The Mythology of Safe and Effective

The Mythology of Safe and Effective

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Vaccines. They always come with the automatic tagline “safe and effective.” Even during the panic-filled era of COVID-19, the same tagline was automatically issued despite the various new vaccines from multiple companies lacking any long-term testing. At the time of writing this article, according to the CDC website, “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.”[1] This tagline still remains even after AstraZeneca admitted in court that their vaccine can cause fatal blood clots and low platelet counts.

On April 30, AstraZeneca conceded that the vaccine, sold under the name Vaxzevria, can cause fatal blood clots and low platelet counts. The admission came through court documents in a UK class action lawsuit that sought £100 million for almost 50 victims of AstraZeneca vaccine side effects.[2]

Also, it was claimed by CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on March 29, 2021, that the vaccine stopped transmission of the disease.

 “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials but it’s also in real-world data,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Rachel Maddow on Monday, March 29.[3]

However, a relatively short time later, Director Walensky and the CDC acknowledged that vaccines cannot stop the spread of the virus.

The director for the CDC publicly acknowledged in a CNN interview that the COVID-19 vaccine is not effective at preventing transmission of the virus... The following statement is more notable, however, as it is one of the only times the CDC has acknowledged that the vaccines are not capable of stopping the spread of the virus. “...what they [vaccines] can’t do anymore is prevent transmission...”[4]

It makes you wonder what “safe and effective” really mean in the minds of governments and public health officials. Or are these terms just something that is automatically attached to any vaccine, no matter who makes it or what’s in it? But where did this idea of making such certain and audacious claims start?

Over 200 years ago, on March 17, 1802, Edward Jenner, creator of cowpoxing and later rebranded as vaccination, petitioned the House of Commons, stating that vaccination was perfectly safe and would protect you for life.

That your petitioner having discovered that a disease which occasionally exists in a particular form among cattle, known by the name of cow-pox, admits of being inoculated [vaccinated] on the human frame with the most perfect ease and safety, and is attended with the singularly beneficial effect of rendering through life the person so inoculated perfectly secure from the infection of small-pox... [vaccination] has already checked the progress of small-pox, and, from its nature, must finally annihilate that dreadful disorder.[5]

In the year 1805, a mere few years after the widespread adoption of vaccination within the medical community, Dr. William Rowley, MD, who held the esteemed position of Physician to Her Majesty’s Lying-in Hospital, made a notable observation:

Out of 504 persons vaccinated, 75 died from the consequences [14.9%.] There is no question here of supposition, or calculation of probability—it is truth: It is evidence which seems to speak, and leaves no doubt. Now, if in the space of seven or eight years (from 1798 to 1805) Vaccination has shown itself so grievous to society, what may we not fear for the future.[6]

His work, Cow-pox inoculation NO SECURITY against Small-pox infection, documented that many children who had been vaccinated had contracted smallpox, despite the confident claims of invulnerability made by those administering the vaccinations. Through careful observation, he conclusively exposed the theory of vaccination as a faulty concept. He raised a stern cautionary flag, predicting that the millions fooled by the illusion of impregnable smallpox immunity were inevitably destined to fall prey to the very disease they sought protection from.

As to temporary security by Cow-pox inoculation against Small-pox infection, there exist so many opposing facts to this chimerical idea, from children having had Small-pox from two months to six years after passing through regular vaccination, with the scars on both arms, that this, like the other vaccination extravagances, is perfectly refuted by FACTS… even temporary expectation from Cow-poxing in preventing Small Pox is vain, idle, irrational, and inconclusive, except in the credulous [gullible] minds of vaccinating, disappointed zealots, shifting their ground from one absurdity to another, until they have no ground to stand upon whatever.[7]

…it is just to infer that millions who have been supposed secure through the imaginary infallibility of Cow-pox inoculation may, and probably will, hereafter become victims to Small Pox and perish by its epidemic malignity, which has actually happened in various parts of the metropolis.[8]

Vaccinators had deluded the public into believing vaccination mythology: that it was a perfectly secure way to protect themselves and their children from smallpox. However, vaccinators found it necessary to persuade or coerce individuals into expressing favorable sentiments about vaccination to sustain this illusion. They employed intimidation tactics to suppress any discussion of vaccination mishaps, and many were subdued by the apprehension of displeasing medical professionals if they dared to voice their concerns.

Besides deluding parents, threaten them unmercifully if they dare to disclose vaccination errors, and they remain silent under their sorrows. Others, through respect to their medical practitioners, will neither admit their own nor doctor’s names to be published, for fear of giving offence. Others are cajoled and forced to say or do anything vaccination fallacy chooses to dictate.[9]

Dr. Rowley noted that those who didn’t conform to the already firmly established doctrine of vaccination would be labeled as “traitors.” The prevailing social and political climate compelled the majority to adopt an “allegiance to vaccination.”

