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What really makes you ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease is Wrong
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“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” Mahatma Gandhi
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 40). Kindle Edition.
The result of his investigation is explained by Eleanor McBean PhD ND in her book, The Poisoned Needle, “He agreed to do so, but instead of contenting himself with the usual stock statements he went right back to Jenner’s own writings and to contemporary documents. He searched the pro- and anti-vaccination literature of many countries and came to the conclusion that vaccination is a ‘grotesque superstition’.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 44). Kindle Edition.
Physicians. In 1936 Dr Beddow Bayly wrote a booklet entitled The Case Against Vaccination, in which he states that, “Of scientific basis or justification for the practice there is none, and the history of vaccination is the record of a superstitious rite pursued by a series of methods each in turn abandoned when experience proved its danger, and presenting a trail of extravagant claims not one of which has stood the test of time.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 44). Kindle Edition.
Dr John W Hodge MD, an American physician, also began his medical career as a supporter of vaccination. However, he later conducted his own investigation into the subject and this led him to became aware that vaccinations did not prevent disease, but instead, were harmful. His investigation inspired him to write a booklet entitled The Vaccination Superstition, in which he lists his objections to the smallpox vaccination. These objections include the following,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 47). Kindle Edition.
Dr Hadwen in The Case Against Vaccination, “…Dr Crookshank and Dr Creighton...have knocked the bottom out of this grotesque superstition and shown that vaccination has no scientific leg to stand on…”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 48). Kindle Edition.
The Truth About Vaccinations and Immunization, “The town of Leicester rejected vaccination in favour of sanitation. Her experience during the past fifty years makes nonsense of the claims of the pro-vaccinists. When her population was thoroughly vaccinated she suffered severely from smallpox. As vaccination declined to one percent of the infants born, smallpox disappeared altogether.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 50). Kindle Edition.
These examples expose the obvious anomaly in the medical establishment claim that vaccination was responsible for the eradication of smallpox; in both cases, it was the eradication of vaccination that successfully reduced the incidence of the disease. These examples also serve to add substantially to the weight of evidence that vaccination was a major contributory factor to the eruption of smallpox; not to its eradication.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 50). Kindle Edition.
The medical establishment continues to issue warnings about many impending ‘scourges’ that fail to arrive. One of the reasons for such fear-mongering is the opportunity it provides for the pharmaceutical industry to develop vaccines, on the basis of the claim that they confer immunity to disease; a claim that has never been substantiated.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 51). Kindle Edition.
During this period of time, physicians still employed a variety of toxic substances in the treatment of disease, as described by William White in his reference to the 18th century ‘pharmacopoeia’ cited in the previous section. These ‘treatments’ provide further evidence of the lack of a true understanding of health and disease that existed at the time; a lack of understanding that persists into the early 21st century.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 51). Kindle Edition.
A typical ‘pharmacopoeia’ of the 18th and 19th centuries, and even of the early 20th century, included dangerous substances such as mercury, arsenic and antimony. These highly toxic substances, which were prescribed by physicians as ‘medicine’, would have contributed to their patients’ health problems and exacerbated existing conditions.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 51). Kindle Edition.
Dr Scobey’s previously cited statement, in which he states that, “During an epidemic of poliomyelitis in Australia in 1897, Altman pointed out that phosphorus had been widely used by farmers for fertilizing that year. This observation may be of significance since in recent years organic phosphorus insecticides, such as parathion, have been suspected as possible causes of poliomyelitis.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 53). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately, it was these experiments that became the focus of the research into ‘polio’, although it was only at a much later date, after a number of failed attempts, that a vaccine could be produced. Dr Salk’s polio vaccine was first used in 1954. Although the vaccine was hailed as a success and Dr Salk was awarded the Congressional Medal, the vaccine began to produce cases of paralysis; in other words, it was causing ‘polio’, not preventing it. Even more surprising is the fact that, in 1977, Dr Salk and a number of other scientists admitted that the mass vaccination programme against polio had actually been the cause of most polio cases in the US.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 54). Kindle Edition.
In her book The Truth about Vaccination and Immunization, Lily Loat also refers to the adverse effects that vaccines can cause and states that, “From the year 1922 cases of inflammation of the brain and spinal cord following and apparently due to vaccination came to light. The technical name for this was post-vaccinal encephalitis or encephalomyelitis.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 55). Kindle Edition.
It is clear from the foregoing discussion that vaccines are incapable of eradicating paralysis; they are, however, eminently capable of causing paralysis.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 56). Kindle Edition.
The investigation by Judicial Watch is not the only source of criticism of the HPV vaccination. Dr Gary Null PhD, on his radio show at Progressive Radio Network, reported a conversation in 2010 with Cindy Bevington, who has also investigated Gardasil, which includes her comment that, “Besides the 66 deaths, Gardasil’s serious side effects now include Guillain Barré syndrome, lupus, seizures, anaphylactic shock, chronic fatigue, paralysis, blood clots, brain inflammation, blurred vision and blindness, convulsions, demyelinating encephalomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, pancreatitis and various digestive disorders.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 58). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately, children and adolescents will continue to suffer whilst the medical establishment retains the unsubstantiated belief that cancer can be caused by a sexually-transmitted virus and that ‘protection’ can be conferred by a vaccine. The fear-mongering promotion of these beliefs prevents people from demanding the evidence for any of these claims; were they to do so, it would soon be discovered that no genuine scientific evidence exists.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 59). Kindle Edition.
“Protein, as essential to life as it is, is a virulent poison if introduced directly into the blood without first undergoing digestion.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 62). Kindle Edition.
Herbert Shelton also explains, “Speedy death, sometimes following vaccination and inoculation, is dignified by the title, anaphylactic shock.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 62). Kindle Edition.
“A fever is the consequence of accumulated impurities in the system…” This means that a post-vaccine fever is a direct consequence of the use of toxic ingredients in the manufacture of vaccines. The logical conclusion is therefore that other symptoms, most notably vomiting and diarrhoea, are also indicative of the body’s efforts to process and eliminate toxins. Chapter ten discusses the symptoms of illness in more detail, but it should be noted in the context of the current discussion that the suppression of any symptom following a vaccination is wholly inappropriate.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 63). Kindle Edition.
