Dr. Mercola June 21 2008 42,170 views
Dr. Shiv Chopra, as a vaccine and drug regulator for Health Canada for nearly forty years, evaluated every red-hot topic in public health. He tried, sometimes successfully, to protect the public from ineffective and harmful vaccines, genetically modified foods, pesticides, carcinogenic antibiotics and hormones used in food-producing animals, and agricultural practices that promote Mad Cow Disease.
Unsurprisingly, he was fired from Health Canada in 2004 for “insubordination” -- in other words, refusing to bow to corporate and government pressure to give a pass to unsafe substances. Dr. Chopra has now written a book, Corrupt to the Core, about his decades of struggle to have the law recognized as being above political policy.Chopra observes that despite vaccinations, some childhood diseases are appearing with increasing frequency in the very populations that have been vaccinated for several generations. He finds it alarming that “the list of vaccines being administered to young children has been enlarged to include many more viral and bacterial infections with little or no scientific rationale.”
The U.S. Center for Disease Control continues to argue that 36,000 people die annually of the flu, even though available statistics show that the true number is less than 100. Meanwhile, current research has shown that merely increasing vitamin D levels reduces the incidence of the flu by more than 70 percent.Vaccination programs whose scientific basis is so flawed as to border on the absurd include Tamiflu, which has been discontinued in Japan because of so many deaths from sudden serious psychiatric disorders, and Gardasil, which during the first year of its use has resulted in more than 3,500 adverse events, more than any vaccine in history. Gardasil contains a whopping 675 micrograms of toxic aluminum, and one of the scientists who developed it, Diane M. Harper, warned that the vaccine had never been tested on young girls before it was released for widespread use by them.Perhaps the worst is MMR, which supposedly provides immunity against measles, mumps, and rubella. More than 4,900 U.S. families have filed lawsuits after their children became autistic within days of getting this shot.
A second area of concern in Dr. Chopra’s career was bacterial antibiotic resistance, which is wholly avoidable and caused solely by use of antibiotics in food-producing animals and the reckless over-prescribing habits of doctors. There are currently entire classes of antibiotics that should not even be on the market; Dr. Chopra fought vigorously and unsuccessfully to keep Baytril and Revelor-H off the market. They were finally banned more than a decade after his warnings because of the undeniable harm they caused.
This Vitality Magazine article begins with a wonderful quote by Sandra Steingraber:
“From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself, and my hat goes off to Dr. Chopra for speaking out in his new book, Corrupt to the Core. I can’t wait to read it when it comes off the press, and I bet a lot of you will too.
Vaccines Can Kill Harmless Infants
I do not have an anti vaccine position but rather I’m pro vaccine safety. If vaccines are going to be used they simply MUST be used more wisely and cautiously so innocent infants are not sacrificed and killed.
You might not be aware that 6,000 infants die every year in the US alone from vaccines. As if this weren’t tragic enough the manufacturers have the system rigged by previously manipulating the government to provide complete and absolute protection from lawsuits.
They have ZERO responsibility for any harm, damage, or deaths they cause. The only resource in the US is for a parent to claim damages from the Vaccine Compensation Act, which is virtually impossible to collect on. But even with these rigid, nearly impossible restrictions, over $1.5 BILLION dollars has been paid out to families of children in the US that were injured or killed by vaccines.
So if you are a parent, you simply MUST research this issue for yourself and refuse to blindly accept what your pediatrician or other health expert is claiming. There are MANY resources out there and one of the best places to start is the National Vaccine Information Center.
The Case Against Tamiflu
This article makes so many great points, touching on many vaccination and antibiotic issues that I’ve written about quite extensively, such as the dangers of Tamiflu and Gardasil, and the flawed scientific basis for so many of our recommended and mandated vaccines.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) is approved for treatment of uncomplicated influenza A and B in children 1 year of age or older. It is also approved for prevention of influenza in people 13 years or older. It’s part of a group of anti-influenza drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors, which work by blocking a viral enzyme that helps the influenza virus to invade cells in your respiratory tract.
But here’s the real kicker.
When used as directed (twice daily for 5 days) Tamiflu can ONLY reduce the duration of your influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days, according to the official data.
That’s it, folks!
However, some patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections when on Tamiflu. Which would, well, defeat the plan of being able to jump out of bed a day sooner.
And to add insult to injury, Tamiflu comes with a price tag of between $135 to $190 for a one-week prescription.
For most people, the flu shot does not prevent illness, but actually does just the opposite -- it weakens your immune system and makes you more predisposed to the illness. They're also loaded with neurotoxic substances like mercury and aluminum.
A GREAT Tool to Investigate Adverse Reactions of Vaccines on Your Own
Here’s a great tool you can use for yourself if you’re ever curious about the safety of a vaccine, or want to have a more realistic idea of what the side effects might entail.
Go to the National Vaccines Information Center and search the VAERS database! It’s free and open to anyone with internet access.
