Vaccines
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A vaccine is a biological preparation that contains weakened or killed forms of a microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins (plus many other ingredients, i.e. aluminum or fetal bovine serum), and is meant to stimulate the body’s cells in the immune system, including macrophages, T cells, and B cells.
Vaccination simulates infection in the body, whilst trying to avoid full-blown infection.
Today children are given as many as 69 doses of vaccines against 16 diseases.
Do Clinical Trials Use Inert Placebos for Vaccines?
It is of great concern that none of the vaccines given to children today were subjected to the “Gold Standard” of clinical trials: the randomized, double-blind, inert placebo controlled trial.
Let me be clear: I am referring to an INERT placebo.
I tried to prove myself wrong, which is what every scientist should do.
I earnestly read what the pro-vaccine crowd had to say.
Paul Offit mentions a Rotateq trial, which is here and here. Here’s what he wrote:
The rotavirus vaccine is an oral vaccine, and examining the trial notes, the placebo is described as “visibly indistinguishable”. There is no mention anywhere of “what” this placebo is composed of, but if it is visually indistinguishable from the oral vaccine, then we cannot assume it is mountain spring water. What is it??
So I emailed Paul, and he got back to me very quick (I encourage everyone to email the experts if you have any questions, they usually do respond!):
A quick search of what exactly is “the buffer” was found at the CDC’s website:
I found another vaccine proponent mention this HPV vaccine randomized controlled trial. It seemed optimistic, it does say “saline”. But when you find the full text version, you get a clearer picture. The author writes:
“Unique to this study, the safety comparator for the quadrivalent HPV vaccine was a non–aluminum-containing placebo, whereas all other studies to date have compared the vaccine with aluminum-containing placebo.”
However, a description of the placebo in this study comes a few paragraphs later and while it is not an aluminum-containing placebo, it is also not an inert placebo:
“The placebo used in this study contained identical components to those in the vaccine with the exception of HPV L1 VLPs and aluminum adjuvant, in a total carrier volume of 0.5 mL. Vaccine and placebo were visually distinguishable.”
These are just some examples, I encourage YOU to do your own research as well!
In my opinion, it is impossible to honestly gauge the safety of vaccines without the use of a truly inert placebo.
BUT, I also have my doubts about saline placebos as well. Considering that sodium chloride may contain small amounts of aluminum (aluminum is a commonly used anti-caking agent added to table salt, which is the kind of salt used in the production of sodium chloride solutions.) According to the package insert for 0.9% sodium chloride, it’s pregnancy category C, studies have not been performed to evaluate potential for carcinogenesis, mutagenesis or impairment of fertility, etc., just like every vaccine given to our children today. Read the Vaccine Package Inserts.
This is why everyone should: ask questions; if the answer doesn’t make sense; look to other sources; look for the original sources; and above all…LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION.
In 1796, Edward Jenner took the pus from a cowpox blister on a milkmaid’s hand and scratched it into the skin of his gardener’s eight-year-old son, James Phipps, to see if cowpox offered cross protection against smallpox.
Six weeks after the boy recovered from an acute cowpox infection, Jenner exposed the boy to smallpox material taken from another boy’s arm, Jenner was searching for a safer alternative to “variolation” which was the same process but exposing infants and children to live smallpox via the pus or scab of another person.
Jenner also used his son in his experiments, but he became mentally disabled and died of TB at the age of 21. Thus the world of vaccination was born.