Herbert Shelton states, “The serums and vaccines that are supposed to confer immunity often cause troubles that are worse than the disease they are supposed to immunize one against.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 63). Kindle Edition.
Vaccine damage is not a new phenomenon; adverse health effects resulting from vaccination is as old as the practice of vaccination itself; this has been demonstrated by the statistics of increased suffering and death that followed the introduction of the mandatory smallpox vaccination in England during the 19th century. Reported statistics about adverse health effects that result from medical practices are however notoriously understated, especially when they refer to adverse effects that result from vaccines; the reason for this is mainly due to the extreme reluctance of the medical establishment to attribute the cause of illness and death to vaccination; this situation is explained by Lily Loat in her 1951 book, “Perusal of reports of some hundreds of inquests right down to the present reveals the reluctance of coroners and investigating doctors to attribute death to the results of vaccination.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 63). Kindle Edition.
Dr Buchwald explains, “Vaccine damage is generally not recognised immediately after vaccination, but in many cases only after weeks, months or – in certain circumstances – also years later.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 64). Kindle Edition.
Yet, as shown by the CDC statement cited above, the medical establishment denies that vaccines cause ‘chronic health problems’, and therefore refuses to acknowledge that injecting neurotoxic materials into babies will have detrimental effects on their still developing brains. These conditions, which may be diagnosed with labels such as ADD, ADHD or autism, are invariably the result of a number of factors, but vaccines need to be recognised as major contributing factors.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 67). Kindle Edition.
“At a population level, it is considered that these small risks are balanced by the benefits of widespread population immunization.” This view is based on the concept of ‘herd immunity’, which claims that the spread of an infectious disease can be contained, provided that a certain percentage of the population is vaccinated and has therefore been made ‘immune’ to the disease. The fallacy of this concept is exposed by the statistics, which showed that the compulsory smallpox vaccination programme in England resulted in a substantially increased incidence of illness and death; despite the fact that almost the entire population had been vaccinated. There are clearly many problems with the concept of ‘herd immunity’, not least of which is that vaccination has never been proven to confer immunity; the topic of immunity is discussed further in the next chapter.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 67-68). Kindle Edition.
The words of Herbert Shelton are wholly appropriate to conclude this discussion, “The vaccinating and inoculating program is merely a commercial one. While it nets huge profits to the traffickers in vaccines and serums, it provides no health for the people.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 69). Kindle Edition.
The human right to health does require ‘individual responsibility’, but this should be interpreted as the right of an individual to take personal responsibility for their health, and for all decisions that pertain to matters that will affect their own health. The concept of herd immunity is a fallacy that should not be used to coerce people into being poisoned against their will.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 70). Kindle Edition.
One of these contradictions arises because few of the diseases alleged to have been ‘carried’ to the New World are regarded as inherently fatal, but they are claimed to have caused millions of deaths. Yet, if these diseases were so deadly to the indigenous peoples, how were any of them able to survive; as there clearly were survivors.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 120). Kindle Edition.
It is claimed that the crews of the ships that arrived in the New World spread their diseases easily because they are highly contagious. It is also claimed that these sailors remained unaffected by the germs they ‘carried’ throughout the long voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Although some people are claimed to be ‘asymptomatic carriers’, it is highly improbable, if not impossible, that every crew member of every ship that sailed to the New World would have merely carried the ‘germs’ without succumbing to the diseases. The most common explanation offered for the failure of the crews to succumb to these diseases is that they had developed immunity to them; but this explanation is highly problematic. According to the medical establishment, a healthy, competent immune system is one that contains antibodies that will destroy pathogens. Therefore, if the European sailors were ‘immune’ to all these diseases due to the presence of the appropriate antibodies, their bodies would not contain any ‘germs’. If, on the other hand, the European sailors did carry ‘germs’ they could not have been ‘immune’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 120). Kindle Edition.
“The rich ate, and ate to excess watched by a thousand hungry eyes as they consumed their gargantuan meals. The rest of the population starved.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 121). Kindle Edition.
“There, in addition to the dangers of falling rocks, poor ventilation and the violence of brutal overseers, as the Indian labourers chipped away at the rock faces of the mines they released and inhaled the poisonous vapours of cinnabar, arsenic, arsenic anhydride and mercury.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 122). Kindle Edition.
“The Caribbean island populations finally stopped paying tribute because they had disappeared; they were totally exterminated in the gold mines...”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 122). Kindle Edition.
The medical establishment has a clear vested interest in perpetuating the myth that it was the ‘germs’ that killed many millions of people who had no immunity to the diseases the germs are alleged to cause.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 123). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately, this myth has distorted history, as it has succeeded in furthering the ‘germ theory’ fallacy, and failed to bring to light the real causes of the deaths of many millions of people; but, as the work of people like Dr David Stannard, Eduardo Galeano, and others, have shown, there is ample evidence to support other and more compelling explanations for that enormous death toll, all of which may eventually succeed in overturning the myth.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 123-124). Kindle Edition.
The medical establishment view of disease contains many flaws, one of which relates to the nature of symptoms; this is discussed in more detail in chapter ten. Another flaw is the belief that the human body possesses no inherent mechanisms that affect health. These flaws have been exposed by various pioneers who have been dissatisfied with the teachings of the medical establishment system and have conducted their own investigations. For example, in chapter one reference was made to the experience of Dr John Tilden MD who changed his practice from a drug-based one to a drugless one.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 125). Kindle Edition.
It is for this reason that a child with a fever and a rash will usually have no appetite; the digestive system needs to eliminate the accumulated toxins; a further intake of food will only worsen the problem. Dr Robert Mendelsohn MD indicates in Confessions of a Medical Heretic that one of the main ‘problem foods’ for young babies and small children is cow’s milk. He regards human breast-milk as the only suitable food for a baby and refers to bottle-feeding with cow’s milk as,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 125). Kindle Edition.
