The Myth of Mandatory School Vaccinations

Your claims that “Vaccinations … is a victim of its own success” and “. . . are an excellent defense against childhood illnesses, which can be deadly, and eradicating smallpox altogether” is not supported by the evidence. It is extremely easy to the find evidence which refutes your claims. It is a shame you didn’t dso your due dillegence before parroting the prevailing paradigm.

No matter how many time a falsehood is repeated it is still a lie. Did you know that this claim was made and immunization stopped BEFORE there was any tests available to establish what sort of “pox” a person had contracted. It is highly likely the “eradication of smallpox” is a simple case of reporting bias. For more information on this and the wishful thinking as opposed to hard scientific research that surround the efficacy of vaccination to promote immunity I suggest you read “Herd Immunity: Flawed Science and Mass Vaccination Failures” at http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/herd-immunity-flawed-science-and-mass-vaccination-failures.

Still not convinced that the scientific basis for vaccination is flawed this interview (http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/06/13/interview-with-phd-immunologist-dr-tetyana-obukhanych-by-catherine-frompovich/) with Dr Tetyana Obukhanych, an immunologist, might enlighten you.

The fact is scientist don’t know enough about how the immune system works to be able make any claims regarding the efficacy of vaccination. As Mark Davis, PhD, the director of the Institute for Immunology, Transplantation and Infection and the Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor of Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine says in this (http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2011summer/article7.html) 2011 article “In the last few decades a huge amount has been learned about the basic mechanisms of immune response — a super-smart system of sensors, cells and secretions that has evolved to guard us from invasion by pathogens or betrayal by our own tumor-prone tissues. It’s staggeringly complex, comprising at least 15 different interacting cell types that spew dozens of different molecules into the blood to communicate with one another and to do battle. Within each of those cells sit tens of thousands of genes whose activity can be altered by age, exercise, infection, vaccination status, diet, stress, you name it. That’s an awful lot of moving parts. And we don’t really know what the vast majority of them do, or should be doing . . . We can’t even be sure how to tell when the immune system’s not working right, let alone why not, because we don’t have good metrics of what a healthy human immune system looks like.”

All the “proof” of the success of vaccination is epidemiological. According to MedicineNet.com epidemiology is the “study of populations in order to determine the frequency and distribution of diseases, and then to measure the risks of those diseases.” As a statistics based discipline it is capable of identifying variables which MAY influence the prevalence of particular health issues and generate hypothesis regarding causality. However, it cannot definitively attribute causality. In the first world, vaccination is definitely correlated with a decline, in recent years, of many childhood diseases. Likewise, over the same period, the number of hours the average child spends watching television and childhood obesity have increase dramatically. So has vaccination caused children to watch more television and change their eating habits? Using the same correlative logic, watching more TV and/or eating convenience food could be the reason “vaccine-preventable” diseases have declined. Statistical correlation has it’s limitations. Pro-vaccination propaganda relies on conflating correlation with causation and repeating their mantra so often it is assumed to be the truth.

No-one disputes that in the first world the outbreaks of, complications and mortality associated with a number of childhood diseases has declined since the introduction of vaccination. What is disputed is the cause of the decline. Epidemiological records clearly show most of the decline occurred prior to the introduction of vaccines. On the other hand, if you look at the data for developing countries it is a different story. The evidence for these countries clearly shows that mass vaccination programs in the absence of improved hygiene and nutrition increases the incidence of these diseases. Same variable but different outcome is usually seen, in scientific circles, as evidence refuting a causal link between a given variable the outcome.

You might also care to investigate the lack of efficacy and safety research required of manufacturers before vaccines are approved. In the absence of the gold standard of medical research, double-blind placebo trials, and long-term trials the safety and efficacy of vaccines is unknown.

Despite claims to the contrary, mass vaccination is not based on evidence that it works. I am profoundly grateful that people like you are willing to be altruistic enough to volunteer your children to be guinea pigs in the uncontrolled vaccination experiment. Without people like you who are willing to put their children at risk of becoming a medical-treatment-induced-injury statistic we’d never have accumulated all the evidence which calls into question the claims made about vaccines. Call me selfish but I’m just not willing to assault my healthy child’s immature immune system with multiple vaccines in the hope that it is for the common good. I’ll go with the evidence. For me and many others, no matter how pervasive a paradigm, scientific evidence trumps belief every time.

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