"You are what you eat" has a whole new meaning these days. Humans have invented at least 10 million new chemicals, approximately 3500 of which are in our food, with an equal number in our homes and household products. Roughly 300 known harmful substances can now be found in most blood samples!
One widespread toxin now invading our system is mercury, found in fish, dental fillings and vaccinations. Mercury is detoxified by methylanon, and your ability to methylate can be measured by your homocysteine level. In other words, if mercury is a problem, you are more likely to have high homocysteine levels. The good news is, if you lower your homocysteine, you can immediately improve your ability to detoxify not only mercury, but also most heavy metals.
In the case of vaccinations, today's children can receive up to 30 by the time they go to school, with many given in the first six months of life. This article takes a closer look at what this is doing to our children and evaluates the necessity of this practice.
What exactly are vaccines?
Vaccinations are based on the idea of introducing a dead or disabled infectious agent into a person, then allowing the immune system to respond and produce antibodies. The theory is that by "memorizing" the antigen and how to make the antibody, your immune system has an advantage in dealing with an infection, should you become exposed to the agent again, because it can act quickly. The orthodox view is that vaccines give your immune system a head start in dealing with such an infection, and therefore, are essential, save lives, have few drawbacks, and are the reason for the decrease in deaths from many infectious diseases. They are heralded as one of the wonders of modern medicine, a triumph of science versus nature.
However, many of these views are not supported by the current research. The main questions regarding vaccinations are as follows:
- How effective are they?
- How dangerous is the disease?
- How dangerous is the vaccine?
- Are combination vaccines more dangerous?
- When, if at all, is the best time to be vaccinated?
- What are the alternatives to vaccination?
How effective are vaccinations?
The scientific literature is far from conclusive on the effectiveness of vaccinations, with reports claiming anything from 20-90% effectiveness, depending on the vaccine. The fact is, many epidemic diseases come in cycles, and have declined due to improvements in sanitation, as well as isolation of those people infected with the disease.
A case in point is the 1870-1872 smallpox epidemic in England. The outbreak claimed 44,000 lives, even though most of the population had been vaccinated. During the next outbreak in 1892, the town of Leicester decided against vaccination on the grounds that it didn't work, and instead relied only on sanitation and isolation. This outbreak saw just 19 cases and one death per 100,000. Compare this to nearby Warrington that had six times as many cases and eleven times the death rate, even though 99 percent of its population had been vaccinated. [Campaign against Fraudulent Medical Research Newsletter 2(3):5-13 (1995), quoting statistics from the London Bills of Mortality 1760-1834 and Reports of the Registrar General 1836-1896, as compiled by Alfred Wallace in The Wonderful Century (1898)]
And despite the use of vaccination, the incidence of many infectious diseases still continues to rise and fall. For example, in the United States, the incidence of measles continued to rise all the way into the 1990s, despite the introduction of the vaccine in 1957. And in England in the 1970s, deaths from pertussis (whooping cough) dropped only after the vaccination rate dropped by 30%.
Conversely, measles, mumps, smallpox, whooping cough, polio, and meningitis outbreaks have all occurred in vaccinated populations. In 1989, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported, "Among school-aged children, [measles] outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination levels of greater than 98 percent. [They] have occurred in all parts of the country, including areas that had not reported measles for years." The CDC even reported a measles outbreak in a population that had been 100 percent vaccinated. A study examining this outbreak found, "The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons."
Finally, one of the "success" stories for vaccination is polio. Yet, during a 1962 U.S. Congressional hearing, Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the Department of Biostatistics for the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, testified that cases of polio not only increased after mandatory vaccinations-up 50% from 1957 to 1958, and up 80% from 1958 to 1959 -- but that the statistics were deliberately manipulated by the Public Health Service to give the opposite impression.
Log in to read the rest of this article addressing the related topics below:
- When should we vaccinate?
- Chart showing 9 serious diseases to consider
- Whooping Cough and Tetanus
- Polio
- Meningitis
- What is the down-side of Vaccines?
- Combination Vaccines
- Alternatives to Vaccination
