Young Australian Skeptics

So, there’s an email circulating around, purportedly from “qualified pharmacist” Geo­­r­ge Ma­mo­­u­zello­­s, about how the new AH1N1(2009) vaccine is horrible and dangerous and kills your children. If you haven’t already seen this email, the text is here. Let’s take a look at it.

First up, here’s a pro tip: Should you really be taking advice on “vaccaination” from somebody who can’t spell it?

I’m a­ qu­a­lif­ied ph­a­r­ma­cist. I’v­e been r­esea­r­ch­ing th­e swine f­lu­ v­a­ccine th­a­t o­­u­r­ go­­v­er­nment h­a­s bo­­u­gh­t f­o­­r­ u­s ( u­sing o­­u­r­ mo­­ney­, by­ th­e wa­y­) a­nd it’s D­AN­G­ER­OUS­ AS­. It’s ea­sy a­ hu­nd­r­ed­ times mo­­r­e d­a­ng­er­o­­u­s tha­n the swine fl­u­ itsel­f.

It’s dangerous as! (I’m almost inclined to read that as “dangerous as, bro!”). Would a professional pharmacist ever use any such language? Of course not.

Maybe a little bit of background on this “qualified pharmacist” is in order?

This is the most qualified authority on pharmacology the anti-​​vaxxers can find?

“Then, Lo and Behold, it turned out that I was really good at this weird thing called “skool” and, in a fit of utter stupidity, I decided to become a pharmacist — which youd normally think is a good thing, but really, taking drugs is a lot more fun than giving them out.”

“You know what really pisses me off? The Pill. Everytime I give out the pill, I imagine shagging that girl (not always a good thing btw, theres some UGLY people out there having sex…brrrrrr ech yuk bleh) and it makes me realise that no matter how many chicks im shagging, theres yet another one I havnt shagged, and I get all insecure. wtf is up with that? I dont know.”

Regarding that pharmacy degree…

“Im George. I work as a DJ, Wannabe Property Developer, have a Pharmacy degree folded in 4 under my bed, and have recently been given the opportunity to re-​​launch Time Nightclub as an Electro Dance club, so that finally (FINALLY!) we Darwin people have somewhere fresh and awesome to go where we can party!”

Even if he were a qualified pharmacist, what of it anyway? A pharmacist is not a pharmacologist, nor an immunologist, nor a toxicologist.

“T­he sw­in­e f­lu vaccin­e con­t­ain­s 2 horrib­ly­ dan­g­erous com­poun­ds – on­e is called th­im­erosol­. It is m­a­d­e 50% o­f mercury. It bin­­d­s­ to rec­eptors­ in­­ y­our brain­­, an­­d­ bas­ic­ally­ c­aus­es­ brain­­ d­amage. Is­ it s­mart to be=2 0in­­j­ec­ted­ with­ th­imeros­ol, an­­d­ get brain­­ d­amage, d­roppin­­g 10 IQ­ poin­­ts­ an­­d­ goin­­g d­umb, in­­ ord­er to avoid­ gettin­­g a flu th­at kills­ 95% les­s­ people th­an­­ regular flu? No!”

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) considers that influenza vaccines containing thiomersal are safe in infants, children, adolescents and adults, including pregnant women. This is based on consistent safety data from several laboratory and clinical studies and the conclusions of independent systematic reviews that have examined data on the use of thiomersal-​​​​containing vaccines in all these groups. ATAGI also notes that use of thiomersal-​​​​containing vaccines is endorsed by the World Health Organization and by several countries comparable to Australia.

Of course, thiomersal does not “bind to receptors in your brain” — it has no neuropharmacological effect. It’s a preservative, commonly used in, say, eye drops. In the body it is rapidly metabolised and decomposed into ethylmercury and thiosalicylate. One molecule of thiomersal contains one atom of mercury in its structure — it’s approximately 48% mercury by mass if you look at the breakdown of the different atoms in the molecule — but this is completely meaningless.

It’s like saying that, say, sodium chloride is 61% chlorine by mass, and we know how toxic elemental chlorine is, therefore sodium chloride is really toxic too!
(Did I mention that sodium chloride is another scary chemical present in the dreaded vaccines, too?)

The accepted IN name is thiomersal. The thio in the name corresponds to the thio moiety — the sulfur atom — in the molecule. However, since the seemingly incorrect name seems to be in very common usage in North America, I won’t hold that against him.

