Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

by Sharyl Attkisson

By definition, they weren’t “anti-vaxxers.” They vaccinated their children.

All medicine has side effects. But in today’s manipulated information landscape, efforts to learn the most about side effects of vaccines, products given multiple times to virtually every American, are actively discouraged. We’re made to think that questions are not even to be raised. This is the antithesis of good science and public health.

Also, please note that due to a broad misinformation campaign, if you google these topics, you’ll be bombarded by “fact-checks,” news articles, and medical citations that “debunk” the truth.

caused seizures and brain injuries in some children, according to medical testimony and scientists.

“the balance of evidence is consistent with a causal relation between DPT” and brain damage.

In fact, there are no public studies showing the cumulative, real-world impact of the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccine schedule on any individual.

“Most vaccine-related research focuses on the outcomes of single immunizations or combinations of vaccines administered at a single visit,” wrote an IOM committee. “Thus, key elements of the entire schedule—the number, frequency, timing, order, and age at administration of vaccines—have not been systematically examined in research studies.”

Billions upon billions of tax dollars are spent on research, but not a penny to study the exposure nearly every American baby gets.

Vaccine Court:

America’s stunning spike in autism cases directly coincides with the dramatic uptick in childhood vaccines.

studies and court cases today document many links between vaccines and instances of autism, both suspected and firmly proven.

He is fiercely pro-vaccine. Yet, after becoming intricately familiar with many vaccine injury cases, he’s also a thoughtful realist in terms of the damage they can do.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), by May 2010 more than half of vaccine injury awards were given for brain injuries. Here’s how the numbers broke down: Number of Brain Injury Cases Compensated in Federal Vaccine Court 639 Encephalitis or Encephalopathy 656 Seizure Disorders 1,295 Total

But the government told me it could not answer the crucial question: How many of those brain damage cases involve children who also ended up with autism,

Inexplicably, the government isn’t tracking that data.

they acknowledge that vaccines can cause brain damage, including autism. Yet the vaccine court and government seem to claim some sort of technical loophole to deny claims when they specifically mention an autism diagnosis.

The vaccine court has a self-selected population of thousands of ready and willing study subjects just waiting to be examined. To look at this wealth of data and let it go unmined makes no logical sense unless you don’t really want to find answers.

volumes. Read more on the topic here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vaccines-autism-and-brain-damage-whats-in-a-name/

You might also see wordsmithing that states a particular vaccine “no longer contains thimerosal as a preservative [emphasis added].” Most would infer that to mean the vaccine is thimerosal-free. Yet it might contain thimerosal left over from the manufacturing process. Just not as a preservative. If your child has a peanut allergy, would it be okay for products that may contain small amounts of peanut dust to be labeled in a way that implies there isn’t any?

Tracking down the truth about thimerosal amid a sea of propaganda shows how difficult it can be to find unbiased, straight facts on important health controversies. Government and establishment medicine websites generally promote a singular view without fairly acknowledging opposing studies or research except to dismiss them. Everything they publish is designed to persuade you that thimerosal is safe, while they paradoxically devote quite a bit of ink to explaining how they’ve been working for decades to eliminate it from all vaccines anyway.

“Autism” Listed on Vaccine Warning Label: The DTaP shot, or diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine known as Tripedia, listed “autism” as a reported adverse event on its package insert. It was right there, plain and simple, in black and white, on the label, at the very time when vaccine interests were insisting that it was a “debunked conspiracy theory.” When vaccine safety advocates discovered the autism mention and began publicizing it, the Internet began to fill with “fact checks” to undermine it. Some of the fact checkers falsely claimed “autism” simply wasn’t on any vaccine labels. Others said the listing of “autism” under adverse events should be disregarded as a big mistake—that it was included in error only because some misguided parents reported it. If you understand even a little about the review process drugmakers go through to add a single word to their warnings, you’d know how silly that claim is. Interestingly, the Tripedia shot was discontinued in 2013. Not long ago, you could still easily find the Tripedia package insert and the “autism” mention on the FDA’s website, but it now seems to have been wiped. You can find it archived at the link below.

Read the vaccine package insert mentioning “autism” here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/7993/20170112211659/http:/www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM101580.pdf

CDC “Cover-up”: In 2014, a CDC senior scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that he and his CDC colleagues had conspire...

He further claimed that he and his CDC study partners “scheduled a meeting to destroy docum...

