the agenda of mainstream media’s approach to this topic, all you have to do is ask one question: who is selling what here? And then it’ll all come into focus.

OIL CHANGES: THE REAL VALUE OF AFGHANISTAN

If we’re to be good sheep, waiting each day for our daily ration of sheepfood from the TV news, we’re supposed to believe that the purpose of the military action in Afghanistan has been to find the elusive bin Laden and avenge the American people for 9/11. Certainly makes for artistic graphics, like the one on the cover of Time, with bin Laden in the crosshairs. Fine, if it were true. But think what such a belief system has to entail: you’re telling me that with all those satellites up there that can read newsprint from outer space, and all the trillions of dollars worth of intelligence hardware and personnel that’s been rolling for all this time, with all the FBI, CIA, NSA, military, special forces, and all our secret ninja agencies, you’re telling me we can’t find one guy? A guy who keeps popping up on CNN? Come on!

So let’s take it a little further. For months and months we can’t find the guy. So there’s only one thing left to do. Invade and occupy the country, leaving no cave, camel paddock, or Holiday Inn unchecked. Scour every inch of the country for the slippery Muslim, and neutralize any resistance along the way. Now whether we find him or not, the end result will be the same: we will own Afghanistan – directly, indirectly, however you want to describe it. The media stays away from this fact, focusing on the unspeakable acts of terrorism that brought on the mobilization of all this military force. But just like Dustin Hoffman says in Wag the Dog – it’s a teaser. You don’t bring out the shark in the first reel of Jaws. Bin Laden will not be produced until we, or our new puppet, which is the same thing as we, own Afghanistan. This isn’t rocket science here.

Why not? Stay with me now. Let’s just look around and see if we can find any other reason why we might want to occupy and control all the ground in Afghanistan.

To answer this assignment, we have to go back three years to a Congressional Hearing that took place on 12 Feb 1998. Reviewing the transcripts of that Congressional hearing, we are amazed to learn that the real importance of Afghanistan has been well known all along. (http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.HTM)

And it’s not stopping anthrax production or world terrorism or anything that abstract. No. In defining the real importance of Afghanistan in the modern world we are now talking about only one thing: the new oil pipeline.

In this 1998 meeting, Congress was told about the importance of developing the infrastructure to extract a newly discovered supply of oil in the five countries surrounding Afghanistan, an immense storehouse that may represent a whopping 5% of the world’s oil and gas reserves. So the plans to get this oil to market involve building an immense pipeline system, comparable to the Alaskan pipeline, that would carry the oil to ports on the Caspian Sea. But before the construction on this huge project gets under way, the investors want to be sure that unstable factions don’t have the opportunity to blow up the pipeline any time they take it into their heads to have a little jihad barbecue, for whatever reason. Keep in mind, the pipeline itself is estimated to cost about $2.5 billion.

The countries involved are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Because of the geography, one of the prime routes for the proposed 1000-mile pipeline goes right across Afghanistan. In this 1998 hearing, Congress stated that the US definitely supports the idea of the pipeline, but would not be in favor of moving ahead until the government of Afghanistan is “stabilized.”

To give an idea of the resources involved here, they’re talking about 236 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and as much as 200 billion barrels of oil. For this reason one of the oil reps states flatly that construction will not be started until there is a “single Afghan government.”

As long as we’re talking money here, it was also brought up in this hearing that major quantities of the world’s opium and heroin are being produced “all over Afghanistan.” Sounds like a rerun of Vietnam – though never mentioned in the popular press, the politics of opium figured heavily into the marketing of that little conflict. (Webb, also Air America)

Here’s a quote from Congressman Rohrabacher from that hearing. He’s speaking to the oil reps:

“…let me warn you that if the pipeline is constructed before there is a government that is acceptable at a general level to the population of Afghanistan …, that your pipeline will be blown up. There is no doubt about that. I have been in and out of Afghanistan for 15 years. These are very brave, courageous people. If they think they are being stepped on, just like the Soviets found out, they are going to kick somebody back. They are not going to lay down and let somebody put the boot in their face. If the government that is receiving the funds that you are talking about is a government that is not accepted by a large number of people in Afghanistan, there will continue to be problems.”

So billions and billions of dollars can be generated by stabilizing this wild country And until that stability can be guaranteed, the whole project is on hold. Bombing target areas will not stabilize an area. What is necessary is a ground invasion to wipe out any opposition to a new government which will supposedly be obedient to the wishes of the victors.

Oversimplification? Maybe not. What was the Gulf War about? Now maybe we’d be hammering Afghanistan even if they didn’t have all this oil, just because of 9/11. But this way sure works out well for everyone – we get revenge, moral vindication, and a sea of oil – all from the same invasion. Just call the arms sales an added bonus. And the opium? Well, when in history has the military been uninterested in that stuff?

What a fortunate confluence of circumstances has dovetailed these two agendas: revenge and oil. I’m sure it’s just a happy coincidence… And the fact that gas has dropped almost a dollar a gallon — that doesn’t have anything to do with anything, right? Somebody want to interpret that?

So where does domestic bioterrorism fit into all of this? Maybe it doesn’t. But it certainly is a convenient distraction to draw attention away from the occupation of Afghanistan. And in some twisted, illogical way, to justify it.

THE REAL TERROR: LOSS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES

Benjamin Franklin: “Those who are willing to give up freedom for security deserve neither.”

