NIKOLA TESLA AT WARDENCLYFFE

From Looking Back at Rocky Point - In The Shadow of The Radio Towers - Vol. 1

- By Natalie Aurucci Stiefel

“When the first plant is inaugurated and it is known that a telegraphic message, almost as secret and non-interferable as thought, can be transmitted to any terrestrial distance, the sound of the human voice with all its intonation and inflections, faithfully and instantly reproduced at any other point of the globe, the energy of a waterfall made available for supplying light, heat or motive power, anywhere - on sea, or land, or high in the air - humanity will be like an ant heap stirred up with a stick. SEE THE EXCITEMENT COMING!” --- Nikola Tesla

Wardenclyffe in Shoreham, Long Island was the laboratory of the genius inventor, Nikola Tesla. In the early twentieth century, local newspapers were reporting exciting happenings at Wardenclyffe. By 1939 the property and Tesla’s laboratory building, located along Route 25A, became the facilities of the Peerless Photo Laboratories, a subsidiary of Agfa-Gevart.

In 1901, Nikola Tesla announced to the world that he would build a broadcasting station, which he would call “Radio City”at Wardenclyffe in Shoreham. He intended this to be the hub of a worldwide broadcasting system, which would employ several thousand people.

Nikola Tesla obtained the land through an arrangement with James S. Warden, Director of the Suffolk County Land Company. Warden hoped by offering the land to Tesla it would bring an opportunity to build homes for the prospective employees on his company’s adjacent 1,800 acres. Warden extended the offer of two hundred acres of land to Nikola Tesla, twenty acres cleared and the right of way. This property was adjacent to the Jemima Randall Farm and George Hagerman’s land in Shoreham. The deed, recorded in Riverhead on April 20, 1902, transferred the land to Nikola Tesla by the “North Shore Industrial Company”, incorporated under the laws of the State of Maine, of which James S. Warden was Secretary and C. L. Perkins, the President. Jack Warden offered land for sale in the New York Times from $3,000 to $10,000 which attracted many Wall Street businessmen who found the spot as an attractive summer resort. The prediction was that Wardenclyffe would become famous for its natural attractions as well as the place of Nikola Tesla’s experiments.

Tesla explained his dream of his world broadcasting system to financier, J. Pierpont Morgan, who backed Tesla with $150,000 for the project. Tesla’s friend, architect Stanford White, of McKim Mead and White, designed the laboratory at Shoreham. Due to White’s close friendship with Tesla, he presented his design as a gift, and would not accept payment. White had received international acclaim for his designs of the Washington Arch in New York, the New York University, the Trinity Church in Boston, the original Madison Square Garden, as well as numerous other buildings.

Stanford White designed the Wardenclyffe brick building with arched windows, as well as the cast iron ornament on the roof, called a wellhead, which was inspired from one in Italy. An associate of White, W. D. Crow of East Orange, New Jersey, supervised the construction work of the laboratory, which took more than a year to complete.

Access to the Tesla property at Wardenclyffe was made on the north side from North Country Road as at that time the main road, Route 25A, was not in existence. Shoreham Railroad station was adjacent to the Tesla property and ideal for transporting equipment and supplies. Nikola Tesla’s assistant, George Scherff, traveled daily on the railroad from New York City, to bring a wicker basket of special food for Tesla, which was prepared at the Waldorf Astoria.

LOCAL NEWSPAPER REPORTED EXCITING HAPPENINGS

The summer of 1901 saw exciting happenings in the little village of Shoreham. On August 2nd The Port Jefferson Echo reported: “Mr. Nikola Tesla, the world renowned scientist on Tuesday of this week, closed a contract for the immediate building of a wireless telegraph plant and electrical laboratory at Wardenclyffe, situated nine miles east of Port Jefferson, where on the 200 acres recently acquired by Mr. Tesla, he will within thirty days, begin the erection of a plant, which when completed will be the largest of its kind in the world. The first building will be 100 feet square with others to follow. The power plant will be 350-horse power. Mr. Tesla has for several years past maintained an extensive electrical laboratory at Houston Street in New York City, where he has discovered and developed many marvelous features in electrical power and usefulness. The above will draw to Wardenclyffe men in the highest scientific circles from many portions of the globe.”

By February of 1902, the Echo reported further improvements at Wardenclyffe: “Notwithstanding inclement weather and the usual obstacles and difficulties incident to the development of great enterprises, the Tesla improvements at Wardenclyffe have gone steadily forward. The power house, constructed of pressed brick, is 100 feet square and divided into a boiler room, engine and dynamo room, machine shop and laboratory. The boilers, engines, dynamo and other electrical equipment are being placed under the supervision of the Westinghouse Electric Company, where a force of employees from Mr. Tesla’s New York establishment is busy setting the drills, lathes, etc. in the machine room. The power house is completed, the foundations of the great tower put in and the well in connection herewith sunk to the required depth of 120’.

WHERE TESLA STAYED

On June 21, 1902 the Port Jefferson Echo said “Nikola Tesla rented the brick cottage of Mr. C. Wilson at Wardenclyffe until his own palatial abode is constructed.“ Tesla also sometimes lodged at the home of Dewitt Bailey. Mr. Dodd, proprietor of the Wardenclyffe Inn, was famous for his warm hospitality, where Niklola Tesla also sometimes stayed. During June of 1902 The Echo also reported that Tesla received assistance from Fritz Lowenstein, who became a well-known scientist and aided Tesla in his Colorado laboratory experiments in 1899 Lowenstein, who arrived from Germany, took up residence along with Tesla’s private secretary, George Scherff, at Dr. W. J. Herdman’s place at Wardenclyffe during that season.

