Vaccines are part of a world wide plot to commit mass genocide. This is not a conspiracy.
It’s been a while since I mentioned the anti-vaxers in Australia, but given recent events, I think it’s time for an update.
Some of you may have been watching with amusement the cat and mouse games this week on the various Facebook pages between the anti-vaxers and the rational bloggers. As fast as the pages were filled up with evidence-based comments about the importance of vaccination, comments would magically disappear, presumably as they were deleted by the anti-vaxers. But, never fear readers, we have a tool called screen capture which has saved much of the material to be used at a later date. Stay tuned for news of this.
The anti-vaxers have come under much public criticism of late (see more info here) and it appears as if they’re beginning to lose their composure. Comments left on my blog this week stated that Meryl Dorey only appears to be pro-choice with respect to vaccination in order to curry favour with the mainstream media, but in private she is clearly anti-vaccination. The commentator appeared surprised when replies suggested that this stance could be construed as hypocritical and dishonest. “What is wrong with this?” was the protest. You tell me…
And then there was an article which appeared on the AVN’s blog, No Compulsory Vaccination, detailing a very complex and powerful conspiracy of mass genocide involving swine flu, vaccinations, the WHO and Barack Obama. Sounds pretty crazy right? The original article comes from a Pakistani news site Pakistan Daily and details a series of very interesting conspiracy theories apparently unearthed by an Austrian journalist. Let’s take a closer look…
Swine flu is a synthetic virus manufactured by a secret illuminati for the purposes of mass genocide.
According to the article, swine flu virus was created in a laboratory to generate mass panic with the specific intention of forcing everyone to have the vaccine. This theory stems from a plot apparently uncovered by Austrian journalist, Jane Bürgermeister, to cull the population with a deadly swine flu vaccine. Jane has apparently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations, Barack Obama, a members of the Rockefeller and Rothschild families, and other members of a worldwide illuminati, alleging that bird flu and swine flu have been developed in laboratories and released on the public with the aim of mass murder through vaccination.
The overall aim of the illuminati is to transfer control of the United States to the United Nations and affiliated security forces (UN troops from countries such as China, Canada, the UK and Mexico).
“There is proof many organisations – World Health Organisation, UN as well as vaccine companies such as Baxter and Novartis – are part of a single system under the control of a core criminal group, who give the strategic leadership, and who have also funded the development, manufacturing and release of artificial viruses in order to justify mass vaccinations with a bioweapon substance in order to eliminate the people of the USA, and so gain control of the assets, resources etc of North America”
Apparently a cabal of interbreeding families, including the aforementioned Rockerfellers and the Rothschilds, is seeking to impose a global fascist dictatorship of total human control.
“Their vehicle is a secret society network….(with)…..operational headquarters is in Europe, in places like Rome, London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin. I refer to this as ‘the Spider’ and it dictates to the global web. There are subsidiary networks of secret societies in every country that answer to the ‘Spider’. Their job is to control their country’s politics, banking, business, military, media, medicine, and so on…”
The Illuminati cabal established global bodies like the World Heath Organisation, World Bank and World Trade Organisation to transfer power from the many to the few. Their goal is a world government, world central bank, world currency and world army. The web controls governments, ‘Big Pharma’, the World Health Organisation and public heath ‘protection’ agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. In short, they control the entire medical system.
And according to information provided by Jane, the swine flu virus was created and released with help from the Rothschild/Rockefeller-controlled World Health Organisation.
And not only does the the illuminati plan a mass cull of the population by the swine flu vaccine, they also plan to microchip every man, woman and child. The microchips would be delivered with the vaccines as naotechnology and allow everyone to be tracked 24/7, manipulated mentally, emotionally and physically, but also terminated when desired.
Wow, pretty crazy stuff.
So, just to reiterate, Barack Obama is the head of an illuminati planning to kill the entire population of the world via a three pronged vaccination program, which will also inject us with microchips with the aim of controlling the entire population and killing them a a pinch.
