"The "natural products" industry is already far bigger than the vaccine industry and..."

It is still dwarfed by the pharmaceutical industry, which the vaccination industry is part of.

"... its clients will eagerly purchase just about anything."
This statement is not true.

The vaccine profits are after regulations are met, those costs are passed on to the consumer. Regulations are also a way for insiders to monopolize industry.

What a joke. Drugs aren't tested very thoroughly for safety. Witness how many people experience serious side effects from "tested" drugs that come to market. Witness how many people die from new drugs coming on the market every year. The FDA is in the pocket of the pharma industry. Their integrity is compromised (if you believe they were ever on the side of the public in the first place, which is a laugh if you know the history of the FDA).

Like it or not, the buying public is a test bed for new drugs. It's all extremely experimental when you consider the timelines. People trying the latest drug are gullible guinea pigs sometimes, or desperate people who are just trying to survive at the other end of the spectrum. No matter - there's always a pharmaceutical rep, judgment clouded, ready to push useless drugs on an unsuspecting public.

Check out the Seattle Times' "Suddenly Sick" series.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/health/suddenlysick/


Much of the touted "success" of vaccines relies on correlation, not true causation. For example, during the time that the polio vaccine was introduced, major changes were happening in the sanitation of this country. It is widely accepted that changes in people's behavior, the expansion of the germ theory of medicine, and improved sewage & sanitation are largely responsible (in measurable ways) for disease control in this country. Read this about what happened when the polio vaccination came on the scene.


http://www.newswithviews.com/Tocco/mary1.htm


Vaccines have CAUSED injuries, plain and simple. To deny this is endangering the public. People need to be able to weigh the risks vs. the rewards and judge for themselves. vaccinations are not magical bullets, here to fix us all.

"In fact, in any attenuated vaccine, there exists a danger that the attenuated form will revert to the virulent form." DUH. There's risk involved in being vaccinated - you might GET the disease you're trying to prevent from having expressed!


http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects1999/polio/vac.html


Not all vaccines are the same. Some have been in use for years, and their effects are well-known. How does this happen? With some unfortunate guinea pig casualties along the way. You can minimize the risks, but you can't eliminate them.

Many people are willing to take the chance in the name of progress. Remember all the people who got horrific cancers and died playing with X-rays? No? Read up on the history of that sometime if you think medical progress isn't without its casualties.