What a leading Pediatrician says about vaccines.
Dr. Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD says:
“When I went through medical
school, I was taught that vaccines were completely safe and completely
effective, and I had no reason to believe otherwise. All the information that I
was taught was pretty standard in all the medical schools and the teachings and
scientific literature throughout the country. I had no reason to disbelieve it.
Over the years, I kept practicing
medicine and using vaccines and thinking that my approach to vaccines was
completely on board with everything else I was taught.
But more and more, I kept seeing
that my experience of the world, my experience in using and reading about
vaccines, and hearing what parents were saying about vaccines were very
different from what I was taught in medical school and my residency training.
… and it became clearer to me as
I read the research, listened to more and more parents, and found other
practitioners who also shared the same concern that vaccines had not been
completely proven safe or even completely effective, based on the literature
that we have today.
… It didn't appear that the
scientific studies that we were given were actually appropriately designed to
prove and test the safety and efficacy.
It also came to my attention that
there were ingredients in there that were not properly tested, that the
comparison groups were not appropriately set up, and that conclusions made
about vaccine safety and efficacy just did not fit the scientific standards
that I was trained to uphold in my medical school training.”
Were Vaccines Really the ‘Savior’
Against Past Diseases?
Conventional medicine teaches
that the polio and the smallpox epidemics went away because of the vaccines,
and that most of the diseases that we faced in the 20th century in the United
States were brought down because of the power, strength and the implementation
of the vaccine policy.
Meanwhile, there are a
significant number of studies in the medical literature that actually show
there were many other reasons that these infectious diseases went away.
For example, one article
published in 2000 in the Pediatrics Journal describes how, before the World War
II, the majority of the infectious diseases the US was faced with – such as
diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis, measles, influenza, parapertussis,
tuberculosis and scarlet fever – were all reduced before World War II and
BEFORE there were antibiotics and vaccinations available to treat or to
vaccinate against these diseases.
The reasons for the reductions in
incidence rates and mortality of these diseases were predominantly due to the
implementation of public health strategies, including:
* Clean water
* Better living conditions
* Improved sanitation
* Improved nutrition
* Better living conditions
* Improved sanitation
* Improved nutrition
There are many such examples.
Have the Proper Safety Studies
Actually Been Done?
So, why is there such a vast
difference among intelligent, scientifically oriented, committed and objective
scientists and physicians about the safety and efficacy of vaccines?
Dr. Palevsky says:
“I think that if you ask most of
my colleagues where they get their information, they will say that they read it
from the American Academy of Pediatrics, from the AMA, from the CDC, and in
their journals.
But I would like to challenge
most of my colleagues to look through the studies themselves to actually see if
the proper scientific studies were done using a proper study group and a proper
control group.
Were the ingredients in vaccines
properly studied?
Is there a difference between
being exposed to a virus, bacteria, heavy metal or toxin through the air, food,
your intestines and your skin, versus when it’s injected into your body?
Have we really looked at what
happens to vaccine materials once injected into a child? Is an antibody
sufficient to provide protection for a child against disease?
More and more studies are coming
out to show that:
* The proper studies haven’t been
done
* Antibodies are not the final way in which your body is protected
* There is a difference between how children process material through air and food versus through injection
* There are particles in vaccines that do accumulate in your body and cause impairments in your immune system
* There are particles in the vaccines that get into your brain, and
* There are foreign DNA particles that get into your body
* Antibodies are not the final way in which your body is protected
* There is a difference between how children process material through air and food versus through injection
* There are particles in vaccines that do accumulate in your body and cause impairments in your immune system
* There are particles in the vaccines that get into your brain, and
* There are foreign DNA particles that get into your body
For many health professionals it
is a shock to discover that there is such a lack of information on the safety
and efficacy, and a mounting degree of information that actually raises
suspicions about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and whether or not
they have been properly studied.”
How a Conventionally Trained
Physician Accepts that Vaccines Can Cause Harm
Says Palevsky,
“It is heartbreaking, because I
see many of these kids who were developmentally normal, who were doing well,
who were speaking, then whose voices and eye contacts were lost, who went into
seizures, who developed asthma and allergies, and they had nowhere to go
because they’re doctors told them that they don’t know what they’re talking
about. These kids are real.
The literature is showing that
there are changes in the immune system of children who are vaccinated,
especially if we vaccinate them before one year of age or even at one day of
age.
The literature is there. It’s
good scientific literature, and it shows that more and more of these kids who
are suffering from chronic illness are suffering from impairments of their
immune system.