As an example, a quick search for adverse effects to the FLU vaccine garnered 33,111 adverse events, and that’s just what’s been reported. It is believed that only about one to four percent of all adverse reactions are ever reported to VAERS.
The reactions just on page one include: two with Guillain Barre syndrome; rash; meningoencephalitis; back pain; neck paresthesia (numbness); and severe confusion to the point that the patient could not find his way home.
A Personal Tamiflu Story
That reminds me of the personal story I received a while back from Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, the authentic father of the internet, about his run-in with Tamiflu:
“A few years ago, as I returned from Japan, I took Tamiflu on the plane as I arrived into SFO. I thought my symptoms felt like the flu and I (at that time) carried it. “As I drove home, I was observed drifting off the road from time to time, but all I noticed was I suddenly was over too far and I corrected. Then at the exit, which was a slow right turn, I blanked out just into the turn and went straight into a tree. “I totaled my BMW and caused some knee damage ... I realized somewhat later that the blank out was due to the Tamiflu, but not until other reports came out. Too late to argue the point. Anyway, this was a $100 K side effect caused by the drug, and there most likely have been many more that were never connected to Tamiflu.”
“A few years ago, as I returned from Japan, I took Tamiflu on the plane as I arrived into SFO. I thought my symptoms felt like the flu and I (at that time) carried it.
“As I drove home, I was observed drifting off the road from time to time, but all I noticed was I suddenly was over too far and I corrected. Then at the exit, which was a slow right turn, I blanked out just into the turn and went straight into a tree.
“I totaled my BMW and caused some knee damage ... I realized somewhat later that the blank out was due to the Tamiflu, but not until other reports came out. Too late to argue the point. Anyway, this was a $100 K side effect caused by the drug, and there most likely have been many more that were never connected to Tamiflu.”
Just Say NO to Unnecessary Vaccinations
If you follow my proven flu guidelines, you won't need Tamiflu or any other vaccine when flu season rolls around.
And please, before you blindly follow the standard vaccination schedule for your child, do your own homework. You don’t have to reject them all if you truly believe your child can benefit from some of them, however, at least take a look at some more sensible vaccination schedules that will drastically reduce the health risk to your child.
My previous article, The Dangers of Excessive Childhood Vaccinations is a great place to start.
Yes, we need more of them. BUT IN THEIR JOBS! Not Fired.
I am sick and tired of the Heros losing their jobs,grants, etc.
Duesberg, Chopra, Pauling (Blacklisted for being right!)
2 Newscasters in the Tampa area covered the FACT that the rBGH given
the cows COULD BE FOUND in the milk!!! They were fired for shoddy work.
Apparently a positive lab result needs to be confirmed with ADVERTISING!
Their ONLY oops as I understand it was letting the Editor believe they
were going to report it COULD NOT BE FOUND. He Agreed. But the report
said it was there. They were fired.
We need a way to take these people and PUT THEM IN CHARGE!
Like a Check and a Balance system which we no longer have.
Just so you know, some parents like myself knew the MMR vaccine triggered our child's autism over 20 years ago--in 1986, when he was 15 months old. Ten days after the shot he actually got the measles. Then our previously normal son went straight downhill and was diagnosed with autism shortly after his 2nd birthday. Everyone thought I was positively crazy to suggest that the MMR was the culprit back then. Fortunately, we were able to avoid the measles booster in 1996 by convincing our pediatrician (an old-timer with common sense) that my theory had significant merit. The doctor said that because of the measles rash & fever (which was recorded in his medical chart) he would be immune anyway so didn't need the 6th grade booster. Then in 1999 I had an antibody test done on my son---the test revealed measles antibodies 6 times higher than the highest end of the norm range and 3 times higher than an antibody count expected of someone with a current measles outbreak. In other words, his body was still fighting the measles 13 years after his last exposure: the MMR.
Isn't that ironic? "If we get in trouble every time our vaccine hurts someone, we'll be out of business!" Well, why shouldn't they? Doesn't that just make sense that if they are hurting people that much they shouldn't be allowed to continue? Cops who beat or shoot their suspects excessively are fired, not protected by the law. Parents who batter their children, spouses who hit their significant others, are all put in jail. Why should these pharmaceutical companies get special treatment?
I also had antibiotics that treated my lyme disease. But at that time I was totally clueless. I took repeated antibiotics for sinus infections. Now I just use lots of kefir and probitoics, omega 3 fats, a good diet and I rarely get sick at all. I also no longer take vaccines and haven't had the flu in years while all around me (I work in a hospital) people who DID take the vaccine always get the flu. It is not the use of antibiotics that is the problem, it is the misuse and overuse, in animals feed, every time someone gets the sniffles. etc etc
Also for those of you who quote the "herd immunity" philosophy. If people would stop eating only junk food with no nutrition and start eating real food including natural probiotic drinks, no harm would come from getting measles or mumps or rubella or chicken pox. I had ALL these diseases as a child in the 60's and the only thing that happened to me was I missed school for a week each time. And I was eating junk food and drinking sodas. If kids are treated appropriately, very few will suffer serious complications. When you compare that to the amount of vaccine damage of autism, ADD etc. Honestly, it is pretty clear that with any other drug if this many side effects were reported it would be off the market. But doctors are "pre conditioned" to believe it can't be the vaccines. and even if they do they have very strong peer pressure to not accept it.
