Paul Offit's Racial, Sexual and Education Profiling Shocks Many
There's a war on women. It's not #MeToo. It's the pharma/politician/public health machine lead by people like Dr. Paul Offit. Our old friend. (You know the saying.) Read the two paragraphs from a Philadelphia Inquirer article that ran yesterday. It's behind a paywall, I won't bother with the URL. Now read the version I fictionalized below it.
It's open season on women. Where does Offit get off claiming we ALL have "just enough education...." Hey, Paul. My fellow Tufts Jumbo - is your alma mater good enough for me? I went to Tufts and then transferred to Boston College. My Dad was a DMD from Tufts. My Sister attended as did my Uncle and a few cousins. How about that slouch Ginger Taylor. Johns Hopkins! Hell, that's one step below Wassamatta U, right Paul?
The discrimination is blatant. WE ARE THE NEW N WORD. Make no mistake. And by demonizing us and making us look stupid, it's a GREEN LIGHT TO HARM US. Start training. Pay attention. We're approaching real danger.
If you’re against vaccinating your child, there’s a good chance you’re a college-educated white woman making decent money. The rebel forces in America’s latest culture war — the so-called anti-vaxxers — are often described as middle- and upper-class women who breast-feed their children, shop at Whole Foods, endlessly scour the web for vaccine-related conversation, and believe that their thinking supersedes that of doctors. Typically their families earn more than $75,000 a year.
“Frankly, these Caucasian, suburban, educated parents believe they can Google the word vaccine and get as much information as anybody,” said Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.“These people are educated just well enough to make terrible decisions for their children.”
If you’re against teaching your child about police brutality, there’s a good chance you’re a high school drop out, black woman making very little money. The rebel forces in America’s latest culture war — the so-called police brutality preachers — are often described as lower and lower middle class women who eat Popeye's Fried Chicken, shop at WalMart, endlessly scour the TV for police brutality conversation, and believe that their thinking supersedes that of Police Chiefs across the country. Typically their families earn less than $35,000 a year.
“Frankly, these Black, urban, poorly educated parents believe they can Google the word brutality and get as much information as anybody. “These people are educated so badly as to make terrible decisions for their children.”
But nevertheless I think Barry's point is well made. Mr. Offit is not a researcher, just a physician. Physicians in the UK mostly do not have a doctorate, either an MD or a PhD, but are referred to as "doctor" simply out of courtesy. He certainly is not a Pharmacologist and should not have been allowed to concoct vaccines for children. He is nothing but a dangerous snake-oil peddler IMO.
Posted by: Grace Green | April 13, 2019 at 07:34 AM
Of course, in the US they have title inflation - almost everyone in academe in the US is a professor whereas in the UK we have lower ranks - lecturers, readers, fellows etc..
Posted by: John Stone | April 13, 2019 at 04:24 AM
For Barry - A professorship is a title bestowed by employers, usually universities. Paul Offit's university 'chair' is fully funded by pharma sources, so the assumption has to be made his 'title' came as part of the deal.
https://professors.leeds.ac.uk/what-is-a-professor/
“Professor doesn’t denote a qualification but an academic staff grade – the most senior one. So, in the UK, an academic whose title is ‘Dr’ is someone who’s got a PhD, but hasn’t been promoted to the highest academic grade, while an academic whose title is ‘Professor’ is someone who probably (but not necessarily) has a PhD, but who has been promoted to the highest grade on the university pay scale. Professorship therefore denotes seniority and status.”
Posted by: Jenny Allan | April 13, 2019 at 03:19 AM
“Frankly, these Caucasian, suburban, educated parents believe they can Google the word vaccine and get as much information as anybody,” said Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.“These people are educated just well enough to make terrible decisions for their children.”
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Speaking of ' educated just well enough to make terrible decisions for children', what ARE the requirements these days for a person to be referred to as a 'professor of pediatrics'?
According to the abbreviated resume that's posted on paul-offit.com (http://paul-offit.com/about/) , Paul Offit's educational history lists a B.S. from Tufts University, and an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Since when does that qualify a person to be referred to as a professor?
Posted by: Barry | April 12, 2019 at 07:54 PM
Oh look theirs another squirrel..Offits new book.
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | April 12, 2019 at 07:58 AM
Paul Offit also overgeneralizes about physicians. He and his sound bite writers perpetuate the false assumption that all doctors are equally knowledgeable on all medical topics.
You only need one medical appointment to learn the intellectual limitations of any doctor - a disorder they haven’t heard of, a lab test they don’t know how to interpret, or an adverse treatment reaction that their medical trade union finds inconvenient to acknowledge.
