Vaccines — Are They Still Contributing to the Greater Good? by Dr. Mercola
Vaccines — Are They Still Contributing to the Greater Good?
November 11, 2017 • 768,453views
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To
ensure the safety of as many children as possible, we need to have an
open rational discussion about vaccine safety; 30 years ago, autism
affected 1 in 10,000 children. Today, it afflicts as many as 1 in 50
If
your baby has suboptimal gut flora, vaccines can become the proverbial
"last straw" — the trigger that "primes" their immune system to develop
chronic health problems
Evaluating
differences in health outcomes among highly vaccinated and unvaccinated
children could shed light on the vaccine safety conversation, but a
large scale, well-designed study has never been done
By Dr. Mercola
The multiple award-winning documentary, "The Greater Good," was
initially released in 2011. Five years later, the tragic truth about
the toxic effects of vaccines on brain and immune system health that
was revealed in this ground-breaking film is as true today as it was
when it was first shown in film festivals around the country.
Weaving together stories of families whose lives have been forever
altered by vaccine damage, the documentary reveals how modern medicine,
especially when driven by politics, ideology and big business, can rob
you of some of your most basic human rights, including voluntary,
informed consent to medical risk-taking.
The results of such politically- and financially-driven public health
policies can be devastating. "The Greater Good" is a provocative but
thoughtful and well documented examination of hot button vaccine
topics. Uniquely, it includes the perspectives of prominent voices
messaging differently about vaccination in mainstream media today — both
those pushing for mandatory vaccination policies and those opposing
forced vaccination policies.
The profiles of families, whose children have been injured or even died
from vaccination are heartbreaking, and it is infuriating to learn
about the short cuts that government and industry take to fast track
vaccines like Gardasil,
and how too many doctors dismiss vaccine reactions as "a coincidence."
The film ends with a bittersweet but hopeful message, urging positive
change to reduce fear so that parents, doctors and legislators can work
together to protect the health of all children and prevent vaccine
injuries and deaths.
Protecting Health of All Children Demands an Individual Approach to Vaccines
There needs to be an open, rational discussion about vaccination,
infectious diseases and health. After all, don't all of us want our
children to be healthy and safe from unnecessary harm?
If we want to protect the health of all children, we cannot continue to
ignore the signs that public health policies making mandatory use of
multiple vaccines in early childhood as our nation's No. 1 disease
prevention strategy has gotten to the point where we have no idea how
many children's lives are being sacrificed in the name of "the greater
good."
From my point of view, there can be little doubt that we need to review
the safety and effectiveness of the current vaccination program in the
U.S., and that this review needs to include methodologically sound
investigative studies that are not compromised by conflicts of interest
within industry and government.
If we don't do that now, we may not be able to stop further damage to
the health of future generations. I encourage you to watch the
documentary, "The Greater Good," to become better informed about the
science, politics and ethics of vaccination, a film you can view for
free here during this year's Vaccine Awareness Week.
Autism and The Thinking Moms Revolution
A producer of "The Greater Good"1
has also released short videos with outtakes of interviews that were
conducted for the film, as well as other information covering a number
of vaccine topics. The video above is about the reported relationship
between vaccination and autism, featuring mothers of vaccine injured
children with autism from a group called The Thinking Moms Revolution.
Autism has skyrocketed over the past few decades and scientists and
public health officials continue to argue about the reasons for why it
is happening but something is clearly very wrong. Three decades ago, autism affected 1 in 10,000 children.2,3 Today, it's estimated to afflict as many as 1 in 50.4
While conventional medicine still claims there's no known cause for
autism increases, Thinking Moms are speaking out about how they brought
a healthy child in for vaccination, and watched their child
deteriorate following that vaccination. As stated by one mom: "In
this country, we're indoctrinated to believe in vaccines, and believe
there's this incredibly impeccable science behind them. [But] once you
start the investigation and you realize how flimsy the evidence is, for
safety in particular … that's when you realize how little of this is
based on fact."
On its website,5 "The Greater Good" team notes:
"In the early 2000s, CDC instructed vaccine makers to remove the
mercury preservative in childhood shots. But as the mercury was being
phased out of most childhood vaccinations, CDC recommended that
pregnant women and infants at 6 months and again 7 months receive the
flu shot — which they knew still contained mercury.
In addition to the flu shot, CDC began recommending that pregnant
women also receive the Tdap vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, and
attenuated pertussis). So, pregnant women and their unborn babies are
still being subjected to mercury-laden flu vaccines and aluminum-laden
DTaP vaccines — and at an earlier point.
These vaccines during pregnancy contradict decades of advice to
take no medications, quit smoking, stop drinking alcohol and avoid
mercury laden seafood while pregnant, but people have been so
conditioned to trust authority that they accept this, making it all too
easy to tell parents, 'sorry, your kid was born that way' …
[G]overnment health officials maintain the charade that they are
trying to find a cause for autism when they have blown $1.6 billion
over the past decade looking for a supposed genetic cause despite ample
science showing that environmental factors are the culprit."
