Sam Iles's Blog

This is just a miniature blog post to bring an interesting topic to your attention.

You may remember that last year we were faced with a swine flu pandemic. Vaccines we coming out of all kinds of companies and the government of the UK bought tons of the stuff from the drug companies.

In the last few days, we’ve been seeing increased reports of flu deaths. Fifty in total (no time frame ever given) and eleven in the last week. People are prophesying a pandemic.

But, every year in the UK between 3,000 and 4,000 people die from flu – and we’re being told that these current deaths are terrible and that they are some anomaly. They simply aren’t. ^{[source, BMJ]} Any scientist will tell you this.

Then we realise why. After a week or so of the government building the hype, telling us there is a epidemic afoot, suddenly they announce this: Old vaccines left over from the swine flu pandemic will be used to plug the shortfall in this winter’s supplies.

Um, what? The OLD swine flu vaccine? Don’t forget now, the WHO declared swine flu to be done and gone months ago. Also remember every other flu strain evolves each year – but swine flu, apparently, doesn’t change at all. And we also learned today how much of this old vaccine the government has left over: 12 million vaccines. 12 million. It’s no wonder they want to get rid of it. By creating some bogus disease they can make us all get vaccinated. The current winter 2010/2011 vaccine and the winter 2009/2010 the government has purchased are different, too! But they’re letting us have it anyway.

The other odd thing is that not anyone can have this jab. If you want it but you can’t get it on the NHS you have to pay £12 to the drug companies for it.

Last point: all drug companies say (you can see it on investor sections on their websites) that vaccines are where the money is at. They make hardly anything from drugs which cure you. Most of the profit is in vaccines. Just remember that.

Anyway. Good luck.

I has a thought, which I tried to compress into 140 characters but couldn’t. So here it is.

Animal testing has an 8% success rate. In other words, 8% or drugs which work in animals work in humans. For example, 30 AIDS vaccines have been developed that worked perfectly, but failed in humans. I won’t bombard you with facts though, you can look it up if you need more.

My point is this: of so many drugs have passed animals and failed or killed at humans, imagine how many more have failed animal tests but could have worked for humans.

Literally, we could have discovered thousands of cures for cancer and AIDS but they were written off because they failed to work on animals.

It just seems like such flawed science to me.

Anyway: Cures Without Cages

I tweeted that I thought that cancelling the Qur’an burning in America a few weeks ago was the worst thing that could have done, and I felt that needed some further explanation, so here it is.

After making such a point about it being totally an expression of freedom of speech to peacefully protest Muslim extremism and then to cancel it after some people disagreed changes the entire view of the original plan.

Cancelling it simply makes it seem like an act of terrorism, a way to threaten and scare people. It’s the same as threatening to blow up a building to get what you want. He cannot justify his ‘freedom of speech’ if he doesn’t stick to his plan when confronted by people who disagree. It’s nothing more than suppression of free speech and letting the extremists win (in the view of an extremist).

Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s a stupid thing to do and that he shouldn’t have ever done it in the first place. However, I don’t think he should have cancelled it. It’s so cowardly.

I don’t feel that I’m articulating myself very well, but hopefully you see what I mean.