Vaccine Ingredients and Their Side Effects

Vaccine Ingredients and Their Side Effects

Injecting neurotoxins and cancer-causing chemicals into children

Jay “Boston Jay” Driscoll, DC student

Vaccines are one of the most hotly debated, controversial and discussed topics in society today. It is a topic every person has to face and decide if it’s right for themselves and their children. There are many different questions to consider when one chooses whether or not to vaccinate. Such questions include: Are vaccines safe? What’s in them? What are the side effects?  Do they work? What are the benefits versus the risk? Why can’t a person sue vaccine makers if they damage someone? Do vaccines cause autism? There are many more questions, but these tend to be the most talked and thought about. Let’s just focus on vaccine ingredients and their side effects. It doesn’t matter whether one believes in vaccinations or not. These are the facts about vaccine ingredients from the vaccine manufacturer’s themselves, the CDC and peer reviewed medical and science journals.

Vaccines are made with attenuated (weakened) or inactive viruses or bacteria and are combined with adjuvants.  An adjuvant is an agent that may stimulate the immune system and increase the response to a vaccine without having any specific antigenic effect itself. It’s these adjuvants that have created so many questions about vaccine safety and their potential for causing permanent damage and disease. All vaccines have adjuvants in them. Not all adjuvants have been studied for their safety, but a lot have and medical journals are full of the results. Also, there are no safety studies showing the accumulated effects these adjuvants have on the human body. Vaccine manufacturers and government agencies refuse to do these types of studies.

Let’s look at some of the adjuvants that have been studied and see the effects they cause. All of the following adjuvants are neurotoxins or cancer-causing agents:
Mercury (thimerosal) is one of the most poisonous substances on earth. Minute amounts cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity mimic autism symptoms.
Aluminum is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, seizures and other forms of brain damage.
Formaldehyde, used in embalming fluid, is a known carcinogen linked to leukemia, brain, colon and lymphatic cancers. It is also suspected as a nerve, immune, reproductive and respiratory system poison.
Polysorbate 80 is known to cause cancer and infertility in boys.
Glutaraldehyde, an industrial cleaner used on machinery, is poisonous if ingested, and is known to cause birth defects in experimental animals and asthma in people. 
Phenol/phenoxyethanol, used in antifreeze, is toxic to all cells in the human body and is capable of disarming the immune system’s primary response mechanism.
Beta-propiolactone is a disinfectant that causes severe irritation of the eyes, nose, throat and respiratory tract.  It is known to cause squamous cell carcinoma and skin tumors in rats.
Monosodium glutamate is known to cause brain damage, brain tumors, brain cell death, seizures, headaches, strokes, hypoglycemia and allergies.
Latex rubber can cause life threatening allergic reactions.
Tribuytlphosphate is a solvent known to cause headaches, nausea, dizziness, weakness, muscle twitching, diarrhea, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, pulmonary edema, coma and death. It targets the liver and kidneys.
Simian virus 40 from monkeys, which was in the original polio vaccines, has been linked to 25,000 new cases of lymphoma per year, according to the Lancet medical journal and confirmed in 60 lab studies.
Squalene oil is known to cause Gulf war syndrome, arthritis, fibromyalgia, ALS, neuropsychiatric problems, ulcers, seizures, lupus and MS.

There are many other adjuvants and ingredients used in vaccines. Among these are, human aborted fetal tissue, dog kidney, cow heart, rabbit brain, chicken embryo, duck eggs, insecticides, antibiotics and Tween 80. Blood from pigs, horses and guinea pigs is also used. This is only a short list; there are many others.

The medical journals are filled with numerous disease’s that have been linked to vaccines, such as: juvenile diabetes, ADD, auto-immune diseases, allergies, asthma, autism, encephalopathy, RA, juvenile arthritis, Guillain–Barré syndrome, SIDS, Asperger’s syndrome, all types of cancer, sepsis, colitis, Kawasaki disease, IBS, epilepsy, lupus, convulsions, seizures,, demyelinating disease, developmental disorders, ear infections, vision problems, eczema, thrush, pneumonia, paralytic disease, kidney disorders, dermatitis, croup, gastroenteritis and death.

