New Study: HPV Vaccine a Public Relations and Political Success But Efficacy Not Even Proven

A new study by researchers Tomljenovic and Shaw question whether the HPV vaccine even prevents cervical cancer.

“On January 12, 2011 the Annals of Medicine published a ground-breaking peer-reviewed paper titled,Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine: Are they at odds?,¹written byrenowned researchers Lucija Tomljenovic, Ph.D.,and Christopher Shaw, Ph.D.”*

“Merck’s clinical trials were flawed because they used an aluminum adjuvant as a ‘placebo’ and only used saline as a comparative for minor, non-serious adverse reactions. With serious adverse reactions, they pooled the results from the saline group and the aluminum ‘placebo’ group. By doing this, they concealed the true rate of serious reactions.”*

Tomljenovic and Shaw cite these key messages:

- To date, the efficacy of HPV vaccines in preventing cervical cancer has not been demonstrated, while vaccine risks remain to be fully evaluated.

- Current worldwide HPV immunization practices with either of the two HPV vaccines appear to be neither justified by long-term health benefits nor economically viable, nor is there any evidence that HPV vaccination (even if proven effective against cervical cancer) would reduce the rate of cervical cancer beyond what Pap screening has already achieved.

- Cumulatively, the list of serious adverse reactions related to HPV vaccination worldwide includes deaths, convulsions, paraesthesia, paralysis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), transverse myelitis, facial palsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, anaphylaxis, autoimmune disorders, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolisms, and cervical cancers.

- Because the HPV vaccination programme has global coverage, the long-term health of many women may be at risk against still unknown vaccine benefits.

- Physicians should adopt a more rigorous evidence-based medicine approach, in order to provide a balanced and objective evaluation of vaccine risks and benefits to their patients.

- The almost exclusive reliance on manufacturers’ sponsored studies, often of questionable quality, as a basis for vaccine policy-making should be discontinued.

- Greater efforts should be made to minimize the undue commercial influences on academic institutions and medical research, as this influence may impede unbiased scientific inquiry into important questions about vaccine science and policies.

- Passive adverse event surveillance should be replaced by active surveillance to better understand the true risks associated with vaccines, particularly new vaccines.*

*Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034636_vaccinations_quack_science_medical_journals.html#ixzz1jMeEhOHn

2012- A Great Year for Homeopathy’s Resurgence And Freedom To Pursue Real Science

Before discussing 2012 I think it is important to discuss some seminal events of 2011 (and 2010).

First off the skeptics movement was shown to be the gong show it was and is, and it headed to self destruction. Based on the various skeptic cults’ activities, words that come to mind about the leaders of this movement were irresponsible, fraudulent, and even criminal.

First the irresponsible public suicide attempt by members of the skeptics clubs world-wide that sent a message to all kiddies out there that we (skeptics) don’t give a shit what you do with your mommy’s medicines, natural or otherwise.

Second, a number of prominent members of the skeptics movements were caught with their pants down. (Hey not completely literally). One had made a big mistake by quoting a defunct journal in his attack on chiropractors leading to his being taken off a government board.  Another prominent skeptic author has consistently claimed he had been educated as a homeopath prior to going against it-well, turns out he told a big fat lie and has had no education in homeopathy at all. It is the reason his book is riddled with mistakes and ignorance about the principles and application of homeopathy.  This was the typical bloated fraudulent stuff that made up many skeptics’ “science” and “research” and non-expert opinions particularly about homeopathy.

There was even more exposure of the unhealthy link between leading skeptic organizations and pharmaceutical companies.

And in spite of Montagnier, a nobel prize winner being mercilessly attacked and belittled by skeptics knowing nothing about his research, the Chinese have built him a state of the art research laboratory where he can pursue his scientific research into homeopathically prepared substances without the “terrorism” as he describes it, and away from the vituperative attacks by skeptics.