The progress inspired Tesla that Wardenclyffe would be the great wireless center of America. He started to move his workshop from his New York City laboratory. He also planned for a workmen’s village and expected model cottages to be built by the following spring. However, much of his work was done in secrecy. The August 1902 “Babylon Signal” stated “the power house at Wardenclyffe occupies nearly three acres and is fenced in so that no one can get a view of it except those who are working within the enclosure. Mr. Tesla asserted there was a similar power house in Scotland.” Tesla said “We have been sending wireless messages for long distances from this station for some time, but whether we are going into the telegraph field on a commercial basis I cannot say at present. ”The Brooklyn Times of June 1905 reported, “From the time that Tesla secured the large tract of woodland, where the electrical plant is now situated, up to the present date, Mr. Tesla has maintained rigid privacy about his methods and plans. He does not court publicity as to the details of his work and newspapermen who call to see him are not likely to get overloaded with technical information. The visitor who walks into the grounds and approaches either the machine shop or the tower and well is met by an employee, who explains in polite but forceful language, that it is private property and that Mr. Tesla does not care to have visitors at that place. Mr. Tesla claims that it is today possible to communicate between any two points on earth, using the earth as a conductor. From his plant at Wardenclyfe he could run the electric motors and the big printing presses in the Brooklyn Times office. “

However, the County Review gave another account of Tesla on June 23, 1905: “This one gathers from occasional meetings with the Wizard of Wardenclyffe. He talks freely of his work to those who have his confidence and to such he is a wonderfully interesting man. His thought is concentrated almost solely upon electrical work and he is sufficiently human to enjoy discussing his work with those who have a fair comprehension of his accomplishments. Dozens of Tesla’s inventions and discoveries in connection with electrical work have been patented. The inventor positively asserts that there are many infringements of his patents in daily use in connection with wireless telegraphy” coneniences. He says he has met with an immense amount of opposition along various lines and that difficulties which would have put most men out of the race have been successfully overcome. He has implicit faith in the future of his many appliances.”

TESLA’S TOWER

Construction of the domed tower began in the summer of 1901. It was constructed entirely of large wooden beams, with 50,000 bolts, which were assembled on the ground and hoisted up into position. When completed, the tower rose to a height of 187 feet and weighed 55 ton. It was eventually intended to enclose the ribbed cage with copper plates to form an insulated metal ball.

The tower consisted of four tall wooden timbers stretching from a height of over 100 feet. The skeleton structure had a spread of 40 or 50 feet across the base. Each timber was aimed toward the center as it rose in the air, crowned at the top by a huge half sphere. The staircase, which led up the tower, was also constructed entirely of wood, and fastened by wooden pegs without the use of nails. The tower was high enough to be easily seen from New Haven Connecticut, across Long Island Sound. The huge mushroom-like tower gave the aura of a futuristic, Martian giant and local residents called it “Tesla’s Magic Tower.” Nikola Tesla planned to build another two towers to duplicate the tower with the large sphere on top. The three towers, one for each powerhouse, would each have a 500-foot well. The water at the bottom of the well was to be kept warm and was not to exceed a certain temperature. Excavation was planned to continue down to 500 feet.

Local farmers watched the strange looking objects arrive at Shoreham as attested by the March 27, 1904 New York Times: Some of the farmers who come to Wardenclyffe to send their products to the city look at Mr. Tesla’s tower, which is situated directly opposite the railroad station, and shake their heads sadly. They are inclined to take a skeptical view regarding the feasibility of the wireless, world telegraphy idea, but yet Tesla’s transmitting tower as it stands in lonely grandeur and boldly silhouetted against the sky on a wide clearing on the concession is a source of great satisfaction and of some mystification to them all. ‘

The June 1905 Brooklyn Times described the tower: “The queer tower has been taken for some new-fangled kind of a lighthouse, a wireless telegraph station and a pumping station. Every native keeps his eye on it in the hope that he may catch on to its secret, but as yet all are in the dark as to its purpose.” The Eagle reported that up to 1911 Nikola Tesla was a familiar figure going to and from the plant. “An atmosphere of mystery hung over the place, an unearthly influence seemed to be radiated from the alemble topped tower, as if drawn down from interstellar space and spread over the countryside to inspire wonder and awe in the minds of the nearby farmers and villagers, who knew only that Tesla was searching for or working with wonder currents that had something to do with wireless and electricity.” By 1916 The Eagle stated “Standing like one of the fabled Martian giants, from H. G. Wells’ tale of the “War of the Worlds’, the tall Tesla tower has graced the landscape of this village for a decade and a half of years.”

WORK HALTED BY CARPENTERS: Several months later, friction among the carpenters delayed the operation and was reported in the July 1902 issue of the Echo. Tesla had his hands full with managing of crew, machinery and the need for more capital from his investor, J. P. Morgan. “The carpenters employed on Tesla’s wireless plant refused to work last Saturday and left for their homes at Port Chester. The men were set at work by Foreman Houck putting shingles on the outside of a 150’ tower, when a stick of timber came crashing down to the ground. It seems another contractor, completing the upper portion of the tower, would not take his men off. The carpenters said they would not work with a careless set of laborers over their heads.” These delays proved to be very costly to Nikola Tesla.

THE TUNNELS

The tunnels, which were built under the great tower, were considered a great mystery. A well was dug below the tower 120’ deep and 12’ square, lined with 8’ timbers. A spiral stairway encircled a telescopic steel shaft. Air pressure would cause the shaft to rise 300 feet to contact the tower’s top platform. Connected to the well were four brick-lined tunnels nearly 100 feet in length. The Port Jefferson Echo reported in February of 1902: “The staircase leading down into this subterranean chamber is partially completed, and next week a force of workmen will begin the driving of a series of four small tunnels, each 100 feet long transversely across the bottom of the well. As these tunnels will be below the water level, some skillful engineering will be required to carry the work through. Mr. Tesla’s energy is pushing the work of construction forward and the fact that the boilers, engines and heavy machinery need only the finishing touches to make the power available, is an assurance that within a very brief period, he will be transmitting messages across the ocean through his wonderful wireless system.” The March 1902 Patchogue Advance reported “Under the center of the tower a well 123 feet square has been sunk a distance of 120 feet. This has been cased with eight-inch timbers and at the bottom, below the water line, a system of four tunnels will be driven out a distance of 100 feet each to the north, south, east and west. The particular use to which all this is to be put is one of the mysteries of the wireless system.”

