Researchers are finding considerable differences in the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The controversy has continued for decades and predates the now debunked study by Andrew Wakefield that claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
However, current research by Dr. David Brownstein and Natalie Campbell looked at children from the same family. Some were vaccinated and some were unvaccinated. The study took into account the lifestyle and dynamics of each family, including diets, vaccination schedules, their choice to stop vaccinating, and the health of each child. The lengthy study followed them beginning when they were young children into the adulthoods. In some cases, unvaccinated individuals had to get vaccinated as adults due to the profession, and this produced some interesting results.
Campbell insists that she is pro-vaccine.
“I would rather have almost anything to not have rabies. The argument really is not pro and anti, pro and anti is really just black and white and there is not a lot of room for compromise. The real argument is choice. You could delay them, get some, tetanus only, choose some, or choose none. Consider the individual child. If you’re a newborn consider if you are going to have safe sex or use dirty needles. On the other hand if he’s a teenager and practicing unsafe sex or using dirty needles, maybe you should get him the Hep. B vaccine.”
Campbell presented her findings in her talk “Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children and Chronic Disease,” at the Weston A. Price Conference in Allen, Texas (November 15, 2019). The findings were also published in the Wise Traditions Journal, Winter 2018.
The case of one family initiated the study. The first child was fully vaccinated and had a severe autoimmune disease. The second child was also fully vaccinated and had autism. The third and fourth children were unvaccinated and had no autoimmunity disease or autism.
This prompted Cambell to study children in the same family in which some were vaccinated and some were unvaccinated. The families readily agreed to participate.
While Campbell and Brownstein’s study followed 200 subjects, another study between vaccinated and unvaccinated children by Dr. Paul Thomas followed 3,000 subjects and compared different vaccine schedules.
The Campbell study found that the health of the parents was a factor in how their children reacted to vaccines. When one parent had an autoimmune disease, she found correlations with the vaccinated children presenting with issues after the vaccines.
Specifically, the Campbell study used:
- 84 children who were vaccinated and had a subsequent health issue
- 40 children who were vaccinated and healthy (10% of whom were fully vaccinated)
- 15 children were vaccinated with a health issue
- 61 children were unvaccinated and healthy
- Most of the unhealthy children had chronic conditions, meaning they were reoccurring.
- 20% of the vaccinated were sick
- 80% of the unvaccinated were healthy
Campbell suggests a connection to the change in the vaccine schedule made in 1986. That year, legislation passed that removed manufacturer liability for vaccines, meaning individuals could no longer sue the manufacturers. After that, the doses increased substantially. Campbell points to an increase in ailments after the increase in doses.
For instance, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder increased significantly after 7 vaccine doses were added to the schedule. Campbell noted that as vaccines were added to the schedule, the illnesses become more exotic.
One case study was a family of 6 children, 3 of whom were vaccinated. They used a quality whole food diet, and the 3 vaccinated children were sick a considerable amount of the time. The unvaccinated children were described as super healthy children when compared to the vaccinated ones.
One third of the families tested fell into the category of older children who were vaccinated and ill, and the younger children were unvaccinated and healthy.
Study subjects after reaching adulthood
An interesting development in the study came from following unvaccinated children who later held professions that required vaccinations. As adults, they began to encounter health issues after receiving the doses. One unvaccinated, young man became a nurse and was required to get caught up on all of his vaccinations. He did so, but afterwards began to experience heart issues and other health issues.
Another unvaccinated adult went off to Africa as a missionary and also had to get caught up on all of her vaccinations to participate. She grew up healthy with no issues. Halfway into the vaccine schedule, she began suffering from hives at an increasing rate. Eventually, she stopped with the vaccinations.
“My adults didn’t do well when they were vaccinated,” Campbell said.
Other health issues
Campbell found that families who spent considerable time outdoors, consumed a healthy diet, and “encountered lots of dirt,” were healthier overall.
Most of the chronic health conditions seen were allergies. The other issues included behavior and learning problems, asthma, autism, chronic ear infections, digestive issues, mood disorders like anxiety and depression, eczema, migraines, anemia, blood sugar issues, chronic cough, insomnia, joint pain, seizures, Crohn’s disease, Failure To Thrive, chronic fatigue, hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s, and Kawasaki Syndrome.
