Dr Richard Halvorsen: I'm not opposed to jabs but there are serious worries

[Marnica]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-worries.html

I really was happy to see this in a mainstream newspaper

Vaccines cannot be used to build some medically controlled utopia, in which all disease has been banished. Indeed, the attempt to do may end up undermining the health of future generations.

[Juvysen]

good article, thanks!

[ema-adama]

In the research for my recent book on this subject, I discovered that not only are inoculations being introduced with less and less research on their safety, but, just as worryingly, they are being promoted for diseases which do not represent a widespread danger to the public.

In the Britain of the late Victorian age, tens of thousands of children died of tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough, but today such fatalities are almost non-existent.

This is taken as evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines and is therefore used as an argument for an extension of programmes.

But such a claim is historically false.

His book looks like it could be interesting. Anyone know more about him?

[Juvysen]

Yeah, I might have to find a copy of his book. It's just nice seeing a pro-vax doctor that's also realistic about limitations of vaccines...

Eta... here's excerpts... http://www.*********/a/halvorsen_h.html

[ema-adama]

The book looks interesting. He is not against vaccines. I would be curious as to his reasoning for giving certain vaccines and not others. Ie if he says it is not historially accurate that vaccines reduced the incidence of illness, I am curious as to why he still supports some vaccines. And which vaccines he does support.

A really good article.

[Turquesa]

Here's why I'd like to read his book. This premise sounds fascinating, and I'd love to see how he defends it.

For all the noisy public relations campaigns, it is not clear that these vaccines even work anything like as effectively as their proponents claim. For instance, the jabs Cervarix and Gardasil only prevent a fraction of the number of viruses that can lead to cervical cancer. In truth, by suppressing those particular viruses they may encourage the growth of others in their place

[Juvysen]

Originally Posted by ema-adama

The book looks interesting. He is not against vaccines. I would be curious as to his reasoning for giving certain vaccines and not others. Ie if he says it is not historially accurate that vaccines reduced the incidence of illness, I am curious as to why he still supports some vaccines. And which vaccines he does support.

A really good article.

In this one :http://www.*********/vaccine/are_vaccines.html he goes through a bunch of the vaccines and gives an overview along with his advice on whether to get it or not, and when.