There is no argument that we have just witnessed some horrific events in the past few months: 9/11, anthrax mailings, and the marketing of these disasters by anyone who could find an angle. But terrible as it is, all of this will pass. And we’ll have sad memories that time will gradually mute – a human survival mechanism. What must not be muted, what must not be glossed over and dismissed, in this writer’s opinion, are the permanent legal effects that are being wrought from the wreckage.

Isn’t it weird that talking about the Constitution has become associated with extremism and wackiness? The witless, shallow columnists, like dogs barking for a biscuit, across the board rush to toe the line: they assure us of the necessity for exchanging freedom for “security.” Journalists can only advance by maintaining a consistent image, right? Original thinking, critical thinking – practically any thinking – is rarely rewarded in the field of propaganda.

Try this experiment: ask any high school senior what the Bill of Rights is. Go ahead. Tell them you’ll give them a dollar for each of the first 10 amendments they can name. Or ask any adult, for that matter. Don’t worry, your money’s safe. Talking about constitutional rights makes people nervous, perhaps because subconsciously they realize how badly we’ve screwed up.

In case you forgot, the Constitution is the contract that was drawn up between the people and the government when this country was set up. The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, and is its foundation. Goes something like this here:

“The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, and as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution;
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the said Constitution, namely:

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

BLOOD OF OUR ANCESTORS – BLOOD OF OUR CHILDREN

Now read these over. Again. Looks like 1, 2, 4, and 6 are pretty much gone. Try assembling 1000 people in a public place to talk about anything. Try keeping Social Services out of your house if they have a shred of gossip that they “need to check out.” Try starting your own newspaper. Try driving downtown in your pickup with a shotgun in the gunrack. Try asking the policeman for probable cause the next time you are stopped in a California suburb for a “routine police inspection.” All these are basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution. I don’t remember that they ever got repealed. Paid for with the blood of our ancestors, we just let them go without a whimper. A thousand little laws, compromises, and decisions have whittled them down to a fraction of their original intent.

Do you imagine that the above Bill of Rights could pass through today’s Congress and be ratified? These are the ideals that put this country out of the reach of fascism, communism, socialism, absolute monarchy, totalitarianism and military dictatorship – in short from the types of governments that had prevailed all throughout history.

Now before you start looking for your CD of America the Beautiful, ask yourself this question: if these other types of government were to try and creep back in, are they going to advertise as what they really are? Wouldn’t it be smarter, more sophisticated for the wolf to wear wool – Italian wool if possible? Well dressed, well educated, well spoken. And what are they going to be talking about? How they are going to protect us, for our own good. How even though we give them over half our money now, they need more – to protect us from these NEW threats.

Today the government occupies far too much of our lives and our thoughts. We don’t need to be waiting till tomorrow’s news to find out what else the government plans to do for us in exchange for our personal freedom. Or to find out which part of their job they screwed up that is going to require the creation of — MORE government. Or what newly imagined threat might be coming soon. This country was originally built on a concept that is all but forgotten today: the definition of sovereignty. It just means who’s in charge. According to the Constitution, the people are sovereign – not the government. The government exists and operates by consent of the people, not vice versa. But gradually, chip by chip, law by law, things got reversed. Now we live in fear of the government, the IRS, the state government, the county government– all these 40% of the people feeding at the trough, ruling the other 60%. We’re so far out of balance — so far off our original course.

When vaccines are required by law, it mixes together groups that should be separate: lawmakers and vaccine makers. Whether it’s anthrax, AIDS, smallpox, or chickenpox – mandating untested, unsafe, ineffective vaccines weakens us physically, economically, culturally, genetically, and spiritually.

Psychiatrist and author Thomas Szasz puts it this way:

“We have become a prosperous nation by separating the economy and the state, not by making the state the source of employment, as have the communists, with the disastrous results now known to all… we can become a healthy nation only by separating medicine and the state, not by making the state the source of health care, as have the communists with similarly disastrous results.”

Most people feel that government should be concerned only with basic things: building roads, maintaining schools and hospitals, maintaining a military presence strong enough to protect us from foreign bad guys – things like that. But it got too big, too invasive, too self-serving. Now the roads and the schools and hospitals are neglected in favor of the real business of government – oil, drugs, war gear, social programs, and biggest of all: the self-replication of MORE government. And to distract the people from these operations, the power of media to shape our consciousness has become supreme. So now we have thought crimes, and crimes of incorrect attitude, lawsuits won on the basis of hearsay and circumstantial evidence from paid “experts.” And we have let the government into our homes, into our heads, into our lives.

We forgot that this is our country, not theirs. It’s a country where good people should have the right to earn a living, live their lives, and be left alone. It’s all there, in those old hemp documents.

US MILITARY TURNED AGAINST AMERICAN PEOPLE

A major transformational shift has recently occurred in which the military has become arrayed against our own people. The legal precedents now being violated were originally set forth back in Civil War times in a law called the Posse Comitatus Act. And that’s exactly what it provided: that the military could not be employed against our own people but was to be reserved for use against foreign enemies.

Lately we are hearing all about Bush’s plans to grant the police and the military sweeping powers of home entry, quarantining, occupation, seizure of property, and forcible inoculations based on the suspicion of terrorism or the possible consequences of bioterrorism. “Suspected exposure” is all that’s necessary, in the case of biological agents, to set these forces in motion. Search warrants are to be suspended, suspects held without bail, accusation alone is cause for arrest – and anyone who objects these new powers is “unpatriotic.”

