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Note: Anne Dachel wrote this post for her Substack. You can read the full article there.  We wanted to add context about Dr. Paul Offit, the expert brought in for this roundtable. Back in 2009, JB Handley tried to book an appointment with Dr. Offit, for  his son with autism. He was turned away because Dr. Offit does not see patients.

JB: Hi, I have a child with autism, and I’d like to make an appointment to see Dr. Offit.
 
OA: He doesn’t see patients.
 
JB: My son, he has autism, he needs help. My understanding is Dr. Offit is an expert on autism, he wrote a book, I’d really like to see him.
 
OA: He doesn’t see patients in a clinical outpatient setting.
 
JB: Well, is there some other way for me to see him? Please, my son, he needs help, can’t Dr. Offit make an exception?
 
OA: He doesn’t see patients at all. I’m sorry.

 You can see that post below, after Anne's work.  Remember, all the world is a stage, and we, mere players. Being played.

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By Anne Dachel

On January 22nd there was a meeting on Capitol Hill with the title, ROUNDTABLE ON VACCINES AND PUBLIC HEALTH It was called by U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and it lasted an hour and a half. While a good portion of the discussion was on how vaccines are safe and have saved millions of lives, there was equal time given to the growing issue of “vaccine hesitancy” and what to do about it. The term “misinformation” was a major theme. I also noticed the claim of “anti-science denialism.” Panelists included Dr. Paul Offit, Dr. Greg Gonsalves, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein and Catherine Kennedy, RN.

Paul Offit was introduced by Sanders as “a pediatrician and expert on vaccines who serves as Director of the Vaccine Education Center, professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. Of course anyone who’s been involved in vaccine safety concerns knows that Offit is the go-to-guy when it comes to defending vaccines. The glaring omission from the introduction was any mention of the personal fortune he made with the invention of a rotavirus vaccine, which in reality makes him an industry spokesman.

Regardless of the title, it was clear from the start that this was nothing but propaganda intended to raise concerns about having Robert Kennedy as the head of Health and Human Services.

At one point, Dr. Gonsalves said, “We’re not supposed to talk about RFK,” which I thought was strange because Kennedy was the main topic of discussion.

I transcribed a portion of the meeting.  READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT ANNES's SUBSTACK.



By J.B. Handley - 2009
 
Paul Offit wrote a book, Autism’s False Prophets, with the overt goal of repudiating the biomedical treatment movement for autism. Of course, the real goal of the book, and how it’s being used today, is to convince parents to keep on vaccinating.
 
As an inventor of the Rotateq (HERE) vaccine, a man who voted his own vaccine (HERE) onto the childhood schedule, and a multi-millionaire after his vaccine was sold to Merck, Offit has plenty of time on his hands to protect his legacy and the legacy of his peers.


 
The AAP has done a great job of getting Offit’s book out to their pediatric base, many of whom give the book to parents when they express concerns about vaccination. I have personal friends who have come home from their doctor with a copy of his book in hand.
 
The book is filled with factual errors and/or completely made-up information about a wide variety of our community’s most important players, including Dr. Andrew Wakefield, David Kirby, RFK JR., and Jenny McCarthy, to name just a few.
 
For a simple example of the book’s poorly-veiled intentions, consider the inside cover that includes a quote from a parent, Amy Pisani:
 
“Hearing all the rumors about vaccine side effects made me question the right thing to do. This book makes it clear that vaccines save lives, and they clearly do not cause autism.”
 
There are so many revealing things about this quote, which is literally the first thing you see on the cover’s inside flap. Firstly, Amy Pisani is the Executive Director of Every Child By Two, a vaccine advocacy organization funded by Wyeth, a vaccine maker. (HERE)  The book only describes her as “Amy Pisani, mother.” Not only is Ms. Pisani’s conflict hidden from the reader, but her actual quote is a complete fabrication. Ms. Pisani has been advocating vaccines for children for YEARS, everything in her quote is a lie -- she wasn’t questioning the right thing to do when Offit’s book came along. A liar with a conflict of interest -- how perfect! 

