May 6, 2014

The long list of pressing issues facing the Legislature for the 2016 session keeps growing: spiraling college costs, unaffordable health care, gun control, deteriorating roads. But the one issue facing all of Colorado that can’t go untended this session is vaccination.

Colorado regularly ranks worst or near-worst in the nation for vaccination rates, and it’s costing lives, health and millions of dollars.

The problem stems from past legislators, succumbing to fake science and political pressure, who were either sympathetic to odd parents who didn’t want to vaccinate their children, or shortsighted in thinking that making it easy to “opt-out” of mandatory vaccines was just no big deal.

The root of most of this building crisis comes from a discredited study run by a discredited doctor to tie autism to childhood vaccinations, and the U.S. media bought the hoax hook, line and sinker, helping to legitimize it. The groundless claim and fake study have since been debunked endless times. There is not one reputable pediatrician, pediatric organization, hospital, clinic or researcher that does not vehemently work to debunk the autism lie and beg parents to vaccinate their children.

In Colorado, it’s much easier to say that you don’t want to vaccinate children than to prove that you have.

Many lawmakers and much of the public erroneously believed that since the bulk of the “herd” was vaccinated against potentially lethal diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough, we’re all protected.

They’re wrong. Dead wrong for some people. The incidence of those diseases continues to increase as vaccination rates decline. Last year reports of deaths of people with depressed immune systems sounded an alarm for all of us: Colorado, and the country, is at grave risk.

One death followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland earlier this year that sickened 100 people, all because foolish, misled, selfish people have avoided childhood vaccination rules.

Real scientists and medical professionals have been unequivocal: The purported danger of childhood vaccines are lies. Dangerous lies.

Colorado must join California in solving an ailing public health problem that’s easy to cure. This summer, California virtually eliminated all exemptions to that state’s childhood vaccination policy.

“The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,” said Gov. Jerry Brown. “While it’s true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.”

California now requires every child who attends a public school or college to undergo vaccination. Colorado must do the same thing to prevent death and disease caused by irresponsible and reckless parents.

The state cannot command these vaccinations, but lawmakers certainly can force scofflaws to stay away from public programs and venues. Schools, rec centers, colleges, day cares and employers should all demand that people comply with vaccination programs.

A sorry response by Colorado lawmakers earlier this year does nothing but increase reporting of vaccination rates and make it only slightly less easy to not vaccinate school-age children.

It’s almost unthinkable that a country like the United States would slide back decades in health care progress, risking the lives of millions of Americans potentially exposed to diseases we nearly eradicated — because of lies, laziness or ignorant fear.

But parents still won’t listen and comply. So the only answer is to change the law. Follow California’s lead here and prevent needless death and disease here in Colorado.

11,539 replies on “EDITORIAL: Mandatory vaccination reform must be among 2016 Colorado legislative goals”

  1. Good luck in your efforts to make Colorado safer from disease, protecting all children and adults.

    I know many people worked heroically on the previous legislation, and it’s sad that some of your senators let extremist undermine a reasonable change and refused to make schools safer. Better luck forward.

    1. And here we have the Chief Paid Troll, the Queen of Shilliness, who does nothing but pollute the Internet with her pro-poison nonsense…

    2. That is quite a remarkable statement, Dorit. Considering Senator Richard Pan was being directed by paid lobbyists Norman Janus, Jodi Hicks, and Katherine De Burgh.

      You should be personally familiar with Katherine De Burgh because she is also a part of the same organization, California Immunization Coalition, that you have presented at many times along with Dr. Paul Offit and many others you associate with.

      I am also quite confident that the person who authored this opinion piece is likely associated to Voices for Vaccines – another organization you are involved with.

      1. I do recommend studying more about the political process. Consulting with lobbyists who have familiarity with the subject matter or with politics is very common and expected – it doesn’t mean the lobbyists were directing anything. It’s hardly surprising the California Immunization Coalition supported pro-vaccine legislation – or that I, and Dr. Offit, have presented at a non-profit whose goal is promoting immunization, given our stated support for protecting children from disease. Trying to present any of that as some conspiracy is a little weird.

        Dr. Pan clearly chose knowingly to go forward with SB277. His experience with AB2109 taught him he will face harassment and attacks from the anti-vaccine extremists, and he did. Nonetheless he courageously acted to protect children and the public health. I have a lot of respect for him on that score.

        To my knowledge, the author is not affiliated with Voices for Vaccines, though I would urge her, given her views, to join and to donate. I would point out that membership in a non-profit that supports your views is hardly a conspiracy either.

          1. I do understand that it’s hard to argue when the data is against you, and a shill or conspiracy argument is often all that is left. But it really doesn’t change data.

            I have no idea where California’s Immunization Coalition gets its funding. But frankly, volunteering with pro vaccine organizations, regardless where they get donations, can’t show much except that I do, in fact, support protecting children from diseases via vaccines – and thats no secret. I support vaccines, as does every health authority in the world, local state or national, because they save lives and have very few risks. You don’t need a conspiracy theory to know i think that.

          2. I also understand it is difficult to discuss financial motives and profits. Most people can recognize money can influence people and the decisions they make. To ignore that money can do this to people is dangerous.

            I can also understand that you do not want to be perceived as profiting from being a shareholder in a pharmaceutical company.

          3. If you own any mutual funds, you are also a shareholder in pharmaceutical companies. The idea that being a stock owner is the only reason someone would advocate vaccination is bizarre, given how small the profits of such ownership would be. And of course, given that there are basically no epidemiologists or neurologists or immunologists who think that vaccines are dangerous or ineffective, it’s bizarre to think that the only reason someone would agree with the consensus of experts is a shadowy conspiracy.

          4. You don’t think mutual funds have pharmaceutical stocks in their portfolios? Do you think the earth is flat, too?

          5. People can recognize that financial motives matter. Volunteering in a non-profit isn’t one of those motives, though, however you like to pretend it is.

          6. Dorit, I know it is difficult for you to just come out and say it.

            Do you or your family own stock in a pharmaceutical company that may financially support a non-profit organization that you volunteer for?

          7. It’s not a secret that my family owns stock in GSK. But then, that wasn’t the argument you used. This issue doesn’t really have to do much with weaving a complex conspiracy theory around Voices for Vaccines and the CIC. You could just ask that, and get a direct answer.

          8. You like to label anyone who disagrees with you as an extremist or a conspiracy theorist.

            It’s really quite simple.

            Money.

            For those with eyes to see and ears to hear – the lobbyists mentioned above, working for/with Senator Pan are documented working for organizations supported financially by pharmaceutical companies.

            Richard Pan has also received considerable financial contributions from pharmaceutical companies.

            The organization(s) that you also volunteer for… and are invested in – pharmaceutical companies.

            No conspiracy. Just follow the money, Dorit.

          9. Sigh. No conspiracy, but there’s a conspiracy between lobbyists, non profits and pharma. Please reread what you wrote.

          10. From the article

            After passing the Sacramento Health Committee vote, the bill was delayed as committee chair Senator Carol Liu wisely told the bill’s author Richard Pan “If I were you, I would not take a vote today.” At the conclusion of the vote, Liu asked Senator Pan point blank how he wanted to proceed.

            To this, Pan, appearing to have no power to make the decision, turned to lobbyist Jodi Hicks and Janus Norman……

            A shining moment for the power of lobbyists.

          11. It’s unclear why the article thought Dr. Pan had no power to make the decision. As the Senator proposing the bill, of course he had. But an implausible interpretation in an anti-vaccine article is not exactly evidence Dr. Pan was taking instructions from anyone. He could ask anyone he wanted to for opinion or advice.

          12. And Dr Pan just survived the recall attempt. A shining moment for the weakness of the loony anti-vaxx movement.

          13. Agreed! With body language being at over 55% of the 3 tools used for interpreting our communication [ even over words and tone] I saw a nervous and CONFUSED individual looking to the lobbyists for answers on how to reply!

            Only someone who is insincere or imperceptive would conclude anything else after studying the video, Graceds!

          14. scuz norkan: “With body language being at over 55% of the 3 tools used for interpreting our communication.. .”

            That is misleading and not quite true.

            If mentioning the 55/38/7 numbers, one should clearly state that this applies to certain situations and importantly, it should not be used as a deciding factor to try and understand the situation. A proper analysis needs to occur to fully grasp what the person’s current emotions are at that moment.

          15. Sorry, you are incorrect as usual.

            Once more for the reading impaired..

            “If mentioning the 55/38/7 numbers, one should clearly state that this
            applies to certain situations and importantly, it should not be used as a deciding factor to try and understand the situation.”

            That said..

            You are still persona non grata in my book, scuz.

          16. Your erroneous ‘off topic’ ad homming is showing A -gain! [sic]

            The current ‘sub-subject’ was pan being coached by pharma lobbyists during the senate hearings.

            And stop stealing my shtick, PARROT pro!

          17. No.. the current ‘sub-subject’.. brought up by you, scuz, was the following in your post..

            scuz norkan: “I saw a nervous and CONFUSED individual looking to the lobbyists for answers on how to reply!

            Only someone who is insincere or imperceptive would conclude anything else after studying the video, Graceds!”

            … …

            Now that this has been clarified..

            Still.. persona non grata in my book, scuz,

          18. Nope, PARROT breath!

            See several comments between Graceds and Dorit on the actions of pan in the video; what is legal to be communicated by lobbyists during such hearings, and whether pan was being coached or not.

            You don’t have the cognition to ‘clarify’ anything, and I’m sure you had to look up my line to Borings, [persona non grata]!

            C’est la vie! Once a witless PARROT, always a witless PARROT, PARROT pro! 😉

          19. scuz norkan: “I vote we call in an expert lip reader for a precise analysis!”

            “CONCLUSIONS

            Qualitatively, the scores reflect the difficulty of lip reading in an open-set sentence recognition task. Mean-word-recognition accuracy scores were barely greater than 10% correct. Further, any individual who achieved a CUNY lip-reading score of 30% correct is considered an outlier, giving them a T-score of nearly 80—three times the standard deviation from the mean. A lip-reading recognition accuracy score of 45% correct places an individual 5 standard deviations above the mean.”

            (Source: Some normative data on lip-reading skills (L) )

            Persona non grata troll.. has failed … a -gain.

          20. Ad homming, trolling, spamming and PARROTING Proponent has created yet another derailing train wreck; being too incognizant to keep up in common conversation.

            And now because you seem to be a pesky little bug, like one that I’d previously deemed ‘persona non grata’, which you now ALSO witlessly parrot, I shall call you my parrota non grata!

            Har d har! You surely seem to want to revisit your recent parody stupidity, parrota non grata! Bwa haha! 😉

          21. Nah! Borings remains ‘persona non grata’ to suz, which is where you pilfered your present, PARROTED posts.

            Further, please take some remedial reading classes before attempting to contend with the grownups!

            You’re just FLOUNCY parrota non grata, parrot Pro! Har d har! 😉

          22. Grasshopper, it’s crystal clear that you don’t have a CLUE! Ask mommy to ‘splain it to you! 😉

          23. Cuba has a 99% vaccination rate and plenty of research dedicated to vaccines. Who would have thought that Fidel Castro was such a capitalist in thrall to pharmaceutical companies? By your own arguments, money must be the only deciding factor behind vaccinations.

          24. But there doesn’t seem to be any money to follow, Jeffry.

            You do seem to be obsessed with trying to discredit Dorit on extremely flimsy grounds regarding conflict of interest.

            Maybe that is because you cannot successfully argue against the content of her posts?

          25. Ha.

            I’ve never seen this lying Aufderheide fraud argue anything successfully, even in the relative safety of his own website.

          26. “claims vaccines contain mouse brains” I think we can dismiss anything else you rant about

            Mouse brain-derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine

            Extract from report of GACVS meeting of 9-10 June 2005, published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record on 15 July 2005

            The Committee considered the decision taken by the Government of Japan on 30 May 2005 to suspend routine vaccination with the mouse brain-derived Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine currently used in Japan.3 This decision followed a review by the Japanese national advisory committee on vaccine adverse events of a single case of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis following JE vaccination and the national committee’s conclusion that it could not rule out a causal link with the vaccine”..https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/japanese_encephalitis/mouse_brain_derived/June_2005/en/.

          27. So you are quoting from a source that doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about. Nothing unusual about that. Carry on.

          28. The Daily Beast is not the Daily Caller. You seem to have the two confused.

            If there was an error in the article, Mr. Aufderheide should demand a retraction. It’s clearly defamatory. Along with Jeffry’s mouse brains claim, the author states as fact that Aufderheide lies about his Navy career.

            Mr. Aufderheide cannot demand a retraction, though, because every word in the article is true.

          29. Doris posts are mere cockatooing of canned slogans handed over to her by her pharma sponsors.

          30. Pharma shill gambit.
            Boring, boring.
            The first resort of the intellectually vacuous, the malignantly stupid, and those who can’t argue the science.

          31. Conflict of interests is not flimsy grounds, let alone “extreme” flimsy. Your posts amount to slogans and chatter.

          32. Jeffry John Aufderheide: “Richard Pan has also received considerable financial contributions from pharmaceutical companies.”

            You’ve not stated any source or sources, Jeffy.

            Allow me.. and let’s have a look at the total contributions made to Dr. Richard Pan.. which, are a matter of public record..

            In-State …………………………… $1,102,612.01
            Out-Of-State ……………………. $258,855.51
            Unknown State …………………. $0.00
            Party Committee ………………. $0.00
            Leadership Committee ………. $0.00
            Personal Funds ………………… $6,750.00
            Individual Contributions ……… $164,292.39
            Unitemized ………………………. $6,921.35
            Public Funding ………………….. $0.00
            Non-Contribution ……………….. $0.00
            Institutions and Companies …. $0.00
            Other ……………………………….. $276,639.59

            Total Contributions ………………1268

            Total ………………………………… $1,361,467.52

            (Source: Vote Smart | Richard Pan’s Campaign Finances )

            Oops..

            … …

            Adding in..

            Have you looked into the campaign contributions to those that dissented and voted ‘nay’ against SB277, Jeffy?

            Didn’t think so..

            Joel Anderson Republican (Elected 2010), Senate District 38
            California Medical Association … $15,700

            “California Medical Association is an advocacy organization that represents more than 40,000 California physicians.

            Dedicated to the health of Californians, CMA is active in the legal, legislative, reimbursement and regulatory areas on behalf of California physicians and their patients.”

            Guess what ran on the CMA website during the month of August?

            “Each year in August, National Immunization Awareness Month provides an opportunity for providers to highlight the value of immunization across all ages. Activities focus on encouraging people to protect their health by being vaccinated against infectious diseases.

            The National Public Health Information Coalition has developed, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Immunization Awareness Month Communication Toolkits to help providers communicate with their patients about the importance of vaccination.”

            (Source: CMA | News | “August is National Immunization Awareness Month” )

            Oops.. again.

          33. Perhaps you should track down my response to this accusation elsewhere (look at my profile).
            I calculated that for every 1% increase in global GSK vaccine revenue that Dorit can “engineer” through her posts, her family stands to make $15 for every $10,000 of stock they hold.

            Now that’s a real powerful conflict of interest, huh?

          34. Was it money that influenced you to lie about your career in the Navy, Mr. Aufderheide?

            The Navy Fraud Fronting the Anti-Vaxxer Movement
            https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/06/the-navy-fraud-fronting-the-anti-vaxxer-movement.html

            As websites inflating the dangers of vaccines go, VacTruth com is a beautifully built disaster, one that’s won a seal of approval from 75,000 followers and mommy bloggers nationwide.

            But the 37-year-old Coloradoan behind it, Jeffry John Aufderheide, isn’t what his glossy website would have you believe. Vaccines just one of the many conspiracies in his rolodex—he’s also a 9/11 truther, gun-rights fanatic, and Infowars darling. Oh, and he lies about his time in the Navy.

            Were you a Navy SEAL, a rescue swimmer with top secret clearance, or actually just a low level IT guy. Perceptions are everything.

          35. The Navy Fraud Fronting the Anti-Vaxxer Movement
            https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/06/the-navy-fraud-fronting-the-anti-vaxxer-movement.html

            “Jeffry John Aufderheide, isn’t what his glossy website would have you believe. Vaccines just one of the many conspiracies in his rolodex—he’s also a 9/11 truther, gun-rights fanatic, and Infowars darling. Oh, and he lies about his time in the Navy.

            “The Navy discredited Aufderheide’s claim that he served as a ‘rescue swimmer,’ stating that he actually served four years as an Information Systems Technician, Third Class. ‘This is all the releasable information we have,’ Sharon Anderson, the Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs, told The Daily Beast in an email. According to the job description on the organization’s website, Aufderheide’s role closely resembled that of an IT guy, one who acted as ‘admin on mainframe computers’ and ‘management’ on internal databases. A necessary position, it’s less the life-saving Navy SEAL that ‘rescue swimmer’ with ‘top secret clearance’ implies.”

            The Daily Beast published this on February 06, 2015.

          36. As I mentioned below, you can ask the alleged reporter, who I declined to interview with, if she has access to validate clearances. Normally there is a process to follow and access (FSO / SO) required to confirm.

            https://www.clearancejobs.com/security_clearance_faq.pdf
            https://www.navycs.com/navy-jobs/information-systems.html

            Regarding being a rescue swimmer. I graduated from Surface Rescue Swimmer School in Jacksonville, FL in 1997.

            You can see from the article she spoke with a public affairs officer and not an FSO/SO. I’m sure you can appreciate the difference. Additionally, I would also like you to provide the time and place I ever referenced Navy SEAL being any part of my job description while I served. Thanks.

          37. In the alternative, if you think The Daily Beast erred, you could ask the publisher to remove or correct their report.

            The author outright calls you a liar and a phony, someone lacking any medical credentials or credibility who makes his living presenting false information in a way it appears factual, and exploiting the inexperience of his readers.

            It’s clearly defamatory, if wrong.

          38. The Navy discredited Aufderheide’s claim that he served as a “rescue swimmer,” stating that he actually served four years as an Information Systems Technician, Third Class. “This is all the releasable information we have,” Sharon Anderson, the Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs, told The Daily Beast in an email. According to the job description on the organization’s website, Aufderheide’s role closely resembled that of an IT guy, one who acted as “admin on mainframe computers” and “management” on internal databases. A necessary position, it’s less the life-saving Navy SEAL that “rescue swimmer” with “top secret clearance” implies

            So Sharon Anderson, the Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs,
            says you are a liar and she doesn’t work for the Daily Beast.

          39. The daily beast cited that source. Go sue them if it’s false. None of us will be holding or breath waiting for that to happen.

            We have seen your site. You have no problem lying.

          40. The Daily Beast said that the Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs called you a liar. I just know that you you lie about so many things on your site, it’s likely that it’s true.

            Get you lawyer and go set that right. Be my guest!

          41. Better yet, since, in the past 9 months you have taken no action correct the statements in The Daily Beast article and cannot, let’s accept these as statements of fact:

            “Meet Jeffry John Aufderheide, a man who lies about his Navy career…”

            “Vaccines just one of the many conspiracies in his rolodex—he’s also a 9/11 truther, gun-rights fanatic, and Infowars darling. Oh, and he lies about his time in the Navy.”

            “The Navy discredited Aufderheide’s claim that he served as a ‘rescue swimmer,’ stating that he actually served four years as an Information Systems Technician, Third Class.”

            You lied about your military service. That’s a fact, Mr. Aufderheide. A reasonable person might ask, what else will you lie about?

          42. You received an honorable discharge; that much is true.

            The author was quite fair with you, much more than I would have been.

          43. You know what’s funny about this? I not too long ago posted something that came from that same newspaper, and was ridiculed for using a tabloid rag as my source of evidence.

          44. Hi Jeffy,
            Please tell us about how you profit from that little website you run.
            And while you are at it, why don’t you clear up those questions about whether your claims to have been a certified rescue swimmer in the Navy with top secret clearance are true? Your silence on this matter has been telling.

          45. Hi Greg,

            I’m really glad you asked.

            You can ask the alleged reporter, who I declined to interview with, if she has access to validate clearances. Normally there is a process to follow and access (FSO / SO) required to confirm.

            https://www.clearancejobs.com/security_clearance_faq.pdf

            https://www.navycs.com/navy-jobs/information-systems.html

            Regarding being a rescue swimmer. I graduated from Surface Rescue Swimmer School in Jacksonville, FL in 1997.

          46. Greg,

            As I stated above, I was a Surface Rescue Swimmer. CAT I is passing the initial class and CAT II is for, as it states in the description, anyone who was not at sea for a year (such as a recruiter).

            I was assigned to a ship, not an air squadron.

          47. California’s Immunization Coalition are psychopaths asking to inject babies with mercury. As the letter below proves, they are more concerned about the industry’s problems to sell product than the actual health needs of Californian kids.

            https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=29587
            ————————————————

            Dear Secretary Dooley:

            Re: Request for temporary exemption for use of thimerosal-containing vaccine

            Due to delays in the delivery of preservative-free flu vaccine across the U.S., we request a temporary exemption be granted to allow health care providers in California to administer thimerosal-containing vaccine to children under three years of age and pregnant women.

            The United States is experiencing a national shortage of Fluzone pediatric pre-filled syringes, manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur. This is the only preservative-free injectable vaccine that can be administered to children ages 6-35 months under California law (California Health and Safety Code Section 124172 ). Additionally the delivery of FluMist, the live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) that is administered intranasally, is also delayed throughout the country. FluMist has no preservative and can be administered to a two-year old child if there are no contraindications. The manufacturer reports that the vaccine is delayed due to production and shipping issues…

            Kris E. Calvin
            Executive Director
            American Academy of Pediatrics CA

            Susan Hogeland, CAE
            Executive Vice President
            California Academy of Family Physicians

            Erika Jenssen, MPH
            President
            California Immunization Coalition

          48. Since the tiny amounts of thimerosal in vaccines were studied and not shown harmful, and since influenza is dangerous to pregnant women and young babies, the CIC and other organizations are asking the secretary to waive the restriction on providing influenza vaccines with thimerosal until the shortage of no-thimerosal vaccines is done. This will allow pregnant women who want to protect themselves against a dangerous disease and parents who want to protect their young children against it to do so, rather than be denied because of a shortage.

            I’m sorry you see it as a negative thing that these organizations are acting to provide access to those who want it to vaccines against influenza. I think it’s a good thing.

          49. Another contradiction: thimerosal is “safe mercury” but, contrary other adjuvants, it has been eliminated in vaccines as a “precautionary measure” (admission of risk) https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/

            Now here comes the California Immunization Coalition asking to f..k precautionary measures and pump kids with anything the industry has in stock and could not sell. Helping the kids or the industry?

          50. “…I’m sorry you see it as a negative thing that these organizations are acting to provide access to those who want it to vaccines against influenza. I think it’s a good thing.

            This is the real story behnd influenza vaccines:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614424

            Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010

            “The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies.”

            So your “benefactors of children” are pushing unproven, fraudulent flu vaccines in their most toxic variety and doing it against all consensual precautionary principles. We should all kiss their as…es for that?

      2. So a provaccine organisation supported vaccination and vaccination legislation…..Shock! Horror!

        ….So aorry, I had to sit down there for a moment, I felt so faint.

        1. If you’re not horrified by forcing of risky medical procedures upon healthy children then you must be a psychopathy case.

          1. I absolutely am horrified by people conducting unnecessary, high risk procedures on children.
            That’s why I totally abhor what Wakefield did to those poor autistic kids, who had to undergo general anaesthesia, lumbar punctures and total colonoscopies all in the name of his “research”.

            However, regarding the “procedure” of vaccination, I am in favour, since the health benefits greatly exceed the possible harm.

          2. On March 10, 2004, The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) filed a complaint with the FDA and the federal Office of Human Research Protection. That complaint prompted two separate investigations by the FDA and AHRP, plus articles in the New York Post and a BBC documentary. The complaint prompted an Associated Press (AP) investigation into over four dozen studies being conducted in at least seven states. In Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Colorado and Texas, the investigation found that 13,878 children had been enrolled in pediatric AIDS studies funded by the government since the late 1980s. source; Sourcewatch org foster child drug trials

            “The role of pharmaceutical companies came up at a hearing convened by the Committee on General Welfare of the New York City Council in which the commissioner of NYC’s Administration of Chilren’s Services (ACS) was grilled about the unethical drug experiments that were conducted on at least 645 infants and children who were under the guardianship of ACS.

            The children were exposed to experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines in Phase I and Phase II trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, often in concert with drug manufacturers. All institutions and government agencies involved have been unforthcoming about the trials and the fate of the children”.

            One after another Council member expressed his disgust with “the moral turpitude of pharmaceutical companies” whose involvement in the trials raises red flags about the financial underpinnings of the trials.”

          3. Dr. Krugman’s career came under a shadow in the late 1960’s after accusations that he had used retarded children at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island as human guinea pigs for his hepatitis vaccine research.
            From 1958 to 1964 feces was taken from children who had Hepatitis, put in milkshakes and fed to newly admitted children for experimentation purposes
            . https://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2011/10/24/willowbrook-how-the-government-abused-children-with-special-needs/

            On Oct. 4, 1960, The Times reported that a vaccine developed by Dr. John F. Enders of Harvard and colleagues, using the measles virus itself, was being tested in New York City. With what today would appear as serene indifference, the reporter wrote that it was being given to 1,500 “retarded children” at the Willowbrook School on Staten Island.”..https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/health/05first.html?_r=0

          4. Presumably giving kids hepatitis is not a harmful thing, though?
            But, but…. I thought that according to antivax folklore, all these diseases are “harmless”, and so therefore not worth preventing through vaccination.
            Or have you been misdirecting us all over these last 5 years or so?

          5. You seem to enjoy hearing about children being used for unethical medical experiments Mike. Why don’t you crack some jokes for everybody reading about dead babies who were used for vaccine experiments and sewage tanks…I know you will come up with something twisted. Maybe we have uncovered the identify of our mystery commenter who liked to talk about using children for sex and torture

            “Over 2,000 care-home kids were secretly vaccinated against diphtheria in the 1930s in medical trials undertaken by international drugs giant Burroughs Wellcome, Irish media reveal. Among the testing sites was a recently discovered mass grave.

            What I have found is just the tip of a very large and submerged iceberg,” Dwyer told the paper. “The fact that reports of these trials were published in the most prestigious medical journals suggests that this type of human experimentation was largely accepted by medical practitioners and facilitated by authorities in charge of children’s residential institutions.”

            Following the discovery and reports of medical tests, Irish Premier Enda Kenny ordered ministers to search for further mass baby graves.

            https://rt.com/news/164884-irish-baby-scandal-vaccines/

          6. Aren’t your CTRL, C and V keys worn out yet, Ione?
            Or do you get a new keyboard each week from that paycheck you get shilling for BigBabyCoffins?

          7. Enders and Katz approached the Walter E. Fernald State School near Waltham, Massachusetts. Conducting a clinical trial among institutionalized children raised significant ethical questions. Indeed, just 10 years earlier, the Fernald School had permitted nontherapeutic nutritional studies without informing families that their children were being given radioisotopes.10 Given that research ethics in the 1950s remained largely unregulated, some historians have argued that the Nuremberg code’s powerful articulation of informed consent in 1946 had little impact on American research until the 1960s.11

            Although the domestic eradication of measles proved to be more difficult than optimists in the late 1960s predicted, the remarkable safety record of measles vaccine (incorporated into Merck’s MMR combination against measles, mumps, and rubella in 1971) is worth noting. In contrast to whole-cell pertussis and live polio vaccines, which were at the center of highly visible vaccine-safety controversies in the 1970s and 80s, measles vaccine enjoyed wide public acceptance. It figured prominently in the rise of school mandates as a strategy for promoting vaccination.16

            ***Families who declined it did so not so much for reasons of safety than questioning the clinical severity of measles (as was the case, ironically, with David Edmonston’s decision not to vaccinate his own son).17***

            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/3/435.full

          8. Tut tut tut, Ione, caught lying again…..

            Such selective “cherry picking”, trying (and failing yet again) to make vaccines seem to be some monstrous, evil curse forced upon unsuspecting kids.

            Here is the next sentence from the article you deliberately selectively quoted:
            “In this light, it is notable that Katz explained the trial in person to every parent, and the ensuing article clearly stated that no child was given the vaccine without written parental consent.”
            This confirming the ethical correctness of these measles vaccine studies.

            However, thanks Ione for including their conclusion:
            “the remarkable safety record of measles vaccine
            (incorporated into Merck’s MMR combination against measles, mumps, and rubella in 1971) is worth noting.”

            And BTW, thanks for the fascinating reference to early measles vaccine trials – quite enlightening, and very revealing as to the marvellous success of measles vaccination!

          9. I didn’t know you were a fan of history Mike. Here is some more for you then…

            “The largest contributor to the fund to elect Hitler in 1933 was I.G. Farben, which committed itself for 80 percent of the total. IG Farben included BASF, Bayer, Hoechst,(now Sanofi-Aventis.) and other German chemical and pharmaceutical companies.

            As documents show, IG Farben was intimately involved with the human experimental atrocities committed by Mengele at Auschwitz.

            all IG Farben pharmaceuticals were marketed under the Bayer trademark.

            Throughout the Nazi era, Bayer was the control center for IG Farben human experiments. And on February 17, 1999, a lawsuit was filed in U.S. District on behalf of Eva Mozes Kor one of 180 surviving twin children (out of 1,500) who had been subjected to medical experiments at Auschwitz. The suit charged Bayer, of collaborating with Dr. Josef Mengele (the “Angel of Death”) to commit medical atrocities for profit. Eventually the case was settled out of court.

            The correspondence between BAYER and the Auschwitz concentration camp gruesomely documented experiments on humans. BAYER put an order for 150 women, necessary for new experiments. They were deemed as “sufficient” despite “their miserable state of health” after “delivery”. There it meant, “the experiment have been carried out. All test objects are dead. We would like to inform you that we will be needing a new delivery shortly.”

            Between 1933 and 1945, I.G. Farben played a central role in the Nazi economy. During World War II, the company manufactured poison gas, Zyklon B, used at extermination camps and employed forced and slave labor. Several company directors and senior managers were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

            I.G. Farben Trial in Nuremberg (1947/48) In late July 1948, the sentence was pronounced: 10 of the defendants were acquitted of all charges, and 13 were sentenced to prison terms, none exceeding eight years. In 1951, the last of the men convicted were pardoned and released from prison. IG Farben board member, Fritz ter Meer became the chairman of the board for BAYER in 1956. He said during the Nuremberg trials on the topic of human experiments that “concentration camp prisoners were not subjected to exceptional suffering, because they would have been killed anyway”.

            In its verdict, the court concluded: “The evidence does not justify the conclusion that the supervisory board or the defendants Mann,(Bayer) Hörlein (BASF), or Wurster (Hoechst) as its members had a decisive influence on the business policies of DEGESCH or prosecutable knowledge of the intended purpose of its products. The supervisory board seldom met and the reports made to the supervisory board members did not contain much factual information In either the scale of production nor the fact that large quantities were shipped to concentration camps, seen alone, is sufficient to conclude that the persons who had knowledge of these facts must also have known of the criminal purpose to which the gas [Zyklon B] was put.”

            In the sixth trial subsequent to the Trial of the Major War Criminals in Nuremberg (Case VI), starting in May 1947, 24 I.G. Farben executives were arraigned before an American military tribunal, charged with planning and preparation of wars of aggression, plundering and spoliation of annexed and occupied countries, and participation in the slave labor program and policy of genocide of the National Socialist regime. During the proceedings, the prosecution and the defense exhibited countless numbers of documents, including photos of the construction site annotated by the factory manager of I.G. Auschwitz, Walther Dürrfeld. Numerous witnesses were heard, including survivors of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp and former British prisoners of war from I.G. Auschwitz.

            In late July 1948, the sentence was pronounced: 10 of the defendants were acquitted of all charges, and 13 were sentenced to prison terms, none exceeding eight years. In 1951, the last of the men convicted were pardoned and released from prison. IG Farben board member, Fritz ter Meer became the chairman of the board for BAYER in 1956. He said during the Nuremberg trials on the topic of human experiments that “concentration camp prisoners were not subjected to exceptional suffering, because they would have been killed anyway”.

            Eleven of the IG Farben managers were set free. Six received prison sentences from 18 months to 3 years. Ter Meer received a 7 year sentence, while Ambros and Dürrfeld received eight years. All those convicted were released from prison early. Some were included in the succeeding management team of the IG Farben Cartel.

            Bayer, BASF and Hoechst considered themselves to be free of any legal obligations arising from I.G.’s history. Bayer, BASF and Hoechst rejected all compensation demands by former forced laborers until the late 1990s. They argued that the decartelization of I.G. Farben had created “three organizationally and completely new and independent companies that bore “no responsibility for the atrocities of the Nazi terror against forced laborers.” But these were the same three companies that had initiated the creation of the I.G. Farbin.

            Hoechst AG merged in 1999 with Rhône-Poulenc to form the pharmaceuticals giant Aventis S.A., spinning off its remaining chemicals activities to the new Celanese AG. Aventis merged in 2004 with Sanofi-Synthélabo to form Sanofi-Aventis.”

          10. And what has Bayer been up to since their leader died?

            “In 2006 it was revealed that Bayer Corporation had discovered that their injection drug, which was used by hemophiliacs, was contaminated with the HIV virus. Internal documents prove that after they knew the drug was contaminated, and they took it off the U.S. market, they dumped it in Europe, Asia and South America, knowingly exposing thousands, most of them children, to the live HIV virus. Government officials in France went to prison for allowing the drug to be distributed. The documents show that the FDA colluded with Bayer to cover-up the scandal and allowed the deadly drug to be distributed globally. No Bayer executives ever faced arrest or prosecution in the United States.

            Thousands of hemophiliacs filed a class-action lawsuit a against Bayer Corp, Baxter Healthcare Corp., and several other companies, claiming they knowingly sold blood contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C. Thousands of hemophiliacs have unnecessarily died from AIDS and many thousands more are infected with HIV or hepatitis C, many of them children.”

            Bayer Admits It Paid “Millions” in HIV Infection Cases — Just Not in English
            https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-admits-it-paid-millions-in-hiv-infection-cases-just-not-in-english/

            Yaz Stroke, Heart Attack Settlement to Result in Payment of Another $56.9M August 5, 2015
            Bayer Healthcare has agreed to pay about $57 million to settle Yaz lawsuits and Yasmin lawsuits involving arterial thromboembolism (ATE) injuries, such as strokes and heart attacks, potentially resolving about 1,200 of the remaining cases over the controversial birth control pills. –
            See more at: https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/yaz-ate-settlement-85557/#sthash.P0c5IsRX.dpuf

            Yaz Settlements for Pulmonary Embolism, DVT May Top $1.5 Billion – See more at: https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/bayer-settled-yaz-yasmin-lawsuits-36353/#sthash.WvjZNhIm.dpuf

          11. TL;DR beyond the second line.
            And to answer your question, no, I am not a fan of your Godwinning, revisionist, copy-pasta, antivax vomit, Ione.

            PS: I see you have decided to furiously handwave and goal-post shift once again.
            Why was that? Couldn’t explain your lies about the measles vaccine study consent?

    3. Forcing invasive treatments on healthy people in the absence of an immediate and identified epidemic threat will always be illegal. The lower laws of these petty pharma-paid politicians are written on toilet paper and cannot be enforced.

      1. Actually, every state and federal court looking at the issue upheld school immunization requirements. The fact that they protect two valuable interests – a child’s right to health and the public health – gives them a very compelling basis.

        1. Pierce vs. Society of Sisters is controlling law, not those lower court errors.

          Try again. You just keep digging the hole deeper. You might hit China someday.

          1. To remind you, around the same time as Pierce the Supreme Court upheld school immunization requirements in Zucht v. King, and reaffirmed that in Prince v. Massachusetts. These state and federal courts are following Supreme Court precedent as well as sound public policy.

        2. Public health forceful measures are only applicable in emergency situations, which is not the case for routine vaccines. Kids that are not vaccinated have the same right to education as those who are, as is recognized in most of the civilized world.

          1. “Public health forceful measures are only applicable in emergency situations, which is not the case for routine vaccines. ”

            Wrong! Jacobson vs Massachusetts has been used to support mandatory immunizations for school attendance.
            https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1508701?query=TOC&&
            “In 1890, the Supreme Court of California upheld a state law requiring vaccination to attend school (Abeel v. Clark). Fifteen years later in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a claim that a Massachusetts vaccination mandate not linked to school entry violated the constitutional right to due process of law. Later, the Court applied Jacobson in Zucht v. King (1922) to reject a challenge to school-entry mandates in Texas.”

          2. Prophetically, in 1927, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. invoked the Jacobson v. Massachusetts “greater good” utilitarian decision to justify using the heel of the boot of the State to force the sterilization of a young Virginia woman, Carrie Buck, who doctors and social workers incorrectly judged to be mentally retarded like they said her mother was.16 In a chilling statement endorsing eugenics,17 Holmes revealed the morally corrupt core of utilitarianism that still props up mandatory vaccination laws in the U.S.

            Pointing to the Jacobson vs. Massachusetts decision, Holmes declared that the state of Virginia could force Carrie Buck to be sterilized to protect society from mentally retarded people. Coldly, Holmes proclaimed, “three generations of imbeciles are enough” and “The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes.”18

            “The 1905 U.S. Supreme Court majority made fundamental scientific and ethical errors in their ruling in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. It is clear that medical doctors cannot predict ahead of time who will be injured or die from vaccination and that is a scientific fact.19 20”
            https://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2015/12/jacobson-v-massachusetts-state-police-powers-affirmed/

          3. Er, Jacobson v Mass was in 1905. So 22 years later a DIFFERENT Supreme Court used to justify a DIFFERENT case? Big Whoop, Grace.

          4. “Public health forceful measures are only applicable in emergency situations, which is not the case for routine vaccines.”

            No such measures are being proposed here. Following California’s lead would mean making vaccination a prerequisite to public school attendance; parents can homeschool if they like. No one is forcibly vaccinating anyone.

          5. The laws falsely assume unvaccinated kids are infectious, then impose a discrimination measure based on said false assumption. On the same breath, the law assumes vaccines are effective, in which case vaccinated kids would be protected regardless of how many unvaxed kids are in the class. It’s the law by imbeciles that had no shame in contradicting themselves if there’s money to be made.

          6. The law does not assume either of those things. It assumes, consistent with the consensus of actual medical experts, that unvaccinated people are more likely to contract vaccine-preventable diseases. People with vaccine-preventable diseases are infectious, not just unvaccinated people generally.

          7. The vaccinated can be very infectious carriers, for example, the OPV amounts to a forced infection and implants a virus where there might have been none to begin with. The dyphthera and tetanus vaccines don’t prevent infections because they target a toxin, not the infectious agent, turning the vaccinated into unwitting spreaders of the microbes.

            The bottom line is: unvaccinated kids pose no risk to vaccinated kids. It’s rather the other way around.

            The grounds for banning unvaccinated kids from school are bogus and contrary to consensual science. This is acknowledged by European governments less influenced in their lawmaking by industrial lobbies, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, etc. where no one can be banned from schools on vaccination grounds.

          8. OPV hasn’t been used in the United States in about two decades; if you’re reaching for that in order to complain about proposed Colorado legislation, then neither one of us thinks you have a leg to stand on.

          9. There are other live vaccines that also amount to force infections actually in use in the USA.

          10. There are many other live vaccines in the US schedule that amount to forced infection of kids:

            https://www.vaccines.gov/more_info/types/

            “…an attenuated microbe in the vaccine could revert to a virulent form and cause disease”

            Exposing healthy kids to a certain infection is child abuse, pure and simple.

          11. There are very few live vaccines used in the United States, and none that present a serious risk of shedding. The Immune Deficiency Foundation specifically recommends that parents not avoid vaccination other than the OPV virus, which as noted is not used in this country anyway.

            I hope that readers obseve the rapid shift in your arguments: you will be forcibly vaccinated (false), the law assumes unvaccinated kids are infectious (false and irrelevant), vaccinated people are carriers of disease (false), and now vaccines are “certain infection.” All of your talking points are wrong, and yet you don’t blink an eye when that’s pointed out. You just shift to a new talking point.

            This is ideology, not reasoning. Anti-vax scaremongerers have a belief that vaccines are bad and scary, and search endlessly for facts that support that belief. When they can’t find one, they invent one. Anything to support the myth that vaccines are bad and scary.

            Please don’t let urban legends scare you out of taking the best possible care of your child. Vaccines save lives. They are not a giant conspiracy. That’s why actual doctors recommend vaccines and vaccinate their own children.

          12. IPV or OPV is used in the USA. In 2006 my child received it. I am looking at his immunization schedule as I type this out. Poliomyelitis. Poliometitis. He actually had three 12/4/2006. 3/6/2007 5/10/2007. Or perhaps the University of Utah where he received his vaccinations wrote it down incorrectly. The immunization record sheet that goes along with him wherever he goes has it on it so I’m wondering why you would say that they don’t use it in the United States anymore when clearly they do they did on my child is he just the only one thee anomaly?

          13. Public health measures are also used to prevent emergency situations and harms, actually.

            It’s a shame that kids whose parents refuse to protect against diseases – vaccine-deprived kids – may also find their educational opportunities limited because of their parents’ mistaken choice. However, that’s a balance between actually forcing vaccines and allowing the non-vaccinating parents to force the risk they impose on their own children on the child’s classmate. The state could require vaccination and criminally penalize the non-vaccinating parents. But states are not comfortable going that far. So they allow parents not to vaccinate – and limit the ability of those parents to export the risk to the rest of the community.

          14. Assuming vaccines are effective, protection only happens in the presence of an identified, concrete and measurable epidemc threat. In the absence of said threat, the only risk to a kid’s health is the vaccine itself.

          15. No. Protection happens any time there’s exposure to the disease. There doesn’t have to be an epidemic threat. If a child is exposed to an infected traveler, or to an infected individual that’s not a traveler, or – like in the San Diego 2008 outbreak, an unvaccinated child is taken abroad to where measles is endemic (in that case Europe), a child can be infected.

          16. Infected travellers are an extremely rare occurrence. You can’t base public health interventions on rare occurrences, let alone force them, yet this is what vaccine policy is about. 99% of kids are never exposed and get vaccinated for nothing, their only of risk being the vaccine itself.

          1. Once an unvaccinated child is exposed to the disease – for example, if her parents take her to Europe where measles is endemic, or if rates drop in the school and herd immunity no longer protects her from her parents’ error – she is likely to no longer be healthy.

          2. Always blaming foreigners. Measles is a mild disease. Most cases of (rare) measles deaths happen among previously vaccinated adults. Herd immunity cannot exist unless 95% of the population are immune, but since most vaccine-induced antibodies (assuming they’re protective, which remains unproven) wane in anything from 2 to 10 years, by the age of 30 no adult remains immune. Herd Immunity is another canned slogan with no link to reality.

          3. Well then, measles should be raging through the population born between 1963 and 1985, and to a lesser extent, adults born after 1985. But it isn’t. We have a few hundred cases per year, and if the vaccine offered only temporary immunity, we would be having a lot more.

            Why is that? Could it be that the vaccine offers lifetime immunity?

            BTW, measles killed 2.6 million people per year in 1980. Thanks to vaccines, we reduced that below 120,000 in 2014, and that was because of vaccines.

          1. Wrong – those aren’t rights.

            Federal rule has already … well… ruled on them. What those things Colorado has are?

            They’re state privileges or state entitlements.

            Rights come with these things called Responsibilities.

  2. If vaccination rates do not improve, vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks will continue and also increase. It is a shame that it took the measles outbreak in California to cause a change for the better in California vaccine laws–a shame because parents should realize that vaccines are safe, effective and protect against diseases the maim and kill. Other states with similarly high levels of non-vaccination (such as Colorado, and Arizona, where I live) can either do as California did and eliminate non-medical vaccine exemptions, of they cansuffer more vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. As a pediatrician practicing where there have been measles and whooping cough outbreaks due to low vaccination rates, thank you for your editorial.

    1. It seems to always take a crisis. It took the measles epidemic of 1989-91 to get some action going re: immunizations, and it took this outbreak in CA to reignite that.

      One person from Colorado did get measles from exposure at Disney after he returned. He went to some type of medical office (urgent care, ER, I can’t remember what) and a lab while sick and no one else here got it. I think our immunization rates are better than they look on paper. I do hope the legislature does the right thing this time around, as opposed to what they did two years ago, which was to way water down the final bill. It is going to be a little harder to get an exemption this upcoming school year.

      1. What many people do not know about the Disney outbreak is that it was carried back to Canada by a family that came from a religious community in Quebec that shuns vaccinations. It resulted in over 130 confirmed cases of measles, largely confined to the same unvaccinated religious group. This incident illustrates how mobile an infectious disease can be if vaccinations are avoided by even a small percentage of individuals.

          1. Probably lucky there weren’t more people visiting Disney from areas in Europe where vaccination rates are low.

          1. Thank you for reinforcing the point that diseases like measles can be spread throughout the globe by passengers on airlines. Large, localized numbers of unvaccinated people make it more likely that disease will find a vulnerable pool of people once an infectious passenger lands.

          2. Best hide under your bed, Verna.
            Your afraid of Europeans, afraid of people who haven’t gotten every injection pharma wants to sell, afraid of people who travel, afraid of people with religious objections….

          3. I’d imagine Verna isn’t afraid at all, having been vaccinated.
            But like her, I am afraid for the more weak and vulnerable in our society such as the infants too young to be vaccinated, and those who are ill or unable to be vaccinated because of their illness or other treatments.

            But then us provaxers tend to be a thoughtful and caring lot, while you antivaxers are pretty selfish, demonstrating your “I’m all right Jack! Sod the rest of you!” attitude at every turn.

          4. May i suggest looking into the intricate properties of breast milk and the passive immunity benefits from naturally acquired measles on your day off. There is natural natal protection to a certain degree in the properties of breast milk. The body is an amazing thing that apparently we as a society have deemed defective; replaced for plastic immunity and health. Are you aware of the importance of the neonatal immune system to remain in an anti-inflammatory state for the first several years? Are you aware of the potent anti-inflammatory properties that breast milk has in order to successfully carry that job out? If so, ask yourself why that could possibly be…

          5. “May i suggest looking into the intricate properties of breast milk and
            the passive immunity benefits from naturally acquired measles on your
            day off.”

            That amazing maternal immunity and protective breast milk seems to have resulted in the deaths of millions of kids in continents like Africa (prior to introduction of vaccines).
            I wonder why they are so puny?

          6. Several years? Surely you jest. Breast milk antibodies are “passive”, meaning the baby’s body doesn’t make them. They come from his/her mother, and they break down quickly. As the child starts taking solids, s/he gets less breast milk, therefore less antibody. In addition, the antibodies mostly remain in the gut. Maternal antibodies from the placenta are gone in about 6 months.
            https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2006/03/tales_from_the_nursery.html
            https://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/29/infdis.jit143.full

          7. I pointed out facts about a recent outbreak of measles that could have easily taken the life of someone who is immunocompromised or too young to receive their shots. You interpret that as personal fear. I am old enough to have some scars from the measles I went through as a child. I don’t recommend the experience if it can be avoided. I’m curious, though. Do you often make such leaps in logic totally without supporting evidence?

          8. The risks from vaccinations of death, neurological and brain damage, and autoimmune disease are just as real.
            Many more died from the MMR vaccine than from the measles in the US, over the last decade.

          9. Many more died from the MMR vaccine than from the measles in the US.

            Firstly, the so called MMR deaths are unverified and unlikely to be causal. Secondly, why do you think there has been only one acute measles death in the last year?

            I’ll tell you why…because thanks to universal vaccination, there were only a few hundred cases of measles nationwide in total, compared to the 3 million cases and 450 deaths that used to happen every year prevaccine.

            You know this, I have discussed this with you many times before, so why you keep misrepresenting the issue is a sign of your calculated malice rather than integrity.

          10. Unverified does not imply unlikely. What’s more, timing has a high weight in the criteria to determine causality.

            Underreporting is a known problem of any passive adverse event reporting system. It is estimated that VAERS only reports 10% of all cases.

            Even in the hypothetical case that there was no underreporting and that only 10% of the cases were causal, we’re still left with more deaths linked to the measles vaccine than are caused by me measles.

            When the remedy is worse than the disease it is time to stop with he remedy.

          11. “It is estimated that VAERS only reports 10% of all cases.”
            Can you point to the original scientific publication or evidence for this claim?

            Meanwhile, back at the ranch, analysis of VAERS claims has shown that only 3% are definitively linked to the putative vaccine.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063829

          12. “…analysis of VAERS claims has shown that only 3% are definitively linked to the putative vaccine.”

            By the same logic, all measles deaths in the Western world occur on people that had a previous condition as the real cause of death (and they’re often vaccinated adults). Despite that, the vax-pushers use these deaths to raise alarm and call for forced vaccination.

            Additionally, three points that fly your head:

            1. When that 3% of vaccine damage is equal or larger than the equivalent damage by the infections targeted by the corresponding vaccines, Houston we have a problem!

            2. Vaccine damage is permanent and incurable (paralysis, autoimmune disease) unlike most of the so-called “vaccine preventable diseases” which are curable and mild.

            3. Even if the 3% were far below the level damage caused by the infections targeted by the corresponding vaccines, if such vaccines are proven ineffective (read: flu, mumps, whooping cough) then the risk is also unacceptable.

          13. But the risk of damage from the diseases is usually several orders of magnitude higher than the risk of damages from the vaccines.
            That’s the bit you don’t quite grasp, do you.

            Alternateively, you could come up with a disease where the complications of the vaccine are higher than complicationsof the illness….
            What disease will you choose? Rabies? Tetanus? Diphtheria? Measles? HiB? Mumps?

          14. “…But the risk of damage from the diseases is usually several orders of magnitude higher than the risk of damages from the vaccines.”

            Back to slogan mode! I have a test for you:

            – Let’s say disease X causes 1 death out of 2 cases (50% mortality rate)

            – Let’s say the vaccine against disease X has 1:1,000,000 (0.0001%) adverse event rate (death and paralysis).

            Question: Would you conclude vaccine X has a positive benefit/risk ratio?

          15. Obviously. 50% death rate from disease rate is magnitudes higher death rate than less than 0.0001% .

            Plus, that’s adverse events so that 0.0001% is an over-count . .

          16. Wrong! it depends of the incidence of X.

            If the incidence of X is below 1 in 500,000 people then the vaccine causes more damage than the disease.

            Please to expose your ignorance, “epidemiologist” LOL

          17. Herd immunity is a conditional probability sum to figure it out, you whackaloon.

            Again, I have no desire to freeride on my more responsible neighbours.

          18. “…Herd immunity.”

            With vax antibodies waning after 2 – 10 ten years (depending on subject and vaccine), by the age of 20 few are still immune in your herd. By the age of 30 nobody is immune (being kind and assuming vax antibodies give protection).

            Therefore “vaccine herd immunity” is a theoretical construct which in practice doesn’t exist.

            In spite of it, the streets aren’t littered with corpses, contrary to the what the apologists of vaccines constantly predict.

            Conclussion: factors other than vaccines are preventing the spreading of infectious disease.

          19. “..That’s what boosters are for.”

            And adults are NOT taking.

            Streets should be littered with corpeses according with “herd immunity” theory, so where ae they? You’re a FAIL.

          20. Any theory that makes wrong predictions is wrong.

            Vaccine theory is not “exceptional” as science-illiterate apologists seem to believe.

          21. “…That’s a series, not boosters.”

            Irrelevant in a planet where adults use no freaking boosters.

            “…OPV isn’t used in America..”

            How did I know you wouldn’t even READ the report? LOL!

            look again, sport,

            Persistence of protective antibodies following immunization with IPV.

            (Table III2))
            Intervention: ≥3-­4 doses of inactivated poliovirus vaccine

            Low scientific evidence for ≥80% long-­‐term (>5-­10 years) persistence of protective antibodies following ≥3-­4 doses of IPV.

            You dig wallowing in your own ignorance, don’t you?

          22. “.. I should have said not routinely used in America.”

            It’s the I-P-V ! You say the IPV is not routinely used in America?

            I’d have a more meaningful conversation with a seagul!

          23. Some of those 3% are simply sore arms, fevers and rashes that resolve on their own. The rate of serious injury is infinitesimal.

            Most vaccine injury is reversible as well, even GBS. Damage from many of the vaccine-preventable diseases is permanent and incurable, e.g. hearing loss, vision loss, brain damage, paralysis.

            None of those vaccines are ineffective. Flu is probably the least effective of these, and even it is usually about 60% effective. Pertussis vaccine gets a bad rap. There is at least a 2 1/2 times greater chance of getting pertussis if you just live in an area with a lot of unvaccinated people. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/25/226147147/vaccine-refusals-fueled-californias-whooping-cough-epidemic Mumps vaccine may be “only” 85% effective. Considering that pre-vaccine, almost 100% of people got mumps, that’s pretty good.

          24. The reason “measles” is not causing 450 deaths is due to the stricter criteria for diagnostic measles among the vaccinated.

            The prevaccine criteria were: “rash + fever + rhnitis”. If the same criteria were kept today we’d be seeing the same number of “measles” deaths we saw prevaccine.

          25. Bingo! Thank you for answering my question about your leaps of logic. Again, a statement totally without any solid evidence backing it up.

          26. That was the Ohio outbreak. No one knows who Patient Zero was in the Disney outbreak, nor where s/he came from.

        1. “What many people do not know about the Disney outbreak is that it was carried back to Canada by a family that came from a religious community in Quebec that shuns vaccinations.”

          What caca poo poo that statement is. The real reason its not known by many people is because it is simply untrue. Patient zero has never been identified and fabricating such a lie is a bastard attempt at manipulating the population through fear and blame in order to justify mandates…$$$$$$$$$$!!

          1. Try reading the comment again. I didn’t say anything about patient zero or where the Disney strain originated. I was talking about what happened to a visitor to Disney that returned to Quebec and brought the measles with them. They then shared them generously with other members of their community that were known to be unvaccinated. Their travel plans, the match for the Disney strain and their religious objections to vaccination were all well known. Before you start tossing insults and accusations you should make more of an attempt to actually understand what you are frothing at the mouth about. It would make you look like less of an idiot.

    2. Try again, learn how the immune system actually works, and the actual history of hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition as they relate to disease reduction, then get back to us educated folks when you get past the propaganda nonsense into actual science.

      In the meantime, best return your medical degree to the 7-11 you bought it from.

        1. So when will you quit practicing and do it for real?

          Explain the Th1 and Th2 immune responses in relation to cytokine production and the entire immune system. When you can do so, get back to us. In the meantime, your 7-11 trip awaits.

          P.S. I wouldn’t use you for a doctor, either. I prefer intelligent people.

          1. I wish there were a shorthand version for writing out “Dunning-Kruger”.
            It gets tedious my having to do it so often in these discussions.

      1. The readers are posed with a decision here – who to assign more credibility in regards to science and medicine.
        Dr. Hickie who is not only a pediatriciian (MD), but also a scientist (PhD)
        or
        Various anti-science, anti-vaccine k00ks who are high school dropouts and hoping for a promotion to supervisor of the deep fryer.

        Tough decision.

      2. “learn how the immune system actually works, and the actual history of hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition as they relate to disease reduction, then get back to us educated”

        That’s an interesting statement. If we go to the experts on how the immune system works, immunologists overwhelmingly support vaccination and vaccinate their own children. If we go to the experts on disease reduction, epidemiologists overwhelmingly support vaccination and vaccinate their own children.

        Why are those experts’ opinions not worth listening to? A giant conspiracy that includes every relevant expert?

        1. And said giant conspiracy either a)is too incompetent to take down a few crank youtube videos, b)doesn’t care to take them down or c)doesn’t actually exist.

          Either way, it naturally follows that there’s no threat.

      3. That whole sanitation, hygiene and nutrition thing worked so well to make India free of polio. Couldn’t have been the OPV campaign. I wonder why the Indian government is still persisting with their “Take your poo to the loo!” campaign? Could it be because almost half their population still decorates the landscape with human fecal matter?

        1. Judging from his comments, he is a proud recipient of a degree from Google U. Too bad he missed the Dunning-Kruger article.

      1. We could use a more effective pertussis vaccine. It’s not our most effective. it’s still much more effective than no vaccine – and not vaccinating increase risk of outbreaks.

        Saad B. Omer, et al., Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: Secular Trends and Association of State Policies With Pertussis Incidence, 296 JAMA 1757(2006).

        Saad B. Omer, et al., Geographic Clustering of Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements and Associations With Geographic Clustering of Pertussis, 168 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 1389(2008).

        Aamer Imdad, et al., Religious Exemptions for Immunization and Risk of Pertussis in New York State, 2000–2011, PEDIATRICS (2013).

        1. It doesn’t work because vaccines are a snapshot and not adaptable, while the diseases are the opposite. Immunology 101. The pro-poison crowd never understands that or admits it.

          1. If it’s “immunology 101,” then why do immunologists overwhelmingly support vaccination and vaccinate their own children? Perhaps their opinions on immunology should carry more weight than yours.

          2. I think Tannim is clearly an expert immunologist, perhaps with several post doc theses under his belt and specialty expertise in vaccine immunology.
            Of course, I could be wrong, and he could just be some bozo in a basement somewhere, sitting in front of his laptop in his underpants.

        2. An ineffective vaccine means the child gets exposed to double health risk. Only stupid parents and/or authorities would approve such a thing.

          1. The fact that we could use a better pertussis vaccine doesn’t make it ineffective. It offers very good short term protection.

          2. Short term protection, unless the kids are in the middle of an epidemic, is equivalent to no protection. But the fact that epidemics occur in highly vaccinated populations tells me you’re pulling the “short term” line out of the darkest part of our anatomy.

          3. 4 years protection is not equivalent to no protection.

            Nothing is 100% protective. The outbreaks in vaccinated populations were in part because the vaccine waned faster than scientists expected – and the schedule has been adjusted to that. The other part of that, however, is that current outbreaks are much more limited in number – thanks to the vaccine.

          4. The relevant time for protection is in infancy. This is the most dangerous time for kids who get pertussis, around one in 200 who catch it under 1 yr of age will die.
            If a child gets pertussis later, say when they are 8 or 10, they will become unwell, but the disease is rarely serious or fatal. In adults it is hardly pathogenic at all.

            That is why the crucial period to cover with vaccination is infancy – and the vaccine does that very well. By the time immunity wanes after 5-10 years, clinical disease is less important for the individual.

          5. Infants are the most susceptible to get injured by the toxic and immunoactive compounds, both intended and u controlled, found in vaccines. Trading a theoretical risk of disease for the real risks of vaccine exposure is utterly foolish.

          6. “..”We don’t wish to free-ride on our more responsible neighbours.”

            Want to eat more “herd immunity” brown pie again, broken record?

            Point refuted 1,000,000 times before.

          1. My mistake. That there’s nothing in the news about this so-called “outbreak” must mean there’s no outbreak. Maybe you could post a link to this alleged outbreak.

      2. Can you provide a citation to verify that all the cases were vaccinated, as I cannot find one?

        Looking at the pertussis vaccine returns, it seems as though between 3% and 5% of the children have exemptions or are unvaccinated.
        So if vaccine is NOT protective to any degree, then we will expect around 95%-97% of those with pertussis to have a history of vaccination.

        When you get your figures for the percentage of those with pertussis who were vaccinated, can you let us know please?
        If there were less than 95% of pertussis cases who were vaccinated (say 80% for example), then that would demonstrate the vaccine is effective to some degree.

        1. “…If there were less than 95% of pertussis cases who were vaccinated (say 80% for example), then that would demonstrate the vaccine is effective to some degree.”

          That comment proves ignorance of statistics. The amount of unvaccinated kinds in the US is two orders of magnitude smaller that the amount of vaccinated kids (1 out of 100), therefore the standard deviation in the unvaccinated group is much higher. Your comment would apply it both populations were eqully large.

          But then again rigourous scientists stay clear of the obscure art of vaccinology, something for the mediocre and the lacking in the scrupules department.

      3. How about nothing in life is 100% perfect, and your insistence that everything be before you’ll use it reflects a level of intelligence and maturity of a 4 year-old? There is no reasoning with twits like you.

          1. You’re trying to provoke me, and it won’t work. YOU made the statement; YOU provide proof or it’s a lie.

  3. Boy, are the pro-poison idiots and their shilliness out in force here.

    Bottom line is this: both they and the editors are simply wrong. Their position is based on not knowing how the immune system actually works, a gross misunderstanding of individual rights coupled with typical foolish top-down central-planning liberal nonsense that doesn’t work, topped off with a healthy dose of hysterics and “think of the children!” propaganda screeching. The derp is strong with these fools.

    My health choices are not to be infringed on or mandated by ANY government to assuage the ignorant fears of morons who have not taken the time to be responsible for their own health and instead defer it to government or corporate shills with an obvious conflict of interest. That’s the settled law of Pierce vs. Society of Sisters, whether the morons like it or not. They are the ones who need to get with reality.

    1. The reason immunologists, as well as other experts, support vaccination is because they work with the immune system.

      Pierce v. Society of Sisters acknowledges parental rights in the context of education. Nobody denies that parents have rights to make many decisions for their children. But those rights are not absolute.
      Theoretically the state can step in and interfere with parental rights for the child’s welfare, but that’s not what’s being discussed here. What’s being discussed is making it harder for the parents to send their unvaccinated child to school and risk others. Parents can still choose to refuse to protect their child from disease. Their freedom to make medical choices for the child is not limited. It just has consequences.

      1. You are neither an immunologist or anything resembling a person with the slightest clue. I however, have done my research, and cited it.

        Pierce says that parents have final say in the upbringing of their children–including medical decisions.

        Rights are absolute. That’s why they are rights. If they are not, then they are mere privileges, granted and revoked by government. You might want to hit a basic civics class and educate yourself.

        Go home, troll. The adults are talking here. We prefer freedom, not your garbage.

        1. I don’t know of any right that is absolute. Any right can be limited. In this context, as explained in Prince v. Massachusetts, 1944: “[a parent] cannot claim freedom from compulsory vaccination for the child more than for himself on religious grounds. [n12] The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child [p167] to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/321/158

        2. “You are neither an immunologist or anything resembling a person with the
          slightest clue. I however, have done my research, and cited it.”

          The facts tell otherwise.
          And I urge caution on your part telling an academic Law Professor that she hasn’t the “slightest clue” about your legal citation of Pierce vs Society of Sisters.

          Oh, and look up the definition of “troll” would you, as that’s another thing you seem not to know.

          And please could you tell us your own area of expertise, since at every turn you are slagging off others for “not being immunologists”?

  4. Wrong. Vaccinations are pharmaceutical drugs and as the Supreme Court themselves have admitted are “unavoidably unsafe.” It is morally wrong to force people to inject a drug into their or their children’s blood stream bypassing the body’s own immune system that quite definitely has risks of serious side affects. Granted, the percentage of people who have immediate catastrophic side affects is small, but it does exist, and as such parents should have the right to refuse and still be allowed to send their kids to school. The argument that the unvaccinated are harbingers of disease and should not be allowed in school or preschool is just logically flawed because unless the unvaccinated child has been exposed to said disease, they are not a carrier of it.

    1. The Supreme Court did not admit that vaccines were unavoidably unsafe. https://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2014/07/17/guest-post-vaccines-and-unavoidably-unsafe-products/

      Vaccines are not injected into the drug stream. But aside from the question whether it’s appropriate for government to require that parent vaccinate and protect their children from disease, school immunization requirements don’t. They just limit the ability of parents to send the unvaccinated child to school and risk others.

        1. Thank you for pointing out the typo. I corrected it. Typing with squirming infant on lap leads to occasional typos.

          1. Having seen you inability to distinguish the difference between a virus (Influenza) and a bacterium (Haemophilus), I’d be a bit reticent calling a University professor “stupid” and saying her kid needs a “smarter parent” if I were you, Tannim.

      1. What has happened in Mississippi, West Virginia and California has made that limit a barrier that very few parents have the wherewithal to cross. They are for all intents and purposes mandates, not mere limits.

        1. What happened? Mississippi had no exemption since the 1970s and WV never had one. They are poor states with a variety of problems, but the lack of no medical exemptions meant that preventable diseases were not one of their problems.

          The California change is still new, but we can hope it will achieve the same level of prevention.

          1. What you mean is that parents the legislature, the judicial system and the executive system should force parents to do what is right. Of course, you are the one who has decided what is right. Unfortunately, forced vaccination has forced a lot of problems that our schools are not equipped to handle.

          2. “Of course, you are the one who has decided what is right.”

            Actually it’s the medical community that attests to the benefits and safety of vaccination. And it’s the people of California (and hopefully soon Colorado) who decided through their representatives to remove an exemption that was being abused.

          3. Not the people of California.
            At the hearing for SB277, about 750 showed up in opposition.
            Only about 50, mostly lobbyists, came in support.

          4. Is that how constitutional republics work? Committee meeting attendance? Popular support for SB277 measured with traditional ways seems pretty strong. Which isn’t surprising, vaccine paranoia is a fairly fringe phenomenon.

          5. I do think governments, both state and federal, should respect the right of parents and adults to not be coerced into a medical intervention.

  5. It is time, for example, to stop claiming that the whooping cough vaccine reduces circulation of that particular illness. But vaccine fanatics never give up and they never stop lying.

    1. There actually is evidence that lower rates of pertussis vaccines=more pertussis, so the vaccine does help, though we could certainly use a more effective one. See:
      Saad B. Omer, et al., Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: Secular Trends and Association of State Policies With Pertussis Incidence, 296 JAMA 1757(2006).

      Saad B. Omer, et al., Geographic Clustering of Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements and Associations With Geographic Clustering of Pertussis, 168 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 1389(2008).

      Aamer Imdad, et al., Religious Exemptions for Immunization and Risk of Pertussis in New York State, 2000–2011, PEDIATRICS (2013).

      1. There’s also evidence that more vaccine doses = higher infant mortality rate.

        Neil Z Miller and Gary S Goldman -Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? – Hum Exp Toxicol. 2011 Sep

          1. You’ree braindead by pretending the only health factor that has changed since 1940 is the number of vaccines.

            However, by your same logic, the incidence in autism has risen from 1:5000 in 1975 to 1:88 in 2012 as the number of vaccines on the schedule increased… correlations go both ways!

          2. I was not claiming vaccines are the cause. But this lack of correlation is strong evidence against a claim that vaccines kill infants.

            Just as studies find ing no correlations between vaccines and autism are strong evidence against that causal connection.

          3. Well, infant mortality rate in the USA is much higher than it is in countries with much less vaccines. Even higher than “3rd world” Cuba! Obviously you should clean house in more important aspects before ranting about forcing vaccines.

          4. I’m not sure what your basis is to saying that. Australia and Israel have a similar schedule – Australia doesn’t give annual influenza, but gives meningococcal vaccines in infancy. And they have lower rates.

            As pointed above, the article claiming a connection is fatally flawed, and the decline in infant deaths as vaccines increased undermines the claim that vaccines cause infant deaths.

          5. “Well, infant mortality rate in the USA is much higher than it is in countries with much less vaccines.”
            I assume you mean “fewer” vaccines.

            Perhaps I can quote your own comment above… “You’ree braindead by pretending the only health factor that has changed since 1940 is the number of vaccines.”

          6. Well, for me cherry-picking is less of a fraud than comparing vaccines to adjuvants or other vaccines in so-called “safety” trials (which is the norm) and “efficacy” trials with no clinical, but surrogate end points. The whole vaccine construct is scientific fraud.

          7. Sorry but the safety of a vaccine can obe establshed against inocuous placebo, not against a mmunologically active adjuvants. If you fail to understand this then you should quit discussing vaccines and stick to polishing the kitchen sink.

        1. Could you explain how, if IMR is linked to number of vaccines on a vaccination schedule, why the USA IMR has now fallen to one sixth of what it was in the 1970s?

          This would seem to correlate closely with an increase in the number of vaccine shots on the schedule?

          Can we assume that correlation implies causation here, as I take it you think it does in Miller and Goldman’s execrable paper?

      2. And now the readers can see why Professor Reiss is considered so extremely dangerous by the anti-science anti-vaccine cultists –
        She backs her statements not with uneducated delusional opinion but with a mountain of peer reviewed science from 1st tier journals.

        That leaves the k00ks sputtering and whimpering “shill!!11!!!” as their only defense.

          1. Tannim, perhaps you could follow the “advice” of your avatar for a while, which would give the rest of the people reading this discussion some respite?

  6. By the CDC’s statistics, we have autism, asthma, anaphylaxis, allergies and autoimmune disease afflicting our children at unprecedented levels. They have risen to these levels without any of these diseases being contagious. All of these diseases involve the immune system. So what are we doing to our children’s immune systems?

    1. There is extensive evidence that none of these are caused by vaccines. Except for the fact that very rarely vaccines can lead to an allergic reaction (as anything can) – less than one per million cases.

      1. There is extensive evidence that the benefits of vacines are overrated and the risk of adverse effects underreported and underestimated.

        Tomljenovic L1, Shaw CA .Aluminum vaccine adjuvants: are they safe? – Curr Med Chem. 2011;18(17):2630-7

        1. If the best evidence is Shaw and Tomljenovic, known for fatally flawed work, as pointed out by the World Health Organization, then there’s no credible evidence for that claim.

          1. The article above is an opinion piece, with no independent data, by two scientists with a history of doing bad work. Where are facts to argue, in your view?

          2. Perhaps if you pulled you head out of your ass and your wallet out of Big Pharma’s pocket, you might read and learn. But that’s as likely as the sun setting in the east,

          3. Good to know that their table with data on Neurodevelopmental Toxicity of Aluminum Compounds in Various Species (including human infants) is just an opinion like we all have an as…hole. Thanks for the valuable insight!

          4. Allow me, Professor Reiss.
            WHO evisceration of Shaw and Tomljenovic:

            who(dot)int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/adjuvants/Jun_2012/en/

            The WHO points out the serious and sophomoric errors in the Shaw and Tomljenovic “research”. It is hard to believe that PhD scientists could produce such shoddy work that wouldn’t make the grade in an undergraduate program.

          5. The WHO is a political body, not a source of primary science. Your quote is a personal opinion and even Doris would have to agree.

        2. That seems to merely be the opinion of the authors, who don’t seem to have any significant relevant background in primary research in vaccines, and whose qualifications and expertise to make judgements has been called into serious question.

          There are I admit a number of vaccines which have not been as effective in practice as was originally hoped during the conception stage. BCG is one of them, for example, but nowadays we take a realistic view of the benefits (which still vastly outweigh the potential harm, btw)

          1. Who has a valid background on vaccines? the makes of this variant of snake oil? Any person with a sound scientific background is able to understand the vaccine papers and clinical trials, it is NOT rocket science but a lower guesswork discipline.

      2. All of the safety studies done by the vaccine makers use other vaccines or shots containing the adjuvants as the “placebo”. On what do these extensive studies base their claim that none of this is related to vaccines?

          1. You use opinion blogs as your references. Please explain how you know that all of these non-contagious immune system diseases are not related to vaccines

          2. Dr. Offit doesn’t have any current conflicts of interest. He is a published scientist with extensive expertise.

          3. Perhaps you should try and understand some of his scienctific publications. From your comment it is clear you haven’t a clue what the “10 thousand” vaccine issue was about.

            Are you perchance an immunologist, or someone with biomedical training, who can understand the underlying pathophysiological principles?

          4. You have Paul Offit clinging to the hygiene hypothesis as the cause of more allergies. You have another opinion piece that does not address this question.

            So I go back to the question. What are we doing to our children’s immune systems? Please answer it in your own words.

          5. ? The article summarizes the large scale studies showing that vaccines do not cause allergies.

            We are teaching our children’s immune system to protect against a variety of infectious diseases via vaccines in a safe manner that does not cause chronic problems.

          6. Allergies are Th2 immune responses by definition, caused by immune system imbalances from vaccines among other causes.

          7. No. We have numerous immune system illnesses that have followed in the wake of the vaccine schedule. You have no other explanation.

            So I go back to the question. What are we doing to our children’s immune systems? Please answer it in your own words.

          8. I understand that you would like vaccines to be the culprit. Since the studies do not show a link to vaccines, you are wrong.

          9. Am I? These illnesses cannot be explained by contagion. They cannot be explained by genetics. They have to be explained with something exogenous. What do you have besides vaccines that explains this?

            In light of the what is happening to our children, you and your opinion pieces are just pontificating.

          10. Again, the question whether it’s vaccines was looked at. In large scale studies. The answer was no.

          11. You say it has been looked at. You can’t explain why it can’t be vaccines. You can’t name anything else it might be. You claim knowledge you do not have.

          12. “We have numerous immune system illnesses that have followed in the wake of the vaccine schedule.”

            As virtually all children get vaccines, one could claim that everything in life “follows in their wake”. Puberty, marriage, childbirth, getting a job, learning to drive, becoming ill (Oh! that one has to be due to vaccines, sure, so why not the others?)

          13. Because all five illnesses are non-contagious epidemics that involve our children’s immune systems which the vaccine schedule has been tinkering with. Puberty, marriage, childbirth, getting a job, learning to drive, becoming ill are pointless and do not follow the argument I offered.

          14. As virtually all children get vaccines, one could claim that
            everything in life “follows in their wake”

            Certainly, including the lower incidence of so-called “vaccine preventable” diseases, clearly due to the massive improvements in sanitation, nutrition and housing conditions already prior to the vaccines.

            However, the claim that massive use of immunoactive adjuvants is behind the increase in autoimmune disease is the most plausible.

            What’s more, the mechanisms are known and documented:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23557271

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (Shoenfeld’s syndrome): clinical and immunological spectrum.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24238833

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) 2013: Unveiling the pathogenic, clinical and diagnostic aspects.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24238833

            Autoimmune (auto-inflammatory) syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA)–animal models as a proof of concept.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20708902

            ‘ASIA’ – autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants.

          15. As virtually all children get vaccines, one could claim that

            everything in life “follows in their wake”

            Certainly, including the lower incidence of so-called “vaccine preventable” diseases, clearly due to the massive improvements in sanitation, nutrition and housing conditions already prior to the vaccines.

            However, the claim that massive use of immunoactive adjuvants is behind the increase in autoimmune disease is the most plausible.

            What’s more, the mechanisms are known and documented (PUBMED numbers):

            23557271

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (Shoenfeld’s syndrome): clinical and immunological spectrum.

            24238833

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) 2013: Unveiling the pathogenic, clinical and diagnostic aspects.

            24238833

            Autoimmune (auto-inflammatory) syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA)–animal models as a proof of concept.

            20708902

            ‘ASIA’ – autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants.

          16. “We have numerous immune system illnesses that have followed in the wake of the vaccine schedule.”

            But no strong correlation between these things, or serious evidence of causation.

          17. “We are teaching our children’s immune system to protect against a variety of infectious diseases via vaccines…”

            In other words, humans are born with defective immune systems that begged for the takeover of vaccines because the immune system was just simply unable to learn for itself. Physiology’s a real b***h, isn’t it, Dorit?

          18. Using a dead or weakened germ to show the immune system what a disease looks like with a version that can’t fight back.

          19. “I have no intention of reading skeptical raptor”
            It’s not Skeptical Raptor’s article – it is Dorit’s article which was hosted by Raptor.
            So it is where she explains it “in her own words” just like you wanted, doh!

            But if you wish to cover your eyes as well as sticking fingers in your ears I can’t help you.

        1. “All of the safety studies done by the vaccine makers use other vaccines or shots containing the adjuvants as the “placebo”.”

          This common and pervasive lie is easily disproved by typing “Vaccine saline placebo” into Google.

          However, not all vaccines are tested against placebo when safety is concerned – some new vaccines are tested against the current version of the vaccine, since it is unethical and illegal to use study subjects as placebos if this subjects them to possible harm.

          To help you grasp this concept, think of insulin. The early versions of pork and salmon insulin were miraculous and highly succesful. When human insulins were developed, they had to be tested against what, do you think?
          As it is unethical to give diabetics saline instead of insulin, the studies compared human insulin against pork insulin. Human insulin was found to be safer and more effective, so we use that now. Capiche?

          1. The reason for comparing against placebo (saline) is because it is known that it has no effect and it is harmless. The vaccine is thus compared to a shot that has no effect. That is not true for a vaccine or for a shot that contains adjuvants. Comparing a vaccine against another vaccine is in effect saying that we know that this vaccine is safe because vaccines are safe.

            The practice of doing safety tests without placebo is not valid.

          2. And obviously if you compare a vaccine X to saline and know it’s safety profile compared to saline (Y)…and then compare vaccince Z to Vaccine X – you obviously now know three things:

            1)Vaccine X safety profile relative to Vaccine Z

            2)Vaccine X safety profile relative to Y

            You can work out:

            3)Vaccine Z safety profile compared to saline from there.

          3. Quite.
            I sometimes use the analogy of insulins.
            The first ones (pork, salmon) were pretty crude, but were fantastic compared to giving saline placebos in diabetic coma.
            But then human insulins came along. So what do you compare them to? The best available option at the time, obviously (and not saline).

          4. Is this an opinion shared by actual epidemiologists or experts in experimental design? I’ve only heard it from laypeople who started with the belief that vaccines are dangerous and needed a scientific-sounding argument to support that belief.

        1. I think you’re a little confuse. The common above explains that vaccines don’t cause autism, asthma, allergies. Not that they don’t prevent diseases.

  7. The anti-vax dumbarses have crawled out of their holes, I see. All I have left to say is that these diseases that vaccines prevent do not care about the lunacy of the anti-vax crowd. Follow anti-vax fools at the peril of your children, parents.

      1. There is no reason for a newborn to have a hep b vaccination. The parents were misinformed as are the pediatricians. I hope the child recovers and the family gets a monstrous lawsuit settlement. I hope this also makes all the main stream media outlets as a warning to parents on the dangers of early and over vaccinating your children.

          1. I wonder if the parents will take the advice of Brooke Dunne, Cathy, Kathy, Ivan, Katia, Andrew Lazarus, Reality022, kfunk937, Mitt Romney, that vaccines are perfectly safe and they have nothing to worry about. These are the types of shots that our Government is being coerced, bribed, and bullied into mandating on to all of us and our children. When a child suffers a reaction they try to lie and say it was a coincidence. F your vaccinations, we will take the ones we want and need on our terms, not yours. Medical freedom must be upheld or more will die and be maimed.

          2. Tammy Carrington of Diboll, Texas?

            Her son didn’t die. He has cerebral palsy and is still alive today.

          3. O well, even worse.

            But he’s free of STD and we should all CELEBRATE another vaccine success story.

          4. We saw a physician in Houston who
            specialized in Hepatitis B adverse reactions and he did a battery of tests. His
            name is Andrew Campbell, MD. He told us that Jonathan definitely did have an
            adverse reaction to the hep B vaccine. We had a SPECT scan by Richard
            Neubauer, MD in Ft. Lauderdale who also stated that Jonathan had toxic anoxic
            encephalopathy directly related to the hepatitis B vaccine and this was not the
            first time he had seen it and unfortunately would not be the last time he would
            see it. We were also told that Jonathan’s intracranial pressure was so
            intense for such a long period of time from his prolonged horrific screaming
            that the vessel couldn’t handle the pressure and ruptured. I was told that
            brain vessels are the thinnest vessels and are not built to withstand intense
            and prolonged pressure such as screaming for 18-20 hours a day for four
            months.

          5. Attack the Doctor and toss him into the pit with Wakefield. Outta my face with your nonsense. The most chilling words ever spoken by a neurosurgeon ” There are things far worse than death ”
            A vaccine injury can mean not just death but the rest of your, your spouse’s and your other Children’s lives and livelihood. Open your eyes every morning after broken sleep to the same care routine of your vaccine injured child, the reality sets in, there is no one to help you, no one who cares, just business as usual and on to destroy more families. And there you are day after day night after night season after season, every one grows older, you eventually die and your children are left to tell the tale through the fog of astroturfers, crooked politicians, misled Dr’s, and greedy pharmaceutical lobbying in the name of profit.

          6. You’re really just too fcking stupid for words. You are being publicly humiliated, but you’re too dumb to realize it. Well, you’ll have another sock account soon enough, right bridge?

          7. Your use of profanity will not make your point valid. My intelligence or lack thereof does not influence the validity of the cold hard facts that I have presented to you and your shill associates. What you do with the information is up to you. As for sock accounts, takes one to spot one.

          8. My use of profanity is not an attempt to validate my point. It is simply an expression of my frustration from dealing with idiots like you all day.

            You have presented *nothing* that has not been torn to shreds. And your lack of intelligence is glaring.

            As for socks, you’ve had multiple, with the most recent being Bridget. My account is years old, and the only one I have.

          9. And how do you deal with idiots like me all day might I ask? Oh, thats right you get paid to be here, I do this for free because I have a vaccine injured child.

          10. Go fck yourself. I’m sick of your baseless shill accusations. I do this because I actually understand it. Based on the content of your posts, I’d be very hard pressed to believe that if you have a child with any health issues that they were caused by vaccines, regardless of the label you force on them.

          11. “toss him into the pit with Wakefield”
            That’s where the fraud belongs, so that’s the best place for him, I’d have thought.

          12. “Where do the shills, liars, and astroturfers belong Mikey?”

            Where they have always been… in your overactive imagination, along with the idea that vaccines cause autism, of course.

          13. “… I don’t know if he got the Vitamin K which might have prevented it”

            Wow! no we need an injection to protect us from the next injection! LOL

          14. Before you edited your comment you said

            “It’s the son of Tammy Carrington, Diboll, Texas. Google it up.”

            Not really good at this are you, troll?

          15. “NEWBORN INFANT WITH HEPATITIS B AND MASSIVE ASCITES FROM LIVER FAILURE”

            Thanks. so … a baby born with Hep B.

        1. It’s her perfect right, although I wouldn’t dare the impudence of calling someone’s misfortunes “gigs”.

          1. My bad.

            She’s a pay per post writer for whoever needs content. Gig Is an industry term.

            Check out Fiverr sometime.

          2. Well, Dr. Off-it is paid by the vaccine industry and writes about how harmless his own products are. Where’s your outrage?

            What’s good for the goose…

          3. I feel like I should have to pay admission to watch these public flayings. If you put kiko and vacuous in a scrotum together, you wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference.

          4. Oh? Did he lose the millions he sold it for? If not he’s STILL benefiting from it in many ways.

          1. Oh, not good.

            ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

            Attached to this Order to Show Cause are two prior Orders of the undersigned. The first
            Order, dated August 21, 2001, orders petitioner to explain discrepancies between petitioner’s
            affidavits and the contemporaneous medical records

            This story just keeps getting better.

          2. The favorable decision indicates the petitioner was correct (and the doctors lied to cover up their asses, as usual)

          3. I thought you were responding to my case.

            Yes, there are false claims in every legal field, so what? Are you trying to imply the VICP has a higher than average fraud rate?

          4. I am on topic, Tammy Carrington.

            Let me answer the question for you

            One could conclude from the record in this case that petitioner is attempting to serially litigate Jonathan’s claim for compensation. Having been unable to find an expert to opine that the hepatitis B vaccinations Jonathan received on August 3 and October 13, 1997 were the cause of his brain injury on December 10-11, 1997, petitioner is now proceeding under the alternative theories that mercury caused the brain injury or that Jonathan’s current condition is somehow related to autism. Unfortunately, petitioner has failed to produce any evidence related to either theory.

            https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/VOWELL.Carrington041907.pdf

          5. My question remains unanswered:

            Are you trying to imply the VICP has a higher than average fraud rate?

          6. “..Biased towards false positives..”

            Sure, let’s illustrate the process:

            – Mom: my kid was lively and communicative before his vaccine, right afterwards he became autistic.
            – Doctor: It is proven that vaccines do NOT cause autism (oops! a negative!).
            – Mom: But shouldn’t I still report to VAERS?
            – Doctors: It wouldn’t help becasue autism is not in the injury tables.
            – Mom: I see. Thanks for saving me thetime and the trouble.

            Your “biased” comment is, in turn, highly biased. LOL.

          7. “…Correlation is not causation.”

            Wrong, it’s “Correlation does not imply causation”, but it does not exclude it either.

            Finding out should be up to VAERS. However, the “bias tables” prevents autism from being reported and a possible relation to be investigated …

            … and then a MORON lectures us about “overreporting” LOL

          8. “… I just wasn’t trying to.”

            No need to explain, the lack of reflection in your replies is obvious to all.

            You just care abut your neighbors getting vaccinated..that’s all.

            That’s your petty, fear-basded crusade and you’re impervious to reality.

          9. “VOWELL, Special Master:

            On July 26, 1999, Mrs. Tammy Carrington timely filed a petition under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act [“Vaccine Act” or “Program”], 42 U.S.C. §300aa-10 et seq.2 on behalf of her minor son, Jonathan. Her petition was dismissed with prejudice on May 29, 2007, based on petitioner’s failure to prosecute. Petitioner’s election to pursue a civil action was filed on July 19, 2007.”

            Additionally, and as previously mentioned.. lawyers got their coin..

            “However, the requested amounts will be adjusted by the court, as indicated above, to an amount that is reasonable and appropriately documented. Accordingly, I hereby award the total of $63,995.6722. This total represents $1,859.30 in petitioner’s personal costs, $53,229.50 in attorney fees, and $8,906.87 in litigation costs. The
            payment shall be:

            1. a lump sum of $62,136.37, in the form of a check payable jointly to
            petitioner, Tammy Carrington, and petitioner’s counsel, Clifford
            Shoemaker, for attorney fees and costs; and

            2. a lump sum of $1,859.30, in the form of a check payable to petitioner, Tammy Carrington, for litigation costs personally incurred by petitioner.”

          1. Oh snap.

            “You should all remember when you type the word anti vaxx, you are talking about people like this” — Kiko

      2. This picture appears to be originally posted as a baby with Hep B and liver failure. Not surprising that you lied again.
        medadvisor.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-story-of-hepatitis-b.html?m=1

        1. Child’sname: Ian Larsen Gromowski https://www.iansvoice.org/

          “…Just two things needed to be completed before he could be released. He needed to pass his hearing test and receive his hepatitis B vaccination. I blame myself here as a mother for not having been completely educated on vaccines.”

          1. You posted the link. The pic was not I the link. It is not my responsibility to do your work for you. As for my literacy, again, you don’t want to go down that road with me, troll.

          2. If you are not braindead, scroll down to heading “Day 17-29” and navigate the pics by clicking on the dots under footer “Gromowski Family” on the right side. All the pics are there.

        1. No, no, no. Leave it up.

          This is a picture of a baby born with Hep B. Vacuous’ post is a PERFECT example of how these trolls lie. Constantly.

          1. “…This is a picture of a baby born with Hep B”

            Your face didn’t crack all up when you wrote that mendacity?

            https://www.iansvoice.org/

            “…Just two things needed to be completed before he could be released. He needed to pass his hearing test and receive his hepatitis B vaccination. I blame myself here as a mother for not having been completely educated on vaccines.”

          2. I asked you to provide a link to that image hosted at iansvoice org.

            Where is it?

            Oh, that’s right. You lied.

          3. U mad bro?

            If that picture is Ian Gromowski, and not a child born with Hep B as the original source says, then show me the page where you found the photo at iansvoice org

            Easy peasy.

        2. I’ll replace it with a picture of a so-called “vaccine preventable” disease, then you’ll shut up like the perfect w.hore.

          1. Now you only have to provide the following:

            1. Proof that the child wasn’t vaccinated,

            2. Prove this child wouldn’t have contracted the diseases had she taken the vaccine.

            3. Proof that the vaccine would not have injured that child.

            4. Proof that the child’s outcome was caused by meningococcaldiseases as opposed to the treatment.

            A lot of work to do!

          2. “..For the zillonth time you don’t prove a negative.”

            Vaccinology is the exception, apparently.

            Vaccine apologists routinely “prove” that a kid dead from disease X would NOT have fallen ill if vaccinated.

            Vacinology = double standard pseudoscience.

          3. No, routinely prove that the chance would be lower and that all the evidence is against vaccines causing autism.

        3. Who cares if you quote a blog. It’s a blog, a writers opinion. If images of vaccine injured children bother you then why don’t you try telling the truth.

          1. That is Ian. Iatrogenic death or medical malpractice is a case you can make.

            It’s far more likely that he died from the antibiotic he was allergic to – again.

      3. A stipulated settlement. This was what’s called a “table injury.”

        It’s a sad story. No parent should have to suffer this kind of loss, but they also didn’t have to prove the vaccine caused child’s death.

        1. “… they also didn’t have to prove the vaccine caused child’s death”.

          Can you prove a vaccine has prevented a single child’s death?

          1. Actually no. It’s a table injury. That’s how some cases are settled.

            Unless it’s shown the Plaintiff is just outright lying. That happens too.

          2. It is so because the majority of the decisions are statistically right. Manufacturers (exempt from responsibility) and government set up the compensation scheme.

            Manufactures know their products’ problems, crunched their numbers, and decided the tax payer should pay the compensation bills.

            Added bonus: without requirement of proof their vaccines can hardly ever get exposed.

          3. “…That’s how some cases are settled.”

            Without requirement of proof vaccines never ever get the blame.

            Convenient huh?

            Manufacturers enjoy immunity to boot (the only provided by vaccines lol).

            What a wonderful cartel protection scheme, and so fking cheap!

        2. They didn’t have to prove it because the association between the injury and the vaccine is assumed by VICP. This association is based on research showing that causation is very likely given the timeframe.

          Trying to argue that a NVICP compensation for a Table injury does not support the notion that the vaccine caused the injury is beyond disingenuous.

          1. Okay. Then there are the facts in this case:

            “From the mother’s own account, Ian had Meconium Aspiration Syndrome, developed an infection, was tachypnic, was intubated, had an allergic response to an antibiotic, became pancytopenic and went into organ failure.” — kfunk937 https://disq.us/8z7l09

            Tragic. The upside for the family, if there is any upside in a story like this, is somewhere in there he was given a Hep B vaccine and Uncle Sam will pay.

          2. “…Then there’s the facts in this case”

            And you point to another shill’s post that also lacks any source.

          3. I linked to kfunk’s comment because he put it quite concisely. I can go through point by point and show where everything he wrote is true, if you’d like:

            After my water was surgically broken at about 7:30 am, the nurses indicated there was meconium in the amniotic fluid. As they were concerned about meconium aspiration (MAS), the NICU was notified to be present at the birth.

      4. From the mother’s own account, Ian had Meconium Aspiration Syndrome, developed an infection, was tachypnic, was intubated, had an allergic response to an antibiotic, became pancytopenic and went into organ failure. Nonetheless, the mother erroneously believes his death was due to Hep B vaccination. And you ghouls egg her on.

        Poor baby. Poor family. As for you and your paedophilia accusation, GFY.

        1. “…had an allergic response to an antibiotic”

          Double iatrogeny. Death by doctor squared.

          Then this to boot:

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170CiteNPL

          Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism diagnosis, NHIS 1997-2002.

          “…Boys vaccinated as neonates had threefold greater odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life. Non-Hispanic white boys were 64% less likely to have autism diagnosis relative to nonwhite boys.

          Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates vaccinated with the hepatitis B vaccine prior to 1999 (from vaccination record) had a threefold higher risk for parental report of autism diagnosis compared to boys not vaccinated as neonates during that same time period. ..”

          1. But you can sue for iatrogeny, a motivation for the doctors to pull out a fancy diagnosis in a swift ass-covering maneuver.

          2. The story at iansvoice has been revised a few times but someone archived Mom’s version in 2009: https://www.autisable.com/2009/09/30/ians-voice/

            This baby aspirated stool during birth, had trouble breathing his first day of life, spent most of his time in ICU, developed an infection which caused a fever over 100 degrees by day 5, and had to be intubated to drain the fluid collecting in his abdomen.

            His mother describes that as “healthy as any baby should be.”

            I don’t think the problem is doctors trying to pull out a fancy diagnosis.

          3. Soon after he was born, the doctor’s decided to move Ian to the NICU due to fear of Meconium Aspiration (MAS)

            The baby may or may not have aspirated stool, the doctors weren’t sure.

            Hospital infections are the primary cause of death in intensive care units, therefore, the mere placing a baby in the NICU is, by itself, a health hazard.

            Doctors exposed the baby to that hazard based on suspicions alone, which is a clear medical negligence. They initiated an unnecessary chain of events that ultimately le to the child’s death.

            To top it off, further unnecessary mediccal interventions complicated things further, such as the HepB vaccine. Parents had a very strong case and they won $190,000 in compensation.

          4. “The baby may or may not have aspirated stool, the doctors weren’t sure.”

            Now you’re just being dishonest. In the various versions of this story posted at Age of Autism, Whale,to and other such sites, Gromowski writes “Ian swallowed meconium (his stool) as he came through the birth canal.”

            In other words, Mom’s story vs Your alternate reality.

            The parents received compensation for a “Table Injury.” https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vaccinetable.html

          5. Ian swallowed meconium (his stool) as he came through the birth canal.”

            They’re parroting the doctors. How would they know if not because the doctors told them so?

            “…The parents received compensation for a “Table Injury.”

            The vaccine compensation works like that: Evidence is avoided, otherwise truth-finding would expose vaccines for the danger that they are.

          6. Good catch. I didn’t look for earlier versions.

            Amazing how often that happens. Some of the posters in these comments have serially evolving accounts, as well. What a shame that this behaviour diverts attention and resources from, say, working on supportive services and treatments.

    1. You should all remember when you type the word anti vaxx, you are talking about people like the parents of this child.

      1. Well then, let’s take a closer look at this story.

        It’s the son of Tammy Carrington, Diboll, Texas. Is that what you’re going with?

        1. Actually Tammy Carrington reported the child’s story, my fault.

          Whoever the parents are, the child is real (as you acknowledged) and whoever wrote about him is immaterial.

          1. Which is it, “She reported the child’s story” or “It’s the son of Tammy Carrington, Diboll, Texas.”

            Pick a plot line.

          2. Nice try, pigeon

            I’ve noted the author is a pay per postie. According to the story she wrote, which is unverified, the child had a brain bleed as an infant and is still alive.

            It may very well be true that Jonathan has cerebral palsy, I don’t know.

            So you lied about him being dead. You lied about, “she only reported the child’s story,” and you still haven’t fessed up to where you found the photo.

            Are you saying that photo is, in fact, Jonathan Carrington of Dribolll, TX when he was an infant?

          3. Well, well, Vacuous is revealed to be an out and out liar, and totally unapologetic about it too.
            Figures.

          4. Ha ha ha.

            Four other people saw your original post, not to mention anybody who has notifications turned on.

            Then there’s this:

            “Actually Tammy Carrington reported the child’s story, my fault. Whoever the parents are, the…” — Vacunas Autismo https://disq.us/8zy46u

            “Which is it, ‘She reported the child’s story’ or ‘It’s the son of Tammy Carrington, Diboll, Texas.'” — Ivan https://disq.us/8zy4oe

            Anyone reading this would have to wonder? Why do antivaxxers lie – all the time? Even when caught lying, you lie about that.

          5. Errors aren’t lies, even though you IQ can’t afford to tell the difference.

            The child has been identified, his story verified, your imbecility confirmed.

          6. Saying I photoshopped your original comment is absolutely a lie.

            Most people learn the difference between lies and truth by Kindergarten. You, apparently not.

          7. It matters enough for you to take the trouble of opening a screenshot program, carefully select – by hand – the mattering part of the screen where my nick is, saving the resulting picture in a folder selected by hand, remembering the file name, clicking on the “image upload” button, manually navigating to the directory where my file is and patiently waiting for the upload to complete, then type a respiteful response.

            I would call this LOVE, gay love.

          8. That is Ian. His birth was not smooth – there were several things that went wrong.

            You could make a case regarding malpractice or medical negligence since he was given the very antibiotic he was allergic to.

            Not a vaccine injury though. Next.

          9. It is Ian, but originally the clown was adamant that was Jonathan Carrington.

            Only when Tammy Carrington was shown to be an absolute fraud did he go looking for the real name of the baby in the picture.

        2. This is what I am going with you shill. This is the type of bribed politicians we are dealing with.

          When I heard that Dr. William Reynolds
          Archer, M.D., the Commissioner of Health for the State of Texas made sure that
          all Texas kids were to receive this vaccine, but then exempted his own
          children, I scheduled a conference call with him.

          1. Yeah, sorry. Not done with the son of Tammy Carrington, Diboll, Texas.

            We’ll get to your next lie in a minute.

        3. You can look at this story all you like it’s a free disqus forum. There are thousands more vaccine injury stories just like it that you can look at as well.

          1. No. You said “when you type the word anti vaxx, you are talking about people like the parents of this child.”

            I say, “Okay, then let’s take a look.”

            .

          2. Why. You’re doing such an awesome job I think you need a spotlight, my man.

            Let’s make you the poster boy 😉

          3. Waning immunity is well known and never been hidden with pertussis vaccination – That’s why boosters are recommended!

          4. What you’ve cited, from the epidemiological standpoint, is raw data without the denominator of total number with 3+ vaccinations. The “higher rate” is only the percent of the total cases recorded.

          5. Age Unknown 0 doses 1-2 doses 3+ doses Total
            No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No.
            6-11 mos 282(32) 76(9) 190(22) 327(37) 875
            1-4 yrs 2,099(48) 341(8) 153(3) 1,810(41) 4,403
            5-6 yrs 691(41) 139(8) 36(2) 813(49) 1,679
            Total* 3,072(44) 556(8) 379(6) 2,950(42) 6,957
            Both higher no of cases and higher percent of total cases on the third shot.

          6. However, the “rate” for just those with 3+ vaccinations cannot be calculated without knowing the total number of those in that category.

          7. The no of cases reported in the population is significantly higher after the 3rd shot.
            Are you suggesting the higher no of cases is because the population increased?
            It couldn’t have increased at that rate.

          8. Number cases per WHAT population (denominator) of those with 3 or more Pertussis vaccinations? According to this 2014 data:

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/nis/child/tables/14/tab19_3dtp_race_iap_2014.pdf

            94.7% of 19-35 month old children in the USA have at least 3 doses of the vaccine. If, as your inference appears to be, the vaccine is totally worthless, why are only 41% of the cases in 2014 from that approximate age group (Age 1-4) as reported here:

            https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/downloads/pertuss-surv-report-2014.pdf

            And – unvaccinated (0 doses) and undervaccinated (1-2 doses) represent 11% of the cases while those with less than 3 doses are only 5.3% of the overall population.

          9. I’m done with attempting to explain validation of statistical analysis of incidence versus prevalence as it relates to risk rate calculations to you. Your data above is taken out of context without correlation to the broader context of all applicable data related to the populations like the total number in each group. You wouldn’t post anything like this and make blatant erroneous inferences if you had actually studied bio-statistics and epidemiology!

          1. If you had truth and facts on your side, you wouldn’t hide behind a half dozen sockpuppet accounts and make up “personal stories,” loser.

  8. And now to destroy this editorial nonsense…

    “The long list of pressing issues facing the Legislature for the 2016 session keeps growing: spiraling college costs, unaffordable health care, gun control, deteriorating roads. But the one issue facing all of Colorado that can’t go untended this session is vaccination.”

    The only thing on this list that needs addressing is the roads. College costs are a direct result of the federal monopoly on college loans and the state-run education nonsense that college should be for everyone–which is why the journalism dropouts at the Sentinel spout their garbage. Health care is indeed unaffordable, but that’s a federal problem with federal causes. Gun control? See also the Second Amendment and the individual right to keep and bear arms. Vaccinations? Read on.

    “Colorado regularly ranks worst or near-worst in the nation for vaccination rates, and it’s costing lives, health and millions of dollars.”

    Numbers of costs and deaths? Cite it or bite it. The numbers and costs have to be directly linked, not indirectly or assumed. Of course, no such numbers actually exist, because the statement is completely false.

    “The problem stems from past legislators, succumbing to fake science and political pressure, who were either sympathetic to odd parents who didn’t want to vaccinate their children, or shortsighted in thinking that making it easy to “opt-out” of mandatory vaccines was just no big deal.”

    Fake science? Obviously the editors have no idea how the immune system actually works at any level, and have never bothered to do the research on the DOZENS of published research papers on the effects of the toxins in vaccines on the human body. See also https://experimentalvaccines.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link.pdf. Of course, the actual biochemistry is so far over their head they can’t see the bottom of it, as it is with all of the pro-poison fools, so that’s not surprising. As for political pressure, it’s very simple: We own our bodies and have final say as to what goes in them–not the state. That’s at the very essence and foundation of the freedom we have by birthright–the very same freedom that these morons want to take away in the name of state control because of a boogeyman that they neither understand nor have any affection for, because they think they know best when they truly don’t.

    “The root of most of this building crisis comes from a discredited study run by a discredited doctor to tie autism to childhood vaccinations, and the U.S. media bought the hoax hook, line and sinker, helping to legitimize it. The groundless claim and fake study have since been debunked endless times.”

    Wrong. It’s obvious that they have never read the Wakefield study, which only linked an increase in gastrointestinal issues with autistic children post-vaccine and called for more study. He never claimed that vaccines cause autism. Furthermore, 3 years ago his co-author sued to get his license back and a special master UK medical court not only restored the license, but went through the study case-by-case and validated each and every one of them. So not only has the study NOT been debunked, but it has been CONFIRMED. The editors are simply ignorant of that which they speak. You can read the original Wakefield study and the special master’s exoneration at https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/503.html. You can also see a list of studies that verify Wakefield, some of which predate his study by over two decades in the 70s, at https://healthimpactnews.com/2013/new-published-study-verifies-andrew-wakefields-research-on-autism-again/. Sorry to destroy the argument with pure facts.

    “There is not one reputable pediatrician, pediatric organization, hospital, clinic or researcher that does not vehemently work to debunk the autism lie and beg parents to vaccinate their children.”

    Argument to authority and reputation are false arguments. Try again. Most pediatricians have no clue about the differences in humoral and cellular immunity, how they happen and why, or how the entire immune system works. Instead they rely on the sales pitches of the pharmaceutical companies that sell the toxic shots. Furthermore, some people don’t vaccinate not because of autism, but because they actually have done the research and know what is going on more than the doctor does–and clearly more than these editors.

    “In Colorado, it’s much easier to say that you don’t want to vaccinate children than to prove that you have.”

    As it should be. Freedom of choice is the foundation of all Liberty. It is that Liberty that the editors despise and wish to destroy.

    “Many lawmakers and much of the public erroneously believed that since the bulk of the “herd” was vaccinated against potentially lethal diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough, we’re all protected.”

    Once again, the ignorance shows. Herd immunity does not exist in humoral immunity because it wears off. Herd immunity only exists in cellular immunity, which is permanent and only achieved by contracting the disease in the first place–not from a toxic shot. As such, the previous generations that got measles naturally were perfectly protected, up to 75%, for life. The ones who get the shots have the imperfect humoral immunity wear off in 5 years, hence the call for boosters–because they simply don’t work and neglect the full operation of the immune system, which naturally adapts as part of cellular immunity but not with humoral immunity. Again, that’s the science.

    “They’re wrong. Dead wrong for some people. The incidence of those diseases continues to increase as vaccination rates decline. Last year reports of deaths of people with depressed immune systems sounded an alarm for all of us: Colorado, and the country, is at grave risk.”

    Again, cite it or bite it. Per the San Bernardino County Board of Health, the 2010 Inland Empire pertussis outbreak was 85% in vaccinated individuals. In 2011 it was 81%. Obviously the vaccines aren’t working since that many cases happened. Apparently the pertussis didn’t get the memo from Big Pharma that if the shot was done, they shouldn’t infect. Funny how nature works that way. Besides, being vaccinated does NOT mean that one cannot contract, carry, or transmit the disease, or even be asymptomatic. It’s called vaccine shedding and reacting; look it up and learn. There is no “grave risk,” either–these diseases are completely normal, mild, and quite survivable. It’s only in the ignorant minds of the pro-poison shills that measles and chicken pox are in the same vein as Ebola and cobra bites.

    “One death followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland earlier this year that sickened 100 people, all because foolish, misled, selfish people have avoided childhood vaccination rules.”

    Wrong. That death had nothing to do with the measles itself, but a lethal reaction to the measles shot. And to call those that have educated themselves to protect their children from unnecessary health risks of the toxic shots, up to including death, as “selfish” only displays a complete idiocy born of fear and their own projection of their own selfishness and laziness in not wanting to do what we have–get educated for ourselves and make the decisions for our own health.

    “Real scientists and medical professionals have been unequivocal: The purported danger of childhood vaccines are lies. Dangerous lies.”

    Again, argument to purported reputation is a false argument. See above about pediatricians. Is it a lie that I have seen directly kids go from healthy to living vegetables within hours of vaccines? Is it a lie that the MMR vaccine gave me not autism but encephalopathy and apraxia directly? Is it a lie that the brain’s lymphatic system is negatively affected by vaccines such that it cannot function properly to drain toxins from the drain, including the toxic heavy metals in the adjuvants that pass the blood-brain barrier and directly impact the neural processes? No, it’s no lie. None of it is–except the stupidity and lack of knowledge exhibited by the editors in their lies told here.

    “Colorado must join California in solving an ailing public health problem that’s easy to cure. This summer, California virtually eliminated all exemptions to that state’s childhood vaccination policy.”

    So before, the diseases have returned, meaning they are not cured, but here the claim is made that they can be cured. Make up your mind! However, Colorado doing anything Californicated is a bad idea by definition, but you can’t expect the editors to understand that because they are blinded by their liberal ignorance. Me, lived there and saw it directly, and it’s crap. Public health starts and ends with the individual and their own medical choices as decided by them to be what’s best for them, not some faceless and clueless politician and bureaucrat. Also, the law as passed is subject to referendum by the people of California, and it is likely to be overturned.

    “”The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,”” said Gov. Jerry Brown. “While it’s true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.””

    Citing Governor Moonbeam, who is nowhere near an expert on anything except bad eyebrows, is about as false of an argument to authority as one can get. Try again.

    “California now requires every child who attends a public school or college to undergo vaccination. Colorado must do the same thing to prevent death and disease caused by irresponsible and reckless parents.”

    Again, it’s subject to referendum, and only applies to public schools, and is on its face unconstitutional. But to hear the editors spew, right now without such law, you’d think kids in Colorado are dropping dead in the streets from measles, mumps, and chicken pox. Not happening. The irresponsible ones here are the editors for their nonsense and shilliness.

    “The state cannot command these vaccinations, but lawmakers certainly can force scofflaws to stay away from public programs and venues. Schools, rec centers, colleges, day cares and employers should all demand that people comply with vaccination programs.”

    Nope. The First Amendment right to peaceably assemble is not limited to those with vaccines. But again, the editors hate freedom, so their seditious position is not surprising.

    “A sorry response by Colorado lawmakers earlier this year does nothing but increase reporting of vaccination rates and make it only slightly less easy to not vaccinate school-age children.”

    Sorry response to support freedom? Try again.

    “It’s almost unthinkable that a country like the United States would slide back decades in health care progress, risking the lives of millions of Americans potentially exposed to diseases we nearly eradicated — because of lies, laziness or ignorant fear.”

    None of the diseases the editors are complaining about are lethal to 99% of the population, yet the companies pushing them have killed more people than the diseases themselves. My life is not at risk because of potentially getting the measles–but it is at risk from causing an immune system imbalance from being forced to inject toxins into my bloodstream. Perhaps the editors would be better suited to research (assuming they know how)how the drugs of Big Pharma kill people. They can start with Vioxx.

    “But parents still won’t listen and comply. So the only answer is to change the law. Follow California’s lead here and prevent needless death and disease here in Colorado.”

    Here they finally admit their agenda: compliance with their point of view, no matter how ignorant it is, and to hell with anyone making their own decisions and choices because these elitist idiots know more than we do. Well, got news for you editors: You don’t, you never have, and you never will. So you can do us all a favor, and freedom itself a favor, by simply engaging in the other part of the First Amendment by simply shutting up until you get a clue.

    1. I don’t see anything in the comment here that supports the claim that protecting children from disease via vaccines is not a good idea.

      1. That’s because I never said that, outside of the proven claim that vaccines don’t work. Of course, if you want to poison your kids, assuming someone was stupid enough to dilute the gene pool with your defects, then go right ahead. But for the rest of us who are educated and know what we’re talking about, we will exercise our freedom of choice, which you are so desperately and pathologically trying to take away.

          1. Safer from what? Normal disease that kids get that create permanent immunity?

            Is that it? You fear permanent immunity?

          2. You want children to get hib, polio, diphtheria and so on? to get natural immunity you have to get the disease.

          3. Yep, you fear natural immunity. Polio still exists and has been relabeled. Hib, aka, the flu, is natural. Flu shots are crap shoots. Diptheria? This ain’t Russia. Most cases of these that cause natural immunity are asymptomatic and mild at best. You idiots think that every case kills, and you simply have no clue.

          4. Sigh. I think someone who confuses hib (a bacterial illness) with influenza (a viral one) and dismisses the risks of diphtheria, a disease that kills 10% even with treatment, is not someone people should get vaccine advice from.

          5. Spoken like a true idiot. Hib is Haemophilus influenzae type B. It’s the flu. Not all flus are viral. But you’re too stupid to know that.

          6. Just passing by….

            But here is my 2cents: the only plausible explanation is that Tannim works for a vaccine company and is deliberately
            trying to make the anti-vaccs out as morons…

            …because no one could possibly be so stupid as to believe his/her postings on Hib. No one…

            https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/gram-negative-bacilli/haemophilus-infections

            https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/flu/basics/definition/con-20035101

            W&N

          7. Boy are you dumb! Haemophilus influenzae B is indeed a bacteria.
            https://www_cdc_gov/hi-disease/
            “Haemophilus influenzae (including Hib) is a bacterium that can
            cause a severe infection, occurring mostly in infants and children
            younger than five years of age. It can cause lifelong disability and be
            deadly. In spite of its name, Haemophilus influenzae bacteria do not cause influenza (the “flu”).”

          8. Hib is bacterial. Influenza is viral. They are different things.

            “Haemophilus influenzae is a cause of bacterial infections that are often severe, particularly among infants. It was first described by Pfeiffer in 1892. During an outbreak of influenza he found the bacteria in sputum of patients and proposed a causal association between this bacterium and the clinical syndrome known as influenza. The organism was given the name Haemophilus by Winslow, et al. in 1920. It was not until 1933 that Smith, et al. established that influenza was caused by a virus and that H. influenzae was a cause of secondary infection.

            In the 1930s, Margaret Pittman demonstrated that H. influenzae could be isolated in encapsulated and unencapsulated forms. She identified six capsular types (a-f), and observed that virtually all isolates from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood were of the capsular type b.

            Before the introduction of effective vaccines, H. influenzae type b (Hib) was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis and other invasive bacterial disease among children younger than 5 years of age; approximately one in 200 children in this age group developed invasive Hib disease. Nearly all Hib infections occurred among children younger than 5 years of age, and approximately two-thirds of all cases occurred among children younger than 18 months of age.”

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/hib.html

          9. “Spoken like a true idiot. Hib is Haemophilus influenzae type B. It’s the flu.”

            Please stop before your own stupidity overwhelms the entire internet.
            Haemophilus influenzae is a bacterium. The Genus is Haemophilus, the Species name is influenzae. There are other Species, like parainfluenzae. The bacteria belong to the Family Pasteurellaceae.

            This taxonomic definition of the bacterium does not imply that the bacterium actually IS influenza disease.
            Haemophilus was erroneously thought to be the cause of Influenza in the early part of last century, hence the name.

            However in the 1930s a group of viruses were discovered which were proved to be the real cause of Influenza, and subdivided into 3 types, A, B and C. There are types of virus similar to Influenza which are named Parainfluenza, as well as many other viruses that cause respiratory illness. However, only Influenza viruses cause “Flu”. Everything else causes “Flu-like illness”.

            I appreciate this may be hard for a layperson to grasp without any microbiological background, but please take the time to look up these things for yourself (even Wikipedia can explain) before calling others who clearly know far more than you do “idiots” and “stupid”.

          10. And the same thing applies to Parapertussis vs Pertussis.

            Pertussis = Whooping Cough.

            Parapertussis = Whooping-Cough like.

            Heard of copycat killers? Just as Jack The Ripper isn’t the same person as the Yorkshire Ripper, there are copycat illnesses.

          11. Please read John barry ” the great influenza…..”

            He has a very good discussion about the errors in thinking that attibuted flu to a bacterial cause….

          12. The diphtheria vaccine targets the toxin, not the bacteria. This means that, regardless of the vaccination coverage, the bacteria circulates undeterred. A vaccinated chld only “protects” (theoretically) itself, not others, “herd immunity” does not apply to this vaccine.

            The WHO and CDC recommend boosters every 10 years because that’s how fast vaccine antibodies wane. Only a minority of adults follow such recommendation, which means the adult population at large is EXPOSED. With the bacteria circulating freely, why aren’t the corpses littering the streets? what is preventing an diphtheria epidemic? certainly some factors that are not the vaccine.

          13. Diphtheria vaccine does target the toxin, but the toxin gives the bacteria a colonization advantage – hence the vaccine does provide herd immunity. That’s why we saw outbreaks when immunization rates dropped in East Europe: as you point out, in very few population everyone is up to date, but high enough rates provide herd immunity.

          14. Snort! Do you see hospitals full of kids on respirators (today’s equivalent of iron lungs)? Do you see kids in braces? Polio hasn’t been renamed, bub. The “natural” flu has caused 4 pediatric deaths so far this year, and it’s been a mild season. Death from flu vaccines this year? Zero.

          15. There are actually 10 listed deaths from the flu vaccine (2015).

            VAERS ID: 564751 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUMIST QUADRIVALENT)

            VAERS ID: 565640 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE)

            VAERS ID: 601733 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE QUADRIVALENT)

            VAERS ID: 604092 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (NO BRAND NAME)

            VAERS ID: 604906 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUARIX QUADRIVALENT)

            VAERS ID: 605086 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUCELVAX)

            VAERS ID: 605991 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE)

            VAERS ID: 608222 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE QUADRIVALENT)

            VAERS ID: 608707 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE HIGH-DOSE)

            VAERS ID: 609504 INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUVIRIN)

          16. Good, if they said the reports implied lack of causation then I’d begin to worry.

            Reports are the best existing indicator of a problem with vaccines. It is sad VAERS reporting has been made passive rather than mandatory (as is the case with infectious disease) in order to intentionally hide the real dimension of the problem from public view.

          17. Sure, it is a passive system for tracking adverse reactions. No system is perfect and I am sure you appreciate that.

            You seem like a reasonable person, Colin. Perhaps you could explain a bit more why the Vaccine Safety Datalink is not allowed to be viewed by parents.

          18. It’s not my field, but my understanding was that large datasets like the VSD have to be carefully searched to avoid violating the privacy of the people whose records are included. Proposals for access have to be screened for HIPAA compliance as far as I know. How would you open that up to the general public without blowing away patient privacy?

          19. The identifying information could be easily blacked out.
            That’s not informed consent, to hide problems.

          20. Nothing is hidden. These are health databases of healthcare providers which include full records of patients. Blacking out information from such records isn’t as simple as you seem to think. So access to the records themselves is limited. But researchers can use them to analyze and look for problems, and the studies are public.

          21. Easily? What’s your experience with working with complex data sets? I suspect you’re just making a convenient assumption here. HIPAA isn’t that easy to evade.

          22. That’s interesting.
            Why wouldn’t a parent be able to see what problems have been reported with a Vaccine.

          23. We see results of adjudicated settlements from Vaccine Court, without it.
            The same could be done to allow parents to see the reports of adverse events within identifying info.

          24. “Perhaps you could explain a bit more why the Vaccine Safety Datalink is not allowed to be viewed by parents.”
            The VSD publish results/reports regularly.
            There are ways for researchers to gain access to the database, but there are hoops to jump through to ensure the data are appropriately used and confidentiality maintained.
            John, I am sure you can appreciate that parents would not wish their children’s data to be viewed and spread across the internet by just anyone.
            Valid proposals to access the data will be granted, but if you really wish to know more about their regulations I suggest you ask them.
            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/data-sharing-guidelines.html

          25. Here are two other deaths reported to VAERS.

            VAERS #379570: “…patient accidentally fell in open well (granite quarry filled with water), drowned and expired. This event occurred 49 days of receiving first dose of GARDASIL.”

            This would count as a death from Gardasil.

            VAERS ID: 495494-1 “Vaccine recipient started to bleed on both hands and walked over a filled bathtub.”

            This would count as a death from MMR.

            VAERS report do not show a vaccine killed anyone, not without investigation. Suggesting they do is a misuse of the system.

          26. Here’s a little test of literacy:

            Please go here:
            vaers.hhs(dot)gov/data/index
            and read the first sentence of the VAERS data page.
            What does it say?
            “When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established.

            Please tell the class what you interpret that statement to mean about raw VAERS data.

            Raw VAERS data cannot be used to say a vaccine caused anything.
            Those who try to pass off VAERS data as fact are lying to you or are completely illiterate ignoramuses. That whole VAERS entry webpage is one massive warning to not do what Jeffry is doing here.

            Readers should ask:
            What part of “no cause-and-effect relationship has been established” do anti-vaccine cultists not understand?
            Are they all illiterate or merely outrageous liars?

          27. NCVIP? Did you mean NVIC?
            Babs Low Fisher’s NVdisIC does have a portal:
            https://www.medalerts.org/
            that dishonestly bypasses the VAERS warning and disclaimer page and never mentions the limitations of VAERS data since Babs’ main weapon against specific vaccines is a tally of VAERS reports which she represents as indicative of how dangerous the vaccine is.

            In my opinion she is a complete fraud and one of the most dishonest people in the anti-vaccine cult.
            My recommendation is that VAERS cut off NVIC access to their data until they reproduce the VAERS disclaimers about the data.
            (BTW – Babs’ IT man testified during the SB277 hearings that he designed the portal and then he used dishonest raw VAERS data to dishonestly impugn the safety of vaccines. Somebody let Dr. Pan know of this lying dishonesty by the NVIC so I’m sure NVIC and Babs were the brunt of many a joke and disdain behind closed doors.)

          28. I wonder if any of the anti-vaccine/anti-coerced people can explain how rinderpest was eradicated.

            It’s gone. Meaning zero risk from either choice – what do they think happened there?

          29. I picked a couple at random.
            First one was an infant. Apart from Fluzone, he had DTaP.
            So which of the 4 vaccines are you going to blame? Just the Flu, or another one or all of them?
            PS: These were the “Preexisting Conditions” of the case: Cerebral palsy; Dystonia; Ischemic Encephalopathy; Central Vision Improvement; Microcephaly. Complex PMH following anoxic/ischemic brain injury at birth. Hx seizures, weaned off anticonvulsants.

            Second one was a 65 year old man with ischaemic heart disease, who died from a myocardial infarction.

            I think medical verification that the vaccines were causal in these cases would be necessary before drawing any conclusions.

          30. No, polio has not been relabelled.
            In the 1950s around 20,000 kids developed paralysis from polio each year. Many hundreds of these required long term ventilatory support on iron lungs. The overall incidence was actually rising until vaccines kicked in.

            I will admit that some cases of illness similar to polio may have been mistakenly attributed to it back then, but not 20,000 cases each year.

            And if polio merely was given another name, then why did paralysis from it plummet so that within a couple of years there were no more cases, and hospitals mothballed all their iron lungs?

          31. The proof that polio has been relabled is the Indian case. The total cases of paralysis before and after the massive WHO vaccination campaign has risen by an excess of 40.000 despite the country being declared “polio free”.

            https://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/110/1065
            Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on.
            Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.

            The oral polio vaccinations has had two effects:

            1. Increasing the incidence of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP),
            2. Renaming “polio” away as AFP by restricting the diagnostic criteria until they’re impossible to meet.

          32. “The proof that polio has been relabled [sic] is the Indian case.”
            It would help if you sourced reliable evidence rather than antivaccine websites and comments from antivaccine activists.

            India was hyperendemic for polio, and in the 1980s a drive was brought in (Expanded Program for Immunisation, EPI) to help try and eradicate the disease, later pushed through this century in the form of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734678/

            Cases of paralysis in the 1980s were running up to 1000 per day (>300,000 per year), and following the initiatives above it has finally been eradicated with the last case in 2011.

            There have always been cases where paralysis was caused by other viruses (Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis, NPAFP), the important point here being that these cases are NOT due to Polio viruses, since under the GPEI all reported cases of paralysis have virological testing undertaken.

            The reasons that NPAFP cases have appeared to increase is that on the back of the GPEI programme, the authorities undertook intensive nation-wide surveillance for any cases of possible polio, so detection of what would have been undiagnosed or misdiagnosed cases due to other viruses went up. But these are due to other viruses, hence the name NON-POLIO AFP, of course.

            So this is not relabelling at all, just identification of paralysis cases NOT due to polio. I’d also be interested in your explanation as to why polio cases declined from highs of 300,000 cases of paralysis each year before the vaccination initiatives, to what you insist are the “relabelled” 40,000 cases now. Where did the other 260,000 cases go?

          33. Only one simple question, slogan slinger, how did the diagnostic criteria in 1980 tell between NPAFP and polio which are clinically indistinguishable? (hint: it didn’t).

          34. Nope – another major math fail, Mr Vacant.
            300,000 cases of paralysis before vaccination, 47,000 after.
            Why the difference?

          35. 47,000 excess cases, dumbo. That means 47,000 ABOVE what was considered “normal” NPAFP before.

          36. No, there were supposedly 47,000 cases in total, not 347,000 cases, according to your own reference.
            Didn’t you bother to read it?

          37. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/Supplement_1/S16.2

            TRENDS IN NONPOLIO ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS INCIDENCE IN INDIA 2000 TO 2013

            “…Nationwide, the NPAFP rate is 11.82 per 100 000 population, whereas the expected rate is 1 to 2 per 100 000 population.”

            10x the expected NPAFP rate means former “polio” is now diagnosed as NPAFP. The 10x excess cases cannot come out of the blue, as you nitwits pretend.

            A blatant reclassification: we bring on the vaccine and simultaneously restrict the definition of the disease and… voila! a miracle vaccine!

            Then this to boot:

            CONCLUSIONS:

            The incidence of NPAFP was strongly associated with the number of OPV doses delivered to the area.

            Wow! another “medical miracle” accomplished by the WHO!

          38. If the following were true, it would be significant:

            The fact that the total incidence of NPAFP after the vaccination campaign is HIGHER than the incidence of old “polio + NPAFP” combined proves the old “polio” was indeed NPAFP.

            The problem is, the statement is completely false! Before the vaccination, there were (as Dr Stevens points out) something on the order of 300,000 (I’ve seen even higher estimates) annual cases of polio-induced paralysis in India. And that doesn’t count acute flaccid paralysis that was already identified as not from polio! (Contrary to what antivaxers claim, diseases like GBS can often be differentiated from polio without lab tests; I don’t know the extent to which Indian doctors made these diagnoses).

            Now, not only is the number of cases much lower, it’s far from clear that 47,000 represents an annual caseload, or is the sum of several years’.

            So as Dr Stevens asked, where did the 260,000 other cases go? (Hint: the polio vaccine eliminated them, just as it did elsewhere i the world.)

          39. Again, before vaccination there was no way to tell whether paralisis was caused by poliovirus or by any cause of NPAFP simply because their clinical presentations are THE SAME and the diagnosis was exclusively based on clinical presentation. Therefore the estimates include any cause of AFP.

            The fact that once virological confirmation was in place (post-vaccination) and there was no poliovirus but the total AFP remained the same, exposes the truth that the “polio epidemic” was just NPAFP.

          40. The clinical presentations are not always the same. How well doctors did differentiating the less common causes from polio is not, of course, clear, but GBS was identified 50 years before the polio vaccine, so somebody was getting diagnosed with it.

            The best(!) argument you can make here is that the polio vaccine has only reduced AFP by 85%. Is that your point?

          41. The reason incidence was directly proportional to doses received is that those were the people getting lab tests for poliovirus. The Indian doctors you like so much are rural doctors resentful that the big Western aid money went to a targeted campaign and not to general medicine (like their hospital).

            This is a very odd swindle that your own source has a circa 85% reduction in AFP (the more so that the 47,000 number appears to be from a multi-year campaign, but I’ve read inconsistent number on this).

            Let’s just take your numbers, though: why is it bad to trade 300,000 cases of paralysis for 47,000 cases?

          42. The reason incidence was directly proportional to doses received is that those were the people getting lab tests for poliovirus.

            Exactly! By the pre-vaccine definition those cases would still be “polio cases” and the vaccine would be exposed as a total FAIL.

            Glad you finally got how the scam works.

          43. “…why is it bad to trade 300,000 cases of paralysis for 47,000 cases?”

            300,000 cases, as you all said, were “estimates”. Comparing imaginary figures with figures that are confirmed is stupid an leads to stupid conclusions.

          44. Estimates vs imaginary. Nice trope there.

            Do you note even your source doesn’t have the temerity to claim there is no decrease in paralysis? That’s a Western antivax add-on, because in India it would have been a cause for hilarity. See also here.

            We had over 20,000 cases of polio-induced paralysis in the USA in 1952. Good luck finding where those are hidden today. (Hint: there isn’t enough NFAFP in America to compensate, especially since your claim no one could diagnose less common causes of AFP pre-vaccine is simply made up. How do you think GBS was ever identified in the first place?)

          45. Who in their right minds would change the diagnostic criteria in the middle of a medical intervention, except to make such intervention appear successful?

            That is the gist of the matter. You’ve seen it and you understand it but you can’t just let go of your pride and admit it’s all scam.

          46. “…We had over 20,000 cases of polio-induced paralysis in the USA in 1952. “

            The U.S. had 20,000 cases of paralysis, full stop. Cases were not lab tested for poliovirus at the time, therefore you can’t claim poliovirus was the cause.

            There were dozens of possible causes, including organophosphorate compounds generously used over people, food and property at the time.

          47. Very nice citation, thanks for posting it. It’s clearly written, complete and understandable by the lay public. I hadn’t seen it before.

          48. You want children to get Guillain-Barré, autommune diseases (ASIA spectrum) or even death? These are incurable for life, not the mild chld diseases targetted by the vax industry.

            Perricone C, Colafrancesco S, Mazor RD, Soriano A, Agmon-Levin N, Shoenfeld Y. – Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) 2013: Unveiling the pathogenic, clinical and diagnostic aspects. – J Autoimmun. 2013 Dec

          49. Ooooh! A YouTube vid!

            I am going to make some popcorn and get comfy.. and.. suspend my disbelief so’s I can enjoy the moving pictures!

          50. What matters is the scientific community.

            The medical communty does not practices science, for the criteria to diagnose and treat disease varies from country to country whereas science is universal and repeatable.

          51. It is clear that the incidence of these problems following natural disease is significant. Guillan-Barre follows natural influenza, and other viral and bacterial infections. Natural infections can trigger autoimmunity.
            The rate at which the natural diseases do this is much much greater than the risks from the vaccines.

            For instance, GBS following a flu-like illness is over 16 times more common than GBS after a flu vaccination.
            Autoimmune phenomena like immune thrombocytopenia is many more times likely to follow natural rubella than it is to follow MMR vaccine.

          52. The frequency of GBS following vax is less than 1 in a million.
            Yet I see from the first response to that anecdote you linked to was from our old friend Cia Parker, who boldly states:
            “This happened to both of my parents.”

            The plausibility of these fevered imaginings is zero.

          53. Oh, Good Grief Grace! You’re really reaching now! How many people do you know laid up with GBS symptoms? Huh? Huh?

          54. You are far more likely to develop gbs from campylobacter gisease or wild influenza than as a consequence of vaccination. In other words vaccination is prophylactic against gbs.

          55. Since Vaccine reactions often aren’t reported I don’t think that can be assessed at this time.
            Hopefully that can be changed.

          56. Not the answer to the question. I know of one person who got GBS, and it wasn’t from a flu shot. Vaccine court has very low standards of “proof”, AND YOU KNOW IT! You just continue to lie, Grace.

          57. Never happens.
            1/5/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 09-657V $300,000
            1/5/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-133V $80,000
            1/5/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-986V $70,000
            1/8/2015 Influenza (Flu) Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 14-158V $120,000
            1/12/2015 Influenza (Flu) Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-802V $165,000
            1/13/2015 TDaP Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 14-209V $100,000
            1/14/2015 Flu Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-73V $234,500
            1/14/2015 Influenza (Flu) Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-828V $75,000
            1/29/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-228V $140,000
            2/4/2015 Flu Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-274V $807,000
            2/6/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), Chronic Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Case No. 13-768V $583,681
            2/10/2015 Influenza Vaccine, TDaP Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 11-760V $500,000
            2/11/2015 Tdap, Menactra Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-374V $100,000
            2/12/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-561V $131,464
            3/11/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 14-813V $225,000
            3/12/2015 Influenza Vaccine Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 13-726V $400,000

          58. What do you mean “never happens”? DId I say that?

            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program-facts/
            With a few exceptions, on every one of those points the process in NVICPis as easy or easier as the process in regular courts. In other words, it is a much better option for those with provable claims of vaccine injuries (though for a family with a suffering child it may not feel friendly – especially if family members are not familiar with the
            regular courts, or have a weak case). Let’s go through these one by one, and address their application to Holmes, as far as we can from the facts presented.
            A. In NVICP, a petitioner does not have a to show a product defect. …The fact that NVICP waives this requirement allows many petitioners who would have no chance in the regular courts to go forward.
            B. The program still requires that the petitioner meet the causation requirements it set.
            1. Showing a table injury.
            2. Off-Table injuries: today, most claims are not on the table of injuries. …For those, petitioners need to show that more likely than not the
            vaccine caused their harm. The standard they have to meet, however, is
            still less demanding than in the regular courts.

            And so on. I presume you can read, or get someone to read it to you.

          59. “…Natural infections can trigger autoimmunity

            Therefore artificial infections (vaccines) can trigger it as well.

            Vaccines add an additional, stronger factor of autoimmunity in the form of adjuvants.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23557271

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (Shoenfeld’s syndrome): clinical and immunological spectrum.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24238833

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) 2013: Unveiling the pathogenic, clinical and diagnostic aspects.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24238833

            Autoimmune (auto-inflammatory) syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA)–animal models as a proof of concept.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20708902

            ‘ASIA’ – autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants.

          60. As pointed out by Dorit above/below, ASIA is a faked conceptual syndrome, it does not exist.
            I have already said some vaccines can induce autoimmune phenomena (eg ITP), the point being that they do so far less frequently than do the natural infections themselves.
            So vaccination is preferable to infection, always.

          61. Why should anyone believe that your unsubstantiated denial of ASIA is anything more than a knee-jerk canned slogan?

            Do you know what adjuvants are for? overstimulating immune responses, shills, with all the risks of autoimmunity involved!

          62. It’s not my “unsubstantiated denial” of ASIA, it is reference to a systematic review that was undertaken looking at all the published evidence for the syndrome.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25794485

            Since the initial paper, over 80 publications have discussed ASIA. This systematic review examines the research that has been done to investigate whether ASIA is a broad umbrella term with little clinical significance, or whether there is some underlying mechanism which could be utilised to reduce the occurrence of adjuvant mediated disease. Twenty-seven animal, epidemiological and case studies were reviewed. Unfortunately, a robust animal model of ASIA using biologically relevant doses of adjuvants has yet to be defined. It is also apparent that the broadness of the current ASIA criteria lack stringency and, as a result, very few cases of autoimmune disease could be excluded from a diagnosis of ASIA. The current studies involving human cases are so diverse, in both external stimuli and in resulting conditions, that there is currently a lack of reproducible evidence for any consistent relationship between adjuvant and autoimmune condition.

          63. You don’t seem to understand a basic fact. The diseases are dangerous. We wish our kids to avoid getting them, so they don’t suffer illness.
            If the diseases are harmless or trivial, as you seem to think, then nobody would care about whether our kids had immunity to them, and whether this lasted a long time or not, would they?

            The whole point of a vaccine is so that we can give them immunity without ever having the dangerous disease. Letting a child gain immunity from catching the disease is irrational.

          64. THE diseases? ALL of then? equally and for everybody in all circumstances?
            funny how people didn’t worry about the mmr/v group when we grew up, mikey.

          65. MMR/V diseases weren’t thought of as a huge problem, only because the 1000 or so deaths a year from them paled into insignificance compared with the tens of thousands of deaths from polio, diphtheria, pertussis and the like.
            Now, thanks to vaccines, we don’t have to worry much about any of these.
            I realise you and your anti vax ilk are working overtime to try and bring back the bad old days, but you will battle in vain.

          66. What sort of permanent immunity do you think you will get with exposure to Clostridium tetani? I guess death will guarantee that you or yours never suffers that agony again. Maternal and neonatal tetanus (NT) deaths were a huge problem that is being solved by vaccination and improved hygiene during delivery. The improved hygiene for births is still not possible when safe drinking water is still just a dream for many areas of the world. “WHO estimates that in 2013 (the latest year for which estimates are available), 49,000 newborns died from NT, a 94% reduction from the situation in the late 1980s.”

          67. Just because you personally struggle to understand a concept, doesn’t mean that the method of action of the tetanus vaccine is not known. Natural immunity to tetanus toxin, like survival from rabies, has been observed, but is extremely rare.

          68. Wow. Do try to keep up, sabel. In a discussion about permanent immunity, I was pointing out that tetanus infection does not result in permanent immunity. Given the extreme rarity of naturally acquired immunity that has been noted, the only effective immunity we have to the tetanus toxin is through the vaccine. If you want to roll the dice and hope that natural immunity will somehow miraculously kick in if you suffer a puncture wound and some of that ubiquitous C. tetani enters the wound, that is your choice. Just make sure that your medical and burial insurance are up to date so the taxpayer isn’t stuck with your bills.

          69. all i said was ”which is why it’s so hard to understand how the tetanus vaccine works.” regarding the lack of natural immunity. you merrily assumed away from that but at least you got 2 wordy comments in based on that and will eat today.

          70. You raised a point that if there is no natural immunity, then a vaccine couldn’t possibly work. In other words, you were trying to spread misinformation. In the case of tetanus and diphtheria, the toxin released by the infection works very quickly and overwhelms the body before the immune system can mount a defence. Dead or dying people don’t fight off infection. Presenting the immune system with the inactivated toxin in the vaccine in advance gives the immune system a chance to remember the exposure and mount a defence when it encounters the active toxin.
            Nice working in of that very tired accusation that I am doing this for money. Of course, no one could possibly disagree with your beliefs unless they have been paid. Too bad that falling back on that accusation just proves that you not only have an overinflated ego, but that you have no evidence to back your claims. No one could pay me enough to wade into your sewer of misinformation. I am doing this so the next generation doesn’t have to roll the dice with diseases that you are trying so hard to bring back.

          71. Not with myself, but posting for the fence sitters who may be reading the comments. You are a lost cause that would never be convinced by evidence. But it is important that others who may be questioning vaccination don’t fall down your rabbit hole of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

          72. Also, MMR diseases along with Polio are candidates for eradication – this means gone from circulating in the wild world-wide. GONE!

            That means ZERO RISK from EITHER CHOICE. ZERO RISK FROM EITHER CHOICE – we can HAVE THAT.

            The forefathers could hold still for smallpox vaccine which was far more dangerous than today’s vaccines although still much safer than smallpox.

            As a result, it’s gone from the wild and is only in a few labs and only the military need get vaccinated for it – we can do the same thing for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Polio.

            There’s no way to pay the forefathers back for doing that for us but we can make it so that generations after us don’t have to risk either choice unless they choose to go into the military. It’s that simple.

          73. Alright – one lion with claws in a condition to kill you versus six standard kittens which are well…quite obviously known not to exactly be the strongest animals in the world

            Which attack are you more likely to survive – the one lion or the six kittens?

          74. Just answer the question, sabelmouse and you’ll find out what my point is.

            1 lion vs you . Six kittens vs you.

            Which fight are you more likely to survive?

          75. You’ve never shown yourself to be particularly earnest in these discussions, Sabelmouse.

            Took me but a few seconds to find the following..

            “How the tetanus vaccine works”

            … …

            Your post does underscore just how little you know. comprehend and understand, though. And does explain away your nonsensical posts/comments in these discussions.

          76. Appealing to “herd immunity” while more that 90% of the population at any given moment is not immunized is very short-sighted, to say it mildly. Not only vaccine-antibodies are not proven to prevent disease, but they also WANE in anything from 2 to 10 years depending on the vaccine.

          77. I’m not sure what you base your claim on. Of course vaccines are shown to prevent disease. They don’t get out of clinical trials without that. And immunity for many vaccines is long term.

          78. Vaccine-induced antibodies have not been proven to be protective. Trials
            with clinical endponts are necessary and they do not exist.

          79. “90% of the population at any given moment is not immunized”
            In literal terms that may be true, but that is only because many have immunity from previous natural exposure. For instance I have never been vaccinated against measles, but I am immune because I had it as an infant.

            All that is required to protect against a disease is for a proportion of the population to be sufficiently immune to limit the onward spread of that infection.
            For diseases like measles the figure is around 93%, for mumps it’s around 80% and so on.
            Everyone who has responded to these vaccines will have long term immunity, and those born before the vaccines were introduced will likely have had natural infection, bestowing long term immunity also.

          80. Vaccine-induced antibodies have not been proven to be protective. Trials with clinical endponts are necessary and they do not exist.

            Secondly, whether protective or not, vaccine-induced antibodies WANE in anything from 2 to 10 years depending on the vaccine. Therefore if natural infection does contribute to lifelong immunity and herd immunity, vaccines can not.

          81. “Vaccine-induced antibodies have not been proven to be protective.”
            Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you have any?

            “vaccine-induced antibodies WANE in anything from 2 to 10 years depending on the vaccine.”
            Yes, duration of vaccine-induced immunity varies. In clinical terms, it is shortest for pertussis vaccine (4-12 years), as opposed to the waning of natural pertussis immunity which is about 7-15 years).
            For live virus vaccines like measles it is likely life long, and also for other vaccines like Hepatitis B.

          82. “…Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you have any?”

            Here, undocumented shill:

            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X01002882

            “…It is known that, in many instances, antigen-specific antibody titers do not correlate with protection.

            so you always have to prove that your vaccine’s antibodies provide actual clincal protection, whether antigen-specific or not. You cannot just assume “YES” as the default position!

            This vaccine pusher, instead of proving his own dogmas requires me to prove them wrong! (Probatio diabolica). The burden of proving vaccine-induces antibodies provide protection is on you!

          83. Hmmm.. a throw away remark that antigen-specific antibody titres don’t always correlate with protection. That is true, but it doesn’t imply that antibody levels have not been proven to be protective, as was your very specific claim.

            You see, the way this “evidential claims” thing works is that all I have to do to show you are wrong is produce evidence where antibody levels HAVE been protective, not for you to show that sometimes they haven’t. Capiche?
            Like here for instance:
            https://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/200/9/1390.full
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8712168
            https://hospitals.unm.edu/mds/unmch/research/documents/pertussis.pdf

          84. And of course, even if this weren’t the case, it’s nothing that we can’t fix.
            Boosters + PSA campaign to remind people to get them. Done.

          85. You’re telling us that your vaccines do not work unless I take the same vaccines. In the same breath you tell us vaccines are effective. You want to have your cake and eat it but liers are eposed by the contradictions in their discourse.

          86. “… is a spectrum between perfect and useless”

            And your remarks lie on the rightmost side of that spectrum.

          87. Oh the vicim that just called me “irrational” is bleeding!

            How bitter is your own medicine, isn’t it?

          88. Not bleeding at all. Just pointing out that there are certain things that don’t change facts: Insults and tantrums? Two of them.

          89. “.. Just pointing out that there are certain things that don’t change facts: Insults and tantrums..

            So yours an insult, a tantrum or both?

            In any case – as per yourself – it didn’t refute my point that was:

            You’re telling us that your vaccines do not work unless I take the same
            vaccines. In the same breath you tell us vaccines are effective.

            and is still valid.

      2. You missed the comment from the gentleman who said his child was injured by a Vaccine.
        Go read it a few more times so it sinks in.

        1. Jeffry John Aufderheide, the same gentleman who lied about his career in the Navy, also lies about his autistic child being a victim of vaccine injury.

          Read it a few more times so it sinks in.

          1. So call it whatever you fancy.
            Vaccines can and do cause brain and neurological damage in some children.

  9. Thanks to the editors of the Aurora Sentinel for this hard hitting, no punches pulled, editorial.
    The opinions expressed are quite correct and the “call a spade, a spade” frankness is very refreshing.
    It has, of course, stirred the hornets nest of the anti-science, anti-vaccine cult who are now babbling their delusional conspiracy theories and uneducated, low information opinions on the subject.

    As the editorial states, “Real scientists and medical professionals have been unequivocal: The purported danger of childhood vaccines are lies. Dangerous lies.”

    QED.

    1. I suggest you read the utter destruction of their bullmanure below. Hard-hitting? Try finger-poking? No punches pulled? Try no punches thrown. Correct? Not even close.

    2. The unanimity of scientific opinion is striking here. There aren’t any neurologists I”m aware of who accept the supposed link between vaccines and autism, or any epidemiologists, or any practicing immunologists. The few doctors who disagree (like Sears) make serious money from pandering to anti-vaccine parents, a conflict of interest that anti-vax commenters overlook with perfect regularity.

      1. Autism is poorly defined. It usually refers to the consequences of brain malfunction that start early in life. Since vaccines can cause brain damage and kids are pumped with vaccines early in life, it is highly plausible (practically unavoidable) that vaccines are behind many of the so-called “autism” cases.

        1. Only…vaccines don’t “cause brain damage” and kids aren’t “pumped with vaccines”.

          Start with a faulty premise, end up with a faulty conclusion.

          1. Read one of the countless studies that prove vaccines do not cause autism. Vacunas Autismo, autism is actually pretty well defined and understood quite a bit more than you think. I’ve worked at one of the best institutions, (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), with one of the largest autism research centers for over 11 years. It’s very very clear that vaccines do not cause autism. The physician who started this entire trend of blaming vaccines did so with a very poorly constructed, small and ultimately skewed research study. Eventually several of the 12 participants withdrew their claims and admitted it was basically fabricated. He lost his license to practice because of the fraud and damage he caused. If you knew anything about vaccine and prescription drug research you would know that your argument is invalid and baseless.

          2. “…Read one of the countless studies that prove vaccines do not cause autism.”

            Yeah, start by studying the credentials of one prominent author of such papers, the infamous Paul Thorsen, wanted by Interpol, then try to repeat the word “prove” without your face turning into concrete.

            quote from FORBES:

            “…Thorsen as the mastermind of a fraud to convince people that vaccines are not causative in autism….Thorsen allegedly stole a lot of money. The money came from more than $11 million that the CDC granted to two Danish government agencies for research into autism and vaccines…”

          3. First, you claim you “aren’t ignorant” because you don’t get your info from media sources. Then you start quoting media opinion pieces. Oh, the irony.

            Thorsen was a middle author on several papers — I’m guessing you have no idea what that means, so allow me to explain. He wasn’t the lead author, and he wasn’t the primary researcher. He contributed some to the evaluation of the data which was collected by others, so he got his name in the list of authors for the work done, but he wasn’t responsible for either data gathering or for all interpretation.

            And, his financial fraud was financial fraud. It wasn’t data fraud. The data have been examined by others, and were clean; the papers hold up well under examination by other teams in other countries.

            This is opposed to, say, Wakefield, who committed data fraud on several levels, and was directly responsible for the “papers” published — and the conclusions there have not held up at all.

            So attacking Thorsen is an ad hominem, attacking the man instead of the argument, and attacking Wakefield is not, because his fraud was the argument itself.

            I know this is probably beyond your understanding, but please try.

          4. The criminal activities of autism denialist “scientists” is not a scientific issue, borderline. You’re so clueless you can’t figure out when scientific papers are appropriate and when you look stupid asking for them.

          5. Poul Thorsen is wanted by interpol now? He’s a practicing gyn in Denmark. He’s not hiding.

          6. OIG != Interpol

            As I said, Thorsen is a practicing gyn in Denmark. He’s not in custody awaiting extradition to the US. I highly doubt Denmark will ever turn him over to the US.

          7. No, Linda, OIG office inspector general, hhs
            This is from OIG HHS website.
            From approximately February 2004 until February 2010, Poul Thorsen executed a scheme to steal grant money awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC had awarded grant money to Denmark for research involving infant disabilities, autism, genetic disorders, and fetal alcohol syndrome. CDC awarded the grant to fund studies of the relationship between autism and the exposure to vaccines, the relationship between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and the relationship between developmental outcomes and fetal alcohol exposure.
            Thorsen worked as a visiting scientist at CDC, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, before the grant was awarded.
            The initial grant was awarded to the Danish Medical Research Council. In approximately 2007, a second grant was awarded to the Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Both agencies are governmental agencies in Denmark. The research was done by the Aarhaus University and Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
            Thorsen allegedly diverted over $1 million of the CDC grant money to his own personal bank account. Thorsen submitted fraudulent invoices on CDC letterhead to medical facilities assisting in the research for reimbursement of work allegedly covered by the grants. The invoices were addressed to Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The fact that the invoices were on CDC letterhead made it appear that CDC was requesting the money from Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital although the bank account listed on the invoices belonged to Thorsen.
            In April 2011, Thorsen was indicted on 22 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
            According to bank account records, Thorsen purchased a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an Audi automobile, and a Honda SUV with funds that he received from the CDC grants.
            Thorsen is currently in Denmark and is awaiting extradition to the United States.

          8. And yet the claim made by vacuous was that Thorsen is wanted by Interpol. That is simply not true, much like every other statement vacuous makes.

            Again, Thorsen is a practicing gyn in Denmark, and is not in custody or awaiting extradition.

          9. It illustrates that vacuous is incapable of being factual.

            Thorsens fraud had nothing to do with the data, its interpretation or anything which could affect its quality.

            And as I said, he’s not likely to be extradited to the US from DK.

          10. Yes, of course.
            A man whose been charged with fraud is totally trustworthy with research on children and vaccination.
            I hope you have better judgement picking your babysitter.

          11. You forget that he wasn’t the one responsible for gathering, interpreting or handling the data.

            So your analogy also falls short of the mark.

          12. “Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC’s claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. Thorsen’s 2003 Danish study reported a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after that country banned mercury based preservatives in its vaccines. His study concluded that mercury could therefore not be the culprit behind the autism epidemic.

            His study has long been criticized as fraudulent since it failed to disclose that the increase was an artifact of new mandates requiring, for the first time, that autism cases be reported on the national registry. This new law and the opening of a clinic dedicated to autism treatment in Copenhagen accounted for the sudden rise in reported cases rather than, as Thorsen seemed to suggest, the removal of mercury from vaccines. Despite this obvious chicanery, CDC has long touted the study as the principal proof that mercury-laced vaccines are safe for infants and young children. Mainstream media, particularly the New York Times, has relied on this study as the basis for its public assurances that it is safe to inject young children with mercury — a potent neurotoxin — at concentrations hundreds of times over the U.S. safety limits.

            Thorsen, who was a psychiatrist and not a research scientist or toxicologist, parlayed that study into a long-term relationship with CDC. He built a research empire called the North Atlantic Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA) that advertised its close association with the CDC autism team, a relationship that had the agency paying Thorsen and his research staff millions of dollars to churn out research papers, many of them assuring the public on the issue of vaccine safety.

            The discovery of Thorsen’s fraud came as the result of an investigation by Aarhus University and CDC which discovered that Thorsen had falsified documents and, in violation of university rules, was accepting salaries from both the Danish university and Emory University in Atlanta — near CDC headquarters — where he led research efforts to defend the role of vaccines in causing autism and other brain disorders. Thorsen’s center has received $14.6 million from CDC since 2002.”
            https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/central-figure-in-cdc-vac_b_494303.html

          13. I’m sorry, are you trying to use an opinion piece from rfk Jr as evidence? Especially one that cites himself, age of autism and safeminds ?

            That’s laughable. He’s not a scientist, and has no relevant education to be drawing such conclusions.

          14. Harriet, I can tell you don’t bother to read your sources, or their citations, but that doesn’t surprise me.

            RFK Jr is woefully out of his depth when discussing epidemiology and biology.

          15. Henrietta, good luck with the babysitters.
            RFK jr had experience with litigation of mercury contamination from coal plants.
            But you did have some A’s in school.
            Good for you!

          16. Many can, yes, in a vanishingly tiny percent of cases. And they do so at a rate with is well over 1000x less often than the diseases which they protect against, which is why they still make sense.

            Trying to “protect” kids against a miniscule risk by exposing them to a risk thousands of times larger is insane.

          17. Underreporting is a known problem of any passive adverse event reporting system. It is estimated that VAERS only reports 10% of all cases.

            While reporting of infectious diseases is active and mandatory, reporting of vaccine adverse events is not, a move to intentionally conceal the really magnitude of the “vaccinosis” problem.

          18. [citation needed]
            Vacu, I’ve seen this “statistic” thrown around by countless anti-vaxxers, and I’ve never seen it backed up. There is a problem with underreporting, yes; that’s been acknowledged for years. That only 10% of all adverse events are reported is pure invention, and in fact, you are also leaving out the facts which are also well-reported by the researchers who actually look into this:
            1. Most of the underreporting is nonserious adverse events, such as soreness at the injection site, or uncomplicated fever;
            and
            2. That there is also considerable *overreporting* for some vaccines, where anti-vaxxers attempt to game the system by getting people to report every and any even vaguely related or remembered “event.”

            Not to mention the fact that we don’t rely just on passive reporting any more; we also have active reporting systems such as the Vaccine Safety Datalink project. And all the detected serious events, which are all followed up, still tell us that vaccines are many orders of magnitude safer than diseases; and that the “vaccinosis” problem is still one of the anti-vaxxer fearmongering, not reality.

          19. “citation needed”

            VAERS itself:

            https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index

            The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events.

            What kind of mor.n dares to argue about VAERS without even visiting their website?

          20. What kind of dishonest, ignorant idiot ignores everything else which is printed on that page?

            “”Underreporting” is one of the main limitations of passive
            surveillance systems, including VAERS. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. The degree of underreporting varies widely. As an example, a great many of the millions of vaccinations administered each year by injection cause soreness, but relatively few of these episodes
            lead to a VAERS report. Physicians and patients understand that minor side effects of vaccinations often include this kind of discomfort, as well as low fevers. On the other hand, more serious and unexpected medical events are probably more likely to be reported than minor ones, especially when they occur soon after vaccination, even if they may be coincidental and related to other causes.

            A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified
            vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine.”

          21. You didn’t visit the website. If you did you would have to read this before proceeding:

            ” in general coding terms in VAERS do not change based on the information received during the follow-up process. VAERS data should be used with caution as numbers and conditions do not reflect data collected during follow-up. Note that the inclusion of events in VAERS data does not imply causality.”
            I think you missed THAT!

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          23. Vaers also admits that there is virtually no follow ups to any of the reports. Keep reading that site and read some of the serious cases if you care.

            Many pediatricians refuse to report cases to vaers. The United States has the highest SIDS rate in the first world and the biggest vax schedule.

            Either your head is in the sand or you are one of the many people employed by the vax industry to contain the online backlash to their barbarous policies.

            The people are not buying your lies. Your appeals to authority are ignored as they are fallacious and everyone is becoming aware of how corrupt all of the pro vax science is.

            You’re losing this fight. Find a job where you’re advocating something harmless and not pushing POISON to little children.

          24. it is required BY LAW, for healthcare providers to report events to VAERS. Post your link where it say they don’t because you, or another anti-vaxxer, made that up.
            The SB 277 effort failed miserably. Over 90% of the U.S. is vaccinated and happy about it. You are the lunatic fringe.
            And we will be going right past your stupid and dangerous Ideas and will be getting the vaccination rate in the U.S. up with the other 100 countries that have higher vaccination rates than the U.S.
            You are delusional. You are a small group of crazies and we will dispel your deadly ideas.

          25. You stupid genocidal Nazi. Crawl back to whatever authoritarian cesspool you oozed out of. You can dream about your white coat utopia all you want. The truth is going to win and you will be out of a job. You sick f***.

            SB277 effort was disorganised and out of time. A much bigger fight is coming and you will not win.

          26. Reducto ad Hilterum
            .
            You might as well just say “I got nothing so I’ll just insult you”
            I accept your surrender.
            .
            Also thanks for posting your fantasy about having a large following. Readers need to understand that all of your ideas are delusional.

          27. Keep dreaming you pathetic tool. I hurl insults at you because you deserve zero respect. Providing thoughtful fact filled arguments to deaf ears is a waste of my time. You are not a real person. You are an insider troll.

            As for being Hitler, you’re not. You’re just a propaganda swallowing lemming. Don’t flatter yourself – you are no evil mastermind.

            You are the one surrendering and I don’t care to accept your defeat as it is meaningless. You are the one failing to address the facts of vaccine caused injuries, scores of whistleblowers and hundreds of studies. Not to mention CDC corruption, billions in revenues, liability immunity, billions paid out by the federal vax court to those injured or killed by vaccines, including autism cases – just a tremendous amount of evidence of very serious risk. I am not going to educate you because if you were we’ll meaning, you would educate yourself. But you’re not. You’re scum .

            People with real concerns about vax dangers will do their own research and your snow job will always fail.

          28. “billions paid out by the federal vax court to those injured or killed by vaccines, including autism cases”

            The vaccine court has never held that vaccines cause autism or awarded compensation for such an injury. This is a myth spread to create fear, which is why you cannot cite any such case specifically.

            The VICP has paid out billions for vaccine injuries–a grand total of $3.2 billion in a little under 30 years. (The program started in 1988.) If you know anything about liability, that’s an impressively small number. For example, take the period form 2006 to 2014, just eight years. In that time over 2.5 billion doses of vaccines were administered, and just over 2,000 petitions were compensated. That’s less than one injury per million vaccine doses. Safer than cars, planes, high chairs and Cheerios.

          29. It takes years to complete a claim process with the court – and lots of lawyer hours. It is a difficult process, and prohibitive to most people without resources, education or time on their hands. The amount of cases compensated is a small percentage of cases filed, and the compensation for DEATH is only $250,000. These are not trial jury awarded punitive damages – these are procedural and only meant to recover any cost of care. 3.2 Billion is significant in this case. The highest awards range into the low millions for long term care of children who are so neurologically damaged they must wear helmets.

            Again, there are hundreds of studies and well backed arguments that refute efficacy claims and safety claims of the vax biz, but too many people are easily herded and scared into lapping up the fear mongering that goes on about childhood diseases that are NOT lethal or very dangerous in the 1st world. This is done to protect a steady and growing stream of liability free revenues for the manufacturers.

            AND HERE IS THE LINK TO VAX court paying out for AUTISM.
            https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html

          30. “It takes years to complete a claim process with the court – and lots of lawyer hours. It is a difficult process, and prohibitive to most people without resources, education or time on their hands.”

            The VICP pays for those lawyers (out of pharma pockets), so it’s actually much, much easier than regular court.

            If you want punitive damages, you can actually still go to regular court. A good example is Holmes v. Merck, out of Nevada–parents went to vaccine court and got compensation, then went to regular court and sought punitive damages on a misrepresentation theory (among others). Got discovery and everything. Lost, but lost in regular court with a punitive damages claim and discovery.

            Your link is extremely dishonest. The settlement was not for autism, which even that report admits right up front.

          31. You wish people who questioned the establishment that employs you were the fringe, but we are not. Vax rates are dropping in all affluent and middle class communities because the people have the time and the capacity to do research. You’ve been employed or intellectually conscripted to push the status quo lies that have created a steady stream of liability free profits to Big Pharma.

          32. You are delusional.
            .
            91% of the U.S. vaccinates and the number is growing. By definition, you are “fringe”.
            .
            Here is what the Pew research center says about your average anti-vaxxer:

            Men: 56% anti-vaxxers are men and 44% are female (compared to an average population ratio of 49% men and 51% women).

            Not necessarily parents: Having kids didn’t affect the likelihood of respondents to declare themselves against vaccines.

            In lower income brackets: People earning less than $25,000 a year are 50% more likely to distrust vaccines.

            45 to 54 years old: People in this age group are 26% more likely than any other to oppose vaccinations.

            Live in rural areas: Rural dwellers are 28% more likely to refuse vaccines.

            Non-college educated: People with a high school diploma as their highest education level are 11% more likely to be against vaccines.

            Don’t go to doctors:anti-vaxxers are 88% more likely not to have seen a doctor in the past year.

            https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-not-who-you-think-she-is/

          33. Please continue posting.
            With every one of your incoherent, abusive insults you make readers of this debate appreciate the nature of the unhinged, antivaccine mentality.

          34. I suggest readers carefully read the comment above – I will copy it in case the thread gets longer – and consider it. This is typical of SB277 opponents, and may be typical of Colorado opponents. Does this seem like the argument of someone who has facts on their side, or who has a position worthy of support?

            “You stupid genocidal Nazi. Crawl back to whatever authoritarian cesspool you oozed out of. You can dream about your white coat utopia all you want. The truth is going to win and you will be out of a job. You sick f***.

            SB277 effort was disorganised and out of time. A much bigger fight is coming and you will not win.”

          35. It is because MANY of us are absolutely furious at this fascist attempt to force people to damage our children with vaccines. Each has his or her own way of expressing their rage at this abuse of our human rights. But it is absolutely true that a MUCH bigger fight is coming, and we will win. The Nuremberg convention established that free and preferably well-informed consent is required before any invasive and potentially dangerous medical procedure may be carried out. This effort to compel all children, and then all adults, to submit to being killed or brain-damaged in order to reduce the number who get usually mild and beneficial diseases is outrageous and motivated only by pharma profits. And you seriously think that Americans are going to permit that?

          36. A. So you support the language above? That’s what you are saying?

            B. You don’t have a human right to send an unvaccinated child to school and risk other people’s children.

            C. The Nuremberg code, applicable to experiments, is not relevant to vaccines, that are tested. And children don’t have a choice either way. It’s the parent who chooses to leave them at risk of disease.

            D. I think the response to the referendum and attempt to recall Senator Pan is clear indication that the vast majority in California supports making schools safer from diseases, or at least does not oppose it.

            To remind you, school immunization requirements exist in every state. They go back to the 19th century, and are as American as apple pie – because your freedoms do not extend to infecting others with preventable diseases.

          37. I don’t care about the language used. Those who abuse others must expect them to react with the language of anger.
            Vaccines are dangerous. Any vaccine can disable or kill, and every vaccine has done so many times, some with great frequency. It doesn’t matter what Big Pharma says about their having been tested, they can all disable or kill, and if I don’t want to run that risk, at a time when one in forty vaccinated American children is diagnosed with autism, it is my human right to refuse them for myself or my child. The danger of death or disability from vaccine damage is far higher than that from the vaccine-preventable diseases, and regardless of whether or not it was, every person has the right to choose the danger he wishes to accept.
            The referendum had a very short time to collect an incredibly large number of signatures. We didn’t have to collect a fraction of that number to get cock-fighting on the ballot as a referendum (and we won, got it outlawed). The fact that so many tens of thousands DID sign it shows the way the wind is blowing, and once the unwillingly vaccinated kids who react with disability or death start filing lawsuits, we’ll see how the public reacts.
            47 states permit personal exemptions to the vaccine “requirement” for school, either religious or philosophical (basically the same thing). Jerry Brown wrote in a religious exemption at the last minute in response to public demand two years ago at the last attempt of the medical cartel to force vaccines on every schoolchild in California.
            Did anyone ever find a SINGLE example of an unvaxed schoolchild giving a disabling or fatal case of a disease he got to another schoolchild? No, no one ever did. Because this was a non-issue, a non-danger. Those who want the vaccines can get them and feel protected. If they don’t work, then there you go, why should you force someone else to risk their life just in case the vaccine fails to work as billed in your child, and he gets chickenpox or measles?

          38. It’s problematic that you don’t care about the misuse of the holocaust language. I hope you at least don’t agree with the threats your fellow anti-vaccine activists made.

            Anything can kill. You can choke on food, break your neck by falling in a bath or anywhere. Serious harms from accines are very, very rare.

            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

            School immunization requirements don’t prevent a parent from forcing the bigger risk – that of disease – on their helpless child. They just limit the ability of the erring parent to force that risk on the child’s classmates. You can continue not to vaccinate, but can’t send the vaccine-deprived child to school. Because you don’t get to make that choice for other famiies.

            The referendum required a tiny percentage of the vote – in a low-vote years. The collectors made untrue claims – like claiming HPV was covered by the bill. They still couldn’t meet the goal.

          39. Dorit, you vile dolt. The very reasonable and patient person above makes a very cogent argument about individual rights and the nonsense fear mongering hysteria of the pro vax FAKE movement. Instead of addressing that excellent rebutal, you want to continue the strawman non-issue of my having called one of the provax trolls here a Nazi? Are you really serious? My use of LANGUAGE is more offensive than the lie that vaccines are safe and effective? That thousands of vax injuries and deaths are RECORDED on file, not investigated, and the autism numbers are estimated by the CDC to rise in the next several decades to like 1 in 4?

            The Nuremberg relationship is a solid claim. Vaccines are NOT adequately safety tested in long medical trials.

            Vaccine inserts REQUIRE the pediatrician to make the parent AWARE of all the safety risks on the insert. These inserts list very serious side effects including anaphylactic shock, seizures and neurological damage. Even the manufacturers know that. But when you visit a typical provax pediatrician, they are NOT even aware of the ingredients in vaccines and they have NEVER looked at the insert! They just run off the marketing claim that vaccines are tremendously safe and effective.

            Here is the basic logic for you:
            1. If vaccines are effective you should never have to fear a disease carrier.
            2. If a person is unvaccinated, it does NOT make him a disease carrier.
            3. If a person is recently vaccinated, they are more likely to be a disease carrier and can infect imunocompromised people.
            4. If vaccines carry a risk that causes MORE damage than the disease it is trying to prevent, it is NOT morally sound to require the patient to take it!
            5. Invasive medical procedure without consent IS VIOLENT FASCISM!
            6. Every invasive medical procedures require a consent form, unless the patient arrives in ER incapacitated.

            You are not unintelligent I suspect, so you know all of this to be reasonable and true. But you insist on fascist policies. Only three reasons for that:
            1. You are a paid propagandist of the industry
            2. You are paranoid and under the influence of the fear mongering.
            3. You are a parent who risked their child’s safety by vaccinating them, was one of the fortunate people who are not damaged by the process, and now are demanding that everyone take the same risk.

            The first reason is despicable. The others understandable, but you need to acknowledge the rights of others and not be a fascist.

          40. This is very inaccurate, aside from the problematic language.

            A. Inserts are not a source of informed consent – and they don’t require the doctor to do anything. Inserts are a legal document that follow FDA labeling requirements. Including, for example, listing any reported adverse event, even if it’s not caused by vaccines. Here is a useful discussion of inserts. https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccine-package-inserts-debunking-myths/

            B. Doctors generally know the facts about vaccine safety. They are not required to memorize a list of ingredients to do so. Just to know the facts. And they do. That’s why responsible doctors recommend vaccinating to anyone without a medical contraindication.

            C. Childhood vaccines are very effective. But nothing is 100%. The unvaccinated are at much higher risk of disease than others, and when they congregate they create a risk of outbreak (https://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2069.pdf). They are the most common victim of their parents’ error in not protecting them, true, but they are a risk to those who cannot be vaccinated and to the few that suffer vaccine failure.

            D. Shedding vaccine virus is not a serious risk. Shedding the wild virus, which the unvaccinated are more likely to do, is. https://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizations/a/live-vaccines.htm

            E. Children don’t have a choice about medical procedures, so claiming “force” doesn’t apply to them. That said, school immunization requirements don’t force parents to protect their children from disease. They just stop the parent from sending the vaccine-deprived child to school and forcing the same risk on her classmates.

          41. Inserts are supposed to be available to the patient. Here is the information from the HEP B vaccine.

            17 PATIENT COUNSELING INFORMATION
            Information for Vaccine Recipients and Parents/Guardians
             Inform the patient, parent or guardian of the potential benefits and risks associated with vaccination, as well as the importance of completing the immunization series.
             Question the vaccine recipient, parent or guardian about the occurrence of any symptoms and/or signs of adverse reaction after a previous dose of hepatitis B vaccine.
             Tell the patient, parent or guardian to report adverse events to the physician or clinic where the vaccine was administered.
             Prior to vaccination, give the patient, parent or guardian the Vaccine Information Statements which are required by the National Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The materials are available free of charge at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website (www.cdc.gov/vaccines).
             Tell the patient, parent or guardian that the United States Department of Health and Human Services has established a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to accept all reports of suspected adverse events after the administration of any vaccine, including but not limited to the reporting of events by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The VAERS toll-free number is 1-800-822-7967. Reporting forms may also be obtained at the VAERS website at (www.vaers.hhs.gov).

            NOTICE THE ABOVE about the requirement that the doctor give a statement of information from the CDC about the vaccine. In the VERY LONG statement of info, there is a section about who SHOULD NOT get the vaccine:

            “Who should not get hepatitis B vaccine?

            Anyone with a life-threatening allergy to yeast, or to any other component of the vaccine, should not get hepatitis B vaccine. Tell your doctor if you have any severe allergies.

            Anyone who has had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a previous dose of hepatitis B vaccine should not get another dose.

            Anyone who is moderately or severely ill when a dose of vaccine is scheduled should probably wait until they recover before getting the vaccine.

            Your doctor can give you more information about these precautions.”

            THIS VACCINE IS FIRST GIVEN AT BIRTH!!!! There is virtually no way to tell if they have a life threatening allergy to yeast or any other component of the vaccine!!!!!

            NO PARENT EVER HEARS THAT FROM THEIR RUN OF THE MILL PEDIATRICIAN BEFORE THEY ARE TOLD TO JUST TAKE THE HEP B VAX!!!!

            PLEASE STOP YOUR LIES!!!

          42. No, this says parents should be given the Vaccine Information Statemebt. That’s a different document than the insert, much shorter, and federal law requires that it be given. And it is.

            There is never a way to know if someone will develop an allergic reaction to something. But serious allergic reactions to hepatitis B vaccines are very rare – and when given to newborns in the hospital, they are in the environment best set up to respond to an allergic reaction.

            The infection is very, very dangerous to newborns. On the hepatitis b vaccine see:
            https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-newborn-nursery-hepatitis-b-vaccine-for-newborns/

          43. You are losing this debate and deflecting as usual. The text I provided from the insert talks about the statement of info requirement, and the statement of info requirement is very long. It has a section about “who should not take the vaccine” and I quoted that section.
            HEP B is a blood transmitted illness, that means Sex or needles. If the mother doesn’t have it, the new born will NOT either.
            They give the vaccine at birth because at birth and your well baby visits are the best time to administer vaccines. The parents are overwhelmed and scared, the baby fuss is common and easy to deal with.
            Much more difficult to get older children and teens and adults to get vaccinated. This is the only reason to push Hep B at birth.
            It is dangerous to give incredibly high doses of neurotoxins (Aluminum, fermeldahyde, trace mercury) to tiny babies.

            HEP B information statement: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hep-b.html

          44. You incorrectly said the insert requires patient to be told all listed Issues in the insert. As I explained, those are listed whether or not caused by the vaccine. The section from the insert only requires that parents be given the VIS, which is already required under federal law to be given: the insert is not where this requirement comes from. And this does not, for example, include neurological harm: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hep-b.pdf

            Yes, those within previous reactions should not get the vaccine – but that does not include newborns.
            Only those that had an actual reaction.

            The link I provided explains why newborns are given the vaccine and that you are wrong about modes of transmission.

          45. LOL. PATHETIC. Babies don’t have teeth to bite, or toothbrushes or razors. Stop it already.

            You’re referring to this text about other types transmission:

            “But the virus can be transmitted from one person to the other through a variety of routes that don’t involve shooting up, healthcare workplace accidents, or risky sexual activity. Viral particles can be found in other infected body fluids, such as saliva contaminated by bleeding gums or biting the inside of the cheek. Children can spread it to each other during close contact in a household or if one toddler bites another. Transmission can also occur when sharing a toothbrush or borrowing a razor.”

          46. That’s for older babies. As explained there, for newborn babies the main concern is missing a positive mother through mistaken results. Not common, but possible, and if happens, a very high risk – v. a very safe vaccine. We all want to protect babies. The evidence is that hep b vaccines for newborn provides maximum protection v. hep b’s risks of liver disease and cancer at very little risk.

            That made enough sense to me to give it to my young baby. I’ve been learning and speaking about vaccines for a while and think I’m reasonably well informed at this point, and there was no question in my mind that giving him the vaccine that first night was the right thing.

          47. Here’s the thing Dorit. I will believe you now when you say you are a concerned mother. I am a father and this is not an easy “libertarian” issue for me. I am just as equally concerned about the safety of my children as you are of yours. And we have come to different conclusions about the practice of childhood immunization as it stands today. I will not continue to argue my point out of respect to you and your choice. You choose to peruse industry sponsored sites for your information, and you are free to do so. If you respect my choice, I have no problem with yours. That is the simple point. I am glad you feel good about providing your child with what you see is a safety measure against HEP B. We should all agree that parents are the rightful guardians of their children’s medical engagement.

          48. As for Dorit’s homemade apple pies do contain formadelhyde – 6.3 milligram- 23.3 milligrams for every kilogram of fruit.

            As for the alu, it is the the most common metal element and the third most common – I would be very surprised if it didn’t contain aluminum. There’s a lot in most soils, for example.

            Alu is not in the vaccines. Alu salts are – the distinction is important – both hydrogen and oxygen are explosive and flammable , after all. And yet…Oxidane which is a compound of the two is usually really not flammable. Mixing it with electricity is an exception.

            H2 + O + Spark = fiery explosion

            Oxidane (H20) + spark = …..damn…my lighter’s wet.

            Mercury is also not in vaccines and never has been. Again, the distinction is important.

            There are three major types of substances that are referred to as mercury. There’s elemental mercury which is the liquid metal in old thermometers. Then there’s methyl mercury which is the kind that bioaccumulates and is in fish.

            Then there’s ethyl mercury which doesn’t bioaccumulate and is in some vaccines.

            This is just as important as the distinction between H20 and H202.

            https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_fa/files/formaldehyde.pdf

            As for the flour, I’m not scared of flour. And aborted fetal cells are not in vaccines – they are the growth medium – in other words, Dorit used descendant cells as manure for the apple trees.

            Oh, aluminum. Looks like Doirt used vanilla flavourings.

            As for the human dna, most of us do sloguh a few cells off when we pick something off the tree.

            Dorit, you were doing so well with the apples and pastry and vanilla and everything – what did you go and add tuna for? 😉

            Up until that point., your figurative apple pie sounded quite tasty. Note that so long as we don’t have this too often – this is a perfectly safe pie – probably just as well that it comes in injectable forms though because it doesn’t taste too good.

          49. Ethyl Mercury = Thimerosal.

            Was in vaccines in large quantities and phased out in the early 2000s leaving trace amounts in that are still 10 times higher than levels allowed for drinking water.

          50. Duh….of course the levels are lower in drinking water. Just utterly irrelevant unless you consume flu shots every day by the gallon.

          51. Ok smarty pants, now think about it in context of a newborn baby as % of body weight. Its highly relevant. And you are injecting it, not ingesting.

            And didn’t you just get thru saying there is no mercury in vaccines? Yes, you did.

          52. Yes? So, there isn’t any mercury in vaccines. Talking about a mercury compound in vaccines. does not make ‘no mercury in vaccines’ false.

            There is no chlorine in your salt shaker but there is sodium chloride.

          53. “…So, there isn’t any mercury in vaccines…”

            The so-called “mercury free” vaccines contain mercury as well:

            DTAP TRipedia

            The vaccine is formulated without preservatives, but contains a trace amount of thimerosal [(mercury derivative), (≤0.3 μg mercury/dose)] from the manufacturing process

            “…Talking about a mercury compound in vaccines. does not make ‘no mercury in vaccines’ false..

            Absolutely and uttrerely, irrelevant weasle argument.


            Mercury poisoning

            Mercury poisoning (also known as hydrargyria or mercurialism) is a type of metal poisoning and a medical condition caused by exposure to mercury or its compounds.

          54. “…no the distinction is important. 9th grade chemistry…

            The concept of “mercury poisoning” includes mercury OR its compounds, therefore is not in contradiction with 9th grade chemistry.

            Why is it that every sentence you type exposes you as an ignorant bigot?

          55. “…Because you don’t understand it…”

            I understand your pain.

            “..Oh and that’s bioacculmative (sic) mercury compounds….”

            No, moron, acute poisoning does not require bioaccumulation.

            A child weighing 5 Kg. that receives two “mercury free” shots (0.3 μg mercury) in the same day gets a mercury overdose of 0.12 μg/Kg/day (EPA RfD = 0.1 μg/Kg/day)

          56. Alu is all around us – formaldehyde is made by said tiny babies.

            No mercury in vaccines whatsoever. 9th grade chemistry.

          57. Yeah, everyone in my family has had severe reactions to vaccines, I had asked my baby’s future pediatrician a month before she was born not to give her the hep-b shot, as I had read it often caused autism, but the nursing staff gave it to her without permission at midnight the day she was born. And she reacted to it with vaccine encephalitis and autism.
            The hospital broke at least THREE federal laws, but no one cared. Broke the law requiring that permission be asked and obtained, the one requiring that they give the vaccine information sheet BEFORE the shot is given (they NEVER gave it to me, before or after, I guess it would have been embarrassing when they told me they had given it to her, and I said YOU WHAT???) And they broke the law requiring that they keep the brand and lot number of the vaccine given until she was 21 years old. So now she’s permanently damaged with low-verbal autism. Does anyone in the medical cartel care? About her or the rest of the one in forty American children now with vaccine-induced autism?

          58. I am so sorry for your story. There are some doctors who care and even some in the political establishment who do. I trust that one day humanity will look back on the autism epidemic with great shame. God bless you and your fam.

          59. Thank you, I appreciate your sympathy. I agree, one day people will look back on this era with horror and disbelief, and say: WHAT disease did they think was so common and so dangerous as to justify causing neurological and/or autoimmune disease in HALF of their children from vaccines? And HOW could they go on believing the pharma party line year after year after year, while seeing the damaged children piling up all around them?

          60. “… Inserts are a legal document that follow FDA labeling requirements. Including, for example, listing any reported adverse event, even if it’s not caused by vaccines.

            Better said: Inserts list any reported adverse event that COULD HAVE BEEN caused by the vaccine, though its actual cause is not yet known. Listing implies there’s a risk that the vaccine might be the cause. The patient has the right to be informed of this and consent – or not – accordingly.

          61. Not really. Under the criteria even events clearly not caused by vaccines would be listed. For example, all deaths are listed, even when the cause of death is a car or plane crash (see the Gardasil 9 insert).

            The listing reflects reporting, not causation.

          62. “…For example, all deaths are listed, even when the cause of death is a car or plane crash..”

            Deaths by a car or plane crash are not adverse events by definition of “adverse event”.

            Listing of such deaths is not required.

            Manufacturers do list them voluntarily, however, to produce the impression in naive readers that attributing the TRUE adverse events to the vaccine is also absurd.

            The syllogism goes like this:

            – Attributing a plane crash to a vaccine is absurd,
            therefore,
            – attributing SIDS, encephalitis, etc is also absurd.

            It’s a marketing strategy not illegal – yet.

          63. Actually, listing all deaths, and all adverse events that meet certain criteria, is required.

            It’s exactly the legal framework.

          64. “.. listing all deaths, and all adverse events that meet certain criteria, is required..”

            OK let’s accept that.

            Still, you were saying that car and plane accidents were “adverse events” in order to misguide the readers. You lack scrupules.

            The criteria for “adverse event” is pretty straightforward:

            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/…/Guidances/ucm073087.pdf

            An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment.

            1. MEDICAL OCCURRENCE.
            2. NOT NECESSARILY = NOT EXCLUDED EITHER

            You can’t resort to non-medical occurrences to claim that true (medical) adverse events cannot possibly be attributed to the vaccine.

            For a rational decision, parents and custodians should consider the worst case scenario that all adverse events are caused by the vaccine.

          65. We are discussing what’s reported in the insert under the adverse events section. That does include the deaths, including those I referred to, and that section is routinely used by anti vaxers to claim the inserts show the vaccine kills. Complain to those that misuse the insert for the need to correct. See here:

            https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/g/gardasil_9/gardasil_9_pi.pdf

            Deaths included under adverse events.

            Not necessarily means cautious lawyers include everything. Even if clearly not caused by vaccine. And that’s what we see.

          66. “…that section is routinely used by anti vaxers to claim the inserts show the vaccine kills. ..

            Please, substantiate your accusations.. which “anti vaxer” has ever used car or plane accidents to claim “vaccines kill”?

            I’ve only read the “car or plane accidents” fallacy from YOU.

            “…Not necessarily means cautious lawyers include everything. Even if clearly not caused by vaccine..

            What adverse events are “clearly” not caused by the vaccine?

          67. Both the “32/40 (I’ve seen either number) girls died in Gardasil clinical trials!” And the “Gardasil kills 1:912” that are made rely on the deaths section on the insert. That included car accidents.

            One example? Claiming based on an insert vaccines cause AIDS – when the rate of SIDS in the trial were actually lower than the rates in the population.

            https://www.harpocratesspeaks.com/2014/09/package-inserts-understanding-what-they.html?m=1

            Main point? Something listed in insert shows neither that the vaccine caused it nor that it might have.
            When you use that listing as evidence, you are misusing the insert and have no evidence.

          68. “..Both the “32/40 (I’ve seen either number) girls died in Gardasil (not scieclinical trials!” And the “Gardasil kills 1:912” that are made rely on the deaths section on the insert. That included car accidents….

            I asked for evidence of the accusation and you just rephrased the accusation with no evidence.

            “…Claiming based on an insert vaccines cause AIDS – when the rate of SIDS in the trial were actually lower than the rates in the population..

            I’ve opened the Tripedia insert and looked at the referenced of said trial. This is what I got:

            1. It was a non-controlled clinical study.
            2. Reference is: “Sanofi Pasteur Inc., Data on File – 072503”.

            Therefore the data is unavailable for public scrutiny.

            Something to hide, anyone?

          69. “I don’t care about the language used.”
            Cia, you have previously shown that you don’t care about the lives of children, and also that you don’t care about using this sort of language yourself.
            We are not surprised.

          70. Once again, I fear you are confused. I care very much for children’s lives, and am not surprised when parents say “You want to mess with my child’s brain and immune system and damage him for life because YOU’RE scared of measles and mumps? HELL NO!” What would you expect them to say? It is all VERY peculiar. Those who want the vaccines can get them. They should not try to force anyone else to make the same unwise decision because they’ve caved to being pharma peons. Again, the only reason you guys hold up is to prevent a serious or fatal case of a VPD transmitted by an unvaxed child to a vaxed one, or to an immunocompromised one whom someone has decided can’t get vaxed. Very peculiar, since the medical cartel crossed that off and it’s no longer a contraindication to getting vaxed. How strange that the whole lot of you has been unable to come up with a single heart-rending example to justify your fascist trampling of the human right to bodily integrity and the right to accept or refuse a dangerous and potentially disabling or deadly medical intervention!

          71. “I care very much for children’s lives”

            That would be why you said you would “relish” the return of measles to the USA when vaccination is halted?
            And why the deaths of 450 kids a year from measles was claimed by you to be “No big deal”?
            And why you said “Who cares if kids get pertussis”?

            Well I care, Cia, I care a lot.

          72. “You don’t care about anything you lying sack of feces.
            If you want to read about the truth about “the measles” see this:”

            Why would I read what an antivaccine propaganda website says when i have the entire scientific publication repository of articles on infectious diseases to call upon as well as my own experience?

          73. Because you want to open your tiny corrupted clouded mind to the possibility that you are full of sh*t. That’s why.

          74. Hmmmm.. I wonder..

            About Health | “A Quick Summary and Review of the Psychosexual Stages”

            “Anal Stage (1 to 3 years)

            Freud believed that the primary focus of the libido was on controlling
            bladder and bowel movements. Toilet training is a primary issue with
            children and parents. Too much pressure can result in an excessive need for order or cleanliness later in life, while too little pressure from
            parents can lead to messy or destructive behavior later in life.”

          75. Dorits homemade American apple pie
            formaldahyde, apples, flour, aluminum, sugar, human dna, aborted fetal cells, blend well and bake, comes in edibles and injectables. Manufactured by psychopath inc.

          76. They got well over 200,000 in just two months, without any significant funding for most of it and facing hardcore mainstream media propaganda which went as far as claiming 1 of 2 people who get the measles dies.

          77. Yes, they got 200,000 signatures even with lying and said recall dr pan was a bigger fight which turned in zero signatures. By that logic – is a bigger fight.

          78. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-25

            “(1) Each health care provider and vaccine manufacturer shall report to the Secretary—

            (A) the occurrence of any event set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, including the events set forth in section 300aa–14 (b) of this title which occur within 7 days of the administration of any vaccine set forth in the Table or within such longer period as is specified in the Table or section,

            (B) the occurrence of any contraindicating reaction to a vaccine which is specified in the manufacturer’s package insert, and

            (C) such other matters as the Secretary may by regulation require.”

          79. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 requires
            health professionals and vaccine manufacturers to report to the U.S.
            Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) specific adverse events
            that occur after the administration of routinely recommended vaccines.

            https://vaers.hhs.gov/index/about/index

            Pro vaxxers do real research and know the facts.

          80. The law is unenforceable. The doctor decides if he/she feels there is causality and then reports it. Meaning it is up to the doctor. And many do refuse. Many of the reports are filed by nurses and patients. There is zero enforcement of this “law”.

          81. Then we agree that events that are not reported are not reported because the attending doctor and all other doctors involved see no evidence that the event was vaccine related.
            .
            Yes, exactly.
            .
            That is perfect enforcement of the law. events that are not vaccine related are not reported. I do believe that is the exact point of the law.
            .
            What you are all about is when uneducated parents think they know more than the doctors and want it reported. Guess what? THEY CAN!!!! Anyone can report to VAERS.
            .
            So if its not in VAERS, the doctors don’t think it vaccine related AND the parents don’t think it vaccine related.
            .
            I don’t see any problems there…..

          82. The problem is REAL CASES of injury go unreported for several reasons.
            1. The doctor is smug, unaware of vaccine injuries and never looked at the insert. Doctors can be and often are EXTREMELY arrogant and lash out at patients that do not lap up their conclusions. They are people – not perfect.
            2. The patients are not aware of what VAERS is, or that vaccines carry risk of injury and trust their doctors one sentence treatment of the issue when they just throw out there that vaccines are safe and effective.
            3. In the case of SIDS, or any other serious debilitating injury, the parents grief is so high, it is less likely they will want to even look at the idea that their choice to vaccinate may have been the cause.

          83. 1. You don’t like doctors. That is clear. No wonder you are a smug anti-vaxxer.
            2. Doctor know a lot more about medicine and vaccines than you do and they know they are safe and effective. Perhaps your supposition are crap in the opinion of experts.
            3. Vaccines do not cause SIDS. In fact, the SIDS rate has been dropping constantly while the vaccine schedule has been increasing. ALL EVIDENCE indicates that vaccines may prevent SIDS. SIDS and vaccines have a “negative correlation”. I’ll bet you didn’t know that.
            Do you have any more uninformed observations to make?

          84. You childish arguments make it clear that:
            1. You are unable to think for yourself
            2. You lack the intellectual confidence and work ethic to weigh evidence and data on your own, so you desperately seek an authority figure to tell you what to think.
            3. You are far more interested in consensus than facts or truth.

            And here is a link to a study with a positive corrolation between higher Infant Mortality Rates and Vaccine doses:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/

            “A scatter plot of each of the 30 nation’s IMR versus vaccine doses yielded a linear relationship with a correlation coefficient of 0.70 (95% CI, 0.46–0.85) and p < 0.0001 providing evidence of a positive correlation: IMR and vaccine doses tend to increase together. The F statistic applied to the slope [0.148 (95% CI, 0.090–0.206)] is significantly non-zero, with F = 27.2 (p < 0.0001; Figure 1)."

          85. You ignorant arguments make it clear that:
            1. You are unable to think at all. You have not expressed one clear thought much less have the right opinion about it.
            2.
            You lack the intellectual confidence and work ethic to find evidence
            and data on your own on subject. Your crap is all over the place.
            3. You are far more interested in hearing you own voice than anything else
            .
            NEW FLASH – SIDS is not infant morality. Infant mortality is not SIDS. You don’t know the difference. You made the stupid, uninformed statement that vaccines cause SIDS when the correlation is the opposite, so you come back pretending that infant mortality and SIDS is the same thing
            .
            They are different things. SIDS in only part of infant mortality. infant morality is more than just SIDS. You are an idiot.
            .
            To top it off, You site a paper of documented lies. Did you notice that the paper was corrected, did ya? The correction is here:
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463891/
            .
            The author forgot to mention that those lies where paid for by the anti-vaxxers the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).
            .
            They got caught lying about the funding. How typical.
            .
            What is the truth?……
            “The infant mortality rate in the U.S. decreased by 2.3% to a historic low of 582 infant deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014.”
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality

            You are a lackey of the anti-vaxx liars and don’t even know it.

          86. You stupid moron. Why don’t you keep repeating yourself while you go in circles to make yourself feel like you have a logical thought.

            SIDS is sudden infant death syndrome. Unexplained and mysterious, supposedly. It is included in infant mortality, and in the U.S. makes up more than half of infant mortality cases.

            The non profit, non taxpayer funded, completely existing on donations group that you’re trying to vilify is a beacon of hope in a society preyed upon by scum like you and your employers.

            You are a disgusting corrupt halfwit. I am finished trading insults with you. There is no getting through that irresponsible, immature head of yours.

          87. I’m sorry you are so angry about your source lying, but they did. 2014 is the lowest infant mortality rate in the U.S. in all history. I guess vaccines lower infant mortality. Maybe you should look up facts and not be the lackey for anti-vaxx groups.

            Even your new data is crap. In 2007, SIDS was only 36% of IM and now its even less.

            https://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/images/mchb_infantmortality_pub.pdf

            Is there any more incorrect information that you want to post?

          88. OMG! The NVIC contributed $2,500 to the study! $2,500!!!! What an enormous windfall for the researchers!!!
            You are so correct! Big Pharma sponsored studies never contribute that much funding to anything……

            Folks, this is how these professional bloggers and commenters operate. And how the industry at large operates.

            When a non-profit grassroots organization that has been around for decades as an attempted watchdog of the medical establishment gives a measly $2500 to a couple researchers for a statistical analysis study that finds unwanted correlations, they scream conflict of interest.

            Nevermind the revolving door of industry insiders at the CDC!

          89. It does make you wonder why they tried to hide it and was forces to issue a revision. That is probably because this paper contains zero studies and very little reseach. It cost nothing to write. In effect, Miller and Goldman were paid $2500 to spend a few hours twisting data you can get off the internet to make a point for the NVIC.

            That explains why they tried to hide the money.

            Lets also not forget that another $500 came from Michael Belkin
            who is constantly trying to prove that his daughter Lyla died because of the Hep-B vaccine (it was SIDS). This makes it obvious that the conclusions of this paper where written before it started. Grow up and get real.
            .
            That paper is documented as biased tripe.

          90. Everything you just said is conjecture from your point of view that everyone and anyone who says anything against the myth of vaccine safety and effectiveness, is to be ignored and attacked. That’s okay. You just keep earning that marketing dollar from Big Pharma. We all have to earn a living.

          91. No. It is not conjecture that the NVIP paid $2500 for the paper and another $500 came from Michael Belkin
            who is constantly trying to prove that his daughter Lyla died because of the Hep-B vaccine (it was SIDS).
            .
            These are documented facts. Right in your paper.
            .
            Do you think Michael Belkin would contribute $500 to a paper that says the Hep-B vaccine is safe and effective?
            .
            Again, grow up and get real.

          92. $3000 proven to be spend on a anti-vaxx paper.
            vs
            $40 billion in revenues, nothing proven
            Your horse was never alive.

          93. Think how much Poul Thorsen, CDC researcher was paid.
            “In April 2011, Thorsen was indicted on 22 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
            According to bank account records, Thorsen purchased a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an Audi automobile, and a Honda SUV with funds that he received from the CDC grants.”
            What do you suppose he was hiding?

          94. How many times are you going to post this lie? You know Poul Thorsen is living openly in his home in Denmark. His was part of a Danish team and not directly employed by the CDC. The Danish police said the indictment was crap and refused to extradite. He live comfortable in Denmark and returns his calls. His office address was Kanalens Kvt 6, 2620 Albertslund, Denmark and he lives nearby. Not exactly hiding.

            He was a minor player who stole money. He didn’t fake any papers.

            Let subtract his papers and just looks at the thousands that he was not involved in…..

            …..and take another look at this paper posted here that was financed by the NVIC and Michael Belkin who is constantly trying to prove that his daughter Lyla died because of the Hep-B vaccine (it was SIDS).

          95. He’s still on the Office of Inspector General’s wanted list.
            From OIG HHS website:
            From approximately February 2004 until February 2010, Poul Thorsen executed a scheme to steal grant money awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC had awarded grant money to Denmark for research involving infant disabilities, autism, genetic disorders, and fetal alcohol syndrome. CDC awarded the grant to fund studies of the relationship between autism and the exposure to vaccines, the relationship between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and the relationship between developmental outcomes and fetal alcohol exposure.
            Thorsen worked as a visiting scientist at CDC, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, before the grant was awarded.
            The initial grant was awarded to the Danish Medical Research Council. In approximately 2007, a second grant was awarded to the Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Both agencies are governmental agencies in Denmark. The research was done by the Aarhaus University and Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
            Thorsen allegedly diverted over $1 million of the CDC grant money to his own personal bank account. Thorsen submitted fraudulent invoices on CDC letterhead to medical facilities assisting in the research for reimbursement of work allegedly covered by the grants. The invoices were addressed to Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The fact that the invoices were on CDC letterhead made it appear that CDC was requesting the money from Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital although the bank account listed on the invoices belonged to Thorsen.
            In April 2011, Thorsen was indicted on 22 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
            According to bank account records, Thorsen purchased a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an Audi automobile, and a Honda SUV with funds that he received from the CDC grants.
            Thorsen is currently in Denmark and is awaiting extradition to the United States.
            https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/profiles.asp

          96. Fine. I won’t quote any paper he was involved with and you also discount the NVIC financed paper listed above.
            .
            Is that a deal or am I the only one with any integrity?

          97. Truly, there is no enforcement.

            “The last vaccine injury [for my daughter] was within three hours of receiving a Tdap vaccine, and she had a grand mal seizure, she fell off the bed and hit her head. She stopped breathing while I held her head in my hands. Thankfully, she was resuscitated, and we went to the hospital in an ambulance. And while we were in the ambulance, I called our family doctor who had given her the vaccine, and I called his office and said, I want this reported to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) as a vaccine injury.

            We went to the hospital, they knew it was a vaccine injury, I told them what had happened. It was months later that I realized that it had not been reported. When I called my doctor’s office, I said, why didn’t you report this, and they said, well, you didn’t bring her back here. They said, we didn’t have to report it because you didn’t bring her back here. I said, I didn’t bring her back there because she stopped breathing, we went to the hospital in an ambulance. And so they said, well, it was the hospital that should’ve reported it. So I called the hospital, and I said, well why didn’t you report it? And they said, well, we didn’t administer the vaccine, the administering physician should’ve reported it.

            So I called VAERS, I called Health and Human Services and the VAERS office, and I asked the woman who answered the phone, I said, so who’s responsibility is it to report vaccine injuries… and she said, well, either one. … And I told her the situation, she said either one should’ve reported. And I said, isn’t that mandatory, according to the law? And she said, yes. And I said, so what are the consequences when physicians fail to report? And she said, well, there are no consequences. I said, that’s not a law then. If there are no consequences, that’s a suggestion, that’s not a law.”
            https://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/reporting-vaccine-reactions/

          98. No, it’s not. It’s optional in the US, and it is NOT an infraction for a healthcare provider to fail to report a vaccine injury.

          99. “The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 requires health professionals and vaccine manufacturers to report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) specific adverse events that occur after the administration of routinely recommended vaccines. ”

            https://vaers.hhs.gov/index/about/index
            You don’t even bother to check your crazy statements, do you?

          100. All right, theoretically doctors are required now to report vaccine injuries, but most of them do not. Since they are protected from liability if a vaccine they give causes injury, it would seem to be academic.
            Although this law requires doctors and other vaccine providers to report hospitalizations, injuries, deaths and serious health problems following vaccination to VAERS, it is estimated that less than 10 percent, of all vaccine-related health problems are ever reported to VAERS

          101. You are lying again. Your 10% is imaginary and came from nowhere. Moreover, its based on the belief that 9 out of 10 doctor break the law for no reason as you admit.

            There is evidence of multiple reports of the same injury In the VAERS database. That can be proven and provide hard evidence that there is over reporting, not to mention the frivolous reports that are all over the VAERS database. My favorite is when an autism activist named Jim Laidler once reported to VAERS that a vaccine had turned him into The Incredible Hulk. The report was accepted and entered into the database.

            You are a desperate lying fanatic.

          102. 10% is a high number and there is zero incentive top report adverse events. This is why shills like “just the facts” (huh???) are so obviously wrong. The system is very demanding and to go against the system takes so much blowback–it is a wonder even one injury to a child is admitted. To go out of one’s way as a paid employee and admit there was a “problem” means grief means loss of time and possible investigation and doctors called upon to explain and forms and paperwork to fill out. Adverse reactions are reflexively denied over and over and we know this to be the case since we have been there screaming and saying there is a problem and NO ONE will listen. No matter what happens to one’s baby and the parent is the expert–not the dopes who run these facilities–it is always an “obvious” coincidence or “nothing” to be concerned about. By contrast, if one owns a horse and some drug is met with an adverse reaction–the horse is treated like gold and the poison stopped immediately. The stakes for horses are very high.

            The stakes for humans is impossibly low. No one cares. It just rarely registers. 10% report is way high., I think the real number is closer to 2%. 98% of the time, it is the “imagination ” of the mother or a mere coincidence that gets the rap. Not the poison or the people who inject them into our treasure.

            This must be true since so many people are offended that they never get any attention –their screams are never heard.

            People just want to believe no one is ever hurt because they want to live in a fantasy land. People who are victims would love to live a fantasy. We are here typing because we have been hurt so deeply and we want it ended. What a bizaree thing to lie about? Lying that our child was damaged when he is not damaged?? Who could do that? Lying that poisons cause poisoning is essential if you want to keep poisoning.

            To deny pain is easy if you have not felt anything. To fabricate pain to fabricate injury is impossible for those of us with thousands of dollars of medical bills and crippled children in our charge. We pay the bills since we have to. To admit responsibility means other people must pay to compensate for injury and to deny coverage is easy. State Farm will pay for your broken windshield since they expect a certain number of windshields to be broken. Damage is PLANNED into their system. By contrast, The vaccination schedule plans for no injuries so there are no injuries to be counted despite thousands of victims lining up.

          103. You got nothing. 10% is a made up number that came from nowhere. Nobody has every been able to defend it 10% is solely in your, and other anti-vaxxers imagination. You don’t even realize that you are trying to say that 9 out of 10 doctors are lying and that is patently ridiculous.
            Well, not as ridiculous as your 98% numbers. Thanks for saying that. If you hadn’t, somebody might take you seriously.
            I always lover the “thousand of victims” claims as if there is actually a list somewhere. You and you imaginary, unsupported numbers.

          104. “To go out of one’s way as a paid employee and admit there was a
            “problem” means grief means loss of time and possible investigation and
            doctors called upon to explain and forms and paperwork to fill out.”

            Oh, you know that do you David?
            How many vaccine adverse event reports have you filed as a health care practitioner/doctor?

            FYI in the UK it is extremely simple, and from what I can see from VAERS reports it is similarly so.

          105. The process nowhere is simple but with limited compensation claims in England, many claims are filed. The cost of compensating the victims is very high in the UK and pressure is mounting to give up the insanity.

            In the US, there is not simply bias in the system. Again please follow my analogy. Busted windshields is a no fault circumstance so everyone who wants a windshield can get a windshield. An adverse reaction to an injection administered by a doctor means the doctor has made a mistake and harmed a child. Word that the children are getting shots and getting sick will kill the doctor and his business and ruin the lives of the drug companies. It is not just bad business–it is lethal

            Therefore admitting harm will not happen easily and all the adverse reactions will be blamed on everything under the sun rather than to blame the doctor’s supposed warranty that the injections are good medical advice. Hardly anything could be WORSE–(come little child–take this it is good for you!!)–only to have the child become severely damaged. Word of that happening is the worst possible outcome.

          106. But adverse reactions are almost NEVER attributed to the vaccine. So most adverse reactions are never reported. It is very, very rare for a child to get shot up with poison, have a horrible reaction and someone admits it happened. That is the way of the world. To say this is an honest system that looks after people and families and babies is a grotesque distortion of reality. The system is formulated to look after and protect the system.

          107. So what you are saying is that the doctors, who know more than you do, don’t think a reaction is associated with a vaccine.
            .
            Exactly. The first hand expert makes the first call.
            .
            If the parents disagree, they can always file a report themselves. Nobody is limited from reporting. There is not a better system than this.
            You arrogant anti-vaxxers can’t hear yourself when you say “reactions aren’t reported because the doctor doesn’t think its vaccine related” – THAT IS A GOOD THING!!!! No every reaction is vaccine related. You “assume” all reactions are vaccine related because you are a fringe anti-vaxxer and everything in vaccine related in your closed mind.

          108. Wrong on all counts. There is no doctor that knows anything about vaccines or even basic biochemistry and the pediatrician is merely a system employee following orders and has no independent expertise of any kind in almost all cases. And faced with an adverse reaction, the doctor does not know the cause. Why should he? The system does not know the cause of ANYTHING? So how could such a person leap out of his seat and quickly conclude–“oh, I know why this child was harmed–I did it!!” You think that is going to happen? Are you familiar with the topic here? Do have have any sense of logic?

            No one is antivax–we are against a program that has no utility and is unsafe.

            We are surely not arrogant if we merely want to the freedom to say no and assume parental responsibility for our own children as we assume responsibility for everything else in our purview. By contrast, the system that demands obedience while admitting damage and danger only in the fine print is a system of tyranny.

            The decision to vaccinate my child was the worst decision of my life. Why might I “report” my knowledge, over 25 years ago, that my son’s life was severely altered? What do I get out of filing a report? How might the pediatrician’s office handle such a report? File it in the trash can–that is what would have happened. 95-98% of all cases of substantial harm are NOT reported.

            Your side is losing and losing quickly. The victims are too many and the benefit not proven at all. You could give up your stand now or wait until there are only a few left pushing the unthinkable..

            Your call.

            But you will not let us make OUR call.

          109. Whats wrong with your argument / everything.

            First, are you saying that you know more than a doctor? I don’t thinks so but you sure think you can second guess them and make a lot of unsupported claims.

            Since you know more than the doctors, I’m sure you did a VAERS report. What is the number? Id like to read about it? You didn’t? i guess you are not that smart after all.

            91% of the country is vaccinated and the number is growing. Just this year it became mandatory in California. You are delusional and the lunatic fringe. That is just a fact. deal with the fact that most of the U.S. accepts science.

          110. An Outpouring of scientific opposition to the vaccination program is why today there’s so much controversy. 20 years ago Scientists were not speaking out so openly books were not published and popular Internet health websites describing the horrors of vaccination did not exist.
            But most importantly 20 years ago there was no expectation of an adverse reaction. Parents were not looking for the link . Similarly in the 1950s the medical mob was totally behind the safety of smoking cigarettes. So if you told your doctor that great medical professional that you were coughing has shortness of breath the last thing he would think of would be to blame the cigarette smoking because he knew smoking was totally safe if you told your doctor that great medical professional that you were coughing had shortness of breath Etc the last thing he would think of would be to blame the cigarette smoking because he knew smoking was totally safe.

          111. To start with, there is next to zero scientific opposition to vaccines. You are thinking of a few chiropractors and quacks like Mercola who want your money.

            Second, anti-vaccine nutcases have been around for the the entire time there has been vaccines because nutcases have always been around.

            I like this example from the 1930’s showing how nutcases where trying to stop the smallpox vaccines (which eradicated small pox by 1980).

          112. Your demagoguery is disgusting as you trample over the bodies of so many thousands and thousands of victims who never had a chance against the poisons. To sit there and say that all the science that is totally opposed to these compounds is non-existent is some flight of fantasy. The competing medical opinion that most if not all vaccination is so widespread it is impossible to miss or dismiss unless one is simply just interested in ramming home a political point and forcing a point of view. I may be a political conservative but I would never say no one is a liberal, no one believes Obama is good, no one actually supports Hillary in her effort to destroy the country, etc. That is just blind arrogance. Yes, people believe in Obama against all reason and yes, they believe in poisons.

            But that does not mean there are other people who live and breathe in the country. Plenty of far smarter people who have been forced to pick up the pieces of children lives know the damage first hand since they actually know. No medical doctor even knows the basics. Having a system is so damaging since when the system is stuck on stupid it is hard to get it to change as quickly as they might.

            So test if I am right. Popular opposition to vaccines is exploding and it is so hard to home school one’s child and take social ostracism but lots of people do this and they do it with gusto. We have been burned and ruined by vaccinations and we want the best for our children. Natural health is huge.

            Name the person involved in health that is actually in favor of vaccines? You think it is just Mercola? It is like blaming Rush Limbaugh as the only person who does not like Obama!!! You are not a serious person and simply have no idea what is happening. Chat with your pals. We have them frightened to death. They think they will lose it all and quickly. They are correct. The tide has turned a long time ago and now very few people agree that the program as it sits is fine and dandy.

            The health conscious must be heard in America. It cannot all be about making everyone sick and miserable. We have a right to be healthy and have productive lives and that is what this debate is all about and why your side is losing so badly.

            Please if you love injections with the most poisonous compounds known to mankind–go right ahead. No one has a right to tell you to refrain from harming yourself. It is your life. But when I know my genetic and methyl markers and trust that these compounds will compromise my health, I have a right to decline those injections so I can live a healthy life.

            What gives you the power to force that I take the injection? Answer the question. I am CBS and COMPT and MRR. If I took the load my son was given, I would be fully autistic. I was lucky I was forced to take a lighter load some I am not so badly damaged. Why must your ignorant slobs be allowed to ruin the lives of so many millions?

            Mercola wants my money? No pal, stop it. Joe Mercola has never poisoned even one person. Trillions are at stake in creating disease like wildfire.

          113. To summarize your post:

            demagoguery trample poisons fantasy ramming home
            blind arrogance forced Natural health is huge Mercola
            most poisonous compounds Mercola Joe Mercola

            Nice meaningless and emotional rant. It does not change the fac that you are still part of the lunatic fringe (your posts shows the lunatic part). The vast marjot of the U.S. supports science, and lets take a look at your favorite robber baron’s house built off profit from ignorance.

          114. It’s interesting that this blog bills itself as a great place to have a conversation and people on one side wish to have none of it empty name calling and insults denial denial and I’ll add nausea

          115. There are well over 139 documented deaths caused by the HPV vaccine alone and many thousands maimed. I challenge you to take your snarky attitude and your ignorance to just one of the victims and you tell them that vaccines are safe and listen to the response you get
            And regarding your bizarre attack against Dr. Joseph mercola please tell me how he would make one penny off of encouraging people to refrain from a dangerous activity? It is the sellers very obviously a profit from the sale of billions of dollars a poisonous compounds and those of us that caution against their use have no possible financial gain and boy is that obvious!!! You have
            Been crushed in this discussion and have presented not a single fact or logical argument

          116. I do believe your post was filled with very descriptive and insulting comments. Just to list a few:
            .
            “Your demagoguery is disgusting
            no one believes Obama is good
            no one actually supports Hillary in her effort to destroy the country
            No medical doctor even knows the basics.
            You are not a serious person and simply have no idea what is happening.” QUOTE David.
            .
            I do have a name to call you – “hypocrite”
            .
            91% of the country has no problem vaccinating. The exception rate in California was only 3%. It is just a fact that anti-vaxx is fringe, by definition. Deal with it.

          117. You might think vaccines are popular only in the context of tyranny so that similarly to radical leaders can claim they get 100% of the vote. But tyrannical enforcement offers no fair public opinion on what is obviously a highly controversial topic. The parents that I know and they care deeply about the health oftheir children take the step to pay out-of-pocket cash for specialized Highly informed doctors and homeschool their kids when they can offer no proof that their child has done the vaccination campaign . That is a sacrifice very few parents are willing to make but those are the healthiest children in America and those of the parents that deserve our support

          118. I accept that the tyranny of the majority exists. I do not accept that this is a highly controversial topic. 3% of the people screaming loudly does not make it controversial. It is only controversial to you and you kind. To the other side, your argument does not exist. This is not a political issues; it is science. There are not two sides. There are the facts and those who do not accept them.
            Frankly, your opinion is moot. Science is not based on opinions. Anti-vaxx beliefs are about as valid an argument as witchcraft as they are both based on the same lack of science. There is no controversy. Anti-vaxxers are simply wrong.
            Beating children, not using seat belts, not using car seats. not taking sick children to the doctor are all things that do not have a valid counter argument and have been made the law over time. Vaccines are next. This is the 21st century and this is called progress, not debate of opinions.
            You really need to understand your opponent.

          119. So regarding the scores of dead young women murdered by a dopey vaccine that has no scientific proof of efficacy and indisputable harm. What do you say to those victims ??? Since they are dead they get no cash payout. No apology. No nothing
            I know the family of a 13 year old victim of these crude and insane poison compounds and she has been made infertile for the rest of her life.
            One more time what do you say to the victims the parents of the murdered?
            Since you applaud tyranny no doubt you have no empathy.
            To say your side is scientific is a joke. Your side lacks even basic knowledge of biochemistry. Your side has lost. You are one of the last sychofants carrying water for these vanquished immoral pseudo thinkers with power and control over the people.
            You simply have never investigated the topic and know nothing about it.
            I implore you to learn about the scientific method and stop relying on the politics of ritual sacrifice for the supposed greater good.

          120. That’s a rant with no evidence. None of that happened. Post links or VAERS numbers or you are a liar.

            That is a direct challenge. Lets look at you anecdotal and incomplete stories and see where they lead. Spewing anecdotal rants is NOT the scientific method.

            .
            Prove you know more about the scientific method than how to spell it or you are just a fanatic liar.

          121. There is a fringe group firmly believe is President Bush and the Mossad were responsible for blowing up the twin towers. No one gives this group the time of day. There’s no evidence to support such a position and if you do a blog to cater to their view perhaps only a handful of neo-Nazis is going to show up. By contrast say something positive about the current vaccine campaign and one will get Hundreds of impassioned debaters eager to discuss the topic with my group of microbiologist PhD pros and Scientists on my side and with your innuendo and insults on the other side and it goes on and on.
            One more time please allow the people who are health-conscious to be healthy and we’re more than happy to allow you and your family to inject yourselves with all manner of poison until you’re blue in the face. What part of live and let live do you not understand? Must we all suffer? why isn’t My informed consent valid?
            Will you ever answer!
            I expect you will not.

          122. No, you informed consent is not valid.
            Vaccine exemptions run 3%. They could not get enough signatures for an SB277 recall petition. That’s how weak you are.
            .
            According to a YouGov pol. 10% of the U.S. believes 9/11 was a conspiracy. That’s right 3 times as many people are 9/11 truthers than are anti-vaxxers.
            .
            You picked a very bad analogy.
            .
            it is true. There are less anti-vaxxers than truthers and alien conspiracy freaks. Anti-vaxxers are even at the margins of the lunatic fringe. The only reason you don’t hear from them is that they can’t do anything about it where anti-vaxxers can risk public health on a daily basis.
            .
            Sorry, but you are at the fringe of the tin foil hatters. Make peace with it.

          123. After what happened to my son if I had a chance to have another child there is no chance in hell I will cripple another child because there is scientific ignorance or malevolence at the top of a centralized system and you are here to tell me I must cripple again or be persecuted or be prosecuted.
            Sorry. Not happening. I would vaccinate a child under no circumstances since I am pro life
            You do not have a charming attitude. You are a thug and lack decency..
            Your independent brain has been spoiled by the fluoride the government puts into the water and the poisons your doctors have injected into your tissues
            This is a national scandal. The living dead. Zombies chasing down the honest and healthy

          124. SO, AGAIN, DAVID, WHAT IS THE VAERS NUMBER FOR THIS EVENT OR YOU ARE A LIAR.
            Science is evidence based. Being a nutjob isn’t but since you are now going after fluoridation, you have exposed yourself as a nutjob.
            Another hatter has arrived.

          125. Lame personal attacks are all that is left.
            No science no argument no logic. People are on the radio arguing about school choice. Yes people need to be free to opt out of government schools and education is personal
            But what is more personal than biological individuality ? How can the same set of compounds pure poison or even not. Be beneficial to every baby in the world?
            This is all about the program and it is great to discuss biology and the program and not people you have never met.

          126. Its not an attach. You have gone full tin hat!! You attack fluoridation, vaccines, public education and who knows what else. You have simply explained that you thought processes are defective and there is no talk to you.
            You are too out there form rational discourse. You can got now.

          127. There is no good defense for fluoridation of the public water supply of a vaccine program that has no rational cost benefit analysis
            U.S. Is one if the few nations backwards enough to fall for the scam of water poisoning and has a heavier vaccine schedule than any other nation.
            Therefore since I am. Or text about everything the U.S. Is dead last in infant mortality rates of autism rates of cancer worst life expectancy among the major industrialized countries all with dramatically more money spent. The worst possible outcome. Wasteful extravagant spending for the worst outcome.
            It is a national disgrace
            I have a right….. A genuine civil right to seek a healthy lifestyle for myself abd for my family without being corrupted by ignorant butchers posing as medical professionals.
            I follow only serious credentialed doctors not simpletons following orders from the cdc and other corrupt organizations.

          128. You have the right to your looney tune ideas and I have the right to point and laugh hysterically.

          129. No you claim that the state acting without any knowledge of the consequences has the right to force my family to be injected with a grotesque combination of toxic compounds against known vulnerability to those compounds against my parental authority and in contradiction to my chosen medical advisors and against all reason and common sense for zero established reason. Only becAuse the state seeks to victimize everyone else.
            The mandate for the state to vaccinate is only at a time of a specific health emergency. There is no legal or medical justification for the current program. It is just something the state wants to enforce.
            Similarly. There is not one bit of evidence poisoning the water has any particular utility and there is only overwhelming evidence of harm.
            The fact remains this is all about state control with nit even a Kane suggestion this is helpful or necessary .
            And that is why the problem is going to be systematically ended .

          130. Good luck with that “systematic end” thing. It won’t happen with a vote.
            Are you posting from an occupied compound in Oregon?

          131. 10% believe we do not know therefore truth it is said. I referred to a specific theory that suggest president bush and the Mossod orchestrated 9/11. That is a fringe.
            But science is not an opinion poll

          132. “it is NOT an infraction for a healthcare provider to fail to report a vaccine injury.”

            It is Cia.
            It’s just that you erroneously assume every single vaccine shot causes damage and every single injection should be reported for some nebulous reason.
            However only a tiny fraction of shots cause side effects. The minor ones such as the “sore arm” are not usually reported, but more serious reactions usually are.

          133. Vacu, do you understand the difference between an adverse event, and an adverse reaction? While you are googling, I’ll give you a hint. One is related in timing only.

          134. With ZERO cases of polio n the US since 1995, the risk of an unvaccinated kid getting polio in the US is ZERO.

            You’re telling me the risk of encephalopaty and brain damage from a vaccine is thousands of times less than ZERO … can anyone get more moronic than this?

          135. You are, put plainly, not only ignorant but an idiot.

            Polio is not gone from the world, like smallpox is (a true triumph of vaccination, that!). It is one plane ride away. There is never a “zero” chance until it is entirely eliminated, which has to be through vaccination.

            And the risk of encephalopathy and brain damage from the polio vaccine is so close to zero that you can’t fit anything between the two.

            ….It’s quite the Gish Gallop that you’ve got going here. Assertion after assertion after assertion of yours gets shot down, and not only do you never pause for a breath and think “well, if these points are wrong, maybe I should rethink my position” — you just gallop on to the next baseless assertion without even an acknowledgement that you might have been wrong at all. Do you genuinely think it doesn’t matter if you keep asserting false things?

          136. If you really believe your children are credibly threatened by diseases
            from 3rd world countries, then vaccinate them against yellow fever, tuberculosis and malaria too!

            You got no frigging idea of how to assess a risk/benefit ratio. If you’re a parent you should be declared unfit to make medical decisions for your kids.

          137. The reason the risk of getting Polio is zero is BECAUSE of the vaccine. In 2008, 350,000 people contracted polio worldwide. Now, its down in the 100’s just because of the vaccine.
            Get a grip on reality.

          138. Let’s assume it was the vaccine, still the cause is irrelevant to the fact that TODAY, the risk of a complication by the polio vaccine is higher than the risk of contracting the disease.

            When the rusks equalize again then it’ll be the moment to re-consider a vaccine, but vaccinating where there’s ZERO risk of polio is very, very stupid and I’d say it’s child abuse (exposure to unecessary invasive medical procedures).

          139. We call you ignorant of reality because you don’t seem to understand something very simple:

            The only reason why the risk of the disease is so low is because most people still vaccinate.

            As soon as people stop vaccinating the disease moves back in.

            Your “plan”, such as it is, is equivalent to telling people to stop using child safety seats in cars because so few children die in car accidents these days.

          140. “…The only reason why the risk of the disease is so low is because most people still vaccinate.”

            Really? then you must believe that the reason no one is getting smallpox is because most people still vaccinate too.

            Listen, moron, if there’s no circulating wild virus, whether you vaccinate or not the result is the same: no disease.

          141. “Listen, moron, if there’s no circulating wild virus, whether you vaccinate or not the result is the same: no disease.”

            Yes, you are a moron.

            There is no circulating smallpox virus any more. There is no non-human reservoir of the smallpox virus — so complete, worldwide coverage of all humans with vaccination was enough to wipe out all circulating wild virus. And after that, there was no more need of vaccination for it.

            We still vaccinate for polio because it is not gone from the world. Multiple people have now pointed out to you, in this very thread, that there are still thousands of cases of wild polio in certain countries, and that the disease is only a plane ride away. It would be, and should be, possible to wipe out polio with complete vaccination coverage in exactly the same way that we did smallpox, but that hasn’t been done yet — and it requires that idiot anti-vaxxers get out of the way.

            Get out of the way and stop being an idiot, and maybe in a generation we genuinely won’t have to vaccinate for it any more!

          142. “…We still vaccinate for polio because it is not gone from the world.”

            If you really believe your children are credibly threatened by diseases from 3rd world countries, then vaccinate them against yellow fever, tuberculosis and malaria too!

            You got no frigging idea of how to assess a risk/benefit ratio. If you’re a parent you should be declared unfit to make medical decisions for your kids.

          143. Moron is the least of it.

            Although, to be fair, there are probably less than 100 cases in Afghanistan and Pakistan right now.

          144. “…is equivalent to telling people to stop using child safety seats in cars.”

            Oh no! the stupid comparison surfaced again!

            Safety seats don’t harm children, vaccines do!

          145. Way to miss the point entirely, there, champ. See what justthefacts has said, if you cannot understand.

          146. When the accident rate goes to ZERO? what a moron! Perhaps you believe safety seats prevent accidents too! Put a safety seat in you car and drive carefree on the left side of the road! Bwahahahaha!

          147. If vaccines caused the harm that you claimed, I would not support their use either. The fact is, you wildly – wildly! – exaggerate “harm” from vaccines, and continuously downplay and deny the actual and real dangers.

            Why you think this is a good way to deal with the world, now that I don’t know.

          148. I simply did my homework and decided that my kids are safer without vaccines. You do yours and reach your own conclusions. I won’t be bullied by corrupted politicians with no scientific credentials or background into vaccinating my kids. I don’t care if you’re convinced my arguments or not, I answered to your fallacies do that others may not fall in the same misconceptions that you did.

          149. Funny how many anti-vaxxers think that filling their heads with junk on the internet equals “did homework.”

            Hint: I did homework. I did homework for 4 years as an undergraduate and 5 years as a grad student. I learned what was in the basic textbooks — and I read current research papers and learned how to interpret them, did lab work, sat exams, and designed my own data-gathering experiments and was criticized by people who knew what they were doing on statistics and interpretation. THAT is what “homework” is. What you’re doing? That’s ignoring the people with scientific credentials, it’s ignoring scientific data, and it’s being gullible to completely unscientific and false claims and then moving on to being an active menace to public health.

            You are only of benefit to others as an example of what people shouldn’t do.

          150. “…I did homework for 4 years as an undergraduate and 5 years as a grad student.”

            Certainly you were absent from class the day it was explained that the IPV cannot prevent transmission of polio. I’m convinced it wasn’t the only time you played truant.

            “…I learned what was in the basic textbooks.”

            Impressive, so you can now parrot third-hand accounts of the science! In contrast, I’ve learned what’s in the clinical trials and in the primary sources, perhaps I should now write a textbook for you.

          151. Truly, the arrogance of your ignorance and your fundamental dishonesty is impenetrable.

            You have not learned what was in clinical trials and the primary sources — if you had, we wouldn’t have to have this conversation. You don’t even seem to be aware of what clinical trials exist, nor do you show any understanding at all of clinical trials in general, nor of what information has come out of them. You’re flying in the face of all the clinical trials, and you’re not even smart enough to be ashamed of yourself for lying. Gads, people like you genuinely disgust me.

          152. PUMED in on the internet, but it’ s not “the internet”. Your sources however do match your own definition. Quit bashing and hating yourself.

          153. “I simply did my homework”

            You had a grammar fail. You meant to say:
            “I did my homework simply”

          154. That is a fallacy. if you don’t take the vaccine, the risk contracting the disease far exceeds the risk of a complication by the polio vaccine.

            You don’t make any sense.

            If you eat, the risk of a complication from eating is higher than the risk of starvation. If you don’t eat, the opposite is true.
            Get a grip.

          155. “…if you don’t take the vaccine, the risk contracting the disease far exceeds the risk of a complication by the polio vaccine.”

            That’s a slogan, not a data-based calculation of risk assessment.

            The risk of contracting polio will depend on the level of circulating wild virus in your area and its infectivity. This level can be assessed by the number of infections among the unvaccinated, which is ZERO for the USA, indicating the wild virus is as good as eradicated. The only risk remaining is the one posed by the vaccine.

          156. The polio risk is ZERO in the U.S. BECAUSE of the vaccine. If you stop taking the vaccine, IT WON’T BE ZERO ANY MORE.
            .
            Your machinations does not change the fact that with no vaccine, there would be rampant Polio. With the vaccine. its gone. To can’t take credit for having the vaccine in your mindless argument to get rid of it.
            .
            You are living a fallacy.

          157. “…The polio risk is ZERO in the U.S. BECAUSE of the vaccine.”

            Your slogan contradicts another official slogan:

            https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx

            “…IPV does not stop transmission of the virus.

            What is keeping polio from being reimported into the US? not the IPV vaccine!

            You slogan slingers should read the official lines at least once to avoid looking stupid in your blatant contradictions.

          158. Reminds you? Are all you decisions based on emotions and feeling?

            That explains a lot.

            If you have Polio before you get the vaccine, then IPV does not stop transmission of the virus. If you don’t have polio before you get the vaccine, then YOU DON’T GET POLIO!!.
            READ YOUR OWN LINKS

          159. Right, when kids start having polio again. Of course, all you self-centered AVs never stop to consider it might be YOUR kid who is the first patient to get infected by someone who carried it over here on an airplane. No, because you give them kale smoothies, which have a lot of anti-poliovirus properties.

          160. So once again, you have chosen the route of carefully cherrypicking what part of the page you read and ignoring all the rest.

            Again, really, you really think this is something for you to be proud of? That you ignore the fact that IPV is safe to extraordinary levels, as stated on that page, that it provides excellent protection against symptomatic disease, as stated on that page, and that active outbreaks are controlled with OPV but that all populations will need to be eventually switched to IPV to finally eradicate the virus — after which point, no vaccination will be needed, but until that point, children are still protected by IPV against their picking up polio from any active vector. Exactly as people have been saying to you here.

          161. You further prove my point that it’s not the present vaccine what’s holding polio at bay. The present vaccine (IPV) does not prevent an individual from contracting poliovirus, becoming an asymptomatic carrier and transmitting the virus to others.

            Considering the large number of Americans that visit endemic polio areas like India, if the it truly were a viral disease we’d be seeing scores of infections among the unvaccinated, but it’s not happening, therefore suspicion of another (profitable) modern medical myth.

          162. Like:

            Safety

            IPV is one of the safest vaccines in use. No serious systemic adverse reactions have been shown to follow vaccination.

            Efficacy

            IPV is highly effective in preventing paralytic disease caused by all three types of poliovirus.

            Recommended use

            An increasing number of industrialized, polio-free
            countries are using IPV as the vaccine of choice. This is because the risk of paralytic polio associated with continued routine use of oral polio vaccine (OPV) is deemed greater than the risk of imported wild virus.

            However, as IPV does not stop transmission of the virus,
            oral polio vaccine is used wherever a polio outbreak needs to be contained, even in countries which rely exclusively on IPV for their routine immunization programme (e.g. the polio outbreak in the Netherlands in 1992). – See more at: https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx#sthash.BCkteE1P.dpuf

            I guess this needs to be explained to you? The IPV keeps kids from developing paralytic polio if/when they are exposed to it, but it needs to be supplemented or replaced with OPV in an active outbreak in order to halt any spread of the outbreak. This does NOT mean that IPV is useless, however, because the acknowledged risk is that kids can be exposed to polio by travel to (or travelers from) polio-endemic countries, and nobody (except, apparently, you) wants to find out about that exposure by their child developing polio paralysis.

            Too complicated for you? That’s why idiots like you should not guide public health policy.

          163. “Considering the large number of Americans that visit endemic polio areas like India”
            There is no polio in India.
            Hasn’t been since 2011.
            Wake up.

          164. And when people went to places with endemic polio “back in the day”, it was recommended they get an IPV booster. My husband got one to go to China about 15 years ago; my neighbor got one to go to Africa about 10 years ago.

          165. As I said (with reference from CDC), IPV is intended to protect an individual but cannot prevent infection and transmission. In spite of it polio was not reimported, as it should have been, exposing the fallacy behind its alleged viral nature.

          166. Katia, you’re obviously an industry insider, or your are just a weird psycophant of supposed medical authorities. It is you who is chery picking. Recent wave of gates foundation polio vaccinations in India paralyzed or disfigured 50,000 children. F*** you for not caring about that.

          167. Why is it “cherry picking” instead of simple a citation? In which aspect is the quote untrue?

            Put some substance in your whines because you’re looking stuuuupid.

          168. That’s not a scientific source. If you look at the actual clinical trials you’ll see the mere induction of reactive antibodies was tested. From this, the authors ASSUME the antibodies are protective, a claim that needs its own proof but has never been provided and never will because it’s simply false. All the vaccination policy is based on this unproven assumption, spreading ” well intended” harm and disease all over the world.

          169. How do you know they were “immune” as opposed to simply no longer exposed to the toxic agent?

          170. My God, a source from 19freaking60! 56 years have elapsed since that article was written. That was pre-Sabin vaccine, and only a few years post Salk! At that point, the US was just getting going on polio eradication. Come 1961, during the Sabin Sundays, everyone took the vaccine. My father would be 102 years old, today, if he were still alive, and he took it along with us kids.

            I’m aware of the change in diagnostic criteria. I’m fine with tightening things up, as more was learned about the disease. But that doesn’t change the fact that we are no longer seeing polio epidemics in the US.

          171. “…56 years have elapsed since that article was written”

            How many since Jenner started injecting infants with pus? yet you support that superstitious practice.

            The article is extremely relevant because it’s direct testimony of the vaccine/diagnosis scam tandem that what was going on at the time by the people directly involved, dipsh.t.

          172. Polio has been renamed AFP, a simple administrative swindle by re-defining the diagnosis. The proof is the total number of AFP cases including polio has risen to an excess of 47,500 cases after the vaccine. AFP did not come from the blue, it’s former polio renamed.

            https://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/110/1065

            Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on

            “…while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated. The principle of primum-non-nocere was violated.”

          173. No, polio has not been renamed AFP. Also, your quote specifically deals with non-polio AFP, which by its very definition is not polio,

          174. The excess 47,500 new cases of NPAFP would have been classified as “polio” by the pre-vaccine diagnostic criteria (clinical symptoms only).

            But you prefer to believe they came out of the blue rather than admitting your beliefs are magical thinking.

          175. And clinical symptoms aren’t the end all of diagnostic criteria. Today we require testing to identify a virus or bacteria.

            Things we couldn’t do reliably in India for decades, due to the poor infrastructure, etc.

            Enteroviruses can also cause AFP.

            You’re a few crayons short of a box.

          176. “…And clinical symptoms aren’t the end all of diagnostic criteria. Today we require testing to identify a virus or bacteria.”

            I’ll make a map for you:

            a) before the vaccination campaign: polio = clinical only criteria (both poliovirus and NPAFP are labelled “polio”)

            b) after the vaccination campaign: polio = lab confirmed (only poliovirus is labelled polio).

            By virtue of a more restrictive diagnosis, a >> b whether the vaccine worked of not.

            The apparent drop in incidence is a consequence of removing NPAFP from the “polio” diagnosis. The fact that NPAFP increased spectacularly after the vaccination campaign confirms a simple reclassification took place.

          177. Because they had no ability to test hundreds of thousands of samples for polio when polio was endemic. Thus relying solely on clinical symptoms. When the number of suspected cases dropped, it was feasible to test every sample.

            It’s not rocket science.

          178. No sh.t sherlock.

            If you’re aware that pre-vaccine “polio” diagnoses were bloated by misclassified cases of NPAFP (which later proved to be massive)… then how do you dare use those inflated numbers to pretend the vaccine has solved the “polio” problem? The problem was one of MISCLASSIFICATION and OVERDIAGNOSIS, not polio!

          179. No evidence suggests massive misclassification, given the number of suspected polio cases annually

          180. The fact that the incidence of prevaccine “polio + NPAFP” is the same as the incidence of post-vaccine NPAFP suggests pre-vaccine “polio” was actually NPAFP.

          181. Estimates by the pre-vaccine clinical definition that encompasses all cases of NPAFP. Switching definitions as it suits your point is not science, it’s crookery.

            Only a consistent pre- and post-vaccine definition can tell the truth about vaccine effectivity. The excess 47,500 new cases of NPAFP in post-vaccine India exposes the whole scheme and Indian doctors are already aware of it.

          182. Clinical-only surveillance lumps all AFP cases into the “polio” grab-bag, tehrefore overreported and grossly overestimated. The clinical is THE SAME, possible causes a dozen.

          183. “In those years there was no surveillance for polio; a sentinel surveillance system was operating but the numbers of cases reported were estimated to be about 10 per cent of the total cases. However, with the use of identical reporting system over the entire period the pattern was valid; only the numbers remained underestimated.”

            Again, you’re wrong. Underreported. Underestimated.

          184. It’s obvious you have no frigging idea of what the pre-vaccine diagnostic criteria were. A seagull would understand my point better than you.

          185. That’s the data reported in the study linked. Just because you can’t undrstand it, doesn’t make it wrong.

          186. “…That’s the data reported in the study linked.

            Which refers to the clinical-only definition of “polio” that INCLUDED all non-polio AFP, and therefore was a gross overestimation.

            They were stupid then but you have no excuse to remain stupid TODAY.

          187. Underreported cases include both poliovirus and NPAFP because the diagnostic criteria was the same.

            Therefore, underreporting doesn’t mean the cases were all poliovirus, they could just as well all be NPAFP. There was no way to tell one from the other.

          188. “The fact that the incidence of prevaccine “polio + NPAFP” is the same as the incidence of post-vaccine NPAFP”

            This is not actually a fact. You would need numbers supporting this calculation for that, which you don’t seem to have. Why doesn’t that stop you from claiming it as a fact?

          189. I will make a map for you.
            a). Before vaccination: 200-300,000 cases of paralysis every year.
            b). After Polio eradication: Possibly 40,000 cases of paralysis every year (proven NOT to be Polio through virological analysis of all cases).

            Why the difference?

          190. (a) is a guesstimate while (b) are lab-confirmed numbers.

            Comparing apples to pears just underlines the shortcomings of your intellect.

          191. With today’s diagnostic criteria all pre-vaccine “clinical polio” would be correctly classified as NPAFP and the vaccine exposed as a fraud.

          192. Pre-vaccine diagnostic criteria were clinical only, therefore NPAFP is included for having the same clinical presentation as poliovirus AFP.

            Post-vaccine criteria is lab confirmed, therefore NPAFP is excluded.

            In view of the above HISTORICAL REALITY, comparing pre-vaccine guessestimates to post-vaccine confirmed data is an exercise of utter stupidity.

            The diagnostic shift alone explains both the drop in “polio” incidence AND the 10-fold surge of NPAFP.

          193. And yet it doesn’t. 47.5k npafp cases now, 400k (underreported) polio cases then. Nope. The shift doesn’t explain it. Your math doesn’t add up.

          194. Explain how clinical-only criteria, which misclassifies AFP by any cause as “polio”, can lead to underreporting through overdiagnosis.

            Your failure to see how pathetic your argument is, is pathetic square.

          195. The underreporting affected both poliovirus and NPAFP because the criteria for diagnosis were the same. Therefore, “polio” was overdiagnosed in the underreported cases. All “polio” cases could have been NPAFP. The post-vaccine surge in NPAFP is evidence that this was the case.

          196. Let’s look at your logic fail.

            Claim that 400k+ prevaccine polio cases are all NPAFP.

            Then claim that today’s 47500 NPAFP cases is an increase by 10x since the vaccine was introduced.

            That’s some sort of special.

          197. 400k+ is a guesstimate based on overdiagnosis (clinical-only that misclassifies NPAFP as polio)

            47,500 are confirmed figures.

            Comparing guesstimates whose error is UNKNOWN to real, confirmed cases is stupider than stupid! But then again you’re debating in the stupid camp.

          198. Clinical-only criteria leads of overreporting of ANY disease, since it broadens the diagnosis to include diseases that are clinical similar to the target disease.

            Broader diagnostic criteria => overdiagnosis. You’re a “special” kind of person for failing to see the obvious.

          199. And yet the literature specifically states cases were underreported. You’re an ignorant kind of person for thinking you know more than the study authors.

          200. Even IF those 47,000 cases of paralysis would have previously been labelled as “polio” (and that is not true; around 20,000 may have be due to coxsackie or other enteroviruses, no more than that), you have to explain why the other 257,000 cases of “Polio” paralysis have just magically vanished since the vaccination programmes began.

            Why has paralysis largely disappeared in the last 20-30 years from India? If Polio was merely renamed, they should still be seeing the levels that existed prevaccine (300k each year)

          201. Again, it’s 47,000 EXCESS cases, not 47,000 cases. Excess as in “cases above the incidence considered normal before”.

            Now try again.

          202. “…Why has paralysis largely disappeared in the last 20-30 years

            from India?”

            Paralysis has SURGED 10-fold in India with the polio vaccine, shill:

            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/Supplement_1/S16.2TRENDS IN NONPOLIO ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS INCIDENCE IN INDIA 2000 TO 2013

            “…Although the incidence of polio acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) has decreased in India, the nonpolio AFP (NPAFP) rate has increased. Nationwide, the NPAFP rate is 11.82 per 100 000 population, whereas the expected rate is 1 to 2 per 100 000 population.”

            AND … NPAFP is linked to the polio vaccine:

            “…The incidence of NPAFP was strongly associated with the number of OPV doses delivered to the area. “

          203. “…you have to explain why the other 257,000 cases of “Polio” paralysis have just magically vanished since the vaccination programmes began.”

            Because as a guesstimate they were never there in the first place?

          204. “…your quote specifically deals with non-polio AFP, which by its very definition is not polio”

            Read the whole quote: “Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis”

            Which means clinical diagnosis of polio (prevaccine criteria) results in massive misclassification of NPAFP as “polio”.

          205. Which is why we require testing in a lab now.

            400k cases annually – known to be underreported – it is impossible that they were all a misclassification

          206. You can’t request testing in a lab the 300,000 old cases, dumbf.ck. There was no “poliovirus”in them, just NPAFP.

          207. Underreporting is perfectly compatible with misclassification, they’re two independent problems, the first relates to population surveillance, the second to the criteria for diagnosis.

          208. And thus it’s impossible that 400k+ cases prevaccine were all NPAFP, and that now 47500 NPAFP cases represent a tenfold increase.

          209. I was talking about a single disease not behaving as it should under germ theory. This is not challenging the theory but the disease, witless soccer mom.

          210. I’m a gymnastics mom, not a soccer mom! PLUS an RN with 40+ years’ experience in and additional education in immunizations.

          211. Education? If you don’t read and understand the primary sources you’re not educated, but indoctrinated. There’s 10 “experts” like you under every unturned stone, like cockroaches, prescribing Vioxx like robots and killing people because their Pharma representatives tells them to.

          212. I’ve certainly read far more primary sources than you have. Your constant personal attacks are not exactly bolstering your case.

            Most of us like to run and hide when the pharma reps show up, and take their shtick with a grain of salt, if not more like a box of it. We’re not the ignorant idiots you think we are.

          213. Look bub, I’m tired of you yapping about primary sources for other
            people to read, then quoting crap from the media yourself. And I’m
            sick of your name-calling! If you had a case, you wouldn’t have to do
            it.

            And oh, look! sabelmouse and Grace, my tormentors, have already upvoted you!

          214. My media quote addressed a criminality issue, not a scientific one as you falsely claim. You’ve reached new lows of dishonesty.

          215. Graceds, you said a day or so ago you have a “surfeit” of decency. Yet you upvote a poster who calls people cockroaches and killers. Have you no shame, Grace, you and sabelmouse, Shari March, bsf309, Cat and Liz Swarthout?

          216. Well sadly that 40+ years of experience hasn’t taught you to do anything other than blindly accept what Big Pharma tells you is safe. I’m glad your kids are ok. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’s kids, even to prove a point. But just worry about your own kids and shooting them up every time the drug companies come up with a new product. I pray you don’t have any daughters. If you do, I hope you’ll really look at the damage that has been done to the girls who have received it. No one should DIE from a vaccine. The fact that over 100 girls have died so far ought to bother you at least a little bit.

          217. I think you should read this about the harm you’re doing your own kids before wasting time worrying about mine.

          218. But don’t forget the tens of thousands of children in India getting acute flaccid paralysis from having had too many oral polio vaccines.

          219. No, because that is a complete lie told by you, an uninformed fanatic who is desperately trying to change the subject constantly to keep from getting caught lying.

            The children have been blood tested. THEY DON’T HAVE POLIO!!! That is a confirmed fact. That is why the FULL name of the disorxder is NPAFP or “Non-polio acute flaccid paralysis”. It is one on many other diseases that cause paralysis

            You are an overt liar.

          220. What happened to my longer comment posted a few minutes ago? It’s gone. Many Indian doctors said that they thought these much-vaxed children were paralyzed as a result of their having gotten so many polio vaccines in the Pulse oral vaccine campaigns waged twice a year in Indian streets and door-to-door. I will remind you that vaccines depress immune function, leaving the patient vulnerable to catching other, sometimes fatal or disabling diseases. DPT vaccination was suspended during polio outbreaks in the ’50s because it was so obvious that children who had gotten the DPT in the previous month were much more vulnerable to getting severe cases of polio. Clinical cases of Hib meningitis quadrupled between 1940 and 1968, probably because the DPT, introduced in 1948 in the US, depressed the immune system of many children who caught severe cases of HIb meningitis as a result.

          221. You continue with your overt lies.

            You completely ignore the established and conclusive fact that none of these people have Polio. I repeat – BLOOD TESTING. BLOOD TESTING!!! THE BLOOD TEST SHOW ZERO POLIO.

            Is that clear enough for you to stop posting acedotial rumors and not the fact that THE BLOOD TEST SHOW ZERO POLIO. THATS WHY THEY CALL IT “NON-POLIO acute flaccid paralysis”.

            So now you back to another irrelevant story from the 1950’s because all modern science does not support your meaningless drivel.
            Of course you do…………..

          222. I mean the disease which many Indian doctors think was CAUSED by the polio vaccine, either because it was really polio and the pharma industry is lying, or because the oral vaccine depressed the children’s immune system, allowing them to be paralyzed by a polio look-alike disease.

          223. There is no indication whatsoever that NPAFP has anything to do with OPV. Nice grasping at straws there.

          224. Add four years, irrelevant, the conclusion remains exactly the same. Your counterargument amounts to correcting a typo, nothing of substance in it.

          225. Liar! The risk is not miniscule! That is pure industry spin. The risk of serious vaccine injury is far higher that the risk of death from a childhood disease.

            Go to vaers.org and read all of the reports for yourself. That is only a tiny percentage of all the cases that are linked to vax injury.

          226. Thus speaks ignorance.

            Hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine have been given in the US alone. Out of those, there have been a few thousand credible reports of harm done.

            Compare that to the fact that even in the few years before vaccines were introduced, hundreds to thousands of children died every single year from these diseases — and that is after mortality started dropping because of antibiotics and iron lungs and more available hospital care.

            Infant and child mortality AND morbidity has continued to drop, with every vaccine introduced. If vaccines were so risky, we wouldn’t see that. But you are buried so deep in rage and delusion, I think you’ve lost sight of the reality entirely.

          227. Have you bothered to look into how often this happens? Of course not. The injury rate for all vaccines fall below one in one million vaccinations which makes it the safest human activity ever invented.
            Sorry, but facts are facts. You don’t understand the science at all.

          228. “…The injury rate for all vaccines fall below one in one million . Vaccinations which makes it the safest human activity ever invented.”

            From the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/tetanus/downloads/dis-tetanus-color-office.pdf

            Risks of DTaP Vaccine

            …1 out of 14,000 children may have a seizure

            What is a seizure? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003200.htm

            A seizure is the physical findings or changes in behavior that occur after an episode of abnormal electrical activity in the BRAIN.

            Brain damage!

            If you have any decency left stop putting lipstick on a pig.

          229. Febrile seizure, which resolves cleanly and leaves no permanent damage.

            If you had even a shred of decency and honesty, you would stop inventing pigs.

          230. “….Febrile seizure, which resolves cleanly and leaves no permanent damage.

            Yeah well, all damage caused by vaccines is always so fking “clean”… now seizures caused by measles are a threat to civilization as we know it and bla.. bla… bla…

            Double standards anyone?

            Deliver the “good” seizures to your own kids, keep away from mine.

          231. The only double standards here are yours, when you use the feeblest of arguments against a known and proven medical intervention, but demand impossibly perfect 100% absolute “proof” of its 100% absolute perfection in order to accept any argument for it.

            And when you lie, and then accuse other people of lying. Or when you say incredibly stupid and ignorant things, and then accuse other people of ignorance.

            No-one has said there is no such thing ever as vaccine injury — only that, in defiance of your claims, it’s incredibly rare, unlike injuries from diseases. And seizures from measles, unlike simple febrile seizures, tend to be associated with permanent damage. It’s a shame you’re unable to tell the difference. I am genuinely worried for your kids, and I hope they have a chance to grow up smarter than you are.

          232. “…And seizures from measles, unlike simple febrile seizures, tend to be associated with permanent damage.”

            Any consumer product capable of causing brain seizures in 1 out of 14,000 users wouldn’t be allowed to market, let alone if the target population is young kids.

            However, if the product sports “vaccine” on the label, then suddenly, the seizures are not a hazard anymore but a “minor side effect” without consequence. Go f.ck yourselves!

          233. Febrile seizures are common in young children. They are scary, but they resolve. And ANY fever can cause it — vaccination is one of the least of the causes. Letting your child become dangerously ill with a vaccine-preventable disease, that is a stupid, unnecessary and far higher risk, and will also often include febrile seizure.

            Calling it a “brain seizure” implies a whole level of risk that, with vaccines, doesn’t exist the way you claim. Not even close.

            The fact is, you are still trying to “protect” children from the wildly overblown ‘risks’ of vaccines by exposing them to the very real and serious risks of disease. That’s like trying to protect your child from being injured by their car seat by letting them stay unrestrained bouncing around the inside of your car. Except, of course, that in that analogy all you endanger is yourself and your child, and in real life refusing vaccines endangers other people, too, by providing disease vectors.

          234. “…Calling it a “brain seizure” implies a whole level of risk that, with vaccines, doesn’t exist the way you claim.”

            On the onehand, vax pushers tell us how dangerous mild child diseases are because in rare cases they can cause seizures, then in the same breath claim an an injectable product known to cause seizures in 1 pout of 14,000 is perfectly safe.

            A special kind of jerkness is required to keep a straight face when caught in such a contradiction.

            “…you are still trying to “protect” children from the wildly overblown
            ‘risks’ of vaccines by exposing them to the very real and serious risks
            of disease.”

            Far from overblown, vaccine risks are all of the following:

            – Greatly unknown. Clinical studies conceal adverse events by using false adjuvants as “placebo”., which is scientific fraud.

            – Grossly underrreported. As a result of no reporting system (most of the world) and a passive reporting system (US)

            – Underacknowledged. As long as another probable cause is present, judges always decide i favour of vaccines.

            Regarding the alleged “exposing them to the very real and serious risk of disease”, Two further points:

            – The risk of a healthy person contracting infectious illness “X” cannot be calculated, fortelling “real and seriious disease” to a health y person is playing futurologist and fear mongering.
            – Most of child diseases are mild, not the “killers” the vaccine industry wants to sell us. Even desirable for the boost of immunity they bring to a weel fed child.
            – Infectious illnesses occur in rare “foci”, therefore exposure requires being on the wrong time on the wrong time and is extremely rare. Even if a healthy child is exposed, actual illness only occur in those weakened by a previous condition or by malnutrition.

            For all of the above, vaccine benefits may have been overrated and the risk of potential adverse effects underestimated.

          235. How false and wrong your assertions are, here, and why it is false, and how your ignorance cripples your understanding, has already been explained to you multiple times.

            1. These are not “mild childhood illnesses.” They are very serious childhood illnesses, most of which killed hundreds of children per year and left thousands more with permanent disabilities — and this is out of a total population much smaller than now. The proportion of serious side effects of these illnesses ranged from 1 out of every 2 (pertussis in infants) to 1 out of ever 5 (measles) to 1 out of every 300 (varicella). In contrast, the very best ACTIVE monitoring of vaccine side effects turns up a serious side effect rate of slightly under 1 in 1,000,000.

            2. Mild side effects such as arm soreness and fever are underreported for vaccines. Serious side effects, there is no indication of underreporting.

            3. In the US we not only have VAERS, a passive monitoring system, we also have the Vaccine Safety Datalink, an active monitoring system, and these are supplemented by both passive and active monitoring in Canada, Australia, all the Western European countries, Brazil, Russia, and a few other countries scattered around the world. Your assertion that there is “no reporting system” for vaccine adverse effects or events in most of the world is grotesquely wrong and ignorant. Fact-check yourself, idiot.

            4. Far from “boosting immunity”, some few of the childhood diseases we try to protect against have long-term adverse effects on immunity. Measles can destroy the immunity to *other* diseases that a child has been exposed to, and leaves the immune system weakened for up to three years, for example.
            https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S43/10/03O18/index.xml?section=topstories

            5. All these diseases recur where vaccination rates drop below herd immunity levels. It is not rare, it is not unlikely, it is not even unusual. And measles is the most insanely infectious disease known to humankind; an unprotected person has a 90% chance of catching measles from a single exposure, and a single exposure can mean simply walking within a few yards of an infected person. Again, when you claim that these diseases aren’t likely to infect an otherwise healthy child you are making stupidly false assertions because of fundamental ignorance.

            The only reason diseases are currently rare, is because most people still vaccinate.

            You need to learn something real, and need to stop spouting dangerous nonsense.

          236. “… They are very serious childhood illnesses”

            A pimple would be a very serious childhood illness for a vaccine pusher, if there were a vaccine for pimples.

            “… Serious side effects, there is no indication of underreporting”

            What would constitute an “indication of underreporting”? Your claim is purely assumption-based.

            Serious side effects are brushed off as “autoimmune diseases” an epidemic with correlates with the nr. of vaccine doses and has no other plausible explanation than massive immune interventions (vaccines).

            It is acknowledged by many scientific authors as ASIA syndrome. The industry PR hired hands s are very busy trying to discredit them, an indication that they’re on the good track.

            “…we also have the Vaccine Safety Datalink, an active monitoring system”

            The VSD is a secret, opaque and non audited system:

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/index.html

            How Can I Access VSD Data?

            From time to time, scientists (from outside CDC and outside the VSD
            network) are interested in using data from the VSD to look differently
            at vaccine safety questions. When possible, CDC tries to accommodate
            these requests.

            No public access makes the VSD as good as non-existing for what parent decisions are concerned.

          237. “… All these diseases recur where vaccination rates drop below herd immunity levels.”

            Actually it’s the complete opposite, outbreaks occure in states with the highers vaccination rates:

            https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2013/08/08/the-states-with-the-best-and-worst-vaccine-coverage

            Mississippi had the highest vaccination rates for all three conditions,
            with 99.9% of children receiving the MMR, DTaP, and varicella vaccines.

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2015/01/30/mississippi-yes-mississippi-has-the-nations-best-child-vaccination-rate-heres-why/

            Just 140 students in Mississippi entered school without all of their required shots.

            Despite overvacciantion (or perhaps as a consequence of it):

            https://www.cdc.gov/washington/~cdcatWork/pdf/pertussis_outbreak.pdf

            Investigating a Pertussis Outbreak in Mississippi

            Whoa! Now how does this fit into our belief system?

            How do you feel when your canned slogans crash with harsh reality?

            But here is the true reason why diseases recur despite having the hightest vaccination reate humanly achievable:

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2015/01/30/mississippi-yes-mississippi-has-the-nations-best-child-vaccination-rate-heres-why/

            (Mississippi) Its childhood poverty rate ranks as the nation’s
            second worst.

            Fighting poverty is the ONLY intervention that’s capable of preventing infectious disease, not vaccines.

          238. How does MS’s pertussis rate compare with other states? Answer: it is third best. First best is WV, which also has only medical exemptions. So, yes, for the mediocre pertussis vaccine, outbreaks still occur in states with high vaccination rates but less often than in states with low vaccination rates. This is not hard to grasp.

            I’ll only mention in passing that you gave MS’s MMR rate, while discussing pertussis, suggesting you haven’t figured out which vaccine goes to which disease. In this case, it doesn’t matter, since MS also has one of the highest vax rates for pertussis.

          239. “…yes, for the mediocre pertussis vaccine, outbreaks still occur in states with high vaccination rates”

            Thank you for confirming my pont.

            Ineffective + high rate of seizures = risk/benefit ratio to the Moon.

            Despite this fact parents are coerced to vaccinate under theat of vetoing their kids from school. Any intelligent person can conclude whose interests some rogue lawmakers are protecting here.

          240. It is impressive that you pack so many fallacies into one short post. Contrary to your belief that any vaccine that is not perfect is useless, the data show that more unvaccinated people get sick. So the vaccine is effective. Just not perfect. Neither are seat belts, child seats, or condoms. What conclusion are we supposed to draw?

            You say 1:14000 is a high rate of seizures. In that case what is the rate of seizures from wild diseases? It’s many times larger than “high”. Is it astronomical or merely huge?

            You would do better to try the vaccine/autism claim again. That claim is merely wrong. Your refusal to acknowledge the results of vaccines, often from data you yourself provide (Ukraine), is insane.

          241. “…You say 1:14000 is a high rate of seizures. In that case what is the rate of seizures from wild diseases?”

            You don’t inject “wild deseases” into health people, moron, you inject vaccines! and an ineffective one at that.

            End result: seizure risk = wild risk + vaccine risk. Duh!

          242. “..the data show that more unvaccinated people get sick”

            You’re saying the 4,510 suspect cases (clinical measles) in Mexico 2014 were not sick?

            Only the 2 that were lab confirmed were sick?

            If you’re not in the “confirmed” list your illness does not exist?

            Is hiding sick people under the carpet another “miracle” of vaccines?

          243. That is not what your table says. This is at least the third time you have had a reading comprehension failure (measles incidence in Ukraine being the most delicious). Should we translate to Spanish? to French (since we know you read that French paper you cited)? to Neptunian?

          244. “.. Febrile seizures”

            Read the f.cking document… nowhere
            it’s said the seizures are “febrile”, on the contrary, it can be easily derived that they’re NOT:

            … 1 out of 14,000 children may have a seizure; 1 out of 16,000 children may have high fever.

            Obviously, 16,000 fevers can’t cause 14,000 seizures. That would imply that most fevers lead to seizures, which isn’t true.

            We’re left with an UNDISCLOSED CAUSE of the vaccine seizures (and therefore of their true nature), a red flag for anyone in charge of a child’s health.

          245. Febrile seizure, believe it or not, does not depend on the fever being unusually high. That is why it is differentiated from “high fever”, and this exactly illustrates, also, why people with no medical understanding should not read brief leaflets and assume that they have a good understanding of the issue. (That’s you, hon, in case you need that clarified.) Medical professionals do not leap to the assumptions that you do for a reason.

          246. If you HAD a functional bs detector, you wouldn’t believe all the anti-vaxx bs that you evidently subscribe to, and we wouldn’t have to have this conversation.

            I’ll say this again: over and over you have spouted things which have been debunked, quite thoroughly, with reference to the actual science and law as well as with plain-English explanations of those. You keep repeating yourself anyway and making flatly false assertions in the apparent confident belief that you know what you’re talking about. This is not the sign of someone who has a bs detector. It’s the sign of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

          247. “…over and over you have spouted things which have been debunked”

            Have you already debunked the fact that the strciter, virological confirmation criteria that was introduced together with the vaccine completely explains the massive drops in the incidence of measles, even if the vaccine were to be a saline?

            Let’s look at the measles statistics of Mexico 2014:

            https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            Now let’s compare the situation before and after the measles vaccine:

            – Using the pre-vaccine diagnostic criteria, all of 4,512 suspect cases would have been diagnosed as “measles”. There would be talk of a massive outbreak in 2014.

            – Instead, using the post-vaccine criteria, only 2 of those 4,512 suspect cases is labled measles. What the heck do the remaining 4,510 cases suffer from? nobody gives a flying f.ck, they’re a non-issue!

            This way, a simple shift in the diagnosis achieves a whooping 95,6% reduction of incidence…. even if the vaccine were an injection of saline!

            The implication of the diagnostic restrictions introduced by the vaccine are mind boggling!

            It begs the question: How many “measles” cases were actually measles before the vaccine? Today’ s suspect/confirmed ratio allows us to make an educated guess of a mere 0,44% for the pre-vaccine incindece of true measles. Whoa! you’ve all been had!

          248. Once again, you illustrate exactly why someone with precisely zero understanding of the medical field should not be making pronouncements on public health.

            If I explain this to you, what are the chances that you will take that on board?

            Hint: we do not bother with lab confirmation of most measles because we know from long and clinically-confirmed experience that measles is more contagious than any other disease on earth — literally so. It is assumed because it is safe to assume, that any person who develops the symptoms of measles after exposure to measles, has measles.

            The measles outbreak number of 4,500+ is even now classed as measles, if it involves the development of measles symptoms after exposure to a known measles case.

            Is this genuinely too complicated for you to understand, or do you just not care if you understand, you’re going to stick to your story no-matter-what?

          249. You’re trying to weasle out without answering to my questions:

            1. In view of the following:

            https://m.jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S17.full

            The surveillance definitions for measles were also revised. The clinical case definition and definition of a suspected case of measles remained the same

            when you rant about the allegedly “high measles incidence” pre-vaccine, how do you know the incidence of “true measles” as opposed to “measles-like diseases”, since the old criteria were clinical and have remained the same?

            2. If not measles, what conditions were the 4,510 “measles-like” cases sufferning from?

            3. What was the mortality among those 4,510 “measles like” cases?

            4. Why nobody gives a f.k about that huge epidemic? (hint: it doesn’t sell vaccines).

          250. From your own link:

            https://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/febrile_seizures/detail_febrile_seizures.htm

            Most febrile seizures last only a few minutes and are accompanied by a fever above 101°F .

            So it’s not “often above 100°F”, lying bastrd, but most above 101°F

            A fever is considered “high” when >= 102°F (that is, above 101°F), see
            https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003090.htm

            Therefore, the large majority of seizures caused by the vaccine cannot be attributed to fever, whether high or low, and you’re exposed as a lying shill.

            Now bend over backwards until your head enters your colon again…

          251. Oh dear, diddums, you are getting very abusive.

            And evidently you don’t mind ignoring all the other detail, like the fact that 2-5% of all children have a febrile seizure before the age of 5, that they are most often the result of an infection from an actual illness, nor that they resolve without any long-term issue or damage…nor the fact that you could find on Google, very easily, another large number of pages which also say that many febrile seizures are not accompanied by a high rise in fever. But I’m not surprised; you’ve already established a pattern of cherrypicking one or two sentences which you think support you, and ignoring all the rest, and of torturing any definition to suit your own ends.

            Note, too: there is evidence that timely vaccination reduces febrile seizure.
            https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1176205-overview

            Again, I have no doubt that you will ignore this and fall back on abusive language again.

          252. “…Medical professionals do not leap to the assumptions that you do for a reason”

            A good doctor sticks to the precautionary principle. You’re not a doctor even if by chance you had a piece of paper saying so.

          253. Febrile seizures were orders of magnitude more frequent than 1:14000 in the pre-vaccine era. What you want to do is freeload on the safety provided by everyone else’s vaccination: i.e., we’re keeping nasty germs away from your kids.

          254. “…Febrile seizures were orders of magnitude more frequent than 1:14000 in the pre-vaccine era.

            Evidence????

            Seizures by the DTaP vaccine cannot be attributed to fever:

            https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/safety/side_effects/#dtap
            DTaP vaccine side-effects
            Common:

            – Seizure (jerking or staring) (about 1 child out of 14,000)

            – High fever, 105 degrees Fahrenheit or higher (about 1 child out of 16,000)

            Obviously, less fevers can’t account for most of the seizures

            Then what’s the mechanism of DTAP seizures?

            By looking at the severe adverse events, we find the seizures listed again, albeit it their most horrioble form: long-term, coma and premanent brain damage.

            Uncommon

            – Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
            – Permanent brain damage.

            Obviously, the DTAP mechanism for all seizures, both common and rare, must be the same …. which is no other than brain damage to various degrees.

          255. You are not a doctor. Seizures a common in life and not an injury. You fully recover nearly immediately. The chances anyone will have a noticeable seizure is 10% in your lifetime for no reason at all.
            https://patient.info/doctor/first-seizure

            Abnormal electrical activity is not brain damage. Deja Vu is a brain seizure. Leave medicine to the pros and stop pretending you know what you are talking about.

          256. You need to be able to recognize fever seizures and know what to do. Any fever can cause them and there is no permanent damage.

            Everything I said is true and you need to know it.

            But you don’t. To quote YOU: “I’m just chelating myself and my daughter and we are getting better. And
            all of the autistic mothers in my group, their children are getting
            better too.”

            I wish you didn’t have kids to torture with quack treatments.

          257. How is it a quack treatment if we’re recovering? I weighed 94 lbs and could barely get out of bed. Now I’m functional and on the road to recovery. If you were a decent person, you’d be happy for me and my daughter. But not surprisingly, your agenda is more important to you. Thank God we all found these “quack” treatments! For you to refer to them that way when you have absolutely no first hand understanding or experience with them is utterly pathetic.

          258. Your kid would be recovering if you did nothing. That is what usually happens and autistic symptoms improve with age, That is the scam that charlatans pull. A number of people improve anyway and they point at them and claims successes.

            Autism is genetic. Chelation does nothing for it.

            It probably makes you feel better to impose quack treatment on your kid but that all it does. It makes you feel better because you think you are doing something. You are not helping your kid; you are just helping yourself.

          259. “..Your kid would be recovering if you did nothing.

            Are you a futurologist? This from a person that claims a healthy kid will die if you don’t medically intervene (vaccines).

          260. Nope, and Nope, and Nope. Go build your straw man elsewhere. Here are the facts.

            The vast majority of medical conditions clear up without medical intervention.

            More than 10 percent of preschool-age children diagnosed with autism saw some improvement in their symptoms by age 6 and 20 percent of the children made some gains in everyday functioning, a new study found.

            https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-kids-with-autism-show-improvement-by-age-6/
            Yes, about 1/3 of autistic children see improvement without any treatment by the age of 6. That comes in very convenient for the charlatans who sell quack. They will always be able to claim a 1/3 improvement rate.
            It’s a very old trick to pull on the naïve. Are you one of those?

          261. “…The vast majority of medical conditions clear up without medical intervention.”

            Then you should shift your concerns towards the conditions, including death, that are caused by medical interventions on “patients” (if you can call them so) that are perfectly healthy (vaccines).

          262. you are just making Imaginary claims from a desperate person. You have zero evidence. On the other hand, the WHO documented that 145,700 people dies last year from the measles worldwide.

            Are you going to personally provide them with sanitation, clean water, and rich nutrition? You just want them to not get the vaccine and die?

          263. “…the WHO documented that 145,700 people dies last year from the measles worldwide.”

            Are you mentally impared to equate the living conditions in the countries where peole die of “measles” with the living conditions where they don’t?

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7853750

            The immune function and measles virus infection in three different socioeconomic child populations in Karachi, Pakistan.

            “…These results suggest that the living environmental conditions of these different socioeconomic groups vary greatly and hygienic conditions must influence the chance of encountering infectious pathogens including measles virus…”

            You should ask yourself why the measles vaccine doesn’t seem to work for starving Africans, Einstein, in spite of a coverage equivalent to the West, if not higher.

          264. You didn’t answer the question.

            Are you going to personally provide them with sanitation, clean water, and rich nutrition? You just want them to not get the vaccine and die?

          265. The vaccine is a scam that sucks up government’s resources that could provide them with sanitation, clean water and nutrition… the true solution.

          266. So you would just prefer that the poor people fo the world die instead of getting a vaccine. So you are a racist that believes in eugenics. Not a surprise.

          267. The results of mass measles vaccination in Africa are already known: mass death by measles.

            Vaccines don’t replace water and food, morons! Stop bleeding the budgets of African countries so they can help their people, not your pockets.

          268. see, you’re an idiot. You just assumed that all those people were vaccinated when the vaccination rate in the third work is low. You are just full of bad ideas you just made up.

          269. You’ve just won the Blithering Moron of the Day award, congrats!

            https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/07/measles-vaccination-rates-africa-surpass-north-america

            Measles vaccination rates in parts of Africa surpass those in North America

            “..Good Governance Africa survey shows that 16 African countries have near 100% vaccination rates”

            In spite of it, measles mortality doesn’t drop. Africa is the evidence that the meaasles vaccine is a scam and it doesn’t prevent ZILCH.

          270. “inparts” moron, not in all. what makes you think its only Africa. the number is “worldwide”. You ARE just a racists.

          271. DESPITE improved vaccination rates, the figure still stands at 400 a day.

            Despite = vaccination not working according to the vaccinology belief system book.

            But let’s make it another vaccine “success” story though, vax farts never smell.

          272. Actually, the sentence ” 600 African children died every day” refers to Africa, Wisconsin.

          273. We know your comprehension skills are poor since you are an anti-vaxxer, but it’s not necessary to confirm it constantly with really poor trolling.

          274. What? Nutrition preventing mortality from infectious disease? Light up the stake, we’ve got a heretic!

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21868478

            2011 – Vitamin A supplements for preventing mortality, illness, and blindness in children aged under 5: systematic review and meta-analysis.

            RESULTS: 43 trials with about 215,633 children were included. … Vitamin A supplementation was associated with a reduced incidence of diarrhoea (0.85, 0.82 to 0.87) and measles (0.50, 0.37 to 0.67) …Seventeen trials including 194,483 participants reported a 24% reduction in all cause mortality (rate ratio=0.76, 95% confidence interval 0.69 to 0.83)..

            Africans, if you’re reading us please spend your meager budgets wisely: skip your meals and spend it on vaccines from Merck!

          275. Sorry. You can NEVER make up for thinking vaccines are Homeopathic. You are a confirmed idiot AND a racists.

          276. Actually I called him a eugenics racists since the things poor third worlders should just die from the measles instead of getting vaccines.
            147,500 people died worldwide from the measles and he wants that number to grow.
            How about you? Would you like a million brown people to die just to stop the measles vaccine?

          277. “…147,500 people died worldwide from the measles and he wants that number to grow.”

            Alright, you prefer to go “worldwide” in order to mix as many confounding factors as you can to muddle the topic. Old vax-pusher tactics.

            There are two areas of the world: the sufficiently fed and the pooorly fed. You can’t apply the epidemic criteria of the latter to the former, blithering moron, because chronic malnutrition is THE breeding ground of any infectious disease and vacines don’t prevent anything in malnourished areas (as I’ ve proven above and won’t bother posting again).

          278. We understand completely that you want the poorly fed to not be vaccinated and die. That’s very clear. It’s called eugenics.

          279. Justthefacts didn’t mention Hitler yet, buth she will. Her argumentarium is bottom feeding already.

          280. It is just the standard anti-vaccine cult ploy:
            “When you run out of information you can distort and misrepresent, just make something up and lie, lie, lie. Lie like there is no tomorrow.”

            Most of them have got this aspect of being a cultist down pat.

          281. Did I read ESTIMATED?

            Measles deaths in Africa fell by 91% between 2000 and 2006, from an estimated 396 000 to 36 000

            Why do vaccine pushers always resort to own ASS-TIMATES? … because the real numbers prove them WRONG.

          282. Keep putting up funny memes you professional troll. Your bully tactics are an obvious indication of your intellectual weakness.

          283. I was only doing it to the incredible moron Vacunas because he is sooooo stupid there is no reason to respond. Thinking vaccines are homeopathic and there is no such thing as airborne transmission of disease sets a new low bar for an anti- vaxx troll.
            If you want to defend him, I’m not surprised. You have said some very ignorant stuff yourself.

          284. In contrast, when asked for the scientific evidence of your canned slogans you remain as moot as a straight in an LGBT topic area lol.

          285. It’s true, I do see a lot of these ‘childish’ memes from the professional trolls. It really gives some insight into their character and bullying tactics. It doesn’t go unnoticed; people can see through this. I can’t imagine any person with intelligence posting these silly memes. They also make fake twitter accounts that are intended to insult and bully; like the one for cia, suz, and David. School yard bullying at its best.

          286. Umm, there are many places in the Third World that don’t yet have good vaccination coverage and the cases and deaths occur there disproportionately. The vaccine works great. Your brain, not so clear.

          287. “..the cases and deaths occur there disproportionately”

            There there’s lack of vaccination, the diagnostic criteria is clinical only as opposed to lab confirmed.

            The result is a gross overestimation of the actual incidence, but very convenient to sell the need for vaccines!

            This old WHO swindle is so engrained thati’s EXPLICITELY RECOMMENDED in the organization’s guidelines:

            https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measles_standards/en/

            WHO-recommended surveillance standard of measles

            “Countries are advised to use the clinical classification scheme until their programmes meet the following two criteria:

            – low level of measles incidence;

            – access to a proficient measles laboratory (translation: WHO controlled)

            The laboratory classification scheme should be used by countries in the low incidence or elimination phase

            The WHO changes the diagnostic rules in the middle of the game, switching to a stricter diagnosis, inorder to make its vaccination campain appear “successful”.

          288. It’s funny how cranks who don’t think trained doctors can reliably diagnose measles to a high degree of accuracy without a lab test do think totally untrained and in some cases uneducated parents can determine the cause of their little snowflakes’ autism.

            This isn’t a swindle. This is the medical equivalent of the people who think there is a hidden part of the tax code that exempts you from the income tax if you don’t use Zip codes.

          289. “…It’s funny how cranks who don’t think trained doctors can reliably diagnose measles to a high degree of accuracy without a lab test

            Let’s look at the performance of “trained doctors” in Mexico:

            2014: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            The accuracy of your “trained doctors” at diagnosing measles by clinical presentation is, therefore, a whoping 0.04% !!!

            Who’s looking really really stupid now?

          290. “…It’s funny how cranks who don’t think trained doctors can reliably diagnose measles to a high degree of accuracy without a lab test

            Stupidity, ignorance, denial, all of it… what is your problem?

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2560776/pdf/10916925.pdf

            Page 861:

            “… The WHO case definition of measles requires the presence of fever and rash with one or more of the following symptoms: cough, coryza or conjunctivitis (2).

            However, these clinical presentations can readily be confused with other rash-associated conditions, particularly those due to viruses, such as roseola infantum, humanherpesvirus-6 (HHV-6), rubella, dengue and parvovirus.

            In the first 35 weeks of an enhanced surveillance programme in England and Wales (3), it was reported that ONLY 3.7% (126/3442) OF NOTIFIED MEASLES CASES WERE CONFIRMED IN THE LABORATORY.…”

            By switching from clincal diagnosis to lab confirmed you get a “magical” 96.3% immediate reduction in incidence … by diagnostic restrictions only … whether you also use a vaccine or a kiss in the butt!

          291. the WHO documented that 145,700 people dies last year from the measles worldwide.

            Well no, actually the WHO’s figure is an ASS-TIMATE.

            Kids don’t die frm measles unless they’re malnourished, and if they are then they will die of anytthing anyway since malnourished bodies can’t fight any disease.

          292. We got it/. You are a racist who supports the eugenics of letting people die “anyway” just to withhold vaccines which you think are homeopathic. You don’t need to repeat yourself.

            You are a glowing example of an anti-vaxxer. Please continue with other lunacy.

          293. It is because they are what we call shills. People paid to comment on a certain subject to mislead and coerce opinion. Just look at their comment histories, article to article they roam posting comments to hide vaccine dangers and encourage vaccine uptake. They hide behind pretty pics like Cathy but are really fat middle aged cheeto munching mongers drooling gravy out of their slobbering astroturfing mugs. They are on here 24/7 and they hate autistic children.

          294. what kiko said. some of them are also nasty people who’ve found a way to make money out of their desire to abuse.

          295. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually was MMS treatment she was using. they tend to call it something else so they don’t get charged with child abuse…

          296. There is no telling what woo that woman and her friends have been sold. There are a lot of woo merchants pushing basic “chelation” to cure EVERYTHING. but is doesn’t and it’s not real chelation. Its more likely a “cleanse” being sold as chelation. since she is “chelating herself”, it can be real chelation.

            Real chelation is the the injection of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid into the bloodstream that requires a real doctor (or quack).

          297. “…There is no telling what woo that woman and her friends have been sold”

            This from a homeopathic vaccine woo salesman. Your face is made of bricks!

          298. Yes, you think vaccines are homeopathic.

            Please say it again. I wish discrediting anti-vaxxers was always this easy.

            Please, one more time.

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          300. Safest human activity ever invented? Ha, safer than breathing, safer than pooping, blinking, thinking, drinking, seeing, peeing, dreaming creaming, pies that is, so vaccines are the safest things on the planet I guess. Twilight zone.

          301. I got some bad news for ya, ace. You didn’t invent breathing or pooping, blinking, thinking, drinking, seeing, peeing, or dreaming creaming pies. That stuff is evolutionary. It’s natural. It may amaze you so much that you think you invented it, but you didn’t. You can do that naturally (I hope).
            “Inventing” are for people who think and accomplish things. That is not you……..

          302. “…That stuff is evolutionary. It’s natural.”

            So is the immune system that has evolved for millions of years, Einstein, yet you believe it’s defective and can’t function properly without vaccine homeopathic quakery.

          303. Hey moron, you just copied this from one of my posts:

            “…The vast majority of medical conditions clear up without medical intervention”
            So apparently you are too stupid to remember what you just typed five minutes ago. Try to keep your thoughts straight.
            So you think vaccines are “homeopathy’? Are you really that stupid. Honest question. Are you that stupid?

          304. “…So you think vaccines are “homeopathy’?

            Vaccination and homeopathy are based on the same principle: what causes a disease will cure (prevent) the disease in smaller doses

            But while homeopathy is placebo, vaccination is worse because the diluted cause (the antigen) is mixed with a long list of both controlled and uncontrolled substances (adjuvants, extraneous proteins, neurotoxins…) that cause random toxic reactions and random antibodies that may damage the patient’s own tissues… for life (autoimmune diseases).

          305. You are the dumbest person I have ever seen on any board. You probably can’t even understand all the words. You not only stupid, you are proud of it.

          306. Nope, you are the dumbest person I have ever seen. You don’t know the difference between vaccines and homeopathy.
            Please let me keep pointing that out.

          307. “You are the dumbest person I have ever seen on any board”
            Hang on… there is always eggman2 and Lowell Hubbs to provide the Vacuous one with stiff competition.

          308. it would be a good debate to argue of the dumbest anti-vaxxer on the internet but I think Vacunas has an edge. Vacunas actually thinks vaccines work homeopathically. On their worse day, eggman2 and Lowell Hubbs wouldn’t even try to sell that crap.
            I’m not kidding. Do you have a dumber line from someone else?

          309. “…Vacunas actually thinks vaccines work homeopathically.”

            Quote me where I said that vaccines “work”, blithering moron.

          310. “Do you have a dumber line from someone else?”
            Too many dumb antivax contenders to count.
            I should start keeping a list.

          311. To add, he now thinks that “airborne transmission” of viruses like measles doesn’t exist.

          312. I am trying to recall if it was him who said Haemophilus influenzae was the Influenza virus, and cursed and swore and called me stupid for contradicting him.

            Sorry, that was “Tannim” – probably just one of his multiple socks.

          313. “Do you have a dumber line from someone else?”

            I do. Tristan Wells says that lung cancer and tuberculosis are the same disease.

          314. Okay. I’ll have to think about it but that is close to maximum stupidity. I will propose that thinking vaccines are homeopathic is stupidity about the primary subject of the conversation where thinking cancer and tuberculosis are the same disease is peripheral stupidity. That’s my argument for Tristan being the second dumbest person on the boards.

            Your turn.

          315. What makes you assume the vaccine contains “smaller doses”, anyway?

            To catch typhoid you need to swallow as few as 100 Salmonella typhi bacilli. The live typhoid vaccine contains millions.

          316. “…To catch typhoid you need to swallow as few as 100 Salmonella typhi bacilli.”

            The primary scientific source for that is “Mike Steven’s ass”.

          317. “..you just copied this from one of my posts:”…The vast majority of medical conditions clear up without medical intervention”

            By equating my statement to yours, you acknowledge that the immune system that has evolved for millions of years is not defective and can function properly without vaccine homeopathic quakery.

            Now we all see who has trouble keeping her thoughts straight.

          318. You are just a moron. You think vaccines and homeopathy is the same thing. You are a new level of stupid.

          319. No, I said vaccines are the worst kind of homeopathy: toxic homeopathy. You’re not paying attention and therefore your pee is aiming off the bowl.

          320. If you were as smart as you pretend to, you’d be proving me wrong. Instead, you’re whining like a schoolgirl.

          321. If the natural immune system is so wonderful, why have billions of kids died from infectious diseases in the last century?

            If the natural infant immune system is so wonderful, how is it that it is bettered with artificial help?

          322. “…why have billions of kids died from infectious diseases in the last century?

            Because malnourishment depresses the immune system.

            Africa proves that nearly 100% vaccination rate cannot curb mortality from infectious diseases among a malnourished population:

            https://www.theguardian.com/soc

            Measles vaccination rates in parts of Africa surpass those in North America.

            “..Good Governance Africa survey shows that 16 African countries have near 100% vaccination rates

            “That said, in 2000 an estimated 600 African children died from measles every day. Despite improved vaccination rates, the figure still stands at 400 a day, according to GGA’s researcher, Kate Van Niekerk.”

          323. But…but… evolution means Sooper Dooper Peter T Hooper immunity, surely!
            You mean eating the wrong stuff can just mess it up like that?
            Sounds like immunity needs a bit of help from vaccines, huh?

          324. “…evolution means Sooper Dooper Peter T Hooper immunity, surely!

            And don’t forget Super Muscles too if you’re a breatharian, Einstein.

          325. “..Sounds like immunity needs a bit of help from vaccines, huh?

            Obviously, the immune system has evolved to thrive on vaccines, not food.

            However, 400 measles deaths a day among populations vaccinated to nearly 100% does not really qualify as “help”, does it?

          326. “…And how many measles deaths per day were there in 0% vaccinated populations, Vacuous one?”

            And how many would there be if the vaccine money would have been spent on improving their living conditions instead of being drained towards the US?

          327. A measles vaccine costs less than $1.00
            Feeding a child for life in the third world and ensuring access to 100% pure water 100% of the time costs a bit more than that.

          328. “..A measles vaccine costs less than $1.00”

            In contrast, the logistics involved (maintaining the cold chain, injection equipment, multiple level managers, etc.) are cost-free, isn’t it, moron?

          329. Unfortunately, you fail to appreciate that measles and other airborne infections are not “water borne”.
            They will happen even when kids have pure water and adequate sewerage and good food.

          330. Jeesus! This moron truely believes measles viruses are lurking in the air. Next he’ll invoke zillions of studies that have proven it zillions of times and only exist in la-vax-land.

            Here, moron, this is what stops measles from spreading:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7853750

            The immune function and measles virus infection in three different socioeconomic child populations in Karachi, Pakistan.

            “…These results suggest that the living environmental conditions of these different socioeconomic groups vary greatly and hygienic conditions must influence the chance of encountering infectious pathogens including measles virus…”

          331. “This moron truely believes measles viruses are lurking in the air.”
            Do you have the vaguest concept of what “airborne transmission” means?
            Go read up about it before demonstrating how neuropenic you really are, and stop living up to your “vacuous” nym.

          332. “…Do you have the vaguest concept of what “airborne transmission” means?”

            Concepts are one dime a dozen. A bit harder is to provide primary scientific sources proving the concept is fact-based rather than wild speculation for lack of anything better to show.

          333. So you don’t know what “airborne transmission” is.

            Thanks for the confirmation, vacuous one.

          334. How do you know these things were not invented? You know how we all came to be, oh please dish, can not wait to hear this one.

          335. So you really think you invented breathing….
            You invented breathing
            I’ll just let that stand on it’s own.

          336. I love when I get personalized pics, snap your fingers and sing along, is JTF mad, snap, or nah, snap, mad, snap, or nah, snap

          337. In total, 76 million people in the United States get sick and 5,000 people die each year from food-related illnesses.

            Its safer to get vaccinated than it is to eat.

          338. I do believe Justthefacts is in need of Ritalin for his ADHD. I keep seeing silly memes instead of intelligent arguments. He’s out of control. Perhaps a double dose of Ritalin?

          339. “…Its safer to get vaccinated than it is to eat.”

            Obviously, since man is the result of millions of years of Evolution in a vaccine-rich environment, not a food-rich one, is that it?

            When we thought the height of idiocy had been reached, Justthefact surprises us.

          340. Less than 300 people are injured every year by vaccines. 5000 people die every year from eating. You are also stupid with numbers.

          341. Go get 3 vaccines a day like you get 3 meals, smart ass, then come back to me. Your understanding of maths tells me you make a living by cleaning skid marks off public toilets.

          342. Your “logic” works like this:

            Cyanide kills less that 20 people a year. In contrast, 5,000 people die every year from eating, therefore food is more poisonous than cyanide.

            Don’t forget to flush when you leave!

          343. To start will, stupid, the number is closer to 300 cyanide deaths per year with 294 in 2013.
            Second, cyanide isn’t not an :”activity”, you moron. People don’t take cyanide for fun. Is there no end your ignorance and arrogant stupidity?
            How many stupid things are you going to say before you stop?

          344. I am familiar with vaccine inserts, and there are only a very small number of vaccines which can cause encephalopathy or encephalitis. This is vanishingly rare, so for MMR vaccine for instance it is less than one in a million vaccine shots.

            Your implication is that vaccines cause autism, which at supposed prevalence rates would mean that vaccines would cause “encephalitis/encephalopathy” in one in 40 children.
            Your numbers don’t add up, but that is always one of the antivaxers’ problems, isn’t it?

          345. Of course I do, an adverse event is a “plausibly deniable” side effect observed in a trial setting.

            What do manufacturers report adverse events for? so that you can deny the relationship to the product?

          346. “..It’s legal CYA…”

            of course it is … just in case a victim claims “I wasn’t informed about the risks”

          347. There is a difference between adverse event and side effect – it’s explained on the inserts – try again.

          348. “…There is a difference between adverse event and side effect – it’s explained on the inserts..”

            No difference for the subject’s point of view, though! LOL

            Why would manufacturers report adverse events if they were truly unrelated to the vaccines as you believe?

          349. Vaccines cause brain damage, that is why they had to put it on the insert. If someone breaks their club feet they don’t list it on the insert so take your turf tactic and try again.

        2. “Autism is poorly defined.”
          It has clear criteria for definition, but it is a clinical construct with some uncertainty about the significance of any one symptom or sign.
          But I agree with you, it is unclear, which enables antivaccine activists to incorrectly claim that any form of neurological manifestation is “autism”.

        3. Forget ‘plausible’, show us your verified proof. No blogs, no phony anti-vaxxer websites, no debunked articles. PROOF!

      2. There are over 100 studies linking brain damage caused by vaccines to autism. Do your research if you have a conscience.

        But then again you’re probably a paid industry troll.

        1. There are many more studies debunking that link. The overwhelming consensus of experts is that vaccines do not contribute in any way to autism; I am not aware of *any* autism specialists, neurologists, or epidemiologists who disagree.

          There will always be a few papers taking contrary positions. That’s how human beings work–we like to be contrarians. There’s a peer-reviewed paper out there that concludes that Bigfoot is real and has angel and/or alien DNA: https://www.sasquatchgenomeproject.org/sasquatch_genome_project_002.htm

          Does that mean that half-angel Bigfoots are stalking our forests? No. It means that people can publish anything they want. The consensus of experts is the best guide to actual scientific fact.

          There’s a reason that the expert consensus favors the safety and efficacy of vaccines: they’re safe and effective. That’s why actual neurologists and autism specialists vaccinate themselves and their families: they know more about it than we do, and conclude that vaccines are the best way to protect your children from dangerous diseases.

          1. 1)If someone makes a claim that someone is being paid – it is up to them to prove it, not up to the accused to prove they’re not.

            2)Even if someone was being paid, that wouldn’t actually affect whether their comment was true or not. Might alter the likelihood but if, say, hypothetically, I paid someone to post that 1+1 = 2 and hypothetically, Colin was to prove that they were paid…guess what? 1+1 still = 2.

      3. You are another propaganda prostitute working for the junk medicine robber barons ( the vaccine makers ) ? I think I can remember you.

        1. I have never worked for a vaccine maker. The myth that people who disagree are shills is a defense mechanism–a way to justify ignoring opinions that make you uncomfortable, because you cannot find facts that justify your position. There is a reason that 99.99% of doctors support vaccination and vaccinate their own families: vaccines are safe and effective. The scare stories you’re falling for are urban legends, like people who railed against electric lights because they supposedly emitted poisonous vapors.

          1. Aaaah, this is where the truth comes out. There are only two choices: either you are a propaganda prostitute working for the junk medicine robber barons ( the vaccines and other junk medicine makers ) , or you are an extremely stupid person. You have chosen the last choice. That is so because it is extremely stupid to believe that injecting ” GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” ( VACCINES ) is good for one’s health.

            You might as well could have said that 100% of allopathic physicians are stupid, and you would be right. A profession that for centuries has been having women giving birth lying down, cutting the umbilical cord, performing circumcision, and so on. If it wasn’t for those stupid guys there would not be any ambulance chasing lawyers around. They poison people, maim people, kill people; there is no end to it. But stupid people, that are very much influenced by the placebo effect, still believe that they can achieve good health just by visiting them.

          2. If every time that I am going to answer you, they are going to erase my comment because you are one of their favorite propaganda prostitutes, there is nothing I can do. Money wins.

    3. Wow, it’s amazing that this “comment” has stayed on the top of pile for 2 days……time to change it up.

    4. There you go. Spitting out more of your vaccine propaganda prostitute’s lies again. Anti science is the stupid-allopathic-modern-junk-medical-pseudoicientific religion.

    5. Dangerous lies…coming from real scientists and medical professionals.

      ‘Science Journal Pulls 60 Papers in Peer-Review Fraud’

      July10, 2014 source: The New York Times

      And another article…

      “In the past 2 years, journals have been forced to retract more than 110 papers in at least 6 instances of peer-review rigging. What all these cases had in common was that researchers exploited vulnerabilities in the publishers’ computerized systems to dupe editors into accepting manuscripts, often by doing their own reviews. The cases involved publishing behemoths Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE and Wiley, as well as Informa, and they exploited security flaws that — in at least one of the systems — could make researchers vulnerable to even more serious identity theft”…Source nature dot com-news-publishing-the peer- review-scam

      How about some more news headlines…

      “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” -Dr. Marcia Angell

      ‘Fraud in medical journals increasing’

      “The percentage of scientific articles retracted due to fraud has increased approximately 10-fold since 1975, with a smaller increase in retractions due to error.”

      ‘Deceit and fraud in medical research’

      Abstract

      Deceit and fraud in medical research is a serious problem for the credibility of published literature. Although estimating its prevalence is difficult, reported incidences are alarming” source Journal-Surgery

      ‘A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies’

      “Dr. Scott Reuben, who is accused of faking medical research studies, including some that were published in medical journals, was charged with health care fraud Thursday in federal court in Boston”

      ‘Medical Research Fraud: Professors Go Unpunished in Glaxo $3 Billion Guilty Plea Over Paxil-‘

      “The journal that published the fraudulent research has failed to retract it, and editor-in-chief Andres S. Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, told the Chronicle he had no comment on the options the journal might take.

      Although Glaxo pled guilty and paid $3 billion in fines, none of the academics have been disciplined by their universities for their roles in perpetrating research fraud. Moreover, according to the Chronicle, several continue to receive federal grants from the National Institute of Health”…source The Nation

      “Scientific Publisher BioMed Central has withdrawn 43 papers, and is investigating many more, over what it calls the “fabrication” of peer reviews. Representatives of Journal editors have admitted the papers are the tip of a dangerous iceberg, and the scandal may to lead to an overhaul of how peer review is conducted.

      Peer review is fundamental to science, a central part of the process of self-correction that sets it aside from faith-based systems. True peer review does not end with publication; plenty of scientific papers are published only to subsequently be shown to have major flaws.

      The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) issued a statement saying they have, “become aware of systematic, inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review processes of several journals across different publishers” ..source iflscience

  10. Thank you for supporting common sense legislation to improve vaccination rates and protect children’s health. Parents who reject vaccinations do so out of emotion rather than logic and science, and children should be protected from those types of decisions.

      1. The rare cases of vaccine injuries are tragic. Nothing is 100% safe, and while it’s extremely rare, vaccines sometimes do cause serious harms, most commonly through a severe allergic reaction.

        The cases of parents that believe against the evidence that vaccines cause the children’s harm – and that is true of most internet vaccine injury stories, which includes claims that vaccines cause autism, allergies, and other things they don’t cause – are also very sad. Those parents are caught in unjustified bitterness and anger, and in addition, use their stories to scare others from protecting their children from diseases.

        https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/vaccine-injury-stories-the-sacred-cows-of-the-internet/

        https://pediatrics.about.com/od/vaccinesafety/fl/Vaccine-Injury-Stories.htm

        Those rare harms, however, do not negate the point above: the small risks of vaccines are much smaller than the risks of not vaccinating. For each child except the few with medical contraindications – and those kids depend on the rest of us – vaccinating is the safer choice. And if a child is denied vaccines, society can and should at least act to reduce the risk of disease to others.

        After all, the vaccine-deprived vaccines are at highest risk if there’s an outbreak. Reducing the number of non-vaccinated children and preventing them from making schools less safe protects society and protects the children left unvaccinated, too.

        1. The injuries are tragic – and since there is not a system used for tracking vaccine injuries, you have no data to make that assumption.

          Moreover, adverse drug reactions are the 4th leading cause of death in the country. I wonder how high it would be if vaccines (and yes, they are classified as a drug) were also taken into account?

          https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/DrugInteractionsLabeling/ucm110632.htm

          After all, the same drug manufacturers also make the vaccines.

          1. We don’t depend on reports and tracking to know about vaccine injuries. They are studied in studies from all around the world. For example, studies looked at whether they caused leukemia, allergies, autism – and found they did not.

            But there are also systems to tracking vaccine injuries in every country. In the U.S., as was already mentioned by you, there are two – VAERS, a passive system which the CDC uses to track patterns, and VSD.

            We know a lot about vaccine safety. So we do know that vaccine injuries are very, very rare. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

          2. My reference is a review article reviewing studies. Are you unaware that we have many studies looking at these issues? For example, of leukemia:

            Groves FD, Gridley G, et. al. Infant vaccinations and risk of
            childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the USA. Br J Cancer. 1999
            Sep;81(1):175-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10487630

            Ma X, Does MB,
            et. al. Vaccination history and risk of childhood leukaemia. Int J Epidemiol.
            2005 Oct;34(5):1100-9. Epub 2005 Jun 10.
            https://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/5/1100.long

            If you are unaware of the many studies looking at vaccine safety, I urge you to read them.

          3. The reference is a meta review of studies that include case controlled studies.

            Why are you under the impression case-controlled is a higher form of evidence than a meta-review? That’s not generally the case.

          4. As shown by his VAERS list/statement, Jeffry is apparently functionally illiterate.
            That may explain it.

          5. Jeffry John Aufderheide is behind Vactuth.com and has been accused of lying about his navy career by the daily beast. and defends child abusers. He is not worth a minute of your time. See my post above.

          6. So you don’t understand meta reviews either. Oh, what a surprise. We’re all so surprised. Surprised, I tell you.

            Meta reviews collect together the highest quality clinical tests and pool the data.

          7. “Your reference is still not case-controlled, regardless of what you post afterwards. Sorry.”

            You appear not to know what a “case controlled” study is, Jeffrey.

            Dorit’s first citation provides a perfect example:

            Vaccination histories were compared in 439 children (ages 0–14) diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in nine Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic states (USA) between 1 January 1989 and 30 June 1993 and 439 controls selected by random-digit dialing and individually matched to cases on age, race and telephone exchange. Among matched pairs, similar proportions of cases and controls had received at least one dose of oral poliovirus (98%), diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis (97%), and measles–mumps–rubella (90%) vaccines.

            Sorry.

          8. Jeffry John Aufderheide is behind Vactuth.com and claims that vaccines cause homosexuality and defends child abusers. He is not worth a minute of your time. See my post above.

          9. Warning: the preceding post s a slogan soup. Any similarity with reality is pure coincidence.

          10. There is a system used for tracking vaccine injuries: VAERS.

            Harm or even death from preventable diseases are FAR more likely than harm from vaccines. I am sorry if your child had an adverse reaction but your demands would place other people’s children at inappropriate risk given any reasonable cost/benefit analysis.

        2. Vaccinating amounts to deliberately exposing healthy kids to iatrogenic damage. In contrast, opting out of vaccines does not mean deliberately exposing kids to illness, since vaccination is a routine procedure despite lack of a concrete and measurable epidemic threat.

          1. Choosing not to vaccinate is consciously choosing to leave a child at risk of disease. Just like choosing not to maintain your brakes is consciously choosing to risk their failing.

          2. What risk of disease? Would you care to calculate what the risk of polio is in the absence of polio? Please drop the brainless canned slogans, will you?

          3. Why is polio absent? Because most people vaccinate. But it, too, is still only a plane ride away.

          4. The biggest causal tie with autism is Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks for a child to a parent for a social / psychological / mental disorder diagnosis such as autism, which is a spectrum disorder where there’s a large degree of subjectivity. When welfare reform eliminated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), many welfare folks were looking for another source of income. SSI fit the bill, and many welfare parents coached their kids to “act crazy” in order when meeting with a sympathetic school psychologist or mental health professional to get “crazy checks”, that is a SSI benefit. Autism increased markedly in the aftermath of welfare reform.

            By the way, I’m pro vaccination, and agree wholeheartedly with the editorial. But why is it the lower the family income the greater the incidence of autism?

            Congress May Investigate ‘The Other Welfare:’ SSI
            https://hereandnow.wbur.org/201

            Aid to disabled children now outstrips welfare
            https://www.bostonglobe.com/me

            “The dramatic growth of the children’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has led some researchers to suggest it has simply replaced welfare as a primary source of cash for many families who lost benefits due to the much-touted welfare reforms of the mid-1990s.”

            “The expansion also comes amid a growing recognition among lawmakers and policy analysts that children’s disabilities, especially harder-to-assess ones like ADHD, have become a gateway to receive the best government cash benefits available today, and this trend deserves closer study.”

          5. This is nonsense. Just to get that out there.

            I am the parent of an autistic child with very significant challenges. I am also very well educated on the supports available and a strong advocate for my child.

            SSI support has NEVER been an option for me or for other families I know with disabled children. While some families do obtain this, it is by far the exception and not the rule.

            Further, “Joe Hardhat” exhibits his extreme ignorance of autism by claiming that it is “acting crazy”. Further, if he can teach a disabled child of 2 to “act crazy” in a manner convincing enough to fool a psychiatrist, I suggest that he would be better using his time teaching disabled children (not to act crazy, but if he believes he has such an amazing skill set, put it to good use).

            In short, I repeat myself. This is nonsense.

          6. ADHD is the main feigned or exaggerated diagnosis in order collect SSI, not the autism spectrum.

          7. Let’s see, I point out that “Joe Hardhat” has no evidence and he replies with a no evidence statement.

            Did you try to look up Mandell’s study? Do you even know how?

          8. The Other Welfare
            https://www.boston.com/news/health/specials/New_Welfare/

            The Other Welfare – A legacy of unintended side effects
            https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/12/12/with_ssi_program_a_legacy_of_unintended_side_effects/

            “And once a family gets on SSI, it can be very hard to let go. The attraction of up to $700 a month in payments, and the near-automatic Medicaid coverage that comes with SSI approval, leads some families to count on a child’s remaining classified as disabled, even as his or her condition may be improving. It also leads many teenage beneficiaries to avoid steps — like taking a job — that might jeopardize the disability check.”

            “Of the 1.2 million low-income children nationwide who received SSI checks last year, 53 percent, or 640,000, qualified because of mental, learning, or behavioral issues, up from 8 percent in 1990. By significant margins, the top two disorders are Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, and delayed speech in young children, followed by autism spectrum disorders, bipolar illness, depression, and learning problems, according to the Social Security Administration, which runs this program and the $55 billion SSI system for adults.”

          9. Now I will go out on a limb and point out that I suspect that “Joe Hardhat” is a coward. Courage means apologizing for making disparaging comments about the disabled. I doubt “Joe Hardhat” has the backbone.

            If true to the form, “Joe Hardhat” will either disappear or come back and make further attacks in an attempt to defend his position.

            Note that “Joe Hardhat” presented no evidence. Just opinions stated as fact.

            Joe Hardhat is encouraged to look up the work of David Mandell. Prof. Mandell explored the incomes of families who have autistic children. Income levels are *lower* in these families. Not higher. Certainly not high enough to be pulling the average family income in the US higher (” But why is it the lower the family income the greater the incidence of autism?”

            Repeating myself yet again. His argument is nonsense. It uses stigmatizing language, not only to autistics, but to those with mental illness. Further, he speaks with authority on subjects he is clearly ignorant of.

          10. Coward for speaking the truth and also providing references. I could provide many other credible and convincing references from reputable sources. What can you provide besides your own thoughts.

            As to courage, I’m a Vietnam vet who saw combat in 1969-70 and received a Purple Heart. No Canada or student deferment for me. What have you done?

        3. Jeffry John Aufderheide
          is behind Vactuth.com and defends child abusers. He is not worth a minute of your time.

        1. Vactruth.com is a website operated by Jeffry John Aufderheide and Christina England to oppose childhood vaccination. This site was founded in 2009 by Jeffry John Aufderheide. In 2001 his first son, Brandon, stopped reaching his developmental milestones. After Anfderheide’s personal research of vaccine literature, Jeffry came to the conclusion, on his own, that vaccinations where responsible.

      2. We know you from Vactruth. Your kid was not injured from being vaccinated and that is well know and entirely your imagination,
        Moreover,
        .
        Vactruth.com is a website operated by Jeffry John Aufderheide and Christina England to oppose childhood vaccination. This site was founded in 2009 by Jeffry John Aufderheide. In 2001 his first son, Brandon, stopped reaching his developmental milestones. After Anfderheide’s personal research of vaccine literature, Jeffry came to the conclusion entirely on his own, that vaccinations where responsible.

        Vactruth.com has a poor rating for both trudtworiness and child safety from WOT due to Misleading or unethical claims in addition to hate and discrimination speech based on 403 reviews.

        Vactruth.com has publically made the claim that vaccines may cause homosexuality. This claim is highly disputed.

        Jeffry John Aufderheide has been accused of lying about his navy career by the daily beast. The Navy discredited Aufderheide’s claim that he served as a “rescue swimmer,” stating that he actually served four years as an Information Systems Technician, Third Class.

        In May 2013, during an interview on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, Aufderheide discussed a new government-funded mobile app that he believes is designed to track anti-vaxxers. Later in the same interview, Aufderheide claimed the polio vaccine gives people cancer.

        A writer for Vactruth posted on January 16th, 2104 that a “”Father Jailed For Life Without Parole After His 12 Week-Old Daughter Died After Receiving 8 Vaccinations!” blaming the vaccinations for the death. The police searched the father’s apartment and found crack cocaine. On December 3, 2013 Stephen Guertin, and expert on child abuse, testified that there is no doubt,” Guertin said, “there was violence inflicted on this baby.” He said there were multiple impact sites on her head. Describing autopsy photos to the jury, Guertin said: “You have to have an impact to get those… You have to hit the baby or the baby has to be hit against something.” There are no other parties that claim that vaccines can cause “impact sites” on the head other than Vactruth.com.

        Vactruth.com has a pattern of providing support for a accused child abusers as documented by Science blogs.
        You are a horrible person who protects child abusers. I think that sums it up.

      3. We know you from Vactruth. Your kid was not injured from being vaccinated and that is well know and entirely your imagination,
        Moreover,
        .
        Vactruth is a website operated by Jeffry John Aufderheide and Christina England to oppose childhood vaccination. This site was founded in 2009 by Jeffry John Aufderheide. In 2001 his first son, Brandon, stopped reaching his developmental milestones. After Anfderheide’s personal research of vaccine literature, Jeffry came to the conclusion entirely on his own, that vaccinations where responsible.

        Vactruth has a poor rating for both trudtworiness and child safety from WOT due to Misleading or unethical claims in addition to hate and discrimination speech based on 403 reviews.

        Vactruth has publically made the claim that vaccines may cause homosexuality. This claim is highly disputed.

        Jeffry John Aufderheide has been accused of lying about his navy career by the daily beast. The Navy discredited Aufderheide’s claim that he served as a “rescue swimmer,” stating that he actually served four years as an Information Systems Technician, Third Class.

        In May 2013, during an interview on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, Aufderheide discussed a new government-funded mobile app that he believes is designed to track anti-vaxxers. Later in the same interview, Aufderheide claimed the polio vaccine gives people cancer.

        A writer for Vactruth posted on January 16th, 2104 that a “”Father Jailed For Life Without Parole After His 12 Week-Old Daughter Died After Receiving 8 Vaccinations!” blaming the vaccinations for the death. The police searched the father’s apartment and found crack cocaine. On December 3, 2013 Stephen Guertin, and expert on child abuse, testified that there is no doubt,” Guertin said, “there was violence inflicted on this baby.” He said there were multiple impact sites on her head. Describing autopsy photos to the jury, Guertin said: “You have to have an impact to get those… You have to hit the baby or the baby has to be hit against something.” There are no other parties that claim that vaccines can cause “impact sites” on the head other than Vactruth.com.

        Vactruth has a pattern of providing support for a accused child abusers as documented by Science blogs.
        .
        You are a horrible person who protects child abusers. I think that sums it up.

      1. That’s because there is not even remotely any evidence anywhere that those are or even could be issues. We don’t spend scarce time and money testing for effects that we are confident don’t exist.

          1. And when there is reason to think vaccines have anything to do with cancer, studies are done, as for the SV40 contamination.

            Most of the time, there is no such basis.

            And note the need of anti-vaxers to refer to an old scandal from the 1960s. I’d say that is evidence –
            A. That real problems with vaccines are not hidden. They are, as this was, public.
            B. That such problems are very rare.

          2. No, actually. If you want to claim there is a general biological basis to think vaccines cause cancer, you should provide it. We know there was concern they cause childhood leukemia – and the studies I posted above examined that and showed they did not. We know there was concern about the SV40. Other than that, what’s the basis to claim vaccines can, in any way, cause cancer?

          3. You’re right.

            We should just assume that all of the biological products vaccines are made with are completely safe, regardless of what any of the scientific literature says.

            No testing should be required.

          4. What a strange, off-topic remark. Vaccines are heavily tested in thousands of people in multiple rounds of double-blind controlled clinical trials. To remind you, most vaccines don’t make it to market because they fail safety testing.

            But if you want to claim that in additional to the extensive testing – and post market monitoring – vaccines should also be studied for specific things, there needs to be a biological basis for such testing. when there was a basis to think there’s a link to cancer, studies were done. If you think more studies of a link to cancer is needed – above the clinical testing, above studies that were done – you should show there’s a biological basis for such testing to be done. A reason to think there’s a link.

          5. “…Vaccines are heavily tested in thousands of people in multiple rounds of double-blind controlled clinical trials.”

            As I have already pointed put, vaccine clinical trials are manipulated using two techniques:

            – Toxic placebo. Vaccines are tested against injections of adjuvants or other vaccines. In this manner the effects of said adjuvants – the real culprits – are sold as the “normal” bottom line.

            – Surrogate endpoints. Usually antibodies as “proof of protection”, however, such protection can only be proven by clinical endpoints that have never been tested.

          6. Clinical endpoints are tested all the time. Once again you show your ignorance.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22336803

            Using antibodies as evidence of protection is done in many studies because we know from clinical surveillance that antibodies are actual evidence of protection. Again, you need to learn something real.

          7. That doesn’t matter to the anti-vaxxers. They’ll just claim that all vaccine immunity is temporary. When you ask why the incidence of measles is so low if the vaccine’s protection only lasts for a few years, you get all sorts of dancing and hand-waving!

          8. Clinical surveillance is a confusion of multiple known and unknown factors, pure B.S. Scientific facts are proven with controlled studies.

          9. You want to inject a variey of antigens and excipients into every child, without testing for carcinogenicity and mutagenicity.
            Let’s just see what happens, kay?
            Great plan!

          10. I have provided it. Read the f..king paper and tell me which part you fail to understand.

          11. Dorit, I think you have provided the proof that vaccines cause cancer. There are viruses that cause cancer and SV40 was one of them. It came in the live polio vaccine.
            Such viral contamination is to be expected in any live virus vaccine. Viruses have to be cultured in living cells. When those cells carry viruses native to the hosting animal those viruses can and do get into the vaccine.
            So you are right. Vaccines can cause cancer.

          12. Nope. That connection between cancer and vaccines is only in your mind and there has not been a single victim from SV40 ever identified.

            Not ever. Not in 50 years.

          13. Incorrect.. sorry, graceds.

            Also..

            There simply is no truth to the claims you make, and without real
            evidence to support them there is no reason for anyone to accept them.

          14. Those are you same unsupported lies. I would ask for links but I already know you don’t have any.

            Name one victim of SV40. Just one. Any victim at all. You can’t can you?

            You are just fear mongering a 50 year old event with ZERO victims.

          15. So a single study which does not make a certain conclusion is, in your view, definitive, but the fact that overall child mortality from infectious diseases has dropped considerably as an absolute and well-documented result of vaccines is meaningless?

          16. What factors? Cuba has a lower infant mortality than the USA and uses less vaccines. The correlation you’re trying to sell doesn’t hold. Pure slogan slinging.

          17. I’m an ignorant because I don’t use press oulets like Macleasn.ca as a source of scientific knowledge, unlike educated you.

          18. You’re ignorant because you swallow the lies of anti-vaccine. anto-science websites and don’t have the fundamental and basic education or intelligence to check those assertions against data which can be verified in historical record. You are also ignorant because you think the people who oppose your nonsense depend on news outlets for their information and don’t have more actual education than you do, which keeps you from realizing the true extent of your deficit.

          19. I’ve never cited any “anti-vaccine” source, only PUBMED listed scientific papers. In contrast, you cite gossips from the press. Get outta here while your humiliation is still bearable.

          20. You evidently know better than to cite the anti-vaxxer websites because they’ll simply get you laughed off the board, but you use all their assertions and their misrepresentations of data. I recognize them from a long history of encounters.

          21. You’re trying hard to frame me as “anti-vaxxer” so you can attack your own straw man with your canned slogans. Your problem being you can’t debunk the scientific references I cite.

          22. Wow, that’s just bald-faced idiocy. Are you proud?

            You’re an anti-vaxxer because you repeat, again and again, the anti-vaccine misinformation and lies and say, explicitly, that you want to get rid of vaccination. That’s not complicated to figure out.

            And I’ve debunked your “citations” repeatedly, whereas you haven’t responded to any of mine. Do you need to refresh your screen, or is this just more selective blindness?

          23. Slogan slinging. When a vax-pusher has been reduced to whining mode it makes my day. Move on if your intellect can afford it

          24. Diddums, you’ve been whining for hours. As well as ignoring the links to studies presented to you. What does that say about you?

          25. A paper can be good or bad, so is the nature of Science, but the point is I’m using scientific sources while others feed on regurgitated opinions from the press.

          26. Cuba uses several vaccines in infancy (under age 1) that we don’t use, e.g. BCG, and Meningitis BC. They use the old whole-cell DTwP, the one that causes more side effects. They use OPV, which can cause polio in both vaccinees and contacts, instead of the IPV that we use. They give Hep B at birth. The only infant vaccines that we use that they don’t are Prevnar and Rotavirus. Their infant mortality rate is 5 per 1000 live births, ours is 6.
            https://www.unicef.org/immunization/files/EN-ImmSumm-2013.pdf

          27. Overall child mortality from infectious diseases has been dropping at a constant, steady pace since 1900 long before vaccines.

            The SAME factors (what are they?) have remain in place after vaccines, driving the mortality rates further down.

            Vaccines appeared late and simply rode an eisting trend claing the merit for themselved. The correlation vaccines/mortality you’re implying s spurious, not a causal one. The same correlation exists between a rising consumption of Coke and a drop in infectious disease.

          28. It is pure stupidity (debunked a million times over) to conflate mortality with incidence and complication rates.

            Fewer people died before vaccines, because of better availability of hospital care, the invention of antibiotics, and inventions like the iron lung. The incidence of disease itself, and the complication rate needing that hospital care, did not drop even a tiny bit until vaccines came on the scene. And deaths did not and could not reach zero until vaccination eliminated the diseases.

            You want to go back to the days when kids routinely got seriously ill and required life-saving support in hospital? What is WRONG with you?

          29. “..It is pure stupidity (debunked a million times over) to conflate mortality with incidence and complication rates.

            Well, let me quote the moron who did just that:

            lynneb said:

            “…the fact that overall child mortality from infectious diseases has dropped considerably as an absolute and well-documented result of vaccines

            Fun to see you backpedalling from that!

          30. You’re absolutely right. I should have said “overall child mortality and morbidity from infectious disease. It isn’t just mortality that has dropped, it is all serious sequelae. I accept the correction.

          31. Your pretended distinction between mortality and complications is bogus. Mortality is a complication. As mortality goes down it’s logical that less severe complications get more visibilty.

            However, the same forces that have been driven mortality down since 1900 (that you duly acknowledge) are driving the complications down. It cannot be logically separated. Vaccines are a spurious phenomenon that contributes nothing to the explanation (Ockham’s razor).

          32. Mortality is one complication. So are encephalopathy and brain damage, deafness, lung damage, sterility, paralysis and numerous other complications of disease — all of which disappeared or near-disappeared only with vaccination and the disappearances of the diseases themselves.

            Your inability or unwillingness to understand basic epidemiological data make you a laughingstock.

          33. You have reading comprehension problems, too?

            It’s not a whine. It’s a clear explanation of why your “point”, isn’t one. Do I need to use smaller words?

            Sorry, let me make this more clear. The rate of complications — that is, the number of complications per number of cases of disease — has not significantly changed, only available treatments for them have changed. The only way to bring the rate of complication down is to bring the rate of disease down. Better than treating complication is preventing the disease completely. There is something wrong with you if you think it is better for kids to get seriously ill and suffer permanent sequelae than to simply not get ill.

          34. Alright, because I “don’t understand basic epidemiological data”.

            I stick to what I said: a whine with no substance and lots of pain.

          35. Progress? You got stuck in “As mortality goes down it’s logical that less severe complications get more visibilty” when your intellect collapsed and summoned your inner whining child for urgent assistance.

          36. You failed to understand “complication rate did not change” and you started whining. We saw. We got it.

          37. Seriously? You don’t think there’s any difference between being dead and having, say, a hearing loss from measles or mumps (which I have). And no, complications have not decreased as a percentage of the incidence. In the Disney measles outbreak, about 20% of patients had to be hospitalized, and you have to be at death’s door to get hospitalized in the US these days.

          38. That’s not what I said, I said this:

            As mortality goes down it’s logical that less severe complications get more visibilty.

            an obviousness that flew over your head.

          39. “…You want to go back to the days when kids routinely got seriously ill and required life-saving support in hospital?

            I live in the present, you’re stranded in the past.

            Today, vaccines have replaced infections as the first cause of disabling conditions: from paralyses to a wide range of life-long incurable autoimmune diseases.

            Today, we have a growing epidemic of autism (early brain damage) and a growing epidemic of autoimmune disease clearly linked to an ever-rising (less justified than ever) vaccine frenzy.

            I’m concerned with solving the problems of TODAY even if it takes kicking vaccines out of their outdated pedestal because they are TODAY doing more harm than good.

          40. You don’t live in the present. You live in cloud-cuckoo-land, in denial of the actual evidence, and you want to RETURN to the past, where infectious diseases were the cause of a childhood mortality rate of close to 5%.

            There is no “growing epidemic of autism”: that too has been debunked. There is growing awareness and diagnosis — that’s not the same thing. And the kids are more visible in society at large, because they live in society rather than what used to happen — they used to simply be committed to institutions. And the “link” between vaccines and autoimmune diseases has similarly been debunked over and over and over again, including in studies of hundreds of thousands of children in many different countries.

            You don’t understand the research, and you don’t understand the simple, basic fact that dangerous diseases reappear and cause even more damage to kids as soon as vaccination rates drop, and you are seemingly incapable of acknowledging new information that contradicts you; that makes you the worst possible guide ever for public health.

          41. You seem to think that rising diagnosis means rising incidence or rising prevalence. That’s the point — it doesn’t. The actual prevalence of autism isn’t increasing. I love your link; you didn’t even read it!

          42. Well, your logic applies to vaccines as well.

            You seem to think that less diagnoses of “polio” mean less incidence, that’s the point – it doesn’t.

            When a vaccination campaign is accompanied by a more restrictive set of diagnostic criteria, then this administrative trick is enough to explain the apparent drop in incidence. The incidence of AFP remaining the same – even rising – confirms it.

            The same swindle is being applied to measles, even smallpox. While the disease persists it’s being redefined away as “rash of unknown cause”and “pustular disease” respectively.

          43. Ah, see, here’s another anti-vaxxer falsehood.

            Diagnostic criteria for these diseases have not changed in decades. And the rate of polio-like paralysis has neither stayed the same, nor risen; it has quite distinctly dropped, as have all the cases of measles and smallpox, which had a distinct set of symptoms beyond merely rash or pus-filled rash. The only thing being “redefined away” is the overwhelming success of vaccines, by desperate and untruthful anti-vaxxers such as yourself.

          44. So yes? You want children to get sick?

            Vaccines don’t cause paralysis or autoimmune diseases or autism.

          45. Mortality has declined thanks to other advances. Morbidity has not. In plain language, people were still dying, though less, and still suffering and being disabled. To give one example, iron lungs reduced deaths from polio. That does not mean that eliminating the vaccine had no value.

          46. 1. Kids still have plenty of opportunity to get febrile illnesses.

            2. This research is 10 years old and hasn’t seemed to have gotten anywhere. Perhaps it couldn’t be replicated.

          47. “…Perhaps it couldn’t be replicated.”

            Please, show me a single vaccine efficacy study that has been replicated EVER.

            If replicablity is a condition for Science, then vaccinology is pseudoscience.

          48. So your claim is that vaccines prevent febrile response to infections? So you agree that vaccines prevent diseases?

            This study doesn’t actually find that vaccines contribute to the rise of cancer, and certainly doesn’t find that vaccines contribute to cancer in a way that can be tested in clinical trials.

          49. “…So your claim is that vaccines prevent febrile response to infections? So you agree that vaccines prevent diseases?”

            Vaccines are an aggravated assault on the immune system (see adjuvants) which can no longer respond normally to infections. This has nothing to do with prevention of disease.

            “…This study doesn’t actually find that vaccines contribute to the rise of cancer”

            Quote:

            The most conclusive evidence, however, that acute
            infections may counter tumor growth comes from the work
            ofWilliam Coley, whose career spanned from 1891 to 1936.
            At the turn of the century Coley, a surgeon, developed a
            killed bacterial vaccine for cancer consisting of the gram
            positive Streptococcus pyogenes and gram negative Serratia
            marcescens. His initially encouraging results in inducing
            tumor regression with repeated inoculations [9] was
            followed by similar successes reported by contemporaries
            who experimented with his vaccine [10–12]. It is
            documented that Coley’s method of treatment could induce
            the complete regression of extensive metastatic disease [12].
            Although there was considerable variation from one
            individual to the next, after many hundreds of cases, Coley
            confirmed his impressions that mimicking a repetitive acute
            febrile response was the key factor necessary to provoke and
            maintain tumor regression
            [6].

            It follows that any intervention that distorts the immune system preventing repetitive acute febrile responses increases the cancer risk.

          50. No. The article pointed to one vaccine that worked against cancer. By omission, it is not even implying that modern vaccines are relevant.

            And thank you, again, for acknowledging that vaccines prevent diseases.

          51. From that paper:

            “CONCLUSION: Infections may play a paradoxical role in cancer development with chronic infections often being tumorigenic and acute infections being antagonistic to cancer.”
            That paper doesn’t even mention vaccines. You are a liar.

          52. “…That paper doesn’t even mention vaccines. You are a liar.”

            Please cite me where I claimed it mentioned vaccines. I never said such a thing.

          53. In you post above, you said:

            “By messing with this response, vaccines are contributing to the rise of cancer.”

            You cite the paper as supporting evidence. it is not and you know it.

          54. Yes, there is a reason that is immediately dismissed. It was investigated in several large studies, and no indication that SV40 has ever caused cancer in humans, or been a contributing factor to cancer in humans, or even had any health effects in humans, was ever found.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17131333

            Also, note that there hasn’t been any such contamination of vaccines since 1963.

          55. Why not start with the fall of the Ottoman Empire then? The whole SV40 trope is 50+ years ago, and still no sign of harm. Plus, the contamination was accidental, not a deliberate ingredient. It is arguing apples and hoverboards, and this, irrelevant.

          56. Another lie from your site. The SV40 event is 50 years old and there has never been a single victim identified.
            Go back to defending child abusers.

      2. graceds: “Vaccines aren’t tested for carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, or fertility effects.”

        Waaaaiit a sec.. I was about to eat an apple.

        Have apples been tested for carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, or fertility effects?

        Maybe I should have a banana instead.

        …. …

        Waaaaiit a sec..

      3. It sounds as if you want people to believe that vaccines are carcinogenic, mutagenic, or have ill fertility effects, but have no actual evidence that this is so.

        1. You betcha! Look at all their literature about how many needlesticks kids get, the photos of screaming kids. They’re afraid!

          1. Yep. They’re also found of saying all of these things about formaldehyde, monkey kidneys, antifreeze, and of course Teh Aborted Babeez! It’s kind of an Argument by “EEEEWW!!!”

            Lowell Hubbs is the most entertaining. He’s managed to make every single vaccine ingredient besides water into something that is laying waste to our health.

      1. Exactly true. You are nothing but emotion. There has never been one bit of logic associated with any of your posts. You are the perfect example.

  11. It makes no sense to coerce using a product that the manufacturer doesn’t stand behind.
    Caveat emptor.
    By virtue of a law passed in 1986, you cannot sue the manufacturer.
    You must go to Vaccine court, where there is no discovery.
    There is no trial by jury, as guaranteed in the seventh amendment.
    It can take years for a settlement.

    1. The law was passed by Congress, not the manufacturer. The fact that the rare vaccine injuries have a no-fault compensation program, and are therefore more likely to be compensated than those that have to meet the higher standards of civil courts, isn’t a good reason not to protect schools from outbreaks. Children deserve to be safe from diseases.

        1. I’ve no doubt that for a parent dealing with a disabled child the process is painful – however much the Special Masters try to be considerate. The point is that in comparison to the regular courts, the program provides substantial breaks, and it is much easier to be compensated – the requirements are much less.

      1. the one thinning that the world knows about the usa is that corporations have NO influence upon the government.

  12. Your mandatory vaccination editorial needs a bit of correction and counter point of facts.
    According to theUnited Health Foundation’s annual ranking of the healthiest states, Coloradoranks as the 8th healthiest in the US. While Colorado ranks 24th in childhood vaccination rates, itis not among the last. On the other hand, a state that has poor public healthand high cost of care is Mississippi. Mississippi with it mandatory vaccination program has the highest infant mortality rate and is ranked near-last in overall health. Have you reviewed any reports by the IOM (Institute of Medicine) on research deficits in the Pharma industry? The science is not settled!!

    TheNational Institute of Medicine has verified there is no true science that
    proves vaccines are safe or unsafe. So to say the science is settled is
    patently untrue. The Supreme Court ruledon February 22, 2011 (Bruesewitz et al) that vaccines are “unavoidablyunsafe”. Therefore, where there is risk, there must be choice. International Law, according to the Nuremberg Code which the U.S. signed
    along with most countries in 1947, states that no person can be subjected to a
    medical procedure without informed consent. Informed consent means permission.

    You state that “the root of most of this building crisis comes from a discredited study
    run by a discredited doctor to tie autism to childhood vaccinations.” The discredited doctor is, of course, Dr.Andrew Wakefield. A very interesting sidebar: Dr. Paol Thorsen (fromDenmark), whose published study was used to denounce Dr. Wakefield, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for nine counts of money laundering and 13 counts of fraud. He is listed on Interpol’s most-wanted list.

    The CDC has sequestered documentation of its own studies that show a 340 percent higher rate of autism in black male children. This case, The Dr. Wm. Thompson files,
    has been turned over to Congressman Bill Posey for a Congressional hearing.

    People must have the right to informed consent for any medical process or treatment.
    Many people who refuse vaccinations have experienced bad vaccine outcomes,
    personally or in their families. They have experienced seizures, encephalopathy, Guillan Barre and other neurological damage. Yet doctors would have us believe that it’s virtually impossible to be injured by vaccines. Read the potential side effects that are listed in every single vaccine insert page. Every parent should read each of these.

    The measles death that you say “followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland” was in
    fact not related at all to the Disneyland outbreak. The case you site was a 28 year-old severely immune-compromised woman in Washington State who was in fact vaccinated for measles, according to her mother. It was NEVER medically determined that measles was the actual cause of her death.

    Verify your claim that unvaccinated kids cause infections in other vaccinated
    kids. This is illogical and untrue. What the CDC actually reports is that
    unvaccinated kids do not infect vaccinated kids any more than vaccinated ones
    do. So you are misleading the public.

    You imply that vaccines which contain ethyl mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum are
    perfectly safe even though any biochemist will tell you that these vaccine
    adjuvants are dangerous neurotoxins, especially when given repeatedly to
    infants and young children. This is why 100s of people in Colorado have been
    injured as documented in the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
    (VAERS).
    Fact: Unused/expired multi-dose flu vaccine must be disposed of as hazardous waste
    material because of the thimerosal (mercury) content. If a vial is broken in a clinic, the room must be evacuated and a hazmat crew must be called in for the clean-up (per
    Federal regulation).
    Question: How does injecting this same vial of mercury-laden flu vaccine into a pregnant woman or a child transform it from
    “hazmat” to wonderful protective medicine? It must be “science”?

    Know that the California law of forced vaccination will be overturned in the courts. The
    rights to public education and to access public facilities are basic human
    rights for every man, woman and child – black, white, brown; Christian, Jew,
    Muslim, atheist; straight, gay, transgender; and last, but not least, unvaccinated.

    “If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected
    with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on
    which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater
    good tomorrow.” – Barbara Loe Fisher, nvic.org.
    If you fail to publish this, then I suspect you can’t convey fairness in editorial expression and your editorial was a plant from some Pharma, government agency like the CDHPE.

    1. Your facts are not very factual. Thimerosal, aluminum and formaldehyde are all adjuvants? I guess you consider one correct out of three a passing grade. The rest of your information is equally faulty. Where did you pick up the following invention? “If a vial is broken in a clinic, the room must be evacuated and a hazmat crew must be called in for the clean-up.” Even elemental mercury spills, which is a far more concentrated, volatile and dangerous form of mercury than in thimerosal, can be cleaned up by homeowners who break an old thermometer or thermostat. The CDC has a pdf online describing the cleanup method. Only if the spill is larger than 2 tablespoons or 30 ml does the CDC recommend that homeowners call for help with the cleanup. A vial of the multidose flu vaccine contains 5 ml. The broken glass is the biggest hazard there, unless of course, you suffer from chemophobia and are prone to panic.

      1. Excuse my word choice describing mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde in vaccines. The word needed was “excipient”. If you scroll through the CDC site on vaccine excipients (below), you will find not only aluminum, mercury and formaldehyde, but also other repulsive ingredients such as aborted fetal cells, porcine (pig) DNA, chick embryo, polysorbate 80, and much more.

        https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

        Regarding the disposal of mercury-laden vaccines as hazardous waste, this is from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment:

        “Waste vaccines are considered to be hazardous wastes if they contain mercury (such as thimerosal) or cresolbased preservatives. These are most commonly found in multi‐dose vials, but also occur in some pre‐filled syringes. Any multi‐dose vial or pre‐filled syringe that is not empty and contains vaccine with a mercury or cresol‐based preservative must be managed as hazardous waste as explained in the “Evaluating Wastes in the Health Care Setting” compliance bulletin (www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE‐HM/CBON/1251615961696 ).
        Unused syringes containing vaccines with mercury or cresol‐based preservatives should be segregated from other
        syringes and managed in a separate container as hazardous waste.”

        1. Oh look, it’s the “argument from Ew” again, and also contains such falsehoods as claiming vaccines contain “aborted fetal cells” (hint: they don’t).

          And you don’t seem to understand that not wanting to put extra mercury from multiple vials (does the concept of quantity mean anything to you?) into either landfill or atmosphere is somewhat different from your histrionic claims about “evacuating rooms” etc. above. Considering your link is 404, however, we can’t even compare your claims to the reality of what you purport to cite.

          I suppose the world is a terrifying place for you, but you’re grasping for threat where there isn’t one.

        2. If you looked at the CDC advice for homeowners to clean up of elemental mercury, they also advise bagging and tagging as hazardous waste. Since when does disposal of thimerosal containing vials in a separate container equate with the tall tale of clearing the premises and calling out the people in the hazmat suits? That is a totally sensationalized exaggeration of the proper procedure. Like proper handling and disposal of sharps, which are probably the biggest risk to health to anyone doing vaccinations because they will be contaminated with blood, proper disposal and handling of anything remotely a biohazard should be encouraged.

      1. Groundhog Day isn’t till February. You’ve said this crap over and over again, Gracie. Find something else to say.

        1. Arguing with anti-vaxxers is like playing Whack-A-Mole. They’re hoping that your arms get tired of whacking!

        1. Okay.
          United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said of the case, “Grant money for disease research is a precious commodity. When grant funds are stolen, we lose not only the money, but also the opportunity to better understand and cure debilitating diseases. This defendant is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme to steal over $1 million in CDC grant money earmarked for autism research. We will now seek the defendant’s extradition for him to face federal charges in the United States.”

          “Stealing research grant money to line his pockets, as Poul Thorsen stands accused of here today, cheats U.S. taxpayers and will simply not be tolerated,” said Derrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Region for the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health & Human Services. “HHS/OIG will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to bring these criminals to justice.”

          “Reginael D. McDaniel, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Region for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation said, “Today’s global economy demands a high-level coordinated approach by multiple agencies and authorities in the investigation of financial crimes. While schemes often become more sophisticated over time, fortunately, so do our investigative techniques. IRS Criminal Investigation is proud to have shared its hallmark expertise in following the money trail in the scheme alleged in this indictment.”

          According to United States Attorney Yates, the charges and other information presented in court: In the 1990s, THORSEN worked as a visiting scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, when the CDC was soliciting grant applications for research related to infant disabilities. THORSEN successfully promoted the idea of awarding the grant to Denmark and provided input and guidance for the research to be conducted. From 2000 to 2009, the CDC awarded over $11 million to two governmental agencies in Denmark to study the relationship between autism and exposure to vaccines, between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and between childhood development and fetal alcohol exposure. In 2002, THORSEN moved to Denmark and became the principal investigator for the grant, responsible for administering the research money awarded by the CDC.”

          1. You missed the point. He may be a thief; but I’m these studies, he’s one of a crowd. No hint of problems with the other authors; nothing to show data was tampered with, something the lead author would have to know.

            In other words, it’s a personal ethics problem. Not a research fraud problem, unlike Andrew Wakefield’s case.

          2. Of course, personal ethics have nothing to do with business, when you’re laundering money from that business.
            Got it.

          3. If Thorsen’s alleged financial fraud allegations mean his unrelated science work is defunct, what does Wakefield’s proven scientific fraud mean for his studies?

          4. If an anti-vaxxer experiences extreme cognitive dissonance in a discussion.. is it audible?

            (*cups hand to ear..*)

          5. Police and prosecutors in Denmark have investigated the money laundering allegation and found no grounds to detain him.

            If this is the only argument you have against his research, it’s laughable.

            Read it a few more times so it sinks in.

          6. How many convictions?

            The laughable part is where you can’t find anything wrong with the studies themselves. Is it because you’re stupid? Don’t understand the big words?

    2. Mississippi is a poor state, so it’s not surprising it has poor outcomes. But it has no preventable diseases thanks to its policy of no non medical exemptions.

      The Institute of Medicine’s recent report found no safety concerns with the childhood schedule.https://iom.nationalacademies.org/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2013/Childhood-Immunization-Schedule/ChildhoodImmunizationScheduleandSafety_RB.pdf

      The Supreme Court did not rule that vaccines are unavoidably unsafe. https://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2014/07/17/guest-post-vaccines-and-unavoidably-unsafe-products/

      I recommend against getting your information from anti-vaccine sites.

      1. Of course the Supreme Court ruled that vaccines are unavoidably unsafe. Why not quote a source like the Christian Science Monitor rather than some “mommy blog” that you have your staff write. Here’s a good summary from CSM:

        The key issue in the case was why Congress did not mention “defective design” as preempted from potential lawsuits.
        The majority justices read the law to sweep broadly, preempting any and all design defect claims provided that the manufacturing process did not create a defect and that warnings and directions were adequate.
        “If a manufacturer could be held liable for failure to use a different design, the word ‘unavoidable’ would do not work,” Justice Scalia wrote. “A side effect of a vaccine could always have been avoidable by use of a differently designed vaccine not containing the harmful element.”

        ;

        1. “Unavoidably unsafe” like cars, knives, lawnmowers and the like. You can’t engineer out every risk.

        2. If you actually read the post, you would see that it quoted the language from the Supreme Court decision that shows you are incorrect. The court pointed out that unavoidably unsafe is a term of art, and does not apply to the act in question. Follow the link, and read the quote.

        3. Wrong. Bruezwitz vs Wyeth. Pharma company attempted to use ‘unavoidably unsafe’ defense – pharma company lost.

          Unavoidably unsafe does not mean unreasonably dangerous, in any case.

          1. “…Unavoidably unsafe does not mean unreasonably dangerous, in any case…

            What’s the “reasonable” rate of side effects for medical procedures on subjects with no health problems whatsoever?

  13. BTW – For those who had been following but lost track –
    The recall of Dr. Pan has met an even greater ignominious end than the SB277 Proposition.
    Dec. 31 2015 was the last day for the anti-science, anti-vaccine cult to turn in their recall Pan petitions.
    A grand total of zero were turned in.
    Congratulations Sen. Pan.

    Well done anti-vaxxers. We expected no less.

    1. A great way to end the year for us pro-vaxxers! It’s been a pleasure to read your posts, and those of Mike Stevens, Katia, Brooke Dunne, FSM Pastafarian, Proponent, Justthefacts, kfunk937, and many others. I’ll celebrate the New Year by having a real drink on all of you, and by having a homeopathic drink on the anti-vaxxers!

      1. Thank you for posting a list of all your co worker shills. Drink a lot of hard liquor and fall asleep on your back. Happy New Year to me.

        1. Yes, the Lizard People pay us well!

          One drink on my fellow pro-vaxxers was enough. As mentioned, I had a homeopathic drink on the anti-vaxxers as well.

  14. The biggest causal tie with autism is Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks for a child to a parent for a social / psychological / mental disorder diagnosis such as autism, which is a spectrum disorder where there is a large degree of subjectivity. When welfare reform eliminated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), many welfare folks were looking for another source of income. SSI fit the bill, and many welfare parents coached their kids to “act crazy” in order to get “crazy checks”, that is a SSI benefit. Autism increased markedly in the aftermath of welfare reform.

      1. Do a Google search. If that’s too much of a challenge, I’ll come up with a few links for you.

          1. Sometimes its the victims fault. Sometimes victims blame vaccines for something vaccines didn’t do then they post about it on-line trying to drive down the vaccination rate.
            That is definitely the fault of some “victims”.

          2. That is why so many anti-vaxxers pretend to be victims. You can’t win on the facts so you go for emotions.

          3. Skepticism:
            a skeptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something
            “these claims were treated with skepticism”
            synonyms:
            doubt, doubtfulness, a pinch of salt, disbelief, cynicism, …
            Oxford dictionary

          4. See, That’s were we confirm that you are a liar. I have already said that injuries happen at a rate of one per one million so I can’t be a “denier”.
            .
            That makes you a liar.

          5. Definition of delusion

            2 a : something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated b :
            a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or
            objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable
            evidence to the contrary; also : the abnormal state marked by such beliefs

            (Source: Merriam-Webster )

            graceds; delusionist.

            Understood.. copy that.

        1. elsewhere i am told that most rape in scandinavia is perpetrated by muslim refugees.
          both are equally believable.

    1. Poverty in and of itself is a risk factor for disability. No one is playing a game here. These are benefits that directly benefit children. If we are to be truly pro child there should be absolutely no question as to the benefit of helping families.

    2. The takeaway from the Boston Globe story is not so much that Supplemental Security Income payments are driving increased ASD diagnosis. There has been a dramatic increase in the SSI program since welfare reform was passed, but it would only account for a very small percentage of ASD cases, maybe 2% of the increase.

  15. The biggest causal tie with autism is Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks for a child to a parent for a social / psychological / mental disorder diagnosis such as autism, which is a spectrum disorder where there’s a large degree of subjectivity. When welfare reform eliminated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), many welfare folks were looking for another source of income. SSI fit the bill, and many welfare parents were encouraged to send their child(ren) to meet with a sympathetic school psychologist or mental health professional with the goal of gaining a diagnosis in order to qualify for a SSI benefit. Indeed, autism increased markedly in the aftermath of welfare reform.

    By the way, I’m pro vaccination, and agree wholeheartedly with the editorial. But why is it the lower the family income the greater the incidence of autism?

    Congress May Investigate ‘The Other Welfare:’ SSI
    https://hereandnow.wbur.org/201

    Aid to disabled children now outstrips welfare
    https://www.bostonglobe.com/me

    “The dramatic growth of the children’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has led some researchers to suggest it has simply replaced welfare as a primary source of cash for many families who lost benefits due to the much-touted welfare reforms of the mid-1990s.”

    “The expansion also comes amid a growing recognition among lawmakers and policy analysts that children’s disabilities, especially harder-to-assess ones like ADHD, have become a gateway to receive the best government cash benefits available today, and this trend deserves closer study.”

    1. “Autism Spectrum Disorder has increased dramatically in the last 25 years. It is a crisis. What will legislators do with a federal program which, after eight years and $ 1.7 billion, has failed to truly address this crisis? Sadly, Washington is on a path to rush through a five-year reauthorization , raise spending 20 percent and hope for better results without addressing fundamental structural flaws in the current program. …… At a recently called House Oversight Subcommittee meeting (May 2014), Dr. Insel admitted that after eight years and spending $ 1.7 billion, the programs developed in the CAA have failed to determine the causes of the enormous increase of the prevalence of autism, failed to prevent a single case of autism, failed to produce any new biomedical treatment for autism, failed to materially reduce the age of diagnosis of autism, failed to ensure appropriate medical care for the co-occurring health problems faced by many with autism, failed to ensure even basic safety protocols for people with autism who “wander,” unfortunately some to their deaths, and overall, failed the families facing autism—most especially the approximately one-third of families with children most severely affected by autism, who literally cannot speak for themselves, and whose severe disabilities portend one of the largest unfunded federal fiscal liabilities of the 21st century.”
      https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/209310-fix-the-combating-autism-act

      1. By the way, I’m pro vaccination, and agree wholeheartedly with the editorial. But why is it the lower the family income the greater the incidence of autism?

        Congress May Investigate ‘The Other Welfare:’ SSI
        https://hereandnow.wbur.org/201

        Aid to disabled children now outstrips welfare
        https://www.bostonglobe.com/me

        “The dramatic growth of the children’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has led some researchers to suggest it has simply replaced welfare as a primary source of cash for many families who lost benefits due to the much-touted welfare reforms of the mid-1990s.”

        “The expansion also comes amid a growing recognition among lawmakers and policy analysts that children’s disabilities, especially harder-to-assess ones like ADHD, have become a gateway to receive the best government cash benefits available today, and this trend deserves closer study.”

      2. Elsewhere you’ve cited the source of this copy-pasta as “From Vaccine Whistleblower by Kevin Barry,” but it’s of no import.

        Although Insel’s comments were prior to the release of the NHIS Parent Survey, surely as Chairman of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), he must be aware that 83% of children under the age of 18 don’t have intellectual disability. There’s no evidence “one-third of families with children most severely affected by autism… cannot speak for themselves ” Unless he’s speaking of one-third of only the most severely affected.

        Also, while “the programs developed in the CAA have failed to determine the causes of the enormous increase of the prevalence,” research certainly has uncovered the answer. Diagnostic shift alone explains 70% of the increase in prevalence. It’s also generally understood.autism is caused by genes,

        The message, loud and clear, from Thomas Insel’s statement is that the IACC has failed it’s mission. There’s arguably no reason to continue funding it.

          1. Dr. Bruce Cuthbert became Acting Director of NIMH on November 1, and has been appointed to serve as the IACC Chair over the next year.

