Hilary's Desk

In the three articles written by Chloe Johnson in the Herald on Sunday, March 3, 2013, (here, here and here) there was a ton of misinformation. I pulled her up on all her mistakes, which she refused to accept, and maintains that her articles were balanced and she is proud of them. The Herald on Sunday editor’s contribution to my attempt at redress was ....  to tell me that he had told Chloe to stop corresponding with me. 

So let's discuss the truth, from New Zealand's provaccine medical literature – as opposed to  the medical profession's propaganda fed and regurgitated willingly by the Herald on Sunday. The only “plus” in Chloe’s articles, was that Dr Huang admitted that there was no evidence that the flu vaccine actually worked.

The problem is that while that single statement was true, most of the rest of the article was opinion, and did not even answer the questions asked. Possibly the worst piece of misinformation given by Chloe stating that the influenza vaccine had a 75% effectiveness.

Most astonishingly, Chloe consulted all the members of the SHIVERS (Southern Hemisphere Influenza and Vaccine Effectiveness Research and Surveillance) group, yet was sucked in by their words, and didn’t appear to even look at the black and white information on what SHIVERS has found.

So first, what is SHIVERS? 

SHIVERS  is a 5 year study funded by the USA CDC, with objectives and “expected” outcomes.  Interesting how you have expected outcomes before you even start a five years study. However, the CDC has supposedly put $9 million dollars into ESR to do this study. SHIVERS became operational on 30 April 2012, and community based surveillance will start in 2013.

When I challenged Chloe about her article statement that in healthy adults, the vaccine had a 75% efficacy, she replied saying:

“… the fact about 75% effectiveness came from a link you sent me. Please see 4th paragraph under DISCUSSION.

Perhaps the problem was that she didn’t read past the first sentence.

Here is the whole paragraph. Black highlights (mine) and text is Cochrane, my deconstruction in red.

“While the parenteral vaccine efficacy against seasonal (i.e. non-pandemic) influenza is around 75% for the WHO recommended and matched strain, its impact on the global incidence of clinical cases of influenza (i.e. ILI) is limited (around 16% in best case scenario). (What don’t you understand about these two parts – “limited” – and – “16% BEST case….” because that’s your real figure, 16%.... ….NOT 75% ) The universal immunisation of healthy adults should achieve a number of specific goals: reducing the spread of the disease, reducing the economic loss due to working days lost and reducing morbidity and hospitalization (note the word should. Not does or will. And if the “best case real life” impact is 16%, clearly it doesn’t). None of the studies included in the review presented results evaluating the ability of this vaccination to interrupt the spread of the disease.(Did you miss this bit, and let Dr Lance Jennings sucker you into printing that the reason for flu being so high in NYC was because not enough people were vaccinated?) Some studies presented data on reduction of working days lost and showed a very limited effect. (75% would not be “very limited” 75% would be superb) Similarly a very limited effect was found on morbidity and no effect was found on hospitalization. (a very limited effect on what, Chloe?) Given the limited availability of resources for mass immunisation, the use of influenza vaccines should be primarily directed where there is clear evidence of benefit."

The whole point of the Cochrane Review on healthy adults, is that there is no CLEAR evidence of benefit anywhere. While the 75% figure is a fictitious theory of what SHOULD happen, the rest of the paragraph details that what should happen, doesn’t work out in practice.

The 75% only applies if the vaccine is assumed to match whatever NON PANDEMIC viruses hit your country that are the same as is in the vaccine, and IF the vaccine actually does work..

However, in the USA last year the H3N2 matched perfectly…. but didn’t work. I provided Chloe with detailed information  (Table 2) which showed:

Officially in the USA the vaccine had an effectiveness of (minus) -118 to 34 for >65 year olds for H3N2... stunning... especially given the fact that this is the 'bad' flu virus... and you can be sure that this is actually the upper limit of how “good” they think the vaccine is.

Please note the data below:

• 673 (99.4%) of the 677 H3N2 influenza viruses tested have been characterized as A/Victoria/361/2011-like, the influenza A (H3N2) component of the 2012-2013 Northern Hemisphere influenza vaccine.

• 4 (0.6%) of the 677 H3N2 viruses tested showed reduced titers with antiserum produced against A/Victoria/361/2011.

The question is, .... "how will the NZ spin doctors rework their computer risk models to produce less embarrassing results?... especially since this H3N2 vaccine is the nearest to perfect match in recent history... “ The answer is that they have studiously ignored it, and opted to go nowhere near such inconvenient facts.

