Will Anyone in Their Right Mind Actually Buy Into These Three New Vaccines?

[Apollonia Lambertus]

by Joseph Mercola
Recently by Joseph Mercola: Swine Flu – One of the Most Massive Cover-Ups in American History



A storm has erupted over the announcement last month that an experimental AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand proved modestly effective. It was billed as a major scientific advance – the long-awaited hard evidence that it is possible to inoculate people against AIDS. But now the trial has been called into question in a way that is overblown and possibly destructive.

But this isn’t the first time the efficacy and safety of a vaccine has been called into question. The government recently announced that $10 million of stimulus money would be used to fund a phase 3 clinical trial of a promising anti-smoking vaccine produced by Nabi Pharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md. However, another company working on a similar vaccine has not been so successful.

Cytos Biotechnology Ltd. said this week that a trial of its nicotine vaccine had failed to reduce smoking behaviors. The study, which is continuing, involved 200 smokers who were motivated to quit. The researchers found that the vaccine, designed to bind nicotine in the blood and prevent it from reaching the brain, was safe and well tolerated. But apparently it did not stimulate high enough levels of antibodies to produce the desired response.

The moment evidence was found that obesity may be linked to a virus, opportunistic drug company researchers dove into developing an “obesity vaccine.” Now researchers say their obesity vaccine could be ready for market in five years. Searching for genetic clues to the obesity epidemic, in the hopes of developing a vaccine against it, is not the answer.

New York Times October 18, 2009
New York Sun August 21, 2007
Los Angeles Times October 6, 2009
Bloomberg September 28, 2009
PreventDisease.com September 29, 2009
Dr. Mercola's Comments:


"This is what honest intelligent vaccine critics have been saying all along," said Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard-trained emerging diseases expert. Well folks, at the rate of vaccine development, it’s just a matter of time before some genius develops an anti-ugly vaccine to fit everyone into some predefined measure of beauty, and market it as something without which we cannot live healthy prosperous lives.

There really should be no doubt in your mind at this point that vaccines are big business. And for good reason – laws are in place that indemnifies vaccine manufacturers from financial ruin should things go wrong. Manufacturers have complete insulation from ANY prosecution for harm or damage from their product.

It’s a near foolproof business venture as far as criminal and financial liability is concerned. And the medical industry and the general public have been thoroughly indoctrinated to believe that the basic premise of vaccinations is wholly sound and beyond debate.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

There are basic differences between naturally acquired immunity and temporary vaccine-induced antibody production. But few are willing to look at this issue – least of all conventional medicine, which in reality is ruled by pharmaceutical companies.

Unfortunately, if we as a society continue down the road they’re paving for us, and they’re wrong about the efficacy, safety, and overall long-term side effects of vaccines, then we’re on extremely dangerous ground.

I hope people will develop some healthy skepticism and make a serious evaluation of the evidence.

It is beyond ludicrous that smoking can be “cured” with a vaccine. This is so blatantly irrational it boggles the mind.

Unfortunately, in the past couple of years, advertisements have already started drilling it into the public subconscious that smoking is a “medical condition,” that needs to be treated with drugs.

Today, if you’re a smoker, you’re considered “ill” – the remedy for which is a drug, because you’re considered incapable of reversing the illness of smoking on your own accord.

Ditto for obesity.

The fallacy that you are helpless is at the core of the current disease-care paradigm!

When Will You Say “Enough!”?

It is time to stop the sickness that is the corporate and health agency agenda.

What will it take for you to say “enough already!”

I reached that point a long time ago, but when I saw this next announcement, I said it out loud again.

VeriChip shares tripled after the company announced it had secured exclusive license to two patents they will use to help them develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.

The biosensor patents are held by Receptors LLC. These biosensors can allegedly detect viruses such as swine flu, bird flu, SARS, and other biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This technology will be combined with VeriChip's implantable radio frequency identification devices (RFID) to develop “virus triage detection systems.”

According to a white paper published by VeriChip on May 7, 2009, this triage system will provide “multiple levels of identification.” The first level will identify the agent as virus or non-virus, the second level will classify the virus and alert the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses, and the third level will identify the precise pathogen.

