Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

With the U.S. facing a severe shortage of H1N1 vaccine, scam artists have taken notice, and are cashing in on the crisis. Health officials are warning those who wish to avoid long line-ups, and those who may not be able to get flu shots this season to beware of flu products being sold online. In a report from CBS News, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, "We're seeing hoax products being sold on the Internet."

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And Bani has probably taken all of them.

Zombie,

Your source is HHS Sebelius? Certainly you jest. Very nice propaganda piece to perpetuate the myth.

Ask Mrs Sebelius why the WHO has already declared that they will not lower the Pandemic level for years to come? The fear must be propagated perpetually to justify their purpose.

In truth the FDA shuts down those who offer alternative solutions that dare to compete with the billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. There is an obvious conflict of interest as well as a disregard for the verocity of the claims that many of these "bogus" companies can make for their claims that supports the science (Among many, includes the effect Vitamin D and collodial silver has).

She's right about a hoax...

www.youtube.com

JPW is already weighing in assuming nobody is aware of his previous record on the topic. I'll post it now, so everybody is fully aware before the attacks begin.

This is his self-proclaimed expert that he used to debunk the whole anti-vaccine movement.

About Me Page:
About Orac

Here is one of the drudge page where he is exposed:
Drudge

JPW is already weighing in assuming nobody is aware of his previous record on the topic. I'll post it now, so everybody is fully aware before the attacks begin.

My record of smacking your bitch ass around on these topics? Sure, post them for people to see.

How about that link showing the section of the patriot act that prohibits vaccine injury compensation?

This is his self-proclaimed expert that he used to debunk the whole anti-vaccine movement.

I stated it wasn't the best source, just the easiest one to think of off the top of my head.

And it wasn't to debunk the anti-vaccine movement, just Tenpenny.

Ask Mrs Sebelius why the WHO has already declared that they will not lower the Pandemic level for years to come?

Probably because it must become endemic before it can no longer be a pandemic.


The fear must be propagated perpetually to justify their purpose.

Or you just don't understand the terms endemic, epidemic and pandemic. Here's a hint-don't use the sci-fi definitions, they're wrong.

JPW, I won't waste any more time to argue with an exposed fraud. As to the link, I will post the exact title of the law, as I did previously. You can go out and find the fact for yourself, as you could have previously when I posted it instead of placing the onus on me distracting the bigger issue , when the larger questions were being asked of you and your legitimacy.


"Protecting America in the War Against Terror Act of 2005" --very eerie title to give manufacturers immunity!

Anyone else who wants the other links in Drudge, I could link to it. Alternatively, use the same keywords in Drudge search to find three other threads. JPW already knows them well.

How's the weather in Copenhagen, L_R?

Prey,

I'm not Jeff. He gets frustrated at times. I don't use foul-language to beat my opponents. Both myself and Jeff don't need to in order to recognize kool-aid partisanism. Can you say ad hominem?

(present company, jpw and iraq excluded from 'blind partisanism')

JPW, I won't waste any more time to argue with an exposed fraud.

You haven't exposed me as shit. You're just playing this game because you got caught making unsubstantiated comments.

As to the link, I will post the exact title of the law, as I did previously. You can go out and find the fact for yourself

You lose.

If you can't post information to back your assertions they're worthless. You could even post a link talking about the section, anything that says YOU are not the only person who believes what you state. You've failed to do so.

as you could have previously when I posted it instead of placing the onus on me distracting the bigger issue

It's not up to me to fact check your statements and assertions. I asked you to back up your BS and you failed to do so and have dodged it since.

when the larger questions were being asked of you and your legitimacy.

If your basis for questioning my legitimacy is based on your opinion only and you have nothing to back your assertions, then my legitimacy isn't really in question.

Everything I post here is based on real scientific literature and experimental evidence. Yours, conspiracy theory and misstatements of or misunderstandings of the science behind vaccination and infectious diseases in general.

Anyone else who wants the other links in Drudge, I could link to it. Alternatively, use the same keywords in Drudge search to find three other threads

Just admit you're wrong you pussy. It doesn't hurt, I promise.

JPW already knows them well.

Yes I do. I know they'll find the same BS they've become accustomed to from you. Assertions without backing and sloppy thinking based on a lack of knowledge.

I dunno. Can you say straw man?

How 'bout "appeal to authority"?

"I dunno. Can you say straw man?"

Hell yeah.

--Joe

While dinning out tonight with friends, the dinner conversation turned the the subject of the H1N1 vaccine and vaccines in general. One of the woman mentioned that she will not have to worry about contracting the flu this year, her chiropractor had given her an adjustment to boost her immune system. Now there is a hoax if I ever heard of one.

It's piss.

Like P.T. Barnum said "There's a sucker born every minute."

Go ask your M.D., Geez/

While dinning out tonight with friends, the dinner conversation turned the the subject of the H1N1 vaccine and vaccines in general. One of the woman mentioned that she will not have to worry about contracting the flu this year, her chiropractor had given her an adjustment to boost her immune system. Now there is a hoax if I ever heard of one.

There was a local chiropractor here (who went by Dr such and such to disguise the fact they were a chiropractor) who gave an anti-vaccine talk that basically boiled down to a misaligned spinal column being the root of all illness. Unfortunately I was unable to go but a few of my co-workers went.

I felt ill after hearing the recap. I never realized chiropractors could be so loony.

Every patented drug is ushered in as a "save all" pill or injection. Inhalants not with standing can reduce the spread of the virus? Humm.... I can think of the spread of say, "AIDS" or Hep C?

Every patented drug is ushered in as a "save all" pill or injection.

