Dr. Mercola December 15 2007 30,859 views
Dr. Mark Nesselson, a New York pediatrician who conspired with families to get their children into school without state-mandated vaccinations, has been fined $10,000 and told he can practice only under supervision. Dr. Nesselson admitted to falsifying forms for four children in two families, and later admitted that he had done the same for a handful of other families over the years.
The parents of his patients, who knew Nesselson was falsifying the forms, were concerned about the potential adverse health effects of vaccines.
Nesselson began to question the safety of vaccines in the 1990’s, after seeing many autistic children whose parents said that the onset of the disorder coincided with vaccinations.
With the more recent news flashes of parents being threatened with jail time if they don’t vaccinate their children, this story will probably strike a sympathetic cord with many.
No doubt Dr. Nesselson’s heart was in the right place, although it’s difficult to justify falsifying medical records. After all, even though you may get some evil looks, or worse, be verbally harassed by doctors or nurses, you do have the right to refuse vaccinations by requesting opt-out forms.
There are two basic axioms you should never forget. They are the rock upon which all your actions are based.
1. Nobody, anywhere or any time and under any circumstances has the right or power in this country to immunize you or your children against your will and conviction. If they attempt to do so, you can legally charge them with "assault with a deadly weapon" and have the full resources of our laws behind you. 2. At all times in attempting to avoid unwanted immunization, you have the Law of the Land behind you. Those who would try to vaccinate you against your will are on very shaky ground. Into every compulsory immunization law in America are written legal exceptions and waivers which are there specifically to protect you from the attempted tyranny of officialdom. It is not only your right, but your obligation to use them, if this is what your conscience tells you.
1. Nobody, anywhere or any time and under any circumstances has the right or power in this country to immunize you or your children against your will and conviction. If they attempt to do so, you can legally charge them with "assault with a deadly weapon" and have the full resources of our laws behind you.
2. At all times in attempting to avoid unwanted immunization, you have the Law of the Land behind you. Those who would try to vaccinate you against your will are on very shaky ground. Into every compulsory immunization law in America are written legal exceptions and waivers which are there specifically to protect you from the attempted tyranny of officialdom. It is not only your right, but your obligation to use them, if this is what your conscience tells you.
While all 50 states have immunization requirements, 28 allow parents to opt out for medical or religious reasons. Another 20 states allow parents to opt out for personal or philosophical reasons as well, while Mississippi and West Virginia allow parents to opt out for medical reasons only.
My previous article, How to Avoid Unwanted Immunizations of All Kinds lays out your opt-out steps in greater detail. There is also an entire chapter in my book Take Control of Your Health devoted to this very topic, including what you should know before vaccinating, and what to do if you decide not to.
Personally, I believe it’s better to have accurate records, and to be able to show just how many people are opposed to this unnecessary, and potentially disastrous practice of childhood vaccinations. Fortunately, the number of parents opting out is growing, as more and more parents are beginning to question its validity and sanity.
And rightfully so. Vaccines given to newborns contain an array of potentially toxic chemicals including:
So there are plenty of harmful ingredients that would put vaccination benefits into question. If you are on the fence about immunizations and have yet to decide if they are something you or your family should have, I would strongly encourage you to carefully examine the evidence.
This is not a choice you want to make without careful deliberation, as the consequences can be quite severe. So, review the literature and reach YOUR OWN conclusions. You are responsible for your own health, and that of your young children.
But whatever you do, maintain an open and questioning mind, to avoid being manipulated and deceived by multinational corporations that do not have your or your family's best interests at heart.
Yes, I second it also.
Hi Dr. Mercola,
Not sure if you heard but New Jersey just passed a mandatory law that states preschoolers must be vaccinated with the flu shot and 6 graders have to get something too.
How do we stop them after the state passed this law?
