by Barbara Loe Fisher
“Show Us the Science and Give Us the Choice” was the rallying cry of the 700 parents and health care workers who traveled from 44 states and 11 nations to attend the groundbreaking Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center Oct. 2-4, 2009. The historic conference featured presentations by more than 40 world experts in the areas of vaccine science, policy, law, and ethics and raised more than $100,000 to launch an international fund raising campaign for scientific research to investigate health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated children and identify those at risk for suffering vaccine injury.
Families with healthy children and those with vaccine injured children joined hands with nurses, doctors and allied health care workers in a united call for quality scientific research and the human right to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions. What we witnessed was a celebration of the human spirit and what we affirmed was dedication to truth in science and the duty to protect the biological integrity of our children.
We are not going to wait any longer for government or industry to answer the big question of whether the nearly 70 doses of 16 vaccines that doctors now give our children between the day of birth and age 18 is contributing to the unexplained chronic disease and disability epidemic that is harming far too many of our children. With 1 child in 6 now learning disabled; 1 in 9 asthmatic; 1 in 100 developing autism; 1 in 450 diabetic and millions more suffering with seizures, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, bi-polar disorder and other chronic illness, the National Vaccine Information Center is assembling a group of independent experts from multiple scientific disciplines to immediately evaluate and act to protect our children’s health.
NVIC’s Children’s Fund for Hope, Health and Healing will raise funds to first create data collection systems and conduct small preliminary studies with a longer term goal of conducting a large 10-year clinical study. The scientific research program will evaluate health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals; identify potential high risk factors for adverse responses to vaccination; and investigate the biological mechanisms for vaccine injury and death.
Vicky Debold, PhD, RN, who teaches health research methods at George Mason University and has served as NVIC’s Director of Patient Safety for three years, has been appointed Scientific Research Director for NVIC’s Children’s Fund for Hope, Health & Healing. She is assembling a steering committee of health research experts and has pledged “to leave no stone unturned in our efforts to understand why so many healthy infants and children are regressing after vaccination and becoming chronically ill.”
NVIC will also raise funds to strengthen informed consent protections in US vaccine laws and support health care workers seeking to protect their right to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions. Dawn Richardson, co-founder and president of PROVE, has been appointed as NVIC’s Director of State Advocacy. Mrs. Richardson led a seven-year successful grassroots campaign to obtain conscientious belief exemption to vaccination in Texas in 2003. She said “There is too much abuse of executive power taking place at the state level when it comes to mandatory vaccination.”
If you want to support unbiased, scientific research into the health effects of vaccination and be part of this historic grassroots movement to defend truth in science and the informed consent principle, become a donor supporter of the consumer-led non-profit (501c3) National Vaccine Information Center. The world’s largest and oldest vaccine safety and informed consent organization is funded by donations from individual citizens and foundations, including Dr. Joseph Mercola and the Albert and Claire Dwoskin Family Foundation. NVIC takes no pharmaceutical industry or government funding.
You can direct your tax deductible donation to scientific research or informed consent advocacy – or both. It’s your choice.
Go to www.NVIC.org to learn more about NVIC’s unmatched 28 year record of public service to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths and also learn how to make an informed decision about H1N1 swine flu vaccination. It’s your family, your health and your choice.
A heartfelt thank you to all the parents, grandparents, nurses, doctors, scientists and health care workers who came and made history with us at the Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination. You are writing a new chapter in the three decade vaccine safety and informed consent movement.
Together, we CAN stand up and protect our human right to make informed, voluntary vaccine decisions based on good science. Because the future is ours to change for the better if we have the courage and believe we can do it.
Click here to support NVIC’s Research and Advocacy programs.
“The conference was a complete triumph and will go down in history.”
“Thank you Barbara Fisher and your entire support team for an
outstanding conference. My husband and I were so impressed with the entire conference. The speakers were great and the attendees were knowledgable and committed. There was not a wasted moment. As Barbara said, it was a "World Class Conference". It is regrettable that the press did not attend. But committed, loving, concerned moms are powerful force as your organization has shown. Getting the truth out is a challenge in a truth challenged world.
This issue is so much a matter of integrity and it is shocking how little of that important quality is available today.”
“Congratulations on an amazing conference. I think it was the most well attended conference I have ever been to! I am so proud of you and the work of the NVIC.”
“Thank-you so much for the invaluable conference that you put on this past weekend. The speakers you brought together from around the world were amazing. We are fortunate that we were able to attend. There is comfort in knowing that individuals with the utmost integrity and strength have dedicated everything they have in them to magnify the fact that valid science has never been done on the risks and benefits of mass vaccination. I applaud you and others for holding your head's high for nearly 30 years despite the ridicule and opposition you have faced…. My husband, myself, and my family want to be a part of this. Change needs to take place as fast as possible.”
