Consumercidal Happenings

From recent AVN newsletter

What assumptions do we make when having and raising children? Do we assume that because we birth these babies, we actually get to make decisions about them as well? Do we assume that we can choose what to feed our children, how to clothe them, how to care for them and what to teach them?

If so, the government of Australia seems to have other ideas. As evidenced by the desperate struggle of a NSW family who don't want to administer a hepatitis B vaccine to their newborn child and are currently in hiding as a result, when it comes to our children, we really have very little say about their care. If we dare to oppose 'mainstream' medical orders, the ramifications could be loss of custody or arrest. And yes, this is Australia we're talking about though it sounds more like something that might occur in a country like North Korea or the former Soviet Union.

Normally when we talk about doctors and patients, we refer to medical advice. But advice is something that can be taken or left - something that is offered. Orders are things that must be obeyed and this is what the doctors in the hospital and the Department of Community Services (DoCS) have given this family - an order to vaccinate or lose their child.

The obvious outcome of this sort of policy is a widening of the powers of the government via their strongmen (and women) in DoCS and the Department of Health.

Want to be a vegetarian or a vegan? Sorry, the mainstream opinion is that these lifestyle choices are not healthy for children so you can be faced with charges of child abuse. Want to home school? No way! You need to send your children to a State-accredited school. How about extended breastfeeding past two years of age? Well, the USA has already set a precedent saying that this is child abuse so we won't be far behind. And the family bed? Everyone knows that's dangerous so forget about it.

Big brother is in our homes; he is giving us orders which we must obey and there is really only one way to fight this - one way in which to preserve our rights as parents and our children's rights to a healthy, interference-free life. That is through the courts and via lobbying of our state governments in NSW and QLD to start - and other states as our movement for freedom grows and picks up steam.

The information in this e-newsletter is vitally important so please - forward this on to friends and family. There is a link below where you can do this or just hit forward in your email program (though the formatting will be better if you forward it via the link).

News articles on the NSW situation
mother and babyWe have just started to put the information about this case up on our web site. Please click here to read a chronology of articles that have appeared in the mainstream media about this issue since it started.

Most of these stories were as a result of interviews with the AVN since the family has received legal advice not to speak with the media at this point in time. We do expect further comment in the near future.

Just to refresh your memory, this case in NSW concerns a family with a newborn baby. The mother is a hepatitis B carrier and when the baby was born in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the doctors decided that they had the right to force this child to be vaccinated. When the parents refused the vaccine, DoCS was called in and a Supreme Court order was taken out to take the child and get it vaccinated against the wishes of the parents. They have been in hiding ever since.

A Tale of Two Children
Hands tiedIs the case in NSW an isolated incident? We at the AVN don't believe that it is and since the first family made contact with us, we have spoken with and are trying to help another family in QLD.

Brenton and his wife Suzanne* have 2 older children who were fully vaccinated. They never questioned vaccination. When their youngest child, a son, was born 9 weeks premature, he was still given a Hep B shot at birth and immediately became ill. For the next few weeks, he was continually at the doctor's office, the ambulance station which was right across the street from where this family lived and the hospital.

At about 5 weeks of age, this premmie baby suffered a massive seizure. He had just been seen by the paramedics at the ambulance station that morning and when his seizure started, his family took him straight to hospital. The head of the Scan Team 'examined' this child and declared that he had been shaken. Sean and his wife were reported to DoCS. While their son, who became blind and developed cerebral palsy as a result of his reaction - was clinging to life in the hospital, police showed up and took all of this couple's children away from them and charged them with 2 counts of grievous bodily harm.

This case has been in the courts for 2 1/2 years. At first, the children were in foster care, but when they started to show up with unexplained burns and bruises, Suzanne's mother sued for and won custody. Brenton and his wife have been able to visit the children but they are not allowed to be alone with them.

Suzanne's mother mortgaged her home and Brenton and Suzanne had to give up their business in order to be available for court. They have so far spent $107,000 on their defence and are flat broke at this point in time.

During their ordeal with DoCS, their local MP who they approached for help showed them great sympathy and tried to do what he could to help. He told Brenton that DoCS is a law unto itself.

