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Vaccination 100 Years of Orthodox Research

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As a research scientist with 30 years of medical research behind me, including 10 years in biotechnology and vaccine development, I had never questioned the basic assumptions regarding vaccination. Scheiber's book on vaccine research has completely changed my views on the safety and efficacy of vaccination. She cites study after study, such as the 1950's studies with polio vaccine which involved nearly 2 million children, which conclusively showed at the time that the utility of polio vaccination is zero. Well, I thought as I read on, at least the smallpox vaccine wiped out smallpox. Wrong! It was also exhaustively compared with non-vaccination and found to have no benefit. In fact, the vaccine has no effect on smallpox infection except to predispose the vaccinee to infection. I had no idea. I am still in a state of shock. Hasn't anyone at the Centers for Disease Control looked at the data? Why such a practice is still continued in the face of all this evidence is beyond my comprehension. Needless to say, my research interests are no longer directed toward vaccination but rather toward something more useful and productive. This book is an excellent summary of the history of vaccination with numerous references at the end of each chapter. It has some typos which confuse the reader on occasion but the content is well worth the time it takes to read this excellent book. This book is an eye opener!

As a physician, I was skeptical of vaccination efficacy and safety a decade ago. Since this book was released, I have solidified my opinion against vaccines; in advising my patients and caring for my own child. Every physician should read this book. Compulsory, government-mandated vaccinations will predictably be abolished if the truth is widely disseminated. Take a look at Harris Coulter's fine work on vaccination and criminality. It will wake you up!

Vierra Scheibner's book is the most scholarly and scientific work supporting the viewpoint that vaccination is not healthy or safe. I have read many books on this subject, and I consider her book to be the best for those who wish to support their views from documented scientific literature. This book is a collection of her exhaustive review of medical literature on the subject and is fully referenced. It also contains information from her doctoral work (she has a Ph.D. in medicine) on SIDS that swayed her personally against vaccination.

This book is essential reading for anyone who has any interest in the issue of vaccinations. There are numerous commentaries, opinions, and statistics on the subject, but Scheibner takes you to the source: the actual data from 100 years of mainstream studies conducted on vaccinations and their effects. A Ph.D. scientist, Scheibner has written a first-rate literature review that would allow readers to judge for themselves what the data has to say about each vaccine and its surrounding issues (e.g. effectiveness, risk of disease without vaccination, side effects, and more). To top it off, the book is an engrossing and easy read. Scheibner presents not only summaries of shocking empirical evidence, but she narrates it in a broad historical context that offers insight on how vaccines persisted despite damaging data throughout their history.

Scheibner stumbled onto this field after finding a temporal correlation between the DPT vaccine and a baby breathing monitor she co-invented to help prevent SIDS. This book is a result of years of subsequent literature research she conducted to investigate the issue further. She concludes from both the literature and her own research that vaccines "represent a medical assault on the immune system," and shares with the reader the studies that convinced her--complete with information on results, sample sizes, control groups, and other details that would allow the reader to have perspective on the validity and limits of each study. References may be hard to follow, because they are listed in order of mention in each chapter, but are not footnoted numerically. However, the important thing is that they are all there.

I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone (pro or con) who wants to see published empirical evidence on vaccinations, rather than parroted opinion or threat. Scheibner has accomplished a remarkable feat in giving readers a chance to make up their own minds intelligently. I do not agree with all of Scheibner's conclusions, and you may not either. But at the end of the book, you will be able to base your agreement or disagreement on evidence, rather than on hearsay or myth. Scheibner has been accused of misrepresentation and pseudoscience. Does she sometimes make exaggerated or erroneous statements? Yes. But the value of the book lies not in her conclusions, beliefs, or statements. It lies in her summaries of pertinent data that would alert an educated reader to investigate the original articles for themselves. An thinking reader should be able to discern between belief and data. If you buy only one book on vaccinations, this should be the one.

