Vaccines: Doctor Judges & Juries Hanging Their Own
By Barbara Loe Fisher
I remember the day I met Dr. Andrew Wakefield. It was September 12, 1997 and he had just flown into Dulles Airport from London the night before to speak at the First International Public Conference on Vaccination sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center. The title of his talk was “Measles Virus & Measles Vaccine: Lessons to be Learned.”
It was five months before he and 12 other physician colleagues would publish a study in The Lancet calling for more research into a possible association between inflammatory bowel disease, MMR vaccine and developmental delays in some children.
I met Dr. Wakefield that day in 1997 in the auditorium where our conference was to take place as he was trying to decide what to do with a slide that identified him as being employed by the Royal Free Hospital. You see, he had received a telephone threat from London in the middle of the night warning him that if he spoke at our conference, he might not have a job when he returned to Britain. He then described to me the intense pressure he had been under from senior health officials in Britain to withdraw from our conference.
This was five months before he and his colleagues published the first article in the medical literature suggesting there might be an association between vaccine induced chronic inflammation in the body and developmental delays in some children.
In September 1997, Andrew Wakefield was a young British gastroenterologist, a rising star in the world of experimental medicine. He had received awards and scholarships for original research into the pathogenesis and etiology of inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease.....Click here HERE to watch a video and read the full commentary as well as read a Statement by NVIC about Andrew Wakefield and his research.
Barbara Loe Fisher is founder of The National Vaccine Information Center.
The understanding of autism, vaccines, and of the body and experience in general is sorely lacking/deficient and innacurate. I will clearly demonstate that this is true in this post. Is the US government promoting and safeguarding our health, safety, and public welfare, or does the US government conduct and lead the war on life and consciousness?
The following “big picture” is essential to this entire discussion.
The NUMEROUS vaccines are biologically active, and yet they are unnatural and foreign to the body. So when the body THEN reacts as if it is infected with disease (via immune responses/antibodies), is it not diseased/ill/damaged/infected to some extent? All of these NUMEROUS and altered/unnatural immune responses/vaccinations will eventually compromise our immune function. The answer is common sense and simple, and there is no way around this.
Also consider: The vaccines (viruses and bacteria) are altered and unnatural; AND the disease/infection process is fundamentally different as well (via injection). This is all very significant, in keeping with everything else that can be/has been said.Understanding that autism meets the definition of a disintegration and contraction of being and experience is very helpful in understanding, preventing, and treating this disorder. The increasing numbers of vaccines and the rising rates of disorders involving mind/emotion/body are of very serious concern.
The NUMEROUS vaccines are biologically active, and yet they are unnatural and foreign to the body. So when the body THEN reacts as if it is infected with disease (via immune responses/antibodies), is it not diseased/ill/damaged/infected to some extent? Also consider, all of these NUMEROUS and altered/unnatural immune responses/vaccinations will eventually compromise our immune function. Life is fragile, as it is delicately and precisely regulated and balanced. Artificially reconfigured/replaced sensory experience (including pollution, toxins, processed foods, television, vaccines, etc., etc.) is making us increasingly unconscious and reactive in various and unpredictable ways. We are becoming more inanimate.
The reconfiguration, replacement, and loss of sensory experience (and feeling) includes toxins, vaccines, lack of exercise, processed foods, television, etc., etc. This is making us increasingly unconscious and reactive in various and unpredictable ways; and this involves sensory processing disorders as well.
Autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being and experience (including consciousness). This also meets the definition/description of anxiety, depression, cancer, obesity, sleep disorders, and the experience of television. The NUMEROUS vaccines are biologically active, and yet they are unnatural and foreign to the body. So when the body THEN reacts as if it is infected with disease (via immune responses/antibodies), is it not diseased/ill/damaged/infected to some extent? Moreover, all of these NUMEROUS and altered/unnatural immune responses/vaccinations will eventually compromise our immune function, and worse. We are becoming more inanimate. The natural and integrated extensiveness of being and experience go hand in hand, as the disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being and experience go hand in hand as well.
The great revelation of art (including music) is that the world requires and involves man; although science has been slow to recognize this; for the danger of technology is that it is creating a world of experience that is toxic and foreign to the self where man is neither truly involved nor required. By pervasively and fundamentally changing our various sensory experiences (including the range of feeling thereof), the self’s ability to represent and form a consistent, comprehensive, and relatively extensive approximation of sense is being compromised; whereby sense and feeling [increasingly] cannot be properly experienced, utilized, and understood as the expression and extension of the self’s desire; and it is not only our loss of language that we face. (Consciousness and language involve the ability to represent, form, and experience comprehensive approximations of experience in general; and this includes art and music as well.) The reconfiguration (i.e., disintegration, alteration, reduction, and/or replacement) of sensory experience in general (including range of feeling) is progressively involving a disintegration and contraction of being and experience (including thought). This is evident in (and includes) sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, autism, obesity, and the experience of television. (Clearly, obesity involves a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being/experience; and it is associated with increased risk of death from all causes.)
