Dear Editor
I think the time has come for the medical profession to admit a major mistake in
its history and for a moment leave pride and arrogance on one side. I have a
university degree, am father of two and have spent several days reading books
about childhood vaccination and information downloaded from the Internet. As
vaccination was a “joke” of industrial development, owing to the coincidence of
improving general hygiene, nutrition and standard of living, and the development
and diffusion of vaccination programmes, its death will result from
post-industrial technological development and diffusion of information via the
Internet, which allows non-partial (i.e. not sponsored by pharmaceutical
corporations) information to circulate. For anyone confronted with the issue, it
seems clear that:
- Vaccination is a multibillion-dollar business for the pharmaceutical
corporations, which do not sell a few well-tested medicines but huge stocks of
not so well tested vaccines to numerous governments with relatively low and
simple "Promotion costs". The doctors are unfortunately both consciously and
unconsciously part of this process.
- Part of the joke of history is because oblivious children contribute to the
problem. The parents usually arrive at a decision to vaccinate their children
under the stress of the first months of parenthood and usually without any
objective information. The will to have your children vaccinated is owing to the
protective instinct that is in every parent. The paediatricians on their side get
only sponsored information!
- All the statistical analysis I have read suggests that vaccination makes no
difference and the one study that suggested that it did, was sponsored by
pharmaceutical corporations.
- The problem lies also in the fact that the majority of doctors are unwilling
to tell to a parent not to vaccinate because in the very rare case that the child
does actually die as a result of not being vaccinated, the parent would have
every right to sue. Nobody considers that that child would probably die as a
consequence of vaccination and that anyhow deaths related to vaccinations are
higher than the ones related to not being vaccinated (It would be enough to
consider SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, between 5000 and 10,000 yearly only
in the USA). However, in these cases the responsible agent is practically
impossible to find!
The least anyone who read this letter could do (especially if they are going to
have children!) is to search on the Internet for the word “vaccination” and check
what he or she finds, especially on independent websites. There are also many
interesting books on this subject. A big surprise awaits them!
Dear Editor
I think the time has come for the medical profession to admit a major mistake in its history and for a moment leave pride and arrogance on one side. I have a university degree, am father of two and have spent several days reading books about childhood vaccination and information downloaded from the Internet. As vaccination was a “joke” of industrial development, owing to the coincidence of improving general hygiene, nutrition and standard of living, and the development and diffusion of vaccination programmes, its death will result from post-industrial technological development and diffusion of information via the Internet, which allows non-partial (i.e. not sponsored by pharmaceutical corporations) information to circulate. For anyone confronted with the issue, it seems clear that:
The least anyone who read this letter could do (especially if they are going to have children!) is to search on the Internet for the word “vaccination” and check what he or she finds, especially on independent websites. There are also many interesting books on this subject. A big surprise awaits them!