Written Evidence on Vaccination from John Stone on Data.Parliament.UK
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Written evidence from John Stone (Age of Autism)
[1] Vaccines are mentioned as one strategy against antimicrobial resistance (1) and this submission seeks to caution against the idea of substituting one kind of over-medication with another (Age of Autism is an on-line newspaper concerned with the publicly unaccounted adverse effects of vaccination).
[2] In the United Kingdom, an infant already receives by 12 months on the routine schedule (2):-
DTaP, Polio, HiB, HepB+Rotavirus+13 Strain Pneumococcal+MenB (8 weeks)
DTaP, Polio, HiB, HepB+Rotavirus (12 weeks)
DTaP, Polio, HiB,HepB+13 Strain Preumococcal+MenB (16 weeks)
13 Strain Pneumococcal+MMR+HiB, MenC
[3] In 2011 Miller and Goldman reported (3):
“The infant mortality rate (IMR) is one of the most important indicators of the socio-economic well-being and public health conditions of a country. The US childhood immunization schedule specifies 26 vaccine doses for infants aged less than 1 year—the most in the world—yet 33 nations have lower IMRs. Using linear regression, the immunization schedules of these 34 nations were examined and a correlation coefficient of r = 0.70 (p < 0.0001) was found between IMRs and the number of vaccine doses routinely given to infants. Nations were also grouped into five different vaccine dose ranges: 12–14, 15–17, 18–20, 21–23, and 24–26. The mean IMRs of all nations within each group were then calculated. Linear regression analysis of unweighted mean IMRs showed a high statistically significant correlation between increasing number of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates, with r = 0.992 (p = 0.0009). Using the Tukey-Kramer test, statistically significant differences in mean IMRs were found between nations giving 12–14 vaccine doses and those giving 21–23, and 24–26 doses. A closer inspection of correlations between vaccine doses, biochemical or synergistic toxicity, and IMRs is essential.”
[4] There is presently no hard science supporting the general expandability of the programme and its safety despite several hundreds of products in the pipeline (4) all waiting to be licensed, recommended and in many other countries mandated. Often in the last decade, and even quite recently British health officials (including Prof David Salisbury (5), Sir Liam Donaldson (6) and Prof Elizabeth Miller (7)) were apt to cite the 10,000 vaccine doctrine of Prof Paul Offit (8) in order to reassure the public. There were several obvious things wrong with Offit’s claim that 10,000 or 100,000 vaccines administered to an infant in one go might be safe. Offit was comparing routine exposure to environmental pathogens, with cocktails of serious disease derived pathogens; it took no account, for example, of the use of adjuvants to boost the antigens and the route of administration was nothing like routine exposure to pathogens in the environment i.e. in most cases injected when normally we have skin, the digestive system, the lungs which have evolved to protect us (9).
[5] Last year I was attacked by the Every Child By Two website (10), to which Offit is an advisor (11) and executive member (12), for suggesting he ever meant it literally (despite copious evidence (9, 13)), so the doctrinal/theoretical basis for the safety of the expanding programme seems to have evaporated, without it being replaced by anything else.
[6] The can be no assumption that vaccines boost general resistance, and publications from the team led by Aaby and Benn suggest negative possibilities (14, 15, 16).
[7] Recent studies have questioned whether pneumococcal vaccines actually result in a reduction of pneumococcal illness, or make the problem worse. For instance, Vila-Corcoles reported in a study of more than 2m middle-aged and elderly adults in Catalonia (17):
“After multivariable adjustments we found that the PCV13 vaccination did not alter significantly the risk of pneumococcal pneumonia (multivariable-adjusted hazard ratio [mHR]: 1.17; 95% CI: 0.75–1.83; p = 0.493) and all-cause death (mHR: 1.07; 95% CI: 0.97–1.18; p = 0.190), although it remained significantly associated with an increased risk of all-cause pneumonia (mHR: 1.69; 95% CI: 1.48–1.94; p < 0.001). In stratified analyses focused on middle-aged or elderly persons and immunocompromised or immunocompetent subjects, PCV13 vaccination did not appear effective either.”
[8] In Mawson’s small but ground-breaking vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study of home-schooled children (18) it was found that 1.2% of unvaccinated children had had pneumonia against 6.4% vaccinated, while 5.8% unvaccinated had had Otitis Media against 19.8 vaccinated. However unpalatable it is to health officials and vaccine manufacturers it is urgent that this study – which looked at the effects of general vaccination against a range of health outcomes - be expanded.
[9] Vaccines may offer no panacea to the problem of antimicrobial resistance, will interact with it in unpredictable ways, and likely make it worse. Politicians need to be wary of being railroaded by industry objectives which are a matter of commercial exploitation and not the public good.