Thank-you
Alan
A long time reader
When our daughter was born I signed the Hep B vaccination waiver form. I did not feel 100% confident that it would be honored because our decision was met with disapproval by the hospital staff. Luckily, we were able to protect her by never allowing her to be out of our site during the 24 hour hospital stay. She is going to be 2 years old next month, has received no vaccinations, and has not had a single sick visit to the doctor.
I feel sad for Dr. Nesselson because I think that he had good intentions.
For people wanting to educate themselves on ingredients in vaccinations, please visit the Centers for Disease Control website:
www.cdc.gov/.../excipient-table-1.pdf
If New York allows Parents to legally opt out of vaccines, the good Doctor could have simply informed the parents of that option and helped with the forms. I feel sorry for parents who live in states where they can't prevent their kids from being poisoned, oops, I mean vaccinated.
I am with you.
You've got me, Uncle Ross :-)
As a parent in NY State where this doctor practices I know there is no real medical exemption. In this state even if you get an MD to write the exemption it is most often rejected. First, finding a doctor--an MD--who believes vaxes are harmful is very difficult. Usually chiropractors and homeopaths--not pediactric MDs--who might be willing to write an exemption are disqualified by state health officials. But lets say hypothetically you find a doctor to write one. Having other family members with autism or who had bad reactions to vaccines are not considered real reasons for exemption and the state will reject them. The only reason permitted here for a medical exemption in NY is a life-or-death toxic reaction to a previous vaccine and it must be shown it was the vaccine that caused the reaction--not, say, an illness or fever the child had when receiving the vax. So under those circumstances NY in reality has no medical exemption--not one obtainable anyway. The ONLY real exemption in NY is a religious one--not philosophical, moral, etc. To get this exemption the family must prove that their beliefs are against vaccination. Typically, Christians and Jews have trouble receiving exemptions for this reason. They are grilled by officials and often cannot prove their religions are opposed to vaccination (because others in their faith do vax). Also, parents are scruitinized if one child is already partly or fully vaxed because it is believed they are being hypocrites if they already began the process. Some parents have joined online churches and such with hope of exemption and the state rejects these as bogus. In reality, it is VERY DIFFICULT if not impossible to get a real exemption here. This should all be considered before condemning a doctor who believed in doing no harm, the medical code of ethics that should supercede state vax laws that don't consider individuals--or family histories of allergies, immune disorders, autism or other vulnerabilities.
Traditional foodie,--Thank you for telling us the other side of the story. Based on what you say, the doctor was working in the best interest of his patients, and the law is not. I had a hard time wanting to condemn a doctor, when his side of the story was not available. It is not like he was falsifying their reccords without their knowledge. I think it is more of a crime that babies are being immunized with the clear knowledge it is against the parents consent. Thank you so much for your input. I applaud the doctor. He did no harm. Drug companies falsify documents all the time, only there is a lot of harm done because of it.
I feel for you, traditional_foodie. In Texas I sent in an exception request for my daughter and received them in the mail within two weeks. I hope I don't get any hassles from the school next year, but in Texas it's illegal to make a false report of child neglect concerning vaccinations to CPS and I plan on reporting them if they attempt to give me any grief. Again, I feel so sorry for you living under such conditions.
One should home school their children to avoid vaccinations.
Any parent who still has their kids in public school should wake up to the dangers their children face.
It also provides a better education and the child learns faster. Plus they can sleep later.
This does not mean that the parent holds a classroom but that the children use their own initiative to learn from the books meant for homeschool. Once a parent does the homeschool for their children, they'll never go back.
If anyone tries to force me to vaccinate my future children, I have my own high projectile lead vaccine waiting for them.
haha!!! That was an amazing response. You would get along well with my husband. I just wish he had the same views on vaccines.
Ruthy
lol. that made me laugh out loud:)
pass the ammunition!
Autism is hereditary, not caused by vaccines (if it is, then it isn't true autism as far as I'm concerned; more likely a reaction whose symptoms mirror true autism). It could just be that it isn't in their 'gene pool', or that they lack whatever the magic environmental trigger is.