It’s interesting that this incredible conspiracy theory was posted on the blog of the AVN, especially when you consider that Meryl Dorey herself had this to say about conspiracy theories;
“While we are already seen as rabid, idiotic fringe-dwellers by so many in the mainstream, it does our argument no good at all to bring in conspiracy theories which, though we may subscribe to them, are unprovable”.
Chem trails are being sprayed to compromise the immune system.
Another plot designed to assist in this mass genocide via spread of swine flu is chem trails. Apparently, chem trails are being sprayed to “compromise the immune system” as a method for later large scale infection of the population with swine flu. This will be possible since an aerosoled precursor of swine flu, which is activated when it comes in contact with the vaccine, has been put into the air and almost everyone has breathed it into their lungs. Once you receive the vaccine, which of course will soon be compulsory, the precursor becomes activated and voila, swine flu.
The following information allegedly came from a caller to radio show who said;
“…he had been personally told by a senior biochemist at a leading pharmaceutical company that: …an aerosoled precursor has been put into the air and almost everyone has breathed it into their lungs. The biochemist states that the vaccines to be administered in the Fall will be ACTIVATED when the constituents come in contact with the aerosoled precursor in the body and will cause a rapid spread of the H1N1 Influenza A virus. This biochemist is very upset about the matter, to say the least, and is a very reliable source that needs our utmost protection.”
Apparently, you can spot chem-trails by the characteristic smokey haze that they leave behind. You can tell they are chemical deposits sprayed by large planes, rather than smog, because they appear in the country as well, where smog is generally not a phenomenon.
Once you start looking and watching regularly (use binoculars if you have them) you will notice, if not the actual planes laying trails, then the dirty haze-like smog that they leave behind. It is important to know how to spot the difference between chem-trails and contrails – contrails appear following the passage of planes across the sky as condensation forms over the wings, but chem-trails are released from the rear of the aircraft. If you are sensitive to the chemicals released by chem trails, then expect to react with a sore throats and flu like symptoms.
Time to ensure your tin-foil hat is on and tightly secured.
The Simon Singh article that caused all the fuss, reproduced here.
In a worldwide campaign released today (29:07:09; 00:01 Aus EST ), The Guardian article originally posted by Simon Singh back in 2008, is to be republished across the world.
The edited version has the libelous sentence removed, but is reproduced to allow the public at large to understand the intentions of Simon’s original post. Given the current legal action currently in progress by the British Chiropractic Association against Simon, this provides insight into the claims for all to see.
Spearheaded by Sense about Science, the intention of campaign is to alert the public to the potential implications of libel or defamation as it pertains to free speech and journalism, not only in the UK but also across the globe.
Below is the article produced in full, as approved by Simon and Sense about Science.
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Beware the spinal trap
Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all, but the research suggests chiropractic therapy has mixed results – and can even be lethal, says Simon Singh
You might be surprised to know that the founder of chiropractic therapy, Daniel David Palmer, wrote that “99% of all diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae”. In the 1860s, Palmer began to develop his theory that the spine was involved in almost every illness because the spinal cord connects the brain to the rest of the body. Therefore any misalignment could cause a problem in distant parts of the body.
In fact, Palmer’s first chiropractic intervention supposedly cured a man who had been profoundly deaf for 17 years. His second treatment was equally strange, because he claimed that he treated a patient with heart trouble by correcting a displaced vertebra.
You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact some still possess quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything, including helping treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying – even though there is not a jot of evidence.
I can confidently label these assertions as utter nonsense because I have co-authored a book about alternative medicine with the world’s first professor of complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst. He learned chiropractic techniques himself and used them as a doctor. This is when he began to see the need for some critical evaluation. Among other projects, he examined the evidence from 70 trials exploring the benefits of chiropractic therapy in conditions unrelated to the back. He found no evidence to suggest that chiropractors could treat any such conditions.
