Transcript - Offit & $$ made - Vaccine Exemptions'? Call Them What They Really Are

[Guest guest]

This way you don't have to look at his arrogant face...........

" Disclosure: A. Offit, MD, is the coinventor of the RotaTeq®

vaccine, but he receives no financial remuneration for sales of the

vaccine from either the manufacturer or his employing

institution.) " - he may not receive money now for his

vaccine, but he certainly did receive money - see here

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/12/counting-offits-millions-more-on-how-mercks-rotateq-vaccine-made-paul-offit-wealthy.html

" Offit, vaccine entrepreneur and public health

spokesperson, has earned approximately $10 million in income from

Rotateq® royalties through 2009 and stands to earn a total of between

$13-35 million over the life of his rotavirus vaccine patents,

" and then later in the article - " Offit now claims that

the one-time payment from CHOP was less than our estimate, revealing to

Amy Wallace of Wired Magazine that CHOP paid him “several million

dollars” and to others that he received “about $6 million.” and

" Based on two crucial new disclosures from Offit, we estimate in a

revised and more detailed analysis that Offit has received and will

continue to receive multiple payments based on Rotateq® licensing

revenue, that he may already have earned $10 million from Rotateq® and

that he stands to earn between $13-35 million over the lifetime of

Rotateq’s key patents " and later " Furthermore, to the extent

that Offit has attempted to create the perception that he only made $6

million from Rotateq®, our analysis shows that he has selectively

withheld information on important additional payments. Our calculations

show that he has likely received $8.4 million in lump sum payments so far

and earned approximately $10 million in total income based on Rotateq®

sales through this year, after including ongoing royalty payments he has

earned based on Rotateq® revenues through year end 2009. " - so what

is the truth here - see whole article above.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/768746

A. Offit, MD

Authors and Disclosures (

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of

Medicine; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital

of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Disclosure: A. Offit, MD, is the coinventor of the RotaTeq® vaccine,

but he receives no financial remuneration for sales of the vaccine from

either the manufacturer or his employing institution.).

Posted: 08/10/2012

Vaccine Exemptions'? Call Them What They Really Are

Hi. My name is Offit. I am talking to you from the

Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of

Philadelphia.

Today I want to talk about an article that recently came out in the

journal Pediatrics, titled " Frequency of Alternative

Immunization Schedule Use in a Metropolitan Area, " by Steve Robison

and colleagues in Portland, Oregon.[1] These authors looked at

the choice by parents to separate, delay, withhold, or space out

vaccinations in the Portland metropolitan area from 2003-2009. They found

a 4-fold increase, from about 2.5% to 10% of parents, who made this

choice during those years. The parents were making this choice because

they could. With this article as background, I thought we would talk

about vaccine exemptions.

There are 3 ways to exempt yourself from vaccines. The first way is a

medical exemption. For example, a person may have a contraindication to

getting a vaccine. Some people are allergic to gelatin. Gelatin is used

as a stabilizer in the chickenpox vaccine and in the nasal spray

influenza vaccine. That would be a reasonable reason not to get a

vaccine.

A second way people can exempt themselves from vaccines are the so-called

philosophical or personal belief exemptions. Twenty states allow that

kind of exemption. I would argue that these exemptions are

misnamed.

First of all, the notion that vaccines are a " philosophy " is

inaccurate. Philo means love, sophos means wisdom. Exactly

where is the wisdom in saying that it is better not to get vaccines than

to get them?

The term " personal belief " is also incorrect in that vaccines

are not a belief system. Religion is a belief system. Religion is a

faith-based system. Science and medicine are evidence-based systems. They

are data-based systems, not beliefs. If you want to feel better about

vaccine use, I think one needs only to look at the roughly 20,000 studies

that have evaluated the safety or efficacy of vaccines, or the hundreds

of studies that have looked at what happens when you combine vaccines and

give them at the same time to feel confident that, in fact, there are

data to support that choice.

The third way one can exempt oneself from vaccines are so-called

religious exemptions. Forty-eight states have them. I would argue this

also does not make a lot of sense.

The first vaccine was Jenner's vaccine in 1796. The New Testament

was written around 100 AD, the Old Testament between 1400 and 400 BC, and

the Qur'an around 600 AD. All those texts were written well before

vaccines existed, so not surprisingly, they never mention or predict

them.

I also would argue that it does not make sense to say, " It is my

religious belief that a child not get a vaccine, " and therefore a

child should be left with less protection under the law. The 14th

Amendment of the Constitution, the so-called Equal Protection Clause,

states that a child or anyone should be equally protected and implies

that this is independent of a parent's belief system. If the child is

exposed to harm, that child should have equal protection. For example, if

a Jehovah's Witness parent says, " I do not want my child to get a

lifesaving blood transfusion, " the parent does not have the freedom

of religion to practice that because of the 14th Amendment.

What is interesting -- and I do not think most people know this -- is

that the 2 states that do not have religious exemptions are Mississippi

and West Virginia, states you would not necessarily pick. The reason

these states do not have a religious exemption is because both states'

Supreme Courts said that it was a violation of the Equal Protection

Clause of the 14th Amendment.

I think we should call these exemptions what they really are. Let's not

sugarcoat this choice. We should call them the " I do not want to get

vaccines because I have read a lot of scary things about vaccines and I

am afraid that they might hurt my child, and I am not so sure I believe

in pharmaceutical companies or the medical establishment or the

government, so I do not want my child to get them " vaccine

exemption. That would be, I think, more honest.

Thanks for your attention.

References

Robison SG, Groom H, Young C. Frequency of alternative immunization

schedule use in a metropolitan area. Pediatrics. 2012;130:32-38.

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I think we should call these exemptions what they really are. Let's not sugarcoat this choice. We should call them the "I do not want to get vaccines because I have read a lot of scary things about vaccines and I am afraid that they might hurt my child, and I am not so sure I believe in pharmaceutical companies or the medical establishment or the government, so I do not want my child to get them" vaccine exemption. That would be, I think, more honestI think we should call these vaccine exemptions what they really are. Let's not sugarcoat this choice. We should call them the "I do not want to get vaccines because my child suffered severe brain damage and systemic poisoning, leaving her profoundly disabled, a fact which I then write about and share with everyone so that other parents can read and know the TRUTH about what vaccines do, and what they DON'T do, which is protect anyone from any disease EVER, and I'm POSITIVE that I don't believe in pharmaceutical companies, most of the medical establishment or the government when it comes to the welfare of my child or anyone else, so my child will NEVER get another vaccine until hell freezes over, and not even then!!" That is definitely more honest, Dr. Slimy-pharma shill-baby murderer -greedy-callous- scumbag PrOffit!