The
pharmaceutical industry is now the most distrusted and poorly regarded
industry in the U.S. A mere 27% have a “totally positive” view of the
drug industry, while 58% have a “totally negative” view
A pilot
case-control study published in 2017 found that subjects with newly
diagnosed anorexia nervosa were 80% more likely than controls to have
had a vaccination in the previous three months
Influenza
vaccination during the prior year was also associated with a higher risk
for anorexia nervosa, obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety
disorder
A 2015 report
found that of the 1,469 child deaths reported to the U.S. Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting System, 79.4% had received one or more vaccines
on the same day they died. The most common cause of death, based on
autopsy records, was sudden infant death syndrome, accounting for 44% of
cases
Research
published in 2006 found vaccination-associated adverse events occur in 1
in 6 toddlers receiving the first dose of measles-mumps-rubella
vaccine; high fever occurs in 1 in 20
The pharmaceutical industry is now the
most distrusted and poorly regarded industry in the U.S. This according
to the latest Gallup Poll1
published September 3, 2019, which assesses Americans' views of 25
industry sectors on an annual basis. A mere 27% have a "totally
positive" view of the drug industry, while 58% have a "totally
negative" view; 15% are neutral.
It's an unexpected turn of events, surely, as signs of growing
distrust have become more readily evident. Big Pharma distrust was also
blamed for "fueling the anti-vaxxer movement and playing a role in the
measles outbreak" in an April 2019 article in USA Today.2
Quoted in the article, vaccine profiteer and patent holder3
Dr. Paul Offit also capitalizes on the recent revelation that the FBI
now views conspiracy theories as a "significant domestic terrorism
threat."4
"'In order to believe vaccines are hurting you means your doctor
is lying to you,' Offit says. To believe that, 'on some level you have
to be a conspiracy theorist' who believes the industry is 'directing
the government and the health care industry to lie about vaccines.'"5
In other words, if you have doubts about vaccine safety and would
like to see more evidence, you're a conspiracy theorist, placing you in
the category of a domestic terrorist threat. At least that's what
Offit would like you to think. The fact is, lies are being told about
vaccines.
As just one example, and an egregious one, in a January 2019 interview with CBS News,6 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), flat-out denied that vaccines can cause injury or death. That is not only misinformation, it's an outright lie.
Since 1988, the federally operated vaccine injury compensation program
(VICP) created under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986
has paid out about $4 billion in awards to vaccine injured victims,
and that's just 31% of the petitions filed for compensation.7
Doctors Routinely Withhold Risk Information
Misinformation about the safety of vaccines is being pushed front
and center, and evidence of harm is not only being swept under the
proverbial rug, those sharing that information are vilified, harassed
and threatened in not entirely subtle ways.
There is a revolving door between people who work for U.S. federal
health agencies and then go to work for the pharmaceutical industry and
the other way around.8,9
This means that Big Pharma, which over the past decade has spent
$2.5 billion lobbying the federal government, is having a tremendous
influence on vaccine regulation, policymaking and law.10 These are not theories. They're provable facts.
Yet in recent times, we've seen vicious public attacks against anyone who questions vaccine safety,
policy and law, or vaccine science. There have been extreme calls for
public shaming, identification, criminal prosecution, quarantine and
imprisonment of those criticizing vaccine safety and/or refusing to get government recommended vaccines.
One doctor who develops vaccines and lobbies for "no exceptions"
forced vaccination laws has referred to parents of vaccine injured
children as a "hate group," and one prominent newspaper suggested
vaccine critics should be physically harmed.11,12,13, 14
Most providers of vaccine information on the internet are also now
being censored by Google and other platforms, effectively preventing
people from finding what could be life-saving information15 that, indeed, most are never given by their pediatrician.
The withholding of information about potentially life-threatening
side effects and long-term injury is unlikely to be maliciously
intended, but when a child is injured, parents will surely feel like
they were lied to all the same.
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Vaccine Injuries Are a Fact, Not a Conspiracy Theory
That children suffer brain injury, long-term health effects and death is a reality, not a conspiracy theory.
