By Dr. Mercola
Can vaccines trigger autism?
This is the topic of the film "Vaxxed", which was originally scheduled
to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, but was pulled from the lineup
on March 26.
The decision has created so much blowback and publicity that whoever was
pushing for its removal may have cause to regret it, because it has
given the film a much higher public profile than if it had simply been
screened as scheduled.
The Tribeca Film Festival was started by Oscar-winning actor Robert De
Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal in 2001 in an effort to revitalize
lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.
Strange as it may seem, according to Rosenthal, it was primarily
other filmmakers that were threatening to pull their films out of the
prestigious festival unless "Vaxxed" was removed. De Niro says he will
look into who lodged the complaints, and why.
De Niro Brings Vaccine Safety Into the Limelight
While De Niro felt pressured to pull the film, he makes it clear it's a
film people need to see, noting there are many issues relating to the
way the CDC evaluates and monitors the safety of vaccines that are not being spoken about openly — and they should.1
De Niro has an 18-year-old son who is autistic, and he admits he has concerns about vaccines and autism. "There is
a link," he says, and draws a parallel between people who have severe,
even fatal, reactions to penicillin. De Niro points out that the same
might be true for some people who react to vaccines.
He also makes the point that everyone really should have the choice whether or not to vaccinate their children.
Interestingly, while De Niro called for more discussion and more
research into the safety of vaccines, Rosenthal appeared openly
uncomfortable about the entire topic when she and De Niro were
originally interviewed on NBC's "Today Show" on Apr. 132 and even more uncomfortable when she and De Niro appeared in a follow-up interview on the "Today Show" on Apr. 18.3
One of the potential reasons for her discomfort could be related to
the fact that her ex-husband, Craig Hatkoff, is a board member of the
NYU Child Study Center, which is involved with the research and
treatment of child psychiatric disorders. As noted by journalist Jon
Rappoport:4
"The NYU Center would never, ever, in a million years imagine
that vaccines could cause autism ... A film that claims to show a link
between the MMR vaccine and autism would be a hideous affront to the NYU
Child Study Center, where Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film
Festival, sits on the Board."
Rosenthal's sister, Pamela Rollins, Ph.D. is also deeply involved in the
field of autism, and is a member of the Texas Council for Autism.5
The conventional view is that whatever autism is caused by, it's NOT
caused by a medical intervention like vaccines, and to suggest that it
might be related simply isn't permitted.
Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has created a petition to
encourage Robert De Niro to continue seeking the truth about vaccines.
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Vaccine Shills Coming Out of the Woodwork
A number of industry shills have already written derogatory articles about "Vaxxed." This includes Dr. Paul Offit, whose article6 places the focus squarely on Andrew Wakefield, the director of the film.
Taking aim, Offit makes sure Wakefield's character and qualifications
are brought into question in order to try to discredit the information
in the film.
No surprises there, as character assassination is part of Offit's modus
operandi — regardless of whether he's got his facts straight or not.
Offit does not have a good track record for being accurate in his
assessment of the facts.
In at least one case, a newspaper was forced to issue a correction,
noting that Offit's disparaging statements about CBS News Investigative
Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson (who had written a report critical of
vaccines) were actually found to be wholly unsubstantiated and/or false.7
The fact of the matter is, anytime you hear or read terms like debunked,
discredited, quack, conspiracy theorist, the science is settled, the
debate is settled, the scientific consensus agrees, or the poison is in
the dose, you can be more or less assured you're reading agenda-driven
propaganda.
The same can be said for anyone relying on Offit as the sole voice of what is true and what is not true about vaccine safety.
There are many respectable researchers out there who are
well-qualified to speak about vaccine science, and I have interviewed a
number of them. And contrary to what Offit proclaims, the science is far
from conclusive when it comes to safety.
Science on Vaccines Is Nowhere Near Settled
Science has shown that when you overuse antibiotics, antibiotic
resistance develops. So what is the science of mass vaccination with
multiple vaccines? The truth is the science is nowhere near "settled"
when it comes to the potential long-term risks of mass vaccination.