To some this may sound like a good idea, but to me this seems like it could be a prescription for massive government intrusion and loss of personal freedom.

Who’s going to be checking you for your “viral load,” and when, for example? And where will your natural immunity, and/or the function of your immune system be taken into account?

Folks, viruses are all around us, all the time, and you may be a carrier of a virus, but that does not mean that you will get sick. Your immune system, if it is in good working order, will address and eliminate the threat of the virus.

And, should you be found to be a carrier, then what? Would you be told to take medication even if you’re not sick?

Personally, this is an area into which I think our health care system should not go.

Ask the Right Questions

The question is – Do you want to be a victim?

Or are you willing to accept that your personal decisions have everything to do with the state of your health, and that of parents, siblings, children, or other friends or relatives that you might be caring for?

Because there are many forces conspiring to paint a picture that is serving the benefit of large multinational corporations, which are benefiting financially from compromising the health of you and your family.

They want you to believe that you’re a victim of your genes, which drive you to self destructive habits like drinking and smoking and having unsafe sex, and makes you pack on excess pounds no matter what, so there’s no reason to make lifestyle changes and boycott processed, denatured, and genetically modified foods.

It’s time to wake up from your indoctrinated slumber and start thinking and informing yourself, because the majority of your education has been little more than industry propaganda, cloaked as “facts” – information that various industries wanted you to know and never dispute.

For example, the Los Angeles Times prints the following paragraph about the, so far, failing anti-smoking vaccine:

“The researchers found that the vaccine, designed to bind nicotine in the blood and prevent it from reaching the brain, was safe and well-tolerated. But apparently it did not stimulate high enough levels of antibodies to produce the desired response.”

And you’re actually supposed to believe that antibodies to nicotine is a correct and viable solution, because you’ve been told that if you have antibodies against a specific bacteria or virus, you can’t develop the health problem that agent produces.

This is oversimplified scientific theory taken to maddening limits.

The Red Pill or the Blue Pill?

Fiction has a way of mirroring reality, and I now see our culture standing on a precipice with the offer of making a choice.

Choosing to see reality for what it is, or choosing to live in a programmed fantasy world where smoking and obesity can be cured with some convenient but mysterious, unproven injection that eliminates your personal responsibility to take control of your health.

I can tell you which choice will have the greatest chances of giving you a long and healthy life, but I can’t make you make that choice…

Still, if you have any faith in science, you should know that researchers have already proven that your lifestyle choices overrule your genetic predispositions. And an ever-growing group of scientists have also started demonstrating that your mind directs your genetic expression, a field now known as epigenetics.

Why a Plausible Theory Can be Seriously Flawed in Practice

Interestingly enough, despite the AIDS vaccine proving to be an utter failure, conventional media shows it's possible to spin anything.

A recent article in Bloomberg boasting the headline "HIV Vaccine Success May Take Decade to Unravel Why It Works" goes on to state:

"The unexpected success “tells us that we don’t even know what the correlates of immunity are,” Anthony Fauci [director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease] said, referring to the measurable signs that a person has developed defenses against a virus. “But it does give us now a bit more direction for trying to track down what it is this vaccine did that led to this modest degree of protection.”

Antibodies, protective proteins developed in the body in response to a virus or vaccine, are the most common signal of immunity. Researchers haven’t identified neutralizing antibodies produced by the experimental vaccine, and previous quests to induce such antibodies have ended in failure, Fauci said. Scientists are also searching for signs of boosted cellular defenses that might be key to the vaccine’s success.

“We’re not even close to being finished,” Fauci said.

Scientists also don’t understand why the combination vaccine failed to show benefit for people who still got infected with HIV. Other vaccines that aren’t 100 percent effective, such as the seasonal flu shot, typically make symptoms less severe in patients who still get sick." [Emphasis mine]

PreventDisease.com calls Fauci out in their article "H1N1 Expert Says Scientists are Clueless About Immune Reactions to Vaccinations."

"America's leading promoter of getting vaccinated for the H1N1 flu, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has admitted knowing nil about how human immunity responds to vaccinations.