In the emotional video above, Rachel Ortiz testifies in opposition of Maine's bill LD 79816 (which would remove religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions) and in support of LD 98717
(which would expand medical vaccine exemptions), sharing the story of
how a routine childhood vaccination caused irreversible brain damage to
her son.
One of the things you typically hear from parents sharing their
stories of how a vaccine injured their child is the tremendous weight
of guilt. They trusted the doctors, who didn't warn them there were
risks, and their ignorance injured (or worse, killed) their beloved
child. A 2015 article by Yahoo Parenting featured Susan Lawson and her
daughter Julia:18
"When … Lawson … hears parents declaring, unequivocally, that
everyone should vaccinate their children because it's perfectly safe,
she says it feels 'like a punch in the gut.'
That's because she's seen another side of the story: Her
daughter Julia, now 9, was left with permanent brain damage — an injury
acknowledged by a federal court payout — after receiving her MMRV
(measles-mumps-rubella-varicella) shot when she was a year old.
Lawson, a veterinarian who had the utmost faith in medicine, had
never before questioned vaccinations, and had always inoculated Julia
right on schedule. But now she began to wonder. Hospital doctors
dismissed any thought of a connection.
But when Lawson asked a pediatrician about it, she was told it
could be a possibility. Every family featured in this story received a
payment by the United States Court of Federal Claims, which concluded
that their rare injuries were caused by the vaccines.
'I felt shocked, bewildered, and guilty,' Lawson recalls. 'We
were trying to protect her, and instead I destroyed her. The guilt is
huge.'"
However, firsthand testimony and billions in VICP payouts aren't the
only evidence available that vaccines are causing debilitating harm
and not just temporary soreness at the injection site. There are
scientific studies raising red flags as well. For example, a pilot
case-control study19 published in Frontiers in Psychiatry in January 2017 found that:
"Subjects with newly diagnosed AN [anorexia nervosa] were more
likely than controls to have had any vaccination in the previous 3
months [hazard ratio 1.80, 95% confidence interval 1.21–2.68].
Influenza vaccinations during the prior 3, 6, and 12 months were
also associated with incident diagnoses of AN, OCD [obsessive
compulsive disorder], and an anxiety disorder. Several other
associations were also significant … (hepatitis A with OCD and AN;
hepatitis B with AN; and meningitis with AN and chronic tic disorder).
This pilot epidemiologic analysis implies that the onset of some
neuro-psychiatric disorders may be temporally related to prior
vaccinations in a subset of individuals. These findings warrant further
investigation …"
A Pattern of Clear Concern
Another example is "Deaths Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997-2013,"20
published in 2015. In this report, it's stated that of the 1,469 child
death reports, 79.4% had received one or more vaccines on the same day
they died.
The most common cause of death, based on autopsy records, was sudden
infant death syndrome, accounting for 44% of cases, followed by
asphyxia (6%), septicemia (4.9%) and pneumonia
(4.6%). In adults, the vaccine associated with the greatest number of
deaths was inactivated influenza vaccine, which featured in 51.4% of
adult deaths reported to VAERS.
Despite these shocking findings, the report concludes that "No
concerning pattern was noted among death reports submitted to VAERS
during 1997-2013." How can the fact that 79.4% of infant deaths occur
on the same day that they're vaccinated be a pattern of no concern? It's
those kinds of illogical conclusions that give rise to suspicions of
conspiracy, because little else makes sense.
Even some of our health officials have at times been pressed enough to let the truth slip out. In a BMJ response21 to "Measles: Europe Sees Record Number of Cases and 37 Deaths so Far This Year,"22 published in 2018, U.K. editor of AgeofAutism.com, John Stone, cites papers highlighting the questionable safety of vaccines.
