The following timeline demonstrates the long history of how the fear of disease has been manipulated by authority to convince and often coerce populations into following official programs, often to their own detriment. It also proposes to show a link between these programs and the progressive amassing of wealth and power for a very few.
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See also my more recent Timeline of Germ Theory and Its Detractors--With Parallel Developments in Vaccination.
OVERVIEW
1853-1889
-Smallpox vaccination made mandatory in England in 1853
-Large outbreaks in 1870s in spite of almost complete vaccination of the populace lead to widespread defiance and protest
-Respected doctors, professors, and parlimentarians join in support of the anti-vaccine movement and the law is overturned 1889
-Smallpox mortality declined in the 1800s, but so did scarlet fever, even in the abscence of a vaccine for scarlet fever until the mid 1900s. Vaccines for most diseases were not introduced until AFTER mortality rates had already receded drastically. There is therefore no evidence to show that these disesases declined because of vaccines.
1887-1939
-First use of mechanical pesticide spraying correlates with first polio outbreaks
-First production of lead arsenate in 1893 is followed by sharp increase in polio outbreaks wherever the compound is used
-Paralytic illness in animals also observed
1939-1954
-First adaption of DDT for use as a pesticide in the U.S. leads to the most massive widespread poisoning in the history of the world
-Increase in DDT use correlated with the era of the greatest polio epidemic
1954-1962
-Prevelant propaganda for the March of Dimes
-First widespread use of Salk's vaccine leads to 70,000 cases of muscle weakness, 164 cases of severe paralysis, and 10 deaths in what became known as the Cutter incident
-Similar incidents follow
-Despite the increase in paralysis, a change in polio classification in 1954 makes it appear as though the vaccine was successful
-DDTfalls out of favor in the U.S. and is exported to other countries
1962
The book Silent Spring is published, giving rise to the environmental movement and leading to the banning of DDT in the U.S. in 1972
1976
-U.S. government propaganda about a swine flu epidemic causes histeria over a single death of an army soldier
-46 million Americans vaccinated
-Many injured, paralysed, or died of the vaccine
1982-1995
-Founding of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in 1982 by parents of DPT vaccine injured children
-The National Vaccine Injury Act passed in 1986
-Ammendments between 1997 and 1995 incrementally weaken liability and safety provisions
1998-2004
-Following reports of parents whose children became autistic after recieving an MMR vaccine, English doctor, Wakefield, publishes a paper in The Lancet suggesting a possible correlation to the age of vaccination.
-Eventually, public demand leads to a U.S. CDC study. After delaying four years, the CDC says there is no connection.
2002-2003
-Following 9/11, U.S. develops a new smallpox vaccine because of a proported threat of a smallpox strain being developed in Iraq for biowarfare
-Tests of the vaccine on U.S. military correlate with and increase in heart disease
-Further use on medical personell
-Dr. Thomas Mack of the CDC opposes the vaccine
-The vaccine is abandoned and the supposed threat forgotten
2009-2010
-Vaccine manufacturers benefit from a new swine flu scare
-In 2010, the Council of Parlimentary Assembly of Europe (PACE) decries the World Health Organization (WHO) for creating international panic leading to unnecessary spending of billions of dollars. PACE points to conflicts of interest within the WHO
2014
-CDC senior scientist Thompson contacts Brian Hooker PhD with information about fraud within the CDC in the MMR/autism study
-India to receive "polio-free" status in spite of 52,000 cases of what is being called "non-polio accute flaccid paralysis"
-Corrrelation of "polio"/paralysis with wells contaminated with arsenic in a trans-national plain below the Himalayas. Accute flaccid paralysis also caused by the oral polio vaccine.
2014-2019
-Dangerous gain-of-function (GOF) research in the U.S. and in China funded by Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
2019-2020
-Event 201 simulation held in New York in September 2019 in preparation for a "hypothetical" novel coronavirus pandemic
-What's going on behind the scenes? Who benefits? Better perspectives and how to go forward.
1853-1889
Compulsory smallpox vaccination was instituted in England in 1853, leading to fines and encarceration of fathers who refused to vaccinate their children with a dubitable procedure that was causing illness and even death. Mandatory vaccination in England was overturned in 1889.
During this period, compulsory smallpox vaccination was mandated in England following the development of the "smallpox" vaccine by Edward Jenner toward the end of the 18th century. Jenner's method departed from the previously established smallpox "innoculation" in that he associated the pustules that sometimes formed on the hands of milkers with smallpox, claiming that it was the same or a closely related disease. The new vaccine led to thousands of infants being injured or killed and to protests among parents.
In 1817, only 20 years after the development of the vaccine, John Birch, Jenner's vociferous enemy and a defender of the tradition of innoculation, published a paper documenting the outcries of disillusioned parents. The Jennerian Comittee, in support of Jenner's vaccine, responded by accusing parents of acting "perversely and disgenuously", but never answered their questions or protests. Though in my brief assessment John Birch appears to be of dubitable character, that is no reason to discount the protests of parents; and as we shall soon see, later in the century, more respectable persons would bring Jennerian vaccination seriously into question.
Notwithstanding the early outcry, vaccination was mandated in 1953, pushed through by enthusiastic doctors. Fathers who refused to vaccinate their children were fined, and those who could not pay were either encarcerated or divested of property.
Finally, in 1871, after decades of thorough, compulsory vaccination with a vaccination rate reaching 110% (some were vaccinated more than once for good measure), there was nonetheless a large outbreak of smallpox in Lechester, England, a town with a population of around 200,000. The outbreak recorded 3000 cases of smallpox and 300 deaths. Residents who had feared smallpox more than the vaccine and had been badgered or convinced that going along with the vaccination program was for their own good, saw clearly that the whole thing was bogus since thorough vaccination could not even prevent the outbreak. They rose up in mass. Prosecutions of non-compliers with the vaccination program in Lechester were only 2 in 1869, but in 1881 reached 1100, for a total of 6000 over 12 years, resulting in 64 imprisonments and 193 seizures of property to obtain money owed for fines. By 1889, compliance with vaccination for babies was only 15%. Courts were clogged with cases, and there was no way the legal system could keep up with all the prosecutions. In 1889. the people of Lechester rose up and overturned compulsory vaccination, voting out pro-vaccine polititians.
