Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality

From the Book

Physicians and Psychologists on
Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality

. . . this thoroughly documented expose of the dangers of childhood vaccinations will shock our complacent society. If Dr. Coulter is correct - and his evidence is as compelling as it is alarming - parents, children and civilization itself are paying dearly for our uncritical acceptance of inadequately tested medical "advances."

This book will no doubt start an acrimonious but timely debate about the known benefits and hidden costs of childhood vaccination programs.

Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. Founder, Autism Society of America Director, Autism Research Institute

. . . a masterpiece; one of the most important works of several decades. It indicts present childhood vaccination programs as a major factor in immunologic and neurologic disorders in today's children. Evidence presented in these pages can no longer be ignored: we are long overdue a reassessment of current childhood immunization programs.

Harold E. Buttram, M.D.

Future generations may look upon us as an irresponsible group of sorcerers' apprentices, setting in motion processes difficult to reverse. That childhood vaccination is an overwhelmingly safe procedure is an article of faith in medicine, accepted by physicians and the public alike. Medical historian Harris Coulter shows that this assumption is not borne out by the evidence - citing data from the specialized literature and many parent interviews.

Coulter considers the relationship of vaccination to autism, hyperactivity, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and learning disabilities. He carries his argument into the social realm, suggesting a connection between neurologic damage and the present high level of criminality in American society. Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality will become a cornerstone in the ongoing debate about childhood vaccinations.

Russell Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D.

Back to the Top

Author

Harris Coulter

(1932 -    )

Dr. Coulter was born on October 8, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland. In his significant career he has made contributions in many areas, including cancer, vaccinations, and shedding light on the conflict between the AMA and Homeopathy. His fluency in many languages (German, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian) has helped him to communicate to a wide audience.

January 1997
Lectured to homeopathic and other physicians specializing in alternative medicine in Berlin, Germany, Moscow, Russia and London, UK.

October 1996
Lectured on cancer immunotherapy at the 51st Annual Conference of the World Homeopathic League (LIGA) in Capri, Italy and at the Third Dead Sea Conference on Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System in Zichron Yaacov, Israel. Guest Lecturer at the Convention of the Romanian Homoeopathic Society in Bucharest, Romania.

March 1996
Editorial board of the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research. Appeared as expert witness on risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations (lawsuit by parents refusing to vaccinate their children).

February 1996
Introduced VG-1000, a unique vaccine treatment for cancer, to the IAT Clinic, Freeport, Bahamas. Advisory Board Member of the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research.

November 1995
Lectured on medical and homeopathic history at Centre de Techniques Homeopathiques, Montreal, Canada (lectures published by the Centre under the title: Histoire de l'Homeopathie).

October 1995
Lectured at 50th Congress of International Homeopathic Medical League (Oaxaca, Mexico) on the dangers of childhood vaccinations.

September 1995
Lectured at Conference on Genetic Causes of Violence (University of Maryland) on childhood vaccinations as a cause of violent behavior.

February 1995
Spoke at 49th Congress of International Homeopathic Medical League (New Delhi, India), and to homeopathic physicians in Calcutta, India, on 'Vitalism and the Future of Medicine.'

December 1994
Published: Divided Legacy. Volume IV. Twentieth Century Medicine: The Bacteriological Era.

April 1994
Lectured at 150th Anniversary meeting of The American Institute of Homeopathy on: 'American Medicine, Where We've Been and Where We're Going.'

September-October 1993
Ad Hoc Advisory Panel of the Office of Alternative Medicine. Worked with Office of Alternative Medicine supervising trial of shark cartilage in treatment of cancer.

September 1992
Pharmacological and Biological Treatments Panel Member on the NIH's Workshop on Alternative Medicine. The report published was Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons, also known as the Chantilly Report.

September 1992
Lectured at the Fifth International Conference on Neuro-Developmental Issues (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) on the post-encephalitic syndrome.

1990-96
Advisory board of the Cancer Chronicles.

1990-91
Board of Directors, International Foundation for Homeopathy.

1990
Published: The Controlled Clinical Trial: an Analysis, and Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality.

1988
Testified before House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor: on AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden Link.

1987
Published: AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden Link.

1986
Published (with Barbara Loe Fisher): DPT: A Shot in the Dark.

1985
Awarded the Hahnemann Prize of the Belgian Faculty of Homeopathy.

1983-89
Editorial board of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

1981-82
Vice President of the American Center for Homeopathy and editor of The American Homeopath; Secretary of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention.

1981
Published: Homeopathic Science and Modern Medicine.

1977
Published: Divided Legacy. Volume II. The Origins of Modern Western Medicine: J. B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard.