But what about chiropractic in the context of treating back problems? Manipulating the spine can cure some problems, but results are mixed. To be fair, conventional approaches, such as physiotherapy, also struggle to treat back problems with any consistency. Nevertheless, conventional therapy is still preferable because of the serious dangers associated with chiropractic.
In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness and headaches. These are relatively minor effects, but the frequency is very high, and this has to be weighed against the limited benefit offered by chiropractors.
More worryingly, the hallmark technique of the chiropractor, known as high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust, carries much more significant risks. This involves pushing joints beyond their natural range of motion by applying a short, sharp force. Although this is a safe procedure for most patients, others can suffer dislocations and fractures.
Worse still, manipulation of the neck can damage the vertebral arteries, which supply blood to the brain. So-called vertebral dissection can ultimately cut off the blood supply, which in turn can lead to a stroke and even death. Because there is usually a delay between the vertebral dissection and the blockage of blood to the brain, the link between chiropractic and strokes went unnoticed for many years. Recently, however, it has been possible to identify cases where spinal manipulation has certainly been the cause of vertebral dissection.
Laurie Mathiason was a 20-year-old Canadian waitress who visited a chiropractor 21 times between 1997 and 1998 to relieve her low-back pain. On her penultimate visit she complained of stiffness in her neck. That evening she began dropping plates at the restaurant, so she returned to the chiropractor. As the chiropractor manipulated her neck, Mathiason began to cry, her eyes started to roll, she foamed at the mouth and her body began to convulse. She was rushed to hospital, slipped into a coma and died three days later. At the inquest, the coroner declared: “Laurie died of a ruptured vertebral artery, which occurred in association with a chiropractic manipulation of the neck.”
This case is not unique. In Canada alone there have been several other women who have died after receiving chiropractic therapy, and Edzard Ernst has identified about 700 cases of serious complications among the medical literature. This should be a major concern for health officials, particularly as under-reporting will mean that the actual number of cases is much higher.
If spinal manipulation were a drug with such serious adverse effects and so little demonstrable benefit, then it would almost certainly have been taken off the market.
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Simon Singh is a science writer in London and the co-author, with Edzard Ernst, of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. This is an edited version of an article published in The Guardian for which Singh is being personally sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association.
Meryl Dorey shows her true colours by joining an anti-vax group
Meryl Dorey recently joined a fledgling Facebook group called “Australians against Vaccination“.
Nothing strange about that you might say, except for the fact that she insists publicly that she is absolutely not anti-vaccination but rather “pro-choice”. She even stated as much in a recent article about the dangers of not vaccinating, published on July 18 in the Brisbane QWeekend magazine;
“We are labelled as the antivaccination group but that’s simply not true,’’
Really Meryl? Then please explain why you have joined a group which describes itself as follows;
“First and foremost, THIS IS NOT A DEBATE if you are pro vax don’t even bother. This group exists to help educate the Australian public about the dangers of vaccination if you are here to learn and contribute stay, if you want to argue, leave.
Wow, now that doesn’t sound very pro-choice to me! Could it be that Meryl has not been completely transparent about her views on vaccination?
The backlash against the anti-vax lobby continues.
More bad publicity for the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) this time in the form of an article written for the Brisbane Courier Mail Weekend Magazine, by Amanda Watt and published on July 18th, 2009.
I was contacted by the journalist Amanda Watt after the McCaffery’s suggested she talk to me about the damage being done by the AVN in Australia. Naturally, I was very pleased to be able to furnish Amanda with lots of information about the misinformation and lies spread by my favourite organisation. She has done a great job on the article, especially considering she did not know anything about the anti-vax lobby before writing this.
Even though I only get one quote, the article does a good job of exposing the lies and half-truths perpetuated by the anti-vax lobby in Australia. Amanda also poses the question of why the job of educating the public about the dangers of the anti-vaxer lobby is left to the McCafferys and Australian Skeptics, which is a very good point indeed. Perhaps the government might want to sit up and listen.