The protests weren't confined to Lechester. In the same year of 1889, 110 districts had effectively annulled compulsory vaccination. Over 100 parlimentarians were anti-vaccine all over England.
Various physicians of note during this period questioned the vaccine program and the whole theory behind it. Some of them were formerly prominent pro-vacciners who, in the course of their own investigations, became anti-vaccine. One of these was Dr. Charles Chreighton.
"Dr. Charles Creighton, a recognized authority in epidemiology, and then orthodox on vaccination, was selected by the publishers of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, to write the article on Vaccination. He made an original and exhaustive inquiry into the subject with the result of its making him an uncompromising anti-vaccinationist. Being in doubt whether the article he found himself forst [forced?] to write would be acceptable, he put the question to the editor, saying what he had found was contrary to accepted medical opinion. But he was informed that what the Britannica wanted was facts, and they trusted him to present them.
The fifteen columns of this article are packed with irrefutable proofs of the fallacy of vaccination.
--George Starr White, A Lecture Course to Physicians on Natural Methods in Diagnosis and Treatment: Aids to Human Helpers (Los Angeles, CA: George Star White, M.D., 1918), 1032. [Read the encyclopedia article here]
Chreighton's thorough investigation into every aspect of the matter in minute detail led him to conclude that smallpox vaccination was a "gross superstition", and he ended up standing in defense of the anti-vaccinists:
"The anti-vaccinists are those who have found some motive for scrutinizing the evidence, generally the very human motive of vaccinal injuries or fatalities in their own families or in those of their neighbours. Whatever their motive, they have scrutinized the evidence to some purpose; they have mastered nearly the whole case; they have knocked the bottom out of a grotesque superstition. The public at large cannot believe that a great profession should have been so perseveringly in the wrong."
--Charles Creighton, Jenner and Vaccination: A Strange Chapter of Medical History (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889), 352, 353.
Following Chreighton, another pro-vaccinist, Professor Edgar M. Crookshank, was led to his own investigation:
"The publication of Dr. Creighton’s [encyclopedia] article caused Prof. Edgar M. Crookshank, bacteriologist of King’s College, to make an independent study of vaccination on the scientific side, to see whether Dr. Creighton’s conclusions (which had been based on statistics) could not be assailed on that side. The result was the two ponderous volumes, The History and Pathology of Vaccination, in which he shows the practice to be uncertain, unscientific and dangerous."
--George Starr White, A Lecture Course to Physicians on Natural Methods in Diagnosis and Treatment: Aids to Human Helpers (Los Angeles, CA: George Star White, M.D., 1918), 1032, 1033.
The following quote is from Crookshank's introduction to his 610 page book, published in 1891:
"While attending at the National Vaccine Establishment of the Local Government Board, I was unable to obtain any exact details, clinical or pathological, of the source of the lymph which was employed there. From my experience of this and other vaccination stations, I found that both official and unofficial vaccinators were completely occupied with the technique of vaccination, to the exclusion of any precise knowledge of the history and pathology of the diseases from which their lymph stocks had been obtained. Thus, at this early stage of my investigation, I felt that what Ceely said, in 1840, was still true: 'The imperfect knowledge which we at present possess on many points connected with the natural history of the variolœ vaccinœ, and the numerous and formidable impediments to the improvement and extension of that knowledge, demand the continuance of vigilant, patient, and diligent inquiry.'"
http://whale.to/vaccines/crookshank_b.html
Finally, another man of science, Professor Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), entered upon his own study of the matter following the investigations of Chreighton and Crookshank. He was...
"...moved to prepare an essay on the subject “for the purpose of influencing Parliament and securing the speedy abolition of the unjust, cruel and pernicious vaccination laws.” It appeared as Chapter XVIII of “The Wonderful Century,” and has also been published by itself with the title “Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime.” "
Cited in George Starr White, A Lecture Course to Physicians on Natural Methods in Diagnosis and Treatment: Aids to Human Helpers (Los Angeles, CA: George Star White, M.D., 1918), 1033, 1034.
*The above citations from White's work were taken from the following website:: https://www.vaccinesandchristianity.org/2019/01/25/vaccine-pandemic-part-2-opposition-to-vaccines-by-doctors-and-others-in-history/
To the detriment of our society, any doctors contesting vaccine orthodoxy, along with their papers and books, were gradually blacklisted and their work finally relegated to near oblivion.
In the following video, Dr. Suzanne Humphries gives an overview of the smallpox scene as described above. Her pesonal experience as a nephrolologist plays into how she became intersted in the subject of vaccines, and of smallpox vaccine in particular.
There is a common superstition, taught in schools, universities, and abounding in all kinds of media, that the smallpox vaccine was a great acheivement for humankind. Indeed smallpox was a scourge that decimated populations between the 16th and 19th centuries, and reduced Native American populations even more severely, who had no defences against it when contacted by Europeans. It's also true that the mortality rate for smallpox decreased dramatically over the course of the 19th cenury. But what is usually overlooked is that there was another disease, prevalent since the 17th century, whose mortality was much greater than that of smallpox. It was scarlet fever. There was no vaccine developed for scarlet fever until the mid 1900s. Nonetheless, the mortality rate for scarlet fever dropped dramatically over the same period of time as smallpox, as demonstrated in the graph below. Surely something else was going on here, independent of vaccination. (Graph based on statistics from Wales and England, 1838-1922. Statistics unavaible prior to 1838)
In the first half of the 20th century, the mortality rates for scarlet fever, along with that of measles, typhoid fever, whooping cough, and diptheria,continued to drop dramatically prior to the development of vaccines for these illneses. By the time a vaccine for measles was developed in the late 1960s, measles was considered a mild, unremarkable illness which left those infected with a strengthened the immune system to boot. (Graph below based on U.S. statistics, 1900-1965).