Biomedical doesn’t work?
 
In advocating for vaccines, Offit uses his book to take a sideswipe at an entire movement of scientists, doctors, and parents who are toiling away to recover children from autism. With roughly 1,000 worldwide doctors and more than 100,000 parents practicing biomedical treatments, it’s one hell of a sideswipe. Not only does he criticize the biomedical movement, he says it isn’t working to help kids:
 
“Instead of helping, these therapies can hurt those who are most vulnerable, and particularly in the case of autism, they undermine childhood vaccination programs that have saved millions of lives.”
 
I want to highlight this a little further, because it’s such an important point. Offit says, unequivocally, that our therapies do not help children with autism. Has your child improved through biomedical treatment? Offit says no way. Do you have a child who has recovered from autism? To Offit, it’s just coincidence. He lives in a world where recoveries from autism are of unknown origin and any adverse events created by vaccines are coincidence.
 
The lack of humanity, the lack of interest in recovering children, is this guy really a doctor? It would be like the Marlboro man shitting on a non-traditional treatment for lung cancer, because the treatment uses natural substances to pull tobacco tar out of people’s lungs. It’s horrible, repugnant, and so profoundly disrespectful of parents who ARE seeing recovery through biomedical treatment, I really don’t have the words to castigate Offit to the proper degree. In fact, it’s even worse than that. Offit and his comrades are actually rooting AGAINST recovery for our children, because if recovery from autism is actually possible through biomedical intervention, then autism is environmentally caused. And, if it’s environmentally caused, then the guy who will die known as “Mr. Vaccine” is in very deep kimchi, and his tombstone may actually end up reading, “Mr. Autism Epidemic Facilitator.”

Who wants that?
 
Making a sweeping statement -- that biomedical treatments don’t work – certainly means you better have done your homework. In fact, since the publication of his book, Offit is now routinely quoted in articles discussing alternative treatments for autism, and always as the naysayer. Given Offit’s developing “expertise”, I placed a phone call last week to his office in Philadelphia. While I knew the answer, it was still shocking to have the conversation, which went like this, with me (“JB”) talking to Offit’s assistant (“OA”):
 
JB: Hi, I have a child with autism, and I’d like to make an appointment to see Dr. Offit.
 
OA: He doesn’t see patients.
 
JB: My son, he has autism, he needs help. My understanding is Dr. Offit is an expert on autism, he wrote a book, I’d really like to see him.
 
OA: He doesn’t see patients in a clinical outpatient setting.
 
JB: Well, is there some other way for me to see him? Please, my son, he needs help, can’t Dr. Offit make an exception?
 
OA: He doesn’t see patients at all. I’m sorry.
 
Don’t believe me? Make your own call: 215-590-2549. Paul Offit, autism expert, doesn’t see any patients. Ever.
 
The 100,000 vaccine man
 
It was recently in Wired magazine, this quote from Paul Offit that a baby can handle 100,000 vaccines at one time:
 
Then, he came up with a rough estimate: a person [he said a baby] could handle 100,000 vaccines — or up to 10,000 vaccines at once. Currently the most vaccines children receive at any one time is five. He also published his findings in Pediatrics. Soon, the number was attached to Offit like a scarlet letter. “The 100,000 number makes me sound like a madman. Because that’s the image: 100,000 shots sticking out of you. It’s an awful image,” Offit says. “Many people — including people who are on my side — have criticized me for that. But I was naive. In that article, I was being asked the question and that is the answer to the question.”
 
Let me repeat: Offit says a baby can handle 100,000 vaccines simultaneously. As we all know, a vaccine is a pharmaceutical drug. Is there a doctor out there who would ever claim that a human being could simultaneously tolerate 100,000 aspirin or Tylenol or Ambien or Aleve or Viagra or Vioxx or any other drug manufactured anywhere on the planet? Of course not.
 
Not only is Offit’s comment insane, it’s also wildly dangerous and untrue. 100,000 vaccines given to a baby would cause immediate death, every single time. How profoundly disrespectful to the THOUSANDS of parents for whom ONE vaccine caused death for their child. ONE!!
 
