Letter to The Union

"Parents can waive kindergarten shots"

John Seelmeyer

Editor

The Union, Grass Valley/Nevada City

To the Editor:

Regarding the March 22 article "Parents can waive kindergarten shots," parents should also know that they can waive any vaccination at any time for their children and for themselves. If parents are unable to obtain a medical waiver, California state law allows a simple conscientious (philosophical) exemption in every case.

Public health officers and staff may not inform citizens that they have the option of exemption, but that option is there in every case.

On March 16, I attended a four-hour seminar on vaccination at the Costa Mesa Hilton. The speaker was Tim O'Shea, D.C., author of "The Sanctity of Human Blood." The main theme of Dr. O'Shea's talk was that vaccination is not immunization.

Vaccination proponents argue that because vaccines stimulate antibody production, they prevent infectious disease. But as Dr. O'Shea made abundantly clear, antibodies have never been shown to be a key agent in the prevention of human disease.

Alan Phillips, director of the nonprofit organization Citizens for Healthcare Freedom, supports Dr. O'Shea's view: "The clinical evidence for vaccinations," Phillips tells us, "is their ability to stimulate antibody production . . . a fact which is not disputed. What is not clear, however, is whether such antibody production constitutes immunity. For example, agamma globulin-anemic children are incapable of producing antibodies, yet they recover from infectious diseases almost as quickly as other children. . . . Natural immunization is a complex phenomenon involving many organs and systems; it cannot be fully replicated by the artificial stimulation of antibody production" (Epidemics: Opposing Viewpoints, 1999, pp. 105-106).

The only scientific argument ever offered by the medical industry in favor of vaccination is that vaccines produce antibodies. But government statistics, medical research studies, and FDA and CDC reports show that vaccine-induced antibody production is helpless against disease and that vaccines are a prime cause of the very diseases they are meant to prevent.

In the case of whooping cough (pertussis), for instance, the majority of doctor-reported vaccine-related deaths are due to the whooping cough vaccine--the "p" in DpT. In fact, the number of pertussis vaccine-related deaths dwarfs the number of deaths from pertussis itself.

It is not known exactly how many deaths have occurred from the pertussis vaccine, because doctors underreport all vaccine adverse events. In New York state, for example, the National Vaccine Information Center recently found that only one out of 40 doctor's offices--2.5%--confirmed that they report a death or injury following vaccination. As the FDA estimates that approximately 10% of adverse reactions are reported, we can estimate that the chances of dying from the pertussis vaccine are 100 times greater than the chances of dying from pertussis itself.

Nevertheless, Dr. Charles Johnson, Nevada County Public Health Officer, is "worried" about our county's high rate of nonvaccinated persons. Johnson claims that, as fewer people are vaccinated, the chance of an epidemic increases. This claim is frankly nonsense. If vaccinations really worked, nonvaccinated persons would be no danger to vaccinated persons.

In fact, 100 years of orthodox research shows that vaccination is ineffective and positively harmful to the human species.

For more information, see Walene James' Immunization: The Reality Behind the Myth and Jamie Murphy's What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization.

Sincerely,

Jock Doubleday

Director

Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.

http://www.SpontaneousCreation.org

director@spontaneouscreation.org