We deal with vaccinations. Part 1. Introduction

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

1. Once upon a time, when I still loved to read newspapers in my youth, a long article about two lesbians was published in one of the Friday issues. Over the years, I don't remember exactly what it was about, but it seems like something about the fact that they are not allowed to legitimize the relationship. Among other things, it said that the son of one of them became autistic due to the vaccination. This was reported in one line, after which they continued to discuss lesbian affairs. I was so impressed by this line and the fact that they were discussing such nonsense, instead of discussing the main thing - that the child became autistic, and even as a result of the vaccination, that I then kept this article for a long time as a reminder that the topic of vaccinations you need to figure it out somehow.

2. Over the past few months, I have spent hundreds of hours researching vaccines. I have completely read over three hundred scientific studies, and hundreds of abstracts. Now I can declare with full responsibility that if you deliberately did not deal with this topic, then almost everything that you know about vaccinations is a lie. From the beginning to the end. Everything that is written on this topic in the media is propaganda, fake news, and all this has nothing to do with either science or reality.

3. I absolutely do not want to engage in reverse propaganda, since this is a very thankless task, but firstly, I simply cannot help writing about it, and secondly, I am writing all this in order to streamline my thoughts on this topic, and thirdly Maybe spending too much time researching vaccines can help other parents make better decisions.

If you are absolutely convinced that vaccinations are important, safe and effective, and you want to stay true to your own, then please do not read any further. Even with a little understanding of this topic, you will never be able to maintain this confidence.

4. Recently I spoke with a relative who said that when his first child was born, he devoted quite a lot of time to choosing a stroller, crib, child seat for a car, etc. But he didn’t spend a minute trying to figure out which vaccinations should or should not be done. Almost all parents delegate the right to this decision to others. They believe that other people - scientists, doctors or nurses - have already figured out this topic and made the best decision.

5. Parents make a huge number of decisions for their children. What to eat during pregnancy, where to give birth, how and what to feed the baby, feed on schedule or on demand, what complementary foods to introduce and when, is it worth giving a pacifier, what kind of babysitter to take, which kindergarten / school to send him to, etc., etc. Parents make hundreds of decisions related to all aspects of their child's life in order to raise a healthy and happy child.

6. At the moment, I believe that the most important parental decision is to vaccinate or not vaccinate the child. And this, the most important decision, almost all parents delegate. After all, the most important thing for any parent is the child's health. And there is practically nothing else that would affect his health more than the decision to do or not get vaccinated, and if so, which ones.

7. Some parents with whom I spoke are so confident in the importance of vaccinations that even knowing that some people consider vaccinations to be unsafe, they not only do not want to understand this, but aggressively defend their point of view without reading a single scientific article. They do not want to hear a word about how some vaccines may not be very effective or very safe, and this is proven by many scientific studies. You can calmly discuss any other topic with them, but as soon as it comes to vaccinations, they seem to be replaced. They do not want to listen to any arguments, and they almost shout about how important it is to vaccinate children, and what a blessing it is for humanity that medicine has given us vaccinations.

At first, I could not understand this in any way. How can it be that these very intelligent and educated people, all the owners of the 2nd or 3rd academic degree, become so religious and inadequate as soon as it comes to this purely scientific topic. And then I seem to understand.

They have all already vaccinated their children, and, like most parents, have disclaimed responsibility for this decision and delegated it to others. Subconsciously, they understand that if it turns out that vaccinations are not entirely harmless, then they endangered the health, and possibly even the life of their children. This is difficult to grasp. It is much easier to live thinking that the child has already been born like this. With allergies, developmental delay, with persistent otitis media, with any autoimmune disease, or even with a bunch of diseases. It is very difficult to live with the knowledge that you yourself gave this disease to him. Delegating authority, and relinquishing responsibility for this decision. By zealously defending vaccinations without even knowing anything about them, these parents are protecting themselves from powerful cognitive dissonance.

Therefore, if you have already fully vaccinated your children, you are not going to do new vaccinations, and your grandchildren are still far away, you probably should not be interested in this topic. Although, on the other hand, many of the consequences of vaccinations are cured if you realize that they are acquired, and not congenital.

