[NVIC] Voices for Hiding Vaccine Risks: Follow the $$

August 7, 2008

Voices for Hiding Vaccine Risks: Follow the $$

By Barbara Loe Fisher

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When it comes to hiding vaccine risks from

the people, all you have to do is " follow the

money " to find out who has always done it the

best. There are a number of influential

non-profit organizations such as the American

Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Every Child by Two,

and Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) that have

been funded by drug companies selling vaccines

and/or have been paid by federal agencies using

taxpayer dollars to push vaccine use.

On July 25, CBS News reported on some of

the financial ties between vaccine manufacturers

and non-profit organizations or individuals

(i.e., rotavirus vaccine patent holder

Offit, M.D.) who are aggressively promoting

vaccination and refusing to acknowledge vaccine

risks. The report infuriated a new " non-profit "

organization, Voices for Vaccines, that demanded

CBS News retract its story and " apologize " for

informing the public about the money connection

between the pharmaceutical industry and

individuals and organizations urging people to

buy and use vaccines. On August 1, CBS News

issued a statement defending the public's right to know:

" Our report last Friday represents one

part of the extensive reporting CBS News has

done, and will continue to do, on the issues

surrounding vaccines and possible links to

autism. That continuing coverage has repeatedly

reported on the critical importance of the

nation's maintaining a robust vaccination program

for children. Reporting on what critics,

including members of Congress, believe to be

potential conflicts of interest for vaccine

advocates who receive funding from vaccine makers

is also an entirely legitimate aspect of our

overall coverage. We believe our report was in no

way defamatory of any institution or individual,

and that no retraction is warranted. "

While parents are doing their own research

so they can make educated vaccine choices for

their children that minimize vaccine risks,

celebrities questioning vaccine safety such as

McCarthy are being challenged by

celebrities defending vaccine safety such as

Peet, Yesterday, Peet became the celebrity

spokesperson for Every Child by Two.

When you connect the dots in a " Follow the

Vaccine Money " exercise, you don't have to look

very far to see who is paying who to promote

unquestioning faith in the safety of vaccines and

one- size-fits-all vaccine policies. It takes a

lot of money for the drug companies and their

allies to persuade parents that it is necessary

to pump 69 doses of 16 vaccines into children

from birth to age 18 to keep them healthy.

Here are some of the major players:

• The Center, founded in 1984 by

Jimmy and lyn is affiliated with Emory

University and sponsors vaccination programs

funded by drug companies and operated by former

employees of the CDC. (lyn co- founded

Every Child by Two with Betty Bumpers in 1991

with funding from vaccine manufacturers.) Several

vaccine manufacturers have donated more than $1 million to the Center.

• The International Task Force for Disease

Eradication is sponsored by the Center and

operates programs that are funded by vaccine

manufacturers (see " Health Program Partners " at )

and directed by present and former CDC officials

for the purpose of eradicating infectious

diseases including polio, mumps and rubella through mass vaccination programs.

• The Center is a partner with the

Task Force for Child Survival and Development,

which sponsors programs funded by vaccine

manufacturers and directed by former CDC

officials such as Foege, M.D., M.P.H. and Alan Hinman, M.D., M.P.H.

• The Task Force for Child Survival and

Development is sponsoring Voices for Vaccines,

which has a Steering Committee composed of

individuals employed by an affiliate of the

Center or Every Child by Two and

non-profit organizations, many of whom receive

funding from vaccine manufacturers such as the

American Academy of Family Physicians and

Immunization Action Coalition and P-Kids and Families Fighting Flu.

These are only some of the major players

keeping the Vaccine Machine up and running

smoothly in the U.S. It is a machine powered by a

national and international web of individuals

working for and with major pharmaceutical

corporations, government health agencies,

non-profit medical organizations, world banks,

the World Health Organization and wealthy

philanthropic foundations such as the Bill and

Melinda Gates Foundation to make sure that people

in every country continue to purchase and use

many vaccines without thinking about it.

The public health program that began with

a mandate to eradicate smallpox from the earth

using smallpox vaccine has turned into a

lucrative ATM for the drug companies. It provides

a kind of money laundering scheme for

" non-profits " who pretend to be free from

conflicts of interest with an industry whose

products they are hawking. It has also become a

money pit for the American taxpayer feeding the

insatiable Vaccine Machine creating hundreds of

new vaccines being tested in more than 2,000

clinical trials that will no doubt be candidates for future vaccine mandates.

