Suzanne Humphries is a nephrologist turned vocal proponent
of pseudoscience, woo, and worse. She has been involved with the International Medical Council on Vaccination,
a front group for anti-vaccinationism, and has written several blog posts and
done several podcasts and interviews (e.g. for NaturalNews)
insinuating that kidney failure is caused by vaccines.
The fact that she is a medical doctor does not mean that she know how science
or evidence works, however, and – as expected – her evidence is purely
anecdotal;
in fact, her reasoning is entirely based on “feeling” the vaccines’s role in kidney disease, which just goes to display in full her
complete lack of training in, expertise or understanding of any relevant field
of immunology. You see, not only are vaccines unnatural,
they are “disease matter”,
which, I suppose, is a compelling point for anyone who swears by the laws of
medieval alchemy.
Humphreys has also asserted her adoption of homeopathy,
after extensive studies. She does not even try to link homeopathy to reality,
instead adopting fullblown vitalism,
claiming that homeopathy works by fixing energy flows in the body. In fact, she claims that homeopathy is a “more advanced system”
than evidence-based modern medicine, and that the latter tends to exacerbate
the forces that drive chronic illness. Therefore, according to Humphries,
people should limit their medical care only to homeopaths, chiropractors, and
osteopaths. And of course, modern doctors are deliberately suppressing effective alternative cures because they are all in on a conspiracy funded by Big Pharma.
(Yes, that post was published on the pile of quackery website Medical Voices.)
To top it off, she attempts to combine her anti-vax claims
and pseudobullshit with religious fluffery to argue that the Bible and Koran are opposed to vaccination.
That’s the level she’s pitched at.
Diagnosis: Utterly ridiculous MD turned crankery sith lord.
Unfortunately Humphries wields far more influence than is good for society and
civilization. A significant threat.
Pseudo means false, so "pseudobullshit" means perhaps hte opposite of what you want it to mean.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you but I didn't give anyone permission to change my gene expression with a vaccine. **Note: Aluminum has been demonstrated to impact the CNS at every level, including by CHANGING GENE EXPRESSION.**
ReplyDelete"In spite of a common view that aluminum (Al) salts are inert and therefore harmless as vaccine adjuvants or in immunotherapy, the reality is quite different. In the following article we briefly review the literature on Al neurotoxicity and the use of Al salts as vaccine adjuvants and consider not only direct toxic actions on the nervous system, but also the potential impact for triggering autoimmunity. Autoimmune and inflammatory responses affecting the CNS appear to underlie some forms of neurological disease, including developmental disorders. Al has been demonstrated to impact the CNS at every level, including by changing gene expression. These outcomes should raise concerns about the increasing use of Al salts as vaccine adjuvants and for the application as more general immune stimulants."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25428645
-US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health website-
Did they tell you that vaccines had epigenetic effects before they vaccinated you? "Epigenetics" - (noun) - "the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself."
If you are attempting to earn an entry of your own in the Encyclopedia of American Loons, great job! You are well on your way.
DeleteLiving changes your epigenetics
DeleteYou better not wear that aluminium foil hat then ;)
DeleteThat's a paper by notorious antivaccine researcher Christopher Shaw. It isn't from the NIH, it's just indexed on PubMed.
DeleteG... food changes your gene expression as well. It sounds harsh, but it is how your body works. You take in chemicals (food, med, vaccine, etc) to turn on/off certain genes to produce proteins for variable functions.
ReplyDeleteI know you don't want people artificially changing the way your body works, but you already do that by eating food people create for you, there is fundamentally zero difference.
Did your mother breastfeed you? Do you eat? Too bad. You're getting aluminum.
ReplyDeleteIngesting it, not injecting it, big difference. As nature intended, not ego maniac scientists who think they know more then they do.
Delete"Ingesting it, not injecting it, big difference." No, not really. Not in the case of aluminum. There's a good explanation of how this works here - gives you the opportunity to discuss the issue with facts rather than myths, which is good.
DeleteAnd keep in mind that "natural" doesn't suggest "good" or "healthy". Mercury, lead and formaldehyde are perfectly natural, and although your immune system has evolved to deal with microorganisms, the microorganisms have simultaneously evolved to take it out. Nature doesn't care who wins.
