Consensus Science & the Threat to Medical Freedom
The aggressive push to remove the right to voluntary and informed
consent to vaccination is rolling out across the world. Driven by Big
Pharma, industry captured health regulators, politicians and the
corporate controlled media, the basic human right to bodily integrity is
under attack as never before.
In April, the Australian government instituted a “no jabs, no pay” policy which will deny government benefits to non-vaccinating families.
Australia is the first commonwealth country to narrow vaccine exemptions
and impose financial penalties on families choosing a partial or ‘no
vaccines' health philosophy. There will be no religious or philosophical
exemptions. Even refusing one vaccine may prevent a child from attending
government subsidized childcare or receiving welfare benefits in 2017. Parents who refuse to
vaccinate their children according to the government recommended
schedule will be denied benefits of up to $15,000 per child under a new
measure announced by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. In the U.S. over 100 bills have been introduced to remove both
philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions from the small percentage
of unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children. In states like
California, if pharma lobbyists have their way, these children will be
barred from attending public school, even if they were previously
vaccine injured. Only extremely narrow medial exemption would remain for
which few would qualify including the majority of children who have
already suffered vaccine reactions and injuries. Parents who are no longer willing to inject their children with these
complex biochemical drugs, would be forced to home school, creating
financial hardship for many families. Adding insult to injury, the proposed federal Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015 would potentially override state philosophical and religious exemptions,
essentially removing them, while tying federal grants to the States
enacting the mandates. On yet another front of the forced vaccination
agenda, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny provides sobering insight into the ‘Healthy People 2020’ master plan which intends to implement
‘cradle to grave’ vaccination policies for all Americans. In Europe, the human right to freedom of informed consent to medical
risk taking is also threatened. 40% of EU countries now impose mandatory
vaccination under threat of fines or imprisonment. For example, parents
in Belgium face jail if they refuse to vaccinate their children with
polio. In Serbia parents who refuse vaccination are fined a month's
wages or face losing their children after a court hearing. European health campaigners led by the European Forum for Vaccine
Vigilance (EFVV), are petitioning the European Union (EU) to protect and
promote citizens' right to make informed medical choices. Their
powerful and compelling petition aims to collect one million signatures to unite the Continent and bring
this debate to the European parliament in Brussels. Founded in 1999 by a
group of French and Spanish doctors, homeopaths and vaccine risk
awareness groups, the EFVV is deeply concerned about human rights
violations and increasing numbers of vaccine injuries they’re seeing. Recently there have been protests in Poland, Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
and other European countries where childhood vaccination is mandatory.
This month demonstrations are planned for the Czech Republic and
Bulgaria. The EFVV petition to the European Parliament, and other agencies entitled 'Respect,
promote and protect freedom of informed vaccination consent throughout
Europe’ aims to abolish mandatory vaccination in all European countries
and is calling on all Europeans to stand together in a demand for a
united vaccination policy based on freedom of choice and informed
consent as provided by the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental
Rights: "Free and informed consent must be respected in the fields of
medicine and biology". The EFVV writes that “This is only one of many
human rights documents affirming the right to informed consent. To
mandate vaccinations is to deny this fundamental freedom and as such, it
is a breach of our Universal Human Rights.” This document is an
excellent resource providing an overview of international human rights
treaties which protect the foundational right of all people to freedom
from enforced medical procedures and bodily integrity. In Canada, the ‘mandatory vaccination’ rhetoric is bandied about by
provincial health ministries and the media whenever a few cases of
measles, mumps or whooping cough occur, only to subside when the
realization dawns that attempts to impose vaccine mandates could
precipitate court challenges because they contravene the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees freedom of conscience
and religion to all Canadians. Recently, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario voted unanimously to
approve a motion endorsing the health benefits of vaccination and to
“strongly encourage all parents and guardians to ensure that children
who are medically able are vaccinated.” The mind numbing pro-vaccine ‘love fest’ that followed introduction of
the motion is emblematic of how thoroughly ‘consensus science’ has
propagandized our politicians rendering them incapable of a rationale
debate on this issue.
Rather than pledging allegiance to the God of
Vaccinology, a rational debate would consider the concerns articulated
by neuroscientist Lucija Tomljenovic who provides evidence that vaccine safety is not “rock solid”, and that
the “pushing of poorly tested drugs on children is neither acceptable
nor ethical”. An intelligent debate would discuss the more than 4,000
vaccine reactions and injuries that occur in Canada each year. It would
be concerned about the public’s lack of access to these vaccine injury
reports held behind closed doors by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It
would be concerned about the plight of vaccine injury victims in Canada
who are uncompensated by the courts or the government. It would ask why, if the U.S. has paid
out $3 billion to vaccine injury victims, Canadian vaccine victims are
thrown under the bus? If they were truly concerned about public health,
legislators would consider the large body of independent science which identifies mechanisms associated with
vaccine induced health injuries contributing to the declining state of
children’s health today. They would take seriously the concerns of independent scientists and doctors who present compelling arguments against vaccine mandates. What is ‘consensus science’? It is a tool used by powerful interest
groups to shut down ideas not associated with their beliefs. It is a
form of bullying intended to marginalize and discredit any opposition to an entrenched belief system. In the case of vaccination, the medical industry
uses its collection of industry and government sponsored studies
designed to disprove and suppress any association between vaccination and the epidemic of neurological
and immunological injuries that afflict increasing numbers of children
and young adults in our society today. The growing chorus of voices in science and medicine who oppose ‘consensus science’ and its state
imposed “one size fits all” vaccine policies, are speaking out against a
medical system based on threats and fear. “Medical ethics are clear: No
one should be forced to undergo a medical treatment without informed
consent and without their agreement to the treatment. Vaccination is a
medical treatment with risks including death. It is totally antithetical
to all ethics in medicine to mandate that risk to others.” It’s estimated that one in 10 Canadian children have severe allergies, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy and other
life-threatening conditions. No one is asking what environmental
factors, chemicals or drugs, including vaccines might be driving this
health disaster. In 2011, two studies reported that U.S. children are
suffering increasingly from chronic health disorders and are growing
into even sicker adults. One study estimated that, “43% of US children (32 million) have at least 1 of
20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when
overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are
included.” Another study found that the number of school-age children diagnosed with autism,
ADHD, and other developmental disabilities was about 15 percent of
children or nearly 10 million. Considering the similarities between
social and environmental factors and an almost identical vaccine
schedule in the both countries, one could reasonably expect equally grim
statistics in Canada. These talking points are the PR spin used by ‘consensus science’, to
suppress vaccine concerns and to prevent the findings of independent
scientific research from reaching the public. These are regurgitated ad nauseam by the media to dismiss any information that challenges the
vaccine safety myth:
“Vaccines are safe and effective.”
