Mike Adams and Reading Comprehension: Not the Best of Friends.

Now to say that Mike Adams despises modern medicine, and the medical establishment is to put it mildly. To say that he thinks everything is a conspiracy is an understatement. I have learned not to be surprised by what will come next out of his NaturalNews website. Or at least I thought I had. I am not ashamed to admit that Adams has surprised me yet again. In yet another scare piece, he claims that the CDC is “calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program“. Scary stuff right? Luckily he was gracious enough to produce copies of the “intimidating” letters the CDC has been sending out to those chosen to participate in the survey.

Here are the two letters as posted by Mr. Adams (you can click on the links or the pictures to get the full size pictures so that you may read the letters).

Letter 1                                                                       Letter 2

So, what are we looking at here? Well, let’s see what Mr. Adams claims the letters are all about, and let us compare them to the actual letters. According to Mr. Adams, the CDC (emphasis added) :

is now engaged in a household surveillance program that involves calling U.S. households and intimidating parents into producing child immunization records. As part of what it deems aNational Immunization Survey(NIS), the CDC is sending letters to U.S. households, alerting them that they will be called by “NORC at the University of Chicago” and that households should “have your child’s immunization records handy when answering our questions.”

Well, I for one do not like bullies,  I don’t care if they are a government agency. Intimidating innocent parents is just not right. Be that as it may, how the hell is one supposed to produce child immunization records over the phone anyway? But  I digress, let us see how far the CDC has gone into intimidating us. Quoted from the first letter (emphasis added):

For this study, we need to ask about vaccinations and about children’s health. Some households also may be asked questions about the health services their children need or use. If you have a child between 17 and 37 months of age, it would be helpful to have your child’s immunization records handy when answering these questions. However, you can also answer these questions without the records.

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This study is important, but you do not have to take part, or you can decide not to answer one or more questions.

My, my, my! The letter is dripping with threats and intimidation. I mean what else does “you can answer the questions without looking at the actual records” mean? Especially if you connect the dots and take into account that they also say that you do not have to take part in the survey, if you choose not to, and that you do not have to answer all the questions. Apparently this is intimidation according to Mike Adams.

The other day I called my cable provider to have cable service installed in my house. They told me the technician would be in my apartment between 8-12 am and someone needed to be home to let them in. I guess that was intimidation and they were trying to keep me indoors between 8-12, for some nefarious purpose I am sure!

The thing the boggles the mind is not that Adams believes the nonsense he spews at his site, but the fact that somehow his mind does not see the glaring inconsistency: that he, supposedly the one  unearthing all these conspiracies, is still being allowed to write about it all on his website. What kind of conspiracy is so widespread and successful, yet cannot silence one guy, shut down one website? An imaginary one perhaps?