8. The topic of vaccinations is very broad. It is impossible to understand it in a few hours, and even in a few days. It is advisable to devote at least 50-100 hours to it, or even more. There is no point in delving into this topic if there is no way to devote so much time to it. Otherwise, you will have a cognitive dissonance, you will no longer be sure of one or the other point of view. Many anti-vaccines make this mistake. They are already convinced of the dangers of vaccinations, but they are still very afraid of childhood diseases, and do not know how to prove their point of view. (This sentence was poorly worded and misinterpreted. You just have to watch one of the TV shows, or read one of the books, and look at only a few studies to make sure that nothing is being made up to stop vaccinating children. That's about 20 hours. Additional time you need to be absolutely confident in your point of view, which completely contradicts everything that the media tells us, and begin to thoroughly understand the topic. It is very difficult to change your point of view to the opposite from complete confidence in one extreme, to complete confidence in the other extreme. This is what takes time.)

On the one hand, this is a lot of time, on the other hand, a lot of materials on the topic of vaccinations are documentaries, series and video lectures. By replacing just a couple of seasons of your favorite TV series with TV shows, films, and vaccine-related lectures, you will already provide the lion's share of the time you need to research this topic. And it will change your life much more than the next season of Game of thrones.

In the number of hours that I devoted to the topic of vaccinations, I could have learned another foreign language. But looking back, I can say that vaccination is probably the most important topic that I have been interested in in my life so far. The conclusions that follow from it go far beyond vaccinations, and even beyond medicine. Vaccine research has changed my worldview like nothing else.

9. Many parents believe that they will in principle not be able to deal with vaccinations, and put forward two arguments. The first argument is that a biological or medical education is required to delve into this topic.

This is not true. Vaccinations are not rocket science, and any sane person can figure them out.

I don't even have a biomedical education, but my wife is a doctor, which, of course, helped me a lot with this topic. There are many biological concepts and terms in which it is desirable to understand, and when there is someone who can immediately explain what CD4 is, how does CIN1 differ from CIN3, or IgG from IgA, it saves a lot of time. On the other hand, Wikipedia explains it all well too. In principle, a complete understanding of all of these biological processes is completely unnecessary in order to understand whether vaccinations are safe or not.

My wife also taught me a much more important skill - the ability to critically read medical research. It turned out that reading medical research is very different from reading research in the exact sciences. There are many ways to design studies, choose control groups and placebos, and play with the data so that you can prove anything you want.

10. Second argument - no one can understand this topic better than scientists from the FDA or CDC. And if these scientists claim that vaccinations are completely safe and effective, then any other opinion is, by definition, the opinion of an incompetent person.

First, it is an appeal to authority, i.e. in itself a logical error.

Second, the question facing the CDC scientists is very different from the question facing parents. The CDC answers the question "how to reduce the number of infectious diseases in a population with the lowest risk, lowest cost, and highest efficiency." The question that parents face is "how to raise the healthiest child possible." These are completely different questions, and the answers to them, accordingly, may turn out to be completely different.

Thirdly, the interests of scientists, the FDA and the CDC go far beyond "public health", and there will be a considerable amount of material on this later.

Fourth, they don't have skin in the game. The health of your children is of interest only to you. It is not of interest to doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, and even more so, scientists from the CDC. If something happens to your child because of the vaccine, none of them will take any responsibility.

11. The topic of vaccinations is extremely emotional. For some reason, many people find it very difficult to rationally research this topic, and even read something on this topic. But in order to understand it, it is necessary to leave emotions aside. One has to admit that the arguments against vaccinations are possible, or some of them are correct, and soberly assess the arguments for and against.

12. It is wrong to ask yourself whether vaccinations are generally good or not. Some "experts" are beginning to argue that vaccinations against smallpox or yellow fever have saved millions of lives. Even if it does, it doesn't matter at all. Parents do not need to make a decision about the smallpox vaccine or yellow fever vaccine. They need to make decisions about completely different vaccinations.

