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Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines

James Howenstine, MD.
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vaccine1Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of health declared, “the only safe vaccine is one that is never used.”

Cowpox vaccine was believed able to immunize people against smallpox. At the time this vaccine was introduced, there was already a decline in the number of cases of smallpox. Japan introduced compulsory vaccination in 1872. In 1892 there were 165,774 cases of smallpox with 29,979 deaths despite the vaccination program. A stringent compulsory smallpox vaccine program, which prosecuted those refusing the vaccine, was instituted in England in 1867. Within 4 years 97.5 % of persons between 2 and 50 had been vaccinated. The following year England experienced the worst smallpox epidemic[1] in its history with 44,840 deaths. Between 1871 and 1880 the incidence of smallpox escalated from 28 to 46 per 100,000. The smallpox vaccine does not work.

Much of the success attributed to vaccination programs may actually have been due to improvement in public health related to water quality and sanitation, less crowded living conditions, better nutrition, and higher standards of living. Typically the incidence of a disease was clearly declining before the vaccine for that disease was introduced. In England the incidence of polio had decreased by 82 % before the polio vaccine was introduced in 1956.

In the early 1900s an astute Indiana physician, Dr. W.B. Clarke, stated “Cancer was practically unknown until compulsory vaccination with cowpox vaccine began to be introduced. I have had to deal with two hundred cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an un-vaccinated [2] person.”

There is a widely held belief that vaccines should not be criticized because the public might refuse to take them. This is valid only if the benefits exceed the known risks of the vaccines.

Do Vaccines Actually Prevent Disease?

This important question does not appear to have ever been adequately studied. Vaccines are enormously profitable for drug companies and recent legislation in the U.S. has exempted lawsuits against pharmaceutical firms in the event of adverse reactions to vaccines which are very common. In 1975 Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today less than 10 % of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. The number of cases of pertussis has steadily decreased[3] even though far fewer children are receiving pertussis vaccine.

Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates over 98 % in all parts of the U.S. including areas that had reported no cases of measles for years. As measles immunization rates rise to high levels measles becomes a disease seen only in vaccinated persons. An outbreak of measles occurred in a school where 100 % of the children had been vaccinated. Measles mortality rates had declined by 97 % in England before measles vaccination was instituted.

In 1986 there were 1300 cases of pertussis in Kansas and 90 % of these cases occurred in children who had been adequately vaccinated. Similar vaccine failures have been reported from Nova Scotia where pertussis continues to be occurring despite universal vaccination. Pertussis remains endemic[4] in the Netherlands where for more than 20 years 96 % of children have received 3 pertussis shots by age 12 months.

After institution of diphtheria vaccination in England and Wales in 1894 the number of deaths from diphtheria rose by 20 % in the subsequent 15 years. Germany had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The rate of diphtheria spiraled to 150,000 cases that year whereas, Norway which did not have compulsory vaccination, had only 50 cases of diphtheria the same year.

The continued presence of these infectious diseases in children who have received vaccines proves that life long immunity which follows natural infection does not occur in persons receiving vaccines. The injection process places the viral particles into the blood without providing any clear way to eliminate these foreign substances.

Why Do Vaccines Fail To Protect Against Diseases?

Walene James, author of Immunization: the Reality Behind The Myth, states that the full[5] inflammatory response is necessary to create real immunity. Prior to the introduction of measles and mumps vaccines children got measles and mumps and in the great majority of cases these diseases were benign. Vaccines “trick” the body so it does not mount a complete inflammatory response to the injected virus.

Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS

The incidence of Sudden Infant Death syndrome SIDS has grown from .55 per 1000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1000 in 1992 in Olmstead County, Minnesota. The peak incidence for SIDS is age 2 to 4 months the exact time most vaccines are being given to children. 85 % of cases of SIDS occur in the first 6 months of infancy. The increase in SIDS as a percentage of total infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per 1000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1000 in 1992. This rise in SIDS deaths has occurred during a period when nearly every childhood disease was declining due to improved sanitation and medical progress except SIDS. These deaths from SIDS did increase during a period when the number of vaccines given a child was steadily rising to 36 per child.

Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new cases of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24 hours of a DPT injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS two thirds of these victims[6] had been vaccinated from one half day to 3 weeks prior to their deaths. None of these deaths was attributed to vaccines. Vaccines are a sacred cow and nothing against them appears in the mass media because they are so profitable to pharmaceutical firms.

There is valid reason to think that not only are vaccines worthless in preventing disease they are counterproductive because they injure the immune system permitting cancer, auto-immune diseases and SIDS to cause much disability and death.

Are Vaccines Sterile?

Dr. Robert Strecker claimed that the department of defense DOD was given $10,000,000 in 1969 to create the AIDS virus to be used as a population-reducing[7] weapon against blacks. By use of the Freedom of Information Act Dr. Strecker was able to learn that the DOD secured funds from Congress to perform studies on immune destroying agents for germ warfare.