It is known and must be acknowledged by every penetrating and candid observer, that they have constantly and uniformly opposed, crushed, and never honourably promoted any regular system of fair inquiry. If they met it was to stifle, pervert, virulently, or indecently to abuse every man who wrote or spoke against their attracting interested object. Whoever had not taken the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to vaccination, or who dared to doubt the infallibility of Cow-pox inoculation even in its infancy, even before any judgment could be formed, were ignominiously treated as traitors to the royal vaccinating state, as rebellious subjects to the Jennerian despotic power.[10]

In the same year of 1805, John Brich, Esq, Surgeon to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, noted that he found the new-fangled notion neither “safe” nor “effective.”

The cow-pox terminated successfully, but the child afterward sickened, and had an eruption, which I considered the small-pox... Two other cases... were followed by distinct and unequivocal small-pox after vaccination... what I have seen and heard since has only served to determine me not to be misled by the fashionable rage... that what has been called the cow-pox is not a preservative against the natural small-pox.[11]

There is but one; namely, that Vaccination neither secures the patient from catching the Small Pox by variolous infection, nor, when so caught, lessens the danger of disease. For my own part I tremble to think on the perils which await Society, from the prevalence of Vaccination. Unless it be stopped, we shall see Small Pox at no very distant period recur in all the terrors with which it was first surrounded; desolating cities like the plague, and sweeping thousands from the earth, who, lulled into a false security, will have fatally deprived themselves of the only proper means of defence.[12]

Merely a decade after vaccination became all the medical rage, in 1810, Charles Maclean, MD, penned an extensive book delving into the shortcomings of the vaccination practice. Within the pages of his work, he meticulously presented tables filled with names of individuals, accompanied by references, which revealed a staggering 535 cases of smallpox emerging after cowpox inoculation. Additionally, the records indicated 150 fatalities resulting from either smallpox or adverse reactions to cowpox after cowpox vaccination.[13]

Astonishingly, only a short time after the introduction of this novel medical intervention, it had already taken such deep root in the minds of the medical fraternity that no evidence could dislodge its pervasiveness. Dr. Maclean knew these massive failures were being covered up by those already entrenched in this vaccination dogma, and the few who did notice kept quiet due to fear.

Very few deaths from cow-pox appear in the Bills of Mortality, owing to the means which have been used to suppress knowledge of them. Neither were deaths, diseases and failures transmitted in great abundance from the country, not because they did not happen, but because some practitioners were interested in not seeing them, and others who did see them were afraid of announcing what they knew.[14]

Through his meticulous research, he arrived at the persuasive conclusion that vaccination, far from its purported efficacy, proved itself to be not only futile but also responsible for numerous deaths. These deaths included not only instances of smallpox, the very ailment vaccination aimed to prevent, but also fatalities arising from the diseases that vaccination itself caused. This deception defrauded the public not only of their health and lives but also of their wealth.

…the practice of vaccination is absurd, superfluous, and worse than useless. But as, in numerous instances, death has happened from small-pox after cow-pox; and as cow-pox produces other diseases, of which many cases have terminated in death; the practice is directly, positively, and extremely pernicious to society. And, as having been the medium of defrauding the public probably of millions of money, which never has been accounted for, and for which vaccinating adventurers have been scrambling and fighting in the name of philanthropy, I hold it to be an imposture, not simply disgraceful to science, pernicious to health, and dangerous to life; but destructive to the morals of the faculty, and injurious to the purses of the community.[15]

It is remarkable to observe the swift transformation of vaccination into a medical dogma amid clearly evident issues and failures that only a handful of courageous voices were willing to express and document.

As time went on, the medical community conveniently continued ignoring any instances of failure and steadfastly clung to the practice of vaccination. They found themselves trapped within the confines of their own beliefs, and this predicament grew more pronounced over the passing years. Failures became commonplace and were lackadaisically accepted by those that noticed.

Only about 20 years after the introduction of vaccination, in 1820:

Cases of small pox after cow pox, are become so common, as no longer to excite any interest. In one family we lately met with seven children laid up with small pox, all of whom had been vaccinated, some eight years, and others four years ago.[16]

In 1857, Dr. Josef Hamernick, professor at the University of Prague and Chief Physician of the Small-Pox Wards of the General Hospital, also found that smallpox vaccination failed in various epidemics.

We learn from all well marked small-pox epidemics, that cow-pox does not protect from small-pox, even after repeated vaccination; and that the two affections have no relation whatever with each other... Vaccination proved likewise useless in the epidemics of Paris (1825) and Marseilles (1828); and it is hardly to be doubted that vaccination would long ago have been abolished if people could, in other countries, as is the case in England, freely express their opinions; and if it were not the interest of appointed vaccinators and other officials to keep the practice of vaccination in stain quo. There is no value in the statement that incipient epidemics of small-pox were arrested and rendered milder by rapid vaccinations and re-vaccinations, except medical men could control the accuracy or their verdict, as lawyers do, by a new trial.[17]

