You all might remember Desiree Jennings. She was a beautiful woman, auditioning to be a cheerleader for a racially insensitive football team. But a swine flu vaccine changed all that. It made her walk really funny, unless she was going backwards down stairs, or running. And talk like Sean Penn from “I Am Sam”. But guess what? It was all fake.
Yes, fake. All of the hemming and hawwing and talk over how vaccines are terrible and need to be tested more, mostly from the same people who say no food is safe to eat but raw food, and LOOK AT MY HYBRID CAR — their poster girl is fake. Sorry if I seem contemptuous, but I have no sympathy for people who go on national TV feigning illnesses and blaming them on a source that might actually do some good in the world.
Desiree was featured on a episode of NBC News, detailing her “ailment.” It became a sweeping hit on the internet, with remixes to UNK’s “Walk It Out”, and other such insensitive irreverence. Vaccine pundits used it as a cautionary tale; Generation Rescue adopted her as a poster child. But now, on her official website, which bears the ominous warning, “MY HUSBAND WARNED ME NOT TO GET A FLU SHOT…NOW I WISH I WOULD’VE LISTENED,” (what is this, a bad horror movie pitch?), she appears, with all her profound neurological trauma reversed. Amazingly. It’s almost a miracle. A miracle brought about by being treated by a quack doctor that used to inject his patients with urine.
And she still wants you to sign up for her mailing list.
This “condition” was so obviously fake. I can’t believe there are so many fools out there who lap this shit up.
Mark, I actually think a lot of these negative comments telling you to off yourself were from the same person. Most peope with any common sense believe she was faking it. There was no miracle cure here.
It looks like Desiree Jennings had a Redskins cheerleader friend at Fox producing her story. Jennings let the media tell people that doctors at Johns Hopkins diagnosed her with dystonia but she never really said that herself. She said a physical therapist, who aren’t doctors, at Johns Hopkins told her she has dystonia. And some other doctors told her it was a flu vaccine side-effect. So, who were they? Some fringe anti-vaccine doctor like Dr. Buttar who could lose his medical license any day now? Here’s a detailed analysis of how this fishy story made it into the news and how the news distorted it and Jennings let them: “A Cheerleader’s Unbelievable Flu Shot Reaction” http://www.selectsmart.com/commentary/blog.php?m=1336
It’s actually called: “A Cheerleader’s Unbelievable Flu Vaccine Reaction,” not flu shot reaction. Sorry about that. The url was right though: http://www.selectsmart.com/commentary/blog.php?m=1336
you guys leaving comments are so stupid. it was more than likely fake. in 2 different interviews with her, the way she talked and acted, or had spasms, was completey different, and both of them were before she had treatment. plus her spasms wouldnt just go away and let her talk normal if she ran or walked backwards, thats the stupidest fucking thing ive ever heard of in my life. its soooo fucking stupid. walking backwards effects the way she speaks, or the way her upper body works? no fucking way. fuck you retards who think its true
believer believes in only the MSMedia, your a limpdicked lemming who probably had too many vaccinations and flouride treatments..did you wife leave you for a woman?tell me now..
Liquidpaper are you seriously comfortable with the quackery you are spewing? Here are the facts: DJ was suffering tremendously and told by crackpot ignorant Mainstream “Doctors” that there was no cure for her condition – dystonia or whatever, heck they rarely ever get a diagnosis correct after even 30 tests and prove they are a bunch of incompetent cooks more often than not. So she finds Dr. Buttar and goes to him and after a series of treatments is noticeably improved and has hopes of a full recovery from a condition “$75 for a “Hello” doctors” were saying was likely only going to get worse and was permanent.
And here Dr. Buttar is at risk of losing his license? And here manolith takes pride in calling her a fraud in such a despicable display of twisted self-centered bravado as if he is contributing something of value to the world? And then you have “believer” who has the vocabulary of an infantile adolescent, so short on anything useful he drops the f-bomb 4 times in 5 sentences? Hey believer – if you had anything of value to say, you destroyed it for 7 out of 10 people with that poor display of restraint. 4 levels of conflict people – Intellectual (points made and countered with facts and discussion), degrades to Emotional (pleas and embarrassing claims tossed at opponent to instill fear or some other limiting reaction), degrading to Verbal Assaults as displayed by believer and michael peck (sorry michael but it is true – namecalling shows you have given up the higher ground) and finally Physical Assaults which fortunately this forum is unlikely to descend to.
