h/t to the Museum of Hoaxes

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Thanks for posting that link! Very interesting read.

Gross L (2009) A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars. PLoS Biol 7(5): e1000114. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000114

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000114

I noticed it by way of ArsTechnica.

More proof on Jen being a quack medical advisor, dangerous and deadly anti-vaxxer proponent, and pseudo-doctor follow. Jenny M., on the 4-14-2009 Ellen show, proudly said she owns and uses a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Yes, it’s the same type of device that Michael Jackson was reported to own (and she was embarrassed to admit). This is a quote from Jenny about the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen treatments, so strap yourselves to your chair in case you jump through the roof from disbelief. Jenny said, “It treats inflammation, it…you know…prevents cancer, neurological disorders… You have to get one, Ellen.” Wow, it prevents cancer and probably 20 other things she didn’t have time to mention, and this Jenny knows just as surely as she knows vaccinations are the cause of autism. This woman must be a genius of medicine and knows the intricacies and dynamics of the human body with an uncanny and supernatural ability, or she has completely fooled herself, with the help of her community, into believing she knows more than she possibly could.

Yes, she’s fooled herself, and fooled how many other people who believe (hope) what she says has merit. Sadly, it’s obvious she makes judgements in a non-scientific and random fashion. She plays roulette with the health of the population, even with her own son’s health. She seems like a nice lady and appears to have a good heart, but that doesn’t make her right with her conclusions. It absolutely doesn’t give her the right to dictate medical advice when she has no medical qualifications or the educational background to do so. But that little inconvenience doesn’t stop her from not vaccinating her son or prevent her from taking him into the hyperbaric chamber with her for hours at a time, several times a week. Mother knows best or mother doesn’t know best, it’s one or the other. It’s definitely not looking good for mother knows best at this point. What other future ‘miracle cure’ will Jenny subject Evan to, I have to wonder and worry.

The hyperbaric oxygen treatment was recommend to Jenny by the same “community” that helped her craft her ‘approved and disapproved’ vaccination list (see her latest anti-vaxxer book). Such a smart bunch. So along with her virtual curing of autism, chalk up more wonders to her expanding collection. Maybe she’ll discover the secret to ever-lasting life given more time. Read the book when it comes out. Better yet, do yourself a favor and don’t.

[Google 'jenny mccarthy, ellen' for the Ellen video the quote was taken from. Fourth link down.]

Occam, I will echo some of the others. Do you have some valid science to back up any of the things you claimed in your post?

@HCN

Thanks for sharing the link on Yurko. Wow. Just…wow.

I found this bit particularly stupid… “Here is a shocking statement from the manufacturer, found on page 156. Gardasil…..”not been evaluated for carcinogenicity or impairment of fertility.” In other words, a vaccine which is supposed to prevent cervical cancer in 12 year olds, could possibly cause cancer and infertility.”

The anti-vax loons managed to get him out of jail, only to abandon him when he landed in jail again on drug charges. More information here:
www dot ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/yurko1.htm

“He was later set free when it was proven in court that vaccination can cause the identical symptoms claimed to result from shaking a baby.”

I find it very unlikely that any vaccination can cause broken bones, torn ligaments, and in severe cases, dismemberment. Because that’s the least that can happen from shaking a child.

Here’s what I would say to you, Occam:

Stop with the arguments from authority, perform your own research, and come to your own conclusions.

Do you have any evidence for any of these claims? And not quotes from a short little book (146 pages!), but real actual factual evidence written in a journal I can find in my local medical school library. From what I can tell Mr. O’Shea is a chiropractor, and has been taught about fictional subluxations and not about immunology. Plus with a little googling, he is a full on anti-vax loon!

You really need to show us exactly how with real data how the MMR is worse than measles, mumps and rubella, plus how the DTaP is worse than diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. Just give us the journal, title, authors, date of the papers that can be found in a medical school library (“Medical Hypothesis” does not count, if you want to know why look up the word “hypothesis”).

It is becoming increasingly obvious that our country is becoming more and more physically disabled. Our nation’s poor health is increasing in accordance with our expanding mandated vaccine policies. Accurate, unbiased and referenced information, concerning vaccines, is very desperately needed.

By the time the average person reaches adulthood they will have accumulated approximately 68 vaccines. We need to start asking questions. How many are too many? What are the short and long term consequences of the various combinations? Do vaccines really achieve their advertised purpose or are facts and figures manipulated for the monetary benefit of the corporations? Are there any long term studies proving the safety of vaccines …or……are we and our children the long term studies? Most importantly, what are the ingredients in vaccines and how are these ingredients determined and tested?

Tim O’Shea’s much needed book “The Sanctity of Human Blood : Vaccination is Not Immunization”, answers these questions and much more. It will be shocking to some to realize that vaccines are not created and marketed for public protection. After reading O’Shea’s book, one will be much more aware of where much of our chronic illness originates. The consequences of poor diet and chemicals in the environment, together with the negative alteration of our immune systems through injecting foreign bacteria, viruses and toxic chemicals directly into our blood stream, will become starkly clear. It is not always pleasant to confront certain realities…….but, only if we are aware of the propaganda and manipulation being used against us, will we be able to do something about it. The documented information that the author presents in this book is vital for our understanding, so we may begin to reverse the medical nightmare we are currently experiencing.

