Since the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986, Vaccinology, the pharmaceutical industry’s Frankenstein monster, has taken over the public health system. The 1986 Act liberated the pharmaceutical industry from virtually all legal liability for vaccines.

Under the leadership of industry representatives like Dr. Paul Offit, Vaccinology has run amok. Offit, who has made millions on vaccine development, is often relied upon by the main stream media as a Vaccinology spokesperson. Rarely does the media describe him as the same Paul Offit that a was cited for conflicts of interest in a 2000 Congressional report (1) while serving on the federal Advisory Commission for Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Offit routinely speaks at medical conferences, calling vaccine safety advocates conspiracy theorists, calling for the abolition of vaccine exemptions and openly resisting the removal of mercury from vaccines. He seems to have an affinity for promoting the use of toxins whenever possible. He recently blamed famed environmentalist Rachel Carson for millions of malaria deaths in a Daily Beast article (2) because her environmental advocacy resulted in the banning of DDT, a toxic pesticide. Offit makes the claim that malaria rebounded after DDT was banned and millions died as a result. Offit never considers how many deaths the pesticide’s continued use might have caused. He never considers the environmental devastation DDT could cause over decades in the food chain. Instead, he lays millions of deaths at Rachel Carson’s feet and cheers for the return of DDT.

The fear based arguments raised by Offit and those who oppose Trump’s idea for a Commission on Vaccine Safety rely on the belief that their “scientific consensus” is not to be questioned. Like the Men in Black, Vaccinology is not part of the system, it is above the system.

The main stream media stopped asking Vaccinology tough questions years ago. Important scientific articles that show connections between vaccination and neurological injury are simply ignored by the main stream media as Robert F. Kennedy and Lyn Redwood point out in a recent Eco Watch (2) article, New CDC Research Debunks Agency Assertion that Mercury in Vaccines is Safe.

According to Kennedy and Redwood, “The new CDC study, Alkyl Mercury-Induced Toxicity: Multiple Mechanisms of Action, appeared last month in the journal, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. The 45-page meta-review of relevant science examines the various ways that mercury harms the human body. Its authors, John F. Risher, PhD, and Pamela Tucker, MD, are researchers in the CDC's Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.”

In the Eco Watch article, Paul Thomas, M.D., a Dartmouth-trained pediatrician who has been practicing medicine for 30 years, states "This scientific paper is the one of most important pieces of research to come out of the CDC in a decade...It confirms what so many already suspected: that public health officials have been making a terrible mistake in recommending that we expose babies and pregnant women to this neurotoxin. I regret to say that I gave these shots to children. The CDC led us all to believe that it was perfectly safe."

One would think that the main stream media would be calling on Paul Offit to explain why his beliefs differ so glaringly from the mountain of science piling up against the continued use of mercury in vaccines.

No soap.

Vaccinologists, like Offit, are rarely called to task about their assertions that vaccines are without risk. Offit has claimed that a child could get thousands of vaccines at once and that vaccine mercury is benign. These statements go un-challenged while doctors and scientists who question vaccine safety are repeatedly described as dangerous and attacked professionally. Families who report that loved ones have suffered vaccine injuries are often described as irrational and “anti-vaccine.”

No one in their right mind would want to publicly state “I have concerns about vaccine safety” but many do so because they want the issue dragged into the light of day, they want justice for their injured loved ones and they don’t want some other kid to suffer like their kid suffered. The reward for being a citizen who questions vaccine safety is ridicule, derision and sometimes even worse.

And if someone who questions vaccine safety does garner attention, Vaccinology makes sure that they are attacked. Mish Michaels, a science reporter who testified before the Massachusetts’ Legislature on vaccine safety and parental choice was recently fired from WGBH, apparently “for not believing in vaccines” (3). The station let Michaels go after receiving complaints from people aligned with Vaccinology’s beliefs.

Vaccinology is using the same tactic against those who question vaccines that Joseph Mc McCarthy used to fuel the “Red Scare” in the 1950 – fear.

History tells us that fear is often used by those who are afraid. And Vaccinology has a lot to fear from a Presidential Commission.

Vaccinology fears what Dr. William Thompson will say if Robert F. Kennedy puts him under oath.

“Dr. Thompson,” Mr. Kennedy asks, “why did the CDC Vaccine Safety Division scientists throw US government data on the MMR vaccine and autism in a garbage pail?”

Vaccinology fears what Poul Thorsen will say if Kennedy puts him under oath.

“Mr. Thorsen, why did you exclude data from your paper showing that autism rates declined in Denmark after the removal of mercury from vaccines?”

Oh, I forgot, Poul Thorsen can’t appear before the Commission because he is still a wanted man and a fugitive from justice (although living openly in Denmark) for stealing over 1 million dollars in CDC grant money (4). Somehow, the US Department of Justice has been unable to return Thorsen to the US to face justice.

Vaccinology has a lot to fear. The scientific consensus that the Vaccinology belief system relies on to exonerate vaccines in the autism epidemic was constructed on the “science” produced by a wanted felon and a team of CDC scientists who threw the real data about the MMR vaccine and autism in the garbage.

Openness, transparency and public discourse are the enemies of fear. Asking some bureaucrats some tough questions about vaccines will not cause a national crisis or result in bodies in the street. Autism and the all of the other neurological problems facing America’s youth is a national crisis and it is high time that someone be asked tough questions about it.

If vaccines have played a role in the autism epidemic, the truth needs to come out so that children can be protected. If the science of Poul Thorsen and the CDC data sanitation crew somehow exonerates vaccines in the autism epidemic, that needs to laid on the table as well.

Whatever happens, it is time to shine a light on the issues and talk about them. Questioning vaccine safety should not be taboo. And no one should be criticized, ostracized or fired from their jobs for expressing concerns about a government program that requires children to take drugs in the name of public health.

The Presidential Commission on Vaccine Safety – on Vaccinology – becomes more necessary with every whining main stream media story trying to prevent it from happening.

I dedicate this commentary to Dan Olmsted.

Louis Conte is the father of triplet boys, age 17, two with autism. He is the co-author, along with Tony Lyons of “Vaccine Injuries” and a novel, “The Autism War”, both published by Skyhorse. The Autism War will soon be released in paperback.

• http://lizditz.typepad.com/files/conflicts_of_interest_aug_21_2000.pdf
• http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/04/how-rachel-carson-cost-millions-of-people-their-lives.html
• http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/02/08/newly-hired-wgbh-science-reporter-loses-job-over-anti-vaccine-views/thk5uuucpFRivibPehLNPK/story.html
• https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/profiles.asp