Moreover, there is no true difference between what is foreign/unnatural and toxic. Artificially reconfigured sensory experience (including pollution, processed foods, television, etc.) makes the self increasingly unconscious (and reactive) in unpredictable ways. The disintegration, alteration, reduction, and replacement of sensory experience and feeling involve the loss of the instincts; as the self is disconnected and detached from what is natural and truly sustaining. The disintegration and contraction (and this includes detachment) of being and experience go hand in hand. Being and experience are becoming excessively (and increasingly) unconscious and less animate. Finally, in reference to sleep disorders, it is important that dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense, in conjunction with the natural extensiveness and interactivity of being and experience.
In both depression and anxiety, the emotional disintegration and contraction of being and experience involves increased feeling at the emotional center of the self. In anxiety, this is consistent with excessive concern, the reduction in the desirability of experience, emotional imbalance (or variability), bodily aches and pains (i.e., emotional disintegration), the mind “going blank”, panic attacks (involving a sort of generalized paralysis and loss of experience), etc. Comparatively (and similarly), in depression, there is a contraction, detachment, disintegration, and loss of being and experience that also involves a loss of emotion. The loss of desire in both depression and anxiety involves a significant reduction in the comprehensiveness and consistency of both intention and concern as they relate to experience in general; and this has the dream-like effect of reducing thought, emotion, and memory, including the desirability and totality of experience as well.
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Vaccines as SIGNIFICANTLY reconfigured/toxic sensory experience
Here is yet more information as to why the effects of the vaccines (or the reactions by the body thereto) would NOT necessarily be predictable or uniform.
Visually, the universal experience of the body is one of visual transparency (i.e., invisibility). Accordingly, when our bodies are visually distinguishable (or visible), then each of our visible experiences of the body (and of everything else for that matter) must necessarily be different (or unique); and individuals are then visually distinguishable as well. Since all of our bodies are visually transparent (or invisible), each of our bodies (considered individually) must necessarily be different when visible. Since the experience of the body is both visible and invisible, the visible experience of the body is necessarily changing (or inconstant), unique, and finite. The disintegration of the visual experience when an object is close to the eyes is demonstrative of the relationship between visibility and invisibility. The visible appearance of the body (including that of experience in general) is relatively unique, finite, and limited. (This conclusion is also in keeping with the fact that thought and vision are necessarily different.) The thoughtful understanding of the visible is properly understood as variable and finite in relation to the totality of experience, including that of the body.
Thoughts and emotions are differentiated feelings. Our thoughts, emotions, and feelings are largely (or often) indiscernible to others in keeping with the fact that the body is transparent (or invisible inside the eye).
The following translates into a toxic/diseased/damaged body, consistent with a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being and experience (including consciousness and emotion):
The NUMEROUS vaccines are biologically active, and yet they are unnatural and foreign to the body. So when the body THEN reacts as if it is infected with disease (via immune responses/antibodies), is it not diseased/ill/damaged/infected to some extent? All of these NUMEROUS and altered/unnatural immune responses/vaccinations will eventually compromise our immune function. The answer is common sense and simple, and there is no way around this.
NOTE: Emotion is manifest (and differentiated) as sensory experience and feeling.
Also, the brain is really thought, and not the visual pictures of the brain. The very words "brain" and "thought" are both thoughts, and they are therefore more closely allied than thought and vision.
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Sleep Disorders and Autism
Here is a recent dialogue between myself and Lindsay M. Oberman, Ph.D. on the topic of autism. It is very relevant and important to the discussion at hand.
Hi Lindsay. You are very welcome. You said previously:
"I have heard anecdotally that people with ASD get less sleep, and perhaps that could also explain the increased, but not stable connectivity that we are seeing in the ASD brain."
My reply to her:
"Sleep (and dreams) add to the integrated extensiveness of being, experience, and thought, thereby improving attention and memory.
Indeed, dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general, thereby improving both memory and understanding.
The increased connectivity is understood as reducing what would otherwise be the balanced/stable and integrated extensiveness of their thought and experience."
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Autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experience, and consciousness.
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Toxicity/Disease, Autism, and Memory
What will it take to understand how serious autism is? Indeed, autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experience, and consciousness.
Moreover, in helping the autistic child, it is important to understand what memory is and does. The problem regarding the impairment/loss of memory in autism is very serious.
The following will provide an expanded and accurate description and understanding of memory that will be of considerable benefit/use:
Memory integrates experience and is necessary for the improved integration of a greater totality of experience; and here lies its connection with the advancement of consciousness. Memory increases (or adds to) the extensiveness, desirability, predictability, and intentionality of experience. Memory is an aid with regard to the extensiveness of intentionality in regard to experience. The loss (or reduction) in both memory and the intentionality of experience that occurs in the dream helps to explain why we are basically (or significantly) without the use of our body therein.
The generally disordered/improper/reduced functioning of memory in autism is of very serious concern.
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Biology of Autism
The fact that autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experience, and consciousness is consistent with toxicity/damage/disorder.
