The two most harmful narratives of recent weeks are both total crap.
Lie #1: The measles “epidemic” in Texas and New Mexico has caused 2 children to die. Not so much actually, if you drill down just a bit. Neither child actually died of measles at all. Both deaths were really the improper treatment by medical staff – otherwise known as malpractice.
Whether this was the result of bias against the practices of the faith community from which these children came, or just negligence is really unknowable at this point. But both children were given the wrong antibiotics for the strains of bacterial pneumonia they presented with when their parents brought them to ER.
You can watch a video of an interview with the first child’s parents here. It is a bit heart-rending, but these parents’ faith is amazing.
There has long been evidence that contracting ‘wild’ measles (the original childhood disease, not the variants brought about by early vaccines) actually strengthens the immune system.
Even further research, thin though it may be, demonstrates that there may be some benefit in preventing a host of other illnesses, including cancer. (see The Benefits of a Natural Measles Infection)
The research may be thin, due to the fact that most research is funded by those who benefit financially from the outcome (there’s no profit in healthy kids being made healthier by contracting a disease rather than being vaccinated against it), but the evidence is out there.
Lie #2: The idea that childhood vaccines have been ruled out as a cause of the insane increase in kids diagnosed with autism.
The increase in reports about this, are no doubt in response to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise that the cause of this epidemic will be found out and soon.
Imagine how panicky you would feel if you knew that the entire profit structure of your mega-billion dollar industry was about to be exposed! I bet you’d be willing to do just about anything to prevent that from happening.
Scary thought isn’t it?
You might be even more frantic if you knew that the supposed research, “proving” that there’s no causal link between childhood vaccines and autism is as thin as paper.
Drug companies have zero incentive to research vaccine safety. They are shielded from liability, so there’s certainly no financial reason to look into safety concerns.
During the Senate hearing, back in January of this year, RFKJr was pounded over and over with the “fact” that it had been “proven” there is no link between the childhood vaccine schedule and autism.
When you examine the evidence however, you can find that the studies looked at just one vaccine – early editions of the MMR shot. And only one additive, thimerosal.
Meanwhile, the numbers of kids diagnosed with some degree of autism has skyrocketed.
Honestly, it’s difficult to pin down exact numbers, but not that long ago, kids with autism were numbered as being one in the thousands to now being numbered as one in under fifty. The actual figures, which can fluctuate wildly, according to who is citing the statistics, but the trend is beyond alarming.
Some of the increase is undoubtedly due to better diagnosing, better reporting and perhaps a better understanding of what autism actually is.
However, the increase is far beyond anything that could account for the above.
Add to that, the increases in asthma, allergies and other various and sundry childhood illnesses that were once much rarer than they are now, and you ought to be just a mite curious as to what changed in those years.
If you’re not a Big Pharma exec, or a politician who lives in their pockets, the increase in the sheer number of jabs on the childhood vaccine schedule in that time just might draw your attention.
Aren’t we all just interested in the truth about what is affecting the health of our kids?
