How many times have you heard Jenny McCarthy demand that antifreeze be removed from vaccines? J.B. Handley boldly claims that the flu shot contains antifreeze. I mean who can disagree with that: antifreeze is something you pour inside your car, in a special container under the hood, you don’t inject that into babies. What monster ever decided that it was a good idea to add it to vaccines? Turns out, the monster does not exists, because there is no antifreeze in vaccines.
How do we know that there is no antifreeze in vaccines? Well, let’s see, first, there is no chemical element called “antifreeze” which you can identify in a vaccine; antifreeze is a combination of chemicals whose purpose is to reduce the freezing point of the cooling mixture, in you car for example, below the lowest temperatures the car is expected to encounter. The combination is not unique, for example there is Organic Acid Technology antifreeze, ethylene glycol, and propylene glycol antifreeze, antifreeze made for cars and trucks, as well as for portable plumbing systems, HVAC chillers and solar water heaters. That is why just one manufacturer lists 14 different antifreeze products on its website.
Besides these base elements, antifreeze contains various additives. Common additives include: sodium silicate, disodium phosphate, sodium molybdate, sodium borate, dextrin (hydroxyethyl starch), and a green dye, disodium fluorescein etc. There is no one element called antifreeze and all various kinds of antifreeze differ from each other due to the different combinations of base elements and the additives used.
As such, the first question to ask McCarthy and other “green-our-vaccines” proponents who still use the antifreeze line is: which antifreeze?
Moving on, according to Wikipedia, the most common ingredients in antifreeze are methanol, ethylene glycol and propylene glycol. Are these compounds present in vaccines? Fortunately we can easily answer that question since we know what is in vaccines; you can search that list of excipients in vaccines for any word you like. Not only does the word “antifreeze” produce zero hits, but so do the words “methanol” and “glycol” (or any of the other names that are used to identify these compounds).
Vaccines do not contain antifreeze; furthermore, no vaccine contains any of the 3 main chemical components of what is generally referred to as antifreeze. What is true, is that some vaccines contain polyethylene glycol (an altogether different element from the above) which sounds similar to ethylene glycol. In vaccines, it is used to weaken the influenza virus in some influenza vaccines. Outside of vaccines it is used in some antifreeze products as well as skin creams and toothpaste. I guess anti-vaxxers don’t moisturize or brush either.
Now to tackle Handley’s more specific claim, is there ethylene glycol (which he wrongly identifies as antifreeze, which is kind of like saying flour is pizza, because pizza is made of flour) in flu shots? Here is a listing of all the various flu vaccines I am aware of (click on any of them to go to the vaccine insert information sheet):
How many of them contain ethylene glycol as an ingridient? Do this little exercise: click on any one of them, which will take you to the PDF insert for each vaccine, click CTRL-F which will pop up the search box and search for the word “glycol”. See if you get any hits.
Simply put, the claim that there is antifreeze in vaccines is demonstrably wrong. Any person that still claims the contrary does so either due to a lack of knowledge, or care, about the truth.
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People mistrust government and pharmaceutical companies. This is recent event but I use it as an example since this is comparing ingredients. BP/GOV panel compared Corexit to a Klondike bar, implying Corexit is safe to eat but they each have merely same stabilizer. The main ingredient of Corexit 9527A is 2-butoxyethanol and classified as poison, GOV allowed millions of gallons to be sprayed on the Gulf, and the gov tells us to eat the seafood and swim in the water (it is not safe and people are very sick). The MSDS says “Do not contaminate surface water”. I don’t know if the government read the “Environmental Warning” but I suppose it’s bad either way. Drugs are approved by the FDA and only removed after too many people die. So it is easy to see where the mistrust comes from. Vaccines had a bad rep long before Jenny had her kid so it’s unfair to point to her. Many doctors and experts scream about the dangers of vaccines and mainly because of the pharmaceutical companies own studies (they exclude subjects with side effects). I am NOT against all vaccines but not all vaccines are the same or needed. The parent should decide how their child is treated NOT the government. Health decisions are a personal choice but most people believe the government has our best interest and give vaccines without question. It is clear to me they do NOT act with the best interest of people and pharmaceutical companies are not accepting responsibility for harm done.
