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Vaccination Update

ALUMINUM IN VACCINES: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
By Kendall Nelson, Director, The Greater Good

Perhaps you were fortunate enough to or approved aluminum, and despite the fact that
attend the 2016 Weston A. Price Foundation aluminum is a known and undisputed toxin,
conference in Alabama where my colleague neurotoxin and teratogen (an agent or factor that
Laura Hayes gave a presentation. Hayes is an causes malformation of an embryo). As Hayes
anti-vaccine activist whose twenty-four-year- aptly stated, “Defying common sense and vio-
old son was severely injured by his “routine” lating basic safety and ethics standards, the FDA
childhood vaccinations during his infancy, approves vaccines that contain never-proven-
toddlerhood and early childhood. Hayes began safe and known-to-be dangerous ingredients.”
her presentation, “Vaccines: What Is There to
Be ‘Pro’ About?” by defining the hallmark of SAFETY STUDIES
ethical medicine: prior, completely voluntary If you were to ask the FDA or the CDC
and fully informed consent. She explained how which studies they use to determine the safety
vaccine mandates, with or without exemptions, and recommendation of injectable aluminum,
violate this hallmark of ethical medicine, which they would refer you to the only study done by
is included in numerous international codes of an FDA scientist. “Updated Aluminum Pharma-
ethics, all signed by the U.S. cokinetics Following Infant Exposures Through
Hayes also spoke about the complete ab- Diet and Vaccination,” by Dr. Robert J. Mitkus
sence of appropriate and properly performed was published October 2011 in the journal Vac-
In 2001, the vaccine safety studies. Despite this absence, cine. While the title may sound impressive, this
CDC began the U.S. Food and Drug Association (FDA) has study was heavily flawed. Mitkus tested infused
wrongly approved scores of vaccines over the intravenously (rather than injected) aluminum
recommending course of many decades now, and the Centers for citrate (rather than aluminum hydroxide) into
pregnant Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also adults (rather than infants). As J.B. Handley,
women receive wrongly approved them. To make matters worse, co-founder of Generation Rescue, wrote, “Dr.
Mitkus’ study is somewhere between a profes-
all fifty state legislatures have mandated vac-
the aluminum- cines for school-aged students (although some sional disgrace and a fraudulent disaster. In no
containing states offer philosophical or religious exemp- other drug on the planet (except for vaccines)
pertussis tions), and often also for daycare participants, would safety standards ever be determined
based on inept and corrupt approvals and rec-
without using the actual product (aluminum
vaccine (Tdap), ommendations of the FDA and CDC’s Advisory hydroxide) administered the proper way (in-
despite the Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), tramuscular injection) into the proper patient

fact that and at the unethical bidding of pharmaceutical population (infants).”

This should give us all pause. How is it
and medical industry lobbyists.
studies show An example of wrongful vaccine approvals possible that aluminum has been used in vac-
that and recommendations by agencies entrusted cines for more than seventy years, yet the FDA
aluminum with public health is the use of aluminum in has never conducted a single legitimate toxicity
vaccines. It is used in the majority of today’s study proving the safety of injectable aluminum
crosses the vaccines. Hayes explained that the FDA ap- in human beings? To be fair, the FDA does
placenta and proves the use of aluminum-based adjuvants in receive studies from outside sources. However,
accumulates vaccines, which are added to increase the body’s those sources are pharmaceutical companies
immune response to the vaccine, despite the who manufacture and profit from the sale of
in fetal tissue. fact that the agency has never clinically tested vaccines, and permitting them to provide the

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