Peet, who is being coached by

doctors to tell parents to " trust the doctors, "

has learned her lines well but neither she nor

McCarthy will ultimately decide the fate of

the vaccine safety and informed consent movement

begun by parents of vaccine injured children in

1982. Because what is at stake is not the outcome

of a Hollywood celebrity face- off but the

ability of the American people to free themselves

from the tyranny of the " medical experts " who

have betrayed the public trust by failing to do

their job. (See article Peet Heads " Campaign

Urging Vaccinations For Kids " , below under PUBLIC HEALTH.- ed.)

For nearly three decades, before and after

passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury

Act of 1986, parents have been calling on doctors

in charge of the mass vaccination system to find

out how and why vaccines injure and kill some

children. We have been asking doctors to give us

a good explanation for why so many of our highly

vaccinated children are so chronically ill with 1

in 6 becoming learning disabled; 1 in 9 suffering

with asthma and 1 in 150 developing autism. And

the only explanation we get or action we have

seen is doctors and government health agencies

sticking their heads in the sand and twisting

themselves into pretzels yelling " it's a

coincidence " every time a child regresses into

chronic poor health after vaccination.

The last thing we need to do is return to

the dark ages when we allowed ourselves to be

treated like the infants whose lives we entrusted

without question to paternalistic pediatricians

patting us on the head. You don't have to have an

M.D. or Ph.D. written after your name to become

an informed health care consumer and weigh the

benefits and risks of vaccination in order to

make an intelligent, well considered vaccine

decision for your child or yourself.

Unquestioning faith belongs in a church and not in a doctor's office.

" Tonight, on the

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Evening News, we dig into the allegations of

financial conflicts of interest among some

widely-quoted " independent " voices in the debates

over vaccine safety. We weren't as lucky as

Grassley: The groups we approached refused to

provide us with a full accounting of their

financial relationships. Although two of the

groups receive tax benefits for their non-profit

status, they are not required to file such

details with the IRS and would not provide them

to us, either. In the case of a prominent vaccine

specialist who is routinely offered up as an

" independent " voice to speak on vaccine safety,

he, too, was unwilling to disclose to us how much

remuneration he's received from the vaccine

industry. And the vaccine companies we asked?

They said they would not, or could not give such

information as: financial support they give to

educational institutions, physicians and research

projects; a list of outside physicians who are on

the payroll as researchers, speakers, advisors or

consultants; and an accounting of funding

provided to non-profits, medical organizations

and government entities such as IOM, NIH, CDC and

FDA. " - Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News Blog (June 25,

2008)

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" The vaccine industry gives millions to the

Academy of Pediatrics for conferences, grants,

medical education classes and even helped build

their headquarters.... Every Child By Two, a

group that promotes early immunization for all

children, admits the group takes money from the

vaccine industry, too - but wouldn't tell us how

much. A spokesman told CBS News: " There are

simply no conflicts to be unearthed. " But guess

who's listed as the group's treasurers? Officials

from Wyeth and a paid advisor to big

pharmaceutical clients. Then there's Offit,

perhaps the most widely-quoted defender of

vaccine safety. He's gone so far as to say babies

can tolerate " 10,000 vaccines at once. " This is

how Offit described himself in a previous

interview: " I'm the chief of infectious disease

at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a

professor of pediatrics at Penn's medical

school, " he said. Offit was not willing to be

interviewed on this subject but like others in

this CBS News investigation, he has strong

industry ties. In fact, he's a vaccine industry

insider. Offit holds in a $1.5 million dollar

research chair at Children's Hospital, funded by

Merck. He holds the patent on an anti- diarrhea

vaccine he developed with Merck, Rotateq, which

has prevented thousands of hospitalizations. And

future royalties for the vaccine were just sold

for $182 million cash. Dr. Offit's share of

vaccine profits? Unknown. " - Sharyl Attkisson,

CBS News (June 25, 2008)

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bsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/cbsnews_investigate s/main4296175.shtml