Usually by the media, which is terrible at science reporting in general.

Inhalants not with standing can reduce the spread of the virus? Humm.... I can think of the spread of say, "AIDS" or Hep C?

What?

Wake up. This scam was started by big pharma to in sight a so called pandemic. Patented vaccine 2007? It ain't gonna happen. Just like "GLOBAL WARMING". Ain't happening! Not in our lifetime. Dugh? People with lives get it!

"Bogus Flu Cures Flood Market"

What's a "bogus flu"; what's a "flood market", and how does one cure the other?

I only have one question about this flu situation. Since the avian flu scare of a few years back, we've been told time and again that the flu or complications thereof kills 30,000 people in the US every year.
In my 45 years, I've never known anyone who died of the flu -or complications thereof. I've not been able to find anyone who claimed to know someone who died of it.
If we're losing 30,000 people a year from it, that seems highly improbable.

When I saw the title, I thought it was about the bogus flu vaccine.

If the general public knew about the effectiveness of Vitamin D in preventing and ameliorating symptoms of cold and flu, poison pimps like Zombie and JPW would have to find another line of work.

Vit. D is a good one and yep if you get the flu you should load up. It keeps the immune system from over reacting. It is not a cure all though.

In truth the FDA shuts down those who offer alternative solutions that dare to compete with the billion dollar pharmaceutical industry.

What a joke. These quacks are shut down because they deliberately mislead suckers like Ray and Bani, and a portion of those suckers get sick as a result.

There is an obvious conflict of interest as well as a disregard for the verocity of the claims that many of these "bogus" companies can make for their claims that supports the science (Among many, includes the effect Vitamin D and collodial silver has).

Are you trying to say that their snake oil has scientific support? That would be utter bullshit. The frauds stand out precisely because they can't prove their product is anything more than a placebo. Colloidal silver can kill bacteria rather quickly if you just put some in a culture, but there is no evidence whatsoever for therapeutic use. Your mention of vitamin D is yet another example of how gulible and ignorant are misled. If these alternative medicine gurus portrayed the facts surrounding their "cures" accurately and in full I would have no problem with it.

If you were to do a study today, vitamin D supplementation would certainly be protective against a lot of diseases in the US. Vitamin D is required for proper immune function and most of our population does not consume enough of it. There is no evidence, however, that taking a massive dose of vitamin D when you are sick is therapeutic. Eating healthy is your "alternative" medicine. It reduces your chances of getting sick and may reduce the duration of illness.

Why don't these snake oil salesmen instead say, "if your diet doesn't supply you with enough of a specific nutrient, especially vitamin D, take a supplement to reduce your chance of getting the flu or consider changing your diet." There's no money in telling people to eat a healthy diet! You have to sell them a book about the diet and it needs a catchy name. You have to convince some gullible chump that the vaccine is a bad idea, and then you sell them your miraculous supplement. You have to push product in the end.

What a joke. These quacks are shut down because they deliberately mislead suckers like Ray and Bani, and a portion of those suckers get sick as a result.
#25 | POSTED BY ZOMBIEHUNTER

I've been doing this over 40 years. This jerk has the gall to say I don't know what I know and experience. At 68, I don't get sick. I have none of the problems that plague people my age. Not even the most common, high blood pressure and arthritis. What arrogance! What conceit!

That Vitamin D boosts our immune system has plenty of research behind it. Dosage levels have to be near 5,000 units a day. If there any one factor why colds and flu occur during the cold months is from the lack of sunshine. Do the research yourself.

The fact remains that injecting toxins into the bloodstream is surefire way to destroy your health. Over 100,000 people a year die from pharmaceutical medicine. This is on the scale of war crimes. It is only because government protects them do they get away with it.

"What arrogance! What conceit!"

#26 | Posted by Ray at 2009-10-31 01:48 PM | Reply | Flag: what bullshit

" This jerk has the gall to say I don't know what I know and experience. At 68, I don't get sick. I have none of the problems that plague people my age. Not even the most common, high blood pressure and arthritis. What arrogance! What conceit!"

Your anecdotal evidence is worthless.

Anyone concerned about their health and the health of their family should read this.

The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale

It has been a particularly bad month for the pharmaceutical industrial complex in its ongoing litigations in American courts. Among the main pharmaceutical headlines, Merck's Gardasil vaccine for HPV, now being widely administered to pre-teens, was found to be linked to amyltrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; following a $1.4 billion fine in promoting one of its blockbuster drugs Zyprexa off-label, deceptive correspondence was uncovered by Eli Lilly gaming the system again by promoting another one of its drugs, Cymbalta, off-label for fibromyalgia; AstraZeneca was fined $160 million for scamming the Medicaid system in Kentucky after being fined $215 million for ripping off Alabama; Glaxo lost a Pennsylvania trial for failing to warn doctors and pregnant women of the dangers of its antidepressant drug Paxil related to birth defects; and Pfizer scored a record-breaking fine of $2.3 billion for illegally marketing several drugs over the years: Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica. These kinds of charges, among the many others, have become a habit for drug makers for the past dozen years. ... more to read

#27 | POSTED BY ZATOICHI
#28 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN

At least one is obese and the other is a drug addict. They are certainly not models of health anyone would want to emulate.

#30 | Posted by Ray at 2009-10-31 02:03 PM | Reply | Flag: Gold addict

At 68, I don't get sick. I have none of the problems that plague people my age.

So? I had a relative who lived into his 90's and smoked like a chimney. There are many explanations for a healthy old coot.