FOOTNOTES
(1) Jim O’Neill etc., Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally: The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, May 2016, ‘Intervention 6: Promote development and use of vaccines and alternatives’, p.40-3 https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/160518_Final%20paper_with%20cover.pdf
(2) Childhood vaccines timeline https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/childhood-vaccines-timeline/
(3) Miller NZ & Goldman GS, Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?, Human and Experimental Toxicology May 2011, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0960327111407644
(4) Medicines in Development for Vaccines (sic), “Washington, D.C. (April 20, 2012) America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing nearly 300 vaccines…”
(5) John Stone, What David Salisbury said and the DOH’s position on multiple vaccine safety, BMJ Rapid Responses 20 September 2004, https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/what-david-salisbury-said-and-dohs-position-multiple-vaccine-safety
(6) John Stone, Irresponsible claims about vaccine safety? Questions for Sir Liam Donaldson and Prof Lewis Wolpert, BMJ Rapid Responses 3 July 2004, https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/irresponsible-claims-about-vaccine-safety-questions-sir-liam-donaldson-and
(7) Elizabeth Miller, Controversies and challenges of vaccination: an interview with Elizabeth Miller, BMC Med. 2015; 13: 267. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608187/ Miller can make a rhetorical defence: “Despite strong arguments against the overload hypothesis…” but of course an argument is not evidence. The citation is to the Offit article.
(8) Offit PA, Quarles J, Gerber MA, Hackett CJ, Marcuse EK, Kollman TR, et al. Addressing parents’ concerns: do multiple vaccines overwhelm or weaken the infant's immune system? Pediatrics. 2002;109:124–9. doi: 10.1542/peds.109.1.124.
(9) Paul Offit, Are childhood vaccines safe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQQ7izQOPdw Segment 27mins to 29.20.
(10) Joel A Harrison, John Stone and the “Best of Age of Autism”: Just Plain Wrong About Everything, 27 February 2017, http://www.ecbt.org/index.php/facts_and_issues/article/john_stone_and_the_best_of_age_of_autism_just_plain_wrong_about_everything
(11) ECBT Advisory Board http://www.ecbt.org/index.php/about/article/scientific_advisory_board
(12) ECBT Board http://www.ecbt.org/index.php/about/article/board
(13) For instance, a newsletter from Offit’s hospital Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) states: “No doubt about it, the immunization schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) can seem daunting. Your child can receive up to 23 shots by the time she's 2 years old and as many as six shots at a singledoctor visit. So it's not surprising that many parents have concerns about how vaccines might affect a child's developing immunity and often cite these as a reason to refuse a vaccine….But it should be the least of your worries. "Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines," says Dr. Offit. "A baby's body is bombarded with immunologic challenges - from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean." In fact, Dr. Offit's studies show that in theory, healthy infants could safely get up to 100,000 vaccines at once.” https://web.archive.org/web/20060907100428/http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=81553
(14) Aaby P, Whittle H, Benn CS, Vaccine programmes must consider their effect on general resistance, BMJ 2012; 344 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e3769 (Published 14 June 2012)
(15) Sankoh O et al, The non-specific effects of vaccines and other childhood interventions: the contribution of INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems, Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Jun;43(3):645-53. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu101. Epub 2014 May 30.
(16) Benn CS, Sorup S, Aaby P, BNJ Rapid Responses to Tielemans et al, Non-specific effects of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination in high income setting: population based cohort study in the Netherlands, 20 September 2017, 16 November 2017 and 7 May 2018 https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3862/rapid-responses
(17) Vila-Corcoles A et al, Evaluating clinical effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination against pneumonia among middle-aged and older adults in Catalonia: results from the EPIVAC cohort study, 18 December 2017, BMC Infectious Diseases201818:196, https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-018-3096-7
(18) Mawson AR, Ray B, Bhuiyan AR, Jacob B, Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12- year old U.S. children, Table 2 Vaccination status and health outcomes – Acute Conditions, Journal of Translational Science, 24 April 2017, http://www.oatext.com/Pilot-comparative-study-on-the-health-of-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-6-to-12-year-old-U-S-children.php#Article
Addendum The following Freedom of Information request to the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care is now publishes on the government website 'What do they know?':
Department advice on the safety of expanding the vaccine schedule 2002 to the present
Currently waiting for a response from Department of Health and Social Care, they must respond promptly and normally no later than (details).
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Please see my published evidence to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (particularly paras 4 and 5, footnotes 4-13).
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
Has the Department's advice to the government or members of Parliament on the safety of expanding the vaccine schedule ever been based on the Offit the paper 'Addressing parents’ concerns: do multiple vaccines overwhelm or weaken the infant's immune system?' Pediatrics. 2002;109:124–9., as it has been to members of the public from the Department or the NHS (and various associated bodies)on many occasions since 2002? Most specifically, I am referring to the idea that an infant's body could mount casual resistance to 10,000 plus vaccines in one go.