And the head of a septic (oops skeptic) organization in the United States has police hovering around him for some magical criminal tricks of a board member and partner of his in his leading skeptic foundation. Another leading skeptic there, who has made dirty money out of first criticizing and then suing alternative health practitioners and manufacturers has been charged under the RICO racketeering Act.

And leading skeptic Andy Lewis (possibly aka Charlton aka Samantha aka other pseudonyms here on this blog) has admitted that homeopathy actually works but for the sake of “genuine science” and pro-fascism in science it should not be enthusiastically embraced.

And in typical skeptic fashion, in 2011, Andy Lewis was caught pretending he was an expert in veterinarian medicine in order to attempt to negate a successful homeopathic scientific study. He even went so far as to give medical advice on how to treat mastitis even though he has had zero training in veterinarian medicine or conventional medicine.

So with the skeptic movement leaders being exposed as fraudulent,  I see 2012 as a year where more scientists like real veterinarians trained with real science backgrounds who research, practice or support homeopathy, begin to come out publicly in support of homeopathy in spite of the “intellectual terrorism” and threats (even death threats like I have received) from some skeptics.

But putting the crazies and fraudulent leaders in the skeptic movement aside, there are some sincere individuals who are just plain skeptical. And this is where there is actually common ground between skeptics and homeopathic supporters. Many homeopathic supporters and even practitioners and researchers come from science backgrounds but then perceive  the corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its corrupting affect on applied science. They also come to see the benefits, safety and profound implications of homeopathy and its application. They become consumers, practitioners, researchers and supporters of homeopathy.

Many of the more belligerent skeptics cannot admit the corruptibility of applied science particularly where corporations are involved. Many are researchers whether it is biological, physics or chemical research who have funding by major corporations at stake or are simply paid to be shills for the pharmaceutical companies.

2011 was also a great year for some successful science studies on homeopathy and I see that in 2012 there will be even more, but only  if freedom in science is protected against the tyranny of cult skeptics. Over 28,000 people in the UK signed a declaration in support of homeopathy. Please continue to support the freedom to choose homeopathy, a 200 year old system of medicine with an outstanding record of safety and efficacy.

It’s Implausible and Sounding a Bit Like Homeopathy…

From Scientific American- Quantum Entanglement Links 2 Diamonds:

A group of researchers report in the December 2 issue of Science that they managed to entangle the quantum states of two diamonds separated by 15 centimeters. Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon by which two or more objects share an unseen link bridging the space between them—a hypothetical pair of entangled dice, for instance, would always land on matching numbers, even if they were rolled in different places simultaneously.

In the new study, researchers from the University of Oxford, the National Research Council of Canada and the National University of Singapore (NUS) showed that entanglement can also be achieved in macroscopic objects at room temperature. “What we have done is demonstrate that it’s possible with more standard, everyday objects—if diamond can be considered an everyday object,” says study co-author Ian Walmsley, an experimental physicist at Oxford. “It’s possible to put them into these quantum states that you often associate with these engineered objects, if you like—these closely managed objects.”

Oh for the love of science – don’t you hate it when science starts catching up with homeopathy.

Australian Journalist Wins Prestigious Award for Exposing Flu Vaccine Scandal

Natasha Bita, a journalist for The Australian has just won a Walkley Award (the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize) for an in-depth article series on the CSL Afluria flu vaccine, a shot that caused convulsions in one percent of Australian infants who received it.
To put this vaccine scandal in perspective, the CDC states that ‘seizures can occur after vaccination,’ 33% of infants who have a first seizure will have more seizures and 10% of infants who have one seizure can develop epilepsy. According to the Merck Manual (the largest-selling medical textbook), seizures are a symptom of encephalitis, which the Merck Manual defines as a vaccine adverse reaction. Vaccine-induced encephalitis can leave a spectrum of permanent brain damage in its wake – post-encephalitic syndrome (aka epilepsy and autism). In other words, kids that have convulsions from Afluria can have lifelong neurological disabilities.

http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/australian-journalist-wins-prestigious-award-for-exposing-flu-vaccine-scandal/

Randi, Skeptics and a Journalist That Fraudulently Attempted to Disprove Homeopathy

Dana Ullman discussing how Randi and a journalist perpetrated a fraud  in this article “The Magician Who Could Not Make Homeopathy Disappear“ It is the usual fraudulent and idiotic science that is perpetrated only when it comes when trying to disprove homeopathy and alternatives.

