Report | Seth Farber, Ph.D | Dec 27, 2020
PART ONE
“We are not going to let you take our democracy away. We are not going to let you take our health away. We are not going to let you take our children away. We are not going to let you take our freedom away.”
–Robert Kennedy Jr
”(2) Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is the merger of government and corporate power.”
— Benito Mussolini
I was prompted to write this by my frustration with the silence of the radical left in the face of one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the modern era: I refer to the harm inflicted upon American children by the vaccine industry since the law re. the administration of vaccines was changed in 1986. And I refer to what appears now to be an attempted (ongoing) global fascist coup d’état, the success of which depends upon our continued acquiescence.
As Darren Allen, writing from England, aptly put it, (3) “the entire political left” meaning both the official left (the Democratic Party) and the radical left (he names Noam Chomsky, Caitlin Johnstone, John Pilger and Glenn Greenwald among others) “stood behind the crime of the century wholly and unequivocally.” They all agreed: “We just had to put millions and millions of people out of work then shut them up in a heavily policed panic room.” Allen posed a number of astute questions: “(4) Did they ask if anything else might have been motivating their leaders than altruistic concern for human life? Did they question the extraordinarily repressive measures governments have taken to contain the problem? Did they sound any alarm bells about rather suspicious proposed solutions such as an express vaccine, contact-tracing and so forth? Did any of these people ask any seriously critical, or even very interesting, questions? The answer to all of these questions was an almost entirely predictable no. Every man jack of them fell straight into line.”
((5)https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/15/the-reaction-of-the-left-to-lockdown/) Caitlin Johnstone, whose deconstruction of Russiagate had been brilliant, responded to Allen, “(6) I find the whole thing [Covid-19]ultimately irrelevant and boring and have nothing to add to the debate.”
(7) https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1283547746411003904 This time around sadly Caitlin had drunk the Kool-Aid.
Phil Shannon also wrote an astringent critique of the left. His assessment was spot-on, “(8)The contemporary left’s support for an economically devastating, authoritarian lockdown, which doesn’t even achieve its limited public health aims, is one of the more remarkable developments in current politics.”
((9) https://lockdownsceptics.org/why-the-left-should-oppose-lockdown)
Almost all the iconic left-wing figures have been silent about this crime—and often supportive of the medical establishment. In a typical left trope, embraced even by many Marxists, Dr Fauci is the hero qua Scientist battling against the reactionary evil anti-science rube, Trump. Leftists have been so disoriented by TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that they have not even noticed the merger of the state and Big Pharma and the dangers such an alliance poses. However, it should be noted, this failure predated Trump’s ascension as leftists have been giving a pass to CDC and vaccines for decades.
To be fair, Naomi Klein did make a powerful critique of the threat to democracy and individual rights represented by the solutions crafted by Silicon Valley and the government under the pretext of combatting the virus—but tellingly she accepted without reservations the official public health bureaucracy’s dubious claims about the virus. Thus, it never occurs to, her that this is a health crisis that is largely manufactured and she does not question the specious assumption that a vaccine is the ultimate solution.
(10) https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/andrew-cuomo-eric-schmidt-coronavirus-tech-shock-doctrine/
The left should be in the forefront criticizing the lockdown. Brilliant critiques have been written by holistic doctors or scientists (usually with liberal or radical left orientations) such as Thomas Cowan M.D. or Joseph Mercola, D.O., by paleo-conservatives, by Libertarians, and by America’s most famous living iconic liberal Democrat, Robert Kennedy Jr. (Obama is not a liberal.) Kennedy, the founder of Children’s Health Defense, has taken a heroic and robustly non-conformist stance. Affirming the democratic legacy of his famous martyred forbears, influenced by the past writings of Klein herself, Kennedy has rued the dereliction of the left and put his finger on the economic and political impediments to the realization of “American values” — the title of his political memoir.
Kennedy points out the tragic irony: Infatuated with the idols of Science and “public health” the left has forgotten its own bedrock principle—that corporate power and corporate money corrupt. Thus, with no hope of financial gain itself, the ideological left has allied itself with corrupt government agencies and corrupted government officials. Kennedy writes, “Slate and other liberal online publications including Salon, Huffington Post and Daily Beast customarily block articles that critique vaccine safety in order, they argue, to encourage vaccination and protect public health. Motivated by this noble purpose, the liberal media—the supposed antidote to corporate and government power—has helped insulate from scrutiny the burgeoning vaccine industry and its two regulators, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Both agencies have pervasive and potentially corrupting financial entanglements with the vaccine manufacturers, according to extensive congressional investigations.”
(11) https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines-and-the-liberal-mind/
As a result of this alliance citizens are being poisoned by their own government acting as a tool and a beneficiary of Big Pharma. The left itself, by its silence, and its cheerleading for “science” and vaccines has unwittingly aided in the cover-up of these crimes. Dr Anthony Fauci said “there is a general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country – an alarmingly large percentage of people..” https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/07/08/dr-fauci-says-individual-institutions-may-make-the-coronavirus-vaccine-mandatory/
Sadly much of the left seems to accept Fauci’s claim— they fail to realize that the critics of vaccines are not against science but against the pseudo-science that results from the corruption and greed of scientists.
This essay is thus a call to the left to affirm democracy and individual rights and take a stand against Big Pharma and mandatory vaccination, against bio-fascism. To do anything less is to betray the tradition of which the left is heir, from Jesus to Karl Marx to Eugene Debs —as champion of the rights of all human beings and critics of a system in which the elites mobilize the power of the State to pursue their own interests to the detriment of the demos, the citizenry. Today that means unmasking the pretensions of those who claim to act as guardians of the greater good of all, as agents of a “sanitary utopia” (Proctor, p.11) in which there is a vaccine for every conceivable illness– which every individual will be forced to take for the greater good.
The Nuremberg Code— The Defense of the Individual and Informed Consent
On December 9, 1946, after the defeat of the Nazis, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against 23 leading German doctors and administrators charged with crimes against humanity for their participation either in medical experiments against inmates in concentration camps, or in the Euthanasia Program, the extermination of those deemed mentally or physically defective.
General Telford Taylor who was Chief of Counsel during the “Doctors’ Trial” stated in his opening statement, “These defendants…are not ignorant men. Most of them are trained physicians and some of them are distinguished scientists. Yet these defendants, all of whom were fully able to comprehend the nature of their acts, and most of whom were exceptionally qualified to form a moral and professional judgment in this respect, are responsible for wholesale murder and unspeakably cruel tortures.” https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/doctors-trial/opening-statement/charges. These words underline a cautionary tale for those readers today who think doctors can do no wrong.