Can they say whether this is still the case, or if not when it changed, and if there is any advice now (and if so what is it)?
Yours faithfully,
John Stone
Thanks John ,for tireless hard work .
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Posted by: Morag | July 14, 2018 at 01:38 PM
Thank you Mom 4 Truth and everybody
John
Posted by: John Stone | July 14, 2018 at 04:26 AM
"...the reality is that vaccines destroy the microbiome like antibiotics anyway."
Yes, that's what I mean. They really aren't that different. The goal and the effect is similar if not the same. As you state in your letter, it doesn't make sense to look to vaccines to save us from antibiotic resistance. Vaccines cause resistance too (and other problems). They're proposing jumping from a sinking ship into a life raft full of holes.
Posted by: Linda1 | July 12, 2018 at 07:15 PM
John, thanks for your immense efforts! Also I would like to re-post my earlier comment on vaccines' toxicities, and in my view clearly bringing comparable countries' infant deaths by one year. In addition to actual mortality is the horrific tragedies of other life-long disabilities such as the autistic spectrum:
(by david m burd in prior comment):
It's worth expanding on U.S. SIDS deaths: Here is relevant info on Infant Mortality comparing the U.S. to other countries.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/infant-mortality-u-s-compare-countries/#item-start
The US infant death rate is 5.8 per 1,000 births, and the annual U.S. births have been almost exactly 4 million a year for decades results in annual infant deaths of 23,200, with but 3,500 "explained" as SIDS deaths. Therefore close to 20,000 annual infant deaths are by a myriad of other causes.
It is entirely plausible the extremely toxic U.S. child vaccine schedule (along with the DTaP and Flu shots pushed onto pregnant women, thus to their fetuses) is directly the cause of the majority of most of these non-SIDS 20,000 deaths, year after year. I urge everybody to pull up the above reference.
Posted by: david m burd | July 12, 2018 at 04:37 PM
Linda
If they were some kind substitute antibiotic that might be an argument in their favour, but actually don’t some of them have antibiotic components anyway? Of course, the reality is that vaccines destroy the microbiome like antibiotics anyway.
Posted by: John Stone | July 12, 2018 at 12:47 PM
Excellent as usual, John.
Antibiotic drugs target pathogens using various mechanisms that may also involve participation of the recipient's immune system. Technically speaking, aren't vaccines a kind of antibiotic?
Posted by: Linda1 | July 12, 2018 at 12:37 PM
Another one of Offits throw away figure` 1-10,000 or 1-1,000,000 but never a needle in a haystack.
Autism nothing to do with needles and stacks of vaccines.
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MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | July 12, 2018 at 09:07 AM
I think there may be an issue not only about what British health officials told the public about the expanded schedule but about what they told governments and parliamentarians. If the advice was ever based Offit’s 10,000 vaccine doctrine, as it was to the public, it was inexcusable.
Posted by: John Stone | July 12, 2018 at 07:55 AM
Well done John for getting published in Parliament superb!
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MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | July 12, 2018 at 07:04 AM
"[6] The can be no assumption that vaccines boost general resistance …."
And therein lies the truth about "one size fits all" vaccines. I think it correct to state the infants immune system is extremely complex .. as each infant inherits an immune system that is as unique to that infant as their fingerprints and DNA. To "assume" that all infants will respond to a vaccine is not only scientifically "implausible" .. I would suggest it is more likely scientifically "impossible".
As the information in John's article reminds as well as once again reveals ..
“The infant mortality rate (IMR) is one of the most important indicators of the socio-economic well-being and public health conditions of a country. The US childhood immunization schedule specifies 26 vaccine doses for infants aged less than 1 year—the most in the world—yet 33 nations have lower IMRs”
That statistic alone should raise enough concerns to warrant an independent scientific study of vaccinated v. unvaccinated populations .. to ascertain once and for all .. if BOTH populations suffer the same infant mortality rate .. as well as suffering the same life-threatening as well as life-long chronic autoimmune disorders .. that were far less common in all previous LESS VACCINATED GENERATIONS.
That public health bureaucracies absolutely refuse to conduct this long overdue .. critical study .. will provide evidence worthy of prosecution of those most responsible for allowing our disastrous Infant Mortality Rate and associated chronic autoimmune disorders to continue as a crime against humanity.
We can no longer continue to allow public health bureaucracies to refuse to conduct this study .. after all .. they have the data, they have the resources and scientific where-with-all to do the study TODAY .. they lack only the WILL to do it. Which in my opinion is a CRIME WORTH PROSECUTING.
Posted by: bob moffit | July 12, 2018 at 06:44 AM