In 1904 The New York Times told of the curiosity of the tunnels at Wardenclyffe. “While the tower itself is very stagy and picturesque, it is the wonders that are supposed to be hidden in the earth underneath it that excite the curiosity of the population in the little settlement. In the centre of the wide concrete platform, which serves as a base for the structure there is a wooden affair very much like the companionway on an ocean steamer. The tower and the inclose in which it has been built are being carefully guarded these days, and no one except Mr. Tesla’s own men is allowed to approach it. Only they have been allowed as much as the briefest peep down the companionway. Mr. Scherff, the private secretary of the inventor, told an inquirer that the companionway led to a small drainage passage built for the purpose of keeping the ground about the tower dry. But such of the villagers as saw the tower constructed, tell a different story. They declare that it leads to a well-like excavation as deep as the tower is high with walls of mason work and a circular stairway leading to the bottom. From there, they say, tunnels have been built in all directions, until the entire ground below the little plain on which the tower is raised has been honeycombed with subterranean passages. They tell with awe how Mr. Tesla, on his weekly visits to Wardenclyffe, spends as much time in the underground passages as he does on the tower or in the handsome laboratory and workshop erected beside it, and where the power plant for the world telegraph has been installed.”

In a conversation this writer had with Tesla author, Leland I. Anderson, he mentioned that Nikola Tesla stated it would be very dangerous to walk on the ground between the tower and the laboratory building when it was operating, because of the tunnel, which connected the building to the tower. Anderson also referred to a spiral stairway, which ascended down into the tunnel. At the bottom there are four stone-lined tunnels going out in various directions. These were used to establish ground connection (transmission) for the tower and not to be walked in. The tunnels gradually rose to the surface into brick, igloo-shaped mounds. Some people remember seeing these mounds at the edge of the Tesla property, near the present Fire Department. When the adjacent Fire Department built an extension on their garage, the bulldozer sank deep into the ground.

By February 22, 1902 The Echo printed the following announcement: “The immense wireless telegraph plant now being built at Wardenclyffe marks the beginning of the real war between Marconi and Nikola Tesla. Marconi has so far found only one way to send messages by wireless telegraphy - through the air. Tesla will try two methods. By means of his great tower he will send messages through the air. By means of his great well he will send messages through the ground. It is the latter method that Tesla thinks will achieve the greatest success. One of the remarkable features of the well is that at the bottom, the water will be warm. The principles on which Tesla will send wireless messages through the ground is, as explained by a friend, that a straight line through the earth, say between New York and London, is shorter than a line around the earth. His belief in it is so great that he has declared, in confidence to his friends, that ten years from now Wardenclyffe will be the great telegraph and cable center of America.”

THE END OF THE TOWER

In 1903, when Tesla realized that financial backing for Wardenclyffe would cease, he demonstrated lightening-type flashes from his tower in Shoreham. The July 14th report from the New York Sun stated: “Tesla’s Flashes Startling, but he won’t tell what he is trying for at Wardenclyffe. Natives hereabouts are intensely interested in the nightly electrical display shown from the tall tower where Nikola is conducting his experiments in wireless telegraph and telephony. All sorts of lightning were flashed from the tall tower and poles last night. For a time, the air was filled with blinding streaks of electricity, which seemed to shoot off into the darkness on some mysterious errand. When interviewed, Tesla said “The people about there, had they been awake instead of asleep, at other times would have seen even stranger things. Some day, but not at this time, I shall make an announcement of something that I never once dreamed of!”

Tesla’s dream for Shoreham to become a worldwide wireless center, was halted in 1915 when he was forced to hand over the Wardenclyffe deed to the Waldorf-Astoria to pay some of his $20,000 hotel debts. It was his belief that the Waldorf would hold the property until he could settle his debts. However, it was sold before he could redeem it. It was Tesla’s intention to always return there and continue his work, but that was not to be. The March 26, 1916 Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that Wardenclyffe had been transferred to Lester S. Holmes, a Manhattan lawyer, who purchased the laboratory along with 176 acres, in foreclose, as a business proposition. He had no intention of using it for the same purposes Tesla did, but merely as a business proposition. It is Holmes’ name, which appears on the Belcher Hyde 1917 map, with “Suffolk County Land Company” still holding title to land just north of the site.

As local residents would climb the tower stairs, the lower flight was removed to prevent further use of the tower as an observation point. On July 4, 1917, by order of Washington, the tower was dynamited by the Smiley Steel Company, under the supervision of William H. Glancey of Shoreham. The job took until Labor Day to complete. Shoreham resident, Robert Oliver, witnessed the event, “ I remember standing on a hill in 1917 when Tesla’s tower was taken down. It didn’t go down at first, but later they were successful”. The salvage company made $1,750 from the demolition job. The Echo gave a striking report of the dynamiting of the tower: “The first charges of dynamite was exploded Sunday morning about 8 o’clock and the shock was sufficient to dislodge the steel dome at the top and it fell with a crash to the ground. Subsequent light charges of dynamite reduced the remainder of the structure.”

There have been various speculations as to why the tower was dismantled. It was thought that the government felt it might be an enemy target site for the nearby Camp Upton military base. Tesla defended his patriotism for this country and declared his treasured citizenship papers were of such high value to him that they were kept in a vault, rather than the awards he received.

The laboratory lay abandoned for many years. By 1912 Westhinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company removed the machinery from the building, as part of their judgment of $23,500. Ironically, many years before, Nikola Tesla gave many of his patents to Westinghouse to save that company. If he kept his contract, he would have sufficient capital to independently pursue his inventions. Walter L. Johnson acquired the property in 1925.