Above graphs taken from: http://vaxinfostarthere.com/did-vaccines-save-us/
More details about the provenence of the statistics in these graphs is given on that website, along with other graphs and relevent information on many of illnesses.
Now let's turn to one illness that had the opposite trend as in the graph above, suddenly erupting in the late 1800's and continuing to rise to peak in the 1940's...
1887-1939
". . . the first polio epidemic . . .occurred in Sweden in 1887. This small epidemic occurred 13 years after the invention of DDT in Germany, in 1874, and 14 years after the invention of the first mechanical pesticide crop sprayer, which was used to spray formulations of water, kerosene, soap and arsenic."
--from, "Pesticides and Polio: A critique of scientific literature" by Jim West
What is polio? Where did it come from?
The quote above is from an excellent article on the subject that I found on the Weston A. Price Foundation website. It highlights the rise of poliomyelitis - and even changes in clinical manifestations - in correlation with production of the dominant pesticides of the period: initially lead and arsenic, and later DDT and BHC. These poisons are now known to cause central nervous system (CNS) damage, including paralyzation and death. The article points out several important things to keep in mind. Prior to the designation of poliomyelitis in the mid 1800's, polio-like symptomology did exist in and was "often described as the results of poisoning." The author states:
". . . in the works of Ralph Scobey, MD, I found that from ancient times to the early 20th century, the symptoms and physiology of paralytic poliomyelitis were often described as the results of poisoning. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that the word “poliomyelitis” became the designation for the paralytic effects of both severe poisoning and polio-like diseases assumed to be germ-caused."
Note that he says both the paralyitc effects of severe poisoning and polio-like diseases. In otherwords, poliomyelitis was a broadrange term and did not refer to a virus, but rather to a certain symptomology. (There was no testing for viruses in the 1800s, and even today, virus testing is a tricky and error-prone prospect.)
Digging further, I found an excellently thorough and well-written article by Dan Olmstead and Mark Blaxill which brought me even closer to the direct unmistakeable trail of poliomyelitis (paralytic polio) being associated with the introduction of "persistent pesticides", particularly introduction of lead arsenate beginning at the epicenter of its discovery in Boston in 1893.
Olmstead and Blaxill relate that in the a certain Frenchman named Eitienne Leopold Trouvelot, who immigrated to the United States and settled in Boston in the 1850s, was very fond of insects and turned his 5 acre plot into an insectary enclosed in netting. At some point he acquired a handful of gypsy moths from abroad and let them loose in his insect haven. With the passage of time, and with birds pecking at the netting to get at the moths, eventually the moths began to escape. Not being native to America, and therefore having no natural predators, very quickly the moths multiplied and created a plague that spread over Boston like the clouds of locusts of Pharoh's Egypt. (These events are detailed in the book, The Great Gypsy Moth War by Robert J. Spear.)
Olmstead and Blaxill relate:
"Even professional bug-killers were defenseless against the new arrival – Paris Green and London Purple, two state-of-the–art arsenic compounds that were potent against most pests, didn’t work at all. To some, it appeared that the food supply of the United States was at imminent risk. The state put together a Gypsy Moth Commission with an urgent mandate: Kill the bugs dead."
Finally, in 1893, in Boston, a solution was found: a newly discoverd compound, lead arsenate. It's discovery turned into a potent weapon not only against gypsy moths but against other kinds of insects that affected apples, berries, and other crops. Soon its use spread to control the gypsie moth plague and to other agricultural purposes. But Olmstead and Blaxill continue:
"Something else of note happened in 1893 in the Boston area. Two doctors used to seeing sporadic cases of paralysis in infants became concerned when the small caseload suddenly increased, to 23. There had only been six in the same September-November time span the year before... isolated cases of paralysis were not unusual in Boston, where the Gypsy Moth War had been raging since 1890. It was the number and timing that drew their attention."
The connection between the introduction of lead arsenate and subsequent polio breakouts that followed is made crystal clear in the article. The authors, however, seem to think that the toxins were triggering a pathogenic response in the polio virus. Though I admit this could be true, it seems obvious that lead, arsenic, and similar CNS toxins can lead to paralysis on their own. Indeed this is how lead arsenate works agains the insects: by paralysing them.
The association with lead arsenate introduction is undeniable. Prior to that, there were minor polio outbreaks, but those too can be traced to the use of arsenic as a pesticide and of both arsenic and mercury in medicine - such as mercury based "teething powder" for babies, to name just one.
Just two years prior to the 1893 discovery of lead arsenate, one of the two doctors in Boston mentioned earlier, a Dr. Putnam, gave a speech to the Massachusetts Medical Society which, borrowing further from Olmstead and Blaxill, "was described in a British Medical Journal article titled, 'The Injuriousness of Arsenic as a Domestic Poison.'[xx] Putnam 'points out that paralysis is only the final and gross symptom of a neuritis which may have been going on for a long time.' Arsenic was hard to avoid, he added, because it was still widely used in medicine (a book about the ubiquity of arsenic during the era is titled The Arsenic Century)."
Olmstead and Blaxill give the following list of polio outbreaks, showing associaton with gypsie moth suppression and with major agicultural areas:
--Boston, 1893. The year lead arsenate was first used there or anywhere.
--Rutland, Vermont, 1894. The year the state entomologist gave the formula for making it.
-- Cherryfield, Maine, 1896. Commercial blueberry-producing center.
-- San Francisco and the Napa Valley, 1896. Home to vineyards and many other crops.
-- Dutchess County and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1899. Agriculture and especially orchards – the county’s Web site features a stylized apple.
-- San Joaquin Valley, California, 1899. The nation’s Salad Bowl.
-- San Francisco and vicinity, 1901. A reprise of 1896.
-- Galesville, Wisconsin, 1907. Apples again. The Chamber of Commerce logo features an apple, and the annual Apple Affair is held the first Saturday in October.