Several of the doctors on trial argued that their experiments were undertaken for the greater good of humanity. Before rendering their judgment, the judges felt compelled to respond to the argument of the defense that the experiments were undertaken “for the greater good.” The first principle of the Code on “medical experiments” was: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” And thus the code affirmed the right of, and spelled out the conditions for, truly informed consent (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-nuremberg-code). No collective goal however noble, can ever trump the rights of the individual. To put it in other terms, our bodies are not the property of the state. Nor of Bill Gates. We are not slaves. We are endowed with inalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—so says the tradition of which we as Americans are heirs.
The Nuremberg Code deals with medical experimentation—as we will see, vaccines are experimental because none of them had been safety- tested before the (corrupted) “regulatory” agency (CDC) gave them their approval. But the Nuremberg Code has since been expanded, The latest convention is the 2005 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights adopted by over 190 countries. It states: “Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information.” https://en.unesco.org/themes/ethics-science-and-technology/bioethics-and-human-rights. The mandatory vaccination of children is a violation of the right of informed consent. And the mandatory vaccination of adults with experimental vaccines now being implemented in the developed world is even more ominous.
As a dissident psychologist, for many years I have supported the right of informed consent, of freedom from torture and coercion, of two different groups whose autonomy was abrogated, whose bodies were violated by the State. I supported the rights of “mental patients” – many of whom now choose to call themselves “psychiatric survivors” — to resist the forced administration of toxic psychiatric drugs, authorized by the State and Psychiatry, subsidized by Big Pharma. And later, five years ago, I first discovered that there were “targeted individuals” (TIs), individuals who claimed (most, accurately) to be victims of “group stalking” or torture with “directed energy weapons” in the hands of US Intelligence or US military or rogue elements from these groups. (See my discussion The Psychiatric Metanarrative, Targeted Individuals, and the Deep State: A Response to The New York Times (https://everydayconcerned.net/2016/12/12/seth-farber-ph-d-the-psychiatric-metanarrative-targeted-individuals-and-the-deep-state-a-response-to-the-new-york-times/#Torture))
These claims are continually mocked by the mental health establishment and the corporate press, which claims the people reporting these attacks are really “paranoid-schizophrenics” who are hearing voices. In a lengthy article I excoriated the mental health establishment for its negligence in failing to examine the evidence (presented by TIs and whistle-blowers)—and thus wittingly or unwittingly participating in a cover-up. Finally in 2020 the United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur for Torture, Professor Nils Melzer affirmed that the technology that TIs claim has been used to torture them does indeed exist. Professor Melzer has met with Magnus Olsson, Director of EUCACH, the European Coalition Against Covert Harassment and recognizes that TIs are legitimate victims of cyber-torture. Professor Melzer is developing an international legal framework to regulate the use of cyber technologies and prevent the torture of innocent persons.
This country has a history of treating the bodies of its citizens as if they were the property of the state or the deep state. Americans have been subjected to nonconsensual experimentation, exploitation and (12) abuse about which they often receive no information–a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code. President Clinton apologized in the mid-90s to individuals and their surviving family members “who were harmed by human radiation experiments conducted by the federal government during the Cold War.” (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-10-04-9510040315-story.html) The MK-Ultra program of the CIA is the most infamous example of experiments performed on unwitting and /or involuntary subjects. The program involved more than 150 human experiments/tortures involving psychedelic drugs, paralytics and electroshock therapy. (https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra)
The right to informed consent, to control one’s own body, is under attack today–and parents have been robbed of the right to exercise the authority to determine which medical procedures their children will undergo. Vaccine mandates place the authority for determining what is best for children not in the hands of their parents, nor even of their personal physicians, but of government bureaucrats more committed to the interests of Big Pharma than to the well-being of children. Vaccine mandates became common between the late 1960s and 1970s. By 1980 all 50 states had required school vaccines for measles and several other vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. But there were only a few vaccines in 1980. (Reconsidering Compulsory Childhood Vaccination, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1677565)
Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and president of Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) wrote.
“As was the case in 1935, state-supported censorship and recent government decrees eviscerating fundamental parental rights and the professional judgment of medical doctors, have failed to raise protests from mainstream medicine, from the Ivy Towers of academia or from the corporate-controlled media. Instead, these powerful institutions are protecting their financial stake in the business of vaccines.”
(https://efvv.eu/content/mrs-vera-sharav)
Furthermore, something new and even more ominous has been occurring since COVID-19. With COVID-19 as pretext, the State is beginning to force toxic vaccines upon adults, upon all Americans. Vaccine evangelist and fanatic Bill Gates says he wants to force vaccines upon “almost” the entire world population. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/gates-and-companys-covid-19-vaccine-boosterism-ignores-significant-sars-coronavirus-vaccine-risks-known-for-over-a-decade) Del Bigtree, film producer and vaccine rights activist aptly said on his cable show, The Highwire, “Big Pharma is trying to take over the world.” This is not hyperbole.
The Autism Epidemic
The assault on informed consent by Big Pharma and the state began as soon as vaccines began to become popular—with vaccine mandates. Before we look at how the state came to preempt the rights of parents, I want to emphasize that in no sense is this a process of benevolent paternalism. Although the State claims to be acting in the interest of public health and the greater good, when it arrogates parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their children, the results indicate that it is acting to further the interests of Big Pharma and those in government who profit from sale of vaccines at the expense of children’s safety and health. Although mandates exist in all states, in some states (e,g., California, New York, Maine), religious exemptions have been eliminated and even medical exemptions are not left to child’s own physician but must conform to narrow criteria devised by Centers for Disease Control (CDC)— and the child’s doctor can be overruled by school officials (in NY) or government bureaucrats (CDC is the regulatory agency discussed below).
The most obvious and the most tragic consequence, albeit just one of many, of the domination of Big Pharma and the State over public health has been the autism epidemic. In the early 1980s, 1 in 10,000 children had autism; in 1989, 1 in 1,000; in 1999, 1 in 500; in 2000, 1 in 150; in 2008, 1 out of 88; in 2016:1 in 68. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/enough-already-autism-needs-to-be-declared-a-national-health-crisis/) Why the jump between the early 80s and 1989? According to Children’s Health Defense, in 1989, the CDC dramatically changed the vaccine schedule, increasing mercury exposures to American children from 70 to 237.5 mcg before age two. Even the EPA calls 1989 “The Gateway Year,” because of the epidemic of neurodevelopmental and immune system diseases that suddenly appeared in children born that year and afterward. (Later mercury was removed but aluminum was increased.)
In 1983 the CDC-recommended vaccine schedule was 22 doses of 7 vaccines by 6 years old. In 2017 it had more than doubled to 50 doses of 14 vaccines by age 6. From birth to 18 it jumped from 24 doses of 7 vaccines to 69 doses of 16 vaccines. (And more are on the way.) (https://www.nvic.org/cmstemplates/nvic/pdf/downloads/1983-2017-vaccine-schedules.pdf) And there are more children being vaccinated today and the load of toxins in the vaccines has increased exponentially. Thus, the mercury dosage tripled in the 1990s before it was replaced by aluminum.
