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Vaccine industry in panic as scientific study solves the riddle of why flu shots don’t work

The flu shot is a quack science medical hoax. While some vaccines do confer immunization effectiveness, the flu shot isn’t one of them. Recent studies, for example, have proven that flu shots sharply weaken immunity in subsequent years following immunization. In some years, the flu shot viral strains are completely wrong, offering no immunity at all to influenza strains circulating in the world. Even when flu shots are the “right” strain, flu vaccine insert sheets readily admit the shots have not been subjected to double blind placebo controlled studies, and there is no legitimate scientific evidence whatsoever that supports the claim that each year’s flu vaccine confers meaningful immunity. (See photo of the Flulaval vaccine insert sheet, below.)

Now, a new study conducted by the Scripps Research Institute and published in the science journal PLoS blows the lid on exactly why flu shots are the greatest medical hoax in the history of science and medicine. Titled, “A structural explanation for the low effectiveness of the seasonal influenza H3N2 vaccine,” the research paper concludes that the very method of modern flu vaccine production causes viral strains to mutate to non-effective structures that do not confer the immunity being routinely claimed for flu vaccines.

The production method for flu vaccines, in other words, renders certain influenza viral strains nearly useless. This is obviously part of the reason why people who get flu shots still manage to catch the flu with alarming frequency. (That failure of flu vaccine effectiveness, ironically, is used by the media to encourage people to get even more flu shots, as if receiving multiple injections of a quack vaccine might magically make it work better.)

FK – If you get the vaccine you have nothing to fear from those who know better right?



					

		
		
	


	

				

			
						

				The perfect birth control for men is here: Why can’t we use it?
			

								


				

			
Because the FDA doesn’t recognize results from clinical trials conducted overseas, all the experiments done in India must be replicated in the US with larger sample sizes and with stricter guidelines for trial duration. Animal trials run anywhere from $200,000 to $300,000 a pop and, should the FDA permit clinical trials to take place in humans, “the next steps are millions of dollars,” Lissner said.


Between $5 to $10 million, to be more precise. While this project seems ideal for a large humanitarian organization to back, the response has been lukewarm. Lissner said that representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for example, “don’t see the point in the male version” because their primary focus in contraceptives is options for women in developing nations. ” The science of contraception for men is less advanced, as is the proof of concept for men using contraception in the poorest countries of the world,” said Kellie Sloan, director of family planning at the Foundation, in a statement to Motherboard.


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Count big pharma out as well—unlike big-ticket products, Vasalgel doesn’t have the ability to make the money back since it’s a one-time procedure using materials that are relatively inexpensive to make and distribute. Lissner pointed out that if the average person hits puberty at 13, and doesn’t want to have a kid until they’re in their mid-30s, that’s more than 20 years worth of contraception from which pharmaceutical companies can profit.


“The big pharma companies like drugs that people will take for years and years, that they have to take every day,” Sokal said. By contrast, the makers of RISUG have bragged that it costs less than the syringe used to inject it; Vasalgel would cost less than your typical $800 IUD.


“[Pharmaceutical companies] have a target that if they can’t make $500 million a year on a new drug, it’s not worth their time and energy to invest in it,” Sokal said, citing his conversations with pharmaceutical reps. By that estimate, it would take 625,000 injections a year to be of interest to big pharma—which is about 125,000 more procedures than there are annual va​sectomies in the US.


FK – I’d have been interested 30 years ago. There were always three words that struck fear in my heart: ‘child support court.’


Once proven ‘safe’ this should be done to every 14-year-old male, not mandatory, but at an affordable price. How much would we save in ‘entitlements.’ Oh, I forgot, when ‘they’ birthed the welfare state they knew full well what the outcome would be: generational constituents.


Now we need to get to work on gene therapy or whatever it would be called, so that no one has to be born ugly or disabled in some way. Yes we can, probably preferably through a mostly ‘free market’ while finding a way to deal with the runaway greed that seems to infect the drug industry.