            Perhaps I should have said, given his lack of awareness of current research and inability to perform his duties, the message from Insel’s comments is that he needs to be replaced.

      3. At least we all know now, from 15 years of solid research, that vaccines do not cause autism.

    2. SSI support is the exception, not the rule for autism families.

      If anyone can get a two year old child to trick a psychologist into believing they have a disability they don’t, they have a real gift for teaching children and can do lots to help.

      I’m sorry, this is incorrect.

      1. SSI support is the rule, especially among the low income, not the exception. I have posted a couple times on this blog with research and web links to support my assertions.

        1. Your link to the source article was broken. From the Boston Globe

          https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/27/cash-distributed-under-ssi-for-children-now-exceeds-welfare/ek0peSWTLJ00YId0CONFYI/story.html

          “For instance, in Texas, where maximum monthly welfare benefits in 2012 were relatively low at $260 a month for a family of three, there were about 144,000 children receiving SSI, three times as many families receiving welfare payments.”

          It doesn’t state how many of those children receiving SSI are diagnosed with autism or something else.

  16. Yes, Colorado legislators need to address our dangerously low vaccination rates. We are a disaster that could happen any moment. Please get rid of all belief exemptions!

    When pertussis changed from epidemic to endemic, you know we are in trouble.

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    2. The dangerous new strains of whooping cough bacteria were reported in March 2012 . The vaccine, researchers said, was responsible. The reason for this is because, while whooping cough is primarily attributed to Bordetella pertussis infection, it is also caused by another closely related pathogen called B. parapertussis,which the vaccine does NOT protect against. Two years earlier, scientists at Penn State had already reported that the pertussis vaccine significantly enhanced the colonization of B. parapertussis, thereby promoting vaccine-resistant whooping cough outbreaks .

      Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis …An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella Thus, we conclude that aP vaccination interferes with the optimal clearance of B. parapertussis and enhances the performance of this pathogen. Our data raise the possibility that widespread aP vaccination can create hosts more susceptible to B. parapertussisinfection..https://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/02/26/rspb.2010.

      CDC: Whooping Cough

      Anne Schuchat, MD, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters…..”it does not appear that anti-vaccine sentiment among parents contributed to either the national rise in cases or the Washington State epidemic.”…https://children.webmd.com/news/20120719/cdc-whooping-cough-h

      California Battles Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic In Seven Decades
      –” U.S. health officials received reports of more than 48,000 cases, including 18 deaths. Dr. Gil Chavez, epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, said he does not believe low inoculation rates are the primary cause of the current epidemic. : Of this year’s pediatric cases that had information on the child’s vaccination history, only 10 percent of those infected in 2014 had not been vaccinated against pertussis. .”
      https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/california-whooping-cough_n_6315408

      90% of kids in Vermont with pertussis were vaccinated. .”..https://vtdigger.org/2012/10/08/90-percent-of-whooping-cough-cases-in-vermont-among-vaccinated-children

      1. Nice posting. At some point we must conclude that the mob pushing these things are not simply incompetent They are evil and trying very hard to spread as much disease as they possibly can since they cannot possibly be so stupid as to believe what they have done and what the insist on doing is actually a net positive ..
        This is the biggest scandal of our lifetime and we need more people to expose this ignorance ..
        Mike Adams seems correct to make the analogy between the medical mob and the financial mob that created the housing bubble and with escalating rates of disease .. This bubble is going to break very soon and all the horrors exposed as massive corruption and failure.
        Leave us alone to be healthy. Mobsters. We have a right to seek health

  17. These are some Vaccine injuries compensated by Vaccine Court.
    Compensated Injury: autoimmune demyelinating condition
    Compensated Injury: neurological demyelinating Injury
    Compensated Injury: encephalitis
    Compensated Injury: seizure disorder, developmental delay
    Compensated Injury: guillain barre syndrome
    Compensated Injury: Brachial Neuritis
    Compensated Injury:death
    Compensated Injury: autoimmune encephalitis, death
    Compensated Injury:Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpurea
    compensated Injury: Optic neuritis

    Parents deserve the right to choose without coercion.

    1. You forget to note that the injuries from diseases are thousands of times more common when the diseases return because of lack of vaccination, and that those are not compensated by anyone.

      1. Plus, less than 1 compensated claim per 1 million vaccines.

        Some of those claims, BTW are pretty iffy. For example, the court will settle a claim for Guillain Barre Syndrome even though there’s no medical evidence it’s ever caused by vaccines. Ever.

        Happy New Year, Lynne 🙂

    2. Removing the stupid “I just don’t like it” exemption is not coercion. Parents still have a choice.

    3. And the likelihood of a vaccine injury from the same data you are using is less than one in one million making vaccination the safest human activity in history.
      Why did you leave out the frequency of injury, Graceds?
      Are you trying to perpetuate a lie again?

        1. You posted about the vaccine court using their data. So did I.
          Is that data valid or not?
          .
          If you include every case that is brought before the vaccine courts including the ones that lost, it’s still 2 out of a million. Cases that are not reported much not be very serious if nobody bothers to make a claim..
          .
          you will always lose by the numbers. That’s why you avoid numbers.

          1. And again. if you add them all up, How many per million vaccinations?
            Your argument is empty.

          2. Until we have a true comparison of totally unvaccinated overall health outcomes vs vaccinated with the current bloated schedule, we will never know how many would benefit or not. Colleen Boyle prevaricated on this point in Congressional hearings with Congressman Bill Posey.

          3. Wrong. We have detailed records of a century of use and billions upon billions of vaccinations that show them as safe. The injury rate of less than one in one millions comes from billions of data points. Studies have been done on millions of subjects comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated outcomes and the findings show, conclusively, that vaccines are safe and effective.

            You juts don’t like the facts. Sorry for you.

          4. It might be because many of these are, in fact, settlements. Not decisions. They didn’t even have to meet the Court’s low burden for causation.

        2. You are correct in one sense. I didn’t report my childrens’ sore arms after their shots. But many still do just that, if you read surveys about vaccines like HPV.

    4. And without measles vaccine a similar listing for the US caused by the unvaccinated state of the population would be:
      Death due to measles complications: no compensation
      … x 450
      Death due to measles complications: no compensation

      and:

      Hospital admission due to measles complications: no compensation
      … x 800000
      Hospital admission due to measles complications: no compensation

      My list is vastly longer than yours yet you are advocating for the outcomes in my list.
      Interesting.

    5. Compensating for brachial neuritis aka Parsonage-Turner syndrome is a stretch, as it’s ideopathic. Back in 1977 while working night construction I developed double-pneumonia and was given a penicillin shot. Woke up in the middle of the night with extreme pain in my left shoulder. The next day the doctor gave me a cortisone shot to reduce the inflammation telling me I had brachial neuritis. It took months for me to regain full strength in my shoulder and for weeks I could only lift my arm part way.

      My point is I did not have a vaccination. I had a relapse in 2008 after I caught the flu during air travel.

    6. I’ve already addressed this below. This claim is highly misleading, and you have already been told that.

      A. The requirements for proving causation in vaccine court are pretty low. And this list includes table injuries, past and present, where there is no need to show causation – that is true for encephalopathy, encephalitis, and seizures disorder which used to be on the table, but now isn’t. Those claims certainly do not show that vaccines cause these problems. A case compensated, given the low standard, is not good evidence of causation generally.

      B. The studies cited below show vaccines do not cause autoimmune conditions. As already explained to you, the evidence does not support the claim that the annual influenza vaccine causes GBS.

      If you want to make a claim that parents have a right to send a vaccine-deprived child to school, imposing the risk they chose for their child on other children and families, you need to base it on actual evidence.

        1. Unvaccinated children may be healthy as long as they are unexposed, but their parents’ unfortunate choice not to protect them means they are much more likely to get and transmit a disease when exposed, and in large concentrations, they cause outbreaks.

          In other words, they are at high risk of being unhealthy and making others so.

          1. BS, everyone is exposed. By the way, US dollars circulate in Liberia, and viruses have a way to crystalize to become stable until they reach another victim.

            See the PBS program : ” In Defense of Food ” . You stupid pro vaccine people pay attention while watching; I want to see if you can figure out why I say that the only true medicine is nutrition.

            The poisoning of the blood with any pollution, VACCINES included, is always going to weaken the immune system.

        2. Unfortunately, by the time it is obvious that your little bioweapon brat has measles, he has been spreading it around school for about four days. So we’ll just keep him out, period.

          One of the best laws California has passed in some time!

  18. I think pushing children away from public education (which is a joke these days) for not vaccinating (which is also done in ridiculous proportions in the USA compared to any other developed country in the world) maybe good not only for their physical health but also for their brain health :-D.
    Everyone who claims people do not vaccinate their children because of Dr Wakefield’s now reproduced study or because of celebrity like Jenny McCarthy is a complete idiot. There are many more valid reasons that people choose not to vaccinate and all of these reasons are just that, valid, but no one who gets paid by the industry (such as the media, medical professionals and people like lawyers who are self proclaimed experts) pays any attention to anything expect push their stupid agenda on people . The bottom line is vaccination (or over vaccination as we do here with 49 shots before the age of six) has NEVER been proven to be safe or effective. Vaccines are unavoidable unsafe (as determined by the supreme court of the USA in 1986 when they gave the industry and the medical profession legal protection from injuries that can be caused by vaccination). So don’t go saying vaccines are safe because they are not. They maybe useful in some situations but there is no one size fits all vaccination schedule that is safe.
    As the science figures out the role that the trillions of microbes that live in our gut and how they affect our immune systems, brain health and how vaccines cause harm to this micro-biome become apparent in the next few decades the futility of this debate will hopefully be realized.

    1. Absent a medical contraindication, vaccinating is much safer for a child than not vaccinating. A parent choosing not to vaccinate is no doubt acting from the best of intentions but is still choosing poorly for their beloved child.

      Of course the schedule is extensively tested. I address the myth that it’s not studied here: https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/debunking-myths-about-vaccine-testing-and-safety/

      The state has three choices:
      A. Allow parents free reign to continue to deny their child protection from disease and also free reign to force that risk on others.
      B. Impose school immunization requirements, which allow parents to continue to deny their child protection but limit the ability to force that risk on the child’s classmates and families.
      C. Force parents to vaccinate, making it a crime not to.

      B seems like a reasonable compromise between parental rights and protecting others.

      1. I am sorry but your information as I have seen time and time again is painfully one sided and comes from sources that have financial ties to the industry. There are some serious conflicts of interest between our government and medicine that I won’t even bring up here because enough people now know thanks to the wonderful information age and I work in the system and see it for myself so nothing you can say will make me trust people who make these decisions for us.

        I have to also disagree with your claim that the vaccine schedule has been extensively tested, it is not. There has been NO testing of giving 6 or 8 of these vaccines together to babies nor the full complement of the 69 doses before adulthood in the frequency that it is given. I don’t think the skeptical raptor is an authority on this topic either :-). The problem with the whole situation is that many parents today don’t want to find out if their child will have a medical contraindication to a vaccine because in some cases this contraindication is a lifelong disability or death. Who in their right minds would choose that as the best option? Now if vaccine companies were forthright in their business (which they are not as it is clear by the many times they have been caught lying or fabricating the data) and were not immune to the law, then parents would feel a bit at ease going along. When there is no accountability and we have a system that denies vaccine injury and makes parents who have had to face it also face a special master in a kangaroo court and be dragged through the dirt for years before any payment of compensation is made, it is no wonder that parents balk at the idea of forced vaccination.
        What we fail to understand is that for environmental, dietary or whatever other reason that there maybe our kids today may not be genetically ready for these number of jabs repeatedly which can cause autoimmunity and disrupt the normal function of the immune system (because vaccines do cause an autoimmune reaction and bypass the majority of the immune system in their action to produce antibodies) which in turn as I said in my post above could cause a major disruption in their gut flora. I also cringe when I hear that the science is ‘sett;ed’ with vaccines. I beg to differ as a scientist myself because science is never settled, if so it is not science it is just a dogma. What we know today about the human microbiome needs to be included when talking vaccines because this new knowledge will eventually make the emperor look like he is not wearing his clothes :-).
        For the time being I can agree with your rationale on option B, but where that slippery slope will end I have no idea. One has to consider also the fact that vaccines do not always protect the people who are vaccinated (the reason why herd immunity with vaccines is not possible and is just a fallacy) and many of the so called outbreaks have been among fully vaccinated populations even though the un-vaccinated get blamed for it by the media :-). There is some level of awakening in America among parents and I hope that with the debate heating up that there will be more studies with non-fabricated data that are done by independent entities and not the companies that stand to profit from the data will bring us to a more informed decision on whether we should continue with vaccines as they are or if we should change our thought process.

        1. Dorit’s information is accurate, and multiple studies have in fact addressed giving multiple shots at once. These are referenced by the IOM review of the childhood vaccination schedule. Nor are the effects of vaccines tested only by pharmaceutical companies, as most monitoring and extensive clinical studies are done by independent academic teams (indeed, independent academic teams are the origin of most vaccines, as pharmaceutical companies buy the right to make a product in many cases after it has already had efficacy demonstrated in trials).

          And you are not a scientist, as amply demonstrated by the fact that you make multiple false assertions. I would expect a scientist to be able to do basic fact checking. What is “one-sided” is a refusal or inability on your part to check actual scientific results do do said fact-checking.

        2. This “69 shots” thing is bullcrap! So you’re afraid of needles, just like many anti-vaxers.

          Slippery slope is a logical fallacy.

      2. Dorit, How can you say not vaccinating is choosing poorly for a child? The parents that choose not to vaccinate are studying much more effective ways to protect their child, such as going outside (free and the most absorbable Vitamin D, which is highly boosts the immune system.), eating a high quality plant based nutrition, ( which also highly boosts the immune system). There are safer, more effective ways to protect our bodies. Working in the so called health care system, I see nothing that helps the immune system given, it only continues to help them go on a downward spiral of low immunity. These vaccines have not been studied for the long term effects they have on a body, and that is violating the Nuremberg code.

        1. These “safer, more effective ways to protect our bodies” were the norm for many centuries, along with a childhood mortality from infectious disease of up to one out of every 20 children — and that is even in the case of healthy, well-nourished children in the early 20th C., with perfectly adequate hygiene.

          We developed vaccines precisely because your supposedly more effective methods, didn’t work.

          1. It doesn’t matter. Vaccines should not be FORCED on anyone in this country. You can pump your children full of all the poisons you want. But you have no right to force other people to poison their kids. And f you’re going to say there aren’t poisons in vaccines, then clearly you have never even looked at the label. And since you love vaccines so much and think they’re so effective, why are you worried about unvaccinated kids?

          2. Sherri, no-one is FORCED to have vaccines; but if you choose to refuse them, then it is absolutely legitimate to deny full access to public spaces to those who are voluntarily unvaccinated, because you provide potential disease vectors and endanger other people. It is even legal and legitimate to fine you for your choice to endanger others. That has been set by very long and established legal precedent, including several cases before the Supreme Court.

            The people who tell you that vaccines do not contain poisons are not telling you that because they are ignorant of the ingredients. It’s precisely because we know what the ingredients are. WE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. We are not scared of big unpronounceable words, because (a) we know what they are, (b) we know what they do, (c) we know why they are in vaccines (and also, which of your scaryscarybogeyman “toxinz” are NOT in vaccines at all!), and (d) we also know what a dose-response curve is, and why these things are in fact not dangerous — not to human beings, whether adult or baby.

            And as for why I worry about unvaccinated kids:
            – because even the children of dangerously ignorant parents should not be denied the best and safest medical care simply because their parents are dangerously ignorant. Your kids are human beings in their own right, people with rights, not just your property.
            – because you and your kids, as disease vectors, endanger babies who are too young to have been vaccinated yet. Endangering other people’s babies is even less ok than endangering your own out of ignorance.
            – and because there are people out there for whom vaccines don’t work — some because they are undergoing chemotherapy, some with other causes of weakened immune systems (many simply because of age), and some small percentage who simply never seroconvert in response to vaccines. All these people depend on herd immunity to keep diseases at bay. All these people have no choice in the matter. And all those people are endangered by your voluntary choice of ignorance and selfishness.

            That’s why.

          3. Your last question is certainly a logic fail. If we love vaccines, we’d want all kids to have them!

        2. There are no alternatives to vaccination in terms of protecting against a pathogen except getting the disease with its risks.
          Eating healthy is great, but it won’t prevent these diseases. So these parents, whatever they think, are leaving their children unprotected.

          We have decades of information including studies and monitoring of most vaccines. That’s long term.

          1. Lol! You’re so full of bologna, Dorit, it’s actually funny. You think you’re the definitive authority on this stuff? “There are no alternatives to vaccination in terms of protecting against a pathogen except getting the disease with its risks. Eating healthy is great, but it won’t prevent these diseases. So these parents, whatever they think, are leaving their children unprotected.” Really you are so ignorant, it’s shocking. I pray that you don’t have any children. God help them if you do!

          2. It’s hardly a lack of manners pointing out that you pick and choose which information to pay attention to. Vaccinate your child all you want but forcing a child to be vaccinated is a crime. I’m glad you don’t have an autistic child, but I can promise you one thing. If you did, you’d be singing a whole different tune. Have you ever talked to any mothers of autistic kids? I bet not. Happy holidays, Dorit!

          3. I do talk to parents of autistic children. They are very angry at the harm the vaccine-cause autism myth is causing to their children and the autism community.

          4. So they would continue to vaccinate their already-autistic child? That’s frightening!

          5. They certainly act to protect their child from disease and vaccinate. Autistic children don’t deserve to be left at risk anymore than other children do.

          6. Wow! How sad for those kids! No chelation to help them recover and get their life back. Just more vaccines. Heartbreaking. 🙁

          7. My reading of the comments of actual people with autism is that they prefer not to be subjected to dangerous, irrelevant, and abusive treatments, and would appreciate their parents not falling for the charlatans who sell them. They also don’t appreciate being seeing as damaged goods. It’s offensive.

            They also appreciate their parents following the science and protecting them from disease. Because autistics don’t deserve to be left at risk of diseases because of false information.

          8. What’s frightening is the comment you just made.

            It’s like saying “My child was in a car accident, so I will never allow them to drink water again!”

            Antivaxxers: Giving terrible parenting advice since 1790!

          9. So….even if vacines did cause some autism, if I already have an autistic kid, I basically then have a choice between autism or autism AND measles.

          10. Dorit is correct. Eating healthy won’t prevent you from getting a VPD. Being vaccinated boosts your immune system to remember the disease and either not get sick at all or only have a minor case.

            And vaccines don’t cause autism, so this does not relate at all. Furthermore, I have friends who’s children are autistic and they know that vaccines work and do not cause autism. They do not appreciate autism being continually blamed on vaccines, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

        3. Lurkers: Note the swollen-headed narcissism. All those kids who died from diphtheria and polio, they just didn’t eat right. But Cheryl has discovered the combination of kale and yoga that wards off diseases that ravaged even the middle and upper classes of the 19th Century. Or maybe not. Better nutrition is associated with better outcomes of measles cases, although complications still occur. As far as I know, there is little if any such association for polio and smallpox.

        4. And yet none of what you mentioned will protect your child from a disease like measles.

          Oh and your bit about the Nuremberg code is also wrong.

      3. The skeptical raptor is a hoax site created by paid vaccine industry pr dollars undoubtedly. You are an absolute liar and this article is pure pr spin and garbage.

        The people are waking up. The day is coming when your lies will be apparent to everyone and will be totally ignored.

        It’s disgusting that people are willing to inject little children with POISON for profit. And it’s equally disgusting that there are trolls such as the author of this article and the fake commentator above promoting that practice. SHAME ON YOU.

        1. Actually, the Skeptical Raptor is a private blog.

          I note you have not pointed to anything incorrect in the article.

          Nobody I know injects little children with poison. On the other hand, health authorities everywhere, at the local, national and international level, support giving children life-saving vaccines.

          1. Wow. Dorit, have you ever read the vaccine ingredients list on any of these vaccines? And the warnings on the package inserts? Or do you just choose to believe that mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, etc., are all safe inside the human body? I agree with the poster who said you should have every right to inject your helpless unsuspecting child with all the poisons you want. But you cannot force vaccinations on those who do not want them. If your vaccines are so wonderful and work so well, why do you care about any unvaccinated child?

          2. I’ve read the inserts and the ingredients list, thank you. I have also read why the ingredients are there, and understand the concept that the dose makes the poison – and that in those tiny amounts the ingredients are not poison. Here are some useful sources about vaccine ingredients for you:

            https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients#.VeD1e-nSIag

            https://www.immunize.org/concerns/vaccine_components.pdf

            I have read the inserts too and understand them.

            And of course I protect my children from disease, using our safe and effective vaccines. After all, some of the bacteria we vaccinate against emit poisons – toxins – and I don’t want my children left at their mercy.

            School immunization mandates don’t force parents to protect their children. They just limit the ability of a parent to send the vaccine-deprived child to school and force the same risk they chose for the child on the child’s classmates.

          3. If your wonderful vaccines are so effective, you shouldn’t be the slightest bit concerned about any unvaccinated children in your kids’ school. The fact that you’re so freaked out about it can only be due to the fact that you know they are nowhere near as effective as they’re purported to be.

          4. You’ve said this several times and I answered it several times. This suggests a very real misunderstanding about vaccines. To summarize what I said, unvaccinated children can infect those who cannot be vaccinated (too young, medical problems), those whose immunity wanes (old, medical problems) and the few that suffer vaccine failure. It’s true that they are the most common victim of being left unprotected, but they do pose a risk to others.

          5. You’re not paying attention to what I’m saying. I’ll try to slow down and speak more clearly. Your kids are vaccinated certainly. So if that’s the case, why would you be worried? Forget the kids who can’t be vaccinated. Yours don’t fall into that category clearly. Just answer me this, why are you worried about YOUR vaccinated child contracting a disease from my unvaccinated child???

          6. Reason #13: We aren’t just worried about our children.

            That would be selfish.

            Reason #2: My child is still too young to be vaccinated.

          7. A. If you look at my profile picture you would see I have a baby too young to be fully vaccinated. Your vaccine deprived child or another like him may infect him.

            B. If my older child is, for example, in the 3% who aren’t protected against MMR, I wouldn’t appreciate someone else’s failure to vaccinate putting him at risk.

            C. I happen to care about other children, and not just my own. You see, I see children as important. Even if they’re not mine.

          8. “Forget the kids who can’t be vaccinated – why are you worried because of your kids”

            Simple. We care about more than just our own kids even if you do not.

          9. Here’s another thought.

            No vaccine is 100% effective, and these are not diseases you want circulating around.

            Measles encephalitis. Whooping cough. You know what? Where there’s a risk, there should be a choice, and my choice is home school your kid if you don’t want to vaccinate them.

          10. Hmmm. I don’t know about freaked out, but I do see expectant mothers and a lot of strollers at my son’s school. Those are children who are too young to be immunized who could easily catch pertussis, measles, you name it.

            Here in California, we decided home schooling is a better option for the parents who refuse reasonable health requirements. It’s a win-win.

          11. Doris, since the dose makes the poison, you could inject human excrement under your skin, as long as it is just a little bit. Or do you feel repulsed about it ? Why do you think that you would feel repulsed about it ? Is it because nature tells you that it is not right ?

            If people really saw what goes into VACCINES , they would be repulsed in the same way.

            Also, why are you so stupidly concerned about bacteria emitting poisons, yet you believe in injecting poisons ( VACCINES ) into healthy people ? Yours is the logic of an schizophrenic. I get better reasoning skills from demented people than from stupid pro-vaccine people.

          12. Right Eggman2? No way would she subject herself to the vaccine schedule that helpless 2016 newborns receive! The last two shots I got (tetanus in 2009 and flu shot in 2011) both made me so sick. How easily the sheeple buy what Big Pharma sells them is scary! And our government says all these vaccines are safe too. Lol! Don’t any pro-vaxxers see the teensy weensy conflict of interest here? Our goverment officials and the CDC itself both receive large amounts of money from Big Pharma. That doesn’t cause you guys any concern at all? Do you think the drug companies would publish any study that was done that came back showing their vaccines are not safe? I defy any pro-vaxxer to attempt to answer that question! Anyone who thinks they would publish an unfavorable study is as delusional and naive as a human can possibly be.

          13. “(tetanus in 2009 and flu shot in 2011) both made me so sick.”

            When did you contract Lyme Disease, Sherri. Didn’t you say you were late stage almost a year ago?

          14. It is a private blog ? Then why that guy kisses the junk medicine robber barons @$$€$ with so much gusto ?

      4. Claiming that vaccinating is safer than not is a huge logical fallacy. There is no proof for this statement whatsoever. And mandating this kind of medical intervention across the board is a direct violation of both parental and child rights, besides a big step toward something akin to fascism. Vaccinate if it’s your choice, but leave the healthy, high immunity families alone. And please check your science, un vaccinated does not automatically mean disease carrier, another logical fallacy. This has turned into a propaganda war, and the vast assumptions and lack of science spouted by those who insist on forced vaccines are incredible.

        1. There are tens of thousands of studies looking at vaccine safety and abundant information about the diseases. We know that serious harms from vaccines are very, very, very rare. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

          And the harms from diseases much larger. That’s why every health authority in the world – local, national, international – support vaccinating and protecting children from disease.

          If anything, the violation of a child’s right is leaving them at risk of disease.

          Non-vaccinating families are not high-immunity. They are at risk, and dependent on herd immunity to protect them from preventable disease – depending on their responsible neighbors. Unvaccinated is not automatically ill – especially if most people around form a barrier. But it increases the child’s risk of illness and undermines the safety of the community.

      5. Dorit Reiss has to be a paid shill for the pharmaceutical company. She worked to help pass the mandatory vaccination law in California. What are you doing commenting on a vaccination article in a local Colorado paper when you are a California resident, Dorit? Stay out of my state and don’t mess with my constitutional right to decide what goes in my child’s body. How much are they paying you? I know what your agenda is and so should everybody else reading your comments.

        1. You don’t have a constitutional right to refuse to protect your child from disease and risk that child’s life. Because children have rights, they’re not your property.

          You don’t have a constitutional right to send an unvaccinated child to school and force a risk of disease on others, because other people have rights, too.

          Wanting to believe that those who disagree with you are paid isn’t a substitute to having evidence or valid arguments on your side. You’re as wrong about this as about rights and about vaccines.

          1. Dorit, why is your vaccinated child at risk if your vaccines are so wonderful and effective?

          2. It’s true that the most common victim of the decision not to
            vaccinate is the vaccine deprived child herself. But because infectious diseases are contagious, she risks others, too. There are three reasons to worry about an unvaccinated child, who is at higher risk of getting and transmitting an infectious disease.

            1) Those too young to vaccinate, like this child, contracting
            measles as a young baby from an unvaccinated child, who died in agony from a
            complication, the SSPE I mentioned.
            https://justthevax.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/micha-is-dead.html.

            2) Those with medical conditions that cannot be vaccinated. Like
            this child, who had a heart transplant at seven weeks, and cannot get live
            vaccines. He does not deserve to be infected by an unvaccinated child either.
            https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/advocating-for-benjamin/.

            3) . Those very few for whom the vaccine fails. To remind you,
            unvaccinated children are more likely to have the disease and pass it on, and communities with low vaccination rates are more likely to have outbreaks (e.g.
            https://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2069.pdf).

            So it’s true that the primary victims, those most likely to
            suffer, are the unvaccinated children themselves; but they still put others at risk.

          3. I bet you happily ignore the fact that recent outbreaks have been in VACCINATED kids! These things are garbage. NOT effective and so beyond dangerous it begs disbelief.

          4. You still aren’t answering the question. If your child is vaccinated with these wonderful effective vaccines, what are you worried about?

          5. Really? Open your eyes and read. Dorit already posted the reasons why she is worried about unvaccinated kids. Let me give you a hint. It is the comment with the phrase “There are three reasons to worry about an unvaccinated child” in the opening paragraph. It also has the numbered reasons 1, 2 and 3 and has a link to more information with each point. It was posted an hour before your hectoring comment above.

      6. For me this is about common sense and seeing what is right in front of my eyes. I’ve met about 250 mothers of autistic children over the last few years. Do you know not ONE of them said the autism began any time other than immediately after a round of vaccines? That’s 100% folks. To be clear, vaccines don’t “cause” autism; they “trigger” it in susceptible children. It’s inconceivable to me that you gullible sheeple still believe what the FDA and CDC tell you, when the only studies being touted as showing “vaccine safety” (oxymoron) are the studies funded & conducted by the drug companies who sell them. And guess what! The studies that show they are not safe never see the light of day. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what’s going on here. But you guys go right ahead and keep drinking the koolaid from the FDA & CDC and keep trusting that your elected representatives are always looking out for your best interest and making sure you’re getting the truth, all the while their pockets are being lined with money from the drug companies. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!

        1. I’d ask where you met those moms. If you met them through anti-vaccine groups or conferences like Autism One, naturally they would all buy into the myth that vaccines cause autism. That said, the data is complete: vaccines neither cause nor trigger autism. The studies are from all over the world, done by different and independent team of researchers. Tempting as it is to believe there’s a global conspiracy to hide the fact that vaccines cause autism, it’s just not realistic.

          https://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html

          1. A dozen of them are my friends from grade school. Others I have met through support groups for heavy metal chelation. All the kids who have autism that you think isn’t caused by mercury and aluminum et al, are recovering through chelation. What does that tell you? It ought to tell you that you do not have all the information if you only look to drug companies who profit from this crap to give you the complete and unbiased story. Which would be fine if all you wanted to do was poison your own kids. But when you start forcing this on other kids, this becomes just ridiculous. All of you on here who love your vaccines so much and think they’re so great, why would you care about any unvaccinated kids if yours are so well-protected?

          2. It’s hardly surprising that members of chelation groups would by into the myth. After all, they wouldn’t be there if they weren’t misled into believing that autism is mercury poisoning and were willing to submit their poor children to the untested and dangerous treatment of chelation – something that does nothing for autism.

            https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm394757.htm

            It’s sad that there’s an industry out there that makes it money by convincing parents that their children are vaccine injured and that they need to chelate them. It’s even sadder that the parents so misled go out and sell the same lie to others.

            Again, school immunization mandates do not force parents to protect their children. They just limit the ability to risk the child’s classmates.

            As to why it’s a risk – it’s true that the most common victim of non-vaccination is the vaccine-denied child herself. But she is at higher risk of getting a vaccine preventable disease and infecting those who cannot be vaccinated (too young, medical conditions), those who lost immunity (age, medical condition) or the few that suffered vaccine failure. If there’s a concentration of such children the risk of outbreaks – putting the community at risk – also increases.

          3. Do you think it’s a coincidence that 100% of mothers of autistic kids say that the autism came immediately after a round of vaccines? Like literally, Dorit, they had happy, healthy, well functioning beautiful children who instantly lost their ability to speak and function right after the vaccines. Is that just a coincidence? 100%??? Many of the autistic monthers I know were my friends long before they vaccinated. They were ALL pro-vaxx before their children were poisoned. Do you realize that? They didn’t need any anti-vaxx propaganda to persuade them their kids were poisoned. For you to suggest that is silly. These are all very intelligent women too by the way.

          4. Dorit, they are RECOVERING when the metals are chelated out of their brains. Does that fact mean anything to you? Or perhaps you prefer they don’t chelate and get better? Because if enough people keep doing that, some day no thinking person will be able to ignore the damage these things are doing any longer. It’s great that chelation can help them recover, but it can take 1-3 years depending on how badly poisoned they are. And just for the record, I am a member of a couple of chelation groups because I am going through chelation myself. I never thought for ONE SECOND about this autism/mercury link until I started chelation myself two years ago. After seeing mountains of impossible to ignore evidence from actual victims, I have had to accept that we are absolutely being lied to. Vaccines don’t “cause” autism, Dorit. They TRIGGER it in susceptible children. Big difference.

          5. If autism really was metal poisoning, chelation would not “fix” it. If a brain cell is damaged, it’s gone, and there is no way to recover it. Chelation can prevent further damage, but fix nothing.

            But autism isn’t metal poisoning. It’s a developmental disorder. Which means that some children catch up and make strides naturally. These children are not recovering. They are developing, and would do so even if the parents did not put them at the risk of chelation. To remind you, in 2005 an autistic child died from chelation.

            Vaccines don’t trigger autism either. There are not enough amounts of ingredients in vaccines to cause heavy metal poisoning and most or all of the ingredients are not heavy metals. It’s a scam. And a dangerous one, harmful to the children.

          6. You’re wrong amount the amounts being too small to have any effect. Mercury is the most toxic non-radioactive substance on the planet. It doesn’t belong inside the human body in any amount. Not all children’s bodies can detox the “small” amounts of these poisons as you refer to them. I’m glad your children have no issues with them. Not all kids are that lucky. These poisons TRIGGER autism. No amount of you wanting it to not be so can change that. You are so misinformed and you just buy whatever Big Pharma sells you. Good luck with that! Worry about your OWN children! No one else’s children are your business!

          7. Well, first, there has never been mercury in vaccines ever, much like there has never been chlorine in your butter.

            Second, if thimerosal triggered autism, then autism rates should have plummeted like a stone about 3 yrs after the removal of thimerosal. If aluminum (also not in vaccines) triggered autism, everybody would be autistic because breastmilk. If formaldehyde triggered autism, everybody would be autistic.

            Thirdly, this is a matter of public health and in one aspect

            Now, kindly explain to me exactly why you think it is appropiate to imply that Autistic people are worse than a literal plague. I’ve been asking this of several anti-vaxxers.

          8. Do you have an provax friends? Have you asked them what they think? Really, all this is saying is that you hang out with people who think autism is damage. Which is very sad. Your children are growing up thinking they are damaged goods, being subjected to unscientific and potentially dangerous cures to try to get the damage out of them. Very very sad.

          9. Of course I have plenty of pro-vaxx friends. I believe wholeheartedly they should have every right to give their kids every vaccine the drug companies are selling. But only one of them believes vaccines should be forced on children whose parents don’t want them. My unvaccinated kids are 100% healthy. My oldest who was vaccinated has had constant health issues. We are both chelating now and she has been improving. Thank God.

          10. The unvaccinated develop autism at the same rate as the vaccinated, so it’s obvious that vaccines don’t cause it.

          11. I am sorry you have bought into the bad science. You have been misled. Be very careful. People have died from chelation.

          12. I’m noticing significant improvements for myself and my child, thank you. I did the research before beginning chelation and have chosen the very safe and inexpensive protocol. I am well aware that there are unsafe methods of chelation. (mainly the intravenous method)

          13. Unless it is done in a hospital, for verified metal poisoning, there is no valid reason to chelate.

        2. That means 100% of the “autism is damage” parents you meet at chelation conferences think vaccines cause autism? Because 100% of the biased group you interview agree it is? Just like 100% of your already biased friends think vaccines cause autism. That is not science. And, the great thing about science is that it is true whether you believe it or not.

          1. I don’t go to chelation conferences. I’m just chelating myself and my daughter and we are getting better. And all of the autistic mothers in my group, their children are getting better too. Thank God! I know you want to ignore this, Cathy, and pretend it isn’t so, but it is. But go on being a sheeple and believe whatever the big drug companies tell you. I’m sure they are posting the results from all of the studies regarding a possible link between mercury and autism, even the unfavorable ones. Because they are so reputable and honest. And not at all driven by the bottom line.

        3. Yeah…about the susceptible childen…there was a study on kids with siblngs with ASD – still no link. Lewin Group.

          Plus, let X be the rates of autism in unvaccinated kids.

          Let Y be the rates of autism in vaccinated kids.

          Study 2.8 million kids, do a meta-analysis that’s not a vaccine autism connection but just part of a broader health database.

          If any cases are caused by vaccines then Y should be greater than X. It isn’t, but if it was, then Y-X may be vaccine injuries. There may still be other causes at that point but in order to it be worth studying Y has to be greater than X – it’s not.

    2. Do you know of anyone who has actually been removed from school for not vaccinating? I’m talking about permanently removed, not being quarantined when a disease is present in the school. The schools bend over backwards to give parents the opportunity to comply. They send letters, they give them an “in process” status, yada, yada, yada. I’ve worked with the schools (not for them) and I’ve seen it. I’ve never heard of anyone every being expelled from school over refusal to vaccinate.

      Vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe” the same way motor vehicles are. We allow children to ride in motor vehicles all the time. The schools even provide motor vehicles for some kids to get to school.

      Why are some people so concerned about what’s in their sh*t, anyway?

      1. Read the road to wellville. John H KELLOGG was saying the same silliness over a hundred years ago.

      2. Actually, the Bruetwitz vs Wyth specifically states that vaccines are NOT unavoidably unsafe – but yes, unavoidably unsafe does not mean unreasonably dangerous.

          1. So how in hell do you make a injection of random antigens “safe”?

            What kind of woo can prevent random antigens from inducing random antibodies in the test subjects?

            Science has no answer, but vaccine apologists stick to their woo.

          2. Comment K gives a definition of “Unavoidably unsafe” as this: ”

            “Unavoidably unsafe products: There are some products which,
            in the present state of human knowledge, are quite incapable of being
            made safe for their intended and ordinary use. These are especially
            common in the field of drugs. An outstanding example is the vaccine for the Pasteur treatment of rabies, which not uncommonly leads to very serious and damaging consequences when it is injected. Since the disease itself invariably leads to a dreadful death, both the marketing and the use of the vaccine are fully justified, notwithstanding the unavoidable high degree of risk which they involve. Such a product, properly prepared, and accompanied by proper directions and warning, is not defective, nor is it unreasonably dangerous.”

            They didn’t directly address other vaccines, but they gave some insight into their thinking. My interpretation, mind you, I’m not an attorney, is that they are saying vaccines aren’t defective nor are they unreasonably dangerous.

            JMO.

      1. Why? We don’t need more inaccurate noise in the public sphere. There’s enough of that already. Accurate information is valuable; what Ravi wrote is neither accurate nor valuable.

    3. “Wakefield ‘ now reproduced study” you lost all credibility with that opener. His paper was a fraud. His coinvestigators denounced him. If you believe the hooker paper was confirmation it wasnt. That paper was withdrawn for methodological and analytic flaws.

      In context vaccination is safer than the wild disease.

      The microbiome claim is equally stupid and unsupported by any evidence.

      1. Wakefield’s study findings have been replicated many, many times.
        What was it his paper concluded?
        “We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described.”
        Ah yes, that was it.

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  20. Vaccines are very safe and effective.

    The save tens of thousands of lives for each birth cohort:

    https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/25/peds.2013-0698

    They are extensively tested:

    https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/debunking-myths-about-vaccine-testing-and-safety/

    And serious harms from them are very, very rare. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

    In spite of that, some parents are misled by misinformation away from protecting their children by vaccinating. One way we have to counter that is school immunization requirements. Tightening them protects children – including vaccine deprived children, who depend on herd immunity. It’s a good idea.

      1. There may even be somethings to this suit, though fact finding is incomplete. But the last decision I saw was the court dismissing a claim for answering a question on this.

          1. I did. Last decision I saw denied a query by plaintiff about efficacy. It’s part of the discovery process. I also shared my source: I looked the case up using Pacer, a database of federal case. It’s a civil suit in PA’s eastern district federal court, and I used party name Merck to search. It’s open to anyone: there’s a fee if you exceed a certain amount of usage, but I’ve never gotten to that limit, so you have quite a bit that’s free. Feel free to look. I

  21. Vaccines can, have and do cause harm. If they did not, then the VICP would not have paid out over 3 billion dollars to vaccine injured children. If a medical procedure carries with it risk, then there must be personal choice. If you believe otherwise, then you are the enemy of free man everywhere. Mandatory vaccines are a direct violation of the Nuremburg codes. The rights you are so nonchalantly attempting to violate are tangible to a lot of people; this is very serious stuff. What the writers of this article failed to mention is that a great majority of the science used regarding vaccines has been conducted by people with huge conflicts of interest and funded by the very pharmaceutical companies whom stand to profit. For instance, take Poul Thorsen for example. Much of his work is used by the CDC to state that vaccines do not cause autism. The only problem is that Mr. Thorsen is on the FBI’s most wanted list for using the money he got from the CDC to conduct this research on cars, motorcycles and hookers instead; yet the CDC still uses his work. I would suggest that this paper likely has conflicts of interest as well. I would further suggest to the Aurora Sentinel to continue to be verbal about mandating vaccines so that those quiet parents out there with the 10 year old vaccine injured child, and a 4 year old healthy, unvaccinated child knows who to blame when their 4 year child is forcefully vaccinated against their will and is injured from that vaccine. You people will be in a lot of trouble. To see people that support this is frightening and quite sad. No human being should have the right to forcefully inject others with anything. Period. I do not understand how people could actually support such actions. Sad times we live in. No matter what law you pass, what decree you profess, I am a human being. I have inalienable rights. One of those rights is to adopt or refuse whatever medical procedures I chose to. You can pretend that your laws give you the right to violate my person, but they do not. And if you force your will onto me then I am pretty sure of a Nuremburg trial happening again in your future. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal in Germany. How did that work out for him? Something to think about.

    1. This has been dissected and debunked in detail many times over. Repetition of false and misleading assertions does not make them true.

      1. What exactly has been dissected and debunked? Indeed, repetition of false and misleading assertions do not make them true, but that fact has never stopped that from happening. Smoking does not cause cancer. Weapons of mass destruction. Mission accomplished. Shall I continue?

    2. “Vaccines can, have and do cause harm. If they did not, then the VICP
      would not have paid out over 3 billion dollars to vaccine injured children.”

      That is an accepted by everyone, including those of us here who support vaccination. Nothing in life is risk free – there is more chance of your kid dying playing Little League than because of an MMR shot, for example.

      The VICP has paid out compensation for all cases of claimed vaccine reactions/damage that meet its requirements. There is no need to prove the vaccine did the damage, the bar is set very low for accepting claims that conform to any prior acknowledged type of reaction previously linked to vaccines (so called “Table injuries”).
      In the decades over which the NVICP has paid out compensation (funded by a federal excise tax levied on the vaccine manufacturers), the average payout has been for one case in a million vaccine shots (proving vaccines are extremely safe by any definition of a medical intervention).

      “Mandatory vaccines are a direct violation of the Nuremburg codes”
      No they are not, if given for the appropriate circumstances (see Jacobsen vs Massachusetts)
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

      However, you are deliberately muddying the waters here about the requirement for children to be vaccinated before attending public schools in some US states. This is not a “deliberately forced mandate” – parents still have choices – they can get home schooling or private schooling for example.

      Paul Thorsen is a scientist who has been charged with wire fraud. This was quite unrelated to his scientific work and does not negate the science papers he co-authored for the CDC. If Einstein robbed a post-office, would that disprove the general theory of relativity?

      1. It always amuses me to see you pro-vaccine people continue defend the science behind vaccines in order to justify your totalitarian mindset. Hey, newsflash: I am a grown man. I can read just like you, and I have done my own research regarding vaccines and come to my own conclusions. Why can’t you respect that? What is it bout you that makes you think you are so right that you feel you are justified in mandating medical procedures onto others? And why do you continue to argue about the “science” of vaccines when this is a human rights issue? You either support mandatory vaccines and the violation of a persons human rights, or you do not.

        1. We don’t respect your opinion because what you are really doing is freeloading off those of us who got vaccinated. Why do you think you are no longer at risk for smallpox or (unless you travel) polio? Why has your risk of measles, rubella, etc. dropped by 90% or more?

          It’s because the rest of us vaccinated. Not sanitation miracles. Not your daily dose of kale. Now, you can either get with the program yourself, or you can repay us in other ways, like keeping your bioweapon kids out of the public schools.

          1. I have trained my 18 kids (fed on Kale) to lick the door handles of cars in the grocery store parking lot, and to lick the cart handles. Little Billy has even taken to licking mailboxes. If I were you, I wouldn’t leave your house without a body condom.

        2. Well that was a bit of word salad that didn’t address a single one of the points.
          Just more tone trolling I see.

          I support mandated vaccination only in cases of infectious epidemics poses significant risk to public health.
          I am in favour of choice otherwise, not mandates.

          Nobody is advocating forced injections here , so cut it with your blazing straw man fallacy, will you?

    3. 4300 claims paid in 30 years compared to hundreds of millions vaccinated in that time means 99.999% of vaccinated Americans are NOT injured. No disease is anywhere near that safe.

  22. It is never right to mandate a medical procedure that carries with it risk to someone’s child for the safety of another’s child. Period. This isn’t a “vaccine” issue; this is a human rights issue. If the state can mandate and force a vaccine into you against your will, what other “greater good” health mandates will be passed? This is a very slippery slope. How will your children remember you during these times? Were you a supporter of the violation of people’s rights, or a defender of them? There are literally over 200 vaccines that will added to the vaccine schedule when and if these mandates come to fruition. Your children will have to get them all. How do you feel about that? These are questions all of you pro-vaccine people need to answer, and soon. Funny thing is that people against vaccines will never tell you not to get them; we say educate yourself and make your own medical decisions. But the pro-vaccine crowd will always tell you to vaccinate, and profess forcing them onto people against their will. What does that say about their moral character? Do we want our children to adopt medical procedures backed by science conducted by people with huge conflicts of interest for the profits of government entities and huge pharmaceutical corporations, or do they deserve better?

    1. It is never right to endanger your own AND other’ people’s children through ignorance.

      Your arguments were first addressed by the Supreme Court of the US in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. And your assertions about vaccines are inaccurate; they are tested, they are safer than any alternative, and no, there are not “literally over 200 vaccines that will added to the vaccine schedule” — if you keep repeating myths like that without fact-checking in credible sources, then why should anyone take your claims to be “educated” seriously, much less your assertions about public health?

      1. Then by your logic, every time you leave your house with a cough and a sniffle, you are putting others at risk. When we drive a car, we put others at risk. What of the risk of the vaccine itself causing more harm? This has already happened. In the 1970’s there was a swine flu scare. More people died from the swine flu vaccine then the swine flu itself. This is a fact; 60 minutes even did a report on it and aired it all over the country. Funny thing about the Supreme Court, since you brought them up; they define vaccines as being “Unavoidably unsafe”. Another fact.

        1. Many things are “unavoidably unsafe”, cars, knives, lawnmowers, many other tools; beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages. 60 minutes is an entertainment show.

          1. Like I said, this is a human rights issue. You want to force others to get a vaccine because you think you know what is best for them. You think you are smarter then they are, and think it is OK to make them vaccinate their kids. Will you help to change the diapers of a vaccine injured child because of your mandates? Will you change their diapers when they are 5? When they are 15? When they are 30? No, I didn’t think so. You want to mandate risky medical procedures onto others for your “safety”, and take none of the responsibility for damages your mandates incur. You are a despicable human being. You probably don’t even have any kids, yet you somehow feel it is OK for you to mandate what medical procedures parents make for their children. How sad.

          2. Do you support mandatory vaccines or not? If you do, then you support the violation of a persons inalienable rights. It is as simple as that.

          3. I have news for you: involuntary quarantine, whether you want to call it an abuse of human rights or whatever, has been a responsibility of governments since Biblical times, if not earlier. There has never been a right to introduce communicable disease into public space.

            This is just organized narcissism masquerading as human rights.

          4. Brian’s claim is that this is a human rights issue. You guys are a little late with your Typhoid Mary Liberation Front. And not many people will join.

          5. Again you’re distorting the issue.
            This debate is not about quarantine of infected individuals, nor are his comments .

          6. This is a human rights issue. You either support mandatory vaccines and the violation of a persons human rights, or you do not. No matter how you justify it with whatever science you use, THAT is the issue at hand.

          7. No, Brian, you can’t just plop down a marker and claim “This is a human right”. Unless you indeed do want to form the Typhoid Mary Liberation Front—have you assimilated her story yet? Neither is there any claim that paying taxes is a violation of human rights, outside a few cranks on the furthest libertarian edge. Protecting public health is every citizen’s responsibility, and it turns out kale and yoga aren’t enough for that.

            We aren’t ordering you to get vaccinated. We’re telling you that your children can’t free ride on their responsible neighbors’ vaccinations.

          8. As if there are piles of dead unvaccinated babies piling up in this country. The Amish do not vaccinate; do we hear of scores of them dying? Nope, not once. Using fear is always the tactic of tyrants.

          9. The Amish do vaccinate, albeit at lower levels than the general population until they became victims of the largest USA measles epidemic in 2013-14. Now vax rates are up. The claim Amish don’t vaccinate is from a lazy journalist looking for a cute-Amish story. Try reading what Amish say here.

            There aren’t enough Amish to have scores of measles deaths, but we know what the pre-vaccine USA was like: hundreds of measles deaths a year. Measles is in fact something to be afraid of.

            You are confusing swollen-headed narcissism with courage.

          10. Andrew was around in the ’80s, at a time when the only vaccines were the DPT, MMR, and polio. Wait, he was around before the MMR, got the measles as a small child, as I did, and we both survived. Hey, Dorit, Mike, Twyla, jbbsktrs, and Ione got measles etc. when they were children, and ALL survived to tell the tale. Not a single person before the vaccine and autism epidemics were kicked off in 1988 EVER said how awful it was that so many children were dying from whatever, because we all saw trillions of healthy, happy children everywhere who had gotten the routine childhood diseases. And children were MUCH healthier then, no autism, no ADHD, a fraction of the asthma, allergies, diabetes, bowel disease, etc. that about half of children have now, because VACCINES have ruined our children’s health!

          11. ciapaker2: “Not a single person before the vaccine and autism epidemics were kicked off in 1988 EVER said how awful it was that so many children were dying from whatever, because we all saw trillions of healthy, happy children everywhere who had gotten the routine childhood diseases.”

            Ever? Trillions?

            Once more, then..

            You make lots of claims here without any evidence to back them up, ciaparker2.

            And there simply is no truth to the claims you make, and without real
            evidence to support them there is no reason for anyone to accept them.

          12. Lol @ trillions. Does cia realize at the population of the entire planet is estimated at approx 7.4 billion? Do you think she realizes that there are 1000 billion in a trillion?

          13. You don’t have a human right to leave your child at risk of disease. And you don’t have a human right to send an unvaccinated child to school and risk others.

          14. If you and yours are vaccinated, why do you care about unvaccinated kids? The fact of the matter is that the vaccinated are the ones that spread the very diseases they were vaccinated for. This is why people are asked if they have been recently vaccinated before being allowed to visit immune compromised hospital patients. So how is it OK for your vaccinated kids to shed pathogens, but I have no right to refuse a vaccine because you believe in a “greater good” ends justifies the means philosophy? Your arguments are scientifically, philosophically and morally damaged.

          15. I do suggest studying more. That question suggests lack of knowledge.

            It’s true that it’s the vaccine-deprived children who are the most common victim of the decision not to vaccinate. But they still risk others. Like my baby, who is too young to be fully vaccinated; like those with medical conditions that prevent vaccinating; like the small percentage that suffer vaccine failure, or elderly people whose immune system isn’t as strong.

            Shedding vaccine viruses, too, is not a serious risk even with live virus vaccines , which is why household contacts of the immune compromised are encouraged to vaccinate. The real shedding is of the wild virus or bacteria that the unvaccinated are more at risk of. See: https://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizations/a/live-vaccines.htm

          16. And I should take medical advice from you because? What medical background do you have other than having financial ties to big pharmaceutical companies?

          17. I’m not giving medical advice. I’m providing referenced information. I’d hope most people would be interested in facts.

          18. Would it matter? The doctors are the ones who have caused the autism epidemic, and many snarl and get aggressive if a patient refuses to damage their child with vaccines.

          19. That is another lie. When Johns Hopkins and St. Jude’s found out that anti-vaxers were using their websites as a resource, they updated them in March of last year.

            Why are you so scared of “shedding” if you’re not afraid of your kids getting the diseases themselves? The wild viruses are far more potent than the vaccine viruses to begin with!

          20. What you need to learn, Mikey, so that you can refrain from further misrepresentation such as your falsehood above, are the many meanings of the word forced! I’ll list the first several hundred here for you! 😉

            There’s: threaten, oblige, restrict, suppress, repress, compel, hold for ransom [quite relevant, that one] inflict, persuade, strong arm, COERCE, pressure, constrain, limit under duress, browbeat, bully, etc. etc. etc.!

            This barely scratches the surface for the word ‘FORCE’ {as in intimidation} and I haven’t even started on ‘coerce’ yet!

            Given the lack of appropriate alternatives for many who choose not to vax themselves or their children, it’s conspicuously and absolutely apparent that individuals are being FORCED to vax!

            We KNOW that you lie about being a doc! We KNOW that you lie about being Mikey Stevens! And we KNOW that you again LIE, when you say ‘nobody is forced to do anything’! Stop lying, Mikey!

          21. ….Oh Dear!
            I am not looking for a thesaurus-type list of possible vaguely related synonyms, I am talking about the definition of the verb.

            The definition of the verb to force is quite clear – it requires that someone is coerced into doing something entirely against their will.

            If a parent does not wish their child to be vaccinated, then that is their choice, and nobody will hold the child down and forcibly inject him/her against their parent’s wishes.

            Got that, Scuz?

          22. You brought up NEITHER the definition or synonym; I DID!

            You merely stated ‘forced! You did NOT elaborate! I WILL!

            For many parents choosing NOT to vax, the alternative of homeschooling creates an extreme HARDSHIP, therefore the state is establishing decision making principals UNDER DURESS for these individuals; which IS COERCIVE and which are certainly subsequently FORCING these parents into doing something they DON’T WANT TO DO!

            FORCE plain and simple!

            Got that, Liar!

          23. So when the state legislates that I should wearing a seatbelt, I am being forced to wear one?
            No, I am not, if I don’t want to wear one I have the choice of not driving a car, or using alternative transport.

            I also noticed your list of things that meant “to force” included the verb “to persuade”.

          24. Yeah! Duh! You’re being forced under threat of fine and or imprisonment, and if you have a family with little financial resource, you are ALSO risking their welfare, causing extreme hardship due to loss of monetary punishments from the enforcers!

            However, your hackneyed hokum is immature and insignificant, since driving is NOT compulsory; while ensuring that school age children receive education, IS!

            To ‘persuade’ under threat, duress, coercion, intimidation of adversity, disaster, pain and suffering, should one NOT comply with what is being enforced, is absolutely being FORCED to make decisions AGAINST their will. I still had 900 more words to convey to you Mikey, showing the meaning of ‘force’ [as in intimidation NOT physics]!

            Use what brain you have left after the blender, Mikey! Someone holds a gun to your head and says ‘do this [something you DON’T want to do] or die’, you DO it, to avoid untoward consequences!

            You’re being FORCED against your will to do something you don’t want to do. Hence, new legislation on forced rape.

            You’re being absurd and the dissenters of extremist vaxers like you are being forced to do things to their children they would NOT otherwise consent to do without threat of hardship!

          25. In my 30 yr plus career in medicine, I have never witnessed anyone “holding a gun to someone’s head and saying ‘do this [something you DON’T want to do] or die’ “
            You can be very cute sometimes, Scuz.

          26. More illusions, Mikey, since you have no medical career!

            And no need to patronize suz! She has her own meaningful fans!

            Sad for you living such a sheltered life though, Mikey, ’cause in REAL LIFE, it happens every minute out of every day! 🙁

            Aw! Let’s edit for the myopic minded and unsophisticated Katia as well!

          27. ” school age children receive education, IS!” – so? There’s no requirement that has to happen in a school.

          28. Where would you suggest it ‘happen’ should mommy and daddy work all day!

            You need a nap, darlin’! And speaking of mommy, does YOURS know you’re playing on the ‘big people’s’ internet! 😉

          29. I HAVE! NO-op [as in ‘NOT an option‘] is certainly MORE appropriate!

            Do yours and grow up, grasshopper!

          30. Not doing your homework for you, nor will I engage in ‘grit gridlock’ with you!

            For many, such is NOT an option!

            Learn to comprehend what you read and grow up, grasshopper! 😉

          31. Working all day does not prevent neighbours from homeschooling your child which is part of what a Co-Op does. – allowed under SB277.

            Working all day does not prevent neighbours from watching your kid while they complete distance education – allowed under SB277.

            Working all day does not prevent your kid from doing satellite homeschool – allowed under SB277.

          32. Not holding your hand darlin’! I’m sure you’ll figure it out [along with ALL the circumstances and responsibilities of being a parent] when you ‘grow up, grasshopper!’

          33. Co-op is an option under SB277. Whether anyone likes that option is another matter entirely. But there are options I don’t like which are still options.

          34. Bla bla! Kinda’ busy right now, grasshopper! Could you come back when you ‘grow up’ so I can ignore you later!

            At the risk of having to appear repetitively redundant, I’ll reiterate for you illiterate, Sia; see my comments to you above and below, and ‘grow up, grasshopper!’

            There! All better! I felt slightly ungracious for my hasty reply above! 😉

          35. Mike is correct about the definition of coerce. If you feel like someone is forcing you to follow a law, that is your problem. Not society’s.

          36. No he is NOT! He is absolutely WRONG regarding his severely strict, myopic minded and ERRED interpretation of the word ‘forced’ relating to intimidation!

          37. Most readers by now, know my position on the peeing matches of ‘citations stalemate!’

            Besides, it hardly takes a rocket scientist to understand that the word ‘forced’ [as in intimidation] can take on many connotations in vastly diverse consuetude; and not necessarily in ONLY the physically bound or violated sense! Or DOES it, Mikey!

            Alas, Kathy, I don’t know of any anti vax and I’m on a chromebook and chromebookz HAZ NO CAPZLOKZ! 😉

          38. SUZ HAZ NO CAPZLOK!

            SUZ DON’T DO CITATIONS!

            SUZ DO CAPS BY HAND!

            Do you feel intimidated by a law. Aw, poor Suz.

          39. Wrong. Small set of individuals choosing not to vax – most of us do that the same as we feed their kids. Of that subset, most can homeschool.

            Parents, parents, parents. What about the child’s right to be protected from diseases?

            Let me tell you what happened first: Anti-vax parents forced other children to attend a school with a higher risk of vpd outbreaks.

          40. Parents, parents, parents! What about a child’s right to be protected from industries who do harm yet are immorally protected and in bed with much of the govt.!

            You’re still not making any sense! Stay in school, grasshopper! You’ve much to learn!

          41. Brian, the fact is that you can call it a human rights issue as much as you want but that will never make it legal fact.

          42. Katia, none of the items you describe as “unavoidably unsafe” are medical interventions with a risk of harm.

          43. But you subject yourself to these things daily! You’re not out there trying “educate” people on the dangers of them are you, Gracie?

          44. Handwashing is a medical intervention though rather a prosiac one and people can be allergic to soap – why are you not anti-handwashing?

        2. Again, you have not fact-checked your “facts”, and repeat things which are demonstrably untrue.

          1. It is an established fact that more people died from the swine flu vaccine then the swine flu. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

          2. Isn’t the correct comparison to how many would have died of swine flu in the absence of the vaccine? To take some real numbers, if 400 people died from measles a year in the 1950s (pre-vaccine, no vaccine deaths), and one person dies per year of measles vaccine with no measles deaths, isn’t that a big win for the vaccine?

          3. In the past 10 years, 1 person had died from the measles in the US, and she was vaccinated. According to VAERS, 108 people have died due to adverse reactions to the MMR vaccine in that same decade. These are strawman arguments though; your true nature is that you want to force others against their will to get a shot they do not want because somewhere in your messed-up little head you think you know what is best for other people’s children.

          4. And that ignores the fact that measles deaths are low thanks to MMR, and that children don’t have a choice in the matter.

          5. There are no conflict of interests by the owner of the Poxes blog or the About Pediatrics blog.

            But readers looking at the content will easily see that they are well referenced and their accuracy is easy to check.

          6. Why aren’t you comparing the deaths from MMR to pre-vaccine deaths? Your 108 is too high, but never mind that: what sort of intellectual dishonesty is this?

            It’s like claiming 108 people died from seat belt injuries and ignoring 4000 people who would have died flying through the windshield.

            What you want is the best of both worlds: you want the very low probability of dying from wild measles consequent to widespread vaccination, without doing your own part (and taking whatever much smaller risk) by vaccinating yourself. You are freeloading. You might as well complain that paying taxes is against your human rights to keep your own property. Sorry, you don’t get to make that up.

          7. The herd immunity theory (it is a theory that has not been proven in many decades) has nothing to do with vaccines at it’s root. The “Theory” was an observation that involved people with acquired immunity. So you want to forcefully inject everyone with aborted fetal cells, monkey kidney cells, formaldehyde and other chemicals based on a theory for your own safety, and you think I owe YOU something because you are vaccinated? Huh? What is that? I think that we just be on the cusp of a bar fight had you said that to me over a beer.

          8. Herd immunity is a theory like gravity is a theory; you can see it all around you. In fact, you can model it with a video game. There isn’t any reason to believe only disease-acquired immunity will work: immune is immune. On the contrary, we eliminated 99.99% of measles with vaccinating 95% of the population. The 4.99% difference is herd immunity bonus.

          9. None of the VAERS repport have been confirmed and many have been found to be false. You forgot this about VAERS.

            “VAERS data should be used with caution as numbers and conditions do not reflect data collected during follow-up. Note that the inclusion of events in VAERS data does not imply causality.”

            https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index
            Did you forger this or are you just another lying anti-vaxxer?

        3. And the government makes you use car seats to transport a child in an “Unavoidably unsafe” vehicle. Do you have a problem with that also?
          If you child gets sick, you will go to jail if you don’t take them to the doctor. You are not allowed to harm other people.
          Grow up. You have never been allowed to damage other people just because you have bad ideas.

    1. Another nitwit who can’t tell the difference between incidence and mortality?! Those are mortality charts. Do you really want to argue that our ability to save polio victims with Iron Lungs is a good reason to skip the vaccine?

      Incidence of most vaccine-preventable diseases was not going down, and for polio appears even to have been going up.

      1. Another ding-dong that can’t understand the fact that polio was renamed in 1956ish to Acute Flaccid Paralysis or AFP. BTW most people are not saying vaccines don’t have efficacy. What we are saying is that it should be a person’s choice as which vaccines to have or to not have any at all. And, please, don’t give us the “herd immunity” “THEORY!” that has never been substantiated or proven to be fact.

          1. Kathy, yes, AFP can have many causes, however, if you will check your history you will find that pre 1955 anything that was a paralysis of 24 hrs was diagnosed as polio. After 1955 the criteria was paralysis over 60 days and with confirmed serology THEREFORE pre vaccine polio included any paralysis and the drop in polio cases after 1956 was not due to the vaccine.

          2. Proof? Go back and look for yourself. Read the “proof” already cited in this thread. Go to the CDC and look it up.

          3. Kathy, go look it up yourself. Too lazy to look. Anyone reading this that is interested in facts can do the same. Grow up Kathy.

          4. There is none. I am far more learned on this topic than you can imagine. I’ve even read the antivax website articles on this topic and there is no evidence proving this criteria change idea.

          5. Yeah, that is one of the articles I read already. Looked at all the links. No evidence to back up their claims. Sorry.

          6. “There are none so blind as those that will not see” Enjoy your oblivious and unquestioning faith in the religion of vaccine.

          7. Except that science is the opposite of religion in that it involves evidence and rational thinking, not faith or belief. This could you your problem, you know, failure to understand evidence.

          8. Could be your problem in refusing to see an opposing perspective that does not see “mandatory vaccination” as “scientific”

        1. Acute Flaccid Paralysis is a symptom and polio is an illness, with a known cause. And incidence of AFP, from all causes, is well down from before the polio vaccine. And lab tests show the reason for that is no one is getting paralyzed by the poliovirus any more. Heh, it made the papers when a dozen people got sick with Enterovirus 68. One school could have that many sick with polio.

          We don’t let you choose whether to pay taxes. As it happens, we do let you choose whether to have vaccines, but we impose consequences for people who aren’t participating in improving everyone’s public health. The reason you have to attack herd immunity is otherwise you are just a bunch of free riders. But you are a bunch of free riders. Herd Immunity is the explanation for the cyclic nature of epidemics of catch-once infectious diseases in the pre-vaccine era: the susceptible cohort had to be refreshed with new births. You might as well argue no one has proven the existence of that other theory, Gravity.

          Of course, there are also antivaxers who don’t believe the Round Earth theory. Affection for anti-scientific nonsense runs across topics.

          1. Really Andrew? And countries with near 100% inoculation rates that still have “epidemics?” What happened there? People over 65 inoculation rates go from 15% to 65% for the flu and the incidence and mortality stay the same. Why? Most of the people who are infected with the flu or measles have been inoculated, how does this support your “theory?” And please, taxes and inoculations? Apples and Kale analogy. Not even in the same conversation. I am sure it works with your gestapo minded friends, but really….

          2. Lurkers: Watch bwf’s Gish Gallop in slow motion. Every point he makes is refuted, he just moves on to the next. Once I get tired of dealing with nonsense I’ve dealt with twenty times before, he will claim victory.

            Some years, a small majority of Americans who still get measles are vaccinated, while as a rule the large majority of the general population are vaccinated. It’s easiest to see how innumerate bwf’s argument is if we turn the numbers around. When the 5% of the country that is not vaccinated comprises 40% of the people who get sick—that is a big, big win for the vaccine, even if 100-40=60% of the sick are vaccinated. As the measles vaccine is very effective, in such outbreaks as we still have, the unvaccinated are 10, 20, even 50 times as likely to get sick. That’s what supports my theory, and its corollary that bwf is a nitwit copy-pasting from disinformation sites so fast he doesn’t see the seventh-grade arithmetic that answers his own challenge.

            Beware the Nirvana Fallacy: Everything not perfect is useless. It’s an antivax specialty.

          3. Nice try Andrew. Good move on making up numbers and turning them into percentages however. If over a ten year period inoculation rates go from 15% to 65% and yet the incidence and mortality stay the same you would have us believe that it is just those not inoculated make up the people infected. Interesting logic Andrew, typical as well of those that wish to force their “faith” on everyone. Not going back to your “taxes and vaccines” analogy?

          4. Who is making up numbers? What ten-year period are you talking about? We already saw you don’t know the difference between incidence and mortality (or you do, but wanted to deceive the audience). While we’re waiting on you, let’s try the numbers from the Disney measles outbreak.

            57 known not vaccinated, 25 at least partially vaccinated, 54 unknown vaccination status.

            Let’s be generous and assume every unknown status is vaccinated, although in real life that surely included many people too embarrassed to admit they take medical advice from a Playboy Bunny and anonymous Internet trolls. Then, on the also very generous assumption of a 92% general population vax rate (95% more accurate), the relative risk for the unvaccinated is (57/8)/(79/92)=8.3. That is, even with ridiculous generosity, the unvaccinated were 8+ times as likely to get sick; the corresponding observed efficacy of the vaccine is 1-1/8.3=88%.

            Most vaccines work, and there is a mountain of evidence for this. (The acellular pertussis vaccine is mediocre but not a total zero, and the efficacy of the flu vaccine varies a great deal year by year.)

          5. Andrew did you even read the abstract of the paper I posted? I don’t think so. Your “incidence and Mortality” dodge are just a smoke screen to hide your ignorance on the subject. When you have read the paper we can talk in the mean time you just are one of the vaccine trolls. Plus your facts are a bit off on the Disneyland number of vaccinated as opposed to unvaccinated. Please cite your source of information I will have mine tomorrow.
            Vaccines have efficacy my friend and they do in a small percent cause immunity, somewhere between 10-75% effectiveness. However, they are not the end all and be all and we have not even touched on the corresponding increase in immune diseases with the increased use of vaccines. 3.5 billion paid out for adverse events from vaccines. 46 vaccines in children under the age of 2 when the nervous system is still undeveloped.
            You want to vaccinate yourself and your kids, be my guest, you will be “safe” then according to your beliefs. Just don’t try to impose your “faith” and “beliefs” on me and others.

          6. Yes, I read the abstract. Mortality from infectious diseases climbed somewhat at the end of the last century, because of two diseases we don’t (yet) have vaccines for.

            Until recently, it was assumed that the epidemiologic transition had brought about a permanent reduction in infectious disease mortality in the United States. However, the emergence or reemergence in the 1980s of such diseases as the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis demonstrated that gains against infectious diseases cannot be taken for granted.4,5 An outbreak of avian influenza in Hong Kong in late 1997 by a strain (H5N1) not previously known to infect humans6 is a reminder that pandemic influenza continues to pose a threat.

            There is no disagreement that the large drop in mortality over the 20th century had causes besides vaccines, although including them. As I said, however, the Iron Lung is a poor reason to skip the polio shot. So, what exactly is the vaccine-related point you want to make with that link?

          7. The vaccine related point that you have already conceded, is that the vaccines did not cause the massive decline in the infectious diseases. Vaccines have a place in 3rd world countries where sanitation, poor hygiene, malnutrition and poor water sources exist, however, should not be mandated in countries like the US.

            Regarding seniors and the flu:

            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1473309907702360

            Vaccine Volume 24, Issues 42-43, 30 October 2006, Pages 6468-6475
            Influenza-related mortality in the Italian elderly: No decline associated with increasing vaccination coverage

            Here is another that you might be interested in:
            Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008 Oct;162(10):943-51.

            Influenza vaccine effectiveness among children 6 to 59 months of age during 2 influenza seasons: a case-cohort study.

            Then there is this one showing the higher infant mortality rates associated with the higher number of vaccines:
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/

            Then there is the underreporting of adverse events which can be extrapolated to vaccine under reporting given the belief that adverse events do not happen that is pervasive in the medical community:
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1293280/pdf/jrsocmed00123-0019.pdf
            There are enough questions regarding vaccines to allow for personal choice. As for polio, I saw it up close and personal, but the vaccine had minimal impact on the decrease, redefinition had a much greater impact on the “disappearance” of polio.

          8. As I mentioned before, vaccines play a secondary role in the decline of deaths from infectious diseases; there is no question about that. But you are again dishonestly trying to make a decline in deaths into a decline “in the infectious diseases” and there was no such decline.

            Nothing antivaxers say can be taken for granted. Everything must be checked against the original.

            By the way, this goes for the papers cited. The one about higher infant mortality rates is a dreadful hack job assembled by antivaxers who lied about their affiliation to sneak the paper past lazy referees. This strategy worked, but the paper now carries a postscript alerting readers to the deception. Can you imagine what bwf would say about mainstream scientists who “forget” to declare financial conflicts of interest on vaccines? I’d rather not have this comment grow longer, but the #1 reason for higher infant mortality in the USA, compared to so many other First World countries, is the rate at the bottom of the economic ladder. Poor Americans suffer infant mortality at Third World levels.

          9. It has been estimated that around 50% of the “peer reviewed” papers appearing in scientific journal may be fraudulent or at least “deceptive.” Those opposing mandatory vaccination have nothing at stake except their health and the health of their children and do not have the financial ability to manipulate or produce studies to back up their position as do the pharmaceutical companies that have a huge financial stake in making sure that vaccines continue to me sold … even if they don’t work or are minimally effective (i.e. the flu vaccine this year at 18% match at best). Most people opposed to mandatory vaccination have nothing at stake except their health and the health of their children and those that have already suffered the horror of having their child harmed, killed, or disabled for life, have nothing to gain by telling their story except to warn others of the possible dangers that the rabid pro-vaxx crowd dismiss as the price of their belief in vaccine safety. The following article I think sums up the position rather well. Enjoy

            https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=12072
            and
            https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/november/fraud-science-papers-111615.html

          10. You are probably aware that VW perpetrated a massive fraud on diesel emissions. By your logic, that means there are no such things as cars that move.

      1. Please note the already declining numbers prior to the introduction of the vaccines. Also note that the numbers in the paper you posted were “estimated” and not actual numbers. (read the footnotes)

  23. Let’s think for a moment what the right is that is being claimed here to be unalienable. It can be seen as one of two rights.

    A. A parent’s right to leave their child at risk of disease – regardless how high that risk.

    B. A parent’s right to send an unvaccinated child to school, imposing a risk of disease on other children and their families.

    For good reasons, our courts have repeatedly ruled that neither of these rights is absolute or deserves unlimited protection.

    1. And the supreme court also ruled that black people are not 100% human. Like I said before; you people can make up whatever law you want, it does not detract from the fact you support forcefully injecting another human being with something they do not want into their bodies against their will. What makes you so special? Why do you get to have that power over another? You don’t, and if you think you do, then go around your neighborhood holding a needle and knocking on doors and see how long you live.

      1. When we are talking about childhood immunization, the children don’t have a choice either way. It’s the parent’s responsibility to make medical decisions. When the parent doesn’t vaccinate, the parent is forcing the risk of diphtheria, hib, polio, measles, rubella, tetanus, etc’ on the child. The child doesn’t get to choose not to face that risk. If the child is hospitalized because of that and has to get treatment injected into them they wouldn’t have a choice about that, either. So the claim about forcefully injecting doesn’t work for children.

        And of course, school immunization mandates don’t even force parents to protect their children from disease. They just limit the ability of the parent to send the unprotected child to school and force that risks of others.

        And you’re right, I don’t have a right to require immunization before school. That right belongs to the democratically elected legislature which can pass laws to protect children’s and the public’s health – for example, school immunization requirements.

        The Supreme Court has made mistakes. They’re usually fixed over time, and this policy has been – correctly – consistent.

  24. Every child should have a right to an education without being injected with a long list of chemicals that can, and do harm. I am vaccine injured myself, I struggle daily all because I showed no immunity to what I was vaxed against as a child, so I had the MMR as an adult. I have not been the same since and still show no immunity. Vaccines don’t always work on every person, they aren’t one size fits all. My kids will not be getting the MMR and they shouldn’t be forced to for the right to an education. The government should not be involved in my health care….my body, my choice. This is America, let’s keep our freedoms…..it’s a slippery slope.

    1. Please, post your VAERS event number of Vaccine court case and let us all see the real effects of your injury.
      Unless you made it all up…………

    2. You have no immunity to all three: measles, mumps, and rubella? You need herd immunity, then. You should advocate for the rest of us to vax, to help keep you safe from preventable diseases.

      PS Nothing toxic in vaccines.

    3. If you are so much smarter than the global scientific and medical consensus, then they’re not since you’re obviously smart enough to homeschool.

      Oh and it restricts public and private schooling. SCHOOLING, not education.

      1. There are no laws in Colorado that restrict children from attending school if they are unvaccinated and have a exemption form.

  25. Did Dorit Reiss disclose her Glaxo Smith Klein stock holdings before submitting this propaganda piece attacking our cherished right to informed consent? What she advocates is government sanctions to force medical procedures on all citizens in order to exercise our right to work, educational or recreational pursuits. My childhood friend was permanently brain damaged by MMR vaccine induced encephalitis, a listed effect in the product insert. Where there is risk, there must be choice.

    1. “Where there is risk, there must be choice.”

      This is a catchy slogan, but it makes no sense.

      He wasn’t a childhood friend, but we had a kid in school deaf from measles complications.

      1. Vitamin A prevents measles complications. The AAP on its own website say research is needed to determine who is vulnerable to vaccine injury. Until proper safety research to identify such individuals is done no laws should force anyone to risk their life.

        1. Vitamin A reduces measles complications, in those who are Vitamin A deficient. Much as antivaxers like to pretend massive vitamin doses are different from other medications, evidence for Vitamin A in the well-nourished is scanty, and less effective than the vaccine. Note that nearly all of the studies are in the worst corners of the Third World?

          Let me explain again: the law is not forcing you to risk your life. You can keep your precious snowflake home, and not use the public schools. You have no right to endanger other children, and you have no right to freeload of those of us who took the risks of vaccination.

          1. Don’t overlook my resentment of narcissistic clowns who think they are too special to contribute to public health.

          2. No one fears the unvaxed. We advocate for vaccines for several reasons. 1. we want you to avoid preventable disease 2. we want your children to avoid preventable disease 3. we want to keep herd immunity high so everyone can avoid preventable disease.

          3. I totally agree. I have never coerced anyone into taking a vaccine and neither has anyone in the USA ever been coerced into taking a vaccine.

            What about you? Have you contacted Amnesty International with your human right’s concerns?

        2. The research is done. Billions of vaccinations. millions studied. The MMR is safe and effective. You just don’t like the facts

          1. Of course you would say nutrition has no impact on health. If you eat poorly and live in overcowded unsanitary conditions it has absolutely no effect on health whatsoever. Believe what you want. Just don’t force your quasi religious scientism on others.

          2. Nutrition is important to health.

            It doesn’t, however, prevent preventable diseases or complications from them, including from measles. It’s a good idea to eat healthy and also vaccinate and protect your child from disease.

          3. How do you explain the measles outbreak in Laudinierre, Quebec, earlier this year? One unvaxed child went to measles and brought it back to her not poor community, who do not live in unsanitary conditions, and she spread it to 140 other 100% unvaxed individuals in her religious community. None of whom are vaccinated.

          4. Patient Zero in Disney outbreak was never identified. However, patient zero in the Quebecois spinoff outbreak was unvaxed, as were the other 139 patients. Furthermore, if you google MMWR measles and then pick a year since 2000, patient zero is always unvaxed. Have a look.

        3. Vitamin A helps reduce mortality in 3rd world countries where many people are malnourished and vitamin a deficient. Most people in the first world are not vitamin A deficient. They are still high rates of complications from measles.

        4. And measles and mumps reduce lifetime cancer and cardiovascular disease rates. Women who catch mumps for instance have a lower ovarian cancer risk. The point is each family should make their own choices given their individual medical histories without threat of government sanctions.

          1. The recent evidence is that measles removes your immunity to other diseases and increases your risk.

            I haven’t seen any real evidence that measles and mumps reduce cancer risk or cardiovascular diseases.

    2. You have the VAERS report number for that in jury? the Vaccine Court case number?
      Or did not just make that up like most anti-vaxxers do?

    3. Brownie! You are on disqus! Cool! Miss you on the Dr Pan FB page. Anyway, Dorit has always been very open about the fact that her husband’s family has stock in GSK thru their retirement plans. Do you have a retirement fund? Mutual fund? IRA? 401K? Then you likely also own pharma stock, hun.

      Also, haven’t we told you about 401 times that vaccine inserts don’t list side effects, they list adverse events without regard to causation. If you want actual side effects, you have to do further reading.

      And, vaccines don’t cause encephalitis.

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22080172/

      1. You are a really rude and vile person. Your nastiness speaks for itself. People see that and are robustly rejecting government sanctions aimed at overriding informed consent. You can buy votes but you can’t buy people’s desire to make their own choices. We are not a nation of slaves.

        1. Assuming that the support for vaccine mandates is bought is in tension with the fact that in CA, for example, the bill passed four legislative committees, both houses and the governor, and had an outpouring of support in the media, from school boards and the PTA. The referendum efforts did not qualify.

          Most people support making schools safer from disease by limiting anti-vaccine ability to send unvaccinated children to school.

          1. Yes, avoiding appropriations committees and thereby dumping costs on local districts, having Bill Monning replace a no vote and vote on several committees and lobbyists illegally advising in real time certain helped your dishonest campaign. Numerous other states rejected similiar proposals. More parents showed up to oppose this fascist pHARMa giveaway than had been seen since people were protesting the Vietnam War.

          2. Most bills go through one committee in each legislative house. This one went through three in the Senate. The democratic process was more than fully observed – like it or not.

            It’s always harder to pass a bill than stop it, so it’s not surprising most bills – on this and other issues – fail. But I know some states are going to try again to make their schools safer.

            Yes, the small anti-vaccine minority is passionate and vocal. It’s still a tiny, extreme, and very badly behaved minority (as the death threats and harassment directed at legislators showed). It’s to the legislators’ credit that they would not be scared by these tactics and acted for children’s and the public’s health.

          3. Schools were not unsafe to begin with. You have never shown a need for this draconian bill.

          4. Some schools had very low risks of vaccination – an outbreak waiting to happen.

            The highest rate of measles since the 1990s is good reason to act before anti-vaccine activists bring back other diseases.

          5. Because your vaccinated kids shed the virus and spread it to others. lady, I am done with you. You really are a criminal. There are people out there right now that are taking down names like yours, waiting to bring you to trial for your crimes. Don’t worry; I will send you a letter each week while in jail.

          6. You homeschool your children, so why do you lobby against this vaccine? Of course, some of your older children go to UCLA and they will have to be fully vaccinated now.

        2. No one bought votes. Remember, Joel Anderson got just as much in pharma campaign donations as Dr Pan and he voted against sb277. Only 2% of Dr Pan’s campaign donations came from pharma. Clearly, that is not enough to buy a vote, if it did not work on Sen Anderson.

          Also, keep in mind that less than 1% of Californians are against sb277. The recalls all failed. The referendum failed.

    4. I didn’t write this excellent editorial.

      Recent evidence is that MMR doesn’t cause encephalitis. Measles, however, does in 1:1000 cases.

  26. Vaccine injury is NOT rare friends. The media is not reporting any of these stories. WHY, ask yourself WHY.

    This is Ariella. She was born perfectly healthy. She is now fighting for her life because of the damage vaccines did over a year ago.

      1. “The vaccine industry gives millions to the Academy of Pediatrics for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even helped build their headquarters. The totals are kept secret, but public documents reveal bits and pieces.

        A $342,000 payment from Wyeth, maker of the pneumococcal vaccine – which makes $2 billion a year in sales.

        A $433,000 contribution from Merck, the same year the academy endorsed Merck’s HPV vaccine – which made $1.5 billion a year in sales.

        Another top donor: Sanofi Aventis, maker of 17 vaccines and a new five-in-one combo shot just added to the childhood vaccine schedule last month”

        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-independent-are-vaccine-defenders/

          1. Name calling (astroturf, shill, troll, etc) just means you have nothing better to say. Why not actually read the link from Dorit and use your critical thinking skills? We read your links. Give it a shot.

          2. Your use of the term antivaxer is every bit as derisive.
            I have read lizditz and skeptical raptor and I recognize bias that is political rather than scientific.

            Vaccine manufacturers in the US are in a unique position.
            They have the most extreme industry protection in the world.
            They are indemnified.
            Coercing injections of products that the manufacturer doesn’t stand behind is poor public health policy.

          3. If you are opposed to vaccines, you are an antivaxer. If you support vaccines, you are a provaxer. Neither term is derogatory. Plus, I actually read all your side’s links, books, and watch the videos.

          4. I am also opposed to coercion. Offering choices so that people have consequences for poor decisions is the best way to handle things like this.

          5. If you feel coerced, because a choice is uncomfortable, that is your opinion. No one is using physical force to coerce anyone to be vaccinated. As long as you have a choice, then your rights are intact. Just because you don’t like the choice doesn’t make it a problem.

          6. That is just your opinion. The courts have long upheld that vaccine mandates are legal and do not represent a violation of anyone’s rights. The majority of Americans agree. You are entitled to your opinion but it doesn’t mean the laws are going to change. As was discovered in California this year, those opposed to vaccine mandates represent a very very small group.

          7. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. But I do think it is utter BS to compared yourself to American blacks before the civil rights laws.

          8. Interestingly, disabilities are and this includes Autism. I wonder about making a hate speech argument since being anti-vax because autism implies ipso facto that you’d rather your child die of an easily preventable disease than be Autistic.

            Whatever the legality of this, people who use this line of thought really do not have any room to go throwing around accusations of Nazi and Facist.

          9. Not a good comparison. Non-vaccinating is not like race: it’s a choice. The right comparison would be if you said “don’t expect everyone you disagree with to be willing not to drink before driving.”

            And the state can act to limit the risk from both behaviors.

          10. I don’t see it as any different to coercing people to drive sober, even if they hold a sincere heart-felt conviction that they’re a beter safer driver when drunk.

    1. I’m calling BS on this one. Tracing the picture to the antivax source (no link).

      Her brain and spinal stem are also full of cysts from toxin and metal build up.

      “Toxin” is a key sign of crank medical fake knowledge. Eula Biss’s Immunity (short version) gives a good explanation of how Fake Med uses a changed vocabulary (like “detox” and “cleanse”) to hide that they seldom know what they are talking about. Given the mother can’t even spell “pediatrician”, I am reluctant to accept her diagnoses.

    2. This child is not vaccine injured. If you read her mom’s posts, it is quite clear this child has a genetic disorder that will, unfortunately, lead to her early death. Her parents have posted about how the doctors have given them a diagnosis but they, the parents, do not accept it. So, they are trying to raise money for a genetic test, for some reason, which they think will identify this girl’s issue as a vaccine injury that can be corrected It’s very sad. But she is not vaccine injured. Her doctors have told the parents as much. I can imagine that your child’s impending death from something genetic is very hard to accept, particularly when antivax groups are swarming all over them to abuse this child’s image for their irrational cause.

      1. “…it is quite clear this child has a genetic disorder that will, unfortunately, lead to her early death.”

        Wow! a “genetic disorder” that didn’t manifest itself until after a vaccine. What a smart disorder, ins’t it?

        1. Just because parents notice something around the time of vaccination does not mean vaccination causes it. This child’s brain is shrinking and she has tumors. That is not a vaccine injury. Her parents have been told this by all the doctors but they do not believe it.

    3. That is Ariella Donate. She was born with a congenital neurological problem, complicated by intracranial brain cysts and she deteriorated at around 6 months of age when her skull fontanelles closed prematurely (the “soft spots” on a baby’s head) raising the intracranial pressure.
      Her mother (incorrectly) blames some vaccines she received at her 4 month check.

      For every case of supposed vaccine damage, I could post a thousand cases of death or injury from the diseases, Vacunas.

      1. “…For every case of supposed vaccine damage, I could post a thousand cases of death or injury from the diseases, Vacunas.”

        Please do without resorting to 3rd world countries where malnutrition, parasites and contaminated water are rampant.

        In the western world vaccines kill and maim more than the diseases they pretend to protect us from.

  27. I think people get too caught up in what they decide to do being mandatory for others. Any opinions about vaccination should not supersede an individual’s right to not have a substance INJECTED INTO THEIR BODY. A chance of something happening (if this is the opinion you support) should not have more importance than individual choice of what is done to someone’s actual body. I don’t care if someone believes in magical unicorns healing them, I still don’t have the right to force them to do something to their body.

    For those who are advocating forced vaccinations (not just for yourself) I would ask you to consider what will happen if a government decides to force you to do something to your body that you don’t agree with and they use a vaccination law as precedence for justifying such action?

    1. Children don’t have a choice either way. So it’s not about protecting against forced treatment.

      School immunization mandates don’t even force the parents to protect their child from disease. They just limit the ability of parents to send the vaccine deprived child to school and force the risk of disease on her classmates and their families.

      Because others have rights too.

      1. Ultimately someone is to make the choice for the child, and that is the parent. That choice should be respected. If you are choosing not to vaccinate, you don’t think your child is “deprived”. My point is still the same….opinions do not supersede the rights of ones body. If someone is pro-vax, then they should be fairly confident that vaccination offers protection. Bullying others to do the same is fascist. One’s rights ends where anothers begins.

        1. Parental rights are not absolute. Regardless of what a parent thinks, a non vaccinating parent is denying a child protection from disease.

          The fact that a parent doesn’t want to protect their child from disease doesn’t justify making schools less safe from disease for others. Nothing is 100% safe. While it’s true that the most common victim of non vaccinating is the vaccine denied child herself she poses a risk to those who cannot be vaccinated and the few that suffer vaccine failure.

          Misusing the word bullying doesn’t justify allowing parents to risk others that way.

          And by raising immunization rates school mandates also protect vaccine deprived children, who have to depend on herd immunity for their safety from disease.

          1. Stroke after Vaccination in United States. A Report from the CDC/FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. [1990–2010] (P01.009)

            Results: There were 306 cases (mean age 42 years, range 0.1 to 94 years) of stroke reported after vaccination in the United States from 1990 to 2010. The onset of stroke within 6 weeks after vaccination was reported in 300 patients (98%) and in 257 patients (83.9%) within 2 weeks of vaccination. Stroke was reported in 120 cases (39.2%) after Flue vaccination, 40 (13%) after Hepatitis B vaccination, and in 20 cases (6.5%) after Diphtheria, Tetanus, and acelluar pertussis vaccination (DTAP). The number of patients who took 2 or more vaccines and developed stroke was 12 (4%).

            Conclusions: The unbalanced distribution of reports of stroke in the first 6 weeks after vaccination with a peak reporting in the first two weeks after vaccination is suggestive of the possibility that some cases may be triggered by vaccination. This warrants continuous and careful analysis stroke cases after vaccination and emphasize the need for more controlled studies to assess the risk of cereborvascular events after vaccination.

            Read more:
            https://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/78/1_MeetingAbstracts/P01.009

          2. It is always interesting and invaluable to study vaccines for safety. The study you quote is from 2010? Did they ever look further, as they concluded? That paper, on it’s own, is certainly NOT saying vaccines cause strokes.

          3. And we know there are studies suggesting links between vaccines and reduce risks of stroke – for shingles and influenza.

          4. The UK Health Service recommends against vaccinating children for chicken pox as it increases adult shingles but in CA you can’t attend school without a chicken pox vaccine? Your opinion, is just that one opinion. Parents decide, not you.

          5. The U.K. has decided against vaccinating children against chicken pox because of cost-effectiveness. And each year children die from chicken pox in the U.K.. I don’t think that’s a good example.

            There’s no real evidence vaccinating children against chicken pox increases adult shingles. But even if it did, using children as human tools to protect adults from shingles – knowing some of these children will die or suffer complications – is problematic.

          6. We agree! That’s why punishing people for not risking vaccine injury is not okay! I shouldn’t have to set my child on fire to keep you warm.

          7. The difference is that vaccinating is not setting your child on fire. It’s protecting your child from disease. When you deny your child that protection, you are imposing a bigger risk on that child and also risking others.

          8. For some it is the fire of triggering autoimmunity, encephalitis and inflammation. My child for instance has celiac disease and exzema runs in the family. And about chicken pox- according to a major British Paper-one healthy child died, out of a total population of more than ten  million.

          9. The fact that your child has celiac is a poor reason not to protect the child against preventable diseases. Same about eczema.

            No, several children die each year.

          10. “The UK Health Service recommends against vaccinating children for chicken pox as it increases adult shingles”
            No, that is not what the UK JCVI has stated, you are deliberately misrepresenting their reasons for advising against vaccine at this time.

            They decided against it for 2 reasons – firstly that it would not be “cost effective” in their view, and secondly that the vaccination strategy “may lead” to an increase in zoster episodes in the following decades.
            There is no direct evidence it increases adult shingles, and in fact the evidence now emerging from other countries using chickenpox vaccine indicate that it seems to be protective against adult shingles.

          11. Once again, how much is the increased risk of stroke after contracting the disease? That’s the necessary comparison. You persist in bizarre cost-benefit analyses that look at only one side.

            Lurkers: Here’s what is going on. Antivaxers assume they have Badass Immune Systems™ that will eat wild polio and diphtheria for breakfast. The fact that incidence of these diseases has dropped to zero (from vaccines, of course) makes this a swollen-headed empty boast. But vaccine injury, while extremely rare, is possible, and for some curious reason, they don’t have the same faith in their kale-strengthened bodies to prevent it.

          12. Some 15 children at Falmouth High School reportedly came down with the respiratory illness, which also goes by the name pertussis, sparking a wave of panic about a corresponding increase in vaccine exemptions. But as usual, nobody affected by the outbreak was unvaccinated, and no matter how hard the media tries to spin the issue, those who were vaccinated were not protected.

            Most vaccines are colossal failures and disease rates and mortality rates were well in hand prior to vaccination.

          13. More Gish Gallop! Her argument about stroke is shown to be bogus, so it’s time to run another play, the Pertussis End-Around! Gotta love that antivax no-huddle offense. The pertussis vaccine isn’t that good—it replaces a more effective one that has more potential side effects—but when we look overall instead of cherry-picking one school, guess what, unvaccinated about twice as likely to get sick!

            Measles is down 99.99% from before the vaccine. Some failure! Mortality rates were dropping: better treatment, easier access to ER and ICU, for some diseases better nutrition; but I ask yet again, is the Iron Lung a good reason to skip a polio shot? Incidence rates were not going down. We had 750,000 clinical cases of measles in 1958 (including me).

          14. Flu vaccine may help prevent stroke:
            “The risk of suffering a stroke is significantly reduced for up to two months after receiving a flu vaccine, a major new study has shown.

            The research by the University of Lincoln, UK, funded by the National
            Institute of Health Research and published in the journal Vaccine,
            showed the chances of having a first stroke fell by around a fifth in
            the first 59 days after receiving the flu jab.

            Vaccines administered earlier in the flu season offered greater
            protection. In the first week after the jab, there were 36 per cent
            fewer cases of stroke than would be otherwise expected among a
            ‘baseline’ population, while the second week showed a 30 per cent
            reduction. The third and fourth weeks saw 24 per cent fewer stroke
            cases, dropping to 17 per cent between 29 days and 59 days after the jab.”

            https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151006085359.htm

            Get someone to read it to you, Bronwyn.

          15. Those who want to vaccinate seem unwilling to even consider different language. Those who are choosing not to vaccinate are not “depriving”, “being less safe” etc. That is your opinion as someone who has chosen to vaccinate. Great. Its your body (or your childs).

            I have yet to hear anyone choosing not to vaccinate force others NOT to. One choice is being respected, the other is not.

          16. You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts. Facts: parents who don’t vaccinate are choosing to leave their child at risk of disease, protected only by herd immunity. The child is deprived of protection. Since serious harms from vaccines are extremely rare, that is the less safe choice.

            When parents send their unvaccinated child to school, they are sending a child at higher risk of disease and undermining the herd immunity of that school. They are forcing a risk of disease on other parents who did not choose that risk, their children, their newborns at home and the community. They are not respecting others’ rights or choices.

          17. You are asking us to have respect for an opinion that has no scientific evidence to support it and puts the public in danger.

          18. There is evidence, but it is ignored, regardless of the university, researchers, etc. Also ignored is the amount of money involved. You can assess all the information and make the best choice you feel is right for you…but that does not make all the other information invalid. A person should be able to chose opting out just by the insert warning that comes with a vaccination.

          19. It is not invisible if you post it. Please, I injured my shin a few days ago so I am sitting a lot this weekend. Post something.

          20. Inserts do not list side effects, you do know that? They list “adverse events reported without regard to causation.” You do know what that means, right?

          21. Your further snark and sarcasm shows your strength….

            That statement is enough that they had to list it. Thats valid and there for a reason.

          22. “I have yet to hear anyone choosing not to vaccinate force others NOT to”
            The usual antivax tactic is to hide the fact that they are “non vaccinators” from everyone else. You see, the protection their own unvaxxed kids gets is better the more vaccinated the community is in which they live. Encouraging others to “not vaccinate” would weaken that protection.
            As Dr Sears advised parents – “Hide in the herd”.

    2. No one on this entire board is advocating “forced vaccinations”. Slippery Slope is a logical fallacy.

      1. Its where the legislation is going, such as in California. If it wasn’t about forcing anyone, this discussion would not exist. It would be as heated as drinking soda vs not. Its your choice…no one should care.

          1. I have no problem with whatever guidelines they want to list….as long as people can opt out.

          2. As per your comment above, yes you do, but being excluded from public access is not acceptable.

          3. It doesn’t matter what my choice is. The fact is its a public school and free choice should apply. Not free choice only if you agree with someone’s opinion.

          4. Under the same logic, parents should have free reign to send a child to school with a gun or heroin.

            The state can regulate to protect health and safety. Disease outbreaks undermine other children’s access to education.

          5. I don’t think there is anyone advocating children should have guns or heroin 🙂 I haven’t heard any of those anyway….would be a very small group lol

            If you are choosing not to vaccinate, its likely because you are questioning the ethics and standards of the state.

          6. If you choose not to vaccinate, it’s likely because you fell for anti-vaccine misinformation. That’s not a reason to allow you to risk your child’s classmates the way you are risking your child.

          7. The thing I have noticed about people who are choosing to vaccinate is that they have no regard to anyone else’s opinion or beliefs. Obviously if you are opting out, you don’t think there is “misinformation”, but a reason to question the current protocol.

          8. I expect many people who vaccinate do, indeed, not appreciate others forcing a risk of disease on their newborn and children. I know I don’t like that some people are willing to put my baby – too young to be fully vaccinated – at risk because they reject the evidence about vaccines.

            I am happy to respect your opinions, though I will point out the errors in your facts. It’s actions that put my children and others at risk that are the issue.

          9. I always read people’s links. I have read the books people cite. I have even watched the videos. That shows respect, doesn’t it? In 12 years of doing all this reading and watching, no one has ever found even one study proving vaccines cause more harm than good. In 12 years, I have read a great deal of misinformation and bad science given as reasons not to vaccinate. Dorit has similar way of doing things. You actually are very unlikely to find other provaxers who are as respectful as she and I. That being said, we have never once found a valid reason not to vaccinate other than medical contraindications.

          10. If anyone insist on making decisions about what someone should do to their body, then no, they are not respecting them.

          11. Again you seem to be equating your body with your children. Children are independent people. With rights.

            Arguably, a parent that refuses to protect their child from disease is the one not respecting that child’s right to health and that child’s body.

          12. No, I am not but the next person in line to make the legal decision for the child should be the parent. Parental rights are not negotiable on whether they agree with your personal opinion.

          13. Again, this is not about my opinion. When parents fail their duty, the state can interfere. When they act in ways that risk their child or others, the democratically elected legislature can limit their ability to do so. School immunization requirements are one way to do that.

          14. You have never had the right to beat your child or to withhold medical attention. You cannot abuse your child. Stop pretending that a parents right are absolute. That has never been the case.
            A parent is not allowed to damage a child with bad and wrong ideas about health. That is a fact and you need to stop pretending otherwise.

          15. Show me any research that supports beating a child. Like it or not, there is research not supporting vaccines, or at least documenting the risks.
            You should quit pretending your assessment of a situation is absolute and enforceable.

          16. So in your mind, if there is a difference of opinion, that is all that is necessary to prevent regulation. If that was true, we would still have slavery.

            Even though your argument is rridiculous, there are actual people who support beating children.

            Here is an entire website:
            https://www.corpun.com/benatar.htm

            Here are a few more:
            https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/car.1131/abstract
            https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fam/13/3/307/
            Your ideas are absurd. Thanks for making that very clear.

          17. This is not about you, as an individual. Thinking of this from your individual perspective is selfish. Vaccination is about protecting everyone. The courts have long upheld that the public’s right to be free of preventable disease is more important than the individual’s right to go to work, school, or daycare unvaxed, particularly when you always have the choice to stay home, get a new job, hire a homecare babysitter, etc.

          18. No, its not about me, its about everyone’s right to choose. There will always be opinions on this topic especially that disagree but my point is, ones rights and opinion ends where another body’s begin.

            Whether someone is at risk, exposed, etc by being unvaccinated is an opinion. Subjecting others who do not agree with you to financial hardship by denying public access is not the fair answer. No one tells the child who is HIV positive they can’t attend school (even though they ACTUALLY have a virus). This is more about forcing others to do as some people want.

          19. The whole point is that vaccines are far safer than disease and being unvaxed puts herd immunity at risk. So, if you are going to put yourself and your child at risk, by not vaxing, society has a right to make that choice an uncomfortable one for you by limiting your access to education, daycare, and work choices. I am sorry if you disagree, but this is how democracy and science work together quite well.

          20. In California the child infected with Hepatitis B is allowed to go to school, an uninfected unvaccinated child cannot attend.
            It’s ridiculous.

          21. The parents of the infected Hep B child don’t have a choice. The parents of the vaccine-denied one do. Big difference.

          22. If your argument for vaccination is risk and exposure, why would it matter? how does that supersede someones rights? Your personal assessment of whether something was unfortunate or they disagree with you is the determining factor? I see.

          23. yes, because having a disease qualifies you as disabled according to the americans with disabilities act. And we, as Americans, do not limit the disabled from every day life.

            The unvaxed are not a protected class. And, if your child is vaxed for Hep B, then you should have nothing to worry about, right?

          24. I took a number of philosophy of logic classes in college and got all As. Want to try to explain why you think this is not logical?

          25. An unvaccinated uninfected child is not permitted to attend a class that a child infected with Hep B can.
            They both deserve the right to be in the classroom.

          26. A child who isnt sick at all isn’t a risk either…..but the vaccination rule is assuming they MAY get sick yet exclude them. So a child who is actually sick is okay….but a child who isnt, just because they don’t inject something you want them to against a hypothetical statistic, Is a risk. Got it lol

          27. Do you understand the concept of vectors? Measles is always imported into USA by unvaxed and spreads mostly to unvaxed. And it is contagious before you notice symptoms and is contagious to 90% of those who are not already immune, via droplets that live in the air for hours.

            And, for the umpteenth time, you don’t have to vax if you don’t want to. But, society has the right to impose vax mandates.

          28. No, whether someone is at risk by being unvaccinated and how the risks compare to the risks of vaccines is a question of fact. And the facts are very, very clear on this.

            A child with HIV –
            A. The parents don’t have a choice. Non-vaccinating parents do.
            B. Is less at risk of giving the disease to others than a child with measles, diphtheria, etc’.

          29. But you’re insisting on making decisions for your children (reasonable but it doesn’t mean you don’t respect them) and also insisting on making decisions for kids too young to vaccinate or who can’t be vaccinated – this is what you need to grasp. By your own logic, you don’t respect other people.

            Of course, none of this makes you wrong – that would be a fallacy fallacy. It means you need to present your argument better if you have one.

          30. You don’t actually have freedom of all choices in USA. Your actions are governed and regulated in many many ways, by many many laws. This is just one of them.

          31. Neither do vaccine mandates. They force you to make a choice. Comply with vaccine mandates or homeschool. Because vaccines are THAT important.

          32. Not allowing public funded programs is not a choice. You feel vaccines are important…many do not.

          33. No, a tiny few do not want to vaccinate. And this is how democracy is carried out. It’s like the tiny few who do not want to wear seat belts so we had to enact legislation to mandate that, as well.

          34. Again, wearing a seat belt does not inject a substance into anyone’s body. I am also not aware of any arguments against seatbelts 🙂

          35. I can tell you find this frustrating but you are in the minority and the courts have long upheld states’ rights to make these laws.

          36. Well, this one is not unjust. The courts have long upheld this and the majority support it. As was discovered in California, in the last year, those who oppose vaccine mandates represent a very very tiny group.

          37. I don’t consider ehow or the others much of a source. And the worst you get if you don’t wear a seatbelt is a ticket, not a denial to a public institution. Or you could die, but that again is your choice.

          38. The CDC, researchers out of top universities have documented the risks of vaccines, including the actual warning labels that come with them. Do you have anything other than meaningless snark?

          39. I thought we were discussing evidence of people thinking seat belts were dangerous. You claimed you’d never heard of that.

            Silly me, to think that an anti-vaxer can stay on topic.

          40. Wrong. There is evidence that they are important. Again, not a matter ‘Is red a prettier colour than blue’ but ‘does the sun rise east’

        1. No one is forcing vaccination. Even in California, you can homeschool if you don’t want to vaccinate. That is your choice.

          1. All people have a right to a public education. Your choice should not be the only one supported by public funds. Children who are HIV positive can attend school, but mandatory would exclude unvaccinated.

          2. Parents can still use public education. They just have to meet the safety requirements the legislature sets. There are limits on bringing guns to school, there can be limits on bringing diseases.

            To remind you, school immunization requirements exist in all states for many years. Nothing unusual there.

          3. California is restricting any child not having a full vaccination schedule, as of next school year.

          4. And it is the parent’s choice to not vaccinate; therefore, it is the parent’s choice to homeschool.

          5. Then the taxpayer money can go to a different school allowing unvaccination. Public education being restricted is not really free choice.

          6. You don’t get to make demands about tax dollars. If you never use a road, your tax money might still pay for it’s upkeep.

          7. People without children don’t get a rebate when taxes go to school.

            People wanting to send children at risk of disease to school don’t get a rebate because the school limits their ability to impose a higher risk of outbreak.

          8. Society as a whole benefits from an educated population, moot argument.

            Its their right to have that opinion 🙂 But as my original point stands, it doesn’t supersede the rights of what is done to someone’s body.

          9. Society as a whole benefits from less outbreaks. Outbreaks from non-vaccinating harms education for everyone.

            And again: children don’t have a choice in the matter. Their parents don’t have absolute rights on their bodies – and they don’t have rights to the bodies of their child’s classmates which they are risking by non-vaccinating.

          10. Which is why no one is forcing anyone to vaccinate. I would always be against that. I am prochoice with regards to abortion, even though I personally am against abortion, because I would never take away someone’s legal right to make their own medical choices.

          11. It would be great if everyone felt that way, and allowed access to public school regardless of opinion.

          12. You are not allowed to send a child that you know is actively sick to school. There is no unlimited rights to education in the face of a public hazard.
            That is a real fact.

          13. People send kids to school snot nosed shedding FLumist viruses all the time- and silent pertussis infections in the recently vaccinated. People are getting educated and are not buying this pHARMa bs.

          14. Flumist doesn’t shed to others, so no worries. The virus cannot replicate at body temp. And, anyway, my children have had it 4 years in a row now and not had any runniness from their nose afterward. No side effects whatsoever, all four times.

          15. That is still illegal and if everyone is vaccinated, then the threat from these “snot nosed kids” is greatly reduced.
            .
            Thanks for one of the very good arguments for vaccinations.

          16. All that would happen if Flumist was shed would be that others might briefly get a freebie vaccination.
            No worries there at all. A win win really.

          17. Great. If my child gets sick, I don’t send them. But anyone’s ASSUMED assessment of my child should not apply.

          18. The assessment is not ASSUMED. The child is unvaccinated and that is a fact. You acknowledge that there are rules and this is just another one.
            Keep your un vaccinated child to yourself. That’s all anyone is asking.

          19. The assumption isn’t about being vaccinated, its about assumed risk.

            The other side of this argument is that recently vaccinated children shed the virus for a period of time afterwards, varied by the virus type. (per CDC) I would say keep your child to yourself after they get that shot. But I support people doing what they want to their bodies so I will have to deal with it.

          20. Here are the two obviously dumb things about your claims.
            .
            1. Vaccine shedding doesn’t happen very much and they only shed the non-virulent vaccine virus. the worse case scenario is that some else might accidentally get vaccinated. Since there is no wild virus, nobody can get sick.
            .
            2. If everyone is vacated, Who cares?
            Please provide a few more examples of your complete lack of understanding of medical science.

          21. First of all, you have resorted to insults, so I must wonder how impartial your assessment of the situation really is. Second, it doesn’t happen much? Oh, well I feel safe now. No.

            Third, I DO care. Im kinda like that when it comes to substances injected into me.

          22. Nope I called your claims dumb and they are. I didn’t call you dumb although there is plenty of evidence so do not say I am resorting to insults.
            .
            It will be very clear if and when I resort to insults.
            .
            My “assessment” was completed long ago. Now we are just dealing with your “mysteries” of life. Vaccines are safe and effective based on billions of vaccinations and millions of data points. It is clear that you will not be bringing anything new to the discussion. I am not impartial about facts. They are what there are and you are wrong. I give you zero credit for your bad opinion.
            If you don’t want to be vaccinated, fine, just stay out of my children’s school. Freedom comes with a price. You should accept the price for your bad ideas.

          23. Really, if shedding were transmission the states with the highest vax rates should also have the highest rate of ourbeaks.

            Do they? No.

          24. I only wish I could shed the vaccine. I would go get an MMR and be a greeter at the next woo convention….

            “You seat is over there and by the way, you have just been vaccinated. bye-bye.”

            A basic requirement of being an anti-vaxxer is a zero understanding of science so all of this is just expected.

          25. Sorry, public health does supersede parental rights – this has been the ruling in four supreme court cases.

          26. California is requiring that children sent to school be vaccinated. It’s the parent’s choice if to vaccinate or homeschool.

          27. Then they can use the taxpayer money (that the nonvaccinated family contributed to) to fund a school for nonvaccinated. Restricting public access institutions is not a free choice.

          28. So….parental choice matters and they can attend school….as long as they share your opinion of what to inject into their body?

          29. The value of being vaccinated is THAT important. Do you have any evidence that vaccines have greater risk than benefit? I would like to see it. I have been asking for 12 years and never see any.

          30. That is your opinion. The research against vaccination, and the problems with it have been posted. It is ignored by those not wanting to consider it, even if from the best of universities. The majority of research will support it because that is what is funded.

            The difference is, I have read the supporting research and see there may be validity in it, and that maybe we can make progress with vaccines. But I also refuse to ignore the evidence that doesn’t support it. It should be anyone’s choice to opt out and not be penalized. Regardless of whether you agree, no one is forcing you to not vaccinate. (or making that a condition to use public services).

          31. Nope, there is not. People like you post things like studies showing aluminum might be toxic but those studies are never replicated and are widely criticized. And, they don’t actually indicate vaccine risks are greater than benefits. Been down this road many times. There is no evidence whatsoever that vaccine risks outweigh benefits.

            But, I always read the evidence. Post away!

          32. Because a)vaccines injures are rarer than disease injuries, b)non-vaccinated kids need the herd, c)there isn’t evidence that they cause great harm – just lots of allegations. and d)vaccine injures are not contagious.

          33. No. Taxpayers pay for schools regardless whether they use them or not. You don’t get a rebate because you have no children, you don’t get a rebate because you choose private school, and you don’t get a rebate because you would rather not send your child to school than comply with the health and safety regulations, vaccinate and protect the child from disease.

          34. I am sure there are those who don’t support vaccination AND don’t have children and pay taxes.

            You keep stating your opinion as if it should be law. You are entitled to your opinion and faith in the industry. But it should not dictate what is injected into someone’s body.

          35. Her opinion is law. And her opinion has a great deal of legal backing. I am sorry you disagree but that does not negate the fact that states have the legal right to mandate vaccines for school and limit exemptions. The courts have long upheld these rights.

          36. Forcing people to inject substances into their bodies is a fascist policy, to say the least. As in my original post, I hope people are considering the consequences of allowing a government to do this. It may not always be in what they favor.

          37. No, it is not fascist. Sorry, if you have a choice, then it is democracy in action. Just like seat belt laws.

            And, like you cannot starve your child or sell him to slavery or make him work 15 hours a day and not educate him. There are plenty of ways your parenting is regulated. You have choices. Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean they are fascist.

          38. If you do not see forcing someone to inject a substance into their body as a fascist policy, I am concerned.

            No, people can chose to opt their children out of education (unfortunate), and there is no research supporting children working 15 hours a day.

          39. Oh yes, if we were physically forcing people into medical interventions, I would be very concerned. In fact, that some pregnant women are being physically and legally forced into medical interventions concerns me. But, since you have the choice not to vax, you are not being forced. So, your choice. Not force.

            Yes, children used to work long days, legally, before the laws were passed in the early 20th century. And, no you cannot legally opt your child out of education. In all 50 states, you must provide your child an education. That can be at home, public school, or private school.

          40. The standards for homeschool are very low. It is about the same as not educating.

            I am glad we agree on choice. But telling people their “choice” cannot attend public school is not free choice.

          41. Standards for homeschool are low? Where did you get that idea? Besides, if you are homeschooling, then it is your responsibility to do a good job.

          42. The requirements in any state I have seen is that the parent only have a high school education.

            I am sure many get a better education, but the actual requirements to test such are minimal.

          43. PS Please don’t call me a shill, troll, pharma shill, imply I am paid to post, or go further with the fascism/nazi analogies. We see that sometimes and it is annoying.

          44. Let’s get out the tiny violin for the name calling bully- did you get your feelings hurt when someone did it back to you?

          45. My feelings are not hurt. Are you angry? Why? You homeschool. This law in CA doesn’t even affect you.

          46. The reason I don’t like it when people use those terms is that it shows they have given up. They have run out of anything to make their claim. They are angry and frustrated and are now having a temper tantrum and calling names. I enjoy an active debate but not when it devolves into childish temper tantrums on the opponent’s part.

          47. I did no such thing. I pointed out that I find phrases such as “American as apple pie” and other meaningless phrases used to make things sound acceptable is much more misleading.

          48. School immunization mandates go back to the 19th century and are as American as apple pie. It’s not fascist to demand that you do not risk others in the use of your rights.

            Calling the policy facist or nazi is on par with the tactics we have seen elsewhere from those who oppose making schools safer.

          49. Its a human rights issue, not just in a school. I reference fascism because its an actual tactic of fascist governments (the Nazis included). Using “American as apple pie” has been a
            tactic” used to make the sick and dysfunctional seem validated, just because its always been done.

          50. Not really. I do not agree with your concerns and neither do the vast majority of Americans, including the Supreme Court. Your only recourse is Amnesty International. Or be quiet. Your choice.

          51. So, complain if I don’t like it….but shut up if I don’t want forced vaccinations. lol
            The Supreme Court is also paid for.

          52. How do you think it works when there is a law you don’t like? You can be quiet or you can do something about it. At this point, I don’t see any other avenue left to you than Amnesty International and I am pretty confident they don’t deal with this at all. But, you are welcome to keep trying. You all are such a tiny minority, I am not afraid.

          53. The international court of justice? Yes, I am sure this will be a priority for them, once they hear about these injustices. (eyeroll)

          54. Well, the international court of justice would come down on California like a sledgehammer if it was a violation – so seems useful if you wanted to know.

            Unicef is another option if you wanted to know.

            I doubt it will be but let them know and we’ll see.

          55. I am being facetious to those who moan that vaccine mandates violate their human rights. I know full well vaccine mandates do not violate anyone’s rights. 🙂

          56. I suggest studying our history. America has not supported unlimited personal freedom that can undermine others’ health. Ever. School immunization requirements have a long and distinguished history and exist in all states because they protect children and the community. They are part of preserving either rights of others.

            Calling them fascist is either misunderstanding history or attempting to delegitimize those who disagree, those who support safer schools, or both.

          57. I have studied our history, condescending remarks aside. It explains why we are such a mess, financially, health wise, environmentally…

            Those choosing to opt out are of the opinion they are protecting their health. Some seem to think this right only applies if its their opinion.

          58. Nor because of school immunization mandates.

            But if you have studied the fascist comparison is even more problematic.

          59. I’m glad you stopped the lie about Dr. Pan. If you will stop with the other lies, that would be good also.

          60. All of the politicians (both parties) who have backed legislation have significant campaign contributions of pharmaceutical industries. https://www.opensecrets.org/
            Or take your pick of any site where politicians are required to report.

          61. Dr Richard Pan? 2% of his campaign contributions came from companies who make drugs. Is that enough to buy an election? Well, Senator Joel Anderson had a similar amount of campaign contributions from pharma and voted against SB277. So, I guess it is not.

            By all means, check those sites. They will show what I am writing.

          62. The contributions to his campaign from pharma, health professionals, insurance companies and phama lobbyists account for more than a 3rd of his total contributions. Many aspects of the health industry profit.

          63. 2% of his campaign contributions came from companies that make drugs. Two percent. That includes the one pharma lobby group.

            Insurance companies are provax because it cuts costs for them. The bought argument doesn’t work there. Health professionals are provax because they don’t want people to be sick. Again, the bought argument doesn’t work there.

            His major contributors were teachers, unions, dentists, and lawyers.

          64. Whats your source? I am using Pan’s website, maplight and opensecrets. His two biggest contributors were both trade unions, no way to separate which fields.

          65. That is only one category. There is also health care, lobbyists, insurance. Unfortunately many hands in the cookie jar.

          66. As I stated already, none of those categories have the supposed vested interest in buying him off. Sorry. You’ve got nothing.

          67. Prove they don’t. And I have plenty. Pharmaceutical companies making millions. I tend to question the motivation of those who are making a profit while simultaneously telling me I have to do exactly what makes them money. If you don’t want to, thats fine.

          68. It is your claim, therefore your burden to prove that health insurance companies and healthcare worker unions are buying off vaccine legislation.

          69. The law should, certainly, be passed by the democratically elected legislature. I’m explaining why it’s perfectly appropriate and desirable to tighten school immunization mandates. And again, the mandates wouldn’t dictate that parents have to protect their children. It will just impose consequences if they don’t, and make it harder for them to externalize the risk to other children.

          70. It is law in California so it is not just an opinion. It is a widespread opinion and the law of the land in three states.

          71. Your “side” has the largest lobbyist in the country to do your dirty work.
            Pharma also has a tremendous PR presence in social media, writing articles and hiring firms to create favorable comments.

          72. Pharma is not my side. Public health is my side. Science is my side.

            I would, however, like to see the USA go the same route as CAnada and Australia and most other countries and ban pharma ads and PR.

          73. I don’t think we could legally ban employees of a company from being designated to run their social media sites? How would you do that? Would that apply to Mercola, Natural News, et al, too?

          74. California, Mississippi, and West Virginia have no other exemption than medical.
            .
            Someday, you will be able to count to three.

          75. In the case of California’s new law, a pediatrician and an attorney who used to be a school board member both had children’s best health interests in mind.

          76. Sen Pan refused debate.
            The committee refused to hear testimony from the majority of the citizens who showed up.
            He had the lobbyists close by, and consulted with them at critical juncture.

          77. Both sides had the right to present testimony and did. The public gathering had a brief time to say their piece. That is how these things work. The lobbyist at Dr Pan’s side has no pharma clients and is a good friend of his.

            You must have not watched things live, as I did. Mary Holland, Melissa Floyd, and a few others on the anti-sb277 had as much time to speak as the pro-side. There were a few more at their table, but I cannot recall all their names. Oh, wait, there was the doctor from San Diego. They had like 5 people,I think? And same amount of testimony time as pro side.

          78. I didn’t get to watch all of it, but I did watch some.
            A handful of people were allowed to testify.
            But over 700 people showed up opposition.
            That deserved a significant attempt to create an opportunity for input.
            It didn’t happen.
            If it had, it would have had a different outcome, as Sen liu indicated.

          79. True, many are not allowed to speak. Furthermore, when the press “selects” someone to make a comment for TV, they find the most uneducated and/or religious person to comment, even though the surveys have shown most people questioning vaccination to have college degrees. Gatekeeping on many levels.

          80. I saw the video of the Maine hearings.
            They were respectful of all points of view.
            It was a much more democratic process.

          81. Not true at all. The average anti-vaxxer is undereducated:
            .
            ANTI-VAXXERS ARE:
            .
            Not necessarily parents:
            Having kids didn’t affect the likelihood of respondents to declare themselves against vaccines.

            In lower income brackets:
            People earning less than $25,000 a year are 50% more likely to distrust vaccines.

            45 to 54 years old:
            People in this age group are 26% more likely than any other to oppose vaccinations.

            Live in rural areas: Rural
            dwellers are 28% more likely to refuse vaccines.

            Liberal: 60%
            of anti-vaxxers describe their political leaning as liberal.

            Non-college educated:
            People with a high school diploma as their highest education level are 11% more likely to be against vaccines.

            Don’t go to doctors:
            anti-vaxxers are 88% more likely not to have seen a doctor in the past year.

            Don’t care about the
            environment: anti-vaxxers are 30% more likely to be “not concerned at all” about the environment and climate change.

            Don’t think their votes
            matter: People who oppose vaccines are 69% more likely to feel like their vote doesn’t matter.

            https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-not-who-you-think-she-is/

          82. The process works that way. Just because you show up does not mean you get to testify. It would take days, maybe weeks, to let 700 people testify. So, each side was given a time frame and they could invite testimony to fit that time frame. The process is, therefore, equal. Plus, those 700 represented a portion of the tiny but vocal minority of antivaxers in California. They did not represent the vast majority of Californias who are provax. They couldn’t even get 1% of voters to sign their referendum. That is how much of a tiny group they really are. So the process was actually extremely fair in that both sides got equal time. I am sure the organizers of the group knew full well none of those 700 would actually be allowed to give official testimony.

          83. What makes what you post so funny is the idea that you thought they actually had something to add to the discussion….
            .
            That’s hilarious…….

          84. And, by the way, it works this way in other states, too. I testified for the law still on the table in WA state, last spring. In that case, the antivax side actually brought more people to testify than we did. They got two table’s worth to our one. Then, everyone who had signed up to speak got a chance to speak until 3pm when the hearing was closed. These things are very well organized and there is always a process which allows for fair representation of both sides.

          85. The number of people in the hearing room is not a vote and does not reflect the population. A few hundred people willing to come to the hearings are still a tiny, tiny, tiny fringe minority in California – as the inability to get the votes for the referendum showed.

          86. I think that Sen Pan refused debate and the committee refuse to hear anti-vaccine tripe because…….it was anti-vaccine tripe.
            Sorry, you are just plain wrong and the science has shown that over and over again. Sometimes, you don’t get to repeat a failed argument. Sometimes its just over.
            You are just over……….

          87. Circular reasoning. You are wrong….because I say you are wrong. Okay for you to decide what soup to eat with that kind of reasoning, but not to decide what goes into the bodies of the rest of us.

            You keep giving these corny, dramatic statements like “go home now”, “you are done” but have nothing to contribute but snark and insults. You are an official troll lol

          88. Nope, You are wrong because after billions of vaccinations and millions of people studied, it has been shown conclusively that vaccines are a safe and effective.You, and the fringe loons that ranted in California have nothing to say but the same crap that has been disproven over and over again. We are all tired of hearing the same old defeated arguments over and over again.

            I’ll give you a chance to prove me wrong. You bring up just one bit of data or anti-vaxx information that is less than 6 months old. How about less than one year? You can bring up any old story and I’ll find it told years ago.

            Like i said. You got nothing but the same bad, disproven arguments.

          89. Oh? How so? What laws have I created that benefit and profit myself? What politicians have I paid off?

          90. Hep B is not transmissible in classroom settings either but your Kindergartener has to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease to access their right to public school. It’s even written as a fundamental right in our CA Constitution.

          91. HIV is a lot less contagious – and parents of children with HIV or Hep B don’t have a choice. Parents not vaccinating do.

          92. So, if the point is really about risk and exposure, why should it matter? HIV is very serious. Your assessment of whether a situation is unfortunate, or just disagrees with you, is what should determine the remedy? I see 🙂

          93. Risk matters – but there is a difference between someone with a disability (like sick with HIV or Hep B) and someone voluntarily imposing an unnecessary risks on others.

            And again, HIV is less contagious.

          94. We don’t discriminate against people with diseases and disabilities. The unvaxed are not a special category so comparing them is not valid.

          95. Great. Then lets exclude vaccinated children.

            Platitudes aside, no, no right is absolute, but it should be applied fairly.

          96. The courts have long upheld that states have the right to mandate vaccines for school, daycare, university. And employers have the right to mandate them for work.

          97. Are you saying that HIV positive children are the same threat as unvaccinated children?
            .
            Please elaborate……

          98. No, they are more of a threat. Because they actually already HAVE a virus?

            I would also advocate they be allowed to attend school. It is about the comparison, allowing an actual sick child, but excluding another based on a hypothetical situation.

          99. Thanks. I just wanted your ignorant homophobic ideas to come forth. You still believe the lies from the ’80s about AIDS, don’t you?
            .
            You can walk into a room 5 hours after a measles infected person was there and get the measles.
            .
            You can kiss and HIV positive person and not get HIV.
            .
            Did you not see that my question was a setup? It was just an exercise to get you to expose your medical ignorance.
            .
            Thanks. You can go now.

          100. This has nothing to do with homosexuality. I have HIV/AIDS training and have been a volunteer advocate for HIV pos in the workplace. Heterosexual females and young people are the largest growing group of new HIV infections. Thank you for demonstrating YOUR level of ignorance. There was not a single comment from me having anything to do with sexuality at all. By the way, HIV/AIDS has nothing to do with one’s sexuality.

            If you are more scared of a hypothetical, low-probability statistic to a virus than an exposure of an actual existing virus that is verifiable serious, I would self-assess how much fear mongering has affected your decision making process.

            Eat well, build your immune system and hopefully someday they can make vaccines without poison to help assist with disease.

            Thank you for demonstrating some of the personality types that support this fear-based tyranny. You can go home now, as you have thoroughly embarrassed yourself.

          101. There is no poison in vaccines. There is more formaldehyde in you and your food than any vaccine, naturally. There is more aluminum in breastmilk and formula than any vaccine. Nothing is poisonous in all doses and nothing in vaccines is poisonous at those doses.

          102. Another opinion. There is much more in the vaccines than formaldehyde. (Actually, its not formaldehyde anymore, but a derivative that may cause more complications). And I’m just going to go with the vaccine insert warnings alone….

          103. No, it is formaldehyde in some vaccines, the same thing that your metabolism makes and is in your food, naturally. There are other ingredients, to be sure, but people like my husband, who is a toxicologist, actually understand them and don’t fear them. The dose makes the poison. Nothing poisonous in vaccines. You know what is toxic? Toxins, like diphtheria and tetanus.

          104. When substances are injected into the body, the immune system reacts differently than if they are a naturally occurring substance in the body. This was one of many unforeseen reactions, hence the autoimmune response.

            There are many factors that contribute to the reactions people have to vaccines. I celebrate your husband’s freedom of choice…let others make theirs without penalty.

          105. Once these substances get into the bloodstream, the body treats them the same whether they’ve been ingested or injected.

          106. I am sure that is what the research that you have chosen to read says. I have read both sides, including what states otherwise. Again, my choice, no penalties.

          107. You sure as heck don’t understand science. This isn’t a case of “Is red a prettier color than blue?” This is a case of, “does the sun come up in the east”. Not your choice if you choose to believe drivel.

          108. And again, the warnings on the inserts should be enough for anyone to opt out. All other research aside.

          109. Why then is aluminium injected? – to create an immune reaction. When we eat foods containing aluminium – we do not get an immune response. The ever increasing vaccine schedule is causing an overload of the immune system in certain individuals.
            We have an epidemic of auto immune disease which has not been studied by Big Pharma.

          110. Because you generally don’t ingest antigens along with your food – the alu salts are there to boost an immune response, not create one.

            And yes, people do have immune responses to food,sometimes – two major ones are peanuts and shellfish.

          111. Oh yes but if a person gets an immune response from peanuts for instance it can have devastating effects on the health – with aluminium in vaccines your body has no choice and it can – it treats this substance as foreign and this immunological insult can cause auto immune disease in the vulnerable

          112. What about all the animal viruses and DNA in vaccines? Can you guarantee they are safe?

            “Award winning journalist Janine Roberts, author of Fear of the Invisible and a host of other papers developing into the truth behind vaccine development, discovered that “vaccines are not filtered clean, but suspension from the manufacturers incubation tanks in which the viruses are produced from substrates of mashed bird embryo, minced monkey kidneys, or the infamous cloned human diploid cells only scanned for a few known contaminates – while the unknowns remain just that — unknown.”

            FDA regulations 21 CFR states

            “Virus interaction can’t be controlled — by their very nature they are mutating organisms. There is a well-founded concern that these animal viruses are able to cross species lines and adapt to their new host environment.”

            Dr. Leonard Hayflick, a virologist at both Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco raised a concern that the common primary culture used for making vaccines with animals and bird embryos has created a situation where it is “apparent that these cells contained many unwanted viruses, some of which were lethal to humans.”

            “The viral cell matter presents a significant health risk due to the plethora of dangerous animal viruses, RNA, DNA, and other foreign material that can’t be filtered out of the final preparation.”

          113. You eat, breathe, and drink animal, insect, fungi, bacteria and other DNA all day long. Why would you think the miniscule nanoparticles of dna left in vaccines could be unsafe?

          114. ione murphy: “Award winning journalist Janine Roberts.. .”

            She holds Bachelors degrees in sociology and philosophy and a Masters degree in theology.

            Next?

          115. From the book “Fear of the Invisible by Janine Roberts, here are some quotes from the book pertaining to a meeting by the FDA…

            ” It was reconfirmed that vaccines are “widely contaminated by viral and DNA genetic code fragments, many viruses and proteins. There was expressed concern that these may also contain prions (tiny proteins responsible for incurable diseases and neurological disorders in both humans and animals) and oncogenes (a gene that turns normal cells into cancerous ones). One attendee, Dr. Goldberg, stated, “There are countless thousands of undiscovered viruses, proteins and similar particles. We have only identified a very small part of the microbial world–and we can only test for those we have identified. Thus the vaccine cultures could contain many unknown particles.”

            Dr. Andrew Lewis of the FDA said that a brand-new monkey-human mutant virus was created during the course of creating an adenovirus vaccine with adenvovirus-SV40 hybrid viruses. Dr. Lewis also worried that “foreign cellular DNA” common in childhood vaccines could include “viral oncogenes” capable of causing cancer.

            The scientists presented a question to themselves as to whether or not an attenuated vaccine strain could revert into a variant virus capable of replicating so fast that it would cause AIDS. They agreed that they were unable to answer this question.

            On the question whether or not mutation events could occur in children after vaccination, the answer was that “Recombination among a variety of viruses [contaminant viruses] and cells co-infected in tissue culture is not uncommon.” What this basically means is that because it is “not uncommon” for genetic codes of both contaminant viruses and living cells to recombine and create mutations in laboratory cultures, it can certainly occur in a child’s body after vaccination.

            Dr. Hana Golding, Chief of CBER’s Laboratory of Retrovirus Research, raised the fear that although DNA fragment contaminants in vaccines may be thought to be dead, they could remain active and dangerous. This meant that the codes of these contaminants could combine in vaccines and create new mutant strains of pathogens.”

          116. And where is the science confirming their findings? Replicated, peer-reviewed, not in pay-to-publish journals? Where is the documentation that the vaccines we have used for more than 50 years now are creating mutant strains?

          117. Biologicals. 2003 Mar;31(1):63-73.

            Simian cytomegalovirus (herpes virus) and contamination of oral poliovirus vaccines.

            2014 Sep;42(5):223-36. doi: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2014.07.003. Epub 2014 Aug 16.

            Adventitious agents in viral vaccines: lessons learned from 4 case studies.

            Since the earliest days of biological product manufacture, there have been a number of instances where laboratory studies provided evidence for the presence of adventitious agents in a marketed product. Lessons learned from such events can be used to strengthen regulatory preparedness for the future. We have therefore selected four instances where an adventitious agent, or a signal suggesting the presence of an agent, was found in a viral vaccine, and have developed a case study for each. The four cases are: a) SV40 in polio vaccines; b) bacteriophage in measles and polio vaccines; c) reverse transcriptase in measles and mumps vaccines; and d) porcine circovirus and porcine circovirus DNA sequences in rotavirus vaccines. The lessons learned from each event are discussed. Based in part on those experiences, certain scientific principles have been identified by WHO that should be considered in regulatory risk evaluation if an adventitious agent is found in a marketed vaccine in the future.

            Chttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25135887

            Bovine viral diarrhea disease (BVDV) associated with a contaminated vaccine.This suggests that BVDV RNA detected in human live viral vaccines represents passive carry over of BVDV from contaminated FCS rather than active virus replication in human diploid cells. Our results indicate that contamination with BVDV of FCS used in vaccine production does not appear to be of immediate concern to human health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503899

            Evaluation of the Human Host Range of Bovine and Porcine Viruses that may Contaminate Bovine Serum and Porcine Trypsin Used in the Manufacture of Biological Products (Vaccines)-2011

            Cache Valley Virus (CVV) –fermentors from multiple manufacturers have been infected. CVV, although not typically recognized as a bovine virus, is a multispecies virus with bovine host range [2].

            Calicivirus 2117 [vesivirus]-facility contamination forced a costly facility shutdown resulting in product shortage that deprived patients of product [3].

            Multiple contaminations of fermentors with reoviruses, another virus family with wide host range [4].

            Porcine circovirus type 1 and type 2 nucleic acid contamination of live rotavirus vaccines [5, 6].

            For bovine viruses with human host range, 21 virus families are represented while for porcine viruses, 17 virus families are represented [Table 5].

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206158/?report=classic

          118. Genetic analysis of a cytomegalovirus-like agent isolated from human brain.

            Abstract

            An unusual cytomegalovirus (CMV, strain Colburn) isolated from brain biopsy of a boy with clinical encephalopathy was studied for genetic relatedness to human and simian CMV. It was concluded that Colburn is a simian CMV-related virus”

            Simian cytomegalovirus-related stealth virus isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with bipolar psychosis and acute encephalopathy.

            “Abstract- A cytopathic ‘stealth’ virus was cultured from the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with a bipolar psychotic disorder who developed a severe encephalopathy leading to a vegetative state. DNA sequencing of a polymerase chain reaction-amplified product from infected cultures has identified the virus as an African green monkey simian cytomegalovirus (SCMV)-related stealth virus. The virus is similar to the SCMV-related stealth virus isolated from a patient with chronic fatigue syndrome. The findings support the concepts that stealth viruses can account for a spectrum of dysfunctional brain diseases and that some of these viruses may have arisen from live polio viral vaccines.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8888270/?i=4&from=/12217341/related

          119. How many times have i shown you Dr Martin never lost his licence and the case against him thrown out of court. Compared to….
            Sen. Grassley’s floor statement regarding the intimidation of scientists in drug-safety deliberations…https://www. finance.senate.gov/newsroom/ranking/release/?id=3a1d9e3e-6ea8-4200-a86f-8aadc9338f5e

            Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History

            Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history

            U.S. Pharmaceutical Company Merck Sharp & Dohme to Pay Nearly One Billion Dollars Over Promotion of Vioxx®

            Merck to Pay $950 Million for Illegal Marketing

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-pharmaceutical-company-merck-sharp-dohme-pay-nearly-one-billion-dollars-over-promotion

            GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data

            Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in U.S. History

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-and-pay-3-billion-resolve-fraud-allegations-and-failure-report

            Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations

            Allegations Include Off-label Marketing and Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/johnson-johnson-pay-more-22-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations Eli Lilly and Company Agrees to Pay $1.415 Billion to Resolve Allegations of Off-label Promotion of Zyprexa

            $515 Million Criminal Fine Is Largest Individual Corporate Criminal Fine in History; Civil Settlement up to $800 Million https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2009/January/09-civ-038.html Abbott Labs to Pay $1.5 Billion to Resolve Criminal & Civil Investigations of Off-label Promotion of Depakote

            Company Maintained Specialized Sales Force to Market Drug for Off Label Purposes; Targeted Elderly Dementia Patients in Nursing Homes

          120. CLIA Licensure
            Suspension of CLIA License

            W John Martin M.D., Ph.D.

            “The laboratory closure was met with indifference from most, sympathy from some and gleefulness from a few. The distracters included a women intent on suing for a supposed misdiagnosis of chronic Lyme disease. She was seemingly in cahoots with the State Health Department apparently being kept better informed than I was on what was occurring. There was also the leader of a CFS support group who had previously disseminated baseless information from a “non-expert” concerning DNA sequence data on the original stealth virus isolate (to be described elsewhere).

            Following the closure of the laboratory, NBC television assigned a
            devious reporter who reluctantly admitted she was being fed information from the woman who was suing me. I had no interest in engaging in a one-sided debate. The TV story appeared which added to more internet gossip.”

            … …

            Oh, dear.. WJ Martin’s own words.. from his own blog.

            Oops.

          121. Here is some more old ones for you. How many animal viruses do you think there are in vaccines Kathy? Take a guess…

            1956–Scientists report the discovery of eight more monkey viruses in monkey kidney cells SV1, SV2, SV4, SV5, SV6, SV11, SV12, SV15. The scientists wrote that “Numerous filterable, transferable cytopathogenic agents other than poliovirus were also encountered (in the poliovirus vaccine)…The greatest significance of these viruses has been their appearance in tissue cultures used to produce and to test poliomyelitis vaccine”.–Robert N. Hull, et al., New Viral Agents Recovered From Tissue Cultures of Monkey Kidney Cells, American Journal of Hygiene, 1956, Vol. 63, pp. 204-2151958–
            Scientists report the discovery of 20 more monkey viruses from monkey kidney cells (SV16, SV17, SV18, SV19, SV20, SV23, SV25, SV26, SV27, SV28, SV29, SV30, SV31, SV32, SV33, SV34, SV35, SV36, SV37, SV59). The scientists state, “As long as primary monkey-kidney cultures are used in the production and testing of virus vaccines the problem of simian virus contamination will remain…the possible virulence of these viruses for man remained unknown…”

          122. Where is the science showing that this affects us negatively? I have pets. I am sure I inhale their dna and viruses every day. Doesn’t affect me at all.

          123. And you claim to be a nurse. Ha! Lets inject some rabies virus into you and see if you notice that.

          124. I have never claimed to be a nurse. Why would anyone inject rabies virus into someone? That is probably criminal.

          125. Why would the gov allow animal viruses to be in vaccines they inject into children? That IS criminal

          126. Bovine viral diarrhoea virus antigen in foetal calf serum batches and consequences of such contamination for vaccine production.

            “Our data stress that detection of BVDV RNA is not sufficient for a complete risk assessment on FCS. Discrimination between infectious and non-infectious BVDV is essential. This can only be achieved by cell culture methods.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12935809

            Genotypes of pestivirus RNA detected in live virus vaccines for human use.

            “In conclusion, these preliminary results confirmed the previous observations obtained in Japan and indicated that the occurrence of pestivirus contamination in biological products for human use seems to be an actual problem with unknown effect on human health.

            The importance of these findings rely on the evident con-trast with the general rules on the safety of pharmaceutical products for human use, which clearly excludes any kind of contamination. Therefore, monitoring for pestivirus con-tamination should be recommended on biologicals for human use.”

            https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11840878_ Genotypes_of_pestivirus_RNA_ detected_in_live_virus_ vaccines_for_human_use

          127. Do try and keep it together, Ione Murphy.

            These public meltdowns are very embarrassing for you.

            I’m.. embarrassed for you.

          128. You are the one fear mongering about HIV positive children. I say it is just fine for them to go to school. Be sure to tell everyone when you are “volunteering” that you think HIV positive children should not be allowed in school.

            So you fear both vaccines and HIV positive children. You are nothing but a pile of ignorant fears.

          129. Did you know there have been instances where a person infected with HIV was bleeding and a drop of blood went into a bystanders eye and they contracted HIV. I bet accidents happen all the time at school.

          130. No.. no such instance or instances.

            Though transmission through the mucous membranes of the eyes and nose is theoretically possible, there have never been any recorded cases of transmission through these means.

          131. So you are going to look really stupid when I show you it happened then. Why do you always set yourself up to fail?

          132. I hope this will convince readers you don’t have any idea what you are talking about most of the time, but are just here in an attempt to deny anything anyone presents as the truth.

            ‘Blood and Body Fluid Splashes During Surgery – The Need for Eye Protection and Masks’

            “While most surgeons make an effort to avoid needlestick injury, some can pay little attention to reduce the potential route of infection occurring when body fluids splash into the eye. It has been shown that transmission of HIV, hepatitis B or C can occur across any mucous membrane. ”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2173168/

            ‘HIV-1 infection transmitted by serum droplets into the eye: a case report’

            “Because no needle stick or other laboratory accident was reported by the technician, the only plausible manner of HIV transmission was via the reported serum droplet into his eye. During the past 10 years our laboratory has investigated seven spillages of blood from AIDS patients into the eye, mainly connected with venepuncture. All healthcare workers involved immediately rinsed the eye with tap water and one started antiretroviral therapy; none acquired an HIV infection. Why the technician did not rinse the eye after the accident is unclear, because he had been instructed twice within the previous 6 months about immediate action after eye contamination.
            The possible transmission of HIV by contamination of the conjunctiva has been suspected previously as the mode of infection of a nurse in Italy [3]. Reports have also indicated that HIV can be cultured from cornea cells [4] and isolated from tears [4,5]. Our report indicates that after prolonged exposure with a sufficient quantity of virus, the mucous membrane of the eye seems to be susceptible to HIV entry. In this case viral entry might have been facilitated by the inflamed conjunctival cells. Protection of the eye can easily stop this rare mode of HIV transmission.”

            https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Fulltext/2000/01280/HIV_1_infection_transmitted_by_serum_droplets_into.19.aspx

          133. I bet you don’t have a single link to support your fear mongering.

            ione, are you saying that HIV children should not be in school? How hypocritical can you be?

          134. Will unvaccinated children also be excluded from rec centers, movie theaters, libraries, swimming pools, amusement parks, little league, boy and girl scouts, from traveling by air or train, or from entering a hospital?

          135. My unvaxed children did for all their school years, and they never gave anyone one single disease. Are you disappointed?

          136. My vaxed children are halfway thru their school years and have never had one single disease? Are you disappointed? It’s called herd immunity. But, it’s failing, thanks to people not vaxing. Measles rate is going up, all thanks to kids unvaxed.

          137. And they accuse so-called “anti-vaxxers” of being nuts… insane! How obtuse; I don’t think she even realizes how ridiculous she sounds.

          138. This is not just about vaccines but violating the rights of informed consent. I AM informed on what’s in vaccines, and I do NOT consent to a mandatory vaccine. I believe those who question vaccine safety may need to be placed under the HATE speech laws. I’ve seen many comments that advocated violence against those who just know the whole truth. Wake up People!!

          139. ione murphy: “I AM informed on what’s in vaccines, and I do NOT consent to a mandatory vaccine.”

            No.. you are not informed.. at all.

            As evidenced by your posting/commenting history.

    3. I completely agree that no medical intervention should ever be forced on anyone. Good thing vaccines are never forced.

      1. Of course, social coercion is force.
        Criminalizing vaccination status for parent volunteers in daycares, as happened with sb792 is force.

        1. blah blah blah

          At this point, that is all I See from you. No one is criminalizing vaccination status. When I volunteer in schools, they do an FBI fingerprint check and make me fill out a big form to check my criminal background. This helps keep kids safe. Same with vaccine mandates.

          1. On September 4, 2015, bill author Senator Mendoza added a last minute amendment expanding this vaccine mandate to include volunteers at children’s daycare facilities including State licensed home based daycare. Pre-schools and even parent co-ops if monies are exchanged will not be exempt from SB792. This new mandate would also apply to head start, early childhood centers, private school nurseries, and after school programs.

          2. Why do you think it’s a problem to make sure that anyone coming in contact with vulnerable babies – other people’s children – is protected and less likely to infect them with diseases?

          3. The overall health outcomes of vaccinated vs unvaccinated, are not known.
            With sb792, there is a great potential to affect women in their childbearing years, which is not predictable, with substances never tested for carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, or effect on fertility. That is a significant oversight.
            The MMR is contraindicated for women who may get pregnant, according to the manufacturer insert.

          4. MMR is contraindicated and should not be given to pregnant women – and that would be a medical exemption.

            Infleunza and TDaP are tested – and recommended – in pregnancy.

            There is abundant research on the effect of vaccines. We know it very well. The only difference shown is that the unvaccinated are at higher risk of preventable diseases.

          5. MMR is also contradicted for women who may become pregnant, according to the manufacturer insert. That would be most of the women in the industry.

          6. Actually, it’s said not to get pregnant three months after. A fertile woman can get MMR and then not get pregnant three months after.

            It’s not that a woman can’t have MMR throughout her childbearing years.

          7. So now daycare parents who volunteer have to use birth control to satisfy your vaccination schedule.
            Talk about a slippery slope.

          8. If a parent doesn’t want to protect themselves and prevent diseases that can seriously harm young babies, they should not be around other people’s young babies. They don’t have a right to impose that risk on others.

          9. Somehow we managed, without laws for vaccinating daycare workers and parent volunteers.
            Until pharma has to expand the market.
            And then the next group gets chosen.

          10. Dorit has managed to say you must abort babies to save babies. Oh wait we already do that to produce vaccines.

          11. Daycare workers will have to receive MMR and flu- neither which should be given in pregnancy despite what your buddies at CIC say. So the only solution to unknown or unintended pregnancy discovered within three months of MMR is abortion.

          12. Yes, CDC does say MMR is contraindicated during pregnancy. And no, I don’t believe you that anyone who gets pregnant within three months of an MMR would be told to abort. Please link and quote the source for that claim .

          13. I’m not sure where you read that. It’s not recommended to get pregnant within 28 days of MMR, but if you do, it’s not obvious that you need to abort – quite the contrary. The counseling is against terminating the pregnancy because the risk to the fetus is theoretical.

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/preg-guide.htm#mmr

            Influenza vaccines are not contraindicated.

            In short, you are wrong.

          14. Yes, dearie, thank you. Are you unaware that you just have to prove you were vaccinated according to CDC guidelines for pertussis and measles, according to that law? So, CDC only recommends one TDaP between the ages of 18 ad 65 and no MMR after age 18. Therefore, if you had the one TDaP, you are good to go. If you get a titer proving measles immunity from your childhood vax, you are good to go. Flu vax they expect you to get yearly

            https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792

          15. I had already read it, back when it was first proposed. Not sure why you think you told me something new.

          16. That’s untrue. I already posted some links stating getting pregnant withing FOUR weeks of getting MMR (not 12), is NOT a reason to get an abortion.

          17. Dorit has never said that and we do not currently abort babies to make vaccines. Neither have we ever aborted babies for the purpose of making vaccines. Fetal cell lines currently used in vaccine production come from babies who were aborted for health reasons, at their parent’s choice, and their bodies were donated to science.

          18. They are developing new fetal cell lines in China to produce our vaccines as we speak. Hundreds needed to find a cell line that will reproduce for awhile. The old ones are dying out.

          19. US Vaccines are not made in China. And please cite where Dorit said that “you must abort babies to save babies.”

          20. That does show one cell line that is considered for vaccines. It doesn’t claim or show the old lines are dying or that there were more than this one line. Certainly not that there are hundreds.

            So it supports a part of the claim, but not the embellishments of it.

            Again, nothing to show the current lines are going to be replaced. These cell lines are immortal.

          21. Somehow we managed without seatbelts or drinking and driving laws too.

            Lack of safe policy in the past isn’t a reason not to have safe policy now.

            Again: why should those who leave themselves at risk of diseases be allowed to work with other people’s babies d expose those babies to risk? The youngest and most vulnerable?

          22. Which vaccines do you think are required? Why would the person need to not get pregnant? That is absurd.

          23. Exactly, unless a woman is willing to abort she will not be able to work in the daycare industry. Totally anti woman and woman owned business bill.

          24. Oh, how absurd!
            “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),1 if a live-virus vaccine is inadvertently given to a pregnant woman, or if a woman becomes pregnant within four weeks after vaccination, she should be counseled about potential effects on the fetus. Inadvertent administration of these vaccines, however, IS NOT CONSIDERED AN INDICATION FOR TERMINATION OF THE PREGNANCY”. (EMPHASIS MINE)
            https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0715/p299.html

            And: “A registry of susceptible women vaccinated with rubella vaccine between 3 months before and 3 months after conception – the “Vaccine in Pregnancy (VIP) Registry” – was kept between 1971 and 1989. No evidence of CRS occurred in the offspring of the 226 women who received the current RA 27/3 rubella vaccine and continued their pregnancy to term. 8″
            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/preg-guide.htm

          25. As Dorit proved, no one has to consider abortion just because they had an MMR in early pregnancy. Plus, the law only states you have to prove measles immunity. I had MMR as a child and one again in college. I recently am back in college and had a simple blood test that proved the vaccines I already had are still working.

          26. Read the package insert Dorit: safety and effectiveness of Fluzone has not been established in pregnant women”
            The commonly used multi-dose Fluzone and the multi-dose FluLavel from GlaxoSmithKline, use Thimerosal as a preservative. Each dose contains 25 micrograms of ethyl mercury.
            Ethyl mercury is a mitochondrial toxin. It affects cell division. The FDA ordered Thimerosol removed from vaccines given to children under six and has not rescinded that order. Nevertheless, fetuses, through flu vaccination of their mothers, continue to receive Thimerosol, and the CDC recommends that infants start receiving the flu vaccine yearly starting at six months, all despite the fact that the flu vaccine package insert for Fluzone says that “safety and effectiveness of Fluzone has not been established in pregnant women” and that “Fluzone should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed”. The Flulaval disclaimer is similar.
            Nevertheless, the fluarix vaccine, which contains mercury Thimerosol, is being given to pregnant women.
            The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified Tdap as a Class C pregnancy drug. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Class C drugs are those in which “Animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of drug in pregnant women despite potential risks.”6

          27. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172045.htm

            In order to determine whether the vaccine was effective in reducing the number of hospitalizations that all children, and especially the ones with asthma, faced over eight consecutive flu seasons, the researchers conducted a cohort study of 263 children who were evaluated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota from six months to 18 years of age, each of whom had had laboratory-confirmed influenza between 1996 to 2006. The investigators determined who had and had not received the flu vaccine, their asthma status and who did and did not require hospitalization. Records were reviewed for each subject with influenza-related illness for flu vaccination preceding the illness and hospitalization during that illness.

            They found that children who had received the flu vaccine had three times the risk of hospitalization, as compared to children who had not received the vaccine. In asthmatic children, there was a significantly higher risk of hospitalization in subjects who received the TIV, as compared to those who did not (p= 0.006). But no other measured factors—such as insurance plans or severity of asthma—appeared to affect risk of hospitalization.

            “While these findings do raise questions about the efficacy of the vaccine, they do not in fact implicate it as a cause of hospitalizations,” said Dr. Joshi. “More studies are needed to assess not only the immunogenicity, but also the efficacy of different influenza vaccines in asthmatic subjects.”
            May 20, 2009
            Source:
            American Thoracic Society
            Summary:
            The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma. In fact, children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the vaccine, according to new research. While these findings do raise questions about the efficacy of the vaccine, they do not in fact implicate it as a cause of hospitalizations, according to researchers.”

          28. The carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and fertility issue has been explained to you before.

            Of course, pregnant women will not have to get MMR.

            And my God, Grace, after all this time you still expect people to believe there have been no studies on the health of the vaxed vs unvaxed? Grow a brain!

          29. You don’t like the studies. I don’t think that is a surprise Ms. homeopath, but you can’t say that there have not been studies between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

            THAT is a lie, Correct?

          30. Show me where I have ever claimed to be involved in homeopathy? The standard of these studies you posts abysmal – not worth using as toilet paper. When are we going to get a proper study, an independent study..

          31. Your facebook page. Your support of naturalnews.com is right there. You only had comments on 2 of the 5 studies listed so they must be fine with you.
            .
            Just admit you won’t accept any study that doesn’t give you the results you want.

            Just for giggles, Here are more of the things you support from your facebook page:

            NaturalNews.com, Heart and Soul Poetry, The Big Fix, Build Naturally with Sigi Koko, Teen Spirit, Hemp & Cannabis For Future, Interesting Amazing World, Hare in the Moon
            Astrology, Burning Man Australia, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Epoch Inspired, These things will blow
            your mind, AGL PEL 285 Watch, So Bad So Good, Blueskyproject, Doctor Michael Murray, Bermagui Urban Food
            Farmers – BUFF, Erin Brockovich, GMO Free USA, As Sustainably As Possible, Orien Harvey Photography, W Tree Food Cooperative, Garden Ecology, The Alternative News Project, REALfarmacy.com, The Byron Way – Rail + Trail, Bob Strum.Poet, Gold Coast Mindfulness
            Meditation Group at The Currumbin Ecovillage, 23andMe, National Shared Housing
            Resource Center, Green Renaissance, Coolest Things Ever, Al Sears, M.D., Heart Centered
            Rebalancing, The Eden Prescription, Michael Leunig Appreciation
            Page, Dr. Tenpenny on Vaccines, The Spunky Coconut, Australians Demand
            Immediate Ban on Arsenic in Food Production, Vaccination Information
            Network (VINE), Against All Grain, Low Energy Developments, New Earth Nation, Friends of Currumbin, Get a Fresh Start, Mthfr Support, The Ecovillage at
            Currumbin, My Repurposed Life, Fluoride Australia, No Fluoride Australia, The GLObal TV SHOw, Watercolor Painting Club, Eco Shack Retreat- Treehouse, Crop
            Circles-UFO’s-Ancient Mysteries-Scientific Speculations, Green Eco Services, The Canary Party, What Women Must Know – Dr Sherrill Sellman, Black Salve, Wellness Mama, New Medical Awareness, Wellness2025, ScienceAlert, Herbs & Oils World, Energetic Communities, NextworldTV.com, Blue Mountains Australia, Aikido of Shin Sen “The Way of Peace”, WildAlchemist, Eco Village International
            Network, Anita Moorjani, Libertarian News, Heart and Soul Awakenings, Occupy Monsanto, Fluoride Free Australia

          32. Your invasion of her privacy is what’s really weird. Why would anyone care that she supports these things? I support many of them too. I LOVE the Spunky Coconut cookbooks, just got Easy Paleo Meals a few weeks ago, and it’s a godsend! I love Wellness Mama and Natural News, also Modern Alternative Mama. Doesn’t everybody?

            Are you trying to creep everyone out because you are a super-stalker and have the ability to find commenters’ Facebook page? Be afraid…be very afraid!!! This is a violation of the TOS, and I hope that you will be kicked off of Disqus and forced to take five minutes to come back under a different nym.

          33. It’s all stuff she posted on her own facebook page. She’s not keeping it secret and is apparently very proud of it. You like a lot of that fringe crap so it’s not even negative to post it.

            Get a grip. If you don’t lie about yourself like Judith, you have nothing to worry about, right?

          34. But again, who cares? Why would you think it was relevant to a vaccine discussion to cut and paste a LONG list of the things she said on her Facebook page that she likes? In what way was there any lie involved? You’ve been hanging with the you-know-what crowd too long.

          35. Judith said “Show me where I have ever claimed to be involved in homeopathy”

            I did exactly that.

            Don’t lie and you won’t see posts like that. Are you feeling bad that one of your kind is caught as a liar?

          36. Judging from this list, there are about five hundred things she’s interested in. Is a little interested the same as involved? Who cares? Are you going to take up arms because she is interested in photography judging from the list? Has she claimed to be a professional photographer? Would it be a bad thing to be either a professional or an amateur homeopath? How involved is involved in your estimation? She sounds like a Renaissance person, but I frankly doubt that she’s deeply involved with every interest on the list. And if she were, more power to her! Again, who cares? I love homeopathy and it has worked extremely well for me on many occasions. Are you trying to say that those of us who know the power of homeopathy are flaky? Should we care?

          37. She lied and challenged me to prove she did.

            I did exactly that.

            I know one person who cares…You care. That’s why you are all torn up because I proved your friend out to be a liar.

            Stop wining about it and be ready for the next time I show you to be a liar also.

          38. Bwa haha! It’s JESTthefacts in ‘mini me’ drag!

            Aw! Did you want to play with Jeremy so bad, you had to make a new Jester! Har d har! 😉

          39. Poor Baby. ciaparker2 is still all a dither about how i exposed Judith as a liar. If she didn’t lie and ask me to prove differently, I would have not posted anything
            .
            How many time do you want to post, giving me the opportunity to say, once again, that I caught Judith lying again.
            .
            Yes, i am confirming that Judith is a liar.
            .

            anything else you want to say?

          40. There is nothing to translate. Judith lied and challenged me to prove it. I did. It went like this:

            Judith said “Show me where I have ever claimed to be involved in homeopathy?”

            I posted: Your facebook page. Your support of naturalnews.com is right there. Just for giggles, Here are more of the things you support from your facebook page. I really liked the anti-fluoridation stuff:

            NaturalNews.com, Heart and Soul Poetry, The Big Fix, Build Naturally with Sigi Koko, Teen Spirit, Hemp & Cannabis For Future, Interesting Amazing World, Hare in the Moon
            Astrology, Burning Man Australia, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Epoch Inspired, These things will blow your mind, AGL PEL 285 Watch, So Bad So Good, Blueskyproject, Doctor Michael Murray, Bermagui Urban Food Farmers – BUFF, Erin Brockovich, GMO Free USA, As Sustainably As Possible, Orien Harvey Photography, W Tree Food Cooperative, Garden Ecology, The Alternative News Project, REALfarmacy.com, The Byron Way – Rail + Trail, Bob Strum.Poet, Gold Coast Mindfulness Meditation Group at The Currumbin Ecovillage, 23andMe, National Shared Housing
            Resource Center, Green Renaissance, Coolest Things Ever, Al Sears, M.D., Heart Centered Rebalancing, The Eden Prescription, Michael Leunig Appreciation Page, Dr. Tenpenny on Vaccines, The Spunky Coconut, Australians Demand Immediate Ban on Arsenic in Food Production, Vaccination Information Network (VINE), Against All Grain, Low Energy Developments, New Earth Nation, Friends of Currumbin, Get a Fresh Start, Mthfr Support, The Ecovillage at Currumbin, My Repurposed Life, Fluoride Australia, No Fluoride Australia, The GLObal TV SHOw, Watercolor Painting Club, Eco Shack Retreat- Treehouse, Crop
            Circles-UFO’s-Ancient Mysteries-Scientific Speculations, Green Eco Services, The Canary Party, What Women Must Know – Dr Sherrill Sellman, Black Salve, Wellness Mama, New Medical Awareness, Wellness2025, ScienceAlert, Herbs & Oils World, Energetic Communities, NextworldTV.com, Blue Mountains Australia, Aikido of Shin Sen “The Way of Peace”, WildAlchemist, Eco Village International Network, Anita Moorjani, Libertarian News, Heart and Soul Awakenings, Occupy Monsanto, Fluoride Free Australia.
            Is that clear enough for you now?

          41. JESTER, your foolishness seems to have hit an all time low! Perhaps I should again demote you to ‘flunkie!’

            Shame on you, JESTthefacts! You just made an even bigger fool of yourself.

          42. Good. People working with kids should be vaccinated. Can’t wait for that kind of law to pass in my state.

          43. So compassionate- you have job security but low income women who work in daycare will not.

          44. Of course he has a social media team. Mercola is a multi million dollar business. You think he manages the whole thing himself?

          45. You think that every comment made by the page is by him? I am sure that, like any other company, he has minions he pays to run the page.

          46. And more and more evidence comes out showing that you rarely get what you think is in the bottle. Recent Australian study showed Chinese herbal remedies have traces of heavy metals and endangered species in them!

          47. Funny I was just accused of making big $$ from commenting on disqus – seems we all must be rolling in money… I think that is your only ploy since you don’t have anything worth saying.

          48. So what happens to parents who refuse to vaccinate their children but don’t have the option to homeschool. They will be prosecuted for failing to send their children to school.

          49. If they cannot home school their children, where are the children going to go during the day? Why can they not organize with one of the umpteen zillion homeschool groups to form a coop and homeschool together? Given that most antivaxers are white, upper class women, it stands to reason they can figure out a way to make it work.

          50. Well to heck with them then, huh, Kathy.
            Those darn upper middle class white women, who do they think they are.
            By the way, are you an upper middle class white woman?

          51. The whole point is that the majority of those affected by SB277 are technically financially capable of homeschooling.

          52. Being as I argue that immunizations are a boon to health, I would hope that parents make the right choice and vaccinate their children. If they choose not to and cannot afford to homeschool, they have to figure it out, don’t they? It is their choice. I don’t really have sympathy for them.

          53. So Kathy says to heck with poor and middle class women, working mothers, single parents, you don’t get to choose, just the upper crust have rights, eh?

          54. What about the children who are being penalized by parents who have made a bad chocie to not vaccinate their children? Those children deserve protection from preventable diseases.

          55. When you can predict who will be harmed by a Vaccine you get to choose for someone else’s family.

          56. We can. It’s called medical contradictions and medical predictions. The one exception is allergy which is a risk with most things – but that’s why there’s a debriefing thing – nifty idea keeping the person trained in dealing with anaphlaxis By all means, figure out a test to develop to figure out who’s allergic.

            When you can predict who will be harmed by a disease and can take account of prodromal periods, you can undermine CI.

          57. Here’s the thing: There have been outbreaks recently.

            The choice is between poor middle class, working mothers, single parents who are anti-vax being shafted and the same parent grouping of kids who medically can’t be vaccinated or are just too young to have received the relevant vaccine being shafted

            The consequences of the choice should fall on those who make the choice.

          58. I think William Thompsons whistleblower testimony has changed those “antivaxers” statistics Kathy.

            STATEMENT OF WILLIAM W. THOMPSON, Ph.D., REGARDING THE 2004 ARTICLE EXAMINING THE POSSIBILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM

            “My name is William Thompson. I am a Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where I have worked since 1998.

            I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”

          59. oh my god, how many times do you have to bring up Thompson? Much ado about nothing, nothing is happening, nothing will happen, Thompson is provax, he still works for CDC, many other studies from all over the world show similar results, the data was not thrown away, there is nothing. This is nothing.

          60. “I was involved in deceiving millions of taxpayers regarding the potential negative side effects of vaccines. I regret what I did.” Dr. William Thompson email to Dr. Brian Hooker, August 11, 2014
            Admission of a CDC scientist

          61. Read my post carefully.

            It’s much ado about NOTHING. Which is why nothing has come of it in the 17 months since that statement appeared.

          62. “This is a lawyer that was reading through these documents that had never seen them before . And I basically was telling this guy I was complicit, and I went along with this, we did not report significant findings. Ya know, I’m not proud of that and uh, it’s probably, it’s the lowest point in my career that I went along with that paper. ”
            From phone transcripts
            CDC scientist Dr William Thompson
            Vaccine Whistleblower by Kevin Barry

          63. There is no proof Thompson actually said those words. The whole book is laughable. They think the scientists sat around a table and tossed data into a garbage can. Such a funny visual. In this age of digital information, with data being stored on laptops and desktops and servers, they think people would throw hard copies in a trash can? Silly. Plus, the data set is still in use, clearly not thrown away.

          64. Is this another dreary propaganda piece with the same anti-vaccine characters babbling their hundred-fold ebunked konspiracees and “facts”?
            Will it be on the anti-vaccine cult’s favourite scientific venue – RubeTube?
            Or will this be another pay to view POS attempting to, once again, fleece some more gelt from the anti-vaccine cult members? After the anti-vax fiascoes in California one would think the lowly cult members would wise up to the snake-oil sharpies picking their pockets.

      2. Not forced? refuse and you can lose your job, your daycare so you cant work, your children can’t go to school…but vaccines are not forced you say?

        National Nurses United-Largest National Nurses Union Opposes Mandatory Flu Vaccination as Condition of Employment

        NNU Press Release Press Release, 2/8/12

        “NNU is also calling on the pharmaceutical representatives from Pfizer and Novartis, who are members of the NVAC, (National Vaccine Advisory Committee) to recuse themselves from any votes that take place on the issue of the mandatory flu vaccine. The companies stand to make millions of dollars from flu vaccine sales. There are no nurses currently on the NVAC board.

        “It is unfortunate that for-profit pharmaceutical companies were consulted in this matter yet the voices of the nation’s direct-care hospital RNs have gone unheard,” said NNU co-president Karen Higgins, RN. “Nurses are calling for an open process to explore the best way to protect patients and healthcare workers, not one that is driven by corporate profits.”

        1. Well, that is a pretty odd press release. We are discussing state laws, hun. There are no pharma reps voting state laws in.

          1. Yes, Colorado state laws, my home state, and where do you live Kathy? My niece is a nurse in Colorado fighting mandatory flu vaccines, I think it’s relevant to the conversation …hun

          2. I live in WA, one of the other states where legislation is on the table to ban personal belief exemptions for vaccine mandates.

            I don’t recall ever implying it was not relavent for you to post here. I merely stated we are discussing state vaccine mandates for school. Does CO have a law on the table that would mandate all nurses be vaxed?

        2. “Not forced? refuse and you can lose your job, your daycare so you cant
          work, your children can’t go to school…but vaccines are not forced you
          say?”

          I take it you think that surgeons and dialysis staff should not be required to be vaccinated against Hepatitis B?
          I take it you would be willing to have your cardiothoracic surgeon say to you just before your operation…“Oh, by the way, I have never been protected against Hepatitis, so I may be a carrier…let’s just hope I don’t nick my skin with a scalpel during this difficult 4 hour operation and bleed into your chest, huh? Did I tell you that during these operations we are likely to do that about 50% of procedures”

          Or maybe you would support the staff who decide they don’t “wish to be forced” to wash their hands or wear gloves between deliveries when you are in the maternity unit? You know there used to be this killer called puerperal sepsis, right?

          Ione, there is a reason why some vaccines are required before people work in the health service. Now stop being silly.

          1. Speaking of dialysis, did you know about this Mike?

            “One of the newest discoveries came from Dr. Jeffrey Kopp, an NIH scientist who reported finding SV40 in a high percentage of patients with kidney disease. The virus was also present, he said, in 60 percent of a new “collapsing” type of renal disease that was unknown before 1980 but has since increased rapidly in incidence. ”

            That is from the Article Rogue Virus in the Vaccine San Francisco Chronicle and more quotes from it and this article-The Virus and The Vaccine -from The Atlantic

            “More than 60 scientists gathered on a warm weekend at the University of Chicago’s downtown conference center. Despite numerous faxes and certified letters inviting him, Strickler declined to attend. (the one gov scientist)

            Carbone opened the conference by confronting the question of whether SV40 is present in humans.

            “Sixty-two papers from 30 laboratories from around the world have reported SV40 in human tissues and tumors,” he said. “It is very difficult to believe that all of these papers, all of the techniques used and all of the people around the world are wrong.”

            “For four decades, government officials have insisted that there is no evidence the simian virus called SV40 is harmful to humans. But in recent years, dozens of scientific studies have found the virus in a steadily increasing number of rare brain, bone and lung-related tumors – the same malignant cancer SV40 causes in lab animals,” the report said. “Even more troubling, the virus has been detected in tumors removed from people never inoculated with the contaminated vaccine, leading some to worry that those infected by the vaccine might be spreading SV40.”

            Dr. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., told the paper he believed the virus was carcinogenic in humans.

            “We need to be creating therapies for people who have these cancers, and now we may be able to because we have a target – SV40,” he said.

            Others say the few government studies regarding the potential link have been flawed.

            “The government has not sponsored any real research. Here’s something possibly affecting millions of Americans, and they’re indifferent,” Dr. Adi Gazdar, a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cancer researcher, said. “Maybe they don’t want to find out.”

            Despite ongoing denials, an increasing number of researchers continue to maintain that not only is there a bona fide link between Salk’s SV40-tainted vaccines and cancer, that federal government officials and agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of such vaccines – then and now – are loathe to admit it, perhaps because they fear the fallout in terms of lawsuits and lost credibility.”

          1. Still spouting nonsense from that discredited chiropractor that turned tail and ran? If anyone knows research, it’s the CDC. After all, that’s where your bud Thompson works.

          2. “The opt-in Internet panel survey was conducted for CDC by Abt Associates, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) ”
            From your link.
            Duh.

          3. National Nurses United.. recommend members get vaccinated.

            Oops.

            And.. support Bernie Sanders..

            The Vermont senator offered this statement on the matter in February, amidst a measles outbreak in the U.S.:

            I think obviously vaccinations work. Vaccination has worked for many, many years. […] I am sensitive to the fact that there are some families who disagree but the difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an illness who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines that could kill that child and that’s wrong.”

            You guessed it.. oops.. a -gain.

          1. “NNU maintains the position that every RN should be vaccinated against
            the flu, but “cautions against placing an over-reliance upon vaccination
            as a means to fully stem transmission.”

            Fair-and-balanced.. and.. oops, a -gain, Ione Murphy.

            Further..

            “Mandatory
            flu vaccination programs engender distrust and resistance among
            employees; offer a disincentive to providing vaccination education to
            employees, and raise ethical and legal questions about the personal
            employment rights of employees.”

            This has not been the case. To the contrary..

            “Research
            seems to show that mandatory policies are very effective at raising
            immunization rates among healthcare workers. According to the CDC,
            employers that required the flu shot saw average immunization rates of
            88.8%, while those that merely recommended vaccination had an average
            coverage rate of 70%, while those that did not have a policy in place at
            all averaged only 44.3% coverage among healthcare workers.”

            Oops.. thricely (and counting.. see below).

            … …

            Oh, and my sources for the above excerpts?

            First.. same as yours. Noteworthy is the date of the press release, though, which is now nearly six (6) years old.

            The
            latter.. “The
            Debate Over Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Nurses”
            .

            And of course you are now aware of the National Nurses Union support of Bernie Sanders..

            The
            Vermont senator offered this statement on the matter in February,
            amidst a measles outbreak in the U.S
            .:

            I think
            obviously vaccinations work. Vaccination has worked for many, many
            years. […] I am sensitive to the fact that there are some families who
            disagree but the difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an
            illness who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines
            that could kill that child and that’s wrong
            .”

            Dare I make mention once more.. oops.

          2. From the CDC website- How Many Health Care Workers Got Vaccinated Last Season? (Only 43% willingly)

            2014–15 flu vaccination coverage among health care personnel was 64.3%, similar to early season coverage during the 2013–14 season (62.9%).

            Early season flu vaccination coverage was higher among health care personnel whose employers required (85.8%) or recommended (68.4%) that they be vaccinated, compared to those whose employer did not have a policy or recommendation regarding flu vaccination (43.4%).

            Among unvaccinated health care personnel who did not intend to get the flu vaccination during this flu season, the most common reason reported for not getting vaccinated was that they don’t think that flu vaccines work..”

            WebMD Health News-

            “Feb. 26, 2015 — It’s no secret this year’s flu shots didn’t work as well as doctors had hoped. But the news got worse Thursday when the CDC revised its estimates of the flu vaccine’s effectiveness downward even further, from 23% to 18%.”

          3. ione murphy: “Early season flu vaccination coverage was higher among health care personnel whose employers required (85.8%) or recommended (68.4%) that they be vaccinated, compared to those whose employer did not have a policy or recommendation regarding flu vaccination (43.4%).”

            Yes,, correct. Thanks for underscoring and proving my point.

            Huge.. oops.. and fail.

    4. It’s good that nobody is promoting forced vaccinations. You are building a false straw man. The only issue is if you are allow to FORCE other peoples children to be exposed to unvaccinated children.
      People want laws that stop other people from FORCING their unvaccinated children on others. That’s all. You are free to be as unvaccinated as you wish.

      1. There is this little problem with a couple vaccines though you see…they don’t work. How do you force ineffective vaccines? You must think people are really dumb.

        Pediatrician: Failure of pertussis vaccine “a matter of serious concern”

        Epidemics of the disease in 2005, 2010, and 2012 “suggest that failure of the DTaP vaccine is a matter of serious concern,” said Cherry, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles who specializes in infectious diseases at Mattel Children’s Hospital.

        “ I believe that better vaccines are something that industry, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research of the Food and Drug Administration, and pertussis experts should begin working on immediately,” he writes.

        According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the booster shot to counteract waning immunity for pertussis came out five years ago. Now, there’s concern about how long the booster shot provides protection, because many kids who are up-to-date on immunizations, including the booster shot, still have contracted whooping cough. Public health officials agree on one thing: “We need a better vaccine for pertussis”, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said.

        1. An here is a perfect example of your mindless posts. Everyone you quoted is making the point that the vaccines need to be better, not avoided. You are also perfectly aware that all of those people support vaccination.

          Yes, all vaccines can be better and you should get vaccinated. What kind of mindless point are to trying to make?

          1. It’s really simple: We know thewr are perecentages between 0% and 100% – we just think that 75-95% is a )

            And depending on the disease, 80% might well be enough.to stop the disease circulating. It depends on the R0 number – this is a very basic epidemiological term so you understand the problem now since you’ve done

            But these have been tested extensively. we know all this.

            https://www.sammichespsychmeds.com/common-anti-vaxx-myths-about-pro-vaxxers-debunked/

          2. Exactly. This “its not perfect so its zero” is just a silly argument and I’m surprised anyone can believe it. I don’t think the anti-vaxx fanatics can see that a reasonable person can see though that silliness in a second.
            There is nothing reasonable about Ione. we have documented her lies and false references on this very board. Shoe is just about lies and obfuscation.

    5. So, Shari, do you have any actual evidence vaccines have greater risks than benefits? I gotta go now but I will pop by later to see.

      1. Kathy, there are thousands of research articles. The problem is, those on your side of the fence, refuse to acknowledge, over and over. If the person isn’t educated enough, they are mocked, if they aren’t in the right specialty, its not good enough, if they are, then they arent at a good enough school, and if somehow all that is okay, well, they are just called crazy. Its gatekeeping and fanatical.

        I acknowledge both sides. I am saying there is enough evidence, by those who are not profiting, for me and many others to opt out. Respect that. Even the statements by the CDC and pharmaceutical warnings that are disclosed should be justification to opt out. Is that so hard to understand?

        1. Like I keep telling you, post one and we can discuss it. There is literally not one study proving vaccine risks outweigh benefits. But, go ahead and post one. See if you can find one.

          Typically, when asked about vaccine risks, people will post the work of Chris Shaw (easily debunked), Geier and Geier (easily debunked), Wakefield (nuff said), Teresa Deisher ( easily debunked), and the list of articles that the poster has not actually read but some blog said all support that vaccines cause autism (easily debunked). I am not mocking anyone. I am repeatedly asking you to post something you think supports your idea that vaccines are too risky.

          The CDC and pharmaceutical warnings should not compel anyone to stop vaxing unless they are misreading them. They clearly state vaccine benefits FAR outweigh risks.

          1. I could post a thousand, your statements would all be as the above. If you wanted to know, you can look them up. My point isn’t to convince anyone here, as a matter of fact, I knew it would be mostly insults, snark and empty claims to “prove it”, as if cut and pasting articles back and forth is some kind of proof. There is no such thing in science as proof, only results, and not all of them are favorable.

            I do know the profits involved and the abuse anyone who tries to go against the pharmaceutical industry endures. That is a fact.

            My only point here in my original post is for those to consider what road they are heading down if they advocate forcing people to allow the government and corporations to decide what goes into their bodies. It may not always work in your favor.

          2. “Typical” is the snark, hostility and inability to consider other options and respect others from the vac crowd.

          3. It would not matter what I post. If it is funded by pharmaceuticals, it goes unchallenged and you swallow it. If it goes against pharmaceuticals, it is “debunked”…by the same institutions is threatens. Old theme.

            The criminal accused being allowed to be the judge at his own trial.

          4. You know, you remind me of someone else that used to post on these boards, accusing people who ALWAYS back up their facts with links as having not one intelligent comment, just snark and phrases, etc. You’re a sock puppet for someone who was banned.

          5. Show me one post where you had an actual argument rather that puppeting someone elses comment or just had an insult.
            And nope….check it, my account is long standing, been here for years. Unlike yourself, I have a real identity.

          6. Oh yes, mystery “Katia”. And where was that post where you did something besides tag on to anothers comment and/or just insult?

          7. There is not one independent study that shows vaccines to be safe and effective. Not one. There are no studies that have been conducted that show vaccinated kids are healthier then unvaccinated kids. Not one. Many vaccines contain formaldehyde. According to the EPA, formaldehyde is a carcinogen. In the vaccine insert of vaccines that contain formaldehyde it states that no carcinogenic studies have been performed. So you have a vaccine with a known carcinogen that has not even been tested to see if it increases the risk for cancer.

          8. No no Brian, those studies “don’t exist” 😛 Its all an illusion.

            Its pointless until people decide they want the whole story.

          9. Where did you get the idea that there are no independent vaccine studies? Here is a long list of hospitals from around the country who study vaccine safety. This is independent from pharma money.

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/publications.html

            And are you not aware that your own body makes more formaldehyde naturally, as a part of metabolism, than is any vaccine? It is also in your food, same reason, in greater quantities than is in any vaccines. If all doses of formaldehyde were carcinogenic, humanity would have died out long ago. Do you think your own body is giving itself cancer because it makes formaldehyde naturally? I do not. I think that minute doses of formaldehyde are not harmful. Guess what? That is what science tells us.

          10. I’m guessing “science” isn’t questioned when funded by the companies that sell the vaccines….yet credentials/research are questioned if they disagree. A theme here.

          11. Yes, if all the studies were funded by pharma, I would have a problem with that. Given that most are NOT funded by pharma, it’s not an issue to those who actually READ the studies.

          12. You are beginning to not make sense. When are you going to post the studies you think back your point of view?

          13. Oh I am making perfect sense, which is what you don’t like. Research funded by those who profit….any one who disputes is harassed and “debunked” (by those who don’t like the results). Post the studies for what? So you can parrot the same lines? The criminal says hes innocent and insists on playing judge and jury? lol Not all of us are that gullible.

          14. Here is a list of vaxed v unvaxed studies, all of which show vaxed to be healthier

            Summary of the studies comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated populations

            German study on lower rates of asthma among the vaccinated https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(13)01860-5/abstract

            Another German study: prevalence of allergic diseases and
            non-specific infections in children and adolescents was not found to
            depend on vaccination status. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057555/

            Philippine study on cognitive benefits from vaccines: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2011.566203#.VM4Ni2TF8o

            Pregnant women who are vaccinated have better birth outcomes compared to non-vaccinated mothers, three studies: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/186/4/E157.long,

            https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f393.long

            and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20630123.

            A 2013 meta-analysis finds the flu vaccine may lower the risk of heart attack https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1758749

            Comparing unvaccinated and vaccinated people who do catch the flu
            – vaccinated people are protected from the most serious effects: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.201401-0066LE#.VSfg-ZSUcoa

            Adding more studies as I find them:

            “Vaccinated versus unvaccinated children: how they fare in first
            five years of life.” Nigerian study of 25 unvaccinated and 25 vaccinated
            children: one vaccinated child had a mild case of measles. Unvaccinated
            children: 3 dead, plus 11 non-fatal cases of measles. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2260220

          15. Re your Philippine study
            This study was funded by “Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization” and retrospectively picked a small region in a Philippines with only 85 vaccinated kids born in 1984. Google the study – Guess they didn’t pay the researcher enough money to at least make it look credible. It is a joke. For a start the number of vaccines kids received in 1984 was much less than they receive today. Also wealthy families are far more likely to receive medical care, better education and vaccinations. Malnutrition is rife in the Philippines and poorer families who receive less medical care, poorer education and fewer vaccinations would very likely
            score lower in mental tests which is what this vaccine study supposedly shows. What hogwash and it represents the quality of study which we are supposed to believe show vaccine safety.

            Your German KIGGS study:

            Firstly, even though the sample size was extremely large, the unvaccinated represented a very small fraction of it, 94 children,which makes it impossible to do any meaningful statistics on things such as autism which has a prevalence rate of roughly 1 in 110. Secondly, it is possible that at least some of the children for whom no record of vaccination existed might have still received a vaccine which went unrecorded. Thirdly, a lot of the data was based on a survey, which relied on parent’s memories, thus it is possible that prevalence rates may have been under, or over, reported. Fourthly, the survey did not ask for date of disease onset, therefore some vaccinated children could have gotten sick before being vaccinated and still be included in the vaccinated prevalence data.

          16. The info for the German study comes from their universal healthcare database so I highly doubt some of the unvaxed were truly vaxed.

            That the unvaxed list is small is indicative of how few children are fully unvaxed.

            You all asked for vaxed v unvaxed studies, I delivered.

            The phillippines study is small but still interesting.

          17. You delivered the only garbage that is available I suppose. It is a testament to the quality of unvaccinated studies which have been done – nil worth lifting your head up for.

          18. Shame the flu shot is useless:

            https://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21022

            A new Canadian research published this week has found this season’s flu shot is less effective than previously thought and in some cases may actually increase a person’s risk of becoming ill.

            “Unfortunately this year the vaccine hasn’t worked at all,” says study co-author Dr. Jim Dickinson of the University of Calgary. ” The reason for that is we have a version of the H3N2 virus that has moved away from the vaccine strain we’re using.”

            The research published in the journal, Eurosurveillance also found the flu shot’s effectiveness diminishes if people received the vaccine 2 years in a row.

            The study states, ” In particular VE (vaccine effectiveness) against influenza A (H3N2) among those who received the 2014/2015 influenza vaccine without prior vaccination in 2013/14 was higher (43%) than among participants who were vaccinated with the same A (H3N2) vaccine component in both 2013/14 and 2014/15 (- 15 %)”

          19. The process is a gamble, and a bad one. The most likely virus is selected for the vaccine, and thats it. All other viruses, and mutations of the original, will be immune. Pointless.

          20. A second German study of 8000 unvaccinated kids was done in 2011. They then compare the health info. of those unvaxxed kids to the health data of the kids from the general population ( from the kiggs study done 10 years earlier). These are the health issues compared, and the 1st number is the percentage of unvaxxed kids who have/had it, and the 2nd number is the % of kids from the general population who have/had it. (Keep in mind that there were less vaccines given at the time of kiggs study too).

            Allergies 10.6%/22.9%
            Asthmas & Chronic Bronchitis 2.4%/18.0%
            Neurodermatitis 7.0%/13.2%
            Herpes 0.2%/11.0%
            Hayfever 2.6%/10.7%
            Hyperactivity 2.0%/7.9%
            Scoliosis 0.5%/5.3%
            Epilepsy & Seizures 0.3%/3.6%
            Migraine 1.1%/2.5%
            Thyroid Disease 0.1%/1.7%
            Diabetes was just slightly higher in vaxxed kids

            Other disorders that showed a very low prevalence in the unvaccinated children:

            Dyslexia 0.21%
            Speech delay & articulation problems 0.38%
            Sensory Processing Disorder 0.28%
            Anxiety 0.25%
            Depression 0.12%
            Bedwetting 0.12%
            Celiac Disease 0.12%
            Gluten Sensitivity 0.41%
            GERD 0.06%

            There was also a ten fold incidence of Tonsillitis in vaxxed kids.

            Although there were 4 unvaxxed kids with Autism (out of 8000), the number pales to insignificance when compared to the 1 in 88 children currently reported as Autistic by the CDC. And, Dr. Bachair said, “of these four children, one tested very high for metals (mercury, aluminum, arsenic); and in another case, the mother tested very high for mercury.”https://www.vaccineinjury.info/images/stories/ias1992study.pdf

          21. No, that’s not a study. That’s an online survey with no verification in medical records, where subjects were collected via anti-vaccine sites (a biased population). The link you added is to another biased survey of an anti-vaccine organization. These are not studies and are not reliable.

          22. But if you profit by the millions….totally acceptable. And you wonder why no one bothers posting evidence for you. It will unanimously be deemed invalid.

          23. That was not a study. That was a popular opinion poll that Bachmair, a German homeopath, undertook via his website. Not even remotely close to science. He basically asked his own fans to tell him how healthy they think their kids are.

          24. “of these four children, one tested very high for metals (mercury, aluminum, arsenic)” According to his own testing. He’s a homeopath. How did he test for these metals? Did he use energy testing?

          25. FDA thinks vaccines are safe, too. They also think formaldehyde is safe in miniscule quantities. Better not eat pears, mushrooms, cauliflower or a whole huge list of foods that have more formaldehyde in them than a vaccines.

          26. Ah yes, the FDA, same people who at one time supported smoking, lead based paint, pesticides, aspartame (thanks to Rumsfeld of course)….great people they are

      1. Talking about Hitler:

        IG Farben was the only German company in the Third Reich that ran its own concentration camp. At least 30.000 slave workers died in this camp; a lot more were deported to the gas chambers. It was no coincidence that IG Farben built their giant new plant in Auschwitz, since the workforce they used (altogether about 300.000 people) was practically for free. The Zyklon B gas, which killed millions of Jews, Gypsies and other people was produced by IG Farben´s subsidiary company Degesch.

        In Germany a growing number of people do not understand that IG Farben´s successors Bayer, BASF and Hoechst still refuse to apologize for their misdeeds. It is hard to accept that after the war the companies were allowed to keep IG Farben´s entire property, whereas the surviving slave workers received nothing. Until today Bayer, BASF and Hoechst did not pay any wages to their former workers.

      1. Just the state of California, and a few others have tried. Oh wait, freedom to chose….except you are banned from public education.

  28. It might be worth reminding ourselves what the right is these parents are claiming again, and what the courts said about it. It’s not the right to bodily autonomy, to be free of others using your body in your way, because it’s not about the parents’ body, it’s about the child’s, and the children don’t have a choice either way.

    It’s the right to leave a child at risk of disease, even though the risks of modern vaccines are very small – serious harms from them are very rare – and the risks of the diseases much larger: its the right to impose the bigger risk on the child.

    But even more so, because school immunization mandates do not force parents to vaccinate, it’s the right to impose a risk of disease on the child’s classmates, their families and the community. It’s the right to send an unvaccinated child to school, even though that child is at higher risk of getting and transmitting a completely preventable disease. It’s the right to undermine herd immunity in the school and make it more vulnerable to outbreaks.

    It’s the right to risk others. Against their will. Others who also have rights that deserve protection. Including a right to health.

    One of the state’s traditional powers is to intervene to prevent people’s use of their rights from harming others. You have a right to drink, but the state limits your right to drive after drinking – even though it interferes with your autonomy – because when you do so you risk others. School immunization mandates preserve the parent’s rights not to protect their children from disease – but limit their right to send that child to school because doing so risks others.

    That’s why the Supreme Court in a classic statement in Prince v. Massachusetts, 1944, said that even religious freedom doesn’t undermine immunization requirements:

    “[the parent] cannot claim freedom from compulsory vaccination for the child more than for himself on religious grounds. [n12] The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child [p167] to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death. People v. Pierson,176 N.Y. 201, 68 N.E. 243. [n13]” https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/321/158

    That logic still stands. A parent demanding the freedom to send the unvaccinated child to school does not have an unlimited right to risk others. The state does not have to interfere, but it may step in and limit the parent’s ability to do so.

    1. The power of the state is not actual power; it is perceived. The people have the power. When people like you violate core human rights, society can reject that and corrections to the power structure can occur rapidly. Revolutions can start quickly, and whatever power you think you have over others will vanish like a dream. The very rights you are talking about trampling on will not be lost easily. That quiet father down the road from you with the vaccine injured 10 year old and the unvaccinated, healthy 4 year old will remember you lady when his 4 year old is forcefully vaccinated and becomes injured. How do you think he will react? What you are advocating here is not something that will bring us closer together as a society, but to divide us, and cause chaos. What you stand for is the violation of basic human rights. If ever there was a line in the sand, this is it. Come to my house holding a needle and see how that works out for you lady. That’s not a threat, but a promise. I PROMISE you that if anyone comes to my house and tries to forcefully inject me or my family with ANYTHING will be met with deadly force. Put me on your “terrorist” watchlist. Call me a non-conformist. Whatever. I don’t care. I will not comply. Do you really think the cops are going to break down my door and vaccinate me, or anyone else against their will? They will say “Hell NO!”. Do you think the nurses will do it? Nope. The only one crazy enough to do it are hubris driven totalitarians like you. No one is going to do it, and then they will start asking the question, “Hey, what crazy totalitarian made this policy in the first place? Maybe THEY are the problem”. And that’s the end of this circus, and the end of your career you pathetic pharmaceutical prostitute. And before you call the cops (sure you already have) COPS: I am not violent, never have been, and never will be. If someone came to YOUR house and tried to forcefully vaccinate you against your will, what would YOU do? You swore an oath to defend the constitution, and in that constitution inalienable human rights are clearly listed. Will you be the muscle of despots like this woman, or the defender of freedom and human rights? Let us hope you chose the constitution and not corporate shills with stock in GSK like Dorit Reiss.

      1. If the father down the road chooses to have his child vaccinated, that child has a 99.999% chance of NOT being injured. So, the father has made a good decision and the child is very unlikely to suffer any ill effects at all. It is highly likely that the father’s other child is, in fact, not vaccine injured at all and the father has just bought the lies and mistruths told by antivax groups and thinks his autistic child is vax injured. But, vaccines don’t cause sids, autism, allergies, MS, asthma, epilepsy, PDD, or most of what antivaxers blame them for. So, your entire premise is based on faulty logic and is, therefore, completely illogical.

      2. The state can certainly mandate vaccines. That does not mean anyone will come to your house and try to forcely vaccinate your children. It just mean that if you continue to refuse to protect them from disease, you cannot send them to school.

      3. And as explained, you don’t have an inalienable right to leave a child at risk of disease or to send an unvaccinated child to school.

  29. Either we have a right to our own bodies or not. Isn’t that the real question (which should not be a question)? For every research paper funded by the CDC/Gov. there are alternative research papers that counter with the exception that these Scientists and Doctors have nothing to gain and everything to lose (15 doctors dead in 3 months that had something to tell you). Lots of advocates for Big Pharma here…How much longer are we going to ignore the fact that all though we are a rich nation we have the sickest children. We vaccinate more than any other country too. How long are we going to ignore the children who are injured and the tax payers that pay for those injuries? Too much talk about a non epidemic of the measles and not one word of the epidemic of Autism or about how the CDC wants to investigate their own investigation in regards to the Dr. Thompson allegations. No word on why vaccine companies are 100% immune to lawsuits (so conveniently) BTW prove that vaccinated children/adults are healthier than non vaccinated. Good luck finding that study because it hasn’t been done! People fighting to give their bodies up for experiment…if it weren’t so tragic it would be laughable.

      1. Parents are the best and only appropriate party to make medical decisions for their children. Are you saying Big Brother loves them more than those who labored to bring their flesh and blood into the world?

        1. “Parents are the best and only appropriate party to make medical decisions for their children” Yes, but when they do not follow sound medical science, they put their children in jeopardy. Like parents who deny their children medical help and then the children die. Those parents made bad decisions.

          1. Leashing a ‘forced one size fits all vax’ loose on a nation of children with diverse medical histories is hardly ‘sound medical advice!’

          2. Oh I am absolutely aware, Kathy! Perhaps you missed the memo on the difference between forced/mandate and compulsory!

            However, a corrupt and lobby pushed ‘legislative TREND’ does NOT equate to ‘sound medical advice’, of which you commented above and which is the basis of my reply to you!

          3. Well, that is all your opinion. You and your tiny group of antivax friends are welcome to fight the majority.

        2. My point was more general. When the argument is made that this is about someone’s right to their bodies, a child is treated as nothing, as if their body belonged to the parent. That’s wrong and dangerous. If you want to make the argument on parental rights, make it on parental rights. We can discuss that issue. There are reasons that is not a winning argument here.

          But the “ownership of my body” argument doesn’t work here.

          1. Hand over your child’s body to the State to become a pin cushion. You have no rights. Forget natural health principles of good nutrition and lifestyle – allopathic medicine owns you. This is despite the fact that whooping cough, the most dangerous of the childhood diseases – does not prevent transmission at all, in fact it can cause a person to be an asymptomatic carrier and a large percentage of children who are vaccinated still get the disease. Measles vaccine is not effective enough to prevent measles outbreaks:

            Poland GA1, Jacobson RM.
            Conclusion: The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons. Dr. Gregory Poland is Professor of Medicine and founder and leader of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group. Poland is one of the world’s most admired, most advanced thinkers in the field of vaccinology.

            Merck “fraudulently misled the government and omitted, concealed, and adulterated material information regarding the efficacy of its mumps vaccine in violation of the FCA [False Claims Act].” Mumps vaccine is a highly ineffective vaccine.

            What a farce – and this is being spearheaded by criminal organisations who have paid billions of dollars in fines for false claims about their drugs. Doritt Reiss is part of that Cartel.

    1. There isn’t an autism epidemic, and the pharmaceutical companies aren’t 100% immune to lawsuits.

      1. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”. HAHAHAHAHA!!! There is no autism epidemic! HAHAHAHA! That is the easiest way to discredit yourself and look stupid at the same time!

        1. I would say your statement applies to you. I would urge you to read the great new book, Neurotribes, by Steve Silberman. It is about the history of autism.

          1. The guy who makes a living off vaccine court claims? Yeah, there’s a really unbiased source. Tell me, who did he co-author the book with?

        1. An epidemic implies an infectious disease outbreak. Autism rate has increased because we diagnose more people with autism who would have been diagnosed as mentally retarded or schizophrenic a generation or more ago.

          1. Not according to the vast plethora of science. The great thing about science is that it is true whether you believe it or not.

          2. At the heart of this contentious debate about vaccine safety is a larger ethical issue: Do individuals have the moral right—and should they have the legal right—to make voluntary choices about whether to use all government-recommended and -mandated vaccines?
            … There are compelling reasons to defend the ethical principle of informed consent and flexible vaccine exemptions in public health policies and laws. Vaccination is a medical intervention performed on a healthy person using a pharmaceutical product which has the inherent ability to result in the injury or death of that person. There is no guarantee that the introduction of lab altered killed or live microorganisms and other vaccine ingredients into the body of a healthy person will not compromise the health or cause the death of that person either immediately or in the future.
            There are very few predictors that have been identified by medical science to give advance warning that an individual will suffer an injury or death after vaccination. The U.S. recommended child vaccine schedule has not been fully scientifically evaluated. Most vaccine injuries are not compensated and vaccine reactions are not reported in the U.S. There is no guarantee that a vaccine will protect a person from contracting or transmitting an infectious disease. The FDA and CDC openly state that the numbers of human subjects tested in clinical trials are too small to detect all serious vaccine-adverse events before licensure and widespread use.
            The significant gaps in scientific knowledge about vaccine risks and failures and who is more vulnerable to suffering harm from vaccine use makes vaccination a medical procedure that could be viewed as experimental each time it is performed on an individual or released for widespread use in a population after licensure. This makes the legal right to informed consent to vaccination an even more important human right. – Barbara Loe Fisher

          3. And, for the umpteenth time, your right of informed consent and your right to make choices is not affected by vaccine mandates at all.

          4. Brilliantly stated, thanks for posting.

            “There are compelling reasons to defend the ethical principle of informed consent and flexible vaccine exemptions in public health policies and laws.

            Vaccination is a medical intervention performed on a healthy person using a pharmaceutical product which has the inherent ability to result in the injury or death of that person. ”

        1. Not even 99.9%.

          You can sue them directly for injuries resulting from manufacturing or labeling defects.

          1. Not for standard injuries.
            “When the NVICP was first established, injured parties were required to file petitions with the program and then, if not satisfied with the outcome, they could exit the program and file civil tort-related suits in state or federal court.
            However, since 2011, the US Supreme Court, ruling in Bruesewitz v Wyeth Labs, eliminated that option, as established by Congress, to exit the program and file suit against the Vaccine manufacturer.”
            Wayne Rhode The Vaccine Court

          2. In other words, if they accidentally put glass it it.
            Not if your child develops encephalopathy, acute disseminating encephalomyelitis, seizure disorder, transverse myelitis, Brachial Neuritis, CIDP, ……

          3. Any table injury is given compensation without the burden of proof. For any claim not on the table, you must provide testimony and establish plausibility. Proof of vaccine injury is still not required, but establishment of plausibility is. Then compensation can be determined.

            Also, all fees are paid or by the vaccine court, regardless of whether or not your case is found in your favor.

          4. Wayne Rhode is also not a source of scientific evidence. Furthermore, your cut/paste has no relevance to my statement.

      1. Why don’t you take your juvenile act somewhere else, people are trying to have a serious discussion here

        1. Of all people, you say that?. All you ever do is Gish Gallop pages mindless crap and lies in an attempt bluff through invalid points. You rarely even try to defend them. You are the antithesis of a serious discussion.

          At least I make my point clearly and succinctly. Also, I truly believe that anti-vaxxers say things just as stupid as that meme.

  30. Why is it that the same people time and again come onto these blogs to advocate for vaccines? Dorit Reiss is a law professor from California. She does not live in Aurora; what is she doing posting comments on this forum? It is because she is a paid shill. Just like David Gorsky and Paul Offit; it’s always the same people, trying so hard to sway public opinion. If vaccines were so safe and effective, then why do these people have to spend hours upon hours writing blogs and commenting on articles promoting vaccines? Vaccines got a bad name for a good reason; they hurt people. Lots of people. Like I said before; you people can pass whatever law you want to justify the violation of a persons inalienable right to refuse vaccination. It will not erase your violation. I will not adopt it. I will not comply, and I will do every peaceful thing I can possibly do to expose your crimes and have you tried and convicted for the evil you are doing.

    1. First of all, it is the science that matters, not who posts it. That Dorit works for a law school does not mean she is a paid pharma shill nor that anything she is posting is invalid in any way. Calling her a shill just says you are frustrated and have nothing valid to counter her argument.

      Secondly, Drs Gorksy and Offit are esteemed medical professionals. Neither are paid by any pharma company and both fully disclose any conflicts they have in their research.

      Finally, we spend hours online writing blogs and commenting on articles promoting vaccines because they are the single greatest invention of humanity and have saved billions of lives. Advocating for vaccines is a worthy cause. It is important to counter misinformation about them.

      1. Gorski who makes money off an autism drug, and Offit who sits on CDCboards mandating vaccines he holds patents on? Yeah, they are in it for the money.

        1. Dr Gorski is an oncologist and breast cancer researcher. Why would he make money off an autism drug and which one?

          Dr Offit no longer holds any patents for any vaccines. He and his co-inventors gave the patent to CHOP, so CHOP can help sick children get well. Which CDC boards is he on?

          1. I’d guess that s/he’s referring to Jake’s “investigative journalism” piece claiming a conflict where, of course, one did not exist. (Except in his head, because he reeeally, reeeally wanted it to be so.)

        2. “Dr Offit was a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization
          Practices to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is a
          founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation and the
          Foundation for Vaccine Research.”

          Is that what you mean?

          https://paul-offit.com/about/

        3. Dr. Gorski does not make money off an autism drug. You may be confusing with Dr. Boyd Haley, Dr. Mark Geier, or the late Dr. Bradstreet.

          Dr. Offit no longer holds a patent on any vaccine and did not vote to recommend the vaccine he held a patent on. By the way, the CDC does not mandate any vaccine. States do that.

          Facts matter.

          1. They make recommendations based on sound science. Since you already homeschool your large family of unvaxed children, why does this matter to you?

          2. I had nothing to do with SB277. I do, however, have a lot of family I care about in California because I was born and raised there. Also, this new law will have a domino effect and lead to my state finally passing similar legislation. I am involved with the legislative effort in my state, as an activist and advocate.

            You live in California but already homeschool your children. So, you are not personally affected by this law, right? Except your college aged children will have issues at UC schools now. They are mandating vaccines now.

        1. All the hot air from the vaccines are the way to health camp is exacerbating the true public health crisis- global warming. You can keep freaking out about chicken pox and rare STDs that are not transmissible in a classroom and I’ll actually make changes that matter to public health like using solar.

          1. You are lucky to live in California, where the state basically pays for solar panels and a new roof for everyone. Do you have a link to where people are freaking out about chicken pox? Also, which STD is rare? Can’t be HPV. 75% of Americans have HPV.

          2. I paid for my solar myself at all my homes thank you very much. You don’t think denying all classroom based activities from 0-18 if you don’t have a CP vaccine isn’t overreacting? ?

          3. Why did you do that? The state you live in has ample benefits to basically pay for solar for you. I have numerous Californian friends and family who have made the switch. It basically cost them nothing.

            Yes, I think children should be protected from chicken pox. I had it twice, myself.

      1. Brian hit his thumb with the hammer. You guys love cliches, don’t you! How about this one?
        GO FLY A KITE!

    2. Diseases don’t respect boundaries, and I have friends in Colorado whose children are at risk because of anti-vaccine activities. Those are two good reasons to speak up for protecting the health of children in Colorado, too.

      It’s unfortunate most people don’t realize they need to fight for vaccines. The reason is obvious. Most people realize that vaccinating is the right thing; they don’t understand the need to fight for it. So we don’t have a large pro-vaccine movement anymore than we have a large pro-seatbelt movement. It’s just too obviously good.

      And again, you don’t have an inalienable right to send an unvaccinated child to school and risk others.

      You don’t have an inalienable right to leave your child at risk of disease, either.

      The state can regulate to prevent either action.

      1. Every time you leave your house with a sniffle, you put others at risk. Do you have a right to do that? When you drive your car, you put others at risk. Do you want to eliminate that right? When you do not wash your hands after you pee, you put others at risk. should we do away with that right? Your farts contain microscopic pieces of fecal matter that can spread disease. Should we do away with the right to fart? The pro-vaccine movement has never been larger. You are failing. You will fail, and your children will hang their heads in shame at the things you are about to do. You have no right to dictate to others what medical procedures they accept. None. Zero. Zip. Whatever totalitarian laws you pass, people will ignore. Bring it. Bring the state down on me. Lets just see how your state does in the next few weeks; this is going to be quite the show. You have exposed yourself to litigation and you do not even know it yet. Do you really think that people will allow people like you to dictate medical procedures onto them? This “state” of yours is made up of human beings. Human beings with real emotions, real life issues, and vaccine injured kids. Wagging the dog only works when the dog is unaware of the manipulation being conducted over it. That dog does not hunt anymore.

          1. He said, keep your medical tyranny to yourself and your hands OFF our children. Revolutions have been launched for much less than this!

          2. Continental Congress would be appalled and saddened by what is happening in this great country today, Katia!

          3. Sorry darlin’! The only one getting ^ that, would be yosemite sam, at best! But yosemite sam IS dam skippy! 😉

          4. Yall must be on some good pain pills for your shin, but I did need a giggle, and sam sure fit the bill. Good night Kathy!

          5. How do you explain how few people signed the referendum papers in California? In that state, less than 3% of children are not fully vaxed, so they do truly represent a very small minority.

          6. How do you explain the conspicuous corruption that called itself a legislative process in yet another pharma related flawed law facade in cali?

          7. You’ll have to stop back tomorrow. I’m est!

            Take care though! It sure SUCKS being injured. Just ask all the children at the VAX INJURED orphanage!

          8. The vax injured orphanage? Where is that? And hey, vaccine injury is so super rare, I doubt I could find anyone locally. Where is the orphanage?

          9. No problem at all, if I were foolish to engage in the citation stalemate peeing matches, grasshopper! 😉

          10. scuz norkan: “No problem at all, if I were foolish to engage in the citation stalemate peeing matches, grasshopper! ;)”

            “False equivalence is a logical fallacy where there appears to be a logical equivalence (usually in quantity and quality of evidence) between two opposing arguments, but when in fact there is one side has substantially higher quality and quantity of evidence.”

            Except in this instance.. there is no evidence, nor, has any been put forth by trollalota non grata.

            (Source: Skeptical Raptor | “False equivalence – logical fallacies” )

          11. Engaging the foolish like you, is special favOR enough!

            Pretending that I’m ‘foolish’ simply to placate you, would just go against my grit & grain, drum beat and principles!

            Ow! Another ‘green’ fail, grasshopper!

          12. And the poor parrot can’t find a ‘THINK’ in his brain to offer other than his hackneyed hokum and ad homs!

            I would pity you but you’re so pretentious in your clueless arrogance, that you DESERVE every bit of the ridicule you get!

          13. And, yet, the authors of California’s SB277 are liberal democrats, which is the opposite of fascism. Hm, yet another example of antivaxers not fully understanding the English language.

          14. Parrota non grata, parrot Pro! And why don’t you go spam, troll, pilfer and PLAYgiarize on the kiddie playground, parrot Pro! 😉

          15. I heard the NRA are jumping on the vaccine choice bandwagon just because they hate the author of this drivel. Meanwhile in the more civilized parts of the world…

            ” The British Medical Association has published a report on childhood immunisation on the eve of its annual conference. It calls on doctors and health workers to stress to parents that vaccination is the safest and most effective way to protect children from infectious disease. They should therefore be encouraged to choose immunisation for their children.

            However the BMA said it did not support the idea of compulsory vaccinations.

            BMA Chairman Dr Ian Bogle said: “We have looked carefully at the issue of compulsory vaccination and it is true that some countries do operate immunisation programmes where there is some degree of compulsion.

            “However the BMA does not think this would be right for the United Kingdom.

            “The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust, choice and openness and we think introducing compulsory vaccination may be harmful to this.”

            The report also looked at the issue of whether parents should have a choice of vaccine, for example single doses instead of the triple MMR jab…source The Daily mail UK

            ‘Do vaccines do more harm than good? France launches national debate’

            August 1, 2015

            “France’s Health Minister has announced a national debate this Autumn

          16. ‘Illegal!’ Is that compulsory illegal or mandatory illegal? Or could it be the lessor ‘obligatory’ sense of illegal!

            You must think you’re on craptor, 2 half brains, or ‘science b.s. & medicine!’ Har d har! 😉

          17. “France’s Health Minister has announced a national debate this Autumn to discuss the future of the country’s immunisation policy, amidst mounting criticism over vaccines.

            “I realize there are doubts over vaccines, and that this is more acute in France than any other European country,” Marisol Touraine told the French daily Le Parisien on Saturday.

            To allay fears, Touraine has said she will organize a national debate this coming Autumn to give citizens the opportuinity to debate whether vaccines should still be compulsory.

            Currently children are required to have certain vaccinations done before enrolling in school. But wary parents concerned about the possible side effects of these vaccines want to protect their child from any possible risk…”

            source:https://mobile.english.rfi.fr/general/20150801-do-vaccines-do-more-harm-good-france-launches-debate

            Europe turning against vaccines June 5, 2015 by Lawrence Solomon

            “Europeans are turning away from vaccines, amid rising distrust of immunization for infectious diseases,” begins an article earlier this year in EurActiv, the journal of record for the European Community, published in over a dozen languages and widely read by journalists as a go-to-source for emerging policy debates in Europe.

            As evidence for its claim, the article cites the French National Institute for Prevention and Health Education, which found that “distrust of vaccination has risen from 10% in 2005 to 40% in 2010,” as well as pointing to a major conference held in Italy last year, The State of Health of Vaccination in the EU. The conference, designed to counter the growing opposition among Europeans to vaccinations, featured numerous speakers concerned about the low levels of vaccination throughout the continent. As a Swedish presenter at the conference remarked about the failure of the public to embrace the MMR vaccine to protect against measles, “Among children aged 1-4 years, the age group targeted by routine childhood vaccination programs, 77% of cases were unvaccinated.”

            In contrast to the English-speaking world, where increasing numbers of vaccines are being made mandatory and public debate is effectively banned, the trend is the opposite in Continental Europe. Last September, the French High Council for Public Health itself called for a public debate on whether vaccination against certain diseases should remain compulsory.

            “In Europe, France is the only country to maintain the policy of compulsory vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis,” EurActiv reports.

            “Portugal has kept compulsory vaccination for diphtheria and polio, and Belgium just for polio. Elsewhere in Europe, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and others have all abolished compulsory vaccination.”https://vaccinefactcheck.org/2015/06/05/europe-turning-against-vaccines/

          18. scuuz norkan: “Revolutions have been launched for much less than this!”

            I’m thinking.. ‘braying ass’ as a most appropriate and fitting descriptor.

            … …

            And no need to ask, scuz.. you’re still trollalota non grata in my book.

          19. Braying ass AND witless PARROT, you are again reduced to ‘off topic’ ad homming, parrot Pro!

            I never have ‘need to ask’ from you, because I know and anticipate your every move. That’s what happens when you incessantly parrot and pilfer from others, because you don’t have an an original thought in that PARROT brain, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

            But please don’t stop flouncing and embarrassing yourself on MY behalf, parrot Pro! 😉

        1. If you vaccinate, then your chances of having the sniffles translate into severe disease are almost nil.

          The antivax movement is tiny. That is why they failed, in California, to pass their referendum and recalls.

          What kind of litigation are you expecting in California?

          1. Unless it’s flu or pertussis. HUGE numbers of those vaxed for these diseases CONTINUE to get them and spread them to others. And the vaccines for them are SUPER dangerous.
            The antivax movement is very large, and getting larger all the time.

          2. oh Cia

            Hey, did you know some guy on Facebook called Kyrnan Harvey posted your story, word for word, the story of your daughter, as his own child’s vaccine injury story? He literally cut and pasted it. Since I have read it so many times, I recognized it.

          3. No, I didn’t know. I’ll have to google him. You are welcome to confirm my experience at the sources: Capital Region Medical Center, Jefferson City, Dr. Douglas Boudreau. Born May 5, 2000, encephalitic screaming syndrome from May 9-May13. Autism diagnosed Rusk Rehabilitation Center January 2001.

          4. He posted your story on Senator Dinowitz’ facebook page recently. He has a pseudonym called Kyrnanicus Harveus.

          5. Many already did and FB changed his fake account to a page instead of profile. He still uses it to post.

          6. 2009 “Our study indicates that a disturbingly high proportion of parents [25%] continue to believe that some vaccines cause autism in otherwise healthy children.”
            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2010/03/01/peds.2009-1962.full.pdf

            2015 “Six percent of American adults say they believe certain vaccines cause autism in children.”
            https://www.gallup.com/poll/181844/percentage-saying-vaccines-vital-dips-slightly.aspx

            Quick back of the envelope calculation … Yep. That’s a fail.

          7. 700% of.. 1.. equals 7.
            700% of.. 10.. equals 70.

            Huh.. not as impressive when you think about it.

            (*shrug*)

            … …

            Wait a sec.. are you shilling for your e-home (lying) age of autism again, ciaparker2?

            Shameful and deceitful.

            Save that.. nothing of any noteworthy importance emanates from that echo chamber.. other than that of further discrediting themselves.

          8. Pertussis and influenza are some of our less effective vaccines, but the

            unvaccinated are still much more likely to get and spread either disease. And both vaccines are extremely safe. See: https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-details/influenza-vaccine#.VoktdREt8ag

            https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-details/diphtheria-tetanus-and-pertussis-vaccines#.VokthhEt8ag

            The anti-vaccine movement is a tiny fringe minority. It wasn’t even able to get the votes to put SB277 on the ballot. Most people do realize that science shows that vaccines don’t cause autism. https://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html

          9. Are you referring to California’s sb277? Civil suits? For what? Passing legislation that the majority of Californians support, that is supported by international scientific consensus? That does not violate anyone’s human, civil, or constitutional rights?

        2. There’s a big difference between preventable risks and others. Your driving example is a good analogy. I put others at risk by driving. And I’m expected and required to take precautions to minimize that risk. If I don’t – if I don’t stop at stop signs, keep to my lane etc’ – I can suffer legal consequences.

          Similarly, if you don’t vaccinate your child and take precautions to reduce the risk of preventable disease to others, there may be consequences. The state can impose them.

          1. Vaccines are a preventable risk, and FAR more dangerous than the VPDs in the US. Those parents who wish to preserve their child’s heath, mind, and immune function do well to refuse the vaccines which have destroyed the lives of so many millions. Yeah, the state wants to force vaccines on us because the pharma companies collude so deeply with it. Am I going to further damage myself or my daughter because Merck wants to make another fifty bucks off of us? No, I’m not. I went to the public health department to get a religious exemption form for C last August, fended off two aggressive nurses spouting the party line, but the third nurse was listening avidly to me (I held the floor in thrall, obviously), and apologized for having to literally read me the party line before handing me the form. I told her not to worry about it, I totally understood that it was required by her job to attempt to indoctrinate the public. She said, interestingly enough, that there had been cases of measles and mumps here recently, which I had not known. I said enthusiastically “Really? Where?”

            You said (or maybe it was Mike, we noticed that it looked as though he were talking to himself using your nym) that you had given L the early MMR. Why in the world would you have done that, if it’s true? You had measles as a girl, so L is protected by your antibodies for most of his first year, and not only that, but the vaccine doesn’t work since that’s the case. You’ll only have to play vaccine roulette again and give him another MMR after he’s one.

          2. Serious harms from modern vaccines are very, very rare, and their risks are tiny. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract

            For each vaccine on the schedule, the risks of the disease far outweigh the rare tiny risk of the vaccine. That’s why health officials at the local, national and international level support vaccination, and why most parents correctly follow the scientific consensus and vaccinate.

            I hope your daughter remains safe in spite of the decision to deny her further protection. Luckily, in a first world country, most people vaccinate, and with a little luck she should stay safe from diseases like diphtheria, measles, and so forth.

          3. Autism is now in one in 40 American children, and so many parents SAW our children react to vaccines, that ever fewer people believe your contention that vaccine damage is rare. And not true. Measles, mumps, pertussis, chickenpox, flu, and rubella are nearly always relatively mild in children and confer many benefits, permanent immunity (if never got the pertussis vaccine, and only to specific strain in case of flu) and a stronger, better-trained immune system, also protection from some diseases in later life. Vaccines suppress the immune system: if children did not get the useless, dangerous, unnecessary pertussis vaccine, there would be very few cases of meningitis, which is rare, but certainly seriously when it presents clinically. Large doses of IV vitamin C effectively treat all these diseases and more. I remember the ’80s, when only the DPT (very dangerous, and I reacted to it as an infant), polio, and MMR were given, and no one was at all worried about the lack of the flood of vaccines introduced since that time. And we didn’t need the DPT or the MMR. We don’t need the polio vaccine at this time, but if polio came back here, I’d research it and decide whether or not I thought it was safe and effective.
            Diphtheria disappeared decades ago, and had become much milder than it had been before it disappeared. It can be treated with antibiotics. If it came back, I’d research it, it was certainly a horrible, deadly disease as recently as the ’30s. Measles would be beneficial for her to get, mumps as well, and I hope she will have the opportunity to get them naturally. Tetanus I continue to think about a lot. The vaccine has caused a lot of damage, but is probably usually one of the safer ones. My arms being paralyzed by it and its causing MS were probably because of the mercury in it, and you can buy a vaccine for tetanus with only ‘trace” amounts of mercury now.
            But the upshot is that the childhood vaccines are for diseases either mild and beneficial for the vast majority, or for rare diseases. Every parent must make the decision whether he or she thinks autism/autoimmune disease/seizure disorders/bowel disease etc. from vaccines are a greater danger to his child than the diseases, and act accordingly. It does require a careful risk/benefit analysis. I just wrote to some friends about my decisions on vaxing our puppy and cat, it’s just the same issue for them. Yes, parvo and rabies are possible dangers, possibly feline distemper, and the vaccines for them I think are usually effective, (only one dose of feline distemper vaccine is needed, it’s the most effective vaccine ever for any species), but the cancer and autoimmune disease explosion in pets is because of the insane practice of yearly unnecessary boosters. I spent MONTHS agonizing over the parvo vaccine decision, finally going by Dr. Jean Dodds’ recommendations. No heart worm medication, Advantage for fleas would be another agonizing decision, spaying/neutering a dog greatly increases cancer risk, so we’re not going to do that. The point is that every vaccine is potentially disabling or fatal, and that risk must be carefully considered against the likelihood of a disabling or fatal case of the diseases at this time in your location. It is simply not true that the risks of the diseases outweigh the risks of the vaccines. Which one do you think does so?

          4. “You said (or maybe it was Mike, we noticed that it looked as though he
            were talking to himself using your nym) that you had given L the early
            MMR.”

            What is this royal “we noticed”, Cia?
            You and whose army? Have you been emailing your little antivax circle of flying monkeys to get them to swarm around here again?

            I didn’t “talk to myself using Dorit’s nym”.

          5. Actually I came here because they said it was interesting action here. Someone said that the dry humor in the exchange was unlike D, but like you, and someone else said it sounded as though you were talking to yourself, and when I read it again, I saw what they meant. It was funny, Dr. Mike making up both sides of the dialogue.

          6. Also, it might be your body, your alcohol and your car and your choice.

            However, if your choice is both, the police are going to want a very stern word with you at a bare minimum.

      2. Do you have an inalienable right to subject my child to vaccine injury? or so cause a lifetime of auto immune disease, possible autism, brain damage even death. Where are the double blind placebo controlled studies that show that vaccines are safe – there are none. What about the retroviruses,DNA other viral material that isn’t filtered out from the vaccine? “Evidence being offered appears to suggest a subtle form of genetic alteration – associated with the wider use of vaccines[17] – which may not necessarily be inherited but is responsible for altered system stability and function and consequently of altered biochemistry and function. There is evidence that system function is intact but dysfunctional i.e. that homeostasis is severely compromised. Such findings are supported by research into Gulf-War Syndrome (GWS) in which[225] untypical RNA was found in the blood of sick GW veterans. This illustrates that the viral encephalopathies originated from RNA-viruses and hence from vaccines. That immunosuppression, shown to be a factor in GWS[226] and autism, is associated with the concentrated use of vaccines[227] is further supported by the fact that French soldiers who were not vaccinated yet who served in the gulf war did not get GWS however American and British soldiers[228], irrespective of whether they served in Iraq or not, reported a significantly greater incidence of autistic-spectrum disorders and GWS.”

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/

        1. School immunization mandates do not even impose the small risk of vaccine injuries. You can continue to force the bigger risk on your child, and refuse to protect the child from disease by not vaccinating. They just limit your ability to send that child to school and force the same risk on the child’s classmates and their families.

          Vaccines don’t cause autoimmune disease (https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/111/3/653); or autism (https://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html).

          Note that your article is a review article that is very bad at selection – including for example the bad science of the Geiers, known for shoddy methods and for chemically castrating autistic children. It’s not a good source.

          Serious harms from vaccines are very rare, and deaths even more so.

    3. It is all about money and power. The rich get rich and the poor get poorer. Mandate vaccination and watch the share price going up. Doris is a shareholder in GSK – a vaccine manufacturer. The hours put in refuting any people who question vaccines would not be unpaid – it is a career path as is her job finding legal loopholes to force an increasing number of vaccinations.

      “One especially useful article she recently co-authored explains the basis for states’ broad power to regulate vaccines in children and concludes with a table setting out the various tools that states can use to increase vaccination rates. Another article she recently co-authored proposes several mechanisms for shifting the public-health costs of non-vaccination onto the shoulders of those who choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children.”

      https://abovethelaw.com/2015/12/highlighting-a-law-professor-whos-helping-to-support-vaccination/?rf=1

    4. But you didn’t notice that many of the same people are posting against vaccines? Does “Judith” live in both California and Colorado?

      Lurkers: Pretty typical of antivax trolls, to excuse (or not even notice) in themselves what they view as suspicious or evil in their opponents.

    5. For what it’s worth, Brian does not live in Aurora or Colorado either.

      Only 33 comments, all but 3 of them on this article. How is it you’re so familiar with “always the same people?”

      1. Do you spend a lot of time curled up in corners with a thesaurus? People that live in reality do not use words like “monachopsis”. Really? Do you want to talk about vaccines, or create straw men from antiquated vocabulary?

        1. Funny you talk about strawmen – how ironic*.
          Do you know what the term means? Perhaps you need to curl up in a corner with a book sometime, it will do your general knowledge a world of good.

          *To clarify, by (incorrectly) arguing that any of this legislation will be “violation of a persons inalienable right to refuse vaccination”, you are deploying the strawman fallacy yourself. It will not take away your right to refuse a vaccination.

  31. Casey Ohlsson shares the story of her boy who was severely vaccine injured at his 9-month shots, where her boy received 9 vaccinations and within one hour started having seizures. The doctor said it was a “coincidence.” She searched for and found biomedical treatment therapy that ultimately helped to recover her boy after many years of treatment. Later, she gave birth to a daughter who was never vaccinated and her daughter is very healthy and rarely gets sick. Vaccination is not for everyone, and should never be mandated by the government.
    https://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2016/01/9-vaccines-in-1-visit-causes-severe-vaccine-injury-to-child-2456868.html

    1. Vaccines do not cause seizure disorder. The doctor pointed out that it was a coincidence because extensive literature shows that is not a vaccine injury. With millions vaccinated, some unrelated problems are bound to happen after vaccines.

      I’m glad her daughter is healthy, and hope herd immunity continues to protect her.

      Here is a discussion of how to diagnose vaccine injuries and why doctors in cases like this point out it’s a coincidence. https://pediatrics.about.com/od/vaccinesafety/fl/Diagnosing-Vaccine-Injuries.htm

      1. Always just a “coincidence” and I think this is what makes those people who want vaccine choice so passively angry in that they have no voice. There is no debate allowed in Australia and the USA – what parents see with their own eyes is denied and they are made to feel pathetic parents. If vaccines do not cause seizure disorders why are seizures listed as a side effect? Also at the most only 10% of adverse events are reported I would say seizures are more common than admitted.

        “There is a small increased risk for febrile seizures after MMR and MMRV vaccines.

        Studies have shown a small increased risk for febrile seizures during the 5 to 12 days after a child has received their first vaccination with the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine. The risk is slightly higher with the measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (MMRV) combination vaccine.”

        https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/febrile-seizures.html

        1. Why are you only listing Australia and USA? Vaccines are considered safe in every single country on earth.

          Also, it is not true that only 10% of adverse events are reported. VAERS specifically states that reports of severe adverse events are overreported and research backs this up. For example, many countries have studied the reports of adverse events after HPV vaccine and found no deaths and very low incidence of issues actually related to the vaccines. These reports come from UK, EU, Canada, USA, and Australia.

          Febrile seizures are harmless and not epilepsy. A child can have a febrile seizure from any fever.

          1. Lying about the hpv vaccine again, NO Deaths??

            Meanwhile in Ireland and Scotland we have pro-vaccine parents forming support groups for their HPV vaccine injured children.

            “A mother who claims her daughter suffered “horrendous adverse effects” after receiving the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer has brought legal proceedings.

            Fiona Kirby, Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath, is a member of a parents support group, REGRET (Reaction and Effects of Gardasil Resulting in Extreme Trauma), for those who claim their teenage girls became ill after getting the vaccine.

            Ms Kirby, a nurse, is seeking a High Court order for the withdrawal of the license given for the Gardasil HPV vaccine, currently being offered to the parents of 11-16 year old girls as a possible cervical cancer preventative.

            An order restraining the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), which monitors health products in Ireland, proceeding with use of Gardasil in any vaccine programme is also sought.”

            https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/court-told-of-horrendous-adverse-effects-of-hpv-vaccine-1.2414549

            “Schoolgirls should stop being given a vaccine which helps protect them from cervical cancer until a “proper investigation” is held into side effects, a campaigner has insisted.

            Freda Birrell, of UK Association of HPV Vaccine Injured Daughters (AHVID), called for a moratorium on the use of the controversial HPV vaccine until more is known about “serious adverse reactions”. ..https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/13899196.Schoolgirls_should_stop_being_ given_HPV_vaccine_until_ investigation_into_side_ effects__campaigner_says/

            “In a ten-year period, more than 2,500 females reported “serious,” life-threatening reactions.

            Thousands upon thousands of girls in the United Kingdom have suffered adverse reactions as a result of receiving HPV vaccinations, with more than 2,500 of those enduring “serious” debilitating illnesses, a UK government agency reports.

            A recent Freedom of Information request seeking the number of people injured by vaccines in the UK revealed the human papillomavirus vaccine was responsible for over 8,200 injuries in the past 10 years, a startling figure which directly contradicts health authorities reassurances.

            According to the report, the flu jab was the second most injurious (2,994), with the MMR vaccine coming in third (1,594).

            https://www.eutimes.net/2015/06/thousands-of-uk-girls-injured-by-hpv-vaccine

          2. Around 2,000 reported side effects after using Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine have determined Japanese government officials to withdraw Gardasil from the market in 2013. The side effects of using Gardasil include seizures, brain damage, blindness, paralysis, speech problems, pancreatitis and short-term memory loss, while other patients have died after taking the vaccine. Since the government began offering girls HPV shots, 1,968 adverse events were reported, including 358 that were evaluated as serious by a JMLHW committee

            The organization confirmed that in Japan, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare warned local governments that the HPV vaccine should not be recommended amid safety concerns https://www.tokyotimes.com/side-effects-in-young-girls-take-gardasil-out-from-japanese-market/



          3. Japan’s Health Ministry is wrong

            The World Health Organization still recommends the HPV vaccine. A large case-controlled epidemiological study of 200,000 women, evidence that stands up to scientific scrutiny, showed that the HPV vaccine is safe. A similar quality study of over 1 million women concluded that it was safe. And the vaccine works.

            In November 2015, the European Medicines Agency determined that HPV vaccines are unrelated to the development of either POTS or CRPS (complex
            regional pain syndrome, which may related to what was observed in
            Japan). They concluded that there is no causal link, and that
            observations of POTS and CRPS are not different from the rates that
            would be observed irrespective of vaccination status in these
            demographic groups.

            Moreover, the agency
            also dismissed the hypothesis that the HPV cancer preventing vaccine
            was related, either temporally or causally, to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

            In other words, valid evidence, published in important biomedical
            journals and supported by a team of scientific experts, completely
            invalidated any link between HPV vaccines and any of these things
            claimed as adverse effects of the vaccine.”

            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/japan-and-hpv-vaccine-debunking-myths/

          4. (FOIA) request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:13-cv-00197)). On March 12, 2013, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of HHS, provided Judicial Watch with documents revealing the following information:

            Only 49 of the 200 claims filed have been compensated for injury or death caused from the (HPV) vaccine. Of the 49 compensated claims 47 were for injury caused from (HPV) vaccine the additional 2 claims were for death caused due to the vaccine.

            92 (nearly half) of the total 200 claims filed are still pending. Of those pending claims 87 of the claims against (HPV) vaccine were filed for injury, the remaining 5 claims were filed for death.

            59 claims have been dismissed outright by VICP. The alleged victims were not compensated for their claims against the HPV vaccine. Of the claims dismissed, 57 were for injuries, 2 were for deaths allegedly caused by the HPV vaccine.” ..source Judicial Watch

          5. If the claims were dismissed, they were trying to get compensation for something not caused by HPV vaccine.

          6. No. Sincere parents mistakenly blaming the vaccines for harms not caused by the vaccine.

            It’s hard for people to accept that sometimes bad things just happen.

          7. Umm….I sort of did. Someone asked what possible motive they might have unlike the evil pharma companies who – and i did mention that Mercola and Tenpenny both have a store and that if autism was put on the table, despite the evidence – the compensation would be a possible motive.

          8. Huh.. why the supposed intrigue and insinuation of an FOIA when the information is hiding in plain sight?

            VICP Adjudication Categories, by Alleged Vaccine, For Petitions Filed Since the Inclusion of Influenza as an Eligible Vaccine for Filings 01/01/2006 Through 12/31/2014

            HPV Number of Doses Distributed in the U.S.,
            01/01/2006 through 12/31/2014
            (Source: CDC) ……………………………………………….. 77,506,945

            Compensable

            Concession ………………………………………………………………… 11
            Court Decision …………………………………………………………….. 4
            Settlement …………………………………………………………………..72

            Compensable Total ……………………………………………………… 87
            Dismissed/Non-Compensable Total ……………………………… 92

            Grand Total ………………………………………………………………. 179

            … …

            And of course.. this..

            “What does it mean to be awarded compensation?

            Being awarded compensation for a petition does not necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the alleged injury.”

          9. I just looked at the HRSA report. The Court decisions is ZERO. and Settlement is 69 for a total of 80.

            There has not been one court decision finding an injury yet.

          10. Japan has a history of quickly removing vaccines based on unsupported claims of harms – and suffering the results in injury and deaths. They did it with pertussis vaccines, removing them in the 1970s – and suffered a pertussis outbreak that killed tens of babies. They are doing it again here. Not a good outcome, since 2000 Japanese women die from cervical cancers every year.

          11. Japan has been using AHCC to treat HPV infections. It doesn’t have all the serious side effects that the HPV vaccine can cause.

            “An early, pre-clinical trial has shown that Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC), an extract from shiitake mushrooms, can kill the human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S.

            A study by Dr. Judith A. Smith, Pharm.D., an associate professor in the department of gynecologic oncology and reproductive medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, also discovered that AHCC lowered the rate of ovarian tumor growth.

            Human and animal studies have shown that AHCC boosts the number and activity of natural killer cells called dendritic cells and cytokines. Smith said that these cells allow the body to respond to infections and block tumor growth.

            Smith’s research shows that AHCC can not only get rid of HPV—it may also help prevent HPV-related cancers. She is currently conducting another study on women with HPV to see how long the treatment should continue in order to produce effective results.

            Treating cervical cancer cells with AHCC led to the eradication of HPV, human papillomavirus, as well as a decrease in the rate of tumor growth in-vitro and in-vivo, in research presented at the Society of Gynecological Oncology 45th Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer in Tampa, Florida. The study was led by Dr. Judith A. Smith, Pharm.D., at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) Medical School at Houston.

            These data suggest AHCC can eliminate HPV infections and may have a role in the prevention of HPV-related cancers. A confirmatory pilot study in HPV+ women is underway at UTHealth Women’s Center.

            “The results of this study were very encouraging,” said Dr. Smith, Associate Professor at the UTHealth Medical School. “This study, initiated in 2008, shows that by itself AHCC has the potential to treat the HPV infection,” she said

            The research was presented at the Society of Gynecological Oncology’s recent meeting in Tampa, Florida.

            https://www.healthline.com/health-news/women-can-a-mushroom-extract-cure-hpv-032514

          12. And when the Vaccine Injury Court compensates those who were injured or DIED because of the vaccine, they are just being nice about it…right?

            “49 of the 200 claims filed have been compensated for injury or death caused from the (HPV) vaccine.”

          13. As far as I know all of there were settlements. Where parties don’t have to show causation and the case doesn’t imply causation.

            So the compensation itself doesn’t show much. Some of these were probably from the vaccine, like the girl who fainted and hit her head when she fell. Others probably were not.

            I’ll add that 49 settlements out of over 50 million doses doesn’t show a dangerous vaccine. Quite the opposite.

          14. I think you must own stock in the HPV vaccine also to fight so hard to cover up the deaths and injuries around the world from it. Innocent girls are being injured and dying every day because of people like you.

          15. I understand that it’s frustrating when the evidence is against your beliefs. But the shill gambit isn’t a substitute for evidence.

            The tragedy is that HPV infections harm and kill many, and false claims against the HPV vaccines perpetuate such has unnecessarily.

            The evidence is that these vaccines are effective and safe. The evidence comes from large scale studies and monitoring in tens of millions.

            Rejecting it leads to preventable tragedies.

          16. ..”Cervical cancer is not a major health issue for women under the regular care of a gynecologist, as most mainstream American women are. It may be a health issue among the underprivileged women and new immigrants in the U.S. According to SEER, a division of the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 269,800 women would die from various types of cancer in 2009. Ony 4070 of these estimated deaths would be related to cervical cancer

            70% of all HPV infections resolve themselves within a year, and within 2 years the percentage climbs to 90%

            Cancer associated with HPV is only responsible for 1% of all cancer deaths.

            ” Criticism of the Gardasil vaccine has also come from Israel. Dr. Uzi Beller, an international authority on gynecological cancers who treats patients on a daily basis, came out publicly against vaccinating 65,000, 14-year old girls in Israel with Gardasil, according to an article published in The Jerusalem Post on September 21, 2013 (4).

            Dr. Beller voiced his criticism of Gardasil vaccination at “a meeting in Tel Aviv (with) 40 leading experts on gynecology, oncology, women’s health, vaccines and other specialties .”

            “In an interview with The Jerusalem Post in his office, (Dr. Beller) noted that the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the vaccine have been extremely aggressive in their lobbying and marketing; the vaccines are worth billions of dollars to them. At the same time, he said, many medical professionals who advocate vaccination have been pushing a “populistic campaign without being familiar with the issue .”

            “Blodgett cites other problems with Gardasil, namely that it was fast-tracked through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a belief that its benefits were oversold by drug maker Merck.

            “The science wasn’t good… We had physicians in our community arguing that we not make it available,” said Blodgett.

            HPV is “absolutely a risk for cervical cancer,” but it’s not the only risk, he said, arguing the vaccine cuts risk by 17 percent. Cancers caused by HPV are extremely rare and immunization comes with no guarantee for long-term protection; women are still supposed to get regular Pap smears to test for the virus, he said.

            Weighed against the vaccine’s risks, “the public isn’t buying it,” he contends. “It’s eroding public trust in immunization programs.”

            https://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57224192-78/vaccine-health-percent-utah.html.csp

          17. You may not see preventing thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of cancers a year as important or major. Others hopefully disagree.

          18. Once again, we have now a safe way to clear HPV infection from the body without taking the vaccine. Unfortunately, it won’t earn Merck and the Dept of HHS the billions of dollars Gardasil rakes in.

            11th International Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology
            “Can women with HPV-positive Pap tests who don’t show signs of abnormal cytology (abnormal cervical cells) and are treated with active hexose correlated compound (AHCC) undergo clearance of the infection?

            Five subjects achieved a negative HPV test result — three with confirmed eradication after stopping AHCC — with the remaining two responders continuing on the study.”

          19. Claiming there’s a way to clear HPV on the basis of single digit numbers is implausible. And using this untested claim to argue against preventing HPV infections that can lead to cancer irresponsible.

          20. Regular pap smears and AHCC for confirmed infections will see cervical cancer rates drop even further.

            “Cervical cancer was once a leading cause of death among American women. That changed when the Pap smear became widely available. This test allowed doctors to find precancerous changes in a woman’s cervix and treat them. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), mortality from cervical cancer declined by almost 70 percent between 1955 and 1992.

            Almost all cervical cancers are caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). There are a number of different strains of HPV. Only certain types are associated with cervical cancer. The two most common types that cause cancer are HPV-16 and HPV-18.

            Infection with a cancer-causing strain of HPV does not mean you will get cervical cancer. The immune system eliminates the vast majority of HPV infections. Most people are rid of the virus within two years.

            Routine Pap smears are important. Caught early, cervical cancer is very treatable. Precancerous changes are often caught and treated before cervical cancer can develop. Testing and treatment stops cervical cancer before it starts. According to the ACS, the majority of American women who are diagnosed with cervical cancer have either never had a Pap smear or not had one in the last five years. The five-year survival rates for cancers that are caught early are excellent”….https://www.healthline.com/health/cervical-cancer

            “According to World Health Organization data, the rate of serious adverse reactions reported to the VAERS system is 2.5 times higher than the current age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer. According to an evaluation performed by Sanevax of the 75 FDA approved vaccines, the HPV vaccines account for 60% of the entire VAERS database of adverse events. This includes 64% of all reported deaths and 65% of life threatening reactions. An additional 82% of all cases of permanent disability for women under 30 years of age is attributed to the HPV vaccines.”

          21. So no deaths or injuries in Europe of the U.S. but injuries only in Japan? You are irrational.

          22. No deaths have been shown connected to HPV vaccines. In studies in over a million, the only side effect they were shown to have caused is fainting on the day of and local reactions.

            It’s sad that some parents blame the vaccines for other harms, against the evidence. But their belief is not evidence, even when they write it in a court document. anyone can sue for anything.

          23. No, the HPV vaccine doesn’t kill people and even raising that
            possibility among an audience of teen girls is wildly irresponsible. It bears repeating that the HPV vaccine saves lives as because human papillomavirus (HPV) can lead to cervical cancer and cancers of the tongue and throat.
            .
            As the HSE notes, “No deaths have been attributed to Gardasil vaccination” and investigations into “serious incidents” similar to the one reported by Kirby have “shown no causal relationship with the vaccine.” In the U.S., for example, the CDC has investigated all 51 sufficiently-detailed records of post-Gardasil deaths reported between June 2006 and September 2015, concluding in each case that “there is no diagnosis that would suggest Gardasil caused the death.”

            https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/06/she-says-the-hpv-vaccine-disabled-her-daughter.html

          24. No, most immunization studies are NOT pharma funded. BUt, you’d know that if you actually read the studies.

          25. This same old tired bullshlt out of these people gets so old. It’s exhausting repeating the same evidence and debunking the same nonsense from the same posters who clearly just ignore whatever is posted.

        2. How does this compare with the risk of febrile seizures from actual cases of measles, rubella, etc.? (Hint: wild disease is much more dangerous.)

          Please stop comparing vaccines to health in Heaven, and start comparing them to the status quo ante.

        3. It’s natural for the people who fervently believe that vaccines are at the root of all evils to be upset when it’s pointed out that vaccines are not and that many bad things happen in the first two years independent of vaccines.

          Vaccines can cause febrile seizures. These are caused by any fever – and are very common, 1:25 child will have them – and they are generally not harmful. That is not a seizure disorder. On febrile seizures, see: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/febrile_seizures/detail_febrile_seizures.htm

      2. “Vaccines do not cause seizure”
        Would you agree that they can cause conditions that lead to seizure disorders?

          1. You didn’t answer the question.
            You said vaccines don’t “cause” seizures.
            Are you also saying they don’t cause other conditions that can lead to seizure disorders.

          2. I answered an unspecified, vague question as best as possible. It’s unclear what you mean. What conditions do you have in mind?

          3. Because there’s no biologically plausible way in which they could alter genes.

            If they could, it would be great news for gene therapy. But it’s not the case.

          4. “We know that the MMR II and the Varivax (chickenpox vaccine) (and Hep A and others) are manufactured using human fetal derived cell lines (the MRC-5 and/or WI-38 lines). The vaccines are heavily contaminated with residual fetal DNA and cellular debris.
            “The amounts are not infinitesimal…we know there is a high risk of harm, with both autoimmune and genetic (de novo mutations) damage.”
            Dr. Theresa Deisher, a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology

          5. Her work does exist in isolation. Dr. Lee’s work is just as bad in other ways, but doesn’t support Deisher’s fetal cells claims.

          6. In the sense that they are not Fetal cells,, but not on the questions that remain of the effect of foreign DNA introduced and effects it may have.

          7. Deisher’s biological theory depended on the special nature of fetal cell DNA which led to them getting into cells.

            Lee’s theories don’t use the same biological mechanism. They’re problematic because of his misuse of the technique, with his results being probably from contamination; but you can’t use one problematic, in replicated article to support a completely different biological theory and say together they create biological plausibility.

          8. No, they are different theories, but both involve introducing DNA, albeit problematic in different ways.

            “Dr. Lee is known for using the nested PCR/DNA sequencing technology for reliable detection and genotyping of HPV in clinical specimens.
            He is the author of the chapter, “Guidelines for the Use of Molecular Tests for the Detection and Genotyping of Human Papillomavirus from Clinical Specimens” in a Methods in Molecular Biology volume published by Humana Press in July 2012.”

          9. The rational Catholic blog was very off putting to me as a Catholic.
            “, I can’t do that because you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, deserve to know how badly you are being deceived by a study that is so abominable, it would be an insult to bad science to call it bad science.”
            This is not language to use in a rational discussion of science you may disagree with.

          10. As a non-Catholic, I won’t speak to styles acceptable to Catholics. But the catholic women who write the blog make powerful points – as do the scientists quoted in the later two posts.

          11. You object to tone? I’m generally more sensitive to content, but…whatevs.

            How ’bout that the RCC and multiple Popes have given their blessing on vaccination, and recommend it for the common and greater good?

          12. That they are. One is carrot, the other, stick. When that’s ever been a problem for the RCC, I dunno.

        1. Hannah Poling got her vaccines at 19 months – and as you point out, that’s not the schedule. It’s because she was behind.

          No, she did not react with autism and seizures. Apparently, the vaccines triggered a fever and at the time it was thought that fever may have triggered her preexisting genetic mitochondrial disorder – that any fever could trigger.

          A recent case by the Vaccine Court examining the scientific literature about mitochondrial disorders did not find such a link, though.

          https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccine-injury-compensation-and-mitochondrial-disorders/

        2. Liar. You no very well that Hannah Poling had a reaction due to a mitochondrial disorder and her parents refused to be involved in the autism ombudsman case because……..
          .
          Hannah Poling did NOT have autism.
          .
          You know this very well but you still tell these anti-vaxx lies. You have no integrity at all.

          1. You’re the liar. You know that Hannah’s parents said that the mito disorder was CAUSED by the vaccines, that it was NOT a congenital condition. Hannah was healthy and typically developing, precociously verbal, chosen to be a typical peer in a special needs preschool class, until the vaccines she got all at once threw her into autism, seizure disorder, and Mito disorder. Mercury in vaccines CAUSES mito disorder.

            Journal of Toxicology
            Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 573701, 13 pages
            https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/573701

            Increased Susceptibility to Ethylmercury-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Subset of Autism Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines

            Shannon Rose et al.

            Hepatitis B Vaccine Causes Mitochondrial Disorders and Cell Death

            Apoptosis. 2012 Jan 17. [Epub ahead of print]

            Hepatitis B vaccine induces apoptotic death in Hepa1-6 cells.

            Hamza H et al.

          2. ” Poling was diagnosed months later with encephalopathy (brain disease) caused by a mitochondrial enzyme deficit, a mitochondrial disorder; it is not unusual for children with such deficits to develop neurologic signs between their first and second years”

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_court

            Not lies. The exact truth.

          3. Jon Poling disputes this theory, maintaining that his daughter’s mito disorder was CAUSED by the vaccines she got.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Poling

            “Nothing is more effective than mercury at inducing oxidative stress, which is identified by exceptionally high mitochondrial dysfunction. Over 85% of autistic children who have been tested have been diagnosed with such a dysfunction. (James, “Metabolic biomarkers of increased oxidative stress and impaired methylation capacity in children with autism,” Am J Clin Nutr, 2004 Dec; 80(6):1611-17) Biochemically, the exceptionally tight binding of mercury to the electron transporting system of mitochondria has been proven to cause high production of toxic chemical intermediates, leasing to oxidative stress and to many of the biochemical abnormalities found most often in children with autism. (Nataf, “Porphyrinuria in Childhood Autistic Disorder: Implications for Envirnomental Toxicity,” Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2006 Jul 15; 214(2):99-108). Boyd Haley, “Mercury Toxicity and Vaccine Injury,” p 224, Vaccine Epidemic.

            So we have over 85% of autistic children who were tested were found positive for mito disorder. Not rare at all when one considers how many autistic children there are these days.

          4. So what? Vaccines caused it or not but the disorder was NOT autism. it was encephalopathy (brain disease) caused by a mitochondrial enzyme deficit, a mitochondrial disorder.

            Laws in 2004 and 2006 outlawed all but trace amounts of mercury in all California vaccines. Let’s look at the results:

            1970s = children received 25 mcg of thimerosal= Low autism

            2015 = children received only traces of thimerosal = High autism.

            Tell me, how is it that 25X+ more thimerosal in in the 1970s means low autism but “trace amounts” in 2015 means high autism? We are all ready to hear this explanation.

          5. It WAS autism. Autism is not diagnosed by any clinical test, but only by checking items off a behavioral checklist. If the patient gets several checked off for delayed, aberrant, or absent language development, and a few in abnormal or absent development of age-appropriate social interaction and/or extreme attachment to repetitive routines or verbal stims, then there you go, the patient has autism. All of these symptoms are caused by brain damage, also called encephalopathy.
            From Vaccine Epidemic, p 211-2: “Our government would not say that Hannah had autism, which she indeed does have. The concession document said that Hannah has a ‘regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder.’ By definition, a person diagnosed with a disorder will have features of that disorder. Government attorneys had full access to Hannah’s extensive medical files, which disclose that she has DSM-diagnosed, full-syndrome autism. Yet they referred to her neurological disorder using terms that sounded ambiguous, as if she had something like autism, but not autism. Hannah’s parents repeatedly clarified to the media that their daughter has full-syndrome autism. A scientific journal article further confirmed the diagnosis. (David Kirby, Huffington Post, “The Vaccine-Autism Court Document that Every American should Read,” Feb. 25, 2008.
            Everyone in the government, medical, pharmaceutical complex has lied about the fact that there is no doubt that vaccines cause autism, because 1) they don’t want to wreck the vaccine gravy train which is bringing in billions to the industry and its lobbyists, and 2) everyone is petrified at the idea of eventually having to pay at least several million in compensation and damages to every one of the millions of severely vaccine-damaged people in the US and in the world. So parents need to know this before consenting to let their child get any vaccine.
            Autism rates remained low (three in 10,000 from the time the mercury-containing DPT was introduced in the US in 1948 (autism in the US started with the introduction of mercury as a preservative in the diphtheria vaccine in 1933), until three doses of the HIb vaccine were put on the recommended schedule in 1988, overnight doubling the amount of mercury babies got. Then, with the mercury-containing hep-B vaccine for newborns in 1991, the amount of mercury was tripled from what it had been, three doses being given, the first within hours of birth. That’s the one to which my baby reacted with vaccine encephalitis and autism, and it was given without permission, as it usually was.
            While mercury is devastatingly dangerous in any form, especially to those born with genetic factors which impair our ability to detoxify heavy metals in vaccines and elsewhere, autism can also be caused by vaccine encephalitis, which can be caused by any vaccine, just from the excessive inflammatory reaction which many people’s immune systems mount when they encounter the threat of vaccine ingredients suddenly appearing on their territory. All vaccines cause inflammation: they have to, or no antibodies would be forced to be produced, but this inflammation is often excessive, causing brain damage (encephalopathy), autism, ADHD, seizure disorders, and learning and behavioral disabilities. When the immune system is sensitized to vaccine ingredients which resemble common substances in the environment or body tissues, autoimmune disease is triggered, and the inflammation often becomes chronic. The vaccine epidemic started in 1988, and the rates of autism and autoimmune disease have gone up and up and up since that time. Now we give many more vaccines than we did before 1988, and each one represents an immense shock to the immune and neurological systems, resulting in far higher rates of all of these disorders. Before 1988, we gave the DPT (very dangerous), the MMR (also very dangerous), and the polio vaccine. Now we give those (DTaP now, ineffective and still dangerous), but also the Hib, Prevnar, rotavirus, flu, varicella, hep A and B, Menactra, and Gardasil vaccines, most of them many times each. So it’s obvious why there’s so much more autism as well as all the other kinds of vaccine injury now than before 1988.

          6. I THOUGHT you would be banned for your behavior yesterday, but also thought you’d immediately change your nym and come back.

          7. Your are not a doctor. You are a self righteous fanatic who tried to redefine terms for your own needs. encephalopathy is not autism. mitochondrial disorders are not autism.

            Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior. Parents usually notice signs in the first two years of their child’s life.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

            encephalopathy is not a neurodevelopmental disorder . mitochondrial disorders are not neurodevelopmental disorders. These all are different things. If you understood medicine you would know that.

            Others have speculated that in the Poling case, all that was really conceded was that “the vaccines, given to Hannah in 2000, aggravated a pre-existing condition [namely, mitochondrial disease] that then manifested as autism-like symptoms.”Similarly, Rahul K. Parikh contended that “…this was not a case of vaccines causing autism. Rather, this is a case where the court deemed it plausible that vaccines
            aggravated an underlying disease caused by bad mitochondria, and that some of the symptoms Hannah showed were similar to autism,” and Julie Gerberding
            said, “Let me be very clear that the government has made absolutely no statement indicating that vaccines are a cause of autism.”[8] It has also been noted that Hannah’s mitochondrial disease is very rare, and that no evidence proves that it is possible for vaccines to cause or worsen mitochondrial diseases, with Chuck Mohan of the United
            Mitochondrial Disease Foundation noting that “there is very little scientific research in this area.” In addition, Paul Offit
            has argued that the VICP’s concession to Hannah was “poorly reasoned” and contended that this program had “turned its back on science” in recent years. Offit also noted that “whereas it is clear that natural infections can exacerbate symptoms of encephalopathy in patients with mitochondrial enzyme deficiencies, no clear evidence exists that vaccines cause similar exacerbations.” Another unclear aspect of Hannah’s case is whether the vaccines she received caused her mitochondrial disease, or whether her mitochondrial
            disease caused an underlying disorder which was then aggravated by vaccines. Hannah’s mother, Terry Poling, has stated that “The government chose to believe the first theory,” but added that “We don’t know that she had an underlying disorder.” However, the Poling’s neurologist Andrew Zimmerman wrote in a letter to the Poling’s attorney’s that there was a pre-existing mitochondrial
            dysfunction. Dr. Zimmerman wrote, “The cause for regressive
            encephalopathy in Hannah at age 19 months was underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, exacerbated by vaccine-induced fever and immune stimulation that exceeded metabolic energy reserves.” Because vaccines are relatively new, and many common variants contribute to autism risk in
            the human species, the many vaccines given to Hanah in one day provided the necessary and sufficient conditions for autism to develop.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Poling
            Yes, lets have a Gish gallop contest. You will know my posts from yours because I post my sources.

          8. Dr. Brian Strom: An Honest Moron

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            By J.B. Handley

            “How many times do I need to tell you people, “Correlation does not equal causation!”

            You crazy parents are so pathetic. You just want something or someone to blame. So what, your little guy went to the doctor, got six vaccines in one minute, and then you watched him seize up, his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he stopped talking. And you think anyone cares?

            Oh, and now he has autism? So what! Starbucks Coffee locations have ALSO grown since the autism “epidemic” started – maybe it’s all that ground coffee in the air. Ha ha!

            What’s that you say? Vaccines are KNOWN to cause brain damage? Well, so what, I, um, gotta go, my phone is ringing…Seth Mnookin is calling…

            Here’s the detail, from a CBS News report:

            J.B. Handley, “An honest moron,”

            “University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Brian Strom, who has served on Institute of Medicine panels advising the government on vaccine safety says the prevailing medical opinion is that vaccines are scientifically linked to encephalopathy (brain damage), but not scientifically linked to autism.”

            Oh, thank God, vaccines won’t cause any autism. Brain damage I can live with. Thanks, Dr. Strom, for your service to the IOM–very helpful indeed.

            Author’s note: Sorry, I’ve had a lot of coffee this morning (Peet’s, not Starbuck’s)”

            https://www.ageofautism.com/2011/05/dr-brian-strom-an-honest-moron.html

            You guys are fighting this so hard because you KNOW that autism is a kind of encephalopathy, of brain damage, but you think that the average American won’t realize the truth if you try to make autism, with no clinical means of diagnosis, out to be a completely separate condition.

          9. Round two of Gish gallop contest.

            Dr. Brian Strom Pushes Quack “Science”

            How many times does this theory need to be debunked?
            In Atkisson’s defense, her article does include this paragraph:

            University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Brian Strom, who has served
            on Institute of Medicine panels advising the government on
            vaccine safety says the prevailing medical opinion is that
            vaccines are scientifically linked to encephalopathy (brain
            damage), but not scientifically linked to autism. As for
            Ratajczak’s review, he told us he doesn’t find it remarkable.

            “This is a review of theories. Science is based on facts. To
            draw conclusions on effects of an exposure on people, you
            need data on people. The data on people do not support that
            there is a relationship. As such, any speculation about an
            explanation for a (non-existing) relationship is irrelevant.”
            But why pretend that there is still a legitimate debate? There are actual people out there who maintain that the earth is flat* and /or the moon-landing was fake, but we don’t pretend that they have some sort of valid argument that needs to be debated.

            This pseudo-science is not just stupid, it’s doing real harm.
            There are parents who refuse to have their kids immunized for horrible diseases like whooping cough and German Measles because they believe the nonsense. Why? I can’t imagine. Your doctor will tell you to immunize. Get a second opinion and that doctor will too. So will the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association, and anyone with a lick of common sense. But some parents will look at the overwhelming scientific consensus and say,

            “yeah, but Jenny McCarthy says otherwise!”

            For some reason, there are a lot of people who just hate Western medicine. They like to say that all doctors do is drugs and surgery. And they have a point. But just because a lot of doctors unfairly pooh-pooh natural remedies doesn’t diminish the fact that countless lives are saved every day by drugs and surgery. That doesn’t mean that herbal remedies don’t have their place, or that accupuncture isn’t good for a lot of things, but if you’re having a heart attack, you’d be a fool to head for the health food store instead of the emergency room. How
            many people do you know whose lives have been saved by, say, chemotherapy? Now how many do you know whose lives were saved by yoga?

            https://wwwirritant.blogspot.com/2011/04/cbs-pushes-quack-science.html

          10. I guess you have forgotten about the discussion on Shot of Prevention wherein you tried to advance this erroneous and nonsensical stuff..

            Shot of Prevention | The Chickenpox Vaccine and Shedding Concerns | ciaparker2; aka sock puppet Addy makes an appearance – December 2, 2012 at 11:57 am

            “@Addy / cia / parker / et. al – you do know the difference between
            elemental mercury & a compound, right? Because by what you posted
            above, it really doesn’t look like you do.”

          11. Read the studies by Birbacher and by Noble on the exact and devastating ways in which vaccine mercury causes autism and many other severe conditions.

          12. “So, exactly why we should care what is said by a former journalist who could not find the cryptically named “Clinic for Special Children” or a business major who does not know the difference between autism and mercury poisoning? They are more of a CoMeDy team than scientific researchers.”

            Sound familiar, ciaparker2; aka Patty?

            Shot of Prevention | “Worldwide Ban on Thimerosal Would Cost Lives” | ciaparker2; via sock puppet Patty makes yet another appearance – December 19, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    2. This woman’s child likely had a febrile seizure, which is harmless and caused by fever. Can happen with an illness or vaccine. Then, as the months progressed, he started having more and more health problems, all of which she decides were caused by the vaccine. Then, she goes to Thoughtful House, Wakefield’s former employer, for treatments. They chelated this child and pulled metals out of him that were never in vaccines?

      We are supposed to believe this story?

  32. In the first 6 years of life your child receives the following:

    • 17,500 mcg 2-phenoxyethanol (insecticide)

    • 5,700 mcg aluminum (a known neurotoxin)

    • Unknown amounts of fetal bovine serum (aborted cow blood)

    • 801.6 mcg formaldehyde (carcinogen, embalming agent)

    • 23,250 mcg gelatin (ground up animal carcasses)

    • 500 mcg human albumin (human blood)

    • 760 mcg of monosodium L-glutamate (causes obesity & diabetes)

    • Unknown amounts of MRC-5 cells (aborted human babies)

    • Over 10 mcg neomycin (antibiotic)

    • Over 0.075 mcg polymyxin B (antibiotic)

    • Over 560 mcg polysorbate 80 (carcinogen)

    • 116 mcg potassium chloride (used in lethal injection to shut down the heart and stop breathing)

    • 188 mcg potassium phosphate (liquid fertilizer agent)

    • 260 mcg sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)

    • 70 mcg sodium borate (Borax, used for cockroach control)

    • 54,100 mcg of sodium chloride (table salt)

    • Unknown amounts of sodium citrate (food additive)

    • Unknown amounts of sodium hydroxide (Danger! Corrosive)

    • 2,800 mcg sodium phosphate (toxic to any organism)

    • Unknown amounts of sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate (toxic to any organism)

    • 32,000 mcg sorbitol (Not to be injected)

    • 0.6 mcg streptomycin (antibiotic)

    • Over 40,000 mcg sucrose (cane sugar)

    • 35,000 mcg yeast protein (fungus)

    • 5,000 mcg urea (metabolic waste from human urine)

    • Other chemical residuals

    (From the book, “What The Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Know About Vaccines” – By Dr Todd M. Elsner)

          1. You are an idiot who knows nothing about medicine.
            1991, Andy Warhol: Five years after his death, Warhol’s family publicly accused the hospital where he had had his gallbladder removed, of causing his death by water intoxication administered post-operatively. A claimed autopsy weight of 150 lbs, with his weight being 128 lbs when admitted, was cited as evidence that too much fluid had been given.

             October 24, 1995: Anna Wood, a 15-year-old Australian schoolgirl who died from the effects of water intoxication secondary to use of MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy).

             November 16, 1995: Leah Betts died as the result of drinking too much water, though in the media, her death was initially attributed to taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party
             
             September 12, 1999: US Air Force basic trainee Micah J. Schindler died of heat stroke, severely complicated by water intoxication, two days after becoming seriously ill during a 5.8 miles (9.3 km) march. The Air Force changed its recruit training procedures as a result.

             June 9, 2002: 4-year-old Cassandra Killpack of Springville, Utah died as a result of water intoxication when her parents forcefully fed her as much as one US gallon (3.8 l) of water in a short period while she was being disciplined. Her mother, Jennette Killpack, was convicted in 2005 of child abuse homicide.

             October 12, 2002: 3-year-old Rosita Gonzalez of Hollywood, Florida died of water intoxication when her babysitter Nancy Gayoso punished her by forcing her to drink three US quarts (2.8 l) of water in a four-hour period.[18]HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication” l “cite_note-19” [19] Gayoso was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree on March 10, 2003. After being declared incompetent to stand trial in 2004 and 2005,[20] Gayoso was found competent on March 26, 2007.

             2003: Walter Dean Jennings, a freshman history major at SUNY Plattsburgh, was pledging the Psi Epsilon Chi “when he was forced to drink urine, stay awake for days and consume vast amounts of alcohol during a 10-day initiation and hazing process.” According to PressRepublican.com, “On his last night of pledging the unrecognized fraternity, the 18-year-old was forced to drink gallons of water through a funnel, which caused his brain to swell from water intoxication and ultimately resulted in his death.” Eleven members of the fraternity were charged with criminally negligent homicide.
             
             2005: In a much-publicized case of fraternity hazing, four members of the Chi Tau House at California State University, Chico pleaded guilty to forcing 21-year-old student Matthew Carrington to drink excessive amounts of water while performing calisthenics in a frigid basement as part of initiation rites on February 2, 2005.[22] He collapsed and died of heart failure due to water intoxication.

             August 9, 2005: Washington, D.C. police officer James McBride, died from water intoxication after riding 12 miles (19 km) during bicycle patrol training.
             
             On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of three, from Rancho Cordova, California, was found dead in her home by her mother, hours after trying to win one of Nintendo’s Wii game consoles. KDND 107.9 “The End” radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. A nurse called the radio station to warn them about the danger in which they were putting people, but the disc jockeys rejected the warnings. Lucy Davidson, the winner of the contest, was severely sickened while picking up her prize. Civil charges against the radio station were filed by Strange’s family,[24] and the family was eventually awarded $16.5 million in the ensuing wrongful death lawsuit.[25] The FCC launched its own investigation to determine if the station violated the terms of its operating license.

             2008: Jacqueline Henson, a 40-year-old British woman, died after drinking four liters of water in under two hours as part of her LighterLife diet plan.

              British actor Anthony Andrews survived a case of water intoxication in 2003. He was performing as Henry Higgins in a revival of the musical My Fair Lady at the time, and consumed up to eight litres of water a day. He was unconscious and in intensive care for three days.

             2011: Jonathan Paul Dent, 29, became lost during a four-hour walk through Tasmania’s Dial Range on April 19, 2011. He called his wife a number of times to say he was lost. Rescue crews found his body in bushland two days later. The coroner found that Dent most likely died from exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH), a condition caused by drinking too much fluid during prolonged exercise.]

             2012: Alexa Linboom, a 5-year-old Tennessee girl, died after being forced to drink large amounts of grape soda and water as a punishment.

             2012: Savannah Hardin, a 9-year-old Alabama girl, died after being forced to run for hours. 911 was called when she started suffering from seizures and became unresponsive. Three days later she died at the hospital. The cause of death according to her death certificate was “seizure disorder due to hyponatremia.” Her grandmother was convicted of murder in May 2015, and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility for parole.

      1. But…but…Table salt!!!
        Toxic chlorine and dangerously reactive sodium alkali, all wrapped up in one package…Has to be lethal!

    1. This is obviously copy/pasta – Please provide the source for your list. I am interested in how the items and quantities were determined.

      Edit: I’m looking for an online source for your information.

      Edit #2: Never mind. Todd M. Elsner is an anti-vaccine chiroquack. I doubt he knows what a µg is or any other chemistry.

      1. That’s a sockpuppet from Vactruth. Jeffry John has gone silent running.

        The list is from the book, “What The Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Know About Vaccines” by Dr Todd M. Elsner

  33. $3,090,780,181.43 … that’s Three BILLION, 90 million, 780 thousand, 181 dollars and 43 cents

    That’s what the U.S. government (we taxpayers) has paid up through 2013 to compensate families whose children have been injured and killed by vaccines (the numbers from 2014 are in the tens of millions and are still being tallied up) Search the VAERS below.

    The Vaccine Companies have been granted full immunity by the Government after huge Bribes by Pharmaceutical Lobbyists.

    It’s estimated that 1 out of 1,000 injuries is ever compensated.

    That means most parents of a vaccine injured child will have to pay for a lifetime of therapy, lifetime of changing child and later adult diapers, Medical interventions to save their children’s lives, and seizure medications.

    Autoimmune Diseases, Cancer, and life threatening Food Allergies are also included with your “life saving” vaccine, along with the actual virus your child would not have been exposed to unless he or she was injected with it.

    So much for “Rare.”

    ************************************************************

    What is VAERS?

    Since 1990, the U.S. Government has collected reports of adverse health events that follow the administration of vaccinations. This database, called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is available for anyone to search or download.

    https://medalerts.org/

    1. That $3 billion is for 4300 claims paid in 30 years. During that time, hundreds of millions of vaccines have been given to Americans. That means that 99.999% of vaccinated Americans are NOT vaccine injured. No disease is anywhere near so safe.

      1. Minor correction. the number of vaccinations is in the billions. 2.5 Billion just since 2006.

        The injury rate falls at about one in one million vaccination making vaccinations the safest human activity ever invented.

    2. Would you please estimate the losses from diseases in the pre-vaccine era, so that we may compare them to this $3 billion? Why not start with 1952, when polio killed over 3000 and paralyzed, to various degrees, another 20,000.

    3. Between 2006-2013 the rate of compensation was less than one per million, most of those through settlements that don’t show causation: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vicpmonthlydecember15.pdf

      “It’s estimated that 1 out of 1,000 injuries is ever compensated.” Citation needed. That doesn’t fit the statistics of the program or the science.

      Vaccines don’t cause autoimmune diseases, cancer and allergies.

  34. Spread the death out so no one will know:

    “One of the sickest examples of vaccine industry corruption – Wyeth internal memo”

    In 1978-79, eleven babies (all in Tennessee) were found to have died within eight days of a DPT vaccination. Nine of the eleven had been vaccinated with the same lot of pertussis vaccine, Wyeth #64201 and five (four from the same lot) had died within twenty-four hours of vaccination.”

    *Now will you please take another look at the memo..

    “read closely — a series of SIDS deaths in Tennessee is …prompting Wyeth officials to make sure that vials from a single lot don’t get distributed to a single state, county or health department.”

    *SICK. Spread the death out so no one will know.

    “The statistical evidence in favor of a connection between the deaths and the DPT shot was strong. Would the medical authorities bite the bullet and admit the vaccine was related to the deaths? Absolutely not.

    It’s a long and unpleasant tale, but when all was said and done, “the tombstone was placed on what happened in Tennessee three years later, in the September 1982 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, when Bernier and his colleagues at the CDC wrote their epitaph on the infant deaths. They made this amazing statement: ‘Whether or not this temporal association reflects a causal relationship remains undetermined; we found no evidence to support such a causal association.'”

    https://therefurbishedrogue.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/one-of-the-sickest-examples-of-vaccine-industry-corruption-wyeth-internal-memo/

      1. it reflects very badly on people and organisations supposedly ever so concerned with the health and well being of children.

          1. and more chuckles from you. uncles i were to take this seriously and conclude that yo’re a morally bankrupt person.

  35. Fundamentally, biological warfare is sneaky. It involves a microbial sucker punch to its intended target, often accomplished in a manner in which the aggressor can claim clean hands, while his victim may suffer or die.

    Biological warfare can take a number of forms. The question—how can you get a bacteriological or toxic agent on board without the target being alerted– has been asked and answered. In addition to using humans and animals as vectors, biological warfare agents can be airborne, waterborne, foodborne or put into pharmaceuticals.

    Substantial concerns have been voiced concerning the potential for inserting bioweapons into vaccines. Indeed, given the history of known contaminated vaccines, this is hardly a matter of speculation. Polio vaccines have been found to contain cancer. A Merck rotavirus vaccine was found to be contaminated with a pig virus. Another Merck product, the Hepatitis B vaccine, was reported to have been laced with the AIDS virus. In addition, a tetanus vaccine distributed in the Third World was found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin, an anti-fertility agent known to produce spontaneous abortions.

    https://www.activistpost.com/2015/11/us-senate-passes-bill-approving-mandatory-vaccinations-for-veterans.html

      1. We are not interested in your skepticalraptor pharma propaganda astoturf site Kathy. It is worth noting that brain tumours in children is escalating – cancer generally is going up in populations.

        “Carbone graduated in 1984, at the top of his class, from the University of Rome Medical School, one of the largest in the world, and quickly won a coveted NIH doctoral fellowship. In 1993 he received a Ph.D. in human pathology. In less than a decade he has risen to the top of his profession. Today he is internationally recognized as an expert in mesothelioma.

        “Since 1994 Carbone has written more than twenty studies and reviews investigating SV40’s link to human cancer. “There is no doubt that SV40 is a human carcinogen,” he says. “SV40 is definitely something you don’t want in your body.”

        “There is no doubt that SV40 is a human carcinogen,” he says. “SV40 is definitely something you don’t want in your body.” Carbone suggests that the virus works in tandem with asbestos or by itself to transform healthy mesothelial cells into cancerous ones.

        Since he published his first study, scientists at seventeen major laboratories — in the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, and New Zealand — have confirmed Carbone’s research with respect to the presence of SV40 in human mesothelioma. Their results point to a solution to an enigma that long puzzled researchers. At least 20 percent of mesothelioma victims report no asbestos exposure, and only 10 percent of people who have had heavy exposure to asbestos ever develop mesothelioma. The experiments suggest that SV40 may be another factor at work in the tumors.

        The virus has also been located in other kinds of tumors. More than a dozen laboratories have found SV40 in various kinds of rare brain and bone tumors. In 1996 Carbone reported that he had found SV40 in a third of the osteosarcomas (bone cancers of a type that afflicts about 900 Americans a year) and nearly half of the other bone tumors he tested — research that has since been confirmed by numerous laboratories. The virus has also been detected in pituitary and thyroid tumors.

        The possibility of a link between SV40 and brain tumors is particularly intriguing. Like mesothelioma, brain tumors have become dramatically more common in recent years. Brain tumors will be diagnosed in about 3,000 children in the United States alone this year. In 1995 Janet Butel, the chairman of the department of molecular virology and microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine, in Texas, and her chief collaborator, John Lednicky, also a Baylor virologist, reported that they had found SV40 in a number of children’s brain tumors. Butel and Lednicky reported that DNA sequencing revealed that the virus was not a hybrid but rather authentic SV40 — the same as the SV40 found in monkeys. In the fall of 1996 an Italian research team, led by Mauro Tognon, of the University of Ferrara, announced that it had found SV40 DNA in a large percentage of brain and neurological tumors, including glioblastomas, astrocytomas, ependymomas, and papillomas of the choroid plexus. The researchers suggested that SV40 may be a “viral cofactor” involved in the sharp rise in human brain tumors.”

        https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/02/the-virus-and-the-vaccine/377999/

        1. I can’t read your paste vomit carrying on about something that took place over 50 years ago, was publicly discussed, and has still not been linked to any cancers. Regardless, it is irrelevant to any current day discussion on vaccines.

          1. Still happening Pasta – vaccines are contaminated because they are live vaccines and you can only filter so much before you filter out the virus or bacteria you need to make the vaccine active.

            “The world and, in particular, its children appear to be at risk for stealth adapted viruses. The contribution of vaccines to the formation and dissemination of these viruses should be an open topic for scientific discussion. This is not occurring with those presently in charge of overseeing the safety of the nation’s immunization program.”
            W. John Martin MD, PhD, Founder, Center for Complex Diseases

            “Porcine cirucovirus type 1(PCV1) is highly prevalent in swine and was recently reported in some rotavirus vaccines.”
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu

            “Xenotropic murine leukemia virus – related (XMRV) is a recently discovered human retrovirus that has been found in both chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer patients. There is potential safety concerns regarding XMRV in cell substrates used in vaccines.”
            http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvacc...

            “We examined live virus vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella for the presence of pestivirus RNA or of pestiviruses by reverse transcription PCR. Pestivirus RNA was detected in two measles-mumps-rubella combined vaccines and in two monovalent vaccines against
            mumps and rubella.”
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm

            “Since vaccine preparation involves the use of materials of biological origin, vaccines are subject to contamination by micro-organisms…for example by SV40 virus from monkey kidney renal cells…these incidents have led industry to change certain practices and regulatory authorities to develop more stringent requirements. But the increasing number of target species for vaccines, the diversity of the origin of biological material and extremely high number of unknown viruses and their constant evolution represent a challenge to vaccine producers and regulatory authorities.”
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu

            “It was thus a shock to discover from this top-level scientific workshop that the viruses in our current vaccines are not in a sterile fluid as I had presumed, but in a soup of unknown bits and pieces of DNA fragments, added chemicals, proteins and,even possibly prions and oncogenes, all of which would easily pass through filters…Our vaccines, I thus learnt, are not filtered clean but are suspensions from the manufacturers’ ‘incubation tanks’ in which the viruses are produced from ‘substrates’ of mashed bird embryo, minced monkey kidneys or cloned human cells. These suspensions are filtered before use but only to remove particles larger than viruses. The point of the vaccine is that it contains viruses, thus these must not be filtered out. This means there remains in the vaccine everything of the same size or smaller, including what the manufacturers call ‘degradation products’ – parts of decayed viruses or cells. I also learnt that the only official checks made for contaminants in vaccines are for a few known pathogens, thus ignoring a vast host of unknown, unstudied, small particles and chemicals. These eminent doctors reported at these vaccine safety meetings that it is simply impossible to remove these from our common vaccines – and this would of course also apply to vaccines for pets, farm animals and birds.”
            Janine Roberts, awarding winning investigative journalist, author ‘The Vaccine Papers’and ‘Fear of the Invisible’- fully documented and referenced for meetings etc.

            “Our research demonstrates that the use of leaky vaccines can promote the evolution of nastier ‘hot’ viral strains ”
            Professor V. Nair, Head, Avian Viral Diseases Program, Pirbright Institute in the UK

          2. Luckily, Drs. Nair and Read anticipated the antivax idiots would attempt to appropriate his study of chicken vaccines for their own propaganda.

            To address their likely claims ahead of time – this study does not have implications for vaccines in general. As Read listed above, the vaccines currently part of the vaccine schedule for humans are not leaky, they are “perfect” vaccines that prevent the spread of the disease.

            Further, Read and Nair emphasize that only the unvaccinated are at risk from leaky vaccines. Getting vaccinated is still the best defense, and it is the unvaccinated who ultimately are the vector for breeding greater virulence.

          3. Are you seriously saying that viruses and bacteria do not mutate? Why have antibiotics become ineffective – because of the constantly mutating bacteria. Viruses do the same. Whooping cough vaccine “leaks” because the vaccinated can still have whooping cough in a mild form and be asymptomatic – thus spreading the disease. This is why the vaccine is becoming ineffective – it is mutating and the vaccine has become less effective.
            “Thus, we conclude that aP (whooping cough) vaccination interferes with the optimal clearance of B. parapertussis and *enhances the *performance of this *pathogen. Our data raise the possibility that *widespread aP vaccination *can *create *hosts *more *susceptible to B. parapertussis infection.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20200027
            “A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections.
            On Monday, doctors reported discovering the first such germ that is resistant to all drugs approved to treat childhood ear infections.
            Nine toddlers in Rochester, N.Y., have had the germ and researchers say it may be turning up elsewhere, too. It is a strain of strep bacteria not included in pneumococcal vaccine, Wyeth’s Prevnar, which came on the market in 2000.
            It is recommended for children under age 2.”
            https://www.nbcnews.com/id/20825107/ns/health-childrens_health/t/shot-may-be-inadvertently-boosting-superbugs/#.VeuKaXhUS9a

          4. Viruses and bacteria can mutate but don’t always. In terms of vaccines, there is no evidence that viruses and bacteria targeted by vaccines, generally, mutate. There was some evidence of that for the PCV7.

            The aP vaccine is not aimed at parapertussis. So it’s not supposed to prevent it. Re the mouse study you are citing:
            this claim is problematic:

            1. The study didn’t actually show such an effect – this was added by the authors to the abstract and press release to hype the findings: https://lymphosite.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/40_times_less_credible/

            2. The claim also contradicts large scale human studies which do not show that the vaccine increases rates of parapertussis. See:

            https://lymphosite.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/40_times_more_human/

            And parapertussis is not pertussis. It’s a milder disease because it doesn’t emit toxin.

            Other vaccine viruses and bacteria are not mutating.

          5. Antibiotic resistance has been a problem since long before the vaccine schedule expanded. Heck, back in the Pleistocene (late 60s) when I was in nursing school it was a concern. At the time, the only routine childhood vaccines for bacterial diseases were diphtheria and pertussis.

            That nonsense you posted about the “aP” vaccine (never heard it called that before, certainly not by a health professional) is some takeoff of the baboon study, showing, once again, that AVs aren’t as smart as baboons.

          6. “”A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious
            illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new
            superbugs that cause ear infections.”

            Except Judith this supposed “superbug” has been virtually eradicated by the newer 13-valent Prevnar conjugated pneumococcal vaccine, which is the one in current use.

            How embarrassing for you not to know that.

            Oh, actually you DO know that, because we have discussed it before, which makes you a liar and someone who deliberately posts misinformation to deceive others.

            PS: The so called superbug strain of pneumococcus was NOT an example of mutation, but was an example of selective strain replacement.

          7. Add to the list failed vaccines which have caused havoc on populations. The damage on discovered after exposure. We are lab rats pure and simple. I hope those children who developed superbugs were able to get rid of the infection – what happens when antibiotics stop working.

          8. Nice evasion there with frantic handwaving – We can all assume you accept the accusation about your dishonesty regarding pneumococcal serotype replacement.

          9. You seem confused. Most vaccines are not actually live virus vaccines. And since the 1960s there has been no actual contamination. Looking at your articles, those that are actually reliable peer-reviewed materials did not find viruses in vaccines. They found traces of DNA or raised theoretical concern. The last paragraph is extreme.

          10. Catch up with the current science, would you Judith. You seem to be stuck in the 1960s (SV40) or at least a few years out of date with XMRV etc.
            A few home truths:

            Oral vaccine containing fragments of porcine circoviral DNA are harmless. If you think even whole viruses are dangerous, then you will be campaigning for all pork derived products to be immediately removed from the human food chain, I assume? Can you link us to some of your hundreds of internet posts and petitions on the topic please?

            Fragments of pestivirus DNA are similarly harmless.

            XMRV was thought to be linked to CFS, but investigation confirmed these results were all false positives. There is no “there” there.

            Janine Roberts is a complete kook, who thinks HIV?AIDS does not exist, and who is also a germ theory denier.

            You were told about “Leaky vaccines” and how the authors of the study specifically stated it did NOT apply to any of the human vaccines, and that “leaky vaccines” would only pose a risk to the unvaccinated.
            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2436996071

        2. Too bad, he cites a great deal of scientific literature to back his claims. This explains why you think all immunization science is funded by pharma. You don’t actually read!

          1. More stealth viruses from the polio vaccine:
            Abstract A cytopathic ‘stealth’ virus was cultured from the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with a bipolar psychotic disorder who developed a severe encephalopathy leading to a vegetative state. DNA sequencing of a polymerase chain reaction-amplified product from infected cultures has identified the virus as an African green monkey simian cytomegalovirus (SCMV)-related stealth virus. The virus is similar to the SCMV-related stealth virus isolated from a patient with chronic fatigue syndrome. The findings support the concepts that stealth viruses can account for a spectrum of dysfunctional brain diseases and that some of these viruses may have arisen from live polio viral vaccines.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/

          2. Let’s ignore the fact that we no longer use live polio vaccines.

            “Some of these viruses may have arisen from live polio viral vaccines” doesn’t really show that contamination happen. It’s a guess.

          3. You can deny all you like Kathy but the evidence weighs heavily in favour of SV40 being a vaccine carcinogen passing through our populations through blood transfusions and semen.
            “Similar conclusions were reached at an International consensus meeting on SV40 and human tumors held at the University of Chicago in 2001. G Klein and C Croce, who chaired the final panel that reviewed all the published evidence linking SV40 to human tumors, stated that ‘the presence of SV40 in human tumors has been convincingly demonstrated’ (Klein et al., 2002). In addition, a workshop organized by the Biological Carcinogenesis Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, chaired by J Pagano, has reached similar conclusions (Wong et al., 2002). Therefore, three independent scientific panels have all agreed that there is compelling evidence that SV40 is present in some human cancers and that SV40 could contribute to the pathogenesis of some of them. It should be noted that the presence of SV40 in mesothelioma and other human tumor types has been challenged by a research team that has consistently reported negative findings (Strickler et al., 2001). However, a member of this research team has recently acknowledged – in sworn testimony –sensitivity problems and possible irregularities that raise concerns about these negative reports (MacLachlan, 2002). These revelations, together with the conclusions of the three independent panels mentioned above, appear to bring to an end the apparent controversy about the presence of SV40 in human mesotheliomas and brain tumors.”

            https://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v22/n33/full/1206552a.html

          4. The fact that SV40 can get to humans in other ways does not mean the contamination of polio vaccines caused cancer. In fact, the other way around. What we learn is that SV40 reaches human populations in many ways. Here is a cut and paste from a reliable source: https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/sv40#.Vokn_BEt8ag

            “Polio vaccines used in the late 1950s and early 1960s were contaminated with a virus called simian virus 40 (SV40) present in monkey kidney cells used to grow the vaccine. Recently, investigators found SV40 DNA in biopsy specimens obtained from patients with cancers such as mesothelioma (lung), osteosarcoma (bone) and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (lymph nodes). However, several facts should be noted:

            SV40 was present in cancers of people who either had or had not received the polio vaccines that were contaminated with SV40.

            SV40 has not been present in any vaccine since 1963.

            People with cancers who were born after SV40 was no longer a contaminant of the polio vaccine were found to have evidence for SV40 in their cancerous cells.

            Epidemiologic studies do not show an increased risk of cancers in those who received polio vaccine between 1955 and 1963.

            Taken together, these findings do not support the hypothesis that SV40 virus contained in polio vaccines administered before 1963 cause cancers.”

        3. We are not interested?

          Sorry, Judy.

          Actually, “we” are not interested in the worthless cut and paste horseshit from some low IQ antivax hag in Melbourne, Australia.

          1. Couldn’t care less Watson if you are not interested – this is not for you. You are not the only person reading this thread.

          2. Since I live in Colorado and you don’t, that’s a little surprising.

            Who exactly do you think decides the laws in our state?

          3. Who do you think decide the laws in my state – Big Pharma that is who. The TGA is funded by Pharma What happens in America happens in Australia. No coincidence that just now children in Australia are being mandated to receive the full vaccine schedule or lose benefits. Mike Stevens is from the UK he comments also. This is a global issue not a local one. The push is on to force vaccines on the global populations. Unfortunately Australia is a puppet of America – what happens to you happens to us.

          4. First, the TGA is an Australian agency. It has no influence on the Colorado Legislature. Your broad accusation that the Colorado state government is corrupt is completely asinine.

            Second, Mike Stevens wasn’t the one who made the presumptuous statement “We are not interested.”

            Since it’s an open forum, you’re free to share your opinion, but this is a local issue. You would do well to remember, you won’t be voting in any Colorado elections. Your grandchildren won’t be attending Colorado schools.There’s no reason anyone here should be concerned at all about how the decisions we make for our kids in our state bother you.

          5. As I said before – what happens in the USA effects us in Australia – it is a global issue. We are suffering the same oppressive laws here.

          6. Yes, and you need to identify just one victim of the SV40 vaccine. You can’t. That’s how empty your argument is.

          7. Keep your tin foil hat on Justthefacts: ignore the science
            The polyomavirus simian virus 40 (SV40) is a known oncogenic DNA virus which induces primary brain and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and lymphomas in laboratory animals. Persuasive evidence now indicates that SV40 is causing infections in humans today and represents an emerging pathogen. A meta-analysis of molecular, pathological, and clinical data from 1,793 cancer patients indicates that there is a significant excess risk of SV40 associated with human primary brain cancers, primary bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Experimental data strongly suggest that SV40 may be functionally important in the development of some of those human malignancies. Therefore, the major types of tumors induced by SV40 in laboratory animals are the same as those human malignancies found to contain SV40 markers. The Institute of Medicine recently concluded that “the biological evidence is of moderate strength that SV40 exposure could lead to cancer in humans under natural conditions.” This review analyzes the accumulating data that indicate that SV40 is a pathogen which has a possible etiologic role in human malignancies. Future research directions are considered.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC452549/
            Go to:

          8. SSOOOOOOO …..Where is the one name of one victim? You can’t name just one victim, can you? I guess all your misquoted crap is completely meaningless since THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE VICTIM OF SV40 EVER, ANYWHERE OR AT ANY TIME.

            You have simply lost your argument. Deal with it.

            Nobody cares about something that happened 50 years ago and was harmless. Go fear monger somewhere else.

          9. Evidence that the OPV has been sporadically contaminated for decades:

            “Four independent laboratories using DNA testing and laser micro-dissection found SV40 in Alexander’s brain tumor.

            SV40 has been found in the cancers of many other children. Pediatric brain tumors and other childhood cancers including osteosarcomas (bone cancer) and Non-Hodgkins Lymphomas have been found to contain SV40.[22]

            When Alexander was born on June 7th, 1996, I had his cord blood saved and stored by a private laboratory. The cord blood was the blood shared by Alexander and myself at the time of Alexander’s birth. We had this blood tested for SV40. This marked the very first time the cord blood of a child with an SV40 positive brain tumor would be tested for SV40. To the astonishment of the scientists it was negative for SV40. This suggested that at the time Alexander was born he had not been exposed to SV40.

            It is known that SV40 can be spread through contaminated blood so my husband and myself underwent a battery of tests from 2000 to 2001. Using a variety of sophisticated DNA tests to isolate the genetic fingerprint of the SV40 virus including Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), the scientists checked blood, urine and semen multiple times looking for any trace of SV40 (even antibodies). The scientists were once again surprised. Despite the repeated tests by leading SV40 laboratories both in the United States and Europe, we had absolutely no trace of SV40.

            The scientists concluded that Alexander did not get SV40 from his parents, nor did he give SV40 to us.

            The original oral polio vaccine (OPV) seed stocks created by Dr. Albert Sabin and used to make OPV since 1961 were known to be contaminated with SV40. In fact, SV40 was isolated from Sabin’s OPV seeds – the original material used to make OPV for four decades.[23]

            Dr. Sabin had admitted that OPV seeds were contaminated with SV40 in a peer-reviewed scientific publication.[24] Dr. Sabin wrote, “The three types of the large lots produced by Merck, Sharp and Dohme in rhesus monkey kidney cell cultures contained SV40.”[25]

            Lederle, the sole American manufacturer of OPV for many years, received their OPV seeds from Merck, Sharp and Dohme. There is no evidence that Lederle ever tested their seeds for SV40 nor discarded their presumably contaminated seed stocks.

            There are Lederle documents (not under a protective order) that demonstrate that their early OPV vaccines were contaminated with SV40.[26]

            Lederle did not use the SV40-neutralization procedures recommended by Dr. Sabin.[27]

            Monkeys used to produce OPV were not tested for SV40 by Lederle because of economic considerations.[28]

            After reviewing all of the Lederle records and the Lederle systems in place, our expert concluded that the contamination detected in the OPV material ultimately administered to Alexander was SV40.[29]

            The medical literature is unequivocal – the pediatric brain cancer rate in the U.S. has been climbing at a rate of approximately 3% for the last four decades.

            A recent study has demonstrated that 11% of Americans are currently infected or have been infected with SV40.[30]

            SV40 is not only responsible for causing the cancer, but also for making these particular cancers incurable.”

            https://www.sv40foundation.org/Demanding-CI.html

          10. I’ll bet you didn’t know that Alexander’s parents sued blaming the death on Asbestos, Did ya? did you know they lost that case also?

            On May 8th in Horwin v. American Home Products, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California conducted a Daubert hearing, and granted a defense motion to exclude SV40 testimony offered by Plaintiffs.

            The court’s ruling was issued on May 8th and Plaintiffs promptly moved for reconsideration on the ruling. The motion for reconsideration was denied on June 18 th and the lawsuit was dismissed on the merits on June 25th.

            https://www.smsm.com/media/publication/142_The_20Horwin_20SV40RulingandItsImpactOntheAsbestosLitigation.pdf

            Try again. you still don’t have a victim.

          11. Regardless of the court case and whether or not it was fair – why was SV40 in the brain of Alexander when the only source of contamination was the vaccine?

          12. SV40 has been found in the vaccinated and the unvaccinated with zero evidence it has anything to do with cancer. Don;t forget asbestos was also involved and his parents first blamed the asbestos. Asbestos has been found to cause cancer. SV40 has not. It’s clear to everyone else what caused the cancer. You just need to deal with the actual facts. Maybe you should listen to the parents who sued over the asbestos.

            You still can’t find a single victim of SV40 but i am loving your attempt to defend your indefensible ideas about the red herring SV40.

          13. Funny that – I was asking Justthefacts why a carcinogenic monkey virus transmitted by the polio vaccine was found in the brain of a young boy who died of brain cancer and I get a reply from morefacts – are you a new incarnation ? Anyway yes SV40 and asbestos in combination become highly malignant “Asbestos and SV40 in combination had a costimulatory effect in inducing ERK1/2 phosphorylation and activator protein-1 (AP-1) activity in both primary Syrian hamster mesothelial cells (SHM) and primary human mesothelial cells (HM). Ap-1 activity caused the expression and activation of matrix metalloprotease (MMP)-1 and MMP-9, which in turn led to cell invasion”.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16966607

          14. YES, morefacts is me from an incorrect login on another computer.
            You can astroturf all the bogus and out-of context crap from any paper you want, but if you don’t have a single victim, then there is no problem.
            Name the victim of SV40 cancer? You cant’ so all your misinterpretations of papers are just fear mongering over….
            ……..literally nothing.

          15. Funny that – I was asking you to name just one victim from the 50 year old fear mongering that you are doing.

            Name just one victim of SV40. Just one. Keep your misquoted and misread cut and pastes to yourself and provide real evidence

            Just one victim. Just one.

        4. You may prefer to ignore the many studies that show that SV40 contamination of vaccines did not lead to human cancers, as summarized on the site, but others probably would like these facts.

          SV40 may be linked to cancer – but the studies found that those who received contaminated vaccines are not more likely to have cancer than those who did not.
          And since we are talking about a contamination in the 1960s, and children, by definition, were not born there, it has nothing to do with cancers in children today.

          Facts matter.

        5. “We are not interested in your skepticalraptor pharma propaganda astoturf site Kathy.”

          Is that the royal “we” or are you a part of some anti-vax group on here?

        6. It is just cut n’ paste vomit with you isn’t it, Judith?

          I am surprised to see you repeating your inane claims about childrens’ brain tumours and SV40.

          Remember how you claimed the (minimal) recent rise in this childhood cancer was due to SV40 in vaccines, even though SV40 was last found in oral polio vaccine over 50 years ago?

          And then remember how you said it was not just spread by polio vaccine, but also was found in semen, implying that all these unfortunate kids today with brain cancer must have been rap3ed by SV40-infected p3dophiles?

          I do, and I am surprised you still are banging on about it.

          1. Mike you are showing your ignorance. If you read the science which you obviously haven’t – the virus originated from the polio vaccine and it is now being passed through generations. It has nothing to do with rape – do your research. Read the WHO report for starters

            “The fact that SV40 virus is being found in cancer patients too young to have had the contaminated vaccine indicates the virus is being passed from generation to generation.

            From 1955 through early 1963, millions of people were inadvertently exposed to simian virus 40 (SV40) as a contaminant of poliovirus vaccines; the virus had been present in the monkey kidney cultures used to prepare the vaccines and had escaped detection. SV40 was discovered in 1960 and subsequently eliminated from poliovirus vaccines. This article reviews current knowledge about SV40 and considers public responses to reports in the media. SV40 is a potent tumour virus with broad tissue tropism that induces tumours in rodents and transforms cultured cells from many species. It is also an important laboratory model for basic studies of molecular processes in eukaryotic cells and mechanisms of neoplastic transformation. SV40 neutralizing antibodies have been detected in individuals not exposed to contaminated poliovirus vaccines.

            Tests were done on archival kidney tissue samples from 13 antibody- positive patients and SV40 DNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from specimens taken from four individuals,confirming that SV40 is present in children today (23). The source(s) of contemporary SV40 infections is (are) unknown,but it is presumed that the virus is being transmitted among humans.The seserological and molecular findings, coupled with numerous tissue culture studies that have demonstrated that SV40 can replicate in human cells(2),prove that SV40 is able to infect humans.These data suggest, additionally, that SV40 should be considered infectious for both monkeys and humans.

            SV40 DNA has been detected in human tumours in numerous independent studies (2, 24), with the most commonly involved cancers being paediatric and adult brain tumours, mesotheliomas and osteosarcomas. Expression of T-ag, the SV40 oncoprotein, has been observed in some tumours. Recent studies using PCR and DNA sequence technologies have substantiated earlier reports dating from the mid-1970s of the presence of SV40 in human cancer tissue. Importantly, many of the SV40- positive tumours in recent studies have been from patients too young to have been exposed to SV40- contaminated poliovirus vaccines”

            https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/78(2)195.pdf

          2. Oh please, Judith, use the brain god gave you, would you?
            If the SV40 virus could cause brain cancer in children, why has it only done so now but never did in the original exposed vaccinated cohorts 50 years ago?

          3. You use your brain Mike – they have the technology now to test for the SV40 virus in the brain – they did not have these tests 50 years ago. Also were they testing for it back then and were they looking for it?

          4. Answer the question Judith – why does the virus “cause” cancer now when it didn’t 50 years ago.
            Detection of SV40 is irrelevant – we are talking overall cancer diagnoses (although if you wish to limit your discussion to only cases of cancer where SV40 has been identified, may I ask why you assume all current childhood brain cancers are due to SV40 when 99.9% of them have not been tested for virus?)

            There is evidence SV40 exposure in infancy is linked to a reduction in cancer incidence.
            Not that you would tell people this, would you?
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12671021

            Of course, that study “only” looked at 69.5 million person-years of follow-up, so you will probably regard that as “inadequate”???

    1. Next up: Bill Gates Admits Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulation

      Great comments at Natural News, Jerry. Especially the one about the Red Cross being implicated in the ebola breakout last summer.

      “It seems all of the sickness Vectors started with a Lab Created Strain of Ebola that coincided EXACTLY with a Red Cross sponsored ‘Immunization Program’.

      “Whatever goals its original founders had for helping humanity, it is pretty obvious now that it has been bought out by the Elite Eugenics People who want to kill 5 BILLION ‘Useless Eaters’ on this planet.” — Jerry Rikkt, Sept 27 2015

      Hands down the strongest argument for letting the Legislature making these decisions instead of really stupid people I’ve ever read. Kudos.

      1. What utter nonsense! (Agreeing with you.) There was no Ebola vaccine when the outbreak started. The things people will believe!

    2. So every health authority, local, national and international is engaged in biological warfare against its own population by supporting vaccines? Interesting.

      No, polio vaccines did not contain cancer. In the 1960s, the live virus vaccine which we no longer use was contaminated with a monkey virus – SV40 – and there was a fear that contamination led to human cancers. That turned out not to be the case, but the incident could have led to harm, so manufacturing standards were tightened, and it did not happen again.

      Rotavirus vaccines were found to contain tiny amounts of a pig virus DNA – a virus that does not harm humans, and was not there in full, just traces of DNA. https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm205625.htm

      The claim about hepatitis B vaccines and AIDS is, to my knowledge, an anti-vaccine fabrication. Nor do tetanus vaccines contain anti-fertility drugs, though that claim has done much harm in the third world by scaring women from tetanus vaccines – and neonatal tetanus is a real danger. It can kill a baby.

      1. ‘Significant association between human osteosarcoma and simian virus 40’

        “The data from the current study indicate an association between OS and SV40. These data could be transferred to clinical applications for innovative therapies to address SV40-positive OS. Cancer 2014. © 2014 American Cancer Society”…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377935

        ‘Association between SV40 and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.’

        “We conclude that SV40 is significantly associated with some types of Non Hodgkin Lymphomas and that lymphomas should be added to the types of human cancers associated with SV40.”

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15202523

        ‘SV40 early region and large T antigen in human brain tumors, peripheral blood cells, and sperm fluids from healthy individuals.’

        Abstract

        SV40 T antigen (Tag) coding sequences were detected by PCR amplification followed by Southern blot hybridization in human brain tumors and tumor cell lines, as well as in peripheral blood cells and sperm fluids of healthy donors. SV40 early region sequences were found in 83% of choroid plexus papillomas, 73% of ependymomas, 47% of astrocytomas, 33% of glioblastoma multiforme cases, 14% of meningiomas, 50% of glioblastoma cell lines, and 33% of astrocytoma cell lines and in 23% of peripheral blood cell samples and 45% of sperm fluids from normal individuals.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8841004

        J Hematol Oncol. 2014 Apr 29;7:38. doi: 10.1186/1756-8722-7-38.

        ‘Antibodies reacting with Simian Virus 40 capsid protein mimotopes in serum samples from patients affected by uveal melanoma.’

        Abstract

        “The uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common human intraocular tumour. Simian Virus 40 (SV-40) is a small DNA tumor virus detected in some malignancies, including the cutaneous melanoma. In this study an indirect ELISA using synthetic peptides that mimic SV-40 antigens, was employed to detect antibodies against SV-40 in serum samples from UM patients. Our report indicates a significant higher prevalence of antibodies against SV-40 capsid protein antigens in serum samples from UM patients compared to controls. Our data suggest an association between UM and SV-40, indicating that patients affected by uveal melanoma tested SV-40-positive could be treated by innovative therapies”

        Genes Cancer. 2010 Oct; 1(10): 1008–1020.

        ‘Tissue Tropism of SV40 Transformation of Human Cells’

        ‘SV40 has been detected prevalently in a limited panel of human tumors: mesothelioma, bone and brain tumors, and lymphoma. These are the same tumor types that are specifically induced by SV40 when injected into hamsters, a finding that has raised concerns about the possible pathogenic role of SV40 in humans. Two different SV40 isolates differing in the number of 72-bp elements in the virus regulatory region, archetypal SV40 (1ESV40), which contains one 72 bp, and nonarchetypal SV40 (wtSV40), which contains two 72 bp, have been detected in human tumors. 1ESV40 has been prevalently detected in brain tumors, with wtSV40 prevalently in mesothelioma

        Our results provide a biological rationale to the observation that 1ESV40 is prevalently detected in brain tumors and wtSV40 in mesotheliomas.”

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092263/#bibr5-1947601910395580

        1. This was already addressed, but let me repeat. https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/sv40#.VomD7REt8ag

          “Polio vaccines used in the late 1950s and early 1960s were contaminated with a virus called simian virus 40 (SV40) present in monkey kidney cells used to grow the vaccine. Recently, investigators found SV40 DNA in biopsy specimens obtained from patients with cancers such as mesothelioma (lung), osteosarcoma (bone) and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (lymph nodes). However, several facts should be noted:

          SV40 was present in cancers of people who either had or had not received the polio vaccines that were contaminated with SV40.

          SV40 has not been present in any vaccine since 1963.

          People with cancers who were born after SV40 was no longer a contaminant of the polio vaccine were found to have evidence for SV40 in their cancerous cells.

          Epidemiologic studies do not show an increased risk of cancers in those who received polio vaccine between 1955 and 1963.

          Taken together, these findings do not support the hypothesis that SV40 virus contained in polio vaccines administered before 1963 cause cancers. In addition, available evidence suggests that SV40 virus is likely be transmitted to people by a mechanism other than vaccines.”

          1. Sv40 is a sexually transmitted disease, and is in our blood supply, Dorit. I’m really surprised you know so little about SV40. The gov won’t test for it, because then they would have to admit there is a problem with SV40

            “It is well known that SV40 was administered to humans through contaminated vaccines, mainly anti-polio vaccines between 1955 and 1963 (3,4). The possibility of a human-to-human transmission of SV40 was taken into consideration only recently (5). Indeed, SV40 DNA sequences were detected in normal and neoplastic tissues of persons too young (1 to 30 y) or too old (60 to 85 y) to have been vaccinated with SV40-contaminated polio vaccines (2). This finding may also explain the lack of difference in cancer incidence between individuals vaccinated with SV40-contaminated and SV40-free polio vaccines (6).

            ***SV40 sequences were detected in blood and sperm specimens of normal individuals and blood samples of patients (reviewed in [2]) while SV40 virions were found in urine samples (7), indicating that blood, sperm, and urine may represent routes/vehicles of transmission of SV40 horizontal infection in humans.***

            Support to the diffusion of SV40 in the human population is provided by the presence of SV40 sequences in human brain tumors, other neoplasms, and normal tissues of children and adults (reviewed in 2;8–11); specific SV40-neutralizing antibodies in human sera (12,13); and SV40 large T antigen (Tag) antibodies in sera of mesothelioma patients (14). A scientific panel recently established the importance of assessing the ways of contagion and the mechanisms of SV40 transmission in humans (5).”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15202523

          2. This is what was in the OPV vaccine AFTER they had cleaned it all up, you know…like you said before..

            Genetic analysis of a cytomegalovirus-like agent isolated from human brain.

            Abstract

            An unusual cytomegalovirus (CMV, strain Colburn) isolated from brain biopsy of a boy with clinical encephalopathy was studied for genetic relatedness to human and simian CMV. It was concluded that Colburn is a simian CMV-related virus”

            “In the 1950s the use of primary rhesus macaque kidney cultures to propagate poliovirus for vaccine production led to the contamination of vaccines with simian virus 40 (SV40). African green monkey kidney (AGMK) cultures free of SV40 were used as an alternative cell substrate for vaccine manufacture. In this study we evaluate oral poliovirus seeds, vaccine bulks and vaccines themselves for the presence of a common contaminant of AGMK cultures, simian cytomegalovirus (SCMV). Using sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques, nearly half of the samples analysed were found to be contaminated with SCMV sequences. However, vaccine bulks, positive by PCR for SCMV failed to show any evidence of infectious virus in these studies. One poliovirus vaccine and one seed, propagated on rhesus macaque kidney cultures were found to be positive for the rhesus monkey CMV by PCR.”

          3. So the samples had DNA but not the virus, except one poliovirus vaccine. And no infectious virus was found. Well?

        2. Spamming the same thing repeatedly does not make it true. Coincidentally, it’s a disqgust TOS, so flagged accordingly.

          Ya got anything newer? more to the point?

          1. The truth really getting to you huh? If you can’t argue the fact, then you just try to make it go away.
            Sv40 causes cancer in humans and you trying to cover this up makes you an accomplice to murder.

          2. Erm…no. Obviously, you not only don’t peruse the articles, but also don’t read the comments, where your “point” has already been refuted, multiple times.

            Thanks for playing, though. Now I can turn in my antivax Bingo card for Big Shill Bucks.

          3. SV40 found in tumours, whether or not vaccinated. No evidence that SV40 was tumouragenic. SV40 was a contaminant 50-plus years ago, and still found in vacinees after that.

            There are lines upon lines of evidence that undermine your unfounded fear-mongering, ione. Why not abandon this line of argument? ‘Cause it’s useless, really. There is no there, there. Only FUD.

          4. Besides, pretty much anything on the interwebz with “truth” (or better yet, “TRUTH”) in the title, is absent of same.

            You may quote me, if you like. Please refer to Funkology in your citation.

        3. Name one victim from that 50 years old story. Just one. Any one victim.

          Stop your fear mongering over a 50 year old story about an event that have never hurt anyone. In any case, It has zero relevance in the 21st century.

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  37. School immunization mandates have been part of American reality since the 19th century. They exist in every state. That’s because they make sense: vaccines’ risks are very small, and their benefits huge, and school are areas of high transmission: immunization mandates protect schools from outbreaks.

    Evidence in the U.S. is that states with easier to get exemptions to them have higher rates of exemptions, and that higher rates of exemptions lead to more outbreaks. Hence, this article’s call to tighten exemption laws makes a lot of sense.

    Tightening or removing exemptions directly protects children and the public health. It would be better if parents did not fall into misinformation and did not deny their children protection from disease – if they vaccinated voluntarily. But since some parents are misled by misinformation into not vaccinating, it is fair and appropriate for the state to act to protect others in the school from the risk these parents are forcing on their own child.

    References showing that easier exemption laws lead to more outbreaks:

    Nina R. Blank et al., Exempting Schoolchildren From Immunizations: States With Few Barriers Had Highest Rates of Nonmedical Exemptions, 32 HEALTH AFF. 1282, 1282 (July 2013)

    W. David Bradford & Anne Mandich, Some State Vaccination Laws Contribute to Greater Exemption Rates and Disease Outbreaks in the United States, 34 HEALTH AFF. 1383, 1383 (Aug. 2015)

    Aamer Imdad et al., Religious Exemptions for Immunization and Risk of Pertussis in New York State, 2000–2011, 132 PEDIATRICS 37, 38 (2013);

    Saad B. Omer et al., Geographic Clustering of Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements and Associations With Geographic Clustering of Pertussis, 168 AM. J. EPIDEMIOLOGY 1389, 1394–1395 (2008).

    Saad B. Omer et al., Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: Secular Trends and Association of State Policies With Pertussis Incidence, 296 JAMA 1757, 1762 (2006).

    1. Lets talk about the beginning shall we?

      HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

      The Beginning of the End of Smallpox

      Medical School Professor Benjamin Waterhouse first to test vaccine in the U.S.

      “After his initial experiments, Waterhouse went on to advocate smallpox vaccination throughout the country, but not without resistance. Like many new practices and procedures, some people met the idea of vaccination with skepticism, others with indifference, and still others with hostility.

      The times didn’t help things. Rapid transit and refrigeration were nonexistent, meaning cowpox samples — transported on pieces of cotton thread and intended for use as vaccine — sometimes arrived dead or ineffective.

      Medical practices were also not as sanitary as they are today, meaning doctors sometimes inadvertently administered vaccine contaminated with smallpox, starting smallpox epidemics and creating public doubt about the vaccine”

      https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/05.20/waterhouse.html

      “As vaccination spread, some European countries made it compulsory. Concern about its safety led to opposition and then repeal of legislation in some instances.[33][34] Compulsory infant vaccination was introduced in England by the 1853 Vaccination Act. By 1871, parents could be fined for non-compliance, and then imprisoned for non-payment.[35] This intensified opposition, and the 1898 Vaccination Act introduced a conscience clause. This allowed exemption on production of a certificate of conscientious objection signed by two magistrates. Such certificates were not always easily obtained and a further Act in 1907 allowed exemption by a statutory declaration which could not be refused. Although theoretically still compulsory, the 1907 Act effectively marked the end of compulsory infant vaccination in England.[36]

      1907

      “The British Vaccination Act of this year provided a conscience clause to allow exemptions to mandatory smallpox vaccination. This clause gave rise to the term “conscientious objector,” which later came to refer to those opposed to military service. By the end of the year, magistrates had issued more than 200,000 vaccination exemptions.

      Anti-vaccinationists in England, other parts of Europe, and the United States were active in publishing, speaking, and demonstrating about their objections to vaccination.

      1926

      Opposition to Vaccination Grows

      Despite vaccination’s successes against smallpox, opposition to vaccination continued through the 1920s, particularly against compulsory vaccination. In 1926, a group of health officers visited Georgetown, Delaware, to vaccinate the townspeople. A retired Army lieutenant and a city councilman led an armed mob to force them out, successfully preventing the vaccination attempt.”

      source -History of Vaccines

      “Until the end of the 19th Century vaccination was done either directly with vaccine produced on the skin of calves or, particularly in England, with vaccine obtained from the calf but then maintained by arm-to-arm transfer;[41] initially in both cases vaccine could be dried on ivory points for short term storage or transport but increasing use was made of glass capillary tubes for this purpose towards the end of the century.[42] During this period there were no adequate methods for assessing the safety of the vaccine and there were instances of contaminated vaccine transmitting infections such as erysipelas, tetanus, septicaemia and tuberculosis.[21] In the case of arm-to-arm transfer there was also the risk of transmitting syphilis. Although this did occur occasionally, estimated as 750 cases in 100 million vaccinations,[43]”.. source Wikipedia

      This link shows the deaths and injuries caused by the smallpox vaccine, not to mention the shedding of the disease to others, in the year 1968. And why the U.S. stopped vaccinating for smallpox
      https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/complications-smallpox-vaccination

      1. Do you really think anyone will believe that elaborate lie?

        The smallpox vaccine was discontinued in the 1980’s because the vaccine eliminated small pox. No matter how hard to try, you can’t rewrite history.

        You are simply delusional. Thank you for discrediting yourself to other readers.

          1. Risperidone kills elderly dementia patients and causes irreversible movement disorders. Lets give it to kids instead.

          2. Risperidone is the local favorite at our hospital. Quetiapine is great for bipolar psychosis.

            I like risperdal for perseverative angry thought disorder….

    2. Ha, good luck with your so called evidence, I can show you scientific studies all day long that show vaccines cause autism, so are you ready to admit the truth that vaccines do cause autism? Or is evidence only considered evidence when it fits your agenda to blindly vaccinate children according to a schedule that has not been tested for safety?

        1. LMAO, blogs are the proof, advice, if it says skeptical, science, anti vaxxer, pseudo, etc, just a shill front to push vaccines and ignore the fact that we have paid 3 billion dollars to vaccine injured children. Safe? That is 3 billion reasons to say you are 100 percent incorrect.

          1. Vaccine and drug adverse events are under-reported by 90%. If a doctor does not believe that a seizure was caused by the vaccine he injected, it will not and is not reported.

          2. I’ve never seen a source for that claim, and it’s unconvincing.

            But that’s aside even if parents don’t know they can report themselves, much evidence on vaccine harms is from studies, not reports.

          3. “Right!” Dorit, and how many people know of VAERs and how to access it? How many people will question their doctor? And you would report these things and know how to do it if it happened to you? Nice dismissive and ducking of the facts. Go to middle of page 5 “under reporting” of the link below. There are other studies making the same point but this gives you the gist.
            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/safety/medwatch/ucm168505.pdf

          4. Yeah, right! If you have had that happen you have one of the rare doctors that actually does try to inform his/her patients

          5. It is a legal requirement, and I understand that this happens when any vaccines are issued.
            Do you have documented evidence of a widespread failure of this process?
            Put your money where your mouth is for once, and show us.

          6. Please Mike ask 10 of your friends how many were given a copy of the insert from the manufacturer of the vaccine and a sheet giving them VAERs info and if they were, how many read it. When you can practically go to a Walgreens or a Safeway drive through for a flu shot, you know most are not being given the required info. Stupid comment

          7. I am in the UK, bwf309, – here we don’t use VIS’s.

            But thanks for confirming you cannot demonstrate widespread failure of HCPs to give out a VIS when carrying out vaccination.

          8. Mike, I cannot and will not speak for the UK. I am in the US and can only share what I know to be true here. If they are handing out the info in the UK, good on them. I will stand by my remark however that probably 90% (Not a fact just a guess) don’t read the material and 75% of those that do would not know how to report in the first place or what to say.

          9. What do you base your remark upon?
            Discussion with a handful of fellow antivax internet besties?
            Let’s see something – a survey or publication please.
            You cannot throw out speculative claims without some form of evidence, and I am afraid anecdotes just don’t cut it.

          10. Being in primary health care for 46 years, I can tell you that what I have stated is fairly accurate in the US. Maybe the British are more intellectual and less preoccupied with facebook etc.

          11. If you really are in primary health care, you could conduct an audit of your physician’s practice and log the compliance with requirements to issue a VIS.
            This isn’t rocket science you know.
            I am amazed at how many people make specious claims, yet seem unable to provide evidence for them or even do simple actions to obtain that evidence.

          12. As I said above enjoy your perfect little world, when you have enough experience with people we will be able to have a conversation. I said people don’t read it and most do not have it explained to them, it is just the way it works in the real world. Have a nice life in your perfect world as long as you can cause the real world is really different

          13. Yes, Linda, intellectually, you and I know that. However, when you are told your child’s seizures are a coincidence and have nothing to do with the vaccine that was pumped into their body just hours before what do you do? Don’t think it happens? Dream on. Nice to see your compassion showing.

          14. The average oblivious family still has the Internet available, if not in their home, at their local library.

            The average oblivious family still has friends, often who have access to the Internet.

            The VIS mentions VAERS. It isn’t hidden.

          15. Really Linda, are you that isolated from the real world or do you just like to argue minutiae? Because something is available does not mean that people use it. Heck money is available, does not mean people use it wisely or in an informed manner. Most people are sheep, do what they are told because it is easier than thinking for themselves until it hurts bad enough.

          16. Choosing to not use a service does not indicate a problem with the service. Again, information about VAERS is readily available to the public.

          17. Yes, it is. What is your point? My point is that people like you that want to shove vaccines into my body and my children’s bodies, use the low number of filed complaints as evidence that adverse events don’t occur. If people are unaware of or intimidated into not using a system it doesn’t show accurately the number of adverse reactions, then the low number is spurious and the studies show that there are more serious adverse events than are reported. Really, are you that dense?

          18. You can still opt to not vaccinate. With choice comes consequences.

            You’ve shown no evidence that supports individuals being intimidated into not reporting – and given the efforts of anti vaccine websites, saying that people are generally unaware is also not supported.

            The studies do not show that serious adverse events are underreported, they infer that nonserious events go unreported, which is reasonable, given that it’s not necessary to report a sore arm, as it’s expected.

          19. Linda, you do have selective reading habits and will not acknowledge the report that I showed you that shows only 38%, at best, of adverse events are reported.
            And BTW if you have been intimidated into not reporting by bowing to the authority of your provider who has assured you that the extreme fever, seizure, whatever is a coincidence, why would you report. It is only in the telling of the event that it becomes apparent that they were intimidated.
            Believe what fits your world view and don’t question authority, it will keep you nice and safe…. until it happens to you.

          20. You’ve not shown me any report, only you pulling random numbers out of your posterior and trying to pass them off as factual.

          21. Muahahaha, try to keep up Linda. Posted the papers with the stats in them. But of course you don’t read them, why should you? They don’t support your world view and are unbiased unlike the pharmaceutical research.

          22. You are totally incorrect, and I doubt that you are any kind of vaccine provider. Every agency I ever worked for that gave vaccines handed out the VIS form, even when the parent said they didn’t need it. Every provider I ever went to did the same, including Walgreen’s.

          23. No, not one. 3 health departments, several physician’s offices, a Visiting Nurse agency and Walgreen’s. At least 10. Are you evading the law by not handing out these VIS forms?

          24. I thought this might be one of the sources. But it’s a mistake. In this article Kessler talked about creating a reporting system for other things like for vaccines. He expressly was not talking about vaccines. On page 3 he signals out vaccines – because reporting for them is mandatory.( https://www.fda.gov/downloads/safety/medwatch/ucm168505.pdf)

            In fact, there is no doubt some under reporting, especially of mild events like sore arms and low fevers. But that’s not the whole picture. While there is some under reporting, there is also extensive over reporting, reporting of things not caused by vaccines:

            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/117/2/387.full.pdf
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063829

            As to who knows about it – it’s on the VIS.

            But again, our knowledge about vaccine safety does not come only, or even mostly, of VAERs. VAERS helps, but studies look beyond it.

          25. Yes, that is what they are referencing.
            A long while ago I had a similar discussion with an anti-vaxxer and asked for a citation and the Kessler article was the one produced.
            As you, I pointed out Kessler was discussing drugs and specifically exempted vaccines from his discussion/concern since vaccines had a system of required reporting, of which he seemed quite envious and wishing something similar for drug adverse events.

            It is just the standard anti-vaccine cult misrepresenting their cite either through malice or illiterate ignorance.

          26. Please show links to double blinded studies of vaccine safety and/or effectiveness. (hint- there are none) Only studies showing increased anti-body titer, not actual prevention. Nice try though. Please show your reference for “especially of mild events like sore arms and low fevers.” as the only under-reported adverse events. Please you are just being evasive now.

          27. Before a vaccine is licensed it has to undergo clinical trials showing safety and effectiveness that are double blind. And actually, while they also look at antibodies, the main measure for effectiveness is rates of infection. Here is a discussion of the myths of vaccine testing: https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/debunking-myths-about-vaccine-testing-and-safety/

            Here is one example of such a clinical trial: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)60524-3/abstract

            Note that the effectiveness measure is cases, not antibodies.

          28. Title: “Efficacy and safety of an oral live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis during the first 2 years of life in Latin American infants: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III study”

            Yes, double-blind.

          29. Really, they had a homogeneous control group inoculated with an inert substance, saline, perhaps, and followed the two groups for incidence. Please post the link.

          30. That’s the title of the study linked above. And please do read the Skeptical Raptor post about the myths of testing.

          31. Read it and I stand corrected regarding rotovirus in countries with poor sanitation and poor quality drinking water.
            If we have to accept Skeptical Raptor as a purveyor of truth then I request the same consideration for Vactruth.

          32. “You are the one stating there are double blind studies. The burden of proof is upon you.”
            I linked you to 440,000 Google hits for double blind, placebo controlled studies.
            Don’t tell me you can’t understand just a few of them?

          33. Yup, it is complete, and is for vaccines.
            Not everyone is a link to a specific study – for that go to Google scholar or even PubMed.
            That;s about all the homework help I am giving you for now….

          34. Generous of you. If you had any information you would post it, but nice try and good example of the BS of those that wish to impose their will on everybody else.

          35. “Please show links to double blinded studies of vaccine safety and/or effectiveness. (hint- there are none) ”

            From the MMRII Product insert:
            <<"Efficacy of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines was established in a series of double-blind
            controlled field trials
            which demonstrated a high degree of protective efficacy afforded by the individual
            vaccine components.{7-12} These studies also established that seroconversion in response to
            vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella paralleled protection from these diseases.{13-15}” https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf>&gt;

            I hope this clarifies that there have indeed been double blind studies conducted on vaccines.

          36. Yes, they created antibodies, however, unlike the rotovirus study were not truly studies of incidence of the disease. nice try though

          37. It’s in the insert and VIS, so anyone that read those. Oh and the government admits it on a site of theirs so anyone that read that. Anyone that read this discussion since it’s been mentioned here several times.

            Anyone who’s read SR, HS, LBRB, MWV since all of those have mnetioned VAERs.

            Whatever you may think about those sites, the fact remains that they have mentioned it and therefore anyone who read the blog posts know about it.

            Doctors know about VAERs. NCVIP has a portal to after the disclaimer so anyone who goes onto the NCVIP knows about VAERd

            Need I continue?

          38. Sia, yes and Joe Six Pack and Buffy Soccer Mom, are so aware of these subjects and have been fully appraised of all the possible side-effects of the vaccine prior to the administration of those vaccines – Muawhahahaha you are one funny lady. Try living in the real world.

          39. Read the insert prior to administration – problem solved. Joe Six Pack and Buffy Soccer Mom have the information there – if they don’t bother to read it, that doesn’t change the fact that the information was provided.

            The website is on the package insert and the VIS – READ THE PACKAGE INSERT as anti-vaxxers are so fond of saying.

            But you asked me to continue.

            Wikipedia has an article on VAERS, whale.to has an article on VAERS, Youtube has a video on it. The poxes has an article. Vaccination choice canada has an article. Rense.com mentions it. So does health impact news. RWAAPS does too.

          40. Sia, well aren’t you self righteous? “Read the insert prior to administration” How many times have you read the insert before your children were stuck? (You do have children, right?) I have read the inserts and warnings and that is why my children are not vaccinated. They got supplements, good diet and good “health” care (as opposed to “sickness care”). All I, and most other “anti” vaxx parents, are asking is that we be given the right to choose. Mandated vaccines are a removing of a persons fundamental human rights.

          41. Irrelevant – my children or lack thereof don’t change whether I’m right or not.

            Yes, supplements which I’m sure were full of asorbic acid. I’ve read the insert several times – I’m just not suffering from chemophobia.

            There’s the “without regard to causation” part which is particularly interesting. As is the comparison to placebo arms. Not that any of this is new to you since you did your research.

            You stated the information was not readily available – I have proved that wrong. You cannot blame the goverment/pharma companies for people not reading the information that was freely available – but it is not hidden.

            Go ahead and write to the Hague or Amnesty International – they’ll intervene if it is a breach of human rights – as will Unicef.

          42. LOL In your perfect world this is done. When you have more experience with people maybe you will understand, until then, nice playing with you in this sandbox

          43. Oh lord. Nirvana fallacist lecturing me on perfect world. Write. to. the. Hague. or. Unicef. Or. Amnesty International.

            Or are they in on the conspiracy of silence too? Or is it just that you suspect it isn’t a breach of human rights and are suddenly bashful and wary of looking foolish?

          44. Sia, I am sure from the security of all your book knowledge that you are correct in fact, in reality, I will say you are correct. The information is out there and is available. However, what happens in the real world is that people don’t listen, nor do they read. Is the information available? Absolutely, is it handed to them? Yes! But, in the real world, people don’t read, they do as they are told and they are told to have their child vaccinated because the 46 inoculations, before the age of two, containing neurotoxins, could not possibly harm their child at levels that exceed what is allowed in drinking water that has the protection of the digestive system. And, because the doctor who has drank the Kool-Aid and never questioned the “fact” that the vaccine is “safe and effective,” has never investigated the background of vaccines, is saying so, they go ahead, even if they have doubts.
            Most people who question the vaccine policies are not dumb people. They HAVE read the inserts and the warnings. They HAVE done research and are willing to go against the very strong pressure to comply because they know that the risks are real, that the vaccines are not close to 100% and they are willing to do the things necessary to help prevent disease or build immunity to these diseases without exposing their child to the dangers of the untested vaccines. Now go back to your perfect little world and sing cum-bye-yah.

          45. The source is traced back to a single study of a primary care provider on Rhode Island in 1987.
            It is now one of the most widespread myths on the internet.

          46. Just caught this “in spite of the program’s minimal requirements” Really, “minimal requirements?” You have an easier chance of getting an appointment at the VA than getting a case to VAER’s court.

          47. In other words it is okay cause death and seizures as long as the product is not defective, meaning that it causes an antibody reaction. Really Dorit, you are that cold hearted? We are not talking about a car that is made improperly, we are talking about a “properly” (according to the manufacturer) constituted vaccine that due to it’s “proper” constitution caused a death. And this is acceptable to you. I wonder what you would say if it was your son or daughter? Don’t bother to answer.
            How the followers of the religion of vaccine can so blithely dismiss death and disability as just the price of a healthy society is beyond me. I am done communicating with someone that cold hearted, there is no reasoning with you.

          48. Anything has risks. It’s not vaccinating that’s the dramatically greater risk. When a parent chooses not to vaccinate a child, she is choosing to force on that child the much, much bigger risk.

          49. Says the woman that does not have a vaccine disabled child or lost one to the religion of vaccines. And that is for each individual to decide which is the greater risk. Not some cold hearted government bureaucrat or someone just cold hearted like you. Now I am done with you.

          50. You don’t have to have suffer one of the freakishly rare vaccine injuries to look at the data and know they are very rare. Having done so, I vaccinate my own children with confidence because the risk is so rare.

            That said, school immunization requirements allow parents to continue making the mistake of choosing the greater risk for their own child. They just limit the ability to force that risk on others.

          51. Kiko, theusual challenge. Please estimate losses from vaccine-preventable diseases over a 25 year span (equal to the $3B).

          52. Kiko, please show that the payouts were for proven causal events, and not just for unverified reported table injuries.

            The estimation of the numbers of people whose lives have been saved by vaccination is not just “speculation”, it is a scientifically accurate calculation based upon the real reductions in incidence of the disease.

            And vaccination has, as I have shown you before, saved $trillions and $trillions in direct and indirect costs.

          53. Most of them are settlements, not even table injuries. Parties settle for many reasons, and it doesn’t show causation.

          54. Wow, so they never occurred, the brain damage and life time of mental disorder were just nuisance claims. How easily you dismiss other people’s actual injuries because you were not there to see it happen.

          55. No, they happened, but the point is that usually it is just speculative correlation that has linked these to vaccines.
            That is the point.
            Kiko is bemoaning the use of “speculation”, yet cannot face up to the reality that most problems attributed to vaccines are entirely speculative anyway.damage

          56. Easy for you to say as you have never had a child be healthy one minute and then have a vaccination, hours later be screaming in pain and later yet be developmentally disabled. I love how you who never have seen or experienced this type of pain so blithely dismiss as “speculation” what people have experienced. Arrogant and ignorant jerks

          57. People can have serious problems without vaccines causing them. These court settlements do not show causation.

          58. Really? Really? How nice of you to even consider that something happened. You and your crew of self-righteous jerks, so lightly dismiss what people have seen and experienced, “because it couldn’t be the vaccines. We have been told our entire lives they are safe and effective and so they are!” That is why I call you worshipers of the church or vaccine.

          59. More fact dancing, hey Mike, the CDC touted Dr. William Thompson’s fraudulent study to continue giving thimerosal laced flu shots to pregnant women when they KNEW that they hid the data showing that the shot causes tics. Dr. Thompson stated that he would never give his wife a shot that causes tics, Why Mike, tell me why we should give it to our wives when the safety data has been intentionally withheld from us?

          60. It is not speculation that over 2000 Americans died from polio, just in 1952. And the standard vaccine court payout for death is $250,000. Now, over 20,000 had some level of permanent paralysis (that doesn’t even count those with post-polio syndrome manifesting 30 years later). Estimating the payout there is tricky, because some of them would have required intensive lifetime care that would be fully paid for. I thought $100,000 would be a reasonable average. Voila, I’m just below $3 billion, and I still have to count measles, diphtheria, rubella (more birth defects than thalidomide), and their friends and I still get 24 more years.

            Your argument is exactly equivalent to evaluating the rare seat belt injuries while ignoring all the people who would have flown through the windshield.

            Lurkers: Once again we see that antivaxers are narcissists who assume that, since they don’t get polio today, they wouldn’t have gotten it way back then. Just because. That’s why they compare vaccine injuries to an imaginary Eden, not to the status quo ante,

          61. And of course there are those that got the elephant stampede vaccine and have been protected from elephant stampedes or polio, or whatever. Belief goes two ways my friend

          62. Don’t know anyone who was in an elephant stampede. Know one polio survivor (teacher); know of a couple others (classmate parent. etc.).

          63. Considering that most cases go undetected, are misdiagnosed or recover in as little as two weeks, you probably know more than that, but then that would not fit your perspective would it?

          64. 2016 – 1989 = 27. This is hilarious, you are so innumerate you don’t realize that the more years the $3 billion covers, the better it is for my side. Instead of comparing to 24 more years of pre-vaccine losses, I get to compare to 26 years.

            Lurkers: You really want to take medical advice from someone who has trouble with subtraction, and doesn’t understand inequalities?

          65. Ha, nice fact dancing, not impressed at all. So I guess you just narrowed us down to a couple vaccines to test for safety, don’t cherry pick, keep going with your argument after the Polio and Rubella, lifetime care for 1 in 45? Yeah thought so, hey instead of the Disneyland measles story that almost destroyed the planet could you tell me the one about the Polio vaccine that was contaminated with SV 40 cancer causing virus found in primates that was given to 98 million Americans and is now being found in cancer death autopsies. Come at me bro.

          66. I take it this is a long way of saying, “No, I don’t dare estimate losses from diseases, because it far exceeds losses from vaccine reactions.” Cowards and bullies.

            Although it’s not great that SV-40 was in the polio vaccine, there’s no evidence of it causing any significant number of cases of actual cancer.

          67. RESULTS:

            Our
            analysis indicates increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic
            sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%) and mesothelioma (90%) among
            those in the exposed as compared to the unexposed birth cohort.

            CONCLUSIONS:

            These
            data suggest that there may be an increased incidence of certain
            cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio
            vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified.

          68. If your wife were exposed to this particular vaccine and died of cancer related to this before her time, would you be on here defending these blind type of vaccine practices the same way you are now?

          69. And Andrew considering the trend lines prior to the actual vaccines, estimate how many were not related to the vaccine at all.

          70. Mike please go to the beginning of the thread and note the facts already in evidence and what trends we are talking about (mortality and indirectly incidence – BTW)

          71. The beginning of the thread is far away. Kiko changed the topic to the COSTS of vaccine damage, which is what I was responding to, and what you have failed to realise. Wake up will you?

          72. Blogs can be wonderful sources of information if the blog author fully explains his/her points and links to literature to prove claims. Skeptial Raptor treats his blog posts as a research paper and all claims are fully referenced.

            No one ignores the claims paid by HRSA. You all keep bringing them up, for one thing. But, keep in mind that we’ve paid out 4300 claims in 30 years and given billions of vaccines in the same time. This means that 99.999% of vaccinated Americans are just fine, not vaccine-injured at all. Nothing has a safety record as stellar as vaccines.

          73. I cannot fathom what you are implying about Americans who shop at Walmart . Well, my imagination could run wild but then I would have to assume you are elitist and some sort of a bigot.

        1. ” I can show you scientific studies all day long that show vaccines cause autism,”
          I think Kiko knows we won’t be holding our breath.

          1. No – your claim, your burden of proof.

            I have done so, however. And those 86 studies don’t say what you think you do.

          2. I have seen with my two eyes a child vaccinated, adverse reaction immediately, severe permanent autism immediately after. There are thousands of other Dr’s, neurologists, pediatricians, parents, that have witnessed the exact same thing. Not speculation like these so called scientific studies, hard core eye witness testimony from people who have no reason to lie. I can not teach you how to see or how to bleed. There is your burden of proof, now prove me wrong.

          3. Correlation is not causation – there. done.

            Ever seen a lady cut in half? There, done.

            Actually, lots of sites need to scare you into buying alternative supplements – Mercola and Natural News certainly have reasons to lie. And if you got autism onto the table, compensation would be a motive. There.

            And eye witness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

          4. Eye witness testimony can incarcerate you for life or have you executed. You are a fool plain and simple.

          5. Not here, it can’t.

            And it’s still notoriously unreliable. Do you know what reconstructive memory is?

            The fact is that 12 people who don’t know the facts are easily swayed by an emotional appeal – and that’s all eyewitness testimony has to do.
            War of the Ghosts – have you read it? How about weapon focus?

            Also, there’s this fascinating article: https://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/06/legal-system-doesnt-get-eyewitness-accounts.html

            Thanks for the learning!

          6. Is that why parents who file a vaccine injury claim are denied a jury trial? Instead they are forced before a ‘special master’ Jury trial is our Constitutional right. I don’t care how you feel about it.

          7. You can have a jury trial afterwards – you can have a jury trial straight off for manufacturing or labeling defects.

            This isn’t news to you though.

            And yeah, pretty much. Vaccines are not that profitable compared to other drugs – the real money’s in statin and viagra and the like. Juries were awarding large amounts of money where there was either no evidence the vaccines caused the injury or even in some cases, where there was evidence against the vaccines causing the injury.

            Oh and Barbara Fisher was one of the main people that got NCVIP set up.

          8. You are getting off subject but speaking of books, have you read vaccine whistleblower. That is the one where a CDC scientist admits that they have been hiding the vaccine autism link for over a decade. Doesn’t get more in your face proof than that.

        1. Just another cherry picked study with predetermined results, I see it says property of Elsevier 2014, try again Houdini, I could study 500 billion children for something, what good is it if I remove all the undesirable study participants?

          “Elsevier
          publishes 2,000 scientific journals and 20,000 book-length works, but
          its Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which looks just
          like a medical journal, and was described as such, was not a peer-reviewed medical journal but rather a collection of reprinted articles that Merck paid Elsevier to publish.

          “At least
          some of the articles were ghostwritten, and all lavished unalloyed
          praise on Merck drugs, such as its troubled painkiller Vioxx. There was no disclosure of Merck’s sponsorship. Librarian and analyst Jonathan Rochkind found five similar mock journals, also paid for by Merck and touted as genuine.

        2. https://ethicalnag.org/2012/09/26/medical-journals-information-laundering-big-pharma/

          It means that physicians read medical journals, treatment decisions are
          changed, care is affected, drugs are prescribed, medical practice
          altered – all based on Big Pharma-funded, insider-prepared journal
          articles that the journal editors themselves describe as “information-laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry“.
          Now get out of my face with your nonsense.

  38. and the censorship here begins…

    ione murphy Dorit Reiss • 5 minutes ago Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Aurora Sentinel.

    You do know the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created BECAUSE of the DPT vaccine ? The Vaccine Injury Court lists claims for 696 deaths and 3,285 injuries from whole cell DTP

    1. Did you use a profanity? They don’t seem to like that, even words that most of us consider only mildly profane.

          1. Oh and I did this in part because I thought there was a limit of for links or more = go into hold.

            I wondered so I put it to the test – my hypothesis was wrong

    2. I do. When the program was created it was thought DTP caused brain damage and seizures. Later studies showed that’s not the case. So the program was created because of DTP – and many of the compensations – table injuries, where causation is assumed – were for things we now know that vaccine didn’t cause.

    3. And I don’t see why this would have to be approved. That’s weird. But censorship is implausible. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of other antivaccine comments here.

    4. I had the paper hold one of my comments, last night, because I had used the curse version of dam. Their filter caught it. I deleted, changed to dang, all was well. So, you likely used an inappropriate word in your post. No censorship. It’s called a filte.r

      1. Yes, that happened to me yesterday as well. That’s why I asked if she had used any profanity. Such a “family” newspaper!

  39. NIH Technology Licensed to Merck for HPV Vaccine

    “A new cancer vaccine developed by Merck makes use of a novel disease prevention strategy to protect against cervical cancer. The vaccine is based on research conducted at the NIH.”..https://www.ott.nih.gov/nih-technology-licensed-merck-hpv-vaccine

    Self-assembling recombinant hpv16 papillomavirus capsid proteins
    EP 1538209 A3ApplicantTHE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

    https://www.google.com/patents/EP1538209A3?cl=en&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Douglas+R.+Lowy#legal-events

    And here is Dorit’s answer to my question whether it is a conflict of interest for the Dept. of HHS to make $ off of the patent they hold on the HPV vaccine, while at the same time they have mandated it’s use for children in some states.

    Dorit Rubinstein Reiss;

    Dorit- “I assume you are asking whether it’s a violation of due process for the government to hold a patent and also pass laws about the vaccine. Three points:

    “A. The federal government does not mandate immunizations. Immunization mandates are generallly a state level law or executive order, for example for health care workers – and under our federal system, these are two completely different actors. ”

    WRONG-

    The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) consists of 15 experts in immunization and related fields, selected by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide advice and guidance on control of vaccine-preventable diseases

    In the United States, development of immunization policy is accomplished through interactions among federal and state government agencies”

    Dorit- “B. The CDC recommends vaccines. But the CDC is a different agency from the NIH. Not the same.”

    WRONG-“The Department of Health and Human Services oversees 11 agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).[7]

    Dorit-“C. Under our system one agency can both pass rules, investigate, prosecute and give penalties. That’s not a violation of due process or separation of powers. So multiple agencies having different roles in the same area certainly isn’t.

    In fact, it’s the norm that different parts of government – sometimes even the same agency – have a variety of roles and functions related to an area.”

    So the Dept of HHS hold the patent on technologies used for the HPV vaccine they lease to Merck, AND they don’t have to show how much they make off of the almost 2.B profit in 2014 for Gardasil. They also control who sits on the advisory committee to approve mandatory vaccines, and they also oversee who will get compensated for any injuries from said vaccines.

    “On October 1, 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660) created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).

    Three Federal government offices have a role in the VICP:

    the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS);

    the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); and

    the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (the Court).

    The VICP is located in the HHS, Health Resources and Services Administration, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation.”

    1. You did not disprove any of my
      Points. CDC recommends vaccines. It doesn’t mandate them. States pass such laws.

      As you have listed, there are many and very different (and independent from each other) government agencies involved here.

  40. “The Committee’s investigation has determined that conflict of interest rules employed by the FDA and the CDC have been weak, enforcement has been lax, and committee members with substantial ties to pharmaceutical companies have been given waivers to participate in committee proceedings.”
    Conflict of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making
    Majority Staff Report
    Committee on Government Reform
    US House of Representatives June 15 2000

    1. Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN), Chairman.

      Dan Burton was not elected to Congress by the people of Colorado, and it’s a safe bet he would not have been. As funny as it seems, when Darrell Issa replaced him, that was actually a step up.

      When i search for this copy-paste vomit the usual suspects all appear. NVIC, whale to, The Refusers. Antivax trolls really aren’t that creative. Always recycling the same slop.