You can read the entire article as a pdf here.
I is Meryl Dorey!
My friend Fuzztwin came across this today.
I was very confused and initially dismissed it as a fault with my browser. However, I’m afraid to say, it is true. Somebody did a Google Image search for “Meryl Dorey” and rather than checking that the picture they found was in fact her, they simply popped up a picture of me!
Some of my more mischievous friends have suggested this is in fact a good thing, since now I can feasibly impersonate Meryl at conferences and tell the truth about vaccines! And by that, I mean put an end to the lies and misinformation perpetuated by the AVN. Tempting isn’t it?
Below are the results of a Google Image search (click on the image for better resolution), and may explain how these people ended up using a picture of me and not the real Meryl Dorey. I wonder, should I be amused or offended? Hmm..
Aussies at TAM7
Most of us anyway, plus some random SGU podcasters. Pretty healthy turn-out …
Homeopathy – recognised as BS as early as 1851
On last week’s Think Tank, our new reporter Jo Benhamu discussed a letter published in the London journal of Medicine on July 29 th, 1851 from a Dr John McCormack.
It was entitled “OUR RELATIONS WITH HOMEOPATHY”
and was in response to speeches previously published regarding “..prevailing professional laxity and charlatanry, in connection with the homeopathic quackery”.
Dr McCormack had some pretty scathing things to say about homeopathy and its use by “…shallow men and women…able to lure lucre by every imaginable wile from the sick and the silly”.
He went on to say;
“When patients are once secured, they are, ….retained by the combination of every current medical novelty which may at the time be most in favour with the moneyed throng of quack-fanciers“.
“..homoeopathy…is truly a combination of any and every available charlatanic trick,…..and therefore all that remains for us, as men of science and men of integrity, is to give notice, that we exclude from all professional intercourse practitioners who are in any way engaged in using or upholding a system which we think bears upon its very face fraud as well as absurdity“.
Wow, pretty serious stuff. One might imagine you could now get sued for saying things like this, ala, the BCA and Simon Singh.
But McCormack went further than this by listing a series of guidelines desscribing how clinicians who used or practiced homeopathy should be received by their medical colleagues;
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“1. That it is the opinion of this (Provincial) Association, that homoeopathy as propounded by Hahnemann, and practised by his followers, is so utterly opposed to science and common sense, as well as so completely at variance with the experience of the Medical Profession, that it ought to be in no way or degree practised or countenanced by any regularly educated medical practitioner.
2. That homoeopathic practitioners, through the press, the platform, and the pulpit, have endeavoured to heap contempt upon the practice of Medicine and Surgery as followed by members of this Association, and by the profession at large.
3. That for these reasons it is derogatory to the honour of members of this Association to hold any kind of professional intercourse with homoeopathic practitioners.
4. That there are three classes of practitioners who ought not to be members of this Association, viz.-lst, real homeopathic practitioners; 2nd, those who practise homoeopathy in combination with other systems of treatment; and 3rd, those who under various pretences meet in consultation, or hold professional intercourse with those who practise homoeopathy”.
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Finally;
“To adopt resolutions setting forth that the homeopathic dogma and the doctrine of infinitesimal doses have no truthful basis, and are, in fact, mere nonsensical delusions…The worst part of homeopathy, is in my opinion, the DISHONESTY of the majority of those who live by it”.
So there you go, homoeopathy, declared bullshit as early as 1851.
You can find the full reference here.
Tip o’the hat to Jo Benhamu.
Announcing the first Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS)
I am very excited to announce that I will be a guest at the NECSS conference in New York in September!
NECSS (pronounced “nexus”) was born out of the desire to hold a major skeptical gathering on the East Coast of the United States, specifically in New York City.
Source: NECSS website
As its name suggests, NECSS seeks to explore the intersection of science, media, education, politics, and popular culture, and examine how we may best utilize that understanding to promote a more rational world.