A campaign of disinformation on homeopathic medicine has been very active in United Kingdom and in the United States, and my previous article at this website provided some detail about this effort.
Perhaps the leading opponent to homeopathy in the United States is the magician James Randi. Magicians use various tricks to make things disappear, and Mr. Randi is working hard at making homeopathy disappear… however, to be a successful magician one must learn to fool and deceive people, and Mr. Randi is performing his tricks to try to make homeopathy disappear. Thankfully, he has not been successful…

Mark Golden, a producer for John Stossel and ABC’s 20/20 program, asked me to participate in a merging of “reality television” and “science.” He asked if there was a laboratory experiment that could be conducted to prove that homeopathic medicines had biological activity (or not)….and to add a little more tv drama to it, Golden told me a successful result could lead to winning $1 million to a homeopathic organization from James Randi. I told him that there were several such experiments, but one study was particularly noteworthy because it was conducted by Professor Madeleine Ennis, a former skeptic of homeopathy who was a professor of biochemistry at Queens College in Belfast, Ireland. Further, I told this producer that three other universities had replicated her experiment (Belon, Cumps, Ennis, 1999; Belon, Cumps, Ennis, 2004).

I agreed to participate in the experiment if Professor Ennis conducted the study or served as a consultant to the study to assure that it was correctly conducted. The producer agreed. I was therefore flown to New York to be interviewed, and a month later the study was to be conducted. Professor Ennis is a highly respected researcher, and she told the producer and me that she had no interest in conducting a “TV science experiment,” but she would review the protocol of the researcher they chose to use.

When Professor Ennis was ultimately sent the protocol, she was shocked at what she received. This protocol was NOT her experiment (Ennis, 2004). In fact, it was clearly a study that was a set-up to dis-prove homeopathy. Ennis noted that certain chemicals used in the experiment were known to kill the specific types of cells that the experiment would be counting. Further, she listed egregious problems with this study (Ennis, 2004) and asserted that the “researcher” who created this new study had seemingly never previously conducted and published a study in his life. Actually, the researcher who created this study and who was to conduct it was a lab technician without a graduate degree and without any previous publication history.

Professor Ennis and I also learned that this same researcher had conducted the same faulty experiment for the BBC which sought to discredit homeopathy (BBC, 2002). The narrator of this BBC program explicitly asserted that this TV experiment was a “replication” of Professor Ennis’ previous study, though this assertion was sheer fabrication.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/034208_homeopathy_James_Randi.html#ixzz1eSNVyU5q

Outside Expert and Nature Journal Examines Wakefield Study and Concludes Brian Deer’s Charges Against Wakefield Are False

“In a rather dramatic development, Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been shown to be innocent of a significant charge levied by Brian Deer and the British Medical Journal. Because this is documented by the pretigious journal Nature, the BMJ has doubled-down on their attack.

The BMJ had supported Deer’s claim that Wakefield is the sole person responsible for claiming that nonspecific colitis was found in children with autism.

Now, there’s incontrovertible evidence that the claim is not true. So, they are trying to railroad the rest of Wakefield’s research team, plus six “senior personnel at the highest level” of University College London (UCL) . Fiona Godlee, BMJ‘s editor, demands that UCL initiate an investigation immediately, and if they refuse, parliament itself should do so.

The BMJ and Deer claimed that Wakefield—Wakefield alone—falsely diagnosed the children analyzed in The Lancet paper, “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children“, with nonspecific colitis. It is a central point in the charges against Wakefield.