The fact is that vaccines are full of poisons. This is indisputable. It is how they are made. Doing the research is very easy. Common sense and science state that when you inject poisons into living things, disease and death will and do happen. “Any medical professional who believes that it is justified to inject any type of neurotoxin into any person to prevent any disease is completely misguided, misinformed, deluded and ignorant of any logic regarding human health”.  David Mihalovic, ND                                                           

 

References: http://novaccines.com/,  http://www.thinktwice.com/ , http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11897278 , http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/

Have Some F-ing Compassion!

Have Some F-ing Compassion!
Revealing Responses to Public Opinion of Chiropractic
James Beuerlein, DC Student

Earlier this quarter, I had the unfortunate opportunity to listen to several of LIFE’s finest revealing their immaturity during the assembly presentation by Dr. Matthew Norton. I’ll be the first to admit I’m not always enthralled with our assembly speakers, nor do I always pay attention. Frankly, Dr. Norton did not resonate with me deeply, and I had pretty much checked out until he played several video clips in which lay people shared their opinions of chiropractic. Because it was light moving on a screen, my attention was roused enough to clue in to what was going on.

The content of the video itself, (the views of people who were ignorant of chiropractic,) was not all that new to me. But what slapped me in the face like the matching section on a Fox exam were the comments made by the people sitting around me. At first I thought, “Well, that’s one ass, he’ll probably fail in practice anyway,” but then I kept hearing more and more of the same coming from students sitting on all sides. The comments showed not only the jadedness of students who had lost touch with the public they will be serving, but also an overall attitude of superiority, entitlement, disdain, and that’ll-teach-‘em-ness.

In response to statements from the video of people saying they wouldn’t go to a chiropractor, I heard plenty of responses along the lines of: “I hope you enjoy those ten medications you’re taking!” or “Well, have fun with your surgery then!” or “Sure, don’t let your kids get adjusted, just give them plenty of vaccines!” Of particular note was one woman in the video who, when asked what she knew about chiropractors, said something along the lines of, “Well, I don’t know much about them, but I’ve seen ‘Two and a Half Men’ and I don’t think they’re real doctors.” This statement produced a roar from the student body in general, but I remember someone close to me saying, “Ha. Shows her level of education!”

I can certainly identify with the frustration that comes as a result of the misinformation and general ignorance that exists about our profession, but COME ON PEOPLE, HAVE SOME F-ING COMPASSION! The people in this video are your future patients! They don’t know what chiropractic is because YOU haven’t taught them the principle yet! Assuming you’re not part of the student population with chiropractors in your family, you weren’t born with the understanding of how the body works and the role of innate in health. You used to be just as ignorant.

On the other hand, if you were born into a chiropractic family, I have some news for you: The day you take over daddy’s practice you are going to run it into the f-ing ground if you don’t have a serious wake up call and realize that this is a profession of SERVICE. How the hell do you expect to reach these people with that kind of attitude? How do you expect the profession to survive (let alone grow) if this is the lens you use to view the people who so desperately need your knowledge and skill?

I for one am less interested in defending the profession and a lot more committed to changing the world. As long as we continue to take this defensive posture, chiropractic isn’t going to change anything. I know one thing for sure: health care will never be changed to any measurable degree by chiropractic without a whole lot less of this bull and a whole lot more love.

Vaccine-Autism Study Retracted – Carley Edwards, DC Student

Wakefield’s defense against accusations of fraud

In January of this year, news resurfaced of Dr. Andrew Wakefield retraction of his study examining a possible link between vaccines and autism. The study was retracted in early 2010.  Wakefield had about three-dozen charges brought against him.  He lost his job at London’s Royal Free Hospital, and his license to practice medicine in the UK was revoked. Wakefield’s study was published in 1998 in the Lancet, (a specialty medical journal for oncology, neurology and infectious diseases,) and described the findings of 12 children who experienced autistic regression and GI symptoms following inoculation with the MMR vaccine.

Brian Deer, author for the London Sunday Times and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) called Wakefield’s study linking autism to vaccines an “elaborate fraud.” According to Deer, clinical histories of the 12 children were falsified, and information in the study was fabricated. It is believed the results of Wakefield’s study led to a drop in vaccination rates from 92% to 80% in the UK. According to Vaccination News, “There were strikingly far fewer reported measles cases in the UK in the ten years that followed Wakefield’s paper than in the ten years that preceded its publication.”