Furthermore in 1983, the CDC directed doctors to give a child no more than 4 vaccines (DPT, polio) at one time. By 2013, the CDC directed a child can receive 8 or more vaccines at once.(https://www.nvic.org/cmstemplates/nvic/pdf/49-doses-posterb.pdf)
These numbers tell a very simple story. The autism epidemic began in the late 1980s after the enactment of National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) in 1986 –this is when the number of vaccines increased and the percentage of children taking vaccines increased most dramatically (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/cdc-still-paralyzed-by-autism-epidemic-report-shows-one-in-59-children-in-the-us-now-affected/).
There is scientific evidence–denied by CDC and the press– that vaccines cause autism among the most vulnerable, which I will discuss below. But for the casual observer I think the strongest evidence that vaccines cause autism comes from two sources. First, is the verdict of common sense. Is it purely coincidental that the incidence of autism increases with the number of toxic vaccines to which children are subjected and with the number of children taking the vaccines as a result of government mandates, i.e. coercion?
Second, is the testimony of parents, chiefly mothers—most of whom regard themselves not as “anti-vaxxers” but “ex-vaxxers.” These were people who trusted vaccines, who trusted their doctors, but who later became convinced on the basis of their experiences with their own autistic infants that they had been injured by vaccines. They believed, they trusted, they were betrayed –by their government, by pediatricians who never warned them of the risks and who often coaxed them to vaccinate if they manifested “vaccine hesitancy.” And thus, these mothers became the mass base and the backbone of the movement against vaccine mandates.
Their voices can be heard in the movie Vaxxed 2 (not Vaxxed). It is a painful movie to watch, but it presents the most powerful argument against vaccines– or at least against the promiscuous use of them mandated by Centers for Disease Control– that I’ve seen or read, more so than any text, or scientific study. They are interviewed by Polly Tommey, a former actress and mother of an autistic child, who traveled across the country interviewing people for the film.
One after another the parents speak, and all tell the same story of innocence destroyed: a happy precocious child who had one jab too many and he/she regressed forever into an agonizing scarcely human autistic state. This is the archetypal myth of Garden of Eden, the loss of paradisaical innocence. And in the movie one actually sees the innocent pre-injury baby (e,.g., “home movies” –videos– taken of joyous babies before the event) and then one sees a withdrawn tormented baby and one sees these anguished parents fixated on images of their happy baby before the vaccination, burdened with regret and guilt and haunted forever by the memory of a happy curious baby–before the Fall—, haunted by their dreams of what might have been, if only they had listened to their own gut feeling, and not their doctor.
Polly is herself an ex-vaxxer. As she told us in the previous Vaxxed movie, when her “hippie” mother warned her that vaccines were dangerous, she scoffed, “Oh Mother, don’t be ridiculous. If vaccines were harmful it would be on the front page of The New York Times, my pediatrician would be calling me up to warn me.” Now Polly is a leading activist, a close ally of Robert Kennedy Jr.
In Vaxxed 2, Polly interviews not only parents whose infants were seriously damaged (mostly autistic) by the vaccines but also teenagers who were crippled by the vaccine for human papillomavirus given to kids between 9 and 26, recently expanded to 46 yrs old. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/molecular-mimicry-body-confusion-of-self-and-non-self-more-evidence-on-hpv-vaccines-and-autoimmunity/).
This vaccine is largely responsible for an increase in infant mortality (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/childrens-health/sudden-cardiac-deaths-in-young-people/)
She described the experience of the film crew: “What we saw, none of us were prepared for….We knew there was a problem with autism… but nothing prepared us for what I described as a war zone out here in America. It was like a blood bath of death and injury. It was literally like walking out onto a battlefield…. But the death, the dead babies, the dead toddlers, the dead teenagers…—all this death was being silenced…[N]othing but death, destruction, paralysis, injury beyond belief here in America.”
We will discuss below how and why the State came to abdicate its regulatory function. What I want to do first is to convey a sense of the scope of the tragedy with which many Americans are living and of which most of us are unaware primarily because of the role of the government and the press in covering it up.
Robert Kennedy Jr. describes the characteristics of the autistic–the majority are severe cases, not the cases on the “mild” end of Autistic Spectrum Disorder that used to be called Asperger’s. “Twenty-five percent will be non-verbal. Half of them are prone to wandering. Thirty percent have seizures. Many of them will have horrific bowel disease and classic sleep disorders. Most of them will have extreme light and noise sensitivities. They will focus on spinning objects. They will endlessly repeat phrases (Echolalia). They will read without understanding (Hyperlexia). Their heads may be enlarged (Macrocephaly). They will be unable to point their finger or engage in eye contact.” (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/autism-epidemic-real/)
Let’s look at a typical autism case, Hannah Bruesewitz, whose suit against Big Pharma was rejected by the Supreme Court in 2011, described poignantly by her father. Hannah was a normal child–at 6 months old in 1992 she was given her 3rd DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) shot. That evening shortly after putting Hannah to bed, her mother heard her scream. Her mother rushed in and found her in the midst of a grand mal seizure. Hannah was soon on her way “to the first of many hospitalizations.” (Bruesewitz, p.105) Hannah remained in ICU for several days. The first hospital stay lasted 15 days during which Hannah had over 125 seizures. Her father writes, “To this day, I look back at that time as one of watching the light go out of my daughter’s eyes, a light that has never returned” (Ibid, p106)
Over the next 16 months hospitalization was required whenever a succession of seizures would not stop. Hannah “progressed physically, but she was regressing cognitively.” When it was necessary to give her Valium to stop the seizures, she became agitated in response, screaming and “flailing” so that her parents had to put a cage top on her crib for her safety. When not agitated, her demeanor was “flat and expressionless,” no longer smiling as she did in the past. (Ibid, p.106) Any vocabulary she had was lost. Finally, in 2011 the Supreme Court ruled that Hannah had no right to sue the manufacturers because vaccines were “unavoidably unsafe” and therefore the manufacturers deserved complete immunity—a non-sequitur delivered by a callous corporate friendly Court, with 2 dissenting judges (p.113)
Encephalitis or brain inflammation is common after vaccine injections. “High-pitched crying inconsolable screaming head banging, rocking, seizures, convulsions, and staring episodes…are all indications of brain inflamation.” (Colbin, p.283) Russell Blaylock MD notes that after a series of vaccinations babies will cry in a “very pitched tone” that often will continue for weeks or months along with lethargy and poor eating. These symptoms are “secondary to brain inflammation – resulting in what we call an encephalitic cry” ( https//www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/vaccines-brain-development-and-autism-dr-russell-blaylock-md)
Parents know that cry well. It is because of the permanent brain inflamation that autistic children often repeatedly bang their head against a wall–as if they are trying to put the fire out.