      1. In case you didn’t notice, I wasn’t commenting on elections in Colorado.
        You’re on the wrong board, Watson.

        1. Bwa haha! Just like parrot Pro, et al; so quick to ‘monday morning googleback’ ’cause they think it makes them look so smart! 😉

          1. Burton steered the committee investigation to the conclusion he wanted.

            If you read Burton’s bio he has a grandson with autism. Unfortunately, Burton was one of those fooled by the Wakefield fraud into believing the discredited idea that the boy’s condition was caused by vaccines.

            His personal opinions, misguided and misinformed, tainted everything his Committee produced on vaccine safety.

            Shocking, I know: An anti-science politician with his own agenda.

      2. Watson,
        These were recommendations.
        1. Individuals who serve on advisory committees involving vaccines should have no financial ties to vaccine manufacturers.
        2 Public participation on ACIP and VRBAC needs to be increased substantially.
        3 Conflict of Interest waivers should be used more stringently.
        4. A balance of policy perspectives should be incorporated into consideration of appointments of committee members.
        5. Any level of stock ownership in vaccine manufacturers should not be allowed by committee members.
        6. Department personnel need to insure that all documentation is fully and adequately completed.
        7. Full explanation of participation as expert witnesses in legal cases needs to be a part of financial disclosures.
        8. Individuals who have patents for vaccines for the same disease under discussion should not be allowed to participate in the discussion or vote of ACIP or VRBAC.
        9. Individuals who are developing vaccines for the same disease under discussion should be not be allowed to participate in the discussion or vote of ACIP and VRBAC.
        10. Working groups should be replaced by fully constituted Subcommittees on both the VRBAC and ACIP.
        11. Individuals should not be allowed to participate on two DHHS advisory committees at the same time.
        12. Individuals should not serve excessively long terms on a committee.
        13. The FDA should reconsider its policy on using temporary voting members.
        14. ACIP should not consider making a recommendation on a vaccine until it has been licensed by the FDA.
        15. CDC should follow the same policy in identifying affected companies for vaccine discussions as the FDA does and exclude participation of any individual who has a conflict.
        16. Organizations who send liaison members to participate in council meetings, should offer full disclosure of ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
        17. The Department should review its policies and practices regarding conflicts of interest, participation on advisory committees, and terms of service, public participation, and balance of views and expertise.

        1. What was the House vote on the Comittee’s recommendations?

          Did Burton even draft a bill?

          No, because this was just posturing and politicking.

          Burton steered the committee investigation to the conclusion he wanted, and then rather than offer it for consideration by the full House, nothing.

          If you read Burton’s bio he has a grandson with autism. Unfortunately, Burton was one of those fooled by the Wakefield fraud into believing the discredited idea that the boy’s condition was caused by vaccines.

          His personal opinions, misguided and misinformed, tainted everything his Committee produced on vaccine safety.

          Shocking, isn’t it? An anti-science politician with his own agenda.

          1. Perhaps. Perhaps not.

            Congressman Burton served for another 11 years after the Committee’s report. What steps were taken, if any, to implement the recommendations?

            This would help me to see if the Congressman was acting in good faith when he prepared his report.

          2. Well you got powned. Empty statements from a fanatic and you post it as if its congressional action. Although you have been clearly discredited, I’m sure you will post that crap again.

        2. “There is little evidence that the CDC or FDA implemented any of
          Congress’s recommendations. In 2008, eight years later, a government study of
          disclosure and conflict waivers at the CDC found that ninety-seven percent of
          Special Government Advisers on CDC committees failed to disclose necessary
          information,275 prompting criminal investigation of some.276

          Illustrative of the culture of conflicts of interest is the former Director of the
          CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding. One year after she stepped down as CDC Director,
          she joined Merck as the Director of its Vaccine Group.277
          During her tenure at CDC, ACIP approved Merck’s Gardasil vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) against cervical cancer.278 Gardasil is the most expensive childhood
          vaccine for the least prevalent disease that ACIP has ever approved and
          recommended for universal use. There were well-documented conflicts of
          interest in the Gardasil approval process. Since ACIP’s approval of the HPV
          vaccine in 2007, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has
          recorded 23,388 adverse events, including 103 deaths and 4777 individuals who
          have not recovered after HPV vaccination.279

          The financial motivations in vaccine recommendations and mandates are
          manifold. Industry offers ACIP members and other regulators career and
          financial incentives.
          Industry offers financial inducements to state legislators who
          make ACIP recommendations mandatory.
          States receive federal funding for vaccination mandates. Doctors generate revenue from additional pediatric visits and from the vaccinations themselves. A “more is better” vaccination policy has many financial rewards, but does not necessarily lead to optimal or even rational public health outcomes.”

          NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
          SCHOOL OF LAW
          PUBLIC LAW & LEGAL THEORY RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
          WORKING PAPER NO. 13-01
          Compulsory Vaccination, the Constitution, and the
          Hepatitis B Mandate for Infants and Young Children
          Mary S. Holland
          January 2013

          1. “Have you been updated”??????

            The House of Representatives Conflict of Interest report made many excellent recommendations.
            I would like to see them implemented.

          2. Why don’t you write to one of the committee members and ask? I do know the rotavirus vax part of the recommendations is different. Also, NVIC got an antivax doctor on the vax advisory committee.

          3. Barbara Loe Fisher enjoys the distinction of being a person a judge has ruled you can actually call a liar.

            Barbara Loe Fisher: “Not a person to be believed”

            “The founder of a radical anti-vaccine group has sued over an article that points out the dangers of vaccine rejectionism in America. But a decade-long trail of internet postings and public statements assured that case would fail.”

          4. She is a Vaccine safety advocate.
            Good for her, I wish her success in advocating for better policies in our country.

          5. Like most self-described “vaccine safety advocates,” she’s a liar.

            Feel free to include yourself in that group.

          6. B Loe is a liar. She’s the one who made the “only 10% of vaccine injuries are reported” line. Trying finding her source. It isn’t there. She made it up.

          7. Please post the link. I like to stick these kinds of articles up At ten penny’s facebook webpage….

          8. Dodging the question I see. Changing the subject doesn’t change the fact that those 16 year old statements no longer apply.

            Still fear mongering away, I see.

      1. Those high, heady days in the last year of Bill Clinton’s second term.

        Who can forget all the Very Important Things the GOP controlled House spent their time investigating.

  41. I am glad the editors took this stance. Aurora is the third biggest city in Colorado. Now if the Denver Post would take a similar stance, it would be very helpful

    1. Yes, the editor Dave Perry, who also writes articles such as this..https://www.aurorasentinel.com/opinion/perry-we-can-only-save-ourselves-from-kidnappers-at-the-nra/

      Perry speaking about the National Rifle Association, which Colorado has a very large membership due to the hunting there…”When the facts are so clearly before all Americans, for the whole world to see, why bother with this country’s odious and cumbersome system of justice? Send the guilty monsters directly to Guantanamo Bay for all eternity and let them rot in their own mental squalor.”

      You can imagine how well that was received….”The editor of a Denver-area newspaper is receiving death threats for a column comparing the National Rifle Association to terrorists.Dave Perry is editor of the Aurora Sentinel. He wrote on April 25 that the NRA’s role in blocking congressional gun control legislation was “a clear act of terrorism and treason.”

      The newspaper says it received tens of thousands of angry calls and emails over the piece, and some of them were threatening. The newspaper says its site was also apparently hacked Monday”…https://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/05/07/aurora-sentinel-editor-gets-death-threats-after-anti-nra-column/

      People who read this paper, (that’s distributed free at bus stops) think he is just a bit off his rocker.

      1. But none of this personal attacking on the author refutes the science that demonstrates, and has shown repeatedly for decades, that vaccines are safe, effective, and save lives. Get your shots, and especially get your kids vaccinated.

        1. Safe for some, ….profoundly….damaging for others.
          Your bullying and lying don’t change that.

          1. my reply to Ew modemac seems to be held up in moderation again. After reading all his Pro gmo comments, I can see why it was flagged for moderation. Did you know about IGT Grace?

            “The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer, or I.G.T. — is underway, and several new ones are planned.

            Despite the lingering concerns about I.G.T., Dr. Nabel says he remains optimistic. “There are safety concerns that have to be addressed, but there are logical ways to approach them,” he said.

            Still, Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA, even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.

            “It could revolutionize the way we immunize against public health threats in the future,” said Dr. Gary J. Nabel, the chief scientific officer of Sanofi, a pharmaceutical company that produces a wide range of vaccines.

            Whether I.G.T. will succeed is still an open question. Researchers still need to gauge its safety and effectiveness in humans. And the prospect of genetically engineering people to resist infectious diseases may raise concerns among patients.”

            http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/protection-without-a-vaccine.html?ref=health&_r=2

        2. I would like to thank you and the author of the NRA article for personally bringing the issue of our rights to label GMO’s and the right to bear arms into the vaccine debate. You have done us “antivaxxers” (we prefer to be called Pro-choice on Informed Consent) a huge service by helping them to see the issue of forced vaccination affects them also and has brought many, many more into the light. Thank You!

          1. I prefer to call you “anti-vaxxers,” but if you want a more appropiate term then I suggest you try “pro-disease.” Labeling GMOS does not involve vaccines, nor the fact that vaccines are safe and effective. Neither does discussion of IGT have any relationship to the subject of this article: the necessity of using the law to increase vaccination rates in Colorado.

          2. I think people who understand the dangers of using GMO’s are also concerned of where the science of vaccines is going now. We are going from using animals and tumor cell lines to create vaccines with all the problems they present, to trying to genetically engineer our children not to catch chicken pox.

            “In recent years, genetically engineered vaccine strategies have been rushed into common use within such fields as medicine, veterinary medicine and fish farming. Some scientists contend that such vaccines are totally innocuous. But a recent and major research report by Professor Terje Traavik reduces the ‘safe technology’ to sheer naive optimism, and warns in conclusion that ‘many live, genetically engineered vaccines are inherently unpredictable (and) possibly dangerous.’ Martin Jalleh highlights the compelling findings of the report – which make the arguments for genetically engineered vaccines look frail and move Traavik to call on the scientific community to go beyond the ‘Holy Grail’ of medicine.

            ‘MODERN molecular biology, recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering have opened the road to a number of alternative strategies for vaccine production,’ reveals Professor Terje Traavik of the Departments of Virology and Medical Microbiology, University of Tromso, GENK-Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology, Tromso, Norway. He deems it necessary to add: ‘…from an ecological and environmental point of view many first generation live, genetically engineered vaccines are inherently unpredictable, possibly dangerous…’ He emphasises that such vaccines ‘should not be taken into widespread use until a number of putative problems have been clarified’

            His findings on the strategies can be summed up as follows: ‘Genetically modified viruses and genetically engineered virus-vector vaccines carry significant unpredictability and a number of inherently harmful potentials and hazards.”
            ..https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/07/12/genetically-engineered-gmo-vaccines-inherently-unpredictable-and-possibly-dangerous/

          3. So, you’re trying to use imaginary anti-GMO fears to bolster your imaginary anti-vaccine fears, when neither are justifiable or have any basis in science whatsoever.

          4. Nope..no basic in science whatsoever..

            Use of genetically modified viruses and genetically engineered virus-vector vaccines: environmental effects.

            Abstract

            “Despite major therapeutic advances, infectious diseases remain highly problematic. Recent advancements in technology in producing DNA-based vaccines, together with the growing knowledge of the immune system, have provided new insights into the identification of the epitopes needed to target the development of highly targeted vaccines. Genetically modified (GM) viruses and genetically engineered virus-vector vaccines possess significant unpredictability and a number of inherent harmful potential hazards.

            For all these vaccines, safety assessment concerning unintended and unwanted side effects with regard to targeted vaccinees has always been the main focus. Important questions concerning effects on nontargeted individuals within the same species or other species remain unknown. Horizontal transfer of genes, though lacking supportive experimental or epidemiological investigations, is well established.

            New hybrid virus progenies resulting from genetic recombination between genetically engineered vaccine viruses and their naturally occurring relatives may possess totally unpredictable characteristics with regard to host preferences and disease-causing potentials. Furthermore, when genetically modified or engineered virus particles break down in the environment, their nuclei acids are released. Appropriate risk management is the key to minimizing any potential risks to humans and environment resulting from the use of these GM vaccines.

            There is inadequate knowledge to define either the probability of unintended events or the consequences of genetic modifications. The objective of this article is to highlight the limitations in environmental risk assessment and raise awareness of the potential risks involving the use of genetically modified viruses and genetically engineered virus-vector vaccines.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16982535#

            “Assessment of shedding can be utilized to understand the potential risk associated with transmission to third parties and the potential risk to the environment. The scope of this document excludes shedding as it relates to environmental concerns because it is regulated differently in various regions.

            If the virus / vector is genetically modified to contain a transgene, one should take into account the safety profile of the expressed transgene product. Furthermore, the potential effect of the transgene on the phenotypic characteristics of the virus / vector should be considered. Ultimately safety information should come from clinical studies

            GMO as medicinal product could lead to adverse environmental effects. Adverse environmental effects are effects on man and other organisms in the environment that may occur when the GMO spreads into the environment”

            https://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/regulation/general/general_content_000410.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058002958d

          5. What you have quoted there are opinion pieces, editorials exactly like this very article here. They are not studies or test results, they have no data. They are simply a one-paragraph “abstract” (first link) and a link to sets of proposed rules and guidelines (second link). Anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists love to say “do your research,” but strangely enough they never do any real research such as actually reading and trying to understand what they’re linking to. Evidently they think people will simply be scared away by links that look “scientific.” That’s how Wakefield (and Seralini) maintain their audiences.

    2. I would be willing to bet everything that I have that you would not vaccinate your own child according to the recommended CDC schedule. Don’t bother lying.

          1. That is because they don’t exist. You are telling fibs left and right. Go back to your Pirate shill ships there is no anti vaxxers to plunder here. Oh, if you are an old nurse like you say, your Children would have gotten less than 1/3 of the vaccines kids get today. So that’s for that now, ha ha.

          2. No, smart-a**, it’s to protect their privacy from jerks like you.

            My kids got the old DTwP, the one with all the side effects, OPV, Hib, Hep B (later, not as infants), Hep A (ditto), MMR, Tdap, Menactra and HPV.

          3. Reckless soccer mum, exposing her kids to any untested product available just to placate her delusional perception of imminent infection risk.

          4. Kiko: “Oh, if you are an old nurse like you say, your Children would have gotten less than 1/3 of the vaccines kids get today.”

            “If you are still stuck on the actual number of vaccines, it is important to understand that the numbers of antigens given are actually much less than they used to be.

            This is because we are giving purer vaccines. Vaccines have been isolated down to just the proteins needed to produce protection.”

            “But it is not just infections that lead to antigen exposures. Kids are exposed to 2,000 to 6,000 antigens every day and the vaccines that children receive in the first two years of life are just a drop in the ocean when compared to the tens of thousands of environmental challenges that babies successfully manage every day.”

            About Health | Pediatrics | “Antigen Counts in Vaccines”

          5. Since you’ve done your research, you’ll know that kids today get around 90-95% less antigenic load.

  42. Either you want control of your own body or you don’t. Isn’t that the real question that’s being dodged? For every study the CDC puts out there is research contrary from Scientists outside of the government funding. Trust the Scientist that have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Why is everyone concerned over a non measle epidemic and not focused on the Autism epidemic or the fact that the U.S. is one of the richest countries but has the sickest children and highest infant deaths. We also over vaccinate compared to other countries. Why does the CDC want to investigate their own investigation regarding the accusations from Dr.Thompson.? Why have 15 Alternative Doctors “died” over the past 2 months? They all had something to tell you about vaccinations and had research to prove it! Why are so many people becoming advocates for big pharma? They are the only ones that are immune from lawsuits and yet people trust their intentions. Show me a study that proves the vaccinated people are more healthy than non. You won’t find a long term study because it’s never been done…We can argue all day about the research but we should be focusing on our freedoms. All Vaccines cause brain inflammation. Forcing a parent to sacrifice their own for someone elses and assume ALL risk is beyond insanity. BTW why aren’t people offended by the term “herd” immunity. You are being compared to dumb animal that has no control over their bodies and you all don’t mind lining up and being called so…

    1. Trust the Scientist that have nothing to gain and everything to lose.

      That is why you should ignore antivax quacks like Mercola, who make major money from selling Fake Pharma stuff.

      1. The only safe vaccine is one that is never used.” – Dr. James A. Shannon, MD, former director of the National Institutes of Health (1955-1968)

        “There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good.” – Dr. J. Anthony Morris, formerly Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the FDA

        “My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and worthless. I will not allow myself to be vaccinated again….Vaccines may be profitable but in my view, they are neither safe nor effective.” – Dr. Vernon Coleman, MB, ChB, DSc (Hon)

        “Vaccines are highly dangerous, have never been adequately studied or proven to be effective, and have a poor risk/reward ratio….The treatment of cancer and degenerative diseases is a national scandal. The sooner you learn this, the better off you will be.” – Dr. Allen Greenberg, MD

        “There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza. The producers of these vaccines know that they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway.” – Dr. J. Anthony Morris, formerly Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the FDA

        “There is insufficient evidence to support routine vaccination of healthy persons of any age.” – Dr. Paul Frame, MD, Journal of Family Practice

        “Had my mother and father known that the poliovirus vaccines of the 1950s were heavily contaminated with more than 26 monkey viruses, including the cancer virus SV40, I can say with certainty that they would not have allowed their children and themselves to take those vaccines. Both of my parents might not have developed cancers suspected of being vaccine-related, and might even be alive today.” – Dr. Howard B. Urnovitz, PhD, CEO, CSO and co-founder of Chronix Biomedical.

        Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said if it is proven that the jab causes autism, “the refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history”.He added that after agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety trials for parents’ lawyers, he had received and studied thousands of documents relating to the case which he believed the public had a right to see.He said he has seen a “steady accumulation of evidence” from scientists worldwide that the measles, mumps and rubella jab is causing brain damage in certain children.But he added: “There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves

        1. I would love to see sources for these alleged quotations; the Shannon one seems to be a fabrication or misrepresentation, for example.

        2. Note the absence of page cites, links, etc. That’s because this isn’t ione’s work; it’s copy-pasted from walls of disinformation curated for the purpose. So we can take side bets on which quotes are (1) grossly out of context (e.g., about one vaccine and not all), (2) from the tiny minority of doctors who oppose vaccines, and who usually also babble about chemtrails and other nonsense, or (3) are completely spurious.

          1. Yep, it’s her list of false quotations and ZERO people have been able to verify.

            “ione murphy” is synonymous with “Liar”

          2. For one

            J. Anthony Morris was never “Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the FDA.”

            His exact title on a paper published at NEJM in 1966 was “Chief, Section on Respiratory Viruses, Division of Biologics Standards, National Institutes of Health.”

            https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196603102741001

            He was quoted in a New York Times article here

            https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E06E4DB163DEF34BC4D52DFB667838A669EDE

            Dismissed by the FDA in the 1970s.

        3. So? The only safe ship is one that never left harbour…but that’s not what ships are for. The only safe journey is the one that is never taken…the only safe food is one that’s never eaten.

    2. “For every study the CDC puts out there is research contrary from Scientists outside of the government funding” That is not true. For example, there is a great deal of autism research not connected with the CDC that shows the same conclusion: vaccines don’t cause autism.

      The CDC is not investigating Dr Thompson.

      The alternative doctors dying has nothing to do with vaccines except Bradstreet was involved with abusive autism therapies unsupported by science.

      Pharmaceutical companies are not immune from lawsuits. For vaccine injury, you can sue them if you go thru vaccine court and your compensation case is denied.

      All vaccines do not cause brain inflammation.

      There are long term studies done on vaccines. There are studies done comparing vaxed to unvaxed. There are studies showing vaccinated healther than unvaccinated.

      You cite no evidence to back up any of your claims because there is none.

      Rational people don’t mind the concept of herd immunity because we know getting vaccinated is the smart decision.

          1. brian with a little b complained about 27 minutes – it is now 21 hours after I asked him for proof and he has yet to post any proof that anyone here is being paid.

            I’l take that as ‘I don’t have any’ then.

        1. Shill: Someone who makes anti-vaxxers angry by arguing too effectively in favor of vaccines.

          1. If you were so good at arguing effectively in favor of vaccines, then why is it that more people, now more then ever, are choosing not to vaccinate?

          2. Nope, That’s not true. the vaccination rate in the U.S. is 91% and climbing. You are just part of the lunatic fringe.
            You losers couldn’t even get a recall petition together in California. Your numbers are a joke.

          3. Complacency on the pro-vaccine side has led to some increases in vaccine refusal. However, most people still vaccinate, and the fight over SB 277 demonstrated widespread support for the pro-vaccine position.

            Comments like this, where an anti-vaxxer invokes “survival of the fittest”, are not the kind of thing that rally people to change their minds:

            https://www.facebook.com/656716804343725/photos/a.660980460584026.1073741827.656716804343725/1231701503511916/?type=3&theater

    3. Oh, I don’t know…maybe because whether I’m offended by it or not doesn’t actually matter since it doesn’t change whether it’s correct or not…maybe for the same reason that I’m not offended on behalf of black people by computer terminology using master and slave…maybe for the same reason that I’m not offended by vaccine deriving from cow.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2ec826b853c2c263329d78667bcc7e7695b12f58de248afc6b93c109d9e87ea5.png

  43. For me this is about common sense and seeing what is right in front of my eyes. I’ve met about 250 mothers of autistic children over the last few years. Do you know not ONE of them said the autism began any time other than immediately after a round of vaccines? That’s 100% folks. To be clear, vaccines don’t “cause” autism; they “trigger” it in susceptible children. It’s inconceivable to me that you gullible sheeple still believe what the FDA and CDC tell you, when the only studies being touted as showing “vaccine safety” (oxymoron) are the studies funded & conducted by the drug companies who sell them. And guess what! The studies that show they are not safe never see the light of day. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what’s going on here. But you guys go right ahead and keep drinking the koolaid from the FDA & CDC and keep trusting that your elected representatives are always looking out for your best interest and making sure you’re getting the truth, all the while their pockets are being lined with money from the drug companies. WAKE UP, PEOPLE! 🙁

    1. Dozens of studies from all over the world examined if vaccines cause autism. The answer – by different and independent teams of researchers from universities and governments all over the world – is a clear and consistent no. There’s just no link there, even if a misguided minority insists on believing there is one, against the evidence.

      This doesn’t come from the FDA or CDC. It’s from all over.

      https://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html

      1. Additional conversations show the speaker met many of the other parents through chelation groups – in other words, she met a biased subset that already bought into the myth that vaccines caused autism to a degree that they were willing to subject their children to the dangerous treatment of chelation, which does nothing for autism but carry risks.https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm394757.htm

        Most parents of children with autism don’t believe the vaccine connection. https://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2014/05/15/more-autism-parents-believe-the-will-of-god-is-behind-autism-than-vaccines/

          1. Name calling a scientist and autism father doesn’t negate his well referenced points. Just reflects on you.

          2. My use of the word ‘blogger’ on ‘said blog’, shows as ALWAYS, that you speak with quite uninformed and FORKED tongue; which certainly reflects poorly on you among independent scientists!

            Suz is a pebble in a big cog! I don’t care HOW reflective I am to the superficial like you. There is so much more at stake than your opinion of me, Dorit!

          3. My use of the word ‘blogger’ on ‘said blog’, shows as ALWAYS, that you speak with a scientifically inaccurate and forked and biased tongue!

            This certainly ‘reflects’ poorly on you, among independent [knowledgeable scientists with expertise AND MOXIE] researchers!

            Suz is a pebble in a big cog! I don’t care HOW reflective I am to the superficial such as you, Dorit!

            There is so much more at stake here than your opinion of me!

          4. You really shouldn’t take criticism of being in an echo chamber literally. There is an edit button if you want to add to your original post. No need to repost almost verbatim.

          5. Hmm! Unless mods released a previous HOLD, I don’t have a clue what you mean! I believe I said baIIs instead of moxie, if that’s the earth shattering post you speak of. I haven’t bothered to check if mods released the initial reply.

            For the most part, I’ve learned that most ‘holds’ don’t ever see the light of day, thank you, Verna! 😉

          6. Possibly because you removed the nearly duplicate post that you made about an hour previous to the one above. And no, it was not held up by moderators. It appeared shortly after Dorit posted her comment. Did you conveniently forget that you used the delete button on that one?

          7. I haven’t REMOVED or DELETED any of my posts. If there’s a near dup, it’s because mods held one back, so I retried the post without whatever I imagined they may have found offensive. The second one stayed pinned! Duh!

            Did you conveniently forget to schedule future, much needed sessions with YOUR CAT! Doh!

          8. That blogger is a PHd in physics and father of an autist. He has also done research related to autism.

          9. Name dropping, title touting and so do many, MANY individuals do extensive research in relation to autism, asd’s or autism-like symptoms, Kathy!

        1. Thanks for catching that, Dorit. I was just going to say Sherri’s comment looks like a mish-mash of an article and comments I read at Thinking Mom’s Revolution from last February.

          “I did intake for approximately 300 families with children with autism.”

          “vaccines don’t ’cause’ autism; they ‘trigger’ it”

          “step away from the kool-aid.”

          That very same article promotes chelation, which is an expensive waste of time.

          1. And dangerous, you’re right.

            Most children with developmental disabilities, what gets them better is a really skilled therapist and lots of work. If you hear about something when all you do is inject something or take a pill, it’s probably a scam.

    2. Vaccines are given at regular intervals throughout childhood, so I can say with 100% certainty that the onset of “autism” will occur within a reasonably short period following a vaccination. That is a correlation, not evidence for causation.
      Terminology like “sheeple”, “vaccine safety = oxymoron”, “koolaid” and deployment of gambits like pharmashill merely confirm you are one of the committed antivaxers, who is uninterested in any dialogue about the science or medical issues here.

      1. You’re as oblivious about the above, as you are the ‘terminology’ of being FORCED! Put your hackneyed hokum back in the can with your ‘koolaid!’

          1. And there’s Mikey, ‘sitting on a cornflake, corporation tee shirt!’

            And it’s ‘coo coo cachoo,’ suz, to you! 😉

          1. JESTthefacts is as witless as his parroting pal, with no original thoughts in his JOKE of a brain, and has again resorted to sophomoric spam! Nice trolling and puerile posting there Jester! 😉

      2. Autism also tends to occur after the first attempts at toilet training, but it would look too stupid to go after Big Potty.

          1. My cat has walked over my keyboard and produced more cogent arguments than many anti-vaxxers. I was beginning to think that they were kind hearted souls adopting brain damaged or physically challenged kitties and letting them play on the computer. This makes more sense.

          2. You would be wise to take some lessons from your CATS! For me personally, I don’t know any anti vaxers, Verna! 😉

          3. I clearly typed cat in its singular and not plural form. And yes, we can learn from cats. They cope with and show an ease with the differences they are born with without blaming those differences on vaccines. If you personally don’t know any anti-vaxxers, I suggest you seek help with your inability to recognize yourself.

          4. Don’t need or want your psycho babble, Verna dear!

            And keep your labels to yourself. Suz HATES needless, harmful & insulting stereotypes.

            I suggest you take up further sessions WITH YOUR CAT! 😉

          5. If you object to labeling and insults, then why are so many of your comments riddled with just that? Please talk to some adults on the autism spectrum sometime and really listen to how they feel about the hateful and insulting stereotyping that your side indulges in. Damaged by vaccines is probably the least insulting way they hear themselves described.

          6. I know exactly who I’m addressing and I STILL know better than you, even after a two year lapse on a.s., how adults with asds or autism-like symptoms FEEL!

            Suz doesn’t label unless a provoking individual warrants such! And believe me, there is no love lost between me and you neuro diversies! Ring a bell, Verna?

            No matter! I’m my OWN side! Now back to your CAT! 😉

          7. “And believe me, there is no love lost between me and you neuro diversies!” Your words exactly. You couldn’t have displayed your prejudice any more clearly and openly.

          8. Not prejudice! Suz is quite tolerant, with the exception of intolerance that harms others! So not prejudice, but animosity; of which I’ve never hidden, nor will I!

            It takes some real narcissism for hypocrites to crybaby over prophylactic intervention for vpds, but call the research for treatment and prevention of asd’s genocide.

            I draw the line of political correctness and gracious commentator decorum RIGHT THERE, Verna and I’ve NEVER said otherwise!

          9. Since you don’t even know what you said, let me spell it out for you. You wrote that you have no love for “neuro diverses.” Just what do you think autism is if not neurodiversity? And what are you babbling about research for treatment and prevention of ASD being genocide? Where did anyone say anything about that, or do random and disconnected thoughts just show up spontaneously as your type?

          10. Pffft! I absolutely know better than you, what I wrote!

            This commentary is NOT about neuro diversies! And you certainly are arrogant thinking that YOU could teach suz of autism and evie of neuro diversies.

            If you don’t get all that, tough! Now is not the time or place for suz to be schooling you on your deficient knowledge, wisdom and expertise on the neuro diversie issue, since the subject here is forced vax!

            Good night Verna Lang!

          11. The comment that we were rebutting before you waded into the stream was contending that vaccines trigger autism. How is that not related, however wrongly, to the main topic of mandatory vaccines? That is one of the main arguments repeatedly brought up by those who oppose vaccines. And no, mandatory does not mean forced. Thank you for the good night. It will bring a stop to your uniquely incomprehensible torture of the English language.

          12. Only in your addled brain, Verna! My comments were focused more on the ‘rebuttal’ of forced vax!

            You wrongly misconstrued what you wanted to see, simply as as a platform for your trivial bloviating.

            I hope the mods were able to straighten out your faux pas and fabrication over my deletion of a comment here. The entire world was awaiting the outcome of that cliffhanger!!!

            Aside from your CAT helping you consider some introspection therapy [psycho babble] on becoming a more tolerant and gracious living being, perhaps kitty will also assist you in grasping at least a modicum of human communication skills! 😉

          13. LOL. The queen of random capitals, incoherence, and inability to tell the differences between mandatory and forced is comparing my communication skills to hers? Funniest thing today. As for the great cliffhanger, I’m sure Dorit can produce the notifications of your two nearly identical posts, which were in response to one of her comments. It may help clear up your confusion. Oddly enough, your original comment was deleted after I posted my comment. Perhaps you should ask her for them as a reminder. You might want to be a little more polite to her than your usual vitriolic treatment.

          14. Neurodiversity means ‘different brain’. Neurodiversity is an irrefutable biological fact. Rejecting neurodiversity is not embracing the medical model – it is saying ‘ADHD/Autism doesn’t exist – it’s just bad parenting’

            I suspect you are confusing it with the neurodiversity MOVEMENT or at least your interpretation of the same.

          15. I’m NOT confusing anything! The word neurodiversity itself [utter psycho babble] is a neologism!

            I nicknamed the arrogant groups who are all manner of asd’s, but feel that individual wanting research for treatment and prevention of asd’s, equivalent to genocide, and hindering their ‘savantism’, as neuro diversies!

            And darlin’! After perusing some of your other fare, it looks like the term may also be quite applicable to you as well.

            Although another poster did try to derail the topic to include commentary of the neuro diversie movement, along with the elephant in the room, that vax causes asd’s, this article and commentary subject is about medical terrorism, adopting legislation for medical tyranny and the strong arm force to vax against the will of the people!

          16. The WORD neurodiversity may a neologsm. But the concept has existed a long time. Disorder is against order but there has to be an order for there to be against an order. Claiming neurodiversity is a myth is claiming that adhd is bad parenting, that autism is refrigerator mothers

            What you think of the neurodiversity movement and the neurodiversity paradigm is another matter entirely.

            Against the will of you, maybe. But I will remind you that the people did not sign the petition of repealing in sufficent numbers and as for the recall dr pan campaign…if it was so much the will of the people, you would think you would have had at least one signature.

            The will of the people does not mean you personally getting your way all the time.

            My definition of medical tryanny is making it so that people go home with an infectious disease rather than mickey mouse ears but there you go.

          17. I believe in neurology. The rest is psycho babble! Do try to stay on the topic of mandatory, FORCED vax and medical tyranny for now grasshopper!

            I can teach you all about diversity of ALL kinds, and TOLERANCE for such, on an appropriate form as time dictates, neophyte!

          18. You’re the one who brought the hypocrisy up.

            And frankly, autism isn’t infectious so no, it isn’t double standards – there’s a key difference.

            And your topic was forced medical tyranny. I stated that I considered an outbreak medical tyranny and explained what the will of the people actually was – your topic again.

            I don’t consider ‘vax or homeschool’ to be medical tyranny. ‘Vax or jail’ – yes.

            You’re shifting goalposts now.

          19. Nope! Kathy brought up neuro diversies! I pointed out the sheer hypocrisy of which there certainly is; even among those with asd’s!

            I tried to tell her, not the time or place for discussing neuro diversies!

          20. “Although another poster did try to derail the topic to include commentary of the neuro diversie movement, along with the elephant in the room, that vax causes asd’s, this article and commentary subject is about medical terrorism, adopting legislation for medical tyranny and the strong arm force to vax against the will of the people!”

            Your post. You brought it up before I did, even if another poster brought it up before you.

          21. Read MY comment directly above your erred reply. And then read my account within YOUR QUOTE of my remark where it states; that the subject is about ‘forced vax’ as is NOT about the derailed topic of neuro diversies!

            Neither did I bring it up, but simply responded to one who did!

            You’re not making sense darlin’!

          22. On the contrary, I am making plenty of sense.

            Then there is no discussion. No-one is forcing you to vax.

          23. Ah, I’m sorry. I misestimated my audience.

            Forced is gunpoint, vax or go to school is forcibly or coercion.

          24. More like, you’ve erringly underestimated your audience??? in your own grandiose arrogance. 😉

            A ‘forced’ surrender can be accomplished at ‘gunpoint’ or by any other number of persuasive and problematic acts that perpetrate persecution for a person or their family!

          25. “Vax or jail” vs “vax or homeschool!” Same thing for those who don’t have the financial means to have their children homeschooled! Hence the ‘strong arm’ use of coercion and FORCE!

            I also don’t play pretentious and frivolous internet games, grasshopper!

          26. Given that most anti-vaxxers are rich and white, I doubt that is a major concern. Coercion, sure. I wouldn’t personally call it force, though.

            And you could, I don’t know, start up a free satellite homeschool or get others to do the same.

          27. You remembered that I rehab wildlife. That is so special JESTthefacts!

            However, I digress! Spammy mememakers! For trolls like you, who arrogantly think they have a clue! But when push comes to shove, they search their brain for any semblance of a reply, & ‘nothing’ comes out!

            What would you illiterate forced vax war babies do without ’em!

            Thanks for more ‘spamories,’ JESTthefacts! 😉

    3. The doctors who published this study:
      https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2275444
      looked at over 95,000 mothers. Not one case of autism determined to be triggered by the MMR vaccine. There were also a large number of unvaccinated children included in the study who had the same incidence of autism as the vaccinated children. Many of the children were considered to be at high risk for autism because they had an older sibling that had been diagnosed as autistic. For future reference, anecdotes are not the same as data and correlation does not equal causation.

    4. Wow, that is really bizaare.

      I’ve met the mothers, fathers, and at least 50 different children with autism in the past 4 years. Not one of those families has ever said their child’s autism began “immediately after a round of vaccines,” or was triggered by vaccines. None of them do. That’s 100%.

      The only place I ever see that is Facebook, where I know you spend a lot of time, or somewhere else online.

      Here’s the rub. My son wan’t vaccinated until after he was diagnosed. His neurologist and geneticist concluded that his autism was caused by a very specific genetic deletion he inherited from me, even though I’m not affected.

      I am completely aware that this might not be the story you want to hear. I am only telling our story. Our TRUTH.

      1. Let’s hope that your son on the spectrum doesn’t have to come of age in a world where he will be exposed to the prejudice of vaccine deniers that equate his difference with a fate worse than death.

        1. I have never met one of those people IRL. I also haven’t told him he has the Mutant X gene.

          It’s not something I usually talk about, at all. The stereotyping and stigma is not a world I choose.

    5. Experts identified signs and symptoms of autism in video tapes of Michelle Cedillo well before the series of vaccinations. She was one of the test cases for the autism omnibus hearing. Other family members have also reported developmental concerns as an infant.

      Read the hastings decision foe more details.

    6. Common sense is knowing that you cannot trust your own eyes! Optical illusions are the proof as is a lady being cut in half.

  44. Again we see that those quickest to criticize vaccination are the quickest to prove their ignorance of it.

          1. That’s the good Brian, not the demented brian.
            The good Brian has the oft repeated and true catch phrase:
            “Again we see that those quickest to criticize vaccination are the quickest to prove their ignorance of it.”

            The anti-vaccine cultists constantly prove the validity of the saying.

          2. He also has a quite good anti-vaccine trope to rational English translator.
            I hope he posts it on this thread as it would be apt and most every trope has been posted by the anti-vaccine cultists.

          3. The only time you are right, you are going to hide your head ? And you stupid vaccinators say you are not weird.

          4. When I am proven wrong, I admit it. My comment was meant in humor but I did admit I was wrong about the Brians.

            Now, do you have some vaccination evidence to prove me wrong?

  45. By request, the anti-vaccine translator!

    When an anti-vaxxer says:
    “There’s never been a study about _____”
    It really means:
    “There’s been tons of studies, but none that confirm my way of thinking”

    “My child is vaccine-injured” = “My child has autism, which science has repeatedly shown isn’t caused by vaccines, but I don’t want people to know I’m a liar.”

    “Where there’s a risk, there must be a choice” = “I have no ability to make a proper risk-benefit analysis”

    “I’m not anti-vaccine, but…” = “I’m certainly anti-vaccine, and the next words I say will prove it”

    “It’s not about vaccines, it’s about parental choice” = “I don’t want people to know my true motives”

    “The science is corrupt and can’t be trusted” = “A quack doctor who makes money by deceiving gullible people told me that the science is corrupt and can’t be trusted”

    “#CDCWhistleblower” = “Science isn’t on my side, so I’ll try to get twitter to change it”

    “I’ve done hundreds of hours of research” = “I’ve done zero hours of research, and never once worked in a research laboratory, but I stayed up all night reading conspiracy blogs”

    “Vaccines didn’t eliminate disease” = “I don’t know how to read a chart”

    “Vaccines are full of toxic chemicals” = “I have completely forgotten high school chemistry”

    “Vaccine refusers are well-educated” = “I believe the best way to back up a false claim is by saying you’re smart”

    “Watch this youtube video/traceamounts/boughtmovie” = “I cannot discern between reality and nonsense”

    “You’re a paid shill for big pHARMa!” = “I give up”

    1. Aw! You sure wasted a lot of time on ‘hackneyed hokum’, Brian! Especially since I’m not seeing any ‘anti vax’ here!

      Sitting on a cornflake, corporation tee shirt! Coo coo cachoo, Brian! 😉

        1. And you wouldn’t comprehend it even if you were rational enough to do so! Ask Mikey! He eats anything! 😉

    2. There have been a million studies made by the prostituted and/or coerced scientists ( and pseudoscientists-like Paul Offit ) working for the junk medicine robber barons ( the vaccine and other junk medicine makers ).

      Watch ” Vaccines Are Not Safe ” on YouTube , about an interview with pseudoscientist allopathic doctor Paul Offit and a real scientist.

      1. fyi – eggman is still bitter because I once posted a satire article making fun of anti-vaxxers. He thought it was serious and started using it as a source.

        I’m not sure if he’s even figured it out yet. It’s rather telling when someone cannot distinguish reality from satire.

          1. Don’t be stupid. I never said that it was an alien UFO. I said that they were lights, like the Phoenix lights. But I said that they have to come from a more advanced civilization than the one that produces stupid pro vaccine people, because they were against VACCINES.

          1. from “Please Vaccinate Your Son Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake”

            I posted
            https://thespudd.com/california-prepares-for-huge-rise-in-autism/

            eggman replied:
            “Unbelievable, the stupid California government makes vaccinations mandatory, and the stupid California government prepares for a rise in autism. So they know of the problem, but they have to kiss the junk medicine robber baron’s ass.”

            Even after I told him it was satire, he’s repeated it multiple times.

          2. Oh wow, from The Spudd too? Their tag line is “science, health, satire.” Maybe that was too subtle for egg. He doesn’t seem very smart. I feel kinda guilty making fun of him. It’s just too easy.

      2. LOL @ “Real scientist” Boyd Haley.

        Remember when Boyd Haley was ordered to stop illegal marketing of OSR#1, a quack mercury detoxification treatment for autism?

        OSR#1 is an industrial chemical used for toxic cleanup.

        In Antivaxxer La La Land, vaccines = bad.

        Injecting kids with industrial cleaners and giving them bleach enemas = good.

        The logic is … hard to follow.

        1. What is this ? A propaganda prostitute with a good face. They are using the same marketing techniques as the used car dealers– bikini clad girls with nice faces. Why don’t you show us your bikini picture ?

          My uncle was an used car salesman and a drug company salesman. He told me that I was right ; doctors don’t know anything because he used to tell them what to prescribe. Maybe Dr. Offit got counseled by him–an used car salesman.

          1. Sounds like a drug salesman all right. Too impressed with themselves. My brother used to hire them. I asked him once what qualifications they needed.
            College degree? Yes
            In science? No

            He went on to say that then they get “trained” for 2-3 drugs. And they think they’re advising doctors, LOL!

          2. At least they get trained on something, not like stupid allopathic doctors pseudoscientists.

            Well, I take that back. They get trained on poisoning and injuring people.

          3. You lose. He was fighting with me and defending allopathic doctors, until finally he had to concede.

      3. Does that include the Cuban scientists working on vaccines apparently for the “junk medicine robber barons”? Someone should let Castro know that he and his scientists are such good little capitalists. Your real scientist Boyd Haley has a ranking that Paul Offit can never equal. Boyd Haley is #737 in the Encyclopedia of American Loons.

        1. The junk medicine robber barons have a prostituted encyclopedia, too ? ! It seems that prostitution is big business !!!

          1. Have you considered entering the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest? Your overuse of words like prostitute and clumsy phrases like “junk medicine robber barons” would make you a clear contender for a prize.

          2. I like to repeat things to make it perfectly clear for little brains like yours and your followers’ to understand.

        2. They showed on PBS a woman having a baby in the former communist country of Poland. She was lying down, the baby was pulled out with forceps, the umbilical cord was cut, circumcision was performed, the baby was separated from the mother, and he was given baby formula. If you are intelligent, you know that everyone of those things are wrong.

          Stupid pro vaccine people don’t understand that junk medicine has been with us for centuries, and all around the world.

          1. Just what does a comparison of a childbirth, with no explanation of the circumstances of the delivery, in a “former communist country” have to do with vaccine research and use in Cuba? If you are intelligent, you would realize that you are not even close to comparing apples and oranges there. Everyone one of those things are wrong? Want to run that by an Obstetrician to find out the frequency of those practices? In that time period? Many women choose formula feeding. Wasn’t my choice, but this is 2015. It is a woman’s choice, and if you can’t lactate, and it is not you pushing the baby out, you don’t get to dictate the issue. Circumcision at birth is unusual, but who doesn’t cut the umbilical cord? What do you suggest? Waiting for a delayed afterbirth and then chewing through the cord?

    3. Show me one independent study that shows vaccines are safe and effective. An independent study is one that does not have .gov or CDC in it. An independent study that has no ties to large pharmaceutical companies. Just one.

  46. This must be a record comment count on a single blog on the Aurora Sentinel. The vaccine debate surely pits monied vaxers (Big Pharm & its stakeholders) versus anti-vaxer ideologues who also tend to be anti-gubmint conspiracy whacks. Quite entertaining stuff. A true money and ideology clash of titans. However, money usually wins.

          1. ok. It just seemed from your comment that somehow this group was driving the “debate” against anti-vaxxers.

          2. Not at all. I realize there are nuances among pro and anti. Just a little before my time, polio was a big public health concern. Public swimming was forbidden in Denver’s Washington Park – Smith Lake. We were so happy a vaccine came out and there were big lines awaiting the shots. Some bad reactions, but the positives outweighed the negatives. Some parents refused to vaccinate their kids, and I knew one who got polio and ended up in an iron lung.

  47. I have noticed that my posts are not shown when discussing something important, as if they don’t want me to answer the propaganda prostitutes.

      1. That’s right. When I have an important point to make , they cut me off. On the other hand, their favorite propaganda prostitutes, like yourself, are free to go.

        1. I’m oh so anxious!

          Can you please provide your most important, rational, un-idiotic comment? Will it contain your obsession with prostitutes and junk?

          1. Since you are an idiot, you don’t know what idiotic is. Like a crazy person thinks that being crazy is normal.

            An idiot is someone that thinks that getting injected with ” GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” (VACCINES) is good for one’s health.

            Ah, but wait, maybe I am wrong, and you are just a psychopathic propaganda prostitute for the vaccine industry.

          2. Evidence that you are not a propaganda prostitute working for the junk medicine robber barons (The vaccine makers ).

          3. Again, your claim, your burden of proof. You don’t prove a negative which you would know with all your research.

          4. The burden of proof is on all the stupid vaccine freaks, like yourself and the people that up vote you, to prove that injections of ” GMO-putrefactive material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” (VACCINES) are good for health.

            It doesn’t matter that stupid allopathic doctors approved of it for centuries. For centuries, stupid allopathic doctors have approved of many stupid things, like : cigarette smoking, the woman lying down for parturition ( They still do.) , cutting of the umbilical cord ( They still do.), cancer causing stuff to cure cancer ( They still do.), drugs that disable and kill people, and so on. The public should be intelligent enough to understand the damage that has been done by stupid allopathic doctors. And they should also understand and admit that they have been stupid for believing in all the stupid stuff that has been thrown at them by the stupid allopathic doctors.

            The secret of improvement is to admit that you have been stupid when you have. Many great people in history have done just that. The founding fathers in their DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE made a declaration of previous stupidity.

          5. I’m still waiting on that proof I’m hired by a Pharma company. If your arguments have expiry dates, you should mark them.

            Ooooh half hour…so scary.

          6. The junk medicine robber barons are relying on George Washington’s ignorance about modern science to do propaganda ? We have come a long way since then. We have also come a long way in the number of treasonous snakes that are bent on psychopathicaly destroying our society.

          1. It is doing business for a prostituted to the junk medicine robber barons ( the vaccine and other junk medicine makers ) website.

        2. You would just post the same old trash you’ve been posting since you got on here: blah blah robber barons, putrefactants, mutagens, blah blah, prostitutes, yadda yadda, GMOs, more useless pasted shlt about UFO conspiracies, rainbow sprinklers, etc. How could I put this nicely? Nobody cares.

          1. Pastaprostitutarian, I don’t care that people like you don’t care. I welcome everyone like you to get as many VACCINES as possible. The world will be a better place without you.

      2. Hello Mike Davis, who has at least a dozen different names he posts under. Cathy, Brooke, ibid, kfunk, bishop, Ivan, watson, zogby, capt jack, el duderino, ..who else am i missing?

  48. I would like to find out if the stupid pro vaccine people can figure out why I say that the only real medicine is food, so you all go to the PBS show : ” ln Defense of Food “.

          1. He was banned under Justthefacts at Jeremy Hammonds site months ago, and came back there as morefacts, admitted he made up a new profile. So why is he posting under both names here? Did he get himself banned from here too?

          2. Nope. I screwed up and did the wrong login. They are very similar and I did notice until after a few posts. No sock puppeting here. morefacts is me.

        1. I screwed up and did the wrong login. They are very similar and I did notice until after a few posts. No sock puppeting here. morefacts is me

          1. I’m sure that happens to everyone that has two disqus profiles. I’m glad you finally noticed it after leaving 6 comments under your other name.

          2. I only needed it for one occasion. I’m canceling it to prevent confusion in the future. I only need one.

      1. MoreBS, you have to get a better picture, that one looks like your mama.

        I have never talked about chemtrails, but maybe I should because that is another good example, like VACCINES, about what I call ” civilized stupidity ” . In our stupid civilization they take care of a problem by making it worse: pollution creates a climate change problem, so throw chemicals on it by flying a plane throwing chemicals; malnourished and/or polluted children get sick, so make them more polluted and malnourished by injecting them with VACCINES; people get cancer, so lets give them cancer causing chemicals and cancer causing radiation to ” cure ” them.

      2. Morebullshit ( that’s you ) , I don’t call it ” vaccine conspiracy “. I call it vaccine civilized stupidity syndrome, because civilized people like you are capable of believing in such nonsense as the injection of ” GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” (VACCINES) being good for one’s health.

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  50. All of those in this forum that want to force medical procedures onto others against their will are enemies of freedom and violators of the Nuremburg code.

    1. No, you’re just a paranoid conspiracy theorist who flatly refuses to even try to understand the information you’ve been given as to why the ignorance you spout is ignorance.

      1. Why is it that you feel you have the right to dictate medical procedures onto other human beings? What makes you so much smarter then another adult whom as looked at the research and come to a different conclusion? If you think for a second that forcefully holding down someone and injecting them with a vaccine is not on the table, well, you are naïve. I for one do not trust the advice or moral fortitude from naïve people when it comes to my health and the health of my family. If you believe in vaccines so much, get them. Get them all; I don’t care. Not to mention the fact that your vaccinated kids shed the very virus they were vaccinated against. This is why when someone visits an immune compromised person in hospital they are asked if they have been recently vaccinated, and denies visitation fo that patient. No, I think the problem here is not an attempt for you to educate others to see your point of view, but to mandate against others will. I think this is a human rights issue, and I think you are an advocate for the violation of my human rights. Guess what; I won’t let it happen. If you people get away with stealing this fundamental, inalienable right by bullying and professing your shoddy science fraught with conflicts of interest, what will my children think of me? How can I look them in the eye when they have to get 300 vaccines, mandated by the state, by 2025? Think this is far fetched? It is not. History tells us so. You are a tyrant, and a bully that wants to impose your will onto others and steal away their God given rights. Period.

        1. The reason I look down on people like you is that you actually think you are educated, and your delusion to that effect not only means that you will never read and try to understand the replies to your assertions, much less fix your own actual ignorance; it also means that you willingly endanger other people.

    2. No-one is being FORCED to vaccinate. You can choose not to vaccinate. No-one is holding anyone down and forcing needles into anyone’s arm.

      However, you are being forced to face the consequences of your choice: the freedom to be a disease vector in public places is somewhat restricted. Oh boo hoo, poor baby.

      1. And those who do vaccinate their children and still have them come down with the diseases they are vaccinated for, will just have to deal with the consequences of using vaccines with known side effects, that are ineffective.

        “Reingold, who leads the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices group on pertussis, said he doesn’t know of any pertussis vaccine development in the pipeline.

        He also said that adding another dose of the vaccine at a later age wouldn’t help much, based on research that was presented to the ACIP group. “[An additional dose] would have very little impact on pertussis,” he said, “in terms of cases prevented.”

        “Pertussis is not going to go away with the current vaccine,” Reingold said.”

        https://kbia.org/post/whooping-cough-vaccines-protection-fades-quickly-0

        Dr.Witt, an infectious disease specialist has a study published in March of 2012 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. He says that the vaccine was effective about 50% in children in general but only 24% of the time in 8-12 year olds.Witt and his team surmised that the effectiveness of the vaccine wears off after 5-7 years, creating the need for additional inoculations. The CDC said that the booster has never been approved for use in 7-9 year olds.

        Unfortunately, drug maker Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), the manufacturer of the whooping cough vaccine, did not bother to perform long-term studies of its effectiveness. A company spokesperson confirmed this disturbing fact in an email to Reuters, stating that GSK never studied the duration of the vaccine’s protection after the shot was given to four- to six-year-olds.

        Dr. Tom Clark, a medical epidemiologist with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), also provided a troubling analysis of the situation. “It’s likely if we move doses around we’d shift the burden of disease, but not necessarily reduce it,” he said.

        Read more: https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323187#ixzz3OY3qnTky

        ‘KIMBERLEY MUMPS OUTBREAK’ (in Washington State)

        July 24, 2015

        “The East Kimberley experienced a Mumps outbreak in March 2015, this has now spread to Broome and surrounding communities. To date there are 49 confirmed cases with many more mild or cases that may have gone unreported. The ages of people affected range from nine to 22 years and all have received two prior doses of Mumps vaccine.”

        July 28, 2015

        Illinois- Over 70 cases Mumps

        Officials at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District say it started on the University of Illinois campus. Now, it’s spreading to others in the surrounding community. Many of those contracting the virus are vaccinated against it.”

        1. Ah, the University of Illinois campus, dear to my heart as my husband went there. Do you know how many students there are at the U of I, Urbana-Champaign, ione? I’ll tell you: 44,087 in 2015. And there have been 70 mumps cases? You do the math, no wait, you probably can’t. 0.15877% of the students there. A little more than 1/10 of 1%, a little more than 1 in 1000.

          1. You do know there is a lawsuit against the maker of the mumps vaccine for fraud right?

            ‘Merck is Accused of Stonewalling Over Effectiveness of Mumps Vaccine’

            “Specifically, the scientists complain that Merck is being evasive about the actual effectiveness rate, an issue that is at the heart of their 2010 lawsuit. As noted previously, the former virologists charged the drug maker knew its vaccine was less effective than the purported 95% level, and alleged senior management was aware and also oversaw testing that concealed the actual effectiveness.

            Rather than answer questions, Merck has taken an “evasive approach in its blanket refusal” to provide information effectiveness, according to a letter that an attorney for the scientists wrote last week to a federal court in Philadelphia overseeing the case. Instead, the letter says the drug maker cited data from nearly 50 years ago, when the vaccine was introduced, and that it is not possible to conduct new trials.”
            https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-270B-2044

          2. Yes, I know about the lawsuit. How could I not, as a regular on these boards? If Merck committed fraud, they should be called to account.

            However, this has nothing to do with the outbreak of mumps on the U of I campus.

          3. And you must know that Merck has an exclusive contract with our gov to produce the mumps vaccine for us, but meantime, while the court case is dragging out, the gov has funded a different facility to make a new mumps vaccine. Kinda gives you a hint to the outcome of the case.

            The researcher developing the new vaccine had this to say about the old vaccine..

            ‘UGA researcher developing new vaccine to fight resurging mumps virus’

            “The virus is always evolving and mutating, and new viruses will emerge,” He said. “It’s only a matter of time until the old vaccine we have doesn’t work. The current vaccine is commonly called the Jeryl Lynn strain and is named after the daughter of inventor Maurice Hilleman. It is based on a specific genotype of the mumps virus called genotype A.
            However, the 2006 and 2010 mumps outbreaks were caused by another strain, genotype G.

            Even more troubling is that most of the people who contracted mumps during the 2006 and 2010 outbreaks had received the recommended two-dose vaccination in their early childhood, meaning that the virus was spreading even among the vaccinated population.” https://news.uga.edu/releases/article/resurging-mumps-virus-vaccine-development-061312/

          4. Do you have a source for that piece of exclusive contract dependent on effective claim? Do not link to Mike Adams’ or any one else’s interpretation of the judgment/legislation/contract – link to the actual document.

          5. Antitrust, FCA Claims On Merck Mumps Vaccine To Advance

            “We are pleased that the court has upheld our federal antitrust claim in this important case. While Merck has enjoyed an exclusive monopoly on the sale of mumps vaccine in the United States, mumps outbreaks continue to occur because, as we allege in our lawsuit, Merck has misled the public about the vaccine’s efficacy,” Kellie Lerner of Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP, representing the direct purchasers, said in a statement. “This decision brings us one step closer to shining a light on Merck’s deceptive business practices so that new and more effective vaccines will ultimately be developed in the future.”

            Since 1967, Merck has been the sole pharmaceutical company in the U.S. licensed to produce mumps vaccine, and the company has long represented that the vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing the disease.”

            https://www.law360.com/articles/574389/antitrust-fca-claims-on-merck-mumps-vaccine-to-advance

            Did Merck Unfairly Monopolize the Market for a Mumps Vaccine?

            “The ultimate victims here are the millions of children who, every year, are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection,” the lawsuit filed by the virologists states. And while federal health officials have said the disease was supposed to have been eradicated by now, “the failure of Merck’s vaccine has allowed this disease to linger with significant outbreaks continuing to occur.”

            Last year, 438 people in 39 states in the U.S. were reported to have mumps, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From Jan. 1 through Aug. 15 of this year, 965 people in the U.S. were reported to have mumps, and outbreaks in at least four U.S. universities contributed to these cases. The agency website several hundred cases are typically reported each year.

            Meanwhile, the mumps vaccine was ringing the register at Merck, which reported that sales reached $621 million last year”

            https://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/09/10/did-merck-unfairly-monopolize-the-market-for-a-mumps-vaccine/

          6. The plaintiffs argue that, “by deliberately concealing information… about the efficacy of the vaccine, other potential entrants into the mumps vaccine market were precluded because of their presumption that the U.S. government would not create additional contracts for new vaccine products while the [Merck] vaccine had a 95% efficacy rate,” U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones wrote in his decision.
            https://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/09/10/did-merck-unfairly-monopolize-the-market-for-a-mumps-vaccine/
            Sia’s debunked.

          7. “You do know there is a lawsuit against the maker of the mumps vaccine for fraud right?”

            Yes, I heard that someone got upset with them and claimed that they said the vaccine was 95% effective when it supposedly was only 80% effective.

            How did the court case work out, Ione?
            Has there been a judgement yet?
            Ever thought about waiting until there has, before muck-spreading on the web?

          8. You are right Mike. I wouldn’t want to appear I am tarnishing Merck’s sterling reputation. They certainly don’t need my help for that.

            This is the same company that makes MMR11, (currently in court for fraud charges) MMRV, Hib, the very controversial HPV vaccine Gardasil, a Hep A & B vaccine, Herpes Zoster (shingles) and Pneumovax 23

            “In July 2008, Merck set aside a fund of $4.85 billion to cover all compensation claims and legal expenses arising out of Vioxx lawsuits.Merck paid $58 million to 30 state governments to settle anti-trust lawsuits that blamed the defendant of following deceptive market practices and providing misleading information on Vioxx side effects. According to Congressional testimony about Vioxx from drug safety experts, Vioxx alone killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War. Merck joins Pfizer and most other major drug companies in settling long investigations with prosecutors.”

            “Merck is expected to announce that it agreed to pay about $4.85 billion to settle a significant portion of the claims over injuries allegedly linked to its Vioxx painkiller, according to a person familiar with the situation, after insisting for years that it would fight all 27,000 cases filed rather than compromise…source WSJ2007 Sen. Grassley’s floor statement regarding the intimidation of scientists in drug-safety deliberations

            That hearing turned the spotlight on systemic problems at the Food and Drug Administration. We found that the FDA maintained a cozy relationship with the drug industry and suppressed scientific dissent regarding agency actions on drug-safety. At that Vioxx hearing, we also heard about Merck using its power, influence, and access to try and discredit FDA safety expert, Dr. David Graham.

            Merck also tried to intimidate Stanford researcher Dr. Gurkirpal Singh. The company warned him to stop asking for more safety data on Vioxx, despite the fact he was one of their consultants.

            What I am here to say today, is that attacks on medical researchers by the pharmaceutical industry must stop. And stop now.

            Until this practice ends, I want to let America’s scientists know that I am very interested in their concerns. Scientists should feel free to contact my office if a pharmaceutical company threatens their career or attacks their reputation when they raise the alarm about a possibly dangerous drug”

            ‘A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies’

            “We’ve followed plenty of controversies around drug trials, from ghostwriting, to keeping quiet about unflattering results. But the latest news is particularly eye-popping: A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies involving major drugs.

            The Wall Street Journal reports that he also falsified information about Pfizer’s Bextra and on Merck’s Vioxx…source WSJ

            Internal Emails of Merck Employees Revealed during Vioxx Trial.

            “Leo, As we discussed, attached is the list of “problem” physicians that we must, at a minimum, neutralize. Thanks to your group for submitting this information. I will circulate the attached spreadsheet to my team, Bruce Lesser, Greg Bell, and Bruce Freundlich for their comments and recommendations.”

            List of Problem Doctors-

            MacMillan, James DISCREDIT Strong recommendation to discredit him
            Mandell, Brian NEUTRALIZED
            Martin, Richard W.
            Moskowitz, Roland…

            Merck Fosamax Lawsuit.-Failed to disclose safety information regarding Fosamax side effects and to warn consumers adequately.

            Merck Propecia Lawsuit-Merck did not mention the side effects on the drug label in the United States despite such warnings by European regulators and consequent label changes in 2008.

            Merck NuvaRing Lawsuit-Merck downplayed the threat of side effects during its drug promotion campaign and did not warn users about the risk disclosed by European public health regulators.

            Merck Zocor Lawsuit-Marketed the drug without warning users about risks associated with it. Merck sold Zocor without warnings despite being aware that it is dangerous to human health.

          9. Thanks for admitting that Pharma companies aren’t immune from liability – again, this is so much easier when you guys make your point for me.

        2. Wrong. There are percentages between 0% and 100%. Just because something doesn’t work 100% of the time doesn’t mean it is 0% effective.

          Also, you forgot to factor in the R0 number and calculate CI.

          And forgot to account for relative vs absolute risk – 5th grade stuff.

          1. You have forgotten to account for this..

            Vaccine-resistant polio strain discovered
            https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141104111408.htm

            Hepatitis B: Immunologists discovered mutated vaccine-resistant viruses were causing disease
            Activity..https://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fulltext/2007/11010/Selection_of_Hepatitis_B_Virus__HBV__Vaccine.4.aspx

            Pneumonia, Meningitis Evolving To Evade Vaccines.These life-threatening pathogens are capable of evolving rapidly and developing genetic decoys that serve to disguise them from even the most powerful drugs…”https://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/317815-pneumonia-me…
            UGA researcher developing new vaccine to fight resurging mumps virus

            “The virus is always evolving and mutating, and new viruses will emerge,” He said. “It’s only a matter of time until the old vaccine we have doesn’t work.” https://news.uga.edu/releases/article/resurging-mumps-virus-vaccine-development-061312/

            Whooping cough may be becoming resistant to vaccines
            https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2013/02/08/whooping-cough-may-be-becoming-resistant-to-vaccines/1903439/

          2. You seem to lack an understanding of what “resistance” is microbiologically.

            Vaccine escape mutants of Hep B have existed for over 20 years. They very rarely cause problems, and are so rare still that if recorded, they are usually written up in the journals as unusual examples.

          3. Actually, no. The CI takes account of VE which in turn takes account of what the vaccine covers and what it does not.

            But you know all this – you’ve done your research.

      1. ‘National Adult Immunization Plan’

        “Adult vaccination rates remain low in the United States, and significant racial and ethnic disparities exist. In 2011, NVAC recommended the development of a strategic plan with the goal of improving adult immunization.The National Vaccine Plan (NVP), released in 2010, provides a guiding vision for vaccination in the United States for the decade 2010-2020. While the NVP serves as a roadmap for protecting all U.S. residents from vaccine-preventable diseases, historically low vaccination rates in the adult population and unique attributes of the adult vaccination delivery system highlight the need for focused attention on adult vaccination.”

        https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/02/06/2015-02481/solicitation-of-written-comments-on-the-draft-national-adult-immunization-plan

      2. I think that I will. How do you think those at the Hague would feel about this? Do you really think the descendants of a generation whom were experimented on with vaccines and other exploratory medical endeavors would support this philosophy? Will you next ridicule the Hague? I think you just did.

  51. Gupta: “We are here with Dr. Jon Poling, .he’s the father of Hannah Poling. Her case of autism diagnosis was conceded by the federal government as having been contributed to by vaccines. That was a pretty startling thing, I think, for a lot of people to hear. We talked to a lot of experts about this. They say vaccines in no way cause autism. You’re a neurologist. You’re also the father of Hannah. What do you say?”
    Poling: “I think you bring up a really important point. The government, actually the Dept. of Health and Human Services, conceded that my daughter’s medical problems, which are autism encephalopathy, seizures, were brought on by vaccination.”
    CNN interview 2008

    1. That turned out to be not entirely true. Her problem was brought on by fever. It could have happened with any fever.

    2. The Poling concession does not show that vaccines cause autism. Hannah Poling had a preexisting mitochondria disorder that many things could trigger, causing her regression. The government conceded that the fever she had from her vaccines may have triggered it – though most children with that disorder regress between one and two years regardless of vaccines.

      In the recent Holt case, the NVICP actually examined the evidence regarding mitochondrial disorders and vaccines, which it didn’t do in the Poling case. It concluded there is no evidence that mitochondrial disorders lead to vaccine injuries. See: https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccine-injury-compensation-and-mitochondrial-disorders/

      1. Thanks for the link to the Holt case, Dorit.

        To your point about the preexisting mitochondrial disorder: The Polings expert witness, Jon Shoffner co-authored a study with her father of Hanah’s case. Genetic testing found the girl has an mtDNA T2387C transition mutation. Mutations in this gene have been identified to cause mitochondrial encephalopathy.

        Shoffner also did a study of fever and autistic regression, explaining how some parents miss the signs of autism until a fever or regression makes it more noticeable.

        1. “Because purely genetic diseases do not rise precipitously, the corollary to a true autism increase is clear — genes only load the gun and it is the environment that pulls the trigger. Autism is best redefined as an environmental disease with genetic susceptibilities.

          We should be investing our research dollars into discovering environmental factors that we can change, not more poorly targeted genetic studies that offer no hope of early intervention. Pesticides, mercury, aluminum, several drugs, dietary factors, infectious agents and yes — vaccines — are all in the research agenda.”

          Jon Poling, editorial, Atlanta Journal Constitution 2009

          1. Time has proved Poling wrong.

            The “precipitous” increase in autism prevalence is mostly from diagnostic shift and broadening the criteria for an ASD diagnosis.

            There’s no longer any question that autism is genetic.

            This nonsense that “genes only load the gun and it is the environment pulls the trigger,” is an antivax myth. Prevalence is the same among vaccinated and unvaccinated.

            No Association between Vaccines and Autism
            https://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/new-meta-analysis-confirms-no-association-between-vaccines-and-autism

          2. When Neurologist Jon Poling gives a press conference saying vaccines do not trigger autism in some children I will believe it.

          3. No you won’t. Your a fanatic and you’ll never change you mind. It has been shown conclusively that thimerosal doesn’t cause autism and most other anti-vaxxers are starting to accept that.
            But not you.

          4. Thanks for the opportunity to post this again….

            Laws in 2004 and 2006 outlawed all but trace amounts of mercury in all California vaccines. Let’s look at the results:

            1970s = children received 25 mcg of thimerosal= Low autism

            2015 = children received only traces of thimerosal = High autism.

            Tell me, how is it that 25X+ more thimerosal in in the 1970s means low autism but “trace amounts” in 2015 means high autism? We are all ready to hear this explanation.
            Stop avoiding the question. You know you can’t answer this one. Why don’ you try to bring up the exemption again. That one is hilarious.

        2. Thank you, that really helps. I think the Holt case addressed the Shoffner study, and pointed to some limitations – both the case study based on Hannah’s story and one more study, though I’m not sure it’s the study you are referring to.

    3. The government conceded a table injury, meaning, the onset of symptoms was close enough in time it maybe, could have been caused by one of the 5 shots she got one day.

      Terry Poling explains there was no medical evidence ever presented in the case here.
      https://www.ageofautism.com/2013/11/rolf-hazlehurst-on-vicp-at-congressional-briefing.html?cid=6a00d8357f3f2969e2019b00f6331e970c#comment-6a00d8357f3f2969e2019b00f6331e970c

      She politely asks people to stop using her daughter’s story

    4. No matter how many times you say it, Hannah poling didn’t have autism. It’s a documented fact. All your ranting will never change that fact.

        1. and none of those cases re autism, Graceds. What did you expect me to say? Are you that delusional?
          None are autism. You just see autism everywhere based on your internet medical degree.

  52. https://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-17/news/mn-15871_1_measles-vaccine

    CDC Says It Erred in Measles Study
    Health: Agency failed to tell parents that one of two vaccines used on infants in L.A. during epidemic was experimental, officials say.

    A government-sponsored study of two measles vaccines, begun in 1989 during a major U.S. epidemic and conducted on nearly 1,500 minority infants in Los Angeles, failed to disclose to parents that one of the vaccines was experimental, federal health officials said Sunday.

    None of the Los Angeles children, most of whom are now 5, was injured by the unlicensed vaccine, the CDC said. However, similar clinical trials conducted in Africa and Haiti with the vaccine raised questions about its relationship to an increased death rate among female infants who received the more potent of two dosages being studied. Those children died within two years after the vaccination. In light of the questions, the Los Angeles study was halted in 1991.

    The inquiry into the measles research was conducted after a physician connected to a public-interest vaccine safety group raised questions.”

    A good reason not to dilute informed consent with legislative coercion.

    1. I remember the 1989 measles outbreak. Children died, many of them under 1 year old.

      The vaccine being tested, Edmonston-Zagreb, or E-Z, “had been used safely for decades outside the United States and that it had been recommended by the World Health Organization.”

      Where the researchers erred was not specifically stating in the consent form that Edmonston-Zagreb had not been licensed in the U.S.

      A good reason to fact-check every statement you read from antivax trolls.

      1. “The vaccine being tested, Edmonston-Zagreb, or E-Z, “had been used safely for decades outside the United States and that it had been recommended by the World Health Organization.”

        Wrong.

        The experiment in predominantly black children in LA was halted because of early deaths from the use of EZ in Africa.

        From the LA Times
        “…similar clinical trials conducted in Africa and Haiti with the vaccine raised questions about its relationship to an increased death rate among female infants who received the more potent of two dosages being studied. Those children died within two years after the vaccination. In light of the questions, the Los Angeles study was halted in 1991.”

        1. No, it’s not wrong.

          Edmonston-Zagreb, or EZ, is still routinely used in immunization programs around the world.

          The study was of using low doses for children under age 1 in the area where there was an active outbreak. That area happened to be primarily black. Questions were raised about safety after reports of deaths in other countries. That was sufficient for researchers here in the U.S. to halt the study .

          Testing low doses for infants continues. Here’s a paper from 2013
          https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X13011353

          1. “The measles vaccine experiment was only stopped two years after the director of one of the African sites warned the WHO and CDC experiment leaders in April 1990 that African mortality data raised a red flag about the high titer EZ vaccine. His reports were first ignored and then discounted and he was replaced as a principal investigator. After his mortality data was dismissed as incorrect for more than a year, with support from colleagues at Harvard, he published the mortality data in The Lancet in October 1991. WHO then called for all the sites to submit mortality data for independent analysis. The CDC has stated that enrollment for the LA study was halted in October 1991.”
            https://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/newsletter/vaccinereactionjune1996.aspx

          2. Your source is NVIC, a website operated by Barbara Loe Fisher.

            For those just joining, Barbara Loe Fisher has the distinction of being one person a judge has ruled you actually can call a liar.

            From the L.A. Department of Public Health, which, to my knowledge, no judge has ever said lies

            The causes of these deaths are common causes of infant and child mortality in Third World settings, e.g., respiratory infections,
            diarrhea and dehydration.
            Data from these, as well as other studies which did not find higher mortality post-vaccination, were reviewed during a two-day meeting organized by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), World Health Organization (WHO), in February 1991. Principal investigators of the major clinical trials of EZ vaccine and an international panel of experts attended the meeting and reviewed the data. The panel felt that the probability that the higher mortality was due to the vaccine was very low. reasons cited was the lack of biologic plausibility.

            Again, good reason to fact-check any comment you read from antivax trolls.

          3. This book from Harriet Washington, who is pro vax, will help fill you in on the details of the measles experiment, Watson.
            Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
            It is a scholarly work, with no political agenda, on vaccines or healthcare.

          4. “The biggest problem for public health officials vaccinating large populations of very young infants is that some of the infants have maternal antibodies to protect them from measles in the first year of life. These infants do not respond to the vaccine until they are older when maternal antibody levels have dropped. That is why the measles vaccine licensed for use in America is recommended to be routinely given to children at 15 months of age or older in order to maximize chances for a vaccine-induced antibody response. And that is why the EZ vaccine researchers used a high dose in the experiment – to see if it could overwhelm natural maternal antibodies.”
            High antigen, Watson.
            https://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/newsletter/vaccinereactionjune1996.aspx

          5. Barbara Loe Fisher, Graceds

            Fisher makes quite a few claims in her propaganda piece. She cites some supposed papers but doesn’t link them. She also, quite noticeably doesn’t give the title or PubMed number. This is a person well-known for citing studies that actually contradict her.

            I tried searching for the source of a few and found nothing.

            A good reason to fact-check any comment you read from antivax trolls.

        2. The use of orphans, disabled, and minority children to test vaccines has a long and sordid history that we are just now beginning to get the full story on. Like the discovery of a mass grave in a sewage tank of almost 800 children in Ireland revealed…

          “Over 2,000 care-home kids were secretly vaccinated against diphtheria in the 1930s in medical trials undertaken by international drugs giant Burroughs Wellcome, Irish media reveal. Among the testing sites was a recently discovered mass grave. . The reports come on top of a shocking revelation in Tuan, western Ireland, where a mass grave for almost 800 children was unearthed just a few days ago

          https://rt.com/news/164884-irish-baby-scandal-vaccines/

          There’s many more stories like these, here are a few…

          Report: Australia Used Orphans To Test Vaccines

          MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Children in orphanages were used to test experimental vaccines for diphtheria and whooping cough for several decades after World War II,

          Orphans Used In Tainted Polio Trials

          Sydney Morning Herald

          Monday October 25, 2004

          Gary Hughes

          A federal agency used babies in orphanages and children’s homes to test a new quadruple antigen vaccination that included polio vaccine possibly contaminated with a monkey virus since linked to cancer.

          Commonwealth Serum Laboratory records show the trials were carried out on babies as young as three months in five institutions between December 1959 and early 1961.

          Quadruple antigen, containing Salk polio vaccine, was not publicly released until November 1960.

          An investigation by the Melbourne Age, reported in theHerald at the weekend, revealed that millions of doses of Salk vaccine produced by the then government-owned CSL between 1956 and 1962 were contaminated with a monkey virus called SV40.

          Further development and use of the quadruple antigen, which also provided vaccination against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus, appeared to have been abandoned during 1962-63. Salk vaccine was replaced with Sabin oral polio vaccine by 1965.

          The Age revealed in 1997 that Victorian babies homes and orphanages had been used by several medical and research bodies, including CSL, for trials of a range of experimental vaccines.

          https://www.orphanages.com.au/orphanages-articles/2004/10/25/orphans-used-in-tainted-polio-trials/

          “Polio experiments conducted in the early 1960s at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. To determine the effect of different amounts of the vaccines, researchers at the hospital inoculated newborns from mostly lower-income black families with doses ranging up to more than 100 times the dose recommended for adults. The experiments took place over three years and involved 1,073 infants.”

          https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Rogue-virus-in-the-vaccine-Early-polio-vaccine-2899957.php

          Willowbrook State School-

          Dr. Krugman’s career came under a shadow in the late 1960’s after accusations that he had used retarded children at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island as human guinea pigs for his hepatitis vaccine research.

          From 1958 to 1964 feces was taken from children who had Hepatitis, put in milkshakes and fed to newly admitted children for experimentation purposes

          . https://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2011/10/24/willowbrook-how-the-government-abused-children-with-special-needs/

          1. And these tests are still killing children today as we speak…

            GlaxoSmithKline fined for unethical drug trials on infants in Argentina – 14 infants died during the trial.

            Following an investigation by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology, the Argentine government has fined GlaxoSmithKline the equivalent of roughly $93,000 for its handling of vaccine trials several years ago in which 14 babies died. The probe found the drugmaker and two trial investigators failed to heed proper informed consent procedures, The Buenos Aires Herald reports.

            The study, which was called Protocol Compas, ran in 2007 and 2008, and was designed to test the efficacy of Synflorix, which at the time was an experimental pediatric pneumonia vaccine…. But critics charged the study used children from poor families who visited public hospitals and were pressured into signing consent forms…

            The episode…contributed to the ongoing debate over the veracity of clinical trials conducted overseas, where there are varying standards of regulatory oversight… The issue has caused a stir India, for instance, where some 1,700 people who participated in trials died between 2007 and 2010, according to the drug regulatory agency, although no autopsies were performed to determine the causes of the deaths. In 2010, 22 families of the deceased were compensated by drugmakers, ranging from $2,000 to $20,000, The Washington Post writes…

            Last year, trials generated business worth $300 million in India, the paper writes, citing data from the Confederation of Indian Industry, but saves drugmakers nearly 40 percent of the total cost of drug development. “India is emerging as a hub for drug trials, and Indian patients are like guinea pigs,” C.M. Gulhati, editor of the Monthly Index of Medical Specialities journal, tells the Post. “The ethical review panels are bogus. The drug control authority approves almost all the trial applications without rigorous scrutiny. And poor, unsuspecting patients get duped, while doctors and hospitals earn money.”

            https://www.pharmalot.com/2012/01/glaxo-is-fined-for-vaccine-trials-in-argentina/

            World’s top drug maker Pfizer will compensate the victims of unethical clinical trial in the African state of Kano using its menigitis vaccine Trovan

            Trovan was introduced in 1998 and became a lucrative product for Pfizer, but it was later withdrawn in Europe and restricted in the United States after the drug was blamed for cases of fatal liver damage.”https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/africa/12nigeria.html?_r=0

            “As U.S. controls for clinical drug trials have grown more stringent, many companies have moved testing overseas, often to poor Third World countries. According to a National Institutes of Health database, ClinicalTrials.gov, some 60,000 clinical drug tests have been conducted since 2000, in 177 different countries outside the U.S. Those are just the studies that have been reported; countless more go unreported. Often the subjects taking part have no idea what they are participating in, are poorly paid, and simply sign their consent with an “X” or by leaving a fingerprint. Most such tests are conducted under strict ethical standards, but the very reason companies have moved so much testing overseas (poorly educated citizens, no fear of litigation in the event of problems), makes them attractive to researchers looking to cut ethical corners, or test high-risk drugs. In one well-known case, 49 babies in New Delhi died while testing new high blood pressure drugs.”

            https://listosaur.com/science-a-technology/top-10-unethical-research-programs-in-us-history/

          2. “And these tests are still killing children today as we speak…
            GlaxoSmithKline fined for unethical drug trials on infants in Argentina – 14 infants died during the trial.”

            Ione, thank you for your demonstration that antivaxers are uninterested in the truth, and merely regurgitate their copy-pasta antivaccine vomit propaganda to deliberately mislead people.

            The COMPAS trial in Argentina was a study which assessed the efficacy of a conjugated pneumococcal vaccine against placebo. There were claims of irregularities in the local informed consent procedures in some subjects, and this was accepted by the company who were fined over these irregularities.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4043495/

            However, the trial was a total success in clinical terms, and the vaccine was found to be very effective**. The antivaccine media whipped up publicity about one arm of the study where there were 14 deaths recorded. However, all these deaths were in the placebo arm of the trial, in other words they were in children who did not get active vaccine, and these children on investigation were found to have died of pneumococcal disease.

            By deliberately failing to point out this inconvenient fact, antivaxers like yourself hope to spark irrational fear about the effects of vaccines. This is intellectually dishonest and demonstrates your complete moral bankruptcy, when the opposite was shown to be the case – The vaccine prevented pneumococcal disease and saved childrens’ lives.

            Never believe what any antivaxer says – they always lie.

            ** The vaccine was 23.4% effective against any bacterial pneumonia, and 67% effective against Otitis Media caused by the strains covered in the vaccine, and 100% effective against invasive pneumococcal disease caused by strains covered by the vaccine.

          3. 🙂
            I know that, it is just that for some reason your post does not say who it is in response to.
            I usually add in their name so as to make that clear in case someone can’t track the thread comments properly, and often try to do a quote of their idiotic comment i am responding to so people can see what is going on, even if they can’t see the original post I am responding to.

          4. Mike Stevens the DR says “The vaccine prevented pneumococcal disease and saved childrens’ lives.”

            While actually this is what’s happening now…

            “The widespread use of vaccinations may trigger bacterial adaptations leading to antibiotic-resistant bacterial diseases and vaccine-resistant viral diseases.
            This can happen through several mechanisms. These include mutation (Hepatitis B vaccine), reversion to virulence (Oral Polio vaccine) or strain replacement (Prevnar 7).
            Strain replacement, in the case of Prevnar 7, meant that following widespread vaccination with Prevnar 7, other pneumococcal strains that were not included in the vaccine became much more likely to cause pneumococcal infections. One of these, 19S, was known to be multi-antibiotic resistant.
            ***Hemophilus influenzae cases also increased, filling in the niche that had been created by Prevnar, and about 40% of these infections are multi-drug resistant.***
            When Prevnar, a vaccine used against pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infections, was first introduced, it protected against seven pneumococcal strains, but was soon linked to an increase in rates of antibiotic-resistant infections due to 19S pneumococci and hemophilus influenzae. The vaccine was then modified to include 13 pneumococcal strains to combat the 19S problem. However, the new vaccine will not improve the increase in hemophilus infections, and may make that problem worse.
            In the United States ear infections, sinus infections, bronchitis, pneumonia and meningitis, which are often caused by pneumococcal bacteria or hemophilus, have become much harder and more expensive to treat because of increasing resistance to antibiotics.
            ***This is due in part to the widespread use of the Prevnar vaccine***

            https://vaccinenewsdaily.com/stories/510532734-pneumonia-meningitis-evolving-to-evade-vaccines

          5. “When Prevnar, a vaccine used against pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infections, was first introduced, it protected against seven pneumococcal strains, but was soon linked to an increase in rates of antibiotic-resistant infections due to 19S pneumococci and hemophilus influenzae. The vaccine was then modified to include 13 pneumococcal strains to combat the 19S problem. However, the new vaccine will not improve the increase in hemophilus infections, and may make that problem worse.”

            More deliberate misdirection, Ione.
            The new Prevnar vaccine covers the 19s strain – so no problems with that now. Thanks vaccines!
            And why you think a pneumococcal vaccine should help prevent an entirely different bacterial infection (Haemophilus influenzae, which is prevented by HiB vaccine) is a complete and utter mystery.

            But I am sure you will concoct some story about it; you antivaxers always do.

          6. That’s right ione, when shown to be a blatant liar just change the subject as fast as you can.

            Readers may now ask:
            Why do anti-vaccinationists constantly lie?

          7. Please feel free to point out where I lied, ..oh wait was it this you don’t think is true?
            Orphans used for vaccine experiments
            “The reports come on top of a shocking revelation in Tuan, western Ireland, where a mass grave for almost 800 children was unearthed just a few days ago”
            https://rt.com/news/164884-iris
            Nah, that’s true.

  53. “Patients who suffered brain damage as a result of taking a swine flu vaccine are to receive multi-million-pound payouts from the UK government.”…

    There’s no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Pandemrix increased the occurrence of narcolepsy onset in children in some countries – and probably in most countries,” Emmanuelle Mignot, a specialist in sleep disorder at Stanford University in the United States told Reuters.”

    https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brain-damaged-uk-victims-swine-flu-vaccine-get-60-million-compensation-1438572

    1. Yes, Pandemrix has. And this is how real vaccine problems are handled: they are front page news. No conspiracy to hide.

      The problem with Pandemrix is known – and it’s known why it did this. So it can be prevented.

      Nothing is 100% safe – but harms from vaccines are very, very, freakishly rare. Harms from not vaccinating – not so much.

        1. To remind you, these are vaccines used in 2009-2010. The link wasn’t known yet.

          The company may not want to acknowledge a link, but here, as elsewhere, we don’t depend on the company for it. We have data from other sources. Here, it showed the link exists. For other things, it shows it doesn’t. The system works.

      1. So how rare is it for a vaccine to be recalled after it has been considered safe to distribute to children? Ballpark figure?

        A common rabies vaccine for humans is being recalled in the United States and 23 other countries after a live strain of the virus was found in some other samples made at the same time.Testing of Aventis Pasteur’s IMOVAX vaccine uncovered the presence of a live Pittman-Moore strain of the rabies virus, when the drug “should not contain live virus,” the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

        Tainted flu vaccine could have been a health nightmare. Chiron’s Fluvirin vaccine was pulled after the potentially dangerous serratia bacteria was found in some lots. Congress is investigating the quality of oversight of the Chiron plant by the Food and Drug Administration. The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors also are investigating whether Chiron downplayed its problem in public statements. Officials at Chiron, which is based in Emeryville, and the FDA have yet to provide details about how the bacteria infiltrated the vaccine at Chiron’s British manufacturing plant. Nor have they revealed how much of the live bacteria or its dangerous toxins were found in the huge inventory of vaccine doses. The company was preparing to ship at least 46 million doses of its product, Fluvirin, to U.S. distributors

        2007 — The CDC and FDA today announced the recall of 1.2 million doses of children’s Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (Hib vaccine) due to concerns of product sterility, the concern is that the vaccine may be contaminated with bacteria

        2009—Alert: A meningitis C vaccine has been withdrawn because it was contaminated with a potentially lethal bacterium

        Thousands of doses of meningitis C vaccine were recalled after a contamination scare. The alert was sounded after tests found traces of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause blood poisoning. About 60,000 doses are being recalled, a third of which had already been delivered to GP surgeries and health clinics in the past month. It is not yet known how many have been given to babies.

        GlaxoSmithKline has recalled a lot of its H1N1 swine flu vaccine Pandemrix in Canada following complaints of adverse reactions from the vaccine, reports said.GSK has asked that the October batch of H1N1 swine flu Pandemrix be taken out of circulation because it produced serious and immediate anaphylactic reactions

        An increased risk of narcolepsy was found following vaccination with Pandemrix, a monovalent 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine that was used in several European countries during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder caused by the brain’s inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. There were over 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunised with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline.

        2011—Baxter Healthcare Corp. has announced it is recalling around 300,000 doses of its Preflucel flu vaccine due to an ‘excessive’ amount of adverse reactions. Recalled from thousands of pharmacies and surgeries across Europe, the 300,000 units are to be immediately withdrawn.

        2012—The typhoid vaccine called Typhim Vi made by Sanofi Pasteur was recalled this week (October 8), due to insufficient potency in 88 percent of its stock. Anyone immunized after January 2011 could have received the weaker vaccine that may not protect against infection, reported BBC News

        The ‘Infanrix Hexa’ vaccine which is given to babies under 6 months old for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B, poliomyelitis (polio) and Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) has been recalled due to a potential contamination by Bacillus cereus a bacterium which is known to be toxic to humans. GSK has stated that ‘there is no need to worry’ about health risks associated with the vaccine although they admit most of the 115,000 dosages had already been administered to infants throughout Australia.

        2014—A pharmaceutical company has voluntarily recalled a batch of vaccines for Hepatitis A due to quality issue, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).The affected product lots present safety risk and potential adverse health consequences,” the FDA said. The affected lot numbers are 3000060.08, 3000144.03, 3000144.06, 3000502.02, 3000734.02, and 3000734.04. The FDA instructed distributors, retailers, hospitals, pharmacies or clinics with the affected lots to discontinue further distribution, sale and use. Adverse reactions from the use of the recalled products may be reported to the FDA.

        1. It’s a little strange to use these recalls as showing a vaccine safety problem. These are all cases where a problem was discovered without anyone being hurt, and action taken to prevent it. It’s another layer of caution – and it works, preventing harms.

          1. “without anyone being hurt” Dorit says…so I take it she doesn’t think incurable narcolepsy is a harm inflicted on children, or the “excessive adverse reactions” from Baxter’s Preflucel was anything to write home about.

            From my post above..
            There were over 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunised with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline.

            2011—Baxter Healthcare Corp. has announced it is recalling around 300,000 doses of its Preflucel flu vaccine due to an ‘excessive’ amount of adverse reactions. Recalled from thousands of pharmacies and surgeries across Europe, the 300,000 units are to be immediately withdrawn

          2. I addressed the narcolepsy issue above.

            But in the U.S. Cases these are all preemptive recalls. Showing another safety check in place.

          3. Yeah, the flu vaccine has been known to take the life right out of you too..not to mention cause GBS. The flu vaccine was only 18% effective last year..

            From the Vaccine Injury Court-Date of Court Decision–Vaccine Name–Illness
            or Symptoms Link to Court Decision–Amount Compensated
            4/15/2014-Flu Vaccine–Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), Death Case No. 11-553V–$160,718
            11/15/2013 -Influenza Vaccine–Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), Death Case No. 09-653V–$400,000
            10/28/2013-Influenza Vaccine–Death, Transverse Myelitis Case No. 11-322V–$235,000
            10/21/2013-Influenza Vaccine–Death, Guillaine-Barre Syndrome (GBS) Case No. 11-144V–$126,000
            8/21/2013-Influenza Vaccine–Death; Pneumonia; Sepsis; Systemic Inflammatory Response Case No. 12-775V–$225,000
            1/16/2013-Flu Vaccine-Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), Transverse Myelitis, Death Case No. 09-552V-$200,000 10/18/2012-Flu Vaccine–Death, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)Case No. 10-123V–$235,000
            5/15/2012-Flu Vaccine–Death, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)Case No. 10-620V–$125,000
            3/23/2012-Influenza Vaccine–Death; Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)Case No. 09-767V–$100,000
            1/5/2012-Influenza Vaccine–Death, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)Case No. 10-364V–$350,000
            11/16/2010-Influenza Vaccine–Death Case No. 09-707–$250,000

          4. Flu vaccine is usually 50-60% effective, Ione.
            Are you one of those Nirvana fallacists, who considers something that is not 100% effective useless?

            Why do you cite the season with the lowest ever vaccine effectiveness and present it as though it is the norm?
            You wouldn’t be trying to intentionally deceive readers, would you?

          5. Lest we forget, they’re working to develop safer and more effective flu vaccines. If they’re trying to poison us with a vaccine designed not to work, they sure seem to be going about it in a strange way.

          6. There is no medical evidence the flu vaccine causes Guillain Barre Syndrome The court settles these cases today, but don’t expect that to continue.

            For perspective, up to 30,000 Americans die from influenza and pneumonia (a common complication of influenza) during any given year.

          7. I love the British use of (sarcastic) understatement. It goes well with the hilarious dry humour.

        2. These are instances of good pharmacovigilance, thanks to which children have remained safe.
          Thanks for pointing these excellent examples out to us, Ione.

  54. Trust us.

    A discussion of the CDC presentation of a pivotal Vaccine “safety” study
    DR. THOMPSON: Nothing pissed me off more than him doing that at the IOM Meeting. Saying, “I now work for a drug manufacturer.”
    DR. HOOKER: Yeah. He basically resigned on stage.
    DR. THOMPSON: And it was a total slap in the face. It’s just like, how insulting would that be to these people who are looking for an unbiased viewpoint?
    DR. HOOKER: Right. Well yeah. It had, it had a dramatic chilling effect. Let’s put it that way.
    DR. THOMPSON: Well. I wouldn’t believe another word coming out of someone’s mouth who, on stage says, “Oh, and today I accepted a job with a drug manufacturer.”

    From transcript discussing Verstraeten presentation to IOM for CDC.
    Verstraeten announced he was a Glaxo employee immediately before the presentation.
    Vaccine Whistleblower, by Kevin Barry

      1. You are referencing the Hooker study.
        The comment made was about the reliability of the Verstraeten study, since he announced he was a new Glaxo employee immediately before his presentation.

        1. That doesn’t actually negate any of the many, many, many studies that looked at thimerosal in vaccines – from all around the world – and found no harm from it.

        2. You are clearly referencing Drs. Thompson and Hooker, who along with Andrew Wakefield perpertrated the CDC Whistleblower hoax.

          I can’t think of two people whose opinion matters less.

          1. Your opinion of them doesn’t change the fact that Verstraeten effectively resigned at the beginning of his presentation to the IOM.
            If that doesn’t ring any alarm bells for you it should.

          2. I’ve seen it repeated in at least 3 books and dozens of conspiracy sites.

            Some might call that disclosing a job offer which he chose to accept. Not disclosing it would have raised an alarm.

            As Dorit mentions below, where is the flaw in his research or methodology? Many studies that looked at thimerosal in vaccines – from all around the world – found no harm.

            By the way, that includes this one

            Anti-Vaxxers Ironically Fund Study That Finds No Link Between Vaccines And Autism

            https://www.medicaldaily.com/anti-vaxxers-ironically-fund-study-finds-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-356232

      2. Ms Reiss
        The documents CDC scientist Dr William Thompson turned over to Congress have not yet been made public.

      3. Thank you, Dorit, and thanks to Matt Carey who isn’t in these comments.

        A tireless crusader for the truth.

        1. Wasn’t she on the list, along with the many biased and trash talking blogger sites she normally links to for reference, for astroturfing!

          1. Yes, anti-vaxxers have declared Dorit to be one of their major (and imagined) “enemies” because she uses such despicable and unfair weapons as reason, logic, fact, and evidence in her writings. How awful.

          2. Aw! Only the majority of what you forced vaxers call antivax, are simply vax choice or oppose medical tyranny!

            Factually, Dorit is listed a big player in astroturfing , for deceitfully ‘professing’ to have vast science and medical knowledge, when actually she gets her data from the same activist PACs, biased & bawdy blogs [which she loves to link as citations for valid science] and special interest groups that coached pan during the hearings!

            Ione had submitted several links on the subject for any impartial and interested readers, but with the ‘group flag’ mentality of many immature posters who’ve showed up in this commentary, her links were quickly removed.

            So I’ll refrain from posting links, and allow readers to google for themselves.

            It IS ‘awful’ that such corruption and duplicity can all be wrapped up in the judas kiss avatar giving the appearance of a caring, TOLERANT and sweet looking
            individual and the most adorable infant, whose cheeks you could pinch all day long!

            Due diligence parents. Don’t censor your own homework due to intimidation of ‘pressure’ groups, or the staged display of what seems unpretentious and patriarchal!

            Lastly, with informed knowledge AND informed consent, you can keep the control as administrator for the protection of your family unit where it belongs; within the family and NOT in the hands of the govt.!

          3. Plus Prof. Reiss is unfailingly, incredibly patient, empathetic and polite.

            Antivaxxeers appear to find that “problematic.” 😉

          4. “Antivaxxeers appear to find that “problematic.” ”

            That is.. brilliant, kfunk.

            You win the interwebs today. 🙂

        2. He is. A scientist, wonderful autism dad, and fighter for children, the autism community and science. a real hero.

      4. Wonderful.
        Thanks to you and Matt Carey.

        And as the lbrb article makes clear, these anti-vaccine leaders have merely done what they always do –
        – Quotes out of context
        – Cherry picking
        – Hiding and not mentioning inconvenient information they’d rather their marks not see and be aware of.
        IOW – complete dishonesty. And, as noted, they are the ones who are constantly ranting about transparency when they are the ones actively hiding important information that conflicts with their dishonest narrative.

        As my father taught us all a young kids – “When someone is pointing with one hand and yelling “Thief!”, you’d better be watching where his other hand is as he is most likely picking your pocket.”

  55. I keep asking this question and never ever get an answer. I keep asking anti-vaxxers to explain to me exactly why being Autistic (that 1 in 68 figure includes all autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger’s and since it includes Asperger’s, it includes me.) is such a terrible fate that they’re willing to risk not only their kid’s lives but the brand new baby next door, the 3 y/o cancer patient down the street and the elderly man at the end of the block who is at risk at the best of times.

    I never ever get an answer – the closet I got to a response was an attempt at explaining how hard it was to raise a kid on the spectrum. Note that I specifically asked about disabled child. Not the question I asked.

    I never get an answer to my actual question – I wonder why?

    1. Because autism destroyed the myth of the perfect family. Because they blame vaccines, they get to feel sanctimonious about what could have been or what might be, as they indulged in every crackpot “cure” they can find. They will never admit to this, however, as it indicates they are selfish.

      1. So you define someone who weighs the risks and benefits of a particular vaccination or the Vaccine schedules and comes to different conclusions than you as selfish?
        How intellectually dishonest.

          1. Some of us want the right to choose whether we vaccinate ourselves or our families, based on our own assessments of individual vaccines and the Vaccine schedule, and the risk posed.
            It is an issue of bodily integrity, and informed consent for medical procedures.
            This is important so that corporate interests don’t predominate.
            Hope that helps.

          2. School immunization mandates allow you to continue to choose not to vaccinate your children – based on no evidence, as you demand. They just limit your ability to expose others to the same risk you choose for your child.

            And by increasing immunization rates, they also improve herd immunity, hence protecting the unvaccinated children who have to rely on it for its protection.

          3. Right…because the pigglywiggly and the matinees have kids for around 6 hours a day during term-time and have around 30 kids in the same room at the same time. And schools have a few occasional visits of children.

            Oh, wait, it’s the exact opposite.

          4. This is controversial.
            As you can see by the many reponses on this subject.
            Social and economic coercion of vaccination provides a profit pipeline for manufacturers.
            That may be good for Glaxo, but is it good for every child or adult?
            Clearly not.

          5. It’s not the company promoting school immunization mandates, but governments at state level or other actors (like this editorial board) at the state level. That’s because it protects children and the public health.

          6. Not really. Serious harms from vaccines are extremely rare. The risks of not vaccinating are much larger. And again: if you think the risk is big, you can continue not to vaccinate. Just keep the child out of school so your choice won’t force a risk of others who did not make that choice. And the improvement in herd immunity will help that child be protected from paying the price for that choice.

          7. Again, home schooling is not an option for most families.
            With your viewpoint, you wouldn’t ever take your child to Disneyland for fear of exposure to a partially vaccinated child.
            Your stance is rabidly excessive,.

          8. Not really. First, homeschooling may be a hard choice. That doesn’t mean it’s not an option.

            Second, exposure in the close-connection school environment is different than casual contacts. Schools are areas of high transmission.

          9. Anti-vaxxers are biased towards the wealthier end of the SES.

            Pick an anti-vaxxer at random, pick another person at random. It’s not that most people can homeschool, it’s that most anti-vaxxers can homeschool.

          10. And yet so many anti vax groups are affluent (that means off financially), educated (i use that term loosely) and tend to cluster in communities. Easy enough to start homeschooling.

          11. What you want is choice without consequences.

            If a parent chooses not to vaccinate their kids, God bless them, that’s their choice. Whether those children can attend public school, that choice is for the Legislature to decide.

            School vaccination requirements are neither excessive nor overly burdensome.

          12. The legislature is a ridiculous venue for medical decisions.
            Pharma is the biggest lobbyist in the world.
            Corruptor, meet corruptee.

          13. The Legislature has the right to set public health standards.

            The reason you don’t like that is because you cannot win public opinion, cannot win elections, and cannot hope to prevail if the issue is decided by the people.

          14. It’s a basic human right to not be coerced into injections.

            Congratulations on your Charlie Sheen attitude.
            It’s not always about “winning”.

          15. Bless your heart […]

            Guessing you’re Southern, or know some closely. I’ve some of those relatives, myself. There’s a thing about being able to interpret the subtleties of regional dialect that just whooshes over the heads of a great deal of the audience. As in, “bless.” 😉

            Notwithstanding, your point is well-met. No one is breaking down doors, forcing vaccinations. Freedom of choice still prevails. As with other choices, however, there may be consequences. As in, go ahead and skip vaccines, or stretch out the schedule. But don’t expect anyone else to bear the risks imposed by your choice (I’m conflicted on how or why parents making bad decisions for their children are allowed to do that, see for instance, Heather Dexter, the anti-vax pro-whooping-cough-mom doula (and that should really scare you)). I’ve no problem with those consequences.

          16. It’s a code phrase.

            Good point about stretching out the schedule. Parents still have that choice too. Just by the time they start Kindergarten, these are the shots kids need to have.

            Heather Dexter. The mom who let her kids suffer with whooping cough for 6 months and tried treating it with enemas. Yeah. Bad decision.

          17. Oh, I’m so glad you brought that up, Graceds. My favourite is article #27 where it sets out the responsibilities an individual has towards their community.

          18. Problem with that is that an outbreak of say, Measles, in a hypothetical enclosed place like…say, an amusement park made far more $$$$ for Big Pharma than the vaccine does.

          19. Then don’t take your babies to the parks, the libraries, the grocery stores or the movies!

            What we want is choice without corruption which is apparently rampant in ca. ! I know that’s a foreign concept to you, Cathy!

            When there were exemptions such was true. Now it’s NOT!

          20. Typical anti-vaxxer narcissism from Scuz:

            “Us anti-vaxxers have the inalienable right to be out and about spreading diseases and endangering others. You need to keep your baby shut inside the house to accommodate us.”

          21. No one says that homeschooling is an option for most families. Just that stastically, anti-vaxxers are more likely to be able to homeschool.

            1)Most families can’t homeschool
            2)Anti-vaxxers do not make up most families
            3)Anti vaxxers are more likely to be able to homeschool than a family selected at random,

          22. Problem being families are not statistics, and statistics are not a good reason to give up human rights.

          23. Your understanding of human rights is a little confused.

            You don’t have the right to put others at risk of an infectious disease. I think that was decided a century ago.

          24. Whether it’s good enough for you and whether it’s an afterthought is irrelevant – the law still allows that.

          25. That means there is coercion.
            Many can’t homeschool, especially lower income families who need two incomes.
            There is no reason to keep a healthy child out of school.

          26. That is an opinion held by a diminishing minority.

            Most people, as in 68% of U.S. adults, agree that all children should be required to be vaccinated.

            We just had this debate in California and it was pretty clear, yours is not a winning argument.

          27. Not in the California legislature.
            Sometimes the lobbyists win.
            Doesn’t mean we’re all willing to sit at the back of the bus.

          28. The decision by the California Legislature was supported by 70% of California voters.

            The referendum failed. The recalls failed. Every attempt to overthrow the will of the people failed. Go ahead and say it was only the lobbyists.

          29. Also, about that constitutional right, do you guys even know what an exemption is?

            “the action of freeing or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.” – a,k.a, – you’re asking to be an exception to the rule and the school can say ‘no’.

          30. The legislature in cali is clearly indicative of our FLAWED law FACADES in this proud and previously FREE nation!

          31. Wrong! The corruption over the course of the hearings were conspicuous and arrogantly audacious!

            Graceds offered a vid of only ONE such corruption. Go back and count the remainder of the flawed law faux pas, rope-a-dopes and razzle- dazzle shell games!

          32. I’ll just leave this here.. as this seems like (yet) another appropriate juncture where scuz’ braying is concerned..

            “It will bring a stop to your uniquely incomprehensible torture of the English language.”

            … …

            No need to wonder, scuz.. still trollalota non grata.

            And I exert the bare minimum of energy when it comes to you, suffice to say.

          33. Har d har! Surely you joke, Nancy!

            The person who dumped the slop which you quote above would have a field day critiquing your illiteracy!

            In fact, I think they should do so simply for posterity, since one never knows when disqus may again powerwash your current & fudged acct. of 1303 comments, just as they had during your previous disqus powerwash, with loss of your posts on every single disqus site, and your loss of over 2500 comments.

            You know, as in ‘get em before they’re GONE,’ again, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

          34. If it’s obvious and audacious, they’ll have got caught and you’ll be able to provide evidence of a higher standard than natural news et al.

          35. The Supreme Court upheld the right to return slaves to their owner.
            This is a human rights issue to bodily integrity.

          36. This isn’t 1840 anymore.

            Don’t want to vaccinate your kids, then don’t. Bodily integrity problem solved.

          37. There is no human rights issue.

            Still, if you don’t want to vaccinate your kids, then don’t. Problem solved.

          38. What about the human rights of those who don’t want to be put at increased risk of getting diseases thanks to the unvaccinated spreading them?

          39. “Unvaccinated spreading.
            Interesting concept.”

            Very glib and very stupid remark. How do you think diseases were spread before the vaccines?

          40. Since you’re asking,
            Many of the vaccines we mandate for children aren’t about spreading disease.

            “IPV (inactivated poliovirus vaccine) cannot prevent transmission of poliovirus (see appendix for the scientific study, Item #1). Wild poliovirus has been non-existent in the USA for at least two decades. Even if wild poliovirus were to be re-imported by travel, vaccinating for polio with IPV cannot affect the safety of public spaces. Please note that wild poliovirus eradication is attributed to the use of a different vaccine, OPV or oral poliovirus vaccine. Despite being capable of preventing wild poliovirus transmission, use of OPV was phased out long ago in the USA and replaced with IPV due to safety concerns.

            Tetanus is not a contagious disease, but rather acquired from deep-puncture wounds contaminated with C. tetani spores. Vaccinating for tetanus (via the DTaP combination vaccine) cannot alter the safety of public spaces; it is intended to render personal protection only.

            While intended to prevent the disease-causing effects of the diphtheria toxin, the diphtheria toxoid vaccine (also contained in the DTaP vaccine) is not designed to prevent colonization and transmission of C. diphtheriae. Vaccinating for diphtheria cannot alter the safety of public spaces; it is likewise intended for personal protection only.

            The acellular pertussis (aP) vaccine (the final element of the DTaP combined vaccine), now in use in the USA, replaced the whole cell pertussis vaccine in the late 1990s, which was followed by an unprecedented resurgence of whooping cough. An experiment with deliberate pertussis infection in primates revealed that the aP vaccine is not capable of preventing colonization and transmission of B. pertussis (see appendix for the scientific study, Item #2). The FDA has issued a warning regarding this crucial finding.[1]
            Furthermore, the 2013 meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors at the CDC revealed additional alarming data that pertussis variants (PRN-negative strains) currently circulating in the USA acquired a selective advantage to infect those who are up-to-date for their DTaP boosters (see appendix for the CDC document, Item #3), meaning that people who are up-to-date are more likely to be infected, and thus contagious, than people who are not vaccinated.

            Among numerous types of H. influenzae, the Hib vaccine covers only type b. Despite its sole intention to reduce symptomatic and asymptomatic (disease-less) Hib carriage, the introduction of the Hib vaccine has inadvertently shifted strain dominance towards other types of H. influenzae (types a through f).These types have been causing invasive disease of high severity and increasing incidence in adults in the era of Hib vaccination of children (see appendix for the scientific study, Item #4). The general population is more vulnerable to the invasive disease now than it was prior to the start of the Hib vaccination campaign. Discriminating against children who are not vaccinated for Hib does not make any scientific sense in the era of non-type b H. influenzae disease.

            Hepatitis B is a blood-borne virus. It does not spread in a community setting, especially among children who are unlikely to engage in high-risk behaviors, such as needle sharing or sex. Vaccinating children for hepatitis B cannot significantly alter the safety of public spaces. Further, school admission is not prohibited for children who are chronic hepatitis B carriers. To prohibit school admission for those who are simply unvaccinated – and do not even carry hepatitis B – would constitute unreasonable and illogical discrimination.

            In summary, a person who is not vaccinated with IPV, DTaP, HepB, and Hib vaccines due to reasons of conscience poses no extra danger to the public than a person who is. No discrimination is warranted.”

            An Open Letter to Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD in Immunology

          41. Can discrimination against families who oppose vaccines for reasons of conscience prevent future disease outbreaks of communicable viral diseases, such as measles?

            Measles research scientists have for a long time been aware of the “measles paradox.” I quote from the article by Poland & Jacobson (1994) “Failure to Reach the Goal of Measles Elimination: Apparent Paradox of Measles Infections in Immunized Persons.” Arch Intern Med 154:1815-1820:

            “THE APPARENT PARADOX IS THAT AS MEASLES IMMUNIZATION RATES RISE TO HIGH LEVELS IN A POPULATION, MEASLES BECOMES A DISEASE OF IMMUNIZED PERSONS.”[2]

            Further research determined that behind the “measles paradox” is a fraction of the population called LOW VACCINE RESPONDERS. Low-responders are those who respond poorly to the first dose of the measles vaccine. These individuals then mount a weak immune response to subsequent RE-vaccination and quickly return to the pool of “susceptibles’’ within 2-5 years, despite being fully vaccinated.[3]
            cannot correct low-responsiveness: it appears to be an immuno-genetic trait.[4] The proportion of low-responders among children was estimated to be 4.7% in the USA.[5]

            Studies of measles outbreaks in Quebec, Canada, and China attest that outbreaks of measles still happen, even when vaccination compliance is in the highest bracket (95-97% or even 99%, see appendix for scientific studies, Items #6&7). This is because even in high vaccine responders, vaccine-induced antibodies wane over time. Vaccine immunity does not equal life-long immunity acquired after natural exposure.

            It has been documented that vaccinated persons who develop breakthrough measles are contagious. In fact, two major measles outbreaks in 2011 (in Quebec, Canada, and in New York, NY) were re-imported by previously vaccinated individuals.[6] – [7]

            Taken together, these data make it apparent that elimination of vaccine exemptions, currently only utilized by a small percentage of families anyway, will neither solve the problem of disease resurgence nor prevent re-importation and outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases. ”

            An Open Letter to Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD in Immunology

          42. No because discrimination applies to things that aren’t a choice. You made the CHOICE to leave your kid unvaccinated.

          43. Lower income families who need two incomes set and the anti-vaxxer sets don’t really overlap.

            “There is no reason to keep a healthy child out of school.” – it’s really simple. People are contagious before they’re sick.

            Infectious dose is a really cool subject as are prodromal and incubation periods.

            In the early stages, there isn’t much that differentiates a cold from diseases that are more serious.

            It’s a case of choosing to reduce the risk of diseases in schools other than the usual run-of-the-mill ones.

            But of course this will all be familiar to you since you’ve done your research.

          44. Welcome to the modern era, where we do indeed have to require regulations for safety. Little things like seat belts, food safety regulations, mandatory education standards, sanitation and health requirements — including vaccinations.

          45. Because you all know so much more than anyone who spent a career studying and investigating vaccines.

          46. Yes, let’s trust “science”.
            “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
            Dr Marcia Agnell, the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth.

          47. Argument ad filmum. Good grief. Not a source, any more than a cartoon on the telly.

            Not asking for an explanation — asking for evidence.

        1. Being intellectually dishonest would be coming to a different conclusion by deliberately ignoring the vast compendium of evidence compiled from uncountable sources worldwide, including verified and duplicated test results on thousands and even millions of human test subjects across the entire world, all with data meticulously gathered over the course of decades. The only way to come to a different conclusion is to pretend it’s all a giant, vast conspiracy by an evil monster that secretly controls the entire scientific and governmental organization of every country in the world. Yet, anti-vaxxers do that, and come to their own conclusions as a result. That is being intellectually dishonest.

          1. Calling people who don’t support state coercion of vaccination policies antivaxers is intellectually dishonest.
            Pretense is pretending that vaccines are safe for everyone, when in fact, no one can predict who will be harmed or killed by a Vaccine.

          2. Wrong. It’s called medical contradictions and medical precautions. PRETENDING the claim is 100% safety and 100% effectiveness is also intellectually dishonest.

            Fine, then. Those of you who don’t support state coercion of vaccination policies: Are there any risks of vaccines that you would accept? For example, say there was a vaccine that caused a simple low-grade fever in say, 3% of kids who got it and that was it – what do you think of this hypothetical vaccine?

          3. For my family under certain circumstances, I might vaccinate.
            But I believe it should be everyone’s choice, without state coercion to weigh the risks and benefits for themselves, because the family bears the burden when things go badly.

          4. So you might vaccinate under certain circumstances – what circumstances?

            Describe to me a vaccine versus disease risk ratio that you would personally vaccinate for The vaccine does not have to currently exist.

            Describe to me a vaccine efficacy level that you’d personally accept and would personally vaccinate your kid for.

            Say, the vaccine caused fever in 3% of kids and that was it and the disease caused encephalitis 80% of the time and there’s no question of funding bias because it came from health impact news or wherever so if anything, you’d expect funding bias to go the other way…would you personally vaccinate for this hypothetical disease?

          5. You said under some circumstances – all I’m asking is for you to name what those circumstances are under which you would personally vaccinate.

            They’re not one size fits all – that’s what medical contradictions and medical precautions are – none of this is news since you’ve already done your research. Also, schedules are things like 12-15 months.

            How about a disease that caused death 90% of the time and a vaccine that causes fever about 2$ of the time and that’s it? Would you personally vaccinate your kids against this hypothetical disease?

          6. “When the injuries are profound the burden is great.”

            Good Lord, woman! You have more stupid cliches than Carter’s has pills.

          7. Not to mention that they somehow get away with this vast conspiracy despite the entire evil plot supposedly being on the vaccine insert.

          1. Did you ask your sis for permission to post her pic, Jester? And I know a good doc that can take care of all your acne, ya got going on there.

            What a witless waste of space you kids are! JEST pathetic! Har d har! 😉

          2. It looks like the ‘trolling, spammy’ and CHILDISH posts belong to you and JESTthefacts, parrot Pro!

            You two don’t have a clue how foolish you look, spamming the comments with these large, immature, inaccurate and VULGAR ‘memie’ wastes of space!

            And wasn’t Jester just banned here for posting ‘naughty boy’ stuff!

            We know you always expend the ‘bare minimum’ of energy in the comments, which is why you’re known as a witless & pilfering parrot!

            NEXT, you witless, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

          3. But Verna’s cat has the anthropomorphic qualities of psychoanalytical psycho babble [along with kick butt typing skills] to make mean people like you, all better!

            According to Verna, anyway! 😉

          4. Sounds like Verna’s and you would get along great! My cats, on the other hand, are great company. They don’t do psycho babble. They just snuggle and purr. Got one on my lap right now.

          1. Measles is not temporary for all. Back before vaccines, 500 a year died from it and up to 30% of the 500,000 cases per year suffered complications, including lasting damage such as deafness. If you add all the VPDs together, thousands of children DIED every year from them, before vaccines, and tens of thousands more suffered lasing injuries.

            So, what you are saying is that autism is worse than your child dying.

          2. And not only their child but also those too young, those who can’t medically be vaccinated and those elderly.

            Hence the autism = worse than a literal plague implication.

          3. Stop living in the dark ages, Kathy! Here and now, in fairly healthy countries, measles is a minor bug. On top of that, it’s not even a given that a certain individual will even GET measles!

            Due to your phobias, you may choose to live your life in a sterile bubble. For me and many, many more, we choose NOT to!

            ‘So, what you are saying is that’ you love putting words in other peoples mouths and totally misrepresenting what they’ve said!

            Grow up ms. disinformation! 😉

          4. “…Measles is rare thanks to vaccines. “

            That’s just your assumption. I’d say thanks to 1,000s of improvements in the standard of living.

            Anyway, whatever the true reasons, the risk today is what it is. It doesn’t get any higher by saying “thanks to vaccines”.

            A parent has to use the present value of measles risk (nearly zero), not past incidence of the disease, in order to assess the risk/benefit ratio of a vaccine intervention today.

            Obviosuly, as the risk of contracting a disease gets smaller, the risk/benefit of the vaccine increases leading to intelligent people opting out of the vaccination scheme.

          5. And your evidence is…?

            I do have proof that, whatever the nature of measles, it is extremely sensitive to the standard of living:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7853750

            The immune function and measles virus infection in three different socioeconomic child populations in Karachi, Pakistan.

            “…These results suggest that the living environmental conditions of these different socioeconomic groups vary greatly and hygienic conditions must influence the chance of encountering infectious pathogens including measles virus…”

            Study on UNVACCINATED children: measles is more severe and occurs earlier in the poorer areas.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6735566

            Measles epidemiology in Italy.

            “…the immune status with regard to measles was determined in over 8300 unvaccinated children aged 0-13 years, residing in eight Italian cities with different socioeconomic situations and geographical locations….The 50% prevalence of natural immunity was reached at an earlier age in southern cities in which poorer socioeconomic and hygienic conditionsprevailed… special attention should be given to the poorest areas, especially in southern Italy, where measles occurs earlier and can be particularly severe…”.

            And still more…

            Influence of environmental factors on underfive morbidity.

            “…Various illnesses observed included gastroenteritis, upper respiratory tract infection, stomatitis, constipation, fever, pica, anemia, Vitamin A deficiency, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, and others. …

            …The incidence of morbidity was higher in children who lived in inadequately ventilated kachcha houses, had poor source of water supply through open wells and practiced open field defecation compared to those who lived in pucca houses with adequate ventilation, utilized tap water, and were using service latrines….”

          6. Inadequately ventilated areas would increase likelihood of airborne diseases, that is true. How do you explain rising measles rate in Western European countries today? They seem to correlate with decreasing immunization rates.

          7. According to you, you can’t walk on the streets of the EU without stepping on the corpses of measles victims. Thank god you got the vaccine!

          8. as the risk of contracting a disease gets smaller […] It’s the rational thing to do.

            So you’re ready, willing and able to sponge off of everyone else that responsibly makes the decision to vaccinate for their own and their communitie’s health?

            Boy am I glad not to know you.

          9. First, the right of individuals to make their own medical decisions can only be suspended in case of a medical emergency. It’s not the case, therefore your “community health” gambit is out of place.

            Second, if you decide to vaccinate then you should be protected, shouldn’t you?

            Third, you can’t claim vaccines are effective and in the same breath claim they’re not. You’re an adult, aren’t you?

            Fourth, if the vaccine is ineffective I’m not responsible for the failure of the industry to deliver a defective product. Who knows what additional defects it has. I’m not putting my child’s health on the line to pump the company’s stock.

            Fifth, as a parent my duty is to protect my children from injury, including vaccine injury. Your false perceptions of risk and unfounded fears do not weight in my medical decisions.

            Sixth, the community’s health is worse affected by McDonald’s outlets yet you don’t seem to make a big fuzz of it.

          10. I am not disillusioned at all. Quite the opposite. I have no illusions of changing everyone’s minds. I know I can change the minds of rational thinkers, many of whom lurk and do not post, and show them the irrationality of your the viewpoint.

          11. Oh but you ARE ‘disillusioned’ should you believe ME to be the ‘irrational’ one. The myopic minded and unsophisticated, continues to be the likes of you!

            However, for the remaining part of your comment, ditto the above! 😉

          12. And we know why measles isn’t as effective now as it used to be: vaccines. Measles is still dangerous, as thousands of people *still* doe worldwide from measles every year. Getting your kids vaccinated for measles is a very effective way to ensure they do not DIE from measles – and if they contract it, then it is more likely to be the “minor bug” you claim it to be.

          13. Another canned slogan bot.

            We’ve become anti-vaxxers by scrutinizing the primary sources of vaccine pseudo-science. A flood of cheap slogans won’t make us move an inch.

          14. Is there any evidence that would make you change your mind? Such evidence does not have to currently exist?

          15. A comparison af all the short and mildterm health outcomes of vaccianted vs. unvaccianted kids in coparable populations (not Africa vs. Europe, or example).

          16. I do not know – you would have to ask PIDs what their motive is. If I have to guess, I’d say that everyone’s bored with studying vaccines-autism link and feel the subject is done to death.

            Now that we’ve got some indication of what evidence would change your mind – short and mid-term health outcomes would be what, exactly?

          17. Many [including distinguished scientists and physicians] feel that better sanitary conditions leading to stronger, better health, had more to do with minimizing measles than did vax!

            So I respectfully disagree, Modemac! 😉

          18. So what? Everyone in California forgot to wash their hands.

            And just because no-one died doesn’t mean it was mild – altough one person died from complications so far. Know what SSPE is?

            If so, you know what the problem is. If not, you shouldn’t be claiming to know better than medical and scientific global consensus.

          19. “…Measles is not temporary for all.”

            Vaccines are not safe for all and cause more permanent damage.

            “Back before vaccines, 500 a year died from it”

            Measles mortality in the U.S had been steadily dropping since 1900 WITHOUT vaccines.

            The Deseret News – Feb 27, 1931 – America sets up a new health record in 1930

            Berkeley Daily Gazette – Dec 27, 1935 – Better economic conditions felt in fewer deaths

            When this finally came, mortality was already near zero. … what caused the spectacular drop in mortality without vaccines?

          20. You refer us to a self-serving political pamphlet.

            – The WHO is a political organization, not a scientific one.

            – The WHO is both judge and interested party. She alone decides on the “need” of an intervention and the she too declares its success. She alone controls the epidemiological labs. This lack of transparency and accountablility is not how an international organization should work if it wants to gain public confidence.

            What intelligent parent would use and refer others to an interested party as a source of information for deciding what’s in the best interest of their child?

          21. Let’s look at the measles statistics of Mexico 2014:

            https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            The implication of the diagnostic restrictions introduced by the vaccine are mind boggling:

            – Using the pre-vaccine diagnostic criteria, all of 4,512 Mexico’s “suspect cases” would have been deemed “measles”. There would be talk of a massive epidemic in 2014.

            – Instead, using the post-vaccine criteria, only 2 of those 4,512 is deemed measles (what the heck do the remaining 4,510 suffer from? nobody cares!)

            This way, by a simple shift in the diagnosis, a whooping 95,6% reduction of incidence is achieved…. even if the vaccine is a scam!

            How many “measles” cases were actually measles before the vaccine? Looking at the suspect/confirmed ratio of today we can make an educated guess … only a mere 0,44%!

          22. “…vaccines still are the reason we see almost no measles in USA, today.”

            In order to be as candid as to believe that, you must be a total ignorant of the history of the diseaase.

            Questions for advanced students:

            – How was measles diagnosed in the past and how is it diagnosed in the vaccine era?

            Hint from your won link:

            Molecular virology also began to play a major role in measles surveillance.

            – What are the implications of the differences in the number of diagnoses produced?

            If you can’t answer to the above, at least have the decency to stay out of the discussion instead of spreading canned industry slogans!

          23. In the 1950s and 60s, measles was diagnosed with a blood test or by symptoms, same as in 2016. If there was a restriction in diagnosis, as you state, then why did the measles eradication happen more recently in other countries? Also, the measles death rate has not changed, even after the restriction of diagnosis. It is still, today, in all countries, 2/1000 cases. So, your questions are implying that change in diagnosis is the reason we see less measles, not the vaccine. But, that doesn’t explain the more recent eradication of measles in other countries.

            Sorry, you are still wrong.

          24. “…If there was a restriction in diagnosis, as you state, then why did the measles eradication happen more recently in other countries?

            Because the diagnostic bait-and-switch trick is a standard practice imposed by the WHO:

            https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measles_standards/en/l

            WHO-recommended surveillance standard of measles.

            “…Countries are advised to use the clinical classification scheme until their programmes meet the following two criteria:

            – low level of measles incidence;
            – access to a proficient measles laboratory

            The laboratory classification scheme should be used by countries in the low incidence or elimination phase…”

            The “elimination phase” – the is restricted tot he lab – is declared well after the mass vaccination is in place. The lower incidence caused by the diagnostic restriction is then attributed to the vaccines.

            World class crookery I must admit.

          25. “…In the 1950s and 60s, measles was diagnosed with a blood test or by symptoms, same as in 2016.

            Or? what percentage was diagnosed in the lab? That is the key question.

            According to the CDC, laboratory confirmation tests for measles were introduced in 1957. It could not be widespread by then!

            https://www.cdc.gov/VACCINEs/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/meas.pdf

            “….For unvaccinated personnel born before 1957 who lack laboratory evidence of measles, mumps and/or rubella immunity or laboratory confirmation of disease, healthcare facilities should recommend two doses of MMR vaccine during an outbreak of measles or mumps and one dose during an outbreak of rubella…”

            Also, clinical measles was the only pre-1957 surveillance method and it can overestimate incidence by a factor of 30x ! .. that’ s 3000% !

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2560776/pdf/10916925.pdf

            Page 861:

            “… The WHO case definition of measles requires the presence of fever and rash with one or more of the following symptoms: cough, coryza or conjunctivitis (2). However, these clinical presentations can readily be confused with other rash-associated conditions, particularly those due to viruses, such as roseola infantum,humanherpesvirus-6(HHV-6), rubella, dengue and parvovirus. … In the first 35 weeks of an enhanced surveillance programme in England and Wales (3), it was reported that ONLY 3.7% (126/3442) OF NOTIFIED MEASLE CASES WERE CONFIRMED IN THE LABORATORY.…”

            As soon as lab confirmation starting in the 60′s you get a “magical” 96.3% immediate reduction in incidence … by diagnostic restrictions only.

            The vaccine irrelevant in this “medical miracle”, a kiss in the cheek would have accomplish the same, too!

          26. Where do you see the expanded criteria, sport? In the tightening of the requirements to be acknowledged as a case?

          27. Asperger’s Syndrome, HFA expand the diagnostic criteria for ASD – Autism Speaks uses ASD figures as Autism.

            So again: What happens when you drastically expand the criteria and dramaticaly loosen the requirements to be acknowledged as a case?

          28. Does not fully = explains some of it.

            Also, have kids earlier if you’re worried. And don’t go to Autreat for dating.

            Problem solved.

            Or you could have thought about this before you had kids but…

          29. “…Does not fully = explains some of it”.

            Agreed.

            Now apply the same logic to the diagnostic restrictions for meaasles, polio, etc. that accompany the introduction of vaccines. Then reconsider the cause of the apparent drop in incidence.

            “…have kids earlier if you’re worried”

            Earlier or later, my kids are vaccine-free.

          30. Measles mortality was starting to level off back in the years just prior to the vaccine. It’s probable that medical science had reached its limits in what it could do regarding treatment of measles.

          31. “… It’s probable that medical science had reached its limits in what it could do regarding treatment of measles.”

            That’s utter B.S. because measles, as a viral disease, is not treatable with any meds. All care is palliative (pain killers, water and rest) and hasn’t changed since the beginning of time.

            https://www.healthline.com/health/measles#Diagnosis4

            How to Treat Measles

            There is no prescription medication to treat measles. The virus and symptoms typically disappear within two to three weeks. However, your doctor may recommend:

            acetaminophen to relieve fever and muscle aches

            rest to help boost your immune system

            plenty of fluids (six to eight glasses of water a day)

            humidifier to ease a cough and sore throat

            vitamin A supplements

            Unless you consider vitamin A supplements a turning point in measles treatment, the “science” factor had no bearing in the mortality of the disease, it was environmental factors.

          32. Really? Alright tell me the percentage of “true measles” vs. “measles like diseases” in the epidemics before 1957.

            Apparently, vax-pushers have a magic retroactive lab confirmation test, since you claim the incidence of “true measles” has decreased since then.

            But… but… what if the bulk of those old epidemics was just the “measles like disease” so widespread today? lol… there’s an epidemic of it and nobody gives a flying fk, why? because it’s no longer called measles and therefore there’s no vaccine to sell?

          33. “…Measles can cause diarrhea”

            There’s so much B.S. I can take in a day.

            From your asinine point of view, every symptom a measles patient has must be attributed to measles because multiple diseases cannot concur in one single patient, right? lol

          34. Just showed how little you know, eh Grace? You’re really a sheeple, you know? You follow these fools around the anti-vax threads.

    2. Some of the antivax parents who post here have children who are low-functioning. Still primarily non-verbal, not even toilet-trained. We probably don’t support parents enough; perhaps we should go back to having hospitals where these children could live if the parents are overwhelmed. But in the our current structure, the parents are left looking for someone to blame (and someone to sue).

      1. I agree that it must be a tremendous burden for parents to have to care for low functioning children all by themselves. We really need to have more services for them.

        1. But no-one denies that. And yes, more services are needed. I would like to see services primarily aimed at the actual children, personally.

          However, making out that their kids are worse than a literal plague is NOT the way to go about getting services..

          1. Boo hoo! Go cry to mommy and daddy! I don’t know of ANY parents of those with asd’s who treat their children like the plague!

            Instead, I see parents muster wisdom, courage and patience to support the usual unconditional love of a parent, and who realizes that their child who developed normally, but regressed substantially after vax; and now will have the hopes of a different future for their child! Not less loved; but a different life than what they had envisioned for their previously healthy child!

          2. “I don’t know of ANY parents of those with asd’s who treat their children like the plague!”

            I don’t know about that. I’ve seen comments where people outright say “Better measles than autism, even though some of them would die… Better than being brain-damaged for life.”

            Learning your child will have a different life than what you envisioned is a shock. I expected the diagnosis, but still I cried. There is grief, and the blame game is a natural part of it.

            Good parents move on.

            Personally, I think the people who fill parents’ heads with bullshlt, whether its “Your kid was poisoned” or “Your kid is brain dead and will never, ever amount to anything.” really should just STFU.

          3. Measles is temporary and non complicated unless your child is unhealthy to begin with! It’s extremely different from the severe and permanent ill health suffered from vax injuries!

            I don’t hear what you hear, since I would never hang out in the trashy circles in which you do. Again, no parent of any individual with asd’s that I know [lots and lots] would ever say such garbage. Buy YOU DO Cathy! Case in point, Cathy’s here, and so is her ‘potty’ mouth!

            Further, I’m NOT buying your new found ‘mommyhood’ one bit! Save it for your usual propagandizing of which I ‘personally’ feel you should ‘move it on’ to; sites like craptor, science b.s. and meds and 2 half brains! 😉

          4. “Mr. Abdulkadir Khalif, an African father whose son regressed into autism after the MMR, said he’d rather African children got measles than autism, even though some of them would die. He thought that was better than being brain-damaged for life and a burden on society.”
            — ciaparker2 https://disq.us/8yfjdh

            This is the same Cia Parker who also wrote “400 dead, I can live with that.” Better dead than autistic.

          5. Oh yeah, that’s her. Although suz norkan won’t admit it, read her comments. It’s the same.

            It’s sick and sad. How many studies, how many times do they have to prove no vaccines don’t cause ASD.

            Once more a little louder for the people in the back

            VACCINES DON’T CAUSE AUTISM

            All they’re really saying is just how truly ignorant they are.

          6. And the plausible mechanism isn’t since there are quite a few key differences. Autism and eclantopathy are about as like as a broken ankle and a club foot – in the latter case, the same body part is involved and both can make you limp – end of story.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/16ae06eb5d42657790516ad1a1a019fe9dcfef10c7e01087c6a580335510877d.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/972d19198e669679f702ffab98dcbf77df21118b2ec89f4b41ed09411ef7352b.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/69da25e0dfe7c9a1281cc8cb732724d5dda6a7993fe445f6c4510b6e4cb8584a.jpg

          7. “Eclantopathy”? What on earth is that? If you are going to make pronouncements you should at least try your best to sound like you know what the heck you are talking about. Clearly you don’t.

            Also, anyone who would expect there to be a 1-to-1 correspondence between symptoms of encephalopathy and autism clearly do not have sufficient understanding of any of this material to make judgements here.

            But if you would be so kind, please explain why a survey study which retroactively investigated NVICP claims which involved encephalopathy found nearly 100 cases where the child was also diagnosed with autism? Most parents of vaccine-injured children, and certainly every vaccine injury lawyer, knows that you don’t win NVICP cases if you use the word “autism”. This way the court can settle or award compensation without having to admit they compensated for autism.

            Some more explaining you will have to do:

            https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer_Kurinczuk/publication/7354152_Autism_following_a_history_of_newborn_encephalopathy_more_than_a_coincidence/links/54eae8cb0cf25ba91c83fe69.pdf

            “Compared with the controls, the children who had experienced NE [newborn encephalopathy] were 5.9 times (95% confidence interval 2.0–16.9) more likely to have been diagnosed with an ASD.”

            https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01399.x/full

            “The high prevalence of epilepsy in children with autism supports a neurobiologic etiology for autism.”

            https://nationalautismassociation.org/docs/comorbidities.pdf

            Not able to copy-and-paste from this PDF, see page 6 where they give many examples of autism KNOWN to be caused by viral encephalopathy.

            Any questions?

          8. Obviously you have nothing to say about the actual subject at hand, or about the information I posted which makes it very clear that autism is very commonly associated with encephalopathy.

          9. https://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions
            Unanswered Questions
            A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury
            HOME / UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

            Background on the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
            Inadequate Vaccine Safety Research and Conflicts of Interest
            Response to “Anti-Vaccine Proponents Claim Court Paid for Autism Cases”
            Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
            Pace Environmental Law Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2011
            Mary Holland, Louis Conte, Robert Krakow and Lisa Colin

          10. David Foster: “Not able to copy-and-paste from this PDF, see page 6 where they give many examples of autism KNOWN to be caused by viral encephalopathy.”

            No.

            From that primer (third link in your post) that you somehow, Mr. IT Guy.. couldn’t figure out a way to copy and paste from..

            “In some cases there are very defined circumstances—illuminated by detailed clinical investigations—around the reasons for such regression.”

            “Conclusion

            Medical comorbidities are much more prevalent in people with ASD than in the general population. Such comorbidities can also be more difficult to recognise. The failure to identify medical conditions is due in part to communication impairments and sometimes ambiguous symptomatology, but widespread underdiagnosis and barriers to accessing appropriate health care for people with ASD are also the result of commonly held beliefs that aberrant behaviours and symptoms are ‘just a part of autism’. Leaving these pathologies untreated clearly results in health inequalities and constitutes a gross injustice to the individual.”

            / This was the focus of the primer.

            Not.. the nonsense you put forth in your post/comment.

            And then, subsequently.. tried to use said primer to back said (deceitful and misleading) nonsense up.

            … …

            Now, fly away, pigeon.. you displease me.

          11. It is truly amazing how low you will stoop to try to argue against accurate information.

            I said quite a bit in my last comment, but you choose to only comment on the last of three citations, and even then you completely misrepresent what it says by claiming that it does not support my point.

            That third citation completely supports my point, it discusses and references known examples where encephalitis directly causes autism. To begin:

            “Accumulating scientific evidence challenges the previously-held belief that autism is an in-born and unchangeable condition, as numerous studies now confirm that normally developing children can suddenly lose their developmental milestones and previously acquired language and social skills, and regress into autism.”

            For your first quote you conveniently left out the next paragraphs which directly support my claim:

            “In some cases there are very defined circumstances — illuminated by detailed clinical investigations — around the reasons for such regression. […]”

            “While acute illnesses caused by a herpes virus, especially cytomegalovirus, are the most frequently reported ones (DeLong et al., 1981; Ghaziuddin et al., 2002; Gillberg, 1986; Libbey et al., 2005; Stubbs, 1978), there are also documented case reports of enterovirus encephalitis leading to autistic regression, including loss of previously acquired language and developmental milestones in a previously healthy toddler (Marques et al., 2014), as well as reports of autistic regressions, including lateonset ones, following malaria and pneumococcal meningoencephalitis (Baldaçara et al., 2011; Mankoski et al., 2006). Another example of this phenomenon is paediatric HIV-encephalitis, where presenting autistic symptoms and behaviours are indistinguishable from idiopathic autism and can in many cases be reversed or alleviated with antiretroviral therapy (Brouwers et al., 2004; Moss et al., 1994; Tepper et al., 1998).”

            So there you have it, we now know two things with certainty: (1) encephalopathy can cause autistic regression; and (2) you are shameless and lack integrity, and have zero credibility.

            Readers take note.

          12. David Foster: “I said quite a bit in my last comment, but you choose to only comment on the last of three citations..”

            Not really.

            The other two citations?

            Research Gate? Get real.

            From the Wiley Library.. and specifically; the article that appeared in Epilepsia | “Official Journal of the International League Against Epilepsy”?

            “It remains unclear whether seizures and epileptiform activity on the
            EEG are causative or comorbid. It is also uncertain if focal epileptiform EEG abnormalities may be associated with stable cognitive impairment. Even less clear is whether these EEG abnormalities can result in the combination of language and social dysfunction seen in autistic spectrum disorders.”

            David Foster: “For your first quote you conveniently left out the next paragraphs which directly support my claim..”

            And no.. I didn’t misrepresent your claim.

            … …

            Stop wasting everyone’s time you arrogant ass.

          13. Wow, the papers he references directly contradict the claims he makes, yet he does not have the ability to comprehend primary research, and thus thinks he can twist it to fit his preconceived, erroneous notions. It’s really fascinating to watch. But I think you described him perfectly as an arrogant ass. He should stick to coding. Or cleaning dog fur out of power supply fans, or whatever they pay him to do.

          14. “Wow, the papers he references directly contradict the claims he makes,
            yet he does not have the ability to comprehend primary research, and
            thus thinks he can twist it to fit his preconceived, erroneous notions.”

            That’s our David!

          15. David, can you please stop confusing the terms “encephalopathy” and “encephalitis”?
            They are not the same aetiologically, and have only some clinico-pathological overlap.
            It reveals your ignorance of the subject matter, and detracts from any valid points you might have to make (not that I have seen any, mind you)

          16. Or….possibly parents whose kids were autistic were more likely to claim for whatever reason.

            Encephalopathy.

            And yes, the same disease should have a 1:1 ratio of symptoms when you compare it to itself.

          17. Another alternative:

            Autism is a subjective diagnosis, and there is some overlap in the symptoms. Autism is not, however, encephalopathy.

            Think of DiGeorge Syndrome. “Autism-like” in its presentation, caused by deletions in a specific combination of genes. Often misdiagnosed as “autism” even though treatments for autism are counterproductive for children with DiGeorge Syndrome.

            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/811676

            Like you say, what’s missing is the 1:1 ratio of symptoms.

          18. Good graphic, Sia. Thanks.

            On biological plausibility. people confuse the terms encephalopathy and encephalitis. They aren’t really interchangeable.

            CDC has more info on encephalopathy. It’s almost always caused by mitochondrial disorder. MT disorders can be diagnosed with an amino acid test or a biopsy.

            https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/mitochondrial-faq.html

            Sometimes children with mitochondrial diseases seem to be developing as they should, but around toddler or preschool age, they regress. That;s a regressive encephalopathy.

          19. Cia did NOT bring death causing plagues on the earth!

            And while death is sad, autism and many other illnesses and medical infirmity can equal death [loss of a loved one] in numerous ways.

            A car accident resulting in brain injury, leaving a 16 yr. old with no short term memory, having to use a tape recorder to remind him where he lives after he volunteers at the community center.

            A coma that leaves a child unresponsive and on life support for years, but with no hope of recovery within current medical standards.

            A normal progressing toddler, bright, capable and passionate, who regresses into a solitary non verbal, or non communicative darkness after unnecessary prophylactic interventions.

            A husband or wife slipping into the irreversible dementia of alzheimer’s.

            Or the clandestine slipping away into a neuroleptic induced coma, from an insidious ingredient that pharma slipped into a casually prescribed medication.

            There ARE actually some ‘fates worse than death’ and until you walk where these people have walked, you can only ASSUME what you arrogantly THINK you would do or how you would feel, should it happen to you!

          20. More nonsense and blathering from trollalota non grata.

            Question to (anti-vax) parents of autistics..

            Would you rather your child was dead or continued living with autism?

            … …

            Not that you would bother to take out time from you trolling, scuz.. forging ahead, though.. you could learn something from Autismum.

            Like many other mothers of autistic children.. she accepts (and loves) her child as different.. and not.. something less than.

          21. How ’bout a choice between pharma propagandists, lobbyists, greedy drug mfgs, and corrupt govt. vs. the scum of the earth like you.

            Hmm! Live with you miserable banes of existence or wish to be rid of you. That’s a very hard choice!

            I don’t need any neuro diversie advice on raising my children, thanks! You don’t have CLUE to my parenting skills and you certainly don’t know WHAT you’re talking about, you witless parrot, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

          22. Hard choice.. dead child or one living with autism.

            I know.. I know.. it’s hard to wrap your mind around that, trollalota non grata.

            ‘Sides..

            Vaccines.. do.. not. cause … autism.

            End of story.

          23. A rational and ‘scientific’ person [unlike yourself] would require more data!

            Until you know what does cause autism, you don’t know that YET!

            End of story!

          24. Welllll.. I have a theory.. a postulate.. that autism causes vaccines.

            Feel free to try and disprove, scuz.

          25. The explanation is in the author’s resume:

            https://www.childrensmercy.org/FindADoctor/biosketch/Pahud_Barbara.pdf

            Pahud B. A.

            Professional and Community Service (Previous 5 Years):

            Member – Vaccine Advocacy Committee, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

            Her mind was made long before she even wrote the title of her pamphlet! lol.

            How does the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society contribute to find the truth about vaccine safety and efficacy? By killing initiatives such as this:

            https://www.pids.org/advocacy/immunization-update/155-vaccine-advocacy-taskforce-update-november-2009.html

            PIDS sent letters opposing the following federal legislation under consideration: … H.R. 3069 (Comprehensive Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2009

            What was the purpose of the initiative the PIDS contributed to kill?

            https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3069

            To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct or support a comprehensive study comparing total health outcomes, including risk of autism, in vaccinated populations in the United States with such outcomes in unvaccinated populations in the United States…

            These people are TRULY working hard defending the interests of American children, aren’t they?

          26. Stellar conflict of interest, for sure!

            “..What about the other authors?”

            I’m afraid even more “stellarly” committed to the interests of their industry. You go find out!

          27. I would have to buy the article. Clearly, you already have so why don’t you tell me where they work. The first author is impressive.

          28. “..The first author is impressive”

            You got stuck on that “argument”

            Impressive carrer at the cost of losing her credibility when recommending vaccines.

          29. PIDS recommended against a monovalent MMR and you think this means what? I don’t do conspiracy theories. You seem to be full of them.

          30. “…PIDS recommended against a monovalent MMR”

            And their alternative was what? no vaccine? Surprise me NOT.

            Wow the benefactors!

          31. By that logic, we also don’t know that refrigator mothers don’t cause autism…oh wait, we do. Because we can rule out one thing without knowing the actual cause.

          32. Yeah! Even MORE psycho babble!

            Sorry! You’re smug retort is fatally flawed, since psychology is NOT science, grasshopper!

            Buh bye little bug! 😉

          33. If you’re saying that you can’t know a hypothesis is disproven until you find it out the true cause of whatever…- you are REJECTING the REJECTION of refrigerator mothers.

            Also: if I were to have four children for example and two of them were out with my hypothetical , then if something gets spilled and there’s no earthquake or any other cause..I might not know which child has spilled the orange juice or whatever but I do know who hasn’t spilled the orange juice.

            Say I’ve lost my keys and look for them in my purse first – not there. I still don’t where my keys are since I haven’t FOUND them yet but I do know they’re NOT in my purse.

            Even so, the same is true of refrigerator mothers and other disproven hypotheses, Simple application of consistent reasoning.

            https://thelogicofscience.com/2015/09/14/the-rules-of-logic-part-7-using-consistent-reasoning-to-compare-apples-and-oranges/

          34. Later, when you grow up, little bug! Go learn about REAL life, first, before you try to start MANDATING the actions of others!

          35. I am not trying to mandate the actions of others. I would do more than comment on an internet forum if I was trying to do that.

          36. Oh! Now don’t be so modest in your greenhorn propragandizing!

            Why your reply above almost smacks of intimidation and threat, little bug! 😉

          37. Thanks for the newsflash regarding your personal, passive political plans, grasshopper!

            However, most of us opposing ‘forced vax’ are here to benefit future generations of children, while making the planet a lot safer from the threat of medical terrorists like you!

          38. There are plenty of laws under which you can report terrorists, medical or otherwise.

            Patriot Act is one but there are several others. I’d suggest hiring independent scientists and keeping them in the dark about who is hiring them and have them meticulously replicate a sample of those studies you claim are fraudulent and then turn the results in to the legislature. If you think anyone is a terrorist, report them – you may already have done so.

            Until that is done, you are advocating the bigger risk to everybody and are not acting for the benefit to the community – want to change it? Expose the fraud.

          39. Exposing the fraud! Easier said than done, lest one should subsequently become an unwilling party to the 140 dead scientists club!

            The naivete also speaks clearly to your severely green ‘grasshopper-ism’!

            Hmm! Exposing the fraud! What a novel idea, Sia! And what a coincidence, since that’s exactly what we’re doing, starting with yall, grasshopper! 😉

          40. No, you are making the claim that it exists. An allegation is not proof.

            And what, do es the evidence magically go ‘poof’ on death too?

            Dr Tenpenny is still alive as is Mercola as is Wakefield.

            If you genuinely believe that 99% of the doctors are dishonest…you need to see a doctor, ironically.

          41. Most individuals realize that fraud exists unless one has the mind of a neophyte like you! However, again your lack of comprehension skills fail you, since I’ve never made any ‘claim!’

            I don’t know of the docs you speak of, but am intelligent to know that docs are as fallible as the rest of us.

            Addressing the last of your bunk, I don’t do psycho babble, grasshopper! 😉

          42. There’s a difference between fraud existing and near every immunologst, chemist, biologist and toxicologist worldwide being on in it.

          43. This seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but they can’t seem to wrap their little minds around how improbable their theory is. I didn’t always swear as much as I do now 😉

          44. “… I’d suggest hiring independent scientists”

            Big Pharma has the money for that, families affected by vaccine injury not.

          45. The difference is obvious to any sane person:

            – Organic: 30 billion divided by 1 billion small farmers = $30.00 per farmer.

            – Vaccine: $115 billion divided by the three big (Merck, Glaxo, Sanofi). = $38 billion each.

          46. If your own logic sounds like babble when applied to different scenarios to you…well…thanks for making my point for me.

          47. “Also: if I were to have four children for example and two of them were
            out with my hypothetical”

            Is it your employers preference that you remain gender anonymous? That would be a good turf tactic because you would be less restricted in your ability to lie to different people online. Not bad, I am a little impressed, but disgusted at the same time. How much are you paid per comment? Do you online shill from home or at an office or company? Do you ever feel guilty for telling lies or are you a sociopath?

          48. My friend that is a Dr. just told me that he and 2 other practices in his area will be adopting the alternate vaccine schedule. You do know that even the CDC on it’s own website advises parents to opt for an alternate schedule to discuss with their pediatrician right? That’s because vaccines given too soon are dangerous and cause autism and autism like symptoms. The meningitis vaccine mandate is the tipping point for some pediatricians.

          49. “My friend that is a Dr. just told me”
            I know someone who had an imaginary friend.
            Like you, he didn’t have any real ones.

          50. You are hurting my feelings Mikey. If Mikey is a Doctor I am a sailboat. Hey Mike I don’t know if you have heard or not but the science is in and the science is conclusive, vaccines have officially and scientifically been linked to being directly responsible for autism. No question about it.

          51. “vaccines have officially and scientifically been linked to being directly responsible for autism. No question about it.”

            And in other news, homeopathy has been found to be effective at treating cancer and AIDS, Kiko is reported to have an IQ of 147, and the Loch Ness Monster has been spotted swimming above the Niagara Falls.

          52. Nice warm up at the beginning of your comment history Cathy. Then you dive head first into using words like anti-vaxxer, linking to Skeptical Raptor blog, pulling out all the pro vac pics. You are not a smooth criminal by any means.

          53. She who? Clarity, grasshopper!

            If you speak of the REAL cia, not the phony, superficial facade which you mock, what she wants is the lesser of two evils, and that’s clearly measles over the vast, extremely severe and permanent vax injuries and/or death!

            Grow up and learn to manage your own life, before attempting to push your ideals onto others, grasshopper!

          54. While I don’t know cia personally, it seems to me that cia and her fam have all been vaxed! Hmm!

            But that’s not really ANY of our business now, IS it, witless parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

            YOU are the liar for wrongfully trying to implicate me in a Iie!

            Remember vax war babies! ‘Anyone calling one who isn’t a Iiar, a Iiar is a LIAR!’ 😉

            Wipe the t.p. and gunk of the bottom of your shoe, parrot Pro! You’ve been stepping in IT quite regularly lately!

          55. You’re loosing it again, you pathetic and witless parrot.

            parrot parrot parrot parrot parrot parrot parrot

            Should I want to read cia’s comments, I can certainly do so by following her profile.

            Where do you get off copying other’s comments into commentaries under YOUR nym! You did the same with cable1977 several weeks ago!

            I won’t even take the time to read it, because cia did NOT post it here!

            I swear you don’t have an original thought in that parroting pea brain of yours. And your conspicuous lies are quite troublesome along with your severe lack of adequate comprehension skills.

            I don’t know cia personally and that’s hardly a lie! At the same time, I’ve read in several of her posts, that she and her fam are vaxed!

            Time for another disqus powerwash, parrot pro. Stop lying!

            Oh! And of course, I flagged and downvoted you! 😉

          56. scuz norkan: “I won’t even take the time to read it, because cia did NOT post it here!”

            Yes.. yes, she did post it in this comment section. Same article, same discussion.

            You could even check ciaparker2’s profile page … as you just stated.

            More lies.. more trolling a la trollalota non grata.

            Well done.

          57. She didn’t post where or in the context that YOU DID!

            Stop posting for other people without their permission; disrupting the subject with your insignificant spam, simply to placate your own selfish trivialities, you witless parrot!

            You pathetically used cia’s comment, simply to try to exonerate yet another one of your FOOLISH FAUX PAS, since I claimed that I personally don’t know of any anti vaxers!

            My comment remains valid, and you remain looking like the pilfering, witless and parroting ass that you are, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

            Oh! And of course I flagged and downvoted you, again! 😉

          58. ‘Only if you’re’ naive and unsophisticated enough to believe in the ‘herd immunity fairy!’

            And if you ARE, I’d love to see your PROOF! Rhetorical request for literary effect ONLY! I know there IS no proof, sweetie! 😉

            Give up the burlesque. You’re an inexperienced, redundant boring bug and parrot Pro puppet, grasshopper!

          59. Sorry! I don’t play your pretentious latin philosophical blowhard games that you illiterates use improperly to try to make yourself feel smart! Speak english, parrot Pro!

            Oh, right! You can’t! 😉

          60. “herd immunity fairy” – that would come under the heading of you believing in a global conspiracy since there is the same mountains of evidence.

            Here’s one for Papilloma: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692336

            https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/herd-immunity-0

            https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/08/27/216177042/vaccinating-babies-for-rotavirus-protects-the-whole-family

            https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/08/27/216177042/vaccinating-babies-for-rotavirus-protects-the-whole-family

            Now since you’ve done your research, you know that this exists

            Herd immunity is not a myth nor is it only applicable to natural immunity and it has been used to eradicate diseases.

            Heck, you can run the numbers yourself. It’s simple arithmetic – just like calculating critical mass.

            Oh, but we know you love observation so…you may think herd immunity is a myth but reality says otherwise.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1b71e0bba428ad7e969cfcb05e3cabc2970d04d667f2278decf534025d9126c6.png

          61. Nope! No global conspiracy here. Just common sense! The kind a myopic minded grasshopper will NEVER have! 😉

          62. Proof or it’s the stuff of fairy dust and unicorns!
            Isn’t that the battle cry of you forced vaxers, grasshopper!

          63. scuz norkan: “Proof or it’s the stuff of fairy dust and unicorns!”

            scuz norkan: “I would never say ‘prove it or shut it’ you moronic Modey!”

            Once more..

            scuz norkan: “PROVE IT OR SHUT IT! You CAN’T prove it!”

          64. A question is still a question until it’s unequivocally answered! And even then, with new data, comes new questions and answers, grasshopper!

          65. It has been unequvically answered. The fact that some people refuse to accept the answer is a shame but it does not change the fact that it has been answered.

          66. “It is unequivocally answered”, only it’s NOT, little bug! There are many scientists and doctors who disagree.

            No amount of evidence will get you myopic to see! And ya have to see so you can learn to READ, grasshopper!

          67. Your fallacy is inflation of conflict fallacy.

            And there are far more doctors and scientists who agree AND they have evidence to show they’re right.. Did you have an actual point or are you just here to call names?

          68. Don’t care about the stats that the doc/scientist pie chart shows! All I need to know is that it does NOT show unequivocal consensus!

            For the 10th time, I don’t engage in today’s internet psycho babble of the fallacies! You want to claim that I did something questionable [I haven’t] spit it out!

            If I’m provoked enough, I may return ‘fire with fire!’

            However, my descriptions of your posting history are certainly valid observations.

            And you absolutely don’t have a point, because you clearly don’t have the adequate logic, grasshopper!

          69. Evidence like the Dean of the University signing the funding check and not Wakefield? More turf lies flowing like a river.

          70. The evidence shows Wakefield was innocent. You and your kind tell lie after lie, bogus confusion of simple facts.

          71. Right, there’s no point arguing with you any more.

            And Kiko, by your own logic, it’s up to Wakefield to prove he was innocent.

          72. His colleague Walker Smith has proven his innocence and as soon as Wakefields insurance will cover court costs his result will be the same. If you do not like the truth of that then too bad so sad. Autism parents WILL have their day.

          73. And it’s evident that there is NOT unequivocal consensus, per the pie chart, regardless of the division, little bug!

            Thought you were done with suz!

            And isn’t it time for your nap, grasshopper! 😉

          74. I’m not confusing anything, parrot Pro! And you should learn to write a complete and correct sentence before moving onto the big leagues!

            Unequivocal; absolute, unambiguous, indisputable, undeniable, CONCLUSIVE!

            So it’s incorrect of you to tell me I’m ‘incorrect,’ parrot Pro!
            You don’t have an unequivocal consensus! My comment is valid as stands, and to reiterate for you illiterate, I don’t care what small percentage goes against the majority grain!

            There are reputable professionals who disagree with what you forced vax propagandists are trying to push. Because all too often vax injures and kills far more individuals than the vpds they supposedly prevent!

          75. scuz norkan: “Because all too often vax injures and kills far more individuals than the vpds they supposedly prevent!”

            And I don’t suppose you have any verifiable evidence to back up your claims?

            As all your posts/comments amount to.. assertions.. only.

            Is this what qualifies as ‘evidence’ in your world? Do assertions (only) constitute substantive contributions to a discussion in your mind?

            … …

            LIveScience | “Vaccination Has Saved 732,000 Children’s Lives Since 1994”

            “More than 732,000 children’s lives have been saved in the past 20 years due to routine vaccinations, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, 322 million cases of
            kids getting sick were prevented, according to the report.

            About 79 million U.S. children were born during the study period, and each was saved from four infectious diseases, on average, thanks to vaccination, according to the report. The numbers show the national immunization programs have been successful in saving hundreds of thousands of lives, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said.”

            … …

            Dorit Reiss said it best.. and succinctly..

            “That’s my intention. I make a point of showing people the sources I rely on, so that they can see why I say what I say, and why the anti-vaccine argument does not hold water. Transparency is important, people deserve to know why anti-vaccine claims are wrong.”

          76. Bah haha! I stopped skimming when I read Dorit!

            Not holding your hand, witless parrot, and I wouldn’t touch your resources with a 10 ft. pole!

            And yes! As I’ve requested from you a gazillion times; please learn to write a correct sentence, instead of all your choppy crap!

          77. scuz norkan: “They are not simply assertions when verified by reputable resources.. ”

            You’ve provided.. none.

            Thanks for proving, yourownself.. that your posts/comments merely aspire to be something other than assertions.

            If.. that.

          78. I already know they’re WASTED on you, hence the ‘peeing match!’

            Learn to comprehend what you read, parrot Pro!

          79. Yes, with new data. Which is why we keep begging you lot for evidence.

            It is unequivocally answered – vaccines don’t cause autism since the same rate in vaccinated vs unvaccinated children exist.

            The fact that people refuse to accept the answer is a shame. It only makes sense to question everything if you are prepared to accept the answer.

          80. “It is unequivocally answered”, only it’s NOT, little bug! There are many scientists and doctors who disagree.

            No amount of evidence will get you myopic to see! And ya have to see so you can learn to READ, grasshopper!

          81. Proof is in a bad taste poster all plastered up up in slogans, for sure! Where else could it be?

          82. When a shill says “it has been proven” it isn’t necessarily true.

            Readers, please turn your B.S. detectors on.

          83. No, it’s the blue link. And if you could manage tenth-grade stuff, we wouldn’t need to pitch infantile cartoons at you.

          84. “…if you could manage tenth-grade stuff, we wouldn’t need to pitch infantile cartoons at you.”

            If you sh_t on the carpet you can’t accuse your parents of lacking anal retention.

            You lack the education to debate at PUBMED level (proven), therefore, cartoons.

          85. No you haven’ t. You can’t pitch above your own level of incompetence … therefore cartoons!

          86. I have on this very page – surely you are smart enough to scroll around and find it since you’re so much smarter than the global scientific and medical consensus.

          87. “…you’re so much smarter than the global scientific and medical consensus”

            You only know about CARTOONISTS consensus.

            Here, some scientific consensus UP YOURS:

            https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

            An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.

          88. Don’t cherry pick. How many died? How many vaccine injuries were there in that same time frame. Lucky people, now they have lifelong natural immunity which is leaps and bounds superior to the waning immunity of the useless vaccination.
            https://www.fiercevaccines.com/story/whistleblowers-accuse-merck-withholding-info-mumps-vaccine/2015-06-11
            If Merck ($MRK)
            has answers regarding the efficacy of its mumps vaccine, it’s not being
            forthright, says a letter filed by an attorney representing two former
            Merck virologists who are now whistleblowers.

            Originally filed in 2010, the suit claims that the pharma giant
            skewed the tests of its U.S.-exclusive mumps vaccine by adding animal
            antibodies to blood samples, resulting in 95% efficacy that kept
            competitors–who couldn’t match the efficacy–off the market. And since
            the original suit, the new filing claims, Merck has been “consistently
            evasive,” in providing answers, saying it can’t run a new clinical trial
            to determine the efficacy and only providing 50-year-old data on the
            jab.

          89. https://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/01/29/measles-vaccines-part-ii-benefits-of-contracting-measles-by-dr-viera-scheibner-phd/

            Dr Viera Scheibner is Principal Research Scientist (Retired) with a
            doctorate in Natural Sciences from Comenius University in Bratislava.
            After an eminent scientific career in micropalaeontology during which
            she published 3 books and some 90 scientific papers in refereed
            scientific journals in Australia and overseas, she studied babies’
            breathing patterns with the Cotwatch breathing monitor developed by her
            late husband Leif Karlsson in the mid 1980s. Babies had alarms after
            vaccination, indicating stress. This introduced her to the subject of
            vaccination. She then started systematically studying orthodox medical
            papers dealing with vaccination issues. To this day she has collected
            and studied more than 100000 pages of medical papers.

            Despite such extensive research of orthodox medical papers published
            on vaccines over the past 100 years, she established that there is no
            scientific evidence that these injections of highly noxious substances
            prevent diseases, quite to the contrary, that they increase
            susceptibility to the diseases which the vaccines are supposed to
            prevent and also to a host of related and unrelated viral and bacterial
            infections. Vaccines are involved in a great number of modern ills of
            childhood such as immunoreactive diseases (asthma, allergies),
            autoimmune diseases (diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosis),
            cancers, leukaemia, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage,
            behavioural and learning problems, to mention just the most important conditions.

          90. I would want my child to continue to live on and those responsible for the autism be sentenced to death before a jury of their peers.

          91. “I would want my child to continue to live on and those responsible for
            the autism be sentenced to death before a jury of their peers.”

            You want to kill their parents?
            …Sheesh!

          92. I am not a jury nor do I work for the prison system so I would be killing no one. What do you mean by kill their parents? I am talking about people who commit scientific fraud and children being harmed as a result, going through the justice system and hopefully getting the maximum punishment allowable by law. Focus Mikey. Snap, snap, look at me when I’m talking Mikey.

          93. Sorry, were you talking to me? Speak up, pipsqueak.

            “What do you mean by kill their parents?”
            Well, you did say you wanted to see those responsible for autism to be sentenced to death… Autism is genetic, remember?
            Wake up, Kiko.

          94. Scuz…. You know that for every death from measles there are two kids who survive with brain damage (ie your “fate worse than death”), and that a late complication of measles is SSPE, which is a fate that is so awful that god must have dreamt it up when he had a hangover.

          95. And YOU, Mikey, know NOTHING of the complications of severe asd’s!

            If you have a ‘god’, then you know that disease came with the package!

            However, it is you forced vaxers that are creating the abomination of harm to generations of children at a much higher rate than that of measles!

          96. Same answer I gave Kathy, who made the same exact and erred remark! She wants the lesser of the two evils, which is absolutely NOT vax!

          97. Thank you. Most people would probably not believe it if they didn’t see it in print. There’s a post somewhere too about how she inoculated her daughter.

          98. Do you think Alex Spourdakalis and his family would have rolled the dice on measles? You are a fool.

          99. Well, true, you do have to get measles to die of measles or a complication thereof.

            And measles can be temporary in the worst possible way.

            And sorry but the fact that you haven’t encountered them personally doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

            Whether you buy it is irrelevant – do you have any actual evidence as to the wrongness of the statement?

            Universal widespread scientific fraud can be empirically demonstrated.

            Select a sample size of all those studies you think are fraudulent, hire some independent scientists and have them meticulously replicate those studies – just remember not to tell them who they’re being hired by.

            If data has been fraudulently fudged, it can be demonstrated by following the same methodology and study design. That’s what science *does*

          100. Short and sweet, to reiterate for the illiterate; one who uses craptor, science b.s. & medicine and 2 half brains as links, has no business using ‘respectable’ and ‘science’ in the same sentence, darlin’!

            Now sweetie, you need to walk before you can run, and from the looks of it, you’ve barely been crawling! Come back when you’re not so green, grasshopper!

          101. scuz norkan: “Short and sweet, to reiterate for the illiterate; one who uses craptor, science b.s. & medicine and 2 half brains as links, has no business using ‘respectable’ and ‘science’ in the same sentence, darlin’!”

            Oh, goody.. let’s play.. “Expose the Trollalota Non Grata!”

            Link to a comment/post of Sia’s.. wherein a cite was used from Skeptical Raptor or Science-Based Medicine or Left Brain Right Brain.

            … …

            That is correct.. Sia hasn’t in this discussion.

            Huge fail/evade and/or attempt at deflection by scuz.. trollalota non grata extraordinaire.

          102. Duh! Time for disqus to do a SECOND powerwash. You have truly lost it, you witless parrot.

            I’ve used those 3 sites many times in numerous commentaries, to make a point regarding the lack of respect from the REAL science communities, for the loudmouthed, name dropping and title touting, loosely reputed ‘science blogs!’

            Also time for you to check the toilet paper accrual on the bottom of your shoe, parrota non grata, parrot Pro, ’cause you’ve really stepped in it, again! 😉

          103. “Name calling a scientist and autism father doesn’t negate his well referenced points. Just reflects on you.”

            Add in.. as well as, and pointed out to you.. the man has actually conducted research.

            Unlike.. you.. trollalota non grata.

          104. Oh! This will be fun. I’ve got the kettle on.

            Parrot Pro reenacts his role of witless parrot [easy for him] in his trolling and spammy burlesque, ‘Parody Stupidity!’ 😉

          105. scuz norkan: “Also time for you to check the toilet paper accrual on the bottom of your shoe, parrota non grata, parrot Pro, ’cause you’ve really stepped in it, again! ;)”

            Funny that.. how it always seems to happen in and around your posts/comments, trollalota non grata.

          106. Also, I love that suz thinks that reiterating for people who can’t read will be accomplished by writing and also thinks we should take medical advice from her.

          107. Glad you’re so easily amused, grasshopper! As with your partner in crime here, parrot Pro, many of you ‘forced vaxers’ are quite deficient in the comprehension dept.

            It often takes you many reads before any modicum of understanding penetrates your ‘thick skulls!’ I’m being kind, since due to your lack of experience and sophistication, for the most part, I doubt that you pretentious brats EVER understand.

            You arrogant narcissists only like hearing yourself speak, and have no consideration for those severely injured by vax!

            You’re an immature, insignificant and pesky little grasshopper, SIA [pffft, Sia] and you’re fun to toy with, while I respond to your love letters in my mailbox.

            Aside from that, NO ONE takes your games seriously, and you’ve been squashed like the paltry, sniveling, trivial and merely bothersome bug that you truly are!

            To reiterate for you illiterate, Sia, perhaps mommy will allow you to post on the big people’s boards AFTER you grow up, grasshopper! 😉

          108. define: illiterate

            illiterate
            ɪˈlɪt(ə)rət/
            adjective
            1.
            unable to read or write.
            “his parents were illiterate”
            synonyms:unable to read or write, unlettered, analphabetic, functionally illiterate
            “he was no illiterate peasant”

            noun
            1.
            a person who is unable to read or write.

            define: read

            look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed

            So lurkers: The current scenario Suz thinks I can’t read and also thinks that the way to impart information to me is by a format that depends on reading.

            Excuse me if I recommend against you taking medical advice from here.

          109. Exactly! And I’m only using your own posts in drawing my conclusion to your LACK of literacy, grasshopper! 😉

            However, no need to worry readers. Unlike these pretentious forced vaxers,’ suz rarely dispenses ‘medical advice’ via the internet!

          110. Well parrot Pro, I would have mentioned that you could read it to grasshopper, but you’re as illiterate as the little bug!

            Nope! Yall are stuck with mommy again! Kinda’ reminiscent of your burlesque of ‘parody stupidity!’ Now ain’t that special!

          111. Look, at this point, either:

            1)Vaccines don’t cause autism

            Or

            2)The conspiracy has succeded in being watertight so that no results of vaccine causes autism get out.

            If 1 then there’s no use continuing to study the question. If 2, there’s no use continuing to study the question.

            Either way, move on.

          112. Now that we’ve established that, let’s put research money into things that might actually help like figuring out what effective therapies, supports and accommodations would help.

          113. As I said, you’re a selfish little twit who adores hearing yourself talk!

            I absolutely disagree with number 1 and I personally don’t give a crap about your pov on number 2!

            You move on grasshopper! It appears that this is all a big joke to you anyway!

            Buh bye little bug! 😉

          114. “..ou do have to get measles to die of measles or a complication thereof.”

            Well, a “complication” is still not measles, so you can actually find its real cause and stop calling it “complication”:

            What “complication” really means is the unwanted consequences of TREATMENTS when a measles case enters a hospital.

            Killed by treatement => blamed on measles. Always works!

          115. “..that’s called an iatrogenic death when that happens.”

            Not exactly, oficially it only happens when the doctors admit their fault.

            But doctors have all the motives to conceal or deny iatrogeny and put the blame on something else (or else medical claim lawyers would never win a case).

            I bet they plugged every test they could get their hands on to that corpse, crossed their fingers and hoped for some positive, any positve… it happend to be measles, hurray! got something to blame! we’re saved!

          116. Great, do you have any evidence this occurred?

            Oh and actually, let’s say Andrew’s a doctor for example and commits an iatrogenic error that results in the death of the patient but doesn’t admit it.

            Pretend I’m a doctor who catches him – it’ll be iatrogenic in records even though the doctor didn’t admit it.

          117. “…it’ll be iatrogenic in records even though the doctor didn’t admit it.”

            Really! Wow the insight! Thank you!

          118. “…Great, do you have any evidence this occurred?

            Of course I don’t, it’s just what hospital directives without moral principles would force their doctors to do.

          119. Even by antivax standards, suz norkan tends to be weird.

            Measles is temporary and non complicated unless your child is unhealthy to begin with! It’s extremely different from the severe and permanent ill health suffered from vax injuries!

            Let’s try this version: Getting a shot is temporary and non complicated unless your child is unhealthy to begin with.

            I don’t happen to think my version is more true than hers, but it’s delicious to take the “Only Luzers Get Sick” argument and throw it back.

          120. Customarily, fragile ‘snowflakes’ with compromised immune systems are more likely to become ‘deathly’ ill and/or die from measles.

            Not to mention those ‘snowflakes’ who die of measles even though they were vaxed, and/or were exposed to those nasty ‘shedding vaxers!’

            This is in opposition to HEALTHY babes becoming severely and permanently ill and/or dying AFTER having a cocktail of foreign toxins injected into their bods!

            And whew! A good thing I don’t live my life by the erred and bigoted standards of others; especially of the forced vaxers who faithfully FAIL to realize that the term ‘anti vax’ would encompass only the rare few, who are against all vax for everyone!

            Sheesh! Suz certainly dodged a bullet there! ‘LUL!’ 😉

            The real ‘Luzer’ is you Mr. Laz Snowflake!

          121. If shedding were transmission then places with the HIGHEST rates of vaccines would have VPD at the higher rate.

            Sorry, evidence does not support shedding = transmission.

          122. Darlin’ green grasshopper! You are either ‘tots’ confused or reading from scripts!

            I’ve not said anything in close proximity above, which relates to shedding! In fact, the prior posts related to healthy vs weak immune systems, asd’s vs plague or death and the foul and vulgar language you forced vaxers love to intimidate with!

            I’ve seen you make the same error many times with your opposition, as you attempt some smug [but frivolous, puerile and WRONG] reply!

            You really DO need to rely on mommy to read these exchanges to you, should you insist on posting in ‘big people places,’ grasshopper! 😉

          123. Please quote my “foul and vulguar language” and prove that it is intimidation.

            If you’d read the article, you would know it was in support of vaccine laws and vaccine advocacy on a page that is pro-vaccine is not trolling by any reasonable defintion of the word.

            So…more conspiracy hypotheses again…okay, then.

          124. Notice the PLURAL! Learn to comprehend what you read, grasshopper!

            Additionally, suz don’t ‘duz’ conspiracy theories!

            I rely on logic, meaning the ability to wisely observe, deduce and form knowledgeable theories and conclusions.

            Also meaning that you have to have an original thought in your parroting pea brain, which subsequently means that it’s such a ‘THINK’ that you and your immature, illogical, and witless posting pals, don’t have, little bug!

            Ow! Yet another ‘green’ fail for you, grasshopper! Okay, then! 😉

          125. Clearly not – since “parroting pea brain” is not a logical argument.

            If I’ve used foul and vulguar language multiple times, it should be easy for you to post a simple example.

            1+1 = “$&*””*(“”!!” 2 .

            Has 1+1 magically become something other than 2? Nope.

          126. It absolutely when attempting to communicate the illiterate like you and parrot Pro!

            Ask mommy to ‘splain it to you, itty bitty bug!

            Ow! Yet another ‘green’ fail, grasshopper! 😉

          127. Darlin’, your name sure ain’t Sia, so what shall I call you, grasshopper! Rhetorical question, which explains beforehand, my use of exclamation vs question mark, [parrot Pro] and that I don’t expect an answer!

            You are either playing stupid for the charade of your posts, or you have a severe issue with understanding language.

            Not name calling, but rather a valid, honest and quite logical observation, grasshopper!

          128. Just because you don’t expect an answer does not mean I am constrained from surprising you.

            How about “Sia?” It’s clearly my username. I don’t see what the real name or lack thereof has to do with it.

            Besides which, my disqus account may not have my real name but it is linked to my facebook account which does have my real name.

            With all your super research skills, it would be easy for you to figure out my real name.

            As for “only want to hear vaccine advocacy” – I am not preventing you from posting comments or deleting your comments so I am not preventing people from reading your comments.

          129. Suz norkan, I am not telling you to go away.

            I would appreciate it if you would extend me the same courtesy.

          130. I would appreciate if you would extend the courtesy to the readers and posters in this commentary, to at least acquire a modicum of cognition before attempting to engage in serious argumentative conversation, grasshopper!

            You certainly are in dire need of remedial and special education, grasshopper!

          131. I would also appreciate it if you would refrain from calling me a grasshopper. I would also appreciate it if you would stop with the insults.

          132. I would appreciate it if you would stop bothering everyone with your trivial, infantile burlesque by being the miniscule and insignificant bug that you are.

            My valid observations are NOT insults, darlin’! Clearly you need help!

            If you don’t appreciate it, BLOCK me, grasshopper! 😉

          133. “…Getting a shot is temporary and non complicated unless your child is unhealthy to begin with.”

            Uh…wit a minute… are you saying vaccine antibodies are temporary?

            Our dear industry shill unwittingly just crushed the “vaccine herd immunity” myth. LOL.

          134. and admits that vaccinating those who aren’t healthy is a problem while i’ve recently been told that it isn’t.

          135. The vaxxer style would be “proof of non payment?” Bwahahah!

            They have “proof” vaccines DO NOT cause autism … proof of a negative! LOL

        2. I think we can all agree that the best person to take care of a child is usually their parent, want to alleviate some of the burden on the parents, why not divert this money to them even at half the amount? As it stands a parent can get paid nothing besides disability for their child which is income based and meager. Home modifications for safety and potential life threatening dangers, burns from stoves, etc, parents can wait several years, no one cares about autistic children. They are seen as subhuman by the system, second rate, a nuisance, and the parents know it. You say well they decided to have a child right? Well we didn’t decide to vaccinate according to a fraudulent CDC safety schedule, and permanent brain damage was the result. So yes, autism parents should certainly have the right to sue based on these FACTS.

          In
          2009 (the most recent year for which data are available), the average
          annual expenditure for state institutions was $188,318, compared to an
          average of $42,486 for Medicaid-funded home and community-based
          services.

          However,
          these figures oversimplify the relative cost of institutions versus
          community-based care and should not be used to indicate how much a state
          may save by closing an institution.

          This
          section discusses the inherent complexities of comparing the cost of
          institutional and community-based services, including the following:

          https://www.ncd.gov/publications/2012/DIToolkit/Costs/inDetail

          1. I agree that parents of special needs children need more help. I am not sure where you think this money will come from but I would support raising taxes on the rich and corporations and giving more to education and social services and healthcare.

            As for suing, there is no one to sue. Autism children are born, not made. Just as there is no one to sue for Down’s syndrome, there is no one to sue for autism.

          2. It is not possible for a normal child to become autistic overnight, oh wait yes it is, they got vaccinated the day before.

          3. I am sorry that you can not accept the scientific fact that vaccines don’t cause autism. Public health policy will be made using valid science. Science tells us vaccines don’t cause autism.

          4. No, you are wrong. But you are welcome to deny facts. Thankfully, public health policy is based on sound science.

          5. Parental rights and medical freedom will prevail. Take your public health policy and toss it in the trash can with the CDC’s scientific studies showing a vaccine autism link.

          6. You haven’t heard? The data is still there. It was never tossed. You can download it now. It’s available for free at left brain right brain blog. He got it from Senator Posey’s office.

          7. I showed you where the money is already being spent, hence me saying divert it to parents as an incentive to try to make it work at home with assistance from their State, we do not have that now. There is no help for parents of autistic children. They are left to fight alone with a disabled brain damaged version of their normal child that once was.

          8. “There is no help for parents of autistic children.”

            That’s not true.

            Do you have a child with autism? Maybe I can point you in the right direction.

          9. I gave you fair warning before pulling the plug on your clown show at Autism Speaks. So, don’t be mad,

          10. Ever play that game at Chucky Cheese’s were you hit the hammer on the head things and they keep popping up everywhere? Sounds like that is your favorite game.

          11. I see all the angry turfers are frothing. Was it the medical kidnapping, struck a nerve huh. Hey Cathy, you mad bro?

          12. I know in my state, you can apply for respite care. They’ll pay for a babysitter so you can take some time for yourself. There are insurance mandates which require certain services to be covered. It’s included with your Obamacare. The school district is also an invaluable resource. There’s a lot of help available.

          13. So you basically get a babysitter for a couple hours ok, might be nice for some, the insurance mandates will pay for ABA for your broken child, there was alot of ABA back in the 60s and 70s right? No there wasn’t, because there were not this many autistic children back then. The school might give your broken kid a one on one aide. And that’s that. Hillary is gonna try to find the autistic adults for you though, guess where she is gonna look, to the CDC, the proven liars. The vicious cycle will never end, but don’t worry because I will be here every step of the way.

          14. The insurance mandates pay for speech therapy, occupational therapy, and behavior therapy. If your child is severely disabled, that’s in home therapy. You have to ask. Respite care in my state is, I believe up to $400 a month so you can have some free time.

            I’m not sure when ABA first started, but I know the Early Start Denver Model, which is ABA based, emphasizes early intervention and how vital it is for parents to be involved and engage their child. Our school district offers coaching programs for parents, in home.

            Your attitude and expectations make the difference.

          15. Just because it costs $188K to put a child in a state home doesn’t mean $188K is available to give to the parents. That is why I said I would be in favor of raising taxes for the 1% and corporations, to fund education, social services, and healthcare more.

            Also, many autists are not profoundly disabled. Their child was never “normal” as there is no such thing.

          16. I say we take the money from the Pharmaceutical industry since they are the ones responsible for the autism epidemic.

          17. Why? Because you proclaim it to be. Wakefield was no fraud which is easily proven, his work HAS been replicated, and debunked is straight out of the book of shills.

          18. Pfft, yeah right. No evidence vaccines cause autism and you think pharmaceutical companies are going to give payouts to parents of autists?

          19. I don’t care about Bama, we are talking about vaccines killing and maiming children, snap snap, looking eyes Katia.

          20. “the best person to take care of a child is usually their parent”

            That’s true in most cases. Sometimes though, parents have their own issues, like serious mental health issues, where the child would be better in an institution.

            There was a guy who used to comment at Autism Speaks, and a number of people mentioned that he really, really needed counselling. I dunno if he ever took the advice, but you could just tell. The anger and bizarre thinking, couldn’t possibly be good for any child.

            Just an example.

          21. If you are experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia I recommend you consult a trained professional. I can refer you to some excellent medical professionals.

          22. https://www.icnr.com/articles/perilsofvaccination.html

            As if the unscientific testing and faulty reporting techniques are not
            bad enough, most physicians are not aware of the latent adverse residual
            effects of vaccines. Once injected into the body, the components of the
            vaccine travel through the blood stream and become trapped in organs
            and tissues of the body. Years later symptoms may surface. Very few
            healthcare practitioners will ever recognize the link. That was the case
            with J.B. an 8 year-old who was diagnosed by Children’s Hospital,
            several top neurologists and psychiatrists as suffering from Epileptic
            Seizures and Schizophrenia. This child would go into altered states, not
            recognizing his parents and then calling them by different names. These
            altered states as well as the seizures would occur randomly and without
            obvious initiating events. Traditional medicine’s solution was to
            prescribe anti-seizure and anti-hallucinogenic medications.

          23. According to Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s research, the Center For Disease
            Control’s (CDC) vaccine testing program provides multiple vaccines to
            one group of healthy children and only one vaccine to a second group of
            healthy children. And when adverse side effects are reported they are
            quickly dismissed as not having any relationship to the vaccine. The
            vaccine “researchers” do not even use a “placebo” in their “gold
            standard” testing. Most physicians are not even aware of this distorted
            testing technique and faulty reporting being used to snow the scientific
            community.

          24. Tenpenny isn’t a researcher. She has zero published works on vaccines.

            She makes her money selling access to anti-vaccination articles, supplements, bio identical hormones, and thermography. In other words, she peddles woo.

          25. All vaccines in all quantities at all times for all people or you are a quack, woo pusher, anti science, blah blah blah, shill

            WHAT DRTENPENNY.COM STANDS FOR:

            We oppose the one-size-fits-all public health policy imposed by
            state rules and enforced by physicians, hospitals and public health
            employees.
            We oppose public health policies that demand the rights of the
            individuals must be secondary to rights of individuals to refuse the
            injection of products that can have long term, even deadly, consequences
            to their health.
            We support the freedom to refuse any medical procedure, including vaccination.
            We support fully informed consent, which means admitting to the harm
            that vaccines can cause and allowing the person time for consideration.
            We believe that vaccines can cause more harm to the health of the
            individual – and subsequently to the community as a whole – than the
            good vaccines are claimed to do by vaccine proponents.

          26. Sheesh! Please stop with your psycho babble and unseemly paper diagnosis!

            Again, you’re not fooling anyone, Cathy!

      2. Sure, more support for families and actually disabled people is always useful. And respite care would be one method of support.

        However, it’s one thing to look for someone to blame and one thing to look for something to sue but still at some point…the anti-vax parents need to realize that implying their kids are worse than a literal plague is *not* the way to go about it.

        I mean, it is 2016, guys. Measles and Mumps can both be the end of your line.

        I wonder how many of them know just what trade they’re making. Rubella can cause Blindness, deafness, intellectual disability, and autism, among other things – it’s really nasty if pregnant woman catches it.

        If MMR did cause autism (hint: it doesn’t), you’re basically risking a multiply disabled child, autism being one disability instead of just risking autism.

        (LFA = Autism + Intellectual disability and sometimes nonverbal)

        1. You are absolutely right, in that except for the sore arm, most if not all real injuries from shots are also caused by the wild diseases. That’s why the antivaxers go hunting for “mercury”, or “aluminum”, or just plain “unnatural” to explain the inexplicable.

          I think many parents of low-functioning children would prefer that their children had never been born, in the same way that children are often relieved when an Alzheimers-riddled parent dies. But shifting the blame to vaccines is irrational, and as you can see, often made dishonestly.

          1. Even the sore arm can be caused by the wild disease…just less concentrated. It’s called body/joint aches and most diseases do that.

          2. Autistic children should be medically kidnapped and now you imply that autism parents would be relieved if their child was dead. You are one sick puppy. I think Mom dropped you on your head and took a couple kicks. Can not blame her, not one bit.

          3. It’s called logical consequences – being anti-vaccine is at the moment being pro-disease. Being pro-disease means being pro-death. Preffering disease to autism that can kill severalpeople even though autism is not caused by vaccines = you’d rather your child be dead.

            Don’t like it? Expose the universal widespread scentific fraud.

            Until then, you need extraordinary evidence which I doubt you have.

          4. But suggesting that every result has been faked worldwide and every immunologist, biologist and chemist is on it and every government in the world is on it and the only evidence is ‘prove they didn’t’ and they pay people to post on the internet and yet this entire evil plot is allegedly on the vaccine insert and they don’t care about youtube videos is…..what, exactly?

            It naturally follows that either a)this conspiracy is so incompetent that it can’t even take down youtube videos exposting the entire plot or b)it doesn’t actually exist.

            Either way, it naturally follows that there’s no threat.

          5. “…most if not all real injuries from shots are also caused by the wild diseases

            You don’t go injecting “wild deseases” into healthy people, moron, you go injecting vaccines.

            “…shifting the blame to vaccines is irrational”

            No moron, it’s a probable casue that must be activley assessed in every single case, not passively in order to conceal its true incindece to the max, as it happens today.

            https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/safety/side_effects/#dtap

            – Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
            – Permanent brain damage.

          1. Boy gets vaccines for school attendance, raised red rash and hives all over, becomes allergic to pork, turkey, beef and the sun. Yes the sun. True story, he has a younger sister who got many more shots than him who is non verbal severely autistic. Should he be forced to roll the dice on the brand new take it or leave it Meningitis vaccine that the NY legislature just mandated for school attendance this upcoming year? Tell me why Meningitis should be mandatory in NY. I didn’t have a Meningitis vaccine when I was a child, I also did not have one, that is 1, meaning I knew 00000000 autistic peers. As did my parents, my Grandparents, all the teachers I know and all the pediatricians I talk to. VACCINE INJURIES ARE REAL.

          2. The chance of children getting Meningitis is comparable to winning lottery, the cost is through the roof, the sponsor of the bill in NY took campaign donations to push this through, the list goes on, I am not telling you stuff that you do not know. Vaccines have caused autism and you know it. Just ask John Poling.

          3. If vaccines are safe why are the inserts loaded with adverse effects also listing autism. Vaccines do not cause autism you say and yet autism is listed on a vaccine insert.

          4. Things like encephalitis (brain damage) nervous system damage, seizures, AUTISM etc, happened to people like me and you, I bet the families of these victims of vaccine injury do not appreciate you paid commenters trying to cheapen their devastating medical injuries.

          5. You’re right that meningococcal is very rare. But it’s also very, very serious and the vaccines are very safe. Talk to parents of kids who have it.

            The evidence is very clear that vaccines do not cause autism. Hannah Poling’s case does not show otherwise.

          6. Adverse reactions to vaccines are more common than Meningitis. Unnecessary vaccination, period, should be optional.

          7. https://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/the-pertussis-vaccine-lists-autism-and-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-as-serious-adverse-events-on-the-package-insert/

            At the same time the vaccine
            establishment is making a full court press with news stories everywhere
            to convince the public that vaccines are totally safe and it is our
            moral obligation to accept them, you find this evidence of harm. The
            defenders of vaccines are so far down the road of denial and dishonesty
            that they are incapable or unwilling to acknowledge the fact prominently
            displayed on the DTaP package insert: Autism and sudden infant death are associated with vaccination. This is a powerful indictment of the CDC, vaccine manufacturers and medical talking heads like Offit.

            The DTaP package warning insert also includes these serious reported adverse events: convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy and neuropathy. The Refusers Newsroom contains many articles on these subjects and my chapter in Vaccine Epidemic starts with the Merck Manual medical textbook definition of a vaccine adverse reaction – encephalitis.
            It is therefore no surprise that neurological damage is listed on the
            package insert. Anyone who takes the time to read FDA Vaccine Adverse
            Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports will find numerous rapid-onset
            cases of encephalitis, convulsions and sudden infant death. That is why
            those events are on the package insert, because they are happening.

            conclusion – the DTaP package insert reads like a cigarette package warning: Caution! This product can kill you or cause neurological damage. Thanks for the warning and as the American Medical Association (AMA) position on informed consent states: patients ‘can make an informed decision to proceed or to refuse a particular course of medical intervention.’ I will follow the AMA position on informed consent and refuse this vaccine.

          8. That is because the writer of these words is misunderstanding the insert. For example, if you read the insert on the same page where SIDS is mentioned, it explained that the rate of SIDS among vaccine recipients is actually lower than it was in the population.

            The insert does not only list problems caused by the vaccine. It lists everything reported – caused by vaccines or not. For example, the Gardasil 9 insert reports on deaths in trial and placebo recipients. Among the causes are car accidents and plane crashes. But they need to report this anyway. The DTaP insert you mention also lists accidental drowning as one of the causes in the deaths during the trial – but they still have to include that.

            About reading inserts, see: https://www.harpocratesspeaks.com/2014/09/package-inserts-understanding-what-they.html

          9. The writer is misunderstanding that the vaccine insert says it causes brain damage and death? Hey Dorit did you know that I am a helicopter? You need a ride to shutter island cause that is where you belong.

          10. “… it explained that the rate of SIDS among vaccine recipients is actually lower than it was in the population.”

            False. Thisis the quote:

            The rate of SIDS observed in the US open-label safety study was 0.8/1,000 vaccinated infants and the reported rate of SIDS in the US from 1985-1991 was 1.5/1,000 live births

            SIDS rates are compared between DTAP-vaccinated kids and live births.

            Since live births routinely get the HepB vacccine, the comparison is between vaccinated babies. The SIDS rate among the unvaccinated si not disclosed! (probably much, much lower).

            The Tripedia vaccine product insert was removed from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Vaccine Safety website.

            It is now missing from the Centers for Disease Control Vaccine Price List.

            The “official” reason is likely Sanofi Pasteur’s discontinuing the production of the vaccine.

            Anyone doesn’t see the smoking gun?

          11. Really a pediatrics study by Offit, ha. C’mon. Oh no you didn’t take the Mercury is good for you approach with the vaccines prevent allergies tactic. Been done, total BS. autism science link is just a list of bogus predetermined studies to push vaccination. And around we go. Tell Merck to identify the very very low percent of regressively autistic children and put the check in the mail. Your herd immunity depends on it. Should have been long taken care of and you would not be having vaccine uptake problems, and I and other parents would not be on the anti vaccine warpath. Acknowledgement, apology, take it or leave it, and most importantly, compensation for a lifetime of lost wages, attention lost to older siblings and the basic tearing down of the family unit.

          12. Ignoring your prejudice against Dr. Offit, if you actually look at the article you would see it’s a summary of large scale studies done by others.

            I understand that you dislike the evidence – from all over the world – that vaccines do not cause autism. That doesn’t negate it.

          13. Offit’s book is pure propaganda, one sided nothing more, autism false prophets. C’mon give me a break. Stopped reading before I started. Lies.

          14. If you haven’t read it, you can’t honestly say that.

            And again: looking at the article would show you the studies done on the topic and how we know that vaccines don’t cause allergies.

          15. “…looking at the article would show you the studies done on the topic…

            Agreed.

            “… and how we know that vaccines don’t cause allergies.

            Disagreed.

            That’s Dr. Offit’s personal opinion about the studies that you take at face value.

            Raad the actual studies then come back to us.

          16. https://drtenpenny.com/are-pro-vaccine-advocates-illiterate/

            Back in 1899, Charles H. Duell, the
            Commissioner of U.S. patent office made his famous quote, “Everything
            that can be invented has been invented.” Offit seems to be saying that
            every article in every publication lauds vaccines as safe, effective,
            harmless, wonder drugs. All research about vaccine efficacy and safety
            that can be done, has been done. He dismisses the myriad of side effects
            – even deaths – as anecdotal. He rebukes parents who have concerns
            about a vaccine connection with autism because “that article” has been
            refuted and “that doctor” has been discredited.

            I’m beginning to wonder, in spite of
            his big credentials, is he illiterate? Or does he simply choose to
            ignore the science that could possibly contradict his views?

            Abundant evidence has been published in
            scientific journals proving that aluminum and thimerosal do injure the
            brain. Several package inserts clearly state that a potential side
            effect is encephalopathy, a syndrome of global brain dysfunction.
            Encephalopathy and encephalitis are the accepted medical words to
            describe brain injury without using the “A” word.

          17. Look at you feverishly trying to prove a point that does not exist. I have thoroughly demonstrated with science, eye witness testimony, and the vaccine inserts themselves that early over, and untested vaccination of children per the corrupt CDC schedule can lead to disastrous health consequences, usually lifelong, for other wise happy normal vibrant children.
            Definition of an astroturfer:
            Astroturfing is the use of fake grassroots
            efforts that primarily focus on influencing public opinion and
            typically are funded by corporations, and governmental entities, to form
            opinions.

            Astroturfers will throw out mass amounts of useless information, like what you posted above, to achieve the task of deception and confusion. If you paid turfers can put out enough confusing information then someone is left to just give up on what is the truth. But there will always be people here like autism parents to call you on your BS and manipulation of facts.

            Keep on shillin baby, you know what time it is.

          18. “..it’s a summary of large scale studies done by others.”

            A.k.a personal opinion and interpretation of Dr. Offit that has direct vested interest in the vaccine industry as co-inventor.

            Asking the fox about the safety of the hens, anyone? Lol.

          19. 1. https://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html is an opinion site foubded by a co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, Dr. Paul Offit.

            2. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/111/3/653 is Paul A. Offit again! Not a clinical trial, but Paul A. Offit’s personal and fourth hand interpretation of other people’s data.

            Reading paul is like asking the Fox about the safety of the hens!

            3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406568/ is a ONE PAGE (!!!) account of an alleged clinical trial.

            I cite: “Targets were physician diagnosed atopic eczema and any other (undisclosed) allergic symptoms”.

            No food allergies investigated, no autoimmune disease…the authors selected the parametar that better suited their agendas (selection bias).

            Therefore, the title “prevents allergy diosorders” is misleadingly broader than justified by the trial.

          20. 1. As anyone who looks can see, the site includes links to the studies and people can look them up and see. You may not like the data, but that’s what it shows.

            You’re saying that Dr. Offit is a co-inventor of a vaccine as if it’s a bad thing. I’m not sure why you think his role in developing a vaccine that can save hundreds of thousands of lives is something against him. And as a vaccine inventor, it’s hard to doubt his expertise about vaccines.

            2. The Offit and Hackett article: Actually, it’s a summary, with citations, of large scale studies. People can easily look up the studies and see description accurate.

            3. I would say “any other allergic symptoms” is both inclusive and clear. So your criticism is incorrect here, too.

          21. “…You may not like the data, but that’s what it shows.

            If you were right you’d be actually discussing the studies themselves, not the personal opinion of Mr. Offit regarding what “it shows”.

            But as a mouthpice you just like the scientific education to enter such a debate.

            “..You’re saying that Dr. Offit is a co-inventor of a vaccine as if it’s a bad thing.”

            “Good or bad” is an infantile level of debate.

            Conflict of interests – therefore prima facie lack of credibility – is the rational assessment of Offi’s professional relationship with the vaccine industry.

            “.. I would say “any other allergic symptoms” is both inclusive and clear.”

            Clinical studies shouldn’t leave elements to the imagination. If a condition is not explicitly specified then it’s considered not included by default.

            But what can a mouthpiece possibly kow abouit the scientific method?

          22. As most readers realize, it’s more useful to provide one link to a clear review than multiple links, if that’s possible. Readers who want to follow up can do so. Again: summary of studies is not an opinion.

            Dr. Offit has no conflicts of interests here.

            “Any other allergic symptoms” is very clear.

            I’m afraid wild language is not a substitute for accuracy.

          23. “… it’s more useful to provide one link to a clear review than multiple links, if that’s possible.”

            But presenting the reviewer’s opinions on the listed articles as “proof” is dishonesty and only useful for you.

            “…”Any other allergic symptoms” is very clear.”

            Then please, enumerate which ones were actually observed and which not. I’m relly really curious.

        2. In the past decade in the US one person has died from the measles, and she was vaccinated. 108 people have died due to adverse reactions from the MMR vaccine.

          1. But I thought the internet was all junk information according to you and your following. Oh yes, that’s right, only you and your friends have the intelligence to decipher what is accurate and what is not, and only with a two second search, that’s impressive.

          2. Thanks. The “108 deaths from this … Zero deaths from that” started at Natural News. It’s not really a surprise it only took two seconds to find out that’s a lie. You have to be a brain dead idiot to believe anything you read there anyway =)

          3. That’s not the correct figure to compare it to

            108 is an overcount but whatever – you should be comparing it to the numbers of deaths of measles and complications prior to the vaccine.

            Technically, you’re correct that it’s the safest position to be in to be the only unvaccinated person in a fully vaccinated population thus running neither the much larger risk of wild disease (no-one to catch it from!) or the much smaller risk of vaccination.

            However, the problem is that choice doesn’t scale up too well and you have a classic prisoner’s dilemma/freerider problem on your hands.

        3. How do you know MMR doesn’t cause autism? You don’t and (hint); it does. Don’t tell me you are basing your vaccine safety assumptions on fraudulent science.

          1. Simple. There are several studies on the differing rates of autism, from multiple funding revenues and multiple different directions. There’s no difference in vaccinated vs unvaccinated rates which there would be if MMR caused any autism at all.

            But even if we take that for granted, you still have to weigh that against the risk of all natural rubella which can also cause autism.

            Don’t tell me you’re basing it on Wakefield who took money from lawyers, actually did have a patent pending during his study and also took blood draws (meaning the needle actually went straight into the kids bloodstreams) and also took LPs for no reason at all.

          2. Look at the Lewin group – and do you have any evidence that removal of undesirable participants occurred?

          3. Do you have any evidence that they didn’t? They are affiliated with BIG PHARMA after all now aren’t they little fella.

          4. As usual, sablemouse is only capable of arguing with herself over points nobody is making – thanks for the complete lack of crows.

      3. No asinine insults of ‘potty training’ jokes today, Mr. Snowflake? You’re pathetic!

        Pffft! ‘Someone to sue’ in the flawed law facade of the nvicp! We know better. The deck is and has been stacked against reparation of vax injuries!

        Still clueless, Mr. Snowflake!

        1. Right…because you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt – oh wait, nope. Because you have to prove everything – oh wait, nope. Because you have to pay for your own laywyers, oh wait.

          Because there has to be more than 51% and a plausible method for off-table stuff – oh wait, no.

          Not to mention that you can still apppeal or sue afterwards, if you don’t like it. And you can still sure straight off for manufacturing or labelling defect.

          1. NOT for design! It’s a ropeadope scam even uglier than the initial flawed law facade. Just ask Borings!

          2. Wrong, You can sue for design defect – NCVIP does not make pharma companies exempt from design liability unlike manufacturers of guns and knives – it pre-empts, not exempts – you just have to go through NCVIP first then you can sue afterwards.

          3. Wrong! You get a ‘glorified review’ for errors! Check your facts, grasshopper! You’re wasting MY time!

      4. Sounds like you endorse medical kidnapping of vaccine injured children. Maybe an excise tax could be collected on each vaccination to pay for the hospital and all the Mengele type experiments that would be run on the expendable genetically inferior children.

          1. Really, it’s a thing with some folks. (“Just google it.”) When a child (always a child, almost never an adult) is taken into custody to assure mainstream medicine is delivered, rather than bullsh!t that allows the parent/caretaker to reinforce their unfounded beliefs, at the cost of someone else’s health. At least there’s a safety net, as seldom as it’s invoked, to protect children unable to do so for themselves.

          1. They are collected from the manufacturer.
            It would be naive to think that excise taxes aren’t rolled into the price for the consumer.

          2. That’s just how capitalism works – no-one thinks it’s not rolled into the price just that it’s collected from the manufacturers.

          3. No, I’m explaining the current system.

            Capitalism as distinct from Communism. Free market is free market.

          4. Nope. Not a single autistic child has been compensated by the program.
            Vaccines do not cause autism.

          5. And even if an autistic child has been compensated, that still wouldn’t mean they were compensated for autism.

            It is entirely possible to have a vaccine-injured child with autism (rare) but that does not mean the autism was the vaccine-injury.

          6. True, that is possible but I don’t think it has happened yet. I really don’t think that will ever be documented because if an autistic child is actually injured, which usually means an inflammation brain injury, It would be likely that Autism symptoms would be attributed to the vaccine injury and not to autism. The injury would likely mask the autism unless it was very severe.

          7. Oh yeah, this is all hypothetical stuff and chin-stroking.

            Just pointing that even if it did happen tomorrow – it still wouldn’t be proof that autism was the vaccine injury.

            And I’m sure there are several parents who claimed autism was a vaccine injury and given the very low levels of proof…welll….

    3. It’s because autism is the new leprosy: you can’t see it, only its effects. They haven’t determined a definite origin or cause, and thus it is the latest Scary Invisible Monster that will strike your precious children because you are being targeted by the Vast Evil Monster Conspiracy. It isn’t just anti-vaxxers — extremists and conspiracy theorists of all types seem to think autism is some unnatural Frankenstein-like syndrome, the end result of Our Enemies Going Against Nature And/Or God.

    4. What is an anti vaxxer? Someone who has an adverse reaction to the vaccine ingredients and decides not to inject them anymore? Why should parents take the risk when they know that if their child has an adverse reaction or regresses into autism that they will be called
      a liar, an anti vaxxer, anti science, just a coincidence, would have happened anyway, thats just autism we can’t help you, we don’t know what is wrong, maybe viral, fat mom, refridgerator mom, air pollution, cookies, blah, blah, blah, go ahead and prove to me that it wasn’t the dozens of vaccines and their toxic ingredients that didn’t kill the baby next door. Why should parents risk a lifetime of income and the livelihood of older siblings? In case you were thinking about saying vaccines do not cause autism, you are lying and everyone knows it, even you. Oh, you are not autistic you are just misdiagnosed. Autism checklist do I have it,
      Still in diapers as an adult. Can not speak. Self injurious behaviors, wandering, can not care for self, etc. You want me to admit that vaccines didn’t cause YOUR autism? Ok I admit that.

      1. Great. You admit that vaccines don’t cause my autism.

        Since the majority of the ‘epidemic’ is broader criteria, you have just admitted that vaccines are not responsible for the increase. Thanks for that! It’s so much easier when you guys make my point for me.

        “Still in diapers as an adult. Can not speak. Self injurious behaviors, wandering, can not care for self, etc. You want me to admit that vaccines didn’t cause YOUR autism? Ok I admit that.”
        Actually, that is not the autism checklist.

        “A. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive, see text):

        1. Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, ranging, for example, from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect; to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions.

        2. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction, ranging, for example, from poorly integrated verbal and nonverbal communication; to abnormalities in eye contact and body language or deficits in understanding and use of gestures; to a total lack of facial expressions and nonverbal communication.

        3. Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships, ranging, for example, from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit various social contexts; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to absence of interest in peers.

        Specify current severity:

        Severity is based on social communication impairments and restricted repetitive patterns of behavior (see Table 2).

        B. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at least two of the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive; see text):

        1. Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech (e.g., simple motor stereotypies, lining up toys or flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases).

        2. Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns or verbal nonverbal behavior (e.g., extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions, rigid thinking patterns, greeting rituals, need to take same route or eat food every day).

        3. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g, strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interest).

        4. Hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interests in sensory aspects of the environment (e.g., apparent indifference to pain/temperature, adverse response to specific sounds or textures, excessive smelling or touching of objects, visual fascination with lights or movement).

        Specify current severity:

        Severity is based on social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior (see Table 2).

        C. Symptoms must be present in the early developmental period (but may not become fully manifest until social demands exceed limited capacities, or may be masked by learned strategies in later life).

        D. Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning.

        E. These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) or global developmental delay. Intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder frequently co-occur; to make comorbid diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, social communication should be below that expected for general developmental level.

        Note: Individuals with a well-established DSM-IV diagnosis of autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, or pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified should be given the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Individuals who have marked deficits in social communication, but whose symptoms do not otherwise meet criteria for autism spectrum disorder, should be evaluated for social (pragmatic) communication disorder.

        Specify if:
        With or without accompanying intellectual impairment
        With or without accompanying language impairment
        Associated with a known medical or genetic condition or environmental factor
        (Coding note: Use additional code to identify the associated medical or genetic condition.)
        Associated with another neurodevelopmental, mental, or behavioral disorder
        (Coding note: Use additional code[s] to identify the associated neurodevelopmental, mental, or behavioral disorder[s].)
        With catatonia (refer to the criteria for catatonia associated with another mental disorder, pp. 119-120, for definition) (Coding note: Use additional code 293.89 [F06.1] catatonia associated with autism spectrum disorder to indicate the presence of the comorbid catatonia.)”

        Per DSM-V, per Autism Speaks. Let’s compare that to your checklist:

        “”Still in diapers as an adult. ” – Not there.

        “Can not speak.” – not there.

        “Self injurious behaviors” – not there. Btw: https://wearelikeyourchild.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/a-checklist-for-identifying-sources-of.html

        “wandering” – not there.

        ” can not care for self, ” – not there.

        0 for 0.

          1. Thanks for the peaceful pic of a child being drawn to the water; reassuring parents of autistic children that ‘all is calm; all is bright!’ Pffft!

            Two nights ago, another ‘eloper’ [6 yr. old boy] was found dead in the water [as ‘elopers’ often ARE since they are drawn to water]!

            Yall are living in a fantasy world! Get down in the trenches and then tell the world how wonderful autism is.

            However, anyone who takes these glimpses into the hard realities of parenting a severely autistic child, and spins it into parents not LOVING their child for who they’ve became after the environmental assault which caused such neuro regression, is an arrogant moron!

            Dream on, Cathy!

          2. Suz, it would behoove you to respond to the actual argumenets that people make.

            It’s really quite simple though. Autism will not kill your kid’s classmate. Measles just might do that and kill your kid too.

        1. Not gonna read this big comment after the foolishness you displayed above it. Why deny cold hard facts? Only a shill would try.

          1. Cold hard facts:

            Cold Hard Fact #1: Autism Spectrum Disorder is diagnosed by DSM-V

            Cold Hard Fact #2: The DSM-V use a checklist.

            Cold Hard Fact #3: The checklist is reproduced above.

            Cold Hard Fact #4: None of the items in your checklist appear in the criteria that is used to diagnose autism.

            Cold Hard Fact #5 – your ignoring it hasn’t changed the fact that it’s there. And look, it’s still freely available even if you don’t read it, thus proving that regardless of how many people read package inserts or not, VAERS information is still freely given out.

            Cold Hard Fact #6 – You cannot simultaneously claim that Asperger’s/HFA isn’t autism and also use figures that include Asperger’s and HFA in order to prove there is an autism epidemic and also expect to be taken seriously – it just won’t work.

    5. “…why being Autistic … is such a terrible fate that they’re willing to risk not only their kid’s lives…

      First, in the West where kids rarely suffer from malnutrition, child diseases are mild and easily treated. They do not pose a credible health threat despite vaxxers hysterically shouting otherwise.

      Second, the recent (and recurrent) outbreaks in perfectly vaccinated individuals (measles, mumps, pertussis…) raise serious doubts about the true efficacy of vaccines (if any at all).

      Third, vaccines are injections of both controlled and uncontrolled antigens (human and animal proteins), the latter inducing random antibodies that may end up attacking the tissues of the host (autoimmune disease). Therefore vaccines pose a wide spectrum immune risk.

      Fourth, because even if vaccines did work, the choice between risking a mentally crippled child and risking a case of measles, pertussis or mumps is straightforward to make. Actually, by vaccinating you risk to have both.

      1. Agreed. As someone who had the routine childhood diseases and obvious survived unscathed,(in fact barely remember having them) there is such a hyped-up fear that has been generated by big pharma and their minions over measles, you would think it was ebola..

        Measles among vaccinated Quebec kids-The Canadian Press

        Posted:Oct 20, 2011 9:35 AM ET

        “An investigation into an outbreak in a high school in a town that was heavily hit by the virus found that about half of the cases were in teens who had received the recommended two doses of vaccine in childhood — in other words, teens whom authorities would have expected to have been protected from the measles virus.

        It’s generally assumed that the measles vaccine, when given in a two-dose schedule in early childhood, should protect against measles infection about 99 per cent of the time. So the discovery that 52 of the 98 teens who caught measles were fully vaccinated came as a shock to the researchers who conducted the investigation”

        https://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/health/story/1.1086151

          1. Dismissing vaccine-induced disease because they tell you autism and autoimmunity are the new normal!

          2. Look how much the death rate fell before the measles vaccine was ever introduced.

            “.In 1963, the population was 189,241,798. That means that prior to the vaccine, the percentage of the entire US population that died from measles was .000237%

            In 1963, there were about 450 deaths from measles. Meanwhile, about 12,000 people died from stomach ulcers Just over 43,000 people died from car accidents in 1963. Over 700,000 people died from heart disease.

            In 1963, you were more likely to be one of the 9200 people murdered that year than to die of measles. If you were born in 1963, you were more likely to die from a congenital disease than from measles. In 1963, it was about 46 times more likely for a child to die from a congenital malformation than for someone to die from the measles.”

            Source: “Putting measles Into Perspective” by Dawn Babcock Papple
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ccf096dd6a3732fe31ba0d09fbe9e63b9e2857487247258e5179b7b339853018.jpg

      2. Look….more about ‘but it’s haaaaard to raise the kid’ And you’re wrong – they’re not mild.

        Thus proving my point that the closest to an answer I get is about the parents.

          1. Lmao! No further point to make – ‘Point. Counter the point, please?’ No further point – don’t need to already made it.

            Or do you think I’m paid?

          2. Your point has been duly debunked 3 posts above. You’re just insisiting on the same, I too repeat the same.

          3. No, I asked about being Autistic – your attempt at debunking it was ‘raising a mentally crippled child is haaaaaaard’

            You actually proved my point – your child’s supposed vaccine injury isn’t why you’re advocating because that would have you stop and think and answer the actual question.

            It’s about you and how hard it is.

          4. Please explain to me why you think being Autistic is such a worse fate that you’d rather risk a literal plague than it. I am not asking about whether you would prefer raising an Autistic child to a plague. Do not lie about deaths from measles.

            For someone who is so much smarter than the medical and global consensus, it’s actually very simple language to understand. You just have to realize that parents aren’t the same person as their child – if you can’t realize this simple biological fact then I would suggest a deeper drink of the Pierran Spring and I would advise lurkers against taking medical advice from you.

          5. “..Please explain to me why you think being Autistic is such a worse fate that you’d rather risk a literal plague than it”

            Alredy did that 6 posts above and called your “risk a literal plague” bluff and puff.

          6. I wasn’t expects acknowledgement of my reasons from your side. I wrote them for others to reflect upon and might benefit from doing so.

    6. How do children get diseases like hep B and polio?
      Do children have it inside them when they are born?
      How are the unvaccinated children passing these diseases to the neighbors?
      I’ve also heard of polio shedding as well as measles and flu shedding after getting shots. Do children just shed diseases after being born?

      1. Hep B can survive on one drop of biofluid for a week – this includes SALIVA. About 30% is transmission from bites and things.

        Sometimes, children do have it when born since some mothers are Hep B+ and birth can pass things along.

        It’s more that they’re more likely to – they’re more likely to contract it and measles for examples is airborne and is contagious about four days before they’re sick. Airborne and can survive for at least 2 hours in the air.

        It’s like drunk driving only in the aspect that drunk drivers are far more likely to get into accidents even though most fatalities happen in sober drivers – and you’re not allowed to drunk drive.

        Yes, viral shedding happens with the full disease too.

        Polio shedding is only for the OPV. Flu shedding is only for the mist and the worst it’s done is give severely immunocomprised (like in a bone marrow unit or something). Even then, it’s rare and is mostly in poop in any case. Measles vaccine isn’t one that sheds – though varicella vaccine can if there are spots and only then when an immunocomprised person has direct contact with said spots Rotavirus too but that’s nothing standard procedures around diaper changing don’t handle.

        The smallpox vaccine was the closest to truly shedding and is only really given to military and the like. The precaution there is waterproof plasters until the site is fully healed.

        If shedding is a concern:

        1)Opt for dead/inactivated vaccines when possible.

        2)Avoid changing diapers for a week or so if immunocomprised after rotavirus vaccine. Immunoaltered people (mostly pregnant women) should check about any special precautions re: rotavirus vaccine.

        2b)If not immunocomprised, just wash your hands well after diaper changing.

        3)Avoid direct contact for flumist if child is “boy in the bubble”

        4)If child has breakthrough varicella rash, do not touch the pox if immunocomprised.

        If shedding were transmission, communities with the highest rate of, say, MMR vaccine would have the highest rates of Measles, Mumps and Rubella, they don’t.

        But if that was true, this basically means my choice is either a)spread the virulent form unknowingly or b)knowingly spread an attenuated version and since I know about it, I’ll know exactly when to be careful.

    7. and i never get an answer out of the ever so mildly autistic why they don’t give a rodent’s behind about their severely disabled brethren.
      i doubt that there’s a person in the world who would be much bothered about having a child with asperger’s except those parents who shouldn’t be anyways. but they’re no good for any child.
      maybe the reason you don’t get an answer is because the question is silly and you are using it to justify serious and severe vaccine injury.
      you’re as transparent as a freshly cleaned window.

        1. i think you misunderstood my comment. but congrats at your ability to post pictures and make threads harder to load.

    8. Let me give this a try for you “Sia”.

      Do you argue that vaccines are without risks? Can vaccines cause permanent injury, even death? If you are one of those who argue that they do not, if you are one of those who claim that “there are no toxic ingredients in vaccines”, then we can end our conversation now as you are not worth the time.

      Still reading? So, now that we can postulate that vaccines can, in an albeit very small minority of children, cause permanent injury or death, the decision whether or not to have one’s child receive a particular vaccine comes down to an analysis of risks and benefits. If someone believes that vaccines can cause autism, whether correct or not, this must be factored into the decision. It’s not a simple comparison between the severity of injury from pertussis to the severity of autism, it’s also an analysis of probabilities. The current official CDC numbers put the incidence of autism at 1 in 48 children, which is pretty darn high. If a parent believes certain vaccines can cause autism, then they may decide to forgo those vaccines in part because, at least according to their personal beliefs, the probability of autism is much higher than the probability of both catching and being injured by those diseases.

      Does that make sense?

      As for the brand new baby next door, if his or her parents are allowing that brand new baby to be exposed to neighborhood children as a newborn then I would call those parents irresponsible. I know people like that, some of our friends take their newborns to theme parks, movie theaters…and they call parents who don’t vaccinate irresponsible!

      As for the 3 y/o cancer patient down the street, major cancer centers routinely advise their immunocompromised cancer patients to avoid contact with recently vaccinated people. So why then would anyone ever send such a child to school, where there is a very high probability that on any given day, they would be exposed to multiple children who were recently vaccinated with live virus vaccines? Furthermore, recent research is showing that one of the primary vectors for the spread of pertussis in recent outbreaks is contact with vaccinated children who are asymptomatic carriers of the bacteria. It is very likely that this cancer patient would be more at risk being exposed to an entire classroom of vaccinated children than they would from the 2% of children whose parents make use of personal beliefs exemptions for vaccines.

      Many of these same arguments hold true for the elderly man down the street, or the school teacher, or you and me. It is a balance between public health and the inalienable right to informed consent which is supposed to be universal. It is a balancing act for sure, but the scales have tipped SO FAR that we now vaccinate newborns against a disease which is transmitted primarily through sexual activity and drug needles, and in NY they mandated meningitis vaccine for all children even though simple math tells us that the vaccine itself will endanger, and even kill, more children than would be killed by the disease itself.

      Do we really care less about children who are injured by vaccines than we do children injured by diseases?

    9. Let’s look at it this way. Hundreds of children a year are killed in auto accidents. OK. I’ve got a 100% foolproof way to cut that number to 0. Don’t ever let any child ride in a car. Ever. Reinstate house calls if you feel your child MUST see a doctor. (See How to Raise a Healthy Child in spite of your Doctor).

      The formerly universal childhood diseases, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and pertussis, we can throw flu and hep-A in for good measure, are nearly always relatively mild in previously healthy children. What’s more, they serve the excellent purpose of educating and strengthening the child’s immune system, and give permanent immunity if the child has never been vaxed for them. Diseases like diphtheria, polio, and meningitis are more dangerous, but the first two are gone, whether or not it was due to vaccines. In 1940 Hib meningitis, as well as the other kinds, was rare, but the incidence quadrupled by 1968, in less than thirty years of supposedly improving nutrition and living conditions. Vaccines weaken immune function, and the DPT was introduced in the US in 1948. When the DPT depressed the immune system of the children who got it, it left them much more vulnerable to dangerous cases of meningitis and polio, when they otherwise would not have been. All healthy adults have achieved immunity to the major forms of meningitis in their area by subclinical infection. It would be better to eat well and strengthen natural immunity, and let children get subclinical immunity without messing up their immune systems with vaccines.

      Parents must have the right to choose which risks they’d rather take. In 1960 in the US there were four million cases of measles a year, the entire birth cohort, since 99% of kids got measles by the age of 18 (including me at six). There was an average of 450 deaths a year. That’s a 0.01125 chance of death from measles, or one in 10,000 cases. Now they know that giving vitamin A cuts the death rate from measles in half. NOT giving fever reducers also greatly improves survival rates. So if people followed these simple rules, kept the patient warm in bed throughout and let him recuperate at home for three weeks after the day the rash appeared, VERY few would die. So parents would have to consider: is it better to take a one in twenty thousand chance that my child might die from measles, or a one in forty chance that he get autism from the MMR? Everyone can make his or her free and uncoerced choice, but most, if they knew the facts, would rather take their chances with measles than with the vaccine. If you would even CONSIDER taking your child anywhere in a car, you also are playing the odds and gambling with your child’s life. But in this case, you’re gambling with your child’s life either way you go, just have to weigh the risks and the benefits as wisely as possible, and then go on with life.

      1. Especially when Retiree directs the comment below to Autismo rather than to Dorit!

        I’d LOVE to see indisputable PROOF of herd immunity! 😉

        Retiree Vacunas Autismo an hour ago

        Forget ‘plausible’, show us your verified proof. No blogs, PROOF

          1. Fairies and unicorns! I said PROOF! Thanks but no thanks, grasshopper bug! Come back when you grow up and have PROOF! 😉

          2. The onus is on you, darlin’! You [and vax manufax] make a claim of herd immunity!

            PROVE it! You can’t unless you also believe in fairies and unicorns, grasshopper! BOP : YOU! 🙂

          3. Flouncing again so soon, grasshopper!

            Blue ink???, unicorns, fairies and herd immunity! Children and their fantasies! Sheesh! 😉

          4. Seriously, grasshopper! Unlike your extreme ‘greeness’, most of us have been doing this for almost 30 yrs.

            I’ve read it all, and made my INFORMED decisions [for the moment] based on my OWN reason, logic and science; and NOT due to what everyone else says is ‘politically correct!’

            Back to the enchanted forest to play with your unicorns, little bug! 😉

          5. Oh! And I certainly know what politically correct means you daft little bug!

            I couldn’t care less about your PROOF [you HAVE NON] if it weren’t for your incessant whining over your ‘mythical herd immunity’.

            Now don’t forget your flounce and buh bye grasshopper! 😉

          6. missing linkOops. Nevermind. The links are upthread.Geez, you’d a person would hafta look . . . although admittedly, disqgust doesn’t make it easy (depending on your device/platform).Suz: look upthread!

          7. Yeah, I saw them upthread, right after I hit post *blush* and edited my headsup.I also saw suz’s initial response: “nananana I can’t hear you nananana.” Suz seems to think because she made her mind up years ago, it’s not useful to revisit. Frankly, I doubt she ever learned about herd immunity, description of which preceded vaccines, in the first place.

    1. Yeah, more vaccines, did the sight of an almost dead vaccine injured child get you and all the people who thumbed up your comment (astroturfers) an insatiable lust to kill more children and spread more lies. You people are more evil than I could ever have imagined.

      1. Hee hee, it looks like more people thumbed-up me than they did you. And oh yes, I do have an insatiable lust to kill more children and spread more lies. That’s SO who I am. A liar and one who delights in contagion and suffering.

        But consider for a moment, though, where we’d be if none of the vaccines that science has produced would NEVER have been invented and used. I’m sure you’d say we’d be far better off, but I’d ask you if you were happy about the thousands and millions of people here and around the world who died for the lack of that protection.

        No, we’re going agree to disagree. You can refuse all your vaccines for you and yours. I’ve had all mine. And life goes on. Gotta go and live my inoculated and healthy shingles-polio-smallpox-tetanus-HPV-chicken pox-measles-influenza-etc.-free life!

        1. “Hee hee, it looks like more people thumbed-up me than they did you. And
          oh yes, I do have an insatiable lust to kill more children and spread
          more lies. That’s SO who I am. A liar and one who delights in contagion
          and suffering.”
          Can’t argue with you on this part. Since they admit to being paid to be here I guess the thumb ups for you are the equivalent of winning lottery and then getting a hot girlfriend. Someone like me can be poor and get the hot girlfriend. It’s because you have the personality of a rock. Your comments reflect what a boring insufferable person you must be in your private life. No original thought, no self worth, just a pawn being used to deliver a message.

          1. Aw Kiko. Get over it. After you tell me I have an insatiable lust for killing children and spread lies (and nineteen people were paid to thumbs-up my comment), NOW . . . I have the personality of a rock, I’m boring and insufferable and I have no original thoughts, self worth, and . . . I’M A PAWN! I think I’m going to go kill myself. But let’s see if I can get another vaccination first.

        2. You cannot support the “hundreds of thousands” number in the US since the inception of vaccines or hell even before that.

          People die for a variety of reasons but EVERY “childhood illness” — since “disease” implies death – was drastically on a decline – not incline – when the vaccine was introduced. In fact, the only thing keeping most of this around now is the shedding OF the vaccines themselves.

          There has not been a case of “wild” measles in the US since the 70s – a time when measles meant a break from school, not psychotic irrational fear.

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/84e1be966e7d09ea21788fc9fcc9a637e3451ec339a61d8e8adeaf4c692f4c4f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c1fbd2e5e4d8b0ae39dd5e5211d13f415c1da25af2d095b73c9795e8ee71e777.png .

          1. Just because medical care improved (so fewer died) doesn’t mean the incidence did. Kids still did got sick, and did and do still suffer and die. Repeating the same stupid memes doesn’t make them any more correct. It just makes you look desperate.

          2. Excellent article about SSPE and ADEM. Growing up in the early 70s, when I heard about measles the concern wasn’t death it was encephalitis and deafness.

          3. Exactly, medical care did improve as did sanitation, food availability, sewage systems, water systems, water filtration systems and more, creating vaccines to be unneeded. But the pharma companies had literally invented the golden egg so they had to push tools like you to support them and push their unneeded crap on the rest of the USA.

          4. Watch it Pastrami. I am the only troll here worth being called a troll.
            Those other guys are imitations.

          5. Incidence was estimated by clinical definitions, not lab tests. As a consequences, similar diseases were lumped in the statistics of “measles” (all rashes), “polio” (all AFP), etc. giving the gross overestimations falsely called “epidemics”.

            Later (together with vaccines) lab tests were introduced to correct the overestimations, therfore the incidence was predetermined to drop whether vaccines had been used or not.

          6. OK, folks, add plainsdealer to the list of people who think vaccines have done no appreciable good. Just let things take their course, like in the third world. OK, pal. have a great weekend.

          7. “add plainsdealer to the list of people who think vaccines have done no appreciable good.”

            It’s not a long list. Most of them like “plainsdealer” are represented under multiple sockies.

          8. That’s so exciting, that mortality from polio was reduced by the Iron Lung. Excuse me, that doesn’t seem like a good reason to skip on the shot.

          9. It is untrue that there has not been a case of wild measles in the US since the 1970s. The US wasn’t even declared measles free until 2000, meaning there was no more endemic measles. Do you think those words mean the same thing?

            All the cases in the US have been wild measles. There has never been a documented case of vaccine-virus measles.

          10. Wrong. These responses were NOT written by me, I am reposting.
            _________________________

            Measles Outbreak Traced to Fully Vaccinated Patient for First Time

            https://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/04/measles-outbreak-traced-fully-vaccinated-patient-first-time

            Get
            the measles vaccine, and you won’t get the measles—or give it to anyone
            else. Right? Well, not always. A person fully vaccinated against
            measles has contracted the disease and passed it on to others. The
            startling case study contradicts received wisdom about the vaccine and
            suggests that a recent swell of measles outbreaks in developed nations
            could mean more illnesses even among the vaccinated.
            When it comes to
            the measles vaccine, two shots are better than one. Most people in the
            United States are initially vaccinated against the virus shortly after
            their first birthday and return for a booster shot as a toddler. Less
            than 1% of people who get both shots will contract the potentially
            lethal skin and respiratory infection. And even if a fully vaccinated
            person does become infected—a rare situation known as “vaccine
            failure”—they weren’t thought to be contagious.
            That’s why a fully
            vaccinated 22-year-old theater employee in New York City who developed
            the measles in 2011 was released without hospitalization or quarantine.
            But like Typhoid Mary, this patient turned out to be unwittingly
            contagious. Ultimately, she transmitted the measles to four other
            people, according to a recent report in Clinical Infectious Diseases
            that tracked symptoms in the 88 people with whom “Measles Mary”
            interacted while she was sick. Surprisingly, two of the secondary
            patients had been fully vaccinated. And although the other two had no
            record of receiving the vaccine, they both showed signs of previous
            measles exposure that should have conferred immunity.
            ______________________________________
            The vaccine does, in fact, cause
            measles outbreaks [1]. The design and reporting of safety outcomes in
            MMR vaccine studies, both pre- and post-marketing, are largely
            inadequate. The evidence of adverse events following immunisation with
            the MMR vaccine cannot be separated from its role in preventing the
            target diseases [2]. Thus autistic children have a hyperimmune response
            to measles virus, which in the absence of a wild type of measles
            infection might be a sign of an abnormal immune reaction to the vaccine
            strain or virus reactivation [3]. The reported coverage of the
            measles-rubella (MR) or measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is greater
            than 99.0% in Zhejiang province, China. However, the incidence of
            measles, mumps, and rubella remains high [4]. Many of the objections
            raised by parents could be overcome by emphasising that primary
            immunisation does not necessarily confer immunity and that diagnosis of
            measles is unreliable [5]. The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes
            autoantibodies to be formed against myelin basic protein (the protective
            coating of the nerves) contributing to the pathogenesis of austim.
            Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody
            response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be
            related to pathogenesis of autism [6].

          11. Those cases did not get vaccine-virus measles; they got wild measles despite having been
            vaccinated (3 of them anyway). Two others had no vaccine history. It was a case of vaccine failure!

            Your second rant has no source, which is typical of lying liars. Do note that your copy/pasta says a “REPORTED” vaccine rate of 99%. We all know to be a bit careful of stats coming out of China.

        3. And I HIGHLY encourage you to continue getting as many as you can! I hope you get your yearly standard Fluzone? Just leave a health directive on your refrigerator so they’ll keep your mercury levels up even when it has caused you to land in the nursing home with dementia and paralysis (what they used to call GPI).

          1. Oh, I’m already there. Me and the hundreds of millions who have had vaccines around the world. We’re all going there!

      1. And don’t forget the ‘extra helpings’ of govt. grants, gifts and other incentives that go to certain forgiving research facilities, study venues and publications! 😉

      2. Okay. If I need another flu shot I’ll get it. It will be as harmful as every flu shot I’ve had in my life, including the one I had three months ago.

    1. All the prostitutions ( instead of institutions ) are for vaccinations. They OWE their existence to the junk medicine robber barons.

          1. Children suffering from malnutrition in developing countries, do not show a good response to immunization.

            Biological challenges to effective vaccines in the developing world
            Nicholas C. Grassly, Gagandeep Kang, Beate Kampmann
            Published 11 May 2015.DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0138

            Limited or variable effectiveness of existing vaccines leaves children at risk of infection

            One of the main factors underlying the limitations in the performance of existing vaccines is variation in the immune response among individuals. Antibody levels and cellular immune markers show considerable variation after vaccination and in some individuals this translates into reduced efficacy. However, the causes of this variation and the significance of different immune markers for vaccine efficacy have not been established for many vaccines [18]. Twin studies demonstrating significant heritability in the immune response indicate a significant role for human genetic factors [19,20]. However, early life exposure to infection and other vaccines, maternal factors, breastfeeding, age, nutritional status and other environmental factors can also be significant determinants of vaccine immunogenicity [21–24]. In some cases, such as for oral vaccines against poliomyelitis and rotavirus gastroenteritis or for BCG, these differences are observed at the population level [4,25–27]. In particular, lower efficacy of these vaccines in low-income countries has limited their health impact and in the case of poliomyelitis has acted as a significant barrier to eradication [28].

            https://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1671/20140138.full

            The Immune System in Children with Malnutrition—A Systematic Review

            Thirty-five articles described vaccination responses to a specific antigen. The articles either reported sero-conversion rates, or antibody titre response. Studies assessing sero-conversion rates in children with severe malnutrition found mixed results: Six of 10 studies found reduced sero-conversion rates in children with severe malnutrition to typhoid, diphtheria, tetanus, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (DTP), hepatitis B, measles and yellow fever, and two studies found that sero-conversion was delayed in malnourished children. Ten of 11 studies found that severely malnourished children responded with reduced antibody titers

            Three of five articles reported similar adverse reactions to vaccination in malnourished as in well-nourished . In contrast, one study found that malnourished children given measles vaccine frequently developed diarrhoea, pneumonia and fever, compared to well-nourished children, who, in turn, more often developed a rash.”..

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4143239/

          2. And somehow.. in some way.. the above translates in your mind to.. ‘much better to not vaccinate malnourished, at risk (to infectious diseases) children’?

            … …

            First line from the abstract of your second link..

            “Malnourished children have increased risk of dying, with most deaths caused by infectious diseases.”

            Next?

          3. “Malnourished children have increased risk of dying, with most deaths caused by infectious diseases.” – yes, Ione.

            It doesn’t say that only malnourished children die – thanks for that. It’s so much easier when you make our point for us!

          4. Mortality is not incidence – you can’t use the number of deaths dropping as support that vaccines don’t prevent morbidity.

          5. Wow, when my siblings and I had measles as kids, as pretty much everybody did back then, (ask anyone over 55 if they had measles as a kid), we just got to stay home and watched tv for about a week.

          6. Neighbour’s daughter.. deaf in one ear.

            Not the same here.

            And..

            Personal anecdotes does not equal data.
            The facts, statistics.. state otherwise.

            Next?

          7. .Early loss of passive measles antibody in infants of mothers with vaccine-induced immunity.

            “Early loss of passive measles antibody may occur in infants of women who received measles vaccine because measles vaccine induces lower antibody titers than does natural infection…Seventy-one percent of sera from 9-month-old infants and 95% of samples from 12-month-old infants,(born from vaccinated mothers) had no detectable neutralizing measles antibody.

            All infants with detectable measles antibody at 9 or 12 months had mothers born before 1963, before the vaccine era,

            and this study..Increased susceptibility to measles in infants in the United States.
            https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15546933_Early_loss_of_passive_measles_antibody_in_infants_of_mothers_with_vaccine-induced_immunity

            Since most vaccines are delivered by injection, the mucous membranes are bypassed and thus blood antibodies are produced but not mucosal antibodies. Mucosal exposure is what contributes to the production of antibodies in the mammary gland. A child’s exposure to the virus while being breastfed by a naturally immune mother would lead to an asymptomatic infection that results in long-term immunity to that virus. Vaccinated mothers have lower levels of virus-specific antibodies in the serum and milk compared to naturally immune mothers and thus their infants are unprotected. “Infants whose mothers were born after 1963 had a measles attack rate of 33%, compared to 12% for infants of older mothers.” Infants whose mothers were born after 1963 are more susceptible to measles than are infants of older mothers. An increasing proportion of infants born in the United States may be susceptible to measles.” [7] For the disease of measles, we see that while the clinical case rate may have declined with vaccination, the most sensitive members of the herd are at an increased risk- as a result of vaccination -“

          8. The lying Gish galloper strikes again!

            First paper – She forgot to add:
            “Persistence of passive measles antibody is uncommon by 12 months of age” and that why there is a second shot. I guess this 1995 paper has been addressed in in the 21st century. Ione spouts anoteh lie.

            Second paper – She didn’t include the link because is an anit-vaxx blog, not a paper.
            https://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/07/05/herd-immunity-the-flawed-science-and-failures-of-mass-vaccination-suzanne-humphries-md-3/
            Its a rant by Suzanne Humphries, the homeopath.
            It attacks the fact of herd immunity. Enough said.
            .
            Why do you hide your questionable sources?

          9. Nice trick. Going back to edit. Everybody knows that trick but some of us have integrity.

            You are still lying. the Humphries blog added the last line “For the disease of measles, we……” to an excerpt from the paper references you added. Your post came from that Humphries blog you pathetic, horrible insincere liar who actually tried to edit it away.
            I took a screen shot so just stop the lies. Do you realize how far you are going down just to manage you delusions?

          10. In 2010 Humphries announced she had embraced homeopathy, having studied it for four years.

            https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/S

            Hey Graceds, you need to know your hero’s better!!
            Stop making it easy for me to make a fool out of you. Also, I clearly caught Ione lying since the last line of here post came from the Humphries blog and not the paper she posted.
            You are defending a confirmed liar. I don’t think you even stoop so low as to lie about you sources and try to edit the lies back it.
            Lets see if she edits her post again……….

          11. I haven’t read her book, “Dissolving Illusions”, although I may at some point.
            Heroes? Too old for that.
            I appreciate Ione’s posts, however they’re edited or not.
            RationalWiki is a less accurate site than her own blog for personal and professional information, I’m assuming.

          12. Suzanne Humphries is a nephrologist (kidney doctor) who has recently (as of 2011) become a vocal proponent of pseudoscience and quack medicine. Humphries has been involved with the International Medical Council on Vaccination, a front group for vaccine hysteria, and is a signer of the organization’s anti-vax Project Steve petition. She has written several blog posts and done several podcasts and interviews insinuating that kidney failure is caused by vaccines. Humphries uses this purely anecdotal, unstudied, “feeling” of vaccines’ role in kidney disease to try and justify why her complete lack of training in any relevant field of immunology or vaccines doesn’t disqualify her as an “expert” on the topic.

            In 2010 Humphries announced she had embraced homeopathy, having studied it for four years.

            https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Suzanne_Humphries

            Hey Graceds, you learn something new every day….

          13. From her website:
            Dr. Humphries does NOT hold a homeopathy degree and does not practice homeopathy, but she is regularly called a homeopath and discredited solely upon that lie.

            Dr. Humphries has a MD and a license to practice, and has taught medical students, residents, fellows and GPs in the topics of internal medicine and nephrology, yet that is regularly, conveniently ignored. This video series explains fully Dr. Humphries’ relationship with homeopathy.
            Dr Humphries is not an “activist”. She is a conventionally educated doctor who used to prescribe vaccines and later saw vaccine damage occurring in her own patients. She was met with irrational resistance by hospital administration for cancelling vaccination orders in seriously sick patients with sepsis, congestive heart failure, acute kidney failure, cancer on chemotherapy etc. The hospital administrators required her to justify choices made for her own patients for the first time in her career. Because of this, she researched the medical literature on vaccination, only to discover that the words of those opposing her were built upon propagandized falsehoods.”

          14. Here is a tube video she sponsored that has “homeopath” in her title

            From here website: “I’ve watched many parents all over the world treat whooping cough very simply by using high doses of vitamin C and occasionally homeopathy. They see rapid improvement and no serious complications.

            https://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-vaccines-vaccination/

            https://medium.com/@visualvaccines/why-dr-suzanne-humphries-an-anti-vaccine-activist-is-lying-to-you-about-measles-ce446d0a7e0f#.hpvaqldmm

            Homeopathy is all over the book – Dissolving illusions. Stop being delusional about your hero. See her for all her flaws.

            https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/suzanne-humphries-bad-advice-on-the-polio-vaccine/

            Then there is her interview on Homeopathy world

            https://www.homeopathyworldcommunity.com/video/interview-with-dr-suzanne

          15. I did look at the homeopathyworld page, its an interview about vaccines.
            Times of Israel is just a dissenting blog dorit style, as is themedium, no accuracy.
            Dr Humphries does state that she is not a homeopath, more than once on her own site,
            Drsuzanne.net.

          16. Still in denial?

            Here is a webinar written by her titled ” Allopathic Failure, Homeopathic Future”

            She states: “. Dr. Humphries will introduce Homeopathy as a general topic, and as a rational alternative to allopathic medicine while describing some of the natural laws that govern Homeopathy.”

            https://archive.is/sYVV3#selection-417.863-417.1043

            I really like her whale page:

            https://www.whale.to/a/suzanne_humphries.html

            Face it, she when full homeopath in 2010 and then backed off so she could keep her medical license. I just gave it to you IN HER OWN WORDS.

          17. You quoted her as introducing the topic of homeopathy , but not practicing it.
            Do you have a quote from her as practicing homeopathy?

            It doesn’t really concern me,.
            Perhaps your argument here is that anyone who discusses its potential value is suspect in your view?
            I’m not familiar with Dr Humphries or homeopathy,.
            But I did see her own website deny that she was a homeopathic physician.

            Good night and good luck!

          18. Let’s read her words agains, shall we?

            She states: “. Dr. Humphries will introduce Homeopathy as a general topic, and as a rational alternative to allopathic medicine while describing some of the natural laws that govern Homeopathy.”

            So Dr. Humphries did a webinar where she states homeopathy is a rational alternative to medicine.

            What do you think a homeopath is, Graceds? Do you think Homeopaths have a tattoo on their foreheads? I do believer that a homeopath is somebody who believes that homeopathy is a rational alternative to medicine.
            And SO DO YOU.
            Face it. You are wrong.

          19. No doctors? No checking to make sure it wasn’t something else? no medicine? Did your family live in the wilderness?
            .
            I saw a doctor in 1964. I guess my family cared about me.

          20. Isn’t it funny that people now are so afraid of measles, a disease they perceive as horrifying, but that TV used to make shows that were comedies about people having measles.

            From 1959-The Donna Reed Show, April Fools

            Buzz Barry, teen singing sensation, comes to Hilldale to perform at the Civic Auditorium, but at the last minute, the show is cancelled due to Buzz getting the measles. Buzz is now holed up at the Stone residence to recover, and Mary is forbidden to tell anyone that he is staying at her home

            From 1961-The Flintstones episode ‘In the Dough’, Wilma and Betty are finalists in a television bake-off, but on the eve of the event, they contract measles. Donning wigs and dresses, Fred and Barney take their places in the contest….. https://www.tv.com/shows/the-flintstones/in-the-dough-59934/

            The Brady Bunch 1969
            Is There a Doctor in the House?

            “Peter comes home from school with the measles, so naturally, Carol calls the doctor, her doctor, who happens to be a woman. Meanwhile, Mike calls his doctor, a man. Soon all the kids come down with the measles and the household is in an uproar in yet another battle of the sexes, as the girls want a female doctor and the boys want a male doctor”

  56. This what it’s all about folks, think the pharmaceuticals companies really care whether your children have safe, effective vaccines? Its all about the money. Don’t believe me? why don’t you read this little article by Dr. Paul Offit

    Small market for vaccines compared with drugs. By Paul Offit 2005

    “Pharmaceutical companies are gradually abandoning vaccines because the research, development, testing, and manufacture of vaccines are expensive and because the market to sell vaccines is much smaller than the market for other drug products.

    Vaccines are used at most several times in a lifetime; drugs are often used every day. Therefore, the market for drugs is much greater than the market for vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies are businesses, not public health agencies; they are not obligated to make vaccines. To determine where they should invest research and development (R&D) dollars, pharmaceutical companies evaluate a product’s potential to contribute to their bottom line

    The cost to develop and make many vaccines is greater than that to make most drugs,.. because products given to healthy people are often held to higher standards of safety than those given to people who are sick… Finally, in addition to weaknesses in the federal compensation program, pharmaceutical companies have abandoned lower-revenue products such as vaccines because liability insurance has dramatically increased the cost of making all medical products. [Previous settlements involving extensive fraud by pharmaceutical companies under the False Claims Act have run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and in some cases such as against GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and Pfizer, into the billions.]

    Pharmaceutical companies could be encouraged to make vaccines if the federal government provided more assurances that the VFC entitlement program was robust, allowed for a mechanism to increase the fixed price of certain vaccines, and offered tax breaks to companies that chose to make vaccines. The cost of making vaccines for pharmaceutical companies could be reduced by strengthening weaknesses in the NVICP—specifically, disallowing opt-out of the program when scientific studies do not support a claim; covering all vaccines; ***covering the unborn child when a vaccine is given to a pregnant woman***; and indemnifying academic medical centers (AMCs) that test vaccines prior to licensure. Vaccines are difficult and expensive to make and, because they are used once or at most several times during one’s life, have revenues that are dramatically less than products that are used every day. As a consequence, many pharmaceutical companies have abandoned vaccines in favor of drugs.

    https://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/3/622.full

    Global market for pediatric vaccines could reach $23 billion by 2015

    “The market for pediatric vaccines is projected to hit a value of more than $23 billion globally by 2015, according to a recent market analysis.

    The report said that pediatric proprietary vaccines are likely to lead the vaccine market with just under a 60 percent market share by 2015. GlaxoSmithKline is expected to represent close to one quarter of the global market, Fierce Vaccines reports.

    According to analysis from Renub Research, between 2005 and 2011, pediatric vaccines doubled their market share. The new report said that the market share will continue to increase, with most of the growth resulting from major vaccines such as Merck’s Rotateq, GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix and Pfizer’s Prevnar 7 and Prevnar 13.

    Boosters and enhanced pediatric vaccines are predicted to slow in terms of growth because of the maturity of the markets and lower margins. The report projects that diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines will rise with hepatitis and polio vaccines not far behind.

    GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer and Novartis are the five main companies that dominate the global market for pediatric vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline is far ahead of the others mostly because of its influenza products Hiberix and Fluvarix.

    https://vaccinenewsdaily.com/stories/510533722-global-market-for-pediatric-vaccines-could-reach-23-billion-by-2015

      1. “Between 1915 and 1960’s, tonsillectomy was the most frequently performed surgical procedure in the United States. Tonsils were thought to be a “portal of infection”, even though there was little evidence to support this theory.

        (Journal of American Medicine & Allied Sciences, Oct. 2007).

        Tonsillectomy and Poliomyelitis: The likelihood of bulbar involvement in people who have undergone tonsillectomy may be three or four times as great as in one whose tonsils are in situ. This higher proportion of bulbar cases in a person who has had a tonsillectomy occurs at all ages regardless of the time elapsed since the operation.”

        (American Public Health Association, August, 1954).

        Persons at greater risk for serious neurological damage during epidemics due to lowered immunity included those who had recent inoculations or recent operations, especially removal of tonsils and adenoids (because the virus invades the body through the mouth and multiplies in the throat)”

        (FDA Consumer, June 1991).

        “A paper published in 1941 reported that a family with six children; five siblings, ages 6- 11, had tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies on August 22, 1940.

        By September 7, all five had developed acute bulbar or bulbospinal poliomyelitis. Three of the children died, one was left severely handicapped, and one was reported to be doing well.”

        “Health officials announced a polio epidemic centered in Brooklyn, New York.Total infected in New York was around 9,000, 2,400 died, and 80 percent of the deaths were children under five. Across the United States in 1916, polio took the lives of about 6,000 people, leaving thousands more paralyzed. 27,000 cases of polio had been reported in 26 states between June and December of 1916. From that summer on, there was not a single year that passed without an epidemic of poliomyelitis.

        Dr. H.V. Wyatt published a document in 2011 discussing the possibility that a highly virulent laboratory engineered strain of poliovirus “escaped” from the Rockefeller laboratories. Also noted by Dr Wyatt is the number of children age 2 yr affected was the highest ever recorded; the case fatality rate of 25% was the highest ever recorded [certainly higher than natural wild type polio virus which is less than one percent];

        The theory is that the 1916 epidemic was caused by a “mixed virus” (MV strain) of polio that had escaped from the Rockefeller Institute, which was then located just three miles from the epicenter of the outbreak at 63rd Street and York Avenue in Manhattan. It was here that Dr. Simon Flexner, the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, was conducting studies by transferring spinal cord tissue containing the polio virus from one Rhesus monkey’s spinal cord to another”

        Dr Wyatt’s pdf document can be found at benthamopen.

        The first of the animal virus infected polio vaccines to be given to the public.

        “1934 – There is a major outbreak of polio in Los Angeles. Nearly 2500 polio cases are treated from May through November of that year at Los Angeles County General Hospital alone. 300 doctors and nurses at the Los Angeles County Hospital were given an early polio vaccine developed by Dr. Maurice Brodie, as well as approximately 7,000 children. (Active Immunization Against Poliomyeleitis, American Journal of Public Health, February 1936) The vaccine was passaged multiple times through mouse brain tissue. (Attempts to Produce Poliomyelitis in Refractory Laboratory Animals, March 1, 1935, doi: 10.3181/00379727-32-7876)

        The first known outbreak of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) took place during 1934-1935 at the Los Angeles County Hospital and affected 198 doctors and nurses during a polio outbreak. 300 doctors and nurses at the Los Angeles County Hospital were given an early polio vaccine developed by Dr. Maurice Brodie, as well as approximately 7,000 children. (Active Immunization Against Poliomyeleitis, American Journal of Public Health”

        EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES CAUSE POLIO OUTBREAKS

        1935 – Physicians Maurice Brodie and John Kollmer compete against each other, with each trying to be the first to develop a successful polio vaccine. Field trials fail with disastrous results as the vaccines are blamed for causing many cases of polio, some of which are fatal.

        At New York University, Maurice Brodie, MD (1903-1939), a young researcher, prepared a killed poliovirus vaccine, testing it on chimpanzees, on himself, and finally on children. He enrolled about 11,000 individuals (in both control and vaccine groups) in his trial.

        Meanwhile, John Kolmer, MD, of Temple University in Philadelphia developed an attenuated poliovirus vaccine, which he tested in about 10,000 children.The tests proved a disaster. Several subjects died of polio, and many were paralyzed, made ill, or suffered allergic reactions to the vaccines.

        In 1935, Boston got an epidemic. The entire city of Annapolis, Maryland was quarantined. In 1936, Tulsa, Oklahoma was quarantined. Chicago suffered a large epidemic, too. ” Source..The History Of Vaccines

        “Polio is a highly contagious illness that can spread easily from person to person. In fact, when a person is infected with polio, it is expected that polio transmission among susceptible household contacts will occur in nearly 100 percent of children and over 90 percent of adults”. https://polio.emedtv.com/polio/how-is-polio-spread.html

        1955 saw another massive outbreak caused by defective vaccines.

        “The Cutter incident was one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters in U.S. history, and exposed several thousand children to live polio virus on vaccination.[5] The NIH Laboratory of Biologics Control, which had certified the Cutter polio vaccine, had received advance warnings of problems: in 1954, staff member Dr. Bernice Eddy had reported to her superiors that some inoculated monkeys had become paralyzed (pictures were sent as well). William Sebrell, the director of NIH wouldn’t hear of such a thing.[3]

        The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, five children died from polio.[6] The exposures led to an epidemic of polio in the families and communities of the affected children, resulting in a further 113 people paralyzed and 5 deaths.[5] The director of the microbiology institute lost his job, as did the equivalent of the assistant secretary for health. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby stepped down. Dr Sebrell, the director of the NIH, resigned.[3]” …Source Wikipedia

        1. Ione has lost her mind again. Now we get Gish galloping about tonsils for no apparent reason followed by ancient reports of issues data back between 60 and 85 years. I have got a long list of bad things done between 85 and 60 years ago that certainly overshadows and errors in health care.
          At least I’m glad we have established that this is all she has got concerning the polio vaccine. I’ll add a little chart to show what the polio vaccine has meant to the world.

        2. I’m so glad you brought that up – the problem was insufficient formaldehyde to ‘murder’ the virus.

          Not that it matters but I fancy a pear now.

          1. Here is more to the polio vaccine history, we now have a cancer causing simian virus-SV40, that can be transmitted to others through body fluids, passed to our unborn children, and the gov has decided they don’t want to admit they gave millions of people a virus that causes cancer. And then we have people like you, who will attempt to cover up the truth.

            Government Scientists Compromise SV40 Study

            “Presently there are over 61 reports from 49 different laboratories that have detected SV40 in human mesothelioma, lymphoma, brain and bone tumors, versus three reports, two from Dr. Shah’s laboratory who performed his study under contract from Dr. Strickler at the Viral Epidemiology Branch (VEB) National Cancer Institute (USA) that have failed to detect SV40 in some of these same tumor types. To address whether the negative reports were caused by lack of sensitivity of the technique used in Shah’s laboratory, or whether the positive reports were caused by contamination within the greater number of laboratories reporting SV40 detection, two multi-center studies were conducted. Dr. Shah’s laboratory technique used in 1996 was apparently not sufficiently sensitive to detect SV40 in human tumors. When this became apparent, during unilateral pre-trial testing of positive controls by Dr. Shah, the study coordinator of the VEB, Dr. Strickler, apparently compromised the blinded nature of the study and allowed Dr. Shah to modify and improve his technique. When one of the participating laboratories questioned irregularities in the data from Dr. Shah’s laboratory and directly questioned Dr. Strickler, the study organizer, about the potential irregularity, Dr. Strickler and Dr. Shah offered letters stating that such irregularities had not occurred and re-confirmed that they had not deviated from the standard protocol. The facts indicating that Dr. Shah’s laboratory technique was not sufficiently sensitive to detect SV40 were not made available to the other laboratories participating in the study and were not published. Instead, according to Dr. Shah’s testimony, Dr. Strickler, the VEB multi-center study coordinator, compromised the masked positive controls and knowingly permitted Dr. Shah to re-test and adjust his technique during pre-trial testing. The actual negative pre-trial test results were never published alongside the published trial results indicating Dr. Shah’s laboratory had the most sensitive technique to detect SV40 among the nine participating laboratories.”

            — MacLachlan DS, SV40 in human tumors: new documents shed light on the apparent controversy. Anticancer Res. 2002 Nov-Dec;22(6B):3495-9.

  57. The CDC advises that children be vaccinated for fourteen diseases before age six, on a recommended schedule that usually includes twenty-nine shots

    The number of bacteria that naturally live on the internal surfaces between the nose and the lungs of a newborn child number in the trillions. Those bacteria have between 2,000 and 6,000 immunological components and consequently our body makes grams of antibody to combat these bacteria daily. The number of immunological challenges contained in vaccines is not figuratively, it is literally a drop in the ocean of what you encounter every day. A child could receive all 29 childhood vaccinations on the same day and still be 1,971-5,971 immunological components shy of what the encounter naturally THAT DAY.

    In my opinion science illiteracy and science denial in our society is more dangerous as the infectious diseases themselves.

    1. That’s stupid. Since you have so much bacteria in your body , why don’t you eat just a little bit of human excrement ? Do you feel repulsed ? That’s because nature is telling you something. You should not have any.

    2. Your user name sounds like something that a psychopathic mind would use, like a Ted Bundy. In contrast ” 2 ” is the number of love in numerology.

    3. You sound like a really smart person. Can you tell us why animal viruses are in our children’s vaccines ?

      Evidence of Pestivirus RNA in MMR Vaccines

      pestivirus-https://www.ncbi.nlm…

      Genotypes of pestivirus RNA detected in live virus vaccines for human use.

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu

      Infantile gastroenteritis associated with excretion of pestivirus antigens.

      Abstract

      “Faeces from children under 2 years old who had gastroenteritis that could not be attributed to recognised enteric pathogens were examined with a monoclonal-antibody-based immunoassay for Pestivirus antigens. Such antigens were detected in 30 of 128 episodes of gastroenteritis.

      The diarrhoeal disease in children excreting Pestivirus antigens resembled that in other children except that it was more commonly associated with signs and symptoms of respiratory inflammation”

      https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(89)90066-4/abstract

      “Bovine viral diarrhea disease (BVDV) associated with a contaminated vaccine.This suggests that BVDV RNA detected in human live viral vaccines represents passive carry over of BVDV from contaminated FCS rather than active virus replication in human diploid cells. Our results indicate that contamination with BVDV of FCS used in vaccine production does not appear to be of immediate concern to human health”. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503899

      “Pestiviruses are ubiquitous pathogens of cattle and frequent adventitious viruses in biologicals. Furthermore, it has been suggested that these agents might be related to infantile gastroenteritis and microencephaly. Since the virus is highly prevalent in fetal bovine serum, the risk of contamination is high in most laboratories. Thus, the implementation of detection methods in all laboratories is of worth. Despite continuous surveillance, these agents have been detected in cell lines, fetal bovine serum, live and inactivated animal and human vaccines and interferon for human use.”

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18395415

      1. European Medicines Agency | “Guideline on the procedure to be followed when a batch of a vaccine finished product is suspected to be contaminated with bovine viral diarrhoea virus”

        “Measures to be taken

        Measures have to be taken (alert, withdrawal of the contaminated batch) only when positive results are obtained with the in vitro test.”

        Helps to stay current, Ione Murphy.

        Your first link doesn’t work (happens when you copypasta stuff).
        Your second link is from March 1989.
        Your third is some suggested methods to avoid the problem.

        Next?

        1. Got any guidelines for American manufactures? So can you assure parents right now, that there are no animal viruses in their children’s vaccines?

          Evaluation of the Human Host Range of Bovine and Porcine Viruses that may Contaminate Bovine Serum and Porcine Trypsin Used in the Manufacture of Biological Products (Vaccines)-2011

          “Research was undertaken to determine which viruses that infect cattle or swine or bovine or porcine cells in culture also have human host range [ability to infect humans or human cells in culture] and to predict their detection by the currently used 9CFR procedures

          Serum collection is a non-sterile procedure and the blood from 2500 to 3000 (calf) fetuses is used to produce a single 1500 liter lot of serum

          One infected animal may contaminate an entire batch/lot and the sensitivity of current testing may not be adequate to detect diluted contaminants. The limitations of testing for viruses in pooled products have been amply demonstrated in the human blood industry

          For bovine viruses with human host range, 21 virus families are represented while for porcine viruses, 17 virus families are represented [Table 5].”

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206158/?report=classic

          1. Do you have a single case of injury from a “contaminated batch” or are you just posting nonsense from scientific paper where the discuss the possibility?
            .
            Just kidding, we all know your tactics and your fear mongering.
            .
            That paper was written in 2011 with recommendations. Did you check to see which recommendations were adopted? Kidding again…. you are fear mongering, not providing useful information.

          2. 2014-Adventitious agents in viral vaccines: Lessons learned from 4 case studies

            “The specific activity that led to the development of these four case studies is the World Health Organization (WHO) draft document [1] that is intended to assist regulatory authorities in their assessment of risk when, in the future, a new adventitious agent is discovered. The recent revision of WHO Recommendations for the evaluation of animal cell cultures as substrates for the manufacture of biological medicinal products and for the characterization of cell banks [2] provides principles for evaluation of adventitious agents, but it does not address the issue of risk assessment and related regulatory decisions/actions in such circumstances. For example, a clear and consistent evaluation strategy was not evident in all jurisdictions to support regulatory decision-making when the sequences of porcine circoviruses or infectious circovirus were reported in rotavirus vaccines (see case study 4 below). Similar situations have occurred in the past, including finding SV40 in poliovirus vaccines in the 1960’s (see case study 1 below). In the 1970’s, findings of bacteriophage in live viral vaccines led to the need for regulatory actions (see case study 2 below). The development of the Product-Enhanced Reverse Transcriptase (PERT) and related PCR-based reverse transcriptase (RT) assays led to finding RT activity at levels not detectable by the conventional RT assay used in control of avian cell-derived vaccines in the mid-1990’s, which suggested the possible presence of a contaminating retrovirus (see case study 3 below).

            The above examples illustrate that both conventional and new methods have led to the discovery of infectious agents, or the marker of a viral agent, in vaccines in the past. Recent advances in technology have the potential for other types of findings to be made that are suggestive of an adventitious agent. These might include the discovery of a structure similar to a viral particle by visualization technologies, such as enhanced electron microscopy; or discovering a partial nucleic acid sequence suggestive of an adventitious agent by modern (“next generation”) amplification or sequencing technologies. Therefore, regulators may be faced with making risk evaluations and decisions about the safety of licensed vaccines on the market in their country on the basis of incomplete data with regards to whether an actual adventitious agent is present or not, and its potential medical significance”

            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045105614000748

          3. So for those who care less about Iones astroturfing, here is what is says:

            1. An evaluation strategy is needed.

            2. Examples of why include SV40 found in the 1960’s and bacteriophage found in the 1970’s.

            Ione left this out of here post from the conclusions of the that exact paper.
            “Among the most important lessons from the past is that decision-making should be based on sound science”

            Oh, and new FDA evaluation strategy’s for vaccines where introduced in 2015. This is called fear mongering with misquoted information.

          4. I thought this site banned you for sacrilegious acts directed at your opponents. I bet you also rip off the wings of live butterflies, Jester!

          5. Why do you keep falsely misrepresenting my disqus persona with your sister’s pics, JESTthefacts! 😉

            Pffft! Anyone can see that YOU TROLLS are already here, JESTER!

          6. You’re the troll, suz. I looked up “sock puppet troll” in the dictionary and you picture was there.

          7. Bwa haha! Ain’t you the bossy little grasshopper!

            How do you know that I haven’t!

            However, here’s one for YOU. Don’t tell me what to do, you large beaked, ‘bimboed’ and brainwashed bamboozler!

            ‘Should’ is NOT ‘must’! Learn to understand what you read, you aiding and abetting little bug! 😉

          8. Fine. You should get your kids vaccinated – by your own logic, I’m not telling you what’s a must.

            If you want your kids to attend school, you should get them vaccinated.

          9. If you DO want your children to attend the public school systems [of which you’ve already paid for] but DON’T want to vax, your family suffers severe hardships in the pursuit of appropriate alternative education.

            This is coercive force and turns your ‘should’ into a ‘MUST’ for many families.

            You’re NOT fooling anyone, SIA!

          10. I had nothing to do with SB277 besides making comments about it. – That’s kind of my point.

            By the way, putting cards into sealed food boxes is also against the law.

            And it’s either that or the kid who can’t be vaccinated (too young, w/e)’s parents suffering severe hardship in the quest for alternative education.

            Regardless of what the law says, in the absence of medical contradictions, you should get your kid vaccinated.

            You should also driver sober, regardless of what the law says.

          11. It’s also illegal to wear lipstick outside city limits.

            And should I have had my seat belt on when the roofless jeep flipped onto it’s rollbars, I would have died according to the state trooper!

            Stop trying to tell everyone how to live, under the guise of the ‘greater good’, due to your own pathetic phobias!

            I’ll say it again. Keep your medical tyranny to yourself and your HANDS OFF OUR CHILDREN!

          12. That’s why I adore ‘science’ AND WORDS!

            Words have the poetic ability to bring about war or peace!

            It’s the communication behind the WORDS that matter, you brainless and bothersome little bug!

            YOUR words are narcissistic, intolerant and controlling!

            Now bugger off, grasshopper! 😉

          13. so lets post your record:

            Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
            AlterNet …………………… banned
            Raw Story ……………….. banned
            Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
            Washington Times ……. banned
            A shot of prevention ….. banned
            LAist………………………… banned
            Patch………………………. banned
            Breitbart…………………… banned
            The Hill………………………Banned

            She is king troll.

          14. First, you Iie about the count and the reason for my partially censored estrangements from your list of sites.

            Second, you fail to inform readers that many of those name changes were in response to puerile posters like you, who decided to use my disqus persona in malicious parody accts. to malign their opponents.

            Third, suz doesn’t need to troll and sockie; but YOU do, JESTthefacts!

            Fourth, keep up with your childish ‘mememaker waste of space’ spamming, and you may find yourself having to use ‘morefacts’ to get on HERE as well as Jeremy’s site!

            Fifth, you always post the SAME crap when you’re losing, JESTER! 😉

          15. Being banned from AlterNet *and* Breitbart is quite an accomplishments, since those sites gladly cater to tinfoil hatters from the left (AlterNet) and the right (Breitbart).

          16. Suz is zero content and all insults. She doesn’t last long if there are moderators at all. She is an equal opportunity troll. Everyone hates her.

          17. Aw! Now that’s a big lie, JOKE er JESTthefacts! Unlike you, suz doesn’t TROLL! Har d har! 😉

          18. Well there ya have it, Modey! Since you’re a newbie here in vax war mania, I’ll graciously spell it out for you.

            I’m NOT into additional aluminum of ANY kind and I march to my own drum.

            The site mods were biased, along with the usual suspects of media manipulators having their HANDS in ‘said’ estrangements!

            Just so ya know! 😉

          19. My youngest child is over 30!

            Unlike you selfish narcissists, many posters here have an altruistic and non monetary agenda for warning other parents of the dangers of vax injury and/or death!

            Aw! You need to be a LOT less green [and megalomaniac] before attempting to ‘solve the problems’ of the world, grasshopper! 😉

          20. I noticed all his upvotes also under two different accounts. What is that they call people who accuse others of doing what they themselves do?

          21. You are a confirmed liar again!! I told you yesterday in the post below and today to pretend that didn’t happen.
            Ione murphy has zero integrity and is caught lying again
            The typical delusional anti-vaxxer. Who do you sleep at night after all your lies….

          22. Wow, I feel so much safer now that you have provided us with this information “Among the most important lessons from the past is that decision-making should be based on sound science” So these new strategies to screen every vaccine for viruses, endotoxins, bacteriophages, foreign DNA, etc etc., they all have already been implemented right? And parents can breathe easier knowing the vaccine that little Timmy is getting tomorrow is free of all adventitious agents, correct?

          23. Yes, that is true. The FDA procedures necessary for vaccine safety are implemented.
            How about getting yoru head out of the past and Identify any real problem that exists now? Good luck with that……….

          24. You really should keep up:

            The vaccine approval process, updated 8/24/2015

            Guidance, Compliance & Regulatory Information (Biologics)

            updated 6/17/2015

            FDA – Vaccines, Blood & Biologics
            Recently Issued Guidance Documents
            The most recent – YESTERDAY – JAN 4TH, 2016
            There have been 14 guidance document issued just since October of 2015. Real science moves faster that you do. This is just the guidance to industry. Internal FDA procedures change much more often.

            Read away……

            https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm223006.htm

            With New Rule in Place, FDA Establishes Procedures for Submitting Vaccine Safety Problems – July 2014

          25. I read through all the guidance documents and not one had to do with testing for adventitious agents in vaccines. Why did you lie!!! ;)https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm223006.htm

          26. You’re just showing search results for the words. Where are these elusive new guidance regulations that are supposed to already be in place? I haven’t seen any yet to convince me

          27. I guess that really was two lies.. as in, one; you can’t read.

            And two; you didn’t read all of the guidance documents.. particularly those contained with short excerpts/descriptions/synopses in the top linked searched results.

            … …

            Oh, almost forgot.. and that you are a deceitful and disingenuous individual (to be kind), Ione Murphy.

          28. The latest guidance is just an update on what they “recommend” vaccine manufactures do, they are not required to follow it though. Why is that?

            “This guidance finalizes the draft guidance entitled “Guidance for Industry: Characterization and
            Qualification of Cell Substrates and Other Biological Starting Materials Used in the Production
            of Viral Vaccines for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases,” dated September 2006 (71 FR 57547).

            INTRODUCTION

            We, FDA, are providing you, manufacturers of viral vaccines, guidance for the characterization and qualification of cell substrates, viral seeds, and other biological materials used for the production of viral vaccines for human use.

            FDA’s guidance documents, including this guidance, do not establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe FDA’s current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations unless specific regulatory or statutory requirements are cited.

            The use of the word should in a guidance document means that something is recommended, but not required.

            Selection of a cell substrate influences the safety and purity of the biological product manufactured in it. The evaluation (e.g., the particular tests and methodologies chosen) should be
            specifically tailored to the cell substrate and vaccine product to be developed to assure vaccine safety and purity. FDA recognizes that technology in this area is evolving. This section describes general parameters to be considered in the characterization of cell substrates, viral seeds, biological starting materials and vaccine intermediates.

            To maximize the value of the recommendations in this document, it is important that you perform each test at the stage of production at which contamination is most likely to be detected.

            1. Vaccine Purity

            The regulations, in 21 CFR 610.13, state in part that “Products shall be free of extraneous material except that which is unavoidable in the manufacturing process described in the approved biologics license application.”

            In 21 CFR 600.3(r),purity is defined as the “relative freedom from extraneous matter in the finished product, whether or not harmful to the recipient or deleterious to the product.”

            Live attenuated viruses, whole inactivated virions, or virus-like particles often cannot be purified as rigorously as viral subunit vaccines; as a consequence, the potential for contamination is greater than that of subunit vaccines.

            ***Generation of live viral vaccines often involves cell disruption, which may add cellular components to the vaccine bulk. In addition, such vaccines often are minimally purified and are not subjected to inactivation steps. Comprehensive testing and qualification of the biological starting materials and lot-by-lot testing for adventitious agents are particularly important because it is not possible for a manufacturer of live viral vaccines to validate the process for clearance of
            adventitious agents”***…https://google2.fda.gov/search?q=cache:X5BqJJIx9KUJ:www.fda.gov/downloads/biologicsbloodvaccines/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidances/vaccines/ucm202439.pdf+adventitious&client=FDAgov&site=FDAgov&lr=&proxystylesheet=FDAgov&output=xml_no_dtd&access=p&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

          29. I said “The FDA procedures necessary for vaccine safety are implemented.”

            You said “Can you please provide proof that procedures are now in place?”

            You asked for nothing else. I didn’t lie.

            Are you referring to you being caught red handed lying about using Suzanne Humphries Blog as a source and claiming it was a paper? Id that it? Or was it when you were caught editing the post to try to cover it up?
            I got screen shots and you (and other people) will be hearing about THAT for months during you Gish galloping posts. Please don’t forget to bring it up again!

          30. ione murphy: “Got any guidelines for American manufactures? So can you assure parents right now, that there are no animal viruses in their children’s vaccines?”

            So.. you didn’t bother or care enough to look?

            Understood.

            “Myth and Solution

            As a result of stringent regulatory oversight, biologics manufacturers
            are required to show that their products are safe for human use. And
            although biopharmaceutical scientists and regulatory authorities
            understand that absolute freedom of viral contamination is impossible, much can be done to ensure viral safety. This is reflected in the regulatory landscape.

            The International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical
            Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) is a unique collaboration of regulatory authorities and the pharmaceutical industries of Europe, Japan, and the United States. The organization has developed guidelines requiring manufacturers of biologics to demonstrate their ability to remove or inactivate viral contaminants.”

            And once again..

            “The European Medicines Agency (EMA), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other authorities have adopted guidelines that focus on testing and evaluating viral safety of biotechnology products derived from characterized cell lines of human or animal origin. Those guidelines provide a general framework for testing production cell banks and bulk harvests for viral contaminants and designing viral clearance evaluation studies. The EMA also has adopted guidelines concerning clinical trials and submissions based on an investigational medicinal product dossier that includes viral safety evaluation.”

            (Source(s): BioProcess International | “Fundamental Strategies for Viral Clearance – Part 1: Exploring the Regulatory Implications”

            BioProcess International | “Fundamental Strategies for Viral Clearance Part 2: Technical Approaches” )

    4. First off, aluminum is in most foods. The alu salts (the distinction is important – like the difference between chlorinte, the poisonous gas and table salt (a.k.a sodium chloride) is important) so….

      Second off, the body would treat the actual disease as foreign too. The difference is that normal virulent germs can ‘fight’ back. And nature doesn’t really care who ‘wins’ any more than it cares whether a fox eats a rabbit or a rabbit gets away.

      Third off, in layman terms – what an allergy actually is (back-end) is a immune system getting all trigger happy and treating an otherwise innocous substance as dangerous.

      Fourth, there are lots of foreign invaders – I’m sure you’ve had a cold and got better – that’s your immune system realizing the cold is foreign. Far more immunologic assaults from living – and those germs are whole-cell virulent alive things will all their weapons in place.

      Know what not treating foreign things as foreign ever is? SCIDs a.k.a “The boy in the bubble”

      Fifth, the existience of non sero-converters proves there is a ‘choice’. (Allergy = immune system not realizing something is innocous. Non-sero-conversion = immune system failing to recognize that a specific pathogen is dangerous. Immune deficency = the guards are asleep on the job and fail to respond to general danger)

      If you were to get a milder disease that ‘looks’ like a more severe disease, your immune system might go ‘Hey, we know this family – they’re dangerous’.

      That’s giving your immune system a headstart – think of it as target practice.

      That’s exactly what a vaccine does – it gives the hare a headstart.

      And the immonlugic insult = autoimmune is not supported by data.

      https://thoughtscapism.com/2015/04/10/myth-no-studies-compare-the-health-of-unvaccinated-and-vaccinated-people/

  58. I just read that epilepsy can be caused by VACCINES. But the same article says that ” stupid ” allopathic doctors say that it is caused by genes , and it should be no reason to stop vaccinations.

    My son , a victim of VACCINES, just had a seizure. There is no record of anyone in the family ever having seizures.

    1. So what is the VAERS number for your childddd hahhahahhahahah. just kidding, I know you are lying.

      1. Justthebullshit, I don’t get paid for what I do; I do it as a moral obligation. But you, on the other hand, get paid for your prostituted efforts.

          1. No because you are the moron. I have never thought that prostitutes are intelligent.

            Neither are liars INTELLIGENT. I read an article once that paired INTELLIGENT people with sincerity. It was a psychological study. So there you go, Justthebullshit.

          2. Oh look, eggman2 complained about a half hour.

            Since it’s 19 hours after that comment, looks like the answer is ‘no’.

          1. You list a few people who do websites for a living. Where is the connection to “Big Pharma” outside your little mind?

    2. I just read that epilepsy can be caused by DEMON POSSESSION. My son, who I Trick-or-Treating, just had a seizure. He must be possessed by a demon!

      However, I have no proof, no evidence, nothing at all to support this other than my own words on the Internet. And, eggman2, unless you can provide something to back up your claim of your son having a seizure “because of vaccines,” you have no proof either.

          1. Thanks for confirming that you are a stupid pro vaccine propaganda prostitute. You can’t say what people are experiencing in their lives, stupid pro vacsinner.

    3. Febrile seizures can be caused by a fever, from illness or vaccine. They are not epilepsy. There is no evidence vaccines cause epilepsy.

      1. Brain damage causes epilepsy. VACCINES cause brain damage, as well as damage to other organs; but the brain, being the sensitive computer that controls everything, always seems more susceptible.

        1. That’s not what your son’s doctor’s told you and you know it. Vaccines don’t cause epilepsy. Febrile seizures are not epilepsy.

  59. “The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons filed a Freedom of
    Information Act (FOIA) in 1999 to require information on the hepatitis B vaccine
    preliminary safety data. It requested all safety data the CDC had prior to ACIP’s
    1991 recommendation and the statistical model ACIP used to assure safety. 236
    It has never received a response to its request made more than ten years

    Michael Belkin, The Vaccine Bubble and the Pharmaceutical Industry, in VACCINE
    EPIDEMIC 139 (Louise Kuo Habakus & Mary Holland eds., 2011) (“We are still waiting for a
    response today. Their failure to respond is damning. The implication is that the at-birth hepatitis B vaccine recommendation was made without conducting proper safety studies in babies beforehand.”).

    Compulsory Vaccination, the Constitution, and the
    Hepatitis B Mandate for Infants and Young Children
    Mary S. Holland
    January 2013

    1. “ACIP recommendation that every newborn baby receive the hepatitis B vaccine in the hospital within hours of birth. Samuel L. Katz, MD, who instituted that policy when he was ACIP Chairman in 1991 has admitted they had no peer-reviewed, published studies showing that it was safe to give to newborns when the ACIP made that recommendation. (Katz is former Chairman Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, former Chairman of the Public Policy Council of the Infectious Diseases Society of America).

      When I asked Katz in the question/answer session after his April 12, 2000 NY/Cornell Medical School lecture on “Vaccines in the New Millennium” what peer-reviewed, published safety study he used when he was ACIP Chairman to recommend at-birth immunization of newborns in 1991 he answered: “you are quite right there was no published peer-reviewed study“.

      https://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later-2nd-international-public-conference-on-vaccination/#.VovinOpMHMI

      1. So what you are saying is that 25 years ago, they may not have had peer-reviewed studies for the decision.

        What about now? 25 years later? How many studies support the continuing practice of Hep-B vaccinations? Do you need a list?

        400 million Hep B vaccinations have been given since 1991. Were there any problems? Let me help you with that. Maybe 20 findings of injuries with any vaccine related to Hep-B. I believe that is less than one injury per 20 millions vaccines making it one of the safest vaccines in history and getting a Hep-B vaccination one of the safest activities ever invented by mankind.

        Graceds is fear mongering with old, bad information again.

        1. Justaliar doing what he does best, lie and deny..

          Evolution of multiple sclerosis in France since the beginning of hepatitis B vaccination

          “The results confirmed, at the global population level, a significant correlation between the number of immunizations and both the number of MS cases declared to the pharmacovigilance system 1–2 years later and an overall increase in identified MS cases in the country”.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266455/

           “A total of 82 articles were identified which included 58 case series or case reports, 15 review articles, 4 cross sectional studies, 3 prospective cohort studies, one retrospective cohort study and a case control study. After reviewing the literature, we observed that complications seen after Hepatitis B vaccination are sudden infant death syndrome, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, vasculititis optic neuritis, anaphylaxis, systemic lupus erytymatosus, lichen planus and neuro-muscular disorder.” – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506472

          “Hepatitis B vaccination carries a  risk of anaphylactic reactions (estimated incidence less than 1 case per 100 000 injections). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15612143

          1. In 1982, ACIP recommended the hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine only for
            those people “at substantial risk of HBV infection who are demonstrated or
            judged likely to be susceptible.”213 ACIP noted that the United States is “an area
            of low HBV prevalence,” and that “the estimated lifetime risk of HBV . . . [is]
            approximately 5% for the population as a whole.”
            ACIP recommended the vaccine only for “higher risk groups”:…

            In 1991, after the NCVIA was in effect, ACIP changed its recommendation
            dramatically. Now, instead of characterizing the United States as “an area of low
            HBV prevalence”with certain high risk groups, ACIP describes the situation
            this way: “The acute and chronic consequences of hepatitis B virus infection are
            major health problems in the United States.”
            https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2039392##

            What changed?
            The law that gave Vaccine manufacturers the most extreme industry protection in the world.

          2. W.H.O–Hepatitis B
            Fact sheet N°204
            Updated July 2015

            Geographical distribution

            “Hepatitis B prevalence is highest in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia, where between 5–10% of the adult population is chronically infected. High rates of chronic infections are also found in the Amazon and the southern parts of eastern and central Europe. In the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, an estimated 2–5% of the general population is chronically infected.
            Less than 1% of the population in Western Europe and North America is chronically infected”..
            .https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs204/en/

          3. Hurrah!! the Hep-B vaccine has reduced chronic infection down to less than 1% in North America! Another victory for vaccines!!
            Can you list some more successes?

          4. I know that logic is very difficult for you, but if vaccines brought the chronic infection down to less than 1%, then vaccine are needed to keep the chronic infection down to less than 1%.

            If you stop vaccinating, the chronic infection rate will rise above 1%.
            Is that really hard to understand?

          5. The same practices that reduced the transmission of HIV also reduced the transmission of Hepatitis B.

            Universal Precautions is an approach to infection control designed to prevent transmission of
            blood born diseases such as AIDS and Hepatitis B in health care settings.

            Universal precautions were initially developed in 1987
            by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

            The guidelines include specific recommendations for use of gloves
            and masks and protective eyewear when contact with blood or body
            secretions containing blood or blood elements is anticipated.

            In 1996 the CDC expanded the concept and changed the term to
            Standard Precautions.

            Standard Precautions are the protocols used to maintain an
            aseptic field and to prevent cross-contamination and cross infection:

            (1) between health care providers
            (2) between health care providers and patients
            (3) and between patients.

            These include, but are not limited to:

            (1) the sterilization of instruments and goods
            (2)the isolation and disinfection of the immediate clinical environment
            (3)the use of sterile disposables
            (4) scrubbing, masking, gowning, and gloving
            (5) the proper disposal of contaminated waste.
            (Mosby’s Dental Dictionary, 2008)

            Testing women for Hepatitis B prenatally and administering Hepatitis B Immune Globulin to their infants following delivery helped to eliminate vertical transmission (mother to infant) during delivery.

          6. Well, they were five years late, then, Gracie. Only a warped mind like yours would come up with that!

            The vaccine was recommended only for higher risk groups, and it turned out that such policy was not doing much to stop transmission of Hep B. The US has been far more successful since universal immunization, of stopping transmission of Hep B than countries that do not have universal immunization.

            Find someone to read this to you. It has a lot of big words in it!
            https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-universal-hepatitis-b-vaccination-isnt-quite-universal/

          7. Not quite – knives have more legal protection so do guns. Design defects for vaccines – specially designed court heavily biased in claimant’s favour.

            Oh and if you want to sue a knife manufacturer, you’ll need to pay your own legal fees – not so with NCVIP.

          8. ione always posts twisted extracts of papers that don’t support her position because she thinks nobody checks because ……… she is a liar and will make a false point if she can. Lets look at what those papers say:

            First paper – The weakness of this study is its retrospective nature and therefore subject to bias of notoriety.” “All this is expected to require further epidemiological studies, particularly from the French health insurance data. ” Of course, corraltion is far from causation but that doesn’t prevent IONE from jeaping to her conculsions.

            The next paper says this in the last sentence of the conclusions:

            “Benefits provided by the hepatitis B vaccination far outweigh its adverse reactions because hepatitis B is a serious disease, which can even lead to chronic liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma.” I guess ione supports the Hep- B vaccinations.

            The third paper is actually titled ” Systemic adverse effects of hepatitis B vaccines are rare.” I am not kidding. This is the end of the abstract – “Appropriate epidemiological studies are needed to determine whether these links are causal.”
            So we can all conclude from iones references that more studies should be done, adverse effects are rare, and the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks.
            Did we get that right Ione?

          9. If both parents are negative for hep B prior to birth, and have no relatives with it, how much risk is there for a newborn baby, just hours old, will contract a disease that is primarly passed sexually or through dirty needles? Ask that and then see what risks the vaccine offers your infant…
            3/28/2014—Hepatitis B—GBS—Case No. 000000—Over $10 Million
            9/19/2013—Flu Vaccine, Hepatitis B Vaccine—Brachial NeuritisCase No. 12-404V—$85,000
            12/7/2012—Hepatitis B Vaccine——Multiple SclerosisCase No. 11-731V—$575,000
            11/16/2012—Hepatitis B Vaccine—Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic PurpuraCase No. 11-220V—$78,419
            11/14/2012—MMR, Hepatitis B—Myopathy, Polyneuropathy, Quadraparesis—Case No.11-0143V—$550,000
            11/14/2012—MMR, Hep B Vaccines—Myopathy, Polyneuropathy, Quadraparesis—Case No. 10-129V—$550,000

          10. Oh, dear.. Ione Murphy’s fallback position in these discussions when met with a question concerning one of her nonsensical posts/comments..

            Change the subject/move the goalposts .. and/or .. introduce more irrelevant gish gallop/copypasta.

          11. IThe subject was hep B, the question he asked was the risks..but we can change the subject now. I happen to really like this Bob Dylan song…I want to dedicate it to you..

            “Let me ask you one question Is your money that good?

            Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could?
            I think you will find
            When your death takes its toll
            All the money you made Will never buy back your soul”

          12. So after being embarrassed completely, you head for the lawyers at:
            https://www.mctlawyers.com/vaccine-injury/cases/

            And try to list victims from a list of cases being “advertised” for the lawyers ability to “get money”. Let’s look at those cases.

            3/28/2014 – yes, a victim – one in 2014
            12/7/2012 – a settlement for cash to avoid a trial
            11/16/2012—a settlement for cash to avoid a trial
            11/14/2012—yes, two victims in 2012
            There are only three confirmed victims but, just to generous, we will count them all. So the score is 5 injuries with…..
            212,778,000 Hep-B vaccinations in the U.S.
            That means that there was one injury per 50 millions vaccinations making that vaccination the safest human activity ever invented.
            I agree with you that this vaccine is amazingly safe. Thanks for pointing that out.

          13. You do know that was just a small example of injuries from the Hep B vaccine from just one lawyers website?

          14. Of course I do. Your post was, as usual, a very inaccurate portrayal. You are all about fear mongering, not accuracy. That has been proven over and over again.
            .
            I know the exact number since 2006. Do you?
            .
            It’s still a very small number.

        1. “Maybe in 1991 studies were lacking”.
          ……
          So it was mandated for newborns.
          ……
          And you wonder why parents want the right to put the brakes on, if it doesn’t pass the smell test.
          ……
          Earth to Kathy.

          1. Of course, Watson, they would never do that…again.
            Just that once, for poor policy making affecting every newborn, we’ll give them a pass.

          2. You have an uncorroborated quote from Michael Belkin and a claim by AAPS that they filed an FOIA request but never followed up.

            Dan Burton’s Oversight Committee held hearings in 1999. The minutes of that hearing are public record. Anyone can read Dr. Katz’ testimony if they want.

            It seems you’ve grown accustomed to lying and not being caught.

        2. Emphasis on the “maybe.” With Graceds or any other antivax troll, I’m very cautious about assuming any of their basic premises are true.

          In this case, there’s an “admission” attributed to Samuel Katz and the only source of that is Michael Belkin in a book by Geoff Metcalf. It’s made it around various anitvax sites, Whate to, The Refusers, NVIC,

          This was a matter investigated by Congress and dismissed in 1999.

          1. oh Belkin, oy, not the most rational person. And that is putting it kindly. Lives in my state. I’ve seen him in real life talking about his supposedly vaccine-killed daughter. Daughter died of SIDS but he has turned it into his life’s crusade to insist she was killed by Hep B vaccine.

      2. Gee, a bunch of people called the refusers – sounds like i already know what they think.

        I’ve read some of therefusers though.

        Lurkers: Please note that most of the sites like vaxtruth and the refusers and the like do not even make distinctions tbetween elements and compounds – 9th graders are expected to know better. They also don’t distinguish between similiar compounds.

        The differences between H, O, H20 and H20 will serve for my example.
        H – That’s hydrogen which is explosive and flammable.

        O – That’s Oxygen which is explosive and flammable.

        H20 which is not explosive nor flammable and can in face be used to put OUT fires since it is in fact plain old Oxidane a.k.a. boring old WATER.

        H202 is peroxide bleach…as in hair bleach as in the term ‘bottle blonde’.

        It’s trivially easy to see how important the distinctions are and why you wouldn’t want to take medical advice from someone who is either too clueless to make the distinction, too lazy to make the distinction or deliberately trying to deceive you by failing to make the distinction.

        1. I’m a big fan of taking these idiots out for a few celebratory shots of methyl alcohol while I enjoy my ethyl alcohol. I mean, what’s one CH3 group between friends?

    2. Got an link or any later information on this situation which currently contains zero information?
      .
      Government is slow. What a surprize. Come back when you actually have information to post.

        1. Now that you provided a link,you don’t provide any additional information on the status of the FIA request. Has there been a response now?

          The 1999 recommendations are mute. Your Paper states that the recommendations were updated in 2005. What happened to those recommendations? It’s turns out they were adopted. That’s means your entire rant is pointless.

          What a surprise.

    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
      “The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association founded in 1943 to “fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine.”[1][2] The group was reported to have approximately 4,000 members in 2005, and 5,000 in 2014.[3][4][5] Notable members include Ron Paul and John Cooksey.[6] Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, was a member for over two decades until his election to the U.S. Senate.[7] The executive director is Jane Orient, an internist and a member of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. The AAPS motto, “omnia pro aegroto” is Latin for “all for the patient.”[8] AAPS also publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (formerly known as the Medical Sentinel).

      The association is generally recognized as politically conservative
      or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of
      scientifically discredited theories, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there are links between autism and vaccinations.”

      HIV deniers, eh? There are about 1 million active physicians in the US, and this kook group has a membership of 5000?

          1. The point was a lack of transparency in Vaccine policy, another reason to allow parents discretion in vaccination choices without coercion from the state.

        1. Do you mean Sharyl Attkisson? The Discredited former CBS reporter fired from CBS news? The Attkisson that has a lengthy record of shoddy, inaccurate reporting, and she
          has pushed a bizarre conspiracy theory that the government hacked her
          home electronics.

          Is that who you are talking about?

        2. Genetic fallacy.

          If you think dismissing a source “because Sharyl Attkisson” makes sense, it doesn’t.

          1. I’m accustomed to interacting with people who have a basic understanding of logic.

            Genetic fallacy: a line of “reasoning” in which a perceived defect in the origin of a claim or thing is taken to be evidence that discredits the claim or thing itself.

            In this case, Sharyl Attkisson doesn’t like the source, therefore Dr. Gorski’s critique of Vaccine Epidemic is somehow flawed.

            That makes no sense.

          2. Bla bla! Arrogant use of latin philosophical logical fallacies, in the failed attempts to make your arguments appear intellectual.

            You left an incomplete sentence dangling! That’s what doesn’t make sense.

            And ‘gorski’ who! I loathe name droppers for the same reason I ridicule today’s internet use of fallacies! Har d har! 😉

          3. Suz ‘exchanges’ with a LOT of people in the course of several mos., and I also make it a point not to link on the prompts from opponents.

            Gortski aside, I stand by my remark that it was your comment telling Graceds that his/her comment made ‘no sense’, which made no sense, Watson! 😉

      1. I see you point about aaps but
        I suspect it had something to do with this:
        “Samuel L. Katz, MD, who instituted that policy when he was ACIP Chairman in 1991 has admitted they had no peer-reviewed, published studies showing that it was safe to give to newborns when the ACIP made that recommendation. (Katz is former Chairman Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, former Chairman of the Public Policy Council of the Infectious Diseases Society of America).
        When I asked Katz in the question/answer session after his April 12, 2000 NY/Cornell Medical School lecture on “Vaccines in the New Millennium” what peer-reviewed, published safety study he used when he was ACIP Chairman to recommend at-birth immunization of newborns in 1991 he answered: “you are quite right there was no published peer-reviewed study“.
        https://therefusers.com/refuser

        1. Well THAT completely ignored the facts presented. The ACIP has no control over FIA requests but I think you know that,

        2. You merely repeated the same comment as below.

          The agency had 20 days to respond to a properly filed FOIA request. If it was properly filed, what steps did AAPS take, if any, in the intervening 10 years?

      2. ” A reputation for not being credible ” , in the opinion of the junk medicine robber barons, that would be a good term for institutions and people that do not accept their prostituted blood money.

          1. You are so stupid in trying to sensationalize the issue. The bottom line is: VACCINES are poisons and biohazardous material injected into the body, and that does nothing but to disrupt the body’s normal functioning to the point of illness, disability , and even death.

          2. YOUR stupid propaganda of choice does not change reality. People multiply like rats in spite of extermination efforts, so what is new ? Bill Gates talks about using VACCINES to control the population, on the internet ? What is new ?

            YOU FAILED TO ADRESS THE CONCERNS IN MY COMMENT BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE THE ABILITY TO FACE REALITY. THE BOTTOM LINE IS : VACCINES ARE POISONS INJECTED INTO THE BODY.

            Whether it is done on purpose, or by accident because the people in charge of public health are stupid, who the F–k cares ? When you are dead you are dead. When you have a child whose disability can not be reversed, what the hell can you do ?

          3. Figure out how to mitigate the disability and figure out reasonable accommodations – that simple.

            And it does actually – if vaccines were poison – why isn’t everybody dead?

  60. First off I am from Co. and have followed this very close. Anyone not from this state should not comment on what should and is being done unless they know for a fact. The truth is the Governor has made it clear we Coloradans will not be headed this direction. If this even gets past legislation it will be vetoed. Because some opinionated journalist wants this does not mean anything.

    1. Thank You for that. I am a native Coloradoan and although I don’t live there now, I would fight tooth and nail to keep exemptions for those who wish to have that choice.

        1. Vaccination can not prevent a speck of feces. The burden of proof is on you to prove that ” GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” ( VACCINES ) is good for one’s health. People have died and become disabled by VACCINES; that has been well recorded. Just like it has been recorded that other practices by stupid allopathic junk medical practitioners have done the same.

          1. Okay, it’s proven. About ten thousand times it’s proven.

            https://www.vaccinateyourbaby.org/safe/research.cfm

            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/yes-autism-rate-rising-vaccines-caused-vaccines/

            https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/10/10/354627818/32-myths-about-the-flu-vaccine-you-dont-need-to-fear

            Now your turn: show one single incidence, from anywhere that isn’t an imaginary conspiracy site, at any time at all in history, that someone has been injured or had a bad reaction to a “GMO vaccine.” Hint: never. But then, you’re just a crank who will reply with comments about feces and “prostitutions.”

            To anyone still bothering to slog their way through this silly non-discussion: vaccines are safe and effective. Get your shots, and get your children their shots.

          2. I’ll bet you belong to the Facebook groups Oklahomans for Health Choice, Californians for Vaccine Choice, GMO Free Southern California, and The Canary Party

            https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008834675137&sk=likes&collection_token=100008834675137%3A2409997254%3A96&next_cursor=MDpub3Rfc3RydWN0dXJlZDoxNDAyNzExMTQ2NzE2Njk2

            What is Astroturfing, Astroturf Propaganda and How to Recognize It

            https://michelle2005.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/astro-turf-small.jpg?w=300&h=199

          3. Well, there you have it.

            For those with eyes to see and ears to hear – ione murphy admits she’s an astroturf troll.

            “Darn straight! And proud of it!”

          4. Oh noes, not there! The shame of it! I guess that means I’m a Monsanto shill whose word is now worthless because I’m on We Love Vaccines and GMOs. Also Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes and GMOLOL. 🙂

          5. No, it doesn’t solve the problem the retracted study required 100g of Pork and leafy greens and the target populations are not able to grow it, as most of the malnourished are refugees. An 11 year old would have to eat 15 pounds of cooked GR, everyday, to meet the minimum daily Vitamin A requirement-“quite a bowlful”…

            A wide variety of staple crops already exist such as squash that are far more efficient at producing Vitamin A. The leafy greens and pork fed with the GR are not required for kabocha. The GR also causes severe health damages by increasing the formation of formaldehyde while depleting glutathione.

            https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/magazine/04WWLN.html

            https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/30/golden-rice-paper-pulled-after-judge-rules-for-journal/ https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a1ed745751dc72be2818fd5906cc6250f4046a0cd418904203f1dc234ddb2c35.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fec53c279977c988d8af030359b1f0fc55358104e63e822e7b9e8b141e03014f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1209d4659d8d1eca802d8111534ee0512af8060790effbb4f110f4f850fdf666.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f6b74ae530a936aba869c59519090d6edd7f2cd671937a570747bcf3f4b9bfd3.png

        2. Well we can cross whooping cough and mumps off the list of vaccine preventable until new vaccines are made for them. But it sounds like we wont have a new pertussis vaccine for a long time..

          “The disease has returned in recent years with a ferocity that’s unlikely to abate anytime soon. Even Americans who thought they were protected have fallen ill. Yet whooping cough’s resurgence hasn’t triggered the public attention and congressional hearings that several dozen measles cases traced to Disneyland provoked in barely a month. There’s been no new examination of what went wrong with the current vaccines, no intense push for accelerated development of an alternative.

          “Until we understand the pertussis germ better it is going to be difficult to develop new vaccines,” CDC’s Skoff said. “That’s where the research is focused right now.”

          NIH is supporting a range of pertussis studies, and various companies are at the early stages of testing new vaccines, but the prospects of success are remote. To compare any new vaccine against the existing shots might require immense trials lasting years and costing hundreds of millions of dollars…”

          1. Another lie with no reference. Ione is the biggest liar and fraudster in the anti-vaxx community.
            Her crap. lying, out-of context post is from here:

            https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/whooping-cough-epidemic-vaccine-issues-115177

            Here is the last line from the article:
            “For all the vaccines’ faults, they’re the only preventive tool medicine has for now. And, as Skoff noted, “Even a single dose of vaccine is protective against death.”

            Lets see if the liar Ione tries to edit her post or lie about the source again.

          2. Here is what Dave Perry wrote last Jan of what he hopes to achieve for Colorado, if you can’t prove you were vaccinated, don’t ever leave your home.

            “Tell your Colorado lawmaker this is how it has to be:
            • End all exemptions to vaccination requirements of public schools, except for medical exceptions approved by three real doctors. No quacks. If you can’t see how important this is and how you have to play your part, keep your little viral cesspools at home.
            • Allow public places to require proof of vaccination. Water World, Elitch Gardens, movie theaters, sports stadiums, rec centers, even shopping malls. Let the state create a database and apps that can prove you did your duty, or watch Netflix at home and swim in a blow-up pool in your own backyard.”

            https://www.aurorasentinel.com/opinion/perry-stupidity-anti-vaccination-parents-making-us-sick-time-fight-back-colorado/

            There is that little problem of Vaccine Failure though, both primary and secondary. Having proof you had a vaccine at some point in time, does not mean you are protected, nor does the current pertussis vaccine prevent you from being an asymptomatic carrier of pertussis. I would bet at least half the adults in the U.S. have never had boosters and are no longer protected, even though they could show you their shot records.

            What does he propose we should do with the children and adults who won’t mount a response to vaccines? Primary vaccine failure. The 30 million or so in America alone who although having been vaccinated, are still at risk of being “viral cesspools”?

          3. Save millions of dollars of useless research. Watch and understand ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS. Good nutrition is all you need to fight any disease : no GMO, no processed foods, and no pesticide laden food ever. Much less injecting pollution (VACCINES) under the skin…

          4. I haven’t seen that yet Eggman, but will be sure to check it out. Here is something else that is happening and people are unaware of it.

            Exposure to Common Chemicals May Weaken Vaccine Response-2012

            “Researchers report that exposure to ubiquitous household chemicals may lower children’s responses to vaccines.
            The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which are commonly used in Teflon coatings in pots and pans as well as in furniture, stain-resistant carpeting, rain gear and microwave popcorn bags, may hinder children’s ability to mount proper immune responses after they are vaccinated. The findings suggest that important gains made by immunization programs in the past century may be eroded by the emergence of these environmental chemicals.

            When the researchers compared the participants’ antibody levels to the levels of PFCs in their blood, they were surprised to find that higher levels of PFCs were linked with a lower immune response. In fact, kids whose PFC levels were twice as high had half the amount of antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus, compared with children who tested lower for PFCs.

            **At age 7, kids with a twofold increase in PFC levels were also two to four times more likely to show an immune response that was so low that it was no longer clinically protective.**

            https://healthland.time.com/2012/01/25/exposure-to-common-chemicals-may-weaken-vaccine-response/

    2. Tip my hat for all Coloradeans and their Governor. But it is a shame that they have propaganda prostitutes paid by the junk medicine robber barons in their legislature just like California. All those prostituted snakes should be voted out of office. And the stupid psychopathic junk medicine robber barons should have their products and companies boycotted.

    3. Are you willing to commit to have no Colorado children travel to other states after attending schools that are not well protected from disease?

      Because if not, I’m afraid this does affect other states.

      1. I am not afraid of disease . I have three children one is up to date on requirements will not get any more extra shots ever- ie HPV/Flu. Second child is a survivor I watched her almost die not once but twice from recommended vaccines. CDC has this on file as well as a report on Vaers. She will never get a vaccine again, by my choice since I live in Colorado where we have a personal belief system. It is also my choice not to vaccinate my youngest as it is unknown if she will have similar life threatening reactions, as well as lifetime disabilities. The face on anti vaccine is my child with tubes on her chest, a spinal tap at 2 months and ongoing fevers of 107. Also blood poisoning, anaphylactic shock, auditory processing disorder, SPD , ADHD, and asthma as well as a now weakened immune system. Our family is in California and I do not fear she will contaminate the state.

        1. I’m sorry to hear your child suffered. Though let me point out that asthma and ADHD are not vaccine injuries.

          But saying you do not fear diseases like HPV, influenza, diphtheria, hib suggests lack of knowledge. Anything can harm, but the risks of vaccinating are exponentially smaller than those of not vaccinating.

          I can understand why you would fear, if that’s your experience. And if your child did have a severe reaction, she should probably get a medical exemption -and then depends on herd immunity, on the rest of those around her, to vaccinate and protect her. It’s exactly for such vulnerable children that school immunization requirements should be tightened.

          1. Have you seen the insert they are effects of the vaccine, her doctors all agree thank you for your uniformed view.

          2. I’ve seen the inserts – and I know how to read them. Inserts list everything reported after vaccine, caused by vaccines or not. The evidence is that vaccines do not cause ADHD or asthma.

    4. The truth is, you’re mistaken.

      Governor John Hickenlooper makee a strong case for the need to raise Colorado’s bottom-of-the-barrel vaccination rates,

      https://www.coloradoindependent.com/151767/hickenlooper-on-vaccines-strong-statement-still-no-real-plan

      Gov. John Hickenlooper says new rules are a step toward strengthening immunization rates and protecting children and communities.

      https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/04/15/opting-out-of-vaccinations-requires-more-paperwork-for-parents/

      1. YES!!. And I thought that we needed a referendum to get it done. I really think that is the best approach since it doesn’t depend on weak kneed politicians to make the right choice.
        Colorado really needs a referendum. Maybe we can get some of that imaginary Pro-vaxx money and get it done.

      2. He decided to have yearly opt out requirments this versus having it the duration of the school career. That does not make it mandatory to vaccinate all he spoke of keeping our freedoms , but upping the rates.

        1. “The goal is to make sure parents get the real information, real facts, that this is not a danger to their children, quite the contrary it’s going to keep their children safer and really keep all the children in our communities safer.”

          “This is a classic case where it seems kind of misdirected to me for so many people not to allow their children to be vaccinated. Do we have a law requiring every child to be vaccinated? I’m not saying I wouldn’t support it. I would have to think about it.” — Gov. John Hickenlooper

          “I’m not saying I wouldn’t support it. I would have to think about it.”

          Read it a few times until it sinks in.

  61. Not debating with anyone but the editorial mentions that there was a death resulting from the measles outbreak at Disneyland. I don’t remember hearing about that and was interested in where you got that info. Please and thank you.

    1. I think you just caught the anonymous author in a lie. We’re used to it from vax pushers.

      https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/measles-outbreak/measles-outbreak-traced-disneyland-declared-over-n343686

      Disease detectives for months raced to contain the highly contagious
      disease, which surfaced at Disney theme parks in December and spread to a
      half-dozen U.S. states, Mexico and Canada. The outbreak sickened 147
      people in the U.S., including 131 in California. There were no deaths.

      Measles is mils and was already mild as far back as 1964!

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14154048

      Presse Med.No Subscription 1964 Jun 13

      MEASLES IN HOSPITALS IS TODAY A BENIGN INFECTION. (INFORMATION
      DERIVED FROM A RECENT STATISTICAL SERIES OF THE HOPITAL CLAUDE-BERNARD)

      Don’t let yourself be misled by the pro-vaxxers’ hysteria, research the FACTS.

          1. Lmao! Another nirvana fallacy of ‘there are no numbers between 0% and 100%’

            This is all taken into account with CI thresholds which you know since you’ve done your research.

          2. How do your CI thresholds contribute to the argument that “the unvaccinated are to blame” for the vaccinated measles case? It’s Non Sequitur.

            Is there any cell in your brain that hasn’t flushed logic down the toilet yet?

          3. It’s all in the maths – run the numbers yourself and do your own homework like you lot keep telling us to do.

            But it’s all to do with critical masses.

            And no-one thinks the unvaccinated are to blame – it’s not the kid’s faults that their parents refuse to be reasonable.

          4. “…It’s all in the maths – run the numbers”

            But that’s your argument not mine. You go “run the numbers” and post them here. Another pro-vaxxer asking her opponents to prove of their own claims. Lazy b.tches!

            I’m afraid it’s not only in the numbers but in the shifting diagnostic criteria used to obtain those numbers (I’ve posted amper proof already).

          5. Right so there’ll be no more ‘Do your own homework’ then. It’s not JUST my argument – it’s a basic epidemiological concept.

            “shifting diagnostic criteria” – thanks for proving my point!

          6. You keep brusshing plaque off your shoulders with no substance at all.

            “…”shifting diagnostic criteria” – thanks for proving my point!”

            So you’re an anti-vaxxer in disguise! Good!

          7. How is a basic epidemiological concept irrelevant to epidemics?

            Thanks for proving you have no idea what you’re even against.

          8. “…How is a basic epidemiological concept irrelevant to epidemics?

            Never claimed that, I said:

            doesn’t mean it’s applicable to the conversation at hand.

            It’s clear by now you have no clue of what you or I are talking about.

          9. Autism spectrum, maybe but not really since autism isn’t contagious.

            But there’s no epidemic of 299.0 Autism.

          10. An epidemic doesn’t have to be contagious.

            Definitions of epidemic

            1: affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time [typhoid was epidemic]

            2a : excessively prevalent
            2b : contagious [epidemic laughter]

            3: characterized by very widespread growth or extent : of, relating to, or constituting an epidemic [the practice had reached epidemic proportions]

          11. Epidemology is the study of infectious diseases. So in order to qualify as an epidemic for epidemiology purposes…yes, it does.

            This isn’t a discussion in colloquial things.

          12. “..Not quite. Epidemic refers to infectious diseases”

            Then your “basic epidemiological concept” is irrelevant because you’re not talking about an infectious disease.

            LOL LOL you wish you knew what you’re talking about!

          13. “…You think that measles isn’t contagious?”

            Stupidity isn’t, fortunately.

            Why do you compare measles to autism?

          14. “..I’m not actually. I’m contrasting measles to autism.”

            And the result is letter soup.

          15. “..But you can’t compare shifting diagnostic criteria”

            Only with infectious diseases when it comes to “prove” the efficacy of vaccines.

            Comparing shifting criteria then becomes the “consensual” norm.

            LOL

          16. A marketing poster against a study, what’s more credible?

            The rise in autism is only partially explained by the shift in the diagnosis.

            2014 – The Rise in Autism and the Role of Age at Diagnosis

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113600/

            “Autism incidence in California shows no sign yet of plateauing
            ….
            In summary, the incidence of autism rose 7- to 8-fold in California from the early 1990s through the present.

            Quantitative analysis of changes in diagnostic criteria, inclusion of milder cases, and an earlier age at diagnosis suggests that these factors probably contribute 2.2-fold, 1.56-fold, and 1.12-fold increases in autism, and hence cannot fully explain the magnitude of the rise in autism. .

            From an 7-fold increase only 2.2-fold is expalined by diagnosis shifts, leaving 4.8-fold (a rise of 380%) STILL UNEXPLAINED … Time to quit shilling and seriously look at the vaccines!

          17. “..there’s no difference in vaccinated vs unvaccinated kids”

            Yes, there is:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170CiteNPL

            Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism diagnosis, NHIS 1997-2002.

            “…Boys vaccinated as neonates had threefold greater odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life. Non-Hispanic white boys were 64% less likely to have autism diagnosis relative to nonwhite boys.

            Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates vaccinated with the hepatitis B vaccine prior to 1999 (from vaccination record) had a threefold higher risk for parental report of autism diagnosis compared to boys not vaccinated as neonates during that same time period. ..”

      1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/02/measles-death-washington-state/29624385/

        The woman’s measles was undetected and confirmed only through an autopsy … The woman, who died of pneumonia, …

        Without measles symptoms you’re not a measles case. Full stop. You can be a carrier but you don’t have the disease.

        She died of pneumonia, which is one of the most common causes of death in the elderly.

        Wonder how many “measle positives” would be found if every corpse would get routine tested…

          1. Most likely after being vaccinated against measles with her free Medicare card’s benefit. Nothing is free in this life. There are consequences for the individual and for society in bills to be paid by the taxpayers for disabilities and even death. And then the stupid experts say that we are having a bad economy.

          2. She was vaccinated for MMR as a child. She developed an immune issue as a young adult. She went to the doctor, sat in the waiting room with an unvaxed child who had caught measles from someone else unvaxed. It was the genotype usually found in the Phillippines and obviously imported in by someone unvaxed who had traveled abroad. There were several cases of measles with this genotype in that county around the same time. She caught measles but did not know it because she did not display usual symptoms. After her death, autopsy showed evidence of measles. This is all per state of WA health department. They assume her immune disorder weakened her system and she got an atypical case of measles.

          3. Oh, and please make sure to read between the lines of my explanation that people who purposely chose not to vaccinate their children for MMR caused this woman’s death. She would be alive if those children had been vaccinated. Someone’s child is dead because someone else chose not to vaccinate.

          4. YOU ARE SO STUPID. YOU MEAN SOMETHING LIKE : IF I DON’T GO TO THE TOILET, YOU WILL GET CONSTIPATION. I THINK I SAW THAT IN A FUNNY MOVIE OR IN THE THREE STOOGES. IT WAS FUNNY BECAUSE IT IS SO RIDICULOUS. BUT IN REALITY WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN HEALTH BY NOURISHING OUR BODY THE RIGHT WAY.

            Watch ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS, and try figuring out why I tell all of you stupid pro vaccines idiots that the only true medicine is nutrition.

          5. Don’t be stupid. Cancer was discovered in England in the 18th century due to pollution. It was among the London chimney sweepers that got scrotum cancer from their sposure to ashes from their job.

            The discovery of fire is practically the invention of cancer.

            Don’t be stupid. Know your history, for history is important in science.

          6. Ever hear of pollution, leaching, lead paint, alcohol consumption, pesticide use and smoking? There are many ways to be exposed to toxins. Guess you don’t know squat.

          7. You know what? That there was pollution, lead paint, alcohol consumption, pesticide use and smoking in places like Africa centuries ago, before they were invented?
            Buwah hah hah!
            Don’t you know that in the middle ages people lived to the age of 250?

          8. Definition of measles case:

            https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/conditions/measles/case-definition/2013/

            Clinical Description

            An acute illness characterized by:
            Generalized, maculopapular rash lasting ≥3 days; and
            Temperature ≥101°F or 38.3°C; and
            Cough, coryza, or conjunctivitis.

            Case Classification

            Probable

            In the absence of a more likely diagnosis, an illness that meets the clinical description with:
            No epidemiologic linkage to a laboratory-confirmed measles case; and
            Noncontributory or no measles laboratory testing.

            I don’t see “pneumonia” listed in the clinical description of measles. Do you?

            Without the illness meeting the clinical description, the woman wasn’t even a “probable” measles case!

            What’s more, her pneumonia had dozens of other probable causes:

            The woman, who died of pneumonia, had other health conditions

            Therefore, attributing her pneumonia to measles is a gratuitious ans extremely biased diagnosis (to put it mildly).

          9. So, you are arguing with the state of WA health department doctors about her diagnosis? Have you contacted them?

          10. I’m working on the data released to the public, just like you,.

            I don’t belive you, the doctors or anybody else if i can’t verify the (dis) information.

            One thing is sure, the hospital’s doctors had a motive to conceal a nosocomial cause, the most rpobable cause (avoid paying compensation damages).

          11. “…You can verify this information by calling WA state department of health.”

            Autopsy showed indirect proof of “measles virus” in the lungs. I accept that.

            However, we do not know how frequent the measles test gives a “positive” in the lungs of people dead by all causes. It may be pretty common. Only when we know we can decide the true clinical significance of such a finding. Tehrefore, the “measles caused her pneumonia” claim is not proven by autopsy.

            By brushing the plaque off your shoulder you’re not contributing to truth finding at all.

          12. Woman dies when water fills her lungs. She died of #complications – she didn’t die of #water – very sad.

            Woman gets into car accident and bleeds to death – she died of #complications – she didn’t die of #car accident – very sad.

          13. “…Woman dies when water fills her lungs. She died of complications – she didn’t die of water”

            That’s exactly the vaxx view!

            Woman dies of peumonia – she died of “measles complications” – she didn’t die of pneumonia, very sad.

            Logic is not your forte either, is it?

          14. The view of vaxxers is this: Woman dies of giant cell pneumonia which is a common complication of measles.

          15. She wasn’t admitted in hospital as a measles patient, she never had the clinical, she never was a measles case.

            How can one get a “complication” of an illness you never had?

          16. Prostituted politicians and prostituted scientists everywhere, there is nothing new under the sun.

            And I was forgetting to ad, prostituted pseudoscientific allopathic ” junk ” medicine doctors…

          17. Here’s how to fabricate an epidemic of disease X:

            1. Test as many corpses as you can for antibodies to virus X
            2. Gather the positives (you’ll always get some) and blame the deaths on X

            Pretty neat huh?

            Now let’s fabricate epidemic Y

            1. Test the same many corpses for virus Y
            2. Rinse and repeat.

            Sadly, this is how it works, folks! It’s called “clustering” and it’s scientific fraud.

          18. 1. A corpse with no signs of measles was tested for measles virus.
            2. The corpse was positive, so her death (by an unrelated disease) was blamed on the measles virus.

            and

            3. The case was prominently abused in the media to sell the “threat” of measles to the unwitting public… and sell vaccines (that didn’t help the victim, by the way).

            Facts.

          19. 1. A woman dies mysteriously. Coroner does autopsy. NORMAL
            2. Signs of pneumonia in her lungs, coroner tests for source. Finds measles virus.
            3. Case prominently featured in media due to nature of death and public’s concern about growing measles threat from those not vaxing.

          20. “2..Signs of pneumonia in her lungs, coroner tests for source. Finds measles virus.”

            3. Frequency of a positive measles test in lungs of the deceased by any cause: UNKNOWN.

            Therefore:

            4. clinical significance of such a finding: UNKNOWN.

            and,

            5. conclussion “measles caused her pneumonia”: BIASED.

          21. “…You are just making stuff up”

            Fine!

            Then you can easily prove, by a pertinen citation, that the fequency of a positive measles test in the lungs of the deceased by any cause is known and give us the figures.

            I’m always to correct my views when evidence is provided.

            Or…. is it just another or your bluffs?

          22. “…The WA state woman is a unique case.”

            I agree.

            However, unique in that it was a BOGUS, non-measles case.

          23. Autopsy SUGGESTED that. That woman was chronically ill and dying already. Immunocompromised and vulnerable. Hardly a poster person for the general public.

          24. So, she deserved to die? She did not matter? That she’d be alive today is unvaxed people had not spread measles doesn’t matter? She was someone’s baby. She was someone’s child. You are heartless.

          25. What a dope. Where did I say any of that? And where’s your heart when it comes to vaccine injury ?

          26. Autism is not a vaccine injury. I always have empathy for anyone dealing with a child or family member who has health challenges. Telling you that SIDS and autism are not vaccine injuries does not mean that I don’t empathize with what people feel when they lose a baby to SIDS or when they struggle to help an autistic family member.

            “Her fault, letting a harmless illness make her sick.
            Better dead than autistic.”

            You are a callous and evil person. The only reason you argue about vaccines is because you vehemently believe your child was made autistic by vaccines. You don’t care one iota about public health. You don’t care one bit about anyone else.

            I argue about vaccines because I fervently care about other people and public health. I use sound science in these debates because concrete evidence is the only rational way to make an argument.

          27. So give us a full explanation what causes autism then. i you know what it isn’t that implies you know what causes it. And if you can’t, and government etc can’t, vaccines are still on the table.

          28. Kathy has not responded. I think I know why. She’s unable to back up her contention. Am I surprised? Did the General Medical Council find Wakefield guilty based on Brian Deer Fiction?

          29. Keep up will you. Viruses don’t cause “measles” and measles doesn’t cause pneumonia.
            This woman was almost certainly vaccinated which is why she died. Nobody has said that, but since vaccines are the overall largest cause of death on the planet it is logical to conclude that.

        1. “Without measles symptoms you’re not a measles case. Full stop. You can be a carrier but you don’t have the disease.” – so measles cases are only measles cases after the incubation period is over? Hmm.

          Thanks for admitting that you can give people diseases you don’t have though.

          1. “…so measles cases are only measles cases after the incubation period is over?”

            Absolutely! If they don’t end up developing the clinical symptoms then they’re not measles cases, they’re simply carriers.

            Read the fking case definition again!

      2. She died of pneumonia but it was found she had measles during the autopsy. The author of this editorial is using that death as a reason to remove all exemptions in Colorado and also stating it resulted from the Disneyland measles. Whether you’re for mandated vaccines or not, that info isn’t being told the purest truth in this.

          1. Most likely after being vaccinated. VACCINES have been known to cause the diseases that they are supposed to prevent.

          2. What the fk is that? lol!

            Why didn’t test her corpse for Herpes? if positive, then “herpes penumonia” would undoubtedly have killed her … wuldn’t you agree? lol

            The mere presence of an agent, especially when asymptimatic, does not imply it’s the cause the OTHER disease that killed her … which in turn has a myriad of causes.

            How about nosocomial pneumonia, an untackled plague in every hospital on Earth?

          3. There are different types of pneumonia.

            Viral pneumonias, like measles, are diffuse, bilateral, and interstitial. No doubt, the pathologist identified measles virus proteins in lung cells by indirect immunofluorescence assays. Bacterial pneumonias are usually unilateral, and lobar (as distinct from interstitial). Also, bacterial pneumonias are often accompanied by empyemas (pus between the lung and chest wall). They’re actually quite easy to differentiate.

          4. …the pathologist identified measles virus proteins in lung cells by indirect immunofluorescence assays…

            So what? Pneumonia is not in listed the clinical picture of measles in spite of it – as claimed – being acquired by air (via the lungs).

            The mere presence of a pathogen does not imply causation, let alone of a such a different and common disease as pneumonia.

            It’s very telling how far the standards of causality are dropped when it comes to blame measles for everything. Applying the same principle to vaccine injury, the mere administration of a vaccine would always be sufficient cause.

          5. The facts in a row:

            1 – The patient was vaccinated against measles.
            2 – The patient was not a measles case, as per definition.
            3 – The patient had multiple health problems,

            and last but not least,

            4 – The mere asymptomatic presence pathogen A does not imply causation of illness B.

            If facts don’t lie then it’s the hospital who’s doing the lying.

            Let me guess…

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_pneumonia

            Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or nosocomial pneumonia refers to any pneumonia contracted by a patient in a hospital at least 48–72 hours after being admitted.

            It is the most common cause of death among nosocomial infections and is the primary cause of death in intensive care units.[1]

            admitting a nosocomial pneumonia would lead to compensation of damages, perhaps?

          6. “… 1 in 20 measles patients gets pneumonia”

            And you “prove” it with a paper on hospitalized children born to HIV-positive mothers in Zambia? fk off, pls.

            1. Hospitalized patients of measles are much less than all patients of measles.

            2. Hospital pneumonia is all the explanation you need.

          7. No, jagoff, they get hospitalized BECAUSE they have pneumonia. I thought you’d like that from a respected journal. You’re always dissing people’s sources. You’ll find something wrong with everything. How many professional articles have YOU written, BTW.

          8. “…they get hospitalized BECAUSE they have pneumonia

            False, your own citation states only 55% of the onserved children hospitalized because they had measles got pneumonia:

            In studies of unselected hospitalized children with measles, 55% had radiographic changes of bronchopneumonia, consolidation, or other infiltrates

            This is consistent with hospital pneumonia, a threat to all critical patients from ANY cause.

            Liar liar pants on fire!

          9. Well your thought(?) process went like this:

            – 5 hours ago: “1 in 20 measles patients gets pneumonia”

            uh.. you paper talks about HOSPITALIZED measles patients.

            – 4 hours ago: “…they get hospitalized BECAUSE they have pneumonia”

            uh… you paper says they’re hospitalized because they had measles and 55% got pneumonia

            – 7 minutes ago: “…More than half had pneumonia”

            Of the hospitalized yes, but then again hospital acquired pneumonia is the first cause of death in intensive care for any condition, not just measles!

            You’ve backed-pedaled several miles from your initial point and still your position is too far fetched!

          10. I stand by what I said: 1 in 20 measles patients gets pneumonia. I could post twenty sources for that, and you still wouldn’t believe it.

            Maybe YOU could post something that says this is “hospital acquired pneumonia”. YOU’RE the one trying to confuse everything.

          11. You know, jagoff, when I posted that link, I don’t know WTF you are talking about re: Zimbabwe. There are several tables in that chart, ONE of which references Zimbabwe. The rest, for the edification of those who may be believing this poseur, are from, in order presented, Table 2, US 1987-2000; Table 3, ditto; Figure 2, New York State, 1910-1969; Figure 4, Sydney Australia, 1920-1959.

            I am not crazy. You are.

          12. And your point is???

            You seem to expect me to do your homework and argue your point for you.

          13. You are just angry because medical professionals (I am not one of them) have shown up, and exposed your total ignorance about measles complications. Some web site told you measles is a nothing, at least if you order their expensive herbal supplement sugar pills.

            You can access one of the supporting papers about high measles pneumonia death rates online here, and note the data come from a large number of outbreaks not even including Zambia.

          14. You’re exercising your right to protest. Good!

            If you have a point to make, make it and bring the quotes, it but I’m not going to scan your paper for you.

            Lazy basterds!

          15. “…Some web site told you measles is a nothing, at least if you order their expensive herbal supplement sugar pills.”

            Quit trusting pamphlets from corrupt organisations, dude. Read the fking science reports!

            Measles is mild and was already mild as far back as 1964!

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14154048

            Presse Med.No Subscription 1964 Jun 13

            MEASLES IN HOSPITALS IS TODAY A BENIGN INFECTION. (INFORMATION

            DERIVED FROM A RECENT STATISTICAL SERIES OF THE HOPITAL CLAUDE-BERNARD)

            Don’t let yourself be misled by the pro-vaxxers’ hysteria, research the FACTS.

          16. The same dude who just complained he wouldn’t scan my paper for me, provides a link to the translated title of a paper that doesn’t have even an abstract online, much less the paper itself! What do you suppose is the likelihood he has read the original?

            Between January 2008 and April 2011, over 17,000 cases of measles were reported in France, including 2 deaths in 2010. From January to October 2011, there were 14,000 reported cases of measles in France, leading the country to launch an awareness campaign about MMR vaccination

            Something like a quarter of the victims of the Disney measles outbreak ended up hospitalized. This is a most peculiar meaning of benign.

          17. The data for France isn’t 2011, it covers three-plus years. You should learn to read. But it scarcely matters, because measles comes in cyclic epidemics. And Ukraine has had several major measles outbreaks; you just cherry-picked a year between them.

            Ukraine has had a multiple large outbreaks of measles. In 2001-2002, there were around 25,000 cases and 14 deaths reported.[94] In 2006 with 44,534 reported cases with at least 2 deaths.[95] 13,517 cases were reported in 2012.[96]

            Son, isn’t it embarrassing to have your total lack of research on Ukraine displayed for all to see? Even your friends must be squirming.

          18. “…The data for France isn’t 2011, it covers three-plus years.”

            17,000 / 3 = 5,700 still 2x higher than the Ukraine.

            “…measles comes in cyclic epidemics”

            And you cherry pick the worst years to “prove” how dangerous a benign disease is.

          19. You seem to have missed that Ukraine had a number of major outbreak, far worse than France. Just, not in the year you picked. Noting your name, would it help if I posted in Spanish? Although the numerals like 44,534 are the same.

          20. “…Ukraine had a number of major outbreak, far worse than France.”

            Then incidence depends on the year and the phases of the moon, not on the vaccine. Cherry picking again?

            By the way, what the hell has incidence to do with a disease being benign or not?

          21. Except, once the vaccine is in near-universal use, the number of cases drops to near-zero every year, in all phases of the moon.

            This one’s simple. You were so excited to find a country with mediocre vaccination coverage that had a year with not that much measles, you forgot to look at the other years. And, lo and behold, in the other years show that the country with 70-odd% vaccinated has much, much more measles than a country with 80-odd% vaccinated, which in turn has much, much more measles than the USA with 95% vaccinated. You got burned by your own carelessness and laziness, and I am really enjoying the moment.

            Your failure to look at Ukrainian historical data is another example of my maxim: Nothing antivaxers say can be taken for granted. Everything must be checked against original data.

            As far as the “benign”, I notice that the disease is only described as “benign” in hospitals. Not in general. Perhaps you could supply the abstract? (I read French, albeit poorly.) I’m wondering if the intent is that they have eliminated within-hospital transmission of the infection.

          22. “…once the vaccine is in near-universal use, the number of cases drops to near-zero”

            The accompanying restriction in the diagnostic criteria accounts for a 99% drop, whether it’s a vaccine or a kiss in the butt.

            Let’s look at the Mexico case:

            2014: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            The pre-vaccine criteria for “measles” is the same as post-vaccine “suspected case”, which is a case that meets the clinical definition.

            By the pre-vaccine criteria Maxico would have experienced and alarming “measles” epidemic in 2014, yet, by post-vaccine criteria 98% of the clinical cases were discarded.

            Amere restriction in the diagnosis accounts for a whooping 98% reduction of the incidence! A kiss in the butt instead of a vaccine would achieve the same reduction.

          23. She spouts and upvotes every anti-vaccine argument in the book, but don’t call her an anti-vaxxer!

          24. Oh, I should quit trusting pamphlets from corrupt organisations? I should quit trusting it – like the autism mention.

            Oh look, vaccines don’t cause autism.

          25. “…medical professionals…have shown up”

            1. How would you know?

            2. Doctors are to Science what Priests are to Theology. They apply higher rules without having to understand their foundations and their logic.

          26. And now you don’t believe that measles is airborne? You’re the original germ theory denier!
            https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/transmission.html
            “Measles is a highly contagious virus that lives in the nose and throat
            mucus of an infected person. It can spread to others through coughing
            and sneezing. Also, measles virus can live for up to two hours in an
            airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. If other people
            breathe the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then touch
            their eyes, noses, or mouths, they can become infected. Measles is so
            contagious that if one person has it, 90% of the people close to that
            person who are not immune will also become infected.”

            And you call yourself a scientist?

          27. “…And now you don’t believe that measles is airborne?”

            For you it’s a simple a matter of belief, like faith in god or the smurfs. For me it’s a more down-to-earth matter of lack of scientific evidence.

            “..or touch the infected surface”

            What scientific experiments are supposed to prove this modern day mythology?

          28. “…You’re the original germ theory denier”

            Oh well…

            To prove that you’re not lying and slandering (again!), would you have the courtesy of quoting my alleged denial of germ theory, shill?

          29. “..measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed”

            Bring the scientific proof or …. TRIPE!

            “…they can become infected.

            This is equivalent to “they can become infected or not, so whatever happens you’re always “right”. This is vax “science” LOL

          30. “..Enjoy your cherry pie tonight!”

            Objection noted.

            So the right interpretation is you get infected always if (quote) “..breathe the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then touch their eyes, noses, or mouths”

            Or which is it? please expand.

          31. Measles Pneumonia? Now you are making up medical conditions. Nothing called “Measles Pneumonia” in my MERCK dictionary. How much stock do you have in GSK? It must be a lot; you sure do care about our vaccine policies here in Co all the way from your home in Cali.

          32. Germs have always existed. Call them what they are, and whatever they do, whatever you want. They have the useful work in nature of getting rid of the trash. Trash smells the way it does because germs love it. You become trash to nature if you are not well fed and are so stupid as to inject pollution (VACCINES) under the skin–germs will love you for that, and will take care of you for the sake of the environment.

          33. You know hot it works, put together two concepts and voila! one is the cause of the other no mater how unrelated they might be.

            “measles pneumonia”, “herpes hepatitis”, “flu cancer”, and so on and so forth…

          34. Everything that co-occurs with measles is a “complication of measels”, but not everything that co-occurs with a vaccine is a complication of the vaccine?

            Simple correlation does not imply causation… except when it comes to argue in favor of vaccines.

          35. See below “Clinical report of serious complications associated with measles pneumonia in children”

            However, if you’d like to continue your display of ignorance, I won’t stand in the way.

          36. And you’ve seen it, and it says what you pretend it says.

            Who can doubt now? (standing ovation)

          37. You’ve also seen it too, with all your research and know it’s not in doubt. The CI, VE things. The Seroconversion things. The difference between elements and compounds.

            You know exactly what all this means and what the implications are.

            None of this is news to you – since you’ve done all your research.

        1. The author’s argument does not rest on this woman’s death as the sole reason for strengthening vaccination requirements. It is for illustrative purposes.

          There was an outbreak which started at Disneyland in December 2014. The U.S. recorded the first measles death in 12 years not long after. That is the truth.

      3. I also forgot to mention that the article you listed states she got the measles from a medical center in the spring not from Disneyland.

        1. There you go, most likely after vaccinations. Anyway the state of our stupid allopathic junk medical system is so bad in every way ( VACCINES included ) that it causes more death and suffering than it cures.

        2. USA Today reported she contracted measles during a county outbreak in the Spring.

          “A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland over the Christmas holidays in December spread across the country, including to Washington state.”

          Her death followed the Disneyland measles outbreak.

          1. A BUNCH OF MALNOURISHED AND MISINFORMED PEOPLE GETTING SICK, THANKS MUST BE GIVEN TO OUR DEFFECTIVE PROPAGANDA ORIENTED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, OUR PROSTITUTED TO THE JUNK MEDICINE ROBBER BARONS GOVERNMENT, AND TO THE JUNK MEDICINE ROBBER BARONS THEMSELVES FOR THEIR PSYCHOPATHIC MANIPULATION OF THE SYSTEM.

        1. I don’t know the woman’s age, do you?

          She had been vaccinated as a child, but had other health conditions which compromised her immune system. This is why reasonable people agree, measles is not a disease we want circulating in the community at large.

          1. measles is not a disease we want circulating in the community at large.

            She wasn’t even a meales case, my friend.

            Funny, smallpox is officially eradicated from the world when vaccination was not universal and uptake was low.

            Now, after decades of universal measles vaccination rates above 90% measles is far from eradicated and keeps affecting those that took the vaccine.

            You don’t need to be Einstein to figure out that vaccination is not the solution to the problem, and perhaps, only perhaps, is making it even worse by keeping the disease alive.

          2. Different diseases have different infection rates.

            If you’re going to play amateur immunologist, you could at least make the effort to inform yourself.

          3. “…Different diseases have different infection rates.

            Infectivity of meaasles (reproduction number) is LESS THAN the infectivity of smallpox.

            Measles 3

            https://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/158/2/110.full

            “Gani and Leach (8, 9) have recently evaluated historical smallpox data and estimated values of 3.5–6 for the basic reproduction number R0 of smallpox. This means that each case would infect 3.5–6 other people on average if the population were completely susceptible. ”

            https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/92/3/13-125724/en/

            (Measles) “…Each method yielded an estimated R that was significantly < 1 for all years combined. Method 3 provided the lowest estimate, at 0.47″

            Now who’s the amateur immunologist?

            Please Mr. professional, explain how patchy vaccination can eradicate a highly contagiuos disease but 90% universal rates can’t rid us of of a much less contagious measles.

          4. Thanks for the Gani and Leach estimate. Since you bring up transmission potential: Direct and fairly prolonged face-to-face contact is required to spread smallpox from one person to another. It was rarely airborne transmission, and vaccination was not the only method used to eradicate smallpox.

            The WHO link was informative as well.

            “Between 2000 and 2010, the global incidence of measles and the mortality caused by the disease decreased by 66% and 74%, respectively.1 The implementation of childhood and supplementary immunization activities by Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) has largely contributed to these declines.”

            Did you read either of your sources?

          5. i”…Direct and fairly prolonged face-to-face contact is required to spread smallpox from one person to another.”

            You’re suggesting that despite smallpox being more infective than measles, still, somehow, it must be less infective.

            I can feel the pain of your cognitive dissonance.

            Consider a more reasonable alternative such as “the efficacy of the vaccine is overrated” which is not in contradiction with the observations.

            You’ve been proven wrong. You’re grasping at straws and can’t answer the question:

            Explain how poor vaccination could eradicate highly contagious smallpox but > 90% universal vaccination rates can’t rid us of of a much less contagious measles.

          6. “despite smallpox being more infective than measles”

            You say that as a statement of fact when it’s not. You haven’t shown a comparison of the infectiousness of the two diseases. You have an estimate of the infection rate for small pox, and compare that to an estimate of the infection rate for measles from 367 cases of measles in Australia between 2009 and 2011. In case you were unaware, the WHO study was to determine whether measles elimination is being maintained in Australia, not the overall infectiousness of the disease.

            We can discuss actual relevant factors, for example, the speed of smallpox transmission is generally slower than for such diseases as measles or chickenpox. Or we could discuss how, in the U.S. before the vaccine, more than 50% of people had measles by age 6, and more than 90% had measles by age 15. There’s no comparison with small pox, even at its worst. Certainly, there’s no comparison to the incidence of measles now, due to the vaccine.

            Enough time wasted on you, my friend. It’s not cognitive dissonance. I have no patience for stupid.

          7. “…You haven’t shown a comparison of the infectiousness of the two diseases.”

            Oh well, either you have no clue of what “reproduction number” means or you’re in The Nile.

            If you lack better data then you lack what is needed to disprove mine.

            Your reply is a legitimate protest exercise (you’re human and feel a little pissed) but nevertheless completely irrelevant to the reasonable question I’ve raised.

            I repeat:

            Explain how poor vaccination could eradicate highly contagious smallpox but > 90% universal vaccination rates can’t rid us of of a much less contagious measles.

          8. The problem is with your basic premises. The reproduction number in the second study was during a measles eradication campaign. It’s a measurement of containment, not overall infectiousness.

            “Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases, and outbreaks can only be prevented by means of achieving a high vaccination coverage. For a R0=11–18, the vaccination coverage required to prevent measles outbreaks is 96–99%”
            https://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20233

            This is actually pretty simple to understand, for most.

          9. From your article:

            In their recent article on the large outbreak of measles in Merseyside, England, Vivancos et al. [1] obtained a basic reproductive number R0 of 1.2 in week 3 after the start of the outbreak.

            That was the MEASLES epidemiological data.

            Now, the value of “R0=11–18” is a theoretical value for ANY disease that would require a 96–99% theoretical vaccination rate. It is NOT measles epidemiological data.

            This is actually pretty simple to understand, for most.

          10. The next sentence following the part you copied:

            The basic reproductive number obtained in the study is however the effective basic reproductive number.

            Measles hasn’t magically transformed into a less infectious disease. The modern day vaccination rate is what has reduced the reproductive number.

            Read that a couple times until it sinks in.

          11. “…Measles hasn’t magically transformed into a less infectious disease.”

            I agree.

            The “magic” is simply that modern estimates of infectivity are more accurate than pre-vaccine ones.

            Pre-vaccine diagnosis was clinical only (equivalent to today’s “suspect case”), because of it the pre-vaccine incidence was grossly overestimated and therefore the infectivity too.

            So the question (revised) remains unaswered:

            Explain how poor vaccination could eradicate highly contagious smallpox (R0 > 3) but > 90% universal vaccination rates can’t rid us of of a much less contagious measles (R0 < 1.2).

          12. “…The WHO link was informative as well.

            1. The WHO is not a scientific organisation but a political one. Therefore, statements by the WHO have the same value as any other subjective/interested interpretation of the data.

            2. The WHO is judge and interest party: it declares needs, dictates the measures and evaluates its own “success”. This is now how a transparent organisation worthy of public confidence should work.

          13. I see. So after showing everyone you’re an idiot who doesn’t even understand the article he linked, the problem is the source. Got it.

          14. I was not commenting her article (did that before) but the statement of the WHO.

            As I said, the WHO claiming “…supplementary immunization activities … has largely contributed to these declines” is as credible as an old car salesman claiming the 2,000 miles on the teller of the 1963 Chevy he’s about to sell you are real.

            What else can the WHO be expected to say? Please tell me, has it ever acknowledge failure or fraud even when caught with her pants down? (think swine flu)

          15. They didn’t say when she was vaccinated.
            Since she was immunocompromised, no one knows how the measles antigen in the vaccination affected her, or how recently she was injected.

          16. Thanks, I copied that from a page at a news station in Washington, but it appears to be incorrect.

            Elsewhere it’s reported she was “in her 20s” and “she was vaccinated as a child.” NPR has more details.

            “her vaccination status is uncertain. Her mother tells health officials that she was vaccinated as a child, but they don’t have any of the documentation that proves it.”

            https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/420594973/first-measles-death-in-12-years-renews-vaccination-concerns

          17. If she was already immunocompromised when she got her Vaccine, maybe it created issues for her.
            There was the case of an immunocompromised person shedding polio virus from a Vaccine for 28 years.
            https://www.virology.ws/2015/09/03/shedding-poliovirus-for-28-years/
            “Since its inception in 1988 by the World Health Organization, the poliovirus eradication program has relied on the use of the infectious, attenuated vaccine strains produced by Albert Sabin. These viruses are taken orally, replicate in the intestine, and induce protective immunity. During replication in the gut, the Sabin strains lose the mutations that prevent them from causing paralysis. Nearly every individual who receives the Sabin vaccine strains excretes so-called vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) which are known to have caused outbreaks of poliomyelitis in under-immunized populations.

            Immunocompromised individuals who produce very low levels of antibodies (a condition called agammaglobulinemia) are known to excrete VDPVs for very long periods of time – years, compared with months in healthy individuals. Seventy-three such cases have been described since 1962. “

          18. Amazingly, polio has been eradicated in all but two countries through use of the oral polio vaccine. Thanks for mentioning it.

          19. The measles Vaccine may have contributed to her death, and even to being immunocompromised in the first place.
            You pretend, with great hubris, that we know everything there is to know about vaccination its effect on the body. We don’t.

            In fact, we didn’t even know there was a lymphatic system in the brain until this past year.
            https://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/26333/20150604/new-discovery-links-the-brain-and-the-immune-system.htm
            But we do know that the MMR vaccine can kill and disable.

            No state coercion is justified.

          20. We also know that anti vaccination zealots lie, all the time.

            “she was exposed to the measles in January. We had an outbreak in Clallam County, in the northwestern corner of our state. And she went to a health facility at that time, and she was in the center at the same time as someone else who was later confirmed to have measles.”

            The simplest answer is often correct, although it is theoretically possible the alignment of Jupiter and Uranus may have contributed to her death.

          21. A developing country perspective on vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis

            Abstract

            When the Expanded Programme on Immunization was established and oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) was introduced for developing countries to use exclusively, national leaders of public health had no opportunity to make an informed choice between OPV and the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). Today, as progress is made towards the goal of global eradication of poliomyelitis attributable to wild polioviruses, all developing countries where OPV is used face the risk of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP). Until recently, awareness of VAPP has been poor and quantitative risk analysis scanty but it is now well known that the continued use of OPV perpetuates the risk of VAPP. Discontinuation or declining immunization coverage of OPV will increase the risk of emergence of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV) that re-acquire wild virus-like properties and may cause outbreaks of polio. To eliminate the risk of cVDPV, either very high immunization coverage must be maintained as long as OPV is in use, or IPV should replace OPV. Stopping OPV without first achieving high immunization coverage with IPV is unwise on account of the possibility of emergence of cVDPV. Increasing numbers of developed nations prefer IPV, and manufacturing capacities have not been scaled up, so its price remains prohibitively high and unaffordable by developing countries, where, in addition, large-scale field experience with IPV is lacking. Under these circumstances, a policy shift to increase the use of IPV in national immunization programmes in developing countries is a necessary first step; once IPV coverage reaches high levels (over 85%), the withdrawal of OPV may begin.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15106301

            Inactivated polio vaccine: time to introduce it in India’s national immunization schedule.

