by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger – 30. Sept 2017
Vaccination – yes or no?
Hardly any other health topic is discussed as controversially as vaccination. An overpowering alliance of orthodox doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory and supervisory authorities, politicians, and journalists pretend that skeptics urgently need “scientific clarification”, are stupid and irresponsible. Between the two fronts, unsettled parents grapple with the question of conscience as to how they expose themselves and their child to more significant risks: by vaccinating or not?
Isn’t vaccination the same as breastfeeding, changing, or baptizing? When it happened to us, no one could ask us if we even wanted to. Our parents decided that for us because it seemed to them for our good. But did you know?
It is, of course, rare that breast milk, diapers, and holy water are detrimental to health. That is what sets them apart from vaccinations. Injecting a serum, like any medical intervention, becomes a criminal offense of bodily harm without the informed consent of a person concerned or their legal guardian. Parents give their consent, trusting the pediatrician. He assures them that vaccination protects and is harmless. But how does he know? He relies on the opinion leaders in his field, textbooks, studies published in specialist journals, lectures at congresses and training events, statements from licensing and supervisory authorities, recommendations from commissions, and guidelines from his specialist society. Press, radio, and television make this expert consensus on public opinion dazzlingly free of research. Compliant governments and parliaments pour it into requirements for compulsory advice or even into laws on mandatory vaccination, supposedly for the benefit of public health.
Because all these institutions unanimously sing the “safe-effective-well-tolerated” mantra, vaccination skepticism seems absurd, medically clueless, downright stupid, and on top of that, irresponsible. Anyone who expresses concerns or just asks obvious questions appears to need clarification. Suppose one persists instead of allowing himself to be changed. In that case, he is terrified: “If you leave your child unvaccinated, you run the risk that it will become seriously ill, possibly incurable!” And he stands there as a negligent traitor to the common good: “Unvaccinated people are stuck Others on! “
Most parents meekly give in to this immense pressure from all directions. And if your children survive the vaccinations without any harm, they will see themselves confirmed in the feeling that they have made the right decision.
In truth, they were playing Russian roulette with their offspring. My eyes were opened by terrible fates, with which I was confronted in rows in the therapy camps of my Foundation Ausege. Almost in every one of the now around 30 camps, I met children who had been very healthy from birth and developed splendidly – until they were vaccinated. Then they turned into severely physically disabled people. They developed neurodermatitis and asthma, encephalopathies and other brain damage, paralysis and spasticity, immune deficiencies, and autoimmune diseases. They became apathetic and restless. They screamed insatiably. They suffered anaphylactic shocks, severe intolerance reactions to foreign proteins with which the vaccines were contaminated. Their nature changed. And their mental development stopped. They became epileptic and autistic, diabetic, allergic, and rheumatic sufferers.
In September 2013 alone, in the 12th “Ausege” camp in Lützensommern 30 km north of Erfurt, our team of helpers had to deal with three cases of obvious vaccine damage. (1)
- In April 2012, four months after she was born, 20-month-old Miriam * was diagnosed with West Syndrome shortly after vaccination: a rare, particularly difficult-to-treat form of epilepsy. Typically, it leads to “BNS attacks” (“Blitz-Nick-Salaam”), which have three peculiarities: Myoclonia occurring like a flash – rapid, involuntary muscle twitching – with flexed extremities, especially the legs (lightning attack); spasmodic bending of the head (nodding fit); Throwing up and bending the arms, bringing the hands together in front of the chest and bending the trunk (salaam fit). Inpatient treatment with various types of anti-epileptic drugs made the girl free from seizures for a short time, but soon several seizures occurred again per day. Fortunately, they disappeared in April 2013 after homeopathic treatment and acupuncture so that the little one came to the camp without any seizures. However, she brought with her a significant developmental delay, which is typically associated with the onset of epilepsy in children: At just under two years of age, Miriam was still unable to sit, not even crawl.