That Vitamin D boosts our immune system has plenty of research behind it. Dosage levels have to be near 5,000 units a day. If there any one factor why colds and flu occur during the cold months is from the lack of sunshine.

5000 units is actually a reasonable daily intake. As far as the vitamin D - influenza hypothesis goes, you need to remember it is one hypothesis among many. Humans also spend more time indoors and in close contact with one another during winter months, and the cold dry environment facilitates transmission. Seasonal fluctuation in vitamin D levels likely contributes to the seasonal incidence of influenza, but it is by no means the sole factor.

When I saw the title, I thought it was about the bogus flu vaccine.

Bogus in what way?

If the general public knew about the effectiveness of Vitamin D in preventing and ameliorating symptoms of cold and flu, poison pimps like Zombie and JPW would have to find another line of work.

LOL no we wouldn't. There would just be an initial upsurge in people being sick as hell like normal and then those same people would hopefully realize that Google is not smarter than doctors and scientists.

#33 jpw
Google is not smarter than doctors

Forget google, you've got Orac!

Forget google, you've got Orac!

Yup.

Plus Pubmed, Fields Virology, Medical Microbiology ect ect.

So? I had a relative who lived into his 90's and smoked like a chimney. There are many explanations for a healthy old coot.

I don't have that kind of body. I started out with childhood asthma and low energy levels. When I get a symptom, I study what nutrients are relevant and I experiment until something works. Sometimes it takes years. I did have early symptoms of high blood pressure and arthritis that have since disappeared with supplements and dietary changes.

Correct. Vitamin D is not the only factor. Americans are overfed and undernourished with has the effect of weakening their immune systems. Starchy and sugary foods are magnets for pathogens. Poor digestive systems accumulate waste in the lower intestinal tract that stay there for years, providing a breeding ground for pathogens which leak through the walls. Reseeding our GI tract with probiotics has proven to be of help. I read only recently that Resveratrol has a virus blocking effect. In high frequent doses, Vitamin C has an antihistamine effect.

Honest scientific inquiry would require an investigation into every stage of illness including how pathogens break through our immune defenses. The Pharmaceutical Industry won't do that because they can't patent food supplements. Like the criminals they are, they treat alternative medicine as an existential threat. They've been waging a war through the regulatory agencies, legislators and propaganda like this thread about bogus cures. To stay healthy, our first priority should aim towards prevention.

Bogus in what way?
#33 | POSTED BY JPW

I've concluded that you are a hack. If you were intellectually honest, you might start with the information Mercola.com provides and see if you can verify his claims. Rockwell.com posts the works of Bill Sardi who provides references to his research. You can check them out. But you rather smug and arrogant, so I know you won't.

LOL no we wouldn't. There would just be an initial upsurge in people being sick as hell like normal and then those same people would hopefully realize that Google is not smarter than doctors and scientists.

Google limits itself to publishing the research of doctors and scientists on all sides of debate. The biggest threat to your livelihood might turn out to be Obama-care.

Wow, Ray, you have officially graduated to the prime example of how a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous that I know of.

Starchy and sugary foods are magnets for pathogens.

You act as if pathogens are a single, homogenous group of bacteria or something that all behave the same. High sugar allows for high bacterial growth PERIOD.

Poor digestive systems accumulate waste in the lower intestinal tract that stay there for years, providing a breeding ground for pathogens which leak through the walls.

Gut ecology is not that simple. There's a balance between normal bacterial flora and pathogens. Your normal flora act as a defense against pathogen invasion in some cases but not in others. As for "leaking" through the walls, this is not anywhere close to true. Pathogens invade the tissues underlying the intestinal walls by using specific methods they've evolved which allow them to be pathogenic.

Reseeding our GI tract with probiotics has proven to be of help.

Probiotics is a new and extremely young and incomplete science. We are only beginning to understand the complexity of gut flora and how it functions so probiotic usage is still somewhat of a guessing game.

Honest scientific inquiry would require an investigation into every stage of illness including how pathogens break through our immune defenses.

LOL you commenting on honest scientific inquiry.

As to your point, there is tons of work done on how they "break through our immune systems." It's called pathogenesis.

#35 | Posted by jpw at 2009-10-31 03:08 PM

Forget google, you've got Orac!

Yup.

Plus Pubmed, Fields Virology, Medical Microbiology ect ect.

Congrats on your improved use of Google search. Maybe one or two of those will turn out to be not a complete Quack blogger.

#35 | Posted by jpw

I try to keep my posts simple without going into a lot of detail. It's just like you to promote that as ignorance. I have no respect for you.

Probiotics is a new and extremely young and incomplete science. We are only beginning to understand the complexity of gut flora and how it functions so probiotic usage is still somewhat of a guessing game.

The Natural Foods industry has been decades ahead of establishment medicine for as long as I remember.

As to your point, there is tons of work done on how they "break through our immune systems." It's called pathogenesis.

And every cent is aimed towards patentable remedies when natural remedies are just as or more effective - without side effects.

100,000 deaths every year from pharmaceutical medicine. And that doesn't count the side effects that often do permanent damage. This is a business model that can't last. Especially with the exorbitant costs that go with those toxic side effects. People are paying a lot of money to get poisoned.

People are paying a lot of money to get poisoned.

#40 | Posted by Ray at 2009-10-31 04:34 PM |


In the form of collective insurance, soon to be in the form of collective insurance by extortion through growing taxation.

The only way that anyone could ever hope to pay what health care is truly worth is when nobody has insurance.

I've concluded that you are a hack.

I'm crushed.

If you were intellectually honest, you might start with the information Mercola.com provides and see if you can verify his claims.