By the end of the 1800s Dr. Charles Creighton, MD, professor at the University of Cambridge, author of numerous writings, including History of Epidemics in Britain (vol 1 & 2), Bovine Epidemics in Man, Cowpox and Vaccinal Syphilis, Jenner and Vaccination: A Strange Chapter of Medical History, and Vaccination in the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1888 noted that on how most of the medical profession became hoodwinked by this notion. He wrote in his book Jenner and Vaccination. A Strange Chapter of Medical History published in 1889:

The public at large cannot believe that a great profession should have been so perseveringly in the wrong. The present attitude of the public may be said to illustrate the truth of a maxim of Carlyle’s: “That no error is fully confuted [refuted] till we have seen not only that it is an error, but how it became one.” The task which I set before me when I began this book was to explain to myself how the medical profession in various countries could have come to fall under the enchantment of an illusion. I believe that they were misled most of all by the name of “smallpox of the cow,” under which the new protective was first brought to their notice. For that grand initial error, blameworthy in its inception, and still more so in the furtive [sneaky] manner of its publication, the sole responsibility rests with Jenner. The profession as a whole has been committed before now to erroneous doctrines and injurious practices, which have been upheld by its solid authority for generations.[18]

Over the decades, nearly 200 medical professionals documented the failure to prevent smallpox and injuries and deaths from this first vaccine. Creighton, Crookshank, Hodge, Tebb, Winterburn, Wallace, Peebles, Collins, Gunn, Leverson, Kimball, Clarke, Brown, Clymer, Birch, Holmes, Thomson, Trall, and many others challenged the prevailing medical orthodoxy. Yet, they were largely ignored by the medical establishment, which persistently repeated the advertising slogan “safe and effective” to keep consumers mindlessly programmed—much like Kellogg’s Rice Krispies’ “Snap! Crackle! Pop!” or Nike’s “Just Do It.”

It is difficult to conceive what will be the excuse for a century of cow-poxing [vaccination]; but it cannot be doubted that the practice will appear in as absurd a light to the common sense of the twentieth century as blood-letting now does to us. Vaccination differs, however, from all previous errors of the faculty, in being maintained as the law of the land on the warrant of medical authority. That is the reason why the blow to professional credit can hardly help being severe, and why the efforts to ward it off have been, and will continue to be so ingenious. [19] —Dr. Charles Creighton, MD

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[1] “Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines,” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html

[2] “AstraZeneca vaccine withdrawn after fatal blood clot revelation,” May 8,2024, https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/astrazeneca-vaccine-withdrawn-after-fatal-blood-clot-revelation/news-story/b94023cfa237c74b26fc329855c6b51a

[3] “It’s official: Vaccinated people don’t transmit COVID-19,” Fortune, April 1, 2021, https://fortune.com/2021/04/01/its-official-vaccinated-people-dont-transmit-covid-19/

[4] “CDC Director: Covid vaccines can't prevent transmission anymore,” Audacy, January 10, 2022,

https://www.themainewire.com/2023/04/cdc-director-walensky-says-vaccines-dont-stop-transmission-why-does-maine-still-mandate-the-shot/

[5] John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner, pp. 490–491.

[6] George William Winterburn, PhD, MD, The Value of Vaccination: A Non-partisan Review of Its History and Results, 1886, F.E. Boericke, Philadelphia, p. 115.

[7] William Rowley, MD, Cow-pox inoculation NO SECURITY against Small-pox infection, 1805, Printed by J. Barfield, sold by J. Harris, London, p. viii.

[8] William Rowley, MD, Cow-pox inoculation NO SECURITY against Small-pox infection, 1805, Printed by J. Barfield, sold by J. Harris, London, p. 13.

[9] William Job Collins, MD, Have You Been Vaccinated, and what Protection is it Against the Small Pox? 1869, People’s Edition London, J. Burns, 15 Southampton Row, Holborn, W. C., pp. 51–52.

[10] William Rowley, MD, Cow-pox inoculation NO SECURITY against Small-pox infection, 1805, London, printed by J. Barfield, sold by J. Harris, pp. 26–27.

[11] John Birch, MRCS, London, “Facts and Observations tending to disprove the efficacy of the practice of Vaccination, as a preventive of Small-Pox,” The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, part I., vol. II, 1805, pp. 78–81.

[12] John Brich, Esq, Surgeon to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, &c. A letter Occasioned by the Many Failures of Cow-Pox, 1805.

[13] Charles Maclean, MD, On the State of Vaccination in 1810, London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; [and] C. Birnie, pp. 82–92, 95–97.

[14] Charles Maclean, MD, On the State of Vaccination in 1810, London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; [and] C. Birnie, London, p. 101.

[15] Charles Maclean, MD, On the State of Vaccination in 1810, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; [and] C. Birnie, London, p. 103.

[16] The Monthly Gazette of Health, vol. V, no. 51, March 1, 1820, p. 439.

[17] Papers relating to the History and Practice of Vaccination, 1857, London, p. 129.

[18] Charles Creighton MD, Jenner and Vaccination. A Strange Chapter of Medical History, 1889, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., p. 353.

[19] Charles Creighton MD, Jenner and Vaccination. A Strange Chapter of Medical History, 1889, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., p. 354.