Their health issues ranged from fully healthy to teens who continued to wear diapers, had seizures, and couldn’t manage in social situations.
In the study, none of the unvaccinated children had digestive issues, mood disorders like anxiety and depression, eczema, blood sugar issues, chronic cough, insomnia, joint pain, seizures, Crohn’s disease, or Kawasaki Syndrome.
After Dr. Paul Thomas concluded his study of 3,000 vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, he developed another study of 1,098 people who followed the “Dr. Paul Thomas’ Vaccine Friendly Plan.” With that plan, the subjects had zero cases of autism. His plan administers the MMR vaccine after 36 months of age versus the current 12 to 18 month schedule. It correlated with the Campbell/Brownstein study that autism appeared after the MMR vaccine. It is important to note that these children had family members with some sort of autoimmune disease, including parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles.
One family in Campbell’s study had 4 children on the Autism Spectrum. One of the parents was on the spectrum.
In addition, Campbell speaks to the difficult decision making that parents face.
“If you do give the vaccines and your baby ends up with a permanent disability, can you live with yourself?” Moreover she saw couples who were divided where one parent wanted vaccines (usually the husband) and the other did not (usually the mother). She said, more importantly, “Can you forgive the spouse who forced you to vaccinate.”
Currently, Campbell is studying families whose children are in the early 30s and following their health histories after vaccinations. She also hopes to do a study on her previously studied children who are now having children and their health stories with or without vaccines.
Other studies on vaccination
Another study recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health concluded that unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children. The study — “Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination” — by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD and Paul Thomas, MD, was conducted among 3,300 patients at Dr. Thomas’ Oregon pediatrics practice, Integrative Pediatric.
This study represents another addition to the increasing list of published, peer-reviewed papers that compare the health of vaccinated children to the health of unvaccinated children. The studies suggest that science and medicine have underestimated the scope of harm due to vaccines including the epidemic of chronic illnesses in children.
The CDC, and its role in producing safety studies on vaccines
Since 1986, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been legally obligated to conduct safety studies and issue a safety report on children’s vaccinations every two years. In 2018, it was determined that the agency had not done so. Therefore, it is necessary for NGOs to produce the studies that the CDC apparently refuses to conduct.
Yet, the CDC is the leading proponent of vaccinating Americans, and it will not incriminate itself in the epidemic of childhood chronic illnesses. They are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. They avoid developing the hard evidence against vaccinations to prevent liability and turning public opinion against vaccines.
However, the Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study found that vaccinated children do indeed have more chronic illness and more likely to contract respiratory infections. This makes it very difficult for vaccine proponents to downplay the risks.
Although the researchers conducted the study with the appropriate rigor, critics continue to focus on opposing research. However, rather than debate the findings, the critics attempt to discredit the scientific studies with ad hominem attacks on the authors, criticizing the journal that published the study, and disparaging the study design.
When research brings to light anomalies that deviate from the accepted scientific explanation, it’s important to recall that science accumulates the evidence that bolsters the emerging scientific explanation. The above studies create the foundation for a new paradigm to be accepted and embraced: vaccines do more harm than previously documented and characterized.
One emerging paradigm is the Dr. Paul Approved Vaccine Plan, which enables fully informed consent and parental decision-making in vaccination choices for their children. The plan reduces exposure to aluminum-containing vaccines and allows parents to delay or stop vaccinations if symptoms of a vaccine injury begin to appear. The purpose was to minimize exposure to aluminum-containing vaccines and to allow parents to stop or delay vaccinations if some telltale signs of vaccine injury were starting to appear. Conditions like allergies, eczema, developmental delay or autoimmune conditions are typical signs that a child’s immune system is not processing vaccines normally.
These reactions act as early indicators that let the parent and pediatrician slow or stop the vaccine schedule. Because of this, Dr. Thomas’ own practice has a mix of children who range from fully vaccinated, to partially vaccinated, to not vaccinated. This gives great insight into the side effects due to vaccines.
