[Get this paean to authority.] "We also have an unavoidable duty to listen to the
people who know more than us.I simply asked our doctor if she was
triple-vaccinating her own children. Armed with her
simple 'Yes', I happily watched her vaccinate each of
mine." [Aug 2007]
The anti-MMR mothers who are putting us all in danger
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and
understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the
followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and
your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as
valuable, as necessary.--Krishnamurti
"Perhaps the chief argument used in favour of vaccination is that of "authority." It is said that the medical profession are in favour of vaccination, that they know all about it, and it is folly for anyone who has not been medically trained to have an opinion on the question.
I would suggest that a real authority is a man who has devoted some years of his
life to the study of the vaccination question and who is unbiased by any
pecuniary advantage or professional sympathy in the conclusions at which he
arrives.
If such is the standard of authority then "authority " is on the side of the
anti-vaccinators. We have the opinion of the late Dr.
Collins, who was a public vaccinator, but who resigned that appointment because he considered
vaccination did great harm and no good, and he wrote a book to prove his case.
We have the opinion of Dr.
Creighton, who was employed by the publishers of the
"Encyclopaedia Britannica " to write an article on the subject of Vaccination ;
he thereupon made a careful study of the question, and came to the conclusion
that vaccination was not only useless, but dangerous. There is Professor Edgar
Crookshank, who has published two ponderous volumes on "The History and
Pathology of Vaccination," a work which he undertook in order to demonstrate
the scientific basis of vaccination ; but the result of his inquiry was to show
that there was no scientific basis for the practice, and he expressed the
opinion in his book that the practice would fall into desuetude.* Then we have
the opinion of Dr. Walter Hadwen, of Gloucester, who has made a special study
of the question of vaccination, and who also has decided that it is both useless
and dangerous. Then we have the opinion of Sir William
Collins, a medical man of
the highest eminence, knighted on the occasion of the King's coronation, who
also considers that vaccination is a bad thing. Then we have the opinion of
Alfred Russel
Wallace, LL.D. Dublin, D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., &c, that "Vaccination (is) a Delusion, its penal enforcement a Crime." The names I have
mentioned above constitute, indeed, an authority worthy of respect."
[1921]
Vaccination and the State By Arnold Lupton MP.
Another 'common sense' principle that's
finally coming to the fore is that it's foolish to try to get an entourage of
blind imitators; sycophants. These fickle flatterers are pure poison. The old
paradigm of leadership is falling away and the new one, which is based on
personal example and entails no assumed personal authority, is
emerging. There's no money or sex payoff with the latter, so ambitious folks
don't seek it
but if one will pursue personal integrity one will generate a lot of good
examples for others and will make a few genuine friends in the process. --Don
Croft
[Arrogance]
''Condescending Tone. Not all doctors are condescending. Let
me make that point very, very clear upfront. I know there are wonderful doctors
out there who listen patiently and respond in a human fashion to the concerns of
their patients! However, many Pediatricians are extremely condescending,
especially when a parent questions vaccines! I had one doctor once march me down
the hall to show me his numerous and impressive university and post graduate
degrees beautifully framed on the wall! His point? 'I’m smarter and more
educated than you are. You are a nobody to be questioning my
Authority.' My response? I walked
out.''
"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the
rise of what has been called consensus
science. I regard consensus science as an
extremely pernicious development that ought
to be stopped cold in its tracks.
Historically, the claim of consensus has
been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a
way to avoid debate by claiming that the
matter is already settled. Whenever you hear
the consensus of scientists agrees on
something or other, reach for your wallet,
because you're being had."----Michael
Crichton M.D.,
"In George Orwell's 1984 one of
EngSoc's three "truths" was "Ignorance Is Strength." Have you ever noticed how
ignorant people have a great deal of strength in their convictions? Not being
able to think is, at least subconsciously, terrifying. Unable to arrive at ideas
and understandings on one's own, every idea must be held onto like a life
preserver in the sea beside a sinking ship. Every idea is as important as every
other idea because there is no mechanism to judge between them."Authority" (the
Church-School-State Establishment) is strengthened by ignorance as well. The
ignorant must rely on Authority for opinions. This keeps Authority on top. The
"conspiracy" has a vested interest in maintaining this druggie-like dependence
on Authority. It is a very short "hokey-pokey" little step from authoritarianism
to totalitarianism."----Jerry
E. Smith
"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached
all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and
Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,
feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."----Goethe
"Every great advance in natural knowledge
has involved the absolute rejection of authority."--T.H. Huxley.
"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always
wrong."----George Bernard Shaw.
"Also we see here that only the testimony of experts can be admissible.
Here again it's the doctrine of high medical authority, even necessarily overriding
whatever experts had to say, weighed against what "everybody knows". "----Stan Lippmann
"It amazes me, though, that so many people will only listen to
such information if it is delivered by a medical doctor or group. If a non-medical health
practitioner — or an informed layperson — tells them something, they disregard
it, no matter how much evidence is presented as proof. If, on the other hand, a medical
doctor proclaims something, they accept it without question."--Terry A. Rondberg, D.C.,
The majority consists of fools, utter fools.
Beware of the majority. If so many
people are following, that is enough a
proof that something is wrong. Truth
happens to individuals, not to crowds.
