By Tim O'Shea
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/smallpoxbringingdeadbacktolife21nov02.shtml
Nov. 21, 2002
[excerpted from the forthcoming 6th ed. of
The Sanctity of Human Blood,
available 2003]
With a flair worthy of PT Barnum and Edward L Bernays, mainstream media
is lately employing a brilliant menage of pseudoscience and well-edited history
to concoct a new myth out of thin air: terrorists are about to release smallpox
as a bioweapon that could decimate our population. But soft! - our ever-vigilant
security forces are ready. Government leaders with degrees in law, not science,
have decided to prepare enough vaccine to inoculate every American. And
to empower themselves to legislate the vaccine's administration, sanctioned
by severe penalties for refusal
. [12]
Price tag for the new doses: over $800 million.
[28] But
what is money when compared with the health and security of the American people?
Answer: it's still money.
Almost every day, a new story comes out in the major news Matrix about
the coming threat and the vaccine that will save us. In true Edward L Bernays
fashion,
[13] the features are generally written by the "health
correspondent" with the requisite lack of credentials, disregard of history,
and the standard formidable barrage of uncited and anonymous sources.
But we are not taken in, not us, because we know that forgetting history,
we are destined to repeat it. So let's try something unknown to the meretricious
press - let's review the actual history and science of smallpox and apply
it to the present.
What Was Smallpox?
Smallpox was an infectious viral disease which was evident for centuries
in places with poor sanitation, poverty, and malnutrition. Hundreds of thousands
died, and there was no cure. The infectious agent was Orthopox variola.
[2] By the end of the 18th century the disease was following
the natural course: burning itself out on the human population,
confining
itself to those with the lowest immune capabilities.
Smallpox was the first disease for which vaccination was tried. It all
started with Edward Jenner at the end of the 1700s.
The story that we find in 99% of standard references is that Jenner's vaccine
saved the world from the dread smallpox, which had plagued the human race
for centuries. Mass inoculation programs were instituted in many countries
worldwide, usually backed by the government. The vaccine supposedly immunized
people for life. If the legend starts to sound a little whitewashed, there's
a reason why. So let's start at the beginning.
Edward Jenner
As you may remember, Edward Jenner was the English "physician" in the late
1700s who took note of an old superstition that milk-maids who got a mild
disease known as cowpox supposedly didn't get smallpox. As an experiment,
Jenner came up with the idea of drawing serum from an infected cowpox pustule
on the skin of an infected milkmaid. He then injected the infected pus into
a perfectly healthy person, on the theory that contact with this "milder"
disease would allow the subject to develop immunity to the more deadly smallpox.
Jenner's theory was that this cow-pox is smallpox of the cow. Therefore,
if you give a person cow-pox, it is the same as smallpox, only in a very
mild form. And it would not be infectious.
And at midnight, the coach would turn back into a pumpkin…
Going even further out on a limb, Jenner himself absolutely declared that
it is not that cow-pox is a preventive of smallpox, but that
it is smallpox
itself. (Hadwen)
While Jenner is universally venerated today as mankind's deliverer from
the scourge of infectious disease in probably 99% of references, a little
different version of Jenner's rise to fame and wealth is summarized in Miller's
book
Immunizations, p 24.
[9] Other sources from Jenner's
own contemporaries who were less than enchanted with his idea of variolation
appear throughout Anderson's
The Facts Against Compulsory Vaccination,
[7] the writings of Walter Hadwen,
[5] and
the very thorough research by Alfred Russell Wallace.
[6]
From these writers we can learn a few details that most edited modern drafts
of this story omit, such as:
- the utter lack of science underlying Jenner's original claim of
immunity from vaccines
- the number of deaths and disfiguring cases his experiments brought
to those unsuspecting patients who were unfortunate enough to be talked
into trying Jenner's injections during those early years.
Even from the beginning, after inoculating his very first patient - 8 year
old James Phipps - Jenner absurdly maintained that his injections were conferring
lifetime immunity:
"…what renders the cowpox virus so extremely singular is
that the person who has been thus affected is for ever after secure from
the infection of the smallpox." - Jenner, 1797, cited in H.B. Anderson
[7]
Reality Check
Many of Jenner's own contemporaries were shocked at how easily the scientific
community was taken in by this auteur. Perusing the work of Walter Hadwen
MD,
[5] celebrated English surgeon, author, and medical scholar
of 100 years ago, we find a version of the Jenner story that is not so set
in bronze as most of what we read today. Hadwen points out a few cracks
in Jenner's pedestal:
- Jenner was no physician. He never passed a medical exam in
his life, completed any course of medical study, or received a diploma from
any medical school.
- Jenner bought his medical degree for £15 from St Andrew's
College in Scotland, which he never attended (Hume, p 174 [17],
also Hadwen [14])
- Jenner "tested" his theory on one patient, and then immediately
claimed that he had "immunized" the patient against smallpox for life. Jenner
also claimed that the vaccine would work universally. That's it. No controlled
clinical trials, no years of research, nothing! One patient.
With no proof whatsoever, and a sample size of one, Jenner tricked the
entire medical profession, then and now, into pretending that cowpox was
smallpox in cows - a total scientific inaccuracy. And then he sold the idea
that his vaccine was the cure.
[5, 14]
Wheel of Fortune
Not long after his "breakthrough," Jenner's repeated petitions to the House
of Commons struck gold. It finally dawned on the English government how
millions of pounds sterling could be moved around by passing a law making
the new smallpox vaccine compulsory. Jenner was promptly awarded the enormous
sum of £30,000 by British Parliament and suddenly this uneducated poseur
was a revered scientist! (Wallace
[6])
Two Different Diseases
Legitimate scientists of Jenner's day decried the smallpox vaccine from
the start. Bechamp, Hadwen, Wallace, and others thought it appalling that
the most basic facts concerning the distinction between cowpox and smallpox
were simply never discussed. If the original axioms of vaccination were true,
how could one disease vector immunize against a completely separate disease?
This was the question that was never asked, and is still ignored today.
Watch closely: the two diseases - cowpox and smallpox - are completely
distinct conditions. Hadwen explains:
"What is cow-pox? It is a disease which occurs on the teats
of cows; it only occurs when they are in milk; only in one part of the body,
and naturally only in the female animal; it results in an ugly chancre;
and is not infectious. Small-pox, on the other hand, is not limited
to the female sex as is cow-pox, nor to one portion of the body; it presents
different physical signs, and, furthermore, is tremendously infectious, and
the course and symptoms of the two diseases are totally different. Therefore
there is no analogy between the two." [5]
Hadwen wrote this 100 years ago, but his objections are still valid. Doing
a taxonomic check today in a standard index of viruses from a National Institutes
of Health database
[21] readily points out that cowpox is
caused by a virus called
Orthopox vaccinia and smallpox is caused
by a virus called
Orthopox variola. These two viruses have different
sizes, genetic sequences, and characteristics. To pretend that cows get a
version of smallpox called cowpox is bizarre enough - but then to say that
people who get the same disease are immune to smallpox is simply fantasy.
This chart may be helpful:
Cowpox ------------------
Smallpox
Only in female cows ----- Only in humans
Not infectious ------------ Infectious
Orthopox vaccinia ------- Orthopox variola
( Microsoft Encarta, 2001
[18] )
How scientific was it to transfer diseases back and forth between humans
and animals in the preparation and administration of vaccines? Real scientists
were shocked at such a practice, but their views were suppressed. We'll
see this sloppy science emerge again with polio vaccine and the invention
of HIV. (Horowitz)
How Was the Smallpox Vaccine Made?
From an original monograph by Dr Walter Hadwen, here is an account of how
smallpox vaccine was first made:
1. A 3 month old calf was tied down on its side.
2. 30 - 50 one inch incisions were made in its stomach
3. Smallpox pus rubbed into each incision
4. Calf is returned to its pen, restrained so as to be unable to lick the
sores
5. Wait one week.
6. Smallpox pustules form
7. Calf strapped down again
8. Encrusted pus is scraped off each sore and the remaining blood, lymph,
and pus is then drained out.
9. It is placed in a crucible and heated, adding glycerine as a binder
10. Mixed and strained to remove hair and dead flesh.
11. Poured into tubes as sold as pure calf lymph - or smallpox vaccine.
Very scientific. This formula was used for decades, even up to modern times,
continuing with Dryvax in 1944.
[34] The new smallpox vaccines
are still made from this 'purified calf lymph' but with one modern twist:
the post 9/11 vaccine is now cultured on the cells of an aborted human fetus.
[35].
The majority of historical references found in mainstream sources have
loudly proclaimed the safety and effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine.
This erroneous general perception continues today. From a current MSN Encarta
document:
Cowpox: "contagious viral disease of cows characterized
by pustular eruptions, especially on the udders and teats. Cowpox can be
transmitted to humans by direct contact. Persons infected with cowpox become
immune to smallpox, a similar, but more serious disease. This immunity was
discovered by the British physician Edward Jenner, who used cowpox virus
to inoculate patients against smallpox."- "Cowpox" Microsoft® Encarta®
Online Encyclopedia 2001 [18]
Likewise from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001:
[20]
cowpox: "...infectious disease of cows caused
by a virus related to the virus of smallpox. Also called variola, it is
characterized by pustular lesions on the teats and udder. Cowpox is transmitted
by contact, inducing a mild infection of the hands in persons who milk infected
cows. The fact that such persons had immunity to smallpox led Edward Jenner
to attempt vaccination with this virus, instead of using the dangerous method
of vaccinating with material from the sores of smallpox. Jenner's method
was successful and is the basis of the modern vaccination against smallpox."
Did The Original Vaccine Work?
By 1853, Parliament began passing laws to make the untested vaccine compulsory
throughout the British empire. Other countries of Europe followed suit.
Once the economic implications of compulsory vaccinations were realized,
few dared to disagree. Then, as now, the media were controlled by the vaccine
manufacturers and the government, who stood to make huge money from the
sale of these spurious vaccines. Hadwen put it like this:
"... so strong is the effect of authority, custom, and endowment,
and so prone are people to save themselves the trouble of personal investigation
by the simple process of accepting the decisions of "the majority" ... When
once an error is accepted by a profession corporately and endowed by Government,
to uproot it becomes a herculean task." [14]
And this is how mass immunizations get started. Once the money machine
started rolling, doctors who questioned the research were ignored. Despite
the lack of scientific validation and hundreds of thousands of documented
vaccine deaths, compulsory smallpox vaccination lasted for 120 years! The
US was the last holdout, finally giving it up in 1971.
Prussian Roulette
Hadwen provides a rare window into the medical research of a century ago,
one that has not received the usual whitewash. He tells the amazing story
about Prussia, the most vaccinated country in Europe during the 1800s -
also the country which kept the best records. Hadwen had access to these
medical records before the media had the sense to suppress them. Here's
what they showed:
It happened that Prussia passed a mandatory vaccination law in 1834 for
smallpox. The law provided that every infant be vaccinated, and then revaccinated
when starting school. After graduation, the child had to be vaccinated again,
and then once more upon entering the Army! And all healthy males had to
go into the Army.
Anyone who refused the vaccination was to be "held
down and vaccinated by force; and so thoroughly was it done that he
was vaccinated in ten places on each arm."
[14]
OK, so we get the idea that almost 100% of Prussians got Jenner's smallpox
vaccine. So what happened in Prussia 35 years after this vaccination law?
A smallpox epidemic which killed "124,978 of her vaccinated and re-vaccinated
citizens after thirty-five years of compulsory vaccination!" [14]
Licence To Kill
How about England?
A compulsory "immunization" program was set up in England in 1853 using
Jenner's methods. (McBean p.13)
[8] Before that time, the
highest number of deaths in a 2 year period in England from smallpox was about
2000. Results of this "immunization":
year ------
deaths
1857-9 --- 14,244
1863-5 --- 20,059
In response, in 1867 Parliament enacted a stricter vaccination law, and
97% of the people were inoculated. Result:
year -------
deaths
1868 -------- 44,840
( Null, Part III, p23
[22] )
Great vaccine, huh?
Alfred Russell Wallace offers abundant proof of how vaccine statistics
were manipulated in England during the 1800s - the who and the why of it.
After a thorough presentation charting actual deaths throughout the UK and
the Continent from smallpox and from the vaccine, Wallace concludes that
smallpox vaccine
"...has actually increased susceptibility to the disease.
... the conclusion is in every case the same: that vaccination is a gigantic
delusion; that it has never saved a single life; but that it has been the
cause of so much disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly
needless and altogether undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by
the coming generation among the greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced
age, and its penal enforcement the foulest blot on the generally beneficent
course of legislation during our century."
