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Phyllis Schlafly

September 5, 2001

Follow the money on vaccines

It isn't often that a governor vetoes a bill that was passed unanimously by

both Houses of the State Legislature. It reminds us of the old saying of the

mother, watching her son drill for the first time with the troops:

" Everybody's out of step except my son Jim. " This time the one who is out of

step is , as in Gov. of Illinois. He vetoed Senate Bill

1304, entitled " An Act Concerning Immunizations. "

This bill would have provided that a person is ineligible to serve on the

Illinois Immunization Advisory Committee if the person or his spouse is an

officer, employee, or agent of, or has any ownership or other financial

interest in a pharmaceutical company that manufactures vaccines. It also

would have prohibited committee members or their spouses from soliciting or

accepting anything of value or any other economic benefit from a

pharmaceutical company that manufacturers or produces vaccines unless it is

offered and available generally to licensed physicians or the public.

That sounds like an excellent rule and we wonder why it hasn't always been

the law. Those who officially advise government agencies whether or not to

force Americans to submit to vaccines should not be on the payroll of the

corporations that profit from the government mandates.

's veto message states that " Senate Bill 1304 would severely limit the

number of pediatric disease specialists and pediatric physicians in general,

who would be eligible to serve on the Immunization Advisory Committee. " This

amazing statement indicates that it's difficult to find anyone to advise

making vaccines mandatory other than those who are paid in some way by the

corporations selling the vaccines.

This conflict of interest was confirmed by an emotional outburst against

S.1304 from one of the members of the Illinois Immunization Advisory

Committee at its meeting on July 12, 2001. He said, " No infectious disease

specialist will be able to serve on this committee! We all take money from

pharmaceutical companies. "

's veto message acknowledged that Illinois depends on vaccine company

contractors for its vaccine policy-making. Here is what wrote:

" Many physicians with expertise in the field of immunizations and infectious

disease have contractual relationships with pharmaceutical companies with

regards to speaking engagements. Also, many medical schools and academic

centers employ infectious disease specialists that perform research funded

by the pharmaceutical industry. "

So that's how the racket works! " Experts " who are being paid by the vaccine

manufacturers have an official pipeline through which they " advise " the

state government authorities to mandate vaccines. This incestuous

relationship between the pharmaceuticals and governmental bodies is not

unique to Illinois. A hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Government

Reform on June 14, 2000, produced evidence that similar conflicts of

interest are common practice for the federal advisory committees: the FDA's

Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and the CDC's

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Most children entering public school today have been forced to take up to 33

immunizations and more and more vaccines are in line for government mandates

despite widespread controversy over their efficacy and their side effects.

The hepatitis B vaccine is widely administered to newborns while still in

the hospital, even though there is no scientific evidence to justify it

before the age when the child is subject to risk factors, such as sexual

promiscuity or sharing dirty needles. Hepatitis B immunizations have been

associated with 53 deaths and 828 serious injuries, but the yearly incidence

of the hepatitis B disease itself is only 191 among the 38 million children

younger than 10, according to a letter recently published in the Journal of

the American Medical Association.

Furthermore, the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University recently reported

that more than half of the total hepatitis B cases in the United States are

among Asian-Americans. The rate is 70 times greater for Asians than for

whites or Hispanics, and 14 times greater than for blacks.

Another letter in JAMA described the benefits to newborn hepatitis B

immunization: (1) It is too confusing to just vaccinate those who need it;

(2) there are some (very rare) cases of young kids at risk; (3) it gets all

the kids on the vaccine schedule right away; and (4) it is easier to get to

babies than adolescents. You don't need to be an " expert " to understand that

those are mighty poor reasons to vaccinate all newborns.

It looks like the manufacturers have figured out that they can't make big

money selling their hepatitis B vaccine only to those at risk for the

disease, so they have managed to get the vaccine administered routinely to

all newborns. Vaccine advisory committees should not be beholden to the drug

makers.

©2001 Copley News Service

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