Let’s look at the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program website for a moment, just to further highlight how crazy Offit’s comments really are (HERE). What does it tells us? It shows 11,970 claims of injury and 1,006 claims of death, in every case from ONE vaccine. Offit is saying a baby can handle 100,000 of something that has killed, at a bare minimum, more than 1,000 Americans (and note that for some reason this table doesn’t include Gardasil).
 
David Tayloe, the President of the AAP, recently posted this on a discussion board, “Just wanted to let members of this list know that the AAP is honoring
 Dr. Offit with it's President's award next week based on input from
 many of us in practice.”
 
The following email was sent to the AAP media relations department, I have yet to hear back:
 
“I have two questions for the AAP, would greatly appreciate a reply by end of day Thursday. 1. I heard a rumor that Paul Offit, M.D. recently received the President’s award from the AAP. Is this true? 2. Dr. Offit stated in Wired Magazine this month that a baby could safely receive 100,000 vaccines at one time. Does the AAP agree with Dr. Offit’s position, that 100,000 vaccines would be safely tolerated by a baby? Thank you for your prompt reply.”

Way to go, AAP.

Dr. Offit, here’s my simple offer for you, since I know you and Bonnie are reading this right now:

Get 100 Gardasil shots (just approved by the FDA for boys) in one arm and 100 H1N1 shots – the ones from a multi-dose vial, please (loaded with Hg) --  in the other. If you’re still alive three months later, I’ll contribute $100,000 to Alison Singer’s autism organization, perhaps to let her move out of her basement. 200 shots is plenty for me, I’ll give you a break on the other 99,800.

By the way, Dr. Offit, in your own book you state, “Although vaccinations have probably saved more lives than any other medical intervention, they have come with a price – occasionally causing severe, even fatal, side effects.” I’m sure you’ll be just fine. If one vaccine won’t hurt you, 200 will be a breeze.

The lies, the lawsuit, the settlement

In my opinion, there are more than a dozen members of our community who could sue Paul Offit for libel and win based on the lies and mischaracterizations of them in his book, Autism’s False Prophets. But, I’ll just tell you about me.

Frankly, I was shocked to see my name in Paul Offit’s book. Of all the people to pick a fight with, I wouldn’t recommend starting with me. Moreover, when I actually read the passage Offit wrote about me, I was absolutely stunned. From earlier this year:
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It was October 2005. Generation Rescue had only been up and running for about 5 months, and we had 125 brave souls who had put their names, locations, and emails on our website to serve as Rescue Angels to help other parents (today we have more than 800) on their journey through biomedical intervention.

On or around October 10th of that year, I heard from a Rescue Angel Mom who was extremely distraught. It turned out that someone, most likely a member of the "ND" community, had blended a post they had seen from her on a message board, her Rescue Angel information, and somehow figured out where she worked. This person had contacted the Rescue Angel's employer and told them something to the effect of, "Your employee is a volunteer of this organization, believes and says a lot of scary things about autism [like that it's triggered by vaccines and is treatable], and why is she allowed to say and do these things and work here?"

This Rescue Angel mom had just been through a meeting with her employer, which I believe was a public school, where she'd had to respond to this anonymous mudsling, and she was understandably very, very upset.

I, too, was irate. The thought that people were trying to impact the livelihoods of our Rescue Angels was incomprehensible, and I felt personally responsible for the plight of this Mom, having created the group that got her into this whole mess. Knowing that many of our enemies were avid readers of a public message board where we all congregated, I fired off a warning to the person responsible that read:

Dear N.D. folks monitoring this list:I have no respect for your "movement". You are now spending your time actively hassling our Rescue Angels. We are spending out time constructively engaging doctors to help our babies. If you don't like what we have to say, stop listening. We will bring the full resources of myself and Generation Rescue to stop this. We will sue you for libel and we will go after your homes and assets. My lawyers live to investigate and sue people like you. This will be your only warning. Sincerely, JB Handley

My message is still up there on the EOH message board, it's message #17717 and you can read it for yourself. Now, you may disagree with the message I wrote, you may disagree with its tone, and you may disagree with my reaction to the situation at hand. But, at least you know the circumstances that surrounded the decision I made, and that's what I really want you to know.

