Some excerpts from this invaluable article....

http://mypetcarnivore.com/NaturalImmunity.pdf

The information in this book, for most lay people, will
come as a complete shock. When the realization hits, please
don't blame yourself or feel guilty. You counted on your
doctor to tell you the truth. And in defense of these medical
professionals, most of them don't know the truth either, as
you will hear from veterinarians themselves in this book.
The medical community has been brainwashed. They
are told in medical school that vaccines work, and they take
it on faith. Most veterinarians are sincerely interested in the
best care for their patients; however, because new concepts
of vaccination are currently being taught in veterinary
schools, that just continues to perpetuate the veterinarian's
belief in them.
Western or allopathic medicine is always saying they
have to have proof, double-blind studies, and yet, has your
veterinarian ever shown you proof that vaccinations work?


The general public has been sucked in to believing that
decayed animals, diseased blood, sera, bacteria, viruses,
fungi, mucous, pus, urine, feces, antibiotics,
formaldehyde, mercury derivatives, acetone, aluminum
and carbolic acid put into a mixture; shot through our greatest
protector, our skin; directly into our blood system is the answer to
keeping us free of disease. How barbaric.

One of the most frightening aspects of vaccines is that
studies are done on as few as five to fifteen animals for as
little time as three months before allowing them to be used
nationwide. You will read many quotes similar to the
following in this book.
Viera Scheibner, PhD, states, "I did not find it
difficult to conclude that there is no evidence
whatsoever that vaccines of any kind-but especially
those against childhood diseases-are effective in
preventing the infectious diseases they are supposed to
prevent. Further, adverse effects are amply documented
and are far more significant to public health than any
adverse effects of infectious diseases. Immunizations,
including those practiced on babies, not only did not
prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering
and more deaths than has any other human activity in the
entire history of medical intervention. It will be decades
before the mopping -up after the disasters caused by
childhood vaccination will b~ completed. All vaccination
should cease forthwith and all victims of their side effects
should be appropriately compensated."

For years I have felt that vaccinations
caused much of the illness in the world. The fear, guilt and
intimidation put upon us by the medical community, the
media and politicians would certainly lead you to believe
otherwise. However, after hearing Viera Scheibner, PhD
(Natural Sciences), speak out in total opposition to
vaccinations, I knew my feelings were true. She had solid
medical proof, after going through some 30,000 pages of
medical papers dealing with vaccines, that there is no
evidence of their effectiveness or safety.
We as the guardians of our animals and children have
the responsibility and the obligation to protect our loved
ones. Just because some "authority" figure says this is what
you must do, don't succumb; ask questions; ask for medical
proof; get a second opinion. Your loyalty is to your animal
and your child, not to rules, regulations and laws by a
politician or a doctor.

More than 100 years ago vaccines were
described in medical journals to be noxious
substances " ... and that when injected into the blood
stream they do not immunize, they sensitize," causing
allergies, respiratory problems and other
autoimmune diseases.
If you are waiting for the medical community to
discontinue vaccinations, it won't happen.
Now, I don't believe for a moment that any
medical doctor would knowingly give vaccines if they believed it
would make your loved one ill. However ... 1) they are force-fed
statistics in medical school and it continues throughout their practice
from the pharmaceutical companies; 2) studies, tests, and research are
made to favor pro-vaccination in the same way as the tobacco
industries' studies do concerning cigarettes; 3) doctors are also in fear
of liability because vaccinations are presently the accepted norm; 4)
much of their income comes from vaccinations; 5) it is often that very
vaccination that causes the child or the animal to come back again as
a patient with illnesses caused by the vaccines they were given, which
perpetuates the physician's practice; and foremost 6) the majority of
medical doctors just don't entertain any conscious thought about the
deadly effects of vaccines.
I often hear that "My dog, cat or child has had
vaccinations and they are okay." How do you know? The
body harbors many of these illnesses for years. We have no
idea what the incubation period is or how long the body
holds these poisons in abeyance.