Included in his citations are three Cochrane reviews, one of which
concluded "The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine
studies, both pre- and post-marketing, are largely inadequate," and
"The evidence of adverse events following immunization with MMR cannot
be separated from its role in preventing the target diseases."23
Government Admissions Are on the Record
In his response, Stone also points out that the question of whether
vaccines can cause autism has been acknowledged in the affirmative by
the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on various
occasions. He writes:24
"The HHS HRSA told journalists Sharyl Attkisson and David Kirby
on separate occasions: 'The government has never compensated, nor has
it ever been ordered to compensate, any case based on a determination
that autism was actually caused by vaccines.
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an
encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be
accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including
autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.'
And CDC director Julie Gerberding admitted to CNN following the Hannah Poling settlement:25
'Now, we all know that vaccines can occasionally cause fevers in kids.
So if a child was immunized, got a fever, had other complications from
the vaccines.
And if you're predisposed with the mitochondrial disorder, it
can certainly set off some damage. Some of the symptoms can be symptoms
that have characteristics of autism…'
An investigation into U.S. vaccine injury court in 2011 found 83
cases of compensated vaccine injury in which autism is mentioned, but
which because they are sealed cannot be used as precedents."
Needed Studies Can Be Done, but Aren't
While working for CBS News in 2008, Attkisson also interviewed Dr.
Bernadine Healy, "the most well-known medical voice yet to counter the
government" on the claim that vaccines cannot cause autism.26
Healy, a former head of the National Institutes of Health, claimed
that once she began looking at the vaccine-autism question, "she found
credible published, peer-reviewed scientific studies that support the
idea of an association," Atkisson writes, adding:27
"She dug a little deeper and was surprised to find that the
government has not embarked upon some of the most basic research that
could help answer the question of a link.
The more she dug, she says, the more she came to believe the
government and medical establishment were intentionally avoiding the
question because they were afraid of the answer … Healy says the
government has a long way to go to even do basic research that could
get at the heart of what she believes is an open question.
For example: why in the past decade hasn't the government
compared the autism/ADD rate of unvaccinated children with that of
vaccinated children? If the rate is the same, it tends to point away
from vaccines. If the rate is markedly lower in unvaccinated children,
it tends to point toward vaccines.
The government has a dataset of unvaccinated children available.
It has published more than one survey of parents of undervaccinated and
unvaccinated children (to find out why the parents are choosing not to
vaccinate).
It would seem simple to use those same families to measure their
rate of autism/ADD. Also, why hasn't the government used vaccine court
as a resource to ask the autism/vaccine question?
There, nearly 5,000 families have self-selected as believing
their children's autism was caused by vaccines. Many have expressed
willingness to let their children's medical records be released and
studied; but nobody in the government has been interested."
Two other examples of published studies that put a dent in the armored wall of denial that vaccines can cause harm are:
• A 2006 study in the journal
Pediatrics, which found 18% of toddlers experienced an adverse event
following their first dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Of
those, high fever occurred in 6%.
The authors concluded that "Vaccination-associated adverse events
occur in ∼1 of every 6 toddlers receiving measles-mumps-rubella vaccine
dose 1, with high fever occurring in 1 of 20." • Similarly, a 2010 paper28
in Pediatrics "assessed seizures and fever visits among children aged
12 to 23 months after MMRV [mumps-measles-rubella-varicella] and
separate MMR + varicella vaccines" and "compared seizure risk after MMRV
vaccine to that after MMR + varicella vaccines." The authors reported
that:
"Seizure and fever significantly clustered 7 to 10 days after
vaccination with all measles-containing vaccines but not after
varicella vaccination alone. Seizure risk during days 7 to 10 was
higher after MMRV than after MMR + varicella vaccination (relative
risk: 1.98…) …
Vaccination with MMRV results in 1 additional febrile seizure
for every 2,300 doses given instead of separate MMR + varicella
vaccines. Providers who recommend MMRV should communicate to parents
that it increases the risk of fever and seizure over that already
associated with measles-containing vaccines."
Bureaucrats Take Over Medical Decision-Making in California
While Californians have already been stripped of their religious and
philosophical vaccine exemptions, matters are about to get even more
serious with the expected implementation of SB 27629 and SB 714.30
SB 276 — which California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law31
September 9, 2019 — will further limit parents' ability to get a
medical exemption for their child by requiring all medical vaccine
exemptions written by doctors to be approved by a state health
official,32 and SB 714 places new restrictions on which physicians are eligible to issue medical exemptions.