Robert Kennedy Jr. knows well their plight. Kennedy, an environmentalist and lawyer, best known because of his revered father Robert F. Kennedy and uncle, President John F. Kennedy Jr., was beseeched by mothers of vaccine-injured children 15 years ago to take up their cause and after he investigated their claims he decided they were right. So, Kennedy, an extremely eloquent and erudite intellectual, heroically risked his reputation and friendships to become the leader and spokesman of a controversial highly maligned cause—- probably the only person of his stature to become an “anti-vaxxer,” as he is contemptuously termed by the press. Bobby, as he is usually called by friends and supporters, described their nightmare eloquently in an interview, “Just spend some time with a child who has severe autism. Life for these children is an endless agonizing progression of twilight and terror. The tormenting gut aches, excruciating sensory sensitivities, the serial head banging and screaming, the isolation and perpetual joylessness. The entire family is permanently devastated. Now multiply that by ten million.” (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/mercury-vaccines-cdcs-worst-nightmare/)
Autistic children remain imprisoned for life in their own private hell. What kind of country is this where our own government allows children to be poisoned so that Big Pharma can make billions of dollars and pediatricians and government bureaucrats can pad their incomes? And what is the rationale? So Johnny does not get measles? It is not only those who oppose vaccines who are pilloried but even those doctors or parents who want to modify the schedule (24-25 injections by age 2) are likely to incur the wrath of the establishment.
Of course, CDC says this is all for health of the children. Dr. Russell Blaylock MD responds, “And I can assure the elite of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC that over one million autistic children far exceeds the danger measles, mumps, diphtheria, chickenpox, tetanus, rotavirus, HiB meningitis and hepatitis pose to our youth. Also, keep in mind that for every fully autistic child, there are ten times that many with lesser degrees of impairment.” (https://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/vaccines-brain-development-and-autism-dr-russell-blaylock-md)
But the physical agony of the child and the loss of an opportunity for a ordinary life is not the only cost Americans pay to enrich their doctors and Big Pharma. Katie Wright, mother of an autistic child, describes the life of the autistic family. “These families often have siblings who watch their ASD brother bang his head with a closed fist. Parents and siblings sometimes endure hours of screaming meltdowns while frantically trying to soothe the child with autism.” Families rarely get a normal night’s sleep. Socializing is often impossible. “Family events or trips to a restaurant or park can quickly go from good to bad,” requiring a sudden departure. The finances of these families are drained by autism-related expenditures. Near death experiences due to seizures are common. “Parents often live in a permanent “fight or flight” mode. Careers are curtailed, marriages ruined, vacations not taken, and siblings’ college plans go unfunded.” (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/natures-a-primer-in-autism-ignores-pain-and-illness-of-individuals-with-autism-katie-wright-sounds-off/)
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act–Crimes against Humanity
In the 1960s, the federal government began to assume the role of establishing vaccine immunization policy. Government experts within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adopted the goal of eradicating infectious disease. The federal government arranged for the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) which first met in 1964. ACIP was created under the Public Health Service Act to “assist states in the prevention and control of communicable diseases” (Holland, 2010 p.16). Its charter required it to prepare a list of vaccines for federal subsidy. States today under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act adopt the ACIP-recommended vaccines for vaccine schedules for children.
Previous to the creation of ACIP, vaccine mandates were rare and used in emergencies–in accord with Supreme Court’s 1905 Jacobson v Massachusetts’ ruling, But ACIP has created an “infrastructure” that pushes mandates for any and every ostensible vaccine-preventable illness. Thus, as multiple vaccines were required for school attendance in all 50 states, the number of children injured by vaccines began increasing.(https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccine-mandates-results-dont-safeguard-childrens-rights-or-health-how-did-we-get-here/) Because the costs of paying for the damages to vaccine-injured children were high, Big Pharma threatened to stop manufacturing vaccines. According to Holland this is why the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) was passed. “The rationale for this protection of industry was to ensure a stable childhood vaccine supply and to keep vaccine prices affordable.” (p.22)
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) passed in 1986 was a watershed for Big Pharma. The vaccine supply at the time the Act was passed was comprised of the seven vaccines children then received – polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella. ACIP now recommends 70 doses of 16 vaccines to children, including vaccines for diseases rarely fatal in the United States, such as varicella and rotavirus, and diseases not contagious through ordinary social contact, such as hepatitis B and human papilloma virus. (Holland, p26). Clearly the Act let loose forces that were more interested in making money than ensuring a safe and stable vaccine supply: The more vaccines, the more money. For Big Pharma the Act triggered “a new gold rush,” as Kennedy Jr put it.
The Act granted pharmaceutical companies blanket immunity from liability for injuries and deaths resulting from all childhood vaccines that were on the ACIP’s recommended childhood schedule –- “no matter how toxic the ingredients, how negligent the manufacturer or how grievous the harm,” as Kennedy put it. (Kennedy, Jr. RF. “Vaccines and the liberal mind.” Children’s Health Defense, June 14, 2018. https:// childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines-and-the-liberal-mind/)
The law enabled Big Pharma to avoid the kind of rigorous and costly safety testing required for other drugs, and removed the potential penalties involved in marketing vaccines that were harmful. Further it “also removed lawyers, judges and courts from their traditional roles as guardians of vaccine safety.” Since the law’s passage, Big Pharma’s revenues from vaccines have skyrocketed from a mere $1 billion to $44 billion. (Ibid). The Bill unwittingly created the conditions for what became a war not so much on diseases but on children, a war on American citizens by their own government in league with the pharmaceutical industry.
(Kennedy, Jr. RF. “Vaccines and the liberal mind.” Children’s Health Defense, June 14, 2018. https:// childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines-and-the-liberal-mind)
NCVIA also created a system of government compensation for vaccine injuries and deaths, National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), commonly referred to as Vaccine Court. The state itself, Department of Health and Human Services, is the respondent of all vaccine injury claims. (Holland,p.21) The Vaccine Court accorded victims at best a tiny amount of what could be attained in a civil trial– for example, a maximum of a mere quarter million dollars for a child’s death resulting from a vaccine.
As the number of mandated childhood vaccines skyrocketed, so did deaths and injuries. And although it is estimated that only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported, the financial strain on Vaccine Court (subsidized by the American taxpayer) led it to be more reluctant to grant compensation than was initially planned. Thus in the 3 decades since its creation only one third of the petitioners (1% of the injured)`have been compensated, at a total of $4 billion– the tip of the iceberg of immense suffering (CHD, 2018, p.5).