Once produced, the vaccine was given in two locations. Smallpox vaccine containing HIV was given to 100,000,000 Africans in 1977. Over 2000 young white homosexual males in New York City were given Hepatitis B vaccine that contained HIV virus in 1978. This vaccine was given at New York City Blood Center. The Hepatitis B vaccine containing the HIV virus was also administered to homosexual males in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St.Louis, Houston and Chicago in 1978 and 1979. U.S. Public Health epidemiology studies have disclosed that these same 6 cities had the highest incidence of AIDS, Aids related Complex (ARC) and deaths rates from HIV, when compared to other U.S. cities.

When a new virus is introduced into a community. It takes 20 years for the number of cases to double. If the fabricated story that green monkey bites of pygmies led to the HIV epidemic, the alleged monkey bites in the 1940s should have produced a peak in the incidence of HIV in the 1960s at which time HIV was non existent in Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) began a African smallpox vaccination campaign in 1977 that targeted urban population centers and avoided pygmies. If the green monkey bites of pygmies truly caused the HIV epidemic the incidence of HIV in pygmies should have been higher than in urban citizens. However, the opposite was true.

In 1954 Dr. Bernice Eddy (bacteriologist) discovered live monkey viruses in supposedly sterile inactivated polio vaccine[8] developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. This discovery was not well received at the NIH and Dr. Eddy was demoted. Later Dr. Eddy, working with Sarah Stewart, discovered SE polyoma virus. This virus was quite important because it caused cancer in every animal receiving it. Yellow fever vaccine had previously been found to contain avian (bird) leukemia virus. Later Dr. Hilleman isolated SV 40 virus from both the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. There were 40 different viruses[9] in these polio vaccines they were trying to eradicate. They were never able to get rid of these viruses ontaminating the polio vaccines. The SV 40 virus causes malignancies. It has now been identified in 43 % of cases of non-Hodgekin lymphoma[10] , 36 % of brain tumors[11] , 18 % of healthy blood samples, and 22 % of healthy semen samples, mesothiolomas and other malignancies. By the time of this discovery SV 40 had already been injected into 10,000,000 people in Salk vaccine. Gastric digestion inactivtes some of SV 40 in Sabin vaccine. However, the isolation of strains of Sabin polio vaccine from all 38 cases of Guillan Barre Syndrome[12] GBS in Brazil suggests that significant numbers of persons are able to be infected from this vaccine. All 38 of these patients had received Sabin polio vaccine months to years before the onset of GBS. The incidence of non-Hodgekin lymphoma has”mysteriouly” doubled since the 1970s.

Dr. John Martin, Professor of Pathology at the Univ. of Southern California, was employed by the Viral Oncology Branch of the Bureau of Biologics (FDA) from 1976 to 1980. While employed there he identified foreign DNA in the live polio vaccine Orimune Lederle that suggested serious vaccine contamination. He warned his supervisors about this problem and was told to discontinue his work as it was outside the scope of testing required for polio vaccine.

Later Dr. Martin learned that all eleven of the African green monkeys used to grow the Lederle polio virus Orimune had grown simian cytomegalovirus from kidney cell cultures. Lederle was aware of this viral contamination as their Cytomegaloviral Contamination Plan[13] clearly showed in 1972. The Bureau of Biologics decided not to pursue the matter so production of infected polio vaccine continued.

In 1955 Dr. Martin identified unique cell destroying viruses termed stealth viruses in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. These viruses lacked genes that would enable the immune system to recognize them. Thus they were protected by the body’s failure to develop antiviral antibodies. In March of 1995, Dr. Martin learned that some of these stealth viruses had originated from African green monkey simian cytomegalovirus of a type known to infect man.

The Lederle vaccine experience suggests that the higher-ups are not concerned about sloppy and dangerous preparation of vaccines. Animal cross infection is a huge unsolved current problem for all vaccine manufacturing. If this vaccine production sounds like an unbelievable mess to you, you are right.

The influential Club of Rome has a position paper in which they state that the world population is too large and needs to be reduced by 90 %. This means that 6 billion people must be reduced to 500 to 600 million. Obviously, creating famines and genocidal wars such as wrecked havoc in Africa, and loosing new laboratory-created diseases (HIV, Ebola, Marburg[14] , and probably West Nile virus and SARS) can help reduce the population. Other elitist groups (Trilaterals, Bildenbergers) have expressed similar concerns about excess people on planet Earth.

The company that was projected to produce the new smallpox vaccine in the U.S. was in serious trouble in England because of unsatisfactory quality of operations before setting up their facility in the U.S. Why would their performance here be any better than it was in England?