This revelation demonstrates that M. leprae fails to meet the criteria of Koch’s first postulate, and provides unequivocal evidence that this bacterium cannot be the cause of the condition called ‘leprosy’. Furthermore, M. leprae is recognised to be a pleomorphic bacterium, which means that its morphology is very likely to be dependent on the conditions of its environment.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 128). Kindle Edition.
“Europe was once a hot bed of leprosy. Even as far west as England it was a serious problem. It has practically disappeared from Europe and this has not been due to any vaccine or serum drug that has wiped it out. The improved social conditions — sanitation, diet, personal cleanliness, better housing, and other healthful factors—that have evolved in Europe, with no aid from the medical profession have eliminated this disease.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 128). Kindle Edition.
“According to all the evidence which I have been able to obtain, leprosy was unknown in the Sandwich Islands until many years after the advent of Europeans and Americans, who introduced vaccination; and there is no aboriginal word in the Hawaiian language for this disease.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 129). Kindle Edition.
The recognised symptoms of mercury poisoning include the shedding and peeling of the skin, symptoms that may have been diagnosed as syphilis, leprosy or even smallpox. The symptoms that are now associated with syphilis are substantially different; although mercury remained a ‘treatment’ until the early 20th century.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 130). Kindle Edition.
“All influenza A pandemics since that time, and indeed almost all cases of influenza A worldwide...have been caused by descendants of the 1918 virus…” Nothing could be further from the truth; a non-living particle cannot have a ‘descendant’. The refutation of the ‘germ theory’ means that no type of influenza can be caused by a virus and this, in turn, means that there must be other, more compelling explanations for this epidemic of an allegedly ‘infectious’ disease. The label ‘1918 Flu’ suggests that the epidemic only occurred during the year 1918; however, there is evidence that indicates serious ill-health problems existed over the course of a much longer period of time, which began as early as 1915 and continued until the late 1920s. There are compelling explanations for these health problems; as this discussion will demonstrate.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 134). Kindle Edition.
“It was a common expression during the war that ‘more soldiers were killed by vaccine shots than by shots from enemy guns.’ The vaccines, in addition to the poison drugs given in the hospitals, made healing impossible in too many cases. If the men had not been young and healthy to begin with, they would all have succumbed to the mass poisoning in the Army.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 135). Kindle Edition.
According to some contemporary reports, there were many cases of typhoid fever within the military; however, this was one of the diseases against which the soldiers had been vaccinated. It would therefore be extremely inconvenient for the medical establishment, and especially for the vaccine industry, if soldiers were reported to be suffering from a disease against which they had been vaccinated and therefore seemingly ‘protected’. It would not be unreasonable to assume, therefore, that certain illnesses were re-classified as ‘influenza’. The medical establishment practice of renaming conditions has been shown to be a not uncommon one; the re-classification of polio as AFP is only one example of the practice.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 137). Kindle Edition.
Annie Riley Hale in her book entitled The Medical Voodoo, “In the British Journal of Experimental Pathology August 1926, two well-known London medical professors, Drs Turnbull and McIntosh, reported several cases of encephalitis lethargica – ‘sleeping sickness’ – following vaccination which had come under their observation.” Post-vaccination encephalitis is a recognised phenomenon; as indicated by a September 1931 article entitled Post-Vaccination Encephalitis that states, “Post-vaccination encephalitis is a disease of unknown etiology that has appeared in recent years and which occurs without regard to the existence of known factors other than the presence of a recent vaccination against smallpox.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 138). Kindle Edition.
These symptoms are not unlike those described by the Stanford University article, which suggests the likelihood that cases of chlorine gassing may initially have been mistakenly identified as cases of ‘influenza’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 140). Kindle Edition.
Chlorine-based chemicals are discussed further in chapter six; they are, however, not the only type of chemical that can produce respiratory problems that may also have been mistakenly identified as ‘influenza’. Nitroglycerin was first produced prior to the 20th century, but is reported to have been manufactured in large quantities and used extensively during WWI. The significance of nitro-glycerine is reported by Nicholas Ashford PhD and Dr Claudia Miller MD in their 1998 book entitled Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes, in which they state that, “Nitroglycerin, used to manufacture gunpowder, rocket fuels and dynamite, may cause severe headaches, breathing difficulties, weakness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting as a result of inhalation.” These symptoms are remarkably similar to some of the symptoms attributed to both ‘influenza’ and ‘lethargic encephalitis’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 140). Kindle Edition.
This clearly did not occur during 1918 and 1919. Eleanor McBean, who was a child during the epidemic and assisted her parents to care for the sick, reports that she failed to become ill despite her close proximity to many people with the allegedly ‘infectious’ disease.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 141). Kindle Edition.
The previous discussion about the ‘1918 Flu’ demonstrated that the sudden onset of ‘disease’ and the resulting widespread morbidity and mortality are related to multiple factors that often act synergistically; these factors do not include any so-called ‘germ’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 144). Kindle Edition.
“There have been masses of dead fish, animals and other things along the sea shore and in many places trees covered in dust .... and all these things seem to have come from the great corruption of the air and earth.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 144). Kindle Edition.
These conditions can be explained by comets, comet debris and earthquakes; they cannot be explained by rat fleas ‘infected’ with disease-causing bacteria.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 146). Kindle Edition.
The discussion about bacteria in chapter three referred to ‘asymptomatic carriers’ and to ‘latent infection’, both of which refer to ‘infection’ in the absence of illness. However, asymptomatic carriers are deemed to be able to transmit the bacteria, and therefore the disease, whereas those with latent infection are claimed not to be able to do so. This is highly anomalous; yet the medical establishment fails to offer an explanation for their claim that a bacterial ‘infection’ can have two entirely different outcomes. It should be obvious that, if TB bacteria were ‘pathogens’, they should always cause disease and that, if TB were an ‘infectious disease’, it should always be transmissible.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 149). Kindle Edition.
This increased level of activity within the body may succeed in achieving a reduction in intensity or even the cessation of symptoms; a result that is often mistakenly credited as being due to the action of the drugs. However, the continuation of any antibiotic drug ‘treatment’ over a long period of time will gradually exhaust the endocrine glands, damage the digestive system and create a number of serious health problems, which are very likely those that are interpreted as ‘drug resistance’. The rigid adherence of the medical establishment to the ‘germ theory’ means that the only solution available for people diagnosed with MDR-TB, is a further cocktail of even more toxic drugs that will only exacerbate their existing health problems.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 150). Kindle Edition.