At three months, Ella *, now three, was a healthy, entirely normally developed baby – until she was vaccinated seven times, despite a fungal infection. “Shortly after the vaccination,” her grandmother recalls, “Ella began to scream violently and persistently. One foot swelled up”, skin bleeding appeared all over the body. “Ella’s ability to speak developed very slowly; even today, it is limited to a few words. But she hears and understands everything.” In kindergarten, “she fits in well but cannot participate in many activities because she cannot speak. In addition to the few simple words she speaks, she has developed her’ own language’ and tries to communicate in this way.” Gradually, she developed “behavioral problems that put a lot of strain on those around her, such as long screaming attacks, aggression, defiance, anger, Kicking, biting, scratching, spitting.” Recently, an alternative practitioner who confirmed the suspicion of vaccine damage found “autistic behaviors”; in the course of his homeopathic treatment “Ella’s behavior has normalized somewhat.” However, she can still “hardly feel empathy.”
- Due to a profound developmental disorder with “cerebellar ataxia” – a disorder of movement coordination triggered by pathological changes in the cerebellum – Thomas * (11) has been treated by a pediatrician since he was five months old. Although the first signs appeared shortly after the little one was vaccinated, doctors speak of “unclear genesis.” “The boy,” the pediatrician attested in May 2013, “shows considerable fine and gross motor disorders.” When aroused, “a considerable intension tremor” occurs – the limbs tremble when moving in a targeted manner – “so that simple hand functions are almost impossible. Communication with strangers is severely disturbed, and there are internal ways of communicating within the family. Linguistic elements are only rudimentary.” The parents have to “accompany Thomas through everyday life: undressing and dressing, washing, diapering, alternatively feeding.” Thomas is still incontinent.
I encountered two other cases of obvious vaccination damage, which I will never forget, in the 16th “Auswege” camp, which took place in August 2014 in Oberkirch / Black Forest. (2)
- Until she was five, Svenja * (* pseudonym), now eleven, was “a perfectly healthy child,” as the parents assure. They were all the more appalled by a fatal diagnosis in the summer of 2008: “cerebral vasculitis,” an inflammation of the walls of the cerebral vessels, with accompanying complaints such as headache, vomiting, fatigue, weight loss, concentration disorders, neurological failures and changes in personality. In Svenja, it led to a “significant partial paralysis of the left half of the body,” as a report from May 2013 states: “She can use the left hand can only to a limited extent for holding purposes due to the reduction in strength and limited fine coordination in the arm and hand. She cannot carry out Two-handed activities independently without outside help. Svenja also has problems with one-handed activities, e.g., writing, because fixing the sheet of paper with her left hand is only possible to a limited extent. Due to the reduced strength of the left leg, there is a clear disturbance of movement and balance.” The parents observed the first symptoms “three months after a measles vaccination,” which took place even though the girl was simultaneously suffering from a Borrelia infection. “Then an odyssey began for us: first it was called ‘psychological causes’, then ‘borreliosis’, and finally ‘cerebral vasculitis.’ When the diagnosis was made, Svenja was given a very high dose of cortisone, which was a downright bad trip for all of us, was very damaging to her, and ultimately was of no benefit. “
- At four weeks, Katja *, meanwhile 15, had received multiple vaccinations. Shortly afterward, the parents noticed that her mental and physical development was delayed. To date, no doctor has found an organic cause for why “no real therapy took place; only symptoms were treated”. Above all, Katja’s linguistic deficit is significant: she understands a lot but does not speak. Often she shows auto-aggressive behavior. The girl is still wearing diapers. Katja’s fine motor skills work poorly; the movement sequences are spasically impaired, the right foot turns a lot inwards when walking. In addition, there is visual and hearing impairment.
In any case, during the week of the camp, the team of therapists “Ausege” achieved slight changes with unconventional healing methods: The motor skills improved, the children grasped and walked more confidently, seemed a little more attentive and alert, and spoke a little more. But how much do such mini-advances weigh in terms of the irreversible loss of their health, their future? “The tragic thing about every experience is that you only have it after you have needed it,” Nietzsche knew.
