April 22, 2016 at 1:29 p.m.
De Niro asks the questions that need to be asked
De Niro asks the questions that need to be asked
That's the easy part. Then the questions begin.
How strong are those environmental triggers compared to the genetics? And just what are the environmental triggers? The answers vary by a wide philosophical mile.
Some say it could be pesticides, or aluminum, or manganese. Others point to such things as antibiotics or dietary supplements during pregnancy. Some even point to household cleaners.
Heck, one study pointed simply to westernization, and the accumulation of toxins in our everyday environment caused by our lifestyle. We are poisoning ourselves to death, in other words.
All these accumulations and combinations of pollutants and chemicals are highly debated, except for one: The potential for vaccines to be a primary cause of autism, or at least to be a trigger as potentially as potent as pesticides and antibiotics and dietary supplements.
Generally speaking, that debate is never allowed to happen. Government officials, the science and medical establishments, and pharmaceutical companies have shut them down.
The debate is over, these people say. Vaccines are safe, period. There is no debate to be had, and allowing one to proceed is dangerous to public health.
Those skeptical of the current vaccine regime are ostracized as whackos and crazies, and the media plays along. Studies showing no link, virtually all of them funded by pharmaceutical companies, are touted as disproving a link, with citations of the funding omitted, while studies that show a correlation are almost never cited.
By now one would think that such regimentation and control would have silenced the skeptics, but they haven't.
That's because hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of parents have witnessed the sickness and subsequent dramatic change in their children after vaccinations. The media spin does not fit with the reality of their lives and with what they see in their homes, and so it is rejected.
Every so often the debate pops out into the mainstream when a celebrity with enough power and courage to point all that out comes along to challenge the pharmaceutical and government establishment. They give voice to otherwise silenced parents.
In the past Jenny McCarthy has played that role and in the last month Robert De Niro has stepped up to the plate. In today's edition we highlight De Niro's interview on "The Today Show" and the important questions he asks, the answers to which we must demand from both government and our health care providers.
The first is, why are those who question vaccine safety portrayed dishonestly as anti-vaccine, when they are only opposed to the current schedule and protocol? Even the most demonized of those who question the current vaccine regime, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, does not question the need for a measles vaccine, for example, only its bundling with two other live vaccines in one MMR shot. He calls instead for a single measles dose.
Why are those who simply want shots spaced out and unnecessary vaccines eliminated always portrayed as anti-vaccine as well? Why give a newborn infant a Hepatitis B shot, when Hepatitis B is linked to high-risk behaviors and occupations, for example. The UK doesn't do it; why should we?
As De Niro pointed out, none of this can be debated. It is forbidden. De Niro calls for the public to watch the film "Vaxxed," about alleged corruption at the CDC when it comes to autism research. The film is about the cover-up of a potential autism link between a population group and the MMR vaccine, but the establishment does not want this film to be seen.
Why? If their science is so slam dunk, and so good, why do they want to protect possible wrong-doers in the government, whom whistleblowers are calling out?
De Niro points to the legions of stories being told by the parents of injured children. Why, he wonders, doesn't the mainstream media tell their stories? We wonder, too.
Indeed, we wonder, as De Niro does, why the mainstream media doesn't investigate this subject to see who is telling the truth. Instead, they talk about a consensus that a vaccine-autism link is a discredited theory.
The problem is, it's not. No study has ever disproven a link, and a simple Google search would take even the laziest journalist to a wealth of peer-reviewed scientific studies pointing to a correlative link. We wonder why the mainstream media ignores these studies.
We wonder why the media touts the safety of vaccines but not the dangers, as demonstrated by more than $3 billion paid out so far by a federal vaccine court created to specifically compensate the victims of vaccine injury. Most important, we wonder, with De Niro, why the conversation has to be shut down. The film makers who caused the film to be pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival are emblematic of a deeper and broader anti-free speech movement in the United States.
But for the medical establishment on this particular issue, the question remains: If your science is so sound and so independent and so worthy, why not allow it to be tested in the public realm? Why fear debate?
Unless they are hiding something. And that's what is so troubling about the censorship of "Vaxxed." It argues persuasively that the scientific establishment has tried to hide research in the past.
And that begs the question, why should we trust them now with our children's lives?
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