Re: Vaccines
There is a dangerous meme in the United States perpetrated either by the FDA, or the CDC, that vaccines are safe and effective©, and although this is a true statement, it's only true in the legalese sense of the words.
For example, a child might get vaccinated by one of these safe and effective © vaccines and develop “autism like” symptoms. The parents could seek out a financial remedy through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. They may even be well compensated because the vaccine damaged their child.
However, this entire scheme was designed to create an illusion that it is a legal remedy, when in fact no fault is being admitted. It effectively keeps the victims silenced with a payoff, and the pharmaceutical company’s reputations safe. So in this case, was the vaccine ‘safe and effective’? It depends on who you ask the parents of the victim, or the pharmaceutical company.
Side note: It’s been said that Mercury is the second most-toxic substance known to man. Back in the day hatters that worked liberally with the poison went mad from the brain damage it caused. That’s where that familiar phrase; “mad as a hatter” came from.
Weeks from her due date a pregnant woman might be cautioned against consuming seafood because of the mercury in the fish. Yet when baby is born, doctors immediately want to inject the child with a vaccine that has a mercury based preservative included in it.
Makes sense, right?
I get your point that vaccines become a reliable financial instrument to pharmaceutical corporations. This certainly is an issue if they do not guarantee its safety and effectiveness. It is completely understandable that we must hold them accountable for their products both in federal and corporate sense.
What I have a problem with is the mass hysteria about ALL vaccines cause autism and NO vaccines should be administered to children. Documents and data can be fabricated, that's a fine argument. However, the statistics still stand that because of advance in medicines, especially in vaccination, the survival rate of infants increase. There is no good cure in medicines, what we have are tradeoffs. You choose the lesser poison with a greater benefits, and narrow down the composition until the probability of fatal/critical side effects went to near zero. It is always a double edge in medicine. It's a fallacy to ask this but I'm going for it anyway: Between death and autism, which one would you rather take your chance with?
Also, if you decide not to vaccinate your children, that's fine because it's your decision. But keep your children away from childcare center because vaccination is also meant to prevent diseases from spreading. There are parents who have children that are not old enough for vaccination. It would be unfair for these kids to catch preventable diseases from your older children because they weren't vaccinate.
Side note: Anecdotal evidence holds no weight when it comes to making a life and death decision. Precision and accuracy of a scientific method does. Mercury might be the second most toxic substance known to man but there are still people who take it without having problem. Hell, there are people who consume a reasonable amount of fish with mercury and are still in good health. The point is the dosage. What are we talking about here, a fatal dose of mercury to an infant that will intentionally damage the child for the rest of his life or a bare-minimum to preserve the vaccine from bacteria?
Also, according to CDC, since I'm not too big into conspiracy, they state that
"Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal. Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.
Influenza (flu) vaccines are currently available in both thimerosal-containing (for multi-dose vaccine vials) and thimerosal-free versions."
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index.html
So yea, the mercury in childhood vaccines is a moot point.
I think your question presumes that if the person doesn't get the vaccine, he or she will die. Before the big vaccine push, measles wasn't as serious as they make it out to be today.
A whistle-blower came out not to long ago and exposed some interesting statistics about the MMR vaccine. These statistics were covered up, and then later reproduced. The man responsible for covering them up came out as he felt immensely guilty about it.
In 1968 a measles vaccine was developed by Maurice Hilleman and his colleagues. This is the same Maurice Hilleman who admitted on audio tape that they introduced a monkey kidney cancer virus called SV40 into the polio vaccines. It was injected into 30 million people.
I don't know if it's the mercury that is causing the autism or what exactly is. It could simply be an autoimmune disease triggered by one of the vaccine ingredients. For example they used to, and still might in some cases use peanut oil in vaccines as an adjutant. Sometimes this would result in the person developing a deadly peanut allergy. So questions I wonder about is, how many cancer cases are attributed to vaccines? Or what about the polio vaccines, that actually have given people polio? This kind of stuff happens all of the time.
For starters I think a cost benefit analysis is in order, risk/vs/reward. Do we really need to be vaccinating people against the chicken pox, and the flu? I mean the flu vaccine rarely ever covers the predominate strain. With each dose, unless you ask otherwise your getting dosed with mercury. It can't be good for you. It destroys cells on contact. It's a heavy metal, I mean one would have to chelate to remove it from the body.
P.S. Iatrogenesis (or death by doctor) is the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
It's hard to understand how someone might feel if they won this horrible lottery of vaccine injury. So please look at this video, and put yourself in this guys shoes if not only to see the place of pain where these parents are coming from.
You do realise that the Polio vaccine is responsible for wiping out the disease on earth? Or at least it would have been had religious superstition not got in the way, when a Nigerian Iman started talking of plots and blah, blah, blah. Guess what? Polio's back! Yay for superstition and unsupported evidence!
The reason you don't know is;
a) You're not a doctor
b) You have not taken any education in the area and have not studied specifically in the area of vaccines.
c) You choose to ignore the advice and studies of people who are doctors and have studied in this area.
d) Vaccines don't cause autism.
The reason why I won't watch the video, is because it's an anecdote, a very sad anecdote, however it is a tale of ONE person. Research are lots of anecdotes put together, that's the kind of info that I take notice of.
You say that death by doctor is a leading cause of death in America? Well so is heart disease and cancer, but that doesn't mean that vaccines cause autism, they are entirely unconnected facts.
Cg
Mutant Strains Of Polio Vaccine Now Cause More Paralysis Than Wild Polio
I realize that the Polio vaccine is causing many people in third world countries to develop "Polio-like" symptoms. If they want to try and pretend that Polio has been vanquished by using carefully crafted words such as "Polio-like", well that's certainly their prerogative.
Yes to a), b), and c). No to d)
I can't, not-know the cause of something, based on a statement that you hold to be true. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Or rather, just because I am not aware of evidence that a vaccine causes autism, doesn't necessarily mean that said evidence doesn't exist.
The very fact that you are aware of the phenomenon of vaccine injury, and "autism-like" symptoms really makes me wonder how forthright your being with yourself about the issue. It's clear to me that they are using "autism-like" so that they can maintain the claim that vaccines don't cause autism.
Ask yourself this, when they use the term vaccine. How can we even be certain that they are talking about the entire shot. They may only be addressing the inactive virus, and if that's the case it's simply another shenanigan employed in order to limit their liability.