A large part of the reason for this debacle was because the laws that applied to childhood vaccination mandates did nothing to establish neutral and conscientious regulatory agencies, an absolutely essential measure to protect the public in light of Big Pharma’s exemption from liability. It was not only that the regulatory agencies were captured, i.e., staffed by persons with egregious conflicts of interest—worse, these agencies became part of the vaccine industry, subsidiaries of Big Pharma. Thus the members of these agencies mobilized all the powers of the state in order to further the interests of the pharmaceutical industry. (Kennedy, Jr. RF. “Vaccines and the liberal mind.” Children’s Health Defense, June 14, 2018. https:// childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines-and-the-liberal-mind)
The Act located “vaccine promotion, safety and compensation” under one umbrella at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Holland, p25), as if organizations involved in the promotion of vaccines could at the same time be entrusted to protect the safety of children! The seeds of corruption were implanted from the start. The result, as Holland noted, was that promotion of vaccines and other profit-making activities, not the safety and welfare of children, came to be the priority of the government agencies–of HHS, FDA, CDC and ACIP. The main regulatory agency for vaccines, Centers for Disease Control was aptly described by Kennedy as a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/mercury-vaccines-cdcs-worst-nightmare) The result of these developments was one of the great American tragedies of the 20th century– the most severe health crisis in modern American history. It must also be described as one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century state against its own citizens.
The Act located “vaccine promotion, safety and compensation” under one umbrella at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Holland, p25), as if organizations involved in the promotion of vaccines could at the same time be entrusted to protect the safety of children!
Dr. Seth Farber | Big Pharma, Mandatory Vaccination and the Emerging Bio-Fascist State
Those very groups that Americans assumed were their most trustworthy protectors betrayed their moral mandate. Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and President of the Alliance for Human Research Protection wrote: “Public health officials and the medical profession have abrogated their professional, public, and human responsibility, by failing to honestly examine the iatrogenic harm caused by expansive, indiscriminate, and increasingly aggressive vaccination policies” (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccine-program-betrayal-public-trust-institutional-corruption-part-3-7/)
Thus, as Holland observed, there was inadequate safety testing; under-compensation of vaccine-injured children; failure to inform parents about the risks of vaccines—on the other hand, parents were subjected to severe penalties for non-compliance with vaccination mandates (Holland, 24-5). Even when religious exemptions exist, courts have sometimes found parents liable for child neglect –they have mandated child removal and forced vaccination of children in families who have asserted religious objections. (Holland, pp13-4)
Barbara Loe Fisher, a vaccine-safety activist also noted that DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) was not a neutral body–no wonder safety was never prioritized: “It is a conflict of interest for DHHS to be in charge of vaccine safety and also license vaccines, and take money from drug companies to fast-track vaccines, and partner with drug companies to develop and share profits from vaccine sales, and make national vaccine policies that get turned into state vaccine laws….” (https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/September-2014/Remove-Vaccine-Safety-Oversight-From-DHHS.aspx)
Each government agency failed to fulfill its role in protecting the safety of children for predictable reasons. The FDA is responsible for the initial licensing phase of the vaccines, and the specific FDA committee charged with vaccine licensing is the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC.) There was an investigation of VRBPAC by the US Government Reform Committee of Congress and they concluded, “The overwhelming majority of members, “both voting members and consultants, “have substantial ties to the pharmaceutical industries,” which is making huge profits on those vaccines. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/frequently-asked-questions) Thus it is no wonder that toxic vaccines were licensed.
Once FDA approves a vaccine, it goes over to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and they decide whether or not to add that vaccine to the schedule of mandated vaccines. In 2000, an investigation by the US Government Reform Committee of the United States Congress found the same kind of conflicts of interest in CDC as they had initially found in FDA. In 2009 nothing had changed. A government report in 2009 concluded that most of the experts who served on advisory panels to evaluate whether vaccines were safe had “potential conflicts of interest that were never resolved….Some were legally barred from considering the issue but did so anyway” “Most of the advisers ..had either a job or a grant from a {pharmaceutical] company or other entity whose interests were affected by the committees’ discussions, and a considerable number also owned stock in such companies.” (Harris Gardiner, Dec 17, 2009.)
Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts, Report Says (https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/health/policy/18cdc.html) (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/frequently-asked-questions)
To call the CDC a captured agency would be an understatement. It is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/mercury-vaccines-cdcs-worst-nightmare) It is “a major player in the vaccine marketplace”: It buys half of all childhood vaccines in the U.S. and then sells them at a profit to public health agencies through the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program, which pushes free and low-cost vaccines on indigent children. Over the past three decades, the CDC’s vaccine purchases have increased 15-fold, as the number of vaccines children are mandated to take has skyrocketed–while vaccine companies have raked in the profits. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/close-ties-and-financial-entanglements-the-cdc-guaranteed-vaccine-market/)
A 2017 analysis of Google patents results showed that the CDC held 56 patents pertaining to various aspects of vaccine development, manufacturing, delivery and adjuvants. By April 2019, a new search found CDC held155 patents, and a separate legal website display, both vaccine- and non-vaccine-related. The author of the 2017 analysis suggests that the large number of patents held by the CDC “deserves an in-depth review to determine exactly what current financial relationships with vaccine makers now exist and what…current impact those revenue streams are likely having on vaccine safety positions” (Conflicts, p.12).
To call the CDC a captured agency would be an understatement. It is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/mercury-vaccines-cdcs-worst-nightmare) It is “a major player in the vaccine marketplace”: It buys half of all childhood vaccines in the U.S. and then sells them at a profit to public health agencies through the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program, which pushes free and low-cost vaccines on indigent children.
DR. SETH FARBER | BIG PHARMA, MANDATORY VACCINATION AND THE EMERGING BIO-FASCIST STATE
Robert Kennedy Jr aptly asked, “So the American people have to wonder, are the scheduled vaccines that CDC is advising them to take, which become mandatory under state law, are those being added to advance public health or..because..somebody is making a profit from them?” (Wilcox 2018, p.122)
As the vaccine program expanded and as the state was brought in to promote vaccines and to coerce parents into vaccinating, it was increasingly important to obtain the cooperation of the medical establishment which helped to “manufacture consent”– the consent of the pediatricians who promoted and administered the vaccines, and of the parents mandated to submit their children to an ever growing number of vaccines. This manufacture of consent has been accomplished to an unprecedented degree. CHD writes, “The powerful vaccine “gospel” has swept up regulators, medical trade associations, physicians, science journals, the popular press and others “in a kind of consensus dogma” that has become “more important than the children [these institutions were] supposed to protect.” (p1 Conflicts.)