So there Chloe had an example that the H3N2 was as perfect a match as was possible, and the vaccine didn’t work. Even worse, Chloe stated that USA data showed an effectiveness of 9% but never showed the wild confidence intervals, which proved that before the data was ‘evened out” the elderly had a 20% increased chance of getting influenza due to H3N2 DUE to being vaccinated.

But the way Chloe put it, what all “healthy adults” would have heard, was :  3 out of 4 of us who are vaccinated, WON’T get the flu, period.

Chloe also said without putting her own brain into first gear..., "Lucy hadn't had a flu jab because she considered herself healthy. And she paid the price:..."

I emailed her saying that, “this was “a very significant piece of misinformation you put out there, particularly as the girl you focused on, whose lung baked, wouldn’t have been protected, because what she got, didn’t match the vaccine, yet in your article you INFER that the vaccine would have protected her.”

Of course, if last year’s evidence in USA vaccine is anything to go by, the H3N2 component of New Zealand’s vaccine might not work either.

So let’s look at what I think you should have read in the Sunday on Herald: Part Two.  Continue Reading

A headline in PerthNow (Adelaide Advertiser) recently read, "Chief medical officer Paddy Phillips says it's time to end debate on jabs" Of course, to Professor Paddy Phillips vaccines are wonderful, safe, effective and anyone who suggests otherwise is misinformed and patently insane.  So he wants all the non-vaccinators to see sense and vaccinate their children.  That's his answer - dictatorship control.  My answer is simpler. Those who want vaccines can have them, and those who don't, can be left alone.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, Adelaide Advertiser  has this piece of browbeating in the paper today. (pdf)

SA Health chief medical officer Paddy Phillips urged parents to ensure their children were immunised against diseases and that all South Australians get a flu jab.

"I think absolutely the debate should be over, people should do the right thing and get their children, themselves and their families vaccinated," Prof Phillips said.

"There is no doubt that vaccination, to protect ourselves and the community, is the right thing to do."

A University of Adelaide study - published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal yesterday - found the number of children hospitalised with chicken pox or shingles had dropped 68 per cent since the introduction of the vaccine in 2006.

A second study, which was published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, highlighted the benefits of a US vaccination program during the 2009 outbreak of H1N1, or swine flu.

Prof Phillips said vaccines became publicly available only once stringent quality and safety testing processes had been followed.

"Absolutely effective and cost-effective."

So is euthanasia. Is compulsory euthanasia at aged whatever, the next on your list?

Absolutely ironic that Professor Paddy Phillips would say this:

"Prof Phillips said the Australian Vaccination Network Inc, a group that advocates debate about vaccination, was spreading misinformation and lies. "They don't put a balanced argument and I honestly don't understand why they do this."

And this?

The swine flu study found the H1N1 vaccination was associated with a small excess risk - about 1.6 extra cases per one million people vaccinated - of acquiring Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder of the nervous system that can result in paralysis and sometimes death.

The authors said the the vaccine had prevented an estimated 700,000-1.5 million influenza cases in the US.

"In view of the morbidity and mortality caused by 2009 H1N1 influenza and the effectiveness of the vaccine, clinicians, policy makers and those eligible for vaccination should be assured that the benefits of inactivated pandemic vaccines greatly outweigh the risks," the study says.

Prof Phillips said the Australian Vaccination Network Inc, a group that advocates debate about vaccination, was spreading misinformation and lies. "They don't put a balanced argument and I honestly don't understand why they do this."

So let's tell the public the TRUTH that Paddy Phillips chose to miss out.

First the estimates as to how many cases the H1N1 vaccine prevented is a mathematical model which has no relevance since the numbers of people who got the pandemic vaccine in the USA was around 10%, therefore the vaccine is irrelevant. Furthermore, a recent study in USA casts doubt on every single preconceived idea about flu vaccines. The  2013 Ohmit study just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, shows that the flu vaccine:

1)  had a 40% effectiveness which they said "wasn't statistically different to zero".  

2)  didn't prevent household transmission (which begs the question of whether it will prevent flu in vaccinated staff, or prevent vaccinated staff giving it to patients) 

3)  in the optimum population with the best immune system, the vaccine didn't work, and did not reduce hospitalisations or medical attendances at all.  

4) that PREVIOUS vaccination interfered with the most recent vaccine resulting in even FEWER antibodies, than developed in people who had had no previous flu vaccine.