            “..Nevertheless, polio control experts are particularly worried about Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus (VDPV). Global surveillance efforts picked up 430 cases of VDPV from several countries between July 2009 and March 2011. In India, 7 cases of VDPV were reported during the year 2011. As long as OPV is used, virologists say that the world is at risk of VDPV causing polio in unprotected children. Achieving a polio-free world will require the “cessation of all OPV” and with it the elimination of the risk of vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) or VDPV infections

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22699444

          22. NPAFP has also been found with EV68 in children..https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632520/

            In 2004, 12,000 cases of NPAFP were reported in the country, increasing dramatically to 25,000 in 2005. In 2007, the number crossed 40,000 and in 2011 the year India reported its last polio case—nearly 61,000 children were detected to be suffering from NPAFP.
            https://www.livemint.com/Politics/XS6vPor5jFX3vKkaE7Ri6H/India-to-get-poliofree-status-amid-rise-in-acute-flaccid-pa.html

            https://vir.sgmjournals.org/content/84/4/827.full

          23. You do know what NPAFP stands for right? it is “non-polio acute flaccid paralysis”.
            .
            Did you get the “non-polio” part? Blood testing shows that it is not polio? Its a different disease? There is no vaccine for it?
            .
            Do you really think your lying will work? You are so bad at it, we will expose you each time!!

          24. The liar ione posts lies again. here is the conclusions from here papers

            “Under these circumstances, a policy shift to increase the use of IPV in national immunization programmes in developing countries is a necessary first step; once IPV coverage reaches high levels (over 85%), the withdrawal of OPV may begin.”

            next paper

            ” IPV will be indispensable in the post-eradication era when use of OPV has to stop but “vaccination against polio” cannot stop. IPV offers complete individual protection and has been considered as an additional tool at present for those who can afford the vaccine, and since we are nearing the eradication of polio, it is time to shift from OPV to sequential OPV-IPV schedule in India.”
            .
            Thanks for posting two papers that support the polio
            vaccinations.
            .
            Go to hell for lying about it.

          25. “Go to hell for lying about it.” I’m afraid that is where you are going , and people like you who fight so hard to cover up the corruption. BUT it will be ALL be revealed, and you will be branded for what you are. We don’t get out of life alive, and you will have your day in the court of true justice..karma. I hope hell for you is having all the people who have died from vaccines staring and pointing at you…forever.

          26. Nothing will revealed through your lies other than that you are a liar.
            .
            At least you have posted confirmation that you actually have no facts to support your illusions.

          27. I was visiting a friend the other day, and they had that movie ghost on, you know the one with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, remember the ending? Where the bad guy dies, and then all these demon shadows start moving towards him, making inhuman growling noises, and then they pull him down into hell….

          28. The pathetic liar is reduced to weak threats
            .
            You might as well just say “I give up”.
            .
            All you need to do is stop lying about the papers you post. That is all.

          29. Well, kindly get on with it and post evidence of the corruption then like we’ve been begging you to all along!

            But anti-vaxxers have been claiming a conspiracy for nigh-on 200 years and all the proof is always to be exposed soon.

            When’s soon? In a second? In a minute? In a day? In a week? A year? A decade? A century? Two centuries? Three Centuries? A millennium?

          30. Here’s a little reading to get you started, I will be back with more…

            Sen. Grassley’s floor statement regarding the intimidation of scientists in drug-safety deliberations…https://www.finance.senate.gov/newsroom/ranking/release/?id=3a1d9e3e-6ea8-4200-a86f-8aadc9338f5e

            Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History

            Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history

            U.S. Pharmaceutical Company Merck Sharp & Dohme to Pay Nearly One Billion Dollars Over Promotion of Vioxx®

            Merck to Pay $950 Million for Illegal Marketing

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-pharmaceutical-company-merck-sharp-dohme-pay-nearly-one-billion-dollars-over-promotion

            GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data

            Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in U.S. History

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-and-pay-3-billion-resolve-fraud-allegations-and-failure-report

            Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations

            Allegations Include Off-label Marketing and Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/johnson-johnson-pay-more-22-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations

            Eli Lilly and Company Agrees to Pay $1.415 Billion to Resolve Allegations of Off-label Promotion of Zyprexa

            $515 Million Criminal Fine Is Largest Individual Corporate Criminal Fine in History; Civil Settlement up to $800 Million https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2009/January/09-civ-038.html

            Abbott Labs to Pay $1.5 Billion to Resolve Criminal & Civil Investigations of Off-label Promotion of Depakote

            Company Maintained Specialized Sales Force to Market Drug for Off Label Purposes; Targeted Elderly Dementia Patients in Nursing Homes

            https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/abbott-labs-pay-15-billion-resolve-criminal-civil-investigations-label-promotion-Depakote

          31. GSK alone, has been convicted multiple times in courtrooms around the world of multibillion dollar bribery scandals and found guilty of and otherwise engaged in other immense improprieties.When Chinese authorities began investing a nationwide multibillion dollar bribery racket run by GSK top executives, GSK formed teams to disrupt, bribe, and otherwise confront law enforcement authorities in an attempt to obstruct their investigation.

            GSK has been accused and convicted of doing likewise in both Europe and the United States, yet they are still in business – and these companies are in charge of producing the very vaccines that the pro-vaccine zeolots believe people should be forced to receive or persecuted for refusing. Why would any rational human being allow their children to receive anything produced by such corporations -corporations literally convicted of criminality, fraud, and bribery?

            The debate isn’t ultimately about the science of vaccines, but rather a lack of trust of those charged with producing, monitoring the safety of, and distributing vaccines. The false narrative of science versus conspiracy theorists is peddled by the media, the government, and the corporations that hold influence over both because a narrative focusing on the wisdom of entrusting criminals with our children’s health…is an open and shut case.

            GSK Statement of Apology to the People of China

            September 19, 2014 10:13 BST

            “Following a comprehensive investigation by the Chinese judicial authorities, GSK China Investment Co. Ltd (GSKCI) has been identified according to Chinese law to have offered money or property to non-government personnel in order to obtain improper commercial gains, and has been found guilty of bribing non-government personnel.

            GSK plc fully accepts the facts and evidence of the investigation, and the verdict of the Chinese judicial authorities. Furthermore, GSK plc sincerely apologises to the Chinese patients, doctors and hospitals, and to the Chinese Government and the Chinese people. GSK plc deeply regrets the damage caused. GSK plc also apologises for the harm caused to individuals who were illegally investigated by GSKCI.

            “GSK plc sincerely apologises to the Chinese patients, doctors and hospitals, and to the Chinese Government and the Chinese people.”

            – GSK

            The illegal activities of GSKCI are a clear breach of GSK plc’s governance and compliance procedures; and are wholly contrary to the values and standards we expect from our employees. It is deeply disappointing that these issues were not identified and addressed.

            GSK plc has reflected deeply and learned from its mistakes, has taken steps to comprehensively rectify the issues identified at the operations of GSKCI, and must work hard to regain the trust of the Chinese people.

            https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gsk-statement-apology-people-china-full-text-1466238

      1. Right. It does not change the debate. How about the fact that 1 person has died from the measles in the US over the past decade (not from Disney Land; but she was vaccinated) and 108 people have died due to adverse reactions from the MMR vaccine? Does that change the debate?

          1. Funny how you fail to respond in kind, when you forced vaxers chastise your opponents with the remark; ‘snopes, the cat lady’, JESTthefacts! 😉

          2. The article didn’t dispute the no of deaths from measles. One.
            It just brought up that VAERS isn’t proof of causality.
            Bfd.
            It admitted the VAERS reports.
            Death from MMR happens.

          3. Prove deaths form the MMR happen. Prove it.
            Then we will count them against the 100’s of millions of vaccinations and see the actual risk
            You lost before you began.

          4. Nope, I’ll leave your statement as a lie and unsupported
            Are you happy with that? You where the one trying to make a false point.

          5. The cat lady makes easy work of demolishing antivax tropes.

            It’s okay if you don’t have a substantive response to any of the facts she presents. It would actually be a surprise if you did.

        1. That is totally untrue.
          Measles deaths US:
          2005: 1
          2006-8: 0
          2009: 2
          2010: 2
          2011: 0
          2012: 2
          2013-14: 0
          2015: 1

          Deaths from SSPE (Happens 6-8 years after measles, develop progressive neurological symptoms, including memory loss,
          behavior changes, uncontrollable movements, and even seizures. As
          symptoms
          progress, they may become blind, develop stiff muscles, become unable
          to walk, and eventually deteriorate to a persistent vegetative state.

          2005: 2
          2006: 3
          2007: 3
          2008: 3
          2009: 2
          2010: 0
          2011: 4
          2012: 1
          2013: 1
          2014-15: 0

          https://pediatrics.about.com/od

          You are the one lying with false statistics.

          1. And what of these articles stating that 1 person has died of the measles over the past 10 years, and 108 from the MMR vaccines? Are these articles lies? Or is your info tainted?

            https://healthimpactnews.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/

            https://www.sott.net/article/292310-CDCs-own-data-shows-measles-vaccine-kills-more-people-than-measles

            Who’s statistics are false.
            “There are lies, damdable lies, and statics”.
            Mark Twain
            Government agencies whom stand to gain or lose billions in revenue are pretty good at cooking books. If the writer of these articles were involved in lies, do you not think a retraction would have already taken place?

          2. Health impact news is a quack source, about.com is not.

            And sott.net? Seriously? See this: https://www.quora.com/Is-sott-net-signs-of-the-times-a-scam-website-How-reliable-are-its-news-articles
            “sott.net is a site that is associated with the Quantum Future Group, the new religious movement created by Arkadiusz Jadczyk and Laura Knight Jadczyk.

            It’s not necessarily a scam, but it’s a highly unreliable source run by people who believe they talk to aliens.”

            You have to be kidding!

            There have not been 108 deaths from measles vaccine, in any collection of years. See this:
            https://www.newsweek.com/look-anti-vaxxers-monstrously-bad-measles-math-304078

          3. And you have the authority to tell others what cites are reliable, and which ones are not? Tell me, what enlightened intellect do you have that others do not? You have none. Bottom line is that you want to violate a persons human rights.

          4. Oh get off your soapbox. I will not accept any information from a cite from a group that thinks they talk to aliens. A little too wierd, even for me.

          5. You will not accept any info that goes against yo0ur cognitive dissonance. It matters not. What you, and all you other pro=vaccine tyrants want, is the violation of a basic human right. You can argue about this source or that source. You can cherry pick the statistics. You can lie because you are getting money from the largest corporations with the most influential tentacles into science, government and regulation this planet has ever known. You will lose. You will be tried for your crimes. Ignorance of the law regarding the violation of basic human rights is no excuse. Those found violating the Nuremburg codes were hung from the neck until dead. What should be the punishment for those that do it again? I tell you straight; I will be the one weaving and donating the rope, and I make strong rope. I, like millions of others, will not comply. No matter whatever draconian laws you pass, I will not comply. In fact, there are patriots, right now, taking down your names. Do not think that you are “invisible” on these forums. You will be identified and tried according to your roles in this. So help me GOD you will. For the future of my children (and yours you lovesome bugs) I will fight you people until there is no life left in me.

          6. healthimpactnews – a blog from a hippie living in the Philippines who has a degree in Bible Studies and all his sites are merely portals to the marketing of his magic coconut oil which he filters through his dirty socks and sells to loony alt-med marks.

            sott – a blog run by a woman who communicates with aliens from Cassiopeia through a Ouija board.

            Those are some real high quality science and medical sites you’ve got there. Can the credibility of the anti-vaccine cult sink much lower?

          7. Right. You are the one lying and ridiculing others. It does not matter. Whatever draconian laws you pass that violate a persons human rights will not be accepted, and those responsible for the passage of such measures will be tried for their crimes of human rights violations and convicted by a jury of their peers, if you are lucky. In reality, you totalitarian monsters will reduce what is left of our fragile civility to the breaking point and an angry mob of mothers with vaccine injured kids will pitch-fork you onto a 3 legged stool with a noose around your skinny neck.

          8. Fantasies of summary executions of those who disagree with you?

            Lurkers, behold the lunacy of the anti-vaccine cult.

          9. Lets. Come to my home holding a needle and try to inject me with a vaccine and see how that works out for you.

          10. Why on earth would I do that? All that is being asked of you is you homeschool (kids) or don’t work in daycare or schools (adults).

          11. Hitler: “All that is being asked of you Jews is that you register yourselves with the local brown shirt for the safety of the community”.
            Hitler: “All that is being asked of you is that you wear a star so that we can identify you, for the safety of the community”.
            Hitler: “All tha t s being asked of you is to go to the camps, for the safety of the community”.
            YOU are a violator of human rights. Your children will remember you as the monster that you are, and when this is all over I will see you tried and convicted for your violations.

          12. Jewishness is not contagious.

            And if you’re moaning about disabled children and would rather them die of easily preventable diseases, you should be very careful about flinging around Hitler accusations.

          13. Aparently totalitarianism is contagious, and you have it. Fear mongering turd. Newsflash: You will NEVER accomplish your goal of mandatory vaccines. There are too many vaccine injured kids out there, and too many parents that will end you the minute this goes hot.

          14. What do you mean? You clearly support mandatory vaccines. You even want to segregate unvaccinated kids from the populace like Jews in Nazi Germany. Embrace your totalitarianism and own your desire to violate inalienable human rights.

          15. Don’t be silly – I’m hardly advocating rounding them up and burning them or gassing them/

            And you can support a goal without it personally being your goal. And it’s separation – not all separation is segregation.

          16. This was the way the legislative coercion worked in California.
            First the bill to make parents have an indoctrination session with doctors.
            Then a bill to disallow children to attend school.

            It’s a strategic plan.
            Incremental fascism.

          17. There’s no faster way to destroy your credibility than to use a nonsense conspiracy site like “healthimpactnews” as a source.

            You’d be better off referencing a magic eight ball, because at least it doesn’t try to sell you crap after lying to you.

          1. He is totally lying, Brian posted that same lie two days ago and got the same information. Brian posted that same lie four days ago and got the same information. Brian posted that same lie 5 months ago and got the same information.
            .
            He never responds to the facts. He just repeats the same lie. He is a pathological liar.

      2. The statement in the editorial is correct. What Nicole has written is different. It’s a straw man.

        The author doesn’t say the death resulted from the Disneyland outbreak, only that it followed.

      3. It says “after Disneyland”, not “at Disneyland. The timing is correct. The death happened after the Disneyland outbreak.

    2. Nice catch. I didn’t read the garbage editorial all the way through. Just another example of sh*t vax industry propaganda and hysteria. There was no death in the Disneyland outbreak, and many of those that caught it were vaccinated, telling you the vaccine is not all that effective.

      1. The fact that you did full read the article before doing the many posts below is not surprising for a fanatical anti-vaxxer. You don’t care at all what the article said unless it fit your agenda.
        .
        This post of yours is also wrong since you didn’t go back to check it. The article says: “One death followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland earlier this year…….” . it happen “after” Disneyland, not “at” Disneyland. I would blame your comprehension skills but you already said you never read it to start with.
        .
        You just ran forward with conclusions with no basis for them . Anti-vaxxer lesson one.

        1. Its a template pro-vax article from the pro-vax PR machine. I have read many like it, they are all the same. The Death that “resulted” from it did not happen period. This is a lie. There was a dead woman autopsied in Washington state whose blood contained Measles anti-bodies (supposedly). That was used as evidence to claim that she died from the measles.

          I hope you are charging your Vax PR bosses for overtime because you have been working really hard pushing their propaganda garbage. I salute your work ethic.

          1. So you didn’t read it. Like I said……
            .
            The Disney outbreak was in December 2014
            The exposure to the woman was in April 2015
            The woman dies after the Disney outbreak
            .
            Anti-vaxxers never check their fast because facts to them are unimportant

          2. Thats another tactic of the vax PR machine, label any resistance to their hysteria and cover ups as “anti-vaxxer”. Just like “conspiracy theorist” this allows them to label-discredit arguments.

            You must get paid per word, and double per insult, and triple per label. I wish I could make money commenting on the internet like you.

    3. The line is:
      “One death followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland earlier this year

      …….”
      That doesn’t connect the death to Disneyland, it simply happened after the Disneyland outbreak. I can see that would confuse you during a fast read.

  62. As a mother of TWO vaccine injured children and a vaccine injured husband, I literally moved OUT of California due to their new bulls**t parental rights stripping law. Stay the way you are Colorado. I lived there for 12 years east of Colo. Springs and I appreciated your stance on vaccine freedoms. I don’t go into anyone else’s houses and tell them how to raise their children or what they are allowed to poison their children with (processed fast food, monster drinks, energy drinks, video games) – why should anyone be allowed to tell me what to do with mine?

    And don’t come at me with that bullsh**t herd immunity theory that has never been proven.

    There are ZERO safety studies in children under 2 years old.

    There are ZERO safety studies in pregnant women.

    There are ZERO safety studies regarding 6-9 vaccines in ONE visit.

    I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that it is MY choice what and how to medicate my child, not a village choice.

      1. Mary – a brand spanking new Discus account all of 10 minutes old and with a grand total of 1 anti-vaccine post.

        Gee, where have we seen that before?
        Can you say “sockpuppet”? I’m sure you can.

        1. We KNOW you can! You forced vaxers and ‘sockies’ are like ‘geico!’ ‘It’s what you do!’ Tee hee! I like saying that! 😉

        2. AND? Did it occur to your tired mind that I might not have the time to spend arguing with idiots like you on the net?

          Yes, my account is ten minutes old — so?

      1. Time for an afternoon snack. Feeling a tad peckish.

        Hmmm.. think maybe a bagel with cream cheese might fit the bill and not ruin supper.

        … …

        Waaaaiit a sec..

        Has bagels been tested for carinocogenicity or mutagenicity?

        1. Thankfully my children were not among the millions that die every year from vaccine preventable infections.

          1. Yes, vaccines do cause SIDS, in fact, I have a vaccine insert with SIDS and Autism listed as a side effect. AND millions of kids DO NOT DIE every year in the USA. The fact that you don’t know that much shows how ignorant you truly are. ONE child in the last decade has “died” from measles and the child was vaccinated and already sick.

          2. Well, let’s deconstruct this screed of malignantly stupid gibberish from the new antivax sockpuppet on the block, shall we?

            “Yes, vaccines do cause SIDS, in fact, I have a vaccine insert with SIDS
            and Autism listed as a side effect.”

            Err, no you don’t have any such thing.
            Firstly, I assume you mean you have a Tripedia insert. Why would you have one of those when the vaccine hasn’t been given for over 5 years? Nevermind…You think SIDS and autism are listed as “side effects”. You are wrong.
            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccine-package-inserts-debunking-myths/
            And I assume that if you think the vaccine insert says DTaP causes SIDS and autism, you must also think it causes death by motor vehicle accident and accidental drowning.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a517e8bf119e6d2f5896b46973974a9b8fd22a4784334b360125c12ae70233ff.jpg

            “AND millions of kids DO NOT DIE every year in the USA. The fact that you don’t know that much shows how ignorant you truly are. “
            May I remind you that Mary’s claim was a simple “thousands die every year from SIDS”, with no clue as to what population she referred to. If you think that SIDS is caused by vaccines can you explain why the incidence has plummeted since the 1980s, just as the vax schedule has been ramped up? One might even conclude (antivax logic) that vaccines prevent SIDS, given this chart for the US:
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0e1d06ea7b3b62738a5b2d1a750b5a9910660a07f4fe022b8378359dd8adbfd6.jpg

            I was of course referring to global deaths from diseases, but if you want to be picky and look at just USA deaths from infections BEFORE vaccines were brought in, be my guest and see here for how that numbered tens of thousands each year:
            https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiTuOq8gpnKAhXhjnIKHbUjCvIQFggtMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpubmed%2F18000199&usg=AFQjCNGznqsHYbD6jt2VgoiIqWsE8-7EXw

            “ONE child in the last decade has “died” from measles and the child was vaccinated and already sick.”
            Well, the death wasn’t in a child, but an adult, and the person wasn’t vaccinated. So much for displaying who is the “ignorant” one here….
            PS: Why do you think there has been only one death in the USA in recent years? The answer is Vaccines, bozo.

        1. Aw! How pseudo sweet of you to be concerned! No need to be for suz though!

          However, I certainly am free to warn others of the intimidation tactics of you forced vaxers!

          It’s up to them to decide how to proceed, grasshopper!

          1. Question: If you’re smarter than the entire global and scientific medical consensus, why do you need to point it out to them?

    1. So can you post the VAERS numbers for those injuriesHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAH sorry, just kidding. I know you are lying from a ten minute old disqus account.
      You are pathetic. Why do anti-vaxxers have to make up lies? Again, just kidding. Anti-vaxxers don’t have any valid arguments so they just have to make up horrible fake stories.
      You should be ashamed of yourself.

        1. You are a liar. That’s proven below.
          She is a 10 minute old liar sock puppet and she can make a fool out of me with one post.’
          That won’t happen.

        1. YOU ARE A LYING SOCK PUPPET MARY.
          .
          I am calling you personally out. Keep you book links and post the VAERS numbers for those injures or you are a lying sock puppet.
          .
          IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

    2. Thank you for sharing your story, even in the midst of all the antagonistic intimidation!

      You’re a true warrior to be saluted, and I’m sure there will be many more to follow you.

      My admiration to you for also taking the time to warn colorado.

      1. Thank you – I notice that most of us who are smart and informed enough to not vax don’t actually spend the same amount of time online as the trolls do – you know since we’re busy raising children and all!

    3. The bottom line is: The Legislature has the right to set public health standards.

      I could go through, point by point, but why bother? For the most part, what you do in your own home is your business. That right stops at the school house door.

          1. Compulsory is NOT mandatory! And that’s what ‘exemptions’ are for!
            Put your primer: 😉

      1. No Sir, my child has the “RIGHT” to a public education, that MY tax dollars also pay for.

        Do you discriminate against children with HIV? How about ones with wheelchairs? How about ones with such severe mental challenges that they line the restroom walls with their own feces?

        No?

        I didn’t think so – but in your arrogance you think YOU have the right to DENY my child an education based on YOUR irrational fear of measles. Nope.

        1. YOU ARE A LYING SOCK PUPPET MARY.
          .
          I am calling you personally out. Keep you book links and post the VAERS numbers for those injures or you are a lying sock puppet.
          .
          IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

        2. “my child has the ‘RIGHT’ to a public education”

          That was an objection to doing away with personal belief exemptions in California, however, their Constitution is different from ours and even there the argument failed.

          Public education can provided through online schools for parents who choose not to comply with vaccination requirements.

          1. And that is why people like myself MOVED out of California.

            Stay strong and open Colorado. Stay just the way you are!

            Colorado ROCKS — despite the braindead dudes like Watson.

          2. There is always another choice, why should people be forced to inject their kids with poison based on your fear of measles? Or move from their homes over your fear? Why should what YOU want trump what a mother knows is best for HER child? Will you allow me to shoot your child to save mine? That is literally what you are supporting. Many children have already been injured by vaccines – look into Gardasil injuries – and yet you get on here like you can decide what is best for OTHER people’s children. SMH.

    4. Pay no attention to the pharma bullies! You’re to be commended for having the moxie to share your story, alert other parents, and for the chinks in the armor you’ve endured, simply to keep informed medical CONSENT integrated into the freedoms of this great country!

      Cue the star spangled banner! 😉

      1. Thank you – I used to argue with idiots quite a bit more than I do now, but the fact is that it is up to a parent on how to medicate their children, not some braindead internet troll who doesn’t know how to look up injury numbers via VAERS.

        1. While suz may not put much stock into bureaucratic pomp and circumstance, I’m ‘d@mn skippy’ on the rest of your comment, Mary! 😉

        2. Look up the vaccine injury number of my VAERS report but I won’t give the number because it’s personal information!

          Really?

          1. I never said that, learn to read. What I said was I wasn’t going to post such personal info and that they can look up injuries (not specific to my children) via VAERS, which lists millions of children since its inception.

    5. You do not have 2 children and a husband with vaccine injuries.
      See, I can do it too. I can make claims with absolutely no evidence and it is just as true as your claims.

      “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens

      1. Well we all KNOW that you Iie, Realty. We just take all your posts with a grain of salt, like that of most forced vaxers!

        That doesn’t mean that everyone on the internet is a Iiar like yall!

      2. What a tool. Yes, sir, I do. As to many mothers and fathers. Thankfully my children did not die of vaccine induced SIDS.

        1. YOU ARE A LYING SOCK PUPPET MARY.
          .
          I am calling you personally out. Keep you book links and post the VAERS numbers for those injures or you are a lying sock puppet.
          .
          IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

          1. Calling me personally out – how arrogant, as if I answer to the likes of you.

            Sadly, most to all doctors don’t recognize vaccine injuries and do not report them. AND if you wait too long you don’t have the type of information years later to make that report.

            Nor can you file a claim with the Vaccine Injury Compensation program, which only allows claims in the first three years of the onset of symptoms.

            It’s cool – keep on making an @ss out of yourself and I’ll keep on informing the lurkers how unneeded vaccines truly are.

            BTW, they also contain animal DNA (monkey, dog, chicken, etc) and the cells of aborted fetuses and not just “old lines” but recent aborted fetus cells – they “buy” these fetuses to “test out new lines” for vaccines.

            So if you are a Christian and you are pro-life, you should REALLY do your homework on it!

          2. Sadly people like Watson are this braindead and have NO idea the ingredients in vaccines, yet they scream at the top of their lungs for people to vaccinate.

          3. No, we know what’s in them. Formladeyhde used to ‘murder’ the vaccines in much lower amounts than is in a newborn. Au salts to boost the immune response, preservatives, carrier solution, sodium chloride suspended in hydroxic acid.

            Just not scared of chemicals is all. It is a shame that people refuse to be rational.

          4. Yeah, that’s not all that’s in them – how about the aborted fetal cells? How about the animal DNA? How about the aluminum, which has never been tested for safety when combined with other chemicals in vaccines.

            You THINK you know, you have nothing more than talking points from a PR campaign looking for your money via the billion dollar a year industry of vaccines.

          5. What’s the dosage at which those become poisonous and how does it compare to what’s in vaccines? Hint: There’s more formaldehyde in a goddamn pear.

            MSG – you’d better avoid Chinese food then.

            Just because I don’t provide an exhaustive list doesn’t mean I don’t know it.

            Alu I would have thought would have been obvious to you without needing me to spell it out – it’s the third most common element after all and the most common metal element.

            And no animal/fetal is what they’re grown in.

            A 2-mo is already producing their own formaldehyde and is exposed to more alu in mother’s milk.

          6. I know learning is hard for some, try to detox that pickled brain and then come back to it. I don’t recall where I got it, but try to debate the facts, not the messenger.

            Every ingredient listed above is a fact, not a guess.

          7. Yes but all of it mentions toxic chemicals without mentioning the dose at which it becomes toxic – either they’re clueless or trying to scare me. Either way, not taking advice from them.

            As for the viruses/bacteria…that’s the entire point.

          8. Everything is toxic to a freaking 2 month old and at the doctor’s “well visit” they give SIX to NINE vaccines in ONE visit – are you even a mom, have you even gone through this yet? NINE vaccines in ONE visit would be toxic to a full grown man, but it’s just the American way now…………. and this graphic is from a few MONTHS – not YEARS or decades — but months worth of info.

            EDUCATE before you VACCINATE parents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          9. Yes, settlements – that is not proof of causation – it’s the legal way of saying “Oh my, I’m so sorry that this happened to you – let me pay you immediately, regardless of whether it’s my fault or not.”

            How does this compare to disease injuries? How does it compare to the total number of vaccines given?

          10. Not to mention that we’ve had this discussion with them – compounds aren’t elements.

            I mean, I’m pretty sure there’s Hydroxic Acid in there too but I’m not worried.

          11. He’s a witless parrot who has no original thoughts of his own, is too incompetent to exchange in communicative argument, so he plays these immature games with his opponents while plagiarizing everything else on the internet, in his sad attempts of compensation!

          12. “Doctors don’t recognize” or is it “Doctors don’t agree with you”?

            And not a single doctor (or anyone else) agrees with you about a vaccine reaction. In fact, you didn’t decide it was a reaction in you irrational mind until ten year later when you decided to go all anti vaxx tin foil hat.

            So looking back, It was vaccines!!!!!

        2. No, sir, you don’t. If you did you would be trumpeting their clinical cases and diagnoses to aid your anti-vaccine cause. That you can’t speaks volumes. Liar.

          “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens

          1. Another parrot! You keep repeating yourself AND christopher hitchens!

            How dare you call new posters trying to share in internet debate, Iiars!

            How could you possibly know every posters m.o.! How foolish!

            As foolish as thinking that all who suffer vax injuries seek MONETARY compensation!

            Many are aware of the pitfalls and injustice of the ‘FLAWED law FACADE’ of the nvicp!

            Also, many don’t care about money, but rather seek only assistance with medical needs. Many others still, simply want to warn other parents of the disasters involved in severe vax injuries!

            You ‘forced vaxers’ are scum! I ‘call you out as Iiar’, Reality!

          2. What a tool – I’ve already stated I’m the MOTHER – and I am listed as Mary — so is that meant to actually insult me by calling me Sir, or do you just have a fluid identity issue and think everyone else does too?

            My first child – 21 YEARS ago – almost died in the ER from a vaccine reaction.

            My second child 15 YEARS ago – got JRA and low level autism.

            My military husband lost all hearing in left ear and has constant and debilitating tinnitus due to the Hep B series, of which the military actually waived the third shot in the series – almost unheard of. All documented.

            Every “injury” is listed as a possible “side effect” on the vaccine inserts.

            BTW, do you know what a vaccine insert actually is?

            I’ll post a photo for you since I doubt if you’ve ever seen one.

          3. Nah! Don’t Mary! Be safe on the internet. You don’t yet know what these bozos are capable of in terms of ridiculing medical and personal history.

            Never off anything more personal than you feel comfortable sharing; as so often, they’ll maliciously spread it through the internet!.

            You owe them nothing!

          4. Quite at odds with your constant demands for me to post details of all my personal information here.

          5. Wrong! Only details pertaining to your lies regarding your occupation; which in your case, just happens to be a physician!

            Mary’s not touting titles to influence the reader pov, like you, Mikey!

          6. So all you want is proof of my qualifications, and not my personal details and place of work?

          7. Nope! Not what I said! Details to validate your occupation [not qualification] since you often use such alleged title to advance your pov!

          8. The above is all unevidenced fairy tales by the anti-vaccine sockpuppet Mary.
            That he won’t provide any evidence for his claims, merely creating a fictional story by an anonymous author, is quite telling.

            Let’s see some documentation for your claims, Mary. Put up or shut up, liar.

          9. Readers will note:
            Asking for evidence from the lying anti-vaccine cultists is seen by them as “intimidation” and bullying.

            They live in an alternate universe.

          10. Are you omnipotent too, like Dorit; magically all-knowing of what’s good and bad/ right and wrong for all in this universe! Har d har!

          11. So you have plenty of evidence and know you’re right and you feel threatened by being asked to back it up.

            I would advise you not to fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming you are persecuted whenever you are contradicted.

          12. Huh! Is there an annoying yet insignificant bug in the room!

            Coining a preeminent phrase from Autismo, regarding your immature antics; ‘thanks for playing! You’ve been brilliant!’ 😉

          13. Evidence that you’re a little, insignificant and immature bug, too green to post on the big people’s blog!

            Everything you’ve posted since you crawled on here is evidence of that, grasshopper!

            But hey! And I do so enjoy Autismo’s reply to you! ‘You’ve been brilliant!’ Har d har! 😉

          14. Again, either you can’t understand what you read or you have some other ailment going on!

            You aren’t making sense! Show where I talked about anyone being paid! You can’t ’cause I haven’t!

            Now since you missed your nap today, grasshopper, mommy says it’s time for bed! Perhaps you’ll grasp things better in the morning!

          15. Yeah! So! And who did I call a shill, you clueless, confused and laughable little bug?

            p.s. it wasn’t MY strike out, you moron!

          16. Your impairment troubles are worse than you may know! You are truly confused and have made numerous allegations that I’ve written things that I have NOT!

            Surprise, surprise, grasshopper! You may want to have that checked!

          17. Suz, that little flag button is how you report people. Go ahead and report me if you feel I’ve made a threat and we’ll let the mods decide.

          18. Don’t flatter yourself, grasshopper! Again your comprehension fails you since you seem to infer that I’m intimidated by YOU, darlin’!

            Note the name of the poster I responded to as I alert the mods. Does it say Realty or Sia?

            There ya go! Good job grasshopper!

            You’re an insignificant bug simply meeting the grill on my bumper! 😉

          19. Wrong. I told you I would do more than internet comments if I intended on doing something.

            You said that almost sounded like a threat and intimidation. If it’s so close, report me and let the mods decide.

          20. Wrong!

            Realty to Mary:
            “Let’s see some documentation for your claims, Mary. Put up or shut up, liar.”

            suz norkan Reality022 • 2 days ago

            Or what! Mods, this sounds like intimidation and threat to me!

            You look more foolish with each comment you post. You’ve got some severe comprehension issues, grasshopper! Don’t be embarrassed! Just work on them, stay in school and don’t be so arrogant. 😉

          21. Tell you what – why don’t you finangle a meeting for me with the Colorado Representatives and I’ll be happy to give them an in-depth, logical power point presentation on the dangers and deaths of vaccines.

            Then you might actually be useful.

          22. Tell you what – why don’t you provide evidence that you have 2 children and a husband who are ‘vaccine damaged’?
            You know, like statements from the diagnosing doctor indicating the cause of the problem was a vaccine. The name of the diagnosing doctor?

            Or is this all “anti-vaccine mommy diagnosed at home”. Mommy being a high school dropout who failed every science and maths class she ever took.

          23. Why don’t you post the divorce papers from your wife because you gave her herpes when you let that sailor go down on you?

          24. Readers will note that after all this time “Mary” has yet to provide one iota of evidence or documentation for her pack of lies. He merely deflects and tries to change the subject… almost as if he didn’t have a leg to stand on.

            Done with the lying anti-vaccine cultist troll.

          25. She has no need and owes Iiars like you nothing.

            It also goes against all rules of internet safety AND common sense! Ooooo! Common sense! 😉

          26. https://www.immunize.org/packageinserts/

            For the lurkers with brains – why on earth would I put personal information on a comment section under a random article? To prove what? You can go to VAERS and verify that vaccines damage and kill everyday. You can read the side effects on the vaccines themselves and if you don’t know where to find one -and most doctors don’t even know they exist – just google vaccine insert and the one you want, such as MMR and then read it. It’s that simple. Website posted above.

            As well, why would I answer to a nameless faceless tool more than I already have? I wouldn’t and I won’t.

            Vaccine injuries happen daily – the ones opting out of vaccines are often educated and wealthy and they have either already injured one child or know someone personally who has (such as my friends).

          27. What a tool – this is Mary, for some reason it has changed my name, must be an old account I made to deal with TOOLS like you.

            I’ve already proven you wrong. I’ve told my story for the young mothers and fathers out there reading this that they know that vaccine injuries are real and can be deadly and to stand strong. I’m writing this for any representatives out there reading it. YOU matter not, dear tool.
            Vaccines were not even introduced until WELL after the diseases were in major decline. Vaccines DID not save the world, nor are they. FOllow the money.

          28. Well, gotta give you points for using the incidence graph, for once. Even if your claim that cases were down prior to the vaccine’s introduction is directly, totally, completely smashed to smithereens by the data in the the graph. It shows pre-vaccine cases in epidemic cycles, followed by 99% reduction in cases with the advent of the first vaccines, then a little hiccup in the late 80’s/early 90s that brought about the 2nd dose recommendation, after which, cases bottom out near zero.

            What was your point again?

          29. some shills have access to the moderation boards on disqus and can see your IP address and your email. They like to dig up stuff about people and post their personal information online in an attempt to intimidate.

          30. Well shlt. Just spit my drink out.

            Your problem is some people are a helluva lot better at it than you.

            Take this guy.

            “You don’t even use your entire name, and you don’t even use your real picture…unless we are all expected to believe that ‘H. Cathy McLaughlin MD Diplomate, American Board of Urology’ is in her mid-20’s.” — David Foster

            And I was like, wow. How did he find out?

          31. ‘Moderation boards’?

            What the what?

            … …

            You can’t even get the terminology correct in your delusional posts/comments/lies, Ione Murphy.

          32. Oh, you mean like this one that LISTS SIDS and Autism? Of course that was wayyyyyyyyy too honest, so that “version” has been “changed.”

          33. You didn’t read it yourself you anti-vaxx dupe. You just took the word of an anti vaxx site.
            .
            The word “autism” is not in the insert.
            .
            As for SIDS, it states:
            .
            “By chance alone, some cases of SIDS can be expected to follow receipt of whole-cell pertussis DTP35 or DTaP vaccines.” Page 11, line 5
            .
            You Moron, it specifically says that SIDS occurs only by chance and is not related to the vaccine.
            .
            Are you stupid or a liar?
            .
            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM101580.pdf

          34. Literally, I even posted a photo for you with the words highlighted. Are you stupid?

            The particular vaccine insert I posted is an insert from a discontinued vaccine, also what I said – after all, you can’t have the truth on a vaccine insert, people like you might catch a clue.

          35. And I gave you the actual link to the actual insert. You didn’t look at it.
            .
            Did you miss this part?
            “Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.2” Page 11.
            .
            YOU ARE POSTING LIES IN MODIFIED IMAGES>

          36. It matters when you take tragedy and turn it into lies which makes you the lowest of the low type of monster.
            .
            And you are tying to kill more children. 145,700 people dies worldwide from the measles you monster.
            .
            Baby Nickson was born premature and died of SIDS but you think it has to be vaccines against all doctors knowledge.
            .
            You are a horrible person.

          37. Yeah, I’m a horrible person, you betcha

            Why don’t you worry about the worst infant mortality in wealthy nations — which is the good old USA

            Global Diarrhea Problem:: Here is a graph for you – if the children had better food, water and shelter worldwide they would not be dying, period. And it looks to me like measles is just a small portion of their problems

          38. Blather, regurgitate.. repeat ad nauseam.

            The anti-vax troll instructions for ‘discussions’.

            … …

            Worthy of flagging, though.

            For the less than sophomoric attempt at loosely stringing words together to form an insult, that it is.

          39. I bet a parent could show you the death certificate of their child who died from a vaccine reaction, and you would claim it was doctored. You are a real piece of work.

          40. Mary: “Why don’t you post the divorce papers from your wife because you gave her herpes when you let that sailor go down on you?”

            I bet you read your children “Fifty Shades of Grey” as their bedtime story.

            The pop-up book version was quite good I heard.

          41. Good Lord, wrong AGAIN — yes, there was Mercury in the shots and it is still in the flu shot and it’s still in flu shots and it is still in the “creation” of vaccines and is not listed due to being considered “trace amounts” – ya’ll should educate yourselves before trying to argue something you clearly do not understand.

            Keep shooting up – you’ll cull your DNA from the gene pool.

            Educate yourself >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqiy8DhyH0

          42. It thinks compounds are elements. That’s an 8th grade mistake.

            But if we’re using youtube videos as proof now:

          43. Again, no. There was never mercury in the flu shots – any more than there’s ever been a hydrogen bomb in water or chlorine in your butter.

            Again. 9th. Grade. Chemistry.

          44. In case lurkers are wondering, a google search for symptoms of mercury poisoning comes up with quite a different list, including some (loss of hair, for example) that are conspicuous and not associated with autism.

          45. You are a crazy person, Mary. There are only 5 vaccines n in the U.S with any
            mercury in them. at all.

            fda(dot)gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228

            Laws in 2004 and 2006 outlawed all but trace amounts of mercury in all California
            vaccines. Let’s look at the results:

            1970s = children received 25 mcg of thimerosal= Low autism

            2015 = children received only traces of thimerosal = High autism.

            Tell me, how is it that 25X+ more thimerosal in in the 1970s means low autism but “trace amounts” in 2015 means high autism? We are all ready to hear this explanation.

          46. I never said mercury is the only reason for autism, did I? Chemical poisoning is autism, toxic overload is autism. Look over the vaccines that USED to be done and what are done now.

          47. LIAR — LYING LIAR!!
            You post specifically had a picture blaming mercury, you idiot !
            You new picture Proves I’m right.

          48. Viruses are believed to be a cause also..

            SV40 – a polyomarvirus- showing up in brains of those with autism who died

            Association of autism with polyomavirus infection in postmortem brains

            . Our initial step was thus to assess by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequence analysis the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2), human herpes virus 6 (HHV6), BK virus (BKV), JC virus (JCV), and simian virus 40 (SV40) in genomic DNA extracted from postmortem temporocortical tissue (Brodmann areas 41/42) belonging to 15 autistic patients and 13 controls. BKV, JCV, and SV40 combined are significantly more frequent among autistic patients compared to controls (67% versus 23%, respectively; P < .05). Also polyviral infections tend to occur more frequently in the brains of autistic patients"

            Read More: https://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13550281003685839

          49. Something you’ll never see at Natural News

            “Taken together, some dozen studies have now shown that the age of onset of ASD does not differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated children, the severity or course of ASD does not differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated children, and now the risk of ASD recurrence in families does not differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated children.”

            https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2275426

          50. Try to be emotionally mature and debate the INFORMATION provided, not the source. And you sound SO much like the other trolls – you really must work on your voice being different for different names.

            Debate that there are minimal to NO unvaccinated autistic kids. That’s the point.

          51. Pretty much narrows it down since you too are referring to me as a “guy.”

            Nice slip of the tongue.

          52. It’s a Colorado thing! “You guys” is unisex. Just like “Jagoff” is in Pittsburgh, which you are as well.

          53. A MILLION VACCINATED KIDS…………….. this is PR BS, plain and simple.

            Unvaccinated kids do not have autism. I am quite sure an exception exists somewhere.

            There are ZERO studies on 6-9 vaccines at one well baby visit, ZERO.

            ZERO safety studies in pregnant women or children under the age of 2, yet that’s who they push vaccines on the most. You want to shoot up your kids – go for it – but don’t take away an educated parent’s right to NOT vaccinate theirs.

          54. First off, there’s never mercury in a flu shot, ever – again, compounds aren’t elements. This is basic chemistry – a 9th grader is expected to know better.

            Second, everything is toxic. It’s a mater of dosage.

            Third, of course the limits in water are lower levels – this is for chronic exposure. You don’t consume flu shots every day by the gallon.

            Fourth, the point is to avoid live viruses, attenuated or otherwise so there’s an easy way out of that one if you’re still scared.

          55. “unvaccinated kids do not have autism” – I’m sorry this is just wrong.

            Halsey N A., et al. Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Report From the New Challenges in Childhood Immunizations Conference Convened in Oak Brook, Illinois, June 12-13, 2000. Pediatrics 2001; 107: 84.

            Farrington P., et al. MMR and autism: Further evidence against a causal association. Vaccine 2001; 19:3632-5.

            And wrong, there are safety studies on pregnant women and those under 2.

            And you don’t compare chronic exposures to acute exposures.

          56. Like I said, there will always be exceptions to the rule, by and large Amish and unvaccinated kids do NOT have autism, period.

          57. That’s a lie. It has been shown over and over again that the Amish and unvaccinated kids have the same autism rate as everyone else. Your info in 15 years old.

          58. No dear, it’s not a lie, go to an actual Amish community and check into it for yourself, but go to one that actually adheres to the Amish principles, such as not vaccinating.

            How about the dead babies – are they important?

          59. I can post plenty of evidence that lots of those here commenting and upvoting each other are really just one person, who happens to also own many adult only websites….care to check it out?

          60. Forced vaxers and their incessant disparagement of those individuals suffering medical conditions that may severely effect behavior!

            Will you arrogant and immature fools ever learn!

          61. I would have to check your ID to make sure you were over 21, so I wouldn’t be in trouble for showing smut to a minor.

          62. But you think you know everything about them! You’re always quoting them, and yet you’ve never seen one! Too funny!

          63. me neither, never had more than cursory info either. mind you, here in ireland we often don’t get inserts with other drugs either.
            i have to go online for that.

          64. I suppose.. next you are going to tell us that this is you holding up an insert, ‘Mary’?

            Speaking of inserts..

            Argument by Vaccine Package Inserts – debunking myths

            What’s covered:

            i) What is a Package Insert?
            ii) How is a Package Insert written?
            iii) What does a Package Insert actually say?
            iv) But what can we learn from a package insert?

            TL;DR:

            “The Adverse Reactions section, taken by itself, is the pseudoscientific way of reviewing the data. Here’s what is important:

            The chance of death from these vaccine preventable diseases is 1000X higher than the possibility of known adverse events that are caused by vaccines. And these adverse events do not cause death (despite the myths of the antivaccine crowd).”

            “Vaccines save lives, and we have evidence that supports it. And package inserts do not dispute those facts.”

          65. And the teacher gave you an “incomplete” for lack of research credentials of the sources you cite.

          66. Like I said – DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK – it’s the only way to make thick headed trolls understand. Or you can end up the parent of a vaccine injured child yourself but sadly you probably would just blame it on something else.

          67. Your post doesn’t even make sense. And no that joke of an “article” is not a vaccine insert. Inserts for medications like Vioxx (FDA approved killer) are given with the medication – the same with vaccines. Which is why I listed the site where you can find the inserts and their side effects and warnings, JUST like any other medication.

          68. Huh.

            So.. you’re like.. 40 to 50 years old?

            Would never have guessed.

            Your posts/comments don’t look a day over 8.

          69. No, it’s listed as an adverse event – if you don’t know the difference between an adverse event and a side effect – you’re not informed.

            That’s why there’s different sections for side effects.

          70. And not a single doctor (or anyone else) agrees with you about a vaccine reaction. In fact, you didn’t decide it was a reaction in you irrational mind until ten year later when you decided to go all anti vaxx tin foil hat.
            So looking back, It was vaccines!!!!!

          71. Again, your ignorance is showing through – there are many doctors that understand the damage.

            Ask yourself why there is a Vaccine Adverse Event reporting system if there are never any damages. Ask yourself why the taxpayers are paying billions to parent of vaccine injured (or dead) children via the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program if there are never any injuries?

          1. You are right, it is not a joke, it’s devastating to almost kill your child with a vaccine due to believing in the fear.

          2. “Adverse events reported”

            That’s not a causal determination. Did you read all the way to the end of the paragraph? Autism is also reported after beginning toilet training and if potty seats had package inserts it would have to say the same thing.

    6. If there’s one kind of anti-vaxxer that really infuriates me due to that person’s utter hypocrisy and shamelessness — namely, *your* hypocrisy — it’s these poor weeping Internet mommies telling horror stories about “My poor innocent child was injured by vaccines.” The sad part is they, meaning you, never offer any klnd of proof or verification or evidence to demonstyrate you aren’t outright LYING to us. All we ever get is “HJow dare you! Waaaah!! Think of the children!” And more crocodile tears, usually with a statement about “I’m so offended because this is the TRUTH! It’s TRUTH because I wrote the word TRUTH in capital letters!”

      1. And we all know the anti-vaccine cultists are paradigms of virtue and honesty and would never lie…
        Right?

        (Oh, that little bit about them making death threats to high profile pro-science, pro-vaccine advocates and constantly getting caught lying and spreading disinformation? All lies by the “pHARMA Shills!!!11!!!!)

    7. Mary, are you aware that “gravity” is a theory that has never been proven? But we see its effects. Similarly, we see herd immunity. It’s the explanation for why, pre-vaccine, catch-once diseases came in epidemic cycles: the susceptible cohort had to be replenished with babies.

      I’d say it’s much more likely that your husband has some inherited issue that has been passed on to your children, and it isn’t vaccines. Just, it is much more comfortable to blame an outside agent.

      1. This is Mary, and I believe that YOU don’t know my husband’s medical history and it’s documented by the military and a part of his compensable military disability so I don’t have to “blame” – it’s a fact. As well as the injuries to my two children.

        Herd immunity is a falsehood, research it and find a study that proves it, it was also based on NATURAL immunity not vaccinated immunity. Which I’m sure you know right?

        1. The very meaning of the word “immunity” means that vaccinated immunity works just as well as natural immunity. We reduced measles 99.99% by vaccinating 95% of the population. That extra 4.99% comes from herd immunity. If that argument isn’t good enough, tell me what a sufficient “proof” of herd immunity would look like, and I’ll see what I can find.

          Does the military agree that your husband’s hearing loss is vaccine caused? Have any traditional MDs ever said that about your children’s issues?

      1. These studies are for a SINGLE vaccine, not a combination vaccine and most to all vaccine inserts SAY “not tested on pregnant women or children under two” — go read an actual INSERT to the actual product.

        AND show me a study where a pregnant woman or a child gets NINE vaccines in ONE 2 month old visit.

        1. Oh look, plainsdealer can’t even concede the point that they exist. The package insert refers to what the manufacturers have tested.

          Oh – and DTAP is 3, Pnuemmocal is 13 so 3+13 = 16. 16>9.

          1. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, caught by semantics, yes DTAP is three in one – even more dangerous – and IT is given with up to SIX other vaccines to a 2 month old – barely 10 pound baby and you don’t see how that is a problem.

            Carry on and shoot up.

          2. We can protect children from MORE DISEASES. Oooh…the scary scary boogeyman.

            With less antigen load too.

            This is like complaining about cars because they used to have 2 airbags when you’re a kid (in terms of logic only) and now they have six.

            We can protect kids against more diseases and this is scary to you?

          3. You are nothing but tin foil hat lies.

            Ja’Liyah Cortize Turner, after she passed away in her sleep

            from SIDS. Ja’Liyah’s autopsy report did not mention the vaccines.
            Vaccines prevent SIDS.
            Plainsdealer is a lying fanatic.

          4. Again:

            1)vaccines are associated with a halved risk of SIDs
            2)vaccines can’t then be the cause of SIDs
            3)A baby that died of SIDs after vaccine is not vaccine injury obviously
            4)Parents who think this is nothing more than Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.

          5. I really like the one you posted where the father is charged with murder. You support child abusers.

            “jakob wright Richardson” dies from SIDS. The Autopsy showed no effect from the vaccines.
            Posts all the SIDS victims you want. It just shows how many SIDS victim parents are victimized by anti-vaxxers and told lies that makes them feel responsible for something that isn’t heir fault.

      2. Read your diatribe, godlessmom link.
        It describes you to a tee, Sia.

        The study you mention in number 2 was a comparison of those who recevived prior dtaps to other dtap groups.
        Not a basic safety study.

        The third is a study of of 2 vaxxes given together, as opposed to one. 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Given With DTaP Vaccine as against only DTaP.
        Again, not a basic safety study.

        Sia, you’re ******debunked********.

  63. Stay strong Colorado – DO NOT turn into California.

    Do NOT buy into the fear – vaccines kill – daily.

    1. There are a few missing. Fractured skulls, broken ribs, shaken baby syndrome. I learned from the yutz that runs VacTruth that child abuse is a vaccine injury too. Can you ask him to squeeze those into your graphic?

      1. Ask an already overburdened cya caseworker if she thinks negating vax constitutes abuse when there are children chained to the basement heater without food and found dead, or sold into sexual slavery, or a distraught mother is about to drive a car with 3 young children inside, into the atlantic ocean!

        Your use of ‘child abuse’ here, for your own narcissistic ‘ad homming,’ is itself ‘abusive’ immature and deplorable!

        No matter how much Dorit whines about it, non vax is NOT child abuse, people, and NO agency will investigate such reports unless there are other issues disclosed.

        What a big fail, Watson!

        1. That whooshing sound you hear? That’s the point you missed, sailing right over your head. Again.

          The point was that death from Shaken Baby Syndrome is being defended by some, including VacLies, as a “vaccine injury,” when it clearly is child abuse. That’s disgusting.

      2. I agree, there are some missing, but one can’t fit everything into something that tools will understand 😉

      3. Not only that, vaccines also killed the dinosaurs, turned Hitler into a madman, caused the Challenger space shuttle explosion, and caused Mt. Saint Helens to erupt in 1980. Of course, I’m not going to bother offering any references or proof for these claims. I wrote words on the Internet, therefore they are true.

        1. You joke, but the Mt. Saint Helens eruption was eerily coincidental.

          The antivax conspiracy nuts see associations no one else can.

        1. Gazillionth time posting YOUR crap. Flagged and downvoted as well!

          Hopefully disqus will soon implement yet another obIiteration for your incessant discussion disrupting trolling and large, frivolous spams and lay the 2nd leg of parrot Pro to rest in a complete powerwash!

          Aw! We know, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! The truth hurts! 🙁

          1. Well Borings sure thinks such stats matter. But you’re right! I think I was carried away in the ‘flagging’ fray! 😉

          2. You’re right – downvotes don’t actually have any merit. All they mean is someone downvoted it.

            1+1 = 2, 1+2 =/= 3 and this will remain true no matter how many people downvote this.

  64. Brandy Vaughan is a former sales rep for Merck & Co. – a vaccine maker – and she details how vaccine companies are using vaccines as a vehicle for massive profit and not public health. Brandy researched the safety of vaccines and found that not only do vaccines contain known toxins that can cause neurological damage, but that vaccine makers do not create the same safety studies for vaccines as they do for other drugs. This lack of true safety research of vaccines combined with the known adverse reactions to vaccination has helped Brandy to decide to never vaccinate her own child. Brandy says giving children a vaccine is like playing Russian roulette with our children and that mandatory vaccination is simply a way for vaccine makers to profit off of our children. Don’t be fooled: we do not need mandatory vaccination. Source Gary

    1. Brandy Vaughan and others have asked Senator Pan, who introduced the California sb277, for debate.
      He is not capable of defending the bill he sold for industry lobbyist Jodi Hicks.

      1. Richard Pan doesn’t need to defend SB277. It was signed into law 6 months ago, in another state.

          1. Tell us where to dump the garbage trucks, grasshopper! I DO hope you’re close enough to enjoy it!

            Grow up naive little bug!

          2. Sorry! This little box ain’t big enough for all the corrupt garbage I could dump on you, grasshopper!

            What address shall I send to caravan of trash trucks to!

          3. Nah! It’s just that this type of garbage is such that the likes of you should see, feel and smell up close and personal, little bug! 😉

            Unfortunately, you’re so green you’d NEVER understand the implications, grasshopper!

          4. Poof’s all they’ve got. As in, “Poof!” and it evaporates.

            I think we mean “proof,” which I’d like to see, too.

            😉

          5. I think you’re right.

            But they’ll have proof of all the Big Pharma poof along for the ride too, I’m sure.

          6. scuz norkan: “What address shall I send to caravan of trash trucks to!”

            Trollalota non grata got straight As in grammar, doncha know.

          7. I DID! Thanks! And the grammar is perfect except for the exclamation mark which I purposefully used to make a point, rather than having the little bug try to answer a rhetorical question!

            You’re more dense than I ever thought you were, parrot Pro! Har d har! YOU ridiculing MY grammar! 😉

    2. Brandy Vaughan could be a salesperson for ISIS or the head of Age of Autism or even Dr. Joseph Mercola. None of that changes the scientific fact that vaccines save lives, and that Colorado needs an improved vaccination rate.

          1. And we have a National Childhood Vaccine ……INJURY……Act.
            Standard $250, 000 death awards.
            Next…

          2. You obviously don’t even know what kind of a site it is, just like you’d never seen a package insert!

          3. Of course not, because you anti-vaxxers are too cowardly to actually *read the Web page.* All we’ll see is you reading perhaps one sentence, then dismissing it as propaganda.

          4. Feel free to delete it, E.W..

            Just off to the right of your own post.. under the v (‘Delete’).. beside ‘Collapse’ ().

          5. Shill gambit. Fail. Don’t be an idiot. Provide some adult-type evidence to support your bogus and anecdotal claims. Or better yet, just stfu already. This is so boring.

          6. The blurb for Allison Hagood’s book on Amazon nails it

            “Parents can easily be bombarded by conflicting messages about vaccines a dozen times each week. One side argues that vaccines are a necessary public health measure that protects children against dangerous and potentially deadly diseases. The other side vociferously maintains that vaccines are nothing more than a sop to pharmaceutical companies, and that the diseases they allegedly help prevent are nothing more than minor annoyances. An ordinary parent may have no idea where to turn to find accurate information…”

            Thanks for the link, E.W. That was a good artilce =)

          7. 1 claim per million vaccine shots.
            That’s proof vaccines are among the safest medical interventions ever developed.

          8. Did you know that sometimes seat belts cause injuries? Child car seats? The most elementary cost-benefit analysis shows that the vaccines we use are a net plus. We stopped the smallpox vaccine when the risks outweighed the benefits.

            I have asked probably five times, and no antivaxer has yet dared estimate the financial losses from vaccine-preventable diseases, to compare them to the payouts from the vaccine injury program. Do you suppose that is because the losses from disease would be 10x? 100x?

          9. So, you aren’t really complaining about the existence of injuries, it’s about the squick factor of shots, which doesn’t apply to car seats. Luckily, you aren’t in charge of public health.

          10. Lucky for us that neither are you, or we’d be having hackneyed hokum for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

          11. *yawn*

            All of your points have been addressed ad nauseum. Can’t you try to bring something new to the table after being flogged with your old tropes, and presented with actual data? It’s effing embarrassing.

          12. This admits they are not safe enough. Of course there have been no double blind placebo studies or even retrospective unvaccinated studies of any quality to prove their safety – so claiming they are safe is a well worn lie

    3. Well she’s probably an idiot if she’s a former drug rep. Most don’t know jack!

      My brother used to hire drug reps. I asked him about qualifications.

      College degree? Yes
      In the sciences? No

      They get trained on 2-3 drugs and get sent out to sell them. Brandy is full of brandy is she thinks there is no safety research for vaccines.

      BTW, my bro himself has a degree in history. And he was hiring these bozos! They don’t need to know science to sell drugs.

          1. Any doc worth his/her salt would research the drug or device for themselves after having it brought to their attention, if they had any interest. Also, are you familiar with the Sunshine Act?

      1. Strange – have worked in the medical field most of my life and doctors rely on drug reps for their information and on the basis of this information we become the the recipient – advice on vaccination is offered as well.

        1. You never worked in the medical field if that’s what you think. This is the first time you’ve ever said anything about working in the medical field. I suppose you swept the floors of an office, or something.

          We used to run and hide when the reps showed up; spent as little time with them as possible. You’re full of sh*t.

          1. Well, I just retired in August. Those rules have been in effect for a number of years now. No more crappy pens, mugs, mouse pads, etc. The best ever was some Rockies-Cubs tickets; got to see Sammy Sosa play!

  65. This article represents the ultimate in fear mongering from the Leftists. Full of exaggerations and blatant lies, this article attempts to play on the fears that not vaccinating will cause widespread death and destruction. The research now fully and completely supports the vaccine/autism link, as well as the dramatic increase in childhood disorders of all kinds. Ponder this riddle….we here in the US have the most outrageous and broad based vaccination schedule in the industrialized world. Now consider that our children are among the SICKEST and weakest in the world, and yet we supposedly have the best healthcare system? Add that up. Just an aberration? I think not. Also, why do we have a 3 BILLION dollar vaccine injury compensation program to pay those injured by vaccines…but wait, they are safe, aren’t they? And ask yourself why, if vaccines are so safe, why are manufacturers exempt from law suits? I could go on and on with proof and examples, (go research the HPV vaccine and see how many deaths it has caused), but the medical tyrannists who are the Left are dead set on controlling your health choices and forcing poisons into your bodies. Do not fall prey to the lies and hysteria which is the Left.

    1. The research now fully and completely supports debunked the vaccine/autism link.

      There, fixed it for you.

      Ponder this riddle: Why should anyone listen to a word of your recycled antivax slop when you lead with a statement that is blatantly and obviously wrong?

          1. The onus is on YOU! You unequivocally and unanimously PROVE that vax is safe and effective and without harm!

            Vax manufax makes the claim that it is relatively safe for the average recipient. Others disagree. Burden of proof is on YOU in behalf of the claimant!

          2. Exactly as stated, you are doing neither – not providing proof and not shutting up. Therefore, there is nothing to do but ignore you. Go and claim victory, because you’ll just be preaching to yourself. As always.

          3. I would never say ‘prove it or shut it’ you moronic Modey! I was mocking you and yours and returning fire with fire!

            I’ve ridiculed these ‘citation standoff’ peeing matches for over 2 yrs. now.

            But hey! You want to demand such of others, then start with yourself! Onus is on YOU!

          4. Ooops! Caught mocking the intimidation of the forced vaxers, [Mikey, in this case] using fire with fire, AFTER first blood!

            I INVITE readers to peruse my profile, so they can see the conversation in proper context and NOT mutilated by a cherry picking and witless parrot.

            And these vulgar, intolerant and controlling bullies want to DICTATE to you and your families, what medical prophylactic interventions to submit your bodies to!

            They LIE every chance they get! Another big, big fail, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

          5. Different article.. different comment section/discussion.

            Oops.. (still) blatantly lying, trollalota non grata.

          6. All my posts fall back on my gracious principals for internet commentary; ‘fire with fire AFTER first blood!’ Yall attack and bully me or others to timid to stand up for themselves, you WILL get back what YOU GIVE!

            Given the conspicuous lies, in his desperate attempts to disparage his opponents at all cost; and since he doesn’t have the intellect to keep up in conventional controversial communication, now would again be a good time to remind young readers [like parrot Pro, Cathy and grasshopper] that ‘anyone calling someone who is NOT a liar, a liar, is a LIAR!’ 😉

          7. Neither of my statements are lies, little bug!

            ‘Doing IT’ [returning fire] after witnessing the incessant provocation of you forced vaxers, [after I’ve benevolently held my tongue to some extent] I may eventually contend that my subsequent replies are in the ‘all’s fair in love and VAX war’ genre!

            Ow! Yet another ‘green’ fail for you, grasshopper! 😉

          8. You’ve held your tongue? Kindly unleash the full fury then.

            And no you said you would never ad hom – now you’re saying you would after your provocation. They can’t both be true – you know that one has to be false so one’s a lie or the ‘both are true’ is a lie.

          9. Oxymoron! And I graciously mean your phraseology and NOT you!

            Dang child! Again, with your foolish, arrogant and deficient comprehension skills! I don’t ad hom.

            Learn what it means, you ‘internet blowharding’ little bug!

            Ow! Yet another ‘green’ fail for you, grasshopper! 😉

          10. Ad hominem is an attack on the person. Any name-calling is ad hominem.

            An ad hominem fallacy is attacking the opponent as a substitute for attacking the argument.

            “Pea brain” is ad hominem, regardless of whether you counter the argument or not. All countering the argument does is change it from an ad hominem fallacy into an ad hom.

          11. Not unless it’s declaration is false [it’s not; others have noted your severe deficit of literacy and difficulty understanding written language] [oh, and ‘pea brain’ sounded nicer than diminished capacity] and is implemented for the sole purpose of advancing my pov [it’s not; again, I merely point out that your diminished capacity gravely inhibits the flow of coherent commenters]!

            So nice googlin’ there tex, but still an inaccurate definition of ad hom!

            Suz doesn’t ad hom! Unlike you, I don’t need to play ‘internet blowhard’ games like you, little bug!

            Ow! Yet another ‘green’ fail for you, grasshopper! 😉

          12. Bandwagon fallacy.

            Others have noted it but you don’t have proof. Bob could get 2 billion people to agree with him that 1+1 = 3 but all he’s done is convince 2 billion people to be wrong.

          13. Time for school, grasshopper! Don’t miss that bus! You really need those reading and writing classes, darlin’!

            Whatever you’re trying to spit out here, mommy can ‘splain to you after your homework!

            Have a nice day, little bug! 😉

          14. No! My comment was conspicuous sarcasm, ridiculing you and ANYONE so clueless and intolerant who would think that there’s only one side to a coin!

            Should your entire charade NOT be a ruse, please get help, darlin’ grasshopper! 🙁

          15. Again, please quote where I made an attack against the person and please provide a link.

            And actually, it is not. Ad hominem is latin. It’s ad (against) the person.

            Anything against the person is ad hominem. That is what the phrase means. Hominem as in homo sapiens – ad as in against as in the word adversarial.

            It doesn’t matter if it’s relevant or not – anything against the person is ad hom. It doesn’t matter whether the allegation is true or not.

            Ad hom is any argument against the person. All ad hom fallacies are ad hom but not all ad homs are ad hom fallacies.

          16. Preachin’ to the choir on latin philosophical logical fallacies!

            Stop wasting everyone’s time with your drivel, little bug, and STAY IN SCHOOL!

            I’ve already gone over this with you, grasshopper! Now since you didn’t understand it the first 10 times, you really need to have mommy ‘splain it to you! 😉

          17. Ad hominem is not a logical fallacy. That would be an ad hominem logical fallacy.

            You asked me to explain it to you – I did so.

          18. No! Again you’re confused! I’ve been explaining it to you for several days now!

            You’ve been wrong as usual, grasshopper!

          19. You forced vax love using the hackneyed hokum as much as you love screwing up the latin philosophical logical fallacies in your futile ‘internet blowharding’ attempts to sound intelligent.

            Stay in school, grasshopper! You desperately need it!

          20. Suz: “PROVE IT OR SHUT IT! You CAN’T prove it!”

            Also Suz: “I would never say ‘prove it or shut it’ you moronic Modey!”

          21. Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she
            does on-line.

            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)

            AlterNet …………………… banned

            Raw Story ……………….. banned

            Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)

            Washington Times ……. banned

            A shot of prevention ….. banned

            LAist………………………… banned

            Patch………………………. banned

            Breitbart…………………… banned

            The Hill………………………Banned

            She is king troll.

          1. Again! Clearly brilliant deduction, you sherlocky grasshopper you!

            Who are you bothering now! It’s not specified!

            No matter! Yes! We all see Cathy’s strikeout in her lying attempt to misrepresent the content of Anthony’s comment!

            Misleading, lying; all the same to you forced vaxers!

          2. Lack of cognizance is a pet peeve of mine, little bug!

            The ‘bother’ factor increases when one with that ‘lack of cognition’ enjoys playing puerile posting games, trying to increase their own pathetic id; while other’s are attempting to discuss serious grown up and alltruistic matters, grasshopper! 😉

          3. For the moment, I’m still being entertained by your arrogant lack of commentary decorum, while I’m on my coffee break, grasshopper!

            I’ve not answered many of your trivial and immature ad homs, and believe me, when I tire of your puerile posts, I won’t need a ‘block prompt’ to squish you like the little bug that you are, darlin’! 😉

          4. We have known for a long time that feelings of superiority and
            inferiority exist together. If one is on top, the other is underneath
            .”

            – Alexander Lowen

          5. Of course you parrot, because you don’t have an original thought in your bird brain! Anyone can post memes, spam and unrelated prose written by others, throughout internet commentaries!

            Duh, parrot Pro. Not the intent and purpose to post the work of others, but to actually add some innovative, fresh material and NOT the pilfered or plagiarized works of everyone else!

          6. You just can’t stop, can you parrot Pro!

            You think aurora readers [or ANYONE] wants to read your incessant whining and pilfered parroting from everyone, you witless parrot!

            I’ve read the posts of ione and judith! so what! Since I’m NOT ione or judith, what’s YOUR point!

            You do it because you can’t think for yourself. Further, it’s off topic and discussion disrupting spam.

            Check the even LARGER accrual on the bottom of your shoe, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

          7. That’s what commentary and debate IS, grasshopper! An author writes an article [yea, nay, pro, con] and people from BOTH sides of the issue give further opinion!

            So NO little bug! Even readers of a shoddily written, amateur, and conspicuously biased piece, still want to hear both sides of the vax war debate!

            Ask mommy to ‘splain it all to you, grasshopper! 😉

          8. “still want to hear both sides of the vax war debate!” – You just admitted that they want to hear vaccine advocacy.

            Thank you for proving my point.

          9. I never said otherwise, little bug! It was YOU who made it one sided. Can’t have a debate without both sides.

            Again, learn to understand what you’re trying to read! Until you do, your ‘points’ are pointless, grasshopper! 😉

          10. Me: “I think people on a vaccine advocacy page want to hear vaccine advocacy comments, yes.”

            You: “No.”

            As for having a debate with both sides…well, there isn’t two sides.

          11. I did not say that. I said they wanted to hear pro-vaccine advocacy.

            The only was in your imagination.

          12. Inferred! Yes, that is my point – you inferred the only. Like I said, it was your reading that came to that conclusion.

          13. A reader infers. A writer implies. Like I said, the only was in your imagination.

            I don’t do implications – I’ll gladly tell you when I feel you need to know something.

          14. Either or! Both correct according to merrium, webster and use of the ‘current’ english language, grasshopper!

            No, just like my perception of the games you play are ALSO not of my imagination!

            And I’ll gladly give NO credibility to whatever you say, just as I’ve done the past few days! 😉

          15. You are under no obligation to give me credibility.

            And actually, if you infer it, then you are inferring it. The way to involve me is You inferred it.

            If I felt they should only hear vaccine advocacy comments, why wouldn’t I…oh, I don’t know, game the system by flagging all the anti-vax comments?

            https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infer

            Clearly, this is a case of Separated By a Common Language.

          16. You go right ahead with your puerile little games, little bug, and flag away at will!

            Sorry your little plan got foiled though, grasshopper!

            And don’t worry hanshopper! I won’t be giving you credibility any time soon; at least until you can show a modicum of comprehension skills!

          17. No – we had a communication error caused by difference of usages in the modern day and was to do with geographical usages.

          18. Your lame excuse and ceding are so noted! However, we’ve done this dance before grasshopper, et al!

          19. I am sorry you do not understand that there is a difference between British English and American English.

          20. You’re a sorry pos and your lame excuse and ceding are so noted! Right! Heard ya the first time, hanshopper!

          21. You all sure like to misrepresent what others say.

            I never told you to go away! But while we’re on the subject of flounce, I’m sure ALL of your opponents would NOT be heartbroken to see you do so, grasshopper! 😉

          22. scuz norkan: “You’re a sorry pos and your lame excuse and ceding are so noted! Right! Heard ya the first time, hanshopper!”

          23. I have only 2 cheeks to turn. Sia [pffft SIA!!!] had exceeded my ‘smacking limit’ by 50!

            Fire with fire AFTER first blood, and from the ‘stfu’s I see from yall everyday, pos ain’t gunna put me in ‘he double toothpicks!’ Oh my!

            Eventually, ya get what you give, parrot Pro!

          24. Nah! Suz is fine! You asked! I answered!

            However, you certainly need to ‘reap’ some remedial writing classes!

            And unfortunately there’s still the SQUAWK and CAW of your witless parroting to be heard throughout the internet, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

          25. scuz norkan: “The ‘bother’ factor increases when one with that ‘lack of cognition’ enjoys playing puerile posting games, trying to increase their own pathetic id; while other’s are attempting to discuss serious grown up and alltruistic matters, grasshopper! ;)”

            But, one example of scuz’ ‘grown-up’ contributions to this discussion..

            scuz norkan: Bwa haha! Your posts look like parrot poo! ;)”

          1. D@mn skippy she did and I do, unlike all of you.

            My mom was a sunday school teacher; may she rest in peace!

          1. scuz norkan: “Pffft! More crap from craptor!”

            … …

            Readability Test Results:

            This page has an average grade level of about 3.

            Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease …… 102.8
            Flesch Kincaid Grade Level ……… -0.5
            Gunning Fog Score …………………. 1
            SMOG Index …………………………… 1.8
            Coleman Liau Index …………………. 12.4
            Automated Readability Index …….. 2.4

          2. I’m glad to see you finally took my advice to try to enrich your very deficient reading and writing skills, parrot Pro! I knew there were many programs online that advertise in helping people like you!

            Oh! And yes! ‘More crap from craptor!’ Oh! And of course flagged and downvoted for conspicuous off topic spamming, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

    2. You can tell you’re dealing with a conspiracy theorist when he repeats the worn out phrase, “go and do your research” — and never, ever provides any examples of what he considers to be “research.” That’s because without exception, it always points to crap conspiracy Web sites. Never is there any actual evidence and proof.

      1. The days of circular evidence exchanges are over. We don’t kowtow to the gaffes of biased blogs.

        Do your research and then discuss it in debate and commentary! It’s up to each individual to decide what constitutes valid research!

      2. Irony abounds when the person responding to your comment (suz) then explicitly says, “Do your research.”

        I’m pretty sure that not only do some people not read the articles, but also not the comments.

        1. When the article is trashy propaganda, like this one, it would be better for them not to read it. I read it because one must know the enemy in order to fight it.

          1. […] because one must know the enemy in order to fight it.

            When involved in a battle of wits, it is best not to come unarmed, eggman. Also

            “It’s harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.” — Arnold Glasgow

      3. Don’t be stupid. It is all in history that VACCINES are a stupid invention. And there is another thing that used to be called ” natural history ” and proves even more that VACCINES and the theory of germs are stupid.

        I am referring to wild animals, like the rabbits in Australia and the elk deer in Yellowstone park, that in the absence of predators and abundance of food will multiply almost indefinitely. Pointing to the fact that stupid little microbes can not do anything to big well fed animals.

        1. Big, well-fed animals get sick too, e.g. ones that contract chronic wasting disease of cervids (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15148993 ), which affects mule and white-tail deer and elk. Australia’s invasive rabbits contract tularemia and pass it on to humans, just like rabbits in the US.

          Your logical fallacies are Appeal to Nature and Naturalistic Fallacy. Also, of course, your uber-looney Germ Theory Denialism.

          1. Well, that and there’s this:

            The Bacterial Badger:

            People seem to have an issue with visualising pathogens for what they are, which is a predator of humans. As they are invisible to the naked eye and you only experience their effects, they start getting features attributed to them which they do not deserve: they are a part of ‘nature’; they are benign if you live the correct lifestyle, or they are even beneficial to your development.

            If you substitute pathogens for a larger animal comparable with their ability to cause you harm, it becomes clearer why people advocate for vaccines. For argument’s sake, let’s swap a VPD (vaccine preventable disease) for a badger. An angry badger that likes to eat people. An angry badger endemic to your region.

            A badger, due to its relative size and strength, would have an easier time predating the young, elderly or infirm but could conceivably take down a healthy adult, given the right circumstances.

            Let’s say for every badger attack on an otherwise healthy adult would cause a flesh wound 1 time in 10, with a serious injury every 1 in 1,000 times and a successful kill once every 10,000 times. Every time a badger wounds a human, they secure enough nourishment to breed 10 more badgers. They will also remember being fought off successfully and the subsequent confidence about one’s demeanour after this makes you intimidating to the badgers, making them unlikely to try to attack you again.

            Now imagine there is an injection available that makes you appear confident, so they will be unlikely to try to attack you in the first place, reducing the likelihood of both physical harm and giving the badgers the nutrition required to reproduce. Of course, like all medicines, natural and synthetic, they are not without risk: a 1 in 1,000 chance of a reaction, a 1 in 10,000 chance of a serious reaction and a one in a million chance of death. The protection is by no means perfect either, but it reduces your chance of being wounded by a badger to 1 in 10,000 as they are 1,000 times less likely to predate you in the first place.

            Your odds of dying are suddenly far lower if you take the injection rather than relying on natural confidence and the chances of badgers being able to successfully attack enough people to breed is dramatically reduced, to the point where if it is kept up for long enough they will be extinct and nobody will have to worry about risks from any choice.

            Children aged under 2 unfortunately cannot benefit from the injection as they have no way of looking confident, being delicious looking infants, plus they are far more likely to succumb to a badger attack in the first place, being smaller and weaker.

            Nobody understands the people that want to let the badgers have a better chance of reproduction and potentially still attack someone with the medicinally induced ‘false confidence’; let alone their babies, those who are naturally nervous or the elderly who are all easier prey. They seem like they want to serve everyone else up on a platter to these beasts to avoid the risk associated with the shot on the off chance that mingling with a community of confident people will keep the badgers away.

            Why would you want badgers eating people? What possible benefits are there to us as individuals, communities or a species? They aren’t even the only predators to worry about either: Poxxy Chickens, Measles Weasels and Polio Bears all want to make a meal of us too.

            (not mine)

          2. Don’t be stupid. ( That goes to you, as well as the others.) If you have animals in the wild getting sick, they are obviously not well fed. Animals, in any situation, that are getting sick are obviously not well fed. They are getting something else from the environment that is doing them in. Chronic wasting disease is one of those mysterious diseases like mad cow disease. Mad cow disease is said to be caused by prions. The application of glyphosate for GMO products in agriculture has been said to increase the production of prions in the organism. I viewed a piece of news from a Mexican TV channel thar can be seen from Southern California; in it they showed a Mexican woman with all kinds of eruptions on her face. She was a victim of drinking contaminated-by-mining-operations water from her local river. The pollution lowers her immune system’s resistance to diseases ( just like the pollution injected with VACCINES does to the human body , and pet dog body,…etc.) That river water is drunk by Mexican wild animals, too.

            You can take your naturalistic fallacy and your appeal to nature BS and shove them up where-your-the-sun-doesn’t-shine destination. At any rate that is where they belong because they smell like you.

        2. germ denialist too!?!
          How about the moon?
          Do you deny the holocaust as well?
          9/11 was an inside job?

        1. “Cause of death was listed as SIDS, however In Idaho I was
          required to allow an autopsy to be done to prove my innocence which showed that my son had hemorrhaging on his brain, his cause of death was then changed to “unknown””
          .
          The suspicion was child abuse.

    3. This isn’t a left-right issue. There are many antivax cranks out in Marin County, California, where people come in Left and Lefter. While at least one of the pro-vaxers here is a Republican (not me).

      All those other countries with healthier kids have more government involvement in health care: some have fully socialized medicine! How does that fit into your oversimplified claim?

      1. Ignorance and stupidity can be in any party and any race. That is why we have such a diverse population of pro vaccine people.

      2. Most kids don’t need any medical attention. I had one ear infection at eight I went to the doctor for, I got an antibiotic for my daughter’s sinus infection at six, and other than that, neither of us ever saw a doctor for anything. But get them all the vaxes and then you have to take them for their autoimmune conditions, the asthma, the allergies, the insulin-dependent diabetes… but if you hadn’t gotten them the vaxed, they would have been healthy and not dragged down into chronic disease.
        Other countries have less neurological and autoimmune disease in their children because they give a fraction of the vaccines we do.

        1. I wonder if they believed cia’s “Most kids don’t need any medical attention.” back in the pre-vaccine era, when infant-and-child mortality was about 30 times what it is today.

          1. I was referring to the modern age. However, until antibiotics doctors had no way of effectively treating patients. They’ve never had a safe way to treat viral diseases, which just have to run their course. All pharma drugs are dangerous and cause many undesirable side effects, often addiction.

            In the pre-vaccine era, meaning the nineteenth century, and early twentieth, child deaths were at an all-time high because of industrialization, with crowded, unsanitary living conditions in cities near the factories, and widespread malnutrition. Nothing a doctor could have done.

          2. Then how do you explain polio? It was the 1950s so sanitation was fine and in fact, sanitation projects actually made things worse.

            Further, if the all-natural immune system is so great then why does sanitation or the lack thereofmatter?

            India? Polio free – must be all the clean water?

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/586c196c2117093d8e0b5b38ff626c1777a5d811c528dd108de8346d22f4dabf.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3938ae54f7e23a2e3b6929877570c78b6e30b06cd82ac0d1c6e0467ee877ef00.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5bef9843a5941bb6fecda873b21e929a020a9dd3f3645afdf891095de04b8e2f.jpg matter?

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7864b39739a95fbbc90403dfd4010e6bf3a4eda6ff0cb8bb39ff06c7f26d37ea.jpg

            How d

          3. That’s easy. Insecticides like DDT. Polio was never a big problem until the introduction of pesticides and insecticides starting in the 1890s. The insecticides potentized the action of the virus, enabling it to cripple and paralyze large numbers of patients. Children in India and Egypt even in the middle of the twentieth century had a nearly 100% of having antibodies to the strains of polio active in their areas, most of them having had subclinical cases which no one ever suspected was polio. The graphs of DDT use coincide exactly with the peaks of polion incidence. The new kind of polio, EV-68, last year, like polio, was a late summer/early fall disease which presented as a flulike respiratory illness which came on suddenly and hard, and, like polio, an enterovirus. My daughter had it, like dozens of other kids at her middle school. She came home from school the last Wednesday in August, the week after school started, with a runny nose, but by bedtime had a severe cough which kept her up all night that and subsequent nights. Delsym did nothing to touch it. She coughed hard for several weeks and then got well. There were a reported 110 cases of permanent paralysis caused by it, about ten deaths. Polio used to cause immunity from subclinical cases in 90% of cases, another 9% got a flulike illness and then got well, less than 1% ever got paralyzing symptoms, and in only a small fraction of those was it permanent. It WAS a terrible disease in the small percentage whom it crippled or, rarely, killed: I had a roommate crippled by polio when she was three. But the vast majority of those who get polio recover with no disability.

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/03/30/link-found-between-children-with-paralysis-and-polio-like-strain-of-enterovirus-d68-study-says/

            In California some of the children who got paralyzing cases of EV-68 were from raspberry farms which used a lot of pesticides on their crops. The interaction between the chemicals and the virus is what paralyzed them. Polio can be either water- or airborne: hygiene can prevent the water-borne cases, but not the airborne ones.

    1. Most of the comments here are made by the vaccine propaganda prostitutes, and they are the ones that lie.

      1. And you yet you have no evidence that anyone’s being paid since you complained about less than half a hour.

      2. Considering you lack the ability to distinguish reality from satire, how would you even know who is lying?

        Also, your obsession with prostitutes is not healthy. You should get that checked out.

        1. From the free dictionary:
          Prostitute:
          A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

          Empy your pockets, Brian.

          1. And yet despite the claim that it is common knowledge. you are reluctant to prove payment.

            Obviously if it is common knowledge than you have proof.

          1. Through all the fear, you might not notice, for example, that on the mother’s Facebook page, the posts about her daughter’s death appear on March 6th, an entire nine days after she was vaccinated. he was actually quite well in photos taken on February 28, halfway between the shots and her hospitalization:
            .
            Her father was charged with her murder.
            .
            Plainsdealer is a horrible person.

            https://www.backfromnature.org/2015/03/the-death-of-thalia-vida-no-it-really.html

      1. Anti vaccine translator #2 – “My child is vaccine-injured” = “My child has autism, which science has
        repeatedly shown isn’t caused by vaccines, but I don’t want people to
        know I’m a liar.”

        Thanks for proving my point! If you’d like, I’ll make a list of all your lies.

          1. I JUST can’t see how anyone would give their two-month old baby six shots, with eight vaccines, at once. Are these parents living under a rock? That was just a year and a half ago. Have they not heard what happened to Hannah Poling who got eight at once and immediately regressed into autism and seizure disorder? Or what has happened to millions more, even with just one vaccine?

          2. Me either………..and the insanity of looking for anything to blame OTHER than vaccines………….

  66. Forcing vaccines or any
    Medication is reprehensible when there are questions unanswered about safety.
    https://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2015.00004/full
    Concerns about the use of aluminum adjuvants have emerged following (i) recognition of their role at the origin of the so-called macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) lesion in 2001 (3, 4), which revealed fundamental misconception of their adjuvant effect and pointed out their unexpectedly long-lasting biopersistence (4); and (ii) demonstration of their apparent capacity to migrate in lymphoid organs and then disseminate throughout the body within monocyte-lineage cells and progressively accumulate in the brain (5).

    1. “Biopersistence and brain translocation of aluminum adjuvants of vaccines”

      Typical antivax junk science. Frontiers in Neurology is pay to publish, not peer reviewed.

      This paper assumes that “Shoenfeld syndrome” or “Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants” (ASIA) is a real condition. It isn’t.

      1. The dangers of the aluminium
        Adjuvant have been poorly studied however aluminium is a neurotoxin and in some people can be very damaging.

        “We previously showed that poorly biodegradable aluminum-coated particles injected into muscle are promptly phagocytosed in muscle and the draining lymph nodes, and can disseminate within phagocytic cells throughout the body and slowly accumulate in brain. This strongly suggests that long-term adjuvant biopersistence within phagocytic cells is a prerequisite for slow brain translocation and delayed neurotoxicity. The understanding of basic mechanisms of particle biopersistence and brain translocation represents a major health challenge, since it could help to define susceptibility factors to develop chronic neurotoxic damage. Biopersistence of alum may be linked to its lysosome-destabilizing effect, which is likely due to direct crystal-induced rupture of phagolysosomal membranes. ”

        https://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2015.00004/full

        1. Almost all foods and beverages contain low concentrations of aluminum Averages can be misleading because the aluminum content of plant materials, especially “aluminum accumulators” such as tea, can vary greatly because of differences in plant varieties and soil conditions including pH. For example, Eden observed that although tealeaves often contain approximately 1,000 mcg Al/g; some have been found to contain 17,000 mcg Al/g.

          The links factors in the bloodstream absorption rate of 0.3%. So again, the amount of aluminum ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM from 33 days of EATING is equal to one vaccination.

          Here is the link to the data that proves it:

          https://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/28917.pdf

          1. Answer this JusttheVacs – aluminium is put in vaccines to stimulate the immune system. If food had the same effect we would all have over reactive immune systems. However our alimentary system is efficient at eliminating aluminium. Injection and consumption create totally different reactions.

          2. I guess you missed the part where is said:

            the amount of aluminum ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM from 33 days of EATING is equal to one vaccination.
            IN THE BOODSTREAM is IN THE BLOOSSTREAM. You obvious have zero understanding of medicine.

            The fifth column is the amount ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTEAM. Aluminum is about 10% of the planet. We are used to it.

          3. Yes. Again, most common metal element – third most common metal total.

            Let’s put it this way: if aluminium caused autism then someone might wonder if thimerosal caused allism.

          4. Big deal. Nature did not have any way to put it straight into the bloodstream the way vaccines do.

          5. Vaccines are not injected straight into the bloodstream.

            Here is an IV drip being inserted:

            ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9SH3vzs518

            Here is an IM injection – there is a natural way of doing this – it’s called a deep dog bite. Now, you could argue that there was artificial selection but it doesn’t change the fact that wolves are capable of doing so too.

            Here is a Sub-Q injection:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPTLcEBI5Fc – Being pricked by a rose thorn is a natural sub-q injection

            Here is a baby being given a rotavirus vaccine:

            Lurkers, please note:

            1) That the needles all go into different place so clearly Sub-Q or IM is clearly not IV.

            2)Cia, with all her research, knows this. Therefore she knows she’s telling you incorrect information.

            3)That nature does in fact have ways of injecting things in the same way a vaccine does.

            4)Again, per 2, Cia knows this so she knows she is telling you incorrect information.

            5)Cia felt the need to resort to a logical fallacy (“Appeal to Nature”) to make her point.

            6)With all her research, Cia knows that a logical fallacy is not an argument.

          6. Your comment doesn’t make any sense – it doesn’t address the function of injected aluminium as a potent immune stimulator – totally different to ingesting it. You seem incapable of a rational answer.

          7. 1)There is no aluminum in vaccines, much like there is no cholorine in butter.

            2)”potent immune simulator” – that’s the point!

          8. It does not make any sense to you because you are not very bright.
            .
            There is nothing “magical” about an injection. All an injection does in deliver 100% of the substance into the bloodstream. All that matters in how much is in the bloodstream. Eating also transfers substances into the bloodstream at a lower rate. The TOTAL amount of aluminum that gets in your bloodstream from eating is many, many, MANY times more than any vaccine.
            it is RIGHT THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE.
            .
            If you understood science, you would not be confused.

          9. Judith – re: the bloodstream thing….just remind me what people with diabetes need to check before and after eating, will you?

      2. “The swine flu narcolepsy saga is so important to the Great Vaccine Blitz because it so starkly contrasts the “no dark side” mantra from the Bill Gates crowd. And the narcolepsy findings are just one example in an emerging boatload of scientific evidence that vaccines induce autoimmune diseases.

        That evidence was neatly rounded up in a newly released medical textbook called Vaccines and Autoimmunity (Wiley). It’s a collection of papers by more than 75 doctors and scientists and is edited by pre-eminent immunologist Yehuda Shoenfeld, founder of the Center for Autoimmune Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel and a prolific research with more than 1,800 references to his name on PubMed and author of now 26 medical textbooks including foundations of clinical practice. Last year at the 9th International Congress on Autoimmunology (ICA) in France, which he founded, he was introduced to the 2,300 or so doctors in attendance as the “Godfather Autoimmunology”– the youngest branch of medicine and one of the fastest growing.

        “One chapter calls adjuvants as “the ‘dirty little secret’ of immunologists” because, just like the natural infections they are used to deter, they carry a risk of triggering chronic disease. Scientists knew this at least as far back as 1956 when they induced arthritis in Wistar rats – known as “adjuvant’s disease” in the industry. It’s incredibly ironic that rather than removing them from vaccines immediately, they tailored this “right nuisance” and for six decades now have widely injected adjuvants into animals to create lab models of arthritis, allergies, asthma, lupus and more — so they can test drugs for the diseases that are increasingly plaguing humans injected with adjuvants

        At the ICA last year, dozens of scientists reviewed a terrifying catalogue of recent findings about aluminum in vaccines: how it persists in the body long after injection and can migrate to brain, lymph, and spleen where it wreaks inflammatory havoc; how it was found in the nerve tissue of paralyzed Spanish sheep who wasted away and dropped dead in a post-vaccination plague that wiped out flocks, and how post-mortems revealed that it may have acted like a “Trojan Horse” carrying HPV-vaccine components into the brains of two young girls who died suddenly in their sleep following Gardasil shots.”

      1. The amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines:
        https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/health-concerns/vaccines/vaccine-faqs
        Hib (PedVaxHib brand only) – 225 micrograms per shot.
        Hepatitis B – 250 micrograms.
        DTaP – depending on the manufacturer, ranges from 170 to 625 micrograms.
        Pneumococcus – 125 micrograms.
        Hepatitis A – 250 micrograms.
        HPV – 225 micrograms.
        Pentacel (DTaP, HIB and Polio combo vaccine) – 330 micrograms.
        Pediarix (DTaP, Hep B and Polio combo vaccine) – 850 micrograms.

        OK, I’ll do the math for you. A newborn who gets a Hepatitis B injection on day one of life would get 250 micrograms of aluminum. This would be repeated at one month of age with the next Hep B shot. When a baby gets the first big round of shots at 2 months, the total dose of aluminum can vary from 295 micrograms (if a non-aluminum HIB and the lowest aluminum brand of DTaP is used) to a whopping 1225 micrograms if the highest aluminum brands are used and Hep B vaccine is also given. These doses are repeated at 4 and 6 months. A child would continue to get some aluminum throughout the first 2 years with most rounds of shots.

        1. Most foods and beverages contain low concentrations of aluminum Averages can be misleading because the aluminum content of plant materials, especially “aluminum accumulators” such as tea, can vary greatly because of differences in plant varieties and soil conditions including pH. For example, Eden observed that although tealeaves often contain approximately 1,000 mcg Al/g; some have been found to contain 17,000 mcg Al/g.

          The links factors in the bloodstream absorption rate of 0.3%. So again, the amount of aluminum ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM from 33 days of EATING is equal to one vaccination.

          Here is the link to the data that proves it:

          https://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/28917.pdf

          1. But the body has filters to get out the aluminum and other toxins before they can penetrate to the bloodstream, where they have a fast track to the brain and body organs. You inject them and they get straight onto the superhighway to permanent disability.

          2. You really have comprehension [problems:

            amount of aluminum ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM from 33 days of EATING is equal to one vaccination.

            amount of aluminum ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM from 33 days of EATING is equal to one vaccination.

            What do you think ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM means moron? THAT IS THE FAST TRACK!!!

        1. https://www.fdanews.com/articles/99624-gardasil-adverse-events-include-deaths-seizures-judicial-watch-says
          There have been 3,461 reports of adverse events, including a maximum of 11 deaths, in patients receiving Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, public interest group Judicial Watch said.

          Since May, the group has found documents detailing 1,824 reports of adverse reactions to Gardasil (quadrivalent human papillomavirus [Types 6, 11, 16, 18] recombinant vaccine), including eight deaths. Before May, Judicial Watch had obtained 1,637 adverse event reports. The group received the data from the FDA through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

          Of the 1,824 adverse events reported between May 10 and Sept. 7, 347 were serious reactions including paralysis, Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barre syndrome and seizures, according to the group.

          Thirty-three out of 77 pregnant women who received the vaccine experienced side effects, including spontaneous abortion and fetal abnormalities, Judicial Watch added.

          “In light of this information, it is disturbing that state and local governments might mandate in any way this vaccine for young girls,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.

          1. That is an anti vaxx blog.
            The fact is that over 90 cases have been hearing in open vaccine court and NOT ONE case of injury has been found to be associated with the vaccine.
            ZERO. NOT ONE.

          2. I’m looking at the adjudicated settlements from 11-16-14 to 2-15-15

            HPV acute disseminating encephalomyelitis 4 years 1 mo petition filing to settlement.
            HPV Td. Guillain Barre 4 yrs 2 mos
            HPV systemic lupus and mid brain stroke. 3 yrs 9 mos

          3. Yes, people have settled for small amount because they had no case. What do you expect?
            .
            There is still NOT ONE finding of a vaccine injury from the vaccine after OVER 90 attempts.
            .
            Don’t you think that one of them would win if you were right?

          4. “They had no case”
            There are no table injuries for HPV vaccines.
            They had a higher burden of proof.
            They met the burden.
            They bear the burden.

          5. yes
            yes
            No – the burden of proof is way lower for vaccine court
            No – if they could prove it, they would have a “decision”, not a settlement
            .
            Every with a sick child bears a burden.
            .
            I see you are coming to terms with the FACT that there has not been a single finding of harm from the HPV vaccine.
            .
            You have been spreading lies.

          6. Read them.
            .
            They say “settlements” and the petitioner agress that there was no fault with the Vaccine.
            .
            There has not been any findings of HPV vaccine injury. That is just a fact
            .
            90 cases, 90 losses. No wonder people are bailing out with low settlements.

          7. https://www.regret.ie
            R.E.G.R.E.T. Support Group was set up by parents of Irish teenage girls who have developed serious health problems after entering secondary school. These parents are certain that the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is the cause of their daughters’ otherwise unexplained illness.
            The primary goal of the parents in the group is to get help for their daughters who, like many girls around the world, have experienced “Reactions and Effects of Gardasil Resulting in Extreme Trauma” (R.E.G.R.E.T). Many are not receiving effective medical treatment and cannot attend school regularly due to the debilitating health conditions they still suffer from.
            Just as important to these parents is to raise awareness of the safety issues surrounding the HPV vaccine so that other parents can be in a position to make a truly informed decision on this issue. The group feels that the information provided by the HSE is incomplete and biased, downplaying the safety issues while exaggerating its effectiveness.

          8. Freda Birrell on behalf of UK Association of HPV Vaccine Injured Daughters (AHVID)
            Has called on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to convene a roundtable discussion on the safety of HPV vaccines with medical/scientific professionals from both sides of the debate.

        2. Gardasil is definitely bad news. But I think the hep-B vaccine, DTaP, flu, and MMR can certainly vie for the position of MOST dangerous vaccine. Also the HIb vaccine that causes peanut allergy so often.

  67. How aluminium a potent neurotoxin in vaccines can impact the brain – dementia anyone .. And these aluminium containing vaccines are being forced upon us….

    “Thus alum and other poorly biodegradable materials taken up at the periphery by phagocytes circulate in the lymphatic and blood circulation and can enter the brain using a Trojan horse mechanism similar to that used by infectious particles (68, 69). Previous experiments have shown that alum administration can cause CNS dysfunction and damage (70–72), casting doubts on the exact level of alum safety (73).
    We successively performed i.m. injections of alum-containing vaccine, fluorescent latex beads, and fluorescent nanohybrids coated with precipitated alum (5). These materials were quickly captured by macrophages, a large proportion of which cleaved the injected muscle, mainly within immune cells, reaching the draining lymph nodes. Particle-laden cells then escaped the lymphatic system to reach the blood circulation, presumably via the thoracic duct. In so-doing, they were able to reach distant organs such as the spleen and liver and, much slowly, the brain”

    https://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2015.00004/full

    1. There are a myriad of diseases caused by VACCINES. But I am interested specially in the mental ones because I have to live with my son, a vaccine victim.

      Unless one is a psychopath with no feelings toward one’s own children, that’s one thing that all parents must think about. Because, if one doesn’t, one that loves his/her child, must live with that burden and punishment for the rest of his/her life.

      For those that are stupidly sarcastic and ignorant, like the snakes that do pro vaccine propaganda, I would advice to go to the social security office to talk to all the parents that have children on SSI due to VACCINES.

      1. That would be talking to all the parents that think they (rightly or wrongly) have children on SSI due to vaccines.

    1. It’s really is simple.
      If anti-vaxxers don’t want to be accused of being dishonest conspiracy theorists, they should stop promoting debunked nonsense conspiracy theories.

      1. Anti vaxxers are nothing more than parents with dead babies due to vaccines or are parents of vaccine injured kids and people smart enough to learn from our mistakes

        1. It’s hard to see why parents still inflict these deadly vaccines on their babies. Just because greedy bullies browbeat them into it? Can they not take a stand to protect their baby? There are effective treatments for all the vaccine-preventable diseases, allopathic, naturopathic, vitamin, or homeopathic. There is no effective treatment for a vaccine reaction. I really don’t get why it’s taking this long. WHAT disease do parents think is so deadly and so common that it’s worth taking the risk?

          1. We have no desire to freeload off our more responsible neighbours. No effective treatment for a vaccine reaction – stop lying about them would work.

            “or homeopathic.” – As a supplemental treatment, maybe. Hydration is good.

            Can you show me evidence that any of your effective treatments work?

            Could you explain why filters work in light of your assertion that homeopathy works?

  68. Lurkers: please note the rules the anti-vax/anti-state coercion have decided to ask for:

    -Anti-v/anti-sc get to yell “do your own homework/do your own research” while pro-vaxxers/pro-consequences have to provide citations.

    -Anti-v/anti-sc get to ask pro-v/pro-c to disprove their claim even when it’s a negative but pro-v/ps have to prove their claim.

    -anti-v/anti-s get to state their case without evidence (do your homework again) or accusations of shillhood or payment. Pv/Pc do not.

    -Pv/sc make a spelling mistake, not an error in fact and this is proof that pv/sc don’t know what they are talking about.- making an error in fact such as compounds being elements (9th graders are expected to know better) and this isn’t proof that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

    For some reason, Pvs/scs are humouring this set-up and yet they’re still winning.

      1. Coming from you, I’ll take that as a great compliment.

        Do let me know if I ever start making sense to you, would you? I would consider it a great favour and a much-needed warning.

      1. By the way, all of these pictures are from the whale.to crazyland.
        .
        The county coroner indicated Haylee died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. But after Haylee’s mother and grandmother saw a Scottsdale psychic, they were convinced that the vaccination was the cause of death
        .
        Loons are behind this one.

        1. “Coincidence” How convenient. Lots of “coincidences” occur around the time kids have a vaccination according to those that can’t think for themselves, nor can they question their faith in vaccines.

          1. I didn’t post the insert. A loon anti-vaxxer did that. I just pointed out that there source of information clearly says that the data is not valid.
            .
            You claiming “Coincidence” is also claiming the insert information is not valid. How about we both put the insert away and leave it to professionals to worry about the insert?

          2. One may also read any and all physician’s inserts at drugs.com, absent any photoshop jiggery. And they’ll be current, too.It’s not like there’s any mystery, and certainly no conspiracy.

          3. VActruth is a nutcase site run by a liar who protects child abusers. If you look back in this thread, you will find that the liar, Jeffry John Aufderheide posted a week ago and he got his ass handed to him.

            Vactruth is a website operated by Jeffry John Aufderheide and Christina England to oppose childhood vaccination. This site was founded in 2009 by Jeffry John Aufderheide. In 2001 his first son, Brandon, stopped reaching his developmental milestones. After Anfderheide’s personal research of vaccine literature, Jeffry came to the conclusion, entirely on his own, that vaccinations where responsible.

            Vactruth has a poor rating for both trudtworiness and child safety from WOT due to Misleading or unethical claims in addition to hate and discrimination speech based on 403 reviews.

            https://www.mywot.com/en/score

            Vactruth has publically made the claim that vaccines may cause homosexuality. This claim is highly disputed.

            https://thespudd.com/vaccines-m

            Jeffry John Aufderheide has been accused of lying about his navy career by the daily beast. The Navy discredited Aufderheide’s claim that he served as a “rescue swimmer,” stating that he actually served four years as an Information Systems Technician, Third Class.

            https://www.thedailybeast.com/a

            In May 2013, during an interview on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, Aufderheide discussed a new government-funded mobile app that he believes is designed to track anti-vaxxers. Later in the same interview, Aufderheide claimed the polio vaccine gives people cancer.

            A writer for Vactruth posted on January 16th, 2104 that a “”Father Jailed For Life Without Parole After His 12 Week-Old Daughter Died After Receiving 8 Vaccinations!” blaming the vaccinations for the death. The police searched the father’s apartment and found crack cocaine. On December 3, 2013 Stephen Guertin, and expert on child abuse, testified that there is no doubt,” Guertin said, “there was violence inflicted on this baby.” He said there were multiple impact sites on her head. Describing autopsy photos to the jury, Guertin said: “You have to have an impact to get those… You have to hit the baby or the baby has to be hit against something.” There are no other parties that claim that vaccines can cause “impact sites” on the head other than Vactruth.com.

            https://scienceblogs.com/insole

            Vactruth has a pattern of providing support for a accused child abusers as documented by Science blogs.

        1. The other thing is
          that most of us, by the time we are teenagers, already have natural
          antibodies to Neisseria meningococcal… But what’s going to happen when
          we no longer have the natural antibodies—when children are getting
          vaccinated at two, four, six, and 12 months, and you have
          vaccine-induced antibodies, which are not the same? [Vaccine induced]
          antibodies are not the same as the natural [antibodies]. We potentially
          have to change everything.”
          This is a very important point because most people don’t realize that
          there’s a distinct difference between vaccine-induced immunity, which
          is primarily measured by the number of antibodies in the blood (humoral
          immunity), and the kind of immunity produced after exposure to and
          recovery from the disease, which qualitatively superior because it is
          both cell mediated and humoral.In children under the age of five, strain B is responsible for 66 to 70 percent of the cases
          of meningitis. Infants under the age of one are now the new target age
          group being considered for this vaccine recommendation—despite the fact
          that:
          The bacterial strain responsible for the vast majority of the cases is NOT included in the vaccine, and
          In the last nine years, there has been an average of 16 fatalities
          per year from the Neisseria meningococcal infection in children under
          the age of 12 months.
          The proposed policy is now to vaccinate EVERY child at two, four, six
          and 12 months, and then again at 11 to 12 years of age, and at 16 years
          of age. That’s six doses of a meningococcal vaccine that does not cover 30 to 70 percent of the cases that actually occur, depending on the age group!
          “You really have to take a look at the cost-benefit analysis,” Fisher says.
          You also have to look at the insertion of another vaccine into a
          schedule that already contains eight vaccines to be given at two, four,
          and six months of age. Where is the evidence showing that it is safe foran infant to receive all these vaccines in combination within the first
          six months of life? Where are the studies showing it will be safe to
          add a ninth vaccine? There aren’t any! https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/14/barbara-loe-fisher-on-the-meningococcal-vaccine.aspx

        2. “..vaccine-preventable meningococcal sepsis.”

          He survived the (vaccine-preventable) meningococcal sepsis.

          The existence of a vaccine doesn’t imply prevents anything (e.g. flu vaccine, mumps vaccine, pertussis vaccine…)

          Now we must add the meningococcal vaccine to the list.

          1. “nowhere is said that the boy wasn’t vaccinated .. therefore HE WAS.”

            ergo …..nowhere was it said he WAS vaccinated, so he WASN’T.

            You know Vacuous, I have seen a lot of illiterate, inumerate, illogical, irrational and idiotic antivaxers in my time, but you take the cake..

          2. “…ergo …..nowhere was it said he WAS vaccinated, so he WASN’T.”

            That’s the wrong conclussion of an Asperger’s idiot failing to take into account the obvious pro-vax media bias.

          3. “..He is a fictitious character.”

            Not sht Sherlock! Couldn’ t find any real people to match your disability!

          4. Calling “Asperger idiots” now, are you?
            Your own IQ is less than your shoe size, so you hardly have room to talk.

          5. You don’t p me off, I’m quite pleased you are continuing to post and show everyone how inane the antivax crew are.
            Adios.

          6. He also doesn’t seem to realize (because he’s what we Americans call a “know-nothing”) that Menomune is not used in this country any more, and was NEVER the vaccine given to infants. We give the HIb vaccine, and unlike you Brits and some others, don’t use the Men C although from what I’ve read, we will probably be starting soon.

            As for Vacunas, that’s what happens when you cut and past w/o knowing what you’re cutting and pasting!

        3. And high-dose vitamin C cures sepsis TOO! Why does the medical cartel not educate the public on how effective high-dose IV vitamin C is in treating nearly all conditions? Oh yeah, it costs mere pennies to save lives and limbs! Well, we wouldn’t want THAT to get out!

          1. Don’t be so obtuse, Cia.
            Vitamin C cannot cure meningococcal sepsis.
            If you think it does, please provide the citation to a peer-reviewed science publication.

      1. This is just a lie. there is no record at all. This is a case of eczema and no connection to vaccines. He is probably not dead.

        1. I have a photo of my 27-year old daughter at 15 weeks with almost an identical reddening of the face. She has a history of skin sensitivities and allergies as does her father, who is too old to have had many vaccinations. She had all vaccinations required and/or recommended by her physician, with no flareups coinciding with the vaccines. My point is, that infant in the photo also appears to have had eczema. Certain baby products aggravated my daughter’s skin, which we identified as time passed.
          I’m glad she didn’t have to suffer from the preventable illnesses that I experienced, like mumps and measles. She did have a terrible time with chickenpox with much scarring; the vaccine wasn’t approved until after she contracted it.

      1. I accuse you of murder. We can arrest you without any evidence.

        Oh wait, that’s not how it works at all.

        1. Off track astroturfing and manipulation of facts to confuse the main point. You are paid to misinform people that vaccines cause autism.

          1. Kiko, you said that “burden of proof was on the accused.” I have accused you of murder, it is a simple application of consistent reasoning. Prove you didn’t murder anyone – again, your logic.

            Do you have a problem with proving you are innocent? You said the “Burden of proof was on the accused.” Again, simple application of consistent reasoning. I have accused you of something therefore you are the accused therefore the burden of proof is yours, by your own logic.

            All I am asking you to do is apply your own standards to yourself. If your own logic sounds absurd to you when applied to a different situation…that is not my fault.

            And scientific consensus is that the moon landings were real and that vaccines don’t cause autism – the link is in the meme.

            And I’m still waiting for that proof I’m being paid.

            https://thelogicofscience.com/2015/09/14/the-rules-of-logic-part-7-using-consistent-reasoning-to-compare-apples-and-oranges/

          2. Oh, and meme is in the official book of shills that will be published this year. Might want to switch tactics, way too easily identified. Keep reading from the playbook if you can not muster an original thought, to each their own.

          1. Lmao! I don’t really think you’re a murderer – I am just applying your own logic to a different situation.

            Thank you for proving you aren’t willing to have your own logic applied to yo, though.

          1. I don’t have any intentions or any delusions that I can. I am simply asking you to apply your own standards to yourself.

          1. Yes, Ginger Rogers compilation of papers, many of which have nothing to do with vaccines and autism, or are so spectacularly poorly designed and written that they’re worthless

          2. They’re either of small statically power, poorly designed and implemented, lacking proper controls, lack controlling for confounders, or simply års steaming piles of BS.

          3. And of course Linda all of the drug companies are ethical and have only the highest moral standards and have only suffering humanities interests at heart. As the drug companies raise their prices10-20%, because they can, and move out of the country to save on taxes. Check it out, over half the published papers have been found to be flawed to the point of fraud, most by the manufacturers of your beloved vaccines. Keep on living in your dream world.

          1. You do not know how to evaluate evidence critically. The way it works is that, when you have a hypothesis, you try to break it, not cherrypick studies that support your idea. That is not how science works.

          1. Sure, read it. And then remember Toxicology 101: the dose makes the poison. There is no evidence that any vaccine component is harmful (individually or in aggregate) in the quantities present.Next?

          2. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” “nothing to look at those of you that ‘believe,’ just some inconvenient facts”

          3. Again, you refuse to read! Thermisol is contained still in flu vaccines (not all) and what salt has to do with Aluminum and formaldehyde, to name a couple, is beyond me. Maybe you should look at 9th grade chemistry again.

          4. I am sorry that you do not understand what elements not being compounds has to do with elements not being compounds.

    1. Johnny micah mcgoni died from SIDS. There was no connection to vaccines made.
      .
      The SIDS rate is reducing while the vaccination rate is increasing. All indications are that vaccines PREVENT SIDS.
      .
      That post is a lying scare tactic, not the truth

    1. Baby Ian’s death was a tragedy, but it’s completely unclear it was caused by the vaccine.

      Ian’s birth was not smooth and he didnt arrive in this world in perfect health. He was induced due to maternal pre-eclampsia and toxemia, had a fever diagnosed shortly after birth, tachypnea (rapid breathing) meconium aspiration syndrome, spent a week in the NICU and was found to be allergic to an antibiotic in his first week of life, before he was given the Hep B vaccine on Day 7. When did the antibiotics start? When did they stop? Was the infection he was born with completely resolved before discharge?

      His website says that ‘within hours’ of the Hep B vaccine given on Day 7, he developed viral symptoms, a low platelet count (thrombocytopenia), seizure-like posturing, non-stop crying, a rash appeared, he was irritable and stopped eating. From then on, his platelets continued to drop, he was intubated and he had difficulty breathing. On Day 11 he had several more issues develop including oedema (swelling). What followed was many many blood transfusions, renal failure and hepatomegaly (enlarged liver). Then, just when he appeared to be improving, he was accidentally given the very antibiotic he was allergic to before he rapidly went downhill. In his last days he had hemolytic anemia + neutropenia + thrombocytopenia – no red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets. It was an horribly tragic death.

      I am not sure what his actual cause of death listed at? Was it neonatal sepsis? An auto-immune disorder? Was an autopsy performed? We aren’t really told, but it would seem that he ultimately died because he could not produce red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

      1. Good, I know I’m making a difference when the paid blogger for pharma is responding to every one of my posts – score.

        Look close parents – this is what a PAID blogger for pharma looks like.

        Given everything you have written – he should have NEVER been vaccinated in the FIRST place!

        Poor Ian, surrounded by idiots like you.

        1. Maybe he shouldn’t have been vaccinated.

          But saying the vaccine killed him has no basis, and when you are presenting it this way it’s false.

    2. ian developed a fever directly after birth from meconium aspiration. Ina was in an incubator for 6 days recovering. The next day Ina had a allergic reaction. Ian died on day 47. There was no finding of vaccine injury

      This was not a vaccine death.

      That post is a lying scare tactic, not the truth

    1. Elijah “Danny” French died and anti-vaxx site claims a Pathologist confirmed the injury but there is no record of it. They called an “cytokine cascade”. No such condition exists. ” “Cytokine storms” are reactions to disease and are not associated with vaccines.

      That post is a lying scare tactic, not the truth

    1. Hailey Lynn Winkler didn’t die right after vaccination. She had a severe milk allergy and died at 5 1/2 months, not even near a vaccination.

      That post is a lying scare tactic, not the truth

      1. Allergies, another vaccine related condition – they used peanut oil in vaccines for years, ever wonder why we SUDDENLY have so many children allergic to peanuts?

          1. Bull, God do you even google this crap before you believe in it?

            https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/us-peanut-allergies-idUSBRE88A1AK20120911

            There is adequate scientific evidence that peanut oil has been used in vaccines since the 1960’s. If current vaccine package inserts do not contain the specific evidence that peanut oil, or peanut meal, is contained within the final vaccine product, it does not mean that peanut antigen is not in the final vaccine product. Vaccine manufacturers use different growth media on which to manufacture the vaccines. They do not report, and I believe are not required to report, the exact ingredients in all of the growth media. Therefore, we may not know whether peanut antigen is used in the vaccine manufacturing process just by reading through the package inserts. Our lack of knowledge about it does not mean it isn’t knowledge waiting to be discovered.

          2. No, there have never been peanut oil in the vaccine used. And yes, manufacturers are required to report all ingredients. Here is the relevant section of the Code of Federal Regulations: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=610&showFR=1&subpartNode=21%3A7.0.1.1.5.7

            From your article: “It’s not clear why the food allergy has become more common.

            “The leading theory is about hygiene – with less infection thanks to city living, smaller families, vaccines, sanitation, antibiotics, etc., the immune system is less ‘busy’ with germs and may become more prone to attack harmless food proteins,” said Dr. Scott Sicherer, a pediatrics professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, in an email.

            Sicherer, who did not participate in the latest research, said another theory is that kids receive less vitamin D from sunlight because they are indoors or use sunscreen, and that could alter their immune system responses.”

            In other words, if vaccines have an effect it’s by protecting children – less disease may mean more allergies.

          3. ANYTHING but the obvious – gotta keep those billions pouring in for pro vaccination, regardless of our children’s lack of health or the older generations demise………………money, money, money – get your shot now folks – don’t mind the man (or woman) behind the curtain getting paid.

          4. If more than one family in the same building is a cause of disease, people who live in flats or high-rises or mansions and have several families live there or people who house lodgers should get more disease or more ‘exotic’ diseases – is this the case?

        1. Changing the subject doesn’t make you right.
          Doctors said – Heart arrhythmia
          You say -VACCINES!!!

        2. Absolutely! There was no peanut allergy anywhere on earth until peanut oil was used to adjuvant some drugs and vaccines. When the Hib vaccine was introduced in 1988, both because of the peanut oil in the adjuvant and because the Hib pathogen resembles the peanut protein molecule closely enough for there to be cross-reactivity when the immune system is sensitized by the vaccine to it, the peanut allergy explosion began. See Heather Fraser’s The Peanut Allergy Epidemic.

      2. And your proof of that would be? Vaccine encephalitis can occur even weeks after the vaccine was received, and it can kill.

  69. Yet another baby – I could literally do this for hours – but life intrudes. Thankfully I’m alive – and so are my children – to be intruded upon.

    1. The johlyn navai death was ruled a SIDS death and after autopsy, There was zero evidence of vaccine injury. It was never reported as a vaccine injury. The child was 6 days old, had shots at birth and at 4 days.
      The SIDS rate is reducing while the vaccination rate is increasing. All indications are that vaccines PREVENT SIDS.
      That post is a lying scare tactic, not the truth

      1. Occam’s Razor – the most simple answer is the answer.

        SIDS is vaccine injury – plain and simple.

        1. No. No connection between vaccines and SIDS.

          Vennemann MM,
          Höffgen M, Bajanowski T, Hense HW, Mitchell EA. Do immunisations reduce the
          risk for SIDS? A meta-analysis. Vaccine. Volume 25, Issue 26, 21 June
          2007, Pages 4875-4879. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17400342

          Vennemann
          MM, Butterfass-Bahloul
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          January 2007, Pages 336–340. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X06008978

          Kuhnert
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          between sudden infant death syndrome and vaccination. Vaccine. 2012
          Mar 16;30(13):2349-56. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22289512

          1. Occam’s Razor – the simple answer IS the answer

            vaccine insert with SIDS listed front and center – yes, this is a “discontinued” vaccine because clearly being THIS honest on a vaccine insert wasn’t going to sell many vaccines.

          2. Inserts don’t list side effects, they list adverse events without regard to causation. Later, research is done into causation. That is why we know vaccines do not cause SIDS or Autism.

          3. Posting that lie again? Didn’t I explain it to you?
            .
            Did you miss this part?
            “Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.2” Page 11.
            .
            “By chance alone, some cases of SIDS can be expected to follow receipt of whole-cell pertussis DTP35 or DTaP vaccines.” Page 11, line 5
            .
            You Moron, it specifically says that SIDS occurs only by chance and is not related to the vaccine.
            .
            Are you stupid or a liar?
            YOU ARE POSTING LIES IN MODIFIED IMAGES>

          4. OHHHHHHHHHHHHH< well by all means, if a company that makes billions off of their vaccine says it happens JUST by chance, well that's enough for me.

            I'm gonna go get my two vaccine injured kids all caught up on their chemicals so I can support the hysteria.

            since braintrust probably won’t get it

          5. plainlynotdealtafulldeck: “I’m gonna go get my two vaccine injured kids all caught up on their chemicals so I can support the hysteria.”

            Oh, nice.. then you can take your imaginary dog for a walk afterward.

            Don’t forget the pooper scooper!

          6. YOU posted the insert. YOU said it was true. You just didn’t read it. You can’t back out now that it doesn’t meet your tin foil hat world view.

            You posted it as FACT. We’ll take it as FACT.

          7. Many vaccine package inserts list SIDS (and autism, and hundreds of other conditions) as possible outcomes for those who get the vax.

        2. Nope. That is just your wishful thinking The SIDS rate is reducing while the vaccine rate is increasing. The Occam’s razor says vaccines PREVENT SIDS

        3. Posting sad pictures of babies who died of SIDS isn’t going to change the fact that vaccines don’t cause SIDS. And, they also do not cause miscarriage or stillbirth.

        4. You are an idiot, plain and simple
          .
          SIDS rate – going down
          Vaccine rate -Going Up
          Vaccines prevent SIDS
          .
          Oscar neil Duffy NEVER was vaccinated.

          1. No kidding idiot stick, he’s a still birth……………..good the stupid hurts.

            HIS MOTHER was vaccinated and Oscar Neil Duffy was born “asleep” on the 11-11-12 at 37 weeks.

            Honest to God, I hope you do keep vaccinating, keep those idiot DNA cells underground.

    2. It’s sad every time a baby dies. But with millions of babies vaccinated, some will die after vaccines by coincidence alone – it’s inevitable. That doesn’t mean a vaccine caused it, and presenting it as if the vaccine caused it is misleading and unfair to readers.

      1. Well, I feel special, the famous pharma whore Dorit has made her appearance.

        Inevitable —- SIDS = vaccine death, nothing more, nothing less.

          1. You could say you’re the Sultan of Brunei.

            Wanna play the Caitlin Jenner thing? I got no problem with it.

          2. Oh, you mean the measles, which was in complete and utter decline BEFORE the vaccine was ever introduced?

          3. First off, I said Rubella. Rubella is not measles. Ruebeola is Measles.

            Second, that’s deaths. It means we got better at keeping people who had measles alive – not that the incidence was dropping.

          4. Most children with measles never went to the doctor. It was a routine disease, and every mother knew how to handle it. There has never been allopathic treatment for measles: it’s a self-limiting viral disease with well-defined, predictable stages. The death rate was one in 10,000 cases.

          5. 1 in 10,000> 1, in 100,000,000 which is the award number which is biased towards false positives. Plus you forgot the SSPE rate which is 1 for every ten direct fatalities.

            Also, again, I was talking about Rubella.

          6. Again, we’re talking about Rubella. And that isn’t why we vaccinate children for Rubella, in any case.

        1. Ella is not a vaccine-injured child. She has severe asthma and allergies, none of which are caused by vaccines, despite her mother’s insistence.

          1. Of course they are. The pertussis vaccine causes asthma, any vaccine can cause allergies when they sensitize the immune system to vaccine ingredients which resemble common substances or body tissues. The Hib vaccine has caused our modern peanut allergy epidemic.

          2. These idiots can’t comprehend injection is a bad idea. What choice does the body have but to react violently? Anaphylactic shock, fainting, seizure, headache, and death show the worst case scenario’s.

          3. It always reacts with inflammation: if it didn’t, no antibodies would be produced. The whole point of vaccines is to shock the immune system so much that it cranks out antibodies to the injected pathogen. But what a laugh, the immune system OFTEN takes it too seriously, and mounts TOO MUCH inflammation, causing encephalitis (and all the conditions caused by the brain damage, including autism), and often just doesn’t know when to turn it off, resulting in every kind of autoimmune disease, all characterized by CHRONIC inflammation. Naughty immune system, it’s obviously the fault of the child whose immune system had no sense of proportion, no sense of humor.

          4. If that were the case, you would have every single person who was vaccinated react violently. That is not the case.

          5. Anything that has no choice obviously has to happen in absoulutes.

            You can not claim that 1)The body has no choice but to react violently and 2) That something can’t be an absolute. It’s called mutual exclusivity.

            Kindly respond to my actual point and quit arguing with yourself over a caricature of my point.

      1. Talk about lies. Your link to this hyperbole? Even the WHO puts it at 13 an hour WORLDWIDE. WORLDWIDE —- NOT in the USA. Fear tactics for profit. You know what else they don’t have worldwide? A good source of vitamins, clean water, clean sanitation, clean sewage, adequate shelter, regular meals and countries without war……………….I would think ANY one of those things improving would cut down on childhood death, but you know, that’s crazy right when billions of dollars of vaccines are waiting to be sold and consumed.

        I’m primarily arguing for the right of American parents to have and keep vaccine choice. AND before vaccines Africa had Zero Autism and now they are seeing a rise in Autism —- hmmmmm, just another coincidence.

      2. Dude, they’re non-white Poors in a country far, far away and they don’t count to the anti-vaxxers!

  70. A commentator had posted several pictures of babies who died after vaccines. Such deaths are tragic, but as the comments point out, for none of these claims is there any evidence it’s the vaccines. With millions of babies vaccinated some are bound to die after vaccines just by coincidence – see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15930190

    What people need to be aware of is:

    A. Infant deaths decreased dramatically between 1940-2007 as vaccines increased. See figure 7: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_19.pdf

    B. SIDS is not a vaccine injury. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22289512; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17400342

    C. Most claims of vaccine injury you read aren’t actually caused by vaccines. See:

    https://pediatrics.about.com/od/vaccinesafety/fl/Vaccine-Injury-Stories.htm

    https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/vaccine-injury-stories-the-sacred-cows-of-the-internet/

    1. YES a mother of TWO vaccine injured children IS posting photos of children who have died right after vaccination. IT seems to be compounded at higher altitudes as well.

      Occam’s Razor – the simple answer IS the answer and Dorit is a PAID pharma blogger. She only comes in on posts were mothers like me are actually making a difference, so I’m honored by this pharma whore appearance.

      1. Again, we cannot assume someone claiming a vaccine injury is correct. For example, some parents claim that autism and allergies are vaccine injuries – something we know isn’t true. It’s sad that this person is posting pictures of tragically dead children when there is no evidence the vaccine harmed them. It would be sadder if this misrepresentation scared parents from protecting their children from disease with a vaccine and a child died from the much greater risk of a preventable disease.

        1. And you cannot (but do) assume that the vaccines are NOT at fault. Go on about your paid job. Keep shooting up yourself and your kids cull your DNA, works for me.

          1. For several of these we know the vaccine isn’t at fault. Again: claiming these are vaccines deaths is misleading.

            And of course I protect my children against disease with the best protection modern medicine have – vaccines. I love them. By doing so, I also help protect vaccine deprived kids – including those whose parents were misled by these kinds of claims.

          2. Facts are clear. SIDS rate is decreasing every year and has been decreasing yearly for 50 years. If vaccines were the cause of SIDS, it should have risen as we vax more. Also, numerous studies show vaccines cut the risk of SIDS. These facts make sense because vaccines prevent diseases and diseases kill babies.

          3. Please keep posting.

            Content and delivery is so off-putting.. it will work and serve to remind people that.. facts matter.

            Not.. the interweb rantings of some anonymous person with some time on their hands.

      2. I’d add that the pharma shill gambit – and denying that someone speaking up for protecting children from disease is also a parent – don’t make up for incorrect facts.

        1. And of course it hardly matters whether someone is a parent. Childless teachers care about the kiddos in their classroom too.

      3. The simple answer is that a handful of deaths happen by chance around vaccination since one million vaccinations are given EVERY DAY in the US. Occam’s razor says that autopsies are usually correct.

      4. This child’s official cause of death was SIDS. That is not a vaccine injury. For the mother to claim it is is without merit. She does a disservice to the research into the true causes of SIDS by making this claim.

          1. “…not according to modern medicine and medical science”

            Vacuous appeal to a scienec that doesn’t exist. Slogan slingering.

          2. I’ve got every government health agency, every scientific organization, every medical organization, and 99% of scientists and doctors on my side. You’ve got conspiracy theorists and quacks. Good thing my side is the majority.

          3. “….I’ve got every government health agency, every scientific organization, every medical organization, and 99% of scientists and doctors on my side.

            Except the agencies, judges, scientific organizations, doctors and scientists that collect the adverse effects, grant billions in vaccine injury compensations, expose massive manipulations in vaccine studies, advise against vaccination and report on the mechanisms of vaccine injury.

            All those are not on your side, but on mine.

          4. Hm, let’s see, we’ve got 4300 vaccine injury claims compensated in the last 30 years. During that time, billions of vaccines have been given out in USA. So, that means that 99.999% of vaccinated Americans are NOT vaccine injured.

            The doctors and scientists who study the adverse events (not effects) always conclude vaccines have far greater benefits than risks. Always. As in 100% of the time. Their studies prove severe vaccine reactions are exceedingly rare.

            “Massive manipulations in vaccine studies” Where?

            A handful of doctors on earth advise against vaccines. A handful of scientists still think evolution is not fact. There’s no accounting for craziness.

          5. “… During that time, billions of vaccines have been given out in USA.”

            As a consequence, there’s a vaccine-driven epidemic of UNCLAIMED (therefore, uncompensated) autoimmune disease.

            https://www.aarda.org/autoimmune-information/autoimmune-statistics/

            Autoimmune Statistics.

            The National Institutes of Health (NIH estimates up to 23.5* million Americans suffer from autoimmune disease and that the prevalence is rising.

            https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/246960.php

            Autoimmune Disease Rates Increasing.

            According to a new study the prevalence and incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, celiac disease, and type 1 diabetes, is on the rise and researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are unsure why.

            Thank you vax-pushers, thank you very much!

          6. Thank you for that one. Bookmaking. Excellent evidence that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks and that autoimmunity is not caused by vaccines. TX

          7. “…Massive manipulations in vaccine studies” Where?”

            EVERYWHERE (as in widespread):

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614424

            Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jul 7

            Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults.

            “An earlier systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007 found industry funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size.

            The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and conclusions of this review should be interpreted in light of this finding.”

          8. Influenza vaccines have a very modest effect in reducing influenza symptoms and working days lost in the general population

            Now we know the studies had been massively manipulated for GOOD REASONS …

            This is EXTREMELY positive for flu vaccines….LOL

          9. “…The doctors and scientists who study the adverse events (not effects) always conclude vaccines have far greater benefits than risks.”

            Let me refer you again to Cochrane’s findings:

            “widespread manipulation of conclusionsand spurious notoriety of the studies.”

          10. WOW what an imbecile. Again with the absolutes. Science omnipotent, perfection, no warts or pimples…how utterly absurd.

          11. You might want to take a hard look in the mirror. Anyone who believes autism and sids are caused by vaccines is the one living in denial. Furthermore, when one has scientific consensus on one’s side, as I do, it’s rather foolish of you to keep trying to claim science is with you. That’s laughable.

          12. “..when one has scientific consensus on one’s side, as I do”

            The scientific consensus” about vaccines is that they are “unavoidably unsafe”

          13. “…No one ever said vaccines are unavoidably unsafe. Another antivaxer lie.”

            The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act acknowledges that vaccine injury or death may be “unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and accompanied by proper directions and warnings.” 42 U.S.C. 300aa-22(b)(1).

            The “unavoidable” language in the Act is from the Restatement (Second) of Torts, Section 402A, comment k, that applies to products which, in the present state of human knowledge, are quite incapable of being made safe.”

          14. You don’t know what this means, do you?

            “(b)
            Unavoidable adverse side effects; warnings

            (1)
            No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable
            in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or
            death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1,
            1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were
            unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was
            accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”

          15. Lame. Consensus is a weak argument and represents nothing but an agreement in terms and what may be considered best practice. Its not an absolute and is akin to correlation.

          16. There aren’t any. Not one. Not one study, out of tens of thousands from all over the world, even some done by antivaxers, that shows vaccines have greater risks than benefits.

          17. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/sids.html … the CDC is a political body, not a source of science.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15930190 … quote:

            This study aimed to determine the probability that an Australian infant
            who has died of SIDS was vaccinated in the days before death.

            Wrong probability for the wrong conclussion.

            If the time frame (24hrs) of this study were applied to death by Amanita phalloides (death cap – kills after 16 days of causing damage to internal organs), the probability of a victim having eaten a death cap 24hrs before death would be zero. The (false) conclussion would have been that deth cap is perfectly safe!

            A serious toxicity study cannot limit itself to a 48hrs history. The study is another example of vaccine junk science.

        1. “…This child’s official cause of death was SIDS. That is not a vaccine injury.”

          True, SIDS is vacine death, not injury.

          1. “…SIDS is not related to vaccines, period.”

            You don’t read the inserts but I do:

            Diphtheria and Tetanus DTaP Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed Tripedia

            Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea.

            Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting.

          2. Inserts don’t list side effects. They list reports of adverse events “without regard to causation.”

            SIDS and autism and the rest of the adverse events are further studied, after the clinical trial, and that is how we know they are not caused by vaccines. 🙂

          3. “…Inserts don’t list side effects. They list reports of adverse events “without regard to causation.”

            Enough for a person with common sense to apply the precautionary principle.

          4. Precautionary principle is fine. Thankfully, almost all Americans realize the risks of disease FAR outweigh vaccine risks.

          5. “…almost all Americans realize the risks of disease FAR outweigh vaccine risks.”

            The fact that acceptance is much higher among the uneducated proves your “majority” can’t hardly realize anything at all. They blindly follow instructions and do what they’re told.

            Vaccine risks are as broad and unpredictable as the uncontrolled antigens found in all vaccines.

          6. I guess you have not seen the latest data

            https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/anti-vaccine-californians-are-rich-white-but-not-necessarily-highly-educated/

            “Researchers found, as expected, that those kids were most likely to be
            white, come from high-income homes, and were frequently enrolled in
            private school. Although kids in this group tend to have parents with
            lots of schooling, high-education levels among family did not independently track with the rise in vaccine opt-outs.”

      5. Actually, a person claiming to be a mother of two vaccine injured children is whining in an attempt to get pity from strangers on the Internet. When asked for proof and evidence that she has any children at all, never mind their being “vaccine injured” — which they are not, because vaccines do not cause autism — she simply whines some more. Boo hoo hoo, crocodile tears. I have no sympathy and will not until she actually provides some proof she is not simply lying.

        1. Here is your proof braintrust – I’m not lying.

          Why on earth would anyone post “proof” of anything for you to rip apart and/or report and or call CPS and/or call in false reports? You’re the wacko thinking anyone at all, anywhere, owes you anything.

          1. Thank you for admitting you have no proof or evidence whatsoever. All you can do is spout conspiracy theories and outright lies — lies that have been debunked and proven to be lies, literally a thousand times and more already. The term we use is PRATT: Point Refuted A Thousand Times. Of course, all you do is pretend the evidence does not exist, and continue to repeat the same lies, over and over and over and over…

          2. so you support the exploitation of dead children to spread misinformation?

            If so, you are evil and a danger to society.

          3. “…so you support the exploitation of dead children to spread misinformation”

            Only when vaccine stocks need to be liquidated.

          4. Thank you in a way – I wish I had followed my gut 20 and 15 years ago and not vaccinated. I asked questions and I felt wrong for doing it but I was young and impressionable and frankly, this thread alone shows the bullies on the other side, so I did it against my better judgement.

          5. I know many doctors and nurses. Are they without fault? Are them innately intelligent? Hell no. Having close proximity to them exposes them as frauds.

    2. If you take the attitude that a child’s dying with telltale symptoms shortly after the vaccine was received is unlikely to have had ANYTHING to do with the vaccine, we may extend that reasoning to deaths purported to have been from a disease. How could you ever prove that the heart, kidney, liver, or respiratory failure which led to death were actually caused by the disease? Maybe they would all have occurred anyway, whether or not the patient had had the disease. Maybe no one ever dies either of diseases or vaccine reaction, it’s all just the hand of fate. But you can’t have it both ways.

      1. These children didn’t have symptoms that suggest it was the vaccine. For several there were other determinations by the coroner.

        In contrast, deaths from diseases are supported by more than a temporal connection.

    3. “…for none of these claims is there any evidence it’s the vaccines”

      The vaccine compensation scheme has been agreed between manufacturers and government. This is the result:

      – Manufacturers enjoy immunity from prosecution (the only kind provided by vaccines lol).
      – Taxpayers foot the bill to the benefit of manufacturers.
      – Grants requires no proof, therefore vaccines never ever get the blame.

      What a smooth cartel protection scheme, and it’s so fking cheap!

      1. Wrong – manufacturers are not immune from liability – you can sue for manufacturer and labelling defects.

        For design defects, you just got to go through NCVIP first and afterwards, you can appeal or sue.

        Since the commenter above me has done their research, they know this – lurkers, what does that tell you?

        1. “…you can sue for manufacturer and labelling defects.”

          Therefore immune when the defect is not in the manufacturing process, but in the licensed vaccine composition and causes injury.

  71. DO your homework before vaccinating your children. I know I must be getting somewhere, since the paid blogger for pharma is now all over my posts. This woman (or man with a false avatar) is literally paid to sit on a computer all day and call parents like me liars.

    Educate yourself, you cannot take away vaccine damage. Oh, and the babies photos did not come from Whale and I’m not a man………………..smh

    1. Yet *another* anti-vaxxer bleating “do your research, do your research,” and yet again not offering any example of what you consider to be “research.” Just parroting the same old lies.

    2. Holy shlt! This is the funniest thing I’ve read all day! Not from whale? it might as well be! what a bunch of uneducated, ignorant, fear-mongering bullshlt! Fan-fcking-tactic job displaying your full-on stupidity all in one post! smfh

      1. It sure does, especially to parents of VACCINE INJURED KIDS. YOU BET IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE…………

        1. God, you’re stupid. Go take a high school chemistry course before wasting any more of my time, you imbecile. Seriously. Find one online. And stop posting memes that put your blatant ignorance on full display for all to see.

          Now I’m going to go enjoy some hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon with my dinner. Hope I don’t explode or poison myself while trying to get a buzz.

          1. But about half the injected flu vaccines given in the US have as much mercury as they ever did, 25 mcg. Those foolish enough to get them every year accumulate quite a bit over time. Those whose detoxification systems are impaired for genetic reasons (like the MTHFR gene present in 50% of the population) are at extreme risk of vaccine reaction. I have MS from all the mercury in all the DPTs I got as a child, and I’m struggling to chelate the mercury out which has ruined my life.

          2. Again, no. There’s never been mercury in the vaccines, ever. There’s been a mercury compound – the distinction is important.

            A 9th grader is expected to know better.

    3. So, you admit that you love crank conspiracy theories about the government poisoning food and withholding a cure for cancer, in addition to the fairy tale that vaccines are harmful? What a surprise.

      1. The fact that the vaccine injury compensation fund is growing is a GOOD thing. It means that the liability (paid up front on each dose) is being added to the pot and nothing is being taken out because injury rates have dropped.

  72. From a fellow poster: Epidemiology shows that 90% of the historical decline in infectious disease occurred before the introduction of specific vaccines. Epidemiology leads to the conclusion that sanitary and nutritional reforms were very important in conquering infectious diseases while vaccines were late comers that made little or no contribution to disease decline.
    Why do children occasionally die with diseases, such as measles, that typically are mild? The average 90% decline cited above that occurred before the introduction of specific vaccines is part of the evidence that death is related primarily to nutritional status. Vaccines can not correct nutritional deficiencies. A child that can die of measles (or similar diseases) can and certainly will die of vaccine toxicity if vaccinated. Vaccines do not save lives but simply bring about an earlier death for the child that is subject to inadequate nutrition or poor absorption of available nutrients.

    A retrospective study of over 500,000 children performed in Denmark showed that children who received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine had a higher incidence of autism than children who did not receive MMR. Yet the lead author, an employee of the state owned pharmaceutical company that manufactured the vaccine was allowed to cover up the facts and his lie is still being repeated by unwitting doctors and public health officials.

    “Choice has consequences.” True, and injecting toxic materials into children’s bodies is a poor choice for state funded employees to promote.

    1. No, that’s not actually true. The diseases had high rates up to the vaccine in most cases: https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=209448

      Sanitation is importnat. But it does nothing for most diseases we vaccinate against. Many of them are airborne, and polio was made worse by sanitation projects.

      And no, these diseases are not mild. And there risks much smaller than vaccines. Here is a comparison.

      https://bridgeclinic.com.au/media/docs/compare-disease-vaccine.pdf

      The claim about the Denmark study is shocking,b because the study found exactly the opposite, that MMR doesn’t cause autism. Here again is the list of studies about vaccines and autism. https://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html Scrolling down would show the MMR studies.

      Facts matter. Misrepresenting them is problematic.

          1. Correct – all SB277 asks you to do is make sure kid has vaccines prior to the next grade span.

            For babies, that means Kindergarten or TK.

          2. That’s all? Just force people who have no option other than public school to cause autism in one in forty of their children? Asthma in one in nine? Peanut allergy in one in fifty? Well, that’s CERTAINLY nothing at all! Who cares whether or not the child has a healthy life, as long as the pharma companies get their pound of flesh!

          3. the unvaccinated develop autism at the same rate as the vaccinated, so it’s obvious vaccines don’t cause it.

          4. Its your graph. Its says licensed. It doesn’t say it was used. I changed my name because so goof was pretending to be me. Some pro-vac loser. Was it you?

          5. You were just banned using that nym on the one site? I thought it was maybe on all of Disqus sites.

          6. Yes, the measles vaccine virtually eliminated measles, leaving children with weakened immune systems, inability to protect future infants, lack of protection from dangerous diseases and cancers in later life, and vulnerable to getting measles as adults when the vaccine wore off and the disease could be more dangerous. For a disease which was very rarely dangerous, and which 99% of children got up to the vaccine, and no one worried about it.

          7. I post facts and links. You post flights of fancy

            Come back when you got evidence and links for your lies.

          8. Measles cases, not fatalities. For this entire timeline, 1944-1963 (when the vaccine was introduced, then quickly retired and replaced because the killed virus vaccine was so dangerous), the fatality rate from measles was very low. In 1960 it was 450 deaths a year out of four million cases. 99% of American kids got it by the age of 18, and no one worried about it. It was normal, expected, gave permanent immunity, the ability to protect future infants, strengthened and educated the immune system, and protected against many severe conditions, even cancers, in later life. It was GOOD for the line of incidence to be high when it conferred so many benefits.

          9. We know you are happy with hundreds and thousands dead just so you and you eugenics buddies just to stop a safe and effective vaccine.

            You want the whole third world dead because 145,700 dead per year from the measles is just not enough for you.

        1. You can survive polio by living in an iron lung, but that’s not a good result. You can survive measles but end up dead or brain damaged. Death isn’t the only bad outcome.

          And frankly, most people don’t want to see their children hospitalized or seriously sick either.

          Claiming those things don’t matter is beyond problematic.

          1. What a problematic claim. There were tens of thousands paralyses and over a thousand deaths each year before the polio vaccine and 1:1000 cases of encephalitis from measles.

            The rate of serious, long term vaccine reactions is less than one per million.

            The school boards don’t currently have guidance – and hence are conflicted – on how to apply the law to students with IEPs, which to remind you were given special treatment in the act. It’s not not enforcing: it’s just unclear how to apply.

            Students with IEPs are a minority in CA, and most of them don’t have anti vaccine parents. Even if some districts interpret the provision broadly, rates should improve enough so that herd immunity will protect the vaccine deprived children and those with contraindications.

          2. There were NOT tens of thousands of cases of paralysis and a thousand deaths from polio before the introduction of pesticides in the 1890s. After that time, most people got the polio virus and didn’t even ever know it, as they had no symptoms. 9% got severe flu-like respiratory symptoms, especially a bad cough, but then got well after several weeks. 100% of children in India and Egypt showed immunity to polio, most of them from subclinical infections. Less than 1% ever got paralytic symptoms and in only a small fraction of those was it permanent. But the underlying cause was the chemicals (like DDT) which interacted with the virus and potentiated it, resulting in paralysis in those cases. Most of the tens of thousands of kids who got the polio relation EV-d68 last year got well after several weeks of coughing (like my daughter): however, about 110 of them nationwide were paralyzed. Some of those paralyzed in California after having the virus were from raspberry-growing farms which used pesticides.
            Not correct at all. The rate of serious, long term vaccine reactions is about half of our children, including autoimmune diseases like asthma and allergies as well as autism and seizure disorders.
            Students with IEPs in California are 10% of the total. It really doesn’t matter if their parents believe in vaccine damage or not: the children are permanently damaged by vaccines regardless of whether anyone believes that vaccines were the cause. The day is fast coming when the majority are going to retort: Say what? You want me to damage my child for life in order to prevent usually mild, beneficial diseases? I don’t think so!

          3. Wanting facts to be different doesn’t change them. Before the vaccine, polio caused tens of thousands of cases of paralysis and over a thousand death a year in the U.S. – and pesticides had nothing to do with it. Before the eradication effort many children in India and Egypt were paralyzed. There’s nothing factual connecting polio to pesticide. The poliovirus can paralyze all on its own.

            Serious harms from vaccines are very rare. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

            And do not include asthma, allergies or autoimmune disorders. Facts matter.

            If the parents don’t buy into anti-vaccine misinformation, they won’t get an exemption for their disabled children – who are not vaccine damaged. Damaged is a very offensive way to talk about a child. They are not cars.

            Liz Ditz12:34pm Jan 8

            In all of California for the 2014-2015 school year, there were 56,818 students with IEPs in 5th grade (will be entering 7th grade in 2016-2017).

            Of those students, 26,909, or 47% are under the category of specific learning disabilities (SLD). Of those say 27,000, it’s been estimated that up to 80% have dyslexia. In other words,they are not likely to have parents who mistakenly think it’s the vaccines.

            There are 6,535 autistic students (11.5%) in that cohort. Most of those parents don’t buy into the myth that vaccines cause autism.

            So it’s not actually likely to lead to serious undermining of herd immunity, which is what the few whose parents will use the IEP to continue to deny protection from disease will have to depend on.

          4. OK, let’s look at the facts, which you haven’t. done. Agricultural pesticides were introduced in the 1890s, exactly the time that polio epidemics first started to occur.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poliomyelitis

            Major polio epidemics were unknown before the 20th century; localized paralytic polio epidemics began to appear in Europe and the United States around 1900.[1] The first report of multiple polio cases was published in 1843 and described an 1841 outbreak in Louisiana. A fifty-year gap occurs before the next U.S. report—a cluster of 26 cases in Boston in 1893.[1] The first recognized U.S. polio epidemic occurred the following year in Vermont with 132 total cases (18 deaths), including several cases in adults.[11] Numerous epidemics of varying magnitude began to appear throughout the country; by 1907 approximately 2,500 cases of poliomyelitis were reported in New York City.[12]

            Pesticides potentiate polio:
            https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/pesticides-and-polio-a-critique-of-scientific-literature/

          5. Wow, you want to wipe the term “brain-damaged” from our language? Someone has a stroke, but you don’t want to offend anyone by saying they suffered brain damage as a result, so you insult them by acting as though they were normal, just didn’t WANT to walk and talk the way they used to? Certainly sounds like the special ed school staff, trying to deny the fact that autism is brain damage to the social and language center of the brain, so they can continue to do nothing.
            My daughter has been diagnosed with aphasia as well as autism. I looked up aphasia, which is described as “stroke-like damage to the language center of the brain.” That’s why she’s very low-verbal at nearly 16, the result of her encephalitic reaction to the hep-B vaccine at birth, given without permission, and to the DTaP booster at 18 months, which wiped out her language. But goodness, THAT’S not damage! Who needs to be able to use language to lead an independent, productive life? We just have to PRETEND that it’s no big deal that they can’t understand and respond to what’s going on around them! Why even bother with therapy if there’s nothing wrong to START with?
            Your attitude is INSULTING and EXTREMELY offensive to the vaccine-damaged community.

          6. Pesticides were either used from older days or put into major use only during the 20th century, depending if you look at chemical pesticides or not.

            https://agrochemicals.iupac.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=3&sobi2Id=31

            https://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/pesthist.htm

            I recommend against getting your information from anti-vaccine sites and when you make a causal claim about a disease, seek scientific information.

            There is no actual scientific evidence that pesticides have anything to do with polio outbreaks.

      1. You go prove it, why on earth do all you internet posters think I’m gonna run out and bust my azz to do something you can do yourself?

        1. No. You misunderstood. I don’t need to disprove any of your moronic bullshlt because,
          1. Idgaf what you think.
          2. Everything you post has been embarrassingly debunked hundreds of times already, and many have surely been directed at your previous sock acct. You’re in way over your head, skippy.

          1. Yeah, well now that I’ve heard it from you it must be totally true…………..I’m so hurt………….

          2. Pastrami is a clown who contributes little. Claims to be a parent of an autistic child. Many trolls claim to be doctors, researchers, fry cooks etc. Then they go about showing what stooges they are.

        1. GODDDDD the stupid hurts……….

          NONE of the unvaccinated had measles – how could they “give something” they didn’t have. Rather it was the shedding of the vaccinated who gave it TO the unvaccinated.

          Did you give your husband herpes? (you might have) but I’ll bet if you don’t have herpes you can’t give herpes, does it make sense to you now/

          Unvaccinated kids are NOT walking around with measles………they can’t pass along something they don’t have.

          1. Reality

            Officials say the cases are all epidemiologically related and involve unvaccinated children and adults.

            The cases are centred around one religious group from the region, La Mission de L’Esprit-Saint.

            Dr. Muriel Lafarge, who heads the local health authority, said one student attended school on the last day before spring break and was still contagious.

            The spike was not unexpected given the group in question includes about 20 families, each with between seven and 10 children who were all unvaccinated.

            Then again, maybe you from your vantage point in Mom’s basement know better.

          2. Again, if shedding was transmission, you’d expect a positive correlation of VPDs and higher vax rates.

            And this has been done – it’s called incubation periods.

        2. What a lying stooge. Montreal is a port city that has international visitors arrive every minute of every day. So California had 200 cases…. hardly a crisis. And the Province of Quebec has the ONLY vaccine compensation program in Canada.

      1. LOLOL —- Yeah, that is some great PR spin…………

        Gotta love it……….even most provaxxers (and it’s even been posted on this thread) admit that the MMR fails allllllllllll the time.

        AND that case of measles was NOT a WILD strain measles, so that kid who “passed it along” got it from the shedding of a vaccinated person…………….

        WILD measles does NOT exist anymore in the US (nor was this kid infected with “wild” measles) – soooooooooo all these “measles” scare tactics are simply vaccinated people infecting others, both vaccinated and unvaccinated.

          1. Oh totally, she sends me PDFs of her pay stub every month………….

            Get real – it’s common knowledge in vaccine circles that she’s a paid pharma whore.

        1. Reading comprehension issues, Mary? The index case imported the infection from Europe, then passed it along to one or more unvaccinated children with PBEs.

          All US measles is wild-type. We’ve just been bringing it in from other countries. Please stop lying.

          If you lot have your way, it could become re-established in North America again, along with about 750 deaths and untold amounts of disability annually.

          On the other hand, because there is no non-human reservior for measles, we’ve got a good shot at erradication worldwide. (As happened with smallpox and rinderpest, and is within sight for polio.) Then there would be fewer vaccines. Wouldn’t that be great! Isn’t that what you want?

      2. So they shouldn’t have controlled it, but let it take its course, spreading permanent immunity and better-trained immune systems wherever it went, and protection against numerous diseases and even cancers.

    1. I’m not sure that story really reflects well on Vactruth or antivaxxers at all, but, whatever.

      The author stalked a mom on social media, then came up with some loopy conspiracy theory because why? Her dad owns stock in some company?

      This is exactly the kind of tactic that turns people away.

      1. I guess you can take it that way…………I think it goes to show the complete conflict of interest at stake to most of these provaxx people – like Dorit. But I do get your point!

        1. In any case, you still need to prove that Alan Hibbens is Baby Griffin’s grandfather and is a pharma worker.

          Get on with it.

    1. I’m sure the death of babies never gets old either…………………..

      Anti vaxxers are nothing more than parents with vaccine injured kids – — THINK about it.

          1. Yes, lurkers, it would.

            DTap: Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis.

            Hib = Haemophilus influenza type B.

            3+1 = 4.

          2. You guys like to post pictures of children with a rash from measles or chickenpox without pointing out that a week later the rash was gone, the child well again.

          3. Vaccines target disease.
            .
            Anti-vaxxers target people with FEAR.
            .
            You can’t target a clear idea.

          4. “…Vaccines target disease.”

            Wrong again. The immune system targets disease.

            Vaccines target the immune system.

            You’re a blithering ignorant!

          5. “…You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are a Moron.”

            Well, you think homeopathy works.. Who’s the moron?

          6. You are so stupid, you don’t know what homeopathy is.
            .
            You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are a Moron.”

          7. “…Vaccines target disease.

            The immune system targets disease, ignorant.

            Vaccines target kids and their immune systems.

          8. “…You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are a Moron.”

            Well, you think homeopathy works. Who’s the moron?

          9. No you are the one that targets people with fear. Most opposed to vaccination just want to be left alone.

          10. I didn’t post any pictures of dead children. Anti-vaxxers did.
            I didn’t post any horrific claims of death with zero evidence. Anti-vaxxers did.
            .
            Spreading fear lies with zero evidence is fear mongering
            Pointing out that 145,700 people died from the Measles in 2013 according to the WHO is reporting the news.

          11. And where, justthefacts, were these 145,000 deaths (actually it was 114,000)? Oh, yes in places with malnourished children, poor sanitation, unclean water. What has this got to do with the children in modern western countries? This is a disease that is easily treated with Vit A and was considered a mild disease in the US prior to the introduction of the vaccine.

          12. Well-nourished children in developed countries also suffer and die.Vit A is helpful only in context of deficiency.It sounds like you’re just fine and dandy with other people, over there (especially poor, brown ones) dying. Despicable, first-world privilege, but not surpising coming from you.

          13. No troll, Vit A was found to be effective in actually treating as well as preventing the measles. What the hell are you talking about? You throw 140,000 deaths around to scare people in the western world into subjecting themselves to your semi-safe vaccines and now I want third world populations to die? In third world countries clean water, proper sanitation, safe places to live and adequate nutrition would do wonders for preventing the measles. Until then vaccinate away, it will save lives….. in those countries, that otherwise would be lost. Not true in the west.

          14. Sure we like to see poor, brown babies get disease and yes that means us antivaxers are fine and dandy, thank you flunky!

          15. Hello newbie. All of you bad ideas have already been covered in this thread But I understand how much anti-vaxxers hate reading…..

            Wrong, 145,700 was 2013. 114,000 what 2014. It’s been getting better because of the vaccine.

            I love it when you loons drag out your racists, eugenics beliefs. So what you are saying is that people who do not have the advantages of “modern countries” should not get the vaccine and just DIE. Millions and millions should just DIE, right? That IS what you are saying.

            You can’t change history. the year the measles vaccine was introduced, 450 people died and 5000 were injured by the vaccine IN THE U.S., YOU MORON.

            Measles kills. Some of us are old enough to remember that.

          16. Nice twisting of the truth numbnut. Did I say that 3rd world countries should not get the vaccines? Nope. I said that modern sanitation etc does and did more than vaccines. And I don’t care what you do to your body and your kids bodies. Just don’t foist your crap on me and mine MORON
            And yes I am old enough to remember the measles and how kids would get it, be back in school in a week and now have lifetime immunity, unlike the crap you want to pump into everybody.

          17. Stating facts is not twisting them but I think I understand better now. You agree that the measles is dangerous and other people can take the vaccine to protect themselves. Your issues is that you, and your other special snowflakes, don’t have to take the vaccine because you are protected by a healthcare system and everyone else that takes the vaccine. You think you deserve to be free rider.

            So you are not a racist that hates one group of people. You are a selfish bastard that hates all other people and think you get special treatment.

            Yea, you are an anti-vaxxer.

          18. Nice move to be the moral authority on the subject. I am not protected by your vaccine, I am protected by modern sanitation, clean water, healthy foods, adequate rest and exercise. (And if necessary modern medication) Considering that most cases of the these diseases keep showing up in the vaccinated population, it seems to me that not having the vaccine is safer. And, no, I am not “anti” vaccination. I am “anti” forced, mandatory, imposed, dictated, vaccination. I am anti blood letting, anti – Vioxx, anti- thalidomide and “anti” a number of other totally safe, scientifically sound practices. Go have your vaccine, I will continue to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

          19. Its always amazing when anti-vaxxers try to say that they believe that “a healthy lifestyle” alone will protect them against pertussis or any other disease. All rational people know this is non-sense. Lets add to that, the fact that you may survive two months of hopeless coughing but the child you pass it on to may not.

            Is there any thing more selfish and absurd? I think not.

          20. Really you should know the rule of microbiology “The virulence of the disease is inversely proportionate to the resistance of the host” Nice poster, now add have clean water, modern sanitation, and access to healthy foods and you have a pretty good poster. What part of third world don’t you get? Oh that’s right a progressive liberal has to take away an individuals rights to be able to give them back again as they see fit.

          21. That is a nice saying that means nothing. It is better to be healthy than not but there is limit on disease resistance.

            If you are not vaccinated, your resistance to getting the measles is ZERO and it doesn’t matter how well you eat. You ideas are meaningless. Healthy lifestyles do not prevent infection from deadly diseases. That is just a fact.

            Individual rights? really? Then tell us your fluoridation conspiracy theories……..

          22. I fear that your handle is a misnomer. You have very narrow understanding of biology or the human immune system. If you cannot accept one of the basic tenets of biology it is pointless to even discuss immunity with you. Have a nice life, hang onto your vaccines, drugs, fluorides, GMO’s, statins and neurotoxins. You will be one of the thousands on an average of 16 medications when you reach 65. Enjoy.

          23. I fear that you have no real understanding of biology at all. If you think nutrition provides immunity alone ranging from none to total immunity, you have very dangerous ideas that are solely your own. Virulent diseases don’t care how well your have eaten. They will infect you.

            Go get bit by a rabid bat and try eating well instead of taking the rabies vaccine. We’ll see how well you do. So far in history, the score for survival from untreated rabies is ZERO even after a nutritious meal.

            Stop spreading defective and dangerous ideas.

          24. You seem to have a very limited understanding of all the impacts the immune system. Nutrition is an important part, but it is not the only part. I have not stated nutrition is the only thing to prevent disease. This is your delusional accusation. Nutrition, water, sanitation, family, community, occupation, exercise, sun, rest, exposure, etc. all play a role. Life is not as simple as taking a shot or a pill, although those of you enamored of the medical model would like to think this is so. What little stories you have in your head. Go back to your shrink, your meds are wearing off.

          25. What is delusional is to think that nutrition, water, sanitation, family, community, occupation, exercise, sun, rest, exposure, etc. alone will prevent you from being infected with the measles or rabies. That is about as far from science as you can get.

            Bottom line:

            Only a vaccination or having the disease prior will prevent the measles PERIOD. No other method will work. This is proven science.

            Only a vaccination with prevent rabies. PERIOD. There is only one know survivor of rabies and nobody knows if she has immunity.

            Any other claims is the dangerous, unfounded, mental ramblings of a nutcase, meaning you.

          26. Well, perhaps you should read up on rabies vaccines. They are administered AFTER exposure or being bitten by a rabid animal. Your limitations of knowledge on the subject being discussed, vaccines and health, is showing. You might also be interested to know that measles shown to occur in populations with low levels of Vit A.
            https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/resources/acip_recommendations.html
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11869601https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/9/11-1701_article
            So “kettle” perhaps we know now who is the mental case rambling.

          27. Hey dumbass, I posted this above:
            “Go get bit by a rabid bat and try eating well instead of taking the rabies vaccine”
            I do believe I said it is administered AFTER the exposure.Its impossible for you you read up on anything because you can’t read at all.
            .
            You can’t even read a post.
            .
            Anyone can get the measles and your link, like your meaningless point, is dead. Please, demonstrate some more stupidity for us. You are entertaining.

          28. Now this is a defection from your errors. Now you know what a “defection” is.

            Your links states this:
            ” This suggests further modifications of recommendations to clinicians for protecting unvaccinated children and ensuring that aP (vaccine) coverage remains high.”

            I am glad we both agree with this.

          29. considering this started out as you saying that nutrition was not effective in preventing or treating disease and I showed you where it was, yes you have deflected nicely shillman.

          30. Really, evidently your mouse wheel does not reach to the top. Here I will post your quote “Healthy lifestyles do not prevent infection from deadly diseases. That is just a fact.” But nice try shill man

          31. Slo you crawl back up throught weeks worth of posts to come up with another deflection from the fact that you posted a linke that DOES NOT AGREE WITH YOU.

            Again. your link said:
            ” This suggests further modifications of recommendations to
            clinicians for protecting unvaccinated children and ensuring that aP
            (vaccine) coverage remains high.”

            What is what your link said right? This is the point where you deflect in deep denial again.

          32. you said Nutrition was not mentinoed in your post. It was. You even posted a meme to that point. now you wish to deny all responsibility, but that is you in a nut shell

          33. No, you in a nutshell posted a link that said this:

            ” This suggests further modifications of recommendations to
            clinicians for protecting unvaccinated children and ensuring that aP (vaccine) coverage remains high.”
            .
            That is what your link said right? This is the point where you deflect in deep denial for a second time, right?

          34. If your BELIEF is that vaccines are necessary and that is your bias, then that is what you will put in your conclusions. You stated nutrition had no impact on measles or any other disease. Here we see it is a major factor, not the only factor, but an important factor. Contrary to your meme and other comments. Like the one above where you said “healthy life styles do not prevent disease” which of course is B***S*** from a shill man who likes to spin hyperbole

          35. I would love to accept the compliment that I am as educated on the subject as a professional but the fact is you are a terrible anti-vaccine troll. This quote was from YOUR link:
            .
            “This suggests further modifications of recommendations to clinicians for protecting unvaccinated children and ensuring that aP (vaccine) coverage remains high.””
            .
            I don’t have to BELIEVE anything or actually do any research.
            You contradict yourself in your own posts with your own links. All I am doing is pointing that out. You can try to build all the strawmen that you want, but you can’t make me say things and say just to make a point that’s not valid. A balanced diet will never protect you from the measles and that is just a fact.
            .
            Now get back to insulting me it’s cute.

          36. No my ignorant friend, I was not referring to you with my comment about bias, I was referring to the authors of the paper as being biased (you are biased and ignorant but that was not the point in this comment). And yet, even they, saw nutrition as an important part of preventing the measles. Something you are too biased and ignorant to even acknowledge

          37. ignorant ……bias ……. biased……. ignorant ……..biased and ignorant…….
            You are so cute when you lose an argument!

          38. No way Jose! We don’t just have lies, we antivaxers have rugged good looks and hairy chests, even Cia.

          39. “Well again”. Except for the disfiguring facial scars from chickenpox, or deafness from the measles.

          40. Both facial scars from chickenpox and deafness from the measles were and are rare. My daughter had a chickenpox scar next to her nose that I thought was going to be permanent, but it eventually faded. It depends on whether you think the permanent immunity, stronger immune system, and protection against other diseases are a really good thing to acquire from the natural disease, or whether you fear rare side effects more than death or disability from the vaccine, and both the measles and the varicella vaccines have caused a lot of both. I certainly don’t care. You want the vaccines, you get them, be my guest.

          41. Every person vaccinated suffers some degree of harm. About half of American children have been grievously harmed by vaccines, with neurological and/or autoimmune diseases. Only those who work for pharma companies still attempt to maintain that vaccine injuries are only one in a million, but no one believes them anymore. But do go on trying, no matter how venal and silly it makes you appear.

          42. I of course had my children vaccinated, because they are 33 and 27, and they received them before this anti-vaccination trend. They both contracted chickenpox before the vaccine was available. I know my daughter would have preferred not to have the visible scars on her face, which did not fade. All of us who had chickenpox have scars; they are not rare. As a child, I had the measles and I still remember how ill I felt, and my eyes were so painful I couldn’t go outside in daylight. My sister is deaf in one ear from measles. I’m glad my kids didn’t go through that.
            But being new to the anti-vaccine party, I expect them to be having children themselves and the subject will come up. You speak of acquiring natural immunity from contracting disease. Did you deliberately expose your daughter (you mention her scar)? If she doesn’t contract the preventable diseases as a child, what if it is more severe as an adult? I know a man my age who got chickenpox in his forties, and he was very ill, was hospitalized, and missed weeks of work. Men who contract mumps as adults can become sterile. That won’t happen to your daughter, but it could to a man in her life. These are among the issues I think about.

          43. I don’t know why you lie so much. For measles alone, there have been 11 US deaths since 2000, (9 of these since 2005), and . 32 SSPE deaths since 2000 and at least 19 SSPE deaths since 2005. From my personal perspective also, these are not innocuous illnesses: I was hospitalised at age 3 with pneumonia secondary to measles, before the vaccine was widely available, with lifelong pulmonary complications. There is recent good evidence that having measles leads to immune amnesia (the loss of previously acquired immunity) and increases susceptibility to other infectious diseases, so they’re not beneficial, either.

          44. You do as you like. Get the vaccine on alternate Thursdays for the rest of your life. Neither I nor my daughter will ever take it. I had measles at six, as 99% of American children did at that time. Measles HAD become an innocuous disease for the vast majority by 1960. See below: Langmuir’s charts on mortality rates in 1960 (in children between three and ten less than one death per 10,000 cases), the UK (in the 1980s, one or two deaths per 10,000 cases), Europe in 2011 (three deaths per 10,000 cases). Taking vitamin A, not taking any fever reducers, staying well-hydrated in bed, and observing a recuperation time at home for three weeks after the rash appears prevent nearly all complications.

            https://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/low-fatality-rate-in-european-measles-outbreak-cdc-report/#.VkVL3rnluUk

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1522578/pdf/amjphnation00499-0004.pdf

            https://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733835814

            https://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/measles-perspective/

          45. Therefusers – again, we’ve talked about this with vaxtruth – Basic chemistry failure.

            Ncbi also says that measles vaccine is even safer and all the mountains of evidence can be found in the same library.

            The Uk goverment supports vaccines and same thing as for ncbi.

            Vaxtruth – we’ve talked about this – basic chemistry failure.

            HPA is also pro-vaccine.

          46. It was not from vaccines. YOU SHOW ME that is was from a vaccine and the picture is not just a scare tactic. I didn’t post the picture.
            .
            Moreover, the kid RECOVERED FULLY.

          47. “…Moreover, the kid RECOVERED FULLY.”

            FULL RECOVERY is also applicable to most “vaccine preventable” diseases, so why then force vaccines?

            The double standards if vaxxers exposed again! lol

          48. “…You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are a Moron.”

            Well, you think homeopathy works. Who’s the moron?

        1. Hmmm…well none of my children have any allergies so know that is not me. And the reality of it is, my unvaccinated children have already completed their years of schooling and college and never had a vaccine preventable disease. I bet there are ten of thousands of others who could tell you the same thing.

          So your second point is not me either.

          TOTAL FAIL

          1. My unvaccinated kid has had an episode of chicken pox but she didn’t even miss school those days because she wasn’t even ill, she would play as if nothing would happen.

            By her age, our acquaintances’ kids that haven’t skipped a vaccine have already become permanent hospital customers. My kid isn’t even registered in one yet.

          2. you have to register with a hospital?
            anyways, this reminds me of a funny, to me at least, story of when i took my firstborn for his first vaccination at the age of 1 and the receptionist asked me what hospital he’d been at. i said he had never been to hospital. this went back and forth for a while with me getting more confused and her more annoyed until she shouted at me ” where was he born”?
            at home of course. apparently so very unusual. i did know that the home birth rate in germany at the time was 1% but i was still surprised by the assumption that every child had been to hospital.

          3. I’m disturbed to hear that you’ve had children. Clearly Ireland needs a vigorous anti-vaxer sterilisation program.

          4. and yet i am talking about germany.
            meanwhile; smile, you are now on tumblr. they love your kind there.

          5. Cool. Anti-vaxers should be sterilised. We both know that. Please add this to tumblr as well 🙂

          6. Suspicion is not fact. Various versions of the vaccines are a mass-sterilisation programme have been promoted by various groups, counterfactually, for their own ends.Those who buy into those pernicious zombie memes are misled and or mistaken. Those who promote same are evil.

          7. There’s nothing dirty about sex, AD. Well, maybe the way I have it, but that’s another story. Perhaps this is part of why you’re always unhappy. Go get laid. I promise, it will help.

          8. Exactly. One of the cringe-worthy reactions to posts from “sabelmouse” and the other squad of brainless tools is that some of them actually have children. And those children are at a huge disadvantage because of their parents. Sad.

          9. uh-huh.

            The good thing is that you’re getting your asz handed to you by half a dozen people already, so there’s no need for me to join in.

          10. they seem pretty cool with it. especially my daughter who tells me how happy she is to have me as her mother quite frequently.

          11. I don’t see why.

            Clearly, if the homebirth rate is only 1%, it is a safe assumption that a child was born in hospital.

          12. yes it is. but she didn’t ask me where he was born, it sounded as if she thought he’s been to hospital before. personally i find the idea of starting life at a hospital very stranger indeed.

          13. Well, yes, you are free to find it very strange, personally.

            It’s all in probabilities – for 99% of babies, they started life at hospital. So for 99% of the population, that would have been correct.

            The fact that you were in the 1% who did not have babies in hospital doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of babies were born in hospital.

          14. Sia said to moussie, “I am simply pointing out maths to you.”
            That was your first mistake. Moussie’s 4rth grade teacher tried valiantly to teach her maths and met with complete failure.

            You may as well be speaking Greek to her and the other anti-vaccine cultists. They are all innumerate science illiterates… The Ignorati, if you will.

          15. “My unvaccinated kid has had an episode of chicken pox but she didn’t even miss school those days”

            In Colorado children with chicken pox are excluded from school. Most parents have the common sense to keep them home.

          16. In Europe most politicians, teachers and parents have the common sense to keep them at school.

            The U.S. are paranoid about germs and happy about poisons.

          17. Europe, the Netherlands. A particularly crowded country where vaccines are optional yet the corpses are not clogging the streets.

          18. Bully for you. Colorado, Ft. Collins in particular here.

            My question wasn’t about vaccines. I was questioning your decision to send your child with chicken pox to school.

          19. “…I was questioning your decision to send your child with chicken pox to school.”

            It’s the norm, unless the child is ill which is almost never he case.

          20. I know the U.S are paranoid.

            Measles parties and chicken-pox parties are popular in my neck of the woods.

          21. Just what I always say. It is ultimately beneficial for children (not newborns) to get measles, mumps, chickenpox, pertussis, rubella, hep-A, and flu. There is no reason to try to prevent them.

          22. Four cases of encephalitis 16 years ago. Probably caused by treatment at a hospital.

            Try harder to scare me.

            “..And these “measles” epidemics?”

            That’s what measles parties are for! LOL

          23. “By February 4, 2000, 2961 measles cases, including three measles-related deaths, had been reported by 35 MHSs to the national registry.”
            Maybe they were caused by autismomo spreading peanuts on the jelly sandwiches, bozo.

          24. 1999-2000: A death rate of 1:1000

            Nederland is obviously a Third World country. Every antivaxxer knows measles only kills skinnies with no clean drinking water.

          25. “…measles-related deaths”

            Measles-related is not the same as measles-caused.

            Coincidental deaths … I’m sure you’re familiar with the concept .. LOL.

          26. That surprised me too. A death rate of 1:1000, only 15 years ago.

            Is Nederland a Third World country? I keep reading people’s comments about how this disease only kills malnourished children who don’t have clean water.

          27. “…A death rate of 1:1000, only 15 years ago”

            It’s a ridiculous death rate. Death by doctor has a higher incidence, therefore it’s a more probable explanation for those 2 deaths.

          28. i doubt the 1/1000 number and there was plenty of poverty in the netherlands, among moroccans for instance, 15 years ago.

          29. Thanks. So, if I understand you, measles can kill people even in affluent, Western countries. but only poor people. Therefore “measles parties” which may spread the disease to unintended victims, or refusing vaccination, which also allows the disease to continue circulating in the community, isn’t really the problem. Being poor is the problem.

          30. yes, poverty is indeed the problem and vaccines don’t do much for the malnourished, nothing good at least.
            and since measles infections keep occurring in vaccinated pops and the whooping cough ”epidemic” is driven by the asymptomatic vaccinated pop you can stop blaming the not vaccinated.

          31. “vaccines don’t do much for the malnourished, nothing good at least”

            The 500 to 1000 children in India getting paralyzed daily by polio as recently as the 1990s might tend to disagree.

            Asymptomatic whooping cough carriers may be one factor, maybe, but that isn’t what’s driving the outbreaks. The pertussis outbreak that started in 2013 and has continued at epidemic levels is caused by almost 30% of Colorado children being undervaccinated.

            https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27483375/report-low-vaccination-rates-colorado-result-illnesses-costs

            You can look at the chart above if you have any question about the how well the measles vaccine works. It’s a very infectious disease.

          32. in india it is the oral polio vaccine now paralysing 50,000 or so. and i am sure that another mainstream media article is proof that you’re right.

          33. As they were not littering the streets in the ’80s here when they only gave the deadly DPT, MMR, and polio vaccines.

          34. Not really deadly as their main effect is to induce lifelong and incurable autoimmune disease… not littering the streets, but the pharmacies.

          35. That’s what I said, unless the child is ill, which is rarely the case with chickenpox, it doesn’t need to stay at home.

          36. Chickenpox is a transmitted disease. Unvaccinated kids must be sent home if it’s in their school, and if they’re currently in an outbreak, the infected child must remain at home.

          37. Kids all over Europe go to school with chickenpox if they don’t have symptoms, the E.U. has not followed the U.S. paranoia with this.

          38. Yep, you deff a paid shill, comment history gives you away, what do you do for a living? Why on here all the time? Propaganda pics, denying facts and pushing vaccines, just a hobby right?

          39. Just stfu already, Bridgit. You are the last person that should be tossing accusations at others. You’ve had multiple accounts and contribute nothing but crap that’s been destroyed a thousand times already.

          40. And if you are not really Mike, then how would you know that he is not paid to spend hours a day these last two years cranking out pro-vax comments?

          41. I don’t know for certain he isn’t paid – you don’t prove a negative for the zillonth time. However, the burden of proof is on the claimant and I have yet to see any actual proof (bank statments, pay cheques) that he is being paid.

            There are ways to legally obtain that information if it exists. FOIA requests for example.

          42. Ione — here is one to save for your personal files……….

            Oh and Justthefacts (moronic handle) peanut allergies are thanks to peanut oil in vaccines.

          43. The paid pharma shills who try to suppress information have no interest in seeing our studies, they are here to deny, distract, bully, intimidate, and lie.

          44. I wonder what they get paid…………..I picture most as sitting in the green room of the local mental ward taking turns on the computer and then maniacally laughing when they actually get a response.

          45. Patented (in the 60s) does not equal used in any vaccine, ever. That would be yet another VacLies-derived antivaaccine trope.

            You have to be pretty gullible, or lazy, to accept this uncritically. You’re embarrassing yourself, really.

            Lurkers: see skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/antivaccine-lies-peanut-oil-vaccines for more information, including citations.

          46. So then you’ve actually read the book and you’re dismissing it’s factual claims and evidence based on ?? what exactly?

            You can dismiss this book, which claims peanut oil as a vaccine antigen adjuvant, based on what? You were there? You don’t like the author? Your wife left you?

            The fact that most of this information is literally FACT and out there for the reading should wake up at least a few of you.

          47. Can you provide a link to this book? I searched Amazon and could not find it. I did find other works by Tim O’Shea like this one – “Vaccination Is Not Immunization 4th Ed.”.

            I read through the pages available hoping to get some insight or find references to his research or any citations, preferably peer-reviewed. I couldn’t find any. All the content seemed to be about conspiracy theories.

          48. You bet:
            Peanut Allergy Epidemic

            https://www.amazon.com/Peanut-Allergy-Epidemic-Whats-Causing/dp/163220357X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452463708&sr=1-1&keywords=the+peanut+allergy+epidemic

            I would also recommend:

            The Virus and the Vaccine

            https://www.amazon.com/Polio-American-David-M-Oshinsky/dp/0195307143/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452463939&sr=1-1&keywords=polio+an+american+story

            What your doctor won’t tell you about vaccinations

            https://www.amazon.com/What-Doctor-About-Childrens-Vaccinations-ebook/dp/B00EXU5EWC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452463892&sr=1-1&keywords=what+your+doctor+won%27t+tell+you+about+vaccination

            And this book is a PRO vaccine book but it will show you the total politics and PR that went into making the “polio” vaccine what is was (also I would google other names for polio – we never really got rid of it – look at the definition of ALS (for example) and then the definition of polio — SMALL itty bitty markers that they did not have in the 50s – so they renamed polio under several different names, entrovirus for example).

            https://www.amazon.com/Polio-American-David-M-Oshinsky/dp/0195307143/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452463939&sr=1-1&keywords=polio+an+american+story

          49. Book?? What book? Did you mention a book? Did you read any of the comments in response to your meme that showed an ad for one?

            While books are often interesting, they don’t make for good primary sources. I will sometimes go back to look something up in a textbook (rarely), but mainly rely on peer-reviewed journal articles. Not to mention that any book you are likely to reference is almost certainly a vanity-published moneymaker for someone incapable of passing peer review, targeted for sale to those who’ve already made up their minds.

        2. He’s allergic because he reacted to one or more vaccines with sensitization to substances resembling some of the vaccine ingredients. So she wants to drag everyone else down into her son’s dangerous situation. No way.

          1. No evidence, crazy ideas. You have quite an imagination as you twist facts to make you happy.

            got links?HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHH

          2. Vaccines ARE ANTIGENS, Moron. That is what they do.
            You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are hopeless.

          3. I didn’t know water was an antigen! Thanks or the qualified info!

            What do ANTIGENS do, sport? You should know that.

          4. Water is not an antigen.

            Dead antigens =/= virulent antigens

            Attenuated antigens =/= virulent antigens

            Acelluar antigens =/=virulent antigens

            Subunit antigens =/= virulent antigens.

            But I’m sure we can all buy some waterproof plasters if it makes you feel better.

          5. “…Water is not an antigen.”

            That was Justthecrap’s claim, not mine.

            What do the ANTIGENS in vaccines do, sport?

          6. No. Justthefacts said that “Vaccines ARE ANTIGENS, Moron. That is what they do.You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are hopeless.”

            What that means is Justthefacts or Justthecrap’s claim thinks that you should know that he thinks: “Vaccines are antigens, . That is what they do. You think that vaccines are homeopathic.”

            Water is a liquid, the bacteria/virus are antigens. Very simple.

          7. Vaccines show your immune system what a disease looks with a dead germ, a weakened germ, part of a germ or just an antigen.

            Homeopathy in the same-disease sense but it’s not proof that homeopathy as in magic water works. The evidence against homeopathy in the magic water sense? Filters.

          8. Busy little spammer, aren’tcha? Why don’t you tell us what you think your citations mean? Leaving mouseturds in the comments on their own goes to show poor faith, like you (a) don’t understand your sources, (b) don’t have an opinion you’re willing to defend, and/or (c) aren’t interested enough to engage.What a shock.

          9. Incensed troll! Kool, Did you go to the link? LOL, no why would you? It does give you information relative to the topic. I did not think I had to explain that obvious part. But, then you knew that, you just want to keep confusing the issue.

          10. “Peanut protein, egg protein and human fetal tissues found in vaccines are antigens. … what will their antibodies do?”

            Well, imagine what horror happens when someone eats an egg or a peanut butter sandwich, or a woman becomes pregnant.

            PS No vaccine ever used had peanut oil in it. You think one did, let’s see the vaccine insert info and constituent list please.

          11. “…imagine what horror happens when someone eats an egg or a peanut butter sandwich”

            Now try injecting yourself an egg, estúpido.

            By the way … from the horse’s mouth!

            Vaccines

            By Paul A. Offit – Foreword by Bill Gates.

            “…For several vaccines, significant antibody responses were seen against antigens not known to be present in the vaccines, suggesting that vaccines contained trace quantities of these antigens and were stimulating an anamnestic response in these adults, who had been immunized in childhood with whole-cell vaccine.”

            (anamnestic = permanent)

            Undetectable trace amounts of antigens can elicit life-long antibodies against those antigens!

            So what can be expected from exposure to the human antigens present (in trace amounts) in vaccines? Nothing less that a life-long response against the own tissues of the vaccinee … also known as autoimmune disease.

          12. So how do you think eating peanuts could trigger a systemic allergic response, genius?
            The pathophysiology, in your own words, please….

          13. “…So how do you think eating peanuts could trigger an allergy, genius?”

            Ty injecting yourself with peanut butter, estúpido. Season with adjuvants to taste.

          14. You think every woman whose ever been pregnant suffers autoimmune disease?

            Who’s ignorant and stupid now, cheenius?

          15. Antigens are unpredictable, moron. Play antigen roulette at your own risk! Vaccines are loaded with them, it should be fun!

        3. The reason you vaccinate your kids was to protect them from disease, right?

          Now it seems you’re still afraid of disease!

          Is that a mental illness of some kind?

          1. Sure, today we can detect micrograms in all homeopathic preparations, including vaccines.

          2. Not quite. The homeopathy from the homeopathy stores is magic-water and no, you cannot detect the ingredients in that.

            Even when you test homeopathy from homeopathy stores with the same sensitive equipment, there is no molecules left of whatever substance was originally in water.

            It gets even more absurd for sugar pills because they don’t contain any of the water that no longer contained the original ingredient.

          3. “…Even when you test homeopathy from homeopathy stores with the same
            sensitive equipment, there is no molecules left of whatever substance
            was originally in water.”

            That can only mean one thing, homeopatic preparations are safer than vaccine homeopathy. LOL.

          4. “Vaccines are nocebos.” I do not think that is the terminology you meant to use.

            Do you realize that you have just argued that vaccine injuries are imaginary?

            The term for doing nothing but harm would be “ineffective poisons”.

          5. “…You have just admitted that vaccine injuries are imaginary”

            What you call the “antigen” was never blamed for vaccine injuries.

            It’s the other spurious ingredients with no “therapeutical” role that are being blamed.

          6. Most vaccines usually contain many thousands of times the number/concentration of microbes that could cause disease naturally.

            For instance, typhoid infection can occur after exposure to 100 bacilli.
            The vaccine contains millions of live typhoid bacilli.
            Hardly “homeopathic”, is it?

          7. Didn’t you just say that there was 18.5mcg of pertussis antigen in another vaccine?
            There is 4,100mg of NaCl in the vaccine you mention…. That must be the active ingredient!

          8. “..Didn’t you just say that there was 18.5mcg of pertussis antigen in another vaccine?

            Adding diffrent antigens up? LOL the scientist!

            “…There is 4,100mg of NaCl in the vaccine you mention…. That must be the active ingredient!

            Saline placebo, makes you feel protected, real cheap.

          9. Vax-pusher’s rethoric:

            Pertactin: 2.5 mcg –> immunologically active! gives protection! it’s not homeopathy! bla .. bla .. bla ..

            Mercury: 24.5 mcg –> biologically inactive, non-toxic, homeopathically diluted … it’s good for you!

            LOL … LOL

          10. All that research and you didn’t realize that newborns exist and they’re one very good reason to be scared?

          11. Yeah, because schools are brimming with newborns, that’s why vacciantion is mandatory.

            It’s also the reason there’s no vacciantion requirements to enter a maternity hospital.

            You’re more fallacious than Eigth is Enough’s family plannng.

          12. Again, it helps if you argue against my actual point.

            School mandates do improve community immunity of towns.

          13. And what is your point? You’re flip-flopping like Hillary.

            “…School mandates do improve community immunity of towns”

            They also increase community autoimmunity of towns.

            Vaccines don’t target illnesses, they target the immune system.

          14. “…”Target the immune system” – no, they are target practice for the immune system”

            What’s the result of the immune system target practising on peanut protein, egg protein and human fetal tissues?

          15. “…The antigen is the target practice.”

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen

            an antigen is any substance that causes an immune system to produce antibodies against it.

            All extraneous proteins are treated as antigens by the immune system.

            What’s the result of the immune system target practising on peanut protein, egg protein and human fetal tissues found in vaccines?

          16. “..Then how do you account for the lack of difference in allergy rates in vaccinated vs unvaccinated?”

            Selection bias.

            The CDC knows better. Their document “Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)” refers us to the following paper (ref. 79)

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9949325

            “Most anaphylactic reactions and some urticarial reactions to gelatin-containing measles, mumps, and rubella monovalent vaccines are associated with IgE-mediated gelatin allergy. DTaP immunization histories suggest that the gelatin-containing DTaP vaccine may have a causal relationship to the development of this gelatin allergy.

            Charles Richet, a Nobel Prize winning doctor discovered (over a hundred years ago) that proteins injected into the bloodstream will result in the development of allergy to that protein.

            Exact same conclusions, a hundred years apart!

            Here is the CDC’s document showing vaccine ingredients: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdfDOCS

            Several vaccines still contain gelatin. They also of course contain other food proteins such casein (milk), eggs and yeast.

          17. Do you have any actual evidence that selection bias occurred?

            How does your CDC conspiracy hypothesis account for lack of difference, in say, German studies?

            CDC – page not found. It must be a cover-up, I’m sure.

          18. “…Do you have any actual evidence that selection bias occurred?”

            While autoimmune disease is extremely broad, the range of allergic reactions researched in the studies is very narrow.

          19. “…There are no peanut proteins or fetal tissues found in vaccines. That is another lie.”

            Another pro-vaxxer boasting of her ingnorance!

            CDC – Excipients Included in U.S. Vaccines, by Vaccine

            (table on page 1)

            Vaccine: ……………………….. Contains:
            DTaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel) … MRC-5 (human diploid) cells

            Hep A/Hep B (Twinrix) …….MRC-5 human diploid cells

            Where do these MRC-5 cells come from?

            Coriell Institute for Medical Research

            “The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.

          20. ¡Muy bien hecho, pendejo! You actually used the CDC Pink Book. Betcha
            thought no one would look at it. What you conveniently omitted, from the very
            top of the page, was:

            This table includes not only vaccine
            ingredients (e.g., adjuvants and preservatives), but also substances
            used during the manufacturing process, including vaccine-production media, that
            are removed from the final product
            and present only in trace
            quantities.

            Dishonest? Or stupid? You choose.

          21. “…present only in trace quantities.

            Present. Full stop.

            The immune system does not know about “trace quantities”, it reacts to every molecule it comes across.

            Diseases and Disorders – Vol. 1

            “…even trace quantities of exposure to the allergen can provoke a reaction”

            Keep beating your ignorant chest!

          22. Head::desk. You are the epitome of evidence for “one caannot reason someone out of something they did not reason themselves into.”

          23. Vaccines

            By Paul A. Offit – Foreword by Bill Gates.

            “…For several vaccines, significant antibody responses were seen against antigens not known to be present in the vaccines, suggesting that vaccines contained trace quantities of these antigens and were stimulating an anamnesic response in these adults, who had been immunized in childhood with whole-cell vaccine.”

            (anamnesic = permanent)

            Trace amounts of antigens can elicit life-long antibodies against those antigens!

            So what can be expected from exposure to the human antigens present (in trace amounts) in vaccines? Nothing less that a life-long response against the own tissues of the vaccinee … also known as autoimmunity disease.

          24. Page? Your link, while it does go to the book and does highlight, in yellow, all instances of words from your search string, doesn’t highlight “trace amounts,” but only random occurances of ‘antibody’ and ‘vaccine.’ It’s a pretty long book.

          25. The link takes you to the exact page (490) where the citation is taken from. READ IT lazy bum.

          26. Testy, aren’t you? I asked because for me, for whatever reason, it landed on page one.Meanwhile, you left out the part where this is regarding testing the new acellular pertussis vaccine in adolescents and adults, where it was found that some subjects–who had previously been vaccinated with the whole cell vaccine–developed a strong antibody response to pertussis antigens. Wow! That’s amazing.And does not support your point regarding autoimmune disorders.

          27. “(anamnesic = permanent)”
            Nope. It’s not anamnesic response anyway, it’s anamnestic response.
            Go look it up and learn.

          28. Like you are double dim, sure.
            Tell us, in your own words, what the meaning of anamnestic is, would you?

          29. “…Tell us, in your own words, what the meaning of anamnestic is”

            OK, I’ll try:

            anamnestic = finger
            life-long autoimmune disease = moon
            Mike = ….

            Can you fill in the last term?

          30. Heh. I should have specified the choice was for readers/lurkers. Agree with your assessment, however.

          31. Had you actually taken the time to read the links you have noted the references, but you have your mind made up, never mind the facts.

          32. And yet, those sites are still not science, and the research they cite is either misrepresented, poorly performed, or just garbage.

          33. Doesn’t fit your model then I take it, nor did the conclusions fit your desired outcome. Typical of drug companies.

          34. I’ve read the references – when you read the whole thing, those references do not say what vaxtruth, greenmedinfo, natural news et al are using carefully selected parts to claim they say. – this is one reason why vaxtruth et al is not reliable.

          35. And the “facts” from “SkepticRaptor” are? You are funny Sia. Here is a book for you, I am sure you will have your excuses not to read it, “Dissolving Illusions” By Humphries Enjoy.

          1. No wonder you quote the quack, Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a “wholistic” pediatrician who support homeopathy.

            You think vaccines are homeopathy.

            Here is my favorite Palevsky tripe:
            “So where are all the viruses that we’re concerned about?
            They’re probably in our own chromosomes already, The viruses
            kick in from within, not from the outside. We all think that the virus comes from outside. Statistically we have hundreds of millions of viruses ready to be coded for inside our bodies. And you’re being told that the virus comes from outside.”

            That’s right Folks, Dr. Lawrence Palevsky thinks our bodies manufacture measles virus.
            Pull this clown’s license….

          2. “Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a “wholistic” pediatrician who support homeopathy.”

            You and him have so much in common then.

            “Dr. Lawrence Palevsky thinks our bodies manufacture measles virus.”

            What he means is the so-called measles virus is just mRNA, not exogenous.

          3. “…You think vaccines are homeopathic. You are a Moron.”

            Well, you think homeopathy works. Who’s the moron?

          4. It makes far more sense if you argue against actual points and not strawmen.

            1)100%0%.

            2) Again, we don’t just care about our own children – that would be selfish. Babies too young to vaccinate, kids who cannot be vaccinated.

            3)No, I think that they are more likely to cause an outbreak.

            4)I know what the organisms are. Rubella, measles, mumps.

            Of course, a distorted position of pro-vaccine made by anti-vaxxers because they either do not know our actual position or would like to deliberately misrepresent the position would not make sense.

          5. “..4)I know what the organisms are. Rubella, measles, mumps”

            Unvaccinated kids are loaded with all that? Is that how you see them, as festering bags of germs?

            What an asinine assumption! You must be mentally ill.

          6. Patient Zero is not the person that caused the outbreak. It is the first case that was found.

            What are you telling us? Vaccines aren’t perfect? We know that. Imperfection =/= useless.

            And no, that is a strawman. More likely to contract it and more likely to spread it.

          7. “…Patient Zero is not the person that caused the outbreak. It is the first case that was found.”

            Who caused the outbreak then?

            “… More likely to contract it and more likely to spread it.”

            No, just more likely to be diagnosed than a vaccinated kid with identical clinical picture.

          8. Aren’t stricter diagnostic criteria for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated conspirational enough for you?

          9. “…Not without any evidence that it actually occurs, no.”

            The evidence is no secret. Discarding of vaccinated cases its written black on white on the WHO guidelines:

            Manual for the laboratory diagnosis of measles virus infection

            https://www.who.int/ihr/elibrary/manual_diagn_lab_mea_rub_en.pdfdf

            (table on page 9)

            IgM positive -> laboratory confirmed (**)

            ** If the case has been vaccinated within 6 weeks before serum collection and an active search in the community does not find evidence of measles transmission, and there is no history of travelling to areas where measles virus is known to be circulating, the case should be discarded.”

          10. Oh the sanctimonious, holier than thou, “we want to save those unable to be vaccinated” Really? Give me a break, you just want to impose your views on other people to make yourself “right.” I and most of those opposed to mandatory vaccination could care less if you vaccinate or not, it is your right to choose. We would just like the right to read the material and make our own decisions based on facts. Most people opposed to mandatory vaccination are more educated than the average population and are probably more likely to be doing other things to enhance the immune system of themselves and their children. We don’t need busy-bodies like you telling us how to live our lives, thank you. And back to the time honored question, “If your vaccines work, why are you worried about my unvaccinated child?” “Herd immunity does not explain your ‘fear’ of your child getting the disease if the vaccine works.”

          11. I am NOT scared of my child getting the disease. I am scared FOR your child, I am scared OF the disease wreaking havoc. I am scared FOR babies who can’t be vaccinated. I am scared of kids who

            And the fact that their numbers between 0% and 100% does.

            I am sorry you feel that it is time-honoured but the answer to the time-honoured question is:

            1)I am worried for kids too young to have got the disease
            2)I am worried about your kid
            3)I realize there are numbers between 100% and 0% – your fallacy is the Nirvana fallacy.
            4)I am sorry you don’t believe that herd immunity explains it. It does, it is a pity people refuse to accept facts.

            This has been answered several times

          12. I guess I touched a nerve in the busy body that needs to be validated by everybody doing what she does. No, my dear, herd immunity has not been proven. Especially when you see populations that demonstrate close to 100% compliance with having vaccinations still coming down with the disease and vaccinated people coming down with the various diseases they were supposedly protected against. Argue against the facts if you like but they still are the facts.
            I love liberal progressives that want to mind everybody’s business

          13. Oh, are you talking about say, California?

            99% state rate won’t do you any good if you attend a school with 80% or a church with 64%.

          14. Oh God, you are so funny. 65% was, used to be considered the goal for “herd immunity” Well that proved wrong, now it is 95% and that seems to be wrong as well. BTW is the school and church in another state? You said the state was at 99%. Your rationalizations are pathetic

          15. Wrong. Different diseases have different thresholds for herd immunity.

            Your herd is not your state. It is in your town.

          16. LOL and where is your state? Come on 99% and you are arguing that so called “herd immunity” is still not achieved? Progressive liberals really do have to control everybody else don’t you?

          17. And your school, or neighbourhood, or place of worship are also your herd.The problem is that while state-wide, or country-wide vaccination rates are pretty good (because antivaxxers are fortunately a minority), they tend to cluster together geographically or behaviourally, or both. So we see an outbreak become epidemic instead

          18. “…Your herd is not your state. It is in your town.

            With vax antibodies waning after 2 – 10 ten years, by the age of 20 nobody is no longer immune in your herd.

            Therefore “vaccine herd immunity” is B.S. … the bulk of the population remains susceptible. In spite of it the streets aren’t littered with corpses, contrary to the “predictions” made by the vax-pushers.

          19. Wrong – that might prove that a population does not have sufficient immune people for herd immunity but it doesn’t prove that the entire concept is wrong.

          20. “…it doesn’t prove that the entire concept is wrong.”

            You’ve hard it from SIa, guys.

            When there’s sufficient immune people for herd immunity, the mere concept protects you. LOL

          21. I am glad this amuses you. It is actually a logical extension of your own side’s claim that you can’t pass on a disease you don’t have.

          22. “…your own side’s claim that you can’t pass on a disease you don’t have.”

            Cite me. Now you resort to slander, adding to the pitiful set of arguments of your camp.

          23. Using someone else’s arguments to “debunk” mine can only be the strategy of a very “special” kind of person … I’m tempted to attribute it to your vaccines.

          24. Sia forgot Walmart, McDonalds, Stadiums, and anything attended by children. Sia would support Gold Stars or x’s tatooed on foreheads.

          25. : …I am scared FOR your child, I am scared OF the disease wreaking havoc”

            And happy when kids get crippled for life by vaccines + denial of causality.

          26. “…Show me some causality”

            You ask for causality but simple correlation is your only argument to pretend vaccines work.

            That’s some nerve!

          27. “…we have plausible mechanism”

            Sure, one that explains vaccine injury just as well.

            Random vaccine antigens induce random antibodies with unpredictable long-lasting consequences for your health.

            The vaccine principle applies to all antigens not just the ones you like.

            Mass vaccination –> largest ever epidemic of autoimmune disease.

          28. I am afraid that the evidence simply does not support that hypothesis – there should be a difference in the allergy rate if that was true – there isn’t.

          29. “…I am afraid that the evidence simply does not support that hypothesis”

            So you deny that antigens induce antibodies?

            Perhaps they need to obtain your approval first … LOL

          30. Of course antigens induce antibodies. But if vaccines caused allergies, then allergy rates should be higher in vaccinated kids. Not the case.

        4. i see you don’t understand the difference between real, immediate threat and unlikely, only remotely possible threat.

          1. Sorry, I misspoke.
            So you are defending the “argument” presented by the woman in the cartoon?

          2. i feel that i can’t help you if you don’t understand the difference between real thread and hypothetical threat.
            the cartoon only makes sense to those who don’t and is thus stupid rather than clever.

          3. No, Fanatic. Disease is not a “hypothetical” threat. It is a very real threat and vaccines prevent them.

            The idea that disease is a “hypothetical” threat is you delusion. the rest of us know better.

      1. It’s divide and conquer. There are a number of devoted cranks who don’t believe in the Germ Theory of Disease and credit their avoidance of polio, smallpox, and measles to kale, yoga, and excellent toilet-paper technique. Disease is malnutrition and “filth”. Nothing we do will cure narcissists.

        But there are also the fairly ordinary people who have been terrified by the wild, overblown, unsubstantiated, false claims these people make. And showing them that their leaders are frauds, liars, and fools is a great way to get them to vaccinated. So is imposing costs on freeriding.

        1. That was quite the rant there Andrew, I bet you feel better now, don’t you? I was curious about one thing you said that has me wondering…you mockingly declare we believe “Disease is malnutrition” I guess you don’t believe in the Vitamin and Mineral Theory?

          Rickets, Beri-Beri, Pellegra..
          Calcium deficiencies are related to low bone mass, weakening of bones due to osteoporosis, convulsions, and abnormal heart rhythms. They can even be life-threatening.

          According to the WHO, a lack of vitamin A is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children

          Thiamine deficiency is a common cause of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

          Folate is especially important for fetal development. It plays a crucial role in the formation of a developing child’s brain and spinal cord. Folate deficiency can lead to severe birth defects, growth problems, or anemia.

          Iron-deficiency anemia affects so many people that it’s now widely recognized as a public health epidemic.

          Vitamin B-3 (niacin) is another mineral that helps the body convert food into energy. A severe deficiency of niacin is often referred to as pellagra

          1. The difference between scientists and antivax cultists is that scientists understand illness arises from a variety of causes. No one is working on a vaccine for scurvy; as long ago as the late 17th century doctors were investigating the possibility of an anti-scorbutic agent in food. No one is working on a vaccine for cholera; modern sanitation has eliminated it in developed countries.

            However, Vitamin C and clean living do nothing against polio. The vaccine does. [EDIT for amusing missing negative]

          2. “…scientists understand illness arises from a variety of causes.”

            That’s why browsing PUBMED is a much more sobering experience than feeding your brain WHO and CDC canned slogan soup.

          3. “…Vitamin C and clean living do nothing against polio. The vaccine does”

            It it works, then why have the missing “polio” cases in India reappeared under the new name “APFP” in even greater numbers?

            Without a redefinition of “polio” in the middle of a vax campaign, the failure of the vaccine would be apparent to all.

          4. “…AFP is not Polio.
            Transverse Myelitis is not Polio.
            Aseptic meningitis in not Polo…”

            Agreed.

            Nobody argues that AFP, Transverse Myelitis, etc. are not Polio.

            The problem is that all of it gets mislabeled as Polio when the diagnostic criteria is clinical only (as opposed to lab confirmed.)

            It was the case before 1957.
            It was the case in India before the WHO mass vaccination campaign.

            Lab confirmation is only used post-vaccine … this restriction in the diagnosis explains the drop in the incidence by itself, whether or not any vaccine had been used.

          5. That blog has plenty of references, proof, and evidence. Sorry you anti-vaxxers don’t “believe” in proof and evidence. Then again, you wouldn’t be able to lie to us again and again if you used actual data and proof. So if you call that a junk blog, then just run back to your useless conspiracy sites like Age of Autism and Vactruth.

          6. IDGAF what age of autism or anyone else has to say blog boy. I take information where I see fit. Just like I will take medical interventions like vaccines where I see fit. If I am an anti vaxxer why are my kids vaccinated? My terms, not yours, and not the crooked, bribed governments.

          7. You vaccinated your kids? I am disgusted with you. Haven’t you a heart? Why have you condemned them to a life of disease and premature death from heart disease and dementia?

          8. Quite right Kiko. That is a junk blog indeed.
            He needs to go to Natural News to get accurate information and cutting edge research.

          9. Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an uncommon condition only seen in 1-2/100,000 population has rarely been OBSERVED post vaccination. Research has never identified a definitive causal relationship. About two-thirds of GBS cases are seen following bacterial or viral infections with no recent vaccination administration. The preventive benefits of vaccinations far outweigh the infinitesimal risk of GBS.

          10. But I do all my medical diagnosis over the internet. What’s wrong with that? It shows me vaccines cause all diseases.

          11. Do you see swimming pools closed in fear of NPAFP? If not, it isn’t polio. The biggest problem with your claim is “in even greater numbers”. It isn’t. Even that curiously high NPAFP rate (some or more of which is attributable merely to better surveillance) is maybe 15% of the pre-vaccine polio rate in India.

            There are numerous problems with the DDT theory of polio, especially that the decline in polio was quite sudden and does not agree worldwide with the timing of DDT restriction. But does agree with vaccine introduction.

          12. “…does not agree worldwidewith the timing of DDT restriction.”

            Because it wasn’t restricted worldwide, retardo. It’s still used in Africa, therefore the so-called “polio” cases that the vaccine is useless to prevent.

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501012.html

            “…The World Health Organization reversed a 30-year-old policy yesterday and declared its support for indoor use of the pesticide DDT to control mosquitoes in regions where malaria is a major health problem.

            The WHO is planting “polio” again. Soon the crime cartel will declare the need for new vaccinatinon campaigns.

          13. I repeat, Vacunas, the problem with your theory is that remaining cases of polio don’t match up in time and place with remaining use of DDT.

          14. “What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence” —Christopher Hitchens

          15. Your assertion is that limited DDT use is back. Its connection to polio, you can find only the usual crank sites.

          16. Vacunas, you have a bad habit of not reading your sources all they way through. Watch for the bold-face parts (this is all from your own link)

            By 1991 total bans on the use of DDT, including in disease control, were in place in at least 26 countries…The Stockholm Convention, which took effect in 2004, outlawed several persistent organic pollutants, and restricted DDT use to vector control. The Convention has been ratified by more than 170 countries and is endorsed by most environmental groups.…Despite the worldwide ban, agricultural use continued in India,[47] North Korea, and possibly elsewhere as of 2008.

            The correlation between pesticide use and polio is weak. One could plausibly argue that something in pesticides aggravated polio, but the causal claim of pesticides instead of the polio virus is a loser because it doesn’t match the cyclic nature of polio incidence. It’s clearly an infectious disease, not poisoning. The weaker claim doesn’t match time-and-place evidence that well, but the stronger claim is just deranged.

          17. “…Despite the worldwide ban, agricultural use continued in INDIA,[47] “

            Which country had the greatest epidemic EVER of so-called “polio”?

            https://www.unicef.org/media/media_7552.html

            GENEVA/NEW YORK, 5 February 2003 – To combat the largest polio epidemic in recent history, on 9 February India will launch the largest ever mass immunization campaign against polio, targeting 165 million children.

            Thank you for taking the effort of proving my point!

          18. “…the causal claim of pesticides instead of the polio virus is a loser because it doesn’t match the cyclic nature of polio incidence”

            The match between fumigation season and peaks of polio incidence were observed and reported by scientists at the time:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poliomyelitis

            History of Poliomyelitis

            …By 1910, frequent epidemics became regular events throughout the developed world, primarily in cities during the summer months.

            Oh! the summer.. the beaches, the swimming pools…

            https://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/user1/ddt-spray-beach.jpg

          19. By 1910? Odd, DDT wasn’t used this way until after World War 2. In 1910, although already invented, it wasn’t yet used for much of anything. Its insecticidal qualities were still unknown.

            As I said, the time-and-place don’t match well for your theory. The point was not that polio was more prevalent in the summer, but that the level of incidence varied cyclically year to year.

          20. “…The point was not that polio was more prevalent in the summer”

            Good, you have nothing against s the killer argument.

            “…the level of incidence varied cyclically year to year.”

            Weak. It’s irrelevant because every disease does the same regardless of cause.

          21. “It’s irrelevant because every disease does the same regardless of cause.”

            Really? What’s the cycle for lung cancer? Do you think about what you write?

          22. It was the interaction of the DDT or pesticides with the polio virus that permitted paralytic cases to occur. Before DDT and pesticide use began, 100% of children in India and Egypt, and probably in other countries too, had antibodies to polio, most from subclinical cases. Even in the ’40s and ’50s, most people got subclinical immunity with no symptoms, 9% got respiratory symptoms and then recovered, and in only less than 1% did paralysis occur, and in only a fraction of those cases was it permanent. Probably because that small percentage had had enough exposure to chemicals to potentiate the paralysis.

          23. Exactly. Well said.
            Polio is due to DDT and has nothing to do with viruses. Viruses don’t exist – they are a construct of the Pharma-medicopolitical cabal. The only virus known to cause disease is the AIDS virus which was invented by the CIA to kill blacks and gays.
            You tell it, sister!

          24. Well, it’s not that it had nothing to do with viruses, but that the viruses caused a mild disease and permanent immunity unless there were the chemicals present which permitted the viruses to sometimes cause paralytic symptoms. Even the paralysis was usually temporary, and we don’t know if, when it was permanent, it was because of a high amount of DDT or pesticides in the system or because of individual factors permitting the damage even at a low level of chemicals. Like with EV-68 last year: hundreds of thousands of cases, 120 cases of paralysis, 12 deaths. I was wondering yesterday if EV-68 was milder than the old polio or if it was less virulent because children have less exposure to DDT and pesticides than they did before. Impossible to tell without more information.

          25. DDT is not connected with Polio but with AFP.

            AFP was (ands still is) massively misdiagnosed as Polio wherever/whenever the clinical diagnostic criteria alone is in use.

          26. Vitamin C actually DOES treat polio if used in high enough and frequent enough doses. Clean living (meaning modern toilets and not swimming in contaminated water) WILL prevent the water-borne form of polio, though not the airborne kind.

          27. Polio is caused by toxins and pesticides like DDT.
            What is the “airborne kind” of polio, genius?

          28. You have to have both factors. Polio is often transmitted in the air, in coughs. My daughter last year coughed for over a month with the EV-68 virus, as did dozens of kids at her school. Those with asthma sometimes had to be hospitalized. She did not have paralytic symptoms, as most did not, maybe because she didn’t have the chemicals in her system which would have interacted with the virus to cause paralysis. But there were about 110 children who were paralyzed by the virus, and about 12 deaths. Polio can also be transmitted through the water by contaminated feces. That’s why they used to close swimming pools and beaches during polio outbreaks. I’ve wondered if it was really necessary to close swimming pools, as I’d assume the chlorine would have killed the virus. I don’t know. Maybe it might have been carried onto the concrete outside the pool and walked in?

          29. “Polio is often transmitted in the air, in coughs.”

            Antivax kook warning:
            Readers please disregard anything this deluded, medically-uneducated wingnut says.

          30. Several (many?) of my friends don’t believe that you’re a doctor, and your ignorance as to this might mean that they’re right.

            “How Is Polio Spread? — Oral-Oral Polio Transmission

            Less commonly, polio transmission occurs through contact with respiratory droplets or saliva. When an infected person sneezes or coughs, droplets spray into the air. The infected mucus or saliva can land in other people’s noses or throats when they breathe or put their fingers in their mouth, nose, or eyes after touching an infected surface. ”

            https://polio.emedtv.com/polio/how-is-polio-spread.html

          31. Or it might be that you’re so busy scoffing at those concerned about vaccines for several hours a day, that you have no time to keep up with medical news. Last year you scoffed when I said that enterovirus-d68 was a new kind of polio. Did you see this?

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/03/30/link-found-between-children-with-paralysis-and-polio-like-strain-of-enterovirus-d68-study-says/

            I think that outbreak of the new polio, which my daughter caught at school, where dozens of kids were coughing on each other, was transmitted mainly by the respiratory route.

          32. “Several (many?) of my friends don’t believe that you’re a doctor, and your ignorance as to this might mean that they’re right.

            “How Is Polio Spread? — Oral-Oral Polio Transmission. Less commonly, polio transmission occurs through contact with respiratory droplets or saliva.

            This comment of yours Cia encapsulates both your highly selective antivax bias and your innumeracy.

            You seem to struggle awfully badly with quantitative terms. When talking of the frequency of vaccine side effects, a rare occurrence (eg encephalitis; less than one per million vaccine shots) suddenly becomes a “common” reaction, one that is “often” seen. I have even seen you suggest it “always” happens with every vaccination.

            Then, when looking at a frequently encountered complication of the disease, you insist that it “never”, or “hardly ever” happens, or only under rather artificial circumstances of your own invention.

            And so it is with Polio transmission. The route of usual transmission is that of feco-oral spread, with a lesser contribution from oral-oral spread (direct contact with saliva), and all standard sources (WHO, CDC, ECDC etc attest to this. It is theoretically possible that an infected individual if shedding salivary virus could transmit through coughing into the face of another, but this is hardly a route of transmission meriting your claim: “Polio is often transmitted in the air” Indeed your own source, for which you probably had to trawl Google for quite a while to track down, says this happens “less commonly”.

            You even seem unsure as to how many of your friends think I am not a doctor. The most revealing part of this statement of yours is that you imagine that a few sycophantic, antivaccine trolls who hang about Disqus awaiting their flying monkey starting orders as your “friends”.

            What a sad, sad life you must lead, if people like Suz Norkan and AutismDad are your “friends”.

            PS: I wonder if you saw the post I sent Suz yesterday with pics of me at work on my isolation ward in my hospital.

            Enjoy.
            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2452309553

          33. I covered both means of transmission. I said: “Polio is often transmitted in the air, in coughs.” AND I said: “Polio can also be transmitted through the water by contaminated feces.” Both statements are true, and I did not state the quantitative value of each means of transmission. “Often” was true and “also transmitted” was also true. YOU said: “Antivax kook warning:
            Readers please disregard anything this deluded, medically-uneducated wingnut says,” when, in fact, what I said was true. What are we to make of your insulting and attempting to mock someone who states the truth?
            Up until now, I have told my friends that I believed that you really were a doctor. But I don’t think a professional would attempt to deride someone, making up what they WANTED them to have said in order to try to justify behavior low and unbecoming.

          34. OK, give us a quantitative estimate of the value of “often” in your statement, please.
            Is it 10%?
            50%?
            80%?
            Please tell us, then we can see what the term means to you.

            [Readers should be reminded that Cia quotes highly selectively, only cherrypicking articles that appear to support her predetermined biased POV.
            That is why in discussions of Pertussis vaccine efficacy, she will misuse one paper that was published about an “unexpectedly low” protective rate of 24% and present it as the usual de facto vaccine efficacy, when in reality the scientific consensus from multiple studies is that the vaccine is around 85% protective, for instance.]

          35. This Oxford Journals study found that the pertussis vaccine’s effectiveness in children 8-12 was only 24%: https://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/12/1730
            Those studies which show a higher effectiveness might be correct for the group which they studied, but it should not be forgotten how often medical authorities tamper with studies to make them yield the results the pharma companies want to see.
            I know as well as everyone else that the old polio was believed to usually be transmitted by water contaminated with infected feces. That’s why when discussing whether or not hygiene can prevent airborne diseases, I always say it can’t, it can only prevent water-borne diseases like polio and cholera. I also learned that polio can also be airborne, I don’t know whether or not you learned that, but I found a source on that which I posted.
            EV-d68 last year, the new form of polio, was transmitted last year primarily by the airborne route, sweeping through thousands of schools, many of which considered shutting down until the epidemic had ended. When I called the school to say that C would not be going, as she had the symptoms of a bad cold and cough, the secretary said that there were many students out with a severe flu-like illness, which made me wonder if I should have described it as a flu instead of a cold. It was a week later that I read about the enterovirus epidemic sweeping the country, one of its epicenters being Kansas City, not far from here. It is very unlikely that it was transmitted by infected feces tracked around on the school’s linoleum floors. Nevertheless, many thousands of kids were out sick with it. They said only kids younger than 20, the older ones already had immunity. Another conundrum: was it that, just like in olden times, all of the adult population have gotten permanent immunity to more kinds of polio than the one we vaccinate against (and 100% of children in many countries used to get immunity to that through subclinical infections)? It was also an enterovirus, also a late summer-fall illness, also came on very suddenly and severely, and also caused only respiratory symptoms in most, but paralysis in a small percentage and death in an even smaller percentage.
            I would submit that, since 90% of the population used to get immunity to polio through subclinical infection, it cannot be known how many of them got it through the water or airborne route. And, in the case of the large number who did not appear to have been exposed to infected feces in water at a swimming pool, beach, or whatever other vector there was, you cannot rule out that they were infected by the airborne route. I would also like to point out that neither you nor anyone else can know how every one of the millions who have had polio got it.

          36. Still waiting for your quantification of your term “OFTEN”, Cia….
            Why are you afraid to tell us?

          37. I looked at the pictures, they were very interesting. How British that the nurse has “Sister” on her uniform. I don’t think the man in the middle was you, however. Could you post a picture with you in it?

          38. “I looked at the pictures, they were very interesting. How British that
            the nurse has “Sister” on her uniform. I don’t think the man in the
            middle was you, however. Could you post a picture with you in it?”

            Sure, just for you, I got another pic today.
            I don’t know why we are all smiling so much – yesterday was the first 24 junior doctor strike, and that had quite an impact on our ward cover and meant extra work for us all, so I’m pretty knackered today. I apologise the Ward sister isn’t in this pic – perhaps I can catch her tomorrow if she isn’t too busy.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ac8cb568323d4b2caea39437741f20ba0ac46e95d84e4f1297f3444949aef55.jpg

          39. Hey! That’s the R&D Department on area 5, 2nd floor at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Woodlands Entrance. Got you!

          40. Hey! That’s the R&D Department on area 5, 2nd floor at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Woodlands Entrance. Why is research and development manager Michelle Stephens missing in the picture?

          41. “I looked at the pictures, they were very interesting. How British that
            the nurse has “Sister” on her uniform. I don’t think the man in the
            middle was you, however. Could you post a picture with you in it?”

            Sure, just for you, I got another pic today.
            I don’t know why we are all smiling so much – yesterday was the first 24
            junior doctor strike, and that had quite an impact on our ward cover and meant extra work for us all, so I’m pretty knackered today. I apologise the Ward sister isn’t in this pic – perhaps I can catch her tomorrow if she isn’t too busy. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f31a3e60620f824aa4c31363b0a3b89f0e41e55f5a3d00405b963a32629b187c.jpg

          42. Are you in Birmingham? I think two years ago you said you had worked at a hospital in Birmingham where you had treated children who had died of meningitis.

          43. “..When talking of the frequency of vaccine side effects, a rare occurrence
            (eg encephalitis; less than one per million vaccine shots) suddenly
            becomes a “common” reaction, one that is “often” seen…”

            First, since the health of a healthy cannot be improved, medical treatment can result, at most, in 0 benefit. Any risk > 1 divided by zero resukts in INFINITE risk/benefit ratio.

            Second, since every kid in the UK is expected to get 8 shots (not counting the boosters), tehrefore the risk of a fully vaccinated kid compounds as (1- 0.99999 ^ 8) = 1:125,000

            Third, encephalitis attributed to measles has an incidence of 1:1,000 conditioned to having the measles.
            – The incidence of measles is the UK 1:45,000 per year (including the vaccinated).
            – Life expectancy in the UK is 81yeas. In a lifetime, the chances of a person getting measles is (1 – (1 – 1/45,000) ^ 81 = 1: 556
            – The chances of getting measles encephalitis in a lifetime are:
            (chances of measles) x (chances of measles-encephalitis) = 1/(556 x 1,000) = 1 : 556,000

            Therefore, the chances of getting vaccine encephalitis is: 556/125 = 4,4 times higher than the chances of getting measles encephalitis.

          44. Chances of a getting measles in a lifetime: (1 – (1 – 1/45,000) ^ 81 = 1: 556″

            Now redo your risk-benefit calculation is there is no vaccination against measles, and the chance of getting measles in a lifetime is 1:1.

            I think you will find that the risk of getting encephalitis would be 126 times higher from measles infection, but that is only with your presumption that the risk of encephalitis is one per million for every vaccine.
            Facts are that the risk is stated to be “less than one per million” for MMR vaccine, and is essentially non-existent for the other vaccines.

            That needs to be factored in, or alternatively you should only do your calculation using MMR vaccine and not all vaccines.

            In addition, you need to factor in the risks of encephalitis that people run from other infections…
            You have left out Chickenpox (similar order of incidence as measles encephalitis), Mumps (around the same).

            Best bow out now before you embarrass yourself further, Vacuous.

          45. Hahaha! This dbag posted the same deeply flawed, innumerate argument to me earlier, and my comment was similar, though less detailed, and maybe not as polite 😉

            disqus.com/home/discussion/rcreader/excavating_the_roots_of_vaccination_anxiety_eula_biss_january_14_at_augustana_college/#comment-2460108096

          46. “…Now redo your risk-benefit calculation is there is no vaccination against measles, and the chance of getting measles in a lifetime is 1:1….”

            I’ll be wiling to redo the calculation when incidence actually increases notably, if it ever does (which is not granted at all).

            It’s irrational to continue vaccinating when the incidence of the disease is so low that the vaccine is more dangerous as the disease it pretends to prevent.

            Public Health policies must be based on reality, not on self-serving hypothetical (scare-mongering) scenarios of which everybody can conjure their own.

          47. “Clearly, there’s something causing more encephalitis in the highly
            vaccinated West and it’s not attributable to parasites or infections…
            then what else is left?”

            I didn’t realise infections only happen in the tropics.
            Herpes virus is one of the commonest causes of encephalitis. If I were you I’d be a bit circumspect thinking it doesn’t exist in the USA.

          48. …”I didn’t realise infections only happen in the tropics.”

            Are you really THAT obtuse, Mrs “research and development manager”?

          49. …”I didn’t realise infections only happen in the tropics.”

            The tropics “enjoy” not all the infections we have in the West, but also their own wide range of endemic infections such as malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas disease, African trypanosomiasis, and dengue.

            All in all and with less vaccination, their rates of encephalitis are lower. Now explain that, researcher!

          50. “…Well there are many causes of infectious encephalitis..”

            Certainly, including more vaccines.

            And the now the cherry on the pie:

            Etiology of measles- and rubella-like illnesses in measles, mumps, and rubella-vaccinated children.

            Inaccuracy of clinical diagnoses (of measles) was soon realized to be a problem in Finland, because after introduction of the MMR program, most suspected cases were not confirmed serologically as an MMR disease.

            Thus, even before vaccines could have any effect, the new (restrictive) diagnosis method accompanying the vaccine revealed that the “old” measles was rarely due to the measles virus in the first place!

            So what diseases were being massively misclassified as “measles” before introduction of vaccination?

            Parvovirus and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infections are often clinically misdiagnosed as measles or rubella.

            A viral etiology was verified in 368 cases, most commonly parvovirus (20%), followed by enterovirus (9%) and adenovirus (4%). Among young children, HHV-6 infection was found in 37 (12%). Thirty-eight children (4%) had double infections. This study confirms that measles- or rubella-like illnesses in MMR-vaccinated children are often caused by other viruses.

            So the “old” measles continues unabated today under the true names

            The only “miracle” of vaccination was to introduce virological confirmation so misclassification no longer occurs, and, as a sole consequence of this, there’s a huge drop in measles diagnoses.

          51. You seem to have the same problem with numbers that Cia has, using words like “most”, “rarely” and “massively” without having a clue.
            Either that, or once again you haven’t bothered to read your own citation. That is becoming rather a persistent habit, Vacuous.

            The finding that there are illnesses similar to measles that have only come to light now that measles has been virtually eliminated hardly means that measles didn’t exist, or that it was “massively” overdiagnosed. Serology demonstrates that 95% + of kids got measles before they were 15.

            Your citation found 993 kids with fever and rash over 2 years. But prevaccine, the number of cases of measles would have been in the tens of thousands.

          52. “…The finding that there are illnesses similar to measles that have only come to light now that measles has been virtually eliminated ..

            It was discovered by virology that most post-vaccine illnesses that clinically diagnosed as “measles” were not measles virus.

            With no pre-vaccine virological data, how can anyone in their right minds claim that the pre-vaccine situation was any different?

            I want to know!

            How can anyone claim virtual elimination if the true incidence of measles was unknown then and the clinical measles remains the same today? The improvements in the diagnostic procedures is enough to explain it!

          53. Please show us evidence “most” measles is misdiagnosed.

            As for whether “post vaccine measles” is misdiagnosed as measles or not, I wish you antivaxers would make up your minds…. According to one antivax school of thought, the vaccine is not effective, so although kids then get measles, this is misdiagnosed as another viral illness.
            You seem to be contradicting that opinion, by saying kids previously vaccinated really do get diagnosed as measles when they get a rash and fever.
            Can’t you imbeciles make up your minds?

          54. “…Please show us evidence “most” measles is misdiagnosed..

            Pre-vaccine measles was clinical criteria that matched a broad etiology (as was later revealed by virology)

            In this situation, how can we possibly know what % of pre-vaccine “measles” was correctly diagnosed?

            If the pre-vaccine incidence of measles virus is unknown, how can a drop in the incidence be proclaimed?

            Were you trained in a factory of idiots?

          55. The “idiot factory” certainly exists – it seems to have produced a number of malignantly stupid antivax trolls/sockies in the last few weeks.

            Prevaccine, over 95% of kids were shown to have had measles (by retrospective testing of stored viral serology). Today, the percentage is less than 1%.

            Whatever you think of doctor’s clinical diagnostic skills, you cannot rationally claim measles did not exist prevaccine, which is the inference people must draw from your witterings.

          56. Elimination of measles is claimed because of virology, dumbo!
            Go look up the prevalence rates of measles IgG antibody pre vaccine and post vaccine.

            I suppose for your next act you will magic up a theory that all the global virus laboratories are corrupt, and have lied about all their data.

          57. Antibodies to viruses are tested in virology laboratories, Vacuous.

            Tell us, what was the 95% measles IgG antibody positivity rate in kids due to, before vaccines?

          58. I meant measles salivary IgM antibody, which is the standard diagnostic assay nowadays (post vaccine) as opposed to measles serology prevaccine.

          59. The zero hypothesis is “the vaccine had no effect” and “all measles-like diseases saw a drop in incidence” (due to confounding factors other than the vaccine).

            “…I meant measles salivary IgM antibody, which is the standard diagnostic assay nowadays (post vaccine) as opposed to measles serology prevaccine…”

            You confirm that pre-vaccine serology was less specific than post-vaccine. As a consequence, “old” measles matched a broader spectrum of conditions (all measles-like diseases) than “new” measles.

            This non-specificity implies the % of measles virus in pre-vaccine etiologies remains unknown. Without this piece of the puzzle we cannot know whether the etiologies of measles-like diseases post-vaccine has changed or remained the same!

            Therefore, the zero hypothesis has not been disproven and what we observed is:

            1. The incidence of all measles-like diseases has been declining.

            But,

            2. We don’t know whether the % of measles virus in measles-like diseases has declined, increased or remained the same.

          60. No, he just thinks I am a researcher called Michelle Stephens for some reason. It makes some sort of sense, but then my name could equally be Mikhael Stephendorf or something.
            In fact my initials aren’t even MS.

          61. “…Your citation found 993 kids with fever and rash over 2 years. But prevaccine, the number of cases of measles would have been in the tens of thousands….

            Do I see a fallacious “correlation implies causation” logic?

            Of course, there are no confounding factors to speak of because the only improvement affecting general health since then is vaccination, right?

            By your simple “correlation” approach vaccines also cause autism and autoimmune disease because both have risen dramatically since mass vaccination was introduced. it works both ways!

          62. “We found 175 cases with acute encephalitis in a population of 791,712 children aged 1 month-15 years during a 2-year surveillance period in 1993-1994”

            Vacuous: “What’s taking the place of measles as the new main cause of encephalitis? do you have a better candidate than the vaccines?”.

            Perhaps you could, for once, READ the citations you post?

            We found 175 cases with acute encephalitis in a population of 791,712 children aged 1 month-15 years during a 2-year surveillance period in 1993-1994. The overall incidence was 10.5/100,000 child-years with the highest figure in children < 1 year of age, 18.4/100,000 child-years. The microbial diagnosis was considered proven or suggested in 110 cases (63%); varicella zoster, respiratory and enteroviruses comprised 61% of these, and adeno, Epstein Barr-, herpes simplex and rota viruses comprised 5% each. A clearcut change seems to have occurred in the aetiology of encephalitis. Mumps, measles, and rubella virus associated encephalitides have been almost eliminated. Varicella zoster, respiratory, and enteroviruses have increased in frequency and occur in younger age groups. New causes were identified, especially Chlamydia pneumoniae and HHV-6. Our data should assist in making a specific diagnosis and defining appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
            CONCLUSIONS:
            The spectrum of encephalitis in children has changed due to vaccination programs. The incidence, however, appears to be about the same due to increasing frequency of other associated old and new microbes.

          63. “…The spectrum of encephalitis in children has changed due to vaccination programs. ..

            No doubt! (read post below for the explanation)

            And incidence has also INCREASED.

            Another success of vaccination!

          64. I think you have a reading comprehension problem, Vac. They mean 100 cases of MEASLES encephalitis, genius.

          65. The comprehension problem is mine really?

            CONCLUSIONS: The spectrum of encephalitis in children has changed due to vaccination programs. The incidence, however, appears to be about the same

            It’s all the encephalitis by any cause, blonde!

          66. I refer you to your own citation from the Finland paper….

            A clearcut change seems to have occurred in the aetiology of encephalitis. Mumps, measles, and rubella virus associated encephalitides have been almost eliminated. Varicella zoster, respiratory, and enteroviruses have increased in frequency and occur in younger age groups. New causes were identified, especially Chlamydia pneumoniae and HHV-6. Our data should assist in making a specific diagnosis and defining appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
            CONCLUSIONS:
            The spectrum of encephalitis in children has changed due to vaccination programs. The incidence, however, appears to be about the same due to increasing frequency of other associated old and new microbes.

          67. “…I refer you to your own citation from the Finland paper..

            CONCLUSIONS:

            The spectrum of encephalitis in children has changed due to vaccination programs. The incidence, however, appears to be about the same due to increasing frequency of other associated old and new microbes.

            The assumption in that conclussion is that most diagnoses of “measles” pre-vaccine were true measles

            SInce no virologies were performed, we can only guess what the true incidence of measles was pre-vaccines.

            When virology was used, it was observed that most measles had been misdiagnosed.

            Therefore, if the vaccine had no effect (zero hypothesis) the result would have been the same: a varied ethiology for pre-vaccine measles and no changes in the incidence of encephalitis.

            The zero hypothesis has not been disproven!

          68. “When virology was later used, it was observed that most measles had been misdiagnosed and it was, in fact, many different diseases.”
            You haven’t shown that at all. You merely showed that kids could still get fever and rashes despite being vaccinated, Vacuous.

          69. “…You merely showed that kids could still get fever and rashes despite being vaccinated…

            By pre-vaccine criteria those presentations would have been classified as “measles”.

            Therefore, pre-vaccine measles and post-vaccine measles are different animals. You can’t compare their incidences to claim tehre is less measles virus today than there was before!

          70. German pediatrician Michaela Glockler in Guide to Child Health said that the true incidence of measles encephalitis was only one in 10,000 cases, that the often-quoted figure of one in a thousand was vastly exaggerated by you-know-who. She said that as many as one-fifth who had encephalitis died, one-fifth had permanent damage, and the rest recovered. She added that giving fever reducers increased the chance of encephalitis. Autism is now diagnosed in one in forty American children, and is caused by vaccine encephalitis. So which is the better course? Going through a usually mild disease naturally and reaping the many benefits, or taking a dangerous vaccine which disables a huge number of its recipients for life?

          71. Why are my comments being moved away from where I put them or removed entirely? Do you do it or is it the site?

          72. “Vitamin C actually DOES treat polio”

            Citation required (and not some antivax propaganda website, but a hard, scientific citation from a scientific publication)

          1. The chart would be even better if it showed introduction of gamma globulin administration to people who had been exposed.

          2. You’re right, and cod liver oil.

            Cod liver oil (Vitamin A) started around 1932. Gamma globulin was 1944 or 45 and continued until the second vaccine was licensed in 1968.

          3. No, it wasn’t. I had it at six, as 99% of American children did before the vaccine. It was a childhood rite of passage and no one worried about it.

          4. Yes, it did, but that wasn’t a good thing. Natural measles had become a mild disease which conferred many benefits: permanent immunity, a stronger immune system, the ability to protect future infants, and protection from a number of diseases and cancers in later life. Now we have the sickest generation in history, crippled with neurological diseases like autism and all manner of autoimmune diseases.

          5. What does this prove? The opposite of what you mean to prove! Look at the green line! Deaths by measles were almost zero BEFORE the vaccine! So why on earth vaccinate???
            Oh, but you´re scared to death of getting infected! God forbid! Guess what, a healthy immune system works like the old saying: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I’d rather get mild measles (i had it at 33) than get poisoned to “prevent it”, thank you.

        2. Coming from the person who referenced autistic children as being better off dead and accused the parents of feeling the same way. So you have covered 3 vaccines, excellent point, let us go ahead now and go back to the schedule we had 30 years ago so we can rid ourselves of the autism epidemic.

          1. This must be the first time a vax-pusher has used an unfunny, canned cartoon packed with slogans to “debunk” a scientific paper that proved him a blithering idiot … wow, the genius!

          2. Naturally you don’t understand that this is all anti-vaxxers deserve for a reply. It’s still backed up by more evidence and proof than you’ve ever given.

          3. “.. this is all anti-vaxxers deserve”

            Rather, all you have when asked for scientific evidence. Real sad.

          4. PRATT is itself PRATT.

            You wish you could get away with brain dead canned slogans, don’t you kiddo?

          5. “From an 7-fold increase only 2.2-fold is expalined by diagnosis shifts, leaving 4.8-fold (a rise of 380%) STILL UNEXPLAINED”

            Correct – unexplained. How do you make the huge leap to vaccines as the cause with no evidence to support it? And why is it on one hand you call CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. corrupted agencies that are part of some vast conspiracy and can’t be trusted, but on the other hand cherry pick quotes from them to support your arguments?

          6. “…How do you make the huge leap to vaccines?”

            The immunologic adverse effects of vaccines and adjuvant injections have been vastly reported in the scientific literature.

            On which grounds is it a “huge leap” to point at a massive and early intervention upon immune systems as the main suspect of massive autoimmune disease epidemic?

            Your “outrage” sounds more fake and interested than reasoned.

            “…you call CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. corrupted agencies that are part of some vast conspiracy and can’t be trusted”

            Is the issue a matter of trust or a matter of science? I limit myself to scientific sources.

            If you came asking for “trust” or “confidence” in non-scientific institutions with lobbied political agendas then go knock on another door.

          7. It is a huge leap in that yo state, correctly, that a large part of the increase is unexplained at this point. It proves that it is ‘unexplained’, period. It adds no more weight to your theory than it does to the theory it is caused by little green men from Mars.

            What matters to me is the data. While the CDC, NIH, FDA and others are far from perfect, they are held to a much higher standard of proof than say naturalnews.com or any number of affiliate marketing sites that seem to overwhelm conspiracy based communities.

            Does the ‘anti-vax’ community have even the most basic data, a simple spreadsheet would suffice, that shows any level of correlation to say autism and vaccines? Something published and reviewed (even if the reviews don’t agree with the findings)?

          8. “…It proves that it is ‘unexplained’, period.”

            It proves it’s unexplained in as far as a political institution is concerned, one that has a vested interest in vaccines.

            Having such a difficulty to distinguish opinion from evidence, do you expect the intelligent reader to take you seriously?

            “…Does the ‘anti-vax’ community ..”

            First, there’s no ‘anti-vax’ community or organized body, we’re parents that refuse to medicate healthy children and less fortunate parents that trusted the pro-vaccine narrative only to end up with a kid dead or cripple for life amidst the denial and scorn of those who they had trusted.

            “…the most basic data, a simple spreadsheet would suffice, that shows any level of correlation to say autism and vaccines?.”

            for example:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22099159

            2011 – Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?

            University of British Columbia

            “….The application of the Hill’s criteria to these data indicates that the correlation between Aluminium in vaccines and Autism spectrum disorders may be causal. Because children represent a fraction of the population most at risk for complications following exposure to Al, a more rigorous evaluation of Al adjuvant safety seems warranted….”

          9. Why would be want those less-safe vaccines?

            Maybe what we should do is stop talking about autism and go back to calling those kids “weirdos” and “retards”, which is my recollection of how it was handled in my childhood.

          10. “…calling those kids “weirdos” and “retards”, which is my recollection of how it was handled in my childhood.”

            Sorry to hear you’re another victim of vaccines.

          11. No, no no, there were no stimming, head banging, twitching and vibrating like being electrocuted brain and nervous system damaged children running around back then, nice try, there were dumb kids but that is totally different. Go ahead and go through all the old institution paperwork, I have and I know from once again, first hand account with evidence. You can not try to pin these brain damaged kids as schizos either, the shoe does not fit. Do you know people who were in the old institutions? Have you heard the horror stories about what it was really like?

          12. Given your extensive knowledge, you must know that “stimming, head banging, twitching and vibrating like being electrocuted brain and nervous system damaged” are not among the diagnostic criteria for autism.

          13. That wasn’t my question.

            These symptoms could be from any of several syndromes. I can think of 3 off the top of my head that start at or around 14 months that are completely unrelated to whether a child has been vaccinated or not.

            The question I asked is, are they part of the diagnostic criteria for autism?

          14. Head banging is a symptom of vaccine encephalitis, my baby brother did it, a futile attempt to stop the raging pain of a swollen brain. We both reacted to our three-month DPT. (It wasn’t two months then.)

          15. All of them could talk. Thirty kids in a classroom, no aides or paras, and ALL the children could speak, reason, read, and write. Also sit quietly in class, no ADHD then OR autism. I will say that I also knew several Asperger’s kids who had reacted to vaccines. Like my brother and I. Real whiz kids, but we both reacted to our first DPT, I with screaming for days (sound familiar?) and he with beating his head on the bars of his crib. And we both grew up unable to relate socially in a normal way.

          16. Coming from the person who identified with the murderers of Alex Spourdalakis, not the victim …

            Maybe you could link to this comment where Andrew said children with autism are better off dead. I must have missed it.

          17. You expect us antivaxxer trolls to provide links? Fool.
            Next you’ll be wanting amaretto biscuits with your skinny latte.

        3. Should every vaccine be mandatory for children including HPV? No fact dancing just a straight answer.

          1. “Every”? We have many vaccines (e.g., yellow fever) that are not routinely administered, except to people going to Third World health-disaster areas. We don’t administer the TB vaccine (some countries do); the cost/benefit analysis doesn’t seem to work here. My children didn’t get the smallpox vaccine; I did.

            If you are asking, did I trust our pediatrician’s vaccine schedule, Yes. My recollection is HPV was on that by the time of my younger child.

          2. “Speaking of cost benefit, Meningitis vaccine mandatory in NY, make sense?”

            Kiko, in the UK, the lifetime costs of a single case of severe meningococcal meningitis with recovery have been calculated to be £3.77 million.

            In the USA, which has quite different and a considerably more expensive health care system, it might be as high as $5-$10 million, I guess. Of course, it is cheaper if the kid just dies (which happens around a third of the time).
            https://www.meningitis.org/assets/x/53379

            What were you saying about “making sense” again?

          3. What does a vaccine caused autism case cost the community And what would that be with a 1 in 50 phenomenon?

          4. Most adults have achieved immunity to the most common types of meningitis in their community by subclinical cases, and that is greatly to be preferred to the dangerous meningitis vaccines. In addition, all kinds of meningitis can be successfully treated with high-dose IV vitamin C. If that were the standard protocol, meningitis could be cured for pennies, but our medical cartel doesn’t want that by any means.

          5. “In addition, all kinds of meningitis can be successfully treated with high-dose IV vitamin C. “

            Nope. Certainly not on its own, without antibiotics it can’t.

            Cia, now is your big chance…. Post a peer reviewed scientific publication that demonstrates high dose Vitamin C will cure meningococcal meningitis, without antibiotics.

            I will give $10,000 to a charity of your choosing if you do.
            PS: No crank articles from magazines or quack antivax websites, mind.
            How about one of those studies you antivaxers are always demanding from us orthodox medicos …You know, the randomised, placebo controlled ones?

            I double dare you.

          6. You know, cia, I am about to report you to the mods for spreading extremely dangerous information. I’m serious. This is garbage.

            If it were that easy to cure meningitis, the “medical cartel” would have been doing it for years.

            Please stop this nonsense.

        4. It also surprises me that so many say that diseases are not caused by germs, but that the germs just move in when the body in its own wisdom starts severe symptoms and the germs scavenge. I don’t understand it. The second half of your statement I think is a projection: the wild, overblown, unsubstantiated false claims are, for the most part, made by pro-vaxxers, and we have already shown that your leaders are frauds, liars, and fools. That’s why ever fewer people are vaxing.

        5. How can germs cause disease? Madness.
          When will you shills learn – measles is due to toxins not viruses.
          Vaccines cause cancer, dementia, SIDS, asthma, autism, heart disease, constipation, meningitis and pneumonia.

          1. Then you will need to explain why formaldehyde for example doesn’t do so in a pear.

            If your answer is “injection vs ingestion” then your allegation is that endocrine disruption is caused by injected toxins and not that it is caused by toxins.

          2. You’ve made it clear you don’t have the ability to alter your thought processes. Stick to puzzles and the National Inquirer

          3. Some of the same people are willing to chemically castrate their autistic sons with Lupron in hopes of “curing” them. Just goes to show one can’t expect any sort of consistency.

          1. So low testosterone is a diagnostic marker for homosexuality – think not! Tell that to the “Bears”!

          2. “…So low testosterone is a diagnostic marker for homosexuality – think not! Tell that to the “Bears”!”

            The marker is 100% specific but sensitivity is low … LOL

          3. Now we have further proof of the impostor. Everyone knows that if I’d tried to upvote twice, I’d have cancelled out! [see above]

            Apologies for deviating from your comment, Autismo. We have some disgruntled babies who’ve wandered onto the commentary! 😉

        1. Idiot. You should know vaccines really do make people gay if you read the research. I had them as a child, you too probably.

          1. Don’t think “just since vaccines” think viral and toxins. If you go back in time, to the first recorded or at least observable history from archeological archives, you will see how people poisoned themselves honestly through ignorance. Clay pots for both cooking , food and beverage storage. Wood for the making of beer, wine, crude metal pots for all the same. All leaching heavy metals and other harmful substances. Living conditions were not pristine. We have come a long way. Just look at our population and our longevity. We removed lead from paint and fuel because of their negative qualities. If you think logically many things become clear. If you think like a Vaccine Troll you may need a diaper change.

          2. No that’s an abstract, incomplete and possibly leading question. Its what I implied, the poisoning and the illness that has come from things that affect or genes in spontaneous ways. What have we observed about fetal alcohol victims, crack and heroine babies? The advent of crude pots cannot be understated, and the industrial revolution, cities and chemicals invented, are all part of a toxic environment. The fact some say a series of vaccines tipped the scales or brought forth an underlying disorder, are not far fetched.

          3. Where does your taste come from? Just cause you and da boys down by da crick think it funny just means that hootch you brew down there could strip paint and your ability to think straight.

          4. I realize that it’s hard to follow up comedy gold like your last post. When the bar is set that high, living up to it is tough for even the best comedians!

            But this post… well, I feel like you were just phoning it in.

          5. The one you favour was posted by a fraud, therefore he has stolen from me like a common thief. He should crawl back under his rock where he belongs.

          6. Hahahaha! Hilarious. Pud? lol. I have rage issues. This place makes me rage-ey. People like Bridgit crank that rage up just a little closer to the edge. I hate to be lumped into the same group as Bridge, but I’m not about to give up my rage anytime soon!

          7. Oh, do keep her going!

            When he was, “Bridgit” he had a most hilarious meltdown that included claims of kin working for the FBI and claims of nefarious hacking of his disqus account but somehow magically being able to use that same account to post about being hacked!

            It was quite entertaining.

          8. I’m beginning to think that a good half of the anti-vaxxer posters are socks, just like the Team Organic/anti-GMO posters.

            Have you ever noticed the, “one post wonders” that populate the comment sections of certain articles, like the Campbell’s soup story?

            Ya, the breathy, “Oh, thank you Campbell’s for keeping my family safe” kind of stuff.

            There’s an interesting commonality with all those “people”. One hallmark is a fuzzy avatar face picture. Sometimes you also find that “person” not having commented for two or more years, but was somehow compelled to dust off their ancient account and post. Hmm…

          9. Everyone you are talking to is a sock puppet. Look at Cathy’s comment history, do you honestly not think it is a middle aged fat cheeto muncher posting behind a fake tart face getting paid per comment. You are not that dumb are you?

          10. ….Says the person who first tried posting as “Bridgit”, and reappeared a couple of weeks ago as “Kiko”.

          11. “How scientific”

            Why do you expect a “scientific” comment in response to someone insulting another poster as a sock puppet who is a “middle aged fat cheeto muncher posting behind a fake tart face”

            Hypocrisy much, Gracie?

          12. Touche.
            Your purpose here seems murky, you claim to be here from a professional perspective but comments like that don’t fit a medical information intention.

          13. Sometimes one has to get down and dirty, and talk to the prodisease punters in language they can understand.
            Anytime you antivaxers wish to discuss the science, feel free to do so.

            A quick scan of your comment history shows a dearth of citations, and none of any scientific merit, just the witterings of antivax sites like “Sanevax” etc.

          14. I am not an anti-vaxxer, what would you like to disqus? The testimony of Hannah Poling’s medical professional parents? The big fat list of vaccine injuries? Your countless turf lies? You can’t claim science as your own. You have ignored the vast majority of it. Dunce cap for you. There is no debate to have with someone who can not grasp reality or is paid to ignore it.

          15. “I am not an anti-vaxxer”
            OK, tell us which vaccines from the recommended childhood schedule you’d give to your own kids (hypothetical or real)

            “..what [science] would you like to disqus? The testimony of Hannah Poling’s medical professional parents? “
            Court testimony is not scientific evidence, you should know that. (I am unsure of the details, but didn’t an Indiana court once try and fix the value of Pi at 3.0 or something like that?)
            You are also unfamiliar with the Hannah Poling case, I see (probably you got the details from an antivax website). The parents put in a claim for vaccine compensation for Hannah. While awaiting court, her father published a case study suggesting vaccines could trigger autism in a child with mitochondrial dysfunction (Hannah’s underlying problem), without revealing to the Journal of Child Neurology that (a) He was the father of the child, and (b) that he hadput in a claim for vaccine compensation. Clearly there was a massive conflict of interest here, since neither the editors, the readers of the journal or Poling’s fellow authors knew about the impending court case, the outcome of which could be significantly biased by prior publication “evidence” of autism from vaccination in a child with mitochondrial dysfunction. Poling got torn off a strip by the Journal editors, and had to apologise.
            The case was settled (not judged in favour of the Polings) with the acknowledgement that the vaccines could have worsened the underlying mitochondrila encephalopathy suffered by Hannah, but that this was NOT autism.

            “The big fat list of vaccine injuries?”
            Vaccines can cause injuries, yes. Significant or life-threatening ones are fortunately vanishingly rare, and are several orders of magnitude less frequent than are complications from the natural diseases. Try some reading about vaccine safety, this time not from Vaccines-are-evil dot com.
            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

            “Your countless turf lies?”
            I cannot recall ever lying about vaccines or their science. If you have a single example of where I have (there must be at least one, since you think I have done it “countless” times) I would be pleased if you could link me to the comment/statement.
            If you cannot, of course that would prove YOU are the liar, won’t it?

            “Dunce cap for you. There is no debate to have with someone who can not grasp reality or is paid to ignore it.”
            I leave readers to judge which of us merits the “dunce cap”. I think I have a greater grasp of the realities of medicine, epidemiology and vaccine science than you do. And just leave it with the lame old “pharma shill gambit” will you? Either prove I am being paid to post here, or shut it. Accusations like yours are generally an acknowledgement by those who use them that they have lost the scientific argument.

          16. Are you writing a book? Bought science is even less scientific than court testimony. Your science is bias, useless, rubbish, paid for, There is no scientific argument to be had unless you provide raw data. I already answered your question about which vaccines I would administer to children. Tail chaser. If you do not like facts then go sit down. Normal, vaccines, autism, in that order. Bogus science with study participants intentionally left out can not stop the truth.

          17. So…. Reading between the lines and the handwaving and evasion, I’ll take that as a no, for all my questions then?

            So you are not willing to tell us which vaccines an “I am not an antivaxer” would give their child, and admit you cannot back up your facile allegation that I am paid to post here.
            Figures.

          18. The reality of Novella, easily
            found, is that he testifies for insurance companies,
            and that seems to
            be the extent of his practice. I get a picture
            of Novella saying “that hatchet imbedded in Mr.
            Smith’s head by his employer is causing no
            neurological damage, and it is clear that Mr. Smith
            is faking his claims of pain… His employer
            was right to fire him when he didn’t show up for
            work the next day. Mr. Smith clearly
            self-inflicted his injury… and has previously
            demonstrated his social recalcitrance when he failed
            to institutionalize his autistic child, actually
            claiming that the autism started after a series of
            152 vaccinations were given in one day by a
            pediatrician. It is clear that Mr. Smith, and
            his wife, caused the autism themselves, in that they
            are clearly genetically defective… blah, blah,
            blah…, blah, blah, blah…, blah, blah, blah…,
            blah, blah, blah…, blah, blah, blah…, blah,
            blah, blah…”
            You know – the usual quackbuster testimony.
            https://www.bolenreport.com/feature_articles/Doctor's-Data-v-Barrett/novellahumiliation.htm

          19. Why such a pill pusher? I would like to give back to the shill community Mike. I will be raffling off a free prefrontal lobotomy. They have been scientifically proven to significantly increase quality of life. You let me give you a lobotomy Mike and I will try some of your pills, do we have a deal? Anti psychotic meds are the new icepicks right Mike? Thing is the lobotomy only takes less than ten minutes and you will be on your way, no lengthy, daily pill ingestion. We the people can trust all you psychiatrists right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7W3Z1_1QMg

          20. If you are a real Doctor you shouldn’t have cringed when you watched this. Believe it or not this was an effective procedure for some. It won the Nobel prize for the inventing Dr.

          21. I see my comment about pills seems to have struck a very raw nerve, Jeff.
            3 responses from you to my little comment?
            Do you get 3 times the money for those?

          22. It seems the worst name you can call an anti-vaxer is (drum roll). . . . . anti-vaxer! NONE of you are anti-vaxers, to hear you tell it. You’re at the immunization clinic before it opens, waiting to storm the waiting room with all you kids so they can be immunized, yes? NO! You’re not an anti-vaxer but this, but that, but the other, but Jenny McCarthy, but Andrew Wakefield, but, but, but, but, but!

          23. The above comment shown by Adadd is of the impostor of Adadd as is the UPVOTE from suz. Those violating disqus tos for parody accts. are being reported to disqus admin.!

          24. Typical pharma shill over vaccination tactics, attack anyone who has an autistic child or a vaccine injured child and ridicule them, pretend you are smarter, Imitate their profile to try to confuse the readers, astroturfing at its finest. Confuse the truth beyond recognition.

      1. You guy(s) are so funny! The one commenter with many nyms upvotes his own comments innumerable times!

          1. See above comment. This is my only account. Sorry to disappoint, but your type usually has strongly held beliefs propping up your unsupportable claims. This is no different.

          2. They also have ‘horde’ immunity and they travel together for the ultimate ‘upvoting’ experience! 😉

          3. I’m glad that impersonator suz liked this enough to upvote it! Original suz thought it was ‘purdy dang’ funny too! 😉

      2. This Dr. recommends the schedule, so c’mon, tell me how he can be an anti vaxxer and yet have common sense about vaccines? Facts. Let me guess, even though he has a large successful practice he must be a charlatan right?

          1. Ahhh, Paul Thomas, who defends Wakefield, and posts youtube vids on thimerosal and aluminum? That Paul Thomas? The “vaccine-friendly” doc who doesn’t take insurance, but sells supplements to “detoxify” his patients? Yeah, you were saying what about there being good docs and bad ones? Maybe this nutter should be on Attkisson’s list! lol

          2. Funny, AAP certified, and Dr. Paul is currently on staff at Emanuel Children’s
            Hospital, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Providence Portland, and Good
            Samaritan Hospital. Suck on that you dum dum.

          3. What do you want me to say about this one doc whose beliefs and practices I question, but whom you apparently have a hard-on for? I’m still not sure who he is or why I should care.

          4. You’re Dunning-Kruger smart and a “truth seeker” stuck on a paper from 1998. It has rained some since then, pizza boy.

          5. I’m not stuck on anything. Simply tearing down the one who your people still worship and cast as the victim. I’m waiting for a series of studies to change my mind. No such studies yet exist, thus, the scientific consensus has not moved.

            As for Dunning-Kruger, the second half of the corollary applies to me much more frequently than the first, though I’m sure we are all guilty at both at one time or another.

          6. “…Simply tearing down the one who your people still worship and cast as the victim..”

            Tearing down your own strawman since 2004. What a boring assignment. If not for the vaccine apologists, no one would have heard about the man.

            As I said, the world has moved on and evidence of vaccine harm mechanisms is flooding the PUBMED database form an incresing number of fronts. Learn to live with it!

          7. First of all, it is the antivaxxers who made that fraud a household name by using his fraudulent study to spread irrational fear resulting in a rebound of VPDs. The only reason I ever even mention him is in response to some antivaxx nutter’s claims.

            As for moving on, you incorrectly assume that I am anything but current. I will follow the data and trust studies from reputable institutions published in reputable journals, thank you.

          8. “… it is the antivaxxers who made that fraud…”

            Vaccine skeptics range from parents that lost children to vaccines to scientists with entries in PUBMED. A lot of people lies in-between,icluding doctors (about 6% accoring to a study).

            Therefore, the reasons to reject vaccines vary from one person to another and there’s no “antivaccine” cult or movement to speak of. This is another strawman just like Wakefield, constantly hammered on for lack of substantials counterarguments to defend the alleged efficacy and safety of vaccines.

          9. Dr Thomas and staff have gone ABOVE and BEYOND for our family. They have
            listened to my new parent concerns, always ask me if I have additional
            questions or need anything else. They never make my fears of decision
            seem silly or undervalued. I wouldn’t take my daughter anywhere else.
            They also offer after hours Urgent care so I’m not stuck sitting in an
            ER for hours with an infant. Additional there office has a sick waiting
            room and a well child waiting room!! They are always looking for ways to
            keep healthy kids healthy! I LOVE IT!

          10. So the post I already didn’t care about was just an unverified review left by some anonymous 3rd party. Gee, I wonder if I care more or less now. Don’t hurt yourself trying to figure out which.

          11. How the fck would I know if the patient is verified? Because you said so? You already posted that review without quotations or attributes, implying it was yours. Sorry if I don’t buy into your halo of credibility.

          12. Snort.

            A fake review from his Google Plus page. This one seems more realistic

            “Complete nut job. The kind of doctor who believes in magic. Go elsewhere.” — James Barber

      3. Did you see this?

        Anti-vaxxer Facebook freak-out: Mark Zuckerberg takes his baby for shots — and paranoia breaks out
        https://www.salon.com/2016/01/11/anti_vaxxer_facebook_freak_out_mark_zuckerberg_takes_his_baby_for_shots_and_paranoia_breaks_out/

        It’s funny but there’s one little part that stands out

        “It’s not an issue of ‘You do what’s right for you and we’ll do what’s right for us.’ Vaccines keep everybody safe and keep all-but-eradicated diseases from coming back.”

        Simple.

          1. Zuckerberg IS social media. He’s as savy about vaccine as you and me, but that’s OK, this is not about truth finding but triggering the imitation reflex in the “herd”.

          2. Dude posted one of hundreds of pictures of his baby on his fb page, and you antivax nutbags and tinfoil conspiracy theorists lose your collective minds.

            Prove it or stfu.

          3. He never claimed to have any such expertise. He just posted a pic of his f’ing baby on his fb page! I have similar pics from my daughter’s first haircut. My mom clicked “like” and said she was beautiful. The conversation ended around that time. But Zucker is suddenly a mouthpiece for evil BIG pHARMa!

            So, prove he had any ulterior motives when posting that pic. Otherwise, your insipid fear-mongering comment is irrelevant.

          4. “…prove he had any ulterior motives when posting that pic..

            Nobody brags publicly about medical interventions on their kids, therefore he must have ulterior motives.

            The fact that publicalyy expressed his vaccine apologist postion and that vaccine apologists are plastering his “heroical sacrifice” all over the web confirms it’s a coordinated propaganda stunt.

          5. I think you and I have very different definitions of the word “proof.” These are nothing but unsubstantiated personal opinions. They prove nothing. Absolutely nothing. I’m dumber for having read that.

            People post pics of the big piece of cheesecake they had at dinner last night. Do you see vegans going after them for eating dairy?

          6. “…They prove nothing. Absolutely nothing..

            Never pretended to have proof, just stating that the FACTS OBSERVED point, with a high probability, at a propaganda stunt since the (unintended?) result of his actions is a climax of fierce anti-vaxx propaganda.

          7. Hey numbnuts, look at YOUR post immediately preceding this one. You start it by re-quoting the part of my post that said:

            “…prove he had any ulterior motives when posting that pic..

            You then followed that with some weakass pontification on some bizarro world conspiracy theory where Mark Zuckerberg somehow gives a fck about whether or not you get vaccinated, supposedly in support for some propaganda stunt. To the average reader of average intelligence, they would assume that you are presenting this as fact. To what end? Well, I guess that will require more of your fiction writing skills to determine.

            Also, your use of the term vaccine apologist is laughable and just more baseless fear-mongering from the pro-disease cult.

          8. “..where Mark Zuckerberg somehow gives a fck about whether or not you get vaccinated..

            Oh well, Zuckerberg is actively peddling vaccines from his high-visibility position:

            https://uk.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-vaccinations-facebook-on-immunity-book-club-2015-2

            Mark Zuckerberg just slammed the anti-vaccination movement

            Zuckerberg’s topical choice is a deliberate one. “The science is completely clear,” he writes. “Vaccinations are important for the health of everyone in our community. This book explores the reasons why people question vaccines, and then logically explains why the doubts are unfounded and vaccines are in fact effective and safe.”

            The show he set up with his kids is just another chapter of his public peddling of these products.

            It won’t be the last, mark my words!

          9. It’s true and it’s old news…Zuckerberg already made pro vaccine statements during the measles “outbreak” pro vaccine campaign last year. Makes sense he’s using his own kid now. This won’t be the last we hear from him

        1. “…Vaccines keep everybody safe”

          And if you’re injured by a vaccine, well, then you become an anti-vaxxer and we fk you!

          https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx

          “…IPV does not stop transmission of the virus.

          What is keeping polio from being reimported into the US? not the IPV vaccine! Stick the “herd immunity” fallacy UP YOURS Suckerberg.

          The rest of vaccine preventables” are MULD and do not warrant forced medical intervention.

    2. Hey, did you see this?
      https://www.facebook.com/autismfather/posts/951629501539824

      I follow Stuart Duncan “Autism from a Father’s Point of View” on FB. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg took his baby daughter for her vaccinations and Stuart commented on the post.

      In less than a day, that comment has received 32,000 likes and over 900 replies. But that’s just the start.

      My own personal profile has received over 200 friend requests, troll comments and people combing through everything I’ve ever made public. …Now, this is the scarier part. I’ve also received “password reset request” emails and even notifications that people had tried to login with my username.

      What I’m saying is, you might think that no one would ever try with your profile, that you’re not really that significant or important… but you are. One comment in one moment can be all it takes….

      Keep your private photos and information private. Only share publicly what you are safe sharing. And take your security very seriously.

      RawStory covered it too “Anti-vaxxer loons go ballistic on Mark Zuckerberg after he posts photo of daughter’s doctor visit.”

          1. “…Celebrities are all the antivaxers have”

            Well, Luc Montagnier is quite a celebrity indeed…

            https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/05/27/nobel-laureate-joins-anti-vaccination-crowd-at-autism-one/

            Nobel laureate joins anti-vaccination crowd at Autism One.

            Written by an immensely pissed vaxer, as anyone can notice.

            Now, let’s look at the pro-vaxxers’ “brilliant” track record in the the Nobel Prize department:

            https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/05/27/nobel-laureate-joins-anti-vaccination-crowd-at-autism-one/

            The public expected Jonas Salk or Albert Sabin to receive the prize for their development of the polio vaccines, BUT DIDN’T .. LOL!

            The 2008 award went to Harald zur Hausen in recognition of his discovery that human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause cervical cancer … there was scandal when it was learned that Harald zur
            Hausen was being investigated for having a financial interest in
            vaccines
            for the cervical cancer that HPV can cause. .. DIRT!

            END OF FILE … LOL!

          2. Did you know both Dr Salk and Dr Sabin had polio as children, here is some more history few are aware of…”Dr.Jonas Salk as the Federal Government began to be more involved in public health had to undergo a security investigation. Like many New York City Jews, he was involved in left-wing groups during the 1930s. He almost did not get his clearance as the investigation took place in the Red Scare era of the late 1940s. Salk thus wound up with an enormous FBI file and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover advised President Eisenhower not to invite Salk to a White House ceremony after the success of his vaccine.”
            https://histclo.com/dis/spe/sd-polio.html

          3. Impersonator alert! Comment count 136!

            Plus also note the sheer lack of wit of ‘parody’ Adadd!

            Clearly NOT our Adadd! 😉

          4. Nah! Our dude’ll show and kick his butt if and when he see’s this!

            ‘Till then, it’s easy to verify real Adadd from the faker by the comment counts. The original Adad has a count of 1200+ while you can see the count of fakerdadd is only about 136!

          5. Quite hypocritical, Jenny McCarthy gets maligned for speaking about vaccines and autism but it’s wonderful when talking head corporate puppets like Jimmy Kimmel come out on his show making fun of parents who are concerned about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Now we have Zuckerberg promoting vaccines. It’s okay when it suits their agenda. Zuckerberg started making pro vaccine statements for big pharma last year… coinciding with the whole vaccine promotion thing. That was enough for me to leave Facebook; that and because it’s not private at all. People have no idea…

        1. More like Appeal to Ridicule.

          Zuckerberg posts flamebait. Antivaxxers show everyone why they are the most disliked asshats on Facebook.

          1. Depends on several things. What a fool Zuck is, and how dangerous their pediatrician is. But honestly we know as a new parent they are paranoid of all the DISEASES waiting to KILL children. We made that mistake ourselves and my son paid for it by losing his potential and right to a normal life. If Zuck’s child becomes harmed by vaccines, look out!

          2. The pictures of him holding the baby have been going around facebook and the first thing everybody says, is why would a billionaire be in such a run down looking room with a whiteboard behind him that has words like rump titty on it? lol…those crazy conspiracy theorists

          3. You mentioned the baby is only 4weeks old.
            You’re right, there is no 4 wk schedule , is there?
            I’m guessing that they delayed the Hep B shot others get on day of birth.

          4. That was my assumption too, but as others pointed out, the picture of him with the infant was probably not taken in a exam room.

          5. I just googled it. Baby Max was said to be six-weeks old when Zuckerberg took her in for shots. I don’t know either what they would have been. Nothing is routine before two months except the criminal, horrifically dangerous hep-B vaccine starting at birth. Could he just not wait another two weeks to make his pro-vax statement, not even caring that the younger the baby the more dangerous vaccines are?

          6. Haven’t seen it and basically don’t care, but a guy like him is a swing vote. If his child were to be harmed by vaccines, we’d see a fire storm. If he supports vaccine experimentation then many noids will think he’s great and join the flock.

          7. He’s a puppet…even if his child were harmed, he’d still continue promoting vaccines. He has no mid of his own..

          8. Because likely you ARE fake Adadd or a ‘reasonable’ facsimile, given the FAKE upvotes from FAKE SUZ, which seemed to have shown up in my notifications today! I’d wager that you have some great inside info on this childish impostor!

            Haven’t gone through them all yet, but intend to, and am taking names and making lists!

            Scientist/musician my butt! A JOKE is what you are!

          9. *yawn*
            Out it, or don’t tout it. Isn’t that what you say, suz?

            You will be unable to prove that I am behind any fake accounts. You will also be unable to show that I am not exactly who I claim to be. Do you know why that is, oh (not so) wise one? Because it’s all true. Yours are just more baseless and unsupportable claims, much like your anti-science posts. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

            You really need to learn to not let these things get to you so much.

          10. Yawn! Note ‘likely!’ Others listed to this point, are mitt, zog, and jester! But as I said, I’ve not competed the list yet!

            I don’t care much for now, until, well I really don’t care to divulge too much info to one who may still be an ‘alleged’ tee hee impostor and disqus parody acct. violator! 😉

          11. Whatever. I’m bored by all your drama. These types of juvenile games seem to monopolize your time and effort on here. I can’t be bothered with it. If you prove I have a fake account, am not a PhD molecular biologist, or 40+-yr musician, good for you. In the meantime, I’m done with you. I just don’t have the patience to get pulled into this minutia.

          12. It’s not the bop for me to prove you aren’t! It’s the bop for you to prove that you are, if you intend to use such credentials of ‘said’ expertise in these controversial commentaries, in order to advance your pov!

            Suz would NEVER ‘play games’ when the well being of generations of children being severely harmed or killed by vax injuries is at stake!

            How many times have you flounced now, Pastadud! Like parrot Pro, you just can’t stay away! 😉

        2. He can join the $#ss corporate puppet Kimmel as far as I’m concerned…who cares what Zuckerberg thinks?

        3. Shows how you can get sheeple to do anything with celebrity endorsement. Seen Henry Winkler’s shameful display lately?

          1. What a fool. If you truly believe it started with her or Wakefield, then you need to up your meds and return to your puzzle.

          2. Let me tell you how recruitment for “the movement” works

            As soon as your formerly healthy child ends up crippled or dead following a series of injections, Jenny McCarthy locates you with her crystal ball, sends you the invitation to join and bribes you with a ticket to a tropical destination.

            Sleek ,isn’t it?

          3. Your statement is patently false. She legitimized a fringe movement that had never had any traction whatsoever. Her exposure on Oprah and The View gave her a platform that none of your charlatan heroes could ever dream of.

            Here’s a link to a 3-part story to kick start your memory, rather than playing the game of revisionist history.

            blogs.plos.org/thepanicvirus/2013/07/15/a-jenny-mccarthy-reader-pt-1-the-birth-of-a-star-and-an-embrace-of-crystal-children/

        4. They are just unkind souls. Bless their hearts.

          A Stroke of the Pen : Polio

          .

          February 8, 2012 at 12:45pm

          The year following the introduction of the polio vaccine,
          the CDC changed the diagnostic parameters of the disease, so drastically, that
          it automatically eliminated two thirds of the cases of paralytic polio that
          would then be diagnosed. At the same time, they changed the definition of a
          polio epidemic, from 20 in 100,000 to 35 in 100,000, obviously and
          automatically cutting almost in half the number of polio outbreaks that would
          thenceforth be labeled epidemics.

          Not coincidentally, the polio numbers ultimately began to
          drop, and though I’ve not researched to see whether any further epidemics were
          ever declared, you get the point.

          Meanwhile, between the OPV and the IPV, there have been over
          a thousand deaths reported to VAERS. While some of those reported deaths will
          likely prove unrelated to the vaccines, some of them will certainly prove
          directly, causally related – I assume most will, but that is beside this
          particular point, which is, numbers aside, the polio vaccine can kill.

          A vaccine protagonist might argue that the vaccine didn’t
          kill, but, rather, the vaccinee had a prior condition that made the vaccine a
          dire threat. This would be begging the issue. Considering that there are no
          known methods to accurately predict, on an individual basis, exactly how
          damaging will be any vaccine, and considering the tumultuous difference between
          a vibrant, healthy five year old and a cold, lifeless one, a parent can view it
          only one way: the vaccine can kill.

          Then there is the additional statistical issue of the
          re-diagnosis of cases of non-paralytic cases of polio as aseptic meningitis –
          and, I assume, other diseases that display similarly to non-paralytic polio.
          While I have not been able to locate a CDC or WHO regulation regarding this
          type of change, in her book, Fear of the Invisible, Janine Roberts quotes the
          Los Angeles County health authority as having explained: “Most cases reported
          prior to July 1, 1958 of non-paralytic poliomyelitis are now reported as viral
          or aseptic meningitis in accordance with instructions from Washington.” I have
          researched several of the huge number of resources Ms. Roberts provides, and
          found them accurate, and, the assertion is certainly supported by the following
          Los Angeles County health authority’s own incidence figures for a), aseptic
          meningitis, vs b), polio:

          Jul 1955 a) 50; b) 273

          Jul 1961 a) 161; b) 65

          Jul 1963 a) 151; b) 31

          Sep 1966 a) 256; b) 5

          The transcript of the 1960 Illinois Medical Society panel
          of experts that spoke to both the significant changes in the diagnostic
          parameters of polio and the re-classification of cases of non-paralytic cases
          of polio as viral or aseptic meningitis, can be seen at:

          https://greatmothersquestioningvaccines.com/uploads/2/8/8/8/2888885/ratner_1960.pdf
          ,

          and much of Ms Roberts’ work can be seen on her website:

          https://www.fearoftheinvisible.com/
          .

          In total, the diagnostic changes could easily account for
          as much as a 90% decline in the reported incidence of polio. In the subsequent
          years, however, as the CDC has pointed to the eradication of polio as one of
          the largest feathers in the cap of vaccination, they’ve never added, oh, by the
          way, those 300,000 cases of paralytic polio that were diagnosed in 1955?
          (number thrown in just for example) – we eliminated probably about 270,000 of
          those with a stroke of the pen; or, and the 60 polio epidemics? (again, number
          for example only) – the pen again; or, and be aware that, though the numbers
          are very small (description of the numbers just by way of example), the vaccine
          can kill ya.

          I have no trouble
          characterizing – no choice but to characterize – the CDC’s behavior, at this
          point, as despicable. But there’s more: SV-40.

          In the following Atlantic Monthly article:

          https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm
          ,

          you’ll find the following:

          “In 1960 Bernice Eddy, a government researcher,
          discovered that when she injected hamsters with the kidney mixture on which the
          [polio] vaccine was cultured, they developed tumors. Eddy’s superiors tried to
          keep the discovery quiet, but Eddy presented her data at a cancer conference in
          New York…The cancer-causing virus was soon isolated by other scientists and
          dubbed SV40, because it was the fortieth simian virus discovered. Alarm spread
          through the scientific community as researchers realized that nearly every dose
          of the vaccine had been contaminated. In 1961 federal health officials ordered
          vaccine manufacturers to screen for the virus and eliminate it from the
          vaccine. Worried about creating a panic, they kept the discovery of SV40 under
          wraps and never recalled existing stocks. For two more years millions of
          additional people were needlessly exposed — bringing the total to 98 million
          Americans from 1955 to 1963.”

          The one comment
          bears repeating: existing stocks of polio vaccine known to be contaminated with
          SV40, were never recalled.

          The article goes on to present argument – opinion – both
          for and against the subsequent reported detection of SV40 in human
          mesotheliomas. Toward the last few paragraphs we find this:

          Adi Gazdar,
          professor of pathology and the deputy director of the Hamon Cancer Center, at
          the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, says: “It’s such a crucial
          issue. Possibly millions of people are sitting with this virus in their
          mesothelium or other tissues and are at risk for developing cancers.”
          Cancers that were once rare “may suddenly become not so rare,” he
          says. “I think it’s an enormous potential health problem.”

          It’s criminal
          behavior: lying by omission of the possibility of vaccine damage, using very
          misleading statistics to motivate the public to consent to a vaccine that,
          regardless of the actual number of such incidents, could result in the death of
          the vaccinee, not even taking the essential precaution of recalling vaccine
          stock known to be contaminated with a monkey virus known to be carcinogenic – I
          mean, who are these sonsofbitches, and how can anyone ignore their behavior, or
          trust them?

          risks of diseases. Diseases can harm, and kill; so can
          vaccines. Educate. The risks of vaccines far outweigh the benefits.

          1. Who cares what some guy does to try to milk a bunch of facebook traffic from a phony vaccination PR stunt.

      1. Like Gates he’s sold out and has a God complex. just like most celebs they lose it and think THEY are so special, we should do what they do. Have you seen all the stooges getting tattooed in the world? Some will latch on to Zuckerberg because they want to align with famous people and emulate them. Sheeple People.

        1. Bill Gates and his wife have so far given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation, more than $8 billion of it to improve global health.What have you done for the planet?

          1. “…Many groups have already tried to prove this, and have been unsuccessful”..

            That “lack of success” includes political institutions ( British General Medical Council ) forcibly withdrawing papers on bogus charges such as “abuse of developmentally challenged children”.

            The scientific process at work! LOL.

          2. It has already been proven that vaccines cause autism, the shills just refuse to open the Truman show door.

          3. You’re absolutely, unequivocally, indisputably full of shlt. No such thing has ever been proven. Every study ever done to find a link had come up NEGATIVE. You are a disgusting liar.

          4. Yeah! From YOU! You’re lucky I’m not into vax war ‘citation stand off’ peeing matches.

            The onus is on YOU to prove that vax is safe and effective. You can’t ’cause it’s NOT!

            You also just ‘falsely’ claimed that ALL STUDIES to find a vax injury/autism LINK has come up ‘NEGATIVE!’ You want citations! BOP is on you, Pastadud!

            Prove it! You won’t be able to do so!

          5. You’re absolutely, unequivocally, indisputably, MAD BRO HaHAHAHA, fact denying shill. Vaccines cause autism and I have been slapping you with facts left and right, pants on fire flying spaghetti

          6. I agree but the misinformation fed to the flock by media is very effected and unless more people stand up, and wise up, the battle will not soon be won.

      2. That was a PR stunt and nothing more. He does not vaccinate according to schedule. Do you believe everything that rich people do? Was not even a real needle. Rich people and Dr’s delay vaccinations because they know they are dangerous. I say all Doctors and medical professionals should have to provide their own childrens vaccination status. Oh how the people would revolt then.

        1. You’re equal parts annoying and exasperatingly stupid.

          Most health care professionals vaccinate their children. A study published in 2012 showed that 94% of physicians vaccinated their children according to the ACIP recommendations.

          From the paper (file.scirp.org/html/22932.html):

          The results of this study bridge this gap by confirming that a high percentage, 94% of respondents, vaccinated their own children according to ACIP recommendations through 2009 and will likely continue to do so in the future. This important message of “lead by example” should be communicated to a public who is increasingly concerned over the need and safety of vaccines. For those charged with vaccinating and caring for children, there is a strong uniformity with respect to their own children in the actual practice of immunizing as per ACIP recommendations. One of the most common questions asked to pediatricians is “what would you do with your child?” This study answers this question.

          1. Ask ’em in private!

            Suz is tolerant if anything, so while you don’t annoy me, you’re just 100% ‘exasperatingly’ STUPID!

          2. Nice. Refute a piece of evidence spoon fed to you without even reading it. Speaking of exasperatingly annoying! (and yes, I like that word and will continue to use it.)

            From the second page of the fcking paper (emphasis mine):

            2. PATIENTS AND METHODS

            1000 web based questionnaires (Figure 1) were sent to a randomized list of members of the Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). An estimated 80% of board certified pediatricians are members of the AAP. Included in responses were general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists currently in the United States. The list of participants was generated from the AAP member directory and every 20th name selected alphabetically at random to participate. If the randomized name did not have a working email or mailing address, the next name in the list was used. This occurred in 11 cases. 223 of those emailed responded to the initial email and 55 responded to the 2nd email sent out 3 weeks later. The 722 non
            responders were sent a questionnaire by mail 3 weeks following the 2nd email request with a $2 incentive enclosed in the envelope as well as a stamped envelope for return of the survey. A total of 657 surveys were completed in all. All responses were anonymous.

          3. Ask ’em in private with 100% confidentiality guaranteed!

            Like I said; exasperatingly STUPID, and I’ll add NAIVE to that! 😉

          4. Again, refutation with no evidence. You’re just being an idiot now, suz. Sorry.

            What part of All responses were anonymous did you not understand?

            Do you have any idea how scientific research is conducted? Or is it all some mysterious black box of seedy corruption and conspiracy? It must be exhausting to be you.sponses were anonymous

          5. ne·o·phyte
            ˈnēəˌfīt/
            noun
            a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.

            Nope. That’s not me. I’ve been doing this for decades. Sorry to prove you wrong, yet again.

            na·ive
            nīˈēv/
            adjective

            (of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.

            Nope wrong again. See above.

            Really, you need to just stop. You’re embarrassing yourself.

          6. Really, ya wanna ‘tout’ it, ya gotta ‘out’ it, neophyte! {I already knew the def; looks like you had to search} otherwise your rep is of no more value to these commentaries than the comments of ‘Mikey the mechanic!’

            Not that there’s anything wrong with that; but whose comments of expertise may be perhaps more suited to auto engineering!

            Anything less, as you TRY to use such title without verification to the readers to promote your pov, is just embarrassing yourself! 😉

          7. “What part of All responses were anonymous did you not understand?”

            Well we are talking Scuz here.
            I doubt she understands the word with more than 2 syllables.

          8. Thanks for the reference to that paper! I’m going to bookmark it! It’s as important as “97% of climate scientists believe that humans have contributed to climate change”.

          9. “…94% of physicians vaccinated their children..”

            Let’s look at the remaining 6%

            Table 4 – main reasons for withholding: safety concerns (including multiple vaccination), doubts on efficacy.

            It’s clear they were the minority that had actually revised the scientific literature.

            “New to the market, awaiting long term research (Gardasil).”

            Wow! now that’ s fanaticism… how does he dare no to inject unproven vaccines i his children?

            The “rare” side effects might not be so rare after all:

            “In developed countries Rotavirus is for the most part treatable and I’ve seen some side effects.”

    3. Despite what the media tells you, it isn’t all that common to encounter a so called “anti-vax” parent who has never vaccinated a child. Most of those parents only wish they were so lucky to have seen that train wreck coming in the crystal ball. The overwhelming majority of them started out just like the opposition: pro-vaccine and trusting their doctors.

      Then, one day, they lost the healthy child they once knew after a series of vaccinations. Please have a little compassion. There but by the grace of God go we.

    4. Brooke Dunne is an obvious Web Troll, BTW (other people arguing with her). Take a read through even a small portion of her comment history– networked in with other web trolls (following and followed by), and compare it to these 4 ways of spotting big pharma Astroturf.

      https://theantimedia.org/heather-callaghan-4-ways-spot-big-pharmas-astroturfing-media-manipulation/

      You cannot and will not win an argument on this thread, because a good portion of the people you are arguing with are Paid to manipulate opinion — as this original editorial was, most likely– and everything in here is just bait.

      Do you’re own research, and educate before you vaccinate people. This coming from a highly educated person with no skin in the game (no kids, no vaccine patents, just the ability to read the actual research). And speaking of that, google the book “Vaccines and Autoimmunity.” … it’s not one of those paperbacks by nobody in particular, it’s an authoritatively edited scientific textbook… lest you think Autism (brain damage) is the only concern…

    5. It looks like the girl on this video is looking up at Jenny’s comment and thinking,
      “pffftt, science, I don’t need science, vaccines have already been proven safe.” duhh umm derrrr

    6. And you think this is funny and clever? You poor pathetic sheep, eager to be stepped on by your nazi big pharma shepherds and their white coated minions. You go get all the vaccines you want if that make you less scared of life. But don’t try to vaccinate me of my family. I just won’t let you.

  73. Food for thought – I did not write this but it’s a good question………..

    This has been bothering me..I’m a registered nurse in labor and delivery. We offer the hepatitis B vaccination to all newborns who weigh 2000g (4.4 lb) or more. We give the exact same dose to a baby who weighs 2000g as we give to a baby who weighs 4000g. The dose DOES NOT change based on the weight of the baby. I also have worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for many years, and every medication we gave (and we gave MANY) was calculated to the nearest tenth of a point. Each dose of every other medication I have ever given besides vaccines, has to be carefully calculated based upon gram weight for ALL CHILDREN BIRTH AND UP. Why are we giving the exact same dose of vaccine to children who are vastly different weights? Why is this not questioned????

    1. You just stated, no more than a few minutes ago, that you refuse to give any proof or evidence. Why should we believe your claim that you are supposedly a registered nurse? You could do something miraculous such as PROVE IT.

      1. AND this folks is what the public school system pumps out …………

        E.W. READ my post “I DID NOT WRITE THIS, but it’s a good question.”

        Try to keep up.

    2. Boyd Haley got busted for selling some kind of industrial cleaner you can give your kid to clean out the autisms.

      Food for Thought: The website Age of Autism was helping him to market it to their readers, who will buy it seems, just about any stupid idea. That is until the FDA shut him down.

      1. Haley’s also the a$$h*le that tried to coin the phrase “Mad Child Disease” in reference to autistic kids, although that was before he got into selling industrial chelator (meant to clean mine sludge) as a food supplement.

        Dude doesn’t even science anymore. Kinda pitiful, really.

        Rumour has it he still hasn’t got his “clinical trial” off the ground, but has recently incorporated an Irish-resident TCI Science so they can keep selling this poison in the EU. I hope they shut him down there, too.

        1. Only to you misguided, sophomoric and impudent neophytes, is ‘science’ considered a verb!

          No responsible parent buys into the vulgarities yall carry with you in these vax war blogs!

      2. Also, Joseph Mercola’s annual income from his store vs physicians.

        Same amount as the salary of 50 pediatricians.

    3. Thank you for clarifying that you did not write this.

      It was transiently horrifying to imagine you as a labour & delivery or NICU RN.

      That’s someone that needs to find another profession.

  74. Next time you see a mom carrying baby or a little one in a stroller, remember this.

    This is Naomi. She was 14 months old and nearly due her MMR when she caught measles during the 2000 outbreak. She contracted encephalitis. For the next 11 months her parents watched her degenerate. The last 3 weeks she struggled for life in the ICU.

    It’s just heartbreaking.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45ed85422045f398ffda5012b68c2967fce57713082e936f9561288ffe3fe538.jpg

    1. “..she caught measles during the 2000 outbreak”

      Prove she wouldn’t have contracted measles if she had taken the vaccine.

      Proof of causality, remember?

      1. While I feel much sympathy to those who lost this little girl, I can see your point.

        Outbreak of Measles Among Persons With Prior Evidence of Immunity, New York City, 2011…Oxford Journal

        Five cases of secondary measles vaccine failure and transmission from previous fully vaccinated individuals to other fully vaccinated individuals

        In 2011 in NYC a 22 year old woman who had had 2 doses of MMR came down with measles and passed it on to 4 more people who had had their 2 doses or showed past positive IgG antibodies.

        https://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/9/1205

        1. I think that’s where the “95% effective” part comes in and underscores the need for herd immunity.
          You really don’t understand the science at all, do you?

          1. Most of the anti-vaxxers here didn’t read the article, much less any information posted. Thinking has nothing to do with the tin foil hatters.

            Our job is to just get them to expose themselves as tin foil hatters.

        2. You’re about as sympathetic as a crock of sh*t.

          Those people did not have vaccine virus measles. They had wild measles virus measles. They had vaccine failure.

        1. The null hypothesis sounds like this:

          1. Vaccines are toxic.
          2. Vaccines don’t prevent disease.

          Therefore the safety and efficacy studies, moron.

          1. No, the null hypothesis is always phrased as a negative.

            1)Vaccines are not toxic would be the correct phrasing of a null hypothesis.

            2) Yes – this is a null hypothesis which has been disproven.

            3) Knock yourself out: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=safety+and+efficacy+studies+of+vaccines&oq=safety+and+efficacy+studies+of+vaccines&gs_l=serp.3..0i22i30.6524.21348.0.21426.66.44.4.8.8.0.176.3405.35j7.42.0….0…1c.1.64.serp..24.42.2647.0.XjJR5omO5-w

            You know this – you’ve done your research.

    2. What was her vaccination status and health at the time of death?

      See we can all pick apart a babies death – the bottom line is that with vaccines you are injuring your child regardless.

      Another thing to note is that the last of the WILD type of measles was in the 70s, so this type of measles is nothing more than catching it from a person shedding the MMR vaccine and/or from actually getting the vaccine.

      Good try though – come on back and try again.

      1. All US cases are wild-type, it’s just that index cases of outbreaks have imported measles from abroad (in areas where measles is still, or recurrently, endemic).

        You should stop spreading lies and FUD.

      2. That’s bullsh*t. There has never been a case of vaccine-virus measles. The Disney cases were from a virus that was circulating in the Philippines, as was the Amish Ohio outbreak of the summer of 2014.

        I don’t know when the last indigenous wild measles case was in the US, but all recent cases have been imported.

    3. Bottom line:

      Parents are responsible for protecting their children from illness and injury, including vaccine injury.

      Disease can be prevented and cured by lots of means, in contrast, vaccine injury can only be prevented by avoiding vaccines.

      Diseases kill and vaccines kill, but you don’t go around injecting healthy kids with diseases, you inject them with vaccines.

        1. Nature wouldn’t blame the parents, either, for “allowing” their child to be exposed to measles. Measles is contagious several days before symptoms appear, and, although Vacunas doesn’t want to believe it, the airspace of a contagious person is contagious for two hours after the person has left.

          1. It is nevertheless of inestimable benefit to the child’s long term health to get measles. So who cares how they catch it?

          2. Lurkers, please note that Cia has done her research and therefore she knows this information is false.

            What does that tell you?

          3. I would not have described it as ‘pathological’ but yes.

            And the fact is she knows that it’s a lie which means what?

          4. “It is nevertheless of inestimable benefit to the child’s long term health to get measles”

            False.

            Why do anti-vaxxers lie so much?

          5. That’s such a crock, cia! The child’s immune system will be suppressed for years to come, mealses affects every organ system of the body; she could lose her hearing, her vision, her brainpower.

        2. “…Nature would never go around injecting wild diseases…oh wait.”

          Unlike vaccines, nature’s injections are not universal. Nature requires you to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, which is highly unlikely.

          But you had already been exposed as an ignorant of risk calculation, and that explains why you’re pro-vaccine.

          1. You don’t believe in herd immunity which is the mathematical calculation of whether you’re at exposure or not.

            Why do you care?

          2. “…You don’t believe in herd immunity…

            For you it’s just a matter of belief (like god or the tooth fairy).

            For me it’s a mathematical impossibility that herd immunity can ever be achieved by vaccines.

          3. It’s called “cherry picking” the years.

            The greater picture shows that, as vaccination rates increase incidence of pertussis also increases:

            https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/surv-reporting/cases-by-year.html

            Pertussis Cases by Year

            1979 : 1,623
            1980 : 1,730
            1981 : 1,248
            1982 : 1,895
            1983 : 2,463
            1984 : 2,276
            1985 : 3,589
            1986 : 4,195
            1987 : 2,823
            1988 : 3,450
            1989 : 4,157
            1990 : 4,570
            1991 : 2,719
            1992 : 4,083
            1993 : 6,586
            1994 : 4,617
            1995 : 5,137
            1996 : 7,796
            1997 : 6,564
            1998 : 7,405
            1999 : 7,298
            2000 : 7,867
            2001 : 7,580
            2002 : 9,771
            2003 : 11,647
            2004 : 25,827
            2005 : 25,616
            2006 : 15,632
            2007 : 10,454
            2008 : 13,278
            2009 : 16,858
            2010 : 27,550
            2011 : 18,719
            2012 : 48,277
            2013 : 28,639
            2014 : 32,971

            https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/images/incidence-graph-age.jpg

            Vaccine-induced “herd immunity” my ar.se!

          4. All of them.

            It’s an “out of the ar_se” bar graph with no sources. Typical vaccine tripe for the illiterate and the gullible.

          5. Omg! This has to be a Poe.

            That is reported pertussis incidence vs the incidence rate per 100,000. You are saying that the as pertussis incidence rises, more people out of every 100,000 gets pertussis.

            Of course the incidence correlates with itself!

            Next

          6. Nope.

            — Y axis: pertussis incidence

            — X axis: year.

            Therefore the plot is Pertussis incidence vs. Year.

            You’re illiterate in epidemiology, in maths… what else? You’re the prototype pro-vaxxer!

          7. Anyone can misread things once.

            And you’ve showed incidence rates over time. That does not disprove my graph which is a side-by-side geographic comparison.

            But you’ve just claimed the CDC is true. Thank you for proving our pint re: vaccines.

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/

          8. “…That does not disprove my graph which is a side-by-side geographic comparison.”

            Your graph is a cartoon with no sources.

            Even if true, it depicts a static and a statistically meaningless point in time and space.

            The global picture is the opposite of what your cartoon falsely calls “reality”. As vaccination rates increase, pertussis incidence increases even faster.

          9. Oh, goody!

            Saba’s going to expound and tell us exactly, and with supporting evidence.. as to why ‘it isn’t remotely’!

            Ima pop some popcorn and get comfy for this! I bet she incorporates her favourite power word; ‘sapient’! It’s a crowd pleaser!

          10. 50%>0.001%. By lots.

            “Unlike vaccines, nature’s injections are not universal.” – neither are vaccines. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/vac-admin/contraindications-vacc.htm

            “Nature requires you to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, which is highly unlikely.” Herd immunity is the mathematical calculation you use to figure out how unlikely it is – you are changing the likelihood by advocating against vaccines.

            Again, the naturalness of a substance has no bearing on how dangerous it is.

          1. That graph is mortality, which is not appropriate for the claims made, as morality does not represent disease incidence (that’s morbidity, btw). In other words, no. It’s still not showing that health mpact news is reliable

          2. Oh please, how dense can one woman be? Follow the trends pre and post vaccine introduction, get your head out of the clouds and think for once in your life.

          3. please note that both were decreasing prior to the introduction of the vaccine with morbidity increasing in many cases after the vaccine introduction

    1. Blaming it on “lack of vaccination”?

      1. Prove she wouldn’t have contracted whooping cough had she taken the vaccine (notorious for its outbreaks).

      2. Prove it was whooping cough what killed her and not the “treatment”.

      Proof of causality, remember? You got a lot of work to do

    2. The irony here is that the parents’ child who died from pertussis is very likely to have been infected by a vaccinated child who was carrying the bacteria yet was asymptomatic. Stop blaming the unvaccinated when even the FDA and CDC have acknowledged that the primary driver of recent pertussis outbreaks is vaccinated children. Most outbreaks include exclusively vaccinated children.

      There is a growing body of research supporting this:

      FDA study helps provide an understanding of rising rates of whooping cough
      https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm376937.htm
      “[Acellular pertussis vaccines] may not prevent infection from the bacteria that causes whooping cough in those vaccinated or its spread to other people, including those who may not be vaccinated.”
      “This research suggests that although individuals immunized with an acellular pertussis vaccine may be protected from disease, they may still become infected with the bacteria without always getting sick and are able to spread infection to others, including young infants who are susceptible to pertussis disease.”

      Asymptomatic transmission and the resurgence of Bordetella pertussis (June 2015)
      https://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/146
      “We find that: 1) the timing of changes in age-specific attack rates observed in the US and UK are consistent with asymptomatic transmission; 2) the phylodynamic analysis of the US sequences indicates more genetic diversity in the overall bacterial population than would be suggested by the observed number of infections, a pattern expected with asymptomatic transmission; 3) asymptomatic infections can bias assessments of vaccine efficacy based on observations of B. pertussis-free weeks; 4) asymptomatic transmission can account for the observed increase in B. pertussis incidence; and 5) VACCINATING INDIVIDUALS IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH INFANTS TOO YOUNG TO RECEIVE THE VACCINE (“COCOONING” UNVACCINATED CHILDREN) MAY BE INEFFECTIVE.” (emphasis mine)

      Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in a nonhuman primate model
      https://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/787.abstract
      “In this study, we show nonhuman primates vaccinated with aP were protected from severe symptoms but not infection and readily transmitted Bordetella pertussis to contacts. […] While all groups possessed robust antibody responses, key differences in T-cell memory suggest that aP vaccination induces a suboptimal immune response that is unable to prevent infection. These data provide a plausible explanation for pertussis resurgence and suggest that attaining herd immunity will require the development of improved vaccination strategies that prevent B. pertussis colonization and transmission.”

      Unexpectedly Limited Durability of Immunity Following Acellular Pertussis Vaccination in Pre-Adolescents in a North American Outbreak
      https://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/13/cid.cis287

      Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization
      https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

      Tdap Vaccine Effectiveness in Adolescents During the 2012 Washington State Pertussis Epidemic
      https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/04/28/peds.2014-3358.abstract
      “Tdap protection wanes within 2 to 4 years. Lack of long-term protection after vaccination is likely contributing to increases in pertussis among adolescents.”

      1. What you call a “primary driver,” FDA says “may.”

        “acellular pertussis vaccines licensed by the FDA are effective in preventing the disease among those vaccinated, but suggests that they may not prevent infection from the bacteria that causes whooping cough in those vaccinated or its spread to other people.”

        The vaccine works. Obviously.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/546398813a9e2f49d4dc6e3f3cb3dac3629a1821bd491f0c01831a77fda966aa.jpg

        1. “The vaccine works. Obviously.”

          “…acellular pertussis vaccines […] may not prevent infection from the bacteria that causes whooping cough in those vaccinated or its spread to other people.”

          Are you really that obtuse?

          1. Parents only need to hear that word ‘may’ in ‘order’ to be given the option of informed consent WITHOUT coercion, in their decisions as whether to vax or not!

          2. They are not allowed to ever acknowledge the truth, it’s a rule in the shill’s employment contract.

          3. Post those studies that prove SV40 doesn’t cause cancer in people…..oh, but they don’t exist.

          4. “Post those studies that prove SV40 doesn’t cause cancer in people…..oh, but they don’t exist.”
            Post those papers that prove having the name “Ione” doesn’t cause cancer in people…oh, but they don’t exist.

          5. Like people should listen to a former journalist who was convinced she was being hacked when her backspace key was stuck. Heh. And made a video to commemorate her paranoid delusion.

          6. TED and TEDX talks are not peer-reviewed, nor are they expected to be replicated. Just like any random YouTube video presented as supposed evidence. Some of them are interesting and even good. Nice try, though.

          7. You can’t bring bought science in to this, because it is just that, bought science, bought science is not real science, the science also shows vaccines cause autism, try again.

          8. That is a youtube video. It is an allegation. What you are attempting is proof by assertion or proof by repetition. Please provide actual evidence.

          9. Astroturfers intentionally shove so much confusing and conflicting information that you are left to throw up your hands and disregard everything including the truth. Drown out a link between a medicine and a harmful side effect, say vaccines and autism. By throwing a bunch of paid for surveys, studies and experts in to the mix confusing the truth beyond recognition.

          10. Shill (and its variant, astroturfer) is the last refuge of the clueless and evidence-free. Thank you for conceding that you have no place in adult discussion. And, for those in the back of the room, VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.

          11. THE REAL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ARE DEFINITIVE THAT VACCINES HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY LINKED TO CAUSING AUTISM. AND LIKE THE M&M SAYS ABOUT SHILLS, THEY DO EXIST.

          12. Heh, “M&M.” Colourful sugar-coated chocolates comment on astroturfing? Who knew?If you have even a shred of evidence to support your contentions that those commenting on behalf of children’s welfare and in support of public health, I suggest you bring it. Or STFU.

          13. Freedom of speech is my Constitutional right so I will not shut up, ever. It is also my right to refuse a medical procedure for myself and my children.

          14. You are entitled to say whatever you like.I am entitled to point and laugh. Criticism is not suppression of speech (nor is it, as often whinged about by antivaxxers, “bullying”).I don’t care if you sound foolish and crazed in a public forum. Go for it. But no one has to take you seriously.BTW, the US Constitution’s protection of freedom of speech refers to suppression of speech by government. Any privately-owned blog owner can kick you off whenever they feel like it. No one is obligated to publish your screeds*.”*And “screed” is being really, really generous.

          15. Why kick off me? Do not like truth? Do I annoy you with those pesky facts? Not easy to manipulate truth with all of us annoying autism parents biting at your heels? I do this for free.

          16. Freedom of speech comes from the first amendment and the first amendement says “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”…

            It does not stop private individuals from interfering with your freedom of speech. If you were banned from here, for example, that isn’t freedom of speech violation. Disqus is not obliged to give you a platform.

            “It is also my right to refuse a medical procedure for myself and my children.”

            Oh, really? Good luck arguing that one.

            Surely, you came across all this in your hours of research?

            Abeel v Clark California Supreme Court 1890
            Jacobson v Massachusetts, US Supreme Court 1905
            Zucht v. King, US Supreme Court 1922
            Prince v. Massachusetts, US Supreme Court 1944
            Phillips v. City of New York, 2nd Cir., 2015;
            Workman v. Mingo Cnty Bd. of Educ., 4th Cir., 2011
            Brown v. Stone, 1979 Mississippi Supreme Court

          17. Shall Congress be lobbied and bribed by the pharmaceutical industry while we sit idly by, Nope. Piper time is coming. Fake grassroots will get you no where. Thank you for pointing out that you are against parents making medical decisions for their own children.

          18. Again, you need to prove that grassroots are fake and that bribery is the only reason.

            You are making medical decisions for other people’s babies – this is what you need to grasp.

          19. Then you will need to prove that all the precedents were bribed as well. And I asked you to prove that bribery was the ONLY reason.

            And a scheme to improve Big Pharma’s profit would look like this;

            All children will remain unvaccinated.

          20. Why all or nothing? Why not just the serious vaccinations? The turf in you is shining through like vampire Edward In the sun. You are shining as bright as a diamond. All vaccines all the time for all people or you are a quack, anti vaxxer, blah blah, blah

          21. Simple. I asked you for proof bribery was the ONLY reason. And that would be ludicrous – some people can’t be vaccinated which is why herd immunity is so important.

          22. No, people like you are trying to influence medical decisions, I can show you Drs, as I have already per my comment history that take a logical safe approach to vaccinations because they know they can be dangerous.

          23. You are a denier of blatant large as life easily provable facts and no one believes you. You are the poster child for media manipulation.

          24. If you think a court decision makes a policy ethical or appropriate you are wrong.

            “The Supreme Court heard a number of cases involving slavery in the late 1840s and 1850s. With one minor exception, slaveowners won every one of these cases and the Court overwhelmingly supported the power of Congress to assist them in recovering fugitive slaves.”

            https://racism.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1518:supremecourtslavery&catid=119:articles-related-to-slavery&Itemid=243

          25. Stop it with the strawmen. A court decision makes things legal – that is all.

            However, a court decision can interpret the constitution. You aren’t allowed to yell fire in a crowded theatre – you can argue ethics but you can’t argue legalities.

          26. You are feeling very angry. So eager to show me the door, why? Too much truth, why feed the troll with such enthusiasm unless he is speaking the truth? Why are you so eager to get me banned when I have done nothing that you and the pro vaxxers have not done? Take a day at chuck ee cheese and collect yourself. I will be here when you get back.

          27. So? Murder happens – that is not proof that a specific murder allegation is true.

            Now kindly get on with proving that anyone here is paid.

          28. There has never been a case of compensation for autism. That is a lie. VAERS pays out nothing, it is a passive surveillance tool, whose reports of injury are investigated, (kind of an early warning system, faulty as it is). There is also the VSD, a physician-reported database not subject to the same weaknesses as VAERS.You are referring to NVICP, colloquially known as “Vaccine Court,” I presume? There have been over $3B in settlements, without finding of causality based on the extremely generous evidentiary rules of the program, representing less than 1 case of injury per million vaccine does given.Why should anyone take you seriously, if you can’t even read your lines right?

          29. Oh my apologies kfunk937, pharma troll, You are correct of course and you would know this because you get paid to troll these sites and deflect and threat to your employers profit. Interesting how I have seen this exact quote in multiple discussions with various other trolls. “There have been over $3B in settlements, without finding of causality
            based on the extremely generous evidentiary rules of the program,
            representing less than 1 case of injury per million vaccine does given.” You gave yourself away kfunk.

          30. Prove it, or GTFO.I don’t care if you troll for free. You add nothing to the discussion, and have conceded with accusations of “shill” and “pharma troll” that you have no place in adult discourse.I’m unsure why you would think that those advocating for children and public health would only do it if paid. Seems to be a misperception common to the Society for Disease Promotion*.*h/t Liz Ditz

          31. No I said “you” were a paid troll, not most of the others. If you truly were advocating for children and public health, you would be willing to read anything that might make it easier for children and the public to be truly healthy and to be able to see that vaccines are not the answer in modern society. But okay get your feathers ruffled, your bosses will like it.

          32. Prove you are not because your comment history and gang mentality says otherwise. Cmon hit us with some more propaganda pics.

          33. Sia, I never said you were a paid troll, however, as you have noted that “we have read them all” I must assume that you know and are part of kfunk’s group of trolls. Thanks for the confirmation

          34. Again, vaccine advocacy on a page that is vaccine advocacy-postive is not trolling by any reasonable definition of the word.

          35. Regarding that proof that anyone is getting paid: Why are we still waiting? And again, anti-vax is not a threat to Pharma profit. Thanks for letting us know that basic economics was not on your research list.

            I would also like to note at this point that the the sites from anti-vax/anti-state coercion have mostly had stores – and the sites linked by pro-vaxxers mostly have not.

            I would also like to note that the anti-vax/anti-state coercion people have linked to books that you have to bu https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/41ce28b2c04ca6938803b28e66d8b320e6f4db807eebc27b8ad5c2452c4589b6.png

            What this says about the likelihood of their shill accusation I will leave to the lurkers as an exercise

          36. Considering that most of those opposed to mandatory vaccines are individuals and not multi billion dollar corporations, some have to support themselves. And, PLEASE, $10,000 for a single case of measles LOL you are a joke. Cite your source I don’t get paid to write on this editorial. I write to provide those that want unbiased information some sources to look into. And with that in mind I have spent too much time on this today.

          37. The source is on the meme. You have to prove that any of us are multi billion dollar corporations.

            And again, remind me what Orkent’s law is, would you?

          38. Sia, I was going to give you a pass then in another comment and this one as well you use the “us” implying that you and a couple of others are paid trolls. Good job though and I hope you get paid by the post. 🙂

          39. You said all pro-vaxxers were paid trolls. Clearly, there is more than one pro-vaxxer on the page. Us is reasonable.

            No, bwf309, kindly get on with that proof!

          40. No, that is proof we are all commenting. It is not proof that any of us are paid to do so.

            Do you really think that the only reason anyone would post a comment on an internet forum to disagree with you was because they got paid to do so?

          41. When their comments go in to the thousands on only this one subject of vaccines then yes. When they are roaming article to article hiding behind tart pics but are obviously heavy researching and pushing vaccinations then yes you are paid shills. Sharyll already pimp smacked your face and told you exactly what you are. Did u watch the vid, huh

          42. No, sorry. That just proves that they talk about the subject a lot. And your comment history is in the thousands of calling people shills – does this prove you’re being paid to call people shills? No.

            No, she made accusations. You really do need to learn the difference between accusations and proof.

          43. Hearing you speak of “truth” when you were shown to be a liar is rather ironic, don’t you think?

          44. So it’s the old “it’s not perfect so it’s worthless” argument.
            Do you really think rational people will buy that carp?

          45. What you vaccine apologists call “not perfect”, the rest of us rational folks see as it really is…causing pertussis outbreaks.

            The same thing held true when you all were defending the old whole cell DPT vaccine…what you called “not perfect”, or referred to as “acceptable losses” or “collateral damage”, the rest of us recognized as causing too many permanent injuries and deaths.

          46. No one every called any ill child an “acceptable loss” or “collateral damage”. Some of your AV friends, however, have said they could live with 400 deaths per year from wild measles.

          47. Where do you come up with 400 deaths per year from measles?..The death rate had seriously declined to near zero BEFORE the vaccine was implemented. The bigger tragedy is the 250,000 iatrogenic (doctor/hospital) caused deaths EVERYONE year!

          48. You sir, are a Liar.
            The vaccines does not “Cause outbreaks”. Pertussis causes outbreaks. It is impossible for the vaccine itself to cause an outbreak. YOU KNOW THIS.
            An now, you change subject to avoid being wrong. Now it’s about safety.
            You throw out lies and false claims with ZERO DATA. Let me help you with that.
            Since 2006, there have been 113,000,000 Dtap Vaccinations and 43 total claims, good or bad. That means one claims injury per 3 million vaccinations. the safest human activity ever invented.
            Why must you lie to make a point?

          49. “…The vaccines does not “Cause outbreaks”. Pertussis causes outbreaks”

            Your “science” is OUTDATED, freshen it up!

            https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

            An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.

            Which part of more vaccination -> higher incidence do you fail to understand?

          50. Thanks for confirm your stupidity again. Less effective vaccines means more incidence. Vaccines DO NOT cause outbreaks, the disease does, you stupid moron.

            You think vaccines are homeopathic. You can barely breath.

          51. “..You think vaccines are homeopathic….”

            I concede this vaccine might not be homeopathy … it’s doing actual harm LOL!

            “..Less effective vaccines means more incidence.”

            You’re just too impaired to understand even the headline of the report:

            Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization

          52. You are proudly stupid spouting stuff you don’t understand. You don’t even know what B. parapertussis is, do you?
            .
            I’ll give you a hint – It’s not whopping cough. You didn’t know that did ya?

            It’s Bordetella parapertussi which DOES NOT cause a cough. and is harmless. It is promoted in vaccinated people because THEY CAN”T GET PERTUSSIS you incredibly stupid moron.

            And you though you discovered something important. every time you post, you just look worse.

          53. “… You don’t even know what B. parapertussis is, do you? I’ll give you a hint – It’s not whopping cough.”

            Everybody rejoice! my imbecile and illiterate follower has just got up from bed!

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15482209

            Whooping cough due to B. parapertussis: an unresolved problem.

            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482815_3

            Whooping cough CAUSED by B. pertussis and B. parapertussis in an immunized population.

            You’re wrong again … B. parapertussis causes whooping cough and the vaccine does ZILCH to prevent it.

            You’re done for the day, now go back to your lethargy.

          54. You are desperately trying to cover your mistake with lies. Lets look at the ENTIRE SENTENCE you partially quoted:

            “Bordetella parapertussis is ONE OF THE bacteria that causes whooping cough. However, little attention has been paid to this bacterium because it causes A MILDER ILLNESS than Bordetella pertussis”

            You are not only stupid, you are a liar trying to cover it up,

            Oh yes, you stupid assuming dumbass. I am in South Korea and it’s 10:44pm. I didn’t “just get up”. You continue to be 100% wrong AND STUPID.

          55. FLIP : “..B. parapertussis … It’s not whopping cough.”

            then

            FLOP : “..it causes A MILDER ILLNESS than Bordetella pertussis”

            Caught pants down shifting the goalposts, clown!

            Will you now go fk yourself with a 10-ft pole?

          56. Give up. You are stupid and not a doctor. .B. parapertussis does not even generate a cough. You don’t know anything about it.

            Please, stop being proud of your ignorance.

          57. ” .. you are stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid …”

            LOL! That’s an ignorant vaccine apologist exposing her best argumentation.

            Vaccines are HOMEOPATHIC remedies… sorry kid.

            “…B. parapertussis does not even generate a cough”

            Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

          58. That is patently untrue as research has proven. I’m not saying that the killed bacteria in the vaccine itself infected anyone…what’s happening is the vaccine leads to some children getting pertussis but remaining asymptomatic, and they then go on to infect other children. This is not conjecture, it’s happening and the FDA and CDC both admit it.

          59. Show a study where the vaccine has caused an outbreak. It’s acellular and cannot cause disease.

          60. Are you paying attention? Did you read any of the information from the FDA and CDC which I cited earlier? Stop trolling, take some time to actually UNDERSTAND what’s being discussed, and then see if you have anything to add to the conversation.

            In some children the vaccine prevents pertussis symptoms, but allows the bacteria to nonetheless colonize and infect them. Then these children remain in school (because they are asymptomatic) where they infect others.

            No one is saying the vaccine is directly infecting anyone.

          61. OMG I give up, I’ve tried to be patient and I’ve explained this as clearly as I can. Do you not know what the word “asymptomatic” means, or do you have some form of reading comprehension problem?

          62. The vaccine cannot cause the disease. It does not contain bordatella pertussis bacteria.

            I’m sorry you don’t understand what acellular means.

            The protection from the vaccine might not be as high as we’d like, which means some still contract pertussis when exposed, but this is not the vaccine CAUSING the outbreak, because that is impossible.

            Please learn some basic science.

          63. I’m not going to argue semantics with you. I’ll let the FDA answer you:

            “This research suggests that although individuals immunized with an acellular pertussis vaccine may be protected from disease, they may still become infected with the bacteria without always getting sick and are able to spread infection to others, including young infants who are susceptible to pertussis disease.”

            Children are being exposed to pertussis BECAUSE there the use of the vaccine is leading to asymptomatic, vaccinated children who then spread the disease to others.

            You are correct that the vaccine is not directly infecting anyone, however the use of the vaccine IS the primary driver of recent outbreaks.

          64. But.. you previously posted/commented..

            David Foster: “OMG I give up, I’ve tried to be patient and I’ve explained this as clearly as I can.”

            And yet, it would appear that you have not, in fact.. ‘given up’.

            Did you not mean to write ‘give up’ in the first instance, David Foster?

            Or..

            Perhaps.. in hindsight, you realized that you failed to clearly explain ‘this’ as well as you could?

            Or..

            Are you wasting everyone’s time again, you arrogant ass?

          65. Wow, can you not follow logic?…children are vaccinated, because they are vaccinated they can and do harbor pertussis bacteria in their mouth and nose, without symptoms. …those children are still sent to schools/daycares, they spread the disease. Thus the vaccine influences the outbreak.

          66. And again, nothing you have said refutes my statement.

            The vaccine cannot cause the disease, and the fda quote does not say the vaccine caused the disease either.

            Hope that helps.

          67. What you describe is vaccine failure. It is not the vaccine causing the infection, which is patently impossible.

            Please learn how the vaccine works, thanks.

          68. That’s not the vaccine *causing* the outbreak. The vaccine cannot cause disease.

            It’s acellular.

          69. Please give evidence as to how a vaccine which is acellular can cause pertussis in an individual.

            I’ll wait.

          70. “Are you really that obtuse?”

            I would ask are you, David? (I don’t know how many times we have explained the “baboon” study to you antivaxers… you guys must have the memory span of a goldfish). Points to note are:

            1. The vaccine protected against infection.
            2. Some of the previously vaccinated baboons did become infected despite the vaccination, however they were not ill, and were found to carry the pertussis bacteria for a limited time (ie just like unvaccinated baboons would, but because the vaccinated baboons did not have cough they are much less likely to spread the bacteria)
            3. In humans, the unvaccinated are 23 time more likely to become infected (so would be 23 times more likely to pass on the infection).

            So, the unvaccinated pose the greater risk to others, since they are much more likely to have been infected in the first place, and much more likely to have symptoms (paroxysmal, chronic cough) that can transmit infection to others.

          71. Primate study in Pittsburgh showed that primates vaccinated according to schedule showed signs of autism. Baboon.

          72. I believe they all showed delay in speech development, and none of them could talk by the age of two.

          73. “Oh, oh, oh! You pro-vaxers are so mean! We’re going to report all of you to the mods.”

            Clean up your own house first, jerks.

          74. The evidence actually says that those who are vaccinated who develop pertussis have cases that are less severe than those who have the wild disease.

          75. Yes. It does. It also says that some/many of those will in fact be asymptomatic, which is great for them…but they then remain in school because they are asymptomatic…and THEN THEY INFECT EVERYONE ELSE.

            In case you missed it, the vast majority of the outbreaks have included only vaccinated children. Nearly all of the people getting pertussis are vaccinated, and most are getting it from children who themselves have been vaccinated.

          76. I understand this, and in fact I cringe when some folks bring up statistics like “75% of cases were vaccinated”…I fully get that this is not real meaningful when 95% of the people are vaccinated.

            HOWEVER, when you have many different outbreaks where ALL of the cases are vaccinated, then this becomes significant, and not simply an artifact of high vaccine uptake.

            I would expect a 5th grader to understand THAT.

          77. Look it up yourself, Google “pertussis outbreak vaccinated”.

            I’m not here to do your homework. For anyone whose been paying attention this is common knowledge.

          78. Oh, look, more conspiracy things. And when you tell me to “do my homework”, it sounds a lot like you admitting that you can’t meet your burden of proof.

            If it’s common knowledge, you’ll have no problem providing proof.

          79. It’s not that I can’t, it’s that I simply don’t care to.

            Seriously, look it up. You strike me as someone who could use some learnin’ on this subject.

          80. No one disagrees that the pertussis vaccine needs improvement. Arguably the vaccine was made less effective by Barbara lie fishers exaggerations which led to the discontinuance of the whole cell vaccine.

            The data doesn’t quite say includes only vaccinates children. The more serious pertussis cases will occur among unvaccinated children.

            See

            Of the culture-proven cases, 50.7% were female, and the age range was 6 days to 41 years, with a mean and median of 4.3 years and 4.1 years, respectively. The following characteristics were noted. Only 4% of the patients had received pertussis vaccine.”

            Clinical findings in Bordetella pertussis infections: results of a prospective multicenter surveillance study.
            AU
            Heininger U, Klich K, Stehr K, Cherry JD
            SO
            Pediatrics. 1997;100(6):E10.

          81. Vaccination decreased the median duration of pertussis-related cough throughout the six year follow-up (number of days with two different pertussis vaccines versus placebo group):
            •29 and 33 versus 61 days at 6 to 24 months of age
            •39 and 31 versus 60 days at 25 to 33 months of age
            •35 versus 52 days at 34 to 72 months
            ●Among children 6 to 24 months of age, vaccination also decreased the incidence of pertussis-related apnea (47 and 36 percent versus 85 percent) and cyanosis (31 and 21 percent versus 65 percent)

          82. In a prospective multicenter surveillance study that included 2137 cases of B. pertussis among unvaccinated patients, whooping occurred in 79 percent of children [19]. In a 2010 outbreak that occurred predominantly in vaccinated children, whooping occurred in 22 to 44 percent; it was more frequent in children <1 year of age (44 percent) [20].

            "Of the culture-proven cases, 50.7% were female, and the age range was 6 days to 41 years, with a mean and median of 4.3 years and 4.1 years, respectively. The following characteristics were noted. Only 4% of the patients had received pertussis vaccine."

            Clinical findings in Bordetella pertussis infections: results of a prospective multicenter surveillance study.
            AU
            Heininger U, Klich K, Stehr K, Cherry JD
            SO
            Pediatrics. 1997;100(6):E10.

            The California pertussis epidemic 2010: A review of 986 pediatric case reports from San Diego county
            AU
            Chan MH, Ma L, Sidelinger D, et al
            SO
            J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2012;1:47.

          83. And the percentage of the population that are illegal aliens in San Diego county is? And the number of illegal aliens that came down with the disease is? Why is that important? Because of the living conditions and the underlying health of illegal aliens. Nice try though

          84. See also

            Vaccination decreased the median duration of pertussis-related cough throughout the six year follow-up (number of days with two different pertussis vaccines versus placebo group):
            •29 and 33 versus 61 days at 6 to 24 months of age
            •39 and 31 versus 60 days at 25 to 33 months of age
            •35 versus 52 days at 34 to 72 months
            ●Among children 6 to 24 months of age, vaccination also decreased the incidence of pertussis-related apnea (47 and 36 percent versus 85 percent) and cyanosis (31 and 21 percent versus 65 percent)

          85. Vaccinated children and adolescents with pertussis infections experience reduced illness severity and duration, Oregon, 2010-2012.
            AU
            Barlow RS, Reynolds LE, Cieslak PR, Sullivan AD
            SO
            Clin Infect Dis. 2014;58(11):1523.

          86. Clinical presentation of pertussis in unvaccinated and vaccinated children in the first six years of life.
            AU
            Tozzi AE, RavàL, Ciofi degli Atti ML, Salmaso S, Progetto Pertosse Working Group
            SO
            Pediatrics. 2003;112(5):1069.

        2. It works upwards, obviuosly.

          https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

          An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.

          Which part of more vaccination -> higher incidence do you fail to understand?

          When will your madness stop?

        3. Obviously it doesn’t work, if these epidemics of whooping cough are primarily among the vaccinated…

      2. Snort!
        “The irony here is that the parents’ child who died from pertussis is
        very likely to have been infected by a vaccinated child who was carrying
        the bacteria yet was asymptomatic. Stop blaming the unvaccinated when
        even the FDA and CDC have acknowledged that the primary driver of recent
        pertussis outbreaks is vaccinated children. Most outbreaks include
        exclusively vaccinated children.”

        1. You are generalizing the results of the baboon study to humans, something that has not been done, showing once again that baboons are smarter than the average anti-vaxer.

        2. The FDA and CDC have said no such thing. In fact, the CDC finally grudgingly admitted that the Cali pertussis epidemic was fueled in part by failure to vaccinate.
        https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/25/226147147/vaccine-refusals-fueled-californias-whooping-cough-epidemic
        https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/09/24/peds.2013-0878.abstract

        1. Only one of the cited studies relates to the primate study, did you just forget to read everything else I included?

          The FDA certainly DID say this, my first citation is FROM the FDA.

          As for the CDC:

          https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/5/00-0512_article

          “Our results indicate that children ages 5-6 years and possibly younger, ages 2-3 years, play a role as silent reservoirs in the transmission of pertussis in the community.”

          1. So you agree we should improve the pertussus vaccine? Great!

            Meanwhile, more subclinical cases would mean more children are likely to survive, and that’s not terrible either, is it?

          2. Acknowledgement that they play a role, but the role is a minor one, David.
            Focus on the real issue will you – human studies show vaccination is protective against pertussis, with the unvaccinated being 23 fold more likely to become infected.
            So to prevent infection, parents should vaccinate.

        2. No, an acelluar vaccine can not shed.

          There is not even a whole germ in there. It cannot shed and cause pertussis any more than we can run David Foster over with a handful of car parts.

          1. The baboon study was not about shedding, but about inapparent infection in immunized baboons, such as Mr. Foster.

    3. My eldest son was vaccinated until he was 2 yrs old he had the Tdap vaccine and still got Whooping Cough.. He is now 18 and has not had a Vaccine since he was 2 and the rest of my 6 kids have never had a Vaccine and they are Healthier then all of their friends and cousins who are all vaccinated

    1. The average anti-vaxxer

      Men: 56% anti-vaxxers are men and 44% are female (compared to an average population ratio of 49% men and 51% women).

      Not necessarily parents:
      Having kids didn’t affect the likelihood of respondents to declare themselves
      against vaccines.

      In lower income brackets:
      People earning less than $25,000 a year are 50% more likely to distrust
      vaccines.

      45 to 54 years old:
      People in this age group are 26% more likely than any other to oppose
      vaccinations.

      Midwestern:
      Citizens living in the Midwest region appear more likely to have “closeted”
      anti-vaccine sentiment.

      Live in rural areas: Rural
      dwellers are 28% more likely to refuse vaccines.

      Liberal: 60%
      of anti-vaxxers describe their political leaning as liberal.

      Non-college educated:
      People with a high school diploma as their highest education level are 11% more likely to be against vaccines.

      Don’t go to doctors:
      anti-vaxxers are 88% more likely not to have seen a doctor in the past year.

      Don’t care about the
      environment: anti-vaxxers are 30% more likely to be “not concerned at all”
      about the environment and climate change.

      Don’t think their votes
      matter: People who oppose vaccines are 69% more likely to feel like
      their vote doesn’t matter.

      https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-not-who-you-think-she-is/

        1. And besides which, educated might mean a degree in Arts. While I’m sure their knowledge of arts is great, it doesn’t mean they know jack about immunology, chemistry, or biology or toxicology or any of the relevant fields.

          1. I know right?

            There are a lot of “eductated” people in my town, but I wonder if somebody else has to tie their shoes.

          2. It’s been proven that education and shoelace impairment are causally related in a study granted by Merck.

        2. Wow that’s pretty amazing Brooke. I’ve seen you post that exact same link clever (but easily debunked) clap trap before, and here you are to comment on Justthefacts’ same post within two minutes after he posted it. And I believe this is your first comment on this article. Some coincidence.

          How exactly could the following be true when we know that unvaccinated children are disease-ridden pustules spreading epidemics everywhere?

          “anti-vaxxers are 88% more likely not to have seen a doctor in the past year.”

          1. Not disease-ridden pustules spreading disease everywhere but more likely to be the start of epidemics.

            If you would argue against your opponent’s actual position rather than argue with yourself over a point that no one is making, I’d be very grateful.

            “”anti-vaxxers are 88% more likely not to have seen a doctor in the past year.” As for this – one possible explanation is that anti-vaxxers are more inclined to think well visits are just for vaccines and therefore not go to them – another is that there’s a lot of overlap with other things and anti-vaxxers are more likely to go to homeopaths or something.

          2. All pharma drugs are dangerous. Taking medication just as the doctor directed is the third leading cause of death in the US. Did you read Dr. Mendelsohn’s How to Have a Healthy Child in spite of your Doctor? My daughter hasn’t been to a doctor for treatment for anything in ten years. At that time I wanted an antibiotic for her sinus infection. But nothing before that, nothing since. I never go to the doctor either, and I have vaccine-induced MS. The further you stay from doctors, the greater your chances for health. And homeopathic remedies are extremely effective, if you decide on the correct one, very cheap, and completely non-toxic.
            My daughter and I both have bracelets which say: Medical Advance Directive, Do not vaccinate. She has autism and bowel disease, I have M.S. from vaccine reactions. No one could expect us to act otherwise.

          3. David Foster: ” I’ve seen you post that exact same clever (but easily debunked) clap trap before, and here you are to comment on Justthefacts’ same post within two minutes after he posted it. And I believe this is your first comment on this article. Some coincidence.

            David Foster needs to buy more aluminum foil.. supply must be low. Not getting a good signal. Discussion directives from the Reptilian Overlords are not readily being understood.

            And this claim is unequivocally supported by the following graphic of the movement in aluminum pricing over this passed month..

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dcef062f723207ebd64e8c68afae15e0fbb07463c27f6cf4c72ce232c8441237.jpg

            ‘Sides.. the actual message being transmitted to David Foster was this..

            ‘Hey, on your way home.. can you pick up some raw milk?’

        3. Depends on whose side the dude drafting the description is.

          This from a university (the author is pro-vaccines)

          https://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=15881

          Chang found that the higher a mother’s education level, the less likely a child was to receive an MMR vaccination.

          A FACT with no judgement attached.

          Interpret at will.

          1. That’s was the MMR only and there is no mention of the data source.
            The above data in Pew Research Center. Check the link.

          2. “…The above data in Pew Research Center”

            I live my life by Pew’s headlines. Creators of perceptions for hire, results on demand.

          3. Conspiracy? I thought Pew was just a Marketing business.

            The management:

            Pew Charitable Trusts Foundation President Rebecca Rimel gave false testimony in a court hearing.

            Their employees:

            “Pew hires all kinds of experts supposedly for their counsel and their suggestions, but that is not what happens. You do what you are told, and you think what you are told to think.”

            “There’s not even an opportunity to right a two-sentence email without five or more people editing it before it goes out….And this applies no matter how high up you are. If you come here, you will soon feel what everyone here feels: a burning desire to leave and fear or concern that you cannot go. “

          4. That does not prove that anyone here is being paid, does it.

            And it’s not just the pollers, is it? It’s worldwide through hundreds and thousands of scientists, immunologists, chemists, biologists and toxicologists, among others If you want to argue that it is a global conspiracy, that’s fine but it’s an extraordinary claim and you need solid, robust, extraordinary evidence.

            And why isn’t Big Pharma worried about the global conspiracy being exposed on websites? Why isn’t it worried about you exposing them?

          5. It’s also for 1999 and 2000, and specifically mentions educated people’s opinions were influenced by a study which is now retracted.

            Like, “Duh, did you even read your link?”

            Gallup did a poll last year too. Same results as Pew.

            “Views on vaccinating children are related to education and age; those with the highest education levels and Americans aged 30 and older are the most likely to say it is important.”

            https://www.gallup.com/poll/181844/percentage-saying-vaccines-vital-dips-slightly.aspx

        4. Exactly! I just came across this yesterday, actually late last night:
          https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/12/30/quoth-vox-day-antivaxers-are-more-educated-quoth-the-study-vox-cites-not-exactly/#comment-426636
          “Basically, the study did not show that higher educational attainment
          predicts the likelihood of PBE percentage. Quite the opposite, in fact.
          The authors, in describing their model predicting change in PBEs over time, report:

          Educational attainment did not independently predict 2013 PBEs. More educated populations had slower rates of change in PBE percentages from 2007 to 2013 (P ≤ .01). For example, in the school-level block group model, a 10% increase in the percentage of the population with a college degree was associated with a 0.025% decrease in the annual rate of growth from 2007 to 2013.

          In other words, there was a negative correlation between the percentage of the population with a college degree and the rate of PBE growth from 2007 to 2013. Or, as the authors explain:

          We found that areas of California with higher household income and
          proportion White population are associated with higher overall PBE
          percentages as well as greater increases in PBEs from 2007 to 2013. In contrast to some previous studies, we did not find an independent predictive effect of educational attainment level once we controlled for those characteristics. Although the marginal effects of income and race were modest in magnitude, the overall PBE percentage doubled from 2007 to 2013, and more than 17 000 PBEs were issued in California in 2013.

          In other words, although there might be a correlation in the raw data between educational level of the population and percentage of PBEs, it’s not an independent predictor. Control for other socioeconomic factors, and it the correlation between education and PBEs goes away. To be honest, I was rather surprised by this result, not so much because I think antivaccinationists are more intelligent, but rather based on my personal experience of constantly hearing
          antivaccine activists proclaim how educated and intelligent they are I
          rather expected there to be a correlation. I also rather expected there to be a correlation because more educated people tend to be much better at motivated reasoning; namely constructing arguments and cherry picking data to protect their pre-existing beliefs. Of course, this is just one study, and the authors note that their results don’t agree with some previous studies. Even so, I can’t help but feel a bit of amusement at how quick Vox was to latch on to this study as confirming his self-image of being oh-so-much more intelligent than everyone else.”

    2. Mr. Coconut Oil’s source is another one of his own blogs, but the original story at the NYT reported that data was from answers to the National Health Survey in 2009.

      Things have changed quite a bit since then.

  75. US Government Moves On Nationwide Adult Vaccination

    February 27, 2015 | By Professor James Tracy

    The transnational pharmaceutical cartel will be positioning itself to profit handsomely if a federally-mandated adult immunization program becomes law. The proposed US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) policy will be implemented alongside the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), thereby becoming a standard component of US national healthcare policy.

    Published on February 6, 2015 amid the “measles outbreak” media frenzy, the HHS is accepting “public comment” on its Draft National Adult Immunization Plan (NAIP) until March 9, 2015. Under the NAIP, all adult American citizens will be compelled to receive current and retroactive vaccination regimens that may amount to several dozen “shots” per individual during their “catch-up” phase. Under the federally-mandated immunization schedule children presently receive 49 vaccines before the age of six.

    The NAIP underscores how

    [t]he adult schedule … includes catch-up vaccinations for those adults who never initiated or did not complete a multi-dose series when vaccination was first recommended during childhood. Catch-up vaccinations include vaccines such as measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, which are routinely recommended for administration during childhood (p. 1).

    The NAIP is intended to supplement the National Vaccine Plan (NVP), published in conjunction with the ACA. The HHS describes the NVP as “a guiding vision for vaccination for the decade 2010-2020 and strategic direction for coordination of the immunization enterprise in the United States” (NAIP, p. 9), by highlighting the alleged public health problem posed by the low vaccination rates of US adults.

    “[T]he NAIP is intended to promote coordinated planning and action across all stakeholder groups,” the 52-page document reads, “[i]ncluding those within and outside of the federal government” (p. 6). In addition to the health and personnel-related agencies within HHS’ purview, such as the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration, other government and “stakeholder groups” include the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the “vaccine industry” and “academic/research organizations” (p. 7).

    Given the frequent and serious side effects of vaccines routinely documented in the inserts accompanying them, the government appears to be waging a high stakes game with public health under the guise of prevention that will soon extend to the entire US adult population.

    The NAIP is unambiguous in its ambition and intent. “The vision for adult immunization is to protect the public health and achieve optimal prevention of infectious diseases and their consequences through vaccination of all adults” (emphasis retained, p. 6).

    The NAIP was developed in coordination with the RAND Corporation, whose services were “enlisted to review historic literature, interview stakeholders, and collect plan date to identify plan priorities and key indicators” (p. 8).

    Specific “subgroups of adults” will be particularly targeted for vaccination, “such as healthcare workers and pregnant women.”
    https://www.thesleuthjournal.com/us-government-moves-nationwide-adult-vaccination/

    1. I only wish that was true. The real way to get rid of the silly exemption is at the federal level. I like the anti-vaxx vitriol from that tin foil hat site.
      .
      Let’s hope they actually do it.

    2. The is no language regarding adult mandates in the NAIP. It’s a public heaalth program that focusses on education, improving delivery and access, continuing to monitor safety and efficacy, etc.

      No one’s going to break down any doors to force you to get vaccinated and no one will be tracking your vaccination status; there are no madates included in the plan. Only alt-med health freedumb conspiracy sites are “reporting” this twisted version of what’s essentially an update of HP2020.

      It must be terrible to be so suspicious and afraid of everything.

      1. First they come for the children, the health care workers and day care workers, then they target the elderly. Soon having your shot records will be needed for work or travel, or to receive any gov benefits or healthcare. But no, it won’t be FORCED per se…

        “Adult vaccination rates remain low in the United States, and significant racial and ethnic disparities exist. In 2011, NVAC recommended the development of a strategic plan with the goal of improving adult immunization.The National Vaccine Plan (NVP), released in 2010, provides a guiding vision for vaccination in the United States for the decade 2010-2020. While the NVP serves as a roadmap for protecting all U.S. residents from vaccine-preventable diseases, historically low vaccination rates in the adult population and unique attributes of the adult vaccination delivery system highlight the need for focused attention on adult vaccination.”

        https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/02/06/2015-02481/solicitation-of-written-comments-on-the-draft-national-adult-immunization-plan

        1. Your first paragraph is a nice example of totally baseless, paranoid slippery slope argument.

          The second is an accurate excerpt from your link, and does not follow, nor is it supportive of your first, unfounded assertions. The stated goals include reducing health disparities. What’s so scary about that?

          You really need to get out more.

          1. Goal 1: Strengthen the adult immunization infrastructure.

            Goal 2: Improve access to adult vaccines.

            Goal 3: Increase community demand for adult immunizations.

            Goal 4: Foster innovation

            “In 2014, NVAC published updated Standards for Adult Immunization Practice to emphasize that all providers who care for adults are responsible for assessing immunization needs at every clinical encounter, strongly recommending needed vaccines, administering recommended vaccines, and documenting receipt in a state immunization information system. The standards also instruct providers who do not vaccinate to refer adult patients to a vaccinating provider.

            The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that among US adults each year there are roughly 40,000 cases and 4,000 deaths attributable to invasive pneumococcal disease, between 3,000 and 50,000 deaths due to seasonal influenza, 9,000 cases of pertussis, approximately 3,000 cases of acute hepatitis B, and about one million cases of herpes zoster. Adults have also been affected in recent outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles. With the aging of the U.S. population, the public health impact of vaccine-preventable diseases and their complications in adults is likely to grow. The diminishing function of the aging immune system reduces the immune response to vaccination and underscores the need to develop more effective products for older adults”

            pages 5 and 6

            “The success of this plan will depend on the synergies between state, local, territorial, and tribal governments; health care providers; advocacy groups; vaccine manufacturers; academia and research organizations; payers and health plans; employers; and the general public to work together to overcome barriers and improve access to adult vaccinations.”

            pg 10

            “In addition, NVAC provides forward-looking analyses to identify barriers and challenges to research and development of new vaccines specifically for pregnant women. ”

            pg 15

            1.6.2.

            “Encourage employers to offer and promote adult immunization using evidence on economic impact.

            The most immediate impact from an employer perspective may be with seasonal influenza immunization campaigns, but efforts here offer the possibility of expanding to other vaccines recommended for adults.

            Encourage on-site, occupational health vaccination clinics and involvement of employers to increase employee vaccination rates.”

            pg 24

            One of the five goals of the NVP is to develop new and improved vaccines.

            On pg 26

            “Implementing the NAIP will require not just federal action, but also national action.”

            *Note that the published immunization schedule does not include 2014 ACIP recommendations related to the use of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine among adults aged ≥65 years”

            pg 31

          2. And . . . your point?

            I read the same documents. Apparently we comprehend different meanings. Those are all reasonable goals and reflect a holistic view of public health and how it works. There is cooperation between public and private sectors to meet the common goals. They’ve been doing this for a long time and they’re good at it. This meeting had to do with assessing progress to date (at the half-way point since HP2020 was written in 2010) and whether priorities/directions should shift based on more current information. It’s like when you have personal goals (or a map). Don’t you assess (take a compass reading) and adjust along the way? Successful people and organisations follow this pattern, rather than beating dead horses or going astray.

          3. It is you who are paranoid. Please name a VPD which is so deadly and so common that some reasonable people might think it was worth the risk from the vaccine to try to prevent.

          4. “Shill !!!11!!!!”, “Sheeple !!111!!!!”, etc. is the patois of the Alex Jones InfoWarts drones.
            Average demographic: 15 year old obese white boy with an 80 IQ living in mom’s basement with orange Cheetos stained fingers.

      2. It’s aimed at incremental increase of market share for manufacturers.
        Make it unprofitable for schools, churches, hospitals, employees, and the states, to disagree with a Vaccine policy.
        Our government is tipping the balance to favor business.

        1. It is unprofitable to treat vaccine-preventable illnesses, rather than prevent them. Insurance companies know this. County hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid also stand to save money.

          It is unprofitable to businesses to lose worker capacity due to illness or absences while caring for sick children. Many workers’ jobs are at risk (not covered by FMLA, e.g.) and they face unemployment and possibly strain public safety net programs as a result.

          Society as a whole benefits from prevention, even on the money side of the equation.

          1. But some don’t benefit by vaccination and are killed or harmed by vaccination.
            Thus, no coercion by government should be permitted.

          2. Some are harmed, you are correct. There are even some rare and tragic deaths. No one denies that, although it’s a favoured antivax myth about provax people.

            The benefits for the population as a whole outweigh, by orders of magnitude, any risks. The only reason that mandates exist is because some people (fortunately a small percentage, but unfortunately, enough to undermine community immunity) are no good at risk assessment.

          3. The risk assessment is for the families to make, not the government.
            This a medical intervention.
            Bodily integrity is a basic human right.

          4. The risk assessment is math-dependent, not emotion-driven.

            And bodily integrity is fine. I support that. Adults can make their own decisions for the most part, stupid as they may be.

            Children, on the other hand, have a basic human right to be protected. They are not your property. Their bodies are not your body, and kids have a right to their own bodily integrity.

            When parents make bad decisions (refusing life-saving blood transfusions, for instance), society has a right and responsibility to interfere on their behalf. However, as parental rights are something we respect (perhaps overmuch, in some cases), parents may obtain non-medical exemptions, or in states where that’s not an option, are free to homeschool.

          5. Nonsense.
            Your math doesn’t trump the basic human right to not be coerced into a medical intervention.

            We don’t know at this point which person will benefit.
            We can’t predict the injuries.

            Not kfunks call, not the state.

          6. Well, you certainly aren’t protecting them by vaxing them. At this time one in forty American children has autism from vaccines, one in ten ADHD, one in six a learning disorder, one in a hundred a seizure disorder, one in nine asthma (and many die of it), one in three some kind of allergy (and many die from them as well), one in ten a bowel disease, one in 450 childhood diabetes. Nearly all of them got their condition from vaccines.

            I have had measles, rubella, chickenpox, pertussis, hep-A, and many flus. All typical cases, meaning not serious. I reacted to a tetanus booster when I was nineteen with both arms being paralyzed the same day, brachial plexus neuropathy, which lasted for several days. But I was later diagnosed by MRI with multiple sclerosis, which has severely reduced my health and quality of life, has sometimes been paralyzing. Thousands of sleepless nights from the mercury-induced insomnia, thousands of days of crippling dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. I would have been better off taking my chances with tetanus and treating it with high-dose IV vitamin C if it occurred. I would have had a MUCH healthier life if I had not gotten a single vaccine, and my daughter, crippled by vaccine-induced autism, would have had a future and a life. My father reacted to a flu shot with paralysis for the last three years of his life. It would have been better for him to get and even die from the flu than suffer the way he did for those years, from vaccine hell.

          7. If you refuse to have your children vaccinated:

            (a) the children should be removed from your custody, and
            (b) you should be forcibly sterilised.

            Simple, really.

          8. Yeah, but that has nothing to do with my red hot poker up the anti-vaxer’s cloaca™ sterilisation method. Anti-vaxers are unworthy of human rights; the trash must be taken out; the scum must be filtered from the pond; the blowflies must be zapped.

          9. We’ll give him some rope! But his continued verbal assaults won’t stand on a family friendly site where even ‘d@mn skippy’ is put into mod!

          10. LOL! Anyone feeling victimized by the offense and wanting to lodge an official complaint with the mods!

            Got a problem with that, Katia?

          11. I have a problem with people who can’t think for themselves. Your little Gracie is a prime example.

          12. I have pics of the slop that was previously here, Katia! I KNEW it wouldn’t stay up!

            I’ll not re-post what garbage some ‘moonlight’ brat brought [all upvoted by hyperzombie] since I know aurora has the sense to take such filth down as noted!

            But DO feel free to take their moderation protocol up with them, should you have any issues with it!

            As usual, you don’t know what you’re talking about!

          13. As I said previously, Katia, should you have any further concerns regarding the above incident with ‘capn midnight’, please share them with aurora!

