Dr. Mercola December 09 2008 58,397 views
Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington, recommends avoiding the flu shot and taking vitamin D instead. According to Dr. Miller, “Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot.”
Health officials say that every winter 36,000 people will die from it. But the National Vital Statistics Reports compiled by the CDC show that only 1,138 deaths a year occur due to influenza alone -- more than 34,000 of the “36,000? flu deaths are actually pneumonic and cardiovascular deaths.
There is also a lack of evidence that young children benefit from flu shots. In fact, a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo. But there is also a risk of harm from the flu vaccine itself, particularly from the mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde it contains.
NaturalPapa:
People choose to believe in run-of-the-mill medicine, because it is easy, and our Colleges and Universities, have somewhat brainwashed us this way. But the old saying that says, "believe half of what you see." In other words confirm what you have seen. "Some, or none of what you hear." Again confirm, confirm, confirm. There is enough data available for anyone who is interested to be well informed about one's health. And as you know, our health is too important to be left strickly in the hands of others. Check out a book entitled "Trust Us, We're Experts" by Sheldon Rampton, and John Stauber, will shed plenty of light on this subject.
But I thought I was the one who would be personally responsible for thousands of deaths. ;-) Because I've gotten the same message many times. Did they mention what you were doing was "despicable" and "disgusting"?
That means you were on the right track. Congratulations! Give us a link and we'll vote her up.
As I say in my latest blog entry, Flu shots should be renamed "poo" shots because that's what they are worth. There's a better alternative and it's evolutionary. In other words, it goes back to the near beginning of life.
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The best to you.
Kelley Eidem
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Curlilox:
As time goes on, more of our true doctors will begin to speak out about this great health care ruse.
Hello Curilox, it does take a lot of guts for the doctor to tell the sane and inexpensive truth. However don't expect the "status quo" to sit around and do nothing. They can try to get his medical license revoked and find other ways to discredit him. The "status quo's" craving for money is getting so bad, the good doctor could even have an accident. It would not surprise me if the "status quo" has not already stooped to that level.
Each on of us who wants to make our own health decisions for ourselves is a direct threat to the pocket book of those who invent new poisons and try to sell them off as medicines. They are rich and powerful, we are not, they are organized to get anything they want from the politicians.
Imagine a politician having to choose between an all expense paid vacation in Hawaii for two weeks or your right to decide for yourself on matters of health care.
If you were paid $100,000.00 to change your vote in Congress, would you do it?
I live at the US / Canada border so I pick up the local US stations. I was appalled to hear a news report that some schools in the Niagara / Lake Erie region are informing parents that without a flu shot and other immunizations their children would be suspended from school. Talk about control! At what point then do parents get to choose the health methods they wish their children to be treated with while have them educated at the same time? Something is grossly wrong with this system.
Freevoice:
It is called "Totalitarianism," you know where the state makes all decisions for you, and makes it illegal to refuse.
Perfect time to get kids out of the system
Homeschool and protect your children
it is only going to get worse
The earth is flat and the sun revolves around us.
Flu shots are yet one more "conventional wisdom" debate that us realists cannot win.
Once something becomes conventional wisdom, there is no way that you can convince people to quit being sheep and become rational, logical thinkers.
Low fat, processed foods, chemotherapy, statins, flu shots, Tamiflu all recent additions to the conventional wisdom catagory.
And woe be any of us that dare to speak out against it. And, in Michigan at least, if I don't vaccinate my daughter and she contracts pneumonia and dies, I will very likely be prosecuted for murder. That is the way it works here.
Scary days are here folks and it takes lots of moxie and resolve to buck conventional wisdom.
Lucky for me, I've been ticking people off with my non-status quo mouth for years, so I'm used to it..
TailsWorried wrote: ...there is no way that you can convince people to quit being sheep and become rational, logical thinkers.
ALAN: I agree, there is no way. This is why advertising goes for your emotions and fears or your vanity.
I always amazes me when a drug commercial comes on, how no one hears all the side affects and warnings about who should not use the drug. All they remember is that they will be happy and healthy playing with the grand kids. This is what they want, this is what makes them feel good. No wonder they do not hear the part about liver damage, kidney failure, headaches, dry mouth and blurred vision. And in some cases...
We are given the choice to take the flu shot or not. Threatening to sue is down right stupid. I am a nurse at a hospital and they try very hard to get me to take the flu shot. I have knowledge that many don't have due to Dr. Mercola and other intellegent people. I will not take the flu shot. That is my choice.
Jennifer, I just started working at a nursing home and they told me flu shots were required. I told them that I didn't get vaccines and it was against my religious beliefs but they said I needed a doctor's note to get out of them. I live in Ohio and it's my understanding that privately owned businesses as well as hospitals can require flu shots, but if you know anything that can help me avoid the flu shot other than getting a different job I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
I have a choice also as a health care professional. It is not stupid to sue. It is a useless vaccine with chemicals. These are two well done studies in two respectable journals. Why shouldn't the general public have the truth? Why aren't more doctors questioning why we even give these anyway? It doesnt' appear these studies make any difference at all in the promotion of flu shots. I think that is so sad. Why are they making it mandatory when it doesn't work? And it is mandatory for those kids. They make it very hard to get out of taking it for the parents.