Another argument against the study was that it has not been replicated.  However, according to Wakefield, the study has been replicated in five different countries. A year before Wakefield’s paper in the Lancet, Professor Walker Smith and Dr. Amar Dhillon had previously documented the exact same issues with children from their study, in fact, proving the Wakefield study had been replicated. In a statement made by Wakefield, he has documents proving, “beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did not falsify the data, that the findings are real, and that these findings were accurately reported in the Lancet.”

There was also no claim in Wakefield’s article that vaccines cause autism and states the link may have occurred by chance. The study says, “We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described,” once again proving false the allegations brought against him.

Wakefield’s opinion on whether vaccines actually do cause autism remains the same and is backed by claims made from parents about their children’s regression after the MMR vaccine. For example, two children involved in the study were brothers and the eldest experienced fever, rash, aggressive behavior, and convulsions within two weeks of receiving the MMR vaccine and later experienced developmental regression. The boy had been previously potty trained but became incontinent. The mother informed doctors that she did not want to give her youngest son the MMR shot until he was closer to two years old. After being told she was an irresponsible mother for putting her son at risk by not vaccinating, she was persuaded by guilt to give him the shot. A month later, he experienced some of the same symptoms as his brother.

There is concern about 11 of the 13 authors of the study and how they issued a retraction. Wakefield commented on this in his book Callous Disregard, saying, “11 of 13 authors issued a retraction of the interpretation that MMR is a possible trigger for the syndrome described. This remains a possibility and a possibility cannot be retracted.” In his book, he continues to defend himself against other rumors, saying there was no conflict of interest on his part and the children involved were not litigants, as some have alleged.

The question of fraud really lies with Brian Deer, who lied about his own identity to gain entry into the home of the parents of one of the autistic children from the study, and with the vaccine makers who have been quietly settling autism and other neurological disorder cases related to vaccination since 1991. Let’s not forget that Merck, the makers of the MMR vaccine, also created Vioxx, a drug that has been linked to heart attacks and stroke in as many as 50,000 people[JH1] . In 2009, an email from Merck was leaked during a lawsuit involving Vioxx. Referring to doctors who were questioning the drug’s safety, Merck said, “We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live.”

Wakefield may have been targeted for several reasons, including fear from pharmaceutical industries. A recent poll from Ohio found that 61% of parents believe that vaccines cause autism. Vaccination rates in higher income families dropped by four percentage points between 2008 and 2009. New statistics show that 1 in 110 children has autism, and the rate in boys is even higher at 1 in 70. Parents are looking for answers and standing by Wakefield’s claims.

Wakefield is defending his study and his need to protect children from the corrupt medical community. “In a less compromised world, these presentations, (and those in many more thousand children worldwide,) and the pattern that emerged from the commonalities in their symptoms and clinical findings should have initiated a cascade of urgent clinical research that would have led through an iterative process to discovery-discovery of cause, treatment, and prevention, Sadly, this has not been the case.”

Visit www.vaccinesafetyfirst.com for pages of studies that support Dr. Wakefield and a copy of his response to the BMJ demanding a retraction of their false allegations. Read Wakefield’s book, Callous Disregard that details the events of his study and his battle against the medical system.

The Immunization Debate – Michelle Allgeyer, Casey Carter, Jonathan Fonke, Joseph Fonke and Mike Rullo, DC Students

A Chiropractic Philosophy Perspective

Staying within the context and limits of chiropractic philosophy, how can a chiropractor respond to his/her patient’s question of whether the patient should or shouldn’t get his/her child vaccinated? What role will chiropractic care play in either answer (“Yes, I will get my child vaccinated.” or “No, I won’t get my child vaccinated.”) the patient chooses for the child?

*All quotations in this text came from Modern Chiropractic Principles, a CPAP 1605 powerpoint presentation by Dr. David Koch*

Doctor, by definition, means teacher. So as doctors of chiropractic, we are teachers to the unlearned community about chiropractic, and to some extent, overall health. Our main job is to present unbiased, scientific information to patients, give them a recommendation based on facts, not any prejudice, and then allow the patient to decide what they feel is best for their child’s overall health. It is the current belief within the chiropractic community that we should not directly tell a patient whether or not they should choose to vaccinate their children, but only present both sides of the issue and have the patient decide on their own.