Yeah let's inject neurotoxins into babies, what could go wrong
ReplyDeleteHow about you do it, and I don't
Same mentality of the Trump supporters is seen in the quack medicine believers. If I feel it, or perceive it, it must be true. Never mind scientific studies, I want to believe in these oracle cures. Humphries, Mercola, and their sheep….pathetic.
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DeleteI,ve done a little bit of research on this "website". Could,nt find a real name or person responsible for the blogs.
ReplyDeleteBut.....I know a few people mentioned here and not in a good way.The info from the blogs is always one-sided: Therefore I have to conclude, this is a TROLL!!!!
Put Snopes on you,re "Encyclopedia of American loons" because they belong here !!!!
Really.... The website called Americanloons.blogspot.com is a troll? *Gasp* I never would have guessed!!! Thank you for yet another keen observation.
DeleteYou know what someone writes is true when they use lots of exclamation points, CAPS LOCK, and denigrate Snopes!!!!!
Delete“Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
DeleteTerry Pratchett
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DeleteWhole lotta woo going on in the comments section.... Anyone go to college besides the admin? Anyone?
ReplyDeleteI'll be finishing my novel if you need me.
Anti Vaxxers are people who cannot be wrong.
ReplyDeleteAnti Vaxxers assume 100% personal integrity in themselves and others who say the same things as them.
Anti Vaxxers have uniform beliefs about vaccines and the causes of what they all term as 'Autism', which appears to be brain damage from vaccines. Or brain 'change' into something that is not the superior racial purity they assume. (Which is the authority with which they make their judgements and statements).
Anti Vaxxers cannot be wrong.
Anti Vaxxers can make absolute statements like ANY CONTACT WITH ALUMINIUM CHANGES YOUR DNA WHICH AUTOMATICALLY MEANS IT BRAIN DAMAGES YOU. They can do this is absolute authority. (Well of course they can. Duh?)
Anti Vaxxers assume all Autistic people are brain damaged and always represent them on video online, as permanently having meltdowns and self destructive.
Anti Vaxxers always argue and attack ANYTHING you write, including punctuation and minor misunderstandings over terms and phrases. This is for your own good to save everyone from vaccines.
Anti Vaxxers call themselves VACCINE SAFETY CAMPAIGNERS.
Anti Vaxxers do not say they are trying to stigmatise vaccines.
Anti Vaxxers cannot say vaccines are 100% safe. Which is more than enough to put parents off using them.
Anti Vaxxers do not understand what it takes in terms of character and behaviour and group membership, to be cult members. Which is one good property of the best sort of cult member.
Anti Vaxxers believe there is a conspiracy going on all over the world with the big pharmaceutical corporations and the governments to hide the truth.
Anti Vaxxers believe that this was written by a secret agent in the pay of the pharmaceutical corporations.
Anti Vaxxers use a childish, paranoid bogey-man term BIG PHARMA all the time, to make sensible people think they are paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Anti Vaxxers think the film VAXXED changes lives. It's a science fiction conspiracy theory film which sounds like it all got read off the same script. (I obviously do not own a free copy via my pal getting it from Bit Torrent. Get yours today - its a hoot).
Anti Vaxxers are intellectual snobs.
Anti Vaxxers have no idea what the future is going to bring for their beliefs, let alone their cult guru's and leaders.
Anyone who, in this day and age, still believes that Big Pharma and/or the government have our, the peoples', best interests at heart are unfortunately completely deluded. I have watched several Youtube videos of Dr Suzanne Humphries and know that far from being the quack that you try to depict her as, she has a huge amount of integrity and honesty and, furthermore, uses SCIENCE to back up her evidence. The same cannot be said for Big Pharma. In all these things, just follow the money. BP has massive amounts invested in vaccinations. They may or may not work but to be honest, why would you inject your very young toddler with such stuff and suffer the risks. It just doesn't make any sense. The Biggest Loon here is the owner of this blog - a disingenuous, lying and rather backwards person if there ever was one.
DeleteX'ara. I agree. She is very intellectual, she was the one that led me to this site as she used this as a reference to her quackery from one of her you tube vids. I'm so glad there are people out there like Dr Humphries and Dr Wakefield that are speaking out for the people. They are selfless, humble individuals worthy of praise.
DeleteHoly shit. You do know that Wakefields unrepeatable research was done so that he could launch his own MMR vaccine, and that his own staff accused him of fudging results? He's been described as "one of the most reviled doctors of his generation" (wikipedia) and I'd wholeheartedly agree.