The NUMEROUS vaccines are biologically active, and yet they are unnatural and foreign to the body. So when the body THEN reacts as if it is infected with disease (via antibodies/immune responses), is it not diseased/ill/damaged/infected to some extent? All of these NUMEROUS and altered/unnatural immune responses/vaccinations will eventually compromise our immune function.
Autism also involves a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of memory, feeling, thought, and emotion. Importantly, autism may be usefully understood as involving BIOLOGICAL toxicity/disorder/damage that relates to, involves, or pertains to thought, memory, feeling, and emotion.
Posted by: Frank Martin DiMeglio | March 11, 2010 at 08:39 PM
I don't think anyone will ever be able to thank Barbara Loe Fisher and Drs. Wakefield, Murch and Walker-Smith at the center of the GMC trial enough. They're defending nothing less than life, liberty and Democracy.
Barbara Loe Fisher's description of her conversation with Dr. Wakefield 12 years ago-- the fact that no one can escape the Nazi analogy when reviewing events surrounding the epidemic-- brings up an interesting observation: that the centers of the epidemic are occurring in the countries which were the unoccupied victors of WWII, maybe the only two who weren't forced by defeat to learn anything about themselves in the process. As Jean Paul Sartre put it, "everything is permitted the heroes".
Having the Nazi bogeyman to point to as something "always worse than ourselves" seems to have provided an escape from self reflection on the ways in which we were not different. It left a lack of checks and balances against the rise of a similar mentality, one which simply changed its guises many times but is still based on the concept that some human beings are dispensible.
The root of Nazi philosophy got its first hold within the medical profession after all. It was a medical treatise read by Hitler in prison that inspired "Mein Kampf". It was rooted essentially in an apparent need for doctors to play God which was curiously proportionate to the boundless incompetence in the medical field at the time.
Posted by: Adriana | January 31, 2010 at 12:21 PM
And why is this OK with Obama, the President of this country, our Leader?
"...Perversely it is instead "How can we cover up these sick children, and harm their healers?"
Posted by: A Mom to nhokkanen | January 30, 2010 at 09:13 PM
What an excellent commentary! Thank you for your many years of tireless advocacy!
Like Peter H., I assumed Dr. Wakefield was not aware how controversial his study would be -- just a scientist doing his job -- but then refused to back down. Interesting that he was already encountering threats to his career before the article was even published.
Regarding flu shot, I heard someone on the radio saying that H1N1 swine flu turned out not to be an epidemic because so many people go the vaccine, and "about 50% of people either got the vaccine or have innate immunity". As Gary Null said, a half truth is a full lie. Someone who doesn't know much about it and is not listening very carefully might think that almost 50% of people got the flu shot and that this is what saved us. Actually, many people have innate immunity, including anyone exposed to the H1N1 flu that was circulating up through about 1957. I don't know what percentage of people got the flu shot, but my impression is that it was pretty low and the flu did not develop into a big epidemic even though the vaccine uptake rate was low. Oh, and this person on the radio urged everyone to go out and get another H1N1 shot as they said flu season isn't over yet. Alice in Wonderland, Twilght Zone, or 1984?
Posted by: a | January 30, 2010 at 05:28 PM
It's utterly mind-boggling how the response of most fellow doctors and their trade unions to this health emergency has not been "How can we find these sick children, and help them?" but perversely it is instead "How can we cover up these sick children, and harm their healers?"
Maintaining such an exceptional level of denial either is very draining, or chillingly easy for those whose moral compasses point back at them.
Posted by: nhokkanen | January 30, 2010 at 01:24 PM
Barbara, your pioneering and creating the National Vaccine Information Center, and awakening so many to the incredibly cruel and deadly aspects of vaccinations puts you among a select group on the pinnacle of contemporary heroes.
Thankfully, other groups such as AoA created by Dan Olmsted et al. and the other organization stand beside you, as do millions of common folk.
Your Swine Flu vaccination warning six months ago in my assessment no doubt saved myriad mothers and their unborn and born children from irreparable harm.
Yet, I hear every day on radio stations the propaganda ads (funded by the Dept of Health and Human Services, HHS, and paid for by our tax dollars) for pregnant women to take themselves to get a free Swine Flu Shot, and the clear unwavering lie that the shots are completely safe.
Another hero who has fought for several decades on the dangers of vaccinations used to be on National Public Radio until he was banned for his clarion calls. He is Dr. Gary Null, and his testimony before the NY State Legislature in October was crucial to reversing the Governor's order for all nurses to get Swine Flu shots.
His testimony is a must watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3XlJB7J5-o
This is a great example of how the internet is now the weapon we must use to fight the tyranny of CDC and NIH. I hope this ten minutes by Gary Null gets exponentially rippled out through the country.
Thank you again for your work.
Posted by: david burd | January 30, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Barbara, thank you for this insightful glimpse into the integrity of our friend and mentor. I had always imagined Dr. Wakefield had stumbled onto a potential problem, and then rose to the occasion when unfairly maligned. What is now revealed is that his courage and integrity were there from the beginning. And what it reveals about the other side's use of threats and intimidation is self-explanatory for all to see.
Posted by: Peter H. | January 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM