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Tim’s DVD Reviews

We Become Silent: Are Vaccines Safe?
The Last Days of Health Freedom By Mary Tocco
Kevin P. Miller
Narrated by Dame Judi Dench This is a two-DVD set with a running time
Copyright 2005, www.WellTV.com of almost 2 1/2 hours and is packed with infor-
mation. Mary Tocco has obviously talked to the
In this film we are given a quick tour through masses before and is very effective in making
Codex Alimentarius, its history and implications, her points. After listing the sources that our
all in twenty-nine minutes. If widely accepted, health beliefs come from, she gets the audience
Codex would impose extreme restrictions on involved with a little game of “finish the phrase”
supplements and further restrict medical free- to illustrate how effective advertising can be.
dom on a global level, not just national. Ameri- The audience had no trouble finishing phrases
cans who think this only affects Europe will like “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz …” or “Winston tastes
not be happy to know the FDA has been quietly good like a …”, catch phrases from television ads
working to “harmonize” the U.S. with Codex. that haven’t been widely aired for decades.
There are several interviews of interest, but Practical information about what your
the one that I found most interesting is an inter- rights are as a parent is covered in-depth in the
view with a high-ranking FDA official trying to video and in detail on the NVIC website (http://
explain why the anti-depressant Prozac™ was www.909shot.com/). In addition to the objection-
available to the public while at the time a natural able ingredients in vaccines that you usually hear
alternative, the amino acid L-tryptophan, was of, she lists appetizing things like fecal matter,
not. This in spite of the fact that Prozac™ has dog and monkey kidneys, antibiotics and rabbit
thousands of documented adverse effects, while brains. In some cases this is grown in a medium
L-tryptophan has essentially none (outside of the containing aborted fetal lung tissue. All this
fiasco with the Japanese chemical engineering serious stuff is broken up with humorous but
firm Showa Denko and their late 1980s genetic scathing observations on the medical system. She
engineering experiment with tryptophan produc- quotes several times from Robert Mendelsohn,
tion that went horribly wrong). The explanation MD which are found in his book How to Raise
he cobbled together was so transparently lame a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor.
that even he began to realize how bad it sounded The connection is made in this video be- The thumb is
and demanded that the camera be turned off. tween autism and gut dysbiosis, as we’ve heard pointing up
The thumb is pointing up for this film which before from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.
makes a number of interesting points that go Mary Tocco states outright that vaccines cause for this film
beyond just the issue of Codex. One insight into autism whereas Dr. Campbell-McBride would which makes
the nature of fear illustrates how it causes people say are a contributing factor but are not the root a number of
to make very poor decisions, especially about cause of the condition. Either way, vaccines are a
what is truly safe. Government and industry problem, but I have no problem giving this DVD interesting
“concern for public safety” is the most common a thumbs up. points that go
and effective excuse used to relieve populations Are Vaccines Safe? can be viewed online at beyond just
of their freedom. All of which leads us to the youtube.com and video.google.com.
final conclusion—if we become frightened and the issue of
silent, we will get the government we deserve. Codex.

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