THE POISONED NEEDLE
Suppressed Facts About Vaccination
By
Eleanor McBean
1957
SUMMARIZING THE CASE AGAINST VACCINATION

Dr. Hodge continues:
"After a careful consideration of the history of vaccination gleaned from an impartial and comprehensive study of vital statistics, and pertinent data from every reliable source and after an experience derived from having vaccinated 3,000 subjects, I am firmly convinced that vaccination cannot be shown to have any logical relation to the diminution of cases of smallpox, and —

1.That the practice of vaccination has been the means of disseminating some of the most fatal and loathsome diseases, such as leprosy, syphilis, tetanus and tuberculosis;
2.That vaccination is not only useless, but positively injurious of protecting its subjects from contagion of smallpox, it actually renders them more susceptible to it by depressing the vital power and diminishing natural resistance;
3.That immunity from all diseases is to be realized through the attainment of health, not by the propagation of disease;
4.That it is never necessary to set up one disease in a healthy organism to protect against another; that such procedure is an appalling violation of the basic principles of hygiene and sanitary science;
5.That the performance of the vaccine operation in the very nature of the case, violates the cardinal precepts of modern aseptic surgery, the aim of which is to exclude the products of disease from the organism, and never to introduce them;
6.That there is no evidence worthy of the name, on record, to prove that vaccination either prevents or mitigates smallpox;
7.That many healthy children have died from the effects of vaccination;