13. Each vaccine is unique. The safety and effectiveness of each is completely different. There are vaccinations that are quite effective, there are almost useless, and there are those whose effectiveness is negative. There are safer vaccinations, but there are those that God forbid.

Each vaccine must be dealt with separately. Biologically, they work in very different ways, and this is important. The measles vaccine is very different from the whooping cough vaccine, and both are very different from the pneumococcal vaccine.

14. Most developed countries are vaccinated against the same diseases, but the number of vaccinations and the schedule of vaccinations in different countries are very different.

There are about 15 vaccinations in total: hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, hemophilus influenza B, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, rotavirus, pneumococcus, papilloma and influenza. Some countries also provide vaccinations against tuberculosis and meningococcus.

You need to make a separate decision for each vaccine. All these diseases are different, there are more dangerous and less dangerous. All vaccinations are also different. There is also a big difference between vaccines from different manufacturers, their effectiveness and side effects. There is a difference between vaccinations for the same disease in different countries. For example, ethylmercury, a vaccine preservative that has not been used in Western countries for 25 years, is still used in Russia and in third world countries.

15. In addition to vaccinations, it is also necessary to deal with the diseases from which they protect. It is necessary to understand whether childhood illnesses are really as dangerous as they are portrayed. It is necessary to figure out how many years the vaccine gives immunity, and how many years it is given by the transferred illness. It is necessary to figure out whether the illness is only harmful, or, perhaps, the transferred illness also has advantages.

16. The decision to give or not to receive each vaccine should not be emotional, but purely mathematical. If the likelihood of getting sick with the disease and getting complications from it is higher than the likelihood of complications from vaccination, then it is worth vaccinating. And if lower, then not worth it. This is an oversimplification, of course, because the complications can be more or less severe.

17. In addition to the active substance, vaccinations contain many additives. Adjuvants (aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, AAHS, squalene), preservatives and stabilizers (thiomersal, polysorbate 80, gelatin, formaldehyde), aborted diploid human cells (WI-38, MRC-5, RA-273), antibiotics, cow cells, DNA fragments (human and animal), yeast, urea, borax (a remedy for cockroaches), potassium chloride (used as an injection in the death penalty), egg white, monosodium glutamate and many others (full list here), as well as any other industrial garbage not listed on the package.. You need to make sure that all concentrations of all these ingredients are really safe enough to inject them into a healthy newborn baby.

18. It is surprising that even those people who read the inserts to medicines do not read the inserts to vaccinations, and generally have practically no interest in their side effects, despite the fact that they give these vaccines to their healthy newborn babies! Moreover, unlike drugs that are taken orally and are filtered by the liver and intestines, the entire content of intramuscular vaccinations completely goes into the circulatory, lymphatic or nervous systems.

19. If you read any media, you probably know that in 1998 a certain Andrew Wakefield published a study linking MMR vaccination with autism. Subsequently, dozens of studies were published proving that this vaccine does not cause autism, it was proved that Wakefield invented patients, and for this he was stripped of his doctor's license. All anti-vaccines are based on his fictitious data, and this one retracted study only.

All this is also a lie, and will be discussed in more detail later.

20. There are thousands of studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals proving both the safety and the ineffectiveness of vaccines.

21. But maybe anti-vaccines are cherry picking? Base their decision on a thousand studies on the dangers of vaccinations, and ignore a thousand other studies proving vaccine safety?

Maybe. So you also need to read studies that prove vaccines are safe, to make sure they don't usually prove it, and to figure out who actually does cherry picking. It is very important to read these studies in their entirety, and not just the abstracts, as too often the data speaks about one thing, and the conclusions about something completely opposite. It often happens that a placebo is not used at all, but some kind of neurotoxin, or other vaccine. It happens that data are played with so that they cease to be statistically significant, and a high Odds Ratio is dismissed at p-value = 0.06. It happens that the observation period is only a few days, and conclusions are made about the chronic consequences.

Paradoxically, studies proving the safety of vaccines prove they are unsafe even more than studies proving their harm.