-- Oceana County, Michigan, 1907. Self-proclaimed Asparagus Capital of the World, the largest asparagus producer in Michigan and one of the largest in the nation
Olmstead and Blaxill
https://www.ageofautism.com/2011/09/the-age-of-polio-how-an-old-virus-and-new-toxins-triggered-a-man-made-epidemic-1.html
The "first major outbreak to be recognized in the United States" took place in Rutland, Vermont in 1894. And it wasn't just in humans:
"In 1896, in a follow-up report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Caverly noted something strange: 'During this epidemic and in the same geographical area, an acute nervous disease, paralytic in its nature, affected domestic animals. Horses, dogs and fowls died with these symptoms.'
"A horse 'died paralyzed in the hind legs,' a fowl was paralyzed in its legs and wings. In the horse, the spinal cord showed 'atrophy of the anterior nerve root'; in the fowl, 'an acute poliomyelitis of the lumbar portion of the cord ...'[xv]"
At the same time, and in the same locations, that oubreaks of "polio" were ocurring among humans, the same kinds of symptoms of paralysis and death were noted among horses, sheep, dogs, cats, pigs, etc. Horses grazing beneath apple orchards where lead arsenic spray had coated alfafa planted between the trees developed what was called "horse orchard disease" or "aresenic of lead disease". Olmstead and Blaxill cite substantial literature in this regard. Moreover, the connection between lead arsenate and paralysis in animals and paralytic "polio" in humans had already been made:
"In Massachusetts, where the compound was first used, the State Forester reported in 1912, under a section headed Infantile Paralysis: 'In view of the fact that a feeling has been entertained by some people in the State that infantile paralysis has been caused in some instances by arsenate of lead used in spraying for the gypsy and brown-tail moths, the State Forester has caused a rigid investigation to be made in order to determine if there is any foundation upon which to base such fears.'[xxiv]"
Unfortunately, the State Forester was the wrong guy for the job. What kind of authority could such a person be about an epidemic being caused by heavy metals? He concluded that there was nothing to be concerned about--meanwhile, horses, cows, dogs, cats, pigs, fowl and humans were being poisoned left and right.
Similar concerns were being raised in other parts of the world where lead arsenate was being used. Apparently they were ignored.
Olmstead and Blaxill go on to describe in extensive detail Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to Campobello, in the vicinity of the blueberry capital of Cherryfield, Maine. They note his love for berries and fruit, his wife's still preserved recipe for bluberry pudding, and that the visit occured in August, during the blueberry season. (Note the 1896 polio outbreak in Cherryfield, Maine, listed previously.)
Campobello was where Roosevelt was first struck with polio, for which he later became a national emblem of solidarity with the suffering of the stricken and their familes. And Roosevelt wasn't the only one who had felt abnormally ill or weak during that trip.
"On that trip, Elliott wrote, 'each of us children had some of the same symptoms as Father but in much milder form. We had runny noses, slight temperatures, and, a telltale sign, an odd feeling of stiffness in the neck. These comparatively mild aches and pains got overlooked in the developing crisis which gripped us all.'[xxxii]"
The children apparently recovered. But for Roosevelt, at 39, it was the beginning of a life of being crippled... yet still undefeated.
The association between pesticides and polio would be brought up again in the early 1950s by more than one observer. Ralph R. Scobey gave a statement to a House committee in 1952, titled, "The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis and Obstructions to its Investigation" which, according to Olmstead and Blaxill, "described associations between harvest seasons, fresh fruit consumption, and polio epidemics."
Polio outbreaks usually occured during summer or late autumn, the season when pesticides were being applied.
1939-1954
We've already seen what happened with the introduction of arsenic pesticides in the late 19th century and how the the discovery of lead arsenate in 1893 made things exponentially worse. Now let's take a look at DDT, and a lesser known organochlorine, BHC.
Though DDT had been discovered in 1887, it apparently hadn't come into use as a pesticide in the U.S. until 1939. (One might ask to what extent it had been used for other purposes or in other countries prior to 1939.) Many old films, like the one above, promoting DDT as safe, necessary, and effecacious can be found on U-tube. DDT was promoted for every kind of use in the most absurd and discautious ways. Neighborhoods were dowsed with spray, and children followed the spray trucks and played in the mist. Zealous housewives sprayed DDT on picnic lunches, and DDT coated wallpaper promised pest-free homes.. A well-distributed advertisement from 1947 touts all of DDT's wonderful qualities and uses, and absolute safety. Yet, in February of the previous year, the Tuscon Daily Citizen warned of the risk, even telling of an overeager cattleman who gave his prize bull an extra dose of the spray for good measure. The bull died.
(Both the add with full text and the newspaper article can be found here:
https://clickamericana.com/topics/health-medicine/ddt-is-good-for-me-e-e-1947 )
The FDA, which appears to have been less corrupt then than it is now, warned about DDT. But its warnings went unheeded. Just as in the case of lead arsenate, following the trail of DDT a corresponding spike in paralytic polio cases was everywhere to be seen.
Graphs below are taken from Jim West's paper (cited in the previous section). The first shows Polio incidence charted against DDT production/consumption and DDT accumulation in bodily tissues in the U.S. In the early 1950's, following questions raised about the safety of DDT, trends leaned more and more toward exporting the product to other countries where it would continue to wreck havoc. It is still in use in developing countries for mosquito control, but has been banned internationally for agricultural use.
The production of BHC, an even more deadly compound produced in similar quantities as DDT though usually ignored, shows a similar correspondence. BHC likewise began to be exported and, like DDT, it is still in use in developing countries (as of Jim West's 2003 paper).
West also gives a graph (not shown here) demonstrating the relationship between polio incidence and the production of lead and arsenic based pesticides which had been in use extensively prior to the advent of the organochlorines DDT and BHC.
West doesn't subscribe to the theory of viral causation, or even that persistent pesticides could be triggering abnormal polio virus activity in those exposed. He sees the inclusion of a virus as superfluous, since pesticedes alone, by themselves, have already been recognized as causing central nervous system damage.
"The most obvious theory–pesticide causation–should be the dominant theory. But the opposite exists, a pervasive silence regarding pesticide causation juxtaposed against a steady stream of drama regarding virus causation. In light of the evidence presented herein, the silence could ultimately discredit mainstream medical science, institutions of the environmental movement, and the World Health Organization."