            It’s really none of your business who I report or for what purpose!

            However to placate your pathetic prying, I’ll simply concede that I have nothing but praise for how Autismo has handled him/herself among you pack of foul mouthed bullies!

            Additionally after reading ALL the 600 + comments posted by Autismo, NONE of them even came CLOSE to involving the explicitly graphic narrative of a vile and vicious hate crime against women, as a heinous rape with ‘midnights’ red hot poker, for means of sterilization!

            As all you forced vaxers say, ‘NEXT!’

          14. Surely you jest, Suz! You, plural, your little cabal, have upvoted the vilest stuff that’s been said about me. Ask me if I care. If you think the answer is “yes”, you really have another think coming!

          15. It was gone in 5 mins. or less.

            Boo hoo, Katia! Ya get what you give you sniveling, spineless whiner!

            And you came to me, you derelict dolt!

            Should you grandiosely feel my comment in any way was written with you in mind, then you have another ‘think’ coming!

            And STOP stealing my shtick! 😉

          16. Certainly appears relevant when arguing with you forced vaxers against medical tyranny!

            Suz will upvote it AGAIN! Where is it, aside from your PARROTED display above, you WITLESS PARROT! That’s all you DO, ’cause it’s all you can do!

            You even stole your pilfered ‘non grata’ from me! Do you think readers don’t notice that you lack the intellect to put together just ONE thought of own cognizance!

            Yep! Pathetic due to your witlessness and subsequent arrogance to plagiarize whatever you pray will give the slightest illusion as to you having even mediocre acuity!

            However, your parroted presentation still pales in comparison to the graphically and sexually explicit depravity from ‘midnight!’ So yet another ‘dog poo on shoe’ moment for you!

            ‘Ask’ what! Spit it out! You’re the one who keeps approaching me with your squawk and caw!

            And suz doesn’t lie, you witless parrot, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

          17. Aw! Someone’s already deleted the really vile stuff! And just when I was getting ready to take a pic! 😉

          18. Not at all. You accused someone of implying threats of rape, and I asked a simple question, “who did that, and what did they say?” All I saw was a post that said “have a nice day.” Was that edited? What did it say before it was edited?

          19. Jesus f’ing Christ! Why is it so hard to get a simple straight answer out of you? this isn’t even a vax question, just a simple clarification of something I would take offense to, and even for that you find a way to obfuscate and avoid a simple question. Nevermind!

          20. sabelmouse:

            1)Did someone imply a threat of rape?

            2)If yes to 1, please name the person.

            3)Did the person in question edit a post to say ‘have a nice day’ instead of an implied threat of rape?

            4)If yes to 3, what did the post say before it was edited.

            Thank you.

          21. Yes, someone implied a threat of rape.

            It was edited, okay.

            You won’t repeat it…fair enough.

            Now, name the person that implied a threat of rape – thank you.

          22. Thanks sable, I see Captain Moonlight did edit the worst of it.
            It’s just sticks and stones, as the saying goes.

          23. I flagged it, and you’re right, it creates a culture of misogyny.
            Especially after the incidents in Germany.

          24. What other luminaries of freedom and justice spoke of mass sterilization programs? Hmmm. I wonder. Well, those found guilty of carrying out such acts were tried at the Hague and I believe the were hung by the neck until dead.

          25. You deleted your comment that said you wanted to sterilize anti-vaxers. Why? Do you not believe that sterilizing people against their will is a good idea?

          26. See your shrink, Brian. The comment is still up and I stand by it.

            If you are an anti-vaxer you are a child abuser and you should be forcibly sterilised by the state and put on the child abuser’s register. If you work with kids you should lose your job. If you live within 100 yards of a school or playground you should be forced to move. You know I’m right. Deep down, you agree with me and hate yourself.

          27. If you feel that strongly about it, please come to my home and attempt either A. or B. and see how that works out for you. Or are you just a coward that expects to mandate the authorities to do your dirty work?

          28. I’m a Big Government type. Would you let Suz or Sabelmouse or Graceds baby sit your kids? I mean seriously, just look at their commenting histories.

            The only anti-vaxer I know has a restraining order against him because he kicked his estranged defacto’s door down after he found out she had vaccinated their son without his knowledge. Not cool but indicative of the mentality we are talking about.

            I put the the rights of kids to a decent start in life front and centre. I make no apology for that. No one has the right to mess with kids.

          29. Over the top, dude. I recognise that it’s likely an expression of extreme frustration, and acknowledge that antivaccine quacktivists are potentially dangerous in that they may convert some hesitant, underinformed parents with their unfounded FUD mongering. But, still.With apologies for what might appear to be tone-trolling on my part. I’d say the attitude is less than representative of that of most pro-vaccine advocates, and does little/nothing to advance our cause.

          30. That’s cool. I must admit my motives are impure. I found this thread by tracing some of Sage’s anti-GM groupies to their hangouts, noticed how many of them are loopy anti-vaxers and thought I’d have fun baiting them.

            But I am serious about my points (a) and (b). I’m an old fashioned pro-science Big Government lefty, so you can take it or leave it. I don’t mind using draconian measures to deal with trash who have deadly behaviours. I wil lnot waste my time mollycoddling these fools. Plus I refuse to apologise for putting the rights of kids to a decent start in life front and centre. Sterilise them all with extreme prejudice is something I’d happily have inscribed on my tombstone …

          31. Those that believe the ends justify the means are always the fuel that have raised the despots of society. In short, you are a catalyst for the Hitler’s, Maos and Stalins on this earth. How is it that you feel you have the right to dictate to others what medical procedures they must adopt? By your own admission you concede vaccines cause damage, yet you still promote mandatory vaccines? How despicable. Will you change the diapers of a vaccine injured child when that child is 30? No, I didn’t think so, but it is for the greater good, huh? People like you are the reason this country is a micron away from civil war. How about that; how about we round up all the pro=vaccine, end justifies the means, greater good monsters and put you all on a nice big island of your own with lots of vaccines. Force you onto it. You can live there with like minded despots.

        2. Big Insurance often has financial motives that run counter to those of Pharma and yet they support vaccines.

          How does your hypothesis account for this?

      3. No one would ever round up Jews and cook them in ovens. NO one would ever murder 20 million Chinese to quell dissent. No one would ever murder 20 million Russians for power. Nah, never can happen.
        You are a poor student of history, and poor students of that topic usually end up repeating lessons forgotten.

        1. And he’s scared of cooties! It must be terrible to live life in a sterile bubble! Talk about being scared of everything! Har d har! 😉

          1. I have instructed my 14 children to lick the car door handles and shopping carts in the grocery store parking lots when we leave our TEEPEE in the deep woods for supplies. Heck, little Willow has taken to licking the handles of mailboxes! Ahh, kids these days. If I were a pro-vaxer I wouldn’t leave my house without a body condom, shoe covers and a respirator.

  76. Oh, for goodness sake.

    Look, let’s invent a hypothetical pharmaceutical company which we will call Diablokline-Satanerck.

    Let’s say that every. single. person. at the hypothetical vaccine company has done every wrong thing in the world from Assasins to Zoophillia.

    Every. single. wrong. thing. Anything you can name – every. single. person. at. this. company has done.

    This still does not negate the mountains and mountains of evidence by hundreds and thousands of scientists and researchers worldwide that vaccines are vastly vastly safer than the diseases, no matter how many pictures of SIDs victims are posted.

    1. Anyone who says that the vaccines are safer than the diseases is just wrong, and just saying it because of the $$$ involved in keeping that gravy train on the tracks. Please name a vaccine-preventable disease that you think is so dangerous and so common that it would be worth damaging your child’s brain for life in order to try to get immunity to it.

      1. That’s easy: every disease that a vaccine exists for. That’s because the vaccines are safe and effective. They don’t damage your child’s brain. There are an average of 120 million doses of flu vaccine alone distributed EVERY YEAR, and we don’t see thousands, or hundreds, or even tens of “vaccine injuries” from this. So, for the twentieth or thirtieth time, how about providing some PROOF of your nonsense claims that vaccines are somehow harmful?

        1. Anyone who believes you deserves what they get. I didn’t want my baby to get the hep-B vaccine because I had read it often caused autism. They gave it to her anyway without permission, and she reacted with four days and nights of screaming syndrome, vaccine encephalitis, which can be caused by any vaccine. She was later diagnosed with autism and aphasia, stroke-like damage to the language center of her brain, and, at 15, is very low-verbal.
          We see half of American children having been damaged by vaccines now. One in forty autism, one in ten ADHD, one in ten bowel disease, one in six learning disorders, one in nine asthma, one in three some kind of allergy, one in fifty peanut allergy, one in a hundred a seizure disorder, one in 450 diabetes. Neither I nor my daughter has ever gotten a flu vaccine and we never will. My father was paralyzed for the last three years of his life by a flu vaccine. Neither I nor my daughter will ever take another vaccine, as we struggle to recover from her autism and bowel disease, and my multiple sclerosis, caused by vaccine reactions.

          1. “I didn’t want my baby to get the hep-B vaccine because I had read it often caused autism”

            “We see half of American children having been damaged by vaccines now.”

            Lying liars lie lots.

          2. I have two very simple rules for life which have served me well for years.

            If I have to invent a worldwide conspiracy to justify why I am right, I am wrong until evidence presents itself to the contrary.

            If I think I know everything about a subject, I need to learn more about it,

          3. I’m not the one saying “I base blah blah on 2 things then list 4. Ask the one who made the ludicrous statement.

          4. Simple. I said I based it on 2 rules, not 2 things. Each rule can have as many parts as it likes. It’s still two rules.

            But let me rephrase this especially for him:

            Rule #1 – The necessity of inventing a global conspiracy to justify why I am right proves me wrong.

            Rule #2 – Feeling that I know everything about a subject means I need to learn more about it.

          5. Yes, it seemed to me it was very clear what you said. But apparently, those that have little grasp on reality can easily see things in words that are not there.

          6. She could have read it in 2000? Wow, I didn’t realise VacLies had been around that long.Of course, cia never mentions that her daughter was born with a true knot in the umbilicus, depriving her of oxygen She also never explains why, when her daughter supposedly “screamed continuously for four days,” cia never sought medical advice, much less took her to an ED. She ignores that her stated family history tends to support genetic causes of autism, and of course, that not a single one of the disorders she claims are “vaccine damage” are caused by vaccinations.Worst, and saddest, is how she views her daughter as “damaged” and would rather have risked her life to disease than enjoy her for who she is and promote her optimum development. ~sigh~

          7. Dear ciaparker2: Kindly come up with some PROOF to verify your little scare story or else you will be seen as lying to us. You are repeating nothing but debunked lies, as vaccines do not cause autism. In this society where litigation is commonplace, how in the world can they vaccinate a child “without permission” and not face a lawsuit or even be arrested? Surely you have a copy of a police report you can show us, since you are so willing to tell this fairy story to strangers on the Internet at a moment’s notice. No?

            It’s amazing how many poor, attention-seeking Internet mommies there are typing to strangers how their innocent children were “damaged” by vaccines. You’re not even the first person on this very comment section to claim it; we’ve had another one saying *both* her children were vaccine damaged. And guess what? None of these people crying crcodile tears have ever provided a single shred of proof that their children were actually “vaccine damaged.” NONE. All they do is try to get pity and attention from strangers on the Internet, by exploiting their children in front of strangers. That is, assuming they even have children. That is shameless and quite despicable, and I for one have no sympathy for fools who make up these scare stories.

          8. Ridiculing the vaccine injured is exactly why you will find yourself standing on a three legged stool with a noose around your neck surrounded by angry mothers carrying pitchforks with vaccine damaged kids. Good luck with that. I will be the one donating the rope. I make strong rope. Heck, in Colorado we have HEMP rope; strongest rope known to man!

          9. I will gladly ridicule anti-vaxxers who tell outright LIES about their children in order to get pity and attention for themselves. They never, ever offer any actual proof and evidence to back up their lies.

          10. Flagged for call to violence, brian. Doesn’t make you look good. Makes you look deranged, in fact. Doesn’t advance your case, either.

          11. cia says

            Anyone who believes you deserves what they get.

            Although clearly you didn’t mean it this way, I’d hafta agree that we deserve the better health and reduced burden of disease achieved through vaccination.Voila! One of the greatest accomplishments of public health and modern medicine is endorsed by Cynthia Parker. Will wonders never cease?

        2. “That’s because the vaccines are safe and effective. They don’t damage your child’s brain.”

          You are a liar! You don’t “see injuries” because you’re myopic minded and you don’t WANT to know about them!

          PROVE that there is unanimous consensus that vax are without injury as you ‘obtusely’ lie about above, ’cause the onus is on you and vax manufax [original claimaint that vax is safe], darlin’!

          You can’t! They aren’t!

          1. So stop LYING! Not always safe! Not always effective!

            I further opine that given the risk factor [no matter how low you forced vaxers like to exaggerate] and the fact that they don’t always prevent the target vpd, that the choice to vax or not, without pressure or coercion of any kind, must be left up to the family!

            I repeat ‘for the thousandth time!’ Until you can significantly decrease the observations of vax related injuries, the onus remains on you and vax manufax to PROVE that they are ‘safe and effective!’

            You can’t! They aren’t!

          2. It’s been done. That’s what clinical trials are.

            Sober driving doesn’t always prevent accidents -it still prevents accidents.

          3. If vaccines are so safe and effective, then why is it that the supreme court defines vaccines as being, and I quote, “unavoidably unsafe”?

          4. First, they’re not. Comment K specifically says that “unavoidable is hardly a rarely-used word”

            Second, seatbelts and knives are unavoidably unsafe. I’m still going to say that seatbelts are safe and effective, even if they do jam sometimes.

          5. The supreme court, the highest court in the land describes them as being “Unavoidably Unsafe”, and you, with all of your wisdom, declare that they are not. What is that?

          6. Wrong. Anti-vax sites claim that the Supreme court says they’re unavoidably unsafe.

            If you read the whole decision, you’ll find that is not the case.

          7. You misunderstand or misrepresent, again.

            Saying a product is “unavoidably unsafe” makes it sound like the product is a bad one, when what the drafters meant was precisely the opposite: the comment was meant to apply only to ethical drugs or vaccines, i.e. where the benefits outweigh the risks. But courts understood. Some courts (California, New York, Alabama) adopted comment k wholeheartedly, exempting all properly manufactured prescription drugs and vaccines from strict liability. Others applied comment k selectively, requiring a case-by-case determination that there is no safer alternative design for a drug or vaccine before finding the risk unavoidable (Idaho, Colorado, Hawaii). Some courts, inevitably, are unclear or take an intermediate position (Florida, Georgia, Indiana).

            The message comes through clearly: these products are beneficial enough that society wants to encourage their manufacturing. Therefore, while strict liability would be applied to most products, a manufacturer that prepared a drug or vaccine carefully and warned consumers of its risks should not have to pay for the side effects of a drug or vaccine whose benefits outweigh the risks unless that manufacturer can be shown to have been negligent.

            In other words, “unavoidably unsafe” is the opposite of “unreasonably dangerous” in the Restatement’s categorization. It justifies a more favorable treatment because of those products’ extraordinary benefits.
            [emphasis supplied]

        3. The US is one of the most vaccinated populations on earth. If vaccines=health, then why is it that the US ranks 28th in infant mortality? Why is it that 1 in 3 children has a chronic medical condition? Why is it that Autism, ADHD, ASPERGERS, Acute kidney injury, Asthma, Allergies, ALS, Addisons’ disease, ARDS and Anaphylaxis have increased 100 fold since congress granted pharmaceutical companies immunity from litigation with vaccines on the vaccine schedule and that schedule increased to over 40 vaccines for every child? And those are just the chronic conditions in the A’s. I could fill this page with the rest that have increased, making our kids the sickest on earth. There is some proof for you.

      2. Please name a vaccine that you think is so dangerous
        that it would be worth getting hit by a poop meteor in order to avoid it.

        Making up nonsense is easy!

        1. Yes, making up nonsense is indeed easy. And apparently believing in said nonsense is easy as well. Like that old mantra that cigarettes don’t cause cancer, ot that vaccines don’t cause autism.

          1. Yes, that was not the mantra of scientists worldwide. There was a warning in the 50s but science knew way before then.

          2. There was NEVER a scientific consensus that smoking did not cause cancer. NEVER! That was a marketing campaign by the cigarette manufacturers meant to misrepresent and mislead the gullible. I guess it worked.

            Again, there was NEVER a scientific consensus that smoking was not harmful.

            You need to stop hanging out at vaxtroof, mercola, ageofautism, etc for your information.

          3. And that marketing campaign is excellent proof as to why you cannot trust books or take anyone’s word for it and why you should ALWAYS demand evidence.

      3. As you know cia, VPDs are less common because of the success of vaccines. So, in one sense, your calculus of lower risk is right: that you are less likely to be exposed under current conditions. However, you fail to take into account (a) attack rate (how infectious any given disease is, e.g. for measles, about 90% of naive contacts), (b) R naught, or the number of additional cases likely to result from one person (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number ), and (c) the fact that freeriders immorally and irresponsibly threaten community immunity while others bear the small risks of vaccination.

        Of course, you also have to lie to stitch up the holes in your constantly shifting narrative. Whatevs.

        1. Many disease have disappeared with no vaccine for them ever having been in widespread use. English sweating sickness killed tens of thousands in the sixteenth century, including crown prince Arthur, whose death permitted Henry VIII to become king. Anne Boleyn got it but recovered. And it disappeared all by itself in the late sixteenth century, so that no one now has any idea what virus it was. Scarlet fever was a gigantic killer disease in the nineteenth century, but both became less virulent and since has almost disappeared, without any vaccine in widespread use for it, since those tried killed a lot of people.
          All the major killer diseases of the nineteenth century decreased in both incidence and mortality before the vaccines for them came into widespread use: diphtheria, pertussis, scarlet fever. The smallpox vaccine was always very dangerous and ineffective, but the disease itself became much less virulent after 1897 in the US, until within twenty years it had become rare and caused very few deaths. Measles continued high in incidence until the vaccine, but had become a much less virulent disease, indeed had become a relatively mild and universal childhood disease by the time the vaccine was needlessly introduced in 1963. Dr. Langmuir wrote about how much less virulent it had become and how few deaths it caused, but supported the vaccine for the challenge it presented, and for saving children the unpleasantness of undergoing a few days of fever and reaping the many benefits of the natural disease.

    2. Why is it then that the charts that show the declines in polio and small pox were in major decline BEFORE the vaccine was introduced? Even the measles virus is shown to be in rapid decline BEFORE the vaccine was even manufactured. If you really want to understand the history of vaccinations, I would suggest you ignore the paid-by big pharma pamphlets touting vaccine history and read “Dissolving Illusions” by Dr. Suzanne Humphries. I bet you think Ed Jenner a hero, huh? Jenner would rot in a jail cell and be the B&^CH of every con on his ward if he did today what he did in the 18th century. Jenner took an 8 year old boy, slit open his forearms and smeared puss from sores off cows and horse hooves, then injected the boy numerous times with the puss from postules off dead people with small pox. When the boy did not die of small pox his “vaccine” was born. That’s the history you subscribe to. Never mind the fact that the boy died from TB, as did Jenner’s vaccinated son; a common demise followed by many whom had gotten vaccinated. The historical medical literature speaks of the huge increases of TB in those vaccinated with Jenner’s vaccine. But you never heard about that in history, huh?

      1. I have never seen a single chart prove there was a decline of diseases. I have seen a decline of mortality which means deaths.

        As in mortality, as in mortal – one who will die.

          1. Were they incidence or were they all deaths?

            If incidence, did they take account of the fact that catch-once diseases have to have the susceptible population replenished and thus go in jags or was it a smooth line? If the latter, it was cherry-picked between epidemics.

  77. Hot off the presses –
    Another study to add to the list of the safety of TdaP vaccination of pregnant women:
    https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e009536.short?rss=1
    BMJ Open 2016;6:e009536 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009536
    Paediatrics
    Tony Walls, Patricia Graham, Helen Petousis-Harris, Linda Hill, Nicola Austin

    Infant outcomes after exposure to Tdap vaccine in pregnancy: an observational study
    “Patients – A cohort of 403 infants whose mothers had received Tdap vaccine.

    Results – There were no significant differences in birth weight, gestational age at birth, congenital anomalies or infant growth as compared with baseline population data. Infants of mothers who had received the vaccine were more likely to receive their vaccinations on time during infancy. No cases of pertussis occurred in this cohort despite high rates of disease in the community. We have not found any adverse events attributable to vaccine exposure.

    Conclusions – These data add to the growing pool of evidence that the administration of Tdap vaccine during pregnancy is an appropriate strategy for reducing the burden of pertussis in infants.

    Reader will note that this, and other easily found, safety study conflicts with the anti-vaccine cult’s lies that there have been “no safety studies of vaccination in pregnant women” and appropriately ask:

    Why do the anti-vaccinationists constantly lie?

    1. How utterly despicable. When the medical establishment changed it’s ways and recommended the flu vaccine for pregnant women the VICP registered a 4000% increase in miscarriages in 2010. All you are doing is promoting the spontaneous abortions of millions. Monster.

      1. Evidence?
        Have a cite from a 1st tier journal or science/medical site? That doesn’t include opinions on Merde-ola, Gnatural Gnus, VacTwoof, GreenMed DisInfo, NVdis-IC, David Icke, Rense-o, etc.

        Let’s see this “4000% increase in miscarriages in 2010”.

        Readers will note brian will not respond because he is lying in an attempt to convince you to sacrifice your child to the Hippie Gods of Nachrule Lifestyle.

    2. Speaking of anti-vaccinationists constantly lying, I’ve been posting at VacTruth for a while, but the lies from Lowell Hubbs are getting to be too much to take. Tonight, I’m going to go down in a blaze of glory and get banned!

  78. Dear anti-vaxxers: If you falsely exploit the deaths of children to push misinformation, then you are evil and a danger to society.

      1. I wanted to reply ADadd [sorry, had to verify you against the childish imposter by checking comment count] but Brain says you’re an anti vax and an evil threat to society. I’m so scared!

        What a maroon! Did he use the hackneyed hokum yet; ‘1st to respond antivax bla bla bla’ that he feels is so profound! I missed a lot of the laughable stuff from early on! Har d har!

    1. Many of these anti-vaxxers are falsely inventing cases and even inventing imaginary children to exploit. Personally and in my opinion, those are some of their most despicable and shameless actions, yet it happens all the time among that crowd.

      1. Kind of like the made-up science MERCK is in litigation for by spiking their test tubes with rabbit blood to make the MMR vaccine seem more effective? Yeah, kind of like that.

          1. 2 MERCK scientists are SUING MERCK for falsifying data. That is a fact. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

          2. Okay, I just did my research (chuckle) and looked for references. It seems that four years ago, in 2012, a whole bunch of anti-vax conspiracy cites posted articles about Merck being sued over this rabbit blood thing. And, of course, there was no mention of it at all after this. That would be because the actual fraudster went to prison for it, while the pharmaceutical company was in the clear. And conspiracy theorists hate that, because they can’t blame Big Pharma for it.

          3. Modemac – the complaint is real. It hasn’t even progressed to discovery.
            The complaint is from 2 research lab rats who contend Merck fudged the efficacy of the mumps component and reported it as 95% when they contend it is really ~80%.
            They think they stand to make 100s of millions of $$ from the complaint.

            Whatever the case may be, their contention is not that the vaccine is worthless, as the anti-vaccine cult irrationally believes, but that Merck defrauded the government in a business contract by supplying a substandard product.

            They still contend the vaccine was ~80% effective… just not 95% as claimed.

            Rationalists understand this and consider 80% effective as much, much better than 0% effective as provided by not vaccinating.

          4. Lurkers: it really is simple isn’t it as to why we’re worried?

            80% is less than 100% and is more than 0%.

        1. Thank you for demonstrating exactly how the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program works. It works by providing a settlement and payment to support the families in question without having to go through a years-long court battle — that was why the program was set up. Furthermore, the list you provided of 43 settlements for 2015 certainly demonstrates the safety of the flu vaccine: over 143 MILLION doses distributed in 2015 alone. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/vaccinesupply.htm

    2. Dear tyrants whom believe the ends justify the means: Vaccines can, have and do cause harm. If they did not, then the VICP would not have paid out over 3.18 BILLION dollars to vaccine injured children. If they did not, the country of India would not be suing the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation for damages caused by their vaccines. If a medical procedure carries with it risk, then there must be personal choice. If you believe otherwise, then you are the enemy of free man everywhere. It is never right to mandate a medical procedure that carries with it risk for the “safety” of another. PERIOD.

  79. Sv40 -the fortieth monkey virus found and Simian Cytomegalovirus (SCMV-simian herpes) were both introduced into the human population by both IPV and OPV polio vaccines during the 1950’s through the 1980’s. Both viruses can be passed sexually and through contaminated blood products or donated organs. Both viruses can remain latent in tissues or kidney cells thus making them harder to detect.
    SV40 causes malignant tumors in all types of animals it is injected into. It has been found in human tumors of the brain, in lymphomas, bone cancer, and in mesotheliomas. While SCMV has been found in brain biopsies and spinal fluid of patients with encephalitis, one patient lapsed into a coma and died.

    And yet, our blood banks and hospitals do not test donated blood or organs for SV40 or SCMV. There are also not tested for as an STD, which they are.

    This study found SV40 in 23% of blood samples and 45% of sperm samples

    “SV40 T antigen (Tag) coding sequences were detected by PCR amplification followed by Southern blot hybridization in human brain tumors and tumor cell lines, as well as in peripheral blood cells and sperm fluids of healthy donors. SV40 early region sequences were found in 83% of choroid plexus papillomas, 73% of ependymomas, 47% of astrocytomas, 33% of glioblastoma multiforme cases, 14% of meningiomas, 50% of glioblastoma cell lines, and 33% of astrocytoma cell lines and in*** 23% of peripheral blood cell samples and 45% of sperm fluids from normal individuals***

    https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/56/20/4820.short

    A 2013 study linking SV40 with brain cancer

    Significant prevalence of antibodies reacting with simian virus 40 mimotopes in sera from patients affected by glioblastoma multiforme

    “Results Our data indicate that in serum samples from GBM-affected patients (n = 44), the prevalence of antibodies against SV40 viral capsid protein antigens is statistically significantly higher (34%, P = .016 and P = .03) than in the control groups (15%), represented by healthy subjects (n = 101) and patients affected by breast cancer (n = 78), respectively.

    Conclusion Our data indicate that SV40, or a closely related yet undiscovered human polyomavirus, is associated with a subset of GBM and circulates in humans. Our study can be transferred to the clinical oncology application to discriminate different types of heterogeneous GBM, which in turn may address an innovative therapeutic approach to this fatal cancer.”

    https://neuro-oncology.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/4/513.abstract

    2014 study linking SV40 with bone cancer

    Significant association between human osteosarcoma and simian virus 40

    CONCLUSIONS:

    “The data from the current study indicate an association between OS and SV40. These data could be transferred to clinical applications for innovative therapies to address SV40-positive OS.” Cancer 2014. © 2014 American Cancer Society…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377935

    2003 Association between SV40 and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

    “Millions of people worldwide were inadvertently exposed to live simian virus 40 (SV40) between 1955 and 1963 through immunization with SV40-contaminated polio vaccines. Although the prevalence of SV40 infections in humans is not known, numerous studies suggest that SV40 is a pathogen resident in the human population today. SV40 is a potent DNA tumor virus that is known to induce primary brain cancers, bone cancers, mesotheliomas, and lymphomas in laboratory animals.

    We conclude that SV40 is significantly associated with some types of Non Hodgkin Lymphomas and that lymphomas should be added to the types of human cancers associated with SV40”.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15202523

  80. Monkey Virus May Hold Clue for Development of Common Blood Cancer
    M. D. Anderson News Release 03/30/04

    “Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines.

    These findings suggest that Simian virus 40 (SV40) may “participate” in the development of the blood cancer, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

    There is no known etiology for most non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has doubled in incidence within the past 30 years, say the researchers.

    “We found a strong association between the monkey virus DNA and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in this study, and now the question is whether the virus DNA is there as an innocent bystander, or if it has a role to play in causing the cancer,” says the first author, Felipe Samaniego, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma.

    There has been a debate as to whether SV40, which contaminated some batches of polio vaccine in the 1950s and 60s, could cause human cancer, especially after the virus was discovered in human tumors. Given that, the M. D. Anderson researchers looked to see if either DNA from the virus or associated antigens or antibodies could be found in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

    One reason they looked for evidence of SV40 in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is because other viruses have been commonly found in this form of lymphoma, including Epstein Barr virus. “The assumption has long been that if only some NHL cases showed signs of virus, the rest may have another virus involved in the development of this lymphoma,” says Samaniego. “Now we wonder, which one is most important?”

    The research team, which included Suizhao Wang, M.D., Ph.D., and Shu Wang, M.D., both post doctoral fellows in the Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, examined 55 tumors taken from patients newly diagnosed with the disease who had not yet been treated with chemotherapy. After isolating DNA from the genomes of the cancer cells, the researchers found that 33 of the tumors contained DNA sequences from the anitigen produced by the virus. And 30 of 57 tumors stained positive with antibody that recognizes the large T antigen of SV40.

    There is no question that SV40 is a powerful cancer virus in some animals, says Samaniego. In a hamster, for example, the virus causes both lymphomas and mesotheolioma lung cancers, as well as tumors in the brain and bones.

    People may pick up the virus by association with infected animals, through a polio vaccine, or even though secretions, such as saliva, from a person already infected, he says. One study suggested that at least five percent of Americans have signs of infection with the monkey virus, says Samaniego.

    But he theorizes that the body’s immune system normally keeps the virus in check until “a transforming event, inflammation or other disease,” says Samaniego. “Then the virus may reactivate and cause cancer.”

    If SV40 does prove to play a role in development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, then treatment aimed at destroying the virus could help prevent its development, he says. “The virus could serve as a target in novel immune-based prevention and therapeutic strategies for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” Samaniego says. “Although this cancer is quite treatable with a 60 percent cure rate, a new therapeutic strategy would be welcomed”….https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2004/03-30-04-monkey-virus-may-hold-clue-for-development-of-common-blood-cancer.html

    1. Spamming the same point repeatedly does not make it relevant. SV40, a contaminant removed from circulation on discovery, has been well-studied and never found to impact human health. Yes, it has been identified in some tumours. But it is also present in those who have never received that polio vaccine, and does not appear to be tumourogenic even when present. It appears to be noise, ione.

      These points have all been made previously in these comments. Repeating points already addressed (and refuted, ffs) is dishonest and reeks of perserveration. But do carry on making antivaxxers look thick.

      Aside to lurkers: none of the vociferous antivaxxers you will see in the comments here have any sincere interest in discussion of their concerns. They also have no interest in exploring yours.

      1. Maurice Hillerman himself stated during an interview that the SV 40 was in vaccines and causing cancer.

        1. And that right there is what is known as a zombie meme. Why you would believe what has been laid to rest repeatedly is a curiosity. Mebbe too much Natchrul Gnus?Note to lurkers: the blue-highlighted link is to an article that examines this false belief and refutes it including science-based citations.

          1. And here is the interview where Hlleman says, from his own mouth on tape, saying that SV40 cased cancer:

          2. Lol. It’s a shame that Hilleman isn’t alive to explain how this dishonest video propaganda piece was edited and flogged.Next you’ll be trotting out HIV/AIDS denialism.Are you sure you’re not a paid pHARMa shill, hired to make antivaxxers look deranged?

      2. “The National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine (IOM) Immunization Safety Committee convened a study into SV40 and cancer which culminated in a report published in October 2002. According to the IOM report “SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer”:
        The committee concludes that the biological evidence is strong that SV40 is a transforming [i.e., cancer-causing] virus, . . . that the biological evidence is of moderate strength that SV40 exposure could lead to cancer in humans under natural conditions, [and] that the biological evidence is of moderate strength that SV40 exposure from the polio vaccine is related to SV40 infection in humans”

        And…

        “In 2002, three leading SV40 experts (Drs. Gazdar, Butel and Carbone) who have been involved in studying SV40 for a number of years wrote:

        “[1]t is our opinion that SV40 should be included in the list of group 2A carcinogens – that is, those that are probably carcinogenic to humans.”
        — Gazdar AF, Butel JS, Carbone M., SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or causality? Nat Rev Cancer. 2002 Dec;2(12):957-64.

        “Sixty-two papers from 30 laboratories from around the world have reported SV40 in human tissues and tumors,” he said. “It is very difficult to believe that all of these papers, all of the techniques used and all of the people around the world are wrong.”

        “For four decades, government officials have insisted that there is no evidence the simian virus called SV40 is harmful to humans. But in recent years, dozens of scientific studies have found the virus in a steadily increasing number of rare brain, bone and lung-related tumors – the same malignant cancer SV40 causes in lab animals,” the report said. “Even more troubling, the virus has been detected in tumors removed from people never inoculated with the contaminated vaccine, leading some to worry that those infected by the vaccine might be spreading SV40.”

        Dr. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., told the paper he believed the virus was carcinogenic in humans.

        “We need to be creating therapies for people who have these cancers, and now we may be able to because we have a target – SV40,” he said.

        Others say the few government studies regarding the potential link have been flawed.

        “The government has not sponsored any real research. Here’s something possibly affecting millions of Americans, and they’re indifferent,” Dr. Adi Gazdar, a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cancer researcher, said. “Maybe they don’t want to find out.”

        Despite ongoing denials, an increasing number of researchers continue to maintain that not only is there a bona fide link between Salk’s SV40-tainted vaccines and cancer, that federal government officials and agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of such vaccines – then and now – are loathe to admit it, perhaps because they fear the fallout in terms of lawsuits and lost credibility.”

        https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Rogue-virus-in-the-vaccine-Early-polio-vaccine-2899957.php

        https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/02/the-virus-and-the-vaccine/377999/

      3. The Lurkers can go buy a book or two and prove you wrong in the time it takes to read one. SV40 Cancers are STILL around today – meaning 1. they are passed from mother to child or 2, they were never truly removed……….

        You are the only one who seems fully ignorant of some basic vaccine facts………..

      4. Are you seriously saying you have the interests of lurkers by advising them to ignore sections of this discussion. Mainstream media has kept the SV40 virus hidden from public knowledge – it is getting an airing now. People should do their own research yes and there should be open and free discussion.

      5. The fact that you don’t want anyone to evaluate the information Ione provided about SV40, is suspect.
        You object to its presence on the board even when it is referenced.
        Obviously you disagree.
        But the posting is valid as a point of discussion.
        Your disinterest in allowing postings that you disagree with is “noise”.

  81. SV40 and mesothelioma

    “Mesothelial cells infected with this virus are at a 1,000-times greater
    risk of becoming malignant than other normal healthy human cells,” Carbone
    said.

    “For the first time, we understand the process of how SV40 is able to
    transform an otherwise healthy mesothelial cell into a malignant one and why
    the virus is most active in a specific group of cells, namely these cells,” he
    added.”

    “SV40: Between 1955 and 1963, some polio vaccinations were infected with SV40 (simian virus 40). There is ongoing research exploring the possibility that SV40 infections may have an effect on the development of mesothelioma.”

    https://www.cancercenter.com/mesothelioma/risk-factors/

    “A causal link between SV40 and mesothelioma has also been strengthened by studies showing that SV40 sequences are selectively expressed in mesothelioma cells, and not in adjacent parenchymal cells or lung carcinomas (7, 8). Moreover, mechanistic work demonstrates that human mesothelial cells are uniquely susceptible to SV40 infection and malignant transformation (9). In these experiments, infection of normal human mesothelial cells by SV40 led to an extremely high rate of morphologic transformation (at least 1,000 times higher than other cell types infected with this virus), and immortality. In addition, SV40 acts synergistically with asbestos to cause malignant transformation of human mesothelial cells (9).

    “In the past few years, simian virus 40 (SV40), a DNA virus, has been linked to the etiology of mesothelioma in multi-institutional studies showing that ∼ 50% of human mesotheliomas in the United States contain SV40 large T antigen (T-Ag) DNA sequences (reviewed in Refs. 4, 5). The link between mesothelioma and SV40 appears to be related to the contamination of polio vaccine stocks with SV40 sequences, but it is unclear how the virus is spread in humans”

    https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1165/ajrcmb.26.2.f229#.Vo_PhMvSkbo

      1. Why are you trying to cover up the link between SV40 and cancer? Millions of people have already died that could have been saved but for the gov refusal to admit what it does. The gov holds a patent for a cure for SV40 but has never allowed it to be used. Why is this?

        Federal Register: October 6, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 193)][Notices]
        [Page 54336-54338]From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov][DOCID:fr06oc99-109]

        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
        National Institutes of Health Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing

        AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, DHHS.

        ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by agencies of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage[[Page 54337]]for companies and may also be available for licensing.

        ADDRESSES: Licensing information and copies of the U.S. patent applications listed below may be obtained by writing to the indicated licensing contact at the Office of Technology Transfer, National of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville, Maryland 20852-3804; telephone: 301/496-7057; fax: 301/402-0220. A signed Confidential Disclosure Agreement will be required to receive copies of the patent applications.

        Adenoviral Vector Expressing a SV4OT Antigen Antisense RNA David S. Schrump, Z. Sheng Guo, Ishrat Wahseed (NCI) Serial No. 60/124,776 filed 17 Mar 1999Licensing Contact: Richard U. Rodriguez; 301/496-7056 ext. 287; e-mail: rr154z@nih.gov

        Desired nucleic acid sequences with therapeutic potential may be introduced into mammalian cells using appropriate vectors. Antisense technology is well known in the art and describes a mechanism whereby a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequences, which is in a complementary, “antisense” orientation with respect to a coding or “sense” sequence of an endogenous gene, is introduced into a cell, whereby a duplex forms between the antisense sequence and its complementary sense sequence. The formation of this duplex results in inactivation of the endogenous gene. The present invention describes a method of treatment of cancer by administering a replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus comprising a nucleic acid that encodes an antisense rebonucleic acid to the SV40 T antigene. In addition, it provides methods for reducing the level of expression of SV40 T antigen, induction of apoptosis, effecting cell growth arrest, reducing the levels of proto-oncogene expression, unregulating pro-apoptotic proteins, maintaining normal levels of functional p53, and maintaining normal levels of functional Rb, p107, and p130. The types of cancers contemplated by this invention include all cancers that express SV40 T antigen.”

          1. Carcinogen

            An increasing number of scientific reports have described evidence for a polyomavirus, simian virus 40, in a highly select group of human tumours. How did a simian virus infect humans and is the virus a passenger in tumours or is it important in their pathogenesis? This study states that SV40 should be considered a group 2A carcinogen.

            — Gazdar AF, Butel JS, Carbone M., SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or causality? Nat Rev Cancer. 2002 Dec;2(12):957-64.

            SV40 and Children

            SV40 DNA was identified in samples from 4 of 20 children (1 Wilms’ tumor, 3 transplanted kidney samples). Sequence variation among SV40 regulatory regions ruled out laboratory contamination of specimens. This study shows the presence of SV40 infections in pediatric patients born after 1982.

            — Butel JS, et al., Molecular evidence of simian virus 40 infections in children. J Infect Dis. 1999 Sep;180(3):884-7.

            SV40 in Tumors and Blood from Blood Donors

            SV40 large T-antigen sequences were detected at high prevalence, in human biopsies of primary brain (37-44%) and bone (21-37%) tumors, in cell cultures derived from brain (30-54%) and bone (53-80%) tumors. SV40 Tag sequences were detected in 29% of buffy coats of blood donors.

            — Martini F, et al., Different simian virus 40 genomic regions and sequences homologous with SV40 large T antigen in DNA of human brain and bone tumors and of leukocytes from blood donors. Cancer. 2002 Feb 15;94(4):1037-48.

            Human Exposure

            Our data demonstrate that humans were exposed to SV40 viruses with both one 72-bp enhancer and two 72-bp enhancers SV40 through contaminated vaccines. Our data also suggest that instead of cytopathic tests, immunohistochemical and/or molecular studies should be used to screen poliovaccines for SV40 to completely eliminate the risk of occasional contamination.

            — Rizzo P, et al., Unique strains of SV40 in commercial poliovaccines from 1955 not readily identifiable with current testing for SV40 infection. Cancer Res. 1999 Dec 15;59(24):6103-8.

            Our data suggests that there may be an increased incidence of certain cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified.

            — Fisher SG, et al., Cancer risk associated with simian virus 40 contaminated polio vaccine. Anticancer Res. 1999 May-Jun;19(3B):2173-80.

          2. Literally, THERE IS A LINK – honestly, it’s painful arguing with people who don’t even know the basics. Books and papers have been written about it, children are STILL dying from it………….look up Bernice Eddy, her career was ruined over it…………

            Have to shake my head at arguing with idiots – but here I am…….

          3. You have some erroneous ideas that seem to be impermeable to reason. In other contexts, that pattern is associated with personality disorder.As you could not be bothered to read citations, here’s an excerpt that mentions Bernice Eddy (whose career was not ruined, no matter what you’ve read on whale dot to).

            In 1959, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health named Bernice Eddy noticed that monkey kidney cells were dying without obvious cause. (Note that she was also a critical player in the Cutter incident, in which she discovered that the vaccines manufactured by Cutter Laboratories had live polio virus in them.) She made extracts of the cells and injected them under the skin of 23 newborn hamsters; within nine months 20 of them developed large tumors. Meanwhile, Hilleman and his collaborator Ben Sweet isolated the virus responsible and found SV40 was found in both the Sabin and Salk vaccines. It didn’t help that Eddy had brought her findings to Dr. Joseph Smadel, chief of the NIH’s biologics division, who made a huge mistake and dismissed the tumors as harmless “lumps.”

            By 1961, there was significant concern among U.S. Public Health Service officials, as it has been found that as many as one-third of polio vaccines were tainted. As a result, although there was no evidence at the time that SV40 was harmful to humans, it was ordered that manufacturers find a way to eliminate SV40 from all future vaccines, which they promptly did. New procedures were developed to neutralize any SV40 and SV40-free African green monkeys were then used to produce the bulk of the vaccine instead of rhesus monkeys (hence Hilleman’s reference to green monkeys in his interview). Showing that no good deed goes unpunished, conspiracy theorists latched on to the African green monkeys as the vector through which the AIDS virus was brought into the U.S. via the new polio vaccines (hence Hilleman’s joke about “importing the AIDS virus”). These actions were all well and good, but the government didn’t recall the contaminated vaccine stocks and did not notify the public, because, as Hilleman later recounted, government officials were worried about a panic that might jeopardize the vaccine program. In any case, by 1963, SV40 had been eliminated from the nation’s polio vaccine stock. However, millions of people had received the vaccine.

            But does SV40 cause cancer in humans? In a word, as far as we can tell, no.

            Even early on, there were indications that this was unlikely. First of all, followup studies demonstrated that while injecting SV40 would produce tumors, ingesting it did not. Other studies showed that children receiving Sabin’s oral polio vaccine did not develop antibodies to SV40, as one would expect if they were being exposed. SV40 apparently passed through children’s GI tracts without ever causing an SV40 infection.~snip~For example, after Carbone had presented his evidence linking SV40 to mesothelioma, Howard Strickler, an epidemiologist at the NCI, and Joseph Fraumeni, director of NCI’s Division on Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics presented other evidence. For instance, PCR on 50 mesotheliomas from Armed Forces hospitals across the country found no SV40. Another study compared cancer rates in people born between 1947 and 1963, who were likely to have been exposed to contaminated polio vaccine, to people born after 1963, who were highly unlikely to have been exposed. There was no difference in cancer rates. This is a result that has held up, as studies performed eight years, fifteen years, and thirty years after SV40-contaminated vaccines had been given to children found that they had the same cancer incidence as groups not exposed to contaminated vaccine (for example, this study, this study, this study, and this study).Emphasis supplied. Source: a surgical oncologist and researcher, qualified to comment, although there are many, many more.

            Srsly, you should consider challenging your own biased preconceptions once in a while. (Not saying that biases are bad, because we are all subject to them, but that some of us do our best to reduce the effect)

        1. Most people are totally ignorant of SV40. Information has been kept under a rug. Admitting there is a cure for SV40 is admitting there is SV40 in the populations and that is like admitting the MMR caused increased autism in African American boys – it ain’t gonna happen.

          1. They can keep denying but we wont stop trying. I see comments all the time now about SV40. How many people have lost a loved one to cancer in the last 50 years? Just about everyone has.

      1. In a recent report (1), the authors proposed that direct exposure to Simian Virus 40 (SV40) lead to brain tumor development in a laboratory researcher. SV40 is a natural infectious agent for monkeys, whereas more recent investigations indicate that this viral agent is also a human virus (2). It is well known that SV40 was administered to humans through contaminated vaccines, mainly anti-polio vaccines between 1955 and 1963 (3,4). The possibility of a human-to-human transmission of SV40 was taken into consideration only recently (5). Indeed, SV40 DNA sequences were detected in normal and neoplastic tissues of persons too young (1 to 30 y) or too old (60 to 85 y) to have been vaccinated with SV40-contaminated polio vaccines (2). This finding may also explain the lack of difference in cancer incidence between individuals vaccinated with SV40-contaminated and SV40-free polio vaccines (6). SV40 sequences were detected in blood and sperm specimens of normal individuals and blood samples of patients (reviewed in [2]) while SV40 virions were found in urine samples (7), ***indicating that blood, sperm, and urine may represent routes/vehicles of transmission of SV40 horizontal infection in humans.*** Support to the diffusion of SV40 in the human population is provided by the presence of SV40 sequences in human brain tumors, other neoplasms, and normal tissues of children and adults (reviewed in 2;8–11); specific SV40-neutralizing antibodies in human sera (12,13); and SV40 large T antigen (Tag) antibodies in sera of mesothelioma patients (14). A scientific panel recently established the importance of assessing the ways of contagion and the mechanisms of SV40 transmission in humans (5).

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1431373/

        1. From the scienceblogs article, which clearly you have never read, a snippet:

          […] in 1997 the National Cancer Institute set up an SV40 working group, as described by ERV. The report stated:

          In order to resolve why some laboratories detect traces of SV40 in mesothelioma while others do not, an International SV40 Working Group, which included the majority of laboratories studying SV40 in human tissues, was formed in 1997. Nine laboratories from the working group agreed to participate in a study, funded and organized by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Each group was given 25 paired-duplicate samples of human mesotheliomas, a single set of 25 normal lung tissue samples, and positive and negative control samples. All the samples were blinded (labeled so that the human tumors and controls could not be distinguished) and each laboratory used its particular assay for detecting SV40, many of which had been used to detect SV40 previously. The results, published in the May 2001 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention (36), showed that none of the mesothelioma specimens was consistently positive for SV40.

          That would be this paper. [full text]

          Also there’s this one, also full of citations. And trust me, there are a lot more. It’s been studied exhaustively, as it should have been. There is no there, there.

          1. Government Scientists Compromise SV40 Study

            Presently there are over 61 reports from 49 different laboratories that have detected SV40 in human mesothelioma, lymphoma, brain and bone tumors, versus three reports, two from Dr. Shah’s laboratory who performed his study under contract from Dr. Strickler at the Viral Epidemiology Branch (VEB) National Cancer Institute (USA) that have failed to detect SV40 in some of these same tumor types. To address whether the negative reports were caused by lack of sensitivity of the technique used in Shah’s laboratory, or whether the positive reports were caused by contamination within the greater number of laboratories reporting SV40 detection, two multi-center studies were conducted. Dr. Shah’s laboratory technique used in 1996 was apparently not sufficiently sensitive to detect SV40 in human tumors. When this became apparent, during unilateral pre-trial testing of positive controls by Dr. Shah, the study coordinator of the VEB, Dr. Strickler, apparently compromised the blinded nature of the study and allowed Dr. Shah to modify and improve his technique. When one of the participating laboratories questioned irregularities in the data from Dr. Shah’s laboratory and directly questioned Dr. Strickler, the study organizer, about the potential irregularity, Dr. Strickler and Dr. Shah offered letters stating that such irregularities had not occurred and re-confirmed that they had not deviated from the standard protocol. The facts indicating that Dr. Shah’s laboratory technique was not sufficiently sensitive to detect SV40 were not made available to the other laboratories participating in the study and were not published. Instead, according to Dr. Shah’s testimony, Dr. Strickler, the VEB multi-center study coordinator, compromised the masked positive controls and knowingly permitted Dr. Shah to re-test and adjust his technique during pre-trial testing. The actual negative pre-trial test results were never published alongside the published trial results indicating Dr. Shah’s laboratory had the most sensitive technique to detect SV40 among the nine participating laboratories.

            — MacLachlan DS, SV40 in human tumors: new documents shed light on the apparent controversy. Anticancer Res. 2002 Nov-Dec;22(6B):3495-9.

        2. I don’t know how I missed or had forgotten about this 12-yo paper. The paper investigates the mechanisms by which SV40 replicates within immortalized human fibroblast cell lines, in order to establish the risk and routes of exposure for lab personnel using SV40-infected cell lines. Ok. So, what has the follow up been since 2004? And even more important, what is the point you are trying to make with yet another paste barf from a paper you have misunderstood or chosen to misrepresent?

          On the bright side, if it is found that persistent SV40 horizontal infection within humans is hazardous, guess what we might do? That’s right, develop a vaccine for it!

          1. It would be interesting if we could get ione to summarize any of her pastebarf, too. What she thinks she understands, she has not read. What she has read, she has not understood.

          2. This much is obvious. She pastes a bunch of references and never contributes a single word of her own thoughts. It’s impossible to know what she even understands, though I suspect it’s not much.

          3. If I’ve learned anything during the two or so days that you’ve been using this sock account, it’s that you’re an idiot and are prone to trying to misinterpret people’s words or intents by twisting them to fit your narrative. That won’t work on me, or most others who are more than likely much smarter than you.

          4. Clearly you have not learned anything and I’m quite sure if we were to compare resumes, I’d outdo you any day of the week, but the reality is that you don’t need a fancy education to know that 50-70 vaccines before 18 years old is a HORRIBLE idea.

            You don’t need a fancy degree to know that watching your child suffer from RA or any of the other autoimmunity conditions means you should never vaccinate again.

            You don’t need a fancy degree to know that many autistic parents literally watched their child regress and it was due to vaccines.

            Since you are still in favor of vaccines, despite past medical history and/or family history and/or any common sense at all, I know for a fact you aren’t smarter than me. But feel how you like – clearly you’re probably sitting home 1. being paid to post or 2. sitting home on disability or 3. sitting in a mental ward having a good time……………..

          5. As I see all the upvotes for Pasta’s simple and glorious suggestion that developing a vaccine to counteract the vaccine cancer virus spreading though our populations I think to myself what a shame my ethics prevent me from investing in Big Pharma’s vaccine and cancer market. It truly is the gift that just keeps on giving …no end to the sickness in sight…

          6. Wtf are you even talking about? That comment was made partially tongue in cheek, but realistically, that would be the solution to an epidemic SV40 outbreak – a vaccine against SV40.

          1. Reads recent evidence linking SV40 and cancer, supports denying it and letting more people die

            A 2013 study linking SV40 with brain cancer

            Significant prevalence of antibodies reacting with simian virus 40 mimotopes in sera from patients affected by glioblastoma multiforme

            “Results Our data indicate that in serum samples from GBM-affected patients (n = 44), the prevalence of antibodies against SV40 viral capsid protein antigens is statistically significantly higher (34%, P = .016 and P = .03) than in the control groups (15%), represented by healthy subjects (n = 101) and patients affected by breast cancer (n = 78), respectively.

            Conclusion Our data indicate that SV40, or a closely related yet undiscovered human polyomavirus, is associated with a subset of GBM and circulates in humans. Our study can be transferred to the clinical oncology application to discriminate different types of heterogeneous GBM, which in turn may address an innovative therapeutic approach to this fatal cancer.”

            https://neuro-oncology.oxfordjo

            2014 study linking SV40 with bone cancer

            Significant association between human osteosarcoma and simian virus 40

            CONCLUSIONS:

            “The data from the current study indicate an association between OS and SV40. These data could be transferred to clinical applications for innovative therapies to address SV40-positive OS.” Cancer 2014. © 2014 American Cancer Society…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25

          2. Again, what is your point??? Why do you keep barfing on my screen?

            If there is found to be a real link between SV40 and cancer, and a prevailing horizontal infection, then we will develop a vaccine against it, so you have something else to whine about.

          3. “then we will develop a vaccine against it, so you have something else to whine about” says Pasta .You nailed the crazy pro vax ideology – put cancer causing viruses in a vaccine – buy stocks in pharma for vaccines and cancer treatments ( very lucrative as cancer is increasing). Develop another cancer causing vaccine to treat the initial cancer virus that was in the vaccine in the first place. whoo hoo $$$$

          4. No I don’t think it was deliberate – but once in the vaccine it was covered up. However the fact that in live vaccines it is not possible to filter out viruses of the same size and smaller than the live viruses needed for the vaccine – is a wakeup call that vaccines are not the clean sterile jabs we think they are. People forget the mediums used to grow these viruses, monkey kidneys, aborted fetal cell lines, dog kidneys, chicken eggs, cow bovine serum. How can you ever keep these mediums sterile and pure – not possible.

          5. I’m just getting warmed up
            SV40 Cancer Articles

            There are over 3,400 scientific articles with SV40 in the title and over 15,000 articles that mention or discuss SV40

          6. Interesting:
            I just googled “anti-vaxxers are wrong”. There are 102,000 hits.
            Googled “SV40 not linked to cancer”. There are 819,000 hits.

            This is fun, what other useless associations can we make?

          7. The 2014 bone cancer study is recent.
            “The data from the current study indicate an association between OS and SV40. ”
            Who knew.

          1. Why would I? Books are not peer-reviewed, so consequently a great deal of dodgy “research” is peddled to the unwary. Let them publish in credible journals and face pre- and post-publication peer review, and open their work to criticism, replication or refutation and otherwise contribute to the body of scientific knowledge. Let others build upon their work. Going about it by amazon review$ is just. not. the. same. thing.

          2. True, Amazon review is not a scientific process.
            Nor is it a reason to discount something you haven’t read.
            (Nor have I, yet).

          3. So? It can have good reviews or crappy reviews or somewhere between – it doesn’t make it right or not.

          4. 😀 To be fair, Grace wouldn’t profit. And, for a limited time only, you can find it on Abe’s Used Books for under a dollar (if you can’t download it for nothing).

          5. Nor is it a reason to discount something you haven’t read.

            Quite right, Grace. However, reading the authors’ other work on PuffHo and in the Atlantic is sufficient.
            Here’re some from my reading list: anything by Laurie Garrett, The Panic Virus (Seth Mnookin), Neurotribes by Steve Silberman, lots of Dawkins and Hitchens, Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and Complications . . . ad infinitum. Oh, and then there’s poetry and fiction to round things out. Unfortunately, there is never enough time.

            Books can be interesting, but they’re not primary sources.

          6. You forget, science is not a democracy. It doesn’t matter what 49 random readers of some book think. For all you know, they thought it was fiction. Most of it probably was.

          7. Consensus is not the same as democracy. Nice try though. The scientific consensus is correct the vast majority of the time, especially when put up against the pseudoscientific, unsupported nonsense thrown out there by the ignorant and incompetent who pretend to have a clue.

          8. It really is this simple:

            1)The default is that someone is innocent.

            2)The default is that you obey the speed limits.

            3)The default is that the scientific consensus is correct.

            If you don’t think someone is innocent, it is up to you to prove it. For obeying speed limits, you’ll get a ticket or points or some consequence unless you come up with some good reason (not the same as an excuse) as to why it shouldn’t apply to you (e.g. you need to drive your kid to hospital quickly)

            Just as you need some reason for thinking 1 isn’t correct or 2) doesn’t apply to you, you need a reason to think the scientific consensus is incorrect. Not ‘shill’ or allegations of conspiracy – that’s all an excuse. This is a simple application of consistent reasoning.

            And if your evidence is enough, scientific consensus will shift, starting the cycle again only with the burden of proof being on the other side of the debate.

    1. One of the world’s most lucrative industries, spending on cancer drugs reached an all-time high last year, as it was valued at more than $100 billion. Spending on cancer drugs increased 6.5 percent annually over the past five years and is expected to continue growing at a rate of 8 percent each year through 2018, according to figures provided by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

        1. Let me make it very simple for you, Ione.

          SV-40 has been found in tumours.

          Hydroxic Acid has been found in tumours.

          Neither cause tumours.

          Is that clear enough for you?

          1. I don’t think you understand that SV40 is considered a group 2A carcinogen, or the IOM has already said the same thing, SV40 causes cancer in humans, and chemo only makes tumors with the virus become more aggressive. By denying what you know to be the truth, you implicate yourself in the worst scandal the world has ever seen.

            The National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine (IOM) Immunization Safety Committee convened a study into SV40 and cancer which culminated in a report published in October 2002. According to the IOM report “SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer”:
            The committee concludes that the biological evidence is strong that SV40 is a transforming [i.e., cancer-causing] virus, . . . that the biological evidence is of moderate strength that SV40 exposure could lead to cancer in humans under natural conditions, [and] that the biological evidence is of moderate strength that SV40 exposure from the polio vaccine is related to SV40 infection in humans”

            “In 2002, three leading SV40 experts (Drs. Gazdar, Butel and Carbone) who have been involved in studying SV40 for a number of years wrote:
            “[1]t is our opinion that SV40 should be included in the list of group 2A carcinogens – that is, those that are probably carcinogenic to humans.”
            — Gazdar AF, Butel JS, Carbone M., SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or causality? Nat Rev Cancer. 2002 Dec;2(12):957-64.

      1. No one is claiming that Big Pharma doesn’t make a lot of money. Just that compared to alternatives, vaccines really aren’t that profitable.

    1. Stupid……………..has nothing to do with the reality of vaccines, of course most things have “truth in the middle” same way MOST things should only be consumed in moderation – unlike today’s vaccine schedule which is OUTRAGEOUS………..and deadly

      1. Hooray! We can protect kids from MORE diseases with LESS antigenic load.

        Not sure why this is a problem.

        1. Wow………….literally it’s like talking to someone with mental illness……………69 vaccines is “less load” – in WHOSE world?

          Just boggling…………..

          1. Still proudly parading your ignorance around, plainlynotdealtafulldeck?

            Here you go..

            “If you are still stuck on the actual number of vaccines, it is important to understand that the numbers of antigens given are actually much less than they used to be.

            This is because we are giving purer vaccines. Vaccines have been isolated down to just the proteins needed to produce protection.”

            “But it is not just infections that lead to antigen exposures. Kids are exposed to 2,000 to 6,000 antigens every day and the vaccines that children receive in the first two years of life are just a drop in the ocean when compared to the tens of thousands of environmental challenges that babies successfully manage every day.”

            About Health | Pediatrics | “Antigen Counts in Vaccines”

          2. OMG, you truly believe that………………literal tool – while you may be defining antigen down to the nth detail – the “load” a child takes in in toxic chemicals alone makes most smart parents at least falter at the shrine of vaccine love.

          3. Oh, I’m sorry.. you took my post/comment as an indication that I wanted to engage you.

            That is incorrect.

            I was merely correcting your erroneous and misleading fear-mongering.

            You know.. facts. That stuff.

          4. Thank you. Do let me know if we ever met your approval. I’m sure FSMPastapharian would appreciate that knowledge.

          5. If you’re intent on awaiting my approval for such scum of the earth as you forced vaxers before my next reply to yall, you may be lucky enough to never hear from suz again, grasshopper! 😉

            Ain’t happening!

          6. Lmao! I’m not awaiting your approval – I can appreciate the knowledge of something without wanting the thing to happen.

          7. Aw! Not even 30 mins. before flouncing!
            And, supercalifradulicisousexpealidosious, grasshopper! 😉

          8. Dude, you are either a naked fat man getting your rocks off at the altar of your computer, a mentally ill patient with some free computer time in the main ward, or a paid shrill who doesn’t really do his or her job very well.

            You CLEARLY have been doing nothing BUT engaging myself and others in your quest to make some freaking point that still hasn’t been made.

          9. First – yes, still in there, watch the documentary Trace Amounts.

            Second – it’s NOT JUST mercury, try to focus, it’s the combination of toxic ingredients given too early and too much.

          10. Also, as far as number of shots, since anti-vaxers are clearly afraid of shots and needles, there are several combination vaccines that can reduce the number of shots significantly, e.g. Pediarix-DTaP, IPV, Hep B; Pentacel-DTaP, IPV and Hib, Kinrix-DTaP, Polio for kindergartners; MMRV, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella for dose #2 of both vaccines.

          11. I love these posts! They’re hilarious. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about, yet you continue to talk, and continue to embarrass yourself. This is right on the line between comical stupidity and horrifying ignorance.

          12. More vaccines, less antigenic load. Today’s vaccines have less antigenic load than the older ones, even when you account for the more vaccines.

            DTP for example – 3 non-virulent germs with all the proteins versus DTAP, 2 non-virulent germs with all their proteins plus one acelluar.

            Three cells>2 cells – not hard.

          13. Here you go, I’ll break it down for you yet again – it’s not the “disease” I’m afraid of, it is the toxic overload. While you may have less “antigen” load – a very small, minuscule point of contention – you now have MORE toxic overload. HUGE amounts of toxic chemicals going into 2 month old, 8-10 pounds BABIES.

            Not hard to understand, unless you get paid to sit around and respond.

          14. Again, 9-mo old makes their own formaldehyde and so does a newborn. Toxicology depends on dosage.

            No alu or mercury in vaccines. 9th grade chemistry.

            Why should I believe anything else the graphic says?

          15. Utterly and totally different than something that is produced by our own bodies FOR our own bodies. I love how brain dead people can see these warnings but some how justify the usage in vaccines – something injected directly into the body bypassing all known natural defenses.

            But it’s “SAFE” in vaccines folks – move along, nothing to see here……………

          16. “bypassing all known natural defenses” – 1)no, vaccines do not do that. Your immune system is a natural defense – they do not bypass the immune system – in fact that is precisely the point – the immune system knows they are there – that is the whole point!

  82. Ione, Ok before it was mercifully deleted, you oujed out another paste barf of SV40 papers predominantly from 15-20 years ago. What is your actual point, and what has been found in the past 15 yrs regarding SV40 tumorgenicity in humans? And again, just for good measure, what is the point you are trying to make?

    1. And your point would be . . . what, exactly? Do you expect that to be scary? Then you don’t understand it.

      1. I would describe it as cautionary.
        “The presence of oncogenic adventitious viruses would represent the most likely source of
        oncogenic activity in a tumorigenic cell substrate, and these viruses would have the
        greatest potential for transmitting cancer. Thus, it is important to address whether there
        are any infectious adventitious viruses present in the cell substrate. To accomplish this,
        various virus-detection assays and clearance strategies are recommended for evaluating
        the safety of a tumorigenic cell substrate for use for vaccine manufacture (see Section
        4.1). ”

      2. Yeah, idiotstick, that is SCARY that they use TUMOR cells from a sick person to create vaccines for HEALTHY people to inject into the bodies of their children or themselves.

        Good LORD have mercy on the idiots among us. Please keep them from breeding further.

          1. Equally as relevant as the rest of your posts. Well done you! Pretty soon Big pHARMa can put away their chequebooks, because you lot will be doing all the shill work fer nutin’.

          2. Urrgh…let’s put it this way: You guys do know the schools are in on the conspiracy too, don’t you?

            Go read a curriculum section on vaccines sometimes.

          3. Anything involved in vaccine promotion is part of the machine. The ideology starts in many places, media for example, but of course through education. consider that your lesson for the day.

          4. That’s a walk in the park, darlin’, compared to the filth that was posted this morning! Wah!

        1. We do look at your sites. You care confusing “look at the dangers” with “agree with baseless accusations.”

        2. Omfg, you clearly have no scientific training whatsoever! Of course we use tumor cells! How do you think we are able to maintain immortalized cell lines??? Have you ever heard of HeLa cells??? Why not go try to learn some basic cell bio and immunology before wasting everyone’s time with your pointless memes?

          1. “Emerging technologies that can detect both known and novel viruses have generated
            great interest and extensive discussions regarding the application of these methods for the
            evaluation of biological products. Although the advantages of these methods are
            recognized, currently they have not been recommended for use due to technical
            challenges that are being addressed.
            These challenges include standardization and validation, data analysis, interpretation, and storage, and development of follow-up
            strategies for investigation of a positive result. Additionally, more data are needed to
            determine when these technologies should be applied, for which product types, and at
            what stage of manufacturing.”
            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/A

          2. Huh..

            If the formatting is so fractured.. must be some more copypasta.

            And no source attributed, at that.

            Well done.. and academically dishonest.

          3. “Three cell lines derived from human tumors will be discussed during the September 2012
            VRBPAC meeting: the CEM leukemia T cell line, the A549 lung adenocarcinoma cell
            line, and the HeLa cervical carcinoma cell line. These cell lines serve as the basis for this
            discussion because sponsors have proposed their use in the production of vaccines for
            evaluation in clinical trials. CBER requests that these cells be viewed as representative
            of this type of cell substrate so that the recommendations of the advisory committee will
            be applicable to other tumor-derived cell lines (human and non-human) proposed for
            vaccine manufacture in the future. ”

            FDA Briefing Document
            Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting
            September 19, 2012
            Cell Lines Derived from Human Tumors for Vaccine Manufacture

          4. Huh! Too many periods! His ‘formatting is so fractured!’ It must be more illiterate parroting from parrot Pro!

            Always dishonest, witless and illiterate!

          5. Wtf is this disembodied unreferenced quote? what is the context?MHow is it relevant to my post? Why do you people feel that it’s of any use to barf this crap onto a page and people will automatically be able to read your twisted minds as to the point???

          6. It indicates that viruses that are not appropriate to be in vaccines may not always be weeded out.
            Too many spaghettios, today, Pasta?

          7. Without reading your original reference, I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “so what?” How is this relevant? Is there reason to believe that vaccines have been contaminated with foreign DNA in some magical viral or episomal form that will be able to instantly integrate into your genomic DNA? why are you even going down this rabbit hole???

          8. No, that isn’t what it says. It says that ssome newer methods and technologies currently in development are still being refined and standardised. Meanwhile, there are the very good existing methods. It’s about constant improvement of techniques. You know, progress.

          9. Sure. That was their assessment. Once the techniques and technology have been standardised and validated, it is likely to be widely adopted. Meanwhile, we have alla these other methods tht are quite effective.

          10. This is why everyone deserves a no coercion policy for vaccination.
            Quite effective, and effective enough not to miss problematic contamination are two different assessments.
            I don’t think either are appropriate statements.

          11. The excerpt is from page 14, which reviews current and emerging methods of assuring vaccine safety (wrt known or novel virus contaminants, in this section) for vaccines cultured on cellular substrates. Grace doesn’t understand what she’s read, but thinks it sounds scary that we may have some even better ways being developed to identify contaminants and remove them, but that these upcoming technologies/methods were not yet ready for prime time.

            Meanwhile, we have all sorts of other tools in the toolbox, but she leaves that out. Wouldn’t do to reassure anyone, after all.

            Until I read her link, I thought maybe she’d stumbled across some BSL-2 or BSL-3 novel drug-delivery or gene-therapy research by accident. (d_G, those marshmallow suits are hot. I was always steaming up the faceshields, too, back in the day.)

          12. OMFG you clearly have NO common sense whatsoever – I am AGAINST using CANCEROUS tumor cells intended to be injected into otherwise Healthy People.

            Yes, I have read more than 200 books regarding vaccines, the history of disease, the timelines of disease and vaccines and vintage medical textbooks.

            It’s nothing more than insane PR Spin that makes you think that cancerous TUMOR cells are a great idea.

            Tell you what, I’ll take a cancer tumor and blend it for you, I’ll add a shot of formaldehyde, some aluminum, some polysorbate 80, a little chicken pox virus (which contains shingles for fun and giggles later in life) and a shot of whiskey to make it all worth it and I’ll watch YOU drink it.

            One of the MANY, many books I have in my personal library.

            https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400052181?keywords=hela%20book&qid=1452286190&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

          13. Scientists pretty much stop using books for their information as soon as they finish their last grad level cell bio or biochem course. We exchange the latest data and information by way of peer reviewed journals and peer-to-peer at professional conferences. Nobody gives a crap about your extensive library, as your books are worthless if you are unable to read them critically and understand the source material.

          14. Oh yes, the argument that books are now obsolete and that the “right” information just falls from the sky into “scientists” laps, as they have no need to refer to prior documentation, historical cases or medical studies.

            What a tool – nobody gives a crap about your opinion either, yet here you are, trying like hell to get the last word, like any good five year old.

          15. What an effing lie about “Most European Countries”. Here is France’s, schedule, and a link for all the other EU countries:
            Birth: BCG (high risk for TB), Hep B (Infected mother) Hep B for high risk babies is birth, 1 mo, 2 m, 6 mo.
            2 m: Hep B (low risk); DTaP; IPV (inactivated polio), Hib, PCV (pneumococcal disease)
            4 m: Ditto
            6-8 m: Measles if planning travel to high risk countries
            9-11 m: MMR if planning travel to high risk countries
            11 m: Hep B, DTaP, IPV, Hib, PCV
            12 mo: MMR for all others
            12-15 mo. MMR #2 for travel to high risk countries
            16-18 mo: MMR #2 for all others
            12-23 mo: Meningitis C (NOT given in US)
            6 yr: DTaP, IPV

            The US 1983 schedule is irrelevant. FYI, in 1983, the US used whole-cell DTP, which causes more side effects, and oral polio vaccine which can in rare cases cause polio disease, in patients and/or contacts. No one got DTaP in 1983 in the US. I do know two kids who got Hib disease around that time, as there was no vaccine.

            https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Pages/Scheduler.aspx

          16. She gave a link to the other countries.
            You have to click on the hyperlinked text, you brain dead troll

          17. Thank you! And why does this Scandinavian gnome (AKA troll) have a new version of his name? Did the original “AustismDad” get banned and open a new account with a slightly different version of his old name?

            I wondered why he’d not been around for a while.

          18. Pastrami is a joke. He posts nothing but these omg everyone but him is stupid statements, plus zero evidence.

          19. What flipping lie about “Most European Countries”. Here is France’s, schedule, and a link for all the other EU countries:
            Birth: BCG (high risk for TB), Hep B (Infected mother) Hep B for high risk babies is birth, 1 mo, 2 m, 6 mo.
            2 m: Hep B (low risk); DTaP; IPV (inactivated polio), Hib, PCV (pneumococcal disease)
            4 m: Ditto
            6-8 m: Measles if planning travel to high risk countries
            9-11 m: MMR if planning travel to high risk countries
            11 m: Hep B, DTaP, IPV, Hib, PCV
            12 mo: MMR for all others
            12-15 mo. MMR #2 for travel to high risk countries
            16-18 mo: MMR #2 for all others
            12-23 mo: Meningitis C (NOT given in US)
            6 yr: DTaP, IPV

            The
            US 1983 schedule is irrelevant. FYI, in 1983, the US used whole-cell
            DTP, which causes more side effects, and oral polio vaccine which can in
            rare cases cause polio disease, in patients and/or contacts. No one
            got DTaP in 1983 in the US. I do know two kids who got Hib disease
            around that time, as there was no vaccine.

            https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.e

          20. Mary/plainsdealer/whatever sockpuppet is being used today – is a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
            So amazingly ignorant they don’t realize they are an ignorant drooler. They think they are a cheenius!

          21. I CANT GET IT OUT OF MAH BRAIN!

            To fully appreciate Abbie Smith, check out

            “Homologous Recombinaltion Tiniker Award for the Prevention of Cat People aka ‘Manimals’”

            It’s golden.

      3. I understand it – that is why I don’t choose to allow this filth in my body.
        https://www.scribd.com/doc/2466

        At a meeting of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2012,

        The health authorities and vaccine manufacturers blatantly revealed their uncertainty regarding the safety of vaccines made from cancer tumors. Some of the incredible statements from the meeting are quoted directly. A more detailed account is given in this article. [2]

        The statements in italics are directly quoted from the meeting.

        “We have really identified three major factors that could potentially convey risk from tumor derived cells. And these include the cells themselves … and if they were tumor-derived cells then maybe they themselves could form tumors in a vaccine recipient.” (Dr. K)

        A fact: tumor cell lines can cause tumors
        “What I think is qualitatively different about the tumor cell lines is the fact that they can cause tumors.” (Dr.L)

        Tumors may occur decades after vaccinations
        “But certainly, if you are going to address this question about tumor risk of vaccines made in tumor cell lines, it’s going to have to be a decade’s question.” (Dr.C)

        FDA is there to help vaccine manufacturers
        “… but we are here to consider the issues that we would like to advise the agency to consider in helping the company continue the manufacturing process, what should they be concerned about, what should they be watching for.” (Dr. D, leader of the meeting)

        Doubt regarding test animals for assessing oncogenicity
        “I’m not optimistic that we’re going to find animal models to assess oncogenicity of DNA. That’s why I’m feeling that maybe it’s the clearance aspect that we have to deal with, with respect to DNA.” (Dr.P)

        Uncertainty about length of time for safety testing
        “Are they watching these animals long enough? Should it be longer?” (Dr.D)
        “Is it relevant to safety that a cell forms a tumor after a year, a year and a half?”

        Authorities uncertain about safety
        “So I’m not sure that we can give a certainty – there’s no risk, don’t worry about this. – It’s sort of a brave new world. We’re all doing it together. But I think that you are doing a beautiful job.” (Dr. D)

        Will learn about the risks as time goes by
        “… even though there are challenges to using the new technologies, they have to be embraced and we have to continue to try to learn from them and struggle through that learning curve.” (Dr.M)

        Leader of the committee says “I’m a vaccine guy”, then suggests approval
        “I’m a vaccine guy. They are wonderful to prevent infectious diseases … I hope that I’m speaking for everybody when I say that’s the answer to your question. If not, please chime in now.” (Dr.D)

        The committee formally approves the method of making vaccines from human cancer tumors
        “To come back to the agency’s question of whether this Committee believes it’s correct scientifically to go forward with the development of these vaccines, our answer is yes.” (Dr.D)

        1. Oh, that’s too funny

          that is why I don’t chose to allow this filth into my body

          Now hearing a bizzarre cross between Dr Stranglove and StarDrek 2: the purity of your “precious body fluids” X “Captain, they put creatures in our bodies.” Russian accent X Cold War lunacy. Very good.

          1. Yep Funk – I respect my body and it treats me well in return. You can stick your filthy needles in any part of your anatomy you like but I prefer natural living and healthy lifestyle. I haven’t been sick in years and have a strong natural immune system. This is what I want to avoid.

            Hormones from infected cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys, untested virus combinations (like H1N1), aluminum, mercury, emulsifiers, and crossbred bacteria from animals, mosquitoes, and diseased humans:

            Measles Live Virus Vaccine: (Attenuvax) Made by Merck. Two injections are given; one at 1 year and another at 4 years old. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, egg protein and human albumin.

            Measles and Mumps Live Virus Vaccine: (M-M-Rvax) Made by Merck. Injected into one year old babies. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, and human albumin.

            Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Vaccine: Five injections given between 2 and 6 years of age, plus boosters “recommended” every 10 years. Contains formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol and aluminum phosphate.

            DTaP, IPV, HBV and Hib*: (Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B) Given to infants 2 to 12 months with boosters less than a year later. Contains aluminum hydroxide, formaldehyde, and bovine cow serum.

            Gardasil HPV: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Made by Merck. Administered to children as young as 9 years of age for a rare sexually transmitted disease. Contains polysorbate 80, sodium chloride, aluminum, and a “denatured” (fragmented and weakened) form of the virus.

          2. Let’s see:

            “Hormones from infected cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys, untested virus combinations (like H1N1), aluminum, mercury, emulsifiers, and crossbred bacteria from animals, mosquitoes, and diseased humans:” – Again. 9th. grade. chemistry. And you have no idea about mutation rates. And where did you get this bit from? Vaxtruth?

            “Measles Live Virus Vaccine: (Attenuvax) Made by Merck. Two injections are given; one at 1 year and another at 4 years old. Contains ” Awesome! 99% sounds better than 95% to me.

            “gelatin” – jelly or jello for you Americans? Oh, the horror.

            ” sorbitol” – sugar-free sweetener – oh, the horror.

            “sodium chloride” – Oh no, table salt. What horrors await us?

            “bovine cow serum” – Mmmm…veal.

            “egg protein”…yummy eggs.

            “and human albumin.” – You don’t even know why that is on the list.

            Measles and Mumps Live Virus Vaccine: (M-M-Rvax) Made by Merck. Injected into one year old babies.

            “Contains gelatin sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, and human albumin.

            Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Vaccine: Five injections given between 2 and 6 years of age, plus boosters “recommended” every 10 years. “Contains formaldehyde” – more in your newborn, more in a pear.

            ” phenoxyethanol” – you mean the colourless oily liquid used in things such as sunscreen?

            “and aluminum phosphate.” – Berlinite.

            DTaP, IPV, HBV and Hib*: (Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B) Given to infants 2 to 12 months with boosters less than a year later.

            “Contains aluminum hydroxide” – Gibbisite, bayerite, doyleite and nordstrandite.

            ” formaldehyde” – yeah…more in a newborn.

            “and bovine cow serum.” …mmm…beef.

            Gardasil HPV: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Made by Merck. “Administered to children as young as 9 years of age for a rare sexually transmitted disease. ” 1) It makes up about 90% of cancers.

            2)As much as no-one likes it, the stats are something like 1 in 20 boys and 1 in 5 girls will be sexually assaulted at some point. Taking reasonable precautions sounds like a sensible idea to me.

            “Contains polysorbate 80″ – Mmmm…makes ice-cream smooth and creamy.

            ” sodium chloride” Oh no, table salt! Whatever horrible fate awaits us!

            “aluminum” – It is the third most common element on the planet and the most common metal element. I am not scared of it.

            “and a “denatured” (fragmented and weakened) form of the virus.”

            Good lord! I certainly hope so! That is the whole bloody point! Show the immune system what the disease looks like with a germ that isn’t capable of causing disease!

            Now, did you have an actual point or were you just hoping your scary list of chemicals was an acceptable subsitutie for evidence? Becase guess what: it’s not.

  83. The “author” of this op-ed (and I use the term loosely) does not substantiate his claims of “Colorado regularly ranks worst or near-worst in the nation for vaccination rates, and it’s costing lives, health and millions of dollars.”

    Where are all these unvaccinated kids dying? Where are all the vaccinated kids dying? Has Colorado had some new epidemic of dying kids I’m unaware of? That is costing MILLIONS of dollars no less?

    This is a POS op-ed meant to instill fear. Nothing more.

      1. Latest research shows that it is adults that were vaccinated as children that are spreading pertussis, measles and mumps – not unvaccinated children. Their vaccinations have worn off and they become carriers to babies as well as other adults. If these diseases, which are unpleasant, but with a ridiculously low incidence of mortality in the vast majority children, were contracted naturally – life-long immunity would be imparted. Mumps is much better caught by a male infant – nasty consequences when the vaccination wears off and the man catches it at 30.

          1. Nope – hundreds and thousands of scientists and researchers world-wide from multiple different funding avenues.

          2. Yes. America is not the only country in the world – surely you realize this will all your research?

          3. big pharma is everywhere. watch the german documentary ”wir impfen nicht” on YouTube. it has subtitles.

          4. Okay, the NHS is the second biggest org in the world behind the bloody chinese army – global conspiracy requires more than youtube videos for proof.

          5. why are you talking about the nhs when i am talking about a german documentary that explains that big pharma influences german and other european vaccine policy as well and why are you talking about a youtube video. i am sure they’d be happy if you bought the dvd to watch it if you think that it being free on youtube taints it somehow.

          6. https://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/12/1730
            Pertussis vaccine only 41% effective in children two to seven, and only 24% effective in those eight to twelve. And for this we’re going to cause asthma, allergies, SIDS, seizure disorders, and autism (etc.) in children by giving them an ineffective, dangerous vaccine to prevent a usually mild disease?

          7. PERTUSSIS IS NOT A MILD DISEASE! PERTUSSIS IS NOT A MILD DISEASE! PERTUSSIS IS NOT A MILD DISEASE! PERTUSSIS IS NOT A MILD DISEASE! PERTUSSIS IS NOT A MILD DISEASE!
            Read this, all of it: https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/11/04/horrifying-suffering-caused-by-treating-pertussis-naturally/
            These poor children were sick for MONTHS, very sick, coughing till they vomited, etc. Mild disease my derriere!

            From your link:
            “Conclusions. Our data suggests that the
            current schedule of acellular pertussis vaccine doses is insufficient to
            prevent outbreaks of
            pertussis. We noted a markedly increased rate of
            disease from ages 8–12 years, proportionate to the interval since the
            last
            scheduled vaccine. Stable rates of testing ruled
            out selection bias. The possibility of earlier or more numerous booster
            doses
            of acellular pertussis vaccine either as part of
            routine immunization or for outbreak control should be entertained.”

          8. Dr. Jenkinson: “Most cases of whooping cough are relatively mild.”

            Dr. Strom: “It may be questioned whether universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality”

            I had it. My thrice vaccinated eight month old baby had it. It was scary: ten coughs per breath. She threw up vast sheets of slippery mucus at the end of each coughing fit. I didn’t. It lasted a long time. And then we got well, with no complications during or after. It was, again, scary and uncomfortable, but we got well with no sequelae. It wasn’t serious and it wasn’t the worst thing in the world. She had maybe six coughing fits a day during the worst period, and seemed to feel fine in between fits.
            And, again, I have no reason to go to Orac’s pharma blog for any reason. Parents should know how to nurse pertussis and that it is certainly a good idea to try to keep young newborns from getting it, don’t take them to a La Leche League meeting with twenty babies and toddlers coughing, the way I did, and should know that high-dose IV vitamin C, once again, will treat and cure it in young infants, the only ones in danger from the disease. If you get it without having ever had the vax, you’ll emerge with permanent immunity, otherwise you may not get permanent immunity. And the vaccine causes asthma, allergies, SIDS, seizure disorders, and autism (as in my daughter, disabled both by the hep-B vaccine at birth, given without permission, and the DTaP booster).

          9. Hell, cia, Strom wrote that garbage 56 years ago! We’re still vaccinating! Obviously, he wasn’t taken seriously. His own country stopped for a while and started up again when they had some serious epidemics.

            Stop this crap about your daughter, too.

          10. It’s better than that, Katia. Ström was Swedish, managed to get Sweden to drop the whole-cell pertussis vaccine. Pertussis rates rose. Sweden re-adopted (acellular) pertussis vaccination in 1996.

          11. ciaparker2: ” If you get it without having ever had the vax, you’ll emerge with permanent immunity, otherwise you may not get permanent immunity.”

            Definition of Bat Guano Crazy:

            Arguing for the disease to gain immunity.. that is not lifelong.

            “A review of the published data on duration of immunity reveals estimates that infection-acquired immunity against pertussis disease wanes after 4–20 years and protective immunity after vaccination wanes after 4–12 years.”

            (Source: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | “Duration of Immunity Against Pertussis After Natural Infection or Vaccination )

          12. They can bicker over mild or whatever, the fact remains:

            Coloradoans spent $30,000,000 in one year treating vaccine preventable diseases.

          13. Suz, you are about the last person I expect to take up the challenge but: We agree to about $3 billion in vaccine injury payouts, over 25 years. Please estimate 25 years’ losses from these diseases pre-vaccine.

          14. You expect right, Laz!

            I’m sick of the inconsiderate and inconsequential rhetoric from you forced vaxers in these circular games!

            Colorado, hear this well!
            The gloves need to come off! You need to take a stand to stop them from maiming and killing the children!

          15. Just in Colorado, and just on hospital costs. There are many more costs, such as doctor visits and drugs, lost income for the parents.

          16. Boo hoo! Parents of vax injured children NEVER suffer loss of income!

            Pffft! Only over the entire lifetime of their child, clueless!

          17. Crock of compost. YOU read this:
            https://epidemiological.net/2015/10/30/this-mother-purposefully-not-having-her-children-medically-treated-for-pertussis-has-got-to-be-a-joke/
            ” “Lucien, my 3 year old son, began coughing.
            Yes…it happened to be the same exact cough Madilyn had started with nearly three weeks ago.

            At this point, Madilyn’s cough was beginning to
            scare me. She would wake in the middle of the night, multiple times a
            night, coughing so hard that she would puke over the side of her loft
            bed, followed by turning purple and then finally gasping for air.”

            Doesn’t that sound “mild”?

          18. No, that doesn’t sound mild.

            What confuses me is how Healther Dexter thought enemas would cure a respiratory disease.

          19. It’s not confusing at all (as I suspect you know); rather than deal with germs, antivaxers usually see disease as “filth”. And we know how to get rid of that, right?

          20. Aha. So it’s part of the belief system, not something that would necessarily make sense to anyone else.

          21. Judith lives in Fantasyland.

            People who’ve been vaccinated can *sometimes* catch an atypical case of pertussis and *may* pass it on to others, but pertussis is spread by coughing and sneezing. If you aren’t coughing or sneezing, it’s not going to spread.

            Atypical carriers are one possible factor in spreading the disease. The biggest one, by far, is failure to vaccinate.

          22. Although to be fair, the fact that people aren’t good at remembering their boosters doesn’t really help.

          23. Meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
            Tom Harkins Global Communication Center
            Atlanta, Georgia
            December 11-12, 2013
            https://www.cdc.gov/maso/facm/p
            Page 6 –
            · Resurgence of Pertussis. As reported at the May 2013 BSC meeting, the recent resurgence in pertussis cases has been associated with waning immunity over time in persons who received the acellular pertussis vaccine (which is administered as the pertussis component of DTaP vaccine). However, a recent study suggests another explanation for decreased vaccine effectiveness: an increase in Bordetella pertussis isolates that lack pertactin (PRN)–a key antigen component of the acellular pertussis vaccine.

        1. Research? You wouldn’t know what research was if it took a joyride up your rear end whistling Waltzing Matilda.

          1. Imposter AutisimDadd – when you have nothing to say you involve trickery and deceit. The real AutismDadd has 13049 posts, the trickster fraud has a new account which only has a few posts and is private so no-one can read his rubbish posts.

        1. Again, it’s the parent’s choice. I’m sure you realize that one in forty American children now has autism from vaccines. Each one represents millions of dollars in lost wages and millions of dollars for lifetime care.

          1. You have a reading comprehension problem. The Vaccine court has awarded millions to vaccine caused autism

          2. You’ve still not, to date.. told us exactly how you infected your daughter..

            ciaparker2: “I had shingles when my daughter was nearly two, and I deliberately gave it to her so that she would get chicken pox and have permanent immunity. She had a fever for one day and vomited, and was covered with lesions for about two weeks, but she recovered without incident, and now I don’t have to even think about chicken pox, exposure, or whether a booster may become necessary in the future.”

            … …

            Oh, and.. yeah..

            ciaparker2: “I care very much for children’s lives.. .”

            … you know, fair-and-balanced and all that. Wouldn’t want the readers to get the wrong impression of you, ciaparker2.

          3. No, one in forty children does not have autism from vaccines.

            No difference in rates between vaccinated vs unvaccinated kids. Even in kids at high risk – this has been done.

        2. Wow $55,000 per case Did not mention how many of these cases occurred in vaccinated children. Just took the figure 30 million (probably made up figure) and threw it at the number of cases good one. Big pharma is spending some big money in Colorado, just look at the number of paid shills on just this one editorial.

          1. Made up figure my derriere! What a cogent argument, not! You didn’t read the link, did you?

            Here’s where the numbers came from: Children’s Hospital
            Colorado and the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition.

            As for this huge epidemic of vaccine adverse events that you AVs talk about:

            “There were
            three reported 2013 cases of vaccine-caused adverse events leading to
            hospitalization of a person 19 years or younger that cost $29,938 in
            hospital charges.”

            A grand total of three! Out of 1,250,000 people 18 and under. (Source: Census Bureau)

            No one is a pharma shill on this board, but it is hardly surprising that a lot of posters are from Colorado, as this is a Colorado issue, and Aurora is the third largest city in the state.

          2. Would love to see all of the costs they threw into that figure to come up with $55,000 per case. That include your salary too Katia? LOL

          3. Unlike shills, I don’t have unlimited resources and if they are hospital costs, we know they are inflated. And if the Denver Post got them I am not sure who they got them from. Most “news” today when it comes to vaccines is just a press release from one of the manufacturers. But you knew that, working for them and all.

      2. And how many deaths? How many cases of permanent disability caused by pertussis? It became a much milder disease than it had been sixty years ago, so that many doctors said it wasn’t wise to give it routinely to all children, that the dangers from the vaccine were greater than the dangers from the disease. Pertussis has come back big time, since the acellular vaccine is miserably ineffective, and yet we continue to see very few deaths. Four years ago in the US we had a pertussis epidemic, over

        1. So if they didn’t die, it’s no biggie. It’s a crock of compost that pertussis has become a milder disease. I’ve never heard one doctor that actually practices medicine, as opposed to running a supplement store like that poseur Sears, say not to vaccinate against pertussis. The acellular vaccine works well, if you get it!

          And four years ago, Vaccine Refusal fueled the epidemic.
          https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/25/226147147/vaccine-refusals-fueled-californias-whooping-cough-epidemic
          https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/09/24/peds.2013-0878.abstract

          1. Dr. Justus Strom, 1960, “It may be questioned whether
            universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.”

            Dr. Douglas Jenkinson, 1995, “Most cases of whooping cough
            are relatively mild. Such cases are difficult to diagnose without a high index of suspicion because doctors are unlikely to hear the characteristic cough, which may be the only symptom. Parents can be reassured that a serious outcome is unlikely. Adults also get whooping cough, especially from their children, and get the same symptoms as children.”

          2. You can’t seriously think I’d believe anything on Scienceblogs. And sure, there are tons of doctors willing to toe the pharma party line for obvious reasons. You said that you had never heard of one doctor etc. etc. And that may well be, you are not by any means well-informed on the vaccine issue. And you must not have even read Sears. He highly recommends giving children the DTaP vaccines on schedule, at 2, 4, 6, and 18 months. I don’t agree with him, but you appear not to know anything about him at all. He is NOT anti-vax, but recommends that children get most of the recommended vaccines.

          3. No, I guess you wouldn’t believe anything you read on a science blog. But those poor kids in Michigan with that whack mother have been written up in several other places as well. IN HER OWN WORDS these kids were sick for 6 months or so with pertussis.

          4. Like that would have made all the difference! And it seems you did read it if you know they weren’t being treated with high dose vitamin C, the main effect of which is to give you expensive urine. You’re nuts cia. Certifiable.

            Lurkers: Please do not take this woman seriously.

          5. None of this proves he is paid to blog as Orac.

            And further, this is accusation again.

            Seriously, learn the difference between allegations and evidence already.

          6. I could have given you his signed affidavit admitting that he is paid for his shilling, and you would STILL say that it proves nothing. I advise the reader to judge for himself.

          7. Try this: https://epidemiological.net/2015/10/30/this-mother-purposefully-not-having-her-children-medically-treated-for-pertussis-has-got-to-be-a-joke/
            Here’s an excerpt: ” “Lucien, my 3 year old son, began coughing.
            Yes…it happened to be the same exact cough Madilyn had started with nearly three weeks ago. At this point, Madilyn’s cough was beginning to scare me.

            She would wake in the middle of the night, multiple times a
            night, coughing so hard that she would puke over the side of her loft
            bed, followed by turning purple and then finally gasping for air.

            It was at this point that I realized this was no ORDINARY cold. I was in need of a second opinion… some non-parental help.”

            So did she go to a doctor? Nope:

            “I scheduled an appointment with one of my best friends and colleagues, Sarah Mokma of Rooted Well, who is also a
            Naturopathic Doctor. I left the appointment feeling confident that once again I had this all under control. I jumped on Amazon, placed an order,and headed to our local health food store to get the natural remedies I didn’t have on hand.” “

          8. There’s nothing a doctor can do to treat pertussis. Antibiotics are ineffective once the coughing has started, and cough suppressants are dangerous, causing the mucus to pool in the lungs and cause pneumonia rather than being coughed out. If a young infant is having trouble breathing, then yes, a hospital can intubate him to keep him breathing. And SHOULD put him on a high-dose IV of vitamin C.
            And no matter how unpleasant pertussis may be, it’s still a lot better than asthma, allergies, seizure disorders, SIDS, or autism, all of which are usually lifelong and not infrequently fatal. Every parent must make his or her own choice.

          9. Vaccines can injure indiscriminately and by such a wide range of known mechanisms, that their mere act of previous vaccination is all the proof you would need.

          10. Vaccines can giver you superpowers and the ability to travel through time and space. I wrote words on the Internet, and therefore that is all the proof you would need. PROOF or GTFO.

          11. Yes.. good ol’ Dr. Bob Sears..

            “Dr. Sears has basically urged parents who don’t want to vaccinated to “hide in the herd,” telling parents who don’t vaccinate not to tell their neighbors about their fears of vaccines, lest those parents become afraid too and fail to vaccinate, leading to further degradation in herd immunity and increased risk of measles in the unvaccinated. Basically, Dr. Bob cynically urges vaccine-averse parents to mooch off the herd immunity maintained by those who do the responsible thing.”

            (Source: Respectful Insolence | “After all this time, Dr. Bob Sears finally tips his hand on vaccines, part IV” )

          12. I read what you had to say. I read what Katie has to say. I can tell you have more intelligence than this suppose law professor/psychiatric nurse/GSK stock holder. You have to love some people’s efforts. I found her completely amusing

          13. Even cia’s own story of how she and her daughter experienced a relatively mild course of pertussis supports the observation that those who are vaccinated or partially vaccinated are better off than not at all. Does she admit that? SMH.

            BTW, did you mean to type “unlike these poor children” above? ‘Cause Heather Dexter’s poor unvaxxed kids coughed until they vomitted and turned blue. They were lucky not to have died. (I actually broke a rib coughing, and dislocated two more, with pertussis, which is not that uncommon. I was an adult, though (in college); babies are at much high risk of disability or death. It hurt like he!! and too0k forever to heal. The 100 day cough can have lasting effects even for survivors. Consequently, to round out my anecdata, I’ve been up to date, as has everyone in my family, ever since.)

          14. Getting vaccinated and smoking your cigarettes make you healthier ? That is what stupid people might think because the vaccinated person’s weakened immuned system does not respond as well to infections, and the cigarette smoker gets so used to smoke that he doesn’t cough anymore.

          15. Keep it up, ovadude! Your Big pHARMa overlords are getting their money’s worth in you, considering how ridiculous you make antivaxxers look.

          16. The absence of symptoms is not the absence of disease. I am very sensitive to contaminated air because I follow a strict organic and raw diet which makes my blood cleaner than a fried-food-all-day-eating person. So I cough and get a runny nose from the slightest air contamination. ( Many of the harmful chemicals present in fried and burned-by-burning-wood food are also present in vehicle exhaust. ) The junk food eating person is seemingly healthier, but he is closer or on his way to cancer. Like cigarette smoking people that don’t cough but are closer to cancer, too. THE BODY GETS USED TO THE CRAP, BUT NOT IMMUNE TO IT.

            In the same way, we might be seeing that people that are vaccinated don’t react too well to contaminants and infectious agents because they are contaminated and infected already. But we can see that they have fallen fatally to the same diseases that they have been vaccinated against, and that other stronger diseases– like cancer, mental illness,…etc.– have been their affliction.

          17. Oh please Katia, that is nonsense and you know it. No reputable studies show this subjective type of “fact” any that do are low level nonsense just like your “I have never heard one doctor..” comment above

          18. Another BS CLAIM: the introduction of ” GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” (VACCINES) made someone healthy in this stupid civilization that believes in VACCINES.

          19. That’s right, you are like an evil bird of prey. And all the other propaganda prostitutes are too. Also the hissing sound of a snake is probably heard around you and all the other propaganda prostitutes–showing your evilness.

          20. Squawk! Propaganda prostitutes! Squawk!GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens! Squawk!

          21. I’m in construction Eggy. A bunch of strong healthy fully vaccinated folks out there building homes for happy healthy fully vaccinated families!

          22. There you go. Didn’t you tell some unsuspecting fool before, that you were a medical professional ? Just another lying propaganda prostitute, that is what you are.

            There is not such a thing as healthy vaccinated people. You just have to wait for your delayed VACCINES-related diseases.

          23. Tell you what Eggy… maybe you could take a break from calling everyone else stupid.. and parroting the same 2 or 3 phrases over and over. ..go back through my comments and show me where I claimed to be a medical professional…. since you are sure enough to call me a liar based on that belief.

          24. Lurkers: AFAIK, antivax (pro-disease) cranks have never shown any evidence that even one of the pro-vax posters is paid for it, much less a coordinated conspiracy by most of us. That tells you everything you need to know about their standards of proof.

            (On the other hand, note how many of their sources have a “store” for worthless, contaminated sugar pills.)

          25. Some are mild and some are strong because the herd immunity BS is not true. People eat differently and live in different places because they are not a herd in a corral. The ones that are less well fed and exposed to more pollution should and do get sick more often and in a stronger fashion than the ones that are well fed.

          26. Whoa! Whoa!

            Slow down, Fred.. I am making notes here. This stuff of yours is.. gold!

            … …

            Erhm.. have a favour to ask.. can I borrow your notes? My pencil lead broke. 🙁

          27. Good one “I’ve never heard one doctor…..” That is nice. I have heard several doctors say not to vaccinate. MD’s bona fide, surgeons actually, orthopedist, family practice. Now the family practice doc is in a hospital owned practice and so he has to ask people if they want the vaccines, but otherwise, nah.

          28. I’m rather surprised at a FP doc recommending AGAINST vaccination. Those that see a lot of kids in their practice certainly do.

            Orthos? What kind of VPDs do they see? They may need to recommend a tetanus shot once in a while.

            Some surgeons do not see much in the way of VPDs, either. What cred do they have? Gyns and ENTs are very pro-Gardasil, but they don’t all know about the other vaxes.

          1. “…no one in the anti-vax camp has ever tried using a YouTube video before.”

            In turn, this thread is plastered with infantile pro-vaccine posters as “argument” but you shut up like a cheap w_hore.

          2. Except that the new DTaP vaccine is EXTREMELY ineffective, and millions of people CONTINUE to spread pertussis even after they’ve been vaccinated. And get it themselves. My baby had had three DTaPs at 2, 4, and 6 months, but got pertussis anyway at 8 months a few weeks after a La Leche League meeting with lots of babies and toddlers. I used to think it was from an unvaxed child, but, as may be seen by my baby getting it despite being thrice vaxed, it’s just as likely that she caught it from a vaxed child. She gave it to me as well, I started coughing about ten days after she did.
            But luckily, since it is no longer a dangerous disease except for a small percentage of the very youngest newborns, it wasn’t dangerous for her (or me), just unpleasant and tiring.
            When my daughter got the DTaP booster at 18 months (for the tetanus vaccine), it wiped out her language and she was diagnosed with autism two months later. The pertussis vaccine also causes asthma, allergies, seizure disorders, and SIDS (and dozens of other severe conditions listed on the package insert).

          3. We’re still waiting for you to provide actyual proof and evidence “your baby” was affected by a vaccine. A hospital report, a doctor’s report, a medical statement, a police report. It’s called PROOF. EVIDENCE. Without it you are just one of far too many Internet trolls who have either convinced themselves — namely, yourself — that you are “right” and the entire world is wrong. Or, you are simply lying. Prove me wrong by providing some PROOF.

          1. If this baby had been given high-dose intravenous vitamin C, she would have been cured within a couple of hours. Parents should certainly be aware how important it is to keep a young newborn like this one away from possible sources of contagion. Face masks and gloves when necessary. But the vaccine doesn’t work on infants, it only “protects” less than a quarter of children 8-12, it doubles babies’ risk of asthma at seven when given at two months old, as is recommended, and it also causes allergies, seizure disorders, and SIDS (etc.). It would be better not to vax anyone and let children get natural pertussis and get permanent immunity, while educating and helping parents to keep their newborns at home at least until four or five months old: after that age, pertussis is very rarely dangerous. Criminal to opt instead for damaging or killing millions thinking that you might thereby prevent a few cases of pertussis in newborns.

          2. You’re wasting your time posting this information here, ciaparker2.. you have to.. have to.. send it to the Mayo Clinic!

            Lives could be saved and unnecessary suffering could be avoided with your esteemed medical.. erhm.. ‘advice’!

          3. Lives would be saved if people didn’t believe their doctors’ advice without doing a lot of independent research on it themselves. The Mayo Clinic is just another conventional medical establishment. My Asperger’s nephew with severe bowel disease went to the Mayo Clinic, they did a lot of tests but had NO idea what the cause of it was, prescribed a lot of drugs, but he had to drop out of college and move back home for over a year. He had gotten a fever with bronchitis, which initiated his bowel disease. My autistic daughter’s bowel disease started with a fever with a summer flu when she was seven. I took her to a doctor, who was clueless. I put her on the GFCF diet and it stopped the symptoms within two days. No drugs. I learned from a homeopath in June that fevers can pull stored vaccine mercury from the bones and cause conditions indicative of mercury poisoning, such as bowel disease and MS (which happened to ME when I had a fever and got my first symptoms of MS since a tetanus booster had paralyzed both arms for several days).

    1. At first.. I was thinking; ‘now here’s a person that probably relaxes doing, oh.. say.. crocheting’.

      I don’t think that anymore.

      That’s ok.. we can still do lunch, plainlynotdealtafulldeck.

      Your tab, of course.

      And you’ll have to sit at another table far, far away from me.. preferably in another restaurant, but.. hey.. we can text.

    2. “To figure out just how well the vaccine was working, Witt and his colleagues collected information on every patient who had tested positive for pertussis between March and October, 2010. Witt had expected to see the illnesses center around unvaccinated kids, knowing they are more vulnerable to the disease.

      “We started dissecting the data. What was very surprising was the majority of cases were in fully vaccinated children. That’s what started catching our attention,” said Witt.

      To figure out just how well the vaccine was working, Witt and his colleagues collected information on every patient who had tested positive for pertussis between March and October, 2010.

      Of the 132 patients under age 18, 81 percent were up to date on recommended whooping cough shots and eight percent had never been vaccinated. The other 11 percent had received at least one shot, but not the complete series.

      Comparing the kids who got pertussis to the more than 22,000 kids in the medical center’s database who didn’t, Witt’s group wrote in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases that the vaccine is effective about half of the time for all kids, and just 24 percent of the time in the eight to 12 year old age group”

    3. He is probably referring to the outbreaks of EV68, which there is no vaccine for.

      “DENVER – Denver hospitals and pediatricians offices are seeing a spike in a respiratory virus that is hitting kids hard who have histories of asthma and wheezing. … “It seems to be what’s happening with this virus which is more severe than otherviruses.”.

      Often called EV 68, this virus is primarily known for producing respiratory symptoms – similar to that seen with rhinoviruses – although in some cases it can be severe enough to require hospitalization. There are reports of a number of children ending up in intensive care, some requiring ventilatory assistance, over the past week.

      While children are usually the hardest hit, adults are not immune. Co-morbidities – such as asthma – can exacerbate the symptoms.

      The virus (genus Enterovirus – family Picornaviridae – species HEV-D) – is just one of a large family of small RNA viruses that include the three Polioviruses, along with myriad non-polio serotypes of Human Rhinovirus,Coxsackievirus, echovirus, and human, porcine, and simian enteroviruses.

      HEV-D68 was first indentified in 1962, but until about 5 years ago, had not been often reported. The CDC called attention to its emergence several years ago – (see MMWR: Clusters Of HEV68 Respiratory Infections 2008-2010) – which looked at a half dozen HEV 68 associated clusters that occurred in Asia, Europe, and the United States during 2008–2010.”

      1. Non-sequitur, ione.
        Or are you suggesting that *gasp* that there should be a vaccine to prevent EV-68?
        If so, you have my apology. That’s the first intelligent post you’ve made (albeit incomplete).
        Let’s prevent more diseases! Yay!

        1. EV68 was first identified in California in 1962. It is related to SIMIAN enteroviruses. Remember the cutter incident in California. Interesting…”On the question whether or not mutation events could occur in children after vaccination, the answer was that “Recombination among a variety of viruses [contaminant viruses] and cells co-infected in tissue culture is not uncommon.” What this basically means is that because it is “not uncommon” for genetic codes of both contaminant viruses and living cells to recombine and create mutations in laboratory cultures, it can certainly occur in a child’s body after vaccination.

          Dr. Hana Golding, Chief of CBER’s Laboratory of Retrovirus Research, raised the fear that although DNA fragment contaminants in vaccines may be thought to be dead, they could remain active and dangerous. This meant that the codes of these contaminants could combine in vaccines and create new mutant strains of pathogens.”

          Dr. Andrew Lewis of the FDA said that a brand-new monkey-human mutant virus was created during the course of creating an adenovirus vaccine with adenvovirus-SV40 hybrid viruses. Dr. Lewis also worried that “foreign cellular DNA” common in childhood vaccines could include “viral oncogenes” capable of causing cancer.”

          Studies of adenovirus-SV40 hybrid viruses. 3. Transfer of SV40 gene between adenovirus types.

          Rowe WP.-Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1965 Sep;54(3):711-7. No abstract available.

          1. So it’s related to simian viruses. Big whoop. What’s your point.

            Your super-source is from 1965, 51 years ago. What’s the followup?

  84. Oh, for goodness sake.

    Look:

    If you are smart enough to go against the entire global scientific and medical consensus (this is not the same thing as unanimous) then you are smart enough to figure out a way to make homeschooling work and there is no problem.

    If you are not smart enough to figure out a way to make homeschooling work, you should reconsider the whole smarter than the global scientific and medical consensus and get your kid vaccinated and there is no problem.

    If your kid is a special case, you have a medical exemption and can attend school without being vaccinated because that’s who herd immunity is for and there is no problem.

        1. What’s the matter pro-paganda prostitute ? Are you getting high on laughing gas today ? All that money that you make in your prostituted efforts should maintain some nasty habits–I’m sure.

          1. Yes, I am pretty flush, Fred.. still.. doesn’t excuse you from not returning my hedge trimmer.

            Give it back, you thief!

    1. Very well said. And makes the cognitive dissonance required to maintain antivaccine objections quite clear.

          1. Like a snake hiding in its lair–say how much you and the other propaganda prostitute get paid to act like that ?

          2. So there are only two possibilities if you talk positively about VACCINES: either you are an extremely stupid person, or you get paid good money to say BS IN FAVOR OF VACCINES.

            Now you are saying that you are the first and not the second possibility.

          3. If you can’t see the evidence, it would show how stupid you are. If you are hiding the evidence, it would show what a snake you are.

          4. Possibly because none of them are being paid.

            If you think otherwise – it is up to you to get on with proving it – no false dilemma nonsense. Real evidence: Paycheques, Bank statements or something.

            There are ways to obtain that information legally if it exists such as FOIA requests and court orders or the equivalent legislation in your country.

            There must be something about global talk now with the internet being well-known – I am sure you can look it up with all your super research skills.

      1. Nah troll, we are consistent in our desire to have the right to chose what poison we put in our bodies and the bodies of our children. It is paid trolls like you that try to muddy the water.

    2. However the BMA said it did not support the idea of compulsory vaccinations.

      BMA Chairman Dr Ian Bogle said: “We have looked carefully at the issue of compulsory vaccination and it is true that some countries do operate immunisation programmes where there is some degree of compulsion.

      “However the BMA does not think this would be right for the United Kingdom.

      “The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust, choice and openness and we think introducing compulsory vaccination may be harmful to this.”

      Vaccine safety, as a general rule, is being increasingly questioned. Between 2005 and 2010, the proportion of French people in favour or very in favour of vaccination dropped from 90% to 60% (2013 INPES Peretti-Watel health barometer). The percentage of French people between the ages of 18 and 75 who are anti-vaccination increased from 8.5% in 2005 to 38.2% in 2010. In 2005, 58% of doctors questioned the usefulness of vaccines administered to children while 31% of doctors were expressing doubts about vaccine safety. These figures must surely have increased since then.

      https://www.medocean.re/category/activite/hpv/

      March 31, 2011 — Parents worry a lot about vaccine risks and side effects, and most of them are questioning doctors about those concerns. A recent WebMD survey of parents found that:

      About two-thirds search online for information about the vaccines recommended for their children. Nearly 70% say they’re looking for news about potential vaccine risks, and for news of benefits that might offset those risks. 66% said they had either questioned or refused vaccines.
      The survey shows that deep concerns remain among parents regarding vaccines.

      Topping the list of vaccines that parents refuse are the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine.

      https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20110329/webmd-survey-safety-biggest-vaccine-worry-parents

      Three-quarters of Americans distrust the government- 2013

      A new poll shows that 73 percent of Americans distrust the decisions made by the federal government – a number that has been steadily increasing throughout the last two administrations.

      At its highest point, which occurred during President Obama’s first term, 80 percent of Americans lacked faith in the federal government.

      https://rt.com/usa/government-trust-americans-poll-172/

          1. You’re certainly free to research that yourself. I will add that NO vaccines are compulsory, by that definition, in the US.

          2. So there are no compulsory vaccines for children to enter school in those countries I just listed, but we do have them here. But by your definition it somehow means..??

          3. No one in any US state is subject to any criminal penalties for not vaccinating their kids. No one. It’s not surprising that you and Grace, everyone’s little acolyte, don’t get it.

          4. No one has proposed it here either.

            This is only about removing non-medical exemptions from school vaccination requirements.

          5. And what happens when they do not comply? Child protective services steps in takes the children, because “obviously” these are terrible parents putting their children in terrible danger. BUT “there are no criminal penalties” funny man Watson

          6. Obviously, if you break the law, there may be penatlies for breaking the law. Not unreasonable.

            As to when in history it ever stopped there- there are states that have never had non-medical exemptions so since the founding of them?

          7. Good progressive liberal thinking. Take something that does not belong to you (like my money or health) and then pretend you know what is best for me and tell me what to do and how to spend my money. I did not ask you to take charge of my life or my families life.

          8. Sure it was not one of the majority that had already been vaccinated? If your vaccines worked then what are you afraid of?

          9. Hmm, how about the children that are taken from parents to be vaccinated? Is this compulsory or “humanitarian?”

          10. You seem confused about the use of language. The words compulsory and mandatory do not have identical meanings. Mandates (as in, proof of current vaccination status for school entry) is yet a third thing. You have the interwebz at your fingertips. Why not consult a dictionary? Preferably, a legal one, specific to US law?Please do try to stay on topic. This OpEd concerns Colorado, and in a larger sense, US public health policy.

    3. “In contrast to the English-speaking world, where increasing numbers of vaccines are being made mandatory and public debate is effectively banned, the trend is the opposite in Continental Europe. Last September, the French High Council for Public Health itself called for a public debate on whether vaccination against certain diseases should remain compulsory.

      “In Europe, France is the only country to maintain the policy of compulsory vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis,” EurActiv reports.

      “Portugal has kept compulsory vaccination for diphtheria and polio, and Belgium just for polio. Elsewhere in Europe, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and others have all abolished compulsory vaccination.”https://vaccinefactcheck.org/2015/06/05/europe-turning-against-vaccines/

      ‘Do vaccines do more harm than good? France launches national debate’

      August 1, 2015

      “France’s Health Minister has announced a national debate this Autumn to discuss the future of the country’s immunisation policy, amidst mounting criticism over vaccines.

      “I realize there are doubts over vaccines, and that this is more acute in France than any other European country,” Marisol Touraine told the French daily Le Parisien on Saturday.

      To allay fears, Touraine has said she will organize a national debate this coming Autumn to give citizens the opportuinity to debate whether vaccines should still be compulsory.

      Currently children are required to have certain vaccinations done before enrolling in school. But wary parents concerned about the possible side effects of these vaccines want to protect their child from any possible risk…”

      source:https://mobile.english.rfi.fr/general/20150801-do-vaccines-do-more-harm-good-france-launches-debate

          1. Just who are YOU to tell me that, dipstick?

            And you guys think the pro-vaxers are just too, too mean! “Dish it out, but can’t take it” = Anti-vaxers.

          2. Pro vaxers are too stupid and prostituted. I have never said anything about meanness. Mean can be a mother or a father whose child has been damaged by VACCINES.

          3. The problem is that Katia is far too polite and classy to engage you in a way you can understand. She deserves to be treated with the same respect she gives, unlike you.

            Me, on the other hand, don’t really care, and this is as polite as I can be: eggdouche, shut the fck up already. You’ve proven that you’re a clueless sputtering idiot, and do nothing by repeat the same old bullshlt. So please spare us all your endless babbling and drooling about prostitutes and words you don’t understand, and just go away.

            I’m sorry, Katia.

          4. the problem is that Katia, Kfunk, Sia and a couple of others are paid trolls. This must be a big thing to Merck or whomever got the contract for the vaccines with so many throwing out the obfuscation.

          5. The problem is that you have yet to prove any of us are being paid.

            It hardly matters, in any case.

            If I pay someone to post that 1+1 = 2…guess what? 1+1 = 2, regardless of payment or not.

          6. Pro tip 1: Just because their statements contradict your erroneous beliefs doesn’t make them paid shills.

            Pro tip 2: Just because you don’t understand the underlying science doesn’t make it obfuscation.

      1. Good post it won’t satisfy the paid trolls but it is good information for those of us that support free choice in health matters.

        1. They would like people to believe the rest of the world wants to live under a dictator regime. Look what countries do have strict vaccine laws, North Korea, China, etc.. nuff said

          1. Just because countries that have strict vaccine laws do horrible things does not mean the horrible things is the cause of the strict vaccine laws or that strict vaccine laws are the cause of the horrible things.

          2. by “horrible things” do you mean human rights violations, harvesting their organs, doing medical experiments on political dissidents?

          3. Yes. They can be as evil as possible and have as strict vaccine laws as possible. That is not proof that the evilness caused the strict vaccine laws or that the strict vaccine laws caused the evilness.

        2. One more time…..proof…people are being paid, please.

          Not assertions, not actual reasoning. Actual proof – I am sure you can post the actual evidence I am sure you already have.

    4. If you are smart enough you will not pay attention to advice from someone as stupid as to make the comment that I am responding to here.

    5. You act as if the violation of another person’s basic human rights is a nonchalant affair. It is not. This is not a joke. This is not a “Oh please (rolling my eyes) this is not a big deal…just home school your kids…” moment. Wars have been fought over these issues. Lives lost. People murdered over rights you advocate the violation of. All of us have blood in history past whom have died fighting for the rights you advocate the violation of. This is very serious for a lot of people. The rights you advocate violating are very real, and millions of people covet them in as sacred of a place in their souls as they hold religion. Segregating people that have paid taxes for services they are not allowed to utilize is taxation without representation. We, as a people, as a country, have openly declared that this kind of thing is wrong; it says so in our constitution. The revolutionary was fought over issues such as this. Either we have a constitution or we do not. Either we have a rule of law that does not violate human rights, or we do not. All you have to do now is to decide what side of the fence will you be on. I think you have made your position quite clear.

      1. Pssst: the black helicopters are circling overhead.

        I swear we should have been putting anxiolytics in the water, along with commie-plot fluoride.

        Either we have a consitution or we do not.

        Either we have an educated populace, or we do not. Constitutional understanding does not seep into you by osmosis when you carry a miniature Teabagger copy in your pocket.

        1. Constitutional understanding begins with the acceptance of the millions whom have died defending it. You will not be remembered in history as a defender of freedom. You will not be remembered as a defender of human rights. You have made your decision, and that is promote the violation of other’s rights. That’s what you have done. That’s who you are. That’s is what your grandchildren will learn about you when these conversations are found in archives years from now. How sad.

      2. Given that antivaxers have lost every time in court, it seems they don’t understand the Constitution correctly. It might help to realize that quarantine has been a duty of the government since at least Biblical times. Public health is a matter for public government. We realize you would rather freeload off everyone else’s vaccination, but why allow that?

        Do you see restaurant workers claiming a Constitutional right to not wash their hands after using the bathroom?

        1. People fighting for damages caused by a vaccine never go to court. They have to petition a special master appointed by the same pharmaceutical company that made the vaccine that caused the damages in the first place. Equating mandating vaccines with hand washing is asinine.

          1. “People fighting for damages caused by a vaccine never go to court.” – Wrong, you can sue Pharma companies for manufacturing or labelling defects direct – for design defects you have to go through NCVIP first – which has table injuries and way lower burden of proof than even civil court.

            Oh and no, the Supreme court did not say vaccines were unavoidably unsafe nor does unavoidably unsafe mean unreasonably dangerous. Read the whole decision yourself.

            ” They have to petition a special master” – sort of. This is a complex subject.

            ” appointed by the same pharmaceutical company that made the vaccine that caused the damages in the first place.” – Here are the rules regarding COI with regard to Special Masters: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_53

            “Equating mandating vaccines with hand washing is asinine.” Not really. This is logic to logic, not subject to subject. They are both to do with public health.

            Next.

          2. Just off the top of my head:

            -Someone who understood law and understood wrongness about the law.

            _ Someone who understood basic chemistry and recoginsed wrongness about the law.

            -A fifth grader who spotted dodgy maths and could correct it.

            – A ninth grader who could spot basic chemistry flaws.

            – Random internet comments who understood the subject better than others

            – Complete idiots who at least known enough to know they are complete idiots on a subject and therefore defer to expert consensus.

          3. Where on Earth did you get the idea special masters are appointed by pharmaceutical companies?

            All vaccine claims are managed and adjudicated by the congressionally created Office of Special Masters, which consists of eight special masters who are appointed to serve for four year terms. The Office of Special Masters is established within the U.S. Court of Federal Claims which appoints and removes the special masters and to which the special masters’ decisions are appealed.

            From one of the Special Masters’ bios: “Mr. Moran’s practice focused on representing plaintiffs in personal injury, workers’ compensation and civil rights actions.” [emphasis added]

            More of the usual antivax standards of evidence and proof.

      3. “Taxation without representation” – uh, no it is not. Taxation without representation is when you’re taxed but don’t have a political representative to serve as your REPRESENTATION in the political process.

        And yes, it is very serious for a lot of people. Those who cannot be immunized. Schools may not be crawling with newborns but elementary schools have plenty of kids who are likely to have siblings who are too young to have had all the primary series – they are called Kindergartners.

        The American Constitution exists but it does not protect the right to send unvaccinated kids to school.

    6. The entire prostituted global pseudoscientific and prostituted stupid allopathic medical pseudoscience consensus ( I have never said that prostitutes are smart. )…prostituted to the junk medicine robber barons, makers of VACCINES and other junk medicines.

      And if you believe so much in the stupid herd immunity theory, you must look like a cow. That is not smart of you either; you don’t know how to eat.

          1. That is stupid. Diseases are caused by disruptions in the physiology of the organism–something that VACCINES do very well.

    7. But Colorado allows for exemptions so why are you commenting like this is happening here??? Have you forgotten the pertussis vaccine is ineffective and that’s what’s causing the outbreaks here?

  85. All of you pro vaccine people keep screaming about the science; how the science is on your side. When it is pointed out to you that all of the science you make you decisions on are conducted by people with conflicts of interest and funded by corporations whom stand to gain billions in revenue. You ignore this. When I say that there are no independent peer reviewed studies that show vaccines to be safe and effective, you post studies conducted by people with conflicts of interest and move along as if you have won the debate. When I say that vaccines contain formaldehyde ,and that formaldehyde is listed by the FDA as a carcinogen, you ignore this. When I mention that the vaccines with formaldehyde were not even tested for carcinogenic tendencies, you ignore this. When I mention that aborted fetal cell lines are in many vaccines and that many people have strong philosophical objections to this, you ignore it. You can argue the science all you want. Bottom line is that adults should have the right to educate themselves on any topic related to their own personal health and to make their own decisions. What you are proposing is the violation of a basic human right. It does not matter what draconian laws you pass with whatever shoddy science you use to back it up; it is a violation of a basic human right, and I for one will not comply. And neither will millions of other people. I will not comply with you people, and if you try to force ANY medical procedures onto me or my family I will use whatever force necessary to stop you. This issue is not about science; this is about people that think they have a right to violate YOUR rights to freedom of choice regarding a medical procedure that carries with it risk. No one has the right to do that. And when you do violate others against their will for your “greater good” utopia, at the end of the day, after all of the dust has settled, you people will find justice at the hands of the people, just like the Nuremburg trials.

    1. Your comment is fine. But let me also ad that VACCINES’ manufacturers also use cancer cells because it is convenient for them. Cancer cells may contain cancer causing viruses, as it has been shown scientifically that some cancers are caused by viruses.

      1. Fred, Fred.. do you have any idea of how expensive and difficult the process is to grow cancer cell cultures?

        Now don’t quote me on the following.. but.. I am pretty sure it’s more than $17.38!

      2. Wow, a kernel of fact in an ovadude post! Yes, there is evidence that

        some cancers are caused by viruses.

        OMG, you’re right! It is a great idea to get the HepB and HPV vaccines to prevent the cancers those viruses cause!
        Swoon. Be still, my heart.

        1. Don’t be stupid. That is the same as saying to use cancer causing drugs to cure cancer. That is the illogical nature of stupid pro vaccine people like you.

    2. School vaccination requirements are not a violation of human rights.

      There is nothing anyone could say to a person like you to show vaccines save lives and are far safer than the diseases they protect against. You think something completely false is a fact and will not accept anything else.

      1. You exxagerate the benefits and underestimate the risks of vaccination.

        It is a violation of the basic human right to bodily integrity.
        No one is stopping you from getting or recommending a Vaccine.

        It is the coercion by the state of a product that is indemnified that defies both common sense and basic human rights.

        1. School vaccination requirements are not “coercion.” The Legislature has the right to set public health standards.

          1. Recommendations are not coercion.
            Exclusion of children whose parents may object to a particular Vaccine, Hep b or HPV for example, or have a religious objection to a Vaccine, or to vaccination itself is coercion.
            It is unethical and unnecessary.
            It is a very dangerous overreach.

          2. What if I told you the issue has already been decided by the Supreme Court court … a hundred years ago.

            School vaccination requirements are neither unethical or coercive. It is for the Legislature to decide whether they are necessary.

          3. I’d tell you I’m not going to the back of the bus.

            The legislature is not who should be making medical decisions.
            Pharma is the biggest lobbyist in our legislatures.
            Corruptor meet corruptee.

          4. You say :”The legislature is not who should be making medical decisions.”

            I say: “The Legislature has the right to set public health standards. It’s settled law.”

            Now it’s supposedly ethics? You’ve failed to show how school vaccination requirements are in any way unethical.

          5. You say :”The legislature is not who should be making medical decisions.”

            I say: “The Legislature has the right to set public health standards. It’s settled law.”

            Now it’s supposedly ethics? You’ve failed to show how school vaccination requirements are in any way unethical.

          6. Now, I don’t know much about ethics.

            So what I do is look to people who do know about ethics because I know I don’t know about ethics.

            Kantian ethics, for example…Something is only ethical if it would be ethical if everyone did it. We know what happens if everyone refuses to vaccinate their kids – we go back to PVE which is stupid.

            Ergo vaccine-refusal = not ethical.

          7. I forgot to thank you the other day for “allism.” It was the first time I’ve seen that term.

            “Everybody does it,” is weak. That is the rationalization used by the commenter yesterday who said, “My child has chicken pox. I’ll send her to school anyway, even though she might infect someone else, because [everyone does it all the time.]”

            There are some universal ethical principles which might apply. Let me think about this for a moment …

          8. I don’t think you are understanding what it is I am saying. I don’t care if you make laws that violate human rights; they are null and void, and I won’t comply. Not only will I not comply, but I will spearhead a revolution that will eventually see you tried for your crimes. I will not stand idly by and allow hubris driven human rights violators steal from me and my children.

          9. I thought they cut off Internet from the bozos in Oregon. Guess not.

            It’s funny, though: brian’s ilk ridicule other people for playing the victim card, while fantasizing they are the most put upon people around.

          10. You are free to break the law. However, that does mean you are risking sanctions for breaking the law, same as any other lawbreaker.

          11. And what if I told you this was where vaccine science was at the turn of the century…

            “In tracing the scientific efforts to control the polio epidemic, Rogers clearly shows how difficult it was to integrate the new insights of laboratory science with clinical and epidemiologic information. Demonstrating how the polio virus was transmitted, developing easy diagnostic tests, providing effective treatments, and developing an antipolio serum all proved to be beyond the skills of early-20th-century researchers. The polio epidemic clearly showed the limitations of the experimental method at a time when both physicians and the public were being urged to embrace the authority of science”.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199303043280923

            Medical practices were also not as sanitary as they are today, meaning doctors sometimes inadvertently administered vaccine contaminated with smallpox, starting smallpox epidemics and creating public doubt about the vaccine”

            https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/05.20/waterhouse.html

            During this period there were no adequate methods for assessing the safety of the vaccine and there were instances of contaminated vaccine transmitting infections such as erysipelas, tetanus, septicaemia and tuberculosis.[21] In the case of arm-to-arm transfer there was also the risk of transmitting syphilis. Although this did occur occasionally, estimated as 750 cases in 100 million vaccinations,[43] source Wikipedia

            “The careful manufacture of diphtheria antitoxin and other preparations involved, among other processes, examining the products for sterility (top) and potency (bottom). An incident in 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri, proved how dire were the consequences of ignoring such procedures.

            Diphtheria antitoxin contaminated with tetanus bacilli killed nearly a dozen children in that city, leading to the passage in 1902 of the federal Biologics Control Act, which required that manufacturers be licensed and their processes be approved by the Public Health Service.”

            https://www.wadsworth.org/docs/poster_4.shtml

          12. Ignoring your reputation for a moment and assuming anything you’ve written here is true:

            You’re saying anti-vaccinationists lost this argument 100 years ago, when laboratory science was new and vaccines were far more risky.

          13. There does appear to be some abuse of the lax standards for flu vaccine claims.

            We’re left with the fact, 100 years ago laboratory science was new, there were manufacturing issues, and still the Court decided the Legislature has the right to require immunization for school enrollment.

            It makes one wonder how the Court would decide the case today.

          14. and we wonder why we got all them dang protesters with signs going on about their rights…what do they think this is ..a democracy?

          15. Yes and while you are at it, why don’t you provide the proof that vaccines will turn your kids into cows?

            I am sure that is coming soon too.

          16. wow they really don’t want people to hear about animal viruses in the vaccines Graces, I cant even post the information to you without it being flagged. Whenever they really show fear over something I post, I always know it’s good to share all over facebook, and other news articles that don’t use disqus as their commenting forum.

          17. And anti-vaccine sites would never moderate their comments. Oh, wait.

            And fear? We’re not scared – that sound you hear is a scream of laughter.

          18. hahaha! I had to share that with the groups I’m in on FB..the ones that have over 10,000 members and counting. You will see more people posting on news articles that use FB who are pro choice on informed consent than you can shake a stick at.

          19. ione murphy: ” I bookmarked that to share with the groups I’m in on FB..the ones where I have over 10,000 accounts and counting.’

            / FTFY

            You’re welcome.. helping others.. it’s .. what I do.

          20. Bow to the state one and all. After all it is staffed by some of the best minds money can buy. “We are here from the government to help you” One of the 3 great lies.

        2. You exaggerate the risks of vaccination by a factor of about a billion! You underestimate the benefits as well.

          1. Have you noticed that they don’t seem to grok “orders of magnitude?” Only what’s apparent or perceived (rightly or most often, wrongly) within their personal sphere is given any weight whatsoever.
            Thought experiment: given a stadium with a million people in it, one of them being my only child, I’m handed a gun with one cartridge in it. Would I shoot, knowing that the bullet might find my child, causing injury or even death, if doing so were likelly to save 100s-10s of thousands of the others?
            Dam straight, I would.

          2. Oh, no, B*****! You can’t prove a negative! You make a slur comment like that, YOU prove it, you lowlife witch!

          3. Note: I mistakenly responded to Grace’s slur that I had made eugenics comments. Since I got a couple of upvotes, I’m letting it stand.

            However, I can offer good proof about vaccine deaths:
            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/properly-evaluating-vaccine-mortality/
            “In a study using the Vaccine Safety Datalink, investigators analyzed four years of data, between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2008. and determined that background mortality rates
            (rates of death irrespective of cause) are crucial in interpreting the
            numbers of deaths following vaccination.

            ***Their major conclusion: the VSD mortality rate following vaccination is actually lower than the general US population mortality rate, while the causes of death are similar.***

            In other words, if you look at the mortality rate post vaccine in a passive system like VAERS, without context of the
            general mortality rate, you can be lead to a bad conclusion.”

            Here’s more: “Death on the day of vaccination was rare (132 out of the nearly 25 million vaccine doses, or less than 0.001%).
            For children aged less than 1 month, the death patterns observed in VSD are consistent with NCHS; most neonatal deaths occur within 24 hours after birth. This data refutes the myth that the HepB vaccination at birth has an effect on mortality.”

      2. And there is nothing anyone could say to a person like you to show vaccines can, have and do cause an incredible amount of harm. We can agree to disagree; that is what this country is all about, until you start to feel you have the right to mess with my health choices. That’s the line in the sand chief.

        1. Parents will still have the choice.

          This is the same straw man argument you’ve used a dozen times in these comments. If you don’t want to vaccinate your children, don’t.

          1. The third claim is that Gardasil may induce only minor side effects of negligible clinical importance, although such conclusions are only supported by highly flawed safety trials design.

            Additionally, we note evidence of biased and selective reporting of results from clinical trials, that is, exclusion of particular vaccine efficacy figures from peer-reviewed publications, such as those related to study subgroups in which efficacy might be lower or even negative.

            All of the above issues suggest that the information presented by Merck to the public and the various state legislators concerning

            Gardasil safety and true prophylactic value were incomplete and inaccurate and thus inevitably misleading, particularly in light of data from various vaccine safety surveillance

            https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229425588_Who_profits_from_uncritical_acceptance_of_biased_estimates_of_vaccine_efficacy_and_safety

            California Legislators Push for Gardasil Bill, Found to be Bribed by Merck

            In August 2011, Assembly Bill 499 was proposed by California Assembly Member Tony Atkins. The bill allows for children as young as 12 to receive the HPV shot Gardasil without any parental consent, thus completely removing parents from the important decision of whether or not to receive the HPV shot.

            Shortly after the news was announced, a report by Cal Watchdog revealed that Merck was giving monetary incentives to key California legislators in order for the bill to pass.

            California12-Year-Olds to Get HPV Vaccine Without Parental Consent

            October 11, 2011 ABC NEWS

            California girls as young as 12 can soon receive the human papillomavirus , or HPV, vaccine without the consent of their parents. Last Sunday Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2012.

            “It’s always a close question as to what we might allow,” ABC News’ affiliate KABC-TV reported Brown as saying. “But we do that with other reproductive kinds of issues, and I felt this one was similar to what we’ve done before.”

            The HPV vaccine, which includea the brands Gardasil and Ceravix, can be administered to girls as young as 9, and as old as 26. Each year, about 12,000 women get cervical cancer in the U.S., and almost all of these cancers are HPV-related, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The HPV vaccine can prevent several strains of the cancer.

            The new law, sponsored by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other state health agencies, set off a flurry of protest from several conservative groups.

            “Jerry Brown is deceptively telling preteen girls it will protect them from HPV, giving them a false sense of security that they can have the sexual activity they want without risking developing cervical cancer or a raft of other negative consequences,” Randy Thomasson, a spokesperson for SaveCalifornia.org, said in a statement.

            About 30 other states have enacted similar laws to California’s.

            Dr. Mark Einstein, director of the departments of gynecologic oncology and obstetrics at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said that the HPV vaccine is recommended by all scientific stake-holding organizations as routine for all 11- and 12-year-olds in the U.S., but that less than half of vaccine-eligible girls are getting the vaccine. Far fewer get all three doses.

            “One of these challenges is the need for parental consent,” said Einstein.

            Because 12 year olds are considered mature minors? Or is this violating parental concent
            Exemptions from Parental Consent for Minors

            Although adolescents are considered to have limited decision-making capacity by many policy makers, there are occasions when adolescents can give informed consent without parental intervention. Examples of allowable treatment of minors without parental consent include the mature minor, the emancipated minor, and an emergency situation.[8, 10, 19]

            Mature Minor Exemption

            Under the mature minor exception, a minor may consent to receive medical care without parental consent or notification if the court determines that the minor has the maturity to make independent decisions. A minor may seek medical care without parental consent if she can convince the court that she is mature enough to act in her own best interest and thus make an independent judgment to consent to treatment.[18, 19] Once a finding has been made in court that a minor is sufficiently mature enough to act in her own best interest and make an independent judgment to consent to treatment, it is unconstitutional for judicial authorization to be withheld”

          2. Why do you ask? (It’s none of your business, by the way.) A PhD is not required to properly evaluate evidence, understand statistics, or make informed decisions. It doesn’t hurt, but as the example above of Tomljenovic shows, it is certainly not sufficient.
            People need to learn that it’s good to recognise what you don’t know, and to rely on consensus opinions based on scientific evidence. Finding an “expert” to hold up as “proof” that someone agrees with you is still not evidence.

          3. graceds.. come on now. You are hardly one to talk/write.

            That diploma you so proudly display on your wall has your name written in purple crayon.

            … …

            Yes, i will concede that the calligraphy is quite nice.

          4. I did the test.

            It took a 12 year old less than one minute see that she does
            NOT have a PhD in immunology…

            Of course you comment is really just a distraction from the fact that her claims about vaccines are
            simply not true.

            W&N

          5. So you think a 12 year old child has the maturity to decide on medical procedures [immunization] even if it is against the express wishes of the parent.

            What else can or can’t 12 year olds do?

            In some states, there are not old enough to babysit yet or be left alone overnight.

            Not old enough to be out after curfew,

            Not allowed to see a PG13 movie without a parent.

            Not old enough to have a drivers permit.

          6. In short, yes. I also think they should be able to establish mature minor status to obtain abortions without parental consent.

            None of this is done willy-nilly. Family court is usually involved, and sometime guardians ad litem. You make it sound like it’s a certainty. Or a random pass to live life on the wild side. No one is likely to extend the concept to driving or drink, for example. You’re just hand-waving again.

          7. aww…my comment back to you was flagged as spam…let me try it again without the link.

            So you are saying that a 12 year old child, is old enough to make a decision such as abortion without consulting her parents?

            “The leading causes of abortion related maternal deaths within a week of the surgery are hemorrhage, infection, embolism, anesthesia, and undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies. Legal abortion is reported as the fifth leading cause of maternal death in the United States, though in fact it is recognized that most abortion-related deaths are not officially reported as such.

            Endometritis is a post-abortion risk for all women, but especially for teenagers, who are 2.5 times more likely than women 20-29 to acquire endometritis following abortion.

            IMMEDIATE COMPLICATIONS:

            Approximately 10% of women undergoing elective abortion will suffer immediate complications, of which approximately one-fifth (2%) are considered life threatening. The nine most common major complications which can occur at the time of an abortion are: infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock. The most common “minor” complications include: infection, bleeding, fever, second degree burns, chronic abdominal pain, vomiting, gastro-intestinal disturbances, and Rh sensitization.

          8. Yes, a competent, mature 12-year-old is capable of making such a decision. The court also is there in loco parentis, as are guardians ad litem, to protect the child. In this example, from their parents.

            As for the rest of your post, didn’t read it. I’m not interested in your forced-birth propaganda, any more than your antivax lies.

            Have a nice day.

          9. So then the court would be held responsible if the 12 yr old minor died correct? I never said if I was pro choice on abortion or against it. I was showing you the medical complications from a medical procedure that you claim 12 year old children are able to make a informed concent on.. “with the court as their loco parentis”

          10. Oh Please. Read how the rest of the world is removing Gardasil from their list of required vaccines. Note the mounting evidence that it does more harm than good and that regular pap smears are more effective. You really are a shill for pharma!

          11. Pap tests do not prevent cancer. HPV vaccines, from all best evidence, do. (They also prevent transmission to others, because if you’re not infected, you can’t give it to someone else). Pap tests are meant to find disease at early stages, and are still recommended in vaccinees. Each case of caancer prevented, however, is one not necessary to treat. Treatment has costs and side effects, and is not always effective.

            You sir are not only deficient in maths but in logic.

          12. And you sir are shill for big pharma as evidenced by your consistent time in response to this topic. Obviously you already know the dangers of this terrible vaccine, but then it is profitable for your employers

          13. Yeah, and it’s included in WHO’s recommendations, as well as European Immunization Week (EIW2016) educational activities.

            By the way, pro-health, pro-child public health advocates: WHO is seeking advocates to help in the EU (eiw.europe.who.int/profles/blogs/wanted-board-members-for-vaccines-today ); they mention US advocates favourably.

          14. Hmm getting a bit touchy huh, Ms Paid Shill. Yes they are consistent with what was expected. Never said that the drug companies did not know about the adverse effects. They, you, joust don’t want the public to know about them and hurt your bottom line

          15. Well to be fair, it isn’t that much bother. She thinks we’re all one person, doesn’t she?

            It must be really exhausting to live with that much paranoia.

          16. Thank you for bringing up that disqus is not a safe place to comment on, unless you have no fear of your IP and email address falling into the hands of those who have access to this information. They think that by posting your personal information online, that you will be frightened away by these shill bullies. And thank you for pointing out again that we have multiple sockpuppets now commenting that all belong to one person, the same person that owns best sex positions dot org and sells penile enlargement devices online

            Do you own one Proponent?

          17. “I heard Mike Adams is hot on your tail”

            Wow! Now I am absolutely petrified!
            PS: stop listening to those little voices in your head, Ione. They will land you in trouble one day.

          18. ione murphy: “Thank you for bringing up that disqus is not a safe
            place to comment on, unless you have no fear of your IP and email
            address falling into the hands of those who have access to this
            information.”

            That would be a comment posted, right here.. on Disqus.

            By you, Ione Murphy.

            … …

            “The Increasingly Strange and Bizarre World of Ione Murphy”.

            In this discussion, Ione Murphy played the role of a student taking part in an online discussion debate..

            ione murphy: “endorsing hpv? Not one of my classmates will get it and that is supported by their parents, you should talk to real people out on the street more how they feel about all this.”

            Here, is the seed of Ione Murphy’s erroneous and oft repeated SV40 fear-mongering..

            “People who know the truth know that the polio epidemic of
            the early part of this century was caused by experimental polio
            vaccines. The Salks and Sabins vaccine gave us a cancer causing virus that is found in blood products and semen and passed to our children. 30% of our population have tested positive for SV-40 in their blood.”

          19. OMFG. I missed those. Thank you for doing the homework. People in the real world, outside the ongoing “vaccine wars” played out online, need to see how desperate and dishonest the hardline antivaxxers are.

          20. Your IP address is public – that is the point. If you don’t wish your IP address to be public, you shouldn’t be posting on the internet at all.

          21. Right. When in history when rights have been violated did the violations end on their own? Not to mention the fact the DHHS has a plan to vaccinate every man, woman and child by 2020, and there are 300 new vaccines coming to market at that time. The pharmaceutical companies have their plans outlined: Mandatory vaccines, for everyone. And you are ushering that in with your ignorance over the entire situation by accepting one little wrong; the violation of a persons right to chose what medical procedures they can adopt or refuse. What if the next step is that you can’t fly unless you have all your vaccines? Or to get a driver’s license? Those are the next steps. It even says in the MMR vaccine insert that the recipient of the MMR vaccine is contagious for 22 days and to stay away from immune compromised persons, so in all actuality, it is the vaccinated whom should be quarantined. It is the vaccinated that perpetuate this money cow for the largest corporate monster this world has ever known, and it is useful idiots, like you, that are making their wildest dreams come true: Mandatory vaccines for every man, woman and child.

          22. Yes, that is a good idea. That way when the patriots take over they can follow the money to the traitors.

          23. Do you have some evidence or some legitimate reason to think this will come to pass? If so, why hasn’t it happened in states that never had non-medical exemptions for school attendance?

          24. One question answered… sort of. Now, why has this not come to pass in states that have had no medical exemptions?

          25. Because this is a federal agenda. The Federal Gov. is going to take over the states and mandate vaccines; that is the plan. The states are falling in line. More pro-vaccine bills have been introduced in every single state in the past year then in the past decade.

          26. Okay but why hasn’t there been more violations of human rights as you term it in the states that never had non-medical exemptions.

            The hypothesis of not stopping there should mean that those states that never had medical exemptions should be hotbeds of totalartian in Iran and Iraq – how does your hypothesis change to fit the data?

        2. You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts. Vaccine safety and public health are not about agreeing to disagree. Science is not a democracy.

          1. And we do not live in a democracy; we live in a constitutional republic. I am ordained with certain inalienable rights, from my creator, that not you, not your science, not your laws bought and paid for by corporations, not anyone on this earth has the right to take from me. Come and try. That is all that you have left.

          2. You’re assuming that anyone cares about you. This would be an error. You are not the center of the universe, and really don’t matter very much in the scheme of things.

          3. The difference is, I know I’m not the center of the universe. The universe is neither malificent nor beneficent one, just indifferent. None of us matter in the scheme of things. And if Mountain Man wants to wall himself off from social responsibility, so be it. No one willl care. Reasonable people, with encouragement and a touch of “coercion” in the form of school vaccination mandates, will make up the difference. Hardliners can be ignored. Reasonable people appear to be in the majority.

            What I’d like to see, in addition to removing all personal belief exemptions, is fines. French law allows for fees/fines when parents fail to protect their children with the mandated immunizations. We should, too. French also criminalises non-compliance, which I don’t support in the US. Too many parents are confused, misinformed and/or uninformed, and criminalising ignorance (which is correctable) doesn’t seem like a great idea. Unless, of course, their kids die from a VPD . . . then it would have to be on a case-by-case basis, but should be on the table.

          4. Send me your pay stub or deposit slip. Look at the number of posts and time spent. Need to change you handle again.

          5. Now, there’s an idea! But on what charges? At some point, someone will suffer and die taking his BS advice and products. Then, maybe.

            We already have FTC laws pertaining to interrstate commerce and fraud on the interwebz would be by definition crossing state lines. I think they’re largely going to impose fines, though a business closure could result. The trouble is that he’s shielded his assets by titling his real estate in the name of a foundation IIRC, as have others. And then, like cancer-quack Bryzinski, can bail out by declaring bankruptcy. Of course the bright spot there is that his attorney is suing him and his fate in court on criminal charges is pending. It doesn’t look good for him, no matter what his acolytes believe.

            I can hope, right? 😉

          6. There is reckless endangerment, especially as regards child victims. It varies quite a bit from state to state (Maryland has a charge called “depraved heart”) but requires some demonstrable harm to have occurred, as I understand it. It seems that the terms have more to do with grading assault and homicide charges, rather than specifying additional types of crimes. I dunno, it’s waaay outside my wheelhouse.

          7. I was thinking of something like ‘gross malpractice’ or something. I don’t really know either though.

          8. Lol. I guess your creator doesn’t really understand epidemiology. Nobody is forcing you to do anything. But being part of this constitutional republic requires respecting the rules of society. Otherwise, you are not welcome to participate in our society. You and your little viral incubators can just stay away from the rest of us. Then we can agree to disagree.

          9. What are you worried about? You have been vaccinated! You are safe with the “effective” vaccine, aren’t you?

          10. Do you truly not understand it is none of your business what I do to my body or my families body. And you keep changing the percentages and even at 99% the vaccinated still get the disease. What part of does not work don’t you understand

          11. So now people like you get to decide who is part of society? You are delusional; you have no power over me. If you feel so strongly about it, come over to my house holding a needle and see how that works out for you.

          12. Ol’ bri is a regular keyboard commando!

            What do you bet he was wearing a camo onesie when he typed that?

          13. I will never be able to unsee that.

            On the plus side… I bet those Rock Band controllers really get some panties wet!

          14. Your “rights”, which AVers are always screaming about, are set forth in the Constitution. The SCOTUS decided vaccine mandates are OK.

          15. Great,

            You have the right to your opinion.

            And when you post nonsense that endangers our children I have the right to point out your errors.

            W&N

          16. You have no inalienable rights but you do need to be sterilised, preferably with a big fat syringe full of anti-freeze.

          17. If you feel so strongly about it, please come on over to my house and try to inject me with antifreeze; see how that works out for you. You people will not win. We have your number. I mean, why would anyone take anything you say seriously when you call for injecting other human beings against their will with antifreeze and talk of sterilizing others simply because they disagree with your philosophy of violating the human rights of others against their will? Please, continue to display your aggressive desires regarding this topic so that the mothers of vaccine injured children will know who to blame when a knock comes at their door and their 4 year old, unvaccinated, healthy child is vaccinated against their will and becomes injured. You will see torches and pitchforks in your last moments on this plane; unless of course you come to my house and try to inject me with antifreeze. Then I will just end you right there.

          18. So you have the right to impose your will on anybody with pseudoscience? Must be a progressive liberal

        3. We don’t let you dump untreated sewage into our water supplies, even if your “science” says it’s OK. We don’t let you free-ride on our streets; you pay taxes according to a set schedule. Now, generally we let you draw your line in the sand, but we have the right to advance-quarantine your kids out of our schools.

          1. You act is if you are part of some “we” group, when in fact it is just “you”. It is a flaw in human character that wishes to dominate another and violate their rights. You do not have the right to violate the rights of others, and for you to believe that you have that right, and are part of some organized collective, is frightening. I will not comply.

          2. There has never been an individual right to introduce communicable diseases into public space. Even the egregious clown Ayn Rand analogized it to spraying the public square with a machine gun. So, feel free to found your Typhoid Mary Liberation Army, but it’s just an exercise in narcissistic futility.

        4. “And there is nothing anyone could say to a person like you to show vaccines can, have and do cause an incredible amount of harm.”

          Not true for me. What I would need is actual data
          that supported this assertion.

          W&N

        5. YOU ARE MESSING WITH HEALTH CHOICES BY REFUSING TO VACCINATE YOUR KIDS.

          THAT IS THE POINT.

          “Nothing that anyone can do or say” – oh…for the love of silk! Why didn’t you tell us this earlier so we could avoid wasting time on your faith?

          But this is PRECISELY why SB277 is needed. Education was tried, tolerating was tried, begging was tried, shaming was tried, lots of things have been tried.

          Do you honestly imagine that anyone likes SB277? No.

          It was either that legislation or more outbreaks of VPD. Sometimes, you can’t have both.

          1. That task falls to the anti-vaccs….still as the postings
            here prove no one with a 5th grade education could actually believe the anti-vaccs….

            W&N

          2. Hey there are lots of examples here where I show how the anti-vacc lies fail 5th grade.

            And each time you just don’t care….

            W&N

          3. Ahem. Some of us do like SB277. It’s similar to the lack of PBEs in MS and TN, where epidemics don’t take place because vaccine uptake is sufficient. Personally, I’d like to see PBEs eliminated in every state. Because borders are geopolitical, not physical, barriers. YMMV. (It occurs to me that your meaning may have been along the lines of “Everyone wishes it were not neccesary to have laws like SB277.” If so, I’m in full agreement.)

          4. “Everyone wishes it were not necessary to have laws like SB277” – yes, that is indeed what I meant, thank you. Sincerity mode.

          1. And so now with the vaccine they get a limited immunity where as with the disease they get a lifetime immunity and same low mortality

        1. As illiterate as you are innumerate? Your mom must be sooooo proud of you.
          Note for lurkers: decline in death rates prior to vaccine introduction, because of improvements in medical. Not, as implied, reduction in cases. There were concommitant drops in both cases (because prevention) and deaths (because prevention) when vaccines were introduced. This pattern is repeated for every single vaccine preventable illness over time and in different locations.
          Dishonest? Or lying? You decide, readers.

          1. Well Mr paid Shill, no body said that wanting to be able to decide when and what substances in my body or my children’s bodies made us “anti-medicine” We just want the right to say “no.” What part of “no” do you not understand? And, Mr. Shill, the primary reason for the decline in infectious disease is because of clean water, modern sanitation, improved living conditions and access to healthier food, with some help from the introduction of antibiotics, which your employers have caused to be over utilized by over selling them for everything to the point that they are becoming ineffective. But it kept your shareholders happy.

          1. Noted that although you couldn’t read the
            graphs correctly or get the definition of the word toxin correct…so you just changed the topic.

            “please do tell how aluminum, as an example, is not toxic.”

            You mean like the naturally occurring aluminum in human breastmilk?

            It all depends on the dose and formulation, and the method of delivery and the developmental stage….toxicologists can explain this for you in detail if you actually care….

            W&N

          2. And aluminum is not toxic? And an adjuvant is to….. do what to the immune system? And autoimmune disease has increased in direct proportion to the number of vaccines required because? Perhaps “nerdy” means you like comic books

          3. “And aluminum is not toxic?”

            That is a meaningless question predicated on your inability to think even a little bit clearly.

            The correct question is, is the aluminum in vaccines toxic?
            The answer is no. Toxicologists have been explaining how anti-vaccs lie about this for many years. All you have to do is try a teeny, tiny bit…

            Of course, all it takes is middle-school math skills to understand that autoimmune diseases have not increased in direct proportion to vaccines.

            But then that is the real point…there are anti-vacc lies, and there are fools that don’t care enough about their children to even try and learn the facts….hard to believe, but there you are.

            W&N

          4. And there are those that could not see or acknowledge the truth if it hit them with a 10 ton truck. And BTW, the topic here is the trends of mortality PRIOR TO the introduction of vaccines. But nobody really cares if you vaccinate or not. I don’t. And if your vaccines work, what business is it of yours if I don’t vaccinate.

          5. True, some people are willfully blind.

            This thread started with you being unable to read a graph and unable to understand the definition of the word toxin.

            You went downhill from there.

            “And if your vaccines work, what business is it of yours if I don’t vaccinate”

            There are several reasons. The simplest requires 5th grade math….which was just too difficult for you…

            W&N

    3. First, there is no debate Exocet in the minds of the fringe antivax cult members. And the reason we ignore you is because you are simply repeating the same worn out debunked erroneous claims, or meaningless anti-science tropes. Formaldehyde? Aborted fetal tissue? No testing? Please, you’re just embarrassing yourself. I’m surprised you didn’t have SV40 and Mercury in there. Plus, didn’t you know that most of your ignorant cohorts have already moved on to aluminum? Even your misinformation is out of touch.

        1. Anxiolytics. In the water. Come on, Colorado, you can do it!
          Black helicopters, FEMA camps, comin’ fer our gunz! don’t tread on me! constitooshun!
          Yeah, whatevs.
          You really need to get a grip. Or at least work on reading comprehension.

          1. I read it.

            Kain starts with the “hot lot” premise.

            What if I told you individual lots of vaccines that have unusually high rates of side effects have never been identified in this country. Therefore, specific lots of vaccines have never been withdrawn from use as a “hot lot.”

          2. ” August 1978 and March 1979, 77 infants in Tennessee died suddenly from unexpected causes – compared with 74 during the same period in 1977-78. These deaths were diagnosed as sudden infant death syndrome, or crib death. Of these 77 infants, eight died within a week of being vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) using the same lot of DTP vaccine.

            “Of these eight infants, one died in November 1978 and one in January 1979, both within 24 hours of having been vaccinated with this lot of vaccine. The Tennessee Health Department took no immediate action in either case because DTP vaccine is generally administered for the first time at two months of age – precisely the age when the risk of sudden, unexplained death is greatest in infants. Some incidence of sudden and unexplained deaths would, therefore, be expected by chance alone among infants that had received the vaccine.

            “In early March CDC learned that two more infants had died within 24 hours of DTP vaccination, again from the same lot of vaccine produced by Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. That brought the total to four deaths within 24 hours of vaccination. On March 12, the Tennessee Health Department placed a hold on the use of this lot of vaccine and began an investigation of the problem. They discovered that four other infants had died within a week of having been immunized using this lot of vaccine, bringing the total to eight.

            “Today at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, Wyeth Laboratories has voluntarily agreed to withdraw all unused doses of this lot of vaccine from use while Tennessee Health officials, the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration continue the investigation of those events.”
            https://www.epi.alaska.gov/bulletins/docs/b1979_06.htm

          3. “UK babies given toxic vaccines, admits Glaxo”

            Yet another flat out lie.

            Glaxo said nothing at all like this. In fact:

            “A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline told The Observer : ‘We do
            not accept that these batches were harmful.”

            Once again the anti-vaccs lies are predicated on folks being
            functionally illiterate.

            W&N

          4. “In 1992, the family of an Irish boy, Kenneth Best, who suffered brain damage from one of these toxic vaccines, was awarded £2.7 million in compensation by the Irish Supreme Court.

            Despite a long and fierce battle with the drug giant, the boy’s family finally won this historic case after his mother Margaret made a startling find when sifting through tens of thousands of company documents.

            She discovered that the Trivax vaccine used on her son, from a batch numbered 3,741, had been released by the company despite it having failed to pass a critical safety test. Documents revealed that the 60,000 individual doses within this batch were known to be 14 times more potent than normal.

            At the time the Irish judge accused GlaxoSmithKline – then known as Glaxo Wellcome – of negligence and attacked the company’s poor quality control at its Kent laboratory. Immunology experts condemned Glaxo in court for what one US scientist described as an ‘extraordinary event’.”

          5. Just anti-vacc 101 here…

            We can all read the words and see that the assertion:

            “UK babies given toxic vaccines, admits Glaxo”

            Is a flat out lie.

            We also see that you don’t care that it is a lie.

            Instead you selectively quote.

            Those that have the integrity to read the words will see
            that the problem with the vaccine was potency—which is a measure of efficacy—not safety.

            Can’t be functionally literate and honesty believe the
            anti-vaccs…

            W&N

          6. Grace, does the GM ignition switch scandal make you want to ban cars? Even if a story about bad quality control is true (and if not this one, there certainly have been some), what exactly is the correct follow-through.

            Be careful in your answer. Don’t forget we have some serious QC issues in the police, but no one suggests that means law enforcement should be optional.

          7. I don’t want to ban anything.
            I want the right to say no to an injection, that may or may not work, and that may or may not harm.

          8. You are just mad because I proved the exact words from the
            link that proved the anti-vaccs were once again caught lying.

            As usual you have nothing better to offer than lies and
            name-calling.

            W&N

          9. Hey the exact words are still posted for all to see.

            And just like all the other times, when the anti-vaccs get caught lying your only response is name-calling…fact is that is intellectually the best you have …

            W&N

          10. Wrong. There’s no point wasting anything on pro-vacs who think they are right because they align with authorities. The epitome of a sheep actually.

          11. Anti-vacc liar:

            “UK babies given toxic vaccines, admits Glaxo”

            Actual words: “A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline told The Observer : ‘We do not accept that these batches were harmful.”

            AD then lies by asserting I made an appeal to authority.

            Thing is the anti-vaccs aren’t clever enough to lie in a way that doesn’t insult the intelligence of the average middle school student.

            Thanks again for proving this point!

            W&N

          12. You liar!!!! ” A spokesman for GSK” A paid shill LIAR says ” we do not accept that these batches were harmful” In other words sue us…ba ha ha but you can’t cause we have government protection. In fact we’ll say the were harmful and you still can’t sue us.

          13. People that are functionally literate will notice that the issue here is that the anti-vaccs lied and asserted that GLAXO said the vaccines were toxic.

            Of course people that are functionally literate also know that Glaxo could have been sued.

            Just anti-vacc lie after anti-vacc lie after anti-vacc lie…all predicated on folks being morons.

            Thanks again!

            W&N

          14. Let’s see your examples of Glaxo or ANY other vaccine makers being sued. Its you who thinks everyone is a moron to even offer that ratshit.

          15. Since you asked so nicely….

            Here is a good one from Maryland:

            https://mdcourts.gov/opinions/coa/2009/112a08.pdf

            Well look at that, the vaccines cause autism scam was
            exposed…the anti-vaccs were caught just making things up….Court wasn’t too impressed.

            Guess that is why the anti-vaccs keep lying and claiming one
            can’t sue vaccine manufacturers…Once again, one does have to be a moron to believe the anti-vaccs.

            W&N

          16. What a joke. The court dismissed without malice. The case was suspended over laws not actual evidence. No one lied or was accused of it. The only liar is you who twists the facts to appear credible. What you are is crudible

          17. Correction: the anti-vaccs lie when they say one can’t
            sue vaccine manufactures.

            Just like you lied when you posted that the decision was not based on evidence.

            It was exactly based on the evidence….all the anti-vaccs had were lies and incompentence….it is all right in the ruling for anyone that cares about the truth.

            W&N

          18. I provide facts.

            You provide lies and personal attacks.

            Thanks for publically humiliating the anti-vaccs one more
            time!

            W&N

          19. Only a braindead person named W & N would think Glaoxo’s response is about honesty and not covering themselves in lieu of lawsuit. I guess the clown career fell through.

          20. A person of integrity would note that the issue here is how
            the anti-vaccs lied about what Glaxo said.

            W&N

          21. Gosh…what did Glaxo actually say?

            “A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline told The Observer : ‘We do not accept that these batches were harmful.’”

            You must know with absolute certainty that these links you keep posting lie…you just keep posting them anyways.

            If goal is to make the anti-vaccs out as liars and idiots
            you are succeeding wonderfully!

            Thanks,

            W&N

          22. So your point is that anti-vaccs have been lying to people about this for 35 years. Still, no one with 5th grade math skills could honestly believe in hot lots…

            W&N

          23. I believe that it is a fact that there were two cases of
            SIDS in Tennessee that occurred soon after vaccination…the rest is just the anti-vaccs preying upon the innumerate.

            W&N

          24. Why didn’t you post the math? It is 5th grade….

            It is exactly the case here that the anti-vacc deception has
            been exposed decade after decade….

            W&N

          25. rescuepost.com and its group Rescue Post is an autism whack site. We’re supposed to believe they got their hands on this memo from 1979, well before the days of the internet? Sure they did Grace. And the black helicopters are on the horizon. You know one way I can tell there’s a 99% chance it’s fake? In the CC it refers to “Dr” Shaw, “Dr” Brierly, “Dr” McCarthy, “Mr” Gray, “Mr” Pullam. Do you really think people referred to their co-workers like that in 1979? Think again, Gracie!

          26. I know that a person of integrity would condemn the anti-vaccs
            for lying.

            You resort to name-calling.

            Thanks for publically humiliating the anti-vaccs one more
            time!

            W&N

          27. Right, you have lies and name-calling and nothing else.

            Thanks for proving this point!

            W&N

          28. …..And the investigation cleared vaccine from any blame.

            Now tell us, why has the SIDS rate dropped to 10% of the 1970 rate if vaccines cause SIDS?
            Shouldn’t it have increased 5-fold, as the schedule has expanded?

          29. Clueless. You want to compare 1970 vaccine uptake with today’s? A chimp could figure out that 10% isn’t significant.

          30. Common sense: you didn’t provide the test because you lied when you asserted ” that 10% isn’t significant.”

            Fortunately a reader here would have to be a total moron not to immediately see you lie.

            Thanks,

            W&N

          31. Again all you assert as evidence is everyone lies. Nice job Einstein, I don’t even have to make you look stupid. I can’t top your own exhibition.

          32. “Clueless.
            Yes, you are, AutismDud.

            “You want to compare 1970 vaccine uptake with today’s?”
            No, that is what the antivax mob try and do repeatedly, in case you hadn’t noticed.

          33. Obviously its about who what when where and why. Those who have been in charge for decades, are on a sliding scale, unethical to criminal, so any who align and support them are sad in their own right.

          34. And why does she even have her knickers in a twist over DTP? The vaccine isn’t even is use anymore, and hasn’t been for years. Sometimes I wish it were, mind you, as the marketing decision to replace it with the somewhat less effective acellular version appears to have been done in an abundance of caution, rather than good reason.

            Why does Grace once again resort to rhetorical sleight of hand?

            Readers: because facts are not on their side, chickanery is required.

          35. So sad. brings back the horrors we had to learn to accept. A great example of why you are not told about adverse effects in real terms.

          36. Hey Kfunk, moved your trolling to another comment. One that has not uncovered your paid performance

          37. We are on the cusp of an economic collapse the likes of which humanity has never experienced. There is talk of world war 3. North Korea just tested a nuke. 1 in 7 people in the US is on food stamps. 1 in 3 people has cancer. 1 in 3 kids has a chronic medical condition. There is talk of executive action against the 2nd amendment. You act is if you live in peaceful times. I suggest you just turn your TV back on and watch you sports programs and grab a beer; you are not even part of the equation anymore, and you don’t even know it yet. All you can respond with are middle-school aged memes that only display your ignorance.

          38. And in other news..

            I have a bad hangnail. A really.. really.. really, bad one. The kind if you dared to try and just ‘rip it off’.. could lose a finger.

            Not lying.

          39. ???
            I’m not saying that water’s toxic (although it can be, in a dose-dependent manner). I’m suggesting, tongue-in-cheek, that it’s in the public interest to put psych meds in the water supply. Hmmn. Mebbe Xanx and Haldol for the tin-foil hatters.

          1. You want him to go to jail? That’s rich.
            And if your d_G’s listening, the answer is “Suffer ye little children to come unto me and prevent them not from being shielded from VPDs.” Really, it’s in a book somewhere.

          2. Our God is a God of justice as well as mercy. Jesus came not to bring peace, but a sword. And those decimating children (and adults) wholesale for profit are the ones who will receive the brunt of his wrath. Remember Jesus’ anger at the moneychangers in the Temple?

          3. ciaparker2: “Jesus came not to bring peace, but a sword. And those decimating children (and adults) wholesale for profit are the ones who will receive the brunt of his wrath.”

            Oh! I know this one!

            It’s from the Old Testament.. Book of Chia, Chapter -12, Verse Bananas (1 Chia -12:Bananas)!

          4. Cia’s comment is an inch above you, yet you STILL parrot!

            No sunday school star for you, witless!

          5. You left out revolutions – oops revelations; and monsters of the 7 seals suffering ye little children with shots of poisons, or such!

          6. ???
            No one is going to hold their breath waiting for you to ever post a relevant comment, suz. You come across as nothing more than an upvote bot wrt the nil value added by your “communications.” I’m not sure you’d pass a Turing test.
            Kinda sad, really.

          7. Oh! After the poetic prose of alliteration, onomatopoeia is my next favorite language fix!

            Boink! Splat! Moo! Kerplunk! 😉

    4. All of you anti vaccine people keep screaming about Big Pharma, a massive conspiracy, and imaginary symptoms of non-existent “vaccine damage” from ingredients that are either harmless or have never been part of vaccines; ignoring how the science is not on your side. When it is pointed out to you you have repated the exact same outright blatant lies and untruths, word for word, over and over and over, you ignore this.

      1. If vaccines did not cause damages, then why is it that the VICP has paid out over 3.18 billion dollars to vaccine injured children?

        1. One side effect claim per million vaccine shots.
          I don’t say vaccines are perfect, merely pretty fantastic, and very safe.

          1. Again, no one claims that there are no injuries. Just that a)vaccines are vastly safer than the diseases and b)they don’t include autism or allergies or SIDs.

            Obviously, the ideal world is to have no vaccine injuries or any disease injuries. However, the world is not perfect and “wear your seatbelt!” is good advice despite the rare seatbelt injuries and “seatbelts for squares” is not very good advice.

          2. Umm…yeah, they do. It’s when you hit your head on the dashboard at 40 miles per hour instead of being launched out of the vehicle.

            Concussion = TBI.

          3. You should stop lying about vaccine injuries and you should stop ignoring that diseases are risker unless you have evidence of that grand conspiracy.

          4. There are 19 countries with vaccine injury compensation programs compensating numerous injuries, adverse reactions, negative outcomes, illness and death. But to an ignorant troll its all one big lie.

          5. No one claims that vaccine injuries don’t exist. Anti-vaxxers keep claiming that things that aren’t vaccine injuries are vaccine-injuries and lie about them.

            To be clear:

            Vaccine injuries exist – not a lie.

            Allergies are one of them – a lie.

            Autism is one of them – a lie.

          6. What about autoimmune diseases..do vaccines cause that?

            HRSA-U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-

            National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

            The Vaccine Injury Table (Table) makes it easier for some people to get compensation. The Table lists and explains injuries/conditions that are presumed to be caused by vaccines

            Vaccine Injury Table- V. Vaccines containing measles virus (e.g., MMR, MR, M) A. Thrombocytopenic purpura

            Vaccination and autoimmune disease: what is the evidence?

            “Another example of confirmed autoimmune adverse effects after vaccination is idiopathic thrombocytopenia, which might arise after administration of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination.51–55 The reported frequency of clinically apparent idiopathic thrombocytopenia after this vaccine is around one in 30,000 vaccination.” Source ~The Lancet

            Vaccine Injury Table- HRSA
            IV. Vaccines containing rubella virus (e.g., MMR, MR, R) A. Chronic arthritis

            What is Chronic Arthritis? “The immune system produces antibodies that attach to the linings of joints. Immune system cells then attack the joints, causing inflammation, swelling, and pain”

            JAMA. 1997 Aug 20;278(7):551-6.
            Risk of chronic arthropathy among women after rubella vaccination. Vaccine Safety Datalink Team.

            Arch Intern Med. 1993 Oct 11;153(19):2268-74.
            Chronic rubella vaccine-associated arthropathy.

            Vaccine Related Disorders that have been awarded compensation in court.

            Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) -Autoimmune Disorder
            GBS is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body to attack and destroy the myelin sheath.

            Transverse Myelitis -Autoimmune Disorder
            Transverse myelitis is a neurological disorder involving inflammation across the spinal cord. Attacks of inflammation can damage or destroy myelin, the fatty insulating substance that covers nerve cell fibers.

            CIDP – Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy-Autoimmune Disorder
            CIDP is a form of autoimmune disease. What happens is the body’s defenses attack and strip away the covering that protects the nerves, which is called the myelin sheath.

            Neuromyelitis Optica or Optic Neuritis -Autoimmune Disorder
            Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO), also known as Devic’s disease or Devic’s syndrome, is an autoimmune disorder that affects the optic nerves and the spinal cord. Immune system cells and antibodies mistakenly attack and destroy myelin cells in the optic nerves and the spinal cord

            Dermatomyositis or JDM and Vaccine Reactions -Autoimmune Disorder
            Dermatomyositis is a rare autoimmune disease that causes an inflammatory response in which the body’s immune system attacks blood vessels in the muscle and skin.

          7. That’s quite a little Gish Gallop there, Su-Zee-Que! I will point out that for all of the MMR side effects, the same conditions can occur with the wild disease, and in greater frequency.

            Guillain-Barre Syndrome is also far more common after an infection, any infection, than after vaccination. From the Mayo Clinic: “The exact cause of Guillain-Barre syndrome isn’t known. The disorder
            usually appears days or weeks after a respiratory or digestive tract
            infection. Rarely, recent surgery or immunization can trigger
            Guillain-Barre syndrome.”

          8. Its not a conspiracy dumbass its an ideology based on hopeful, but flawed science. Then add callous disregard, blind faith and sadism.

          9. Flawed proof?? That reminds me of things I’ve read recently…

            ‘Science Journal Pulls 60 Papers in Peer-Review Fraud’

            July10, 2014 source: The New York Times

            And another article…

            “In the past 2 years, journals have been forced to retract more than 110 papers in at least 6 instances of peer-review rigging. What all these cases had in common was that researchers exploited vulnerabilities in the publishers’ computerized systems to dupe editors into accepting manuscripts, often by doing their own reviews. The cases involved publishing behemoths Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE and Wiley, as well as Informa, and they exploited security flaws that — in at least one of the systems — could make researchers vulnerable to even more serious identity theft”…Source nature dot com-news-publishing-the peer- review-scam

            How about some more news headlines…

            “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” -Dr. Marcia Angell

            ‘Fraud in medical journals increasing’

            “The percentage of scientific articles retracted due to fraud has increased approximately 10-fold since 1975, with a smaller increase in retractions due to error.”

            ‘Deceit and fraud in medical research’

            Abstract

            Deceit and fraud in medical research is a serious problem for the credibility of published literature. Although estimating its prevalence is difficult, reported incidences are alarming” source Journal-Surgery

            ‘A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies’

            “Dr. Scott Reuben, who is accused of faking medical research studies, including some that were published in medical journals, was charged with health care fraud Thursday in federal court in Boston”

            ‘Medical Research Fraud: Professors Go Unpunished in Glaxo $3 Billion Guilty Plea Over Paxil-‘

            “The journal that published the fraudulent research has failed to retract it, and editor-in-chief Andres S. Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, told the Chronicle he had no comment on the options the journal might take.

            Although Glaxo pled guilty and paid $3 billion in fines, none of the academics have been disciplined by their universities for their roles in perpetrating research fraud. Moreover, according to the Chronicle, several continue to receive federal grants from the National Institute of Health”…source The Nation

            “Scientific Publisher BioMed Central has withdrawn 43 papers, and is investigating many more, over what it calls the “fabrication” of peer reviews. Representatives of Journal editors have admitted the papers are the tip of a dangerous iceberg, and the scandal may to lead to an overhaul of how peer review is conducted.

            Peer review is fundamental to science, a central part of the process of self-correction that sets it aside from faith-based systems. True peer review does not end with publication; plenty of scientific papers are published only to subsequently be shown to have major flaws.

            The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) issued a statement saying they have, “become aware of systematic, inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review processes of several journals across different publishers” ..source iflscience

          10. Which proves how the system works: flawed and fradulent research is exposed and removed. Exactly as what happened with the Wakefield autism “study.”

        2. No-fault table injuries; evidence showing a “50% plus a feather” likelihood of it being the vaccine.

          1. “…And this is why we call it PRATT: Point Refuted A Thousand Times.”

            PRATT is itself PRATT.

            You wish you could get away with brain dead canned slogans, don’t you kiddo?

          1. https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/data.html
            Halfway down the page, says vaccine damages paid out to date are 3.2 billion dollars. If you are too lazy to click the link, here you go:

            “Since 1988, over 16,629 petitions have been filed with the VICP. Over that 27 year time period, 14,335 petitions have been adjudicated, with 4,420 of those determined to be compensable, while 9,915 were dismissed. Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $3.2 billion.”
            Now what part of that from the HRSA is a lie?

          2. Good start, but you failed to post what is required to trigger a payment.

            “…the VICP has paid out over 3.18 billion dollars to vaccine injured children.”

            That is a lie. But fortunately it is childishly easy to see that it is a lie.
            Thanks!
            W&N

          3. So what you are saying is that the HRSA are liars, because I cut and pasted those quotes directly from their site. Not to mention the fact that the 3.18 billion $ figure has been the topic of many mainstream news reports. This is the problem; vetted figures from many sources are presented to you, and you ignore the information and call it a lie. You have some real problems. Let me explain this the same way I would to a child: I DON’T CARE WHAT “SCIENCE” YOU USE TO MAKE YOUR POINT!!! Mandatory, forced vaccinations is against basic human rights, and no matter what science you come up with to support your “greater good”, “ends justify the means” philosophy will not change the fact that you support the violation of another persons rights. You are a despot waiting to happen.

          4. What I am exactly saying is that a person with integrity would have posted what is required to trigger payment….but you didn’t.

            I don’t care how much you yell and post BS, doesn’t change the fact that your postings are filled with obvious lies.

            W&N

      2. “…imaginary symptoms of non-existent “vaccine damage” from ingredients that are either harmless or …”

        Contrary to vax fanatics, the independent scientific community acknowledges concerns about vaccine safety as reasonable and legitimate and is trying to find the truth and give answers.

        Vaccine immunology

        Last, the exponential development of new vaccines raises many questions that are not limited to the targeted diseases and the potential impacts of their prevention, but address the specific and non-specifi c impacts of such vaccines on the immune system, and thus on health in general.

        These immune-related concerns have largely spread into the population and questions related to the immunological safety of vaccines, i.e., to their capacity of triggering non-antigen specific responses possibly leading to conditions such as allergy, autoimmunity or even premature death are being raised.

        The objective of this chapter is to extract from the complex and rapidly evolving field of immunology the main concepts that are useful to better address these important questions.

        In the meantime, a rational person applies the precautionary (and ethic) principle that “the amount of side effects permissible in a healthy person is zero”.

    5. And when I point out that anti-vaccs deceive people by, e.g., lying about formaldehyde and I point out that the incredibly obvious and ethical thing to do is to fact-check with actual scientists, you choose not to do so…which is exactly why the anti-vaccs can fool you every single time….

      W&N

          1. Oh look! She’s holding up the msds on formaldehyde! That must mean that some toxins are more toxic than other toxins! 😉

          2. Oh look, here is the definition of the word toxin:

            https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/toxin

            Your comment isn’t functional literate

            And she is NOT holding up a MSDS.

            Your comment fails middle-school science…

            The reason why anti-vaccs attack me for suggesting fact-checking is that the anti-vaccs systematically.

            Good news: anyone with integrity and a middle-school education knows the anti-vaccs are liars.

            Thanks again for proving this fact!

            W&N

          3. I understand.

            It is humiliating for you.

            Fact is the anti-vacc scam is predicated on folks being too
            stupid to read the definition and too ignorant to know the difference between an MSDS and the periodic table.

            Yes, the anti-vaccs count on folks being exactly that stupid.

            Thanks for proving this fact!

            W&N

          4. I don’t know any ‘anti vax’ and in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been addressing ‘forced vaxers’ AND your arrogant and laughable need to add your signature to your frivolous, inept and erred fare!

            Only the myopic minded like you forced vaxers, would fail to get my little msds burlesque!

            But suz is here to enlighten you, nerdlet!

            S&N 😉

          5. You have enlighten us.

            You lied about toxins and you lied about the MSDS and now
            you are lying to hide your lies.

            Name calling and lies is the sum total of your intellectual
            contribution here. Just par for the anti-vaccs…

            Thanks,

            W&N

          6. That’s my purpose on this earth! To enlighten! To avenge the weak! To smite the bullies! I’m a bully smiter! I’m ‘suz the bully smiter;’ also worthy of a signature for each and every comment I make!

            I didn’t lie about msds! I used to work with them and certainly KNOW what they are! But YOU don’t, nerdlet!

            You’re welcome!
            S&N 😉

          7. Ahhh, the old ridiculing thing you turds engage in. Newsflash: The truth has 4 stages. First it is ignore, then it is ridiculed, then it is fought (I can’t wait for that part to happen), then it is accepted.

          8. They also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

            And vaccination has been ignored, ridiculed (this will turn our kids into cows!), fought (there’s been protesters before) and accepted (scientific consensus) You’re a little late to the class, brian-with-a-little-b.

            https://io9.gizmodo.com/19th-century-documents-show-how-little-the-anti-vaxxers-1658381223

            Please try and work on your punctuality – being around 200 years late to class really is not acceptable.

            It has been fought – you lost.

          9. Right,

            I posted the definition of the word toxin.

            So you must with absolute certainty know that the anti-vaccs lie about toxins in vaccines….and your only response is scatological personal attacks.

            Newsflash: when you act completely immorally and as a
            staggering fool, you will be treated with contempt.

            W&N

          10. I understand…it must be humiliating for you see that anyone
            with the integrity to use a dictionary and see that the anti-vaccs are just
            flat-out liars.

            W&N

          11. Fair point for once, Suz.

            I should have said “dosages large enough to cause toxicology”. What ‘large enough’ means is different for different substances.

          12. Suz is more than a purdy face, grasshopper. I can’t believe yall didn’t get my msds joke. I better make sure I included my smiley face!

        1. And it is a fact that as predicted you didn’t fact-check to
          see how the anti-vaccs deceived you…

          W&N

          1. added some others because some didn’t launch. They are old or removed. It happens. They vac shills think its a major victory. They just haven’t grown up.

          2. Thanks for the links….but could only get the scam anti-vacc middle one to work…and surprise:

            #1-it is completely off topic.

            #2—it is abject BS.

            One example:

            “Dr. Yehuda
            Shoenfeld and Dr. Ricard Cervera will oversee the creation and maintenance of the ASIA registry (Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvant), populated by clinicians from around the world.”

            Of course the Court record on ASIA is incredibly damning…
            E.g.
            “The {Shoenfeld’s) diagnostic criteria…cannot separate
            people with the disease from people without the disease.”

            https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?1999vv0578-286-0

            https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2010vv0272-126-0

            It is like you are trying to make the anti-vaccs look
            foolish and dishonest!

            W&N

          3. Curses, beat me to it!

            Seneff, Shaw and Schoenfeld: the trifecta of discredited research.

            No one’s even doing serious research on Al-Alzheimer’s anymore, because it was a dry well. These folks seem to be in the grip of Al-fixated ideas that don’t pan out.

            Give ’em time, though. Goalposts are portable.

          4. Another closed minded shill who seems to imply only absolutes exist. I find it hard to imagine how these science addicts come to that conclusion. But as always they make the “facts” fit their “story”. or they deny the facts.

          5. No surprise.

            Not a single word from you about how the Courts detailed how the anti-vaccs lie to parents about ASIA….

            W&N

          6. Right when presented with facts your only response is name calling.

            But if insist on making a fool of yourself, who am I to complain?

            Thanks!

            W&N

          7. Hey, I provided links to the Court cases above….once again,
            it is the anti-vaccs who have nothing but lies….as this thread proves, one does have to be a complete moron to believe the anti-vaccs.

            Thanks again for proving this!

            W&N

          8. You did post some anti-vacc lies about ASIA….which is why
            you refuse to post anything about the facts of the Court cases…because they reveal the anti-vacc lies…

            W&N

          9. “The University of British Columbia is defending two of its researchers who have published vaccine-related studies discredited by the World Health Organization and described by several medical experts as weak and misleading.

            Organizations that promote messages about the dangers of vaccines, such as the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute (CMSRI), have used the results of the UBC research as evidence that vaccines cause autism and other serious harm. The front page of the CMSRI website states that in a “landmark” 2013 paper, the two UBC researchers show that “the more children receive vaccines with aluminum adjuvants, the greater their chance is of developing autism, autoimmune diseases and neurological problems later in life.” In that study, the researchers note that the rate of autism spectrum disorders increased along with the number of pediatric vaccines that contain aluminum.”

            “But after looking at some of Prof. Shaw and Ms. Tomljenovic’s research, the experts raised major concerns with the conclusions and interpretations.

            “There’s academic freedom and then there’s academic responsibility,” Dr. Gardam said.”

            “Prof. Shaw’s website says he has received nearly $900,000 from the Dwoskin Family Foundation, a U.S.-based group, and the Georgetown, Ont.-based Katlyn Fox Foundation. Both groups question the safety of vaccines.”

            (Source: The Globe and Mail | “UBC stands behind vaccine studies discredited by WHO”)

            … …

            Confirmation bias at it’s worse.. ignorance at it’s best.

          10. Straight from the mouth of the brat so arrogant, he needs a ‘signature’ at the end of each comment! Impressive! I wanna’ vax now ’cause you’re so smart, nerdlet!

          11. Classic…suggesting that our children’s health is important
            enough that one should try and get the facts correct reduces you to name-calling.

            But hey, if you insist on proving that intellectually the anti-vaccs have zero and morally they have less…well who am I to complain?

            Thanks,

            W&N

          12. Oh please! Complain away! Just stop killing and permanently injuring children while you do it, Nerdlet!

            You’re welcome!
            S&N 😉

          13. This is really simple.

            People that care about our children will try and get the
            facts correct.

            People operating with malice and actively trying to hurt our
            children will discourage readers here from find the facts.

            Thanks for making this so very, very clear!

            W&N

          14. This is really simple! You wouldn’t know a ‘correct fact’ any more so than JESTthefacts!

            You’re welcome, nerdlet!

            S&N 😉

          15. From the person that isn’t able to read the definition of
            the word toxin correctly.

            As most people have figured out, you are simply fact- and
            ethic-free….

            W&N

          16. Nah! ‘Most people’ correctly figured out that your a pompous little twit with nothing to add but your precious signature!

            You’re welcome!
            S&N 😉

          17. You are just made because you got caught lying about toxins….once we remove your lies you have nothing to offer but personal attacks.

            W&N

          18. Yes AD….one more time, when the anti-vaccs get caught lying your only response is to resort to name calling.

            You lack the integrity to condemn them for lying.

            Thanks again for proving this fact!

            W&N

          19. Again, nothing to add but personal attacks.

            Meanwhile, folks that actual care about our children are reading the definition of the word Toxin and seeing that the anti-vacc lies are predicated on folks being exactly that stupid.

            Thanks again for your public service of proving the immorality of the anti-vaccs!

            W&N

          20. Hardly stooge. Funny how the victims lie while the manufacturers tell the truth. That’s not the norm and many know that. You, who are an obvious clown want us to believe this fantasy that vaccines are safe.

          21. No the anti-vaccs lie about the “victims” too….counting on
            folks to be too stupid to look up definitions like toxin or safe…

            W&N

          22. And again, I keep suggesting people fact-check and every
            time your only response is personal attacks.

            Fact is you have zero respect for our children’s health.

            W&N

        2. Hey, Grace-it is a fact there is formaldehyde in apples and pears. It is also a fact that one’s own body makes formaldehyde.

          1. Eating something and having it injected into your blood stream is entirely different. You just showed your lack of any medical knowledge whatsoever, yet you think you have the right to dictate risky medical procedures to others. Wow.

          2. “injected into bloodstream” – again, that isn’t how vaccines work. Name a single vaccine on any schedule that is injected directly into the bloodstream – it will look like this: IV administration.

          3. your blood stream includes capillaries and arterioles within the subcutaneous tissue. It is still part of the blood stream, and ends up in such. Your analogy is like saying “Pooping into the toilet has nothing to do with the water treatment plant. It eventually ends up there after I flush it; different systems altogether, my toilet and that plant”.

          4. Still, not injected into the bloodstream. They are injected into skin or muscles. And “ending up in the bloodstream.” – right…just remind me what people with diabetes need to check before and after eating will you?

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8669873e0b985d10c349612ccb9fd2f4483767e1255b3780b0fbe5a43f246ab2.jpg

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e5d731ce3e4ed3293a9da8aedbc03a7acfbdd1421199be1663a04a839c276a09.jpg

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ce68c6ed332d5e66f4020e1b00df363a1fa58101941e0bfffc62e612b3660803.jpg

            You know this since you’ve done your research.

          5. How ridiculous. A rose thorn the same as a series of vaccines? Only a perverse stooge would suggest it.

          6. No – A rose thorn is a natural injection. And no, of course not. But injections do happen in nature – our bodies do know how to handle them.

          7. Too bad you didn’t take my advice and fact-check…

            Summary: formaldehyde is synthesized by all human cells in levels that are much higher than found in vaccines.

            Middle-school science here: due to passive diffusion
            the level of formaldehyde post vaccination would be very, very, very slightly lower than pre-vaccine.

            It is exactly the case here that this anti-vacc lie has been exposed over and over for decades….but they just won’t tell truth…

            W&N

          8. YOU seem to know a lot about formaldehyde. Do you know of any studies that test for carcinogenic effects regarding vaccines? No, you don’t, because there are none. There is no place for formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, to be introduced into a child’s blood stream. None. And even if there were, and you were 100% right, I still have the choice to opt out for my own personal beliefs. That is the real argument. People like you think you know so much more then others, so much so that you think you have the right to force risky medical procedures onto them for the “greater good”. Well, you don’t, and if you do go tyrant on people, you will be breaking the law. And if you change the laws and violate human rights anyway, you still will be brought to justice for your crimes and hung by the neck until you are dead just like the human rights violators of Nuremburg. It may take some time; few years, but the end is always the same for tyrants that violate others. And that will be the story of you, and your prodigy will curse your name.

          9. “Do you know of any studies that test for carcinogenic effects regarding vaccines? No, you don’t, because there are none.”

            You mean like this one?

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16566451

            Took about 2 seconds….

            Since you were unable to use Google well enough to see how the anti-vaccs lie about the carcinogenic testing of vaccines, we really shouldn’t be too surprised that you can’t do high-school level biology and understand that vaccines reduce
            the level of formaldehyde in the body.

            Once we cut through all the ranting, we are left with a very simply situation. Anti-vacc liars preying upon
            folks with the most limited intellectual abilities.

            Thanks!

            W&N

          10. If you had actually read the study you would have seen that the study was not about a vaccine, but an ingredient in the vaccine. No carcinogenic studies are done on vaccines containing formaldehyde, a known carcinogen. Not only is this study exclusively about investigating the carcinogenic effects of just one ingredient within a vaccine, that ingredient is a highly controversial one, especially when talking about mandatory vaccines. FYI, the ingredient in this particular study is aborted fetal cells; i.e. dead baby cells grown into a culture. Yup, dead baby parts.
            Thanks!
            b

          11. And if one is functionally literate one will see that they tested the vaccine for carcinogenicity.

            FYI: the anti-vacc lies are predicated on folks being morons

            Thanks again!

            W&N

          12. Where’s your science PROVING vaccine reduce the levels of formaldehyde in the body?? Just blowin it out your big mouth isn’t proof.

          13. Already proven….but it would take integrity and a high-school level biology understanding to follow.

            Which was too difficult for you?

            W&N

          14. Noted how you discourage people from fact-checking….If they
            did then they would understand that the anti-vaccs are liars.

            Thanks for point this out!

            W&N

          15. No, it does not. There is something in medicine called the first pass system. Everything, including drugs, are absorbed in the GI tract and filtered by the liver. This is why if you take a medication PO (BY mouth) that you need a much higher dosage then if it were injected into you. These are rudimentary medical staples you clearly know nothing about, so there is no arguing with a simpleton about biological fundamentals. Anyone with any biological studies under their belt will see that you are wrong and, frankly, embarrassing yourself.

          16. That does not negate what I said-once the substance gets into your bloodstream, the body treats it the same. You are the one embarrassing yourself, dipsh*t.

  86. Are you been treated like sheeple?

    Multiple injections of adjuvants ==> autoimmune disease.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23579772

    We describe a form of the autoimmune/autoinflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants in commercial sheep, linked to the repetitive inoculation of aluminum-containing adjuvants through vaccination.

    The syndrome shows an acute phase that affects less than 0.5% of animals in a given herd, it appears 2-6 days after an adjuvant-containing inoculation and it is characterized by an acute neurological episode with low response to external stimuli and acute meningoencephalitis, most animals APPARENTLY recovering afterward.

    The chronic phase is seen in a HGHER proportion of flocks, it can follow the acute phase, and it is triggered by external stimuli, mostly low temperatures.

    The chronic phase begins with an excitatory phase, followed by weakness, extreme cachexia, tetraplegia and DEATH.

    The present report is the first description of a new sheep syndrome (ovine ASIA syndrome) linked to multiple, repetitive vaccination and that can have devastating consequences as it happened after the COMPULSORY VACCINATION against bluetongue disease in 2008.

    The ovine ASIA syndrome can be used as a model of other similar diseases affecting both HUMANS and animals.

    The creepy thing is tat the patient (sheeple) apparently recovers from the acute neurological episode (see seizures in just vaccinated kids) only to become chronic and end up causing paralysis and death.

    So similar to known vaccine “success” stories ….

      1. So I asked the 12 year old to check if ASIA was junk science or not….took about 30seconds…

        Clearly, one has to be willfully stupid to believe the anti-vaccs…

        Thanks!

        W&N

        1. You forgot the signature in your last comment! Made ya look! Har d har!

          You’re more concerned about gloating and self aggrandizing than saving children from the severe and permanent conditions caused from vax injuries, you pretentious little brat!

          You’re welcome!
          S&N 😉

          1. What makes sense is that YOU DON’T!

            What fails to make sense is that nerdlets signature means more to him than the subject matter, grasshopper!

          2. “What makes sense is that I don’t make sense.” Ummm…whatever you say, suz. Do we need to talk about the difference between allegations and proof again?

          3. I don’t care what YOU do here, little bug!

            I have an agenda and that’s to save as many children from the HANDS of FORCED VACCINATION as possible!

            You’re on your own, grasshopper!

          4. “I don’t care what YOU do here, little bug!” – That much is obvious.

            “I have an agenda and that’s to save as many children from the HANDS of FORCED VACCINATION as possible!” – I highly doubt any of the commenters here have any authority to do so.

            “You’re on your own, grasshopper!” – no, which you would know if you bothered reading any of the other comments.

          5. I know you appear to be quite up close and personal with parrot Pro!

            Why the way you’re parroting above, one may even begin to think ‘you’re one and the same,’ grasshopper! 😉

          6. ‘Ya missed the vax wars and somehow I knew you would.

            Because you also ‘allege’ to be a musician, I initially took you for being more intellectual and less shallow! Sigh!

          7. Sorry to disappoint. And the “alleged” only refers to the PhD scientist part, since you didn’t believe it. The musician part has not been contested by anyone.

          8. Exactly as I’d understood, and I DO appreciate the honesty. You don’t behave like a musician though!

            Discussion for another day, perhaps!

          9. You forgot to make any comment about the validity of ASIA.

            Short story: anti-vaccs lie about and one has to be a
            moron to believe them….Just par for the anti-vaccs.

            W&N

    1. ASIA is an imaginary illness proposed by one obsessed loon researcher in Isreal. The diagnosis has never found support in the medical profession as a whole. It appears to be an amorphous a poorly defined relative of CFS. The Lymies (“chronic Lyme” adherants) buy into it, too. That’s telling, in and of itself.
      It is sad that people with real symptoms, even if psychogenic, are misled and preyed upon by alties when they could be recieving validated treatment for symptomatic relief.
      It’s also sad that people like you are so dishonest. Or ignorant. And vocally, prolifically so–in both cases.

      1. ASIA is no Illness, it’s a mechanism that explains why certain injections can trigger ANY autoimmune disease.

        It’s exactly the same mechanism pro-vaxers claim can prevent any infectious disease LOL.

        Attacking ASIA as a “illness” is attacking a strawman.

        1. Please tell us exactly what the symptoms are and what the
          time frame is when they occur.

          Thanks,

          W&N

          1. Be my guest.

            The syndrome shows an acute phase that affects less than 0.5% of animals in a given herd, it appears 2-6 days after an adjuvant-containing inoculation and it is characterized by anacute NEUROLOGICAL EPISODE with low response to external stimuli and acute meningoencephalitis, most animals APPARENTLY RECOVERING afterward.

            The chronic phase is seen in a HIGHER proportion of flocks, it can follow the acute phase, and it is triggered by external stimuli, mostly low temperatures.

            The chronic phase begins with an excitatory phase, followed by weakness, extreme cachexia, tetraplegia and DEATH.

            It happened after the COMPULSORY VACCINATION against bluetongue disease in 2008.

          2. Thank you!

            Great start. Now pick a few other publications on ASIA and keep adding to your list.

            Thanks,

            W&N

          3. “…Now pick a few other publications on ASIA and keep adding to your list.”

            Reports of ASIA were published even before it received such name … and by no other than the infamous Dr. Off-it.

            From the horse’s mouth:

            Vaccines

            By Paul A. Offit – Foreword by Bill Gates.

            “…For several vaccines, significant antibody responses were seen against antigens not known to be present in the vaccines, suggesting that vaccines contained trace quantities of these antigens and were stimulating an anamnestic response in these adults, who had been immunized in childhood with whole-cell vaccine.”

            Random, uncontrolled antigens in vaccines inducing life-long random antibody responses … wow! vaccines are SAFE!

          4. You didn’t understand Offit’s quote….nor are there random or uncontrolled antigens in vaccines.

            There are lots of immunology resources on-line if you actually want to learn…

            W&N

          5. “…nor are there random or uncontrolled antigens in vaccines.”

            Please enlighten us.

            What does “antigens not known to be present in the vaccines, suggesting that vaccines contained trace quantities of these antigens” means in your planet under a pink sky?

            What antigens is Off-it talking about?

          6. Oh dear…they are not random and they are not uncontrolled.

            I can tell you why you choose not to take my suggestion and learn some immunology….because your POV is predicated on you not understanding.

            W&N

          7. “…hey are not random and they are not uncontrolled.”

            Then, Oh Dear, just name them!

            If you can’t I’ll have to conclude you have no clue of what Off-it is talking about.

          8. Not just willful ignorance on your part, but you don’t understand words like “random” or “uncontrolled”. Which is exactly why
            basically everything you post about vaccines is wrong.

            W&N

          9. You can’t still answer the pertinent questions after giving you three chances. I won’t give you a fourth.

            The conclussion is now apparent to all..

          10. Yes, the conclusion is clear.

            You have been answered, but you don’t understand even what the words mean and you make a conscious, deliberate choice not to learn.

            Been fun, but I probably won’t be around for the rest of this week. Think any of the anti-vaccs could manage a
            single rational post?

            W&N

          11. “…You have been answered,”

            Still waiting for, Oh Dear, for you to name the randon, uncontrolled antigens!

            And if you claim they’re not random an uncontrolled, still waiting for your brainy explanation as to why could those antigens otherwise be “not known to be present in the vaccines”

            I feel your pain! .. LOL

          12. 1. As your quote points out these were simply trace antigens in the vaccine

            2a. They are B. pertussis antigens

            2b. You would have known this if you understood the word anamnestic

            2c. You would have known this if you correctly read your reference

            But you failed to provide the reference…which I
            doubt you bothered to read.

            It is JFTR page 490 of the text book Vaccines by
            Stanley A. Plotkin, Walter Orenstein, and Paul A. Offit

            Fact is you have no idea what you are posting about and don’t even understand the jargon must less the science.

            Thanks for proving this one more time!

            W&N

          13. “…these were simply trace antigens in the vaccine…

            Trace antigens are trace antigens, thanx for the info!

            What do you imply by “simply”? In spite of being “trace” they still induced antibodies!

            “…2a. They are B. pertussis antigens.. You would have known this if you correctly read your reference

            Let’s assume they were…. what can be said about the other trace antigens in the vaccine that are not B. pertussis antigens? …

            would they also induce antibodies, yes or not?

          14. “Let’s assume they were…. what can be said about the other trace antigens in the vaccine that are not B. pertussis antigens?”

            It is not an assumption, it is a fact.

            Now let’s suppose you are following your reference at ~10th
            grade biology level….then you would immediately see the absurdity of your question…

            Thanks for playing!

            W&N

          15. ” let’s suppose you are following your reference at ~10th grade biology level……would immediately see the absurdity of your question…”

            Avoiding the issue! LOL ..

            The answer from 10th grade biology (and from my reference) coincide: YES, trace antigens induce antibodies.

            Any vaccine can, therefore, cause the immune system to attack any random tissue (life-long autoimmune disease).

            Have a better candidate to explain the rising incidence of autoimmune diseases?

          16. “The answer from 10th grade biology (and from my reference)
            coincide: YES, trace antigens induce antibodies.

            Any vaccine can, therefore, cause the immune system to attack any random tissue (life-long autoimmune disease).”

            This is a staggeringly stupid comment that is predicated on
            your complete failure to understand the experiments, the subjects, the data and its interpretation.

            BTW: the trace antigens DIDN’T induce antibodies.

            You literally have a negative understanding of the science.

            Thanks again!

            W&N

          17. Allow me to skip the “my d_ck is bigger than yours” part of your non-reply (the bulk of it).

            Now directly to the meager substance:

            “…BTW: the trace antigens DIDN’T induce antibodies…”

            Obviously, despite all your b_tching you haven’t even read the original paper of the trial:

            https://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/180/2/397.long

            Unexpected antibody responses to antigens not known to be present were noted for 4 of the ACVs. One possible explanation for these responses is the presence of small quantities of antigen(s) not previously known to be present in the vaccines.

            Anamnestic response in not mentioned in the original, therefore the authors interpret is as direct response to trace quantities of antigens.

            The fact that vaccines contain antibodies that shouldn’t be there is, to put it mildly, worrying… what other stuff isn’t known to be in them?

            The data is the data, but your Royal As_hole has the last word, of course.

          18. Classic anti-vacc…

            What was observed is by definition an Anamnestic
            response.

            Your reference described the responses as Anamnestic.

            “The fact that vaccines contain antibodies” vaccines here didn’t contain antibodies

            You don’t understand words like “induce”, “random”, “controlled” and you refuse to learn…you are functionally and scientifically illiterate.

            So obviously your comments are profoundly stupid. Intellectually you have zero to offer. But hey, lacking in reason or knowledge, you compensate with personal attacks.

            Thanks for making a fool of yourself!

            W&N

          19. “…What was observed is by definition an Anamnesticresponse…”

            Not, direct response explains the antibodies just as well and it requires less assumptions (Ockham’s razor).

            The speculation about anamnestic response is Dr. Off-it’s own.

          20. If you had even the tiniest clue about what you were posting about you will know that the term you meant was “primary response”…and that you were obviously wrong since this is not possible, but rather they were anamnestic responses.

            Not speculation, just simple facts.

            W&N

          21. I quite enjoyed reading Vacuous talking of the “zero hypothesis”.
            It took me a while to figure out he meant the “null hypothesis” and not AutismDad.

          22. My 2cents.

            Everyone makes mistakes, no one knows everything, and we are entitled to different opinions.

            But willful stupidity is a different matter…

            W&N

          23. “..since this is not possible (primary respose)…”

            Any substance to this DENIAL? What prevents the immune system, according to you, from responding to trace antigens in vaccines?

          24. 1. Yes, but it would require you to have the tiniest clue what you were talking about.

            2. You have complete failed to understand my comment, the data, or the basic science.

            Would have helped if you understood what “primary response”
            meant…

            W&N

          25. So science isn’t really your strength….too bad you didn’t follow my advice and read more about ASIA.

            In summary: basically any symptom…or lack of symptom can occur at any time interval…every person on planet fits the criteria for having ASIA.

            Can’t get more junk science than ASIA….

            W&N

          26. “…every person on planet fits the criteria for having ASIA”

            No, just every person receiving an injection with immunostimulating adjuvants.

            Since vaccination is universal, in practice that means almost everyone. Future generations will be horrified by this act of collective stupidity.

            “…any symptom…or lack of symptom can occur at any time interval”

            It reminds me of treating the healthy (vaccines) and then declaring it a medical success.. LOL

          27. I can tell you why you choose not to take my suggestion and read more about ASIA….because your POV requires you to make obviously incorrect assertions like your comment
            above.

            All one has to do is to read the words…

            W&N

          28. Already posted….and detailed for years…when you say counterargument not found you literally mean you refuse to read the words…

            W&N

          29. “…Already posted….and detailed for years…”

            Argument not found!

            You whining for years? Truth! LOL

          30. That is to say, your POV is so absurd you have to make the conscious choice not to read the words and see the facts…

            W&N

          31. Words = for free.

            Facts = false placebos, surrogate efficacy endpoints, restrictions in case definitions, widespread manipulation of conclusions, unjustified notoriety of industry studies …. I’m choking on a rotten cocktail of bad science.

            I know, you need a solid scientific background to understand all of the above, but you just don’t have it.

          32. Fact: a week ago I posted the key links: you choose not to read them. This is willful ignorance.

            Fact: you clearly have no understanding
            of clinical trials, placebos or their function.

            Here is a helpful summary, there are lots other on-line:
            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/drugs/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidances/ucm073139.pdf

            Opinion: you won’t actual bother to learn, because then you would know how absurd your criticisms (“false placebos”)
            etc, are.

            Thanks again for playing,

            W&N

          33. I am happy here.

            You are simply proving that your POV is so absurd, you have to make a conscious choice to remain ignorant.

            W&N

          34. Additonally, please provide.

            Strength
            Consistency
            Specificity
            Temporality (you’ve got this one with after)
            Biological Gradient
            Plausibility
            Coherence
            Experiment
            Analogy

          35. “…Now pick a few other publications on ASIA and keep adding to your list.”

            Repeat after me: ASIA does not exist!

            From Jan 2016


            Adjuvanted influenza-H1N1 vaccination
            reveals lymphoid signatures of age-dependent early responses and of
            clinical adverse events

            Nature Immunology (2016).

            Prevaccine transitional B cell frequencies and increased autoantibodies correlate with post-vaccination adverse events

            ……in sum, there was within the healthy HIRD cohort a subpopulation with increased frequencies of transitional B cells, one-quarter of whom unknowingly harbored autoantibodies of potential clinical significance, and this subpopulation was more prone to developing adverse events in response to adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine.”

          36. No surprise, a paper that you didn’t understand that doesn’t even support your POV.

            Here is a way to directly contact the corresponding author:

            https://www.nature.com/ni/foxtrot/svc/authoremailform?doi=10.1038/ni.3328&file=/ni/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ni.3328.html&title=Adjuvanted+influenza-H1N1+vaccination+reveals+lymphoid+signatures+of+age-dependent+early+responses+and+of+clinical+adverse+events&author=Adrian+C+Hayday

            Adrian might take pity on you and explain the experiments.

            W&N

          37. Vacuous post No. 102392…34

            False! my d_k is bigger than yours (such is your level of debate).

          38. Fact: trace quantities of unknown antigens in vaccines cause random antibodies.
            Fact: random antibodies from vaccines can result in the host’s own tissues being targeted by the immune system.
            Fact: vaccines are russian autoimmunity roulettes.

          39. Fact: your comments are absurd and based on your
            complete failure to understand the most basic facts.

            W&N

          40. Correction: you are wrong because you are void of facts and understanding…which is why you keep posting such incredibly stupid comments.

            W&N

    2. One can only spend so many years demonstrating how the anti-vaccs lie about ASIA until one concludes that everyone that is honest understands…

      W&N

      1. “..everyone that is honest understands”

        So your proposition is that the immune system is informed about the intended “training target” in the vaccine (the and will ignore the dozens of spurious targets in the dirty mix.

        1. No, what I exactly said is that any honest person would
          understand that ASIA is complete BS.

          But tell the truth, you didn’t even try and look….did you?

          W&N

          1. “…any honest person would understand that ASIA is complete BS”

            But I though ASIA was the effect of antibodies induced by vaccines.

            Perhaps vaccines no longer induce antibodies… would you care to enlighten me?

          2. “But I though ASIA was the effect of antibodies induced by vaccines.

            Perhaps vaccines no longer induce antibodies… would you care to enlighten me?”

            The problem is in premise #1 – you have cited one study. You need at least two to be showing causation. Replication matters. I suggest you take a look at Hill’s criteria for causation.

            Premise #2 – duh, that is what they are for. Again, note the existence of non sero-converters.

            Also, this was published in a predatory journal – that means no peer review. With all your research, you know why peer review is so important.

          3. “…You need at least two to be showing causation”

            A requirement pulled out of your behind.

            “…Replication matters”

            Then please, volunteer as a proof subject. Ethics matter more, that’s the argument your side uses to explain the lack of vaccine trials against placebo.

            “… duh, that is what they are for”

            And they’re doing an excellent job at that job, both for the intended an the unintended antigens (the majority) in the vaccines.

            “…that means no peer review”

            Intelligent people need no peer review to spot the B.S. … even the peer reviewed B.S. (that you buy at face value due to you poor math and epidemiology background).

          4. “…It’s Hill’s criteria.”

            Alrighty then you will LOVE this:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22099159

            2011 – Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?

            University of British Columbia

            “….The application of the Hill’s criteria to these data indicates that the correlation between Aluminium in vaccines and Autism spectrum disorders may be causal. Because children represent a fraction of the population most at risk for complications following exposure to Al, a more rigorous evaluation of Al adjuvant safety seems warranted….”

            Hill’s criteria is now UP YOURS!

          5. “…that means no peer review”

            Want peer review? The industry knows what to do with peer review:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614424

            Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jul 7

            Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults.

            An earlier systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studiespublished up to 2007 found industry funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size.

            Now peer review is UP YOURS too.

        2. Yes, the vast majority of the time, an immune system does know the difference between a pathogen and an otherwise innocuous substance.

          Duh.

          1. I suppose I would purify it from genetically altered snakes raised on a proprietary GMO-free diet. I’d trumpet fantastic, but wholly fabricated claims about its virtues and cancer-curing properties, and then idiots like you would buy it from me.

            Then, maybe I could buy a few Mercola mansions.

          1. Mercola is the quack to whom all other quacks aspire. He is the pinnacle of fraud, and a greedy, money-grubbing prlck. Why this doesn’t bother you when it refers to him, but drives you nuts when it refers to the CEO of Merck is hypocritical, at best.

          2. But he presents himself as a doctor. He’s deplorable.
            There are lots of successful businessmen, like all the hedge fund managers who crashed the housing market. Do you think they should be commended or imprisoned?

          3. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/9-reasons-to-completely-ignore-joseph-mercola-and-natural-news/

            http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mercola.html

            And a little run-in or three with the FDA:

            In 2005, the FDA ordered Mercola and his Optimal Wellness Center to stop making illegal claims for products sold through his Web site [20]. The claims to which the FDA objected involved three products:

            Living Fuel Rx, claimed to offer an “exceptional countermeasure” against cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, etc.

            Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil, claimed to reduce the risk of heart disease and has beneficial effects against Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and many infectious agents

            Chlorella, claimed to fight cancer and normalize blood pressure.

            In 2006, the FDA sent Mercola and his center a second warning that was based on product labels collected during an inspection at his facility and on claims made on the Optimum Wellness Center Web site [21]. This time the claims to which the FDA objected involve four products:

            Vibrant Health Research Chlorella XP, claimed to “help to virtually eliminate your risk of developing cancer in the future.”

            Fresh Shores Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, claimed to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and degenerative diseases.

            Momentum Health Products Vitamin K2, possibly useful in treating certain kinds of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

            Momentum Health Products Cardio Essentials Nattokinase NSK-SD, claimed to be “a much safer and effective option than aspirin and other pharmaceutical agents to treating heart disease.”

            The warning letters explained that the use of such claims in the marketing of these products violates the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, which bans unapproved claims for products that are intended for curing, mitigating, treating, or preventing of diseases. (Intended use can be established through product labels, catalogs, brochures, tapes, Web sites, or other circumstances surrounding the distribution of the product.)

            In 2011, the FDA ordered Mercola to stop making claims for thermography that go beyond what the equipment he uses (Medtherm2000 infrared camera) was cleared for. The warning letter said that statements on Mercola’s site improperly imply that the Meditherm camera can be used alone to diagnose or screen for various diseases or conditions associated with the breast, they also represent that the sensitivity of the Meditherm Med2000 Telethermographic camera is greater than that of machines used in mammography. The statements to which the FDA objected included:

            “Revolutionary and Safe Diagnostic Tool Detects Hidden Inflammation: Thermography”

            “The Newest Safe Cancer Screening Tool”

            “[b]ecause measuring inflammation through thermal imaging is a proactive, preventative method you can use for detecting disease, which significantly improves your chances for longevity and good health.”

            Additionally, thermograms provide: “Reliable and accurate information for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis…”

            “Yes, it’s true. Thermograms provide you with early diagnosis and treatment assistance in such problems as cancer, inflammatory processes, neurological and vascular dysfunction, and musculoskeletal injury.”

            Thermography can benefit patients by detecting conditions including: Arthritis: “[d]ifferentiate between osteoarthritis and more severe forms like rheumatoid.” Immune Dysfunction, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue, “Digestive Disorders: Irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, and Crohn’s disease…” and “Other Conditions: including bursitis, herniated discs, ligament or muscle tear, lupus, nerve problems, whiplash, stroke screening, cancer and many, many others.” [22]

            In 2011, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mercola had not complied with the FDA’s order and intended to “fight the FDA . . . if they decide to take it further.” [23] However, in 2012, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation asked Mercola to attend an informal conference to discuss a complaint that he was “making deceptive claims promoting thermography as a standalone diagnostic tool for detecting cancer and other diseases and is attacking the use of mammograms.” Mercola’s Web site still promotes thermography and trashes mammography, but the site stopped offering thermography appointments later that year—and Mercola’s special report, “The Safe Breast Cancer Screening Test Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About,” is no longer apparent.

          4. Adad’s logic: Mercola, succesful businessman = good.

            Also adad’s logic = Pharma companies being succesfull proves them evil.

            Okaaaaaaaaay then.

          5. Pharmafia companies. But lets not bring up lawsuits, class action litigation, out of court settlements or vioxx.

          6. Well, of course you wouldn’t want to bring up any of those. It would put the lie to the claim that pharma companies are immune from liability.

          7. Again with the lie defense? Out of court settlements take care of the serious cases, you know where fines and compensation amounts to a fraction of profits. Vioxx is one of the most successful drugs ever based on profit. On to the next lawsuit….

          8. Grabbing a brain doesn’t mean believing any in any random conspiracy claptrap whackadoodle nonsense.

          9. The comparison has to do with making money. You antivaxers claim vaccines are all about profit and natural health advocates are not. That is complete BS. Mercola is a millionaire and every single natural health website run by a “guru” has a store and is making it’s owner PROFIT.

          10. Maybe you need to take a break from antivax anti-autism advocacy and find a hobby that is more entertaining to you?

        1. Mercola is probably responsible for a lot of infant deaths through parents using his crap instead of taking their kids to real health care providers; also by convincing them not to vaccinate.

          1. At minimum, he is responsible for a lot of suffering when children are forced to endure whooping cough, flu, or chicken pox because of his advice.

          2. And then, there’s good ol’ Dr. Bob Sears (also mentioned in this comment’s section/discussion here)..

            Just The Vax | “2008: Measles in Dr. Bob Sears’ Waiting Room”

            “Just the Vax reported earlier that the index case (the intentionally unvaccinated boy travelling from Switzerland) was Dr. Bob Sears’ patient. But there is now more. That boy, the index case, infected four other children in the waiting room of his paediatrician’s office. The office of Dr. Bob Sears. I suspected this was the case and it was confirmed when Dr. Bob appeared on the Dr. Oz Show, “What Causes Autism” with Dr. Ari Brown who stated:

            “…And as an example, there was a 2008 measles outbreak in San Diego where an unvaccinated child developed measles, was in the doctor’s waiting room where other unvaccinated children then got measles. In fact one of those children was too young to be vaccinated and contracted measles andended up in the hospital. And I think those were actually Dr. Bob’s patients.”

            … …

            In fact.. it was one of your comments on a Skeptical Raptor discussion that I recalled, Kathy, that lead me to the source of Just The Vax.

            Tip of the hat, and credit where credit is due. 🙂

          1. Pharmaceutical industry gets high on fat profits

            BBC News 6 November 2014

            Last year, US giant Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company by pharmaceutical revenue, made an eye-watering 42% profit margin. As one industry veteran understandably says: “I wouldn’t be able to justify [those kinds of margins].”

            Last year, five pharmaceutical companies made a profit margin of 20% or more – Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, AbbVie, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Eli Lilly.

          2. Seems to me that Pfizer must be doing pretty well in the “Vaccine business” in order to generate a 42% profit margin.
            Pfizer, the largest U.S. drugmaker, which raised its full-year earnings forecast, said revenue from its global vaccines unit rose 44 percent to $1.58 billion. (Reuters Business News, July 28, 2015)

            Pfizer talks up ‘comprehensive’ vaccines business
            Fierce Vaccines, July 2015

            Though it can boast its ownership of the WORLD’S BEST-SELLING VACCINE in PREVNAR.

            PFIZER IS NOT STOPPING THERE.. On Tuesday, the New York City-based pharma unveiled details of its effort to BUILD OUT ITS VACCINES BUSINESS by researching a range of conditions from birth until old age.

            The superstar pneumococcal disease blocker Prevnar, raked in $4.29 billion in 2014 sales and is anticipated to grow to $5.83 billion in sales by 2020.

            PFIZER picked up two meningitis vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline for $130 million to market outside the U.S., building on two prior purchases in the previous 12 months.

            Last July, PFIZER announced the $635 million purchase of Baxter’s marketed vaccines portfolio, and in January followed up with the purchase of Switzerland’s RedVax for an undisclosed sum.

            Internal development candidates include a Staphylococcus aureus vaccine that recently entered a Phase IIb trial for elective surgical site infection and a Phase II Clostridium difficile jab.

            The vaccine market has long been dominated by the Big 3–Sanofi , Merck and GlaxoSmithKline –with Pfizer and Novartis trailing the trio on the list of revenue-generators.

    1. Hey trollface, Mercola is allowed to rip off as many people as he likes. he is an honest man because he is against the evils of vaccines. Good for him if he persuades others not to vaccinate. I don’t care if people have to die as long as he can make money.

    1. lmFao @ vax troof!
      Great headline from that shlthole site:

      Fact: Vaccinations are Killing Our Kids. lolololol!

      Hilarious that people are stupid enough to believe this crap.

        1. You’re too young to know what fluff is! And we’re to put our concerns of life and death parenting issues in YOUR hands!

          1. Suz doesn’t link! So you’re again terribly confused. I provided a link above, as a rarity, merely to make a point regarding your immature and hoggish top posts, grasshopper!

      1. Kinda’ like how we feel about the purgatorial sites linked by yall.

        And it sure is a pertinent headline grabber!

        Tell your ‘puppeting’ dogs to lay off their frivolous top posting!

          1. Ask you media manipulating friends, alleged pastarpharian!

            I also know what anthropomorphism is, pastadud!

      2. “…Vaccinations are Killing Our Kids”

        Sometimes, but mostly causing them life-long autoimmune diseases.

        The CDC claims they “don’t know” what’s causing the rise in autoimmune disease… I tell them: grow the b_lls to look at the massive (auto)immune interventions called vaccination, f-wits! Any rational being can figure out it’s the first place to look.

          1. They look, they name it ASIA and you deny.

            Consider applying for the Egyptian nationality, since you walk sideways along The Nile.

          2. Names are irrelevant, it’s the phenomena they refer to what counts.

            Your idea that the random antigens present in all vaccines are somehow “magically” ignored by our immune system is plain woo.

          3. Aren’t the random, uncontrolled antigens found in all vaccines enough proof?

            Is the citation from Dr. Off-it regarding their unexpected effects not enough proof for you?

          4. Your little selection of it isn’t, no.

            I have this strange feeling that if I go look at the actual primary documents, they won’t say what you think they say.

          5. eminent scientists like Simon Murch and Professor John walker-smith, both exonerated, so they must be part of your club.

          6. Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity.[1]

            Consensus is normally achieved through communication at conferences, the publication process, replication (reproducible results by others), and peer review. These lead to a situation in which those within the discipline can often recognize such a consensus where it exists, but communicating to outsiders that consensus has been reached can be difficult, because the ‘normal’ debates through which science progresses may seem to outsiders as contestation.[2] On occasion, scientific institutes issue position statements intended to communicate a summary of the science from the “inside” to the “outside” of the scientific community. In cases where there is little controversy regarding the subject under study, establishing what the consensus is can be quite straightforward.

            Scientific consensus may be invoked in popular or political debate on subjects that are controversial within the public sphere but which may not be controversial within the scientific community, such as evolution[3][4] or the claimed linkage of MMR vaccinations and autism.[2]

          7. You’ve misinterpreted consensus and confused it with professional coercion and dogma. Ask Wakefield how that works.

          8. That’s your problem, lazy and can’t follow a line of reason. If you could you’d be at my level by now.

          9. “..Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study.”

            Appealing to consensus is not a scientific argument, but then again medicine is not science, so you might have a point.

          10. As I’ve pointed out to Pastrami and others CONCENSUS means lets have KFC tonight. All in favor?…unanimous must be science then.

          11. No, that is what consensus means.

            Scientific consensus is not the same thing as democratic consensus.

          12. “I wish they’d go test the theory of gravity out.”

            Gravity is a scam perpetuated by the Gates foundation and the illuminati, if it wasn’t for the constant chemtrail spraying we could all fly. I got this info from Facebook so it has to be true.

          13. Dang! That was a great one from the suz archives! That was to acunamata… [like on the lion king -my nickname for him]!

            Thanks for this fun! Those dudes/ettes had a great sense of humor!

            And as usual, the crowd loved me! 😉

            See what you’d be able to do if you had a modicum of wit, parrot Pro!

          14. Nope.. incorrect.

            You’re thinking of Alternet where you were banned twice, scuz.

            That comment/post of yours quoted above is from a WOTV4women discussion.

            No wit.. serious response from you to Tids 1960.

            This comment of theirs in particular..

            Have you guessed who they are yet ?
            I was told sometime back the CIA took over the propaganda for the United States…
            Of course it’s the CIA who has gone rogue a long time ago…
            But they’ll slip up… and I’ll catch it…”

            … …

            Yep.. still trollalota non grata.

          15. Serious! Bwa haha! I laughed the entire time I was writing it. And giggled again reading it just now, feeling the giddy delight I had blowing away a bunch of stuffy internet blowhards!

            You’re full of crap! But I’m not going to go digging through my thousands of posts to find it.

            There was some cat avatar, and acumen tata, [for intellect and s/he was, but it was easier for me to write akunamentata]!

            And they always ended up talking of food and recipes and gross stuff like haggis! And there was this witty opponent, ans we had some fun exchanging barbs, and I would recall his name if I saw it. I think he was ems!

            And NO, it wasn’t thinking of the alternet! Why don’t you just put the link up to site since you have it.

            So all wit for me 😉 & witless for the parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 🙁

          16. Why should you be concerned with what I feed the animals in my care?

            I lost a lot of non releasable wildlife this past year, mostly due to old age since they’d been with me for 7-8 years.

            Not a topic I will joke about! Just so ya know, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

          17. BOOSTRIX dTpa vaccine

            Bordetella pertussis antigens

            – Pertussis toxoid: 8 micrograms
            – Filamentous Haemagglutinin: 8 micrograms
            – Pertactin: 2.5 micrograms

            Homeopathy!

            Additionally, there is 4,100mg of NaCl in the vaccine = saline placebo … makes you feel protected and invulnerable to disease! LOL. It’s real cheap.

          18. You are an idiot. You don’t know what homeopathy is
            .
            One microgram is one billion, billion, billion, billion, times more material than a homeopathic concentration.
            .
            I don’t think it is possible for you to expose your stupidity more than you do.

          19. “..One microgram is one billion, billion, billion, billion, times more material than a homeopathic concentration.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1839288

            Mercury poisoning caused by a homeopathic drug.

            We report an infant with diaper dermatitis and mild respiratory and enteral infections, treated with a homeopathic mercurial medicine: Mercurius 6a (cinnabar dilute 1 x 10(6)),…

            Amount of mercury in a vaccine: 25 micrograms…..but don’ t worry, if it’s in a vaccine then it’s perfectly safe, even good for you.

          20. Changing the subject does not change the fact that you are an idiot that thinks vaccines are homeopathic. You are just stupid.

            Laws in 2004 and 2006 outlawed all but trace amounts of mercury in all California vaccines. Let’s look at the results:

            1970s = children received 25 mcg of thimerosal= Low autism

            2015 = children received only traces of thimerosal = High autism.

            Tell me, how is it that 25X+ more thimerosal in in the 1970s means low autism but “trace amounts” in 2015 means high autism? We are all ready to hear this explanation.

          21. Certainly, Alumimium in SLICATE form is overabundant an biologically inert.

            Unfortunately the latter is not applicable to the aluminium salts added to vaccines, which induce NONSPECIFIC ANTIBODIES (random antibodies – autoimmunity roulette) and neurological degeneration.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.cnih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782734/

            HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT FOR ALUMINIUM, ALUMINIUM OXIDE, AND ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE

            It is likely that aluminium adjuvants induce immune activation which includes interleukin (IL) -1 production by monocytes, induction of eosinophilia, compliment activation and increased specific and non-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) G1 and IgE antibody responses .

            Increased oral aluminium absorption has been suggested in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down’s subjects.

            Serum aluminium > 30 μg/L in dialysis patients has been associated with osteomalacia and related disorders and > 80 μg/L associated with encephalopathy.

          22. You got to discuss with you co-shill whether mercury in vaccines is homeopathic or an active ingredient, for your slogan contradicts his.

          23. Thimerosal is a mercury compound. The distinction is crucial – kinda like the distinction between chlorine gas and table salt is important or kind of like the difference between methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol is very important.

            Again, evidence of payment please.

          24. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1fcae236138ac048bd1b4569b8911a156a056ce5947e866a4d9fcbe6226bbb22.jpg Not even in most vaccine anyway. And note, it says vaccines – it is perfectly possible for many many many series to add up to a total that is toxic even if one patient’s series is not.

            And thimersoal is t https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ec8945d02b62e2df852c8a20fc12e13deb83de7e5fa2f88c29b1d6fa3b9b82c2.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0fe3d82a1bcd7ba29de8ea92138d310da1812872188488352ea3c4107be053f3.jpg are scared and avoid a couple of brands.

          25. Your infantile slogans against the actual data + number crunching… all is fine!

            https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/114/3/577

            Thimerosal Exposure in Infants and Developmental Disorders: A Prospective Cohort Study in the United Kingdom Does Not Support a Causal Association

            “Current guidelines on safe exposure to thimerosal have been extrapolated from data on methylmercury and are varied, from 0.1 µg/kg/day of the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States to 0.47 µg/kg/day of the World Health Organization. Before the change to thimerosal-free vaccines, US children could have been exposed to levels as high as 187.5 µg by the time they were 6 months of age, exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency guidelines. In the United Kingdom, the only vaccines that contain thimerosal and have been routinely used in the past 2 decades are whole-cell diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (wDTP) vaccine or diphtheria-tetanus (DT) vaccine and any combination vaccine containing wDTP or DT. Although the United Kingdom exposure is lower by 6 months, the accelerated United Kingdom primary immunization schedule of 2/3/4 months means that a maximum exposure of 75 µg may be received by 4 months of age. “

            So contrary to what the authors claim, these were not “low doses” of Thimerosal at all.

            Using US CDC growth charts [1,2] I have calculated by how many times approximately UK vaccination practice exceeded the US Environmental Protection Agency’s reference dose (RfD) for mercury:

            “Currently, US EPA uses an RfD of 0.1 micrograms/kg bodyweight/day as an exposure without recognised effects” [3].

            Each shot of DPT given at 2,3 and 4 months we are told contained approximately 25 micrograms of mercury, which is 250 times 0.1 microgram. In order to calculate the excess dose you need to divide 250 by the weight of the infant in kilograms. These are the results:

            2 months: weight range 3.8-6.4kg: excess dose 40-66 times EPA RfD for mercury

            3 months: weight range 4.5-7.4kg: excess dose 35-56 times EPA RfD for mercury

            4 months: weight range 5.2-8.3kg: excess dose 30-48 times EPA RfD for mercury

            It is impossible to imagine someone DELIBERATELY OVERDOSING on a medical product – except to harm themselves – at this level, but this is not a therapeutic substance but a deadly neuro-toxin.

            [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/growthcharts/set1clinical/cj41l018.pdf

            [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/growthcharts/set1clinical/cj41l017.pdf

            [3] https://www.epa.gov/mercury/exposure.htm

          26. “…Consensus is not the same thing as scientific consensus.”

            Scientific consensus, just like consensus, changes over time therefore it’s one and the same thing.

          27. Evidence is lacking when it comes to the efficacy and safety of vaccines, therefore any so-called “scientific consensus” (which doesn’t exist on vaccines, only controversy) is mere political/peer pressure.

          28. Funny, all my citations came from the left side of your pamphlet, you disagree therefore you belong to the right side.

          29. “…And there is testing against placebos”

            When it comes to vaccine trials, placebos are not such.

            That’s why Cochrane concluded this:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614424

            Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jul 7

            Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults.

            “widespread manipulation of CONCLUSIONS and spurious notoriety of the studies.”

            Cochrane ==> left side of your pamphlet, therefore you ==> woo.

          30. Hey Pastrami, give it a rest with your logic and rationality will you.
            We are only here for the beer and the KFC, as agreed by concensus.
            None of us antivaxers want to hear facts. We are hungry.

          31. I posted that link more or less sarcastically in response to the continued display of a lack of understanding for what the term “scientific consensus” means. I doubt any of my intended demographic will even read it.

            I enjoy your highly informative posts on food safety, as well as your exhibition of super-human patience in your responses. I’ve learned a lot from reading them. Thank you.

          32. Thanks, Pasta.

            While my instinct when reading a comment that appears to be BS is to be confrontational, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt that they are sincere, and ask them to explain their reasoning or evidence. Personally, I’m fascinated by how people arrive at their opinions.

            Occasionally I learn something new using this approach—but in most cases, gfy would have been more appropriate.

            In any case the value of threads like this may be as much for the people reading them as for those participating.

          33. I used to be much better at patiently trying to address people’s confrontational questions and paid shill accusations. Sadly, when you seem the same people presenting the same exact flawed arguments, it wears on you. As a result, more and more of my responses have become confrontational, and usually end with a heartfelt gfy. I do try to occasionally write a little footnote to the lurkers when I have the patience, but am slowly failing at the patience part of the equation.

            Again, thanks for your well balanced and informative posts. I hope your approach lasts longer than mine did.

          34. I was open and honest about it. Silence from AutismDadddd. Why are you anti-vaxxers so dishonest?

          35. Eminent scientists like Paul Thorsen, embezzler of funds destined to “disprove” the vaccine-autism link and landed who landed on the most-wanted list of the Department of Health and Human Services.

            Rogue scientist getting paid rogue money for fabricating producing rogue results on demand.

        1. Thank you for your gracious clarification, Autismo! I would have clarified it myself, but was too excited and in such a hurry to ‘top post’ my comment! 😉

        2. Vaccinations ARE killing our kids. 50% of them die from vaccine-induced dementia before the age of 20, but these provax idiots just relabel the deaths as something else, like traffic accidents.

    1. She hasn’t noticed that disqgust lets reader sort by latest, oldest and best. I wonder if that’s cia’s issue with “disappearing posts” and “clicking things back in from the profiles.” too. SMH.

      Should anyone take them seriously, much less turn to them for medical opinions?

  87. Hey! I want in on this top posting fluff!

    https://vactruth.com/2012/08/1

    Stand up for yourselves NOW Colorado or weep for your babies later!

    Here! I’ll give you an example, Pasta! It goes like this! See above!

    And suz learned this ‘all by herself’ just by watching yall! Because the foreground of science is observation! 😉

          1. Good! I hope you can contain the little doggies and leave the top comment for new commentary/tators instead of media manipulated showboating! 😉

      1. That was only to see if you were paying attention and/or because I copied from the initial comment in which the link doeswork!

        I’ll fix later if I have time and think of it! 😉

    1. This what we observed about you, Troll

      Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

      RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
      AlterNet …………………… banned
      Raw Story ……………….. banned
      Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
      Washington Times ……. banned
      A shot of prevention ….. banned
      LAist………………………… banned
      Patch………………………. banned
      Breitbart…………………… banned
      The Hill………………………Banned

      She is king troll.

      1. Try Queen fool. And we are proud of Suz and her dedication to saving babies from vaccine injury. What about skeptical craptor?

    2. Yes, Colorado! Let’s stand up for our babies, against these barbarians who want to take us back to the Stone Age, medically.

          1. And I don’t know Sam Hill, so I guess we’re even.

            But I DO know that vax injure and kill far more children than the vpd’s they supposedly prevent, Katia! 😉

          2. Why no, little bug! They are NOT!

            It’s evidence generated from de facto, bona fide, orthodox and dang skippy scientific procedures and methodology, grasshopper! 😉

          3. Suz, what would it take to convince you that someone here wasn’t being paid? Please be specific so that there can be no misunderstanding as to what would constitute sufficient evidence after the fact

            Thank you.

          4. Take it up with a poster who frequently ‘infers’, ‘implies’, asserts, alleges, contends, argues and professes that ‘someone THERE is being paid!’

            YOU be specific, grasshopper, because again you’re terribly confused and you’re barkin’ up the wrong tree there, little bug!

            I don’t care if yall get paid or NOT! Corrupt is corrupt and many of you forced vaxers either engage in charades of diminished capacity, are acutely myopic minded, or are corrupt; paid or not!

            You’re welcome, grasshopper! 😉

          5. I can, but I won’t!

            My suz ‘original’ is much more rhythmical, Katia!

            ‘Anyone calling someone who’s NOT a liar, a liar, is a liar’! 😉

      1. So you understand whatever you read… oh wait, you DON’T little bug!

        Ione owes YOU nothing, grasshopper!

          1. Of course, she can survive without proving things to me – Don’t be absurd.

            If she knows she is right, she has evidence and will have no problem providing it.

          2. She has no NEED to waste her time providing evidence to the unsophisticated, unenlightened and especially the myopic minded like you, grasshopper!

            Anyway, haven’t you learned anything yet! Re-read Autismos comments regarding ‘evidence,’ darlin’! 😉

    1. Ione has stopped trying to present rational arguments and now just posts emotional nonsense.and lies.

      The infant morality rate is at it’s lowest point in history. We have never accepted death in infancy and it has been greatly reduced with a numbers on innovations, including vaccines. Your post is a 100% lie.

      RAGE Against The Tin Foil Hatters……….

      1. The US ranks 28th in infant mortality. 28th. In 2010 after the AMA recommended flu vaccines for pregnant mothers, VAERS reported a 4000% increase in infant mortality. 4000% increase. You clearly have your facts mixed with another country; like Haiti.

        1. It’s so cute when anti-vaxxers try to take unrelated data and use it for a false point.
          .
          The IMR for the US is now at its lowest point in all history. Most of the 28 countries with lower IMR have higher vaccination rates than the U.S. There is no relationship between vaccines and IMR.
          .
          113 countries have hgher vaccination rates than the U.S.
          .
          VAERS REPORTS ZERO POPULATION DATA. That is a lie.
          In fact, the VAERS database states this very clearly:
          “VAERS data should be used with caution as numbers and conditions do not reflect data collected during follow-up. Note that the inclusion of events in VAERS data does not imply causality.”
          .
          STOP LYING.

    1. What slime-balls! I’ll bet some of our “buds” here have posted some of this sh*t! But, oh, they care about kids!

          1. ??? Must be some new code!

            I thought you were from Pittsburgh!

            Georgia peaches and Carolina on my mind! 😉

          1. If I loved vulgar trash as you seem to do, I might have noticed that I was censored and estranged, after leaving the same way I entered; the BACK door!

            Not a place I’d willingly walk into after learning the sites poop du jour! 🙂

    2. His kid was not vaccinated according to schedule, it is called a PR stunt. I believe this facebook guys BS like I believe Wakefield was a fraud and thousands of parents made up a vaccine injury story because they were bored. Slave. Who gaf about some elitist DB. This is not news it is deception. Why else post his childs private office visit? Glad I never created a facebook account.

      1. Kiko: “His kid was not vaccinated according to schedule..”

        Uh.. don’t think so.

        She’s a pediatrician.

        1. So? Pediatricians are in a good position to see vaccine damage, and MANY pediatricians either don’t vax, selectively vax, or follow a delayed schedule for their children.

          1. Like good ol’ Dr. Bob Sears?

            Just The Vax | “2008: Measles in Dr. Bob Sears’ Waiting Room”

            “Just the Vax reported earlier that the index case (the intentionally unvaccinated boy travelling from Switzerland) was Dr. Bob Sears’ patient. But there is now more. That boy, the index case, infected four other children in the waiting room of his paediatrician’s office. The office of Dr. Bob Sears. I suspected this was the case and it was confirmed when Dr. Bob appeared on the Dr. Oz Show, “What Causes Autism” with Dr. Ari Brown who stated:

            “…And as an example, there was a 2008 measles outbreak in San Diego where an unvaccinated child developed measles, was in the doctor’s waiting room where other unvaccinated children then got measles. In fact one of those children was too young to be vaccinated and contracted measles andended up in the hospital. And I think those were actually Dr. Bob’s patients.”

          2. So what’s your point? His patients who got measles, like most of all healthy, well-nourished children, all recovered just fine, with all the benefits of having had natural measles. What’s the problem?

          3. ciaparker2: “So what’s your point? What’s the problem?”

            In fact one of those children was too young to be vaccinated and contracted measles and ended up in the hospital.”

          4. These days it’s reflexive to hospitalize those with measles, just because of the indoctrination, and even though there’s nothing they can do to treat it in the absence of a rare bacterial infection. Especially for a baby younger than one year old. Back in 1960, Dr. Langmuir gave a chart showing that in babies under a year old, there might be as many as four deaths per 10,000 cases. But it wasn’t common in the first year, because 99% of mothers had had natural measles themselves and were able to protect their babies in the first year with placental immunity and breast feeding.
            And if the baby you mention had had a severe, disabling, or fatal case, I’m sure you would have mentioned it. So he had measles and then emerged like all the others with permanent immunity and all the other benefits of natural measles. Mike Stevens and Andrew Lazarus also got measles as babies,

          5. No Cia, “these days” doctors do everything possible to avoid admitting people to hospital, particularly kids.
            When I was a student, we often had kids hospitalised for the trivialest of reasons, and the inability of parents to care for sick kids was one reason. Fortunately now there is a system of support, education and much better options for symptom relief that enables us to avoid admitting kids.

            I don’t care what “Dr Langmuir” said about measles in 1960 (55 years ago). Just look at what happens today, in countries that have poor vax records, and see the impact of clinical measles.
            Or if you prefer, look at the USA in 1989 during the measles outbreaks they had then.
            https://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S4.long

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/14ecd3c4841d2cf27a09c13dd6d283f1c6e8287002a0e4493cca2b0a77629795.jpg

          6. In the 1960s, there was really no way to avoid measles, there was also more paternalism. Compared to Diptheria, of course you would tell parents that a then-unpreventable disease was a mild childhood illness.

          7. “…Just look at what happens today, in countries that have poor vax records..

            What happens is simply that, in those coutries, the term “measles” refers to a clinical presentation, not to a virological confirmed diagnosis.

            What’s being called “measles” in those countries would be “suspected cases” in the West. After lab tests, 99% of it would be discarded as “non mealsles” as if the disased didn’t exist.

            Let’s look at the Mexican case:

            2014: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            Had the clinical-only criteria been applied to Mexico, we’d be talking about “…Just look at what happens today in Mexico!... Instead, lab confirmation has the effect of sweeping the Mexican epidemic of “rash diseases” under the carpet as if those 4,510 diseased kids were a non-issue. We only care about rash diseases it we can stick the “measles” tag to it and sell vaaccines.

          8. One ended up in hospital with measles complications, Cia, that’s what his point was, you callous idiot.

          9. None that I know, and I’m certain I know more than you. The peds I worked with got all their kids ‘IZs on time, including HPV for girls and boys.

        2. Pediatricians do not shoot up their own kids on time just like politicians do not. Because they know the truth.

      1. From Ione’s very own screenshot:

        “SV-40 virus has been found in certain types of cancer but it has not determined that SV-40 causes cancer.”

        “The majority of scientific evidence suggests that SV-40 contaminated vaccine did not cause cancer.”

        “All of the current evidence indicates that polio vaccines has been free of SV-40 since `1963”

        For the lurkers, Ione’s screenshot says:

        1)SV-40 has been found in certain types of cancer

        2)Evidence is against it actually causing the cancer

        3)Evidence that it is not actually in vaccines since 1963. So not causing any kids cancer then since 53 year olds are not children or really, causing any cancer at all.

  88. After reading, and responding, to many of the posts on this forum, it is now clear to me that the mandatory vaccine agenda in the state of Colorado will fail, and fail miserably. For those of you that find this information disturbing and frightening, California is not too far to the west. I am sure that Dorit Reese will be able to help you with the move. There are just too many smart people in Colorado who make too many good points for your agenda to take hold.

    1. Brian, I think the shills are taking down some of your comments, including the videos you’ve posted. I clicked this one back in from your Disqus profile, it had been taken down. They do that with a LOT of our comments.

        1. So you try. I just clicked Vaccine injury of Saba back in. At this time it’s right below Modemac’s comment a few above this. Now wait and see if it stays there. If it’s not there when you read this, click on Brian’s avatar and then look for it in his comments. Click on See in discussion, and it will reappear above. Same for many comments. I’ve clicked several of my better comments back in today, because they disappear from where I had posted them, while other comments remain where I had put them.

          We’ve got Brian’s Saba video above at this time (he had many more, none of which remain, I”ve clicked several back in but they then displace the prior one) and below that Ione’s Pan/Allen one. Now let’s see how long they stay there.

          1. Ima make alllllll of ciaparker2’s posts/comments go bye bye!

            (*averts eyes from monitor*)

            … …

            It’s magic!

        2. She won’t. She lies. She went through a round of this a while back, claiming we ordinary posters could delete HER comments, accused us of same.

          1. Yeah, it doesn’t work like that. Ordinary users can’t delete comments and they can’t “click back in” a deleted comment.

            Parker is such a troll.

    1. Wow! All those parents who oppose and had their unvaccinated children with them. and yet I don’t see anyone reaching for the hand sanitizer and wearing face masks. How many outbreaks did these protesters cause there by the way? NONE you say?

        1. This is a woman who, despite medical evidence, believes her children are vaccine injured. She has no claim filed with HRSA, as far as I can see. Why should we pay attention to her? She has no evidence to support her claims.

          1. Autism is not caused by vaccines. I doubt she is making up his symptoms but she is wrong to blame them on vaccines.

          2. Yeah, strange how there are so many millions of us who saw the same thing, vaccine, reaction to vaccine, autism or other permanent disability.

          3. Not millions. A few thousand, perhaps. There are people who still think the earth is flat. We cannot convince everyone to be rational.

          4. 1 + 1 does not always equal 2. Mix a cup of vinegar with
            a cup of a baking soda solution. The result will be less than 2 cups of
            liquid, as some molecules are transformed into carbon dioxide and
            released into the air as gas.

          1. You remind ME of ‘tin soldiers and nixon’s coming’ and everything else that is greed, corruption and propaganda!

    1. Sounds pretty modern day age to me; unlike what katia claims about people wanting to make those choices being in the “stone age.” It’s pretty civilized and aligns with human rights and freedom of choice. Sounds reasonable and sane.

      1. So far in the comments just here, I have heard one of the socks say if you can’t produce your fully up to date shot records, you shouldn’t be allowed in public. Another believes that the gov decision to give 12 year old children mature minor status, which should take a judge to decide, is a great idea and that it should extend to abortion also.. They have health classes with vaccine information that sounds like it comes straight from pharma salesman. And now target junior high schools nurses offices for pushing the HPV vax on children without the parents consent. Criminal behavior in my book.

        1. And one of your crowd can “live with” 400 deaths a year from measles disease. She’s so stupid, she doesn’t realize it could be HER snowflake! She also feels measles is beneficial to one’s body, something no one else said, EVER!

          You all talk about “survival of the fittest”, yet accuse others of pushing eugenics.

          You’re all a bunch of hypcrites!

          1. By Mayo Clinic Staff

            If you or your child has measles, keep in touch with your doctor as you monitor the progress of the disease and watch for complications. Also try these comfort measures:

            Take it easy. Get rest and avoid busy activities.

            Sip something. Drink plenty of water, fruit juice and herbal tea to replace fluids lost by fever and sweating.

            Seek respiratory relief. Use a humidifier to relieve cough and sore throat.

            Rest your eyes. If you or your child finds bright light bothersome, as do many people with measles, keep the lights low or wear sunglasses. Also avoid reading or watching television if light from a reading lamp or from the television is bothersome.

            Antibiotics. If a bacterial infection, such as pneumonia or an ear infection, develops while you or your child has measles, your doctor may prescribe an antibiotic.
            •Vitamin A. People with low levels of vitamin A are more likely to have a more severe case of measles. Giving vitamin A may lessen the severity of the measles. It’s generally given as a large dose of 200,000 international units (IU) for two days.”

          2. Oh, look.. on the next page; “Prevention”..

            “Vaccinate.

            Be sure that anyone who’s at risk of getting the measles who hasn’t been fully vaccinated receives the measles vaccine as soon as possible. This includes anyone born after 1957 who hasn’t been vaccinated, as well as infants older than 6 months.”

            And on the previous page; “Treatments and drugs”..

            “Post-exposure vaccination. Nonimmunized people, including infants, may be given the measles vaccination within 72 hours of exposure to the measles virus to provide protection against the disease. If measles still develops, the illness usually has milder symptoms and lasts for a shorter time.”

          3. Vaccine choice…if you would like to vaccinate yourself, please go ahead. I choose not to vaccinate. Besides, I already had measles as a kid.

          4. but, but, ‘Herd immunity’!?!? If no one cares if adults are vaccinated or not, why do they need a National Adult Vaccine Plan????

          5. I said I don’t care if YOU don’t vaccinate. The national adult vaccine plan is about helping rational American adults understand which vaccines they should get to keep themselves healthy from preventable disease. I care deeply about public health. But if you don’t want to vax, so be it.

          6. Have you had your titers checked? How many other diseases are you immune to? I am immune to chicken pox, measles, and rubella. I have had those titers done. I am up to date on all adult vaccines.

          7. Now you only have to worry about what animal viruses were in those vaccines and what they will do to you..and your kids.

            Too bad you can’t protect yourselves against EV68 and Lyme’s disease. How come they are not all over the news like the measles outbreak was?

            Severe respiratory virus impacting hundreds of kids reaches Colorado
            DENVER — A potentially severe virus that has plagued hundreds of children across a 900-mile stretch in the Midwest in recent weeks has made its way to Colorado.

            “Lyme disease is the fastest growing infectious disease in the world.

            Without reliable testing and treatment programs, thousand upon thousands of people are slipping through the cracks and developing chronic cases of Lyme, especially neurological Lyme.”

            “Lyme disease cases reach 300,000 per year in U.S., are underreported says CDC

            NEWS: Recent study suggests that Lyme disease can be sexually transmitted

            Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a type of corkscrew- shaped bacteria known as a spirochete (pronounced spiro’keet). The Lyme spirochete resembles the agent of syphilis, long recognized as the epitome of sexually transmitted diseases. Last summer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that Lyme disease is much more common than previously thought, with over 300,000 NEW CASES diagnosed EACH YEAR in the United States. That makes Lyme disease almost twice as common as breast cancer and six times more common than HIV/AIDS. “Our findings will change the way Lyme disease is viewed by doctors and patients,” said Marianne Middelveen, lead author of the study presented in Carmel. “It explains why the disease is more common than one would think if only ticks were involved in transmission.” –

          8. IFL | “There’s An Effective Vaccine For Lyme Disease – But You Can’t Get It, Thanks To Anti-Vaxxers”

            “It’s disappointing to see that an effective vaccine was withdrawn due to lawsuits and poor sales fueled by pressure from anti-vaccination groups and fear-mongering from the media, all the while the burden of Lyme disease has continued and even worsened. This highlights the need for better public education around important topics such as this, which seems to be an ongoing issue that is not going to be easy to tackle when battling against the blessing and curse that is the internet.”

            Well done.. good job.

          9. LYMErix Severe Side Effects Reported

            FDA Investigates LYMErixLYMErix is a vaccine intended to protect against Lyme Disease. The FDA has received reports of severe reactions from a number of people who have received the vaccine.

            On December 14, 1999, a class action lawsuit was filed in Chester County, Pennsylvania, claiming that LYMErix, the vaccine manufactured by SmithKline Beecham, which was developed to prevent Lyme Disease, can cause an incurable form of autoimmune arthritis and possibly produce symptoms worse than those of the illness.

            The lawsuit claims that SmithKline Beecham neglected to alert doctors and the public that about 30 percent of the population has a predisposition to a degenerative autoimmune syndrome which can be triggered by contents of the vaccine. The assertion is that SmithKline Beecham used high concentrations of OspA (Outer Surface Protein A of Borrelia burgdorferi) as the foundation of the vaccine. The amount of OspA entering the bloodstream at any phase of the three-dose LYMErix vaccine places patients who are HLA-DR4+ at risk of developing “treatment resistant Lyme arthritis.

            The lawsuit further alleges that although the connection between OspA and “treatment resistant Lyme arthritis” is well-documented, SmithKline Beecham did not include the information in promotional materials and maintained that LYMErix was safe and generally well-tolerated. HLA-DR4+ is detectable by a blood test, yet allegations suggest that SmithKline Beecham did not recommend that doctors screen for the presence of the trait prior to administering the vaccine.

            The complaint also suggests that patients already infected with the Lyme bacteria (either asymptomatic or in the early stages of infection) when they receive LYMErix could suffer symptoms more severe than had they not received the vaccine. Negligence is also mentioned in regard to lack of information about the necessity of booster shots beyond the initial three vaccination schedule to maintain immunity.

            Dr. Charlene DeMarco is a Lyme disease specialist. She wont prescribe Lymerix and worries about the long term impact as more patients take the drug.

            “By using this vaccine, we are creating a monster,” says Dr. DeMarco, “were creating auto-immune Lyme disease thats untreatable.”

            “We’re thrilled” that Lymerix is being taken off the market, said Karen Forschner of the Lyme Disease Foundation, who recently presented information to the FDA that she says suggests Lymerix safety studies were seriously flawed.

            Dr Andrea Gaito, a New Jersey rheumatologist and president of the International Lyme and Associated Disorders Society, believes the vaccines causes severs artritis and Lyme disease itself. She believes the vaccine should be withdrawn.

            A settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit filed against GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of the discontinued Lymerix Lyme disease vaccine. The suit alleged the vaccine could cause an arthritic condition in some people. According to the judge’s ruling, “This lawsuit had two primary purposes at its inception: to warn patients of the drug’s potential dangers, and to provide funds to plaintiffs for ongoing medical monitoring. The first goal is met by removal of the drug from the market.

          10. Woooo Kathy, think you need to think before you speak. Is there some crazy conspiracy about LYMErix being recalled?

          11. Back to not attributing your sources, Ione Murphy?

            … …

            “This was enough to spur investigations and safety surveillance, both of
            which failed to find any evidence for either the molecular mimicry
            hypothesis nor any spikes in arthritis diagnoses. Yet with an increasing
            number of lawsuits filed against the manufacturers and its decreasing
            support among the public, encouraged by anti-vaccination groups, the
            vaccine was pulled from shelves.”

            (Source: IFL | “There’s An Effective Vaccine For Lyme Disease – But You Can’t Get It, Thanks To Anti-Vaxxers” )

          12. You mean there is an effective but dangerous vaccine for Lyme Disease pulled because of serious side effects – but it is all the anti vaxxers fault.

          13. Prop,
            That link was…the worst…ever!
            Lymerix was taken off the market for good reason.

            https://module.lymediseaseassociation.org/Vaccine_LYMERIXMeeting.htmlDonald H. Marks, MD, PhD, former lab director for Cannaugh:
            4 of 4 neurological adverse events were related to Lymerix with presentations including transverse myelitis, inflammatory polyneuropathy, radiculopathy and cervical throacic myelopathy with multiple neurologic including CNS symptoms, and memory loss and difficulty concentrating with immune-related complex of joint pain and fatigue.
            15 of 17 rheumatologic adverse events were related, including inflammatory seronegative spondyloarthropathy, polyarthropathy, arthralgias, and arthritis.
            2 of 2 miscellaneous reports were unrelated. These included chest pain and myofacial pain.
            Based on his research, Marks told FDA officials, “SKB (Glaxo) has acted in an unreasonable manner by marketing Lymerix without adequate warnings about the risks of severe rheumatologic, neurologic, autoimmune and other adverse events, and by failing to caution and educate physicians about these dangers. In view of the evidence of a strong and likely causal relationship between Lymerix and severe rheumatologic, neurologic, autoimmune and other adverse events, SKB should market this vaccine, if at all, with prominent warnings and cautionary statement.”

            “In my opinion, SKB should have devised and conducted clinical trials, epidemiological studies, or after-the-fact investigations to study the causal relationship between severe rheumatologic, neurologic, autoimmune and other adverse events and the use of Lymerix.”

            Given that Dr. Marks lead the clinical trials for Lymerix’s competitor, the OspA vaccine produced and then abandoned by Aventis Pasteur, his conclusions mean a lot. “In my opinion,” he told FDA officials, “there is sufficient evidence that Lymerix is causally related to severe rheumatologic, neurologic, autoimmune, and other adverse events in some individuals. This evidence is such as to warrant a significantly heightened degree of warnings and possible limitations or removal from marketing of Lymerix.”

          14. The worst, Prop.

            At a hearing on Lymerix-
            “Twenty “vaccine victims” told their stories.

            The LYMErix vaccine victims could not have engineered it better if they had written the Glaxo script themselves – the panel was primed to hear their stories, 20 in all. There was Emily Biegel, who addressed the panel for her husband, John, vaccinated in April and May of 1999. “Some of you may have seen him come in with a walker,” she said. An active outdoorsman before vaccination, John has since been through four hospitalizations, atrophy, insulin dependence, compression fractures, tremors, and 25 plasmaphoresis treatments. He is positive for HLA-DR4.

            Jenny Marra, a New Jersey hospice nurse positive for HLA-DR4, said she had been living with “severe joint and muscle pain since vaccination in 1999. SmithKline did not include a warning about the potential risk for this information in the product labeling or inform the health care providers of this concern. Had I known this I personally would not have taken the vaccine.” Physicians aware of the political controversy, she added, are turning the LYMErix vaccine victims away “with statements like, ‘I don’t want to get involved.’”

            A “twilight zone” exists between patient testimony and the sponsor’s denial. Karen Burke, the mother of two toddlers from the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, said that her husband, the vigorous owner of a construction business, got his second dose of LYMErix in July of 1999. By October, he couldn’t roll over in bed. “My standing joke with him is, honey, at least when our kids are big enough to go to Disney World you’ll be well enough to sit in a wheel chair, and we’ll get to the front of the line. It’s not funny, but you have to have some fun in your life,” Burke said.

            Benjamin Luft, a panel member from the Department of Medicine University Hospital and Medical Center Health Sciences Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, described the “twilight zone” of the “disconnect” between the patient testimony and the sponsor’s denial of significant adverse events.

            Would he be tempted to try this new vaccine. “The answer,” said O’Fallon, was emphatically “No!”

            “My concern is greater than it was before,” said Patricia Ferrieri, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, a longtime panel member and the person who chaired the FDA meeting on LYMErix in 1998. “Are we going to be able to resolve these issues expeditiously, or should you put a moratorium on the vaccine until you are able to very critically examine what we have. . . . I’ve never had to say this before,” she told the FDA scientists in the room. But “in all of the years I’ve been on the committee, I’ve never heard this type of concern iterated without agency response that has satisfied the dissatisfying. . . . I consider what we’re dealing with today to be very, very serious, and I would like to throw back to you the need to reexamine how this fits into your mission and in the public health realm. There are too many ifs here for us to feel secure that the answers will be forthcoming . . . you have to examine where you are and what we owe to the public.”

            Pam Weintraub The Bitter Feud over Lymerix

          15. Nope.

            And as mentioned, your confirmation bias slip is showing, graceds.

            Clinical Infectious Diseases | “Vaccines against Lyme Disease: What Happened and What Lessons Can We Learn?”

            Fair-and-balanced.

            Using the emotional appeal of personal anecdotes might be heart-wrenching to read.. however.. is one of the main reasons that the manufacturer and others, abandoned the vaccine.

            Score one for the anti-vaxxers?

            And who lost/loses in the end, graceds?

          16. The worst, Prop.
            At a hearing on Lymerix-
            “Twenty “vaccine victims” told their stories.
            The LYMErix vaccine victims could not have engineered it better if they had written the Glaxo script themselves – the panel was primed to hear their stories, 20 in all. There was Emily Biegel, who addressed the panel for her husband, John, vaccinated in April and May of 1999. “Some of you may have seen him come in with a walker,” she said. An active outdoorsman before vaccination, John has since been through four hospitalizations, atrophy, insulin dependence, compression fractures, tremors, and 25 plasmaphoresis treatments. He is positive for HLA-DR4.
            Jenny Marra, a New Jersey hospice nurse positive for HLA-DR4, said she had been living with “severe joint and muscle pain since vaccination in 1999. SmithKline did not include a warning about the potential risk for this information in the product labeling or inform the health care providers of this concern. Had I known this I personally would not have taken the vaccine.” Physicians aware of the political controversy, she added, are turning the LYMErix vaccine victims away “with statements like, ‘I don’t want to get involved.’”
            A “twilight zone” exists between patient testimony and the sponsor’s denial. Karen Burke, the mother of two toddlers from the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, said that her husband, the vigorous owner of a construction business, got his second dose of LYMErix in July of 1999. By October, he couldn’t roll over in bed. “My standing joke with him is, honey, at least when our kids are big enough to go to Disney World you’ll be well enough to sit in a wheel chair, and we’ll get to the front of the line. It’s not funny, but you have to have some fun in your life,” Burke said.
            Benjamin Luft, a panel member from the Department of Medicine University Hospital and Medical Center Health Sciences Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, described the “twilight zone” of the “disconnect” between the patient testimony and the sponsor’s denial of significant adverse events.
            Would he be tempted to try this new vaccine. “The answer,” said O’Fallon, was emphatically “No!”
            “My concern is greater than it was before,” said Patricia Ferrieri, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, a longtime panel member and the person who chaired the FDA meeting on LYMErix in 1998. “Are we going to be able to resolve these issues expeditiously, or should you put a moratorium on the vaccine until you are able to very critically examine what we have. . . . I’ve never had to say this before,” she told the FDA scientists in the room. But “in all of the years I’ve been on the committee, I’ve never heard this type of concern iterated without agency response that has satisfied the dissatisfying. . . . I consider what we’re dealing with today to be very, very serious, and I would like to throw back to you the need to reexamine how this fits into your mission and in the public health realm. There are too many ifs here for us to feel secure that the answers will be forthcoming . . . you have to examine where you are and what we owe to the public.”
            Pam Weintraub The Bitter Feud over Lymerix

          17. Just one of a thousand stories about the corruption rampant in the pharmaceutical companies. Bayer fought the lawsuits against them for the kids who died from their HIV laden blood products for years. Also they swore they would fight every court case for Yaz deaths from heart attacks and strokes, but they are finally coughing up some bucks to make it just go away.
            The worst part of this is, they KNEW that their blood products were tainted with HIV, but sent it overseas anyway.
            They also hid the safety studies on Yaz.

          18. Your article implies that the molecular mimicry theory, believed to be one of the problems with Lymerix Vaccine, originated with “antivaxxers”. A falsehood.
            It came from Alan Steere.

          19. So, when you watch movies like The Fly, you do realize they are science fiction, right?

            I am not worried about any of the nonsense in your post.

          20. You say you are not worried your kids might get EV68 and be paralyzed, but you are scared of measles. And you say I’m in the deep end..I think you’re in something deep too and it aint water.

          21. One of the reasons for surveillance is to monitor morbidity and mortality. My bet is that cdc and who are working on interventions for Ev 68 including vaccination protocols.

          22. 300,000 NEW cases every year in the U.S. alone and it’s not a problem to you, but a little over 100 cases of measles and we have hysteria

          23. The ticks don’t live here. Please quit moving the goalposts to whatever YOU want to talk about. This discussion is supposed to be about Colorado immunization policy. We don’t have Lyme disease here and the vaccine was taken off the market.

          24. I guess you missed the part about Lyme disease now being recognized as being a STD..no ticks needed!

            February 5, 2015

            Lyme Disease Costs Up to $1.3 Billion Per Year to Treat, Study Finds

            “With an estimated 240,000 to 440,000 new cases of the tick-borne illness diagnosed every year, the researchers found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. health care system between $712 million and $1.3 billion a year — or nearly $3,000 per patient on average — in return doctor visits and testing, likely to investigate the cause of some patients’ lingering symptoms of fatigue, musculoskeletal pain and memory problems. These visits come after patients have finished their original course of antibiotics.

            Some doctors call those persistent symptoms post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS); others call it chronic Lyme disease. Still others attribute the complaints of fatigue, headaches and memory problems to the hum of daily life, the aches and pains that come with aging. At the core of the controversy is whether PTLDS can be a severe and chronic condition that requires more than reassurance and symptomatic therapy. While a blood test can confirm Lyme disease, there is no definitive test for PTLDS and there are no approved or proven treatments. It’s a controversial topic in medicine, the Johns Hopkins researchers say.

            A report on the findings was published online Feb. 4 by the journal PLOS ONE.

            “Our study looks at the actual costs of treating patients in the year following their Lyme diagnosis,” says study author Emily Adrion, MSc, a PhD candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Regardless of what you call it, our data show that many people who have been diagnosed with Lyme disease are in fact going back to the doctor complaining of persistent symptoms, getting multiple tests and being retreated. They cost the health care system about $1 billion a year and it is clear that we need effective, cost-effective and compassionate management of these patients to improve their outcomes even if we don’t know what to call the disease.”

            The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 10 to 20 percent of those treated for Lyme disease with the recommended two-to-four week course of antibiotics continue to have symptoms. But, in the new study, the researchers found that more than 63 percent of those treated for Lyme disease had at least one PTLDS-related diagnosis — a rate 36 percentage points higher than those who did not have Lyme disease.

            The study’s lead author John Aucott, MD, an assistant professor of rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says it does no good to keep debating the existence of long-term problems related to Lyme disease while people are suffering a debilitating illness. And he says that increasing awareness of potential complications is crucial to avoid misdiagnosis and unnecessary medical testing.

            “These patients are lost,” he says. “No one really knows what to do with them. It’s a challenge, but the first thing we need to do is recognize this is a problem. There’s not a magic pill. These patients already got the magic pill and it didn’t work.”

            https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2015/lyme-disease-costs-more-than-one-billion-dollars-per-year-to-treat-study-finds.html

          25. Are you serious? The very first sentence refers to tick-borne illness. Now tell me, what do you think that means? Having sex with ticks?

          26. So what? We know there were 400-500 deaths per year pre-vaccine. We also know there are still 1-2 deaths per thousand cases in developed countries currently, and complications in 30% of cases.

          27. Death is sad! We also sadly realize that too many children are severely and permanently injured or killed by vax!

            If a medical decision involves risk, there needs to be informed consent AND noncoercive choice!

          28. It does when one sets the same high standards of integrity for themselves that I do!

            And my sunday school teacher mom taught us that the ‘liars will be judged with the murderers and the thieves!’

            Too many people today, lie casually, like it’s nothing! It makes for bad karma!

            But please feel free to continue to lie at will, Katia!

          29. Lies? Karma, you say?

            ‘Splains away your Disqus reputation of −3.92, trollalota non grata.

            That number took some effort.. well done, you.

          30. As usual, you squawk out yet another parroted reply, this time the original came from Borings only several weeks ago!

            I’ll tell you what I told him; I never check them & I don’t care about stats!

            My disqus stats are no more indicative of of my honesty or my karma, than the biased and corrupt peer reviewed slop yall deem so precious!

            But thanks for the gracious ‘congrats’, especially given your big fail in yet another attempt to ridicule your opponent!

            Suz doesn’t lie, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

          31. Well, sabelmouse…given that lye is a common ingredient in most soaps and is a major ingredient in most commercial oven cleaners….I suspect that it’s likely to be in either the kitchen or the bathroom.

            Did you check either of those places?

          32. isn’t it?
            could be an illiterate adult just learning to read or write.
            i could be dyslexic.
            i could have memory issues due to [early] alzheimer’s.
            i could have fibromyalgia related brain fog.
            i could be a person whose first language isn’t english.
            and yet you make fun of a little mistake.
            ableist and cruel!

          33. No, ableism is systemic discrimination.

            And you aren’t worried about AutismDad making fun of a typo – why is that?

          34. i don’t go though whole threads and he’s got a lot of comments. generally i don’t approve of those kinds of put downs [ though your’s was actually quite funny] and don’t vote them up.

          35. Boy, that would be weird. It was one death out of 10,000 cases of measles in the US in 1960, one or two deaths out of 10,000 cases in the UK in the ’80s, and three in 10,000 cases in Europe in 2011. Are people’s immune systems so shot from vaccine damage that it has made them TEN times more likely to die of measles now than in 1960?
            Yeah, complications like bronchitis, ear infection, conjunctivitis, diarrhea. Mild complications which can be treated the usual ways. Measles pneumonia is usually viral, mild, and self-limiting, while the rarer bacterial pneumonia can usually be treated with antibiotics. If you keep the patient warm in bed throughout the illness, pneumonia is very unlikely, and if you don’t give any fever reducers, the very rare measles encephalitis is very unlikely.

          36. Wonder if you can share your medical protocol to follow in the event of the complication of.. death?

          37. The Refusers and Vac Truth are hardly reliable sources, cia. I don’t know about your other two, I’m not interested in looking them up right now.

          38. You are the one saying measles is becoming milder, Cia.
            It’s strange, but when recent European outbreaks look at the data, there seems to be a 1 per 1000 death rate.
            In the USA outbreaks of 1989 the case fatality was around that also.
            Some historical data may be slightly different, but in the past the case definitions and confirmation and testing was less accurate.

            Either way, you have repeatedly told us how you would “relish” the idea of measles returning, and how the deaths of 450 kids a year from measles is “no big deal”.
            So why should you be bothered whether it is one in a thousand who dies, rather than one in three thousand?
            Either way you don’t give a fig, you callous disease lover.

          39. That was in 1960, out of four million cases. Now that we know the importance of giving vitamin A and NOT giving fever reducers, and observing a three-week recuperation time, it would be a fraction of that rate.
            I WANT my snowflake to catch measles, also mumps. She’s had chickenpox and pertussis, and breezed through them. The Waldorf medical system, anthroposophy, has written a lot about the great value of going through the natural formerly universal childhood diseases. Their advice has worked for us on many occasions, and they’re right on this one as well.

          40. Yes it is good for children to get the natural diseases.
            It keeps the population explosion in check. There are already too many people on the planet. Hooray for diseases!

          41. Actually, that’s a problematic claim. There were 400-500 deaths attributed to measles out of 500,000 reported claims. It’s estimated that there were 4 million cases and many not reported – but we don’t know how many deaths caused by measles were also not reported. The last time we have direct numbers, 1989-1991, the rate of death was 2 per thousand.

            There is no evidence vitamin A prevents complications in first world countries where people generally aren’t vitamin A deficient. We do know Germany saw a high rate of SSPE in 2003-2009 among young children. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0068909

            And contrary to the claim that measles is beneficial, there is evidence it leads to more infections and leads to more mortality from other diseases. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25954009

            I hope that in spite of your problematic desire, your daughter remains protected from these diseases.

          42. It’s none of your business with the way you like to fillet opponents who share too much personal info, but I don’t believe her daughter has yet met the age of majority!

          43. I have no desire to pull CIA’s daughter into this and wish her well. But if Cia says things like she did above, wanting her daughter to get sick, a response to that point is fair.

          44. Fine! Cia, however has learned the hard way what happens when one offers too much info on the internet! Much of that she can’t take back, and was likely offered when the commentaries were a nicer place.

            If you felt she was 12 several yrs. ago, she is likely still a minor. I also should not be speaking for cia, but I doubt she’s seen this yet.

            Just remember, that I was also concerned for your families safety, a year ago, when word got out that people made threats. Not everyone has the safety nets in place that you may enjoy.

            What you call getting ‘sick’, she calls building immunity and many of us older parents and grandparents agree. Semantics.

            So no! Kathy’s intent had a full pro vax and malicious agenda behind her clandestine statement, in my opinion!

            Leave the personal info on the children out of it!

          45. Because I wonder how the daughter Cia has posted about 15,799,432 times feels about all of this? That’s malicious and clandestine?

          46. Given the body language of your repetitive and overstated numbers, even THIS post above remains with malicious intent!

          47. scuz norkan: “Given the body language of your repetitive and overstated numbers..”

            Yes.. ‘body language’.

            I see your point, trollalota non grata.. if I turn off the lights and squint really, really.. really, hard.

          48. Wow! If a ‘witless parrot’ like YOU can get it, then I’m sure Kathy and Dorit got it, parrota non grata, parrot Pro! 😉

          49. And, again, going through natural illnesses is the ONLY way to allow the immune system to become strong and competent. Illnesses should be appropriately nursed, and appropriate remedies used when complications are feared. But they should not be avoided: they are indispensable for healthy maturation. So yes, I DO want my daughter to get natural measles for her lifetime health. Sort of similar reasoning to making a child undergo the agony of a shot thinking that it will improve his lifetime health (mistakenly).

          50. Agony? A poke that has less pain than a pinch versus 2 weeks of fever coughs and diarrhea during a case of measles…..

            I’ll take the vaccination over the wild illness any time.

          51. If she’s a minor, you’d be wrong to pry for personal info. If she’s an adult, she’ll tell you herself if she has the desire to do so!

          52. I answered this same type question below, while using the term ‘body language’ to denote the inaudible tone of your written comment!

          53. See! I knew you guys could get it if ya opened your minds!

            You’re jealous but frustrated, and if I’d post it here, it would be held in mod due to the expletives and x rated content! 😉

          54. Not the specifics! See my reply to Dorit! The internet was different when she initially offered detailed family history. She may do so now, because it’s water under the bridge!

            However, your intent was neither kind or gracious in my opinion.

          55. I think she’s twelve. Though it may have been a few years since we had that discussion.

            I know Cia cares passionately about her daughter and probably sincerely believes her ideas are correct. I still hope her daughter stays safe from these diseases. CIA’s desire is horribly misguided.

          56. I feel the same about your opinions and what you say you have done with your sons. My daughter was born on May 5, 2000.

          57. Load of crap as usual. So we have immune suppression being a big deal so lets put it (measles) and a known cause of autism, ruebella in a vial with mumps a known cause of deafness and palsy and inject it into babies when their immune system is in questionable operative condition. Yea right!

          58. For the illusory benefit of the malnourished 400-500 , we have to sacrifice thousands or millions of healthy individuals by injecting them with pollution (VACCINES).

          59. First of all, the only fever reducer in 1960 was aspirin. Where is the research showing that avoiding aspirin when you have measles prevents complications?

            Secondly, there is no evidence that vitamin A prevents measles. It can prevent blindness and there is a smidge of evidence it can prevent death. It does not prevent suffering and it does not prevent you from getting sick in the first place.

            Anthroposophy also advises that children should not be allowed any contact with symbolic language, like letters and numbers, before age 8. They advise limiting contact with colors such as black until children are well into elementary years. They do not advocate for puzzles at all nor should children ever be read to before age 8. There is literally no scientific research to support any of these practices because they are not based on any science. Anthroposophy is a religion. Some call it a cult. The premises stopped being published in the 1930s so no more current research practices are incorporated into Waldorf teaching curriculum or parenting advice.

            And, yes, they do believe measles is beneficial. Because this is advice from the first part of the 20th century, from before antibiotics, before breathing treatments, before steriods, and before vaccines.

          60. Aspirin can cause Reye’s syndrome in minors. That’s probably what happened to Olivia Dahl. And lowering fever leads to MANY complications, even death.
            Vitamin A prevents complications in measles. I never said it prevented measles. It would not be good to prevent measles, as the experience is invaluable training for the immune system, but it is good to prevent possibly dangerous complications, which vitamin A does.
            Measles is still beneficial, still gives permanent immunity, the ability to protect future infants, a stronger, better-trained Th-1 immune system, and protection against many diseases and even some cancers in later life. Anthroposophists continue to highly recommend getting natural measles.

          61. “Aspirin can cause Reye’s syndrome in minors. That’s probably what happened to Olivia Dahl.”
            No, Cia, Roald Dahl’s daughter got measles encephalitis, and died as a result.

            Stop lying.

          62. Nothing, that you stupid pro vaccine idiots say about how illogical anti vaccine people can be, can be as illogical as saying that injecting ” GMO-putrefactive-biohazardous material in a soup of carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens ” (VACCINES) can make people healthy.

          63. You would benefit from taking some chemistry classes at your local college. There is nothing in vaccines that is toxic at those doses. Most vaccine ingredients are in your food, your body, your water, your air already, in greater doses. The dose makes the poison.

          64. Are you that stupid ? That is how you explain away my son and other people getting damaged and dying from VACCINES ?

            If everything in VACCINES is found in food, then you don’t need VACCINES. So why don’t you stop your stupid unneeded promotion of VACCINES. You should go take a vacation, and everyone else can save their money by avoiding VACCINES and just eating.

            Watch : ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS. You would benefit from studying medical anthropology.

          65. If formaldehyde is found in food and in vaccines, why would that mean you don’t need vaccines? Since weakened or dead viruses and bacteria are found in vaccines but NOT in food, how can food be a substitute for vaccines?

          66. Your snowflake is a full grown adult. How does she feel about these diseases? Why don’t we ever hear from Junior Miss Parker?

          67. She’ll be 16 on May 5. She doesn’t use language well enough to be able to form or express an opinion on this or anything complex.

        2. Not surprisingly, you misrepresent what I have said wrt mature minor status and medical decisions. If I were not familiar with your comment history, I might be inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you are reading-comprehension deficient. However, as you have abundantly demonstrated in the comments here, deceptive intent is a more appropriate description.

          Odds are, you are lying in the rest of your comment. One must quesiton the veracity and reliability of any of your statements.

          1. Ione-“So you think a 12 year old child has the maturity to decide on medical procedures [immunization] even if it is against the express wishes of the parent.”

            kfunk-“In short, yes. I also think they should be able to establish mature minor status to obtain abortions without parental consent.

            None of this is done willy-nilly. Family court is usually involved, and sometime guardians ad litem.”

            Ione-“So you are saying that a 12 year old child, is old enough to make a decision such as abortion without consulting her parents?”

            kfunk- “Yes, a competent, mature 12-year-old is capable of making such a decision. The court also is there in loco parentis, as are guardians ad litem, to protect the child. In this example, from her parents”…https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2448743224

          2. Reading is fundamental, ione.

            You’re either having comprehension difficulties compounded by your bias, or you’re dishonest. Or both.

            Have a nice day.

    2. No one is against that. We just want you to homeschool and not work in education or healthcare if you are not fully vaccinated.

        1. Ione, your picture is lovely and all but can you name one of the places other than school where 30 kids are packed into one room in one building 5 days a week, and what….42 weeks a year?

        2. Most of the 250K Californian kids who are not fully vaxed WILL get fully vaxed and be in school. And, kids don’t spend 7 hours a day, 5 days a week at the places in your meme.

          1. How are you so sure they will comply? Are you going to go do this yourself? What will happen when parents refuse but cant homeschool????

          2. I do not live in California, but I was born there and have family there. Hence, my interest.

            I am sure many families will comply because most of those kids are partially vaccinated and parents will likely prefer to full vax them than homeschool. For parents who still choose not to vaccinate, they will have to educate their children. It is mandated by law. It won’t be an option to choose otherwise.

          3. 1)If you are smart enough to override the global and scientific medical consensus, you are smart enough to figure out a way to make homeschooling work.

            2)If someone refuses to vaccinate their kid and also refuses o homeschool, they are choosing to break the law and like any other choice, that choice has consequences.

          4. Yeah, someone just asked what happened if they refused to comply with SB277 which is law in California now.

  89. Colorado
    kindergartners have lowest measles vaccination rate in the
    nation

    “Colorado kindergartners have the lowest
    vaccination rate for measles in the country, a distinction that health
    experts say makes the state especially vulnerable to a major outbreak.

    Although
    only one Coloradan has had a confirmed case of the illness since an
    outbreak started at Disneyland, in California, the low vaccination rate
    here is a big concern — and a source of bewilderment.

    “We are
    going to have a large outbreak of measles,” said Dr. Edwin J. Asturias, a
    pediatrician with the Colorado School of Public Health, University of
    Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado.”

    “National
    median vaccination coverage was almost 95 percent for two doses of MMR
    vaccine during the past school year, according to CDC estimates
    based on school records. In Colorado, less than 82 percent of
    kindergartners are fully vaccinated
    .”

    1. I have to say, we look worse on paper than what I think is really happening. For example, if you don’t have your kid’s record and don’t feel like digging it up, the school will tell you to sign an exemption. Next year, it will be harder to do so.

      One Coloradan, an adult, was exposed at Disney and got sick after s/he (I think a “he”) got back. S/he went to some sort of medical office, exposed a bunch of people there, and then to a lab where s/he exposed a bunch more people and no one else in this state got the measles. So I think we’re better immunized than it shows.

        1. My pleasure. I know we have our AVs here; I’ve “discussed” with some of them on my own hometown FB page. But I don’t think we are as bad as we look on paper. Some schools do not make collecting immunization information a priority, either. By that, I mean they don’t think it’s necessary to do at all. Some schools don’t even have information on large percentages of kids.

    2. I would say less than 82% is a pretty good number compared to Sweden’s rates…

      “Europeans are turning away from vaccines, amid rising distrust of immunization for infectious diseases,” begins an article earlier this year in EurActiv, the journal of record for the European Community, published in over a dozen languages and widely read by journalists as a go-to-source for emerging policy debates in Europe.

      As evidence for its claim, the article cites the French National Institute for Prevention and Health Education, which found that “distrust of vaccination has risen from 10% in 2005 to 40% in 2010,” as well as pointing to a major conference held in Italy last year, The State of Health of Vaccination in the EU. The conference, designed to counter the growing opposition among Europeans to vaccinations, featured numerous speakers concerned about the low levels of vaccination throughout the continent. As a Swedish presenter at the conference remarked about the failure of the public to embrace the MMR vaccine to protect against measles, “Among children aged 1-4 years, the age group targeted by routine childhood vaccination programs, 77% of cases were unvaccinated.”

      1. Again.. no source attributed, Ione Murphy?

        … …

        Via Folkhälsomyndigheten, the Swedish public health agency..

        February 09, 2014 | “New cases of measles in Sweden”

        “Measles spreading in Europe

        There is no domestic contagion in Sweden, but the disease still circulating
        in many countries in Europe and elsewhere. Between November 2012 and
        October 2013 were reported over 12 000 cases of measles from the
        European countries involved in the monitoring. Most cases were reported
        from Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, United Kingdom and Germany.
        Measles are also still in many other countries.”

        The post goes on to note that Sweden has over 95% complete vaccination of children.

        (Source: Folkhälsomyndigheten | “Nya fall av mässling i Sverige” )

        1. Well we better get on the horn and figure out who is lying then, because this guy- Lucia Pastore Celentano, who is the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control Acting Head of Diseases Program VDP, Stockholm claims this..

          The State of Health of Vaccination in the EU.

          “ECDC estimates that 4.9 million children born between 1998 and 2008 missed the first dose of measles vaccine. The number of children who did not receive a second dose is even higher.
          Points to consider Measles is still endemic in many EU countries. The 2014 statistics show that in the last 12-month period (October 2013-September 2014), 4,735 cases of measles were reported in the EU. Eighty-five percent of cases reported in the last 12 months were unvaccinated. Among children aged 1-4 years, the age group targeted by routine childhood vaccination programmes, 77% of cases were unvaccinated. Infants and children are often believed to be the only age group affected by measles. In reality in the last 10 years, on average 40% of measles cases reported in the EU were above 14 years old. Moreover, in the last year in several EU countries 70% of cases occurred among adolescents and young adults”

          1. Citation needed. It would be polite, as well as honest, to link to your source so that readers may view it in situ and in its entireity. Otherwise, who knows what it says before or after your quotation, if indeed you’ve excerpted it correctly.

            Experience shows that such skepticism is warranted.

          2. The State of Health of Vaccination in the EU. pdf file can be easily found online and note that these two guest speakers were present…

            Surveillance and Immunization Strategies Robert Linkins, Chief, Accelerated Disease Control and Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance Branch, Global Immunization Division, US CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA

            and…

            Achieving the full potential of vaccination: understanding and addressing barriers to vaccine acceptance Bruce Gellin, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director at National Vaccine Program Office, Washington, DC, USA-

            “Recognizing that there are some who choose to delay or refuse a vaccine that is offered: there is a growing field of research on “vaccine hesitancy” – and it is an issue that has been explored by the World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE). In developing a fuller understanding of the many factors that influence vaccine decision making a vaccine hesitancy model has been developed. This model acknowledges that vaccine hesitancy is complex and context specific, varying across time, place, and vaccines, and is influenced by factors such as complacency, convenience, and confidence. The Vaccine Hesitancy Model is based on confidence (trust in vaccines, delivery system, and policy makers), convenience (physical access, geographical access, and appeal of immunization services), complacency (low perceived risks, vaccination not deemed a necessary preventive action
            “Understanding and addressing the factors that lead to a decision to accept, not accept, or delay a recommended vaccine, are increasingly important if we are able to continue to protect our communities from serious infectious diseases and their consequences. Routine immunization coverage surveys are not designed to assess vaccine delay or refusal, and therefore cannot be the only measure of vaccine hesitancy in a community. Rather, new tools need to be developed to better assess vaccine hesitancy in order to design and direct more specific remedies. For example, the Guide to Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP), developed by the World Health Organization’s regional office for Europe, provides an approach to this with tools to identify susceptible populations, determine barriers to vaccination, and implement evidence-based interventions (https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicablediseases/poliomyelitis/publications/2013/guide-to-tailoring-immunization-programmes).”

          3. You moved the goalposts.

            Sweden was the original area of discussion (vaccination rates, in particular).. and now.. you are providing irrelevant numbers for the entire EU with respect to reported cases of infection?

            … …

            So.. what happened, Ione Murphy?

            You glimpsed the appearance of ‘Stockholm’ in your copy pasta and just went with it?

            And again.. no source attributed.

            So much for earnest and honest discourse.

  90. Viral nucleic acids in live-attenuated vaccines: detection of minority variants and an adventitious virus.

    Victoria JG1, Wang C, Jones MS, Jaing C, McLoughlin K, Gardner S, Delwart EL.

    Author information

    1Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94118, USA.

    Abstract

    Metagenomics and a panmicrobial microarray were used to examine eight live-attenuated viral vaccines. Viral nucleic acids in trivalent oral poliovirus (OPV), rubella, measles, yellow fever, varicella-zoster, multivalent measles/mumps/rubella, and two rotavirus live vaccines were partially purified, randomly amplified, and pyrosequenced. Over half a million sequence reads were generated covering from 20 to 99% of the attenuated viral genomes at depths reaching up to 8,000 reads per nucleotides. Mutations and minority variants, relative to vaccine strains, not known to affect attenuation were detected in OPV, mumps virus, and varicella-zoster virus. The anticipated detection of endogenous retroviral sequences from the producer avian and primate cells was confirmed.

    Avian leukosis virus (ALV), previously shown to be noninfectious for humans, was present as RNA in viral particles, while simian retrovirus (SRV) was present as genetically defective DNA. Rotarix, an orally administered rotavirus vaccine, contained porcine circovirus-1 (PCV1), a highly prevalent nonpathogenic pig virus, which has not been shown to be infectious in humans. Hybridization of vaccine nucleic acids to a panmicrobial microarray confirmed the presence of endogenous retroviral and PCV1 nucleic acids. Deep sequencing and microarrays can therefore detect attenuated virus sequence changes, minority variants, and adventitious viruses and help maintain the current safety record of live-attenuated viral vaccines.

    Dev Biol (Basel). 2006;123:273-80; discussion 291-308.

    Vaccine cell substrates: bovine and porcine virus considerations.

    Wessman SJ1.

    Author information

    1USDA, APHIS, VS, Center for Veterinary Biologics, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA. stephen.j.wessman@aphis.usda.gov

    Abstract

    The use of materials of animal origin to supplement cell cultures used in vaccine production, viral diagnostic testing, or materials testing may lead to contamination of the vaccines, with seroconversion or disease in the vaccinated animals, and possible misdiagnosis of diagnostic samples or incorrect test results. The methods used by the Center for Veterinary Biologics to monitor serum and cell cultures are described. Considerations for the use of animal origin materials, especially bovine and porcine, as substrates or additives, plus the possibility of crossovers to humans are discussed.

    ‘Adventitious virus assays are performed as part of raw materials testing, cell-line characterization, and lot-release testing of biologicals such as monoclonal antibodies, gene therapy vectors, recombinant proteins, and vaccines.

    The most common detection scenarios include bovine viral diarrhoea virus in foetal bovine serum samples, porcine parvovirus in porcine substrates, and murine minute virus, REO virus, and Cache Valley virus in Chinese hamster cell-derived bulk harvests. The two last-named viral entities are believed to be introduced via bovine serum used during the manufacturing process (during scale-up or during the entire process). Knowledge of the types of agents being detected is useful in designing viral clearance methodologies for purification processes and in engineering manufacturing processes and facilities.

    1. It is a lottery Ione
      “The presence of adventitious agents is a safety concern in the use of any cell substrate and throughout the manufacture of any biological product. Adventitious agents are defined as microorganisms that are not intended to be present in a biological product and include bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma/spiroplasma, mycobacteria, rickettsia, protozoan parasites, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents, and viruses. In addition to specific regulatory requirements for adventitious agent testing, FDA has issued regulatory guidance for industry and points to consider documents to help manufacturers formulate a comprehensive testing regimen for viral contaminants based upon the cell substrate, raw materials, and manufacturing steps for each vaccine.

      The use of human tumor-derived cell lines poses added safety concerns regarding the potential presence of unexpected and unknown viruses. These include viruses that may be present in the cell line due to their existence in the patient tissue such as oncogenic, latent DNA viruses (e.g., adenoviruses, hepadnaviruses, herpesviruses, papillomaviruses, polyomaviruses) and, 2) endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), which exist normally in a quiescent state in the host cell DNA of all species, but can become activated and produce virus particles in tumor cell lines (36, 74).

      furthermore, many tumor-derived cell lines support infection and replication of a wide variety of viruses and therefore may be more susceptible to infectious viruses present in the host (e.g., some RNA viruses such as LCMV) or through contaminated human or animal-derived reagents used during cell-line derivation and passage history. There may be additional concerns in the case of virus-like particles (VLPs) such as co-packaging of “unwanted” oncogenic RNAs or DNAs that may be transferred to the recipient by vaccination.” https://preview.tinyurl.com/8mo2s98

  91. “I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back”

    “As a mother, I put my parenting decisions above all else. Nobody knows my son better than me, and the choices I make about how to care for him are no one’s business but my own. So, when other people tell me how they think I should be raising my child, I simply can’t tolerate it. Regardless of what anyone else thinks, I fully stand behind my choices as a mom, including my choice not to vaccinate my son, because it is my fundamental right as a parent to decide which eradicated diseases come roaring back.

    The decision to cause a full-blown, multi-state pandemic of a virus that was effectively eliminated from the national population generations ago is my choice alone, and regardless of your personal convictions, that right should never be taken away from a child’s parent. Never.

    Say what you will about me, but I’ve read the information out there and weighed every option, so I am confident in my choice to revive a debilitating illness that was long ago declared dead and let it spread like wildfire from school to school, town to town, and state to state, until it reaches every corner of the country. Leaving such a momentous decision to someone you haven’t even met and who doesn’t care about yourchild personally—now that’s absurd! Maybe I choose to bring back the mumps. Or maybe it’s diphtheria. Or maybe it’s some other potentially fatal disease that can easily pass among those too young or too medically unfit to be vaccinated themselves. But whichever highly communicable and formerly wiped-out disease that I opt to resurrect with a vengeance, it is a highly personal decision that only I and my family have the liberty to make.

    The bottom line is that I’m this child’s mother, and I know what’s best. End of story.”

      1. I wasn’t joking when I flagged it. It’s parroted from someone else and then it is only ‘top posted’ spam! Been there, done that, and could have been in reply to anyone of the 6000 + plus comments here!

        Over six thousand comments in several days!!! Hello Aurora! How yall doin’ tonight? You’ve been a great audience and a great host to this crazy burlesque called ‘vax wars!’

        Just remember that if vax involves a risk, you should have the option of informed consent without coercion of negative consequences!

        Thank you Aurora! You’ve been great! 😉

        Who needs ‘top posting!’

          1. No! I don’t usually top post unless I’m fighting fire with fire!

            Suz is one of the most tolerant people you’ll never get to know, Katia! 😉

    1. And where are the piles of dead Amish? The Amish do not vaccinate, yet do we hear of millions of dead Amish children? No, we do not. You are a fear mongering simpleton. Vaccines can, have and do cause harm. This is an indisputable scientific fact. If a medical procedure carries with it risk, then there must be personal choice. If you believe otherwise, then you are the enemy of free man everywhere. It is never right to mandate a medical procedure onto someone for the safety of another, PERIOD.

      1. What a lie! The Amish do vaccinate, albeit in lower numbers. They also have a high infant mortality rate.
        https://blogs.plos.org/thepanicvirus/2011/06/28/anecdotal-amish-dont-vaccinate-claims-disproved-by-fact-based-study/
        https://listverse.com/2012/10/29/10-things-you-probably-dont-know-about-the-amish/

        Why don’t we see these “piles of dead Amish children”? Because they are a very closed society. They don’t seek out the rest of society. I grew up in an area with a lot of Amish, my great-uncle even hired Amish to help on his farm, and the first time I ever saw an Amish person was when the uncle died and some Amish came to his viewing! I was 17 years old at the time.

        1. In other words: the same reason you see more disabled people now.

          Both groups have largely been hidden away from the public eye – by voluntary closure of their own society in the case of the Amish and because of institutions in the case of disabled people.

          1. Autism like symptoms. Round it’s a circle, rubber like things with treads underneath a vehicle is tire like features, four legs and furry and barks alot is dog like symptoms and features, get the idea?

          2. Mom on the news statement, My daughter was normal, vaccines, changed overnight, autism, facts, facts in your face. She was normal, had the vaccines, then disappeared, same as the testimony from the thousands of parents and Dr’s, you lose. And yes it is factual that you are a shill.

          3. Hannah Poling got awarded for vaccine induced autism like symptoms. She was normal, she got vaccines, then she got autism like symptoms. Normal, vaccines, autism, in that order.
            Is John Poling a pseudoscience neurologist? Is Hannah’s Mother lying about what happened? Is the nurse/lawyer and the Neurologist somehow confused about what happened? C’mon help me out here. Heeellllloooooooo are you there?

          4. Cop out, If I punch you in the eye and it swells up and turns black and blue and bloody do you think I can tell the cop and the judge that correlation is not causation and get away with it? Thought so pharma shill.

          5. Maybe if there is an epidemic of black eyes and you’re constantly under surveillance and only some black eyes kind of loosely correlate with your presence and you’ve had extensive background checks and it’s widely known with actual evidence that you’re too physically weak to cause a black eye then YES.

          6. Huh? So autism is an epidemic? Motivation for the people who said I was the one who did it? Too weak to cause? Not a viable comparison, shilling at it’s finest. Blah

          7. It is a viable comparison – vaccines are constantly tested and constantly watched for signs of problems. Unvaccinated autistic kids exist at the same rate as the vaccinated autistic kids – there is only correlation.

            As for your motive? Yeah, if there was a NKICP program where it was heavily biased in favour of claimant, yes, there is a possible motive to falsely accuse you.

          8. “It is a viable comparison – vaccines are constantly tested and
            constantly watched for signs of problems. Unvaccinated autistic kids
            exist at the same rate as the vaccinated autistic kids – there is only
            correlation.”
            LIE. Show me the proof or grab your dunce cap.

          9. Autism speaks is in direct business alignment with the CDC and the pharmaceutical industry. Not a reliable source.

          10. Shove boat loads of information meant to confuse casual readers in an attempt to hide the truth- is that bit done yet?

          1. One guy I know who was enrolled in a clinical trial ran into a doorjamb at home while looking in the other direction and bonked his head. That adverse event, totally unrelated to the intervention being studied, is listed as an adverse event. Similarly, if a subject gets an STD or athlete’s foot during an anti-thrombotic study, it’s unlikely to be related. But it will be recorded, and diligently reported, as an adverse event. Clinical trial monitors and auditors come around to check up, and it’s all part of the trial data.This is just willful ignorance, among other things. Conflating the two terms after having it explained, repeatedly, and when the definitions are widely available is just . . I dunno. Meh.

          2. “One guy I know who was enrolled in a clinical trial ran into a doorjamb at home while looking in the other direction and bonked his head. “

            That is why they should never allow midgets in clinical studies…

  92. Billboards up in time for superbowl! From Brandy Vaughan -We have just signed the contract for 6 new Learn the Risk billboards in the Bay Area just in time for the Superbowl in Santa Clara! Normally the boards would get about 600k views per WEEK, but that’s estimated to be nearly double during the Super Bowl. The billboards could get up to 4 million views in one month!!!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/761c2e4937fa5209780614889eb064dea584bb567b9d93281be9012859058211.jpg

    1. Our bodies produce formaldehyde in far greater quantities than you get in vaccines. We all should have dropped dead from cancer long ago!

      1. In addition, 120 vaccines equal a single pear.

        And no, vaccines are not “shot straight into the bloodstream. ”

        And yes, it does still get into your blood – but eating and drinking does that too – that is why you can give someone with hypoglacemia a SUGARY DRINK to raise their BLOOD SUGAR.

      1. And from the recall petition drive for Dr. Pan which came up with ZERO signatures?

        The whole anti-vaxxer cult is a complete fraud from top to bottom!

        1. On both sides of the issue, graceds. The funding records are public.

          Once again, you have no point. You’re just flinging sh!t randomly, hoping something sticks.

          1. I agree.
            Both sides of the aisle are corruptible.
            Both parties are corruptible.
            Good reasons not to leave medical decisions in politicians hands.

          2. No evidence of corruption in this case. The people elected their representatives to act on their behalf. The people of CA confirmed their support for this law, as evidenced by the complete and abject failure of the referendum and recall of Sen. Pan efforts. Pitiful, but vocal, minority fringe position was rightly seen as the pitiful fringe movement that it is.

            Yay, Democracy! Let’s repeat it, nationwide!

            Please limp back to your flying monkey mountain with your buddies at AoA and the like. Have a nice day.

          3. Lobbiests are an issue. I’m not thrilled that Big Supplement and Big Homeopathy got complete passes at a national level, either.

            Go vote.

          4. Supplements are essentially unregulated at all. Homeopathy is completely placebo, save in the cases where contaminants or actual drugs are present to cause harm. Each are absent rigorous testing for safety and efficacy, if the products even contain the claimed ingredients in the first place.

            Who’s zoomin’ who, Grace?

          5. What’s really amazing is the recall Pan attempt got zero traction. Heck, this was an opportunity for the Republicans to oust democrat Dr. Pan and even they didn’t want to sign on to the anti-vaccine cult’s lunacy to force an election.
            That is quite telling. Pan’s political opponents wisely wanted nothing to do with the anti-vaccine cult’s insane efforts.

          6. If you left it in physicians’ hands, there would be no debate. All the professional physician groups recommend immunizing per the CDC schedule, which, contrary to the opinion of a lot of lying anti-vaxers, isn’t “one size fits all”.

          7. Speaking of flinging sh!t randomly, have you seen VacTruth? They have articles claiming a connection between shaken baby syndrome and vaccines. I’ve been arguing for a while there, but the lies from Lowell Hubbs are getting to be too much to take. I’m going to go down in a blaze of glory tonight and get banned!

          8. Jeffry John was here until a few days ago.

            He tried playin the shill card on someone else but then half a dozen people said “Uh wait … don’t you make your money LYING about this kinda stuff.”

            Exit stage left.

          9. Yup. I didn’t realise Charlie may’ve missed that. I’ve also wondered if Jeffry the child murderer defender’s still been around in sock form, based on some later-arriving commenters. That way he could strew pigeon poop all over the chessboard and declare victory, without having to embarrass himself further in his own patch.

          10. You’re a better man than I am, Charlie Brown. I don’t usually have the stomach for that much concentrated cray-cray. But thanks for representing.

        2. “Pharmaceutical companies and their trade groups gave more than $2 million to current members of the Legislature in 2013-2014, about 2 percent of the total raised.

          I usually like Jim Miller’s reporting, but something missing in this article: Was that more or less than previous election cycles?

          Not that it really matters. Two-thirds of California parents support doing away with personal belief exemptions. That’s why Governor Brown reversed himself and signed SB277 into law as soon as the Legislature passed it.

          1. You’re right, politicians are corruptible every year!
            A good reason to leave medical decisions up to the family, not some super PAC totin’ legislator whose families are often rife with jobs as lobbyists, before and after government positions.

          2. Two-thirds of Californians supported doing away with personal belief exemptions.

            Accusing people who don’t agree with you of evil motives or corruption says more about you than you probably know.

          3. We live in a Republic, Graceds.

            When given the chance to put it to a popular vote, the people of California responded with “We’re good.” Referendum supporters couldn’t even get 3% of the people who voted in the last election to say “Let’s put it to a popular vote.”

            Not even 3%.

            Jim Miller reported that at the SacBee too.

          4. The pharmaceutical agenda can and will be blunted.
            Some are willing to coerce products the manufacturer doesn’t stand behind.
            Good for you, right?
            Some of us, want to restrain the power of an industry that is out of control by retaining the correction of a free market on products injected into our families.
            Not going away.

          5. I wasn’t a political science major, but I’m going to take a WAG on why the process played out like it did in California.

            The opposition really didn’t understand, and still doesn’t, doing away with personal belief exemptions was in response to parents’ concerns.

            It’s the same in Colorado. People don’t think requiring childhood vaccinations is coercive. It’s common sense.

          6. Yeah, I guess the awards added up because the judges and juries were all corrupt.
            That must have been it.

          7. We’re talking about why it was set up, Graceds. And corrupt, no – not familiar with a very complex subject – yes.

          8. Vaccine Injury is a complex subject, which is why it shouldn’t be left to legislators to decide who will be subjected to it.

          9. The claim is not that all vaccine injuries are made up. The claim is that several vaccine injuries were made up.

          10. All of the autism ones since that has been studied.

            All of the SIDS one since the rates are inversely correlated.

          11. Correct.
            It would be nice if Oregon were next.

            Maybe out of state militia “patriots” could come in and take over a health food shop in protest.

          12. Ridiculous. If everyone who COULD be vaccinated, was vaccinated; laws like this would be unnecessary.

          13. When your decisions begin to effect the lives of others; then action should be taken. This is why people are arrested when they choose to break the law and hurt another person.

  93. Don’t want your child to receive a certain vaccine at school?

    The Detroit mother whose daughter attends Marcus Garvey Academy told the local ABC affiliate that she is “angry with everybody” over the fact that her daughter received four vaccinations, one of which was for HPV, without permission. The daughter says she was called out of class by the school nurse back on January 30th and sent to the school’s clinic, which is operated by St. John’s medical.

    Sighle was furious. She says she never gave consent for the shots to the school or St. John’s – Sighle says she even signed a document indicating never to administer medical treatment to her daughter.

    “I told them – if she falls, give her a Band Aid, or if she has a headache, give her an aspirin – that’s it,” she says”

    https://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/02/24/mother-angry-with-everybody-after-14-year-old-given-hpv-vaccine-without-permission

    “As our member and her husband had already discussed their concerns about the HPV vaccine, she declined it for her boys and filled out a decline form. However, one of the boys had already been taken back to an examining room in preparation for his other shots and didn’t overhear the conversation. Then the second son was taken to another examining room. When they both came back, they informed their mother that they had both been given two shots. When questioned, the nurse who administered the shots admitted that she had given them both the HPV vaccine. When our member informed the nurse that she had specifically declined this vaccine, and that it was administered against her wishes, the nurse shrugged it off and said, “Oh, well.”…https://www.hslda.org/hs/state/wa/201311250.asp

    “An Idaho third-grader received a flu vaccine at his public school without parental consent last week — the result of a “mix-up,” according to the West Ada School District — leaving angry mom Letisha Huff wanting answers from officials there.
    “These are our children, they’re not guinea pigs,”

    But school district spokesperson Eric Exline says that Huff’s son Zachary, 8, inadvertently received the FluMist vaccine when the signed permission slip of another Zachary in his class — who was absent that day — was mistaken as his”…https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/mom-upset-after-son-receives-flu-vaccine-without-her-101351284757.html

    1. Mistakes probably happen. And a vaccine once administered can’t be taken back, so the nurse’s comment (if it’s been accurately reported) “Oh, well” would make sense. If they think they have an actionable case, great.

      What’s the problem? Homeschooling your vaccine-deprived children, as the movement to remove personal belief exemptions proposes, would prevent a repeat of any such mistakes.

      1. It seems there is an epidemic of these “mistakes” going on everywhere

        ‘Doctors warned to take more care after 108 immunisation mix-ups’

        “Cases have involved the wrong child getting a jab, a wrong vaccine being used and under-18s being vaccinated without their parents’ consent.

        A survey by the Medical Defence Union (MDU), which defends doctors accused of malpractice, found family doctors had been involved in immunisation blunders affecting 98 children and 10 adults in the last five years:”

        https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/feb/21/doctors-warned-immunisation-mixups

        “Some critics say family doctors are being pressured into underhand methods in order to help meet targets on MMR uptake, and win extra payments.

        GPs get more money for vaccinating 90 per cent of children but those who fail to meet the target – by even one child – can lose more than £2,000 a year.

        One distraught mother was allegedly told by a practice nurse who had just administered the MMR without consent: ‘You were on our target list for the MMR.’

        Other GPs have claimed they did not realize the parents had not consented to the jab and apologized for their ‘mistake’.

        Many of the children had already received single measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations from private clinics.

        One mother from Bedfordshire whose four-year- old son was vaccinated with MMR without her consent said yesterday: ‘I had purposely given my son single vaccines because I was concerned about autism.

        ‘But the GP gave the MMR to him without my consent when we went in for the Hib booster.

        ‘I only found out because I asked why he was giving my son two injections

        Mrs Dean said: ‘Are we really supposed to believe that all these practices are making innocent mistakes?

        ‘Parents are devastated and quite rightly angry. Questions are being asked about whether GPs are doing this because of a financial motive in order to meet their MMR practice targets.’

        Last night the British Medical Association warned that giving an injection without seeking full and informed parental consent constituted an assault on the child which could lead to criminal charges.

        The BMA has already warned that the MMR target payments system is undermining trust between doctors and patients.

        Dr Simon Fradd of the BMA GPs committee said: ‘While I cannot comment on specific cases, we would not condone this type of practice at all.

        ‘At the end of the day, it is for the parents to make the decision about what is right for their child.

        ‘No treatment should be administered to the child without the parent’s consent and to do so represents an assault.’

        A Department of Health spokesman said: ‘No children should be immunised unless their parents have given consent. None of the childhood vaccinations available in the UK are compulsory.’ ”

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-200847/Doctors-giving-MMR-stealth.html#ixzz3wrbfiFSE

        1. Some doctors do have financial compensation of vaccination.

          “But I recently talked with two physicians in different states that told me the HMO plans that they contract with do chart reviews and patient surveys at the end of each year. If their office scores high enough on these reviews, the HMO plan gives them a several thousand dollar bonus. This bonus varies depending on the number of patients the doctor sees. One of the requirements for a patient’s chart to pass the test is that they are fully vaccinated.

          Now, I can somewhat understand the logic behind this. The insurance wants to make sure all their clients are fully vaccinated so they don’t catch any particularly severe disease that might result in an expensive hospitalization or disability that would cost the insurance company a lot of money. Oh, and they probably also care about their clients overall health and wellbeing too. So, why not give their doctors a bonus for meeting this goal?

          Here’s why. This policy gives any doctor who contracts with such HMO plans an incentive to NOT want any unvaccinating families in their practice. Maybe a few such families wouldn’t make them fail the chart reviews, but if they have too many, there goes their year-end bonus.”
          https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/health-concerns/vaccines/do-doctors-have-financial-incentive-get-their-patients-fully-vaccinated

          1. Here is an article about doctors refusing to treat those who are not immunizing their children DESPITE the recommendations from the CDC and the AAP to do so. So they are going against the recommendations of higher authority..for the bonus money??

            Despite discouragement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), some physicians have started to dismiss families from their practices for refusing vaccines for their children.” and “The authors noted that there are still many aspects of vaccine refusal that are not well understood. “Because many [pediatricians] still dismiss families despite recommendations to the contrary, this practice should be better explored and understood both for its causes and its intended and unintended consequences,” they wrote.”..https://www.pediatricnews.com/specialty-focus/vaccines/article/most-pediatricians-fps-report-vaccine-refusal-14-dismiss-families-from-practice/244b4afa7d74735543cbb454b43b57fb.html

          2. It’s part of a global marketing strategy to increase market share for vaccines.
            Put financial pressure on doctors, schools, employees, and parents to sell product.
            It’s the back door method.

            No coincidence that Julie Gerberding goes from a position as CDC head to end up as Mercks Global communications director.

          3. I could do this all day long, there are that many news articles online about the criminal and questionable actions of pharmaceutical companies.

            Sex, Drugs, and Bribery: Pharma group accused of using cash and sex to generate $1.5bn in Chinese sales

            https://www.rt.com/business/sex-drugs-gaxlosmithkline-bribe-163/

            New rules ban gifts that drug companies can give doctors

            Code puts cap on drug companies
            Voluntary rules cut out free gifts sales reps use to influence physicians

            “Rogers says drug company advertising budgets, which have historically been larger than research and development budgets to bring new medicines to market, are a problem.

            Much of the pharmaceutical firms’ spending to market non-generic drugs was curbed earlier this decade when companies stopped handing out spa gift certificates and paying for doctors to travel to medical conferences in posh locales like Aspen, Colo., and Barbados.

            What still hasn’t been addressed: The amount drugmakers pay doctors to hit the speaking circuit for their products remains uncapped, although companies are now asked to keep a running tally of how much they pay each physician in consulting fees.

            The new code also indicates all grant money for continuing medical education programs should be administered through a division other than sales and marketing.”…https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/New-rules-ban-gifts-that-drug-companies-can-give-1741785.php

            Kickback accusations have yet again been raised against Novartis, a company that four years ago promised to live by a new integrity code. Already embroiled with the Justice Department over accusations that it put together kickback schemes with pharmacies, a former exec now suggests she was fired for suggesting similar methods in the way Novartis ($NVS) planned to award a contract to wholesaler and health services company McKesson ($MCK).

            The whistleblower lawsuit was filed in New Jersey by Min Amy Guo, the former executive director of Novartis’ Health Economics and Outcomes Research Group, according to the Star-Ledger. Guo claims in her lawsuit that she was fired last year after suggesting the way Novartis proposed awarding a contract to McKesson for a study of cancer drug Afinitor “presented a conflict of interest and an appearance of kickbacks under the disguise of research.”..

            https://www.fiercepharma.com/story/novartis-accused-again-kickback-tactics-new-whistleblower-suit/2014-07-08

          4. This is what is referred to as a Strawman. By using it, you reveal profound intellectual dishonesty. Your posts are also loaded with Red Herrings, meant to distract from the topic at hand, and to conflate unrelated issues. Anyone could make a straw-fueled bonfire, then roast the fish from your posts, thus solving world food-insecurity.

            By admitting that “you could do this all day” you admit how factually and morally bereft you are. Well done, you.

          5. Physicians are within their rights to refuse unvaccinated children from their practice. It is consistent with medical ethics in that the unvaccinated are more likely to pose a risk to other patients, including the most vulnerable.

            There is some controversy over this. Some think that a more inclusive approach will persuade, eventually, the hesitant. I don’t agree. I think that the hesitant may be prompted to commit, one way or the other, when faced with this practice policy. Those whose attitudes congeal on the antivax side are free to seek other providers. Hardliners aren’t worth the risk to other patients and will go elsewhere anyway.

          6. However, his observsation about insurance providers wanting to prevent disease, disability and death and thus supporting vaccination, has a basis in reality.

            OMG, Blob Fears included a grain of truth. However he’s warping how capitation works in HMOs. HMOs and conventional insurers, heartless as they can be, are masters of the maths of risk analysis. The numbers support the idea that it is always less expensive to prevent than treat disease, and they don’t want to undermine their profit. Dr Fears in contrast, advises his patients to “hide in the herd,” to plump up his bottom line. And his ego. And to sell books. The guy should not be in practice.

            Neither Blob Fears nor Graceds are really in a position to claim decency.

          7. No, it gives them another incentive to do so, at worst. There are plenty of non-financial incentives not to want non-vaccinating families:

            – BABIES TOO YOUNG
            -THERE ARE NUMBERS BETWEEN 0 AND 100
            -If you cannot accept the safest medical thing ever, how on earth can you trust the doctor to help your kid
            -IMMUNOCOMPRISED, IMMUNOALTERED, ETC.

        2. Over 2.5 BILLION vaccine doses, just between 2006 – 2014.

          Dwarfs your puny numbers and pathetic scare tactics.

        1. Too bad, Grace.

          As Sia pointed out earlier, if you think you’re smarter than highly educated, highly trained and experienced experts who collectively think vaccination is the best way to protect children from vaccine-preventable disease, disability and death, well you must be smart enough to figure out a solution to how to arrange homeschooling. It’s not anyone else’s problem.

          1. And yet none of the states that have never had non-medical exemptions are hotbeds of totalitarian activity -why is that?

          2. Additionally, it’s a good job we’re not asking everybody to homeschool.

            Just that minority who are smart enough to outwit all the collective experts – obviously, if they’re that smart and can school the entire global scientific community and medical community (ALL the biologists, ALL the chemists, ALL the immunologists and thousands of other people) or smart enough to expose the worldwide conspiracy if it actually exists….then they’re obviously smart enough to figure out a way to homeschool somewhere between 1 and 12 children or so.

  94. I have read Autismos comment regarding evidence. Autismo is wrong.

    Let us put it this way: Remember that we were talking about the difference between Democratic consensus and Scientific consensus?

    In a democracy, you might have to meet certain conditions in order to be eligible to vote. Obtaining the age of majority and managing not to be a felon are common conditions that are imposed.

    Just as refraining from committing felonies and obtaining a certain age is what you need to do in order to be an eligible voter is what you may need in order to be a vote – there are certain conditions that have to be met in order for your opinion to be anything other than that. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c9e218e7d9c17e5f61ac08e2ab4b51df4dbebb61be6080030143ef0e9d013fe8.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4da508e179579e14dc07487c2921cfcca09ad30f7ddd25d066a906fa2e46efe4.jpg

    1. I do not understand what argument you are trying to create. First of all, we live in a constitutional republic, not a democracy. This means that no matter how many of you pro-vaccine tyrants out there vote to take away a persons human rights, it is meaningless, because we have rights ordained by our creator. We hold these truths to be self evident. You, and all of you other people out there that advocate the violation of a person’s human rights, are reacting to all of this in a state of fear. You fear the unvaccinated because you have been told we will infect you. Operating from a state of fear is not the rational direction for humanity. Violating person freedoms and human rights is not either.

          1. To add:

            – “I don’t believe in vaccine homeopathy”
            – “You just deny an overwhelming body of evidence””

          2. Well, since I have seen it myself, I think Vacunas Autismo is projecting what he does on others.

            1)Too bad – this is Bob – he has a deep religious or personal belief that he is a better safer driver when he’s drunk or when he is over the speed limit.

            Since all the evidence is against this, nobody cares and Bob is not allowed to drive over either limit. If he wants to change this, it is up to him to provide evidence that he is an exception at the very least.

            Somehow, I suspect calling the police officer a ‘pig’ will not be taken as valid evidence.

            2)If you’ve never seen it, then you don’t know it’s wrong or is all bought and it is incredibly irresponsible of you to go around promoting ideas against the scientific consensus and you haven’t done enough research to sit at the adult table.

  95. Dear anti-coerced people:

    -If you do not know the difference between an element and a compound, you cannot even hope to make an informed decision.

    -If you do not know the difference between H20 and H202 and other similar-looking compound pairs, you cannot hope to make an informed decision.

    -If you do not know the difference between absolute and relative risks, you cannot make an informed decision or even hope to do so.

    – If you cannot understand the fifth grade maths of absolute vs relative risks, you cannot hope to understand the maths involved in working out exposure and you cannot make an informed decision based on that. I do not say this to be mean – the simple fact is that the maths is more complicated than fifth grade.

    -If you do not know the difference between an adverse event and a side effect, you cannot make an informed decision.

    -If you do not know the difference between correlation and causation, you cannot make an informed decision.

    -If you do not know the difference between IV and IM/SC injections, you cannot make an informed decision.

    – If any of this describes you SB277 does not interfere with your informed decision – it changes precisely *bugger all* with regard to your ability to make an informed decision – all it does is protect the rest of California from the results of your UNinformed or MISinformed choice.

    -Everyone wishes that laws like SB277 were not necessary.

    Are we quite clear?

    1. It is not your responsibility to educate others in order for them to see your point of view. We are all capable adults that can make their own decisions regarding our health. You have no right to dictate to others what medical procedures to adopt or ignore. Why do you think you have the right to do this? WHAT is wrong with you? How is it that you are so sure of yourself that you think you have the moral authority to mandate medical procedures onto other people that accrues with them risk? You people really need to understand what happened to those found guilty of violating the Nuremberg codes. That is where you are heading. Am I quite clear?

      1. Then why are you here? And Nuremberg codes apply to medical experimentation, not mainstream medical treatment and you absolutely can force procedures on people in some circumstances e.g. they lack capacity and you have a court order.

        I have not done anything to mandate procedures – if you really think that internet comments count as mandating or is anything like the Nuremberg experiments, you should pick up a History Book. Stop being so melodramatic.

        And absolutely! I also have the moral authority to tell others not to drive drunk and to stick to the speed limit

        Who are you to advocate the bigger risk?

        1. “…Nuremberg codes apply to medical experimentation”

          Treating healthy subjects is always medical experimentation.

          1. No we don’t, safety trials use toxic “placebos” and look selectively at the outcomes (in the rare case they’re clinical at all.)

            An even if the rates were known, no matter how low they’re always above ZERO which is the tolerance for adverse events on HEALTHY subjects.

          2. “Toxic” – what substance is over the toxicity threshold – none.

            As for healthy subjects and side effects being above zero – no or seatbelts would be illegal among other things.

          3. “…”Toxic” – what substance is over the toxicity threshold – none.

            Perhaps, but immunoactivity knows no thresholds. One singe molecule can trigger a immune reaction.

            Using a substance as placebo masks any (immuno)toxic effects. Vaccine safety trials routinely use adjuvants as fake “placebo” to avoid exposing said effects.

            “…seatbelts would be illegal”

            They’re not covered by the Nuremberg code, as any fool knows they’re not medical treatments.

          4. Vaccines are medical interventions on healthy people, exactly what the Nazi’s did in the camps and what the Nuremberg code was agreed for to prevent from occurring again (unless consent).

          5. No. Pick up a history book.

            Here is what the Nuremberg code is about https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/archive/nurcode.html

            Subject, experiment subject, experiment – what do you notice about these terms and what they have in common?

            I’m so glad you brought up the Nuremberg code though – my favourite is number 7. “Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.” – Protecting them against polio sounds like a precaution against disability to me, protecting against injury is what medical contradictions and precautions and simple things like handwashing is for – protecting against death – meningitis can and does kill quickly.

            See, I can make a Nazi comparision too.

            If you still feel that strongly about it, you should get in contact with The Hague or Amnesty International – those are the people with the authority to actually do something about violations of Nuremberg Code.

          6. “protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death..

            Protecting them against polio sounds like a precaution against disability to me”

            Finally you admit vaccine subjects are experimental subjects .. lol.

            The part where it says “even remote possibilities of injury” includes vaccine injury or not?

            The Nuremberg code is giving you a clear case of indigestion. More than you can possibly chew.

          7. That is not my admittance. Kindly read it again. Vaccines are not experimental – the experiments have been done with full consent.

            You are the one running an experiment. Did you ask your kid if they were content to run a higher risk of polio and put that onto others?

          8. “…Vaccines are not experimental – the experiments have been done with full consent.”

            Consent is not enough, it has to be:

            1. INFORMED
            2. COERCION FREE

            No the case in the U.S. or anywhere else for that matter.

          9. The experiments are done – that is what clinical trials are! They were informed! They were co-ercion free!

          10. “…The experiments are done – that is what clinical trials are!”

            The massively manipulated ones that Cochrane warned about? lol.

            The vaccine so-called “safety” trials that routinely use adjuvants as fake “placebo” to conceal their ill effects?

            Vaccine trials are on-going, they’re called mass vaccinations and they’re coercion based.

          11. Those were about flu vaccines and SB277 does not mandate or co-erce flu vaccines.

            And again, WRITE TO INTERNATIONAL AMNESTY OR THE HAGUE – convincing us doesn’t help your case because random internet commenters can do precisely bugger all about violations of Nuremberg code.

          12. “…Those were about flu vaccines and SB277 does not mandate or co-erce flu vaccines.”

            The manufacturers are the same that manufacture the mandated vaccines.

            Once their mass manipulation with flu vaccines got exposed, the bulk of their products and clinical trials become suspect by default.

          13. Again. Random internet comenters can do precisely bugger all about violations of human rights.

            Unicef, The Hague or Amnesty International are the authorities.

          14. I’m the authority regarding my health and that of my kids and I do all that’s necessary to enforce my decisions. AI can do zilch against the government/corporations cartel.

          15. AI are vaccine illiterates. I’d have to take charge of my own defense.

            Better people like Attorney Don Manuel Sáez Ochoa who filed a criminal complaint against Merck-Sanofi Pasteur Laboratories on the base that they failed to use an inert placebo during clinical trials, thereby manipulating data and marketing Gardasil under false pretences.

            These are the kind of people that make a change.

          16. So you’re smarter than the Hague and Amnesty International and Unicef too.

            Not sure why homeschooling would pose the slightest bit of a problem to you.

          17. “…So you’re smarter than the Hague and Amnesty International and Unicef too.”

            Which make blunders all the time LOL.

            Only the feeble of mind would rely on political institutions to do their thinking for them.

            I might prefer to ask the Russian FSB former KGB! LOL.

          18. “only the feeble of mind would rely on political institutions” – great then you don’t want your kids in school anyway.

          19. So do people without children, so do pro-vaxxers. You also pay taxes for the road – you don’t get to drive drunk or over the speed limit either.

          20. Keep your kid home, we will not yield. Vaccinations that are untested are not safe. Exemptions exemptions exemptions. Go enslave someone else you puppet troller.

          21. As an E.R. nurse, I have seen the cover up. Where do you think kids go when they have a vaccine reaction?
            They go to the E.R.
            They come to me.
            Once,
            I was training a nursing student, about to graduate, on their E.R.
            experience rotation in nursing school. This student and I floated up to
            triage to cover the triage nurse for a break. I was quizzing them on
            what to ask and look for as a triage nurse on pediatric kids that came
            through. I made a point about asking about immunizations right out the
            gates. The student was puzzled, and asked why, and I told the student
            because we see vaccine reactions every day and it’s their job to catch
            it, alert the doctor and the parents, and report it to VAERS.
            Some higher power apparently smiled on my attempt to open the eyes of another nurse I guess, because not even ten minutes later,
            a woman brought her child up to the counter. Sudden onset super high
            fever and lethargy. I asked if the child was up to date on vaccination.
            The mother replied he had them just a few hours ago.
            I glanced at the student, who looked shocked and looked back at me in
            disbelief. I nodded, told them to remember this, and then took the mom
            and her child to finish the triage in back. When I was done I came back
            and sat down with the student, and asked what he learned that night so
            far. The first response: “What I was told about vaccines wasn’t true”.
            I couldn’t have said it better. That student is going to go on to be like
            me, advocating for his patients with his eyes wide open.
            The cases almost always presented similarly, and often no one else
            connected it. The child comes in with either a fever approaching 105, or
            seizures, or lethargy/can’t wake up, or sudden overwhelming sickness,
            screaming that won’t stop, spasms, GI inclusion, etc.
            And one of the first questions I would ask as triage nurse, was, are they
            current on their vaccinations? It’s a safe question that nobody sees
            coming, and nobody understands the true impact of. Parents (and
            co-workers) usually just think I’m trying to rule out the vaccine
            preventable diseases, when in fact, I am looking to see how recently
            they were vaccinated to determine if this is a vaccine reaction.https://vaccineimpact.com/2016/government-continues-to-pay-damages-for-injuries-and-deaths-due-to-the-flu-vaccine-in-vaccine-court/

          22. Don’t be silly – where there is a risk, there must be a choice. Unvaccinated kids have had parents who made a choice to risk the bigger risk on everyone and the rest of California has made its choice – they aren’t allowed in school.

          23. Yep they are allowed, don’t like it keep your kids home. Over and early vaccination is the greatest risk facing children.

          24. Again, wrong. Manufacturing, labelling defects – can be sued for.

            Design defects – yes, as long as you go through VCIP first which pays for everything.

            Design defects for knives – you’re out of luck. Manufacturing, labeling defects – yes. You’ll have to pay for your own lawyers if you want to sue a knife manufacturer though.

          25. What is being co-erced is a PROVEN PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURE!

            WE COERCE RESTAURANT WORKERS TO WASH THEIR HANDS DESPITE A SMALL RISK OF ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO SOAP!

            WE CO-ERCE PEOPLE NOT TO SPEED EVEN IF IT MEANS THEY ARE LATE FOR WORK!

            WE CO-ERCE PEOPLE TO DRIVE SOBER EVEN IF IT MEANS THEY ARE INCONCEIENCED.

          26. “..What is being co-erced is a PROVEN PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURE!”

            Proven or not, a public health measure can only be coerced where there’s actually a real, not a hypothetical or imagined public health threat.

          27. I’m so sorry that U.S. law is so poorly redacted that leaves public health decisions up to judges with no understanding of medical ethics or vaccines.

            Other, more civilized countries have better laws with little room for arbitrariness.

          28. I don’t know the Baby Riley case, care to enlighten me on what you think relevant to our debate

          29. Seriously, you complain about “exceptional” vaccine injury reports then cling to an exceptional case of natural disease in an unvaccinated kid … to prove what?

            The pertussis vaccine has been proven ineffective again and again and again.

          30. With a vaccine that doesn’t work? LOL

            Why is pertussis affecting mostly vaccinated kids? because their parents are so “smart”?

          31. Again, this is fifth grade maths. It has been explained repeatedly.

            1)There are numbers between 0 and 100%

            2) There are more vaccinated kids full stop.

          32. None of the above contradicts the vaccine causing and spreading tbe disease, on the ontrary, it strongly hints at a promising line of investigation.

          33. No but the fact it’s acelluar does. It isn’t even a whole germ – I can not run you over with a small handful of car parts.

          34. “…No but the fact it’s acelluar does. It isn’t even a whole germ”

            You fail to understand.

            The vaccine favours colonization by Bordetella parapertussis which also causes whooping cough. This is the germ whose proliferation and therefore transmission is being favoured by the vaccine.

            https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

            Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization.

            Another vaccine “succes” story!

            Keep experimenting with your kids (and OUR kids), “smart” parents!.

          35. “..Parapertussis is not whooping cough.”

            Here:

            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482815_3

            Whooping Cough CAUSED by Bordetella parapertussis

            https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

            An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.

            Or should I reply with a … cartoon?

          36. ” …The bit where you eastablished causation.”

            I didn’t, these scientists did:

            https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

            Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization

            An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.

          37. Parapertussis =/= pertussis.

            “clearance of B. Pertussis.” – thank you for showing us all that vaccines work.

          38. “…Parapertussis =/= pertussis.|

            When did I claim that?

            I said – and you coudn’t debunk – Parapertussis is whooping cough too.

            “…thank you for showing us all that vaccines work.”

            They might “work” but increasing the incidence of disease is a novel method of “prevention”. Shall we nominate you for the Noble Prize?

          39. What do you tell those “smart” parents when they lose a kid to vaccine injury?

            a) You’re antivaccines! (from then on it would be true).
            b) You’ve sacrificed the most loved for the common good (as in communism).
            c) You’ve shaken your baby! (take them to court for SBS, double punishment).
            d) You just shut up like a well paid whore.

          40. Okay, you are officially beyond hope.

            a)Not necessarily. No-one expects a child with vaccine injuries to continue their vaccines – that’s why all of who can vaccinate should.

            b)They are equivalent to parents who lost a kid in the rare accident where the seatbelt trapped kiddo in the car – seatbelt was still the safer option. You offer your condolences just like you would to parents who lose any kids.

            c)Vaccines do not smear brain matter across the skull, genius. So in that case, court and you can officially call them liars.

            d)Facts not in evidence.

          41. “…c)Vaccines do not smear brain matter across the skull, genius. So in that case, court and you can officially call them liars.:

            Yes, they do, the mechanism is known:

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9080932

            Syncope after immunization.

            Six patients suffered skull fracture, cerebral bleeding, or cerebral contusion after falls.

            Seriously, vaccines can cause cerebral stroke:

            https://psh.sagepub.com/content/21/4/297.full.pdf

            Fig. 1. MRI of cerebellar stroke in a child one day after seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine. .</blockquote

          42. Its only redeeming value lies in showing lurkers and fencesitters the reprehensible extremes to which these folks are prone. So there’s that.

          43. “…They are equivalent to parents who lost a kid in the rare accident where the seatbelt trapped kiddo in the car”

            – Seatbelts don’t pretend to prevent accidents. Seatbelts can only kill if the accident materializes.

            – Vaccines pretend to prevent disease. Vaccines maim and kill even if never exposed to the disease.

            The asinine vaccine/seatbelt comparison is recurrent and typical of half-witted pro-vaxers.

          44. That is an extended analogy fallacy and is it is typical of quarter-witted anti-vaxxers to make it when it is reasoning to reasoning and not subject to subject that is being compared.

          45. The clinical trials were the basis of a lawsuit in Spain against Gardasil.
            The complaint states that Merck Laboratories failed to use an inert placebo during clinical trials, thereby manipulating data and marketing Gardasil under false pretences. -https://healthimpactnews.com/2014/gardasil-vaccine-spain-joins-growing-list-of-countries-to-file-criminal-complaints/#sthash.2urNSLza.dpuf

          46. If you have information that conflicts you are welcome to post it.

            ” June 19 2014, Logroño, Spain: Attorney Don Manuel Sáez Ochoa filed a criminal complaint against Merck-Sanofi Pasteur Laboratories, Spanish National Health authorities, and the regional health authorities of the La Rioja province on behalf of Zuriñe Jiménez Guereño and her mother Doña Maria del Carmen Jiménez Guereño for injuries and disabilities suffered by Zuriñe after the administration of Gardasil. “

          47. Your claim, your burden of proof.

            Your sources should be able to do 5th grade maths and 9th grade chemistry if we are going to look at them.

          48. Um, no. It is not up to the skeptic to disprove it – it is up to the claimant to prove it.

            Burden of proof is not the same as an issue.

          49. Merck-Sanofi Pasteur, Spain’s National and Regional (La Rioja) health authorities are charged with the following:
            fraudulent marketing and/or administration of an inadequately tested vaccine;
            failure to inform the public about the potential risks of using Gardasil;
            clear infringement of the right to informed consent;
            ignoring new medical conditions in those who used Gardasil despite the similarity of their symptoms and the relatively short period of time between vaccine administration and the onset of symptoms;
            ignoring established and new scientific evidence illustrating the potential harmful effects of Gardasil ingredients and manufacturing methods;
            callous disregard for those suffering new medical conditions post-Gardasil;
            failure to inform the public that HPV infections are simply one of the risk factors involved in the development of cervical cancer;
            failure to inform the public that 90% of all HPV infections clear on their own without medical intervention;
            failure to inform the publlic about alternative methods of controlling cervical cancer
            and criminal liability for the injuries resulting from the administration of Gardasil
            https://healthimpactnews.com/2014/gardasil-vaccine-spain-joins-growing-list-of-countries-to-file-criminal-complaints/#sthash.2urNSLza.WN9wRkL6.dpuf

          50. Yes. We’ve had this discussion on this page already. You are smart enough to scroll around and find it since you’re so much smarter than the entire global and scientific medical consensus.

          51. Again, though. Contact The Hague or Amnesty International or Federal crimes or w/e it’s called if you feel that strongly about it – they are the proper authority to handle this – random internet commenters cannot do anything about SB277 – it is done.

          52. Evidence is absent in post-release surveillance for any autoimmune “epidemic.” Find a different hobby horse. You embarrass yourself.

          53. Scientific evidence of the mechanism exists, if surveillance can’t locate the victims then something is wrong with the so-called “surveillance”, which is more a political construct than a scientific one.

          54. You have abjectly failed to demonstrate or hypothesise a plausible biologic mechanism. You do not understand immunology, as your comments make abundantly clear. Are you a Lymie (so-called chronic Lyme disease believer) by chance?

          55. Oh I did post the papers explaining the mechanism dozens of times in this thread (look them up – one by Dr. Off-it! lol). If you dismiss them based on your beliefs it’s YOUR problem, deal with it.

          56. You have posted some papers, but you either have not read them, or do not understand them.

            Have a nice day.

          57. No – you have to have some way to know when you’re wrong – you don’t get to claim that there must be something wrong with the surveillance if they can’t capture Bigfoot – it’s entirely possible to not find things because they’re not there.

      2. Godwin* (albeit a clumsy one)**. Bonus for thinly veiled call to violence: you really have a hang-up for hanging, don’tcha?
        Nuremberg applies to research. Besides, haven’t you lot kept up? Now it’s the Common Rule, which is based, and expands on, Nuremberg.
        Still doesn’t apply here, although some concepts to carry over to general medical practice. In the context of vaccine research (if that’s where you were headed, who knows?) ethical guidelines have been stringently followed. It’s highly regulated.

        *Godwin means you forfeit.
        **Maybe we should just start a drinking game. One shot for each antivax bingo square? It would be way more entertaining and secondarily lead to anaesthesia against the derp. But the game would be brief, because we’d all be rendered unconscious in short order. I’m not sure my liver could take it.

        Mods: Please consider an autoban for all calls to violence. This poster previously suggested he would supply the rope and stool (and perhaps kick it out from under) pro-vaccine advocates.

        1. All vaccines are experimental.
          They are not tested for carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and effect on fertility.

          1. Neither have pears. Because there is no reason to think they cause cancer.

            Clearly if 120 times formaldehyde in a pear is not enough to cause a cancer than 1/120th times is not enough either.

          2. Your logic is interesting.
            It’s OK to coerce families to take every vaccination because pears aren’t tested for cancer.

          3. You are missing several key steps in the logic. I am not going to spell it out for since you are so much smarter than the scientific consensus.-+

          4. However, there is roughly a century of post-release surveillance. There is no evidence-based indication that we should be worried about any of the issues you raise.

            Argumentum ad nauseam, circular reasoning, argument by assertion.

            What a lovely collection of fallacies you display. You seem like someone who would find quantum healing attractive.

          5. You exhibit perfectly circular reasoning.
            Let’s not test pharmaceuticals unless we know they cause cancer!
            And let’s coerce families to inject everyone.
            Brilliant plan.

          6. Research should be justified by prior plausibility and in this case, any suggestion in the surveillance data that there might be an issue. There isn’t, in either case. Do you honestly* think cancer and other researchers aren’t paying attention?

            Your logical fallacy (one of many) is Appeal from Ignorance.

            Ignorant and boring do not a good match make. Please come up with something novel and relevant, instead repeating the same stale “points” over and over and . . .

            *The word honestly, in this context, kinda stuck in my throat on its way to the keyboard.

        2. And your companion Captain Moonlight makes vicious statements about sterilizing people who support Vaccine choice with a red-hot poker.

          1. He reconsidered his invective and removed his comment voluntarily.

            The same cannot be said for your buddy, Mountain Man. As hate rhetoric has recently had some deadly consequences, requesting an autoban is a reasonable position.

            You are a hypocrite.

    2. All of the above could be justified if the issue were treatment of a child with a medical condition.

      But vaccines are non-risk-free invasive treatments for people that are HEALTHY and therefore not seeking or eligible for medical intervention.

      Your reasoning, therefore, is not applicable. Rather, what’s applicable is the PREACAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE: “if healthy do not treat!”

      .. a principle that emanates from another medical ETHICAL principle: “the rate of side effects tolerable in healthy people is ZERO”

      … which in turn emanates from the Hypocratical Oath: “first do no harm”.

      The only situation when the above principles may be legally overruled in is case of an clearly quantified and identified epidemic emergency, which is not the case in the U.S.

      Those who claim the need to force vaccination must duely substantiate the medical emergency at hand or be sent home packing!

      Am I quite clear?

        1. Someone’s irrational fear of an epidemic is NOT an epidemic emergency, therefore not a valid reason to forcibly treat healthy people.

          1. “You believing there’ll be an epidemic is NOT an epidemic” – True.

            ” therefore not a valid reason to forcibly treat healthy people.”

            YOU ARE CONTAGIOUS BEFORE YOU ARE SICK.

          2. Someone’s irrational fear of others being contagious is NOT an epidemic emergency, therefore not a valid reason to forcibly treat healthy people.

          3. IRRATIONAL FEAR means NO EVIDENCE. That describes most of the vaccine injuries fear.

            There does NOT have to be an epidemic for Jacobson to count – Zucht vs King, among many others.

            PUBLIC HEALTH CANNOT BE LEFT SOLELY UP TO INDIVIDUAL CHOICES.

          4. “..PUBLIC HEALTH CANNOT BE LEFT SOLELY UP TO INDIVIDUAL CHOICES”

            Certainly not, but there has to be a valid, tangible reason to declare a public heath emergency.

            Unless you believe we live in a permanent public health emergency, and that is the mental picture vax-pushers are projecting all the time.

          5. Certainly not, but there has to be a valid, tangible reason to declare a public heath emergency.” – there’s just been a measles outbreak, done.

            And legally, you are incorrect.

          6. “..And legally, you are incorrect.”

            Depends on whether a country is ruled by its people or by corporations.

            Mine belongs to the first group and so do many many others.

          7. School mandates and forced treatment are close, but not the same.

            School mandates are coercion into treatment (you can opt out of the school system), which is grave enough. The right of children to an education is being trampled for corporate interests.

            American kids are given the choice: stupid by vaccination or stupid by undereducation. Idiocracy is where you’re being herded led to.

            In most countries you can’t opt out of the school system and therefore no school mandates.

          8. Don’t you live in the Netherlands? What exactly is your stake in spreading vaccine misinformation in the US?

            By the way, children in the US are required, in most circumstances, to attend school through highschool graduation, and public schools are provided. There is no “opt-out” as you imply. However, parents may chose to send their children to private schools or homeschool, as long as they meet certain conditions (that is, they are subject to similar performance mandates). Homeschoolers are assumed, therefore, to receive an equivalent education.

            Your argument is as vaccous as your ‘nym. Unless you’re suggesting that antivax parents are incompetent/stupid? Hmmn. Should make you question the decision to refuse vaccination, if that’s the case.

          9. “..Don’t you live in the Netherlands? What exactly is your stake in spreading vaccine misinformation in the US?”

            1. To let Americans learn how a civilized country balances public health interests with personal rights.

            2. Because whatever scam spreads in the U.S ends up spreading worldwide.

          10. Are you one of those Dutch religious kooks that promote antivax dumbf*ckery? If so, that would make you a minority even in your own country. Apparently you have a nose for it though.

            Sometimes I hate the intert00bz.

          11. Please forgive me. Antivax cultist rhetoric is often indistinguishable from religious fevour.

            So, why are you an antivax quacktivist? Do you have a personal story? I’m curious.

          12. “…Antivax cultist rhetoric is often indistinguishable from religious fevour.”

            Believers also call atheism a “religion” lol. …you remind me so much of my arguments with them.

            So far you were the only mentioning religions and cults, so how about buying a mirror and look at your obsessions in the face?

          13. “…Who appointed you to “teach us a lesson”?”

            The american entitlement to meddle in other people’s matters all over the world. Try to stop me! lol.

          14. That’s the Netherlands with persistent endemic measles in the antivax Bible Belt, right? Here’s Vacunas’ version of “civilized”.

            During the epidemic, 2,700 measles cases were reported, mostly among children 5–14 years of age (Table 1). In 329 patients, complications such as otitis media, pneumonia, and encephalitis developed. One child died from measles complications, and 181 patients were hospitalized. One patient with encephalitis spent 8 months in a rehabilitation clinic.

          15. “…That’s the Netherlands with persistent endemic measles in the antivax Bible Belt..”

            Measles cases in vaccinated kids are simply denied (the vaccine can’ t fail, right, so it can’t be measles!). That’s why we neve hear about the epidemics among them.

