Re: UNBELIEVABLE!! FLU SHOTS are 'safe' for KIDS aka STUDY...

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What we need is a study done that does not bare the name or influence of Federal or National behind it but does tell us which studies are legitimate. Here is some relevant history on the general issue of studies as it relates to the sanctioned racketeering inherent in the medical institution conservatively for a century; for instance, JAMA. This portrays the typical linkage that forms between "funding" and "research". Of particular intrest in the undertstanding of this brand of funding, especially funding research of medicine and other forms of higher education, is the comparison between the traditionally fostered PR-notion of "philanthropy" as unconditional giving versus the reality of giving due to the expectations of what will be recieved in return.

Below are select excerpts from the collective essay - Medical Racket,  by Wade Frazier.  Below the excerpts is the specific section of the essay - Developing American Medical Racket, from where these excerpts are taken. The timeline for this section begins near the early 1800s. The below URL will place one inside the collective essay at the point where the specific section begins. 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#developing

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Before Rockefeller and Carnegie became involved, the AMA was getting its act together.  In 1899, the AMA hired George Simmons as the new editor for its Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).  Harris Coulter described Simmons as one who had considerable “political abilities.”[129]  JAMA was a deeply hypocritical publication.  Its primary source of revenue was drug ads, and the ads it ran for “secret ingredient” and “proprietary” medicines violated the AMA’s code of ethics. Simmons rescued the AMA, largely by turning JAMA into a money machine by closely allying itself with the drug industry.  Drug ads bankrolled the AMA, especially after Simmons became involved in 1899.  Coulter did not delve into Simmons’ credentials in his work, but Eustace Mullins did, in his Murder by Injection

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Simmons turned the AMA into a gold mine when he initiated an approval racket.  For a price, the AMA gave its "Seal of Approval" to drugs.  It was a form of extortion, and the AMA engaged in no real research.  Their "research" was a form of "green research."  Simmons, like a shrewd horse trader, would set his price based on how badly a drug company wanted the AMA's Seal of Approval. 

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Other racketeering strategies involved threatening firms that advertised anywhere except in the pages of JAMA.  Simmons was ingenious in making JAMA the icon it became, exerting institutional control over the up and coming industry.  Simmons’ efforts made the AMA and drug companies into natural allies of the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations. 

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If that milieu is considered, it is not surprising that a class of men largely took over American industry, beginning during the Civil War.  They all bought their way out of military service, and not because they were pacifists.  They then began building industrial empires, and war profiteering during the Civil War was where they got their start.  Of the big name robber barons, it is generally acknowledged that the most ingenious, ruthless and successful of them all was John D. Rockefeller. 

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Once he controlled the oil industry, he began diversifying.  Through direct investment and “philanthropy,” Rockefeller would eventually cast a long shadow over mining, banking, government, the media, education, and  - what concerns this essay - medicine.

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While Rockefeller and the other robber barons built their empires, the AMA was also building its monopoly.  The AMA charter stated that one of its goals was “eliminating the competition.”

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Also in the 1850s, the AMA began campaigning against homeopaths.

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By the 1870s, about a million American families were loyal to homeopathy.  In 1878, a yellow-fever epidemic swept from New Orleans into the Mississippi Valley.  There were about 20,000 deaths.  Yellow fever was the most feared disease in the South, and official commissions were launched to investigate the 1878 epidemic.  One commission investigated the records of homeopathic physicians where the epidemic raged.  It turned out that people treated by homeopaths had a yellow-fever death rate of less than 7%, which was less than half the death rate of the general public.  When the results were announced to the U.S. Congress, they were impressed.[127]  The attacks on homeopathy by orthodoxy relaxed during those years, although homeopathy had been so demonized in the AMA’s ranks that many orthodox practitioners would go berserk at the mere mention of it.  There were various factors that doomed homeopathy.  Orthodox medicine’s alliance with the drug companies loomed largely, but the seeds of its destruction came largely from within its ranks. 