Watch Representative Bill Posey’s statement on Dr. Thompson’s testimony: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4554834/user-clip-rep-bill-posey-cdc-whistleblower

Read more, and listen to the interview with Dr. DeStefano at this link: https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/12/cdc-possibility-that-vaccines-rarely-trigger-autism/

it might surprise you to learn that, as government scientists later explained to me, no definitive study had ever proven that flu shots even work!

Honest, top government scientists who later ended up revealing the truth explained to me that the best studies had long indicated flu shots don’t work. But the medical establishment agreed, as a group, that “the best studies”—had to be wrong.

no matter how they crunched the data or tweaked the stats, they ended up with the same awful truth: as more and more older people got flu shots, more of them died.

they concluded, “We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality [death] rates in any age group . . . we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.” Studies in Italy and other countries found the same problem with flu shots.

I asked a top government vaccine source at the time why they weren’t going to back off flu shots in light of their own study. He told me, “We can’t take flu shots away from the elderly after we’ve spent so many years convincing them they’ll die without them.”

Read the full flu shot study article here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/486407

Polio from Polio Vaccine:

The last cases of polio in the United States were all caused by the oral vaccine.

The first outbreak in the US in years, in New York State in 2022, was from an oral polio vaccine strain, according to the CDC.

The CDC responded to news of the 2022 outbreak by announcing that to try to curb it, the agency is considering restarting controversial oral polio vaccinatio...

Read more on the “vaccine-derived polio outbreak” in New York at this CDC link: https://www.cdc.gov/media...

Read my swine flu investigation here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/swine-flu-cases-overestimated/

ads for prescription drugs used to be banned on TV and are still prohibited in almost every other nation on the globe.

But drug ads were permitted in the US after a fierce lobbying campaign by the pharmaceutical industry.

As a supposed safety measure, drug ads are required to clearly disclose some risks. Yet when it comes to commercials for vaccines, you’ll often see no mention of risks at all! The advertisements leave the false impression that there’s simply no possible downside. I decided to look into how vaccines managed to escape FDA rules that require risks to be disclosed. It turns out vaccine makers are exploiting a type of loophole, and the FDA allows it. Vaccine commercials fall under a conveniently created category the FDA calls “disease awareness ads.” In short, as long as the ads don’t mention a specific brand, such as Pfizer or Merck, they’re considered “educational” and don’t have to tell consumers about any risks. The justification given is that these ads aren’t really pushing a particular medicine. They’re just creating awareness about medical conditions. But critics say it’s a dangerous practice that allows drug companies to promote vaccines in a slanted fashion.

For example, a GlaxoSmithKline TV ad for adult whooping cough vaccine (that doesn’t mention GlaxoSmithKline) doesn’t warn about the vaccine’s links to paralysis and possible heart problems. It also doesn’t mention that 4 percent of patients who get the adult whooping cough vaccine report having serious adverse events within six months.

Despite widespread misreporting that claims otherwise, Dr. Wakefield never alleged in his study that vaccines cause autism, and he didn’t urge parents to reject vaccination. He simply concluded that, based on his research, the topic needed more study.

now vaccine industry interests were working to block the subject from being explored fairly and fully, for fear the public would dare to draw their own conclusions.

They liken the whole controversy to that of the tobacco industry, and the link between smoking and lung cancer that was covered up for so long.

Like many public institutions, Columbia University receives generous funding from the vaccine industry and its allies. I think that helps explain why academic and research leaders like Dr. Lipkin might put themselves in the peculiar role of censoring medical and scientific information.

One of the hardest things to do as a reporter, perhaps as a human, is to admit that something you thought to be true turned out to be wrong—especially

he’s stunned to find credible studies and scientists giving full validity to the vaccine-autism link after being told they don’t exist.

There’s no bigger propaganda feat of my time than the popularization of the invented term “anti-vaccine” in the early 2000s. The propagandists apply it liberally to scientists, journalists, parents—anybody who researches vaccine safety or reports on it with facts that come down on the “wrong” side.

Indisputable facts about vaccine safety can be called anti-vaccine just because of who said them. Even people injured by vaccines are called “anti-vaccine.” When examined academically, the term makes no sense. Obviously, parents can’t be dismissed as “anti-vaccine” for having a child injured by vaccines—they vaccinated their child in the first place! Scientists aren’t “anti-vaccine” simply because they discovered adverse events connected to vaccination.