Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars: Fighting for Human Freedom During the Great Reset
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Professor Christopher A Shaw discovered, after a deep-dive literature search on aluminum impacts on humans and animals, that aluminum hydroxide, an adjuvant in the anthrax vaccine, had a significantly negative impact on motor functions and reflexes of patients in the literature. After that finding, he did what scientists are supposed to do and kept following the leads. However, organizations like WHO dismissed him immediately. Those powerful organizations either knew what he knew, that aluminum vaccine adjuvants were harmful, or they simply didn’t care. In either case, two possible reasons for the lack of response became clear to Shaw and his colleagues: dogma and money. The first had served to convince most of the world’s medical professionals that Shaw had to be wrong because, after all, “the science was settled.” And, behind much of this was the naked fact of how much money vaccines brought in to cover the pharmaceutical industry’s profit margin. The combination of those two have the finger prints of various Big Pharma companies smudged all over the question of vaccine safety, which included the demonization of both scientists and lay scholars who raised even the tamest questions about safety and the push for vaccine mandates around the world. After these events, Shaw decided to dig deeper.
Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars is a comprehensive look at the origin of vaccination and the oversight of vaccines by various regulatory bodies in the United States and in Canada. The book provides not only the official view on vaccines safety and efficacy, but also provides a critical analysis on which such views are based. Aluminum and other compounds that may contribute to autism spectrum disorder are discussed at length. Professor Shaw also analyzes the corporate influences driving vaccine uptake worldwide and provides an in depth look at the push for mandatory vaccination. Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars evaluates the extent to which vaccinology has become a cult religion driving attempts to suppress divergent scientific opinions. Finally, the book delves into the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for the future of us all.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781510758506 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Skyhorse |
| Publication date: | 08/31/2021 |
| Series: | Children's Health Defense |
| Pages: | 632 |
| Sales rank: | 1,144,269 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.80(d) |
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Preface
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
—Melvin A. Benarde
The present book arose from diverse circumstances that were nevertheless related by a common theme: vaccine safety.
Vaccine safety, like the pejorative term “anti-vaxxer,” is a suitcase phrase in that within two simple words are a number of subthemes that span an enormous range. These include the concepts of what science is, and isn’t; what those who are pro- or anti-vaccine—not to mention a vast middle-of-the-road group—actually believe; the fears that people in both pro- and anti-camps harbor; how the questions raised by the various groupings have impacted and, in turn, been impacted by politicians; and, not least, the elephants in the room, the interlocking roles of the pharmaceutical industry (the “pharma”), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The “pharma” is often seen in some circles as somehow a benign player. People, especially those whose stances tend to be highly on the pro-“vax” side, may acknowledge the serious money the industry makes from vaccines, acknowledge the very clear evidence that the same industry is rife with corruption and preventable disasters like Vioxx, and yet fail to see the possibility that money and corruption play a role in how vaccines are developed and rolled out to a public that has been trained to trust vaccine doctrine completely. Governmental agencies in the United States, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and internationally, such as WHO, are often seen as neutral and generally beneficial bodies, even by people normally distrustful of pretty much anything governments do. This odd phenomenon crosses the political divide, often in some very peculiar ways.
I came into research in the vaccine safety area quite by chance. First, I should point out that I am not an ophthalmologist regardless of the medical department I am in at my university. In actual fact, I am a neuroscientist by training and profession who happens to be in an ophthalmology department solely because I once did basic research into eye disorders. Indeed, for much of my career as a scientist, I had pretty much no views on vaccines at all, apart from what I had learned as an undergraduate and graduate student that vaccines were uniformly safe and effective. This was all it seemed that I needed to know for many years. That view did not change until about 2005.
That was the year when a graduate student in my laboratory and I decided to seek another cluster of Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS). In brief, my laboratory had been studying the cluster of ALS on Guam and decided that, to find more clues to this disorder, we had to broaden our search. To do so, we sought another cluster that might serve to diminish the number of potential causes of the disease.