This new plan was described in the 25 Nov 01 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, your typical rubberstamp newspaper. The article talks about the CDC’s instant obedience to Tommy Thompson’s request for new legislation to support this new loss of personal rights. The weird thing about it was the way the article read:

” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rushed out the proposed legislation, at the request of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson… ” – Tansey

So, when did the CDC become a lawmaking body? The Centers for Disease Control – those are the scientists whose job it is to study diseases. The top people in CDC are enmeshed with the FDA and the management of the pharmaceutical giants, an association which no one even tries to hide. So now the drug companies are going to determine social policy, with the force of law? And what’s all this talk about rounding up people into stadiums to force vaccines in the event that a “bioterrorist emergency” is declared? Besides the threats to personal privacy and sovereignty, an equal menace inherent in the new legal proposals that are being kicked around is the possibility of weakening the existing rights of exemption from vaccination, which parents currently possess in all states but two. Never before in history have so many forces been lined up against the idea that an individual’s bloodstream is personal, private, and sacrosanct.

THE GOOD NEWS

Here’s what passes for good news these days: it is highly improbable that these neo-Nazi programs for biological “defense” will ever be implemented in real life. Several reasons why not:

1. The extremely low likelihood of future incidents of mass biowarfare

2. Even sheep have limitations of how much control they’ll accept

3. The difficulty of getting individual states to comply with laws that treat the American people themselves as the enemy

4. Opposition from legal groups like the ACLU

So before we get too depressed and start checking ticket prices for Nevis and the Seychelles, we should remember that all this “prevention” and “preparation” isn’t about real life situations. It’s about spending money beforehand. That’s all they really want. A recent example is that in Jan 2001 – 8 months before 9/11- the DoD spent $143 million of your money on a program to train the National Guard how to mobilize and quarantine American cities in the event of biological emergencies. After months of snafus, the program was abandoned as a complete disaster and a waste of money, because it was totally unworkable. (DoD, Report D-2001-043 31 Jan 2001)

The point is, the money gets spent and nothing really changes much. This is practically the running theme throughout Miller’s new book Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War. Years and years of “committee work” and “research” – trillions of military, scientific, and congressional dollars, with little or no tangible results.

preview of coming attractions

We’re already in the middle of it – 9/11 has catapulted us to a new stratum of saturation with the “new” vaccine awareness. Every day you will read new articles, see new stories about how vaccines are coming to save us – just in time. It’s biggest money – $6 billion from Bill Gates, more from other private investors, and the bottomless trough tapped by the NIH, Tommy Thompson, the FDA, the CDC, and anyone else who can stake a claim. This machine will undoubtedly dominate media. So now that you’ve read this chapter, be admonished. You know the game. Vaccines don’t save anyone from anything. Is it only about money? To the extent that money is a measure of power and influence, I guess so.

We are the most vaccinated people not only in the world, but in the entire history of the world. The 40 vaccines mandated for American children by the time they’re 16 – these are just the beginning, compared to what’s coming down the pike. What can we do about it? Educate ourselves to the potential dangers, and to our remaining rights of exemption. Even those who believe in vaccines can benefit from the exemption forms – signing those documents gives the parents the power to choose which vaccines they want for their children, and when.

Buy the new vaccine sales pitch? What’s the downside if they’re wrong? What’s the track record on vaccines – the real one? Where are the studies? How important is the human bloodstream to the future of our species?

WILL TO POWER

In light of what’s being served up these days, the original contention at the end of The Doors of Perception stands: wouldn’t we be better off not watching any TV or reading mainstream news copy? It’s not a medium for information; it’s a means of distraction and control. Too bold? Well, think how the current contrived economic slump was catapulted by a thousand junior college mentality columnists in a thousand newspapers across the country every day for months on end, each one trying to come up with a slightly new spin on how bad things were going to get. Day after day, on and on they hammered, until 3 trillion dollars worth of private assets vaporized – disappeared. Most of it was after-tax dollars. People lost years of savings; for many, their life savings – the hopes and dreams for a better future. That was power.

Oh, the media didn’t cause all that, you say? They just reported it? There’s a good sheep.

Whatever you think about you bring about: thought creates reality. We must guard our brain input, because that determines our focus, and our focus determines our accomplishments. Maybe Nietzsche was right – this world is nothing more than a will to power. By sucking up the evening news, we are pushed aside by a smoothly orchestrated will to power which may not have our interests in mind.

Just consider: what would happen if we actually stopped buying newspapers and glossy magazines and watching the idiotically banal TV news shows, anchored by these simian cyborg newscasters, reading their lines? What would we really be missing if we ignored all that and just focused on personal and business goals that are of our own design – not on some knee jerk reaction to whatever newly-imagined fear in the area of business or world events MIGHT be coming in the very near future. It’s mostly lies and angles and spin and ‘framing issues’ anyway. All the energy of worrying about what if — might be turned into productive forward-planning activity. And what if everyone began to think like this, began to think that in America we still have an enormous amount of freedom and initiative to build our lives. And this freedom NOT to listen to the programmed conditioning is a real source of power.