"This is what honest intelligent vaccine critics have been saying all along," said Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard-trained emerging diseases expert. "Dr. Fauci's statement evidences the fraud and ignorance underlying vaccination programs in general," Dr. Horowitz said. "Fauci admits being clueless about the fundamentals of immunity operating bioenergetically or electro-genetically, not chemically, that vaccine proponents criminally neglect to prosper by poisoning people."

They took the words right out of my mouth.

Will a Vaccine Cure America's Obesity Epidemic?

According to the Daily Telegraph, the infectobesity vaccine could be ready for testing within five or 10 years. I recommend you not hold your breath.

The relatively new term “infectobesity” suggests that obesity may be caused by a virus or other disease-causing organism.

The human adenovirus-36 (Ad-36) – a cause of respiratory infections and pinkeye – may be a contributing factor to obesity, as it’s been found to transform adult stem cells into fat cells that are capable of storing additional fat.

In a previous epidemiologic study, researchers found that about 30 percent of obese people were infected with the Ad-36 virus, compared to 11 percent of lean individuals.

Infectobesity is actually a plausible theory, and it is certainly possible that there could be viral causes underlying many cases of obesity. However, only three out of 10 obese people were found to have the virus, so we’re not talking about it being the cause for a majority of people.

So please don’t take this to mean that losing weight is out of your control, or something that can only be done using an anti-viral medication or a vaccine.

Because if anything, this theory further supports the importance of balancing out the bacteria in your gut, because what do you need to fight off a viral infection?

Healthy dietary habits and a robust immune system are two important factors that influence your ability to successfully combat viral assaults.

Experts believe about 70 percent of your immune system is located in or around your digestive system. And if your digestive system is crawling with unhealthy bacteria, there’s a good chance that your immune system will be suppressed as a result.

So it seems all roads lead back to this one central premise: optimizing your gut bacteria is essential for your good health, and may help optimize your weight as well.

Your gut flora could even, potentially, play a role in HIV infection, as at least one study has found that the HIV virus appears to have an easier time establishing itself in your gut than it does in your circulatory system. Researchers discovered that T-cells in the gut are particularly receptive to HIV and have six times the number of receptors compared with circulating blood cells.

One major facet of optimizing your ratio of good and bad bacteria is to reduce your intake of grains and sugars, which also means avoiding processed foods as much as possible.

I spent a lot of time and effort putting together what I believe are some of the most comprehensive health strategies, including dietary guidelines that are based on your unique, individual biochemical makeup, and exercise. All of this information is available, for free, on my web site in a clear, concise format that is broken down for beginners, intermediate, and advanced.

I urge you to start looking at your lifestyle for the answers you seek to solve any health problems you may be facing.




November 9, 2009


Copyright © 2009 Dr. Joseph Mercola

[Dennis Newman]

The CDC estimates that nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by H1N1 ("Swine") flu since it hit last April, some 1,300 children among them. ( http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/updates/us/ et al.) Mr. Howe, in otherwise sensible comments, has not factored in to his call for information-based decisionmaking the fact that H1N1 hits hard and even kills a significant number of young people and pregnant women who are otherwise healthy.

Mr. Showalter is entitled to his opinion, but he is incorrect, and cannot support his contentions with facts regarding vaccine safety. Vaccines are subjected to rigorous testing, first in animals, then in humans. There are two sophisticated reporting systems for adverse effects. Mr. Showalter's argument that vaccines are being pushed by "Big Pharma" flies in the face of the well-known facts -- well-known to folks who work in public health -- that because vaccine manufacture is wrought with uncertainties about profits and liabilities and does not represent the potentially wildly-lucrative profit margins inherent in medications, too few big pharmaceuticals are engaged in vaccine research and production. Of course, no vaccine is 100 percent safe or effective. But the H1N1 vaccine is demonstrably orders of magnitude safer than the alternative decision to "take one's chances" with the flu.

Mr. Howe's pediatrician can't know, at this early stage, how effective H1N1 flu vaccine is among any categories, including children.

[Brad Howe]

I'm not convinced either way on this. Certainly vaccinations are needed and help reduce debilitating diseases, but other recent vaccines seem to be just there and purported to help everyone.