Moreover, vaccines are clearly not as effective as previously thought. For example, recurring outbreaks of whooping cough
(pertussis) have been linked to vaccine failure, not lack of
vaccination. Most recently, 56 people contracted whooping cough in
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and every single one of them was
vaccinated.8
If you're like most people, you probably thought vaccines the government recommends have been scientifically proven effective.
But every year we hear about many vaccines besides whooping cough
failing, including mumps, measles and chicken pox — with a majority of
the outbreaks again being among fully vaccinated people. So if the
science isn't settled when it comes to effectiveness, perhaps it isn't
so settled when it comes to safety.
Just last year, researchers made the remarkable discovery that the brain
is actually directly connected to the immune system via previously
unknown vessels.9
According to researchers, the discovery of these new vessels has
"enormous implications for every neurological disease with an immune
component," and that certainly would include autism.
So just how does vaccination affect this system? Anyone who claims we
have the answer is either uninformed or lying, as up until last year we
didn't even know the brain and immune system were linked!
Every year we make new discoveries about how the body works, yet we're
to believe that everything there is to know about how vaccines affect
human biology was discovered decades ago?
Did Mass Vaccination Eradicate Measles in the US?
The day after De Niro's appearance on NBC's Today Show, the network
issued a follow-up report to counter some of the statements and
questions De Niro had brought up.10
For example, they claim that mass vaccination eradicated measles in the
U.S. in 2000. Yet in 2014 it reemerged with 667 documented cases, and
in 2015 there were 189 cases. According to the CDC, "the majority of
patients were unvaccinated," NBC reports.
Here are some facts they didn't tell you: according to the
CDC, no one has died from acute measles in the U.S. since 2003.
Meanwhile, the MedAlerts database reveals 98 deaths following MMR or MMRV vaccinations
occurred between 2003 and 2015. In addition to that, there were 694
reports of MMR or MMRV vaccinations causing disability in that time
frame.
Considering the fact that less than 10 percent of vaccine adverse events
are ever reported to VAERS, the actual number of measles
vaccine-related deaths and disabilities that have occurred since 2003
could be as many as 980 deaths and 6,940 disabilities.
According to NBC: "While no drug or treatment is 100 percent safe, they
say vaccines are far, far safer than the diseases they prevent."
Considering these statistics, would you agree with the assertion that the MMR vaccine is "far, far safer" than the measles?
Ironically, it seems NBC did exactly what De Niro objected to
in the first place — they downplayed the risks, casually tossing out a
few reassuring statements, completely ignoring statistics such as the
fact that anywhere from 98 to 980 kids died following measles
vaccination compared to none from the actual disease. And that's how you know you're listening to propaganda.
Do Studies 'Conclusively Show' There's No Link Between Vaccines and Autism?
The NBC also made sure to note that while parents are "looking for
answers," studies have "conclusively shown" there's no link between
vaccines and autism. That sounds all good and well, but just because a
statement is repeated does not make it true. I've interviewed a number
of health and vaccine experts and researchers over the years, and the
consensus among them is that safety studies are clearly lacking. As noted by board-certified pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Palevsky:
"… [T]hey are not following children long enough to know whether in
three months, six months, three years, six years, or 10 years, there
could be some autoimmune antibody or some immune challenge that happens
to the body that lingers or that just sits there as a genotypic effect.
There's a change in the genetics, there's a change in the DNA, that
doesn't necessarily manifest itself until years later because of other
stressors, perhaps even from another vaccine that comes years later.None of those studies have been done, so I don't know how you can say that vaccines are safe.
… We're not looking at the micro-molecular levels to see, 'OK, was
there an autoimmune antibody produced? Were there other inflammatory
markers produced? Where did those markers manifest? Did they stay in the
body? Did they manifest into clinical symptoms? How are they relevant?'