Such hair-raising fates gave the impetus to bring out the book Die Impflügen – and sell it at a cost to reach as many as possible who could use his orientation aids. It emerged from a series of articles in the information journal Aegis Impuls, written by the German social worker Anita Petek-Dimmer, mother of two children and one of the best-known and most active vaccination critics in German-speaking countries. (She was asked to do this after a violent argument with a doctor about the subject of vaccination, at which point she decided to study the subject as thoroughly as all parents should.) Point by point, the author will deal with the following chapters allegedly compelling evidence of vaccination advocates apart – and contrasts them with arguments worth considering.
After reading it, it is difficult to get around the conclusion: No father, no mother ever agrees to vaccination in a genuinely informed manner. You are being fooled. They learn just as little about the full extent of the risks and dangers, about well-founded doubts about the alleged benefits, about alarming research results, about valid scientific objections, any more than about the fact that more and more doctors are among the skeptics. Several hundred of them have joined forces in the association “Doctors for individual vaccination decisions” (3) founded in 2006 alone.
It is clear to doctors who are critical of vaccinations: official figures on “negligibly rare” vaccination damage in the statistical per mille range cannot be trusted. Only every 20th case is reported at all, as experts admit 4, including a former PEI employee (5). They all-clear are largely based on manufacturers’ – and these drive obvious motives to downplay dangers, to sweep findings that are damaging to business under the carpet. These studies hardly ever last longer than a few weeks and months; Vaccination damage, on the other hand, can only occur years later: for example, allergies, diabetes mellitus, developmental disorders, neurological diseases such as MS. The “scientific proof of a causal connection” is then challenging to provide, demanding a transparent diversionary maneuver. If vaccinations were harmless: Why do parents hardly ever see the package insert? Your hair would stand on end. What is in “modern” vaccines can well-toleratedl tolerated”: from lots of chemical stabilizers, neutralizers, preservatives, carrier substances and dyes to contamination from nutrient media to the worst neurotoxins such as mercury and aluminum compounds.
Obviously, anyone who has paid attention in biology class that blindly mad vaccination puts young children at much greater risk than adults. The vital “blood-brain barrier” that prevents the penetration of poisons and other foreign substances is not yet fully developed in them. They are also born without the first emerging myelin sheaths, which cover and protect the nerve cords. Why do many vaccination advocates themselves warn against having children vaccinated before the age of three?
Why don’t such facts get through? Why is every factual discussion nipped in the bud? In the aggressive handling of vaccination skepticism, in the rigorous suppression of dissenting opinions, the nature of a health system reveals itself, which becomes sick the more willing it is to serve the interests of its profiteers. From a marketing pot of several hundred billion dollars per year, the pharmaceutical industry effortlessly scoops the necessary advertising, printing, and lubricating materials to make all the important players submissive – and to mock business-damaging critics as “conspiracy theorists,” to cover them with character assassination, of ridicule to divulge, if necessary to destroy professionally. From tumor therapy to psychiatry to the fight against infection: astronomical profit margins are at stake in every field of medicine, which Big Pharma knows how to defend with claws and teeth according to all the rules of the free market economy, and often beyond it. Vaccines alone generated sales of US $ 27.5 billion worldwide in 2016. (6)
Anita Petek-Dimmer (1957-2010) also did not escape the witch-hunt for dissenters. Throughout her life, and beyond her death, she was denigrated as a “medicine laywoman with an obviously lacking competence” (7) – as a “crazy, hysterical housewife” who “could find a better way to pass the time than to hang on to sad world conspiracies that are also useless result in dead children.” (8) “With her worldview capsule,” so a blogger, she has “completely decoupled from the mother ship of reality and now floats without a safety line through the free space of the imagination.” (9)
To ridicule the system critic by branding him a confused “conspiracy theorist” is one of the most popular homicide arguments used by pharmaceutical lobbyists to stifle factual discussions. As a result, he ends up in a drawer with contemporaries who do not seem completely at ease: they insistently consider the moon landing to be a Hollywood production, the theory of evolution to be an invention of the godless, Elvis to be undead, and Angela Merkel to be an extraterrestrial reptile.