Whether vaccines are causative or
contributory, the literature is showing that there is a role that vaccines are
playing in creating the groundwork for these children’s immune systems to start
to show signs of impairment and destruction.
… When I look at the studies that
the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC put out, saying that there’s no
correlation between vaccination and autism or vaccinations and asthma, I have
to say that the studies just don’t hold up to the scientific standards.
You can’t have 25 children in a
study and then report that this proves that no children who get autism have any
correlation to being injured by vaccines. This is what the media does: they
take these conclusions, put it right out in front of the newspapers and say,
“Vaccines don’t cause autism.”
When you really look at the
studies – and there’s not a proper control group and there’s only 25 people –
you can’t make a grand, generalized statement about a general population
because you’ve studied 25 children.”
The NVIC Set to Create
Groundbreaking Vaccine Safety Research
The National Vaccine Information
Center (NVIC) just raised $100,000 and continues to look for donations and
sponsors to allow proper safety studies to be done by independent researchers,
who aren’t going to influence the outcomes.
One study that looked at the
health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children does exist.
Published in the Journal of
Allergy and Clinical Immunology in April 2005, that looked at the health
outcomes of children who are fully vaccinated, who are partially vaccinated,
and who are not vaccinated at all.
All the investigators asked the
parents to do was to report atopic illness. Atopic illness means allergies,
asthma, eczema, hay fever. The investigators were blinded, meaning they didn’t
know which category the participants belonged to.
When they assessed the data, they
found that the largest number of reports by parents of children with atopic
illness were in the kids who were fully vaccinated. The second highest reports
were in the families who are partially vaccinated. And the lowest number of
reports was in the children who were unvaccinated…
The investigators performed a
statistical analysis to see if the data was based on chance or on real
statistical differences, and found there were statistically significant
differences between these groups. They couldn’t understand how this was
possible, because the generally accepted consensus is that vaccines are
completely safe, and completely effective.
Based on this initial finding, we
clearly need to do follow-up studies to ask the same question over and over
again; repeat this kind of investigation with different populations across
different parts of the country, to unearth the truth!
Dr. Palevsky says:
“Certainly, the issue has been
raised about the special interests, the money that’s tied, the policies, how
much money the vaccine manufacturers stand to make, the doctors who make
decisions on vaccines, and how much money they stand to make. But we need the
science and not this conspiracy theory…
If we just stay with the science,
and really start to address the need for the science, and look at the fact that
there is a lack of science, we will definitely see that more needs to be done.
We have not done due diligence.”
Are Some Vaccines Safer Than
Others?
Many may be surprised by Dr.
Palevsky’s answer:
“… in my research of the
vaccines, and of the basic microbiology and virology that we’re trained to know
in our medical training, I cannot understand how a vaccine with a virus can be
safe.”
What most people don’t know is
that a virus is not “alive,” per se.
It is simply a piece or strand of
either RNA or DNA. And even of itself, a virus can’t “do” anything.
In addition it is so tiny that it
can only be seen under an electron microscope. It is much smaller than
bacteria, which can only be seen in the regular microscope. So viruses cannot
be isolated when you make a viral vaccine. All that can be isolated is the
tissue, whether it’s human tissue or animal tissue that is believed to have
been infected by that specific virus that you’re trying to isolate.
So when a viral culture or a set
of cultures are made including the specific virus, you’re going to have the DNA
of people or animals who were already infected. Those cells are then taken and
grown on animal cells, whether it’s monkey kidney cells or chicken embryo
cells.
When mixed together, these cells
will splice and recombine, which means that DNA from animal cells are going to
mix with DNA from the known infected cells with the virus.
So by definition, a viral vaccine
contains foreign animal and, even possibly, foreign human DNA. That’s why if
you have an egg allergy, you shouldn’t get certain vaccines because it is known
that there’s going to be egg protein in the vaccine.
So the question is, how safe is
it to inject viral material that is embedded into the DNA of foreign DNA cells?
What studies have been done to
actually test whether foreign DNA is getting into your body; whether it stays
in your DNA; whether it gets into your brain; and whether there are foreign
animal viruses that are inherently present in animal DNA to begin with?
Pushing for Informed Consent
So, does that mean you should
never vaccinate against anything?
Dr. Palevsky says:
“That’s something that needs to
be left up to the individual parent. I am truly a proponent of informed
consent, and I’m truly supportive of families who have done their homework and
who have been able to make the choice.
What is the possible risk of the
illness? What is the possible health outcome if your child gets one of those
illnesses?
