The Theory of Herd Immunity Has Nothing to Do With Vaccination
The underlying assumption of the theory was that a community as a whole would develop a certain degree of protection from an infectious disease after a portion of its members actually came down with the disease, recovered from it, and became immune to it. There is a better than even chance that if you ask someone at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the World Health…
Solid Research on Autism in Dogs Lacking
What we do know is that reported symptoms of autism in dogs have increased as vaccination rates for dogs and other pets have risen. On Apr. 23, 2018, the British television show Good Morning Britain tweeted the following message on Twitter: “We’re looking to speak to pet owners who haven’t given their pets vaccinations because they’re concerned about side effects—as well as people who have done so and now believe their pet has canine autism as a result.
Embalming Fluid in Vaccines?
I recently read an article about a woman who died in hospital in Ulyanovsk, Russia after doctors mistakenly administered a formaldehyde solution instead of saline during a scheduled laparoscopic operation to remove ovarian cysts. During the procedure, doctors irrigated the abdominal cavity of 28-year-old Ekaterina Fedyaeva with formalin—a 40 percent solution of formaldehyde in water—causing the woman to convulse and fall into a coma.
Jury Still Out on Link Between Vaccines and Autism
“There is no link between vaccines and autism.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clearly states it on its website. It is stated in nearly every newspaper or magazine article written, either by the author or by someone the author has quoted. In a recent article in HealthDay, postdoctoral fellow Ousseny Zerbo of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center was quoted as saying, “[W]e know through numerous scientific…
Redefining Hypertension: A Redefinition Throwback to Polio
On Nov. 13, 2017, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) changed their guidelines for defining hypertension. They lowered the range for defining of high blood pressure. Under the old guideline, a person was determined to have high blood pressure if their systolic blood pressure…
The Big Bad Flu Data
How effective is the flu vaccine, and will getting vaccinated reduce the severity of your illness even if the vaccine is a poor match to circulating influenza virus strains? While public health officials insist vaccination is the best way to prevent the seasonal flu, the evidence calls this assumption into question, and most health care professionals…