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Opposition to these measures is small but vocal, but supporters of mandatory vaccination have reviled so called "anti-vaxxers" with a vehemence and vitriol I haven't personally experienced since the 1960s. 280-81).
Which brings us to the current controversy regarding mandatory vaccinations. Although the polio vaccine developed by Dr.
Jonas Salk virtually ended polio as a threatening disease, the authors detail how "the screening techniques and observation periods that Salk and the vaccine manufacturers employed were not capable of always catching the contaminants." This sordid story spells out how repeated research studies showing that the "SV40" virus was in the vaccine were dismissed by federal health officials, so that "there would be no warning to consumers that the vaccine they and their children were receiving contained a live monkey virus whose effect on humans was entirely unknown." In the second part, the authors contend that even today such organizations as the National Institutes of Health continue to dismiss study results, even though numerous studies have shown that SV40 is capable of causing cancer in humans.
. As a parent of a child, I find myself in complete agreement when they write, "...individuals, not governments, must maintain the right to control what medical procedures they and ther children undergo and what pharmaceuticals they consume" (p. The motives of those government officials that have been complicit in misinforming the public about SV40 and human cancers are a bit more nuanced.
Public officials, of course, worry about exposure to public criticism for their incompetence and, in some cases, outright lies and malfeasance when it comes to SV40 and cancer.
. Because the authors never become alarmist, this solid work of investigative reporting carries considerable weight, and deserves to be read by a large audience. But the overarching mission of the federal vaccine bureaucracy is to sustain public confidence in its public health programs. The scientific and medical professions know this, but their warnings have been stifled, suppressed, misrepresented, and undermined by the vaccine industry (Lederle, Merck, etc.) and the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Food and Drug Administration.
That is too bad, but understandable, given the tremendous lengths to which the vaccine industry and government agencies have gone to shape public opinion on the safety of these products.
The relationship between Simian Virus 40 (SV40) and human cancers has been studied for fifty years.
The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government Neglect
This revelatory account about contaminated polio vaccines is "a deeply disturbing chapter in the recent history of science" (Stephen S.
Hall).
Jonas Salk's polio vaccine has taken on an almost legendary quality as a medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the twentieth century. . [A] fascinating, meticulously-researched account of the coverup, and its possible long-term health effects." ―Stephen S. Hall, New York Times Magazine science writer and author of Merchants of Immortality
"This well-researched, well-documented book unfurls a compelling scientific saga.
Not only that, it's written with the zing of a medical thriller, featuring fully realized characters, dramatic conflicts, high-level politics and scientific egos big enough to levitate Stone Mountain." ―Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed
As Bookchin and Schumacher point out, "Vaccines are the only product manufactured by a private industry whose universal consumption is mandated by the government (as a prerequisite for attending public school or college"; p.281). 284).
Amen.
THE VIRUS AND THE VACCINE: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, a Contaminated Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed
Journalists Bookchin and Schumacher argue that for nine years, from 1954 to 1963, almost every dose of polio vaccine produced in the world—and the 98 million Americans who received polio vaccinations—was contaminated with a cancer-causing virus from the monkey kidneys used to develop the vaccine.
California, New York, and other states are eliminating most exemption claims for parents and schoolchildren. This meticulously researched, levelheaded and well-written book should stir up considerable debate. Public confidence in vaccines is based largely if not solely on the reassurances of public health officials, physicians, pundits, and the vaccine industry, not informed choice.
The SV40/cancer story is, indeed, cautionary, as the authors note.
Not only is it necessarily technical, although not so technical as to be incomprehensible to the untrained mind, but the overwhelming majority of well-educated, literate Americans simply don't want to hear what the book demonstrates in vast detail: government health officials and vaccine manufacturers shouldn't be trusted.