Richard H Pitcairn, DVM, PhD (Immunology), warns, "If I
may venture to make a prediction, it is that fifty to one hundred
years from now, people will look back at the practice of
introducing disease into people and animals for the purpose of
preventing these same diseases as foolishness ... a foolishness
similar to that of the practice of blood letting and the use of toxic
doses of mercury in the treatment of disease."
Viera Scheibner, PhD, "The well-vaccinated United States
is experiencing epidemics of infectious diseases in fully
vaccinated children. No amount of denial and underreporting will
cover up the one most obvious fact, namely, that vaccines do not
work."

There is probably no more troubling issue in
holistic veterinary medicine today than the question
of giving vaccinations to animals. There is compelling
and suggestive evidence, at least to many perceptive
clinicians, that they do more harm than good. As a
way to get into this discussion, let's look, first, at some
of the concepts behind the vaccine idea.
As developed and used by the medical profession,
vaccination is based on two notions. The first one is that if
the patient can be given a disease that expresses itself in a
very mild form, then immunity (later protection) will develop
just as it would with the usual, more virulent, infection. This
immunity would obviously allow protection without having
to go through the discomfort or even life-threatening
experience of the disease itself.
The second notion is that this milder disease is not
harmful in any significant way.

Have these ideas been successful? There is controversy
about this in the medical profession. Most practicing doctors
think of vaccines as being highly safe and successful, yet
those who are more knowledgeable in the field of
immunology speak in more guarded tones. (I speak from
some personal experience as my PhD training was in the
field of veterinary immunology.) There are problems.
Without going into excessive detail, there are two major
problem areas. The first has to do with the vaccination not
"taking." That is, even though it is given properly, no
immunity results. There are many factors associated with
this development, not the least of which is the inability of the
patient to properly respond to the vaccine infection (read
weakened immune system). The second major problem is
the report, in human beings, of illness, retardation,
paralysis and death after vaccination. Though this varies
with different types of vaccines, it is a continuing issue. One
needs only to mention the swine flu vaccination drive in the
United States a few years ago (See Chapter Five) to bring to
mind some of the things that can happen.
As if this were not enough fuel for controversy,
let me add one thought. Over the last decade or so,
there has been increasing use of combined vaccines.
Rather than give each one individually and allow the
body to deal with that infection, the practice now is to
add them together and given them all in

one big "shot." Thus, it is not unusual for a dog to receive six
vaccines, altogether at one time. Further, though this is hard to
believe, I know that dogs being treated with corticosteroids for allergy
problems are vaccinated just the same as other animals. One of the
side effects of corticosteroids is the suppression of the immune
system. Is this logical?
In my opinion, the result of this practice--
frequent vaccination (once or twice a year) and of
multiple injections at one time--is a confusing and
weakening of the immune system. There is no
precedent in nature for this kind of experience.
When I was teaching epidemiology at Washington State
University, my study of natural disease cycles in
wolves and similar animals revealed something very
interesting. When epidemics of disease sweep through a
population (actually called an epizootic when involving
animals), it is always one disease at a time. In wolves,
this is usually distemper or rabies; often in different
years.
What this means is that over millennia of evolutionary
development, the animal body has adapted to responding
quickly to infection; one at a time. What this means is that
the practice of giving six or more infections at one time is
highly unnatural.

In this article we begin to address the subject of
vaccinosis, the general name for chronic disease caused by
vaccines. For some readers the very idea that vaccines are
anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a
surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one. After all, the general
population pictures vaccines as one of modern medicine's
best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from the
scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox.
However, there is a great deal of statistical
evidence to show that the incidence of these and other
major communicable diseases was on the decline
before the vaccine programs were enforced.
Improvements in sanitation as well as nutritional
teachings seem to be the obvious reason for the
decline, since other communicable diseases, for which no vaccines were
available, were declining, and continued to decline, at the
same time.

