Ted Kuntz, Parent of Vaccine Injured Child Challenges CBC Again
Note: Ted Kuntz is a valued contributor to Age of Autism. Below, we share his letter to CBC, (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.) The response, is a polite refusal to budge. Please visit the Vaccine Choice Canada site for information from our friends to the North.
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Ted Kuntz writes to CBC – their response and Ted’s reply are below:
To the Attention of:
Mr. Jack Nagler, CBC Ombudsperson [email protected]
Dear Mr. Nagler
I’m writing to you because I’m very concerned about what the CBC has become to many Canadians.
I am the parent of a vaccine injured child, now deceased. I have spent more than three decades investigating the science which is purported to be the foundation for our current vaccine program and government policies pertaining to childhood vaccination. I’ve learned that the reality is much more complex and different than we have been led to believe.
In my efforts to bring awareness to this critically important topic, what I have experienced is that vaccine safety is one topic that is not permitted to be discussed at the CBC. When the topic is vaccine safety, informed consent, or vaccine injury the CBC is no longer willing to host dialogue and honestly debate ideas. Amongst my fellow parents, the CBC has lost its value and its purpose and has become obsolete. This is most unfortunate for the media that purports to be “Canada’s broadcaster”.
Can the CBC be a force to help heal the divide?
On March 29, 2019 I reached out to Charlie Cho, the Associate Producer of ‘The Early Edition’. My goal was to invite Charlie and the rest of the CBC to help me create a safe space where ideas could be shared, information exchanged, fences dis-mantled, and relationships mended. This is what I wrote Charlie:
“Good Morning Charlie
First of all, I want you to know that we are wanting the same thing.
I trust that both of us are here to be of service.
I trust that both of us are interested in healthy children. You, and others, are fighting so children don’t die of infectious diseases.
Thank you for your efforts with this.
I’m fighting so children don’t die from vaccines.
Both are real.
I’m simply asking the question – Is what we are doing working?
This is an important question to ask over and over. We should never stop asking this question.
The medical industry is advocating for policies that mean:
- The loss of informed consent
- The loss of parental rights
- The loss of therapeutic choice
- The loss of the freedom to discuss this issue
I’m advocating for:
- The right to informed consent
- Parental rights to medical decisions
- Better science that includes inert placebos, long-term clinical trials, better adverse events reporting, compensation for vaccine injury, and vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies
- Rich discussion
This is not just a medical issue. It is also a civil rights issue.
I’d like us to be able to have rich conversations that honour each other’s perspective and experiences.
I want the loss of my child to vaccine injury to be just as important as the loss of a child to an infectious disease.
I want us to make wise decisions, not reactive decisions.
I think we want the same things.
Will you join me in this conversation?
Will you help me to build a container where true dialogue can happen; one that holds everyone’s voice?”
Mr. Nagler, I’d like to explore with you how we might move in this direction and how the CBC can be a force to help heal the divide that has been created in our society with regard to the differing perspectives on the safety and effectiveness of our current vaccination program.
Can I offer one possible action that would move us in that direction?
Might the CBC make a commitment to refrain from using the label “anti-vaccine”? This label is dishonest and divisive and impedes our ability to develop a deeper understanding of the perspectives of parents whose children have been harmed by vaccination and are now ‘vaccine risk aware’.
This simple act would help to create a climate that makes constructive dialogue more possible.
Will you work with me on this goal?
Is it possible the CBC could become an agent to heal this manufactured divide in Canada?
I can’t imagine a more worthwhile goal than this.
I look forward to your considered response.
Sincerely,
Ted Kuntz, parent
CBC response to Ted
May 2, 2019
Dear Ted Kuntz,
Thank you for your email of April 10, 2019, addressed to CBC’s Ombudsperson. General Manager and Editor in Chief Jennifer McGuire asked me to reply.
You wrote to express concern over use of the term “anti-vaccine” in health stories and public policy coverage. “This label is dishonest and divisive and impedes our ability to develop a deeper understanding of the perspectives of parents whose children have been harmed by vaccination and are now ‘vaccine risk aware,'” you said. The CBC should stop using the term “anti-vaccine” in order “to create a climate that makes constructive dialogue more possible,” you added.
I respectfully disagree that the entrenched compounds “anti-vaccine” and “anti-vaccination” are inaccurate, unfair or inappropriate in any other way. Allow me to explain.
“Anti-vaccine” and “anti-vaccination” are clear, neutral, fact-based terms with deep roots. They are tied to the now largely archaic label “anti-vaccinationist,” first used in the 1880s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Read the full article at Vaccine Choice Canada HERE.
“Progressives” don’t want to allow open discussion of vaccine side effects or ingredients.
Especially on Reddit, Tumblr, BBC, etc.
As a permanently brain injured person myself, who functioned better since being permanently removed from school at age 14 to be homeschooled, I am still perplexed how calm the media is about the sudden and rampant, permanent destruction of our youth and childhoods.