Of course no credible pharmacist would say that “It is m­a­d­e 50% o­f mercury”, and certainly not that “getting brain­­ d­amage, d­roppin­­g 10 IQ­ poin­­ts­ an­­d­ goin­­g d­umb” is in any scientifically justifiable way a result that can be associated with administration of a vaccine.

“Th­e oth­er h­orrible in­­gred­ien­­t is­ c­alled­ squ­alen­e. Squale­ne­ ac­c­ide­nt­ally­ t­r­ic­ks y­o­ur­ im­m­une­ sy­st­e­m­ int­o­ killing y­o­ur­ o­wn c­e­lls, wh­ic­h­ c­r­e­at­e­s aut­o­-​​im­m­une­ dise­ase­s like­ ast­h­m­a, m­ult­iple­ sc­le­r­o­sis, diabe­t­e­s, and a bunc­h­ o­f dise­ase­s t­h­at­ we­ do­n’t­ h­ave­ a nam­e­ fo­r­ y­e­t­ (be­c­ause­ squale­ne­ h­asn’t­ be­e­n use­d fo­r­ t­h­at­ lo­ng, and we­ h­ave­ lit­t­le­ dat­a o­n it­s e­ffe­c­t­s) – is is sm­ar­t­ t­o­ inj­e­c­t­ y­o­ur­se­lf wit­h­ t­h­at­ st­uff, in o­r­de­r­ t­o­ avo­id a r­e­lat­ive­ly­ m­ild flu, like­ t­h­e­ swine­ flu? No!”

Here’s some information about squalene, courtesy of Lovely Health. They’re into all things natural and healthy, so of course it must be true.

“The human body produces only a very small amount of Squalene. Squalene is also present in very small amounts in Olive Oil. Southern Deep finest quality Shark Squalene is an 99.5% pure extract of ‘deep sea’ Shark Liver Oil that is believed to support optimum energy, support balanced healthy cholesterol levels, wound healing and to maintain a healthy and good looking skin.

It was established that Squalene supports the metabolism of the body by supporting the supply of oxygen to the tissues. Squalene supports the revitalization and regeneration of body cells. Its chief attribute is the protection it affords cells from oxidation reactions. The human body has about 6 billion oxygen reliant cells. Oxygenation promotes good health to the most basic level of life — the cell.

Since Squalene protects from cell damage, healthy cells can be produced. Linked together with lipoproteins, it later forms lipofuscin, an anti-​​aging substance. Squalene is good cholesterol that is made up of high density lipid (HDL) essential for supporting cardiovascular health.”

However, there’s one final point to note about squalene in the Panvax vaccine. It doesn’t exist.

CSL’s Panvax vaccine simply does not contain squalene, period. It’s simply a lie.

The Consumer Medicine Information sheet for CSL’s Panvax ‘flu vaccine for the pandemic H1N1 substrain is here. It lists the ingredients of the vaccine  —  all the ingredients  —  as purified, inactivated influenza virus fragments, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, monosodium phosphate, disodium phosphate, monopotassium phosphate, trace amounts of polymixin, neomycin, sucrose, egg protein, thiomersal and sodium deoxycholate. It’s mostly just high purity water, of course, in which the other ingredients are dissolved or suspended.

“If y­o­u’r­e­ a pr­e­gnant­ m­o­t­h­e­r­ abo­ut­ t­o­ t­ake­ Panvax­, ask y­o­ur­se­lf t­h­is – wh­y­ wo­uld y­o­u t­ake­ Panvax­, wh­e­n it­ c­o­nt­ains Ne­o­m­y­c­in and Po­ly­m­y­x­in B Sulfat­e­ – bo­t­h­ o­f wh­ic­h­ e­x­h­ibit­ po­sit­ive­ r­isk t­o­ unbo­r­n c­h­ildr­e­n – so­ as t­o­ avo­id wh­at­? A m­ild flu, t­h­at­ kills 95% fe­we­r­ pe­o­ple­ t­h­an t­h­e­ r­e­gular­ flu?”

Polymixin B and neomycin are both antibiotics added to the vaccine in minute concentrations in order to prevent the growth of any bacteria which might somehow contaminate the vaccine.

Both neomycin and Polymixin B are commonly used in trace quantities in vaccines as antibiotics to inhibit bacterial growth within the vaccine, and for many other applications for their antibiotic effect, either given orally or applied topically. Neomycin and Polymixin B are both in extremely widespread use in common over-​​the-​​counter topical antibiotic preparations such as Neosporin. Due to this widespread use, if these compounds presented real risks to the unborn child if used by pregnant women, we would see a real body of evidence of this — however, such a body of evidence does not seem to exist.

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