(Applause)

Amy Holmes (Blaze TV):  “As a political matter, it seemed like a lot of ‘gotcha’ politics trying to make Governor Christie and Senator Paul look like kooks or anti-science.  . . . states set vaccine policy, and 48 states out of 50 allow parents to opt out for religious reasons and 20 states allow parents to opt out for philosophical reasons, including California.  Although that may change.  I’m not saying we should be praying in the church of Jenny McCarthy.  I think that she’s been incredibly irresponsible and I think responsible parents would vaccinate their children, particularly for measles. . . .”

John McCormack (Weekly Standard): “Rand Paul did go really off the wall this week when he said he’s known people who said they had profound mental disorders after getting vaccinated.  And we know the science is clear on this: Vaccines do not cause autism. They are not risky medical procedures.  They work.  Everyone should get their kids vaccinated. . .

“I think the media coverage was ridiculous in making this a Republican problem, because if you really look closely at it, it’s more of a liberal problem.  Hollywood, Berkley, there are communities where 50 percent of the kids are not vaccinated.  And when you get to that point, I think you really do need to look at limiting or at least narrowing these exemptions.  When Christie said there should be balance, that’s what 48 states basically have. . . . But when things get that low, I think you really have to look at getting rid of these exemptions, or at least narrowing them.” . . .

Maher pointed out that the science is often not clear when it comes to medicine:“They’ve had to retract a million things because the human body is infinitely more mysterious.  People get cancer and doctors just don’t know why.  They just don’t know why and they don’t know how to fix it.  They put mercury in my teeth.  I remember my father had ulcers and they treated it wrong, when I was a kid.  Thalidomide.  I could go on about all the times they have been wrong. . . “

McCormack: “I would say there are no serious professors who are vaccine skeptics out there, that I have seen.”

Maher:“Even if we agree, and we pretty much do, that vaccines are pretty much safe, and they certainly are effective, . . .  Can you do too much of a good thing?  America loves to do that. We certainly went overboard with antibiotics. To the point where we’re going to live in an age where they don’t work. …

“In 1983 they gave a third of what they give now.  Is it limitless? Are there no amount that is too much?”

Williamson: “…It’s a matter of degree.  …All of a sudden we’re taking all of them together in one shot.  That’s’ why people are talking about staggering them.  So absolutely. …I think there’s a skepticism which is actually healthy on this issue of vaccinations.  But on this one, the facts are in about measles being eradicated.  We need to get our kids vaccinated.” 

Maher: “We compartmentalize things.  They do very specific studies: Vaccines and autism.  Okay, I accept that.  There have been no long term studies about groups of people who get a lot of vaccinations, vs groups of people who don’t.  I’m not so sure that people who get a lot of them have as robust an immune system.  And there’s an awful lot of maladies that we didn’t used to have, or have now in much greater numbers: allergies and a lot more colds, and ear infections, and asthma, and autoimmune disorders, and chronic fatigue. . . 

“I’m not saying that vaccines caused them, I’m saying I think there’s a lot of environmental factors that cause this …  And if your immune system is up to par—and when you don’t use your immune system—“

Holmes: “I think the science is in when it comes to measles vaccination. . . . Yes, I think we should have skepticism over these things, but we also have to look at the public health.  Look at the research and make responsible decisions.”

Maher: “…I made a list just off the top of my head, where I don’t agree with the medical establishment. 

 . . . I’ve never heard of a doctor asking anybody . . . What do you eat?  ….What do you eat?—The thing that is perhaps most influential in whatever may be wrong with us. 

. . . The address symptoms and not root causes.

. . . They’re okay with things like aspartame.

. . . GMOs.  I remember five years ago, if you said, ‘I don’t eat GMOs, you were a nut.’  Well there’s a lot of nuts now. . . .

. . . They overdid antibiotics . . . Not one country in the world does nearly the amount of surgery we do. . . .

 . .  Monsanto.  The ex-Monsanto officers are in our government.  There’s a revolving door going on there.   . . .”

They all agreed, there’s a lot we don’t know.  . . . McCormick defended GMOs for stopping world hunger. “What studies show GMOs are harmful?”

Maher: “If there’s one company I don’t trust above all, it’s Monsanto.”

(Applause) . . .

An open letter to Bill Maher

(and Marianne Williamson, Amy Holmes and John McCormack, the guests on his show):

I listened intently to all your comments about the measles outbreak and non-vaccinating parents, and it’s clear to me at least why discussions like this do nothing to address this controversy.