Turn it off. Disconnect. Rent videos. Don’t bring newspapers and magazines into your home, except to line the parrot cage. Instead of wasting time reading insipid cookie-cutter newspapers and monodimensional glossy magazine articles, buy a book. Whoa. How about a classic? TV news? Fine. As long as the MUTE button is pressed. Stop listening. Stop being passively programmed. Guard your cerebral cortex input. Have a conversation. Have an idea. Play chess. Or music. Live your own life.

But how will I know what’s going on, you ask?

Exactly, grasshopper.

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]]> http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/bioterrorism/vaccines-anthrax-and-war/feed/ 0 http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/newsletters/thanks-for-participating-in-thedoctorwithin-in-2008/ http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/newsletters/thanks-for-participating-in-thedoctorwithin-in-2008/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:39:39 +0000 Dr. Tim O'Shea http://wp.com-qualify.info/?p=257 Thanks to everyone for participating in thedoctorwithin activities during 2008

All that airport time was worthwhile, I guess.

The longer I do this, the more that I realize needs to be done. In the area of vaccines, it seems like there should be 100 of me out here trying to give seminars that keep pace with new developments in required vaccines for US children. But there aren’t. Never before has the vaccine issue been as serious and as consequential in determining the immune system strength of our children as it is today. 68 vaccines? My view is that informed consent for vaccination must be pre-eminent. If parents get all their information about vaccines from those who make their living selling vaccines, the result may not be in the best interests of the children. Which is exactly what we’re seeing today, with skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity, illness, allergies, asthma, cancers, and academic failure.

We can pretend like all this is not happening, like most media does, but that doesn’t affect the fact that it is happening. More forceful pharmacological and biological invasion of the child’s immune system has never worked in the past; why would we think it would work now, or in the future?

The second onslaught against health is of course nutritional. The illusion that kids can eat anything they want because they are young and it won’t adversely affect them is one of the most malevolent programs of systematic misdirection violence ever perpetrated on any group. Complicity of the parents is required, because they are actually the ones carrying the groceries into the house, aren’t they? Ultimately all that matters in health is what nutritive molecules are taken up at the cellular level, not how amused we are by the process of food selection and gustation.

The power of incessant advertising is so profound – its crowning achievement may be that they make us think that nutrition is merely an adjunctive detail in the overall health of the child, rather than the second most determining factor. These are some of the most vital decisions facing us today, far more important than which carbon copy candidate we choose for president, what SUV we buy, what city we choose to live in, the price of gas, the price of gold, what HDTV we choose, etc. Our life priorities are determined principally by the inexorable agenda of corporate media, instead of by our inner spirit, family values, or traditional mores.

There is a way out. Guarding carefully the access to just any information, which control is what we throw away every time we casually surf the TV channels and allow all that reptilian drivel free access to our mind and spirit – the doors of perception left ajar. Some level of discrimination, some criteria have to be brought in to prevent one’s reduction to the lowest common denominator of internet mental and spiritual entropy. For some, it is still possible to read. To explore the world outside the corporate imperative. Takes a little thought in choosing materials, that’s all. Just a little thought.

To that end, thedoctorwithin makes its humble suggestions. In the area of vaccines, there is a full day seminar, The Sanctity of Human Blood, available on both DVD and audio CD, as well as a live version in many cities. Or the textbook of the same name, 12th edition, available on the website www.thedoctorwithin.com

In addition, there are several chapters on child immunology on the website.

As far as holistic nutrition, detoxification, and autism protocols, there is also a complete full day Nutrition Seminar – Module II, either live or on DVD or audio CD.

There is one more chance to see the live version in 2008: Saturday Nov 15 in San Jose CA.

The 2009 seminar itinerary is in the pipeline at present. There will be more emphasis on genetically modified foods in the world market, on the 60 Day shock treatment back to a normal life, on chiropractic philosophy, and on integrating the information from the entire website into a workable drugfree lifestyle, geared at optimum health, free of disease and illness.

For those of you who have gone to great lengths to detoxify this year, no use taking a quantum leap backwards in a holiday pigfest. It’s almost embarrassing to look at the party foods of today compared with the party foods of 25 years ago. At least there was some kind of sensory reward for overindulgence years ago– today’s hydrogenated snacks and pastries are so monodimensional, so corporate cattle produced, so not worth becoming diabetic over. Alcoholism almost seems a much more respectable vice than gluttony in today’s world, if you absolutely must destroy yourself, given the available weapons.

If I had to sum up the whole year in three sentences it would be this:

give the child’s immune system a fighting chance to develop unassaulted by experimentals

and

the foods you choose every day are not just an influence on your health; they fashion your health and hand it to you on a plate

and

the same power that made the universe and fashioned your body wants to be expressed in its undiluted undimmed form, from above down inside out.

Dr Tim O’Shea

www.thedoctorwithin.com

]]> http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/newsletters/thanks-for-participating-in-thedoctorwithin-in-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/newsletters/dead-on-the-treadmill-the-illusion-of-exercise/ http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/newsletters/dead-on-the-treadmill-the-illusion-of-exercise/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:25:13 +0000 Dr. Tim O'Shea http://wp.com-qualify.info/?p=254 Dead on the Treadmill:
codicil to To The Heart Patient

Steve was one of my best friends. He was the one guy you could always count on for sound advice and the bottom line. Everyone was shocked one morning recently when he dropped dead on the treadmill. Yep – prince of a guy – wrote him one hell of a eulogy. But I was more than shocked – I was hopping mad – mad at Steve for not heeding the many red flags that had popped up in the last few years. Nature lets us slide sometimes, but she gets really fragged when we keep ignoring her. She’s not interested in our little projects or our deadlines or our responsibilities or our hopes and dreams, or how much risk we’re willing to take. Nope – she doesn’t give a flying fig. Nature has rules. And she will be obeyed.