According to West, "The World Health Organization directs both DDT application (for mosquito control) and polio vaccination worldwide."
In his conclusion, he states:
"The word 'virus' is ancient Latin, meaning 'slime' or 'poison.' Mainstream science admits that most viruses are harmless, yet the word “virus” adds to a biased and highly promoted language of fear regarding nature. Definitions of viruses range from 'pathogenic' to 'not usually pathogenic.' The more popular the media source, the more frightening the definition. Less fearful definitions would change the relationship between the medical industry and its 'patients.' Paradoxically, early virus studies considered virus filtrates to be a poison, not a microbe, thus the name virus. Today we know viruses to be information."
Charts and quoted text above are taken from "Pesticides and Polio: A critique of scientific literature" by Jim West. I highly recommend reading this article in full.
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/pesticides-and-polio-a-critique-of-scientific-literature/
Finally, in the early 1950's the idea that DDT might be harmful began to get some attention.
"In 1949 . . . Drs. Morton S. Biskind and Irving Bieber published 'DDT Poisoning – A New Symptom With Neuropsychiatric Manifestations' in the American Journal of Psychotherapy. 'By far the most disturbing of all the manifestations are the subjective reactions and the extreme muscular weakness,' they reported.[xxxvi]" (Olmsted and Blaxill)
Later, in 1953, Biskind writes:
“In the United States the incidence of polio had been increasing prior to 1945 at a fairly constant rate, but its epidemiologic characteristics remained unchanged. Beginning in 1946 the rate of increase more than doubled.”
Yet far from looking into a toxic etiology, “virtually the entire apparatus of communication, lay and scientific alike, has been devoted to denying, concealing, suppressing, distorting and attempts to convert into its opposite, the overwhelming evidence. Libel, slander and economic boycott have not been overlooked in this campaign.”[xxxix](Olmstead and Blaxill)
Though the mainstream narrataive about viral causation of polio did not succumb, DDT itself evenutually began to be frowned on by officials in the U.S. As DDT and BHC lost popularity in America and were exported to other countries where they would continue to produce similar harm, the limelight shifted from away from any connection of pesticide poisoning with the incidence of parlytic "polio." Indeed, such a connection was positively and persistently suppressed. That was necesary of course in order to continue ramping up the life-saving reputation of toxin-loaded and even disease-causing vaccines, and thus for chemical companies to be able to continue the huge ongoing profits from pushing both pesticides and vaccines on the public, both at home in the U.S. and abroad.
Above: A 1947 film shows an American demonstrating to a group of Africans that DDT is safe. The Africans think it's poison or witchcraft. Gee, I wonder if they were right?
1954-1962
When DDT was finally begining to be taken as a serious threat in the early 1950's, it was time to ramp up the campaign for a polio vaccine and ensure that the public stay convinced that they could fight polio by fighting a virus. Apart from fear-inducing images of crippled children and of hospitals filled with people in 'iron lungs', and apart from propaganda promoting the vaccine and everyone's desperately needed contributions to the March of Dimes (see video above), other special measures were taken to make sure that the 'success' of the new vaccine would be fully recognize by everyone. One of these measures was in the way polio cases were determined, which prior to implementation of the Salk vaccine in 1954 was very broad and all-embracing, and post 1954 was very specific.
"After vaccination was introduced in 1955, a strict pathology test was required to confirm a patient had polio. Also, at this point the definition of polio changed—paralysis had to last for 60 days instead of just 24 hours, and non-paralytic cases were no longer called polio. These factors lowered the number of polio cases significantly, making it look like the vaccine was very successful."
Quote above and graph below from: http://vaxinfostarthere.com/did-vaccines-save-us/
See also this excellent article: http://vaxinfostarthere.com/polio-outbreaks-and-vaccines-a-story/#more-2107
"Notwithstanding the large increase in polio cases in the U.S. starting in 1955, government sleight-of-hand made the vaccine appear successful. In 1955, officials redefined “paralytic poliomyelitis” and made the diagnosis much more stringent. Prior to the vaccine’s introduction, a patient only had to exhibit paralytic symptoms for twenty-four hours, and a diagnosis required no laboratory confirmation or tests to determine residual paralysis. Post-vaccine, the revised definition expanded the time period for symptoms of paralysis to a minimum of sixty days and required confirmation of residual paralysis at least twice during the course of the disease. Because paralytic poliomyelitis is rarely permanent and often lasts for only a short period of time, patients with a short paralytic duration were no longer counted as having polio."
The 2019 article by Kendall Nelson cited above tells of various accidents and other complications resulted from the vaccines themselves. The first of these became known as the Cutter incident:
"In the spring of 1955, Salk’s newly approved inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), manufactured by Cutter Laboratories, was administered to over four hundred thousand people, including many schoolchildren. Of those, over half—two hundred and twenty thousand individuals—in five Western and mid-Western states were injected with a bad batch. Because Salk’s vaccine used a 'killed' version of the polio germ, it 'supposedly carried no risk of giving recipients ‘vaccine-associated polio paralysis,'' but within days, reports of paralysis began surfacing. Within a month, the mass vaccination program against polio had to be suspended. Salk’s vaccine had caused seventy thousand cases of muscle weakness, one hundred and sixty-four cases of severe paralysis and ten deaths. Three fourths (75 percent) of the victims remained paralyzed for the rest of their lives."
Nelson goes on to say that investigations into the matter decided that formalin (formaldehyde) in the vaccine had not done its job in "killing" the virus, and that thermosal mercury present in large trials had been omitted, allowing for an active live virus. To the author of this timeline, it's unclear whether the polio virus actually causes paralytic polio or whether something else was going on in the Cutter incident, such as toxic ingredients in the vaccine exacerbating already toxically compromised subjects. What does seem easier to capture is that there were many factors coming into play at the same time and that the conventional heroizing of vaccines (as well as the disregard for other factors such as pesticide poisoning and many others) is an absolute coverup for the tragedies that chemical companies have repeatedly perpetrated and denied. To get an idea of the complexity of the issue, check out this eye-opening 2002 interview with a former vaccine manufaturer employee.