Food for thought!
The writer of this article is a complete and total idiot!! PERIOD!!
Vaccines – expecially the flu shot and swine flu vaccine are soft kill weapons used for the STATED GOAL OF POPULATION REDUCTION!! They have Mercury, Thermosal and Squaline in them!! Those cause brain damage and cancer long term! The short term effects like Des Jennings is rare but long term is not rare at all! These sicko’s want population to be reduced- Its a FACT!
It’s pointless in convincing these people there is a real danger with the vaccines. You can’t wake a person up who is pretending to be asleep.
For those of you who feel that there is a danger, especially to those of you who have done the research, and utilize that part of your pineal gland in your brain, don’t bother waking fools up.
It’s obvious they don’t want to listen, rather they just want to argue, ESPECIALLY after this article had been posted Nov. 10th. A person who is denial will try anything to convince themselves of their delusion being real.
Nope. No squalene or any adjuvants in the seasonal or H1N1 vaccines. And the thimerosal is what contains mercury. There is less mercury in a flu shot (25 mcg) than in some cans of tuna fish that even pregnant women and babies are recommended to eat once a week, and the flu shot is just once or twice a year. Dr. Buttar used chelation to remove metals from her body. Well, if someone is so worried about chemicals in vaccines, why is it okay for Dr. Buttar to use chelating chemicals? There is no reason to believe that she was diagnosed with dystonia or anything from a flu shot by the hospital neurologists. They thought she had a psychological condition. Read the article I posted. Desiree herself said she was misdiagnosed by the hospitals. Dr. Buttar said she was seizing every 45 to 60 seconds, and was stabilized after nutritional IV, so even if her seizures were real, he is implying that they were due to malnutrition. He said she was walking and talking perfectly after just 15 minutes of chelation. Later, realizing that sounded ridiculous, they changed it to say that she was making progress. Chelation doesn’t even work to remove ethyl mercury, but it can remove some other, essential metals from your body, like iron. This whole story got so ridiculous, only the most credulous anti-vaccine people still believe this story.
I am in no way saying I begin to understand the complexities of vaccines and medical conditions. However, I do seem to remember a term from a biology class called “false correlation.” It seems to me that this may be an instance of this. Automatically assuming two events as related because they occur together, but then finding out they are not related. Again, I am not qualified to say one way or another that this is NOT a hoax (i studied IT in college), but I would sure like to know where the evidence (other than occuring together) has been published showing that these events are actually related.
The writer of this article hazs no factual information that this was a hoax. Perhaps he should be investigated to see what his relationship is to pharmaceutical companies. When you are able to substantiate your claims you should publish until then you are just a trash writer.
To the “Skeptical Dr,” please go “lap up” (for you, John)the vaccine package labels that clearly state:
Carcinogenic and mutagenic effects have NOT been evaluated.
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093830.htm
So how can doctors/experts etc. form professional opinions regarding “vaccine safety” considering the vast areas that have not even been evaluated?
And please don’t mention the lame epidemiological juck science from Denmark and other countries who don’t come close to the CDC recommended vaccine schedule for infants etc.
The truth is they can’t and none of the 7 doctors I’ve asked this question has been able to answer it.
Quite obvious who the “whores” are.
dystonia was the original diagnosis it was however re diagnosed as Guillan Barre syndrone (not sure on the spelling) And I personally do not now nor will I ever get any vaccinations I do not see the need All vaccines do is actually make you more susceptible to getting the viruses because your body does not have the chance to naturally produce the antibodies to the viruses and as long as you keep getting the vaccines this will be the case
I am constantly around sick people I have never had a vaccine beyond my MMR shots or a tetanus shot AND I AM NEVER SICK take that 1 and think about it
dystonia was the original diagnosis it was however re diagnosed as Guillan Barre syndrone (not sure on the spelling) And I personally do not now nor will I ever get any vaccinations I do not see the need All vaccines do is actually make you more susceptible to getting the viruses because your body does not have the chance to naturally produce the antibodies to the viruses and as long as you keep getting the vaccines this will be the case
I am constantly around sick people I have never had a vaccine beyond my MMR shots or a tetanus shot AND I AM NEVER SICK I also do Not have any allergies to anything either
Take this news and think about it
ROFL, No known cure for Distonia but she is cured.
180 million people vaccinated with the same H1N1 virus and she developes Distonia? What a joke.
OMG if you cant tell she is faking from watching her dozen videos, then you are an idiot.