22. The opportunity to independently deal with the topic of vaccinations appeared only a few years ago thanks to a Kazakh student Alexandra Elbakyan. Before that, almost all scientific research was not available to the general public, and each article had to be paid $ 30 to read. Science was hidden from the uninitiated with seven seals. Now, thanks to the sci-hub site, it is possible to find any research for free in a few seconds, and see with your own eyes what the hell some scientists are doing.

God bless Alexandra Elbakyan. She has done more to popularize science than all scientists and journalists put together.

23. To prove that vaccines are safe and effective, you just need to conduct a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Half of the children should be vaccinated with all vaccinations, and the other half should not be vaccinated at all. Such studies do not exist as it is currently considered unethical not to vaccinate children. Therefore, almost all existing studies are observational studies, case reports, hypotheses, expert opinions, animal studies, etc. There are no studies that check the entire vaccination schedule. Why, there is a whole calendar, there are not even adequate studies that check the safety of at least one vaccine!

Therefore, when they say "vaccinations are safe and effective", then this is a priori unproven statement. Until such a randomized trial is conducted, the decision to vaccinate or not to vaccinate is, by definition, a choice under conditions of uncertainty.

24. Serious side effects from vaccinations are considered to be extremely rare. One in a hundred thousand, or even one in a million. It's a lie. Since no one has conducted adequate vaccine studies, it is difficult to estimate the real number of side effects, but even with the most optimistic estimates, serious consequences are more common than one in fifty (see part 5). Half (!) Of children in the United States have at least one chronic disease, and their number is constantly growing. Of course, not all diseases are associated with vaccinations, but who knows how many are connected, if no one studies it?

Personally, I assume that almost everyone has the effects of vaccinations. It's just that most of them are implicit, but even if they are explicit, few people associate them with vaccination. For example, brain damage is known to be one of the rare but possible consequences of vaccination. But how many children have minor brain damage and, as a result, will only lose 10 IQ points, or have minor problems with memory, concentration, or social interaction? Could it be that the decline in the Flynn effect is due to a sharp increase in the number of vaccinations over the past couple of decades? Nobody tested it. But this is a completely logical assumption. If you take a newborn child who has not yet fully formed the blood-brain barrier, and inject him with a vaccine containing mercury or aluminum, which are neurotoxins, and some of which will certainly enter the brain, is it not logical to expect that this or that effect will have every child? And if this procedure is repeated several dozen times during the first years of life, isn't it logical to assume that this will further enhance the effect?

25. Reading research studies on vaccines is boring at first glance. However, it turned out to be incredibly addicting. It looks like a detective at first. You are trying to figure out who is good and who is bad, who is telling the truth and who is lying. Then it looks like a dystopia, when you see how pharmaceutical companies manipulate doctors and scientists, doctors manipulate patients, and patients are unaware of anything, and demand the continuation of the banquet. And in the end it looks like a horror novel, when you realize that this dystopia is real life.

26. Materials:

Scientific research will be discussed in the following posts. But before reading the research itself, it is highly advisable to watch a few films in order to get an overview of the existing problems with vaccinations, otherwise the forest will not be visible for the trees. If you are short on time, watch at least the first episode.

Films, lectures and series:

Vaccines revealed (10 episodes) (torrent)

The truth about vaccines (7 episodes) (torrent, first episode)

These films address common vaccine problems. There are many more very interesting films and video lectures addressing the more detailed problems of certain vaccinations, and they will be given in the future.

This is, I think, the most important book. It is not on the network, but it costs every penny. The author is a nephrologist who began researching the topic of vaccinations after seeing complications from them in her patients. If you don’t have time at all (although it’s not clear what is more important to you than your health and the health of your children), then at least read this book. If you are sure that vaccines saved the world from smallpox and polio, or that measles and whooping cough are very dangerous diseases, after reading this book, you will be sure otherwise. The book explores the history of vaccinations for the most part, and contains links to hundreds of scientific articles.

A chapter on poliomyelitis has been uploaded online for free.

The author is an immunologist who decided to figure out why she had measles, despite the fact that she was vaccinated. A very short book, reads in an hour. Can be found on the net. I won't give you links, after all Tatiana reads in Russian:)

Review of over four hundred scientific articles on vaccines.