I really want you to know and understand what happened and why I wrote the note I wrote because once you do, you can see what a profoundly dishonest and manipulative liar Paul Offit really is.

You see, this post from EOH, or at least an excerpt from it, actually made it in to Paul Offit's book, that book that will remain nameless, but the one we all know the name of. Yup, a piece of my post from EOH, the one where I was trying to tell the person hassling one of our Rescue Angels at work to back the hell off, made Offit's book.

But, you wouldn't know that from what Offit wrote.

You see, Paul Offit has a passage using a portion of this post, but it's used for an entirely different reason. Rather than try to explain, I'm just going to share the passage from the book that will remain nameless, on page 145:

"SEIDEL WAS ALSO APPALLED BY THE GEIERS' AND JB HANDLEY'S constant promotion of chelation therapy as a cure for autism. In 2000, only a handful of children were chelated; by 2005, the number had purportedly climbed to more than 10,000 a year. On her Web site, Seidel pleaded with Handley to stop promoting a "therapy" that had never been shown to work and was potentially dangerous. Handley wrote back: "We are spending out time constructively engaging doctors to help our babies. If you don't like what we have to say, stop listening. We will bring the full resources of myself and Generation Rescue to stop this. We will sue you for libel and we will go after your homes and assets. My lawyers live to investigate and sue people like you. This will be your only warning."

Well, I'll be damned. A post I wrote on a public message board regarding someone hassling our Rescue Angels was now a response to Kathleen Seidel? A response that never actually took place in an exchange that Offit manufactured from thin air? I threatened to sue her for challenging me on the "promotion" of chelation therapy?

I'll be damned again.

So, there it is folks. Offit made up a conversation that never took place and blended something I wrote on a public message board for an entirely different reason to serve his own purpose.
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After a simple (and rebuffed) request asking him to change the above made-up passage, I filed a lawsuit (HERE) with the same request, hoping to get a better answer the second time around.
 
Medium_prezsheen There’s a great scene from an early 80s movie called the Dead Zone where Martin Sheen, playing an ambitious and morally compromised politician, is under sniper fire during a campaign rally. To protect himself, and while the network TV cameras are rolling, he grabs a small child and hides behind him. End of political career.
 
I’m not going to tell you that Paul Offit’s defense during my lawsuit and subsequent settlement negotiations reaches quite this same dramatic pitch, but it was the first thing I was reminded of when recently re-reading some letters from his lawyers.
 
Let’s get something straight: there is nothing about my victory in the lawsuit against Paul Offit that’s going to solve the autism epidemic or recover any of our kids. My victory is a small victory. But, you have to admit, it’s damn entertaining just the same.
 
Our settlement discussions, which went on for several months, were a hoot to witness. I knew from the beginning that I was right and that I could prove it. It took the other side several weeks of reviewing the supporting evidence my lawyers gave them to reach the same conclusion, at which point they knew they had a weak hand.
 
So, if you’re Paul Offit, what’s the best thing to do when you’ve been caught in a lie? You guessed it: blame someone else.
 
If you’ve seen Offit’s book, you know that he pays tribute to some of our most intractable critics for all their help in putting his manuscript together. Notable amongst them is Kathleen Seidel, the Church Lady who runs a website called Neurodiversity. I’ve really got nothing personal against Ms. Seidel and I’ve never met or talked to her. She’s always struck me as being rather brittle and shrill, but she’s certainly no Orac or any of the other particularly annoying characters residing in the dark world. And, she actually blogs under her own name.
 
