When Scientific Dishonesty Hurts Public Health
For decades parents have been reporting that their children succumbed to
brain and immune system injuries following thimerosal containing
vaccines as well as after MMR vaccine. For just as long, medical
officials have been denying the validity of these reports, insisting
that the “science is settled” about vaccine safety. Nevertheless
information has continued to leak out casting doubt on the “science is
settled” claim as increasing numbers of parents continue to witness
their children’s health injuries and developmental regression following
vaccination.
We now know that in 2000, a large CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention) study found that indeed,
thimerosal (mercury) containing vaccines do cause tics, attention
deficit disorder, language and speech disorders and neurodevelopmental
delays, and that these original findings were reworked and manipulated
to erase the evidence of damage being done to children. Then there were
the Danish studies commissioned by the CDC to prove once and for all
that autism isn’t caused by mercury containing vaccines or MMR.
Reanalysis of these studies by independent researchers found these
studies were also methodologically flawed and manipulated. In his
article, ‘ Revisiting Denmark – More Rotten Than Ever’, Dr. Brian Hooker
writes, “The studies used to exonerate the use of Thimerosal in
vaccines and other medicines are just plain bad science, and worse -
they are riddled with out-and-out lies.”
And in this article, John Gilmore discusses how US-government financed research in Denmark
fabricated evidence in the studies used to cover-up the role of mercury
in vaccines and MMR vaccine causing autism. “A US government-financed
research group in Denmark lied about the role of the Measles, Mumps and
Rubella (MMR) vaccine in causing autism in a highly-publicized and
influential study, Autism Rate Among Danish Children Reported in A
Population Based Study of Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccination and
Autism. The authors claimed that, “This study provides strong evidence
against the hypothesis that MMR Vaccination causes autism,” even though
the data in the study clearly shows that children who got an MMR vaccine
had a 45% higher rate of full-syndrome autism than children who were
not vaccinated, and a 31% higher rate of less severe forms of autism."
A key player in the vaccine/autism cover-up is Poul Thorsen, principal
investigator on the Danish autism studies, was indicted on 22 counts of
wire fraud and money laundering by a U.S. Federal Grand Jury. As reported by Age of Autism, “Poul Thorsen is the man whose research
is used by the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics), media, public
health establishment and pharma spokespeople like Dr. Paul Offit, Bill
Gates and Dr. Nancy Snyderman to "prove" that there is no connection
between vaccines and autism. He is a fugitive wanted by American
authorities.”
As reported in our August bulletin the latest
vaccine scandal once again involves the CDC and data manipulation in a
study looking at autism rates in black children receiving MMR vaccine. A
top research scientist turned whistleblower expressed deep regret about
his role in helping the CDC hide data which found a much higher risk of
autism in African-American boys injected with MMR vaccine prior to 36
months, confessing, “This is the lowest point in my career, that I went
along with that paper. I have great shame now when I meet families of
kids with autism, because I have been part of the problem.”
The response from health officials and media on the manipulation of
vaccine safety research? A deafening silence in lock step with the
strict media blackout on news of vaccine risks. CNN’s iReports was one of few media outlets that allowed news of the
whistleblower story to be posted on its website. Three CNN anchors sought to dismiss all concern that vaccines could be unsafe or cause
autism – one of them saying condescendingly, “Autism is not a side
effect of vaccines or to say it another way because some people don’t
hear this well, vaccines do not cause autism.” This triggered the
‘Hear This Well’ response
- a powerful and moving tidal wave of families giving their videotaped
testimonials on how vaccines have injured their children who then
regressed into autistim.
In his most recent article, Lawrence Solomon picks up the thread of the recent CDC whistleblower
story as well as one that’s been percolating on the back burner for a
while. Two former Merck scientists have accused Merck of altering and
manipulating data on the mumps portion of the MMR vaccine. Pharma giant
Merck owns a monopoly on the MMR vaccine in North America and is now
charged in the U.S. federal court for having "fraudulently misled the
government and omitted, concealed, and adulterated material information
regarding the efficacy of its mumps vaccine in violation of the FCA
[False Claims Act]."
In contemplating the disturbing history of government and pharma
manipulation of vaccine safety research and coverup of vaccine risks, it
should be of great interest to all families concerned about the impact
of vaccines on children’s health to learn of Dr. Theresa Deisher’s
research, lead scientist and founder of
Sound Chice Pharmaceutical Institute. Deisher’s new study in the Journal of Public Health and
Epidemiology, correlates autism disorder increase and human fetal DNA, retroviral
agents in vaccines. She has found that across decades, and across
continents, ‘change points’ in autism disorders are “clearly associated
with the introduction of vaccines produced using human fetal cell
lines.”
In a Congressional testimony in 2011, Deisher said that
governments around the world have identified clear jumps or “change
points” in the rate of autism diagnoses over the past twenty years, and
in almost every case, the jump coincided with a change in the MMR
vaccine from animal-based production to human fetal cell line production
during the year the new wave of autistic children were born.
“What we have found is that across continents, and across decades,
change points in autism disorder (not considering autism spectrum but
only autism disorder) are clearly associated with the introduction of
vaccines produced using human fetal cell lines,” Deisher said. “Each time we inject our children with one of these vaccines, we are
also injecting them with residual fetal human DNA.”
Even more alarming, said Dr. Theresa Deisher, "Not only are the human
fetal contaminated vaccines associated with autistic disorder throughout
the world, but also with epidemic childhood leukemia and lymphomas."
In North America 10 vaccines are produced using the human cell lines
WI-38 and MRC-5. The FDA has known for decades about the dangers of insertional
mutagenesis by using the human fetal cell lines and yet, they chose to
ignore it. Instead of conducting safety studies they regulated the
amount of human DNA that could be present in a vaccine to no greater
than 10ng.
Dr. Deisher's team discovered that the fetal DNA levels ranged anywhere
from 142ng - 2000ng per dose, way beyond the so-called "safe" level.
Quoted in this article, Dr. Deisher says,
"There are a large number of publications about the presence of HERV
(human endogenous retrovirus - the only re-activatable endogenous
retrovirus) and its association with childhood lymphoma," noted Dr
Deisher. The MMR II and chickenpox vaccines and indeed all vaccines that
are propagated or manufactured using the fetal cell line WI-38 are
contaminated with this retrovirus. And both parents and physicians have a
right to know this!"
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