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Billy Corgan Speaks Out Against H1N1 Vaccine

  • Posted on Oct 29th 2009 11:00AM by John D. Luerssen
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Just days after Blink-182's Mark Hoppus penned his own medical missive, Billy Corgan has released a scathing 800-word communiqué about the H1N1 -- aka swine flu -- vaccine. In his blog-itorial, the Smashing Pumpkins' mastermind spoke out against both the virus and the "propaganda machine" that accompanies it.

"I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear," Corgan explained in his critique, which can be read in its entirety here. According to him, the virus is not yet an emergency and he believes it's ridiculous that "our American President Obama" has declared it so.

If that's not enough, Corgan, struggled with the notion that the government can require people to take the vaccine. He's also of the opinion that the "virus was created by man" writing that he has "read reports from people who say (as doctors) that there is evidence to suggest this."

Finally, Corgan stated, "If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord." But that's not to say he expects fans to follow his logic.

"I am not a doctor, and I am in no way suggesting that you should follow any medical advice from me," he wrote early in the essay, adding, "I am willing to question anything: the existence of God, the existence of me or you or Robert Zimmerman [aka Bob Dylan]."
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WPL

Who'd have thunk it?

Bill Corgan is a mouth-breather.

December 10 2009 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Paul

I just buried a close friend this weekend. He died as a result from H1N1. His lungs became infected and the oxygen gas exchange could not take place. His kidneys shut down followed by his heart. He was on life support for two weeks while his family hovered around and watched him die.

Man did not create this virus, that is a ridiculous claim. There is also no santa claus, easter bunny, ala, jesus christ, zeus, sun god, or any other human fabricated "this is what happens when you die" story. There is life, death, and being a good person. If you can get the vaccine then get it and tell those you love that you love them!

December 07 2009 at 3:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Erica

THANK YOU BILLY. Anything that is hyped up by the media and then treated in such a short amount of time is something to be very wary of.

As a doctoral student in psychology, I am aware that any sort of treatment for any kind of disorder, disease, or virus takes years to perfect and to truly be in the clear as to its efficacy.

This and GARDASIL.
BE WARY.

December 01 2009 at 3:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
lindapolver

go look into the thermisol, squlene or squalene, its all mercury based-go check infowars.com and search out gardasil, h1n1 shots, flu shots, all of it, overlook the conspiracy issues and read the facts. its a untested shot, not tested enough, rushed to sale, rushed into our arms. its NO GOOD!! I am no Dr. just a real human with thinking skills.

November 05 2009 at 5:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Gwen Graham\'s Ghost

I can't believe I used to think like most of you. Fearful of "Big Pharma" and "Allopathic Medicine". What nonsense. I suffered from really crappy critical-thinking skills mixed with simple existential fear. I was one of what is known as "the worried well" (sound familiar Corgan?). Then I needed surgery.

On the whole, that medical experience cured me of all that new-age nonsense. My doctor and I are now good friends and he's really helped me to understand medicine, it's triumphs and mistakes. That risk assessment is what so much of our lives is based on.

We act like spoiled brats here in the US. We are victims of our own success, protected from everything and think that a 100% positive outcome in all we do is our birthright. Well life isn't like that. Medicine isn't like that. There are risks to everything we do. Driving. Walking. Bathing. Eating. Fucking. Typing.

My un-asked for advice as a former moonbat? First read Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World. Then, learn critical-thinking, it'll help you to stop living in fear and paranoia, plus you might just have time left over to enjoy your brief life here in this mind-boggling, awesome universe.

November 04 2009 at 12:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Mat

This guy is an idiot.

"I am willing to question anything.."

except the questionable information found on conspiracy theory websites, he'll believe anything they say. Apparently their speculative exaggerated, and made up content have an authority over scientific research and facts.