If there are important powerful groups of people that are determined to reduce the world population, what could be a more diabolically clever way to eliminate people than to inject them with a cancer-causing vaccine? The person receiving the injection would never suspect that the vaccine taken 10 to 15 years earlier had caused the cancer to appear.

Other Dangers From Vaccines

In the March 4, 1977 issue of Science Jonas and Darrell Salk warn, “Live virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis may in each instance produce the disease it intended to prevent. The live virus against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis (brain damage).

The swine flu vaccine was administered to the American public even though there had never been a case of swine flu identified in a human. Farmers refused to use the vaccine because it killed too many animals. Within a few months of use in humans this vaccine caused many cases of serious nerve injury (Guillan Barre syndrome).

An article in the Washington Post on Jan. 26, 1988 mentioned that all cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine with no known cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979. This might have created a perfect situation to discontinue the vaccine, but the vaccine is still given. Vaccines are a wonderful source of profits with no risks to the drug companies since vaccine injuries are now recompensed by the government.

The steady escalation in the number of vaccines administered has been followed by an identical rise in the incidence of auto-immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, asthma) seen in children. While there is a genetic transmission of some of these diseases many are probably due to the injury from foreign protein particles, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and other toxic agents injected in vaccines.

In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine was recommended by the Center for Disease Control for all infants. When this vaccine program was instituted several infants died and many had life endangering bowel obstructions. Prelicensure trials[15] of the rotavirus vaccine had demonstrated an increased incidence of intussusception 30 times greater than normal but the vaccine was released anyway without special warnings to practitioners to be on the lookout for bowel problems. Children’s vaccines are often not studied for toxicity possibly because such study might eliminate them from being used.

A large study from Australia showed that the risk of developing encephalitis from the pertussis vaccine was 5 times greater than the risk of developing encephalitis by contacting pertussis by natural methods.

Naturally acquired immunity by illness evolves by spread of a virus from the respiratory tract to the liver, thymus, spleen, and bone marrow. When symptoms begin, the entire immune response has been mobilized to repel the invading virus. This complex immune system response creates antibodies that confer life long immunity against that invading virus and prepares the child to respond promptly to an infection by the same virus in the future.

Vaccination, in contrast, results in the persisting of live virus or other foreign antigens within the cells of the body, a situation that may provoke auto-immune reactions as the body attempts to destroy its own infected cells. There is no surprise that the incidence of auto-immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, asthma, psoriasis) has risen sharply in this era of multiple vaccine immunization.

Vaccine Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. John Classen has published 29 articles on vaccine-induced[16] diabetes. At least 8 of 10 children with Type 1 (insulin needing) diabetes have this disease as a result of vaccination. These children may have avoided measles, mumps, and whooping cough but they have received something far worse: an illness that shortens life expectancy by 10 to 15 years and results in a life requiring constant medical care.

Dr. Classen has shown in Finland, the introduction of hemophilus type b vaccine caused three times as many cases of type 1 diabetes as the number of deaths and brain damage from hemophilus influenza type b it might have prevented.

In New Zealand, the incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children rose by 61 % after an aggressive vaccine program against hepatitis B.. This same program has been started in the U.S.A. so we can now look forward to many cases of Type 1 diabetes in children. Similar rises in Type 1 diabetes have been seen in England, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark after immunization programs against Hepatitis B.

Toxic Substances Are Needed To Make Vaccines.

Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum.[17]

In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen from between 200 and 500 percent in every state in the U.S. This sharp rise in autism followed the introduction of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in 1975.

Representative Dan Burton’s healthy grandson was given injections for 9 diseases in one day. These injections were instantly followed by autism. These injections contain a preservative of mercury called thimerosal. The boy received 41 times the amount of mercury which is capable of harm to the body. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can injure the brain and nervous system. And tragically, it did.

In the United States the number of compulsory vaccine injections has increased from 10 to 36 in the last 25 years. During this period, there has been a simultaneous increase in the number of children suffering learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Some of these childhood disabilities are related to intrauterine cerebral damage from maternal cocaine use, but probably vaccines cause many of the others.

Many vaccines contain aluminum. A new disease called macrophagic myofasciitis causes pain in muscles, bones and joints. All persons with this disease have received aluminum containing vaccines. Deposits of aluminum are able to remain as an irritant in tissues and disturb the immune and nervous system for a lifetime.

Nearly all vaccines contain aluminum and mercury. These metals appear to play an important role in the etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease. An expert at the 1997 International Vaccine Conference related that a person who takes 5 or more annual flu vaccine shots has increased the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s Disease by a factor of 10 over the person who has had 2 or fewer flu shots.

When we take vaccines we are playing a modern version of Russian Roulette. We not only get exposed to aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde and foreign cell proteins but we may get simian virus 40 and other dangerous viruses which can cause cancer, leukemia and other severe health problems because the vaccine pool is contaminated due to careless animal isolation techniques. Congress has protected the manufacturers from lawsuits, so dangerous vaccines simply increase profits at no risk to the drug companies.