But above all, doctors, the secular priesthood in modern society, lent these programs a facade of legitimacy. Vera Sharav, holocaust survivor and president of Alliance for Human Research Protection wrote, “The plight of thousands [millions] of real children, who have suffered irreversible neurological harm following the administration of multiple vaccinations simultaneously, is willfully ignored by the medical establishment…” Worse it is the medical establishment which manufactures consent, by insisting that ”vaccines are safe and effective” (https://ahrp.org/beware-of-medicine-marching-in-lockstep-with-government-personal-reflections/)
In addition to the steady stream of customers generated by the vaccine schedule, pediatricians are given financial incentives per fully vaccinated child in their practice by insurance companies. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-normalization-of-corruption-big-pharma-takes-tobacco-tactics-to-a-new-level/) Blue Cross Blue Shield Compensation and Bonus Program for pediatricians provided a $40 bonus to the pediatrician for every on-time vaccine up to $400 per child. A typical medical practice could include 1500 children which would be a half million dollar annual incentive to vaccinate according to the schedule and not to ask too many questions about safety. Even worse, the program punishes doctors who fail to fully vaccinate at least 63% of their practice on time. Those doctors lose 100% of the bonus.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) benefits substantially from pharmaceutical industry advertisements in their affiliated medical journals, with advertising representing anywhere from a tenth to a third of the organization’s total revenues. The AAP receives funding from Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK and others. Considering its revenue from Big Pharma ads, it’s not surprising that AAP journal Pediatrics has led the way in promoting strategies to overcome “vaccine hesitancy” among parents: Parental refusal to vaccinate or their decision to “delay” and spread out the injections (to not give the child so many vaccines in a short window of time) are viewed as if they were manifestations of psychopathology, rather than informed rational choices (Children’s Health Defense, 2018, p.29).
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) benefits substantially from pharmaceutical industry advertisements in their affiliated medical journals, with advertising representing anywhere from a tenth to a third of the organization’s total revenues. The AAP receives funding from Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK and others.
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The 1986 Law has revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry and the vaccine program. Big Pharma revenues from vaccines has grown from a $170 million industry in the early 1980s to $60 billion in 2019. (https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2019/2/20/jb-handley-is-there-a-path-to-end-the-autism-epidemic). Thanks largely to no-liability-vaccines the pharmaceutical industry is now the most profitable industry in the U.S. In a single year in the early 2000s, “the combined profits of the ten largest drug companies in the Fortune 500 had higher net profits, of $35.9 billion more than all the other 490 companies [in the Fortune 500] combined. This translated into political power: “There are more full-time pharmaceutical industry lobbyists on Capitol Hill than there are legislators in both Houses of Congress” (Holland, 2010, p36).
The collusion of medical establishment, government, and Big Pharma in promoting vaccines is exactly what occurred after the passage of the 1986 NCVIA Act. The state stepped in to protect the private sector, then “regulatory” agencies were created that were in the vaccine business, and promoted vaccines. Doctors were co-opted. Since Pharma is allowed to advertise on television the media was co-opted. But what makes the Vaccine dogmas so impregnable, and transformed vaccine critics into a figure of derision in the public eye, even on the anti-corporate left, is the virtual consecration of vaccines as elixirs of “public health” by the press and the medical establishment––even as they make children sicker and sicker. “Vaccines cured small pox and polio”–this is part of the catechism many people will scream at you – if you express any doubt about the 72 injections children are given today.
Dr. Richard Moskowitz, pediatrician and author, writes, “Most doctors nevertheless continue to believe what the CDC tells them, that vaccines are uniformly safe and effective, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that they are inherently unsafe…. This, I submit, is not science, but scientism, a blind dogmatism and quasi-religious faith that whatever passes for science at the moment is the absolute truth, beyond question or doubt, to which everyone must pledge allegiance, the main result of which is to stifle the critical thinking, questioning, and doubting of seemingly settled truths that real science requires.” (https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/01/dr-richard-moskowitz-md-on-anti-vaxxers.html)
(To Be Contd. Part Two and Part Three of this article to follow shortly.)
The other references are in the article. I listed Blaylock here because his article is on multiple sites.
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RESPONSE TO DR JEFFREY SCHALER, PhD
Jeff Schaler is or was a friend, but unlike most other Libertarians(see Lew Rockwell, https://www.lewrockwell.com/) he devoutly believes in vaccines .In fact, it is a quasi-religious belief in his case that cannot be changed by any amount of evidence. Let me go through a few of his misunderstandings.
First, I am NOT against capitalism–just against a monopoly capitalist system in which a few large corporations and a small elite dominate the government. The purpose of regulatory agencies is to monitor corporations and ensure that public health is not subordinated to corporate interests –today the integrity of these agencies has been undermined if not destroyed due to their subordination to the pharmaceutical industry. Why are they thus subordinated? .Because these agencies have been infiltrated by the very interests they are supposed to regulate–and the government itself has been largely captured by big corporations.
Jeff says I have a ” crazy belief” that Big Pharma is being protected by our government. Crazy? The purpose of a regulatory regime is to prevent corporations, particularly large ones, from endangering the public welfare, If this was not a danger, there would be no CDC, no FDA, no EPA—no need for them. If human beings were angels we would not need regulations, but we know this is not the case: large corporations have made billions of dollars marketing products (eg cigarettes) that endanger public welfare and cause injuries and deaths The regulatory agencies were not/are not doing their job. Furthermore the US government has taken on (through their “Vaccine court” ) the financial burden of (partially) compensating individuals who are damaged by vaccines.
Jeff mocks me for implying “the only reason state health agencies advocate vaccination against disease is because they are paid to do so by big pharma.” I did not say it was the only reason– I said the persons in regulatory agencies are financially well- rewarded for helping Big Pharma to legitimize and sell vaccines. Thus Big Pharma is being regulated by individuals whose salaries are largely augmented by financial rewards from the industry–Big Pharma—they are supposedly regulating. What an egregious conflict of interests! These regulators are effectively part of the industry they are supposedly regulating— they provide a front for Big Pharma, and protect it from real regulation.
We need regulators who do not get financial rewards from the industry they are supposedly regulating. Maybe Jeff could collect millions of dollars from Big Pharma and still restrain them from selling poisonous drugs, but most doctors cannot—or so the record shows. Thus, their ability of these watchdog agencies to monitor the industry and protect the public interest is severely compromised. The public deserves better than this from government.
My point is simple—the purpose of regulation, its very raison d’etre, is vitiated if regulatory agencies are staffed by persons who have a financial interest in the profits of the industry they are supposed to regulate. This is not a Marxist theory, as Ron seems to think –this is common sense.
Jeff asserts that “government and science are [not] complete stooges of business. Your pronouncements are irresponsible and without evidence. Moreover, they can harm the uninformed, despite your reckless hiding behind the welfare of children.” My entire essay shows that government has indeed become a “stooge” of the vaccine industry. Read the transcript from the famous Simpsonwood conference—attended by the doctors who supposedly regulate Big Pharma– quoted in my essay. It demonstrate that the persons in our regulatory agencies do not place the health of the public uppermost in their mind.