These findings FLY IN THE FACE of everything previously said about the flu vaccine, and clearly expose all of Professor Paddy Phillip's statements that everyone should have flu vaccines because studies have shown them to be very effective, wonderfully safe and to create herd immunity.... to be the ULTIMATE in  misinformation.  It is Professor Paddy Phillips, who is the one who doesn't put a balanced argument to parents. Here are some extracts:.


 



Even more intriguing, the accompanying medical journal editorial by Treanor says:





Treanor in his editorial, struggles with  ... remarkable.... disbelief - ("apparent" failure.....), and has some even more bizarre excuses - but I want to leave them for another blog.  In the light of the previous revelations, let's look at this bizarre claim by Professor Paddy Phillips:

Prof Phillips said vaccines became publicly available only once stringent quality and safety testing processes had been followed.

"That means that it not only has to be effective and be valuable but it has to show absolutely, without any question of a doubt, that it's cost-effective," he said.

So he's saying that lots of clinical trials will have proved that the flu vaccine is effective, valuable, have stringent quality control and are uber safe - absolutely without any question of doubt????

So how come CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) wrote about the CCIVI's (Cidrap Comprehensive Influenza Vaccine Initiative) recent evalution of ACIP's (the American Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice) decision making about the flu vaccine over the last 50 years, which has shown that:

 


Note those words.... "A strong belief".... If you read the whole document, you will see that while they acknowledge that the recommendations to use a vaccine that doesn't work,  were all opinion, and not fact, they also indulge in massive weasel word machinations, to deflect that, and move forward saying, but we still need to do it!   All they wanted to do was jab more, jab more, and why bother about actual data?  Opinion - which Phillips calls FACTS - - - is all that matters.... After all, "we don't have anything else to offer!!"

In the meantime, while all this was going on, three studies in Europe (Kissling, Pebody and Castilla) were even more ground breaking, not only showing how ineffective flu vaccines are, but that after 100 days, most flu vaccines have less than zero protectivity.

So CIDRAP came out with another press release in January 2013 discussing this, and admitting that belief in the flu vaccine was an article of faith:

 

Wow.  An ... ARTICLE OF FAITH.... which Professor Paddy Phillips calls scientific FACTS?  

 

Commendable?

Never easy to publish something that doesn't fit with what we say?

All these years, they've ignored the previous messengers blasting the same trumpet so what is different this time?

Is it just about "scientific integrity and a passion for the best data"?

I don't think so.

These SAME findings have been repeatedly put in front of the old Division of Biological Services, which then became the , and FDA (Food and Drug Administration) from the early 1960's onwards, yet were ignored as "isolated aberrations" and the messengers labelled as "outliers" and marginalised.  There now exists a mountain of these "isolated aberrations".  It's also remarkable how CIDRAP looked at over 5,000 studies and found only 31 which provided reliable information.  The question has to be asked... "How did the other 4,769+ unreliable studies even get into the medical literature?"

So what has changed now, that enables previously discarded findings to be re-visited under a completely new guise? Perhaps there is a "new idea"?  Yes,... hidden in an extract from the October Cidrap report, stemming from the fact that the vaccine manufactures can't be bothered doing anything about their flu vaccine, because it provides them with a "reasonably stable source" of annual income:


So what?    Skip forward again to the January CIDRAP document where we see - oh lookee here. The solution. That everyone should have a SECOND influenza shot 100 days after the first.


A second dose!  Voila!  ....A doubly stable source of income by the stroke of another opinion?  another idea? another ACIP stroke of a pen?... AND look.... more  exciting things for the future as well..... .....:



Who would have thought? (Smacks forehead).  Of course.  Hand the bill for new vaccine development to the mug-public, who for the last few decades blindly believed Professor Phillip saying that the flu vaccine was wonderful.  Public taxes can not only provide the money to build new research and development facilities for vaccine manufacturers, employ MORE scientists to develop "better" vaccines" on the gravy train for a couple of decades  - - -  but also generously double the income for the current vaccines .... 

I understand why Professor Paddy Phillips doesn't present a  balanced argument on flu vaccines.  

If Paddy Phillips told the truth about the flu vaccine, parents wouldn't vaccinate their children with the flu vaccine. Paddy Phillips would have to admit that he's lied for decades, and that everything else that he's said just might be similarly tainted.  To tell the truth about the flu vaccine, might reveal the whole house of cards.  The public might not like that.  The fall out might be worse than an atomic bomb.