- Alfred R. Wallace, Chapter VI 1898
[6]
Slow Learners
What most people don't know is that just after the US began vaccinating
for smallpox (1902) England stopped. By 1907, England finally got the message:
no more compulsory smallpox vaccination. Holland, same thing in
1928. Australia - 1925 (Anderson, p 10) [7]
How long did it take the US to figure out that the smallpox vaccine not
only didn't work, but was dangerous and often fatal as well?
We finally
stopped vaccinating in 1971,
the last holdout in the world.
The low ebb of the infectious diseases arrived in the 1970s. From 1950
to 1970, zero cases of smallpox were reported in the U.S. After several
years passed, however, there are now a few cases of smallpox,
but they
only occur among the ranks of the vaccinated! (Scheibner)
[23]
What's important to notice is that smallpox vaccination in the U.S. persisted
another 30 years after the disease was at an incidence of practically zero.
Again, the only source of death from smallpox in the U.S. for 30 years
was from the vaccine itself. (Mendelsohn, p 232, World Book, 1994)
[24,
25]
Even though smallpox vaccination became mandatory in the US after 1902,
what is less commonly known is that by 1929, all states, but nine no longer
made it compulsory.
Reason: too many deaths and complications. (H.B.
Anderson, p 2)
[7]
Today smallpox occurs nowhere in nature.
Dissenting Voices
Other physicians of the smallpox era were not that impressed with the vaccine.
William Howard Hay MD, at an address he gave on 25 June 1937, remarked:
"…of all the insane things we have advocated in medicine
- that is one of the most insane, to insist on the vaccination of children
or anyone else for the prevention of smallpox, when as a matter of fact,
we are not able to prove that vaccination saved one man from smallpox." [26]
Phillipine Fiasco
After WWI, there was a lot of surplus smallpox vaccine that didn't get
used. So we looked to another market we could control. When the U.S. mandated
a mass smallpox vaccination program in the Philippines in 1917, some 25
million shots were given to those people.
163,000 Filipinos came down
with the disease after the vaccination, and
75,339 Filipinos died
from it, quadrupling the death rate prior to the inoculation program.
That's way more than the total number of Americans who died in the entire
Vietnam war! American "immunization" of its Philippine territory caused
several horrific epidemics there that didn't quite make the six o'clock
news. (Anderson, p 69 W.H.Hay, also James, p 410)
[7, 26, 27]
Fairy Tales Can Come True
To sum up, what Jenner did was to take an old superstition of Gloucester
dairymaids and pander it into a fortune for himself and the English government
by the most ridiculous "scientific" posturing.
The New Smallpox Market
Bringing the discussion into the present, post-9/11 politics has created
marketing niches like the world has never seen. In classic Edward L Bernays
style, the illusion of a smallpox threat has been created - an $800 million
illusion. [Appleby)
[28] With no proof whatsoever, the scripted
media daily barrages the unlettered public with likely scenarios of Muslim
terrorists unleashing weaponized smallpox into metropolitan areas, supposedly
resulting in epidemics of smallpox spreading like wildfire through an unvaccinated
population, etc.
In an eerie replay of the social politics of 200 years ago, scientific
fact is brushed aside and we are distracted from the lessons of our own
history, as though these events never took place:
· smallpox disappeared worldwide in 1977
· the only deaths from smallpox since 1970 have been from the vaccine
· smallpox vaccine killed thousands in England, France, Prussia,
and the Philippines
· the sham premise of Jenner is still widely held
· smallpox vaccine historically has killed the most people of any
vaccine ever invented
· the vaccine is for a completely different disease - a disease
of cows
· the vaccine does not confer immunity to smallpox
· the reason that our country and every other country in the world
stopped vaccinating was that the vaccine not only did not work, but was
causing the disease and other pathological and fatal side effects
· no biological viral or bacterial agent has ever been deployed
as a weapon, either by a country of by an individual
Where's the Beef?
A few other small details that should not be missed:
there is
no proof that any 'terrorists' have weaponized smallpox or are preparing
to use it anywhere in the world at this time. It's all conjecture.
Despite all this, the FDA, CDC, Office of Home Security, plus
many of the brave new 'defensive' offices which have recently emerged at
the trough, decided that a few companies should start producing enough vaccine
to give all 280 million Americans 'protection.
