Curriculum Vitae

Revised December 2009

1. CONTACT DETAILS

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2. PERSONAL DETAILS

Born 27 March 1935 in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia, now Slovak Republic). Both parents (now departed) were employed in Law Courts.  First married in 1954, two daughters.  Divorced in 1976. Married for the second time in 1987. Widowed in 1994. Lived in a de facto relationship between 1975-1985 and 1994-2002.  Widowed in 2002.

3. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

1953: studied medicine at the Medical Faculty of Jan Masaryk University in Brno. Later changed to the faculty of Natural Sciences of the same university.  In 1954 transferred to the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Jan Amos Comenius University in Bratislava.

1958: Graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, JA Comenius University in Bratislava.

1964: Awarded doctorate in Natural Sciences (RNDR), JA Comenius University in Bratislava.

1967: Habilitated as Docent (this being equivalent to the position of Senior Associate Professor in Australian and US universities), JA Comenius University, Bratislava.

4. EMPLOYMENT

1958-1961: Employed as Lecturer at the Department of Geology and Palaeontology of JA Comenius University, Bratislava.  Lectured in Biology and Micropalaeontology.

1962-1967: Employed as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geology and Palaeontology of JA Comenius University, Bratislava.

1967-1968: Employed as Docent (equal to Senior Associate Professor) at the Department of Geology and Palaentology of JA Comenius University, Bratislava.

1968-1987: Left former Czechoslovakia with husband and family, settled in Sydney, Australia.  Employed as a Micropalaeontologist by the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Department of Mines (later re-named Department of Mineral Resources).

1971-1973: Research Scientist (Department of Mineral Resources).

1973-1976: Senior Research Scientist (Department of Mineral Resources).

1976-1978: Principal Research Scientist, category I.

1978-1981: Principal Research Scientist, category II.

1981-1987: Principal Research Scientist, category III.

1987: retired from the Department of Mineral Resources based on the “Voluntary Redundancy Scheme”.

The pre-requisite for the above appointments, more particularly to that of Principal Research Scientist, required “Demonstration of a considerable world standing in one’s research specialty”.

5. PREVIOUS RESEARCH INTEREST AND PUBLICATIONS: 1953-1986

My first scientific paper in Micropalaeontology of the Cretaceous Sequences of the Carpathian Klippen Belt in Slovakia was published whilst I was still a student at the JA Comenius University in Bratislava in 1958.

Between 1958-1968 I published some 35 scientific papers (and one monograph) dealing with the Cretaceous and Jurassic Foraminifera of the Carpathian Klippen Belt in Slovakia.

Between 1968-1987 studied Cretaceous and Permian Foraminifera of the Great Australian Basin in New South Wales, and South Australian and the Carnarvon Basins in Western Australia; South Africa and the Indian Peninsula; and Permian Foraminifera of the Sydney Basin.

Between 1972-1976 invited to participate in the highly prestigious Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) conducted under the auspices of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA), in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.  Results of these studies are published in the Initial Reports of the DSDP. Was invited to write a Synopsis of Cretaceous Foraminifera of the Indian Ocean, published in a monograph “Synopsis of the DSDP in the Indian Ocean”.

Results of my scientific findings spanning almost 30 years of research have been published in further 47 papers and 2 books (monographs) in Australian and overseas (especially USA) refereed scientific journals.

Lectured extensively at Australian and overseas conferences.

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6. PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: 1987-PRESENT

In 1985 I met my second husband, the late Leif Karlsson, a Swedish biomedical electronics engineer specialising in patient monitoring systems, whom I suggested to develop a breathing monitor for babies.

Since 1987 we were both engaged in the study of babies’ breathing with a microprocessor breathing monitor Cotwatch developed by the late Leif Karlsson.

1990-1993: published a series of articles on vaccination and cot death in Natural Health Magazine.

1991: Invited to present the results of the data collection on babies’ breathing to the Second Immunisation Conference, a pro-vaccination conference organised by the Public Health Association of Australia (Canberra May 1991). An abstract of my presentation is published in the Proceedings of this conference (“Evidence of the Association between non-specific stress syndrome, DPT injections and cot death”.

