Mothers
and Vaccines: Saving or Destroying Children's Lives?
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/vaccine_awareness/Mothers_and_Vaccines.html
The Summer
1996 issue of "Mothering" magazine contained a well-intended article
discussing the "risks and benefits" of vaccinations. The article's
context, however, was dangerous to the public's health and welfare.
Immunization critics were labeled
"radical." Is this truly a radical position?
First, many intelligent parents
recognize the manipulative power of the media through what it often
provides--eighty percent truth and twenty percent distortions supportive to
U.S. Government and allied industrial interests. For lack of a better term, and
running the risk I might too be labeled
"radical," let's call them the
"military-medical-industrial complex (MMIC)".
In
the "Science of Coercion" (Oxford Press,
1994) author Christopher Simpson exposes the insidious and destructive manner
in which "psychological warfare" has been scientifically honed and
practiced on world populations, particularly scientists in academia, by covert
intelligence agencies working through a few academic and private institutions
with principle funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. The result has been the
development of very subtle and sophisticated communication methods by which
humans are systematically brain-washed into holding certain beliefs that effect
every aspect of what people think, say, and do. Ergo, Hitler's
immortal proclamation that "the greater the lie, the more people will
believe it, " has direct relevance to the often touted belief that
"vaccines are safe and effective."
Mothering magazine's risk/benefit
tables provided a good example of this counter-intelligence activity, typifying
the subtle way in which the MMIC's official research
data are biased for public persuasion. Critical
readers, of which there are few, can notice that the risk of death from
non-vaccination, for instance with pertussis, is expressed as "1:100 . . .
in infants under 6 months" who get the disease. The average lay reader
interprets this to mean an extraordinarily high risk, unaware that annually,
the total number of children who get whooping cough in the
Compare this to the way in which
vaccination risks are displayed. For
example 1:10,000 for a "severe brain problem" from DPT vaccine.
Here it appears as though the risk is very remote--misleading because you are
comparing apples to oranges.
Additional misinformation in this issue
included that "the United States Medical Research Institute changed from
biological weaponry research, which was outlawed, to developing protective
vaccines and controlling lethal microorganisms."
The Church Committee hearings of 1975 documented otherwise. Investigators
learned that George W. Merck, head of the Merck pharmaceutical company, also
directed
A my new book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--
Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Tetrahedron, LLC, 1996), I
show documents that the
More recently, internationally known,
highly respected scientists, Garth and Nancy Nicolson
and Peter Behan, independently determined that Gulf
War Syndrome (GWS) appears to be microbiological in
nature and very plausibly the result of experimental vaccines administered to
our service men and women. Within days of their reports to the press, a major
media blitz persuaded Americans otherwise-- that GWS,
and related chronic fatigue, was the result of "drug interactions."
Later, the government, after severe grassroots pressure, acknowledged the
possibility of biological weapons exposures as well, but to date, no mention
has been made of military vaccine manufacturer culpability. Documents indicate
that Tanox Biosystems--whose
major investors included former Secretary of State James Baker II and Past
President and CIA Director George Bush--tested an experimental vaccine in
Vaccine manufacturers and their supporters
use traditional psychological warfare fear appeals to argued the need for more
immunizations. Mothering, for instance, wrote that
"the HIV epidemic has shown how a disease can spread in a susceptible
population." and suggested that since other diseases do the same, more
vaccines are urgently needed. During the XI International AIDS Conference in
A Mothering spokesperson asserted,
"Literally thousands of studies have been done showing the efficacy of
vaccines. The FDA and similar agencies require these
studies prior to approving a new vaccine." This too is false and
misleading. The FDA does not assure vaccine safety.
Nor do they even report to the medical-scientific community, or the general public, all of the risks inherent in live viral
vaccines. Studies that show potential problems, including the contamination of
monkey viruses in currently required live polio vaccines, have had little
impact on the viral vaccine approval process. Apparently, FDA
regulators, themselves, are denied certain critical
information belonging to the vaccine industry. Specifically, FDA regulations are written so as
not to compel industry to reveal pertinent information regarding vaccine lots
that are not submitted for clinical use, but have major ramifications in
assessing a vaccine's safety. Moreover, since vaccine development
information is considered proprietary--protected by non-disclosure
policies--government officials and researchers must shield potential safety
issues from public scrutiny. This censorship is additionally
rationalized by the all too persuasive argument that vaccines cannot be
criticized lest the public become non-compliant in taking them. In the end,
health care professionals and the general public do
not learn of all the dangers of live viral vaccines.
Finally, the issue of monkey virus
contamination of the live polio virus vaccines
represents the most urgent and striking example of public health risk and
information suppression in the vaccine industry. That carcinogenic monkey
viruses contaminated, and continue to taint, or oral polio vaccines has been suppressed since the early 1960s. In 1972, on the
eve of Nixon's war on cancer, a joint Lederle
Corporation/FDA Bureau of Biologics study
additionally showed that eleven test monkeys, otherwise destined for polio
vaccine production, tested positively for the simian cytomegalovirus (SCMV)--a herpesvirus, of monkey
origin, researcher have found associated with patients suffering from chronic
fatigue. The continued reluctance of the FDA to act
on this matter was revealed in a corporate memo
delivered the following year. Sadly, over the past quarter century, virtually
nothing has changed. Even in 1996, following reports to FDA
officials concerning patients infected with a SCMV-derived
virus, no new in-house testing of polio vaccines for SCMV
has occurred. Moreover, specific requests for vaccine material to undertake the
needed safety tests, at no cost to the government by W. John Martin, M.D.,Ph.D., were denied on the
basis of protecting "proprietary" interests.
In light of this information, Mothering's prediction that the CDC would likely approve
the recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
recommendation that the polio vaccination series consist of two doses of
inactivated vaccine followed by two doses of live oral polio vaccine (Lederle's product) does not adequately address the issue of
live vaccine contaminants. Recent studies published in "Virology" and
the "Journal of Environmental Pathology" found simian virus (SV40)
genes associated with brain tumors in children too
young to have received the polio vaccine. Meaning? The
infants likely contracted the monkey virus from people who had received the
polio vaccine, possibly their parents. The viral genes could have spread from
parents to children either through environmental exposures or through genetic
inheritance. Thus, the "radical" doctors' most horrifying fears have
come true. Potential cancer causing animal virus genes now appear to be
circulating throughout the human race.
As British poet Tennyson wrote, "lies containing part truths are the hardest matters to
fight." Mothering's well-meaning issue supported
the MMIC's mass persuasion method of including the
"radical" opposition's view, but confused the debate with
misinformation. Like the MMIC, Mothering's
FEAR messages were hurled loud and clear, e.g., high
death rates among non-vaccinated children, along with the prescription for
allaying the concerns of misinformed parents--mandatory vaccination. Mothers
beware! Your most precious blessing-- your innocent child's life_teeters on your decision to vaccinate.
Following blindly and depending solely on unreliable sources of information in
this regard is the unfortunate path too many thousands have thus far taken.
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.*
* Dr. Horowitz
is an internationally known authority in behavioral
science and public health education. One of healthcare's most captivating
motivational speakers, Dr. Horowitz has served on the faculties of Harvard and