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Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children Paperback – Illustrated, September 1, 2012
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- Print length512 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSkyhorse
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2012
- Dimensions6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101620872129
- ISBN-13978-1620872123
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“This book raises some of the important issues that need to be discussed.” (Dave Weldon, MD, practicing physician and former U.S. Congressman)
About the Author
Mary Holland, M.A., J.D., is on the faculty at NYU School of Law, directs its Graduate Lawyering Program, and lives in New York City.
Kim Mack Rosenberg, J.D., is a lawyer in private practice and lives in New York City.
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- Publisher : Skyhorse; Revised and Expanded Edition (September 1, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1620872129
- ISBN-13 : 978-1620872123
- Item Weight : 1.36 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #209,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #46 in Industrial & Technical Chemistry (Books)
- #94 in Vaccinations
- #231 in Hoaxes & Deceptions
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About the authors

Louise Kuo Habakus is the founder and executive director of FearlessParent.org, an online media platform that combines her passion for health and wellness, green living, scientific research, and an unapologetic penchant for challenging authority and pursuing provocative, non-conformist choices in a mainstream world. She is a published author and runs a nonprofit think tank advocacy organization. Louise is the lead host and producer of the popular new Fearless Parent Radio featuring cutting edge clinicians, bestselling authors, and leading researchers, activists, bloggers, and thought leaders.
Louise was a Bain consultant and a C-level executive for Prudential Financial and Putnam Investments. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with distinction and departmental honors from Stanford University, where she also received a graduate degree in international policy studies. She is an advisory board member of GreenMedInfo.
Keep in touch with her at Facebook.com/Habakus, Facebook.com/VaccineEpidemic, and Twitter.com/Habakus.

Mary Holland, J.D., is on the faculty at NYU School of Law and directs its Graduate Lawyering Program. She has written several law review and other articles on vaccine law and policy and is the co-author of Vaccine Epidemic (Skyhorse Pub. 2012) and The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for Generation Betrayed (Skyhorse 2018). She has testified to retain or expand vaccination exemptions in the California, West Virginia, Maine, New York and Vermont legislatures and has participated in several briefings for federal and state officials. She has appeared in several documentaries and programs on vaccine issues. She serves on the boards of the World Mercury Project, Health Choice, the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy, and the Otto Specht School. Educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Holland has worked in international public and private law. Prior to joining NYU, Holland worked for six years at major U.S. law firms, with three years based in Moscow, Russia. She also worked at a U.S. human rights organization as Director of its European Program. After graduating law school, she clerked for a federal district court judge in the Southern District of New York. She has taught courses at Columbia Law School and has served as a consultant to the Aspen Institute Justice and Society Program.