I myself have never been subject to seasonal flu and very rarely get flu's. When I do, its uncomfortable but not severe. I have never opted for a seasonal flu shot.

As a fact, most deaths from the flu are the very young and the very old with other underlying conditions. This would make the flu vaccine a viable option for this segment of the population. I myself, would not want my infant child injected with flu vaccine however, some at risk children might want to consider this.

My point is in healthy adults, one must use their discretion and choice wether to get the annual flu vaccine. Certainly, your doctor should advise if you need this or not. Recently we are dispensing flu vaccines at our local pharmacy.

My pediatrician advised me that the H1N1 vaccine is not 100% effective and only reduces your chance of contracting this strain by 50%. I advise everyone to use their discretion and judgement and research the facts.

BH

[Dennis Newman]

I'm a parent who knows well the issues surrounding this forum. I'm also a long-time public health professional. The article copied above, which, without evidence, claims that there is a swine flu "cover-up" and that we all should eschew immunizations recommended by public health professionals, is irresponsible, to say the least.

Influenza (flu) vaccine is very, very safe, and is an essential tool in protecting vulnerable populations. In a normal year, complications from flu kill some 35,000 Americans and some 1,500 in New York City alone, and, of course, many more are seriously affected by it. Most of those hardest hit (but not all) are very old, very young, or have particular underlying conditions (like lung disease, diabetes, immune system problems, etc.) that make the flu much worse for them than it is for most of us. But flu also sometimes carries off a perfectly healthy adult or child. And even the normal course of infection can be pretty severe for some folks, typically comprising a few days of moderate to severe discomfort from sore throat, body aches and fever, and sometimes other upper respiratory infection symptoms, followed by up to several weeks' recuperation characterized by fatigue, weakness and even depression. Often, flu is nothing to sneeze at.

The H1N1 ("swine flu") influenza vaccine is new, but so is every "regular" seasonal flu vaccine, which is made up new every year so as to contain protection against the strains of flu expected to be circulating in the upcoming flu season. (Most circulating flu viruses change rapidly. This season's vaccine won't protect you against next year's circulating strains, as a rule.) The new H1N1 flu vaccine is substantively no newer than, and is tested exactly the same way as, "regular" seasonal flu vaccine. It, too, is very, very safe.

Many people come down with flu-like illness shortly after getting a flu shot. They almost certainly were going to come down with flu-like illness anyway, and, as is human nature, attribute the illness to the shot, since the shot came first. While no vaccine is 100 percent safe, the flu shot form of the vaccine contains "killed" virus components, and cannot result in an active flu infection and illness. (There is also a live, attenuated [weakened] form of the vaccine, given as a nasal spray, which is a little bit more likely to result in certain adverse effects.) No vaccine is 100 percent safe or 100 percent effective, but adverse effects from flu shots, as from all vaccines, are exceedingly rare, and the risk of serious adverse effects from getting the flu are much greater, in fact, orders of magnitude greater, than the risk of serious adverse effects from the vaccine. In concrete terms, H1N1 flu has killed 129 children in the U.S. since April 2009 ( http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm ) thus far, and a vastly disproportionate number of pregnant women as well. The vaccine hasn't been shown to have caused one death.

Those at higher risk for serious repercussions from the flu -- and the risk categories are somewhat different for H1N1 ("swine") flu than for seasonal flu -- are receiving irresponsible counsel if they are told not to get vaccinated: The implications for erroneous advice on influenza vaccine and immunization are very serious. Pregnant women, for example, would be doing themselves a grave disservice to not get an H1N1 flu shot; there is very strong evidence that the new flu is hitting them especiallly hard, with tragic outcomes in more than a few instances.

For responisble, up-to-date information on flu and flu shots, go to www.flu.gov or www.nyc.gov/flu

[stuart showalter]

Vaccines have never been proven safe. If they were safe then the government and Big Pharma wouldn't spread lies based upon panic to induce fools to into inject poisons into themselves. Where are all the deaths from the bird flu? That was nothing short of a hoax just as the piggy flu and the rest of them are.