Vaccines - Why Fear Sells By Sherri Tenpenny, DO

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Vaccines - Why Fear Sells

By Sherri Tenpenny, DO

It's interesting how a discussion about

vaccination can quickly become heated and

sometimes even hostile. Would the same debate

rage over an antibiotic or an antihypertensive

medicine if there was evidence the drug was

causing harm? When it becomes obvious that

thousands have been injured by a drug such as

Vioxx, it is removed from the market. We stop the

use of drugs until they are proven safe. And we sue.

Not so with vaccines. Vaccines are promoted with

fanfare until they are statistically proven to

cause harm to a large number of persons. The

thousands of individuals who suffer from vaccine

reactions in proportion to the millions who have

been vaccinated are not considered to be a

mathematically significant statistic. However,

the more than $1billion that has been paid to

vaccine-injured persons shows that safety is not

all that is it promoted to be. Why the double standard?

Vaccination is built around a " belief system. " We

believe vaccines are safe; we believe vaccines

are important to health; we believe the stories

that vaccines are solely responsible for the

elimination of smallpox and polio. And we really

want to believe that our doctors have read all

the available information on vaccines--pro and

con--and are telling us the complete truth about vaccines.

However, belief is based on faith, not

necessarily on fact. For example, we want to

believe that vaccinating our children will keep

them from getting sick with measles or

chickenpox. However, there is a plethora of

information documenting this is not necessarily so.

Why is there an almost desperate need to defend

the current belief--and trust--in vaccines? The

public’s view of disease seems to be similar to

our current view on terrorism: Random attacks

that are potentially deadly. The media hawks this

view of childhood illnesses and the need for

vaccines. Pharma sells it, doctors push it, and

educational institutions reinforce it. They keep

selling it because most readily buy into it,

without question. There is a " just in case " or

" better be safe than sorry " mentality when it

comes to vaccination and illness with children.*

After nearly 200 years of use, fear still sells vaccination.

What do we really know about vaccines? A review

of the literature and the CDC documents reveals the following:

1. Vaccine safety studies are relatively small

and include only healthy children. However when a

vaccine trial has been completed, vaccines are

given to ALL children, regardless of the

condition of their health, family history or genetics.

2. Vaccine safety studies are short. Most

clinical trials monitor for side effects a paltry

21 days, sometimes, it is only for 5 days. It can

take months before immune system complications

appear. This arbitrary deadline, established by

the FDA, precludes associating vaccines with

chronic health disorders. " Safe " is a designation

given based on limited information.

3. Vaccine safety studies do not use a true

placebo.One of the Gold Standards in medical

research is the " placebo-controlled " trial. An

inactive substance such as a sugar pill is given

as a placebo to one group of participants, while

the treatment group is given the new drug. The

data is analyzed to compare the number of side

effects that occurred in those given the drug

compared to the numbers of side effects that

occurred in those given the placebo. However, the

" placebo " used in vaccine research is not an

inert substance such as sterile water; it is

another vaccine. Inert, sterile water doesn't

cause a reaction; as substitute vaccine can. If

both groups of babies in a trial have the same

number of reactions, the study reports that the

vaccine " is as safe as a placebo. " This is deceptive science.

4. Vaccine-induced antibodies do not correlate

with protection. In fact, the esteemed journal,

Vaccine stated this clearly " …It is known that,

in many instances, antigen-specific antibody

titers do not correlate with protection. " The

full reference can be found at PMID: 11587808

Vaccination has been accepted as safe, effective

and protective. The shots can be described as a

medical " sacred cows, " by definition, " a medical

procedure unreasonably immune to criticism. " The

strong response is the a reaction to a suggestion

that the " cow " should be " sacrificed. " It is

heresy to suggest that the status quo is wrong.

When Copernicus insisted that the sun, not the

earth, was the center of the solar system, it

went against the philosophical and religious

beliefs held during the medieval times. When two

other Italian scientists of the time, Galileo and

Bruno, embraced Copernican theory their comments

were considered blasphemous. Bruno was tried

before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at

the stake in 1600. Thirty years later, Galileo

was brought forward and in front of his

" Betters, " was forced to renounce his beliefs

under the threat of torture and death. Even after

his confession, he was sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his days.

The more one investigates vaccination and studies

the adverse effects that have been attributed to

vaccines, the more one becomes a Copernican

heretic, speaking out against the status quo can

have deadly consequences. I have personally

invested more than 8,000 hours in revealing the

truth about vaccines. If the result of this

inquiry and exposure is to be called a heretic, than I am in wonderful company.

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*My thanks to Judy Converse for these insights.

Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny is respected as one of the

country’s most knowledgeable and outspoken

physicians regarding the negative impacts of

vaccines on health. Through her education

company, NMA Media Press, she spreads her vision

of retaining freedom of choice in healthcare,

including the freedom to refuse vaccination. Her

three hour DVD, Vaccines: The Risk, The Benefits

and The Choices , her new book FOWL! Bird flu:

It’s Not What You Think, and many other books,

tapes and materials are available at

http://www.nmaseminars.com/VaccineInfoHome.html

Information about her medical clinic can be found at http://www.osteomed2.com

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