The 10 and 12 hour days, the nonstop travelling, the overeating, the quintuple bypass, the stent procedure, the wining and dining – Steve got away with them for a long time. The bypass was not a loud enough alarm. Steve talked about how much he had cleaned up his act, but it wasn’t enough. Turning down second helpings of rich food, or that third bottle of wine may give the illusion that it’s under control, but the actual cardiovascular physiology involved isn’t quite so forgiving. And that’s the point – it’s not enough to ‘cut back’ on one’s usual and customary foods, from the hog-sized portions, and to take those blood thinners and beta blockers every day, and hop on that treadmill. Nope, not after a heart attack. It’s the illusion of change. Most of us think in terms of convenience – I’ll be able to cut back a little I guess and forego the more obvious excesses, but let’s not get carried away here… That’s the precise attitude that will get you carried away. In a pine box.

The specifics of the Last Chance Lifestyle are elaborated in detail on the website in the chapters titled The Last Resort and The 60 Day Program. Common sense really: no refined carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils, pasteurized dairy, coffee, or alcohol. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, a little meat. Except for the first 3 weeks following heart attack or bypass: then it’s the orange juice/ coconut fast. Every 2 hours. Simple.

Inconvenient? You bet. How does being dead sound? Apparently not that bad, because given this choice between lifestyle change and death, most will choose death. Like Steve.

People with heart problems sometimes play a little game with themselves. Especially those who have had bypasses. They acknowledge that yes, I do have a heart problem, but then pretend that a little daily exercise is all they need to make them healthy again, irrespective of all other considerations. Including diet.

This is a very risky plan of action, ultimately self-deceiving. As we have seen above, just because the new grafts they bypassed your coronary arteries with were relatively clean when they put them in doesn’t mean they’ll stay clean. In fact the opposite is more likely. Why on earth would they stay clean? The same lifestyle that clogged the old arteries will certainly clog the new ones. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Now heart muscle is different from skeletal muscle, like your biceps. Your biceps gets stronger as it gets bigger. Opposite for cardiac muscle: as it enlarges, it gets weaker, less substantial, flimsier, less collagen.

For the heart patient, if the heart muscle enlarged before the operation or the heart attack, that muscle tissue was weakened by 2 separate long term processes:

1. lack of exercise

2. muscle damage from refined sugars and hydrogenated foods

So if you’ve had a heart attack or heart surgery and you think you can exercise your way back to a vital heart without a rigid new diet, you’re looking to find out whether reincarnation is for real or not, my friend. Because this time around will soon be over. That’s what all the statistics say. These new medical procedures are miracles of technology, for sure. They can temporarily extend lives. But heart attack, or the discovery of major coronary artery occlusion for many people is their one and only wakeup call. In most cases the only chance of recovery and normal life span is a radical switch to a rigid diet with no deviations. Starting today. And for the first 2 months even more rigid than the New West Diet. Orange juice/coconut fast for 3 weeks, then fruits and vegetables, green foods, beans and rice, period.

Is it fun? No. Do you deserve it? If you’re lucky. Can you do it? Well, that’s the real question, isn’t it?

The harsh truth is this: when faced with a choice between lifestyle change and death, most people will choose death. Our comfort food patterns are one of the things we live for. To give them up requires a level of education and discipline that very few are up for. Too bad for the departed – in most cases their families would have liked to have had them around for a few more years.

Or at least the dog might have.

Everybody who drops dead of a heart attack dies with a full schedule – all the things they were planning on doing that week. 40% of them got no wake up call – the heart attack itself was their very first symptom. Next thing they know they’re hanging with Elvis.

So surviving a heart attack is already like winning big at the track, or at Caesar’s. You just won a second chance at life. That’s a big deal.

Nobody talks about stuff like this, usually because it’s too scary to think of. Who wants to chat about the odds of ol’ Dad kicking off this month? Doctors don’t talk about it for at least 2 reasons:

- usually they have little information on a survival diet

- they’re world-weary of people not following any of their advice – drinking, fast food, smoking, inactivity, etc. Who listens?

The human thing to do after a surviving a heart event is to surround yourself with people who won’t tell you the truth about how close the Grim Reaper is lurking about. They don’t talk about your continued alcohol intake, or pizza and fries, heavy foods, or chips, donuts, ice cream, etc. Or the fact that you’re not playing the last card you’ve been dealt. That would be upsetting – to mention your determination to finish yourself off and act like you’re fine, you’re just as healthy as before, you’ll live a long life…

We’re so used to taking for granted the miracles of our bodies. Miracles like having the body convert nutritious food to useful forms, and then eliminate the wastes. Miracles like drawing in a breath of air and having the blood pick up the oxygen from the lungs, and then circulate it to every cell. Miracles like processing the worst junk foods ever created by man out of the body. These things are miracles that we take for granted every day. But they’re unimaginably delicate and tenuous, and conditional and so fragile. And not warranteed if we violate the conditions of the original contract.