And how much do you know about
those risks versus how much do you know about the risks of the vaccines and the
health outcomes of what may happen when children are vaccinated against single,
or even multiple, vaccines?
And when parents are given both
sides, it is up to them to make that informed choice.
It is no longer my role to tell
them that they must do this vaccine but not that vaccine, because each parent
has to make an informed choice based on their understanding of how diseases
occur or don’t occur, what science we have available, and whether they feel comfortable
with the devil that they know (the science and the outcomes of disease) versus
the devil that they don’t know (science and the outcomes of the vaccine).”
What about the Swine Flu Vaccine?
He says:
“Now if you read the packaging
first of the swine flu vaccine, it specifically states that the swine flu or
the H1N1 flu vaccine was manufactured in the same manufacturing process as the
flu vaccine. Therefore since we believe that the flu vaccine has been
sufficiently tested to be safe, we can then conclude that the H1N1 vaccine is
safe.
But the public should know that
even though our authorities are standing there and saying that the H1N1 vaccine
is safe, the proper studies have not been done.
… And it’s unfair to say to
parents or to the public that if you come down with a flu-like illness, it must
be H1N1. In studies that have been done, people who did get the flu had their
noses swabbed, and they were found to have H1N1.
What’s missing in these data is a
population of healthy people who have not had any flu symptoms – to actually
see if their noses contained H1N1 – because if someone is sick and has the
presence of an H1N1 virus in the nose, it doesn’t mean that the H1N1 is causing
the illness.
You really have to take an
appropriate control group to see if people are colonized with that virus even
when they’re not sick.
So we don’t have that data; we
really don’t know. I don’t think we can say with good scientific certainty that
people who are getting sick from the flu and who are being diagnosed with H1N1
are actually having H1N1 as the cause.”
Other Ways to Protect Yourself
Against the Flu
Again, there’s clear evidence in
the medical literature that shows proper hygiene, proper sleep, proper diet,
proper supplementation with things like vitamin D (making sure that you get
your vitamin D level done first), and perhaps vitamin C, can actually prevent
you from getting the flu.
Many insist that vaccinated
individuals “protect” the unvaccinated against the flu virus – in essence,
reaping the benefit of the protection they refuse for themselves, while at the
same time putting others in danger.
But how does that make sense?
Says Dr. Palevsky:
“How does vaccinating against the
flu virus stop you from carrying the flu virus in your nasal passages?”
And yet, this is what many
believe.
The Concept of Herd Immunity and
the Myth that Unvaccinated Children put Others at Risk
One of the primary arguments that
is being used to justify this insane behavior is “herd immunity.”
The fact is that vaccination does
NOT stop you from carrying bacteria or viruses in your nose, in your throat, in
your intestines, in your airway, on your skin, or in your body.
But many do not understand the
significance of this fact, and have been made to believe that if you’re
vaccinated, you won’t carry viruses, and therefore, others will be protected
because you’re vaccinated.
As it turns out, this belief is
NOT based on scientific fact.
Dr. Palevsky explains:
“This whole concept of herd
immunity is very interesting, because we were taught that herd immunity occurs
because a certain percentage of a population gets an active illness. Therefore
by a certain percentage of getting the active illness, they impart a protection
onto the remaining part of the population that has not gotten the illness yet.
And so the herd that is getting
the illness is shedding the illness and protecting those who have not gotten
it.
In vaccine science, we are
extrapolating or concluding that if we vaccinate a certain percentage of
people, we are imparting protection on those who have not been vaccinated. And
that has NOT been shown to be true, because the true herd immunity in theory is
based on an ACTIVE DISEASE, and we know that despite what we’re taught,
vaccination does not mimic the natural disease.
So we cannot use the same model
of herd immunity in a natural disease in the vaccination policy. But
unfortunately, we do use it even though it cannot be used because it doesn’t
have scientific backing.
What’s most interesting to me is
that the entire concept of herd immunity fails to acknowledge that there is a
life cycle of the viruses and the bacteria all on their own, and that what
turns them on and off may have nothing to do with the percentage of people who
have been infected.
All you have to do is look at the
SARS outbreak. That virus that we were supposed to fear didn’t infect 70 or 80
percent of the population, which would then impart herd immunity on the 20 or
30 percent that didn’t get the disease.
This is because the virus itself
had a life cycle of its own. And so it came and went without any percentage of
the population being protected. There wasn’t herd immunity, and yet the virus
died out on its own.
We fail to include that viruses
have a life cycle, and that they are in relationship to other organisms and to
us. Something activates them and something actually stops them, and it has
nothing necessarily to do with the percentage of people who would have the
illness or who have been vaccinated.