U.S. children aged 2 months began receiving hepatitis B vaccine in December 2000.No peer-reviewed studies of the safety of hepatitis B in this age bracket had been done. Over 36,000 adverse reactions with 440 deaths were soon reported but the true incidence is much higher as reporting is voluntary so only approximately 10 % of adverse reactions get reported. This means that about 5000 infants are dying annually from the hepatitis B vaccine. The CDC’s Chief of Epidemiology admits that the frequency of serious reactions to hepatitis B vaccine is 10 times higher than other vaccines. Hepatitis B is transmitted sexually and by contaminated blood, so the incidence of this disease must be near zero in this age bracket. A vaccine expert, Dr. Philip Incao, states that “the conclusion is obvious that the risks[18] of hepatitis B vaccination far outweigh the benefits. Once a vaccine is mandated the vaccine manufacturer is no longer liable for adverse reactions.

Dr. W.B. Clarke’s important observation that cancer was not found in unvaccinated individuals demands an explanation and one now appears forthcoming. All vaccines given over a short period of time to an immature immune system deplete the thymus gland (the primary gland involved in immune reactions) of irreplaceable immature immune cells. Each of these cells could have multiplied and developed into an army of valuable cells to combat infection and growth of abnormal cells. When these immune cells have been used up, permanent immunity may not appear. The Arthur Research Foundation in Tucson, Arizona estimates that up to 60 % of our immune system may be exhausted[19] by multiple mass vaccines (36 are now required for children). Only 10 % of immune cells are permanently lost when a child is permitted to develop natural immunity from disease. There needs to be grave concern about these immune system injuring vaccinations! Could the persons who approve these mass vaccinations know that they are impairing the health of these children, many of whom are being doomed to requiring much medical care in the future?

Compelling evidence is available that the development of the immune system after contracting the usual childhood diseases matures and renders it capable to fight infection and malignant cells in the future.

The use of multiple vaccines, which prevents natural immunity, promotes the development of allergies and asthma. A New Zealand study disclosed that 23 % of vaccinated children develop asthma , as compared to zero in unvaccinated children.

Cancer was a very rare illness in the 1890’s. This evidence about immune system injury from vaccinating affords a plausible explanation for Dr. Clarke’s finding that only vaccinated individuals got cancer. Some radical adverse change in health occurred in the early 1900s to permit cancer to explode and vaccinating appears to be the reason.

Vaccines are an unnatural phenomena. My guess is that if enough persons said no to immunizations there would be a striking improvement in general health with nature back in the immunizing business instead of man. Having a child vaccinated should be a choice not a requirement. Medical and religious exemptions are permitted by most states.

When governmental policies require vaccinations before children enter schools coercion has overruled the lack of evidence of vaccine efficacy and safety. There is no proof that vaccines work and they are never studied for safety before release. My opinion is that there is overwhelming evidence that vaccines are dangerous and the only reason for their existence is to increase profits of pharmaceutical firms.

If you are forced to immunize your children so they can enter school, obtain a notarized statement from the director of the facility that they will accept full financial responsibility for any adverse reaction from the vaccine. Since there is at least a 2 percent risk of a serious adverse reaction they may be smart enough to permit your child to escape a dangerous procedure. Recent legislation passed by Congress gives the government the power to imprison persons refusing to take vaccines (smallpox, anthrax, etc). This would be troublesome to enforce if large numbers of citizens declined to be vaccinated at the same time.

Footnotes:

1 Null Gary Vaccination: An Analysis of the Health Risks- Part Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
2 Mullins Eustace Murder by Injection pg 132 The National Council for Medical Research, P. O. Box 1105, Staunton, Virginia 24401
3 Gary Null Interview with Dr. Dean Black April 7, 1995
4 de Melker HE, et al Pertussis in the Netherlands: an outbreak despite high levels of immunization with whole-cell vaccine Emerging Infectious Diseases 1997; 3(2): 175-8 Centers for Disease Control
5 Gary Null Interview with Walene James, April 6, 1995
6 Torch WS Diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunizations: a potential cause of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Neurology 1982; 32-4 A169 abstract.
7 Collin Jonathan The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients 1988 abstracted in Horowitz L. Emerging Viruses Aids & Ebola pg 1-5
8 Harris RJ et al Contaminant viruses in two live vaccines produced in chick cells.J Hyg (London) 1966 Mar:64(1) : 1-7
9 Horowitz Leonard G. Emerging Viruses AIDS & Ebola pg 484
10 Vilchez RA et al Association between simian virus 40 and non-Hodgekin lymphoma Lancet 2002 Mar 9;359(9309):817-823
11 Bu X A study of simian virus 40 infection and its origin in human brain tumors Zhonghu Liu Xing Bing Xue Zhi 2000 Feb;21 (1):19-21
12 Friedrich F. et al temporal association between the isolation of Sabin-related poliovirus vaccine strains and the Guillan-Barre syndrome Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 1996 Jan-Feb; 38(1):55-8
13 Horowitz Leonard Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola pg 492
14 Horowitz Leonard G Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola pg 378-88 Tetrahedron Inc. Suite 147, 206 North 4th Ave. Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 1-888-508-4787 tetra@tetrahedron.org
15 Null, Gary Vaccination: An Anatysis of the health risks-Part 3 Townsend letter for doctors & patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
16 Classen, JB et al. Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine BMJ 1999; 319:1133
17 Brain 9/01
18 Incao, philip M.D. Letter to representative Dale Van Vyven, Ohio House of Representatives March 1, 1999 provided to www.garynull.com by The Natural Immunity Information Network
19 Rowen Robert Your first consultation with Dr. Rowen pg 20




