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The Aaby study is fascinating, in this podcast Christine Stabell Benn talks to Peter Aaby, I think this is the single most important interview for people to hear so that they can appreciate there are so many things going on with vaccines that we just don't understand.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/professor-peter-aaby-the-discovery-of-non/id1629371129?i=1000568998766

and this, The non-specific and sex-differential effects of vaccines https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0338-x

And this interview,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwg-Vzg9NU

Christine Stabell Benn is a physician, a professor at the University of Southern Denmark, and a vaccine researcher with almost thirty years of experience in the field. The focus of her research is non-specific vaccine effects, i.e. all those other effects, both positive and negative, that vaccines have on our immune systems and overall health, beyond their very specific ability to protect against one infectious disease.

What she's found over the course of her research is that the overall effect on mortality varies greatly depending on whether a vaccine is "live" (i.e. contains a weakened but still complete version of the pathogen) or "non-live" (i.e. only contains a small part of the pathogen it's supposed to protect against).

Live vaccines tend to be associated with a reduction in overall mortality that goes far beyond the protection they offer against the specific pathogen. Non-live vaccines, on the other hand, actually seem to increase overall mortality, so that whatever benefit they provide against a specific pathogen is outweighed by their negative overall health effects. This matters, because there has been a trend over the last few decades to replace live vaccines with non-live vaccines.

Unfortunately, when randomized trials of vaccines are run, they usually only look at the ability to protect against a specific pathogen, and thus fail to answer whether the vaccine provides an overall health benefit or not. Vaccine trials are also usually too short, because non-specific vaccine effects can last for years or in some cases even decades.

In this conversation with Christine Stabell Benn, we discuss the current state of vaccine research, how an optimal childhood vaccination program could be created with relatively small tweaks to the existing system, how parents should think about vaccines for their children, and I also get Christine's opinion on the covid vaccines and the annual flu vaccines.

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Good stuff, thank you!

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Great article.

Hope you're doing well!

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Thanks Edmond, all well and good here, hope the same with you.

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Great post, thank you.

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Love that he threw in the chicken pox/shingles connection. I'm pretty sure when you get chicken pox this also protects you against an increased risk of cancer. Now if only we can get RFK to take out those airpods when he does interviews!

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Thanks for the references - important for people when they are verifying information. Concerning the chickenpox vaccines "not" being on the schedule. It may not be in the U.K. but it IS in the U.S.

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As a person running for a very important office, why would you refuse to speak to people you really should want to reach with your message, if your message is what you really intend to follow through on?

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“the focus should be on reducing division and hatred among Americans.

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He also addresses a question about his agreement to speak before a right-wing group, stating that he was unaware of their positions when he accepted the invitation and withdrew when he learned of them.”

Anyone else see a problem here?

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Ideologies and "isms" are becoming are our true enemy, aren't they? Belief is the enemy of knowing as they say. What helps me is when I see a person, any person, I remind myself that deep down inside there is divinity/God within them. Do you think there'll even be an election in 2024? Sometimes I feel like this is all distraction..

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Excellent observation, nothing can be more important than recognizing the Divine Presence in others, unless it is getting in better touch with your own Divine Gift.

I think 2016 was the last “election” in the US that reflected the will of the people -- they were deluded by their hubris and overconfidence in Kill-liar-y’s “95% chance of winning”, such that they didn’t cheat hard enough. As the head of Google said at the time “we won’t let this happen again”.

I continually warn against waiting for Superman. He isn’t coming. Representative government, at the national level, is vote-them-off-the-island reality theater: it is scripted and the actors are bought and paid for.

Crime and corruption have the seeds of their own destruction built in. The seeds are beginning, slowly, to germinate. Patience.

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This is a strategic delay. He’ll get there.

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I’m not necessarily saying this, but “strategic delay”, along with heroin addiction and philandering, may be seen by some as signs of profound weakness of character.

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And see this article, too! https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/the-australian-government-may-legally

"The Australian government may legally disappear and inject you using force and your family will be silenced: Implications for citizens of a new 'digital misinformation' bill.

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Wow I just listened to the first few seconds of the pinned video and she is being SO condescending.

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Online censorship incoming: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/communications-legislation-amendment-combatting-misinformation-and-disinformation-bill2023-june2023.pdf

Have your say fwiw here: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/new-acma-powers-combat-misinformation-and-disinformation

Summary here: https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/cp/133167425 "People who can't use a spell check or safety test gene-vaccines want to control everything you can see, hear or say online" by Alison Bevege at Letters from Australia

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Terrific summary, and helpful links. Thank you so much!!

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If only he could understand that viruses don't exist. Either he's being strategic on that point (to get nominated/ elected) or he's unable to see the bigger picture. Given his inability to see through the climate fraud however, I'd suspect the latter.

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