Women’s Intuition and Other Fairy Tales

Yuck – I haven’t listened, but the whole phrase ‘anti-vaccination myths’ makes me want to puke already. It begins in bias. For example, far more health problems have occurred (proven in vaccine court, btw) from vaccines than occurred from the diseases. Jonas Salk testified to Congress that the polio vaccine had CAUSED most outbreaks of polio.
It’s not a myth – it’s on the public record.

Study the life of Edward Jennings for an eye-opening look into the origins of vaccination. It is not pretty.

You are merely making the opposite argument without any citations. Why should anybody take that seriously. I don’t care if anyone takes it seriously. go ahead, get vaccinated. It doesn’t mean anything to me. But check the CDC website for mortality rates of measles and mumps, for example – both declined by 90% before either vaccine was introduced.

Mary,

I apologize – I answered in haste because I was busy. Thank you for your civility – I’m just used to people name-calling and even worse, so I went on counter-attack inappropriately.

I think the best book is Evidence of Harm by Mark Blaxill, but it focuses exclusively on the thimerosal (organic mercury in vaccines) issue.

Here is a section from my book Buddha is an Atheist: a Spiritual Autopsy of Science and Religion. Citations are included at the end – they didn’t map through so well from MS Word – sorry.

The Vaccine problem:

My wife is not going to immunize our kids¬ – Dr. Oz

On September 15, 2010, twin 9-month-old girls received a measles vaccine in Ghaziabad, India. After the first began vomiting, the doctor insisted it was a normal reaction and vaccinated the second against the father’s wishes. Within an hour, both were dead.
Other vaccines are dangerous, too. Japan stopped use of Hib and pneumococcus in March, 2011 after a string of infant deaths. 2000 US babies died after getting the same injection and the CDC called any concerns “foolish.” The flu vaccine, by manufacturers’ own admission, is only 1% effective – worse than a placebo. In 2009-10, 50% of pregnant women received the H1N1 vaccine. A subsequent 700% nationwide rise in miscarriages was, according to the CDC, not related. However, the VAERS database catalogues hundreds of miscarriages within days and even hours of vaccination.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman is probably the most celebrated vaccinologist in the 20th century. He developed Merck’s MMR vaccine and led the department for decades. “Vaccines,” he said, “have to be considered the bargain basement technology for the 20th century.” Dr. J. Anthony Morris was Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Admininistration. “There is a great deal of evidence,” he said, “to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good.” These are odd statements, considering the reputation of vaccines – didn’t they stop all the terrible epidemics? When we dig, the evidence is not so clear.
The basic idea – a vaccine gives the body a chance to develop antibodies in response to an attenuated virus – has never been proved. It seems true. Where did pertussis, polio and mumps go, if not for vaccines? It’s so logical. Strangely, though, all of these diseases saw a 90% decline in mortality before the vaccines were introduced.
Vaccines are unusual potions. Here’s a list of common ingredients – Formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, calf serum, fetal rhesus monkey lung cells, monkey kidney cells, chick embryo, fetal bovine serum, washed sheep red blood cells, casein (from pig pancreas), ethylene glycol (antifreeze), neomycin/streptomycin (antibiotics), organic mercury, and diploid cells (from aborted human fetal tissue).
Few people would eat such a stew, but most don’t think about injecting it directly into the body. Vaccines are forced through live animal tissues to attenuate the virus. After picking up foreign proteins and viruses, it is restrengthened with adjuvants or anti-body boosters – aluminum hydroxide, formaldehyde, mercury derivatives, streptomyicyn among them. Any number of studies shows all of these substances can cause brain damage, cancer and autoimmune disorders. Yet infants are injected with thousands of times the daily adult limit. The mass of foreign proteins and viruses can’t be screened out. Both are among the most harmful of substances. All animal venoms, for example, are proteins.
The history is dubious. Edward Jenner, father of mass vaccination, led a checkered life. With certain evidence that cowpox conveyed no smallpox immunity and 30,000 British Pounds for his venture, he worked to suppress the data. He never received medical training, and his life’s work was roundly discredited as a failure in preventing disease. In fact, he caused innumerable deaths.
Early on, Jenner vaccinated eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox. A few months later, he inoculated the boy with smallpox. “No effect was produced,” he wrote. On this one experiment, Jenner claimed his vaccine would “forever secure a person from smallpox.” The government made vaccination compulsory. Phipps and Jenner’s own son were both vaccinated 20 times. Both died of tuberculosis by 21. In spite of this, his vaccination theories laid the foundation for the ones still in effect today. He even introduced re-vaccination (now called boosters) because the first shots failed immunity.
It’s widely believed that vaccination came from the modern theory of antibodies. The reverse is true. Ancient Hindus used cowpox to vaccinate against smallpox. Other ancient societies did similar things. The origins, by scientific standards, are superstition. Though never proven effective, modern scientists looked for a reason why this ‘worked.’ Antibodies, though none had yet been found, were born.
Scientists, by the way, do this in almost every field – take a theory and leap over key critical components of evidence. The ‘evidence’ comes in the form of artist’s renditions. Nowadays, it’s computer graphics. And the forms look great – they bypass the critical faculty. Visual media is different psychological terrain from the rational evidence based on words.
Compulsory vaccination in 1853 England preceded a smallpox epidemic. People refused the vaccine and the epidemic ended. 1871 saw the highest vaccination rates in the world – 125,000 vaccinated Germans died of the disease. Examples are endless. A London recorder wrote, “St. James Picadilly – 145 of 155 smallpox cases were vaccinated.”
“In the 1940s smallpox vaccination ceased and with it smallpox,” Dr. H.M. Shelton said. In 1929, India ceased vaccination and enjoyed an immediate decline while Mexico, with forced vaccinations, had up to 8 times the rate.
Of course, smallpox is archaic technology. What about more recent vaccines? Without vaccines, declines for measles (94%), scarlet fever (97%) and whooping cough (91%) exceed diptheria (89%) with a vaccine. In the late ’30s Germany began vaccinating for diptheria and endured an immediate epidemic of 150,000 in 1939. Without vaccines, Norway had 50 cases. The following chart needs one comment – No vaccine for typhoid or scarlet fever has ever been made.