In due course, we found one in Gulf War Syndrome, the mysterious multisystem disorder that emerged after the American Coalition’s 1991 war against Iraq. In this syndrome, ALS incidence in Coalition soldiers appeared to occur at a much higher incidence, and at a much younger age, than in the general population.
In turn, our reading of the published literature led to the emerging epidemiology on the syndrome that, in some cases, pointed the finger at the anthrax vaccine that most soldiers had received. The correlation with this vaccine seemed to be independent of whether the soldiers actually deployed to the Gulf or not. This fact alone seemed to rule out environmental factors that arose during the war such as exposure to oil well fires or anti-nerve gas agents.
With this as a background, we attempted to purchase the anthrax vaccine, made at that time by a company called BioPort. BioPort refused to sell us the vaccines, so we decided to simply look at the listed ingredients and try the components individually that, based on the scientific literature, seemed most likely to be involved. Two such ingredients stood out, both adjuvants, or helpers, to the vaccine: aluminum salts, such as aluminum hydroxide; and squalene, a tripertene. The first was acknowledged to be in the vaccine; the second was not, but other investigators were able to show that it was there in at least some of the anthrax vaccine vials. Aluminum was recognized as a neurotoxin even then.
We conducted a typical in vivo animal model study in which we injected young male mice with a weight-adjusted amount of aluminum hydroxide or squalene, versus both, and all compared to control mice getting only saline. At this time, we felt that we would fairly rapidly discover that there were no negative effects and go back to look for other possible causal factors for Gulf War Syndrome.
To our surprise, we found that the aluminum, in particular, had a significantly negative impact on motor functions and reflexes. Further, histological examinations showed that the motor cortex and spinal cords of the aluminum-treated mice had significant increases in motor neuron degeneration.
Now intrigued, from that point on we did what scientists are supposed to do and kept following the leads. The emerging data in adult and young mice supported the general notion that aluminum was harmful to the central nervous system (CNS). This alone was not particularly surprising, as we were to discover when we began a detailed survey of the existing experimental literature.
We went on from this early work to publish a number of reviews, experimental studies, and other commentaries on aluminum (see Chapter 5).
In science, provocative results are supposed to be met with attempts by others to replicate the findings in order to see if the data hold up to scrutiny. Indeed, various researchers were finding the same things we had seen. In contrast, agencies like WHO did not have experimental data, but rather simply dismissed our work out of hand using one of their sub-bodies, the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS). Here is their comment in reference to several of our studies:
The GACVS reviewed 2 published papers alleging that aluminium in vaccines is associated with autism spectrum disorders 3,4 and the evidence generated from quantitative risk assessment by a US FDA pharmacokinetic model of aluminium-containing vaccines. GACVS considers that these 2 studies 3, 4 are seriously flawed. The core argument made in these studies is based on ecological comparisons of aluminium content in vaccines and rates of autism spectrum disorders in several countries. In general, ecological studies cannot be used to assert a causal association because they do not link exposure to outcome in individuals, and only make correlations of exposure and outcomes on population averages. Therefore, their value is primarily for hypothesis generation. However, there are additional concerns with those studies that limit any potential value for hypothesis generation. These include: incorrect assumptions about known associations of aluminium with neurological disease, uncertainty of the accuracy of the autism spectrum disorder prevalence rates in different countries, and accuracy of vaccination schedules and resulting calculations of aluminium doses in different countries.
In Chapter 5, we will see if the WHO/GAVCS comments are valid or not.
The second convergent event in my personal trajectory into vaccine research was actually a series of events that began to suggest to me that we were not wading into just any “typical” medical controversy such as those that populate ALS or other neurological disease research areas, but rather one that had frankly religious overtones. Actually, as we came to see, it was more cult-like than simply religious.
I had also begun to realize that “talking truth to power” was not sufficient. Power in this case either knew what we knew, that is, that aluminum vaccine adjuvants are harmful, or simply didn’t care. In either case, two possible reasons for the lack of response became clear: dogma and money. The first had served to convince most of the world’s medical professionals that we had to be wrong because, after all, “the science was settled.” And behind much of this was the naked fact of how much money vaccines brought into the pharmaceutical industry’s profit margin.