Offit was clearly grateful for Ms. Seidel’s help in putting his book together. But, when he found himself in a wrangle over lies that he allowed to be printed, she was the first person he threw under the bus. Don’t take my word for it, check out this passage from a letter sent to my attorneys by Offit’s lawyers:
 
“Moreover, Dr. Offit has informed the Press [Columbia University Press] that the book had been sent for review to a long list of individuals, including Kathleen Seidel. Further, the Press had a high degree of confidence in Dr. Offit, a confidence enhanced by the initial review of Dr. Offit’s manuscript by an eminent scientist and former dean, and a review of his manuscript by Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., a leading autism expert at Yale University School of Medicine, Marie McCormick, Professor of Maternal and Child Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and Anne Gershon, MD, director of the division of Pediatric Disease at Columbia Presbyterian…
 
"Dr. Offit interviewed Ms. Seidel at some length. While Dr. Offit was writing the book, somebody sent him a copy of the Oct. 10, 2005 post from Handley directed ‘To the Nuero-Diverse Crowd Reading the List’ as a stand-alone document. At the time, he put it in his JB Handley file. When he went to write his book, he assumed that, given its salutation ‘To the Nuero-Diverse Crowd,’ the post was directed principally at Kathleen Seidel in response to her writings on Handley, Generation Rescue, and the Rescue Angels. Seidel created the neurodiversity website and she is strongly associated with that term. To Paul’s knowledge, no one else used that unusual term prior to Seidel…
 
"After Dr. Offit completed a draft of the manuscript, he sent it to Kathleen Seidel for her review. Although she made several other suggested changes regarding other portions of the manuscript she did not indicate that there were any errors regarding the language at issue or make any suggested changes to correct the language.”
 
Milli vanilli As Milli Vanilli once said, “Blame it on the rain!” Just don’t blame me.

Our case wasn’t a slam-dunk. We’d proven Offit had lied, that was easy. The higher hurdle was to prove Offit’s passage actually damaged me in any material way – that’s what you need to prove to win a false light claim. Was I worse off for it? Could I show that he had damaged my ability to hold down a job or anything else? My lawyers gave me 51/49 odds of winning in court. There was damage, but the other side would spend all their time challenging that position So, because I’d rather spend my time with my kids, I decided to settle, which Offit’s side (including Columbia University Press) was very eager to do.

The final terms of our settlement, reported here by AoA for the first time anywhere, include the following:

-     Offit will correct the passage in his book
 
-     Offit and Columbia University Press will each contribute $5,000 to one of Jenny McCarthy’s favorite autism charities at UCLA.
 
-     Offit will send me a personal letter expressing his regret for the lie he told. The letter isn’t everything I wanted, but, hey, I’ll take it. It reads:

“On page 145 of my book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and The Search for a Cure, I may have conveyed the impression that J.B. Handley directed an internet posting, which was addressed to “Neurodiverse folks” on a public message board, as a response to Kathleen Seidel, and as a continuation of a prior exchange of posts between Mr. Handley and Ms. Seidel. After publication, Mr. Handley brought additional information to my attention confirming that, in fact, the post quoted in the book related to a different topic, and was intended to address individuals he believed may have been harassing members of Generation Rescue. I have agreed to make revisions to the text of the book in subsequent printings to address this issue. I regret any mistaken impression the original language may have created.”

Paul offit baby Paul Offit: Vaccine inventor. Vaccine profiteer. ACIP member who voted himself rich. A man reprimanded by Congress for doing so. Winner of the AAP President’s award. Avowed liar from his book, Autism’s False Prophet’s. The 100,000 vaccine man. The autism expert who won’t see patients. The man who has never seen a child recover from autism, and thinks vaccines are medicine’s greatest invention. Paul Offit, that’s one hell of a legacy.

On the one hand, I hope Offit takes me up on my offer, and gets those 200 vaccines. On the other hand, I hope he doesn’t. We’re always one gullible journalist away from another Gucci-loafer in the mouth moment -- he’s far more valuable to all of us alive.

The donations have been made, the book correction is under way, and you can read the letter, HERE. Offit loses, we all win.

J.B. Handley is Co-Founder of Generation Rescue.

Comments

Laura Hayes

Emmaphiladelphia,

Thank you for your reply :) I wholeheartedly agree that this is a topic worth pursuing. I might run it by an attorney to see what he thinks.

