This column by Robert F. Kennedy published it in USA Today as a paid advertisement. WND posts it here in full. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives. Vaccines are big business. High stakes and the seamless marriage between Big Pharma and government agencies have spawned an opaque and crooked regulatory system. CDC recommended five pediatric vaccines when I was a boy in Paul Offit, says that he believes children can take as many as 10, vaccines.

Public health may not be the sole driver of CDC decisions to mandate new vaccines. Four scathing federal studies, including two by Congress , one by the U. Senate, and one by the HHS Inspector General, paint CDC as a cesspool of corruption, mismanagement and dysfunction with alarming conflicts of interest suborning its research, regulatory and policymaking functions. CDC rules allow vaccine industry profiteers like Dr.

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Offit to serve on advisory boards that add new vaccines to the schedule. The same report stated that as many as 64 percent of committee members had potential conflicts of interest that CDC did not identify or resolve before certifying their forms. From this industry sinecure, he broadcasts vaccine industry propaganda and annually publishes books urging unlimited vaccinations and vilifying safe-vaccine advocates. In August , year CDC veteran Dr.

William Thompson, who is author of the principal study cited by CDC to exculpate mercury-preserved vaccines from the autism link, invoked whistleblower protection, and turned extensive agency files over to Congress.

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Thompson, who is still employed at CDC, says that for the past decade his superiors have pressured him and his fellow scientists to lie and manipulate data about the safety of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal to conceal its causative link to a suite of brain injuries, including autism. Thimerosal is 50 percent ethylmercury, which is far more toxic and persistent in the brain than the highly regulated methylmercury in fish.

Hundreds of peer-reviewed studies by leading government and university scientists show that thimerosal is a devastating brain poison linked to neurological disorders now epidemic in American children. The common canard that U. That same year, CDC added flu shots containing massive doses of thimerosal to the pediatric schedule. As a result, children today can get nearly as much mercury exposure as children did from all pediatric vaccines combined in the decade prior to Worse, thimerosal, for the first time, is being given to pregnant women in flu shots.

For example, a CDC study in JAMA Pediatrics shows a 33 percent drop in autism spectrum disorder in Denmark following the removal of thimerosal from Danish vaccines. That paper is among 37 peer-reviewed studies linking thimerosal to the autism epidemic. Thimerosal has precipitated a journalistic as well as a public health crisis. Television and print outlets feature spokespeople like Dr.

Offit — without identifying their industry ties — while censoring criticisms of vaccine safety and excluding the voices of informed vaccine safety advocates.

Busy journalists parrot the deceptive talking points dispensed by government and pharma officials rather than reading the science themselves. The unwillingness of the press to scrutinize CDC has emboldened both industry and agency to follow the lowest paths of easy profit and bureaucratic preservation.

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The measles scare was classic disaster capitalism, with media outlets dutifully stoking public hysteria on editorial pages and throughout the hour broadcast cycle. Offit leading the charge, CDC, drug makers and industry-funded front groups parlayed a garden variety annual measles outbreak into a national tidal wave of state legislation to ban religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions.

The national media frenzy over measles cases left little room for attention to the the autism cataclysm which has debilitated 1 million American children since the pandemic began in , with 27, new cases annually.

By February, state legislators in 36 states were pushing through over new laws to end philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions. Many of those state lawmakers are also on the industry payroll. You can see how much money bill sponsors from your state took from Big Pharma on http: An obliging Congress disposed of the Seventh Amendment right to jury trial, making it impossible for vaccine-injured plaintiffs to sue pharmaceutical companies for selling unsafe vaccines.

No depositions and little financial incentive for the industry to make vaccines safer. Vaccine industry money has neutralized virtually all of the checks and balances that once stood between a rapacious pharmaceutical industry and our children. With the research, regulatory and policymaking agencies captured, the courts closed to the public, the lawyers disarmed, the politicians on retainer and the media subverted, there is no one left to stand between a greedy industry and vulnerable children, except parents.

Ending exemptions is premature until we have a functioning regulatory agency and a transparent process. The best way to insure full vaccine coverage is for the vaccine program to win back public trust by ending its corrupt financial ties with a profit-making industry.

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