"When I first began to search the homeopathic
literature for information about the relation of vaccination to
disease, I found vaccination first clearly described as a
chronic disease in the book Vaccinosis and Its Cure by
Thuja with Remarks on Homeoprophylaxis, by J Compton
Burnett, MD, the first edition of which appeared in London
in March of 1884. Burnett refers to the chronic disease that
results from vaccination by the name vaccinosis. Vaccinosis
is to be understood as the disturbance of the vital force by
vaccination that results in mental, emotional and physical
changes that can, in some cases, be a permanent condition.
Burnett also makes the interesting observation that, rather
than protecting some individuals as planned, vaccination
actually makes them more susceptible. The vaccination,
having created a chronic disease ahead of time, can
predispose the patient to a more serious natural illness which
combines with the established vaccinosis.
"The laboratory modification of a viral disease to make
a vaccination strain changes the virus so that its natural
tendency to arouse a strong response is gone. Instead it can
be introduced into the body in a form that does not elicit
much of a reaction. The result is the establishment of a
chronic disease that has never been seen before in clinical practice.
What I am suggesting is that,
because of repeated vaccination, acute diseases such as canine
distemper have changed form to appear as a great variety of chronic
diseases, which are sometimes given new names from the mistaken
idea that they are different and distinct diseases.

"In terms of effectiveness, one important point to
consider is that it is not sufficient that the specific syndrome
for which a given vaccine is administered not be seen. The
overall level of health of the persons or animals receiving the
vaccines is an equal indicator of effectiveness. There is not
really a system for tabulating the incidence of the common
diseases of dogs and cats. There are figures for some of the
reportable diseases of livestock, but the rapid turnover of
these animals makes long-term studies almost impossible.
However, since there are statistics for the common human
diseases, we can reverse the process we usually find
ourselves using as veterinarians: instead of using animals to
study human disease, we can use human disease to answer
our questions about animals.
"Looking at the statistics available for smallpox, polio,
measles and pertussis (whooping cough), we find that
besides the fact that the incidence of these diseases was
already declining before vaccination programs were
enforced, the incidence actually increased once these
programs were instituted. Some countries, looking at statistics showing
this lack of efficacy and increase in disease
incidence, together with deaths resulting from reactions to the
vaccination, have terminated compulsory vaccination. When
Australia did so in the case of the smallpox vaccine, smallpox
virtually disappeared in that country (three cases in fifteen years). In
the case of the polio vaccine, many European countries refused to
systematically inoculate their citizens, yet polio epidemics also ended
in these countries as well.
"Measles is an especially interesting disease to
look at because of its close similarity to canine
distemper. The measles vaccine was introduced in
1963, even though in the United States and England a
greater than 95 percent decline in the measles death rate
had already occurred between 1915 and 1958. Also, the
death rate from measles in the mid-1970s (post-vaccine)
was exactly the same as it was in the early 1960s
(prevaccine). A study by the World Health
Organization concludes that chances are 14 times
greater that measles will be contracted by those
vaccinated against the disease than by those who
have not been vaccinated. The federal government
reported in 1985 that 80 percent of the 1,984 cases of
measles occurred in people who had been properly
vaccinated. More recently outbreaks have continued to
occur throughout the country, sometimes among 100
percent vaccinated populations.
"One particularly harmful effect of this continued use of a useless
vaccine is that the disease now
affects primarily a different age group. The peak incidence of
measles no longer occurs in children, but in adolescents and
young adults. As a result the risk of complications of
pneumonia and liver abnormality have increased. Also,
before the vaccine was introduced, it was extremely rare for
an infant to contact measles. However, by 1993 more than 25
percent of all measles cases were occurring in babies under
one year of age. The Center for Disease Control anticipates a
worsening of this situation and attributes it to the growing
number of mothers who were vaccinated during the last 30
years, therefore passing on no natural immunity to their
children.
"In the process of training as a doctor or veterinarian,
one goes in as a relatively naive young person. The
conditioning is heavy; it costs a lot of money, and of course
you want to do well. Students are told how wonderful
vaccines are, and they don't really question it; they accept as
a fact that they're these great boons to health, are never
harmful, and have saved a lot of lives--it's black and white.
The companies making the vaccines have great amounts of
money and influence to campaign and advertise. You have a
situation on the one hand where doctors are conditioned to
accept and on the other hand companies powerful enough to
squelch negative comment.