I must say Gardasil and Hep B vaccines are very concerning to me and there is important information for each everyone should know (see below). It is wise to be informed as it is a parent’s job to protect the children so I encourage all parents to research all vaccines. Babies have died from Hepatitis B vaccine and even the Hepatitis B Foundation says it is contracted from blood and infected bodily fluids (infected mother, sex or dirty needle). There is a simple test to determine of the mother has the illness but regardless, CDC recommends this vaccine for all infants within 12 HOURS of BIRTH! WHY?! It does not seem logical to give an hours-old infant a vaccine if the mother does not have the illness. I don’t think newborn babies partake in risky sex and drugs or get tattoos so the only risk is the risky vaccine. Gardasil has also caused deaths and it not proven to prevent cancer yet it will be mandatory (may soon be required for males also), please read ‘Gardasil: Still not tested or proven to prevent cancer. The side effects of Gardasil can be devastating (risking death for an unproven vaccine is hardly worth the risk). The US vaccine schedule should be scrutinized and so shloud the ingredients; look at other countries and compare. Finland is a good example of a more flexible vaccination schedule which includes HepB vaccination at birth for “At Risk” Groups (half the number of vaccines in the first year of life).
Autism is on the rise and something is causing it… the number of recommended vaccines has also risen so it is legitimate to look at vaccines as a cause. The drug companies push through their vaccines at the FDA with such a rush and they may err more on the side of caution if they were held accountable. Vaccines are serious cause for concern but the toxins in our air, food and water are dangerous for us all.
How can we trust a government that tells us to eat poison?
http://saynotocorporateamerica.blogspot.com/
‘Gardasil: Still not tested or proven to prevent cancer’;
http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/gardasil-still-not-tested-or-proven-to-prevent-cancer/
Global Vaccine Institute on Hepatitis B Vaccine
‘Hepatitis B: A Special Thinktwice Powerpoint/Flash Presentation’;
http://www.thinktwice.com/hepB_sho.htm
testimonials and info on Hep B vaccine
http://www.thinktwice.com/hepb.htm
A DOCTOR SAYS:
‘A Few Things I Know’;http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2011/02/06/a-few-things-i-know/
another Dr.
‘Hepatitis B Vaccination For Your Baby’s Health’;http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2010/11/17/hepatitis-b-vaccination-for-your-babys-health/
Hepatitis B Foundation: “The virus is transmitted through blood and infected bodily fluids. This can occur through direct blood-to-blood contact, unprotected sex, use of unsterile needles, and from an infected woman to her newborn during the delivery process. The good news is that there is a simple blood test to find out if you have been infected.” ‘About Hepatitis B’; http://www.hepb.org/hepb/about_hepatitis_b.htm
Babies are vaccinated against Hep B for some very important reasons:
1. Most people infected with Hep B are asymptomatic – they show no signs of the infection, thus do not know they’re infected.
2. Babies are especially susceptible to the disease; if they’re infected within their first year of life, most will remain infected. This leads to a higher risk of liver disease, liver cancer and other issues.
Can you guarantee that your child will never come into contact with someone else’s blood? Do you know the HepB status of everyone he/she comes into contact with? What if your child needs to be hospitalized and receive blood?
Autism is on the rise, yet mercury was phased out of childhood vaccines 10 years ago. There is no antifreeze in vaccines; the aluminum present is 1/10th of what an infant is exposed to daily from its mother’s milk (1/40th if the child is fed formula). People are grasping at straws to try to justify to themselves why their child is different in some way. Are some children injured from vaccines? Yes. It is very unfortunate and heartbreaking when it occurs, but there will NEVER be a 100% side effect free vaccine. (Or any other medicine, for that matter). EVERYTHING in life has a risk assigned to it.