1975
 Published: Divided Legacy. Volume I. The Patterns Emerge: Hippocrates to Paracelsus.

1974 May-June
39th Congress of the International Homoeopathic Medical League, Washington, D.C. George Vithoulkas and Harris L. Coulter honored as writers on homeopathy.

1973
Published: Divided Legacy. Volume III. The Conflict Between homeopathy and the American Medical Association, and Homeopathic Influences in Nineteenth-Century Allopathic Therapeutics.

1972
Published: Homeopathic Medicine.

July 1969
Awarded Ph.D. by Columbia University, NY; dissertation title: Political and Social Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the United States: The Formation of the American Medical Association and its Struggle with the Homeopathic and Eclectic Physicians.

1965-75
Director of Publications, American Foundation for Homeopathy.

Back to the Top

Contents

Introduction: "The Most Immunized Child in History!" -- IX

Chapter I
Autism - 1
Alienation -- 1
Ego Weakness -- 3
Fear and Anxiety -- 5
"The Refrigerator Mother" -- 7
A Neurologic Theory of Autism -- 15
Cranial Nerve Palsies -- 18
A Neurologic Basis for Alienation and Ego Weakness -- 24
Appetite, Digestive, and Bowel Disturbances -- 28
Headaches, Head-Banging -- 30
Defining Autism: Rett Syndrome, Asperger's Syndrome -- 31
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Resisting Change -- 38
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Aggression -- 40
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Hypersexuality -- 46
Seeking Structure: Music -- 48
Chronological Parallels -- 49
A Puzzling Feature -- 51


Chapter II
Minimal Brain Damage -- 59
Defining the Syndrome -- 60
Cranial Nerve Palsies -- 65
Breathing and Asthma -- 69
Psychological or Neurologic? -- 70
Intellectual Fragmentation -- 77
Inability to Acquire Experience -- 79
Ego Weakness, Egocentricity -- 80
Alienation and Emotional Immaturity -- 82
Depression and Suicide -- 83
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Resisting Change -- 85
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Hypersexuality -- 89
Seeking Structure: Music -- 92
Minimal Brain Damage and Autism -- 93

Chapter III:
The Post-Encephalitic Syndrome - 99
Encephalitis in the Twentieth Century -- 100
Acute Reactions in Encephalitis and After Vaccination -- 103
Anorexia and Bulimia -- 108
Hyperactivity -- 110
Cranial Nerve Palsies -- 111
Mental Retardation, Seizures, Cerebral Palsy, Paralyses, Hypotonia -- 117
Must There Be a Severe Acute Reaction? -- 119
The "Hot Lot" -- 124
Developmental Delay -- 125
Egotism, Ego Weakness, Alienation -- 127
A Moral and Emotional Vacuum -- 130
Intellectual Fragmentation -- 131
Lability and Impulsiveness -- 132
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Resisting Change -- 133
Compensating for Ego Weakness: Hypersexuality -- 141
Encephalitis, Autism, and Minimal Brain Damage -- 143

Chapter IV
Vaccination and Allergies - 151
Allergies in Encephalitis, Autism, and Minimal Brain Damage -- 152
Myelin and Demyelination -- 155
Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis -- 157
Increasing Allergic Hypersensitivity of Modem Man -- 159
Genetic Predisposition? -- 160
Dietary Treatment of Allergies - 162

Chapter V:
The Sociopathic Personality and Violent Crime - 171
Increasing Violence and Crime in America -- 172
Criminal Behavior in the Post-Encephalitic Population -- 179
Criminal Behavior and Autism: Asperger's Syndrome -- 181
Criminal Behavior and Minimal Brain Damage: Conduct Disorder -- 183
The Sociopathic Personality -- 186
The Criminal Class, the Underclass -- 194
The Black Adolescent -- 196
Violence and Epilepsy -- 197
Violence, Mental Retardation, and Cranial Nerve Palsies -- 200
Violence and Minor Neurologic Disabilities -- 202
Personality of the Sociopath: Childish Egotism -- 204
The Gang That Couldn't Think Straight -- 207
Personality of the Sociopath: Ego Weakness, Losing Control -- 209
Personality of the Sociopath: Depression and Suicide -- 211
Defenses and Compensations: Paranoia, Sex -- 212
Defenses and Compensations: Child Abuse -- 214
Defenses and Compensations: Alcohol and Drugs -- 216
Alcohol and Drug Abuse by Autistics and the Minimally Brain Damaged -- 217
The Irresistible Impulse: the Case of Ted Bundy -- 229
Is There a Cure? -- 239

Chapter VI
Medical Hubris and its Consequences - 249

Appendix: The Interviews -- 265
Bibliography -- 267
Index -- 293

Back to the Top