Dejunk your brain: out with the trash from vaccine nay-

sayers

In some quarters, vaccine refusal for ones children may be

looked at as irresponsible behavior. It is really important to

understand how people are being used for selfish gain and self-
expression by adults (parents or not) who somehow feel there is a
grand conspiracy to make more people sick through vaccines.
I will not belabor the fact that these are unfounded claims and
may have ulterior motives behind them. Rather I will take a few
minutes to once again debunk some of the most outrageous of the
false claims about vaccines.

That is why leeching and bloodletting are no

longer part of modern medicine, as they
once were.

M MR Vaccine and Autism: In 1998 a fraudulent study which

was later debunked and in fact redacted was published. It had 12

subjects and the author was alleging that the children received
MMR which destroyed intestinal lining, allowing abnormal
proteins to enter the system and later cause autism. When
investigative reporters reviewed the paper, certain things became
know.
the children in the study were recruited by an anti-MMR
organization
the study was part of a larger plan for litigation
three of the children did not have autism
five of the children had developmental concerns before they got
MMR
some others developed developmental concerns months after the
MMR rather than days as the paper claimed
colonoscopy reports were altered to reflect a problem even though
the changes noted were unremarkable (in other words nothing of
any remarkable clinical or pathological significance)
ten of the 13 authors of the paper published a statement retracting
its interpretation

Refusing vaccination of your child is just plain

irresponsible especially after reading this

M easles virus in the intestines of children with

developmental disorders (autism is a form of developmental

disorder): A different study of 91 children with disorder with up to
70 normal children as controls published findings that
demonstrated higher levels of measles virus in the intestinal
tissues of the developmental disorders affected children when
compared to the controls. This again was found to be a poorly
reported study.
there was no information about the type of virus (vaccine strain
versus wild strain) that was detected in the intestinal tissues
the paper was silent about the timing of MMR vaccination, if at all
in the subjects and the controls. In other words were the
developmental delay children tested within say 4 weeks of
receiving the vaccine while the controls were tested years after
they had received the vaccine?
the study was not blinded (a standard in medical research)
meaning that the person(s) testing in the lab knew exactly which
type of subject owned the tissue they were testing so there was a
very reasonable possibility of bias in the reporting.
Indeed there is a possibility of measles virus being engulfed by the
human protective cells and these may be detected in the intestines.
Thus this medical possibility does not reflect an anomaly, but
rather a normal phenomenon based on how our immunity works.

T he Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine has refusers

erroneously believing that it may encourage sexual activity: This is

absurd as we know the discussion when getting the shot is on
the benefits of preventing cervical cancer in females. Granted many parents are
concerned about their children becoming sexually active and this
concern gets heightened as the children develop more externally. A
scientific study looked at this presumed problem and the conclusions
were that the HPV vaccination did not make it more likely that
teenagers would engage more in unprotected sex, compared to
those that did not get the vaccine.

O ther objections to the HPV vaccine include the perception of

undue and excessive influence by the pharmaceutical industry.

This is also a rather twisted look at the industry. While we
understand that the pharmaceutical industry is part of a huge for-
profit system, these businesses invest billions of dollars in
research and marketing, trying to provide solutions for our most
pressing needs. As it stands now, genital cancers were wrecking
havoc and continue to devastate older men and women who never
benefitted from this vaccine. The HPV vaccine is the first anti-
cancer vaccine and indeed should be celebrated. Cervical cancer is
the third most common female cancer worldwide, with an
estimated incidence of 530,000 and 270,000 related deaths in
2012 and 100% of these cancers are linked to the HPV. It is both
unfair and irresponsible to assume there is no urgency in the need
to prevent further deaths from this infection.