| Todd Gastaldo 2004-12-23, 2:08 am |
| ANTRHAX VACCINE: WHAT A COOL MOM!
Excerpt from Steve Weinberg's review of Gary Matsumotos book, "Shots Heard
Around the World"...
"[Matsumoto] mentions Erik Julius of Morrison, Colo., ordered to sit for the
anthrax
inoculation while aboard the USS Independence in the Persian Gulf. The
reluctant Julius reached his mother, Morrison resident Lori Greenleaf, who
began researching the vaccine on the Internet. What she found alarmed her,
but by the time she could communicate with her son again, he had been
forced to take the first shot. When he refused the second shot, his
commanding officers allegedly reduced him in rank and threatened him with
brig time.
"As word of Greenleaf's research spread, U.S. sailors and soldiers around
the world began contacting her. Eventually, she communicated with about
7,000 U.S. military personnel concerned about becoming sick or dying at the
hands of their own armed services."
Weinberg says:
>
> Matsumoto cannot state with 100 percent certainty that any of the
> individual cases he investigated so impressively are linked to anthrax
> vaccinations required of military servicemen and servicewomen. The
> circumstantial evidence is so massive, however, that it is persuasive.
> Experienced journalists, and lawyers, know that circumstantial evidence is
> as good as direct evidence if its quality is high and enough of it exists.
>
Todd
"john" <nospamoridiots@vaccine.com> wrote in message
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> The case against anthrax vaccine
>
> By Steve Weinberg
> Special to The Denver Post
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...0151916-8961630
>
> Post file
> A picture of Morrison resident Lori Greenleaf's son looms behind her. He
> is
> being disciplined for refusing anthrax shots.
>
>
>
>
> Reading investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto's account of U.S. military
> personnel severely incapacitated or killed because, he says, they received
> vaccinations meant to protect them from anthrax poisoning is akin to
> absorbing hammer blows to the head over and over for hours. In relentless
> fashion, Matsumoto presents evidence that military commanders, physicians
> and federal government drug regulators and pharmaceutical companies have
> lied to Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force troops.
>
> The lies continue today, Matsumoto says, despite severe illnesses and
> deaths he and civilian medical researchers he has interviewed attribute to
> an ingredient in the vaccine that causes the body's autoimmune system to
> go
> haywire.
>
> He mentions Erik Julius of Morrison, Colo., ordered to sit for the anthrax
> inoculation while aboard the USS Independence in the Persian Gulf. The
> reluctant Julius reached his mother, Morrison resident Lori Greenleaf, who
> began researching the vaccine on the Internet. What she found alarmed her,
> but by the time she could communicate with her son again, he had been
> forced to take the first shot. When he refused the second shot, his
> commanding officers allegedly reduced him in rank and threatened him with
> brig time.
>
> As word of Greenleaf's research spread, U.S. sailors and soldiers around
> the world began contacting her. Eventually, she communicated with about
> 7,000 U.S. military personnel concerned about becoming sick or dying at
> the
> hands of their own armed services.
>
> Matsumoto is a lay person whose experience has come largely at the news
> operations of NBC and Fox. Matsumoto is masterful at explaining
> complicated
> terms and concepts. Still, there is only so much he can do to clarify the
> science behind studies with titles such as "Effect of Stanol Ester on
> Postabsorptive Squalene and Retinyl Palmitate." The key word is
> "squalene."
> More on it soon.
>
> Matsumoto cannot state with 100 percent certainty that any of the
> individual cases he investigated so impressively are linked to anthrax
> vaccinations required of military servicemen and servicewomen. The
> circumstantial evidence is so massive, however, that it is persuasive.
> Experienced journalists, and lawyers, know that circumstantial evidence is
> as good as direct evidence if its quality is high and enough of it exists.
>
> Readers with faith in the goodness of the U.S. military will resist the
> hypothesis that commanders force vaccinations on troops when evidence
> exists that disabling injuries and deaths result. Historically, however,
> that faith is unjustified.