" Voices For Vaccines objects to the defamatory

allegations made by the CBS Evening News on

Friday, July 25, against the American Academy of

Pediatrics, Every Child By Two, and the Vaccine

Education Center at the Children's Hospital of

Philadelphia, with our colleague Dr. Offit

singled out for baseless criticism. It is our

privilege to partner with these institutions in

our mission to disseminate reliable information

about vaccines. These groups advocate for

immunization based on the overwhelming evidence

for the lifesaving power of vaccination, and

motivated by a sincere concern for the health of

America's children. It is preposterous and deeply

offensive for CBS to suggest otherwise by

insinuating that the pharmaceutical industry

improperly influences the views of these vaccine

advocate.... An obvious starting point for an

unbiased reporter assigned to investigate this

possibility would have been to determine whether

the advocates' recommendations were in accord

with the scientific consensus on immunization, as

articulated by neutral bodies such as the World

Health Organization and the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention..... " - Randall,

Voices for Vaccines letter to CBS (July 31, 2008)

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" The new " Vaccinate Your Baby " campaign will

address misperceptions about vaccines that cause

confusion among parents and put children at risk.

" When I was pregnant with my daughter ie, I

had all kinds of questions, including ones about

immunization, " said Ms. Peet. " There is a wealth

of misinformation about vaccines out there,

particularly in Hollywood. My husband and I took

the time to speak to several doctors about our

concerns. What became clear to us was that

delaying vaccines could jeopardize our baby's

life. I have teamed up with Every Child By Two to

help parents get the facts straight on this very

important issue. " Ms. Peet added, " My main

message to parents is that they should not be

taking medical advice from me or any other

celebrity. They should look to their

pediatrician, the AAP and other experts. " - Every

Child by Two Press Release (August 5, 2008)

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Voices for Hiding Vaccine Risks: Follow the $

by Barbara Loe Fisher

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UpBeCounted.org

When it comes to hiding vaccine risks from the

people, all you have to do is " follow the money "

to find out who has always done it the best.

There are a number of influential non-profit

organizations such as the American Academy of

Pediatrics (AAP), Every Child by Two, and

Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) that have

been funded by drug companies selling vaccines

and/or have been paid by federal agencies using

taxpayer dollars to push vaccine use.

On July 25,

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News reported on some of the financial ties

between vaccine manufacturers and non-profit

organizations or individuals (i.e., rotavirus

vaccine patent holder Offit, M.D.) who are

aggressively promoting vaccination and refusing

to acknowledge vaccine risks. The report

infuriated a new " non-profit " organization,

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for Vaccines, that demanded CBS News retract its

story and " apologize " for informing the public

about the money connection between the

pharmaceutical industry and individuals and

organizations urging people to buy and use

vaccines. On August 1, CBS News issued a

statement defending the public's right to know:

" Our report last Friday represents one part of

the extensive reporting CBS News has done, and

will continue to do, on the issues surrounding

vaccines and possible links to autism. That

continuing coverage has repeatedly reported on

the critical importance of the nation's

maintaining a robust vaccination program for

children. Reporting on what critics, including

members of Congress, believe to be potential

conflicts of interest for vaccine advocates who

receive funding from vaccine makers is also an

entirely legitimate aspect of our overall

coverage. We believe our report was in no way

defamatory of any institution or individual, and

that no retraction is warranted. "

While parents are doing their own research so

they can make educated vaccine choices for their

children that minimize vaccine risks, celebrities

questioning vaccine safety such as McCarthy

are being challenged by celebrities defending

vaccine safety such as

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Peet, Yesterday, Peet became the celebrity

spokesperson for

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Child by Two.

When you connect the dots in a " Follow the

Vaccine Money " exercise, you don't have to look

very far to see who is paying who to promote

unquestioning faith in the safety of vaccines and

one- size-fits-all vaccine policies. It takes a

lot of money for the drug companies and their

allies to persuade parents that it is necessary

to pump 69 doses of 16 vaccines into children

from birth to age 18 to keep them healthy.

Here are some of the major players:

* The Center, founded in 1984 by Jimmy and

lyn is affiliated with

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University and sponsors vaccination programs

funded by drug companies and operated by former

employees of the CDC. (lyn co- founded

Every Child by Two with Betty Bumpers in 1991

with funding from vaccine manufacturers.) Several

vaccine manufacturers have donated

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than $1 million to the Center.

* The International Task Force for Disease

Eradication is sponsored by the Center and

operates programs that are

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by vaccine manufacturers (see " Health Program

Partners " at ) and directed by present and former

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officials for the purpose of eradicating

infectious diseases including polio, mumps and

rubella through mass vaccination programs.

* The Center is a partner with the

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