Posted on 02/18/2017 3:07:54 PM PST by NYer
Robert Kennedy Jr. and Robert De Niro convened a news conference on Wednesday at the National Press Club to announce a $100,000 cash reward for anyone who identifies a peer-reviewed scientific study demonstrating that the mercury in vaccines is safe. Though the challenge was perhaps something of a stunt, the significance of the appearance was underscored by Kennedys confirming that President Trump may ask him to lead a commission on autism. The consequences of such a commission could extend beyond the narrow vaccine/autism debate. More significantly, the commission could expose the incentives driving vaccination policy, which, in the current political climate, could move mainstream opinion against vaccines and also bolster doubts about the integrity of the health-care system.
Since at least 2007, Trump has suggested that the recent epidemic of autism might be related to current immunization practices. He is not categorically against immunizationin fact, he is totally in favor of vaccines, as he saysbut he suggests that the rate and quantity of injections given to infants, per the recommended immunization schedule, may contribute to incidents of autism. In Trumps words, massive combined inoculations and simultaneous vaccinations may be producing a wave of doctor-inflicted autism.
Trumps central point that diagnoses of autism have skyrocketed alongside an increase in childhood vaccination is not in dispute. The term early infantile autism was first introduced in 1943 based on clinical observations of eleven children. When Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger published a groundbreaking paper on autism a year later, it drew little attention, and, indeed, was only translated and annotated into English in 1991. Possible links between immunization and autism did not draw much comment in subsequent years because mass vaccination itself was not yet a common practice. It wasnt until 1949 that the combined diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) vaccine was licensed in the United States for pediatric use, and it was only around this time that large-scale vaccine production for public health became feasible.
The more salient question is whether vaccines are contributing to the wave of autism diagnoses since the 1980s, when major policy changes related to immunization were enacted. By 1981, under the Childhood Immunization Initiative, all 50 states instituted laws linking school eligibility to immunizationan effective mandate far more stringent than what is instituted in Canada and most European countries. A surge of lawsuits followed and, in a series of high-profile settlements, manufacturers of the whooping cough and polio vaccines were held liable for injuries in children. In response to warnings from pharmaceutical companies that they would cease producing vaccines amid such a precarious legal environment, President Reagan, in 1986, signed into law the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The mandatory no-fault compensation system established under the new legal regime shields vaccine makers from civil product liability, as it forces victims to file initial claims under a federal vaccine compensation program in which awarded damages are paid by taxpayers.
The law was a boon to vaccine manufacturers. The vaccine business, as the Wall Street Journal reports, was transformed from a risky, low-profit venture in the 1970s, to one of the pharmaceutical industrys most attractive product lines. From $500 million in 1990, vaccine-industry revenues have grown to $24 billion today, expanding the pharmaceutical industrys ability to enter into public-private partnerships, lobby for lower licensing standards for vaccines, and advocate against vaccine exemption laws.
Both the rate of vaccination and the rate of autism have spiked over the past three decades. From 23 doses of seven vaccines in 1983, the recommended immunization schedule has tripled to 69 doses of 16 vaccines, and Americans are now required by law to use more vaccines than any other nation in the world. What fuels vaccine hesitancy is the fact that, for several decades through the 1970s, childhood autism remained at a steady rate of about four in ten thousand children. After three decades of steady increases since the 1980s, however, the childhood autism rate, according to the CDC, has climbed to 1 in 68 or 1.5 percent.
Although the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a rebuttal to Trumps critique, Trump has said that he couldnt care less about the shills of conventional medical wisdom, the pharmaceutical companies, and their fudged up reports. In typical fashion, he declares that the doctors lied and that he is being proven right about massive vaccinations.
More influential to Trump than the medical establishment, it seems, is a dissident group of health practitioners, experts, and advocates. Trump has praised the efforts of Bob Wright, the founder and former chairman of Autism Speaks. And as a candidate, he met with a group of vaccine skeptics including:
All of these experts either have children with autism or were drawn to the field after personal encounters with parents who are certain that their children suffered from vaccine damage. This, as Kennedy remarked today, has made an impact on Trump. Asked to explain his persistence on the issue, Trump has consistently cited the testimony of parents who attribute the onset of autism in their children to vaccinesparents, he suspects, who know far better than the experts who assert instead that autism is genetic or starts in utero. If Trump ultimately establishes a commission led by Kennedy, and the commission provides a platform for vaccine skeptics, millions of Americans would be exposed for the first time to counter-narratives in the vaccine/autism debate.
