Rita Redberg, MD on the “Washout Period” in Clinical Trials
There are a lot of ways that one can manipulate data in a [drug or vaccine] trial. Trials do what they call a washout period, and what that means is before they choose the people that are going to be in the trial, they give everybody the drug, and the people that have side effects get excluded from the trial. And they say that so people aren’t uncomfortable when they are in the trial. But of course it takes out all the people that have side effects, and that’s very commonly done in drug trials.
Barbara Loe Fisher on the Lack of Vaccine Safety Science
There is an astonishing lack of basic scientific knowledge about how viral and bacterial vaccines, given in combination, act to disrupt brain and immune-system function in the human body at the cellular and molecular levels. Pre-licensure studies conducted by industry to demonstrate the safety of new vaccines rarely study large numbers of children given the experimental vaccine in combination with other vaccines, and follow-up for serious health problems following vaccination…
Mary Holland, JD on Mandatory Vaccinations
I think bodily integrity is a fundamental human right, and I think any mandatory medical intervention is a violation of our human rights. I don’t think there’s really any question about that, and the Nuremberg Codes have been updated and updated and updated. We have a UNESCO declaration from 2008. You have to have informed consent. That means voluntary on a basis of knowledge. Neither one of those things are the case with mandatory vaccines. People don’t have knowledge…
Barbara Loe Fisher on Defending the Right of Informed Consent
At the heart of this contentious debate about vaccine safety is a larger ethical issue: Do individuals have the moral right—and should they have the legal right—to make voluntary choices about whether to use all government-recommended and -mandated vaccines? … There are compelling reasons to defend the ethical principle of informed consent and flexible vaccine exemptions in public health policies and laws. Vaccination is a medical intervention performed on a healthy…
Audre Lorde on Speaking Out
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you… What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language. I began to ask each time: ‘What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell…
Stephanie Christner, DO on Learning About Vaccines
When it comes to death with vaccines, I think there are two issues that are going on. One is you have an immediate reaction to a component in the vaccine… like an anaphylactic shock, like if you eat peanuts and you’re allergic to peanuts, you will die, your throat will close off. And there’s things in vaccines that people are allergic to that they’re not screened for, and that can happen immediately. But then there’s also a delayed reaction. And that’s something that takes place slowly over time…