In his court case, DoCS was required to get a doctor to write a report on this baby. Dr Archie Kalokerinos was that doctor. He has long been known as an advocate for free vaccination choice. Archie's report stated that the child was injured by the Hep B vaccine and that he was suffering from scurvy (caused by vaccination) at the time of his worst symptoms - a diagnosis that was actually included in the hospital record though the doctors were not happy that the parents had seen this and may have removed it - I am not sure on this point.

When Archie's information was presented, DoCS discounted it by saying that Archie was just a GP and an old geriatric whose opinion didn't count. So much for their claims of having to go with medical opinion! It seems they only have to go with opinion when it agrees with them!

Anyway, the head of scan team who initially made the accusation and got this family charged with GBH, stated that the baby had multiple fractures and broken ribs. It was only upon cross-examination that it was discovered that no x-rays had ever been taken of this baby so the accusations of fractures had no basis in fact.

Last week, Brenton's case was finally finished and he and his wife, totally broke and devastated after 2 1/2 years without their kids, were exonerated. Thinking that their troubles were over and they could just get their family back together and try to go on, they asked to get custody of their children.

DoCS however had other ideas. They wanted to give this already Hep B vaccine damaged child another Hep B vaccine. Of course, the parents are refusing because they are afraid that another shot will kill this poor child. DOCS has said that this refusal constitutes a 'failure to provide the necessities of life' and they are threatening to take the children off of the grandmother and get them adopted out.

This family is totally broke and their lawyer who has represented them over this period of time says that he can't do any more at this point and anything he could do would cost an additional $8,000. The AVN has found another solicitor to help Brenton's family and this case, if won, will set a fantastic precedent in the state of QLD which all of us will benefit from - not just Brenton and his family. It will however, cost tens of thousands of dollars to run - dollars which neither Brenton nor the AVN has at the present time.

Please click on the links either above or below and donate to our legal 'Fighting Fund' and consider giving a small additional amount to the AVN to help us continue the very important work we are doing to protect all Australians from forced vaccination.

*names have been changed

Open the floodgates
In general, families that have been victimised by DoCS and the medical community are shell-shocked and terrified. They all feel as though they are the only ones who have ever been in this situation and have no contact with others. In an effort to discover how widespread the problem of forced vaccination is, the AVN has taken out the following notice in the Weekend Australian (August 30th to 31st).

If by forwarding this email on to others, we are able to contact others who have also suffered from this sort of discrimination, it would be very informative and also helpful in fighting against these illegal acts.

ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2008) — The widely-held perception that the influenza vaccination reduces overall mortality risk in the elderly does not withstand careful scrutiny, according to researchers in Alberta. The vaccine does confer protection against specific strains of influenza, but its overall benefit appears to have been exaggerated by a number of observational studies that found a very large reduction in all-cause mortality among elderly patients who had been vaccinated.

The study included more than 700 matched elderly subjects, half of whom had taken the vaccine and half of whom had not. After controlling for a wealth of variables that were largely not considered or simply not available in previous studies that reported the mortality benefit, the researchers concluded that any such benefit "if present at all, was very small and statistically non-significant and may simply be a healthy-user artifact that they were unable to identify."

"While such a reduction in all-cause mortality would have been impressive, these mortality benefits are likely implausible. Previous studies were likely measuring a benefit not directly attributable to the vaccine itself, but something specific to the individuals who were vaccinated—a healthy-user benefit or frailty bias," said Dean T. Eurich,Ph.D. clinical epidemiologist and assistant professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. "Over the last two decades in the United Sates, even while vaccination rates among the elderly have increased from 15 to 65 percent, there has been no commensurate decrease in hospital admissions or all-cause mortality. Further, only about 10 percent of winter-time deaths in the United States are attributable to influenza, thus to suggest that the vaccine can reduce 50 percent of deaths from all causes is implausible in our opinion."

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Published: Aug 26, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Aug 26, 2008 06:05 AM

German authorities look into allegation that RTP maker's pesticide harms environment

Sabine Vollmer, Staff Writer Comment on this story
Bayer CropScience is facing scrutiny because of the effect one of its best-selling pesticides has had on honeybees.

A German prosecutor is investigating Werner Wenning, Bayer's chairman, and Friedrich Berschauer, the head of Bayer CropScience, after critics alleged that they knowingly polluted the environment.

The investigation was triggered by an Aug. 13 complaint filed by German beekeepers and consumer protection advocates, a Coalition against Bayer Dangers spokesman, Philipp Mimkes, said Monday.

