Thanks to KITV’s Denby Fawcett for coming up with this very strange story last night.
It seems that while L.G. Duke Aiona has promoted the public health benefits of flu shots in official appearances, he has not had any flu shots and says, amazingly, “I am not convinced that vaccines are more beneficial that harmful.”
Okay, so apparently Duke doesn’t have a clue about how different our lives are because science has largely eliminated a number of formerly prevalent diseases through widespread use of vaccines, including smallpox, cholera, bubonic plague, polio, measles, mumps, chickenpox, and typhoid.
But Duke Aiona is still not convinced that vaccines are beneficial?? Or perhaps he doesn’t believe in science?
How embarrassing.
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well ulu, ihonored your request for references,gave it a shot (pun intended) and found a few technically weak and some citing the same study.a couple even concluded that vaccines should be given!!not being a scientist or science jounalist,went to “google”.there are a couple of references on the mark.the one about brazil i found interesting because the study concluded that most of the population studied had flu immunity.as for the other one you pointed out,thought it was relevant because the article was critical on how statistics were kept on illness and mortality.overestimation of cases,etc.people can conclude from it that there is an epedemic.,when there isn’t for example. and as for the ingredients i listed that are in the flu vaccines, my source is a medical doctor who is very skeptical of the pharmeceutical industry.and i believe he makes alot of common sense. i have his web-site.and he has the references.
sorry but science doesn’t work that way when it works right. It is not like politics or law where you marshall your arguments to prove our point. Science is organized skepticism. If you think you are right or you have a favorite theory, your duty is to try to kill it to to have others do so. if over time, something survives, we begin to believe it has value. In science there are few pleasures greater than killing off a sacred cow (theory), so if vaccines were dangerous, relative to benefits, science would be on it like tiger sharks on a five day dead cow off Waianae.
“i believe he makes alot of common sense.” has killed millions in Russia (Lysenko) and brought us eugenics, racism and most benignly bleeding sick patients, amongst other things. Throw in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I better quit.
We all want to believe things, and for matters involving a higher being, there is religion, where science is incapable of disproof, but for most other matters, science provides a nice system of checks and balances. Vaccines work, some work 100%, some less so, but all work better than the carnage that bacteria and viruses can cause if we are unprotected.
ulu, i’ll just wash my hands,get plenty of rest,gargle,eat wholesome nutritional foods,drink lots of water,exercise and take my phytonutrients.just do me a favor and don’t force people that don’t want these vaccines to take them.
People sure are ignorant. And proud of it, too.
no one is forcing anyone to get vaccinated, unless you are in the military.
I spoke with a friend who sees no hypocrisy in this because children and the elderly are harder hit by the flu, whereas a man “in the prime of his life” like Duke could better fight off the flu.
What about children and seniors who catch the flu directly from someone “in the prime of his life” who didn’t get vaccinated from the flu?
The hypocrisy is bad, but the real problem here is lack of responsibility.
Thank you again, Ulu, for sticking with the truth: No one is forced to vaccinate, but it’s still a good idea. Why are some people so against vaccines anyway? Seriously. It’s almost like being against soap!
“I’ve talked with many health care professionals and reviewed the benefits and risks of flu vaccinations. I just got my flu shot.”
HAH! Even Aiona gets it. The weak argument against vaccines goes the heart of the reason why the GOP is doing poorly, even in a mid-term election year, when it should have the upper hand!!
There are a number of excellent points made above.
I am a physician and was a medical director for a vaccine company (AGRION). I also studied and published extensively about human genetics at Yale.
Aiona is correct to be skeptical about vaccines. They do have a huge benefit, but there is a real harm to a (hopefully) small subset of people.
For him to publicly tout vaccines for the masses while not taking it himself is very troubling from an ethical standpoint. Yes Duke, there is a small risk to you, but as others have said by not getting the vaccine you are potentially putting others more vulnerable at risk.
The real underlying problem is that some people will be harmed by vaccines because of genetic susceptibilities. It is very unlikely that mercury is the (only) culprit. Vaccines are designed to stimulate the immune system, but not in a very sophisticated way. All sorts of stimulation takes place, some good and some bad. One of the things that vaccines do is to stimulate the production of cytokines. Cytokines are involvedin the immune system but also affect the nervous system (and many other systems). Cytokines can induce a type of programmed cell death termed apotosis. That cell death is responsible for diseases such as autism, schizophrenia, and I fear to a certain extent Alzheimer’s disease. The vaccine establishment does not want to raise that issue because at this point they cannot identify those at risk. Sadly, they discourage funding for any attempts to discover those at risk, because of the very real fear that more individuals will postpone or refuse vaccines and the herd immunity effect will be lost. It is a scientific and ethical conundrum.
In this context, Aiona clearly exhibited bad judgment and bad leadership.