First of all, every one of the panelist was in agreement that we needed to vaccinate to stop outbreaks of measles.  Everyone was adamant that the MMR vaccine is safe. 

Although there was skepticism of big government and industry, the guests were sure the science is in on vaccine safety.  WHY?

Not one person here asked: Who funded the science?  What were the conflicts of interest of the researchers whose study showed vaccines are safe?  Would it bother any of you to know that the FDA allows vaccine makers to do their own safety studies?  Does it raise questions in anyone’s mind that the Centers for Disease and Prevention is not an INDEPENDENT AGENCY?  Hundreds of individuals who work there also have conflict of interest waivers because they have direct financial ties to the vaccine makers–the industry they’re supposed to be overseeing.  The last head of the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding, a longtime denier of any link between vaccines and autism, is now head of the vaccine division at Merck.

John McCormack said, “Everyone should get their kids vaccinated.”   Can anyone imagine a single medical product in the world that would be safe for every child? 

Has anyone on the panel looked at the ingredients in a vaccine?  There is a whole list of chemicals, many of them known toxins. 

McCormack failed to mention that no one has any liability for vaccine injury.  We have a situation where the government mandates a product and no one can be held responsible if there’s a vaccine reaction. 

McCormack said, “There are no serious professors who are vaccine skeptics out there.”  Has he even looked?  There are now several hundred studies from well-credentialed researchers at leading universities whose work does raise serious concerns about vaccine side effects. 

McCormack was adamant there is no link to autism. 

Then why has the U.S. government compensated over 80 cases of vaccine injury that included autism?  Is McCormack aware that in 2008 it was revealed that medical experts at HHS conceded the claim of vaccine-induced autism in the case of the young Georgia girl, Hannah Poling, and they compensated her millions of dollars over her lifetime.

 Bill Maher mentioned mercury in his teeth.

Has anyone looked here the book, Thimerosal, Let the Science Speak, by Robert Kennedy, Jr.  This book is about the use of mercury in vaccines and it was demonized in the media BEFORE it was even out by people who were unwilling to actually look at the science and talk to the scientists included in the book.

I want to thank Bill Maher for asking the questions we all should be asking:

Are more and more and more vaccines really good for our kids?

Is it a concern to anyone on the panel that we’ve tripled the vaccination schedule since 1983 without a single study of the cumulative effect of so many vaccines so soon on the health of our children?

What is happening to our immune system? 

And someone should ask about the fact we have the most vaccinated kids on the planet–but they’re not healthy.  Studies have shown that half of all U.S. children have at least one chronic health problem.  We never used to have children everywhere with diabetes, bowel disease, seizures, autism, learning problems, sleep disorders, asthma, and life-threatening allergies.

Where is a comparison study of vaccinated and unvaccinated children?

Everyone is complaining about parents not vaccinating.  Let’s study this group of children.  Why has there never been a study comparing the health outcomes of fully vaccinated and never vaccinated children.  The study group is out there.  The government does retrospective studies like this all the time, but they refuse to call for one to settle the most heated controversy in medicine: IS AN UNSAFE, UNCHECKED VACCINE SCHEDULE MAKING OUR CHILDREN SICK AND DISABLED?  IF never vaccinated children also have an autism rate of one in 68, along with high rates of chronic health problems, the debate would be over.  We could look somewhere else. We would know that vaccines are truly safe.

Maher: “If there’s one company I don’t trust above all, it’s Monsanto.”

Bill Maher should be very interested in the connection between the use of Monsanto’s Roundup, aluminum in vaccines and all our sick kids.

Vaccines and Monsanto’s RoundUp Cause Autism: MIT Scientist Exposes Consequence of Glyphosate and Aluminum Cocktail

Here’s my interview with Dr. Seneff about it….

Dr. Stephanie Seneff

All those educated parents in California who don’t vaccinate know exactly what’s wrong with discussions like the one on Real Time.  This is the problem: Everyone is in agreement that vaccines work and are safe for every child. They love to tell us all THE SCIENCE is in.

 It’s really not about “the science”–it’s about “their science”–industry funded

Let’s have an open and educated discussion about vaccine safety–FOR ONCE.

Sincerely,

Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism

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Anne Dachel is Media Editor for Age of Autism and author of  The Big Autism Cover-Up: How and Why the Media Is Lying to the American Public, which is on sale now from Skyhorse Publishing.