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24 Comments »

  • This article covers this most important topic brilliantly. Thank you for it. An article I’ve written documents the vaccination fraud from a different angle. It uses data from the Journal of the American Medical Association to clearly show that vaccines have had nothing to do with the decline in infectious diseases, and also uses their own graphs to give clear evidence. The title of the article is:

    Childhood Vaccinations Hoax – Not Effective and at Worst, Harmful (http://gaia-health.com/articles/000010-Childhood-Vaccinations-Hoax.shtml)

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  • Liberty G says:

    I am very concerned about this issue, and this article contains much very interesting information I’ve not seen elsewhere.

    However, I am sorry that you feel the need to include conspiracy theories re: mass genocide in the discussion. This kind of accusation causes many, many people who would otherwise take your solid information seriously to discount all of it as biased and hysterical pronouncements.

    A more moderate and reasoned public face encourages trust. When you make such wild claims, you lose credibility. In my opinion, this is a tragedy when you have so much of importance to impart.

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    Stan Reply:

    Liberty G:
    I’m sorry that you dismiss claims of “mass genocide” as mere “conspiracy theories”. You seem to appreciate the material in general that the author has compiled in this article; why would you think he would be any less rigorous in his research on this issue than in any other he refers to?

    Read the Len Horowitz reference “Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola”, and start entertaining serious questions in this regard.

    This is one of the most comprehensive compilations of information on this subject, of the dangers of vaccinations, that I have come across. The author is to be commended on his research, and summation. As for the connection with SIDS, I would as well reference the books by Dr Archie Kalokerinos, reporting on his work with aborigine children in Australia. His conclusion: They had insufficient levels of vitamin C from their diet; when the stress on their systems of vaccines was introduced, they succumbed. The allopathic medical profession calls it SIDS. He called it scurvy. And so forth.

    A terrible chapter in the history of mankind. All because people tend to believe their masters; especially if they wear white coats, and profess to have their best interests at heart. After all, a doctor wouldn’t Do Harm. Would they?

    Not a true doctor. Of which there are some. But unfortunately, not enough, to rule this dark, benighted day we are in.

    But we will get there. With such information as in this article. And the integrity of such as its author. To whom I say: Well done, thou good and faithful servant of Truth.

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    Linda Reply:

    This is not the first time we have heard about mass genocide. It has happened. People just don’t want to believe it. It is just like when I posted a flyer on the soda machine at work re: the dangers of nutrasweet and artificial sweetners. I had a girl start crying and ripped it down because she didn’t want to believe what was true.

    I could give you tons of testimonies from people who have gone to medical doctors for treatment only to find that what they needed was good nutrition to get over what was wrong with them because the experts just put them on drugs.

    Doctors do not know everything. The other thing people do not realize is the pharmaceutical companies are the ones that promote the colleges for doctors. So the doctors have to be very careful what they say and do to the public or they could loose their license.

    I think most people go to be a doctor because they truly want to help people but then get all caught up in money and the big pharmaceutical companies.

    If you don’t believe what this guy is saying than you certainly would not believe the the FDA and the Pharmaceutical companies are in this together. They are. It is all about money.

    I could tell my own story. I haven’t had to take any medication in over 15 years since I started good supplementation and eating better.

    I have read over and over again in different things about vaccines and I heard of many children who were normal until they had their vaccines.

    Read how the H1N1 actually got started. It will shock you.

    think about something: Childrens immune systems are not fully developed when we start giving them these vaccines. The only defense we really have against any disease is our immune systems. If a child’s immune system is at all not very good think about what damage can happen from the vaccines being put in them.

    Don’t you wonder why so many people are sick today and so many children are born premature. It is what we are putting into our bodies. What we are breathing every day.

