Opposing Vaccination: When The Lancet Becomes a Killer Tool for the Royals

August 22, 2009 (LPAC)—In recent weeks, the world's second-most prestigious medical journal of reference, The Lancet, which publishes often useful medical studies from over 40 Elsevier publications, in line with the growing conspiracy mood, published several items throwing doubt and confusion on the safety, efficiency, and usefulness of vaccination against the swine flu pandemic.

Earlier this month, The Lancet's editorial said "countries needed to "assess carefully the risks and benefits of rapid approval of an H1N1 vaccine since, "as well as availability, safety of an H1N1 vaccine is a concern. Many national regulatory agencies have set up fast-track approval processes for the H1N1 vaccine, which means that a vaccine might be licensed without the usual safety and efficacy data requirements."

The nexus between the British "science" establishment black propaganda and the insanities spread over the web by "investigative journalists" such as Bill Engdahl or nutcase Jane Burgemeister—which go as far as claiming that all pandemics are the result of vaccinations aimed at reducing the world population—unfortunately are causing quite some damage to public opinion.

To defend vaccination in Belgium, the leading Belgian daily Le Soir felt obliged to run a front-page article on Aug. 18 showing that the Internet is polluted with "genocide suspicions." In Germany, Matthias Gruhl, the public health official of Bremen, declared to Der Spiegel that "If the pandemic remains this mild, a mass vaccination program is not justified." In France, Prof. Marc Gentellini, former head of the French Red Cross, while claiming to defend vaccination, says in Le Parisien that vaccines produced in great emergency and whose safety is not yet known could pose serious risks. In Britain itself, a recent poll indicates that only one-third of all nurses working for the NHS would agree to be inoculated against swine flu, one-third are undecided, and one-third totally reject any vaccine they consider unnecessary, ineffective, and dangerous.

The Lancet's editorial board has a documented record for criminal ass-licking of the British Royals. The French scientific magazine Science & Vie, in its February 1995 issue exposed how the British Royal Family imposed a fake "scientific" study "proving" the "success" of homeopathy, a therapy lacking any scientific foundations but often tolerated as useful for its placebo effect. The study was conducted under the direction of David Reilly of Glasgow, himself a homeopath. The methodology of the study was blatant bungling since the homeopathic drugs were only tested on 28 persons, while such a study would have required at least 120 test persons to be conclusive. Science & Vie says that under normal conditions, The Lancet would "never publish" such a piece of incompetence, since published articles are first peer-reviewed.

The French science magazine observes that besides funding from the French homeopathic drug maker Boiron, the study got direct funding from the "King"s fund": "the royal foundation backed by the British Royal Family. And it is known, that from the Queen Mother to the little princes, the entire Royal Family uses homeopathy, and that Prince Charles made himself a crusader for these practices. From there on, threatened by the crime of lese majeste, publishing the study became mandatory."

On Aug. 4, the London Telegraph reports that British homeopath quacks are selling "Swine Flu Formula (SFF)" a treatment in the form of small "sugar pills" which dissolve under the tongue, selling at 7 pounds for a bottle of 50 pills. The author of the article says that "The thing that bothers me most about this story is that the company responsible for distributing Swine Flu Formula, Ainsworths, has been given a 'Royal Warrant' by both the Queen and Prince Charles, whose emblems it carries on its website. Why is it that the Royal Family encourages this nonsense?" On top, concludes the paper, the firm was recently censured by the Advertisement Standards Authority for advertising that its medicines could treat the common cold. Of course, today, the homeopathic lobby and other defenders of "natural" immunity are heavyweights in the growing opposition against vaccinations.