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| STANLEY PLOTKIN, THE “GODFATHER OF VACCINES,” REACTION TO BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY |
Dr.
Stanley Plotkin was deposed in January 2018 in the context of a family
law dispute. He was questioned for 9 hours by attorney Aaron Siri on
video, which you can see here.
During that deposition, Dr. Plotkin made a number of admissions
regarding vaccine clinical trials and gaps in safety data related to
vaccines. Following that deposition, Dr. Plotkin put a number of wheels
in motion, however none of those actions actually addresses the true
concerns of many parents and patients. Four months after his deposition, Dr. Plotkin sent a written statement
to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Disease
Vaccine Subcommittee as well as Amanda Cohn, the CDC liaison to the
committee. In this statement, Dr. Plotkin explains that his deposition
“covered an enormous number of subjects” which “exhausted” him. Instead
of learning from and then addressing any of the valid safety, efficacy,
and ethical concerns that were addressed during the deposition, Dr.
Plotkin said “more important, [he] realized that the anti-vaccination
people are much better organized and financially supported than we are,
and that the pro-vaccination camp must be better organized.” He then
laid out the steps he had taken at that point “to fight back.” These steps included: · Making
materials available for “pro-vaccination lawyers and witnesses” that
would “disprov[e] the usual anti-vaccination accusations;” · Contacting the FDA and vaccine manufacturers to add “missing information on safety and efficacy” in vaccine package inserts; · “Lobbying the Gates Foundation to support pro-vaccine organizations and meetings on vaccine safety;” and · Lobbying
AAP, IDSA and PIDS to “support training of witnesses” in future trials
so that “experts such as [himself] do[] not go unprepared unto an
adversary situation. Dr.
Plotkin felt that these were the best steps to take to “help defend
vaccines against attack by…clever…lawyers.” Dr. Plotkin expressed that
he felt threatened by groups like ICAN because “their access to the
legal system is a clear and present danger, which we ignore at our
peril.” In
his attempt to crush out anyone questioning vaccines, Dr. Plotkin
arranged a conference call with the AAP’s Vaccine subcommittee to
discuss next steps. He also arranged what was meant to be a secret meeting
in England, the Wellcome Trust Vaccine Safety meeting, in May 2019, to
discuss topics of vaccine safety. ICAN’s attorneys found out about this
meeting as the result of a FOIA request and are following up to seek
further information. If
all of these organizations, groups, and people would expend the same
resources and energy on conducting proper trials and studies of
vaccines; understanding and acknowledging the safety, efficacy, and
ethical concerns raised; and developing safer vaccines, we would likely
see a much more fruitful outcome. Instead, Dr. Plotkin’s defensive
response is indicative of the very problems highlighted within his
deposition: a lack of data and transparency, which leads to a lack of
trust in vaccines and in the medical professionals that refuse to
address valid concerns and instead blindly and religiously push and
defend vaccination. To
Dr. Plotkin’s chagrin, ICAN will continue to exhaust “experts” in the
vaccine and infectious disease worlds, will continue to be “clever” and
organized in their questioning, and will access the legal system in
order to achieve much-needed transparency and increased safety with
regard to vaccine products. |
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