This is a must read! Viera is an incredible woman and researcher who has invested all that she has in sharing this information! SIDS and vaccines and so much more.....
Sheri RN, MA...

I have read Viera's book and was very fortunate to attend a lecture that she gave here in Perth. The way that she has approached the subject is very logical and supported by facts. For anyone considering the fors and againsts of immunisation, I reccommend this book which sheds light on SIDS and the reality of vaccination

I have read most of Viera' book, It's a heavy book for a foreigner, but I know that it's beeing translated into danish so a lot of other doubting parents can read her fantastic results. I have meat Viera three times to sessions here in Denmark where she has told a lot of doubting people like my self about her work and results, and I think it's amazing how much litterature she has found and read - so no doubt obout her strong opinions. She is in touch with doctors and parents all over the world, and I hope she will keep up her fine work, maybee some danish doctors will listen to her some day! They should...

I am an open minded new father who has been researching vaccination issues for several week now and am just beginning to research some of what Dr. Scheibner has to say. I have purchased some of the source material, in particular Cherry et al, 1988. I find the Dr.'s use of this source material to indicate a point that the author obviously did not intend to be questionable. I have also found online evidence of the Dr. using an L.A. Times article from 1990 to indicate proof of a statistic that allegedly occurred in the years 1975 to 1980. There are also numerous typing errors and easily resolvable editorial problems in the book--that have gone uncorrected. The commercial nature of her website also leads one to question motives. If her motives truly are to help educate, why not provide a free online copy of this work?

While the SIDS breathing statistics presented in the book are interesting, considering the aforementioned items, a researcher must take what's in this book with a grain of salt. There are a lot of sources listed in this book. That is valuable--based on initial research my advice to those that buy this book is to seek them out and draw your own conclusions rather than relying on Dr. Scheibner's interpretation.

Dr. Scheibner states in the introduction to the book (page xv) that:

"I did not find it difficult to conclude that there is no evidence whatsoever that vaccines of any kind - but especially those against childhood diseases - are effective in preventing the infectious diseases they are supposed to prevent."

That is a powerful statement, considering all the published evidence to the contrary. If one wants to believe that vaccines are dangerous, ok. If one wants to believe that the risks may outweigh the advantages, ok. If you want to believe there are long term risks that are unknown, ok. If you want to believe that the reported adverse reactions to vaccines are greatly under-reported, ok. But don't believe that the vaccines don't work at all. There are far too many studies to the contrary.

It is also interesting to note that most developed countries with low infant mortality rates--such as UK, Sweden, Japan, and the US all support vaccination against MMR & DTaP. Surely all of these countries scientists that are making vaccine recommendations aren't wrong? I could see collusion based on greed in the US medical system or other closed systems as a potential problem, but surely not globally?

I'm sure there is useful information in this book, but with considering the items indicated above, who knows what you can trust from this source?

Also, one might google her name and bent spoon awards.

This book is a slight on reason. As a reader embarking on a quest to find reasoned evidence regarding the safety of Vaccination I was drawn to this book. What I was confronted with was a nonsensical slight to the discipline of Science. Vera Scheibner has a PhD in micropaleontology which is does not grant expert status in the field of immunology. However she takes great length to camouflage this from her readers.

Whether you agree with vaccination or not the most distressing thing about this book is the lack of scientific method. Vera shows a questionable grasp of research methods and contradicts the conclusions drawn by the very articles which she uses to support her views. Throughout this book Vera adopts an attitude of dismissing evidence that she disagrees with (out of hand) whilst quoting other evidence out of context. She seems unable to interpret statistical trends that a high school student would find trivial.

Do not buy this book I you are looking for Scientific analysis of the Vaccination debate, it is only useful for a giggle.

This woman needs to retake Statistics 101.
She also needs to learn how to read medical journal articles because she is blatantly misrepresenting the original articles.

I am amazed to see that Americans hold an aging scientist who dabbles in a field not related to her qualifications and who has been thoroughly discredited in her home country in such high esteem. Makes me worry about the US educational system.