DeleteWakefield - "One of the most reviled doctors of his generation". An assessment I'd totally agree with.
DeleteX'ara, if you actually looked at All the scientific literature and not what this loon cherry picks and then says are facts, you would change your opinion. Most of her cited resources findings actually contradict what she is saying but she cherry picks sentences from their work to back her own view. Listen to immunologists and biochemists, they are the real experts in this field not a medical doctor.
DeleteVaccines, boosters, flu shots, etc. are biowarfare, bioengineering and eugenics, by design. Research UN Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, Georgia Guidestones.
DeleteSuzanne puts her full name and face on her posts. This blogger has no face and initials only. This blogger doesn't even list any credentials he/she has. So, of course we should disregard what MD, physicist Suzanne says because "G.D." says she is a loon. Ha ha ha ha......
ReplyDeleteIf you're in it for fame and/or money then you kind of need to put your name on it.
DeleteBecause people stupid enough to believe woonatics like Humphries are the same people threatening to kill parents who had their children murdered.
DeleteNone of this will matter anyway when so many epidemics make all vaccination compulsory the world over. How else will governments react? This Humphreys woman, regardless of any rank or status, will be part of bringing that.
DeleteWhen your un vaccinated children are screaming in pain and possibly dying you can look at these posts of yours and know that they suffer due to your own ideas. Not this woman's. You never had to listen to anyone. Humphreys' is merely a means for you to justify your own feelings.
I am a Registered Nurse and work in a hospital that now forces me to take the flu vaccine. I have taken it for 2 years now because I don't want to wear the scarlet letter A by wearing a mask while caring for patients. Everyone knows that is due to refusal and in turn you look like a trouble maker. I am not a quack and usually go along to get along. I do not want to make waves but feel like I am trying to find my own way to make an informed decision about taking it every year.....Really every year, I just cannot in good conscience put these chemicals in my body. Do I trust the employee health nurse injecting who knows what into me. Lastly I will say the last 2 years that I took the shot I had horrible numbness and tingling to all of my extremities. I thought it was all in my head and didn't even want to tell anyone about it, and no one know I was kind of against it. I'm scared to do it again this year.
ReplyDeleteflu vaccine is one that I would never get. Why? Because the flu virus mutates so quickly that the vaccine's effectiveness is a crap shoot. Why inject those other chemicals directly into your tissues when there's a good chance the virus has already mutated and the vaccine will not protect you from this year's version of the virus? other vaccines I'm less skeptical about. BUT... the total number of vaccines they are giving infants today seems extreme. We have done no long term studies on giving so many vaccinations at such an early age, nor have we done studies on whether the age of the infant would make a different regarding adverse reactions? For example, would waiting until 6 months old for the first vaccine be better than vaccination at earlier ages? Or what about waiting till age one or two or... Seems like we've gone full bore, more is better, younger is better, without any research to back up this approach.
Deletewhat a rude site this is. So closed minded.
ReplyDeleteAwww science doesn't care about your feelings.
DeleteA website ran by an anonymous person giving opinions/judgments on the "looniness" of others is science?
DeleteThat's rich.
...so how long have you shown brain damage and or traits you define as autistic, since you will definitively have a bad attitude to NeuroDivergency and are vaccinated. Aren’t you?
ReplyDeleteOh. Not at all? So this aluminium has made no difference to you? I bet you are full of vaccines and they have done what to you? Hehe.
To claim Dr. Humphries is a quack defines the claimant as one! Other sane commenters about her veracity rights the silly claims against her.
ReplyDeleteIt's very, VERY clear that you have not read her work: she is as scientifically-based as they come, and it's sad to see anti-vaxxers condemned outright, without studying their work.
ReplyDeleteI was initially impressed with her ideas but when I saw her videos nodding with a Christian fundamentalist (Noah's Ark went unquestioned as fact) I started thinking about Michael Crichton and other seemingly articulate people with a narrow lens.
DeletePeople can be swayed by writing styles but you need to look for context-omissions.
Vaccines are to murder the population so that the members of the Cabal still will have plenty of everything in a thousand years' time. They run wars, introduced contagious diseases, fear, vaccines which are bio-weapons. If you want to display those who are looneys, start with Bribedthen and add most of the world's politicians.
ReplyDeleteHaha! That’s why this site was invented.
ReplyDeleteSigned, one of the Lizard Overlords x