Harmful Effects of Vaccination
Besides the possibility that they may not work,
vaccines might also cause an acute disease or a
chronic health problem. I have often noticed certain
animals getting ill a few days to a few weeks after
receiving vaccinations. Often the explanation given is
that the dog or cat was already incubating the disease and
was going to get it anyway. Granted that this may
occasionally happen, in my opinion, most of these
instances are illness from the vaccine itself.

Based on the experience of over 17 years of
homeopathic practice, it is my opinion that most animal skin
allergies (and similar skin diseases) are the result of
repeated annual vaccinations. I also suspect that the
widespread increase in diseases caused by immune system disorders, such
as hyperthyroidism,
inflammatory bowel disease, lupus and pemphigus (a
serious skin disease in which blisters appear on the skin
and on mucous membranes in the mouth and elsewhere),
is a result of increased use of vaccinations especially
of combination formulas.

When a
combination vaccine is given, a massive invasion of
several potent pathogens charges quickly into the
bloodstream, bypassing the frontline defenses. Is it
any wonder that the immune system gets confused,
"panics" and begins attacking the body itself?

Fortunately, many other veterinarians are now
recognizing this problem. Reports have appeared in
journals over the last few years describing diseases that
follow routine vaccinations -- bleeding disorders, bone
and joint inflammation, even tumors and cancers in
some cats. At this point the attitude of most
veterinarians is that these happenings are an anomaly. I
think it will take many more years for the realization
to dawn that some degree of adverse health effects
occur in the majority of those vaccinated.

Many health professionals, medical
doctors, parents and guardians of animals are beginning to
see the dangers of vaccinations. Unfortunately it has taken
many chronic illnesses and deaths from these vaccines before
people are taking notice.
Even veterinarians and pediatricians who are
aware-because they are so controlled by the
bureaucratic medical and legal systems-are afraid to
state their concerns over the effects of vaccines, and
rightly so. The AMA, the AVMA, other medical and
legal organizations, city, county and state
governments, peers, pharmaceutical companies, et
aI, would come down on them; they stand to be
ostracized; to be put through lengthy and expensive
legal proceedings; to lose their licenses to practice
medicine; and ultimately, they may have to stop
doing what they love, caring for animals and
children.

"Though vaccination has
become a highly controversial subject, those who
challenge the concept are sometimes treated as if
they were against apple pie and motherhood. I
consider conventional vaccines to be extremely
dangerous. As you will see in this chapter, many
veterinarians agree that vaccination is one of the
most harmful things we do to our animals."

"Recently, polyvalent
(containing different viruses) vaccines have been shown to
induce suppression of absolute lymphocyte responsiveness.
Previous studies have shown a reduction in platelet count.
Can antigenic overload from single or combination vaccines
overwhelm the host's immune system" If so, can
immunosuppression result?"

"If you knew when you
gave a vaccination that you might save an animal from an
episode of an acute disease, and you also knew that you
would be sentencing the animal to a lifetime of chronic
disease, would you still vaccinate?"

"Vaccinosis in animals is a true
disease state. My own research leads me to believe that some vaccines
prevent acute disease by
presenting a chronic disease in its place and that the disease will come
back in a form that modern veterinary (allopathic) medicine is
incapable of curing."

"Poor nutrition and
vaccinations are the primary causes of all chronic and most
acute health problems our beloved pets experience today.
Under conditions of optimal nutrition, the number of animals
succumbing to infectious disease would decrease dramatically
in three to four generations. This would virtually eliminate the
pressure to develop and promote vaccines."

"There is an
awakening recognition among veterinarians of the connection
between immunization and various illnesses and conditions,
including bloat, stained teeth, ulcers, chronic gastroenteritis
and seizures. After conducting controlled studies of the
effects of both vaccinations and homeopathic immunizations for kennel
cough in dogs, I have concluded that this vaccine is not an
advantage, but a health risk."

The medical community and drug companies have
convinced everyone that vaccines were the main reason for the end of
the polio epidemic as well as a number of other diseases. As a matter
of fact, the polio epidemic was ending BEFORE the vaccine was
introduced.
After routine immunizations began, the number of cases
went up. The epidemic ended without vaccinations in some
countries. In other countries, polio did not exist until
vaccination began to "protect" the population.
If we review history, we find that better
sanitation and hygiene are responsible for ending most
epidemics.