>
> Matsumoto provides irrefutable information from wars before the U.S.
> invasion of the Persian Gulf during 1990 that military personnel have
> served as unwitting guinea pigs in medical experiments. Those unwitting
> guinea pigs cannot sue the U.S. government for negligence; military
> servicemen and servicewomen not only surrender the right to refuse
> vaccinations, but also the right to litigate when illness or death
> results.
>
> The military's justification for the anthrax vaccinations starting around
> 1990 and continuing through today seemed straightforward: Iraqi dictator
> Saddam Hussein possessed biological weapons, including deadly anthrax,
> that
> he might use. The cosmic irony as phrased by Matsumoto "is that after
> years
> of United Nations inspections and now a war that has put Saddam Hussein
> behind bars, no samples of Iraqi dried anthrax have been discovered."
>
> Matsumoto covered the 1990 Gulf War for NBC News from Saudi Arabia. About
> a year later, he heard reports of "a strange malady affecting returning
> veterans. The symptoms were often vague, many subjective, but remarkably
> consistent - aching joints and muscles, rashes, fatigue, weight loss,
> weight gain, hair loss, sore gums, diarrhea, nausea, swelling of hands and
> feet, short-term memory loss and headaches."
>
> Knowing that such symptoms could stem from numerous causes, Matsumoto paid
> little attention until 1997, when he heard an explanation from military
> sources regarding what had become known as Gulf War Syndrome. The
> explanation, involving an alleged inadvertent release of an Iraqi nerve
> agent during a U.S. bombing, struck Matsumoto as so ludicrous that he
> sensed a cover-up. So he began an investigation that lasted six years,
> resulting first in a Vanity Fair magazine exposé, then this book.
>
> Realizing that U.S. military doctors decided against treating veterans
> with
> Gulf War Syndrome, Matsumoto delved into the civilian medical research
> world, where he found a few fearless experts, especially in private
> practice at a Memphis clinic and at Tulane University, devoted to
> uncovering the truth so sick people could be treated and additional deaths
> prevented.
>
> "By developing an assay - a test to determine whether an individual has
> antibodies to a particular substance in his or her blood - scientists from
> Tulane university Medical School established what they say is a marker for
> Gulf War Syndrome," Matsumoto reports. "This marker identifies whether a
> GI
> has been injected with a substance called squalene. Those who had a
> so-called Gulf War illness consistently tested positive for antibodies to
> squalene in their blood; healthy Gulf War veterans do not have these
> antibodies."
>
> The Tulane researchers knew that the anthrax vaccine approved by federal
> government drug regulators and the military contained no squalene, an oil
> intended to stimulate the immune system to respond more quickly than
> normal. Matsumoto marshals circumstantial evidence to suggest that
> military
> doctors, realizing the licensed vaccine would not kick in fast enough to
> protect U.S. troops from an Iraqi release of anthrax, decided to
> experiment
> with squalene despite its known lethality.
>
> Matsumoto concedes the military doctors probably harbored good intentions,
> so could have defended their actions "as a hard judgment call." But their
> outright denial of using an experimental vaccine containing squalene in
> the
> face of seemingly overwhelming evidence to the contrary - some of that
> evidence coming from reluctant government agencies and pharmaceutical
> companies - struck Matsumoto as so heartless that he shows them no
> sympathy.
>
> In the end, Matsumoto knows he cannot provide satisfactory answers to
> every
> question: "The great mystery in this story, a mystery that I cannot
> completely solve, is why the scientists developing these vaccines are
> covering up their mistake and continuing to advocate the use of a new
> vaccine that will have such devastating consequences on their own people.
> There is some evidence that the corrupting influence of money has played a
> role in this ... Let everyone be especially vigilant over companies making
> military vaccines that are intended for sale to the large and lucrative
> U.S. civilian market."
>
> Steve Weinberg is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a
> veteran investigative journalist.
>
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