“It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.”
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
“The enforcement of the compulsory smallpox vaccination law in 1867, when the death rate was already falling, was accompanied by an increase in the deaths from 100 to 400 deaths per million.”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“What we have now is a population of increasingly unhealthy children—with rates of many chronic disorders increasing dramatically. Vaccination, for many, is a matter of swapping one set of possible risks for another set of probable risks, which are said to be “coincident.”
― Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
― Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
“We can’t even be sure how to tell when the immune system’s not working right, let alone why not, because we don’t have good metrics of what a healthy human immune system looks like. Despite billions spent on immune stimulants in supermarkets and drugstores last year, we don’t know what—if anything—those really do, or what “immune stimulant” even means.{564}”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. – Mark Twain (1835–1910)”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
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