They would see that the very term anti-vaxxer is misleading. The voluminous writings of the anti-vaxxers in fact reveal little in the way of unified opposition to vaccines. Their views, to the contrary, are quite diverse in terms of which vaccines they endorse, the schedules they recommend, and their assessments of vaccine risk in relation to more natural alternatives. Kennedy himself is explicitly pro vaccine, had all six of his children vaccinated, and believes that vaccines save millions of lives. But he questions the safety of neurotoxins in vaccines, particularly the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, given its causative link to brain disorders.
The American people would also learn that the activists with whom Trump has associated are not all that different from vaccine skeptics generally. Numerous investigations suggest that anti-vaxxers hardly conform to the caricature of fringe, anti-science zealots. They are, for the most part, highly-educated, wealthy, and, in the assessment of pediatric infectious disease specialist Mark Sawyer, mainstream upper class people who dont reject modern medicine. Steve Silberman observes in his award-winning NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, that they are generally better acquainted with the state of autism research than the outsiders presuming to judge them.
Why then are vaccine skeptics treated with such contempt in establishment institutions? There are, it is true, growing numbers of writers such as the science journalist Maggie Koerth-Baker, who, after advancing the conventional narrative on vaccines, decided to study media reporting on the issue. She ultimately criticized her colleagues in Aeon for their failure to acknowledge that vaccine rejection can be a rational choice. Yet standard accounts, insofar as they even mention the genuine debate among experts on vaccine safety, often ignore the science informing these objections. Nor do they grapple with personalized approaches to vaccine decisions that, as Prof. Maya Goldenberg argues, are not ignorant per se but can produce cost-benefit analyses that depart, in individual cases, from public health orthodoxy.
In addressing this question, its important to consider what vaccine skeptics, including those in Trumps orbit, do have in common. Rather than a doctrinaire view on vaccines, what unites vaccine skeptics is a suspicion that a corrupt regulatory system, driven by the seamless marriage between the health establishment and government agencies, is succumbing to the temptations of bureaucratic preservation. The consequence, they fear, is routine data manipulation and stifling of dissent. A legal paradigmupheld by the Supreme Courts 2011 decision in Breusewitz v. Wyeththat does not permit class-action lawsuits or the checks and balances that prevail in almost every other industry, they argue, only exacerbates the risk.
Herein lies the problem. In a recent paper in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics, Prof. Brian Martin found evidence not of a conspiracy, but rather of a pattern of suppression of vaccination dissentone that made Andrew Wakefield subject to a degradation ceremony, a ritualistic denunciation casting him out of the company of honest researchers. Martin argues that challenges to free inquiry, while prevalent throughout mainstream science, are particularly serious in the case of immunization. Because vaccination is a signifier for the benefits of modern medicine, questions about vaccination are treated as a potential threat to the public perception that credentialed experts unanimously endorse vaccination.
While Trump can be faulted for his simplistic rhetoric on the issue, his objections appear to stem from legitimate questions. At a moment when doubts about vaccine are growing and when the federal government, the big pharmaceutical combine, and health-care industries are the three least trusted institutions in America, a presidential commission would seem sensible.
Sometimes you just need someone brave enough to step up to the plate.
Kennedy and DiNiro...a heroin addict and a guy who plays psychopaths in films...are challenging medical scientists.Why am I not surprised?
The mercury used in vaccines is called “thiomersal”.
The mercury used in contact lense solutions is also “thiomersal”.
Flexible contacts were first approved in 1971 by the FDA and by 1991 were extremely popular. By 2002, the first ‘overnight’ contacts were introduced. However, more than a few people exhibited an allergic reaction to their lens solution containing thiomersal. (there are also allergic reactions to non-thiomersal solutions). Some allergic reactions took months to present symptoms, some were more immediate. Bausch and Lomb among others, introduced non-thiomersal solutions in response but thiomersal solutions were still in use in 2003.
Of the children who developed autism after a thiomersal vaccine, I wonder how many of the parents wore contacts and used thiomersal solutions, whether they reacted allergically or not. In other words, was a biological sensitivity/allergy passed on genetically to the child?
Proof of lies and coverup in the CDC as with Thompson, should have every person outraged since we are playing life and death with our own children and our future. The idea that the movie Vaxxed was banned is a sign of a cover-up. If there is no “truth”to a movie, why would the government put pressure on an industry to ban it. Truth will set us free. Let the people “judge” by presentation of ALL the facts. That is all Kennedy and DeNiro is asking for—the right to produce the facts (truth) which is hidden even now as I type.