In terms of philosophy, the issue of vaccination brings to discussion some of the chiropractic principles. First, drawing on a biological principle, “Each and every living organism has the self-organizational consciousness of the universe inherent to and active within it, which is its unital consciousness,” or innate intelligence if you will, chiropractic philosophy starts by saying that we humans,  living organisms, have an innate intelligence inside of us. A patient who would be willing to accept this biological principle may inquire as to what innate intelligence is.

This offers the chiropractor the opportunity to open dialogue with the patient and further define innate intelligence for them as, “A living organism’s innate intelligence is expressed by the higher order interactive processes that characterize life itself, including self-assembly, self-maintenance, self-transformation, species-perpetuation and self-directed matter/energy exchanges with the environment”. With that foundation, it would be an optimal time for a chiropractor to discuss the purpose behind immunization. From the scientific perspective, the purpose of immunizations are to expose a child (or an adult) to a given pathogen (in some form, whether it is dead or weakened), in order for the body to be able to create antibodies and an overall immune response to defend against it if the pathogen were to expose itself to that person at a later date.  The difference between this approach and choosing not to immunize your child is that you are not exposing them to this pathogen in its vaccinated form, but instead relying on the body’s ability to defend itself against a foreign pathogen without antibodies being present prior to infection. Thus, not creating an immune response at the time of vaccination, but taking into consideration the possibility of never getting exposed to the pathogen, and if exposed, allowing the body to create its own immune response. What we then relay to a patient is according to another of the chiropractic principles, “A living organism’s innate intelligence is the source of the information necessary to reorganize the matter and energy it assimilates from its environment into patterns of structural relationships (forms), and energetic interactions (internal biological forces) that maintain the identity of the organism and thus are constructive to the organism.” This principle is saying that what the body does through innate intelligence would always work toward good aspects of health for the body, including self preservation and healing. This does not mean however, that the body is impermeable to sickness and disease because of the bodies self maintaining capabilities. What a chiropractor should tell the patient here is that our bodies do the best they can at the time of infection, given their current physical condition and influences from the environment around them. This statement leads into what chiropractors call interference.  “For any specific structure to express its unital consciousness (or innate intelligence) to its fullest, all the matter necessary to create it must be present, and all the energy-mediated interactions necessary to give it its specific form must occur without interference….If the distortion of the message does distort the organizational relationship, the distortion of the message is interference.”  What we then tell a patient is that a distortion of organization, in theory, changes the body’s capacity to adapt to outside stimuli, such as a strong pathogen. If interference is removed from the body through regular chiropractic care, according to the chiropractic principles, the body will be able to fight off foreign pathogens that it encounters, and in fact it does so every day. However, if interference is present in the body, then its potential to fight off any pathogen will be greatly diminished and thus an increased necessity for vaccination.

It is also the chiropractor’s duty to inform their patients of the potential toxins that many vaccinations contain. These toxins have demonstrated dangerous effects on the bodies of children through their interference with not only the nervous system, but many other body systems as well. The question of being vaccinated or not is a “double-edged sword”. Being vaccinated causes interference and increases one’s chance of being adversely affected by a toxin or the pathogen itself, but at the same time allowing the body to build antibodies for the specific pathogen being vaccinated for. By not vaccinating, but instead keeping the body interference-free through chiropractic adjustments, the child’s immune system is not weakened from the toxins and pathogen/s in the vaccination, and their own body’s innate ability to maintain health is trusted. Basically it boils down to a parents’ individual beliefs and ideals which will become the determining factors for them to decide on whether or not to vaccinate their children.

In today’s society, childhood immunizations are common medical practice in the United States. The more information that is being spread to the American population through various media, whether or not it’s accurate, the more important it is for chiropractors to get the correct, unbiased, chiropractic principled and scientific information to their patients so that they can make their own informed decision concerning vaccinating their children. Patients are asking questions – that’s good. As trained health professionals and primary care providers, chiropractors should be ready to help patients with the answers they seek. The above gives a basic glimpse into how chiropractic philosophy can be applied to the immunization debate.