There is another reason for the popularity of vaccines.
They are a multi-billion dollar industry. Veterinarians
generally rely on immunizations for a large percentage of
their income. This is why most continue to vaccinate pets
annually despite the fact that published research state that
there is no medical evidence to support the idea that annual
boosters are necessary. Many vets are afraid of being sued if
they don't give the vaccines according to "accepted"
protocols. Recent conventional medical research recommends
reducing those vaccines given to puppies and kittens
dramatically as well.

It is undeniably true that there has been
deliberate suppression of information and fabrication
of data to protect a multibillion-dollar-per-year
industry: the pharmaceutical-chemical-agribusinessoil-
biomedical-research conglomerate. It is readily
acknowledged that this conditioning of public opinion
has been so successful that some individuals are
unable to accept information which contradicts
conditioned beliefs about vaccination.

A fascinating article that a standard poodle client of
mine wrote in Dog Fancy a couple of years ago, Bloat,
Seizures and Stained Teeth in Standard Poodles, was written
by Jean Lyle from Vancouver, a lady who's been breeding
standard poodles for about forty years. There isn't a standard
poodle bloodline in the world that doesn't come from her
inbred breeding stock, worldwide. Anybody who knows
standard poodles knows they're getting all kinds of bloat;
they're getting seizuring more and more often, and she
stopped vaccinating with combination vaccines because she
said, "Before we did all those combination vaccines we had a
little bit of distemper. I'd take care of them with my special
home-cooked food and they'd get better. Ever since I started
using all these 'veterinary advances' my animals got sicker
and sicker."
The other thing she said was that she sold her stock all
over the world and in countries where live vaccines are not
used as much; Scandinavian countries, European countries,
where they tend to cook natural foods for their animals rather
than using commercial diets with everything we know we
shouldn't have in them, and the animals don't seizure like
hers do in North America. They don't bloat the same way
and they don't have stained teeth.

In more than thirty years of veterinary experience I
have observed a wide variety of reactions to vaccines. I have
seen the apparently mild reactions of a mild skin rash or a
few days of lethargy ranging all the way to severe
convulsions, cancer, and even vaccine-induced anaphylactic
death. I have also seen a great number of vaccinated pets
that seemed to be reasonably healthy their entire lives.
But it has been my observation that there has been a
greater increase of chronic disease in pets over the past
thirty years due in large part to the greater frequency of
vaccines given (annual vaccinations) and to the increasing number of
diseases
vaccinated for at each time vaccines are given. Vaccines have
a very strong effect on the immune system and are being
incriminated more and more in chronic immune related
diseases such as allergies, autoimmune diseases and injection
site cancers in cats. I believe that pet owners should be
advised of these potential side effects of vaccines.

The famed homeopathic doctor, Dorothy Shepherd, MD,
condemning vaccination, has written: "The more I follow up
clinical histories, the more I am inclined to agree with
opponents of vaccination, that vaccination instead of being a
blessing has proved to be a wolf in sheep's clothing and has
produced more misery, more ill health in its wake than almost
any other method of treatment."

In article ,
Char wrote:
http://anothercrackpotwebsite.com/MadeUpStuff.pdf

"They have one core idea that helps to organize
everything," said Ted Goertzel, a sociology professor at
Rutgers University. "When you try to sustain one core
idea, you keep running into things that don't
fit. ... You tend to have different standards for
evidence you like and for evidence you don't like."

[ ... ]

Conspiracy theorists also are aided by the Internet,
which is an efficient way to connect individuals to
like-minded communities -- whether that means people who
share a hobby, or people who share a paranoid belief
system.

[ ... ]

"It's giving tremendous power to your enemy, but at the
same time you've seen through it all -- you're the one
really smart person. It elevates your status, because
you have the skill to see through the massive
conspiracy," Goertzel said.

[ ... ]

The views of people like Barrett as well as the birthers
and other theorists are extreme, but all of us are
susceptible to "cognitive biases" that cause us to
select evidence that confirms what we already believe,
said Shrira. One of these is called confirmation bias,
in which we focus on information that confirms what we
already believe.

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