If you were intellectually honest you wouldn't be demanding that others determine the veracity of information that supports your argument.

I can't believe I'm saying this to you again, Ray. For someone who claims to be good at critical thinking you don't seem to understand that part of that is backing your own arguments, not making them and then depending on the other person to verify the facts themselves.

Besides, why would I go to the website of a "Dr" who does nothing but attempt to discredit modern medicine so people will buy his shit. I have no reason to trust him.

Rockwell.com posts the works of Bill Sardi who provides references to his research. You can check them out.

First of all, it's Lewrockwell.com. Not exactly the best source for scientific information.

Second, most of the sources used in the columns I've read there are popular media or books, not peer-reviewed research.

If I remember correctly, I completely deconstructed a lewrockwell.com column written about swine flu and you had nothing to say in response.


But you rather smug and arrogant, so I know you won't.

Ray, you know I've read stuff you've posted. I remain unconvinced.

I try to keep my posts simple without going into a lot of detail. It's just like you to promote that as ignorance.

Well then don't on these threads. If you have information that you're holding back that's pertinent, provide it. Otherwise, yeah it does look like ignorance, seeing as I can't read minds.

I have no respect for you.

Again, I'm crushed.

The Natural Foods industry has been decades ahead of establishment medicine for as long as I remember.

You continue to say this but don't provide any information. Post some stuff showing the efficacy of natural remedies.

And every cent is aimed towards patentable remedies

No, most is conducted in publicly funded academic labs with no end goal for marketability. Can private industries take those findings and apply them to produce a product. Absolutely, it happens all the time.


when natural remedies are just as or more effective - without side effects.

Again, start posting the information. You continue to make this unbacked assertion and get pissed that no one believes you.

And no, your own anecdotes don't count.

JPW - do you really think I care? I argue on this site when I'm enjoying it, not because I equate my self-worth by who I bring to my way of thinking.

I know when I'm dealing with some with a rigid mind when they deflect like this:

First of all, it's Lewrockwell.com. Not exactly the best source for scientific information.

I gave you the name of Bill Sardi who lets Rockwell pubish his research. He cites his sources which. You can search everything he has written on the site and check his sources. Or you can look up Life Extension Foundation. They cite all their sources. You don't have an open curious mind to even bother to understand the other side of what you believe.

If you were intellectually honest you wouldn't be demanding that others determine the veracity of information that supports your argument.

I can't believe you said that. You won't take my word for anything. You even dismiss my sources because they don't come from sources you are familar with.

Second, most of the sources used in the columns I've read there are popular media or books, not peer-reviewed research.

Peer review is more political than you give credit. They will almost block out anything that doesn't fit their world view or threaten their livlihood.

If I remember correctly, I completely deconstructed a lewrockwell.com column written about swine flu and you had nothing to say in response.

I wasn't impressed, and there was no point in arguing.

For someone who claims to be good at critical thinking you don't seem to understand that part of that is backing your own arguments, not making them and then depending on the other person to verify the facts themselves.

I haven't study health and nutritrition with the aim of arguing with establishment scientists. So I can't go into the detail you do. I posted a study in #29 which you ignored. Once I posted a clip from googling "iatrogenic mortality data" which you ignored.

You're playing the same game Christians play. You're not very good at critical thinking.

Just to expand a bit about critical thinking.

Your education and training taught you what to think, not how to think. I had the same problem in engineering school. We studied math and theory and did experiments to prove them. You would think that engineers would get a course on the philosphy of science and a course on logic. NO! I had to take Logic 101 as an elective. That's when I began to learn how to think independently.

The fundamental flaw from which your reasoning is based is in the treatment of symptoms with toxic substances. You're treating effects as if they were causes.

That's why I know you will always defend the status quo no matter how wrong you are. There is a place for allotropic medicine. But under present circumstances, their missaplication is criminal.

These theories come and go. Years ago it was vitamin C-- Linus Pauling was a physician who wrote papers on the usage of the vitamin-- especially for the flu. My dad, a physician then began to take the recommended dosage and I periodically would ask him if he was still taking it and he swore he hadn't had the flu and was still taking the vitamin. I forgot about it and then about 20 years later asked him if he was still taking it and he said no because he had the flu 3 times in about 21/2 years. Who knows?--- these things come and go.

"Linus Pauling was a physician"

Linus Pauling was a physical chemist.

"In 1922, Pauling graduated from OAC with a degree in chemical engineering and went on to graduate school at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, under the guidance of Roscoe G. Dickinson. His graduate research involved the use of X-ray diffraction to determine the structure of crystals. He published seven papers on the crystal structure of minerals while he was at Caltech. He received his Ph. D. in physical chemistry and mathematical physics, summa cum laude, in 1925."
en.wikipedia.org

"Linus Pauling was a physician"

The man never went to medical school.

Besides being a chemist, he was also an excellent theoretical physicist and textbook author.

"Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" by Pauling and Wilson is a classic quantum mechanics textbook.

ec1.images-amazon.com

#48--Your right and if I remember he won the Nobel prize in chemistry.

Of course they're bogus you dumb sheeple! Oh no, what do I do now? Based on the alternative, I'll take 'bogus' colloidal silver any day.


