Don Lemon Once Let Me Speak About Vaccines
Don Lemon was let go from from CNN yesterday after a 17 year career there. Twelve years ago, he interviewed me via Skype (remember Skype?) after the British GMC decision about Dr. Andrew Wakefield. I was able to talk about vaccine injury on CNN. I remember him being patient, thoughtful and far more polite than Anderson Cooper on the same topic. Recently, Don got into trouble for saying middle aged women were past their prime. I'm a middle aged woman, who is not offended so easily. I'm more interested in when it's past my bedtime, but such is the hyper-sensitive world we live in. Kim
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February 7, 2010 CNN.com transcripts
Prominent British medical journal "The Lancet " has retracted an influential 1998 research report linking vaccines to autism. Britain's general medical council concluded the doctor behind the study, Andrew Wakefield, engaged in dishonesty and misleading conduct. Because of the 1998 report many parents skipped vaccines.
I talked earlier with Kim Stagliano of Connecticut. She has three children, all diagnosed with autism. She is a staunch defender of Wakefield's research. I asked her if she still believes there's a link between the vaccines and autism.
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KIM STAGLIANO, 3 DAUGHTERS HAVE AUTISM: I certainly think that there's a link for thousands of families between what happened to their children prior to vaccination. Believe the parents. Trust the parents. They know what's going on with their kids. There are studies going on, as Dr. Wakefield pointed out there are cases in vaccine court right now that have been won by the families where there was proven causation between a resultant autism diagnosis following an adverse reaction to a vaccination. So it's not impossible.
And where the fear comes in for families, your lead-in of the Toyota story really hit me very closely to home. How would you feel if you were told by the federal government that in order to drive your children to school tomorrow you have to do it in a 2010 Toyota Prius? You'd be very nervous. Priuses aren't driving off the road and crashing at an alarming rate, there may be a handful of them that have a problem. Would you want to put your child into the car tomorrow and drive her to school tomorrow and know that if you're not in that car you wouldn't be allowed to go to school perhaps?
That's how the parents feel in the newly pregnant, soon to have baby world. It's not the autism community. We raised the questions. We have the guns pointed at our heads by the pharmaceutical industry, the government. Because nobody wants vaccines to be culpable. Nobody including me (INAUDIBLE) but there are instances where there are problems. And to slam the doors on families and slam the door on science, that's really the bottom line.
Dr. Bernardine Healy, former head of the NIH said very clearly, the science is not complete and we must not fear the science. Take my family. I am a perfect example of the potential for a vaccinated, unvaccinated study. Take us. Study us. That's what families want. More science. Not fear and not a door slammed in faces.
The Vaccine Court 2.0: Revised and Updated: The Dark Truth of America's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
By Wayne Rohde
The Vaccine Court looks at the mysterious and often unknown world of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), the only recourse for seeking compensation for those who have been injured by a vaccine. The NVICP, better known as the ”Vaccine Court,” however, is not without controversy.
Established by Congress as a direct result of the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the NVICP was supposed to offer a no-fault alternative to the traditional injury claims filed in state or federal courts and was to provide quick, efficient, and fair compensation for those who have been injured by vaccines. The reality, however, is that many cases take several years or longer to complete and require tremendous commitment from families already pushed to the brink of bankruptcy caring for the vaccine-injured family member, only to discover that the end result is manipulated by the government in defense of the US vaccine policy.
A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals
By Robert Kennedy Jr.
A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science
Democrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. They once took pride in understanding how to read science critically, exercising healthy skepticism toward notoriously corrupt entities like the drug companies that brought us the opioid crisis, and were outraged by the phenomenon of “agency capture” and the pervasive control of private interests over Congress, the media, and the scientific journals.
A Letter to Liberals is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, challenge to “lockdown liberalism’s” embrace of policies that are an affront to once cherished precepts.
Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future
By Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted
Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.
The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and celebration? Or is it new and disabling, triggered by something in the environment that is damaging more children every day?
