VACCINES: WHY FEAR SELLS

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VACCINES: WHY FEAR SELLS

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO

June 26, 2007 NewsWithViews.com

 

It's interesting how a discussion about vaccination can quickly become heated

and sometimes even hostile. Would the same debate rage over an antibiotic or

an antihypertensive medicine if there was evidence the drug was causing harm?

When it becomes obvious that thousands have been injured by a drug such as

Vioxx, it is removed from the market. We stop the use of drugs until they are

proven safe. And we sue.

 

Not so with vaccines. Vaccines are promoted with fanfare until they are

statistically proven to cause harm to a large number of persons. The thousands

of

individuals who suffer from vaccine reactions in proportion to the millions who

have been vaccinated are not considered to be a mathematically significant

statistic. However, the more than $1billion that has been paid to

vaccine-injured persons shows that safety is not all that is it promoted to be.

Why the

double standard?

 

Vaccination is built around a " belief system. " We believe vaccines are safe;

we believe vaccines are important to health; we believe the stories that

vaccines are solely responsible for the elimination of smallpox and polio. And

we

really want to believe that our doctors have read all the available information

on vaccines--pro and con--and are telling us the complete truth about

vaccines.

 

However, belief is based on faith, not necessarily on fact. For example, we

want to believe that vaccinating our children will keep them from getting sick

with measles or chickenpox. However, there is a plethora of information

documenting this is not necessarily so.

 

Why is there an almost desperate need to defend the current belief--and

trust--in vaccines? The public’s view of disease seems to be similar to our

current

view on terrorism: Random attacks that are potentially deadly. The media

hawks this view of the childhood illnesses, pharma sells it, doctors push it and

educational institutions reinforce it. Everyone sells it, and everyone readily

buys it. There is a " just in case " or " better be safe than sorry " mentality.

After nearly 200 years of use, fear still sells vaccination.

 

What do we really know about vaccines? A review of the literature and the CDC

documents reveals the following:

 

1. Vaccine safety studies are relatively small and include only healthy

children. However when a vaccine trial has been completed, vaccines are given to

ALL children, regardless of the condition of their health, family history or

genetics.

 

2. Vaccine safety studies are short. Most clinical trials monitor for side

effects a paltry 21 days, sometimes, it is only for 5 days. It can take months

before immune system complications appear. This arbitrary deadline, established

by the FDA, precludes associating vaccines with chronic health disorders.

" Safe " is a designation given based on limited information.

 

3. Vaccine safety studies do not use a true placebo. One of the Gold

Standards in medical research is the " placebo-controlled " trial. An inactive

substance

such as a sugar pill is given as a placebo to one group of participants,

while the treatment group is given the new drug. The data is analyzed to compare

the number of side effects that occurred in those given the drug compared to

the numbers of side effects that occurred in those given the placebo. However,

the " placebo " used in vaccine research is not an inert substance such as

sterile water; it is another vaccine. Inert, sterile water doesn't cause a

reaction;

as substitute vaccine can. If both groups of babies in a trial have the same

number of reactions, the study reports that the vaccine " is as safe as a

placebo. " This is deceptive science.

 

4. Vaccine-induced antibodies do not correlate with protection. In fact, the

esteemed journal, Vaccine stated this clearly " …It is known that, in many

instances, antigen-specific antibody titers do not correlate with protection. "

The

full reference can be found here: PMID: 11587808 Vaccination has been

accepted as safe, effective and protective. The shots can be described as a

medical

" sacred cows, " by definition, " a medical procedure unreasonably immune to

criticism. " The strong response is generated when it is suggested that the " cow "

should be " sacrificed. " It is heresy to suggest that the " status quo " is wrong.

 

 

When Copernicus insisted that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the

solar system, it went against the philosophical and religious beliefs held

during the medieval times. When two other Italian scientists of the time,

Galileo

and Bruno, embraced Copernican theory their comments were considered

blasphemous. Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the

stake

in 1600. Thirty years later, Galileo was brought forward and in front of his

" Betters, " was forced to renounce his beliefs under the threat of torture and

death. Even after his confession, he was sentenced to imprisonment for the

remainder of his days.

 

 

 

The more one investigates vaccination and studies the adverse effects that

have been attributed to vaccines, the more one becomes a Copernican heretic,

speaking out against the status quo can have deadly consequences. I have

personally invested more than 8,000 hours in revealing the truth about vaccines.

If

the result of this inquiry and exposure is to be called a heretic, than I am in

wonderful company.

 

 

 

© 2007 Sherri Tenpenny -

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is respected as one of the country's most knowledgeable

and outspoken physicians regarding the impact of vaccines on health. Through

her education company, New Medical Awareness, LLC, she spreads her vision of

retaining freedom of choice in healthcare, including the freedom to refuse

vaccination. Dr. Tenpenny's new book, FOWL! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think,

was

released in April, 2006.

 

Dr. Tenpenny is a regular columnist for www.NewsWithViews.com. Her 3-hour

vaccine DVD, Vaccines: The Risk, The Benefits and The Choices and her new book

FOWL! are available through this site; other tapes and materials are available

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