Guest guest Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) was formally launched May 30, 2004. Mandated to investigate and confront those medical and pharmaceutical interventions that are compromised by conflicts of interests, the IMVA takes an authoritative and compelling stand on diverse issues in the world of medicine. The initial work of the IMVA will be to present objective scientific research, data and analyses whose conclusions challenge the recent positions of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on key aspects of the childhood immunization schedule. We have found these organizations to be in serious error in their policies on simultaneous administered vaccines, the use of mercury as a vaccine preservative, administering Hepatitis B to newborns prior to their leaving the hospital, and recommending flu vaccines to all children 6 months of age and older. These publicly approved policies are leading to tragic consequences, including contributing in large part to a 700% increase in autism during the past 10 years, and in reality are large scale experiments conducted at the expense of our young children. Why did all these untoward policies come to be authorized? In one word, the answer is " greed. " Doctor Kate Scannell recently reported that, " According to confidential documents recently acquired and reviewed by the New York Times, the U.S. drug company trade association PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) intends to spend $150 million in the current year in hopes of influencing our domestic and foreign policy makers. The Times reports that PhRMA's budget for such lobbying activities during the fiscal year beginning July 1 represents a 23 percent increase over the prior year. The plan includes a $72.7 million allocation for lobbying at the federal level, $49.7 million for state lobbying efforts, and $4.9 million to lobby the Food and Drug Administration. " Medicine will never be safe as long as we tolerate the incursion of the power of pharmaceutical companies into the medical decision making process for the profit motive interferes greatly with sound medical judgment. The IMVA recognizes the medical disasters being perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry and this industry's corrupting influence on the entire medical community in the process. Instead of the medical establishment serving the interests of the people who have placed their trust in them, they have largely become a legally sanctioned killing machine. Dr. Barbara Starfield estimates there are approximately 250,000 avoidable deaths occur at the hands of doctors each year, while Dr. Gary Hull and his colleagues estimate the figure much higher --786,000 in the United States alone. These numbers from reputable medical journals do not consider the tragedy of babies who die in their cribs, or others who are thought to be shaken to death by their parents, but are actually deaths from adverse vaccine reactions. And they do not reflect the abominable international situation when immunization is thrust on the sick and malnourished children of poor third world countries who already have compromised immune systems. The IMVA is also concerned about the dogmatic adherence to reductionistic paradigms that emphasize costly and dangerous surgical procedures with often-dubious improvements in prognosis. With 8.9 million unnecessary hospitalizations and 7.5 million unnecessary medical procedures, many patients are frequently thrust into unnecessary danger. Each one of these 16.4 million individuals could potentially experience the unnecessary risk of a fatal consequence. Thus, medical procedures that are invasive and not necessary must be considered as part of the larger iatrogenic picture. Of particular concern to the IMVA is the unnecessarily high c-section rate in the U.S. and other countries and the entire medical process surrounding birth. The IMVA supports a more natural birthing process that avoids the use of dangerous or unnecessary drugs. National and international medical and health organizations are in a sort of " Catch 22 " predicament -- unable to honestly publicize deleterious effects of vaccines and other interventions since such publicity would lower trust and confidence, which in turn would cause a decrease in vaccination rates and profits. Interestingly, the IOM and the CDC publicly declare they are without a clue as to what is causing the notable increase in autism -- with one child in 160 affected. Some have gone as far as describing this problem as a modern holocaust. The major health organizations have lost their objectivity and dedication to human welfare preferring to defend the interests of the pharmaceutical companies that flood these organizations with vested political interests, money and staff. The long-standing history of mercury use as a preservative in vaccines is perhaps the greatest medical nightmare and a case in point screaming for dramatic changes in the medical establishment and speaks of the need for an independent review body such as the IMVA. It is here where the paramour of medical science and pharmaceuticals has abandoned all sensibility and ability to reason and " the results could be devastating to vaccine makers and federal health officials who have steadfastly defended the use of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in childhood vaccines, " wrote Sharyl Attkisson in a recent CBS News report. We often worry about the terrorists abroad, but medical terrorism is discreet and cleverly disguised in a facade of short term " safety studies. " The bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of American children are living with the fallout. The cost to raise those surviving with late-onset learning disabilities and autism following childhood vaccination is staggering and becoming a burden to the school systems and society in general. Medical authorities have chosen to ignore the documented observations of thousands of parents, whose children were previously regarded on doctor well visits as developmentally normal, but then lost language, social contact, and regressed into autism following vaccination. The childhood immunization program, due to the vast increase in injections administered in a single visit, is threatening to be the worst fiasco in the history of medicine. It is an unfolding catastrophe without comparison. The IOM, CDC, AMA, AAP, WHO, UNICEF and the FDA are proving to be ineffective in gauging the safety of immunization and other critical medical areas thus demanding an impartial investigation by an international organization. Either inadvertently or deliberately, public health organizations have endangered the health of the nation and the world with an arrogance that has led, step by tragic step, to the present situation: infants being bombarded with toxic viruses and other biological components injected one after another in a brutal attack on their young immune systems. Such arrogance has locked the entire medical establishment around the world into a pre-emptive war, injurious to children while slapping contempt on any physician or scientist courageous enough to challenge the status quo. Similar tragedies are evident in many areas including food additives and preservatives, pesticides, water fluoridation, cancer and AIDS treatments, anti-depressive medications, and other drugs having only marginal, if any, benefit. The IMVA supports improving nutrition as a first line of defense against disease--it promotes wellness rather than continuous disease and treatment cycles. The IMVA has both short and long term solutions to the above problems and seeks to create a new medical paradigm through a synthesis of all primary healthcare paths, eliminating aspects not standing up to close scrutiny. The IMVA serves public health as a truly independent body providing balanced information to parents, patients, and physicians. Our conviction is that better-informed people will have a great impact on better medical treatment. Mark Sircus Ac., OMD Executive Director International Medical Veritas Association http://www.imva.info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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