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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