Quote Of The Day

"We had accepted some half-truths and had stopped searching for the whole truths. The principal half-truths were that medical research had stamped out the great killers of the past – tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, puerperal sepsis, etc. – and that medical research and our superior system of medical care were major factors in extending life expectancy. The data on deaths from tuberculosis show that the mortality rate from this disease has been declining steadily since the middle of the 19th century and has continued to decline in almost linear fashion during the past 100 years [till 1970]. There were increases in rates of tuberculosis during wars and under specified adverse local conditions. The poor and the crowded always came off worst of all in war and in peace, but the overall decline in deaths from tuberculosis was not altered measurably by the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus, the advent of the tuberculin test, the appearance of BCG vaccination, the widespread use of mass screening, the intensive anti-tuberculosis campaigns, or the discovery of streptomycin. It is important that this point be understood in its completeness. The point was made years ago by Wade Hamptom Frost, and more recently by René Dubos, and has been repeatedly stressed through the years by many observers of the public health. Similar trends in mortality have been reported with respect to diphtheria, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, pertussis, measles, and many others."

Edward H. Kass 

Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Infectious Diseases and president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. From a Joint meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Tenth Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in 1971. 

The original misinformation spreader.

In fact, you'd be surprised at how many of these assertions I've read over the last two years. 

Over to you Timothy Caufield to determine if this is 'misinformation'.

Vaccines are the most overrated products in the arsenal of allopathic medicine. Vaccines are a pharma racket. 

It holds a place of hyper prominence that is richly undeserved.

We certainly shouldn't be losing medical autonomy to it.