“The risks of injury are minimal.”
“Vaccine damage is one in a million.”
“The benefits far outweigh the risks.”
“We have a social responsibility to vaccinate.”
“Only a tiny minority of children will experience an adverse reaction.”
“The science on vaccines is clear.”
“Vaccines do not cause autism.”
“Mercury does not cause autism.”
In his 2003 lecture on science,
politics and consensus Michael Crichton, MD said, “...consensus is
invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.” He went on to explain it well, saying, “I regard consensus science as
an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its
tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge
of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter
is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees
on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with
consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the
contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which
means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the
real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is
reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great
precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” In its war on scientific integrity, the ‘consensus science’ gang uses
every dirty trick in the book to forward it’s agenda of corporate
control of medicine and science. Its revolving door policies shuffle
managers, policy makers and scientists back and forth between industry
and government regulators. Its endless stream of manipulated and fraudulent studies insure that its
“vaccines are safe and effective” mantra drones on and on. Its character
assassination of doctors and scientists who raise alarms about vaccine
safety, (such as the witch-hunt against Andrew Wakefield) suppresses
further investigation into the MMR/Autism connection. ‘Consensus
science’ vilifies individuals and groups advocating for scientific
honesty. It aims its malevolent PR machine against those advocating for
the protection of personal rights and the right to voluntary and
informed consent to medical risk taking. Its captured politicians,
obedient to their pharma lobbyist masters, hatch forced vaccination laws
that threaten the most basic human rights to bodily integrity. Industry dominated control of science and medicine is the operative norm
today. Its primary concern is to maximize profits for its corporate
shareholders, not the wellbeing of our children or the public at large.
As parents and concerned citizens, it is up to us to find trustworthy
sources of information on which to base the health care choices we make
for our families. Emerging science presented by independent researchers
below, provides insight into nature’s blueprint for optimal immune
system and brain development, and sheds light on the mechanisms of
vaccine injury – something all parents need to understand in order to
make a fully informed choice when considering vaccination. Protecting your child from vaccine injury: What parents need to know Suzanne Humphries, MD- Neonatal Immunity: The first 3 years of life:
“ Nothing should interfere with the immunologic programming, especially
during the first three years.” Normal brain development depends on the
baby maintaining a non-inflammatory state. Vaccines drive excessive
inflammation and can derail normal brain development: Hilary Butler – Vaccines and Neonatal Immune Development Russell Blaylock, MD - Vaccines, Neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorders Etiology of autism spectrum disorders: Genes, environment, or both? C
Shaw, S Sheth, D Li, L Tomljenovic Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD: When you alter the immune system, It affects brain function. “Cross talk between immune system & brain, 'There is a huge body of
research that shows that if you overstimulate the immune system at the
periphery, especially in the critical stage of early development, you
are going to influence the brain in a negative way, and by doing so, you
can create irreversible damage. Again, this is research that is rarely
discussed, because it really shows that there is reason to question the
safety of the burden of vaccines given to infants.'” Suzanne Humphries, MD – Testimony to Main Legislature: “ We have no
studies looking at the long-term effects of this growing vaccination
program as a whole, for cancer, neurologic disease, autoimmune diseases
and allergies and other chronic diseases that have become epidemic in
children at the same time the vaccine programs were ramped up in the
1980s and 90s”. Kelly Brogan, MD - What We Didn't Know About the Brain That Changes Everything: "What does it mean to learn that the brain has an immune
system? Does this change our understanding of mental illness? Neurology?
Cancer? What about risks of side effects to pharmaceutical
interventions that target the immune system such as vaccines?” Gary Kohls, MD - Mitochondrial Collateral Damage Thanks to Big Pharma: Iatrogenic Drug and Vaccine-induced Mitochondrial Disorders -
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of our cells and are responsible for
generating energy “…the central role mitochondria play in health and
disease has been widely documented. Mitochondrial damage is now
understood to play a role in a wide range of seemingly unrelated
disorders such as schizophrenia, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, chronic
fatigue syndrome.” Theresa Deisher, Ph.D - Epidemiology Correlates Autism Disorder Increase and Human Fetal DNA, Retroviral Agents in Vaccines Eileen Dannemann - Inability of Infants to metabolize Vaccine Excipients – Cytochrome P450Barbara Loe Fisher - Blackmail and the Medical Vaccine Exemption: “ Vaccine safety research is not a priority because long ago public
health officials made a calculated decision that the lives of those
harmed by vaccines are expendable in order to pursue what they consider
to be a more important goal: the eradication of a long list of
infectious microorganisms through compulsory vaccine use.”
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