On March 6, 1939 Plantacres, inc. purchased the property and leased it to Peerless Photo Products. In 1940, the Peerless Company installed a new boiler to replace the original Tesla boiler. The building started to take on some changes when an extension was added on the west side and a small room on the east side.

By 1950 a machine shop was built on the northeast section of the property. A storage area of 15,000 square feet was added in 1956 and in 1964 an additional 10,000 square feet was built for shipping space.

REMEMBRANCES OF NIKOLA TESLA

In 1885 Nikola Tesla developed a wireless radio controlled boat. As early as 1898, he astounded viewers at Madison Square Garden by demonstrating his robotic boat. While Tesla was at his Wardenclyffe Laboratory in Shoreham, he continued his research in robotics, which he referred to as “Teleautomatics”. Local Rocky Point resident, Barbara Hagerman Gallup, related the story her father told her about Tesla. Wray Hagerman, who was a self-made inventor, frequently visited Wardenclyffe and befriended Nikola Tesla. According to Hagerman, Japan became interested in Tesla’s radio controlled robotics. Several Japanese representatives came to Shoreham to see Tesla’s invention. When Tesla demonstrated how he could blow up his robotic boat, floating in Long Island Sound, from a high cliff above the beach, the Japanese offered to buy it. Tesla refused, as he was very proud to be an American citizen and would offer it to no other country. Tesla often remarked how his degrees and gold medals were not guarded in a safe, but instead the safe proudly held his American citizenship papers, which he felt were his most valued possession. He was sworn in as citizen on July 30, 1891.

Rocky Point resident, Pete Aviles, worked in food service at the New Yorker for seventeen years. As a Bellhop he served meals to Nikola Tesla in his room. Aviles recalled “I would bring his meals to his room, mostly very light food. Mr. Tesla was fond of pigeons and took care of them on the terrace outside his room. He would order many napkins to use with his meals. When he left the room he would always tell me to take a coin from the package of new coins on top of the dresser.”

Shoreham resident, Robert Oliver, recalls the time he personally met Nikola Tesla: “During the mid 1940’s I purchased my suits at Arnold Constable on Fifth Avenue, In New York City. As was the custom in those days, we would have the suits shipped out to our homes in order to save the two percent sales tax on them. When the salesman realized my home was at Shoreham, he began a conversation. It turned out that he worked as secretary to Nikola Tesla. He would bring Tesla’s lunch in a wicker basket, via the railroad, from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The salesman said he had stayed with Tesla at the “Wardenclyffe Inn” (formerly known as “Flavel’s Inn”) at Shoreham. Sometimes when they were staying at the Inn, Tesla would wake him up in the middle of the night and they would walk to the beach. The secretary would take shorthand notes in the dark, as he walked along with Tesla. He told me that Tesla was living at the Hotel New Yorker and comes to feed the pigeons at Bryant Park, adjacent to the Fifth Avenue library. He walked me over to the Park and showed me this old gentleman sitting on the park bench, feeding the pigeons. I sat down and chatted with him, after shaking his hand. I said no more than a few words. This was quite shortly before Tesla’s death, perhaps 1942. Tesla was working on wireless transmission of energy. As children, we would play in one of his deserted laboratories. The entire wall was covered with glass tubing in all kinds of patterns. Much of it had been broken with rocks. From my understanding, Tesla was working on the transmission of energy through the atmosphere. I heard that he was researching high pressure water, using water at extreme high pressures to cut and weld things, a method, which later came to be. Today he is not generally known for his contributions of alternating current, the fluorescent light and actually the first transmission of wireless radio.

NIKOLA TESLA - FAR AHEAD OF TIME

The National Archives in Manhattan store the records of Tesla’s application for citizenship as early as February 6, 1889. On July 30, 1891 naturalized citizenship was granted to Nikola Tesla when he was sworn in at the Common Pleas Court in New York City. His witness was Richard F. Feist of Rahway, New Jersey. At the time Nikola Tesla listed his residence as the Hotel Gerlach on West 27th Street in New York City and his occupation as Civil Engineer. This building was named “Radio Wave Building”, in honor of Tesla’s transmission of radio waves in 1896 from his laboratory at 5^th Ave. south to Hotel Gerlach Tesla organized his Tesla Arc Light Company of New York in 1885 and in 1887 founded The Tesla Electric Company. On two occasions Tesla lost his laboratories to suspicious fires. As the genius savant kept his inventions recorded in his photogenic mind, he was able to rebuild his laboratory. With an affiliation with George Westinghouse, Tesla lit up the 1893 Columbian Exhibition at the Chicago World’s Fair. Westinghouse obtained forty patents from Tesla, breaking the monopoly held by General Electric. When Tesla realized that Westinghouse needed help, he tore up his contract with him, enabling Westinghouse to continue, but left Tesla with little finances to pursue his inventions. The vision he had from boyhood of harnessing the power of Niagara Falls was fulfilled, when his polyphase system of power transmission was applied there in 1893. A statue of Tesla is displayed on Goat Island at Niagara Falls, in front of the entrance arch of the original Niagara Falls polyphase power plant.

Many inventions used today can be attributed to Nikola Tesla, such as fluorescent lighting, early radio, the bladeless turbine and the science of robotics. In 1882 Tesla discovered his greatest invention the generation of alternating current. His polyphase alternating current is the system in use today to bring electricity and power to homes and business throughout the world. He had the basic system of radio in 1896. He learned that everything has its own vibration, and by tuning into that “resonance” a building can be brought down, a tube of gas can glow. The vacuum tube for photography was developed in his lab. Tesla had over 700 patents in his name. He worked in the field of high frequency currents and developed a transformer known as the “Tesla Coil”, which converts low frequency current into high frequency current. The Tesla Coil is use in every radio and television produced today. In 1920 Tesla patented a lift-off helicopter. His research in robotics developed into the technology of missiles. The medical MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, is expressed in “Tesla Units”, for his work in resonance.