Wake up and smell the Starbucks, Dr. Offit: The democratization of data via electronic media has changed the traditional doctor-patient relationship. No one holds a monopoly on medical information anymore… except for falsified vaccine study data hidden by pharmaceutical companies and government.
Disrespecting clients is no way to maintain a business, and the nation’s poor health shows what a mediocre job the medical industry is doing. Pushing pharma lobbyists and bullying unions to leverage draconian vaccine mandates can only backfire politically. They’re making themselves unwanted and obsolete.
Posted by: nhokkanen | April 11, 2019 at 03:34 PM
they've had "just enough" alright.
as have many.
Posted by: greyone | April 11, 2019 at 01:42 PM
What if the Internet points you to libraries, journals, downloadable scholarly articles? Oh, no . . . no Caucasian, suburban, educated woman would ever think of that.
Posted by: Rae | April 11, 2019 at 12:07 PM
Posted by: Greg | April 11, 2019 at 11:17 AM
The science has failed so he attacks the people...it is a simple as that.
Posted by: John Stone | April 11, 2019 at 10:33 AM
In recent addresses RFK Jr has been speaking to the orthodoxy of vaccinoligy, and how the underpinnings of most orthodoxies is the degradation of women. No person exemplifies that better than Paul Offit.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2285851841668930&id=669084493234593&fs=0&focus_composer=0
Posted by: annie | April 11, 2019 at 10:05 AM
Wonder what Dr. Offut would make of his colleagues who questions vaccines - and incidentally, whose books are likely read by those "Caucasian, educated, suburban" mothers.
Richard Moskowitz. M.D. Vaccines: A Reappraisal
Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies (featuring 400 scientific papers on vaccine risks)
Susan Humphries, M.D. Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
Stephanie Cave, M.D. F.A.A.F.P, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children’s Vaccinations Thomas Cowan, M.D. Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
And, of course, there's the useful physician website:
https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/
Anytime someone on social media argues about anti-vax parents who get all their information from Facebook, offer these resources. Fighting science with science at least raises doubt...
Posted by: Aimee Doyle | April 11, 2019 at 10:00 AM
Vaccine resistance has become a “form of privilege,” Reich said. Educated mothers develop a sense of entitlement that helps them decide which vaccines are unnecessary, Reich said, adding, “They focus on organic foods, health-promoting practices at home — ways they see of mitigating disease risk.”
Moms see their efforts as superior to those of doctors who don’t know their children. But, Reich said, maternal vigilance “cannot control infectious disease.”
"Reich" ? Is that the third one ? or the fourth ?
Posted by: Hans Litten | April 11, 2019 at 09:03 AM
Like most of us who have been in this vaccine fight for many years, we did not get our information from Google or Facebook. When I started the internet had limited information from Dr. William Thompson, Dr. Jeff Bradstreet and Dr. Wakefield's Lancet report. Mike and I attended fourteen medical conferences, spent every dollar we could come up with. Some of these conferences were three to four days and across the country. I got several college course books and found out what mercury does and liver function for digestion and detoxification. Pediatricians learn mercury poisoning about fifteen minutes in school, "something you will never see" they were told. They don't know anything about digestion and the effects of nutrition, they just go by the government food pyramid. They are spoon fed government propaganda about vaccines and don't even read the inserts. I worked a booth at the AAP conference in DC for Generation Rescue. Believe me it is just one big Pharma conference. I went into a room were the neurologists were gathered. The speaker was talking about tourettes and referred to his patients as the "tic-tock" club. The audience thought that was assuming. Holding back tears, I stayed until the end and got called on! I stated that diet removing gluten may help their tics. The Professor never answered me and ended the class. At the booth I was working a older pediatrician asked me "Autism, what is it, teach me a new trick". Out came the science I had been absorbing that I leaned from Dr. Geier, Dr. Shaw, Dr. Deth and Dr. Haley, this doctor turned green and walked away. I get so angry that the so called experts think parents are just reading internet information, the parents I know are relentless in finding answers and truths about what happened to their child.
Posted by: elaine dow | April 11, 2019 at 07:35 AM
I think it great that Offit is reduced to "demonizing" Caucasian, suburban, educated parents who are "educated just well enough to make terrible decisions for their children".
It reminds me of Hillary Clinton's campaign effort to "demonize" all supporters of Donald Trump by declaring them 'irredeemable deplorables". It didn't take long before Trump supporters began self-identifying themselves as one of those "deplorables' .. willfully embracing the word as something akin to a badge of honor.
Makes absolutely no sense to purposely insult, ridicule, alienate or otherwise seek to marginalize an extremely large "group of people" ,, such as .. Caucasian, suburban, educated parents who comprise a huge percentage of the population.
But then, Offit is so arrogant he simply has no respect for anyone who dares disagree with HIM.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | April 11, 2019 at 06:56 AM