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  • Diane Loos says:

    Thank you for articulating this deceptive and dangerous/deadly practice that we are conditioned to accept and TRUST our entire lives. I greatly appreciate the efforts here, and wonder if these truths were discussed on, say, Oprah, if the shift toward responsibility, accountability, and honesty on the part of government officials and pharmaceutical executives (is that too much to ask?) would take a dramatic thrust forward?

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  • rodney burke says:

    I just scratched my head in disbelief! (not literally) Whose side are the vaccine makers on? What happened to the axiom “First do no harm?” Is the almighty dollar the only consideration in this regard? What about scientific and ethical considerations? Are they out the window too. The so-called scientific community has lost their way and out health is the result. Where was cancer and Hepatitus in 1910? Where was heart disease at the same time? Are not both on the rise since we began to vaccinate? Time out here!! the nation is NOT healthier for vaccinations or there wouldn’t be the outcry in this or any OTHER FORUM! It’s time for WE the People to say “Enough”. We want our HEALTH back! The FDA and congress don’t care!

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  • Kathleen Siskron says:

    Please make a natural solution for disease control. Chemicals kill. Our children should not be your ginni pigs for vaccines that have other side effects,unknown.

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  • Jed says:

    Very well written article. Health comes from balance in body, mind, and spirit, not from injecting toxins and dead pathogens into people. Modern medicine has lots of technology and manipulative tools but no real understanding of life itself.

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  • Misty Moore says:

    Yes! I chose when I started having kids 7 years ago not to vaccinate! It was a hard road to choose at first, I was a young mother at the time, my mother and step mother are both R.N.’s and momsuffered from Polio badly as a child receiving 13 surgeries before she was 9 years old! My children have always been the healthiest of all the groups! It does not just stop there. When choosing not to vaccine that means you do everything to support their natural immune system. Healthy food (I made all of their baby food from scratch, organic), breastfeeding as long as you can, not using antibiotics, only using things that support their life and add in to their immune system like herbs, homeopathy, etc. Real Live High Vibrational Life! I am so grateful for pushing through and meeting any fears I had around this (as a young mother who also had only been clean off of heroin since months before getting pregnant) people/family definitely questioned my judgment!

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  • Richard Fried M.D. says:

    Your article on why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines was very disappointing. I am a holistic physician who has serious issues with many of the vaccines offered today, and many of my patients refuse vaccines or choose a very limited vaccine schedule. Nonetheless, your article is so unscientific, full of innuendo and weak associations, confusing live with killed vaccines, confusing DPT(which has long since been discontinued) with DPaT, etc. Not a single doduble-blind trial has been presented by you. Any evidence for effectiveness of vaccines has been conveniently left out. For example, although it is true that the incidence of many of the diseases for which we now immunize was on the decline before the vaccines came out, there is uncontrovertable evidence that the death rate for many of these disease plummeted shortly after the vaccines became available, polio and HIB, just for example. In short, we do our cause no service by inflammatory, unscientific polemics which cherry pick convenient findings and ignore inconvenient ones.

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  • Deanna Asencio says:

    And you KNOW someone is going to come up with a quicky Swine Flu vaccine (see the article on the WHO working with Baxter to make a vaccine in half the normal time…that sounds safe!) They’ll make a billion dollars, people will be lined up for miles (out of fear) and what will be the long term effects? Couldn’t we all just use some common sense, increase hygiene, and use preventative maintenance: good clean food, good clean water, vitamins, minerals, probiotics, etc. to keep our immune system strong in the first place?

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    A Robinson Reply:

    You would think this would be “common sense”. However, it is difficult to obtain “good, clean food” anymore… between GMOs which cause similar effects, and irradiation which destroys valuable nutrients.

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  • John Combest says:

    This American is grateful Dr. James Howenstine that you have helped to reveal the desire and methods of the powerful, evil monsters who have been trying for decades to rid the world of hundreds of millions of us “lower class” beings so that we don’t clutter their playgrounds after they have established their dictatorial one-world government (same as the New World Order scheme applauded by Geroge H. W. Bush while he was President). Your references to world-wide conspiracies intent on drastically reducing Earth’s population is supported by many other respected organizations whose publications I have studied. Most readers who doubt the accuracy of what you have reported show themselves to be NOT well-informed. And, “Yes, Ma’am – nowadays your government and big business really would do that to you and your family – for an extra dollar!” Thanks again, Dr. Howenstein!

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  • S. Steinberg says:

    Generally, excellent substantive overview — though I think that its persistent lack of identifying-data, in the body of the article, as to who (in addition to their names) the doctors & researchers were, is a drawback.

    But, in my view, the whole issue, of the damage that vaccines can cause and of the trend toward mandating-by-law that everyone be vaccinated, is rather frightening.

