A Shot Never Worth Taking: The Flu
Vaccine
by Brogan, MD, Kelly –
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org
Deep into my 6th year of researching
and investigating the damning science that condemns vaccine efficacy and safety
– yes, all of them – I am beginning to turn my attention more to the societal
memes and the individual belief systems that protect and perpetuate tragically
flawed and unacceptably dangerous collective behaviors.
The information is OUT THERE,
brilliant scientists, physicians, and researchers without financial ties and
agendas have weighed in and presented their concerns about vaccine safety and
efficacy, however, the average citizen resists and clings to a
hyper-simplified, seemingly “safe” stance.
“Well, I’m not against vaccines, I
mean, they’ve done a lot. I’m sure there are some risks, but they’re extremely
rare.”
I understand, now, that, my
collection of PubMed articles substantiating concerns about inefficacy,
neurological, autoimmune, and fatal risks of these poorly conceived and
anachronistically relevant immune modulators is not meaningful to someone who
is not interested. The questions raised by this information are not provocative
to someone who needs, above all, to believe that the government, the CDC, and
doctors mean well, are doing their due diligence, and that they are holding
themselves to a basic standard of ethical delivery of healthcare. They are not
meaningful to someone who needs to outsource their power.
Instead of debating the science,
what it may take to change to bring awareness to this egregious misuse of
medical authority is, one of two, non-scientific, anecdotal exposures:
1.They see it doesn’t work, and may
even cause illness
I have several pediatricians as
patients. Unprovoked, all of these women have confessed to me that they have
observed increased virulence in their vaccinated populations. It is this
clinical experience that has given them pause about the heavy-handed mandate
coming down from the CDC.
“Oh!” I say, “Have you read the
studies that suggest increased risk of infection in the vaccinated population?
There’s THAT ONE where they actually used a saline placebo in 115
children and found that those vaccinated had a 4.4 times increased rate of
non-flu infection? Or how about that CANADIAN ONE where they looked at 4
observational studies and found that 2008-2009 H1N1 vaccination was associated
with a1.4 to 2.5 increased risk of actually contracting said virus?”
Only after they have a personal
template within which to fit the science affirming their observations, do they
have room to hear it. But what of all of the children they have brought this
ineffective and dangerous intervention to?
2.They know someone harmed
It is basic human psychology that
what is out over there is irrelevant at best, and threatening at worst. What is
near and familiar is what is true. Few of us seek to bridge gaps between what
we are surrounded by and what may be out there to learn. The difficulty of
appreciating the scale of harm brought to the population by vaccination
practice is related to the insidious nature of immune and neurologic insult.
The CDC can report, as they do, that
brain inflammation and death are known side effects of every vaccine, but most
do not appreciate what brain inflammation looks like. That this can look like
ADHD, autism, learning delay, and that autoimmune disorders can take years to
manifest. Tracing the thread back to the vaccine exposure can only be done with
studies that assess vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. These have not
been done.
Tragically, we all know, now, of
someone who has died from the flu vaccine, just this past week. CHANDLER
WEBB, a healthy 19 year old, was given a “routine” and “recommended” flu
vaccine at his physical, one day before he became violently ill, and one month
before he died. He died from vaccine-induced encephalitis, a known risk of this
intervention. In addition to feeling remorse for the pain that this family is
experiencing, I feel rage for what I believe to be manslaughter. This is a
medical intervention, delivered without any regard for its objectively
determined lack of efficacy, and its potential to maim and kill healthy adults.
The propaganda surrounding this CDC
and government-endorsed practice is so thick that doctors treating this young
man were blind to even the most obvious of causative insults. If doctors cannot
appreciate a documented adverse event that occurs within 24 hours, you cannot
expect the system to acknowledge more complex disturbances to the immune system
and neuorologic development that will land you and your loved ones on
medications and in therapies for life.
And, remember, that this family
cannot sue the physician who pushed the needle or the pharmaceutical company
who created the lethal product.
I think about the Cliff’s Notes
version, a distillation of why the flu vaccine is evidence that our government
and regulatory bodies have forgotten us, and are following an objective that
may leave you lying dead on the side of the road. I know that few of you will
read the papers that I have read, attend lectures, seminars, and dialogue with
concerned experts. If nothing else, digest these important points, and then
wait until this issue gets close enough to you to change your mind on
it…hopefully before it’s too late.
•It’s not indicated: I’m sure you don’t know a single person who has died of the
flu, and if you think you do, I can almost guarantee you that the diagnosis was
not confirmed in a way that ruled out the 150-200 infectious pathogens that
cause flu-like syndromes, none of which would be “covered” by the vaccine.
Despite the astronomical figures the CDC flashes before us of “flu deaths”,
there were 18 (yes, 1-8) confirmed in 2001, for example. Access to these
figures is suspiciously concealed, but in the end, forget the stats, and use
some common sense to see the fear mongering and sales marketing for what it is.
•It doesn’t work: The Cochrane Database – an objective, gold-standard
assessment of available evidence has plainly stated, in TWO STUDIES, that there
is no data to support efficacy in children under two, and in adults. Even the
former Chief Vaccine Officer at the FDA states: “there is no evidence that any
influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating
any attack of influenza.” Liking the idea of being protected from the flu does
not equate to being protected from the flu. That’s essentially what your
vaccine-promoting doctor (or pharmacist) is engaging in – promoting an idea.
•Should there ever be a medical
intervention appropriate for everyone?
It’s being pushed on demographics
where it is known to be ineffective, or is unstudied and likely unsafe
including children, adults, elderly, and pregnant women as reviewed on THIS WEB
SITE and GREENMEDINFO. I write about how this offends my sensibilities as a
perinatal physician HERE.
•We just don’t know what we are
doing: The grave possibility of
undetectable viral proteins in the chick embryos used to culture vaccines is
just an example of how the immune roulette of vaccine development and rampant
implementation has resulted in death and lasting injury. C. jejeuni
contamination, for example, IS THEORIZED TO PLAY A ROLE in documented
risk of Guillain-Barre paralysis after flu vaccine. Producing antibody response
to virus and associated toxic preservatives is not immunity. We know that now.
As those of us who shake our heads
in pain and frustration watching the sheep get herded off the cliff, we
refrain: these agents cannot be considered “safe and effective” and also
“unavoidably unsafe” as the government agencies would have us accept. They are
avoidably unsafe, in fact, when you don’t use them as part of your healthcare.
~Kelly Brogan, MD
As an undergraduate at M.I.T, Dr.
Brogan studied Cognitive Neuroscience and worked with Harvard undergraduates to
create a public forum for the discussion of alternative medicine, directing
conferences for the Hippocratic Society. She attended Cornell Medical School
where she was awarded the Rudin Scholarship for Psychiatric Oncology and began
her work in Reproductive Psychiatry, which she went on to train in during her
residency at NYU/Bellevue. A strong interest in the interface of medicine and
psychiatry led her to pursue a fellowship in Consultation Liaison/Psychosomatic
Medicine at NYU/Bellevue/VA Hospital. Since that time, she remains on faculty
and has focused her efforts on her private practice where she cares for
patients with medical illnesses, as well as women at all stages of their
reproductive life cycle. A passion for holistic living, environmental medicine,
and nutrition are the bedrock of her functional medicine practice. She has
published in the field of Psycho-Oncology, Women’s Health, Perinatal Mental
Health, Alternative Medicine, and Infectious Disease. She is Board Certified in
Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, as well as Board Certified in Integrative
and Holistic Medicine. Link to her website HERE and sign up for her newsletter
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