False positives
Infertility is framed around the testimonials of two African physicians, Dr. Wahome Ngare and Dr. Stephen K. Karanja. In 2013, we are told, the WHO with the support of the Kenyan government began a vaccination campaign against neonatal tetanus aimed at Kenyan women of childbearing age. Neonatal tetanus is no joke: it is caused by a neurotoxin secreted by a bacterium that festers in a newly-born baby’s umbilical stump, typically because of the use of unsterile instruments or dressings when cutting the umbilical cord, and it used to cause half of all newborn deaths in many developing countries before immunization became widespread.
Dr. Karanja’s skepticism toward his country’s tetanus immunization campaign seems to have been triggered by two things. The vaccine was being offered to women who were not pregnant, which he found strange. Also, he says that, while attending a conference in Houston, he was told that anti-fertility vaccines were being used under the cover of mass vaccination campaigns all over the world. So, he asked for some of the tetanus vaccine vials being used in Kenya to be tested locally. The result? According to him, the laboratories reported the presence of hCG. He was convinced that the tetanus vaccine being used in Kenya was actually the experimental birth control vaccine that famously linked part of the hCG hormone with the tetanus toxoid.
In 2017, Dr. Karanja and others published their claims that the tetanus vaccination campaign was a sham in Open Access Library Journal, which features in a database of predatory journals, meaning journals that will publish anything as long as its authors pay them. One of the co-authors of this paper is Professor Christopher Shaw, a Canadian researcher who published then retracted a heavily criticized article linking the aluminum found in some vaccines to autism in mice. Meanwhile, the first author on that Kenyan vaccine paper is John W. Oller, who also appears in the Infertility documentary as “Dr. John Oller, PhD.” The problem? His doctorate is in general linguistics. The paper itself was published by Open Access Library Journal, then withdrawn, then republished by the same journal for unclear reasons.
We are drowning in red flags, here.
The fact-checking website Snopes debunked this entire story in 2014. There were no laboratories in Kenya that could have accurately detected the presence of hCG bound to the tetanus toxoid. These labs instead used pregnancy test kits, which do detect hCG, but which were designed to do so using urine and serum, not vaccines that contain preservatives and adjuvants. The laboratories apparently recognized this, but the results were spun by religious groups in Kenya to scare people away from the tetanus vaccines.
As the documentary explains, another laboratory, Agri-Q Quest Limited, was later brought in to test more samples, but Agri-Q Quest would go on to lose its accreditation after being audited.
This story of clandestine sterilizing vaccines being used in developing countries is not new. The documentary itself mentions that it also happened in 1995 in the Philippines… except that it appears to have been a controversy started by anti-abortion religious groups with ties to local politics. In fact, similar claims were made in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Tanzania around the same time, and they were formally debunked as early as a 1995 article in Reproductive Health Matters. It turns out you can get a positive result for hCG from just about anything if you misuse testing equipment. As the article states, “in a laboratory in Hungary, it was shown that the sterile water supply from the local hospital gave a higher false-positive level of hCG than did the [tetanus toxoid] vaccine.
Thanks, that article doesn’t disprove anything though and doesn’t address some of the issues or situations raised by the people in the documentary though. It’s also suffering from bias itself.
It’s sneakily racist too, assuming that the African labs in Kenya were all incompetent and positing a simplistic false positive narrative that they were apparently too stupid to grasp. The results the labs got were around 50% of samples in the wild tested positive while 0% of the government samples did. This tells me that the incompetence/false positive hypothesis is very misplaced.
Speaking of false positives, there’s an HIV test widely used in Africa that isn’t allowed to be used in the UK because it gives so many false positives. African countries are constantly getting f-ed over by Western companies, governments and institutions.
This is good.i can identify strongly with that movie
American Made was a good one. You have probably heard the story about the Clintons being involved in the trading of guns from Mena Arkansas for cocaine in arming the Contras in Nicaragua. It is about that, but barely a mention of Clinton.
This is a good film. Rather grim and not easy to watch.
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The film tells the story of two pre-adolescent boys who both experienced sexual abuse as children, and how it affects their lives in different ways into their young adulthood .
Just watched Fresh with my partner
Squirmy yet darkly funny, really well made and acted
Such a unique freak
A must see if you have the stomach for it
I didn’t have the stomach for it. 
Just nope. I might have to give it a another go with the girlfriend.
My partner was still eating her dinner,
she said it was putting her off it LOL
Worth the watch bro, some great lines in it
I was eating a late breakfast. Funny thing, when I was a young kid I watched the goriest of gore, no problem. A friend and I used to hunt down anything and everything to gawk at. I guess I got old. Whatever is going on here, I don’t want it affecting me like that. 
I’ll just say its a GREAT movie regardless of subject matter
Like, iconically good
I wouldn’t call it gory personally, just confronting
Quality shit, great writing and acting
Sorry Bevo. I wasn’t saying that movie is gory. Just saying that I used to be able (and eager) to watch anything. That one showed me that I don’t have it anymore.
@Bevo. We watched that movie tonight. It was a good watch.
Context for the first watch attempt: Eating breakfast while tending to the baby girl. I saw a leg hit the counter and was like, Nope.
It definitely wasn’t a gore fest.
I completely understand mate,
it made me squirm too
Is this about the Amazon grocery delivery service by any chance?
Maybe an inadvertent good point. Once the majority have switched to having their groceries delivered, who knows what you’re actually getting. Disgruntled warehouse employee burger? Any online comments of suspicion just might be AI’ed away.
Benn checking out the movies made by Director S. Craig Zahler
I thought this was awesome
I’ve never seen Vince Vaughn before in anything but a comedy
He is brutal in this
Currently rewatching this one,
next up will be this,