Viera Scheibner

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Viera Scheibner, PhD, (real name Viera Scheibnerová) is a retired micropaleontologist (a branch of geology). From 1958 until 1968 she was assistant professor in the department of geology at Comenius University, Bratislava. Although she has no formal health sciences training, she has been active in the anti-vaccination field researching vaccines and vaccinations since her retirement and emigration to Australia in the early 1980s.

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[edit] Background

In 1985 she met Leif Karlsson, an electronics engineer specialising in patient monitoring systems. Together they developed Cotwatch, a breathing monitor used with babies thought to be at risk of SIDS. The two of them then observed that Cotwatch was sounding alarms when babies were affected by any of a variety of stressful events, and realized that vaccination was the most prominent. In the computer print-outs of the breathing patterns, the stress-induced breathing pattern was apparent, with clusters of low-volume breathing (hypopnea) occurring around certain critical days following day zero which almost always turned out to be when vaccines were given. Her consequential study of cot death data published in medical literature revealed the same pattern.

This introduced her to the subject of vaccination, which she has been studying ever since. After collecting and studying over 30,000 pages of medical literature on the subject from peer-reviewed journals, she wrote her book “Vaccination” which is based on her review of the literature and her Cotwatch research. She states that she was unable to find any scientific evidence of either the safety or the effectiveness of vaccination, quite to the contrary.[citation needed]

Her book “Vaccination” documents what she believes has been published on the toxic ingredients that are in vaccines, what effects have been observed on the immune system, neurological system and other systems and organs of injecting this material into the body, the published failures of vaccines to prevent diseases, and the documented sensitising effect of vaccines. The book also lists literature she regards to be the positive effects of properly managed childhood diseases, namely measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox and whooping cough, in priming and maturing the immune system of a child, lowering the risk of serious diseases such as cancer later in life.

Since publishing “Vaccination”, she has continued her study, written another book, “Behavioural Problems in Childhood – The Link to Vaccination”, and submitted two papers to a peer-reviewed medical journal, one on so-called “shaken baby syndrome”[1] and one on her research with Cotwatch[2]and related medical literature. Both were published. On invitation, she has addressed conferences, other health professionals, lawyers and parents, in many countries. She has also written expert witness reports for vaccine damage court cases and over 90 cases of alleged “shaken baby syndrome” on what is documented in the medical literature about vaccines causing injuries that are typically blamed on shaking the baby.

[edit] Criticisms

Stephen Basser, MD, has written an extensive critical review of "the quality of the science of ... Scheibner."[3]

In 1997, the Australian Skeptics awarded her the "Bent Spoon Award." This award is presented annually to the Australian "perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific piffle":

"The unanimous choice of the judges was Dr Viera Scheibner for her high profile anti-immunisation campaign which, by promoting new age and conspiracy mythology and by owing little to scientific methodologies or research, poses a serious threat to the health of Australian children."[4]

Lon Morgan, DC, a chiropractor, has written a short analysis of her anti-vaccination stance,[5] as well as an examination of Scheibner's claims of a disappearance of SIDS in Japan.[6] He concludes that:

"Whether it was due to personal bias, lack of relevant health science training, or inept research on her part, or a combination, Ms. Scheibner's claims have not withstood the test of time, or critical examination, and should be rejected."[6]

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  1. ^ Scheibner V (Aug 2001). ""Shaken Baby Syndrome Diagnosis on Shaky Ground."". “Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine” 20 (2): 5-8,15.
  2. ^ Scheibner V (Dec 2004). ""Dynamics of Critical Days as Part of the Dynamics of Non-specific Stress Syndrome Discovered During Monitoring with Cotwatch Breathing Monitor”". “Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine” 23 (3): 10-14.
  3. ^ Anti-immunisation scare: The inconvenient facts. Stephen Basser, MD. The Skeptic Journal,[1] Vol 17 No 1
  4. ^ Bent Spoon Winner 1997: Viera Scheibner
  5. ^ Viera Scheibner
  6. ^ a b Japan, SIDS, and Pertussis Immunization

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