The automobile may have done more to eliminate diseases than vaccinations – horse offal vanished. Vaccination skeptics cite improvements in sanitation, nutrition, vitamins, and hygiene as primary causes for disease decline.
Did vaccines improve later? A mumps outbreak happened in February of 2010 – 88% had been vaccinated for mumps. Versus natural immunity, vaccines provide only a temporary and lower level, if any.
In outbreaks, diseases occur in the same percentage for vaccinated as for unvaccinated – directly contradicting immunization. Vaccines are held to be about 90% effective. But in even the worst epidemic, only 10% of the population contracts a disease. In other words, non-vaccination is also 90% effective. The statistics for flu vaccine are not released. We are never told, for example, that half the people get vaccinated and only 10% of flu victims were vaccinated. It could be 85%, though, and the fact that the CDC do not publish such an easy statistic to track is questionable.
Even if useless, do they cause harm? On average, 13,000 adverse vaccine reactions are reported every year. The FDA said 90% go unreported, meaning there are 130,000 cases. They include permanent brain damage and hundreds of deaths. FDA commissioner David Kessler said, “only about one percent of serious incidents are reported to the FDA.” This gives a number above a million. The government does not investigate any VAERS reports. Families must prove a causal link to win a suit in vaccine court, and over $2 billion dollars have been paid for vaccine injuries. According to the courts, vaccines cause plenty of harm.
One aboriginal study from the ’70s showed a death rate up to 50% of all children in some areas after the introduction of mass vaccination. The study author linked the high rate to an already weakened system due to malnutrition unable to survive the assault of vaccines. When the doctor gave Vitamin C simultaneous with vaccines, the death rate dropped to zero.
Senior CDC epidemiologist Dr. William Atkinson said, “In some large [measles] outbreaks…over 95% of cases have a history of vaccination.” Atypical measles, occurring only in the vaccinated, kills 13% of patients. In 1978, the mandatory vaccine for school attendance program preceded an immediate 3-fold increase in whooping cough. The unvaccinated Amish population had zero cases of measles from 1970 to 1988. Polio vaccines are well-known to cause outbreaks. Even the inventor, Jonas Salk, testified before Congress that almost all polio outbreaks since 1961 were due to the oral vaccine. Indeed, Massachusetts had a 642% increase in polio one year after introducing the vaccine.
In 1975 Japan ceased vaccinating children under 2 years and enjoyed a drop from 17th in infant mortality to lowest in the world. They reinstated the policy of 3-months-old vaccinations and infant mortality reverted. The malaria vaccine is clinically established as causing recurrent psychosis for ten years. This is called a ‘side effect.’ The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that pertussis-vaccinated children had five times the asthma rate.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is eight times more likely within 72 hours of a DTP shot. Dr. William Torch, Univeristy of Nevada Medical School, studied 103 SIDS cases. 4 died within 12 hours of vaccination, 9 within 24 hours, 28 within 3 days, and 78 within three weeks. Dr. Vera Scheibner showed an enormous increase in cessation and abnormally shallow breathing immediately after DTP vaccination. “Vaccination,” she said, “is the single most prevalent and preventable cause of infant deaths.”
The typical time test for a vaccine is about two weeks – no long-term consequences are tested. The vaccine registry now requires every person to be vaccinated. Parental failure to comply can result in forced vaccination and charges of child abuse.
Are pharmaceutical companies acting in the best interests of their clients or their shareholders? Experimental vaccines are forced on servicemen for profit to the industry. Paul Offit wrote Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know, a rabidly pro-vaccine book. Merck vaccine division endorsed it, bought 20,000 copies and gave them to doctors’ offices. Merck gave $350,000 in grants to Offit’s partner. Offit holds the patent for Merck’s rotavirus vaccine, as well, garnering royalties from its use. Dr. Offit is on the CDC’s advisory committee for immunization. The committee is charged with promotion of vaccines and overseeing their administration. They recommend vaccines that are mandatory for school attendance. According to Dr. Offit, “we did more harm than good in allowing the parent to be fully informed.”
The American Association of Pediatrics, 100% pro-vaccine, receives about half a million dollars per year from Merck alone. Current recommendation by the CDC is 50 injections for sixteen diseases by 18. It is a quadrupling of the 1970s schedule. There are no studies comparing the overall health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children. “In the absence of facts,” Dr. Jay Gordon wrote, “doctors and others are trying to frighten people into vaccinating,”
Louis Cooper, M.D. said, “I don’t know any rational person who could truly be anti-vaccine because the results are so profound.” This is a typical statement of scientism – if one is against a practitioner’s belief, then the person is irrational. According to Dr. Robert Sears, no vaccine study has had a large enough control group to have any meaning. It’s commonly said that unvaccinated children put other children at risk. The logic is contradictory – if vaccinations confer immunity, there is no risk. The 90% unvaccinated Principe school, for example, has never had an outbreak of any vaccine-preventable disease.