So when one of these systems breaks down – like the circulatory system – that’s the signal that our normal life must come to a complete stop, re-evaluate, educate, and then renavigate — a total change of direction. Most times we get one chance. We might get away ignoring it for a year, maybe two, like Steve. But no more realistic hopes for longevity.

So, back to exercise. Of course it’s important for the heart patient – but only as one side of the coin. One half of the recipe for survival. Forget either half, and you’ll be dead as disco. After all you’re just flesh and blood. Like Steve.

Dr Tim O’Shea

www.thedoctorwithin.com

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To the Editor of Organic Lifestyles magazine:

Originally I trashed this response to my article The Psychology of Vaccine Injury Awareness because it was so uninformed and poorly conceived. On further consideration, I realized that the author pretends to harbor many misconceptions similar to many of the general public who have never really looked at the vaccine issue beyond what they are told in the glossy magazines, popular media and from the evening newsreaders. Following standard propaganda in this way, having no information on the underlying science, low-end copy like this email will result. Which is OK as long as the individual is the only one who loses. But it is for the children of the people this misinformed that I will try to respond to these confused comments and try to set the record straight.

I class this type of response in the Hand Holding category, which I usually don’t do. It means that these issues are set straight very clearly and incontrovertibly in the new 2009, 13th edition of the book The Sanctity of Human Blood. Even though this book is very short and very reader friendly, I realize most people will not take the time to absorb the minimal information it contains before they make one of the most important decision they will ever make for their child.

The author of the email attacking my article comes up with nothing new – no new ideas, no fresh insight, no worthwhile assertions. His comments are a very average-level parroting of standard media propaganda which has formed the public perception of vaccines for the past 200 years. The same phrases, the same mantras, the same disregard for scientific fact, physiological processes and actual historical events. So Average Parrot here has put no special effort into researching the areas on which he is holding forth; merely repeating back the same timeworn phrases he has passively absorbed during a lifetime of standard conditioning through popular media. It’s all rhetoric, all chatter, notable for its complete lack of supporting references. This is one of the hallmarks of mundane propaganda – no documentation.

In his opening paragraph Average Parrot makes the same charge at me about unsupported assertions, etc. The ideas in the article in question The Psychology of Vaccine Injury Awareness (www.thedoctorwithin.com) are excerpted from the book The Sanctity of Human Blood, 13th edition, which contains over 350 medical, legal and scientific references covering every single fact and statistic stated not only in the book but in this short article as well. To that list then do I direct any reader looking for documentation of the position I represent.

The first chattering about how mercury is gone from vaccines sets the tone of the letter. It’s going to be the usual line, mercury is gone now from vaccines so everything’s fine, etc. So let’s get this straight: mercury is not gone from vaccines. Either I’m right about this or Average Parrot is right. We can’t both be right. One of us is wrong. Clear? On the 2009 CDC website we see that there are currently 19 flu shots mandated before age 18. In the 2008 PDR the manufacturers of the influenza vaccines tell us that thimerosal (50% mercury) is added. They also state that thimerosal is put into Twinvax. On the FDA website in 2008 mercury levels permitted in current vaccines read as follows:

DTaP. . . . . . . 0.3 mcg
DT. . . . . . . . 25 mcg
Td. . . . . . . . . 8.3 mcg
TT. . . . . . . . 25 mcg
Hep B. . . . . . 1 mcg
Hep A. . . . . . 1 mcg
Influenza. . . 25 mcg

In addition to all this, remember that mercury was never made illegal, nor will it ever be. Vaccines never expire, so all those millions of old stockpiled doses of mercury vaccines may still be given out, any time any place. Which they are, every day all over the country. The other fact Average Parrot glosses over is that it wasn’t 7 years ago that manufacturers started to try to cover their tracks. Until 2004 thimerosal was still being admitted as a preservative in 4 different vaccines on the mandated schedule.

All these facts are just the tip of the thimerosal iceberg. What about the Kennedy Report, what about the secret meeting in Simpsonwood Georgia, what about the Institutes of Medicine report…? But all this is even a smokescreen — mercury isn’t the only problem with vaccines — it’s not the only thing that makes vaccines suppress the immune systems of children. At least let’s not pretend that the problem has been taken care of when thousands of kids in the US every day are still loading up with the third most toxic substance known to man: mercury in vaccines.

The debate about mercury is dead, Average Parrot is correct. What he missed is that his side lost. The etiology between mercury and autism is incontrovertible. He just never did the research. Guess it never came up on Oprah.

All these references are listed in the 13th edition of the new book.

Next, with respect to the community I discovered with the abnormally high rates of autism, Average Parrot is right. No one can prove that was a vaccine hot lot I witnessed up there, and indeed no one will ever gather the real statistics of autism incidence in that isolated community. Because studies like that would take huge money and the only one with money like that is the drug industry. And this is the exact reason why legitimate estimates of the true number of autistics in this country not only have never been undertaken, but have been routinely blocked and prevented by every possible method. But don’t worry, you’re safe Mr AP. Those backwoods people didn’t get it, they never understood what Haley and Yazbak and I were talking about so no one will ever follow up on that lead. As far as vaccine hot lots, you are correct again — bad lots are dispersed geographically for that exact reason — to protect the vaccine manufacturers from liability. But remember — they only re-distribute lots after there is a problem: an abnormally high incidence of deaths and reactions. Then they redistribute. All I was suggesting is that we may have been observing that first outbreak in a new lot, before redistribution.