My article focused on the beginning phase of the sabotage of regulatory process—when they made the decision to keep mercury in vaccines. (Later they were forced to change this because Congress was less corrupt back then.) I urge skeptical readers to read the excerpts from Kennedy’s article on the more recent decision in 2012 or read the text of the 2012 meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), which is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) internal panel that licensed most new vaccines as “safe and effective.”
It should be noted that VRBAC’s “independent” vaccine panel members often share vaccine patents with the pharmaceutical companies whose products they are evaluating.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-cancer-cells-in-vaccines/
These doctors knew they were taking a risk by allowing Big Pharma to “put both human fetal cells and adult human tumor cells in vaccines. Both types have cancer risks. …” Kennedy continues: “This 2012 VRBPAC meeting perfectly illustrates the reckless, malevolent and murderous zeitgeist underlying the Pharma/HHS [i.e., government] partnership. VRBPAC’s “devil-may-care” decision-making allowed pharmaceutical companies to use potentially cancerous fetal cells to make millions of vaccines..Since that meeting, vaccines containing cancerous cells …have become pervasive among the 72 doses
of vaccines that FDA has approved, and CDC ‘recommends’ for American children..” .
The VRBPC recommended that “if a child gets cancer years later, the industry is protected from a lawsuit by government laws.” .Millions of potentially cancer-causing vaccines will be produced—and given thumbs up by the regulatory agencies. VRBPAC’s “independent” vaccine panel members are heavily invested in the vaccine industry
“(https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-cancer-cells-in-vaccines/)
When I told Jeff about this, he wrote, “cancer cells do not cause cancer.” But the medical doctors(Jeff is not a medical doctor) at the meeting thought they would–or they might. Many thought they did. But all of them agreed it was worth the gamble. There are many statements made in the transcript of the meeting o the VRBPAC indicating these doctor knew the vaccines carried a risk of cancer—and yet they approved that they be given to children.
.At the VRPAC meeting, Philip Krause said: “We have really identified three major factors that could potentially convey risk from tumor-derived cells. And these include the cells themselves … and if they were tumor-derived cells then maybe they themselves could form (cancerous) tumors in a vaccine recipient.” Doug Lowy acknowledged this when he said: “What I think is qualitatively different about the tumor cell lines is the fact that they can cause tumors.” Dr Robert Daum said, “So I’m not sure that we can give a certainty there’s no risk — don’t worry about this …
It’s sort of a brave new world. We’re all doing it together. But I think that you are doing a beautiful job.” These depraved doctors who are entrusted with our health and the health of our children belong in prison!
(https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-cancer-cells-in-vaccines).
And it’s time Dr Schaler stop making excuses for them. AS Kennedy put it,”We are all lab rats in their high-risk population-wide experiment.”
Jeff’s response to me was mostly name calling. First of all, I am not “follower” of Kennedy. Jeff would like to reduce this to an argument against a Kennedy cult or a Marxist sect but to date the largest organized political tendency against these vaccines in New York are Libertarians, whose spokesperson Ron Paul MD is staunchly opposed to vaccines. People of diverse political persuasion, are affirming their right to decline dangerous vaccines. Jeff is also a Libertarian –formally I believe, The American “far” left is pro-vaccine—thus betraying its values. The majority of Green Party members are pro-vaccine.. Chomsky is pro-vaccine, Naomi Klein is pro-vaccine, Nader is pro-vaccine etc. (Not that the vaccine dissidents are necessarily against all vaccines) So this is not a “left-wing” or a “right-wing” issue—this was one of the main point of my essay.
Jeff writes, ”And for the record, I am a developmental psychologist, with both Masters and Doctoral degrees in the same. You and other anti-vaccination nuts pronounce without concrete evidence that mercury-based vaccines cause autism….
Let me say first Jeff since since you make this very puerile and pompous attack on my authority that your own teacher and role-model, Dr Thomas Szasz, wrote a 5 page Foreword to my first book, Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt against the Mental Health System, published by Open Court in 1993. I am not a disciple of Robert Kennedy. But he is the most well known articulate knowledgeable American opposing forced-vaccination. But there are people all over the country who oppose it. You have deluded yourself that it is only Kennedy, me and a tiny group of cultists who oppose mandatory vaccination.
If you read Lew Rockwell’s magazine—the best Libertarian magazine in the country— you would know hundreds of writers, doctors and scientists are opposed to these toxic Covid-19 vaccines You write, “Most intelligent people I’ve sent your latest creed to agree that you are a nut.” Have you no shame, Jeff? These kinds of puerile ad hominem arguments are embarrassing.
Jeff writes: “What are your graduate degrees in? The specfics, please. Where from? What are Kennedy’s in? Take a look at the article by his nephew, Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, MD, in today’s New York Times. It’s not the first time members of the Kennedy family have distanced themselves from RFK, Jr.”
For the record, I got my Master’s at New School and my PhD in psychology from an unconventional place you probably never heard of, but it is accredited by WASC and APA — I hasten to add because you are very obsessed with credentials. I also studied family therapy with leaders in the field.— I’m not going to cater any further to this juvenilia. ( My modest website: http://www.sethHfarber.com) Next time you’re in town we can engage in a pissing contest Jeff to see who can piss the farthest
“It appears you would have people other than parents decide what is best for their children.”
It evidently appears so only in your fervid imagination, Jeff. I never said THAT That’s not reality. I believe parents not professionals, not agents of the state, should make the decisions about their children’s medical care.
“If you tried to step in between what I thought was best for my children and grandchildren, I would shoot you, without hesitation. You are walking on dangerous ground. Repent.”
Jeff, I don’t think psychotherapy is a panacea for the problems of living but this kind of delusional statement is crazy. Get help.
Best,
Seth Farber, PhD.
http://www.sethHfarber.com
Thank you, Ramola. I appreciate your reply and I look forward to Dr Farber’s response. You and he are opening a very important public discussion.
Kindly, Jeff Schaler
Hi Dr. Schaler,
I understand Dr. Seth Farber will be posting his own response to your comment soon but I would like to make a few responses and to note, as I should have in a separate comment or Preface introducing this brilliant article, that this is a profoundly important examination of the history of anti-science vaccination policy currently rampant in the CDC and federal government. Anti-science because it ignores clear data of harm, as the entire Simpsonwood conference proceedings–described here, and in earlier analyses by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health Impact News and many others–openly publish. Note Dr. Roger Bernier’s admonition to Dr. Verstraeten to keep the science silent, in order to keep the “vaccination policy” built on shaky ground going.