I think that they have been amazed at how well they have controlled the masses for so very long.
Vaccine causing a host of injuries, and not just autism amazed them.
Then all the lies on the environment they never got really called out on; from acid rain, to holes in the ozone, to exhaling CO2 has to amaze them how long and how well they got away from it.
It has gone on so long that they plum forgot that old old British saying about truth will out.
They can't keep censoring, it never works forever.
Posted by: Benedetta | April 25, 2023 at 03:59 PM
B'Bye Don!
Bring back the OLD CNN and I just might watch again......
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/05/28/cnn-bloopers-video-archive-orig-youtube.cnn
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | April 25, 2023 at 03:39 PM
Rupert Murdoch must have spat his cornflakes out at his carer whilst watching breakfast TV with Tucker..love it..Tucker must have thought well worth it.
Tucker Carlson was abruptly fired from Fox News on Monday morning in direct order from Rupert Murdoch
Tucker Carlson’s primetime show axed by Fox Corporation chairman as lawsuits continue to swirl around network after after $787.5m Dominion defamation settlement.
Fox News’ abrupt decision to fire its top-rating host Tucker Carlson came directly from Rupert Murdoch, according to reports.
The right-wing network told The Independent in a statement that it had “agreed to part ways” with Carlson days after it agreed to pay $787.5m to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems.
“We thank him for his service as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the statement said.
Carlson was informed his show was being axed on Monday morning, the New York Times reported.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/why-tucker-carlson-fired-from-fox-news-b2326151.html
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | April 25, 2023 at 02:04 PM
Tucker Carlson was threatening the oligarchs at every level, on every topic, in every detail - apart from anything else he was humiliating them. How they could possibly allow it to go on on their territory, but I guess he must have felt increasingly weird about remaining there too. Today, we see also the clean out happened just before Biden announced both his intention to run and not to debate.
Anyhow, before they come to take us all away TC can presumably sustain audiences just as large elsewhere. He may have a better prospect of changing public opinion than the voting machines.
Posted by: John Stone | April 25, 2023 at 01:27 PM
And I remember Dr. Wakefield being interviewed by Cooper Anderson. Hateful thing.
I was caught unawares as I was in a pain clinic doctor's office waiting on my husbands.
They had CNN turned on.
So here I am waiting on a doctor to give my husband strong, mental altering pain killers for a vaccine injury and Cooper's pale, stern, face opening his pie hole and spewing evil lies.
He is the poster child of why people with darker skin might learn to hate pale people.
Let us remember Assange though and not lump all pale people into an evil category.
Posted by: Benedetta | April 25, 2023 at 11:06 AM
Thank you for sharing this. I missed that interview.
It has been a very busy and fast passing 20 years.
IT needs to slow down a bit, or I will feel I missed out on life all together.
Posted by: Benedetta | April 25, 2023 at 10:58 AM
So far the mainstream media has been very vague about the reasons for Carlson's departure: it's not even clear whether he quit or was fired. But his virtual endorsement of RFK Jr. a few days earlier may have exhausted Rupert Murdoch's patience. Bobby probably won't win the Democratic nomination, but his candidacy will widely broadcast his critique of pharma and vaccination, and that's a discussion that the media desperately wants to shut down. So not only are they attacking Bobby, they are telling us once again that there has been no real increase in autism. See this in the New York Post (another Murdoch outlet):
https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/doctor-who-broadened-autism-spectrum-sorry-for-over-diagnosis/
Note that they used to argue that the increase in autism was simply a matter of "better diagnosis", but now they're resorting to the opposite argument: it's a result of worse diagnosis. The problem with the "better diagnosis" theory was that it was wholly implausible. You mean there were millions of autistic people a hundred years ago, and nobody noticed them? And how do you explain the fact that the demand for special education and group homes is far outrunning the supply? But if it's a matter of "overdiagnosis", well then all those autistic kids aren't really autistic and don't need special services, right? End of problem.
Posted by: Jonathan Rose | April 25, 2023 at 10:56 AM