That cannot happen, so Paddy Phillips has to retreat behind medical model pontifical doctrine.  Winston Churchill once said words to this effect: "Truth is so important it has to be protected by a fog of lies."  That's all Phillips is doing, because his career depends on the public having no fog detectors.

Even worse, if Professor Paddy Phillips admitted that his own information to the public was "fog", and the public woke up to just how much other fog shrouds their head, about other vaccines and medical procedures, the reputation of the medical profession would never recover. 

That  is why the charade - as Phillip says, ....  that vaccines are "one of the greatest public health initiatives that has improved the health of humans over the last hundred years." must go on.

One day the public will wake up, and then Paddy, I wouldn't want to be in your head when you hear the roar.

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The flu vaccine doesn’t work, and never has since that fact was first publicly outed in USA in 1971, and in 1972, there was a USA congressional hearing (S.3419) about it. It had been sold every year from 1940 through to 1975 with almost no potency and DBS (now the FDA) didn’t give a caber toss.

However, as time passed, the public forgot. The vaccine manufacturers started working on Key Opinion People, and organising themselves so that “reputable” people could push the product on their behalf. The sleeping frontline medical profession got emboldened in 1996, and said, “We must vaccinate the over 65’s because they are the only ones who die from the flu. All the rest are healthy enough to cope with the flu.” They also assured the oldies that the flu vaccine always prevented the flu - which was a gigantic stretch of the imagination. They also targeted anyone with a chronic condition on the basis that they were at risk because they weren’t “healthy”.

As you know from previous blogs, along came Cochrane review and said, “the flu vaccine isn’t worth squat for the oldies”, and a few other things, then came Simonsen in 2005 and 2009 and said, “Nope, this vaccine doesn’t work”. In 2011, Michael Osterholm admitted that authorities “overhyped” the vaccine, saying that it is about half as good as what it was back in the 80’s.

Why have they admitted the flu vaccine isn’t very good? Will they stop vaccinating the oldies in whom the vaccine doesn’t work? No-no! They will still be jabbed.

Instead, a much more efficient "plan" was being worked on, from about the year 2000, which went like this. “Oh my goodness, we didn’t realise how DANGEROUS the flu is for babies.” Better vaccinate babies. Never mind that there’s no proof that that will work either.

Next up in 2004? Oh, yes. Maybe the Japanese have it sorted. It must be all these horrid little kids; adolescents; their parents and healthworkers, and salespeople and everyone… who infect Granny. Then in 2006, came this nifty plan to nab the parents in NICU.  And oh, ....  what about pregnant women?

..."If we can convince everyone that the flu might kill everyone, even healthy people…. and have Granny and everyone else vaccinated with our useless vaccine, it’s better than doing nothing, right? What a stroke of (financial) genius!"

And what better way, than using divide-and-rule emotional blackmail within families to force everyone to vaccinate! Just tell’em, “Awwww you don’t want to have Granny get sick with the flu and die do you? Didn’t think so, roll up your sleeve….”

The new Flu policy is the reverse of the new whooping cough policy where Granny, aunt, uncle, parents, and anyone with any contact with any baby, will get the “lecture”… “Awwww you don’t’ want to be responsible for killing your wee baby do you? Didn’t think so, roll up your sleeve....”





How did these new pricks everlasting policies come about?

Simple. The whooping cough vaccine is like the flu vaccine.

Most of the people who get whooping cough in NZ today, are fully and appropriately vaccinated! It doesn’t work very well at all. The vaccine works so BADLY that pregnant women are being “offered” it during EVERY pregnancy, on the unproven off-chance that some of whatever it does in the mother, might rub off on the baby too.  The unanswered question is, will activating human maternal cytokines do to human babies what it does to mice babies?

Isn’t it strange how so few people see the irony of all this?

Two lousy vaccines, and the new policies for both are to vaccinate EVERYONE with increasing numbers of doses of the flu vaccine AND the whooping cough vaccine from cradle to grave! The flu vaccine  ... every year, and the whooping cough vaccine... as often as a new baby comes around.

Who would have thought that such new-found expanded riches would have dropped in the laps of the manufacturers from marketing TWO DUD vaccines??!!!!

But the flu plan is the most ingenious, because instead of only “at risk” groups being vaccinated, the science flip-flop says that everyone is now “at risk” and will be bullseyed – every year!

The dog will be next.

