by R.H. Enjjineer

During the latest flu panic, millions of North Americans flocked to clinics, some travelling hundreds of miles to surrender an arm to the hallowed needle. On pilgrimage, few questioned the efficacy or safety of the rite, let alone the wisdom of authorities who decreed the necessity to protect babe and senior alike from the blasphemous bug.
If few challenged the dogma, it’s hardly surprising.
Media pundits did not inform us that the 2003 flu scare was manufactured by “experts” tied to industry to expand the market after companies lost $120 million from 12 million unused doses the year prior.
But some influential medical experts did speak up like Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former chief vaccine control officer and research virologist with the US Food and Drug Administration. He stated that “There is no evidence any influenza vaccine is effective...The producers of these vaccines know they are useless but go on selling them anyway.”
The spoon-fed myth that vaccines rescued humanity from deadly scourges was enough to coax masses to battle for a spot in line. Historical evidence, however, shows that morbidity from infectious disease declined sharply before vaccines were introduced. Improved living standards, proper sewage and garbage disposal and safer drinking water were the real heroes against deadly scourges including scarlet fever and the plague.
Historical deception, however, has its victims. In the Philippines more than 60,000 died from smallpox between 1918 and 1919 in spite of mass immunization programs, and in 1976, polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk stated that the live-virus vaccine was the “principal, if not sole cause” of all reported US polio cases since 1961.
Today, a growing body of research implicating vaccination with causing allergies, asthma, arthritis, ADD, autism, diabetes, MS and cancer gets censored or conveniently discredited by pharmaceutical-industry-fed media. “We’ve been the victims of a carefully orchestrated, programmed propaganda campaign in which maximum publicity is repeatedly given to rare complications from a childhood disease, while actively suppressing the case of morbidity and death caused by vaccines,” according to Thomas Stone, MD.
After all, research by renowned US immunogeneticist, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg linking regular flu shots with a significant increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease does not make for good PR. Fortunately, not all health officials robotically recite the dataless mantra, “the benefits outweigh the risks.”
“Public policy regarding vaccines is fundamentally flawed. It is permeated by conflicts of interest, based on poor scientific methodology and insulated from independent criticism...Our children face the possibility of serious long term adverse effects or death from mandated vaccines that aren’t necessary or have very limited benefits,” says Jane Orient, MD, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
According to Dr. Zoltan Rona of Toronto, author of Alternatives to Vaccination, “Studies are increasingly pointing to the conclusion that vaccines represent a dangerous assault to the immune system, leading to autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, lupus, juvenile onset diabetes, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, as well as previously rare disorders like brain cancer, childhood leukemia, sudden infant death syndrome, autism and asthma.”
Vaccination is one of several issues to be scrutinized in a five part lecture series, The War on Health. The first evening, Wednesday, January 26, electromagnetic radiation expert Milt Bowling will discuss the latest research on cell phone risks, conduct a demo showing the harm and include excerpts from the documentary, DNA, Democracy and the Wireless Revolution.
Topics to be addressed on Tuesday, February 1 include: a historical review of the hijacking of the medical system; the suppression of successful therapies; and the ominous Homeland Security Model Emergency Health Powers Act being
considered in the US, under which compulsory injections and medical treatments could be enforced.
On Wednesday, February 9, the lecture will target AIDS and include excerpts from the explosive Vancouver International Film Festival documentary, The Other Side of AIDS. This provocative work challenges the official hypothesis, probes the accuracy of HIV testing and exposes the dangers of anti-viral drugs. Important research on safely treating AIDS will also be discussed.
On Wednesday, February 16, the dubious history and scientific fraud behind the toxic artificial sweetener Aspartame will be explored. How did a substance linked to serious neurological damage get the regulatory OK and what role did Donald Rumsfeld play in the process. Documentary excerpts from Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World will be included.
Lastly, but definitely not least, the talk Wednesday, February 23 will look at the politics, safety and so-called “science” behind vaccination.
Among the series speakers will be veteran health critic, researcher and consultant, Croft Woodruff (February 9 and 16) who has been generously sharing his wealth of knowledge with the public for decades. Woodruff (604-324-2121) hosts Dynamic Health on CFRO 102.7 FM every Wednesday at 1 pm. He’ll also be a panelist at the Council of Canadians free public meeting on GE foods, January 19, at 7:30 pm, Holy Trinity Church, 1440 West 12 Ave.

The War on Health series will be held at SPEC, 2150 Maple St., Vancouver at 7:30 pm January 26, February 1, 9, 16 and 23. The cost per lecture is $8 for adults, or $30 for the five-part series, 604-327-9140.
A Vancouver resident, Ms. Enjjineer is an independent activist involved with political, environmental and health issues.