Look at their persecution!!!!!! Even by “good” people!!!!!!! Why? It is just like the persecution and destruction of Sen. McCarthy who was so vilified for only stating the “truth” (he was proven true by the Venona papers/Blacklisted by History). He was a hero, yet, still vilified in books today. Stephan Molyneux gives a great presentation on how the system (Marxist one) destroys people with the truth. The truth will destroy the Big Pharma industry who is in collusion with the congress/government who are bought and paid for. The universities are bought and paid for, as is all their “research”. Look at the dummies graduating—all brainwashed corporate slaves. Research, like the hockey stick graph, proves there is government collusion with corporations and fraud. Their “research” in universities are completely controlled by corporations and will only tell you what they want it to tell you: vaccines are good and safe as they are protected from unjust laws because of bought politicians and a corrupt system of government (crony “capitalism”).
Since when has crony “capitalism” ever promoted what is “good” for the people? It is the Leviathan. It will destroy the people and that is what this thing is all about. Government is evil (Founders) and it should NEVER have control over the information that the masses get-—no INFLUENCE on what they “hear”, yet we have had total control of our information (press controlled by CIA) since forever and only with the internet have we gotten some “truth”.
Do you not think they would keep killing and injuring thousands of people (like in 9-11) a secret or admit their “fault” and the CIA operations, such as in operation paperclip and operation mockingbird.
That would be revealing their NWO agenda 21-30 wouldn’t it—their revealed plans for transhumanism and getting rid of billions (as their Georgia monument states) of human beings off the elite’s playground.
The fact is that until the schedule of “safe” (lol) vaccines was increased in children 3-fold, there was no epidemic of Autism. No teachers even heard of it in the 70s or early 80s. We had no “special ed” teachers like we had in the 90s-—no need for that concept except in rare cases. Now every school has dozens of “special needs” teachers. Why?
We need those questions answered and unless we address it, there won’t be any discussions allowed—or criticism of vaccines. Why is that so? Voltaire: you know who rules us by whom you are not allowed to criticize.
Every issue should be up to debate so the truth can be pursued. That is how Western Civ was made so awesome, is the ability to debate with no interference from government (freedom of speech) and no interference from corporations (since they destroy all competition if they are allowed to/the Leviathan).
To understand the elite Marxist goals (and we are in a socialized nation now), just google “Fichte, “snow is black” 1810 quote.....and read Socrates who stated that government will only make slaves of the people if allowed to “educate”. Read Machiavelli—who states that those in power are corrupted almost always. You think the CEOs of Big Pharma are “good” ????? LOL They are Lucifereans at best and probably buying baby parts from PP. Why do you think we allow “abortions” (killing babies) in this nation?
You’re exactly on the money.
I am always stunned by alleged small government conservatives who villify and viciously attack parents who question vaccine safety. Even the mention of it makes some people turn into foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics. Why is that??? Hmmmm
True, but did you notice that the “foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics” haven’t really shown up yet? Could it be because it's Trump that is doing the questioning? Hmmmm
Maybe so, but there are plenty of research papers that do that.
I’d worry that an editor or a reviewer might OK such a paper just to get the $100K.
Good point - but there may still be much we don’t know about how the accumulation affects developing systems - no science is ever really settled. What damage for keeping on studying with intent of doing most good with least harm?
Opioid Overdose Statistics: As Clear as Mud
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/12/17/opioid-overdose-statistics-as-clear-as-mud?rq=pain%20statistics
This is another area of misinformation.
Not just vaccines, but any drug the FDA has flagged or black boxed or both. OP drugs are very dangerous. Reglan, Nexium, both are short term black boxed drugs. Lyrica, Neurotin, Cymbalta, more addictive and side effect riddled than NORCO. and many more. They hide the deaths from them in the death stats from hip fracture complications. You can’t find them. Same goes for Chronic Pain Patients who commit suicide because the CDC has restricted pain meds. That is the the only treatment for many incurable diseases or conditions.
It shows how corrupt and dark the vaccination industry is.
I applaud Hollywood celebrities that use their fame to help enlighten the truth.
And just in case the human immune system were to start binding and excreting the harmful Hg with Glutathione, oops Monsanto’s Roundup interferes with the production of Glutathione by substitution of Glyphosate for Glycine in the assembly of Glutathione.
So once a severe exposure to Hg has occurred, the human body cannot get it out. Hg suppresses the immune system. Parasites and pathogens flourish, autistic symptoms begin to manifest.
As well as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue, lyme, the list goes on.
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