Should I Vaccinate My Children?

Should I Vaccinate My Child?

By Shane “The People’s Chemist” Ellison, M.Sc.All Rights Reserved © 2008

http://www.thepeopleschemist.com/

Vaccine talk is riddled with shoddy science, emotional arguments,convoluted explanations and all out quackery. Very little common senseshines its way through the murky vaccine debate.Rather thanquestion the safety and efficacy of vaccines, most physicians andparents blindly “immunize” children. Rarely do they ask the lifesavingquestion of, “Will a vaccine protect my child?” As a pharmaceuticalchemist and parent, I researched that question six years ago. Theanswer was an astounding no.

Vaccines are purported to work bytriggering immunity. It is “thunk” by the experts that by exposing ourimmune system to weak or dead infectious agents, such as measles or aflu virus, that it creates the appropriate immune defense. This logichas been used to defend the use of every vaccine to date. Yet, eachvaccine has proven that the theory is nothing more than mentalmasturbation for nerdy scientists; it sounds good and feels better, butit’s not the real thing. At best, vaccines only temporarily boost ourdefenses, which hardly compensates for the myriad of potential sideeffects. Few people are aware of – or willing to accept - these cold,hard facts.

Polio is the most feared childhood illness. It hascaused paralysis and death for much of human history. The worldexperienced a dramatic increase in polio cases beginning in 1910. Frequent epidemics became regular events. They were the impetus for a"Great Race" towards the development of a polio vaccine. It wasdeveloped in 1953 and an oral version soon after. Yet, unbeknownst tomost, polio infection plummeted before the vaccines were introduced –thanks to better sanitation and nutrition. Good thing, because bothforms were a total failure. In addition to causing the very sameinfection they were supposed to prevent – polio – they can also lead tosudden death and cancer.

The polio virus still exists today. But few of us suffer from it. Our protection resides in the same things that were responsible for itsdecline; a healthy immune system courtesy of proper sanitation and nutrition.

This same scenario was repeated in the case of the whooping cough(pertussis) vaccine. Between the years of 1900 and 1935, mortalityrates due to whooping cough dropped by 79% in the U.S. Yet, thevaccine wasn’t introduced until 1940 (DTP and DTaP). Today, those mostsusceptible to whooping cough are the “immunized.” In 2002,researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionpublicly stated that “The number of infants dying from whooping cough,once a major killer of children in the United States, is rising despiterecord high vaccination levels in the nation.”

The measles vaccine is no different. In 1957, the MMR vaccinebecame widely used in an effort to eradicate measles, mumps andrubella. Rather than prevent measles, it elicited a widespreadepidemic. Between 1983 and 1990, there was a 423% increase in measlescases among those vaccinated. Today, the World Health Organization(WHO) actually warns that vaccinated individuals are 14 times morelikely to contract this disease compared to the unvaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control insisted that the MMR vaccine wouldalso eliminate mumps in the US by the year 2010. Then, in 2006, thelargest mumps outbreak in 20 years occurred. Among those who sufferedfrom mumps, 63% were “immunized.”

From its inception to now, the flu vaccine has proven just asworthless. In 2007, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) reported that the flu vaccine had “no or low effectiveness”against influenza or influenza-like illness. The analysis of datashowed that the vaccine protected from zero to fourteen percent ofvaccine participants.

Considering the overt failure of vaccination, the idea of mainlining an ineffective and dangerous vaccine into our vulnerablechildren is chilling. Regardless, Big Pharma is hell bent on pushingmore. Be forewarned, each and every vaccine will follow the sameineffective trend simply because they work against our immune system,not with it.

Vaccines will never be the panacea they are marketed as. Fortunately, as long as a child has proper eating and sanitation, theirimmune system can ward off biological threats. And in the rare case itdoesn't, emergency medicine can tackle the infection. This is healthmade simple. But, in a society hell-bent on trading health for wealth,it is often over looked; just like the logic that teaches, “Vaccinesdon’t protect children.”

About the AuthorEllison’s entire career has been dedicated to the study ofmolecules; how they give life and how they take from it. He was atwo-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical InstituteResearch Grant for his research in biochemistry and physiology. He is abestselling author, holds a master's degree in organic chemistry andhas first-hand experience in drug design.