The complaint is part of efforts by groups on both sides of the Atlantic to determine how much Bayer CropScience knows about the part that clothianidin may have played in the death of millions of honeybees.

Bayer CropScience, which has its U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park, said field studies have shown that bees' exposure to the pesticide is minimal or nonexistent if the chemical is used properly.

Clothianidin and related pesticides generated about $1 billion of Bayer CropScience's $8.6 billion in global sales last year. The coalition is demanding that the company withdraw all of the pesticides.

"We're suspecting that Bayer submitted flawed studies to play down the risks of pesticide residues in treated plants," said Harro Schultze, the coalition's attorney.

"Bayer's ... management has to be called to account, since the risks ... have now been known for more than 10 years."

Under German law, a criminal investigation could lead to a search of Bayer offices, Mimkes said.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Natural Resources Defense Council is pressing for research information on clothianidin.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the pesticide in 2003 under the condition that Bayer submit additional data. A lawsuit, which the environmental group filed Aug. 19 in federal court in Washington, accuses the EPA of hiding the honeybee data.

The group thinks the data might show what role chlothianidine played in the loss of millions of U.S. honeybee colonies.

Researchers have been puzzled by what is causing the bees to disappear at what is considered an alarming rate.

The phenomenon, known as colony collapse disorder, threatens a $15 billion portion of the U.S. food supply.

In the U.S. diet, about one in three mouthfuls comes from crops that bees pollinate.

Scientists are looking at viruses, parasites and stresses that might compromise bees' immune system. In the past two years, Congress has earmarked about $20 million to boost research.

Clothianidin, sold under the brand name Poncho, is used to coat corn, sugar beet and sorghum seeds and protect them from pests. A nerve toxin that has the potential to be toxic for bees, it gets into all parts of the plant that grows from the coated seeds.

In 1999, French regulators banned an older relative of Poncho and subsequently declined approval for clothianidin. French researchers found that bees were a lot more sensitive to the pesticides than Bayer CropScience studies had shown.

Three months ago, German regulators suspended sales of chlothianidine and related chemicals after the family of pesticides was blamed for the destruction of more than 11,000 bee colonies.

The Julius Kohn Institute, a state-run crop research institute in Germany, collected samples of dead honeybees and determined that clothianidin caused the deaths.

Bayer CropScience blamed defective seed corn batches.

The company said that the coating came off as the seeds were sown, which allowed unusually high amounts of toxic dust to spread to adjacent areas where bees collected pollen and nectar.

Bayer paid about $3 million in damages, Mimkes said.

sabine.vollmer@newsobserver.com or (919) 829-8992

There is no sense in building population (or overpopulation models) around the current ridiculous situation where we consume so much massively inefficient (not to mention cruel, unhealthy etc) animal meat. If people are truly concerned with the future and sustainability of the planet, then this problem needs to be addressed first.

Our hidden water consumption
(02:11) Report Click for video

Aug 22 - The concept of 'virtual water' reveals the shocking amounts contained in the products we consume.

The concept can build awareness in consumers of their ''hidden'' water usage, or that contained in the whole production chain of goods and services.

The scientist behind the innovation, Professor Tony Allan, has personally reduced his virtual water usage by becoming a vegetarian!

Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri reports.

From: Michael Belkin

Dr. Katz (co-inventor of measles vaccine) admitted to me on stage in a public forum (NYU vaccine conference) that the measles vaccine causes measles encephalitis, the same thing they are taking credit for eliminating.

These CDC data show in the decade before vaccination program began:

Annual

Measles cases 4,000,000
Annual deaths 400-500 (0.01% of cases)
Chronic disability 1,000 (0.03% of cases)
Hospitalized 48,000 (1.2% of cases)

Ask yourself (CDC and most doctors won't ask the question or answer it honestly with legitimate data)

How many cases of encephalitic brain damage from measles vaccination are currently being misdiagnosed as 'autism?'

Michael Belkin
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Comments by Sheri Nakken
And I would add encephalitic brain damage from any vaccine -
They cry for hours because of the vaccine-induced encephalitis (or they are un-wakeable from sleep or they die) - the varying degrees of the encephalitis range from:
1. irritability
2. intractable crying
3. seizures
4. hyperactivity
5. ADD/ADHD
6. autism
7. death (SIDS & other)

And anything else in between - its because of the inflammation of their little brains.

