The American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics, a private, non-profit
organization, is perhaps one of the few organizations powerful enough to
put and end to the autism epidemic. Ostensibly, their focus should be
the health of American children. Instead, the interests of the vaccine
program and pharmaceutical companies always seems to come first. Here’s a
great article from CBS Evening News: How Independent Are Vaccine Defenders?
And, here’s a great article and quote from a recent Natural News article:
"In my opinion, the AAP is nothing more than a Big Business front
group that pushes junk infant formula products and dangerous medicines
onto unsuspecting parents and children."
Among the many sins the AAP has committed:
- Of the 19 actual studies we critique on this website, 50% were published in Pediatrics, the trade journal of the AAP.
- The AAP has actively lobbied in states to keep mercury in children’s vaccines and against state bans
- The AAP has yet to acknowledge there is an actual rise in the
number of cases of children with autism and instead continues to imply
that rising autism levels may solely be due to "better diagnosis"
- The AAP does not acknowledge, nor have they been known to
pursue, any of the hundreds of reported cases of recovery from autism
through biomedical intervention
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Centers for Disease Control
According to the CDC’s website, "the ACIP consists of 15 'experts'
in fields associated with immunization who have been selected by the
Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services to
provide advice and guidance to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary
for Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on
the most effective means to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases."
The ACIP is responsible for expanding the number of required vaccines for children from 10 in 1983 to 36 in 2007 (see a comparison here),
without ever ensuring that the schedule was tested in combination or
that appropriate monitoring took place for delayed onset conditions.
The ACIP was the topic of a document titled Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making
written by the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Government Reform
which highlighted the conflicts of interest present between ACIP members
and pharmaceutical companies manufacturing vaccines.
Paul Offit, M.D.
Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mr. Offit appears to be the pharmaceutical industry’s go to Doctor to
speak to the press about the safety of the current vaccine program. He
is also the patent holder for the new rotavirus vaccine, recently added
to the Immunization Schedule, and a past member of the ACIP (See #1).
Among his many outrageous statements, Mr. Offit wrote in the journal of Pediatrics that a child’s immune system could handle 10,000 vaccines:
"A more practical way to determine the diversity of the immune
response would be to estimate the number of vaccines to which a child
could respond at one time...then each infant would have the theoretical
capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at any one time."
Regarding Thimerosal in vaccines:
"In some instances I think full disclosure can be harmful. Is it safe
to say there is zero risk with thimerosal, when it is remotely possible
that one child would get sick? Well, since we say that mercury is a
neurotoxin, we have to do everything we can to get rid of it. But I
would argue that removing thimerosal didn't make vaccines safer -- it
only made them perceptibly safer."
On potential conflicts of interest as a vaccine patent-holder:
"I am a co-holder of a patent for a (rotavirus) vaccine. If this
vaccine were to become a routinely recommended vaccine, I would make
money off of that. When I review safety data, am I biased? That answer
is really easy: absolutely not."
Speaking to a journalist:
"You did more harm than good in sort of quote/unquote allowing the
parent to be fully informed [regarding the presence of mercury in
vaccines]. There’s no politically correct way to say this, but being
fully informed is not always the best thing. You can take that out of
context and make me look like a jerk, but you know what I’m saying."
Read about his erratic voting pattern on the rotavirus vaccine when he sat on the ACIP committee here. Also check out www.pauloffit.com.