… It is preposterous to think
that a child who is vaccinated no longer carries the bacteria or the viruses
that they have been vaccinated against. If, in fact, children are vaccinated,
then why are parents and public health authorities afraid that non-vaccinated
children are somehow carrying something that their children are not, when they
should feel comfortable that their children are vaccinated?
You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t vaccinate believing
that your children are protected and then feel that your children are not protected
because somehow, some non-vaccinated child is carrying some secret organism
that no one else is carrying.
It just doesn’t make any sense.”
The Difference between Natural
Immunity and Vaccine-lnduced Immunity
It’s important to understand that
the natural illness has greater influence on the health of your body. Says Dr.
Palevsky:
“In medical school, the mentors
that I had saw children in their practices in the 40s, 50s and all the way up
to the 80s getting these flu-like illnesses who were properly treated with
rest, fluids and proper supplementation.
Those kids had developmental
growth spurts after the illnesses were over.
There is something to say for
these viral illnesses that impart a certain boosting of the immune system of
your children. And if we’re not letting them have these illnesses, what are we
doing to their immune systems? Aren’t we actually hampering their overall
health?”
You need to understand that
there’s a significant difference between natural immunity and vaccination
immunity.
When children are born, they
develop natural immunity to hundreds, thousands, millions, and even trillions
of microorganisms that they breathe in, eat, and touch through their skin.
Their immune systems at the lining of their airways, at the lining of their intestines,
and on their skin are actively protecting their body from the outside world.
Those immune systems that are
intricately and specifically located in the linings are very important to
create memory and protection to the organisms that they continue to breathe,
eat, and touch.
That immune system response then
has a domino effect on creating other memory and immune responses that give
your body antibodies and protection.
That’s a very important step for
how the immune system matures in our children. From the linings, the immune
system receives information, sends out signals to all other parts of the immune
system, and creates an immune response, memory, and antibodies.
On the other hand, when you
inject materials into your body, you are bypassing that crucial first step
called the primary line of defense.
With vaccination you are just
creating an antibody. That does NOT impart long-term immunity because it does
not create the kind of memory that occurs when you breathe it in, eat it, or
are exposed through the skin, and then go through the course of the natural
disease.
Some people will argue that this
is why we have nasal spray vaccines.
However, again, you’re making the
assumption that you have not already been exposed to the virus at some point,
and you’re also making the assumption that exposure automatically leads to
infection.
Exposure does not necessarily
lead to infection. A lot of it has to do with the overall status of your immune
system.
The Dangers of Combining Vaccines
One issue that is frequently
ignored is the potential harm from the synergy of combinations of vaccines,
which have never been studied.
No one knows whether there’s
interaction between the bacteria and the viruses in the vaccines administered
as part of the childhood vaccination schedule, or if there is interaction in
the trace thimerosal (which is still in some of the multi-vials of certain
vaccines), or the large amount of aluminum that is in many of them.
Dr. Palevsky says:
“There is a scientist named Boyd
Haley, who has actually looked into some of the vaccine ingredients and (1)
what happens to nerve cells when you inject them in the lab to specific vaccine
ingredients, and (2) what happens to the nerve cells when you keep adding
another vaccine ingredient.
He specifically showed that in
the presence of thimerosal, there’s a lot of damage to nerve cells. When you
add aluminum to the thimerosal, you need less thimerosal to create the damage
to the immune and nerve cells in the presence of aluminum.
Then when you add neomycin – an
antibiotic in some of the vaccines – it potentiates the potency of nerve cell
damage with aluminum and mercury together.
And when you culture the nerve
cells and testosterone, versus estrogen, and you expose them to some of the
vaccine ingredients like thimerosal, you actually see that the nerve cells that
are exposed to testosterone are more damaged in greater amounts than the nerve
cells that are bathed in estrogen.
That raises some concern because
we do see that children with neurodevelopmental disorders are 4:1, boys to
girls.
So you have to question whether
testosterone actually makes children more vulnerable to exposure to toxins like
mercury, aluminum or their combination?
None of these studies have been
done in humans. People say, “We can’t do those studies.” And I say, “Why not?”
They say, “It’s unethical.”
I say, “Well, if it’s unethical
to do those studies on vaccine ingredients and combining them together, then
it’s unethical to give the vaccines in general.”
So we’re missing a lot of
important data that we won’t believe, and we’re also missing a lot of important
data that we won’t accumulate because most of the studies that are done are by
the manufacturers of the vaccines themselves.”
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