You can't trust scientists, with all their reproduce-able, observable, empirical and measurable evidence. And why would you, you have to engage your brain and think about something to even understand it sometimes.
It doesn't mention science in the bible so it must be evil. You remember the bible, that book written over a period of about 1400 years, modified and edited to suit the religious leaders of the time, now available in numerous different versions that all contradict each other and themselves, yet is still supposedly the word of god.

November 04 2009 at 12:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Skepacabra

Oh no, they got Billy Corgan too! Damn you cultists! Quit frying our rock stars' brains! Billy, I'll let you finish. But Tom Cruise is the greatest cultish of all time...of all time!

www.dangeroustalk.net/a-team/Vaccines

November 02 2009 at 1:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
rileysmom

Did you know that 30,000 people a year from around the world, die from being struck by lightning? That averages 85 people per day. The odds are the same for the flu of any type. There is just too many toxic chemicals in any vaccine for me or my children to consider them, period. I'm not talking about the mercury...I have issues with anyone injecting my children with aluminum, formaldahyde, aborted fetal tissue, DNA from animals, detergents, stabilizers etc. All in the name of herd immunity...sorry folks but my children ARE NOT livestock.

October 31 2009 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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Gwen Graham\'s Ghost

Your magical-thinking is far more threatening to the well being of Riley than medical science. Google University + Paranoia = Poor choices.

November 04 2009 at 11:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Mrs. Mom

Thank you Billy Corgan and Spinner!

If we can get the taxpayers [who dislike very much the fact that "their" taxes are going to medicaid and food stamps] to realize that their hard-earned taxes are going to families of children who were knowingly and deliberately vaccine injured by pharmaceutical companies and pediatricians and gynecologists (gardasil) and politicians who have stood by and done nothing (except give lip service while accepting campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical companies) while medicaid and food stamps became part of the new norm for the 1.5 million plus families in the US since the very early 1990's. And that the above mentioned groups have REFUSED to stop even though we have begged them for decades to stop. We have to let them know this crime against humanity is still being done FOR PROFIT. They are lining the pockets of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies and all the clinicians who treat our children. And this CAN BE STOPPED if the toxins are removed from vaccines and the schedule drastically scaled back. We also have to remind them of the sheer numbers of young adults who will soon be receiving social security and later, medicare - now more than a generation of young adults who have not paid any in because they were too disabled to work.

Approximately 1.5 million has been paid by medicaid for medical treatments, services and prescriptions drugs in our household alone. And we are just ONE of the vaccine injured households that were forced to turn to medicaid when I had to quit my job to take care of my medically-devastated-by-vaccines child.

It is one thing to know that your taxes are going to a noble cause, such as helping children but it takes on a whole new light when you know that the children were knowingly disabled for life so that people in the medical/pharmaceutical profession could increase their profits on the backs of those children for the duration of their forever altered lifetimes. I don't believe all the doctors who have enjoyed an increase in profits consented to this in the beginning but we sure don't see the numbers [of them objecting to it] now that we should.

We have to get to the moms of (as yet) unaffected vaccinated children and the taxpayers who oppose liberal spending. They need to know what their elected officials are doing and have not done. This is a perfect time now that Obama is in office. And that is a sad fact that is not lost on me. I never thought he could be bought but the writing was pretty much on the wall when the pharmaceutical companies pledged to back his health care plan. IOW, mandatory vaccines full of dangerous and unnecessary toxins will be required to get health care.

fourteenstudies.org is a good place to start.

October 31 2009 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
sarahsam

H1N1 Swine Flu Package Insert Information
October 21, 2009
Novartis Package Insert

"Specific levels of...antibody post- (after) vaccination with inactivated influenza virus vaccine have not been correlated with protection from influenza illness. In some human studies, antibody titer of ≥1:40 have been associated with protection from influenza illness in up to 50% of subjects.

What this says, in plain language, is that developing an H1N1 antibody after getting an H1N1 vaccination has NO CORRELATION WITH NOT GETTING SICK And that a sizable antibody level (i.e. 1:40 or greater) only protects up to 50% of people from getting the flu.

http://drtenpenny.com/default.aspx

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