We deal with vaccinations. Part 4. Placebo

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

1. How is the safety of vaccinations checked? A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study is conducted, looking at what side effects occur in those who received the vaccine and comparing them with a control group.

2. Clinical trials are very expensive, they cost tens of millions of dollars. Drug development costs hundreds of millions. But these are all little things for pharmaceutical companies. The FDA-approved vaccine is very quickly on the vaccination schedule in most countries, and generates billions of dollars in profits a year. For example, the sales of one of the latest approved vaccines, Gardasil (for HPV), are more than 3 billion a year.

3. Pharmaceutical companies want, of course, to reduce the likelihood of clinical trials failing. But do they have such a legal opportunity?

It turns out there is, and it is very simple. You just need to use not a real placebo instead of a placebo, but something toxic enough, which leads to the same side effects that the tested vaccine leads to. One of the most toxic components of vaccines is aluminum (this will be proven elsewhere), which is used as an adjuvant in most vaccines. If instead of a placebo, aluminum is used, or, for example, aluminum with ethylmercury, or just another vaccine, then the number of side effects in the control group can be increased, and then it will be comparable to the number of side effects in the group who received the new vaccine. From this we conclude that the new vaccine has no side effects and is completely safe. Based on this data, the FDA and CDC will also conclude that the vaccine is safe, and so will all other countries.

Is it legal? Absolutely.

4. But in principle, even with the choice of a placebo, it is not necessary to suffer. The use of placebo in randomized clinical trials of vaccinations is not necessary at all. And studies don't have to be randomized or blind. You can just give everyone the vaccine and see what the side effects are. If the majority survive, then the vaccine is absolutely safe.

Here are two very interesting articles:

5. What's in placebos: who knows? Analysis of randomized, controlled trials. (Golomb, 2010, Ann Intern Med.)

There are no inert substances, and there are no guidelines for what a placebo should be. This, of course, affects the results of the study.

The results of clinical trials are not required to divulge what the composition of the placebo used was. Medical journals do not require this either.

The authors analyzed 167 clinical studies published in 4 of the most prestigious medical journals. Most clinical studies did not disclose the composition of the placebo. Studies only reported that 8% of pills and 26% of injections were used as a placebo.

For example, in a study of a drug for cancer-associated anorexia, the drug was found to have beneficial effects on the gastrointestinal tract. However, lactose was used as a placebo. Cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy are usually lactose intolerant, which makes the lactose-free drug compare favorably with "placebo".

6. Testing vaccines in pediatric research subjects. (Jacobson, 2009, Vaccine)

In 1930, two doctors from the German city of Lübeck decided to massively vaccinate children against tuberculosis with the BCG vaccine, which, although available since 1921, was not particularly used. During the 12 months of this campaign, 208 children contracted tuberculosis from the vaccine and 77 died. The doctors were arrested and convicted of murder.

This led to a discussion about the use of humans in medical experiments.

In 2008, the United States abandoned the Declaration of Helsinki. (Instead, the United States uses Good Clinical Practice, which does not restrict pharmaceutical companies as much as the Declaration of Helsinki.)

In vaccine research, saline (isotonic solution) can be used, but researchers often choose other drugs. The article provides four examples:

In a study on pneumococcal vaccine (PCV9), another vaccine (DTP-Hib) was used as a placebo.

The cholera vaccine study used the E. coli vaccine as a placebo.

Another study of pneumococcal vaccine (PCV23) used hepatitis A and B vaccines as placebo.

In the fourth study, aluminum hydroxide mixed with thiomersal (ethylmercury) was used as a placebo.

7. Unlike clinical trials of many drugs, where the placebo composition is hidden, many vaccine manufacturers do not hide the placebo used. To find it out, just read the vaccine inserts. Here are just a few examples:

8. Daptacel, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine (DTaP, Sanofi Pasteur). Three other vaccines were used as placebo - DTP, DT, and the experimental pertussis vaccine.

Yes Yes. An experimental vaccine was used as a placebo. Let that sink in.

9. Infanrix, another diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine (DTaP, GlaxoSmithKline). The Pediarix vaccine was used as a placebo. Moreover, both groups received these vaccines along with vaccinations against hepatitis B, pneumococcus, chickenpox, polio, Haemophilus influenzae, measles, mumps and rubella.

10. Pediarix, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and polio vaccine (DTaP-HepB-IPV, GlaxoSmithKline). This vaccine has been tested along with the Haemophilus influenzae vaccine. The control group received the Infanrix vaccine as well as the polio and Haemophilus influenzae vaccine.

That is, roughly speaking, the Infanrix trials used Pediarix as a placebo, and the Pediarix trials used Infanrix as a placebo. All of this was flavored with a mixture of several more vaccines to completely eliminate the possibility of distinguishing any side effects from the vaccine being tested.

11. The first vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis appeared long before anyone bothered with clinical trials, and even with the use of placebo. Therefore, it can be argued here that using a placebo to test them, that is, not vaccinating some of the children, is unethical. But even clinical trials of new vaccines for new diseases are using other vaccines as placebos.

12. Havrix, hepatitis A vaccine (GlaxoSmithKline). The clinical study consisted of three groups. The first one got the Havrix. The second received Havrix + MMR (measles / mumps / rubella vaccine). The third got MMR + chickenpox and also Havrix 42 days later.

13. Prevnar, pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7, Wyeth). An experimental (!) Meningococcus C vaccine was used as a placebo.

The next version of this vaccine, Prevnar-13 (Pfizer), used Prevnar as a placebo.

14. Cervarix, HPV vaccine (GlaxoSmithKline). The placebo was hepatitis A vaccine and aluminum hydroxide.

15. Engerix-B, hepatitis B vaccine (GlaxoSmithKline). There was no control group.

16. Recombivax, hepatitis B vaccine (Merck). There was no control group.

17. To authorize a new vaccine, it is enough for the FDA that it is no more dangerous than some other vaccine, or an experimental vaccine, or aluminum hydroxide, or some other substance that the pharmaceutical company is not even obliged to disclose. … This is how FDA scientists worry about your children's health.

No clinical study has ever used a vaccine, and has never used a real, inactive placebo

Therefore, the next time someone claims that vaccinations are perfectly safe, ask them how they are perfectly safe compared to.

Vaccinations are completely safe only in comparison with other vaccines, or in comparison with very toxic substances.