Emmaphiladelphia

Laura
Most likely, states with vaccine religious exemptions do not impose vaccines on Medicaid recipients. They can qualify for free vaccines through the Vaccines for Children Federal program:
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approves funding for the VFC Program, then allocates the funds through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to CDC. After receiving the funds, CDC buys the vaccines at a discount and distributes them to VFC Program providers at the direction of awardees (i.e., the 61 state, local, and territorial immunization programs who receive operational funding from the CDC to implement and oversee their VFC Programs). The legislation for the VFC Program provides general guidance for VFC Program policy development—including eligibility, provider recruitment, and considerations for negotiating contracts with manufacturers."
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines-for-children/about/index.html

California does not have a religious exemption. They can't force a child to take a jab, but, until challenged at the Supreme Court, the state can withhold benefits.
This is a topic worth further investigation.

Laura Hayes

Emmaphiladelphia,

Thank you for posting the link that includes a link to Mawson’s most-recent study, once again showing that the health, development, and well being of the unvaccinated are far superior to that of the vaccinated.

I am wondering, though, how it is that some parents on Medicaid have succeeded in protecting their children from vaccine poisonings, since I spoken with parents in CA who told me they would not receive their government assistance checks unless their children were “up to date”/fully compliant with the egregious CDC-recommended vaccine schedule for children. Are the Medicaid requirements different in FL than in CA, I wonder, or implemented differently at the discretion of whomever is in charge of Medicaid in a state? If anyone can shed light on this, I would be very appreciative. (I just did a little research, and could not find any language that states government assistance via Medicaid is dependent on vaccine compliance for one’s children. Thus, perhaps parents are lied to by certain doctors, nurses, and/or various agents of the state with regard to “no vaccines, no check”, similar to the oft-stated lie in states with exemptions “no shots, no school”).

If we can show that Medicaid recipients are not required to comply with CDC vaccine recommendations, perhaps we can post that here on AoA, so it could be easily circulated and shared with those needing to know that information.

All this made me think of the requirement that foster children be vaccinated, with no exceptions for the most part. I just looked up who pays for foster children’s medical care, and it is mostly Medicaid: https://www.findlaw.com/family/foster-care/foster-children-medical-issues-and-children-with-disabilities.html Thus, perhaps foster parents are also being lied to, and could push back against vaccines being forced on the foster children in their care, as I could find no language stating that Medicaid requires it for payment. In CA, foster parents are most definitely told they must take their foster children to all “well-baby” appointments, and have them vaccinated, or the children will be removed from their care. True or false, I am now wondering?

I mentioned both of Mawson’s studies in my interview with Peggy Hall last week (2-1-25). I am hoping the link will soon be available to share here on AoA.

Emmaphiladelphia

The truth will out:

RFK Jr was RIGHT? Groundbreaking New Study (vaccines/autism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjBhfHT75c

Emmaphiladelphia

Thank you President Trump for shutting down USAID and Samantha Power:

Remember Samantha Power, Obama’s ‘unmasking’ queen? She heads USAID, and now it all makes sense
"Moreover, her tenure also reportedly involved the funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China..."
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/06/remember-samantha-power-obamas-unmasking-queen-she-heads-usaid-and-now-it-all-makes-sense-1521112/

Emmaphiladelphia

A case study in model failure? COVID-19 daily deaths and ICU bed utilisation predictions in New York state
"Forecasting models have been influential in shaping decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is concern that their predictions may have been misleading. Here, we dissect the predictions made by four models for the daily COVID-19 death counts between March 25 and June 5 in New York state, as well as the predictions of ICU bed utilisation made by the influential IHME model. We evaluated the accuracy of the point estimates and the accuracy of the uncertainty estimates of the model predictions."