In the meantime, we New Zealanders will probably be regaled with silly headlines reading,

“Annual Flu Death toll of 400, rivals yearly road fatalities”.

Such attention grabbers are produced from the end of a fairy wand. As to the enormous numbers of New Zealanders, who will be predicted to get the flu – ignore that total as well.

As I will show you in the next blog, the medical profession doesn’t know the difference between influenza-like infections, and the flu.

The whole deal on the flu vaccine is as big a rort as the whooping cough vaccine.

That’s all you need to know really.

You don’t believe me?  Because such words sound like the rambling of an idiot?

Go make a cup of tea (or whatever) and read the flu science in the next blog HERE: You must decide.  The rambling idiot just might be on target.  Spot on!  A bullseye!!  Continue Reading

Part One is here....       While the mainstream media is crawling all over the meningitis outbreak stemming from fungus contaminated steroidal injections, and blame is focused on lack of regulation controlling small compounding pharmacies, the medical system choses to ignore bigger issues than their current simplistic red herrings.

The issue which should be being discussed, is the difference between ingestion, and injection, and why a contaminant, can cause problems in a body not normally seen in the real world.

No-one is asking why it is that the the medical profession’s “bread and butter” for pain is either steroid injections, or pain killing drugs which vastly increase the rate of necrotising fasciitis?  Why is treatment for pain so.. barbaric?

Common fungus - when ingested - is rarely a problem. When injected with steroid to shut down the immune system and therefore stop pain..., it can take on a whole new dimension. 

The fact is that vaccines can have contaminants in them, which we just might not know about, like bacteria, viruses and other ingredients considered by the medical system to be safe. Even... DNA!!!  The book picture below, was written in 1967 (with such an innocent title), and detailed what was known in that year, about culture contamination in live virus vaccines. Never mind the killed vaccines, which the medical literature states are also often contaminated.





Just think of the size of the encyclopedia, if they were to detail contamination in all vaccines before and after the Lubeck incident ?!!!

Vaccine contamination is occasionally admitted, usually by highlighting minor selective sins - like the burned glad wrap in then Gardasil vaccine. “Just an easily fixed systems error, don’t you know.”

“Contaminants” which are injected in either drugs or vaccines, can affect the body very differently to those same “contaminants” when they are found on the skin or in the gut.

What do vaccine contaminants do? What about DNA? What about aluminium? There are lots of medical articles now being published, sounding the alarm about aluminium in vaccines, but the medical system defaults to its routine dogma which says: “You “eat” aluminium, so it’s safe to inject it and the body just expels it from the body really fast.” Their own medical literature has stated for 11 years, that aluminium in vaccines is a significant contributor to the body burden (Yokel McNamara 2001) , because unlike “ingested” aluminium, the body absorbs injected aluminium into organs and bones.

Who is right? The medical literature or the medical system? What else, does the medical system not know, or admit to?

Years ago, we also heard that, “Squalene can be eaten, so there’s nothing wrong with injecting it as a vaccine adjuvant.” Really?

The USA meningitis outbreak from fungally contaminated steroid injections, graphically illustrates that something “injected” can create havoc in the body in a way which rarely happens in the normal world.   

Significantly, the CDC is frantically running around looking for answers to fungal disease caused by contaminated steroid injections…, all in the name of “saving lives”, (15 deaths 231 cases) while criminal investigators from FDA comb the premises of the pharmacy!!

The media meticulously details a frantic CDC accurately tracking the number of the dead, the affected, and the minute details of the state of their health, ....just the same way as they tracked survivors and victims of the swine flu.

Yet, can the CDC or the FDA tell us how many girls have suffered side effects from Gardasil, or even give us a half-baked analysis of the course of any of the clinical problems in the victims?  Goodness me, that's asking a bit much don't you think?  What we see is…




All around the world, girls,– like the latest Gardasil casualty - are keeling over after Gardasil or Cervarix, and having their lives ruined, …..

..... while ... the CDC and FDA have no accurate Gardasil reaction numbers, no clues, no ideas, haven't sent the FDA crim squad into Merck...and just... DO ....nothing.  

On the one hand, the CDC has this "Oh-so-concerned-and-meticulous" expose of contaminated steroid injections, and make great noise about investigating some piddly compounding pharmacy,   Yet.. they cosy up to Merck, and refuse to even investigate the findings of L1 HPV genetically engineered DNA in the Gardasil vaccine – which according to Merck’s patent number 6,602,697, is a listed contaminant, and shouldn’t be there!