It has however, been proven that the BCG vaccine is ineffective for all age groups. This was demonstrated by a large field trial to test the vaccine conducted between the years 1968 and 1971 by the WHO in India; a country in which TB was, and still is, regarded as endemic. In one area comprising 309 villages, about 364,000 people were vaccinated against TB, whilst people in another area of roughly the same size remained unvaccinated. The results however, caused the vaccination ‘experts’ considerable concern, because more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated area than in the unvaccinated area. The incidence of TB in ‘developing’ countries is discussed further in chapter eight.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 151). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately, the preoccupation with the ‘germ theory’ means that, instead of addressing the real problems that cause tuberculosis, the medical establishment concentrates on the use of toxic drugs and vaccines, both of which exacerbate illness.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 152). Kindle Edition.
Whilst this period is generally claimed to be the beginning of ‘medical science’, it was, in fact, the beginning of medical dogma.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 11). Kindle Edition.
“…patients were bled, blistered, purged, puked, narcotized, mercurialised and alcoholised into chronic invalidism or into the grave.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 11). Kindle Edition.
The BMA web pages that detail its history refer to their campaign against ‘quackery’ in the early 19th century. The term ‘quackery’ was, and still is, used to discredit all forms of ‘healing’ other than those of modern medicine. Yet it was that very same 19th century medical system, which claimed to oppose quackery, that employed ‘medicines’ known to be harmful and often led to a patient’s invalidism or death.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 12). Kindle Edition.
“All so-called medicines, in doses of any size, are poisons.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 18-19). Kindle Edition.
“It was a common expression during the war that ‘more soldiers were killed by vaccine shots than by shots from enemy guns.’ The vaccines, in addition to the poison drugs given in the hospitals, made healing impossible in too many cases. If the men had not been young and healthy to begin with, they would all have succumbed to the mass poisoning in the Army.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 135). Kindle Edition.
“The most important behavioural risk factors of heart disease and stroke are unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 30). Kindle Edition.
The medical establishment claims that the most effective method for lowering blood pressure to the ‘normal range’, is through medication with antihypertensive drugs to be taken over the course of long periods of time; and often become lifelong. The continual downward revisions of the ‘normal’ ranges result in an ever-greater proportion of the population perceived to have elevated blood pressure and therefore ‘at risk’; this results in an ever-increasing number of people who are prescribed antihypertensive drugs and also, inevitably, in vastly increased profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 28). Kindle Edition.
“Hypertension is a major cause of premature death worldwide.” It is clear that diseases of this nature are indicative of extremely serious health problems; but, like all other diseases, their nature is misunderstood by the medical establishment. CVDs are discussed in greater detail in chapter seven.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 27). Kindle Edition.
The reduction or alleviation of symptoms is perceived to be a successful outcome of treatment, which means that any reduction in the feeling of depression will be similarly perceived to be a successful outcome; but, as with all drug treatments, they do not address the real causes of the strong emotions that many people experience.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 26). Kindle Edition.
“At public hearings in 2004 the FDA presented re-evaluations of antidepressant clinical trials for children and youth under age eighteen documenting that the suicide risk was doubled in children taking antidepressants compared to similar individuals taking a sugar pill.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 25). Kindle Edition.
“The so-called therapeutic effect is always a disability.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 24). Kindle Edition.
The use of drugs for the treatment of people diagnosed with a mental disorder is based on the theory that people with such conditions have developed a ‘biochemical imbalance’ within their brain. Despite its frequent use, the phrase ‘chemical imbalance in the brain’ is based on yet another unproven theory, as psychiatrist Dr Peter Breggin MD has explained many times during the course of his long and distinguished career. His website contains a great deal of useful material and articles, including his June 2015 article entitled Rational Principles of Psychopharmacology for Therapists, Healthcare Providers and Clients, in which he refers to the theory of ‘biochemical imbalance’ as being both false and a myth. In his article, he states that,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 23). Kindle Edition.
The reason that a branch of ‘science’ studies the effects of pharmaceutical drugs on ‘mental processes and behaviours’ is because certain ‘behaviours’ are considered to be ‘abnormal’ and therefore people who exhibit such behaviours are deemed to have a ‘mental illness’, also referred to as a ‘mental disorder’; as indicated by the April 2018 WHO fact sheet entitled Mental Disorders that states,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 23). Kindle Edition.
‘Medicines’ are supposed to heal not harm; yet, as Dr Dean states, “How modern medicine has come to be the number one killer in North America is as incredible as it is horrifying. Doctors certainly don’t think of themselves as killers but as long as they promote toxic drugs and don’t learn non‐toxic options, they are pulling the trigger on helpless patients.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 22). Kindle Edition.
Although the pharmaceutical industry is clearly reluctant to admit that their products are toxic, there is undeniable evidence of the harm they cause, as documented by the many drugs that have been withdrawn from the market due to their adverse effects, as Dr Dean explains,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 22). Kindle Edition.
“Twenty-five years in which I used drugs, and thirty-three in which I have not used drugs, should make my belief that drugs are unnecessary, and in most cases injurious, worth something to those who care to know the truth.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 12). Kindle Edition.
Although the pharmaceutical industry is clearly reluctant to admit that their products are toxic, there is undeniable evidence of the harm they cause, as documented by the many drugs that have been withdrawn from the market due to their adverse effects, as Dr Dean explains,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 22). Kindle Edition.
No ‘side effect’ is desirable, but the fact that they occur and are described as ‘unforeseen’, ‘unwanted’ and ‘undesirable’ is a clear demonstration of a woefully inadequate level of knowledge within pharmacology, and especially within pharmacodynamics.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 19). Kindle Edition.
