Vaccines are Safe and Effective - Really?

On the BBC Today Programme this morning I heard that internet based social media platforms are to be required to stop anyone from proliferating false information suggesting that vaccines are dangerous. The news report said that medical professionals are concerned that a growing number of people are deciding not to have their children vaccinated and as a result there has been an outbreak of measles, a very contagious disease. It concerns me greatly that a country that claims to believe in free speech should be taking steps to stop it. How else are people to share their findings and doubts? This is very different from stopping the worst abuses of the internet by extremist organisations who want to propagate messages of hate and violence. I want to know that the internet is protected from abuses by anyone, whether private individuals or state government puppets being pulled by corporate strings. While constantly being bombarded with the mantra ‘Vaccines are safe and effective’ corroborating evidence is not presented – • There has never been a comparative study of health outcomes in vaccinated Vs unvaccinated populations. • If the ‘Herd Immunity’ concept is true then it would not matter that little Jonny’s school-friends have not been vaccinated. As long as he is then he is safe. That should convince anyone that a choice whether or not to vaccinate belongs entirely with the parents. • Andrew Wakefield’s career was destroyed when his research team published evidence that autistic children also suffered from gastrointestinal problems. Calling for more research into this phenomenon sealed his fate; any association between the MMR vaccine and autism had to be stamped out immediately and an example made of anyone willing to ask questions. • Thimerosol is a mercury based preservative widely used in multiple dose vaccines. Mercury is known to be extremely toxic; how can it be safe to allow this deadly poison to be injected into anyone? I believe that our vaccination schedule has been hijacked by pharmaceutical industries that put profit before health. Radio statements like –“Ministers (or medical professionals) are concerned that growing numbers of people are choosing not to vaccinate” are deeply worrying. How can ministers know any more than concerned citizens who make it their business to protect their children? Who provides the evidence to ministers to direct the National Institute of Clinical Evidence (NICE) to determine policy? What are the career prospects of any doctor who is prepared to listen to her own patients’ experiences and advise caution or departure from NICE guidelines? As Upton Sinclair said: “It’s hard to understand something when your livelihood depends on your not understanding it” We cannot protect the health of our communities by accepting, unchallenged, outdated dogma that serves to undermine the human immune system, our only true defence against disease. In the history of the world no child has ever been born suffering from a lack of Thimersol.