(In regard to the inscupulous behavior of chemical companies, it might useful to remember that IG Farben, a conglomerate of eight different chemical companies in Nazi Germany held responsible for the atrocities of the holocaust, was at that time, in the mid 1940's, the largest chemical company in the world. Following its liquidation after the defeat of Germany in WWII, four its constituents survived. One of them was Bayer... Yes, your favorite medicine cabinet angel. And in case anyone thinks that Bayer is "reformed" from Third Reich infamy, consider that in 2018 Bayer bought up Monsanto, the pesticide and genetic engineering giant - a turn of events that makes Bayer now the largest chemical company in the world and redeems Monsanto's name by swollowing it up into Bayer's good publicity. Monsanto is no more.)
To name just one more thing coming into play in the complexity of the polio scene since the 1940s, Nelson continues:
"The most indisputable factor is that, as Miller documents on the ThinkTwice website, intramuscular injection of vaccines and other pharmaceuticals started prompting “polio” cases to skyrocket, particularly after introduction of the diphtheria and pertussis vaccines in the 1940s."
With this bit of info, one wonders whether polio vaccines could be producing the same effect.
In confirmation of an increase in polio after vaccination began, the issue was brought before a Congressonal hearing in 1962:
"In U.S. Congressional hearings, Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the Dept. of Biostatistics for the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, testified that polio increased substantially after vaccinations but that the statistics were deliberately manipulated by the Public Health Service to give the opposite impression."--Intensive Immunization Programs, Hearings before the Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, 87th Congress, 2nd Session on H.R. 10541, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1962; pp. 96-97.
(Source: https://korenwellness.com/blog/john-oliver-youre-wrong-on-vaccines/ )
The above article also asks the important question that if it were true that the vaccine had caused polio to be virtually eliminated in America, "why did the epidemics end in Europe where the vaccines were not so extensively used?" The article is an excellent read.
Surely, all this is enough to at least cast some doubt on the mainstream narrative about the polio vaccine, a vaccine still in use today. Meanwhile, the major players and benefitters of the vaccination program continue to intensify suppression any of the ample stores of scientific and medical documents that call their knowing criminality into question.
But if you're still curious and want to see more, go to GreenMedInfo.com and do a simple search for polio.
(*If you do a google search, you might have to look a bit harder since most of the top results on Google are pro-vaccine parroting, often paid for by those who benefit monetarily from promoting vaccines, including Google's top favorite, Wikipedia, many of whose "crowd-sourced" pages are monitored and edited by trolls or bots sponsored by interested parties, viz. corporations).
If you're still on the fence and want to examine more evidence for yourself, I suggest the following collection of 65 abstracts on polio vaccination, also on GreenMedInfo:
https://www.greenmedinfo.com/anti-therapeutic-action/vaccination-polio
1962
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson was published in August of 1962 and became "the most talked about book in decades". The book highlighted the effects of persistent pesticides on animal life and helped lead to beginnings of the environmental movement and to the banning of DDT in the U.S. in 1972. Carlson not only addressed the harmful use of pesticides, but also the failures of government to address the issues and the need for grassroots democratic movements to counter money interests and corrupt government.
"Carson’s passionate concern in Silent Spring is with the future of the planet and all life on Earth. She calls for humans to act responsibly, carefully, and as stewards of the living earth.
Additionally Silent Spring suggested a needed change in how democracies and liberal societies operated so that individuals and groups could question what their governments allowed others to put into the environment. Far from calling for sweeping changes in government policy, Carson believed the federal government was part of the problem. She admonished her readers and audiences to ask “Who Speaks, And Why?” and therein to set the seeds of social revolution. She identified human hubris and financial self-interest as the crux of the problem and asked if we could master ourselves and our appetites to live as though we humans are an equal part of the earth’s systems and not the master of them."
http://rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspx
1976
In 1976, propaganda from the U.S. government whipped up histeria about a new swine flu that was portrayed as being as dangerous as the Spanish Flu of 1918, and encouraged all citizens to get a "new and safe" flu shot in advance to avoid the catastrophe on its way into their homes and families. 46 million Americans obiediently took the shot. But the whole thing turned out to be a fraud and the vaccine caused many to become the victims of illness they had been told could never be caused by the vaccine, which proportedly had been "thourougly tested." According to this vintage 60 Minutes report below, 4000 lawsuits, amouting to 3.5 billion dollars in claims, were filed against the government for damage, especially neurological damage and even death (a new vaccine-mediated "polio"?). The report includes an actual face to face interview with the then head of the CDC who was supposed to be in charge of the vaccination program. The interview is positively damning.
1982-1995
Founding of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in 1982 by parents of DPT vaccine injured children; passing of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 which provided a shield from liability to vaccine manufacturers; ammendment in 1987 which extended protection from liablility to doctors and other administrators; and further ammendments between 1989 and 1995 weakening vaccine safety and compensation provisions
(The following paragraphs are taken directly form the NVIC website. Copied hypelinks may or may not be functional. For best results visit the NVIC url given below these quotes.)
"The non-profit (501c3) charity National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was established in 1982 by parents of DPT vaccine injured children to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. NVIC co-founders worked with Congress to secure vaccine safety informing, recording, reporting and research provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986." 1
"In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and codified into law government acknowledgement that federally licensed and recommended and state mandated vaccines can and do unpredictably cause injury and death. The Act created a federal vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) alternative to a vaccine injury lawsuit against drug companies. 13 By 2019, the VICP had awarded more than $4 billion in federal compensation to vaccine injured children and adults. 14
"Learn more about how to file a claim in the federal vaccine injury compensation program."