However, all manner of other things ARE caused by vaccines and the dozens of additives in them (it ain't just thimerosal you have to worry about, it's the aluminium, ethylene glycol, formeldehyde, aborted fetal tissues, animal cultures etc..!!) - alzheimers, cancer, parkinsons, god knows what else. Hence why I refuse to go near the things and I'll be damned if anyone puts those needles anywhere near my kids' arms. Or legs or bums or anywhere else they want to stick their toxic poison.
I wish it were true that doctors don't ever have the power to vaccinate our children against our will. My baby who was delivered by emergency c-section 5 weeks prematurely because he'd caught my upper respitory infection and was sick enough that he was on a ventilator for several days was given the Hep B shot very shortly after birth IN SPITE of the fact that we had signed the form saying that we DID NOT want him vaccinated. I had barely been taken to the recovery room when the doctor told us that they'd gone ahead against our wishes because they didn't know my medical history and they didn't know why the baby was so sick. (Hello? He was sick enough to need to be on a ventilator and you're injecting a potentially toxic substance into his tiny body?) Her excuse was that it was "standard medical practice" and "in his best interest". There was no arguing about whether or not it would be done, no chance to fight it - it was just reported to us as having been done as one more thing they were doing to try to help our baby. No court would have sided with us on an "assault with a deadly weapon" charge.
BTW, West Virginia tried to get rid of the medical exemption a couple of years ago, making it a FELONY for any person, medical or otherwise, to avoid immunizing a child for ANY reason. Thankfully, they were not successful in that. But there are still too many cases of children being vaccinated against the parents will.
Here's a story of parents who had a chance to fight to protect their infant and lost:
www.vaccinationnews.com/.../Hospital&Child9.htm
Wow! Same thing here! Although my daughter was six weeks early. It was a super-fast labor and I went into the hospital less than 15min before she popped out. I had been planning a homebirth, but, things happen and that's why the hospital is there.
We signed the forms for NO HepB shots to be given and they did it anyway. I was so upset. I had been going to the NICU daily and then the 5th day the neonatologist informed us that the nurse administered the shot BEFORE checking the charts.
HepB is truly, "standard medical procedure" and they try to scare parents into getting their child injected. The "checklist" before leaving the hospital includes HepB and circumcision! Outrageous!
The only thing we received was an apologetic staff. The nurse was "sent home for the day" after not reading hte chart. Wow, what discipline! Oh, and they took the cost of the vax off our bill.
Mrs Hoek
I am so sorry that you had a bad birth and newborn baby experience. We too had a problem. We refused all vaccines for our newborn but suspect that she was given some anyway because she later tested positive for them while going through an allergy elimination protocol, NAET. Our baby was life flighted and only given a 20% chance of surviving what was labeled "persistent pulminary hypertension". Her lungs were not oxygenating her blood. Her blood oxygen levels were between 19-22 (100 is optimum.) Once we got her home after 15 days and cleared her body of all drugs including morphine by using essiac tea (breastfed babies have yellow colored stool--hers was black and green) she never had a cold until age two! She is now a healthy happy ten year old with no vaccines and she attends school. I hope your son is also healthy.
Mama Bear
I live in WV and talked to someone today that said the only way it's law that your child be vaccinated is if they are going to public school. I homeschool my children. Is this true? I sadly had my son, who is now 7, vaccinated when he was little. I also had my now 10 month old daughter vaccinated at birth, 2mnths, 4 mnths, and 6 mnths because I was not aware of the horrible side effects of vaccinations. I have just started researching them and it was so disturbing I couldn't sleep that night after finding out. I have started telling every mother I know that has small children about it. I decided my children would not have another vaccination, only to find out it's law in WV with only a medical exemption. So will the fact that I homeschool my children be enough to keep them from vaccinations? Any help would be greatly appreciated!