Some results of these and allied studies, in which Cotwatch breathing monitor was used as a research tool collecting information on stress response in breathing, were published in a referred medical journal ”Reproductive Toxicology” (1993; 7: 449-452).

1993: Published the book “Vaccination” (296 pp) which is based on an extensive study of vaccination issues as published in refereed medical journals.  This book has been published in German by Hirthammer Verlag, in Dutch by Lemniscaat Publishers and in Finnish by Kustantaja Lasse Vajaranta.

1994: Produced a 2-hour video of my lecture on the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccination.

1994: The article “Embracing vaccination…lamentably wrong” published in the Chiropractic Journal (USA).  Similar articles were published in other chiropractic journals. Lectured for students of chiropractic at a number of chiropractic colleges in the USA.

1995: Invited and accepted as an expert on vaccination and cot death by the College of Physicians Montreal (Canada) and on 11 December 1995 gave evidence on the subject of “Vaccination and Cot Death” before the Disciplinary Committee of the College of Physicians Montreal (Canada) as an expert for Dr Guillaine Lanctot.

Since 1996 I provide expert reports for Court cases of vaccine injuries and deaths. To this day I have been asked and prepared some 90 reports for Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) cases and/or vaccine injury compensation cases in the USA, UK, Germany, Iceland, Sweden and Australia.

1996: Invited to deliver a luncheon talk on dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccination to the medical staff of the Research Hospital in Kansas City, MO, USA.

1996-1997: Several lectures at Chiropractic Colleges in the USA.

In 1996 I participated in the Maroochydore (Queensland, Australia) hearing of the Equal Opportunity and Anti-discrimination Commission as an expert on the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccination, and the link between vaccination and cot death. 

1997: Followed an invitation to deliver a lecture at a seminar organised by a professional organization of Dutch medical doctors in Utrecht, Holland “Vaccination, yes or no?”

1997: Invited to present a lecture on the Dangers of Vaccination by the Faculty of Nursing, Sydney University.

1997: Participated in a public debate on vaccination at Sydney University in Sydney.

1997-1998: Invited to participate in the Training Program of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), Sydney, New South Wales, as one of two expert panelists in debates on whether immunisation should or should not be mandatory, presenting the case against vaccination based on the study of published orthodox medical research.

1991 to 2005 published series of articles “The SIDS and Vaccination Link”, “The Brain Eating Bugs, the Vaccine Connection”, “Shaken Baby Syndrome – The Vaccination Link”, and a 2-part article on “Preservatives and Adjuvants in Vaccines” in the Nexus Magazine (Australia).  In 2005 The Nexus Magazine in Australia and other countries reprinted my article “Dynamics of Critical Days as part of the Dynamics of Non-specific Stress Syndrome discovered during monitoring with Cotwatch Breathing Monitor”, first published in Journal of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (J ACNEM), December 2004.

1998: Invited to address the Medical (MBOG) Congress in Utrecht (Holland) on the “Effect of Vaccination on the Immune System”.

1998:  Invited to participate in a debate on vaccination convened by the organization WDDTY (“What Doctors Don’t Tell you”) in London, UK.

1999-2003: a number of Letters to the Editor, critical of vaccines, published in Medical Observer and Australian Doctor, two prominent weekly publications for Australian orthodox medical doctors.

2000:  Published the book “Behavioural Problems in Childhood – the Link To Vaccination”.  The book has been translated into Swedish by an organisation of parents dealing with children’s health.

2001: Published a paper “Shaken Baby Syndrome Diagnosis on Shaky Ground” in the Journal of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (J ACNEM); 20(2): 5-8&15.

2003: Published a Letter requested by the Editor of the Journal “Vaccine” (1993; 22:VI-IX) countering the personal attack on myself as a public opponent of vaccination by Leask and McIntyre.

2004-2005: British Medical Journal (BMJ.com Rapid Responses) published a number of my letters to the Editor – see the enclosed list of publications.