"We conclude that trustworthy models require trustworthy input data to be trained upon. Moreover, models need to be subjected to prespecified real time performance tests, before their results are provided to policy makers and public health officials."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7417851/

Emmaphiladelphia

Senator Bernie Sanders transcribed quote from above video, "Roundtable on Vaccines and Public Health":

"Studies have shown that over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved lives of more than a hundred and 50 million people around the world"

According to his office, when asked, the source of the "studies" is "The Lancett Study" which I was told to "google" to get the details. Here's what I found:

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X/fulltext

Three points to consider:
"WHO, as requested by its member states, launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974 to make life-saving vaccines available to all globally. To mark the 50-year anniversary of EPI, we sought to quantify the public health impact of vaccination globally since the programme's inception."

"In this modelling study, we used a suite of mathematical and statistical models to estimate the global and regional public health impact of 50 years of vaccination against 14 pathogens in EPI. ...We then used these modelled outcomes to estimate the contribution of vaccination to globally declining infant and child mortality rates over this period."

Looks like Sanders based his statement on this quote, "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year."
BUT REMEMBER, that number is merely an estimate based
on a modeling program. Mathematical and statistical models are only as good as the moral ethics of the scientists creating them and the quality of the data input. If we are to trust the model, this must be thoroughly vetted first. Did Senator Sanders do this?

What does President Trump think of the trustworthiness of the WHO, who is the main source of this document?

Trump signs order to withdraw U.S. from WHO
"He criticized the organization for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it very “China centric”...
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5097280-trump-who-executive-order/

Also, the modelled 154 million deaths averted includes all WHO member countries. I am only interested in the numbers for America, which would be substantially lower.
Senator Sanders: What happened to The Science?

Emmaphiladelphia

The only way to 100% avoid vaccine injury is to not take them.

This is the new paradigm.
Let Offit et al flap their gums.
We have informed consent. The people's choice.

Stephen Simac

He begins his "Truth" telling with an easily disproved lie. "In August, the CDC reported that routine childhood vaccinations have saved 1.1 million deaths over the last 30 years in America." I know their math skills are distorted by trillion dollar deficits, but deaths from "vaccine preventable" infectious disease among children in 1985 were at most dozens per year. When the 1950's and 60's polio, measles, and smallpox inoculations and sugar cubes were rolled out, death rates were in the hundreds. So they'd have to go back to the end of the 19th century to get even close to 1.1 million deaths.

Benedetta

Paul Wady;
I am gong to assume that you are a naive thing.
So I will explain it too you, and if you continue to show unwillingness to change your opinion then you be of the same kind of heartless people that harassed a parent of a vaccine injured child at her work place. All because she was simply encouraging other parents to engage in healthy eating, and a healthy life style to help their vaccine injured children.

JB Handly was the parent. HE had to endure a vaccine injury with no recognition from the very pillars of institutions that had been set up to protect and watch out for safety issues of health. Denied his son's injuries even existed.

So he called up and his point was not to get help cause he darn well knew NO HELP WAS COMING FROM OFFIT.

JB called up to make a point that this S&*t Head that says a child could take 100, 000 or 10, 000 or what ever shots did NOT TREAT INJURIED CHILDREN after only one vaccine injury let alone 100,000 or 10,000 shots. Yet Offit was an expert.

Paul Wady

What exactly did the parent mean by MY CHILD NEEDS HELP? What is this help of which you write.

You can publish all this stuff as much as you want. But in the end, where has it EVER gotten any of you?

I mean, in terms of what you want to achieve on a national and global level? Let alone personal.

You won't allow this comment.

greyone

well Bernie's message had bad timing for the start of a former staffer consulting company of fairweather friends of the working class
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/fight-agency-consultants-democrats-00200636

Benedetta

I sure wish I knew about JB's phone call, and what he was doing about such a stupid Offit statement when this all was taking place. It was such a busy time in my life, and I felt all alone in my righteous anger. Not a good emotion to carry.

My parents told me about it at the time, from a newspaper article they had read while we were sitting around the Sunday dinner table.. I tried to not act like it bothered me, even as I wondered if there was a way to hunt him down and slap his face. I guess my wild thoughts showed cause they said the wished they had not told me.

After all these years I am still glad to know that there were people out there that were connected, smarter, and more knowledgeable that did not let Offit go unchallenged.

Thank you

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