Vera Sharav on the Importance of Doing No Harm to the Individual
When medicine veers away from the Hippocratic Oath that promises to respect the individual right to do no harm to the individual, then you’re going to harm the community as well, because the community is a bunch of individuals. There are crossroads in life where you have to make choices, and if you don’t, someone […]
U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Trusting Experts
It is a fatal conceit to believe any one person or small group of people has the knowledge necessary to direct an economy or dictate public health behavior. We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best for everyone. It’s important to realize that if society meekly submits to an expert and […]
ACLU on Preserving Personal Liberties During Disease Epidemics
American history contains vivid reminders that grafting the values of law enforcement and national security onto public health is both ineffective and dangerous. Too often, fears aroused by disease and epidemics have justified abuses of state power. Highly discriminatory and forcible vaccination and quarantine measures adopted in response to outbreaks of the plague and smallpox […]
Joseph Mercola, DO On How Antibodies Are Not a Good Measure of Immunity
One of the major arguments against vaccine-induced immunity is that it primarily stimulates the humoral immune system and not the cellular immune system. Antibodies are produced by the humoral immune system and then routinely measured to determine ‘immunity. The problem with this approach is that you can have high antibody levels and still get the […]
Gregory Poland, MD and Robert Jacobson, MD on How Measles Can Occur Primarily in Vaccinated People
Receiving less attention […] is the issue of vaccine failure. … Multiple studies demonstrate that 2–10% of those immunized with two doses of measles vaccine fail to develop protective antibody levels, and […] immunity can wane over time and result in infection (so-called secondary vaccine failure) when the individual is exposed to measles. For example, […]
Chris Exley, PhD on the Link Between Aluminum in Vaccines and Autism
When we looked in the autism brain tissues, we found nearly all of the aluminum was, first of all, inside cells, but not even inside neurocells but inside what are called the housekeeping cells of the brain—the glial cells, the microglia or, indeed, cells which are called inflammatory or pro-inflammatory cells. Now, these are cells […]