It is entirely possible that any number of chemical compounds may produce an ‘effect’ on a piece of genetic material or on a protein molecule in a cell culture in a laboratory. However, the idea that effects produced by chemical compounds on isolated molecules can be extrapolated to indicate that those compounds may have a beneficial effect in a living human being is totally inappropriate for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons is that, when tested, disease molecules are no longer in their natural environment within the human body; an environment that is poorly understood by the medical establishment, which perceives the human body to be little more than a living machine comprised of various parts, each of which can be studied and, if found to be diseased, ‘fixed’ through the use of chemicals without reference to any other part.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 14-15). Kindle Edition.
The pharmaceutical industry, which is immensely profitable, relies on the research conducted within the field of pharmacology for their continuing existence and their domination of the manufacture of the ‘medicines’ used by the practitioners of modern medicine.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 13). Kindle Edition.
Although illness may seem to be a common human experience, it can manifest in a variety of different forms and to varying degrees of severity; the common cold, for example, is self-limiting and short-lived, whereas many chronic conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, are considered to be incurable and lifelong. It may be assumed from this that illness is largely unavoidable or is even an inevitable aspect of human life; but this would be a mistaken assumption, as this book will demonstrate.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 1). Kindle Edition.
The logical, and correct, conclusion to be drawn from this is that ‘modern medicine’ has failed to thoroughly understand the nature of the problem and has similarly failed to correctly identify all of the root causes. The consequence of these failures is that the measures employed by the medical establishment are entirely inappropriate as solutions to the problem of disease. Although claimed to treat and prevent disease, these measures, which are usually comprised of pharmaceutical products, do not remove their causes, they therefore cannot solve the problem; but more worryingly, these products invariably exacerbate the problem.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 1-2). Kindle Edition.
This definition has remained unaltered since first declared in their constitution when the WHO was founded in 1948. The WHO is the agency of the UN (United Nations) assigned to be the ‘authority’ for health matters for all of the people in all of the countries that have ratified the WHO constitution. In other words, the WHO directs health policies for implementation by virtually every country around the world. Yet the WHO policy recommendations with respect to disease treatment almost exclusively refer to the use of ‘medicines’ that are acknowledged to alleviate symptoms but not cure disease.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 5-6). Kindle Edition.
Whilst there is abundant evidence to support the idea that a wide variety of plants are suitable for consumption as foods, there is no evidence to support the idea that animal parts or poisonous plants have curative properties and can be beneficial for human health. Hippocrates, the Greek physician who lived approximately
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 8). Kindle Edition.
The ancient practices of ‘medicine’ continued in the Western world with little change until the ‘Medical Renaissance’ that began during the early 15th century. One of the key contributors of the 16th century to this renaissance is the Swiss physician, Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, who is still held in high esteem by the medical establishment for his pioneering medical theories. The theories for which Paracelsus is best known have not, however, contributed to improved healthcare. On the contrary, they have impeded its progress because they placed an emphasis on the practice of fighting disease; a practice that remains a core function of modern medicine, but is nevertheless erroneous; fighting disease is not synonymous with restoring health.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 9). Kindle Edition.
Whilst this period is generally claimed to be the beginning of ‘medical science’, it was, in fact, the beginning of medical dogma.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 11). Kindle Edition.
The BMA web pages that detail its history refer to their campaign against ‘quackery’ in the early 19th century. The term ‘quackery’ was, and still is, used to discredit all forms of ‘healing’ other than those of modern medicine. Yet it was that very same 19th century medical system, which claimed to oppose quackery, that employed ‘medicines’ known to be harmful and often led to a patient’s invalidism or death.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 12). Kindle Edition.
“All drugs are physiologically incompatible with the functions of the body.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 14). Kindle Edition.
It is not only the evidence that is weak, the theories underlying medical practice are also weak because they fail to recognise the real nature of the human body, which is a self-regulating organism that is far from inert, machine-like and predictable.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 20). Kindle Edition.
“There are no drugs that do not produce side effects and it is certain that the more toxic of them invariably produce iatrogenic disease.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 20). Kindle Edition.
The quality of healthcare for Americans has continued to worsen since 2000, as indicated by a November 2013 article entitled We’re No 26! US below average on most health measures; the title is self-explanatory.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 20). Kindle Edition.
The total number of deaths from iatrogenesis was stated in this study to be an estimated 783,936 per year; a figure that exceeds the annual mortality from either heart disease or cancer, which makes iatrogenesis the leading cause of death in the US. Death is clearly the most extreme iatrogenic effect; but there are many other adverse health events that can follow the administration of pharmaceutical drugs, as the study states,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 21). Kindle Edition.
‘Medicines’ are supposed to heal not harm; yet, as Dr Dean states, “How modern medicine has come to be the number one killer in North America is as incredible as it is horrifying. Doctors certainly don’t think of themselves as killers but as long as they promote toxic drugs and don’t learn non‐toxic options, they are pulling the trigger on helpless patients.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 21-22). Kindle Edition.
The reason that a branch of ‘science’ studies the effects of pharmaceutical drugs on ‘mental processes and behaviours’ is because certain ‘behaviours’ are considered to be ‘abnormal’ and therefore people who exhibit such behaviours are deemed to have a ‘mental illness’, also referred to as a ‘mental disorder’; as indicated by the April 2018 WHO fact sheet entitled Mental Disorders that states,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 22-23). Kindle Edition.
“There’s little evidence for the existence of any such imbalances and absolutely no way to demonstrate how the drugs would affect them if they did exist.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 23). Kindle Edition.
“At public hearings in 2004 the FDA presented re-evaluations of antidepressant clinical trials for children and youth under age eighteen documenting that the suicide risk was doubled in children taking antidepressants compared to similar individuals taking a sugar pill.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 25). Kindle Edition.
Drugs, by definition, are intended to interfere with the normal functions of a living organism. The existence of effects in the blood vessels, nervous system and kidneys indicate that antihypertensive drugs interfere systemically; their effects are not restricted to the lowering of blood pressure. This further corroborates the statement in the previous section that drugs produce effects in parts of the body that are not the targeted, ‘diseased’ area.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 29). Kindle Edition.