Since 1994 I traveled extensively all over Australia, Europe, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Scandinavia, the USA and Canada, holding seminars on the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccination, as documented by orthodox medical research, for parents and health and medical professionals.

My task is perceived as that of liaising with paediatricians and other medical experts and of evaluation of the scientific research dealing with vaccination issues in general and more particularly with mass vaccination of infants and children. I have gathered a solid, extensive and irrefutable block of scientific evidence documenting vaccines as ineffective to prevent diseases, and which time and again issued warnings about a variety of real dangers, including brain haemorrhages and other brain damage, and retinal haemorrhages and other ophthalmological injuries and including death.  The biological mechanisms of these injuries are principally immunological and toxic-chemical.  My task is to analyse medical records and results of medical tests of the babies adversely affected or killed by vaccination and document the damage by case examples of the same vaccine damage described in orthodox medical literature.

An additional major subject of my research is immunological and other non-accidental injuries in babies who suffered medication (antibiotics and pain killers) and/or birth injuries and document the damage (including death) by case examples of identical non-accidental injuries as a result of iatrogenic (doctor-caused) immune or other disorders as described in medical literature.

7. PUBLICATIONS

Papers published in medical publications

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Scheibner V.  1991. Evidence of the association between non-specific stress syndrome, DPT injections and cot death.  “Immunisation: The Old and the New”. Proceedings of the Second National Immunisation Conference.  Canbera, Public Health Association of Australia; 27-29 May 1991: 90-91.

Tye K, Pollard I, Karlsson L and Scheibner V. 1993.  Caffeine exposure in utero increases the incidence of apnea in adult rats.  Reproductive Toxicology; 7: 449-452.

Scheibner V.  1993.  Response to Leask and McIntyre’s attack on myself as a public opponent of vaccination.  Vaccine; 22: VI-IX.

Scheibner V.  2007.  Kawasaki Disease. Medical Veritas; 6: 1978-1996.

Papers published in the Natural Health Magazine

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Scheibner V. and Karlsson L.  1991. Cot death and vaccination Link.  Natural Health Magazine; 4 (5-6) Aug/Sep and Oct/Nov 1991: 2-4.

Scheibner V and Karlsson L.  1991.  The Vaccination debate.  Natural Health Magazine; 4 (5-6) Aug/Sep and Oct-Nov 191: 5-8.  

Scheibner V. 1992.  Facts about Haemophilus influenzae B vaccines.  What every doctor - and all parents – should know about.  October/November 1992 :1-3.

Scheibner V.  1993. Cotwatch breathing monitor guards against cot death.  Natural Health Magazine (December 1992-January 1993): 12e

Scheibner V.  1993. Should I vaccinate my child? December 1992/January 1993.

Scheibner V. 1993.  Flu vaccination – is it safe? June/July 1993.

Papers published in chiropractic journals

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Scheibner V.  1994.  Embracing vaccination…lamentably wrong! The Chiropractic Journal (USA); October 1994:41-45.

Scheibner V.  1996.  Chiropractic attitudes towards immunization.  International Chiropractic Association (USA); September/October 1996: 45-49.

Books and booklets on vaccination issues

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Scheibner V.  1993.  Vaccination (100 years of scientific research shows that vaccines represent a medical assault on the immune system) 296pp.

Scheibner V. 2000.  Behavioural problems in childhood – the link to vaccination. pp297 

Scheibner V. 1998.  Answers to the CDC’s instructions how to counteract the anti-vaccination argument. pp. 22

Papers in journals dealing with health and children’s issues

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Scheibner V. 1996.  Vaccination.  Is prevention really the best cure? Conscious Living (Health): 36-37.

Scheibner V. 1995.  Immunisation.  The ‘No’ case. Totline (Australia): 35.