Specifically, any doctor who has faced disciplinary action in the
past will not be allowed to issue medical exemptions, and any exemption
written by an ineligible doctor would be rendered null and void with
the enactment of this law. As reported by the Los Angeles Times on
September 6, 2019:33
"[T]he governor will sign SB 276 once the Legislature
passes SB 714 … [Orange County pediatrician Bob] Sears, who is
currently subject to a 35-month probation order issued by the medical
board in a vaccine case that did not involve school medical exemptions,
expressed disbelief over the amendments …
'[This bill would] mean that any exemption written by a doctor
who has been disciplined by the board for any reason, even one
unrelated to vaccination, will be subject to revocation,' Sears said.
'So the hundreds of patients I've written exemptions for over the
past four years after having a severe vaccine reaction will lose their
exemptions. This seems like a broad overreach from a government that
is supposed to protect its medically fragile children.'"
The new amendments also narrow the scope of medical conditions that
qualify for an exemption, limiting exemptions to those having suffered
severe anaphylaxis, encephalopathy (coma), one rare immunodeficiency
disorder, and in the case of the rotavirus vaccine only, cases of
intussusception (twisted bowel).
Doctors Who Write Exemptions Must Work for Free
Under the revised law, doctors issuing medical exemptions will be
monitored, and they will no longer be allowed to charge for the service
of issuing a medical exemption. In other words, any doctor who writes a
medical exemption must do so for free. As reported by PR Newswire on
June 18, 2019:34
"Attorney Leigh Dundas believes the amendments go too far, and
that no licensed physician will remain willing to author a valid
exemption under the new statutory framework.
'Any American, let alone a licensed professional, who is told
they will have to work for free, told they will be monitored and
tracked for doing their work — and further told a simple accusation
will make them guilty until proven innocent — would quit their job,'
Dundas said. 'SB 276 bill targets the very professionals who save our
children's lives.'"
Many California Pediatricians Refuse to Write Exemptions
Dundas' prediction appears to have come true already. According to
Advocates for Physicians' Rights, pediatricians in California have
already stopped issuing medical exemptions en masse. The group claims
to have called 882 California doctors asking to receive "a medical
exemption for a child who suffered an anaphylactic reaction after [his]
12-month shots."35
They were repeatedly told the doctor was not issuing medical
exemptions for any reason — and requires a complete vaccination history
for all patients. A video featuring several of these calls was posted
on the organization's Facebook page on August 30, 2019.36
If this accurately mirrors the current state of affairs in
California, this means children who have already suffered a severe and
potentially life-threatening vaccine reaction not only may have a very
difficult time finding a doctor who will write them a medical vaccine
exemption, they also may not be able to get basic health checkups and
medical attention unless fully vaccinated. This could well turn into a
life-threatening Catch-22 for many families.
Remember, this is not about protecting the public from measles.
It's about enforcing a full vaccination schedule from cradle to grave,
one slippery-sloped step at a time. Eventually, you won't be able to
go to school or work in a public building without every single vaccine
recommended on the adult schedule. It's just a matter of time.
Driving this agenda are millions of dollars of donations. The palms of California lawmakers were greased in 2015,37 which led to the revocation of the religious and philosophical belief exemption.
So far in 2019, health and pharmaceutical lobbyists have doled out $155,174,705 to push their various agendas forward,38 and one of those agendas is a mandatory cradle to grave vaccination schedule for everyone.
It stands to reason that people have different biological
weaknesses, and the push for a one-size-fits-all regimen means a lot of
children will be sacrificed "for the greater good." But how can a
public health program simply slaughter the vulnerable rather than
taking measures to protect everyone?
"Public health" by definition includes everyone. Yet when it comes
to vaccination, this inclusivity and right of everyone to pursue
optimal health doesn't seem to apply anymore. It's imperative that we
continue to fight for the right to life and health of all children, not
just those who can survive vaccination.
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