A conspiracy theorist speculates fact-resistantly about dark forces as guilty, whose machinations he alone sees through, while the blinded rest of humanity lacks insight. Those who cannot defend themselves against being added to the camp in such a stupid way seem to be one themselves.
And that ruined his reputation. His obvious questions are no longer an expression of legitimate concern but a symptom of mental confusion – he becomes a case for the psychiatrist.
Internet portals such as Hoaxilla.com, the Facebook group “Nothing but the truth,” the notorious online pillory Psiram and the associated association “Der goldene Aluhut,” which annually selects “the stupidest conspiracy theory,” ensure this.
The people behind Hoaxilla include Sebastian Bartoschek and Bernd Harder, active members of the “Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences” (GWUP), which fails a quarter of a century after it was founded to distinguish between healthy skepticism and blind skepticism. With an unrivaled awareness of their mission, this character assassination troop honors what they think is “unscientific,” both flatly and aggressively. “You have to tell people very clearly that they are crazy,” says Harder. You shouldn’t “give in to an inch; it will be interpreted as a weakness immediately.” And this is exactly how Rayk Anders, celebrated YouTube star of the anti-conspirators and author of the diatribe, pisses me off – How bullshit poisons our country (2016). “At some point,” he “pukes” back, “you will go insane because the market is flooded with this crap.” (10)
In truth, it is stubborn zealots like Anders who make themselves comfortable in a well-conceived parallel world. It is one in which the powerful from politics and business always play with open cards, do not pursue any secret interests, only have pure intentions, feel committed to the common good, basically act for our best, do not conceal or hide anything that concerns us. In this best of all possible worlds, everything is as it seems. There is just as little a pharmaceutical mafia in it as Watergate. The excesses of corruption in the arms lobby and armaments industry, the global data sniffing by secret services, or a car cartel in which the five big players of Germany’s most important industrial sector secretly voted in more than 1000 meetings of over 60 working groups. (11) In our sick health system, every zealous “anti-conspirator” ultimately takes care of Big Pharma’s business: Its dirty slingshot saves it from getting its own hands dirty. If the “conspiracy theory” of pharmaceutical critics is a mere pipe dream: Why do all the influential players in the medical system go to great lengths to confirm it incessantly? If health care weren’t a plaything of organized crime – why does it look like it? Conspiracy empiricists expose the beautiful appearance: courageous dropouts from the management and research of pharmaceutical companies, from approval and supervisory authorities, who have witnessed criminal machinations up close. Her “whistleblowing” cost her professional existence but at least lets her sleep soundly again.
Anita Petek-Dimmer saw through the game and was not deterred. In this respect, too, she remains a role model for parents. Instead of succumbing to the concentrated opinion-making, they must not stop asking annoying questions: What exactly is my child supposed to be injected with? Does it really protect how well, and how long does it do that? Are the risks really negligible, and vaccination damage the rarest exception? Are vaccinated people healthier? What alternatives to vaccination are there?
To tackle such questions in investigative Wallraff fashion would be a matter for the independent media, the much-invoked fourth estate in the state. But it is precisely them that paint a pathetic picture of the vaccination issue, first and foremost the supposedly particularly “serious” ones. They unanimously fire broadsides against vaccination critics – against “pseudo-medical crusaders” who suffer from “irrational hostility to science,” as the news magazine Focus knows. (12) The Süddeutsche, Germany’s daily newspaper with the highest circulation, accuses them of “stupid, irresponsible ignorance,” “unscientific nonsense.” “Unvaccinated children are put at risk,” the magazine Eltern warns all mums and dads. (13) The “irrational and ideological behavior” of the vaccine opponents deserved “zero tolerance,” is clear for the Frankfurter Allgemeine; “only coercion” helps. (14) Oh yes, because coercion is “healing,” agrees the world, to drive out parents of their “anti-modern reflexes” because “warnings and persuasions fall on deaf ears.” (15). In Switzerland, ex-Tagesanzeiger editor Hugo Stamm, a highly regarded “sect,” rages against vaccination critics as an “unholy alliance of the irrational with superstition,” which he claims to have included “primarily radical esotericists.” (16) What kind of people are they who pass blind comments, free of press ethics, as the result of thorough research, who pretend to be enlighteners for the nation? Where do they get their knowledge from, what is their professional competence?