Especially since special schools and in school therapies are so expensive, Im confused how society profits as everyone gets poorer.
states like Florida also have mass mental hospitalization and psychiatric torture (restraints, drugs, coercion etc) regularly deployed against brain injured and SPED youth on a huge scale.
My childhood has been completely destroyed by autism and profound medical and learning/intellectual disabilities. I’m nearing my 19th birthday in March and I feel very sad I’ll never have a normal life in this scary and sad current life. Everyday I dream of dying and going back to heaven with God and family to be freed.
Posted by: sad with autism | February 09, 2021 at 06:08 PM
Great Ted your/were not alone...one day.
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | May 31, 2019 at 05:41 AM
So, in this day in age, “anti-vax” is not a pejorative? Tell that to my kids, coward! I will explain to Canadian Public Health how it is, unless you’re too cowardly to take on an adult.
Posted by: annie | May 31, 2019 at 01:20 AM
I'm anti-vaccine.
At no point in my life have I ever thought it a good idea to poison babies.
So it is only sensible that the moment I realized that vaccines were poisons I became anti-vaccine.
Posted by: Rtp | May 30, 2019 at 07:04 PM
Thank you to Ted Kuntz for this letter!
Are they really arguing that because a word has been used historically, that makes it fine to use it to describe people who are insulted by it?
There are an awful lot of words that have been used in the past ( historically) with racial, sexual, or demeaning undertones, that are now considered so offensive that they should not and never do appear in print.
medical safety advocates or medical rights advocates are both more appropriate terms, or even just parent of a vaccine injured child...
Posted by: Hera | May 30, 2019 at 05:04 PM
Such a disingenuous response. In whatever sense the term "anti-{vaccine, vaccinationist} might have been used in the 1800s, it's now usually in close proximity to pejoratives like "clownish," "conspiracy theorist," "loon." You get the idea.
I guess Mr. Shewchuk hasn't been told, but it has now been established in peer-reviewed literature that DTaP-vaccinated children have a much greater chance of getting whooping cough--and spreading it--than unvaccinated children: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-california-senate-voted-to-give-your-child-whooping-cough/ Being anti that vaccine is just common sense.
Here is the link to the Vaccine Choice Canada article: https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/media/parent-of-vaccine-injured-child-challenges-cbc-again/
Posted by: Carol | May 30, 2019 at 12:48 PM
Dear Ted - your letter is powerful and compelling. A good example of how to engage in open discussion. As a Canadian, I have abandoned the CBC as they mainly report what major US outlets - it it is bereft of original content and thought.
Posted by: Justine | May 30, 2019 at 10:24 AM
What an excellent letter from Ted Kuntz.
I know that these corporations have a policy of 'vaccines good' any other view 'bad'. However, how they can dismiss Ted's heartfelt letter with their usual heartless propaganda is a mystery to me.
It seems that cognitive dissonance reigns all over the world.
Posted by: susan welch | May 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
Ted Kuntz lost a child, and he continues to fight for your child. G-dspeed Mr. Kuntz and thank you for sharing your continuing attempts to gain a foothold on the media protected "platform" that is not wanting to hear any other side than Pharma. I am humbled by your energy and courage, pray that we all can be strong to protect our children.
Posted by: Debbie Barry | May 30, 2019 at 09:34 AM
I have put in an extra link going directly to the page. What a great advocate Ted is!
Posted by: John Stone | May 30, 2019 at 07:25 AM
The link to this - "Read the full article at Vaccine Choice Canada HERE." - is not working for me.
Posted by: Michael S. | May 30, 2019 at 06:48 AM
Couldn't access "full article" ..? From the article:
"I am the parent of a vaccine injured child, now deceased. I have spent more than three decades investigating the science which is purported to be the foundation for our current vaccine program and government policies pertaining to childhood vaccination. I’ve learned that the reality is much more complex and different than we have been led to believe.'
Oklahoma faces off in court against Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, marking the first major case against an opioid maker to go to trial. Attorney General Mike Hunter alleges that the country's largest drugmaker fueled the state's raging opioid crisis with deceptive marketing that downplayed the risks of opioids and overstated their benefits, contributing to a public health crisis, according to the lawsuit.
The vaccine manufacturers are just as "guilty" as J&J .. their product is vaccines that are fueling the country's raging neurological/biological/physical childhood development crisis .. reported to affect 54% of children today .. using the very same 'DECEPTIVE MARKETING that downplayed the risks of VACCINES and overstated their benefits.
Indeed, both the mainstream media in the USA and Canada's CBC should be "co-defendants" in public trials for promoting that very same DECEPTIVE MARKETING .. downplaying the RISKS of vaccines while overstating the BENEFITS.
This madness is never going to end without JUSTICE IN A COURT OF LAW FOR ALL INJURED BY VACCINES. TIME HAS COME TO END THE VACCINE COURT .. AND GIVE THE PEOPLE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SEEK JUSTICE IN CIVIL OR CRIMINAL COURT.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | May 30, 2019 at 06:47 AM