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"After Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 to give drug companies marketing vaccines in the U.S. a liability shield from vaccine injury lawsuits, the “first, do no harm” precautionary approach to vaccination by doctors and other vaccine administrators changed. Reasons for delaying or not giving a child federally recommended and state mandated vaccines were revised by public health officials and medical trade associations so that fewer children qualified for a medical exemption to vaccination, such as when children suffer convulsions/seizures, high pitched screaming or collapse/shock (hypotonic hyporesponsive episodes) after receiving pertussis-containing vaccines." 43 44
"The prevention of vaccine reactions became less of a priority after Congress amended the Act in 1987 to extend vaccine injury lawsuit liability protection to doctors and other vaccine administrators. Then, with the assistance of DHHS exercising rulemaking authority, between 1989 and 1995 Congress added more amendments to the Act to weaken the law’s vaccine safety and compensation provisions." 45 46
Quotes from: "Vaccinations? Know the Risks and Failures"
I highly recommend reading the full NVIC article, as it contains many important health, legal, and political matters to be aware of.
1998-
-Contacted by parents of children who developed autism as a direct result of MMR vaccination, English gastrointerologist Andrew Wakefield published a paper in The Lancet noting a possible relation to the age of vaccination and calling for further investigation. Following extensive outcry, single vaccines (rather than the combined vaccine) were deliberately removed from the market, leaving parents with no choice but MMR. In 2001, the CDC was asked to study the age of vaccination factor. The CDC delayed four years, and finally reported no relationship. Finally, ten years later, a senior scientist in charge of the study revealed to Brian Hooker Phd. (whose child was a victim of the vaccine) that the study was fraudulent...
2002-2003
In 2002, following 9/11 terrorism panic and the invasion of Iraq, a supposed threat that Iraq was harboring a smallpox strain they had obtained from Russia and were developing for biological warfare was used as an excuse to develop a new smallpox vaccine intended to be administered on the entire U.S. population, if not globally. However, initial military trials of the vaccine demonstrated a significant increase in incidence of myocarditis, periocarditis, angina and heart attack. When medical personell were asked to be the next guinea pigs for the vaccine, they were given a disclosure sheet naming these and other contraindications. Finally, among the health officials behind closed doors at the CDC, Dr. Thomas Mack, perhaps the most informed researcher of smallpox alive, warned against the use of the vaccine and stated that historical elimination of smallpox had not been due to any vaccine but rather to the role of economic development.
In the end, the CDC and the government quietly deferred attention from the contraindications of the vaccine by focusing on the dubious source of the original "Iraqi/Russian" scare, thus avoiding having to confront outcries and lawsuits from the public had they gone ahead with the vaccination program.
(See Dr. Suzanne Humphries' video on smallpox near the beginning of this timeline for more details.)
2009-2010
THE SWINE FLU "PANDEMIC": WHO STOOD TO BENEFIT?
'The swine flu outbreak is going to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Share prices have already risen for two of eight public traded companies in the firm's portfolio of Pandemic and Bio Defense investments. BioCryst, up more than 26 percent, to $2.21 per share, and Novavax, maker of viral vaccines, escalated 75 percent to $1.42 per share on the first announcement of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.'
In 2010, the Coucil of Parliamentary Assembly of Europe (PACE) denounced WHO for overblowing the swine flu "pandemic" of 2009, incititng false alarm, and causing the nations of the world to spend billions of dollars unnecessarily. PACE also alleged conflicts of interest within the WHO, which appears to have become a front for Big Pharma. The WHO receives only 25% of its funding from member nations. 75% comes from private funding, among which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest single funder and plays an imbalanced role in determining WHO policy. Pretending to be a philanthropist, Bill Gates makes high returns on promoting panic. He has heavy investments in both the cause of ill-health (viz. processed junk foods, etc.) and in his favorite "cures" (Big Pharma), so he can make big profits on both ends of the deal.
Dr. Mercola's report is worth reading in full:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/14/world-health-organization-pandemic-planning.aspx
The video below reporting on an article from Forbes puts it all quite starkly in laymans terms.
2011
U.S. Supreme Court rules that vaccines are "unavoidably unsafe" and thus vaccine manufacturers would forthwith not be held liable
"After 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively removed all liability from vaccine companies, public health officials and medical trade associations stepped up pressure on state legislatures to restrict or remove non-medical vaccine exemptions for religious and conscientious or philosophical beliefs. Doctors were told by vaccine policymakers to strictly conform to narrow CDC contraindications for giving medical exemptions rather than exercise professional judgment in exempting children from government recommended and mandated vaccinations. 4748 Today, even children with severe immune system dysfunction, including those with cancer and HIV and following organ transplants, are candidates for vaccination under most medical guidelines for vaccination." 49
Above quote from the National Vaccine Information Center website. Please refer to the full article:
https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Vaccinations--Know-the-risks-and-failures-.aspx#_edn1
2014
In March 2014, India prepared to recieve its certification as a "polio-free country". But what about all 53,00 cases of "non-polio accute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP)? This excerpt from an article in India's major business newspaper, Live Mint, reveals that oral polio vaccine was continuing to cause NPAFP.
"The last case of polio in the country was reported on 13 January, 2011, from West Bengal. Following the “polio-free” status, India will be certified as a polio-free nation by March, leaving Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria as the remaining polio endemic countries.
India’s dramatic turnout in polio eradication, though, has seen a consistent sidelining of the increasing incidence of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) cases. In the last 13 months, India has reported at least 53,000 cases of NPAFP.
Many health activists say the government, in its rush to get the polio-free certification for the country, ignored the increasing incidence of NPAFP.
Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a condition in which a patient suffers from paralysis that results in floppy limbs due to reduced muscle tone. While AFP is symptomatic of polio, it can be caused by other diseases such as the Guillain-Barre Syndrome and nerve lesions as well—the primary cause fueling the argument that India is not really free of wild polio virus."
The above excerpt was cited in an article by Health Impact News. Worth reading:
https://healthimpactnews.com/2014/the-vaccine-myth-of-polio-free-status-polio-vaccine-caused-53000-paralysis-victims-in-india-last-year/
Curiously, in the Olmstead and Blaxill essay mentioned earlier, the authors go into quite a bit of detail about the relationship of polio incidence in Asia with the geographical occurence of arsenic in deep well water in a transnational crescent in large plain below the Himalayas. Could it be that arsenic accumulation in mothers drinking contaminated water - an accumulation they pass on to their infants -and further accumulation in thier children, along with the use of the unsafe oral polio vaccine and possibly other factors, could be the real cause of paralysis that in India has simply gone from being called "polio" to being called NPAFC; while in other coutries in that same crescent the classification of paralysis is simply yet to be migrated?
