"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
-- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."-- H.L. Mencken
"For the public ever to break command science it must first understand
the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of
medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease,
particularly infectious disease."--Peter Deusberg (Inventing The AIDS Virus).
http://www.duesberg.com/
"Propaganda Techniques: Special Appeals--Fear:
When a propagandist warns members of her audience that disaster will ensue if
they do not follow a particular course of action, she is using the fear appeal.
By playing on the audience's deep-seated fears, practitioners of this technique
hope to redirect attention away from the merits of a particular proposal and
toward steps that can be taken to reduce the fear."
http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/fear.htm
"The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are
filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy
our country. Russia is threatening us with her might, and the Republic is in
danger. Yes - danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without it
our nation cannot survive." - Adolf Hitler, 1932
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of
fear--kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave
national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some
monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly
rally behind it ..." -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
"A perusal of the abstracts of papers presented at the 23rd
annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiological Research made me wonder
whetherepidemiology, in the absenceof epidemics, is not a
misnomer for scaremongering made respectable by the use of sophisticated
statistical methods, and whether one of the reasons for this state of affairs is
not a high prevalence of epidemiologists when the incidence of problems solvable
by epidemiological methods is low."---Hilary Butler quoting Petr Skrabanek
http://www.whale.to/m/butler4.html
"The CDC would be the last place in the world to go for information regarding
health. The CDC is a government bureacracy funded by theft (taxation that has
reached confiscatory levels) and run by white collar criminals who regularly
misinform and misdirect the public while creating pandemonium in the marketplace
(unnecessary destruction of livestock, recalls etc) and conspiring to
incite public panic on an almost daily basis, in violation of the
constitution of the United States."--Dr
Duffy DC
" So, let's all pretend it's (West Nile virus) a
deadly virus and endure a ritual of mind-numbing fear, dramatized by occasional
unscheduled pesticide sprayings by helicopters over crowded streets and
parks."--Jim West
www.geocities.com/noxot
"Severe constraints are placed on the
media in the name of "responsible journalism" with the result that the American
public very seldom hears both sides of the vaccination story, and comes to have
an unquestioning faith in vaccinations as our greatest hope against future
imagined disease plagues. In this fear-based scenario, the questioning voice of
reason is drowned out amid the hysteria surrounding the emerging "killer
infections" which are such a favorite media topic. This propagation of fear by
the media and by its sources in the public health industry has resulted in a
growth of power of this industry far beyond the usual checks and balances of our
democracy."---Incao's
Hepatitis B Vaccination Testimony
"To magnify their own importance CDC allowed a climate of fear
(Legionnaire disease)."--Dr Anthony Morris
Fearmongering to increase vaccine uptake: "There is no doubt, however, that the risk has been, for some
years, vastly exaggerated, seemingly to prepare the public mind to accept the
new (diptheria) vaccine."--- M.
Meadow Bayly, M.R.C.S.,
"What Jenner discovered, though hardly original in its general
principle, was that it pays far better to scare 100 per cent of the fools in the
worldthe vast majorityinto buying vaccine than it does to treat the small
minority who really get smallpox and who cannot afford to pay anything. It was
indeed a very great discoveryworth thousands of millions. That is why this kind
of blackmail is still kept going."--Dr Hadwin
"Finally, Dr Nicholson described the campaign as "a gift
horse" for the two drug companies, which still had vaccines in stock intended
for use with the combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)......The stocks of the MR
vaccine were still current, but had to be used by autumn 1994, just when the
campaign took place. "The campaign provided a very lucky break for the two
vaccine suppliers,""---WDDTY
"Mention to Mrs Higgins, who works in the wool shop, that there is
likely to be a severe shortage of vaccines this year. Judging by the fact that
such rumours recently wiped out petrol supplies in most of the UK, I feel
confident that she will start a stampede of panic vaccinating that will empty
our smart new vaccine fridge within hours."--Pulse
letter
"Yet our medically controlled Health Boards cook up fake
epidemics, create panics for profit, such as the ones
in Kansas City in 1921, Pittsburgh in 1924, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington
in 1925. An effort was also made to create a panic in New York in 1925, but due
to the open fight against it by the New York Evening Graphic, the
Commissioner of Health called it off."--Herbert
Shelton DC
"There was not a certified case of swine flu in the world when they
planned it in 1976, but this multi-million dollar vaccine campaign was foisted
on the people anyway."--Eleanora
I. McBean, Ph.D., N.D.
"Since people cannot be vaccinated against their will, the biggest job
of a health department is always to persuade the unprotected people to get
vaccinated. This we attempted to do in three ways, education, fear, and
pressure. We dislike very much to mention fear and pressure, yet they accomplish
more than education because they work faster than education, which is normally a
slow process. During the months of March and April, we tried education and
vaccinated only 62,000. During May we made use of fear and pressure and
vaccinated 223,000 people."----.Dr John Keller
Dr. Gerhard Buchwald MD book Impfen - Das Geschäft mit der Angst
(Vaccination - A Business Based on Fear)
"I have lectured all over the world... I have always had a special
interest in newspapers. All of them have one thing in common, there is always
some reference made to some epidemic in some part of the world. For instance,
two years ago, one paper referred to a polio epidemic in Holland. For the past
three years, our newspapers have commented on the diphtheria epidemic in Russia.
By these means, the population is constantly threatened with epidemics, they
have been made to fear them, and the reports always conclude: "Go and get
vaccinated".--Dr Buchwald
MD
"If I had refused to think for myself, but had, instead, bowed down to
the Ministry of Health and had joined in the scaremongering along with 27 other
doctors who obliged the Whitehall emissaries by signing a manifesto to the
effect that there was smallpox in Gloucester."--Dr
Hadwen 1925
"One of the first patients I saw [as a young doctor] was a 12-year-old
boy who had come into hospital to die because his brain had been so devastated
by the long-term effects of measles," he said. "And one of the first babies I
had seen in the neonatal unit was one who had been damaged by congenital
rubella. I don't need to see any of those again, but that will be the
consequence of this drive for single vaccines."--Dr
Salisbury
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"