Novartis Focetria Adjuvanted H1N1
Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent
Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin
Squalene: Neurotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

Novartis H1N1 Monovalent Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen
Polymyxin: Neurotoxin
Neomycin: Immunotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

GlaxoSmithKline Arepanrix Adjuvanted
H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Formaldehyde : Carcinogen
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin
Squalene: Neurotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix Adjuvanted
H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent
Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin
Squalene: Neurotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

GlaxoSmithKline Fluarix 2009-2010
Formula Ingredients/Toxicity
Formaldehyde : Carcinogen
Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Sanofi-Pasteur H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Formaldehyde : Carcinogen
Polyethylene Glycol: Systemic Toxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

MedImmune H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Monosodium Glutamate: Neurotoxin
Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxic
Monobasic Potassium Phosphate: Immunotoxin

FLUARIX 2009 Latest Package Insert Ingredients/Toxicity
Formaldehyde : Carcinogen
Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxic
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

CSL PANVAX H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen
Neomycin: Immunotoxin
Sodium Taurodeoxycholate: Carcinogen/Immunotoxin
Polymyxin: Neurotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

CSL Afluria H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen
Neomycin Sulfate: Immunotoxin
Polymyxin B: Neurotoxin
Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin
Sodium Taurodeoxycholate: Carcinogen/Immunotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

Adverse Reactions of Vaccines

* Pain
* Redness
* Swelling
* Fatigue
* Headaches
* Arthralgia (joint inflammation)
* Myalgia (muscle inflammation)
* Shivering
* Sweating
* Swollen lymph nodes
* Fever
* Vomiting
* Tingling or numbness of the hands or feet
* Shortness of breath
* Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels)

Serious adverse reactions are as follows:

* Blood and lymphatic system disorders (lymphadenopathy)

* Psychiatric disorders (insomnia)

* Nervous system disorders (dizziness, paraesthesia, inflammation of the central nervous system, inflammation of nerves, autoimmune disorders affecting myelin sheaths of nerves such as Guillain-Barr Syndrome)

* Ear and labyrinth disorders (vertigo)

* Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders (dyspnoea)

* Gastrointestinal disorders (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, dyspepsia, stomach discomfort)

* Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders (pruritus, rash)

* Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (back pain, musculoskeletal stiffness, neck pain, muscle spasms, pain in extremity)

* General disorders and administration site conditions (bruising, asthenia, chest pain, malaise)

I'll take 'bogus' colloidal silver any day.

msnbcmedia2.msn.com

#51 | Posted by L_RContrarian

There are a lot of big sciency-sounding words in there... things like "neurotoxin" and "lymphadenopathy". Judging by LR's rather nonexistent background knowledge, it looks to be another rant copied from some moonbat's geocities page and regurgitated here.

A few examples (before football comes on): Potassium chloride is harmless in the concentrations present in vaccines. You consume more in your diet than you receive in a flu shot. There is no evidence indicating the neurotoxicity of squalene or the "systemic toxicity" of polyethylene glycol. Your body makes squalene, and most people's daily activities will lead them to consume far more polyetheylene glycol than they would receive from any vaccine. If you feed certain kinds of PEG to rats, their risk of colorectal cancer falls. Hardly a systemic toxin.

LR also does not understand the concept of dosage. While you wouldn't want a 1g bolus of neomycin or thiomersal injected into your veins, the minute concentrations that are present in vaccines are far below the threshold of toxicity.

Zombie

You're deluded. Mercury and aluminum are toxic at any dose. Just because you can't find evidence, that doesn't mean it's not hidden somewhere in a metabolic process not completely understood. Especially when injected into the bloodstream, bypassing the immune defenses in the GI tract.

There is a term I am sure you are familiar with called "hormesis," where small doses are beneficial while large doses are poisonous. That's not the case with aluminum and mercury.

Besides, it's a needless risk when natural methods can build up our immune defenses. Of course, there is too little profit with that approach. Big Pharma has to maintain the illusion that they are the undisputed caretakers of our health.

#53 shill

You may ad hominem attack me all you want. Who do you think is buying it? The non-shills who don't answer to big pharma in the science community put this out.

As if you are some expert on the "big sciency-sounding words", as you put it. You name one of the long list of toxins and justify it by saying the dose is so low. Get a clue. We don't take a shill's word for it. As if your little science explanations is going to change anyone's mind.

Why don't you tackle formaldehyde moron? Yeah, I'll put the stuff they use to embalm dead people into my body. Sounds reasonable to me.

Look shill scum! You aren't fooling anyone. 70% of America is on to you. They don't wish to have formaldehyde or any other crap placed into their bodies, especially when forced or hyperbolically fearmongered on them!

#55 | Posted by L_RContrarian at 2009-11-01 04:01 PM | Reply | Flag: Shill for Big Snake Oil

H1N1 is a poor excuse for a pandemic. Personally I'm glad my family didn't get vaccinated. We all caught it and it wasn't as bad as the seasonal flu. Rather build the antibodies that way instead of the ones grown in a lab.

"You're deluded. Mercury and aluminum are toxic at any dose."

Sure Ray.

MSDS:

www.jtbaker.com

1. Product Identification

Synonyms: Aluminum wire; Aluminum foil; Aluminum shot; Aluminum uncrated nonpyrophoric
CAS No.: 7429-90-5
Molecular Weight: 26.98
Chemical Formula: Al
Product Codes: 0449, 0456

Potential Health Effects
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Inhalation:
Not expected to be a health hazard.
Ingestion:
Not expected to be a health hazard.
Skin Contact:
No adverse effects expected.
Eye Contact:
No adverse effects expected.
Chronic Exposure:
No adverse effects expected.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
No adverse health effects expected.