Even among the cognitive disorders, what gets written on someone’s chart according to the ICD9 or DSM-IV, is no different really than an auto mechanic continuing to change sparkplugs when the car’s CPU is faulty.
No matter how many times someone comes in with that set of symptoms, as long as the diagnostic criteria continue to shrug off anything relating to diet or anything natural, physicians will continue to force that square peg into the only set of round holes they’ve been taught to work with.
Personally, I’d prefer a physician with a “wider” skill set and one that hasn’t locked himself into his own box.
OMG. Most of these commentators are total idiots. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the same person. There are familiar grammatical and spelling mistakes. Or is that generally case in the anti-vaccine crowd?
The case is that the media picked it up because she was pretty. And she tried out to be a cheerleader, she wasn’t actually one. Which kinda irks me when. Because if girl has a good enough sob story, hey, automatic admission. Maybe.
But seriously, after comments from several noted physicians and scientists, the anti-vaccine crowd will still go on believing this one girl and this one fringe activist group and this one fringe doctor.
If more people start developing symptoms, call me then.
I’m curious to know what parents think about the LAncet’s recent admission that the 1998 study linkining MMR innoculations to autism is incorrect. Although I think that original study also used a small population of children..
Laura you are an embarrassment and unfortunately you are quite like the pro-vaccine crowd of puppets and parrots who get even the most basic of facts wrong. Desiree WAS IN FACT A WASHINGTON REDSKINS CHEERLEADER. http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/101709_Disabled_Woman_Completes_8K
Actually Laura I’m not going to be taking any vaccines, nor will any of my family so please be my guest and take 14 doses of the toxic crap laced moronic mixture of metals and waste and then when you are on your death bed you might very well understand why we are so adamantly opposed to being injected with unknown substances based on a fear of getting some mild form of the flu.
Lisa here is what I’d like to know – where do doctors and “experts” get the nerve to tell a parent of a child who very near one of their immunizations, if not immediately following the shots, went from a healthy and well developing infant to one who falls into darkness and autistic disorders that their child didn’t suffer anything from the shots because they ignore the links anytime they are brought up? That is the height of arrogance, an arrogance I experienced first hand in an emergency room years ago where a doctor had the audacity to claim my brothers 4 Grand Mal seizures in one day (which had NEVER occured before) were not due to the drug he was on which in the insert said it caused problems with people with seizure disorders. These arrogant pigs are programmed to deny any links between the drugs and adverse side effects when it is abundantly well documented that they are responsible for more than 5 times the number of annual deaths the flu causes in ANY GIVEN YEAR. Ignorance is an ugly condition – but willful negligence and homicidal administration of pharmaceutical cocktails is beyond ugly.
So you guys are basically saying that even doctors who are honest and SAVE millions of lives each year are quacks and shouldn’t be trusted? Individuals who seek out doctors often have severe health problems. Just going to see a doctor is NOT going to guarantee a cure. While there are doctors who make terrible mistakes, this occurs in every field. Doctors are HUMAN and given the variability within the population it’s difficult to determine how certain individuals will react to a given drug. Also keep in mind that developing a perfect drug that works well for everyone is just not going to happen. If you honestly have such profound problems with the way scientists and doctors are currently working than I urge you to conduct studies and develop vaccines that you believe are better suited for the public.
Dude, how did you get all these Michigan Militia quacks on your site? Yeesh.
They probably think Prayer heals too.
i think you’re an idiot – whoever wrote this. nobody can just make something up like this..i feel bad for the girl. i hope you come down with dystonia you rude, selfish jerk.
I believe that we as people are entitled to our opinions. However I can say that truely it would be very sad if something were to happen to someone you love. Iam no doctor but Iam a licensed medication aide and direct care worker. I work first hand with people with disabilities; physical, mental, and psychological form the age of 9-100. Our facilities house and accomodate almost 400 people. We have on site doctors, nurses, physical, occupational, and respiratory therapists, dentists, and the list goes on. You would be surprised by the things I see everyday. One might call them miraculous. One example patient of mine was placed with us in a wheelchair, soiling and drooling on himself, unable to eat.. had a feeding tube placed, aspirating on his own saliva, and multiple other symptoms. Would you like to know the cause? Toxcicity. I can happily say now that he walks, talks, uses the restroom, eats, and functions with minimal permanent damage. I see many cases like this. And yes it does begin to turn around quickly with the detoxification process of removing the toxin from the body. Iam not against drugs or vaccines, I get them as well as my three children and thank god we have had no major side effects, but they do exsist. Most are very safe and do work but in rare instances can be very dangerous and fatal.
