Finally it should be noted that the CDC has never commissioned nor funded a survey to look at the rates of autism among unvaccinated populations. Well, this survey has now been performed with some frightening results. The independent non-profit group Generation Rescue in collaboration with the notable opinion poll organization, SurveyUSA, completed a survey of 11,817 households, representing over 17,600 children to compare the rates of various neurological disorders, as well as asthma and childhood diabetes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. For all vaccinated boys from 4-17 years, there were increases of 155 percent for neurological disorders, 224 percent for ADHD, and 61 percent for autism among the vaccinated. For all boys and girls, there was a 120 percent increase in asthma among those vaccinated.[18]
Garrett also lists other illnesses and diseases that she claims vaccines will protect children from, including: cerebral palsy from chickenpox and pertussis; small brains and hearts from rubella infection; deafness, blindness and optic nerve damage from chickenpox, measles, mumps, pertussis and rubella; and later adult cardiovascular disease from influenza. Garrett makes no mention of any studies to confirm these claims; but then, if there were they would no longer be sound-bites.
There was once a time when vaccine research held integrity and sincerely strived to be honest, legitimate scientific inquiries into the causes of disease, infections and the effectiveness and safety of drugs and vaccines to protect us. It was also a time when the most prestigious medical journals such as The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association were not afraid to publish strong, unbiased studies that challenged the day's medical orthodoxy. Those days may be over now that Big Pharma dictates what will, can and should be printed in medical literature.
If we glance back upon the medical studies during those forgotten days before university departments and professional scientists became subverted to the persuasion and money of Big Pharma, we uncover a rich body of research showing that independent vaccine research, without corporate conflicts of interest, were almost prophetic in their selection of conditions to investigate. We find studies showing measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus and polio vaccines causing deafness, cardiovascular disease from the flu shot, encephalitis and meningitis from just about every vaccine at the time. Hepatitis B vaccine was shown to cause cerebral palsy and nerve atrophy and blindness due the MMR vaccination. Anyone who wishes to mine this well-documented body of literature will discover numerous studies associating vaccines as causal agents for not only the conditions listed by Garrett but also leukemia, chromosomal mutation, demyelation of the nervous system, fontanel swelling, neurological damage, diabetes, and the development of the very same infections the vaccines are meant to prevent. A bibliography of these studies would fill hundreds of pages.
One important example of this kind of inquiry that has been totally ignored for almost fifteen years but now urgently needs to be revisited is the relationship between vaccination and diabetes.
During the past ten years, the rates of diabetes have nearly doubled and are now estimated to affect nine in every hundred Americans. Forty-five percent of new cases are children, and for the first time we are witnessing a dramatic rise in adult Type 2 diabetes in kids. Again, as with ASD, sole genetic causes will never account for such rapid increases. Nevertheless, earlier peer-reviewed studies have noted Type 1 diabetes as an adverse effect of mumps[19] , smallpox, and hepatitis B[20] vaccinations.
Finally, Newsweek should not be left off the hook but rather reprimanded for in our opinion one of the most biased, pro-vaccine industry articles we have ever read. How could this have slipped past its editors? By publishing Garrett's piece, the magazine has voted on the side of the vaccine industrial complex and to hell with the rest of this. It would be inexcusable except for the fact that it is no accident Garrett's article should appear in Newsweek. Is it a coincidence that two of Newsweek's largest advertisers in its health section are Merck and Pfizer, the very same CFR corporate members noted above.
A year ago the majority of Americans and healthcare workers, including physicians, in the US and around the world supported vaccination. Today, according to all polls, those numbers are dwindling rapidly. There is also a popular growing reluctance to accept health officials' vaccine efficacy and safety rhetoric. Now that the flu season is coming to an end, and the truth of the actual number of flu deaths has been grossly overstated, and more respected critics sharing their truth with others, we will see that next season an even larger number of Americans will be questioning the pseudo-science behind vaccination.
Richard Galeis the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio Networkand a former Senior Research Analyst in the genomic industry.Dr.Gary Nullis the host of the nation's longest running public radio program on nutrition and natural health and a multi-award-winning director of progressive documentary films, including Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made in the USA. The are both co-authors of the exhaustive study Vaccines: A Second Opinion.
[1] Belkenir. "Vaccines against swine flu: a cure or an injection of death." Ennahar (Algiers) December 20, 2009.
[2] "Scientist addresses global swine flu conspiracy" RIA Novosti (Moscow), December 15, 2009.
[3]Vucesoy B. IL-1 beta gene polymorphisms influence hepatitis B vaccination. Vaccine. 2002 August 19; 20(25-26): 3193-6
[4] "Maternal infections and flu during pregnancy associated with increased risk of schizophrenia" Schizophrenia.com http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevention/maternal.html
[5] "Flu during pregnancy may increase risk of schizophrenia in certain offspring." Science Daily. June 11, 2009.
[6] Sharon Udasin. "Not immune from mumps." Jewish Weekly. December 1, 2009
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