1. Product Identification

Synonyms: Quicksilver; hydrargyrum; Liquid Silver
CAS No.: 7439-97-6
Molecular Weight: 200.59
Chemical Formula: Hg
Product Codes:
J.T. Baker: 2564, 2567, 2569
Mallinckrodt: 1278, 1280, 1288

Potential Health Effects
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Inhalation:
Mercury vapor is highly toxic via this route. Causes severe respiratory tract damage. Symptoms include sore throat, coughing, pain, tightness in chest, breathing difficulties, shortness of breath, headache, muscle weakness, anorexia, gastrointestinal disturbance, ringing in the ear, liver changes, fever, bronchitis and pneumonitis. Can be absorbed through inhalation with symptoms similar to ingestion.
Ingestion:
May cause burning of the mouth and pharynx, abdominal pain, vomiting, corrosive ulceration, bloody diarrhea. May be followed by a rapid and weak pulse, shallow breathing, paleness, exhaustion, tremors and collapse. Delayed death may occur from renal failure. Gastrointenstinal uptake of mercury is less than 5% but its ability to penetrate tissues presents some hazard. Initial symptoms may be thirst, possible abdominal discomfort.
Skin Contact:
Causes irritaton and burns to skin. Symptoms include redness and pain. May cause skin allergy and sensitization. Can be absorbed through the skin with symptoms to parallel ingestion.
Eye Contact:
Causes irritation and burns to eyes. Symptoms include redness, pain, blurred vision; may cause serious and permanent eye damage.
Chronic Exposure:
Chronic exposure through any route can produce central nervous system damage. May cause muscle tremors, personality and behavior changes, memory loss, metallic taste, loosening of the teeth, digestive disorders, skin rashes, brain damage and kidney damage. Can cause skin allergies and accumulate in the body. Repeated skin contact can cause the skin to turn gray in color. A suspected reproductive hazard; may damage the developing fetus and decrease fertility in males and females.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
Persons with nervous disorders, or impaired kidney or respiratory function, or a history of allergies or a known sensitization to mercury may be more susceptible to the effects of the substance.

#58 | Posted by Zatoichi

Metals don't break down in the body very well either. What doesn't get absorbed passes through the waste stream. Most wastewater treatment facilities are biological and don't remove them either. Settling and removal for land application is the only way, but that just relocates it. Water treatment facilities are having to deal with ultra low level parameters on metals and it's hard with the minerals and crap people intentionally ingest.

www.jtbaker.com
ARSENIC TRIOXIDE
1. Product Identification

Synonyms: Arsenic (III) oxide; arsenic sesquioxide; arsenous trioxide, white arsenic
CAS No.: 1327-53-3
Molecular Weight: 197.84
Chemical Formula: As2O3
Product Codes: 0061

Potential Health Effects
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Inhalation:
Arsenic may cause inflammation of the mucous membranes with cough and foamy sputum, restlessness, dyspnea, cyanosis, and rales. Symptoms like those from ingestion exposure may follow. May cause pulmonary edema.
Ingestion:
Arsenic is highly toxic! May cause burning in esophagus, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. Symptoms of cold and clammy skin, low blood pressure, weakness, headache, cramps, convulsions, and coma may follow. May cause damage to liver and kidneys. A suspected fetal toxin. Death may occur from circulatory failure. Estimated lethal dose 120 milligrams.
Skin Contact:
May cause irritation, symptoms including redness, itching, and pain.
Eye Contact:
May cause irritation with itching, burning, watering of eyes; may cause conjunctiva damage.
Chronic Exposure:
Arsenic on repeated or prolonged skin contact may cause bronzing of the skin, edema, dermatitis, and lesions. Repeated or prolonged inhalation of dust may cause damage to the nasal septum. Chronic exposure from inhalation or ingestion may cause hair and weight loss, a garlic odor to the breath and perspiration, excessive salivation and perspiration, central nervous system damage, hepatitis, gastrointestinal disturbances, cardiovascular damage, and kidney and liver damage. Arsenic compounds are known human carcinogens and may be teratogenic based on effects in laboratory animals.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
No information found.

#58 | POSTED BY ZATOICHI

WTF does inhalation have to do with injection into the bloodstream or anything I said about unseen side effects?

"unseen side effects"

LOL!

You're deluded. Mercury and aluminum are toxic at any dose. Just because you can't find evidence, that doesn't mean it's not hidden somewhere in a metabolic process not completely understood.

So basically what you're saying is there's no evidence to suggest aluminum and mercury are toxic at any dose, yet you know it to be true.

Interesting, coming from a self-professed expert in critical thinking.

Also, vaccines do not contain mercury, they contain thimerosal. Big difference.


Especially when injected into the bloodstream, bypassing the immune defenses in the GI tract.

Vaccines aren't injected into the bloodstream, they're injected intramuscularly. Even then, your immune system does not play a role in preventing your GI tract from absorbing "toxins," you absorb many of them just fine (ie mercury from fish). That is the reason you have a liver, to remove the toxic substances you inevitably ingest so they can be excreted.


Besides, it's a needless risk when natural methods can build up our immune defenses.

Which you've yet to back with information, despite the claim of it being supposedly quite bountiful.

LOL!

It's no joke. Illness can't be detected until they reach a critical threshold. Say for example you are ingesting trace amounts of some heavy metal over a long period of time, one that destroys receptor sites in your neurons. You won't know a thing until the number of damaged neurons accumulate to a point where you notice motor loss or some other effect. Most times, the neural damage can't be traced to the heavy metal because the amounts in your body are too small. It's called slow poisoning.

The goal of designing pharmaceutical medicines is to design them in such a way that they can't be traced to the damage they do. It's been getting more difficult in recent years.

Which you've yet to back with information, despite the claim of it being supposedly quite bountiful.
#63 | POSTED BY JPW

We've gone over that a hundred times and you dismiss every source I give you.

