Two months after initiating a campaign to vaccinate school girls against the Human Papillomavirus, the Japanese Government has suspended the active promotion of both Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines. Japanese health authorities have found these shots to be associated with rates of serious reactions which are more than twice that of other vaccines introduced at the … Continue reading »
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Reducing the incidence of grand claims
This is the second post in our series critiquing the new booklet “The Science of Immunisation”, from the Australian Academy of Science. Here Greg Beattie takes a look at the opening statement from the summary. “The widespread use of vaccines globally has been highly effective in reducing the incidence of infectious diseases and their associated complications, … Continue reading »
Child Administered 4 Vaccines Without Parental Consent — The Healthy Home Economist
Child Administered 4 Vaccines Without Parental Consent — The Healthy Home Economist. When children receive vaccines without the parent’s permission or against parental instructions, it is a crime and those who perpetrate it should be held legally and financially accountable. This is one of the reasons why the AVN opposes the administration of any vaccines … Continue reading »
Woodford Vaccination Forum
I am just writing a very brief post here because I want to relax a bit this evening but I promised to get these slides up on the website so here goes. The Woodfordia Vaccination Forum went according to schedule this afternoon. It was standing room only with people sitting in the aisles and standing … Continue reading »
Why are we still using the influenza vaccine?
The pseudo-skeptics say it – we have proof that vaccines work and anyone who says we don’t is simply not using science – they are too stupid, too innumerate, to understand the literature which is perfectly clear. Vaccines work. End of story. Except, it isn’t the end of the story and more and more evidence … Continue reading »
Diphtheria in QLD
About a month ago, a friend’s husband died at the age of 59. He had been a fairly healthy man though his diet left a bit to be desired and his stress levels were through the roof. Despite this, he had no obvious health problems until approximately 4 weeks before his death. He had a … Continue reading »
Evidence based medicine? Think again!
While the following article, a review of the book Demand Better by Sanjaya Kumar, mainly involves the American health system, most of this information applies to Australia and every other country where mainstream medicine means pharmaceutically-based treatments. “In America, there is no guarantee that any individual will receive high-quality care for any particular health problem. … Continue reading »
The Story Too Important Not to Repeat –
DEEP IMPACT – SABA BUTTON, THE GIRL WHO IS NEVER ALONE Property of The Sunday Times. First published in STM magazine April 3, 2010 The flu vaccine crisis that gripped the country last year left one innocent Perth toddler with debilitating brain damage. Now, 12 months on, Saba Button’s parents break their silence and … Continue reading »
Errors kill 15,000 aged patients a month: study
We are told to fear natural therapies because they are ‘untested’ and therefore, unsafe. Yet only about 15% of mainstream medical treatment have ever been shown to be either safe or effective and we see time and time again that Western medicine is the number 1 cause of death in most developed countries today. Instead … Continue reading »
