Kennedy on the Media: Quotes from Press Conference
By Anne Dachel
At his press conference, Robert Kennedy Jr offered a $100K challenge to members of the media:
“We know journalists don’t want to look into the science, so we are going to offer a one hundred thousand dollar reward—It’s called the 100K Challenge—to any journalist or anybody else who can point to a single existing study that says it’s safe to inject mercury into little babies or pregnant women at the levels we are currently injecting them in the flu vaccine. …
“[CDC] says that the methyl mercury in fish is more persistent in the body and more toxic than the ethyl mercury in vaccines. …
“CDC’s own scientists last month published a massive data review and literature review that proved that claim to be a hoax. Where CDC is now acknowledging through its own scientists that the ethyl mercury in vaccines may be fifty times as toxic to the brain as the methyl mercury in fish and twice as persistent in the body.
“Yet that study…got zero coverage in the mainstream press. Democracy requires checks and balances. One of the first things that journalists learn when they go to journalism school is that people in power lie. People in authority lie and it’s the job of journalists to check them. You can’t just take their word on stuff. …
“The pharmaceutical industry has paid eight billion dollars out in recent years for pharmaceutical drugs, for lying, for doing off-label marketing, for doing adulteration, for doing all kinds of bad things with their pharmaceuticals.
“What makes you think they wouldn’t do the same thing with vaccines?
“Congress receives more money from the pharmaceutical lobby …there are more lobbyists on Capitol Hill from pharma than there are congressmen and senators combined. …So they bought up Congress, they own the regulatory agency which is an arm of the industry. These are the institutions that are supposed to be standing between a rapacious industry and our little children. …
“…No matter how grievous your child is injured, you cannot sue [the vaccine makers]. So there is no discovery, there’s no document searches, no depositions, there’s no class action suits.
“So what is the last institution left that is still standing between our kids and that industry? It’s the press, and of course the press is going to tell the truth.
“But no, for some reason the press has been co-opted.
“Pharma is now the single biggest contributor to network news divisions. Up to $5.4 billion a year.
“You look at a network news broadcast these days and it’s just a vehicle for selling pharmaceutical products.
“And I was told by the president of one of the biggest networks in this country that he was sympathetic with what I was asking, which was to go on TV and talk about this issue, he believed I was right, but he could not allow me on his network, because he said that he would have to fire any host who allowed me on.
“And it’s not just mainstream media that’s accepting all this money, …the so called alternate press which is supposed to be the antidote to corporate control of our media: Salon, Slate, Huff Post, Daily Beast—they won’t run any kind of debate or criticism of this issue. There’s something wrong with that in a democracy—that the press, which is the final readout for public scrutiny of institutions and industry, has been completely removed from this debate.
“You cannot go on TV and talk about this, you cannot go to the press. You will be maligned, you will be marginalized as ‘anti-vax.’ This week, the British Medical Journal editors finally had enough, and they put down their foot and they said that word ‘anti-vax’ is a dirty word, and it’s used to shut people up on a debate that we should be having. Journalists need to stop doing that, and they need people to start talking about them.
“The reason people stop vaccinating is because their child was injured or they’ve lost faith in the program, and without journalistic scrutiny—journalistic scrutiny is required to make sure that this industry and this regulatory agency serve the public interest. And if you remove your scrutiny, and your editors tell you, you cannot play this story, it’s not making our vaccine program stronger. It’s making it weaker. It’s gutting it out because …This industry, if you suddenly remove scrutiny, is not going to come to Jesus and find that it’s time to start telling the truth. You can’t imagine that that would happen. …
“I’m called ‘anti-vaccine’ in every article written about me, but I’ve never ever made a single statement that could justify that label.
“I want to get mercury out of the vaccines.
“For thirty-three years I’ve been working to get mercury out of fish. Nobody has ever called me ‘anti-fish.’ Because I want to get mercury out of vaccines, I should not be called ‘anti-vaccine.’
“The reason I’m called that is because journalists want to make this a binary argument. They want to say either you’re either pro-vaccine, or you’re anti-vaccine. There’s nothing in between. There’s nobody like me who’s pro-vaccine, but wants safe vaccines, wants to get mercury out so that our children’s health can be protected. That’s a rational—and it’s shouldn’t be a radical idea. It should be something that is getting support from journalists, and journalists should be talking about it. But they don’t. …"
"I want to get mercury out of the vaccines." LOL
Posted by: Lokman Hossen | March 22, 2017 at 10:49 AM
Ditto your idea of calling them anti-safety Jenna!
Here's a terriffic overview and a must read about the science of vaccine damage for animals-- as written by a respected canine health care activist-- it applies directly to the entire vaccination program for animals and humans alike. The observations about the dog behaviors post vaccination are uncannily like the behaviors of damaged children who later receive an ASD label.
http://drcarley.com/Science_of_vaccine_damage.pdf
Posted by: marie | February 18, 2017 at 06:22 PM
And I seen a heading today "Trump is trying to discredit the media" I thought they did a good job of that themselves. Prison Time.