Australian regulator pays Pan $55m after recall rethink
By Shane Starling

18-Aug-2008 -

The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) will pay $55 million (€32.58m) to liquidated supplements manufacturer Pan Pharmaceuticals after inappropriately recalling the company’s entire 1600-product suite in 2003.

The parties gave evidence to a Federal Court hearing and agreed on the settlement, which the court ratified.

Landmark decision

Andrew Thorpe, the lawyer for former Pan owner, Jim Selim, called the settlement a “landmark” and said it opened the door to other suppliers and manufacturers that had been affected by the recalls and subsequent liquidation of Pan in 2005, to bring actions of their own.

'I believe there will be a great number of shareholders and significant number of customers of Pan and service providers who will now be looking to the Government to be compensated,” Thorpe said.

"I'm not aware of any other case in this country where the Government has accepted a claim against it for abuse of public office and paid such a large amount to a private individual. What it means is the Government has thrown in the towel; it's accepted responsibility for what happened to Pan."

Marcus Blackmore, executive chairman of supplements manufacturer, Blackmores, said his company lost 20 per cent of its customers in the first week of the recall, but had subsequently recovered.

"I understand at least one of the big class action law firms is looking to rustle up an action," he said. "I said at the time that the TGA had used a sledgehammer when a tack hammer would have done."

Total recall

The initial recall was issued after about 100 adverse reactions to a Pan product called Travalcalm were registered with symptoms including psychotic episodes, hallucinations and blackouts.

The €178m company manufactured a large number of both pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products.

TGA spokesperson Virginia Dove told NutraIngredients.com it had taken “a commercial decision” as the case was “worth settling now”.

However, in a statement, TGA said it did not concede Pan owner, Jim Selim’s, allegations that it had acted negligently and outside its authority.

“The agreed settlement amount of $50 million plus legal costs is considerably less than the $234 million claimed,” TGA said. “The settlement involves a judgement for the claimant, but does not involve the Commonwealth conceding any of the specific allegations in the proceedings.”

Dove did not clarify why the TGA held this position and yet agreed to pay the settlement.

At the time of the recall Pan was worth more than $300m (€178m) on the Australian Stock Exchange

Selim said he would not use the pay-out to reignite Pan. He still faces criminal allegations brought against him by TGA for concealing information relating to the safety of Travalcalm.

Huge victory

The UK-based pan-European trade group, the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), said the settlement was a “huge victory for the natural health sector” against what it called “one of the most restrictive regulators in the world”.

In the court testimony TGA was accused of mounting a witch hunt against Pan, which it first confronted in the mid-90s over contaminated products. That confrontation ended in the High Court. TGA lost.

The latest hearings revealed TGA had determined to “go for the jugular” of Pan after Travalcam was recalled due to the adverse events.

“(It’s) a very public humiliation to boot,” ANH said. “Having heard from the testimony of high level officials in the TGA about the levels they stooped to and the dirty tactics they employed to destroy Pan Pharmaceuticals, it really leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. It also raises once again the question: is this really all in the name of protecting consumer safety? Given that the settlement did not include a confidentiality clause, I'm sure we'll be hearing more about their distasteful methods in due course.”

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Dr Charlie Teo — a pre-eminent neurosurgeon is at the cutting edge — literally — of a 21 per cent increase in children's brain tumours. He's curious about the effect mobile phones and Electro Magnetic Radiation [EMR] may be having on these statistics, and has issued a warning to parents to be aware...

So cautious is Dr Teo, the subject of his 12-year-old daughter having a mobile phone in their family, he confesses, is a sore point.

"The argument for her having a mobile phone was there are some benefits of it and that is in emergency situations, but she has promised me — she is a very sensible girl — she will use a loudspeaker facility all the time," he says.

Dr Teo has every right to be nervous; it is his personal belief that there may be an association between EMR and the development of brain cancer.

And while he is not seeking to be alarmist, he does want people to be more aware, especially with children.

It's a belief backed up by Senator Lyn Allison, who spent a year listening to the scientists to find out what the risks are. She discovered there is very good reason to worry.

"We're all a bit awash now in radio frequency and radio waves generally and we are not altogether sure what effect that has on us,' she says.

