The US Government Loses The Vaccine Debate
Despite nine different government entities working on the response, their eventual January 18, 2018 reply was both lackluster and telling. Their brief 9-page response was unable to provide solid answers to the eleven questions asked of the agency concerning vaccine safety. The flimsily HHS reply triggered a deeply thorough 88-page response from ICAN laying out every detail concerning the problems and issues happening in regards to vaccine safety stemming from HHS. Its opening page writes:
“Given the gravity of HHS’s responsibility, it is deeply troubling that the majority of HHS’s letter contains little more than broad unsupported conclusory assertions. Most of these conclusory assertions do not withstand basic scrutiny. HHS’s responses even often contradict its own source materials.”
Among several concerning points, HHS choose to began their January reply by writing, “…many pediatric vaccines have been investigated in clinical trials that included a placebo.” As defined by the CDC, a “placebo” is: “A substance or treatment that has no effect on human beings.”
Recently on his show The HighWire, host Del Bigtree began publicly unpacking ICAN’s 88-page response by focusing on pre-licensure vaccine safety trials. The HHS reply contradicted itself by first admitting, “Inert placebo controls are not required to understand the safety profile of a new vaccine, and are thus not required. In some cases, inclusion of placebo control groups is considered unethical.” Later in their same letter, HHS states, “Vaccines are held to strict standards of safety.”
Bigtree stated: “They’ve now printed it. So now you know for a fact that they just admitted those products you’re injecting into your kids have never been compared to a control. An inert saline injection.”
Furthermore, according to HHS’s childhood vaccine schedule, babies receive three injections of each of the following vaccines between day one and 6 months of life all untested against a placebo control.
“It is troubling that HHS chose to begin its response by misstating that prior to licensure for children “ many pediatric vaccines have been investigated in clinical trials that included a placebo.” At worst, HHS knowingly perpetuated this inaccurate claim but at best, HHS was unaware this claim was incorrect. This leaves the public to wonder what other critical assumptions underpinning HHS’s confidence in vaccine safety are incorrect.”
ICAN’s original HHS notice directly pointed to concerns about the two Hepatitis B vaccines licensed for injection into one-day-old babies. Namely that the vaccines, according to the FDA’s own vaccine insert included in the original HHS notice, show that not only were the shots not tested against inert placebos, both vaccines were licensed after trials that solicited adverse reactions for only four days [Merck] and five days [GlaxoSmithKline] respectively after vaccination. To this point, HHS responded by referring back to the same inserts which contained the concerning data by simply writing, “Data relied upon in licensing infant use of hepatitis B vaccines is summarized in the respective package inserts.”
Perhaps one of the most damning findings referred to in ICAN’s 88-page HHS letter was titled HHS’s “Safety” Pyramid Scheme. Since inert placebo controls are not required and rarely used in vaccine safety testing, other vaccines take that role in what are referred to as “active controls.” ICAN’s 88-page response to HHS points out to the agency the following:
“HHS’s own industry guidance for drug testing explains that an active control is only appropriate if it is a “drug whose effect is well-defined,” which means “historical placebo-controlled trials are available to define the active control effect.” Despite its own policy and guidance, HHS does not require this minimal assurance for vaccines.”
Looking at the headlines, the corporate media’s sole focus appears to be to label people who point out the issues and facts methodically laid out in the 88-page ICAN response conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxers. Almost no mainstream media outlet will unpack, or focus on, the many inconvenient facts about the missing vaccine safety science. Stepping back to look at the whole picture one could make an argument for an active, widespread astroturf initiative to direct attention and debate away from the lack of science underpinning the vaccine industry’s products as well as the injuries those products are causing.
Even pro-vaccine luminaries like Dr. Stanley Plotkin, vaccine authority and author of Plotkin’s Vaccines, appears to be in agreement with ICAN. A recent FOIA request shows Plotkin wrote in a June 2018 email, “One point I do agree with [Robert F] Kennedy [Jr] about: there should be more safety studies…”
Original Source: http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/blog/the-us-government-loses-the-vaccine-debate