Kim Mack Rosenberg is an author, researcher, and lawyer living in the New York metro area. She is originally from the greater Cleveland, OH area and attended Carleton College and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She has been actively involved, serving in leadership positions, in several non-profits focusing on children's health issues.
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Vaccination, touted by their manufacturers and apostles in the medical profession, as "The Greatest Miracle of Modern Medicine," is also a serious technological intervention. Vaccination, even more so than all other medical interventions, since it is performed on healthy individuals, should only be accepted with fully, informed consent.
The editors of this book had thriving careers when they ran face-first into the wall of an unanticipated reality. The lessons, learned the hard way, of that awakening prompted this comprehensive look at issues and factors related to vaccination that are never disclosed in those little forms warning of "extremely rare redness or soreness at the site of injection" that we are asked to sign before submitting our children and ourselves to these inoculations. Neither are these issues reported in an open and unbiased way in the mainstream press, due to concerns about alienating pharmaceutical advertisers and EXTREME pressure by members of the medical community and high-level government officials, who fear that "too much information" (i.e. fully informed consent) will (rightly) cause people to have reservations about the vaccine program, as it is currently constituted.
As the editors and contributors of Vaccine Epidemic have so comprehensively and solidly demonstrated, backed by supporting documentation, true informed consent would include an understanding of facts that go far beyond mere vaccine ingredients and all the disclosures on manufacturers' package inserts. It is truly unfortunate that we no longer live in the days of Marcus Welby, M.D., when we could feel confident that "doctor's orders" were based on his/her personal consideration of our individual situation and a committment to "First Do No Harm."
We must understand:
The pressure on physicians to conform to industry "standards of care," to maximize vaccination uptake and to squelch any doubts or questions about vaccine efficacy and safety.
The strangle-hold industry has on our government, at all levels, due to the near total corruption of our electoral process.
The primacy of corporate funding to the CDC, FDA (formerly the people's watchdogs - now industry lapdogs).
How industry attacks and attempts to silence/discredit researchers who raise honest questions or attempt to engage in "inconvenient" research addressing these very valid questions. (One blogger aptly referred to this strategy from the industry playbook as "to Wakefield a person.")
Why the vaccine market is viewed by pharmaceutical corporations as the answer to their continuing profits, as patents expire on their blockbuster drugs with no replacements in sight.
It is also crucial to understand that, should you or your child be one of those, arguably, "very rare" persons who suffers a serious injury or death as a result of vaccination, you will - with very few exceptions - be entirely on your own, financially, medically, and legally. In the post-Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986 reality, and the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth you are now barred from your constitutional right to have your evidence heard and seek legal redress for your injuries.
The increasing incidence of state-sanctioned, though unconstitutional, "child removal" being inflicted on families with injured children, due to charges of "medical neglect," leveled at parents by physicians who complain to child welfare departments when parents decline to continue drugging their children (see Maryanne Godboldo case, unfolding now), or pursue alternative medical therapies. Physicians, too, who dare to deviate from pharmaceutically defined "standards of care," are being brought before medical licensing boards and/or otherwise attacked and harassed.
Readers are also asked to ponder questions about the ethics/morality of current vaccine program policy, which implicitly acknowledges that some will be killed or injured in order to "save" others. In the face of the lack of any concerted effort by authorities to find out just which children are vulnerable to injury and why, we have to ask if we are a society that can approve of "killing a child to save a child." Utilitarianism was embraced as governing policy from Machiavelli to Hitler and Stalin. Do we acquiesce as utilitarianism is increasingly adopted as guiding policy in the United States? Do we accept that the (questionable) ends justify any means?
Incredibly, this is an incomplete list of the issues that must be understood in order for a person to reach the capacity to give true informed consent. Vaccine Epidemic covers them all.
In sum, this book is nothing less than the most gracious of gifts from the editors and contributors whose motives are simple: to give others the advantage of information many of the us did not have when we made their own vaccination decisions, and lived to regret.
This review will be attacked with great efficiency by very credible sounding critics, who will pounce on me as an "anti-vaxer," scientifically illiterate and a threat to public health. Some of these will be, in fact, professional commenters, hired by PR agencies, hired by AAP, CDC, etc. Others will be sincere, but deluded victims of the campaign of fear being waged by the likes of Paul Offit, Seth Mnookin, et al, who employ the very same tactic as in that "other war" we're encouraged to be "afraid, be very afraid" of questioning: "The War on Terror."
I no longer respond to those kinds of comments to reviews on this subject. But, I do urge those tempted to be swayed by the efforts of such critics to dazzle you with their b.s., in order to distract you from the substantive issues Vaccine Epidemic raises, to read an essay I read years ago and have found useful to consider when analyzing the pronouncements of "experts:" "The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything," by Tim O'Shea - [...]
Thank you for this book!! It is extremely well written, documented and thought out.
It baffles me a bit that enormous legal settlements tying vaccines to vaccine injury(over $3 billion dollars paid out to those under the Vaccine injury compensation program). Countless researchers, scientists and Medical Doctors from prestigious universities (MIT, Harvard, Purdue, etc.) and around the world publicly stating there is a problem with vaccines, safety studies, vaccine ingredients, the current vaccine schedule, etc. The Gardasil vaccine is under fire in just about every country it's administered, Merck is currently being sued by two former virologists who claim fraud on the Mumps vaccine and efficacy rate, 2 months ago a #CDCwhistleblower Dr. William Thompson has publicly stated that "he and the CDC" has committed fraud in a major study regarding vaccines and Autism, doesn't raise any eyebrows in the eyes of individuals or the main stream media?!
Vaccine Epidemic brings to light just how many questions still need to be addressed in the world of "safety and efficacy" in vaccines. Until fairly recently, it seems as if it has fallen on deaf ears, Broader safety studies should be encouraged; it should be encouraged that politicians either listen to the voices calling for additional, independent safety studies or be voted out of office; the whole “pay to play” system may be the downfall of our society unless we can change it immediately. Our society’s inability to have a level-headed conversation about vaccines, GMO’s, toxic chemicals is silly. The fact that mainstream media completely ignores the "PRO "informed choice" side of this story completely is glaringly obvious to anyone who attempts to view research from both sides. Name calling and labeling/branding people as “quacks” or “conspiracy theorists” for questioning the status quo in an effort to negate the grounded research which contradicts MSM’s financial interests shouldn't be frowned upon, it should be cheered.
While those who push the “get ‘em all” vaccine party line immediately race to the autism fight, stating this has been disproven (though the #CDCwhistleblower and many other reputable researchers and scientists around the world beg to differ). The concerned researchers, activists, and parents who are labeled “anti-vax” are in reality, PRO “informed choice.” They are calling for MORE science and they are asking policymakers to pay attention to research that already raises questions about links between food and vaccines and environmental toxins and the increased rate of childhood allergies, asthma, cancer, autoimmune disease, diabetes, etc… We already have some of the sickest children of all developed countries (WE HAVE THE SECOND HIGHEST INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD) with one of the highest, if not the largest vaccine schedule for children. Does no one see a disconnect here? How does this not raise eyebrows?
For those who continue to say, its NOT vaccines or food, then why be opposed to more independent safety studies or labeling the food? If there is nothing to hide, shouldn’t we err on the side of caution when it comes to our children? Aren’t they what’s most important?
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highly recommended and a MUST READ, without pre-judgement.