The combination of these two, in turn, led to a series of actions that I believe have the fingerprints of the various companies smudged all over the question of vaccine safety. These included the demonization of both scientists and lay scholars who raised even the tamest questions about safety and the push for vaccine mandates around the world.
In the first case, we have seen this before when various industries find their products threatened, as will be discussed at length in later chapters. In other words, the attack on independent scientists studying vaccine safety was nothing new.
As so often in history, attempts to suppress people, either with mandates or anything else, tend to have predicable consequences, namely, pushback and outright resistance, actions that were emerging even before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world.
What had started as a fight for vaccine safety has since rapidly emerged as a fight for basic human rights, in this case that of security of the person.
Whatever the politicians and their pharma backers thought they might achieve by pushing for mandates has hit a wall of resistance, resistance that seemed to be growing then, and even more now, as this book goes to press: the more those in power push, the more they threaten and demean those critical of any aspect of vaccine safety, the greater the resistance grows. Anyone who has ever studied counterinsurgency warfare knows precisely how this process works and what the end result is likely to be. Fear can only be maintained for so long, even if it is increased by pandemics real or imagined.
What was emerging pre-COVID-19 and since can be described, fairly accurately I think, as a war. Not a war involving weapons, thankfully, at least not yet, but one of ideas and about rights. Hence, the title of this book. In the following pages, I will attempt to dissect the various issues that have emerged, and continue to emerge.
Certainly the most dramatic event to emerge since this book was started has been the COVID-19 pandemic, which is ongoing as I write and which will certainly be with us as the book goes to press and beyond. COVID-19 as a disease and the social and political responses to it, fanned by very accommodating media, are likely to be some of the long range aspects of the “new normal.”
COVID-19, from its origins to the future, is the subject of a separate chapter that was not planned when this book was begun. However, I think readers will see in the pre-COVID-19 history what should have been clues to future events that have since transpired. There are various books critical of vaccines, of course. And there are many books taking the opposite tack. Instead of trying to put myself into either camp, I have chosen to go back to basics and try to see what history and science actually tell us about vaccine safety. In so doing, I expect to find opponents from both camps. Some will think I am too “anti-vax” (many already do) for pointing out the flaws in vaccine theory, development, and administration. Others will find me not critical enough. My feeling is that getting vitriol from both sides is the right place to be. Individual readers will decide for themselves.
Needless to say, none of what follows should be considered to reflect the views of my current employer, the University of British Columbia, as it most certainly does not. I will discuss this point in some detail as I think it illustrates how heavily the pharmaceutical industry influences academia.
There are many people to thank, whose contributions I have already acknowledged. The discerning reader will note that some entities and individuals are deliberately not mentioned.
Last issues: In a book attempting to cover so much territory, there will be omissions and gaps, and not everything that might be cited has been. The subject of vaccines and vaccine safety with all of the associated scientific and social ramifications is just too broad. I apologize for any items that I missed and mean no slight to any of the authors of such articles or books.
Additionally, early on in the process of writing this book, I solicited opinions from a range of individuals on topics such as vaccine mandates. By no means was this a rigorous selection process: I simply sent a questionnaire to people I knew. I viewed this as a “temperature check” on various issues. The verbatim responses are shown in supplementary material.