SZ editor Kim Björn Becker, producer of the “stupid ignorance” accusation: a studied political scientist and art historian in his late thirties, since 2015 editor in the SZ department of domestic politics. His young colleague, the “nonsense” denouncer Kathrin Zinkant: studied biochemist who, according to her own statements, has written about all kinds of “beautiful things – from caring for a scratch to a toad tunnel”. “Eltern” -author Christine Brasch: a freelance journalist from Hamburg, also project manager for print media and websites. FAZ commentator Rainer Hank: neoliberal business journalist, studied literature, philosopher, Catholic theologian. Focus editor Christian Weber: studied politics, economics, sociology, and international relations. World sniper Michael Stürmer: historian, taught as a professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Hugo Stamm: seminar teacher, dropped out philosophy student. None of these résumés testifies to the highest medical expertise. It is not known whether they themselves have vaccinated children. How do you know so precisely and firmly what you are saying about the grandiose benefits and negligible dangers of vaccination? From informants who seem credible to them. For journalists researching health topics, these are the opinion leaders of the medical establishment, almost all of which are on the fee lists of pharmaceutical companies; the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, which has long since been infiltrated in the health sector by industry-related administrators financed by marketing agencies; pharma-related non-fiction authors; state institutes, supervisory authorities, and commissions, in which nobody is part of who dares to pursue well-founded fears; and other journalists drawn from the same sources.
Have Becker, Stamm & Co. ever listened to a warning doctor, let a non-fiction book critical to vaccinations affect them? Have you ever met a vaccine-impaired child and their desperate parents? Did you hear from whistleblowers? Do you realize how ignorantly you play into the cards of any populist who unceremoniously denigrates the Fourth Estate in our democracy as a “lying press”?
Counterweights are needed under such circumstances: organizations that educate. In her adopted country of Switzerland, Anita Petek-Dimmer helped set up the vaccination-critical network AEGIS – an abbreviation for “Active Own Healthy Immune System”. In three issues of his (now discontinued) journal Aegis Impuls (17), she dealt with the poor efforts of two German health authorities to refute the 20 most frequent objections of vaccine skeptics: the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the central monitoring and Research facility of the Federal Republic of Germany for infectious diseases and the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) for vaccines and biomedical drugs; both report directly to the Federal Ministry of Health. Ms. Petek-Dimmer’s arguments have lost none of their justification or their explosiveness; the latest alarming research results, which she was no longer able to take into account, substantiate her skepticism.
“There is no decision to be vaccinated. Because decisions require knowledge. And who knows, does not vaccinate!” Fritz Roithinger firmly. The doctor Dr. Franz Hartmann, next to Rudolf Steiner one of the main founders of the theosophical movement in Central Europe, already said at the beginning of the 20th century: “Vaccination is stupid if you do not know its dangers; if you know it, a crime.”
Who seems more credible to you: a vaccination critic whose educational work does not bring any personal benefit, but a lot of scorn and slander – or an industrial lobby that brings vaccination into a multi-billion dollar business? Unless proven otherwise, the safest “vaccination protection” is protection from vaccinators.
Harald Wiesendanger –
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1 ways out information No. 32, April 2014, http://newsletter.stiftung-auswege.de/ infos32 / html / 12__auswege-camp_in_thuringen.html.