2014-2019
Dr. Anthony Fauci funds risky gain-of-function research in the U.S. and in Wuhan, China
In 2014, due to high-level mishaps and concerns raised by scientists and others about the dangers of research projects that involved gain-of-function (GOF) experiments, a U.S. moritorium was pronounced on research that could make coronaviruses more infectious and pathogenic. Yet, Dr. Anthony Fauci, virologist and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) since 1984 - someone who, incidentally, has vested interests in the vaccine industry - apparently continued to fund said research a under the pretext that the research projects had already begun prior to the moritorim: research he has defended by saying it would help us prepare for a possible future pandemic.
In 2017, the Obama ban was lifted in the U.S by the Trump Administration. Meanwhile, in 2015, China had built its first and only Bio-safety Level-4 research lab in Wuhan which, after security testing, finally opened for research in 2017. Part of the funding for this lab was from none other than Dr. Fauci's orgaization, NIAID: a pledge of 3.7 million between 2014 and 2019, along another 3.7 million pledged beginning in 2019, according to Newsweek (though they appear to have since modified what they said initially). The lab is also a WHO research lab.
Questions about whether the SARS-COV-2 virus could have been intentionally or unintentionally released from the Wuhan lab were eventually denied.
An article by Dr. Mercola, published May 12, 2020, gives a full discussion of the issues, including the opinions expressed by bioweapons expert Francis Boyle and molecular biologist Judy Mikovits. Mercola concludes the article by saying:
"Regardless of the exact method behind its creation, it seems clear to me that SARS-CoV-2 has been modified and that its origin is being covered up by responsible parties. Why the cover-up? In short, to avoid life behind bars. The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 states:60
'Whoever knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, transfers, acquires, retains, or possesses any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system for use as a weapon, or knowingly assists a foreign state or any organization to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both. There is extraterritorial Federal jurisdiction over an offense under this section committed by or against a national of the United States.'"
--Above quotes taken from: Bioweapon Labs Must Be Shut Down and Scientists Prosecuted, by Dr. Mercola.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/12/shut-down-bioweapon-labs-prosecute-scientists.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20200512Z1&et_cid=DM534061&et_rid=870346254
2019-2020
The notion that SARS-COV-2 may be a lab modified virus can be scary - really scary. But before you go running for your mask, before you go telling everyone that we need to be in universal mandatory lockdown while we sit on our hands and wait for more lab magicians (very likely the same ones) to save us with a wonder-working vaccin following the advice of Mr. Fauci himself, consider the rest of the story. Consider that things may not be exactly what the media presents. Consider what we've seen earlier about the role of propaganda during the DDT and polio era; or in creating the 1976 swine flu pandemonium; or the 2009 swine flu scare. Consider my previous post, Balancing the Panic with Objectiviy: What's Not Being Told. Consider the fact that Covid-19 statistics have been skewed and inflated and that sensationalist reporting has gripped the public with fear. Or consider the following interview with two Kern County, California, physicians with a very balanced, sane view of the situation, who say that, at least in their county of almost 1 million people, hospitals are very low on patients, and who ask if we might take Sweden's more rational approach as an example of how we can proceed...
These two physicians are not alone. A website called Swiss Policy Research gives the most comprehensive, fully-referenced rundown on issues surrounding Covid-19 that I've encountered anywhere on the internet.
Just take a glance at that website. Investigate any of the mile-long list of sources. The evidence is overwhelming that the situation is nothing like what's been reported on mainstream media.
Consider that this time, not unlike the past, the public may have been fed a bowl of lies aimed at promoting a new set of norms: willing, widespread reliquishment of free agency, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, right to livelihood, freedom of movement, freedom of association. Consider the contradictions in value systems: punishing people for minor "offenses" - offenses like surfing at the beach, gathering to pray, or trying to feed one's family - that would never have been conceived of as punishable before. Consider the way selective restrictions on activity are causing small businesses to go bankrupt while multi-billionaires are expanding their profits and their horizons by leaps and bounds. Consider that famines that could lead to millions dying of starvation in poor countries in Asia and Africa are being instigated through lockdown under the pretext of saving a few people from the "deadly" coronavirus. Consider the consequences... the consequences of draconian measures that far outweigh their justifications...
If you're like me, you may even want to look at more radical scenerios of what's going on. Dr. Andrew Kaufman seems sane and intelligent enough, yet from his background in microbiology he questions all of the procedures around testing and indentificaton of a supposed virus. He also points out that, since CDC's guidelines on Covid-19 deaths are so lax as to allow for deaths due to other causes to be written down as Covid, then looking at the overall deaths from all causes this year as compared to last year might give us a more accurate picture. (Note: at this writing, even with this faulty system of recording Covid deaths that has been utilized in the U.S. and in other countries like Italy, the number of deaths in the count is still comparable to the 2017 flu season).
But there’s another view of the situation that is being completely overlooked. Like the polio pandemic, it shows a relation between the processes of disease and current environmental and physiological degredation. Notwithstanding, for me this view is one of the most hopeful and instructive, because it points to exactly what we have been doing wrong and how we could steer clear of future pandemics and disasters if only we pay enough attention to this wake up call and make concerted effort to change. In the video below, Zach Bush presents the most enlightening view on viruses, disease, and epidemics that I have seen anywhere. But it's a challenge to all our outdated and nearsighted beliefs about the body and disease. This is new, wholistic science and positive modeling of the ecology of body terrain and the environment...
The original video was removed from YouTube. This Highwire Interview with Zach Bush is recommended in its place...
I'd like to leave you with that video, which strikes a very positive note and is very instructive on how we can move forward. Peace to all, and good hope that we may find our knowing and trust our hearts to guide us into a more positive future.
