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Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts

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Jennifer Craig is a nurse, as am I, and has done an incredible job sharing the story of the dangers of vaccines in a very entertaining, storytelling way. She shares many graphs to show the huge decline in deaths from diseases after improvement in sanitation and BEFORE a vaccine was invented. Yes, before the vaccine, huge declines in deaths. She also takes us back to the time when there was smallpox, a disease of a filthy environment, and has fascinating stories to tell.

This is not a typical vaccination book showing you the need for them or the dangers of them. Ms. Craig, takes you on a journey, as a great storyteller would, and makes the stories and history come alive.

We, as health care professionals as well as you as the public, all were only told one side of the vaccine issue - the only side the manufacturers and marketers of vaccines want you to know. There is much more to the story - this long sad story of trying to bring health by injecting disease and toxic chemicals and substances.....

Sheri Nakken, RN, MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Jennifer Craig, PhD. is the author of Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts, A Look At Vaccination.

This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary personality. The author is a PhD Nurse with an abundance of experience. She holds nothing back and says exactly what she thinks and feels! If you don't read this book, you will have less than a partial picture of the vaccine issue. She has done her homework when medicine, science and government have not. Now, it's up to you to read her well thought out information and experience.

Without this information, you will never be able to make an informed decision.

I was moved by that book for various reasons. First as a long term patient once, I remember how considerate and humane some nurses were. Jennifer Craig is something more than that. Like a protagonist of the films on the Second World War, where the nurse takes initiatives, gets informed and gives important information to the patient, Dr. Craig moved forward on studying the subject, becoming a PhD herself and returned to the patients through a lively book on vaccination.

I was also touched as a mother to be. My children get vaccinated? "The incidence of autism in the USA, were all children, often by law, are vaccinated is now one in every 96 boys. In the UK in 2008 it was estimated to be one in 66. Prior to 1970, autism incidence was 1: 2000. Is there a correlation between autism rates and vaccination rates? Mention this possibility to most conventional Western, or 'allopathic' health practitioners and you may well be treated as though you had accused the pope of indecent exposure."

I laughed loud a few times reading the whole story of vaccination, from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) to Edward Jenner (1749-1823) and Charles Creighton in the nineteenth century, but as the narration comes to our time things are getting much more familiar and thrilling. "Following Jenner's death the vaccine establishment used one excuse after another to explain the failure of vaccination: the number of punctures was incorrect, or that re-vaccination was necessary or that the lymph was impure. The deaths of vaccinated patients in hospital were recorded as 'pustular eczema'."

What are we going to do now? "Mendelsohn, a pediatrician, says: Today your child has about as much chance of contracting diphtheria as she does of being bitten by a cobra. Yet millions of children are immunized against it with repeated injections at two, four, six, and eighteen months and then given a booster shot when they enter school. This, despite evidence from over more than a dozen years of rare outbreaks of the disease, that children who have been immunized fare no better than those who have not."

I wondered as a journalist, where did Dr. Craig learn to be so short, precise and accurate? She is masterly in handling her stuff, exchanging short stories and dialogues with questions like What does a vaccine contain? What are the side effects? And how many children suffer from collateral damage?

The book's core is well summarized in her saying: "My grandmother's generation and indeed, my own, didn't expect kids to live without infectious disease, aches and injuries, for which they harboured tried and true home remedies. They would find it incomprehensible that this generation is willing to tolerate asthma, food allergies and autism instead of chicken pox".

The book is well documented and we should take her conclusion seriously: "Vaccination is the biggest medical scam of the twentieth century with iatrogenic consequences that will take decades to mop up". Time to reconsider our blind trust in the honesty of the medical institution.

Maria Papagiannidou, author of the book "Goodbye AIDS! Did it ever exist?", Impact Investigative Media Productions, 2009.

Last November, I had the opportunity to meet the delightfully feisty and unassuming author of Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts: A Look at Vaccination. Long retired from her nursing career and now a PhD, Jennifer Craig has an aura of matter-of-fact wisdom about her that can't be ignored.

I read her book in fits and starts (I have far, far too many books sitting on my night-table waiting to be read), but I am thankful to her for some vital but rarely-seen information on vaccines. One of the many bits that caught my attention was reference to a very tiny Feb 8, 2005 LA Times story which reported that, according to a Merck memo obtained by the paper, by the time American children reach six months of age they have received 87 times the FDA safety limit of mercury. That's the industry saying it, not her.

That is extraordinarily significant. Mercury in all forms is toxic, injected even more so than when ingested, and most especially in infants who excrete it poorly, if at all. The news ought to have been paid serious attention.

The research Craig has done has clearly alarmed her. "Vaccination is the biggest medical scam of the twentieth century with iatrogenic consequences that will take decades to mop up," she writes. It's a shocking conclusion for many of us. The idea that vaccines have been life-saving is deeply ingrained, and Craig will surely be on the receiving end of criticism over it. But she arrives at the conclusion only after looking at the data.

Graphs of official mortality statistics show that death from most infectious diseases had declined dramatically prior to the arrival of the relevant vaccine. It's not incidence of these diseases that had all but disappeared--she's clear about that--but mortality resulting from them had become vanishingly small. The US death rate of measles for example was 13.3 per 100,000 in 1900, 0.2 by 1945, and negligible by 1963 when the vaccine was introduced.

Pointing out that the pattern of decline for diseases for which we developed vaccines closely parallels the pattern of decline for those such as scarlet fever for which there is no vaccine, Craig suggests that vaccination programs don't deserve the level of credit they get, and that our fear of not vaccinating our children is unfounded.

Having insider experience as a former nurse, Craig includes a little discussion of the code of ethics for Canadian nurses regarding vaccine risk. It is illuminating. Ethics for nurses obviously include informing the client of his or her right to refuse consent, but they also include treating with respect the position of relative power held by health professionals, and a corresponding call to minimize sources of coercion. Craig argues that pressuring parents to consent to vaccines for any reason is an abuse of that power.

Equally illuminating is her discussion on immune function. On recognizing a pathogen, our first response is an acute inflammatory response, followed by antibody production on the part of B cells, which reside in lymphoid tissues such as the Peyer's patches found in our small intestines. Vaccines have been shown to alter the functioning of these lymphoid tissues. Too-frequent stimulation and the resulting chronic inflammation of our antibody producing system may not, it turns out, be as productive a way to deal with infectious diseases as we thought.

Then, fearlessly taking what the Health Canada website cites as vaccine misconceptions, she provides rebuttals for them, one by one.

It's not just data Craig provides; she's a story-teller and includes a creative recounting of the history of vaccination, which will be quickly dismissed by many as irrelevant--science has, after all, come a long way. But she left me wondering yet again if that is perhaps an assumption we shouldn't be too quick to make.

Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts is sure to be heavily criticized when it catches the attention of defenders of our current vaccine paradigm. But Craig is simply the messenger; she has collected data and relevant information that has clearly changed the classical view she surely must have at one time, as a nurse, held.

The fact that countries with the most rigorous childhood vaccine programs have poorer childhood mortality rates than those that give fewer vaccines ought to make us pause and think before reacting with reflexive skepticism to Craig's conclusions.