When confronted with this proof of contamination, the CDC and FDA simply patted Merck on the back and re-wrote the Gardasil script  saying that they had always known there was HPVDNA in Gardasil, as an "expected ingredients" and ,- it's perfectly safe - and all Gardasil reactions are "coincidental"....., pass the bean dip.... Yawn.

FACT: Neither CDC nor FDA, can produce documentary evidence from Merck’s licensing application detailed this “expected” DNA.

FACT: Neither CDC nor FDA, can produce testing results detailing quantity of this "expected" L1 HPV DNA per vaccine dose.

FACT: Neither CDC nor FDA, can produce testing results showing that this “expected ingredient” has been demonstrated to be safe. 

FACT: Neither  CDC or FDA can explain why they allowed Merck’s datasheets to state “no DNA”,

FACT: Neither CDC or FDA can explain why the ingredient list does NOT state a quantity of this “expected” DNA, when all other ingredients in the patent are quantified and listed. 

If the genetically engineered DNA in Gardasil is "expected" by the FDA and CDC..., then all the facts above are highly irregular. 

As to Gardasil and Cervarix child casualties….? .... CDC doesn’t appear to show any concern.  Their inaction reminds me of a statement in the Friday 1 June 1984 Federal Regulations, page 23007, regarding failures in polio testing, which reads:

“any possible doubts, whether or not well founded, about the safety of the vaccine cannot be allowed to exist in view of the need to assure that the vaccine will continue to be used to the maximum extent consistent with the nation's public health objectives.”

It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the CDC is following a long term, well worn programme of vigilantly protecting worldwide vaccine manufacturing corporates involved in potentially vaccinating every single baby, child, adolescent, man, woman and the elderly.

Diligent head counting, and finding a "cure" for some fungus infected people... - fighting the good fight - creates the IMPRESSION  in the public's mind, that that the FDA and CDC always conscientiously protect the public from everything..., including vaccines. 

All I can say is, .... on all counts ... … what   blatant ….. in your face....  hypocrisy. Continue Reading

Recently, my husband took himself down for the mandatory two-yearly doctor’s appointment which certifies octogenarians as being roadworthy.
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Following on from the medieval war of words on measles......., lies, emotional blackmail, weasel words and chameleon science is also being purveyed in the whooping cough battle.

Starting with the most obvious, is Vaccinet’s trumpeting headline about a Washington whooping cough outbreak recently that: "Anti-vaccine movement causes the worst whooping cough epidemic in 70 years."  Meanwhile other provaccine sites –while taking the line that everyone should have their pertussis shots with breakfast, no matter what age – at least have the decency not to lie in the text, even if the videos are outright blackmail.  Who in their right mind would leave a baby coughing, on their backs?. The medical profession says, about the Washington outbreak, that:  Continue Reading

Yesterday I wrote a blog about the Sunday Herald flu propaganda, which resulted in the Herald removing the original article and replacing the Sunday on Herald emotional blackmail with different Pap. Not content with that, the vaccine "stakeholders" must have also said, "Oi, while we're on the phone, can we rope in Rudman?  He's pretty gullible..." and on cue, he produced an "opinion" rant, while Martin Johnson, produced a plodding report.  Tomorrow I will have a go at Rudman's Rant.    
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Today, the Herald printed it's usual annual flu propaganda (I've removed the URL) and a private email to the reporters who put their names to it, was returned. The Herald doesn't allow enough words on the comment facility to deal with the issues, and they only want videos or photos, not facts. Therefore, this blog will address the issues.

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So what's the big deal, if as alleged in my previous blog, Merck did actually seriously muck around with the efficacy test, cook the books, invent figures, and produce MMR with a dud Mumps component? After all...when did you last hear of anyone dying from Mumps?  (I never did even before the MMR was introduced in 1991, but that's another story.) 

Will this court case succeed? I don't think so, because it's all about MONEY. (<--- MP3 file just for us oldies!)

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Close Up's programme on whooping cough, was a triumph of emotional blackmail using a cute baby with whooping cough, to push a policy which doesn't work.  But worse than that, was the standard of discussion on Close up's facebook page.  You know that eminence based manipulation has truly scraped the bottom of the barrel when Grant Jacobs obliquely counsels all readers not to even look at the scientific links put up, .... inferring that those who don’t have the right background won’t understand the studies posted implying that there is no need for anyone else to look at them either
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