I personally have learned a great deal from this analysis and look forward to publishing Parts Two and Three of this very important article. COVID-19 is both a hoax and a cover; it appears from your comment that you have not kept abreast of the discovery on this fake pandemic which by the way The New York Times does not publish, since it is a paper committed to Govt-run propaganda on many fronts. There are many great health websites publishing on COVID-19; please feel free to begin exploring some of this vital information starting with the articles at this website, where I strive to feature the voices and work of the most important doctors, nurses, researchers, scholars as well as my own. Newsbreak 81 at my video channel Ramola D Reports offers some very important information on this worldwide WHO-run “pandemic” drill. Indeed, feel free to check out the many interviews at Ramola D Reports on what COVID-19 really is, including the 12 Saturday News Panels featuring vital discussions with intellectuals and activists.
Finally, the COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous on several counts, also covered to some extent at this site–please explore the articles and videos posted here; I will write more on this myself as I examine the data and I will feature the voices of those doctors and researchers who are speaking out. Parents should be the arbiters of choice regarding every health decision including vaccines for their children; this is Dr. Farber’s view as expressed in this article and mine too. Health does not come from vaccination, just as cancer cannot be cured with chemotherapy; the great truth which all natural health practitioners know is that health and immunity, cancer cures and cures for every disease can be found in naturopathy, ancient herbal medicines, essential oils, aromatherapy, homeopathy, energy practices, spiritual practices and other such, along the continuum of Nature and Energy healing. I encourage you to explore these, and stop reading The New York Times, which upholds the dis-ease-creations of the pharmaceutical industry, also upheld by the CDC, WHO and federal government.
Dr. Seth Farber, far from being a nut, is an invaluably openminded scholar who is able to address the entire panorama of missteps in American health care from a researcher’s tireless search for truth in a minefield of politics, profit, and darker eugenicist agendas wrapped up in the miasmic spectre of “Public Health”–available in discovery to anyone who delves into the whole history of where on earth Public Health comes from in America and runs into the rock-hard deviltry of the Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund & the Tavistock Institute in their drive towards eugenicist depopulation, neuro-degradation of humans (which vaccines achieve, in infancy), and mass behavior-modification of humans (achieved with forcing adult American compliance with deadly vaccination policies).
Thank you for opening this discussion but I hope you will research further.
Best,
Ramola D
Publisher, The Everyday Concerned Citizen
Reporter, Ramola D Reports at Youtube/Bitchute/Brighteon
Make no mistake, I like Seth Farber. He is a friend, and I consider him a very kind and smart guy. However, as he more than anyone knows, I strongly disagree with what I consider his VERY delusional thinking regarding vaccination, and anti-capitalism, not to forget his crazy beliefs regarding a link between big pharma and government—as if the only reason state health agencies advocate vaccination against disease is because they are paid to do so by big pharma. Of course, business and government are in bed with one another, just as church and state are entangled with one another. Perhaps we need to include that in the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of business. As Tom Szasz and I have advocated years ago, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of medicine.” We meant psychiatric medicine. Good luck, Seth. The state depends on business, not religion. There is a difference. Contrary to what you say, Seth, this does not mean that government and science are complete stooges of business. Your pronouncements are irresponsible and without evidence. Moreover, they can harm the uninformed, despite your reckless hiding behind the welfare of children.
As I have said to you before, you present absolutely no evidence to support any of your paranoid and delusional (not mental illness!) arguments against vaccination — evidence whatsoever. Neither has your apparent mentor, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. There is no epidemic of autism. I don’t think you or he even know what autism is – a developmental disorder, not a disease. And for the record, I am a developmental psychologist, with both Masters and Doctoral degrees in the same. You and other anti-vaccination nuts pronounce without concrete evidence that mercury-based vaccines cause autism. Yet, researcher disagree. You and Kennedy are on a fool’s mission. Moreover, you are damaging any credibility as a psychologist you may have left.
It is time to retire your tired hysteria, Seth. Moreover, your reckless rhetoric will lead to more deaths among the uninformed, especially when you cite you try to cite your credentials. What are your graduate degrees in? The specfics, please. Where from? What are Kennedy’s in? Take a look at the article by his nephew, Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, MD, in today’s New York Times. It’s not the first time members of the Kennedy family have distanced themselves from RFK, Jr.
Fortunately, most intelligent people I’ve sent your latest creed to agree that you are a nut. As one colleague of mine, a professor of social work and expert on Sir Karl Popper said, “Farber gives critical thinking a bad name.” Another Szaszian colleague says “nobody is perfect.” Another says “[Farber] is a bit of a nut.” To which I replied, “a complete nut.” That you would associate yourself with my late friend and colleague Thomas Szasz is bizarre. Tom would have dismissed your recent “typings” as crazy. Other colleagues of Tom’s say the same thing. You’ve gone ‘round the bend, Seth.
All of this pseudo-concern regarding children is nonsense, Seth. That’s what evil politicians always hide behind: “It’s for the children.” You are now the very evil person you criticize and attack. Speaking as one psychologist to another, it’s all a projection, Seth.
As I have written and said elsewhere, (Cf. https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/august-2012/mental-health-law), there are three conditions where medical treatment may ethically and legally proceed without consent: When a person is literally unconscious, when a person is literally contagious (to protect others), and literal children and the elderly who are not competent to understand the consequences of refusing treatment. Tom Szasz supported this view.
It appears you would have people other than parents decide what is best for their children. Would you intervene and stop a parent from having his child vaccinated? That is dangerous thinking and behavior. This has nothing to do with viewing children as chattel or property. More reckless rhetoric by you. Parents are the natural guardians of their children. If you have children, think about what I am saying. Period. And if children and others die because of your misinformation shall we hold you responsible for manslaughter? Why not? I am not sure how many children you may have, Seth, if any. Tell us. Despite whatever good intentions you and Kennedy may have, if I was a parent of a child, (my daughter and grandchildren are grown), and you tried to step in between what I thought was best for my children and grandchildren, I would shoot you, without hesitation. You are walking on dangerous ground. Repent.
I am concerned that some will take you and Kennedy seriously and not be vaccinated and thus die as a result from Covid. Especially, African Americans still leery of the Tuskegee effect, whether they know it or not. Tuskegee was completely different. The US Public Health Service lied to African Americans who had syphilis. They said they were giving them medicine when they were not. If others want to risk dying by believing the nonsense you and Kennedy are spreading about vaccination and Covid, let them. I could care less. But you and Kennedy do not have a right to put others at risk. You do not have a right to lie at the expense of others.
It takes courage to admit you are wrong. Lose your mind and come to your senses.
Jeffrey A. Schaler, PhD, M.Ed.
Ellicott City, Md.
ijas@me.com
Below from today’s New York Times.
Vaccines Are Safe, No Matter What Bobby Kennedy Says
I love my uncle. But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong.
By Kerry Kennedy Meltzer
Dr. Meltzer is an internal medicine resident physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
• Dec. 30, 2020