The Good News
The good news is there is much more information available today
about alternative biomedical therapies. These are being used by
open-minded doctors addressing the neuroimmune dysfunction that children
with vaccine-associated autism are suffering. Some children diagnosed
with "autism" are improving through use of special diets,
supplementation regimens and detoxification protocols tailored to their
individual needs.
As noted in the video, there's a vast "underground" movement of parents
who are sharing their experiences and successes and there are
enlightened doctors who have been able to help children with autism
when conventional medicine falls short. The Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) protocol is, in my view, among the most important treatment strategies out there, but there are also many others.
The GAPS nutritional protocol was created by Dr. Natasha
Campbell-McBride, whose son was diagnosed with autism. She understands
that there's a very important connection between damaged gut flora in
pregnant women and developmental problems in their children, especially
autism.
Establishing normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life plays a
crucial role in the maturation of your baby's immune system. It's
important to realize that babies who develop abnormal gut flora have
compromised immune systems, which puts them at higher risk for
suffering vaccine reactions.
In GAPS Babies, Vaccination Can Be 'the Last Straw'
If your baby has suboptimal gut flora, vaccines can become the
proverbial "last straw" — the trigger that "primes" their immune
system to develop chronic health problems. According to
Campbell-McBride, in children with GAPS the toxicity flowing from their
gut throughout their bodies and into their brains continually
challenges their nervous system, preventing it from performing its
normal functions and process sensory information.
Other researchers are now starting to back up her findings. For example, one 2013 study6
confirmed that autistic children have distinctly different microbiome
compared to healthy children. Notably, they had fewer healthy bacteria,
such as Bifidobacterium. Children diagnosed with autism also had markedly higher levels of toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
I believe the GAPS Nutritional program
is vitally important for most, as the majority of people have such
poor gut health due to poor diet and toxic exposures, but it's
particularly crucial for pregnant women and young children.
The best way to prevent GAPS is for the mother to avoid all processed foods, sugar, antibiotics (including CAFO meats and antibacterial soaps)
and birth control pills prior to conception. These cause pathogenic
yeast and fungi to grow and also cause leaky gut that allows undigested
protein fragments to sneak into the blood stream contributing to
autoimmune disease. This can then be followed by breastfeeding and
avoiding the use of antibiotics during (intrapartum) and after
delivering.
It's also a good idea to make sure your baby's microbiome is healthy
before getting any vaccinations. Fortunately, it's possible to rather
inexpensively identify GAPS within the first weeks of your baby's life,
which can help you make better-informed decisions about vaccinations,
and about how to proceed to set your child on the path to a healthy
life. The entire process for identifying children who would be at risk
for developing autism from a vaccine is described in her book "Gut and Psychology Syndrome."
What Doctors Really Know About Vaccines
Another short video published on "The Greater Good" website makes the
point that doctors are not being taught about vaccine risks in medical
school. In short, doctors are being taught about administering vaccines
but not about how to identify a vaccine reaction. Doctors strongly
recommending and administering vaccines to children are not taught about
the big gaps in vaccine safety science.
"They don't learn that no study exists comparing the medium or long
term health outcomes of vaccinated to unvaccinated populations. They
don't learn that vaccine safety studies don't use a true placebo, but
instead use another vaccine or a solution containing mercury or
aluminum as a placebo!
They don't learn that vaccine safety studies often last a few days
to a few weeks keeping hidden long term side effects. They don't learn
that vaccines can overwhelm the immune system and cause autoimmune
disease. They don't learn that the aluminum in vaccines is known to
cause cognitive impairment, autoimmune disease, gut issues and a host
of other damage to healthy adults — goodness knows what they do to tiny
infants.
They don't learn that the mercury in vaccines is documented in the
medical literature as a potent neurotoxin and that it is still used in
the manufacturing of some vaccines and as a preservative as well. They
don't learn how the body processes the vaccine components because,
well, no one has ever researched it."
In light of such vaccine education deficiencies in most medical
schools, it becomes very important for parents to educate themselves —
and their pediatricians, if they can — about how to identify and
prevent vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths. And this is precisely
why opening up discussions about these issues is so important. There
are huge gaps in general knowledge, and huge gaps in research too, and
those gaps really need to be addressed.
Why Won't the CDC Study Health Outcomes?
One study that could shed a lot of light on the vaccine safety conversation is a study comparing health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children.
As illogical as it seems, there has never been a large prospective
well-designed study to evaluate whether children who remain
unvaccinated or receive fewer vaccines, are more or less healthy than
children who receive all federally recommended vaccines. These kinds of
studies do not exist.