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | February 18, 2017 at 06:21 AM
"In the words of Julie Gerberding to Sanjay Gupta..."
That neither one of them would do a thing to try to stop that chain of events, makes them monsters.
Posted by: Linda1 | February 17, 2017 at 07:22 PM
You're right. After my son was permanently damaged by Merck's MMR I stopped all vaccinations, stopped seeing allopathic physicians, and no longer trust politicians or the media. Screw me once, shame on you , screw me twice shame on me.
Posted by: Kws | February 17, 2017 at 05:40 PM
Kylesmom
In the words of Julie Gerberding to Sanjay Gupta (what George Orwelll might call "a hole in the air"):
“Now, we all know that vaccines can occasionally cause fevers in kids. So if a child was immunized, got a fever, had other complications from the vaccines. And if you’re predisposed with the mitochondrial disorder, it can certainly set off some damage. Some of the symptoms can be symptoms that have characteristics of autism."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/29/hcsg.01.html
Posted by: John Stone | February 17, 2017 at 05:21 PM
I think we should go on the offense, and call them all "anti-safety". Because that is what they are.
Posted by: Jenna | February 17, 2017 at 05:17 PM
The beginning of the lack of trust in mainstream media was the day Julie Gerberding actually admitted that the press was told to stop telling our stories of vaccine injury. The press has only themselves to blame for the fact that, because every parent who saw their child get harmed by a shot but heard the media, their doctors, and the govt insist that what we saw with our own eyes either didn't happen or didn't matter, we stopped listening, we stopped believing, we stopped trusting--AND WE STOPPED VACCINATING.
What I really want to say about them, and what I think about them, and the kind of purgatory I wish for them, is unprintable. I am usually a kind and forgiving person. But the press is complicit in the suffering of hundreds of thousands of children, families, elderly, and adults. The press, many of whom claim to care about women's health care and fertility, is complicit in thousands of tragic miscarriages. The press, many of whom claim to care deeply about the health of children, is complicit in hundreds of thousands of cases of brain damage to toddlers, to infants, to young children, to elderly. The press is complicit, and so are most of the legislature in California who passed SB277. When they see an autistic child, I hope they feel regret and shame, and I hope it motivates them to atone and undo the harm they have done. NOW.
Posted by: Kylesmom | February 17, 2017 at 05:00 PM
http://www.healthnutnews.com/hearing-set-science-teacher-suspended-bringing-vaccine-side-effects-product-info-sheet/
“Unless the Ontario College of Teachers has a change of heart, it appears it is now considered unprofessional for a teacher to ask questions about vaccines in Ontario or if students are properly being informed prior to a medical procedure,” Sullivan says at the conclusion of his letter.
“I plan to continue reading labels and asking questions. And I will be encouraging my students to do the same. To do anything less would be irresponsible, unethical and a violation of our Charter rights and responsibilities.”
Posted by: Hans Litten | February 17, 2017 at 08:34 AM
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/02/neurological-disorders-children-vaccinated-versus-non-vaccinated-kids.html
They are U turning ! But will not make the final leap ! Science is dirty !
More recently, data have emerged indicating an association between the administration of the H1N1 influenza vaccine containing the AS03 adjuvant and the subsequent new onset of narcolepsy in several northern European countries (17, 18). [1] [CJF emphasis
These findings provide preliminary epidemiologic evidence that the onset of some pediatric-onset neuropsychiatric disorders, including AN, OCD, anxiety disorders, and tic disorders, may be temporally related to prior vaccinations. [1]
Posted by: Hans Litten | February 17, 2017 at 07:01 AM
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/02/former-epa-senior-scientist-confirms-fluoride-lowers-childrens-iq.html
A new study published in December of 2016 by the International Society of fluoride Research in New Zealand, entitled, Developmental neurotoxicity of fluoride: a quantitative risk analysis 379 towards establishing a safe daily dose of fluoride for children, concludes that lowered IQ is indeed a risk for children whom consume uncontrollable dosages of fluoride in public water supplies.
The information now available supports a reasonable conclusion that exposure of the developing brain to fluoride should be minimized, and that economic losses associated with lower IQ’s may be quite large. [Source]
Its not just Mercury - RFK - there is a sustained chemical attack going on .
Posted by: Hans Litten | February 17, 2017 at 06:45 AM
" They want to say either you’re either pro-vaccine, or you’re anti-vaccine. There’s nothing in between."
The high priests of the cult of "one-size-fits-all" vaccines .. must vilify anyone who dares question the safety ... necessity ... of a single-vaccine .. such as .. HEP B within hours of an infant's birth .. as being "anti-vaccine" .. PERIOD.
It would be impossible to defend each vaccine on it's own merits .. and .. THEY know it .. their greatest fear is exposing the "junk science" upon which their already wobbling "house of cards" is teetering ..
Ergo .. they simply cannot allow ANYTHING between "pro and anti' vaccine positions.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | February 17, 2017 at 06:32 AM