The vision Nikola Tesla had from boyhood of harnessing the power of Niagara Falls was fulfilled, when his polyphase system of power transmission was applied there in 1893. A statue of Tesla is displayed on Goat Island at Niagara Falls, in front of the entrance arch of the original Niagara Falls polyphase power plant.

Tesla referred to himself as a “discoverer” rather than an inventor, and opened the way for others to follow. The immigrant, who arrived in the Unites States in 1884 left a great legacy to his adopted country. There is a photo of him on display at the Statute of Liberty, memorializing the immigrant who changed the world.

For many years, New York City was graced with the man, Tesla, who loved to feed the pigeons in Bryant Park behind the New York Library. The street sign there today reads “Nikola Tesla Corner”. Nikola Tesla died alone on January 7th, 1943 at eighty-six years of age, the Hotel New Yorker where he resided for the last ten years of his life.

Some people referred to Nikola Tesla as the “Man Who Invented the 20th Century””. Tesla’s discoveries and theories will someday prove that he also invented the 21st century, as some of his discoveries are still waiting to be explored.

“My project was retarded by laws of nature. It was too far ahead of time.”

Nikola Tesla

Vaccine Philosophical Exemptions: A Moral and Ethical Imperative

- By Alan Phillips, J.D. Attorney and Counselor at Law

It is not enough to be informed about the many problems with current immunization policy and practice. We must effectively apply that knowledge to expand our right to make informed choices. Where the rubber meets the road with vaccine rights is in the statutes and regulations that provide or restrict those rights. Therefore, a great deal of my time is spent helping citizens throughout the U.S. present their case to state legislatures about the necessity of the right to make informed choices wherever vaccines are concerned.

On February 10, 2011, citizens of New Hampshire met with a state committee to present their case for the passage of a bill to provide a conscientious exemption to immunizations. Most states east of the Mississippi River offer only medical and religious exemptions; Mississippi and West Virginia only medical. By invitation and request of an informed New Hampshire activist, I provided the following information for them to present to the legislative committee that is considering the bill. After having researched and written this document, I am convinced that such a bill represents a level of choice that is not merely justifiable, but rather, a moral and ethical imperative.

The arguments are presented below. They are not comprehensive - books have been written on some of these topics - but the goal with legislatures is to make strong, concise arguments with credible support. Their time is often limited, and their ability to hear alternative points of view potentially limited as well. The question is not so much "What is the whole truth?" as it is "What will get the job done?" The actual letter is available at http://www.vaccinerights.com/legislativeprojects.html and revisions to the arguments may appear in the future on the Vaccine Rights website as well.

TEMPLATE: ARGUMENTS FOR THE ENACTMENT OF A PHILOSOPHICAL EXEMPTION TO IMMUNIZATIONS

I. Credit Given to Vaccines for 20th Century Childhood Infectious Disease Declines is Misplaced

Childhood infectious disease decline throughout the 20th Century is widely but erroneously attributed to vaccines. On average, about 90 percent of infectious disease decline preceded vaccines, while some diseases declined without any vaccines at all such as typhoid fever, scarlet fever, scurvy and tuberculosis.¹ In fact, some disease rates actually increased following the introduction of vaccines. For example, during 1962 U.S. Congressional hearings, Dr. Bernard Greenberg, Biostatistics Department Head at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health,² testified that cases of polio increased substantially after polio vaccines were introduced - 50 percent from 1957-58, and 80 percent from 1958-59 - and that the Public Health Service deliberately manipulated statistics to give the opposite impression.³ Meanwhile, polio declined in countries that didn't vaccinate.⁴ Therefore, 20th century disease declines do not support an absolute vaccine mandate.

II. A Reliable Vaccine-Disease Risk-Benefit Assessment is not Feasible

A. First, we do not have precise disease mortality data. For example, with regard to the recent H1N1 pandemic, the CDC reported U.S. laboratory confirmed flu deaths (both swine and seasonal) for the 2009-2010 flu season were 2,117⁵. However, the CDC estimated U.S. swine flu deaths alone at 8870 to 18,300⁶. In stark contrast, Flu Tracker (Rhiza Labs) estimated only 4642 fatal U.S. swine flu cases.⁷ Documenting disease deaths has been problematic historically as well. For example, in 1974, the CDC determined that there were 36 cases of measles in Georgia, while the Georgia State Surveillance System reported 660 cases.⁸ The truth is, we have only non-precise, widely varying "guesstimates" for disease mortality figures.

B. We know even less about the scope and severity of vaccine injury and death. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and National Vaccine Injury and Compensation Program (NVICP) have revealed irrefutably that vaccines cause permanent injuries and deaths, but they are inadequate measures of the scope of the problem. The FDA and CDC have admitted that reported adverse events represent as few as 1-10 percent of the events actually occurring.⁹ According to former FDA Commissioner David Kessler, reported events may be less than 1 percent.¹⁰ Furthermore, "No data get collected, and it remains unknown whether vaccination increases the incidence of most [chronic] diseases, particularly rare diseases."¹¹ Where there are huge unknowns concerning how vaccines affect other disease rates, and when the actual number of vaccine injuries and deaths may be up to 100 times greater than the number documented by the federal government, state governments are ethically compelled to allow a conscientious exemption.

III. The Belief That Unvaccinated Persons Pose a Risk of Harm to Others is Without Merit

A. If vaccines work, then of course unvaccinated persons pose no risk to vaccinated persons at all. The persistent, widespread claim that unvaccinated people "put everyone else at risk" is, therefore, nothing more than absurd fear mongering. The likely real basis for such claims is the enormous profit potential from vaccines. From the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry, every man, woman and child on the planet is a potential recipient of vaccines from the moment of birth until their last breath. The pharmaceutical industry, responding to this vast marketing opportunity, now has over 330 vaccines either in development or already on the market,¹² despite the profound drop in disease rates across the last century suggesting the need for fewer, not more, vaccines. Citizens should have a conscientious exemption allowing them to opt out of this mad, pharmaceutical feeding frenzy.