    And isn’t it interesting that (a) this current wave of what is said to be the AH1N1 virus was globally hyped, to a huge fear-level, to be a possible population-killer, when in fact it has turned out to be magnitudes less destructive than “ordinary” seasonal flu, (b) it has nonetheless been declared by the WHO to be a “level 6 pandemic” — WHO’s highest alert-level, (c) the very next day after WHO raised it to a level 6 pandemic, one of the major drug companies, Novartis, announced: “Basel, June 12 2009 – Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations”?

    Doesn’t this raise some questions worth asking?

    Granted, the WHO, in going to Level 6, stated that this now-global pandemic also appears to be mild — but the trend and message seems clear, both from the WHO and many levels of government (and perhaps also internationally), that “We, the People” may be in for a serious challenge to our freedom (which may quickly disappear) to personally choose to be — or not to be — vaccinated.

    In my opinion, we simply MUST fight for that freedom. We MUST fight to generate and pass laws that will unquestionably — and without penalty — regain and preserve for us that freedom. Otherwise — as is already happening in some states in the U.S. and as already been set into Executive Orders under the Presidencies of George W. Bush and, to some extent, Bill Clinton — governments at various levels and their agencies may all too easily choose to rip those freedoms from us and, under threat of hefty fines, indefinite “detention”, and other penalties, if we resist, MANDATE that we be vaccinated with whatever they say we should be vaccinated.

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    Dr. Yael Shany Reply:

    Dear S. Steinberg

    I cannot agree with anything more tha I do with you. Yes, I also published my book in 2008 in which I discuss this vaccine issue in length. I will be happy to stand in front of any movement against the drug and vaccine corrupted laws, to serve nothing but the pharmaceutical companies, yet, continue the horrific deterioration of our nation, and prepare our future to be of one huge nation of debilitaed, sick, diformed nation. All fo just one purpose: To enrich the pharmaceutical greed driven company owners.
    Hey, it is just like the cancer industry. More people live off cancer than die of it. If the cancer industry will accept the truth that cancer can be cured with carrots and baking soda, the USA economy will suffer a 100 times bigger economy breakdown than it is already the case.
    So, thank you for your article, and, let me know, I will be happy to join the army of “true health seekers”. See my book “Giggling Dr. Green”, please.

    Sincerely
    Yael Shany

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  • THANK YOU FOR THIS INTERESTING READ! I AM HAPPY TO FORWARD THIS ON TO CONCERNED FRIENDS IN THE MEDICAL FIELD AND TO OTHER SKEPTICS. I AM EMAILING THIS TO OPRAH NOW…GREAT SUGGESTION AS A MEANS TO DELIVER SOLID EVIDENCE AND FACTS TO THE PUBLIC CONSUMERS. WILL THINK TWICE AND RESEARCH MORE MYSELF FROM NOW ON..FOR MY FAMILIES SAKE!

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  • Lynn says:

    Would love someone with good research evidence to respond to readers digest. Last month issues spouts off about vaccines. I saw holes in the article. They need the web sites of the governement with the satistics shown that the dease did indeed drop steadly before vaccines and it was around the times people were learning to keep clean. Do ya think maybe all the people comming in have trouble with hygene and maybe that is why the vaccinated ones are getting the dease? Also the other proff I like is how they did not find one omish (I think) with any childhood deases until they found two children that had some childhood deases. Guess what those two children were adopted and had been immuzised before being adopted into the omish community. It all has to do with hygene. They try to always make it look like unvaccinated kids started the outbreaks when it is always just the vaccinated ones whom get it. Hummm. Then they try to force the unvaccinated whom don’t get the dease to get the vaccine, because you know it must be their fault. lol. Someone with good research please respond to Junes Readers Digest 2009. Send it to them. The more responders the better.

    In Light Lynn

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  • Glenda Washburn RN, CCAP, MH says:

    I enjoyed the article. One very big concern is how pharmaceutical companies now make drugs,(e.g.insulin, and other common drugs),with genetic manipulation(GM). These unmarked GM drugs, had no scientific studies prior to marketing. (Many seniors, are on 20 different medications!). All diabetic lab tests must be sent to US gov’t. (How many new cases? How sick?) Online medical records make it easier to contol our descent to sickness even further. Our media is well-controlled, so submitting evidence to them changes nothing.

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  • Hardtruth says:

    The executive branch is executing arbatrary power. That means there criminals. Checking out persons:start with Brazinski.He’s the puppeteer. Bush,Chaney and Obama are the puppets.Then check out were Brazinskis first loyalty is.He has dual citizenship. I really think a highschool drop out can get the picture. Mass awareness is mandatory from we the Government. Our servants are not the Government. They swore to uphold the Constitution of the USA. Thats the only place they can lawfully draw any power to declare a new mandate.