So basically what you're saying is there's no evidence to suggest aluminum and mercury are toxic at any dose, yet you know it to be true.
Interesting, coming from a self-professed expert in critical thinking.

I explained in more detail in #64. Unless you can show evidence of hormesis in small doses, toxicity is in proportion to the dose.

Don't confuse scientific thinking with critical thinking. Yo're a parrot. You're not on my level.

The non-shills who don't answer to big pharma in the science community put this out.

LOL

Yeah those big pharm boys really keep academic scientists on a tight leash. It's a good thing for Big Pharm that academic scientists are so dumb they don't demand more money to stay quiet and not spill the beans on the racket Big Pharm has been running for years.

And I'm assuming non-shills=anyone who agrees with you?

You name one of the long list of toxins and justify it by saying the dose is so low. Get a clue.

Except dose IS important to anyone with any capability of understanding this complex topic.

As if your little science explanations is going to change anyone's mind.

Yeah, fuck science. It's much more fun to just make shit up.

Why don't you tackle formaldehyde moron? Yeah, I'll put the stuff they use to embalm dead people into my body. Sounds reasonable to me.

Easy. All living things produce formaldehyde by normal biological processes. You yourself, right now, have formaldehyde in your blood.

www.inchem.org

The concentration of endogenous formaldehyde in human blood is about 2-3 mg/L

Considering formaldehyde is left over in trace amounts after processing of vaccines, I don't think it's going to make a huge difference when added to human blood.

Look shill scum! You aren't fooling anyone. 70% of America is on to you.

I keep hearing this 70% number but have yet to see a source for it. Link?

H1N1 is a poor excuse for a pandemic.

What exactly then do you think constitutes a pandemic?

Personally I'm glad my family didn't get vaccinated. We all caught it and it wasn't as bad as the seasonal flu.

Was it confirmed as Influenza A or did you just get a "flu?"

Rather build the antibodies that way instead of the ones grown in a lab.

When you get a vaccine you're not getting antibodies grown in a lab. You're getting deactivated virus so your body can make the very same antibodies it does during infection absent the actual disease.

Yeah those big pharm boys really keep academic scientists on a tight leash.

No. Like you, they practice what they were taught without critically examining what they are doing. They accept the mortality and morbidity statistics on the grounds they are working towards a greater good. It's religion veiled as science.

The proper goal for the health industry is Prevention. Alas, since it is ignored, Americans are getting sicker longer and more dependent on poisons that only appear to cure because they alleviate symptoms. Eventually the poisons cause permanent damage.

We've gone over that a hundred times and you dismiss every source I give you.

I've read articles you've posted and we've discussed them. Some I've dismissed, others I've read and taken with a grain of salt.

You seem to be under the impression that all information is equal. It's not. There is different levels of quality to sources and information that one must be aware of depending on the situation.

A lewrockwell.com column citing popular media and books is not going to carry much weight in a scientific argument. It can raise provocative ideas, but the content will certainly be taken with a grain of salt.

I explained in more detail in #64.

And your #64 is true until you get to the last line where you decide to insert your conspiracy theory crap.

However, it doesn't explain away your assertion that aluminum and mercury are poisonous at any dose. Pathology can still exist before a physical manifestation is seen (ie motor loss), you just can't biopsy human brains periodically to ensure lesions aren't forming.

Try finding animal studies on aluminum and thimerosal exposure. There will probably be tissue sectioning and pathological investigations conducted before any physical manifestations occur.

Unless you can show evidence of hormesis in small doses, toxicity is in proportion to the dose.

Not true. Toxicity is not linear and will depend on the mechanism by which it causes damage.

Don't confuse scientific thinking with critical thinking.

Most of being a scientist is thinking critically, so scientific thinking and critical thinking is pretty much synonymous.


Yo're a parrot. You're not on my level.

LOL thanks for the laugh.

I wouldn't take anything into my body that I absolutely didn't need. Particularly a problem with a large number of metals is that when they're taken internally they're not excreted fully or broken down like most of the meds okayed by the FDA. Many of the metals are stored in the adipose tissue (fat) of the body and they remain there for years. Attempts often are made to chelate (chelation) these substances out but usually aren't effective to any degree. My feeling applies to traditional medications as well-- avoidance of those unless necessary is the best decision.

No. Like you, they practice what they were taught without critically examining what they are doing. They accept the mortality and morbidity statistics on the grounds they are working towards a greater good. It's religion veiled as science.

You speak as if you actually understand what goes on in the scientific community.

From where I sit, it appears as if you don't have a clue how science works and what goes on in academic institutions, you just have bitter excuses and rationalizations for why your ideas don't seem to pass muster with anyone else.

The proper goal for the health industry is Prevention. Alas, since it is ignored,

What do you think vaccines are for, Ray? The whole thing is about prevention.

You act as if no doctor has ever told you to eat right or exercise frequently and that you've caught on to some hidden or suppressed idea. You haven't, Ray, trust me.

Americans are getting sicker longer and more dependent on poisons that only appear to cure because they alleviate symptoms.

Yeah, and it probably has something to do with the fact that in general we are fat fucks who exercise little to none and eat like shit.

Eventually the poisons cause permanent damage.

I don't deny that in some cases this does occur.

However, if you have suggestions on how to prevent or fix chronic illnesses where this is the case, I'm sure the medical establishment wants to know, just make sure you have better info that lewrockwell.com.

And your #64 is true until you get to the last line where you decide to insert your conspiracy theory crap.