Wakefield discussed the matter with ex-Environmental Protection Agency microbiologist, Dr. David Lewis, who had been forced out of the EPA for blowing the whistle on their promotion of human waste sludge for farms. Ultimately exonerated, Lewis is now a member of the National Whistleblowers Center, which seeks to aid others who find themselves in similar positions.”

He stated: “As a research microbiologist involved with the collection and examination of colonic biopsy samples, I do not believe that Dr. Wakefield intentionally misinterpreted the grading sheets as evidence of “non-specific colitis.” Dhillon indicated “non-specific” in a box associated, in some cases, with other forms of colitis. In addition, if Anthony’s grading sheets are similar to ones he completed for the Lancet article, they suggest that he diagnosed “colitis” in a number of the children.”

“Obviously, the BMJ is in a bad spot. They have made strong accusations against Wakefield, and those accusations are clearly documented as false. So, along with publishing the letter, the BMJ went on the attack.  They are now calling for an investigation against all  the members of Wakefield’s research team for the Lancet paper, and adding in six senior academics at the University College London (UCL), which has taken over divisions of the Royal Free Hospital and is now responsible for the work Wakefield did.”

Read it all in Gaia Health

Excellent Movie on the Vaccine Question

Here is an excellent award winning movie on the Vaccine Question:

The Greater Good

“THE GREATER GOOD looks behind the fear, hype and politics that have polarized the vaccine debate in America today. The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and offers, for the first time, the opportunity for a rational and scientific discussion on how to create a safer and more effective vaccine program.”

A Lesson for The Skeptics

“Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for a discovery that faced skepticism and mockery, even prompting his expulsion from his research team, before it won widespread acceptance as a fundamental breakthrough.”

-Associated Press- see full article on Yahoo: Isreali Scientist Wins Nobel Prize Despite Skeptic Mockery 

Another Odd Malevolent Turn for The Science Skeptic Movement

I’ve discussed how the science skeptics have been funded and insidiously prompted by pharmaceutical companies especially when it comes to the organization Sense about Science. The leader of that organization is actually a public relations consultant for pharmaceutical and oil companies. It is all part of  an organized and concerted effort to stop any alternative medical approaches.

I’ve also discussed how skeptics have fraudulently set themselves up as experts in clinical medicine and alternatives. Thus we have the unusual position of leaders of the skeptic movement fraudulently claiming to be homeopathy experts and  lying about their credentials and also hijacking the homeopathy wikipedia entry.

I’ve also discussed how their revered leader, a magician, James Randi, has fraudulently offered a 1 million dollar reward for proving the skeptics wrong. Thus we have an offer that has a) never had the money to back it up and b) that Randi who has not allowed anyone with a good experiment backed up by medical practitioners and researchers to go through with it.

Now, the magician Randi’s partner, ‘Jose Luis Alvarez,’ who is a Board member of Randi’s leading skeptic organization, (James Randi Foundation) was recently arrested for stealing a passport and identity theft.

If you have a criminal bent, there is much to be learned about the lucrative nature of being a “skeptic”.  Alvarez has been involved in many of the debunking hoaxes that has pushed his partner Randi to benefit financially by lucrative speaking and TV engagements.

Skeptics Have Corrupted Wikipedia and The Homeopathy Entry

Technically speaking you should be an expert in the field you are writing about on wikipedia. But If you have a lot of time, funding and fanaticism you can become a fake expert at anything there. This is what is being done on the homeopathy wikipedia entry. Untrained skeptics have now taken over the writing of the wikipedia section on homeopathy since homeopathic experts do not have the time or resources that skeptics seem to have. Homeopathy experts have been forced off the site by the skeptics.

This is probably wikipedia’s lowest of the low-it seems that any sponsored mouth-piece can undermine and lie about homeopathy’s 200 year history of remarkable results.

These skeptics have posed as experts before in order to criticize homeopathy. It is time for wikipedia to get some real homeopathy experts on to write a description of homeopathy and yes, give the skeptics and drug companies a paragraph or a small section for rebuttal but not the whole entry.