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Another factor deserves mention.  Although the heroic treatments of orthodox medicine were feared by millions of people, and rightfully so, they were by no means the majority of Americans, at least to the point of refusing to submit to them.  Heroic medicine enjoyed the benefit of being spectacular.  When a patient ingested calomel, the effect was dramatic.  Something happened, even if it nearly killed the patient.  I have experienced and watched homeopathy produce instant and dramatic results, for many ailments.  For chronic conditions, however, the treatment could take many months, as the body gradually healed itself, in subtle, feminine fashion.  There was often self-discipline involved with homeopathic treatment, and most people preferred to take a quick-acting pill for their afflictions.  That dynamic can readily be seen today.  True health in today’s United States comes from taking care of one’s self.  Eating well, exercising, refraining from tobacco, alcohol and other stimulants/depressants, and other aspects of a healthy regimen require some self-discipline, the kind that most people do not exercise.  Most people would rather take a pill to make their symptoms disappear, so they can continue to pursue their addictions and deadly lifestyles.  Symptom suppression is the essence of Western medicine today, and its appeal is largely to people who refuse to take responsibility for their health.  Most want a pill or spectacular intervention, such as surgery, to make the problem “go away.” 

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The final blow to homeopathy, however, was dealt by diversifying robber barons, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie in particular.  Rockefeller and Carnegie amassed enormous fortunes during the Gilded Age, through ingenuity and ruthlessness.  As they came to dominate their respective industries, they branched out and became “philanthropists.”  Their “philanthropy” was more directed toward social engineering than humanitarian activity.  Rockefeller and Carnegie exercised “institutional control” over American medicine.

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Simmons recruited Morris Fishbein to the AMA in 1913.  Simmons was a wealthy man by the 1920s, sitting at the AMA's helm.  He openly had a mistress, and attempted to get rid of his wife.  A standard technique in those days was having one’s wife committed to an insane asylum.  Simmons heavily drugged his wife and then tried convincing her that she was going insane.  His strategy backfired.  Mrs. Simmons took her husband to court in 1924, and the sensational trial ruined Simmons' image.  The trial inspired numerous books, plays and movies, the most famous of which was Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.  Simmons stepped down at the AMA and his protégé, Morris Fishbein, took over.  Fishbein ran American medicine with an iron fist for the next twenty-five years, becoming a household name and a rich man. Fishbein soon extended the drug approval racket to food, where for a price a food would garner the AMA's Seal of Acceptance.  The testing involved seemed limited to seeing how much money was in the bank account of the companies seeking AMA approval.  At the same time Fishbein was announcing the Seal of Approval and citing two tuna companies as meeting the AMA's stringent requirements, the FDA was seizing shipments of those very brands because "they consisted in whole or in part of decomposed animal substance."[133]  Fishbein’s first customer for his food approval racket was Land O’Lakes Butter Company, a company that had been criminally prosecuted many times for adulterating its product to hide spoilage and watering it down.

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Rockefeller was creating paradigms in Western society, using his ill-gotten money to shape and dominate institutions that he funded, and it goes far beyond the drugs and knives paradigm that rules Western medicine.  Soon before he began taking over medicine, he was reshaping the University of Chicago, remaking it to his liking.  The University of Chicago would spawn social control ideologies.  John Taylor Gatto, one of America’s finest teachers, noted that today’s grade schools were designed by theorists from the University of Chicago, where they where honed their “instruments of scientific management of a mass population.”

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The world’s most influential cancer research institution is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.  Its “spiritual founder” was J. Marion Sims.  Sims received minimal training during the 1840s before he began performing experimental surgeries on slave women.  Slave women were at the bottom of the America’s social hierarchy, and as such made ideal subjects for human experiments.  Performed without anesthesia, Sims’ surgeries were accomplished by having friends hold down the slaves as he operated.  According to his sympathetic biographer, his operations were “little short of murderous.”  Sims’ friends could only endure about one stint of holding down his experimental subjects, as the subjects’ thrashing and shrieking were too much for them to endure.  When local plantation owners refused to lend Sims any more subjects for his experiments, he bought a slave woman for $500 and performed 30 operations on her in a few months

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