Let's review that. The way I state it is not the way you look at it. I haven't asserted conspiracy. That would presume conscious guilt. I called it religious thinking. Or group-think is more apropos.

"The goal of designing pharmaceutical medicines is to design them in such a way that they can't be traced to the damage they do. It's been getting more difficult in recent years."

You would evaluate that statement as finding no evidence or symptoms within an acceptable threshold. They are well documented in the pharmaceutical literature. But as I've noted, serious side effects can and do show up years or decades later when they can't be traced to the medicine that caused them. Or sometimes side effects appear coincident with the medicine, and no causal link can be found. You of all people should show more respect for how complex our bodies are.

Most of being a scientist is thinking critically, so scientific thinking and critical thinking is pretty much synonymous.

Wrong! I've been picking you apart, but you are too dull witted to notice.

Wrong! I've been picking you apart, but you are too dull witted to notice.

#72 | Posted by Ray

lol. It's only a flesh wound!

However, if you have suggestions on how to prevent or fix chronic illnesses where this is the case, I'm sure the medical establishment wants to know, just make sure you have better info that lewrockwell.com.

I'm tired of telling you that Bill Sardi cites his sources from research literature.
This site is the most extensive. Feel free to peruse. But last time I provided a link, you dismissed it right away.
www.lef.org

What do you think vaccines are for, Ray? The whole thing is about prevention.

As said many times by me and others, they are uneconomical and dangerous.

I think we're in a catch-22. I can't prove to you that disease is preventable by natural means because you dismiss sources and ideas you are not familiar with.

You would evaluate that statement as finding no evidence or symptoms within an acceptable threshold. They are well documented in the pharmaceutical literature.

No, I would evaluate that statement as just plain false since you're stating a rational for drug design that to the best of my knowledge doesn't exist.

Drugs are designed to be as specific as possible at as low a dose as possible. Side effects will inevitably arise given the fact that you're fiddling with a complex system and that you can't ever be completely specific.

But as I've noted, serious side effects can and do show up years or decades later when they can't be traced to the medicine that caused them. Or sometimes side effects appear coincident with the medicine, and no causal link can be found.

Then how can you say the damage is caused by the drug? You can't for sure.

You of all people should show more respect for how complex our bodies are.

I absolutely do, which is why I understand that drugs are designed to perform a task as specifically as possible but that fiddling with a system as complex as our bodies will inevitably result in side effects. Attempts to limit side effects aren't to hide damage caused by the drug, it's because they're undesirable.

Wrong! I've been picking you apart, but you are too dull witted to notice.

You haven't picked apart shit. You continue to make unsupported assertions in rebuttal to my calling your assertions unsupported.

I'm tired of telling you that Bill Sardi cites his sources from research literature.

I'll look him up. I've been sent several columns from lewrockwell.com about swine flu and they've mostly cited popular literature, but I don't remember if he's the author.

This site is the most extensive. Feel free to peruse. But last time I provided a link, you dismissed it right away

You posted a specific column from that site on generic drugs and natural source providers not being allowed by the FDA to sell their products.

I read it. We talked about it. I don't recall dismissing it, just taking it with a grain of salt due to the financial motives of the authors.

I think we're in a catch-22. I can't prove to you that disease is preventable by natural means because you dismiss sources and ideas you are not familiar with.

I don't dismiss anything because I'm unfamiliar with it. I'd never learn anything if that were the case.

I dismiss things that are blatantly biased or have been shown to be poor sources of information in the past (mercola et al) or sources that display glaring issues with understanding or misrepresent the biology behind the topics (natural news).

Drugs are designed to be as specific as possible at as low a dose as possible. Side effects will inevitably arise given the fact that you're fiddling with a complex system and that you can't ever be completely specific.

You said it your way. I said it my way.

Then how can you say the damage is caused by the drug? You can't for sure.

That's the problem when you tamper with a highly complex system. Often times it shows up in the organs, especially pancreas, kidney and liver.

A symptom is what the the body does to fight off disease - infectious or metabolic. Allotropic medicines force the body to find another route to correct the original problem which won't be as efficient. In addition, the body has an addition toxin to deal with.

You haven't picked apart shit. You continue to make unsupported assertions in rebuttal to my calling your assertions unsupported. LOL!!!

You posted a specific column from that site on generic drugs and natural source providers not being allowed by the FDA to sell their products.

The pharmaceuticals own the FDA as well as CDC and WHO.

We'll resume some other time.

LOL!!!

Yes, your Galileo complex is quite funny.

#25 zombie
In truth the FDA shuts down those who offer alternative solutions that dare to compete with the billion dollar pharmaceutical industry.

What a joke. These quacks are shut down because they deliberately mislead suckers like Ray and Bani, and a portion of those suckers get sick as a result.


Hey quack, read CAREFULLY! I scanned it over and it is below high school reading level.



I seem to recall not too long ago the FDA engaging in a witch hunt to prevent any alternative treatments for the H1N1 Swine Flu. In a press release, "FDA Warns Web Sites against Marketing Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Virus Claims" the FDA boldly declared,

"the FDA warned consumers regarding products related to the 2009 H1N1 flu virus offered on the Internet. The products involved are those that are promoted and marketed to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure the 2009 H1N1 flu virus but are not approved, cleared, or authorized by the FDA. The agency advised operators of offending Web sites that they must take immediate action to ensure that they are not marketing products intended to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure the 2009 H1N1 flu virus that have not been cleared, approved, or authorized by the FDA."

"The FDA will consider further civil or criminal enforcement action against those Web sites that fail to resolve the violations cited in warning letters. Actions could include seizure, injunction, and criminal prosecution."

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