            Specific Instructions for this are spelled black on white on the WHO guidelines:

            Manual for the laboratory diagnosis of measles virus infection

            https://www.who.int/ihr/elibrary/manual_diagn_lab_mea_rub_en.pdfdf

            (table on page 9)

            IgM positive -> laboratory confirmed (**)

            ** If the case has been vaccinated within 6 weeks before serum collection and an active search in the community does not find evidence of measles transmission, and there is no history of travelling to areas where measles virus is known to be circulating, the case should be discarded.”

            Vaccination is a rigged game and only the idiots play.

          16. It makes a lot more sense to compare post-vaccine vaccine deaths with pre-vaccine deaths. This is like complaining about 4 deaths from seatbelts and not talking about 1000s of people who used to fly through the windshield. Looks like there were over 50 polio deaths a year before the vaccine came out. Haven’t been able to find measles.

            Incidentally, there isn’t any causal determination in your data either, as far as I can tell. That is, just as with VAERS, deaths that occurred shortly after a vaccination would be listed, even if the cause were something else entirely.

          17. “…It makes a lot more sense to compare post-vaccine vaccine deaths with pre-vaccine deaths”

            Pre-vaccine measles corresponds to today’s definition of “suspect case”, therefore pre-vaccine numbers are a gross overestimation of the true incidence.

            Deaths by all measles-like diseases were computed as “measles deaths”, giving rise to the “measles is dangerous” myth.

            You want to compare (apples + pears) to (pears).

          18. Nonsense, total nonsense.

            For those of you new to the debate, antivax cranks believe (or pretend to believe) that all those hundreds of thousands of diagnoses made (many without lab tests) in the pre-vaccine era were wrong. Not only wrong, but part of a conspiracy, because one of the lab tests that was used to confirm measles cases pre-vaccine doesn’t make any sense to give to vaccinated people.

            The problem with their logic is that we have a 99.99% reduction in “measles-like” illness (and deaths), unless you believe that literally millions of parents whose older children had measles-like illness that was measles, and who themselves had measles-like illness that was measles, are somehow not noticing the distinctive rash and high fever of measles, this is some sort of paranoid tinfoil fantasy. You might as well believe that the earth is secretly controlled by lizards that only antivaxers can see, and some of them probably do.

            When Vacunas Autismo says vaccines cause autism, he is merely wrong. It’s an issue that warranted investigation. When he says that we didn’t have hundreds of thousands of cases of measles annually before the vaccine, he is bat-guano insane.

          19. “…antivax cranks believe (or pretend to believe) that all those hundreds of thousands of diagnoses made (many without lab tests) in the pre-vaccine era were wrong.”

            Actually it’s ALL without virological tests.

            You must have a crystal ball to tell which were true measles and which would have been discarded by today’s virological tests..

            :”…The problem with their logic is that we have a 99.99% reduction in “measles-like” illness (and deaths)”

            Do we? Let’s look at the Mexican case:

            2014: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            The pre-vaccine criteria for “measles” is the same as post-vaccine “suspect case” (one meeting the clinical definition).

            By pre-vaccine criteria Mexico suffered a large measles epidemic in 2014 LOL.

            By post-vaccine criteria 98% of the clinical cases are not measles anymore. A medical miracle! LOL!

            Thus, a mere diagnosis flip-flop accounts for a whooping 98% reduction of the reported incidence!

            A kiss in the butt would achieved the same reduction as the vaccine.

          20. Here’s what Vacunas’ source says—at the bottom, as usual he didn’t read it all the way through.

            Any person in whom a clinician suspects measles OR any person with fever, AND
            generalized maculopapular (i.e. non-vesicular) rash, AND cough, coryza (i.e. runny nose) or
            conjunctivitis (i.e. red eyes).

            That’s a rather low bar. VA has to believe that a bizarre diagnostic conspiracy is hiding literally 1 million USA cases of “measles-like” disease every year. (In Mexico, there would be hundreds of thousands of cases, some of them probably severe because of widespread poor nutrition.)

            Over the last several years, I’ve encountered antivaxers who (1) didn’t believe seat belts save lives; (2) thought that there were magic formulas whose incantation meant your income was exempt from tax; (3) ridiculed the “Ball Earth” theory in favor of the Flat Earth. Sounds about right. And, of course, most of them disdain the Germ Theory of Disease, with its impersonal operation; their good health does not come from widespread vaccination, but from their own personal virtue. If some people get sick, they were just losers.

          21. “…That’s a rather low bar. “

            It is extremely low. Anything (almost) can be declared “suspect measles”.

            The sad thing … it’s the same low bar used to declare the pre-vaccine “measles epidemics”!

            Thanks for proving my point!

            Just raise the bar (lab confirmation) and PUF! measles magically disappears .. but the rash diseases don’t, they maim and kill just the same whether they’re called “measles” or not, only this time nobody is looking.

          22. No, suspicion &neq; diagnosis.

            I’m going to guess you are very young. Older antivaxers will tell you measles was “benign” or that whatever good it does the vaccine causes autism (halitosis, baldness, etc.), but no one old enough to remember believes we still have measles today. About 1 in 4 children would be diagnosed with measles. I don’t see that in today’s schools, for measles or any other illness.

            Lurkers: Remember, unless you take the blue pill, you don’t realize the government is run by Lizard People.

          23. “…No, suspicion &neq; diagnosis.”

            As explained 1,000 times before, today’s definition of “suspected measles” is the same as the pre-vaccine definition of “measles case”.

            Quit pretending you don’t know, you’re beginning to look stupid.

          24. “…Where are the 1 million cases of suspected measles?”

            In the same place as typhus and scarlet fever.

          25. Ninety a year? ROFL. You still have several hundred thousand to go.

            The drop in measles when the vaccine was released was obvious and precipitous, unlike the gradual declines in typhus (better sanitation) and scarlet fever (good question).

          26. “…The drop in measles when the vaccine was released was obvious and precipitous,

            Just as precipitous as the restrictions in the diagnosis that accompanied the vaccines.

            “…unlike the gradual declines in typhus (better sanitation) and scarlet fever”

            The diagnosis criteria for these illnesses remained the same.

          27. “…Ninety a year? ROFL. You still have several hundred thousand to go.”

            https://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/178/6/1567.long

            Etiology of Measles- and Rubella-like Illnesses in Measles, Mumps, and Rubella—Vaccinated Children

            This paper shows that the measles like diseases in “suspect cases” are parvovirus (20%), followed by enterovirus (9%) and adenovirus (4%).

            Parvovirus alone is extremely common in the U.S. and affects 90% of the population by the age of 60. That’s more than 4,000,000 cases per year.

            https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/961063-overview#a6

            Parvovirus B19 infection is extremely common. Seropositivity rates are 5-10% among young children (aged 2-5 years), increasing to 50% by age 15 years and 60% by age 30 years. A small percentage of adults acquire infection every year, resulting in an incidence of approximately 90% in adults older than 60 years.

            Add enterovirus and adenovirus and you have the answer as to where the “old measles” has gone (or rather hidden from public attention).

          28. Here’s a good chance to follow antivax logic (using the word loosely). Ninety Finnish children a year come down with an unknown condition. Tests are done. A plurality have Parvovirus B19, which causes Fifth Disease, ones of whose symptoms is a rash different from measles’. The fever is lower. Complications such as ear infections, much less frequent. While anyone can make a mistake, these were recognized as distinct illnesses in the 18th Century.

            It would make almost as much sense for VA to refer to the estimated 1 billion colds in the USA per year as the hidden measles.

            By the way, VA confused seropositivity to Parvo 19 with clinical cases of the disease. Over 95% of the pre-vaccine population had seropositivity to measles, so by his accounting, that would also be 4 million cases per year. I was counting the people with clinical cases, i.e., whose immune systems didn’t fight the disease off asymptomatically. Google doesn’t tell me how many clinical cases of Fifth Disease we have every year.

          29. “…Parvovirus B19, ones of whose symptoms is a rash different from measles, The fever is lower. Complications such as ear infections, much less frequent. “

            A rash is a rash, a fever a fever, and doctors couldn’t tell the difference. It’s stated black on white on the paper:

            “…Inaccuracy of clinical diagnoses was soon realized to be a problem in Finland, because after introduction of the MMR program, because most suspected cases were not confirmed serologically as an MMR disease.”

            What do your vaxed eyes see when you read inaccuracy of clinical diagnoses was soon realized? I’m really curious to understand your denial process!

            You’re looking stupider by the hour by stubbornly denying the evidence.

          30. VA suffers from a variation of the Nirvana Fallacy. Usually antivaxers babble that Everything not Perfect is Useless, so a 5% failure rate in the MMR means it isn’t worth anything at all. Now it’s: Anything Misdiagnosed Once Can Never Be Distinguished.

            Sorry, VA, Version 2 isn’t any more valid. Once you realize that, all of his conspiracy-mongering falls apart.

            (Oh, there is an exception. Parents with no medical or even college education are always right when they attribute autism. Not.)

          31. Nice rant, pal, resorting to gross generalizations and avoiding the issues.

            I hope you feel better now, you badly needed it. Have a good night!

          32. From the paper:

            “…Inaccuracy of clinical diagnoses was soon realized to be a problem in Finland, because after introduction of the MMR program, most suspected cases were not confirmed serologically as an MMR disease.”

            LOL!

            Translation:

            After the MMR program it was realized that the incidence of measles remained the same. We had to restrict the diagnostic criteria to show any effect of the vaccine!

          33. Typhys, LOL! Typhus is also known as “jail fever”. You get it the same way you get bubonic plague. “The bacteria that causes this type is usually spread from rats to fleas to humans.” I don’t think too many of my mother’s friends had kids with typhus.
            https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001363.htm

            Scarlet fever results from untreated strep. Strep is treated by another bete noir of the crunchy anti-vax crowd-antibiotics.

          34. Explanation for simpler intellects:

            – Before the vaccines:

            . . . . . measles = (measles virus + parvovirus + enterovirus + adenovirus + nonr-viral rash diseases)

            . . . . . . why? because no lab tests were performed and all the diseases show the same symptoms.

            – After the vaccines:

            . . . . . measles = (measles virus)

            . . . . . . why? because suspect cases are confirmed with lab tests and discarded if the measles virus is absent.

            – Where has the old measles have gone then?

            Parvovirus alone is extremely common in the U.S. and affects 90% of the population by the age of 60 (see here). That’s more than 4,000,000 cases per year.

            Old measles is alive and well today, but hidden from public view because nobody makes an issue of parvovirus, enterovirus and adenovirus.

          35. Exactly! Now, I’m going to say something that, at first glance, looks like it’s supportive of VA. Just keep on reading, you’ll see.

            My mom was a public health nurse in the late 1940s, before she got married. It used to drive her nuts to hear, in the 1950s, moms talking about their kids having measles 4,5,6 times. She knew you could only get it once. So yeah, maybe there was some over-diagnosis, BY PARENTS! There are a lot of rash diseases out there.

            But, the research shows that 95-98% of people born before 1957, about 6 years before the vaccine came out, have measles antibodies, meaning they had measles disease.
            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/measles/faqs-dis-vac-risks.htm

          36. “…So yeah, maybe there was some over-diagnosis, BY PARENTS! There are a lot of rash diseases out there.”

            Let’s look at the performance of WHO trained doctors in Mexico:

            2014: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measlesreportedcasesbycountry.pdf

            – Suspected measles cases: 4,512
            – Confirmed measles: 2 (lab confirmed).

            The accuracy of your “trained doctors” at diagnosing measles by clinical presentation is, therefore, a whopping 0.04% !

            Some over-diagnosis you say? Yours is the understatement of the year, shill.

            “…There are a lot of rash diseases out there.”

            BIIINGOOOO! and they were massively mislabeled as measles too. Nobody gives a flying fk about them today though, there’s no vaccine!

          37. I should have known better than to try to reason with you. BTW, Aurora isn’t in Mexico, so I don’t know what you mean by “our” doctors. And you note a reference to WHO trained doctors. Is not your country part of WHO?

          38. And? Please address the point!

            The accuracy of well trained doctors at diagnosing measles by clinical presentation is 0.04%

            This means the pre-vaccine true incidence of measles might have been overestimated by as much as 225,500 %

            Mind boggling!

          39. At least 95% of them have measles antibodies, bub!

            How would you know without a lab test? using Lazarus’s crystal ball

          40. What the H*LL are you talking about? The reason people had antibodies back then was because they had measles disease. One of those 4, 5, 6 episodes of rash disease actually WAS measles. Now they get vaccinated! They don’t have to be laid up for two weeks.

            Antibodies = infection.

          41. “…Antibodies = infection”

            Not necessarily, but that’s irrelevant,

            What’s irrelevant is that Antibodies =/= disease.

            The presence of antibodies indicate successful neutralization or immunity.

          42. https://www.rivm.nl/en/Topics/M/Measles
            “In The Netherlands a measles epidemic occurred from May 2013 until March
            2014 in municipalities with low vaccine coverage (below 90 percent)
            against measles. Many of the people living in these areas belong to the
            Dutch Orthodox Reformed Church. For religious reasons they do not have
            their children vaccinated. Over 2600 patients with measles have been reported. Because not
            everyone who had measles went to the doctor, the actual number of
            patients, however, was much higher. During the epidemic, 182
            children were hospitalised and one child deceased from
            complications of measles. Children aged 6 months with an increased
            risk of being infected with measles were provided complementary
            vaccination against measles. This applied only to children who
            lived in communities with low vaccine coverage. An animation
            of the progress of the epidemic until February 12, 2014 can be
            found at the
            National Public Health Atlas (Dutch only). number of deaths since
            measles vaccination was introduced into the Dutch National
            Vaccination Program in 1976. The vaccination is at least 95%
            effective. Measles epidemics occur periodically among the
            population groups who are not vaccinated. The last outbreak in the
            Netherlands was between 1999 and 2000 when there were 150
            children with measles admitted to a hospital and three children
            died from the effects of the disease.”

            Don’t break your neck falling off your high horse!

          43. WHO instructions are to discard vaccinated measles without proper testing:

            Manual for the laboratory diagnosis of measles virus infection

            https://www.who.int/ihr/elibrary/manual_diagn_lab_mea_rub_en.pdfdf

            (table on page 9)

            IgM positive -> laboratory confirmed (**)

            ** If the case has been vaccinated within 6 weeks before serum collection and an active search in the community does not find evidence of measles transmission, and there is no history of travelling to areas where measles virus is known to be circulating, the case should be discarded.”

            Because all vaxed kids with measles were sent home (or to hospital for “non measles rash disease”), everyone thought the epidemic only affected the unvaxed.

            The game is rigged and only the dupes gamble with it.

          44. Is this backwards day? Vacuous says:

            1. To let Americans learn how a civilized country balances public health interests with personal rights.

            Yes, Holland is civilised, on several levels. That they have 95% measles vaccine uptake also demonstrates that they are, on the whole, rational. 91.7% of cases in the 2013 outbreak were among orthodox Protestants (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24079377 ), the regionally clustered Dutch Reform Church, proudly refusing vaccines and promoting disease since the early 1800s (https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/religious-state-vaccines ). So you have your loons in the Netherlands, too. The country may be civilised, but a small minority of the residents don’t meet the criteria. The social contract is part of civiilisation. Vacuous goes on:

            2. Because whatever scam spreads in the U.S. ends up spreading worldwide.

            Seems rather the other way around, doesn’t it? As it’s you spreading misinformation in the US? Whatevs.

          45. “…That they have 95% measles vaccine uptake also demonstrates that they are, on the whole, rational”

            Are you implying a lesser education results in higher rationality?

            https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2005.076661No Subscription

            Effects of Maternal and Provider Characteristics on Up-to-Date Immunization Status of Children Aged 19 to 35 Months

            Peer Reviewed

            Conclusions. We found that children of less educated mothers and children in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black families with low income-to-poverty ratios were more likely to have completed the 4:3:1:3 series.

          46. Dishonest and, may I say, craven on your part to imply that the results of this US study apply to your own country, or to imply that your response has anything relevant to do with my comment.

            Have a nice day.

          47. “…your response has anything relevant to do with my comment”

            But it does, its exposes the fallaciousness of your Appeal to rationality argument.

          48. US-wide vaccine uptake is also about 95% (it varies, per each vaccine). Where it gets problematic is in geographical or behavioural clusters of unvaccinated pockets, where community immunity is compromised. But you know this, right? You’ve done your homework?

            You, sir (or madame), are a troll. Have fun stormin’ the castle!

          49. “…US-wide vaccine uptake is also about 95%”

            Never denied that.

            I debunked the alleged elevated “rationality” of compliants. Your comment neither denies nor confirms what I said, therefore is irrelevant.

            You, nick, are a chaser of your own straw men.

          50. Again, if you’re smart enough to outwit the entire global scientific and medical consensus, you can’t also claim you can’t homeschool.

          51. A kid without the HepB vaccine is not allowed in school but a kid with Hepatitis B has free range.

            Brilliant! The minds behind the school mandates are truly privileged!

          52. The child with HepB has rights covered by the ADA. Coincidentally, this child is not at risk of contracting hepatitis B, because they already have. The unvaccinated child is not only at risk, but if undiagnosed and infected, or one in a chain of transmission, risks others.

          53. “…Coincidentally, this child is not at risk of contracting hepatitis B, because they already have. “

            Therefore is a 100% risk to others.

            In contrast, the unvaccinated kid is deemed uninfected until proven the contrary.

          54. School mandates prevent public health emergencies wrt to VPDs. Just look to MS and WV. And soon, we have cause to believe, CA.

          55. “…School mandates prevent public health emergencies”

            Then why not force the the Ebola vaccine on american kids?

          56. There are vaccines in development, but none are yet approved.

            It is common for public health officials and state governments to assess the need, risk-benefit and cost-effectiveness of each vaccine. Thus, the NHS does not cover varicella vaccine, whereas it is on the childhood schedule in the US.The US has approved yellow fever, cholera and other vaccines which are not in common use here.

            It is unlikely that the Ebola vaccine(s), when available and approved for use, will be added to the recommended schedule for children or adults in the US, at least under current conditions.

            Your question is an hysterical strawman-cum-red-herring-cum-slippery-slope fallacy.

            And no one is forced to recieve any vaccine. At all. Emotive language does not make it so, any more so than constant repetition.

            We should really give some thought to dedicating a named fallacy BINGO card to you. We could sell it to raise funds to improve science education and to promote critical reasoning skills!

          57. “…And no one is forced to recieve any vaccine. At all.”

            Coercion by threat of removing the right to education is as close as forcing as you can get without losing plausible deniability.

          58. Again, no – if you are smart enough to be smarter than the entire scientific and medical consensus and can school all the immunologists

            And your kid can still recieve a public education – it is called enrolling in a public charter school – 1200 to homeschool per TK – public education – there is no right to public school.

          59. Still it is a blatant for of coercion. It only proves the coercer can’t put forward a rational and convincing argumentation.

            – no HepB vaccine ==> no access to school,
            – HepB patient ==> free range at school

            Does not look too rational, does it?

          60. The child with HepB (to repeat an earlier comment; d_G you lot are sooo unoriginal in your spam) has rights under ADA. This child is also not at risk of contracting hepatitis B, as they already have done. The unvaccinated child, if infected and undiagnosed, or one in a chain of transmission, is a risk to others.

            You’re coopting of words like “rational” is beyond droll.

          61. How bout the virologists that whistleblew Merck for putting rabbits blood in the vaccines to alter test results, huh, huh

          62. S/he thinks this question is a trap. Because the incidence of VPDs has been so drastically reduced due to the success of vaccination programs, s/he has asserted that there is no risk of contracting them, therefore one should reject vaccines. S/he stated that polio is not prevented by IPV, because polio is no longer endemic.

            I really do think we should dedicate a Your Logical Fallacy Is BINGO card, maybe a whole set, to vaccous. We can use the money raised through sales to promote science literacy and critical thinking.

          63. Do you think lymes disease being sexually transmitted with 300,000 new cases a year is a health emergency?

            Why isnt attention being drawn to this epidemic?

          64. We had one on the market in the states for a while called Lymerix.
            It had autoimmune issues, suspected from OspA cross-reactivity with human LFA-1 (Tcell
            mimicry) .

          65. There were several issues, including the HLA genotype that many have.
            There were also questions about reactivating latent Lyme,.
            The Vaccine also made it impossible to diagnose Lyme in a patient from Western Blot because it made the banding muddled.
            Molecular mimicry ospA was suspected by Alan Steere, who was an early investigator.

          66. Surprise! You reference Steere, who’s associated with the imaginary condition that sufferers, and those who prey on them, call Chronic Lyme Disease.

            There’s no controversy there, either.

          67. Point well taken. I apologise. The Lymies take issue with his position on the imaginary condition. Brain leak on my part.

            Good thing I like eggs.

          68. To be fair to issue of lyme, you may want to look at the research of Dr Kim Lewis, at Northeastern.
            He found persister cells in Lyme (he has done MRSA research) in some groundbreaking work sponsored by Bill Gates.
            This is a lecture on chronic infection.
            https://youtu.be/qXTPiJWhtDg
            Science can shift on issues, and that is something I try to keep in mind.
            He’s working on a new antibiotic, I believe (not for Lyme)
            .

          69. Thanks, I will take a look at Dr Lewis @ Northeastern. Was there a particular paper or papers that you found of interest?

            However, I’ll skip the YouTube, for obvious reasons.

            😉

          70. I believe he did a presentation at a Microbiology conference in the spring of 2014.
            The video was not hype, it is about his research ideas on persister cells. If you like science you will enjoy it.
            Your call, of course.

          71. All the studies are at least 15 years old that the CDC is basing their information off of. New studies have shown it is possible

          72. No, ione. My link, which I disable because for some reason The Aurora Sentinel wasn’t posting my post, is from Oct. 7, 2015. Even the articles that discuss the possiblity use terms like “may”, etc and say more research is needed. I’ll try the link again, not that you’d believe anything that went against your value system.
            https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/

          73. from your link…

            The references they used

            References:

            Woodrum JE, Oliver JH, Jr., 1999. Investigation of venereal, transplacental, and contact transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Syrian hamsters. J Parasitol 85: 426-30.

            Moody KD, Barthold SW, 1991. Relative infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Lewis rats by various routes of inoculation. Am J Trop Med Hyg 44: 135-9.

            Schmid GP, 1989. Epidemiology and clinical similarities of human spirochetal diseases. Rev Infect Dis 11 Suppl 6: S1460-9.

            Porcella SF, Schwan TG, 2001. Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum: a comparison of functional genomics, environmental adaptations, and pathogenic mechanisms. J Clin Invest 107: 651-6.

            Schmidt BL, Aberer E, Stockenhuber C, Klade H, Breier F, Luger A, 1995. Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA by polymerase chain reaction in the urine and breast milk of patients with Lyme borreliosis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 21: 121-8.

            Kumi-Diaka J, Harris O, 1995. Viability of Borrelia burgdorferi in stored semen. Br Vet J 151: 221-4.

          74. “Our findings will change the way Lyme disease is viewed by doctors and patients,” said Marianne Middelveen, lead author of the study presented in Carmel. “It explains why the disease is more common than one would think if only ticks were involved in transmission.”

            The present study was a collaborative effort by an international team of scientists. In addition to Middelveen, a veterinary microbiologist from Canada, researchers included molecular biologists Jennie Burke, Augustin Franco and Yean Wang and dermatologist Peter Mayne from Australia working with molecular biologists Eva Sapi and Cheryl Bandoski, family practitioner Hilary Schlinger and internist Raphael Stricker from the United States.

            As expected, all of the control subjects tested negative for Borrelia burgdorferi in semen samples or vaginal secretions. In contrast, all women with Lyme disease tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi in vaginal secretions, while about half of the men with Lyme disease tested positive for the Lyme spirochete in semen samples. Furthermore, one of the heterosexual couples with Lyme disease showed identical strains of the Lyme spirochete in their genital secretions.

            “The presence of the Lyme spirochete in genital secretions and identical strains in married couples strongly suggests that sexual transmission of the disease occurs,” said Dr. Mayne.”
            Reference: The Journal of Investigative Medicine 2014;62:280-281.
            https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-sexual-transmission-2/

          75. Babesia, a parasitic confection of Borrelia, is known to be transferred in transfusion.
            Ihttps://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=474991

          76. Add to that, no one is being forcibly treated. Removing non-medical exemptions won’t cause anyone to forcibly treated either.

          77. The threat of removing the right to education is technically just coercion, but in practice amounts forcing since most cannot afford home schooling.

            The land of the free and bla.. bla.. bla…

          78. Based on her English, I would say no, or at least not English as a first language. Mind you, not criticising his/her grammar (or typing proficiency).

            It’s the impervious illogic that leads to the worst communications failure.

            You’re right, though. This is someone on a “mission.” No wonder it’s impossible to distinguish from religious rhetoric.

            I’m curious why the Spanish ‘nym. Is that targeted at Hispanics for some reason?

          79. Such a vulgar word, Grace! And you have your nerve to chastize me for using profanity. Profanity in French is still profanity.

          80. I thought she meant ‘jack off’ which is vulgar! So I looked up ‘jag off’ and it’s Pittsburghian for ‘jack off!’ Vulgar is as vulgar does! 😉

          81. Gee! I was joking when I wrote ‘Pittsburghian.’ I didn’t know these downtrodden steel mill towns had their own language!

            However, ‘PittburghESE or IAN,’ it appears that ‘jagoff’ means ‘jack off’ to some who DO speak PittsurghESE?!?

            https://www.quora.com/Pittsburgh-PA/What-is-the-full-list-of-Pittsburghese-phrases

            And yes, there’s more for anyone who wants to waste more time! Pffft! Jagoff!

            Whatever you say, Katia! NOT! And obscene whether it means @sshole, or jack off! 😉

          82. In California where the law was just reformed, parents still have the choice of not sending kids through the school door at all.

            Thus, no coercion.

          83. You do if you don’t want your family to suffer harm. Coercion does NOT always mean at the end of a gun barrel!

            Thus, coercion!

          84. Wiki.. but the meaning is the same and I felt this easier for ‘different’ types of understanding. Note the words force, forcing and forceful!
            ——————-
            Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation or threats or some other form of pressure or force It involves a set of various types of forceful actions that violate the free will of an individual to induce a desired response.

          85. :rolleyes:

            This has to be the lamest objection ever.

            It might actually hold water if there was a threat of jail time or bodily harm. Here, however, parents still have a choice.

          86. Read on, Ivan. Definitions of both coercion and FORCE break down into sub categories.

            Bottom line; parents are being FORCED to vax against their will and threatened with severe family hardships merely to educate their children in schools they paid for!

            Force, plain and simple, : eye roll or not!

          87. Bottom line: Even in states which only allow medical exemptions, parents still have a choice. No one’s holding a gun to their head.

          88. Bottom line, you STILL don’t understand coercion and force. No one needs to be holding a ‘gun to your head!’

          89. Would you agree that hyperbole, somewhat like cussin’, is most effective in limited quantities for emphasis? It’s like spice in food, or bad smells in the room, where when all the receptors are occupied, perception is masked. IOW, they defeat their own messaging. It’s just too noisy, not to mention tiresome, to attempt to converse (which of neccesity involves listening).

            I don’t think suz (nor the others) has twigged to this. They just keep shouting angrilly and hysterically, and the exaggeration drowns out any signal that might express their root concerns, were it put plainly.

            The behaviour seems also to extend to fonts. And sometimes, punctuation.

            (Leaving aside Gish-Gallups. But that’s not suz, anyway.)

          90. We are in an obscene situation – Treating ‘Shall I kill my neighbour’s kid with pertussis’ as if it is the equivalent to choosing whether to have the meat or fish or veggie option is obscene.

            Obscene situation calls for obscene language. Also, they are advocating unleashing a plague – as in the endtimes – that is precisely the sort of situation that filthy language is for – it is why they are called CURSEwords.

          91. Oh, I agree, Sia. A soupçon of emphatic cursing can be perfectly appropriate. I may have framed my ruminations clumsily, if it was not clear I was referring to suz et al., and not specifically to cursing at all. Some folks have one volume setting: as my nephew once put it, referring to his car audio, if your ears aren’t bleeding, it’s not loud enough. Their vaccineapocalypse!!1!! language is overwrought and, I would say, ineffective to advance their case, if they even remember the gist of it. And putting children and other vulnerable people at risk of preventable disease, disability and death for no reason that bears the light of day is obscene.It does occur to me to attempt to filter out my own extremes, which is strictly my personal gig. I tend to vacilate a bit . . . it’s a process. 😉

          92. And per the Nuremberg code (if we must apply it to non-medical things), it is up to the scientist in charge to terminate the experiment at any remote possibility of death.

            Someone should tell Mercola or Dr Sears since they are the ones running the experiment.

          93. “unleashing a plague ”

            We have a monkey virus SV40, that was in polio vaccines, that has caused untold numbers of deaths from cancer worldwide. There are over a hundred studies by well respected researchers saying there is a link with SV40 and cancer and that it is horizontally transmitted, and passed on to our children.

            And your job is to suppress this truth and that vaccines have many other animal viruses that can infect humans and they are in our children’s vaccines as we speak.

            You want to hear curse words? When the world finally awakens to why they lost their loved ones to cancer, there will be no place left on this planet that you will not be cursed for what you have done.

          94. You’re making less sense than your silly anti coercion diatribe grasshopper! The key word being irrational! 😉

          95. The key word is irrational. Rational is when you have evidence. We do – you do not.

            Just because you don’t understand the rationality of the fear does not mean it is irrational.

          96. You are CLEARLY irrational, grasshopper! I opine that NO logical parent will listen to you.

            You have severe comprehension issues, little bug. Take care of yourself first and then come back in your attempts to rule the world, little bug! 😉

          97. If it is such clear nonsense, then logical parents would be able to filter me out as noise.

            And again, internet comments are not attempts to rule the world – that is what the U.N is for…sorta.

          98. You can stick your ‘opine’ where the sun don’t shine for all I care!

            I disagree so I opine that I don’t ‘KNOW this to be true’, you witless parrot, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

          99. Four years ago in the US there were over 48,000 diagnosed cases of pertussis, far more undiagnosed. It’s usually not a serious disease and most people with it never go to a doctor. There were 18 deaths. Meaning there are over 47,082 people out there who had pertussis, coughed alarmingly for a long time, and then got well. Pertussis epidemics are not a big deal. Young infants should be kept at home for their protection, treated with high-dose IV vitamin C if they get it anyway, and they’ll be cured. The vaccine causes asthma (one in nine children), allergies, seizure disorders, SIDS, and autism. Everyone should be allowed to make their choice.

          100. I know this is asking a lot, cia, but for once in your life could you please provide some documentation for this garbage?
            “Young infants should be , treated with
            high-dose IV vitamin C if they get it anyway, and they’ll be cured. The
            vaccine causes asthma (one in nine children), allergies, seizure
            disorders, SIDS, and autism.”

            This is a crock of compost, pure and simple!

            Lurkers: This person has exactly zero health care background.

          101. “Pertussis epidemics are not a big deal.”

            Yup, just like the death of one in 200 infants from pertussis is “no big deal”, and the deaths of nearly 500 kids a year from measles was “No big deal”.
            You are completely callous and indifferent to suffering, Cia.

            Now, tell us again how your brilliant plan to protect infants from pertussis is to isolate them in a bubble with their mothers for the first year of life, without physical contact with their family or friends, in case someone could give them pertussis? Or is it “not worth your time”?

          102. So you’d rather cause them to die of SIDS or of asthma contracted from having received the extremely dangerous vaccine. No big deal for you.
            My baby had GOTTEN the DTaP at 2, 4, and 6 months, but caught pertussis anyway at eight months old. If I had kept her at home rather than take her to a La Leche League meeting, she would not have caught pertussis. But you have no problem taking babies to any venue, who cares if they catch a disease? As long as they’ve dropped their pennies in the pharma till, it’s no concern of yours!
            You are callous about the many who die outright from vaccines, and uncaring about the millions brain-damaged by an encephalitic reaction to a vaccine. Or the millions crippled by autoimmune disease caused by vaccines. Don’t care at all about the 200 children who die every year of asthma or the 3300 adults who do (caused by the pertussis vaccine).
            Diseases like measles yield great benefits for those who recover from the natural disease. In 1960 an average of 450 died a year out of four million cases: 99% of children got it by 18. You say that even though some die as a result of vaccines, it doesn’t matter, because you believe that most benefit from vaccines preventing usually mild diseases in them. I say that the benefits of having a natural case of the childhood diseases are so great as to outweigh the relatively small number of deaths from the diseases. There are many ways to reduce the mortality rate: in the case of measles, giving vitamin A and withholding fever reducers greatly reduce the already very low mortality rate. Natural measles gives permanent immunity, a better-trained, stronger immune system, the ability to protect future infants, and protection against many diseases and even cancers in later life.
            The parent must have the right to choose. Those who buy your narrative are free to get the vaccines, and then leave those of us who understand the advantages of undergoing the natural diseases free to do so.

          103. As I have pointed out before, antivaxers resent that their mothers were working outside the home, instead of bonding at home, in the sickroom if need be. “Young infants should be kept at home for their protection”

          104. If you’re talking about me, my mother never worked after she got married, but kept an immaculate house and served a delicious lunch and supper every day. When we were sick , we stayed home. We were never that sick, but she brought us meals in bed, and covered us up on the sofa to watch TV. I don’t think she had ever heard of homeopathy or herbal remedies, although she told me that her mother used to put mustard plasters on her and her siblings when they had a bad cough.
            I’d like other families to benefit from my experience. I took C to a La Leche League meeting at the beginning of January 2001 when she was nearly eight months old, and there were a lot of babies and toddlers there. She caught pertussis there, and a couple of weeks later had what I thought was a cold, but shortly after that turned into the ten coughs per breath at night thing. She had had three DTaPs at that point, which I deeply regret now, but she caught pertussis anyway. It never crossed my mind for a single second that maybe it wasn’t a good idea to expose a baby to a lot of other little kids. It wasn’t a big deal, it was a tiring illness, but not dangerous, and we both recovered just fine, but if she had been six months younger, it might have been dangerous. I’d just like to make parents realize what I did not, that it’s wise to keep babies at home and not expose them to those who might be bearing dangerous germs.

        2. The statement you’re replying to is false

          The only situation when the above principles may be legally overruled in is case of a concrete, clearly identified and quantified epidemic emergency

          First, childhood immunizations aren’t unethical, nor do they violate the Hippocratic Oath. That’s a Barb Fisher trope, but there’s no ethical dilemma.

          https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/philosophy316/2014/04/24/the-hippocratic-oath-and-professional-ethics/

          Second, notice the “legally overruled?” This was decided by the courts years ago and has been repeatedly affirmed. The Legislature can set public health standards. You could say they have a moral obligation to do so.

          Third, and the real kicker. Twice in the past 2 years, whooping cough has reached epidemic levels in Colorado. There ALREADY IS an emergency.

          1. Well, parapertussis does not cause pertussis disease.
            “Bordetella parapertussis is a bacterium that
            is similar to B. pertussis and causes a pertussis-like illness, but does
            not produce pertussis toxin. The symptoms of B. parapertussis infection
            are similar to those of pertussis (whooping cough) but are typically milder and infection may be asymptomatic.”
            https://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Documents/BParaPertussisInfectionPublicHealthRecommendations201107.pdf

          2. “…parapertussis does not cause pertussis disease.”

            Clinically indistinguishable.

            What percentage of those affected by so-called “pertussis epidemics” actually undergo a lab test to discard parapertussis?

          3. No, the diseases are NOT clinically indistinguishable.
            “The clinical presentation of B parapertussis infection is
            variable: 40% of infected persons may be asymptomatic, but most patients
            have paroxysmal cough that lasts for less than a week, with the entire
            illness lasting for less than 3 to 4 weeks.[4]
            Whoop has been reported in almost 60% of patients with parapertussis,
            but usually its persistence is of shorter duration than that seen in
            patients with pertussis. Post-tussive emesis as well as nocturnal cough
            are less frequent in those with parapertussis than in those with
            pertussis.[5]”
            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482815_3

          4. And he’s wrong at the first sentence

            In highly vaccinated populations. What was the probable cause?

            Denver Post reported 28% of Colorado school children are not vaccinated against pertussis. Not a highly vaccinated population, at all.

          5. “…Mississippi has a higher pertussis vaccination rate than Colorado and a much lower incidence of pertussis.”

            I’ve seen that CARTOON before. No sources, no years, no way to verify. Cherry picked at most.

            This is your average vax-apologist level of “evidence”.

            The overall picture shows that vaccination rates increase the incidence of pertussis:

            https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/surv-reporting/cases-by-year.html

            Pertussis Cases by Year

            1979 : 1,623
            1980 : 1,730
            1981 : 1,248
            1982 : 1,895
            1983 : 2,463
            1984 : 2,276
            1985 : 3,589
            1986 : 4,195
            1987 : 2,823
            1988 : 3,450
            1989 : 4,157
            1990 : 4,570
            1991 : 2,719
            1992 : 4,083
            1993 : 6,586
            1994 : 4,617
            1995 : 5,137
            1996 : 7,796
            1997 : 6,564
            1998 : 7,405
            1999 : 7,298
            2000 : 7,867
            2001 : 7,580
            2002 : 9,771
            2003 : 11,647
            2004 : 25,827
            2005 : 25,616
            2006 : 15,632
            2007 : 10,454
            2008 : 13,278
            2009 : 16,858
            2010 : 27,550
            2011 : 18,719
            2012 : 48,277
            2013 : 28,639
            2014 : 32,971

            https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/images/incidence-graph-age.jpg

          6. Exactly! If Vacunas were’t such a horse’s patoot (just for you Grace, I didn’t use a shorter, yet more descriptive word) he’d know that Jacobson vs Massachusetts has been used to uphold immunization requirements for school entry.
            “In 1890, the Supreme Court of California upheld a state law requiring vaccination to attend school (Abeel v. Clark). Fifteen years later in Jacobson v. Massachusetts,
            the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a claim that a Massachusetts
            vaccination mandate not linked to school entry violated the
            constitutional right to due process of law. Later, the Court applied Jacobson in Zucht v. King (1922) to reject a challenge to school-entry mandates in Texas.”
            https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1508701?query=TOC&amp;

            ” According to settled principles, the police power of a State must be held to embrace, at least, such reasonable regulations established directly by legislative enactment as will protect the public health and the public safety. . . . Even liberty itself, the greatest of all rights, is not unrestricted license to act
            according to one’s own will. It is only freedom from restraint under
            conditions essential to the equal enjoyment of the same right by others. It is then liberty regulated by law.” . . .

            And the principle of vaccination as a means to prevent the spread of smallpox has been enforced in many States by statutes making the vaccination of children a condition of their right to enter or remain in public schools. Blue v. Beach, 155 Indiana 121; Morris v. City of Columbus, 102 ”
            https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/case.html

            Plus much more!

          7. And since they’ve done their research they know this – they know they are lying to you.

            If they are such big champions of informed consent, why would they lie about it and knowingly interfere with it?

          8. Here’s what was going on back then..

            “The careful manufacture of diphtheria antitoxin and other preparations involved, among other processes, examining the products for sterility (top) and potency (bottom). An incident in 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri, proved how dire were the consequences of ignoring such procedures.
            Diphtheria antitoxin contaminated with tetanus bacilli killed nearly a dozen children in that city, leading to the passage in 1902 of the federal Biologics Control Act, which required that manufacturers be licensed and their processes be approved by the Public Health Service.”

            https://www.wadsworth.org/docs/poster_4.shtml

            Medical practices were also not as sanitary as they are today, meaning doctors sometimes inadvertently administered vaccine contaminated with smallpox, starting smallpox epidemics and creating public doubt about the vaccine”….https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/05.20/waterhouse.html

            During this period there were no adequate methods for assessing the safety of the vaccine and there were instances of contaminated vaccine transmitting infections such as erysipelas(strep A infection of the skin), tetanus, septicemia (blood poisoning) and tuberculosis.[21] In the case of arm-to-arm transfer there was also the risk of transmitting syphilis. Although this did occur occasionally, estimated as 750 cases in 100 million vaccinations,[43] source Wikipedia

            And they wonder why people would have doubts about vaccination. There must have been enough doubt about the safety of the smallpox vaccine for this to happen, don’t you think?

            1926-Opposition to Vaccination Grows

            “Despite vaccination’s successes against smallpox, opposition to vaccination continued through the 1920s, particularly against compulsory vaccination. In 1926, a group of health officers visited Georgetown, Delaware, to vaccinate the townspeople. A retired Army lieutenant and a city councilman led an armed mob to force them out, successfully preventing the vaccination attempt.”

            source -History of Vaccines

          9. “…This was decided by the courts years ago and has been repeatedly affirmed.”

            In the setting of school mandates from the point of view that public schooling is “optional”. Technically it’s not “forced treatment” though it is so for many in practice.

          10. Pediatrician: Failure of pertussis vaccine “a matter of serious concern”

            Epidemics of the disease in 2005, 2010, and 2012 “suggest that failure of the DTaP vaccine is a matter of serious concern,” said Cherry, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles who specializes in infectious diseases at Mattel Children’s Hospital.

            “ I believe that better vaccines are something that industry, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research of the Food and Drug Administration, and pertussis experts should begin working on immediately,” he writes.

            According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the booster shot to counteract waning immunity for pertussis came out five years ago. Now, there’s concern about how long the booster shot provides protection, because many kids who are up-to-date on immunizations, including the booster shot, still have contracted whooping cough. Public health officials agree on one thing: “We need a better vaccine for pertussis”, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said.

            “It’s an epidemic that has killed 32 babies and infected at least 100,000 Americans — most of them children — since 2012. But vaccine-averse parents aren’t the real culprits behind the spread of whooping cough. Inadequate vaccines are.”

            “Until we understand the pertussis germ better it is going to be difficult to develop new vaccines,” CDC’s Skoff said. “That’s where the research is focused right now.”

            NIH is supporting a range of pertussis studies, and various companies are at the early stages of testing new vaccines, but the prospects of success are remote. To compare any new vaccine against the existing shots might require immense trials lasting years and costing hundreds of millions of dollars…”

          11. So the rest of the world is seeing whooping cough mainly in those already vaccinated. The director of the CDC says its not the fault of those who are unvaccinated. Dr. Gil Chavez, epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, says that is not the primary reason either. But somehow, only in Colorado do we see the blame laid at the feet of those who choose not to vaccinate.

            CDC: Whooping Cough

            Anne Schuchat, MD, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters…..”It does not appear that anti-vaccination sentiment among parents has contributed to either the national rise in cases or the Washington State epidemic”, she says.

            https://children.webmd.com/news/20120719/cdc-whooping-cough-h

            In the News-

            “Vaccinated kids account for 90 percent of child whooping cough cases in Vermont”– Vermont Digger VT Digger Oct 8, 2012

            July 2015

            “Reno County, Kansas, health officials are taking steps to help stall the spread of a whooping cough outbreak before school starts. The county has more than 70 suspected whooping cough cases.

            And The Hutchinson News reports that as of Friday, Reno County had 41 confirmed or probable cases of whooping cough, which accounts for 20 percent of all cases in the state. That was up from 18 on June 29. Eyewitness News spoke with an official with Hutchinson schools. Ray Hemman tells us they’re working with the health department to address the concerns.

            The district tells us all of the people who’ve contracted it have been vaccinated.”

            “2012 was the nation’s worst year for whooping cough in six decades — U.S. health officials received reports of more than 48,000 cases, including 18 deaths. Dr. Gil Chavez, epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, said he does not believe low inoculation rates are the primary cause of the current epidemic: Of this year’s pediatric cases that had information on the child’s vaccination history, only 10 percent of those infected in 2014 had not been vaccinated against pertussis”

            “Dr.Witt, an infectious disease specialist has a study published in March of 2012 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. He says that the vaccine was effective about 50% in children in general but only 24% of the time in 8-12 year olds.Witt and his team surmised that the effectiveness of the vaccine wears off after 5-7 years, creating the need for additional inoculations. The CDC said that the booster has never been approved for use in 7-9 year olds.

            Unfortunately, drug maker Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), the manufacturer of the whooping cough vaccine, did not bother to perform long-term studies of its effectiveness. A company spokesperson confirmed this disturbing fact in an email to Reuters, stating that GSK never studied the duration of the vaccine’s protection after the shot was given to four- to six-year-olds.

            “Dr. Tom Clark, a medical epidemiologist with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), also provided a troubling analysis of the situation. “It’s likely if we move doses around we’d shift the burden of disease, but not necessarily reduce it,” he said. ”

            Vaccine a dud, says city doctor

            “Dr Carson, a veteran of 30 years as a GP, said the current vaccine was simply not doing its job. “The vaccine is no good, we’re seeing whooping cough in people that shouldn’t really have it,” Dr Curson said. “It is showing up all in kids that have been vaccinated.”

            https://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/12/02/vaccine-a-dud-says-cit

          12. Once again, you unfailingly make an argument in support of improving the pertussis vaccine, the schedule of boosters, and pertussis vaccine uptake.

            Of course most of the cases are in the vaccinated. They represent a majority of most populations. They also have a milder course of disease. And the unvaccinated are up to 23 times more likely to contract the disease when exposed than their vaccinated counterparts.

            That would be an own goal, dear.

            Spamming identical posts not only makes you look desperate, but is a disqgust violation of TOS.

          13. So you can’t really say that pertussis or mumps are a ‘vaccine preventable disease’ the current vaccines will only hopefully make the symptoms milder, correct?

          14. No, saying that “the current vaccine will only hopefully make the symptoms milder” is incorrect.

            The data show that pertussis cases/incidence rates are reduced for both vaccinated and those yet too young to have been so. It’s especially germane to the reduction of cases in infants. It’s really obvious from incidence graphs, where we still see a cyclical epidemic/outbreak cycle–because the vaccine ain’t perfect, and uptake is not optimum–in the same pattern as pre-vaccine, but at greatly reduced numbers post-vaccine. There is no other way to explain the phenomenon.

            The milder course of illness in those vaccinees who become infected, well that’s a bonus. And one not shared by the unvaccinated (for whatever reasons).

          15. Really, all of Ione’s complaints can be dealt with by convincing the relevant government to run psa campaign on the importance of getting a booster.

          16. Splendid! It’s just a matter of time now before the epidemic of vaccine disability comes to an end!

          17. or monkeys!
            1956–Scientists report the discovery of eight more monkey viruses in monkey kidney cells SV1, SV2, SV4, SV5, SV6, SV11, SV12, SV15. The scientists wrote that “Numerous filterable, transferable cytopathogenic agents other than poliovirus were also encountered (in the poliovirus vaccine)…The greatest significance of these viruses has been their appearance in tissue cultures used to produce and to test poliomyelitis vaccine”.–Robert N. Hull, et al., New Viral Agents Recovered From Tissue Cultures of Monkey Kidney Cells, American Journal of Hygiene, 1956, Vol. 63, pp. 204-215
            1958–Scientists report the discovery of 20 more monkey viruses from monkey kidney cells (SV16, SV17, SV18, SV19, SV20, SV23, SV25, SV26, SV27, SV28, SV29, SV30, SV31, SV32, SV33, SV34, SV35, SV36, SV37, SV59). The scientists state, “As long as primary monkey-kidney cultures are used in the production and testing of virus vaccines the problem of simian virus contamination will remain…the possible virulence of these viruses for man remained unknown…”

          18. “…28% of school children aren’t fully vaccinated.”

            So the population has already spotted some usless doses and some useless vaccines.

            Is that a problem or the solution to the rising epidemic of vaccine-induced autoimmune disease and disability?

          19. Ione is a lying liar.
            .
            Her post above is riposted from below where she was trounced for out-of context lying. Her Gish Galloping is from a Politico Article and this is the last line of that article:
            .
            “For all the vaccines’ faults, they’re the only preventive tool medicine has for now. And, as Skoff noted, “Even a single dose of vaccine is protective against death.”
            .
            Thanks again, IONE, for being a perfect example of tin foil hat lying typical of anti-vaxxer fanatics. You are a horrible person.
            .
            we will catch to lying so just stop it.

          20. And per the Nuremberg code, “all precautions against even the remote possibility of death must be taken” – thanks for the suggestion of reading the Nuremberg code, you guys!

          21. Ridiculous. You’ll deny this vaccine, even if a VPD could kill you, your children, or other people’s children.

          22. That’s right. I have MS from a vaccine reaction, my daughter autism and bowel disease, my father was paralyzed for the last three years of his life from a reaction to a flu vaccine. I’d rather take our chances with a VPD than further disability or death from a vaccine.

          23. Those are anecdotes. No difference between those tales and me saying that vaccination turned my child into the Incredible Hulk. Do you have medical records showing the connection between your condition or your child, and a vaccination? I doubt it, since there isn’t high quality evidence to support those claims. And if an autoimmune condition was triggered by a vaccine; it would also be triggered by viral infection.

          24. Once might be considered by the unsympathetic an anecdote. When the same thing happens to millions it is then considered evidence. nwmt

          25. Not when the data is collected by self reporting and non confirmed medical diagnosis.

          26. It’s never worth your time to properly respond to those who call you out for your unevidenced idiotic comments, is it Cia?

            You have never provided evidence of all these “millions” severely damaged by vaccines, despite many years now of my trying to get you to.
            I suppose you’ll just shrug, say “nwmt”, and move on to vomit your antivax POV somewhere else, huh?

          27. Wise decision! Freshly spawned from ‘science b.s. & meds’ and a parrot Pro/Sia, et al, spin off! 😉 Nite sweetie! <3

          28. A viral infection like SV40 perhaps? Or Bovine Pestivirus? ,Maybe Simian Cytomegalovirus? All found in vaccines at some point or other.

          29. Lies, yet again, Cia.
            In case you have forgotten, you have repeatedly told us that:
            You have MS (which is unrelated to vaccination),
            Your daughter has a Neurexin-1 gene deletion (a hereditary disorder which causes autism) and also she suffered prenatal and intrapartum anoxia (oxygen starvation) from a true knot in her umbilical cord,
            Your father developed alzheimers (unconnected to vaccination), yet you imagine these are all caused by vaccines.

          30. MS has been linked to vaccination Mike…stop showing your ignorance. Its been compensated as a table injury by the NVICP.

          31. I got a tetanus booster a month before going to Mexico for the first time, and it paralyzed both my arms starting the same day. I was later diagnosed with sometimes paralyzing MS by MRI. Several vaccines warn that they can cause MS. My MS was caused by the mercury in that and previous mercury-containing DPTs. Many people have a genetic inability to detox vaccine mercury, which is stored in the brain, bones, and body organs, where it may be released in the future to wreak havoc. My arms were paralyzed for a few days and then went back to normal. Some years later, when I had a fever, it pulled up stored mercury and began the symptoms of what would be diagnosed as MS: severe, permanent insomnia, then double vision, then numbness, dizziness, and drifting to the left when I walked.
            My baby was sent home with me as healthy three days after birth and nursed avidly until the reaction to the hep-B vaccine given without permission at the hospital at midnight began, and then she screamed constantly and inconsolably for sixteen hours a day, for four days and nights. She later missed her speech milestones, but by 18 months old, had started to say two words, both erased as soon as she got a DTaP booster. She was diagnosed with autism two months later. Her speech therapist diagnosed her with aphasia, stroke-like brain damage, which caused her to be very low-verbal. You can repeat until the cows come home that my arms being paralyzed the same day as the tetanus booster had nothing to do with my later diagnosis of MS, and that C’s vaccine reactions had nothing to do with her autism and bowel disease, but not many people believe that nonsense any more. They should take heed from your example and realize how little worthy their physicians are of their trust and how high the stakes are if they foolishly accede to being vaccinated without doing a lot of independent research.
            Both C and I now constantly wear a bracelet which says Advance Medical Directive: Do Not Vaccinate. She’s very attached to it, and has found mine several times when it has fallen off. We will never take another vaccine.
            Those who have certain genetic factors are predisposed to react severely to vaccines, but without the vaccines, they (we) do not react.

          32. More junk posted by a pathological liar (Cia Parker).
            Just about every aspect of your tale has been disproven or demonstrated to be not just medically implausible, but impossible.
            But you keep trolling your narrative on the ether, hoping people will fall for tale if you can fine-tune it sufficiently for some other gullible dork to find resonance with it.

          33. Should we trust Pharma not to break the Nuremberg Code?
            In 1998, the pharmaceutical giant, Bayer, conducted pesticide experiments on humans in what was called the Inveresk trials. Three years later the company behind the tests stands accused of breaking the Nuremberg Code — established as a response to Nazi experimentation on Jews — and of using the results to
            boost profits. One of the 50 Scots who were a part of the human testing, Bruce Turnbull, blew the whistle on Bayer.
            The Sunday Herald reports, the subjects were given a single dose of a
            substance called azinphos-methyl (AM) and then observed for seven days. Test subjects were even presented with documents predicting the outcome of the experiment stating: “The results of this study will confirm that use of azinphos-methyl does not pose an unreasonable threat to either workers or consumers.”
            What they did not know was that the chemical, which they were given in minute doses, was a pesticide deemed ‘highly hazardous’ by the World Health Organization. Nor did they know that the test had been commissioned by Bayer as part of a forceful effort to get the US Environmental Protection Agency to reverse pesticide controls introduced to protect children.

          34. Why? Are going to post a version of it where Patrick Swayze comes back to life? That would be consistent with your other lies.

          35. That’s important, but a better question would be, “How much does it cost to treat people with preventable diseases like whooping cough every year in Colorado?”

      1. You are just stupid. You have stated that you think vaccines are homeopathic. To say you understand nothing about medicine is an understatement.

          1. Nope, Vacunas is a Moron but he is honest about it. He openly says stupid stuff, He is self defeating

            You, AutismDad, are just a hate troll. You never say anything worth considering as truth or lies.

            Ione is a LIAR. She posts outright falsehood, She posts cut and pastes out of context from papers and articles that contradicts her point. She tried to twist the words of people who clearly do not agree with her and make it sound like they do. That type of lying comes from admitting you have noting to support your argument and deciding to post falsehoods because you have zero personal integrity. That IS ione.

            Is that clear enough for you?

      2. I don’t think forced vaccination would be justified even in emergency situations. Every person must always have the right to accept or refuse any vaccine, for him or herself or for their children. Every vaccine can disable or kill, so there must always be a choice.

        1. They tried manipulating the public with the fake H1N1 “PANDEMIC”. Each year during Flu Vac Sales Season they imply its going to be a VERY BAD year. Laughable.

          1. Its a corporate/ medical science conspiracy. I guess you ignore the real world while in that fetal position.

          2. Turns out that for 2009-2010, “they” were spot on.

            In rounded numbers for that season in the US alone, there were 61 Million cases, 275K hospitalisations, and 12.5K deaths (https://www.ncbi.nlm.gov/pubmed/21342903 ), of which 279 were lab-confirmed pediatric deaths (https:www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm592902.htm ).

            I wound up hospitalised with H1N1 that time. Turns out the person who drove me to get my flu vaccine was already infected, but had not yet become symptomatic (he was typed and confirmed later). While I was in hospital, all the nurses were working double and triple shifts to cover for those out ill, and some of them were sick too. It was not pretty. On the upside, my dad (the driver) had a milder case. And that’s the last time I will get my flu shot late, evah.

          3. Enjoy the dementia to follow. It will help you forget the horrors the H1N1 inflicted and ease your post traumatic stress disorder.

        2. “I don’t think forced vaccination would be justified even in emergency situations.” The Supreme Court disagrees with you.

          ” Every person must always have the right to accept or refuse any vaccine, for him or herself or for their children.” For him or herself, maybe. But not for the child, this is done alreadly legally.

          ” Every vaccine can disable or kill, so there must always be a choice.” Every disease can disable or kill at higher rates therefore there must be a choice.

          1. 1)Correlation =/causation – this is also done.

            2) Epidemic Rubella would cause far more, even if that was true.

        3. If you or your daughter were bit by a rabid animal, what would you do?

          What is the homeopathic treatment for rabies, cia?

    3. If you do not know the difference between a double blind placebo controlled study and a study comparing one vaccine against another – you should reconsider whether your vaccines are safe.

      If you do not know the difference between a corporate funded scientific study and an independent study – you are being fed a lie….are we quite clear…

      From Plos Biology – a random sample of 441 biomedical journals showed only ONE study provided a full protocol and none made raw data directly available. This is the standard of scientific data we are relying on for health protocols. The fact that we are being mandated to take a forced medication when the studies are so poor and the science so corrupt should be taken into consideration.

      In this survey, we assessed the current status of reproducibility and transparency addressing these indicators in a random sample of 441 biomedical journal articles published in 2000–2014. Only one study provided a full protocol and none made all raw data directly available. Replication studies were rare (n = 4), and only 16 studies had their data included in a subsequent systematic review or meta-analysis. The majority of studies did not mention anything about funding or conflicts of interest. The percentage of articles with no statement of conflict decreased substantially between 2000 and 2014 (94.4% in 2000 to 34.6% in 2014); the percentage of articles reporting statements of conflicts (0% in 2000, 15.4% in 2014) or no conflicts (5.6% in 2000, 50.0% in 2014) increased. Articles published in journals in the clinical medicine category versus other fields were almost twice as likely to not include any information on funding and to have private funding. This study provides baseline data to compare future progress in improving these indicators in the scientific literature.

      There is increasing interest in the scientific community about whether published research is transparent and reproducible. Lack of replication and non-transparency decreases the value of research. Several biomedical journals have started to encourage or require authors to submit detailed protocols, full datasets, and disclose information on funding and potential conflicts of interest. In this study, we investigate the reproducibility and transparency practices across the full spectrum of published biomedical literature from 2000–2014. We identify an ongoing lack of access to full datasets and detailed protocols for both clinical and non-clinical biomedical investigation. We also map the availability of information on funding and conflicts of interest in this literature. The results from this study provide baseline data to compare future progress in improving these indicators in the scientific literature. We believe that this information may be essential to sensitize stakeholders in science about the need for improving reproducibility and transparency practices.

      https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002333

      1. There are studies with saline so not a issue to those people who have actually read the studies.

        Most studies aren’t funded by Pharma so it’s again not an issue to those people who have actually read the studies .

        “denied mainstream treatment” can’t you research how to treat whooping cough if you’re that smart?

        1. “Most studies aren’t funded by Pharma so it is not an issue” I would dispute that.

          https://www.nvic.org/Downloads/Jeffersonetal-BMJ2009.aspx

          A study published in the British Medical Journal reveals the clout that Big Pharma has in the world of medicine journal publishing, specifically the publishing of scientific articles about vaccines. In a Cochrane Collaboration review and analysis of published influenza vaccine studies conducted by Tom Jefferson, M.D., Ph.D. and his colleagues, they found that influenza vaccine studies sponsored by industry are treated more favorably by medical journals even when the studies are of poor quality.

          Jefferson’s analysis confirms that drug companies marketing vaccines have a major influence on what gets published and is said about vaccines in medical journals. It is no wonder that there are almost no studies published in the medical literature that call into question vaccine safety. The preferential treatment of Pharma-funded studies also explains why the risks of an inappropriately fast-tracked vaccine like Gardasil are underplayed in the medical literature.

          Jefferson and his colleagues identified and assessed 274 published studies on influenza vaccines for their methodological quality and found no relationship between study quality, publication in prestige journals or their subsequent citation in other articles. They also found that most influenza vaccine studies are of poor quality but those with conclusions favorable to influenza vaccinations are of significantly lower methodological quality. The single most important factor determining where the studies were published or how much they were cited was sponsorship, with those partially or wholly funded by the pharmaceutical industry having higher visibility.

          Dr. Jefferson commented, “The study shows that one of the levers for accessing prestige journals is the financial size of your sponsor. Pharma sponsors order many reprints of studies supporting their products, often with in house translations into many languages. They also purchase advertising space in the journal. Many publishers openly advertise these services on their website. It is time journals made a full disclosure of their sources of funding.

    1. If the government wished to encourage critical thinking it would allow debate. Debate is one of the most stimulating ways to encourage critical thought. However debate is strictly now allowed – except for forums such as disqus which is a long way from mainstream media debate.

  96. Again and again, all the posts here miss the point. You can argue the science all you want, but this is a human rights issue. No human being has the right to dictate to another to adopt a medical procedure that carries with it risk against that persons will, or by cohersion.

    1. Beyond that, the science is clear on how vaccines cause damage, including the suppression of immune function, and on the need for the immune system to be trained in its functions by taking on moderate level infections like the childhood diseases. Yes, vaccines usually cause the production of antibodies which usually prevent the targeted disease for an uncertain length of time, but the dangers of vaccines are so many, that most people would refuse them if they knew all the facts. But it IS a human rights issue, so I have no objection to people taking the vaccines they like, and, on rare occasions, it MIGHT save their life. More likely to disable them, though.

        1. I think I can vouch for her when I say that having the tolerance for vax choice would not necessarily make her an ‘anti vax’; and that she means our valid science and NOT your corrupt science! 😉

          Ironic zilch!

          1. That’s saved for you witches. Everyone knows that, Katia! Besides, it violates PETA regulations for me! 😉

          2. Suz: it’s not “my” science, it’s just science. This is not a debate with two equal sides. That is a fallacy. I think I’d trust the actual scientists on this one, rather than those who regurgitate research they clearly do not understand, or parrot from anti vax propaganda sites.

            Science is not corrupt because it doesn’t support your narrative, or because you suspect some bizarre conspiracy, or because a company makes money trying to recover millions in R&D expenses. Should we do it for free?

            And if you preach pseudoscientific nonsense while pontificating on the imagined evils of vaccines, you’re anti vax. Period.

          3. Only the unsophisticated and dogmatic would opine such!

            It’s no more your science than mine, since you’re not a scientist!

            And pretty you’re full of yourself there, Pastadud! I trust independent scientists and docs without ANY cois!

            Science is corrupt when greedy people corrupt it!

            Well golleee! Ain’t I glad I don’t preach no suzdoscience te not be one of them thar anti vaxers!

            Anti means against and I don’t give a crap if you vax your little heart out! So NOT anti vax! Exclamation point!!!

          4. You are anti-vax through and through, scuz.

            This is a non-response, though.. since you are still trollalota non grata.

          5. You’re a joke! You don’t even know what persona non grata means! If you’re going to continue to pilfer and parrot my proficiency you need to acquire at least a modicum of acuity!

            I DON’T pursue B! I only use this phrase if he continues to bother me, even though I’ve explained to him that he is ‘persona non grata’ to suz!

            To the contrary, you don’t even know what it means yet you persist; and you foolishly can’t control yourself. I understand that you’re obsessed with suz! But for pity’s sake, get a clue you witless parrot, parrota non grata, parrot Pro!

            Should you truly want to make suz persona non grata, you have to stop sending me your love letters! Non response! Pffft! Har d har! 😉

          6. Were? Who? What anti vaxer? Har d har, Pastadud!

            I’m too smart to be ‘hurt’ be your lies! But there may be a lot of others who would lay it all on the line, simply because they wrongly believe you are what you claim; since it IS your agenda to sway these people by stating such!

            Verification please, should you continue to use your title to advance your pov! If you ‘tout’ it, you need to ‘out’ it! And we’ve now come full circle to why you changed your profile bio to ‘alleged!’

          7. Baseless accusations and lies are so unbecoming. You should try to avoid them. If you were as smart as you think you are, you’d know that I am who I say, and that I have no agenda. I don’t care what you do or don’t do, or if you live on kale smoothies or die from a VPD. Not my problem. But I will continue to dispel any pseudoscientific nonsense I see being pushed by the ignorant in order to protect the uninformed from your unending stream of misinformation.

          8. Pseudoscience: avant-garde, frivolous psychobabble used by pretentious myopic minded and ‘alleged sciency’ individuals when someone else colors outside the lines! Wah! 🙁

            Not to mention all the little bloggers who’ve sprouted up and developed quite a following, with scientific neophytes worshiping each and every ‘debunking’ word of ‘said’ blogger!

            Debunking! Even more neoteric blather! Wah wah! ;( ;(

          9. Speaking of meaningless babble.
            Science is built in coloring outside the lines. That is exactly how it advances. You’re confusing “advancing science” with “making shlt up.”

          10. Pffft! That’s what you get for thinking the world revolves around YOU! I had no interest in your disqus bio other than pointing out your lie, and that if you tout a title to advance your pov, you need to ‘out’ your verification!

            Otherwise the readers have no more reason to believe that you’re a scientist than they do of ‘Mikey the mechanic’ being a doc!

            So, bio or not, you’re still an ‘alleged’ scientist & the joke’s on you! 😉

          11. You referred to my bio on multiple occasions, so you were clearly interested. Also, im not touting anything. My title is my title, whether you like it or believe it. Irrelevant. Advancing a POV is what most try to do, title or otherwise. If you’ve paid attention, you know that my title is legit, and I certainly have nothing to prove to you at the expense of my personal security online.

          12. Science is not ever corrupt. There may be corrupt scientists however. Science is the organization and/or classification of facts. Facts change as new knowledge becomes available; however science is not ever corrupt.

          13. I pointed this out to Pasta yesterday. Science is NOT anthropomorphic!

            So as I said, science is corrupt when people corrupt it! Don’t forget who you’re trying to teach Jack Sprat!

          14. Corrupt facts are not facts, by extension absent of science. Corrumpere. Science is the classification of facts; and I concur not anthropomorphic.

          15. To many individuals [obstinate or naive], corrupt facts are facts if the govt. says they are! Yet I concur! Corrupted facts are NOT facts.

            Science is NOT some new religion, doctrine or axiom like the you pro vax like to put out today. “The dude doesn’t even science anymore!

            Science is simply the ‘classification/ organization’ of everyday thinking and observations! So again, we partially agree!

            But we both digress, since the topic is medical fascism through forced vaccination.

            And sadly, you again caught me as I was signing off. Early day tomorrow!

            However, don’t patronize me, Jack. I’m well aware of what science is and is NOT!

            Good night, Jack Sprat! 😉

          16. There is no science without scientists. The value of science depends on the scientists. The problem with science today is it is beholden to corporations for funding – the results must reflect a positive outcome for the corporations who fund the scientists. Unfortunately this is why science today has become one of the most corrupt professions of all time.

          17. Excuse me, no. Science requires scientists no more than fish require dancing shoes. Facts are facts and stand on their own merit.

          18. Jack, You are correct, “science is not ever corrupt” Now scientists, the application of science, the interpretation of science, the utilization of science, can be and is corrupted and unfortunately, over 50% of the peer reviewed papers have flaws in them. From intention to out and out fraud. 15% of all medical procedures are actually scientifically proven to be effective, including the vaccine theory.

          19. Science not corrupt, just many involved in it and who have proprietary rights to it. If you want to talk the truth do so. Your last post is garbage.

          20. Oh please, “recover millions in R&D expenses” Muahahahahaha. Are you Kfunk with a new handle? 🙂 Pharma spends more on advertising than it does on R&D. And just this past month raised the drug prices by average of 20%…. because they could.

          21. Citation(s) needed*

            We all know that this zombie meme shows up time and time again. First, let’s concede that the comparison of R&D spend to S&M budget is really not relevant. The goal is still to run a profitable business. The ratio does not necessarily impugn the R&D or the drugs.

            Then let’s remember that most of the pointless regurgitation of this contention is not talking about advertising as an isolated line item, but on SG&A as a catch all category that may or may not also include sales, marketing, admin, exec salaries, support, etc. So, you’re contention is misleading and intellectually dishonest.

            Again, this is not relevant to the idea that pharma, like technology, automakers, etc, all want to make a profit. It may or may not reflect on their products. So when you’re ready to explain the connection on a case-by-case basis, let’s talk more.

          22. Confronted with the fact that the strawman “R&D” is just that you fall back on “we all know sputter, sputter” When Paying for something like 14,000 lobbyists, paying hundreds of thousands in “honorariums” and “speaking fees” to shill products that don’t work does effect the way drugs are sold and the perception that is put out in the world. It removes objectivity from research and from treatment. Please explain the 20% increase in the cost of over 120 drugs this year “because they could raise the cost” Please explain why medicare cannot negotiate drug costs and must buy them at the higher rates. That is what 14,000 lobbyists and paid shills gets you. Not science, greed.

          23. Blah blah, paid shills, blah blah, lobbyists, blah blah big pHARMa, ad nauseum. You did nothing but through out a bunch of strawmen yourself. My point was that your post was intellectually dishonest, and that the amount a company spends on R&D vs S&M says nothing about the drugs, treat,nets, devices, therapies they are developing and selling. Your entire argument is a strawdog. Corporate greed and potential for corruption is not at all limited to pharma, biotech, or any other singular industry. So again, you have not presented any specific example, and continue to waste my time.

          24. Well do something else rather than trying to shove your vaccines down my throat. The difference between big pharma and other industries is that what they sell with their defective crap kills people. Most other companies just rip people off when they get greedy.

          25. Examples, please! This is so pointless.

            Defective crap killing people? Stupid. That could be applied to almost any industry. Auto industry? Food industry? Restaurant industry? Toy manufacturers?

            Next.

          26. LOL You want everybody to have a vaccination but you are not trying to shove anything down anybody’s throat. Funny guy with close to 7000 posts, hmmmm shill or just unemployed in mommies basement.

          27. Oh blow me. That’s the best you’ve got? Paid shill gambit? Close to 7000 posts? Please cite a single post from my PUBLIC history where I’m trying to force anything on anybody. Get vaccinated or don’t. Idgaf. Just keep your unvaccinated viral incubators, err, I mean, special snowflakes, out of public spaces, including schools and hospitals. Odds are pretty good I’m not going to catch anything from you, since I am vaccinated. But others may not be as lucky. Then go eat kale and jam coffee up your azs if it makes you feel better.

            Avoid the salmon.

            Oh, and it’s mommy’s, genius.

          28. LOL You really should try some green smoothies to include kale with a little apple cider vinegar, would clean out some of the crap between your ears. Considering most of the people with these diseases have been vaccinated, you might be better advised to avoid vaccinated people and hang around with us.
            My bad “mommy’s” okay now progressive liberal college professor living on the public dole?

          29. Considering most of the people with these diseases have been vaccinated…

            You didn’t do very well in high school math, did you? I can only imagine where your paycheck comes from.

          30. Might want to check on the cases in the US and other 1st world countries to note how many have been “vaccinated” bunky.
            Imagine away.

          31. Peter, I just saw it mentioned the other day in an article. It has been printed in multiple papers and articles. It seemed so common place I did not think to save a link for it. Sorry.

          32. First time ever commenting on the vaccine debate according to your comment history. I see you are definitely a pro GMO shill though. The shills here getting so desperate they need your help too huh?

          33. Sorry, ione, you just shot yourself in the foot! You have NO evidence for saying “definitely a pro GMO shill”.

            How can we possibly believe anything else you have to say if you resort to this desperate kind of fabrication? Bye.

          34. If anyone is anti-vax, it’s cia! If anyone is pro-disease, it’s cia! There is none so blind as she who will not see!

          35. Oh Katia, pharma shill! We just want the right to say “no” to having vaccines put in our bodies and our children’s bodies. You want to vaccinate, please do so. But you don’t really care as long as you get paid

          36. Nice income supplement or does that mean you don’t need vaccines or that you have the right to tell me what to put in my body? Shill! LOL

      1. “the science is clear on how vaccines cause damage, including the suppression of immune function”

        Nope, wrong yet again, Cia.
        You never did get that 7th Grade biology, did you.
        [I know – remember how I looked up your school records?]
        😉

      2. Vaccines incite emergency responses, hence the fainting, seizures, anaphylactic response and the deaths.

          1. I have to stay ahead of the evil in this world. Reading their manifesto and knowing their twisted, reprehensible ideology is a must do.

          2. You are the epitome of trolling.
            You spam threads with your rude comments that contribute absolutely nothing to the science being debated, hoping (in vain) to disrupt the discussion.

      1. No, they are just bïtçhîñg with the propaganda material handed to them by the propaganda pimps working for the junk medicine robber barons.

        1. You aren’t in Colorado either, grace.
          I post because I see the harm people like you and your fellow antivaccine propagandists do. Fortunately the internet is global, and I can counter your stupidity from anywhere I choose.

          1. I have no problem with people choosing to vaccinate.
            I was never interested in the political issues involved with vaccination until coordinated legislative efforts popped up around the country to coerce these medical decisions (I am in the US).
            In conjunction with efforts in other countries, certainly Australia and Italy, I see basic human rights being eroded in an underhanded manner by institutions succumbing to corporate wish lists.
            I see it as one of the most important civil rights issues of our time, to retain the right to choose medical interventions without coercion from the state.
            I am only one person, but this is an issue I will not walk away from.
            State coercion of injection of an indemnified medical intervention on healthy people is wrong on too many levels, Mike.

          2. Are you advocating for state coercion in the UK of vaccination of teachers, daycare workers, and parent volunteers as well? Restriction of government benefit programs to parents if they don’t vaccinate?

        2. I don’t mean to speak for Dr Stevens, but as you very well know, Mike’s a physician, an infectious disease specialist. And a decent human being, a mensch, to boot. Either are perfectly good reasons to care and therefore to advocate for good public health policy that protects children, and to advocate against vaccine disinformation.

        3. There are these pressurized metal and rubber flying things that transport people across the ocean.

          You know, aeroplanes?

    2. I gather you were never a member of the Services overseas. Vaccines are not optional for most nations with active deployments on foreign soil; they are mandatory.

      1. “Paul Sullivan, who helped write and pass the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act, said the same questions over the problems that dogged veterans after the war persist today: “Why are we ill, how can we get better, who will pay for our medical treatment and who will pay our disability benefits?

        Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from the 20-year-old set of symptoms known as Gulf War Illness, according to a new report released Wednesday by the federal Institute of Medicine. Chronic multisymptom illness was formerly called Gulf War Syndrome, the Institute of Medicine report said. It includes symptoms in at least two of six categories: fatigue, mood and cognition issues, musculoskeletal problems, gastrointestinal problems, respiratory difficulties and neurologic issues that last for at least six months.

        “Preliminary data suggest that (chronic multisymptom illness) is occurring in veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well,” the report says.”

        https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/23/gulf-war-illness-symptoms/1856625/

      2. Mandatory illness sickness and death it seems.
        “Little by little the facts seeped into public view. Nearly 43,000 Gulf War veterans are stricken with debilitating illnesses: bleeding rashes, gums, and sinuses; muscle aches, swollen joints, chronic fatigue, diarrhea, hair loss, severe headaches, and memory loss. Also, over time the symptoms tend to become more acute. Many vets are now confined to wheelchairs and hospital beds.(106,107)

        Apparently, veterans’ wives and their unborn babies are being damaged as well. According to Michigan Senator Donald Riegel, Jr., of the 600 vets his office surveyed, 77 percent say their spouses have the symptoms, 65 percent say their postwar babies are damaged, and 25 percent report that their children born before the war have new debilitating illnesses as well. According to one medical researcher, “This is an epidemic. This is absolutely comparable to AIDS.”(108)”

        https://thinktwice.com/gulfwar.htm

        1. Gwen Ifil ( I don’t know if I can spell her name. ) on the PBS news mentioned the damage to veterans of the gulf war very briefly. I think that she was cut off by her producers. I was waiting for more and said , ” What happened ? “

          1. Talk to the soldiers from Gulf War one Katia. But then that would contradict your employers directions wouldn’t it?

          2. So you can’t contact soldiers from the Gulf War then? Or you are working off the books? Or you are supplementing your income?

          3. Oh, I understand, “retired” means you can’t do anything else, can’t change or grow, have to stay home, can’t contact anyone or read anything different than what you already believe Got it! “Retired” = “quit life”

      3. That is how stupid they are in government. It is what I call the Syndrome of Civilized Stupidity.

        All stupid people that believe in VACCINES should watch , ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS, and come back and tell me if you understand why I say that the only true medicine is nutrition. Nutrition is a function of the physiology an organism. VACCINES, and other junk medicines, interfere with the physiology of the organism.

      4. Jack, and if you are in the service you are going to be placed in positions that are unsanitary, dangerous and in 3rd world countries. Different than living in the US, Australia, Canada or the Europe (for the most part)

        1. Absolutely, however it sufficiently derides the human rights outcry. When shipped overseas it is not an option.

          1. Jack, I was in the service and when I signed up I remember being told that I could not get sick as my body now belonged to the Army and I was not allowed to damage government property. In the service we do not have all the same “rights” that civilians do. And with regard to vaccines and the possibility of being deployed to terrible places, the utilization of vaccines seems reasonable. Soldiers are not infants with undeveloped nervous systems or still developing children in a 1st world country.

          2. Granted, yet you did not have the option to refuse vaccinations as mandated. We are dwelling on the minutiae a tad. Mandated vaccines do not violate any human rights, without regard for personal opinion.

          3. Jack, I signed up knowing what was coming. I was in a military unit. That is different than being a civilian citizen. The military can expect to be in unsafe places. Civilians do not have the same level of threat that would warrant depriving me of my right to chose.

          4. I was with a medical NGO. We “participated” in a decontamination isolation to preclude bringing anything home.
            The ability to travel has made the world much smaller for bugs and virus’ well.
            The human rights argument is challenging, particularly where multiple conflicting interests are involved

          5. I think in this debate most people lose sight of the old microbiology quote that the “virulence of the disease is inversely proportionate to the resistance of the host” The point being, the environment of third world residents, internal and external, is markedly different than that of 1st world residents. Residents of 3rd world countries do not have the options of good food, clean water, adequate sanitation, immediate health care response, that we enjoy. Point being, we have a system of government that allows for freedom of choice and an environment that allows more latitude than in other parts of the world.
            Thanks for your “service” in the NGO.

    3. So you are suggesting that someone with HIV or AIDS should be allowed to infect other people “as a human right”.
      lol.
      Not vaccinating is the same thing.

          1. Ummm again, if your vaccines work so well, what is the problem. You are vaccinated, you are protected, and now you won’t have to worry about autism. So why are you making me vaccinate my children?

    4. Brian this such a vital point and there is very little thought about why this program exists. Cost benefit on a governmental context often shows a horrible assessment. But when the government is putting their plan into our bodies and our children we are the ones who must assess our own risk benefit assessment . I have a real problem with every vaccine ingredient. Every bit of it is bad for me.. What gives these idiots the right to insist I ingest something that I know scientifically works very poorly with my biochemistry?? I canno assimilate antibiotics and I also have a severe mold intolerance. I surely do not want the aluminum adjuvants or any of the chemical preservatives.
      The list here is long. What mandate without a national emergency with done kind of an epidemic gives them the right to force thus kind of do called medical intervention on behalf of healthy people just to weaken them and make them stupid ?
      It is a scam. Please tell everyone. Do not poison your child. The drones act like they are trying out for some late night horror movie.
      This horrible cruel chapter in American history must come to an end soon.

      1. Vaccines have been causing harm for a long, long time. The historical medical record clearly states that those vaccinated for small pox had a higher incidence of dying from small pox. Many physicians of the time openly admitted to this.
        “There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunisation of children does more harm than good.” – Dr. J. Anthony Morris (formerly Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Admin.)
        At this point of the game, these “people” have now made billions in profits from maiming and injuring countless millions, if not billions, of people. They are facing the dam breaking and the truth being known, so they face loosing their fortunes, and potentially face criminal charges. So the stakes are high for all involved, and the only way they can maintain their rock and roll lifestyle and stay out of jail is to perpetuate and multiply the vaccine lie. They will not win. People like you carry the fire of truth for the future of humanity; keep burning.

        1. The pile of victims is our army. But the appeal of natural Health also makes mothers pause. How dare a mother work so hard to detox and sponsor a healthy baby into this world only to face a legal requirement to send toxins into their body .

  97. I am just surprised the pharmaceutical companies are still trying to push this issue. Greed I suppose. I would have never investigated vaccine had they kept the chedule low, but too much dirt was visible there for me to ignore it. Then the whole “Vaccines don’t cause autism” meme. Peaked my interest there. In fact, the shills, lying conflict of interest heavily lobbied politicians, and scientists of the FBI’s most wanted list are what got me into vaccinations. I would probably going to get my flu shot this week if the liars, thugs and thieves had not tainted the entire industry. The more you people push, the smarter the PEOPLE become. I carry the fire man, and I am going to burn knowledge of this stuff until you vomit my ashes!

      1. LOL, keep repeating it Sia. As noted before the more you post the more you create the evidence. BUT if you don’t post you don’t get paid. Quite the conundrum.

          1. I do enjoy some of Mercola’s information, but I don’t always agree with him and I definitely don’t sell his products, although some are pretty good. I don’t think you will see that I have used Mercola for a reference in anything I have posted. I have found some of my pubmed posts through him however.

    1. brian: “I carry the fire man, and I am going to burn knowledge of this stuff until you vomit my ashes!”

      Behold my Super Soaker Mr. Fireman!! Fear me!!

      As god is my witness, I will unleash a torrent of water that will quell your fire until it is reduced to but a wisp of vapor!! You cannot win!!

      https://usercontent1.hubimg.com/1226440_f520.jpg

    2. you are right Brian. We see all the headlines about the dishonesty and criminal behavior of pharmaceutical companies, convicted of withholding safety studies, bribery, falsifying studies, unethical drug trials that kill children, and then we are supposed to trust them when it comes to what we give our children??
      They are the ones that destroyed the trust of millions of people, and now they would just use force when they can’t get us to buy their ineffective and unsafe products.
      Using force and pushing too far is waking people up and raising their hackles. Keep on pushing shills because you are only helping build the resistance.

        1. You, and your prostituted efforts, and you call that an argument. An argument for prostitution all right. I have seen the ads for you guys.

          1. Oh! That would be actual evidence that at least some paid shills exist.

            I don’t suppose you would be so kind as to post the ad for the posting, would you?

            It still wouldn’t be evidence that a specific person is getting paid but it would be some evidence.

          2. I am not interested either. I am just wondering if you have any actual evidence for the claim.

            It wasn’t the Spudd list of shills, was it?

        2. No we call you shills because you keep showing up trying to push vaccines. And you do it for hours and hours. Those of us that are pro-choice have jobs and families that take us from these sites. You get paid to be here. See the difference

          1. Do two coffee enemas and 3 green smoothies per day with apple cider vinegar, and face NJ 5 times a day and say “I renounce thee dark lord merck” for a month. You will be very pure then. And you will no longer be full of crap 🙂

          2. Don’t be so patently absurd, bwf309.

            If your conviction is strong enough to go against the entire scientific and global medical consensus, it naturally follows that internet comments aren’t enough to have the slightest effect on you.

            I see nothing in the disqus TOS that states one must be employed or have a family in order to be eligible to have a disqus account and comment.

            Oh and the comments on an article that describes anti-vaccine as “scofflaws” is likely not to be very friendly to anti-vaccine nonsense – I thought that much would have been obvious with all your research.

            Perhaps you would be happier on VRM or Vaxtruth or Natural News?

            Their moderation policies shelter you from pro-vax comments.

          3. Unlike you Sia, I don’t hide from things that I don’t agree with. I try to see other people’s points of view and respect their right to have a differing opinion.
            And thank you for seemingly relying on the TOS that does not require a job or have a family or even a life to be eligible to comment. Having all of those it does not apply to me, but you seem to have found it useful.

        3. No, you are being called a shill because you have not presented proof that you are not. What is your profession? Why on here all the time? Hobby?

          1. Yeah, hobby plus you’re dangerous.

            For the zillionth time, it’s not possible to prove a negative – you know that with all your research.

          2. I work in high tech. I’ve had some pharma in my 401(k) from time to time, but not a major investor.

            If you don’t mind my saying so, wouldn’t the burden of proof be on you, to show evidence that we are shills? I mean, I don’t demand evidence that you aren’t a child molestor. Are you?

          3. If I was on the forums defending child molestors day and night then yes you would be right to make the assumption that I was one of them.

          4. Maybe you are. After all you have multiple socks.
            As you said above, let’s see proof you aren’t a child molestor, or you are.

          5. Ummm… I didn’t bring up the topic of being a child molestor.

            The lady dost protest too much, methinks…

          6. I’m a retired nurse. If you think we’re getting the big bucks fro “Big Pharma”, you really have another think coming. Yes, this is a hobby.

          7. Ah a retired high priestess. hard to admit you were wrong all those years isn’t it? But you had the connections for the “shill job”

          8. And who do you shill for, keekoh?
            BigHomeo? BigKiddieCoffin?
            Of course, if you “don’t present proof that you are not”, then we will accept that you are.

          9. They look comfy, doesn’t Wakefield the vampire sleep in one of those every night? I think he got his first coffin right before he orchestrated the holocaust along with the boogeyman.

          10. Hey, tell me about how Jenny McCarthy is so dumb because she uses google search for medical advice.

            Wolters Kluwer Health conducted the survey. They highlight in their press release that
            close to 90 percent of physicians think that the better access to
            information via search engines has had a positive influence on quality
            of care. In that vein, over 60 percent of them report that they “occasionally or frequently change” their initial decisions based on something they’ve found online.https://www.zdnet.com/article/doctors-using-google-to-diagnose-treat-and-care-for-patients/
            refutations to anti-science and facts memes

          11. What are those things, tell me because I refuse to google them if they are what I think they are you freak.

    3. Very wise. My father was paralyzed for the last three years of his life by a flu vaccine. I’d recommend you get Dr. Randall Neustaedter’s The Flu Guide for excellent advice on how to prevent or treat the flu if it occurs anyway. I took homeopathic bryonia on his advice, and it stopped my flu in half a day. MUCH safer than taking the worthless, dangerous, ineffective flu shot.

      1. wish i’d had something like this time. ironically i had to cancel my very first appointment with a homeopath because i came down with the flu.

        1. How ironic, an antivaxxer gets a vaccine-preventable illness by not getting vaccines.
          Also ironic, as a result, misses an appointment to give money away to a fraud woomeister who would have sold her water and sugar pills.

          1. Egg, haven’t we already established that your drooling, sputtering, insipid posts were all the useless repetitive rants of a small, not-too-bright child? Why are you still here?

          2. no, ironic would have been getting it after getting the flu shot, and likely too.
            and never fear, i’ll see the homeopath soon.
            at least i won’t have to worry about her prescribing me something that tends to lead to a fatal stroke.

          3. the homeopath? first consultation is 80 euros. that’s 2 hours and very intensive. that includes any remedies.my doctor charges 45 for 10 minutes. not including meds.

          4. Even if it was only 20% effective, it still reduces your chances of getting flu. Math is hard.
            Homeopaths are quacks. Why not donate the money to a science literacy charity.

          5. the fact that neither our senses nor or technology can explain how something works doesn’t stop it working. it works for many and saved my cat.

          6. Not talking about HOW it worked – saying that when compared to placebos…the difference is somewhere between zilch and 0.0000000000001% effectiveness.

          7. AGAIN, DON’T CARE. IF IT HELPS WITHOUT BAD SIDE EFFECTS I AM HAPPY. my cat is fully recovered, thank you.

          8. and yet my cat lives, and lives well. fully recovered. all his weight back, all his fur back, no more blood in pee, no more fluid in lungs, no more dying.

          9. And an antivaxxer who either made the details up from whole cloth, or did not have influenza (or even an influenza-like illness, because flu has specific symptoms and can last for weeks, unlike a colds, allergies, sinusitis, etc.).

        1. Keep responding. I get US$5.00 per reply, and US$1.50 per upvote. When I hit my next milestone, those numbers will increase to $7.50 and $2.00, respectively. Those of us who have surpassed particular benchmarks get offices with beautiful views of the bay. Thanks for being such a generous contributor.
          #$hillproblems

          1. I don’t usually talk about that part, but I actually get $2.50/downvote. My handlers in BIG pHARMa and BIG Ag believe that downvotes, like paid shill accusations, are a sure sign that I have hit a hot button with an ignorant misinformed troll. I am well rewarded for those, and actually drove most of my income that way.
            #shillproblems

          1. Nah, I just do it to piss off those that feel they have the right to tell me what I “should” do with my body and my kids. In other words making them KMA with their defense of vaccines. I really don’t care if anyone vaccinates or not, I just don’t want to be told I “Have to.” Too bad it takes hired shills to promote the use of vaccines, that and 14,000 lobbyists and hundreds of millions of dollars…. not spent on R&D

          2. Nah. BigTinyCoffin foots the bill. And he gets to doubledip from Big Pharma, who’s happy to see the fringer antivax cultists make themselves look crazed. It’s a two-fer.

      1. Pastaprostitutarian showing off his good grammar. The London Historical Society showed that Cristoforo Colombo had bad grammar. But there were clowns, like him, with good grammar, telling their kings not to listen to him because the earth was flat.

        1. Dude, I promise you that nobody here gives a flying fvck about Columbus. He seems to be your hero, so why not start a discussion on his invasions elsewhere. Nobody cares.

          1. Spaghettios are made from wheat, Grace. Genetically engineered wheat has not been commercialised to date (although it’s in development)

          2. Pastaprostitutarian , I don’t care about what a prostitutarian like you thinks. I use that example because my ancestors were his bodyguards. My last name even rhymes with Colombo.

            After his second trip, he was scared by the Indians, so for the third trip he asked for the meanest warriors that he could find anywhere. Since he had discovered gold, anything that he asked for was given.

  98. Unsafe injections in the developing world and transmission of bloodborne pathogens: a review.

    “It was estimated that each person in the developing world receives 1.5 injections per year on average. However, institutionalized children, and children and adults who are ill or hospitalized, including those infected with HIV, are often exposed to 10-100 times as many injections. An average of 95% of all injections are therapeutic, the majority of which were judged to be unnecessary.
    At least 50% of injections were unsafe in 14 of 19 countries (representing five developing world regions) for which data were available. Eighteen studies reported a convincing link between unsafe injections and the transmission of hepatitis B and C, HIV, Ebola and Lassa virus infections and malaria. Five studies attributed 20-80% of all new hepatitis B infections to unsafe injections, while three implicated unsafe injections as a major mode of transmission of hepatitis C. In conclusion, unsafe injections occur routinely in most developing world regions, implying a significant potential for the transmission of any bloodborne pathogen. Unsafe injections currently account for a significant proportion of all new hepatitis B and C infections.
    This situation needs to be addressed immediately, as a political and policy issue, with responsibilities clearly defined at the global, country and community levels.”
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10593026

    1. Sure sounds like these 14 countries need some education on injections. You note they were spreading Hep B and C, not giving vaccines.

      1. “Eighteen studies reported a convincing link between unsafe injections and the transmission of hepatitis B and C, HIV, Ebola and Lassa virus infections and malaria.”

        1. Well, yes, dirty needles are a great way to transmit those diseases. There is a vaccine for Hep B. Too bad these patients who got sick didn’t get it!

        2. No mention of vaccines. But you can see that, right?
          I support Medicines Sans Frontiers in part to help supply disposables like exam gloves, PPE and syringes. It’s a good cause. You can too, if you’re concerned.
          What does it have to do with this OpEd?
          Dishonest, or stupid? Readers, you decide.

          1. “Therapeutic injections have been associated with transmission of hepatitis B and C viruses, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and other bloodborne pathogens (1-6). During 1997-1998, acute hepatitis B was associated with recent injections in Romanian children aged less than 5 years (3). Injection-associated bloodborne pathogen transmission occurs when infection-control practices are inadequate, and overuse of injections to administer medications might increase opportunities for transmission

            Of the 3676 survey participants (mean age: 38 years; range: 0-98 years; 48% male), 365 (10%) reported receiving at least one vaccine-related injection (median: two injections; range: one-15 injections) for a total of 988 injections; this proportion was inversely related to age, ***with 60% of children aged less than 5 years and 2% of persons aged greater than or equal to 45 years receiving vaccine-related injections***”

            https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056885.htm

          2. Why do you keep perserverating, ione? This is what, the 4th time you’ve posted an off-topic citation and excerpt about transmission of blood-bourne disease in foreign countries that is utterly unrelated to improving vaccine uptake in Colorado children as a function of removing personal belief vaccine exemptions

            And more reason to increase HepB vaccination! If only there were already vaccines for the other diseases, too.

            How low can you stoop? You are the troll that keeps on giving, as long as it’s Gish Gallup, irrelevant copypasta that you haven’t read and don’t understand. Do you have enough self-awareness to recognise your own duplicity?

    2. I’m glad you see that transmitted Hepatitis B is such a problem in some countries.
      Yet more reason to vaccinate!
      Thanks Ione!

      1. I guess you failed to read this part Mike..

        “Five studies attributed 20-80% of all new hepatitis B infections to unsafe injections”

        1. Do you know the reason for “unsafe injections”, Ione?
          Your unjustified presumption is that these were all vaccinations.
          But that isn’t the case, is it…..
          Oh, look!
          A bit of Googling and we find that the majority of “unsafe injections” in the developing world are for “therapeutic” reasons such as antibiotics and vitamins. [Big Vitamin strikes again!!]
          Reuse of needles is the main problem.
          https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/77%2810%29789.pdf

          But if infants got Hep B vaccines, then Hep B transmission by these routes would not happen.

          Yay vaccines!

          1. “Therapeutic injections have been associated with transmission of hepatitis B and C viruses, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and other bloodborne pathogens (1-6). During 1997-1998, acute hepatitis B was associated with recent injections in Romanian children aged less than 5 years (3). Injection-associated bloodborne pathogen transmission occurs when infection-control practices are inadequate, and overuse of injections to administer medications might increase opportunities for transmission

            Of the 3676 survey participants (mean age: 38 years; range: 0-98 years; 48% male), 365 (10%) reported receiving at least one vaccine-related injection (median: two injections; range: one-15 injections) for a total of 988 injections; this proportion was inversely related to age, ***with 60% of children aged less than 5 years and 2% of persons aged greater than or equal to 45 years receiving vaccine-related injections***”

            https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056885.htm

          2. So less than 10% of these “potentially unsafe” injections were because of vaccines.

            Perhaps now you will stop peddling the lie that they are all due to vaccines, but I doubt it.
            You give Cia a run for her money as the most prolific pathological liar on Disqus.

          3. 10% for adults and in 60% of the children under age 5 therapeutic injections were vaccines related. Also pointed out was the cases of Hep B in children under five due to unsafe injections.

    1. I stopped reading when I read:

      “When I began to put this article together I specifically chose not to include research from or links to websites that are considered untrustworthy by most pro-vaxxers, sites such as Natural News, Mercola, etc. even though I personally trust those sites and much more than I would WebMd and for good reason.

          1. D’ja think he’s brian’s sock? Probably not jeffry’s, since Aufderheide is at least literate in English.

        1. Hey, did you know we were the same person?
          disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2451824956

          1. I know, this cubicle could get crowded. Fortunately, our pHARMa Overlords had the foresight to make it bigger on the inside.

            Edited to add: I am very flattered. You, on the other hand, have been pwned. 😛

      1. LOL of course you would not read it, you already have your mind made up. But my hope is that someone that does have an open mind and is looking for an alternative to the mantra of the acolytes of the church of the vaccine might read it and have better understanding of their right to free choice. Liberal progressives like you hate free choice I know, but too bad.

        1. You’re miserably confused. I didn’t read it because the sources the author claims to respect are havens for pseudoscientific woofuckery and fraud. All credibility is lost at that point. But read my posts selectively if you want. I’m uninterested.

          Lurkers will easily follow my clear reasoning over your mental contortions.

          1. “Clear reasoning” Buwaahahahaha, “I will not look because I already know” Now there is some “clear reasoning” for any wise lurker to follow. LOL Hahahahaha you are one funny person.

          2. Don’t be a fool. Credibility is everything, and those sites have NONE! Why would I waste my time reading anything from someone who obviously can’t even tell science from fear-mongering propaganda?

          3. “Fear mongering propaganda” Aren’t you getting mixed up? That’s what the liberal progressives do, you know 144,000 death due to measles (in the world) 30,000 deaths due to the flu in the US (not really), “the return of polio is you don’t” Sound familiar?

          4. I’ll humour the article writer

            #1: Hep B is spread more than just sexually transmitted – a single drop of it can survive on biofluid for about a week. Kids under 5 who get it tend to have chronic liver infections. A newborn is under 5 and also for the same reason we vaccinate babies for any STD – birth is a transmission route.

            #2 – Because the antibodies are variable and we don’t know quite how long it works for every individual – overlapping is better than no protection.

            #3 – by about an hour or two or so. Oh so scary.

            #4 is pure bunkum – we’ve already had this discussion. The pharma company that claimed the unavoidably unsafe defense lost. Different liability is different in any case.

            #5 – also bunkum. It has been done and it isn’t standard with any other drug, if you want to test a new form of insulin or cancer treatment, you’ve got to test it against the gold standard and not saline.

            #6 – I’d argue this has far more to do with the lack of a proper healthcare system.

            #7 – Simple. The writer is committing a classic ecological fallacy and also for measles the HIT is something like 95%-99% percent so we should see outbreaks in 93% unvaccinated populations.

            #8 – Numbers between 0 and 100 exist.

            #9 – Because they AREN’T non-fatal and they don’t always train immune systems on how to behave and we have a safer way of training immune systems on how to behave.

            #10 – Because the writer doesn’t understand toxicology.

            #11 – Because some people take more than one dose to respond. 95% – 99%. The manufactures think that 3% being safe is important.

            #12 – This wouldn’t be the AOA disclaimer garbage, would it?

            #13 – strawman. That 3.9 billion includes legal fees and works out to 1 in a million. Safe enough for me, considering the diseases are even less safe.

            #14 – because we know the difference between mortality and incidence.

            #15 – That is because your writer has no idea what herd immunity is. Herd immunity is a mathematical calculation as to how likely the exposure is.

            #16 – somehow, I doubt this is true.

            #17 – We don’t.

            #18 – compounds vs elements again.

            #19 – don’t know. Flu shot isn’t mandated for school anyway so no a problem.

            #20 – “I tried not to use Mercola” _ here’s a mercola link. Uh-uh.

            #21 – If this is shedding, it’s not a thing. If numbers between 0 and 100 existing is what they mean, yeah, we know – that’s why vaccinating is important. Why don’t they stop blaming you?

            For the same reason that I’d blame drunk drivers for accidents and speeders even though sober drivers get into most fatal accidents.

            #22 – no-one thinks vaccines are perfectly safe. Just vastly safer than the diseases – strawman.

            #23 – That’s a growth medium, not an ingredient.

            #24 – Because said people understand toxicology and elements vs compounds.

            #25 – No, that’s things like Flumist. I don’t see “cater to chemophobia” in any of those codes anywhere.

            #26 – AISA not in evidence.

            #27 – Greeenmedinfo with the store after the complaints about Big pharma profits. Really?

  99. New impostor alert!

    Dear Aurora readers! How gracious you’ve been to indulge us here at your lovely site. You and your fair moderators have certainly been a testament to impartiality. Often mainstream media is not as generous to give equal voice to both sides.

    This said, no matter if you are for or against, it’s always improper, unethical and unprofessional to play dirty, and we now have yet another childish player on this board!

    You may have seen several of my brief notations regarding AutismDadd and his impostor [he recently had to take the trouble to change his ‘nick’ [so cute; to coin Autismo] and even change the graphic of his avatar because of the puerile posting of these impostors.

    And now these children are angry with suz as well! Please be advised that my comment count is this:

    https://disqus.com/by/suz_nork

    and the count of my impostor is this:

    https://disqus.com/by/realsuzn

    These impostors become especially troublesome when they know they are losing ground and have no other recourse rather than resorting to their immature and deceitful tactics!

    However, such parody accts., violate disqus tos, so have been reported accordingly to disqus admin. for further investigation.

    In the interim, I just wanted you amiable and altruistic readers to know that suz norkan would NOT upvote herself OR her opponents, as some sophomoric posters are showing.

    Remember that many will claim that vax injuries are rare, however, rare is NOT so ‘rare’when they happen to you! If it involves risk, you should have informed consent and a non-coerced choice in vaccinations.

    What an accommodating and hospitable place yall must be! Thanks Aurora, and keep up the good fight to keep medical tyranny out of our schools and away from the children!

    And thank you impostor for further ‘top posting’ platform, while shooting yourself in the foot!

    Carry on, ‘vax war babies!’
    Mwah! Love, suz! 😉

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  100. New impostor alert!

    Dear Aurora readers! How gracious you’ve been to indulge us here at your lovely site. You and your fair moderators have certainly been a testament to impartiality. Often mainstream media is not as generous to give equal voice to both sides.

    This said, no matter if you are for or against, it’s always improper, unethical and unprofessional to play dirty, and we now have yet another childish player on this board!

    You may have seen several of my brief notations regarding AutismDadd and his impostor; he recently had to take the trouble to change his ‘nick’ [so cute; to coin Autismo] and even change the graphic of his avatar because of the puerile posting of these impostors.

    And now these children are angry with suz as well! Please be advised that my comment count is this:

    https://disqus.com/by/suz_nork

    and the count of my impostor is this:

    https://disqus.com/by/realsuzn

    These impostors become especially troublesome when they know they are losing ground and have no other recourse rather than resorting to their immature and deceitful tactics!

    However, such parody accts., violate disqus tos, so have been reported accordingly to disqus admin. for further investigation.

    In the interim, I just wanted you amiable and altruistic readers to know that suz norkan would NOT upvote herself OR her opponents, as some sophomoric posters are showing.

    Remember that many will claim that vax injuries are rare, however, rare is NOT so ‘rare’ when they happen to you! If it involves risk, you should have informed consent and a non-coerced choice in vaccinations!

    What an accommodating and hospitable place yall must be! Rock on and thanks to you, Aurora, as you allow commentary to perpetuate the good fight to keep medical tyranny out of our schools and away from the children!

    And thank you impostor for this ‘top posting’ platform, while shooting yourself in the foot!

    Carry on, ‘vax war babies!’
    Mwah! Love, suz! 😉

      1. Should anyone tell her that her links are b0rked? Or, tell her how to make a complaint to disqus?

        Why should anyone take medical advice from these people?

        1. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. The original ones worked, but for some reason the comment went into mod within several mins. of being pinned as a post, and I was ‘forced’ to re-post it!

          I can try to reenter the links. You’re a doll! 😉

      2. I already explained to you what I do when I fall off of high horses, since this particular platitude is a fav of yours, and since I find the idea of NOT living my life to the fullest due to fear, [like yall] repugnant!

        I get up, bush off and remount. Not sanctimonious! Life to the fullest, and NOT living in a sterile bubble due to the irrational fear of impending doom!

        1. Here’s your sanctimony:

          “n the interim, I just wanted you amiable and altruistic readers to
          know that suz norkan would NOT upvote herself OR her opponents, as some sophomoric posters are showing.”

          Interesting that you refer to people who disagree with you as “opponents”, too!

          1. “n or m” They look the same when one is loosing one’s eyesight! Thanks for proofreading! And if the shoe fits! 😉

            edited to add:
            Oh! Got it! You quote with ‘my quote chopped up’ for your pathetic attempt to make a point about my choice of wording regarding opposing debaters.

            Pathetic is as pathetic does and thanks for further wasting my time!

          2. Well, I do have vision problems. Thanks for being so supportive and understanding. I suppose SUZ never has a typo either, since she’s perfection personified.

          3. I have typos often due to my diminished sight, which is why I went back to correct what I thought you were pointing out as a typo! And only to find that you cut off the quote instead, just to make your puerile point.

            Stop bringing ‘first blood’ and maybe others will be nicer to you, Katia!

          4. Now, suz, I don’t complain about how mean the anti-vaxers are to me, like you and ione do. Aren’t you the one who threatened to sic the IRS on your “opponents”? THAT I did report.

          5. No! I was the one who said that the ‘child p0rn’ by you and yours, violates disqus tos and requested investigation and removal of such!

            As always, ya get what you give, darlin’, so stop whining!

      3. Don’t forget “‘forced vax and world domination!

        Reading the comments, one might think some folks are decompensating rapidly. And/or didn’t start in the stable seats to begin with.

        Sad, really.

    1. There are others here, including myself who have had the same thing happen to them. And although we have contacted Disqus support and reported these offenses which are listed as violations of their terms of service, Disqus has failed to remedy this problem. I hope with enough support from others reporting this, we can have an end to these imposters, who sink to this low handed tactics. Since they can’t refute the truth, this is their option of choice, immature and unsuccessful attempts to make their opponents look bad. These are the caliber of people who want to convince you that we are lying about the published studies with links and other main stream news stories we post.

          1. Yes she is. If someone had a fake parody Ione account before, Ione would have a screenshot to show us. So where is it?

          2. I don’t suppose you would take Jeremy Hammond’s word for it, who banned the fake imposter from his site and exposed his IP address online. But it was just a proxy…big surprise.

          3. I rather take a pineapple up the rear than take Jeremy Hammond’s word.
            He lies more than you and Scuz combined.

          4. I saw it! Lots of us saw it! Stop lying again, NOT Mike Stevens!

            As always, take it up with disqus admins. I only brought up the impostors again, because some of your immature co posters [or YOU] are playing with Adadds and now MY account as well.

            If you deny such, you’re a liar! If you claim not to see such in this very commentary you are more myopic minded than I thought!

          5. “I saw it! Lots of us saw it! Stop lying again, NOT Mike Stevens!As always, take it up with disqus admins. “

            You claim someone generated a fake “Ione” account, which “all of you” witnessed, but nobody thought to take a screenshot, even as proof for your “report” to Disqus admin (what a little liar you are).

            The claim is yours, you should post evidence for it Scuz, not ask us to magically provide it.

          6. You really are bonkers, Mikey! Who the hell asked you for any proof! You may be in on it for all we know!

            We are NOT obligated to provide any data whatsoever, regarding our official requests for investigation pertaining to violations of their regs covering parody accts.

            Why do you think no one provided screenshots to disqus admin.? Actually, disqus goes even further, and suggests that the victims try to refrain from additional communication with the alleged impersonator!

            My previous post to you is valid as it stands, unless I should add diminished capacity; however, as much as I hate to admit, I doubt is the case with you.

            Which takes us full circle, back to my initial post; liar or you obstinately refuse to see and know what’s right before your eyes!

          7. One of the fav techniques of forced vax propagandists; putting words in peoples mouths and claiming they said things they’ve never said.

            That and they also enjoy outright lying.

            To the contrary, suz doesn’t lie, therefore could NOT be confirmed as such, Mikey!

          8. Your actions speak for themselves Scuz.
            You don’t need to admit to being a liar for everyone to see you are one.

        1. Pffft! What an ‘illiterate’ you are! She posted nothing of the sort for you to imply such!

          However, that IS what you all try to do to your opponents! It fits well with your ‘forced vax and world domination!’

        2. Yep I keep interfering with what you want to say….

          ione murphy to E.W. Modemac 7 minutes ago

          Detected as spam Thanks, we’ll work on getting this corrected.

        3. DId you folks out there know that when people don’t like your evidence, they mass flag your comment to send it into moderation. They do this by using all their fake sockpuppet accounts . Who is trying to silence who? Here is a sample of my flagged comments

          ione murphy 2 days ago
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          ione murphy to kfunk937 2 days ago
          Detected as spam Thanks, we’ll work on getting this corrected.

          ione murphy to Andrew Lazarus 3 days ago
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          ione murphy 3 days ago
          Detected as spam Thanks, we’ll work on getting this corrected.

          ione murphy to Watson 5 days ago
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          ione murphy to E.W. Modemac 6 days ago
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          1. I did not make any such flags. Was this a case where you copy/pasted walls of text verbatim from antivax mothership sites? Sometimes the same, over and over?

          2. You mean was she spamming over and over again and got caught by the spambot?
            When you’re a spammer you must expect to be caught by the spambot on occasion.

          3. All the meme’s I have posted are still up, only my comments refuting and providing evidence that would make you look foolish was flagged.

    2. The original article was published on December 31, nearly two weeks ago. No Aurora readers are reading this. The only ones still bothering are the ones whose Disqus notifications still show new comments here.

      1. Actually, I think Aldo may beg to differ with you! However, it’s impossible for you myopic minded to burst my bubble, Modie! 😉

  101. If the vaccines work the you should not worry about others getting them. If you have suppressed immune system you should already be taking other precautions.
    People are putting a lot of faith in the government to assess whether a vaccine is safe and then making it not mandatory when one is found to be unsafe.

      1. Parents should keep young babies sheltered at home for this reason, until their immune systems are up and running. NOT a reason to cripple older kids and adults with vaccines.

  102. “One death followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland earlier this year that sickened 100 people, all because foolish, misled, selfish people have avoided childhood vaccination rules.”
    Who were the carriers? Were they from other countries? Amish? Had the infected people been vaccinated? How long ago?
    Until these questions are answered it is too early to scapegoat 1-2% of the population.

      1. “So the infection likely originated from another country, which would have not been prevented by this law? The source of the initial Disney theme park exposure has not been identified. Specimens from 30 California patients were genotyped; all were measles genotype B3, which has caused a large outbreak recently in the Philippines, but has also been detected in at least 14 countries and at least six U.S. states in the last 6 months (1).”
        So the infection likely originated from another country, which would have not been prevented by this law?

        “Among the 110 California patients, 49 (45%) were unvaccinated”
        So 55% were vaccinated? That would suggest that the Measles vaccine is either less effective or does not last as long as we are being told.

        28 of the 110 were unvaccinated due to personal beliefs. They are a minority and unless you can find patient zero you cannot claim their choice caused this outbreak.

        “Annual attendance at Disney theme parks in California is estimated at 24 million ”
        110 out of 24,000,000?

        BTW overall the death rate and infection rate of measles is extremely low. I vaccinate my children but I do not believe we should take the fascist approach of forcing other people to inject things into their children.

        1. Another innumerate. Of those 110 California patients, we don’t know the vaccine status of many. But let’s be generous and suppose 55% were vaccinated. That’s a very effective vaccine, given that about 95% of the population is vaccinated. That is, the 5% that is not vaccinated is 45% of the sick. Let’s do a relative risk calculation: (45/5)/(55/95)=15.5. Unvaccinated 15.5 as likely to get sick. Observed efficacy of vaccine 1-1/15.5>93%! Pretty darn good, I’d say.

          It’s almost impossible to stop someone from importing measles from the Philippines or France or Great Britain, but with enough vaccination, the outbreak stops pretty much with them.

          1. And a dishonest quoter.
            Aldo quoted the CDC report as saying, “Among the 110 California patients, 49 (45%) were unvaccinated” truncating the full quote which directly answers his question and complaint:
            “Among the 110 California patients, 49 (45%) were unvaccinated; five (5%) had 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine, seven (6%) had 2 doses, one (1%) had 3 doses,47 (43%) had unknown or undocumented vaccination status, and one (1%) had immunoglobulin G seropositivity documented,”

            It seems we have another dishonest quote cherry picker.

            Readers should note as per Andrew Lazarus’ maxim:
            Nothing the anti-vaccinationists say can be taken at face value. You have to verify every word.

          2. All of the couple hundred cases in that outbreak completely recovered, and now enjoy permanent immunity and a stronger immune system. So who cares?

          3. Measles leaves the immune system damaged for years.

            (All diseases are benign, unless in Cia’s family. And all diseases are suffered by losers, except, well, you get the point.)

          4. “Measles leaves the immune system damaged for years.” Really, care to give a reference paper, text, anything that supports that hypothesis?

          5. Well we have your word on that, now care to cite a textbook or pubmed paper that supports your “opinion”

          6. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6235/694
            Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality
            “Measles vaccination is associated with less mortality from other childhood infections. Measles is known to cause transient immunosuppression, but close inspection of the mortality data suggests that it disables immune memory for 2 to 3 years. Vaccination thus does more than safeguard children against measles; it also stops other infections taking advantage of measles-induced immune damage.”

            https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/05/07/measles-immune-system/#.VpRyLVL8ivs
            Measles Weakens the Immune System for Years
            “A new study finds that the measles virus erases the immune system’s memory, leaving patients vulnerable to other infectious diseases for up to three years afterward.

            And researchers think that’s why the advent of vaccination against measles also seemed to reduce childhood deaths from other infectious diseases. It appears that vaccination protects against not just the measles virus, but also many other diseases.”

            It has long been known that one of the ways measles attacks was to reduce your immune response which facilitated its attack and attack by other diseases. It was thought that this suppression was only for a few months. This new research is saying 2-3 years and as long a 5 years for opportunistic infections to have a leg up.

          7. I have never said that all diseases are benign. I read a horrifying book about the yellow fever outbreak in Tennessee in the 1870s. And several about Ebola. Clinical meningitis can be terrible. Also diphtheria, though it can be treated with antibiotics these days. And tetanus and polio. All of them can be successfully treated with high-dose IV vitamin C.

          8. You don’t know that cia! You don’t know that everyone completely recovered and have no lasting sequelae. About 20% were hospitalized, and you don’t go to the hospital these days in the US unless you’re seriously ill. You’re lying. The more you push this idiocy, the more I’m going to push back.

            Lying liars lie lots.

          9. I wasn’t referring specifically to any poster, but I post links to support my statements. I have an open profile, you can look at my posts.

          10. Not true. Your pediatrician would kick you out of his practice if you refused to hospitalize your child with measles, even though there’s nothing they can do for them in the hospital except give antibiotics if there’s a rare bacterial complication. But doctors these days fall apart if they see a case of measles, they’ve been told for so many years how dangerous it is (not). They may also say it’s necessary as a quarantine measure.
            And if anyone didn’t recover, you guys would have a zillion articles written up about their sorry fate.

          11. What’s not true? You don’t work in health care, never have, never will. You don’t know squat about it. You have no idea how hard it is to get insurance to approve a hospitalization. Most hospitalizations for measles cases are due to pneumonia. If it’s bacterial, they’ll get anti-biotics, maybe IV, plus supportive care. If it’s viral, just supportive care. You know, oxygen, breathing treatments, little things like that.

            We know there were no deaths directly attributable to the Disney outbreak, but that doesn’t mean there was no vision loss, hearing loss, encephalitis with brain power loss, some of which won’t even be apparent for some time to come.

            Bottom line-QUIT LYING.

        2. No, 55% were not vaccinated. ” 47 (43%) had unknown or undocumented vaccination status.” Of those whose vaccination status is know, by simple mathematical computation, ~75% were unvaccinated.

          I don’t know what law you’re talking about. This article we are discussing is regarding COLORADO. No law has been proposed. The legislature doesn’t meet until Wednesday Jan. 13, 2016. No one can prevent measles from being imported. People are infected before they have symptoms.

          There weren’t 24,000,000 people at Disney on the day(s) of the exposure. The outbreak showed a crack in herd immunity.

          1. Hmmmm, over half were vaccinated, and yet they got the disease. Does the vaccine work or doesn’t it? And what does herd immunity have to do with it if you are vaccinated and “safe?”

          2. 1)There are numbers between 0 and 100%
            2) Fifth grade maths of absolute vs relative risk
            3)This is Ben – he is immunocomprised and not able to be vaccinated.

          3. Aww, let’s pull Ben out, the immunocompromised child that mom takes everywhere without any fear because the vaccinated surround him. Live on in your little dream world where all drugs and vaccines are wonderful and perfect and the those mean “anti-vaxxers” cause all the world’s diseases. By all means do not question the man behind the curtain, because the CDC led by pharmaceutical company execs say everything we use in the US is safe. Here give Ben’s moms mom some thalidomide, it will help her. 4 out of 5 doctors smoke Lucky Strikes and smoking is good for asthma and calming pregnant mothers nerves. How about some penicillin for that cold.

        3. Don’t you worry, they have laws ready to go into action that will fix this! No travel for anyone not vaccinated. No voting rights. No drivers license. Can’t register your car. No credit card, and no bank account without proof of vaccination. These are real discussions by real people in positions of power. This is where this is heading.

  103. “Colorado regularly ranks worst or near-worst in the nation for vaccination rates, and it’s costing lives, health and millions of dollars.”
    Source to back up this statement?

    1. The only recent outbreaks in Colorado have been the not vaccine preventable disease whooping cough and EV68 which again is not vaccine preventable.

      1. Of course pertussis is vaccine preventable; it just doesn’t prevent it as well as the measles vaccine does for measles.

        We can tell this, because pertussis rates have dropped (even allowing for recent outbreaks), and it isn’t a surge in kale consumption.

          1. Mortality yes, incidence no. We’ve been through this. You post mortality charts, and out of dishonesty or confusion try to pass them off as incidence data.

          2. You have the documents to support half of your argument (mortality), about which there is no dispute, and no documents to support the other half (incidence), where you are wrong.

          3. I am concerned with mortality. If incidence is somewhat up and mortality is down, it must be that we have healthier people who are able to throw off the disease. And BTW, incidence is significantly reducced from the historic epidemics of the 19th century and early 20th century.

          4. To a limited extent, we do have healthier people, and for some diseases, that matters. (Measles yes, smallpox probably not.) We also have antibiotics against piggyback infections, heart-lung machines, and faster access to ERs and ICUs. As I have said before, the availability of an Iron Lung is a poor reason to skip the polio vaccine.

            Even in our better-nourished state, we had over 20,000 cases of paralysis and 3,000 deaths in 1952, just from polio.

          5. No Andrew, not 20,000 cases and 3000 deaths from polio. We had this number of paralysis over 24 hours, to include AFP, coxsackie, meningitis, etc. It was not until 1956 when the bar was raised did we begin to know exactly how many cases of true polio we had with the serology testing now available.

          6. Under “horses not zebra”, there probably were some misdiagnoses. The problem with your analysis, as with measles, is that the total incidence of the entire bucket went down sharply after the vaccine. We don’t have enough NPAFP, more precisely defined, to account for this drop.

            Nirvana Fallacy, Special Antivax Edition: Two diseases conflated once can never be distinguished.

          7. Oh please Andrew, even you are not that thick. Change the definition from paralysis of 24 hours to one of 30+ days with serology verification and we are talking about a few “zebra” cases?

          8. BWF, it’s pretty simple: add all the zebras together, and we are nowhere near the impact of polio. Remember a couple years ago the papers were full of 5 deaths from Enterovirus D68 and maybe 20 cases of paralysis? There were days much worse than that with polio.

          9. Problem is Andrew, 65 years after the fact we don’t know how many Zebras there were, but we can estimate the number by the drop in polio cases after the definition changed… and it is more than the minority. It was probably a herd of Zebras.

          10. What you are missing is the drop isn’t just in polio cases, it’s in polio-like paralysis. That can’t be caused by relabeling. That can only be caused by the vaccine.

          11. In India, although this seems at least partially to be an artifact of better surveillance. (That is, polio, much less non-polio AFP, weren’t tracked to First World standards. Indeed, no one seemed to collect data on the latter, until the polio vaccination campaigns.) As an example, viral meningitis turns out to be reportable in Los Angeles County. Levels nowhere near polio. And, of course, that doesn’t even account for cases that were already diagnosed as zebras even in the pre-vaccine era. As I pointed out earlier, GBS was identified (and diagnosed) in 1916. There’s no reason whatever to think all the zebras were misclassified.

          12. So you’re not concerned with lifelong side effects? With kids and their parents missing 2-3 weeks or more of school and work for pertussis? With hearing/vision/cognitive powers lost for measles? With amputations and cognitive loss from meningitis? Hearing loss from mumps? None of this is of concern to you?

          13. Oh please, let’s drag out the worst cases, from the worst circumstances and threaten 330 million people with it. I can show you some horrible car accidents that resulted from people driving, perhaps you should give up driving.

        1. Pertussis rates went through the roof when the old, dangerous DPT was replaced by the supposedly safer, but in reality extremely dangerous DTaP. Pertussis follows a cyclical course, with few cases every year until it suddenly peaks every three or four years. Pertussis is now a common disease, but most people don’t even realize they have it, just think it’s a bad, long-lasting cough.

      2. Beyond that, pertussis is a relatively mild disease, only dangerous to a small number of newborns in the first three or four months of life. Thousands of appropriately-vaxed people are getting pertussis these days. Why bother? Get it, and then, if you’ve never gotten the vax, you’ll have permanent immunity and start true herd immunity. If you’ve ever gotten it, you probably won’t, because of original antigenic sin: the vaccine permanently programs a deficient response for when it encounters the pertussis germs.

        Children’s health is best assured by letting them go through the childhood diseases naturally, to train their immune system in what it needs to do to overcome disease. Children were much healthier in earlier times: the vaccines have caused about half of them to have neurological (autism, ADHD, seizure disorders, learning and behavioral disabilities) and auto-immune disease (asthma, allergies, diabetes, bowel disease, and many more).
        Aldo is right: Colorado parents who don’t vax are NOT costing lives, health, and millions of dollars.

        1. LIes, lies, and more lies! Pertussis is a very serious disease, especially in infants under 6 months, half of whom have to be hospitalized when they contract it. Older kids who are unimmunized can be sick for months, gasping for air, vomiting, turning purple, all happening several times per night.
          https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/about/complications.html
          https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/11/04/horrifying-suffering-caused-by-treating-pertussis-naturally/

          The death rate in children has declined dramatically with the advent of vaccines. Vaccines are not known to cause any of the above.

          A Denver post article showed that hospital costs for vaccine adverse events in 2013 were ~ $30K; for VPDs, $30,000,000; 1000X higher.
          https://www.denverpost.com/News/Local/ci_27483375/Report:-Low-vaccination-rates-in-Colorado-result-in-illnesses-costs

          If we quite vaccinating, these hospital costs wold rise exponentially.

          The above poster has lost her grip on reality.

          1. Pertussis is only serious for a few of the youngest newborns: one in 200 of the very youngest pertussis patients may die.

            Have you forgotten from the other day?

            Dr. Justus Strom, 1960, “It may be questioned whether
            universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.”

            Dr. Douglas Jenkinson, 1995, “Most cases of whooping cough are relatively mild. Such cases are difficult to diagnose without a high index of suspicion because doctors are unlikely to hear the characteristic cough, which may be the only symptom. Parents can be reassured that a serious outcome
            is unlikely. Adults also get whooping cough, especially from their children, and get the same symptoms as children.”

          2. Katia, I had it. I caught it from my eight-month old baby who had gotten three DTaPs, but got it anyway. I have ALWAYS said that it was alarming and uncomfortable to be forced to cough ten times in a row without being able to take a breath in between. I’ve always said that it lasted a long time: she coughed for over a month, and I coughed for over two months. But that did NOT make it serious or life-threatening. The really bad thing was when the booster at 18 months erased my baby’s only two words and she was diagnosed with autism two months later. She’s still, at nearly 16, very low verbal and can say very little.
            From The Vaccine Book, by Dr. Sears, p. 29, first edition (see, I’ve read him, and you haven’t): “Beyond six months of age, fatalities from pertussis are almost unheard of, so it ISN’T CONSIDERED A SERIOUS DISEASE in older infants, children, and adults.”
            In Sweden there was an outbreak of pertussis which lasted from 1977-1979, with 19,000 cases of pertussis, but no deaths. J. Taranger, “Mild clinical course of pertussis in Swedish infants of today,” Lancet, June 12, 1982; 1360. At the end of that outbreak, Sweden decided that the vaccine was not effective, while also being dangerous (see A Shot in the Dark and Vaccine Roulette), and so they discontinued its use. For eighteen years, 1979 to 1997, and in those years, according to Arthur Allen, 60% of Swedish children got pertussis, but there was an average of less than one death a year from pertussis. Because pertussis is simply no longer a dangerous disease, except to a small number of the youngest infants because their airways haven’t developed enough to handle coughing out the mucus efficiently. These infants should be given high-dose IV vitamin C and they would be quickly cured.
            In the US in 2011, there were over 48,000 diagnosed cases of pertussis, many more undiagnosed, most of the diagnosed ones appropriately vaccinated, but they got it anyway. There were 18 deaths. The other 48,000 plus recovered just as my daughter and I did.
            Parents must make the decision. Young infants should be kept sheltered at home for their protection. The vaccine doesn’t work in infants to start with, and starting the series at two months more than doubles their risk of asthma at seven, compared with starting it a few months later (Manitoba study). Some states in Australia discontinued their free Tdap for adults program meant to cocoon and protect young infants because they said that scientific studies had shown the program didn’t work to protect them. The vaccine is very ineffective, protecting less than a quarter of school-aged children and less than a half of toddlers. The vaccine is dangerous, causing asthma, allergies, seizure disorders, SIDS, and autism (as in my daughter). The disease is tiring and long-lasting, but not dangerous in those over four or five months old.
            There is no reason to believe that having been vaxed for it makes the disease milder. It, like measles and scarlet fever, became milder as part of the natural evolution of the disease.

          3. How do you know I haven’t read Sears’ tripe? Back when I was working, I needed to know what my patients were reading. Some of them brought the rag into the office, wanting to know brand names of the vaccines we carried, wanting to carry out his “delayed” plan, etc.

            People who recover from pertussis often have residual lung damage. And to say it’s not dangerous for kids >4-5 months is simply a LIE.

            The vaccine does not cause any of the problems you list; h*ll it’s been given as a bundled vax since 1949, and pertussis vaccine alone since 1947 or so. There’s a lot of us should have those diseases if the vaccine caused it. Heck, even my kids got the old whole cell stuff, and the youngest is 28.

            There’s no flippin’ “natural evolution” of these diseases becoming milder, that’s another bald-faced lie.

            Scarlet fever isn’t seen as much today because we treat the strep that causes it, with (shudder) antibiotics! You’re dumb as well as a liar.

          4. I haven’t forgotten anything. You’re lying. Quit lying. You just posted this dreck somewhere else. These quotes from a few doctors are meaningless in the scheme of things.

            Sweden quit vaccinating for pertussis and outbreaks started up again. You know that.

            I’m serious when I say the more you push this idiocy, the more I’ll push back. It’s dangerous to let parents think that they can forgo immunization because a deranged lawyer on Disqus said pertussis is a mild disease. QUIT LYING, QUIT LYING!
            https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/11/04/horrifying-suffering-caused-by-treating-pertussis-naturally/

          5. Yes, Sweden stopped vaccinating for sixteen years, and, according to pro-vaccine writer Arthur Allen, 60% of Swedish children got pertussis in those years. But the fatality rate was very low, less than an average of one a year in those years. Out of 19,000 who got pertussis in the outbreak before the suspension of the pertussis vaccine, in 1976-79, there were NO deaths.

            I posted a citation of ANOTHER study confirming how mild pertussis had become. I’ll have to look to see if it’s still here or if you’ve taken it down.

            You have an agenda to drive people the take the vaccine no matter how dangerous the vaccine is, how ineffective, and how mild the disease nearly always is these days. I would be the first to say that it can be dangerous for a small number of the youngest newborns who gets it, and highly recommend keeping young newborns at home for at least the first few months to protect them from this and other contagious diseases. And to treat them with high-dose vitamin C if they get it anyway. I do NOT recommend that anyone get the vaccine.
            I hope that readers will google my evidence to confirm it and then continue their research. You cannot say the same, as you’re just trying to compel EVERYONE to do exactly what you and your pharma sponsors tell them to do, and fork out to get ALL the vaccines. I believe that the dreck is all on your side. I’m going to click the comment with my citation of an article published in the Lancet about the mildness of pertussis and click it back in if you have taken it down.

          6. My comment with the citation is no longer in my Disqus profile. I will save the citation and send it to my friends for future use. The truth is on our side. All your side has is pharma bucks.
            But, no worries. I still have a pen in the book where I got the citation, which is: Taranger, J. “Mild Clinical Course of Pertussis in Swedish Infants of Today,” Lancet, June 12, 1982; 1360.

          7. You know, we’ve been through this pig trough before, cia. 60% of Swedish kids did NOT get pertussis during that period. Again, I’m not going back to look through all the posts to find the link, but you’re free to do so if you and your minions care to do so.

            What you recommend is totally irrelevant! You are not a health care provider. You have no credentials to make any such recommendation; you’re practicing medicine without a license and you could be sued if someone followed your advice and didn’t immunize their kid.

            I haven’t taken any comments down; as you well know, it’s impossible for a poster (me) to take down someone else’s post. H*ll cia, I haven’t even been home for the last couple hours; I was at a yoga class.

            Why do you think Sweden started immunizing for pertussis again?

          8. I said that that was what pro-vaccine writer Arthur Allen had said in his article “Bucking the Herd.” Your bludgeoning with the pharma party line will have no effect on me.

            “Sweden suspended vaccination against whooping cough from 1979 to 1996 while testing a new vaccine. In a study of the moratorium period that was published in 1993, Swedish physicians found that 60 percent of the country’s children got whooping cough before they were ten. However, close medical monitoring kept the death rate from whooping cough at about one per year during that period.”

            https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/09/bucking-the-herd/302556/
            It’s not true that it was “close medical monitoring” that kept the death rate down to less than one per year, but that’s what vaccine defenders have to say. It was because the disease itself had become much milder than it used to be, and it still is. Sweden was a prosperous, educated country in those days, with families who knew how to provide for and give good nutrition to healthy children and how to appropriately nurse sick ones, and so they had almost no deaths from pertussis.

          9. Why’d they start again cia? Here is a great article about the Swedish experiment:
            https://www.csicop.org/si/show/anti-vaccination_fever_the_shot_hurt_around_the_world/

            As you can tell from the stats in this article, it is untrue that 60% of Swedish kids got pertussis. You will also note that Japan, which fell prey to the same nonsense, saw a lot of pertussis deaths. Maybe Sweden was just lucky that no one died from it there. Also note that not everyone agreed with your buddy Strom.

          10. Taranger, J. “Mild Clinical Course of Pertussis in Swedish Infants of Today,” Lancet, June 12, 1982; 1360. Out of 19,000 diagnosed with pertussis in a three-year outbreak, NONE died.

          11. I posted a link a couple days ago showing the nature of pertussis has not changed in 100 years. Not going back to look for it, since you ignored it last time around. Feel free, though to do so yourself.

          12. I have posted many medical and scientific sources who say that pertussis has become a mild disease in most cases, much milder than it used to be. Plotkin and Mortimer in Vaccines said it had become much milder for reasons not well understood. (It’s because most microbes evolve to become milder over time, because that enhances their own ability to propagate.) Only sources employed by Pharma to create fear and sell the vaccine say otherwise.

          13. No you haven’t. I don’t recall you ever posting anything. I remember one time Mike pushing you to actually post a link by this Swedish guy, and you couldn’t (or something like that). What is your background in microbiology? When did you last take a biology course? My guess is high school, if then.

          14. I’m pretty sure she’s talking about Plotkin and Mortimer’s work referenced in Ch 2 of Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines: A report of the committee […], a book you may read online at https://www.ncbi/nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234354/ (I’d suggest adding “?report-classic” after the last slash, if you find pubmed reader format as much of an abomination, especially on tablets, as I do.)

            Anyway, it’s not a bad book, but–what a surpise!–it’s out of date. It covers DTP, which is no longer in use. And concludes, in the section under autism, that there is no evidence of a link. That much hasn’t changed, at least.

            I could be wrong, of course (and frequently am), but since cia can’t be arsed to link to her source, this is the best I could do.

          15. Disease is good, I agree Cia.
            Like you I don’t care if it kills kids as long as they don’t get given those vaccines filled with chemical ooze and monkey pus.

        1. Chronic autoimmune disorder caused from the flu vaccine, risks are 1 in 100,000. Flu vaccine last year was 18% effective. Some years 50% at best. Personally I’ve never had a flu shot, and it’s been over twenty years since I’ve had the flu..I like my odds better

          From the CDC- Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare disorder in which a person’s own immune system damages their nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. On very rare occasions, they may develop GBS in the days or weeks after getting a vaccination.”

          “The chronic version of GBS is known as Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy or CIDP. Researchers who studied vaccine reaction rates found that “GBS is more strongly associated with vaccination for influenza” than for any other vaccine. The Journal of the American Medical Association cites Guillain Barré as the most frequent neurological condition reported after getting the flu shot.”

          “Statistics released in March, 2014 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed that the flu vaccine remains the top vaccine causing injuries which are being compensated through vaccine court, and that Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a crippling disease, remains the top injury being awarded compensation due to the seasonal flu vaccine.

          The report shows that from 11/16/2013 through 2/15/2014, there were 128 total cases filed in vaccine court and 52 cases were compensated. 40 judgements adopted settlements” source Hrsa Gov and Health Impact News

          “The risk of a former GBS patient developing GBS again from a vaccination is not known as the complication rate from vaccinations in recovered GBS patients has not been properly studied. Members of the GBS|CIDP Foundation Medical Advisory Board have deliberated on the safety of immunizations for former GBS patients and offer the following guidelines: For the rare person who developed GBS within four to six weeks of receiving an immunization, it seems prudent to avoid that vaccination in the future. For those whose GBS did not follow soon after a vaccination, there is no reliable data to indicate the risk of developing GBS after a vaccination”… Source GBS/CIPD Foundation

      3. I wish us antivaxers could get our stories straight. Makes us look stupid when we contradict each other all the time.

      1. It said that in 2013 there were 530 kids under 20 hospitalized for vaccine-preventable diseases, meaning 30 million dollars in hospital costs. That just shows you how outlandish hospital charges are in the US. There is NO information on what the diseases were and whether any of the kids was disabled or kllled by them. I would say there weren’t any, or it would have made that the headline.

        It said that there were three adverse vaccine reactions in 2013 which led to hospitalizations, costing a much lower sum of money. Of course it didn’t take into account that now one in 40 vaxed American kids are diagnosed with autism. One in nine with asthma, one in three with allergies, one in fifty with peanut allergies, one in ten with ADHD, one in six with learning disorders, one in a hundred with a seizure disorder, and nearly all of them got their conditions from vaccine reactions. And what do you want to bet that when the thousands of children rushed to the ER with asthma attacks, they didn’t count that as a vaccine reaction? Or the millions of dollars each it takes to support an autistic person for life were not counted either?

        It was just another pharma-sponsored propaganda piece.

          1. so flu deaths cost approx $55,000 each. As you know most flu deaths occur in the immunocompromised. These were deaths due to “vaccine preventable diseases”, however, were all the deaths in people who had not been vaccinated? I think not, especially if we are talking the flu. Which the vaccine was a terrible match this year and last year according to the CDC

          2. You are funny, “But not everyone does it!” LOL, I would venture to say that the immunocompromised are pumped full of all the vaccines by their pediatricians, priests of the vaccines. But I could be wrong. “but not everyone does it” Really anything to support that statement?

          3. Cochrane Review –

            Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children

            Published:
            15 August 2012

            “In children under the age of two, the efficacy of inactivated vaccine was similar to placebo. It was not possible to analyse the safety of vaccines from the studies due to the lack of standardization in the information given, but very little information was found on the safety of inactivated vaccines, the most commonly used vaccine in young children.

            Influenza vaccines are efficacious in preventing cases of influenza in children older than two years of age, but little evidence is available for children younger than two years of age. There was a difference between vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, partly due to differing datasets, settings and viral circulation patterns. No safety comparisons could be carried out, emphasising the need for standardisation of methods and presentation of vaccine safety data in future studies. In specific cases, influenza vaccines were associated with serious harms such as narcolepsy and febrile convulsions. It was surprising to find only one study of inactivated vaccine in children under two years, given current recommendations to vaccinate healthy children from six months of age in the USA, Canada, parts of Europe and Australia. If immunisation in children is to be recommended as a public health policy, large-scale studies assessing important outcomes, and directly comparing vaccine types are urgently required. The degree of scrutiny needed to identify all global cases of potential harms is beyond the resources of this review.

            This review includes trials funded by industry. An earlier systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007 found industry-funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size. Studies funded from public sources were significantly less likely to report conclusions favourable to the vaccines.

            The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and conclusions of this review should be interpreted in the light of this finding.”

            https://www.cochrane.org/CD004879/ARI_vaccines-for-preventing-influenza-in-healthy-children

          4. So fricking what? 90% of flu deaths are to UN-VACCINATED kids! That is the CDC’s research. I already posted a link.

          5. So what? The statistics show that 90% of pediatric flu death cases were UNIMMUNIZED, and 40% had no other health problems.

  104. 7,545 comments in this ridiculous shouting session — which can’t even be classified as a discussion, never mind an argument — and I daresay barely 1% are actually on topic for the actual article.

    1. I wish I was paid for every time you use the word antivaxxer.
      A pejorative and inaccurate label encompassing many points of view, as you have seen in the large number of comments.
      That there is a variety of viewpoints expresses many different criticisms of both specific vaccines, their timing and combination, their efficacy and the risks involved.
      The commonality in the viewpoints is the right to choose medical intervention without state coercion.

        1. Vaccine policy is a complex issue.
          State coercion of medical intervention is subject to goals not just of public health, but also of increasing private wealth for corporate market shares, and furthering political career interests. A bad combination.
          Coercion of injection of an indemnified product doesn’t translate to good policy.
          Putting medical decisions in the hands of legislators is poor policy.
          Removing rights for those exercising religious beliefs and philosophical objections by restricting a public education is poor policy.
          No one is restricting access to vaccination.
          No one is discouraging efforts to make vaccination recommendations.
          No one should disallow a healthy child the right to go to school.
          Our nation was founded on tolerance.
          It’s a tradition I value, even if you do not, Katia.

          1. Well, maybe, like the AMA only represents about 15% of the MDs, the ANA does not represent all or even a majority of the nurses.

          2. I wasn’t talking about the AMA, I was talking about the A*N*A! You figure it out, genius. That union isn’t getting very far, last year, about 90% of nurses got a flu shot.

          3. I see your eyesight or reading comprehension is slipping. May have to go see an optometrist. I know you were talking about the “A-N-A” I made the analogy to the “A-M-A” as a comparison. I will write louder if that will help. Do you have any documents to support the 90% of nurses got flu shots? And you could be correct as many nurses were forced with the choice of flu shot or loss of job. Sad day when forced medication is the price of being able to work.

          4. Yes, but it seems as if being coerced into having a vaccine is not sitting too well with your former colleagues. And these are nurses too. Probably members of the ANA

          5. Last year 93.4% of nurses got vaccinated for flu. These nurses represent a lunatic fringe. If they are represented by the A-N-A, which is a labor union as well as a professional organization, the ANA will not support them unless they have a medical or religious exemption, which they do support.

            Most nurses work “at will” they can be fired for anything, if they’re not represented by a union.

          6. Yes they did get the vaccine, because they wanted to keep their jobs. That is why they are suing, to not have to chose between their job and having a vaccine. 93.4% of the nurses did not “chose” to have the vaccine, many were “forced” “mandated” to have the vaccine or lose their jobs.

          7. LOL, I did a long time ago sweetheart. I am not the one stamping my feet screaming “liars” and trying to throw around my credentials. I am just having fun poking those that are so blind that they cannot see and maybe help some lurker to see the ridiculous attitudes of the liberal progressives that want to control everybody’s lives and money. Just because you got an LPN does not mean you get to decide for the rest of us.

          8. I have a BSN and grad school credits, you jag*ff! (Sorry Gracie, if you don’t like it, quit encouraging people to disparage other posters.)

        1. Massive Fraud: Psychiatry’s Corrupt Industry

          For decades, psychiatrists and psychologists have claimed a monopoly over the field of mental health. Governments and private health insurance companies have provided them with billions of dollars every year to treat “mental illness,” only to face industry demands for even more funds to improve the supposed, ever-worsening state of mental health. No other industry can afford to fail consistently and expect to get more funding.

          A significant portion of these appropriations and insurance reimbursements has been lost due to financial fraud within the mental health industry, an international problem estimated to cost more than a hundred billion dollars every year.

          The United States loses approximately $100 billion (€81.5 billion) to health care fraud each year. Up to $20 billion (€15.7 billion) of this is due to fraudulent practices in the mental health industry.

          One of the largest health care fraud suits in US history was in mental health, yet it is the smallest sector within health care.

          A study of US Medicaid and Medicare insurance fraud, especially in New York, over a twenty-year period, showed psychiatry to have the worst track record of all medical disciplines.

          Germany reports roughly $1 billion (€807 million) is defrauded each year.

          In Australia, health care fraud and patient over-servicing has cost taxpayers up to $330 million (€226 million) a year.

          In Ontario, Canada, psychotherapist Michael Bogart was sentenced to 18 months in jail for defrauding the government of almost $1 million (€815,993), the largest medical fraud case in the history of the province.

          Mark Schiller, president of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, admitted: “I have frequently seen psychiatrists diagnose patients with a range of psychiatric diagnoses that aren’t justified, to obtain [insurance] reimbursements.”

          However, psychiatrist and psychologist membership bodies do not police this criminality. Rather, as former president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Paul Fink, arrogantly admitted: “It is the task of the APA to protect the earning power of psychiatrists.”

          The mental health monopoly has practically zero accountability and zero liability for its failures. This has allowed psychiatrists and psychologists to commit far more than just financial fraud. The roster of crimes committed by these “professionals” ranges from fraud, drug offenses, rape and sexual abuse to child molestation, assault, manslaughter and murder.

          Source-The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights

          1. Well, what the H*ll does that have to do with immunizations? Is this just another Gish-gallop attempt of your ione? Although psychiatrists who are MDs CAN prescribe vaccines, they don’t usually.

          2. Al Quaeda, really? While I am in 100% agreement with you regarding Scientology’s lack of credibility (and cult status), I saw nothing at that particular link to support that statement. On the other hand, I would not be particularly surprised, just based on Crank Magnetism. That alone may explain their having made the NOI something of a wholey owned subsidiary and now an ally in the AV movement, as well as “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

            I did find the parallels in rhetorical technique between Scientology’s anti-psychiatry and the antivaccine movement to be striking. Claims of mass murder, rape, that the intervention causes the disorder it is meant to treat, Godwin, coopting the Holocaust, elaborate conspiracy theories, ad naseam. Ick.

            Last note: at your link, there are two links to affiliated groups (near the end). The first yields a 404 PNF, at David Icke’s site. I found that concerning.

          3. I am not a scientologist for the record, but I support freedom of religion as I also support the right to bear arms and the right to informed consent and choice when it comes to vaccines.

            if you can refute the charges about massive fraud in the psychiatric health care field , please do so.
            Otherwise, your statement of antivaxxers being as dangerous as Al Qaeda is sounding too much like the editorial piece, that the same editor of this story wrote about the NRA, that got every hunter with a rifle in Colorado pretty worked up as you can see here…https://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/05/07/aurora-sentinel-editor-gets-death-threats-after-anti-nra-column/

            He opined that the NRA were terrorists…

            “No more due process in the clear-cut case of insidious terrorism. When the facts are so clearly before all Americans, for the whole world to see, why bother with this country’s odious and cumbersome system of justice? Send the guilty monsters directly to Guantanamo Bay for all eternity and let them rot in their own mental squalor”

            https://www.aurorasentinel.com/opinion/perry-we-can-only-save-ourselves-from-kidnappers-at-the-nra/

            Medscape Medical News > Psychiatry
            Psychiatrist Admits to Fraud, Agrees to Pay Back $1.2 Million

            Psychiatrist Accused in Alleged Prescription Kickback Scandal
            Former Psychiatrist Gets Judgment, Jail Time for Fraud
            Medical Malpractice and Legal Issues News & Perspectives

          4. I’m not interested in psychiatric reform, it’s a red herring and a distraction, and it has nothing to do with vaccines. You’re using it as an excuse to lie about the imagined dangers of vaccines, as always, based on your imaginary belief in the right to deliberately lie to people about them.

          5. I am not the one who brought it up…remember?

            “What Psychologists Say About Anti-Vaxxers: They’re Raging Narcissists”

            I just pointed out how trustworthy and honest those in that field have been ..

          6. Is that any of the experts who were quoted or just a generalization?

            If it’s the latter, that’s rather weak.

            I offered the link to show the term “antivaxxer” is commonly used by multiple sources to describe a particular group. If you’d like to discuss what it is about your own behavior that indicates you’re a raging narcissist, however, we can.

          1. What’s your point? I doubt if they’d be so happy to use condoms and such reproductive prophylactics if they caused severe & permanent injury or death, as do the prophylactics for vpds!

          2. Ask mommy to ‘splain condoms to you. You shouldn’t be learning about such stuff over the internet, grasshopper!

          3. And many drunk drivers never get into accidents – the problem is that by the time you know which drunk drivers have gotten into accidents, it’s TOO LATE to prevent the accidents.

          4. No, it is an argument about oranges being compared to an argument about apples. It’s perfectly valid – this is a simple application of consistent logic.

            If your own logic sounds absurd to you in relation to another situation then maybe you should reconsider the initial application of your logic.

          5. Oh! Ok! Yours is yet another platitudinous and illogical ‘argument’ comparing apples ‘TO’ oranges! All better!

            Many non drunks cause accidents too! Ow!

            ‘Maybe you shouldn’t’ have missed your nap, grasshopper! 😉

          6. “Many non-drunks cause accidents too”

            Yes, suz -that’s my point – thank you for making it for me.

            Many non-drunks cause accidents but drunk drivers are overrepresented in accidents, even though most drivers who get into fatal accidents are sober at the time – this doesn’t make it safer to drive drunk.

            Again, thank you. It’s so much easier when you guys make my point for me!

          7. You have no point because you LACK LOGIC, grasshopper!

            So again with this; maybe you shouldn’t have missed your nap today, little bug!

          8. No you’re NOT because if everyone ‘drunk or not drunk’ were afraid to drive because of the illogical chicken little fear of always being in an accident, [like you pro and forced vaxers are with your germaphobia ] the roads would be barren, little bothersome and beguiling bug!

            Your drunk driving platitude remains as BUNK, when discussing forced vax, grasshopper

          9. No! Not everyone’s afraid of people choosing to drive drunk, any more then being AFRAID of teenage boys behind the wheel, or the elderly with diminished sight and slowed reflexes.

            Get mommy to ‘splain it to ya along with your beddie bye story, grasshopper!

          10. Things that are now restricted in California:

            Impaired driving (drunk or drugged)
            Driving over the limit
            Refusing to vaccinate

            The common thread here is that they all pose a danger to other people.

            Until you can expose that universal fraud, we’ll stick with the evidence and make decisions based on that – anyone’s feelpinions about the matter are largely irrelevant.

            Lurkers: What does it tell you that those who’ve “done their research” also consistently have to have the most basic. things. explained to them?

          11. Darlin’, there’s idiotic ‘restrictions’ still on law books, making it illegal to kiss a pig; [pun] intended little bug.

            Laws change when there’s a need and people stand up for their rights enough to get involved in the legislative processes! When they learn these processes to be corrupted, they take action to correct such!

            Get mommy to ‘splain it to you with your beddie bye story, grasshopper!

          12. Ask mommy to ‘splain your charade of incessant queries to you with your bedtime story, grasshopper! You’re conspicuously ‘off topic’, little bug

      1. Oh, my Goodness, such language! I’m shocked that the sanctimonious suz would ever try to evade the filters with such a nasty word!

  105. Despite what the media tells you, it isn’t all that common to encounter a so called “anti-vax” parent who has never vaccinated a child. Most of those parents only wish they were so lucky to have seen that train wreck coming in the crystal ball. The overwhelming majority of them started out just like the opposition: pro-vaccine and trusting their doctors.

    Then, one day, they lost the healthy child they once knew after a series of vaccinations. Please have a little compassion. There but by the grace of God go we.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/

  106. Readers beware — this unsigned piece of disinformation by “The Aurora Sentinel” (no reporter wanted to put their name on it huh?) is nothing but Lies and distortion, throughout. I don’t always comment on these propaganda pieces, but you caught me on a slow day.

    The piece describes a “discredited” study by a “discredited” doctor, later calling it a “fake study,” and call the vaccine autism connection a “hoax” “lie” and “groundless claim.” If the inflammatory and biased language didn’t tip you off, this is pretty much classic misinformation marketing.

    In fact if you ignore Wakefield et. al. (there were originally 13 authors on that paper in question, along with Wakefield), you are still left with *over 100* still published, peer-reviewed, studies linking vaccines to Autism. That fact alone should be so incongruent with the Lies being peddled through this disinformation outlet, that a rationale person should immediately have some serious doubts about everything else that is said.

    Here is a list that a researcher maintains, to what are now 122 abstracts on the subject. For all but one of them, they represent an entire published, peer-reviewed study, which you can read in it’s entirely for yourself. (web trolls first move will be to attack the source, per there talking points, but note that scribd is just a collection of the scientific abstracts, published in research journals).

    https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/122-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link#scribd

    If you bring Wakefield et. al. back into the picture, the truth is that there was nothing “fake” or “a hoax” at all about the study, and it didn’t even claim that vaccines were causing autism — merely investigated a small related phenomena, and called for a serious investigation into the matter. Nor was the study or it’s authors “discredited” — it was attacked viciously by a coordinated effort, which managed to get the study retracted based on ethical concerns, not scientific ones. Specifically, for obtaining blood samples from children at a birthday party (to be controls) and compensating them a small amount of money, without a detailed consent form. Further, the second author of that study sued *successfully* for defamation — which pretty much vindicates the others as well, although they were not on the lawsuit.

    The next gargantuan lie is that there is that, “there is not one reputable pediatrician, pediatric organization, hospital, clinic, or researcher that does not vehemently work to debunk the autism lie and beg parents to vaccinate their children.” I don’t know how you’d even begin to defend such a bogus claim??! Not one? LOL. I could give you hundreds, perhaps thousands. I suppose the only way to defend that would be to rest it on the word “reputable” and employ the No True Scotsman fallacy, immediately asserting that any such organization, hospital, clinic, or researcher who tells a different story must therefore not be reputable — which is, as I said, a logical fallacy.

    I could go on with this ridiculous piece — but it doesn’t deserve serious point-by-point rebuttals, given how blatantly manipulative and Factually Incorrect it is. What IS serious is that vaccines can and do cause vaccine injuries, sometimes including brain damage, nervous system damage, and autoimmunity. Also, not every disease they are meant to protect against is that serious (not everything is Polio and Smallpox — two things you have almost zero chance of getting anyway, in the modern, western world). They are also not always that effective (several documented measles outbreaks in populations close to 99% vaccination coverage) — and their timing does not have to be fixed in stone (Heb B at 24 hours old is just ridiculously stupid).

    Don’t be like California, and join only Mississipi in coerced, forced medical procedures. If there is a risk, there must be a choice. It’s a testament to how brainwashed the American Public has become that this is even a remote possibility.

    1. It’s an editorial written by … The Editor.

      In addition to undeclared conflicts of interest, Wakefraud’s paper was a “scientific fraud” as well.

      Now get lost, stupid troll.

      1. Wow Ivan. Man gives a measured reasonable response that is contrary to your world view and immediately he is a troll. You did not even have time to look at his links. and you post a video that shows information that has been discredited. Would not want to try and intrude on your facts in concrete.

          1. Well goes to show you how the average person just skims the headlines and believes the pharmaceutical myths spread to push their agenda. Wakefield’s study had nothing to do with autism, he was one of 13 authors, they showed “leaky gut syndrome” associated with vaccines, they encouraged further study and did not make general conclusions, the other author that was railroaded has been exonerated and Wakefield is as well. Now quit spreading lies and that you know nothing about

      2. Ending discussions of political and ethical importance with “get lost, stupid troll” really make you look good. Keep it up.

          1. Why yes, I did use the word “shill” once in this thread, and it was well deserved. I am so glad you have read all of that. Must have been a few thousand comments ago at this point. So glad I am well known and revered by the “Shill” community! Ahhh, I crack you up? What about all those comments I made about people like you whom advocate for the violation of another’s basic human rights being tried for their crimes? No mention of that. Violating human rights and being tried for those violations cracks you up? What will crack me up is when fear mongering, human rights violators like you get letters written by me whilst you are in JAIL!

        1. Comparing yourself to the Jews under Hitler, fantasizing about killing those who disagree with you about vaccines, and whining about non-existent threats to your voting rights really makes you look good. Keep it up, kid.

      3. A troll calling me a troll, and a “stupid troll” at that. That’s what you call irony… and one of the classic methods employed by industry trolls. Here’s how to spot yourself in the mirror.

        https://theantimedia.org/heather-callaghan-4-ways-spot-big-pharmas-astroturfing-media-manipulation/

        Wakefield aside, that still leaves the pesky matter of those 122 studies, but you probably don’t have a talking points memo that addresses those. That’s because *Science* is about observation and reasoning, and can’t be “debunked” by angry annonymous web trolls.

      4. I’ve been put in my place, by a troll calling me “stupid troll,” and ignoring any mention of the 122 studies that I linked to.

        Do they pay you a lot? I hope so. I wouldn’t sell my soul to evil for less than six figures, personally.

      5. Brian Deer is a journalist who was hired to stop Wakefield’s work at any cost. He set out with a pre-determined mission that had nothing to do with truth or facts. He was caught lying about who paid him and refuses to disclose who was paying him. Deer the journalist is the fraud not Wakefield the medical professional. Right on Deer’s own website the other co-authors say that the paper was only retracted due to public health implications. The work stands unjustly retracted or not and has been replicated. Like Dr. Paul Thomas told you how Hooker’s paper was retracted due to pressure, not legitimacy. Your lies are unfolding for all to see.

      6. The Lancet parents are still wanting to know how Deer illegally obtained their childrens medical records as well. That is against the law and should be addressed. Real crimes against real people. I say it’s time for justice.

      7. Not to mention he intentionally misrepresented their testimony and lied his way in to some of their homes. Facts.

    2. Mississippi and West Virginia maintain country’s strictest vaccination laws. Those laws have been on the books for more that 30 years in Mississippi and for over a 100 years in West Virginia.

      January 19, 2012
      Associated Press

      CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -” More than 30 cases of pertussis have been reported in three counties, including Berkeley and Morgan counties.

      An advisory issued by the Bureau for Public Health says pertussis outbreaks are being investigated in Berkeley, Hancock and Morgan counties. Thirty-eight cases have been confirmed or are probable.”

      “Mississippi has the highest vaccination rate for school-age children. Last year, 99.7 percent of the state’s kindergartners were fully vaccinated.”…source Washington Post

      ‘Whooping cough cases rise to 140 in east central Mississippi’
      Daily Journal

      “Mississippi’s case of whooping cough has been officially upgraded.
      “We have an outbreak,” said state epidemiologist Dr. Mary Currier.
      Since April, 140 cases of the disease, also known as pertussis, have been reported, and they include the death of an infant. The outbreak has hit primarily in east central Mississippi, but folks in Northeast Mississippi should still be vigilant.”

      For every 1,000 Mississippi babies born in 2011, 9.4 died before their first birthday, according to the state’s health office. That makes Mississippi’s infant mortality rate more comparable to countries such as Costa Rica (9.2), Sri Lanka (9.5) and Botswana (10.5) than the United States (6.0), according to latest estimates in the CIA World Factbook.

      The bottom of the list

      Mississippi is 50th out of 50 states when it comes to infant mortality, and it’s been that way for a long time, says state health officer Mary Currier.”
      Source CNN News

        1. How many of the Colorado cases were fully vaccinated?

          Colorado whooping cough epidemic continues in force

          Through Nov. 16, the 1,183 cases of pertussis were confirmed in Colorado, up from 1,505 last year and 419 in 2011.

          The state health department blames a change to the pertussis vaccine in the 1990s and ordinary disease cycles for the spike.

          “What we’ve learned in the last couple of years is that the switch in vaccines has led to greater issues of waning immunity to pertussis, which means that the protection provided by the vaccine isn’t lasting as long as we’d ideally like,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, deputy director for the division of disease control at the Colorado Department of Health and Environment”

          https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24690359/colorado-whooping-cough-epidemic-continues-force

          1. Did you even read what I posted? Mississippi has a much lower rate of pertussis and higher rates of vaccination. My explanation is one that has stood the test of time. Lower vaccination rates leads to higher vaccine-preventable disease incidence rates. I’m not sure how you would explain otherwise.

    3. “Here is a list that a researcher maintains”

      “Published by Ginger Taylor”

      Who is Ginger Taylor? Media Director for the antivax group HealthChoice org. Someone who fits your definition of “astroturf.”

      If you accept Ginger Taylor as a researcher then it’s only reasonable to say Liz Ditz is as well. Here’s her review of Ginger Taylor’s list.

      https://lizditz.typepad.com/files/g_taylor_list_debunked_v2.0_8_7.pdf

      To summarize: Taylor’s list is not all that.

    4. You have a choice: you can home school.
      There is no right to introduce communicable disease into public space, and there really isn’t a right to freeload off others’ vaccination without contributing back.

      1. Indeed. You can drink or you can drive – if you’ve drunk something, sober up before you drive.

        If you want your kids in school, vaccinate them.

  107. What, no byline at all? Not even “the editors?” I guess the industry that wrote this propaganda piece couldn’t even get a hack journalist to put their name on it.

    Tags: Propaganda, Misinformation, Blatant and Total Lies.

      1. Apparently random456 is another functionally illiterate anti-vaccine cultists.
        To not know that an editorial is written by the editorial board indicates a 5th grade intellect.

      1. She is a medical doctor. You post an article by Orac, one of the biggest pharma shills on planet earth, and expect people to take you seriously?
        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

          1. Posting juvenile pictures of Oprah does not really solidify your arguments. Please continue your approach at convincing the populace to be forcefully vaccinated by displaying your sophisticated ways of persuasion.

          2. I couldn’t care less if anyone’s convinced.

            The only one talking about forcefully vaccinating anyone is you.

          3. Not so ‘elementary’, my dear Watson! All of us against medical fascism and forced vax are talking about it! 😉

        1. So? Sears is a “doctor” too. Wakefield actually is still an MD or whatever the term is in Britain, but he lost his license to work in medicine.

  108. Someone isn’t listening – and it isn’t the parents who become educated and choose to decline or delay vaccinations.
    First: The current vaccine schedule is 10X what the parents had and 25X what the grandparents had.
    Second: Children 5 and under are about 23-24% of the nation’s population. (This is where we find out who is listening to their math teachers throughout school years) Explain how 100% vaccination of 23-24% of the population creates the fictitious “herd immunity” (hint, it doesn’t. 24% will never = the fictitious unreachable never ever occurring in nature or reality 90% thrown about as necessary to achieve that bogus state of being)
    Third: Nobody wants to sell vaccines to the kids. That market is saturated. The vaccine rates in that 0-5 age group surpasses the 90% and still you are being told it is not enough.
    Fourth: YOU are the target. Nearly 300 new “vaccines” in the pipeline, almost 70 doses already being given to kids.YOU on the other hand, didn’t get them. No one cares if you had chicken pox – you are the target for chicken pox and shingles vaccines. YOU are the cash cow. You are the ATM machine. YOU are the lifetime consumer of products to fight the autoimmune disorders that vaccine after vaccine will give you because YOU are the target – the real threat – the great unjabbed 76%.
    Fifth: Everyone who is saying that CHILDREN must be jabbed and their health be damned need to pay attention. You just gave away YOUR right to be safe, happy and unmolested by the drug pushers with needles.
    Sadly – welcome to your new “normal”. A population willing to put a noose around their own neck. Pathetic.

    1. Wow, we can have 25 times as many vaccines as in grandma’s day, and life expectancy and infant mortality are both way better today! Great pro-vaccine point!

      I think you have a serious problem with the computation that “YOU are the target – the real threat – the great unjabbed 76%.” Now, it is true that I haven’t gotten all of the vaccines given today, but that’s because (except for rubella) I had many of the diseases instead. But I think you got the 76% by subtracting the 23-24% of the population under 5 from 100%. This is bogus: the children under 5 don’t stay in that category, they become 6 and then 7 and so on. So most adults under the age of 55 have received at least on MMR, and coverage for polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis would be higher still.

      Lurkers: 76% unjabbed would be the entire population over the age of 5. Guess that tells you how bad antivaxers are with math. And without math, you can’t do science.

    2. First: So freaking what? Which vaccine preventable disease would you like your grandchildren to get? The new vaccines are all protective against serious diseases. I have friends whose kids got Hib meningitis back in the early 80s; one has permanent disabilities.

      Second: a) We’re not just talking about kids under 5. H*ll, they don’t even darken the door of a school until age 5-6.
      b) The school immunization laws cover kids up through college, in Colorado, RIGHT NOW!!! There is a new cohort of children born every year, and a cohort moving on to adulthood every year. Now do that math problem. Figure how “herd immunity” is obtained.

      Third: I don’t know what the freak you’re talking about. There’s a new cohort born every year. The birth rate is going UP, now that the recession is older. Kids get their primary series from 0-2; then boosters at 5 (Kinder entry in Colorado) again at 11, and 16. There’s a new cohort of these kids moving through the pipeline constantly!

      Fourth: Sure, there are a lot of vaccines in the pipeline. Not all will come to fruition, not all will be added to the recommended schedule for routine immunizations. Some are for cancer. There is work being done on a longer-term flu vaccine, to eliminate the annual shot/snort. There is research being done on an RSV vaccine, something as a pediatric practitioner, I’d like to never see again.
      https://www.immunizeforgood.com/vaccines/new-vaccines-on-the-horizon

      Fifth: You hit the nail on the head. Anti-vaxers are afraid of needles. They don’t like to see their kids cry. (No one does.) Much of their literature shows kids photoshopped with dozens of needles, and screaming kids. Vaccines are among the most tested meds out there. It’s a LIE that vaccines are untested and cause life-long disability.

      1. Allow me to make a small clarification. In Colorado, no immunizations are required past the 6th grade Tdap. However, the CDC and the CDPH&E recommends Menactra at age 16.

      2. My son received so many TDAP shots it was ridiculous and he still got the whooping cough last November.oh and guess what he survived. It wasn’t even a big deal. He recovered in seven days he feels a little achy he stayed home no big deal. However the vaccinations on the other hand those cost quite a bit of damage a lifelong injury where is the pertussis lasted seven days. People who get brainwashed into thinking that these things are so terrible are ignorant. Potassium chloride is one of the fun chemicals in vaccinations. it’s also the main ingredient we use during lethal injection to kill a person on death row. I’m pretty sure you didn’t know that.

        1. No, dear, you’re brainwashed by anti-vax sites.

          We did what you told us to do and do our research. As usual, the original sources don’t say what the anti-vax sites think they do or claim they do.

        2. jenny, someone who cites sources that can’t manage 9th. grade. chemistry should be really careful about calling other people incorrect.

          1. You have been caught in multiple lies on multiple occasions. You are here to confuse the fact that vaccines cause autism.

          2. You said you were not a shill and you are a shill= lie.
            You said vaccines do not cause autism and I showed you the published science that says they do cause autism= lie

          3. “You said you were not a shill and you are a shill= lie. Nope, I don’t get paid for this – if you think otherwise, post REAL EVIDENCE – paycheques and the like.


            You said vaccines do not cause autism and I showed you the published science that says they do cause autism= lie” No, you showed me the published science that YOU THINK says vaccines cause autism. They don’t say what you think they do.

  109. I would only say that it is not a “small “percentage of children who react negatively to vaccines as you state above. We have chronic childhood illness and auto immune disease that was practically unheard of in the pre mass vaccination era. I would say we’ve traded old, week long, right of passage diseases for chronic sickness, ear infection, allegies, asthma, diabetes, and the list goes on. So many children have chronic health conditions. This is the first generation in American history that will die at younger ages than their parents. And we’re in for massive auto immune disease b/c of vaccines. When the immune system is never allowed to function properly, as nature intended, contract the disease naturally, fight it off, grow stronger, the body is cheated out of developing to the point where it can fight off much more serious disease down the road. There is a critical and important reason these disease must be had naturally. I maintain that a properly nourished immune system with no underlying conditions and proper nursing can handle any childhood disease. We live in a country that is as malnourished as third world Africa, this is why diseases are a problem.

      1. I wonder how much they would have to lie about the risks in order for jenny to be correct?

        And jenny, you don’t know the difference between an adverse event and a side effect so laws like California’s SB277 would change precisely *bugger all* with regard to your ability to make an informed decision. What it would do is stop your choice to make an uninformed or misinformed decision from affecting the rest of the kids in the school.

  110. After reading this ridiculous article with all of the lies the fear mongering an inaccuracy of it it made me sick to think of how many people would actually read this and considerate it too be fact when most of it was fiction. First of all nobody died during the Disneyland outbreak not a single person. And calling parents who actually question the safety of vaccinations odd or any other ruthless nonsense is ridiculous in itself. This is not an entire pro issue this has become an issue that needs to be looked at. Anyone with half a brain knows that vaccinations can cause damage and death they are unavoidably unsafe and that’s coming right out of the mouths of our government. Scientists, immunologist, virologist, geneticist, Ext. you get the point. Many doctors and scientists are coming to the conclusion that vaccines cause a myriad of difficulties and issues and death. I have been studying this for 10 years on both ends of the spectrum and like I said this is not an entire pro issue and I hate when people say that. This is a human issue this is about our children and every person has the right to know what’s going inside of their child. When somebody says it’s for the greater good there’s no such thing. It’s for people who thinks the vaccines are 100% safe are being uneducated and foolish.

    1. “After reading this ridiculous article with all of the lies the fear mongering, the inaccuracy of it just made me sick.” No.

      “To think of how many people would actually read this and considerate it too be fact when most of it was fiction.” – wrong.

      ” First of all nobody died during the Disneyland outbreak not a single person.” – one person died of complications and hospitalizations are enough for a public health emergency and to bring laws directed at that into control.

      And there’s been whooping cough epidemics which have killed babies.

      “And calling parents who actually question the safety of vaccinations odd or any other ruthless nonsense is ridiculous.” Don’t be ridiculous – people who question vaccine safety are politely answered. What is odd is believing in a grand global conspiracy and thinking that everyone who comments on the other side is a shill.

      “This is not anti or pro issue this has become an issue that needs to be looked at. ” – it has been looked at – that’s why we can answer people who question vaccine safety.

      “Anyone with half a brain knows that vaccinations can cause damage and death” – nobody denies this. The problem is that so can the diseases at much higher rates.

      “they are unavoidably unsafe and that’s coming right out of the mouths of our government. ” If you read the whole decision, no. Unavoidably unsafe doesn’t mean unreasonably dangerous, in any case.

      “Scientists, immunologist, virologist, geneticist, Ext. you get the point.”

      ” Many doctors and scientists are coming to the conclusion that vaccines cause a myriad of difficulties and issues and death.” You have to PROVE they are more dangerous than the disease.

      ” I have been studying this for 10 years on both ends of the spectrum.” Then you know that the evidence is only on the pro-vaccine side.

      “stated this is not anti or pro!” Yes it is. It is anti-disease vs pro-disease.

      “I hate when ignorant people say that. ” – Uh-uh. Tell me: what must you read and understand to enter VAERs.

      “This is a human issue this is about our children and every person has the right to know what’s injected into their child. ” All the ingredients are readily available. Done.

      ” When somebody says it’s for the greater good, what a uneducated and foolish statement. ” Your choices are smaller risk from the vaccine or larger risk from the disease. You can choose the larger risk for yourself and maybe your child but not the rest of the children in the classroom.

      “I know too many parents whose children have been injured to vaccination I also know parents who have lost their teenagers and young adults to vaccination I’m gone all over the world I’ve seen it I’ve heard the stories as well as my own” Yeah, you’ve heard the STORIES. Did they give you any actual evidence or is it the usual vaccine injury garbage?

      https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/vaccine-injury-stories-the-sacred-cows-of-the-internet/

      ” and vaccines hold risks otherwise it would never be an adverse reporting system or the vaccine injury compensation fund.” WAHHHH! So do the diseases at much higher rates.

      “Ask yourselves this question everybody why did Congress in 1986 Grant complete and total legal immunity for all damages to the vaccine industry.” Simple – they didn’t. Manufacturing and labelling defects are suable for normally. With design defects

      “This means you cannot sue them directly when they damage you or your child. Period! Red flag! ” – I agree – this would be horrible – luckily, it’s false.

      “If it is not yet it should be.” If it were true, it would be a red flag. Luckily, it isn’t.

      “A person below me said something really ignorant, and it made me realize how young and uneducated she is.” Uh-uh – it wouldn’t be not falling for your post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, would it?

      ” I didn’t take offense to it. However I started to think how many uneducated people there are out there.”

      The reason everybody’s ANGRY is that you lot constantly lie about NCVIP – it does not remove all product liability, much less all liability and it pays for lawyers and expert witnesses and everything.

      In contrast, if an unvaccinated ten-year-old gives a kid-too-young-to-be-vaccinated-for-it Diptheria, then there is zero liability. Social liability is all that is possible here.

      1. Sia says ” Don’t be ridiculous – people who question vaccine safety are politely answered.”

        Funniest thing I’ve read from you yet!

        1. None of them have shown up yet, Ione. There’s a difference between questioning vaccine safety and baseless fearmongering and evidence-free accusations of shillhood.

          1. Every time I have tried to post about animal viruses in vaccines, my post gets mass flagged and then you make jokes about antivaxxers being afraid their kids will turn into cows

            But we now know there are 21 known viruses that infect cattle that are found to also infect humans and they happen to also be in our vaccines. The same for pig viruses, 17 viruses that can transfer to humans. Can they harm our kids??

          2. I take it you are referring to just one of the porcine viruses found in rotavirus vaccines

            .Investigation of porcine circovirus contamination in human vaccines.

            We found traces of PCV1 and PCV2 DNA in the rotavirus vaccine from manufacturer B. This highlights the issue of vaccine contamination and may impact on vaccine quality control….https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu

            But here was what Dr Hayflick had to say about it…

            “Dr. Leonard Hayflick, a virologist at both Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco raised a concern that the common primary culture used for making vaccines with animals and bird embryos has created a situation where it is “apparent that these cells contained many unwanted viruses, some of which were lethal to humans.”

            “The viral cell matter presents a significant health risk due to the plethora of dangerous animal viruses, RNA, DNA, and other foreign material that can’t be filtered out of the final preparation.”

            Here is the evidence of just ONE of the bovine viruses in vaccines…

            Genotypes of pestivirus RNA detected in live virus vaccines for human use.

            .Live virus vaccines for human use, 29 monovalent vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella or polio, eight polyvalent vaccines against measles-mumps-rubella and one bacterial polyvalent vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae, were tested by reverse transcriptase-nested PCR for the presence of petivirus or pestivirus RNA.

            These findings indicate that contamination by animal pestivirus may occur in biological products for human use”….https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503899

            This study says they don’t think there is any immediate concern…

            Bovine viral diarrhea disease (BVDV) associated with a contaminated vaccine (the MMR vaccine).This suggests that BVDV RNA detected in human live viral vaccines represents passive carry over of BVDV from contaminated FCS rather than active virus replication in human diploid cells. Our results indicate that contamination with BVDV of FCS used in vaccine production does not appear to be of immediate concern to human health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu

            But then this study says it is causing infantile gastroenteritis with symptoms of respiratory inflammation….

            Infantile gastroenteritis associated with excretion of pestivirus antigens.

            Abstract

            “Faeces from children under 2 years old who had gastroenteritis that could not be attributed to recognised enteric pathogens were examined with a monoclonal-antibody-based immunoassay for Pestivirus antigens. Such antigens were detected in 30 of 128 episodes of gastroenteritis.

            The diarrhoeal disease in children excreting Pestivirus antigens resembled that in other children except that it was more commonly associated with signs and symptoms of respiratory inflammation”

            https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(89)90066-4/abstract

            And that it might be related to microencephaly…

            “Pestiviruses are ubiquitous pathogens of cattle and frequent adventitious viruses in biologicals. Furthermore, it has been suggested that these agents might be related to infantile gastroenteritis and microencephaly. Since the virus is highly prevalent in fetal bovine serum, the risk of contamination is high in most laboratories. Thus, the implementation of detection methods in all laboratories is of worth. Despite continuous surveillance, these agents have been detected in cell lines, fetal bovine serum, live and inactivated animal and human vaccines and interferon for human use.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18395415

          3. Quit whining about your posts getting flagged. Most of us are adult enough not to go around flagging stuff we simply disagree with, which is not the purpose of flagging posts anyway. If something was removed by the mods, it means the mods agreed the post was offensive.

      2. Jenny says: ” “A person below me said something really ignorant, and it made me realize how young and uneducated she is.” ”

        I think she’s talking about me. Funny, yesterday some boy-child was ragging on about how old I am! You can’t win for losing with these AVers.

  111. The first person who can explain to me the premise of how a vaccine is supposed to work without googling it then you’ll understand why it doesn’t work for infants. Or anybody with a compromised immune system and infants have compromised immune system’s because they are not fully developed.

  112. The premise of classic vaccine intervention is that a weakened virus is introduced into the body, causing the body’s immune system to recognize this virus and respond through the production of antibodies. These antibodies, it is believed, will then protect the body from the real virus that comes along. It is the “rehearsal” model of immunology.

    This immunology model isn’t wrong, but it also isn’t complete. The body can only respond if its own immune system is sufficiently vigorous, and this comes primarily from good nutrition and behavioral choices. A junk food diet and chronic vitamin D deficiency, in other words, leads to chronic immune suppression. This causes vaccines to not work (not create the desired antibody response), and this simple truth is almost never reported by the mainstream media: Those who need vaccines the most are the least likely to benefit from them because their immune systems fail to generate the desired antibody response.

    Those with very strong, active immune systems, on the other hand, are very likely to naturally and automatically build their own antibodies to a real-world exposure to an invading viral strain. This often takes place asymptomatically (i.e. the person never even knows they “caught” the flu, because they never showed any symptoms). Thus, the people who are most likely to respond with antibodies to a vaccine are precisely the very same people who are least likely to need the vaccine (i.e. most likely to beat the flu on their own). This does not disregard the importance of vaccines in laboratory conditions, such as where scientists are working in level-4 biohazard labs, in which case they must obviously be fully vaccinated against those extremely deadly threats. However, even in such contexts, those scientists need to have healthy immune systems or they won’t respond well to the vaccines.

    The vaccine industry response to this catch-22 by formulating vaccines with adjuvants — inflammatory chemicals designed to cause a heightened immune reaction so that those with weakened immune systems might generate some sort of antibody response. These chemicals and metals (including aluminum) are toxic to the body, which is why some small percentage of children receiving these vaccines experience devastating biological damage as a result (hence the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program).

    What the alternative health community really wants to see on vaccines — in my opinion, at least, but I think you’ll find this to be a commonly held belief — is the elimination of all toxic chemicals and heavy metals from all vaccines. Mercury, aluminum, MSG, formaldehyde, etc. This would require vaccines to be offered in single-dose vials, not 10-dose vials as is currently the standard. We also want to see the vaccine industry educate doctors and health care providers of the importance of vitamin D used in conjunction with “clean vaccines.” The vitamin D must be taken for many days in advance to build up vitamin D levels in the blood and activate the immune system gene expression. Only then can a clean vaccine produce the desired antibody response.

    Almost NONE of these issues are ever discussed in the mainstream media. The Atlantic is by far a more thoughtful, in-depth publication, which is why I’m hopeful that you will consider all that I’ve brought up here. The mainstream “tabloid” media attempts to paint this entire issue as “science vs. anti-science.” It’s nothing of the kind. So-called “anti-vaxxers” mostly aren’t opposed to vaccines per se (although some are opposed to all such interventions, regardless of their composition); they are primarily opposed to the toxic elements formulated into those vaccines, and they are especially opposed to the totalitarianism mentality of the belligerent vaccine industry which leaves no room for intelligent questions, genuine scientific scrutiny or even any discussion of the removal of toxic elements from vaccine. When does article mentioned that immunocompromise people were at higher risk but when you inject a child with The vaccine and all the toxins with them they won’t work due to this reasoning

    1. I really liked the way you explained the immune system. I would imagine children with a weakened immune system already with a steady exposure of PFC’s would not mount much of a response to vaccines.

      ‘Exposure to Common Chemicals May Weaken Vaccine Response-2012’

      “Researchers report that exposure to ubiquitous household chemicals may lower children’s responses to vaccines.
      The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which are commonly used in Teflon coatings in pots and pans as well as in furniture, stain-resistant carpeting, rain gear and microwave popcorn bags, may hinder children’s ability to mount proper immune responses after they are vaccinated. The findings suggest that important gains made by immunization programs in the past century may be eroded by the emergence of these environmental chemicals.

      When the researchers compared the participants’ antibody levels to the levels of PFCs in their blood, they were surprised to find that higher levels of PFCs were linked with a lower immune response. In fact, kids whose PFC levels were twice as high had half the amount of antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus, compared with children who tested lower for PFCs.

      **At age 7, kids with a twofold increase in PFC levels were also two to four times more likely to show an immune response that was so low that it was no longer clinically protective.**

      https://healthland.time.com/2012/01/25/exposure-to-common-chemicals-may-weaken-vaccine-response/

      1. So PFC might reduce the vaccine immune response. Yes, I agree that the vaccine immune response should be enhanced as much as possible so that vaccines are the most effective.
        .
        That was your point, right?

        1. So you agree with many others that PFC’s should be banned then?

          “A flood of disturbing scientific findings since the late 1990s has abruptly elevated PFCs to the rogues gallery of highly toxic, extraordinarily persistent chemicals that pervasively contaminate human blood and wildlife the world over. As more studies pour in, PFCs seem destined to supplant DDT, PCBs, dioxin and other chemicals as the most notorious, global chemical contaminants ever produced. Government scientists are especially concerned because unlike any other toxic chemicals, the most pervasive and toxic members of the PFC family never degrade in the environment.”

          1. I’m not like you, Ione. I don’t jump to conclusions based on
            a few web articles on a woo site. I apply critical thinking and investigate the issue and look for reliable sources. I don’t have an opinion on that subject yet. I do not have enough information to decide and I and not pushing a blind agenda.

            Like you do.

          2. I understand, you are not allowed to diss PFC’s. But here is some more info for you anyway..

            “Scientists have now found 15 PFCs in human blood – every PFC for which they have tested. In industry’s 2001 study of six PFCs in human blood, scientists found four at higher levels in children than in adults. And children showing the highest levels were within the range of what has been measured in 3M workers [3][Extract | Full Document]. Recent laboratory studies heighten concerns about the effects these chemicals might have on children’s health and development [4]. PFOA was found at similar levels in children and adults, but children may be at higher risk to the incremental effects of PFOA exposures simply because their bodies carry higher levels of other PFCs with toxicities similar to that of PFOA.

            Once introduced, PFOA circulates in the body for years. If new exposures to PFOA could somehow be stopped, the body would require an estimated 4.4 years to excrete half the mass of PFOA accumulated in organs and tissues [2]. But since humans appear to be exposed frequently, perhaps daily, through consumer products and environmental contamination, the fact that the body can slowly excrete PFOA has less relevance to human health than the fact that PFOA appears to be continually reintroduced.” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/714e02f636c01ddae98a32ab23b9aa07014fd9567d91da201b3de49dd8f0af2b.png

          3. The problem with information from you is that you are a liar. In this case, to posted an excerpt from a woo site with no link trying to hide the source. this is it:

            https://www.ewg.org/research/pfcs-global-contaminants/pfoa-pervasive-pollutant-human-blood-are-other-pfcs

            The entire post on this site does nothing but identify measurements of petrochemical like substances in people over the years. There is zero references, studies, or even claims as to harm….. none at all. Even though there is not even a claim of causality, you post a picture that claims PFCs cause cancer. You source does not support your conclusion. You imply it. does. You are a liar.

            Your continuing deception will not negatively prevent me from making a proper conclusion when I do. I do not have an opinion on the subject but the good news is that your deceptions will not sway me either way although I should take the indication that fanatical lying loons are usually on the wrong side.

        2. And if infants really did have weakened immune response, why would you opt for the germ that can fight back?

  113. The article I sent it won’t let me post on the thread too long. The research is hard to ignore, vaccines can trigger autoimmunity with a laundry list of diseases to follow. With harmful and toxic metals as some vaccine ingredients, who is susceptible and which individuals are more at risk?
    No one would accuse Yehuda Shoenfeld of being a quack. The Israeli clinician has spent more than three decades studying the human immune system and is at the pinnacle of his profession. You might say he is more foundation than fringe in his specialty; he wrote the textbooks. The Mosaic of Autoimmunity, Autoantibodies, Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases, Infection and Autoimmunity, Cancer and Autoimmunity – the list is 25 titles long and some of them are cornerstones of clinical practice. Hardly surprising that Shoenfeld has been called the “Godfather of Autoimmunology” – the study of the immune system turned on itself in a wide array of diseases from type 1 diabetes to ulcerative colitis and multiple sclerosis.

    But something strange is happening in the world of immunology lately and a small evidence of it is that the Godfather of Autoimmunology is pointing to vaccines – specifically, some of their ingredients including the toxic metal aluminum – as a significant contributor to the growing global epidemic of autoimmune diseases. The bigger evidence is a huge body of research that’s poured in in the past 15 years, and particularly in the past five years. Take for example, a recent article published in the journal Pharmacological Research in which Shoenfeld and colleagues issue unprecedented guidelines naming four categories of people who are most at risk for vaccine-induced autoimmunity.

    “On one hand,” vaccines prevent infections which can trigger autoimmunity, say the paper’s authors, Alessandra Soriano, of the Department of Clinical Medicine and Rheumatology at the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome, Gideon Nesher, of the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem and Shoenfeld, founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center of Autoimmune Diseases in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. He is also editor of three medical journals and author of more than 1,500 research papers across the spectrum of medical journalism and founder of the International Congress on Autoimmunology. “On the other hand, many reports that describe post-vaccination autoimmunity strongly suggest that vaccines can indeed trigger autoimmunity. Defined autoimmune diseases that may occur following vaccinations include arthritis, lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE) diabetes mellitus, thrombocytopenia, vasculitis, dermatomyosiositis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and demyelinating disorders. Almost all types of vaccines have been reported to be associated with the onset of ASIA.”

    ASIA – or Autoimmune/inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (also known as Shoenfeld’s syndrome) — first appeared in the Journal of Autoimmunology four years ago. It is an umbrella term for a collection of similar symptoms, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, that result after exposure to an adjuvant – an environmental agent including common vaccine ingredients that stimulate the immune system. Since then an enormous body of research, using ASIA as a paradigm, has begun to unravel the mystery of how environmental toxins, particularly the metal aluminum used in vaccines, can trigger an immune system chain reaction in susceptible individuals and may lead to overt autoimmune disease.

    Autoimmune disease results when the body’s system meant to attack foreign invaders turns instead to attack part of the body it belongs to (auto is Greek for self). If the immune system is like a national defence system, antibodies are like drones programmed to recognize a certain type of invader (a bacteria say) and to destroy them or mark them for destruction by other special forces. Autoantibodies are like drones that are misidentifying a component of the human body and have launched a sustained attack on it. If they mistakenly target a component of the conductive sheath around neurons, for example, nerve impulses stop conducting properly, muscles go into spasm and coordination fails; multiple sclerosis results. If autoantibodies erroneously focus on joint tissue; rheumatoid arthritis results. If they target the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, Type 1 diabetes, and so on

    “Throughout our lifetime the normal immune system walks a fine line between preserving normal immune reactions and developing autoimmune diseases,” says the paper. “The healthy immune system is tolerant to self-antigens. When self-tolerance is disturbed, dysregulation of the immune system follows, resulting in emergence of an autoimmune disease. Vaccination is one of the conditions that may disturb this homeostasis in susceptible individuals, resulting in autoimmune phenomena and ASIA.”

    Who is “susceptible” is the subject of the paper entitled, “Predicting post-vaccination autoimmunity: Who might be at risk?” It lists four categories of people: 1) those who have had a previous autoimmune reaction to a vaccine, 2) anyone with a medical history of autoimmunity, 3) patients with a history of allergic reactions, 4) anyone at high risk of developing autoimmune disease including anyone with a family history of autoimmunity, presence of autoantibodies which are detectable by blood tests and other factors including low vitamin D and smoking.

    PREVIOUS REACTION

    Regarding those who have had a previous adverse reaction to vaccines, the paper cites five relevant studies including the case of a death of a teenage girl six months following her third Gardasil injection against HPV virus. She had experienced a range of symptoms shortly after her first dose, including dizziness, numbness and tingling in her hands, and memory lapses. After her second injection, she developed “intermittent arm weakness, frequent tiredness requiring daytime naps,” worse tingling, night sweats, chest pain and palpitations. A full autopsy was unrevealing but blood and spleen tissue analysis revealed HPV-16 L1 gene DNA fragments – matching the DNA found in vials of the Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer – “thus implicating the vaccine as a causal factor.” The DNA fragments had also been found to be “complexed with the aluminum adjuvant” which, according to the report, have been shown to persist for up to 8 to 10 years causing chronic immune system stimulation.

    “Although data is limited,” Shoenfeld and his colleagues concluded, “it seems preferable that individuals with prior autoimmune or autoimmune-like reactions to vaccinations, should not be immunized, at least not with the same type of vaccine.”

    ESTABLISHED AUTOIMMUNE CONDITION

    The second group which the paper cites for vaccine exemption is patients with “established autoimmune conditions.” Vaccines don’t work so well in them, say Shoenfeld and his colleagues, and they are at “risk for flares following vaccination.” Inoculations that contain live viruses including chickenpox, yellow fever and the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine (MMR) are “generally contraindicated” for people with autoimmune conditions because of the risk of “uncontrolled viral replication.” But inactivated vaccines are not such a good idea either because they usually contain the added ingredient aluminum, linked to autoimmunity.

    The immunologists describe recent studies in which patients with autoimmune rheumatic disease given the influenza vaccine (without aluminum) suffered more joint pain and fever than controls and whose levels of autoantibodies (the drones that attack self) increased after receiving the flu vaccine. What’s more, they developed new types of autoantibodies that weren’t present before the vaccines, and those persisted. As the presence of autoantibodies can be predictive of developing autoimmune disease in patients without symptoms, even years ahead of disease onset, this is troubling to those who understand immunology.

    A number of studies claim vaccines are safe for the “overwhelming majority of patients with established autoimmune diseases,” the study allows, but they only looked at rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and not at severe and active cases so “the potential benefit of vaccination should be weighed against its potential risk,” they cautioned.

    PATIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF ALLERGY

    Vaccine trials have usually excluded “vulnerable” individuals — only extremely healthy individuals with no allergies are recruited. It’s a “selection bias,” say Soriano and Shoenfeld, and has likely resulted in serious adverse events being “considerably underestimated” in “real life where vaccines are mandated to all individuals regardless of their susceptibility.” The true incidence of allergic reactions to vaccines, normally estimated at between one in 50,000 to one in a million doses, is probably much higher and particularly where gelatin or egg proteins are on the ingredients list, they say.

    There’s a long list of vaccine ingredients that are potential allergens: besides the infectious agents themselves, there are those from hen’s egg, horse serum, baker’s yeast, numerous antibiotics, formaldehyde and lactose, as well “inadvertent” ingredients such as latex. People’s allergic histories have to be taken before vaccination say the researchers. But some signs of reaction don’t show up until after the shot.

    The public health nurse or GP might tell patients that a long-lasting swelling around the injection site after a vaccine is a normal reaction, for example. But that is not what the immunologists say. “[A]luminum sensitization manifests as nodules [hard lumps] at the injection site that often regress after weeks or months, but may persist for years.” In such cases, they say, a patch test can be done to confirm sensitivity and to avoid vaccination.

    According to a growing body of research, though, allergy may be only the beginning of many dangerous aluminum-induced phenomena.

    THE TROUBLE WITH ALUMINUM

    Aluminum has been added to vaccines since about 1926 when Alexander Glenny and colleagues noticed it would produce better antibody responses in vaccines than the antigen alone. Glenny figured the alum was inducing what he called a “depot effect” – slowing the release of the antigen and heightening the immune response. For 60 years his theory was accepted dogma. And over the same time, the vaccine schedule grew decade on decade, but few ever questioned the effects of injecting aluminum into the body, which is strange considering its known toxicity.

    A PubMed search on aluminum and “toxicity” turns up 4,258 entries. Its neurotoxicity is well documented. It affects memory, cognition, psychomotor control; it damages the blood brain barrier, activates brain inflammation, depresses mitochondrial function and plenty of research suggests it is a key player in the formation of the amyloid “plaques” and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. It’s been implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and autism and demonstrated to induce allergy.

    1. If it was too long the first half-dozen times, what makes you think it’ll go through the next time you try it?

      Try a link.

  114. The article I sent it won’t let me post on the thread too long. The research is hard to ignore, vaccines can trigger autoimmunity with a laundry list of diseases to follow. With harmful and toxic metals as some vaccine ingredients, who is susceptible and which individuals are more at risk?
    No one would accuse Yehuda Shoenfeld of being a quack. The Israeli clinician has spent more than three decades studying the human immune system and is at the pinnacle of his profession. You might say he is more foundation than fringe in his specialty; he wrote the textbooks. The Mosaic of Autoimmunity, Autoantibodies, Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases, Infection and Autoimmunity, Cancer and Autoimmunity – the list is 25 titles long and some of them are cornerstones of clinical practice. Hardly surprising that Shoenfeld has been called the “Godfather of Autoimmunology” – the study of the immune system turned on itself in a wide array of diseases from type 1 diabetes to ulcerative colitis and multiple sclerosis.

    But something strange is happening in the world of immunology lately and a small evidence of it is that the Godfather of Autoimmunology is pointing to vaccines – specifically, some of their ingredients including the toxic metal aluminum – as a significant contributor to the growing global epidemic of autoimmune diseases. The bigger evidence is a huge body of research that’s poured in in the past 15 years, and particularly in the past five years. Take for example, a recent article published in the journal Pharmacological Research in which Shoenfeld and colleagues issue unprecedented guidelines naming four categories of people who are most at risk for vaccine-induced autoimmunity.

    “On one hand,” vaccines prevent infections which can trigger autoimmunity, say the paper’s authors, Alessandra Soriano, of the Department of Clinical Medicine and Rheumatology at the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome, Gideon Nesher, of the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem and Shoenfeld, founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center of Autoimmune Diseases in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. He is also editor of three medical journals and author of more than 1,500 research papers across the spectrum of medical journalism and founder of the International Congress on Autoimmunology. “On the other hand, many reports that describe post-vaccination autoimmunity strongly suggest that vaccines can indeed trigger autoimmunity. Defined autoimmune diseases that may occur following vaccinations include arthritis, lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE) diabetes mellitus, thrombocytopenia, vasculitis, dermatomyosiositis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and demyelinating disorders. Almost all types of vaccines have been reported to be associated with the onset of ASIA.”

    ASIA – or Autoimmune/inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (also known as Shoenfeld’s syndrome) — first appeared in the Journal of Autoimmunology four years ago. It is an umbrella term for a collection of similar symptoms, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, that result after exposure to an adjuvant – an environmental agent including common vaccine ingredients that stimulate the immune system. Since then an enormous body of research, using ASIA as a paradigm, has begun to unravel the mystery of how environmental toxins, particularly the metal aluminum used in vaccines, can trigger an immune system chain reaction in susceptible individuals and may lead to overt autoimmune disease.

    Autoimmune disease results when the body’s system meant to attack foreign invaders turns instead to attack part of the body it belongs to (auto is Greek for self). If the immune system is like a national defence system, antibodies are like drones programmed to recognize a certain type of invader (a bacteria say) and to destroy them or mark them for destruction by other special forces. Autoantibodies are like drones that are misidentifying a component of the human body and have launched a sustained attack on it. If they mistakenly target a component of the conductive sheath around neurons, for example, nerve impulses stop conducting properly, muscles go into spasm and coordination fails; multiple sclerosis results. If autoantibodies erroneously focus on joint tissue; rheumatoid arthritis results. If they target the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, Type 1 diabetes, and so on

    “Throughout our lifetime the normal immune system walks a fine line between preserving normal immune reactions and developing autoimmune diseases,” says the paper. “The healthy immune system is tolerant to self-antigens. When self-tolerance is disturbed, dysregulation of the immune system follows, resulting in emergence of an autoimmune disease. Vaccination is one of the conditions that may disturb this homeostasis in susceptible individuals, resulting in autoimmune phenomena and ASIA.”

    Who is “susceptible” is the subject of the paper entitled, “Predicting post-vaccination autoimmunity: Who might be at risk?” It lists four categories of people: 1) those who have had a previous autoimmune reaction to a vaccine, 2) anyone with a medical history of autoimmunity, 3) patients with a history of allergic reactions, 4) anyone at high risk of developing autoimmune disease including anyone with a family history of autoimmunity, presence of autoantibodies which are detectable by blood tests and other factors including low vitamin D and smoking.

    PREVIOUS REACTION

    Regarding those who have had a previous adverse reaction to vaccines, the paper cites five relevant studies including the case of a death of a teenage girl six months following her third Gardasil injection against HPV virus. She had experienced a range of symptoms shortly after her first dose, including dizziness, numbness and tingling in her hands, and memory lapses. After her second injection, she developed “intermittent arm weakness, frequent tiredness requiring daytime naps,” worse tingling, night sweats, chest pain and palpitations. A full autopsy was unrevealing but blood and spleen tissue analysis revealed HPV-16 L1 gene DNA fragments – matching the DNA found in vials of the Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer – “thus implicating the vaccine as a causal factor.” The DNA fragments had also been found to be “complexed with the aluminum adjuvant” which, according to the report, have been shown to persist for up to 8 to 10 years causing chronic immune system stimulation.

    “Although data is limited,” Shoenfeld and his colleagues concluded, “it seems preferable that individuals with prior autoimmune or autoimmune-like reactions to vaccinations, should not be immunized, at least not with the same type of vaccine.”

    ESTABLISHED AUTOIMMUNE CONDITION

    The second group which the paper cites for vaccine exemption is patients with “established autoimmune conditions.” Vaccines don’t work so well in them, say Shoenfeld and his colleagues, and they are at “risk for flares following vaccination.” Inoculations that contain live viruses including chickenpox, yellow fever and the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine (MMR) are “generally contraindicated” for people with autoimmune conditions because of the risk of “uncontrolled viral replication.” But inactivated vaccines are not such a good idea either because they usually contain the added ingredient aluminum, linked to autoimmunity.

    The immunologists describe recent studies in which patients with autoimmune rheumatic disease given the influenza vaccine (without aluminum) suffered more joint pain and fever than controls and whose levels of autoantibodies (the drones that attack self) increased after receiving the flu vaccine. What’s more, they developed new types of autoantibodies that weren’t present before the vaccines, and those persisted. As the presence of autoantibodies can be predictive of developing autoimmune disease in patients without symptoms, even years ahead of disease onset, this is troubling to those who understand immunology.

    A number of studies claim vaccines are safe for the “overwhelming majority of patients with established autoimmune diseases,” the study allows, but they only looked at rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and not at severe and active cases so “the potential benefit of vaccination should be weighed against its potential risk,” they cautioned.

    PATIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF ALLERGY

    Vaccine trials have usually excluded “vulnerable” individuals — only extremely healthy individuals with no allergies are recruited. It’s a “selection bias,” say Soriano and Shoenfeld, and has likely resulted in serious adverse events being “considerably underestimated” in “real life where vaccines are mandated to all individuals regardless of their susceptibility.” The true incidence of allergic reactions to vaccines, normally estimated at between one in 50,000 to one in a million doses, is probably much higher and particularly where gelatin or egg proteins are on the ingredients list, they say.

    There’s a long list of vaccine ingredients that are potential allergens: besides the infectious agents themselves, there are those from hen’s egg, horse serum, baker’s yeast, numerous antibiotics, formaldehyde and lactose, as well “inadvertent” ingredients such as latex. People’s allergic histories have to be taken before vaccination say the researchers. But some signs of reaction don’t show up until after the shot.

    The public health nurse or GP might tell patients that a long-lasting swelling around the injection site after a vaccine is a normal reaction, for example. But that is not what the immunologists say. “[A]luminum sensitization manifests as nodules [hard lumps] at the injection site that often regress after weeks or months, but may persist for years.” In such cases, they say, a patch test can be done to confirm sensitivity and to avoid vaccination.

    According to a growing body of research, though, allergy may be only the beginning of many dangerous aluminum-induced phenomena.

    THE TROUBLE WITH ALUMINUM

    Aluminum has been added to vaccines since about 1926 when Alexander Glenny and colleagues noticed it would produce better antibody responses in vaccines than the antigen alone. Glenny figured the alum was inducing what he called a “depot effect” – slowing the release of the antigen and heightening the immune response. For 60 years his theory was accepted dogma. And over the same time, the vaccine schedule grew decade on decade, but few ever questioned the effects of injecting aluminum into the body, which is strange considering its known toxicity.

    A PubMed search on aluminum and “toxicity” turns up 4,258 entries. Its neurotoxicity is well documented. It affects memory, cognition, psychomotor control; it damages the blood brain barrier, activates brain inflammation, depresses mitochondrial function and plenty of research suggests it is a key player in the formation of the amyloid “plaques” and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. It’s been implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and autism and demonstrated to induce allergy.

    1. “No one would accuse Yehuda Shoenfeld of being a quack”

      We could start with whether there’s any evidence ASIA is a real disorder

    2. Isn’t this a copyright violation, to report the whole article? Good grief woman, a paragraph or so and a link would have been more than sufficient.

    3. You are telling us toxicology without mentioning the doses at which they become toxic – you’re either clueless or trying to scare us.

      There’s more formaldehyde in a baby that was a fetus about 5-8 hours ago.

    4. Wall0text copypasta will not win friends and influence people.

      You haven’t read the comments, have you? ASIA has been well-covered already.

  115. Infants have weekend immune system’s because they haven’t even developed yet. If you understand the article than you understand the vaccines shouldn’t be given to infants in the quantity that they give them today.

    1. jenny, with a 10-minutes-old disqus account, says

      Infants have weekend immune systems

      No, I think infant immune systems work 7 days a week.Thanks for the lulz, though.

      1. Newborn Immune Systems Suppressed
        –https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38187/title/Newborn-Immune-Systems-Suppressed/

        1. I’ve read it. There’s some promising and interesting work being done in the field. I’m sure you understood it, though. Did you have a point?

    2. You better tell the CDC. They’ll love this “new revelation”. It’s not as if vaccines haven’t been studied, dearie.

    3. I have one of those weekend immune systems also. it gets worse on the weekend.

      You don’t know more that the experts but it’s cute that you think you do. I guess you are a weekend warrior.

    4. If infants have weakened immune systems, why on earth would you risk the full-strength virus over a dead or weakened one or bits of one since virulent germs can FIGHT BACK?

  116. I live in Commiefornia and the article writer is dead wrong one does not have to be Vaccinated in order to go to College.. Also my kids can go to school unvaccinated because the law has set up education levels which mean my 1st grader doesn’t have to get vaccinated until she is going into Junior High School, my sons who are both in High School do not have to get vaccinated at all so from Pre-school-Kindergarten is one block then 1st grade thru 6th grade is another block then Junior High thru High school is another block and if you are an good parent and home school your kids then you do not have to vaccinate at all period.

    1. I was shocked at how lax CA’s college requirements are. Here in CO, it’s been a requirement to have 2 MMRs for college for decades. (There is opt-out as well.)

      1. There are college vaccination requirements in my state, as well. Plus, if your child grows up and wants to enter medical or nursing school, there are vaccination requirements there, too.

      1. Actually once a person reaches Majority (18) the schools and Government can not force you to do any Medical Procedure against your will..

  117. One death from measles. How many deaths and chronic illnesses from vaccination. Vaccination MUST be a choice.

    1. There have been over 100 measles vaccine deaths reported. The MMR continues to report high rates of serious adverse events including encephalopathy and brain damage.

        1. Your blog had no refutation of the deaths reported to VAERS, just speculation.
          The number of deaths is concerning.

          1. Politifact is not my blog and tt’s not speculation that the listed cause of death in those cases was not the vaccine. As the article states

            “Tallying a death that happened after a measles vaccine is not the same as confirming that the shot was the cause.

            “(When available, causes of death after the measles vaccines range from existing heart conditions to co-sleeping to drowning.”

            More on Using VAERS as evidence

            https://thepoxesblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/vaers-as-evidence-of-vaccine-harm/

          2. Everyone understands that VAERS reports are not the same as proof of causation.
            Everyone is also capable of understanding the concept that large numbers of reports are concerning.

          3. 100 deaths from drowning, pre-existing heart conditions and other causes are tragic. It’s especially saddening when some of those are children.

            The real concern is that there are people who will knowingly lie and say those deaths were caused by a life-saving vaccine, when they were not. Then, even after the statement is shown to be a lie, they continue to lie about it. That is concerning.

          4. I am not misrepresenting.
            In the US, in Vaccine Court, there is a $250,000 death benefit.
            There are risks and benefits to every Vaccine, and parents have a right to decide what is best for their family without coercion from the state.

          5. True, in Vaccine Court, there is a $250,000 death benefit; however the statement there have been 100 deaths from the MMR vaccine in the last 10 years is a lie.

            You could be an adult and admit that, or continue to defend a statement you know to be false. It’s your choice.

          6. The VAERS reports of deaths associated with MMR is significant.
            That bears some weight, as deaths should.

          7. Yet on review, the cause of those deaths was suffocation from co-sleeping, drowning, pre-existing heart conditions, etc.

            That the people who oppose reasonable health requirements continue to lie about this is what is most significant.

          8. Perhaps that’s all you have.
            Empty handed.
            Where’s the evidence on the other 90 plus cases reported to VAERS.

          9. Uh-uh. I understand the obvious – all right. Anti-vaccine people lie. VAERS is self-report meaning anyone can make up any gunk. The gardasil had a bunch of people reporting sore arms.

          10. VAERS ID: 252078 – Patient age 1.2 yrs. Cause of death was a bean in the subjects trachea.

            VAERS ID: 320862 – Patient age 50. Pulmonary emobolism. Lung cancer 2 years with chemotherapy

            VAERS ID: 351934 – Patient age 49. Cause of Death: Coronary artery disease

          11. A very sad example of an adverse event after vaccination, and a condition that sometimes happens with chronic kidney disease.

          12. ” we did not want to accept any money without responsibility that the vaccine caused this; once we filed, we took the whole two-year time period before accepting the blood money. ” the federal government conceded that Holly’s death was compensable due to the MMR vaccine.
            We were compensated by the United States Court of Federal Claims, after filing a vaccine injury claim. They conceded that Holly’s death was a result of the MMR.”
            https://hopefromholly.com/blog/tag/hollys-law/

          13. That explains why chronic kidney disease appears on the VAERS report, but not in the Vactruth article or anywhere on hopefromholly. The government conceded a table injury.

            Here’s the docket history, if you’re interested
            https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/7lp4x72r/united-states-court-of-federal-claims/stavola-v-hhs/

            Holly Stavola passed away in 2000. Were you able to find any cases in the last 10 years?

            ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported

          14. Her daughter had ADEM.
            “When I learned about the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and was told I must file a claim, to receive any compensation, I was shocked and felt deceived how the vaccine program was set up to fail parents.
            According to the Health Resources Services Administration, approximately 74 percent of vaccine injury claims/deaths are denied. I desperately wanted the opportunity to make a difference, to help parents, and to make it known that Holly’s death was vaccine related and that the system has many flaws.
            In September of 2004, I was nominated by the Department of Justice/Vaccine Litigation Unit to serve as a General Public Member: Parent of a Vaccine-Injured Child representative on the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines.
            I needed to then apply with my resume to receive this position, which I did, and was ultimately accepted onto the Commission.
            The Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) is made up of nine voting members, most of whom are pro-vaccine and working for what is in the best interest of the government. [8]
            At the ACCV meetings, members get together to discuss the vaccine injury program, to offer advice and give recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to make changes to the existing rules.
            I was excited to make a difference. I served for two years following Holly’s death, attending meetings and giving suggestions, as a parent of a vaccine-injured child.
            The meetings were held in Rockland, Maryland, at the United States Department of Health offices. It was hard because I had to leave my family to attend the meetings and it became futile, frustrating and apparent, that I could not make an impact, to change the current and unjust vaccine program.”
            https://hopefromholly.com/blog/tag/hollys-law/

          15. Okay, if you say so. The government conceded a table injury. Where do you see ADEM in the Vactruth article or Hope From Holly? I couldn’t find it.

            I see this:

            “HOLLY WAS NOT SICK!! PEDIATRICIANS WILL TRY TO PLAY HER REACTION OFF AND EXPLAIN THAT THIS TRAGEDY HAPPENED BECAUSE SHE WAS SICK, ABSOLUTELY NOT, SHE WAS A VERY, VERY HEALTHY CHILD, NOT IMMUNOCOMPROMISED IN ANY WAY.”

            This in the VAERS Report:

            “Chronic KIdney Disease”

            A very sad story. Also, any cases from the last 10 years?

          16. From the vactruth article
            ” was at two local Monmouth County hospitals that were clueless and incapable of caring for a child with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, which is what Holly had, until I, the mother, had to alert them to the fact that she had vaccinations the week prior.”

          17. Thanks. So Mrs. Stavola diagnosed the acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The doctors were “clueless.” That’s interesting.

            I still wonder why she maintains Holly was not immunocompromised when the VAERS report states chronic kidney disease. Renal failure can also cause encephalopathy, but I guess we’ll never know.. .

            Any luck finding a case within the last 10 years?

          18. Sia, the article is about changing state law.
            My comments are about preserving the current rights those laws afford.

          19. The fact is those rights are already decided. “Freedom of religion does not include the liberty to expose the child nor the community to infectious diseases.”

          20. Yes. In fact, in Mississippi, religious exemptions were removed b/c their Supremes, in their wisdom, decided that discriminated against the non-religious. And people think MS is such a backwater!
            https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1508701?query=TOC&amp;
            ” Mississippi’s Supreme Court ruled that such a distinction violated the
            U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by favoring religious over
            philosophical objectors (Brown v. Stone, 1979).”

          21. You have no proof, why should any one listen to someone who spews lie after lie after lie after lie? Hannah Poling got autism from vaccination. Fact.

          22. Gotcha, you just admitted vaccines caused Hannah’s problems, now tell me why we should vaccinate our children when they are not pre-screened for mitochondrial disorder, oh, and straight from Dr. Poling Hannah’s Father, ” Mitochondrial disorder IS NOT RARE” So everytime parents get those vaccines they are risking an outcome like Hannah’s if not being pre screened for mitochondrial disorder. Thank you for helping everyone understand the facts here.

          23. The medical community and the court conceded that Hannah’s pre existing mitochondrial disorder was aggravated by vaccination and led to autism diagnosis. Fact.

          24. The court conceded that a vaccine triggered a fever which aggravated the pre-existing mitochonridal disorder which then led to a educational diagnosis of autism.

            Any fever would have done that and since the fever is more likely with the disease….

          25. There are thousands of people with mito disorder that get fevers and are just fine, try again fact dancer. Any fever would have done that? Lol, no, you are not an astroturfer, not at all.

          26. Why are children not being pre screened for mito disorder? Vaccines cause autism if you have a dysfuntion with your mitochondria which per the medical community is not rare. Vaccines do cause autism as I have clearly proven, and children are being subjected to unsafe vaccination practices, deny these cold hard facts? Only a shill would try.

          27. According to your buddies at autism speaks fevers are good for autism.
            Today’s “Got Questions?” answer is from pediatric neurologist Andrew
            Zimmerman, of the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center,
            in Worcester. Dr. Zimmerman’s research has advanced understanding of the
            role that the immune system may play in autism. This has included
            investigation into reports of fever-related improvements in symptoms.

          28. Yes, because autism is not the same as mitochondrial disorders showing regressivee encephalitis with some features of autism – do try and keep upl

          29. Well, that’s a stupid argument. There is no bill before Congress to change the VAERS program that I know of. If you know of something, post a link.

          30. I read it, dopey! I edited my post within minutes. You’re always quick on the uptake to disagree, aren’t you?

      1. No. that is a lie.There have been 13 cases of injuries in 10 years. It’s not even a contest. 450 deaths per year in the U.S. before the vaccine and 145,700 deaths worldwide in 2013.

        You really don’t understand numbers at all, do you?

          1. See Watson’s comment. It’s too bad I don’t bookmark everything I read; one of the vaccine researchers himself said that, but I’ll never find that cite again. My guess is that advances in health care could just do so much.

          2. does NOT prove that they could not be lowered !?!
            it’s not about healthcare mainly but living conditions/nutrition. do you think everybody lived well after the war?
            i’ve read about some dismal situations in poverty pockets in the usa in the 60s.
            the british isles even when i arrived in the mid 70s.
            germany too to some degree.

          3. Europe was a mess after WW II, I agree. But we’re talking about the US here. The war wasn’t fought on our soil, except for Pearl Harbor and some bombing of Alaska. We were doing pretty well after it. Anyway, I’m referring more to the later 50s/early 60s. Health care made a lot of advances in that time frame.

          4. as am i when i clearly said 60s and i am referring after the war mostly as a time frame.
            the usa had pockets of abject poverty, as it does now of course.
            you don’t even need to be bombed to achieve that.

          1. you won’t get it because if i have book marked it i have not the energy to look for it and i read a lot but not book mark it.
            you can learn a lot from the very people that you work against but i doubt that you take in anything that they say.

          2. You are an astroturfer, so what you do is take information and try to dance around the facts to push false information. To confuse the truth beyond recognition.

          3. I provided you evidence of testimony from Hannah Poling’s Mother who is nurse and her Father who is a neurologist who said vaccines caused their Daughters autism. Now refute these facts or stop asking for evidence.

            Astroturfing

      1. 450 deaths per year – just from measles.

        Before the vaccine, pertussis was one of the most common childhood diseases and a major cause of childhood mortality.

        1. Yes and measles was then considered a mild childhood disease and I was lazy and didn’t count the SSPE deaths or the complications – those are just the direct measles deaths.

          1. Uh-uh, Kiko. That’s probably from my “Polio Bear” and “Measles Weasles” and “Poxxy Chickens” all want to make a meal of us post.

  118. “Once every 3 months the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines meets, and the Department of Justice issues a report of cases settled for vaccine injuries and deaths …
    The report for December 3, 2015 which covered the period from 8/16/15 to 11/15/15 had 150 cases adjudicated. 83 of them were listed in the report (see below), specifying the vaccine, the injury or death, and the amount of time the case was pending before settlement. There were three deaths: two related to the flu vaccine, and one related to the Hepatitis B vaccine, which is a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease routinely given to newborns in hospitals the same day they are born.

    64 of the 83 cases settled were for injuries and deaths due to the flu vaccine, making the flu vaccine the most dangerous vaccine in the U.S., harming and killing more people than all the other vaccines put together.”
    Families deserve the right to weigh the risks and benefits without state coercion.
    https://vaccineimpact.com/2016/government-continues-to-pay-damages-for-injuries-and-deaths-due-to-the-flu-vaccine-in-vaccine-court/

    1. Logic fail, there, Gracie! These are LEGAL decisions, not medical. And, OMG, top posting? Wait’ll suz sees this!

        1. Is he a member of the Colorado legislature? He’s a crook, so there’s a possibility, I agree. Thorsen is wanted for embezzlement, not research fraud.

          1. This will fill you in.

            From Office of Inspector General HHS
            “From approximately February 2004 until February 2010, Poul Thorsen executed a scheme to steal grant money awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC had awarded grant money to Denmark for research involving infant disabilities, autism, genetic disorders, and fetal alcohol syndrome. CDC awarded the grant to fund studies of the relationship between autism and the exposure to vaccines, the relationship between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and the relationship between developmental outcomes and fetal alcohol exposure.
            Thorsen worked as a visiting scientist at CDC, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, before the grant was awarded.
            The initial grant was awarded to the Danish Medical Research Council. In approximately 2007, a second grant was awarded to the Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Both agencies are governmental agencies in Denmark. The research was done by the Aarhaus University and Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
            Thorsen allegedly diverted over $1 million of the CDC grant money to his own personal bank account. Thorsen submitted fraudulent invoices on CDC letterhead to medical facilities assisting in the research for reimbursement of work allegedly covered by the grants. The invoices were addressed to Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The fact that the invoices were on CDC letterhead made it appear that CDC was requesting the money from Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital although the bank account listed on the invoices belonged to Thorsen.
            In April 2011, Thorsen was indicted on 22 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
            According to bank account records, Thorsen purchased a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an Audi automobile, and a Honda SUV with funds that he received from the CDC grants.
            Thorsen is currently in Denmark and is awaiting extradition to the United States.”

          2. I know what Thorsen did! Unless he’s moved to Colorado and been elected to the legislature, what’s the point?

          3. Caveat:It’s a five year old indictment. Authorities in Denmark never arrested him and he’s never been convicted.

  119. Increasing vaccination rates is a proven failure. Herd immunity via vaccination is a myth. This article is very biased and outrageously full of lies. Do your own research parents and consider the source.

  120. “In 1986, Congress created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (1986 Law). This Program has original jurisdiction for children’s claims of vaccine injury. Because almost all children receive multiple vaccinations for daycare and school, it is critically important that the Program provides fundamental fairness, due process and transparency.

    This empirical investigation, published in a peer-reviewed law journal, examines claims that the VICP compensated for vaccine-induced encephalopathy and seizure disorder. The VICP has compensated approximately 2,500 claims of vaccine injury since the inception of the program. This study found 83 cases of acknowledged vaccine-induced brain damage that include autism, a disorder that affects speech, social communication and behavior. In 21 published cases of the Court of Federal Claims, which administers the VICP, the Court stated that the petitioners had autism or described autism unambiguously. In 62 remaining cases, the authors identified settlement agreements where Health and Human Services (HHS) compensated children with vaccine-induced brain damage, who also have autism or an autism spectrum disorder.

    Parents reported the existence of autism in telephone interviews and supplied supplemental materials including medical diagnoses, school records, and completed, standard autism screening questionnaires to verify their reports. In 39 of the 83 cases, or 47% of the cases of vaccine injury reviewed, there is confirmation of autism or autism spectrum disorder beyond parental report.”
    https://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions
    Families deserve the right to choose without state coercion.

      1. The article Graceds linked is 4 years old and notably, written by a personal injury lawyer who specializes in vaccine injury cases.

        Mitochondrial encephalopathies are diagnosed as autism

        These are children who, due to genetic disorder, would likely regress, develop encephalopathy, and even show autism-like symptoms even if they were not vaccinated

        https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/proceedings/20090629_mitochondrial.htm

        Under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), encephalopathy claims are settled as table injuries. This is a good example of the court deciding cases or settling cases in the Plaintiff’s favor, when even groups like the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation say no, that isn’t the cause.

        1. Yeah, groups like the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (it was a group like but not the same one) cited physiological stress such as fever as the cause and went on to stress that it was more important for those kids to be vaccinated, not less, because the disease would wreak far more havoc than the vaccine.

          1. UMDF is down right now, but this link goes to the page

            https://www.umdf.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=jtJWJaMMIsE&b=4090771&ct=5315239

            The biggest and most well-known advocacy group, Autism Speaks, has come out quite clearly on this issue in just the last year. Autism Speaks also replaced their chairman, Bob Wright, who spent 10 years and millions of dollars on research trying to find a link between autism and vaccines, but could not.

            What Autism Speaks did find is Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

            https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/04/newest-research-finds-no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

          2. Most well-known group, maybe. Whether it’s an advocacy group is …. controversial…and we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.

            They were VCA proponents for quite some time after the link was found to be bunkum –

            And as usual, because it doesn’t agree with their biases, it must be linked with the CDC and unreliable.

          3. That’s true. Many in the autism community don’t like Autism Speaks, and for good reason. This was the turning point for them, if I recall

            New Meta-analysis Confirms: No Association between Vaccines and Autism

            https://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/new-meta-analysis-confirms-no-association-between-vaccines-and-autism

            Analysis of 10 studies involving more than 1.2 million children reaffirms that vaccines don’t cause autism; MMR shot may actually decrease risk

          1. Ms. Holland’s reputation precedes her

            “Mary Holland’s completely fallacious and misleading diatribe is rivalled only by her and her ‘colleagues’ embarrassing display at the recent IACC meeting. Mary Holland is anti-vaccine to the core and no amount of her unctuous rhetoric can disguise that fact.”

            She’s a lawyer. She isn’t qualified to diagnose and has never authored a single paper about what causes autism.

          2. Louis Conte, another of the authors

            “is the father of triplet boys, two with autism. He is the Director of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Justice Project and a founding advocate member of EBCALA. He serves on the board of the Autism Action Network. Mr. Conte has advocated extensively in New York for autism health insurance reform, vaccination choice and improved educational services for people with autism. In his professional life, Mr. Conte is an Assistant Commissioner in the Westchester County Department of Probation where he has administered investigation and supervision programs that focus on sex offenders and domestic violence perpetrators. He is proud to have been part of a team that established the nation’s first Sex Offense Court. Mr. Conte graduated from Iona College in 1982. He is an instructor in the Japanese Martial Art of Ju Jitsu.”
            https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol28/iss2/6/

          3. Most people can tell the difference between an authoritative source and something else.

            Mr. Conte is something else.

          4. No, there were legal professionals who assisted on that.
            That’s why it was in the Pace Environmental Law Review.

          5. If it weren’t for the public health issue, watching parents wiggle around increasing evidence that most autism is genetic would be merely tragic.

          6. Ms. Holland’s reputation precedes her

            “Mary Holland’s completely fallacious and misleading diatribe is rivalled only by her and her ‘colleagues’ embarrassing display at the recent IACC meeting. Mary Holland is anti-vaccine to the core and no amount of her unctuous rhetoric can disguise that fact.”

            She is a lawyer. She isn’t qualified to diagnose and has never authored even one paper about what causes autism.

          7. Right now I’m looking at Ms. Holland’s association with Katie Wright and also her comments at the website Age of Autism.

            What was that expression again? “There’s your sign.”

          8. Heavens no. I’m reading the article Katie Wright wrote about the IACC meeting and Ms. Holland’s comments, though.

            Good comedy.

          9. Heavens no. I’m reading the article Katie Wright wrote about the IACC meeting and Ms. Holland’s comments, though.

    1. Dr. Gregory Poland takes down the MMR anti-vaccinationists – specifically Holland and Conti:
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257990/
      MMR Vaccine and Autism: Vaccine Nihilism and Postmodern Science

      Poland sights in on your cited article:
      15. Holland M, Conte L, Krakow R, Colin L. Unanswered questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: a review of compensated cases of vaccine-induced brain injury. Pace Envtl L Rev. 2011;28(2):480-543
      And blows them out of the water with unvieled disdain for their unethical and moronic “study”:

      Dr. Poland quotes:
      “Why in the face of nearly 2 dozen studies and every scientific committee rejecting such an MMR-autism connection does this myth persist? I and others have written extensively about the antivaccine movement and its negative effect on vaccine decision making, and on the role of the media in fostering fear.10-14 A recent example is worth examining. The Pace Environmental Law Review published an article concluding that a “preliminary evaluation” of cases compensated through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) “suggests that vaccine-induced encephalopathy and seizure disorder may be associated with autism.”15
      Despite the fact that numerous studies have failed to find such a connection
      , substantial media attention was given to this article, undoubtedly causing further fear and confusion in the minds of the public. To the extent the authors intended to suggest that vaccines like MMR cause or contribute to autism, their conclusion is not only incorrect but also at odds with the work of the VICP itself.

      Such a conclusion cannot be reconciled with the overwhelming body of scientific research. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, has concluded that “carefully performed scientific studies have found no relationship between MMR vaccine and autism”16 and “no increased risk of [autism spectrum disorder] associated with receipt of thimerosal-containing vaccines.”17 (Note, thimerosal contains ethylmercury, another target of those who attack the safety of MMR vaccine.) Similarly, the Institute of Medicine concluded that the “body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism,”18 and “between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.”18 Other organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have reached similar conclusions.19,20″

      “More importantly for current purposes, the VICP itself—after conducting the most extensive and elaborate fact-finding proceedings in its history—concluded there is no causal connection between childhood vaccines and autism. After considering the evidence, one special master stated that “numerous medical studies…performed by medical scientists worldwide have come down strongly against” the contention “that the MMR vaccine can cause autism.”21 In another case, the special master found that “the evidence is overwhelmingly contrary to the petitioners’ contentions…that thimerosal-containing vaccines can contribute to the causation of autism.”22

      In the face of these epidemiological studies and the specific findings of the VICP, the authors of the Pace Environmental Law Review article look to isolated language found in a handful of decisions by the VICP during the past 2 decades and interviews with parents in some settled cases to suggest that some association may exist between vaccines and autism and that scientific and governmental entities may not have been forthcoming in their conclusions (shades of conspiracy), concluding with a call for “Congress to investigate the VICP….” Their efforts to draw conclusions from their flawed analysis, however, misconceive how the VICP works. etc., etc., etc.

      Basically Dr. Poland calls anti-vaccine ‘experts’ Holland, Conte, et al., ignorant, unscientific, agenda driven, cherry-picking moronic liars.
      Would you expect less from an anti-vaccine lawyer?

      1. Quite a polemic.
        Bit of an axe to grind there.
        “suggests that vaccine-induced encephalopathy and seizure disorder may be associated with autism.”
        If he didn’t see the association he wasn’t looking.

        1. Yes, Dr. Poland’s scientific and medical knowledge of vaccines pales in comparison to lawyer Holland and school crossing guard Conti.
          Dr. Poland is only the editor of the journal Vaccine and head of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group. How can he ever hold a candle to medical and scientific geniuses like Holland and Conti?
          https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/poland-gregory-a-m-d/bio-00078220

          Readers should note that the anti-vaccine cultists would rather have you believe the completely dishonest tripe of a lawyer and crossing guard rather than an actual expert. The anti-vaccinationists don’t care about your baby, they care about their cause so truth be dammed. (intentional misspelling)

          BTW – do either Holland or Conti have a child with autism for whom they may want compensation for “damages”? You know… Conflicts of Interest?

          1. You mean like Hannah Poling’s conflict of interest?
            You do realize that parents don’t get compensated, just the negotiated explicit needs of the Vaccine injured.
            You obviously don’t get that it was a legal case review of the few cases they were allowed to access.

          2. Changing the subject? Don’t you want to continue to argue that you and Holland and Conti have more knowledge about vaccines than Dr. Poland?

            Yes, I realize that parents don’t get compensated. That is why I used the words ” for whom they may want compensation”, the “whom” being their children.
            It appears you are another functionally illiterate anti-vaccine cultists. Is being illiterate and innumerate a requirement to join the cult?

          3. “Dr. Poland is the chair of a Safety Evaluation Committee for non-rubella vaccine trials being conducted by Merck Research Laboratories. Dr. Poland offers consultative advice on vaccine development to Merck & Co. Inc., CSL Biotherapies, Avianax, Sanofi Pasteur, Dynavax, Novartis Vaccines and Therapeutics, PAXVAX Inc., and Emergent Biosolutions. ”
            https://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/lawrence-solomon-vaccines-cant-prevent-measles-outbreaks
            Conflict of interest

  121. What deaths have occurred in Colorado as a direct result of some unvaccinated kids? Have people with depressed immune systems died of diseases that kids get immunizations for in Colorado? Please explain.

    1. Has it been on CNN? Well that shows very little has EVER happened in this regard. There is a hype being created. A paranoia and a witch hunt that wants to turn average parents in to monsters and criminals.

      1. Average parents get their kids vaccinated. No one is suggesting criminal penalties, just reforming exemptions to school vaccination requirements.

          1. We’re flyover country.

            The question of “How many died?” is the wrong question, though.

            More important is, “How much is it costing the taxpayers to continue indulging the parents who just don’t like it?”

        1. I think there’s been some discussion about civil liabilites and there has been discussion about criminal liabilities but not super-serious.

          What do Americans all those things that are crimes but aren’t felonies again? Misdemeanors or something?

        2. It’s the vaccine toxins that turn parents into monsters. They turn people into alzheimer zombies and make you gay.

    2. Can’t speak to Colorado, although Google probably can. We’ve had deaths from pertussis in California. “Direct result” is tricky—which kid in the waiting room (bus, café) was the source, but we do have more pertussis in lower-vax counties.

  122. This editorial is so filled with bias and lies, I don’t know where to start. But u will try. How do you call a study “debunked” when it simply stated that vaccines should be studied more? For those who never read the study, but simply bit the bait, “hook line and sinker”, HERE is the retracted study:

    Wakefield’s Study

    https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0.pdf

    How did I find it? Must have been buried in the nether regions of some land. Oh, a quick google search? So this Editorial writer could have found it if they wanted. However, I am guessing that pharmaceutical advertisements make up a high percentage of their advertisers, so this “spokesperson” didn’t look it up. We used to have journalists who would investigate. Or at least give two sides to the story. But they never gave their bias. That was the era of the educated. But now we have pharmaceutical spokespeople who give you only one side. A biased side. And since one of the complaints about Wakefield was that he did not disclose that he had received monies, to use for the study, from an attorney who had previously filed vaccine injury cases – it is only fitting that this Editorialist should disclose all funding from the medical or pharmaceutical industry.

    1. I’ll explain. Take a study which proclaims “Alien reptilians may have eaten the queen of England. This should be studied more.”

      ….People provide incontrovertible evidence there are no alien reptilians, and they did not eat the queen.

      But…..How do you call a study “debunked” when it simply stated that we should do more studies on the phenomenon of regency-hungry reptoids?

          1. No. I am in antivax land, my spiritual home, where we can point out the gross evils of toxic monkeypus vaccines.

          2. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

            Mods, please be aware that the poser above is disrupting the discussion with his deceitful impersonation of the original Adadd, while he maliciously attacks other commenters under this false pretense!

            In doing so, this impostor violates disqus tos for parody accts.!

          3. Flagged for abuse.
            Please keep the conversation civil, Grace.
            Monkey pus is what is in vaccines. I don’t care to call others by that name, nor should you.

          4. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

            Mods, please be aware that the poser above is disrupting the discussion with his deceitful impersonation of the original Adadd, while he maliciously attacks other commenters under this false pretense!

            In doing so, this impostor violates disqus tos for parody accts.!

          5. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

            Mods, please be aware that the poser above is disrupting the discussion with his deceitful impersonation of the original Adadd, while he maliciously attacks other comments under this false pretense!

            In doing so, this impostor violates disqus tos for parody accts.!

          6. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

            The poster above continues to violate disqus parody acct. tos, while he impersonates the ‘original’ AutismDadd, and maliciously disparages other posters in the commentary!

    2. You know, there are reasons there’s a BIR RED RETRACTION stamped on it.

      Not only was Wakefield . . . ethically challenged, shall we say? But he falsified data–made some of it up from whole cloth. He also performed unneccesary, invasive procedures on children, lied about how they were recruited (through their attorney, not as he claimed through the GI Dept), and took payment from public legal coffers. He did all this while having patented a competing “vaccine,” although it’s unclear from the patent docs whether it would have worth anything. He was not only fraudulent and corrupt, but apparently inept (lying about test results showing measles virus in–once again, unneccesary–gut biopsies, when he already knew that they false positives). He was struck off the medical register for life as a result. Ever since then he’s been charming money out of gullible supporters of his martyrdom, and his only “scientific” work consists of YouTube videos and the occasional low-rent speaking engagement.

      But this charlatan is sactified by hardline antivaxxers. Your hero has blood on his hands.

          1. Not a typo! Rather it’s my colloquial term for lambies, but yuck it up at your own insignificant and illogical discretion, grasshopper! 😉

          2. You do realize that ‘on the lam’ means ‘on the run from the law’? Kinda odd to pair it with innocent.

          3. I disagree! I don’t find ‘correlating’ innocent little lambies with criminals running from the law, funny at all, grasshopper!

          4. Nope! As I ‘splained to you before, it’s colloquial, my right to poetic license, all the readers but YOU understood it and I often write ‘lammies’ to my friends and fam, when I speak of how you forced vaxers sacrifice our innocent ‘lammies’ for your selfish and misconceived greater good!

            Look up colloquial! The commentaries aren’t legal manuscripts and I didn’t forget the ‘b’, little bug!

            Additionally, your faux pas above addresses my reply about me not finding your humor of lambs on the run from the law [on the lam as YOU say and LAME as I say] funny! We address my purposeful spelling several comments back!

            You just want something to ‘B’ about, grasshopper! 😉

  123. The comment that not one reputable Pediatrican, clinic, hospital, etc. doesn’t beg parents to get the children to vaccinated is a lie. What makes them reputable? Agreement with you? There are many who do not agree. With vaccination in the manner we are doing it – but you are trying to misinform the public.

    The death of the woman glieing the measles outbreak was not connected to the Disneyland cases. Her death wasn’t even caused by measles, it was caused by an underlying health issue. Measles virus was simply found within her body during the autopsy. Interestingly enough, there has been no notice given as to whether or not the measles strain she has was even a wild virus strain or the vaccine strain.

    The Disneylsnd cases. Over half of those who were attributed to the Disneylsnd cases did not have a vaccine status know. Why? Of those who stAtus was known, over half of the children had already gotten 2 doses of the MMR and one child had 3. Patient zero was never identified. It was stated that the person was s man traveling from the Philippines but this was per and simple guess. A guess based on the strain. A strain which had been seen in the U.S. already. Interestingly enough, the Disneyland cases were said to be the impetus for the CA legislative bill forcing vaccines or no formal education. But that bill was in the hands of the Bill writing service long before the outbreak.

    Interesting that one of the Legislators that got that Bill passed in CA has now taken a high paying job with Merck.

    Even if you believe in vaccines, forcing a medical treatment upon people who have no recourse against the medical profession or the pharmaceutical companies is dangerous. There are over 200 vaccines in development. This is a no-brainier for pharmaceutical companies – they simply have no liability with a “vaccine”. As an adult, you are going to be the next one forced to get all the vaccines children get. Are you ready? They’re coming for you!

    https://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/national_adult_immunization_plan_draft.pdf

          1. Aw! Wrong again you vile and spineless phony!

            Suz has no such diagnosis, but I’m also empathetic enough to realize the suffering of those you do, instead of using illness as fodder for vile and spineless ridicule from the vile and spineless, you vulgar FAKE!

          2. Fakes created to avoid vile and spineless FAKES like you. You’re the FAKE, you vile and spineless phony!

          3. Viles are what those monkey pus vaccines come in. don’t they? And they render poor babies spineless, yes. Brimming with mercury and plutonium, if the science is to be believed.

          4. Save for your disqus interrogation you vile and spineless phony!

            Mods, can you send clean up to aisle 8 please!

          5. Your abuse of someone who is against vaccines is noted.
            You are a pharma whore, shilling for Merck in order to encourage people to vaccinate.

      1. Senator Grassley speaking on a hearing on Intimidation of scientists during drug safety trials-“We have here are three cases where companies intimidated researchers who dared to express concerns about risky drugs. And in the case of both Vioxx and Avandia the drugs actually turned out to carry some serious risks.

        What I am here to say today, is that attacks on medical researchers by the pharmaceutical industry must stop. And stop now.

        Until this practice ends, I want to let America’s scientists know that I am very interested in their concerns. Scientists should feel free to contact my office if a pharmaceutical company threatens their career or attacks their reputation when they raise the alarm about a possibly dangerous drug.”…https://www.finance.senate.gov/newsroom/ranking/release/?id=3a1d9e3e-6ea8-4200-a86f-8aadc9338f5e

        ‘Science Journal Pulls 60 Papers in Peer-Review Fraud’

        July10, 2014 source: The New York Times

        And another article…

        “In the past 2 years, journals have been forced to retract more than 110 papers in at least 6 instances of peer-review rigging. What all these cases had in common was that researchers exploited vulnerabilities in the publishers’ computerized systems to dupe editors into accepting manuscripts, often by doing their own reviews. The cases involved publishing behemoths Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE and Wiley, as well as Informa, and they exploited security flaws that — in at least one of the systems — could make researchers vulnerable to even more serious identity theft”…Source https://nature.com-news-publishing-the peer- review-scam

        “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” -Dr. Marcia Angell

          1. More Wakefield articles withdrawn? The man is a martyr being unfairly targetted by the Pharmaindustrial complex because he isn’t jewish.

          1. See ‘why the witless, spineless and those with TEENY PEENY syndrome need to pretend to be other people,’ under google scholar, you vile and spineless phony!

          2. I believe in freedom to choose and the right not to have vaccines injected forcibly into our childrens bloodstreams.

            MODS please note this poster above (who has several fake accounts) is using vicious ad homs and foul language in an attempt to intimidate me.
            FLAGGED.

          3. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

            You are an impostor AND a LIAR and anyone here can easily skim back though your posts to see your remarks of pro & forced vax, and disparaging those against medical tyranny; all deceitfully done under a disqus parody acct. of the original AUTISMDADD, which is in violation of disqus tos regarding parody accts.

            The original suz norkan however, has NO fake accts. other than the impostor who has also created a parody acct. of me [and others] and is likely none other than the bozo above!

            All one needs to do to verify the accts. in question, as to whether the comment stems from the original or the impostor of either acct., is hover the mouse over the avatars and you’ll note that there is a huge difference in the comment counts BETWEEN the original and the impostors!

            Mods, I respectfully request clean up of this lying garbage in aisle 14! Thank you!

          4. Convicted of fraud and other crimes, placed on 5 years of probation also known as Corporate Intergrity Agreement

            Merck had to sign a Corporate Integrity agreement in connection with the Vioxx settlement, promising to monitor future promotional activity and report back regularly to the government

            Under this agreement, which is the largest ever by a drug maker accused of marketing wrongdoing, Pfizer will pay $1.0 billion in civil payments related to a number of medicines, and a $1.3 billion criminal penalty related only to Bextra. As part of the DOJ settlement, Pfizer has entered into a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

            In July 2012 GlaxoSmithKline entered into a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) that obligated them to collect and report on payments and transfers of value to US physicians and US healthcare organizations.

            The Corporate Integrity Agreement signed by GSK with the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services in June 2012 also requires the them to disclose payments and transfers of value to US physicians.

            “A comprehensive Corporate Integrity Agreement typically lasts 5 years and includes requirements to:

            hire a compliance officer/appoint a compliance committee;

            develop written standards and policies;

            implement a comprehensive employee training program;

            retain an independent review organization to conduct annual reviews;

            establish a confidential disclosure program;

            restrict employment of ineligible persons;

            report overpayments, reportable events, and ongoing investigations/legal proceedings; and

            provide an implementation

            Corporate Integrity Agreement EnforcementThe OIG has, as a contractual remedy, the right to impose stipulated penalties for non-compliance with the requirements of a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA). A material breach of the terms of the CIA also may result in the provider’s exclusion from participation in the Federal health care programs.

            https://oig.hhs.gov/compliance/corporate-integrity-agreements/index.asp

          5. Criticized for perpetual paste-vomit and never posting an original thought. Replies with more paste-vomit and no original thoughts. You just can’t make this stuff up.

          6. Really, that type of indictment against a company making the drugs you want pumped into everybody does not raise questions? Boy you do work for Merck and company, knowingly or not.

            I can see you and kfunk and Katia now “I believe” “I BELIEVE” “oh great white vaccinator of the poor and the unwashed souls” “Let not the hated anti-vaxx people trouble you, we shall drown them out with your lies and promises” “Show us more of your cherry picked studies that you funded and called R&D”

          7. Corporate Integrity Agreement.
            I can see them all bursting into laughter when they came up with that title!
            I wonder if the Merck mumps fraud suit is affected by that.

          8. One dr was accusing GSK of violating there’s, but yes, the mumps lawsuit was filed in 2010 or 2012I believe, and the Vioxx case was in 2008. How with their track record of fraud, do they not get the three strikes your out deal? They are still raking in the bucks on a defective vaccine while they drag out the court case against them. Only in Amerkica..

          9. Merck are Nazis, just like Pfizer and Bayer.
            They spread AIDS and inject stooges with vaccines that cause alzheimers.

          10. After reading about the diesel scandal, Ione has decided cars can’t move. It’s all a fraud.

          11. ‘Is Big Pharma Addicted To Fraud?’

            Recent news out of China raises the question once again of whether any aspect of the pharmaceutical business can be trusted.

            Glaxo is a leader in pharma fraud and wrongdoing, with other industry heavyweights close behind. Over the past decade, whistleblowers and government investigations in the US have exposed a never-ending series of problems by numerous pharma companies in all facets of the industry, starting with fraudulent “research” papers used to bolster marketing and continuing through to the manufacture of contaminated and defective products, the marketing of drugs for unapproved and life-threatening uses and the mispricing of prescription drugs

            https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikakelton/2013/07/29/is-big-pharma-addicted-to-fraud/#2715e4857a0b124e577e5fac

            September 12, 2011 — Since 1996, $12 billion has been recovered from pharmaceutical companies in the United States for legal cases stemming from fraud and abuse, according to a new research article. More than three quarters of the 31 cases prosecuted were initiated by whistle-blowers, usually current or former employees

            Another $750 million came from GlaxoSmithKline in 2010. That was for selling contaminated drugs from a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico”

            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749508 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/73eec89936d874fc899c74444fb04c65a45d7bbdebb728bc0ebfb19a166278e1.jpg

          12. Has Ione noticed a number of scandals lately involving corrupt and/or violent police? That means we shouldn’t have any laws!

          13. Here’s a thought. Car manufactures who time and again, put unsafe cars on the road, should not be in that business. Cops who are corrupt should be rooted out and prosecuted. Pharmaceutical companies that only get their wrists slapped for putting unsafe products on the market that kill people, after already being convicted of fraud should not be in business still.

          14. The China scandal led Glaxo to make this apology:
            “Following a comprehensive investigation by the Chinese judicial authorities, GSK China Investment Co. Ltd (GSKCI) has been identified according to Chinese law to have offered money or property to non-government personnel in order to obtain improper commercial gains, and has been found guilty of bribing non-government personnel.”
            https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gsk-statement-apology-people-china-full-text-1466238
            Trust us.

          15. Lets have a contest…you post all the evidence of car manufactures knowing they had a defective issue but still sending same vehicles out for sale, and I will do the same with products with safety studies from pharma that were hidden, fudged or coerced into being approved…and we will see who’s list is longer…ready? Go!

          16. Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me you old shart. Blah Blah Blah? Where did you hear that one, Do you have an original thought? ooooooohhhoooooohhooooo, yeah baby, you def a fan boy, you can direct all fan mail to my disqus rep.

        1. ione’s sole personal contribution in that wall0text was “And another article…”

          Therefore, spam.

          1. ‘Ya want sources or NOT!

            Sheesh! You whine to those who give ’em! You whine to those of us who don’t! Wah wah!

            Right off the bat, one can see her comment is about ‘scientist intimidation,’ which is certainly ON topic!

            Therefore, NOT spam!

          2. Stop stealing my ‘pffft!’ And pffft!

            Looking up sft, since I don’t speak vulgar SLOP like yall, and for the most part, what comes up is the sanford fixed base operation near orlando!

            Unfortunately I have had disreputable feel me. And I still suffer immense side effects AND nightmares you vile and spineless phoney!

      2. My intense research is done sitting naked in the basement covered in cheetos.
        So why no pics of that, just those fit babes?

        1. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

          Mods, please send a clean up crew to aisle 16 and a doctor who can remove this abhorrent image from my brain, to me! 😉

      3. At risk of repeating myself,

        Hey, tell me about how Jenny McCarthy is so dumb because she uses google search for medical advice.

        Wolters Kluwer Health conducted the survey. They highlight in their press release that
        close to 90 percent of physicians think that the better access to
        information via search engines has had a positive influence on quality
        of
        care. In that vein, over 60 percent of them report that they
        “occasionally or frequently change” their initial decisions based on
        something they’ve found online.https://www.zdnet.com/article/doctors-

        refutations to anti-science and facts memes

        1. As dumb as Jenny is, her followers, including you, are even dumber. Accessing information online is great. But the inability to distinguish actual credible science from unadulterated bullshlt, like that which you regurgitate on a regular basis, is where the Google U doctorate deserves all the ridicule and shame they get. Again, that includes you, you witless twit.

      4. “…Vaccine research … 200 years of R&D..”

        That means the bulk of the vaccines, if not all, are the result of Non-Evidence Based Medicine. (the Evidence Based Medicine movement started in 1992).

          1. I can only concur, memes and slogans are childish.

            Vaccine skeptics adults are better educated than your average conformer. Addressing them in baby talk is not a smart marketing strategy.

          2. The “problem” is mostly imaginary, the approach you promote unscientific (if not fraudulent) and its application has created new real problems.

          3. “…Are you plainly stating that the diseases vaccines prevent would not a problem without vaccines?..”

            You’re plainly stating that vaccines are the only factor that affects human helth.

            “…What fraud are you speaking of?…”

            Can’t say whether it’s actual fraud, error or plain stupidity, but I will list a few problems with vaccine so-called “science”:

            – Efficacy measured by (unproven) surrogate outcomes, not direct health outcomes (selection bias).
            – Safety measured against mixtures of vaccine ingredients (or even other vaccines) instead of sline.
            – Restrictions in the “case definition” of the diseases targetted by a vaccination campaign (changing the rules in the middle of the game).
            – Fast track approvals in non-emergency situations (sometimes based on false emergencies – e.g. swine flu).

            “..What are these “new problems?..”

            Diseases whose incidence has increased dramatically since the vaccine era:

            – Autoimmune diseases.
            – Cognitive disfunctions.
            – Food allergies.

          4. “You’re plainly stating that vaccines are the only factor that affects human helth.”

            Don’t be ridiculous. I never stated any such thing. And, you didn’t answer my question.

            “Can’t say whether it’s actual fraud, error or plain stupidity, but I will list a few problems with vaccine so-called “science”:”

            But you called it fraud. Strong statement for unsupported theories.

            “Diseases whose incidence has increased dramatically since the vaccine era”

            There are lots of conflating issues since the beginning of the vaccine era. The correlation doesn’t add up. The studies don’t support your correlation.

          5. “…But you called it fraud. Strong statement for unsupported theories…”

            False, here’s what I said:

            “..the approach you promote unscientific (if not fraudulent)

            In English, “if” preceds a statement in conditional mood, used to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition and possibly counterfactual. The opposite of a “strong statement” as you pretend.

            Go back to grammar school, Dunning-Kruger, you’re arguing with people that actually followed their education through.

          6. “…There are lots of conflating issues since the beginning of the vaccine era. The correlation doesn’t add up. The studies don’t support your correlation…”

            For a moment I had the impression you were talking about vaccines and the incidence of infectious disease.

          7. I disagree. While I understand the perceived demographic of anti-vaxxer, anti-GMO, etc person as affluent, white, 20-35 Californian, or whatever it is, I think there are also plenty of just plain ignorant followers with big mouths, large networks, large audiences, (Mercola, Food Boob, Oprah/Jenny, RFK Jr.) etc. Plus, quite frankly, many of them have already fallen for one form of pseudoscience, CAM, or woo, already, so they are not as smart as they’d like to think, certainly not in the sciences or critical thinking. Others just may not have the time to sort through all the rampant BS out there, so maybe in those cases a picture truly is as good as a thousand words.

          8. “…perceived demographic … or whatever it is..

            Let’s pit your perceptions against the studies, pizza boy.

            Effects of Maternal and Provider Characteristics on Up-to-Date Immunization Status of Children Aged 19 to 35 Months

            Peer Reviewed

            Conclusions. We found that children of less educated mothers
            and children in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black families with low
            income-to-poverty ratios were more likely to have completed the 4:3:1:3
            series.

            In plain language: the more underclass you are, the more conformant.

    1. THIRD TRY! Good grief, Aurora Sentinel!

      What makes a pediatrician reputable? Well, that’s a good question. I might not use that word. Certainly the evidence is 99.9999% on the side of immunizing doctors. I like doctors who can interpret scientificevidence, instead of going by “I feel”, or “HPV vaccine is for “loose women” (which I have heard from doctors, mind you!).

      Why
      didn’t we have the vaccine status on about half the Disney cases? Who
      knows? Do you want a compulsory, federal vaccine tracking system? In
      general, people are responsible for keeping their own records. State
      registries have made that easier, but they are voluntary, both on the
      part of the practitioner and the patient. EHR has also made it easier
      for patients to keep track, but not all practices are using them yet,
      and not everyone whose practice does use them has set up a patient
      portal.

      It is untrue that of those whose status was known, over half had already received two doses of vaccine. In fact, of those whose status was known, 75% were unvaccinated. “Among the 110 California patients, 49 (45%) were unvaccinated; five (5%) had 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine, seven (6%) had 2 doses, one
      (1%) had 3 doses, 47 (43%) had unknown or undocumented vaccination status, and one (1%) had immunoglobulin G seropositivity documented, which indicates
      prior vaccination or measles infection at an undetermined time. Twelve of the unvaccinated patients were infants too young to be vaccinated. ”
      https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe
      Do learn to do math before you do any more researching. This article actually just references the California cases, not all the cases. Of 110 patients from California, 47 had no records. That leaves 63 patients for whom there were records. Of these 63, 49 were unvaccinated. 49/63 = .7777777etc, or about 3/4. We can only speculate about the ones who had no records, but they don’t go into the equation.

      It was never stated that patient zero was a man traveling from the Philippines. The strain of measles was the same as that found in the Philippines. BIG difference.

      Who cares about how many vaccines are in development? What does that have to do with anything?

      1. Why the hell would one call a doctor who would state that ‘hp vax is for loose women’, reputable!

          1. Just the opposite, Katia! I ALSO have had docs say to my face, ‘I feel’, which ended in error and devastating consequences when I heeded their advice; and on NUMEROUS occasions.

            I’ve also heard the comments of young and arrogant docs joking about the hp vax!

            The amount of disreputable docs is much larger than you think!

          2. You are sounding a little tense, Scuzzy. Can I suggest an aluminum vaccine cocktail, with monkey pus topping?

          3. Flagged.
            MODS there are multiple accounts under this “Suz Norkan” nym and each is more abusive than the last.

          4. You only blame the messengers because you dislike the message.

            Has nothing to do with MY comprehension; but rather YOUR lack of sophistication and tolerance, Pastadud!

            Terrific ad hom from you though!

          5. Yes we like to accuse people of ad homs. They are the favoured fallacy of us antivaccine activists.

          6. I only do fallacies because you childish internet blowhards can’t get enough of them, you vile and spineless phony!

            Mods, can’t we get clean up in aisle 7 please!

          7. For the reading impaired:

            I like doctors who can interpret scientificevidence, instead of going by “I feel”, or “HPV vaccine is for “loose women” (which I have heard from doctors, mind you!).

          8. And for the nattering rodent gnawing away at my patience in the corner:

            Katia:

            I like doctors who can interpret scientificevidence, instead of going by “I feel”, or “HPV vaccine is for “loose women” (which I have heard from doctors, mind you!).

            Suz: Why the hell would one call a doctor who would state that ‘hp vax is for loose women’, reputable!

            Katia: So you agree with me!

            Suz: Aw! To reiterate for YOU illiterate. I spoke to her numbers of 99.999% being reputable! Aw! Looks bad you you [sic] and Katia, Pastadud! 😉

            Me: huh?

            And thats it. I’ve already broken my promise to myself. I will not waste any more time on her. I need a Suz hiatus badly.

          9. I hear you! I don’t talk to AutismDad(d) or Vacunas Autismo because both remind me of my ex-husband with their underhanded nasty arguing style.

          10. Are you talking about vacunas? Or maybe yourself? Remember you said you have several fake accounts – so who is the real Suz.
            Imposture!
            MODS please clean up to aisle 7.

          11. IMPOSTOR ALERT!

            Mods, please facilitate a clean up in aisle 12, along with trash maintenance to TAKE OUT THE TRASH!

            Please also note that the owner of the original suz acct.[ME] has a comment count of over 1200, while the FAKE IMPOSTOR suz has only a count of 25.

            Feel free to ‘trash’ that acct. as well, since the bozo above, impersonating the real AUTISMDADD with comments well over 12000, while the phony is presently racked at 132, is likely the owner of BOTH illegal parody accts.!

          12. Now she’s going on about typos, missing the entire point. It’s beyond tedious. I wish there was a way to block even having to view posts by certain people. Kugler would also be on that list.

          13. Read it and weep Pastadud! “The amount of disreputable docs is much larger than you think!” ; of which you neglected to add in your futile attempt at insult, regarding my initial reply to Katia!

            Can’t stay away, Pastadud! You’re just another in a long line of ‘suz groupies!’ 😉

          14. You sound like parrot Pro. We can read the ‘original posts’ not more than 5 inches from this parroted, insignificant slop, Pastadud!

            And however frivolous your pointing out my typo is, I’d already fixed before your trivial and failed attempt at ad homming ridicule!

            As always; you – huh!!! 😉

          15. Aw! To reiterate for YOU illiterate. I spoke to her numbers of 99.999% being reputable! Aw! Looks bad you you and Katia, Pastadud! 😉

    2. You are quite right “researching mom”.
      The so called measles death was not measles. Notice has indeed been served as you will see from the link that she died of eating a hamburger on the toilet.
      And there are over 3000 vaccines in development, all full of radioactive sludge and monkey glands. They are just waiting inject these toxins directly into our childrens brains. Go die you vaccine shills.

      1. It is unconscionable that vaccines should be forced on an unsuspecting populace by the evil pharma barons.

        1. I have noticed that there is another fake Suz Norkan account, just like your last 6.
          MODS please eliminate!

          1. Yes mods. Please eliminate the phony suz norkan acct. that is NOT my acct. and has the comment count of only 25 on it.

            And mods, please send clean up to aisle 9!

      2. Like many here I believe vaccines to be dangerous and that they should not be used in any circumstances. The risks are too great.

    3. Thanks, but I want to ad there is no place for VACCINES in health care. VACCINES are just a STUPID invention.

    1. “I do recommend the entire schedule as it’s put out by the Academy of Pediatrics and the ACIP.” — Paul Thomas, MD

      But then he loses me in his discussion of the Norway study. Women who take folate during pregnancy have half the rate of autism. From the numbers he gives us, prevalence of autism overall is one-fifth that of the U.S.

      What’s the difference? Is it folate or something else in American diet?

      No, Dr. Paul is pretty sure it’s the Hep B vaccine.

      It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, but then it hits you … He just pulled that out of his ass.

    2. Great video, KIko! I don’t agree with his recommending the entire schedule in general, but agree with his saying pregnant women shouldn’t get the Tdap, and that some people have genetic predispositions to react adversely to vaccines. Also totally agree with his giving a big Forget it to the hep-B vaccine at birth. Too late for my poor daughter who had an encephalitic reaction to that vaccine given WITHOUT PERMISSION the day of her birth. I think it’s irresponsible that he recognizes the dangers of aluminum in vaccines, but thinks you should just space them out, and not refuse to get them. We’re back to What disease is so dangerous and common that it’s worth the risk?

      1. He has to recommend the entire schedule to stay away from the edge of pit Wakefield. The frothing shills will hunt him to the ends. At least we can get glimpses of the truth through the fog of lies. His youtube channel is good, lots of office visits.

  124. There are quite a few statements in this article that simply are not true..

    “There is not one reputable pediatrician, pediatric organization, hospital, clinic or researcher that does not vehemently work to debunk the autism lie”

    “Real scientists and medical professionals have been unequivocal : The purported danger of childhood vaccines are lies”

    In fact there are hundreds, if not thousands of licensed doctors and researchers warn about the dangers of vaccines…

    The VAERS database alone will show that the dangers of vaccines are very real.

    This article is nothing more than a hyper-emotional propaganda piece, written by a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical companies.

    Because the truth shows that more and more research studies and doctors are uncovering the serious consequences of the current vaccine schedule.

    More and more highly educated parents (not the odd parent this article talks about), are refusing to vaccinate their children, because they see the damage that has been done to their children and others.

    I am a non-vaccinating parent, because over 20 years ago I began to see the damage caused by vaccines, and did my own research, (The whole Wakefield story came later…and I point out the blatant mis-statements in this article about Wakefield, because those who haven’t read his research papers and the GMC findings will take this articles comments as truth, but they are far from it) my kids are now young healthy adults, and I have never regretted my decision to not vaccinate. Nor have I EVER come across a parent who regrets vaccinating, but I do know quite a few parents who DO regret vaccinating…because it can never be undone.

    I urge every parent out there to not just follow along, but to look at the ingredients and side affects on the vaccine inserts, read everything you can get your hands on about vaccines, before you decide. You alone are responsible for the health of your children, and you alone will bear the burden if you child is harmed by the vaccines.

    1. Which statement about Wakefield’s retracted study was a blatant misstatement?

      Enquiring minds want to know.

      1. “The groundless claim and fake study have since been debunked endless times”

        The claim was not groundless, nor fake…the claim was not “vaccines cause autism”, as they would have you believe. The fact that they found a novel bowel disease in autistic children, and they found the vaccine strain of the measles virus in the intestines of these children, is neither fake, nor groundless, and the findings have been replicated numerous times. In fact mainstream many mainstream doctors have taken notice and are treating the bowel disease with some success, and see some recession of behavioral symptoms. I have followed this all very closely over the years.

        This article says that the mainstream media bought Wakefield lies hook line and sinker….Since When? They have been out to hang Wakefield since the beginning, and the mainstream media has perpetrated lies about the Wakefield study since the beginning…

        I don’t take anyone’s word for it…read all the documents myself… 🙂

        1. “the findings have been replicated numerous times”

          Yes, I’ve read that elsewhere. Any published studies?

          “mainstream doctors have taken notice and are treating the bowel disease with some success”

          How?

          1. How stupid you, and anyone that believes in your propaganda BS, can be. Go to ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS. A healthy human digestive system is the true immunity against all those stupid little diseases–polio, mumps, measles, …, etc.–all start in the digestive system. Avoiding VACCINES is a must for a healthy digestive system.

    2. Any fool who thinks VAERS reports mean causation has not even read the VAERS website which says: “DISCLAIMER: Please note that VAERS staff
      follow-up on all serious and other selected adverse event reports to
      obtain additional medical, laboratory, and/or autopsy records to help
      understand the concern raised. However, in general coding terms in
      VAERS do not change based on the information received during the
      follow-up process. VAERS data should be used with caution as numbers and
      conditions do not reflect data collected during follow-up.

      Note that
      the inclusion of events in VAERS data does not imply causality.”

      What are your qualifications for doing this “research” and what did you do?

      1. The prostituted lawyers and prostituted scientists for the government and industry always tries to disclaim.

    3. Thanks, good post, but logically you made a mistake: it should have been , ” Nor have I EVER come across a parent who regrets not-vaccinating ” , instead of, ” Nor I have I EVER come across a parent who regrets vaccinating ” . But I understood because I have had the same experience.

  125. Are you supposed to adhere to ethics in journalism? Nothing in this article is fact. You insinuate that people who do not vaccinate are risking the lives of the people around them. Can you cite a study on that data please? According to a CDC Surveillance Report from 2014, people who received the DTaP vaccine were far more likely to contract those illnesses. This is from the CDC, which data are youy referring to validate your claim that vaccines are effective?

      1. Yeah, cite the prostituted scientists like Katia does, as counseled by her propaganda pimp, to earn her propaganda prostitute’ s money.

    1. Sarah, I think you’ve got the math wrong. You forgot to correct for the fact more many people are vaccinated. For example, here‘s a pertussis outbreak in California, with the unvaccinated twice as likely to be sick—and that is considered a mediocre result for the vaccine! [See Table 1]

    2. The data and the study were mentioned in the Denver Post two years ago during the whooping cough epidemic

      Report: Low vaccination rates in Colorado result in illnesses, costs
      https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27483375/report-low-vaccination-rates-colorado-result-illnesses-costs

      This graph illustrates how effective the pertussis vaccine is, when used.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/546398813a9e2f49d4dc6e3f3cb3dac3629a1821bd491f0c01831a77fda966aa.jpg

  126. To anyone reading the comments, notice how the people who call us anti-vaxxers (most of us are parents of vaccine injured children) are visceral and do not support their statements with facts or data, just name calling. There is insurmountable evidence that vaccines are triggering autoimmune disorders, seizures, allergies, autism etc. My brilliant friend wrote this about polio, please respond without name calling. I’d love to hear an rebuttal to this:

    A Stroke of the Pen : Polio

    .

    February 8, 2012 at 12:45pm

    The year following the introduction of the polio vaccine,
    the CDC changed the diagnostic parameters of the disease, so drastically, that
    it automatically eliminated two thirds of the cases of paralytic polio that
    would then be diagnosed. At the same time, they changed the definition of a
    polio epidemic, from 20 in 100,000 to 35 in 100,000, obviously and
    automatically cutting almost in half the number of polio outbreaks that would
    thenceforth be labeled epidemics.

    Not coincidentally, the polio numbers ultimately began to
    drop, and though I’ve not researched to see whether any further epidemics were
    ever declared, you get the point.

    Meanwhile, between the OPV and the IPV, there have been over
    a thousand deaths reported to VAERS. While some of those reported deaths will
    likely prove unrelated to the vaccines, some of them will certainly prove
    directly, causally related – I assume most will, but that is beside this
    particular point, which is, numbers aside, the polio vaccine can kill.

    A vaccine protagonist might argue that the vaccine didn’t
    kill, but, rather, the vaccinee had a prior condition that made the vaccine a
    dire threat. This would be begging the issue. Considering that there are no
    known methods to accurately predict, on an individual basis, exactly how
    damaging will be any vaccine, and considering the tumultuous difference between
    a vibrant, healthy five year old and a cold, lifeless one, a parent can view it
    only one way: the vaccine can kill.

    Then there is the additional statistical issue of the
    re-diagnosis of cases of non-paralytic cases of polio as aseptic meningitis –
    and, I assume, other diseases that display similarly to non-paralytic polio.
    While I have not been able to locate a CDC or WHO regulation regarding this
    type of change, in her book, Fear of the Invisible, Janine Roberts quotes the
    Los Angeles County health authority as having explained: “Most cases reported
    prior to July 1, 1958 of non-paralytic poliomyelitis are now reported as viral
    or aseptic meningitis in accordance with instructions from Washington.” I have
    researched several of the huge number of resources Ms. Roberts provides, and
    found them accurate, and, the assertion is certainly supported by the following
    Los Angeles County health authority’s own incidence figures for a), aseptic
    meningitis, vs b), polio:

    Jul 1955 a) 50; b) 273

    Jul 1961 a) 161; b) 65

    Jul 1963 a) 151; b) 31

    Sep 1966 a) 256; b) 5

    The transcript of the 1960 Illinois Medical Society panel
    of experts that spoke to both the significant changes in the diagnostic
    parameters of polio and the re-classification of cases of non-paralytic cases
    of polio as viral or aseptic meningitis, can be seen at:

    https://greatmothersquestioningvaccines.com/uploads/2/8/8/8/2888885/ratner_1960.pdf
    ,

    and much of Ms Roberts’ work can be seen on her website:

    https://www.fearoftheinvisible.com/
    .

    In total, the diagnostic changes could easily account for
    as much as a 90% decline in the reported incidence of polio. In the subsequent
    years, however, as the CDC has pointed to the eradication of polio as one of
    the largest feathers in the cap of vaccination, they’ve never added, oh, by the
    way, those 300,000 cases of paralytic polio that were diagnosed in 1955?
    (number thrown in just for example) – we eliminated probably about 270,000 of
    those with a stroke of the pen; or, and the 60 polio epidemics? (again, number
    for example only) – the pen again; or, and be aware that, though the numbers
    are very small (description of the numbers just by way of example), the vaccine
    can kill ya.

    I have no trouble
    characterizing – no choice but to characterize – the CDC’s behavior, at this
    point, as despicable. But there’s more: SV-40.

    In the following Atlantic Monthly article:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm
    ,

    you’ll find the following:

    “In 1960 Bernice Eddy, a government researcher,
    discovered that when she injected hamsters with the kidney mixture on which the
    [polio] vaccine was cultured, they developed tumors. Eddy’s superiors tried to
    keep the discovery quiet, but Eddy presented her data at a cancer conference in
    New York…The cancer-causing virus was soon isolated by other scientists and
    dubbed SV40, because it was the fortieth simian virus discovered. Alarm spread
    through the scientific community as researchers realized that nearly every dose
    of the vaccine had been contaminated. In 1961 federal health officials ordered
    vaccine manufacturers to screen for the virus and eliminate it from the
    vaccine. Worried about creating a panic, they kept the discovery of SV40 under
    wraps and never recalled existing stocks. For two more years millions of
    additional people were needlessly exposed — bringing the total to 98 million
    Americans from 1955 to 1963.”

    The one comment
    bears repeating: existing stocks of polio vaccine known to be contaminated with
    SV40, were never recalled.

    The article goes on to present argument – opinion – both
    for and against the subsequent reported detection of SV40 in human
    mesotheliomas. Toward the last few paragraphs we find this:

    Adi Gazdar,
    professor of pathology and the deputy director of the Hamon Cancer Center, at
    the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, says: “It’s such a crucial
    issue. Possibly millions of people are sitting with this virus in their
    mesothelium or other tissues and are at risk for developing cancers.”
    Cancers that were once rare “may suddenly become not so rare,” he
    says. “I think it’s an enormous potential health problem.”

    It’s criminal
    behavior: lying by omission of the possibility of vaccine damage, using very
    misleading statistics to motivate the public to consent to a vaccine that,
    regardless of the actual number of such incidents, could result in the death of
    the vaccinee, not even taking the essential precaution of recalling vaccine
    stock known to be contaminated with a monkey virus known to be carcinogenic – I
    mean, who are these sonsofbitches, and how can anyone ignore their behavior, or
    trust them?

    risks of diseases. Diseases can harm, and kill; so can
    vaccines. Educate. The risks of vaccines far outweigh the benefits.

    1. Good, excellent post , it is also a kick in the butt to those stupid people that believe that VACCINES are good. But I disagree with your final statement. VACCINES ARE A STUPID INVENTION, just like the woman lying down for parturition, the cutting of the umbilical cord, circumcision, …,etc. Modern stupid allopathic medicine is just a pseudoscience full of stupid inventions. All those stupid inventions are never good.

      If you want to see where true immunity is, go to ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS. There you can see an African tribe that eats a diet produced only by nature with no adulterations by man. The have digestive systems as healthy as breastfeeding babies. All those stupid little diseases–polio, measles, mumps, …, etc.–start in the human digestive system. If people eat right,and they don’t have disruptors in their food and environment–GMO s, VACCINES, chemotherapy, pesticides. air pollution,…,etc.–they will be able to fend off any stupid little disease.

    2. This article you reposted starts with a false premise – half of those opposed to school vaccination requirements don’t even have children.

      The average anti-vaxxer is probably not who you think she is
      https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-not-who-you-think-she-is/

      As for the rest, look around you. How many cases of paralytic polio in Colorado last year? Where are the hospital wards full of iron lungs?

      Your “brilliant friend,” Jeffry John Aufderheide, most people would say has to be the dumbest guy in Colorado.

      1. So a person against mandatory vaccination has to be a parent? Well that means everyone including the politicians who are pushing it then.

        1. The comment I replied to states “most of us are parents of vaccine injured children.”

          The truth is, half aren’t parents at all. How many of the rest actually have “vaccine injured” children? Maybe a few.

    3. I hear ya. These Pro-vac Neanderthals are a low form of life, suffering blind faith syndrome and a propensity for allusions of grandeur

  127. ” Real scientists and medical professionals have been unequivocal : The purported dangers of childhood vaccines are lies. Dangerous lies. ”

    TRANSLATION :

    ” Prostituted scientists and prostituted medical pseudoscientists ( allopathic doctors ) are all lying : The dangers of childhood VACCINES are real. But I am paid to lie to you and put your child in danger. “

      1. Don’t be stupid Sia. Do you drink gasoline for breakfast instead of orange juice ? Are you made of plastic and steel ? What do you, and all the stupid defenders of artificiality, like you, have against nature ?

          1. BS, there is no such thing as natural fallacy. You are part of nature and you, and all the other stupid people that always bring up that BS, better behave accordingly.

          2. Yes, there is – naturalistic fallacy.

            Oh yeah…part of nature…ever wonder why we all live indoors? And if nature is so great, what the hell are you doing using an artificial machine to artificially transmit messages across the world near-instantaneously? That is not exactly natural.

            Have you not watched Nat Geo? What part of nature do you think is kind and forgiving?

            Mother Nature on trial: “I understand that you allow your children to kill and eat each other.”

          3. The same old bu££$hit ( I know you like the money signs.) that we get from the propaganda prostitutes working for the junk industries robber barons. Are you so stupid as to really believe that the further you are from nature, the better ? Maybe some day you will be able to drink gasoline instead of putting it in your car. STOOOOPID !

            Watch ” In Defense of Food ” on PBS . You might learn something.

          4. Do yourself a favor, and don’t waste your time on this drooling, mouth-breathing troll. Every time I even bother responding to its posts, I feel like I need to take a shower.

          5. Agreed. He has an obsession with prostitution. Other than that, he’s not as nasty as some of the others; it’s easy to just ignore him or glance over his posts and move on.

          6. I’ve noticed a steady progression in my own posts from exuding patience in responding, to downright frustration with the repeated stupidity of the same posters, or the same vapid refutations. I’m getting nastier by the day, and need to take a hiatus from this. But I probably won’t. I’m kind of a masochist, I guess.

          7. Same here. I used to tread very carefully with people who claimed to have vaccine injured kids. Now, I’ve learned they are almost always referring to autism, and I’m losing my empathy for that term.

          8. I sometimes wonder how many of them are fabricating that, or how many really know, deep down, if they’re being honest with themselves, that it wasn’t the vaccines. How many saw signs much earlier and choose to forget that?

          9. What burlesque from the two biggest whiners in the comments [Pasta and Katia]! Pffft and pathetic!

            Nice to see ya, Adadd! 😉

          10. He just gave you the directive to look into so that you CAN prove it, grasshopper! Ask mommy to ‘splain it to you!

          1. When two parties are in a discussion and one asserts a claim that the other disputes, the one who asserts has a burden of proof to justify or substantiate that claim.

          2. when two parties are in a discussion and one asserts the claim is wrong, they usually will provide evidence to back up their statement then and there…that is if they have any.

          3. OMG. the one who asserts has a burden of proof to justify or substantiate that claim>
            This is you!
            You are the one who posted a picture full of statistics that I suspect have been made up. I can’t prove they are correct if they are fake. It is up to you as the original idiot trying to misrepresent how many Americans actually ‘want’ GMO’s labelled.
            If Americans knew how good and safe GMO’s are then they wouldn’t give a toss.

          4. Well geez… I guess I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Usually when I want to argue that someone’s information is incorrect, I will say I think they are wrong and here is my proof to back up my statement, and provide links etc.
            But with your way, I can just go around accusing everyone of lying without ever proving any proof….I can see why you like your way better.

          5. NOTE djj says ‘GUESS!’ That says it all. S/he has no evidence to show that numbers are fabricated.

            Not worth the argument there, especially when the graphic doesn’t even state ‘all Americans want’ but rather ‘Americans want’ & many do!

            The graphic stands on it’s own merit, as neither did I see it claim anywhere that ‘91% of Americans are misinformed.’ That’s an incredulous claim, originated by dj [meaning the onus is on him to prove that ‘91% of Americans are misinformed,’ which is a claim that it s/he CAN’T substantiate!

          6. The 91% cited is from Big Org-sponsored push-polls. How survey questions are worded makes a huge difference. In this case “do you want gmo labeling?” vs. “what food labels do you want?”

            It’s blatantly off-topic in a discussion about improving vaccine uptake to protect children and communities via tightening school mandates, in any case. Another orthogonal response from ione. What a surprise.

  128. https://sharylattkisson.com/what-the-news-isnt-saying-about-vaccine-autism-studies/
    This astroturf movement, in my opinion, includes but is not limited
    to: LeftBrainRightBrain, ScienceBlogs, NeuroSkeptic,
    ScienceBasedMedicine, LizDitz, ScienceBasedMedicine, CrooksandLiars,
    RespectfulInsolence, HealthNewsReview, SkepticalRaptor, Skepticblog,
    Skepticco m, Wired, BrianDeer, SethMnookin, Orac, Every Child by Two,
    the vaccine industry supported American Academy of Pediatrics, and the
    government/corporate funded American Council on Science and Health (once
    called “Voodoo Science, Twisted Consumerism” by the watchdog Center for
    Science in the Public Interest).
    This circle operates with the moral support of the vaccine industry and its government partners, citing one another’s flawed critiques
    as supposed proof that each study has been “debunked,” though the
    studies continue to appear in peer-reviewed, published journals and in
    the government’s own National Institutes of Health library.

        1. If I Google Sharyl Attkisson, I find a reporter obsessed with Benghazi, fired from CBS for her shoddy reporting, and this

          Justice Department’s IG report disputes Attkisson’s computer-intrusion allegations

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/29/justice-departments-ig-report-disputes-attkissons-computer-intrusion-allegations/

          The White House was spying on her through her cable TV, Attkisson says. So she’s an authority on conspiracy theories. Am I right?

      1. The sight of her name should make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, and maybe the most subtle of gag reflexes. But bottom line is, if her name is brought up as a source or reference, you can be sure that whatever follows is unadulterated bullshlt.

          1. Just another baseless and unsupported accusation. You have no problem just throwing these blind shltballs wherever you go, with no thoughts whatsoever to the fact that you just make shlt up. You’re insane.

      1. So having a degree makes you a good doctor or a good person?
        Consumer Watchdog released a “Top Ten Dangerous Doctors” list of
        physicians whose negligence injured or even killed their patients.
        “These ten dangerous doctors are some of the most egregious
        overprescribers, repeat offenders, and drug and alcohol users in
        California. Their stories show the urgent need for action by California
        lawmakers to replace a Medical Board that has allowed bad doctors to
        continue to practice, and to raise the outdated cap on patients’ ability
        to hold negligent doctors accountable in court,” said Carmen Balber,
        executive director with Consumer Watchdog.

        Citing ” Look at me I have a degree” don’t mean jack. Try again.

        1. Don’t be an idi0t. (I know, I should really set more realistic goals.) There are bad doctors, bad scientists, bad daycare providers, bad priests, bad politicians.

          Drama! The sky is falling! There are bad people in this world! So let’s just assume everybody is also bad!!!

          Having a degree or specific professional experience in this field is a prerequisite to participating in this discussion and being taken seriously. Too elitist for a dumbass like you? Tough shlt. If you don’t like it, go take 5, 10, 15 years to get that degree, and understand the complexities of the science behind this topic. That’s the minimum fee to enter.

          Until then, why should someone who has actually dedicated their life to trying to understand this stuff take anything you say seriously when they continuously debunk the trash you put forth as evidence? Don’t you think that maybe you should do a little less babbling and a little more listening?

          1. “Drama! The sky is falling! There are bad people in this world! So let’s just assume everybody is also bad!!!”

            Not everybody, just the ones on Sharyll’s turf list, ha.

          2. Fck Sharyll Attkisson. Who cares what she has to say? She’s a crank and antivax nutcase who exploits parents of autistic children and the children themselves to advance her so-called career. I’d be proud to make her list. It would be proof I was working towards the greater good.

          3. And we see what happens professionally to anyone who goes against the grain. How many of these SAINT scientists are under threat of professional ostracism if they refuse to comply? Another case of “mandatory” policy that exist to control information. Outsiders get to deal with the gestapo….oops I mean FDA. All you clueless, blind faith musketeers who keep implying science is pristine, omnipotent and trustworthy need some couch time with a psychiatrist.

    1. wow..I’m surprised this is still up. I’ve tried to post the same thing and it was mass flagged within seconds.

      1. It should be flagged just because of its wholly irrelevant and unsupportable libelous content. Where’s the proof to back any of that nutter’s claims? Yeah, I thought so.

        Btw, I don’t flag anything. I prefer to leave the stupidity up and in plain view for all to see.

        1. The only time I flag is for outright threats, like when one poster who shall remain nameless threatened to hack accounts and sic the IRS on people she disagrees with.

          1. I usually write those people off as impotent keyboard warriors. The only thing that gets me is if anyone doxxes me. That’s stepping far over the line for me, and I will fight back.

          2. Only after such ‘nameless poster’ and numerous others were continuously harassed by lies, intimidation AND threatened!

          3. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for what the “certain poster” proposed to do. If said poster thought s/he was being harassed, intimidated and threatened, s/he should have contacted the Disqus mods, not threatened back to sic the IRS on people.

            No excuse, no excuse, no excuse whatsoever for that kind of behavior.

          4. One of your buds threatened to reach up the anus of the ‘brother in law’ to pull his tonsils through his ‘back door!’ The irs is a cakewalk given the vulgar and sick crap we’re harassed with on a daily basis!

            Get your facts straight before spouting off in your erred diatribes! The poster also did alert disqus, which can basically take weeks before any action is taken and remedy seen!

            I agree! There is NO excuse for such filthy and crude indecency from you people!

          5. Exactly! Don’t know why you went to the trouble of using the whole post though, when I’ve already pointed this OUT to you!

            But to reiterate for you illiterate; “There is NO excuse for such filthy and crude indecency from you people” and “One of your buds” was ONE example!

            Learn to understand the context of what you read, Katia! Ooops!

          6. You’re a great one to talk! You couldn’t figure out yesterday what I meant about reputable physicians. And I don’t care how egregious the examples are, suz, the approach is to contact the mods, not sic the IRS on them.

          7. I knew what you meant and I disagreed!

            And as I’ve said a hundred times Katia, ‘fire with fire after yall draw first blood!’

            Both [fire with fire AND alerting the mods] were justified and done!

          8. Stick what? A thinking brain into your skull! I’m afraid you’re too far gone for that, Katia! 😉

        2. ione murphy FSMPastapharian 3 minutes ago

          Detected as spam Thanks, we’ll work on getting this corrected.

          there are links to dozens of studies on her article here…link to her article

          1. That’s not mass flagging. Something in the URL must be tripping the filter. Try an url shortener instead.

    2. Educate yourself on these people. Knowledge is power! Shills/astroturfers/trolls. Once you’re aware, you will spot them in minutes. Know what their tactics are and don’t take anything personal. Either don’t engage with them at all, or post your information despite the bullying and intimidation.

      1. It’s like we are being bullied by my little ponies. With degrees, oooooooo fancy! These shills wouldn’t know an original thought if it showed up on the front of their GSK check.” WE ARE THE GOOD DOCTORS, ALL THE OTHER DOCTORS SUCK,” said the shill.

  129. The United States has the highest number of mandated vaccines for
    children under 5 in the world (36, double the Western world average of
    18).

    The United States has the highest autism rate in the world (1 in 110 children, 10 times
    or more the rate of other Western countries),

    34 countries have lower infant mortality rates (under 5) than the United States.

    What’s going on?

    1. What’s going on is that you’re lying. First, the US doesn’t mandate any vaccines. The CDC has a recommended list, as do the state departments of health. Currently, the CDC/Colorado Dept of Health and Environment recommends 14 vaccines including flu for kids under 5. Your country, The Netherlands, gives 11. In other words, the US gives about 20% more, not 100%. The results for other EU countries is similar.
      https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Pages/Scheduler.aspx
      https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html

      Please post a link about the autism rates in the US vs “most Western countries”.

      The US infant mortality rate is dropping.

      1. I thought you said they don’t recommend flu shots for infants and children. And not allowing children into school sounds like a mandate to me. But then I am not a nurse.

          1. You just said “…recommends 14 shots including flu for kids under five” And you said “not everyone gets them” but infant mortality rate is dropping? So the dropping is not because of the vaccines or the high mortality rate is due to the vaccines. Which is it? But we do have the highest infant mortality rate of first world nations and the highest number of “recommended” vaccines and the mortality rate has increase in proportion to the number of vaccines? Something wrong with your logic nurse Katia. And why is it that anybody that disagrees with you is “lying?”

          2. “Which is it?”

            Neither. IM is dropping due to better care, better access to prenatal care and other factors that have exactly NOTHING to do with vaccines.

          3. As AutismDadd noted you can’t have it both ways. Either it is helping or it is hurting? And the numbers seem to imply that increased vaccines causes increased infant mortality.

          4. So vaccines don’t improve life expectancy of infants and children! If this is the case why are you wanting my kids to have vaccines?

          5. I’m through with you, Dipstick! (Is that “refined” enough for you, Grace?) You just want to twist my words around to ATTEMPT to make you look smart. Do you know what the defintion of infant mortality is? Do you know how it’s calculated? Do you know that different countries have different definitions, and some countries do not even count an infant as a live birth until after 24 hours of life? I suspect the answers are no, no and no.

          6. If that is the case why are you supporting mandated vaccines? Why are you trying to force people to have to have their children vaccinated?
            Unfortunately, for the wealthiest nation on the planet to have this level of infant mortality is a sad commentary on our current medical system.

          7. Where did I ever say I supported mandatory vaccines?

            Where did I ever say I was trying to force people to have their children vaccinated?

          8. Katia, you are commenting in favor of an editorial endorsing mandatory vaccination. Perhaps you are confused. Take a nap, it has been a long day.

          9. Mandatory vaccination REFORM, Dipstick! And just because I agree with the article, that doesn’t mean I agree with its title.

          10. Please read beyond the headline Katia. Here I will help you, “Colorado must join California in solving an ailing public health problem that’s easy to cure. This summer, California virtually eliminated all exemptions to that state’s childhood vaccination policy.” That sounds like they want to take away any chose in having a vaccine or not.
            And look who is calling people names again… the professional.

          11. Isn’t it irritating how they continue to conflate “mandates” with “mandatory?”

            It has to be deliberate obfuscation. No one could be that dense, right?

        1. That’s the con. home school your children they as they deny your child the right to an education and freedom of choice. Its coercion right down to them threatening to cut off welfare to single mothers.

      2. “…The Netherlands, gives 11. In other words, the US gives about 20% more, not 100%”

        And? I can’ t see than “100%” in my post.

        Are you refuting your invisible friend?

          1. Watson, I didn’t ask you for a Google input, I asked you for the name of the person you quoted.
            Why so hard.

          2. I don’t know the name. It was an anonymous commenter, like you.

            More info on Mary Holland

            “an astonishing display of paranoid delusions and crackpottery gone off to conspiracy land. Holland also does ‘studies.’ Not actual, scientific, controlled studies, mind, but badly mangled rants about the evils of vaccination using anecdotes, goalpost moving, JAQing off, and seemingly deliberate mischaracterizations, in particular ‘Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program…”

          3. She’s a legal scholar at New York University.
            More than i could say for someone who uses the phrase “JAQing off”, a clearly superior intellect!

          4. Also this

            “you might consider the cases featured in Mary Holland’s nonscientific Pace/Ebcala review and evaluate them in terms of the scientific evidence related to such cases. As I recall, more than half of the 83 cases involved encephalopathy; almost all of the cases involved seizure disorders (three had encephalopathy only.)

            “Such cases have been repeatedly shown by multiple groups of independent investigators to be due to pre-exisiting mutations rather than to vaccination. This has been known for years.”

            That’s the same observation I made yesterday.

            Holland is a liar. I don’t care if you object to the term JAQing off.

          5. The source included a link to the definition.

            “Just asking questions is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements.”

            AKA, a Concern Troll.

            I can understand why you’d rather discuss anything other than Mary Holland’s reputation as a crackpot and a liar, Graceds. Honest, I do.

        1. “The United States has the highest number of mandated vaccines for children under 5 in the world (36, double the Western world average of 18)”

          Is English your second language?

      3. Actually Katie he is absolutely correct the United States has the highest infant mortality rate. That’s not a lie and you can look it up. And yes the United States also has the highest autism rates. Educate yourself before you speak. This article has so many lies in it that it’s ridiculous. It’s almost as if a high school student wrote it and on educated high school student with absolutely no research to back up anything!

        1. Lmfao @ you telling Katia to educate herself! Why not look somewhere beyond the trashy propaganda websites like AgeofAutism and educate yourself on the differences between how countries calculate infant mortality. Plus, as always needs to be repeated for you people, correalation=/=causation

        2. The US does NOT have the highest IM rate, not for all countries or even for all developed countries. YOU should educate YOURSELF.
          https://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934744.html
          Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Croatia all have higher rates than the US.

          The US’ rate is 6.2, the rate for the EU as a whole is 5.7, not hugely different, this despite the fact that most European countries have universal health care, and many of them have definitions of “live birth” that are much different from the WHO definition, which the US, most other English-speaking countries, and most Scandinavian countries use.
          https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e746
          “The subject is particularly pertinent in Canada and the United States; Canada placed 14th among about 35 OECD nations in 1960, ranked sixth in 1990, and began a steep descent to its current position of 25th place in 2008.2 The United States ranked 13th in 1960 and 22nd in 1990 and is currently in 31st place among OECD countries.2

          Although the intent of such international comparisons is to spur improvements in children’s health globally, the validity of the rankings is questionable. Wide variations in birth registration procedures, even among industrialised countries, mean that comparisons of crude infant
          mortality may reward countries with a pragmatic approach to birth registration (that is, those which register only infants who survive or have a reasonable chance of survival). The medical literature documents wide variation in the registration of live births and stillbirths, especially with respect to births at the borderline of viability (for example, those with a birth weight of less than 500 g).9 10 11 12
          The World Health Organization recommends that international comparisons of infant mortality should be restricted to live births with a birth weight of at least 1000 g.13 The classification of deaths as neonatal deaths versus stillbirths and birth registration practices related to infants with lethal congenital anomalies (including the registration of live births that occasionally
          follow prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy for congenital anomalies) are other potential sources of variation.11 14 15

          The World Health Organization’s International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems has long defined a live birth as any product of conception that shows signs of life at birth, with no consideration for birthweight or gestational age criteria.13
          Although this definition remains unchallenged, countries have widely varying regulations for registration of birth that range from definitionbased to pragmatic. For instance, birth registration is required for all live births that satisfy the WHO’s definition of live birth in Canada, England and Wales, and the United States,15 25whereas countries such as the Czech Republic, France, and **the Netherlands** specify limits based on some combination of gestational age (for example, at least 22 weeks), birth weight (for example, at least 500 g), or survival (for example, any live birth irrespective of birth weight that survives the first 24 hours after birth) (web appendix table
          C).18 26 27
          Procedural differences due to longstanding traditions, social attitudes, and local incentives (including financial remuneration of healthcare providers) also probably dictate whether an infant at the borderline of viability is registered. Birth registration requirements for stillbirths also vary widely; countries such as the United States define stillbirths as fetal deaths delivered at or after 20 weeks’ gestation,24 whereas Canada (at least 20 weeks’ gestation or at least 500 g birth weight),15 England and Wales (at least 24 weeks’ gestation), and Sweden (at least 28 weeks’ gestation) have different criteria.18
          Although observed differences in the proportion of live births and stillbirths at extremely low birth weight and very early gestation may reflect true between country differences, our study suggests they are more likely to be the result of the variation in birth registration practices.”

          I wold ask you to post some actual data about autism.

        3. She’s a myopic minded and unsophisticated zealot who gets upset when people don’t color within the lines.

          She likes all her art preformed and is partial to paint by numbers!

          Pay no attention to anything Katia says, jenny!

        1. Twisted. Beating horses, now making fun of children with autism. You’re near rock bottom, watch out for snake bellies.

      1. “…the definition of autism is vastly different from country to country…

        Apply the same reasoning to the shrinking definition of polio, measles, etc. that accompanies the vaccination campaigns from country to country and from one day to the next … see where that takes you!

          1. Double standards FAIL.

            “…the definition of autism is vastly different from country to country”..

            Science is supposed to be the same EVERYWHERE.

            You’re saying modern medicine isn’t science! and by a long shot! LOL.

        1. USA: all autism disorders were merged into one umbrella diagnosis of ASD. Previously, they were recognized as distinct subtypes, including autistic disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger syndrome

      1. Correlation does not imply causation but it often does.

        I have no clue how organic food could be a plausible mechanism, but what we know about vaccines does fulfill some of Hill’s criteria of causation:

        1. – Temporal Relationship: Checked.

        3x more reports of autism have been observed after administration of a mercury containing vaccine (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170 )

        2. – Dose-Response Relationship: Checked.

        Guidelines on safe exposure to thimerosal vary, from 0.1 µg/kg/day of the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States to 0.47 µg/kg/day of the World Health Organization.

        A dose of mercury-laced DPT contains 25 µg of mercury (250 times 0.1 µg). In order to calculate the excess dose you divide 250 by the weight of the infant in kilograms. These are the results:

        – 2 months: weight range 3.8-6.4 kg: excess dose 40-66 times EPA RfD for mercury
        – 3 months: weight range 4.5-7.4 kg: excess dose 35-56 times EPA RfD for mercury
        – 4 months: weight range 5.2-8.3 g: excess dose 30-48 times EPA RfD for mercury

        The mercury overdosing of infants can no longer be denied.

        3 . – Plausibility: Checked.

        There’s a documented mechanism of thimerosal causing damage to astrocites (see https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jt/2012/373678/ )

        Damaged astrocites have been shown to contribute to the pathogenesis of autism (see https://imfar.confex.com/imfar/2012/webprogram/Paper9946.html )

        4. – Consideration of Alternate Explanations: Checked.

        No plausible alternatives have ever been proposed.

        Conclusion: Your graph is a flat joke and it only shows you haven’t done your homework.

        1. *sigh* this bullshlt again? Ok, all the boxes are checked. Goody. Now, please explain the precipitous drop in autism diagnoses in the past decade since thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines.

          Oh, there wasn’t a precipitous drop? But, but, but, why not?

          1. “…please explain the precipitous drop in autism diagnoses in the past decade since thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines.”

            The fact that is has been removed just adds circumstantial evidence of causation.

            In any case, thimerosal is still present in childhood vaccines advertised as “mercury free”:

            DTAP TRipedia

            The vaccine is formulated without preservatives, but contains a trace amount of thimerosal [(mercury derivative), (≤0.3 μg mercury/dose)] from the manufacturing process

            Isn’t that convenient? “mercury free” vaccines continue to be laced with mercury!

          2. Circumstantial evidence? It’s a built-in control for your study! Where is the drop in autism diagnoses? Surely, this would be a clearly expected outcome!

            “Laced” with mercury??? Sub nanogram quantities of an ethyl mercury compound is “laced?” lol

            Ok, I’ll humor you for a second. Even if the ng quantities of thimerosal (NOT ELEMENTAL MERCURY!) was of any significance, where is the dose response that you checked off in the other box?

            Listen, your other cultists have moved on from mercury. They’re onto aluminum, prions, 50+ year-old SV40, and dead aborted babies. Are you just trying to be retro?

          3. “…Sub nanogram quantities of an ethyl mercury compound is “laced?”..”

            0.3 μg is 300 ng. Your education doesn’t even allow you to handle simple units.

            We have a Dunning-Kruger case here, lurkers, enjoy the show! LOL.

          4. Dunning-Kruger alert, lurkers! enjoy the show! LOL.

            “…Sub nanogram quantities of an ethyl mercury compound is “laced?”..”

            0.3 μg is 300 ng (hundreds of nanograms). Your education doesn’t even allow you to handle simple units.

            “…Even if the ng quantities of thimerosal (NOT ELEMENTAL MERCURY!) “

            The insert clearly states 0.3 μg mercury/dose.

            300ng = 3 x 0.1µg (EPA RfD )

            300ng = 0.64 x 0,47µg (WHO RfD).

            A child of 5 Kg receives 60 ng/Kg/day which is 60% of the EPA RfD from this “mercury free” vaccine! LOL.

            And this is just one “mercury free” vaccine, kids regularly get more than one “mercury free” shot in the same day.

            Safe? you can kiss my arse!

          5. I am enjoying the show, particularly the part where you exhibit just the sort of behaviour Dunning and Kruger were talking about, then accuse the reality-based crowd of doing the same thing. There is no hope for you. You are in for a bumpy ride in this life.

          6. I love it when vax apologists get so immensely pissed that they can’t respond, just vent their frustration.

          7. You’re burying your nose into a part of my anatomy that emits all but psychological projections … and you’re digging it immensely. So do I.

          8. You certainly didn’t read my posts.

            So called “mercury free” vacciens can contain up to 0.3 ug of mercury, which injected on a 5Hg baby amounts to 60% of the maximum EPA RfD dose.

            Kids regularly get more than one “mercury free” shot in the same day, A second shot and the kid gets an overdose of mercury.

            DTAP TRipedia

            The vaccine is formulated without preservatives, but contains a trace amount of thimerosal [(mercury derivative), (≤0.3 μg mercury/dose)] from the manufacturing process

          9. Ahhh, you are correct. I meant to write sub µg, so sue me. I corrected my egregious error. The rest of your post is just fear mongering, smoke, mirrors, and more bullshlt.

          10. Even more egregious was this:

            “…Even if the ng quantities of thimerosal (NOT ELEMENTAL MERCURY!) “

            in spite of the insert clearly stating “0.3 μg mercury/dose”.

            You’re just too full of it, pizza boy, for a meaningful conversation.

          11. I guess they are so stupid that they will keep checking all their boxes in the hope of dragging everyone into the dark ages again.
            Lets take a look at the effects of all vaccines being discontinued:

            Schools are closed on a regular basis when 1 child is found to have a communicable virus or disease (measles, mumps, rubella).

            Public pools are closed.
            Concerts and large gatherings are banned if there is a large outbreak.

            Infants, toddlers will die.
            Elderly will die.
            Anyone with a compromised immune system will have a much higher chance of death.

            Airports, flights, bus services, train services will be disrupted on a regular basis.

            On and on it goes.

            Why do the Anti -Vaxx nut cases (and they are ALL nut cases) want so many people to die? Are they all secretly paid off by a cult of death? I know they are all Shills but is there a cult behind this too?

          1. What took this vaccine apologist so long to drop the IDIOT bomb?

            You must feel as relieved as after taking the first dump at the end of 30 days of constipation.

          2. Apologist – nope. Nothing to apologize for.

            All the GMO’s I eat keep me regular, so I wouldn’t know.

            You have used fake numbers and a whole lot of correlation not to mention a flat out lie :

            3x more reports of autism have been observed after administration of a mercury containing vaccine.**

            **this is not what the report says.**

            If it looks like poo and smells like poo then it is poo.

          3. “.. this is not what the report says”…

            Waiting for your brainy alternative assessment from your parallel Universe.

    1. Autism quackery

      What’s mentioned?

      Diet, nutrition, supplements, neutraceuticals, helminth therapy, essential oils
      How to detoxify/eliminate heavy metals
      Body oriented therapies

      What’s not mentioned?

      Genetic testing
      ABA Therapy
      Early Intervention

      “There’s your sign.”

      1. That is a lot of Doctors to try to attack and discredit, you and the other shills better act fast because more and more are signing on to common sense as we speak.

      1. Never too late and, yes it is California, but I don’t think people are that different (Well maybe in Hollywood)

        1. The deadline was December 31. Too late.

          The Legislators in Sacramento aren’t going to change the date for a handful of the entitled in OC.

  130. 5 Year Old New Jersey Girl Died from the MMR Vaccine, Holly’s Law Created
    “Robin Stavola is a mother who tragically lost her young daughter, Holly, to the second MMR vaccine dose, which was a requirement for Holly to attend kindergarten in New Jersey…

    “With support from the governor of New Jersey, Holly’s Law was created. This law can save your child from receiving a potentially lethal second dose of the MMR vaccine, required for some children to attend school, if no vaccine exemption was filed on their behalf.

    The second MMR vaccine dose, listed on the CDC recommended vaccine schedule, is not actually a booster vaccine; it is recommended or mandated because Merck states two to five percent of children don’t obtain levels of protection from the first MMR dose and that all children should get a second dose, to cover those who didn’t gain protection from the first one.”
    https://vactruth.com/2015/09/24/hollys-law/

    1. Argumentum ad bumperstickerum again, I see.

      Vactruth as a source? Why not “Witchcraft 101”? They’re equivalent.

  131. There’s always homeschooling there’s always alternatives so they want that why don’t people just put their kids out I think he is again a pioneer for coming out the way that he did he’s basically the first person who honestly said along with his partner that the MMR shot can cause autism and it’s been said before in 1943 see were not going to school until you guys change something take a stand they do it in other countries.

  132. The United States has a higher infant mortality rate than any of the other 27 wealthy countries, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. A baby born in the U.S. is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Finland or Japan. That same American baby is about twice as likely to die in her first year as a Spanish or Korean one.

    Despite healthcare spending levels that are significantly higher than any other country in the world, a baby born in the U.S. is less likely to see his first birthday than one born in Hungary, Poland or Slovakia. Or in Belarus. Or in Cuba, for that matter.

      1. Even after the 26 weeks that we count as live births that some countries don’t we still have a higher infant mortality rate. We’re still far behind and we shouldn’t be because we have the best technology. Explain that one to me. Actually don’t! I have already read everything. I get what’s happening. I could’ve furthered my statement. However it’s so long that I don’t think it would let me post on this. The point is our country is going backwards in so many ways and people should start opening their eyes, instead of closing them to what’s really happening. Arguing about this or that is actually ridiculous what needs to happen is the truth. People need to know the truth and unfortunately too many lies are being told, like this article. There are so many lies in this article and so many ridiculous In accurate notions. I’m surprised the writer put his name on it. I’ve read many statements in this post on this one and on the Facebook post and on this one if it take Euler I have found that there hav i’ve read many statements in this post on this one and on the Facebook post and on this one I have found more people who have close them selves off to the truth and don’t really give two cents about other people or what’s really happening so I’m out because I actually do care about the truth I’m not pro or anti-anything but I absolutely care about the truth I do not like people who lie. This article is full of lies.

        1. As explained, because we count birth early, because we have higher rates of poverty, and because we have less good and inclusive health insurance than most countries.

          It’s not the vaccines. Between 1940-2007, as the number of vaccines on the schedule increased, infant mortality decreased – and it’s still decreasing. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_19.pdf

          Figure 7.

          1. We are still THIRTY-FOURTH in the world! Please don’t blame our health care system you insult everybody on this board by doing so.

    1. It would be interesting to see the report. Got a link?

      Although different definitions matter (American infant mortality includes what some other countries list as stillbirths), the main reason for poor infant mortality in the USA is dreadful, third-world rates among the poor, especially racial minorities. White middle-class infant mortality is highly comparable to other wealthy countries, those others have more government aid to bring health care to the poor.

  133. such vitriol, unable to question the sacred cow. wow! Do people really trust big pharma to determine what needs to be purchased?

      1. Where does the “Big” for wholefoods and organics come from? Your parallel universe?

        Joining words is child’s play and it doesn’t mean the novel, but infantile concept is a reality.

        1. Wholefoods : Revenue $15 Billion. $40 billion company.
          Organics industry $50 Billion +
          lol. I guess putting “Big” in front of a company or product only works for Anti-Vaxx loons.

          1. “…Wholefoods : Revenue $15 Billion. $40 billion company..”

            Wholefoods is not a producer of organic food, it’s SMALL farmers.Your comparison to vaccine producers is asinine.

          2. FFS, you’re completely incapable of seeing beyond your narrow, predefined scope!

            The accusations brought against BIG pHARMa by you and your compatriots almost always includes assertions of greed-driven motives, corruption, and conspiracy to drive profits! It’s perfectly reasonable to put these numbers on the same scale and apply the same scrutiny to all.

            With that in mind, Whole Foods has higher annual revenues than Monsanto, but for some strange reason nobody accuses them of driving a pro-organic, anti GMO narrative simply to increase profits. Hmmmm….

          3. “…nobody accuses them of driving a pro-organic, anti GMO narrative simply to increase profits..”

            The organic food narrative existed way before GMOs were even a concept and remains the same to this day. Therefore, the narrative has not been conditioned by business or competition models as you falsely suggest.

            It’s like claiming buddhism has been conditioned by Buddha Bar.

            More nonsense from the little educated vax-compliant crowd… and the crap never ends flowing!

          4. You are clearly incapable of comprehending even the simplest of points, and continue to twist my words and regurgitate them to fit your clueless narrative. I’m done with you.

            ps: I’d be happy to put my education up against yours any time. Oh wait, no I won’t, because I’m done with you.

          5. Capitulation accepted. Answer your mobile, pizza boy, there are orders pending. Go meet you hungry, angry customers.

  134. The reason health authorities at the local, state, national and international level support vaccination is because tens of thousands of studies from all around the world shows vaccines are safe and effective.

    Where do school immunization requirements come in? School immunization mandates are important. Evidence in the U.S. is that states with easier to get exemptions to them have higher rates of exemptions, and that higher rates of exemptions lead to more outbreaks.

    Hence, tightening or removing exemptions directly protects children and the public health. It would be better if parents did not fall into misinformation and did not deny their children protection from disease – if they vaccinated voluntarily. But since some parents are misled by misinformation into not vaccinating, it is fair and appropriate for the state to act to protect others in the school from the risk these parents are forcing on their own child.

    References showing that easier exemption laws lead to more outbreaks:

    Nina R. Blank et al., Exempting Schoolchildren From Immunizations: States With Few Barriers Had Highest Rates of Nonmedical Exemptions, 32 HEALTH AFF. 1282, 1282 (July 2013)

    W. David Bradford & Anne Mandich, Some State Vaccination Laws Contribute to Greater Exemption Rates and Disease Outbreaks in the United States, 34 HEALTH AFF. 1383, 1383 (Aug. 2015)

    Aamer Imdad et al., Religious Exemptions for Immunization and Risk of Pertussis in New York State, 2000–2011, 132 PEDIATRICS 37, 38 (2013);

    Saad B. Omer et al., Geographic Clustering of Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements and Associations With Geographic Clustering of Pertussis, 168 AM. J. EPIDEMIOLOGY 1389, 1394–1395 (2008).

    Saad B. Omer et al., Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: Secular Trends and Association of State Policies With Pertussis Incidence, 296 JAMA 1757, 1762 (2006).

    Colorado would do well to follow the call in this editorial and make its schools safer from disease.

    1. Is it true that the Dept of Health and Human services profits off of the sale of Gardasil because they lease a patent to Merck, and they don’t have to disclose the amount under FOIA? Gardasil raked in over 2.B this year. Do you think it is a conflict of interest for the dept of HHS to profit and at the same time mandate its use?

      1. Why do you think this is relevant to the fact that school immunization mandates protect children and prevent outbreaks?

        Generalized claims like this are not a good reason to refuse to protect school children from disease.

        1. Shows the integrity of vax manufax, whether showing hp vax or the ones given to our little darlin’s to enter the public classrooms!

          1. It shows that the coi’s for vax maufax [including the ‘science for design’ you attempt to exclude in my phrasing of manufax] run deep within the govt., and that corruption between the two is extreme!

    2. https://www.livescience.com/53359-whooping-cough-outbreak-raises-questions-vaccine-effectiveness.html

      How about safer and more effective vaccines.
      An outbreak of whooping cough, or pertussis, at a Florida preschool in which nearly all the students had been fully vaccinated against the disease, raises new concerns about the vaccine’s effectiveness, a new report suggests.

      During a 5-month period between September 2013 and January 2014, 26 preschoolers, two staff members and 11 family members of the students or staff at the facility in Leon County came down with whooping cough, according to a report of the outbreak published today (Jan. 13) in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

      Only five of 117 students attending the preschool had not received all of the shots required by their age. This is the first time a “sustained transmission of pertussis in a vaccinated group of 1- to 5-year-old children has been reported in the United States,” the report said.

      1. The DTaP is very safe, but we could certainly use a more effective pertussis vaccine.

        As it is, so, it’s much better to be vaccinated than not. The unvaccinated have much higher rates of infection and communities with lower rates have more outbreaks.

        1. Rønne T. Measles virus infection without rash in childhood is related to disease in adult life. Lancet. 1985 Jan 5;1(8419):1-5.
          There is evidence that the natural measles has a protective effect

          “The presence of measles specific antibodies is usually taken as evidence of typical measles in the past; in the present study it was regarded as evidence of infection with measles virus, but not necessarily of the common disease accompanied by a typical rash. The association between a negative history of measles in childhood and certain diseases later in life was investigated by a historical prospective method, based on school health records combined with self-reporting in adulthood, and tests for specific IgG measles antibody. There was evidence of association between a negative history of measles, exposure in early life (possibly injection of immune serum globulin after exposure), and development of immunoreactive diseases, sebaceous skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage, and certain tumours. It is suggested that the presence of measles virus specific antibodies at the time of acute infection interferes with development of specific cytolytic reactions, and enables intracellular measles virus to survive the acute infection. If this hypothesis is verified, use of immune serum globulin after measles exposure has to be reconsidered.”

          The above study indicates that a lack of rash in measles is associated with an increased incidence of autoimmune and degenerative diseases in later life. As the rash is the means through which the toxin is expelled from the body, its absence leads to the measles virus remaining in the body. The widespread use of vaccination has led to the appearance of “atypical measles” and “mild measles” where no rash develops. This can expose children to diseases in later life.

  135. Vaccines:

    A. Save tens of thousands of lives per birth cohort, and prevent countless suffering and costs: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/25/peds.2013-0698

    B. Have very few risks – serious harms from them are very rare: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079

    Which is why they are among the most important medical advances ever. By tightening school immunization requirements Colorado will be offering that safe, effective protection to more children – and improving the rates of herd immunity that protects others, including vaccine-deprived children. Children deserve that protection.

    1. Dorit, is it true that we are having mumps outbreaks among the fully vaccinated all over the world for the last 10 years or so. And that Merck, who is the maker of the mumps vaccine, is withholding information in the court case against them for falsifying the efficacy of the vaccine? Is it true that in the four or five years that the court case has dragged out, Merck continues to profit from a defective product to the tune of $600M last year? I believe Merck was under probation (Corporate Integrity Agreement) over the conviction for fraud in the Vioxx case at the time the charges over the mumps vaccine were brought against them, yes?

      1. Starting from the top:

        A. We have small scale mumps outbreaks in university, and they include fully vaccinated individuals – the reason appearing to be that mumps vaccine immunity wanes. We may end up needing a booster against mumps. It’s not quite clear yet.

        B. The last decision in the mumps case against Merck denied the request of the plaintiffs for certain information as unfounded. That was in September. On January 11 2016 both parties agreed to complete discovery by March. In other words, fact finding isn’t complete in that case – and even if the claim is true in every particular, and we can’tt say that yet, it doesn’t mean the mumps vaccine is defective. It means Merck did things it shouldn’t have. But our data on the mumps vaccine – or any other – doesn’t depend only on Merck. The actual effectiveness of the vaccine is known.

        https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/merck-mumps-motions-whistleblowers-the-actual-story/

        C. There are no “charges” brought against Merck for the mumps vaccines. There is a claim under the False Claims Act by individuals that has not yet been decided – and even if it’s found that they are right, it has nothing to do with Vioxx.

        Of course, none of this in any way undermines the fact that vaccines save tens of thousands of lives and prevent countless suffering, or that they have

        1. Merck is denying to provide the evidence for the efficacy of the mumps vaccine. They are presenting the test from 50 years ago as their proof. Merck was convicted of fraud before and now has been accused of fraud again, but we should trust that their vaccine will do something still for our kids.

          According to the Corporate Integrity Agreement Merck eneterd with the Dept of Justice, if found in violation of their agreement , they can’t bill Medicaid and Medicare for any of their products.

          “Corporate Integrity Agreement Enforcement
          The OIG has, as a contractual remedy, the right to impose stipulated penalties for non-compliance with the requirements of a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA). A material breach of the terms of the CIA also may result in the provider’s exclusion from participation in the Federal health care programs.”

          1. We have an ongoing suit in which fact finding is incomplete. If Merck was found to engage in wrongdoing, I hope they’re penalized. But even if they are, it doesn’t negate the benefits of vaccines -that data from all over the world shows – or the importance of school mandates in protecting children from diseases.

            It has, in other words, nothing to do with my comment.

          2. To the contrary, wrongdoing of vax manufax, whether such is upheld in any court on not, has EVERYTHING to do with your comment soliciting parents to put trust into you, state and federal laws and vax manufax!

          3. Vaccine science comes from many sources, including governments, non profits and universities. It doesn’t depend on the manufacturers.

            This is an attempt to distract from opponents’ inability to counter the data that vaccines are safe and effective and school immunization a protect children.

          4. And your comment is an attempt to blindside readers into wrongly believing that vax injuries and death are rare!

          5. And I doubt that you can list evidence WITHOUT any coi’s showing how RARE your claims of vax injuries are AND to the contrary, as I’ve pointed out previously, your ‘rare’ is not so ‘rare’ when it happens to you!

            If there is a risk, [and many know that there is profound risk] there must be informed consent and a non coerced choice to vax! Anything less then a choice made without duress is medical tyranny!

          6. See evidence above for rareness.

            The if there’s a risk there must be a choice argument is doubly wrong here.

            Everything has risks. You can choke when eating, but we don’t allow parents to starve kids because of that. When one risk is much smaller – and the risk of vaccinating is much smaller – we can require the less risky action.

            But we don’t. School immunization mandates allow parents to continue not protecting kids from disease. They don’t force vaccinating. They just limit the ability of parents to force that risk on their child’s classmates and their families.

            Don’t vaccinate? Keep child out of school.

          7. More foolish platitudes!

            And that is what Colorado residents must now fight against as they learn the truth, abrogating your propaganda and lies.

            Stand up against medical tyranny, Aoura, and FOR you and your child’s right to make medical choices without duress or the threat of dire consequences!

          8. suz, do you live in Colorado? If not, please butt out since you have made such a deal about others who do not live in our beautiful state.

          9. Funny! You seem fine with Dorit’s comments via ca. And you sure shared enough of your slop during sb277! Doh!

            Sorry! You got the wrong scape goat! Not me, and I have my own beautiful state which I’d like to preempt it from being corrupted like ca.

          10. Disclosure: I don’t live in CO. However I still have skin in the game, with relatives who are residents (including a beautiful newborn), and more to the point, within a plane or car trip of any infected person, anywhere.

            Even if the claims of antivaccination activists were true regarding “vaccine injuries” like autism, autoimmune or other systemic conditions (they are not), none of those are contagious, last I checked. No antivaxxer from outside CO has a legitimate claim to standing in this particular conversation.

            (drops mike)

          11. I don’t really care that much where anyone lives. I got my start on these forums with the California debate. But some posters were making such a big deal about Dorit living in California, although few of them live here either.

          12. We always come back to the question “If your vaccines work so well, what difference does it make if our children are in the school?” Of course with our children in the schools it does mask the number of children contracting the diseases and allows for the blame to be placed on our children, when in many cases it is the vaccinated children that are the carriers of the disease. See above

          13. There’s the babies. There’s the immunocompromised. There’s the flat-out unlucky 5-20% whose vaccine didn’t work. And there’s the resentment of freeloaders whose kids are relatively safe because we vaccinated but who won’t give back in return.

          14. Ahh, the immunocompromised and the babies that inhabit so many of our schools, why they must comprise over half the class the way you in the Gestapo portray them. 5-20%? More like 5-90%. Such humanitarians, well until it comes to those that dare to have a reaction to their precious vaccines. Those people are just trying to get money from the vaccine court and have hired greedy lawyers to do it. Why can’t they keep their autistic, brain damaged children out of sight? Would not want to be reminded of what you don’t want to see.

          15. Although cases of measles and mumps declined after measles and mumps vaccines were introduced, scientists now realize that childhood infections serve a valuable function and may be necessary for normal development of the immune system. For example, earlier this year, a large Japanese study found that a history of measles and mumps in childhood is significantly protective against deadly heart attacks and strokes during adulthood.(1) In this study, more than 100,000 men and women 40 to 79 years of age were followed for several years to determine their rates of mortality from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

            Men who contracted measles in childhood were significantly less likely to die from total cardiovascular disease than men who were not infected with either measles or mumps. Men who had mumps were significantly protected against dying from a stroke. Men who had both measles and mumps in childhood were significantly less likely to die from a myocardial infarction, that is, a heart attack.

            Women who had both measles and mumps in childhood were significantly less likely to die from total cardiovascular disease than women who had neither infection. They were also significantly protected against dying from a stroke. The results of this study may be explained by the “hygiene hypothesis,” which proposes that infections suffered during childhood are necessary for normal development of the immune-system-regulating T helper cells, Th1 and Th2, which control inflammation at the arterial wall leading to atherosclerosis.

            In another recent study, scientists found that adults who contracted chickenpox during childhood were significantly protected against coronary heart disease such as angina pectoris and heart attacks.(2) They were 33% less likely to develop coronary heart disease than adults who never contracted chickenpox. Each additional contagious disease contracted during childhood, such as measles, mumps or rubella, increased the protective effect against acute coronary events by 14%. According to the authors of this study, “Childhood contagious diseases had a protecting effect against coronary heart disease. The risk for acute coronary events decreased significantly with increasing number of childhood contagious diseases.”

            https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(15)01380-5/abstract

          16. This cohort was not vaccinated, and it would be good to know how it will compare to a vaccinated cohort – which will depend on the causal mechanism, something this didn’t answer.

            We do know that measles is associated with more childhood mortality from other infectious diseases. Doesn’t sound beneficial to me.

            Science. 2015 May 8;348(6235):694-9. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa3662. Epub 2015 May 7.
            Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality.
            Mina MJ1, Metcalf CJ2, de Swart RL3, Osterhaus AD3, Grenfell BT2.
            Author information

            Abstract
            Immunosuppression after measles is known to predispose people to opportunistic infections for a period of several weeks to months. Using population-level data, we show that measles has a more prolonged effect on host resistance, extending over 2 to 3 years. We find that nonmeasles infectious disease mortality in high-income countries is tightly coupled to measles incidence at this lag, in both the pre- and post-vaccine eras. We conclude that long-term immunologic sequelae of measles drive interannual fluctuations in nonmeasles deaths. This is consistent with recent experimental work that attributes the immunosuppressive effects of measles to depletion of B and T lymphocytes. Our data provide an explanation for the long-term benefits of measles vaccination in preventing all-cause infectious disease. By preventing measles-associated immune memory loss, vaccination protects polymicrobial herd immunity.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25954009

          17. Governments – FDA CDC whose leadership comes from pharmaceutical companies and who are wooed by 14,000 paid lobbiests
            Non-profits – that are created by pharmaceutical companies to make it look as independent groups support their position
            Universities – whose research is funded by pharmaceutical companies and whose funding is removed if the results are not to the companies liking.
            Unfortunately, pure science is no longer available, hence the requirement to disclose financial interests.

          18. Dorit, how can you say the MMR vaccine, for instance, is safe, when we have lawsuits going on over the mumps portion. AND we have plenty of evidence there are many animal viruses in our children’s vaccines that do not belong there.

            Recent studies have shown 21 viruses that infect cattle can also infect humans. And fetal calf serum is used to in the production of many vaccines. We have Bovine Pestiviruses in the MMR vaccine as evidenced below.

            Genotypes of pestivirus RNA detected in live virus vaccines for human use.

            .Live virus vaccines for human use, 29 monovalent vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella or polio, eight polyvalent vaccines against measles-mumps-rubella and one bacterial polyvalent vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae, were tested by reverse transcriptase-nested PCR for the presence of petivirus or pestivirus RNA.

            These findings indicate that contamination by animal pestivirus may occur in biological products for human use”….https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11

            Infantile gastroenteritis associated with excretion of pestivirus antigens.

            Abstract

            “Faeces from children under 2 years old who had gastroenteritis that could not be attributed to recognised enteric pathogens were examined with a monoclonal-antibody-based immunoassay for Pestivirus antigens. Such antigens were detected in 30 of 128 episodes of gastroenteritis.

            The diarrhoeal disease in children excreting Pestivirus antigens resembled that in other children except that it was more commonly associated with signs and symptoms of respiratory inflammation

            “https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(89)90066-4/abstract

            And that it might be related to microencephaly…

            “Pestiviruses are ubiquitous pathogens of cattle and frequent adventitious viruses in biologicals. Furthermore, it has been suggested that these agents might be related to infantile gastroenteritis and microencephaly. Since the virus is highly prevalent in fetal bovine serum, the risk of contamination is high in most laboratories. Thus, the implementation of detection methods in all laboratories is of worth. Despite continuous surveillance, these agents have been detected in cell lines, fetal bovine serum, live and inactivated animal and human vaccines and interferon for human use.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18395415

          19. The lawsuit has nothing to do with safety – they only addressed effectiveness of the mumps component.

            Do you have any actual evidence vaccines harm? So far, you provided none.

          20. ALL vaccines have known risks. The promise has always been that the benefits of the vaccines will outweigh the risks. But when the vaccines efficacy can’t be proven and it has failed to provide the protection it is promised to deliver, then those odds of harm versus benefit shift quite a bit.

          21. The risks of modern vaccines are very small. Even if everything in the Merck suit is true, mmr’s benefits still far outweigh its risks even in relation to mumps – let alone measles and rubella.

            The fact that this suit, which is not about safety, seems to you like a strong argument lends further support to the extensive evidence that shows that vaccines are very safe.

          22. And would you be OK if that 1 in 1,000,000 injured were your child? Are you OK with changing the diapers of your child when they are 42?

          23. Of course if my child suffered one of the rare vaccine injuries it would hurt horribly.

            And if my child was one of the more common victims of preventable diseases because I made the mistake of not vaccinating him, it would hurt just as much.

            A rational parent chooses the much smaller risk and vaccinates.

          24. Or not. As the diseases were already in serious decline the claim that the vaccines caused the majority of the reduction in mortality or incidence is open to question. And many parents question.

          25. She’s a pharma bot and will deny vax risk, injury and death ’till her dying day!

            Pfft. A report on rarity! She doesn’t have a clue [is that OBTUSE to coin David Foster] about all the parents reporting her ‘rare’ severe and permanently disabling side effects or death from vax!

          26. If vaccines did not cause harm, then the VICP would not have paid out over 3.3 billion dollars in damages to vaccine injured children. It is an indisputable scientific fact that vaccines can, have and do cause harm. Are you actually trying to say that vaccines have never caused harm? And if they do cause harm, what is the right number of damaged kids for you to accept for the “greater good”? 1 injured child? 5? 100? 500? 10000? 100,000? 100,000,000? What’s your price for safety?

          27. So what’s your number then? You are ware that only 10% of vaccine injuries are reported to the VICP? What’s your number? How many children do you accept as being harmed by a vaccine for the greater good?

          28. I’m not sure what your basis if for claiming only 10% of vaccine injuries are filed with VICP (which is not a reporting system).

            But science also shows that vaccine injuries are very rare. See links above.

          29. Asked and answered before Katia. There are multiple studies that show the weakness of a passive reporting system.

          30. Yes, but you can’t prove a negative. You can’t prove that 90% of vaccine “injuries” are not reported. The VAERS system itself says that more serious ones are more likely to be reported.

          31. No one reports because they know that it’s the same type facade from those delegating the vicp.

            I’m not dumb, but YOU are, Katia! Naive as well!

          32. In the same way you cannot prove a negative – you cannot prove how effective vaccines are because you don’t know how many people would or would not have gotten the disease.

          33. brian, I keep asking some antivaxer to calculate losses from VPDs pre-vaccine, so we can compare to the $3.3 billion (over 25 years). I think you’ll find vaccines are a big bargain.

          34. In the rest, you have quotes saying there are traces of RNA of a virus in live vaccines. You want to jump from tgat to claim that there’s a problem – though there’s no evidence of that and gut issues are not a side effect of MMR. The claim isn’t really supported.

            If you have actual evidence of harms from vaccines, where is it?

          35. Did you not read this study at all?? Babies with gastroenteritis that can’t be attributed to any other pathogens but excreting pestivirus antigens . Babies with a diarrheal disease that also causes respiratory inflammation…but that’s not anything to worry about to you. I bet lots of parents would disagree.

            Infantile gastroenteritis associated with excretion of pestivirus antigens.

            Abstract

            “Faeces from children under 2 years old who had gastroenteritis that could not be attributed to recognised enteric pathogens were examined with a monoclonal-antibody-based immunoassay for Pestivirus antigens. Such antigens were detected in 30 of 128 episodes of gastroenteritis.

            The diarrhoeal disease in children excreting Pestivirus antigens resembled that in other children except that it was more commonly associated with signs and symptoms of respiratory inflammation”

          36. Nothing connecting these children’s problems to MMR except wishful thinking. The study certainly doesn’t, alone or in combination of your other links.

            Again: these are not problems associated with MMR.

          37. Pestivirus found in MMR vaccine. Children sick with diarrheal and respiratory problems have evidence of pestivirus antibodies, hence meaning they were infected with a bovine pestiviruses.
            How did they get this virus?
            Dorit says it’s not the MMR, there is no connection, nothing to see here, move along

          38. Bringing unrelated papers does not a case make. I understand that you want to claim the children’s problems are because of MMR. But you haven’t provided evidence of that, the papers don’t say it, and there isn’t real evidence that MMR causes gastro issues. Wishful thinking and papers that don’t support your claim don’t show harms from MMR.

          39. Apparently you think you’re commenting on craptor, the other biased blogs you usually link, or some other commentary whose protocol involves Robert’s Rules! Not needed in Aurora!

            It’s just parents discussing medical fascism and the attempts of forced vaxers like you, to keep individuals from making medical choices for their families without duress, as in denying children a public education as a consequence for dissenters!

          40. I’m sorry you feel it’s fascism to say to parents that they need to take personal responsibility, and if they choose not to protect their own child from diseases they can’t force that risk on others.

            As a matter of fact, school mandates are a part of American reality since the 19th century, upheld by every court that looked at them. Because your parental rights do not include the right to force risks of disease on others.

          41. There is no premise in law that can convict a person for damages if they inadvertently infect another person with a microorganism they likely did not even know they had, and there is no basis to mandate medical procedures that carry with them risk to others for the safety of another. Your science is shoddy, your motives are fraught with conflicts of interest, you do not even live in Colorado. lady, you are as evil as they come.

          42. What happens when a vaccine does not provide protection even if you are fully vaccinated, and you are hospitalized. Who should pay the hospital bill or for your lost time from work?

          43. You don’t know Dorit very well! It’s been a sub-heading on her list of world vax domination, to be able to sue parents of unvaxed children who she perceives has infected others. She’s already written at length on the subject.

            Below is just one example of the many world vax domination irons she has in the fire!

          44. Apart from owning shares in GSK Dorit is a tiger for taking away parental rights.

            One especially useful article Dorit recently co-authored explains the basis for states’ broad power to regulate vaccines in children and concludes with a table setting out the various tools that states can use to increase vaccination rates. Another article she recently co-authored proposes several mechanisms for shifting the public-health costs of non-vaccination onto the shoulders of those who choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children.

            Dorit Reiss wants doctors held liable in torts if their misleading anti-vaccine claims and advice causes harm. Consumer protection laws can be used to force anti-vaccine organizations to be truthful and not misrepresent, or impose sanctions if they do misrepresent. However she does not mention any liability for vaccine manufacturers who make misleading claims. She does not mention liability that the CDC should shoulder for hiding data that showed African American babies are more likely to get autism after getting the MMR shot.

            Dorit would like to see states have an extremely hard to get personal-belief exemption that will only be used by the most extreme and hard core anti-vaccine activists. For example, require a three-day course with a quiz before allowing an exemption. I worry that that’s not feasible from either direction: it may be too hard to put in place and enforce or too politically non-feasible. So my next best option would be either no non-medical exemption in states that can go there or a personal belief exemption that’s surrounded by procedural hurdles — for example, requiring annual renewal, requiring notarization, and requiring a detailed letter explaining the basis, rather than just a “check the box” form. A recent article by Yang and Silverman mapped out the ways to narrow exemptions. I also like cost-imposing schemes: tort liability or no-fault options.

            Doris thinks religious exemptions are a very bad idea, both because they are vulnerable to abuse, encourage and reward lying, and because, as a matter of principle, a parent’s religious beliefs aren’t a good reason to leave the child at risk. All this and Dorit’s portfolio in GSK vaccine manufacturing are skyrocketing. Nice one Dorit – hold shares in a company and then force people through legal means to buy stocks.

            https://abovethelaw.com/2015/12/highlighting-a-law-professor-whos-helping-to-support-vaccination/?rf=1

          45. Brian, would you mind sharing where you went to law school? I don’t think either of your claims are especially relevant. There’s all sorts of case law that people who know have herpes have been sued to people they passed it to, even if they didn’t think they were contagious at the time. If pertussis becomes endemic, there’s really no reason an unvaccinated person couldn’t be held to that same standard.

            As for the no basis for medical procedures, we can most certainly quarantine you. And you can still home school your child. Think of it as advanced quarantine.

          46. Not to interrupt this debate, but when you try to assume the position of authority claiming parents are not taking personal responsibility you are claiming facts not in evidence. On the contrary, most people who question vaccines are taking personal responsibility. Nobody appointed you and the other liberal progressives as the holders of truth or the decision makers for the rest of us. But nice try.
            Carry on

          47. Don’t be sorry! Just ‘cease and desist’ with your propaganda lies!

            We’ve taken responsibility for our children for 100’s of yrs. without the input of your omnipotence and your facade that you know what’s right for everyone in every situation. We don’t need you and the govt. butting into our medical business when there is NO threat!

            Compulsory school vax [there’s an exception to every rule] with provisions for 2-3 types of exceptions [exemptions] in all but 2 states!

            And you have no right to negate informed consent and CHOICE OF FREE WILL WITHOUT DURESS OR THREAT OF UNTOWARD CONSEQUENCES!

          48. Personal responsibility is making sure that a child receives good nutrition, sunshine and a healthy life-style. It does not include mass medicating a child from the day they are borne, overstimulating the immune system with a never ending schedule of toxic vaccines. To me that is child abuse.

          49. Personal responsibility in this context means that if parents decide not to vaccinate, denying their child protection and leaving the child at risk of getting an infectious disease they can transmit to others, they shouldn’t blame anyone but themselves when the state steps in to protect other kids, their family and the community from the risk the Bon vaccinating parent created, by limiting the child’s access to school.

          50. These charts show that mortality from pertussis and measles had plunged almost to nothing BEFORE the vaccines for them were introduced:https://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/11/12/vaccines-a-peek-beneath-the-hood-by-roman-bystrianyk-and-suzanne-humphries-md/
            Those who get pertussis without ever having had a vax, get permanent immunity. Those who ever got the vax won’t, because of original antigenic sin: the vaccine doesn’t have the ACT toxin in it, which the pertussis pathogen does, so the vaccine permanently programs a deficient immune response in those who get the vaccine. Pertussis is now a much milder disease: please look at my references to seven doctors who agreed that pertussis was much milder than it had been, and several of them added that the vaccine was much more dangerous and should not be routinely given. You might have to read them in my Disqus profile: they were up this morning, but most have been illegitimately taken down, but are still visible in my Profile. Measles had also become a relatively mild, childhood disease, much preferable to a lifetime of brain and GI damage from the MMR.

          51. Mortality dropped, though did not disappear – and note that for pertussis, the reduced mortality, in 1934-1943, up to vaccine, was 4000 a year. That’s not low. https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=209448

            Not because of a change in the virus or bacteria: thanks to other advances. The virus and bacteria still killed and caused substantial harm – and still do.

            MMR does not cause GI damage and if it causes brain damage – unlikely – that’s extremely rare. Measles causes encephalitis in 1:1000. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/meas.pdf

            The claim that pertussis infection provides lifelong immunity is untrue. Neither vaccine nor infection do that, and the vaccine provides reasonable short term protection, though we need a better vaccine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15876927

          52. Dorit foolishly equates non vax to a child being tied in the basement and starved. For years now, I’ve tried to tell her that cya does NOT share her opinion!

          53. As much as Prof Reiss recommends vaccines, I’m afraid she is unaware of the many animal diseases that have plagued vaccines both in the past and now. She had no idea that SV40 is horizontally transferred to others and passed to our children. And we are still seeing many new cancer cases today in children that are testing positive for SV40. Based on what we have seen of the legacy of Sv40 contaminating polio vaccines, I tend to think ANY animal viruses, and DNA and RNA particles, can never be a good thing. Just the polio vaccine itself has infected humans with three different viruses from monkeys that I am aware of, and there are probably many more!

          54. There is no way that cattle pathogens can be eliminated from live vaccines as any pathogens smaller or the same size as the viruses needed for the live vaccine cannot be filtered out.

          55. You are nuts if you’re going to argue law with a law professor with a focus on immunizations. You’re outgunned, ione.

          56. Why, that’s the very reason I posed legal questions to Dorit. Because I would really like to know the answers to these two questions. How does the gov profit off of a mandated vaccine without it being a conflict if interest. And how many times do pharmaceutical companies get to commit fraud and lie to the consumers?

        2. Here is one of the claims against them. Do you think if Merck is found guilty of selling a vaccine, that for over 10 years didn’t live up to its promise, that all children and adults who received their defective vaccine would be eligible to be in on a class action lawsuit also?

          “The second court case, Chatom Primary Care v. Merck & Co. relies on the same whistleblower evidence. This class action suit claims damages because Merck had fraudulently monopolized the mumps market. Doctors and medical practices in the suit would be able to obtain compensation for having been sold an overpriced monopolized product, and a defective one to boot, in that the mumps vaccine wasn’t effective (indeed, the suit alleged that Merck expected outbreaks to occur and, as predicted, they did — mumps epidemics occurred in 2006 in a highly vaccinated population and again in 2009-2010).”..https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/merck-whistleblowers_b_5881914.html

          1. If there is evidence that a misrepresentation led to outbreaks, those affected may certainly have a claim against Merck. A fair one.

        3. Mumps immunity not only wanes but whereas children would get mumps and have a lifetime immunity – the disease has now shifted to the adult population where it is far more dangerous.

          1. Your “permanent immunity” from wild mumps is also a myth, or at least those who’ve had it twice would call BS on your statement.

            Why should anyone believe anything you say?

          2. In the U.S.

            186,000 mumps cases in 1967, before vaccination program began
            1,100 cases in 2015

            Grade school math.

      2. Before the U.S. mumps vaccination program started in 1967, about 186,000 cases were reported each year

        How many mumps cases were reported in the U.S. last year?

    2. The first was based on historical evidence of death rates before vaccination. So it went back to see how many died of pertussis before the 1930s? Pertussis has continued its evolution to being a much milder disease than before. For what period did it select is statistics on measles deaths? In 1960, measles had also become a much milder disease, causing only one death per 10,000 cases. Hib meningitis was rare in 1940, but clinical cases quadrupled in incidence by 1968, because the introduction of the DPT vaccine in 1948 weakened immune function in those vaxed, leading to many more invasive cases of Hib meningitis. DDT and other chemicals were what interacted with the usually harmless polio virus, permitting it to take a severe course in those with high exposure to these chemicals.
      Every disease has its own life course and trajectory, which do not remain the same even in the absence of vaccines. Up until 1988, the only vaccines given here were the very dangerous DPT (A Shot in the Dark, Vaccine Roulette), MMR, and polio. None of the other many vaccines added, coincidentally enough, exactly at the beginning of the autism epidemic. Measles and pertussis were nearly always mild diseases by that time, and we didn’t need to give those vaccines. We did not have large numbers of children dying of any vaccine-preventable disease.
      Vaccines are without doubt the most dangerous medical intervention ever developed, and increasing numbers of families with children irreparably damaged by them with neurological and/or autoimmune disease regret having foolishly disabled their children for life with vaccines. And many parents are rejecting vaccines hoping to avoid our mistakes.
      What VPD do you think is so serious and so common, so untreatable by other means, that it’s worth taking the huge risk of the vaccine for it?

      1. There’s nothing showing these diseases became milder in any way. For example, the recent measles outbreaks in Europe had much higher than 1:10000 death rate. See, for example:

        https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0068909

        https://2020science.org/2015/02/04/measles-mortality-rates-2008-2011-outbreak-france/

        Vaccines don’t cause autism. As the study above show, harms from them are rare. And don’t include autism or autoimmune diseases.

        1. Are you being paid to post these statements? I am just wondering why you seem to care so much about what happens in Colorado when you live in California. Just wondering.

          1. No. Are you paid?

            People do travel between states – and I happen to think children in Colorado deserve to be safe from preventable diseases, too.

          2. And do you confirm or deny that you have stock in a major pharmaceutical company which will gain you a lot of money if vaccines become mandatory in Colorado?

          3. My family holds stock in GSK.

            I don’t think a change to Colorado’s immunization rules will affect my income. If it has any effect, it would be minor.

          4. Right. Minor. Over 5 million people live in Co. Mandating over 40 vaccines to every child in a populace that size; that is a tidy profit. Admit it. You have financial ties to a corporation which stands to make BILLIONS if the policies you are advocating for become a reality, and your family stands to gain financially as well. What is minor to a person like you? $10,00.00? $100,000$
            Bottom line is that you do not live in Colorado, you have financial conflicts of interest regarding this topic, and you make statement like a spammer.

          5. Yeah, well, it’s not 40 vaccines, it’s 13, “unbundling DTaP and MMR, and including flu up through age 5.

          6. Untrue. You’re counting doses, not vaccines. You guys are just so dumb! You confuse incidence with mortality, and vaccines with doses.

          7. No one needs to pay for vaccines in the US. If you have ACA compliant insurance, which most people do, it must pay for vaccines at the point of service with no deductibles or co-pays. If you are uninsured, under-insured (a holdover from the pre-ACA days and relevant only for those few “grandfathered” policies still around), on Medicaid, Native American or Alaskan Native, the VFC program will pay for your vaccines.
            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/index.html

            Every dose is not a new vaccine, no.

          8. So if you get 3 doses of MMR, you just get one vaccine? No, it does not work that way. YOU people are illogical. It does not matter. I will not comply with mandatory vaccines, and if you force them onto me you will be violating my human rights.

          9. No. We vaccinate kids v. 16 diseases on the recommended schedule, and not all are required for school.

          10. To remind you, most people in CO vaccinate their children already. The bump this causes will hardly affect GSK’s bottom line and even less any dividends, I expect.

            It could make a big difference to herd immunity and protecting CO’s kids.

          11. So you say. And people should believe you because you live in California, helped to get SB 277 passed, got paid to do so and have stock in one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies on earth while holding no degrees in public health, biology or toxicology.
            TO remind you.

          12. Cite the statute.

            The fact is, you’re completely incapable of speaking to any of the points she makes. The horsehlt troll games are all you have.

          13. I’m curious: what law do you believe requires someone to disclose their income on an Internet bulletin board? I understand that certain conflict-of-interest records may be available on the Internet, but what ever requires her to disclose this when you ask?

          14. Seems like those who wish to have vaccine choice are fighting on many fronts, in many States and countries and the hip pocket seems to be behind it. California ends parents’ rights to refuse vaccination for their children on religious or personal belief grounds this year—but many of the senators involved in the policy change had been receiving donations from drug companies.

            The companies made donations of more than $2m to senators and others in the legislature in 2013-14 while the controversial Senate Bill 277 was being considered. In addition, it also paid out around $3m to lobbyists.

            One of the biggest beneficiaries was a senator and doctor who was promoting the vaccine bill, and who received $95,000 in donations. Nine of the top 20 recipients were either legislative leaders or served on the Assembly or Senate health committees. The biggest donor was Eli Lilly—which developed the controversial thimerosal preservative used in most vaccines until recently—which gave $193,100, followed by Abbot Laboratories, manufacturer of an influenza vaccine, which gave $173,000.

          15. What I cannot understand – you are aware that people know you hold shares in GKS and this undermines your credibility as a paid pharmaceutical writer. You claim they are minor however you do not get rid of these shares so I don’t believe they are a small amount at all.

          16. Mercola makes millions from selling fake-meds. Dorit would need to own tens of millions of dollars of GSK for an income like that. Do you bring the same skepticism to his drivel? Cui bono cuts both ways.

          17. Mercola doesn’t force his supplements on you. He funds his excellent news items with nutritional supplements none of which have killed anyone. I recommend anyone who wishes to get off the pharmaceutical gravy train to read Mercola and live a natural healthy life.

            Melody Petersen, author of Our Daily Meds, an in-depth look at the pharmaceutical companies that have taken the reins of our faltering health care system by cleverly hawking every kind of drug imaginable. We discussed how this powerful industry has our health in its hands.
            For example, 100,000 Americans die each year from prescription drugs — that’s 270 per day more than twice as many who are killed in car accidents each day.

          18. Isn’t this the same nonsense Jeffry John Aufderheide tried to pull two weeks ago?

            Odd that you appeared in these comments immediately after Aufderheide departed.

            Coincidence? I think not.

