Vaccines
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TO: CBS News
RE: 60 Minutes piece entitled "Are Vaccines Safe?"
To whom it may concern,
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, you aired a piece on your program "60 Minutes" entitled "Are Vaccines Safe?" This was one of the most biased pieces of reporting I have witnessed in my 44 years. I was appalled at how one sided the program was. While you did present people on both sides of the issue, the time given to the "anti-vaccine" view was at best severely edited and at worst made those of us with real vaccine concerns appear foolish and naïve.
The question you asked about whether or not vaccines are safe was never really explored except by your so-called expert Dr. Paul Ortiff. Dr. Ortiff's reliability as a credible source must be called into question when it is revealed that he is a consultant to the Merck Pharmaceutical Company (who shares the patent on the Rotavirus Vaccine) and who has himself received a $350,000 grant from Merck.
Dr. Ortiff made the statement that vaccines are "safer than vitamins." I would like to see his evidence for this statement. I find his remarks fascinating since there has never been a billion dollar federal fund set up to compensate for injuries and deaths due to vitamin ingestion. The reason I make this statement is that you may be unaware that the government has established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that has paid out over one billion dollars to families whose relatives have been damaged or killed as a result of being vaccinated since the early 1980's.
You obviously are also unaware that the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) - the second largest organization of medical doctors behind the AMA - has made a public statement calling for an end to mandatory vaccines stating, "Our children face the possibility of death or long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that are not necessary or that have very limited benefits. We believe parents should be allowed to make informed decisions about their children's medical care - not government bureaucrats." I say you must be unaware of this statement because it was missing in your report.
Your report was based on the theory of "herd immunity," i.e., the idea that once a great enough percentage of the population has reached immunity that the incidence of disease becomes insignificant. However, this phenomenon was observed in populations that had achieved this through natural means, not vaccination. This theory does not apply to artificially immunized populations as evidenced by the fact that epidemics have often occurred in 98% and 100% vaccinated populations. This was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998; 280:635-637.
Even the Centers For Disease Control reported in its morbidity and mortality weekly report that 80% of all measles cases are in fully vaccinated people. (US Govt. 6/6/86; 35(22): 366-370.
The CDC's own figures put the number of childhood deaths in the 2003-04 "flu season" at 135. Of these, 59 had received their flu shots. 43% of these children did as they were told and died from the flu anyway. This means that the odds that the flu vaccine will "save" a child are not much different statistically than simply flipping a coin. (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avia/gen/info/pandemics.html)
I also did not see in your report, any of the data that is readily available from many sources that show unequivocally that every single disease a vaccine has been credited with wiping out was either significantly decreasing or nearly gone when the vaccine was introduced. And, in fact, that many of the mass vaccination programs actually caused an increase in the diseases initially. Nor did I see on your program the report from the CDC in the 1990's that stated that 100% of Polio cases in the U.S. since 1978 were actually caused by the vaccine.
The consensus regarding this phenomenon is that improved hygiene (including the introduction of sewer systems) was really responsible for the decline of these diseases.
You mentioned in your report that you had found over 9000 articles in your own research. What you neglected to tell the public is that none of them - not one - was a double blind scientific study that showed that vaccines actually prevent the flu. I know this is true because no study of this type has ever been done anywhere, at anytime! If it has, I would ask you to produce it for me and I will retract my statement.
Still, these figures I have given you only point to the fact that there is no evidence that vaccines even work. The real question you asked is, "are vaccines really safe?" You never mentioned that fact that vaccines have many toxic and cancer-causing ingredients including:
- Ethylene Glycol (antifreeze), a known neurotoxin and carcinogen.
- Phenol (AKA carbolic acid), a disinfectant/dye and carcinogen.
- Formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
- Aluminum, known to cause Alzheimer's disease, seizures and cancer.
- Thimerosal (a mercury derivative), known to cause autoimmune diseases and brain injury.
- Neomycin & Streptomycin (antibiotics), these kill the normal flora or "good" bacteria and contribute to an overgrowth of yeast and fungus. In addition, the Physician's Desk Reference specifically states that these antibiotics "should never be used in the absence of a positive bacterial culture or other overwhelming evidence of present infection" and that they should not be used for "preventative measures."
It is true that you did actually mention thimerosal in your report, but you referred to it as "a preservative that was once used in many vaccines." The truth is that it is still used in nearly all vaccines. In fact, Dr. Julie L. Gerberding of the CDC made the statement to congressional representatives that at best, the preservative may be eliminated from most vaccines by 2009.
Dr. Hugh Fundenburg (one of the most quoted biologists of our time) sited a study in his speech at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference (Arlington, VA, September, 1997) that showed that a person who has received five consecutive flu shots has a ten times higher risk of Alzheimer's Disease than if he or she only received one or two shots.
What about the data from the California Department of Public Health that showed a 287% increase in the use of the MMR vaccine and a 283% increased incidence of autism during the same time period? This was also conspicuously missing from your report. There is so much more evidence that I cannot list it here.
I am truly disappointed in your program and in Dan Rather for this obviously misleading and totally biased report. You have lost my confidence in your ability to present the truth to my practice members, my family and me. You have also lost my loyal viewing of your program.
Sincerely,
Kevin Donka, D.C.
10/25/04