And so the controversy about whether or not use of multiple vaccines in
early childhood is having long term adverse health effects and may do
more harm than good continues. That said, unofficial surveys7,8
suggest that highly vaccinated children may have more chronic health
problems than unvaccinated children, and that unvaccinated children
have a far lower incidence rate of autism. There's also a growing body
of research suggesting that vaccines may be associated with a variety
of brain and immune system disorders, including a potential increased
risk for:
Learning and developmental disabilities
Brain damage
Allergies, asthma, and gut problems
Autoimmune diseases
Chronic infections
Autism Rates Jump Each Time Vaccine Made from Human Fetal Cell Lines Is Released
A study describing one potential unrecognized safety issue
associated with vaccines was published in the September 2014 issue of
the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology.9
It discussed a potential correlation between autism and three specific
vaccines: MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), varicella (chickenpox) and
hepatitis-A vaccines.
As reported by Global Research:10
"Using statistical analysis and data from the U.S. Government,
U.K., Denmark and Western Australia, scientists at Sound Choice
Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI) found that increases in autistic
disorder correspond with the introduction of vaccines using human fetal
cell lines and retroviral contaminants.
Even more alarming, Dr. Theresa Deisher, lead scientist and SCPI
founder noted that, 'Not only are the human fetal contaminated vaccines
associated with autistic disorder throughout the world, but also with
epidemic childhood leukemia and lymphomas.'"
The main argument for a vaccine-autism connection in the study is the
introduction of vaccines manufactured with human fetal cell lines
containing fetal and retroviral contaminants. The cell line in question
is known as WI-38. According to the authors, autism rates rose sharply
each time another one of these vaccines were released. For example, in
the U.S., autism rates jumped in 1980-1981 following the approval of
MeruvaxII and MMRII, both of which were made with the human fetal cell
line WI-38. Another jump in autism prevalence occurred in 1988,
corresponding to three factors:
The addition of a second dose of MMRII
A highly successful measles vaccination campaign that raised compliance from 50 to 82 percent between the years 1987 and 1989
The introduction of Poliovax in 1987
In 1995, autism rates jumped again in response to the introduction
of the Varicella vaccine, Varivax. In conclusion, the authors note that
"rising autistic disorder prevalence is directly related to vaccines
manufactured utilizing human fetal cells."
Although this is only one hypothesis for how and why vaccines may be
contributing to the rising incidence of autism among children, there
are many outstanding questions about vaccine science and policy that
must be answered quickly before more vaccines are added to the
government recommended and mandated list for children and adults. In
the meantime, to protect your own health and the health of your
children, please empower yourself with information and become well
informed about infectious diseases and vaccines so you can make wise
health care choices.
Protect Children's Health by Getting Informed and Taking Positive Action
You can access more information about vaccination and health on this
website and on the website of the nonprofit charity, the National
Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) at www.NVIC.org.
The parent co-founders of NVIC, whose children were injured by DPT
vaccine, launched the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in
the U.S. in 1982. Their website is the largest and oldest website on
the Internet publishing accurate, well referenced information about
vaccination and infectious diseases.
• Post a video vaccine reaction report:
You can make people more aware that vaccine reactions, injuries and
deaths are real by posting a video vaccine reaction report on NVIC's
online Memorial for Vaccine Victims here.
NVIC launched "Protect Life: Witness a Vaccine Reaction" on NVIC.org
during Vaccine Awareness Week 2016, and I encourage you to participate
if you or a loved one has experienced a serious vaccine reaction.
Sharing your story of how vaccination changed your life or the life of
someone you care about can educate and save other people from having to
suffer in the same way. • Take action to protect vaccine exemptions in your state:
If you want to actively work in your state to protect legal vaccine
exemptions so you are able to make voluntary vaccine choices for
yourself and your children, I encourage you to sign up today to be a
user of the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal,
so you can be kept up to date on legislation moving in your state that
may threaten vaccine exemptions and puts you in touch with your own
elected representatives so you can make your voice heard.
It is up to all of us, individually, to participate in our democracy
and make sure that that the laws, which govern us, do not infringe
upon our civil liberties and take away our human right to exercise
informed consent to vaccine risk-taking.
About the Director
I
believe in bringing quality to my readers, which is why I wanted to
share some information about the director, Kendall Nelson, from "The Greater Good."
We sat down with Kendall to know a little more about what goes in to
making these films. Thank you Kendall, for sharing the film with
us. Don't forget to check out their Facebook Page HERE.
What was your inspiration for making this film?
My inspiration for making "The Greater Good" was to bring about
awareness regarding vaccines and to explore both sides of the vaccine
debate. Often, we are only presented the pro-vaccine side and it was
important to me that we show that vaccine injury is real and not rare.
It was my objective as a filmmaker to make a documentary that would
encourage parents to do their own research so that they may make more
informed choices for their families.
What was your favorite part of making this film?
My favorite part of making "The Greater Good" was getting to know
the families we featured. Although it was often heart-wrenching, it was
also very inspiring. I have also really enjoyed the education I have
gotten along the way. I believe our film has paved the way for other
films to talk about the vaccine issue. Maybe someday, it won't be such a
taboo subject.
Where do the proceeds for your film go?
The proceeds for our film go to running an active engagement
campaign to educate people about vaccines and to fight for health
freedom, including fighting against the many state mandates we are
seeing today.
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