Although the drugs that are available without prescription are limited to certain types and only available in restricted strengths and quantities, the inherent problems with pharmaceutical ingredients and manufacturing processes demonstrate that OTC drugs are similarly toxic by nature and therefore similarly harmful. Their potential dangers are indicated by the fact that these drugs are available in restricted quantities to avoid the adverse effects from the ‘wrong’ dose.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 35). Kindle Edition.
Although the drugs that are available without prescription are limited to certain types and only available in restricted strengths and quantities, the inherent problems with pharmaceutical ingredients and manufacturing processes demonstrate that OTC drugs are similarly toxic by nature and therefore similarly harmful. Their potential dangers are indicated by the fact that these drugs are available in restricted quantities to avoid the adverse effects from the ‘wrong’ dose.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 35). Kindle Edition.
This statement illustrates two points, one of which is the intriguing idea that ‘experts’ do not always agree, thus challenging the ridiculous notion that science is always the result of a ‘consensus’. The other, more salient, point is that it highlights the contradictory notion that a substance can be both beneficial for and pose risks to health.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 36-37). Kindle Edition.
Paracetamol can also result in death, which is why it is sometimes used in large quantities by people who have tried, and occasionally succeeded, in taking their own lives. Whilst people believe the maxim that it is the dose that makes a substance a poison, they will continue to assume that small doses are ‘safe’; but this is a false and dangerous assumption, because an accumulation of paracetamol resulting from many small doses over the course of a long period of time can be similarly dangerous.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 37-38). Kindle Edition.
The examples discussed above are clearly only a few of the drugs available without prescription. There are of course many more, all of which can be viewed in the same way: in other words: they do not address the underlying causes of the symptoms; they do not result in the return to a state of ‘health’; and they invariably cause additional health problems, some of which are more serious than the original problem they were intended to remedy.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 39). Kindle Edition.
"There is no such thing as a 'perfect' vaccine which protects everyone who receives it AND is entirely safe for everyone.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 41). Kindle Edition.
The belief that people can become ‘immune' to a disease after an exposure to that disease dates back many centuries. For example, the Greek historian Thucydides, who was a contemporary of Hippocrates, is reported to have claimed that people who survived the plague of Athens were not later re-infected by the same disease.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 45). Kindle Edition.
The origin of the word vaccinate is from the Latin for cow.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 47). Kindle Edition.
William White further states that Jenner published a paper on his horse-grease theory, but as it was not well-received, he returned to his cowpox theory. Whilst this may seem to be merely a minor detail, it is relevant to a full appreciation of Edward Jenner's true contribution to humanity; the introduction of methods of poisoning the bloodstream in the name of 'protection' from disease.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 47). Kindle Edition.
In his role as the originator of the practice of vac-cination, Edward Jenner is regarded by the medical establishment as a 'hero'; but he is a false hero and his accolades are undeserved. Although referred to as a phys-ician, it is documented that he did not study for or pass the medical examinations that would have been necessary for him to qualify as a physician. It is also documented that Edward Jenner purchased his medical degree, although this was not an entirely uncommon practice of the time in which he lived. These are facts, however, that are invariably omitted from the mainstream histories of his life, as they would certainly tarnish his reputation.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 47). Kindle Edition.
In 1896 the movement was re-named 'The National Anti Vaccination League of Great Britain'. Its members included some of the qualified physicians whose work is quoted in this chapter, in addition to the two eminent physicians referred to above, who supported the movement once they had investigated the matter for themselves and discovered the complete absence of any scientific evidence for its use. Other notable supporters of the British anti-vaccination movement were the scientists Alfred Russel Wallace and Herbert Spencer and the author George Bernard Shaw.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 48). Kindle Edition.
The medical establishment continues to issue warnings about many impending 'scourges' that fail to ar-rive. One of the reasons for such fear-mongering is the opportunity it provides for the pharmaceutical industry to develop vaccines, on the basis of the claim that they confer immunity to disease; a claim that has never been substantiated.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 51). Kindle Edition.
A typical 'pharmacopoeia' of the 18th and 19th centur-ies, and even of the early 20th century, included dangerous substances such as mercury, arsenic and antimony.
These highly toxic substances, which were prescribed by physicians as 'medicine', would have contributed to their patients' health problems and exacerbated existing con-ditions.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 51). Kindle Edition.
It would seem, therefore, that the 'new' condition referred to as AFP is, in reality, purely a name change used for cases that would previously have been diagnosed as
'polio. The main reasons that the medical establishment would create a new name for polio would be to support their claims that the incidence of this disease is decreas-ing; that polio will be eradicated in the near future; and that vaccination is the means by which this alleged success will have been achieved.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 56). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth; HPV vaccines confer no benefits; they are unsafe and ineffective.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 57). Kindle Edition.
It is highly probable that the vast majority of people are as entirely unaware of the chemicals used to manufacture vaccines as they are of the chemicals used to manufacture 'medicines'; nevertheless, the ingredients of both medicines and vaccines include a variety of toxic chemical compounds.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 59). Kindle Edition.
Other vaccine ingredients include many that are of animal origin, these include: gelatine, chick embryo, human diploid cells from aborted foetal tissue, vesicle fluid from calf skins, chick embryonic fluid, mouse serum proteins and monkey kidney cells. The dangers posed by the use of animal-derived substances in vaccines are explained by
Herbert Shelton,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 61). Kindle Edition.
"Protein, as essential to life as it is, is a virulent poison if introduced directly into the blood without first undergoing digestion.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 62). Kindle Edition.
"The serums and vaccines that are supposed to confer immunity often cause troubles that are worse than the disease they are supposed to immunize one against.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 63). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately for the American public, the US vaccine compensation programme is funded from taxes levied on the sale of vaccines; it is therefore American taxpayers who are funding the compensation paid to victims of vaccine damage. It should, however, be the vaccine manufacturers that are held responsible for the injury caused by their products and made liable for the compensation due to those who have been injured.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 69). Kindle Edition.
"The vaccinating and inoculating program is merely a commercial one. While it nets huge profits to the traffickers in vaccines and serums, it provides no health for the people.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 69). Kindle Edition.