From Osho International Foundation
"In George Orwell's 1984 one of
EngSoc's three "truths" was "Ignorance Is Strength." Have you ever noticed how
ignorant people have a great deal of strength in their convictions? Not being
able to think is, at least subconsciously, terrifying. Unable to arrive at ideas
and understandings on one's own, every idea must be held onto like a life
preserver in the sea beside a sinking ship. Every idea is as important as every
other idea because there is no mechanism to judge between them."Authority" (the
Church-School-State Establishment) is strengthened by ignorance as well. The
ignorant must rely on Authority for opinions. This keeps Authority on top. The
"conspiracy" has a vested interest in maintaining this druggie-like dependence
on Authority. It is a very short "hokey-pokey" little step from authoritarianism
to totalitarianism."----Jerry
E. Smith
Propaganda Techniques: False Connections:--Transfer:
"Transfer is a device by which the propagandist carries over the authority, sanction,
and prestige of something we respect and revere to something he would have us
accept." http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/transfer.htm
And they found "that" was the most important one of all, because, by training
the children to accept these other monopolies [and] never question
authority........Flexner was John D. Rockefeller's "stool pigeon" in setting up
the takeover of the entire medical school industry by Carnegie Foundation, which
was a Rockefeller Foundation subsidiary at that time.......When you say
"Carnegie Foundation", you're talking about something that has no substance.
It's entirely under the domination of the Rockefellers. .................He
(Abraham Flexner) did "The Flexner Report", and this changed the medical schools
of the United States from homeopathic, naturopathic medicine, to allopathic
medicine -- which was a German school of medicine which depended on the heavy
use of drugs, radical surgery, and long hospital stays. That's what we've got
today, allopathic medicine."---Eustace Mullins. [Interview 2003] by Tom Valentine
It's even better if you can put your message in the mouth of someone the public trusts.
This is called the "third-party technique" and was also pioneered by Bernays.
Surveys show that scientists are widely trusted, so the public-relations industry hires
"scientific experts" to say things beneficial to the industry's clients. PR
firms also deliver messages through journalists, doctors, and others who appear to be
independent, trustworthy sources of information. For example, the public is naturally
suspicious when pesticide companies claim their poisonous products are safe. But if former
surgeon general C. Everett Koop, one of the nation's most trusted public figures, says
pesticides are safe, we're more likely to believe the message. After all, Koop warned us
about AIDS and tobacco, so wouldn't he be up- front about pesticides, too? Sadly, no. PR
strategists scored a major victory in 1990 when Koop spoke out against Big Green, a
referendum that would have regulated or banned many pesticides. His opposition was
considered an important factor in the referendum's defeat.
WAR ON TRUTH The Secret Battle for the American Mind An
Interview with John Stauber
"The fallacy of authority is believing things to be true
because of the authoritative source of the information. It must be true because I read it
in the paper, saw it on television, the surgeon said so, The Lancet published it.
Authority is deeply rooted in medicine because the patient seeks advice in order to obtain
an explanation which is more credible than that of friends and relations.
"A respect for authority is the basis for
most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to
the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they
are the ‘truth’ (Pg. 33)….Authorities naturally support the status quo,
which gives them the right to that accolade. When William Harvey published his discovery
of the circulation of the blood he was given the cold shoulder. He complained to his
friend Aubrey that after the book came out, he lost most of his patients, as it was
‘believed by the vulgar that he was crack-brained’ and all Physicians were
against his Opinion, and envied him: many wrote against him."--Petr Skrabanek
"One of the most common emotional manipulations used by doctors on
journalists is "How could what they say be true? Why would we say
anything other than the truth? What have we got to gain by making kids sick? We got into
medicine because we love children…" I love it. I simply lead journalists to the
filing cabinets, the medical articles, the masses of information, and let the journalists
judge for themselves the motives of such accusers. But when I say to journalists
"You’ve seen all my hard data, now where is their evidence? Where is their hard
fact? Where is their proof?" the situation changes. Such is the conditioning of
journalists that they cannot confront the realisation that they have demanded total
factual accountablility from me yet walked out satisfied that the letters after
someone’s name guarantees authenticity of every word said. So they fall back on the
fallacy of authority."--Hilary Butler
Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute
American Liver Foundation
Children's Liver Alliance
Every Child By Two
Hepatitis Foundation International
Immunization Action Coalition
Latino Organization for Liver Awareness
National Educational Association
Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases
[Book] Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
and Gambles with Your Future http://www.whale.to/v/bk.html
Classic use of authority:
"His theories are not new and have been reviewed at least three times in the
past year by expert groups including diabetologists, immunologists, vaccinologists,
geneticists, epidemiologists and biostatisticians all of whom have agreed unanimously that
Dr. Classen has totally misinterpreted data that he has extracted from studies in Finland
and elsewhere, and has built a hypothesis for which there is absolutely no evidence. These
reviews have been sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Vaccine Safety,
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of
Health and the Vaccine Initiative of the Infectious Diseases Society of American and the
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society."--Dr Katz
Before the ruling, 12
organisations, including the Medical Research Council, the British
Medical Association and the Faculty of Public Health, released a
statement re-affirming their commitment to the triple MMR vaccine.
[2010 Jan] Damning verdict on doctor
who linked MMR with autism
Amid concerns that the MMR and autism row will resurface during the General
Medical Council hearing, institutions that include the Royal Colleges of
Paediatricians, General Practitioners, Pathologists and Physicians have released
a statement that reads: “The undersigned believe that the MMR triple vaccine
protects the health of children. A large body of scientific evidence shows no
link between the vaccine and autism.” It is also signed by the Medical Research
Council, the British Medical Association and Great Ormond Street children’s
hospital among others. 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2080353.ece
"I should say that the recommendations on measles mumps and rubella that
the Government are following are supported by the World Health Organisation, the British
Medical Association, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health, the Royal College of Nursing, and the Community
Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association."--Tony Blair, Dec 18
2001
The Institute of Medicine, which I think is an impeccably independentbody, has looked at all the evidence and said there's no connection. Ithink that's the truth. ---Dr. Tim Johnson
but if one will pursue personal integrity one will generate a lot of good
examples for others and will make a few genuine friends in the process. --Don
Croft