http://www.wearechangechicago.com/we-are-change-chicago-member-assaulted-and-arrested-on-false-charges-for-questioning-dr-oz-about-vaccines.html
2000 vaccinated babies died, Neil Z. Miller, March 2011.
Dannemann, Eileen. CDC allegedly falsifies reports–ignoring up to 3,587 Miscarriages from H1N1 Vaccine. Oct. 28, 2010 Press Release. National Coalition of Women.
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Physicians Desk Reference, 2003.
Baron’s Life of Jenner, Vol. II, p. 304
History of inoculation and vaccination, p. 6
The Poisoned Needle. Eleanor McBean. 1957.
The Poisoned Needle, Eleanor MacBean, 1957.
CDC weekly update, Feb. 12, 2010 / 59(05);125-129
http://www.thinktwice.com
Every Second Child, Archie Kalokerinos, MD.
7 reasons schools should not mandate vaccines, Neil Z. Miller, 2010.
Shirley’s wellness Café.com
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The Vaccine debate. Mothering magazine, July 2009 Jennifer Margulis.
Commentary:Parents should not be legally liable for refusing to vaccinate their children. Michigan Law Review, 107.

Interesting stuff really .

Women are very easily seduced in many ways , unfortunately enough .

I can tell, i was a kindda immoral Don Juan myself : i broke so many ladies ‘ hearts , i am not so proud of .

Wooooza. Take away the gender labels. Now let us realize how irrational it is to ignore intuition as intellect. This lady clearly is so lacking in intuition that she just does not ‘get it’.

how many mothers these days trust their instincts when compared with societal pressure? how many new mothers have their children circumcised? that’s a pretty clear number that have totally given in to pressure.

-’The crappy underside of our society has got you believing that “you can’t possibly have made decisions based on reason, you’re just a female, you’re decisions have to have been made by instinct”.-

‘First of all I am not a “victim” of some grand patriarchal conspiracy to make women feel inferior, unintelligent or irrational, nor have I fallen into some “trap”. That’s a ludicrous assumption. Particularly because there is no conspiracy. Men and Women alike are as inferior as they believe to be; Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. I am no one’s victim.

My belief in intuition does not make me an unintelligent, insecure and irrational drone in which is implied by your post. When faced with multiple logical, rational and intelligent solutions my intuition helps to guide me to the best coarse of action that is in the best interest of my child and I. A mothers intuition isn’t necessarily “magical” thinking and it doesn’t make you a psychic it means that a mother is in tune with her child. One solution which may be good for one child may not be a good choice for another.

No one is saying that a mother must know 100% all the time what to do in any situation without help or guidance; but a mother MUST be able to make a decision. Sometimes there is too much conflicting help and guidance, which can be paralyzing and leave a mother indecisive. Do you have any idea how many different parenting philosophies are out there? It’s overwhelming and the reality is not every philosophy is right for every parent and child. Intuition, if listened to, can help to guide a women through all that societal pressure.

‘When faced with multiple logical, rational and intelligent solutions my intuition helps to guide me to the best coarse of action’ -I don’t think intuition is in fact what you are describing here. What you are describing is the ability to identify the most promising course of action based on experience and probability which is something both sexes are capable of. At times a choice may ‘feel’ right because it is in accordance with your sub-concious but it does not implicate the existence or involvement of gender-specific abilities. After re-reading your post I suspect that at some point you forgot she was talking about ‘Women’s Intuition’ exclusively.