          19. No. Aufderheide’s last comment here was 12 days ago

            “And you are saying the Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs called me a liar?” — Jeffry John Aufderheide https://disq.us/90tow9

            Brain’s first comment on this article was 11 days ago

            “Vaccines can, have and do cause harm. If they did not, then the VICP would not have paid out over 3…” — brian https://disq.us/90tp3i

          20. Brian [small b] has been here basically from the start, and I’ve been reading him. What’s your point, Watson!

          21. I do not know who Jeffry John is; I have not had time to troll the comments like you I suppose. Are you insinuating that I am posting with 2 names? No, I am not. I am but a humble public servant whom works long hours with only one name, and it is brian.

          22. In the past weeks, Prof Dorit Reiss of Hastings law school in San
            Francisco has been bombarding the blogs with many hundreds of comments
            in relation Katie Couric’s broadcast on HPV vaccine – likely in excess
            of a thousand.
            So many, in fact, that it is hard to imagine how it could not
            interfere with her normal professional routine. Whether or not Reiss has
            been able to perform her normal professional tasks during this period
            there is an issue of whether her advocacy may be conflicted by the
            sponsorship and institutional affiliations of her employer, examined
            here by Christina Waldman.

            In an exchange a few days ago (Dec 8) between University of
            California (UC) Hastings Associate Law Professor Dorit Reiss and “Vince
            Brown” on KatieCouric.m, Brown accuses Reiss of being “paid to post”
            in favor of vaccines. Reiss replies: “Not really. My lawschool [sic]
            would pay me the same salary whether or not I post here.” Brown
            persisted, and Reiss confirmed, “I am sorry you had trouble
            understanding my comment. No, no one is paying me to post here.”

            https://www.ageofautism.com/2013/12/not-paid-to-post-dorit-rubenstein-reiss-uc-hastings-college-of-law-and-kaiser-permanente.html

          23. The funny hypocrisy is, I would be willing to bet that her children are not vaccinated according to schedule. That is the elitist mentality of people who push over vaccination.

          24. Age of Autism is a for profit company that makes its money lying to anxious parents about what causes autism and how to “cure” it..

            The doxxing and personal attacks on anyone who might affect their bottom line is … quite revealing.

          25. Most of the personal attacks on the medical criminals usually come from readers of their blog, or just plain autism parents who know the truth.

          1. I would recommend getting the actual Polish review article – not the Natural News article about it. If you look at it, it’s a review article with no data of its own – and like most review studies, depends on what goes in. IN this case, it includes an article from the 1940s, includes the debunked studies from the Geiers, known for bad science and for chemically castrating autistic kids, https://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2013/10/20/looking-back-at-two-decades-of-geier/ and ignores other large scale studies. IN other words, it reviews a bad selection of literature – which isn’t worth much.

            As to the other articles – if the baboon study translates into humans, the pertussis vaccine may not prevent transmission, though it likely reduces it, since it reduces symptoms like coughing. It still reduces risk of outbreaks and protects from the disease.

          2. You are quoting a blog on Sharyl Attkissons astroturfing list, a blog written by Matt Carey no less, does Matt Carey sit on a financial advisory committee with Coleen Boyle of the CDC, yes or no?

          3. Is the CDC being accused of scientific fraud by it’s own scientist Dr. William Thompson? Do the CDC studies show that thimerosal causes tics?

          4. That is an old irrelevant astroturf article. No memo to get, the documents ARE damning and Ben Swann among a select few others will be releasing them in there entirety very soon, nice try astro.

          5. Yes and the suppressed cough is why they think that it is becoming more prevalent. The cough is suppressed but the person is still contagious. Good job, now you have stealth disease vectors who think that they are immune.

        2. I’m trying to answer, but everything I write is being sent into moderation. Luckily I wrote what I had to say in Word, so I can put it up another time. Look at what I DID manage to get up about the mildness of pertussis to Katia.

          1. You haven’t shown us or Katia anything about pertussis becoming “mild”, you just blew a bit of smoke about having “read something”.
            Let’s see the citations, Cia.

          2. I gave direct quotations from six different prominent physicians and medical professionals, all saying that pertussis was much milder than it had been and that the vaccine was at that time much more dangerous than the disease. Most of it went into moderation, but can be seen if you click on my Disqus profile. I would list the physicians, but I just did in a reply to Katia, and even just the list made it go into moderation. So, you tell me, how do I make my case if my case just goes into moderation?

          3. The same proportion of immunised children caught the infection as unimmunised children, suggesting the vaccine offered no protection at all.” (Ditchburn RK, “Whooping cough after stopping pertussis immunization,” BMJ 1979; 1: 1601-3)

          4. Mike, I just separated the six sources I gave yesterday, including citations of the articles from which the quotation was taken. I think it may have been the name of Dr. George D–k which got them sent into moderation, but Dr. Bowdler may be off on Sunday. When I came back after getting one source publication, my comment was no longer where I had left it, it had either been taken down by one of you guys, the site, or maybe moved to the end, out of context, so it wouldn’t make as much sense.

          5. Here’s ANOTHER one on how mild pertussis is now. Does anyone other than pharma industry sources still try to maintain that pertussis is still just as much of a killer disease as it was in the nineteenth century?

            Taranger, J. “Mild Clinical Course of Pertussis in Swedish Infants of Today,” Lancet, June 12, 1982; 1360. Out of 19,000 diagnosed with pertussis in a three-year outbreak, NONE died.

          6. And what some crank doctors thought about pertussis 50 years ago doesn’t carry much clout, scientifically speaking.
            Just see the updated clinical and epidemiological data on pertussis (did you even read Dorit’s links?) and stick to the current science.

          7. Professor Elizabeth Miller, the government immunisation specialist at the Health Protection Agency, conceded in 1980 that not only were more cases of whooping cough notified in the 1978 outbreak, but, even allowing for this, the death rate was lower than in previous epidemics. (Miller E, “Whooping Cough Notifications,” (letter) The Lancet 1980; 718) In other words, even at the time, health officials were admitting that whooping cough was becoming less of a killer disease despite the drop in vaccination.” (Halvorsen 100)

          8. “Professor Elizabeth Miller, the government immunisation specialist at the Health Protection Agency, conceded in 1980 that not only were more cases of whooping cough notified in the 1978 outbreak, but, even allowing for this, the death rate was lower than in previous epidemics. (Miller E, “Whooping Cough Notifications,” (letter) The Lancet 1980; 718) In other words, even at the time, health officials were admitting that whooping cough was becoming less of a killer disease despite the drop in vaccination.” (Halvorsen 100)”

            You see, this is your problem, Cia. You have sourced this pre-digested information from a quack antivaccine doctor (Richard Halvorsen) rather than checking original source material yourself.
            If one looks at the papers around that time by Professor Elizabeth Miller, she has this to say:

            Since the decline of pertussis immunisation, hospital admission and death rates from whooping cough have fallen unexpectedly. Although this might be taken to indicate that the disease is becoming less severe, a comparison of admissions and deaths in England and Wales before and after the decline in immunisation suggests that several factors other than disease severity–a shift in the social class distribution of the disease, an increase in the proportion of milder cases notified, and improved care–were responsible for this.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1628449/

            You see? You have taken the apparent drop in severity as a sign that whooping cough was becoming “milder”. Yet your own source states that it was not becoming milder, but that other factors were responsible for the reduced admission rate and death rate.

            Now I will charitably assume you did not appreciate this fact before, Cia, and let it pass.
            But now you KNOW the disease was NOT GETTING MILDER, so in future I hope never to see you say this about the UK again.
            If you do, you will be confirming you are nothing but a pathological and devious liar.

          9. Several of the doctors writing professional papers whom I quoted specifically used the word “milder.” The bottom line is that a hundred and fifty years ago, tens of thousands of children a year died of it: by the seventies, in the last study I put up, in an epidemic in Sweden in which 19,000 children were diagnosed with it, NOT ONE died. Everyone but you and your fellow industry defenders agree that this was because the disease had become milder, and it still is. In the US four years ago, over 48,000 were diagnosed with pertussis, but only 18 died. BECAUSE THE DISEASE IS A LOT MILDER NOW THAN IT USED TO BE, play it how you will.
            In the UK in 1870, the peak year, there were 18,000 deaths from pertussis. So if it’s still just as dangerous as it ever was, you’d have to see that many deaths in unvaccinated populations which get pertussis. So find anything comparable in the developed world. (And in the Third World, the Guinea-Bissau study in 2000 showed that the pertussis and polio vaccines INCREASED the death rate in vaccinated children in the subsequent few years. And Aaby’s Senegal study showed that in children who got natural measles and recovered, the majority even in the Third World, the death rate in subsequent years was only ONE-FIFTH that of children who did NOT get natural measles. Because measles is ultimately beneficial in well-nourished children and those who get vitamin A to prevent complications during measles) In the US in 1918, there were 17 deaths per 100,000 population. And then the disease got milder. In another peak pertussis year, 1924, there were 8 deaths per 100,000 population. In the peak year of 1933, a Depression year of want for many, there were 5 deaths per 100,000 population. In the peak year 1940 (pertussis has peak years every three to four years, regardless of vaccination) it was 2 deaths. By the time the DPT was introduced in 1948, it was one death per 100,000.

          10. Oh Cia, Cia, Cia…… The cognitive dissonance is strong in you tonight….

            “Several of the doctors writing professional papers whom I quoted specifically used the word “milder.”
            And I showed that one of the doctors you quoted didn’t say that at all. You can’t even cherry pick your “evidence” without messing up. I haven’t had a chance to track down your other doctors yet, (because you don’t give clickable links, and you usually cite journals that are so old they are unavailable online anyway)

            You are so desperate to believe that pertussis is harmless that you’ll swallow anything.

            First, have you ever given a thought to the current demographics of pertussis? You know, the data that shows most cases diagnosed more recently have been in young adults? Remember how the disease is always worse in kids? You do? Good (you should, you have told us so yourself).
            Now, what do you think pertussis disease cases generally look like, when proportionately more adults have been affected? Do you think it looks milder, or more severe?
            The answer is “milder” of course, but that doesn’t mean the disease is milder, just that it is affecting a different demographic. Given the chance of affecting mainly young kids again (like it did pre-vax) and you’d see the disease get “more severe” again, of course, since its virulence is unchanged.

            Second, you do realise that most people get vaxed against pertussis? And how vaccination doesn’t necessarily prevent pertussis altogether, but makes it “milder”, because its virulence is mitigated by the toxoid vaccination? You do? Good.
            Now imagine people didn’t get vaccinated against pertussis. Do you think the disease would appear to be “milder” than it is in vaccinated people, or “more severe”?

            Third, you know that there is this thing called “Medicine”, don’t you? It is a largely scientific discipline using biological knowledge of humans and diseases to develop means of avoiding or ameliorating the diseases. Now, do you think that those severely affected by pertussis with say a secondary bacterial pneumonia would be more or less likely to survive if offered the facility of ITU, antimicrobials for the secondary pneumonia, and modern supportive therapy? Do you think that pertussis really is “milder” as a result, or just that humans have become better at developing tricks to stop it killing them?

            Fourthly, there are little things like nutrition, which you feel is vitally important, I know. Do you think a well nourished child would be more or less resistant to the effects of pertussis than a malnourished one. Go on, you know the answer to this too, you have told me so, I recall. Do you think the different outcomes reflects changes in pertussis virulence with the disease getting “milder” or “more severe”, or do they reflect host resistance? Do you think the better nutritional status of kids today than 100 years ago might have relevance to the outcomes?

            Now, can you just reflect on these pertinent facts for a couple of minutes?

            Thank you.

          11. Did you find Dr. Elizabeth Miller’s letter to The Lancet: Professor Elizabeth Miller, the government immunisation specialist at the Health Protection Agency, conceded in 1980 that not only were more cases of whooping cough notified in the 1978 outbreak, but, even allowing for this, the death rate was lower than in previous epidemics. (Miller E, “Whooping Cough Notifications,” (letter) The Lancet 1980; 718)

            Then we have Dr. Strom in the BMJ: Dr. Justus Strom, 1960, “It may be questioned whether
            universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly MILD nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.”
            “Is Universal Vaccination Against Pertussis Always Justified?”

            We have Dr. Douglas Jenkinson, 1995, “Most cases of whooping cough are relatively MILD.

            We have Dr. George D–k, who wrote in 1974, “I am not entirely convinced that the community benefit of whooping cough vaccination outweighs the damage which it may be doing.” (D–k G, “Convulsive Disorders in Young Children,” Proceedings of the Royal Society (I can’t believe that no moderator paid attention for 24 hours to the ridiculousness of its having censored and removed my comment for spelling out this worthy doctor’s surname. They would still have been in limbo but for my bowdlerizing his name.)

            We have Dr. Mortimer: The decline in pertussis-related mortality prior to the institution of widespread immunization has led some researchers to argue that pertussis vaccine is currently superfluous and that it should be abandoned except for high-risk groups.” (Mortimer, “Pertussis Vaccine,” 82, in Plotkin and Mortimer Vaccines)

            We have Sir Graham Wilson, the senior doctor responsible for the control of infectious diseases in England and Wales, who said: ‘Whooping cough has now such a LOW DEATH RATE that the advisability of continuing vaccination against this disease must be seriously questioned, particularly when there is reason to believe that vaccination has played little part in bringing about its fall.’ (Wilson GS, “The Hazards of Immunisaton, the Athlone Press 1967, 281)

            We have Taranger, J. “Mild Clinical Course of Pertussis in Swedish Infants of Today,” Lancet, June 12, 1982; 1360. Out of 19,000 diagnosed with pertussis in a three-year outbreak, NONE died.

            That is not cherry-picking, that is numerous medical professionals concerned about the amount of severe damage being done by the vaccine for an increasingly mild disease. Now most medical professionals feed at the trough of the vaccine companies and do their bidding, regardless of the consequences to children’s lives.

          12. You have not taken into account the huge rate of failure of the acellular pertussis vaccine, so that many thousands of appropriately vaccinated children AND adults get pertussis and transmit it, or carry pertussis asymptomatically despite having been vaxed, and give it to others. It is not that we have a majority vaxed population so that everyone is safe from pertussis until the time when the vaccine wears off. And this new vaccine wears off very quickly if it even worked at all, so that it has been recommended that everyone get ANOTHER Tdap every three years. That’s why, starting in the late ’90s when they made the switch from whole-cell to acellular pertussis vaccine, IMMEDIATELY pertussis rates started to drastically increase, so that now it’s a common disease everywhere. And yet we STILL have an EXTREMELY low death rate from it. In 2011, over 48,000 DIAGNOSED with it in the US (far more had it but remained undiagnosed), and there were only eighteen deaths. There would be close to no deaths if cases in babies were routinely treated with high-dose IV vitamin C.

          13. It is not true that pertussis in a vaxed child is milder than in an unvaxed one. In 1977, Dr. Gordon Stewart reported that pertussis declined in incidence and mortality in Glasgow, during epidemic years from 1900-1957 (i.e., before the vaccine was introduced in the UK). (Gordon Stewart,”Vaccination Against Whooping Cough: Possible Implications for Assessment of Vaccine Efficacy,” Lancet, March 20, 1982: 668)

            “In a study comparing different aspects of pertussis in
            vaccinated and unvaccinated children, in family, school, and hospital settings during 1974 and 1975, Stewart revealed that there was no difference between the duration of illness, the severity of illness, the general incidence of whooping
            cough, or the number of primary and secondary cases of whooping cough in vaccinated and unvaccinated children.” (ibid 74)

          14. Really Cia, I am fed up of your lies and deliberate distortions about what others have said or what they mean.

            Regarding Prof Miller, which part of “Since the decline of pertussis immunisation, hospital admission and death rates from whooping cough have fallen unexpectedly. Although this might be taken to indicate that the disease is becoming less severe, a comparison of admissions and deaths in England and Wales before and after the decline in immunisation suggests that several factors other than
            disease severity–a shift in the social class distribution of the
            disease, an increase in the proportion of milder cases notified, and
            improved care–were responsible for this.”
            do you not understand?
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1628449/

            As you can see, she might have “conceded” that the death rate had fallen, but she explicitly explains that it is NOT because the disease became milder but because of OTHER FACTORS.

            I told you this yesterday, and asked you not to repeat your shameful lies about it, yet you just couldn’t contain your antivaccine incontinence, could you?

          15. Hey Mikey it’s go time on the 26th. Swann is releasing a documentary that day and posting all the documents at truthinmedia.com I told you that this story is alive and well, real crimes, real justice. I wonder if Wakefield will make an appearance.

          16. Whatever you say Matt Carey. Why was Deer in the mix with Orac in the comment section of LBRB? I will tell you why, fear of the impending truth.

          17. In the UK I would not say that whooping cough was “mild”.
            Your own source for this disinformation about “milder disease” (see post below), Professor Miller, analysed 8000 cases in 1975 with the first wave of the epidemic generated by the drop in vaccination rates.

            This is the abstract of the paper:

            An analysis was made of the severity of over 8000 cases of whooping cough notified from October 1974 to March 1975. Ten per cent of these patients were admitted to hospital and there were 10 deaths. Severity was directly related to age, the disease being most severe in children under 1 year, especially those under 6 months. There was some evidence that previous vaccination reduced the severity of the disease, but the vaccination programme does not cover very young children, and for them whooping cough is a dangerous disease.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638600/pdf/brmedj00499-0013.pdf

            I am afraid a 10% hospitalisation rate and a one in 800 death rate would not seem “mild” to any reasonable person.

          18. Yes, well she has said as much in the past, hasn’t she?
            What was it again….. Oh yes, that was it…. “Who cares?” (if a child gets pertussis).

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5686c37f362c5c2e2f6df5e0bc42b130377681de14d3bfc7a4bdd4727e06c1ff.jpg

            Then again, she thinks a death rate of 1 in 200 cases is “a low death rate”, so what do you expect? When people are as dense with numbers as she is, there is no hope.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6c26b5eb497cd8f36c2ab484502c3f98b3a217ed779d4fc973d53d33898a8eb7.jpg

          19. “Severity was directly related to age.” We have all always agreed that pertussis is sometimes dangerous to the very youngest babies, those in the first four months of life or so. Death from pertussis is very rare after four months of age, and it is not considered a dangerous disease in older babies or adults. In the very youngest babies, I have always said that the death rate in developed countries in these very young infants is one in 200 cases. So there is no contradiction. Have you managed to discredit the study I put up this morning on the pertussis epidemic in Sweden 1976-79, in which 19,000 children were diagnosed with pertussis, and yet not ONE of them died?
            And there were 18,000 deaths from pertussis in the UK in 1870. Is it better nutrition which has caused an exponentially higher recovery rate from pertussis or that the pathogen has become milder, or both? But your contention that pertussis is JUST as dangerous now as it ever was is false. As the citations I provided show, pertussis is now a relatively mild disease for the vast majority, while the vaccine continues to be extremely dangerous and often disabling (my baby got three vaxes, got pertussis at eight months, did fine and recovered, while the DTaP booster at 18 months wiped out her only words and she was diagnosed with autism two months later. The thousands who die of asthma every year would not have had it had they not gotten the dangerous, ineffective, unnecessary pertussis vaccine. But who cares about them?

          20. “Have you managed to discredit the study I put up this morning on the
            pertussis epidemic in Sweden 1976-79, in which 19,000 children were
            diagnosed with pertussis, and yet not ONE of them died?”

            No, because you didn’t “put it up”, as you call it, you just gave a title and the article/letter is not available online. I’ll have to dig it out of the library this week.

            But I would note that this was a time when Sweden still vaccinated against pertussis, and we all know that cases in vaccinated patients are much less severe. That doesn’t mean the disease in unvaccinated patients would also be less severe now, does it. (and it isn’t, as the Lancet confirms that in Sweden when vaccination ceased, that complication rates approached those seen in developing countries).
            https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673697043341/abstract

            You do remember that when vaccination stopped, they started to get deaths from pertussis again, don’t you? Not many (I think it was 9 over the next 12 years), but enough. And complication rates were not trivial…here is your hero Victoria Romanus on the problem once vaccines stopped, over just 3 years:

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7dbf08582cceae141bfc292b2ec0a11e800201c5e153c9890ec8ab7ca33b3d62.jpg

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/84f37772911b86cec720c4725d73299740afb0cdfc73fbcd681c34f5a30fdcb8.jpg

          21. No, cia, the uber-serious period goes beyond the 4month age. About 50% of babies under a year are hospitalized. 25% get pneumonia.
            https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/about/complications.html#infants-children.

            What you think about the death rate is irrelevant as you are ignorant and totally unqualified to so state. I will also point out that 1 in 200, if correct, is a VERY high rate. I suppose you can ” live with it” though, no biggie.

            It is an abject LIE that pertussis has become milder. I urge you to do what you have so far refused to do as far as I know and read about that lunatic in Michigan who made her poor kids suffer for months with daily multiple coughing/vomiting spells after which they turned purple. These kids were all over your 4 month cutoff. They suffered horribly.

          22. Shouldn’t you be spending time answering the outstanding questions posed to you about which vaccines a “not an antivaxer” like you would give his children, or providing the proof that I am some paid shill?

          23. By omission, you did answer, yes.
            You are an antivaxer, and you don’t have any evidence I am paid to post here.
            Thanks, Kiko!

          24. Please see the many physicians I quoted who said that pertussis had become much milder and that the dangerous vaccine should not be routinely given. I got them up this morning, it was Dr. D–k’s surname which had caused them to be removed.
            Dr. Sears p. 29 in The Vaccine Book: “Pertussis is most serious in the first six months of life, with about a 1% fatality rate for that age group. Recent studies show that of the approximately 2000 reported cases of pertussis each year for infants less than six months, about 75% are hospitalized and about twenty die each year. Most of these deaths occur before two months of age.” MOST deaths occur before two months of age, many still occur at two and three months of age, some at four months, and after that very few. Pertussis is not considered a serious disease for older babies or children.
            And the coughing spells ARE awful. My baby had gotten three DTaPs and still got pertussis at eight months because the new vaccine is very ineffective. She gave it to me as well, and yes, the coughing spells, ten coughs a breath, WERE awful. But when she got the booster at 18 months, it erased her only words and she was diagnosed with autism two months later. Other kids get asthma, allergies, seizure disorders, or die of SIDS as a result of reactions to the pertussis vaccine. You’ve got to decide which is the bigger danger: an awful cough for a month or more, or a lifetime with autism or an autoimmune disease which may kill you. Young infants should be kept sheltered at home for their protection, and should be given high-dose IV vitamin C if they get it despite precautions, see Dr. Suzanne Humphries’ online protocol.

          25. “Drs” Sears and Humphries? Surely you jest! A couple of quacks. As for the others, there are a million practicing physicians in the US; who cares about a few nutters?

            You’re full of it about this Vitamin C treatment. If it worked, everyone would be doing it.

            Vaccines do not cause autism, autoimmune diseases, SIDS, allergies or seizure disorders.

          26. What you are saying is that Dr. Sears and Dr. Humphries are not on the pharma pay roll the way most practicing physicians in the US are, and so they do not roll out the pharma ideology in their texts. The interested reader must research them and others on his own to decide on whom he believes. Vitamin C DOES work to treat virtually anything if used at high enough and frequent enough doses. What you are saying is that those on the pharma pay roll have not even considered its efficacy because there are no pharma dollars to be had there.
            Everyone who has seriously researched the question and is also unaligned with pharma interests has long since acknowledged that vaccines DO cause all the conditions you mentioned and more.

          27. LOL!

            I like how they’re “Doctor” Sears and “Doctor” Humphries, but you guys won’t give Offit that honorific. But on to more important issues.

            No, they’re not hooked up to “Big Pharma” (such a trite phrase), they’re hooked up to “Big Supplement” and “Big Testimonial”. And no, cia, I’m not saying “those on the pharma pay roll have not even considered its efficacy because there are no pharma dollars to be had there. ” You don’t know how medicine works, but there’s not enough bandwidth here to go into that with you. In addition, Sears does recommend vaccines, on his own schedule, which, up until the ACA, meant he could charge his patients for each and every vaccine visit. It’s no surprise he opened his online “store” after the ACA kicked in and put a stop to that. (Immunizations now have to be free at the POS.)

            Almost everyone alive in the US today has had some polio vaccine. Almost everyone under the age of 70 has had some version of the DTP vaccine as well, and many of the “Greatest Generation” received tetanus vaccine in the military. You’re totally off the rails with this idea that vaccines cause all these problems. Our life expectancy has never been higher.

          28. “Vitamin C DOES work to treat virtually anything if used at high enough and frequent enough doses.”
            So how do you know that Cia?
            Are there scientific studies looking at it, and comparing it to antibiotics in a randomised, double blind, controlled trial (you know, the sort of study antivaxers want to do for every vaccine).

            Please post some studies, Cia.
            Go on, I dare you.

            Remember that $10,000 for a charity of your choice I promised you if you came up with a paper showing Vitamin C was superior to antibiotics for meningococcal meningitis?
            Are you so mean you don’t want to get all that cash to donate to some autism charity?
            Shame on you.

          29. If you had given her antibiotics, she would not have given pertussis to you. Simple science.

            asthma, allergies, seizure disorders, SIDS are NOT caused by vaccines

            Suzanne’s protocol, which she got from Hilary Butler, is bunk. It is based on the ideas of a doctor in the 1930s who had a hospital full of children with pertussis and no medicine whatsoever to help them. No breathing treatments. No antibiotics, nothing. So, he tried vitamin C and some of them did not die. That is the sum total of the protocol from those two. Because, yes, I have read it, I have engaged them both in debates on the issues for years. They have no science whatsoever to back up their claims about vitamin C. None. Not a bit. ZERO.

          30. Disgusting! Humphries may be one of the biggest quacks out there. The bs she posts on her FB page should be criminal. The fact that you even reference her to support you post invalidates anything you have to say, as if anyone needed an excuse.

          31. “Please see the many physicians I quoted who said that pertussis had become much milder and that the dangerous vaccine should not be routinely given.”
            You are a pathological LIAR.

            Professor Miller has not said that “pertussis had become much milder and that the dangerous vaccine should not be routinely given.”
            She explicitly said OTHER FACTORS had led to the mortality decline and NOT a change in the severity of pertussis. She is a vaccine expert who fully supports vaccination.
            You LIED.

            Dr Strom did not say that “the dangerous vaccine should not be routinely given”.
            He questioned whether universal DTP was “always justified”.
            This concept arose because he erroneously thought it caused severe encephalopathy (a notion later disproved). He is certainly is in favour of the vaccine.
            You LIED. This is what he said about it:
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca618cb7e5b639c2f9c204c3312925098ae1a05e77de324c10784f54c99fc0ea.jpg

            Dr Jenkinson certainly thought the disease he saw in a UK GP practice was milder than that others had reported (But then why believe him, and not the others…cherry-picking again?). He says he used the characteristic paroxysmal cough as his “clinical diagnosis” criterion, but oddly only described this in only half the patients. The revelation that he may well have been misdiagnosing kids with other, milder infections seems to have escaped his notice (only 43% cases were confirmed as pertussis positive!). And he is certainly NOT against vaccination.
            You LIED. This is his conclusion:
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f4c72513b704bca1f6f2de7338acb5e50b03a92405e790a60e2adc4185366c74.jpg

            Interestingly, Jenkinson contradicts your claims that pertussis is not worse in the unimmunised. He found that vaccinated kids with pertussis had significantly fewer symptoms including vomiting, paroxysmal coughing and apnoeic episodes, and significantly shorter duration of illness. (But you’ll just ignore that info, won’t you, you cherry-picker?)

            Dr Dlck may have said in 1974 that he was not “entirely convinced that the community benefit of whooping cough vaccination outweighs the damage which it may be doing”, but he again was erroneously commenting on the supposed encephalopathy which was allegedly due to DTP, and subsequently found not be). He also did not say that the disease was “becoming milder”.
            You LIED.

            Dr Mortimer co-authored a reference textbook on Vaccines with Dr Plotkin. Both are vaccine experts and are decidedly “pro-vaccine”. He did NOT state that: “pertussis had become much milder and that the dangerous vaccine should not be routinely given”.
            You LIED. In his book he said this:
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0bcd720156965ccaf458abe324896250d614755f10b587c70682863c9a92fd6f.jpg

            Dr Wilson appears to be an antivaccine crank.

            Dr Taranger did point out that over 3 years (1977 – 1980) Sweden had 19,000 cases of pertussis, but no deaths. He did NOT say “the dangerous vaccine should not be routinely given.” This was a period when vaccination was still fully in force, so a lower death rate is to be expected, because disease is more severe in the unvaccinated. Victoria Romanus describes how without vaccination in the next 3 years there were 3 deaths, and many complications. Dr Taranger is a pro-vaccine advocate, and has published widely on the vaccine.
            You LIED.

          32. Professor Miller said, from your quotation of her: There was some evidence that previous vaccination reduced the severity of the disease, but the vaccination programme does not cover very young children, and for them whooping cough is a dangerous disease.

            ” Some evidence” is not the same as proof, especially when Dr. Gordon Stewart was convinced that in reality there was no difference in severity of the disease in vaxed vs. unvaxed children.

            Gordon Stewart, “Vaccination Against Whooping Cough: Possible Implications for Assessment of Vaccine Efficacy,” Lancet, March 20, 1982: 74)

            “In a study comparing different aspects of pertussis in
            vaccinated and unvaccinated children, in family, school, and hospital settings during 1974 and 1975, Stewart revealed that there was no difference between the duration of illness, the severity of illness, the general incidence of whooping
            cough, or the number of primary and secondary cases of whooping cough in vaccinated and unvaccinated children.”

            Dr. Strom said in 1960: “It may be questioned whether
            universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly MILD nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.” After the epidemic in the late ’70s, with a nearly completely vaxed population in which 19,000 were diagnosed with pertussis, Sweden gave it up, both because the vaccine had proven so ineffective and because, as Dr. Victoria Romanus observed, the severe reactions to the vaccine were more than the severe cases of the disease. Ultimately it doesn’t matter whether or not the vaccine is effective: it is not needed, since the disease is now relatively mild except in a few cases among the youngest infants. Parents must be apprised of the facts and be allowed to choose: no one should be coerced into causing asthma, autism, or SIDS in his child because the “greater good” cares more about newborn infants. Several states in Australia gave up their program offering a free Tdap for adults to cocoon the youngest babies because they said the science had shown that it didn’t work. It doesn’t work, the vaccine often offers little or NO protection to those who get it, and those who get it OFTEN transmit it to others, under the mistaken impression that they can’t. My baby reacted to the DTaP booster at 18 months by having her only words erased, and she was diagnosed with autism two months later. And she had already HAD pertussis at eight and nine months old, after having gotten THREE ineffective, dangerous DTaPs. One in nine American children who got the first DTaP at two months old, as is recommended, now has asthma. Among those who started the series two months later, the asthma rate is one in twenty (Manitobe study 1998). The rate of asthma among those who don’t get the pertussis vaccine is about one percent: with the pertussis vaccine over 10%. About 3500 Americans die of asthma every year. If they had not gotten the pertussis vaccine, they would not have died.
            You picked one phrase from one of the doctors I quoted, another phrase from another, ignoring what you didn’t want to take notice of. Cherry picking, nicht wahr? But that’s what you were forced to do to try to have to keep from recognizing that what they were saying in toto was that the disease has become much milder than it used to be, causing few deaths, and the vaccine is dangerous.

          33. “what they were saying in toto was that the disease has become much
            milder than it used to be, causing few deaths, and the vaccine is
            dangerous.”

            You are pathetic, Cia.
            I showed you that none of your “doctors” said the vaccine was dangerous, and none of them said that pertussis was itself becoming less virulent – they merely noted that the disease overall was milder because of other factors – for instance because many of the recent cases are in the vaccinated, in whom it is milder because they have been vaccinated.

            Even your own source Dr Jenkinson found that. You can dismiss the evidence that this is the case as “not proof”, but for someone like you who claims repeatedly that vaccines cause all manner of ill when there is no scientific evidence, I must applaud you on your fickle nature.

            To sum up, in toto you are a pathological liar.

          34. Sir Graham Wilson, the senior doctor responsible for the control of infectious diseases in England and Wales, said: ‘Whooping cough has now such a low death rate that the
            advisability of continuing vaccination against this disease must be seriously questioned, particularly when there is reason to believe that vaccination has played little part in bringing about its fall.’ (Wilson GS, “The Hazards of Immunisaton, the Athlone Press 1967, 281)

          35. “In 1977, Dr. Stewart reported that pertussis declined in
            incidence and mortality in Glasgow, during epidemic years from 1900-1957 (i.e.,before the vaccine was introduced in the UK). (Gordon Stewart, “Vaccination Against Whooping Cough: Possible Implications for Assessment of Vaccine Efficacy,” The Lancet, March 20, 1982: 668)

            “In a study comparing different aspects of pertussis in
            vaccinated and unvaccinated children, in family, school, and hospital settings during 1974 and 1975, Stewart revealed that there was no difference between the duration of illness, the severity of illness, the general incidence of whooping cough, or the number of primary and secondary cases of whooping cough in vaccinated and unvaccinated children.” (ibid 74)

          36. “…mortality rates from pertussis were declining even
            before the advent of the vaccine. Indeed, in the US, infant mortality from pertussis declined 70% from 1900-04 to 1935-9. In England and Wales, infant mortality from pertussis declined approximately 90% from 1918 to 1948 before widespread use of the vaccine. ..The decline in pertussis-related mortality prior to the institution of widespread immunization has led some researchers to argue that pertussis vaccine is currently superfluous and that it should be abandoned except for high-risk groups.” (Mortimer, “Pertussis Vaccine,” 82, in Plotkin and Mortimer Vaccines)

          37. Dr. Douglas Jenkinson, 1995, “Most cases of whooping cough are relatively mild. Such cases are difficult to diagnose without a high index of suspicion because doctors are unlikely to hear the characteristic cough, which may be the only symptom. Parents can be reassured that a serious outcome is unlikely. Adults also get whooping cough, especially from their children, and get the same symptoms as children.”

          38. Dr. Justus Strom, 1960, “It may be questioned whether
            universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.”

            “Is Universal Vaccination Against Pertussis Always Justified?”
            Justus Ström
            The British Medical Journal
            Vol. 2, No. 5207 (Oct. 22, 1960), pp. 1184-1186

            “During the 1960s and 1970s, two leading European
            physicians, Dr. Justus Strom of the Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Stockholm, Sweden, and Dr. Gordon Stewart, professor of community medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, began to question the use of mass vaccine programs in their respective countries, especially when the natural course of pertussis HAD BECOME MILDER in both countries, and the death rate from pertussis was very small. In addition, the neurological complications from the vaccine seemed to be more widespead than anyone imagined.” (What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization, Jamie Murphy, p 72-3)

          39. Grace, keep an eye on these. They’re disappearing almost as soon as I put them up. I’m going to click them all back in again, but the malefactor is just going to click them out again.

          40. The first time it happened was last March, a few weeks after the you-know-what gang was hired to defend vaccines online everywhere. I think it is were the site, it would say “Removed” on them. Those taken down like this are still in our Disqus profiles and can be restored by finding them there and clicking on “View in discussion.” It is disturbing that there are you-know-whats out there devoting themselves to keeping from public view the facts on how dangerous the vaccines are and how relatively mild the childhood diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and pertussis are these days, since, if people knew, they would stop getting the vaccines for our children, and we would be able once again to build a healthy population of children. Depends on whether you profit from pharma largesse or whether you care about children’s (and adults’ health).

          41. Professor George D-ck, wrote in 1974, “I am not entirely convinced that the community benefit of whooping cough vaccination outweighs the damage which it may be doing.” (-ick G, “Convulsive Disorders in Young Children,” Proceedings of the Royal Society Society of Medicine, 1974, 67; 371-2) (in The Truth About Vaccines, Dr. Richard Halvorsen, p 105)

          42. At this time, a couple of my comments with citations are still up, but there were more of them. Please click on my Disqus profile to see them, and do not demand that I somehow glue them onto this thread from which they are being illegitimately removed.

      2. As I said the other day, cia, the more you push this dangerous garbage, the more I’ll push back because it’s dangerous for parents to think you have a clue what you’re talking about.

        Measles has long been considered a serious disease. See this:
        “Measles is an acute viral infectious disease. References to measles can be found from as early as the 7th century. The disease was described by the Persian physician Rhazes in the10th century as “more to be dreaded than smallpox.” ”
        https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/meas.pdf
        Do you know when the 10th century was? And there is NO evidence that it’s become any milder over the ensuing 10 centuries and into this one.

        Pertussis has also been a serious disease, killing more pre-vax even than measles. “Before pertussis vaccines became widely available in the 1940s, about
        200,000 children got sick with it each year in the United States and
        about 9,000 died as a result of the infection.”
        https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/about/faqs.html
        The population of the US in 1930 was about 123,000,000, just over 1/3 of what it is today. This means we could see about 25,000 deaths a year due to pertussis if those death rates continued. You once said you could “live with” 500 measles deaths; could you live with 25,000 pertussis deaths? Would you just say “who cares” like you do about other diseases?

        Why do you think anyone pursued developing vaccines for these so-called “minor” diseases? If pertussis really were like a bad cold, as some of the anti-vax literature says, who really would care about a vaccine?

        Vaccines are about the most low-risk medical procedure one can get. Diseases worth taking the risk of a vaccine for? ALL the VPDs.

        Please get some psychiatric help cia, you need it badly!

          1. There’s nothing funny about death, especially the death of children from VPDs. You have a warped sense of humor, and I see no response to the actual post, which is backed up by links. Typical AV.

          2. Like I said only a bully would say something like that. I’m not anti-anything like you suggest. However I am pro information. I do like the truth. You are not spreading the truth you’re spreading complete lies. Vaccine injuries are not rare and deaths from vaccines are not rare. In fact more children died of vaccines last year than from the measles that you’re so scared about. they don’t save lives there for prevention only it’s a big what if. I had the measles as a child. I survived it. I have the chickenpox too, survived that. My child had pertussis and he survived it. You need to actually read the other side of the spectrum instead of your own agenda. It’s clear to me that you don’t care about the ones that have actually been harmed or died from a vaccine because you’re not talking about real issues you’re only talking about things that are not actually happening.

          3. “more children died of vaccines last year than from the measles that you’re so scared about”

            Name one child that died from the measles vaccine last year.

            If you like the truth, this should be easy..

          4. Pointless to do so with you myopic minded! As above, ‘there are none so blind as those who will not see!’

          5. LOL, the “bully” card.

            You’re lying. There was one measles death, and NO deaths that could be attributed to measles vaccine. Reports to VAERS do not imply causality. We went over this once before.

          6. You’re lying, Katia! Intimidation is part of the propaganda process, even down to taking away a child’s education to force parents against their will, into consent for vax!

            And ‘there are none so blind as those who will not see!’

        1. More psychobabble and erred paper diagnosis from those who have to stoop to the use of insulting platitudes regarding mental illness!

          1. I’m not making fun of people with mental illness. I seriously think cia has lost contact with reality, calling diseases that have been known for centuries as dangerous diseases mild, thinking they’re getting even milder, recommending treatments for people when she has no health care background whatsoever, saying she can “live with” a certain number of deaths, saying it would be wonderful if we quit vaccinating and these diseases all came back, etc. I do have some background in psychiatric nursing.

          2. What does having a background in psychiatric nursing have anything to do with having knowledge about vaccinations? And I’m laughing at your BS. Don’t make it about dead children. That’s what a bully does! The death of any child is not funny, including the ones who died from vaccines and the ones who have been injured by vaccines,and it’s not rare like you’re making it out to be.

          3. I brought that up to say why I think a certain poster is mentally ill. I worked in maternal/child health for about 40 years and gave many vaccinations as did the agencies I worked for. The absolute WORST I saw was a kid who experienced uncontrollable sneezing after a chickenpox shot. He was treated with Benadryl and observed and was fine. That’s out of probably 1,000,000 vaccines that either I or someone else at my workplace gave.

          4. I have extensive background in psychiatry; it’s NOT science, Katia! And I know cia.

            We all need to live with a certain amount of death. Cia didn’t write the codex for the universe!

            Stop trying to use an erred internet paper diagnosis without any merit, to advance your pov for medical fascism!

          5. Time spent in mental institutions is not what one generally considers “extensive background in psychiatry ”

            Just so you know.

          6. What a creepy and nasty comment. I don’t think anyone thinks much of you for that. Shows what sort of person you are.

          7. To be honest, I don’t care what some ignorant antivax hag from Melbourne, Australia thinks, Mrs. Harvey.

        2. Where are the double blind placebo controlled studies or the vaccinated unvaccinated studies – there are almost none and those that have been done have tiny unvaccinated cohorts. Where are the comparative studies of the immune systems of the vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The so called science is highly deficient – you cannot call it a low risk procedure without proper science and long term comparative studies.

          1. It is not considered ethical to use unvaccinated cohorts in trials. All vaccines are compared with another vaccine. This is called concomitant studies so double blind trials before going on to market is untruth. Also you post the usual gish gallop of studies which are easily proven to be worth less than toilet paper.

            Re your PHILIPPINE study

            This study was funded by “Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization” and retrospectively picked a small region in a Philippines with only 85 vaccinated kids born in 1984. Google the study – Guess they didn’t pay the researcher enough money to at least make it look credible. It is a joke. For a start the number of vaccines kids received in 1984 was much less than they receive today. Also wealthy families are far more likely to receive medical care, better education and vaccinations. Malnutrition is rife in the Philippines and poorer families who receive less medical care, poorer education and fewer vaccinations would very likely score lower in mental tests. This is a rubbish study and sets a standard for the others your have listed.

            Your KIGGS study:

            Firstly, even though the sample size was extremely large, the unvaccinated represented a very small fraction of it, 94 children,which makes it impossible to do any meaningful statistics on things such as autism which has a prevalence rate of roughly 1 in 110. Secondly, it is possible that at least some of the children for whom no record of vaccination existed might have still received a vaccine which went unrecorded. Thirdly, a lot of the data was based on a survey, which relied on parent’s memories, thus it is possible that prevalence rates may have been under, or over, reported. Fourthly, the survey did not ask for date of disease onset, therefore some vaccinated children could have gotten sick before being vaccinated and still be included in the vaccinated prevalence data.

            As for all your FLU studies:

            Cochrane Review 2012 had this to say about industry studies of the flu vaccine.

            “If immunisation in children is to be recommended as a public health policy, large-scale studies assessing important outcomes, and directly comparing vaccine types are urgently required. The degree of scrutiny needed to identify all global cases of potential harms is beyond the resources of this review. This review includes trials funded by industry. An earlier systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007 found industry-funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size. Studies funded from public sources were significantly less likely to report conclusions favourable to the vaccines. The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and conclusions of this review should be interpreted in the light of this finding.”

        3. Something like a logical debate on vaccine safety is dangerous? Something is not dangerous simply because an astroturfer proclaims it to be dangerous.”AIR IS DANGEROUS” said the shill.

          1. There’s no need for a logical debate because there is no “other side”. This isn’t like “do you prefer thick crust or thin for your pizza”, it’s more like, “is the earth round or flat”. That said, anyone who wants to claim that vaccines are unnecessary needs to have some contact with reality. You can’t go around saying the diseases vaccines protect against are “mild and getting milder”. That’s poppycock, to use a word that won’t offend Grace’s sensitivities.

          2. Like I said, all vaccines, for all people, at all times, in all quantities, at any age with no safety studies, or you think the world is flat. LOL. No you are not a paid shill.

          3. BLOG BLOG BLOG Outta my face with your nonsense. I have thoroughly proven to you that vaccines cause autism, you have been out debated through the ground to the earths core. You choose not to accept the simple facts. Or you are just a paid commenter.

          4. You have proven nothing! The vast preponderance of the evidence says that vaccines do NOT cause autism.

            And when you run out of anything scientific to say, you name call.

          5. Well actually she said school immunization requirements are as American as Apple pie, I agree that’s why we have the highest rates of autism.

            Dorit Reiss

            ciaparker2

            10 days ago

            A. So you support the language above? That’s what you are saying?

            B. You don’t have a human right to send an unvaccinated child to school and risk other people’s children.

            C.
            The Nuremberg code, applicable to experiments, is not relevant to
            vaccines, that are tested. And children don’t have a choice either way.
            It’s the parent who chooses to leave them at risk of disease.

            D. I
            think the response to the referendum and attempt to recall Senator Pan
            is clear indication that the vast majority in California supports making
            schools safer from diseases, or at least does not oppose it.

            To
            remind you, school immunization requirements exist in every state. They
            go back to the 19th century, and are as American as apple pie – because
            your freedoms do not extend to infecting others with preventable
            diseases.

          6. When you compare injecting children with being as American as apple pie there is definitely something not right with you.

          7. That’s not what Dorit said and you know it. You AVs are so intellectually dishonest, and every other kind of dishonest, too.

      3. Not only are they dangerous but the bacteria they are supposed to prevent are mutating. Without natural immunity which is life long the population is becoming vulnerable. Think of antibiotics that have been overused and given like aspirin. They are now becoming ineffective. Vaccines are also causing mutations and there is no effective vaccine in sight.

        What the New England Journal of Medicine letter states is that doctors have found strains of B. pertussis that do not contain pertactin, therefore, our vaccines are not effective against them.

        Pertactin-negative pertussis bacteria have already been identified in Japan, France and Finland. Researchers in France have begun more regular testing for these strains of bacteria in order to monitor bacterial mutations. In an upcoming article in Emerging Infectious Diseases, these same researchers report that the proportion of pertactin negative B. pertussis samples compared to the total number of samples collected each year has increased from two percent in 2005 to fourteen percent in 2012.

        This new resistance to the pertussis vaccine may be why whooping cough cases have been increasing. Experts also believe that increased awareness about whooping cough has led to reporting of more cases.

        While this news is significant, it is not entirely surprising. Several other pathogens have developed resistance to antibiotics. Both tuberculosis and gonorrhea, for example, have developed resistance to many of the drugs we use to treat them, which make these diseases far more difficult and expensive to treat.

        Until recently, most doctors in the United States have not been checking pertussis samples for vaccine resistance. The authors of these findings recommend that more testing should be done across the United States “to determine whether our finding is a local event or represents a more widespread shift in B. pertussis strains.” They argue that this research will be key in the development of more effective vaccines.

        – See more at: https://www.healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/first-cases-vaccine-resistant-whooping-cough-found-united-states-2813#sthash.ETDOBZA1.dpuf

      4. You’re full of crappie and so are those 6 who upvoted you. There is no scientific evidence to support such tripe.

      5. “Vaccines are without doubt the most dangerous medical intervention ever developed”
        Cia is without doubt the most deranged antivax propagandist ever to post on disqus.

        “What VPD do you think is so serious and so common, so untreatable by
        other means, that it’s worth taking the huge risk of the vaccine for it?”

        Ummm…….Measles?
        Incidence: Universal (without vaccination)
        Severity: Moderate in developed countries (one in 2000 die, 20% hospitalised, 10% pneumonia), and very serious in developing countries (2-5% die)
        Vaccine risk: Minimal. MMR causes serious reactions in less than one case per million shots. Not shown to be linked to autism or other serious disease.
        Treatability: Antiviral drugs are ineffective, emphasising the importance of vaccination as a prevention measure. Vitamin A may help reduce severity but only in malnourished, vitamin deficient populations.

    3. This woman Dorit Reiss :
      A: Lives in California, not Colorado
      B: Has huge conflicts of interest regarding mandatory vaccines as she holds stock in GSK.

      1. So what? Anti-vaxx is bad science and stupidity. Owning stock does not make you immune from stupidly. She invested in a valuable business which helps billions of people. That is socially aware and business smart.

        1. So you say. And there are hundreds of other MD’s, biochemists and toxicologists throughout the history of vaccination that say differently, and there is actual science to back that up. It does not matter; you believe what you want. You want to believe in vaccines, do it. You want to believe in unicorns, fine. I will not comply with mandatory vaccines, and if you force me, then you are violating my human rights. It is as simple as that. And violators of human rights always get what they deserve.

          1. You have just expressed my favorite anti-vaxxers delusion: widespread support.That is a joke.

            You may be able to get a list together of MD’s, biochemists and toxicologists of over 100 if you include them back to the days of leeches and blood letting. You could not produce a list of over living anti-vaxxers MDs right now if you tried. Now consider that there are millions of MDs that think vaccines are great.

            You, anti-vaxxer, are the fringe of the fringe. At best, number show 3% of people opting out of vaccines. There are more 9/11 truthers, alien hunters, and bigfoot hunters that anti-vaxxers by a wide margin. Other fringe loons think you are crazy. Most of the anti-vaxxers ranks are conspiracy theorists, and natural health nuts.
            .
            The last argument you should ever make is that numbers are on your side.

          2. The last such list of anti-vax doctors I saw contained some that were dead! There are about 1,000,000 active physicians in the US. Even 100 anti-vax doctors are a drop in the bucket. a

          3. Following the majority is not a very good scientific model. If you think for a second that a small number of dedicated individuals can not change the course of history, you are mistaken. In fact, that is the only way it has been done. “Everyone says the earth is flat, so it must be true”. “The sun revolves around the earth, everyone knows that”. Cigarettes don’t cause cancer; all the science says so”. “Viox is safe and effective”.
            Your argument, and logic, is flawed. It does not matter what laws you pass to violate other’s human rights: I will not comply. And who will you find to carry out your human rights violations? Will medics and nurses be tasked with going door to door? Will cops hold me down and forcefully vaccinate me? No one will do these things. So if you feel so strongly about it, just go knocking on doors holding needle and see how that works out for you.

          4. First you tell us there are all these “doctors” who say vaccines are harmful. Then when I point out they’re a drop in the bucket, you change your tune!

          5. 1% of the population started the American revolution. 3% won it.
            Over 100 CURRENT doctors and scientists talk about vaccines:

          6. You have to make up numbers to be delusional.
            .
            “the consensus of historians is that between 40 and 45 percent of the white population in the Thirteen Colonies supported the Patriots’ cause”

            “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)

            If you had a list of over 100 doctors you would post it.

            Tetyana obukhanych is a Quack that has not done a single bit of original research in her life.

            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/appeal-to-false-authority-who-is-tetyana-obukhanych/

            You are simply delusional.

    4. The dangers of vaccines are real – over 3 billion paid out in the vaccine court. However the benefits are questionable. The ever increasing schedule is causing auto-immune disease in our children for what benefit? they are not even effective. How many pertussis vaccines are they going to demand since the current schedule is not working….

      Of the 33 children in the outbreak with pertussis, which included both students and siblings of the preschoolers, 28 of them had received three or more pertussis vaccinations, and 23 had received four or more vaccinations, the investigators found. They also estimated the vaccine effectiveness rate among all the preschool students to be 45 percent.

      The highest rates for whooping cough in this outbreak were in the preschool classrooms with 3-year-old students, the epidemiology staff told Live Science. This supports the concept of “waning immunity,” or the idea that the vaccine’s protection declines over time, they said.

      The 3-year-old group has not yet received the vaccine dose that is recommended at 4-6 years of age. Waning immunity has also been seen with the pertussis vaccine in 7- to 10-year-old children, the epidemiologists said.

      https://www.livescience.com/53359-whooping-cough-outbreak-raises-questions-vaccine-effectiveness.html

      1. This is a problematic and inaccurate set of claims.

        A. The speaker is using the vaccine court as evidence that vaccines are unsafe. But look at the number of compensation in vaccine court. Between 2006-2014 it was much less than one per million doses – and most of those were in settlements, where people didn’t have to show causation: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/statisticsreport.pdf

        So the speaker’s chosen tool shows the opposite: that serious harms from vaccines, as the science shows, are very rare.

        B. Vaccines don’t cause autoimmune diseases. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/111/3/653

        C. To claim that vaccines are ineffective the speaker picks the pertussis vaccine – one of our least effective ones. And even there – the rates of infection are dramatically higher among the unvaccinated, who are at 9-23 times the risk of getting pertussis compared to the vaccinated. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/123/6/1446

        Even for the least effective vaccine, the vaccine offers substantial protection compared to not vaccinating – and it also makes the disease milder.

        1. You claim ..”B. Vaccines don’t cause autoimmune diseases.”

          Yet two autoimmune diseases are on the vaccine injury table, and another autoimmune disease Guillian Barre Syndrome is the most frequent vaccine injury

          Vaccine Injury Table-V. Vaccines containing measles virus (e.g., MMR, MR, M) A. Thrombocytopenic purpura

          IV. Vaccines containing rubella virus (e.g., MMR, MR, R) A. Chronic arthritis

          and have received compensation in court..

          5/28/2014–Influenza Vaccine, Varicella Vaccine—Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura—Case No. 10-517V—$75,000

          This study claims there is a relationship…

          THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

          VACCINATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT

          OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

          “Another example of confirmed autoimmune adverse effects after vaccination is idiopathic thrombocytopenia, which might arise after administration of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. The reported
          frequency of clinically apparent idiopathic thrombocytopenia after this
          vaccine is around one in 30,000 vaccinated children”

          From the same study…

          “Several vaccines were associated in the literature with the onset of Guillain-Barré syndrome, but influenza vaccine was the most frequently cited. The estimated attributable risk of vaccine-related Guillain-Barré syndrome in the adult population was just less than one case per 100,000 vaccinations.”

          https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268352524_The_relationship_between_vaccination_and_the_development_of_autoimmune_diseases

          “Statistics released in March, 2014 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed that the flu vaccine remains the top vaccine causing injuries which are being compensated through vaccine court, and that Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a crippling disease, remains the top injury being awarded compensation due to the seasonal flu vaccine.

          The report shows that from 11/16/2013 through 2/15/2014, there were 128 total cases filed in vaccine court and 52 cases were compensated. 40 judgements adopted settlements”

          1. Doris needs to take her blinkers off – but I guess she can’t because she is paid to refute every reasonable argument whether or not it makes sense or not.

          2. You’re using an example of a swine flu vaccine from the 70s as evedince that current vaccines are bad? You failed to also include that this vaccine increased the risk of developing Gullian-Barré by an additional 1 case in 1,000,000 people. Hmmmm… That doesn’t seem like much of a risk, does it?

            You also left out that, concerning the rubella/ measles vaccine, the risk of developing idiopathic thrombocytopenia after natural rubella or measles is 100 time greater than after the vaccine. That seems like an important detail…. Doesn’t it?

          3. No, the GBS cases that were compensated are from recently. How much risk is there for developing GBS when the flu vaccine was only 18% effective like last year? The most important detail is Prof Reiss claimed that vaccines don’t cause autoimmune diseases yet we can see that is certainly not true.
            What else has she been telling parents that is also not true???

          4. Considering the widespread adoption of vaccines and that the increased chance to contract some acute auto immune condition (not necessarily clinical disease) above the chance to contract the same condition naturally is negliable, I’d say he was right. They don’t cause auto immune disease. In fact in some cases it appears they prevent them.

          5. Tell that to the over 40,000 kids in India now paralyzed by the polio vaccine itself. In fact, the gov. of India is suing the Gates foundation for damages their vaccines have cause the children of India.

          6. You probably need to lay off Natural News when discussing world issues.

            You’re referring to cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis caused by non-polio enteroviruses . But I know… that doesn’t really help promote your little cult. So, why bother giving all the facts… right?

            You should try & keep up with this whole “India suing Bill Gates” stuff. They sued over not following specific protocols of a drug trial. But the Indian courts already ruled that they did not breech any laws. It’s kind of a dead issue.

          7. “How much risk is there for developing GBS”

            1 in a million, possibly. GBS is compensated because of a study that shows there was a higher risk from the 1976 swine flu vaccine; however

            “Since the 1976 influenza season, numerous studies have been conducted to evaluate whether other influenza vaccines were associated with GBS. In most published studies, no association was found, but one large study published in the New England Journal of Medicine evaluated the 1992-93 and 1993-94 influenza seasons and suggested approximately one additional case of GBS out of 1 million persons vaccinated,”

            What else have you been posting that is also not true?

          8. And how would you feel if that 1 in 1,000,000 were your child? Are you willing to sacrifice your child for the greater good? What gives you the right to make that decision over another? How unethical. How disgusting.

          9. The right to make public health decisions belongs to the Legislature.

            That is actually the most ethical solution.

          10. I have inalienable human rights endowed by my creator. You can not take them. And any laws that you pass that violate them are null and void according to our constitution. Try as you will, you will fail. Tyrants always do,

          11. Yup. It was decided that mandatory vaccines are a violation of a persons human and constitutional rights in NY. And your point is?

          12. You did not answer the question: Would you sacrifice your child for the greater good? Would you be OK if your kid were paralyzed for the rest of his life due to a flu shot for the “safety” of the herd?

          13. I choose to vaccinate my child because I know the risk from the diseases we can prevent are much, much greater.

            The odds of him being paralyzed by a flu shot, infinitesimally small.

          14. Really. And you get your “knowledge” from science conducted by criminals (like Poul Thorsen), funded by people with financial incentives and conducted by people with conflicts of interest. There is not one independent scientific study that proves vaccines to be safe and effective. Not one. And you think that you hold the moral authority to mandate risky medical procedures onto me that violate my human rights, based of fraudulent science? You don’t. And the minute you DO do that, then it is on buddy, and there is not a cave or rock large enough for you to hide.

          15. “you think that you hold the moral authority to mandate …”

            No, the right belongs to the Legislature. Also, despite all your ravings, you have to show how school vaccination requirements are a human rights violation. It’s laughable.

          16. You won’t be laughing when that angry father down the road has his healthy unvaccinated kid forcefully vaccinated and injured because of YOU. He will pitch-fork your tyrant tail onto a 3 legged stool with a rope around your neck.

          17. How would you feel if your child got GBS from flu disease-a far more likely possibility. “Studies suggest that it is more likely that a person will get GBS after
            getting the flu than after vaccination. It is important to keep in mind
            that severe illness and death are associated with influenza, and
            vaccination is the best way to prevent influenza infection and its
            complications.”

          18. And what if that 1 out of a million were your child? Why do you have the right to dictate mandates with Russian Roullette statistics? What if you are wrong, and it is 2 out of a million? 5 out of a million? 100? 1000? What number is acceptable for you? How many dead children are acceptable for you to justify your greater good utopia? You are a monster.

          19. WebMD Health News

            “Feb. 26, 2015 — It’s no secret this year’s flu shots didn’t work as well as doctors had hoped. But the news got worse Thursday when the CDC revised its estimates of the flu vaccine’s effectiveness downward even further, from 23% to 18%.”

        2. https://youtu.be/9TAEVV3gGHI. Here is a brief video explaining how the vaccine injury compensation fund works. And why there has been limited cases seen in that joke of a system. Including the statute of limitations. That states three years of onset of symptoms even if you don’t know what’s going on until it’s too late to file. Two years if they kill you. Not to mention the fact that the pharmaceutical industry never provide discovery. It is not a court room it’s not a civil court. There is no judge there is no jury. You said vaccine court. It’s not a court in any sense of the word.

          1. So contact your congressional representatives. Prof Reiss has suggested that perhaps the statute of limitations should be revised for childhood events and that the caps, set in 1987, should also be reexamined. I agree.

            You should really read Prof Reiss’s article on the rules and limitations of the NVICP: https://skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program-facts/ , where she discusses the program at length.

            Sorry it’s not a YouTube video, but you know, we do the best we can.

      2. Judith, I am so disappointed. I asked you very nicely to estimate the losses from vaccine-preventable diseases before vaccines were developed. I thought you disappeared for a few days to research your answer, but here you are, without it.

        45% effectiveness for the vaccine? That means unvaxed are about twice as likely to get sick. Not great, but not worthless. Are you asking scientists to improve the vaccine, or just hoping to fool people with the Nirvana Fallacy (Everything not Perfect is Useless)?

        1. Sorry to disappoint you Andrew but this thread has gone wild and hard to keep up with. Any estimate about losses from vaccine preventable diseases before vaccines is pure speculation and holds no scientific water. I have posted many times graphs which show that deaths from most diseases were declining before vaccines were introduced. This is because good hygiene, better nutritional knowledge, better sewerage were all contributing. Also fewer deaths means the diseases were getting milder. This happens with natural herd immunity Scarlett fever went away without vaccines. In the third world you will get deaths because poor nutrition, bad hygiene make vaccines less effective anyway and disease is rife under those conditions. If Bill Gates would put his money into better water and sewerage we would see a huge improvement in health outcomes.

          1. Better sewerage is associated with worse polio, although it isn’t clear it is a causal relationship.

            Your refusal to acknowledge or estimate the losses to disease is cowardice.

            Lurkers: Notice the antivax obsession with hygiene? All the handwashing and toilet paper in the world won’t protect you from measles; it’s airborne.

          2. Interesting the IPV does not prevent someone from being infectious like the OPV does. Where are all the cases in America? However in the Third world polio can be caught from the polio vaccine and there is a direct link with non-polio acute flaccid paralysis.

            Lets remember that there is a direct association between the number of polio vaccines given and the twice as deadly non polio acute flaccid paralysis. You can claim this is purely coincidence but there is no doubting the correlation.

            It was hoped that following polio eradication, immunisation could be stopped. However the synthesis of polio virus in 2002, made eradication impossible. It is argued that getting poor countries to expend their scarce resources on an impossible dream over the last 10 years was unethical. Furthermore, while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated. The principle of primum-non-nocere was violated. The authors suggest that the huge bill of US$ 8 billion spent on the programme, is a small sum to pay if the world learns to be wary of such vertical programmes in the future.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22591873

          3. The authors resent that Western money went to the polio campaign and not general medicine like their hospital in Nowheresville. Maybe that would have gotten better bang for the buck. But the “extra” NPAFP is neither coincidence, nor really correct. No one was tallying NPAFP until the vaccination campaigns came along. No one had a really good handle on polio incidence either, but estimates run to 300,000 per year. That would make 47,000 at least 85% better.

            Primum non nocere brings us back to the antivaxer certainty that their Badass Immune Systems™ would have defeated polio and smallpox without breaking a sweat, but weaker version in a syringe can devastate them. Perhaps the absence of wild polio and smallpox explains the empty boasts.

    5. Automaton, comes to my thought as you speak. This is what’s going on in our country currently with their children. This wasn’t happening when I was a child. Something is going drastically wrong

      1. Nope, automaton is you, Jenny! Now vaccines are responsible for obesity? Way to go, making fun of a chubby child like that. You AVs always show your true colors eventually.

    6. “By tightening school immunization requirements Colorado will be offering…” ME MORE MONEY!!! I got STOCK in that stuff!

        1. As if a snap- shot of the stock market shows how mandatory vaccinations effect a stock. Whatever. The argument could be made that Dorit’s fervor has been doubled BECAUSE her stock is down, and is trying to boost it. You are a fool. And you seem really curious as to who I am. I will tell you who I am: I am that quiet father down the road with an 8 year old vaccine damaged boy, and a 4 year old unvaccinated, healthy girl. I will be the one hunting you down when my healthy daughter is forcefully vaccinated and harmed against my wishes because of your mandates. I will be the one sitting on a jury of your peers for the human rights violations you have promoted. I will be the one putting the noose around your neck. I will be the one that survives your tyranny and tells your tyrannical history to your prodigy, and I will be the one that moves forward, not you. Ideas are bulletproof, and tyrants always get what they deserve. And even if I am just 1%, I represent millions. And we are smarter then you.

          1. You know, whenever someone shows you to be lying, you just twist it around to make it sound like you weren’t. Pretty sleazy, little b brian.

          2. I would suggest to anyone reading your exchanges on this thread to read what I have had to say, and what you have had to say, and come to their own conclusions about who is a lying, sleazy twister of facts and words. I am pretty sure you top the list lady.

          3. Is your son autistic? Just curious. I do have empathy for sick kids. My own daughter had cancer, fortunately survived.

      1. You seem to be very frightened of black helicopters. You keep mentioning them. Where do you live? Why are you so afraid of a black helicopter?

        1. You didn’t you get your tin foil hat on before the black helicopter took over you mind. They have brain washed you now!!!

          1. I am not sure what decade you are from, but no one uses tin foil anymore. Aluminum is all the rage. It is even in the vaccines!

          2. I’m not sure what planet you are from but everybody knows what a tin foil hatter is and you are one of them.

            You also don’t know that there is probably more Aluminum in your bloodstream right now than there is in a vaccine.The earth is over 8% aluminum and its in your food, air, hair, blood and brain. You are submerged in aluminum right now.

            Learn something new, tin foil hatter.

      2. Chinook me baby! These U.S. choppers and the men and women they carry, fight and stand for our precious freedom!

    1. This is exactly how things work and it’s unfortunate. They lie to us they steal from use the hurt us. They don’t give a crap, because like she said “they are not held liable for damages” they don’t have a reason to change. Anybody with a brain should see that as a giant red flag.

        1. For the benefit of those who have wasted less time than I have in the dingier corners of Conspiracy Planet (especially our non-USA guests):

          I admit, I didn’t bother to run the video. The general idea that the US Government is now a corporation is that we went bankrupt when the USA went off the Gold Standard in 1933. Adherents usually believe that this corporation doesn’t have any right to levy income taxes, or at the least, there is a magic formula by which one becomes a sovereign citizen exempt from taxes. This lunacy is well-represented in the Oregon takeover clown show. This may explain why brian is anonymous. It also fits in with his bizarre belief that Dorit Reiss is legally obligated to tell us about Pharma stocks in her portfolio. Almost needless to say, if Dorit wanted, she could create a pseudonym and post whatever she wanted. But right-wing people of brian’s ilk think there are magic incantations (that they alone know) that require the Lizard People who run the government to reveal themselves, and which at the same time protect the Patriot from their malevolent power. By stating the right words, brian forces Dorit to reveal her portfolio.

          One of my interests in these debates is the similar illogical epistemology of Antivax, Tax Protest, and Creationists.

          I would be remiss if I fail to mention that these people tend to dwell on the number of Jews in the banking industry.

          1. I particularly like their obsession with the gold fringed flag in courtrooms and their bizarre idea that through, as you say, a series of special incantations they can get the entire court – judge included, to flee the building in terror of their sovrun powerz. The accused sovrun citizen does have to be wearing a striped shirt and white bell bottoms and needs to do a sailor’s hornpipe while reciting the incantation against corporate maritime law for it to work.

            Here’s a sovrun bicycle scofflaw in court with mommy (with whom he still lives) and finding out how well the magic works:

          2. “I don’t have a license. My person does.”

            Should have tazed him right there.

            Bag ’em and tag ’em, boys.

          3. Ima save that one to my youtube favs, reality. Moral of the story being “Don’t f*ck widda bailiffs.” Bailifff Smit (the young guy) treated him with all due respect, that is, none.

            On a more serious note, this and related movements gave us the likes of terrorist Timothy McVeigh (OKC bombing–didn’t they catch him or his accomplice because of the stupid cardboard “license plates?”) and Y’allQuaeda in OR, now proposing an alternate “court system” of their own. First in the 90s, then ramping up again circa 2008 forward. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

            For more: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/antigovernment

            Sound to me as if where these folk intersect with some in the antivaccine “movement” is along the lines of “Big gubmint can’t make me, nya nya nya na na!”

          4. Sure is!
            You should know, that one that was set up on those mothering sites to push the vaccines really has split personality. They seem to be having a field day now they all know who the real Annabel is. Can’t believes no vetting was done on that whompingwillow/teacozy. Would have though respectability would have mattered a dad more. Cringeworthy when the one pushing vaccines still sleeps with a stuffed animal. Ouch!
            The hens are going crazy about her oversharing gaffes. Guess that is what you get when you have a vaccine pusher that likes to drink and post personally emails from Dorit. She was easily outted, such sloppy posting. All that work to make her appear as a regular mom, except for all her odd fetishes. Posting private messages that can be traces, what a winner! How is Dorit taking all this?

  136. “FREEBIRD’ Aurora! That got your attention! 😉

    But I digress for a brief heads up on these pesky little impostor bugs who’ve invaded your lovely commentary.

    So far the phony AutismDadd has been the most troublesome! However the suz norkan faker [with comment count of only 25 and NOT over 2250 like mine] has gotten their immature jollies by upvoting me under an illegal parody acct. of suz norkan, making it look as though I’ve upvoted myself and my opponents. I don’t do either!

    So to show that the upvotes have been tampered with and corrupted by these puerile posting impersonators, wherever you see two suz norkan upvotes under one comment block, this will alert you to the deceit of these sophomoric and degenerate miscreants! I’m only pointing out the ones I happen to note, but likely won’t get all of the corrupted upvotes.

    Please use your own good judgement and discretion! If the upvotes shows suz indicating in favor of herself or her opponent, it’s probably a corrupted upvote by these adulterating frauds! Thank you!

    ‘One more’ and rock on, Aurora!

    1. Congrats suz! You are commenter number 8888..have you ever witnessed this much commenting on one article before?

      1. Thanks darlin’! Now I can go to bed with a smile on my face.

        I’d like to thank the academy and Aurora!

        I LOVE ya Aurora! I couldn’t have done it without you! 😉

    2. I doubt that Colorado residents care about your meta. If you have a complaint, contact the site’s mods or disqus, suz. Otherwise, you’re still interrupting the on-topic convo.

      1. That’s up to me, should I decide it worth my time to file official requests for investigation to disqus admin. merely for parody violations resulting in debased upvoting!

        However, it’s also certainly my right to alert the readers that all these childish upvotes from your partners in crime, under the ‘false flag’ of suz norkan, are in fact, perpetrated under false pretenses!

        You want me to stop interrupting the subject of the deceit and corruption from you forced vax parody acct. fabricators and your commentary tactics, to remain on the topic of you forced vax medical fascists regarding your corrupted politics and pharma propaganda, then tell your puerile pals to stop trying to intimidate commentators with their insidious and adulterated impersonations!

        But tell ’em thanks from me for all the added upvotes! I know Borings likes to count ’em! 😉

        1. “You want me to […]”
          Psychic is another of your sooper powers? Who knew?
          Seriously, suz, no one cares but you. It’s between you and the various mods. To continue to pursue it borders on . . . whatevs.

          1. Suz don’t do psychobabble! I like the term ‘intuition!’

            I didn’t write it for you perps, kflunk; but for honest readers with morals, who may question the baloney & bunk of my recent upvoting protocol!

            I knew you will still in 7th grade. No adults that I know these days frequently concedes with ‘whatevs,’ whatev THAT means! 😉

          2. You know how when children are teasing each other, the typical parent will just say “ignore them and they’ll stop”? Suz must have missed that class in intro to parenting psych. She spends more time arguing petty little drama spats than she does posting anything of any substance. That’s why people go after her – she presents them with an easy target. The kid in school will bully you until you hall of and break his nose. But whine to the teacher everyday, and it just fuels him.

            I’m not sure why I bothered to even respond to this.

  137. Okay. I give up.
    Vaccines do not cause autism.

    Autism is a behavioral diagnosis. In order to receive the diagnosis of “Autism” a child must exhibit a certain number of behaviors over a certain time frame. If he or she does not do so, the diagnosis of “autism” is not warranted.

    There is no blood test for “autism.”

    “Autism” can’t be confirmed or “ruled-out” by laboratory analysis. It’s strictly a behavioral diagnosis.

    Therefore, anything that causes physiological damage cannot directly “cause” autism.

    Ergo… vaccines cannot “cause” “autism.”

    Vaccines cause other stuff.

    Vaccines cause encephalitis.
    Vaccines cause seizures.
    Vaccines cause immune system deficiencies.
    Vaccines cause gastrointestinal problems.

    Encephalitis causes mood swings.
    Encephalitis causes extreme pain.
    Encephalitis causes inattention and impulsivity.
    Encephalitis causes aggression.
    Encephalitis causes balance problems and difficulty relating to one’s environment.

    Seizures cause mood swings.
    Seizures cause inattention and impulsivity.
    Seizures cause alterations in conciousness.

    Immune system deficiencies cause children to have more frequent bacterial infections, such as ear infections, upper respiratory infections (URIs), sinusutis, and strep infections.

    Immune system deficiencies cause children to have more frequent viral infections, such as stomatitis, “fevers of unknown origin,” “viral rashes,” hives, conjunctivitis, and gastrointestinal viruses that cause vomiting and diarrhea.

    Immune system deficiencies cause children to be more vulnerable to “everything that’s going around” and to have a tougher time getting over things than their peers.

    Gastrointestinal damage from vaccines causes diarrhea.
    Gastrointestinal damage from vaccines causes nausea, reflux, vomiting, and the recently discovered “disease” now known as GERD (Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease).

    Gatrointestinal damage from vaccines causes increased vulnerability to viruses and bacteria, which leads to increased administration of antibiotics, which leads to overgrowth of pathogenic yeast.

    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to intestinal hyperpermeability (“leaky gut syndrome”).

    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to constipation.
    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to food allergies.
    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to skin eruptions, “drunken, silly behavior,” inattention and impulsivity, and cravings for bread, sugar, ice cream, milk, and carbohydrates.

    Technically, vaccines do not cause autism because techincally there is no such thing as autism.

    Vaccines cause the underlying physical conditions that result in the pain, neurological damage, immune system disorders, gastrointestinal damage, and yeast overgrowth – all of which combine to produce the behavioral symptoms that result in the “autism” diagnosis.

    Gastrointestinal damage is the most obvious result of vaccine damage.

    When a previously healthy child suddenly starts having multiple episodes of watery and extremely stinky diarrhea every day, and this happens shortly after receiving vaccinations, it is notable as a “vaccine injury.” What is not so obvious is that when the child’s gut is permanently damaged, he or she is no longer able to absorb nutrients necessary to produce neurotransmitters necessary for proper brain function. So when the child develops mood swings, sleep difficulties, and learning disabilities several months later, these issues are not recognized as being related to the vaccine injury because the initial damage occurred many months earlier.

    Please re-read the previous paragraph.

    This is why Dr. Andrew Wakefield is such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry.

    Dr. Wakefield NEVER said vaccines cause autism.
    Dr. Wakefield is a gastroenterologist. He saw a number of children with gastrointestinal problems who also happened to be diagnosed with autism. Dr. Wakefield reported his observations. He never claimed that the MMR “caused” autism. He merely reported that a number of children he had seen had BOTH gastrointestinal problems AND autism, and according to parental report, these issues developed within a short time of when the children received the MMR vaccine.

    Again… Why is Dr. Wakefield such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry?

    Hint: Not because vaccines cause autism – they don’t.

    Vaccines cause gastrointestinal damage.

    Gastrointestinal damage causes malabsorption of nutrients necessary for proper brain function.
    Malabsorption of essential nutrients causes immune system disorders, seizures, encephalopathy, etc… and THAT’s what leads to the ultimate diagnosis of “autism.”

    If Dr. Wakefield’s observations are correct, SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE will eventually draw the connection between vaccines and the domino-effect that leads to the “autism” diagnosis. From the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry, better to “nip it in the bud” now, which means discrediting Dr. Wakefield to the extent that no one will look further into the science.

    Has this ploy worked?
    Not for me. And not for many of the very intelligent parents I know.
    Only time will tell if there are enough of us to make a difference. Any parent who has a child on the spectrum understands this domino affect that occurs.

    1. Duplicate post. You should remove it.
      Aside from rivaling Vacuous for most logical fallacies per post, saying it twice doesn’t make it more correct.

        1. Yep. Those who know about its issues don’t generally end up with lots of duplicates (and would delete them, if accidental), nor think their posts are being deleted by malicious fairies, nor that they can magically “click” posts back into existence. Some appear not to be interested in how disqus works.

          Pretty funny for people who claim to do their research.

          On the internet, at that.

          So anyway I was just giving the nO0b a headsup.

  138. Okay. I give up.
    Vaccines do not cause autism.

    Autism is a behavioral diagnosis. In order to receive the diagnosis of “Autism” a child must exhibit a certain number of behaviors over a certain time frame. If he or she does not do so, the diagnosis of “autism” is not warranted.

    There is no blood test for “autism.”

    “Autism” can’t be confirmed or “ruled-out” by laboratory analysis. It’s strictly a behavioral diagnosis.

    Therefore, anything that causes physiological damage cannot directly “cause” autism.

    Ergo… vaccines cannot “cause” “autism.”

    Vaccines cause other stuff.

    Vaccines cause encephalitis.
    Vaccines cause seizures.
    Vaccines cause immune system deficiencies.
    Vaccines cause gastrointestinal problems.

    Encephalitis causes mood swings.
    Encephalitis causes extreme pain.
    Encephalitis causes inattention and impulsivity.
    Encephalitis causes aggression.
    Encephalitis causes balance problems and difficulty relating to one’s environment.

    Seizures cause mood swings.
    Seizures cause inattention and impulsivity.
    Seizures cause alterations in conciousness.

    Immune system deficiencies cause children to have more frequent bacterial infections, such as ear infections, upper respiratory infections (URIs), sinusutis, and strep infections.

    Immune system deficiencies cause children to have more frequent viral infections, such as stomatitis, “fevers of unknown origin,” “viral rashes,” hives, conjunctivitis, and gastrointestinal viruses that cause vomiting and diarrhea.

    Immune system deficiencies cause children to be more vulnerable to “everything that’s going around” and to have a tougher time getting over things than their peers.

    Gastrointestinal damage from vaccines causes diarrhea.
    Gastrointestinal damage from vaccines causes nausea, reflux, vomiting, and the recently discovered “disease” now known as GERD (Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease).

    Gatrointestinal damage from vaccines causes increased vulnerability to viruses and bacteria, which leads to increased administration of antibiotics, which leads to overgrowth of pathogenic yeast.

    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to intestinal hyperpermeability (“leaky gut syndrome”).

    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to constipation.
    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to food allergies.
    Pathogenic yeast overgrowth leads to skin eruptions, “drunken, silly behavior,” inattention and impulsivity, and cravings for bread, sugar, ice cream, milk, and carbohydrates.

    Technically, vaccines do not cause autism because techincally there is no such thing as autism.

    Vaccines cause the underlying physical conditions that result in the pain, neurological damage, immune system disorders, gastrointestinal damage, and yeast overgrowth – all of which combine to produce the behavioral symptoms that result in the “autism” diagnosis.

    Gastrointestinal damage is the most obvious result of vaccine damage.

    When a previously healthy child suddenly starts having multiple episodes of watery and extremely stinky diarrhea every day, and this happens shortly after receiving vaccinations, it is notable as a “vaccine injury.” What is not so obvious is that when the child’s gut is permanently damaged, he or she is no longer able to absorb nutrients necessary to produce neurotransmitters necessary for proper brain function. So when the child develops mood swings, sleep difficulties, and learning disabilities several months later, these issues are not recognized as being related to the vaccine injury because the initial damage occurred many months earlier.

    Please re-read the previous paragraph.

    This is why Dr. Andrew Wakefield is such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry.

    Dr. Wakefield NEVER said vaccines cause autism.
    Dr. Wakefield is a gastroenterologist. He saw a number of children with gastrointestinal problems who also happened to be diagnosed with autism. Dr. Wakefield reported his observations. He never claimed that the MMR “caused” autism. He merely reported that a number of children he had seen had BOTH gastrointestinal problems AND autism, and according to parental report, these issues developed within a short time of when the children received the MMR vaccine.

    Again… Why is Dr. Wakefield such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry?

    Hint: Not because vaccines cause autism – they don’t.

    Vaccines cause gastrointestinal damage.

    Gastrointestinal damage causes malabsorption of nutrients necessary for proper brain function.
    Malabsorption of essential nutrients causes immune system disorders, seizures, encephalopathy, etc… and THAT’s what leads to the ultimate diagnosis of “autism.”

    If Dr. Wakefield’s observations are correct, SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE will eventually draw the connection between vaccines and the domino-effect that leads to the “autism” diagnosis. From the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry, better to “nip it in the bud” now, which means discrediting Dr. Wakefield to the extent that no one will look further into the science.

    Has this ploy worked?
    Not for me. And not for many of the very intelligent parents I know.
    Only time will tell if there are enough of us to make a difference. Any parent who has a child on the spectrum understand this domino affect because it happens to every child on the spectrum. Not all of them have seizures think God but most of them have the gastrointestinal issues ext.

    1. Of course Andy Wakefraud didn’t say vaccines cause autism. He planned to make millions of pounds from his own vaccine!

      That’s an interesting list of things vaccines can cause. Where is the list of what measles, pertussis, rubella, and their friends can cause?

      Lurkers: Ever notice antivaxers dismiss the wild diseases as mild, benign, say that they survived them without permanent consequences. (So did I, but I’m not so proud of it.) But vaccines that have consequence a small fraction as often are dangerous?!

    2. Copied verbatim from VaxTruth org, and about as “truthful” as anything else on that site..

      “Vaccines do not cause autism.” True.

      https://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/new-meta-analysis-confirms-no-association-between-vaccines-and-autism

      “There is no blood test for ‘autism.’” False

      https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150901120957.htm

      Autism is a social-behavioral disorder caused by genetic mutations. It is possible to diagnose ASD using newer genetic testing methods, but no antivaxxer will ever admit it.

    3. Diseases cause encephalitis and its side effects to a far greater extent than vaccines; ditto seizures. Any fever can cause a seizure in a child. This whole GI thing is a fantasy of Wakefield’s. He was trying to discredit the MMR vaccine so he could market his own measles vaccine.

        1. I didn’t know he had a PhD. Where did he get it? Either way, I prefer to refer to him as Mr., as I believe that he sacrificed the respect that comes with the title of Dr.

          1. And now I had to double check.

            He received a medical degree from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. Even though he’s been struck from the register, he still holds the degree, right?

  139. Top Doctors Admit Vaccines Turn Our Immune Systems Against Us

    “On the other hand, many reports that describe post-vaccination autoimmunity strongly suggest that vaccines can indeed trigger autoimmunity. Defined autoimmune diseases that may occur following vaccinations include arthritis, lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE) diabetes mellitus, thrombocytopenia, vasculitis, dermatomyosiositis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and demyelinating disorders. Almost all types of vaccines have been reported to be associated with the onset of ASIA.”

    ASIA – or Autoimmune/inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (also known as Shoenfeld’s syndrome) — first appeared in the Journal of Autoimmunology four years ago. It is an umbrella term for a collection of similar symptoms, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, that result after exposure to an adjuvant – an environmental agent including common vaccine ingredients that stimulate the immune system. Since then an enormous body of research, using ASIA as a paradigm, has begun to unravel the mystery of how environmental toxins, particularly the metal aluminum used in vaccines, can trigger an immune system chain reaction in susceptible individuals and may lead to overt autoimmune disease.

    “Throughout our lifetime the normal immune system walks a fine line between preserving normal immune reactions and developing autoimmune diseases,” says the paper. “The healthy immune system is tolerant to self-antigens. When self-tolerance is disturbed, dysregulation of the immune system follows, resulting in emergence of an autoimmune disease. Vaccination is one of the conditions that may disturb this homeostasis in susceptible individuals, resulting in autoimmune phenomena and ASIA.”

    Who is “susceptible” is the subject of the paper entitled, “Predicting post-vaccination autoimmunity: Who might be at risk?” It lists four categories of people: 1) those who have had a previous autoimmune reaction to a vaccine, 2) anyone with a medical history of autoimmunity, 3) patients with a history of allergic reactions, 4) anyone at high risk of developing autoimmune disease including anyone with a family history of autoimmunity, presence of autoantibodies which are detectable by blood tests and other factors including low vitamin D and smoking.”…https://yournewswire.com/top-doctors-admit-vaccines-turn-our-immune-systems-against-us/

      1. “…ASIA is not recognized as a real condition by the medical community…”

        And? the medical community does prescribing, not science.

      2. “Suspected mechanism of adjuvant-induced autoimmunity. Several are mimicking
        the effect of viruses and bacteria in eliciting the immune responses.
        Suspected mechanisms of adjuvants-induced autoimmunity
        – Alteration of the host’s immune system
        – Polyclonal activation of B cells
        – Effects on cellular immunity
        – Effects on immune regulatory cells
        – Effects on viral induced antibodies
        – Molecular mimicry
        – Bystander activation
        – Epitope spreading
        – Anti-idiotypic network
        – Changing the host’s antigens
        – Expression of HLA* family antigens
        – Modification of surface antigens
        – Induction of novel antigens
        – Interaction with Toll-like receptors (TLRs)
        – Antigens translocation
        – Release of inflammatory cytokines”

        Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA)
        2013: Unveiling the pathogenic, clinical and diagnostic aspects
        Carlo Perricone,Serena Colafrancesco, Roei D. Mazor,Alessandra Soriano,Nancy Agmon-Levin,Yehuda Shoenfeld
        Journal of Autoimmunity 47 (2013) 1-16

        1. “ASIA is basically a made-up syndrome that isn’t generally accepted. Even more dubious are the clinical criteria … what appears to be the original article in which ASIA was defined by Yehuda Shoenfeld, who is known for testifying for ‘vaccine injury’ victims and running a journal sympathetic to antivaccine views, even publishing works by quacks like Mark and David Geier. The “syndrome” appears to have been made up of whole cloth based on unfounded assumptions.”

          But for $49 a month recurring, Greenmedinfo will ship you a potion that cures it.

          1. Professor Yehuda Shoenfeld is the founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center, which is affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is also the Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at Tel-Aviv University. His clinical and scientific works focus on autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and he has been the recipient of multiple awards, including a Life Contribution Prize in Internal Medicine in Israel, 2012.

          2. Ha but ASIA is not recognised by the mainstream medical community. Convenient because any connection to vaccines and ASIA could cause public confidence in vaccines to diminish. This could cause stocks to go down in Pharma ….

          3. I won’t charge you for this, Watson.

            “Hence, it is imperative that science aims to implement
            tools such as genomics and proteomics, to allow the prediction of
            population sets more likely to be non-responsive or develop
            adverse reactions to vaccines. Thomas et al. have revised this issue
            gathering a number of examples of genotype/gene polymorphisms
            mainly in the HLA gene family, related to inter-individual variation
            to vaccination [112].”

            (What supplement does this sell, exactly).

            Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA)
            2013: Unveiling the pathogenic, clinical and diagnostic aspects
            Carlo Perricone,Serena Colafrancesco, Roei D. Mazor,Alessandra Soriano,Nancy Agmon-Levin,Yehuda Shoenfeld
            Journal of Autoimmunity 47 (2013) 1-16

          4. “…”ASIA is basically a made-up syndrome that isn’t generally accepted….Even more dubious are the clinical criteria …”

            Autism has even more dubious clinical criteria that vary fom one country to another, its causes not determiend and yet the concept is generally accepted. Why?

            It’s in the nature of syndroms to have a wide spectrum of clinical presentations.

            “… is known for testifying for ‘vaccine injury’ victims..”

            What is the problem with this? Do you deny vaccine injury as well?

          5. The article I sent it won’t let me post on the thread too long. The research is hard to ignore, vaccines can trigger autoimmunity with a laundry list of diseases to follow. With harmful and toxic metals as some vaccine ingredients, who is susceptible and which individuals are more at risk?
            No one would accuse Yehuda Shoenfeld of being a quack. The Israeli clinician has spent more than three decades studying the human immune system and is at the pinnacle of his profession. You might say he is more foundation than fringe in his specialty; he wrote the textbooks. The Mosaic of Autoimmunity, Autoantibodies, Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases, Infection and Autoimmunity, Cancer and Autoimmunity – the list is 25 titles long and some of them are cornerstones of clinical practice. Hardly surprising that Shoenfeld has been called the “Godfather of Autoimmunology” – the study of the immune system turned on itself in a wide array of diseases from type 1 diabetes to ulcerative colitis and multiple sclerosis.

            But something strange is happening in the world of immunology lately and a small evidence of it is that the Godfather of Autoimmunology is pointing to vaccines – specifically, some of their ingredients including the toxic metal aluminum – as a significant contributor to the growing global epidemic of autoimmune diseases. The bigger evidence is a huge body of research that’s poured in in the past 15 years, and particularly in the past five years. Take for example, a recent article published in the journal Pharmacological Research in which Shoenfeld and colleagues issue unprecedented guidelines naming four categories of people who are most at risk for vaccine-induced autoimmunity.

            “On one hand,” vaccines prevent infections which can trigger autoimmunity, say the paper’s authors, Alessandra Soriano, of the Department of Clinical Medicine and Rheumatology at the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome, Gideon Nesher, of the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem and Shoenfeld, founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center of Autoimmune Diseases in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. He is also editor of three medical journals and author of more than 1,500 research papers across the spectrum of medical journalism and founder of the International Congress on Autoimmunology. “On the other hand, many reports that describe post-vaccination autoimmunity strongly suggest that vaccines can indeed trigger autoimmunity. Defined autoimmune diseases that may occur following vaccinations include arthritis, lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE) diabetes mellitus, thrombocytopenia, vasculitis, dermatomyosiositis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and demyelinating disorders. Almost all types of vaccines have been reported to be associated with the onset of ASIA.”

            ASIA – or Autoimmune/inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (also known as Shoenfeld’s syndrome) — first appeared in the Journal of Autoimmunology four years ago. It is an umbrella term for a collection of similar symptoms, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, that result after exposure to an adjuvant – an environmental agent including common vaccine ingredients that stimulate the immune system. Since then an enormous body of research, using ASIA as a paradigm, has begun to unravel the mystery of how environmental toxins, particularly the metal aluminum used in vaccines, can trigger an immune system chain reaction in susceptible individuals and may lead to overt autoimmune disease.

            Autoimmune disease results when the body’s system meant to attack foreign invaders turns instead to attack part of the body it belongs to (auto is Greek for self). If the immune system is like a national defence system, antibodies are like drones programmed to recognize a certain type of invader (a bacteria say) and to destroy them or mark them for destruction by other special forces. Autoantibodies are like drones that are misidentifying a component of the human body and have launched a sustained attack on it. If they mistakenly target a component of the conductive sheath around neurons, for example, nerve impulses stop conducting properly, muscles go into spasm and coordination fails; multiple sclerosis results. If autoantibodies erroneously focus on joint tissue; rheumatoid arthritis results. If they target the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, Type 1 diabetes, and so on

            “Throughout our lifetime the normal immune system walks a fine line between preserving normal immune reactions and developing autoimmune diseases,” says the paper. “The healthy immune system is tolerant to self-antigens. When self-tolerance is disturbed, dysregulation of the immune system follows, resulting in emergence of an autoimmune disease. Vaccination is one of the conditions that may disturb this homeostasis in susceptible individuals, resulting in autoimmune phenomena and ASIA.”

            Who is “susceptible” is the subject of the paper entitled, “Predicting post-vaccination autoimmunity: Who might be at risk?” It lists four categories of people: 1) those who have had a previous autoimmune reaction to a vaccine, 2) anyone with a medical history of autoimmunity, 3) patients with a history of allergic reactions, 4) anyone at high risk of developing autoimmune disease including anyone with a family history of autoimmunity, presence of autoantibodies which are detectable by blood tests and other factors including low vitamin D and smoking.

            PREVIOUS REACTION

            Regarding those who have had a previous adverse reaction to vaccines, the paper cites five relevant studies including the case of a death of a teenage girl six months following her third Gardasil injection against HPV virus. She had experienced a range of symptoms shortly after her first dose, including dizziness, numbness and tingling in her hands, and memory lapses. After her second injection, she developed “intermittent arm weakness, frequent tiredness requiring daytime naps,” worse tingling, night sweats, chest pain and palpitations. A full autopsy was unrevealing but blood and spleen tissue analysis revealed HPV-16 L1 gene DNA fragments – matching the DNA found in vials of the Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer – “thus implicating the vaccine as a causal factor.” The DNA fragments had also been found to be “complexed with the aluminum adjuvant” which, according to the report, have been shown to persist for up to 8 to 10 years causing chronic immune system stimulation.

            “Although data is limited,” Shoenfeld and his colleagues concluded, “it seems preferable that individuals with prior autoimmune or autoimmune-like reactions to vaccinations, should not be immunized, at least not with the same type of vaccine.”

            ESTABLISHED AUTOIMMUNE CONDITION

            The second group which the paper cites for vaccine exemption is patients with “established autoimmune conditions.” Vaccines don’t work so well in them, say Shoenfeld and his colleagues, and they are at “risk for flares following vaccination.” Inoculations that contain live viruses including chickenpox, yellow fever and the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine (MMR) are “generally contraindicated” for people with autoimmune conditions because of the risk of “uncontrolled viral replication.” But inactivated vaccines are not such a good idea either because they usually contain the added ingredient aluminum, linked to autoimmunity.

            The immunologists describe recent studies in which patients with autoimmune rheumatic disease given the influenza vaccine (without aluminum) suffered more joint pain and fever than controls and whose levels of autoantibodies (the drones that attack self) increased after receiving the flu vaccine. What’s more, they developed new types of autoantibodies that weren’t present before the vaccines, and those persisted. As the presence of autoantibodies can be predictive of developing autoimmune disease in patients without symptoms, even years ahead of disease onset, this is troubling to those who understand immunology.

            A number of studies claim vaccines are safe for the “overwhelming majority of patients with established autoimmune diseases,” the study allows, but they only looked at rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and not at severe and active cases so “the potential benefit of vaccination should be weighed against its potential risk,” they cautioned.

            PATIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF ALLERGY

            Vaccine trials have usually excluded “vulnerable” individuals — only extremely healthy individuals with no allergies are recruited. It’s a “selection bias,” say Soriano and Shoenfeld, and has likely resulted in serious adverse events being “considerably underestimated” in “real life where vaccines are mandated to all individuals regardless of their susceptibility.” The true incidence of allergic reactions to vaccines, normally estimated at between one in 50,000 to one in a million doses, is probably much higher and particularly where gelatin or egg proteins are on the ingredients list, they say.

            There’s a long list of vaccine ingredients that are potential allergens: besides the infectious agents themselves, there are those from hen’s egg, horse serum, baker’s yeast, numerous antibiotics, formaldehyde and lactose, as well “inadvertent” ingredients such as latex. People’s allergic histories have to be taken before vaccination say the researchers. But some signs of reaction don’t show up until after the shot.

            The public health nurse or GP might tell patients that a long-lasting swelling around the injection site after a vaccine is a normal reaction, for example. But that is not what the immunologists say. “[A]luminum sensitization manifests as nodules [hard lumps] at the injection site that often regress after weeks or months, but may persist for years.” In such cases, they say, a patch test can be done to confirm sensitivity and to avoid vaccination.

            According to a growing body of research, though, allergy may be only the beginning of many dangerous aluminum-induced phenomena.

            THE TROUBLE WITH ALUMINUM

            Aluminum has been added to vaccines since about 1926 when Alexander Glenny and colleagues noticed it would produce better antibody responses in vaccines than the antigen alone. Glenny figured the alum was inducing what he called a “depot effect” – slowing the release of the antigen and heightening the immune response. For 60 years his theory was accepted dogma. And over the same time, the vaccine schedule grew decade on decade, but few ever questioned the effects of injecting aluminum into the body, which is strange considering its known toxicity.

            A PubMed search on aluminum and “toxicity” turns up 4,258 entries. Its neurotoxicity is well documented. It affects memory, cognition, psychomotor control; it damages the blood brain barrier, activates brain inflammation, depresses mitochondrial function and plenty of research suggests it is a key player in the formation of the amyloid “plaques” and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. It’s been implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and autism and demonstrated to induce allergy.

          6. “No one would accuse Yehuda Shoenfeld of being a quack”

            That is in dispute.

            This is the same Yehuda Shoenfeld who’s also associated with the dubious autism research of Mark and David Geier.

          7. A group of WHO officials and government employees charged with the responsibility to advise the expert committee of the Japanese government on HPV vaccination safety knew before the February 26, 2014 Tokyo public hearing that one of their own experts showed scientific evidence that HPV vaccination does increase cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF), particularly at the injection site compared to other vaccines. Yet, they chose to suppress this information at the public hearing. Of course, this piece of scientific data which was known to all members of the group, including Dr Robert Pless, the chairperson of GACVS, is also missing from the GACVS Statement on the continued safety of HPV vaccination issued on March 12, 2014.

            So why does HPV vaccination increase the level of cytokines, including TNF, at the site of injection compared to other vaccines?

            The answer is: HPV vaccines contain HPV L1 gene DNA fragments, the viral DNA fragments, bound to aluminum adjuvants in the vaccines. To understand this, the members of the GACVS should keep up with the recent research and scientific publications on aluminum adjuvants. A brief summary on this subject with 22 key peer-reviewed references is presented as follows.

            Aluminum salts have been used as adjuvants in vaccination empirically to boost immune responses of the host to the protein antigens for many decades. However, the mechanism of the adjuvant effects of aluminum salts has only been recently investigated at the molecular level. It is now generally agreed in the scientific community that aluminum salts used as adjuvants are toxic and always damage the cells of the host at the site of injection, causing a localized inflammation at the vaccination site. This initial cell damage by the aluminum salt is an essential and necessary step to initiate its adjuvant effects because the free host DNA molecules released from the aluminum salt-damaged host cells act as mediators to trigger augmented immune responses of the host [1, 2]. The free DNA molecules of the dying host cells, also referred to as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) [3] bind the aluminum salt adjuvant at the site of injection, and the resulting DNA/aluminum complexes are phagocytized by the antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and macrophages. It was known as early as 2003, that when bound to aluminum salts as nanoparticles, free DNA molecules undergo dramatic conformational changes and can be introduced into mammalian cells as a means of gene transfection [4]. In vaccination with aluminum adjuvants, the transfected host DNA activates the pathways that would increase their ability to interact productively with antigen-specific CD4 T cells to boost host immune responses [1, 2].

            In plain language, free DNA derived from the dying host cells is needed to be carried by aluminum adjuvants into the APCs or macrophages to function as mediators for boosting immune responses in vaccination.

            However, the presence of recombinant HPV L1-specific DNA fragments in the vaccine Gardasil® has disrupted this expected normal immunity response platform in vaccination. The HPV DNA molecules, being of a viral origin, are “non-self” microbial products, also referred to as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). The human body’s defense system can distinguish the PAMPs from the DAMPs in order to mount an appropriate immune response to either the presence of a pathogen or a tissue damage [3].

            The emails referred to can be found here

            https://cdn5.truthkings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Allegations-of-Scientific-Misconduct-by-GACVS.pdf

        2. Are you still flogging an imaginary disorder at this site when the ASIA question, such as it is, has already been asked and answered…many, many times here?

          That right there is spam.

          1. Maybe you should get a new hobby, Grace.

            I’ll repeat: what they think they understand, they have not read. What they have read, they have not understood.

  140. Study finds flu shot really did make people sicker

    By: Helen Branswell The Canadian Press Published on Sat Sep 08 2012

    “TORONTO – A strange vaccine-related phenomenon spotted at the start of the 2009 flu pandemic may well have been real, a new study suggests.

    Canadian researchers noticed in the early weeks of the pandemic that people who got a flu
    shot for the 2008-2009 winter seemed to be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who hadn’t received a flu shot.

    Five studies done in several provinces showed the same puzzling and unsettling results. But initially research outside of Canada did not, and the effect was dismissed as “the Canadian problem.”

    News of the unexpected findings broke at a time when countries in North America and parts of Europe were getting ready to start vaccinating their populations against the pandemic virus.

    Some jurisdictions were also trying to figure out whether to offer the seasonal flu vaccine they had purchased — similar to the 2008-2009 shot — along with the pandemic vaccine, in case the seasonal flu viruses continued to circulate. Quebec opted not to offer the seasonal vaccine because of the concerns raised by the studies.

    Many people in the flu research and public health communities found the whole event unhelpful, and many rejected the findings. Some suggested if there was a problem, it might have been with the flu vaccine used in Canada, because the problem wasn’t seen elsewhere.

    But a new study suggests the findings may indeed have been real.

    A group of Canadian researchers recreated the event in ferrets, the best animal model for predicting how influenza will act in humans. They worked with animals because it would have been unethical to subject people to the health risks the work entailed.

    The findings of the ferret study were presented Sunday at ICAAC, a major international infectious diseases conference taking place this year in San Francisco. (ICAAC stands for the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.)

    Lead author Dr. Danuta Skowronski outlined the work at a webcast press conference. Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, also led the first study that spotted the apparent interaction between 2008 flu shots and pandemic flu infection.

    She and her colleagues worked with 32 ferrets, giving half the 2008 seasonal flu shot and the remainder a placebo injection. The work was blinded, meaning the researchers didn’t know which ferrets received which shot. Later, all the ferrets were infected with the pandemic H1N1 virus.

    The ferrets in the vaccine group became significantly sicker than the other animals, though all recovered.

    “The findings that we show are consistent with the increased risk that we saw in the human studies,” Skowronski said.

    She said that in the time since the pandemic, researchers in other countries have reported a similar interaction.

    The reason for the effect is unclear, and Skowronski urged other research groups to take up the question. She said it is important to get to the root of what happened, before the next pandemic.”…https://www.metronews.ca/life/health/2012/09/09/canadian-problem-maybe-not-study-finds.html

  141. This virus Borna, is found in horses, cattle, rhesus monkeys, mice and dogs, all animals used in making vaccines, and the borna virus also infects humans.

    ‘Borna Disease Virus and Human Disease’

    “In 1929, Borna disease was found to be caused by an infectious agent, and in 1990, this agent was determined to be a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus (25, 39). Borna disease virus (BDV) persistently infects the nervous system of many animal species, from primate to avian (120). Indeed, by natural or experimental inoculation, the ability of BDV to replicate in the nervous system of virtually every warm-blooded animal strongly suggests that BDV-like viruses are very unlikely to spare the human host.

    Over the years, information has also accumulated about unusual features of BDV-induced disease in experimental animals such as rats, mice, and tree shrews. In these animals, BDV can induce behavioral disease (e.g., anxiety, aggression, cognitive defects, and hyperactivity) without obvious physiological signs of viral encephalitis (e.g., fever, neurological signs, and decreased level of consciousness) (7, 48, 58, 66, 68, 99, 111, 112, 114, 115, 122, 136).”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88987/

    It seems there was quite a few studies done by the same researchers and here is what they said about it…”In the 1980s, the first significant serological evidence for BDV infection of humans was reported in the scientific literature (1). However, despite two decades of study and published serological, pathological, or virological evidence of BDV infection in humans, complete medical and scientific acceptance of the human as a natural target of BDV has yet to be achieved. Even more controversial are the specific human disease syndromes for which BDV has been proposed to be an etiologic agent.

    Much of the controversy in the study of human BDV infection is linked to technical difficulties in developing and validating a uniform test for diagnosis of BDV infection in humans”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88987/

    Some other studies that showed Borna disease in young rats caused autistic like symptoms…

    Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S36-7.

    Borna disease virus (BDV)-induced model of autism: application to vaccine safety test design.

    Carbone KM1, Rubin SA, Pletnikov M.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12142944

    Borna disease virus infection of the neonatal rat: developmental brain injury model of autism spectrum disorders.

    Pletnikov MV, Moran TH, Carbone KM.

    Front Biosci. 2002 Mar 1;7:d593-607.

    1. Medical practices were also not as sanitary as they are today, meaning doctors sometimes inadvertently administered vaccine contaminated with smallpox, starting smallpox epidemics and creating public doubt about the vaccine”….https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/05.20/waterhouse.html

      “During this period there were no adequate methods for assessing the safety of the vaccine and there were instances of contaminated vaccine transmitting infections such as erysipelas(strep A infection of the skin), tetanus, septicemia (blood poisoning) and tuberculosis.[21] In the case of arm-to-arm transfer there was also the risk of transmitting syphilis. Although this did occur occasionally, estimated as 750 cases in 100 million vaccinations,[43] ‘…source Wikipedia

      England from 1911 to 1925, 146 deaths in infants due to encephalomyelitis from the smallpox vaccine

      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/9577323_Post-vaccinial_encephalomyelitis

      https://www.bt.cdc.gov/training/smallpoxvaccine/reactions/cont_edu.html

      https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5213a4.htm

      2003 mass vaccine campaign-Fourteen cases of myocarditis and one fatal myocardial infarction have been reported among military personnel

      1. “2003 mass vaccine campaign-Fourteen cases of myocarditis and one fatal
        myocardial infarction have been reported among military personnel”

        What’s the evidence these incidents were related to smallpox vaccine? You can’t use that “unsanitary” line with the military in 2003, ione.

  142. “Official data shows that large scale vaccination has failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection” –Dr. Sabin, developer of Polio vaccine.

  143. “There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good.” –Dr. J. Anthony Morris (formerly Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Admin.)

  144. ” You can’t vaccinate believing that your children are protected and then feel that your children are not protected because somehow, some non-vaccinated child is carrying some secret organism that no one else is carrying. It just doesn’t make any sense.” –Dr. Larry Palevsky, board-certified pediatrician

  145. “Parents are frightened into having their babies and children “immunized” against a whole series of diseases, having them inoculated with vaccines, serums, anti-toxins and toxoids of all kinds. The constant stream of propaganda carried on by the pharmaceutical houses and commercial medicine to keep this profitable business alive is filled with manufactured and “doctored” statistics, lies, distortions and statements designed to frighten parents. The whole purpose of this propaganda is not to secure the health and welfare of children, but to guarantee the steady inflow of profits to the physicians and manufacturing drug houses.” –Dr. Herbert Shelton

  146. “No doubt, you are also aware of another issue that is hurting our children: CDC corruption regarding vaccine safety and efficacy. As chair of the Committee on Government Reform, Representative Dan Burton and committee members documented the corruption and conflicts of interest in the CDC, National Immunization Program, and the FDA. His 2003 report concludes, “Our public health agencies’ failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self-protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.” Robert F. Kennedy sums up the problem as follows: “The CDC is a cesspool of corruption.”

    In August 2014, Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the CDC, confirmed as an insider what Rep. Burton had documented in 2003. Thompson disclosed that the CDC had identified, manipulated, and finally destroyed their own research which verified an association between the MMR vaccine and autism and other developmental disorders. Since that time, Congressman Bill Posey has repeatedly called for a congressional investigation into this matter

    A year and a half has passed since Dr. Thompson stepped forward and to date, our elected officials have done nothing to investigate these alleged crimes. Congressional inaction sends a strong message to American citizens that our elected officials are complicit in the corruption and conflicts of interest documented by Rep. Burton. The evidence is strong: For more than a decade, public health officials have placed the interest of pharmaceutical giants over the interests of America’s children.

    Concerned citizens are meeting today with Congressman Jason Chaffetz, the head of the Oversight & Government Reform Committee. They are calling on Rep. Chaffetz to subpoena Dr. Thompson. Thompson said he’s through lying. He said he will testify before congress. Please use your influence to call for and support a congressional investigation into these matters.

    Our children’s health and lives are in your hands.

    Sincerely,

    Brett Wilcox
    Sitka, Alaska”

    https://www.runningthecountry.com/congressman-jason-chaffetz-subpoena-the-cdc-whistleblower-dr-william-thompson/#.VpfOAHlvnIU

  147. “[Vaccines] can have tumorigenic kidney cells of a cocker spaniel in it. It can have human fetal cells with retroviruses. [It can have] aluminum, which is one of the most horrible things to inject into any sort of life form, especially into a muscle… Parents really need to know that their doctors are not informed and therefore they cannot give informed consent, and that they really need to think about it because you cannot unvaccinate. The fear of, “Oh, what if my child gets a disease”—that’s where knowing the history is really important because what we’re talking about is under which conditions people become susceptible . That’s really more important than transmission. Because, yes, measles transmits very rapidly through the population, but it actually has a lot of benefits to the immune system—so much so that they’re using it to treat cancer today.” –Suzanne Humphries, MD

  148. “The explanation of an epidemic is simple, we are now seeing: 1 in 6 children with specific learning disabilities; 12-15% children with attention deficit disorder; 1 in 87 with autism spectrum – a 1700% increase over ten years; 1% sudden infant death; 40 deaths and 15,000 substantive adverse Gardasil reactions; 1 in 15 over 65 with dementia; 1 in 8 over 85; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Fibromyalgia; Seizure disorders; “West” syndrome Global developmental delay; 1 in 450 with type 1 diabetes; 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will develop cancer over a lifetime; Gulf war syndrome affecting and disabling 250,000 troops and 42,000 deaths. These vaccinated soldiers show the exact same neurological damages after vaccination as the infants and children are exhibiting after each childhood vaccination. These are strokes – oxygen demand exceeding oxygen supply – conclusively! There is no such thing as an acquired genetic epidemic. The epidemic is an acquired phenomenon, from environmental factors, for which I can now conclusively show, vaccinations are the mass culprit for most of this.” –Dr. Andrew Moulden, PhD

    1. What happened to Andrew Moulden?

      “Not only did Moulden profess he could diagnose autism or brain disorders via photographs, he even went so far as to claim he could diagnose ‘some learning and language disabilities’ from seeing photographs alone! ”

      What a talented man. BrainGuard was the supplement he was selling.

      Moulden committed suicide while under investigation for ripping parents off.

  149. “There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza. The producers of these vaccines know that they are worthless, but they go on selling them, anyway.” –Dr. J. Anthony Morris (formerly Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration).

    1. J Anthony Morris was never “Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration.” He’s a virologist who worked for the FDA in the 60s, authored a couple papers, and was fired.

      1. Now you are just lying.
        https://ahrp.org/john-anthony-morris-md/
        How many dead children do you think are OK due to vaccine adverse reactions for the greater good? I don’t think you ever came up with a figure. Are 8 dead babies OK for utopia? Or 9? How about 22? Surely just 22 dead babies are acceptable for the greater good, right? Come on, give us a number so we can quantify the price of utopia.

        1. Exactly as your link says:

          “Former Bacteriologist, Division of Biologics Standards, and Research Virologist, FDA, and prior to that he was a virologist at NIH from 1940s to 1976 when he was fired.”

          He was a virologist. Nowhere in his C.V. was he ever “Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration.”

          1. You don’t ever address the facts.

            Still waiting for any deaths from the MMR vaccine in the last 10 years, Graceds.

          2. “As of March 1, 2012, there have been 898 claims filed so far in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) for 56 deaths and 842 injuries that occurred after MMR vaccination. Of that number, the U.S. Court of Claims administering the VICP has compensated 324 children and adults, who have filed MMR vaccine injury claims.

            One example of an MMR vaccine injury claim awarded compensation in the VICP is the case of Madyson Williams. Madyson was growing and developing normally until May 12, 2006, when she was given MMR, varicella zoster and Hib vaccines simultaneously during an office visit. Six days later, she developed seizures and died.

            “On Oct. 10, 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services conceded Madyson died from a reaction to MMR vaccine and her parents were awarded $250,000, the maximum amount allowed for an acknowledged vaccine-related death in the VICP.”

            https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Measles/measles-vaccine-injury-death.aspx

          3. “898 claims filed so far … 56 deaths and 842 injuries”

            What percentage of those claims are dismissed? Claims like this:

            VAERS ID: 252078 – Patient age 1.2 yrs. Cause of death was a bean in the subjects trachea.

            VAERS ID: 320862 – Patient age 50. Pulmonary emobolism. Lung cancer 2 years with chemotherapy

            VAERS ID: 351934 – Patient age 49. Cause of Death: Coronary artery disease

            It’s a sad story, but if I understand correctly, you’ve found one case in 10 years vs 400 plus deaths per year pre-vaccine. Is that right?

          4. One case in 10 years?

            There are others who’ve pointed out that antivaxxers are not only innumerate but also incapable of doing a risk-benefit analysis, I never realized it was quite this bad.

          5. VAERS ID: 26224 (history) Vaccinated: 1990-07-31
            Age: 1.3 Onset: 1990-08-05, Days after vaccination: 5
            Gender: Female Submitted: 1990-10-06, Days after onset: 62
            Location: Missouri Entered: 1990-10-12, Days after submission: 6
            Life Threatening? No
            Died? Yes
            Date died: 1990-08-11
            Days after onset: 6
            HBPV: HIB POLYSACCHARIDE (HIBIMUNE) LEDERLE LABORATORIES 0 IM
            MMR: MEASLES + MUMPS + RUBELLA (MMR II) MERCK & CO. INC. 0 SC

          6. Don’t you love how these AVs ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS refer to the people they quote as having some way high up position in their organizations?

          7. As if baceriologist and research virologist heading up research teams within the FDA is a lowly profession. Katia; Queen twister of facts.

          8. Snort! If I posted a study from the FDA to support a point or points, you’d tell me the FDA was corrupt and full of hacks.

            I know some people who work for the FDA. They’re nice folks. They’re not burning up the world with their intelligence, though.

          9. Wow. You prove my point; he is a highly educated virologist, i.e. vaccine freaking expert whom held the highest position with the FDA regarding vaccinations, and stated ““There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza. The producers of these vaccines know that they are worthless, but they go on selling them, anyway.”

            and you twist it around like that. As if what this man has to say is less important then his role.
            How many dead babies is your price for utopia?

          10. Once again for the reading impaired,

            He worked in the Division of Biologics Standards. Morris did not hold the highest position in the FDA regarding vaccinations.

            Why continue to lie, when you’ve already posted his C.V, which shows YOU’RE LYING.

            Are you really that dense?

          11. As if any of your strawman arguments and twisting terms has any merit to this conversation. It is clear to me that at some point the only way we will resolve our differences will be through legislature, and if that does not work, by non-compliance with you people. I will not comply with your mandated vaccines. And when you try to force them onto me, then I suppose that will be the end of words, and action will commence. Good luck with that.

          12. Plus, Morris was FIRED.

            You really, really have to crappy at your job to be fired as a government employee.

            Okay, so you’ve been caught repeating the same bullshlt quote found on a dozen stupid antivax sites, a quote which was never made by the “Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration.”

            Now, ask me how many fvcks I give whether you comply with school vaccination requirements.

            Go ahead.

            Ask.

          13. “The disciplinary case against Dr. Morris continued and included such accusations as failure to return library books on time, Turner said. In 1980, Dr. Morris was forced to retire but retained all retirement benefits.”
            -Washington Post

          14. Right, fired for not returning library books. I’m sure! Even when you work for the feds, your personnel records are private.

          15. Similar t the way you ignore data and evidence spoon fed to you by the medical and scientific experts on these boards, you continue to ignore my multiple replies stating that I don’t eat Spaghettios or pasta, in general.

          16. I am not a tough guy. I am a man. I am a human being that respects the rights of others. You are a coward. That’s what you are. That’s what you do.

          17. I know this about you from your words. Thank you for acknowledging that I have super powers. You do not? How sad.

          18. Those are not threats but promises. Please continue to be verbal about your totalitarian nature. be sure to do so in public and see how long this keyboard stays between us.

          19. Ooooohhh. More dumbass threats. You’re a joke. Let me get some boots so I can shake in them.
            Also, please cite anything from my public posting history to support any totalitarian ideologies that have come from me. Otherwise, just stfu. It’s getting old.

          20. “Also, please cite anything from my public posting history to support any totalitarian ideologies that have come from me. Otherwise, just stfu. It’s getting old.”

          21. You are a coward. You won’t even admit that you support mandatory vaccines. Here is a simple question: Do you support mandatory vaccines or not? You attack those that do not support this, so one can assume that you support them. Lets get it straight from you: Do you support mandatory vaccines or not? Come on man! Own your totalitarian nature! Hitler was a lot of things, but at least he wasn’t a coward. You seen to have his attributes WITH the cowardice. Your kids must be proud of you (you probably have none; good.)

          22. You can’t even spell and you act like some expert. That gets you the Buh Wah Ha Ha award of the month.

          23. “Also, please cite anything from my public posting history to support any totalitarian ideologies that have come from me. Otherwise, just stfu. It’s getting old.”

          24. Again. You straw man the argument. Let me reel you back in. You believe in mandatory vaccines for the greater good. Yes or no?

        2. Heck, your anti-vax guru cia, the one who’s always “recommending this and that” thinks 500 kids a year dead from measles is something she can “live with”!

          I don’t think there are any deaths that can be definitively linked to vaccines. Even with Guillain-Barre, 1) most people recover, and 2) no one can prove it came from the vaccine.

          1. That is utterly ridiculous. It is an established scientific fact that vaccines have killed people. This is indisputable. As if 500 kids die from measles in a year. Please. 1 person has died from measles in the US in the past decade, and 108 have died due to vaccine reactions in that same time. No one can prove it came from a vaccine? That is not true. Katia: Queen of twisting facts.

          2. Pre-vaccine, 400-500 kids die annually from measles. The woo sources report various numbers of alleged reports of measles deaths to VAERS in the past decade, none of which, to my knowledge, have been verified.

            And do grow up, little b! You’re obnoxious.

          3. Not 500 in developed countries! Prove those unhealthy and malnourished from poverty and unsanitary conditions would have lived if vaxed!

          4. The H*’ll not, suz! That was 500 per year in the US, up to 1963! Gosh, you’ve been trolling these boards for years, you know that! And they weren’t all malnourished and poor.

          5. See Katia! Your severe reading context/comprehension and trouble with logic issues are laid out in your very own comment above!
            You spoke of cia, making one believe you were speaking in the present, OPPOSED to deaths in 1963; which you had NOT mentioned in your initial comment and of which cia was likely barely a twinkle in her mommies eyes!
            So which did you wish to refer to darlin’; 1963 or 2016 ’cause quite a lot has happened in that time span! 1963 or 2016! It seems you neglected to specify in your original, incoherent [& malicious] nonsense!
            “cia, the one who’s always “recommending this and that” thinks 500 kids a year dead from measles is something SHE” ; emphasis on ‘she’ is mine as is the ‘oooops!’ 😉

            Crikey! How DID you ever get through nursing school, Katia! Rhetorical question! Don’t EVEN care to hear your attempt at redemption!

          6. You clearly and conveniently forget that cia constantly waxes rhapsodic about going back to pre-vaccine days of 400-500 annual measles deaths per year.

            And you have your freaking gall complaining about how “mean” the pro-vaxers are, you nasty b****!

          7. Clearly you erred in your non specification of your comment, leaving out any dates, and merely noting cia, so my reply to you remains valid!

            Looks like it’s YOU and not Grace [who chided earlier] who needs remedial reading, darlin’!

            ‘Ya get what ‘ya give, Katia! You’re really NOT that bright!

      2. “J. Anthony Morris, a federal vaccine specialist who was forced into retirement after public disagreements with superior officers over the efficiency of federal vaccine programs and the effectiveness of influenza vaccines, died May 31 at a health-care center in Hyattsville, Md. He was 95.

        The cause was congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Cam Esser.

        Dr. Morris was chief vaccine officer for the Bureau of Biological Standards at the National Institutes of Health and later with the Food and Drug Administration, when the bureau was transferred to that agency in the 1970s.

        He argued that research carried out by his unit demonstrated that there was no reliable proof that vaccines were effective in preventing influenza, and he accused the government of basing its mass vaccine programs for flu primarily on claims made by pharmaceutical manufacturers.

        The issue came to a head in 1976 when President Gerald R. Ford signed a bill appropriating $135 million to vaccinate 140 million people against swine flu that fall and the next winter. Dr. Morris was outspoken in his opposition to the inoculations.

        Subsequent events seemed to support Dr. Morris’s skepticism. The 1976 swine flu vaccinations were fraught with problems, and the government discontinued the inoculations after 49 million had received the vaccine.

        The incidence of swine flu among the vaccinated was seven times greater than it was among those who had not been vaccinated, according to news reports. In addition, 12 Americans who had been vaccinated against swine flu died of complications related to Guillain-Barre syndrome, a polyneuropathy affecting the peripheral nervous system. More than 200 were paralyzed, news accounts said.”…..https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/vaccine-specialist-j-anthony-morris-dies-at-95/2014/07/03/e786b9b8-0228-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html

        1. Thank you, ione

          WaPo describes him as “chief vaccine officer for the Bureau of Biological Standards at the National Institutes of Health”

          That is not “Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration,” and also not the title he used on the two papers he wrote.

          Morris was chief at one bureau at NIH, the Division of Biologics Standards, and was fired after that bureau was combined into the FDA.

          1. “Dr. Morris was chief vaccine officer for the Bureau of Biological Standards at the National Institutes of Health AND later with the Food and Drug Administration, when the bureau was transferred to that agency in the 1970s.”
            He was Chief at both places nitpicker

          2. He was “Chief for the Bureau of Biological Standards at NIH”

            That is not the “Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration,”

            Do you understand a department chief is not the agency chief?

          3. ok chief nitpicker….since you say he was just a department chief instead of an agency chief, lets disregard anything he tried to warn about the swine flu debacle. Which proved him to be right and pissed off his superiors.

          4. Why inflate his resume? Thanks for the WaPo article

            “In the early 1970s, with his lawyer, James Turner, Dr. Morris compiled a list of what they said were blunders and inefficiencies in the testing and licensing of vaccines, which he said cast doubt on their value to the public.

            It was sent to Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn.), who headed a Senate subcommittee that had oversight of the NIH. Ribicoff made the list public. A federally appointed investigatory panel found “only a few minor irregularities” that “did not involve any risk to the public.”

            The investigating panel also observed, “It is evident that there are serious personnel problems within the DBS and that the current charges are the culmination of a long series of such problems.”

            To summarize: Morris was an asshοle who got into a plssing match with his boss and decided to make a federal case out of it, and lost.

        2. “Martha Rosenberg for Truthout: You were an FDA drug reviewer from 1998 to 2008, working on well-known drugs like Cymbalta, Zyprexa, Concerta, Invega, Provigil and Saphris, and encountered the same kind of coercive working environment as the device reviewers.

          Ronald Kavanagh: That’s correct. In the Center for Drugs [Center for Drug Evaluation and Research or CDER], as in the Center for Devices, the honest employee fears the dishonest employee. ”

          https://www.truth-out.org/news/item/10524-former-fda-reviewer-speaks-out-about-intimidation-retaliation-and-marginalizing-of-safety

  150. “Operating on the false notion that universal vaccination will somehow arrest the advance of common disease (a reality readily proven false based on several examples, including the current flu vaccine which authorities admit will shield less than 18% of the vaccinated population from the flu), the new authoritarians demand that laws be passed to effectuate that objective, to compel against their will every man, woman, and child to be injected with vaccine…We must defend the rights of others to dissent against deprivations of right so that we may enjoy a like defense when we find ourselves out of step with the will of the majority.” –Jonathan Emord, Constitutional Attorney – 2015.

    1. “Jonathan Emord is a constitutional lawyer whose many legal victories over
      the federal government have exposed the true nature of bureaucracy’s unchecked,
      unprincipled, and unconstitutional expansion.
      He is a man who has devoted his life to reversing the tide that draws us
      closer to the abyss of medical tyranny (and, by extension, totalitarianism)
      and to winning back our health freedom and all the other freedoms that
      constitute individual liberty. ~ Will Block

      The Rise of Tyranny brilliantly explains how we arrived at the sordid
      state where our Constitution is in exile, and how we are all increasingly
      held hostage to the behemoth of a multi-headed bureaucracy that threatens
      not only our well-being but also our survival.

      Excerpt from the book:
      “We can perceive abuses whenever agency actions sacrifice fundamental
      rights to life, liberty, and property to yield outcomes favorable to a
      preferred regulatee. At FDA, the agency’s Commissioner has repeatedly
      approved drugs that the agency’s own medical reviewers have deemed too
      unsafe to enter the market, thus favoring the pharmaceutical company
      proponent of the drug over the American public.
      The results have been catastrophic, leading to tens of thousands of
      deaths and injuries. Likewise, FDA maintains a pervasive censorship
      over therapeutic claims for foods and dietary supplements to ensure
      that the drug industry enjoys a federally enforced monopoly on the
      right to communicate treatment information.”

    2. Jonathan Emord is entitled to his opinion, but it is not one shared by the Court. The legal debate is as settled as the science.

      Second Circuit Upholds the Constitutionality of Vaccination Mandates in Public Schools — 2015
      https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/14-2156/14-2156-2015-01-07.html

      U.S. Supreme Court declines to review Second Circuit’s decision upholding New York state’s mandatory school vaccination law — 2015
      https://legalclips.nsba.org/2015/10/07/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-review-second-circuits-decision-upholding-new-york-states-mandatory-school-vaccination-law/

    3. Downthread you will see may observation that Brian’s video on the US as corporation establishes him as a Sovereign Citizen crank (as well as an antivax crank). Both movements suffer from logic breakdown. Mr Emord specializes in representing quacks. His life goal is to help quacks separate you from your money (the better to pay him) buying pills whose manufacturers are unwilling or unable to show that they work.

      Remember this the next time you hear Big Pharma is in it for the money. So is Alt Pharma, and their worthless sugar pills are much cheaper to invent.

  151. “It’s a socialist idea – herd mentality. You are at risk if you have evidence that is sufficient to show you are at risk. They say if you are not vaccinated you post a risk. But they are not proving it. They know scientifically that even if everyone is vaccinated, some will still contract the disease. It is impossible to ensure 100% vaccination. That would evoke the most gruesome police-state imaginable.” –Jonathan Emord, Constitutional Attorney

  152. “Majorities are never the proof of truth.” –Dr. Walter R. Hadwen – 1896
    . “Public health does not trump individual liberty.” –Lee Hieb, MD – 2015.

        1. Pffft! Based on a casual word! Not unlike scotus and the language in ‘unavoidable unsafe!’

          Nice refereeing there, pizza boy! 😉

  153. “I assert that it is beyond the functions of law to dictate a medical procedure, or enforce any scientific theory.”
    –Emeritus Professor F. W. Newman of University College, London – 1874.

    1. And yet, in 1905, Jacobson vs Mass did just that, and you AVs say that’s ancient history! Buncha hypocrites!

        1. You bet it’s a big whoop. It’s never been overturned, and been used to uphold other vaccine laws, including just last year! FU

          1. For God’s sake Grace, do you really have that much of a reading comprehension problem? I didn’t say no Supreme Court decision had ever been overturned. I said Jacobson vs Mass had never been overturned. Those 10 cases you pulled out of your colon had nothing to do with immunizations.

          2. Good god, Katia! Keelhauling was legal once too!

            Now it’s NOT and is considered barbarous, much like the purposeful infliction of vax injuries onto healthy individuals! 😉

          3. Jacobson was upheld last year, suz. You should read my link. It talks about needle fear. That’s what drives this whole dam anti-vax movement. Thus it has always been.

          4. Only a moron would make such a remark! Do you know how many painful and frightening medical procedures vax injured children [and their parents] go through after the subsequent vax injury!

            Rhetorical question! You don’t KNOW the answer! But WE DO!

            I don’t give a crap about jacobson! Laws are not gods! They are CHANGEABLE!

            ‘Thus is has always been!’ 😉

          5. They are however current and empowered until such time as the are revoked, rescinded, amended or re-written. Although laws may be changed, it has of yet not.

          6. I knew there was a reason other than the avant-garde, refined and inspirational commentary, that I was here!

            Sheesh! Thanks for the newsflash, Jack Sprat!

          7. I’m afraid it’s as old as ‘I’m okay/your’re okay!’

            Considering my circumstances right now, it was one of the deeper paved [so faster] pathways ingrained in my brain!

            Do ya think it ages me a bit too much, Jack?

          8. You know what! It was mean. If you didn’t edit your comment above, then I DO apologize!

            I’ve been typing for the past 3 days with a deathly ill 13 yr. old cat in my lap!

            An older rescue and there’s not much I can do for him, except make sure he’s NOT in pain, and keep him comfortable!

            How should I respond when you tell me MY pathways are dimly lit, Jack? And that is what I thought you wrote the last time I checked my disqus messages.

            Before my error in reading your reply [if that’s what happened and it was NOT edited] I was trying to remain calm and civil even though you challenged me over some trivial off topic minutia, which I brought up only in a casual on topic reply to an ‘opponent,’ and I also see you upvoting against me!

            I don’t know who you are Jack Sprat, and for all I know you could be Capn Jack Sprat or Capn Jack midnight!

            But you’re right! My apologies if in my haste, I misread your comment. Show me where the delete prompt is and I’ll delete if you prefer!

            I’m afraid that lately I don’t have much tolerance for baby killers!
            Sorry if I wrongfully took it out on you. I was sure it said ‘dimly lit’, but then the letters are not only fuzzy, but FURRY now too!

            Truce, peace, love and rock n roll, Jack Sprat! 😉

          9. Keel hauling was never “legal”. If you are thinking of the Dutch Ordinance, 1560; not specifically abolished as the act of keelhauling was never enacted through legislation.
            The Dutch National Archives has an entire server dedicated to the “Sailing Letters” and maritime law.
            Almost think I had time on my hand overseas.

          10. “Was legally permitted as a punishment in the dutch navy!’

            However, you digress unless you intend to tie keelhauling into the forced vax discussion, Jack Sprat!

          11. I’ll NOT engage in a discussion on keelhauling here! However, feel free to google at will, Jack Sprat!

          12. The landmark Jacobson decision requires that there be “an emergency,” “imminent harm,” and a disease that “imperil[s] an entire population.” Mary Holland
            That case was made for a smallpox epidemic in 1905.
            It predates the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

          13. Big whoop.

            It was the precedent used to uphold New York’s mandatory school vaccinations last year.

            Case closed.

          14. Go kiss a pig, ’cause laws are changeable, you little ‘whooper!’ 😉

            The doors NEVER close on changing laws, made FOR and BY ‘the people!’

          15. And that’s what ca. and co. residents [should such medical fascism as ca. come to fruition] will DO, when they learn that laws causing vax injuries to children, due to a lack of non-coerced choice, are as barbarous as keelhauling!

          16. Jacobson v Mass does not require an emergency. Have someone read this to you, Grace:

            “Harlan ruled that personal liberties could be suspended given external circumstances. During an outbreak, for example, the state can encroach on those liberties when “the safety of the general public may demand.”[4]He compared the smallpox outbreak to the Civil War (in which three out of nine Justices at the term served) by saying that a community has the right to protect itself both from disease and from military invasion.[6]

            *******More broadly*******, Harlan ruled that the State of Massachusetts was justified in mandating vaccination, as “there are manifold restraints to which each person is necessarily subject for the common good”. … [6]

            *******The Supreme Court **reaffirmed its decision in Jacobson** in Zucht v. King (1922), which held that a school system could refuse admission to a student who failed to receive a required vaccination.[8]”*******

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

          17. “1. Zucht v. King: Applying Jacobson to School Mandates
            In 1922, the Supreme Court held in Zucht v. King that a smallpox vaccination mandate
            for school admission was a valid exercise of the police power.61 In a cursory, unanimous
            decision, the Court cited to Jacobson as settling that compulsory vaccination may be a
            requirement of public school admission.62 The Court denied the petitioner’s claim of
            infringement of her 5th and 14th Amendment rights based on Jacobson.
            63 It considered, though, that the law might have been administered in a way that violated her rights.64 Nonetheless, the
            Court found that the school vaccination mandate had not conferred arbitrary power but “only that broad discretion required for the protection of the public health.”65 The Court did not inquire into the circumstances of the epidemic and affirmed substantial deference to school boards, with
            smallpox as the relevant, but unnamed, backdrop.
            Zucht did not alter Jacobson’s fundamental analysis that necessity is required to justify
            state police powers – it simply applied this analysis to schools specifically. Whether because the Justices thought that Jacobson’s analysis was sufficient, or because smallpox posed an obvious
            risk, the Supreme Court affirmed the mandate without detailed discussion. Indeed, Zucht is a
            three paragraph decision presumably intended to stop judicial challenges to school smallpox
            vaccination mandates. But Zucht did shift Jacobson’s paradigm somewhat, by upholding a
            mandate exclusively for children and not for the entire population. Still, Zucht did not lower
            Jacobson’s threshold of necessity to compel vaccination.”
            PUBLIC LAW & LEGAL THEORY RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
            WORKING PAPER NO. 10-64
            Reconsidering Compulsory Childhood Vaccination
            Sept 2010

          18. Your point? ” the Court found that the school vaccination mandate had not conferred arbitrary power but “only broad discretion required for the protection of the public health. . . . The Court did not inquire into the circumstances of the epidemic and affirmed substantial deference to school boards, with smallpox as the relevant, but unnamed, backdrop. …the Supreme Court affirmed the mandate without detailed discussion. Indeed, Zucht is a three paragraph decision presumably intended to stop judicial challenges to school smallpox vaccination mandates.”

            Get thee to a RIF class!

          19. You’re still parroting that discredited chiro who turned tail and ran. I don’t think you understand research. In fact, I know you don’t to say such a stupid thing. You have some issue with the CDC’s research, take it up with them.

            I prefer a nurse not make me sick (physically, not the way you do) when I’m the patient. You guys yap and yap about hospital safety, yet you oppose this? Can you say “hypocrite”?

          20. Get new glasses, Katia, I didn’t quote anyone.

            You keep posting these opt in internet surveys, even though you got a spanking for it from a statistically savvy commenter who told you:

            (Those) were counted on an Internet opt-in basis, meaning they were self-selected by themselves. As opposed to a true count-everyone-in-a-defined-cohort, which is a basic best-practice procedure to obtain meaningful results.

            Can you say hypocrite? Lol.

          21. You lying witch! “I didn’t quote anyone”, after which you go on to quote someone, though leaving the quote marks off, because you’re dishonest. It was that jagoff chiropractor, who we haven’t heard from in weeks, because he couldn’t keep up with the science people on this board.

            He’s no computer expert, he’s a chiropractor! They don’t deal with statistics, because they can’t. They’re charlatans, quacks. Statistics would invalidate everything they do. I might remind you that his rejoinder was even more flawed, by your lofty standards.

            You don’t know sh*t about statistics grace if you think that’s the “best practice”.

            Did I use enough profanity for you, you with your “surfeit” of decency?

          22. I still remember the calm rational polite Katia, who used to spend time calmly explaining things to these idiots who are clearly incapable of turning away from their irrational ideologies.

            Welcome to the Dark Side, new improved evil Katia! 🙂

          23. Boy, you are just a wealth of bias and misinformation aren’t you? Chiropractors (8 years of college) don’t deal with statistics? Naturopaths (8 years of college) I am sure fall into the same category. But then you as a nurse (4 years of college today, 2 years back in your day) know statistics. I am sure that osteopaths fall under your glare of scrutiny as well. How about podiatrists and optometrists? And the MD’s that question vaccines were at the bottom of class huh?

          24. You called me a POS. Well, I’m calling you one. I have a BSN and graduate credits and I took an undergrad course in statistics. Chiropractic quackery and naturopathic quackery have nothing to do with podiatry and optometry. The former are quackery and charlatanism, the latter are legitimate health care professions.

          25. Calm down Katia. I called you a POS? I don’t recall that at all. You are delusional, biased, prejudiced and ill-informed, but I don’t know you well enough to call you a POS. I am sure that you are a delusional, biased, prejudiced and ill-informed good person with good intentions. You are just wrong on the subject of alternative health care or seriously out of date and contact, Which seems to be evident

          26. My mistake, that was little b brian. I apologize, something you RARELY hear on this board, particularly from the AVs.

            Talk about a backhanded “compliment”. And I’m getting very annoyed that because I haven’t worked in 5 months, that I’m hopelessly ancient and behind the times.

            Alt. medicine that works is called “Medicine”.

          27. and many of them are suing because they were FORCED to have the shot or lose their job and they are suing the hospitals. nice try though

          28. Yes? Your point? Nurses were forced to have shot that A They did not want B was ineffective or they would lose their jobs. Maybe not in that imaginary land in your head, but in the real world, real nurses got fired for not getting a flu shot.

          29. Sucks to be them. They can get a job sweeping floors in an office then. No sympathy whatsoever to those disgraces to the profession.

          30. There are possible avenues to pursue in the courts.
            For now, the biggest battles are political push back of lobbyists manipulation.

          31. Uh huh.

            Maybe you missed it. The “push back” is parents who are fed up with the dumb excuses people use for not getting their kids vaccinated.

          32. Place your children in a sterile bubble then!

            Problem solved, ’cause even if yall get your way in the schools, they’ll be lots of OTHER places all over town we can get our cootied microbiomes [which you illogically fear instead of embrace], all OVER you and your kiddies, darlin’! 😉

          33. They didn’t start vaccinating for smallpox in the U.S. until the 1800’s…from the History of Vaccines-

            “French Doctors Investigate Animal Vaccine

            Awareness of the danger of the spread of diseases such as syphilis via arm-to-arm transmission of vaccine virus began to grow in France. Several doctors, having read of the Neopolitan practice of serial vaccination of calves with vaccinia, had a vaccinated calf shipped to Paris, where it was used as a source of vaccine.

            The use of calves for vaccine material came to be widespread, not only in France, but in other parts of Europe and the United States. Great Britain, however, did not adopt the practice in until 1881 and finally banned arm-to-arm transmission in 1898.

            1876

            Efforts Increase Vaccine Production

            The New York Board of Health established a vaccine farm in Lakeview, New Jersey. Lymph from calves infected with cowpox virus was harvested and used as vaccine. The use of animal lymph reduced transmission of human illnesses such as leprosy and syphilis.The Wyeth strain of vaccine was later derived from this vaccine.

            1891

            Advances in Vaccine Production

            English physician S. Monkton Copeman showed that adding glycerin to lymph acts as a germicide. As glycerin came to be widely used, it reduced transmission of harmful microbes via the lymph.

            1898

            Britain Bans Arm-to-Arm Vaccine Transmission

            Arm-to-arm smallpox vaccine transmission was banned in Great Britain. As the Royal Commission of 1896 noted, lymph from calves was safer than human lymph, which sometimes contributed to the spread of diseases such as syphilis and hepatitis. Bovine vaccines eliminated the danger of human infections being passed on from the lymph material. Countries on the Continent had been steadily moving to the use animal vaccine since the mid-1860s.

            1898

            Regulation of Vaccine Supply Increases

            As smallpox rates declined, the apparent need for vaccination was less pressing, and the occasional adverse reactions to vaccination became more visible. At the same time, developments such as the addition of glycerin to vaccine lymph, the increasing regulation of pharmaceutical suppliers, and the advancements of microbiology led to the generally increasing safety of the vaccine supply.

            Of these, four are located in this State. It is somewhat humiliating to find that three of these are not conducted with such regard to hygienic precautions or even to ordinary cleanliness, as to warrant the Board in expressing anything but condemnation of the establishments themselves and of the methods pursued therein”…..https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/smallpox

          34. Cherry pie for dinner tonight? I read through your whole link. Here are some relevant excerpts:

            1802: “Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to encourage the use of vaccination against
            smallpox. Dr. Waterhouse, the first doctor in Boston to obtain vaccine material, convinced the city’s Board of Health to sponsor a public test of vaccination. Nineteen volunteers were successfully vaccinated.
            ****
            1813: “The U.S. Congress authorized and James Madison signed “An Act to Encourage Vaccination,” establishing a National Vaccine Agency. James Smith, a physician from Baltimore, was appointed the National Vaccine Agent. The U.S. Post Office was required to carry mail weighing up to 0.5 oz. for free if it contained smallpox vaccine material—an effort to advance Congress’s ruling to “preserve the genuine vaccine matter, and to furnish the same to any citizen of the United States.”
            ***
            1855: “Massachusetts passed the first U.S. law mandating vaccination for schoolchildren.”
            ***
            1864: “Awareness of the danger of the spread of diseases such as syphilis via arm-to-arm transmission of vaccine virus began to grow in France. Several doctors, having read of the Neopolitan practice of serial vaccination of calves with vaccinia, had a vaccinated calf shipped to Paris, where it was used as a source of vaccine.

            The use of calves for vaccine material came to be widespread, not only in France, but in other parts of Europe and the United States. Great Britain, however, did not adopt the practice in until 1881 and finally banned arm-to-arm transmission in 1898.”
            ***

            1882 “The Anti-Vaccination League of America held its first meeting in New York. Among the assertions made by the speakers at the meeting was the idea that smallpox was spread not by contagion, but by filth. This became a popular, though incorrect, argument of anti-vaccinationists.
            (My note; the more things change, the more they remain the same!)
            ***

            1893: “A Muncie, Indiana, smallpox outbreak illustrated the effect of lower vaccination rates on the spread of disease. A local physician noted that vaccination there had been largely neglected since the last epidemic of smallpox in 1876.” (My note, Ditto!)

            The US started vaccinating in the early 1800s, as you can see, and by 1855 Massachusetts required it of schoolchildren. None of this has anything to do with Jacobson v Mass.

          35. The use of calves for vaccination…

            Bovine diseases that are in vaccines-

            Borna disease virus infects human neural progenitor cells and impairs neurogenesis

            Abstract

            “Understanding the complex mechanisms by which infectious agents can disrupt behavior represents a major challenge. The Borna disease virus (BDV), a potential human pathogen, provides a unique model to study such mechanisms. Because BDV induces neurodegeneration in brain areas that are still undergoing maturation at the time of infection, we tested the hypothesis that BDV interferes with neurogenesis. We showed that human neural stem/progenitor cells are highly permissive to BDV, although infection does not alter their survival or undifferentiated phenotype. In contrast, upon the induction of differentiation, BDV is capable of severely impairing neurogenesis by interfering with the survival of newly generated neurons. Such impairment was specific to neurogenesis, since astrogliogenesis was unaltered. In conclusion, we demonstrate a new mechanism by which BDV might impair neural function and brain plasticity in infected individuals. These results may contribute to a better understanding of behavioral disorders associated with BDV infection”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22190725

            Frequent detection of bovine polyomavirus in commercial batches of calf serum by using the polymerase chain reaction.

            Abstract

            Twenty commercial batches of calf serum, obtained from several suppliers, were tested for the presence of bovine polyomavirus (BPyV) DNA and antibodies against the virus. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, BPyV DNA was detected in 70% of the batches

            The results indicate that the use of calf serum to supplement tissue culture media involves a serious risk of contaminating cell cultures with BPyV

            “Pestivirus has also been one of my areas of investigation in the vaccine industry. Because of it’s small size it does pass through many of the more common filters. The usual filter being used is .2 microns and the common smallest is .07 microns. There has been a statment that 99% of all foetal calf serums have pestivirus present. Foetuses don’t mount their own immune response till about day 90 of gestation so the presence of virus prior to that time will not mount an antibody response as it becomes excepted as normal when the immune system becomes active. Co-inidentally, pestivirus has been isolated from children with microencephaly. Although conclusions cannot be drawn, they are worth consideration. Foetal bovine serum is the most common serum used by the biologics industry”…https://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/july3.html

            Human and animal vaccine contaminations.

            Abstract

            “Vaccination is one of the most important public health accomplishments. However, since vaccine preparation involves the use of materials of biological origin, vaccines are subject to contamination by micro-organisms. In fact, vaccine contamination has occurred; a historical example of vaccine contamination, for example, can be found in the early days of development of the smallpox vaccine. The introduction of new techniques of vaccine virus production on cell cultures has lead to safer vaccines, but has not completely removed the risk of virus contamination. There are several examples of vaccine contamination, for example, contamination of human vaccines against poliomyelitis by SV40 virus from the use of monkey primary renal cells. Several veterinary vaccines have been contaminated by pestiviruses from foetal calf serum. These incidents have lead industry to change certain practices and regulatory authorities to develop more stringent and detailed requirements. But the increasing number of target species for vaccines, the diversity of the origin of biological materials and the extremely high number of known and unknown viruses and their constant evolution represent a challenge to vaccine producers and regulatory authorities.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20456974

          36. Why do you think that fetal calf serum used in vaccine production was ever limited to just the smallpox vaccine? We can accredit that vaccine for introducing viruses known to cattle into the human population though, we now have Bovine Diarrheal virus BDV, in our MMR vaccines right now.

            “Research was undertaken to determine which viruses that infect cattle or swine or bovine or porcine cells in culture also have human host range [ability to infect humans or human cells in culture] and to predict their detection by the currently used 9CFR procedures

            Serum collection is a non-sterile procedure and the blood from 2500 to 3000 (calf) fetuses is used to produce a single 1500 liter lot of serum

            One infected animal may contaminate an entire batch/lot and the sensitivity of current testing may not be adequate to detect diluted contaminants. The limitations of testing for viruses in pooled products have been amply demonstrated in the human blood industry”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206158/?report=classic

          37. You forgot to add “The times didn’t help things. Rapid transit and refrigeration were nonexistent, meaning cowpox samples — transported on pieces of cotton thread and intended for use as vaccine — sometimes arrived dead or ineffective”

            and you forgot yo mention that the year was 1782.

            Ione the liar strikes again!!!

          38. Can you give me your opinion on this article that’s all over Facebook right now?
            “SHILLS, are increasingly being employed by private corporations and contracted agencies, sometimes for marketing purposes, but mostly to distract from the truth and prevent public outcry about dangerous programs such as genetically modified foods, and any issue where profiteers put their bottom line and lust for control over the destruction of the planet and at the expense of our health. Trolls are employees that answered a work at home job ad on craigslist or some other venue…

            Shillidiocy” is a term that best describes the rapidly growing industry of people ready and willing to sell out humanity for a few pennies per comment. Disinformation has been used throughout history for political purposes and these strategies are being utilized today by these paid internet trolls…..They will “demand proof” then ignore it when it’s presented, or continue to demand impossible proofs. They intentionally divert attention from credible documentation, dismissing it without examination. (and then not offer any credible source themselves….and mainstream media, CDC, or any other gov’t agency is not considered a truly credible source).”

          39. Hows tricks Cathy? We havent talked lately? And how is the other sockpuppets doing? We havent seen Ibid, Bishop,Broke Zogby, Ivan, who am i missing?

          40. Poor, Poor baby. Somebody disassembles your lies before your eyes and all you can do is yell “SHILL!!!”
            .
            Why don’t you just admit you are busted, stop posting lies about scientific papers, and carry on a rational discussion? You don’t have to lie. You can just accept that the science does not support your fringe position and fall back on woo blogs and an emotional plea.
            .
            Just like you just did.
            .
            I accept your surrender.

          41. 101: How to spot a shill

            When you present evidence with references to peer reviewed published studies, by well respected researchers, and not just one study but several that all agree with the results, a shill will always call you names, accuse you of lying and tell you to go to skeptical raptor blog, the science blog, or red wine and applesauce blog.

          42. Well that means I’m not a shill because you don’t present evidence with references to peer reviewed published studies. What you do is make statements and them claim that that your references support your claim when they do not. You references almost invariably do not support your claims and they are written by authors that know and promote the value of vaccines.

            The difference is…..you lie. You are a liar and I call you out on it specifically and in detail with every false reference you make. I don’t go to any blog. I simply post the conclusion from the paper you referenced and post out that it does not support you point and……..you are lying. In don’t need outside references to show that you are lying. I just point to the reference itself.

            Sorry to burn your straw man, but it was very fragile.

          43. Wow!! I jumped on that link because if it was true, somebody owes me some checks. Alas, it was just another ione delusion.

            What’s wrong Ione? You could not recognized YOUR form of post? That was astroturf from the scienceblogs, not my writing. Did you check the links and see that?

            I’ll say… Nooooo.

            Since most of your posts are out-of-context astroturf followed by the link, you should be familiar with the process. Graceds decided to post astroturf from Safevaxx so I responded in kind. That mindless crap is easy to respond to in kind.

  154. Since Dorit gets to repeat verbatim her comments on here, I would like to repost this also, as I’m afraid it’s already been buried in the nitpicking going on below. I would like to have some discussion on what the implications of this virus found in our childrens vaccines could have on them…

    This virus Borna, is found in horses, cattle, rhesus monkeys, mice and dogs, all animals used in making vaccines, and the borna virus also infects humans.

    Borna Disease Virus and Human Disease

    In 1929, Borna disease was found to be caused by an infectious agent, and in 1990, this agent was determined to be a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus (25, 39). Borna disease virus (BDV) persistently infects the nervous system of many animal species, from primate to avian (120). Indeed, by natural or experimental inoculation, the ability of BDV to replicate in the nervous system of virtually every warm-blooded animal strongly suggests that BDV-like viruses are very unlikely to spare the human host.

    Over the years, information has also accumulated about unusual features of BDV-induced disease in experimental animals such as rats, mice, and tree shrews. In these animals, BDV can induce behavioral disease (e.g., anxiety, aggression, cognitive defects, and hyperactivity) without obvious physiological signs of viral encephalitis (e.g., fever, neurological signs, and decreased level of consciousness) (7, 48, 58, 66, 68, 99, 111, 112, 114, 115, 122, 136).

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88987/

    It seems there was quite a few studies done by the same researchers and here is what they said about it…”In the 1980s, the first significant serological evidence for BDV infection of humans was reported in the scientific literature (1). However, despite two decades of study and published serological, pathological, or virological evidence of BDV infection in humans, complete medical and scientific acceptance of the human as a natural target of BDV has yet to be achieved. Even more controversial are the specific human disease syndromes for which BDV has been proposed to be an etiologic agent.

    Much of the controversy in the study of human BDV infection is linked to technical difficulties in developing and validating a uniform test for diagnosis of BDV infection in humans”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88987/

    Some other studies with no abstracts but that showed Borna disease in young rats caused autistic like symptoms…

    Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S36-7.

    Borna disease virus (BDV)-induced model of autism: application to vaccine safety test design.

    Carbone KM1, Rubin SA, Pletnikov M.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12142944

    Borna disease virus infection of the neonatal rat: developmental brain injury model of autism spectrum disorders.

    Pletnikov MV, Moran TH, Carbone KM.

    Front Biosci. 2002 Mar 1;7:d593-607.

    1. I need to ask, what’s your point? Are you trying to say that a virus which has been found to “persistently infect the nervous system of many animal species, from primate to avian” is being introduced by vaccines? Or, as the studies say, it may be a causative agent in many human disease conditions that you currently like to blame vaccines?

      Ironically, if it was discovered to be the etiologic agent in these human conditions, the most obvious next steps would be to develop diagnostic tests, and, you guessed it, a vaccine. Wouldn’t that make your head implode!

      Luckily, as science always does, labs will continue their research until it is possible to formulate hypotheses about the clinical outcomes of human BDV infection. And from your first reference, “Scientists all over the world are actively pursuing these issues, and with continuing advances in clinical and basic BDV research, the answers cannot be far away.”

      1. Gosh that makes me feel better Pasta – “scientists are actively pursuing these issues”. Another vaccine perhaps to counteract the disease from older vaccines – great – but perhaps those that have already received 69 vaccines by the age of 18 and suffering malingering auto-immune and neurological problems caused by whatever virus or toxic ingredient from previous vaccines will start waking up and see a good wholistic practitioner.

        You might as what is Ione’s point – I would say so people can be aware and make healthier choices and not be herded like sheep to inflate Pharma’s coffers.

        1. Your response is utterly irrelevant and completely ignores any points made in my post. Beyond that, it is nearly impossible to comprehend just wtf you’re trying to say. Could you possibly jam more meaningless crap into a single erratic post?

        2. Iones point is that she still lies about her sources no matter what she is saying. Ione is a pathological liar.

        1. All she ever does is recycle other people’s stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an original quote from her. This Borna stuff is so left field – even for her.

          I had been trying to get banned from fraudpenny’s fb page, but couldn’t get her to bite 😉

    2. Nobody can tell what your point is but one think for sure; you are lying.

      first link: you forgot this:
      ” It is tempting to speculate that BDV might be linked to some
      psychiatric disease syndromes such as affective disorders (e.g.,
      depression) or psychosis (e.g., schizophrenia) or to idiopathic acute or
      chronic encephalitis.”
      So you post a study paper with ZERO conclusions. Well THAT”s meaningless.

      Second link:
      ” Until an assay of acceptable specificity and sensitivity has been
      developed, validated, and used to document human BDV infection,
      scientists cannot reasonably begin to associate BDV infection with
      specific disease syndromes.”
      What a SURPRISE!! still not useful data.

      Your third link is BLANK. It doesn’t even have abstract but in the Ione mind, it supports some know of argument.

      Not only are you trying to make an empty worthless point, but you are LYING to do it, as always. All I have to do is look at your links and IT IS CERTAIN that you are lying about the data. Are you a pathological liar or just insane?

      1. And you accuse others of being unable to think scientifically. But you and Katia like to think that anyone with an opposing point of view is lying because you cannot bear to think that your “beliefs” are possibly wrong.

        1. If you could read past your agenda, you would see that I did NOT express any opinion at all on BVD. I simply pointed out that what she posted is not supported by her links. That’s all.

          I may not even have an opposing point of view concerning BVD so you are just expressing your inability to understand what you read. I just said her point was unclear, and her evidence is intentionally fabricated, which it true. Ione is a pathological liar even about issues where there may be no disagreements.

          You picked the wrong post to try to make THAT point on, but It’s clear that you don’t know what you are doing anyway.

  155. A new study published in the journal EbioMedicine that examined the public’s mistrust of health authorities found that up to 43 percent of French physicians sometimes, or never, recommend at least one specific vaccine for their patients. The percentages varied because the study was broken down for each vaccine, determining whether the vaccine was recommended never, sometimes, often or always.The study concluded that “after repeated vaccine controversies in France, some vaccine hesitancy exists among French [general practitioners], whose recommendation behaviours depend on their trust in authorities, their perception of the utility and risks of vaccines, and their comfort in explaining them.”

    MEDICAL EXPERTS STATE MOST SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS CANNOT BE TRUSTED

    Other experts, such as Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of The Lancet, has stated that peer-reviewed scientific journals, like the ones purporting the efficacy of vaccines, cannot be trusted.[The] case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.(2)These remarks were reinforced by Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and editor-in-chief of the New England Medical Journal, which is bolstered as the most prestigious, peer-reviewed medical journal in the world:It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

    1. “A new study published in the journal EbioMedicine … blah blah

      MEDICAL EXPERTS STATE MOST SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS CANNOT BE TRUSTED

      I know I’m not the only one that sees the humor here.

    2. Hey Judith, I looked at your history. hear is a list of scientific journals you have posted as solid evidence just IN THE LAST DAY:

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22591873

      Rønne T. Measles virus infection without rash in childhood is related to disease in adult life. Lancet. 1985 Jan 5;1(8419):1-5.

      https://www.livescience.com/53359-whooping-cough-outbreak-raises-questions-vaccine-effectiveness.html

      https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150%2815%2901380-5/abstract

      https://www.healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/first-cases-vaccine-resistant-whooping-cough-found-united-states-2813

      https://www.nvic.org/Downloads/Jeffersonetal-BMJ2009.aspx

      Is it possible for you to be a bigger hypocrite that to spend an entire day posting references to scientific journals an then say that SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS CANNOT BE TRUSTED? Do you realize that you just said to ignore every bit of information you have ever posted?

      Do you even understand what you post or are you just a random cut and paste machine that has no idea what you are saying?

      WOW!!! you are a real crazy person.

        1. You are not bright enough to see that she DOESN”T research her points. She just posted contradictory points!!!

          If Ione actually understood what she was posting, she would NOT post a link saying that SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS CANNOT BE TRUSTED after posting dozens of scientific journals as sources.

          I know that thinking is beyond you but these two ideas are contradictory. That is NOT good research.

          1. The conundrum Facts is that those trying to force vaccines on others demand to see things from pubmed that support an opposing perspective. That does not change the fact that much of what is published for and against vaccines is open to question. However, considering the limited funding for research opposing vaccines, research that is done that does oppose the conventional view, despite big pharma, leads one to believe it as unbiased a bit more than the selected studies big pharma pushes out there. Too many researchers that have been forced out because they did not support the party lines.

          2. I accept your argument to a limited degree, but the lack of supporting data is no defense for lying about your sources and it is perfectly acceptable to call somebody out for a contradictory argument.

            On your point, maybe you should take a critical view of the situation. If the vast majority of the scientific information is against you, does not Occam’s razor tell you that you just might be wrong? Is it not the more likely answer that the all of the scientific community is simply correct as opposed to a conspiracy?

            Face it. Promoting lies and contractions are symptoms of extreme delusional denial. It is the behavior of people with bad ideas.

          3. The majority of research is funded by pharmaceutical companies or universities funded by pharmaceutical companies. The dissenting voice has a very poor unfunded voice. The danger of being “Wakefielded” is very real indeed. I don’t see any fairness or equity in the funding of independent studies. There is no fairness when it comes to being able to debate on mainstream media.

          4. Life isn’t fair. That is no excuse to lie. Life is particularity unfair to irrational and unscientific beliefs. Most people feel that irrational and unscientific beliefs are not entitled to equal time. You should be discounted and ignored as biased, unsupported, irrational, and dangerous ideas that are not worth one minute of consideration or the time of day.

            That is very unfair to you. Learn to deal with it because that is the way it should be.

          5. following that logic mr facts, the earth is flat, bloodletting is an acceptable form of treatment, penicillin is effective in treating colds, mercury is effective in treating syphilis, smoking is good for you, vioxx is wonderful, ERT does not cause strokes and venous thrombosis, and the low fact diet prevents heart attacks.

          6. You forgot straw men are full of straw. After you build four straw men, it’s just gish galloping.

            Post again when you have a point to make.

          7. So true – thanks for putting it in those words. In reality there has rarely been a post by a pro choice person that has had any positive acknowledgement by those paid to oppose their voice.

          8. The Spanish Inquisition was due to the inability to accept or acknowledge the possible validity of alternative “beliefs.” The rabid, unquestioning nature of most vaccine advocates is the very opposite of what they purport to be, i.e. “scientific.” When presented with opposing studies, name calling ensues, questioning of credentials, (i.e. “Oh, she is just a chiropractor or naturopath, quack.”) questioning of source. The stronger the evidence, the more vitriol and name calling that will follow. Most vaccine advocates are the very personification of what they accuse those of us who are pro choice of being.

      1. The paradox is that you demand scientific evidence of postings. If I don’t post a scientific link I also get vilified. It is a no win situation. Personally I do not need any scientific evidence to prove that vaccines are unsafe. I see the evidence all around me. The unvaccinated kids are healthier with better immune systems. You could say that whatever I post whether I post Mercola or from a science journal will not be acceptable.

        1. It is a paradox that us critical thinkers have constructed to deal with people like you. Yes, rational people want scientific evidence. When we ask you for it, we know you don’t have any. That is exactly our point. Your attempt to generate lies is the clear confirmation that you have ZERO evidence to support you ideas.

          I am perfectly aware that you need no evidence to express your irrational, religious faith in you anti-vaccine ideas. You are free to exercise you religious beliefs until they become a public hazard. You are NOT ALLOWED TO SPREAD LIES TO FALSELY PROMOTE YOUR BELIEFS. That is a moral defect that you have and the defense of your beliefs can be no justification.

          There is no defense for your lies. Period.

  156. “In November of 2014 the Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued the first report on America’s “Vaccine Court,” known as the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), in almost 15 years. Most citizens of the United States are not even aware that there is something called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and that if you suffer harm or death due to a vaccine, that you cannot sue the manufacturer of the vaccine, but you must sue the Federal Government and try to obtain compensation from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund, which is funded by taxes paid on vaccines. ”
    https://vaccineimpact.com/2016/government-continues-to-pay-damages-for-injuries-and-deaths-due-to-the-flu-vaccine-in-vaccine-court/

    1. Oh yeah. I read about that.

      How Anti-Vaccine Activists Are Gaming the Vaccine Court
      https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/vaccination-court_n_6173596.html

      Private attorneys have been paid tens of millions of taxpayer dollars even as they clog the court with more cases than they can handle, some of which the court rejected as totally inadequate. The court offers a financial incentive to over-file — unlike typical civil court cases, attorneys are paid whether or not they win

      1. Congratulations, you’re insinuations continue your how low can I go limbo of denigration of those unfortunate enough to go through the experience of Vaccine Injury.

        1. Hey, you brought it up.

          The analysis by Associate Press shows serious injuries are extremely uncommon. Most of the cases handled by the court are dismissed. They’re grifters.

          What is this though? …

          “Prominent attorneys have enlisted expert witnesses whose own work has been widely discredited, including one who treated autism with a potent drug used to chemically castrate serial rapists.”

          WTF?

          1. “The AP read hundreds of decisions, conducted more than 100 interviews, and analyzed a database of more than 14,500 cases filed in a special vaccine court.”

            Among the findings

            Serious injuries are extremely uncommon.

            Private attorneys make the same money whether they win or lose — even when they file cases with no medical merit.

            65% of claims are rejected as totally inadequate.

            How Anti-Vaccine Activists Are Gaming the Vaccine Court
            https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/vaccination-court_n_6173596.html

          2. Cherry picking.

            “Meanwhile, many doctors hired by the government to defend vaccine safety in court have ties to the pharmaceutical industry.”

            “Lawmakers designed vaccine court to favor payouts, but the government fights legitimate claims and fails its obligation to publicize the court”

            “Cases are supposed to be resolved within 240 days, with options for another 150 days of extensions. Less than 7 percent of 7,876 claims not involving autism met the 240-day target. Add in autism claims, which were postponed so the court could hear all of them at once, and just 4.5 percent took fewer than 240 days. Most non-autism cases take at least two and a half years, with the average case length more than three years, not including cases unresolved at the end of 2012. Hundreds have surpassed the decade mark. Several people died before getting any money.”

            Many claims fall into a vast gray area: The science is clear on only nine of 144 vaccine-injury combinations that a shot could — or could not — cause the illness. Amid this fundamental uncertainty, the kind of litigation the court was created to avoid is routine.

            Caught in the middle are families that need help.

            “The system is not working,” said Richard Topping, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who defended the government against vaccine injury claims but resigned after concluding his bosses had no desire to fix the major flaws he saw. “People who need help aren’t getting it.”
            https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/vaccination-court_n_6173596.html

          3. Overloading the system with bogus claims seems to be the biggest problem. 65% dismissed as inadequate, another 10% lose at the hearing

            “Many of those who received the $2.8 billion that the government says it has distributed would not have won a civil trial.”

            “Lawyers who double-bill for their time or consistently submit questionable expenses are not disciplined.”

            HHS has proposed some rules changes, but as long the government pays attorneys win or lose and they continue to settle cases where there is no medical evidence (i.e. GBS from flu shots) there are going to be the grifters that try to cash in.

          4. Based on a study of the Swine Flu vaccine which hasn’t been used in 30 years, and separate study of the 2009 H1N1 vaccine which suggested there may have been an increased risk of 1.6 cases in a million, for that vaccine only.

            “There is no scientific evidence demonstrating that current formulations of the seasonal influenza vaccine, which contain the H1N1 virus, can cause GBS.”

            https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/07/29/2015-17503/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program-revisions-to-the-vaccine-injury-table#h-55

          5. Just another bunch of “coincidences”, I’m sure, Cathy.
            For GBS to be compensable in Vaccine Court for the flu vaccine, it has to be plausible to the court by some mechanism, since there are no table injuries.
            Keep floatin’ down that river, Cathy, water’s high and risin’.

          6. I’m not even sure what your last sentence means.

            From what I understand, HHS has proposed adding GBS as a table injury for the seasonal flu shot – however there’s not even a 1 in a million “coincidence.”

            There’s more of a coincidence of developing GBS after getting the flu, but with the flu also comes the risk of pneumonia or giving it to Grandma or a newborn where it could be fatal. That’s not a coincidence. The flu / pneumonia is a leading cause of death in the U.S.

            The government is willing to take the risk and pay those iffy and extremely rare GBS cases because it’s still a zillion percent better than the the flu itself. Works for me.

            That still leaves us with 75% of cases submitted to VICP dismissd as inadequate. Antivaxxers gaming the Vaccine Court.

          7. ” Howard Gold of Gold Law Firm, who settled a case for GBS due to a flu vaccine in 2011 remarked:

            Petitioners have three (3) years from the onset of the injury (or two years from date of death) to file a claim. Gold states that the “Program is not used as much as it could be because the American public is just not aware of it. I receive at least 5 calls a month from individuals who cannot obtain compensation because the deadline has passed. They just found out about it too late. We all need to do a better job in getting the word out to the public that the Program exists.” (Source.)

            The other point to consider is that GBS symptoms can range anywhere from a few days to a month after receiving a vaccination, so many people who are suffering from GBS may not even associate their GBS to the flu shot.”
            https://healthimpactnews.com/2013/flu-shot-causes-polio-like-guillain-barre-syndrome-are-rates-higher-than-the-government-admits/

          8. “This is the heartbreaking story of a former professor of nursing at a Connecticut university. She and her daughter, Katie, talk about what happened to their lives after a Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) complication of a routine flu shot led to strokes and ended in complete paralysis for this once active, vibrant mother and grandmother”
            https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/October-2011-%281%29/Video—Flu-Vaccine-Reaction-Leaves-Former-Nurse-a.aspx

          9. Based on a study of the Swine Flu vaccine which hasn’t been used in 30 years, and separate study of the 2009 H1N1 vaccine which suggested there may have been an increased risk of 1.6 cases in a million, for that vaccine only.

            “There is no scientific evidence demonstrating that current formulations of the seasonal influenza vaccine, which contain the H1N1 virus, can cause GBS.”

            https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/07/29/2015-17503/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program-revisions-to-the-vaccine-injury-table#h-55

  157. “My honest opinion is that vaccination is the cause of more disease and suffering than anything I could name.” -Dr. Harry R. Baybee

          1. It might take years but your castle is crumbling – you cannot hide the information anymore. Your mainnstream news is losing its punch as people realise whose side it is on. You do not represent health or the best interests of people. Your industry is a sickness industry from cradle to grave.

          2. I’m not really sure who “you” is, nor where you get off telling me what I do or do not represent. Mainstream news? who cares? Nobody should be getting their science literacy from the news. Take your bogus paranoia elsewhere. You’re a fringe element, and nothing more. When the data supports improvements in medicine, it will be done. Anecdotal stories mean nothing.

          3. “… When the data supports improvements in medicine…

            Why don’t we just switch to stricter case definitions of every disease, the way it’s been done with so-called vaccine preventables, thereby “eradicating” all disease from the face of the Earth? LOL

            The “vaccine miracle” can rid the world of disease even without vaccines! LOL.

    1. That’s quite a list of ignorant chiroquacks, homeopaths who believe in magic water, anti-vaccine crackpots, ghoulish retired doctors who believe vaccines can mimick child battering including broken bones, subdural hematomas and bruising from battering, and doctors who ran journals and organizations who deny HIV-AIDS.

      Readers should note that there are ~ 1,000,000 doctors in the US and the anti-vaxxers can only come up with a handful of senile quacks and non-doctor chiroquacks and homeopaths and naturopaths and just general loons to back their delusion.
      Look into what each of those names believes. Disregard the chiroquacks and homeopaths and naturopaths since they are related to medical science about as much as Dungeons & Dragons is related to reality.

  158. “Autism may be a disorder linked to the disruption of the G-alpha protein, affecting retinoid receptors in the brain. A study of sixty autistic children suggests that autism may be caused by inserting a G-alpha protein defect, the pertussis toxin found in the D.P.T. vaccine, into genetically at-risk children.” –Mary N. Megson, M.D.

  159. “This report describes six mothers who received live virus vaccines and one who received a Hepatitis B vaccine during pregnancy after having received an MMR booster five months prior to conception. All the children who resulted from these pregnancies have had developmental problems, six out seven (85%) were diagnosed with autism, and the seventh seems to exhibit symptoms often associated with autistic spectrum disorders.” –F. EdwardYazbak, MD

  160. “Every day new parents are ringing us. They all have the same tragic story. Healthy baby, child, teenager, usually a boy, given the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) or DT (diphtheria and tetanus), MMR or MMR booster followed by a sudden fall or slow, but steady decline into autism or other spectrums disorder.”–The Hope Project (Ireland)

  161. Mandatory vaccine programs are “A violation of the Nuremberg Code in that they force individuals to have medical treatment against their will, or to participate in the functional equivalent of a vast experiment without fully informed consent.” -Dr. Jane Orient M.D.

  162. “My data proves that the studies used to support immunisation are so flawed that it is impossible to say if immunisation provides a net benefit to anyone or to society in general. This question can only be determined by proper studies which have never been performed. The flaw of previous studies is that there was no long term follow up and chronic toxicity was not looked at. The American Society of Microbiology has promoted my research…and thus acknowledges the need for proper studies.” –John B.Classen, M.D., M.B.A.

  163. “Crib death” was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood. –Harris L.Coulter, PhD.

  164. “The only safety testing that has ever been done on the pertussis vaccine in the past 50 years is an unproven method called the Mouse Weight Gain Test. The “scientists” inject the vaccine to be tested into the stomachs of baby mice. If the mice continue to gain weight and don’t die right away, it is assumed the vaccine is safe and effective for humans. That’s it! I’m not making this up!…….The only toxicity test required for the initial licensing of the DPT vaccine in the United States was this mouse weight-gain test 60 years ago.”—–The Sanctity of Human Blood By Tim O’Shea p. 69

  165. “These data show that DPT vaccination may be a generally unrecognised major cause of sudden infant and early childhood death, and that the risks of immunisation may outweigh its potential benefits. A need for re-evaluation and possible modification of current vaccination procedures is indicated by this study.” –William C. Torch, M.D., Director of Child Neurology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine

    1. Bulletin No. 6
      March 30, 1979
      Wyeth DPT Vaccine Recall

      On Wednesday March 21 this office learned from the CDC, Atlanta that Wyeth Labs, after discussions with the CDC, had agreed to recall DPT vaccine associated with sudden unexplained infant deaths in Tennessee. The vaccine associated with these deaths was all of a single lot number – 6420

      https://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/b1979_06.htm

          1. And there are some who want to bring it back, because of the efficacy problems with dtap.
            The article was a good piece of journalism, compared to sound bite articles these days.

          2. This information below is from the IOM which told a different history than what we currently hear. I chose not to vaccinate my children in the late 1970’s because of the deaths and injuries that DTP were causing. Yet to hear the news, no one ever questioned or refused vaccines pre-jenny/wakefield era.

            But the whole cell DTP vaccine had complaints of death and serious injury going back to its start in the 1920’s. Brain inflammation and permanent brain damage was associated with whole cell pertussis vaccine from the time it first started to be used in the U.S. and Europe. Concerns about the safety of whole-cell pertussis vaccine date back to the 30s and 40s (Mowery and Mitchell,1995). 

             By the 1950s, concern about potential adverse events led some researchers to begin searching for a more refined, acellular version of pertussis vaccine that would confer immunity with less reactogenicity (Felton,1957).  Studies in the 50’s said it was linked to long term neurologic effects. In the 70’s Japan suspended the use in infants. In Britain the public were becoming very wary of it and stopped vaccinating. It would take till the mid 90’s in the U.S. before we fazed out the whole cell. 15 years after other countries were using acellular vaccines. The public during the 80″s began suing the pharmaceutical companies over the DTP and so the VICP program was born. NOT because of the reasons always stated but because new FDA regulations in 1972 that required all previous licensed biological products to submit data for evaluation. Rather than do that, they simple folded up shop or moved to other countries with looser regulations.”
             
            “Pertussis toxin is still used in labs to deliberately induce experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in lab animals during experiments. Another toxin in the whole cell pertussis vaccine – endotoxin – can cause shock and death in humans and animals.”

  166. “The men who ran Germany’s death camps were scientists; they wanted to cleanse the gene pool and breed a super-race. They had no sense of right and wrong, and neither do many of the scientists who work for the NIH, the CDC, and the PHS.” – Dr. Stanley Monteith, M.D.

    1. ‘Medical Experiments in Auschwitz Conducted by I.G. Farben ‘(from the book “I.G. Farben – from Anilin to forced labor” by Jörg Hunger and Paul Sander)

      “Scientific experiments were also done in other concentration camps. A decisive fact is that IG employee SS major Dr. med. Helmuth Vetter, stationed in several concentration camps, participated in these experiments by order of Bayer Leverkusen.

      At the same time as Dr. Joseph Mengele, he experimented in Auschwitz with medications that were designated “B-1012″, B-1034″, “3382” or “Rutenol”. The test preparations were not just applied to those prisoners who were ill, but also to healthy ones. These people were first infected on purpose through pills, powdered substances, injections or enemas. Many of the medications caused the victims to vomit or have bloody diarrhea. In most cases the prisoners died as a result of the experiments.”

      “Another longtime Bayer employee, Helmut Vetter, also worked as a SS doctor at Auschwitz. He was involved in the testing of experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates and after the war he was executed for administering fatal injections.

      “The concentration camps were used as a huge laboratory for human experimentation,” says Wolfgang Eckhart, the Professor of Historical Medicine at Heidelberg University.

      “We have to look upon the camps as outposts of pharmacological research. The Nazis wanted to sterilise the population of the east, especially Russian people, but enable them to continue to be useful as workers.” From Auschwitz: 60 year Anniversary-The Role of I.G.Farben

      1. “In 2009, several schools for tribal children in Khammam district in Telangana — then a part of undivided Andhra Pradesh — became sites for observation studies for a cervical cancer vaccine that was administered to thousands of girls aged between nine and 15. The girls were administered the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in three rounds that year under the supervision of state health department officials. The vaccine used was Gardasil, manufactured by Merck. It was administered to around 16,000 girls in the district, many of whom stayed in state government-run hostels meant for tribal students.

        Months later, many girls started falling ill and by 2010 five of them died. Two more deaths were reported from Vadodara, Gujarat, where an estimated 14,000 children studying in schools meant for tribal children were also vaccinated with another brand of HPV vaccine, Cervarix, manufactured by GSK. Earlier in the week, the Associated Press reported that scores of teenaged girls were hospitalised in a small town in northern Colombia with symptoms that parents suspect could be an adverse reaction to Gardasil.

        When a team of health activists from an NGO that specializes in women’s health named Sama visited Khammam in March 2010 on a fact-finding mission, they were told that as many as 120 girls experienced adverse reactions such as epileptic seizures, severe stomach ache, headaches and mood swings. The Sama report also said there had been cases of early onset of menstruation following the vaccination, heavy bleeding and severe menstrual cramps among many students. The standing committee pulled up the relevant state governments for the shoddy investigation into these deaths. It said it was disturbed to find that “all the seven deaths were summarily dismissed as unrelated to vaccinations without in-depth investigations…the speculative causes were suicides, accidental drowning in well (why not suicide?), malaria, viral infections, subarachnoid hemorrhage (without autopsy) etc.”
        https://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-08-31/news/53413161_1_hpv-vaccine-cervarix-human-papilloma-virus

  167. “Vaccination is not necessary, not useful, does not protect. There are twice as many casualties from vaccination as from AIDS.” –Dr. Gerhard Buchwald, West Germany, specialist of internal diseases and participant in about 150 trials of vaccination victims.

  168. “I have no faith in vaccination; nay, I look upon it with the greatest possible disgust, and firmly believe that it is often the medium of conveying many filthy and loathsome diseases from one child to another, and no protection whatever against small pox. Indeed, I consider we are now living in the JENNERIAN epoch for the slaughter of innocents, and the unthinking portion of the adult population.”—W. J. COLLINS, M.D., B.S., B.Sc. (Lond.) M.R.C.S (Letter to Vaccination Inquirer)

    1. Syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy, and hepatitis, and smallpox itself were some of the diseases transmitted to healthy children…but hey, at least they were vaccinated for smallpox!

  169. Dr. Michael Odent has written a letter in the JAMA (1994) where his figures show a five times higher rate of asthma in pertussis immunised children compared to non-immunised children. He is also quoted in the International Vaccination Newsletter (Sept. 1994): “Immunised children have more ear infections and spend more days in hospital.”

  170. In the May 24, 1996, New Zealand Medical Journal, J. Barthelow Classen, MD, a former researcher at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the founder and CEO of Classen Immunotherapies in Baltimore, reported that juvenile diabetes increased 60 per cent following a massive hepatitis B vaccination campaign for babies six weeks or older in New Zealand from 1988 to 1991. In the October 22, 1997, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Classen showed that Finland’s incidence of diabetes increased 147 per cent in children under five after three new vaccines were introduced in the 1970s, and that diabetes increased 40 per cent in children aged 5 to 9 after the addition of the MMR and Hib vaccines in the 1980s. He concluded that “the rise in IDDM [juvenile onset diabetes] in the different age groups correlated with the number of vaccines given.”

    1. Evolution of multiple sclerosis in France since the beginning of hepatitis B vaccination

      “The results confirmed, at the global population level, a significant correlation between the number of immunizations and both the number of MS cases declared to the pharmacovigilance system 1–2 years later and an overall increase in identified MS cases in the country”.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266455/

      “A total of 82 articles were identified which included 58 case series or case reports, 15 review articles, 4 cross sectional studies, 3 prospective cohort studies, one retrospective cohort study and a case control study. After reviewing the literature, we observed that complications seen after Hepatitis B vaccination are sudden infant death syndrome, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, vasculititis optic neuritis, anaphylaxis, systemic lupus erytymatosus, lichen planus and neuro-muscular disorder.” – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506472

      “Hepatitis B vaccination carries a risk of anaphylactic reactions (estimated incidence less than 1 case per 100 000 injections). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15612143

  171. “Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.” —Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D.

    1. Archie Kalokerinos. Isn’t he the guy who said vaccines are genocide?

      Why yes. Yes he is.

      The old “Well it’s not killing as many kids as before,” has to be the stupidest thing ever.

          1. How do you joke about kids dying? Ah, because you already sold your soul. I think I will listen to the over 60 scientists who have stated SV40 causes cancer then snopes.

            SV40 sequences were detected in blood and sperm specimens of normal individuals and blood samples of patients (reviewed in [2]) while SV40 virions were found in urine samples (7), ***indicating that blood, sperm, and urine may represent routes/vehicles of transmission of SV40 horizontal infection in humans.*** Support to the diffusion of SV40 in the human population is provided by the presence of SV40 sequences in human brain tumors, other neoplasms, and normal tissues of children and adults (reviewed in 2;8–11); specific SV40-neutralizing antibodies in human sera (12,13); and SV40 large T antigen (Tag) antibodies in sera of mesothelioma patients (14). A scientific panel recently established the importance of assessing the ways of contagion and the mechanisms of SV40 transmission in humans (5).

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1431373/

          2. I’m not joking about children dying.

            I’m laughing at you because you a believe a stupid, debunked trope recycled by a documented moron.

          3. A 2013 study linking SV40 with brain cancer

            Significant prevalence of antibodies reacting with simian virus 40 mimotopes in sera from patients affected by glioblastoma multiforme

            “Results Our data indicate that in serum samples from GBM-affected patients (n = 44), the prevalence of antibodies against SV40 viral capsid protein antigens is statistically significantly higher (34%, P = .016 and P = .03) than in the control groups (15%), represented by healthy subjects (n = 101) and patients affected by breast cancer (n = 78), respectively.

            Conclusion Our data indicate that SV40, or a closely related yet undiscovered human polyomavirus, is associated with a subset of GBM and circulates in humans. Our study can be transferred to the clinical oncology application to discriminate different types of heterogeneous GBM, which in turn may address an innovative therapeutic approach to this fatal cancer.”

            https://neuro-oncology.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/4/513.abstract

            2014 study linking SV40 with bone cancer

            Significant association between human osteosarcoma and simian virus 40

            CONCLUSIONS:

            “The data from the current study indicate an association between OS and SV40. These data could be transferred to clinical applications for innovative therapies to address SV40-positive OS.” Cancer 2014. © 2014 American Cancer Society…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377935

          4. 1) “Antibodies against SV40” can also be a reaction to infection by human polyomaviruses, BKV or JCV. “The human antibody response to polyomavirus capsid proteins is not well characterized.”
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19218208

            2) 12% of a sample of German medical students in 1952 had “antibodies reacting with simian virus 40,” three years before the first polio vaccine.
            https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20288954_Sera_collected_before_introduction_of_contaminated_polio_vaccine_contain_antibodies_against_SV40

            3) Epidemiological studies in the late 90s, in which thousands of polio vaccine recipients were studied, indicated this population did not have an increased risk of developing cancer, even 35 years later.
            https://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/7/532.full

            Full stop.

          5. Because no doubt it’s annoying every time a new crop of idiots “discovers” this 50 year old bunko.

            Notice the line that says “It has not been determined that SV40 causes these cancers.”

            Or “The majority of scientific evidence suggests that SV40-contaminated vaccine did not cause cancer, however there will always be some crank that manages to publish some conflicting crap.”

            Another antivaccine zombie meme: polio vaccine and SV40 and cancer, oh, my!
            https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/another-antivaccine-zombie-meme-sv40-and-cancer-and-polio-oh-my/

          6. All the recent studies since have proved it does indeed cause cancer..here are your ‘cranks’

            From the Article Rogue Virus in the Vaccine San Francisco Chronicle

            More than 60 scientists gathered on a warm weekend at the University of Chicago’s downtown conference center. Despite numerous faxes and certified letters inviting him, Strickler declined to attend.

            Carbone opened the conference by confronting the question of whether SV40 is present in humans.

            “Sixty-two papers from 30 laboratories from around the world have reported SV40 in human tissues and tumors,” he said. “It is very difficult to believe that all of these papers, all of the techniques used and all of the people around the world are wrong.”

            For two days, scientists from as far away as China and New Zealand presented the results of their studies, with almost every speaker concluding that SV40 was present in the tissues they examined.

            At times, the meeting took on almost revivalist overtones as scientist after scientist said he or she was initially very skeptical of SV40’s presence in human tumors but was now a believer.

            I was a hard sell,” said Testa, the Philadelphia geneticist who conducted the first multilaboratory tests, noting that the study had convinced him.

            Gazdar, the cancer researcher from Texas, showed a slide describing his transformation: “Nonbeliever — Believer – Zealot.”

            The conference concluded with a consensus among the leading scientists that SV40’s presence in human tumors was no longer in question.

            “For four decades, government officials have insisted that there is no evidence the simian virus called SV40 is harmful to humans. But in recent years, dozens of scientific studies have found the virus in a steadily increasing number of rare brain, bone and lung-related tumors – the same malignant cancer SV40 causes in lab animals,” the report said. “Even more troubling, the virus has been detected in tumors removed from people never inoculated with the contaminated vaccine, leading some to worry that those infected by the vaccine might be spreading SV40.”

            Dr. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., told the paper he believed the virus was carcinogenic in humans.

            “We need to be creating therapies for people who have these cancers, and now we may be able to because we have a target – SV40,” he said.

            Others say the few government studies regarding the potential link have been flawed.

            “The government has not sponsored any real research. Here’s something possibly affecting millions of Americans, and they’re indifferent,” Dr. Adi Gazdar, a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cancer researcher, said. “Maybe they don’t want to find out.”

            Despite ongoing denials, an increasing number of researchers continue to maintain that not only is there a bona fide link between Salk’s SV40-tainted vaccines and cancer, that federal government officials and agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of such vaccines – then and now – are loathe to admit it, perhaps because they fear the fallout in terms of lawsuits and lost credibility.”

          7. J Hematol Oncol. 2014 Apr 29;7:38. doi: 10.1186/1756-8722-7-38.

            Antibodies reacting with Simian Virus 40 capsid protein mimotopes in serum samples from patients affected by uveal melanoma.

            Abstract

            The uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common human intraocular tumour. Simian Virus 40 (SV-40) is a small DNA tumor virus detected in some malignancies, including the cutaneous melanoma. In this study an indirect ELISA using synthetic peptides that mimic SV-40 antigens, was employed to detect antibodies against SV-40 in serum samples from UM patients. Our report indicates a significant higher prevalence of antibodies against SV-40 capsid protein antigens in serum samples from UM patients compared to controls. Our data suggest an association between UM and SV-40, indicating that patients affected by uveal melanoma tested SV-40-positive could be treated by innovative therapies

            Carcinogenesis. 2014 Feb;35(2):407-14. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgt322. Epub 2013 Oct 15.

            Long-term exposure of mesothelial cells to SV40 and asbestos leads to malignant transformation and chemotherapy resistance.

            Cleaver AL1, Bhamidipaty K, Wylie B, Connor T, Robinson C, Robinson BW, Mutsaers SE, Lake RA.

            Expert Rev Respir Med. 2011 Oct;5(5):683-97. doi: 10.1586/ers.11.51.

            Simian virus 40 transformation, malignant mesothelioma and brain tumors.

            Qi F1, Carbone M, Yang H, Gaudino G.

            Cancer. 2015 Aug 1;121(15):2618-26. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29404. Epub 2015 Apr 15.

            Immunologic evidence of a strong association between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and simian virus 40.

            CONCLUSIONS:

            Our data indicate a strong association between NHL and SV40 and thus a need for innovative therapeutic approaches for this hematologic malignancy.

            © 2015 American Cancer Society.

          8. Same author: Elisa Mazzoni

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Mazzoni%20E%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=24886631

            Detecting antibodies against SV-40 is not the same as detecting SV-40. Humans who have antibodies against SV40 are probably infected by a human polyomavirus (HPyV). Mazzoni and her partner Ilaria Bononi have written a few papers about that also

            https://www.scienceopen.com/user/58d14672-b4b1-419b-954d-4d96b4a4fdad/other-publications

            And still no link between SV40 and cancer in humans.

          9. And all the rest of the studies by different authors?…..How far are you willing to lie about children dying “Cathy”? Is each word out of your mouth condemning your soul?

          10. Children aren’t dying from this monkey virus crap. SV40 hasn’t been in any U.S. vaccine for 50 years, and it didn’t cause cancer in anyone back then either.

            Anybody ever tell you you’re not quite right in the head?

          11. Annoying for you and your Pharma Group. However nothing you have said has refuted the evidence in the slightest.

          12. The Cathy/Ivan/Zogby/Brooke Dunne et al. sockpuppets have to change the subject because they are unable to refute the evidence.

            These pharmaceutical social media marketers are required to derail any discussion of Simian Vacuolating Virus 40 (SV 40).

          13. Speaking of aliens, your new skit is ready, and it involves your insatiable fantasy of space monsters and probes!

      1. He wrote a book “Every Second Child” 50% of Australian aborigine children were dying after being vaccinated. He found that by administering vitamin C he could stop the deaths. It seems that scurvy and vaccination is a toxic mix.

  172. In Post Vaccine Diseases of the Central Nervous System : Preliminary Results from the Mediterranean Journal of Surgery and Medicine Number 2 1996 On page 71….”Most vaccines have in their composition Thimerosal which has been the reported cause of neurologic and gastrointestinal (mainly related to the purinic nervous pathway) symptoms(6,7) These actions are not dose related.”

  173. “By the (U.S.) government’s own admission, there has been a 41% failure rate in persons who were previously vaccinated against the (measles) virus.” — Dr. Anthony Morris, John Chriss, BG Young, “Occurrence of Measles in Previously Vaccinated Individuals,” 1979; presented at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology at Fort Detrick, Maryland, April 27, 1979.

    1. Your sources are lying to you. The paper does not say that, quotation marks notwithstanding. It’s just another example where, because about 95% of the population is vaccinated, a 41% vaccinated subcohort of the sick is still a big win for vaccines. On a 95% vax rate, that corresponds to a failure rate of less than 4%. If you don’t believe this, post your calculation, so we can have a good laugh.

      If you don’t know how to calculate relative risk and vaccine failure rates, WTF are you doing here?

  174. A report on 479 whooping cough patients in the US states that 60 percent of patients had received less than 3 doses of DPT vaccine, while the other 40 percent of victims had been fully vaccinated (three doses or more). (Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control, July 2, 1982.)

  175. As reported by a Chicago Board of Health, during an outbreak of diphtheria in Chicago in 1969, four of the 16 victims had been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 5 others had received one or more doses of the vaccine of which 2 of these showed evidence of “full immunity”. (The People’s Doctor, April 1978, Mendelsohn, R.)

  176. A review of 1600 cases of measles in Quebec, Canada, between January and May 1989 revealed that 58 per cent of school-age cases had been previously vaccinated. (MMWR, Measles – Quebec. 1989; 38: 329-330.)

    1. That is, the 5% who were not vaccinated are 42% of the sick cohort. Big win for vaccines.

      Even though you are anonymous, you are embarrassing yourself with this innumerate nonsense.

  177. A case-control study has shown that 41 percent of meningitis occurred in children vaccinated against the disease. The vaccine’s protective efficacy was minus 58 percent. This means that children are much more likely to get the disease if they are vaccinated. (JAMA, 1988, Osterholm et al., 260: 1423-1428.)

    1. 41% of cases in vaccinated children, so …

      58% of cases were in the 10% that aren’t vaccinated?

      Obviously, the author here should have used a better calculator.

    2. Please explain your calculation of −58%. You are an innumerate fool.

      Maybe this example will help. 900 people out of 1000 are vaccinated. A horrible plague kills all 100 not vaccinated and 200 vaccinated. So more vaccinated people died. Is this is a win or a loss for the vaccine, considering that every single non-vaccinated person died?

    3. The polysaccharide vaccine was replaced by an extremely effective conjugate vaccine.
      If you don’t know the difference, look it up. I am sure the experience of searching the medical literature without preconceived notions filled with a lust for confirmation bias would do you good.

  178. “The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons.” (Review article: 50 REFS. Dept. of Internal Medicine, Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN. Archives of Internal Medicine. 154(16):1815-20, 1994 Aug 22. )

    1. “apparent paradox”

      No vaccine is 100% effective, and measles is one of the most infectious diseases known to man. Is it a paradox that as 90% or more of school kids are vaccinated, there will still be small outbreaks in vaccinated populations? Not really. That will continue to happen until the disease is completely eradicated. See: Polio, small pox for examples.

        1. Do you know the prevaccine infection rate for measles?

          Even at 95% vaccine effectiveness rate, there will still be small outbreaks until the disease is eradicated.

          1. I know that 1 person has died in the US from measles over the past decade, and she was vaccinated. I also know that 108 people have died during that same time period due to adverse reactions from the MMR vaccine. I know that you do not look like the picture you have posted. And I doubt you have children, yet you somehow feel you have the moral authority to mandate risky medical procedures onto others for the “greater good”.

          2. You know no such thing about measles deaths from the vaccine. How many times do you need to be told that reports to VAERS do not imply causation?

          3. I am pretty sure that no matter HOW many times you say such ridiculous things that I still will be able to see that A. you are a liar and B. Reports to VAERS stating 108 people died from MMR vaccine reactions do not imply causation, but confirm it.
            Katia: Queen twister of facts.

          4. Insulting? I can’t think of a more “insulting” action then to forcefully vaccinate someone against their will.

          5. Have someone read this to you:
            “DISCLAIMER: Please note that VAERS staff
            follow-up on all serious and other selected adverse event reports to obtain additional medical, laboratory, and/or autopsy records to help understand the concern raised. However, in general coding terms in VAERS do not change based on the information received during the follow-up process. VAERS data should be used with caution as numbers and conditions do not reflect data collected during follow-up.

            *******Note that the inclusion of events in VAERS data does not imply causality.******

            For more information, please call the VAERS Information Line toll-free at (800) 822-7967 or e-mail to info@vaers.org.

            I have read and understand the preceding statement. Click here to proceed to VAERS database”

            You quite OBVIOUSLY do not understand this statement.

          6. Post the VAERS case numbers then.

            You’ll find choking on a bean, traumatic head injury from a car accident, drowning, lung cancer, coronary artery disease …

            108 people may have died AFTER an MMR vaccine, but the deaths weren’t CAUSED by it.

            Continuing to post this ridiculous crap just confirms you’re a liar.

          7. “Zero child deaths from Measles and 108 deaths from MMR vaccine”

            False.

            What do I know about you? You lie.

          8. What do we know about YOU! You teach exciting positions for enhancing the most pleasurable carnal experience. And you LIE!

          9. No, the 108 deaths don’t include causal determination. But pretend they do. During the last decade before the vaccine, about 4000 people died from measles. 4000>108. So, which is the better scenario?

      1. Maybe he’d prefer a major epidemic as opposed to a limited outbreak.
        I know some would, like Cia Parker.

          1. Oh pooh! Coming from one with ties to the adult entertainment industry, your little charade is quite joke worthy!

    2. It’s a paradox because so many people are innumerate.

      To anyone who can do a relative risk calculation, it isn’t. Notice that the Disney epidemic numbers showed the unvaxed about 19 times as likely to get sick.

      1. Disney epidemic??? lol

        Dec 2015 Africa- Measles outbreak reaches 40,000

        In early September, we reported here some 20,000 measles cases in the outbreak. By the end of November the case count nears 40,000 since the beginning of 2015. In addition, the measles fatalities are closing in on 500 for the year.

        According to the medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), more than 77 percent of children affected were aged one to five years, and 88 percent of the children who died were from this age-group”…https://outbreaknewstoday.com/measles-outbreak-in-katanga-drc-reaches-40000/

        ‘Measles vaccination rates in parts of Africa surpass those in North America’

        “The GGA survey indicates that some African countries are now achieving near 100% vaccination rates, up by 39% since 2000.

        GGA, a research and advocacy organisation based in South Africa, produces a collection of social, political and economic indicators from all 55 African countries, including information on the fight against measles from World Health Organisation (WHO).

        The survey shows that 16 countries in Africa, including Tanzania, Morocco, Libya, Mauritius, Eritrea, Gambia and Egypt have almost 100% vaccination rates, and five others – Zimbabwe, Algeria, Kenya, Botswana and Lesotho, have higher rates than the US”….https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/07/measles-vaccination-rates-africa-surpass-north-America

        1. “Measles vaccination rates in parts of Africa surpass those in North America”

          Parents in Africa get it.

        2. Africa is a big place. The epidemic in your first link is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Notice that it is not in your list of high-vaccination countries at the second link?

          Another win for vaccines! Thanks for reminding us!

        3. link is not working for me and as it’s shortened i cAN’T MAKE OUT THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE ECTR.

        4. Measles outbreak…haha do they really think people are that stupid? It was an orchestrated campaign. Every minute mainstream media was propagating the fear-based agenda of big pharma. The 24/7 media blitz was nauseating… A painfully obvious pro- vaccine campaign.

      2. How many cases of transmission in California schools in this “epidemic”.
        No confirmed transmission in the schools there.

      3. And you can do a relative risk calculation? What is that? What is the number you have come up with? How many dead and/or damaged children have you “calculated” for your rock n roll lifestyle you sadistic tyrranical turd?

        1. I’m pretty sure a PhD in mathematics can do the 4rth grade fractions needed to calculate those values.
          You – brian, however, seem to not be at a 4rth grade maths level as is common with most anti-vaccine cultists.

        2. All you need is 4th-grade math. I’m sorry if it’s too hard for you, but try to follow slowly. Let’s take numbers from your own example, where 42% of the sick cohort was vaccinated. Now, we need one other number: the percentage of the population that’s vaccinated (including failures). It’s about 95%, but I’m going to be generous and make it 90% (this is in your favor).

          Then the relative risk is (58/10)/(42/90). The 58 and 42 are the splits in the sick cohort, and the 10/90 in the general population. That comes out to about 12.4. What that means is the unvaccinated were 12.4 times as likely to get sick. We can also see how many vaccines failed: that’s the reciprocal of the risk, or about 8% here.

          Any robot can copy/paste misquoted studies from the antivax web sites curated for the purpose. But if you can’t follow this calculation, you don’t have anything at all to contribute here except convincing evidence of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

          1. Any robot can puke up pharma propaganda, while blindly dismissing what’s right before it’s mechanical eyes and programmed responses!

            How many dead or injured babies for the greater good!

  179. Measles vaccination produces immune suppression which contributes to an increased susceptibility to other infections. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, May 1996; 79(2): 163-170.

    1. Actually, it’s the measles virus.

      https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S43/10/03O18/index.xml?section=topstories

      “We already knew that measles attacks immune memory, and that it was immunosuppressive for a short amount of time. But this paper shows that immune suppression lasts much longer than previously suspected,” said C. Jessica Metcalf, co-author and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs at Princeton. “In other words, if you get measles, three years down the road, you could die from something that you would not die from had you not been infected with measles.”

      This is a bug smart parents don’t want their kids to get.

        1. The study you linked is from 1996.

          The study published in the journal Science last year shows the virus is the problem. It’s a killer, even long after the infection has passed.

          1. The high measles antigen Vaccine created immune system suppression that lead to early death in the African trials.
            “Scientists pinned their hopes for a new measles vaccine on “high-titer” shots that are up to 500 times more potent than standard measles vaccines. In the early 1980s, they tested one of these — the Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ-HT) strain — on Mexican and Gambian babies 4 to 6 months old. During the next few years this high-titer measles vaccine was also tested on babies in Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Senegal, Haiti, and impoverished minority communities in Los Angeles, California. The general public was informed that EZ-HT “produces a better immunological response than standard vac­cines,” but a large, randomized controlled study published in The Lancet confirms that it was experimental and deadly.
            The Senegal Study
            All of the children were followed for up to three years. When the results were tabulated (using eight statistical procedures) it became clear that children who received the high-titer measles vaccines had significantly higher mortality at 41 months than children in the standard low-titer measles vaccine group. But they were not dying from measles. Most of the deaths were from other common childhood diseases. Apparently, the high-titer measles vaccines lowered overall immunity making the children fatally susceptible to diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, malnutrition, acute respiratory ailments, and other infectious diseases.”
            https://www.ageofautism.com/2014/09/minority-report-a-covert-cdc-program-inoculated-black-babies-with-deadly-experimental-measles-vaccines.html

          2. Does it hurt your brain when you have to act stupid? The vaccine doesn’t cause malnutrition. Lets try to explain it again, so you can pretend you still don’t get it..

            Biological challenges to effective vaccines in the developing world

            Nicholas C. Grassly, Gagandeep Kang, Beate Kampmann

            Published 11 May 2015.DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0138

            Limited or variable effectiveness of existing vaccines leaves children at risk of infection

            One of the main factors underlying the limitations in the performance of existing vaccines is variation in the immune response among individuals. Antibody levels and cellular immune markers show considerable variation after vaccination and in some individuals this translates into reduced efficacy. However, the causes of this variation and the significance of different immune markers for vaccine efficacy have not been established for many vaccines [18]. Twin studies demonstrating significant heritability in the immune response indicate a significant role for human genetic factors [19,20]. However, early life exposure to infection and other vaccines, maternal factors, breastfeeding, age, nutritional status and other environmental factors can also be significant determinants of vaccine immunogenicity [21–24]. In some cases, such as for oral vaccines against poliomyelitis and rotavirus gastroenteritis or for BCG, these differences are observed at the population level [4,25–27]. In particular, lower efficacy of these vaccines in low-income countries has limited their health impact and in the case of poliomyelitis has acted as a significant barrier to eradication [28].

            https://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1671/20140138.full

            The Immune System in Children with Malnutrition—A Systematic Review

            Thirty-five articles described vaccination responses to a specific antigen. The articles either reported sero-conversion rates, or antibody titre response. Studies assessing sero-conversion rates in children with severe malnutrition found mixed results: Six of 10 studies found reduced sero-conversion rates in children with severe malnutrition to typhoid, diphtheria, tetanus, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (DTP), hepatitis B, measles and yellow fever, and two studies found that sero-conversion was delayed in malnourished children. Ten of 11 studies found that severely malnourished children responded with reduced antibody titers

            Three of five articles reported similar adverse reactions to vaccination in malnourished as in well-nourished . In contrast, one study found that malnourished children given measles vaccine frequently developed diarrhoea, pneumonia and fever, compared to well-nourished children, who, in turn, more often developed a rash.”..

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4143239/

          3. So well nourished children do not need the measles vaccine as they can overcome the disease naturally. Sick poorly nourished children on the other hand can get sicker because of the vaccine.

          4. Gee, Ione posted some astroturf from a paper. Do you think she misquoted it? Lets see……

            bring up the paper on line…….

            Go down to the conclusions a read :
            “The final papers in this issue look forward to the prospect of new and better vaccines against infectious diseases based on advances in immunology and laboratory technologies that are permitting a new paradigm in vaccine research.”

            WOW! what a surprise! the purpose of the paper is to promote new and better vaccines. Is Iones point to do that ? ….
            I am going to say…….No.

            Why must Ione post papers that disagrees with her world view and pretend that they do?

            Because she is a pathological liar.

            Why is it so easy to point out……..

          5. I’ve discussed this study before with various antivaxers.

            The premise was that high dose vaccine might be more effective, and trials were carried out comparing it to standard dose vaccine. It proved not to be superior, and there was a (non statistically) higher death rate.
            Antivax sources like AoA claim that this means that vaccination against measles would by extrapolation kill millions of kids.

            What they forgot (or more likely didn’t understand or deliberately ignored) was that with no vaccination the mortality was even higher. The studies concluded standard dose vaccine was the best option.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8671571

          6. That does not negate the work done in the 1996 study. Anyone reading this can see that. Again, your handlers are not getting what they are paying you for; you are failing and looking foolish doing so.

          7. brian: Middle school student who got hold of the family computer. For God’s sake, brian, GROW UP!

          8. Except “he” didn’t link to a study, did “he”?
            As you say, it is measles which profoundly suppresses immunity, particularly cell-mediated immunity.

        2. I’m on the phone, haven’t read your link, but measles disease definitely suppresses your immune system for years to come.

          1. Unlike trolls, scientists are very careful in their language, suz. And here’s what the study little b brian referenced says: “Measles produces immune suppression which contributes to an increased susceptibility to other infections.” Known since at least 1996. Pretty definitive to me, suz!

          2. For a few weeks after the rash appears. Then the patient goes back to normal. Everyone used to get measles, and yet there were no large numbers getting or dying from any disease.

          3. Cia, Katia and Cathy speak of a new study from this Mina I show above, going back to the 40’s in several different countries, to try to show retroactive through computer models that measles could have caused death up to 3 yrs. after, by immunosuppression and causing other fatal conditions.

            Emory university gets many grants and scholarships from merck, so there’s conflict of interest as well!

            Until there’s better evidence, I opine that this is a major reach, and I’m filing this in the same genre as Thompson did at the cdc!

            Where is Autismo when we need him! 😉

          4. Well, I didn’t say anything about death three years later, that’s typical suz twisting of words.

            Here’s a good article, with numerous cites to studies within:
            https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/immune/measles-reset-immune-system1.htm
            “If measles trashes your white blood cells, you’re at high risk of
            succumbing to a host of other infections. The medical community knew this, but thought patients were only vulnerable to other ailments for a few weeks post-measles. What intrigued health officials was the fact that after mass vaccinations occurred in the 1960s, childhood deaths from measles plunged as expected, but so did childhood deaths from a host of other infectious diseases. In resource-poor countries, the drop in childhood death rates post-measles-vaccination was as much as 30 to 50 percent. In some of the poorest nations, it was a whopping 90 percent
            [source: U.S. National Library of Medicine]. Why was this?

            In 2012, researchers finally began to suspect why. A study with
            macaque monkeys showed that while the monkeys’ immune systems beganproducing new B- and T-cells a month after contracting the measles, these new cells only remembered that the monkeys had had measles in the past. They didn’t recall any of the other infections the monkeys had had. Basically, the monkeys’ immune systems had amnesia. This meant the primates would have to suffer from all sorts of illnesses again to regain the immunity levels they’d built up since birth [source: Smith-Strickland]. Could the same be true for humans?

            It appears so. In 2015, results of a study were published in the
            journal Science that showed children who got the measles and survived were more likely to subsequently die from another infectious disease than kids who never got the measles. In the four countries studied — Denmark, England, Wales and the U.S. — the children’s immune systems all appeared to be weakened for two to three years post-measles. Much like the monkeys, then, contracting measles trashes your immune system for several years after your recovery, making you susceptible to a host of other infections, and even premature death. (The researchers did say that due to the design of the study they could only find a link between measles infection and an increased risk of contracting other infectious diseases, but they couldn’t prove a cause-and-effect relationship)
            [source: U.S. National Library of Medicine].”

          5. But, how perplexing, a study in Senegal showed that children who caught natural measles and survived (the vast majority) subsequently had only ONE-FIFTH the number of deaths as those who had not gotten measles, either because they got the vax or just didn’t get measles. Because measles is IMMENSELY beneficial to the education and strengthening of the immune system. (Aaby, P. et al. “Low mortality after natural measles infection compared to uninfected children in rural west Africa,” Vaccine 2002, 21 (1-2): 120-6)

          6. Check out this dramatically titled snow job, titled ‘A deadly shadow: Measles may weaken immune system up to three years,’ by b. rose huber- a serious author wannabe who also judges flash fiction contests on the side.

            Her article will reference this michael mina of emory, which has coi’s with merck! I think Cathy shows the princeton blather above, explaining how mina retroactively studies cases from the 40’s, using computer models for the evidence to make his assertions!

          7. Really? unless you are one of the 145,700 people who died from the measles in 2013

            Why do I always have to point out your lies……

          8. I refer to much of the crap Cathy’s been contaminating the board with all day, [comment above brian] along with such muck and morass of being inmunosuppressed for 3 yrs. after measles, WHICH is yet to be conclusively proven.

            Especially when the studies use words like may and suggest [see below] and done by those having major coi’s with merck!

            “study provides epidemiologic evidence that measles may throw”

            “Our findings suggest that measles vaccines” said lead author Michael Mina, a student at Emory University

            Gee! Scientists sure like to use ‘may, can and suggest’ a lot Katia! Doesn’t sound so definitive to me!

            “Compelling evidence” is not proof!

            *underline is mine

          9. You’re wrong. That is the latest research. It was all over last winter, during the outbreak.

            Yes, scientists use words like that. Trolls use words like “always”, “never”, “toxins”, blah, blah, blah.

  180. And finally, my favorite quote of all time regarding vaccinations, nearly 100 years old:
    “Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccinations should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world in defense of their conviction”.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Those of you whom support mandatory vaccinations are promoting the violation of inalienable human rights. You support the violation of the Nuremburg Code. You will not win this, and if you pass false laws and mandates that give you the appearance of legitimacy to violate another’s human rights you will be held accountable later on, just like the Nuremburg trials. And I will be there. And I will be clapping when you are sentenced for your crimes.

    1. Gandhi was the same man who refused his wife penicillin which could have saved her when she was dying from pneumonia. Ultimately, the pneumonia killed her.

      His objection to the small pox vaccine was, to put it politely, just as wrong headed.

      You know you’ve lost the argument when all you have to fall back on is the confused utterances of a lawyer born 150 years ago.

        1. No, just Ghandhi’s ideas about medicine. He was not God (big G on purpose ). His word was not the inerrant word of God, either.

          1. That’s so funny! One post, I’m told I’m an old, washed up, out of it old bat, and now I’m a junior high girl! Too, too!

          2. Actually, that’s not true. I have extensive experience with the development of anti retroviral resistance in HIV, here and on other continents, and the proactive genotyping to identify drug resistance mutations. I did some similar work with HPV. Also, I’m not interested in your opinion.

          3. .. I have extensive experience with the development of anti retroviral resistance in HIV…

            Alternative explanations for the catastrophic failure of a bogus remedy:

            Pharma drug: It’s not failure, it’s “resistance” and the disease/patient is to blame. Our product remains excellent.

            Non-Pharma remedy: It’s a placebo, a fraud and people using it are stupid.

          4. This response illustrates a complete and utter lack of understanding in the development of drug resistant genotypes. Do you think these are just words thrown around to conveniently explain observations without crystal clear data behind it? your ignorance is astounding, and only surpassed by your unwarranted confidence in knowledge you clearly do not possess.

          5. “…drug resistant genotypes..

            Weasel pseudoscience.

            Every attempt to sequence and align a so-called “viral isolate”, produces a DIFFERENT RESULT (measurement noise), even from the same sample!

            The Pharma weasels use this fact to their advantage, falsely attributing the differences to a “mutation” of the virus. They call the measurement error “a new strain” and blame it for the failure of their product.

            Had they performed the same procedure on random patients, it would become apparent that every patient has a “new strain”, nothing significant here, just apparatus and algorithmic noise.

          6. Absolute nonsense. You continue to show an unbelievable level of ignorance regarding basic molecular virology. Identification of actively replicating retroviruses in patients is easily performed, and relevant RNA sequence information easily obtained. Increasing levels of specific mutations that have been mapped to specific amino acid changes that confer resistance to individual drugs or whole classes of drugs has been clearly documented.

            The things you write have absolutely no bearing in fact. Where do you even get this crap?

          7. “…Identification of actively replicating retroviruses in patients is easily performed…”

            MEEEEEECCC!

            You’re talking about PCR and viral load. This technique is used when the sequences you’re looking for are already KNOWN.

            But when you look for mutations the sequence is UNKNOWN!

            Therefore you cannot use PCR. You need to sequence everything from scratch, then align it with ClustAl, then compare it to a database of known sequences. … a big mess.

            Get the fk outta here and go back to pixelating pubic hair away, Chris Nielsen, it’s your only talent.

          8. No, dumbass, I was not referring to viral load at all. Where did i ever mention viral load? Also, many NGS methods do rely on amplification of fragmented DNA after library prep. Then there are many strategies for getting full coverage with enough depth. No database necessary if the sequence is de novo. So, again, you have no clue.

            Regarding the rest of your ridiculous post, go fck yourself, you clueless prck. Keep twisting narrative and moving goal posts. You’re fooling nobody with your ignorance.

            Also, no clue who Chris Nielson is, and don’t even give a fck. Couldn’t even find anyone in google. Ex boyfriend of yours? I’m sure he’s glad he dumped your ass.

          9. Triple punctuation = desperation, pain.

            Elongated vocals = gayness.

            Are you Linnea’s mom or dad?

          10. Ahhh yes, I do have a foul mouth. This, I cannot deny. But it does not change anything that I have posted about you or your lame-assed, pseudoscientific ideas. Plus, I have clearly gotten under your slimy skin. Just an added bonus.

          11. You’ve got your nasal appendage stuck in certain crack of my skin, for sure. Breathe deeply.

          12. Nor am I interested in yours! Anyone can buIIshit about anything online. Until you provide verification of your creds, you’re just the ‘pizza boy’ to me! 😉

          13. We don’t have any of their stores close by so it’s RARE that I get to ‘greet walmart!’ Har d har! 😉

            And yet, here you ARE again, pizza delivery boy!

          14. Where do you get this asinine pizza thing from? I did make pizzas back in NY, but that was when I was 17. These juvenile, irrelevant posts are why drama follows you wherever you go; and it’s all self-induced.

        2. It’s an example of fallacious appeal to authority.

          He refused penicillin for his wife, and she died because of it. A few weeks later when Mohandas contracted malaria, that injection of quinine was no problemo.

          As a fighter for Indian independence, he gets an A. Otherwise, not much.

          1. My, my! Here’s the woman shrieking on about profanity and the like! Glass houses and all that, suz.

        3. Gandhi is a great symbol of opposition to colonialism and white supremacy. On closer examination, many of his other ideas were awful. He had a highly-romanticized view of rural paradise, with a small (but native) elite in charge. He was indifferent or even opposed to instruction in English. Where do you think India would be today in the world without an English-speaking middle class?

          And he was also totally wrong on vaccines.

          It’s more interesting to me that the Sri Lankan anthropologist S.J. Tambiah noted how quickly longstanding anti-smallpox religious rituals died out after the introduction of Western vaccination. I guess Gandhi included this in his misplaced nostalgia.

      1. Because I like books a lot better than the Internet and have read widely from texts written over many centuries. People now fall too often into the trap of believing that those belonging to a generation from over a decade back were unintelligent, uneducated, unreasonable, uncivilized, and that now that we are steeped in messaging crafted by the pharma industry, that we are now in possession of the truth. I am fortunate in having evaded THAT trap.

        1. Your mistake is in gullibly believing every inane utterance from the era before there were scientific developments such as the controlled trial, to use but one example.

          And if you think that vested interests are more likely to hold sway now than they were in the days of medical paternalism and patronism, you are deluded.

          1. What is clear is that you carefully cherrypick your sources to fit your preconceived bias.
            Take the Arthur Allen pertussis in Sweden example.

            Arthur Allen, a journalist, stated in a magazine article that when Sweden stopped vaccinating against pertussis with DTP, that 60% of children developed pertussis.

            Now, his article said a lot of other things, all of them supportive of vaccination, but you ignored those statements. Instead you implicitly believe his claim about pertussis incidence, as strange as it may seem (who would believe that more than half of all the kids in Sweden would get whooping cough and no-one would really notice? Such an event would have provoked urgent meetings of the WHO pandemic and epidemic disease committe, at least, but no…).

            Now on the face of it, Allen saying so many kids got pertussis when vaccination ceased would appear to be a very provaccine statement. But in fact it is clearly wrong, as numerous other Swedish epidemiology studies have shown, including some from your own “hero”, Victoria Romana.

            So why do you cling to it so dearly? I’ll tell you why.
            It’s because you want to use it to make a point, that point being that pertussis cannot be dangerous, if only a handful of kids died while over 60% of the entire country had come down with pertussis.

            It’s a trite point to be making Cia, when evidence from elsewhere shows pertussis is indeed still a very dangerous disease. You even admit it kills one in 200 infants who get it under the age of a year old.

            Your reliance of a cherry-picked and obviously incorrect estimate from a journalist, when I have shown you many times clear evidence from scientific papers and proper medical authorities that this estimate is junk is very revealing of how you distort and misrepresent the things you read.

          2. I found a study last week on the mildness of clinical pertussis in Sweden 1976-79 which said that 19,000 children had been diagnosed with pertussis in it, and not a single one died. I read today that there were so many children who had gotten the DPT who had gotten pertussis anyway, that between the ineffectiveness of the vaccine and the many adverse reactions, that Sweden decided to not give the vaccine any more. And STILL had 0.6 children a year die from pertussis.

          3. Oh, I saw that on Mercola too.

            Then when I checked, I found out children in Sweden get the DTaP vaccine today.

          4. Right, this is just after Sweden had made the bad decision to stop vaccinating, but while most of the susceptible population had already been vaccinated.

            Care to tell us what happened after the three-year grace period, after there were lots of unvaccinated babies and toddlers? Big increase and ongoing pertussis, which resulted in Sweden resuming pertussis vaccinations.

            Lurkers: Do you think it was an accident that Cia stopped at 1979, only three years after vaccination was suspended? No? Neither do I!

          5. Except that Sweden continued not vaccinating for seventeen years, during which a lot of children were born, didn’t get vaxed, got pertussis, and STILL didn’t die, gosh darn them. Sweden only resumed using vaccinations when the acellular vaccine appeared on the scene, hyped as being less dangerous. Unfortunately, it turned out to cause fewer mild side effects, but just as many severe and fatal ones.

          6. The original is paywalled [similar free data], but here’s what happened to pertussis in Sweden when vaccination was re-introduced. You can almost taste Cia’s disappointment that the Swedes didn’t hold out until lots of kids weren’t just horribly sick for months, but went all the way and died. (At least three did die, but two had serious congenital defects, and deaths of that type count only when they can be attributed to vaccines, not when they are mere culling of the herd.)

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98a37ea90ddc4f8aec8ce219a879f916ed1a604f2ca2a06d53a6b1a6e4f0b81b.jpg

          7. And I found an article this week that said pertussis hadn’t changed at all in 100 years, something you constantly dispute.

          8. I’ll answer this tomorrow. I’ll probably answer Dorit instead who said the same thing the other day. I found lots of evidence this morning on how pertussis and measles became much milder, with a plummeting death rate, BEFORE the vaccines were introduced. Death rates from the nineteenth century to compare with death rates in the twentieth. There is no comparison and it’s a really silly thing to say. And there has never been an effective allopathic medical treatment for either, in the absence of a bacterial complication. They both stopped being killer diseases because of better nourishment and because the diseases evolved to become less virulent.

          9. I’m sorry, you are just full of it, cia. I still have my pediatric nursing text from college. I have it sitting in front of me now. The date of publication is 1969. We didn’t cover CDs much; there was no active anti-IZ movement in Pittsburgh at the time. However, there is a table of CDs, and here is what it says about pertussis: “Very serious disease during infancy because of complication of bronchopneumonia. Otitis media, marasmus (severe undernourishment), bronchiectasis (incurable damage to airways) and atelectasis (collapsed lung) may occur. Hemmorhage may occur during paroxysms of coughing. Encephalitis.”

            Now I suppose this information was written in the mid-1960s. There is no, and I mean NO, scientific evidence to support your last statement. None whatsover. I want every lurker to understand that. This is totally a figment of cia’s imagination.

          10. Katia, even in 1969 they were becoming increasingly aware of the manifest dangers of the pertussis vaccine. But how would they train nursing students if they had to tell them, Hey, you MUST give the pertussis vaccine even though it is unnecessary, often ineffective, and extremely dangerous!

            No scientific evidence?

            Dr. Justus Strom, 1960, “It may be questioned whether
            universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.”

            Dr. Douglas Jenkinson, 1995, “Most cases of whooping cough are relatively mild. Such cases are difficult to diagnose without a high index of suspicion because doctors are unlikely to hear the characteristic cough, which may be the only symptom. Parents can be reassured that a serious outcome
            is unlikely. Adults also get whooping cough, especially from their children, and get the same symptoms as children.”

            “During the 1960s and 1970s, two leading European
            physicians, Dr. Justus Strom of the Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Stockholm, Sweden, and Dr. Gordon Stewart, professor of community medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, began to question the use of mass vaccine programs in their respective countries, especially when the natural course of pertussis HAD BECOME MILDER in both countries, and the death rate from pertussis was very small. In addition, the neurological complications from the
            vaccine seemed to be more widespead than anyone imagined.” (What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization, Jamie Murphy, p 72-3)

          11. “…mortality rates from pertussis were declining even
            before the advent of the vaccine. Indeed, in the US, infant mortality from pertussis declined 70% from 1900-04 to 1935-9. In England and Wales, infant mortality from pertussis declined approximately 90% from 1918 to 1948 before widespread use of the vaccine. ..The decline in pertussis-related mortality prior to the institution of widespread immunization has led some researchers to argue that pertussis vaccine is currently superfluous and that it should be abandoned except for high-risk groups.” (Mortimer, “Pertussis Vaccine,” 82, in Plotkin and Mortimer Vaccines)

          12. “In 1977, Dr. Stewart reported that pertussis declined in
            incidence and mortality in Glasgow, during epidemic years from 1900-1957 (i.e.,before the vaccine was introduced in the UK). (Gordon Stewart, “Vaccination Against Whooping Cough: Possible Implications for Assessment of Vaccine Efficacy,” The Lancet, March 20, 1982: 668)

            “In a study comparing different aspects of pertussis in
            vaccinated and unvaccinated children, in family, school, and hospital settings during 1974 and 1975, Stewart revealed that there was no difference between the duration of illness, the severity of illness, the general incidence of whooping cough, or the number of primary and secondary cases of whooping cough in vaccinated and unvaccinated children.” (ibid 74)

          13. “As long ago as 1966, when deaths were still relatively high, Sir Graham Wilson, the senior doctor responsible for the control of infectious diseases in England and Wales, said: ‘Whooping cough has now such a low death rate that the advisability of continuing vaccination against this disease must be seriously
            questioned, particularly when there is reason to believe that vaccination has played little part in bringing about its fall.’ (Wilson GS, “The Hazards of Immunisaton, the Athlone Press 1967, 281)

          14. I’d be extremely wary of what Dr Stewart says about anything to do with infection.
            In the UK he is widely regarded as someone who completely lost his marbles. He was shown to be wrong about pertussis vaccine encephalopathy, and his public utterances led to parents rejecting vaccination and precipitated the worst pertussis epidemic seen in the UK since vaccination started, and which killed around 40 children.
            He then decided HIV/AIDS did not exist, as well as several other infections, becoming a vocal AIDS denialist.

          15. What a surprise, Mikey the wannabe psychiatrist is attacking Dr’s again. Get off the forum and go back to school you bg floppy. The vaccines caused the outbreak, you are wrong as usual.

          16. “The vaccines caused the outbreak”

            In 1975 the vaccination rate vs pertussis dropped from 80% down to 30%.
            This was immediately followed by a resurgence in pertussis, from a low of under 5000 cases per year to over 60,000 cases per year.

            Yes, I understand… the vaccine obviously “caused” the outbreak. How silly of me to think it may have been the lack of vaccine.

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          17. Sorry cia, you are totally unqualified to discuss nursing education/vaccine science in 1969 or any other year. Let me add, I’m educated, not trained.

            We’ve been over this Strom sh*t too many times now. You’re wrong.

          18. There were studies on severe damage done by the pertussis vaccine going back at least to the ’40s, so you would have thought they would have been taken into account in the ’60s, but you’re right, I could be wrong about how seriously they have ever taken ghastly vaccine damage. One set of identical twins in the ’40s got the pertussis vaccine, had horrific reactions, and both were dead by the following morning.

          19. Katia, the second half of my comment made it go into moderation, I reposted the first half, but the second won’t go up. Does this site not want people to find out the truth? They can all be seen in my Disqus profile if you click on my avatar.

          20. I’ve had some posts go into moderation forever that I couldn’t figure out, either. Suffice it to say in this case it doesn’t matter. It’s all hogwash.

          21. I just wrote out a lot of evidence in Word from many doctors and scientists about how the mildness of pertussis greatly increased over the years so that it was at the time they wrote (and still) usually a mild disease. Look at what I got up to Katia. I put up a lot more, but it went into moderation, I don’t know why. I broke it up into shortish blocks, there was not a single improper word. But fortunately I have it in Word as “pertussis becomes milder,” on my desktop, so I can post it when it is possible for me to do so. I also have a lot of proof on how measles became milder too, and figures from the US and the UK on incidence and mortality from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also proving my point. You might be able to see some of my attempts in my Disqus profile, I”m not sure how much outsiders can see of it.

          22. It confirms that we shouldn’t automatically believe implausible ideas, but wait for corroboration and replication. That is what science is all about.

            Wakefield might tell you how he got his todger burned a few times trying that trick.

          23. If you read the original paper, and BTW he and his co-authors are being vindicated for what they reported, you will note that in their conclusions they state “further study needed.” And, they did not mention autism except in passing. They were researching leaky gut syndrome.

            Most people don’t look at the facts, they look at what they want to see. And, I will admit that works on both sides of an issue. True science has no side, it is an open inquiry, however, unfortunately little true science occurs today as who is funding the study dictates what is seen and what is reported.

          24. “he [Wakefraud] and his co-authors are being vindicated for what they reported”

            He reported that he had discovered a new form of MMR vaccine-induced bowel disease, called “Ileo-lymphoid nodular hyperplasia”.
            The pathologists who looked at Wakefraud’s own samples did not even corroborate this, and no independent body of scientific opinion has verified this pathology induced by MMR. That is hardly “vindication”.

          25. Actually, Mike there have been several research papers published recently sup[porting his findings. I apologize for not saving them, but they are out there.

          26. Corrobaration like outside labs and every other author on the study? The lies flow like wine from you. Floppy.

          27. That know it all nutter? He was a great writer, and a good social commentator, but he thought he knew everything about everything, and he was wrong!

  181. https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/
    Is HPV Vaccine Safety an Illusion Maintained by Suppression of Science?
    “On January 14, 2016, Dr. Sin Hang Lee sent an open letter of complaint to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, charging members of GACVS, the CDC, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and others with manipulation of data and suppression of science in order to maintain the illusion of HPV vaccine safety in the face of valid contradictory evidence.”

    Parents deserve the right to choose without state coercion.

    1. Dr. Sin Hang Lee and this idea of his was shown to be crap back in 2011 and now he is at it again with his usual Gardasil fearmongering

      If you don’t remember Lee, maybe you remember a while back, when the antivaccine group SaneVax touted findings that it claimed were devastating to Gardasil. Specifically, they claimed that there was vaccine-derived human papilloma virus DNA in Gardasi. Ring any bells yet? And it turns out that the guy who made this apparently horrific “discovery” was—you guessed it!—Dr. Sin Hang Lee. Back in 2011, Lee, apparently either funded by or working with SaneVax, “discovered” that there was DNA in his Gardasil. As I explained at the time, there was a lot less to this claim that meets the eye. Basically, Lee used a very sensitive nested PCR assay to amplify and detect what he claimed to be vaccine-derived sequences from the human HPV strains used to make the vaccine. Specifically, his nested system, as I explained at the time, can radically ramp up the sensitivity of the PCR assay. Of course, it can also radically increase the chances of amplifying a nonspecific strand of DNA.

      Given that, it wasn’t too surprising that there might have been minuscule quantities of the recombinant plasmid used to make the protein antigens that go into the vaccine. At least, it wasn’t too surprising to me or anyone with a modicum of knowledge about how sensitive PCR is and how easy it is to get false positives. Even if Lee did everything right and actually did detect a bit of recombinant DNA from the HPV DNA used to make the vaccine. Does this matter? My answer, of course, was no, as was the answer of anyone who knew anything about vaccines and biologics. One factor to consider is how much DNA was present, which was almost certainly very, very little, given that it took nested PCR to detect it.

      https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/01/09/dr-sin-hang-lee-is-at-it-again-with-the-gardasil-fearmongering/

      1. https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/

        “As a medical doctor and scientist, I write to present grave concerns regarding the conduct of certain members of the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), the World Health Organization, the CDC and other scientific/health professionals during the time shortly before the public hearing on HPV Vaccine Safety which was held in Tokyo, Japan on February 26, 2014. I have come into possession of documentation which leads me to believe multiple individuals and organizations deliberately set out to mislead Japanese authorities regarding the safety of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil® and Cervarix®, which were being promoted at that time.”

        From the letter
        Parents deserve a right to choose without coercion by the state

        1. Dr. Lee states:
          Those whose names appear in my complaint and any who blindly dismiss valid safety concerns in order to continue promoting HPV vaccinations should be held accountable for their actions. There is no excuse for intentionally ignoring scientific evidence. There is no excuse for misleading global vaccination policy makers at the expense of public health interests. There is no excuse for such a blatant violation of the public trust.
          https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/

          1. There has not been a single injury from the HPV vaccine identified in the U.S. If you what to trade blog posts, I cn do that all day:

            In fact, even if Dr. Lee’s analysis was completely correct correct and his new, allegedly more sensitive methodology had actually picked up previously undetected traces of HPV DNA from the plasmids used to make the HPV vaccine, it is, as I described before on multiple occasions, incredibly unlikely that such tiny amounts of DNA could cause problems because, as I explained, it’s incredibly difficult to get naked DNA into cells and making the proteins it normally makes, and, even if Dr. Lee were 100% correct about there being undetected HPV DNA in Gardasil, the quantities involved are many orders of magnitude less than what would be needed to have even a whiff of a wisp of a hope of the DNA getting into cells and making its protein. That’s even assuming it could pass the blood-brain barrier or that the DNA fragments were large enough to contain whole coding regions of genes with a proper promoter in front of them to drive their expression. I mean, it’s not as though whole
            plasmids are likely to have survived the vaccine manufacturing process, and that’s not counting the fact that Gardasil uses a yeast expression system while the other HPV vaccine Cervarix uses a baculovirus (insect)
            expression system, neither of which would be likely to drive significant expression in human cells.

            https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/01/09/dr-sin-hang-lee-is-at-it-again-with-the-gardasil-fearmongering/

          2. So what we had was a fear mongering campaign derived from a nonexistent understanding of molecular biology. This campaign reached utterly ridiculous levels when the not-so-dynamic duo of HPV vaccine quackery, Sin Hang Lee and Christopher Shaw (who seems dedicated to the idea that
            somehow HPV DNA bound to the aluminum adjuvant in the vaccine is deadly) descended like ghouls on the corpses of two young women whose untimely deaths antivaccinationists have been trying to blame on Gardasil ever since they happened. This campaign reached a ridiculous extreme when they actually testified in an inquest in New Zealand into one of these two deaths, a young woman named Jasmine Renata, and tried, in essence, to claim that the poor woman’s body was riddled with HPV and that that
            HPV caused her death. It was an utterly despicable performance that Shaw, at least, followed up with an article in which he attempted to demonstrate that, in effect, Gardasil killed a young woman. It was not the least bit convincing.

            https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/01/09/dr-sin-hang-lee-is-at-it-again-with-the-gardasil-fearmongering/

          3. Uninformed and non-specific claims. Let me post the same thing from the 9/11 truthers

            are you a 9/11 truther also?

          4. His point is quite clear: individual, unverified YouTube videos do not constitute data, since any nutter can post whatever they want, e.g., 9/11 troofers. Keeping Brian from hijacking threads with his incessant unrelated crap is the real challenge.

          5. My youtube video are just as valid as Brian youtube videos in that they are not relevant at all. People recording their personal feelings is not an argument or evidence. Its called an emotional appeal. I am allowed to respond to an emotional appeal with an emotional response.

            Brains brainless post got the response it deserved which is ridicule.

          6. What are you talking about making? A cherry pie? A tart? Maybe some cherry wine? You’re picking a lot of them.

          7. brian, your mom told you to get off the computer and clean your room! Then she might take you to the mall.

          8. 101: How to spot a shill

            When you present evidence with references to peer reviewed published studies, by well respected researchers, and not just one study but several that all agree with the results, a shill will always call you names, accuse you of lying and tell you to go to skeptical raptor blog, the science blog, or red wine and applesauce blog.

          9. 101: How to spot a loser

            When you disassemble a posters lies and poor arguments, they respond with ad hominem straw men and call you a shill because your arguments are so good and precise that they appear professional. This is the actions of surrender from a fanatic.

            That is how you know they have lost.

          10. Your emotional videos are as valid against vaccines as my videos are valid supporting the truthers.

            If you can’t see that you are discredited, re-watch the 9/11 videos. Youtube is the land of crazies.

          11. Wow, you really are a shill for big pharma. Thought you were just the average bore, but you are a shill. Used to work inn the insurance industry didn’t you, “deny, delay defend” and with vaccines, “deflect.”?

          12. I post the simple and actual fact that ZERO cases of HPV vaccines damage have been confirmed and you call it a “deflection”?

          13. No actually your meme should use the original word for your position on the HPV vaccine. Your post and your position is that it is “inconceivable” that the HPV vaccine caused many injuries and even deaths, and I don’t think you know what that word means when it comes to HPV. You either live in a log cabin in the woods and never see news reports or you are a shill for the drug industry. No other way to explain your ignorance.

          14. Straw man quote? Really? i never said “inconceivable”. Why do you argue with yourself?

            It is not “ignornace”, it is a FACT that after 90+ trials, there has not been a single case of HPV vaccines damage confirmed anywhere, anytime. Why does nobody deny that point?

            Please, post again and get to point that out again.

          15. Numbnut shill man, you should really know where you are getting your meme’s from. Look up quotes from “The Princess Bride” to understand the response. And “wow” Japan, Europe, declining the HPV vaccine based on adverse events and you still deny it. Well, of course you do, it’s your job. Silly me

      2. 22 peer reviewed references in Dr Lee’s complaint.
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        response to aluminum adjuvant enhances MHC class II-mediated antigen presentation and prolongs CD4 T-cell
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        1. So you are saying that counting footnotes makes an argument valid? Really? Do you want me to point a list of foots that say that vaccines are safe?
          .
          How irrational do you want to get?

          Here are 75 footnotes that say the HPV vaccine is fine. I guess that means I’m right!!!

          Jump up ^ “Silgard European Public Assessment Report”. European Medicines Agency. September 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
          Jump up ^ Waknine, Yael (October 2, 2006). “International Approvals: Singulair and Gardasil/Silgard”. Medscape Today. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
          Jump up ^ Richwine, Lisa (August 20, 2009). “UPDATE 2-U.S. health officials back safety of Merck vaccine”. Reuters. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          ^ Jump up to: a b c Markowitz, L. E.; Dunne, E. F.; Saraiya, M.; Lawson, H. W.; Chesson, H.; Unger, E. R.; Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC); Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) (2007). “Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)” (PDF). MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports / Centers for Disease Control 56 (RR-2): 1–24. PMID 17380109.
          ^ Jump up to: a b Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2010). “FDA licensure of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV4, Gardasil) for use in males and guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)” (PDF). MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 59 (20): 630–632. PMID 20508594.
          Jump up ^ Lowy DR, Schiller JT (May 2006). “Prophylactic human papillomavirus vaccines”. J. Clin. Invest. 116 (5): 1167–73. doi:10.1172/JCI28607. PMC 1451224. PMID 16670757. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          Jump up ^ Muñoz N, Bosch FX, Castellsagué X (August 2004). “Against which human papillomavirus types shall we vaccinate and screen? The international perspective”. Int. J. Cancer 111 (2): 278–85. doi:10.1002/ijc.20244. PMID 15197783.
          ^ Jump up to: a b Cortez, Michelle Fay; Pettypiece, Shannon (13 November 2008). “Merck Cancer Shot Cuts Genital Warts, Lesions in Men (Update2)”. Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          ^ Jump up to: a b “FDA Approves Expanded Uses for Gardasil to Include Preventing Certain Vulvar and Vaginal Cancers” (Press release). U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
          Jump up ^ “The Ethics of Vaccination”. Springer Publishing Company. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
          Jump up ^ “The Ethics of vaccination”. Springer Publishing Company. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
          Jump up ^ Haupt, Richard; Sings, Heather (November 2011). “The efficacy and safety of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus 6/11/16/18 vaccine gardasil”. Journal of Adolescent Health 49 (5): 467–475. doi:10.1016/jodohealth.2011.07.003. PMID 22018560. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
          ^ Jump up to: a b c d “Gardasil full prescribing information” (PDF). Merck & Co. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
          ^ Jump up to: a b “Gardasil Vaccine Safety”. Vaccine Safety & Availability. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). August 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
          Jump up ^ “FDA approves Gardasil 9 for prevention of certain cancers caused by five additional types of HPV” (press release). 10 December 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
          Jump up ^ “FDA: Gardasil approved to prevent anal cancer” (Press release). U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). December 22, 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
          ^ Jump up to: a b “New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Efficacy and Safety Data for Gardasil in Males” (Press release). Merck & Co. February 2, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
          Jump up ^ Goon PK, Stanley MA, Ebmeyer J (October 2009). “HPV & head and neck cancer: a descriptive update”. Head Neck Oncol 1 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/1758-3284-1-36. PMC 2770444. PMID 19828033. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
          Jump up ^ Vousden, K.H. (1994). Cell transformation by human papillomaviruses. Viruses and Cancer (New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge). pp. 27–46. ISBN 9780521454728.
          Jump up ^ Masters, Coco (May 11, 2007). “Oral Sex Can Add to HPV Cancer Risk”. Time.
          Jump up ^ Vousden, K.H. (1994). Viruses and Cancer. New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. p. 27. ISBN 0521454727.
          Jump up ^ “U.S. Prescribing Information for GARDASIL® Updated; Indication Not Granted for Use in Adult Women”. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
          Jump up ^ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (May 2010). “FDA licensure of bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV2, Cervarix) for use in females and updated HPV vaccination recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)”. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 59 (20): 626–629. PMID 20508593.
          ^ Jump up to: a b “Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines”. National Cancer Institute (NCI). 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
          Jump up ^ Schieszer, John (November 2007). “HPV Vaccine Protects Against 10 “Other” Strains”. Internal Medicine World Report.
          Jump up ^ Block, SL; Nolan, T, Sattler, C, Barr, E, Giacoletti, KE, Marchant, CD, Castellsagué, X, Rusche, SA, Lukac, S, Bryan, JT, Cavanaugh PF, Jr, Reisinger, KS, Protocol 016 Study, Group (November 2006). “Comparison of the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of a prophylactic quadrivalent human papillomavirus (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) L1 virus-like particle vaccine in male and female adolescents and young adult women.”. Pediatrics 118 (5): 2135–45. doi:10.1542/peds.2006-0461. PMID 17079588. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
          Jump up ^ Kreimer, A. R.; Rodriguez, A. C., Hildesheim, A., Herrero, R., Porras, C., Schiffman, M., Gonzalez, P., Solomon, D., Jimenez, S., Schiller, J. T., Lowy, D. R., Quint, W., Sherman, M. E., Schussler, J., Wacholder, S. (9 September 2011). “Proof-of-Principle Evaluation of the Efficacy of Fewer Than Three Doses of a Bivalent HPV16/18 Vaccine”. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 103 (19): 1444–1451. doi:10.1093/jnci/djr319. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
          Jump up ^ World Health Organization (April 2014). “Summary of the SAGE April 2014 meeting”. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
          Jump up ^ Giuliano, AR; Palefsky, JM; Goldstone, S; Moreira, ED; Penny, ME; Aranda, C; Vardas, E; Moi, H; et al. (February 2011). “Efficacy of quadrivalent HPV vaccine against HPV Infection and disease in males”. N. Engl. J. Med. 364 (5): 401–11. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0909537. PMC 3495065. PMID 21288094. Lay summary.
          Jump up ^ “Gardasil, Merck’s Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Demonstrated Efficacy in Preventing HPV-Related Disease in Males in Phase III Study: Pivotal Study Evaluating Efficacy of Gardasil in Males in Preventing HPV 6, 11, 16 and 18-Related External Genital Lesions” (Press release). Merck & Co. November 13, 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
          Jump up ^ “Gay men seeking HPV vaccine”. Cancer Research UK. 23 February 2007. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          Jump up ^ “FDA Approves New Indication for Gardasil to Prevent Genital Warts in Men and Boys” (Press release). U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          Jump up ^ “October 16, 2009 Approval Letter – Gardasil”. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). October 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          Jump up ^ “FDA Approves Gardasil for Use in Boys and Young Men” (Press release). Merck & Co. October 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          Jump up ^ Roberts, Michelle (2007-02-23). “Gay men seek ‘female cancer’ jab”. BBC News. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
          Jump up ^ D’Souza, G; Kreimer, AR; Viscidi, R; Pawlita, M; Fakhry, C; Koch, WM; Westra, WH; Gillison, ML (May 10, 2007). “Case-control study of human papillomavirus and oropharyngeal cancer”. N Engl J Med 356 (19): 1944–56. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa065497. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 17494927.
          Jump up ^ Edwin J. Bernard (August 29, 2005). “HAART is not reducing risk of anal cancer in gay men”. AIDSmap. Retrieved 2006-06-08.
          Jump up ^ electronic Medicines Compendium (9 December 2014). “Gardasil”. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
          Jump up ^ Donald G McNeil Jr for the New York Times. March 31, 2014 Expansion in Use Of Cancer Vaccine
          ^ Jump up to: a b c “HPV Vaccine Information For Young Women”. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Retrieved 2009-06-14.
          ^ Jump up to: a b c “Gardasil Patient Product Information” (PDF). Merck & Co. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
          Jump up ^ Mike Stobbe (January 3, 2008). “Cervical cancer shots are gaining reputation as painful”. ABC News. Associated Press.
          Jump up ^ Amy Fagan (10 July 2008). “Merck, FDA expand Gardasil warnings”. The Washington Times.
          ^ Jump up to: a b c Slade, B. A.; Leidel, L.; Vellozzi, C.; Woo, E. J.; Hua, W.; Sutherland, A.; Izurieta, H. S.; Ball, R.; Miller, N.; Braun, M. M.; Markowitz, L. E.; Iskander, J. (August 2009). “Postlicensure Safety Surveillance for Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Recombinant Vaccine”. Journal of the American Medical Association 302 (7): 750–757. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1201. PMID 19690307.
          ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Chustecka Z (August 18, 2009). “HPV Vaccine: Debate Over Benefits, Marketing, and New Adverse Event Data”. Medscape Today. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
          Jump up ^ Hernandez-Millett, S.; Schwartz, E. (January 15, 2012). “Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Gardasil does not Trigger Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis or Type 1 Diabetes after Vaccination” (Press release). Pasadena, California: Kaiser Permanente. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
          Jump up ^ Chao, C.; Klein, N. P.; Velicer, C. M.; Sy, L. S.; Slezak, J. M.; Takhar, H.; Ackerson, B.; Cheetham, T. C.; Hansen, J.; Deosaransingh, K.; Emery, M.; Liaw, K. -L.; Jacobsen, S. J. (2012). “Surveillance of autoimmune conditions following routine use of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine”. Journal of Internal Medicine 271 (2): 193–203. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02467.x. PMID 21973261.
          ^ Jump up to: a b c Rosenthal, Elisabeth (2008-08-19). “Drug Makers’ Push Leads to Cancer Vaccines’ Fast Rise”. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
          ^ Jump up to: a b “Information from FDA and CDC on Gardasil and its Safety (Archived)”. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). July 22, 2008.
          Jump up ^ “Reports of Health Concerns Following HPV Vaccination”. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). October 26, 2010.
          Jump up ^ “HPV Vaccine – Questions & Answers for the Public”. 2008-07-18. Archived from the original on 2008-03-06. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
          Jump up ^ “Guillain-Barré Syndrome Fact Sheet”. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). May 6, 2010.
          Jump up ^ “Spain halts batch of Merck’s Gardasil”. Reuters. February 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
          Jump up ^ Merck Canada Inc. “Gardasil Product Monograph” (PDF). Retrieved 2013-02-20.
          Jump up ^ Cohen, J (April 2005). “PUBLIC HEALTH: High hopes and dilemmas for a cervical cancer vaccine”. Science 308 (5722): 618–21. doi:10.1126/science.308.5722.618. PMID 15860602.
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          1. I concede that’s not a compelling argument in and of itself.
            The complaint is rather long but there are several interesting issues.
            One concern expressed is the lack of peer review credibility.

            “According to: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/cisa/publications.html,
            this is the ONLY Technical Report issued in the last 12 years of records that has never been published in peer- reviewed journals. The Disclaimer at the end of this report states:
            “The information and conclusions in this report are those of the work group
            participants addressing this issue and do not necessarily represent the official position
            of CDC.”
            In other words, the CDC’s “Technical Report” (Ref #16 of the GACVS Statement) was written by unnamed ghost writer(s) based on phone conversations.”

          2. So your quack on your blog re-promotes am idea discredited in 2011 and all of science disagrees.
            .
            that is the ONLY technical report done by the CDC, not the only technical report. The CDC does not do everything. They are not even responsible for the vaccine. The FDA is responsible for the vaccines and they consider the hundreds of studies and reports done by universities around the world that show that Gardasil is safe.
            .
            Not to mention 60 millions vaccinations without a single confirmed injury.
            .
            Not one injury. not at any time. Over 90 claims of injury and none of them where found valid.

            NONE.

            Your argument rings empty and desperate.

          3. Dr Sin Hang Lee is a pathologist.
            The letter is Dr Lee’s.
            No injuries from Gardasil?
            Your argument is the desperate one.

          4. Nope. All of your references are to the safevax blog. You are citing a blog post. That letter is published NOWHERE ELSE because nobody other than a anti-vaxx woo blog thinks its worth discussing. It is a non-event.
            .
            You have no argument.

          5. I am citing the letter that Dr Lee wrote.
            He is not, and has never been a blogger.

            Allegations of Scientific Misconduct by GACVS/WHO/CDC Representatives et al

            An open-letter of complaint to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan
            The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
            The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
            Thomas Frieden, Director CDC,
            Vice chancellor, Professor Stuart McCutcheon, The University of Auckland,

          6. No you are not. Every link you post is from the safevaxx site site and I can write a letter to Santa Claus but just because it’s posted on-line does not make it special. Who it is addressed to means even less.Safevaxx is your source, plain and simple

            If I wrote a letter to the president of the United states claiming that Graceds was a hermaphrodite, would that make it true? If a blogger posted it, would that help?

          7. Twistthefacts, the introductory paragraph in the first posting was from the article in sanevax.
            It was regarding a letter written by Dr Lee.
            Subsequent posts, were from the letter Dr Lee wrote.
            I included the link to the sanevax article several times.

            You may write whatever letters you want. 🙂

          8. I wonder how the parents of the girls who were injuried or died would feel reading Justaliar’s denial that there are no injuries from the HPV vaccine.

          9. I can’t imagine.
            Dr Lee’s letter makes it clear that policy making on vaccines is sometimes fraught with half truths and misrepresentations, and that scientific integrity and human welfare are much lower on the scale than what is needed, and that what ought to be a thoughtful and cautious approach to the science is sometimes just a glossing.

          10. Personally after watching the videos of the allegedly gardasil injured that the vast majori t y have somatization disorder or borderline personality disorder.

          11. You can diagnose that from watching a video?? So these disorders you say we are seeing, do they also cause death?

            “Of the 49 compensated claims 47 were for injury caused from (HPV) vaccine the additional 2 claims were for death caused due to the vaccine.”

          12. . On March 12, 2013, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of HHS, provided Judicial Watch with documents revealing the following information:

            Only 49 of the 200 claims filed have been compensated for injury or death caused from the (HPV) vaccine. Of the 49 compensated claims 47 were for injury caused from (HPV) vaccine the additional 2 claims were for death caused due to the vaccine.

            92 (nearly half) of the total 200 claims filed are still pending. Of those pending claims 87 of the claims against (HPV) vaccine were filed for injury, the remaining 5 claims were filed for death.

            59 claims have been dismissed outright by VICP. The alleged victims were not compensated for their claims against the HPV vaccine. Of the claims dismissed, 57 were for injuries, 2 were for deaths allegedly caused by the HPV vaccine.

            The amount awarded to the 49 claims compensated totaled $5,877,710.87 dollars. This amounts to approximately $120,000 per claim.

            According to World Health Organization data, the rate of serious adverse reactions reported to the VAERS system is 2.5 times higher than the current age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer. According to an evaluation performed by Sanevax of the 75 FDA approved vaccines, the HPV vaccines account for 60% of the entire VAERS database of adverse events. This includes 64% of all reported deaths and 65% of life threatening reactions. An additional 82% of all cases of permanent disability for women under 30 years of age is attributed to the HPV vaccines.

          13. I need to see a cite from that last paragraph, so I can see how you mis-stated it, ione. As usual, you’re lying.

          14. Medscape Medical News > Oncology

            HPV Vaccine Policy: At Odds With Evidence-Based Medicine?

            “All drugs are associated with some risks of adverse reactions. Because vaccines represent a special category of drugs, generally given to healthy individuals, uncertain benefits mean that only a small level of risk for adverse reactions is acceptable. Furthermore, medical ethics demand that vaccination should be carried out with the participant’s full and informed consent. This necessitates an objective disclosure of the known or foreseeable vaccination benefits and risks. The way in which HPV vaccines are often promoted to women indicates that such disclosure is not always given from the basis of the best available knowledge. For example, while the world’s leading medical authorities state that HPV vaccines are an important cervical cancer prevention tool, clinical trials show no evidence that HPV vaccination can protect against cervical cancer. Similarly, contrary to claims that cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, existing data show that this only applies to developing countries. In the Western world cervical cancer is a rare disease with mortality rates that are several times lower than the rate of reported serious adverse reactions (including deaths) from HPV vaccination. Future vaccination policies should adhere more rigorously to evidence-based medicine and ethical guidelines for informed consent.

            According to data from the World Health Organization, the current age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer is 1.7 in 100,000, they note.

            This is 2.5 times lower than the rate of serious adverse reactions from Gardasil that have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) (4.3 in 100,000 doses distributed). In the Netherlands, the reported rate of serious events from Cervarix is 5.7 in 100,000 doses administered, which is nearly 4 times higher than the age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer (1.5 in 100,000).

            “It may not be fair to compare serious adverse events with death from cervical cancer, but we really have to look at the whole picture,” explained Dr. Tomljenovic. “Cervical cancer is not a disease that affects teenagers and it can be prevented with regular Pap screening, which carries no risk.”

            Reported serious adverse reactions associated with HPV vaccination from Australia, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States include death, convulsions, paraesthesia, paralysis, Guillain–Barreì syndrome, transverse myelitis, facial palsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, anaphylaxis, autoimmune disorders, deep vein thrombosis, pancreatitis, and pulmonary embolism.”

            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/757789#vp_3

          15. ” It may not be fair to compare serious adverse events with death from
            cervical cancer, but we really have to look at the whole picture,” ”

            It sure as heck isn’t, especially since these serious adverse events have yet to be proven to have been caused by the vaccine! What a slime of a “researcher”. BTW, the EU just recently studied this issue and found no relation to the HPV vaccine and most of the above.

            https://www_ema_europa_eu/ema/i

          16. “Meeting to Impose Moratorium on HPV vaccine -Parisian offices of the European Parliament. To halt HPV vaccination programs, pending intense investigation and proof of stated purpose could very well be the salvation of our young people.

            “Vaccine safety, as a general rule, is being increasingly questioned. Between 2005 and 2010, the proportion of French people in favour or very in favour of vaccination dropped from 90% to 60% (2013 INPES Peretti-Watel health barometer). The percentage of French people between the ages of 18 and 75 who are anti-vaccination increased from 8.5% in 2005 to 38.2% in 2010. In 2005, 58% of doctors questioned the usefulness of vaccines administered to children while 31% of doctors were expressing doubts about vaccine safety. These figures must surely have increased since then.”

            https://www.medocean.re/category/activite/hpv/

            News Alerts > Medscape Medical News

            Safety Profile of HPV Vaccines Under Review in Europe

            The European Medicines Agency has started a review of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines “to further clarify aspects of their safety profile,” although the agency also points out that this review “does not question that the benefits of HPV vaccines outweigh their risks.”

            The review was initiated at the request of Denmark and will look specifically at the data for two conditions that have been reported, rarely, with the vaccines:

            complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a chronic pain condition affecting the limbs, and

            postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a condition in which the heart rate increases abnormally after sitting or standing up, causing symptoms such as dizziness and fainting, as well as headache, chest pain, and weakness

            A recent report on these two syndromes, CRPS and POTS, occurring after HPV vaccination was published online May 20 and in the July issue of Clinical Rheumatology.

            “The symptoms more often reported are chronic pain with paresthesias, headaches, fatigue, and orthostatic intolerance,” writes Manuel Martínez-Lavín, MD, from the Rheumatology Department, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez in Mexico City, Mexico. “Adverse reactions appear to be more frequent after HPV vaccination when compared to other type[s] of immunizations. Different isolated cases and small series have described the development of [CRPS], [POTS], and fibromyalgia after HPV vaccination.”

            https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/847841

            “A mother who claims her daughter suffered “horrendous adverse effects” after receiving the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer has brought legal proceedings.

            Fiona Kirby, Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath, is a member of a parents support group, REGRET (Reaction and Effects of Gardasil Resulting in Extreme Trauma), for those who claim their teenage girls became ill after getting the vaccine.

            Ms Kirby, a nurse, is seeking a High Court order for the withdrawal of the license given for the Gardasil HPV vaccine, currently being offered to the parents of 11-16 year old girls as a possible cervical cancer preventative.

            An order restraining the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), which monitors health products in Ireland, proceeding with use of Gardasil in any vaccine programme is also sought.”

            https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/court-told-of-horrendous-adverse-effects-of-hpv-vaccine-1.2414549

            Schoolgirls should stop being given HPV vaccine until investigation into side effects, campaigner says

            “Freda Birrell, of UK Association of HPV Vaccine Injured Daughters (AHVID), called for a moratorium on the use of the controversial HPV vaccine until more is known about “serious adverse reactions”.

            “What I am asking, if it was possible for a moratorium so a proper investigation could take place to determine why certain young people are having serious adverse reactions and these serious adverse reactions are lasting for many years.”

            She said AHVID, which was set up earlier this year, represented those “who have had their lives turned upside down after HPV vaccine”.

            It has 208 members, including 15% who are in Scotland, but Ms Birrell said: “We don’t know how many others are out there but for now there appears to be no end in sight.”

            In July the European Medicines Agency began a specific review to clarify the safety profile of HPV, with AHVID currently compiling a submission to this.

            Ms Birrell said: “Of the 88 family reports analysed so far 68% reported their daughters had experienced health problems serious enough to interfere with their education, 24% reported symptoms so severe that their daughter could no longer participate in educational activities, 70% required help with daily care and a full 91% reported being told their daughter’s medical conditions were psychological in origin.”

            She added: “I am very much aware HPV vaccines are a controversial issue and that this information put’s Scotland at a cross roads with a very difficult decision to make.

            “Do we accept what the manufacturer and their list of experts are saying and assume that HPV vaccines are safe and effective and there just happens to be an epidemic of psychosomatic disorders spreading round the world, affecting certain young people who have one thing in common – they were injected with the HPV vaccine.

            “Or do we listen to experts from both sides, to try to discover exactly what the situation is and make every effort we can to get the problem solved?”

            https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/13899196.Schoolgirls_should_stop_being_given_HPV_vaccine_until_investigation_into_side_effects__campaigner_says/

          17. Well that is a misleading post. If by compensated, you mean accepted small settlements because they didn’t have a case, yes, that is true. What you left out is over 90 cases have gone to trial and NOT ONE, ZERO, VOID SET number of cases have won. You also didn’t point out that some of those settlement identified other vaccines than just the HPV vaccines. You again did point out that those settlement expressly say that everyone agrees that there was no injury due to the vaccine, in writing.

            That means over 90 uninterrupted attempts to show injury have failed. HAVE FAILED. That mean not one case have been substantiated. No wonder people with no case are bailing out for whatever settlement they can get.

            You also didn’t point out that its not a conspiracy. Every other vaccines has had documented injuries so Big Pharma is not afraid of documented injuries. Only the HPV vaccine has been shown to be TOTALLY HARMLESS after nearly 70 million doses.

            You didn’t lie this time, but you came close.

          18. wow, you should see all the angry responses your comments have already got on the groups for those who’s daughters or loved one’s have been injured by the HPV vax. You better lie low for awhile.

          19. Nothing more true has ever been said than ” the truth hurts”.

            There has not been ONE confirmed case of HPV vaccine injury in the U.S. That is a simple fact.

            After 57 million vaccinations, you do realize that 100’s of women will die on the day of their vaccination by pure chance, right?

          20. 1/3/2012–HPV Vaccine—Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 08-429V–$50,000

            Do you think it was the meningitis vaccine or the HPV vaccine that caused this young girl to have MS?

            10/5/2010– HPV, Menactra Vaccines– Multiple Sclerosis– Case No. Redacted –$3.5 Million

          21. 1/3/2012–HPV Vaccine—Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS
            – A settlement for a faction of the amount. Both parties agreed vaccinations was not the cause. Guillain Barre Syndromeis casued by episodes of gastroenteritis or a respiratory tract infection. In many cases the exact nature of the infection can be confirmed.[2] Approximately 30% of cases are provoked by Campylobacter jejuni bacteria, which cause diarrhea. A further 10% cases are attributable to cytomegalovirus. They settled because they had ZERO case.

            10/5/2010– HPV, Menactra Vaccines– Multiple Sclerosis- you forgot to mention that the othe vaccine was for meningitis and it has been shown to cause MS on rare occasions,

            You got nothing aginst the HPV vaccine and it is a FACT that after 90+ trials, there has not been a single case of HPV vaccines damage confirmed anywhere, anytime.

            Please, post again and get to point that out again.

          22. 10/22/2012–Gardasil–Sequential Peripheral Demyelinating Polyneuropathy–Case No. 10-116V–$30,000
            10/2/2012–Gardasil, Hepatitis A Vaccines–Chronic Headache, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 10-161V–$25,000

          23. You do know you have tried those lies before with me, right?

            Both SETTLEMENTS for a fraction of the amount say “Respondent denies that petitioner suffered sequential” injury as a part of the ruling. Do you know what that means?

            peripheral demyelinating polyneuropathy is caused by:

            Genetic diseases: Friedreich’s ataxia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease,[13] hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy

            Metabolic and endocrine diseases: diabetes mellitus,[14] chronic renal failure, porphyria, amyloidosis, liver failure, hypothyroidism

            Toxic causes: drugs (vincristine, metronidazole, phenytoin, nitrofurantoin, isoniazid, ethyl alcohol, statins[15][16]), organic herbicides TCDD dioxin, organic metals, heavy metals, excess intake of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). Peripheral neuropathies also may result from long term (more than 21 days) treatment with Linezolid (Zyvox).[citation needed]

            Adverse effects of fluoroquinolones: irreversible neuropathy is a serious adverse reaction of fluoroquinolone drugs[17]

            Inflammatory diseases: Guillain-Barré syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, leprosy, multiple sclerosis, Sjögren’s syndrome, Babesiosis, Lyme disease, sarcoidosis,[18]

            Vitamin deficiency states: Vitamin B12 (Methylcobalamin), vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin B1 (thiamin)

            Physical trauma: compression, pinching, cutting, projectile injuries (for example, gunshot wound), strokes including prolonged occlusion of blood flow, electric discharge, including lightning strikes.

            “headaches”? Really?

            You got nothing aginst the HPV vaccine and it is a FACT that after 90+ trials, there has not been a single case of HPV vaccines damage confirmed anywhere, anytime.

            Please, post again and get to point that out again.

          24. Wow, thanks for the heads up that all these pharmaceutical drugs and chemicals can cause the injury too. Hope putting that info out there didn’t get you in trouble.

            “Toxic causes: drugs (vincristine, metronidazole, phenytoin, nitrofurantoin, isoniazid, ethyl alcohol, statins[15][16]), organic herbicides TCDD dioxin, organic metals, heavy metals, excess intake of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). Peripheral neuropathies also may result from long term (more than 21 days) treatment with Linezolid (Zyvox).[citation needed]

            Adverse effects of fluoroquinolones: irreversible neuropathy is a serious adverse reaction of fluoroquinolone drugs[17]”

      3. “Lack of Qualification/Credibility of Expert Witness Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris

        Based on the above correspondence, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris had no clue what Dr. Pless wanted her to address at the February 26, 2014 public hearing. She mistakenly assumed she was being asked to comment on “the VLP tightly bound to the adjuvant.”

        ********She did not even know that VLP is a protein, and cannot be tightly bound to the aluminum adjuvant as the DNA molecules can. ***************

        Evidently, her only qualification was she had written a social media blog much like Professor David Gorski, a well-known online character assassin masquerading as a science defender whom she also recommended to the group saying:
        “Prof David Gorsky has written prolifically on some of the experiments in his science
        blog over the past few years so I assume he has also given the material some
        thought.”
        I find it incredible that the WHO GACVS had to depend on online science blog writings as evidence to dismiss the potential risk of HPV DNA fragments in Gardasil®. ”

        From letter written by Dr Lee
        (Asterisks are mine.)
        https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/

        1. Wha..?? Incredible. “I find it incredible that the WHO GACVS had to depend on online science blog writings as evidence to dismiss the potential risk of HPV DNA fragments in Gardasil®.”

          1. Instead of peer reviewed science!

            “So, as of February 18, 2014 Dr. Pless and those whose names are listed on his email knew Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris and Professor David Gorski were the only two writers who had addressed the issue of HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in the HPV vaccine, but in social media blogs only, and not in peer-reviewed scientific journals.”

            From Dr Lee’s open letter

            https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/

        2. Source: “Another High-Profile Global Vaccine Conspiracy Exposed” at Activist Compost

          It’s an excellent example of CT nullery

          “Is a scientific web of deceit being spun to validate a scientific non sequitur?”

          “If the facts don’t fit, how about just changing them?”

          The irony is … quite something. I had to double-check and make sure I wasn’t at The Onion.

          1. Your cut and paste comes from an article at Activist Post published yesterday

            https://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/another-high-profile-global-vaccine-conspiracy-exposed-this-time-its-the-hpv-vaccine.html

            Derivatives are also found at Rescue Post and Natural Blaze. There is no dispute, the social media bloggers at any of those sites are considerably less qualified to opine than either Dr. David Gorski or Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris.

            Unfortunately, there are those who have no concept of truthfulness or what makes a credible source.

          2. So you’re denying this paragraph you copied was first published at Activist Post, Rescue Post, and Natural Blaze?

            “Based on the above correspondence, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris had no clue what Dr. Pless wanted her to address at the February 26, 2014 public hearing. She mistakenly assumed she was being asked to comment on “the VLP tightly bound to the adjuvant.”

          3. Discussions of Dr Lee’s letter will be published many places.
            As it should.

            “Allegations of Scientific Misconduct by GACVS/WHO/CDC Representatives et al
            An open-letter of complaint to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan
            The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
            The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
            Thomas Frieden, Director CDC,
            Vice chancellor, Professor Stuart McCutcheon, The University of Auckland”

            https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/

          4. Sane Vax, a rabid antivax group out of Montana

            The source of this paragraph, then:

            “Based on the above correspondence, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris had no clue what Dr. Pless wanted her to address at the February 26, 2014 public hearing. She mistakenly assumed she was being asked to comment on ‘the VLP tightly bound to the adjuvant.”

            Activist Post, as I originally stated 14 comments ago and which you continue to sidestep.

          5. What makes it material is your pretense “Dr Lee wrote the letter.”

            Yet, he did not write the quoted paragraph.

            How many times must one person be caught lying before it’s fair to call them a serial liar?

      1. Dr. Sin Hang Lee is closely associated with the fruitloops at SaneVax, a rabid antivax group out of Montana – Think Freemen Compound, Unibomber, SANE Vax.

        Correct me if I’m wrong, Katia, but didn’t we have the debate about the HPV vaccine already? As I recall, it’s required for 6th grade.

        1. We’ve discussed HPV many times before on these boards. Colorado does not require it for school in any grade level. It’s Tdap that’s required for 6th grade entry. Usually this is when the HPV is brought up as well.

          1. It’s been required in Rhode island.
            One thing legislators need to keep in mind is what doors the proposed bills are opening.
            Especially when the products being discussed are indemnified.

          2. You have no idea how libertarian we are. If we could just get rid of the personal belief exemptions for the vaccines now required, I and most public health people would be very happy.

    1. ione, I agree that the reaction to the Disney epidemic was out of proportion, except insofar as it served (1) as a warning what happens to public health when clowns abandon science for woo, and it might get worse and (2) annoyance at freeloaders who get benefits of others’ vaccination and don’t pay back themselves. Yes, Africa is worse. And what is your defense to my observation that you take measles epidemics from low-vaccination countries and juxtapose with the fact that some other African countries have high vaccination rates (and not much measles)?

  182. Colorado legislators should heed this editorial and take the cue from their counterparts in California to protect children from vaccine preventable diseases by eliminating all vaccination exemptions except medical.
    As can be seen from California’s experience, the anti-vaccine cult is loud, obnoxious, and potentially dangerous (death threats), but they are indeed a very tiny cult who can muster virtually no political power and fail at everything they attempt.

    1. POLITICAL POWER you say! I say mixing politics and their intrusion into our personal preference regarding medical choice is an ominous undertaking!

      An individual’s MEDICAL history OR decisions DO NOT belong in the hands of politicians!

      To allow such invasion further facilitates medical fascism, empowering the govt. to demand what medical interventions we do or do NOT choose for ourselves or our families!

      Clap louder Aurora! Please don’t denigrate the freedoms so many have fought and died for in lieu of this pharma propaganda!

      Stand strong for your children, Aurora, Co! Don’t let indifference allow our precious freedoms to slip away.

        1. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddah

          Not to mention that ‘truth’ is my middle name, JESTthefacts!

          Suz truth-justice-and-the-American-way Norkan! 😉

          Prevaricating, puerile and pathetic platitude, Jester!

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            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
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          1. When they cant refute the truth, they have to rely on immature tactics and insulting meme’s. Another sure way to spot a shill

      1. Knock off the Aurora stuff suz. You don’t care about Aurora. You just care about making anti-vax points. Leave Aurora alone.

      2. The freedom to leave your child at risk of disease isn’t actually very anerican, because America acknowledges that children have rights: they’re neither property nor slaves.

        The freedom to send an unvaccinated child to school and make schools less safe for all children and their families isn’t part of the American tradition: school immunization requirements are. Because others have rights too, and there’s no absolute right to force your choices on them.

        When you speak up for the right to make schools less safe from outbreak, as you are doing, you are speaking against the freedom and rights of others.

        The democratically elected majority can and should step up to prevent a misguided minority from making the community less safe. For the protection of children.

        And don’t forget, increasing rates protects the vaccine deprived kids, too.

        1. America used to be the land of the free, now it looks like Europe holds that distinction.

          “The British Medical Association Chairman Dr Ian Bogle said: “We have looked carefully at the issue of compulsory vaccination and it is true that some countries do operate immunisation programmes where there is some degree of compulsion.

          “However the BMA does not think this would be right for the United Kingdom.

          “The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust, choice and openness and we think introducing compulsory vaccination may be harmful to this.”..source The Daily Mail

          ‘Do vaccines do more harm than good? France launches national debate’

          August 1, 2015

          “France’s Health Minister has announced a national debate this Autumn to discuss the future of the country’s immunisation policy, amidst mounting criticism over vaccines.

          “I realize there are doubts over vaccines, and that this is more acute in France than any other European country,” Marisol Touraine told the French daily Le Parisien on Saturday.

          To allay fears, Touraine has said she will organize a national debate this coming Autumn to give citizens the opportuinity to debate whether vaccines should still be compulsory.

          Currently children are required to have certain vaccinations done before enrolling in school. But wary parents concerned about the possible side effects of these vaccines want to protect their child from any possible risk…”

          source:https://mobile.english.rfi.fr/general/20150801-do-vaccines-do-more-harm-good-france-launches-debate

          Europe turning against vaccines

          June 5, 2015 by Lawrence Solomon

          “Europeans are turning away from vaccines, amid rising distrust of immunization for infectious diseases,” begins an article earlier this year in EurActiv, the journal of record for the European Community, published in over a dozen languages and widely read by journalists as a go-to-source for emerging policy debates in Europe.

          “In contrast to the English-speaking world, where increasing numbers of vaccines are being made mandatory and public debate is effectively banned, the trend is the opposite in Continental Europe. Last September, the French High Council for Public Health itself called for a public debate on whether vaccination against certain diseases should remain compulsory.

          “In Europe, France is the only country to maintain the policy of compulsory vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis,” EurActiv reports.

          “Portugal has kept compulsory vaccination for diphtheria and polio, and Belgium just for polio. Elsewhere in Europe, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and others have all abolished compulsory vaccination.”https://vaccinefactcheck.org/2015/06/05/europe-turning-against-vaccines/

          1. School vaccination requirements are not compulsory.

            “Compulsory vaccination” would mean jail for parents who do not immunize their children, which is the law in France.

            No one here is suggesting sentencing parents to jail, only reforming the current rules for those who choose to opt out..

          2. No you they will take your children away from you with CPS vaccinate them and then make you have to fight to get your children back.

          3. Cite the Colorado statute.

            If what you say is true, where is the law that defines refusal to immunize as neglect?

        2. Your fully vaccinated kids should not be worried about getting a disease from an unvaccinated, especially when the vaccinated kids can shed and be asymptomatic carriers.

          “Children and adults, who have gotten one or more doses of pertussis-containing vaccines (DPT, DtaP, Tdap), as well as those who have never been vaccinated at all, can experience a mlld or serious case of B, pertussis whooping cough.

          However, those who have already had B. pertussis whooping cough once or have had one or more pertussis vaccinations often have a milder case, even though they can still transmit the disease to others.

          All vaccines only give temporary immunity, which is why booster doses are often given. Pertussis vaccine (DPT, DTaP, TdaP) does not give long lasting, permanent immunity. That is why, even after children get 3 to 6 doses of pertussis vaccine, they can still get B. pertussis whooping cough as children, teenagers or adults.”

          https://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/Whooping-Cough.aspx

        3. 1. “The freedom to leave your child

          1. I don’t concur with your suggestion of utter nonsense, that those opposing medical fascism equate children to property or slaves, which you seem to erringly ‘inject’ into your forced vax agenda and crusade for world vax domination!

          However, as parents, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE for our minor children! In the event of a minor committing a crime, it’s the parents who are often held liable for damages caused by a child who has not yet met the age of majority!

          You don’t get to have it both ways; claiming we’re responsible for our child’s detrimental acts; yet NOT responsible for their health and welfare, even though WE know the medical history. You do NOT know their history, yet here you are again, maintaining your omnipotence and that you are all knowing and more wise than the rest of the world.

          2. “The freedom to send an unvaccinated

          2. Unvaxed children don’t make schools any more ‘unsafe’ than vaxed children and in fact, more and more studies are suggesting that the newly vaxed may actually be those transmitting the disease the vax was intended to prevent.

          What really makes schools unsafe are guns, yet I fail to see your name all over such campaigns regarding gun control.

          Many law experts readily acknowledge that even scotus struggles with the establishment/exercise clause. And there is no provable imminent danger or threat to public safety, as there was during jacobson vs. small pox.

          The American tradition which YOU misleadingly speak of, has involved compulsory school vax WITH 2-3 types of exemptions in all but 2 states for many years.

          3. “Because others have right too

          3. I agree! Ditto and verbatim! You have absolutely NO right to enforce detrimental acts onto others, simply due to your irrational fears. We aren’t the ones with the illogical and uncontrolled ‘fear’ issues.

          4. “When you speak up for the right

          4. I do NOT speak to make schools less safe. There is NO threat or danger. The perception of danger exists in your inaccurate and paranoid thinking. Those with incessant concerns of groundless fear and paranoia should either get ‘help’ for their issues, or live in a controlled environment, because the schools are only a fraction of venues where you come into contact with any NUMBER of infectious and contagious events causing medical maladies.

          Unreasonably fearful people like you forced vax, are free to deal with your unfounded anxieties, or eventually the places you can go without fear, will become smaller and smaller; parks, stores, libraries, concerts, theaters, sporting events, etc., should also be off limits, as in YOUR opinion, there is great ‘risk’ to you germophobes from the unvaxed.

          People with such severe paranoia regarding germs [mysophobics] as those who would condone medical fascism to alleviate fears from your distorted concept of danger, INVALIDATE your own freedoms, and make your own prisons!

          5. “The democratically elected

          5. Especially after witnessing the corrupted maneuvers of the recent debacle of the ca. legislative arena, [along with other such defilement as the ‘flawed law facade’ of the nvicp] now is a good time to remember that the laws are for US, ‘of the, by the, for the PEOPLE!’ When impropriety is learned, laws can be and ARE amended or abolished!

          Your term ‘misguided’ should be saved for those sporting a pharma portfolio and a disreputable agenda, like you, who have a raptorial reason to disparage individuals choosing not to vax.

          As far as the ‘minority’ which you also point out, with many now using the internet to avoid the bias of mainstream media, more people, each day, are seeing through the malfeasance and nepotism, and learning of the dishonesty of these mega corporations, politicians and legislators. More are discovering what many of us already know; that affinity for these tainted ‘bodies’ invites the medical tyranny brought on by you forced vaxers!

          6. “And don’t forget increasing rates

          6. Only in the fairy tales, ‘happy endings’ and fantasies of you forced vaxers. Yet to be conclusively proved!

          Dear Aurora, we’re ‘livin’ on the edge’ of 1984! ‘If you can tell a non vax by the color of their skin, then friends you are a better man than I!’

          Clap louder, Aurora, and ‘keep on rockin’ in the FREE world!’

  183. Vaccines can, have and do cause harm. This is an indisputable medical fact. The corporations that make vaccines have time and again produced and distributed medications they knowingly would harm people. Viox is a great example. Factor 8 tainted with AIDS another. So it is clear that these corporations are not to be trusted. These same corporations spend more money lobbying Washington then any other financial contributors. Corruption and conflict of interest are rife within the CDC, the FDA and these pharmaceutical companies. Those that promote mandatory vaccines have huge conflicts of interest and stand to gain financially from them, like Dorit Reis. The others are either pharma trolls being paid for their comments, or useful idiots functioning from a position of fear. When one operates from a position of fear, irrational behavior follows. I for one do not want risky medical procedures dictated to me by people operating from a position of fear or whom have huge conflicts of interest. I will not comply. Those that do not vaccinate will never tell you to NOT vaccinate; we say educate yourself and make your own medical decisions. But they will always tell you to vaccinate. They ignore all of the objections, and when one provides evidence that many highly educated and trained professionals have stated their objections to vaccinations, they attack the messenger and never the message. The same people continue this tactic over and over again until the argument changes from mandatory vaccinations and the violation of human rights to splitting hairs about the so called “science”, or the credibility of this person or that. Mandatory vaccines are a violation of human rights. I will not be part of that. All of you people promoting this will be in a lot of trouble if you follow through with your totalitarian agenda. Think long and hard about what side of the road you are on, because if you continue to support these human rights violations, you will be held accountable for your actions in the very near future.

    1. Everything can cause harm. But tens of thousands of studies show that serious harms from vaccines are very rare, their benefits dramatic, and tightening school
      Immunization requirements makes schools safer from outbreaks, protecting children.

      Neither conspiracy theories nor the shill gambit negate this evidence.

      1. And I could post thousands of studies that show vaccines cause harm. It does not matter if you post a million studies, the fact of the matter is that mandating medical procedures that carry with them risk is unethical, immoral and a violation of a persons human rights. It is a violation of the concept of informed consent and a violation of the Nuremburg Code. In short, what you are proposing is illegal, unethical and philosophically flawed. Not to mention the fact that those “tens of thousands of studies” were all funded by pharmaceutical companies, conducted by scientists with conflicts of interest, and placed onto the vaccine schedule by people like Paul Offit who owns stock in the very vaccines he puts onto the schedule for a tidy profit. Kind of like you, with your stock in GSK. I can’t figure out why anyone would listen to anything someone like you has to say regarding this topic as you clearly have a conflict of interest and do not even live in Colorado. In short, I think you are a very, very bad person, and I think you are despicable.

      2. Unfortunately Dorit – your “studies” are highly compromised being almost all from sources that receive money from pharma. We are still waiting for that double blind placebo controlled study or the vaccinated/unvaccinated study which should have been done years ago.

    2. “When one operates from a position of fear, irrational behavior follows.”

      Does that include the irrational fear of jackbooted thugs kicking in your door and forcefully vaccinating you and your children?

      All reasonable people are asking is that current lax exemption rules be reformed. It’s costing Colorado millions of dollars a year to treat preventable diseases. Continuing to indulge people who can’t make rational decisions – and you’ve expressed the thinking quite well – is silly, expensive, and puts other children at risk.

      1. What outbreaks in Colorado, that’s not been caused from a vaccine that has been proven to be ineffective, is costing millions of dollars?

        From the Denver Post…
        ‘The whooping cough epidemic that began in 2012 is continuing to surge in Colorado — and the rest of the country.’

        Through Nov. 16, the 1,183 cases of pertussis were confirmed in Colorado, up from 1,505 last year and 419 in 2011.

        The state health department blames a change to the pertussis vaccine in the 1990s and ordinary disease cycles for the spike.

        “What we’ve learned in the last couple of years is that the switch in vaccines has led to greater issues of waning immunity to pertussis, which means that the protection provided by the vaccine isn’t lasting as long as we’d ideally like,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, deputy director for the division of disease control at the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.”….https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24690359/colorado-whooping-cough-epidemic-continues-force

        1. That’s what they thought in 2013. But when all the chips settled, it turned out that failure to vaccinate was a big contributing factor to pertussis outbreaks.
          Here’s what Denver Health was saying in 2014.
          https://www.denverhealth.org/public-health-and-wellness/public-health/health-information-for-denver/public-health-concerns/pertussis
          “The best way to protect yourself and people with the highest risk of
          severe illness (infants, children and pregnant women) is to make sure
          you and others are up-to-date for the pertussis vaccine. … Check with your healthcare provider to see if you need a booster to increase immunity. Vaccinations are the best way to prevent whooping cough and everyone in these high risk groups should receive a booster.”

          1. In the News-
            Vaccinated kids account for 90 percent of child whooping cough cases in Vermont – Vermont Digger VT Digger Oct 8, 2012

            July 2015
            “Reno County, Kansas, health officials are taking steps to help stall the spread of a whooping cough outbreak before school starts. The county has more than 70 suspected whooping cough cases.
            The district tells us all of the people who’ve contracted it have been vaccinated.”

            2012 was the nation’s worst year for whooping cough in six decades — U.S. health officials received reports of more than 48,000 cases, including 18 deaths. Dr. Gil Chavez, epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, said he does not believe low inoculation rates are the primary cause of the current epidemic: Of this year’s pediatric cases that had information on the child’s vaccination history, only 10 percent of those infected in 2014 had not been vaccinated against pertussis

            Dr.Witt, an infectious disease specialist has a study published in March of 2012 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. He says that the vaccine was effective about 50% in children in general but only 24% of the time in 8-12 year olds.Witt and his team surmised that the effectiveness of the vaccine wears off after 5-7 years, creating the need for additional inoculations. The CDC said that the booster has never been approved for use in 7-9 year olds.

            Unfortunately, drug maker Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), the manufacturer of the whooping cough vaccine, did not bother to perform long-term studies of its effectiveness. A company spokesperson confirmed this disturbing fact in an email to Reuters, stating that GSK never studied the duration of the vaccine’s protection after the shot was given to four- to six-year-olds.

            Dr. Tom Clark, a medical epidemiologist with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), also provided a troubling analysis of the situation. “It’s likely if we move doses around we’d shift the burden of disease, but not necessarily reduce it,” he said. ” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d650fe88cd5f11066b026dce72f20d18a6409d6532eab7bccea1004ce56258a4.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/baf07a948b30803b2e152773d57d22b21b01ae4162cc202bceec8c5b9531b41e.jpg

          2. What we see in ione’s comment is an example of lying by scale. The number of cases overall is still only a fraction of what it was pre-vaccine. That’s not the impression one gets looking at her graphs.

            Unlike most other states, in Colorado 28% of 6th graders aren’t current on their whooping cough booster. That’s the problem. School children 10-18 are more than half the whooping cough cases.

          3. Reingold, who leads the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices group on pertussis, said he doesn’t know of any pertussis vaccine development in the pipeline.

            He also said that adding another dose of the vaccine at a later age wouldn’t help much, based on research that was presented to the ACIP group. “[An additional dose] would have very little impact on pertussis,” he said, “in terms of cases prevented.”

            “Pertussis is not going to go away with the current vaccine,” Reingold said.”

            https://kbia.org/post/whooping-cough-vaccines-protection-fades-quickly-0

            According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the booster shot to counteract waning immunity for pertussis came out five years ago. Now, there’s concern about how long the booster shot provides protection, because many kids who are up-to-date on immunizations, including the booster shot, still have contracted whooping cough. Public health officials agree on one thing: “We need a better vaccine for pertussis”, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said. https://m.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/wisconsin-has-highest-rate-of-whooping-cough-1s6hdpb-166524046.html

            CDC: Whooping Cough

            Anne Schuchat, MD, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters…..”It does not appear that anti-vaccination sentiment among parents has contributed to either the national rise in cases or the Washington State epidemic”, she says.

            https://children.webmd.com/news/20120719/cdc-whooping-cough-h

          4. Web MD link doesn’t work. If it was 5 years after Tdap, that was 2010. We’ve learned a lot in the last 6 years. I have posted several links, I’ll post another about what was learned from the California epidemic of 2010, which was far more severe than anything here in Colorado:
            https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/25/226147147/vaccine-refusals-fueled-californias-whooping-cough-epidemic
            “Vaccine Refusals Fueled California’s Whooping Cough Epidemic”
            There is an internal link to the study Johns Hopkins did that was published in the journal Pediatrics.

            Plain English version:
            “They found that people who lived in areas with high rates of personal belief exemptions were 2 1/2 times more likely to live in a place with lots of pertussis cases. “The exemptions clustered spatially and were associated with clusters of cases,” Jessica Atwell, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and lead author on the study, told Shots. It was published online in the journal Pediatrics.”

          5. I have to stick up for Boulder County again.
            In 2012, there were 1433 pertussis cases total in CO. By county:
            Jefferson-267
            Denver-209
            Adams-206
            Arapahoe-170
            Boulder-153
            https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7npKf07QiaAb2JwWU1TVXE0UEE&usp=sharing
            The rate for Boulder County was 50.9, the rate for Jeffco slightly lower at 49.4

            In 2013,again, 1433 cases; Jeffco still the leader at 239. That year, Boulder Co was #2 with 215.
            https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7npKf07QiaAc1FjMWxlZkxoeGc&usp=sharing
            Boulder Co’s rate that year was 71.6!

          6. So just going from raw numbers, Jefferson County is the hot spot. Looking at number of cases relative to population, Boulder County edges them out, but only slightly.

            How does Jeff Co rank for number of exemptors?

          7. There is no number for Jeffco as a whole. You can use this link to check individual schools.
            https://co.chalkbeat.org/2015/02/09/immunization-database/#.VpqmdlJ0osI
            Please note compliance rate means the rate of students with records in this case.
            Taking a quick look at it, I see these schools with exemption rates >10%:
            Compass-Golden Montessori-22.56%
            Free Horizon Montessori-17.92
            Jeffco Open- 23.71%

            Marshdale-10.49%
            Mt. Phoenix Community School-37.07%
            Two Roads Charter-13.82%
            Warren Tech Central-21. 9%

          8. You left out this part of Reingold’s quote:
            ” “The take-home message is that the waning is there,” said Dr. Art
            Reingold, a University of California, Berkeley professor of public
            health. “You’re protected initially but it wanes over time.”

            It doesn’t mean people should skip the vaccine. Someone who is vaccinated, but becomes sick with whooping cough, should have a less severe course of illness.”

          9. They “should have” a less severe course…meaning that the vaccine will not prevent you from getting pertussis, but will hopefully lessen the symptoms. So that we have thousands of people walking around thinking they just have a cold, and spreading pertussis wherever they go. Hence the large outbreaks in the last five years. SO use a vaccine that “should” keep you from getting it in the first place for most kids, but doesn’t. And it “should” enable you to help spread it far and wide. Good plan.

          10. “thousands of people walking around thinking they just have a cold, and spreading pertussis”

            That’s laughable. The “large outbreaks” are a hundred cases here and there. There’s no comparison to the thousands of cases pre-vaccine. In Colorado, those outbreaks are mostly in Boulder County, where most exemptors are.

          11. How dare those university faculty members actually study about vaccines and decide to not vaccinate their kids.

          12. Noticeably absent: Anything to support your idea that exemptors are “university faculty members.”

            The rate of vaccine-preventable diseases in Colorado children is 3.5 times higher in those covered by public insurance as compared to private insurance. How many university faculty members do you imagine are covered by Medicaid/SCHIP?

          13. 2002 was how many years ago? Got anything more up to date?

            P.S.–it seems Watson has decided to edit the date out of his comment after I asked him for more up to date information…(pssst..them shills are sneaky like that.)

          14. I edited it within a minute of posting, well before your reply. The formatting was off from copying it from PDF. Here’s the accompanying table

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/743e3c4f127919e6cd1b2994167caed6d344ee39447e6d2884c70c09a77d58fc.jpg

            P.S.–it seems ione murphy still has nothing at all to support her narcissistic fantasy that antivaxxers are better educated.

            The fact is, better educated parents are more likely to get their children immunized.

          15. What rot Watson –
            A study in the journal The American Journal of Public Health, which surveyed 11,860 families, found that mothers who had not finished high school were 16% more likely to have completed the whole vaccination schedule for their children.

            Lower education levels and socioecomonic status was associated with higher completion rates for vaccination.

            Rates of compliance were also higher in Hispanic and black low income families.

            The researchers were puzzled as to why this was and suggested giving more vaccine information to university educated mothers, and they suggested a ‘cultural’ difference may be to blame.

            Sources: American Journal of Public Health, 10.2105/AJPH.2005.076661.

            This article was also referred to in:

            The New York Times, 16th January 2007.

          16. The original article in the New York Times, published January 2007
            https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/health/16immu.html?_r=0

            The data used was from the 2003 National Immunization Survey.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781415/

            Other studies have noted more educated parents were more likely to have been influenced by news of Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 MMR study.

            Wakefield’s study was discovered to be “an elaborate fraud” and retracted in 2010.
            https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/health/research/03lancet.html

            Since 2010, more educated parents in the U.S. are more likely to get their children immunized.
            https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/17/5-facts-about-vaccines-in-the-u-s/

            The average “vaccine hesitant” parent in the U.S. is now lower income and has only a high school education or less. That’s consistent with the higher prevalence of VPD among lower income families in Colorado.

          17. Post a link so we can read the article, not your twisting of it. Having worked in mmunizations for years, that’s not my experience.

            ETA: I see Watson found the links. I’ll look at them when I’m back at my regular computer.

          18. Now, now! I live in Boulder County. As it turns out, the highest NUMBER of cases last year (2015) was in JEFFERSON County (116 cases) followed by Arapahoe (101 cases). Boulder County came in 8th (of 32 counties reporting pertussis), behind even Larimer and Weld. Boulder Co’s rate was 14.7; the state average was 15.9. We’re not all kooks here.

            https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/pertussis-data-and-statistics
            https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7npKf07QiaAbWk3S3R0aVNmNUE&usp=sharing

          19. The high rates in some of the rural counties are also a reflection of their small populations. That’s a problem with epi and small numbers. From the state website: “*Per 100,000 population. Caution should be used when interpreting rates based on small numbers.”

          20. No, no matter what your woo-masters tell you, pertussis, even in vaccinated people is usually more than just a bad cold. PLUS, people are more contagious in the stages of pertussis, vaccinated or non-vaccinated, and also more contagious the more coughing they do. So lessening the symptoms does make one less contagious. You are extrapolating from that baboon study, which has not been shown to be generalizable to humans, making anti-vaxers who think so not as smart as baboons.
            https://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/pertussis/pertparents.html

          21. Saturday January 16, 2016

            ‘Whooping Cough Vaccine Protections Falling Short: CDC’

            “Federal health officials are warning that the strength of the whooping cough vaccine administered to children may be waning, leaving some children vulnerable to the disease.

            A research article released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sheds light on the potential waning strength of the current vaccination recommended for protection against pertussis, or whooping cough”
            https://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/childhood-vaccine-effective/2016/01/15/id/709617/

          22. “may be waning”

            As in, don’t assume that because your kids got their shots before Kindergarten, they’re still protected at 6th or 7th grade.

          23. ‘Pertussis vaccine possibly ineffective in preschoolers’

            Family Practice News Digital Network January 13, 2016

            Vitals Key clinical point: Preschoolers vaccinated against pertussis may still develop whooping cough or similar symptoms.

            Major finding: Children who had received full series of pertussis vaccinations still developed whooping cough during an outbreak at a school of 117 children.

            Data source: Survey of 117 students and 26 staff members at a Tallahassee, Fla., school in 2014.

            Disclosures: The CDC supported the study. Dr. Matthias and his coauthors are all affiliated with the Florida Department of Health and the CDC, but reported no other relevant financial disclosures.”

            https://www.familypracticenews.com/specialty-focus/child-adolescent-medicine/single-article-page/pertussis-vaccine-possibly-ineffective-in-preschoolers/7baa9cc95738a4ff616b2cb803557816.html

          24. Even though it is known the pertussis vaccine does not work, they continue to use it, causing more harm and deaths. VAERS Reports confirm the carnage from the DPT, DTAP, and now the TDAP.There are over 100,000 thousand reports combined.

          25. Sigh. Readers will note the anti-vaccine cultists are like broken records and all seem to be operating from the same anti-vaccine disinformation handbook:

            Please go here:
            https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index
            and read the first sentence of the VAERS data page.
            What does it say?
            “When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established.
            Please tell the class what that sentence means with respect to raw VAERS data.

            Readers should ask:
            What part of “no cause-and-effect relationship has been established” do anti-vaccine cultists not understand?
            Are they all illiterate or merely outrageous liars?

          26. The vaccine is found to be waning in preschool children and also among the 8-12 year olds….believed to be only 50% effective in all children, but only 24% in the older group.

            “Dr.Witt, an infectious disease specialist has a study published in March of 2012 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. He says that the vaccine was effective about 50% in children in general but only 24% of the time in 8-12 year olds.Witt and his team surmised that the effectiveness of the vaccine wears off after 5-7 years, creating the need for additional inoculations. The CDC said that the booster has never been approved for use in 7-9 year olds.”

          27. The source of this “quoted” paragraph is you, yourself ione. It appears to be an edited version of this Reuters article

            https://www.reuters.com/article/us-whoopingcough-idUSBRE8320TM20120403

            “‘For pertussis, having even 24 percent helps (mitigate an epidemic), but you’d sure like it higher than that,’ (Witt) said.

            “Dr. Joel Ward at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute said it’s still important for parents to get their kids immunized, even though it doesn’t provide lasting protection from whooping cough.

            “‘The disease has diminished markedly with the use of it. The benefit has been enormous,’ he said.

            “Ward, who did not participate in the new study, also said that immunized kids who catch whooping cough don’t get as sick as unimmunized kids.”

          28. Whooping cough vaccine fades in pre-teens: study

            “In early 2010, a spike in cases appeared at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, and it was soon determined to be an outbreak of whooping cough — the largest seen in California in more than 50 years.

            Witt had expected to see the illnesses center around unvaccinated kids, knowing they are more vulnerable to the disease.

            “We started dissecting the data. What was very surprising was the majority of cases were in fully vaccinated children. That’s what started catching our attention,” said Witt.

            To figure out just how well the vaccine was working, Witt and his colleagues collected information on every patient who had tested positive for pertussis between March and October, 2010.

            Of the 132 patients under age 18, 81 percent were up to date on recommended whooping cough shots and eight percent had never been vaccinated. The other 11 percent had received at least one shot, but not the complete series.

            Comparing the kids who got pertussis to the more than 22,000 kids in the medical center’s database who didn’t, Witt’s group wrote in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases that the vaccine is effective about half of the time for all kids, and just 24 percent of the time in the eight to 12 year old age group.”

            https://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-03/lifestyle/sns-rt-us-whoopingcoughbre8320tm-20120403_1_pertussis-whooping-cough-vaccinated-children

          29. That is Witt’s theory, and no one denies the vaccine wanes. That’s why kids get a pre-teen booster.

            Regarding the 2010 CA whooping cough outbreak, another analysis published last year shows

            Vaccine Refusals Fueled California’s Whooping Cough Epidemic
            https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/25/226147147/vaccine-refusals-fueled-californias-whooping-cough-epidemic

            “Vaccine refusal was indeed a factor, researchers now say. They compared the location and number of whooping cough, or pertussis, cases in that outbreak with the personal belief exemptions filed by parents who chose not to vaccinate for reasons other than a child’s health.”

            It’s the same here in Colorado.

          30. From the same article that was covering the study written by a student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and who was lead author on the study
            “Vaccine refusal wasn’t the only factor fueling the California outbreak. Pertussis is a cyclical disease. Protection from the current version of pertussis vaccine appears to fade more quickly than doctors originally thought, so many older children vaccinated as youngsters were no longer immune to the bacterium”

          31. Not the only factor, but a big factor … in California.

            The easy opt-out for parents is also a big factor in Colorado – and the simplest fix.

            Your hand-waving has gotten to be beyond ridiculous

          32. “Possibly”?
            Sounds very convincing.
            And you aren’t pushing a CDC sponsored study are you?
            thanks for showing how unprincipled and fickle you antivaxers are.

          33. And the fact that protection wanes only after the crucially important dangerous age for deaths and severe complications (infancy) is again ignored by the antivaccine/pro disease crew.

          34. A mother who had the natural whooping cough could protect her child with breast feeding until that delicate time is over. There is also optimal nutrition. Low vitamin D levels has been found to be crucial for immune function.

          35. “A mother who had the natural whooping cough could protect her child with breast feeding until that delicate time is over.”

            No she could not. The effect is minimal.

            Why do I say that?
            Because breast feeding does not seem to impact the incidence of pertussis in infants, and throughout history (ie pre vaccine) epidemics have been associated with high attack rates in the under 1 year olds. Super-protective breast milk this is definitely not.

            In addition, we know natural immunity from natural pertussis lasts around 4-20 years, and will have waned by the time mothers have children. So there is hardly any passive transplacental immunity conferred by mothers to their kids either.

            Studies have shown the best way to protect infants is to give boosters to mothers in pregnancy, and to immunise infants as soon as they are able to respond to vaccine.

          36. Woo-hoo! Been waiting to use this article I bookmarked about breast feeding: https://thescientificparent.org/passive-immunity-101-will-breast-milk-protect-my-baby-from-getting-sick/
            “Passive Immunity Through Breast Milk”
            “This protection is invaluable to a newborn, and is absolutely
            necessary in developing countries where access to clean water is
            problematic. However, it only protects against infection through their digestive tract; it does not provide bloodstream antibodies to protect against various vaccine-avoidable illnesses, which is something that only the IgGs provide (see above).

            So to answer our previous question,”why does my infant need any
            vaccines at all since she’s getting all the antibodies she needs from
            my breast milk”? The answer is, the antibodies we get from vaccinating ourselves against deadly illnesses aren’t the type that are transmitted through breast milk.”

          37. When Dr Mike recommends a certain prenatal treatment such as the Tdap shot, no doubt most pregnant patients trust the doctor’s advice and assume that the shot has been proven safe and won’t in any way harm her baby.
            The truth is that the Tdap shot has never been proven safe for use during pregnancy. In fact, Tdap is classified by the FDA as a Class C drug.
            The definition of a Class C drug which is how the Tdap shot is classified:
            Animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on the fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of the drug in pregnant women despite potential risks.

          38. The US Food and Drug Administration has classified Tdap as a Class C drug.6 Such drugs lack adequate and well-controlled studies in humans but have been associated with an adverse effect on the fetus in animal reproduction studies. In reviewing the available literature, researchers have noted that “potential benefits may warrant use of the vaccine in pregnant women despite potential risks.”6

            – See more at: https://www.obgyn.net/pregnancy-and-birth/tdap-pregnancy-what-new-guidelines-say#sthash.r65dyvbK.dpuf

          39. Your article has a paywall around it – strange you are using it as proof of safety. The product inserts still class Tdap as a class C drug
            i.e. Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with Adacel vaccine. It is also not known
            whether Adacel vaccine can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect
            reproduction capacity. Adacel vaccine should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed.
            Animal fertility studies have not been conducted with Adacel vaccine. The effect of Adacel vaccine on
            embryo-fetal and pre-weaning development was evaluated in two developmental toxicity studies using
            pregnant rabbits.

          40. If you can’t access the articles, that isn’t my fault.
            Are you admitting you have formed your opinion on vaccines without being able to view the most relevant evidence?
            (Colour me totally unsurprised)

          41. I could if I wanted to pay big dollars to access it. If it had any worth it would be splashed all over the pro vaccine government sites free because the government and big pharma want to convince people how safe their vaccines are. The fact that it is being kept locked behind a paywall does to inspire me to pay big money only to find that the authors have not declared their conflict of interest and are pawns of big pharma and the government. I remind you again of what is on the product inserts

            Kinrix
            13 NONCLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
            13.1 Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
            KINRIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility.
            https://www.gsksource.com/pharma/content/dam/GlaxoSmithKline/US/en/Prescribing_Information/Kinrix/pdf/KINRIX.PDF

            Pediarix
            Pregnancy
            Pregnancy Category C
            Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with PEDIARIX. It is not known whether PEDIARIX can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or if PEDIARIX can affect reproduction capacity.

            https://www.gsksource.com/pharma/content/dam/GlaxoSmithKline/US/en/Prescribing_Information/Pediarix/pdf/PEDIARIX.PDF

            Daptacel 8 USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS 8.1 Pregnancy
            Pregnancy Category C
            Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with DAPTACEL vaccine. It is also not known whether DAPTACEL vaccine can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproductive capacity.

            https://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?doc_id=11179&image_type=product_pdf

          42. I could if I wanted to pay big dollars to access it. If it had any worth it would be splashed all over the pro vaccine government sites free because the government and big pharma want to convince people how safe their vaccines are. The fact that it is being kept locked behind a paywall does to inspire me to pay big money only to find that the authors have not declared their conflict of interest and are pawns of big pharma and the government. I remind you again of what is on the product inserts

            Kinrix
            13 NONCLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
            13.1 Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
            KINRIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility.
            https://www.gsksource.com/phar

            Pediarix
            Pregnancy
            Pregnancy Category C
            Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with PEDIARIX. It is not known whether PEDIARIX can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or if PEDIARIX can affect reproduction capacity.

            https://www.gsksource.com/phar

            Daptacel 8 USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS 8.1 Pregnancy
            Pregnancy Category C
            Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with DAPTACEL vaccine. It is also not known whether DAPTACEL vaccine can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproductive capacity.

            https://www.vaccineshoppe.com/

          43. I must congratulate you Judith.
            That is the fist time I have heard that particular antivax trope (namely that published science articles that are not open access have been deliberately kept behind a paywall to prevent people finding out the TROOF!)

          44. In 2010, the majority of confirmed or suspected reported whooping cough cases were in vaccinated people. In an eye-opening report, the Watchdog Institute found that DtaP vaccine immunity only lasts about three years. In addition, there is evidence that bacterial organism that causes
            whooping cough has evolved to become vaccine resistant, which is another
            big reason there is a rise in reported cases of B. pertussis whooping
            cough. The DtaP vaccine, although reported to be less reactive, can still
            cause brain inflammation and brain damage in some individuals.

          45. “In 2010, the majority of confirmed or suspected reported whooping cough cases were in vaccinated people.”
            Why is it that despite multiple explanation, some of it in crayon on a blackboard to help them understand, antivaxers cannot grasp simple math?

            I wish the acellular pertussis vaccine was more durable, so do most doctors. But getting an adolescent booster is the best compromise until science comes up with a better one. (Even “natural” immunity can last as little as 4 years, did you know that?)

            Oh, and thank you for your unattributed copy/pasta vomit, regurgitated from an antivax propaganda website.
            Are you too stupid and unoriginal to express your opinion in your own words?

          46. Yes I am, just trying to fit in. Don’t need you attacking more Drs. The compromise with the kiddie booster is unfortunately permanent brain damage. PS:
            If you are a Dr. I invented sliced bread.

          47. One problem you haven’t addressed is the fact that the acellular whooping cough vaccine is actually enhancing the incidence of resistant strains. There is no new vaccine in the pipeline. How can you argue that a vaccine that allows people to shed, is ineffective, requires an ever increasing schedule of shots, and allows asymptomatic carriers to carry on as normal should be mandated??
            “An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.”
            https://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis

          48. 1. B. Parapertussis does not cause pertussis disease.

            2. Just because one person says there are no new vaccines “in the pipeline”, that doesn’t mean it’s true.
            https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510124457.htm
            https://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/209/suppl_1/S24.full
            https://www.formatex.org/microbio/pdf/pages668-672.pdf

            3. Acellular whooping cough vaccine, which has been in use in the US for 20 years now, does not “shed” because it freaking isn’t a live bacterial vaccine, Dipstick! It doesn’t even have whole pertussis bacteria cells in it. That’s why it’s called “acellular”.

            4. The vaccine is not “ineffective”. It’s not as effective as we’d like to see. That doesn’t mean ineffective.

            5. What on earth are you talking about, an ever increasing number of shots? The schedule for DTP vaccines, either DTwP or DTaP hasn’t changed in decades. Tdap was introduced in 2005. Prior to then, there was no pertussis vaccine that could be given to people >6 years old, even those who were previous unimmunized.

            Note the word “may” in your quote.

          49. “All children should receive a series of DTaP at ages 2, 4, and 6 months, with boosters at ages 15-18 months and at 4-6 years. The fourth dose may be given as early as age 12 months if at least 6 months have elapsed since the third dose.”That is a lot of doses – primarily because the vaccine has been shown to not be effective and immunity wanes quickly.

          50. Less severe does not mean NO symptoms. That’s when pertussis is more like a “bad cold”, when you get it after you’ve been immunized.

          51. Aren’t you going to refer us to the skeptical raptor blog to refute what the experts at the CDC said about the pertussis vaccine?

          52. Always good to hear from the idiots who think they’re smarter than the doctors who study this and work with it day in and day out.

            These are the reasons we still have a hundred cases here or there versus the hundreds of thousands pre-vaccine:

            1) waning of immunity from vaccination or natural infection over time,
            2) evolution of B. pertussis to escape protective immunity, and
            3) low vaccine coverage.

            The baboon study suggests a fourth possibility. Those of us who are in fact baboons may be asymptomatic carriers. So if you have a runny nose, don’t slobber on your playmates like baboons do.

          53. Hey baboon Watson perhaps you should read the paper before you defecate in public. Because you are too lazy to read or too ignorant to understand here is a quote that should shut your oral/anal orifice. “Using wavelet analyses of B. pertussis incidence in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) and a phylodynamic analysis of 36 clinical B. pertussis isolates from the US, we find evidence in support of asymptomatic transmission of B. pertussis.”

          54. Children and adults, who have gotten one or more doses of pertussis-containing vaccines (DPT, DtaP, Tdap), as well as those who have never been vaccinated at all, can experience a mlld or serious case of B, pertussis whooping cough.

            However, those who have already had B. pertussis whooping cough once or have had one or more pertussis vaccinations often have a milder case, even though they can still transmit the disease to others.

            All vaccines only give temporary immunity, which is why booster doses are often given. Pertussis vaccine (DPT, DTaP, TdaP) does not give long lasting, permanent immunity. That is why, even after children get 3 to 6 doses of pertussis vaccine, they can still get B. pertussis whooping cough as children, teenagers or adults.

            https://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/Whooping-Cough.aspx

          55. Once more for the functionally illiterate:

            A vaccine that isn’t used won’t work at all. The problem in Colorado isn’t the effectiveness of the vaccine, it’s the number of children who aren’t vaccinated.

            That’s from Children’s Hospital Colorado

          56. What’s Vermont got to do with Colorado? Why are you always moving the goalposts? I see California in there too.

          57. Do you think parents in Colorado don’t follow the national news and aren’t already fully aware the whooping cough outbreaks are because of the vaccine’s ineffectiveness?
            Yet here you are trying to claim we must give up our rights to informed consent because of vaccinated children catching diseases. Do you really think Coloradoans are that dense??

          58. First of all, b*atch, you show where I ever said anyone must give up any rights to informed consent. And I want a direct quote, not a paraphrase.

            We’re Coloradans, not Coloradoans. You however, are a Coloradope!

          59. Katia, maybe you need some of that wacky tobaccy they have in Colorado, I hear it’s good for conniptions.

          60. Another good point, in a state where the majority voted to end federal prohibition on recreational marijuana, I would think they would be against the guv sticking their noses where they don’t belong

          61. No, I just spend 4 or 5 months of the year there now, since I own property there and all my family still lives there and I’m semi-retired. I fight for all states in America, not just the state of my birth.

          62. I have asked Mike if he believes that Vaccine coercion should be implemented in the UK.
            That is what the article wants for Colorado.
            Never answers.

          63. Some b*atch accuses me of saying something outrageous I didn’t say and you call it a conniption? Yet you have a cow over my use of Jag*off? Glass houses, GracieB.

          64. Look, B*tch, I’m tired of this. You may think your very funny, as do your minions, but please put your money where your mouth is and SHOW ME A QUOTE! The last time I asked you to prove something you claimed I said, you never did it. Why? You’re an abject LIAR!

          65. You know Grace, if you put words in my mouth one more time, I am going to take some action. I never said it, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          66. You said you never said you support vaccination coercion.
            I’m applauding your stance against coercion!

          67. So, Grace, you never said you are against vaccination?
            I am applauding your stance in support of vaccination!

            …….See what I did there?

          68. There is no such thing as vaccination “coercion”, even in the US.
            As far as I can tell, people have a choice, and can refuse to have their kids vaccinated. There may be consequences to that decision which parents may not like, but they still have a choice.

            Can you rephrase into a sensible question please?

          69. There are many objections to vaccinations, both on an individual basis, the schedule , and vaccination itself as well as religious and philosophical.
            Vaccination is Medical intervention on a healthy person.
            Restricting access to education, employment, state and federal benefits is coercion, back door version, like your pineapple.

          70. Mike must really hate living in the UK where they have no mandatory vaccines at all. He must take all out his frustration by trying to push for them here.

          71. I have a good idea what to put into your mouth. And no, I would never give you the satisfaction for that; I was thinking more fecal in nature. Dog perhaps, since there are dog kidney cells in many vaccines.

          72. I will never be one of “you”. I don’t think vaccines are bad, poisonous, full of the inimitable “toxins”, etc.

          73. What bill is this, Grace? The General Assembly session just started Wednesday. What bill has been introduced? Who sponsored it?

          74. I’ve read it, Grace. But you said “bill”. I should probably take a screen shot before you change it.

            Guess what, Grace? I was shopping this afternoon, and ran across some designer jeans with the label “Jag”. Isn’t that just sooooo vulgar?

          75. You’ve still never shown a post of mine where I said I ever supported coercion. You’ve had 4 hours.

          76. You need a new dictionary.

            Coercion
            the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats

            synonyms:
            force, compulsion, constraint, duress, oppression, …
            Oxford dictionary.

          77. What kind of force, compulsion, constraint, duress, or oppression have I suggested? Be specific and provide a link.

          78. Ione gave you one, earlier.

            “you didn’t say you were for mandatory vaccines per se, you just don’t want the unvaccinated to ever leave their homes.
            ione murphy to Kathy
            Will unvaccinated children also be excluded from rec centers, movie theaters, libraries, swimming pools, amusement parks, little league, boy and girl scouts, from traveling by air or train, or from entering a hospital?
            Katia to ione murphy
            “To a point, they should be excluded from all of the above except entering a hospital.”
            https://disqus.com/home/discus

            Constraint from public spaces.
            Coercion.
            Own it.

          79. See this!
            “Chances are you’ve probably read a copy of the newspaper “The Fort Collins Coloradoan.” Despite the paper’s name, one of its copy editors, Jason Melton, states that whereas the paper used to refer to residents as ‘Coloradoans’, it now used the designation ‘Coloradans’. The name of the paper, however, has remained unchanged.

            According to the book “The American Language” by H. L. Mencken, when the name of a place ends with the letter “o”, the proper thing to do is add the letters “an.” The exception to this rule is if the name of the place is a Spanish word.

            Well, guess what? At last report, Colorado is very much a Spanish word.

            With this in mind, many Colorado newspapers, including “The Pueblo
            Chieftain”, abandoned the use of ‘Coloradoan’ a few years ago in favor of ‘Coloradan.”

            The website Dictionary.com recognizes both as adjectives describing someone from the state, but lists ‘Coloradan’ first.”

            Read More: Are We ‘Coloradans’ or ‘Coloradoans’ – Which Do You Prefer? | https://kekbfm.com/coloradans-coloradoans/?trackback=tsmcliphttps://kekbfm.com/coloradans-coloradoans/

            Just havin’ a little fun!

          80. I’m third generation born and raised in Colorado, and in our family we always said it our way along with millions of other Coloradoans. You are from back east somewhere by your own claims and just a recent transplant. Most natives intensely dislike the tourists and transplants, but they put up with them. if you are not here cheerleading for mandatory vaccines, why have you been here daily for weeks??

          81. Where do you live now, ione? How long have you been gone? I’ve been here 35 years. Yeah, there are jerks like you, who hate, hate, hate. My kids were born here. Does that make them “anchor babies”?

          82. “all us natives and the old timers say Coloradoan”

            Not all. It’s about 50/50 Coloradoans vs Coloradans. It seems to be relative to what part of the state you’re in, rural or city.

          83. Late to the discussion and no clue what’s going on as usual. But thanks for just repeating the link I already posted with your sly little wink, that’s showing the usage of the term Coloradoan has been around a lot longer and is still used today among the natives. Please get up to speed and read the thread before commenting in the future, or you just make yourself out to be rather dense.

            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2462214984

          84. Ineffective vaccines are gradually being forced on all Americans, Australians and others – It would be fine if being ineffective was their only fault but their horrific side effects which have never been studied in a double blind placebo control are causing children everywhere to get sicker and sicker. Big International Pharma does not have borders. Governments everywhere are taking the lead from the USA. Corruption is endemic.

          85. you didn’t say you were for mandatory vaccines per se, you just don’t want the unvaccinated to ever leave their homes.

            ione murphy to Kathy

            Will unvaccinated children also be excluded from rec centers, movie theaters, libraries, swimming pools, amusement parks, little league, boy and girl scouts, from traveling by air or train, or from entering a hospital?

            Katia to ione murphy

            “To a point, they should be excluded from all of the above except entering a hospital.”

            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2436690061

          86. “you didn’t say you were for mandatory vaccines per se, you just don’t want the unvaccinated to ever leave their homes.”

            Never said that either, ione.

          87. think Ione when pharma Kate can’t come up with a logical answer it beholds her to ignore the vaccine effectiveness and talk about some imaginary border that makes it all rosy.

          88. Do you use a totally different vaccine in Vermont? This post is about vaccine efficacy not lines drawn in the sand.

          89. More than just a line in the sand, Vermont is almost 2,000 miles away.

            If it’s vaccine efficacy you’d like to discuss, Vermont had 41 cases of confirmed whooping cough in 2015. Colorado had 852.

            “A recent study conducted in Vermont shows “DTaP series of vaccines given to children aged 4 through 10 was 84 percent effective for five doses compared to a child who was unvaccinated … And the Tdap for adolescents and adults was 70 percent effective.”

            https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2015/06/25/study-shows-pertussis-vaccine-effective/29290797/

            Hurry back when you have anything even remotely intelligent to say.

          90. Thank god we have the vaccines to lower it as much as we can.

            You just made a good argument for vaccination.

          91. Thanks for this one. People forget, not even 75 years ago whooping cough was everywhere. It wasn’t organic carrots or fruit smoothies that stopped it.

      2. Spoken clearly from a position of fear. Thank you for making a perfect example of a person operating from that irrational emotional state.

        1. Speaking of bat-guano irrational and insane:

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2443195008
          “an angry mob of mothers with vaccine injured kids will pitch-fork you onto a 3 legged stool with a noose around your skinny neck.” – brian fantasizing about streaming out of mommy’s basement and summarily executing her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2449975867
          “You will see torches and pitchforks in your last moments on this plane; unless of course you come to my house and try to inject me with antifreeze. Then I will just end you right there.” – brian fantasizing about killing her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2452009526
          ” And if you change the laws and violate human rights anyway, you still will be brought to justice for your crimes and hung by the neck until you are dead” – brian fatasizing about summarily hanging one of her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2457270562
          “… just go knocking on doors holding needle and see how that works out for you.” – brian fantasizing about violently confronting her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2457296649
          “I am that quiet father down the road with an 8 year old vaccine damaged boy, and a 4 year old unvaccinated, healthy girl. I will be the one hunting you down when my healthy daughter is forcefully vaccinated and harmed against my wishes because of your mandates. I will be the one sitting on a jury of your peers for the human rights violations you have promoted. I will be the one putting the noose around your neck. “ – brian fantasizing about executing her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2457413564
          “And the minute you DO do that, then it is on buddy, and there is not a cave or rock large enough for you to hide.” – brian fantasizing about getting retribution against her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2457527783
          “You won’t be laughing when that angry father down the road has his healthy unvaccinated kid forcefully vaccinated and injured because of YOU. He will pitch-fork your tyrant tail onto a 3 legged stool with a rope around your neck.” – brian fantasizing about the hanging of one of her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2458050884
          “Come on over holding and needle and we can kick this off with a bang.” – brian courageously making a fantasy threat against a pro-science, pro-vaccine advocate.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2458027639
          ” I will not comply with your mandated vaccines. And when you try to force them onto me, then I suppose that will be the end of words, and action will commence.” – brian fantasizing about taking physical action against her pro-vaccine enemies.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2459608928
          “Those are not threats but promises. Please continue to be verbal about your totalitarian nature. be sure to do so in public and see how long this keyboard stays between us.” – brian hilariously threatening a pro-health, pro-vaccine advocate that she will come out from behind her keyboard and from her mommy’s basement to… do something.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2460491925
          “…you will be held accountable later on, just like the Nuremburg trials. And I will be there. And I will be clapping when you are sentenced for your crimes.” – brian fantasizing about the days of revolutionary anti-vaccine soviets sentencing her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies for their “crimes”.

          disqus(dot)com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2461455286
          “All of you people promoting this will be in a lot of trouble if you follow through with your totalitarian agenda. Think long and hard about what side of the road you are on, because if you continue to support these human rights violations, you will be held accountable for your actions in the very near future.” – brian fantasizing about streaming out of mommy’s basement to summarily execute her pro-science, pro-vaccine enemies.

          It seems brian is dangerously mentally ill and living in a delusional fantasy world where she murders her enemies in her righteousness.
          Readers will find that the anti-vaccine cult is loaded with lunatics such as brian.

        2. Your entire post is nothing but fear.
          .
          “Vaccines can, have and do cause harm”
          Nothing but pure fear mongering.

    3. Perhaps, sadly, this is what is needed for things to change. I believe anything that infringes on people’s rights, human rights, and civil liberties will eventually be met with a push back that will be more powerful than money, government, large corporations. That power comes from the oppression of people. It may take time, but eventually, something powerful will happen. History has proven this over and over. That’s how revolutions happen. Coercion and vaccination; imagine what will happen when a family is coerced to vaccinate, (they are backed into a corner) and their child is severely harmed. Then it happens to another family, and another. They’re playing a dangerous game and they will, inevitably, lose.

  184. Pune: As many as 11 babies died in the state last year after immunization as against eight infants in 2014. In the last five years, about 76 infants have died after being vaccinated in Maharashtra.

    At present, only the deaths that occurred in the state-run medical establishments have been taken into account and their number is likely to be higher, a health department official said.

    Experts said private practitioners involved in immunizing infants should report cases of adverse reaction and deaths following immunization to understand the exact burden of such casualties.

    Every year, around 22 lakh infants below one year of age get vaccinated as protection against several diseases in the state.

    Going by the health department’s record, 14 infants died post-immunization in 2011. The number jumped considerably in 2012 when 21 infants had died. A total of 22 infants died in Maharashtra post-vaccination in 2013, the highest recorded in the last five years.

    https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/pune-post-vaccination-11-infants-died-in-maharashtra/50603567

    1. Considering how many thousands of babies die in India all the time from many different diseases (a lot of them vaccine prevenable, btw), I would be most surprised to find that none had died in close proximity to some form of vaccination.
      Hundreds died following their first footsteps. How do you interpret that information? That learning to walk is deadly for children?

      PS: You forgot to cite the important part of the reported “story”.

      “Most deaths are coincidental. There are hardly any human errors. There is a system in place which evaluates every death post immunization,”
      paediatrician Aarti Kinikar said. She is a member of the state’s Adverse
      Effects Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee which audits every
      death reported to the state health department post-immunization.

      “Such a death is classified depending upon various parameters including
      infants’ associated medical conditions. Mostly, these deaths remain
      unclassified. There is a need to involve private practitioners in
      reporting as currently only a handful of deaths occurring in the private
      sector gets reported to the state health department,” she added.

      1. The old meme – pure coincidence of course. It is the cloth that wipes away all the filth and can be discarded.

        1. A committee audits every death, and it declares these cases as “coincidence”.
          Given that, and the fact that one would statistically expect many events to “follow immunisation” by coincidence alone, there is good reason not to imagine that there is any significant signal to noise ratio involved.
          Of course, one can assume, since we are talking true antivax conspiracist psychopathy here, that all the scientific committee are paid off by BigPharma, and all the epidemiologists in India are likewise corrupted.

        2. Readers will note that as Mike pointed out, Judith dishonestly left out the part of the story that showed the anti-vaccine spin to the story is a lie. Now that the true tenor of the story is known she is attacking her own story that just moments ago she was using to try and show vaccines were dangerous.

          It doesn’t get more dishonest or crazier than that.

          Readers may now ask:
          Why do anti-vaccine cultists constantly lie?

      2. LOL, you are a funny guy. “There are hardly any human errors” Yeah right and I got a bridge for you that is for sale cheap.

    2. “As many as 11 babies died in the state”

      Not in this state.

      Do you think people are really that stupid that you can obscure where this story took place and no one would notice?

      1. Why are you trying to create small borders when the vaccine issue is international. The Big Picture has to be considered. Punitive measures are being introduced all over the world for those that do not want forced medical procedures.

        1. I went back to double check the statistics from Children’s Hospital Colorado.

          There his no record of even a single child who died because of vaccination in this state since 2002, the earliest archived “State of Childrens Health” Report. The most serious complications have been just allergic reactions, never more than 3 or 4 children affected per year. In every case the child was treated and sent home safe and sound.

          Go peddle your lies elsewhere, Judy Harvey. Your troll is obvious.

          1. Please go here:
            https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index
            and read the first sentence of the VAERS data page.
            What does it say?
            “When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established.
            Please tell the class what that sentence means in regard to raw VAERS data.

            Readers should ask:
            What part of “no cause-and-effect relationship has been established” do anti-vaccine cultists not understand?
            Are they all illiterate or merely outrageous liars?

          2. One in less than one million is incredibly rare. I would consider you data but………you got nothing but unfounded accusations.

          3. That’s right shill, keep playing the “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” role. Deny, deny, deny, some will believe you, unfortunately

          4. I post verifiable facts. You post, deny, deny, deny.

            I post FACT, FACT, FACT, check them for yourself!!!!

          5. Here we go again just in case you missed it

            a high of 800 cases from 1954 to 1966https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/graph-us-measles-cases

            mortality rate of 1-2/1000 due to pneumonia or encephalitishttps://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/complications.html

            And an incidence last year in the US of 189 cases…. nationwidehttps://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
            Facts enough for you mr scary shillman

          6. You didn’t read the legend correctly. Its not “cases”, it.s ” cases in thousands” so your numbers are
            .
            1954 – 800,000 cases
            .
            A mortality of 2 per 1000 means 1200 per year.
            .
            In the last year before the vaccine, there were 450 deaths.
            .
            Thanks for making my point exactly, anti-vaxxer that can’t count very well

          7. At least she’s learned not to use those with cause of death listed as “bean in subject’s trachea” “Stage IV lung cancer” and “coronary artery disease,” like she did the other day.

          8. Has cause and effect been established in these cases?

            10/3/2014–Tdap, MMR–Demyelinating Polyneuropathy–Case No. 13-756V–$225,000

            9/26/2014–Dtap, HiB, MMR, Pneumococcal–Strep A infection, Toxic Shock, Multi-Organ Failure–Case No. 11-50V–$600,000

            9/26/2014–DTaP, HiB, MMR Pneumococcal–Multi-Organ Failure, Streptococcal A Infection–, Toxic Shock– Case No. 11-50V–$200,000

            4/21/2014–Tdap, MMR Vaccines–Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 13-08V–$72,000

            4/21/2014–Tdap, MMR–GBS–Case No. 13-08V–$72,000

            8/15/2013– Tetanus-Diptheria Vaccine– Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)– Case No. 11-18V– $865,000

            7/3/2013– Tetanus-Diptheria Vaccine– Systemic Lupus Erythematosus– Case No. 10-223– $770,000

            5/10/2013– Tetanus-Diptheria Vaccine– Cellulitis– Case No. 12-438V– $100,000

            12/12/2012–Dtap, Polio, Varicella, Hepatitis A Vaccines–Ideopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura–Case No. 10-818V–$87,500

            6/10/2011–Menactra, DTaP, Varivax Vaccines–Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 09-867 –$100,000

            5/19/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP)–Cerebral Palsy, Encephalopathy, Seizure Disorder,Cognitive Delays–Case No. 08-463V–$61 Million Over Expected Lifetime

            3/23/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (DTaP) Vaccine–Neurologic Injury–Case No. 08-348V–$200,000

            3/7/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP)—Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 09-834 V—$175,000

          9. The other troll has already been caught lying about “As many as 11 babies died in the state,” so which of these cases, if any, are children in Colorado?

          10. Your attempt at falsifying the facts of where the babies died at is known already. The place is in the first sentence.
            Do you think people only care about the children living next door? You don’t think Coloradoans have any family and friends that live elsewhere?

          11. We’re discussing children in Colorado, and Judith’s lie about “11 babies died in the state last year.”

            Should I assume from your angry non-response that none of the cases in this list are children in Colorado?

          12. These are American children and adults that were injuried or died from vaccines, and last time I looked, Colorado was a state in the United States of America.
            With the National Adult Immunization Plan being brought into legislation , the right to informed consent and the right to choose when, with what, and if they will be immunized effects every man, woman ,and child in this country.

            This is just a small sample of the injuries that vaccines can cause, where there is risk, there must be choice.

            https://www.mctlawyers.com/vaccine-injury/cases/

          13. Here’s one to get you started, I’ll be back with more for you.

            ‘Parents of Vaccine-Injured Children Speak Out: ‘The Guilt Is Huge’

            “When Susan Lawson of Colorado hears parents declaring, unequivocally, that everyone should vaccinate their children because it’s perfectly safe, she says it feels “like a punch in the gut.” That’s because she’s seen another side of the story: Her daughter Julia, now 9, was left with permanent brain damage — an injury acknowledged by a federal court payout — after receiving her MMRV (measles-mumps-rubella-varicella) shot when she was a year old.

            At the end of it, in 2011, Lawson was awarded nearly $1.5 million for lost future wages, future life care, and pain and suffering on behalf of her daughter, whom she describes as “an eternal toddler,” with little language skills, constant medications, and daily seizures.

            “Was it justice? I mean, they could have done nothing,” Lawson says. “But I just want my kid back.”

            https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/parents-of-vaccine-injured-children-speak-out-110904439577.html

          14. Okay, one. Julia Grimes. Encephalitis, which could have been caused by the MMR vaccine.

            Her case was settled in vaccine court as a table injury in 2011.

            Any others?

          15. Okay, one. Julia Grimes. Encephalitis, which could have been caused by the MMR vaccine. Her case was settled in vaccine court as a table injury in 2011.

            Any others?

          16. Worth noting that the case described does not meet the criterion to be included in “11 deaths” either.

          17. 1) The child didn’t live in Colorado
            2) The cause of death was unrelated to vaccination
            3) Anything at vactruth is immediately suspect.

            Last year, the liar that operates VacTruth posted the story of another child and so grossly misrepresented the mother’s comments and cause of death, the parents had the article removed. The man is a fraud.

          18. deny, deny, deny, shill man. your vaccines kill and disable. If you can’t dispute the facts, kill the messenger. shill handbook, page 103

          19. The discussion is of Judith’s comment, which she later edited that “As many as 11 babies died in the state,”

            Have you heard the story of Daniel Elijah French? Mr. Aufderheide lied and embellished that child’s story to the point his mother had to ask him to remove the article.

            He’s a fraud. You’re a troll. Bye.

          20. “Has cause and effect been established in these cases?”

            No.
            You appear not to know how the compensation system for table injuries on the VICP works.

          21. So the children in Colorado who were injured and received compensation through the Vaccine Injury court are ignored. Like the disabled child in a wheelchair who was present at the last hearing

            Parents Testifying About Vaccines Injuries and Health Choices

            “Parents testified that they followed doctors’ orders without questioning and their children suffered vaccine reactions and were left with permanent brain and immune system problems. Ronnie Prine brought his severely vaccine injured adult son to the Capitol in a wheelchair”

            According to this vaccine injury lawyer based in Denver, here is what a parent with a child injured by vaccines faces in a claim in court..
            To Obtain Vaccine Injury Compensation
            What Must I Prove?

            When Congress created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP or VICP), the intent was to have a fast, simple, effective way to compensate victims of vaccine injuries with a minimum of expense, delay, and inconvenience.

            The theory was: If you are injured due to a vaccine or how it was administered, simply file a claim, show evidence that the injury was related to the vaccine or vaccination, and in a few months receive compensation.

            Unfortunately the claims process has become much more complex, and a much higher burden of proof has been placed on claims filed.

            At the present time, to receive compensation, you, as the petitioner, must:

            Show that you have been injured and the connection between the vaccination and the injury is medically plausible.

            Show there is a logical sequence of cause and effect between the vaccination and the injury.

            Show that the injury occurred within the medically appropriate time frame.

            That’s why substantial documentation, medical and hospital reports, and other materials must be submitted with each claim.

            Another problem: Your pediatrician may not admit to you that your child has a vaccination injury. This sometimes happens when it was the pediatrician who administered the vaccine, and he wants to protect his reputation rather than provide you with an accurate evaluation or the truth. ”

            “When the person making the claim meets these three requirements, the burden of proof then shifts to the government attorney who must then show that some other cause is more likely than the one presented in the claim.”

            https://www.richardgage.net/FAQwhatMustIprove.html

          22. “Like the disabled child in a wheelchair who was present at the last hearing”

            The source of your story is Barbara Loe Fisher, so any statements in the above are immediately suspect. What is the child’s name? When was his case decided?

          23. I called him a child although he is 20 now, but he functions at a six month old infant level still.
            There is a video in this news report of this young man
            “Jennifer and Ronnie Prine, of Littleton, aren’t vaccinating their 11-year-old daughter because of what they said happened to their son.

            “He was born perfectly normal, He was about seven months when he got his DPT vaccine,” said Jennifer Prine. “About 14 days after that, he started having seizures. And the regression just continued until he’s where he is now. He’s 20 and at about 6-month level.”

            While Colorado hasn’t seen the outbreaks other states have, state health officials said they do continue to see preventable diseases cropping up in kids here. (whooping cough, vaccines a dud)

            Still, the Prines said it should be their choice whether to vaccinate, not their doctor’s. “Come to my house. Watch the seizures every day, and you make the choice because when it comes right down to it no doctor will help you take care of that child,” said Prine.

            About 5 percent of children in Colorado have a documented exemption in order not to be vaccinated.

            https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/doctors-refuse-to-see-unvaccinated-children

          24. Are you incapable of answering a simple question: When was his case decided?

            In every instance of “seizure disorder” which presents some time after the DPT, the child actually has rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome.

            But you know that.

            You also know the outcome for children with Dravet Syndrome is the same whether or not they’re vaccinated.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152151/

            You say he was compensated. When was this case decided?

          25. Why don’t you contact his parents and hound them about it, they are listed in the phone book. Are you going to accuse them of lying about their child’s injury like you have done to others?

          26. It’s a simple question.

            “So the children in Colorado who were injured and received compensation through the Vaccine Injury court are ignored. Like the disabled child in a wheelchair ” — ione murphy https://disq.us/91jeuk

            You say he was compensated. When was this case decided?

          27. Colorado resident Ronnie Prine on his son Eric’s vaccine injury, he has given permission to share it

            “We loved our son, so we listened to the doctors who told us that he needed to be vaccinated. My wife was a nurse, so we didn’t even think to question whether this was best or not. He was six months old, so it was time to start getting his shots.

            Within hours of his DPT shot, our sweet, cheerful baby disappeared. He was replaced with a fussy baby who cried constantly. A large knot developed where the shot was given. This baby who had been sleeping through the night, no longer slept, but kept on waking up screaming.

            While living in Lucedale MS, Eric was hospitalized repeatedly at University of South Alabama in Mobile. It was there that his pediatric neurologist, Dr. Paul Maertens, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Special Qualification in Child Neurology, told us he was certain that the DPT had caused Eric’s seizure disorder. This was documented in Eric’s medical records and the doctor was willing to testify in court.

            Vaccine injury has not only stolen Erics life, but it has damaged our lives in many other ways. We even lost our first home.

            Our daughter Shelby was born in 2000 and her big brother Eric was first to hold her. Shelby went unvaccinated because of concerns that they would affect her as they did her brother. After losing our house due to mounting medical expenses, we moved to Colorado, away from our families. In Colorado, we were able to obtain a personal belief vaccine exemption for our Shelby so she could attend kindergarten and my wife decided to take a job as a traveling RN. There was no way we would stay in Mississippi and consider risking our daughter’s health to vaccines after what they did to Eric. In Mississippi Shelby could not qualify for a medical exemption due to her brother’s condition.

            We attempted after a time to pursue a case in vaccine court to help with Eric’s medical expenses. They told us back when Eric was a baby that a reaction 7 days after vaccination wasn’t close enough to prove they caused Eric’s reaction. (The vaccine manufacturer’s package inserts say encephalopathy -brain inflammation- is a possible reaction as far as 14 days later.)
            Even though Eric’s pediatric neurologist would go on the record and testify for his vaccine injury, we were turned away and unable to file with the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to help us financially handle Eric’s bills. We had missed the statute of limitation of 3 years because we were too busy in the hospital fighting for Eric’s life, praying they could just keep him alive, and also because we were misled into thinking the vaccine couldn’t possibly be the cause.”

            https://bethevoice.typepad.com/my-blog/2014/10/hes-my-son-erics-story.html

          28. “So the children in Colorado who were injured and received compensation through the Vaccine Injury court are ignored. Like the disabled child in a wheelchair ” — ione murphy https://disq.us/91jeuk

            Only he wasn’t.

            Caught you lying. Again.

        2. Wasn’t he the one who was showing us charts of pertussis in Sweden to show how the vaccine is supposedly working here?

          1. You know what’s amusing and ironic about the sudden interest in only talking about what’s going on in Colorado. I was doing just that, showing that the outbreaks of whooping cough quoted in the Denver Post, was attributed to the failing of the pertussis vaccine..

            “The state health department blames a change to the pertussis vaccine in the 1990s and ordinary disease cycles for the spike.

            “What we’ve learned in the last couple of years is that the switch in vaccines has led to greater issues of waning immunity to pertussis, which means that the protection provided by the vaccine isn’t lasting as long as we’d ideally like,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, deputy director for the division of disease control at the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.”….

            So in answer to my comment, Watson posts a graph about the incidence in pertussis in Sweden because…??

            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2461646036

          2. To show that this sentence is a lie: “What outbreaks in Colorado, that’s not been caused from a vaccine that
            has been proven to be ineffective, is costing millions of dollars?”

            The Swedish graph shows very well that DTaP is an effective vaccine. It’s especially effective when people get it.

          3. Because it clearly shows the pertussis vaccine works.

            I also shared the State of Childrens Health Report published by Childrens Hospital Colorado last year. Waning immunity is irrelevant in a state where 28% of students don’t get their booster before 6th grade. That age group, 10-18 yrs old is where most of the whooping cough cases are occurring.

      2. Most people would have noticed where it was taking place- Maharashtra- in the first sentence, but as usual, a shill will always have to have something to latch onto, because you know that’s all you really got.

        1. That’s at the bottom of the comment, which few people would read.

          As usual, you fall back on the tired “shill” crap because an intelligent response is beyond your limited faculties.

        2. The way you get angry when your little troll friends are caught deliberately trying to mislead is revealing, ione.

          That part is all the way at the bottom, which few people would read.

          1. That was interesting what just happened. I tried to reply to your first comment which was different from what we see here. But after I hit enter for my reply, it said your post had been removed by the moderator. And now, we have an edited version of your comment for us.

          2. “as usual, a shill will always have to have something to latch onto, because you know that’s all you really got.”

            As usual, the tired shill crap, because that literally is all someone of your limited faculties really has.

          3. “Pune: As many as 11 babies died in the state last year after immunization as against eight infants in 2014. In the last five years, about 76 infants have died after being vaccinated in** Maharashtra.**”

          4. Which has absolutely nothing to do with Aurora, Colorado. The casual reader would easily overlook it.

            How antivax trolls can rationalize their deliberate attempts to mislead astonishes me. Just the handful of comments I’ve seen from you and Judy Harvey, you both do it repeatedly. It’s pathological.

          5. Which has nothing to do with Aurora, Colorado. The casual reader would easily overlook it.

            How antivax trolls can rationalize their constant attempts to mislead astonishes me. Just the handful of comments I’ve seen from you and Judy Harvey, you both do it repeatedly.

          6. Here I thought you were just being a troll about not noticing where Judith was talking about. But I now see you didn’t notice it and just made yourself look really stupid, and are now trying to backpedal out of it.

          7. I’m not backpedaling, ione. When I first read it, I didn’t see “Maharashtra” until the very end.

            I’m sure I’m not the only one, and I’m also sure that was the intent.

          8. If you want to talk about India, can we look at the death toll of vaccine preventable diseases next, or will you squeal “Only cases in Colorado”?

          9. Nice work shill, “has nothing to do with Aurora, Colorado” that is trying to force girls and boys to have a Gardasil shot.

    3. Why did you leave this part out?

      “Health authorities said an infant’s death after immunization is usually coincidental and has other co-factors linked to it.”

      liar, liar. pants on fire.

      1. “coincidental” amazing how many “coincidences” occur after vaccinations. JUst all of those unlucky people and those pesky coincidences. Nice shill tactic. And nice dodge of legal responsibility by the “authorities” who pushed the vaccines.

        1. Not very good with statistics, eh?

          If I were to gather stories from the 1,000s of car crashes that occurred on the driver’s mother-in-law’s birthday, and then made a claim that the mother-in-law’s birthday was “causing” the car crashes, how would you respond?

          1. Well Brian, you seem quite up to date on Offit’s comments. And Offit seems to like the number 1000, because he also stated it would be safe to inject 1000 vaccines at one sitting. Perhaps he tends to hyperbole. Nice deflection though. Is this a tag team thing with shills?