“All I can say is AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING. The conference was phenomenal. I can't wait to see everything that comes out of this now…
Thanks again for pulling together such an amazing array of experts and people It was truly a wonderful weekend.”
“I am a long time supporter of NVIC, since Chiropractic College. I was at the conference this past weekend and found it just so Incredible on so many levels. The speakers were invaluable, the presentations, the quality of people attending and the contacts that I made were amazing! I write to you today to let you know that I will be a huge supporter of this new study that you are embarking on, good for you!! It's about time I say…. I applaud you for your bravery and unending dedication for truth and the pursuit of freedom of choice. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. God bless you.”
”Congratulations on pulling off a WONDERFUL conference. I worked a lot of conferences in the past as a webcaster and none even touched the excitement and passion that all those who attended had. It was truly an amazing experience to be a part of. I am so excited for NVIC. It's truly an honor to be a part of such a wonderful thing!!”
“I just wanted to say THANK YOU again for all your hard work in making the conference happen this year. I was thrilled to be part of this event.
Thank you for all the work the NVIC does to educate and empower us to make informed choices. My mission now is to start working with my state legislators to move the philosophical exemption bill forward!!
Thanks again - I'm telling everyone I can about the study that NVIC is now raising money for as well!”
“What a great gathering of fantastic speakers on this topic!! I purchased the recordings already . Just wanted to thank and commend you for all of your hard work!! Keep fighting...people are listening!!
Awesome, great stuff
ReplyDeleteThis is the sort of action that can really change things.
Independent people conducting independent research without funding for governments or foundations with vested interests and hidden agenda's
good luck.
I was so excited to be at the conference when you made this announcement. Finally a long overdue study will be conducted. Thank you so much for all you do.
ReplyDeleteWay to open us all up to increased risk with your misguided anti-vaccine campaign.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing that the effects of multiple vaccinations even needs to be studied by independent researchers in the first place. Having kids as guinea pigs is so wrong of the pharmaceutical companies and the church of modern medicine.
ReplyDeleteKudos to all of you who are pushing for this sort of exposure, you are the true heroes of our time! I hope the big pharma industries don't fight back too viciously, after all, they hate bad press.
There was a vaccine study done by Dr. Laura Hewitson, Ph.D. on infant primates at the University of Pittsburgh, and the researcher introduced autism into the animals by following the vaccine schedule for human infants. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107989.php
Health is achieved and maintained by following a natural diet that does not involve refined sugar, flour and hydrogenated vegetable oils. People could cure themselves of heart problems, high blood pressure and many other things by forsaking these unnatural man made substances. A great book to read is "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon. This book saved my health, it really did.
Until this evening I had not heard of you or your work. For years I have had convictions and concerns about vaccines. I would love to know if there is a difference between vaccinated children and unvaccinated. Most of our children have not been vaccinated. We stopped vaccinating completely on the slow plan when one of our sons had huge hard knots in his legs after a vaccine was administered. It took over a month his legs to return back to normal. Thank You for your hard work. I plan on devouring everything on your blog and passing it on.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Barbara, for all the effort you've put into vaccine safety and awareness. My mom heard you speak when I was just a child, and took your story to heart. I had been vaccinated as a baby, but she never again let me or any of my siblings get vaccinated again. And I'm thankful, for my mother-warrior, and for people like you, who helped protect kids like us.
ReplyDeleteI'm now the mother of a young son, and I'm pregnant with a daughter. My husband and I have also decided to protect our children from vaccines. From me, from my children, thank you for being strong, and sharing your strength with others.
Thank you Barbara,
ReplyDeleteI have been keeping up with your reports on Mercola.com
THANK YOU for exposing the FACT that hospitals haven't actually tested people for h1n1.
I have been ringing that bell not on just this blog but everywhere I could because SO many doctors / nurses were posting this.
Again, thank you!
Awesome movement I have an autistic 8 yr old and an ADD 25 yr old. Out of my 8 children I had issues with shots from the begining I didn't start giving them until my oldest was 18mos it still affected her. I stoped giving shots to my kids when the HIB vac. came out. and none of my older 5 got a second dose of MMR or any Hep or Hib. I was in Pharmacy school at the time and learned all sorts of new info. I did give shots to my son when he was born, he had respratory arrest, and hospitalized for 2 weeks he stopped sucking, had sensativities, regressed developmentaly and still has major issues. My last child however NO vac. She is healthy and wonderful 3 yr old. I have grand children now also. I pray my kids never get them vacc. either. Thank you for your work. I pray someday we will all have a choice.
ReplyDeleteThanks Barbara, continue to fight the good fight, we are slowly winning, and waking more people up to the risks of these vaccines.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lee.