“Fight the power; do no harm,” the slogan of the late Black Cross Medical Collective, expresses the basics of my social and medical beliefs, and most of what follows in the rest of the book is from this perspective.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Preface xvi
Foreword Robert F. Kennedy Jr. xxi
Chapter 1 Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars: An Introduction 1
In the Beginning … 1
The Scientific Method and What Science Can and Can't Do 5
Occam's Razor and the Role of External Players 10
The Benefits versus the Adverse Effects of Vaccines 11
What Evidence Should Any Side in the Vaccine Wars Present To Best Support Their Position? (Part 1) 14
The Combatants and Bystanders in the Vaccine Wars 16
The "Pro-Vaccine" Camp 16
True "Anti-Vaccine" Proponents 19
The Vaccine-Hesitant or Resistant 20
The Remainder 21
Once an "Anti-Vaxxer," Always an "Anti-Vaxxer" 22
Science Literacy versus Illiteracy: It's Not Just Confined to Lay People 23
How Much Vaccine Education Does One Get in Medical School? 25
Residencies 28
Back to What Science Is (and Isn't) 28
A Brief Introduction to the Wakefield Controversy 29
Chapter 2 Vaccination History, Theory, and Practice: A Brief Overview 31
Edward Jenner and the Formal Beginning of Vaccination 31
The Ethics of Vaccination 37
Vaccine Theory and Practice after Jenner 39
Vaccinology: The Methods and Practice of Making Vaccines 42
Note concerning Excipients in Vaccines 46
The "Official" Story of Vaccines 46
What Evidence Should Any Side in the Vaccine Wars Present To Best Support Their Position? (Part 2) 48
Coincidence versus Causality and the Hill Criteria 50
Model Systems 53
Computer Modeling 54
In Vitro Modeling 54
In Vivo Animal Studies 54
Types of Clinical Trials in Medicine 55
Some Ethical Concerns about Clinical Studies 61
Bias in Clinical Trials and Particularly in relation to Vaccine Studies 63
Surrogate Markers in Vaccines 64
Chapter 3 Health Consequences of Vaccination and the "Official" Story 70
Immunology and the Nervous System 70
The Safety and Effectiveness of Vaccines: The "Official" Narrative 76
Are Vaccines Safe? 76
The Nature of Experimental Controls 80
The AAP List of Vaccine Safety Studies 82
The Other Articles Cited by AAP 89
Overall Evaluation of the AAP's Vaccine Safety List of Publications 90
The IOM's Stratton et al. Report on Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality 91
Overall Evaluation of Stratton et al. 95
The CDC's List of Vaccine Safety Studies 96
Overall Evaluation of the CDC's Vaccine Safety List of Publications 99
Overall Evaluation of AAP and CDC Vaccine Safety Studies 100
Taylor et al.'s Curious Epilogue 100
Another Critique from an Independent Scientist on Vaccine Safety Studies 102
Other Critiques of Mainstream Studies 105
Studies of Vaccine Effectiveness 105
Claims, Controversies, and the Danger of "Cherry-Picking" 111
The Calls for a "Vaxxed" versus "Unvaxxed" Study 113
Vaccine Licensing and Surveillance Programs in the United States and Canada 116
Licensing in the United States 116
Adverse Effects of Vaccines 118
Vaccine Safety Surveillance: FDA and CDC 119
Canada 122
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program 126
Concluding Remarks 130
Chapter 4 Vaccine Safety: The View from the Skeptical Side of the House 131
The Origins of Vaccine Skepticism 131
Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) 134
Classical Autism 134
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) 135
Temporal Increases in ASD Prevalence 136
ASD and the Evidence for Genetic Causality 137
Environmental Factors 138
Changing DSM Criteria 139
Better Diagnosis/Greater Social and Medical Awareness 141
Linkage of an Increased Vaccine Schedule with Increases in ASD 142
The Curious History of the (In)famous Wakefield et al. (1998) Study and Its Aftermath 142
The Editor of BMJ, Fiona Godlee, Supported Deer's Allegations 150
