Radium Was a Miracle Product, Until it Started Killing People
[Radium toothpaste, radium butter, radium cosmetics… ] Considering what we now know about the dangers of radiation, these products seem preposterous. But they were real. In the early 20th century, the harmful effects of radiation exposure weren’t fully known until a group of women in New Jersey paid a fatal price for us to find […]
Could the Flu Shot Make You Depressed?
Did your doctor or friendly pharmacist tell you that the flu vaccine could put your mental health at risk? According to the latest research, the notoriously ineffective,1 2 3 illness-inducing,4 5 potentially paralytic,6 and even lethal7 8 flu vaccine has one more side effect to add to the list: depression. One would imagine that researchers […]
Vaccine for Bees Bypasses Lack of Antibodies
Story Highlights Bees and other pollinators face serious threats from disease, parasites, pesticides and habitat destruction, threatening the viability of crop farming worldwide, most well publicized by the critical danger posed to honeybees. Treatment of bee diseases has been hampered by the nature of the honeybee immune system: They do not produce targeted antibodies as […]
Why Doctors (and Newspaper Columnists) Rarely Dare to Question Vaccine Safety
Do you need excitement in your life? If so, just write a column on the rewards and risks of vaccination. Then find a safe, secure hideout. Pour yourself a drink and wait for those who want to boil you in oil. This scenario happened to me when an editor pulled my syndicated article, “What You […]
‘Incredible Hulk’ Actor Hospitalized After Getting Pneumococcal Shot
The star of the 1970s TV series “The Incredible Hulk,” Lou Ferrigno, was hospitalized on Dec. 12, 2018 after receiving the pneumococcal vaccine for pneumonia. The vaccination left Ferrigno with fluid in his right bicep.1 Mr. Ferrigno, 67, tweeted: Went in for a pneumonia shot and landed up here with fluid in my bicep. I’ll be […]
More Research on Vaccines “Definitely Needs to Be Done” Says U.S. Congressman
Physician Mark Green of Clarksville, Tennessee was elected last month to the U.S. House of Representatives. He is scheduled to be sworn into his new post on Jan. 3, 2019.1 2 In the last few weeks, the newly elected congressman was inducted into the brass knuckle world of political correctness when he dared to step […]