{"id":16694,"date":"2017-08-07T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16694"},"modified":"2024-06-30T05:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T19:15:05","slug":"they-said-these-were-safe-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16694","title":{"rendered":"They Said These Were Safe Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheySaidTheseWereSafe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16695\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheySaidTheseWereSafe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"They Said These Were Safe Too\" width=\"775\" height=\"775\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhy should we trust them about vaccines?<br \/>\nFrom Mike Stephenson (I&#8217;m sure he won&#8217;t mind my sharing)<br \/>\n1.3 million people went to U.S. emergency rooms in 2014 due to adverse prescription drug effects. Of these 124,000 died (about 10%). That means 1 in 2500 Americans died as a result of taking a prescription drug in a 12-month period. That&#8217;s almost one 9\/11 event per week, all year long.<br \/>\nMore than half of all Americans regularly take a prescription medication and each of these take four prescriptions on average.<br \/>\nI found the aforementioned data in the September issue of Consumer Reports which came in today&#8217;s mail. They cited the CDC and the FDA as sources.<br \/>\nSeems like a wild violation of the Hippocratic Oath of &#8220;First do no harm.&#8221;<br \/>\nI wonder how many people have been rushed to ERs due to adverse reactions from vitamins and nutritional supplements? According to Mercola.com, in 2010 there were 60 billion doses of nutritional supplements and ZERO deaths! Dr. Mercola cited the U.S. National Poison Data System&#8217;s annual report.<br \/>\nA telling tale!<br \/>\nAnd the TGA here in Australia want to restrict complimentary medicines?<br \/>\nSounding more and more like monopolistic practices to me.<br \/>\nDoes not appear to have anything to do with protecting the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should we trust them about vaccines? From Mike Stephenson (I&#8217;m sure he won&#8217;t mind my sharing) 1.3 million people went to U.S. emergency rooms in 2014 due to adverse prescription drug effects. Of these 124,000 died (about 10%). That means 1 in 2500 Americans died as a result of taking a prescription drug in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Said These Were Safe Too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51963,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions\/51963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}