NECSS is produced by the New England Skeptical Society and New York City Skeptics.
The 2009 line-up of speakers and panelists includes:
Date: Saturday September 12, 2009
Time: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Location: Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute, 55 E. 59th St. New York, NY (between Madison and Park Avenues). See the website for ticketing and more information.
I will be heading to NECSS after Dragon*Con which is held on the Labor Day weekend (September 4 – September 7, 2009) in Atlanta, GA, USA. Here, I will be on four panels with the likes of James Randi, Steve Novella and of course Richard Saunders and Kylie Sturgess. Phew!
Announcing Simon Singh in Sydney
Simon Singh, UK writer, journalist and television producer comes to Sydney
From the Sydney Ideas website
Wednesday July 15th, 6:30 pm, Seymour Centre, York Theatre.
Tickets $20 full/$15 concession, special price for sceptics, $10 when you quote the promotional code “skeptics09” when booking on the website.
For an interview with Simon about his upcoming Australian tour, listen to the Skeptic zone episode 37, available on the website.
Introduction by Professor David Day, Dean of the Faculty of Science
Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it, but most doctors consider alternative medicine to be little more than superstition and a waste of money. And whilst much of this ‘medicine’ is sold on the High Street and on the internet, does it really work and is it safe? Indeed, does it even matter as long as patients are satisfied with the end results? Welcome to the world of alternative medicine.
Presenting the conclusions of his book Trick or Treatment?, co-authored with Professor Edzard Ernst, the world’s first professor of complementary medicine, Singh relies on the large amount of scientific evidence that has been accumulated to investigate which alternative therapies are safe and effective, and which are useless and even downright dangerous. From acupuncture to homeopathy, from herbal medicine to Hopi ear candling, Singh will also look at the origins of these therapies, their rapid growth in popularity and their supposed modes of action. Singh’s conclusions about effectiveness vary from good to bad (including downright dangerous), so he will discuss why so many ineffective alternative therapies have become so popular, and will consider how those that have been shown to be effective can be incorporated within conventional medicine.
Simon Singh received his PhD in particle physics from the University of Cambridge before embarking on a career as a science journalist. He joined the BBC in 1991 and worked as a director and producer on programmes such as Tomorrow’s world and Horizon. His documentary about Fermat’s last theorem won a BAFTA, and this also became the subject of his first book. He has also written The Code Book and Big Bang. He has presented The Science of Secrecy on Channel 4, Mind Games on BBC 4 and Five Numbers on Radio 4. His most recent book is Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. Singh is currently being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for an article published in the Guardian newspaper about the use of chiropractic to treat childhood conditions. (You can read the full article here).
Simon Singh is in Australia as a guest of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and The Royal Institution of Australia, and his visit to Sydney is supported by the Skeptic Zone and Australian Skeptics.
The art of distant healing with radionics
Ever heard of radionics?
Neither had I until recently, when Ben Goldacre Tweeted to a story which appeared in the UK Telegraph.
Now this immediately caught my attention, since it involved diagnosing illnesses using hair. Readers may recall I have written about hair analysis for the diagnosis of allergies previously here and here.
But radionics is more than just sticking a piece of hair in a beaker and making lights flash and dials flicker. Radionics is described by the Telegraph as, “the largely unexplained art of healing someone you’ve never met, who is hundreds, even thousands of miles away”. Sounds suspicious already. But before you go write this off in the realms of butt candles, there is a UK Radionics Association, which represents approximately 80 practitioners and produces the quarterly Radionics Journal.
How does radionics work?
Radionic practitioners claim to be able to diagnose illnesses from a patient sample, (hence hair), from a distance. Practitioners describe this as
“a challenging concept, but it is entirely compatible with modern physics and also with the ancient mystic teaching that at some level we are all one, and that at this level exchanges of healing energy can occur”.
Pardon? The concept of modern day radionics involves holding a pendulum over the hair sample (or “witness”, as it’s called), and “dowsing” to get information about that state of the patient’s health.