Senator Allison says that the fact that brain tumour is now the number one life-threatening disease for children — above leukaemia — is consistent with studies in Europe and the UK.

"[These studies show] there has been a 40 per cent across-the-board increase in the number of brain tumours in the past 20 years," she explains, "now that 20 years has coincided with the use of mobile phone and many other radio frequencies..."

And the thickness of a person's skull, according to scientific studies read by Senator Allison, can also distinguish levels of vulnerability.

"Scientists say that the thickness of the skull in children makes a difference, it is quite thin compared with adults and there is more brain fluid — which means that the radiofrequencies can travel through the brain more easily," she says.

Dr Teo offers more specific evidence of patients whose tumours correspond with their use of mobile phones.

"When patients come in with a brain cancer, I often say to them, "your cancer was on the right side of the brain, it is in the area just above your ear, can you tell me if you feel that you have had more exposure than most people to mobile phones," and I am surprised that most people say, "yes I have used my phone continuously for the last seven years and it is always stuck to my ear on this side..." well that is where the cancer is.

Canberra parents Geoff and Denise McConnell have had their own personal experience of these statistics. They lost their seven-year-old daughter Kessia to a brain tumour.

"I wouldn't move in next to a telecom tower or mobile phone tower and certainly if there were heavy duty electrical wires I would be very uncomfortable," says Geoff.

Australian parents on the run
Hilary Butler - Sunday, August 24, 2008

Vaccination law in New South Wales, Australia is very clear. If a mother is hepatitis B surface antigen positive, the parents can be offered immunoglobulin and the vaccine for the baby, and if the parents say, "No", the paper work is completed and that's it. But that's not what happened in Australia this week. Dr David Isaacs, who was not even involved in the case to begin with, decided it was time to make an "example" of two parents. What he didn't realise was that he picked the wrong target, and that they would go into hiding. Furthermore, he also forgot the story of Liam Holloway, and what happens when other parents are outraged when doctors abuse parents, as well as the law.

Dr Isaacs point of view is stated here: "I am a strong believer in vaccinations being voluntary but not getting this baby vaccinated is a form of child abuse," he said. "We are talking a potentially major and awful outcome for this child and it is our job to protect children when they can't make decisions for themselves."

Professor Isaacs said the baby had a 5 to 40 per cent chance of contracting hepatitis B from its mother and "about 30 per cent of people with hepatitis B will develop cancer or cirrhosis and die young … I don't understand why these people are willing to sacrifice their child for a warped idea when the benefits far outweigh the risks."

Professor Isaacs has said that 60 to 95% of babies will not catch Hepatitis B from a carrier mother. Okay? He says that the potential outcome for this child is major and awful?

Well, I have a story to tell you intrepid readers, about a New Zealand family in the town I live in. They just happen to be close friends, so I know this first hand. A somewhat zealous doctor, discovered in his practice, a man whose records showed that he had been a known core antigen Hepatitis B carrier for over 30 years. (How this fact had seemingly escaped the practice staff's attention is another issue, but let's not go there right now) Core antigen positive, is worse than just surface antigen positive, as it "means" that the person is infectious.

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Sunday, August 17, 2008
CNN Reports on 9,749 Adverse Gardasil Reactions

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Okay, liberals, it's "real" now. CNN, the Clinton News Network, is reporting on the problems with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil.

Some 9,749 adverse reactions and 21 deaths have been reported in connection with the Gardasil vaccination.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) still says Gardasil is safe, though nearly 10,000 adverse reactions is getting pretty high to call "anecdotal."

Last year, Dr. Diane Harper, one of the researchers who developed Gardasil, criticized the aggressive marketing campaign Merc and state governments initiated for Gardasil vaccinations.

While South Dakota only made the vaccine available at taxpayer expense, some states tried to make vaccination mandatory.

Since Gardasil doesn't stop other STDs, and doesn't even stop all forms of HPV, and women can still get cervical cancer even without HPV, and pap smears are still recommended despite the vaccination, I think we'll forgo the Gardasil risk for my daughter.