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  • Ruth Orr says:

    Thank you for this very interesting and very
    informative information that I have believed
    possible for a very long time. Now you have
    proven this with hard facts. How very scary
    when you realize that the big G controls
    everything about our lives from day 1 to the
    day we die. I have always questioned the source of so much cancer. Now I believe
    I know the truth. But, we will never be
    we will never be told the truth. Too much money involved.

    Thank you for forwarding this on to me.
    .

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  • Karen says:

    Thank you Dr. H for this article which both shocked and saddened me. My children just received the flu shot even though my intuition said, “don’t do it!” They will never get another one. I had a weak moment I suppose because my kids have viral-induced asthma/allergies. Now I believe the vaccines may be the very cause of their health issues. I will continue my natural health studies to learn all I can to prevent illness in my children naturally. Thank you again for this article which I will share with everyone I know. Thank you for the work you are doing to help others.
    May God bless all of us, especially the innocent!

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  • Phyllis Shenny says:

    As a 56 year old woman recovering from over three weeks home with the mumps, I have to speak to the contrary. Why can’t we just get honest and confront the fact that mercury is toxic – and so is aluminum – and probaby the offender in cases of vaccination complications. And while we are at it stop using it in our mouths. However, I got sick because of the fact that in England people are afraid to vaccinate their kids, and one kid brought it back from there into the orthodox community who I service in my photo studion. One kid and there is an outbreak. In countries that stopped giving the polio vaccine, polio is on the rise. I don’t believer for a moment that small pox naturally went away. Yes there are problems. Do we really need a chicken pox vaccine? And the gardisil hype is complete and utter crap. But let me tell you I would be in very different shape if one more people in England gave their kids the mmr. No it is not 100% effective. That is why the vast majority need to get it. No I don’t believe in forced vaccination. Nor do I believe that it is not possible to find out exactly what is an effect of the vaccine, and if so, what element in the vaccine is the culprit. I think this is red tape and corruption keeping this data from us. But as they say don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Many vaccinations are vital, and need to be made with non toxic element. Correct information needs to be passed on.

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    mary in USA Reply:

    Phyllis, I can appreciate your viewpoint considering you believe your illness is a direct result of others not being vaccinated. Even if that happens to be true in your case (there are others who would argue that your contracting the illness could have been prevented by a strong immune system in yourself), mass vaccinations whether contaminated or not may not be the best solution to disease control. Many believe, and have demonstrated it with their own experience, that healthy living and a naturally strong immune system is nature’s built in defense perfected over humankind’s existence and therefore the most effective. Even if pure uncontaminated vaccines were helpful and did no harm … then wouldn’t mass opposition to the current vaccine programs force the governments and producers to clean up their act? They say we vote with our dollars. If a huge majority of people refused vaccination, then a beneficial change would necessarily occur in my opinion. Either massive research that would either validate the benefit of vaccination and/or the purification of vaccines would occur or perhaps the discovery that they are neither necessary or beneficial in the long run. Then maybe we could concentrate on relying upon and supporting the natural defenses we all freely inherit upon birth.

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    Phyllis Reply:

    Hi Mary, thanks for the response. I think in many ways we are on the same page. I am a firm believer in holistic and preventative “medicine” such as proper nutrition, natural supplements etc, and have practiced such for many years. My daughter is a result of such. Here is the thing. I had a naturally very strong immune system.(and hope I am getting it back). I was working in a studio that was hot, no ventilation. My very young employees were all getting the flu and colds, I was fine – until the mumps hit me. An immune system can be strong, but it doesn’t mean you don’t have a weak moment, or so, or can be vulnerable. We all have stress in our lives, and days on end when we work too hard, and emotional factors come into it too. As far as mmr, it is questionable, since most survive these illnesses – and the mumps vaccine is only 80% or so effective which is how I caught it since most kids were vaccinated. In the case of something as deadly as polio or small pox, it would be hard to convince me that the vaccine didn’t save lives. I do agree that we as people, need to demand that vaccines be pure and not contain toxic ingredients. That said, it would be a previous step to inform the public that there are toxic ingredients that are allowed to be used. Most people do whatever the doctor says and never question. And the doctors seem to be listening to drug companies. This is where we need reform. Getting the public to question and learn, and take their own health into their own hands. If people refused to take them based on the toxic materials, and made this known, the drug companies would be forced to fix it. If people refused to get metal fillings it wouldn’t have to be legislated. but they don’t know, and believe what they are told. But as my holistic dentist said “there are two things you can legally do with amalgam – one is dispose of it in hazmat containers wearing gloves, and the other is put it in your childs mouth” This goes further – the schools are taking sugar drinks out of their facilities – what are they replacing it with – diet drinks. All this said, while suffering with the mumps, potential complications and the few virus’s I caught right after, it was hard to accept that these vaccinations are not helpful. As I get older things don’t seem quite so black and white any more.

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