“We get the information by interrogating the witness,” they say. “I will ask question after question, some looking for a yes or no answer, some looking for an answer that will quantify the health or otherwise of the patient’s various physiological systems [aural, visual, skeletal].”
So, as well as rotating the pendulum in a clockwise direction for “yes”, and anticlockwise for “no”, it also gives scores out of 100 when placed over a sort of “healthometer” chart.
Many practitioners in holistic health employ radionics to identify and rectify the subtle energy imbalances that are associated with disease in the physical body. Radionics shares the same “energetic” world view recognized by acupuncturists, homeopathists, and reiki practitioners. (Radionics is especially compatible with homeopathy; radionic instruments can be used to make homeopathic potencies.)
Radionics is also used by agriculturalists and animal nutritionists, to pinpoint nutrient imbalances in plants and animals. It can also be used to select the optimal feeds, fertilizers, and supplements to rectify the imbalances. And reportedly, geologists use Radionic techniques to analyze ore specimens or to locate mineral veins.
The history of radionics
Radionics was founded by Dr Albert Abrams (1863-1924), a native of San Francisco, under the original name of ERA – Electronic Reactions of Abrams. Abrams believed that diseased body tissue affected the nervous system and gave forth ‘dull emanations’. Abrams believed electronic phenomena were involved with this, and he invented a variable resistance instrument called a ‘black box’ to measure the ohm resistance of different diseases on an electronic circuit. He found for example, that cancer produced a 50 ohm resistance, while syphilis had a 55 ohm resistance.
Abrams later modified his technique so he could take readings from a drop of blood. In 1924 a committee established by the Royal Society of Medicine investigated Abrams techniques and were favourably impressed. Today Radionics and its cousin Radiesthesia (medical dowsing) are recognised in Europe as legitimate medical procedures.
However the commercial practice of radionics is banned in the United States. One website I came across had this to offer as an explanation:
1. It works, but not in a way totally understood, either by the academic community or by the practitioners themselves.
2. It works and produces miracle cures in man, plants, animals and outdates existing sciences if it is understood. Therefore, the ‘lobbies’ in Washington representing the commercial applications of existing sciences force laws against Radionics to preserve existing sciences and the large sums of money invested in them to create our present technology and preserve the jobs of millions which might be lost if indeed Radionics was used to achieve the same results.
According the website; “Diagnosis by dowsing requires the use and interplay of both the intellectual and the intuitive faculties, The intellect and the concrete knowledge which supports it are used to frame questions relevant to the correct understanding of the problem. Obtaining answers via the pendulum however requires a suspension of the intellectual process and an activation of the (higher) intuition.
How can you become a radionic practitioner?
The Radionic association offers 6 month courses which includes 2 study weekends and other tutorials and results in the title of MRadA. Once qualified, you can treat ANIMALS, SOIL and CROPS (postgraduate courses for animal treatment are available). Interestingly, the website of the radionics association specifies that you must be able to dowse before you can take the course in radionics.
The course itself consists of 2 study weekends, the first being training in;
1. Making a radionic analysis through dowsing
2. Radionic rates and how to use them for simple treatments
3. Basic subtle anatomy of the chakras and subtle bodies and its importance in radionics
4. How practitioners work, including grounding and protection
Weekend 2 involves
1. Using subtle anatomy to interpret the analysis
2. Further treatments for common conditions
3. The use of vitamins, minerals and colour radionically
And this from a radionics website
“Researchers and practitioners estimate that at least 80% or better of the population have the innate ability to do Radionics and dowsing work.
And then this;
People who cannot do this sort of work are generally those who have suffered certain kinds of neurological damage, severe mental or emotional disorders, have drug or alcohol problems, or have established a mental block against radionics, dowsing, and the alternative reality they represent”.
So, there you go sceptics, if you can’t dowse or do radionics, you have brain damage. Or other severe mental problems. And I guess that includes me, and I’m fine with that.