O’Shea speaks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Shaken Baby Syndrome – all new labels to place the blame on “unknown” causes or parental abuse. I personally know of a case where a sickly baby was given a series of vaccines, stopped breathing and died as a result. The father who was rushing the baby to the hospital was arrested for murdering the baby (shaking it to death). He was later set free when it was proven in court that vaccination can cause the identical symptoms claimed to result from shaking a baby. Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is also used often as an excuse for blaming the victim.

The author guides us down a path through the various mandated vaccines, explaining all of what you need to know, concerning each vaccine. O’Shea brings up a point which I often feel is necessary to share in my writings involving the politics of Lyme Disease…..”It is historical fact that fortunes are not made in discovering causes for disease, but in marketing cures for them. ” I would just like to add here that fortunes really are not even made marketing cures but only symptomatic treatments and what we consider to be honest charities never seem to come up with “cures”, even though that is supposed to be their primary function.

The book also explains why our government agencies are not protecting us from the greed of the pharmaceutical companies. Here is a quote from page 115 from Representative Dan Burton. “CDC routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on influential advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines, “Burton told UPI “All the while these same scientists have financial ties, academic affiliations, and other vested interests in the products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased oversight.”

This is why parents so urgently need to educate themselves thoroughly on the vaccine issue. No one cares more about your children than you do……certainly not the faceless government corporations.

O’Shea’s book is very thorough, covering everything from cancer, AIDS, autoimmune disease and even death, as possible side effects from vaccines.. He speaks of the HPV or Gardasil vaccine. It’s stated purpose is to prevent cervical cancer. We are told what is in the vaccine and the listed side effects. Here is a shocking statement from the manufacturer, found on page 156. Gardasil…..”not been evaluated for carcinogenicity or impairment of fertility.” In other words, a vaccine which is supposed to prevent cervical cancer in 12 year olds, could possibly cause cancer and infertility. I think that it is important for us to be aware that vaccines have been used in other countries to purposely promote infertility and consequently reduce population growth.

More and more “High Risk” groups, requiring vaccines, are continually being invented and it appears as if the pace is picking up. Today I received an email from the National Vaccine Information Center, which is warning people that the Merck HPV (Gardasil vaccine) slated for 12 year old girls….will soon be marketed for boys and maybe even men. Merck’s explanation is that “changing sexual practices, such as more frequent oral sex, in adolescents and young adults, COULD (emphasis mine) contribute to an increase in oncogenic HPV- associated oropharyngeal cancers.”

O’Shea has made what could have been a complicated scientific account into an extremely informative, well organized book, which can be very easily understood. ” The Sanctity of Human Blood” is a must read for pregnant women, parents, the elderly….actually for just about everyone. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who loves and cares about themselves, their family and their friends. The vaccination issue affects all of us. Read it and pass it on to anyone you can think of. Our children are our future.

Even taking your meaning of “skeptic”, conspiracy nuts are selective, dumb skeptics. They disbelieve what there’s evidence for, and believe much less plausible propositions even when evidence is against them.

Chance alone can make one out of a thousand of those conspiracies true (if there’s no evidence against them), and then they select just that one and think all the others are the same. I’d rather be right 999/1000 of the time.

Ms. McCarthy needs to realize that her anti-vax crusade is extremely dangerous to our well-being on a whole. Vaccines ARE NOT linked to autism (a quick google search turned this link up http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-coller3-2009may03,0,4461231.story and there’s plenty more where that came from) and anyone who can look the facts in the the face and deny them should not be given a nation-wide soap-box.

I have a personal stake in this debate– due to childhood medical problems, I am not fully vaccinated. At the time, the “herd” immunity protected me, so I have been vaccinated for everything but whooping cough. True, I am young and healthy so I probably won’t die if I happen to catch WC, but as I age will I have the same luxury? (And I’d rather not have to miss work to have a hospital stay because misinformed parents can’t be bothered to think critcally).

We should not be celebrating this kind of thinking. It is dangerous and deadly.

In the beginning of this issue, I heard and read many say that if there were a link, it was better in the long run to give the vaccine, as there would be fewer deaths. This WAS NOT the way to address the issue. I think it greatly inhibited getting the truth out and the effect still lingers…

In the world of mass media, the truth is very rarely profitable.

I think Jenny should discuss the antivax debate. She could have a panel discussion. Panel members should include the discredited quack, Andrew Wakefield, who started the whole vax/autism scare (you know, the guy who falsified the data?). For a counter-opinion, she should bring on a ‘real’ scientist, maybe from the National Institutes of Health, who can speak intelligently about the results of truthful, accurate studies showing no link between vaccines and autism. And finally, because Oprah likes to see a tear or two shed, she could include the Australian parents of four-week-old Dana McCaffrey who can describe how their daughter suffered a slow, agonizing asphyxiation from whooping cough — a deadly disease easily preventable with a proven vaccine. It might be interesting to hear Andrew Wakefield answer to the McCaffreys. He could explain how his ‘research’ encouraged people not to vaccinate their children contributing to a reduction in the “herd immunity” that might have prevented Dana’s death. Yeah, I think that would be a good show…