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twenty-first century, it’s the wrong direction. introduced. What they don’t show is the whole,
Just one more excursion into editorializing. un-cherry-picked graph, which shows that ill-
The film does not say a lot about solutions, but nesses like smallpox had been declining consid-
good nutrition—starting with a high-fat diet that erably before the vaccine was introduced. The
keeps your blood sugar stable—will give you full graphs don’t show any effect from vaccines
a better chance of standing up to the physical except maybe to increase disease rates tempo-
and emotional beating the world can dish out. rarily when the vaccine first becomes available.
Animals can also be very therapeutic, whether Humphries makes an observation about the
it is just a dog or contact with farm animals. Try pro-vaccine crowd. “The people who want to
helping out on a farm doing what we were meant vaccinate are often very aggressive, and they
to do—something more life-affirming. I’ll bet don’t want you to hear the other side. And that
there is a farm within driving distance of you should make a light bulb in your head go off.
that needs help. The thumb is UP. ’Why don’t they want me to hear the other side?
Why don’t they think I can actually listen to both
Dr. Suzanne Humphries on Vaccine Safety: sides and come up with my own decision?’” The
“They Don’t Want You to Hear the Other Side” majority of people are still making decisions
youtube.com/watch?v=frCcvw3yy98 based on what some hairdo on TV—reading
from a teleprompter—says, rather than doing
Sometimes it’s good to hear from experts any real research. This is more dangerous than
who actually know what they are talking about. any virus or bug they are trying to scare us with.
In this still-timely interview recorded in 2014, The thumb is UP.
Dr. Humphries takes a scientific look at what is
going on in the vaccine wars. She responds to Coronavirus: The Hidden Danger Revealed
basic questions about effectiveness and safety. The Highwire with Del Bigtree
Do vaccines work? Sometimes they suppress
disease, but they do not improve health. They
contain nothing the body needs to function, but Del Bigtree has repeatedly given the pro-
they do contain aluminum, mercury, formal- vaccine crowd a simple formula for shutting him
dehyde and polysorbate 80. No one needs that up. Just do the study. Do the study comparing
unless you are in a hurry for the dirt nap. the health of the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Looking at history is essential to solving or Do a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Do
understanding any problem. In the late 1880s, just one and he’s done. He personally asked the
Leicester, England, was heavily vaccinated head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
and yet was still having smallpox epidemics. and other experts to do the study. The answer
Smallpox declined after vaccination stopped. was, “We will never do that study.”
Only 5 to 10 percent of the world’s population Bigtree provides possible reasons why the
was ever vaccinated for smallpox. Is that enough experts might not want to do the study. One is
for “herd immunity”? There are a lot of pox because the studies that have been done are
variations: smallpox, chickenpox, monkeypox, not giving them the answers they want. For
cowpox. Many look the same and genetic testing example, a study published in the Journal of the
is required to distinguish them (not available a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society showed
century ago). Monkeypox is still around. So, did that children who have had the DTaP vaccine
we really get rid of smallpox? (diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis) have
Everyone has seen graphs showing what a greater risk of pertussis than nonvaccinated
happened to disease rates after vaccines were children.

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