Nobody at Johns Hopkins ever saw this young lady. In fact, thw word through the medical community is that neurologists at JH saw the video and doubted immediately that she ever had dystonia. The physical manifestations didn’t match their experience.
Whatever she was suffering from, apparently it wasn’t related to H1N1 vaccine despite reports which never settled on what it was – seasonal or the H1N1 shot.
Let the DENIALIST AGENDA begin. You Medical system/vaccine pusher is without blame idiots act as if denying the facts of a case is a plausible way to defend your system – the fact is without debate, but yet Richard chooses to state the impossible and implausible as if it were factually accurate. give me a break Richard.
Saddened – while there is some very valuable info in your post let me just say that 95% of the available drugs on the market today are absolutely unneeded and in fact preventing the real answers to health problems from being perpetuated due to the insdustries built up around them that would be decimated were people to demand the truth from doctors and medical facilities. Too much to say, but I would demand you reconsider the idea that was in this statement about drugs “Most are very safe and do work…” That is statistically and factually unsupportable as evidenced by the industries own sources revealed without restrain in the report “Death By Medicine” by Null, Dean, et al Millions are hospitalized by FDA approved drugs and every year hundreds of thousands are KILLED DEAD from FDA approved drugs taken as prescribed. That is not a track record of safe and effective.
So, where are the other dystonia patients suffering adverse complications from the same vaccine?
It seems peculiar that Desiree is one of the rare.. ONLY case of dystonia to be cured by medicine, and to think, in under an hour.
It’s funny how far some of you stupid dupes will go to rationalize your own gullibility.
Mark Lorenz. I support you 100%. Don’t let these loud anti-vax kooks get to you.
BTW, someone mentioned that Dr. Novell claimed that her case was psychogenic…that’s just false. The CDC said it was psychogenic.
Rational?
Hardly; not unless we factor in the mass psychosis of those who still believe that the government has only our best interest at heart. God forbid that these people discover the level of incompetence that is hiding under the cloak of “authority”. Their whole world paradigm would be shattered, along with their place in it, and it is so much easier to just take the “blue pill” and go back to inanely occupying themselves with Amercian Idol or another mindless ball game.
I can’t believe that, here it is, March, people are even questioning this issue; not with the number of European countries that have refused the flu shots and that the CDC has now issued a recall of the remaining vaccine. I mean, do you people read any news sources other than Fox?
You shame. How could you think that this wonderful girl will put her life in trash for something that raly don’u worth nothing?
I would like to see if your mother get this way, and an idiot like you says the same damn thing that you are saing, if i were you, i would kill my self!
As a member of the Indian community I want to ask you what the hell is wrong with calling us redskins? I am not offended by it nor are the majority of us. Perhaps you should stop trying to appease everyone and realize that some people are proud of their heritage and all the connotations that go along with those traditions. Stop being a pussy and man up. We will fight back when we think it’s necessary. If you really want to help go support your local Indian Casino.
You people are such gullible idiots. This little cunt is a PHONY. SHE GOT CAUGHT. GET THE FUCK OVER IT. She was just after money. when that didnt work, she was miraculously cured…
“Gullible” is accepting the standard industry party line and never questioning anything new. To follow your logic, how mankind ever managed to to evolve this far without pharmaceutical intervention is the real miracle …….
It’s funny how 3 different doctors said she had the medicial issue and it’s on file and yet now shes a phony. AARON maybe you are the gullible one because you are not questioning the evidence and you’re accepting this new story as truth.
The media will lies, cheat and steal from you and everyone else to sel products and make money. They don’t care about truth. Wake up.
If you were to ever know her before this all happen to see it all develop and then to see her now, you would have to redo your story. I am utterly appauled to sit and hear you call this tramtic event that occured to someone I personal know fake. So her seizure were fake her speach that was fake the way she walked was fake, and now the fact that she takes medication daily, that is all fake too… Seriously wake up and do some actually investigating and get to know the actual person and what she has been through before you pass judgements and blog about what you think you might now. I really hope nothing tramatic ever happens to your family because you know what car accidents and fires are fake too, right…
I can’t believe anyone thinks this shit is true. She’s a lying cunt who’s just in it for the attention.