Study results used the relative incidence of pediatric office visits
Researchers conducted the Lyons-Weiler and Thomas using pediatric patient records spanning 10 years from Thomas’ pediatric practice in Oregon. Rather than use odds ratios of diagnoses in the two groups, the authors found that the relative incidence of office visits was more compelling. Even after controlling for health care exposure, age, family history of autoimmunity and gender, the associations of vaccination with many poor health outcomes were robust.
Unvaccinated children have less fever and consume 25 times less pediatric care outside of well-child visits. The study found that vaccinated children in the study see the doctor more often than unvaccinated children. The CDC recommends 70 doses of 16 vaccines before a child reaches the age of 18. The more vaccines a child in the study received, the more likely the child presented with fever at an office visit.
The study contained unique data that enabled the researchers to take into account the healthcare seeking behavior. Unlike increases in fever accompanied by increased vaccine uptake, increases in vaccine acceptance was not accompanied by a major increase in well-child visits. In fact, the number of well-child visits remained level regardless of how many vaccinations parents decided their children would have.
Any concerns that the non-vaccinated or less-vaccinated children would avoid the doctor are unfounded. The large difference in office visits adds some perspective. Not including well-child visits, children who received 90% and more of the CDC recommended vaccines for their age group were around 25 times more likely than the unvaccinated group to see the pediatrician for an appointment related to fever.
Compared to unvaccinated children, vaccinated children in the study were three to six times more likely to see the pediatrician’s for treatment related to anemia, asthma, allergies and sinusitis.
No ADHD in unvaccinated children
One particular find was quite remarkable. In the study, no unvaccinated children were diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), although 0.063% of the vaccinated group were diagnosed with ADHD. Dr. Thomas’ vaccine plan is likely the reason that the overall rates of autism and ADHD in his practice were around half the rates of the general population of American children.
In addition, low levels of whooping cough and chickenpox were found in both the unvaccinated and vaccinated children. A quarter of a percent of the vaccinated were diagnosed with either whooping cough or chicken pox, while a half percent of the unvaccinated were diagnosed with whooping cough, chickenpox, or rotavirus.
It is significant to note that there were no cases of hepatitis, tetanus, rubella, mumps, measles, or other vaccine-targeted diseases in either group during the entire 10.5 year study period.
However, vaccinations do appear to make the individual more susceptible to infections. The vaccinated children in the study visited the doctor’s office for respiratory infections 70% more than unvaccinated children.
Family history of autoimmunity issues connected to ear infections and allergies
Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld and other researchers have described a condition called autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA), where genetics and family history of autoimmunity appear to pre-dispose vaccinated patients to higher risks of developing an autoimmune condition. Because of this information, the authors also looked at patient records of those with a family history of autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes, or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The results showed that vaccinating children whose family has autoimmunity issues appeared to increase the risk of ear infection, allergies, asthma, and skin rashes when compared to unvaccinated children with similar family histories.
Previous studies have utilized a weaker statistic
Previous vaccine safety studies have flaws such as over-adjustment bias, in which the data are re-analyzed until the right combination of variables make associations of adverse health outcomes with vaccines disappear. One critical finding is that comparing the number of office visits related to a specific health condition is more accurate than using the incidence of diagnoses. Rather, the authors point out that studies using odds ratios with incidence of diagnosis is less accurate because patients already have at least one billed office visit related to the diagnosis. The authors suggest that future vaccine safety studies should not use these weaker statistics such as odds ratios of incidence of diagnosis.
Final thoughts
Studies are bringing to light the risks associated with vaccines as well as questioning the methods of older studies that use weaker statistics. And it is becoming clear that vaccinated patients require more healthcare for symptoms of chronic illness related to vaccination. They are also related to more chronic and severe health outcomes. Close to 54% of children and young adults in the U.S. have chronic conditions that lead to life-long drug prescriptions. Following a plan that enables informed choice regarding the risks associated with vaccinations and paying attention to vaccine sensitivity could lower that percentage. The authors of the above studies do call for further studies. Still, the data exists that should cause pediatricians to ponder if they are increasing the risks for a chronic illness in their patients.