Considering that in this location the injuries all did come up in the same age group within the same very short time period, that is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis. But again don’t worry, Mr AP. No one will ever follow up, and your autistic population is guaranteed never to go after your employers. The locals did report it so that it could be studied, but all that Washington did was to send them another Average Parrot like yourself, who literally ran out of the meeting room when the crowd became upset at the condescending mantras he was offering them about why their kids were now permanent defectives. Same rhetoric as you’re chanting here. Perhaps you’d like to take a shot at explaining things to these ordinary people yourself. Sure, you should try it. As long as you have no aversion to tar and feathers.

We see how narrow is the scope of Average Parrot’s academic purview by pretending that the only studies ever showing a connection between mercury and vaccines damage came from Dr Mark Geier’s work. Again this is typical in the world of propaganda — take one reference out of hundreds and pretend like that summarizes the whole field of enquiry. My statement about the overwhelming scientific evidence for neurological damage as a potential result of vaccines stands, and will always stand. But the individual has to be capable of looking a little beyond the texts that are written by his employers, the drug companies. He must look into mainstream scientific literature and be willing to go wherever the data leads. Average Parrot won’t do that. He’s not allowed.

Surprisingly Average Parrot admits the 1700% increase in autism in the past decade, but then predictably ascribes it to the same boring explanation E.L. Bernays media has been using during that whole period: we’re better at diagnosing it now. More autistics now because we’re better at diagnosing it now, right? This impotent dismissal is easily refuted: as Dr Yazbak and others ask, then where are the 40 year old autistics?

Dr Wakefield explained long ago how the diagnostic criteria for autism had not changed as the numbers skyrocketed.

You people really need some new material. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, stop saying it.

As far as deliberate misdirection and misstatement of fact, Average Parrot really goes over the line when he states that there have been no changes in the number of vaccines since 9/11. Is this a joke? What country was he living in during this period? Anyone paying the slightest attention to the Mandated Schedule of childhood vaccines in the past 2 decades saw the increase:

1980 – 20 vaccines
1999 – 40 vaccines
2004 – 53 vaccines
2005 – 58 vaccines
2006 – 63 vaccines
2009 – 68 vaccines

This is not really subject to a difference of opinion. These are the numbers of vaccines we gave our kids during those years. No amount of doubletalk by Average Parrots or even good parrots can change the fact that the number of autistics and the number of vaccines have risen sharply since 9/11. Don’t even need my book for that. This is what I mean about these pedestrian-level would-be pedagogues and their education. They don’t even try and follow historical events. Average Parrot here wants to read one article by Geier and pretend to understand the argument, and make all these unwarranted pronouncements about this and that, but is frightened to death to be confronted with a review of the literature known all over the world that holds more than 350 references, which taken together are irrefutable.

The epitome of the academic ivory tower: the difference between seeking the truth and preventing the truth from being known.

Average Parrot’s comment about lack of scientific evidence linking vaccines and diabetes really tips his hand about his own education. In the 13th edition there are abundant clinical studies since the 1980s showing a strong connection between vaccines and infant diabetes. But again, one must take the time to actually read the studies. Much easier to say there aren’t any such studies, because the 2 minute google search they might have done didn’t turn up any.

Just a few of the researchers who have documented the connection between diabetes and vaccines:

- Robert Mendelsohn MD in his 1985 book showing how diabetes was an effect of the new MMR vaccine

- all the 1997 peer reviewed journal articles in the US, UK and in Finland showing the connection between the new HiB vaccine and infant diabetes, as cited in the 13th edition.

- Bart Classen MD has an entire website showing scientific connection between diabetes and vaccines

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/diabetes.htm

Indeed it was the high incidence of diabetes from the HiB vaccines which banned the shot forever from Finland. We still give 4 doses to our kids. And what is the incidence of childhood diabetes in the US in the last 10 years?

There was virtually no such thing as childhood diabetes before 1960. That was when vaccines began doubling and redoubling. At least it is suspicious as a risk factor alone.

The amount of documentation connecting vaccines with diabetes is overwhelming, but one must actually look at it.

Currently there is a vaccine in the developmental pipeline for diabetes!

We have run to the end of my allotted hand holding time. Except one final comment to unmask Average Parrot and show whom he represents.

Epidemiologists are part of one of the new pseudo-sciences that have popped up in recent years pretending some scientific veneer, but beneath it all found to be just shills for the drug companies, or having some specific political agenda. These would include sociology, social science, psychiatry and several other non-sciences. What they share in common is a dependence on a very structured though unfounded rhetoric, sloganeering, and simplistic phrase-mongering.

In the new book, there is a whole section explaining this new phenomenon which is trying to pass itself off as scientific, using epidemiological studies. Here is the excerpt:

“EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES

also called population studies, are the poor cousin of true clinical trials. They are not controlled studies done under set scientific conditions, but rather attempts at verifying a hypothesis just by counting the incidence of a certain disease or condition within a certain population. The problem is that results from epidemiological studies are subject to widespread interpretation, depending on who’s doing the counting, who decides the criteria for what gets counted, who’s paying for the study, who publishes the results, etc. For this reason, epidemiological studies can be used to “prove” two opposite hypotheses.