You don't hear it in the media because they only report the "epidemics from "unvaccinated kids' but a woman I know had a baby to get measles because all the vaccinated kids in her her son's class got the measles and he brought it home. A public school. If the vaccines worked so well, why did all the kids get the measles? The reason why people believe this is that they are brainwashed. Someone mentioned above that yes these things are multifactorial. Well fed, breast fed kids with good nutrition not exposed to toxic chemicals will be able to tolerate vaccines better!
I too had mumps, rubella and chicken pox, as a child in the 1950s. It was a pretty minor inconvenience, though my father, who got the mumps as an adult, was pretty painfully sick. My mother even had whooping cough as a child. She said the worst part was having to wash out her own hankies, otherwise not much of a problem. We farm kids were healthy. Then when I was pregnant with my own children I was strongly immune to rubella, so my babies were protected from harm as I couldn't catch it then. I believe modern sanitation, not vaccines, has done the most to protect us from disease.
Everything in moderation. My sister's girls have been on antibiotics since birth (the oldest is five.) Now I know some who HAVE to have them to survive and perhaps that's your health issue. But they have them for viruses and ear infections ect. That's very dangerous.
Antibiotics are not bad. It is the overuse of them that is. Anything good can be overdone. You can also be as healthy as a horse and doing/eating everything right and have your appendix burst...you'd probably be dead then if you didn't have antibiotics. That being said, they shouldn't be a first line defense for every little thing as they are now commonly used. Though it is interesting to note that both my family doctor and my pediatrician are reserved when it comes to antibiotics, siting their overuse. Maybe the med world is indeed starting to catch on to that, now if we can just get the food industry to follow suit.
Remember too, that you have a choice to take a medication or not. Just because the MD gives you a script, doesn't mean you have to take it.
Its the use of antibiotics that is taking the attention away from high tech natural remedies. Ozone treatment, colodial silver, peroxide and the herbals like golden seal, tee tree oil etc. If these and others were used in conjunction with all the other things like sunshine, wholesome food, laughter and love we would move from an industry of sickness to one of wellness.
Big phama in its desperation to control the sickness industry is trying to close down all wellness industries all around the world. Talk to a good naturapath and learn what other options you have. Medicine has its place in trauma and sickness prevention, it would grow and prosper if this is all they did and their oath of healing would have real integrity.
I have recently learn't that Ozone treatment alone can kill viruses, something antibiotics cant do. It can kill the hepatitis viruses, AIDS virus, herpes and the ones that are supposed to be causing the cervical cancers (debatable)
Instead of complaining about the medical industry proactively support the wellness industry and those doctors who care enough to educate themselves out of the matrix of deceit that is big phama.
That is true--everything in moderation. Wine is good for you, too much is bad. Food is good for you, too much is bad. Even life-giving, vital WATER can kill you if you drink too much.
Antibiotics were hailed as a savior upon their creation, and I think they still are. When used properly. I think most people could go their whole lives and maybe be on them once or twice the whole time, if ever. I had pneumonia once and they saved my life. But all the times I was given them for vague nasal problems, etc... unnecessary.
Antibiotics are bad, while they are good for what they were created for..."Killing life" Biotic stemming from the ancient word "LIFE" and then "anti". The world is now discovering that your immune system is primarily located in the digestive tract and consists mostly of bacteria....good bacteria. like that in yogurt. but what most people dont know is that there is a balance of bacteria and yeats... like a system of checks and balances you disrupt on and the other goes crazy and vice versa! You take antibiotics you get a yeast infection. You take antifungals, you get a bacterial infection!
Getting back on track...If you go back in time to before they created the first penicillin...what did they use to get rid of bacterial infections???
The answer is silver! its so high in antibacterial properties, but does not kill all the good bacteria in the body when used! you can find it today in the form of "Colloidal Silver". Along with that due to our highly processed diet that we eat today, we need to replenish those good bacteria, and you can do just that by taking "JaroDolphilus" its consists of the well known acidolphilus like that in yogurt, but also contains 5 other good strains of bacteria that call our bodies home!
I have been researching the corrupt medical system for years and have switched over to naturopathy. I have a two year old and a four year old. They have not been to the doctor in over a year, and the last time we went was for pink eye. and after passing it around the family and going back to the doctor over and over I looked else-where and found out that a few drops of the colloidal silver in the eye a couple times a day gets rid of pinkeye! it clears up the redness and ozzy stuff and is over in about 2 days compared to still contagious with the doctors antibiotics for a week before it clears up!
Gosh I could just go on and on! really... but I will wait until my next chance to reply!
Until next time!