Timely stuff from the late & great Dr M...
Dr Robert Mendelsohn MD Vaccine quotes

"The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization.....There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease."--Dr Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

"Despite the tendency of doctors to call modern medicine an 'inexact science', it is more accurate to say there is practically no science in modern medicine at all. Almost everything doctors do is based on a conjecture, a guess, a clinical impression, a whim, a hope, a wish, an opinion or a belief. In short, everything they do is based on anything but solid scientific evidence. Thus, medicine is not a science at all, but a belief system. Beliefs are held by every religion, including the Religion of Modern Medicine." Robert Mendelsohn MD Preface by Hans Ruesch to 1000 Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection

"Robert Mendelsohn had a rule: "You never hear about the dangers of a drug unless another drug to replace it is available."--Ted Koren DC

"With the polio vaccine we are witnessing a rerun of the medical reluctance to abandon the smallpox vaccination, which remained as the only source of smallpox-related deaths for three decades after the disease had disappeared. Think of it! For thirty years kids died from smallpox vaccinations even though no longer threatened by the disease."----Dr Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

"The pediatrician's wanton prescription of powerful drugs indoctrinates children from birth with the philosophy of 'a pill for every ill'."... "Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them. " - Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., How to Raise a Healthy Child...In Spite of Your Doctor.

"Being a skeptical soul, I have always believed that the most reliable way to determine what people really believe is to observe what they do, not what they say. If the greatest threat of rubella is not to children, but to the fetus yet unborn, pregnant women should be protected against rubella by making certain that their obstetricians won't give them the disease. Yet, in a California survey reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, more than 90 percent of the obstetrician-gynecologists refused to be vaccinated. If doctors themselves are afraid of the vaccine, why on earth should the law require that you and other parents allow them to administer it to your kids?"--Dr Mendelsohn MD

"Doctors maintain that the (MMR) inoculation is necessary to prevent measles encephalitis, which they say occurs about once in 1,000 cases. After decades of experience with measles, I question this statistic, and so do many other pediatricians. The incidence of 1/1,000 may be accurate for children who live in conditions of poverty and malnutrition, but in the middle-and upper-income brackets, if one excludes simple sleepiness from the measles itself, the incidence of true encephalitis is probably more like 1/10,000 or 1/100,000."------Dr Mendelsohn

"I would consider the risks associated with measles vaccination unacceptable even if there were convincing evidence that the vaccine works. There isn't. While there has been a decline in the incidence of the disease, it began long before the vaccine was introduced. In 1958 there were about 800,000 cases of measles in the United States, but by 1962-the year before a vaccine appeared-the number of cases had dropped by 300,000. During the next four years, while children were being vaccinated with an ineffective and now abandoned "killed virus" vaccine, the number of cases dropped another 300,000. In 1900 there were 13.3 measles deaths per 100,000 population. By 1955, before the first measles shot, the death rate had declined 97.7 percent to only 0.03 deaths per 100,000."--Dr Mendelsohn MD

"There are significant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contraindictions that may make it dangerous for the shots to be given to your child....There is growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced. These are fearful diseases such as cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, lupus erthematosus, and the Guillain-Barre syndrome." Dr Mendelsohn, M.D.

"Did you know that the whooping cough germ, Bacillus pertussis, when injected into animals, has long been known to lead to the secretion of insulin? In 1979, at the Fourth International Symposium on Pertussis, held in Bethesda, Maryland, it was shown that this same result occurs in those who have received pertussis vaccine. In their publication, "Adverse Reactions after Pertussis Vaccination," Drs. W. Hennessen and U. Quast suggest, "It seemed of interest to examine these reactions in comparison with the hypoglycemia syndrome.. . .There was a close relation between the two.’ If your child has juvenile diabetes (a disease characterized by wide swings in blood sugar levels), ask your doctor if he has ever heard of this effect of whooping cough vaccine. Maybe it’s time to investigate whether the pertussis vaccine has anything to do with the rapidly rising number of people with juvenile diabetes, adult diabetes, and hypoglycemic all disorders of insulin metabolism."---Dr Mendelsohn MD (the Peoples Doctor Vol 6 No10)

"Study after study has demonstrated that many women immunized against rubella as children lack evidence of immunity in blood tests given during their adolescent years. Other tests have shown a high vaccine failure rate in children given rubella, measles, and mumps shots, either separately or in combined form."---Dr Mendelsohn

"Because routine immunizations that bring parents back for repeated office calls are the bread and butter of their specialty, pediatricians continue to defend them to the death. The question parents should be asking is: ‘Whose death?’” -----Robert Mendelsohn, MD