Measles Outbreaks: The Necessary Bogeyman to Drive Vaccine Mandates (At Least until COVID-19) 159
Herd Immunity: What It Is, and What It Isn't 165
Moving the "Goal Posts" in the Search for ASD Etiology (Part 1) 168
Chapter 5 On Mercury and Aluminum: General Aspects of Neurotoxicity and the Role of Aluminum Adjuvants 171
Moving the "Goalposts" in the Search for ASD Causality (Part 2) 171
Thimerosal and ASD 175
The Neural Toxicity of Hg 175
Scientific Reviews of Thimerosal Toxicity 177
Simpsonwood Meeting on Thimerosal 177
The IOC's Contribution to the Question of Thimerosal and Autism 185
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Book 187
Thimerosal and Autism: Conclusions and Speculations 189
Aluminum Chemistry and Place in the Biosphere 191
Sources of Aluminum Exposure in Humans 192
Aluminum and Human Health 194
The Rationale for Using Aluminum in Vaccines 197
In Vivo and Human Studies of Aluminum Adjuvant Neurotoxicity 199
Modeling Studies of Aluminum Pharmacokinetics 202
Questions about Aluminum and Immunotherapy in relation to Pediatric Vaccine Schedules 205
The Unlikely Assertions of Dr. Paul Offit and CHOP 208
Aluminum and Autoimmunity 208
What Do We Know about Aluminum Adjuvants and ASD? 210
Aluminum and Biosemiosis 212
What Do the Leading US Health Organizations Know about Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines? 214
Summary of the Effects of Aluminum in Vaccines 215
Chapter 6 The Vaccine Wars and the Pro-Vaccine "Thought Leaders" 218
On War Metaphors 218
The "Thought Leaders" of the Pro-Vaccine Camp 220
Peter Hotez 233
Harassment of Pro-Vaccine Advocates 234
Trust Us, Were Experts 236
Eating Their Own: What Happens to Pro-Vaccine Scientists and Physicians Who Step out of Line? 239
Cui Bono? 243
Chapter 7 The Resistance to Vaccination Policies: Vaccine Hesitancy to Outright Refusal 245
The Spectrum of Vaccine Resistance 245
Vaccine Resistance Demographics 247
More Demographics Arising from Vaccine Controversies 251
The Rise of the Vaccine-Hesitant Movement: What Are the Reasons? 255
Key Players in the Resistance to Mandatory Vaccination: Who Are They and Why Do They Believe What They Believe? 257
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 258
Del Bigtree 262
The Others 263
The Emerging Vaccine Skeptic's Literature 265
Chapter 8 Vaccine Ideology and Religion 266
Religion versus Science 266
Does Vaccinology Behave Like a Cult? 271
On Ideology 272
A Brief Excursion into North American Archeology 274
Ideological Constructs of Vaccination 277
Punishing the Apostates 281
A Consideration of Medical Ethics in Light of Vaccine Ideology 282
The Nuremberg Code 284
The Belmont Report 285
The Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects 286
Cloms (2002) 288
Chapter 9 Attack of the Bloggers 293
On Critics 293
One Conversation, the Event and the Outcomes 294
Dr. David Gorski, Here to Save Us All from Pseudoscience in Medicine 295
And Now, the Orac "Wannabes" 309
Weaponizing the Peer-Review System 312
Considering Sagan's Demon-Haunted World 319
Chapter 10 The "Trifecta" of Fear: The Media, the Medical Establishment, and the World Health Organization 322
Fear 322
The Role of the Mainstream Media in Inducing Fear of the Vaccine-Hesitant and COVID-19 324
It's Fun for Canadians to Beat Up on the American Media, but Before We Do … 326
The Mainstream Medical Establishment 333
Who Is the WHO, and What Do They Do? 336
What Is the Impact of This Triangulation of Forces on Dissent? 346
Chapter 11 Vaccines and the State of Exception 347
Vaccine and Other Mandates: Implications for Human Natural and Civil Rights 347
The Essential Nature of Governments of All Stripes 353
State of Exception 353
The State of Exception and the COVID-19 Pandemic 358
Fighting Back: The Resistance to State of Exception Ramps Up 360
The Future of Human Freedom in the Age of COVID-19 and the "New Normal" 365
Vaccine Mandates around the World 368
Chapter 12 Tangled Web: The WHO, Bill Gates, and the Pharmaceutical Cartel 370