B. A more specific concern is the claim that the tiny percentage of persons not vaccinated for medical reasons, perhaps along with the larger percentage of vaccinated persons whose vaccines don't work, are put at risk by those exercising non-medical reasons. This belief is also without merit. It is based on the herd immunity theory, which states that if most of a population is immune, the entire population is protected. The presumed problem is that if too many people opt out of vaccines, the herd immunity effect will be compromised, and those not immune due to medical exemptions or failed vaccines are at risk.

Aside from the absurd implication that unvaccinated persons somehow become "disease magnets" that "create" or "attract" disease in communities where diseases have been absent for decades (and whose absence substantially preceded vaccines), this concern is erroneous because the herd immunity theory has been substantially disproved. For example, measles, mumps, small pox, pertussis, polio and Hib outbreaks have all occurred in vaccinated populations.^{13,14,15,16,17} In 1989, the CDC reported: "Among school-aged children, [measles] outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination levels of greater than 98 percent.¹⁸ [They] have occurred in all parts of the country, including areas that had not reported measles for years."¹⁹ The CDC even reported a measles outbreak in a documented 100 percent vaccinated population.²⁰ A study examining this phenomenon concluded, "The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons."²¹ The disturbing implication here is that efforts to maximize immunization rates may actually be counterproductive. Recent outbreaks in California, New York and New Jersey also occurred in highly vaccinated populations.^22,23

Official statistics for the recent swine flu pandemic show that the U.S. vaccinated 30 percent of the population against swine flu, yet had more than eight times its proportional share of international swine flu deaths. England vaccinated 8 percent of its population and had two times its proportional share. But Poland, which refused swine flu vaccines altogether, had only one-tenth of its proportional share of international swine flu deaths.²⁴ These data strongly suggest that the swine flu immunization campaigns may actually have been counterproductive. Therefore, citizens should have the right, individually, to determine whether or not any given vaccine is appropriate for themselves and their children.

IV. Mandatory Vaccination Prevents Citizens From Choosing Proven Safer, Less Costly, More Effective Alternatives

A. In the fall of 2008, Cuba used homeoprophylaxis to protect 2.5 million residents of Cuba from a Leptospirosis outbreak following tropical flooding. The protective effect profoundly exceeded that of conventional immunizations - 10 infections and no deaths with homeoprophylaxis vs. thousands of infections with many deaths in prior years with conventional immunization. The cost was about one-fifteenth that of conventional immunization. This was achieved "with full scientific verification."²⁵ [emphasis added] Numerous other instances of successful homeoprophylaxis have been documented around the world over the past 200 years, including here in the U.S.²⁶ With homeoprophylaxis, adverse events are virtually non-existent; there is none of the resulting death and disability that inevitably occurs with the widespread use of conventional immunizations. For those who consider homeopathy unproven or believe that it can't work, the implications are even more dramatic. If that is really the case, the use of immunizations in Cuba prior to 2008 was necessarily profoundly counterproductive.

B. A recent Japanese study found that "Vitamin D [is] better than vaccines at preventing flu,"²⁷ and experts say that vitamin D toxicity fears are unwarranted.²⁸ In a 2010 review, the esteemed Cochrane Collaboration, an independent, international consortium of medical researchers, issued a WARNING stating that "reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions."²⁹ The review found that "vaccine use did not affect . . . working days lost" and "had no effect on hospital admissions or complication rates." State legislators would do better to mandate vitamin D supplements than to mandate flu vaccines.

Meanwhile, the documented manipulation of scientific data in flu vaccine studies raises serious questions about the quality of studies on other vaccines, if not also about the reliability of medical research generally. Indeed, according to Newsweek, the new chief of Stanford University's Prevention Research Center says that people are "being hurt and even dying" due to widespread errors in medical research.³⁰ It is no longer sufficient to base policy on study conclusions alone. We must scrutinize the studies' methods, data, funding sources, potential conflicts of interest, etc., before accepting and acting on their conclusions.

Surely it is not the intent of state legislatures to implement health policy based on erroneous information, or to prohibit citizens from accessing the most efficacious, cost-effective, and safest choices for disease prevention available. The serious questions concerning the reliability of vaccine medical research and the availability of proven alternatives to conventional immunizations compel state legislatures to provide citizens with the right to a conscientious exemption from immunizations.

V. Conflicts of Interest Raise Serious Questions About Vaccine Policy

A. The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) develops written immunization recommendations that are adopted by the CDC. These become CDC recommendations that in turn are substantially enacted into law by the states. However, some ACIP members have conflicts of interest; some are right out of the vaccine industry or otherwise situated such that they stand to profit from the very policies they create. Therefore, states must scrutinize ACIP recommendations carefully, and accept or reject those recommendations based on the findings of that scrutiny, and not merely accept federal agency recommendations at face value.

B. There are conflicts of interest in the CDC as well. In December of 2009, Julie Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., announced her job change from CDC Director (where she promoted vaccines) to President of Merck Vaccines³¹. Given the revolving door between agency and industry, we cannot presume that CDC recommendations are necessarily always objective. Given this interrelationship between industry and government, states have an ethical and moral imperative to exercise careful scrutiny of CDC policies and recommendations, and to implement state policy based upon the findings of their own investigations.

C. Conflicts of interest exist at the international level. On June 3, 2010, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) revealed the existence of undisclosed, serious conflicts of interest in the WHO along with scientifically unsupportable distortions of information from the WHO concerning the swine flu pandemic.³² BMJ's Editor in Chief advised: "The current leadership of WHO may need to resign . . . We must create a world in which the best experts are those that are free from commercial influences."³³ The WHO did not volunteer any conflict of interest information until Aug. 11, 2010, after the pandemic was declared to be over,³⁴ and no one at the WHO resigned.

