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Compulsory Vaccination: Know How to Reduce Side-Effect Dangers |
How to Reduce Vaccination Risks |
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If you have been told that vaccination has nothing to do with autism, you may wish to read Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy, by Andrew Wakefield
"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse," attributed to philosopher David Hume, applies to the vaccination controversy. But there is no controversy as to vaccination safety: some are quite safe, and some are not safe. The Salk killed polio vaccine, and the tetanus shot, are examples of vaccinations with a long record of safety. The DPT and MMR shots are another story, and that is the story that Dr. Andrew Wakefield presents in this excellent book. I admit to a personal bias. Back in 1999, I was honored to be on the same speaking ticket with Dr. Wakefield. He is a brilliant scientist, a compassionate physician, and an honest man. He is not against vaccination, in spite of what you may have been told. He is against unsafe, inadequately tested, forced vaccinations. He is against putting children at risk. I agree with him and will stand by his research. I have seen it. Have his critics? Has the public? Vaccination safety is too important an issue to be drowned in sound bytes. I urge you to read this book (and I also recommend that you watch the VAXXED movie) and make up your mind for yourself.
BACKGROUND TO THE VACCINATION CONTROVERSY
I joined the ranks of the anti-vaccinationists a long time ago. A viewpoint like
this sometimes gets you your fifteen minutes of fame. In Mother Earth
News issue #85 (January-February 1984) I was correctly quoted saying: "I do counsel people
frequently on the pros and cons of vaccination. But I never tell anyone
not to get shots or to get shots. I simply point out the alternatives that
are available." (Click here to read the complete article.) One should keep in mind that careful
study of the medical profession's own statistics fails to verify the very
common and highly emotional viewpoint that vaccination has been the major
factor in the reduction of infectious diseases. As in the above mentioned
interview, I ask readers to make up their own minds by obtaining copies of
the journal articles I recommend in the bibliographies of my books and the
References sections of this website. Those who do so will be no less
surprised than I was to discover that J.F. Edward, F.R. Klenner, W.J.
McCormick and other major critics of vaccination are medical doctors. "It is Dr. Edward,
not I, who studied Canadian polio epidemics and concluded that polio is
related to iodine deficiency. Dr. Edward then cured, as well as
prevented, polio with small doses of iodine. The Manitoba Medical
Review published his work in 1954, for any doctor or citizen to
read. I cite his work, but hope you'll read his paper. It is Dr.
McCormick, not I, who carefully reviewed the medical literature and showed,
in tables and graphs, the dramatic decline in typhoid, diptheria and whooping
cough before inoculation/vaccination was available. ("The Changing
Incidence and Mortality of Infectious Disease in Relation to Changed Trends
in Nutrition," Medical Record, 1947.) It is Dr. Klenner,
not I, who successfully treated polio for nearly 45 years with very high
doses of vitamin C and with exceptional success (A Physician's Handbook on
Orthomolecular Medicine. R.J. Williams, ed., pp 51-59). It was a
young Andrew Weil, M.D., not I, who criticized Koch's postulates and found
fault in the entire germ theory (The Natural Mind, 1972). "I agree with these
doctors. You can agree with the ones you want." A reader once
raised the question of how my children will be protected against disease if
they are not vaccinated. I submitted the response that vaccinations
offer little, if any, real protection against disease when you examine the
records. For example: according to New
York City Department of Health director Dr. Morris Greenberg, polio
fatalities decreased by nearly 90 percent from 1915 to 1955, before the polio
vaccine was available to the public in 1955 (Howard Hillemann, in Clinical
Physiology 2:2, 1960). How can we truly say, then, that vaccination
got rid of polio? Vitamin C is a
proven effective, natural antibiotic and anti-toxin.
THE HEALING FACTOR: Vitamin C Against Disease, by Irwin Stone,
discusses that research in detail. My children were
raised virtually vegetarian, because vegetarians statistically are less
subject to infectious illness. When they were preschoolers, we gave our
children 250 mg. to 500 mg. of vitamin C with each plant-based meal. Of
course we did not have them inoculated; there are better ways." I've frequently been asked, It is my sincerely held religious
belief that immunization is detrimental to the health and purity of the body,
mind and spirit. Therefore, I respectfully request that I, (full name
here) be allowed to attend school, namely (full name and address here)
without being immunized. ______________________________________
(student's name) __________________________
Mother ________________________ Father Sworn to before me this
_________ th day of _________________, 20___. _____________________________________
Notary Public Provided your state of residence respects the First Ammendment, it's as easy as that. When I was a young parent, my state did. Now it doesn't. Copyright C 2019, 2003 and
previous years Andrew W. Saul. Andrew Saul is the author of the books FIRE
YOUR DOCTOR! How to be Independently Healthy (reader reviews at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html
) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
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