In the exploding vaccine industry today, epidemiological studies are quickly becoming the standard to validate our need for more vaccines, because they’re faster, cheaper, and capable of supporting practically any required outcome.”

For this reason we can see why Average Parrot is threatened by the article The Psychology of Vaccine Injury Awareness and especially by the new vaccine book, which he will certainly never read, being beyond his permitted scope. Even though I have directed some comments in this response to Average Parrot, I’m really addressing it to the average educated parents who are struggling with the idea of vaccines today and trying to make up their minds whether or not there is anything to all this noise they hear about problems with vaccine risks and dangers.

To those parents I’m saying yes, follow your instincts, it’s not as simple as your pediatrician and as Average Parrot here would pretend. The issue is not who wins the argument or who is the cleverest at word games like this. The outcome affects your child and his chances of developing a normal immune system. In the modern world today with its Clintons and Bushes and Roves and Obamas, it’s about protection — protecting ourselves from propaganda and the science of lying, protecting the blood of our children from processed foods, contaminated air and water, and specifically from experimental vaccines being shot into their formative immune systems during infancy. It is for them that the parent owes a little investigation — from sources other than those making a living off the selling of vaccines. If the parents have a lot of time they can do their own research. If they want to save months of time they can look at the new book: the 13th edition The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination Is Not Immunization. Don’t believe the book, believe the references. And believe in your child’s future.

Dr Tim O’Shea

www.thedoctorwithin.com

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I was disheartened to read the rather ironically titled article “The Psychology of Vaccine Injury Awareness”, published in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of your magazine. Dr. O’Shea’s article was a misleading assemblage of opinion stated as fact, unsupported assertions, and outright untruths.

First, Dr. O’Shea casually mentions mercury toxicity without also mentioning that childhood vaccines in the U.S. no longer use the mercury containing preservative thimerosal, what was previously the target of the outrage of the anti-vaccine movement. Nor did he mention that in the 7 years since the preservative was removed, childhood autism rates have continued to rise. The debate as to whether mercury in vaccines is causing the autism epidemic is dead.

Second, Dr. O’Shea’s assertion that the increase in autism seen in this unnamed “backwoods” community is “very likely the textbook example of hot lot damage” is simply ludicrous. Even if one takes at face value his dubious assertion that this community has a vastly elevated rate of autism, a claim that is uncited and unverifiable in the absence of a place name, his indictment of vaccines as the obvious culprit can not be supported. There is no reason to think that a vaccine “hot lot” would result in any geographic clustering. As he stated, vaccine lots can include anywhere from 20,000 to millions of doses of vaccine. These doses are distributed nationally and internationally. Therefore deleterious effect from any alleged “hot lot” would be geographically dispersed, not clustered in a single small town. Furthermore, it has been shown that 90% of vaccine from a given lot are used within 5-9 months of distribution. If the this increased rate of autism were caused by a single lot of vaccine, the cases would all have occurred in a terribly short timespan in children of the same age cohort. But Dr. O’Shea has done nothing to show that this is the case.

Third, he states that “there is overwhelming scientific evidence of their [vaccines] potential for permanent neurological and developmental damage”, backing this statement up only with a tantalizing reference to his own book, the contents of which the reader would conveniently have to purchase in order verify. This statement, however, is patently false. There has been no single article published in a reputable peer reviewed journal establishing a link between vaccines and neurological damage; a fact that Dr. O’Shea would no doubt chalk up to the vast conspiracy that hides such abominable evidence. The simple truth is that the few studies that have been done that have drawn the conclusions he alludes to, most of which were conducted by Dr. Geier, who is also quoted in his text, were not published by reputable journals because they suffered from poor methodology, weak analysis, and far too strong conclusions drawn from limited results.

Fourth, he mentions the %1700 increase in autism across the U.S. without mentioning that an unknown, but substantial proportion of that increase is likely the result of expanding diagnostic criteria and a vast increase in awareness among both mental health practitioners and the population in general. While it is likely that there has been a real increase in autism over this period, baldly stating the increase statistics without also mentioning the known caveats is alarmist and irresponsible.

Fifth, his reference to the “shocking increase in the number of vaccines since 9/11″ is laughable. No such shocking increase has occurred for the ages during which autism typically develops. There has been a single added series, a three dose schedule against rotavirus, plus a booster dose of MMR and varicella added over this time period. These changes clearly do not represent a precipitous increase in the vaccine burden. Furthermore, there were no changes made to the recommended childhood immunization schedule as a result of the events of 9/11. Slyly linking vaccines to those events only serves as a na’ked attempt to tap into people’s fears and paranoias.

Sixth, Dr. O’Shea vaguely links childhood vaccines to “the sharp increase in childhood cancer and diabetes”, with no supporting evidence or even discussion. The fact is, we know that the cause of the diabetes epidemic is the corresponding childhood obesity epidemic resulting from sedentary lives fed by junk food and soda. Mentioning childhood diabetes in the same breath as vaccines is completely absurd.

This kind of pabulum is a slap in the face to the epidemiologists who study this and other important health issues, obsessing over every decimal point, and painstakingly and ever so carefully drawing conclusions in the causal relationships they study. But far more importantly, it undermines the good public policy that is supported by their findings, endangering the public health by feeding a movement embedded in misplaced anger, misinformation, bad science, and paranoia. I suggest you do some more research before publishing articles with such far reaching public health implications.

Epidemiologist

Marin County, California

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