          2. Nice deflection. So how would you respond, or are you willing to acknowledge that your ignorance of statistics just might be the reason you fail to see what would or wouldn’t be a coincidence?

        2. I just pointed out the fact that the link she referenced does not support her claim and she is a liar for saying it does.

          No tactic…..just a fact.

    4. This doesn’t surprise me, look what else goes on…

      Testing Drugs on the Developing World-

      Every warning you see on a label is there because a test subject — or 50 of them, or 500 of them — have suffered that side effect.

      These clinical trials for new medications take place all over the world, but developing countries often serve as cost effective locations.

      In 2008, the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations released a document full of examples of the detrimental effects of unethical clinical testing that went on the 1990s and throughout the 2000s in the developing world. The report included the case of clinical trials in Uganda between 1997 and 2003, when women taking the anti-transmission drug Nevirapine experienced thousands of serious adverse effects (SAEs). These symptoms went unreported and testing was allowed to continue, resulting in the (also unreported) deaths of 14 women. In Hyperabad, India in 2003, eight test subjects died during the testing of the anti-clotting drug Streptokinase. The worst part, though, was that the subjects did not even know that they were part of a trial.

      These two cases are just a couple out of numerous in the report, which is only one of numerous reports of unethical clinical testing on the world’s least privileged people.

      https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/testing-drugs-on-the-developing-world/273329/

      Overseas Drug Trials

      As U.S. controls for clinical drug trials have grown more stringent, many companies have moved testing overseas, often to poor Third World countries. According to a National Institutes of Health database, ClinicalTrials.gov, some 60,000 clinical drug tests have been conducted since 2000, in 177 different countries outside the U.S. Those are just the studies that have been reported; countless more go unreported. Often the subjects taking part have no idea what they are participating in, are poorly paid, and simply sign their consent with an “X” or by leaving a fingerprint. Most such tests are conducted under strict ethical standards, but the very reason companies have moved so much testing overseas (poorly educated citizens, no fear of litigation in the event of problems), makes them attractive to researchers looking to cut ethical corners, or test high-risk drugs.

      In one well-known case, 49 babies in New Delhi died while testing new high blood pressure drugs.

      https://listosaur.com/science-a-technology/top-10-unethical-research-programs-in-us-history/

      Illegal clinical trial of drugs by MNCs creating ‘havoc’: Court

      New Delhi, Jan 3:

      The Supreme Court today slammed the Centre for its failure to stop illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by multinational companies, saying the drug trials are creating “havoc” in the country and causing the death of many citizens.

      The apex court said that the Government has gone into “deep slumber” on the issue and has failed to put in place proper mechanisms to stop “rackets” of multinational companies, which are conducting illegal clinical trials.

      A Bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and A.R. Dave said in its interim order that all clinical trials will be done under the supervision of the Health Secretary at the Centre..Source-Hindu Business Online

      https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/illegal-clinical-trial-of-drugs-by-mncs-creating-havoc-court/article4268453.ece

      1. The Third World is often used as an experimental ground:

        “In a recent report written in August 2014, The Economic Times of India outlined how, in 2009, the WHO teamed up with the Gates Foundation to test HPV vaccines on thousands of tribal women in India. The Economic Times wrote:

        In 2009, several schools for tribal children in Khammam district in Telangana — then a part of undivided Andhra Pradesh — became sites for observation studies for a cervical cancer vaccine that was administered to thousands of girls aged between nine and 15. The girls were administered the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in three rounds that year under the supervision of state health department officials. The vaccine used was Gardasil, manufactured by Merck. It was administered to around 16,000 girls in the district, many of whom stayed in state government-run hostels meant for tribal students.

        Months later, many girls started falling ill and by 2010 five of them died. Two more deaths were reported from Vadodara, Gujarat, where an estimated 14,000 children studying in schools meant for tribal children were also vaccinated with another brand of HPV vaccine, Cervarix, manufactured by GSK. Earlier in the week, the Associated Press reported that scores of teenaged girls were hospitalised in a small town in northern Colombia with symptoms that parents suspect could be an adverse reaction to Gardasil.

        A standing committee on health and family welfare that investigated the irregularities pertaining to the observation studies in India tabled its report a year ago, on August 30.

        The committee found that consent for conducting these studies, in many cases, was taken from the hostel wardens, which was a flagrant violation of norms. In many other cases, thumbprint impressions of their poor and illiterate parents were duly affixed onto the consent form. The children also had no idea about the nature of the disease or the vaccine. The authorities concerned could not furnish requisite consent forms for the vaccinated children in a huge number of cases.”

        – See more at: https://healthimpactnews.com/2015/developing-world-the-whos-private-vaccine-laboratory/#sthash.YvweSw32.dpuf

          1. Uh Katia, the HPV vaccine is one of the vaccines that the paper is endorsing mandating for all girls and boys in Colorado. Keep up, I know you are retired and all. Maybe Judith can write slower for you.okay sweety?

          2. Quite a lie there, bwf309! HPV is not mentioned in the editorial . Here’s what it says about specific diseases: “Many lawmakers and much of the public erroneously
            believed that since the bulk of the “herd” was vaccinated against
            potentially lethal diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough,
            we’re all protected.”

            It also says: “Colorado must join California in solving an ailing
            public health problem that’s easy to cure. This summer, California
            virtually eliminated all exemptions to that state’s childhood
            vaccination policy. … Follow California’s lead here and prevent needless death and disease here in Colorado.”

            California does not require HPV.

            Maybe you need this: https://www.rif.org/ “Reading Is Fundamental”

      1. It’s about vaccines, the whole picture not just the Colorado problem. The same drug companies that are supplying India supply America and other countries. You can’t put a fence around an area when pharmaceutical companies are multinational.

          1. Yes, God forbid any of us think for ourselves, let’s let newspaper editors decide for us, they have always been right in the past. Thanks Watson for relieving me of the the responsibility to my family or myself for thinking. Thank you for supporting the notion that I “should not pay any attention to the man behind the curtain” You are a such a shill

      2. Antivaxers like Judith are very precious when it comes to their sources of “evidence”.

        When it is pointed out to them how many millions have died from vaccine-preventable illness, they tend to say “But we are talking only about Denver. How many have died here from measles [substitute whichever disease is under discussion]?”

        Then when they wish to talk about the supposed evils of vaccines, the world suddenly becomes their oyster.

        1. Actually Mikey only you Watson and Katia have brought the local thing. The rest of us just don’t want you telling us what to put in our bodies or our children’s bodies

        2. That’s true.

          “Why are you trying to create small borders when the vaccine issue is international. The Big Picture has to be considered.” — Judith

          Measles is the greatest vaccine-preventable killer of children in the world today and the eighth leading cause of death among persons of all ages worldwide.

          Big Picture.

      3. says the man who posts 114,000 or 140,000 deaths in the world outside the US as a reason to vaccinate – LOL

          1. Driving a car can be a ‘deadly’ act! Note how my statement is 100% irrefutable. However, I could have said ‘driving a car is a deadly act’, to make it as misleading as your statement above, JOKE, er JESTthefacts!

          2. So you change the subject again. From “It did not happen here” to “It is happening in great numbers (somewhere else)” back and forth whatever fits the shills needs. Measles, in a 1st world country in a otherwise healthy average child is not, say, Ebola or MRSA. Very, very, few, rare, much rarer than the vaccine reactions cases of measles death in this country.

          3. I simply confirmed YOUR post!! How in your twisted mind of denial do you get a subject change?

            Measles is deadly disease and all your machinations can’t change the fact that 500 people died every year in the U.S. and 5000 where injured from the measles before the vaccine. Right now, over 100,000 people will died from the measles this year worldwide.

            Lets see what kind of whiny insult you can come up with in response to EXACT FACTS!!

          4. Really, Hmm the CDC shows a high of about 800 CASES prior to the vaccine going back to 1954 https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/graph-us-measles-cases

            The mortality rate from measles is 1-2/1000 https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/complications.html

            And last year there were 189 cases in the whole USA https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
            So mr shillman – it would take at this rate about 10 years for there to be 1 death from measles in the US.
            There was one death last year in an immunocompromised woman that on autopsy they found a measles virus in her system, but that is not what she died from, although the headlines made it seem as if that was the case.

          5. You are not very bright, are you? You misread your own link. It’s not “800”, its “800,000”. You misread by a factor of 1000. You really should learn to read a graph.
            .
            That means a mortality rate of 1600 per year.
            .
            450 people died the last year before the vaccine and 5000 people where injury by encephalopathy.
            .
            This is the point where you say something else stupid.

    5. After isn’t because.

      Why didn’t you quote this?

      “Calling vaccines safe, paediatricians said while side effects such as mild fever or redness at the site where the shots have been administered are common, adverse reactions occur in one out of 10 to 20 million doses globally.
      “Most deaths are coincidental. There are hardly any human errors. There is a system in place which evaluates every death post immunization,” paediatrician Aarti Kinikar said. She is a member of the state’s Adverse Effects Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee which audits every death reported to the state health department post-immunization.”

      1. I’m afraid it doesn’t inspire confidence. When babies die after vaccination it is rarely attributed to the vaccine. Just a coincidence. There is a huge disincentive to attribute blame to the vaccine on so many levels.

        1. Your desire to believe it’s the vaccine – even when those who actually investigated it found otherwise – is not evidence.

          1. Hey what is going on? I see mentions about your shill on ANTI blogs, they all seem to know, good thing those who vaccinate don’t read them. The (I’m so drunk… ) babycenter whompingwillow post she made, even after the attempted clean-up still looks really bad! Now going after you for not paying well. Must be hard to find good help these days. Loosey goosey with that big mouth of her’s. But with all those phobias and fetishes she talked so much about, guess you knew this was bound to happen.

  185. An internationally recognized vaccine expert discusses vaccine exemptions:

    ‘Vaccine Exemptions’? Call Them What They Really Are
    youtube(dot)com/watch?v=MQsgHTDoJZk

    Time to eliminate the “I saw something scary on the internet” exemption. (h/t – bpatient)

        1. Bingo worked out pretty well for former CDC researcher, Poul Thorsen.
          From the OIG website:
          From approximately February 2004 until February 2010, Poul Thorsen executed a scheme to steal grant money awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC had awarded grant money to Denmark for research involving infant disabilities, autism, genetic disorders, and fetal alcohol syndrome. CDC awarded the grant to fund studies of the relationship between autism and the exposure to vaccines, the relationship between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and the relationship between developmental outcomes and fetal alcohol exposure.
          Thorsen worked as a visiting scientist at CDC, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, before the grant was awarded.
          The initial grant was awarded to the Danish Medical Research Council. In approximately 2007, a second grant was awarded to the Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Both agencies are governmental agencies in Denmark. The research was done by the Aarhaus University and Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
          Thorsen allegedly diverted over $1 million of the CDC grant money to his own personal bank account. Thorsen submitted fraudulent invoices on CDC letterhead to medical facilities assisting in the research for reimbursement of work allegedly covered by the grants. The invoices were addressed to Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The fact that the invoices were on CDC letterhead made it appear that CDC was requesting the money from Aarhaus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital although the bank account listed on the invoices belonged to Thorsen.
          In April 2011, Thorsen was indicted on 22 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
          According to bank account records, Thorsen purchased a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an Audi automobile, and a Honda SUV with funds that he received from the CDC grants.
          Thorsen is currently in Denmark and is awaiting extradition to the United States.

          1. Poisoning the well.

            I can’t say. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development did.

      1. The guy you think is a member of the Colorado legislature, despite the fact that his whereabouts seem to be unknown, at least to Google, and he is not a US citizen, much less a Colorado resident (that we know of)? THAT Poul Thorsen?
        https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/04/15/tpoul-thorsen-vaccine-safety/
        “The use of Poul Thorsen to distract from inconvenient facts about vaccine safety continues apace”

        ETA: Just saw that Poulsen is in Denmark as we speak.

          1. Actually, there are no professional malfeasance charges against him, thought I’d venture to say Poulsen wrecked his career. The last place he lived in the US was Atlanta. I guess he doesn’t like Colorado’s cold climate-too much like Denmark.

    1. Offit, the man who said it was safe to inject 1000 vaccines at once into a baby. Offit, the man with patents on at least one vaccine. LOL Now talk a bout an industry shill Offit is your man.

      1. “the man who said it was safe to inject 1000 vaccines at once”

        You could at least be honest about what he said.

      2. No, he didn’t. Dr. Offit
        said that a baby’s immune system can handle many more than the vaccines we
        give, because it faces many more challenges from the natural environment than
        it does from the vaccines – there are a lot of germs around. Then the article
        ran some numbers and concluded that theoretically, it can be in the area of 10000
        or more. He was not speaking of sticking ten thousands needles in a baby.

        Here is the
        actual quote, from this article: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/124.full
        “Studies on the diversity of antigen receptors indicate that the immune
        system has the capacity to respond to extremely large numbers of antigens.
        Current data suggest that the theoretical capacity determined by diversity of
        antibody variable gene regions would allow for as many as 10^9 to 10^11
        different antibody specificities.38 But this prediction is limited by the
        number of circulating B cells and the likely redundancy of antibodies generated
        by an individual.” Notice the words “theoretical capacity”.

        No, Dr. Offit no longer has any patents.

        Facts matter.

        1. huge difference between injecting a toxic substance directly into the blood stream and being exposed to one in the environment.

          1. Huge different between being injected – not into the blood stream, into the muscle – with a carefully tested, safe vaccine that includes a part of a germ, a dead germ or a weakened one, and being exposed to the fully virulent wild virus or bacteria, I agree. If the immune system can handle the wild germs in large numbers, claiming it can’t handle the vaccine antigens is unconvincing.

          2. Oh please, you are by-passing skin, mucosa, stomach acids, and going directly into the body. Even you cannot be that dense.

          3. You are. And the reason most vaccines are injected is that the weakened, partial, or inactivated virus or bacteria in them would not get to a lymph node if ingested (with a few exception) or put on the skin. Because it’s too weak – it’s not really a challenge.

            The wild viruses or bacteria, in contrast, are. Which is why they are the larger risk, and vaccines protect against them – and why Dr. Offit correctly pointed out that the challenge of modern vaccines is insignificant compared to what our immune system deals with.

          4. Yes modern medicine is far superior to mother nature, keep on believing that. Keep your vaccines please, many of us are not interested. Dr Offit is a paid spokesperson for big pharma and has a vested interest ($$$) in vaccines. As far as how many, vaccines we can tolerate, well nobody knows as nobody has done long term studies to see the impact of multiple vaccines compared to none in a large population. But we do see increasing auto-immune disease, we do see increasing autism, we do see increasing asthmas and allergies. The evidence is there if you can “see” that this is not the answer. Clean water, sanitation, good food, are far more effective and longer lasting.
            You want to vaccinate, do so. Just do not suspend our basic human right to the sanctity of our body. If your vaccines work then you have no worries.

          5. A. Mother nature loves all her children – and the germs are her children just as much as the humans. She doesn’t care if we win or they do, and thinking otherwise is human centric and arrogant.
            Vaccine inventors, on the other hand, are team human all the way, and want you to win over the germs.

            B. Dr. Offit has no current monetary interest in vaccines.

            C. If you actually read the study above, it does address the ability of our body to respond.

            D. The evidence is there. Many studies looked at whether vaccines caused asthma, allergies, autism. They don’t. To continue to assume they do, you need to ignore the evidence.

            E. Clear water and sanitation and food are very important for health. They do little for most diseases we vaccinate.

            F. You’re an adult. You don’t have to protect yourself from disease.

            You don’t, however, have a human right to leave your child at risk of disease, and even less have a human right to send an unvaccinated child to school and risk others.

          6. If your vaccines work as safely as you say then what is your concern if my unvaccinated child comes to school? My child is at greater risk from your child shedding some of the diseases from your vaccines, than your child, with all her protection, is from my healthy kids.

          7. If you do not know the answer to this question, I do suggest you study more before rejecting expert opinion on vaccines.

            It’s true that the most common victim of the decision not to
            vaccinate is the vaccine deprived child herself. But because infectious
            diseases are contagious, she risks others, too. There are three reasons to worry about an
            unvaccinated child, who is at higher risk of getting and transmitting an
            infectious disease.

            1) Those too young to vaccinate, like this child, contracting
            measles as a young baby from an unvaccinated child, who died in agony from a complication, SSPE. While children in schools are not babies, they have siblings who are, and may be exposed when they come to the school.
            https://justthevax.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/micha-is-dead.html.

            2) Those with medical conditions that cannot be vaccinated. Like this child, who had a heart transplant at seven weeks, and cannot get live vaccines. He does not deserve to be infected by an unvaccinated child either.
            https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/advocating-for-benjamin/.

            3) . Those very few for whom the vaccine fails. To remind you,
            unvaccinated children are more likely to have the disease and pass it on, and communities with low vaccination rates are more likely to have outbreaks (e.g.
            https://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2069.pdf).

            Your kids may currently be healthy, but denying them protection from vaccines means they are more likely to contract – and pass on – a preventable disease. So yes, your healthy kids do pose a risk. Again, through no fault of their own; after all, they do not have the choice to protect themselves from disease, and must depend on their parents to get them their vaccines.

          8. 1. Those too young to vaccinate will not be in school with my child
            2. A 7 week old child with a heart transplant will not be in school with my child.
            3. Not so fast, you missed the paper on the whooping cough that noted the vaccine causes a suppression of cough but not contagion and therefore is one of the reasons it is increasing and also the papers that note the vaccinated make up the majority of those with the disease, but in their faith don’t believe they have the disease and therefore are spreading it. Healthy kids don’t spread diseases. Kids with weakened immune systems from vaccines, spread diseases.
            As far as my children are concerned, the operative words are “my children.” The liberal progressive, attempting to exert her control over that which is not hers or subject to her influence. You take care of your children Miss Busybody and stay away from my healthy children. I trust in nature and the evolved protections of our immune systems more than I do the contrived profit centers of your employers.

          9. 1. As already mentioned, young babies do, occasionally, have school aged siblings, and mothers with more than one children may and do have to bring the newborn to school with them on occasion, exposing them to the risk from your unprotected child.

            2. 7 weeks old grow. Children with transplants are on medication for life. Children with cancer are immune suppressed during the cancer. Children with allergic reactions to vaccines cannot be fully vaccinated. All at risk from your unvaccinated child.

            3. The pertussis vaccine is one of our least effective ones – and even from it, unvaccinated child are more at risk and schools with low rates more at risk. More so for other diseases – see articles above.

            Your unvaccinated children may be healthy. But they are at higher risk of both getting and transmitting the disease to others, and create a risk.

            Belief in immune system is great, but doesn’t make up for the risk vaccine deprived children are left in. Tightening vaccine exemption will allow you to continue to deny your children protection. But it will limit your ability to force that risk on others. It will also help keep your unvaccinated children healthy, since rising rates will improve the herd immunity they depend on for protection against Hib, polio and diphtheria.

          10. I sure hope you buy lottery tickets every week with your list of “what if” “it could happen” “it is possible” “if the dog hadn’t stop to poop he would have caught the rabbit” “don’t step on the crack you will break your mothers back” “If only I had” My God woman you live in a world of fear and remote possibilities. And all to control someone else’s life. Here you go again making yourself the moral authority for everyone else and throwing out the worst case possible. Lightening could hit me too, but I still go out in storms, I don’t put up metal rods, but I live my life. I suggest you live yours as well and stop being the worried mother to the universe. Your knowledge and understanding of the immune system and how it works is sorely lacking. And, please, herd immunity is BS and a percentage that has changed from 65% to 95% to 100% and still when populations have 99.9% compliance with your rules and still get the diseases you come up with more rationalizations.

            Again, you take care of your little brood of babies and I will take care of mine. Your vaccines will protect you and I will be careful around babies IF IF I or my children are sick. Lot of “if’s” in your little nightmare scene.

  186. Well we know this article below written by Dr Offit back in 2005 isn’t true today, maybe because Dr. Offit was able to help fill all their demands..

    “The market for pediatric vaccines is projected to hit a value of more than $23 billion globally by 2015, according to a recent market analysis. According to analysis from Renub Research, between 2005 and 2011, pediatric vaccines doubled their market share. The new report said that the market share will continue to increase, with most of the growth resulting from major vaccines such as Merck’s Rotateq, GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix and Pfizer’s Prevnar 7 and Prevnar 13.

    GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer and Novartis are the five main companies that dominate the global market for pediatric vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline is far ahead of the others mostly because of its influenza products Hiberix and Fluvarix.

    https://vaccinenewsdaily.com/stories/510533722-global-market-for-pediatric-vaccines-could-reach-23-billion-by-2015

    ‘Small market for vaccines compared with drugs. By Paul Offit 2005’

    “Pharmaceutical companies are gradually abandoning vaccines because the research, development, testing, and manufacture of vaccines are expensive and because the market to sell vaccines is much smaller than the market for other drug products.

    Vaccines are used at most several times in a lifetime; drugs are often used every day. Therefore, the market for drugs is much greater than the market for vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies are businesses, not public health agencies; they are not obligated to make vaccines. To determine where they should invest research and development (R&D) dollars, pharmaceutical companies evaluate a product’s potential to contribute to their bottom line

    The cost to develop and make many vaccines is greater than that to make most drugs,.. because products given to healthy people are often held to higher standards of safety than those given to people who are sick… Finally, in addition to weaknesses in the federal compensation program, pharmaceutical companies have abandoned lower-revenue products such as vaccines because liability insurance has dramatically increased the cost of making all medical products.”

    [Because previous settlements involving extensive fraud by pharmaceutical companies under the False Claims Act have run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and in some cases such as against GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and Pfizer, into the billions.

    And here below we have Paul letting us know big pharma’s list of demands, they want more tax breaks, they want more money for their vaccines, they want more legal indemnity under what vaccines are already on the injury table, they want to be covered from being sued for a vaccine that harms an unborn child, and they want to be covered if their test subjects start dropping dead or are injured]

    “Pharmaceutical companies could be encouraged to make vaccines if the federal government provided more assurances that the VFC entitlement program was robust, allowed for a mechanism to increase the fixed price of certain vaccines, and offered tax breaks to companies that chose to make vaccines. The cost of making vaccines for pharmaceutical companies could be reduced by strengthening weaknesses in the NVICP—specifically, disallowing opt-out of the program when scientific studies do not support a claim; covering all vaccines; covering the unborn child when a vaccine is given to a pregnant woman; and indemnifying academic medical centers (AMCs) that test vaccines prior to licensure. Vaccines are difficult and expensive to make and, because they are used once or at most several times during one’s life, have revenues that are dramatically less than products that are used every day. As a consequence, many pharmaceutical companies have abandoned vaccines in favor of drugs.”

    https://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/3/622.full

    1. Let’s not forget the other quotes:

      “Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves, but it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children.”
      ― Paul A. Offit, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

      “In 1999, Daniel Salmon and co-workers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found that the risk of contracting measles in five- to nine-year-olds whose parents had chosen not to vaccinate them was one hundred and seventy times greater than for vaccinated children.”
      ― Paul A. Offit, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

      “Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.”
      ― Paul A. Offit, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

      1. Lets not forget this quote by “Dr” Offit “However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such multiple sclerosis—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.”

        2/12/2012 Meningococcal Vaccine,Transverse Myelitis, Multiple Sclerosis Case No. 08-243V $340,000

        10/5/2010 HPV, Menactra Vaccines, Multiple Sclerosis Case No. Redacted $3.5 Million

        12/7/2012—Hepatitis B Vaccine——Multiple SclerosisCase No. 11-731V—$575,000

        Evolution of multiple sclerosis in France since the beginning of hepatitis B vaccination

        “The results confirmed, at the global population level, a significant correlation between the number of immunizations and both the number of MS cases declared to the pharmacovigilance system 1–2 years later and an overall increase in identified MS cases in the country”.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266455/

        “A total of 82 articles were identified which included 58 case series or case reports, 15 review articles, 4 cross sectional studies, 3 prospective cohort studies, one retrospective cohort study and a case control study. After reviewing the literature, we observed that complications seen after Hepatitis B vaccination are sudden infant death syndrome, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, vasculititis optic neuritis, anaphylaxis, systemic lupus erytymatosus, lichen planus and neuro-muscular disorder.” – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506472

  187. 10,000+ comments later, and anti-vaxxers still repeat the same debunked lies.

    Congrats on your persistence of dishonesty!

          1. Even when exposed in lying in the little things, (ie my identity), anti-vaxxers refuse to acknowledge or correct the things they are wrong about.

            Thanks for proving my point that anti-vaxxers are persistent in their dishonesty!

          2. Vaccine Injuries and Deaths Continue to Increase in Federal Vaccine Court

            There are 163 cases for vaccine injuries and deaths for the period 2/16/2015 through 5/15/2015.

            103 of the settlements were listed in this report, giving the name of the vaccines, the injury, and the amount of time the case was pending before settlement. Four of those settlements were for deaths linked to vaccines, with three deaths related to the flu shot, and one death for the Hepatitis B shot, typically given to newborns. 74 of the 103 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome.”

            -https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/vaccine-injuries-and-deaths-continue-to-increase-in-federal-vaccine-court/

          3. Try reading it.
            It is a listing of the adjudicated settlements from Vaccine Court.
            You know, the government?

          4. Why would I read something that intends to deceive me? It’s kind of idiotic.

            ps- A common way that nonsense conspiracy websites (vaccineimpact, healthimpactnews, vactruth, etc.) lie to you is by citing a credible source and then lying about what that source says.

          5. You realize that settlements mean the party did not have to show causation? So out of many millions of vaccine doses given, you have 103 settlements that don’t show causation.

          6. There are a lot of reasons party settle. Among other things, the costs of trial may be too high to be worth it, or the government might take pity on the other side – some settlements, especially in deaths cases, really do look like pity money.

            At any rate, settlements don’t show causation. The government often states that explicitly in the body of the settlement.

          7. Do you know how ridiculous you sound when you claim compensation is given to Vaccine injured family out of pity?

          8. Reading some of the cases of deaths, where there really wasn’t any evidence the vaccine had anything to do with it, that’s what it reads like. Not liking the fact doesn’t change it.

          9. You’re cherrypicking.
            As I told Cathy yesterday when she quoted the same article:
            “Meanwhile, many doctors hired by the government to defend vaccine safety in court have ties to the pharmaceutical industry.”
            “Lawmakers designed vaccine court to favor payouts, but the government fights legitimate claims and fails its obligation to publicize the court”
            “Cases are supposed to be resolved within 240 days, with options for another 150 days of extensions. Less than 7 percent of 7,876 claims not involving autism met the 240-day target. Add in autism claims, which were postponed so the court could hear all of them at once, and just 4.5 percent took fewer than 240 days. Most non-autism cases take at least two and a half years, with the average case length more than three years, not including cases unresolved at the end of 2012. Hundreds have surpassed the decade mark. Several people died before getting any money.”
            “Many claims fall into a vast gray area: The science is clear on only nine of 144 vaccine-injury combinations that a shot could — or could not — cause the illness. Amid this fundamental uncertainty, the kind of litigation the court was created to avoid is routine.”
            Caught in the middle are families that need help.
            “The system is not working,” said Richard Topping, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who defended the government against vaccine injury claims but resigned after concluding his bosses had no desire to fix the major flaws he saw. “People who need help aren’t getting it.”
            https://www.huffingtonpost.com/

          10. What you call “cherry-picking” the author highlighted from the original AP Report

            “To be sure, many of those who received the $2.8 billion that the government says it has distributed would not have won a civil trial.”

            “a Houston lawyer who filed 81 cases claiming injury from diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccines. Though he won just nine, Kerensky received $221,842 to cover his hours and expenses, government data show.

            “Kerensky acknowledged that many cases lacked basic medical records. He figured he could get those later — but often couldn’t, or didn’t.”

            That’s why the system isn’t working.

          11. “To be sure, many of those who received the $2.8 billion that the government says it has distributed would not have won a civil trial.”

          12. Many would not have the financial resources.
            But in a real Court, there would be the opportunity for discovery.
            That won’t help those already injured or killed by vaccines, but could prevent others from suffering the same fate.

          13. OFFS

            “Zero child deaths from Measles and 108 deaths from MMR vaccine.”

            When asked for proof, how many could you produce?

            One.

            “As many as 11 babies died in the state last year after immunization.”

            When asked for proof, how many could you produce?

            One … Maybe? Three years ago.

            What we need is a vaccine for stupid.

          14. And they determined that autism is not caused by vaccines. I think they were lucky to get that much consideration.

          15. You forgot to mentions the number of vaccination during the time
            period addressed by the cases. It was over 500 million vaccinations.
            That means the injury rate is less than one in one million, making
            vaccinations the safest human activity ever invented.

            Yes, injuries are incredibly rare.

          16. A lot less than get injured in the bathroom or by eating?
            Do you use the toilet or eat??
            I thought so……hypocrite.

          17. Private?
            So that means someone is a sock?
            You do know Ione used to be “private” not that long ago, don’t you?
            And Cia Parker tried it for a while, but she is such an attention seeking w***e that she made her profile public again.

    1. I think the reason we have so many comments on this article is because your bosses are doing a yearly review on your shill performance and so far?
      I think you should all be demoted or fired myself

      1. It’s a tough job. You have to give them credit.
        They have to learn to say “debunked” , Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, tinfoil,
        And liar liar liar lots.
        (And eat a lot of leftovers)

  188. GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer and Novartis are the five main companies that dominate the global market for pediatric vaccines”…..https://vaccinenewsdaily.com/stories/510533722-global-market-for-pediatric-vaccines-could-reach-23-billion-by-2015

    “GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay a fine of $3 billion to resolve civil and criminal liabilities regarding its promotion of drugs, as well as its failure to report safety data. This is the largest health care fraud settlement in the United States to date. The company pled guilty to misbranding the drug Paxil for treating depression in patients under 18, even though the drug had never been approved for that age group. GlaxoSmithKline also pled guilty to failing to disclose safety information about the diabetes drug Avandia to the FDA.”

    ‘Medical Research Fraud: Professors Go Unpunished in Glaxo $3 Billion Guilty Plea Over Paxil-‘

    “The journal that published the fraudulent research has failed to retract it, and editor-in-chief Andres S. Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, told the Chronicle he had no comment on the options the journal might take.

    Although Glaxo pled guilty and paid $3 billion in fines, none of the academics have been disciplined by their universities for their roles in perpetrating research fraud. Moreover, according to the Chronicle, several continue to receive federal grants from the National Institute of Health”…https://www.thenation.com/article/medical-research-fraud-professors-go-unpunished-glaxo-3-billion-guilty-plea-over-paxil/

    Merck has paid out billions of dollars to settle tens of thousands of Vioxx lawsuits filed by patients and their families. Over 50,000 lost their lives to Vioxx, some say that estimate is closer to half a million lives lost worldwide.

    “Merck agreed to pay a fine of $950 million related to the illegal promotion of the painkiller Vioxx, which was withdrawn from the market in 2004 after studies found the drug increased the risk of heart attacks. The company pled guilty to having promoted Vioxx as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis before it had been approved for that use. The settlement also resolved allegations that Merck made false or misleading statements about the drug’s heart safety to increase sales.”

    ‘For Immediate Release November 15, 2007 -Sen. Grassley’s floor statement regarding the intimidation of scientists in drug-safety deliberations’

    “Merck also tried to intimidate Stanford researcher Dr. Gurkirpal Singh. The company warned him to stop asking for more safety data on Vioxx, despite the fact he was one of their consultants. What is troubling is that three years later, I am here with my colleague, Senator Baucus, to talk about another case where pharmaceutical executives used power, influence, and access to intimidate a medical researcher.

    In essence, another company wanted to put an end to another scientist who was voicing concerns about the cardiovascular risks associated with a drug.

    In this case, we are talking about the diabetes drug, Avandia.

    Today, Senator Baucus and I are releasing a staff report showing how executives at GlaxoSmithKline intimidated Dr. John Buse, a medical researcher at the University of North Carolina.Together, our respective staffs reviewed documents provided by the company and others, and they found bothersome internal emails that reveal how these pharmaceutical executives think.

    In these emails, high level company officials discussed the possibility of threats against Dr. Buse. So what we have here are three cases where companies intimidated researchers who dared to express concerns about risky drugs. And in the case of both Vioxx and Avandia the drugs actually turned out to carry some serious risks. What I am here to say today, is that attacks on medical researchers by the pharmaceutical industry must stop. And stop now.”….https://www.finance.senate.gov/newsroom/ranking/release/?id=3a1d9e3e-6ea8-4200-a86f-8aadc9338f5e

    “Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion, then the largest health care fraud settlement and the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the United States. Pfizer pled guilty to misbranding the painkiller Bextra with “the intent to defraud or mislead”, promoting the drug to treat acute pain at dosages the FDA had previously deemed dangerously high. Bextra was pulled from the market in 2005 due to safety concerns. The government alleged that Pfizer also promoted three other drugs illegally: the antipsychotic Geodon, an antibiotic Zyvox, and the antiepileptic drug Lyrica.”

    Doctor Caught Faking 21 Drug Studies, Including Vioxx And Celebrex

    “The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has some “eye-popping” news — a doctor has been caught fabricating 21 drug studies, some of which were favorable to drugs that have since been pulled from the market — Merck’s Vioxx and Pfizer’s Bextra.”

    https://consumerist.com/2009/03/11/doctor-caught-faking-21-drug-studies-including-vioxx-and-celebrex/

    source for fines..

    https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma

          1. Dumpster diving almost 20 years back… Impressive, but it still doesn’t do anything to validate your conspiracies.

          2. Recycled from a few days ago.

            The “experimental” measles vaccine Edmonston-Zagreb (E-Z), had been in use in other parts of the world for over 20 years, and is still used today.

          3. “CDC Says It Erred in Measles Study”

            So, it seems that 30 years ago as part of the programme using different measles vaccines in the USA during a measles outbreak, someone used a vaccine that although it was widely used in the rest of the world did not have an FDA license for use in the USA at that time.

            And….?

            Does this have relevance to anything we are discussing here Grace, or do you just like spamming threads like an irrelevant troll?

          4. I like how you act like the experimentors were doing the mainly minority children a favor.

            “The high potency EZ measles experiments began at four major sites in the mid-1980’s including Haiti, the Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Mexico. Other trials followed in Cameroon, Gambia, Bangladesh, Togo, Iran, New Guinea, Peru, Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Egypt, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Zaire and Los Angeles. Primary funding came from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Health Organization (WHO). In Haiti, infants were given the experimental vaccine at 10 to 500 times the usual dose levels. In a June 1996 article in Journal of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins researchers report that infants with the highest antibody responses to high titer measles vaccine have the most profound immune suppression…

            Warnings Ignored – The measles vaccine experiment was only stopped two years after the director of one of the African sites warned the WHO and CDC experiment leaders in April 1990 that African mortality data raised a red flag about the high titer EZ vaccine. His reports were first ignored and then discounted and he was replaced as a principal investigator. After his mortality data was dismissed as incorrect for more than a year, with support from colleagues at Harvard, he published the mortality data in The Lancet in October 1991. WHO then called for all the sites to submit mortality data for independent analysis. The CDC has stated that enrollment for the LA study was halted in October 1991.”
            https://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/newsletter/vaccinereactionjune1996.aspx
            Parents deserve the right to choose without coercion from the state.

          5. Source: Barbara Loe Fisher

            Los Angeles County Department of Public Health did a 4 year follow-up on every child who received the E-Z vaccine during this trial. There was no higher mortality.

            The African mortality statistics were determined to be unrelated. Higher childhood mortality is an unfortunate consequence of being born in a Third World country without food, clean water, and where a number of other diseases are endemic.

            https://www.lapublichealth.org/acd/reports/spclrpts/spcrpt95/cd95edmo.pdf

          6. Informed consent was violated.
            That IS a harm that was done to 1500 families.

            Parents deserve the right to choose without state coercion.

          7. Participation in this study 25 years ago in Los Angeles was voluntary. No one was coerced. The researchers erred by not explicitly stating the E-Z measles vaccine was not licensed in the U.S.

            Again for the umpteenth time, school vaccination requirements are not “coercion.” That’s settled law.

          8. Those parents in the high antigen measles experiment were NOT told the Vaccine was experimental. CDC admitted it.
            “”A mistake was made,” said Dr. David Satcher, director of the Atlanta-based federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the study sponsors. “It shocked me.”

            Keeping healthy children out of school is coercion.
            For the umpteenth time.

          9. “Just before midnight on Friday, May 2nd 2014, members of the Colorado House of Representatives voted 39 to 29 to accept the Senate-modified version of HB 1288 that rejected a requirement forcing parents filing a personal belief vaccine exemption for their children to undergo state-mandated vaccine “education” or obtain a signature from a pediatrician or other state-approved vaccine provider. Removal of the signature requirement and re-education component of the bill is a victory for the hundreds of concerned Colorado citizens who contacted their legislators and worked closely with NVIC’s state advocacy team to present testimony in public hearings in the House and Senate. ”
            https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/May-2014/Colorado-Legislators-Protect-Personal-Belief-Exemp.aspx

          10. Source: Barbara Loe Fisher

            Ms. Fisher’s spin control notwithstanding, was HB-1288 signed into law and what parts of C.R.S. 25-4-901 were amended or repealed?

          11. Source: Barbara Loe Fisher

            Ms. Fisher’s spin control notwithstanding, was HB-1288 signed into law and what parts of C.R.S. 25-4-901 were amended or repealed?

            Notice of Exclusion

            School and child care professionals can use this form if a student, after several efforts from the school, has not followed through with the plan to have a required immunization administered.

            https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/school-immunizations

          12. It means children who do not comply with Colorado school vaccination requirements can be and are excluded from school.

          13. From your article:
            students must have proof they’ve received certain vaccinations to attend school. In lieu of that, their parents may sign a form exempting their children from shots for medical or religious reasons, or because of “personal belief.

          14. And if they do neither?

            Children can be and are excluded from school for non-compliance with school vaccination requirements in Colorado.

            It’s not coercion. That’s the law.

          15. It may be, perhaps Katia could clarify, but it is wrong to keep healthy children out of school.
            The exemptions exist for several reasons, as has been illustrated by many commenters for a variety of reasons.

          16. I’m saying that under current Colorado law children have already been sent home from school. Even though exemptions are still easy to get, that doesn’t change the fact Colorado already has a school vaccination mandate

          17. No, just no shot record, no exemption on file or no catch-up schedule, children can be and are already being excluded from school.

            Colorado has a school vaccination mandate: C.R.S. 25-4-901.

            The Editor here advocates reforming the rules for exemptions. That makes sense. I’d say he speaks for a majority of us.

          18. Under C.R.S. 25-4-908, yes.

            If there’s a case of chicken pox or measles at a school, for example, exemptions don’t apply. Exempted students will have to stay home.

            Generally speaking though, no shot record, no exemption on file or no catch-up schedule, children can be and are already being excluded from school.

            Colorado has a school vaccination mandate: C.R.S. 25-4-901.

            The Editor here advocates reforming the rules for exemptions. That makes sense. I’d say he speaks for a majority of us.

          19. It’s pretty standard to keep unvaccinated children out during an outbreak.
            Glad that Colorado upheld and is honoring the philosophical exemptions.
            That’s good news.

          20. Glad you get it we already can and do exclude children for not complying with the school immunization requirement.

          21. “Glad you get it we already can and do exclude children for not complying with the school immunization requirement.” That allows philosophical exemptions. Got it!!

          22. The following changes are being proposed for the submission of non-medical (personal belief and religious) exemption forms. The changes would begin in mid 2016.
            For children attending a licensed child care facility, non-medical immunization exemption forms would be submitted following the recommended immunization schedule developed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP); and ​​
            For students attending kindergarten through 12th grade, non-medical immunization exemption forms would be submitted during annual enrollment/registration.
            **No changes are being proposed for medical exemptions or for colleges or universities**​
            To support the proposed immunization exemption changes and reduce the burden on schools and childcare facilities, we will automate and consolidate the exemption process by creating an online non-medical exemption form. Medical exemptions will still require a signature from a licensed healthcare provider and forms will be available for download online. Persons without internet access can request a form directly from the department. All medical and non-medical exemptions will be added to the State’s immunization registry, the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS), to allow appropriate school, child care facility, or local public health agency access to exemption information.”…https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/immunization-exemption-proposal

          23. Your welcome Grace. You know my unvaccinated kids went to school in Colorado, it’s been a few years since then, but not much has changed. It was a simple straightforward exemption form to fill out at the start of school. No one ever made a fuss.

          24. What happens if a child does not up to date with their shots and does not have a valid exemption on file?

            In Colorado, they are excluded from school.

            Graceds’ bumpersticker slogan is “Keeping healthy children out of school is coercion.”

            The reality is, in Colorado right now, today, with the current statute. We already do keep children out of school for failing to comply with the mandate, even as lax as it is.

            https://co.chalkbeat.org/2014/11/03/missing-shots-means-missing-school-in-some-districts/#.VpxNTPkrJxB

            Is there some part of this you don’t understand?

          25. What happens if a child does not up to date with their shots and does not have a valid exemption on file?

            In Colorado, they are excluded from school.

            Graceds’ bumpersticker slogan is “Keeping healthy children out of school is coercion.”

            The reality in Colorado right now, today, with the current statute, is we already do keep children out of school for failing to comply with the mandate, even as lax as it is.

            https://co.chalkbeat.org/2014/11/03/missing-shots-means-missing-school-in-some-districts/#.VpxNTPkrJxB

            Is there some part of this you don’t understand?

          26. This is from your link…”

            “Theoretically, if parents are notified on the first day of school, unvaccinated students could be barred starting the third week—say late August or early September. In practice, that doesn’t happen.

            “At the beginning of school it’s a little bit busy,” said Patrick. ”So sometimes immunizations might take a little bit of a back burner.”

            Even after things settle down, there’s the October 1 count day to think about. With school funding dependent on how many students show up that day, implementing exclusion dates then doesn’t make sense.

            But after count day—and usually a series of reminders from school nurses and even principals—exclusion dates are fair game. Some administrators don’t use them because they want kids in seats, but others believe the threat of communicable disease is a greater concern, said Patrick.”

          27. Parents can now just go online to file an exemption for their child. So why would they not do this and have it on file? Sounds pretty easy to me.

          28. Indeed it is. Yet there are those who don’t, and under current law, those “healthy children” can be and are excluded. It’s not clear how many students have been affected this year, but to give an idea, this is how it works.

            Spokane Schools Expel Students With Missing Vaccination Records
            https://abcnews.go.com/Health/spokane-schools-expel-students-missing-vaccination-records/story?id=30311563

            Graceds’ other objection, it’s unconstitutional or it’s coercion, falls flat.

          29. Parent Forum on Immunization Exemptions
            Questions and comments.

            “How long until the exemptor is considered negligent in filing the form? What punishment will befall those who do not comply? Will they be fined? Will their children not be allowed to attend school?

            • Per existing Board of Health rule 6 CCR 1009-2, once families are notified that the student is not in compliance with immunization requirements, they are given 14-days to 1) have the child vaccinated or bring in a complete vaccination record, 2) submit a written plan to have the child vaccinated, 3) or submit an exemption. If none of these actions are taken, the student shall be suspended or expelled from school for non-compliance as noted”

        1. Well, was some guff about a pharma company fined for illegal promotion of drug products “all you got”, Ione?

          Tell us Ione, what was the point of spewing that copy/pasta vomit into this thread? It has nothing to do with vaccine legislation.

          1. Sure it does Mike. These same companies being prosecuted for fraud, lying and falsifying safety studies, threatening scientists who question the safety of dangerous drugs, and were on “corporate probation” for doing so, also make our kids vaccines.

          2. So, to follow your logic, because VW rigged emissions data and face tens or even hundreds of $billions in fines, we can conclude that cars don’t work?

          3. Cars that have safety studies hidden and are defective and cause accidents….yes those cars don’t work very well

          4. That wasn’t the question, Ione, and you know it.
            I call evasion on that one.

            The analogy is that one has a product (car/vaccine).
            The makers of one (the car) have been deliberately fiddling exhaust emission data, which is illegal, but has nothing to do with how well the car works). They get into a lot of trouble. The car still works fine though.
            The makers of the other (vaccine) similarly get into trouble, this time for bribing people. The vaccines work just fine though.

            Why are you here rather than over on the motor forums, haranguing people that all their vehicles must be dangerous?

          5. “Here is some other naughty things Merck did..
            .Merck Created Hit List to “Destroy,” “Neutralize” or “Discredit” Dissenting Doctors”

            So again, using your logic, if Volkswagen wanted to discredit people who spread rumours that their Scania trucks had fumes in the cabs…..
            ….that meant their Lamborghinis didn’t work?

          6. you skipped right over my question Mike..what should we do when a company has extensive criminal behavior already and then this happens?

            Massive Fraud In Merck MMR Vaccine Testing

            “Merck fraudulently misled the government and omitted, concealed, and adulterated material information regarding the efficacy of its mumps vaccine in violation of the FCA [False Claims Act].”…https://philadelphia.legalexaminer.com/fda-prescription-drugs/massive-fraud-in-merck-mmr-vaccine-testing/

          7. “what should we do when a company has extensive criminal behavior already and then this happens?”
            What happens? Someone alleged fraud?

            Well, nothing happens, until the court case has been concluded.

            Tell us, what was the verdict?

          8. They allege their vaccine is fine but all the outbreaks among the fully vaccinated kind of put a damper on that claim. Merck still is the only licensed distributor for the MMR is the U.S., but the gov hasn’t even waited for the trial to be over to start on a new mumps vaccine elsewhere. What does that tell us?

          9. In my honest opinion I think they are guilty, but since they literally got away with murder over the Vioxx debacle. I expect the courts to slap them with some fines, and let them get back to work, making our unsafe, ineffective, animal virus ridden vaccines.

          10. “…Tell us, what was the verdict?…”

            This is the veredict for all pharmaceutical companies:

            Should journals stop publishing research funded by the drug industry?

            BMJ 2014
            “…
            The BMJ and its sibling journals have stopped publishing research funded by the tobacco industry for two main reasons: the research is corrupted and the companies publish their research to advance their commercial aims, oblivious of the harm they do.

            But these arguments apply even more strongly to research funded by the drug industry, and we suggest there is a better way to communicate the results of trials that would be safer for patients….”

          11. How devious of you. Not only is this irrelevant, but it is not some court judgement. It is one half of a “Head to head” BMJ opinion debate, from which you carefully quoted only the bits that support your own bias from one side of the argument.
            If you were objective, you would also quote the opinion of the other side of the debate, but you aren’t objective, so you won’t, will you?

            BTW, I am unconcerned i journals stopped publishing pharma-funded research papers. There is quite sufficient evidence in favour of vaccines from other research sources.

          12. The debate that accrding to vaccine peddlers “is fringe”, a “great conspiracy” or “doesn’t exist”, right? LOL

          13. The BMJ debate was about pharma sponsored research being published, not specifically about whether vaccines are effective or safe. ….But way to go trying to poison the well….

            There is no real scientific debate about vaccine efficacy/safety, except in the tiny, fevered imaginations of a handful of irrational antivaxers.

            At least you got that last bit about the “fringe” absolutely right.

    1. If we had to trust pharmaceutical companies on vaccine data, those might be valid points.

      But we don’t. Vaccine safety is monitored and studied by multiple governments and researchers all over the world.

      Which is why a generalized “pharma bad” argument doesn’t negate the abundant data showing that vaccines are incredibly safe and effective.

      1. “There are 211 cases for vaccine injuries and deaths for the period 5/16/2015 through 8/15/2015. 86 of the settlements were listed in this report, giving the name of the vaccines, the injury, and the amount of time the case was pending before settlement. Three of those settlements were for deaths linked to vaccines, with two deaths related to the flu shot, and one death for the HPV shot. 65 of the 86 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). –

        There are 163 cases for vaccine injuries and deaths for the period 2/16/2015 through 5/15/2015.

        103 of the settlements were listed in this report, giving the name of the vaccines, the injury, and the amount of time the case was pending before settlement. Four of those settlements were for deaths linked to vaccines, with three deaths related to the flu shot, and one death for the Hepatitis B shot, typically given to newborns. 74 of the 103 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

        This March 5, 2015 report states that there were 117 cases for vaccine injuries and deaths compensated from 11/16/2014 to 2/15/2015.

        92 of the settlements were listed in the report, giving the name of the vaccines, the injury, and the amount of time the case was pending before settlement. Five of those settlements were for deaths linked to vaccines, with three deaths related to the flu shot. 73 of the 92 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome.” – See more at: https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/march-2015-settlements-in-vaccine-court-117-vaccine-injuries-and-deaths/#sthash.VzjARtbW.dpuf

        1. Yes. let’s look at the full numbers. “from 2006 to 2014 over 2.5 billion doses of covered vaccines were distributed in
          the U.S. For petitions filed in this time period, 3,348 petitions were adjudicated by the Court, and of
          those 2,104 were compensated. This means for every 1 million doses of vaccine that were distributed, 1
          individual was compensated.” https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vicpmonthlyreport01012016.pdf

          And if you look carefully, you will see that the vast majority of these compensations were settlement – where the parties didn’t have to show causation. So much less than one per million compensated, most of which without having to show causation. Further supporting the scientific data that vaccines are very safe.

          1. You keep saying they are very safe in the face of many injuries. To you they are just numbers, but to each person who lost a grandparent or spouse, sister, parent or child, these numbers represent the grief and tears of thousands.

          2. I wouldn’t want to downplay the suffering of the families, but the fact that the numbers are so small is important. Because we have to strive for minimal harms – and when the evidence is that harms from vaccines are so very rare, and the harms from the diseases we prevent isn’t rare at all, it’s clear that vaccinating is the right thing.

            Nothing is 100% safe. But with this balance of risk, a parent that chooses not to vaccinate because of the small risk of vaccine injury is making a choice that is no more rational than a parent deciding not to feed the child because of the risk the child will choke.

          3. You say the balance of risk. We know that the mumps and pertussis vaccine are failing. When does the balance tip to where the effectiveness of the vaccine is so low that the injuries sustained from the vaccine are more of a risk.?

            “What we’ve learned in the last couple of years is that the switch in vaccines has led to greater issues of waning immunity to pertussis, which means that the protection provided by the vaccine isn’t lasting as long as we’d ideally like,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, deputy director for the division of disease control at the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.”….

          4. You seem to confuse imperfect with failing. We could use a better pertussis vaccine, but the current one is much better than zero vaccine – as the fact that we don’t have 4,000 baby deaths a year from pertussis shows. The mumps vaccine may wane, but we are nowhere near the level of mumps we have before. At most, at some point a booster will be needed – and at this point the mumps outbreaks are sporadic. So neither is failing – and the other vaccines are much more effective, with the exception of influenza. Even for those vaccines, the benefits far outweigh their very small risks.

            The fact is that a vaccine doesn’t get on the schedule – and doesn’t stay on it – if its benefits don’t far outweigh the risks and it’s cost effective to have it on the schedule. For example, the Men B wasn’t added because of cost effectiveness.

          5. The odds are in favor of your child still coming down with whooping cough or mumps even if fully vaccinated. They say the vaccines will lessen the symptoms still. But we also have proof that the same vaccines has caused these children injuries..

            10/3/2014–Tdap, MMR–Demyelinating Polyneuropathy–Case No. 13-756V–$225,000

            9/26/2014–Dtap, HiB, MMR, Pneumococcal–Strep A infection, Toxic Shock, Multi-Organ Failure–Case No. 11-50V–$600,000

            9/26/2014–DTaP, HiB, MMR Pneumococcal–Multi-Organ Failure, Streptococcal A Infection–, Toxic Shock– Case No. 11-50V–$200,000

            4/21/2014–Tdap, MMR Vaccines–Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 13-08V–$72,000

            4/21/2014–Tdap, MMR–GBS–Case No. 13-08V–$72,000

            8/15/2013– Tetanus-Diptheria Vaccine– Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)– Case No. 11-18V– $865,000

            7/3/2013– Tetanus-Diptheria Vaccine– Systemic Lupus Erythematosus– Case No. 10-223– $770,000

            5/10/2013– Tetanus-Diptheria Vaccine– Cellulitis– Case No. 12-438V– $100,000

            12/12/2012–Dtap, Polio, Varicella, Hepatitis A Vaccines–Ideopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura–Case No. 10-818V–$87,500

            6/10/2011–Menactra, DTaP, Varivax Vaccines–Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 09-867 –$100,000

            5/19/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP)–Cerebral Palsy, Encephalopathy, Seizure Disorder,Cognitive Delays–Case No. 08-463V–$61 Million Over Expected Lifetime

            3/23/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (DTaP) Vaccine–Neurologic Injury–Case No. 08-348V–$200,000

            3/7/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP)—Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)–Case No. 09-834 V—$175,000

          6. It’s not clear what you base that claim on. Mumps is very, very limited, and pertussis is nowhere near pre vaccine rates, though we could use a better vaccine.

            You didn’t link to where you found the cases you are providing, so I looked them up. Here is one: https://www.mctlawyers.com/vaccine-cases/vaccine-case-results/dtap-gbs-lashomb.pdf

            It’s a settlement. It doesn’t show causation. With good reason: there’s no evidence the DTaP vaccine causes GBS and no reason to think it does. In other words, you’re using as risks things that aren’t caused by the vaccine.

            That’s not a good basis.

            And the fact that that’s, presumably, your best evidence shows, again, how rare real vaccine injuries are.

          7. So this is just a settlement also?
            5/19/2011–Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP)–Cerebral Palsy, Encephalopathy, Seizure Disorder, Cognitive Delays–Case No. 08-463V–$61 Million Over Expected Lifetime

        2. The robot and her ‘pharma bad’ mantra, doesn’t get the ‘in bed with’ collusion that bad ‘politician bad’ and bad ‘legislation bad,’ too!

          Sheesh, ione! ‘Pharma bad!’ Har d har! 😉

        3. You forgot to mentions the number of vaccination during the time period addressed by the cases. It was over 500 million vaccinations. That means the injury rate is less than one in one million, making vaccinations the safest human activity ever invented.

          Yes, injuries are incredibly rare.

        4. Thanks for pointing out these were “table injury” settlements, Ione, which were settled (ie not conceded as being causal).

          Again, very helpful of you to post this information which, as JusttheFacts says, if taken with the huge number of vaccine shots given during that time, attest to the remarkable safety of vaccines.

        5. Buried at the bottom:

          “73 of the 92 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome.”

          1) these are nationwide statistics.

          2) the flu shot is not required for school enrollment in Colorado

          3) there is no medical evidence that the seasonal flu shot causes GBS

      2. Simple, sound logic.

        Let’s await the anti-vaxxer response that the scientists’ friends’ mother-in-law’s cousin was a janitor at Merck, and therefore all studies are invalid.

      3. Dorit you say “If we had to trust pharmaceutical companies on vaccine data, those might be valid points. But we don’t”

        Have you forgotten so quickly our discussion on Merck’s court case for fraud over the mumps vaccine???

        Antitrust, FCA Claims On Merck Mumps Vaccine To Advance

        “We are pleased that the court has upheld our federal antitrust claim in this important case. While Merck has enjoyed an exclusive monopoly on the sale of mumps vaccine in the United States, mumps outbreaks continue to occur because, as we allege in our lawsuit, Merck has misled the public about the vaccine’s efficacy,” Kellie Lerner of Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP, representing the direct purchasers, said in a statement. “This decision brings us one step closer to shining a light on Merck’s deceptive business practices so that new and more effective vaccines will ultimately be developed in the future.”

          1. ‘Merck is Accused of Stonewalling Over Effectiveness of Mumps Vaccine’

            “Specifically, the scientists complain that Merck is being evasive about the actual effectiveness rate, an issue that is at the heart of their 2010 lawsuit. As noted previously, the former virologists charged the drug maker knew its vaccine was less effective than the purported 95% level, and alleged senior management was aware and also oversaw testing that concealed the actual effectiveness.

            Rather than answer questions, Merck has taken an “evasive approach in its blanket refusal” to provide information effectiveness, according to a letter that an attorney for the scientists wrote last week to a federal court in Philadelphia overseeing the case. Instead, the letter says the drug maker cited data from nearly 50 years ago, when the vaccine was introduced, and that it is not possible to conduct new trials.”
            https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-270B-2044

          2. It’s still strange that you think an out of date quote about a lawsuit that isn’t about safety and in which fact finding isn’t finished yet in anyway counters the fact that data about vaccine safety doesn’t depend on pharma but comes from many different independent actors from all around the world.

          3. Written June 2015 but you consider it “out of date”…..if you have any more current news on the trial, please do share it with us.

            “According to a letter that an attorney for the scientists wrote last week to a federal court in Philadelphia overseeing the case..
            “Either Merck knows the current efficacy of its mumps vaccine, or it does not,” the attorney writes. “Whichever the case, Merck should not be permitted to raise as one of its principal defenses that its vaccine has a high efficacy, which is accurately represented on the product’s label, but then refuse to answer what it claims that efficacy actually is.”

            “We should note that several physicians later filed a lawsuit seeking class action status and charged the vaccine was mislabeled and was not the product for which the government or other purchasers paid, which meant that Merck violated the False Claims Act, according to court documents”

            https://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/06/08/merck-is-accused-of-stonewalling-over-effectiveness-of-mumps-vaccine/

          4. I’ve mentioned before. You can find the case on Pacer. A request by plaintiffs was denied as unfounded; parties agreed to finish discovery by March.

            Fact finding hadn’t ended.

            Uncritically treating the opinion of one side in the case – which by definition has a stake in the outcome – as fact before fact finding is done is problematic.

          5. Well, we know that the NIH gave money to have a new mumps vaccine made in the meantime, one we shouldn’t need if Merck is on the up and up right?

            UGA researcher developing new vaccine to fight resurging mumps virus

            “The virus is always evolving and mutating, and new viruses will emerge,” He said. “It’s only a matter of time until the old vaccine we have doesn’t work.” https://news.uga.edu/releases/article/resurging-mumps-virus-vaccine-development-061312/

          6. CDC is not independant – heavily funded by Big Pharma and this is a conflict of interest
            “Pfizer is proud to have partnered with the CDC Foundation and CDC on this important research initiative and we are very encouraged by the results,” said Freda C. Lewis-Hall, MD, FAPA, executive vice president and chief medical officer, Pfizer.”
            The real story behind this research is that its true purpose – from the perspective of Pfizer – was to create the public perception that Pfizer and CDC are partners.

            “Established by Congress as an independent, nonprofit organization, the CDC Foundation connects the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with private-sector organizations and individuals to build public health programs that make our world healthier and safer. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has provided $400 million to support CDC’s work, launched more than 700 programs around the world and built a network of individuals and organizations committed to supporting CDC and public health.

            Each CDC Foundation program involves a talented team of experts at CDC and at least one outside funding partner. Sometimes, a program begins with a CDC scientist who has a great idea and wants to collaborate with an outside partner to make it happen. At other times, organizations in the private sector recognize that they can better accomplish their own public health goals by working with CDC through the CDC Foundation.”

            https://www.cdcfoundation.org/who/story

          7. CDC Foundation is not CDC. It is a separate organization.
            https://www.cdcfoundation.org/what/programs

            CDC is funded each year by an Act of Congress. If you have evidence showing CDC, and not some separate organization, is “heavily funded by Big pHARMa” post the dollar amounts, source, and how the funding was used.

          8. CDC Foundation is not CDC. It is an independent public charity

            https://www.cdcfoundation.org/FAQ

            CDC is funded each year by an Act of Congress. If you have evidence showing CDC, and not some separate non-profit, is “heavily funded by Big pHARMa” post the dollar amounts, source, and how the funding was used.

          9. Someone doesn’t know what ‘stonewalling’ means. Tee hee, you JOKER of the facts, JESTthefacts! 😉

          10. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a new website, Open Payments, which is a tool naming all doctors and teaching hospitals that received funds and gifts from drug companies.

            That data set begins to reveal a piece of what’s become a lucrative industry. Pharmaceutical companies spend nearly $20 billion annually marketing their products to physicians, efforts that yields profits of nearly $300 billion per year in prescription drug sales. At the peak of Big Pharma’s profitable relationship with the medical industry in 2007, more than 100,000 representatives made visits to more than 650,000 physicians across the country.

          11. Tell your sister not to cry for suz. Suz isn’t sad, because she only ANSWERS trolls like you!

            p.s. I think your sis could stand to lose a ton or two, JOKE of the facts, JESTthefacts! 😉

          1. “Shining a light on deceptive Merck practice” is hardly the system ‘working’, JESTER of the facts! Sheesh!

      4. The pharmaceutical industry is the number one lobbyist up on Capitol Hill and in the state legislatures. Almost $1 trillion dollars every year is given by Congress to the Department of Health and Human Services as a comparison the Department of Defense gets about $500 billion. So the Department of Health and Human Services is the number one agency in this country that gets the most amount of the federal taxes every year, and that doesn’t include Social Security because the Social Security Administration is a separate agency.

    2. I glad they stopped that Vioxx vaccine. No, wait! Vioxx is not a vaccine. That was an off-topic conspiracy post.

      Nothing to see here. Move on.

      1. If people are being coerced and punished for not vaccinating – the fact that pharmaceutical companies have criminal records and have been involved in criminal behaviour should be taken into account? Also the fact that so many of their drugs have killed people because there have been improper clinical controls.

        Vaccines studies are the worst because it is regarded as unethical to do a double blind placebo control study. They are tested for relatively short periods before being pushed on the public with no liability.

          1. The paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Prof. John Walker Smith, and Dr. Simon Burch (plus 10 co-authors) published in the British medical journal The Lancet in 1998. The paper consisted of a series of 12 clinical observations of children who had received the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine and later developed gastrointestinal dysfunction, developmental delays, and autism. The paper determined that there may be a possible correlation between the vaccine and the problems experienced by the children, and that there was sufficient cause for concern to justify further study. That’s it, plain and simple.

            The paper did not state a conclusive causal effect. And yet, nearly every reference by the media to the Wakefield study states that it was ‘debunked.’ … There was nothing to debunk. But the chant has been repeated (and continues to be repeated) so much that it has become ingrained in the American psyche, to the point where no attempt to explain and try and correct the mischaracterization is taken seriously.

            None of the parents who worked with Wakefield and Smith, filed any complaint about misconduct by Wakefield or Smith. Smith and Wakefield went up in front of the General Medical Counsel and had their licenses revoked. None of the “science” of the paper was ever found to be “fraudulent” and all the children were actually IMPROVING under the care of Smith & with Wakefield’s research efforts. They lost their licenses because the GMC decided that they did not get the proper signatures somewhere along the way. Eventually, Smith appealed the ruling by the GMC and his license was reinstated.

            For this Wakefield has been one of the most vilified people by the medical pharma complex in the world. Compare this to Poul Thorsen co-author of research supposedly proving the MMR is safe is this paper is still quoted today. You never hear of him. No effort has been made to make his pay for his crimes.

            ATLANTA, GA – POUL THORSEN, 49, of Denmark, has been indicted
            by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering based on a
            scheme to steal grant money the CDC had awarded to governmental agencies in
            Denmark for autism research.

            United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said of the case, “Grant money for disease research is a precious commodity. When grant funds are stolen, we lose not only the money, but also the opportunity to better understand and cure debilitating diseases. This defendant is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme to steal over $1 million in CDC grant money earmarked for autism research. We will now seek the defendant’s extradition for him to face federal charges in the United States.”

          2. The paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Prof. John Walker Smith, and Dr. Simon Burch (plus 10 co-authors) published in the British medical journal The Lancet in 1998. The paper consisted of a series of 12 clinical observations of children who had received the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine and later developed gastrointestinal dysfunction, developmental delays, and autism. The paper determined that there may be a possible correlation between the vaccine and the problems experienced by the children, and that there was sufficient cause for concern to justify further study. That’s it, plain and simple.

            The paper did not state a conclusive causal effect. And yet, nearly every reference by the media to the Wakefield study states that it was ‘debunked.’ … Uh, there was nothing to debunk. But the chant has been repeated (and continues to be repeated) so much that it has become ingrained in the American psyche, to the point where no attempt to explain and try and correct the mischaracterization is taken seriously.

            None of the parents who worked with Wakefield and Smith, filed any complaint
            about misconduct by Wakefield or Smith. Smith and Wakefield went up in front of
            the General Medical Counsel and had their licenses revoked. NONE of the
            “science” of the paper was EVER found to be “fraudulent” and ALL the children
            were actually IMPROVING under the care of Smith & with Wakefield’s research
            efforts. They lost their licenses because the GMC decided that they did not get
            the proper signatures somewhere along the way. Eventually, Smith appealed the
            ruling by the GMC and his license was reinstated.

            For this Wakefield has been one of the most vilified people by the medical pharma complex in the world. Compare this to Poul Thorsen co-author of

            research supposedly proving the MMR is safe is this paper is still quoted today.

            ATLANTA, GA – POUL THORSEN, 49, of Denmark, has been indicted
            by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering based on a
            scheme to steal grant money the CDC had awarded to governmental agencies in
            Denmark for autism research.

            United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said of the case, “Grant money for disease research is a precious commodity. When grant funds are stolen, we lose not only the money, but also the opportunity to better understand and cure debilitating diseases. This defendant is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme to steal over $1 million in CDC grant money earmarked for autism research. We will now seek the defendant’s extradition for him to face federal charges in the United States.”

          3. Brian Deer uncovered Wakefield’s unethical behavior.
            “https://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm
            “Wakefield falsely reported that a gruelling five-day battery of

            invasive and distressing procedures performed on
            the kids – including anaesthesia, ileocolonoscopies, lumbar punctures, MRI brain scans, EEGs, radioactive drinks and x-rays – proposed for the lawsuit, was approved by the Royal Free’s ethics committee.

            But Deer revealed that, despite the research being executed on the uniquely vulnerable, developmentally challenged children of sometimes distraught parents hoping for money, the ethics
            committee was not told the truth about the project, and had given no such approval. Responding to Deer in 2004, Wakefield and his key associates, paediatricians John Walker-Smith and
            Simon Murch, denied this explosive discovery and issued a formal
            statement. But, after being confronted with the proof at the GMC hearing, they changed their story and -despite clear rules – now
            argued they needed no approval. … The investigation also probed Wakefield’s basic science. The story was much the same. He had obtained the legal money and planned his business ventures
            against a theory of his own that the culprit for both inflammatory bowel disease and autism was persistent infection with measles virus, which is found live as a normal part of MMR. But Deer revealed on Channel 4 that sophisticated, unreported, molecular
            tests carried out in Wakefield’s own lab had found no trace of measles in the children’s guts and blood.”

            Plus much more. Have someone read it to you.

          4. “The paper consisted of a series of 12 clinical observations of children who had received the MMR”

            Not quite….
            One developed what Wakefield called “post viral encephalitis” (child 10) 24 hours after natural measles. Considering how rare measles was back then, this makes me suspect that if anything was linked to the bowel disease/brain damage, the natural measles was……

        1. Banks have criminal records. Food makers have criminal records.Car makers have criminal records. Do you drive. eat, or have a bank account? Are there manditoty regulations you have to follow with BANK, CARS and FOODS.
          .
          The answer to all of that is YES. Another empty set of claims by Judith.

        2. Ah, Judith! Remember the myopic minds you speak to. You may need to rephrase to ‘criminal records, criminal behavior and the continued acts which frequently end in severe injury or death, and of which there is no fair litigation for recourse!’

          Let’s see if they can get that without puking up their pathetic platitudes!

  189. Dear anti-vaxxers:
    Copy/pasting things from conspiracy sites like “healthimpactnews” does not give you credibility. If anything, it just exposes your ignorance and lack of ability to distinguish reality from nonsense.

    1. How about some published studies about animal viruses in our childrens MMR vaccines then. Why does the FDA think it is ok to leave the virus in the vaccine and not remove them immediately?

      Evidence of Pestivirus RNA in MMR Vaccines
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC264050/?page=1

      Genotypes of pestivirus RNA detected in live virus vaccines for human use.
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503899

      Virus contaminations of cell cultures – A biotechnological view
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463984/

      “Bovine viral diarrhea disease (BVDV) associated with a contaminated vaccine.This suggests that BVDV RNA detected in human live viral vaccines represents passive carry over of BVDV from contaminated FCS rather than active virus replication in human diploid cells. Our results indicate that contamination with BVDV of FCS used in vaccine production does not appear to be of immediate concern to human health.”

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503899

      1. “Can’t find the requested web page.”

        You forgot the monkey virus, though. That’s really the best part of your routine.

      2. “Can’t find the requested web page.”

        Don’t leave out the monkey virus, though. That’s the best part of your routine.

        1. Ok, since you insist…

          How typical is it for infants or young children to get mesothelioma??

          “Because mesothelioma typically develops decades after exposure to asbestos, the cancer is extremely rare in children and young adults. Only nine cases of the disease in young adults or kids were reported in the United States between 1999 and 2002. Because this rare cancer is even rarer in children, few case studies offer scientific insight into why a child or young adult would develop it.”

          https://www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma/children-young-adults.php

          Mesothelioma in Infants and Children exposed to SV40 Polio vaccines–

          “By using data from the SEER program and from US national mortality statistics, Strickler et al. (1998) showed that exposed infants had three times greater risk of death due to mesothelioma and children had a 2.45 times greater risk than the presumably unexposed cohorts.”

          https://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v23/n38/full/1207877a.html#bib25

          1. What a bunch of witless parrots! 😉
            suz norkan Brian 3 hours ago
            It’s the cdc! We HAVE to ‘dumpster dive!’ Ba dump bum!

          2. Data from 1955. Well that’s not very valid, is it? here is the real punchline from the last line of the article

            “Regardless of the approach used, issues of properly defining the latency for SV40-induced carcinogenesis will remain an intellectually challenging opportunity for innovative research in the field.”

            So there is ZERO conclusions. You are lying again. Your source does not support you.

          3. In a study conducted in Denmark, Engels et al. (2003a) found that ependymoma incidence was 2.6 times higher for children aged 0–4 years born between the years 1955 and 1962. However, the authors pointed out that the incidence of ependymoma peaked in 1969, when SV40 contamination of polio vaccines cleared.

            (But we now know that SV40 can be transmitted to others)
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1431373/

            Three studies conducted in the US found elevated risks of death due to cancer in people born during the period when vaccines were deemed contaminated. Fraumeni et al. (1963) published the first epidemiological study, which provided US cancer mortality rates in 1956 and 1959 and estimated the per capita dose of polio vaccine containing SV40 in 16 states in 1955. .

            Carroll-Pankhurst et al. (2001) used the National Death Index (NDI) to compare the observed and expected causes of death in people who had presumably received SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine as newborns in 1960 or 1962 and found a 26% increase in mortality risk due to all cancers

          4. “Carroll-Pankhurst et al. (2001)”

            Thirty-five year mortality following receipt of SV40-contaminated polio vaccine during the neonatal period – Carroll-Pankhurst et al. (2001)
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11720463

            “Overall, the relative risk of cancer death (all types combined) was 1.27. All 4 subjects who died of cancer had received live, attenuated vaccine as newborns. We identified no death from brain tumours, osteosarcomas or mesotheliomas. For all cancers other than testicular cancer and leukaemia, the risk actually appeared decreased (no observed deaths vs. 2.62 expected deaths).

            “lack of an overall increase in cancer mortality in the SV40-exposed cohort”

            “After more than 35 years of follow-up, we found no overall excess
            of deaths from cancer in these individuals who as infants received
            poliovirus vaccines contaminated with SV40.”

          5. Do you even read your links? Here is the last line of the article:
            .
            “The different aspects of the SV40 behavior indicate that laboratory investigators are exposed to SV40 infection not only during specific procedures involving virus spread, such as sonication, but also during routine laboratory techniques, as cell trypsinization and centrifugations. Altogether these data suggest one should handle SV40 with additional care, indicating in the biohazard laboratory the appropriate containment for this oncogenic virus.”

            YES! Researchers need to be careful when handling SV40. Thank god it’s not IN ANY VACCINE!

            Do you even know the points you are trying to make?

          6. “In a study conducted in Denmark, Engels et al. (2003a)”

            Cancer Incidence in Denmark Following Exposure to Poliovirus Vaccine Contaminated With Simian Virus 40 – Engels et al. (2003a)
            https://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/7/532.short

            “SV40 exposure was not associated with increased incidence of mesothelioma, ependymoma, choroid plexus tumor, or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

            “Conclusion: Exposure to SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine in Denmark was not associated with increased cancer incidence.”

          7. Nine studies compared the rate of cancer incidence or cancer death among individuals born during the years of SV40 contamination of polio vaccine (1955–1963) and individuals born before or after the polio vaccine contamination period. Two studies found an increased risk of cancer among children vaccinated with polio vaccine. A hospital-based case–control study, conducted by Innis et al. in Australia, compared the immunization status of 816 children with various malignancies to 816 controls matched on age, sex, and hospital admission (Innis, 1968). This study found that children of all ages inoculated with polio vaccine had a 40% greater 10-year risk of developing cancer. This increase in risk was most prominently observed in children over 1 year of age (69% greater risk),

          8. No links to justify your crazy ideas about a contamination that happened 60 years ago? REALLY? WHO CARES?

            Fear mongering old news does not impress anyone.

          9. Nope, the clueless who can’t count and don’t understand that there has not been a single case of injury from the SV40 ever documented

            and trolls like you support misinformation.

          10. I love wildlife. Thank you for the pic that is ‘off topic’, has nothing to do with vax injuries, pharma, corrupted govt. in ca., or Aurora! But I LOVE wildlife, JOKE the facts, JESTthefacts! 😉

          11. A little factoid about above ground A-bomb tests in the late 1950s

            “In 1980, People magazine reported that of some 220 cast and crew who filmed a 1956 film, The Conqueror, on location near St. George, Utah, ninety-one had come down with cancer, and 50 had died of cancer. Of these, forty-six had died of cancer by 1980. Among the cancer deaths were John Wayne and Susan Hayward, the stars of the film. However, the lifetime odds of developing cancer for men in the U.S. population are 43 percent and the odds of dying of cancer are 23 percent (38 percent and 19 percent, respectively, for women). This places the cancer mortality rate for the 220 primary cast and crew quite near the expected average.”

          12. Epidemiological studies in the late 90s, in which thousands of polio vaccine recipients were studied, indicated this population did not have an increased risk of developing cancer, even 35 years later.

            Trends in U.S. mesothelioma incidence rates following simian virus 40 contamination of early poliovirus vaccines.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12509399

            CONCLUSIONS: Age-specific trends in U.S. pleural mesothelioma incidence rates are not consistent with an effect of exposure to SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine.

            Cancer incidence in Denmark following exposure to poliovirus vaccine contaminated with simian virus 40.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12671021

            CONCLUSION: Exposure to SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine in Denmark was not associated with increased cancer incidence.

            Potential exposure to SV40 in polio vaccines used in Sweden during 1957: no impact on cancer incidence rates 1960 to 1993.
            https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/9776244

            CONCLUSION: Read the title.

          13. 1) DNA Sequences Similar to Those of Simian Virus 40 in Ependymomas and Choroid Plexus Tumors of Childhood

            Discussion

            “Our initial aim was to use the PCR to detect sequences of BK and JC viral DNA in human choroid plexus tumors and ependymomas, the types of tumors induced in animal models by these polyomaviruses. Oligonucleotide primers were used to amplify a segment of viral DNA, well conserved among polyomaviruses, of the BK and JC viral large T-antigen gene. Two DNA segments initially amplified from tumor specimens were sequenced and found to be identical to segments of the polyomavirus SV40. All specimens were then reevaluated with primers and probes specific for SV40.

            ****SV40-like DNA sequences up to 574 bp long were detected in a majority of the specimens of ependymomas and choroid plexus tumors. In addition, expression of T-antigen protein was detected by immunoperoxidase staining in 7 of 11 tumors.***

            Previous studies have suggested that polyomavirus DNA, determined to be that of BK, JC, or SV40 by either Southern hybridization or restriction-endonuclease digestion, is present in human brain tumors.5 , 14 15 16 17 18 T-antigen protein has also been detected by immunofluorescent staining in ependymomas, choroid plexus tumors, and meningiomas.34 35 36 37 38

            In addition, our PCR technique was likely to detect any member of a family of polyomaviruses, since the amplified DNA segment was highly conserved among the known viruses. Our data therefore support previous observations that SV40-like DNA sequences are present and expressed in ependymomas and choroid plexus tumors”

            https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199204093261504#t=article+Conclusions.

            2)That study was done before they could rule out cross reaction with BK and JCV, which they now think was what they were seeing.

            3) They wrongly assumed that SV40 would only effect those who received the vaccines, but later studies have proven it can be transmitted horizontally. Putting all those studies comparing those who did get the shot with those who didn’t get it with cancer rates….null and void

          14. “Strickler et al. (1998) showed that exposed infants had three times greater risk of death due to mesothelioma”

            That’s incorrect.

            Contamination of Poliovirus Vaccines With Simian Virus 40 (1955-1963) and Subsequent Cancer Rates – Strickler et al. (1998)
            https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=187182

            “Conclusions.— After more than 30 years of follow-up, exposure to SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine was not associated with significantly increased rates of ependymomas and other brain cancers, osteosarcomas, or mesotheliomas in the United States.”

            Strickler goes into further detail in the commentary:

            “Mesothelioma incidence rates showed a nonsignificant increase among the exposed groups.”

          15. SV40-Contaminated Poliovirus Vaccine and Childhood Cancer Risk

            Susan Gross Fisher, PhD

            To the Editor.—”In examining the carcinogenic effects of exposure to simian virus 40 (SV40)–contaminated poliovirus vaccine, Strickler et al1 concluded that such exposure “was not associated with significantly increased rates of ependymomas and other brain cancers, osteosarcomas, or mesotheliomas.” The expectation that the available data provided reliable incidence rates for a comparative analysis using Poisson regression techniques deserves reconsideration.”

            https://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v23/n38/full/1207877a.html

            Government Scientists Compromise SV40 Study

            “Presently there are over 61 reports from 49 different laboratories that have detected SV40 in human mesothelioma, lymphoma, brain and bone tumors, versus three reports, two from Dr. Shah’s laboratory who performed his study under contract from Dr. Strickler at the Viral Epidemiology Branch (VEB) National Cancer Institute (USA) that have failed to detect SV40 in some of these same tumor types. To address whether the negative reports were caused by lack of sensitivity of the technique used in Shah’s laboratory, or whether the positive reports were caused by contamination within the greater number of laboratories reporting SV40 detection, two multi-center studies were conducted. Dr. Shah’s laboratory technique used in 1996 was apparently not sufficiently sensitive to detect SV40 in human tumors. When this became apparent, during unilateral pre-trial testing of positive controls by Dr. Shah, the study coordinator of the VEB, Dr. Strickler, apparently compromised the blinded nature of the study and allowed Dr. Shah to modify and improve his technique. When one of the participating laboratories questioned irregularities in the data from Dr. Shah’s laboratory and directly questioned Dr. Strickler, the study organizer, about the potential irregularity, Dr. Strickler and Dr. Shah offered letters stating that such irregularities had not occurred and re-confirmed that they had not deviated from the standard protocol. The facts indicating that Dr. Shah’s laboratory technique was not sufficiently sensitive to detect SV40 were not made available to the other laboratories participating in the study and were not published. Instead, according to Dr. Shah’s testimony, Dr. Strickler, the VEB multi-center study coordinator, compromised the masked positive controls and knowingly permitted Dr. Shah to re-test and adjust his technique during pre-trial testing. The actual negative pre-trial test results were never published alongside the published trial results indicating Dr. Shah’s laboratory had the most sensitive technique to detect SV40 among the nine participating laboratories.”

            — MacLachlan DS, SV40 in human tumors: new documents shed light on the apparent controversy. Anticancer Res. 2002 Nov-Dec;22(6B):3495-9.

          16. Strickler’s 1998 study was a retrospective cohort study, a records analysis. That study wasn’t looking for SV40 in cancer cells. It was completely different, and the findings are consistent with the Denmark and Sweden studies

            Strickler’s 2001 study is the subject of MacLachlan’s letter
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11352864

            Is there any evidence SV40 from the polio vaccine caused higher rates of cancer? No.

            Has polio been eradicated in all but two or three countries? Yes

            The $40,000 Question: Why is Barbara Loe Fisher’s name here on the discussion of chemtrails, SV40 and other antivaxxer conspiracy theories?
            https://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizations/tp/Anti-Vaccination-Conspiracy-Theories.htm

      3. Lets see. Your first link is 22 years old.

        Your second link is 15 years old

        Your third link is 14 teas old.

        You third link is 15 years old

        Do you have something that applies to modern vaccines where all issues have been resolved or are you just a fear mongering liar?

    1. “Dear anti-vaxers; oooops! There NONE here! ;)”(sic)

      Thanks for proving my point that anti-vaxxers deny reality, any way they can.

      1. And in tune with your ‘frivolous & insignificant’, why are you again top posting your fluff! Rhetorical! No reason to WASTE even more of the reader’s time.

      2. Yes, see this post of mine to Kiko, earlier this morning:
        “It seems the worst name you can call an anti-vaxer is (drum roll). . . .
        . anti-vaxer! NONE of you are anti-vaxers, to hear you tell it.
        You’re at the immunization clinic before it opens, waiting to storm the
        waiting room with all you kids so they can be immunized, yes? NO!
        You’re not an anti-vaxer but this, but that, but the other, but Jenny
        McCarthy, but Andrew Wakefield, but, but, but, but, but!”
        https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2462901188

      3. Oooops! I already fixed the typo before your reply printed, so another FAIL for ‘forced vaxers!’

          1. Again, you’re the moron who chose to point out that a TYPO occurred! Alert the press there, Brian! Shall I go back and mount the count for ALL of yours!

            And a typo is NOT bad grammar! Apparently grammar is NOT your forte’, [as is ANYTHING] otherwise you and the rest of your puerile pals would understand the term ‘anti!’

            Stay in school, little turd! 😉

    2. Right! See this:
      https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2462901188
      “It seems the worst name you can call an anti-vaxer is (drum roll). . . . . anti-vaxer! NONE of you are anti-vaxers, to hear you tell it. You’re at the immunization clinic before it opens, waiting to storm the waiting room with all you kids so they can be immunized, yes? NO! You’re not an anti-vaxer but this, but that, but the other, but Jenny McCarthy, but Andrew Wakefield, but, but, but, but, but!”

      1. You know suz won’t open links from you ‘forced vaxers’, Katia!

        Spit it out if you have something to say darlin’, and tell your kids to stop with the frivolous top posting blather again!

          1. Thanks for agreeing that suz doesn’t lie and that the anti vax you refer to, is simply an incorrect meme! I’ve seen no anti vax here; rather those who oppose medical fascism and forced vax!

          2. ha ha.
            You don’t lie, just like you don’t have multiple accounts, just like you’ve never been banned, just like you aren’t anti-vax, just like you don’t post debunked anti-vaccine conspiracies day in and day out.

            Thanks for proving me right… again.

          3. The only thing I’ve proven is that you’re a childish moron! You don’t know what you think you know, Brian! 😉

          4. Thanks!

            Coming from someone whose comments are less reliable than a magic eight ball, I accept your complement.

          5. No, thank you, since my ‘magic eight ball’ is still far more reliable than your flawed and ever so erred omnipotent leader, Dorit!

            So rather, I accept your complement, Brian! 😉

          6. I dunno what the H*ll you’re trying to prove, suz, but because I knew you would likely not open the link, I copied my post. You also said you were leaving the discussion, which was obviously a lie.

          7. What a dope! I NEVER said I was leaving any of your forced vax fluff!

            And apparently you didn’t know that I wouldn’t open YOUR link, or would have copied your post initially instead of merely supplying the link. You did NOT do so! MORE lies from you, Katia!

            You LIE again when you say that I go to immunization clinics. Nah!

            Andrew Wakfield and Jenny Mccarthy; sorry, don’t follow! While they may be very nice people, I really DON’T know anything about them! Yet another of your misleading fabrications, Katia!

            The forced vaxer problem in all of your ‘anti vaxer’ rhetoric, is that you incessantly confuse the definition of ANTI vax!

          8. Oh, for crying out loud, suz. I copied the whole post. Stop lying. Several others seem to have seen it.

          9. Only AFTER I said that I don’t open the links from opponents!

            You’re the LIAR, katia! At first, you only provided the link as shown in my response to you!

            Anything other than my copy of your comment with the LINK PROMPT ONLY, [as shown in my prior reply from my disqus screen] is deceitful editing on your part!

          10. For about 2 minutes, until I went back and copied the post as well. Jeez, Louise, suz, I couldn’t do them both together.

          11. Exactly! AFTER I replied to you that I would NOT open your link and that you should just ‘spit it out!’

            Finally a modicum of truth! Thank you for that, Katia!

          12. No!Tthat is a lie, suz. You’re a lying liar. There was about a two minute delay, AFTER which you b*tched, moaned, insulted me to no end that the post wasn’t there. It was all said and done before you started your screeching and shrieking. Sadly, Disqus doesn’t put a time stamp on these posts.

            I don’t accept your “thanks” because you are a lying liar, and you lie lots. You’ve also hijacked the thread, which is probably what you wanted, because your position is indefensible.

          13. Now you’re just LYING, PLUS your veins are popping out of your face again, Katia!

            I DO appreciate your partial TRUTH! However, I find it hard to believe that out of ALL the millions of comments you answer, that you would remember that suz wouldn’t open your link.

            Not buying it and maintain that you only edited your full comment in, AFTER I made statement about not opening your link!

            Maybe you should try meditation, darlin’! 😉

          14. Mine’s original! Remember boys and girls, ‘anyone who calls someone who is NOT a liar, a liar, is a LIAR!’

            Now breathe deeply, Katia! Ohm! The vibration of heaven meets earth! Ohm! Visualizing peace and harmony in your body! Ohm, ohm, ohm! 😉

          15. Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
            AlterNet …………………… banned
            Raw Story ……………….. banned
            Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
            Washington Times ……. banned
            A shot of prevention ….. banned
            LAist………………………… banned
            Patch………………………. banned
            Breitbart…………………… banned
            The Hill………………………Banned

          16. Your count is off! My last tally was 8 disqus sites!

            We all know that the reasons you list for my estrangement are lies, as it was NOT for poor behavior, but rather poor moderation and censureship!

            Btw, how’s your estrangement from hammonds site working out, along with your little mini me sockie, JOKE of the facts, JESTthefacts!

            Since you’ve brought up some of my aka’s, do you have any info as to who is again impersonating suz, [now using the real suz norkan] which is one of the many nyms I had to alter due to your childish and CORRUPT games.

            Note how it’s always you forced vaxers who stoop so low; just like the propaganda you peddle!

          17. As long as there are LIARS like you, Katia, I’ll happily be there to point YOU out to the innocent! 😉

          18. As long as there are LIARS like you, Katia, I’ll happily be there to point YOU out to the innocent

          19. Dunno! However, it’s a shame they’re not the topic. It appears you’d like to chat about ’em! 😉

          20. Neither is anything about my grandchildren, or lack of them, or pizza delivery, or walmart, or, or, or. . .

          21. To the contrary, ‘grandchildren’ was in response to your foul mouth! -relevant

            Pizza boy is my new ‘nick’ [coined from autismo] for pastadud [of which I also coined from autismo] – still on topic

            And walmart was pizza boy’s lame reply to my calling him a pizza boy; so I’d say ‘fair in love and war,’ under the circumstance! – still on topic

            Denver broncos!!! – Aw! You LOSE, Katia! OFF topic! 😉

          22. I’m sure the editors of the Sentinel will give me some leeway on giving the Broncos a Huzzah!

            You seem to be able to twist anything in your mind, lying liar!

          23. Aw! So your little ‘off topic’ razzle dazzle razz failed.

            However, I suppose a ‘huzzah’ means they won and you’d like to break from the subject [after just wrongly chastising me for such] to chat about it. I’m game! Congrats to all!

            But you are still the miserable liar throughout all of this, Katia!

          24. Suz, the liar, is top posting again!!
            .
            Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
            AlterNet …………………… banned
            Raw Story ……………….. banned
            Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
            Washington Times ……. banned
            A shot of prevention ….. banned
            LAist………………………… banned
            Patch………………………. banned
            Breitbart…………………… banned
            The Hill………………………Banned

          25. No! Not suz! Brian and Katia!

            However, your count is off! My last tally was 8 disqus sites!

            We all know that the reasons you list for my estrangement are lies, as it was NOT for poor behavior, but rather poor moderation and censureship!

            Btw, how’s your estrangement from hammonds site working out, along with your little mini me sockie, JESTthefacts!

            Since you’ve brought up some of my aka’s, do you have any info as to who is again impersonating suz, [now using the real suz norkan] which is one of the many nyms I had to alter due to your childish and CORRUPT games.

            Note how it’s always you forced vaxers who stoop so low; just like the propaganda you peddle!

          26. Pity! Perhaps if you hadn’t been such a hateful and foul mouthed person all your life, Katia!

            No grandchildren! No wonder you’re so miserable!

          27. So? I’m back! I posted a little BEFORE I WENT! Why are you trying to make me out a liar? Because all you AVs are? Note that I posted some stuff 7 hours ago (approx 7:15 AM MST, and then not again until 2 hrs ago (about 12:15 PM).

          28. I’m not surprised. The other thing is, they don’t feel that collecting data is important. When CDPH&E proposed making it harder to claim an exemption, in the public comment period they got something like 200 letters for, one of which was from Boulder County HD, and a handful against, one of which was from BVSD. I heard this at an Immunization Coalition meeting. Hopefully, they’ll be embarrassed about that.

          1. I don’t live near any walmart [ooops] and I HATE bullies like yall, pizza delivery boy!

            NOT odd, that! 😉

    1. You can make and deliver pizzas, but you claim to not know the meaning of ‘top posting!’

      Bunky burlesque, says I, pizza delivery boy! 😉

        1. Yes! Don’t let yourself get above the radar, Katia!

          Ooops! You already DID that, when you were caught in your LYING act only hours ago! 😉

          1. suz norkan – “Suz doesn’t have multiple accounts”
            suz norkan – “I’ve never disputed multiple accts”
            suz norkan – “I’ve never been banned”
            suz norkan – “I’ve only been banned 8 times”
            suz norkan – “There are NONE (no anti-vaxxers)”
            suz norkan – “Suz doesn’t lie!”

            want me to continue?

            Lying liars lie lots

          2. Please do! Or here! I can help ya outta your hole!

            I’ve never disputed multiple accts., or being banned. I dispute the deceitful and erred reason for such estrangements and/or accts., and which you little punks like prevaricate about all over the vax war blogs.

            Eight disqus sites and I should know! I said I saw no ‘anti vax’ actively posting here; but more so what you forced vaxxers mistakenly CALL anti vax!

            Suz doesn’t lie!

            That sums the truth up quite nicely! Carry on little LIAR! 😉

      1. I do make a mean pizza, on the rare occasion that I am in the mood for something with that many carbs. But it’s not a common event. Sorry to disappoint, walmart greeter.

        1. I don’t eat pizza unless it’s made on a vegetable shell!

          Sorry to again have to reiterate that I don’t live near any walmarts, so I ‘rarely’ get to ‘greet a walmart,’ pizza delivery boy! 😉

          1. That’s not pizza in my book. But pseudopizza probably goes well with your pseudoscience.

            And I hate to reiterate that’s it’s been well over 30 years since I worked in a pizza place. And I never delivered anything besides newspapers when I was 13. Sorry again, Walmart greeter girl.

          2. I didn’t get to ‘greet walmarts’ even when I was a girl; they weren’t nationwide yet! 😉

            Pizza is about the sauce and cheese! The dough is of no nutritional value! So much for the psychobabble of your pseudopizza AND pseudoscience, pizza boy! 😉

          3. Dough has no flavor! It’s what is baked into it or what it’s topped with that makes it appetizing!

            You eat your doughy and unhealthy pizza the way you like it, and I’ll live a lot longer, eating pizza flavored veggies, sauce and cheese on a shiitake mushroom cap or over a bed of a steamed veggie casserole.

            And THAT’S what’s wrong with you ‘forced vaxers!’ You have NO tolerance for diversity, pizza boy!

          4. Yours is a bogus, meaningless reply, typical for you. But I feel there’s more here than the casual observer may notice.

            Lurkers: if you read through this thread, you’ll see that suz has managed to take even the simplest of her usual off-topic posts, this one on pizza, and contort it into a weird world of bizarro posts culminating in one stating what is and isn’t appetizing to her, and how I will die because I eat doughy, unhealthy pizza. It’s really quite impressive that in a thread where I plainly state that I rarely eat pizza because it has too many carbs, suz has managed to twist that into her acid-worthy conclusion that the pro-science cohort havs no tolerance for diversity.

            Now, let’s imagine complex subjects like vaccines, medicine, and law being subjected to this twisted exercise in mental gymnastics. It’s no wonder her entire posting history is a convoluted mess of misinformation and confusion.

          5. Haha, you think I’m giving this too much thought? how can an off-topic comment about pizza get so twisted by one person? And why does this troll think I deliver pizzas? Makes my head spin.

          6. It’s all on YOU, pizza boy, and all the readers have to do is backtrack your comments! If you would comprehend what you read, you would have already learned why I have been calling you pizza boy! Har d har!

          7. Is this a video of one of the legs of the FDA Baboon Study?
            It appears the vaccine has given baboons the ability to type… witness ciaparker2, ione, Graceds, and of course scuz.
            It’s a muracull!

          8. “But I feel there’s more here than the casual observer may notice.”

            Nah! You’re reading to much into this, pizza boy!

            Readers! Pizza boy is having a hissy fit because he doesn’t like his new pet name! He has continued to post childish comments to which I’ve simply answered.

            Dough and other carbs are classic fare for diabetes, to the tune of the pyramid being changed.

            No twisting! Just truth! If Pastadud rarely eats carbs as he now claims, perhaps he should discontinue with the PASTA part of his nym; as suz is NOT the only poster to associate the nym with pizza and spagettios!

            I don’t think ‘plain dough’ is appetizing to many and that’s why it’s often jazzed up with more palatable foods.

            I never said he would ‘die,’ but rather that ‘I would live longer!’ It’s only more truth, should we gauge poor health on the merit of ‘poor diet’ alone!

            He also foolishly provokes with further pizza given the absurdity of his comment of pseudopizza below.

            “But pseudopizza probably goes well with your pseudoscience.”

            Finally, you totally flail and fail with this, pizza boy; as you ridicule MY pizza and maintain that a typical dough based pizza is the ONLY kind of pizza!

            “Trying to contort and reframe facts even when it comes to something as simple as pizza”

            And when I shot that down, and suggest that you are a bullying pizza snob who is intolerant to the pizza diversity of others, you have the audacity to post this slop below;

            “But I feel there’s more here than the casual observer may notice.”

            Yeah! Someone has some ‘doughy, convoluted and twisted’ pizza issues, and it certainly ain’t suz, pizza boy! 😉

          9. Holy shlt, it must be exhausting being you. I couldn’t even read that mess. Also, to anyone of even moderate intelligence, my screen name combined with my avatar is really not that difficult to decipher, and it has very little to do with pasta. Now, once again, I must be done with you. You are a soul-sucking waste of energy, and not good for my sanity, or anyone else’s, for that matter.

          10. Your TRAIN WRECKS have been no picnic either! FSM Pasta pharian! Also not a stretch to see PASTA in there!

            However, please do flounce at will, pizza boy, and let’s hope it sticks this time! 😉

        2. “What we all can agree upon is the need to keep crony capitalism out of it, to keep information clear, unambiguous, and uncensored, and to allow people to make informed choices for themselves and their families. As we noted last year, there is an increasing tendency for immunization mandates to become a financial joint venture of the vaccine manufacturer and the government. The government is providing much of the funding manufacturers need to build facilities. So the government, which is supposed to regulate vaccine makers, becomes a full financial and operating partner with the companies they’re regulating! The government then turns around and orders us to be vaccinated or be ineligible for school—or in some cases go to jail!

          As it stands now, the government gives patent protection and FDA approvals to pharmaceutical companies and thus creates medical monopolies. The government also exempts vaccine makers from legal liability. But when in addition the government invests in the business itself and partners with private companies, then adds the threat of jail for consumer non-compliance, we have a completely out-of-control situation.”

          https://www.anh-usa.org/new-vaccine-legislation-in-the-states/

          1. That’s already been happening with the HPV vaccine as we can see here. Dept of HHS owns the patent, leases it to Merck, who pulls in 2.B is sales on Gardasil a year. Dept of HHS doesn’t have to say how much they get paid. And then Dept of HHS is involved in making the HPV vaccine mandatory in many states. They are also involved with who will get compensated if one of these kids getting their mandatory vaccines is injured or dies from it.

            From the National Archives and Records Administration Office of Government Information Services:

            “This responds to your request for assistance, which the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) received on November 5, 2010, regarding your interest in obtaining information about royalties the National Institutes of Health (NIH) receives from the sales of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines.
            After carefully reviewing the correspondence you submitted to OGIS with your request for assistance, it appears that NIH’s finding that information regarding royalties is protected from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is proper. Specifically, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in 2002 that information regarding NIH revenues from royalties based on NIH inventions and concerning the percentage of sales that NIH receives as royalties is exempt from disclosure under two exemptions to FOIA. (Public Citizen Health Research Group v. National Institutes of Health and Johnson & Johnson , 209 F. Supp. 2d 37 (D.D.C. 2002))”

            NIH Technology Licensed to Merck for HPV Vaccine

            “A new cancer vaccine developed by Merck makes use of a novel disease prevention strategy to protect against cervical cancer. The vaccine is based on research conducted at the NIH.”..https://www.ott.nih.gov/nih-technology-licensed-merck-hpv-vaccine

            Self-assembling recombinant hpv16 papillomavirus capsid proteins
            EP 1538209 A3

            Patent;ApplicantTHE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

            https://www.google.com/patents/EP1538209A3?cl=en&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Douglas+R.+Lowy#legal-events

            Dna-protein vaccination protocols
            WO 2011106705 A3

            Abstract

            This invention provides a method of co-delivery of combination DNA and protein immunogenic compositions to enhance protective or therapeutic effects

            Patent;

            ApplicantTHE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

            https://www.google.com/patents/WO2011106705A3?cl=en&dq=inassignee:%22THE+GOVERNMENT+OF+THE+UNITED+STATES+OF+AMERICA,+as+represented+by+THE+SECRETARY+OF+THE+DEPARTMENT+OF+HEALTH+AND+HUMAN+SERVICES%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIouG3zv7YyAIVAkQmCh2Y7QPz

            The NCI scientists whose discovery contributed to the commercially developed HPV vaccines are among the recipients of this year’s National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Douglas R. Lowy, M.D., and John T. Schiller, Ph.D., will receive their medals at a White House ceremony later this year.

            https://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/index.htm

            So the Dept of Health and Human Services owns the royalty rights, what else does this dept do?

            “The Department of Health and Human Services oversees 11 agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH),

            “The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) consists of 15 experts in immunization and related fields, selected by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide advice and guidance on control of vaccine-preventable diseases”

            National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).

            Three Federal government offices have a role in the VICP:

            the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS);

            the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); and

            the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (the Court).

            The VICP is located in the HHS, Health Resources and Services Administration, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation.”

          2. Some very basic conflicts of interest in the Vaccine policymaking, with no transparency .
            Another good reason to allow parental choice without state coercion.

          3. California Legislators Push for Gardasil Bill, Found to be Bribed by Merck

            In August 2011, Assembly Bill 499 was proposed by California Assembly Member Tony Atkins. The bill allows for children as young as 12 to receive the HPV shot Gardasil without any parental consent, thus completely removing parents from the important decision of whether or not to receive the HPV shot.

            Shortly after the news was announced, a report by Cal Watchdog revealed that Merck was giving monetary incentives to key California legislators in order for the bill to pass”

            Rick Perry and HPV vaccine-maker have deep financial ties

            “In 2007, Perry became the first governor in the country to attempt to make the HPV vaccine mandatory

            One of Perry’s closest confidantes, his former chief of staff Mike Toomey, was then working as an Austin-based lobbyist for Merck, which was in the midst of a multimillion-dollar campaign to persuade states to make the vaccine mandatory

            Mike Toomey, who is now running the main “super pac” backing Perry’s candidacy, was retained by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., maker of the Gardasil vaccine. Toomey’s hiring was part of an aggressive lobbying push in Texas by the drug company,.Merck paid Toomey between $260,000 and $535,000 in lobbying fees between 2005 and 2010, according to state lobbying records

            Merck and its subsidiaries have also given more than $380,000 to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) since 2006, the year that Perry began to play a prominent role in the Washington-based group, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Novartis has donated $700,000 to the RGA since January 2006. In 2009, Perry signed a bill into law mandating meningitis vaccines for all college students, a requirement he expanded again earlier this year. Novartis was not the only pharmaceutical company to benefit from the new requirement, but its Manveo vaccine, introduced less than a year later, fit the bill. GlaxoSmithKline, has given about the same amount of money as Merck to Perry’s gubernatorial campaigns since 2001 and nearly four times as much as Merck to the Republican Governors Association since 2006

            Perry served as chairman of the RGA in 2008 and 2009, until he decided to run for president. The group ranks among the governor’s biggest donors, giving his campaign at least $4 million over the past five years, according to Texans for Public Justice, a watchdog group

            Merck officials did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday about the company’s donations to Perry but issued a statement defending Gardasil’s safety and effectiveness

            Merck is bankrolling efforts to pass laws in state legislatures across the country mandating it Gardasil vaccine for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country

            Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group’s president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.

            A top official from Merck’s vaccine division sits on Women in Government’s business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government.

            Perry has several ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, his former chief of staff. His current chief of staff’s mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.”

          4. There is the same corruption of legislators by pharma lobbyists at the federal level.

            “Florida Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (D-24) has introduced a bill, House Resolution H.R. 2232, that will require all states to mandate all students enrolled in public schools receive all the vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Policy, a federal body compromised of vaccine-industry representatives, which includes vaccines for HPV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Paul Offit’s rota virus vaccine, annual flu shots, and dozens of others. States that do not comply will not be eligible for grants for “preventive health services” under the Public Health Services Act.”
            Her staffer, Keenan Austin, was formerly employed by GlaxoSmithKline.
            https://www.rescuepost.com/.a/6a00d8357f3f2969e201b8d1158666970c-400wi

          5. Not one negative point in all of that astroturf. Maybe you should explain your conspiracy theories?

        1. Poor planning led to this
          Complaints about compulsory vaccination
          https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/3455401/anti-vaxxers-flood-federal-inquiry-with-complaints-about-compulsory-injections/?cs=7
          We’ve had a lot of submissions, far more than we would ordinarily get for legislation – I don’t know the latest number but certainly in the thousands,” he said on Wednesday.

          “The vast major of those are against the legislation, expressing concerns about the legislation.”

          1. Nice twisting of the issue. I had a plan I thought would keep suz from hijacking a thread, something you apparently approve of, distracting everyone from talking about vaccines to talking about personalities.

          2. The thread was hijacked by Brian’s top posted LIE about ‘anti vaxers!’ I only replied.

            You can thank your bud, pizza dough boy for his psychobabble and his psycho analysis of pizza preference that HE started with his convoluted pasta puke.

            Before you try to make a ‘plan’ make sure your brain is in proper working condition, Katia! 😉

    1. The only weird thing is that this was a headline. New York has a religious exemption, at least at the moment. If someone has a sincere religious objection to vaccinating they’re supposed to be exempt.

      Are you implying that this woman was insincere and shouldn’t have been exempt?

      1. (OK I’m pretty drunk…) yet whompinwillow you are and on several other posts too, proud you announce it so often.

        Heb b (unless the mother is positive) polio, rotavirus etc can wait a bit.

        Really whompingwillow it’s fine to wait? Wait on rotavirus in an infant. Someone didn’t get the memo.

        (DML: He says no vaccines Update: page 5)

          1. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2014;10(1):25-32. doi: 10.4161/hv.26731. Epub 2013 Oct 8.
            Detection of PCV-2 DNA in stool samples from infants vaccinated with RotaTeq®.

            Rotarix® and RotaTeq® vaccines have led to a dramatic reduction in rotavirus disease worldwide. However, the detection of porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV-1) and 2 (PCV-2) DNA in these vaccines raised some safety concerns.

            Studies examining shedding of rotavirus in stool from rotavirus vaccine recipients have been performed but no published data exist regarding the shedding of PCV virus in stools of vaccinees. The goal of this study was to determine if PCV-1 and/or PCV-2 is shed in the feces of infants vaccinated with RotaTeq®. Using multiple PCR assays for detection of PCV DNA, we tested for PCV-1 and PCV-2 in 826 stool swab samples collected serially during the first 9 d after vaccination from 102 children vaccinated with RotaTeq®. Since the vaccine is recommended and uptake is high, we did not have samples from unvaccinated infants. A total of 235 (28.5%) samples from 59 vaccine recipients were positive for PCV-2 DNA by one or more assays used in this study. PCV-1 DNA was not detected in RotaTeq® or any of the stool swab extracts.

            Twenty-two of the 102 vaccine recipients (21.6%) shed RotaTeq® vaccine strain and 10 of these vaccinees (9.8%) were shedding both PCV DNA and rotavirus vaccine RNA. PCV DNA was detected up to 9 d post vaccination and was most frequently detected in the first 5 d after vaccination. This study demonstrated shedding of PCV-2 DNA by RotaTeq® vaccinees but we did not find evidence that this DNA was associated with viable PCV. Findings from this study support the continued use of current rotavirus vaccines

        1. This seems to have nothing to do with either my comment above or the article. But the short response is that we vaccinate children as early as its both safe to do so and effective, I.e. That the vaccine will lead to an immune response.

          Because young babies are vulnerable and you want them protected.

          For hepatitis B, see:
          https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-newborn-nursery-hepatitis-b-vaccine-for-newborns/

          Generally, on protecting babies, see:
          https://thescientificparent.org/passive-immunity-101-will-breast-milk-protect-my-baby-from-getting-sick/

          1. When even mainstream parents think your behavior is odd, you are.
            Can’t respect a persons views on vaccines when they post things likes this.

            (So this has been bugging me…) whomingwillow

            Value their opinion on vaccines when they hardly can leave their home? Other tell them they have a problem. Seems there is a problem,

      2. Let’s be clear, the only exemptions you support are medical, and under extremely limited circumstances. Correct?
        Where is your sincerity, Ms Reiss.

          1. The law in Colorado permits philosophical and religious exemptions.
            It’s news because people like yourself support state coercion of a medical intervention.

          2. A. You posted an article about a woman in NY, a state that has religious exemptions, getting one. The response is – well, of course. That’s what the law there says. It’s not news.

            B. Yes, Colorado currently has exemptions too – and they should be applied equally and fairly, as long as they’re in place.

            The point of this editorial is to explain why they should be tightened or remove, to protect Colorado’s children.

          3. The woman in New York had to fight public health officials to exercise her right.
            Another reason why Colorado needs to maintain a system that doesn’t succumb to pharmaceutical lobbyists wish lists.

          4. The woman went through the process. That’s what there’s an appeal from. When the test is sincerity, then you apply sincerity.

            There really isn’t anything there that’s relevant – or that’s news.

            Except for the fact that one way to tighten Colorado’s exemption laws is to remove the philosophical exemption and add a sincerity requirement like in New York. Since I doubt that’s what you want, bringing this article is either pointless or an error on your part.

          5. “Proving sincerity” isn’t practical for the average person, who can not afford legal representation as this woman in New York.
            Religious and philosophical beliefs shouldn’t have to be proved, they should have to be honored.

          6. I agree that proving sincerity is an issue, which is why I oppose religious exemptions: they reward bad liars or those with representation. Which is why posting this article was a mistake.

            That’s not a reason to give parents carte blanche to make schools less safe and force a risk on other families, though.

          7. The right of a parent to choose vaccination without state coercion is essential.
            It is a basic human right.
            Sending a healthy child to school does not make school less safe.

          8. No, parents don’t have a basic human right to deny their child protection from disease by leaving the child unvaccinated. Most of the time, the state will give parents leeway not to vaccinate – as long as the risk to the child is not too high – but the state can constitutionally require that the parent protect the child from disease.

            And there certainly isn’t a basic human right to send an unprotected, vaccine-deprived child to school.

            Since vaccine deprived children, through no fault of their own, are at higher risk of getting and transmitting a preventable disease, and since high numbers of them erode herd immunity and increase the risks of outbreaks, their presence does make the school less safe. Again, through not fault of their own. It wasn’t their choice to remain unprotected.

          9. We are talking about the possibility of preventing one disease at the expense of exposing them to other health problems, including death and profound disabilities.
            That should not be a choice left to legislators, corporations, or commenters like us.
            It should be the choice of those who will bear the burden when vaccines damage, the families themselves

          10. Serious harms from vaccines are very rare, as all the data shows, and a much smaller risk.

            But again, school immunization requirements do not prevent parents from choosing the bigger risk and depriving their children of vaccines. It just prevents them from forcing that risk on other families and their children.

            And by improving herd immunity, they also better protect the vaccine-denied children themselves from paying the price for their parents’ error.

          11. Again you mislead the public! No local cya [state mandated] will intervene if the ONLY reference of abuse is NON VAX!

            The child IS protected by their healthy immune system, so NOT ‘unprotected’ as you claim! You also forget to show that there is NO imminent disease that the child is left ‘unprotected’ from!

            ‘VACCINE DEPRIVATION’ is NOT a new disease, Dorit, no matter how much you wish it to be!

            In essence, you’re trying to block access to immune ‘protected’ [so ‘yes’, protected] children from public schools paid for by the parents, due to your IMAGINED THREAT and your newly proclaimed illness [phobia] of VAX DEPRIVATION!

          12. An unvaccinated child has not been provided the available protection against disease. The diseases we vaccinate against are ones with a history of overcoming our immune system.

            Unvaccinated children are not immune or protected unless they had the disease – in which case, they will be infectious.

          13. If they have the disease they will be infectious for a short time, and if they feel very sick, will probably be at home in bed. In the case of the childhood diseases, they will have permanent immunity upon recovery, the true herd of herd immunity.
            It is advised that the immunocompromised stay far from those who have recently received a live vaccine like Flumist, as they can transmit the disease to them, with dangerous consequences.
            Vaxed children have not been provided with any protection at all from dangerous and disabling vaccine reactions. The diseases we vaccinate against are those the pharma industry thinks it can sell vaccines for. Diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pertussis, hep-A, and flu are usually mild in children and ultimately beneficial. They train the immune system in its functions and strengthen the necessary Th-! immune response, while vaccines strengthen the autoimmune Th-2 response. It means nothing at all to say these are diseases with a history of overcoming the immune system. Some of them sometimes cause a severe or fatal case of the disease, but none of them usually does so. Those with a weak immune system can succumb to even the mildest infection, and the very best way to weaken an immune system is to give vaccines.

          14. Harvard Health Publications – Harvard Medical School
            “On the whole, your immune system does a remarkable job of defending you against disease-causing microorganisms.”

            In the event of imminent threat or outbreak, a non vaxed child may opt to quarantine themselves. However, an unvaxed child is no more contagious than a shedding, recently vaxed child.

            And before any of this, there would be outbreak and/or threat of outbreak! There IS no present threat. Such threat exists only in the minds of you mysophobics!

            There is NO reason to block the access to public education of a healthy child, to be achieved within the public school venue, solely on the merit of ‘non vax’ alone!

            “Defending” per Harvard, or ‘protecting’ per suzology!

            ‘Unvaccinated’ hardly means ‘unprotected’ against disease!

          15. Your immune system does do a great job.

            But again, we don’t create vaccines unless the disease has a history of overcoming our defenses.

            Many diseases we vvaccinesw sgsinst are contagious before you know you have them.

            And an unvaccinated child is much more likely to get them if exposed. For example, through travel or meeting a traveler.

            An unvaccinated child can start the outbreak.

            Like in San Diego in 2008 or Indiana I’m 2005.

          16. To recap:

            1. The immune system of an unvaxed child does a “remarkable job of defending against disease-causing microorganisms.” Harvard Health Publications

            2. “we don’t create vax unless the disease has a history of overcoming our defenses”

            Pffft! You make this stuff up, right! Again you mislead; pharma can and DOES create meds for every single, [often trivial] ailment they can think of, even though the side effects are far worse than the disease. I’ve no doubt that pharma will come up with a psoriasis prophylactic just as they now solicit a shingles and pneumonia vax!

            3. Asymptomatic disease carriers are everywhere!

            4. “Likely to” Sheesh! Life has risks! Deal with it or live in a sterile bublble, like the mysophobic that you are!

            5. A child recently vaxed with a live virus “can start an outbreak.”

            Again, you’ve listed nothing within reason which warrants keeping a healthy child from getting an education within the ‘brick and mortar’ school setting paid for by the parents.

          17. Of COURSE they are, absolute troll! It’s called ‘coercion.’

            And tell your sister that I have the name of a good orthodontist that can clip those ‘buckys’ down to size for her, JESTthefacts! 😉

          18. “Proving sincerity” is apparently an issue. There was this woman on Facebook this week grousing because when her son in college was queried as to what religion he claimed for a religious exemption, he couldn’t come up with one. She went out on the webs seeking a narrative to support the exemption. One would think they already knew the source of their “strongly held belief,” but no.

            The truth of the matter is that no mainstream religion supports antivaccine ideology. Even the RCC promotes protecting children’s and public health via vaccines. https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/religions-state-vaccines

          19. You think religious beliefs only come with a name and set of rituals?
            You are limited in your viewpoint.

            Religion: set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe,

            a point or matter of ethics or conscience

            Dictionary dot com

          20. Okay. How do you distinguish between religion and a cult? Is it time? Is it numbers? In either case, you’d lose.

          21. The difficulty in “religious” definition, which revolves around arbitrary parameters, is why philosophical exemptions should retained.
            Or we can continue down a path of legislators deciding ethical and medical standards (which they refuse to apply to themselves).
            Medical interventions should be a decision between the family and their doctor, not Vaccine manufacturers, their lobbyists, and their cohorts.

          22. Deciding left between the family and their doctors overwhelmingly means that this shakes out in favour of vaccines. But you don’t want to admit that. 95 percent of parents take the responsible choice. It’s that the others tend to cluster that makes it a problem.

          23. And that’s why religious exemptions gotta gain in law. If we were to give one a special point, why not the other? Feh, makes my head swirl.

          24. For what it’s worth, the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down religious exemptions as unconstitutional. States are not obligated to offer one, as the U.S. Supreme Court discussed over 70 years ago in Prince v. Massachusetts. When the California Legislature reformed their state’s school vaccination requirements last year, they did away with it as well.

            Rather than put people through “sincerity tests” or treat the religious as a priveleged class, the reasonable solution is to eliminate it entirely.

          25. Legalities do not determine what is ethical.
            You think respect for religion creates a “privileged” class?
            That is a privilege we should keep.
            Your forefathers would roll over in their graves.
            Eliminating religious and philosophical exemptions is about increasing market shares for Vaccine manufacturers.

          26. New York State is unique. Per NY CLS Pub Health § 2164. religious exemptions are for those who “hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary” to vaccination.

            It’s not applicable in Colorado. We don’t have a sincerity test.

  190. Dorit’s helpers trolls are mentioned on blogs, easy to find, so embarrassing. Teacozy, Whompingwillow and Annabel Evangeline are or shall we say were, working hard to push messages of Dorit Reiss. Proudly says of the close relationship to Dorit. Doesn’t get any better, admitting being told what to post and saying knowledge of personal emails. Can’t make this stuff up it’s so juicy! Can’t be all places at one time. Instead let others do that on mothering and babycenter. What a fine prize. Get one that likes to get drunk and post, goggle (I’m so drunk..) on babycenter and Whompingwillow and it’s right there. Find that Whompingwillow also really does supports delaying vaccines, ouch that has to hurt. One post fully supporting vaccines, another saying delaying is fine, that isn’t staying on message. Must be hard to find mature help, this one is busy still sleeping with stuffed animals, easy to find too. Dorit you really should have done more checking. What a loose cannon. Not to mention all that other strange stuff she is into and posted and posted away. Did you supply her drink of choice, rum and coke? Guess you get what you pay for, word is you are very cheep!

      1. The same info is on the blogs. Those who support vacancies don’t read them but those who question vaccines do. It out there for others to see.

      2. Only those with moderator privileges have access to the admin panel. Here, that would be whoever the owner of aurorasentinel.com has designated as an admin.

        There are shills commenting on this editorial who have access to the admin panel for their own websites, (e.g. Jeffry John Aufderheide.) That does not give him access to the moderation panel on any other website that uses Disqus comments, just his own.

        While it’s a mistake to think private information is really private on every website, there’s no reason to believe it’s not safe here..

        maslow

        1. If “watson” who is one of your sockpuppets, has the ability to edit his comments as a moderator, I think we have a problem Houston
          ione murphy Watson a day ago

          That was interesting what just happened. I tried to reply to your first comment which was different from what we see here. But after I hit enter for my reply, it said your post had been removed by the moderator. And now, we have an edited version of your comment for us.

          1. FsmPastapharian maslow • a day ago
            Both. So, basically, if one does not use a proxy when posting, their ip can be traced by mods on here?

            maslow FsmPastapharian • a day ago
            I won’t disclose your information.
            Your IP and email address are displayed next to your username on the Admin’s moderation page.
            maslow

          2. That Boris guy…(another paid shill) has posted personal information and admitted to having access to IP addresses by posting where people connect from in order to intimidate and scare them off. That’s right, what device they use and what they use to log into Disqus. It’s obvious why he does it and it is pretty creepy but, the real question is how and why does he get this information. The mere fact he’s not the least bit worried about posting this information speaks volumes. Read between the lines.

          3. Cathy knows all about such ‘reading between the lines’ since she posted some very personal info herself, before it was promptly deleted!

            Borings is another ‘digger’ along with Brookie, as they love breaking the rules to post whatever they can get away with in their attempts of ‘intimidation’ purposes against their opponents!

          4. I trust the reply from Mr. Perry has laid this matter to rest.

            It is a mistake for people to think their private information is safe on a site owned by a troll like Aufderheide or where the admin has a history of sharing IP addresses in the comments, which Jeremy Hammond has.

            That is not the case here.

            maslow.

          5. Editing your own comments doesn’t involve a flag going up saying you can’t reply to the message because it’s been removed by the moderator, and seconds later, their comment appears again, but an edited version of what you tried to reply to. We have been aware for some time what goes on behind the curtain, and the biased censorship of those in a position to control the moderator panel.

          6. Try this:

            1) Open up a reply box to one of your own comments here and type “I’m stupid.”.

            2) Before you hit “Post as Stupid,” click the down arrow in the upper right corner of the comment to which you’re replying

            3) Hit “Post as Stupid”

            4) Tell me what error message you get.

            I deleted my comment before you replied and I reposted the edited version.

          7. Try this:

            1) Open up a reply box to one of your own comments here and type “I’m stupid.”.

            2) Before you hit “Post as Stupid,” click the down arrow in the upper right corner of the comment to which you’re replying and click “delete”

            3) Hit “Post as Stupid” in the reply box.

            4) Tell me what error message you get.

            I deleted my comment before you replied and I reposted the edited version.

          8. You seem to be making stuff up as you go along, ione. The mods have assured us the site is secure.

          9. The paranoia is strong with ione murphy. She can’t comprehend she is technologically incompetent (as well as medically and scientifically) and so any tech problem she has is due to nefarious eevyil forces who are conspiring against her and her anti-vaccine allies.

        2. As you point out, we can assure readers and writers that our own DISQUS system is secure, and only Sentinel editors have access to the admin. We can’t speak to information shared by the international DISQUS system, but we have had no complaints about lost or misused data by DISQUS subscribers.

      3. If Dorit’s troll didn’t want others to know she was posting on her behalf she should have not said it publicly. When you say your are being fed directly from Dorit it is what it is.

        1. That’s a somewhat strange comment. Many people ask me vaccine questions – and I answer. There’s nothing unusual or sinister about someone asking me questions then using the answer – it’s expected.

          It certainly doesn’t make the person a troll. And if anyone is attacking them for asking me questions, that reflects very badly on the attacker.

      4. While we can’t speak internal aspects of the DISQUS system, we can assure you that only Aurora Sentinel editors have access to our moderation panel and software, and that it’s secure. The system by nature allows for some information to be shared, but any personal identifying information supplied to us is secure.

        1. Thank you Aurora!

          Many of us have gotten security warnings when we try to access you through your actual site, and have been commenting only through the disqus dashboard as a precaution!

          It’s good to know that our privacy and security are taken seriously on your site!

    1. I’m going to respond to this, even though I generally ignore abusive comments, because this commentator is attacking not just me but also someone who asked me questions.

      I recognize one of the names in the post. She asked me questions about vaccines and vaccine law – something that is pretty common, since my interest and expertise is well known. I answered, and gave her permission to use my answer.

      I am a little surprised that a commentator is appearing to attack someone for doing so, or presenting it as something sinister. It is not to the commentator’s credit.

      1. you should recognize more, not just one

        given what was said it’s quite clearly you have no idea the full extent of her gossiping, rum and cokes makes some very loose

        1. When I answer a vaccine question, the answer is not a secret. The commentator asked me permission to use my answer – and she didn’t have to – and she is welcome to do so.

          Trying to turn it into some kind of conspiracy or something sinister, again, is strange.

          1. not at all what I’m talking about, some were made public, some were not

            it’s called not guarding the hen house

          2. Not to mention that this commenter has a 10-minutes-old account with a smidgen of comment history, ever. Methinks there’s maybe eau de sock.

      2. Dorit, you’re replying to a 9 comment troll with a hidden comment history.

        “Joined Jan 18, 2016”

        Enough said?

          1. It’s out there, this is not a big secret. It’s quite odd the level of embarrassment one would want and still wish to connected to those pushing vaccines.

  191. OK, I”m going to “top post”. So sue me! I think it’s high time for The Sentinel’s admin to either close the comments or clamp down on some of these abject trolls. I’ve about had it with the personal attacks.

        1. “Here is chilling description of the effect of aluminum when used as an adjuvant:

          “…poorly biodegradable aluminum-coated particles injected into muscle are promptly phagocytosed in muscle and the draining lymph nodes, and can disseminate within phagocytic cells throughout the body and slowly accumulate in the brain” (Gherardi et al., 2015).

          This is important: microglial cells are macrophages with dual roles in the brain: they perform routine surveillance and clean-up of cellular debris, viruses and bacteria. Upon infection, or serious brain damage, however, they become activated, change shape, and go on the attack. Microglial overactivation is a leading candidate for increased apoptosis and neurological damage associated with autism.

          The neurotoxic effects of aluminum salts are also apparent: it increases levels of glial activation, inflammatory cytokines and amyloid precursor protein within the brain (Bondy, 2010). Amyloid precursor protein is one of the main culprits for Alzheimer’s disease.”

          https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2015/11/16/paging-dr-offit-your-aluminum-neurotoxicity-reading-assignments-are-ready/

          1. That’s why drinking soda from aluminum cans, cooking in aluminum pans, and using deodorant (which contains aluminum compounds) all at one point or another were thought to cause Alzheimer’s, or breast cancer, or something.

            Crackpots and misinformation.

        2. From https://neuroscience.ubc.ca/shaw.htm
          University of British Columbia, faculty
          DR. CHRISTOPHER A. SHAW

          B.S. (UC Irvine)
          M.Sc., Ph.D. (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)
          Professor
          Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

          Current research interests:

          My laboratory’s key focus over the last few years has been on the unusual neurological disease of Guam and the Western Pacific, ALS-parkinsonism dementia complex (ALS-PDC). I view this disease as a kind of neurological Rosetta Stone able to unlock some of the key questions in neurological disease research. For example: what are the causes of ALS, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s and what are the pre-clinical stages of each? Our approach has been to create an in vivo animal model in which we can look at behavioural changes in motor and cognitive functions, as well as systems, cellular and biochemical modifications as the disease process emerges over time. We have identified a novel class of neurotoxins in the course of our initial studies and are now beginning to understand the toxic mechanisms of action that lead to the death of neurons in the spinal cord and brain. The overall goal of this work is to identify key etiological factors involved in sporadic neurological disease and the early stages of the disease process. From the first could come effective prophylaxis; from the latter, early phase treatment before irreversible damage to the CNS has been done.
          A second theme to our work is to seek potential therapeutic agents for existing neurological disease states using the above, and other, animal models. In particular, we are focusing our attention on progranulin, a neuroepithelial growth factor, and on a class of molecules called ginsenosides. Preliminary data with progranulin suggests that the molecule can exert powerful neuroprotective effects and perhaps even reverse early phase neurodegeneration.

          The last aspect of our work, and one that is still emerging, is to look at the potential for compounds such as aluminum to be neurotoxic. We are interested in the types of aluminum compounds that can cause neurodegeneration, their route of administration, the impact of dose and duration, and the crucial but largely unexplored aspects of age and sex. These studies are just beginning, but show great promise to help us understand the origin of neurological disorders as diverse as autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease.

          1. Producing dubious science to undermine the trust in vaccines.

            A telling sign, for those who’ve continued their education beyond high school is how many times Shaw’s research has been cited, and in what low-impact journal was it published.

          2. I don’t know either David Gorski, or Ginger Taylor personally.
            That is not scientifically significant.

        3. Why are we seeing so many scientists with Ph.D.’s suddenly being labled as “crackpots”???
          Lucija Tomljenovic
          Employment History
          Position, Neurosciences and the Department of MedicineUBC
          Member, Neural Dynamics Research GroupUBC
          Neural Dynamics Research GroupVGH Research Pavilion
          Research AssociateBritish Columbia University
          Postdoctoral Fellow University of British Columbia
          Researcher
          Education
          Ph.D.
          https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucija_Tomljenovic/publications

      1. Ist link rebuttal:https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/aluminium/questions/en
        “Q6. What were the conclusions reached by the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS)?
        A. From the most recent evidence, there is no reason to conclude that a health risk exists as a result of administration of aluminium-containing vaccines. Neither is there any good scientific or clinical basis for recommending any change in vaccination practice. The GACVS reviewed the data of the case-control study performed in France and concluded that the evidence does not support an association between the persistence of aluminium-containing macrophages at the site of a previous vaccination and clinical symptoms or disease.”
        Plus much more. Have someone read it to you.

        #2: https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthlibrary/related/doc.php?type=85&id=P00487
        “What are the possible causes of Gulf War syndrome?
        Possible causes include:
        Chemical warfare agents, particularly nerve gas, or pyridostigmine bromide, which was given as a preventive measure to soldiers likely to be exposed to chemical warfare agents.

        Other chemical agents, such as smoke from oil well fires, pesticides, depleted uranium or exposure to solvents and corrosive liquids, used during repair and maintenance.

        Psychological factors, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Veterans with Gulf War syndrome symptoms have high rates of accompanying psychiatric disorders.”
        Plus more. Again, have some one read it to you.

        #3: An opinion piece from 2002, 14 years ago. Discusses autism relation to MMR, among other problems, which has been totally discredited. A piece of trash.

        1. Allegations of Scientific Misconduct by GACVS/WHO/CDC Representatives et al

          An open-letter of complaint to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan

          From: Sin Hang Lee, MD
          Date: January 14, 2016
          Dear Dr. Chan:
          As a medical doctor and scientist, I write to present grave concerns regarding the conduct of certain members of the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), the World Health Organization, the CDC and other scientific/health professionals during the time shortly before the public hearing on HPV Vaccine Safety which was held in Tokyo, Japan on February 26, 2014. I have come into possession of documentation which leads me to believe multiple individuals and organizations deliberately set out to mislead Japanese authorities regarding the safety of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil® and Cervarix®, which were being promoted at that time.

          But hey, trust us!
          Parents deserve a right to choose without state coercion.

          1. Yep! You’re a real immature TURD, Watson! Hope the mods see fit to clean up your faux pas AND MESS!

            Nice editing there, tex! But I have it all filed away for posterity, under Watson’s turd, aka Watson’s big dump!

            Seriously though! The ‘owner’ needs to see a good gastro! After the shock wore off, I think I saw blood!

            Likely from someone’s over consumption of pizza dough; ‘pizza boy,’ perhaps! 😉

          2. ” I have come into possession of documentation which leads me to believe…”

            We’ve seen this shell game before, quite recently in fact.

          3. No need to apologize, Watson.
            And no, I’m not going to post your juvenile photo or discuss it further.
            This board is about Vaccine policy.

          4. No need to apologize or discuss what further?

            Vaccine Whistleblower, William Thompson, Bill Posey

            Shell games, allegations and crap antivaxxers use to mislead and misdirect.

          5. Keeping you and your cohorts fully employed countering with your pro vaccine propoganda – you should thank us.

          6. Yeah! You disgusting little brat! We’ve seen your edit job of turd games, into shell games!

            However, your turd is filed away for ‘safe keeping’ just in case someone tries to call us LIARS!

            And YES! It has YOUR name on it! 😉

        2. Interesting that you bring up pyridostigmine.
          Former FDA Drug reviewer Ronald Kavanagh, was replaced as primary reviewer, because of his objections to potential hazards of the drug.

          “MR: Another FDA reviewer turned down pyridostigmine before you?

          RK: Yes. I was assigned to re-review his conclusions regarding pyridostigmine and even before I began my review I was pressured to approve it and this pressure continued through nearly two dozen meetings with FDA management. After it became clear that I would not be pressured into an approval and it became apparent that it would be approved according to the animal rule in spite of the science, I raised an even stronger objection: not only did it not work against nerve agents other than Soman, but pyridostigmine actually increased lethality in the presence of other nerve agents and we knew that Saddam Hussein was not using Soman and was instead using these other nerve agents.

          MR: So, you were just stating what should have been obvious?

          RK: This information was not secret – both FDA and DoD public documents acknowledge increased lethality with other nerve agents such as Sarin, and DoD and other government documents that are public also document that Saddam Hussein was not using Soman and was instead using these other nerve agents exclusively. Yet because I raised this as an objection, I was immediately replaced as the primary reviewer so that I could not document my concerns and so that pyridostigmine could be approved”

          https://www.truth-out.org/news/item/10524-former-fda-reviewer-speaks-out-about-intimidation-retaliation-and-marginalizing-of-safety
          There are no doubt many causes for the neurological diseases of our times.

          1. I posted a quote from the University of Utah. This is not necessarily MY personal opinion. Do you have nothing to do all day but surf the web for anti-pharm, anti-vax literature?

          2. The way soldiers were treated as guinea pigs and given experimental vaccines, pyridostigmine etc is a shameful thing.

          1. Y’know Judith, if any of your posts have been deleted, it’s because a MOD thought they were inappropriate.

          2. There’s a difference between comments that are utterly wrong and random strings of insults. I wouldn’t dream of flagging the former.

  192. Now a link from a Bovine virus to breast cancer. Viruses from the animals tissues and blood, etc they use as a growth medium for vaccines have been known for years to harbor and transmit animal viruses to humans. BLV is found in vaccines.

    ‘Leukemia virus in cattle may raise risk for human breast cancer’

    “Scientists from the University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley), publishing in the journal PLOS ONE, looked for the presence of the bovine leukemia virus (BLV) in 239 women, comparing samples from those who had breast cancer with those who did not.

    They identified BLV in 59% of samples from breast cancer patients, compared with 29% in the samples from those without breast cancer.

    Until recently, science had been unsure if BLV could be found in the human population.

    It was a team led by Prof. Gertrude Buehring, a professor of virology in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, who overturned the long-held view that transmission of BLV to humans was not possible, after finding evidence of BLV in humans for the first time in 2014”

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/299575.php

    Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014

    Research

    Bovine Leukemia Virus DNA in Human Breast Tissue

    In summary, multiple lines of evidence support the conclusion that the BLV DNA and protein we found are more likely to represent the in vivo presence of BLV in humans than to represent some other virus, molecular laboratory contamination, or an artifactual nonspecific reaction.

    *In view of the potential public health implications of BLV in humans, future research should address how humans acquire BLV infection, how frequently BLV infection occurs in different populations, and whether the virus is associated with human disease.”**

    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/5/13-1298_article

    ‘Evaluation of the Human Host Range of Bovine and Porcine Viruses that may Contaminate Bovine Serum and Porcine Trypsin Used in the Manufacture of Biological Products’ (Vaccines)-2011

    A detailed literature search was undertaken to determine which viruses that infect cattle or swine or bovine or porcine cells in culture also have human host range [ability to infect humans or human cells in culture] and to predict their detection by the currently used 9CFR procedures

    Serum collection is a non-sterile procedure and the blood from 2500 to 3000 (calf) fetuses is used to produce a single 1500 liter lot of serum

    One infected animal may contaminate an entire batch/lot and the sensitivity of current testing may not be adequate to detect diluted contaminants. The limitations of testing for viruses in pooled products have been amply demonstrated in the human blood industry

    There have been several well-publicized contamination events caused by bovine/porcine agents that provide the opportunity to evaluate our current virus safety approach:

    Cache Valley Virus (CVV) –fermentors from multiple manufacturers have been infected. CVV, although not typically recognized as a bovine virus, is a multispecies virus with bovine host range [2].

    Calicivirus 2117 [vesivirus]-facility contamination forced a costly facility shutdown resulting in product shortage that deprived patients of product [3].

    Multiple contaminations of fermentors with reoviruses, another virus family with wide host range [4].

    Porcine circovirus type 1 and type 2 nucleic acid contamination of live rotavirus vaccines [5, 6].

    For bovine viruses with human host range, 21 virus families are represented while for porcine viruses, 17 virus families are represented [Table 5].

    1. Thank you for these links, I was not aware of the possible connection between blv and breast cancer.

      1. There are many bovine viruses that are in vaccines that can cause many different outcomes in humans. Like this pestivirus found in vaccines has been linked to babies being born with small or incomplete brains-microencephaly..

        Lancet. 1987 Apr 25;1(8539):972-3.

        Possible role of pestiviruses in microcephaly.
        Potts BJ, Sever JL, Tzan NR, Huddleston D, Elder GA.

        Viral contamination of fetal bovine serum used for tissue culture: risks and concerns.

        Abstract

        Four viral contaminants have been routinely detected in unprocessed and commercial lots of fetal bovine serum: bacteriophage, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, parainfluenza-3 and bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV). Of those, BVDV is consistently present in a majority of commercial lots of fetal bovine serum. Methods for BVDV detection and removal are reviewed. ***The tentative role of an unclassified pestivirus in microcephaly of infants has been reported. Its significance remains uncertain.***

        “Pestiviruses are ubiquitous pathogens of cattle and frequent adventitious viruses in biologicals. Furthermore, it has been suggested that these agents might be related to infantile gastroenteritis and ***microencephaly***. Since the virus is highly prevalent in fetal bovine serum, the risk of contamination is high in most laboratories. Thus, the implementation of detection methods in all laboratories is of worth. Despite continuous surveillance, these agents have been detected in cell lines, fetal bovine serum, live and inactivated animal and human vaccines and interferon for human use.”

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18395415

        Brazil microcephaly cases top 3,500, Investigation into possible Zika link continues
        Posted by Robert Herriman on January 14, 2016
        The increase in microcephaly cases continue, albeit at a lesser amount than recent weeks, according to new data from Brazilian health authorities Tuesday (computer translated). 3,530 cases are under investigation from 724 municipalities in 21 Brazilian states.

        https://outbreaknewstoday.com/brazil-microcephaly-cases-top-3500-investigation-into-possible-zika-link-continues-32318/

          1. That will be interesting to watch. I wish one of these journalists would cover what it means for humans to be exposed to viruses in animals via vaccine production material aka bovine fetal calf serum.

            “Bovine zoonoses are among pathogens listed as EIDs. Currently the NIAID recognizes 25 (56%) bovine zoonoses as emerging or re-emerging diseases of interest (National Institute of Allergy Infectious Diseases 2011). Of the emerging bovine zoonotic pathogens, 13 (52%) are bacteria, six (24%) are viruses, four (16%) are parasites, one (4%) is fungal, and one (4%) is a prion (Table 2). Pathogens recognized in this list often pose ongoing health problems and have the potential to create a significant impact on the overall health of the community. Similarly, the CDC pays particular attention to diseases that have the ability to be used as biological weapons based on their ability to create human disease and public fear (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011a). Given the importance of cattle, not only in terms of human health but also to the food supply, a number of bovine zoonoses have been classified as potential bioterrorism agents. Twenty-four (53%) of the recognized cattle zoonotic pathogens are on CDC’s bioterrorism list. Category A pathogens are high-priority pathogens that pose the greatest risk to national security. Similarly, category B pathogens pose a moderate risk to national security. A third group, category C, is composed of pathogens that are emerging and could be engineered to be used as biological weapons. Of the 24 cattle zoonotic pathogens, two (8%) are category A, 16 (67%) are category B agents, and six (25%) are category C agents (Table 2).”
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880910/

          2. That’s for sure! More from the link I gave you..

            “Infectious disease prevention and control has been among the top public health objectives during the last century. However, controlling disease due to pathogens that move between animals and humans has been challenging. Such zoonotic pathogens have been responsible for the majority of new human disease threats and a number of recent international epidemics. Currently, our surveillance systems often lack the ability to monitor the human–animal interface for emergent pathogens. Identifying and ultimately addressing emergent cross-species infections will require a “One Health” approach in which resources from public veterinary, environmental, and human health function as part of an integrative system. Here we review the epidemiology of bovine zoonoses from a public health perspective.”

          3. Ben Swann? Mr. Alex Jones Wannabe?
            One wonders if Swann enlisted the completely dishonest and discredited anti-vaccine cult leaders Android Wakefraud and Brian Snooker for his “analysis” of the documents given to Rep. Posey.

            Unfortunately for Swann, Posey released the documents to Matt Carey and Dorit Reiss weeks ago and they do not show any conspiracy to hide anything. What they do show is the ones intentionally hiding information damaging to their hoax are Hooker and Wakefraud.

            The documents are available from a link in this article by Matt Carey which investigates the documents given to Posey:
            https://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2016/01/04/the-william-thompson-documents-theres-no-whistle-to-blow/
            The William Thompson Documents. There’s no whistle to blow.
            “Congressman Posey released the documents to a journalist recently and, given that they are now in the public domain, Dorit Reiss and I requested that they be made available to us as well. Mr. Posey’s office graciously granted our request and I have spent some time going through them.

            There are multiple drafts of the analysis plan. Analysis Plan is the same thing as the “protocol” that Wakefield and Hooker claim was changed after the first race data were analyzed. And the fact that we have the revisions gives us the chance to check two of the fundamental claims behind the Wakefield/Hooker “fraud” charge against CDC. (1) Did the CDC plan to look at race as an exposure variable? Wakefield and Hooker are claiming (although they use different words) this is what the CDC was doing. This is different from using race as a control variable. (2) Did CDC add the birth certificate analysis after the first race analysis was done, in order to dilute the effect?

            No. Very clearly no. I’ve covered (2) already based on information Wakefield and Hooker made available. The final analysis plan was dated Sept.5, the first race analysis wasn’t until late October or early November. And we see the same in these documents.
            Note that this draft analysis plan is from April 3, 2001. Well before the final version, the “protocol”, which was September 5. More importantly, this is a long time before a race analysis was started. But even more, notice how there’s an annotation “I would include race as a covariate, not as an exposure variable.” That’s critical–they decided against using race as an exposure variable from the start. Before they did a race analysis. Another point: they were already planning on using birth certificate data right from the start.

            William Thompson certainly should have known this, it’s very probable that he did know this. Wakefield and Hooker likely knew this. They showed documents from this collection in their video and elsewhere. But they told us the opposite.

            .
            and a further detailed analysis of the “Garbage Can Conspiracy” hoax:
            https://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2016/01/06/a-look-at-the-garbage-can-quote-in-full-context/
            A look at the “Garbage Can Quote” in full context

            The whole “CDC whistleblower” story is a hoax ginned up by the dishonest duo of Hooker and Wakefraud.
            The only ones hiding important information are Hooker and Wakefraud.

          4. Why? What do you want them to say? Thompson is nuts, the papers were not thrown out, the data has been analyzed by several independent scientists already. Thompson fully admits it was a difference of opinion on how to use the data. Many people have already explained how the study is valid, data was not thrown away, the protocol was followed. By thinking something new is going to come out if our government wastes hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a hearing says that you don’t understand what has already happened one bit.

          5. It’s not a question of what I “want to hear”.
            I want to hear from the horses mouth about the accusation Rep Posey read into the congressional record on 7-29-2015.
            ” the authors and I met and decided sometime between August and September ’02 not to report any race effects for the paper. Sometime soon after the meeting (in which) we decided to exclude reporting any race effects, the co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room and reviewed and went through all the hard copy documents that we had thought we should discard and put them in a huge garbage can. However, because I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hard copies of all documents in my office and I retained all associated computer files. I believe we intentionally withheld controversial findings from the final draft of the Pediatrics paper.”
            If it was a mistake on Thompson’s part I think the public deserves to hear it.
            If he feels the documentation support the statement Thompson made the public deserves to hear that too.
            We have Matt’s interpretation.
            I want to hear Dr Thompson’s.
            Shameful to you, Kathy, to want to hear both sides, but I do.

          6. So? Go find a lawyer to issue a subpoena for his testimony. That has no bearing on his employment status. Heck, I got a subpoena to testify in a child abuse case once, delivered right to my office.

          7. I said to subpoena him. His employment has nothing to do with it. No one seems to want to hear his testimony except you. You’ve carried on about this before.

          8. So we know what Kathy says.
            You weren’t a study author, like Thompson.
            I don’t pretend to know what he’ll say.
            I do think the public deserves to hear it.

          9. The public has heard it. And you can read the documents yourself, if you want. The more this thing goes on, the more NOTHING happens. Because nothing is going to happen. Nothing is wrong with the study. Autism is not caused by vaccines.

          10. You’re entitled to an opinion.
            I’m entitled to say the jury’s out.
            Let’s talk after the 26th about this issue.
            If you’re right, maybe Ben Swann will quote you.

          11. I hope he makes it free. Doubtful, but he does have enough spnosors and he did solicit donations to make it so maybe he won’t feel the need to charge to watch it.

          12. You want to wait until Ben Swann talks? A journalist, who probably hasn’t taken a science course since high school, and probably never a biology course? LOLOLOL!

          13. Why wait? What can a high school dropout like Ben Swann tell you? My cat knows more science than that dolt.
            Are you so ignorant you can’t do your own reading and thinking?

          14. Go to the link and download the Posey documents for yourself. Why do you need anyone to tell you what they say? Are you illiterate or ignorant? Compare the claims against the documents in evidence for yourself.

            Another thing – Ask yourself why it took Matt Carey and Dorit to make the documents publicly available when Thompson, Hooker, Wakefraud, and Swann have had them for much, much longer. Why didn’t they make the documents available to the public if they had “smoking gun” evidence of CDC malfeasance as the hoaxers have been claiming? You think because they didn’t have smoking-gun evidence and Hooker and Wakefraud were lying to promote their hoax?

            Why haven’t Hooker and Wakefraud made the documents available?
            Why hasn’t Swann made the documents available?
            What are they trying to hide?

            The only ones to make the documents available to the public are the pro-science, pro-vaccine advocates. That is quite telling.

          15. Because there is nothing nefarious or questionable in the documents at all. But, Wakefield and Hooker and Swann have to make it seem like there is something nefarious going on by hiding the documents from the public. That is how desperate they really are for validity.

          16. Of course it is a video “documentary”. Can’t use the written word as that presents 3 problems:
            1) No income from ads, click throughs and RubeTube.
            2) The target demographic of anti-vaccine cultists are illiterate and only get their info from TV and videos. The written word is incomprehensible to them.
            3) Video is a much better method to deliver propaganda than boring words. Written words don’t have “dramatic music” as you’ve noted, and merely present the facts… not the “feeling”.

            It will be interesting to see just how dishonest Swann really is. My bet – Alex Jones level of dishonesty and disinformation easily shown by anyone with a 5th grade education or above.

        1. Liar. Here is the actual last line from the abstract.
          .
          “Nucleotide sequence analysis of the PCR products indicated that a modified live vaccine strain used for immunization of cattle against bovine viral diarrhea is not responsible for the contamination of the vaccines”
          .
          Its a paper that states that the human vaccine is SAFE you Liar, liar, LIAR, LIAR!!!!!!
          .
          https://jcm.asm.org/content/32/6/1604.short
          .
          Ione is the biggest liar on the internet! She has to lie to meet her quota for her monthly payment from anti-vaxx sites!!!

    2. Thank you Ione – you are opening up a whole rabbit hole I was unaware of .
      the cancer and vaccine industry seem to be inextricably woven.

      1. “Thank you Ione – you are opening up a whole rabbit hole I was unaware of .”
        Feel free to join her down it.

    3. One big post of astroturf trash with not one word concerning vaccines. Be warned!! Losing your mind to fanatical irrational beliefs will make you post crazy stuff nobody cares about!!.

  193. Activists seek bill to roll back HPV vaccine mandate

    “Shawna Lawton of the Rhode Island Alliance for Vaccine Choice said she has been working with state Rep. Justin Price, a Richmond Republican, to introduce legislation that would eliminate or weaken the mandate and also limit the authority of the state Department of Health to issue vaccine mandates without public input.”

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/18/activists-seek-bill-to-roll-back-hpv-vaccine-manda/

    1. Colorado doesn’t have an HPV vaccine mandate. Also, school immunization requirements here are set by the state legislature, not the Department of Health.

  194. https://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/allegations-of-scientific-misconduct-by-gacvs/

    Allegations of Scientific Misconduct by GACVS/WHO/CDC Representatives et al

    An open-letter of complaint to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan

    From: Sin Hang Lee, MD

    As a medical doctor and scientist, I write to present grave concerns regarding the conduct of certain members of the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), the World Health Organization, the CDC and other scientific/health professionals during the time shortly before the public hearing on HPV Vaccine Safety which was held in Tokyo, Japan on February 26, 2014. I have come into possession of documentation which leads me to believe multiple individuals and organizations deliberately set out to mislead Japanese authorities regarding the safety of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil® and Cervarix®, which were being promoted at that time.

  195. Hey, folks. We and everyone appreciate the passionate, prolific and enlightening posts from both sides. Our policy is to stand back from the reader comments unless they’re either libelous, dangerous or over-the-top offensive. Besides many of these being way off-topic and puerile, they’re really gross. Please don’t post it anymore. We’ll take down what we can, and we ask that those affected help us by notifying us of comments that are just over-the-top nasty and inane. Thanks, Dave Perry, Editor

    1. Thank you Dave.
      Clamping down on the off-topic, puerile posters would be great, so the remainder of us could engage in fruitful debate.

        1. I call those who cannot even name one vaccine they support the use of and who advocate against the use of vaccines “antivaxers”, ie people like you.
          I have seen no evidence you have a child who has been vaccine injured.
          What was the VAERS ref number, and what was the NVICP ruling/settlement?

          1. You want me to sign a medical release for you too? I have seen no proof that you are not a paid comment shiller. Like I said before, give me some proper safety studies done independently and fire the CDC. Then come talk to me. My kid was normal, vaccines, autism immediately after. Speaking 5 words with perfect clarity at 12 months old without any health problems. Full term, breast fed, Mom has never smoked, drugs or alcohol, took prenatal vitamins. At 12 mos and 2 weeks got all the shots plus the MMR. I have the typed out Doctor notes from 9 years ago showing ALL speech gone, head banging, twitching, trembling, screaming, autistic within 2 weeks of vaccination. I was not told about vaccine court or VAERS. I was told vaccines do not cause autism and handed a big fat folder from autism speaks. The shills were so convincing that I got my Daughter the next round of vaccines. This time shortly after, she was hospitalized with cause unknown, wouldn’t lift her head off the bed, rendered unable to speak a word there was no way to pinpoint discomfort. The Doc put on gloves to check for impaction, no explanation, just something viral. Well that something viral has been persisting for the last 9 years. I have no doubt that she would have stayed her normal non brain damaged self if not for those 12 month shots. You or anyone else will never convince me otherwise. I refuse to accept the lies. Vaccines cause autism.

          2. My daughter screamed for four days and nights reacting to the hep-B vaccine at birth, given without permission. She missed her language milestones, but by 18 months was saying uh for up at the playground, arms up at the foot of the slide, and uff when she saw a dog from her stroller. Both words erased as soon as she got the DTaP booster at that time, and was diagnosed with autism two months later. You’re right. Vaccines cause autism. My daughter’s autism and aphasia would have been much less severe had she not gotten the DTaP shot, and she wouldn’t have had autism at all if she hadn’t gotten the criminal hep-b shot at birth. A friend just sent me the historical background the other day: it was a technologically new type of vaccine looking for a disease to use it on. And so they alighted on a sexually-transmitted disease that usually only alcoholics get, to give to newborns in the first twelve hours of life. And despite millions having gotten autism from it, the vaccine cartel and its hired guns will deny to their dying breath that this damage has occurred and continues to occur.

          3. I think it has a place for infants born to mothers positive for hep-B core antigen, a tiny number. And even in them it may not prevent the disease since they’ve been exposed to it in utero. It has NO place for infants born to healthy women, as I was, as nearly all the infants it is routinely given to are. Read Judy Converse’s When Your Doctor is Wrong: the Hep-B Vaccine and Autism.

          4. What about the 40% of new hep b cases annually that were in children under age 10? It doesn’t have a place for that use? How do you know that a woman who feels healthy is not hep b positive?

          5. I tend to stay away from anyone associated with autismone. Dangerous shysters selling abuse to naive parents desperately hoping they can undo what they see as damage.

          6. Judy’s son reacted to the hep-B vaccine just as my daughter did, with screaming syndrome, vaccine encephalitis, and autism. She has helped hundreds of parents whose children suffered the same reaction. She was invited to testify at the congressional safety hearing on the hep-B vaccine in 1999, because her experience was so horrific and compelling. So I really don’t give a hoot if you want to insult her and try to keep people away from learning the truth. I don’t think ANYONE is going to believe you.

          7. The hep B vaccine doesn’t cause encephalitis or autism though Cia.
            You seem to have forgotten that vital part of the tale.

          8. Cia, why should I read a book by a deranged antivaxer to “learn” about Hep B when I can rely on 35 years of my own experience, and the scientific consensus of specialists in vaccinology and hepatitis, and the scientific literature?

          9. I don’t care if you do or not. See below. Those of us whose children reacted severely to it have learned a lot from her book, which has a lot of scientific and epidemiological evidence on the damage that vaccine has caused in millions. But your children are grown. So you have no reason at all to care.

          10. I have reason to care because I still care for dozens of patients with hepatitis, and I used to see many kids with chronic Hep B.
            I despair that these could be so easily prevented but are not.

            This deadly infection and its consequences will keep happening as long as there are antivax propagandists like yourself spreading lies about the vaccine and discouraging others from acting to protect their babies.

          11. So, hepatitis B is a sexually transmitted disease that only alcoholics get? And millions have “gotten” autism from it?

            Way to go with the lies again, Cia.

          12. Let’s look at what I said: “And so they alighted on a sexually-transmitted disease that USUALLY only alcoholics get, to give to newborns in the first twelve hours of life.” Did I say “only”? I did not. I said usually, and that was correct. Alcoholics who have impaired their liver function by their addiction are USUALLY the ones who eventually develop cirrhosis or liver cancer in the end stages of hep-B. MOST people who get hep-B never even know they have it, just recover in a few weeks from a subclinical illness. Most of the others are sick for a few weeks or a few months with a flu-like illness, and then recover with permanent immunity. Over 95% of those who get hep-B make a complete recovery. Young infants who get it from their mothers are likely to die of it or have a chronic case of it. The parents should carefully consider giving such newborns the vaccine, after weighing the dangers of both the disease and the vaccine.
            Infants born to healthy mothers should NOT get it, as they have done in the US, often without asking permission, since 1991. School nurse Patti White testified at the congressional vaccine safety hearing in 1999 that her school nurse association had reluctantly been convinced that it was this criminal vaccine campaign which was responsible for the sudden skyrocketing of the number of autistic kindergartners in Missouri starting in the mid-’90s: they had, like my baby, reacted to the hep-B vaccine given within hours of birth, with vaccine encephalitis and autism. Merck SAID in 1999 it would take out the mercury, but it continued to sell the old mercury-containing stock for another few years, just happening to clip my daughter with it and ruin her life in 2000, when she was given a mercury-containing hep-B vaccine.

          13. You did say “only alcoholics get” – I just wish I got a screenshot before you edited your post.

            What does “usually only” mean anyway. That’s grammatical gibberish, and shows you don’t know the meaning of the word “only”.

            And your reasoning is flawed. You said alcoholics “usually only get Hepatitis B”, but then change tack and decide you meant they are the ones who “usually only” get cirrhosis once they have got it.
            How perverse.
            You don’t even understand what comes out of your mouth, do you?

            Hep B is a disease that in infancy is very dangerous, since the majority (90%) who acquire it (around 12,000-16,000 a year before the vaccine stopped this) have a latent, subclinical infection which becomes chronic and can lead to later cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer and death.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7b90c1b99803e8ac86b2eda68ab4002b24160b2b899537a24fef2bc2bb3cb3e7.jpg

          14. Let’s say I knew about the VICP back then, how would I have gone to court? Working full time and raising a severely autistic child that slept an average of 3 to 5 hours per 24 at random times day and night, full time ABA therapy 5 days a week, my son did not learn to ride a bike till he was twelve. I had no time for him or my older Daughter. I took a work severance and let my career go. I was making the same wage as most Doctors. My Daughter was not born with autism, early and over vaccination caused it. Prevnar aluminum, adjuvants, live viruses, flu shot, if not for the lies and corruption I may have had access to vital vaccine safety information. Instead I was lied to by a crooked bribed system with media cowards pushing the deceit. Where a lowlife journalist can stomp out science and Doctors, where the testimony of parents and Doctors and Lawyers can be drown out by the astroturfing movement, time for some Congessional hearings. See you on the 26th. Shill.

          15. You call up one of the ambulance chasing lawyers.
            You don’t pay a cent, they do all the leg work, and are delighted to do so, since they get paid irrespective of the outcome.

    2. Please ban suz norkan! I am tired of being called a liar, a t*rd, and other names. The harassment has gone into the third day. It’s distracting from the discussion. She has been banned several times previously.

      1. “Please ban” Katia! I’m tired of being called a liar, ‘jagoff’ and other names! This harassment has gone into a second YEAR!

        You’re loosing it, Katia. We have proof of what Watson did, and yet you still deny and lie about it!

        I didn’t call you a turd, but now that you mentioned it! No, never mind!

        However, you don’t get the ‘Watson turd joke,’ but I think the mods do!

        Back to the Aurora [I just LOVE saying that] vax topic, Katia! 😉

      2. but you ARE a liar. and someone who uses slightly disguised but very nasty curse words.
        YOU should be banned.

        1. No, you’re confusing katia with me. I’m the one who uses very nasty curse words. I blame my mother! As for lying, just follow the science and you’ll understand that the pro-science side does not lie.

  196. BURN NOTICE!

    Dear Aurora Sentinel Mods,

    A poster named Watson has been posting some questionable pics! I’m sure Auroa Sentinel does not deserve to be known for allowing such disgusting graphics into their commentaries!

    When we previously requested mod intervention earlier today, the graphic in question was removed, but I see that it recently has returned.

    Would you please see fit to remove Waton’s offensive graphic, and feel free to delete this request as well!

    Parents, do you really want to be taking life and death advice for your children, from these childishly vulgar and deceitful brats!

    PLEASE BURN ‘DELETE’ AFTER READING! Thank you Aurora! 😉

      1. I have the pic! I don’t know what pic you saw; but I’ll not post it unless Dave Perry makes such a request! However, I’m sure he’s seen it! So why would he? He’d only have to delete it again!

        And YOU, Watson, are calling me a liar, right in front of the desk editor who has seen the pic WITH your name on it!

        The liars are you and Katia! Now will you please remain on topic! Thank you!

        1. “When we previously requested mod intervention earlier today, the graphic in question was removed, but I see that it recently has returned.”

          Only it didn’t.

        2. “the graphic in question was removed, but I see that it recently has returned.”

          Except it didn’t.

          Plus, we have an answer from the Editor to ione muprhy’s nutty CT nonsense below.

          “only Aurora Sentinel editors have access to our moderation panel and software … any personal identifying information supplied to us is secure.” — DeskEditor https://disq.us/91v5cl

          1. And Good Grief! I was the first one to request mod intervention, because I had reached the end of my rope with a certain poster who keeps calling me names.

          2. No! You weren’t!

            “However, your turd is filed away for ‘safe keeping’ just in case someone tries to call us LIARS!”

            “And YES! It has YOUR name on it!” 😉

            EditView in discussion

            suz norkan Guest 3 hours ago

            “Yep! You’re a real immature TURD, Watson! Hope the mods see fit to clean up your faux pas AND MESS!”

            Hmmm! We ALL know what ‘guest’ means. Something disgusting was deleted!

            Now that Watson has been proven a liar, please get back to, and STAY on the topic, Katia; which is NOT Watson’s turd! 😉

        1. haha. No, I posted an image of a stool sample in reply to some blather from Vaccine Resistance Network.

          Dave is right. It was over the top.

        2. Now all the readers can finally understand why I refuse to click on linker prompts from you children! 😉

        1. Note term “alleged” injury(ies).

          Why just look at this:
          “Being awarded compensation for your claim does not necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the alleged injury. In fact:
          • Over 80 percent of all compensation awarded by the VICP comes as result of a negotiated settlement between the parties in which HHS has not concluded, based upon review of the evidence, that the alleged vaccine(s) caused the alleged injury.

          From 2006 to 2014, over 2.5 billion doses of covered vaccines were distributed in the U.S. according to the CDC. 2,975 claims were adjudicated by the Court for claims filed in this time period and of those 1,876 were compensated. This means for every 1 million doses of vaccine that were distributed, 1 individual was compensated.
          https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/statisticsreport.pdf

          So for 10 million doses of vaccine, 10 were compensated; only 2 injuries, based on the evidence, were caused by the vaccine. 2 in 10,000,000! Do the math, Gracie!

          1. Knowing there’s an effect doesn’t always mean the cause is fully understood, beyond the Vaccine itself. Mechanisms for causing the harm are required, unless it’s a table Injury.

            Watson on holiday?

          2. Do the twist, there Gracie. 80% were settled without the causation being determined. That means it was NOT determined that the vaccine was the cause.
            RIF.

          3. Who cares? The injury rate is less than one in one millions which means that vaccinations are the safest human activity ever invented?

            Right?

    1. Dear Aurora Sentinel Mods,

      Here is the story of Suz Norkan:
      Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

      RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
      AlterNet …………………… banned
      Raw Story ……………….. banned
      Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
      Washington Times ……. banned
      A shot of prevention ….. banned
      LAist………………………… banned
      Patch………………………. banned
      Breitbart…………………… banned
      The Hill………………………Banned

      1. “STORY” as in fabricated fairy tale! At last count, I was ‘partially censored and estranged’ from 8 disqus sites; and you KNOW that your addition of ‘for poor behavior’ is pure prevarication.

        You also left out the part that most every name you list was due to my having to alternate my user name because of impersonators stealing it; kinda’ like what a bunch of you children have done to me and Adadd right here in this very Aurora commentary. Hmmm!

        But how is YOUR banishment from hammond’s site, and your little ‘sockie’ [as yall like to call them] working for ya!

        Back to the topic JOKE of the facts, JESTthefacts! 😉

  197. Just as you’re not free to drive 80 mph in a school zone you should not be free to choose not to vaccinate your children without medical reason.

    1. It’s a poor equation.
      You want to coerce families to be injected with a product so poor, it had to be indemnified in 1986.

      1. Oh dear. I have to say you are quite confused.

        I have scars from the chicken pox, I have had shingles from having those chicken pox. I had the mumps and still have difficulty with tart foods causing me pain. I had rubella . . . thank goodness, because there was no vaccine and if I had gotten them while pregnant with my children, I could have miscarried, given birth to a stillborn infant or given birth to a profoundly deaf infant. I have very bad memories of the measles . . . I had them in my eyes. I was confined to a darkened room with sunglasses in order to try to prevent blindness (one of the very common complications). I still remember the extreme and excruciating headaches.

        There were no vaccines for me. They weren’t available. I made darn sure that my kids were vaccinated. They never had more than the common cold or an occasionally tummy ache.

        1. I respect your choice.
          I also respect the choice of a parent who has objections to aspects of Vaccines that may do harm to their child.
          There is no reason to keep a healthy child out of school.

  198. The push behind Vaccine coercion is designed for increasing pharma market share.

    GSK Business Strategy Based on Selling Lots of Vaccines

    Last March, the company traded away its oncology business to Novartis of Switzerland in exchange for Novartis’ vaccine business (excluding influenza vaccines).
    In May 2015, GSK CEO, Sir Andrew Witty, told CNBC that he was betting that volume would “trump” price,” signifying that his company would continue trying to undercut its competitors on pricing in order to gain greater market share.
    According to (GSK CEO) Witty:
    We think we’re really aligned with where the river is flowing. The river is flowing for more volume.
    https://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/01/gsk-business-strategy-based-on-selling-lots-of-vaccines/

  199. Note the increase in profits due to “Government’s mandatory norms and regulations.
    Get your shares in vaccines folks if you have no conscience. Also note the next wave of vaccines if for cancer, allergies etc. Interesting because it is clearly stated that vaccines are not tested for their ability to cause cancer.

    Nevertheless, this morbid phase in the U.S. has now elapsed due to the rise of the Pediatric vaccine segment in the U.S. human vaccine market. This sector enjoys high share, as well as high growth rate for child immunization due to government’s mandatory norms and regulations.

    Overall Market Size and Share of the U.S. Vaccine Market
    According to industry best research firms and market reports, the U.S. Vaccine Market estimates to be worth USD 12.8 billion in 2012, and is further expected to reach USD 17.4 billion by 2018, growing at a CAGR of 5.3% from 2012 to 2018.

    Future Growth of U.S. Vaccine Market
    Backed by technological advancements and strong support from governments and other active organizations such as GAVI and WHO, the U.S. market for vaccines is expected to grow further in the forecast period from 2012 to 2018. This market is witnessing an increasing trend towards development of personalized vaccines and novel vaccines that cures infectious diseases, allergies, and cancers. According to leading market research analysts this industry will undergo continuous improvements in delivery methodologies, vaccine design, and manufacturing in large-scale processes. Due to successful launch of new vaccine products in the market, the overall industry is expected to exhibit improved performance in the coming years.

    https://www.medgadget.com/2015/10/u-s-vaccine-market-expected-to-reach-usd-17-4-billion-by-2018-growing-at-a-cagr-of-5-3-from-2012-to-2018.html

    1. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) an organization that brings corporations and their legislative goals into state bills, has been associated with Vaccine mandates.

      Some of their members:
      Astellas Pharma Inc.
      Bayer
      Dupont (Dupont Merck Pharmaceuticals)
      Eli Lilly
      Endo Pharmaceuticals
      Express Scripts
      GlaxoSmithKline
      Hoechst- Roussell Pharmaceutical Corporation
      Hoffman La-Roche
      Imperial Chemical Industries Pharmaceuticals
      Johnson & Johnson
      Mylan Pharmaceuticals
      Novo Nordisk
      Pharmacia and UpJohn
      Purdue Pharma
      Pfizer
      Solvay Pharmaceutical
      Takeda Pharmaceutical
      TEVA Pharmaceuticals
      TogetherRX Access (made up of ABBVIE, GSK, Janssen, Lifescan, Pfizer, Stiefel, Viiv Healthcare, Vistakon Pharmaceuticals)
      The UpJohn Co

      1. “For instance, consider the attempt to remove Vermont citizens’ rights to a philosophical exemption to vaccination known as SB 199, a bill that caught many in Vermont by complete surprise. Of course, when one takes a look at the key players and possible motivations, it becomes more obvious as to how this bill came to be and why.

        SB 199 was submitted in the Senate by ALEC’s Vermont Chair Senator, Kevin Mullin”

        https://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/alec-behind-recent-push-for-mandatory.html

        1. Don’t forget about SB277. That was passed and in action in California with 38 million people there supporting it!.

          Nationwide vaccination without frivolous exemptions is a solid national goal!!

          1. Sure, everybody does it, its a great reason to inject children everywhere with an indemnified product, never tested for carcinogenicity or mutagenicity!
            I really like that idea.
            Who wouldn’t?

          2. Swell!
            Let’s start with getting the legislators up to date on the CDC recommended schedule.
            Wouldn’t want them to be Vaccine deprived!!!

          3. I’m sure legislators are up to date. Most of them have had children.
            .
            Do you even know what you are saying?

          4. Exactly! Let’s look at adult vaccination, since Grace is so interested in it.

            First let’s talk about a vaccine that we don’t use any more, Smallpox. Smallpox vax was taken off the recommended list in 1972. Most kids got it at ~ 1 yr. of age, and there were few objectors. Almost everyone born in 1971 or before, 45 years of age or older, has had this vaccine.

            Diphtheria: First vaccine came out in 1914. This is the year my father was born. He would be 102 if still alive, to give a little perspective. Immunization efforts picked up after a bad diphtheria year in 1921.

            Tetanus: First vaccine came out in 1924. Many WW II veterans received one or more doses in the military.

            Pertussis: First vaccine came out in 1939.

            DTP combined: 1948. Use of the three above increased with the triple vaccine. It became part of the infant immunization schedule. Someone born in 1948 will be 68 this year. Note, too, that the vaccine could be given to kids up to age 7, so many in their 70s also received it.

            The Td vaccine has also long been recommended every 10 years, now with one dose of Tdap as well, and most adults, even if they don’t religiously follow the schedule have had reason to get at least 1 booster some time in their lives. When people get a “tetanus shot” in the ER or wherever for an injury, they are actually getting Td.

            Polio: First vaccine came out in 1955. Anyone of any age could get it. When the oral polio vaccine came out in 1961, adults as well as kids took the sugar cubes on the “Sabin Sundays”. My father, as previously mentioned, took it along with us kids. Most adults now alive have had some polio vaccine. Boosters are NOT recommended for fully immunized adults in the US.

            Measles: People born before 1957 are considered immune. 95-98% of kids of that era got measles by age 18. These people are now at least 59 years old. Many born after that got the disease as well. The vaccine was introduced in 1963, and again, can be given to anyone of any age. Vaccine is given to kids at 1 year of age, therefore anyone born in 1962 or thereafter is likely to have received the vaccine, plus many born before that. 54 years old or younger. No booster is recommended for adults with a valid history of one dose of measles vaccine.

            Mumps: DItto. Vaccine came out in 1967. Given at age 1. People age 50 or under likely to have been vaccinated. No booster recommended for adults with one documented dose.

            Rubella: Wasn’t quite so ubiquitous, women of childbearing age should be tested and given a dose if negative. Vaccine came out in 1969. Give at age 1. 48 years or younger likely to have been vaccinated. No booster recommended for those with one documented dose.

            MMR vaccine came out in 1971.

            Chickenpox: Born in US before 1980 considered immune. 36 and older. Documented history of disease (any birth year) considered immune. No boosters recommended in adulthood for those who have documented immunity or received two doses of vaccine.

            Menngococcal, Hep A and B, recommended for adults in certain risk groups.

            HPV: Recommended until age 26.

            Flu: Annual vaccination recommended.

            Different rules for people with occupational exposure, e.g. health care personnel.

            https://www.historyofvaccines.org/
            https://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4220.pdf
            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult-conditions.html

          5. Don’t forget, G, “supplements” and bleach (for enemas) haven’t been tested for carcinogenity or mutagenicity either.

          6. You can sue if it harms you and it can be taken off the market.

            No one forces you to buy those products.

            No legislation takes away your right to an education if you don’t take supplements.

          7. There is no “right to education” in Colorado.

            Article IX of the Colorado Constitution requires the state to provide free public schools, That’s all.

          8. You can sue pharma if a vaccine harms you, but you have to go thru NVICP first. And you don’t have to pay for your own legal fees. With a natural health store product, you do. No one forces you to buy a vaccine. You can homeschool or find a different job.

          9. I know your lawyer’s costs are paid in vaccine court. I’m not sure in an appeal. You guys always find the cloud in the silver lining, don’t you?

          10. You can sue if the manufacturer gets glass particles in the vial, but not design defects

            Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Sotomayor preview to her dissent

            “Vaccine manufacturers have long been subject to a legal duty, rooted in basic principles of products liability law, to improve the design of their vaccines in light of advances in science and technology. Until today, that duty was enforceable through a traditional state-law tort action for defective design. In holding that section 22(b)(1) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Vaccine Act or Act), 42 U.S.C. section 300aa-22(b)(1), preempts all design defect claims for injuries stemming from vaccines covered under the Act, the Court imposes its own bare policy preference over the considered judgment of Congress. In doing so, the Court excises 13 words from the statutory text, misconstrues the Act’s legislative history, and disturbs the careful balance Congress struck between compensating vaccine-injured children and stabilizing the childhood vaccine market. Its decision leaves a regulatory vacum in which no one ensures that vaccine manufacturers adequately take account of scientific and technological advancements when designing or distributing their products. Because nothing in the text, structure, or legislative history of the Vaccine Act remotely suggests that Congress intended such a result, (bold is mine) I dissent.””

          11. https://violentmetaphors_com/2013/11/22/why-anti-vaxers-hate-the-nvicp-and-just-what-is-it-anyway-by-colin-mcroberts/
            “The NVICP is a special court set up by Congress for people who claim they were injured by vaccines. Instead of having to sue the vaccine makers, which is an incredibly expensive, difficult, and time-consuming process, those plaintiffs get fast-tracked through a non-adversarial system. That means that instead of making them fight with the vaccine makers’ lawyers, the government pays for the plaintiffs’ counsel and works with them to determine whether compensation is appropriate. Plaintiffs in the NVICP win their cases much more often than plaintiffs in the normal product-liability courts, and even if they lose they don’thave to pay for their own lawyers.

            But despite those advantages, anti-vaxers are trying to pressure Congress to kill the program. On the surface, it doesn’t make sense—the NVICP is a much friendlier place to bring a claim of vaccine injury than normal courts. But there is a hardcore cadre of anti-vaxers who still believe
            that vaccines cause autism. The NVICP has rejected that claim on the strength of the evidence, and so those opinion leaders have set their sights on it. They hope that by destroying it, they can get their autism claims back into normal courts where they might get lucky with a
            sympathetic judge and jury.

            Of course, this would be terrible for people who have actually suffered some side effect from vaccination—it’s rare, but it happens. Those people are much better off in the NVICP than in normal courts, where lawsuits are excruciatingly slow, hideously expensive, and
            incredibly uncertain. They would lose the NVICP, which is much faster, vastly cheaper, and far friendlier to legitimate claims of injury.

            The NVICP is very favorable to plaintiffs. Among other benefits, they need only show that they have been injured and that they would not have been injured but for the vaccine. They don’t need to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, either, just show that the evidence makes it more
            likely than not.

            She points out that really only two types of people would benefit: “plaintiffs who cannot prove causation and lawyers who would like more control of the fee structure.” Everyone else would get the short end of the stick.”

            Plus much more. So basically, Gracie, you want to hamper people who have legitimate claims, to benefit those few people with autism claims who can afford the big-bucks lawyers.

          12. There are good and bad aspects of the NVICP.
            Going through the NVICP is not “getting lucky.”
            “The first time I met the team from the NVCP was at Cedars Sinai ICU. Lorrin was in the hospital as usual for uncontrolled seizures. I waited with great anticipation. Everything was taking too long, every day she was alive she was another day behind. Lorrin was making no childhood gains, anything she did was lost immediately with her constant seizures and drug changes. Dr. Menkes, who wrote the book the doctors studied to become a doctor, told me that she was one of the worst seizure cases he had treated.
            I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I was standing with Mr. Dodd, wearing baggy sweats after another sleepless night in the ICU; I never left Lorrin’s side. It was then, that the NVCP legal/medical team walked in. It was an awkward moment to say the least. The NVCP, sent an attorney and a nurse who greeted me and went straight to Lorrin’s bedside crib. They proceeded to examine her and took her diaper off. I asked Mr. Dodd what they were doing? He replied, that they were looking for bed soars. He told me quite frankly, “These people are not your friends; they are trying to prove that you are a bad parent.” I was stunned. This meeting was my only hope for my family’s future, Lorrin’s future. I did not speak after that.
            I was told by Mr. Dodd, after we received our trial date, that our case was to be heard by the nicest special master that the vaccine court had. We had Special Master French. I was in such a dark cloud it never dawned on me how alone we were. I did not understand the horrible fact that my family was not entitled to due process from my peers. I was in a fog, afraid for my daughter, as she was far sicker than I ever imagined any child could be. The only place in America that Americans are not entitled to due process is in vaccine court. You cannot sue the drug company or the doctor and you do not receive judgment from your peers. At the time we were in court there were 11 Special Masters to oversee vaccine injury trials. Vaccine court is hidden so that no one can see what vaccine injured families go through.
            We spent three long days in my attorney’s office fighting about how much money Lorrin’s life was worth. We started the process with the NVCP lawyers telling us that we had to place Lorrin in a special care facility, we said no, and the battle was on. The nurse told me that no parent wanted a hospital bed in his or her house. She told me that Lorrin would only need a wheelchair and a bed and that was all that they should pay for. We asked for 83 items to care for Lorrin for the rest of her life. Each point started off with a denial and then we argued. We fought for 20 minutes about Huggies wipes. Special Master French got so upset by the way I was being treated, she threatened to remove the NVCP’s nurse from the room. She was beyond horrible.”
            KarenKain.com

          13. Did you see Karen Kain’s speaking schedule? She is quite busy making a living as a professional anti-vaxxer. Do you know what here speaking fees are?
            .
            …….and you call other people shills.

          14. You forgot to post her speaking schedule

            April 8, 2015
            Please come out and join me in Sacramento

            April 18, 2015
            Give Autism a Chance Summit 2015

            May 1-3, 2015
            Abilities Expo New York Metro

            May 20-24, 2014
            Autism One Conference

            June 12-14, 2015
            Abilities Expo Chicago

            July 31-August 2, 2015
            Abilities Expo Houston
            Etc, Etc, Etc,
            How much do you think she makes on that book of denial?

          15. Her child had a reaction in 1994 from a discontinued vaccine. She was awarded nearly 4 million dollars. Her child died 15 years later. Now she blindly attacks all vaccines everywhere for profit.
            That’s how rare vaccine injuries are. It was 21 years ago.

          16. Her child deserved the right to a normal life.
            It is grossly unfair for you to be so abusive.
            Do you think any amount of money makes it “okay”?
            Do you think anything could “blind” a parent to what they lived through all those years?
            No amount of money could do that.
            That is why I support the right of the family to choose, without state coercion.
            The family bears the burden when things go badly from vaccination, it should be their decision.

          17. Everyone injured by air bags or any other safety requirement also deserved the right to a normal life.
            It is completely fair to attack irrational people for promoting dangerous and stupid things.
            .
            I’m glad we agree that she is irrationally “blind” on the issue but that is not a free license to promote stupidity.
            .
            The family bears the burden of a defective Airbag but Airbags will remain required. RIGHT?
            .
            You got nothing.

          18. You forgot to add that admission to all the expo’s is free. Why did you leave that out?
            “Admission to Abilities Expo is FREE!”

          19. Because that list was last year so the details are not relevant. You are free to provide information on the 2016 expos. You can’t stay on subject so you might as well……

          20. “You forgot to add that admission to all the expo’s is free. Why did you leave that out? “

            So, you’d only have to pay for the Sacramento talks, the Autism One conference, and the Give Autism a Chance summit?

            Keep posting, Ione….

          21. No, ignorance and denial drives her life also.
            Since you are sorting to pictures of sick kids, here is a victim of pertussis who got sick because of people like you…personally:

          22. No, ignorance and denial drives her life also.
            Since you are sorting to pictures of sick kids, here is a victim of pertussis who got sick because of people like you…personally:

          23. Justthe, I do understand that diseases can harm.
            I also understand that vaccines can harm.
            The burden of either will be born by the family, and they are who should decide, not commenters, not legislators, not lobbyists.

          24. You support freedom unless somebody wants to bring peanuts to school.
            .
            You support freedom unless somebody wants to mandate dangerous safety features in you car, and they do..
            .
            You support freedom unless somebody wants to bring a gun to school.
            .
            You support freedom unless somebody wants to drive 100mph down your street.
            .
            You are a hypocrite.

          25. Another thoughtful response, justthe.
            I support just laws.
            The laws in Colorado for vaccination are just.

          26. Well, I’ve been trying to reply, but my post gets going straight to moderation, despite the fact that there is no profanity, vulgarity, not a Jag*** in sight. So I’ll refer you to this article to Google for yourself: “Why Anti-vaxers Hate the NVICP”. Basically, it says that the anti-vaxers want to make things harder for those people who actually have legitimate claims, so they can pay a big bucks lawyer to find a sympathetic jury for these alleged vaccine-autism cases.

            ETA: I see one version went through now. Enjoy!

          27. That was the intent.
            It was subverted by the supreme court decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth in 2011.
            You obviously didn’t read the quote Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor quote.

            “Vaccine manufacturers have long been subject to a legal duty, rooted in basic principles of products liability law, to improve the design of their vaccines in light of advances in science and technology. Until today, that duty was enforceable through a traditional state-law tort action for defective design.
            … preempts all design defect claims for injuries stemming from vaccines covered under the Act

          28. i do too! She’s nuts if she thinks vaccine makers aren’t constantly trying to improve their products, and that the only thing that would motivate them to do so is threat of legal action.

          29. If they never tried to improve products, then vaccines would never be pulled from the market for any reason. And, yet they have, some of them.

          30. The natural food can kill you before you can sue them, too, if it’s contaminated with natural bacteria.

          31. We preserve our garden’s bounty by canning via the looney Weston A. Price method – we don’t boil the canning jars and contents in a pressure cooker, that’s just another name for eeevyil Pasteurization which isn’t allowed for raw milk so certainly isn’t allowed for canned meats and vegetables.
            In this way we get Organic and GMO-free Botulism the natural way.

            Readers should note that I’m only partly joking… if invited to dinner by a Weston A. Price acolyte you may want to consider their attitude towards common sense protection against deadly microbes – i.e.: they have none.
            Bon appétit!

      2. Your list in incomplete. There are countless organizations and companies the support the miracle that is vaccinations. Hospitals, millions of doctors, distribution. The list is truly endless.

        Saving lives and good health is supported by magnitudes.

        1. “ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC’s operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills.

          https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council

          1. There is nothing you have said that is negative.
            .
            I guess you need to face the fact that your defective thinking is doomed. Vaccines will continue to save millions of lives.

          2. The nutbars seem to think ALEC is some super-secrety NWO group. It isn’t, but they do get Koch Bros money.

            There are probably a half dozen Colorado state senators who are members of ALEC. They’re all Republicans. Greg Brophy over in Yuma is the first name that comes to mind.

          3. The fact that the public are not allowed a voice in ALEC is certainly a negative. These powerful lobby groups have the power and the people none.

          4. Did you miss the part from:
            https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/SourceWatch

            “Some other pages are loaded up with anti-vaccination crankery and alt-woo references, including some really egregious quacks like Dana Ullman. Their articles on GM crops and Monsanto are are a mix of logical fallacies, distorted events, half-truths, and outright lies, with the occasional fact thrown in.

            More anti-vaxx nonsense….

    2. Great!! It is so great that vaccines, which have saved countless millions of lives, are being spread and used to such an extent.

      Good News Everyone!!

      1. There is no proof that they have saved anyone – it is purely speculative.
        You can’t prove a negative. How much was due to improved sanitation,
        better nutrition. Bubonic Plague, Epidemic Erysipelas, Typhus Fevers, , Scurvy, etc, scarlet fever all rare or non existant now and vaccines not used in Western Countries.

        1. You are delusional. Millions of lives. Small pox was eradicated by the vaccine as a matter of undisputed fact.
          .
          Your tin foil hat is on way too tight!!

        2. Scarlet Fever is down because of another thing you AV loons don’t like-antibiotics. Scarlet Fever results from untreated strep throat. The treatment for strep is . . . antibiotics! That is also the treatment for Bubonic Plague, which we do have here in CO, epidemic erysipelas and typhus. Scurvy is prevented by vitamin C.

        3. It’s just as “speculative” as the moon existing, as planes being able to fly, and anti-vaxxer’s failure to understand statistics.

        4. Polio rates fell off a cliff when the vaccine was released. There wasn’t any sudden improvement in nutrition and sanitation from 1954 to 1956.

          1. And of course measles continued to chug along with 500,000+ clinical cases per year up to the release of the measles vaccine in 1963. The “improved sanitation, better nutrition” that mystically knocked out polio in Judith’s fantasy had absolutely zero effect on any other disease. Apparently the 1955 “improved sanitation and better nutrition” wasn’t the correct kind of sanitation and nutrition to eliminate measles, mumps, rubella, etc.
            Those took their own “special” sanitation and nutrition which coincidentally came into effect at the exact moment a vaccine was released. It’s a miracle.

            Readers will note the delusional fantasy world the anti-vaccine cultists inhabit.

          2. Exactly! There are many different types of sanitation. We didn’t figure out how chickenpox sanitation worked until 1995, and progress has been pretty slow with flu sanitation.

          3. The darned CDC is covering up the correct combination of hand soap type and vitamins needed to eliminate influenza. We need a CDC “Sanitation and Nutrition Whistleblower”!!!11!!!!
            Dam you, CDC! Dam you all to heII!

          4. Before vaccination there was no way to tell whether paralysis was caused by poliovirus or by any cause of NPAFP simply because their clinical presentations are the same and the diagnosis was exclusively based on clinical presentation. Therefore the estimates include any cause of AFP.

            The fact that once virological confirmation was in place (post-vaccination) and there was no poliovirus but the total AFP remained the same, exposes the truth that the “polio epidemic” was just NPAFP

            I would ask you how did the diagnostic criteria in 1980 tell between NPAFP and polio which are clinically indistinguishable? They can’t.

            So, all those 300,000 cases encompassed all the MULTIPLE CONDITIONS that today are known as AFP, including, perhaps, poliovirus.

            The fact that the total incidence of NPAFP after the vaccination campaign is HIGHER than the incidence of old “polio + NPAFP” combined proves the old “polio” was indeed NPAFP.

          5. The fact that the total incidence of NPAFP after the vaccination campaign is HIGHER than the incidence of old “polio + NPAFP” combined proves the old “polio” was indeed NPAFP.

            The problem with this argument is that the premise is false; total incidence of NPAFP is not higher than before the polio vaccine. One way you can tell is no one is clamoring to close public swimming pools to avoid enterovirus. Indeed, you may remember something like 20 cases of paralysis from Enterovirus D68 in a year made the newspapers—one unlucky school could have that in the polio era!

            This is a new claim, AFAICT. Source?

          6. Ron Law (Assaulting alternative medicine: worthwhile or witch hunt? BMJ.com 10 March 2012) recently addressed the polio situation in India: eradication has been achieved by re-naming the disease. Poliomyelitis paralysis which occurs even after 30+ vaccination doses, is now called acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or polio-like paralysis; hardly a great success of vaccination or comfort to the parents of the more than 60 000 affected children.

            Earlier redefinition of poliomyelitis had been introduced in the US: a disease with residual paralysis which resolves within 60 days changed into a disease with residual paralysis which persists for more than 60 days. Cases of paralysis which resolve within 60 days (99% of cases) are diagnosed as viral or aseptic meningitis.

            According to MMWR (1997; 32[29]: 384-385), there are 30 000 to 50 000 cases of viral/aseptic meningitis per year in the US. Considering that in the pre-vaccine era the vast majority (99%) of the reported cases were non-paralytic (corresponding to aseptic or viral meningitis), vaccination has actually increased the incidence of poliomyelitis. Before mass vaccination there were a few hundred or few thousand cases of polio in some outbreaks, while now it is up to 50 000 cases every year.

            According to their report, nationally, the NPAFP rate is now twelve times higher than expected. In the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar – which have pulse polio vaccination every month – the NPAFP rate is 25 and 35 fold higher than the international norms (Ramesh Shankar, Mumbai 2012).

            https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2398/rr/578260

          7. I’ll get back to this at a more reasonable hour, either with a second post or a major edit, but let me point out that this is a plagiarized copy-paste of a letter to the editor (at the link at the bottom) from a notorious antivax crank; it is not a peer-reviewed article in the prestigious BMJ. So, of course, it’s full of misquotations and falsehoods.

          8. OK, let’s deal with this as quickly as possible.

            The 60,000 (the usual antivax number is 45,000; I guess it grew; it’s 50,000 later in the same plagiarized dump) is presumably NPAFP in India. Except, estimates of polio, or, if you prefer, the lower bound on AFP created by polio alone was 300,000 cases or so per year. So even 60,000 would be an 80% improvement! In fact, it’s much better than 80%. Now, why India has the world’s highest NPAFP rate is interesting; and there are certainly possible reasons to attack it, but that doesn’t detract from the results to date.

            Her analysis of the USA is nonsensical. I don’t know where she gets the idea that 99% of polio cases were non-paralytic, that isn’t true. (It’s probably a confusion of seroconversion with clinical cases.) But if it were true, it would imply that in 1952, when we had an uncontroverted 20,000+ cases of paralytic polio, there were over two million cases of aseptic meningitis. (Since 20,000 is 1% of two million.) That doesn’t sit so well with her claim that today we have 30,000 to 50,000 cases of aseptic meningitis (which is in the ballpark).

            There are two problems with her analysis, though: what happened to the 20,000 paralytic cases and 3,000 deaths? Even if all the polio vaccine did was get rid of those, it would be a great thing. As I pointed out before, something like 20 cases of paralysis from Enterovirus D68 became a national news story. That could happen in any one small city in the polio era, not national news.

            And the second gross error is the assumption that all AFP was called polio in the pre-vaccine era. It’s true that lab test confirmation was not routine then, but not all of her laundry list of diseases present the same way. How could GBS have been identified in 1916 (as it was), if it was always (mis)diagnosed as polio?

            Readers may be interested in this explanation of the utter incompetence and stupidity of Schreieber’s analysis of SIDS in Japan, to understand she is bringing the same level of willful ignorance to polio.

          9. OK, it IS true that about 1% of ALL polio cases result in paralysis.

            HOWEVER, “Up to about 72% of susceptible persons infected with polio have no symptoms. However, infected persons without symptoms can still spread the virus and cause others to develop polio. About 24% of infected susceptible persons have minor symptoms such as fever, sore throat, upset stomach, or flu-like symptoms and have no paralysis or other serious symptoms. About 1-5% develop aseptic meningitis with stiffness of the back, back, or legs, and in some persons increased or abnormal sensations a few days after the minor illness resolves. These symptoms typically last from two to ten days, followed by complete recovery.

            Less than 1% of polio cases result in paralysis of the limbs (usually the legs). Of those cases resulting in paralysis, 5-10% of the patients die when the respiratory muscles are paralyzed. The risk of paralysis increases with age.”

            So you see, lurkers, and Judith and other trolls, about 96% of patients didn’t even know they had polio! Certainly the 72% with NO symptoms didn’t go to the doctor, to get their cases reported. Probably few of the 24% who had the flu like symptoms w/o paralysis went to the doctor, either. It is the doctors who report the cases.

            Of the remaining 4% or so, about 1/4 developed paralysis. These 4%ers are the ones who went to the doctor and got their cases reported.

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/polio/dis-faqs.htm

          10. I am appalled.
            You mean that all these infected, asymptomatic polio disease carriers were going around shedding virus and infecting the sweet, pure, innocent babies? And that was because there was no vaccine to stop it?
            The “baboons-pertussis” antivax crew must be livid.

          11. “Prior to 1954, the following undoubtedly hid behind the name “poliomyelitis”: Transverse Myelitis, viral or “aseptic” meningitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)- (what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had)[4], Chinese Paralytic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis, spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, bilious remittent fever, ergotism, post-polio syndrome, acute flaccid paralysis(AFP).

            Included under the umbrella term “Acute Flaccid Paralysis” are Poliomyelitis, Transverse Myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, enteroviral encephalopathy, traumatic neuritis, Reye’s syndrome etc.

            If you are wondering why there is no data prior to 1996, go to the WHO website for AFP and you will see that there is no data prior to 1996, and note that AFP conitnues to rise in 2011. Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is just another name for what would have been called polio in 1955, and is used to describe a sudden onset of paralysis. It is the most common sign of acute polio, and used for surveillance during polio outbreaks. AFP is also associated with a number of other pathogenic agents including enteroviruses, echoviruses, and adenoviruses, among others. But in 1955, there was no attempt to detect anything other than polio in cases of AFP. Once the vaccine was mass marketed, the game changed.”

            https://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2011/11/17/smoke-mirrors-and-the-disappearance-of-polio/

            ” this article by two doctors who compiled data from the national polio surveillance project in India, the head of Rotary International’s national pulse polio committee, and someone from the Health Ministry in India: There is a direct correlation between doses of the live oral polio vaccine and the incidence of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis.

            In the past 13 months, India has reported 53,563 cases of “non-polio acute flaccid paralysis,” giving India the distinction of having the highest rate of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis in the world. Even in other countries that have “polio-free” status, there is a resurgence of polio and that includes India. The live oral polio vaccine is so dangerous, with so many side effects, that it is being phased out. WHO has called on a complete withdrawal of the vaccine by the end of 2016.”

            Two doctors from Delhi’s St Stephens Hospital, Neetu Vashisht and Jacob Puliyel, who compiled data from the national polio surveillance project, found a link between the increase in dosage of polio vaccination and the increasing cases of NPAFP.

            “Most experts will tell you the cases of NPAFP have increased because of better surveillance. This is bunkum,” said Puliyel. “As per global benchmarks, as polio incidence comes down, the rate of NPAFP should also reduce. Instead, AFP cases have been increasing steadily.”

            “In 2010, the government reduced the number of pulse polio doses from 10 to 6. What we found was that between 2010-2013, the number of APF cases also came down. Our paper argues that other kinds of polio are being caused by the excessive administration of polio dosages,” Puliyel said. “Another proof is that states like Kerala and Goa, where dosages were less, AFP cases was also less. Majority of NPAFP cases are reported from Bihar and UP, where several immunization rounds are held to reach universal coverage. These are figures the government does not want to admit.”

            https://www.livemint.com/Politics/XS6vPor5jFX3vKkaE7Ri6H/India-to-get-poliofree-status-amid-rise-in-acute-flaccid-pa.html

      2. For the years 2000 – 2015, here is a list of vaccines and actual deaths and injuries attributed to the vaccines (not the actual diseases) on VAERS (Remember, only a small fraction get reported to VAERS – from 1 in 10 to perhaps as little as 1 in 100 or less):

        Vaccine Deaths E.R. Visits Hospitalized Life Threatening Disabled

        Pertussis 1,379 34,094 11,526 1,944 1,144
        HPV 104 10,808 3,586 630 1,117
        Influenza 749 33,030 8,135 2,138 1,745
        MMR 158 19,522 3,431 710 648
        Pneumonia 1,367 26,405 10,896 1,766 1,073
        Rotavirus 437 4,962 4,495 792 178
        Hepatitis A 98 9,523 2,241 499 519
        Hepatitis B 1,041 14,317 7,033 1,306 1,126
        Polio 1,238 20,077 9,110 1,433 714

        Totals 6,571 202,738 60,453 11,218 8,264

    3. That’s a good thing. It means more lives saved, more children living to see adulthood, more parents living to see their grandchildren. The profit argument is moot. We live in a capitalist society, where making a profit is not a bad thing. Supplement and homeopathy companies make profits. Do decry the act of making a profit? Have you ever looked at the top profitable drug list? How many vaccines do you see?

      https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844317

      1. I am totally against huge profits from medication being forced upon the public by punitive means.

        Last year, five pharmaceutical companies made a profit margin of 20% or more – Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, AbbVie, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Eli Lilly.’

        With some drugs costing upwards of $100,000 for a full course, and with the cost of manufacturing just a tiny fraction of this, it’s not hard to see why.

        There is an ethical way to do business – pharmaceutical companies do not conduct business in an ethical way.

        “The World Health Organisation (WHO) has talked of the “inherent conflict” between the legitimate business goals of the drug companies and the medical and social needs of the wider public.

        Until recently, paying bribes to doctors to prescribe their drugs was commonplace at big pharmas, although the practice is now generally frowned upon and illegal in many places. GSK was fined $490m in China in September for bribery and has been accused of similar practices in Poland and the Middle East.

        The rules on gifts, educational grants and sponsoring lectures, for example, are less clear cut, and these practices remain commonplace in the US.

        Indeed a recent study found that doctors in the US receiving payments from pharma companies were twice as likely to prescribe their drugs.”

        https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223

        1. What’s your issue with the pharma companies making a profit? Have you ever seen Mercola’s mansion?

          For all I’ve been accused of being a “pharma shill”, the most valuable gift I’ve ever been given from a pharma company was a ticket to a Rockies-Cubs game to see Sammy Sosa play at Coors Field. I also got some tickets to a Rapids game b/c the Rapids were once part of the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition. Ironically, that was when I worked at a health department and the state paid for our vaccines, we didn’t have a choice of what vaccines were used. (Some vaccines are made by several manufacturers.) Other than that, I never got any more than mugs, pens, mouse pads, sandwiches, and cookies.

          I have never witnessed or heard of a physician being bribed.

          ETA: I would like to clarify that I got the Rapids tickets from the Rapids organization, not from a pharma rep.

          1. I would highly recommend people visit Dr Mercola’s site and get some healthy nutritional information and get off pharma’s drug merry-go-round where you become a paying customer for life. You are not punished for not taking Mercola’s nutritional supplements and there has not been any death as far as I know from taking his supplements. Compare this to allopathic drugs:
            Out of the 783,936 annual deaths from conventional medicine mistakes, approximately 106,000 of those are the result of prescription drug use. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two-hundred and ninety people in the United States are killed by prescription drugs every day

            Prescription drugs are currently responsible for more deaths annually than illegal drugs. According to Tom Frieden, the CDC director himself, “it’s a big problem, and it’s getting worse

          2. First of all, Mercola is the one who wants you to be a paying customer for life. Take this supplement, that supplement, some other supplement. Don’t bother going to the doctor, just supplement! Supplements cure everything, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, except when they don’t. I’m sure Mercola is responsible for many deaths by keeping people from going to the doctor in the first place. The doctor will tell them things they don’t want to hear, like, you need surgery, you need to lose weight, you need to change your diet; Mercola can fix it all with supplements. And if you die anyway, well, as cia likes to say “who cares?”

          3. Wow are you ignorant and uninformed with your biased opinion based on never having read a thing by or about Mercola. Must be nice to live in your own little make-believe world

          4. For those in the US, I recommend signing up to be a user of NVIC’s free online Advocacy Portal at http://www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you access to practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community.

          5. Despite (or perhaps because of) their potential for abuse, Big Pharma at least markets some agents that do something. Your hero Mercola is filthy-rich off sugar pills.

          6. In the ongoing suit brought by two virologists against Merck for falsifying effectiveness data on the mumps part of the MMR, when the virologist brought his concern to management it was reported he was told it was the cost of doing business and threatened with jail.
            As Forbes said of the ongoing case in 2012:
            If the accusations are true — thus far Merck has denied wrongdoing — the case would lend credence to the perception held by many that pharmaceutical companies are more interested in pursuing profits and preserving their market share than in protecting consumers’ health.
            https://medcitynews.com/2015/02/natural-news-stirring-pot-merck-whistleblower-suit-falsified-mumps-rubella-measles-vaccine-data/?rf=1

          7. Before the U.S. mumps vaccination program started in 1967, about 186,000 cases were reported each year.

            1,057 mumps cases were reported in the U.S. in 2015.

            There’s your effectiveness data.

          8. You left this part out at the end of your link:

            “If the accusations are true — thus far Merck has denied wrongdoing …………………..”
            Its an unresolved lawsuit and you are fear mongering with false quotes from links.

          9. You are right. You did. You knowingly posted unsubstantiated accusations so I can correctly say you are “intentionally” fear mongering without any real evidence.
            .
            I’m glad that’s settled.

        2. Well, unfortunately, there is a portion of the population who will not do the right thing and vaccinate their children unless the decision against is made difficult for them. So, we have vaccine mandates. I would love to see every person on earth always act in an ethical manner at all times but they don’t. And, since the science of vaccines is still sound, regardless of the marketing tactics of manufacturers, I have no problem with how things are currently done. And neither do most Americans.

  200. Just to inform the new reader, This article is 20 days old at this point but the anti-vaxxers have been decimated so badly over the last 20 days that they still try to re-post at the top the same lies they posted below that where ripped to shreds by rational readers.

    These marginal (less than 1%), conspiracy theorist can’t face the truth or opposition. Really you should read deeper and see these fools, especially Judith and Ione, get their lying asses handed to them over and over again. It’s entertaining.

    So for all the rational readers who already know that vaccines have saved countless millions of lives, enjoy the entertainment provided by a fringe element with less support than 9/11 truthers.

        1. Im pro choice, anti coercion in medical interventions.
          But keep on lying, you can fool some of the people some of the time…

          1. Fooling people is your job Graceds! Are you angry that your musical comeback was shut-down entirely?

            Try facts and evidence next time but don’t run to top post when you lose………

        2. Interestingly JusttheVacs – the IPV does not stop transmission of the virus so if there was any polio in the USA it would still spread – improved sanitation changed the situation. If is a different story however with the OPV where in the third world poor sanitation and nutrition are rife. The OPV can shed and spread polio.

          “An increasing number of industrialized, polio-free countries are using IPV as the vaccine of choice. This is because the risk of paralytic polio associated with continued routine use of oral polio vaccine (OPV) is deemed greater than the risk of imported wild virus.

          However, as IPV does not stop transmission of the virus, oral polio vaccine is used wherever a polio outbreak needs to be contained, even in countries which rely exclusively on IPV for their routine immunization programme (e.g. the polio outbreak in the Netherlands in 1992).

          IPV is not recommended for routine use in polio-endemic countries or in developing countries at risk of poliovirus importations. In these countries, oral polio vaccines – either trivalent, bivalent or monovalent, depending on local epidemiology – are used.

          Once polio has been eradicated, use of the oral polio vaccine will need to be stopped to prevent re-establishment of transmission due to vaccine-derived polioviruses. Switching to IPV is one option for this post-OPV era.”

          https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx

          1. Do you really think lying will work at this point? This is right off of your link:
            .
            “Efficacy
            IPV is highly effective in preventing paralytic disease caused by all three types of poliovirus”
            .
            What do you not understand here? It is from your link?
            .
            Anti-vaxxers are loons……

          2. What do you know and understand Justthe F.c.s. You love to insult without any substance. You are actually ignorant. The IPV cannot and has not prevented the spread of polio.

            “IPV induces very low levels of immunity in the intestine. As a result, when a person immunized with IPV is infected with wild poliovirus, the virus can still multiply inside the intestines and be shed in the faeces, risking continued circulation.” Explain how it can prevent the spread of polio – it cannot.

            https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx

          3. Because the theoretical risk is much, much lower than for wild polio, and the susceptible population has shrunk so much (because of vaccination).

          4. I will add, we made huge steps in the US in getting rid of polio with the old IPV, before OPV came along.

        3. The tin man suits you, twistthefacts.

          “When a man’s an empty kettle he should be on his mettle,
          And yet I’m torn apart.
          Just because I’m presumin’ that I could be kind-a-human,
          If I only had heart.”

          1. Your problem is that you anti-vaxxers have the lion problem:
            .
            “I would not be just a nuffin’ my head all full of stuffin’
            My heart all full of pain.
            I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry,
            If I only had a brain.”

            Maybe a brain will show you more truth that thinking with your heart.

            Don’t come to a battle of wits unarmed.

        4. The Polio Vaccine Created The Cancer Epidemic

          NewsTalkFlorida.com News–

          ”CDC Says 98 Million People Got Polio Vaccine With Cancer Virus’
          News Talk Florida | Jul 24, 2013

          How Much of Our Cancer Epidemic is Due to SV-40?-Jan 18 2016
          https://www.realfarmacy.com/cancer-epidemic-sv40/

          Dr. Janet Butel: A Microbiologist Dedicated to Uncovering the Link Between Viruses and Cancer

          February 13th, 2014

          “Janet Butel, Ph.D. was recently recognized for her groundbreaking research at the 2013 BioHouston luncheon honoring Women in Science. Dr. Butel studies how a virus can cause cancer, a crucial line of work considering that the number of viruses associated with cancer continues to increase

          On February 6, 2014, Dr. Butel and collaborators published their most recent findings in the journal PLoS Pathogens, describing a mechanism that the SV40 virus may be using to evade the immune system. They showed that a small molecule encoded by the virus called a microRNA helps keep the number of viruses at a low level inside the host. Fewer viruses are more difficult for the immune system to detect. Dr. Butel is very excited about this work because, “It was the first functional study in an intact animal showing that the viral microRNA is expressed and has an effect that we can measure.”

          The main function of the microRNA is to target the large T-antigen, the oncoprotein that Dr. Butel discovered in her graduate work. The large T-antigen is essential for promoting viral replication. When the amount of this protein is reduced by the microRNA, fewer viruses are made.

          It turns out that by promoting viral replication, the large T-antigen is also creating a potentially cancerous cell. The large T-antigen works by tricking the cell into thinking it is time to replicate itself, thereby providing the conditions so that the virus can replicate. T-antigen also deactivates a protein produced in the host cell called P53. P53 protects the organism by forcing sick or damaged cells to die. However, the virus wants the cell to stay alive long enough to produce new virus particles which can then infect other cells. What if the virus does not kill the cell? With P53 deactivated and the cell in replication mode, this cell is sometimes capable of growing and dividing out of control, and perhaps eventually forming a tumor. ”

          https://bionews-tx.com/news/2014/02/13/dr-janet-butel-a-microbiologist-dedicated-to-uncovering-the-link-between-viruses-and-cancer/

          ‘ Cancer risk associated with simian virus 40 contaminated polio vaccine’

          Recently, investigators have provided persuasive evidence that SV40 is present in human ependymomas, choroid plexus tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas, however, the etiologic role of the virus in tumorigenesis has not been established. Using data from SEER, we analyzed the incidence of brain tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas from 1973-1993 and the possible relationship of these tumors with the administration of the SV40 contaminated vaccine. Our analysis indicates increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%) and mesothelioma (90%) among those in the exposed as compared to the unexposed birth cohort. These data suggest that there may be an increased incidence of certain cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified…. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12828363_Cancer_risk_associated_with_simian_virus_40_contaminated_polio_vaccine

          Article DNA Sequences Similar to Those of Simian Virus 40 in Ependymomas and Choroid Plexus Tumors of Childhood

          . Tumors from 31 children–20 with choroid plexus neoplasms and 11 with ependymomas–were evaluated for the presence of polyomavirus T-antigen gene sequences by means of amplification with the polymerase chain reaction. Ten of the 20 choroid plexus tumors and 10 of the 11 ependymomas contained amplification products that preferentially hybridized to probes specific for SV40 viral DNA rather than BK or JC viral DNA. In two specimens, DNA sequencing demonstrated that the amplified sequence was identical to the sequence of that region of the SV40 gene. In three other specimens, amplification with SV40-specific primers revealed a 574-bp segment of the SV40 viral gene. In 7 of 11 tumors examined by immunohistochemical staining, viral T antigen was expressed in the nuclei of the neoplastic cells. Half of the choroid plexus tumors and most of the ependymomas that we studied contained and expressed a segment of T-antigen gene related to SV40. These results suggest that SV40 or a closely related virus may have an etiologic role in the development of these neoplasms during childhood, as in animal models…..

          https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199204093261504

          1. Do you know how to tell if ione is lying…….

            She posts……

            Your first three anti-vaxx blog referneces are nothing more than conspiracy theories. You last post is your typical lying misquote from a 1992 paper that said it found BK and JC viruses in tumurs and for a reference, said this are “similar” to SV40.
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            SV40 is a “related” virus?
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            This is the worse kind of lying fear mongering that can be done. SV40 contaminated a vaccine 60 years ago and the subject of the article, the BK and JC viruse contaminated vaccines NEVER!! NEVER!! NEVER!! NEVER!! NEVER!!NEVER!! NEVER!! NEVER!! NEVER!!
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            Ione is trying to scare you with a contaminate that NOBODY EVER SAID WAS IN A VACCCINE.
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            Ione is a lying liar.

      1. Haha yep – a rather desperate post byJusttheVacs – a pathetic effort as the cartel failed to refute any argument with any rationale at all.

  201. Just to inform the new reader, This article contains comments and statements that are hyperbole intended to scare people who do not investigate the facts around vaccines. While many of us prefer not to vaccinate our children, we do not oppose vaccinations for those that chose to vaccinate their children. In addition, some are not opposed to vaccines at all, but wish to modify the mandated schedules to reduce the impact on an infants developing nervous system. Bottom line, is we are asking for the freedom to chose what is best for our families without interference from government entities. Finally, if you read enough of the comments, you will note that there are several posters who are obviously in the employ of pharmaceutical companies. They become very apparent after awhile. Thank you for taking the time to investigate and think for yourself.

        1. We all know that YOU’RE the liar, JusttheVACS! [coining from Graceds; thank you 😉 ]

          You also lack the intellect for appropriate debate; hence your fixation with ‘puerile’ posts containing trivial and childish memes; not unlike those posted by your pal Watson!

          1. Then lets get on point with YOU!
            Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
            AlterNet …………………… banned
            Raw Story ……………….. banned
            Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
            Washington Times ……. banned
            A shot of prevention ….. banned
            LAist………………………… banned
            Patch………………………. banned
            Breitbart…………………… banned
            The Hill………………………Banned

          2. At last count, I was ‘partially censored and estranged’ from 8 disqus sites; and you KNOW that your addition of ‘for poor behavior’ is pure prevarication.

            You also left out the part that most every name you list was due to my having to alternate my user name because of impersonators stealing it; kinda’ like what a bunch of you children have done to me and Adadd right here in this very Aurora commentary. Hmmm!

            But how is YOUR banishment from hammond’s site, and your little ‘sockie’ [as yall like to call them] working for ya!

            Back to the topic JOKE of the facts, JusttheVACS! 😉

          3. When Suz calls somebody a liar, I repost it. Every time you repeat one of your lies, I will repeatedly point that out.
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            Hey liars, get use to the bright light of truth!!

          4. You LIE, JusttheVACS! You post your lying crap whether your comments warrant suz pointing out yalls LIES or not! 😉

          5. At least 5 in each commentary that he finds me in. Numerous times I had to go private due to his incessant stalking!

            He’s the STALKING, lying, harassing & spamming kind of troll!

          1. It’s not their kids who are vaccinated they are worried about, it’s the kids with cancer that could have been caused by SV40 they are worried about.

          2. Your kid would make my kid sick because your kid has an ignorant mother who does not understand vaccine science and assumes things that are not true. Because of your ignorance and bad ideas, laws must be passed to protect us all from you, not you child. It’s not your kids fault that he has an arrogant and ignorant mother. Is that clear enough for you?
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            Maybe my kid is in chemo therapy and can’t be vaccinated yet. See, you are nothing but convenient assumptions and ignorance.

      1. The above has nothing to do with informed consent. HERE’S the definition of “informed consent”.

        “informed consent
        phrase of consent
        1.
        permission
        granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that
        which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full
        knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.”
        https://www.google.com/search?q=informed+consent+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

        Nothing to do with setting your own vaccine schedule, etc. You get informed consent with the full recommended schedule.

        “If there is a risk – there must be a choice”–Argumentum via bumperstickerism

        1. Unvaccinated kids are a risk, so the rest of us should have the choice.

          Quick question, though: Is the NC in her pic the new abbreviation for Colorado?

          1. Colorado has already decided how they will handle exemptions and you guys are just wasting your time trying to drum up hatred towards those who want a choice. There are no new bills before the Colorado senate and that’s the way Colorado wants it.

            “The state Board of Health on Wednesday passed new immunization rules that officials say strengthen school policies and will improve the state’s low vaccination rates.

            The new rules, effective July 2016, will require parents seeking non-medical exemptions from school and child-care vaccine requirements to submit them more than once. They will be required at each age when recommended vaccines are due for pre-kindergartners and annually from kindergarten through 12th grade.

            Currently, the state requires submission of an exemption request just once.”

            https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27919237/colorado-strengthens-vaccination-rules-adding-exemption-requirements

          2. More drama.

            As of July 2016, parents seeking non-medical exemptions are required to annually submit non-medical exemption forms to schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.
            https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/15-15%20Issue%20Brief%20on%20Immunizations_1.pdf

            The 2016 session just started last week. Hick has indicated he’s open to reform. It might not happen this session, but we’ll see.

            Trust me, the irony is not lost that you of all people, should talk about “trying to drum up hatred.”

          3. lets look at some of the comments on here from those who favor vaccines but not giving anyone else their choice…

            Captain Moonlight > brian •
            “If you are an anti-vaxer you are a child abuser and you should be forcibly sterilised by the state and put on the child abuser’s register. If you work with kids you should lose your job. If you live within 100 yards of a school or playground you should be forced to move. You know I’m right. Deep down, you agree with me and hate yourself

          4. ‘Colorado vaccination law lacks enforcement, and no change is in works’

            “The law Colorado has on the books for vaccination reads strong — parents must either show proof their schoolchildren have had specific vaccines at certain times or provide documentation of an exemption. If they don’t, schools are to suspend or expel students.

            But many schools don’t document either a child’s immunization or the exemption. Nor do they bar anyone from school”

            https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27738009/colorado-vaccination-law-lacks-enforcement-and-no-change

          5. So now…. only now… you do a quick change and go from “there is no legislation” way…way.. over to “there is no enforcement”. So the reason we should believe your lunatic fringe noise is because……….you can change you mind quickly?
            .
            I will admit that you have shown us that you can deny progress, but you really can’t stop it!

            Don’t worry, nobody will notice that you have abandoned reason for dysfunctionality as your argument against vaccine progress.

          6. There is no NEW legislation. The ruling from 2014 is the changes that have taken place. It does not limit exemptions but requires a yearly signed form instead of just submitting it once. No other bills have been presented. And schools are more concerned with keeping kids in school than checking their exemption form. You shills should hurry on to the next state that might be looking at curbing exemptions. You’re like ambulance chasing lawyers in the way you swoop down on any news article having to do with vaccines.

          7. Being unvaccinated, or partially vaccinated, isn’t catching, Watson.
            We ALL should have a choice, without state coercion.

        2. I NEVER got a bit of such ‘informed consent’ for any of my children’s vax events!

          Now be a good girl and look up the definition of coercion and force!

          “If there is a risk – there must be a choice;” what a terrific idea for a bumper sticker! 😉

        3. I want to add-all providers are legally required to give the patient/guardian a VIS for every vaccine given, public or private. These statements discuss the risks and benefits of the vaccines, and give information about VAERS.
          https://www.immunize.org/vis/

          1. Oh so now VAERS isn’t a toothless limp biscuit of an agency that has a disclaimer stating nothing it obtains is evidence of anything.

      2. The whole premise is nonsense. Your choice is to home school. There isn’t any “right” to freeload off your neighbors’ vaccinations.

        1. Your vaccines don’t work unless I’m vaccinated.
          Do you get pregnant if I don’t practice birth control.

          1. It is not necessary for you to show everyone how stupid you are all of the time. Your posts speak for themselves.

          2. They work better if you vaccinate too. And the same is true of my fire-retardant roof; my house less likely to catch fire means it’s less likely to spread to my neighbor.

            But you freeload off my vaccination. You can get with the program yourself, or you can have side costs, like to access to schools.

          3. Your vaccinations can cause profound injuries and death.
            I’d say you get “with the program”, if you choose.
            It’s unethical to make that choice for someone else.

          4. No more unethical than making food service workers wash their hands.

            What’s unethical is sponging off other people who have gone to the (very small) risk of vaccination. Have you noticed how few narcissistic antivaxers live in the Third World hellholes where these diseases remain endemic? That’s because they are too sick to post.

        2. ‘Your’ choice is one of duress and coercion, stripping one of a free will choice to make decisions regarding their own medical interventions; therefore negating nuremberg code!

          PROVE herd immunity! I can’t seem to find unequivocal proof for what you call ‘freeloading!’

          1. suz, take a short break from your usual disjointed insults and tell us what a satisfactory proof of herd immunity looks like. I don’t want to waste time on a snark hunt, but if there is some criteria you can think of and justify, let’s explore. (Video game on herd immunity)

          2. I’ll take a break when you and your dog and ponies concede. Until then, I don’t accept ANY evidence or data with a hint of a coi.

            Your game sounds fun, only remember that I refuse to open links from yall. Give me something I can look up. I don’t want a steaming pile of shlt starring back at me, when it opens.

            Thanks, Laz!

    1. BWF309 is a liar. BWF309 is totally anti-vaxx and hide that fact under a private profile. Here are some examples of Bwf309 posts from below

      “Numbnut shill man, you should really know where you are getting your meme’s from. …….. And “wow” Japan, Europe, declining the HPV vaccine based on adverse events and you still deny it. ”

      I really like this one:

      “says the man who posts 114,000 or 140,000 deaths in the world outside the US as a reason to vaccinate – LOL”
      .
      That’s right, bwf309 thinks its funny that over 100,000 people die every year from the measles worldwide. BWF309 says he is not an “anti-vaxxer”. This is a perfect example of why you can’t trust anti vaxxers…….

      1. And right on cue one of those I mentioned show up. Full disclosure, something you will not get from the industry, I was laughing at this employees attempt to relate world wide deaths in third world countries from measles to the 189 cases of measles and no deaths in the USA.

        1. See what happens when an outbreak gets bigger.
          https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/3/12-1360_article
          “Although few measles cases were reported in France during 2006 and 2007, suggesting the country might have been close to eliminating the disease, a dramatic outbreak of >20,000 cases occurred during 2008–2011. Adolescents and young adults accounted for more than half of cases; median patient age increased from 12 to 16 years during the outbreak. The highest incidence rate was observed in children <1 year of age, reaching 135 cases/100,000 infants during the last epidemic
          wave. Almost 5,000 patients were hospitalized, including 1,023 for
          severe pneumonia and 27 for encephalitis/myelitis; 10 patients died.
          More than 80% of the cases during this period occurred in unvaccinated persons, reflecting heterogeneous vaccination coverage, where pockets of susceptible persons still remain. Although vaccine coverage among children improved, convincing susceptible young adults to get vaccinated remains a critical issue if the target to eliminate the disease by 2015 is to be met."

          Failure to vaccinate seen as the cause: https://www.healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/major-measles-outbreak-europe-failure-vaccinate-seen-cause-42811

          https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/vaccines/why-france-has-not-yet-eliminated-measles/

          This in a country of ~65,000,000 people, about 1/5 the size of the US. The equivalent number of cases in the US would be 100,000! France, like most of western Europe, is supposed to be a "healthier" country than the US.

          1. ‘Do vaccines do more harm than good? France launches national debate’

            August 1, 2015

            “France’s Health Minister has announced a national debate this Autumn to discuss the future of the country’s immunisation policy, amidst mounting criticism over vaccines.

            “I realize there are doubts over vaccines, and that this is more acute in France than any other European country,” Marisol Touraine told the French daily Le Parisien on Saturday.

            To allay fears, Touraine has said she will organize a national debate this coming Autumn to give citizens the opportuinity to debate whether vaccines should still be compulsory.

            Currently children are required to have certain vaccinations done before enrolling in school. But wary parents concerned about the possible side effects of these vaccines want to protect their child from any possible risk…”

            source:https://mobile.english.rfi.fr/general/20150801-do-vaccines-do-more-harm-good-france-launches-debate

          2. And that debate was in August. Do you know what the French health minister said in that very link ione posted?
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            “Getting vaccinated is not a luxury, nor is it purely an individual choice,” Touraine challenges. “The well-being of the nation depends on it.”
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            The purpose of the “debate” in the words of the Health minister is that ” it’s time to inject a dose of reality into the rumor-driven debate. “Transparency is the best medicine to treat unfounded scientific arguments,” she said.
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            So why did Ione post the headline from that article as if there was even a question as to the benefit of vaccines?
            Because she is a lying liar who lies.

          3. I should try reading her copy/pastas more closely. Usually I look at her 10 paragraphs purloined from some publication and say, “ahh, no!”.

          4. She is such a bad liar that it’s simple to deal with.
            .
            Just go right to her links and ignore the anti-vaxx blogs. If you go right for the actual papers, just click through and check the conclusions or the last sentence. 9 times out of 10, it contradicts her. She just grabs any half truth out-of-context and posts it in true anti-vaxx website style. With no real data to support her bad ideas, she has to lie to herself about what a paper says and then lie to everyone else. The cognitive dissonance is strong with her.
            .
            In some cases, she doesn’t post a link because she is lying really, really bad. In those cases, you copy about 7 words out of it and search on them. Her source will come right up and the boldness of the lies will astound you!
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            This is almost a certainly in every case. It’s hard to believe but its true. Lying liars lie a lot

          5. Both Katia and JusttheVacs – use the words “Lying Liars” continuously. However the evidence they use to contradict those that question vaccine safety does not hold muster.

          6. The evidence we use is YOUR OWN WORDS!! You make a claim and post a link that contractdict your claim. That makes you a liar.
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            There is no need to go any further than to simply point out your deception.
            .
            Just 20 hours ago, you posted “the IPV does not stop transmission of the virus” followed by a link that clearly said:
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            “IPV is highly effective in preventing paralytic disease caused by all three types of poliovirus”
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            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2467671085
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            https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx
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            You are a lying liar and its all, right there, in your own posts.

          7. You seem to have a comprehension problem JusttheVACS It may be highly effective in preventing paralytic disease in the person who gets the vaccine but it cannot prevent spreading of polio to others – is that so hard to understand? Would you like me to try to make it a bit simpler for you.

            “However, as IPV does not stop transmission of the virus, oral polio vaccine is used wherever a polio outbreak needs to be contained,” – https://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention/Thevaccines/Inactivatedpoliovaccine(IPV).aspx#sthash.q5IcFcnT.dpuf

          8. The Hidden History Of The Polio Vaccine https://www.henrymakow.com/hidden_history_of_vaccines.html “No one realizes that at the same time polio cases began to wane, the first world was improving sewage and water systems. I would liken the reduction in cases to improved potent water supplies and to improved sewage treatment. I remember in the early 1950’s the city of Yonkers, NY came to the suburb of Yonkers, Sherwood Park, east yonkers and actually required us to hook up to the sewer system. At that time our home was using a cess pool and well water. Many homes, mostly older, in my area used the cess pool and well water systems. Polio is actually spread via feces/oral route. I would wager that President Roosevelt got his polio swimming in the Hudson river which is where many of my neighbors got their polio. I remember seeing signs which read “No Swimming due to Polio” in Alpine NJ along beaches on the Hudson River. The Hudson was notorious for having raw sewage enter it. If polio vaccine is the sole reason for ending the spread of polio in the first world, then why hasn’t polio ended in India, the Congo and other countries? There have been countless polio vaccine campaigns year after year in Africa, India etc yet we keep hearing about outbreaks, currently, India and Africa have polio outbreaks. The answer is not vaccine but sanitation. In countries that have raw sewage entering the rivers, lakes etc where people use these same waterways for drinking and cooking the disease will never die away. The money spent on vaccine is only a fraction of what it would cost to put in decent sanitation which would include sewers and sewage treatment along with providing potable safe drinking water in the third world, so, consequently, the pharma industry with a lot to lose talks about the reduction of polio via vaccine. Ergo, the myth is perpertrated.”

          9. Oh what a crock of sh*t, pun IN-tended! Polio cases went up as hygiene went up in the US and in Europe. I don’t know how old you are, but we had sewage treatment plants here in the US long before 1955. I’ve posted links on this before, which you’ve probably seen but never opened. Here’s one again: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wups.html Do note that by 1955, 70% of households in the US had treated water.

            Yeah, that might be how Roosevelt got polio in 1921. What, pray tell, does that have to do with the decline of polio in 1956, 35 years later? The largest polio epidemic in the country was in 1952.

            BTW, the only polio in the world is in Pakistan and Afghanistan, so these comments about the African countries and India are very outdated.

            Good God Grace, you’re really not too bright if you upvoted THAT!

          10. Do provide a cost estimate for putting in sewers in all of the developing world, along with the cost of vaccine for same. Also a timeline, and an estimate of how many people would get polio while waiting for these facilities to be built, if they weren’t vaccinated.

            And why, oh why, couldn’t both problems be worked on at the same time?

            And Good Grief, to believe that the US had no treated water before 1955 is simply too absurd to contemplate!
            https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/history.html
            “The disinfection of water has played a critical role in improving drinking water quality in the United States. In 1908, Jersey City, New Jersey was the first city in the United States to begin routine disinfection of community drinking water. Over the next decade, thousands of cities and towns across the United States followed suit in routinely disinfecting their drinking water, contributing to a dramatic decrease in disease across the country (Fig 1).”

            ETA: Cost of a dose of oral polio vaccine is approx 14c US per dose. The usual schedule is 3 doses, that is, 42c per person.
            https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=29591&Itemid=270&lang=en

          11. Here’s a LIAR for ya! JusttheVACS said he’d go public with his disqus profile when I did!

            You are a LIAR through and through, JusttheVACS! Why ARE you still private? What do you have to HIDE?

            ‘Anyone calling someone who is is NOT a liar, a liar, is a LIAR,’ like you, JusttheVACS!

          12. Ya know! I double checked your profile before I made my comment above. I also check it periodically and it ALWAYS shows private!

            Your conspicuously pathetic burlesque only shows what a deceitful liar you are and how you prostitute yourself to advance your pov.

            Guess what! As of 4 hrs. ago, your profile was private; but I’ll go even further & bet that it’s only been public for about an hour!

            You are a shameful liar, JusttheVACS!

          13. Where I! [sic] 😉

            The WHOLE WORLD now has proof that you are a LIAR, & I don’t know HOW you whores live with yourselves, JusttheVACS!

          14. Who is the liar, again?
            Poster Suz Norkan has many Disqus accounts and also posts as suznorkan, suz_norkin, numero uno suz norkan, realsuznorkan, kroz oluju, Jahara mahayame, quasi tempestas, Licha Hericane, Evie Saleegents, yall ADORE suz 😉 and “guest” so she can insult and troll under different names. She has been banned from at least 10 websites for poor behavior. That is mostly what she does and all she does on-line.

            RH Reality Check …….. banned (twice)
            AlterNet …………………… banned
            Raw Story ……………….. banned
            Mercury News ………….. banned (twice)
            Washington Times ……. banned
            A shot of prevention ….. banned
            LAist………………………… banned
            Patch………………………. banned
            Breitbart…………………… banned
            The Hill………………………Banned

          15. Why YOU are the liar, JusttheVACS, as always and of course!

            At last count, I was ‘partially censored and estranged’ from 8 disqus sites; and you KNOW that your addition of ‘for poor behavior’ is pure prevarication.

            You also left out the part that most every name you list was due to my having to alternate my user name because of impersonators stealing it; kinda‘ like what a bunch of you children have done to me and Adadd right here in these very comments.

            And how is YOUR banishment from hammond’s site, and your little ‘sockie’ [as yall like to call them] working for ya!

            The WHOLE WORLD now has proof that you are a LIAR, as you changed your profile only right AFTER I asked why you kept your profile on private, JusttheVACS!

            I don’t know HOW you vax whores live with yourselves!

          16. It’s been changed for a while and you are a clueless liar. All your ranting will not change that!
            .
            I have no other account – check it, liar.

          17. Sure it’s been changed for a ‘while’ if you consider since about this same time yesterday, ‘a while’, you lying ass!

            The great part is, that everyone who checked your profile over the months since last spring, ’till just yesterday, can see what a lying whore you are; and you don’t even know who they are!

            But now they ALL KNOW that you are a conspicuous LIAR, flunkie!

            You had your cute little ‘baby jester’ account to get onto hammonds AFTER you were banned. Are you going to LIE about that too, LIAR!

            Why don’t you chip in a few ‘bucks’ and help your sister get her ‘buck’ teeth cleaned and fixed. Har d har, you liar! 😉

          18. Health ministers say that all over the world – you don’t question the holy grail of vaccinology and keep your job. However it is the people that are demanding debate. The veil is lifting and the temple is crumbling.

          19. So you are saying that your excuse for lying about what Health ministers say is that you “feel” that they are secretly on your side?
            .
            Putting aside the obvious fact that you are delusional, it is still not a good reason for telling lies.
            Stop being a liar.

          20. Pretty harsh law when the vaccine has caused death and disability among some children. No wonder they are trying to change the law and are revolting against it.

            Meeting to Impose Moratorium on HPV vaccine in France
            Parisian offices of the European Parliament
            Member of the European Parliament, Michéle Rivasi,

            “Vaccine safety, as a general rule, is being increasingly questioned. Between 2005 and 2010, the proportion of French people in favour or very in favour of vaccination dropped from 90% to 60% (2013 INPES Peretti-Watel health barometer). The percentage of French people between the ages of 18 and 75 who are anti-vaccination increased from 8.5% in 2005 to 38.2% in 2010. In 2005, 58% of doctors questioned the usefulness of vaccines administered to children while 31% of doctors were expressing doubts about vaccine safety. These figures must surely have increased since then.”

            Europe turning against vaccines

            June 5, 2015 by Lawrence Solomon

            “Europeans are turning away from vaccines, amid rising distrust of immunization for infectious diseases,” begins an article earlier this year in EurActiv, the journal of record for the European Community, published in over a dozen languages and widely read by journalists as a go-to-source for emerging policy debates in Europe.

            “In contrast to the English-speaking world, where increasing numbers of vaccines are being made mandatory and public debate is effectively banned, the trend is the opposite in Continental Europe. Last September, the French High Council for Public Health itself called for a public debate on whether vaccination against certain diseases should remain compulsory.

            “In Europe, France is the only country to maintain the policy of compulsory vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis,” EurActiv reports.

            “Portugal has kept compulsory vaccination for diphtheria and polio, and Belgium just for polio. Elsewhere in Europe, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and others have all abolished compulsory vaccination.”https://vaccinefactcheck.org/2015/06/05/europe-turning-against-vaccines/

            https://www.medocean.re/categor

          21. And the European Medicines Agency concluded:
            “Review concludes evidence does not support that HPV vaccines cause CRPS or POTS”https://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/news_and_events/news/2015/11/news_detail_002429.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058004d5c1

          22. “But is the vaccine even effective? Diane Harper, MD, professor and vice-chair of Research at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, is the person who knows more about the HPV vaccine than probably anyone else: she was principal investigator for clinical vaccine trials for both Merck, maker of Gardasil, and GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Cervarix. Her research found that that the incidence of cervical cancer in the United States (3.0 per 100,000 women) is actually lower than the incidence of adverse effects from the very vaccine that’s supposed to protect against it (4.3 per 100,000 doses).

            Dr. Harper put it this way: “The most important point that I have always said from day one, is that the use of this vaccine must be done with informed consent and complete disclosure of the benefits and harms of Pap screening and HPV vaccines.

            The decision to be vaccinated must be the woman’s (or parent’s if it is for a young child), and not the physician’s or any board of health, as the vaccination contains personal risk that only the person can value.”

            https://www.anh-usa.org/hpv-vaccine-debate-facts-also-a-causality/

          23. For God’s sake, Grace, a 4 1/2 year old lying liar story? “Doctor” Harper was NOT the lead investigator. Even that top lying liar, Sharyl Atkissoff, said she was ONE of the lead investigators, not that I should give her any additional publicity.
            https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/

            Here is a more rational article about Diane Harper:
            https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/dr-diane-harper-hpv-vaccines-the-tin-hat-version/
            “Gardasil saves lives, and Dr. Diane Harper says that.”

          24. An Interview with Dr. Diane M. Harper, HPV Expert

            Can you explain what your role as a “principal investigator (PI) for clinical vaccine trials” for Merck (Gardasil) and GlaxoSmithKline (Cervarix) entailed?

            “Principal investigator means that I was responsible for assembling a research team to recruit participants, deliver the health care during the study, collect biological specimens at the correct time, and retain subjects over the entire time frame of the study. After the data collection is complete, I have a professional/medical/clinical obligation to review the data for interpretation, comment and publication. There are instances when industry will exclude a PI from participating in the data publication process. In total, for Merck and GSK, our team enrolled and followed nearly 3000 women in these studies. We have been participating in these trials as early as1997 when the first protocols were written.”

            https://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/an-interview-with-dr-dian_b_405472.html

          25. https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/gardasil-researcher-really-against-vaccine/
            “In addition, she stated that she was the “principal investigator
            (which) means that I was responsible for assembling a research team to recruit participants, deliver the health care during the study, collect biological specimens at the correct time, and retain subjects over the entire time frame of the study.”

            But that role isn’t the “lead researcher” for the whole clinical
            trial, and it was for one location. In fact, the Medical Director (or
            Vice President of Medical Affairs) at Merck or GSK would be responsible for all of the data, all of the research and all of the protocols across the world involved with the HPV vaccine trial. Dr. Harper would have been one cog, amongst many, that didn’t have any strategic role in the research, just data collection.”

            You guys like to inflate the credentials of the people you think agree with you.

          26. The article I quoted said principal investigator, which she was. Also from the huffpost interview:

            “Has the original Gardasil marketing campaign of “one less” muddied the waters and misinformed the public, who heretofore believed that a Pap smear was sufficient to protect them from cervical cancer?

            “If women were participating in Pap screening, or if as a parent you educated your daughter to seek Pap screening at the appropriate age (21 years) for her entire life, then she would have been very unlikely to be at risk for being “one” and would not be “one less.” She would not have been “one” to begin with!

            Yes, the marketing campaign was designed to incite the greatest fear possible in parents, so that there would be uptake of the vaccine. If parents and girls were told the benefits and harms of Pap screening and HPV vaccines as described above, an informed and valued decision would have been able to be made. Many may have chosen to continue with a lifetime of Pap screening and forgo the vaccines, with the unknowns of duration of efficacy and safety unable to be answered for many more years.”

          27. Don’t mind Katia! Look how many times she links to ‘craptor’ for her data! ‘Grain of salt.’ Graceds! 😉

          28. But guess what they did find…

            Rotavirus vaccines in France : because of three infant death and too many serious side effects vaccines are no longer recommended for routine children immunization

            In total, there were 508 side effects notifications (103,8/ 100 000) of which 201 serious side effects ( 39,57%, 40,9/100 000). 75% of the total side efffects were digestive . There were 47 intussusceptions too and among them 14 (29,80%) required chirurgical treatment. Most of them occurred after the first dose and the median age for post-vaccinal intussusceptions was 3 months[2]. 21 of the 35 cases of intussusceptions with the vaccine Rotarix occurred during the first 7 days following vaccination and 6 of 12 for Rotateq. Two of the infants with intussusceptions died, one was vaccinated by Rotarix and the other by Rotateq. The infant death caused by Rotarix occurred in 2012 but GSK, in charge of the enhanced pharmacovigilance plan for Rotarix as it was allowed by the 2010/84/UE directive , declared it to public pharmacovigilance only in December 2014.

            ***Following these events, health authorities refused to recommend and reimburse rotavirus vaccines.***

            https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2867/rr-1

            Evolution of multiple sclerosis in France since the beginning of hepatitis B vaccination

            “The results confirmed, at the global population level, a significant correlation between the number of immunizations and both the number of MS cases declared to the pharmacovigilance system 1–2 years later and an overall increase in identified MS cases in the country”.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266455/

          29. Take it up with the French, although right now they seem to have more important things on their minds than whether ione murphy of the USA thinks their law is too harsh.

          30. ‘Vaccine debate as support drops’

            January 14, 2016

            “THE Ministry of Health has launched a national debate on vaccination to counter a growing anti-vaccine movement in France. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said she wanted to “reinforce confidence” in vaccination and “respond to all worries and preoccupations”.

            The ministry is responding to dropping numbers of vaccinations. Since 2008 the number of people receiving winter flu jabs has dropped 13 percentage points and the number of outbreaks of measles is rising after a drop in baby vaccinations.

            Vaccinations against human papilloma virus in young girls have also had a low take up, just 17%, compared to 80% in neighbouring countries.

            As HPV infection can increase the risk of developing cancer of the uterus, the national health authority recommends the vaccination in girls aged between nine and 14.

            Mrs Touraine admitted that France’s policy of splitting vaccines into two groups of ‘compulsory’ and ‘recommended’ was a source of confusion for the public.

            In France three vaccines are mandatory for children before the age of 11: diphtheria, tetanus and polio (DTP). Others are only ‘recommended’.

            However, since 2008 there has been no single DTP vaccination, and parents have had to use combinations with other recommended jabs such as whooping cough and hepatitis B.

            The health ministry yesterday described the shortage of stock of certain essential vaccines as “worrying” and said that manufacturers should put in place measures to avoid them or face financial penalties.

            Last summer such a shortage led to a petition by the oncologist Henri Joyeux warning of the dangers of using the only available product at that time – which contained six vaccinations – and claiming certain vaccinations were unnecessary.

            He is being sued by the Ordre des médecins for the talks he has given around the country against vaccinations.

            However, growing mistrust in vaccinations began earlier, in the wake of the H1N1 scandal when the government ordered 94 million doses of flu vaccine and only six million were used by the public.

            Manufacturers pocketed €48 million from the order, amid claims that the risk of the spread of H1N1 had been exaggerated, and investigations that revealed links between those assessing the risk to public health, those formulating policy and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

            In March a website will be launched to collect responses from the public, medical professionals, associations and institutions which will be examined before new vaccine proposals are announced in December.

            Another site will also educate the public and health professionals on the subject of vaccinations.

            A new electronic vaccination card will also be launched in March in five regions. ”

            – See more at: https://www.connexionfrance.com/health-ministry-France-vaccination-debate-H1N1-HPV-Henri-Joyeux-17615-view-article.html#sthash.7NxshVNx.dpuf

          31. This is going to be very interesting. We can be sure that we will not hear about this in mainstream media.

          32. However Katia – the vaccines only work short term and more and more vaccines are being addd to the schedule without any studies to prove their safety. This could only be achieved by a vaccinated/unvaccinated study and this could be done retrospectively. There is evidence that increasing levels of vaccination can cause auto immune disease and also seed major outbreaks in the future.

            Vaccination ultimately may increase epidemics due to short term immunity and a greater susceptibility to infection in older people.

            We can foresee that vaccination will have two conflicting effects . . . it will reduce the number of newborn susceptibles and hence should have some of the usual associated public-health benefits reducing the number of cases in young children. However, this reduction in cases will lead to a reduction in boosting and therefore a greater susceptibility to infection in older age classes . . . When immunity wanes, vaccination has a far more limited impact on the average number of cases. While this observation has clear public-health implications, the dynamic consequences of the interaction between vaccination, waning immunity and boosting are far more striking. For high levels of vaccination (greater than 80%) and moderate levels of waning immunity (greater than 30 years), large-scale epidemic cycles can be induced.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677258/

          33. Glenn Frey of the Eagles…plagued by lifelong colitis and a diminished immune system. I’d like to see his vaccination history.

          34. This is why we need to do a retrospective vaccinated unvaccinated population study. We see adults and children everywhere suffering from auto-immune diseases, autism etc. We can never know when all pharma does is study one vaccine containing toxic ingredients against a different vaccine containing toxic ingredients – you can’t test for lung cancer by giving the test subjects a different package of cigarettes and then if there is no increase in lung cancer all is good.

          35. Diminishing immunity opens a huge door of opportunity for disease. In today’s medical science, the first thing they try is producing a vaccine for these new and growing conditions. Its circular. And as long as they keep denying vaccines are involved, it will never end.

          36. Profoundly dishonest, not to mention a repetitious PRATT (point refuted a thousand times). MS and WV have other issues, like poverty and restricted access to pre-natal and maternal medical care, that affect IMRs. Overall US rates are also affected by health disparities and a different way of recording IMR.

            You’re also lazy, Ione.

          37. It is a cradle to grave industry AutismDadd because all the sickness that vaccines produce which manifest long after the short safety trials, produce massive profits of pharmaceutical companies.

          38. Waitaminute, Dudd. You lot should really get your stories straight: is it diminished immunity or runamuck, over-the-top autoimmunity?

            Anyone paying attention would notice that your various etiologies conflict.

          39. I think you funked up. Show me where I compared the two. I stated that Glenn Frey was diagnosed with that, so maybe think before you post brainfarts. its less messy.

          40. Showing your ignorance again, Judith. That’s not how the lung cancer/cigarette causation was discovered. It would be highly unethical to test cigarettes on people, even current smokers.

          41. Many vaccines including the measles vaccine, give long term, presumably lifetime immunity. The original measles vaccinnees from 1963 are still immune, these 53 years later.

            There is no evidence of this other garbage of yours.

            If I’m sure of anything, Judith, it’s that you don’t understand that article.

            Also, there is absolutely NO advantage to getting 53 years worth of immunity by getting the disease, b/c you run the risk of also getting permanent hearing, vision, and/or mental power loss.

          42. Almost 5,000 hospitalisations and 10 deaths.

            Doesn’t seem healthier to me. Nor to anyone numerate.

          43. Wow. 5,000 with lifelong immunity. 10 deaths. How did the 10 die? Anyhow, 5,000 will NEVER die from measles now will they? Anything else I can help you with?

          1. Children suffering from malnutrition in developing countries, do not show a good response to immunization.

            The Immune System in Children with Malnutrition—A Systematic Review

            “Thirty-five articles described vaccination responses to a specific antigen. The articles either reported sero-conversion rates, or antibody titre response. Studies assessing sero-conversion rates in children with severe malnutrition found mixed results: Six of 10 studies found reduced sero-conversion rates in children with severe malnutrition to typhoid, diphtheria, tetanus, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (DTP), hepatitis B, measles and yellow fever, and two studies found that sero-conversion was delayed in malnourished children. Ten of 11 studies found that severely malnourished children responded with reduced antibody titers

            Three of five articles reported similar adverse reactions to vaccination in malnourished as in well-nourished . In contrast, one study found that malnourished children given measles vaccine frequently developed diarrhoea, pneumonia and fever, compared to well-nourished children, who, in turn, more often developed a rash.”..

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4143239/

            Biological challenges to effective vaccines in the developing world
            Nicholas C. Grassly, Gagandeep Kang, Beate Kampmann
            Published 11 May 2015.DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0138

            Limited or variable effectiveness of existing vaccines leaves children at risk of infection

            In particular, lower efficacy of these vaccines in low-income countries has limited their health impact and in the case of poliomyelitis has acted as a significant barrier to eradication [28].

            https://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1671/20140138.full

          2. Yes, malnutrition is a challenge but at least that got vaccinations to help them as much as it can. You articles explain that the vaccine response is “reduced”, not eliminated.
            Vaccines still help the malnourished.

          3. Numbers NOT in the 100,000s in the U.S.A. That’s a good thing.

            It’s always nice when trolls like ione make the strongest argument for vaccines, wouldn’t you say?

        1. Same parrot response. Don’t support anything that makes us killers and criminally negligent for maiming consumers.

      2. ione murphy morefacts • 16 days ago

        Why are you posting under two names on the same article JusttheFacts?

        Justthefacts ione murphy • 16 days ago

        I screwed up and did the wrong login. They are very similar and I did notice until after a few posts. No sock puppeting here. morefacts is me

        ione murphy Justthefacts • 16 days ago

        I’m sure that happens to everyone that has two disqus profiles. I’m glad you finally noticed it after leaving 6 comments under your other name. And upvoting all the shills with both of your names. Why are you such a hypocrite???

        https://disqus.com/home/discussion/aurorasentinel/editorial_mandatory_vaccination_reform_must_be_among_2016_colorado_legislative_goals/#comment-2438956025

        1. Thanks for proving that I am not a liar. That was your point, right? I was completely honest about my profiles and positions, correct?

          ione murphy is a confirmed liar.

      3. JusttheVacts continues to post that 100,000 people die every year from measles – yes in the third world where malnutrition, poor sanitation, parasitic disease are rife. More of Bill Gate’s money could be spent on improving nutrition. In China where there is almost perfect immunisation, there continues to be large outbreaks among the vaccinated.

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930734/

        “The reported coverage of the measles-rubella (MR) or measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is greater than 99.0% in Zhejiang province. However, the incidence of measles, mumps, and rubella remains high.”

        How does nutrition play a role in disease? Discovered in the 1920s, vitamin A was dubbed the “anti-infective” vitamin. It alone has a tremendous impact on measles deaths. During the 1990s, mortality reductions of 60 to 90 percent were measured in poor countries using vitamin A in hospitalized measles cases.

        Combined analyses showed that massive doses of vitamin A given to patients hospitalized with measles were associated with an approximately 60% reduction in the risk of death overall, and with an approximate 90% reduction among infants . . . Administration of vitamin A to children who developed pneumonia before or during hospital stay reduced mortality by about 70% compared with control children. [18]

        Availability of vitamin C-rich fruits and vegetables was another factor in disease morbidity and mortality reduction. There were improving trends in overall nutrition, as seen by a parallel in the decline in deaths from measles and the vitamin C deficiency disease, scurvy. Experiments done in the 1940s showed that vitamin C was effective against measles, especially when used in higher doses.

        https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=403569

        1. Well you where honest about one thing. Measles is a deadly disease which needs both nutrition and vaccinations to fight it. No on to your half truths.

          Chinese outbreaks are due to unvaccinated foreign immigrants. Why didn’t you mention that? What else did uit say?

          https://borgenproject.org/chinese-measles-outbreak/

          What else did it say?

          ” Further investigation of the case-based reporting system from NEDSS of China found that, in 2011, nine measles cases were unvaccinated or unknown vaccination history, suggesting more catch-up vaccination need to target unvaccinated children and young adults to fill the immunization gaps. Meanwhile, it also showed that two infants among nine measles cases were local residents while the other seven cases (one was infants and the left six were young adults) were all from the other parts of China, indicating that imported measles pose threat to eliminate disease and improving MCV coverage in child and younger adult interprovincial migrates is essential.”
          yes, better vaccinations are needed. thanks for that paper to show us this fact.

          1. Are you seriously saying that while China mandates compulsory vaccinations on its own population it doesn’t bother to mandate its foreign immigrants?? That does not make any sense.

          2. I guess you didn’t read the links, did ya?

            a billion people are a bit of a control problem………..

          3. Are you saying that people are allowed into China on a visa and are not required to have vaccinations when the requirements for the chinese population are so stringent….I don’t think so.

          4. So you made this ignorant statement because you didn’t read the links. You would appear less stupid if you read the links before you criticize them.

            AS MENTIONED IN THE LINK, the “foreign immigrants” are from china controlled countries and people foreign to Zhejiang province. China does not have 100% vaccinations yet in every bit of land they control.

            Have you missed that the Dalai Lama is a bit miffed about Tibet? My god, you are uninformed.

            Read the links and pretend to learn something. To help, I’ll report the section that explains that moving populations and catch-up gaps in China are a bit of a problem.

            ” Further investigation of the case-based reporting system from NEDSS of China found that, in 2011, nine measles cases were unvaccinated or unknown vaccination history, suggesting more catch-up vaccination need to target unvaccinated children and young adults to fill the immunization gaps. Meanwhile, it also showed that two infants among nine measles cases were local residents while the other seven cases (one was infants and the left six were young adults) were all from the other parts of China, indicating that imported measles pose threat to eliminate disease and improving MCV coverage in child and younger adult interprovincial migrates is essential.”

      4. So where is Big Pharma, Paul Offit and Bill Gates? Why are they not there preventing it? They have lots of $$$ for their humanitarian organizations and from profits. Its not anti-vaxxers allowing those deaths, its the ones who own vaccines.

    2. So passionately pertinent, while profoundly and prudently penned, that I’d like to smooch you and nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize!

      Thank you!
      Mwah! Love, suz! 😉

    3. Just for the record, bwf309, and for those like Brian below, I think we should take a short survey of the posters commenting here!

      Will ALL ‘anti vaxers’ please register your nym here so we can get an accurate head count of what many of these ‘forced vaxers’ incessantly and incorrectly refer to as ‘anti vax!’

      I keep hearing this term ‘anti vax’ but yet I haven’t seen anyone associated to such a term, posting here!

      Thank you in advance ‘anti vaxers’ for your diligent cooperation!

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      Doubt we’ll need more than that! 😉

    4. For those of you new to this 11,000 comment party, note the level of civility most of the shills and liberal progressives utilize to try and intimidate anyone that dares to question their agenda. It is about freedom to chose for you and your family. The so called “progressives” want control of all aspects of our lives including health. Hopefully, even if you wish to vaccinate yourself and your children you will not be buffaloed by those that name call and try to shout down any logical or reasonable arguments. Don’t give up your right to care for your children the way you see fit.

  202. Just popped in to see what’s new. Same folks bickering with each other, safely away from traffic

      1. You never know which article will catch on. I’ve recommended many I thought were great that just didn’t generate much energy. This one, however, is very popular.

  203. The California Dept. of Public Health has released the 2015-2016 school year Kindergarten Immunization Assessment available here:
    cdph(dot)ca(dot)gov/programs/immunize/Documents/2015-16_CA_KindergartenSummaryReport.pdf

    The number of entrants claiming a PBE decreased slightly from 2.54% in 2014-2015 to 2.37%.
    Students entering fully vaccinated rose from 90.4% in 2014-2015 to 92.9%. This increase matches the decrease in Conditional Entrants from 6.9% in 2014-2015 to 4.4%.

    The number of students increased from 535,234 in 2014-2015 to 551,123. I guess the promised exodus of all the anti-vaccine cultists that was promised should SB277 be enacted hasn’t occurred yet. One can only imagine the California highways this summer as the anti-vaccinationists head out for their new life in Idaho with all their belongings packed into their Volvos with Granny’s rocking chair sticking out of the sunroof a la The Beverly Hillbillies. They surely wouldn’t go back on their word and stay in California merely to keep their lucrative jobs and homes and possessions, would they? This is the lives of their chillrun at stake and mere money couldn’t sway them, could it? During the propaganda demonstrations they assured us they would pack up and leave and California would be sorry to lose their huge numbers of tax-paying loons.

    I wonder how all the private Waldork and Charter schools that had greater than 20% Kindergarten PBEs last year are going to afford to operate when they lose 20% – 50%+ of their $13,000 – $17,000 per year students because they aren’t vaccinated and either left the state or are being home schooled.

    1. So In California, the increase in PBEs this school year was offset by a decrease in the number of “conditional entrants,” or kids with neither a shot record or exemption at start of school. That’s a problem here too. The database to see the actual numbers for Colorado won’t be online until later this year.

      The deadline for filing a PBE to be grandfathered in California was Dec 31, 2015. The law there does not fully go into effect until July 1, 2016. Next school year will be the indicator.

      California’s new vaccination law serves as a national model, Stanford scholars say
      https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/july/exemptions-vaccine-model-072315.html

        1. “After passing the Sacramento Health Committee vote, the bill was delayed as committee chair Senator Carol Liu wisely told the bill’s author Richard Pan “If I were you, I would not take a vote today.” At the conclusion of the vote, Liu asked Senator Pan point blank how he wanted to proceed. To this, Pan, appearing to have no power to make the decision, turned to lobbyist Jodi Hicks and Janus Norman for advice.”

          “Hicks currently is a founding member of the independent Sacramento lobbying firm DiMare, Brown, Hicks, and Kessler (DBHK). She is also the former chief lobbyist of the California Medical Association (CMA) who Pan, under her direction, was an active member as a lobbyist for doctors before becoming Senator.

          According to their webpage and annual reports, some corporate sponsors for the CMA include AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Eli Lilly”

          1. According to an article from 2014 in the Sacramento Bee:
            “As a UC Davis pediatrician, Pan was an active member of the group that lobbies for doctors in the Capitol, known as the California Medical Association. Jodi Hicks, was the association’s chief lobbyist. … and is a partner in a Sacramento lobbying firm called DiMare, Brown, Hicks & Kessler. She routinely seeks Pan’s votes as she lobbies for clients that include associations representing family physicians, eye doctors and podiatrists. Those three groups have together given more than $20,000 to Pan’s campaign.”
            Hicks daughter, Seneca, appeared in Pan’s campaign commercials, Hicks said about her daughter Seneca appearing in Pan’s campaign commercials, “I don’t think anyone other than a few of us here in Sacramento know it’s a lobbyist’s daughter.”

          2. The California Medical Association is a doctor’s organization. She represents the doctors, dummy.

            The doctors supported that bill even though they actually LOSE money on vaccination visits. Why did they support it? Because vaccination keeps kids healthy.

          1. Hicks currently is a founding member of the independent Sacramento lobbying firm DiMare, Brown, Hicks, and Kessler (DBHK)

        2. Wow Graceds, fighting a battle you already completely lost. At least you can play the role of a loser really well.

    2. I see Dudley do wrong has traded his horse for a snarkmobile.

      A pupil who, prior to January 1, 2016, submitted a letter or affidavit on file at a private or public elementary or secondary school, child day care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center stating beliefs opposed to immunization shall be allowed enrollmentto any private or public elementary or secondary school, child day care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center within the state until the pupil enrolls in the next grade span.
      The “grandfather” clause will exempt children from the mandatory vaccinations who are entering childcare or preschool and Kindergarten by June of 2016 and children within the “checkpoint” grad spans of TK/K thru 6th grade or 7th thru 12th grade.

      Most are not yet affected, Dudley.

    3. I would say most wanting the freedom to choose will be moving to Colorado

      “In 1980, 7.4 percent of Colorado’s transplants were born in California, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 1990, it was 7.8 percent. By 2000, the figure had jumped to 11.5 percent, or 243,071 people.

      That means that almost one in eight transplants living in Colorado that year was born in California. The trend continues.

      In 2005, 25,350 Californians moved to Colorado, far outstripping runners-up Texas and Florida.”

      Oct 2015

      ‘Colorado as the next Silicon Valley?’

      The tech scene in Colorado is on fire, particularly for companies that specialize in natural foods, computer storage and biotech,” wrote Mashable, adding that the three other U.S. regions rivaling Silicon Valley were South Florida, Raleigh/Durham’s Research Triangle, and Austin.

      https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2015/10/07/next-silicon-valley-how-about-colorado.html

      1. Until we get a referendum going in Colorado, the state that made pot legal. Do you really think 51% of Colorado will vote to allow you free riders when 89% get vaccinated?
        .
        A referendum is certain to pass. We are working on starting the petition drive right now.

          1. I remember him mentioning living in CO months ago.

            What is it with you that you constantly lie about people?

          2. It’s a personality disorder. The Editor stepped in after she started lying about people having access to the moderation panel a couple days ago, in case you missed it.

          3. Dave’s reply to ione murphy:

            “While we can’t speak internal aspects of the DISQUS system, we can assure you that only Aurora Sentinel editors have access to our moderation panel and software, and that it’s secure. The system by nature allows for some information to be shared, but any personal identifying information supplied to us is secure.” — DeskEditor https://disq.us/92hskk

            He also responded to Katia’s complaint about nasty, off-topic comments. Was she referring to you or ione murphy? I get you two confused.

          4. Mr. Perry replying to Katia’s complaint about the nasty personal attacks.

            “Thanks. We’ve stepped in for the time with a request to knock it off.” — DeskEditor https://disq.us/92husb

            If you need further clarification, let me know.

          5. Top of article the editor writes..

            ”over-the-top offensive”

            ” Besides many of these being way off-topic and puerile, they’re really gross”

            “”Please don’t post it anymore””

            “Thanks, Dave Perry, Editor”

            I haven’t post anything over the top offensive that was really gross, have you Grace?

          6. watson aka ivan forsch aka cathy aka zogby aka brooke dunne aka ibid aka bishop,aka kfunk aka mitt romney, aka checkm8te, aka liz, aka mike adams aka Brandon S, and quite a few more sockpuppets advocates violence towards those who would dare to question vaccine safety. The meme attached to this comment was taken down but was of a seal hunter clubbing a baby seal. This is a form of hate speech towards those who just want answers about why their child was injured or died from vaccines

            Ivan Forsch Ari • 9 months ago

            Yeah. Thought about that, and nah. It’s been studied.

            Bearpants was right

            Confront them.
            Shout them down
            Mock them without mercy.

            When they open their lying pie holes, club em like a baby seal.

            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/collide-a-scape/the_robert_kennedy_jr_anti_vaccine_tour/#comment-1966228947

            “Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons”

          7. The editor stepped in when I asked him/her to, dipstick. I”m presuming that’s what the “ds” at the end of your name stands for.

          8. I know that his top post was written exclusively for your pos, Watson!

            Check out the timing of his warning & my ‘burn notice!’ His response came within a min. after MY post.

            Katia’s wah wah was of NO consequence whatsoever! However, she arrogantly thought so, until I was able to show her my previous post to mods, earlier in the afternoon, just after your initial pos event!

            He likely got a good guffaw from her post, like the rest of us readers! 😉

          9. “Check out the timing of his warning & my ‘burn notice!’

            Okay.

            DeskEditor “Knock it off” Monday, January 18, 2016 4:28 PM https://disq.us/92q1z7

            DeskEditor ➡ Katia “Thanks” Monday, January 18, 2016 4:30 PM https://disq.us/92q31f

            Suz Norkan “Burn Notice” Monday, January 18, 2016 4:40 PM https://disq.us/92q1w0

            Dave’s response was 12 minutes before your post. I don’t see where he replied to you at all.

            Lying liars lie lots 🙂

          10. Thanks for proving my point for me!

            My first post was held in mod, since it had much stronger language to address your ‘purdy’ pic! I was actually putting out a ‘burn notice’ alerting and WARNING the readers that your content contained a puerile post with a disgusting graphic!

            Dave was already answering my initial ‘burn’ while I typed the second; so as I said the timing is spot on!

            Katia’s whine was and still IS an insignificant joke!

            ‘Puerile and disgusting!’ Is it sinking in for ya yet, Watson! 😉

          11. “Thanks for proving my point for me!

            My first post was held in mod”

            So your point is you’re a liar? That’s what I just proved.

          12. My ‘point’ is that Dave was answering my first burn notice, [held in mod] as I retyped the second burn notice mins. later, tweaking expletives; and of which Dave used some of the EXACT same language included in the initial BURN being held in mod.

            To the contrary, the only individual you’ve shown to be a LIAR, continues to be YOU, Watson! The timing is spot on! Thank you for proving such.

            Suz doesn’t lie, but YOU all do!

            Nothing like continuing to beat a dead horse over a pos, when you’re losing and have been CAUGHT in a lie, Watson! 😉

          13. The timing is 10 minutes later. It’s easier to believe you copied Dave’s language and are lying about it right now. You are, after all, the same troll who’s been banned from 10 separate sites, some more than once.

            RH Reality Check …….. Banned (twice)
            AlterNet …………………….Banned
            Raw Story ……………….. Banned
            Mercury News ………….. Banned (twice)
            Washington Times ……. Banned
            A shot of prevention ….. Banned
            LAist………………………… Banned
            Patch……………………….. Banned
            Breitbart…………………… Banned
            The Hill…………………….. Banned

          14. Your info is inaccurate and you CONTINUE to beat a dead horse over your pos, which Dave referred to in answer to my initial ‘burn notice!’

          15. He did, and I can prove it, should you continue to be a sore loser whiner baby! Grow up you little turd! 😉

          16. Zogby 2 months ago
            1) The @mod for a site can see the IP and email address of all commenters. Just between friends, anyone who thinks that info is private, you’re wrong
            2) The Disqus Admin panel also shows how many flags a given user has gotten, and how many deletes. It goes to a Disqus Rep Score. If a user’s Rep Score is too low, all their new comments go to moderation. Disqus gave us this tool to bury sockpuppets and trolls right out of the gate. Use it.

            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/skepticalraptorblog/lilady_rn_a_memory_of_a_passionate_vaccine_supporter/#comment-2046785057

          17. Saw that. See this:

            “ICYMI, here’s Twyla Lowe (ione murphy) and Cynthia Parker (ciaparker2) discussing stalking and cyber harassment of SB277 supporters.” — Bishop https://disq.us/92qrok

            “Fwiw the other Twyla (the Ramos) has been banned from the Daily Kos, along with several of her compatriots.” — kfunk937 https://disq.us/92qsyx

            Twyla Ramos (Twylaa) got a mention at AoA. “Daily Kos Has a Complete Intellectual Breakdown Over Vaccine Safety.” Check out her comment history at Kos and see if you notice anything 😉

          18. Oh Sweetie. Haven’t you heard? I’m H. Cathy McLaughlin MD Diplomate, American Board of Urology. Any luck selling your book report to Mike Adams?

          19. you mean you haven’t seen the story yet???

            HA ha, made you look. Bet you spent the last ten minutes over at natural news looking for your ‘story’

          20. It’s been on my profile since day one.
            And yes, I am seriously working on starting a petition. There are rational skeptics here who are tired of morons like you.

          21. I only have one profile. I told you the other one was deleted.
            There is the whole process of application to complete first, then the signatures. We’ll be getting the signatures before any press so thanks for the up-front kudo.

        1. ” Alaska and Washington D.C. joined the ranks of Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational marijuana

          As of April 2015, 23 states and Washington D.C. have legalized cannabis for medical use”

          1. Yes, and Colorado is a perfect place to get a referendum passed to require vaccinations. All we need is 100K signatures and a majority vote from a population that 90% vaccinates and vaccinations will be in the constitution.
            It’s a cake walk.

          2. I was thinking Aguilar or Pabon might be a good sponsor in the Legislature, but you’re right. A referendum makes more sense.

          3. Look it up. Referendums are easy in Colorado. 100K signatures from anybody and it’s legal to even pay for signatures! It’s the wild west in Colorado.
            I’m working on a team and fund raising.

      2. Oh, they’ve been talking that Silicon Valley East talk for years, ione, at least since we moved here in 1980. You should know that if you live here 4-5 months/year.

        1. Colorado is 6th on the list of 15 places

          2014-The California Exodus

          “California has experienced rapid population growth for most of its history, but that trend has come to an end. California’s population grew by 2.9 percent over the last three years, only slightly above the nation’s 2.4 percent increase. Over the last few decades, millions of Californians have left the Golden State for opportunities elsewhere.”

          https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/upshot/the-california-exodus.html?_r=0

    4. Even though the law hasn’t fully gone into effect, I read something interesting this morning:

      “Information collected during the fall for the 2015-2016 school year shows 92.9 percent of children received all of the required vaccinations. That’s up from 90.4 percent in 2014 and 90.2 percent in 2013”
      https://www.wired.com/2016/01/californias-pro-vaccination-law-may-be-working/

      The big “debate” over the summer really helped. Looks like the more people learn, the less likely they are to fall for antivaxxer bullshlt.

      1. “the more people learn, the less likely they are to fall for antivaxxer bullshlt.”

        The opinion poll at Gallup shows the same: More information = More likely to agree school kids should be required to be vaccinated.

        It’s interesting to see the actual effect on vaccination rates though. Thanks.

  204. COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016

    Bill Folders for Bills Containing the word(s) vaccines

    No matching documents located

    https://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2016A/csl.nsf/MainBills?openFrameset

    HB14-1288Summary of Legislation

    Under current law, a student is exempted from receiving required immunizations prior to attending a public school if the student or parent submits a statement of exemption based on religious or personal beliefs. The bill requires the State Board of Health, within the Department of Public Health and Environment (DPHE), to promulgate rules regarding immunization information, including exemption rates, that is available to the public through the DPHE. This information must include evidence-based research, resources, and information from credible scientific and public health organizations, peer-reviewed studies, and an online learning module;”

    School District Impact

    “Beginning in FY 2015-16, school districts in the state will be required to adopt the new immunization standards developed under the bill. School districts will be responsible for educating school health divisions about the immunization requirements and making student immunization data publicly available upon request.

    Pursuant to Section 22-32-143, C.R.S., school districts and Boards of Cooperative

    Educational Services (BOCES) may submit estimates of fiscal impacts within seven days of a bill’s introduction. As of the date of this fiscal note, no summaries of fiscal impacts were submitted by districts or BOCES for this bill. If summaries of fiscal impacts are submitted by districts or BOCES in the future, they will be noted in subsequent revisions to the fiscal note and posted at this”

    address: https://www.colorado.gov/lcs.

    Effective Date

    The bill was signed into law by the Governor and took effect on May 21, 2014.”

      1. hmm..seems the link you gave me is just a summary of the 2014 bill that has already passed and says nothing about adding anything to the current 2016 assembly bills. It does state this though…

        “State law also allows for a student to be exempt from the immunization requirements for medical reasons, religious beliefs, or personal beliefs. If an immunization is not given due to religious and personal beliefs, a statement of exemption must be submitted to the student’s school that is signed by one of the student’s parents or legal guardians.”

        1. The Legislative Council doesn’t take policy positions.

          The issue brief discusses “Immunization Rates and State Rankings,” “Recent Colorado Legislation and Regulation Concerning Immunizations” and the “Colorado Immunization Information System.”

          However, you are correct: Nothing about adding anything. All this time spent commenting on a three week old editorial in a state where you don’t live seems like a big waste.

          1. Interesting. I don’t know if any legislators are planning on submitting any bills this year re: immunizations. However, the BOH did promulgate some rules making it harder to file the exemptions.
            “The change, which will take effect July 1, 2016, requires parents of
            K-12 children to submit personal belief or religious exemption forms
            annually and parents of younger children to submit the forms up to five
            times prior to kindergarten. (See this story for more background.)”
            https://co.chalkbeat.org/2015/04/15/health-board-votes-to-toughen-rules-for-opting-kids-out-of-immunizations/#.VqE0MVJ0osI

            It used to be a claim for exemption only needed to be filed once, or at least just once per school, e.g. elementary, middle, HS.

          2. It will be to some people. At the very least, it will make them think about it every year. The schools will no longer have the forms at their offices either, they’ll be online. If you don’t have access to a computer, you’ll have to call the HD and have them mail you one.

            There’s been plenty of research that shows the easier it is to claim an exemption, the more people exempt. Your lot is a lazy bunch, Grace.

          3. Some parents are just lazy.

            Has anyone gotten a number of how many people who opt out really do so because they object? Looking at California, 8% are unvaccinated, but less than 3% filed PBEs. It makes me curious.

          4. Some parents are just lazy.

            Has anyone gotten a number of how many people who opt out really do so because they object? Looking at California, 8% are unvaccinated, but less than 3% filed PBEs. It makes me curious.

          5. I suspect a large number of those are just because it’s easier to sign the form before Kindergarten starts than to take your kid to the pediatrician.

          6. Having worked in pediatrics, in Colorado, I can attest! We impressed upon our patients the importance of hanging on to that immunization record, but some would still call and say they lost it could they have another. Probably as many just signed an exemption.

  205. Bovine Serum which is cow’s blood are in vaccines. I found this FDA Article doing research on CJD, also known as Mad Cow Disease. I now know of a couple of people who have died from this terrible disease, and so I started doing some research. People are dying in the USA of this horrible disease, in which the disease can lay dormant for 20 or more years, and yet they still use bovine serum in most vaccines. The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA regulates biological products including vaccines. For several years CBER has recommended that bovine derived components from countries which have or may have BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the so called “mad cow disease”) not be used for the manufacture of US-licensed biological products including vaccines. Now, notice that it is only recommended, not mandatory of where they get the bovine serum. BSE cannot be destroyed with any chemical or even extreme heat. How many other diseases cannot be destroyed by chemicals or destroyed by heat? https://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/vaccines/questionsaboutvaccines/ucm143522.htm

    1. Always good to hear from the crazies in Utah. Hello, Mrs. Fitches.

      I believe it was Boyd Haley who suggested renaming autism to “Mad Child Disease.” That idea never really took off, though.

      1. The article is not mine, Watson. It is from the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the ones who are supposed to oversee the vaccinations.

        1. Notice his inane comments are to deflect from the fact that he has no intelligent reply to your research and comments.

    2. You forgot to include this part you intentionally didn’t include:
      .
      ” There is no evidence that any case of vCJD has resulted from use of a vaccine, and there is no evidence that any vaccines harbor the BSE agent.”
      .
      You also don’t know that NOBODY in all of history has ever contracted mad cow disease in the U.S. from anything.
      .
      Nice lie behind your fear mongering attempt. You can go now.

      1. There is no lie. The truth is that Bovine Serum is in a lot of vaccines and CJD cases are growing in the United States. Now, in the article, I want you to notice something. The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA regulates biological products including vaccines. For several years CBER has RECOMMENDED (NOT MANDATORY) that bovine derived components from countries which have or may have BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the so called “mad cow disease”) not be used for the manufacture of US-licensed biological products including vaccines. If you want what are in vaccines, be my guest, but don’t try to force others in taking something that will cause worse diseases than what they are being vaccinated against.

        1. What part of “there is no evidence that any vaccines harbor the BSE agent.” that you don’t understand?
          .
          That is from YOUR SOURCE!!! There is no issue at all.
          .
          All of the CJD cases in the U.S. contracted it outside the U.S.
          Grow up and stop lying.

          1. watson aka brooke dunne going for the old post their name and address intimidation trick. Won’t work on Gail.

          2. “I come from a different perspective than most. I have taken chemical and biological warfare every year for 12 years, and I know these government bio warfare laboratories.” — Gail Fitches

            This is from a blog where several antivax trolls are named. You’re one of them, “ione murphy.”

          3. Yes, Gail was in the military and knows what she’s talking about. And Gail and I are proud to be part of the movement to defend the right for choice when it comes to what we put in our bodies or the bodies of our children. If there is risk, and believe me there is PLENTY risk, there must be a choice.

          4. wow you really are desperate. You are digging up posts a year and half old now. Since I post under what I thought was a anonymous alias, how did Mike Stevens learn my real name and age, and you learn my employment status if you don’t mind me asking?

          5. Stooping lower and lower. You are representing the pharma cartel and it isn’t a good look. Any lower and you will fall into the sewer.

          6. Desperate personal attacks and getting more and more desperate and as the Cartel fail to counter information being aired on this discussion.

          7. How about commenting on the topic rather than your pathetic attempt at personal attack and slander. You are pathetic.

          8. When you have no intelligent reply you resort to the despicable practice of trying to slander – it will win you no fans.

        2. BSE Cases Identified in Canadian-born Cattle
          As of February 18, 2015, 20 BSE cases in Canadian-born cattle have been identified, 19 in Canada and 1 in the U.S. Of these 20 cases, 14 were known to have been born after the implementation of the 1997 Canadian feed ban ; 13 of these 14 were born after March 1, 1999. (See Figure above: BSE Cases in North America, by Year and Country of Death, 1993-02/2015). This latter date is particularly relevant to the U.S. because since a USDA rule went into effect on November 19, 2007, Canadian cattle born on or after March 1, 1999 have been legally imported into this country for any use.

          https://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/

      2. Read the last paragraph. Read it again, all the way through. It does not state that. It states, “Also see above “Why is FDA leaving on the market vaccines which may be contaminated with the BSE agent?” FDA and other PHS agencies believe that the vaccines currently licensed for use in the US are safe. A special joint meeting of the TSE and Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committees concluded that the real risk of disease due to not vaccinating far outweighs the theoretical risk posed by exposure to vaccines that have a remote chance of containing the BSE agent.” It says they BELIEVE that the vaccines currently licensed in the U.S. are safe. If you have seen anyone die from CJD, that is a worse death than from cancer, and if you do some research, more and more people are dying from CJD in the U.S.

        1. I read it many times. did you see that part that said:

          “Most vaccine made using bovine derived material from non-BSE risk countries was available at the end of 2001”
          .
          By shelf life, there hasn’t been a vaccine anywhere that could contaminate anyone since 2003. ANYWHERE. NOT ANYWHERE. NOT IS EURPOE, NOT IN THE U.S.
          .
          This is one event 15 years ago that hurt nobody. Old news is a an understatement. So AGAIN. THERE IS ZERO RISK

          Judith, ione, and you Graceds are liars too for upvoting the false ramblings of a sick person. you really should be ashamed.

        2. So they do admit they have a “remote” risk – I guess by the time people develop disease if they do – it will just be collateral damage.

    3. Do Reports of sCJD Clusters Matter?

      January 13, 2004 JP Morgan North American Equity Research

      There have been seven cases of human sCJD clusters identified in the US in the last 15 years, in which people in a specific location were diagnosed with sCJD, resulting in rates between 2.1 and 8.4 deaths per million people for that specific location compared with the national average of one in 1 million. · There is no proven link between sCJD and BSE, and hence it is considered a different disease from vCJD (which has been linked to BSE). However, the existence of clusters raises the question of “contamination” or “infection”, and also raises the hypothesis that rather than cases of sCJD these might have been cases of vCJD. · Clusters are not spontaneous, they normally have a source.

      Of the nine Idaho cases, three people have tested positive for a CJD-like illness, but officials are conducting further tests to determine whether the disease is sCJD. Two others tested negative and four were buried without autopsies.

      The cases could just be a statistical fluke, but the state averages about 1.2 sCJD cases per year and has never had more than three in a single year. The disease is rare and generally is thought to occur at the rate of one case per million people.

      Several CJD clusters in other states have far exceeded that rate, however. These included:

      –southern New Jersey (2000-2003),

      –Lehigh, Pa. (1986-90),

      –Allentown, Pa. (1989-92),

      –Tampa, Fla. (1996-97),

      –Oregon (2001-02), and

      –assessment is accurate, another cluster in Idaho would be even more unlikely.Nassau County, N.Y. (1999-2000).

      Some of the clusters involved as many as 18 deaths, and ranged from a rate of four to eight cases per million people.

      “The existence of clusters raises the question of ‘contamination’ or ‘infection,’ and also raises the hypothesis that rather than cases of sCJD, these might have been cases of vCJD,” the advisory said. “Given that sCJD occurs randomly in one out of 1 million cases, it is a statistical rarity to find an sCJD cluster — let alone six

  206. There is a lot more involved with vaccines than most people think. It is important that people realize the type of cells they grow the viruses in to make vaccines, in which they are continuous cell and immortal cell lines, which means they are tumorigenic and oncogenetic. That is why in 13.1 on almost all the manufacture vaccine inserts it states, “This vaccine has not been tested or evaluated for Carcinogenesis (to create cancer), Mutagenesis (to mutate our genes and cause autoimmune diseases and cancer), Impairment of Fertility, as in to sterilize the future generations.

    Then you have cross species transfer of infectious particles from what they are growing the viruses in, for the production of these vaccines. They are growing these viruses in aborted fetal cells, the African Green Monkey and other animals, insects,
    tumors, etc. They are contaminating our blood and genetic make up, and that upsets me just as much as all the toxic chemicals they are using. Please review this information, because this is what you are not being told regarding vaccinations with information from the CDC, FDA, and World Health Organization (WHO) Websites. Ingredients in Vaccines by the CDC: Controversial products used to make vaccines: African Green Monkey (Vero) cells, aluminum, cow products, Cocker Spaniel cells,
    formaldehyde, human fetal lung tissue cells, insect products, and mouse brains. Doctors, Nurses, and Politicians are not trained on how the pharmaceutical industries make the vaccines and they do not know what are what are in vaccines. https://vaccines.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005206
    (Be sure to scroll down and read II. GLOSSARY AND DETAILS FOR
    INGREDIENTS of what are in the vaccines) This site goes into a lot of
    detail. Also, here is the CDC Website that does not go into as much detail, but lines up with the other link by Procon. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

    Vaccines cause cancer, autoimmune, and neurological diseases, and no one has a right to experiment on us with putting animal, rodent, insect, and cancerous tumor DNA and RNA and giving us zoological diseases or poison us with toxic chemicals that destroy our health. Politicians do not have a clue, and they need to start doing research, because they have no right in harming others, when they have not even done the research.

          1. Like I said, Watson. Most of what I post is in Federal Government Medical sites. You posted a picture. I posted information from those who are supposed to oversee the vaccines.

          2. Fifteen year old information that says zero risk.

            You assume people are as dumb as yourself and can’t read?

          3. Read it again, all the way. It does not state that. It states, “Also see above “Why is FDA leaving on the market vaccines which may be contaminated with the BSE agent?” FDA and other PHS agencies believe that the vaccines currently licensed for use in the US are safe. A special joint meeting of the TSE and Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committees concluded that the real risk of disease due to not vaccinating far outweighs the theoretical risk posed by exposure to vaccines that have a remote chance of containing the BSE agent.” It says they BELIEVE that the vaccines currently licensed in the U.S. are safe. If you have seen anyone die from CJD, that is a worse death than from cancer, and if you do some research, more and more people are dying from CJD in the U.S.

          4. No, but I know two people who have died from it. We all may be carriers of BSE, because sometimes it takes 20 to 30 years to manifest itself, and when it does, the death is horrible and quick within weeks or months. Just like the CDC wants testing done on those born in certain years for Hepatitis, because it was in the vaccines, and people were spreading the disease, everyone should be tested for BSE, so we at least know. There are new less invasive ways of testing now, instead of doing an autopsy when someone dies. If they use medical equipment on someone who has BSE, chemicals and no amount of heat will sterilize the equipment, and it will be passed on to others. Also, transplants, and that is why it is important they start testing people, so they know.

          5. I read it many times. did you see that part that said:

            “Most vaccine made using bovine derived material from non-BSE risk countries was available at the end of 2001”
            .
            By shelf life, there hasn’t been a vaccine anywhere that could contaminate anyone since 2003. ANYWHERE. NOT ANYWHERE. NOT IS EURPOE, NOT IN THE U.S.
            .
            This is one event 15 years ago that hurt nobody. Old news is a an understatement. So AGAIN. THERE IS ZERO RISK.

          6. You did not click on the link where it shows ingredients in the vaccines that clearly shows they are still using Bovine Serum in vaccines to this day. You are the one who does not want to read the facts.

          7. Even the manufacturers would never say there is zero risk. Current Manufacturer Vaccine Inserts from the John Hopkins
            Hospital – Please read them all the way through. Please note that on 13.1 on all vaccine inserts, it states the vaccine has not been tested or evaluated for Carcinogenesis (to create cancer), Mutagenesis (to mutate our genes and cause autoimmune diseases and cancer), Impairment of Fertility, as in to sterilize the future generations. This brings up a page where you can click on each vaccine, and read and print the manufacturer vaccine insert that is not given to people at the time of vaccination. People getting vaccinated get a Vaccine Information Statement (VIS), if that, which is not the manufacturer insert, so they can make an informed choice. https://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_inserts-bymanuf.htm

          8. Thank you, ione murphy for all of the information you shared. You posted some information that I had not read before.

          9. your very welcome Gail….here is two more viruses you may not have heard of yet also…

            Detection of bovine polyomavirus contamination in fetal bovine sera and modified live viral vaccines using polymerase chain reaction.

            Abstract

            “Bovine polyomavirus (BPyV) is a member of the Polyomaviridae, a virus that was originally thought to be of simian origin but was later shown to be of bovine origin, the primate cultures having been contaminated through the use of foetal bovine serum. The significance of this agent to the biotechnology industry cannot be underestimated. The presence of BPyV in serum batches poses a serious risk for the contamination of human therapeutic products”

            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045105603000836

            Borna Disease Virus and Human Disease

            In 1929, Borna disease was found to be caused by an infectious agent, and in 1990, this agent was determined to be a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus (25, 39). Borna disease virus (BDV) persistently infects the nervous system of many animal species, from primate to avian (120). Indeed, by natural or experimental inoculation, the ability of BDV to replicate in the nervous system of virtually every warm-blooded animal strongly suggests that BDV-like viruses are very unlikely to spare the human host.

            Over the years, information has also accumulated about unusual features of BDV-induced disease in experimental animals such as rats, mice, and tree shrews. In these animals, BDV can induce behavioral disease (e.g., anxiety, aggression, cognitive defects, and hyperactivity) without obvious physiological signs of viral encephalitis (e.g., fever, neurological signs, and decreased level of consciousness) (7, 48, 58, 66, 68, 99, 111, 112, 114, 115, 122, 136).

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88987/

            It seems there was quite a few studies done by the same researchers and here is what they said about it…”In the 1980s, the first significant serological evidence for BDV infection of humans was reported in the scientific literature (1). However, despite two decades of study and published serological, pathological, or virological evidence of BDV infection in humans, complete medical and scientific acceptance of the human as a natural target of BDV has yet to be achieved. Even more controversial are the specific human disease syndromes for which BDV has been proposed to be an etiologic agent.

            Much of the controversy in the study of human BDV infection is linked to technical difficulties in developing and validating a uniform test for diagnosis of BDV infection in humans”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88987/

            Some other studies that showed Borna disease in young rats caused autistic like symptoms…

            Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S36-7.

            Borna disease virus (BDV)-induced model of autism: application to vaccine safety test design.

          10. Schoolboy stuff Watson – Gail is providing REAL information and you cannot refute it so you post a stupid picture

  207. This is a CDC Article regarding Adventitious Agents and Vaccines – 3rd paragraph states, “In the past, biologic products have served as vectors for viral diseases. Examples include the contamination of yellow fever vaccine with hepatitis B virus in the 1940s (because a human-derived excipient contained hepatitis B virus), contamination of early polio and adenovirus vaccines with simian virus 40 (also known as SV40 cancer virus) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, contamination of blood products with hepatitis viruses and HIV, and contamination of dura mater grafts with the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow) agent. In these examples, either human or animal materials used in production usually caused the contamination.” https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/7/01-7735_article

      1. There are many articles from the FDA, Katia, where there are concerns regarding the ingredients in vaccines and how they are made. MORE ON THE CANCER VACCINE LINK FROM FDA!

        In the article below, what really upset me is the statement:

        “Our laboratory is developing new approaches, using rodent models to investigate whether the use of tumorigenic cells or cells derived from human or animal tumors for vaccine production pose safety concerns to the recipients of the vaccines. We believe that the risk of using tumorigenic cells to make viral vaccines would increase either by the presence of disease-causing microorganisms (adventitious agents), or from the DNA of the cell. Therefore, we have begun to address each of these concerns. This work requires the development of sensitive animal and cell-culture based assays.”

        Scientific Overview – The major concerns with the use of novel neoplastic cell substrates are the potential presence of adventitious agents and the unavoidable presence of residual cellular DNA in vaccines.

        Therefore, our laboratory is developing assays to evaluate the safety of novel cell substrates. We have divided this work among five projects: 1) assessing the in vivo oncogenicity of cell-substrate DNA; 2) developing in vitro assays to quantify the elimination of biological activity of DNA; 3) determining whether the tumorigenicity of a cell substrate affects the safety of vaccine manufactured in them; 4) developing methods to detect adventitious agents; and 5) developing methods to detect neutralizing antibodies to viruses.

        The variety of cell substrates used to manufacture licensed vaccines is limited to primary avian or monkey cells, diploid cells, and one continuous cell line, Vero. This repertoire is insufficient for the production of the next generation of vaccines.

        All of the mammalian cell substrates being evaluated are neoplastic, since they are immortal, and some are tumorigenic. The fear that components from the production-cell substrate could induce cancer in vaccine recipients was the main reason that tumorigenic cells were proscribed for vaccine manufacture for over 40 years. This proscription was partly due to the inability to identify the risk factors; yet even after they were identified, there was a lack of assays that could quantify the risk from these factors.

        https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/ScienceResearch/BiologicsResearchAreas/ucm127328.htm

        1. Hello liar. you forgot this part:

          “Our work will provide critical data to help the vaccine community evaluate whether it is safe to end the 40-year ban on using tumorigenic cells to make viral vaccines.”
          So, fear monger, NONE OF THIS IS HAPPENING YET.
          Move on to your next lie…..

          1. It has been happening all along. They are using cancerous cells to grow viruses in vaccines, because they multiply fast and the cell lines never die. Those cells they are using are referred to as continuous and immortal cell lines, and the scientists admit they are Tumorigenic and Oncogenetic. There has been contamination problems all along, also, with cancerous cells in vaccines. They cannot be immortal cell lines and never die if they were not cancerous. https://www.archivesofpathology.org/doi/full/10.1043/1543-2165-133.9.1463

          2. You are a crazy person. HeLa cells have never been used for vaccinations, again:
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            “Our work will provide critical data to help the vaccine community evaluate whether it is safe to end the 40-year ban on using tumorigenic cells to make viral vaccines.”

            No vaccine has every been made fro those cells.

          3. But what’s a HeLa cell? It’s a line, or population, of cells, taken from a person and used in scientific research. Cell lines are often named after the people from whom they were originally derived, and HeLa comes from the first two letters in the name Henrietta Lacks. Cell lines are used in all kinds of ways, such as studying the effects of diseases or developing medications and vaccines, and play an invaluable role in medicine today. Please read all 6 pages, or hit print, at the bottom of the first page of the article, and you learn that we all have been injected with cancer cells. That is why cancer is off the charts. hwhat’s a HeLa cell? It’s a line, or population, of cells, taken from a person and used in scientific research. Cell lines are often named after the people from whom they were originally derived, and HeLa comes from the first two letters in the name Henrietta Lacks. Cell lines are used in all kinds of ways, such as studying the effects of diseases or developing medications and vaccines, and play an invaluable role in medicine today. Please read all 6 pages, or hit print, at the bottom of the first page of the article, and you learn that we all have been injected with cancer cells. That is why cancer is off the charts. https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/hela-cell.htm/printable

          4. Insane person. you can’t read. Here it is again:
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            “Our work will provide critical data to help the vaccine community evaluate whether it is safe to end the 40-year ban on using tumorigenic cells to make viral vaccines.”

            .
            No vaccine has every been made fro those cells.

          5. This is how they get the viruses to grow and multiply so fast. Do research on this. Also do research on contamination of cell lines. HeLa Cells – from Radiolab 5 years ago – This is a must see, because these cancer Hela Cells that are the worst cancer cells on record have been in vaccines since the 1950s. Please listen carefully. Hela Cells are immortal and never die, and reproduce very fast, and that is how they create such large batches of vaccines for millions of people. That is why vaccines are giving us cancer cells, and the prediction of high rates of cancer are accurate. This old school film depicts HeLa cells dividing at a rapid rate. (c)1956 Association of American Medical Colleges. Reproduced with permission for Radiolab’s “Famous Tumors” episode (#704).

          6. You are a multiple posting person with a mental condition. You are telling lies and are delusional

            Insane person. you can’t read. Here it is again:
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            “Our work will provide critical data to help the vaccine community evaluate whether it is safe to end the 40-year ban on using tumorigenic cells to make viral vaccines.”
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            No vaccine has ever been made from those cells.

          7. Since she believes the delusions it’s arguably not lying. It does give a glimpse into the CT mind, however.

          8. FDA Briefing Document
            Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting
            September 19, 2012
            Cell Lines Derived from Human Tumors for Vaccine Manufacture
            In 2000, a VRBPAC meeting was convened to discuss whether the use of the continuous
            non-tumorigenic Vero cell line represented a safety concern for the production of live,
            attenuated viral vaccines and if so how these concerns could be addressed. The
            transcripts from this meeting are available
            (www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/00/transcripts/3616t2a.pdf
            http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/00/transcripts/3616t2b.pdf). Members of the VRBPAC
            supported the use of the non-tumorigenic Vero cells for production of inactivated
            vaccines; however, some members expressed some concern that, because Vero cells have
            the capacity to become tumorigenic, they might not be suitable for the production of live,
            attenuated vaccines until the mechanism whereby these cells become tumorigenic is
            understood. The Committee recommended that OVRR investigate the mechanism
            whereby the cells become tumorigenic to ascertain whether this capacity itself
            represented a safety concern. Nevertheless, with additional testing and discussions,
            several live viral vaccines produced in Vero cells have been licensed in the United States
            over the last decade: smallpox vaccine (2007) and two rotavirus vaccines (2006 and
            2008). In addition, Vero cells are the substrate for a number of investigational vaccines.

          9. So what? 15 years ago they talked about it but….
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            A ban is still in place which does not allow the use of .Cell Lines Derived from Human Tumors for Vaccine Manufacture
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            You are fear mongering something that never happened.

          10. Small amounts of residual cell substrate DNA unavoidably occur in all viral vaccines as
            well as other biologics produced using cell substrates. There are several potential ways
            DNA could be a risk factor. DNA can be oncogenic or infectious; in addition, it can
            cause insertion mutagenesis through integration into the host genome.

            FDA Briefing Document
            Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting
            September 19, 2012
            Cell Lines Derived from Human Tumors for Vaccine Manufacture

          11. What part of “BANNED” are you have trouble with? Is it the part where you cannot face being dead wrong?

            A BAN is still in place which does not allow the use of .Cell Lines Derived from Human Tumors for Vaccine Manufacture.
            DONE. YOU ARE WRONG.

          12. According to the document I cited, used in some clinical trials

            “”To date, only a limited number of preventive vaccines made in tumorigenic cell lines
            have entered clinical trials. Some live-vector vaccines made in laboratory-immortalized
            human cells have entered clinical trials (VRBPAC 2001), as have some inactivated
            vaccines manufactured in non-human tumorigenic cell lines (VRBPAC 2005). However,
            tumor-derived cell lines have not been used for production of prophylactic vaccines (see
            Section 2 for definitions). The purpose of the present VRBPAC meeting is to discuss the
            scientific issues associated with the use of cell lines derived from human tumors for the
            production of both live and inactivated prophylactic viral vaccines and to identify safety
            concerns and determine how they can be addressed. ”

            They are apparently working on it. Hard.

          13. Well then it’s settled. IT IS BANNED and not used in any vaccines. It’s only used in lab studies.
            Now you all can stop lying.

        2. “Scientists from the University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley), publishing in the journal PLOS ONE, looked for the presence of the bovine leukemia virus (BLV) in 239 women, comparing samples from those who had breast cancer with those who did not.

          They identified BLV in 59% of samples from breast cancer patients, compared with 29% in the samples from those without breast cancer.

          Until recently, science had been unsure if BLV could be found in the human population.

          It was a team led by Prof. Gertrude Buehring, a professor of virology in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, who overturned the long-held view that transmission of BLV to humans was not possible, after finding evidence of BLV in humans for the first time in 2014”

          https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/299575.php

          1. On topic post, because the BLV virus has been found in contaminated sera used for growth medium for vaccines intended for human use.

          2. They are just immature, and do not do any research. They use name calling, because they cannot have a logical conversation, so they continuously call names. I am all for them getting vaccinated, if that is what they want. Then that way, they will get to learn from their own personal experience. It is just a matter of time.

          3. Oh JusttheVACS you are caught lying again. They do contain Bovine Cow Serum as well as other rather pukey stuff.

            GMOs

            Hormones from infected cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys, untested virus combinations (like H1N1), aluminum, mercury, emulsifiers, and crossbred bacteria from animals, mosquitoes, and diseased humans:

            Measles Live Virus Vaccine: (Attenuvax) Made by Merck. Two injections are given; one at 1 year and another at 4 years old. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, egg protein and human albumin.

            Measles and Mumps Live Virus Vaccine: (M-M-Rvax) Made by Merck. Injected into one year old babies. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, and human albumin.

            Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Vaccine: Five injections given between 2 and 6 years of age, plus boosters “recommended” every 10 years. Contains formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol and aluminum phosphate.

            DTaP, IPV, HBV and Hib*: (Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B) Given to infants 2 to 12 months with boosters less than a year later. Contains aluminum hydroxide, formaldehyde, and bovine cow serum.

            Gardasil HPV: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Made by Merck. Administered to children as young as 9 years of age for a rare sexually transmitted disease. Contains polysorbate 80, sodium chloride, aluminum, and a “denatured” (fragmented and weakened) form of the virus.

          4. Nope, you are still lying.
            .
            You have no source for those lies other than your anti-vaxx scare list. Your lie list is generated by misreading inserts. It’s all bull.
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            Post the source and will see which anti-vaxx site you use.

          5. I see you are using your internet degree to assume you know something. I went right to the first vaccine on the list and then brought up the insert. It says:

            “The cells are grown and the virus growth maintained in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium, fetal bovine serum, and sodium bicarbonate. The virus is harvested, freed of particulate cellular material by filtration, formulated and dried by lyophilization. The dried virus material includes monosodium glutamate, sucrose, D-mannose, D-fructose, dextrose, human serum albumin, potassium phosphate and plasdone C”

            So guess what internet professor? its turns out that the list you are so proud of is just a total list of process materials. The actual insert says clearly that the vaccines is “freed of particulate cellular material by filtration” and ” dried by lyophilization.” so there is NO BOVINE SERUM LEFT in the vaccine. it even gives you a list that doesn’t have “bovine” in it.

            This time, you are not lying but you are being stupid.

            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM247515.pdf

          6. Keep up, old man. They serialize with filters now. I have a 0.5 micron on a water tap in my house.

            Is there nothing but clueless hippies on this board?

          7. We’re you born stupid or did you practice? Your tap water flows through it right? Great example…snicker.

          8. Yes, sterile water. The reverse osmosis filter even removes calcium. Nothing but water gets through it. I need absolutely pure water for some projects. You can have one and make 8 gallons a day for a few $100.
            .
            You really should understand a little 21st century science instead of just being a lost, angry troll.

          9. Yeah, but those membranes are god-awful expensive and running the pressure pump and water line for hours is quite wasteful unless someone, like you, has a need for such water.
            Plus, the RO water is very homeopathically dangerous, don’t ya’ know. Every contaminant has been diluted to extremely powerful homeopathic strength.

            Have fun.

          10. The RO membrane lasts for 5 years. It’s bad to just drink it alone and you should know that with the best filtering, there is still a billion too many contaminates to be homeopathic!

            That’s why we know homeopathy doesn’t work!!!

          11. The problem with filtering is that pathogens smaller than the virus needed for the vaccine are not filtered out.

            Some vaccine viruses are inactivated before use, hopefully also inactivating any contaminating virus particles, but the contaminating virus may be more stable than the vaccine virus. For instance, SV40 is highly resistant to inactivation (Murray, 1964). Endogenous retroviruses constitute a distinct class of contaminating viruses, as these viruses are encoded by all cells of a certain species, and therefore cannot be avoided even through rigorous screening (Miyazawa, 2010). Contamination with endogenous avian leukosis viruses is a major problem for vaccine viruses grown in chicken embryos or chicken embryonic fibroblasts (Hussain et al., 2003). Infectious cat endogenous RD-114 virus has been found in several veterinary vaccines produced in cat cell cultures (Miyazawa et al., 2010; Yoshikawa et al., 2010).

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109487/

            Nanobacteria is a recently discovered pathogen that infects humans. Now considered to be the smallest existing bacterial form known to science, it escapes through common filtering processes, and can easily invade other cells and cause cell death. Nanobacteria also are classed as “pleomorphic”, that is, they have the ability the change physical form. A human variety of this pathogen has been found to cause or be associated with a host of disease conditions, only a few of which include atherosclerosis, coronary artery / heart disease, kidney stones and kidney disease, arthritis, MS, alzheimers, some cancers, and other conditions (67).

            If there is any one type of bacterial contamination in vaccines that warrants particular attention, it would be mycoplasmas. These small organisms have a structure not characteristic of most forms of bacteria, i.e., they usually contain a thin outer membrane as compared to the more complex walls of common bacterial forms. They are described as being capable of slipping through filtration procedures, and can transfer to other media through the air or via routine handling in the lab (70). One source states that “less than 10% of laboratories actually test for infection/contamination regularly”that mycoplasmas are “influencing almost every aspect of cell biology”and that labs “which do not test for mycoplasma probably harbour contaminated cell lines and may even have their entire stocks contaminated, as mycoplasma spreads readily along cell lines via regents and media, the operator and the work surface” (71). They are resistant to certain types of antibiotics used to kill other bacteria (70, 72), and are subject to changing form under varying physiological or biochemic al conditions (73).
            https://www.rense.com/general32/thrur.htm

          12. So you agree that there is no bovine serum in the vaccine but they can be contaminated. Maybe, but not with SV40 because THAT HAPPENED 60 YEARS AGO!! so that’s not going to happen again.

          13. Did I say I agreed there is no bovine serum – er a calf is a bovine creature I believe.

            DTaP-HepB-IPV (Pediarix) is only one example

            formaldehyde, gluteraldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, lactalbumin hydrolysate, polysorbate 80, neomycin sulfate, polymyxin B, yeast protein, calf serum, Fenton medium (containing bovine extract), modified Latham medium (derived from bovine casein), modified Stainer-Scholte liquid medium, Vero (monkey kidney) cells

            https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

          14. So now you are going to head-off and make the same mistake that ione is still licking her wounds over. You are still trusting your horrible research abilities. Let me help you with some proper research. Let’s actually look at the insert for Pediarix. Bottom of page 12 and top of page 13:
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            “The bovine materials used in these extracts are sourced from countries which the United States Department of Agriculture
            (USDA) has determined neither have nor present an undue risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Both toxins are detoxified with formaldehyde,concentrated by ultrafiltration, and purified by precipitation, dialysis, and sterile filtration.”
            .
            https://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM241874.pdf
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            Gee, what a surprise to you Judith! They completely remove all bovine material exactly as I said so there is no bovine products of any kind remaining in the vaccine. It should be not surprise that you are completely wrong since you did nothing to determine the meaning of that imaterials list. You just ran with your deep desire to believe what you want to believe.
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            Why do you make me embarrass you like this?
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            Here is your internet medical degree and a reminder to leave science to the unbiased professionals that you will never be.

          15. “Fetal bovine serum is a by-product of the Dairy Industry. Fetal bovine serum, as with the vast majority of animal serum used in cell culture, is produced from blood collected at commercial slaughterhouses from dairy cattle that also supply meat destined for human consumption.

            The first stage of the production process for fetal bovine serum is the harvesting of blood from the bovine fetus after the fetus is removed from the slaughtered cow. The blood is collected aseptically into a sterile container or blood bag and then allowed to clot. The normal method of collection is cardiac puncture, wherein a needle is inserted into the heart.”

            “Serum collection is a non-sterile procedure and the blood from 2500 to 3000 (calf) fetuses is used to produce a single 1500 liter lot of serum

            One infected animal may contaminate an entire batch/lot and the sensitivity of current testing may not be adequate to detect diluted contaminants. The limitations of testing for viruses in pooled products have been amply demonstrated in the human blood industry”…

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206158/?report=classic

            “Fetal Blood Serum is a product collected worldwide with the main collections being centered in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Central America, South America and Europe.”

            source Wikipedia

          16. Another distraction of unrelated info?

            You post about possible viral contamination and all the methods used to prevent it but Cows blood and proteins are not in vaccines. That is a lie. Changing the subject doesn’t change that.

          17. Common Ingredients in U.S. Licensed Vaccines

            Why is fetal calf/bovine serum in some vaccines?

            “In the manufacture of viral vaccines, the virus may be grown in cells. These cells need a source of nutrition, which in some instances may be provided by fetal bovine serum.”

            https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/ucm187810.htm

            Bovine Derived Materials Used in Vaccine Manufacturing Questions and Answers

            “Animal-derived products used in vaccine manufacture can include amino acids, glycerol, detergents, gelatin, enzymes and blood….Many difficult to grow microorganisms and the cells that are used to propagate viruses require the addition of serum from blood to the growth media”

            https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/QuestionsaboutVaccines/ucm143521.htm

          18. You still can’t read your own sources. it clearly says “These cells need a source of nutrition, which in some instances may be provided by fetal bovine serum” They are fed serum and then the serum IS FLITERED OUT. It says so right on the insert. Serum can contaminate the vaccine with viruses and maybe a few cells but THERE IS NO SERUM in the vaccine when it is packaged. That is a fact.

          19. What you describe is a concentrate. What happens when you add liquid to dehydrated material? dum de dum dum dum…

          20. From the FDA on removing ‘adventitious agents.’ definition- viruses and toxins — often infectious agents — that can accidentally contaminate a cell line

            The regulations, in 21 CFR 610.13, state in part that “Products shall be free of extraneous material except that which is unavoidable in the manufacturing process
            described in the approved biologics license application.” In 21 CFR 600.3(r),purity is defined as the “relative freedom from extraneous matter in the finished product, whether or not harmful to the recipient or deleterious to the product.”

            Live attenuated viruses, whole inactivated virions, or virus-like particles often cannot be purified as rigorously as viral subunit vaccines; as a consequence, the potential for contamination is greater than that of subunit vaccines. Generation of live viral vaccines often involves cell disruption, which may add cellular components to the vaccine bulk.

            *** In addition, such vaccines often are minimally purified and are not subjected to inactivation steps. Comprehensive testing and qualification of the biological starting materials and lot-by-lot testing for adventitious agents are particularly important because it is not possible for a manufacturer of live viral vaccines to validate the process for clearance of adventitious agents.***

            Furthermore, you should consider any infectious viruses (including those that infect nonhuman species) as potential contaminants if there is the possibility of contact with your product or cell substrate at any time
            during development or production. Retroviruses may be either endogeneous (i.e., encoded by the cell substrate genome) or exogenously acquired. Retrovirus testing should address the possibility that either type of retrovirus could contaminate a product. Finally, you should consider the possibility of contamination from unusual sources, as exemplified by the reported presence of minute virus of mice (MVM) in some lots of recombinant proteins (Ref. 5). The susceptibility of the cell substrate to infection by agents of potential concern can influence the tests needed to assure absence of contamination

            https://google2.fda.gov/search?q=cache:X5BqJJIx9KUJ:www.fda.gov/downloads/biologicsbloodvaccines/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidances/vaccines/ucm202439.pdf+adventitious+agents&client=FDAgov&site=FDAgov&lr=&proxystylesheet=FDAgov&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&access=p&oe=UTF-8

            “Dr. Leonard Hayflick, a virologist at both Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco raised a concern that the common primary culture used for making vaccines with animals and bird embryos has created a situation where it is “apparent that these cells contained many unwanted viruses, some of which were lethal to humans.”

            “The viral cell matter presents a significant health risk due to the plethora of dangerous animal viruses, RNA, DNA, and other foreign material that can’t be filtered out of the final preparation.” from Fear of the Invisible by Janine Roberts

            And before you go calling Dr. Hayflick a crackpot you should know this about him…

            “Hayflick developed the first normal human diploid cell strains for studies on human aging and for research use throughout the world. Before his seminal research all cultured cell lines were immortal and aneuploid. One such cell strain, developed by Hayflick and his colleague Paul Moorehead at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, called WI-38, was the most widely used and highly characterized normal human cell population in the world. Hayflick produced the first oral polio vaccine made on a continuously propagated cell strain. WI-38 is now used for the production of all of the Rubella Virus vaccine used in the Western Hemisphere. WI-38, or new diploid cell strains, is used today for the manufacture of most human virus vaccines produced throughout the world including those for poliomyelitis, rubella, rubeola, varicella, mumps, rabies, adenoviruses and hepatitis A. Over one billion vaccinees have received vaccines produced on WI-38 or foreign version of Hayflick’s original WI-38.” source wikipedia

          21. So are you still licking your wounds over being dead wrong about the removal of bovine products from vaccines? I’m glad that is settled. Now you shift over to possible contamination. Lets sum up your mindless cut-and-paste post:

            You start out by point out that contamination is possible but there are safeguards in place. That’s is all true. Then you bring up the seminal work of Leonard Hayflick. He did more than just develop that live saving WI-38 strain. He also discovered the cause of walking pneumonia. As you pointed out, the WI-38 strain has been used in over on billion vaccinations WITH NO SIDE EFFECTS OF ANY KIND!!

            Do you even realize when you are supporting vaccinations? You should read more about Dr. Hayflick:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hayflick

          22. Biologicals. 2003 Mar;31(1):63-73.

            Simian cytomegalovirus (herpes virus) and contamination of oral poliovirus vaccines.

            2014 Sep;42(5):223-36. doi: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2014.07.003. Epub 2014 Aug 16.

            Adventitious agents in viral vaccines: lessons learned from 4 case studies.

            Since the earliest days of biological product manufacture, there have been a number of instances where laboratory studies provided evidence for the presence of adventitious agents in a marketed product. Lessons learned from such events can be used to strengthen regulatory preparedness for the future. We have therefore selected four instances where an adventitious agent, or a signal suggesting the presence of an agent, was found in a viral vaccine, and have developed a case study for each. The four cases are: a) SV40 in polio vaccines; b) bacteriophage in measles and polio vaccines; c) reverse transcriptase in measles and mumps vaccines; and d) porcine circovirus and porcine circovirus DNA sequences in rotavirus vaccines. The lessons learned from each event are discussed. Based in part on those experiences, certain scientific principles have been identified by WHO that should be considered in regulatory risk evaluation if an adventitious agent is found in a marketed vaccine in the future.

            Chttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25135887

            Bovine viral diarrhea disease (BVDV) associated with a contaminated vaccine.This suggests that BVDV RNA detected in human live viral vaccines represents passive carry over of BVDV from contaminated FCS (FETAL CALF SERUM) rather than active virus replication in human diploid cells. Our results indicate that contamination with BVDV of FCS used in vaccine production does not appear to be of immediate concern to human health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503899

          23. I guess you got your feelings hurt, huh? Now we get a parade of nonsense in a desperate attempt to recover your self esteem and rebuild your cognitive dissonance.
            .
            Your first link it to a lessons learned paper concerning a contamination that took place 60 years ago and how we protect against that now. Its fine example of how the system keeps vaccines safe and effective. Thanks.
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            Your second link is to a 15 year old paper about a contamination that took place in Europe and Japan. It notes that the safeguards in the U.S. kept it from happening in the U.S. Although the paper made it clear that the effects of the contamination is not know to be harmful, that paper is a testament to the job done by the FDA and the CDC and how they keep vaccine safe. Thanks again.
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            Do you have any more support of the U.S. vaccine system to post?

          24. See comment in PubMed Commons below

            J Virol. 2010 Jun;84(12):6033-40. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02690-09. Epub 2010 Apr 7.

            Viral nucleic acids in live-attenuated vaccines: detection of minority variants and an adventitious virus

            “Mutations and minority variants, relative to vaccine strains, not known to affect attenuation were detected in OPV, mumps virus, and varicella-zoster virus. The anticipated detection of endogenous retroviral sequences from the producer avian and primate cells was confirmed.

            Avian leukosis virus (ALV), previously shown to be noninfectious for humans, was present as RNA in viral particles, while simian retrovirus (SRV) was present as genetically defective DNA. Rotarix, an orally administered rotavirus vaccine, contained porcine circovirus-1 (PCV1), a highly prevalent nonpathogenic pig virus, which has not been shown to be infectious in humans”.

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20375174/

            Although the master seeds and cell substrates used for vaccine production are prescreened for adventitious agents, newer technologies, including sequence-independent amplification, followed by ultra-deep DNA sequencing, and microarrays have shown that some cell substrates and live-attenuated vaccines still contain adventitious viruses, including endogenous retroviruses like avian leukosis virus (ALV), and porcine circovirus [24]. Previous studies have also documented the presence of endogenous avian retroviruses in currently used avian cell-derived vaccines [25], [26]. Endogenous retroviruses exist in all mammals as proviral DNA integrated in the germ line of the host and are passed from parent to offspring. Thus, endogenous retroviruses cannot be eliminated from cell lines or live animals by pre-screening. While most endogenous retroviruses are replication defective, some exist as intact genomes that are capable of expressing infectious virus…..https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245253/

          25. So you are still trying desperately to find an article to support anti-vaxx and failing miserably. I do applaud you effort since it bring forth good information in support of vaccine use. I see here that you did it again tryin g to cover it with a lie.
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            Why did you leave this part out from the conclusions from YOUR FIRST LINK:
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            “Given that live-attenuated viral vaccines are safe, effective, and relatively inexpensive, their use against human and animal pathogens should be encouraged.”
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            So ione, where you intentionally promoting vaccines or trying to lie about the message from that paper? I think we both know the answer to that one.
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            Why did you not include the title to your second Link? Let me do that right now:
            “No Evidence of Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses in Live Attenuated Human Vaccines”

            Thanks again ione for pointing out that vaccines are safe and effective. Lets go ahead and post the full conclusions:
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            “We found no evidence of XMRV and MLV in eight live attenuated human vaccines further supporting the safety of these vaccines. Our findings suggest that vaccines are an unlikely source of XMRV and MLV exposure in humans and are consistent with the mounting evidence on the absence of these viruses in humans.”
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            So why did you post and out-of-context bit trying to make it seems like it said something else? I think it’s because….
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            IONE IS A LYING LIAR THAT LIES AND TRIES TO MISLEAD READERS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
            .
            It that about it?

          26. Wait. What? Slaughterhouse, dairy cattle and human consumption? I’m a simple Canadodian, but that just sounds wrong.

          27. “Never interfere with your opponent when he is committing suicide.”

            It’s either Sun Tzu or Napoleon. I can’t recall which.

          28. I note that if an animal has not developed a tumour after 4 months, the vaccine is deemed safe for human use.

            4. Recommendations for Testing of Cell Substrate and Vaccines

            Current recommendations for testing of mammalian cell substrates and vaccines are generally based on three main safety concerns: the presence of residual, potentially tumorigenic, live cells in the vaccine; the presence of residual DNA from the cell substrate; and the potential presence of adventitious agents.

            The characterization of cell substrates includes tumorigenicity testing. This testing is described in the 2010 guidance document [Guidance for Industry for Characterization and Qualification of Cell Substrates and Other Biological Starting Materials Used in the Production of Viral Vaccines for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases] (included as Attachment 1). This testing is performed to determine if the cell substrate is capable of forming tumors after inoculation into animals to characterize the tumorigenic phenotype of a cell line. In the case of a tumorigenic cell substrate, an extended observation period of 4 months or more is recommended with additional characterization of the tumorigenic phenotype by dose-response studies.

            Because infectious or oncogenic viruses could be transmitted through whole cells present in a vaccine, the demonstration of removal of cells is required for vaccines manufactured in the U.S. in any cell substrate.

            https://www.whale.to/v/FDA%20Briefing%20Document%20Sept%2019,2012.pdf

      2. Biologicals. 2013 Nov;41(6):407-14. doi: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2013.08.005. Epub 2013 Sep 23.

        Detection of contaminants in cell cultures, sera and trypsin.
        (INCLUDING THE BOVINE VIRUS BLV, LINKED TO BREAST CANCER)

        Abstract

        The aim of this study was standardization and application of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of contaminants in cell cultures, sera and trypsin. Five PCR protocols were standardized to assess the presence of genetic material from mycoplasma, porcine circovirus 1 (PCV1), bovine leukemia virus (BLV) or bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in cell culture samples. PCR reactions for the genes GAPDH and beta-actin were used to evaluate the efficiency of nucleic acid extraction. The PCR protocols were applied to 88 cell culture samples from eight laboratories. The tests were also used to assess potential contamination in 10 trypsin samples and 13 fetal calf serum samples from different lots from five of the laboratories.

        The results showed the occurrence of the following as DNA cell culture contaminants: 34.1% for mycoplasma, 35.2% for PCV1, 23.9% for BVDV RNA and 2.3% for BLV. In fetal calf sera and trypsin samples BVDV RNA and PCV1 DNA was detected.

        ***The results demonstrated that cell culture, sera and trypsin used by different laboratories show a high rate of contaminants. The results highlight the need for monitoring cell cultures and controlling for biological contaminants in laboratories and cell banks working with these materials. ***

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24071554

        Bovine viral diarrhoea virus antigen in foetal calf serum batches and consequences of such contamination for vaccine production.

        “Our data stress that detection of BVDV RNA is not sufficient for a complete risk assessment on FCS. Discrimination between infectious and non-infectious BVDV is essential. This can only be achieved by cell culture methods.”

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12935809

        “In conclusion, these preliminary results confirmed the previous observations obtained in Japan and indicated that the occurrence of pestivirus contamination in biological products for human use seems to be an actual problem with unknown effect on human health.

        The importance of these findings rely on the evident con-trast with the general rules on the safety of pharmaceutical products for human use, which clearly excludes any kind of contamination. Therefore, monitoring for pestivirus con-tamination should be recommended on biologicals for human use.”

        https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11840878_ Genotypes_of_pestivirus_RNA_ detected_in_live_virus_ vaccines_for_human_use

        1. So does anyone think that Ione left anything out fromm her fear mongering cut-and-paste?
          .
          Of course she did, and here it is:
          Contamination was found in ” Three vaccines (rubella and two measles) were from Europe and two (mumps and rubella) from Japan.
          Thanks for posting an article that confirms that U.S. vaccines are safe. Go to hell for trying to imply otherwise.

      1. “What I discovered last week. Why would the WORLD BANK be keeping track of death and fertility rates worldwide??? Look to the right. Are you connecting the dots yet, why they are poisoning our food, water, air, and put deadly drugs and vaccinations on the market?” — Gail Fitches

        Bill Gates’ insane quest to sterilize and depopulate the world, obviously.

          1. Not true. If you go to google news and search “Gates Foundation” in India, there is this one article followed by dozens of positive ones…..like:
            .
            https://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-bill-gates-foundation-proposes-500-million-strategic-partnership-to-pm-modi-2162993
            ..
            https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/odisha-to-start-lecture-series-by-experts-for-educating-bureaucracy/

            .
            Your skewed lies can’t change the fact that people are happy with them saving lives.

        1. “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) acquired shares in Merck and the charge is that the BMGF along with an organisation called GAVI (a vaccine alliance funded by BMGF) are pushing a vaccine agenda in India and other places in the world in collusion with health authorities who are recommending the use of vaccines without proper testing; actions amounting to vaccine fraud”

          https://indiaopines.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-guilty-india-vaccine-fraud-garvi/

          1. Nice fear mongering blog. When you have some relevant facts concerning the gates saving lives worldwide, let me know.

  208. Sick puppies, aren’t they, ione! This Is pathetic! What parent would take any serious advice from such sick psychopaths!

  209. Parents question vaccines as epilepsy rates rise to 1 in 20 children under five

    https://www.examiner.com/article/parents-question-vaccines-as-epilepsy-rates-rise-to-1-20-children-under-five

    “My son had his 1st seizure IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE 1-2 minutes after receiving two vaccinations. The seizures continued from that day forward.”

    “My daughter had her first seizure about 12 hours after her mmr shot at 12 months. When I contacted the administering gp we were told it was a normal reaction to the vaccination febrile seizure, and it will not happen again. from then on she started having myoclonic seizures where her eyes would roll for a split second. when i mentioned this to the GP they said, those will go away with time. Instead of going away they have increased in length and frequency.”

    1. Are you just here to spam the comment thread with anecdotal, uncorroborated and implausible tales of supposed vaccine damage, grace?

      PS: don’t bother to reply, We all know the answer and the question was rather rhetorical.

      1. How blithely those that are just pompous, self absorbed, dismiss the suffering of those that are injured by vaccines. But mention not vaccinating and then we hear about the 6 week old baby that is not immunized and the heart transplant baby who MIGHT be exposed and MIGHT be harmed. The fact that vaccines cause seizures is acknowledged by the manufacturers. You make no sense in your response. I guess in your world you can only be injured if you believe as you believe, which, of course, means you can’t be injured. And cigarettes can’t hurt you, and vioxx is safe and thalidomide can’t cause birth defects and antibiotics cure colds and mercury treats syphilis and blood letting is effective and the earth is flat, and you don’t have to wash your hands to deliver a baby after dissecting cadavers because “science” and “medicine” say so.

        1. A child may sometimes have a febrile seizure after vaccination, but not within an hour, and certainly not immediately afterwards. One in twenty children under 5 will have a febrile seizure at some point, vaccinated or not. They are seizures caused by fever, thus the name.

          Febrile seizures are not epilepsy. Febrile seizures are also not a seizure disorder. Febrile seizures are harmless.

          Thank you for your example of the misinformed souls who Gov. Hickenlooper mentioned a few months ago, when he commented on parents who make the bad decision to forego vaccinations.

          1. Wow, you must have a lot of experience with febrile seizures in infants and children to make such a strong bold statement. I guess those inserts warning of seizures and encephalitis etc were just put there to scare people but weren’t serious. And those kids with seizures and epilepsy are just faking it for the money. Thanks for setting us straight Watson with your great experience in treating neurological diseases and vaccines, I know my kids feel safer knowing I have been assured by such a world renowned authority. Buawhahahahaha

          2. The Epilepsy Foundation has a good article on febrile seizures
            https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/febrile-seizures

            Febrile seizures aren’t epilepsy. They aren’t a neurological disease. Parents should be aware, however, that febrile seizures may happen in as many as 1 in 20 children. The question a reasonable person would ask is: What is the risk of febrile seizure, encephalitis, or other serious complications from the diseases vaccines prevent? It’s 1 in 1000 vs 1 in 3 million from vaccination.

            Again, to paraphrase Governor Hickenlooper: People making bad choices to skip vaccination because of misinformation is a problem. Thanks for your reply, Fred. It illustrates that quite well.

          3. My point is it must be a hell of a commute for you, Fred.

            I don’t consider chiroquacks to be authorities on anything, let alone vaccination or immunology. On that, I know I’m not alone.

            What perplexes me is when you say “I know my kids feel safer …” What kids do you mean?

          4. And people wonder why anyone would post anonymously?
            Well Watson, not that it is any of your business, my two children are doing fine.
            Why don’t you post your personal information including occupation, education, and address.
            And your uneducated opinion of chiropractic has nothing to do with the topic either. You will note that I did not mention or try to use my education and 47 years of experience as having anything to do with what I posted. You are the one bringing our irrelevant information.
            Now please post your information.
            Have to run for the moment, but I will be back to check on your personal info.

          5. “And people wonder why anyone would post anonymously?”

            In your case, I suspect it’s because the perception of anonymity gives you liberty to act like a complete jackăss. It’s not my own theory, mind you.

          6. He is Mike Davis of InTouch Communications LLC in Las Vegas NV,

            InTouch Communications

            Phone 888 422-8884

            also has ties to Liquid Logic Inc,

            Liquid Logic, Inc
            Address: PO Box 33162 Las Vegas Nevada,89133 US
            Phone: +1.888-422-8884

            which owns several porn sites like this one
            Domain Name:BESTSEXPOSITION.ORG Registrant Organization:Liquid Logic, LLC :Las Vegas Registrant State/Province:NV

            another person noted the connection on Fb over 3 years ago

            https://disqus.com/home/discussion/benswannfulldisclosure/reality_check_cdc_scientist_admits_data_of_vaccines_and_autism_was_trashed/#comment-2433857619

          7. Sorry to disappoint, but not me. Also, the number you’ve posted is not a working number. The domain name isn’t a working website either.

            How many times must a person be caught lying before it’s fair to call them a serial liar?

          8. they never were working numbers because both businesses are just fronts for the porn sites and the other sites you have for devices to help with your male anatomy deficit.

          9. Going out in a blaze of glory crazy, ione?

            I don’t know any of the people who upvote my comments, and I can’t speak for the DISQUS user you’ve linked.

          10. ah..why did you make the other watson’s profile go private all the sudden? You think there was two different watsons being upvoted by the same bunch of sockpuppets? what are the odds?

          11. I can’t change anything on another user’s profile. I was, however, just reading the comments on the Big Think article and thinking the same thing.

            Two (or three) antivax wackos being upvoted by the same bunch of sockpuppets.

          12. I know many people who have been to chiropractors after having no success with medical doctors and getting well for the first time. Allopathic medicine is good in an emergency but dismal when it comes to healing the body and mind. Symptomatic treatment without looking at the whole person is not a cure.

          13. I’m retired, Ms. Horses A**! He mocked me for it.

            First I’m too old, then I’m not old enough! Such hypocrisy! Or is it just a matter of twisting everything to fit your warped views?

          14. So Watson what do you get out of posting people’s personal information? Bfwf309 has posted some particularly relevant comments and all you have to offer is a particularly disgusting practice of posting personal information. You and your pharma cartel use this tactic as a way of trying to scare people from posting. Your cartel has done it to me many times. Whoever Fred Bomonti is he looks a delightful man and it is a good free Ad. Your disgusting practice only makes people more determined. What is your point by the way?

          15. Thanks for that.
            It shows that febrile seizures in the study period following DTP vaccination are very infrequent (“febrile seizures 0.07 per 1,000 doses”)

            Do you know the rate of febrile seizures that happens when kids get the real diseases? It’s way, way higher.

        2. Are you too ignorant to know that Thalidomide was never approved here in the US? It was doctors, not chiropractors, that told us smoking was harmful. What physician ever said antibiotics cure colds? That’s what their patients, people like these vaccine “researchers”, ask for. Mercury does treat syphilis. Different forms of mercury were used to treat it from 1363 until penicillin came along in 1943. Unlike colloidal silver and other woo, it actually worked.
          https://jmvh.org/article/syphilis-its-early-history-and-treatment-until-penicillin-and-the-debate-on-its-origins/
          Blood letting? That went out around the time of George Washington.
          It was a physician, not a chiropractor, who introduced the idea of handwashing.

          Chiropractors, OTOH, are quacks. I had an uncle in Pennsylvania who had cancer. He also had two small children ages 3 and 5. He became convinced that chiropractic would cure him, went to a chiropractic hospital in Denver. They surely knew he was terminal. They should have said, “We can’t help you. Go spend what time you have left with your family”. Instead they took his money and let him die alone. My mother said they claimed to have some cancer cure involving grape leaves at the time.

          1. Iatrogenic medicine which just treats the symptoms and does not look at preventative health is feeding a massive sickness industry. This of course is very profitable.

            “systematic reviews of hospital charts found that even properly prescribed drugs (aside from misprescribing, overdosing, or self-prescribing) cause about 1.9 million hospitalizations a year. Another 840,000 hospitalized patients are given drugs that cause serious adverse reactions for a total of 2.74 million serious adverse drug reactions. About 128,000 people die from drugs prescribed to them. This makes prescription drugs a major health risk, ranking 4th with stroke as a leading cause of death. The European Commission estimates that adverse reactions from prescription drugs cause 200,000 deaths; so together, about 328,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe die from prescription drugs each year. The FDA does not acknowledge these facts and instead gathers a small fraction of the cases.”

            https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/new-prescription-drugs-major-health-risk-few-offsetting-advantages

          2. “Iatrogenic medicine which just treats the symptoms”

            Groan… not this medical quackery again, Judith.
            Please, tell us how homeopathy treats the “causes” of meningococcal meningitis, or rabies, or myeloma?

          3. I believe emergency medicine is excellent. However I am not at all impressed with general medical care.

          4. Job
            Outlook
            Employment of chiropractors is projected to grow 17 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations. People across all age groups are increasingly becoming interested in alternative or complementary healthcare. Chiropractic care is appealing to patients because chiropractors use nonsurgical methods of treatment and do not prescribe drugs”…https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Chiropractors.htm

          5. yep…”In a crowded courtroom in downtown Detroit, the onetime prominent cancer doctor stood before the judge.

            Dr. Farid Fata, who was charged with intentionally misdiagnosing healthy people with cancer and pumping dying patients with chemo to make money, pleaded guilty.”

          6. People are increasingly going to alternative medical practitioners why? they get to the root of the problem. Go to a standard medical doctor, wait for an hour, see the doctor for 5 minutes while he looks up his script pad and out you go with another drug to mask your symptoms.

          7. I guess you were too ignorant to know it was used.

            The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never approved the use of thalidomide, but approximately 20,000 patients in the United States gained access to it through samples sent to physicians for clinical trials

            Thalidomide Damage in the United States

            Thalidomide affected fewer U.S. children than it could have due to an effort led by FDA drug reviewer and physician Frances Oldham Kelsey, who denied drug maker William S. Merrell’s application to sell the medication under the name Kevadon. According to a Washington Post report, Dr. Kelsey was concerned about the drug’s potential to harm fetuses. She overcame pervasive push-back from Merrell, and was vindicated after countless instances of phocomelia were reported in babies born to mothers in nations that approved the drug, most noticeably in Europe. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy became involved, giving Dr. Kelsey the highest civilian honor possible for her effort to stop the drug’s sale.

            Before the FDA denied approval, Merrell was able to distribute thalidomide to about 1,267 physicians for clinical trials. As a result, about 20,000 women in the United States are said to have taken the medication during the late 1950s and early 1960s. A Harvard report estimates that 2,528,412 pills were sent to doctors around the country in clinical trials that were conducted by Merrell’s sales division (as opposed to its medical division).

            Of the more than five tons of thalidomide tablets distributed in the United States, about two tons were recovered in a nationwide recall in 1962. With some of the pills unaccounted for, President Kennedy became more directly involved, imploring Americans on national television to scour their homes. About 40 babies in the United States were born with birth defects as a result of the trials.

            Effect on Law and Eventual Approval

            The fallout from the thalidomide trials was pervasive, according to the Washington Post. In 1962, Congress amended drug laws to impose strict limitations on the testing and distribution of new medication. Drugs had to be proven safe and effective, and clinical trials required written consent from participants.

            https://www.rotlaw.com/legal-library/thalomid-thalidomide/

          8. We need more like Frances Kelsey.
            What a contribution!
            I never knew there were trials of thalidomide in the US.

          9. The National Institute of Health doesn’t think chiropractors are quacks. they had nice things to say as a matter of fact…”An analysis of the use of complementary health approaches for back pain, based on data from the 2002 NHIS, found that chiropractic was by far the most commonly used therapy. Among survey respondents who had used any of these therapies for their back pain, 74 percent (approximately 4 million Americans) had used chiropractic. Among those who had used chiropractic for back pain, 66 percent perceived “great benefit” from their treatments. A 2010 review of scientific evidence on manual therapies for a range of conditions concluded that spinal manipulation/mobilization may be helpful for several conditions in addition to back pain, including migraine and cervicogenic (neck-related) headaches, neck pain, upper- and lower-extremity joint conditions, and whiplash-associated disorders “https://nccih.nih.gov/health/chiropractic/introduction.htm

      2. I don’t know, Mike. I saw the Alex Jones video of the young girls convulsing on the floor after the HPV shot. O_o

        I don’t understand why you continue to deny that these are witchcraft injuries. It’s extremely insulting to those of us who blame all of our loved ones’ health problems on that witch what showed up not too long ago in these parts.

        1. Which witch? Hillary Clinton’s been here, also Carly Fiorina, within the last few months. Sarah Palin has left us alone recently. There’ve been a few warlocks around, too, Trump, Cruz, etc.

          1. It was an “ift”, Ione.
            The repugnant behaviour of those watching is not relevant to this topic.

          2. MIke you never have answered my questions of how you learned my real name and age. Why do you always avoid this question???

          3. I’d hate to reveal confidential information on an open forum, Ione.
            😉
            For the record, I don’t care what anyone’s name is, only what they do and say.

    2. Not just seizures happening in children, but adults as well. from your link…

      “I am a soldier in the U.S. Army and I did not start having seizures until I had vaccinations to go over seas… It was my first seizure ever and now they have gotten worse.”

      Another soldier wrote:

      “My name is Joe and my wife and I were also in the Army. She began having seizures days after deployment vaccines as well”

  210. it’s funny how they could think that THAT would make people trust in vaccination and modern medicine.

    1. Their job is to incite as much hatred as possible towards those who want a choice. It IS hate speech, and should be reported as such. But as you can see, most moderators will not remove these kind of comments or the meme’s advocating violence towards a group of people.

        1. yes, I think they are blaming the anti-vax cultists terrorists for somehow sabotaging the pertussis and mumps vaccine, just so they would fail. It’s all part of our master plan 😉

          1. Watson really didn’t like what I had to say a few minutes ago, my comment to him has been blocked twice now

          2. and all I asked was why didn’t he show the meme’s he directed towards Cia and autism dad, you know the one’s I’m speaking of?

  211. What I proved is your statement “The meme attached to this comment was taken down,” is a lie.

    No one is calling for forced vaccinations. The comment you quoted is about how to deal with liars. Everyone but you would see it as a metaphor, Amelia Bedelia.

    The original article is on point, though. Thanks.

    The Robert Kennedy Jr. Anti-Vaccine Tour
    https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2015/04/13/the-robert-kennedy-jr-anti-vaccine-tour/#comment-1965386297

      1. it’s not tasteless, cruel, or dishonest to recognize that there is no evidence vaccines cause autism. The two halves of the coconuts are a metaphor for loud proclamations with no substance.

        1. Decent people are all appalled at our current situation. Once they spend even ten minutes reading about vaccines and autism, they realize the truth. Courts in many countries have awarded damages for vaccines causing autism. Thousands of physicians and scientists have recognized that vaccines cause autism, and many studies have been done to show exactly how they do this. The physiological mechanisms have already been explored and explained. Millions of parents have witnessed our children reacting severely to vaccines and later being diagnosed with autism. Not a single decent person in the world would just blithely throw down a comical, insulting meme and say Hey, I fixed THAT one for you. However, the billions of $$$ the vaccine companies have on the table are capable of funding an energetic campaign to mock and put down those of us who have vaccine-damaged, autistic children. I’m sure you realize that not a single decent person would read your comments and say Well, she’s CLEARLY correct on this one. All those millions of parents who saw vaccines cause autism in their children are CLEARLY all lying, hoping to eventually cause some child somewhere to die of measles.

          You KNOW that that is not the case, but who cares? Why would you care?

          https://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html

          https://vaxtruth.org/2011/08/vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/

          https://vaxtruth.org/2015/07/vaccines-do-cause-autism-heres-how/

          https://www.laleva.cc/choice/vaccines/vaccination_autism.html

          https://janeknowitall1.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/autism-is-brain-damage-vaccines-can-cause-brain-damage-vaccines-can-cause-autism/

          1. Decent, intelligent, rational people know that vaccines do not cause autism. They know that autism funding and research is best spent looking into genetic causes and also ways to help the lives of those with autism. You are beating a dead horse.

            Here are some wonderful organizations, full of decent, caring, kind people who know vaccines don’t cause autism.

            https://autisticadvocacy.org/

            https://www.thinkingautismguide.com/

            https://autismsciencefoundation.org/

            https://www.autismspeaks.org/

            There are not millions of parents who think that vaccines caused autism. I happen to personally know many people with autism and parents of children with autism who know that the science is sound.

            Many rational, caring, decent, intelligent people are also appalled at the lengths some autism parents go to with regards to “cures” for autism. Subjecting their children to bleach enemas and bleach drops, subjecting them to dangerous chelation treatments and worse. Abusive treatments. It’s horrifying to read about these situations. These children are being abused by parents who are trying to remove the autism from them.

          2. There’s an essay in Vaccine Epidemic about a boy who reacted badly to vaccines with autism, with an account of how severely he was affected by it when he went to school. He underwent chelation therapy, and there is also an essay by the boy himself, having been recovered to normality by the chelation therapy. I know you have ZERO interest in allowing these children to be recovered, give them the chance to have a normal life. But those of us who have autistic children do not share your venal POV.

            https://www.regardingcaroline.com/andycutler2.html
            This is where I first read about the Andy Cutler chelation protocol. There are MANY other sites and forums with information and shared experience with it. ALA and DMSA are FDA-certified as effective chelators of mercury. ALA can cross the blood-brain barrier and pull out the mercury (ascorbyl palmitate will pull it out, but not excrete it). DMSA does NOT cross the blood-brain barrier, but WILL grab any mercury it finds in the bloodstream, bones, and organs and hold onto it until it is excreted from the body.

            You don’t want to use it, fine, but thousands of parents have used it. I saw a survey last year of different therapies used on autistic children, with the number of parents saying that they had helped their children. The only ones that were reported to have helped more than two-thirds of children were the mercury chelation and the gluten-free, casein-free, or Paleo diet.

            But I COMPLETELY understand why you and your colleagues don’t want any autistic children to recover.

          3. I am interested in preventing children with autism from being abused by parents subjecting them to dangerous, unproven, scientifically unsound treatments. Thankfully, there is a growing movement of people monitoring these children and reporting them to CPS. These children are being abused. It is shocking. Cutler protocol is one such treatment.

            There are many sound treatments for autism which afford those with autism great benefit without being abused.

            https://autismsciencefoundation.org/what-is-autism/treatment-options/

            Here is a list of dangerous treatments to avoid.

            https://autismsciencefoundation.org/what-is-autism/beware-of-non-evidence-based-treatments/

          4. Here is why it harms those with autism to be a cure chaser: because it never works. Because you are wasting money on multiple cures, all at the same time, and when you see a developmental change, you think one of the cures caused it. In reality, developmental changes happen all the time. It’s far better to work with evidence-based treatments that actually help and are not abusive to children.

            https://www.thinkingautismguide.com/2013/10/why-it-hurts-your-child-to-be-autism.html

            “Our children need us to love them the way they are. We can find paths to
            the best possible lives for them. We do endless and indeed painful
            trial and error to find the right tools to help them access the world in
            a way that works. This may not feel as rapturous as the promise of a
            cure, but long term it is the real deal.”

          5. Here’s a story for you. This week, vactruth posted a story about a baby who had pneumonia after getting the hep b vaccine. Comments ensued about how awful the vaccine can be, how the baby needed to see a homeopath, be chelated, get on treatments to remove the toxins, etc, etc. Guess what? It was a lie. The baby’s aunt stole the photo form the parents and posted the BS story on vactruth(lies). The real story? Baby aspirated meconium and got pneumonia. Had nothing to do with vaccines. This time, vactruth(lies) got caught. How many other stories have they published full of lies?

          6. It’s worse than not fact-checking. Rachel French wrote:

            “I had no knowledge of vactruth previously and maybe should have looked into it before talking to them. Augustina approached me in a child loss group . After reading some of the comments I went back through to read our correspondence and though she did ask leading questions my answers were not really affected by it. After several requests to remove the article were denied I contacted an attorney and vactruth responded promptly to the cease and desist.”

            For those unaware, @Jeffry John Aufderheide, the owner of Vactruth, lives in Colorado. You can find his comments here if you sort by oldest.

          1. You’re idea of hyperbole is underestimating the risks of vaccination.
            When damage is done, however rarely, it can be profound.
            The parent deserves to retain the right to choose what is best for their family.

          2. Hyperbole, derived from a
            Greek word meaning “over-casting” is a figure of speech, which involves
            an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. Which means, when applied to antivaxers, exaggerating vaccine risks on purpose, whether to be dramatic or to spin lies.

            Vaccine risks are clearly stated in vaccine information statements.

  212. Here is what Dave Perry wrote last Jan of what he hopes to achieve for Colorado, if you can’t prove you were vaccinated, don’t ever leave your home.

    “Tell your Colorado lawmaker this is how it has to be:

    • End all exemptions to vaccination requirements of public schools, except for medical exceptions approved by three real doctors. No quacks. If you can’t see how important this is and how you have to play your part, keep your little viral cesspools at home.

    • Allow public places to require proof of vaccination. Water World, Elitch Gardens, movie theaters, sports stadiums, rec centers, even shopping malls. Let the state create a database and apps that can prove you did your duty, or watch Netflix at home and swim in a blow-up pool in your own backyard.”

    There is that little problem of Vaccine Failure though, both primary and secondary. Having proof you had a vaccine at some point in time, does not mean you are protected, nor does the current pertussis vaccine prevent you from being an asymptomatic carrier of pertussis.
    I would bet at least half the adults in the U.S. have never had boosters and are no longer protected, even though they could show you their shot records.

    What does he propose we should do with the children and adults who won’t mount a response to vaccines? Primary vaccine failure. The 30 million or so in America alone who although having been vaccinated, are still at risk of being “viral cesspools”?

    That would mean about 60,000 people in Colorado would fall under the primary vaccine failure rates, and how many would be unprotected from never having had any boosters as adults? Far more than those who choose not to vaccinate.

    1. So, using an analogy to understand your reasoning, because a tiny percentage of people who get a gun permit may then go on and commit gun crime, you want us to ditch gun permit checks?

    2. Rise in vaccine rates would booster herd immunity, keeping the unvaxed and those for whom vaccines do not confer immunity both safe.

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