"For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.-------Dr Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

"I'm reminded of a debate the famous pediatrician Robert Mendelsohn, MD had with a psychiatrist. The panelist asked them about the Family Bed (everyone sleeping together). "It's a terrible idea," said the psychiatrist. "I'd never sleep with my children. It fosters dependency, it confuses them sexually, it's just plain wrong." The moderator asked if Dr. Mendelsohn would care to respond. "I agree with the psychiatrist," said Dr. Mendelsohn. "Psychiatrists should not sleep with their children. But for everyone else, it's just wonderful. I gives infants the warmth and security they seek. It enhances emotional health and it brings the family closer."--Ted Koren DC

Medical students are further softened up by being maliciously fatigued. The way to weaken a person’s will in order to mold him to suit your purposes is to make him work hard, especially at night, and never give him a chance to recover. You teach the rat to race. The result is a person too weak to resist the most debilitating instrument medical school uses on its students: fear.
If I had to characterize doctors, I would say their major psychological attribute is fear. They have a drive to achieve security-plus that’s never satisfied because of all the fear that’s drummed into them in medical school: fear of failure, fear of missing a diagnosis, fear of malpractice, fear of remarks by their peers, fear that they’ll have to find honest work. There was a movie some time ago that opened with a marathon dance contest. After a certain length of time all the contestants were eliminated except one. Everybody had to fail except the winner. That’s what medical school has become. Since everybody can’t win, everybody suffers from a loss of self-esteem. Everybody comes out of medical school feeling bad.
Doctors are given one reward for swallowing the fear pill so willingly and for sacrificing the healing instincts and human emotions that might help their practice: arrogance. To hide their fear, they’re taught to adopt the authoritarian attitude and demeanor of their professors. Confessions of a Medical Heretic

"Doctors turn out to be dishonest, corrupt, unethical, sick, poorly educated, and downright stupid more often than the rest of society. When I meet a doctor, I generally figure I'm meeting a person who is narrowminded, prejudiced, and fairly incapable of reasoning and deliberation. Few of the doctors I meet prove my prediction wrong."

"The admission tests and policies of medical schools virtually guarantee that the students who get in will make poor doctors. The quantitative tests, the Medical College Admission Test, and the reliance on grade point averages funnel through a certain type of personality who is unable and unwilling to communicate with people." "Medical school does its best to turn smart students stupid, honest students corrupt and healthy students sick. It isn't very hard to turn a smart student into a stupid one. First of all, the admissions people make sure the professors will get weak-willed, authority-abiding students to work on. Then they give them a curriculum that is absolutely meaningless as far as healing or health are concerned."

"I don't advise anyone who has no symptoms to go to the doctor for a physical examination. For people with symptoms, it's not such a good idea, either. The entire diagnostic procedure -- from the moment you enter the office to the moment you leave clutching a prescription or a referral appointment -- is a seldom useful ritual."

"Almost every stage of obstetrical procedure in the hospital is part of the mechanism that enables the doctor to create his own pathology."

"The door to the doctor's office ought to bear a surgeon general's warning that routine physical examinations are dangerous to your health. Why? Because doctors do not see themselves as guardians of health, and they have learned precious little about how to assure it. Instead, they are latter-day Don Quixotes, battling sometimes real but too often imaginary diseases. The disastrous difference is that doctors are not tilting at windmills. Rather, it is people who are damaged by their insistent search for dubious diseases to conquer."

"The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization.....There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease."

"Despite the tendency of doctors to call modern medicine an 'inexact science', it is more accurate to say there is practically no science in modern medicine at all. Almost everything doctors do is based on a conjecture, a guess, a clinical impression, a whim, a hope, a wish, an opinion or a belief. In short, everything they do is based on anything but solid scientific evidence. Thus, medicine is not a science at all, but a belief system. Beliefs are held by every religion, including the Religion of Modern Medicine."

What does a Catholic do when he decides that his priests are no good? Sometimes he directly challenges them, but very seldom. He just leaves the Church. And that’s my answer. Leave the Church of Modern Medicine. I see a lot of people doing that today. I see a lot of people going to chiropractors, for example, who wouldn’t have been caught dead in a chiropractor’s office a few years ago. Confessions of a Medical Heretic