Sorting Out Who's Who in the Herd in the Room 370
The Official and Unofficial History of Bill Gates 372
Bill Gates as the Media Normally Portrays Him 375
Bill Gates: Captured Media, Captured Audience 381
The Role of the Big Pharmaceutical Industry in Human Health and Disease 390
Converging Lines of Evidence about the Pharma and the Endgame for COVID-19 400
The Endgame Trajectory 402
Chapter 13 The Age of COVID-19: Fear, Loathing, and the "New Normal" 406
Introduction to COVID-19 406
COVID-19: The Early Days of a Pandemic 406
The Still-Unanswered Questions about COVID-19: A Preliminary Overview 409
The Origins of COVID-19 409
What Are the Pathological Impacts of COVID-19? 411
Respiratory 411
Cardiovascular 411
Renal and Hepatic Systems 411
Nervous System 412
How Severe is COVID-19 as an Infectious Disease in Humans? 412
Percentage of the Population Affected 412
More Numerical Comparisons 415
Juggling the Numbers of the Dead 416
Assays to Evaluate COVID-19: PCR versus Serology 416
Testing Protocols 416
PCR 416
Serology 421
Halting Disease Spread by Various Means: How Effective Are These Measures? 422
How Contagious is COVID-19 versus Influenza? 422
Masks 423
Social Distancing 426
Lockdowns 427
Monitoring 428
Reporting and Snitching 428
Vaccine Passports 428
Legislation 429
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates 429
Social and Medical Consequences of COVID-19 Control Measures 430
Gaslighting the "Proles" for Fun and, Especially, for Profit 430
Animal and Human Studies Pre-COVID-19 431
The Other COVID-19 Vaccines 432
Human Trials: Efficacy Data for Moderna 433
Human Trials: Efficacy Data for Pfizer 435
Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca Efficacy Data with Their Viral Vector COVID-19 Vaccines 436
Johnson and Johnson 436
AstraZeneca 436
Summary for the Experimental COVID-19 Vaccines concerning Efficacy 436
mRNA Vaccine Safety Studies: Modernn, Phase 1 437
mRNA Vaccine Safety Studies: Moderna, Phase 3 437
mRNA Vaccine Safety Studies: Pfizer 439
Pfizer's FDA Briefing Document 439
What Could Go Wrong with mRNA Vaccines? 441
Safety Data for the Viral Vector Platforms: Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca 443
Johnson and Johnson 443
AstraZeneca 443
Summary of the Safety Data 443
Stability of mRNA Vaccines 443
Insider Trading? 444
The Normal Trajectory of Viral Pandemics and Epidemics: Evidence from the Past 445
A Look at Pandemics and Epidemics of the Past 445
The "Spanish Flu" Pandemic 445
Guam and ALS-PDC 446
Predictions on the Pandemic: Three Time Points in the First Year of COVID-19 447
March 23, 2020 447
May 2020 448
June to the End of November, 2020 452
Summary 454
Triangulating the WEF and the "Great Reset" 454
Converging Lines of Evidence on the Great Reset 460
The Essential Role of the Captured Media in the Great Reset 461
On Mandates and Lawsuits 463
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic 464
The Future of COVID-19 and Us 465
Epilogue 466
Chapter 14 Future Tense: The Lady or the Tiger? 468
Introduction to the End State 468
This Book and Me 470
ASD, The Resolution: Did Vaccines Cause It? 471
Recommendations for Future Vaccine Safety Studies 473
Speaking Truth to Power 475
Some Thoughts on Dunning-Kruger 476
The Hibernation of the Left 478
Battle Procedure and COVID-19 480
Vaccine Safety Pre- and Post-the "New Normal" in the Age of COVID-19 482
Social and Medical Consequences of Health/Vaccine Mandates 485
Social Movements and Infighting: The Vaccine-Hesitant Movement and the Lurch to the Right 488
Cui Bono, Redux 489
The Pharma and the Expression of Medical Fascism 490
Is There a Growing Merger between Vaccine Resistance and Resistance to Corporate Control? 492
The Third Way 494
The Lady or the Tiger? 495
Where Do I Stand? 496
Fiction 496
Nonfiction: Bench Science 497
My Views on Vaccines and Autism 498
On Justice 499
Epilogue 501
Endnotes 503
Sources for Figures and Tables 596