None of that science is being done. But we're just saying that vaccines
are safe because we've been doing it for so long. And anyone with a good scientific mind would say that's not adequate."
There are biological, genetic, and environmental differences among us,
and that is why some of us get an MMR shot or experience measles and do
not suffer complications while others do suffer complications and are
brain injured or die.
Doctors cannot predict ahead of time who will be harmed by a vaccine
or an infectious disease, and they cannot guarantee that those who have
been vaccinated will not be infected or transmit infection. These are
important points that are typically not shared with parents in the
decision-making process regarding vaccination.
Even the studies that have been done are not nearly long enough to show
what the long-term implications of vaccinations might be.
As mentioned earlier, we now also have brand new information
regarding the connection between the brain and the immune system; a
connection that may very well change the way we need to study vaccines
and their impact on both brain and immune function. Clearly, De Niro is
entirely correct when he says it's a complicated matter, and that there
are still many questions that need to be answered.
Do Vaccines Deserve Their 'Safety Halo'?
Our genome is comprised of between 5 and 8 percent viral DNA, in what
I consider to be a component of synergistic adaption with our
environment. Microbial signaling plays a role that we still do not fully
understand, yet our federal policies place a halo over all drugs called
"vaccines." The assumption is that we understand everything that needs
to be understood about them, and that without them we'd be worse off.
But where's the proof? As noted by Rappoport:11
"[M]ajor media won't reveal medically-caused death numbers ... So
we begin with a few citations ... Journal of the American Medical
Association; author, Dr. Barbara Starfield, revered public health expert
at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; 'Is US health really the best in the world?' Starfield
reported that the US medical system kills 225,000 Americans a year;
106,000 as a result of FDA-approved medical drugs ... Extrapolate the
numbers to a decade: that's 2.25 million deaths...
BMJ June 7, 201212...
Lenzer refers to a report by the Institute for Safe Medication
Practices: 'It calculated that in 2011 prescription drugs were
associated with two to four million people in the US experiencing
'serious, disabling, or fatal injuries, including 128,000 deaths.'' The
report called this 'one of the most significant perils to humans
resulting from human activity.'
...The FDA knows and it isn't saying anything about
it, because the FDA certifies, as safe and effective, all the medical
drugs that are routinely maiming and killing Americans ..."
If other drugs cause well over 100,000 deaths a year, where's the
evidence to show vaccines don't have a similar track record? The reason
why the media refuses to discuss these safety issues is because their
pharmaceutical advertisers have the ability to punish them financially.
But there's also the overarching issue of credibility. If these
statistics were widely known and recognized, who would accept any
assurance of drug safety anymore? As Rappoport notes, it would sound
something like this:
"Well, the system I represent kills 2.25 million people per
decade, and maims between 20 and 40 million more people per decade, but I
want to assure you this vaccine presents no problems at all. It's
incredibly safe' ... Every single pronouncement, on any subject, issued
via the medical cartel's Ministry of Truth would fall on disbelieving
ears, and only increase general outrage."
The Fight for Improved Vaccine Safety Continues
The fact of the matter is, there's still a lot we do not know when it
comes to vaccines and their effects. Our knowledge is still very limited
when it comes to the microbial world, as well as our own immune system.
To protect the vaccine program and the fantastic profits generated
from it, any and all "cracks in the wall" must therefore be sealed, and
the primary way this is done is by way of censoring, ridicule, and
character assassination. They want mandatory vaccines from cradle to
grave, and in order to implement that, all dissenters must be destroyed.
In the case of De Niro, they may have met their match, as he's not
one to be intimidated and dismissed so easily — although a number of
industry "bobble heads" have already tried to make it seem as though
he's just another confused parent of an autistic child looking for a
scapegoat.
They are wrong, of course, and efforts to paint De Niro as a fool
just might backfire in the most spectacular way. In the end, as more and
more parents see the tragedy of autism unfold in their own life, how
long can the charade be maintained?
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