I honestly can say that even if this story is totally false, it was fascinating to listen to. I feel bad for anyone who would have to go through this. But one thing that doesn’t make sense is, that she would have to be a VERY good actress to pull this off. That’s why I don’t believe that it’s fake.
yeah its fake, yeah people who fell for this are fucking stupid…yeah….fail
Article is written by a shill/disinfo agent. First, there is something called Foreign Accent Syndrome. Two, if he accent was fake, then everyone in her personal life would know she is a liar and ostracize herself, why do that? Third, Dr. Novella is conveniently from Yale, home of skull and bones. Fourth, she was seen by over 15 specialists. That’s persistence for someone who is faking it, and without a history of prior behavior to coincide. Fifth point, Medical insurance fraud is illegal, she would be in jail. Where’s the investigation? 6th, where is the secondary gain from this? Where is the fame and notoriety? 7th point, do you realize what this would do to Big Pharm? They would lose billions of dollars. No way on earth that would ever happen. So, of course they will smear this. Never trust the media, big pharm, or government. Period.
It is 100% psychogenic……There was never a diagnosis at any of the hospitals. A physical therapist suggested it might be Dystonia and after researching it, Desiree suddenly had all of the symptoms. The human mind is a powerful thing and can play tricks on someone if they are not stable to begin with. I know this because I know someone who knew Desiree when this was going on. She is a very sick girl mentally and my prayers go out to her. Her husband has divorced her and she is living in Seattle. Maybe he realized that it was psycogenic and she refused to get help.
Yeah, yeah, and I knew JFK and the pope.
That Novella character is just a dipshit, typical of the allopathic sloths that see only what their schooling has trained them to see. They are a hammer, so obviously, everyone else’s treatment must, out of necessity, become a nail.
I reviewed all the more recent YouTube clips and it still blatantly clear that some extraordinary chemical imbalance threw her into that state. The fact that she had received her flu shot so close to the event only points an accusative finger. We will never really know for sure until researchers get off their asses and find out the real cause. The fact that aluminum absorption drastically enhances mercury uptake is one factor few people are discussing. What about any Aspartame in her diet? What did her liver panel look like? These are questions that should be addressed first, before accusing her of being a liar or her doctor of being a quack.
Her “presentation”, or the way she exhibits herself, does not in any way convince me that this was psychogenic. Aside from the fact that she is an attractive woman who had been accepted as such within her job at the time, it seems a bit odd that she would be trying to self-sabotage her career by doing these contortions as if she were mentally retarded. She just didn’t and doesn’t present herself that way. Screw Novella, that pompous ass. As for her alternative doctor, isn’t it just like the AMA to attack any strategy they haven’t given their official blessing to. These power-hungry megalomaniacs are the same people who used to endorse blood letting and shock therapy.
Here is a video that disproves her “dystonia”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlRwGQl5x4
Tyler,
That video doesn’t prove squat. First of all, walking is something that can be done in our sleep, whereas running and particularly walking backwards usually require different coordinative skills.
One might see a similar type of response in C&W singer Mel Tillis’ flawless “singing voice”, when he is regurgitating the words from memory, but when having to respond off the cuff in a free flowing dialogue, his stuttering, an artifact from a bout with childhood malaria, comes out in every conversation. A similar response seems to be the case for Desiree.
While the reporter seems to think she was walking normally toward the camera, it was not a coordinated walk at all, and you have to remember that she had by that time already undergone a significant amount of chelation therapy. One mechanism that seems to be at work here is the amount of aluminum and mercury is present as claimed adjuvants, interfacing with her dental amalgams and other aluminum intake vectors in her diet. That is merely one scenario.
As far as that fat fcuk excuse for a Dr, what’s-his-face Novella, perhaps before opening his yap, he should research Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare but documented condition brought on by either stroke, migraine history, or an accident. In Desiree’s case, and even the woman in the following link, both of those have a link to mercury, although any further relationship has to be further researched.
See: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42912831/ns/today-today_health/t/american-woman-wakes-surgery-british-accent/#.TwOLI83N7Ag
Do yourself a favor and watch the four some odd news excerpts on the issue. Maybe it’ll have you ponder just what Desiree was having to go through. If you have any competent physical therapist or chiropractor friends, have them diagnose her gate as she approaches the reporter and then walks sideways toward her car. As for the other examples put forth by your YouTube link, I don’t think their is anything their to suggest that she wasn’t also compensating; again, by that time, she had already had a number of rounds of chelation therapy.