Letters to the Editor published in British Medical Journal.com (BMJ.com) Rapid Responses:

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Scheibner V. ‘Unreliability of scientific papers as evidence’.  24 March 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘Patterns of presentation of the shaken baby syndrome may not be caused by trauma at all’.  2 April 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘Study first, judge later’. 28 June 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘Study first, judge later’.  3 July 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘Some questions for Sam Davies or anyone’. 21 July 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘Medical folly damaging us all with support from an “ass” ’.  23 August 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘History repeats itself because people forget history’. 13 September 2004.

Scheibner V. ‘Gold standards’. 8 February 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘The Richardson Hypothesis’.  9 February 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘A Fatal Misdiagnosis’.  14 February 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘A Fatal misdiagnosis’.  21 February 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘Doctors don’t like the taste of their own medicine’.  5 March 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘Intramuscular, not intravenous’.  5 March 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘MMR and Japan: a commentary by Wakefield and Stott’. 10 March 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘Epidemiology ain’t epidemiology (just like oils ain’t oils)’. 18 March 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘Simply a concerned parent: Parents must do more research’.  24 March 2005. 

Scheibner V. ‘Existing research is revealing and accessible’.  24 March 2005.

Scheibner V. ‘How clean is clean?’ 3 July 2008.

Scheibner V. ‘Jabbering about jabs’.  15 September 2008.

Scheibner V. ‘Poliomyelitis outbreaks after polio vaccination-medicine in practice should not ignore the past published research. 5 December 2008.

Scheibner V. ‘Measles outbreaks and epidemics occur in the vaccinated, not because chiropractors and homeopaths allegedly advising parents not to vaccinate their children’. 6 December 2008.

Scheibner V.  ‘What is really the cause of deaths in newborn infants who usually contracted pertussis from their vaccinated family members suffering whooping cough at the time of these babies’ birth’.  9 December 2008.

Scheibner V.  ‘Something wrong with the figures: there were many more reactions than 35 after 380 000 doses of Gardasil administered.  10 December 2008.

Scheibner V. ‘Unexplained fractures explained’.  12 December 2008.

Scheibner V.  ‘Who discovered why Penicillin worked?’ 31 December 2008.

Scheibner V. ‘Obesity: A major problem of our times’.  12 January 2009.

Scheibner V. ‘Therapeutic use’.   8 January 2009

Scheibner V.  “Is mandatory vaccination such a benign paternalism?’  20 January 2009.

Scheibner V.  Effectiveness of larval therapy in treatment of wounds.  23 March 2009.

Scheibner V.  Just how healthy or sick?  6 May 2009.

Scheibner V.  The temperature of human milk. 7 May 2009.

Scheibner V.  Homeopathy and snake oil? Study first, judge later.  31 May 2009.

Scheibner V.  Abuse by catholic priests only? 8 June 2009.

Scheibner V.  “Easily” missed?  None so blind as he who will not see.  8 June 2009.

Scheibner V.  Vital need for perennial perianal research.  10 June 2009.

Scheibner V.  A clear indication for HIV testing? 24 November 2009.

Papers on vaccination issues published in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (J ACNEM)

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Scheibner V.  2001.  Shaken Baby Syndrome Diagnosis – On Shaky Ground.  J ACEM; 20(2): 5-8&15.

Scheibner V. 2004.  Dynamics of critical days as part of the dynamics of non-specific stress syndrome discovered during monitoring with Cotwatch breathing monitor. J ACNEM; 23(3)10-14.

Letters to the Editor of Medical Observer (MO) and Australian Doctor (AD), weekly newsletter/journals for orthodox general practitioners in Australia.

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Scheibner V. 1999.  ‘Vaccination challenge’; MO; 19 March 1999: 24.

Scheibner V. 2001. ‘Why all the fear of the measles virus?’ MO; 9 March 2001: 33.

Scheibner V. 2001.  ‘Unreal world of the pro-vaccinators’.  MO 6 April 2001.

Scheibner V. 2003. ‘Study first, judge later’.  AD; 2 May 2003.

Scheibner V. “Justified view”.  AD; 9 May 2008:23.

Scheibner V. 2008.  “GP’s views irrelevant”. MO; 27 June. 

Scheibner V. 2008.  “Super stoush”.  AD; 4.July:23.