' [29] The
companies include:
Aventis in France,
Acambis in England,
and
Wyeth in the US. The working sales slogan was that we only had
15 million doses and we need another 255.
So the circus is on. The companies are pretending to be racing against
the clock. It makes great press because the story provides both criteria
for a successful media issue: fear and uncertainty.
The No-Solution, Solution
Awash in media overload with respect to the new smallpox vaccine as the
solution to the vague, ill-defined, unfounded bioterrorist "threat," we should
try to remember a few facts based in physical reality:
- the entire program is predicated upon a premise that is scientifically
unproven: namely that one dose of the new vaccine would confer lasting immunity...
to anything.
- hundreds would die or suffer permanent injury from this 'protective'
measure
- illustrative of the mentality of our decision makers is a comment in
a April 25, 2002
New England Journal of Medicine editorial,
[3]
whereby the author tries to comfort us by surmising that mass smallpox vaccination
today would "only" kill 180 people, which is the same number who die on
our highways every day and a half, he trivializes. (Bicknell)
Such a ludicrous statement in our best medical journal makes the colossal
assumption that those who did not die would be immune by virtue of the vaccination,
a fact which cannot be proven. Perhaps this is why even such an irresponsible
author as this recommends voluntary smallpox vaccinations to be available
to anyone who wants them - a magnanimous offer indeed. This same genius
later upped his death estimate when he was quoted in the Sept. 23, 2002
New York Times, citing 500 deaths which would result from mass smallpox
vaccination.
[32]
- the original vaccine claimed to confer immunity to the natural disease.
Bioterrorist smallpox would be an entirely different strain, being weaponized.
So there could be no testing that could prove effectiveness or the wisdom
of mass injecting this most dangerous vaccine
- Acambis is in England. Aventis is in France. Yet England and France are
not gearing up for mass smallpox vaccination. Why not? Because the only
market in the world is here in the US.
Because the threat is a perceived
threat, created by US media.
- with the ridiculous story on March 27, 2002 (
Washington Post
[30]) that suddenly Aventis had "discovered" 70 to 90 million 'forgotten'
doses of smallpox vaccine in one of their freezers, a few questions come
to mind:
Is it 70 or is it 90? 20 million doses is a lot to overlook. And isn't
it odd that the company who has been given a $400 million contract that
they couldn't possible meet in the one year time frame suddenly discovers
these lost doses in one of its own freezers? And with no clinical trials
whatsoever glibly postulates that the doses can be 'diluted' down five or
ten times, which coincidentally takes the pressure off production deadlines?
The mind boggles at this serendipitous synchronicity. And why doesn't
this French company want the valuable vaccine for the French? How altruistic
of them to sacrifice their own national safety, and put their old buds the
Americans first. This virgin looks somewhat pregnant, n'est-ce pas?
Most Americans Can't Receive Smallpox Vaccine
A major blow to the best laid plans of the New Vaccinators came on Sept.
10, 2002 with the Reuters article
[1] about the CDC announcing
how the new smallpox vaccine is
not to be recommended for:
- HIV people
- anyone on immunosuppressive drugs
- anyone with eczema
The CDC quoted a new study in the
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,
describing reactions that include blindness, scarring, and death.
[31] So the vaccine is therefore contraindicated in all these cases,
according to the CDC.
Eczema patients alone comprise half the US population. AIDS patients and
those on immunosuppressive drugs add another significant proportion to the
group of those who shouldn't be vaccinated.
In addition, the omniscient media seem to have forgotten that most Americans
over 31 years of age have already been vaccinated for smallpox, since the
vaccine was only halted in 1971 in the US. Remember? So if the vaccine is
supposed to work, then obviously these people will not need a new shot,
right?
Then who does that leave? Ten percent of the population would be a reasonable
estimate.
It's not much of a stretch to see how the threat of smallpox is a marketing
tool, right out of classic Bernays Public Relations 101, that is being used
to justify paying vaccine manufacturers $800 million for a vaccine that
is unproven, untested, and contraindicated for 90% of the population.
Why then are our new masters shrieking about the 280 million doses we need
to protect the American people from this imminent bioterrorist threat?
Could it just be the money?
Tim O'Shea
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