It was shown in the previous chapter that the practice of vaccination was not originally based on the idea that 'germs' were the causal agents of disease; instead, it was based on the claim that a mild form of 'disease' would provide a degree of protection against a more serious attack of 'disease. However, after Louis Pasteur's version of the germ theory gained increased popularity in the late 19th century, the idea of 'germs' as the causal agents of disease became an extremely useful tool to justify the introduction of different vaccines to combat different 'in-fectious diseases’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 73). Kindle Edition.
As demonstrated throughout this book, many medical establishment practices are based on erroneous and unproven theories, the problems with which are manifested by empirical evidence that demonstrates worsen-ing rather than improving health for virtually the entire population of the world. Yet, despite the obvious contradictions between the theory and the empirical evidence, the medical establishment exhorts the public to believe their pronouncements about disease epidemics caused by dangerous 'germs', on the basis that they are the 'au thority' on matters pertaining to health.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 75). Kindle Edition.
"Modern medicine can't survive without our faith, because modern medicine is neither an art nor a science; it's a religion. Just ask 'why' enough times and sooner or later you'll reach the chasm of faith.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 75). Kindle Edition.
The consequences of these changes have not always been beneficial; many have been positively detrimental.
One of the main consequences has been the almost total obeisance to 'science' in the belief that it is the only method through which 'knowledge' can be obtained. Dr Mendelsohn's simile that modern medicine is like a religion can be extrapolated to apply to 'science', in which 'scientists' have assumed the mantle of 'authority' and become a new kind of priesthood.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 78). Kindle Edition.
The consequences of these changes have not always been beneficial; many have been positively detrimental.
One of the main consequences has been the almost total obeisance to 'science' in the belief that it is the only method through which 'knowledge' can be obtained. Dr Mendelsohn's simile that modern medicine is like a religion can be extrapolated to apply to 'science', in which 'scientists' have assumed the mantle of 'authority' and become a new kind of priesthood.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 78). Kindle Edition.
"When a tissue is prepared for histology, histochemis-try, electron microscopy, or immunochemistry, an animal is killed; the tissue is excised, it is fixed or frozen; it is embedded; it is sectioned; it is rehydrated; it is stained; it is mounted; it is radiated by light, or bombarded by electron beams.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 80). Kindle Edition.
There are very few conclusions that can be drawn from experiments that take place under the very specific conditions of the laboratory environment and assumed to be meaningful to the health of a living human body. The internal environment of a human body bears no resemblance whatsoever to the artificial environment created by scientists for their experiments in the laboratory. Furthermore, it is inappropriate to take the results of experiments that test the reactions of chemicals with dead tissues, cells or molecules and extrapolate them to intact living organisms, which do not react and respond to chemicals in ways that can be predicted by experiments conducted on individual pieces of tissue.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 80). Kindle Edition.
The discovery of 'particles' in samples taken from people with a disease, and the assumption that this rep-resents a causal relationship, is akin to blaming firemen as being the causes of fires, because they are directly associated with fire and often found at premises that are ablaze. This analogy serves to highlight the potentially dire consequences that can result from the misinterpretation of an observed phenomenon, and from incorrect assumptions about an association between the different factors involved.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 82). Kindle Edition.
"They are not alive since outside living cells they do nothing, ever. Viruses require the metabolism of the live cell because they lack the requisites to generate their own. Metabolism, the incessant chemistry of self-maintenance, is an essential feature of life. Viruses lack this.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 83). Kindle Edition.
The lack of known facts about viruses can be demonstrated by the example of a cold 'virus' that is claimed to be transmitted via saliva or mucous particles when a person sneezes or coughs. These particles are said to be inhaled by another person, who then becomes 'infected' by the virus, which travels through the person's body to the appropriate cells of their lung tissues. The transmission of any viral particle attached to saliva or mucous travelling through the air has never been observed; viral particles are only ever observed in a laboratory under an electron microscope. The transmission of viruses in the air is an assumption; as is their ability to travel through a human body.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 84). Kindle Edition.
"The point that bears mentioning, however, is that viruses are no more 'germs' and 'enemies' than are bacteria or human cells.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 18). Kindle Edition.
It is an error to refer to any bacterium as a parasite, the establishment definition of which refers to an organism that contributes nothing to the welfare of the host. Recent discoveries about bacteria show that some of the actions they perform include a number of vitally important functions that substantially contribute to the welfare of a variety of hosts.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 93). Kindle Edition.
Bacteria are saprotrophic, which means that they feed on and break down dead organisms and release the nutrients back into the environment to be utilised by other organisms.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 95). Kindle Edition.
Recognition of the importance of bacteria to all 'life' obviously poses a serious and direct challenge to the 'germ theory'; the sums of money invested in the applications derived from it are far too large to readily permit a revelation that the theory is fatally flawed. The influence of (vested interests, which is discussed in detail in chapter nine, is a major deterrent to any scientific investigation that would pose a challenge to their dominance; this means that investigations likely to question the 'consen-sus' view require efforts that are rarely acknowledged or appreciated, as Dr Margulis indicates,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 97). Kindle Edition.
One group of bacteria that are acknowledged to be 'highly pleomorphic are Rickettsiae, which include the bacterium claimed to be the causal agent of typhus, which Florence Nightingale claimed was not caused by a 'new infection' but by the worsening conditions within the hospital wards.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 98). Kindle Edition.
The idea that 'bacterial toxins' are the causes of many illnesses is fundamentally flawed; the main reason is due to the normal presence in the body of many trillions of bacteria. If only a tiny percentage of the trillions of bacteria in the body produced 'toxins' people would always be ill, from the moment of birth and throughout their entire lives. If any of these toxins were truly 'deadly' it raises the question of how life could ever have begun, considering that bacteria are one of the earliest ‘life-forms'.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 99). Kindle Edition.
Bacteria are also capable of biodegrading many other pollutants, such as heavy metals, as indicated by a 1998 article entitled Physical properties and heavy metal uptake of encapsulated Escherichia coli expressing a metal binding gene. This article is extremely revealing because E. coli are regarded as a major cause of food poisoning, but it is also widely recognised that E. coli normally reside in the intestines of healthy people. These bacteria are regarded as both commensal and pathogenic; the anomalous nature of this claim was previously mentioned. The fact that they are found in healthy people who do not suffer from 'food poisoning' is a situation that fails to meet Koch's first postulate, which means that E. coli cannot be the cause of any disease, including 'food poisoning’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 100). Kindle Edition.
