Thankfully in America we as parents still have the freedom to choose how to raise our children, what to feed them, how to educate them, how to celebrate with them, and how to try and keep them healthy. All we can do is try.
I am a supporter of informed choice. Over the years I have had others with open mouths ask how we could dare not vaccinate and when I asked why they believe the vaccinations are safe the empty glare I too often got and a comment like “Because they just are” has left me feeling bad for us all. Some never even think to question. Do they even know they can question?
I have been blessed to also know bright amazing mothers who have looked into the safety of vaccination and do vaccinate. I respect them all the more for it.
I believe either way we are taking risks. Do vaccinate and risk the side effects. Don’t vaccinate and risk a illness.
I just can not knowingly put something harmful into my children that I can not then take out. Harm None.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-carrey/the-judgment-on-vaccines_b_189777.html
Jim Carrey: The Judgment on Vaccines Is In???
Recently, I was amazed to hear a commentary by CNN’s Campbell Brown on
the controversial vaccine issue. After a ruling by the ‘special
vaccine court’ saying the Measles, Mumps, Rubella shot wasn’t found to
be responsible for the plaintiffs’ autism, she and others in the media
began making assertions that the judgment was in, and vaccines had
been proven safe. No one would be more relieved than Jenny and I if
that were true. But with all due respect to Ms. Brown, a ruling
against causation in three cases out of more than 5000 hardly proves
that other children won’t be adversely affected by the MMR, let alone
that all vaccines are safe. This is a huge leap of logic by anyone’s
standards. Not everyone gets cancer from smoking, but cigarettes do
cause cancer. After 100 years and many rulings in favor of the tobacco
companies, we finally figured that out.
The truth is that no one without a vested interest in the
profitability of vaccines has studied all 36 of them in depth. There
are more than 100 vaccines in development, and no tests for cumulative
effect or vaccine interaction of all 36 vaccines in the current
schedule have ever been done. If I’m mistaken, I challenge those who
are making such grand pronouncements about vaccine safety to produce
those studies.
If we are to believe that the ruling of the ‘vaccine court’ in these
cases mean that all vaccines are safe, then we must also consider the
rulings of that same court in the Hannah Polling and Bailey Banks
cases, which ruled vaccines were the cause of autism and therefore
assume that all vaccines are unsafe. Clearly both are irresponsible
assumptions, and neither option is prudent.
In this growing crisis, we cannot afford to blindly trumpet the agenda
of the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or vaccine
makers. Now more than ever, we must resist the urge to close this book
before it’s been written. The anecdotal evidence of millions of
parents who’ve seen their totally normal kids regress into sickness
and mental isolation after a trip to the pediatrician’s office must be
seriously considered. The legitimate concern they and many in the
scientific community have that environmental toxins, including those
found in vaccines, may be causing autism and other disorders
(Aspergers, ADD, ADHD), cannot be dissuaded by a show of sympathy and
a friendly invitation to look for the ‘real’ cause of autism anywhere
but within the lucrative vaccine program.
With vaccines being the fastest growing division of the pharmaceutical
industry, isn’t it possible that profits may play a part in the
decision-making? That the vaccine program is becoming more of a profit
engine than a means of prevention? In a world left reeling from the
catastrophic effects of greed, mismanagement and corporate
insensitivity, is it so absurd for us to wonder why American children
are being given twice as many vaccines on average, compared to the top
30 first world countries?
Paul Offit, the vaccine advocate and profiteer, who helped invent a
Rotavirus vaccine is said to have paved the way for his own
multi-million dollar windfall while serving on the very council that
eventually voted his Rotavirus vaccine onto our children’s schedule.
On August 21, 2000 a congressional investigation’s report titled,
“Conflicts in Vaccine Policy,” stated:
It has become clear over the course of this investigation that the
VRBPAC and the ACIP [the two main advisory boards that determine the
vaccine schedule] are dominated by individuals with close working
relationships with the vaccine producers. This was never the intent of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires that a diversity of
views be represented on advisory committees.
Isn’t that enough to raise questions about the process of choosing the
vaccine schedule?
With many states like Minnesota now reporting the number at 1 in 80
children affected with autism, can we afford to trust those who serve
two masters or their logic that tells us “one size fits all” when it
comes to vaccines? Can we afford to ignore vaccines as a possible
cause of these rising numbers when they are one of the fastest growing
elements in our children’s environment? With all the doubt that’s left
hanging on this topic, how can anyone in the media or medical
profession, boldly demand that all parents march out and give their
kids 36 of these shots, six at a time in dosage levels equal to that
given a 200 pound man? This is a bias of the most dangerous kind.
I’ve also heard it said that no evidence of a link between vaccines
and autism has ever been found. That statement is only true for the
CDC, the AAP and the vaccine makers who’ve been ignoring mountains of
scientific information and testimony. There’s no evidence of the
Lincoln Memorial if you look the other way and refuse to turn around.
But if you care to look, it’s really quite impressive. For a sample of
vaccine injury evidence go to
www.generationrescue.org/lincolnmemorial.html.
We have never argued that people shouldn’t be immunized for the most
serious threats including measles and polio, but surely there’s a
limit as to how many viruses and toxins can be introduced into the
body of a small child. Veterinarians found out years ago that in many
cases they were over-immunizing our pets, a syndrome they call
Vaccinosis. It overwhelmed the immune system of the animals, causing
myriad physical and neurological disorders. Sound familiar? If you can
over-immunize a dog, is it so far out to assume that you can
over-immunize a child? These forward thinking vets also decided to
remove thimerosal from animal vaccines in 1992, and yet this
substance, which is 49% mercury, is still in human vaccines. Don’t our
children deserve as much consideration as our pets?
I think I’d rather listen to the more sensible voice of Dr. Bernadine
Healy, former head of the National Institute of Health, who says:
Listen to the patients and the patients will teach…I think there is
an inexcusable issue, and that’s the lack of research that’s been done
here…A parent can legitimately question giving a one-day old baby,
or a two-day old baby [the] Hepatitis B vaccine that has no risk for
it [and] the mother has no risk for it. That’s a heavy-duty vaccine
given on day two [of life]. I think those are legitimate questions.
Dr. Healy is also calling for a long overdue study of vaccinated vs.
unvaccinated. Dr. Frank Engly, a researcher and microbiologist who
served on the boards of the CDC, FDA and EPA during the 70s and 80s,
warned:
The CDC cannot afford to admit thimerosal is toxic because they have
been promoting it for several years…If they would have followed
through with our 1982 report, vaccines would have been freed of
thimerosal and all this autism as they tell me would not have
occurred. But as it is, it all occurred.
In all likelihood the truth about vaccines is that they are both good
and bad. While ingredients like aluminum, mercury, ether, formaldehyde
and anti-freeze may help preserve and enhance vaccines, they can be
toxic as well. The assortment of viruses delivered by multiple
immunizations may also be a hazard. I agree with the growing number of
voices within the medical and scientific community who believe that
vaccines, like every other drug, have risks as well as benefits and
that for the sake of profit, American children are being given too
many, too soon. One thing is certain. We don’t know enough to announce
that all vaccines are safe!
If the CDC, the AAP and Ms. Brown insist that our children take twice
as many shots as the rest of the western world, we need more
independent vaccine research not done by the drug companies selling
the vaccines or by organizations under their influence. Studies that
cannot be internally suppressed. Answers parents can trust. Perhaps
this is what Campbell Brown should be demanding and how the power of
the press could better serve the public in the future.
— Jim Carrey
