Sick Science

Hot on the heels of ´Climate Gate´ which has finally made the public aware that scientists can and do lie, comes an investigation by the European Union, starting in January 2010, into the sickening lies told by scientists regarding the H1N1 virus.

Many of us had been watching with growing concern the sudden changing of the definition of what constitutes a Pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), and were aware that if the WHO declared a pandemic then national governments would have to start pandemic planning, with as a final result possibly a state of ´medical martial law´, with forced immunizations and people who refused immunization being forced into quarantine situations.

Many of us have harboured suspicions as to the genesis of this virus from the moment that first news reports about events in Mexico started coming in, and since then many scientists and virologists have claimed that the virus is not a naturally occurring one and was either released or escaped from a medical/military research facility. The idea of the virus being released on purpose is such a can of worms I do not want to go into that in this article, so for now we shall assume it was an accidental escape.

By now, major alarm bells were ringing for most of us who were following events closely.

When I was a child in school, I was told that for centuries the Church had held back scientific research because of its vested interest in preserving the ideas of a geocentric universe and other myths that the Church did not want to be challenged. It seemed to me then that science was the Hero, scientists looked for truth and were above reproach and superstition.

Yes it was scientists who misinformed the WHO about the potency of the H1N1 virus (which is in fact significantly weaker than the ordinary seasonal flu virus) and on the basis of this the WHO changed its definition of what a pandemic is, with all the consequences outlined above.

But it is not all bad news. Big Pharma was rubbing its grubby hands, preparing to make a fortune out of totally unnecessary vaccines, that could not be tested in time, that have proven to have harmful side-effects and even have caused death in previously healthy people. Shareholders in Big Pharma (in particular Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Roche) could expect a massive increase in share prices as their favourite pharmaceutical companies prepared to make a killing (in some cases unfortunately literally) with their unnecessary dangerous vaccines.

We followed all this in absolute horror, wondering if we were seeing things that were not really there, telling all our friends and loved ones not to accept vaccination under any circumstances and if necessary to face jail rather than be vaccinated. Now luckily however, it seems we are no longer alone in our suspicions that some scientists have been ´bought´to falsify results of their research into H1N1, on the basis of which WHO has changed its definition of what constitutes a pandemic, as a consequence of which Big Pharma could start its gleeful preparation of vaccines.

The European Parliament will start an investigation in January 2010. The Parliamentary inquiry will look into the issue of the ´falsified pandemic´ that was declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of its group of academic experts, SAGE, many of whose members have been documented to have intense financial ties to the same pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, who benefit from the production of drugs and untested H1N1 vaccines. They will investigate the influence of the pharma industry in creation of a worldwide campaign against the so-called H5N1 “Avian Flu” and H1N1 Swine Flu. The inquiry will be given “urgent” priority in the general assembly of the parliament.

The Chairman of the European Parliament Health Committee (Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a medical doctor, specialist in lung diseases and in environmental diseases) considers the current ´pandemic´swine flu campaign of the WHO to be one of the ´greatest medicine scandals of the century´.

The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things,´In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.

The "bird-flu"-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu"-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies´

Basic Facts About Flu, Vaccines And Anti-Virals

This post is just to clear up some ideas I have heard people voice about flu, vaccines against flu and anti-viral medication.

Flu, (influenza) is a viral infection. The only way a virus will be killed is when the immune system develops antibodies to neutralize the virus. This means that it is pointless to take antibiotics, since they only kill bacteria, not viruses. Bacteria tend not to invade cells, they live in between the cells. Viruses are much smaller than bacteria and are able to cross into the cell and take over the reproduction of the cell. In order to kill a virus, either the immune system has to develop antibodies to that virus or you need a drug that halts the reproduction of the virus (which means it has to be able to get inside the cell to deal with the virus). Each virus has a different 'template' which means that only an antibody that contains the 'reverse' of that template can neutralize the virus.

People believe that antibiotics will kill flu virus - they will not. Viruses are not killed by antibiotics. There is a case for giving antibiotics to flu sufferers who are also at risk of a 'secondary' (opportunist) bacterial infection. These are generally people whose immune system is not working properly (HIV/Aids) or people without spleens, people with diabetes, asthma, COPD or other chronic diseases. Apart from these people, antibiotics play no role in the prevention or treatment of flu.

People believe that flu vaccines will stop them getting flu. This is not true. The WHO meet every year to decide which four viruses are most likely to be present in the flu season that particular winter. Some years they get it spectacularly wrong and none of the four types of viruses they thought might cause flu that year are actually present. Meaning that drug companies have produced a vaccine on the basis of an erroneous forecast and people will contract flu despite having had their flu shots that year. In fact there may be some evidence (though not thoroughly tested) that flu vaccines actually impair the ability of the body to deal with flu and can cause the onset of some auto-immune diseases. Flu vaccines can be accidentally contaminated with other substances (see my previous post re Baxter's) and my personal opinion is that I will never ever have another flu vaccine again, nor would I advise anyone I love or any of my patients to ever have a flu vaccine either.

Anti-viral medication. Apparently there are some drugs available that are able to help when you have contracted flu. Please note, these drugs are not preventive measures, they are to be taken at the onset of flu type symptoms. Since flu type symptoms in their early stages resemble the onset of a common cold (though tend to be faster in onset than a normal cold) I am not sure when I would advise anyone to start taking 'anti-viral flu medication'. These drugs are supposed to stop the virus from reproducing, but they will not prevent you from catching the virus in the first place, and they are therefore not a preventative measure.

The best way to prevent flu is to not be in contact with a person who has been infected. Since the incubation period (the time between being infected with a virus and the onset of symptoms) can be as long as 10 days, this is almost impossible to achieve. The most common way a flu virus spreads is by 'droplet' infection. The person affected sneezes and the virus is sneezed into the air. Unfortunately because of the way we have been brought up, we normally bring our hand to our nose when we sneeze, which means that the MOST common way to contract the virus is by hand to hand or hand to object contact. An infected person sneezes (and the virus ends up on their hands). Any contact with an object handled by that person, or contact with the hand of that person, can result in the person who has that contact, also picking up the virus.

The best way to prevent flu is :-
1. Avoid people with symptoms of colds and flu type symptoms
2. If you have to have contact with them, make sure you scrupulously wash your hands every time you have touched an object touched by the affected person.
3. Make sure they do not sneeze over you or any other objects which you then touch.
4. Keep your hands away from your face.
5. Masks used to cover mouth/nose only last about 15 mins. Once they are 'wet' by breath/saliva touching them, they are useless.

At the moment we do not know exactly how long the virus will survive on 'objects' since this varies with factors such as the fabric of the object and the ambient temperature.

A proper vaccine against the current outbreak of 'swine fever' will take at least three months to develop, and the production of any significant number of these vaccines will take longer.

I hope this post clears up some misconceptions people have about the nature of viruses, flu, bacteria and what we can do about them, and if it even prevents one person from contracting the flu, it will have done its job.