Given that conflicts of interest exist throughout federal and international vaccine policy-making agencies, states are morally and ethically compelled to scrutinize meticulously the recommendations of those agencies, and to base state immunization policy and law on the findings of their own, independent analyses. Unless and until that occurs, and unless such analyses clearly dictate otherwise, states are morally and ethically obligated to provide citizens the right to informed choice, by way of a conscientious exemption to mandatory vaccines.

VI. Reliance on the Pharmaceutical Industry is Severely Misplaced

A. In December of 2009, the WHO reported: "Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector occurs throughout all stages of the medicines chain, from research and development to dispensing and promotion."³⁵ Thus, a high level of scrutiny is required when considering products, claims and recommendations coming from this industry.

B. The pharmaceutical industry regularly engages in criminal behavior. In 2008, Merck was fined $650 million under the False Claims Act. In 2009, Pfizer was assessed a $1 billion criminal fine, along with a $1.3 billion civil fine, in its fourth settlement since 2002 over illegal marketing. In 2009, Ely Lilly was assessed a $515 million criminal fine and a $900 million civil fine. In 2010, GlaxoSmithKline was assessed a $150 million criminal fine and $750 million civil fine. Over the past 10 years, these and other companies including TAP, Tenet Healthcare, HCA, Serono, AstraZenica, Abbott Labs, Bristol Myers Squibb, SmithKline Beecham, Shering-Plough, and Bayer Corporation were assessed criminal and/or civil fines for unlawful acts in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The pharmaceutical industry has become the biggest defrauder of the federal government under the False Claims Act, and the problem has gotten consistently worse over the past few years.³⁶

It is critical to understand that criminal behavior, by definition, means that the perpetrator had knowledge of the unlawfulness of the acts committed. These companies knew exactly what they were doing each and every time. We can't know how many crimes were committed that were not caught and prosecuted, but based on those that were, we know that criminal behavior in the pharmaceutical industry is routine, presumably because it is, on the whole, profitable (which strongly suggests that there are crimes committed that don't get caught - not unlike the drug cartels). Since this behavior has gotten worse in recent years, we know that it is substantially likely to continue to occur in the future. Given that the pattern of behavior has been widespread and decades in the making, it is absolutely fair - indeed, necessary - to factor this pattern of behavior into an overall assessment of the character of this industry, and to assess the general credibility and reliability of their products accordingly.

The point is this: NO ONE SHOULD EVER BE REQUIRED ABSOLUTELY TO TAKE A PRODUCT FROM AN INDUSTRY THAT ROUTINELY ENGATES IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.

Having the right to say 'NO' to the criminal pharmaceutical industry is a moral and ethical imperative.

VII. Philosophical Exemptions Are Time-Tested and Safe

Currently, about 20 states containing a majority of U.S. citizens have philosophical exemptions to immunizations. If these exemption rights were causing serious problems, these exemption laws would either not have been enacted in the first place, or would have been quickly repealed. However, this has not happened. Apparently, philosophical exemptions have had no significant adverse effect on infectious disease rates.

Furthermore, all states have authority under the U.S. Constitution to mandate vaccines in the event of an emergency,³⁷ regardless of citizens' religious or philosophical objections, and to quarantine unvaccinated persons when necessary. So, if the unvaccinated should ever prove to pose a serious risk of harm in the future, there is authority for the state to act as it deems necessary to protect its citizens.

VIII. Medical Experts Disagree About Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness

There is a growing body of medical experts who are speaking out with concerns about vaccines.³⁸ Independent medical research contradicts pro-vaccine research funded by the pharmaceutical industry. The question, then, is whether or not government should assume the role of deciding who is correct, and impose its opinion in a one-size-fits-all policy on constituencies that consist of individuals with varying needs. The far better health care policy is one where individuals have the flexibility to make a customized risk-benefit analysis for themselves and their children in consultation with their health care providers - professionals who know their needs. Some may choose vaccines, but others may find that for them, the risks outweigh the benefits. Whatever the choice, all should have the right to make that assessment without government interference. With herd immunity having been disproved, there is no scientific basis for government imposing its will on the people, collectively, usurping the rights of the individual.

IX. Vaccination Raises a Fundamental Rights Question

Government mandate of immunizations absolutely, without a conscientious exemption, raises a profound fundamental rights question. Vaccines carry a risk of permanent injury and death, and that risk is presently neither quantifiable nor preventable. In a society where the vast majority of disease decline preceded vaccines, where in some instances vaccines caused a reversal of prior disease declines, where in some instances vaccines have proven to be counterproductive, where policy is based on a disproven herd immunity theory, and where policy is substantially driven by a corrupt industry that routinely engages in criminal behavior and that profits handsomely by the policy it drives, such a mandate is contrary to the very essence of what it means to be a democratic republic.

The international debate about vaccine safety and effectiveness is anything but resolved. Indeed, a fair and open conversation is, if ultimately inevitable, still yet to be fully had. Pending a final outcome of this debate, and given the high stakes involved and problems cited above, citizens in a free society should have the right to decide for themselves what is in their own best interests. Those who believe in vaccines are welcome to have them, and if vaccines really work, they have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated. In the meantime, state governments have authority under the U.S. Constitution to require unvaccinated children to stay home during outbreaks, and to impose vaccines or quarantine on unvaccinated citizens in declared emergencies. So, governments have nothing to fear by granting their citizens the right to informed choice. Indeed, given the above, governments have nothing less than a moral, ethical and legal imperative to provide that right.

CONCLUSIONS

1. Credit given to vaccines for 20th century infectious disease declines is misplaced. Vaccine history does not support an absolute mandate for vaccines.

2. Data for accurate vaccine-disease risk-benefit is not available. Therefore, government lacks the means by which to adequately determine whether or not vaccines provide a net benefit and are in fact actually necessary, and therefore, must allow conscientious exemptions.