Life is indeed complex and interdependent. The world is not a battleground, in which the germs must be killed, because clearly what kills the germs will surely kill all life-forms.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 101). Kindle Edition.
"Penicillin often accomplishes truly miraculous results by whipping the endocrine glands into hyperactivity.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 102). Kindle Edition.
"Some species are saprophytes; others parasites."
The discussion in the previous section showed that this bacterium, which can be found in many parts of the body, especially the skin, hair, nose and throat, is commonly found in healthy people. This situation defies Koch's first postulate; a bacterium that can be found in healthy people cannot be a pathogen; it certainly cannot be described as dangerous.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 104). Kindle Edition.
Yet again the problem of poor sanitation is associated with poor health; this is no 'coincidence. There is no need to invoke the existence of 'germs' to understand that living in close proximity to human and animal waste matter is extremely unhealthy. The presence of bacteria and fungi in waste matter is due to their functions as saprotrophs; this is, after all, the reason that bacteria are utilised in sewage treatment plants.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 108). Kindle Edition.
This statement indicates that people can be 'immune' to malaria; yet it completely contradicts the claim that malaria is a highly dangerous disease. The only reason for promoting the idea that people can become immune to malaria, which is otherwise regarded as 'deadly', would be to justify the introduction of a vaccine. Both views are, however, incorrect as will be demonstrated in chapter eight.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 109). Kindle Edition.
It is abundantly clear that there are many problems with these ideas, not least of which is the fact that tests do not detect the actual microorganism; instead, they only detect
'antibodies', which are proteins, not living organisms.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 112). Kindle Edition.
This can be demonstrated by a 2011 article entitled The Bodyguard: Tapping the Immune System's Secrets, published on the website of Stanford Medicine. The article refers to Dr Garrison Fathman MD, a professor of immun-ology, and states that he regards the immune system as a 'black box', in the context that there is not a great deal of knowledge about its internal 'workings'. This is an astounding admission considering the strenuous efforts of the medical establishment to promote the idea that the immune system protects people from 'infectious dis-eases.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 113). Kindle Edition.
In the absence of a good level of understanding of a healthy immune system, the medical establishment is in no position to make authoritative assertions about its function in ‘disease.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 114). Kindle Edition.
"In fact, we were told many times that if we didn't learn it in medical school it must be quackery."
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 119). Kindle Edition.
The most common explanation offered for the failure of the crews to succumb to these diseases is that they had developed immunity to them; but this explanation is highly problematic. According to the medical establish-ment, a healthy, competent immune system is one that contains antibodies that will destroy pathogens. There-fore, if the European sailors were 'immune to all these diseases due to the presence of the appropriate anti-bodies, their bodies would not contain any 'germs'. If, on the other hand, the European sailors did carry 'germs' they could not have been ‘immune.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 120). Kindle Edition.
“…full recovery cannot be expected so long as cause remains.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 737). Kindle Edition.
The medical establishment has a clear vested interest in perpetuating the myth that it was the ‘germs’ that killed many millions of people who had no immunity to the diseases the germs are alleged to cause.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 123). Kindle Edition.
It is claimed that the replication of a ‘virus’ in a cell causes cell death; yet there is no explanation by the medical establishment for the mechanism by which the death of a cell is able to induce a fever or a skin rash, or any of the other symptoms of a so-called ‘viral’ disease.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 125). Kindle Edition.
“Europe was once a hot bed of leprosy. Even as far west as England it was a serious problem. It has practically disappeared from Europe and this has not been due to any vaccine or serum drug that has wiped it out. The improved social conditions — sanitation, diet, personal cleanliness, better housing, and other healthful factors—that have evolved in Europe, with no aid from the medical profession have eliminated this disease.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 128). Kindle Edition.
He also states that pregnancy was able to produce a positive Wassermann test result; a situation that clearly demonstrates the test was not specific to any ‘disease’ and therefore a totally inappropriate method of diagnosing syphilis.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 131). Kindle Edition.
However, although sanitation and personal hygiene habits have improved, they have failed to completely eradicate this ‘disease’; this means that other factors must be involved. One of the factors that have been shown to contribute substantially to the body burden of toxins is vaccination, which has also been shown to be associated with the development of many diseases. Although previously cited, the words of Eleanor McBean bear repetition,
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 132). Kindle Edition.
It is clear that reports about the increased incidence of syphilis, whether true or not, serve the interests of the medical establishment and support their efforts to continue to generate fear. The trend to continually increase the use of antibiotics is a complete contradiction of the acknowledgement that they are vastly overused; the medical establishment cannot justify both views.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 133). Kindle Edition.
Although it is now firmly believed that the 1918 pandemic was due to viral influenza, in 1918 it was firmly believed that the disease was pneumonia, or a combination of influenza and pneumonia, and that it was caused by a bacterium called Pfeiffer’s bacillus.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 136). Kindle Edition.
Inexplicably, despite these other diseases, the pandemic is only ever referred to as one of ‘influenza’. The incidence of other diseases indicates that people were not all suffering from the same symptom-complex;
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 137). Kindle Edition.
which means that they were not all suffering from the same ‘disease’ that had a single causal agent; whether viral or bacterial.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 137). Kindle Edition.
Further evidence to support the assertion that vaccinations were contributory factors to the illness labelled as ‘1918 Flu’ is provided by Virus Mania, in which the authors state that, “A frequently observed symptom of the Spanish flu was internal bleeding in the lung (typical of tuberculosis patients for example) – a phenomenon that was also described as a result of smallpox vaccinations.”
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (pp. 138-139). (Function). Kindle Edition.
These symptoms are not unlike those described by the Stanford University article, which suggests the likelihood that cases of chlorine gassing may initially have been mistakenly identified as cases of ‘influenza’.
Lester, Dawn; Parker, David. What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong (p. 140). Kindle Edition.
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