2 See ways out information No. 36, October 2014, http://newsletter.stiftung-auswege.de/infos36.
3 www.individuelle-impfentendung.de
4 R. Lasek / B. Mathias / J.D. Tiaden: “Registration of adverse drug reactions”, Deutsches Ärzteblatt 88/1991, pp. 173-176.
5 Dr. med. Klaus Hartmann: Recording and evaluation of adverse drug reactions after the use of vaccines – Discussion of the spontaneous recording data of the Paul Ehrlich Institute 1987 to 1995, dissertation 1997, p. 15.
6 According to Statista: “Worldwide drug sales in the therapeutic area of vaccines from 2013 to 2016 (in billion US dollars)”, https://de.statista.com/ statistics / data / study / 734115 / survey / worldwide-drug-sales-im -therapy-area-vaccines, accessed on October 2, 2017.
7 See the entry on Anita Petek-Dimmer at the notorious Psiram online filth, https://www.psiram.com/de/index.php/Anita_ Petek-Dimmer, accessed on October 2, 2017.
8 Psiram blog: “When housewives go crazy”, November 24, 2008, https: // blog. psiram.com/tag/anita-petek-dimmer/, accessed on October 3, 2017.
9 Michael Hohner: “The 140 sins of Anita Petek-Dimmer”, RatioBlog, December 18, 2009, https://www.ratioblog.de/entry/die-140-suenden-der-anita-petek-dimmer, accessed on October 3 .2017.
10 Quotation from Hannes Vollmuth: “Fight Club”, Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 286, December 10, 2016, p. 3.
11 Der Spiegel 30/22 July 2017: “The Cartel”
12 Christian Weber: “The strange world of vaccine opponents”, Focus.de, October 1st, 2017.
13 Christine Brasch: “Measles wave in Germany puts unvaccinated children at risk”, Eltern.de, 2017.
14 Rainer Hank: “Zero tolerance for anti-vaccination opponents”, FAZ.net, 5.6.2017.
15 Michael Stürmer: “Some parents need healing coercion”, Welt.de, February 22, 2015.
16 Hugo Stamm at www.watson.ch/!479444359, accessed on October 3, 2017.
17 Aegis Impuls 32/2007, pp. 20-38; 33/2008, pp. 18-31; 34/2008, pp. 20-34.
18 See www.impfentscheid.ch.
19 See http://www.stiftung-auswege.de/images/downloads/auswege-newsl51.pdf
This text is Harald Wiesendanger’s foreword to the book Die Impflügen – Questionable Benefits, Downplayed Dangers (2017), which presents a series of articles by vaccination skeptic Anita Petek-Dimmer.
!. The effectiveness of the vaccinations has never been proven , 2. None of the alleged pathogens has been seen, isolated and proven to exist. 3. Vaccinations do not provide long-term protection and have to be repeated over and over again. 4. You can get sick despite vaccinations. 5. Going through illnesses is important for the normal development of the child and provides better protection than vaccination. 6. We parents also went through these infections and got through well. 7. A baby also gets antibodies with the breast milk, this protection is sufficient. 8. Women who have suffered an illness themselves give their newborn children more antibodies against infections than vaccinated mothers. 9. Too early vaccinations expose children to avoidable risks.10. The small child’s immune system is overwhelmed by the many vaccinations and multiple vaccines. 11. Vaccinations cause the diseases they are supposed to protect against. 12. Vaccinations promote allergies. 13. The side effects and risks of vaccinations are incalculable. 14. Vaccines contain dangerous chemicals that are knowingly used to poison children. 15. During the production of vaccines it can come to impurities which are responsible for diseases like BSE and AIDS. 16. There are doctors who advise against vaccination. 17. Most of the diseases that are vaccinated against do not even occur in this country. 18. Vaccinations are superfluous because the diseases can be treated with antibiotics, for example. 19. The regression of illnesses is a consequence of improved hygiene and nutrition and has nothing to do with vaccinations. 20. The pharmaceutical industry only wants to do business with vaccinations. Info-tipps . To protect our children, we just turn the tables.
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