3. Claims that the unvaccinated pose a risk of harm to the vaccinated are unfounded (if vaccines work, how could an unvaccinated person harm a vaccinated person?). Claims that the unvaccinated pose a risk of harm to those who can't be vaccinated or whose vaccines don't work are based on a misplaced belief in the disproven "herd immunity" theory. Therefore, the unwarranted, fear-based concerns about risks posed by the unvaccinated do not present a legitimate bar to the enactment of a conscientious exemption right. Furthermore, those who can't be vaccinated or whose vaccines don't work have viable alternatives that may work better than vaccines and that are safer and less expensive.

4. The evidence shows that vaccines were actually counterproductive in some instances. Clearly, then, government should allow a conscientious exemption so that citizens can assess the merits of individual vaccines.

5. There are viable, proven alternatives to immunizations. Homeoprophylaxis is far less expensive, more effective, and safer with no risk of injury or death. Vaccines carry a risk of permanent injury or death, are more costly, and are of questionable efficacy when scrutinized objectively. Therefore, citizens should have the right to choose from among all of the available options. Absent this option, government is endorsing only one of many legitimate health care modalities, to the exclusive profit of one industry, thereby substantially interfering with the free market.

6. Where conflicts of interest exist with those setting policy, there is a moral and ethical imperative for citizens to have and retain the right to evaluate and disagree with the resulting policy. Immunization policy is driven by the very industry that manufactures the vaccines, and that industry routinely engages in criminal behavior. NO ONE SHOULD EVER BE REQUIRED TO USE PRODUCTS CREATED BY AN INDUSTRY THAT ROUTINELY ENGAGES
IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.

7. Conscientious exemptions are time-tested. About 20 states representing a majority of the U.S. population currently have philosophical exemptions. If these exemptions caused serious problems, these exemption laws would have been repealed long ago. Clearly, philosophical exemptions have not created serious health problems, and if they ever should pose a problem, states retain the authority to impose emergency vaccines and/or quarantines as needed. A conscientious exemption poses no significant health threat to the state.

8. There is a growing body of lay persons and professionals, including credible medical professional and researchers, who are speaking out about problems with the conventional thinking on immunizations. There is a valid vaccine controversy. Given this reality, individuals should have and retain the right to make informed decisions.

9. Vaccines carry a risk of permanent injury and death. That risk may vary substantially from individual to individual, and the medical community has no gauge by which to assess that risk for healthy individuals. The herd immunity theory is flawed, so individual citizens cannot be said to have a responsibility to vaccinate for the sake of the community. Therefore, by definition, our democratic republic requires that citizens have the right to decide for themselves, as individuals, whether or not vaccines are right for them and their children.

In view of the above, and the scientific, legal, moral and ethical imperatives presented and supported therein, we respectfully request that the Honorable Senators and Representatives of this Great State support and pass the Bill adding an exemption from immunizations for conscientious beliefs.

Alan Phillips, J.D. is a nationally recognized legal expert on vaccine rights issues. He helps clients, activists and other attorneys nationally with vaccine rights issues and legislative initiatives. Learn more at www.vaccinerights.com

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Why Pfizer, a nation-less pharmaceutical corporation is tracking unvaccinated kids through health insurance?

Published on November 15, 2013

Must watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEf5x... Some of the views may or may not seem a bit radical. I'll report, you decide. Chicago Pfizer's net worth is $67.425 billion, pushing needles drugs for this dollar sign. Pfizer began as a joint venture between two German-American relatives, Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart. If you are a parent who has made the decision not to vaccinate your child nation-less pharmaceutical corporations know, according to a postcard sent in by a Next News viewer. In the notice mailed by Pfizer Inc. they indicate that they possess "records that your child may not have received a recommended vaccine." The postcard reminds the parents to contact their health provider to schedule an appointment. Pfizer also indicates that they have paid for the mailing on behalf of "your child's health plan, health clinic, or health department." We deduct that if your insurance company or health coverage provider doesn't receive a bill from your child's pediatrician for a vaccination your child's health profile is flagged and the post card is mailed from their database.

With Obamacare slowly coming online and individual state departments of Child Services performing more lethal kidnappings nationwide it is not a stretch to believe that the same records could be used against parents for states to claim that a parents freedom of choice is child neglect. Robert Scott Bell joins Gary Franchi to discuss the mailing. Pfizer began as a joint venture between two German-American relatives, Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart. The two men, cousins, launched a lab and business in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the mid-1840s, in which they produced santonin, an antiparasitic. They then expanded into producing citric acid, and suddenly, they were off and running. They expanded their facilities multiple times over the course of the next fifty years, and by the turn of the century, the company was making a multi-million dollar profit. Their production of penicillin during World War II, based on their own fermentation process, cemented them as the most widely used pharmaceutical company. In the 1950s, Pfizer shifted its focus to research and development and has remained focused on these goals since.

They have developed such drugs as Terramycin (antibiotic) Feldene (anti-inflammatory), Zoloft (antidepressant), Lipitor (lowers cholesterol), Diflucan (antifungal), and Viagra (erectile dysfunction), among many others. The company now distributes pharmaceuticals around the world, and various Pfizer products can be found in Belgium, Brazil, the UK, Canada, Iran, and Mexico, among a large number of other countries. The company currently employs 103,700 people, and still carried out a portion of research at its Brooklyn lab until 2005. The administrative offices are in Manhattan, and the primary lab has been located in Groton, Connecticut since 1960. The prescribed medications always have 10 or more side effects and cause the thing it was meant to buffer. Most often these side effects are much, much worse. You don't hear about these from your doctor, because he is just "pushing" the latest drug on the market. It is a fact, when a new drug comes out, it is "pushed" on the Doctor by a drug rep, whom gets commission off of what he sells. Like a used car salesman. The Doctor then in turn will prescribe it to his patients across the board for a week, until the next new drug is "pushed" Then the Doctor prescribes it across the board again, until the new drug comes out, again, and again.(a side not be sure and research these medications and their side effects, the cause the thing they were meant to buffer and much, much worse.)

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