My Apology For My Denial And Failure To Offer You Informed Consent

I have done something very wrong for a very long time.

When I learned that some vaccines were made from aborted fetal cells, and still contained those children's biological material, I was so upset that I shut it out of my mind and work and life.

I pretended in my heart to unknow what I knew, and not say it out loud so I would not have to know it is true.

And I didn't include it in many of the warnings to parents when I was offering them information to give them greater informed consent on vaccination. People whose religion or world view may have precluded them from getting such shots.  Even while purporting to do my best to offer them informed consent on vaccination. 

I didn't even tell all my fellow Christians.

That was wrong. And it was done out of fear. Because I didn't want to deal with the horrid truth that I had administered these things to my children, and had administered to me.

So here I repent. I am sorry. Everyone is due that information and I didn't give it to everyone.

So I won't leave that out any more just because it is upsetting. Because it is so upsetting.

If you were one of the parents I should have warned, I am sorry.

"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." - Ephesians 5:11

So You Saw A Meme Of A Bunny Holding A Sign That Says, “Vaccines Cause Autism,” And You Have Some Questions

On July 14th of this year, I was scrolling through twitter and saw a graphic of graphic of a bunny holding a sign, and thought, “cute, Imma try that. cut/paste/fill in sign text/ what could it say... umm... "Vaccines Cause Autism.” Tossed up the little throw away tweet and didn't think of it again.

I have been investigating and writing about the relationship between vaccines and autism since 2004, and put out a few thousand tweets on the subject, that get a bit of discussion, but none prepared me for The Great Vaccine Autism Bunny Ratio of 2018.

A few days ago someone RT'd it somewhere, and twitter noticed and it made many of them very unhappy. Hundreds of comments flowed in. I was all, “Wait... THIS is what gets people to pay attention to this subject and engage with us on vaccine risk?!” A decade of documenting fraud, discussing research, sharing government vaccine safety guidelines, sharing videos of official government meetings on vaccine safety, and apparently I should have just tweeted three word bunny memes.

But no worries. Ultimately I am grateful for the bunny as he has brought us together, and you have asked a question that I want to answer. And because I have been unable to keep up with answering the questions, and so many are repeat questions (that I have started cutting and pasting answers to) I decided to give you a one stop destination for answers. Some have not been phrased in the kindest way possible, or given me much of the benefit of the doubt, but they are important questions none the less, so...

1. “Wrong... lies. Where's your proof?”

While it is not in the initial tweet, so many didn't see it, the second tweet in that thread is a link to a list of papers that I have been compiling over the last 11 years to rebut the false claim that, “There is no evidence of any link between vaccines and autism.” Because the vaccine industry has spent a great deal of time and money cultivating that falsehood, few know that research show multiple links between vaccines and autism. You can read the list here:

151 Research Papers Supporting the Vaccine/Autism Link

Despite decades of parental requests to have these and other lines of inquiry followed up, CDC and NIH have refused to conduct any large scale follow up research on these findings.

2. “Well 150,000 prove they don't.”

There are no studies proving that vaccines don't cause autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers 48 papers that fail to find an association between vaccines and autism.

Vaccine Safety: Examine the Evidence

Note that unlike my list which makes clears that it is ONLY offering the evidence that supports the vaccine/autism link, AAP's article title suggests that you are getting ALL the evidence. It then proceeds to give you ONLY the research that fails to find an association between vaccines and autism, while presenting not one of the papers I have offered.

Further note that the AAP's position statement no longer claims that vaccines don't cause autism. They don't claim anything at all, one way or the other. It is a carefully worded statement that talks about research that fails to find an association, but notes that there is other research on vaccine-autism causation that they do not include. I have written a piece on their position here:

The AAP No Longer Claims that Vaccines Don't Cause Autism


3. “So you would rather your child have polio than have autism?”

My initial response is, “What? How did you get from “Vaccines cause autism” to there? I haven't made ANY vaccine recommendations here! Then I remembered that there is a 30 billion dollar per year vaccine industry committed to you making these kinds of leaps.

You seem to have assumed that I am advocating for an end to vaccination. I am not anti-vaccine, and my children are vaccinated. I have written a lengthy discussion of my vaccine position and experience for the Johns Hopkins Journal, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. 

This is not an either/or proposition. There is risk from both complications from any vaccine, and the diseases that the vaccine is targeting. We must have an honest evaluation of both, and use that information to prevent harm in either case to individual children with DIFFERENT biological risk factors for each.

I do not give advice to others on whether or not to vaccinate, or how to vaccinate, I merely offer resources to families so that they can make their own decisions.

But did you know that the vaccine schedule when I was growing up was 24 doses, birth to 18, and the current schedule is 70 doses? And that the tripling of the vaccine schedule began in 1988, two years after Congress gave the vaccine industry complete immunity from lawsuits against vaccine injury or death?

You know that there was no autism epidemic in the 70s and 80s OR epidemics of vaccine targeted diseases, right?  Even for the diseases that we now vaccinate for, but didn't then.

So how is this a choice between fully vaccinating now, or death?  If I survived with a third of the vaccines kids get now, then why must I have to vaccinate my children the way I was vaccinated or watch them die?

And why arn't children dying left and right in Denmark?

Could it be that you have been lied to by the vaccine industry about exactly how badly their products are needed?

Here are the vaccine coverage rates in the US when I was in high school.  Where were all the epidemics?

4. “Then what is your point?”

THIS IS ABOUT INFORMED CONSENT. The United Nations Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights asserts that:

“Article 6 – Consent
1. 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. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.
2. Scientific research should only be carried out with the prior, free, express and informed consent of the person concerned. The information should be adequate, provided in a comprehensible form and should include modalities for withdrawal of consent. Consent may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without any disadvantage or prejudice. Exceptions to this principle should be made only in accordance with ethical and legal standards adopted by States, consistent with the principles and provisions set out in this Declaration, in particular in Article 27, and international human rights law.
3. In appropriate cases of research carried out on a group of persons or a community, additional agreement of the legal representatives of the group or community concerned may be sought. In no case should a collective community agreement or the consent of a community leader or other authority substitute for an individual’s informed consent.”

The vaccine industry, which includes the vaccine patent holding CDC, has committed fraud in asserting that vaccines are not linked to autism. As demonstrated above, there are many links between vaccines and autism. HHS has admitted this in their response to reporters in the Hannah Poling case, where a girl with autism was paid for her vaccine induced encephalopathy by the government's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, that:

“Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.”

Context and lengthy discussions of the admissions that the government has had to make can be found here:

Vaccines Don't Cause Autism, and Guns Don't Kill People

I work toward vaccine safety reform and informed consent. We need a dramatic overhaul of the National Vaccine Plan, including prescreening for genetic and autoimmune risk factors before vaccines are administered, immediate treatment of symptoms arising post vaccination, mandatory education for doctors and health care providers on government and manufacturer vaccine safety guidelines, alternate schedules for high risk cases for reactions, low cost readily available titers testing, and most importantly, the repeal of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

There is a rapidly growing research base on autism causation and treatment that health officials are ignoring, that can make vaccination safer, and improve the quality of life for those with autism. Health officials must implement this established science and end the false dichotomy of “fully vaccinate or die” arguments.

5. “...better education for doctors” lmao how about better education for ginger taylor instead?"

We introduce a bill in Maine to mandate training for doctors on manufacturer and federal vaccine injury guidelines. In their testimony, the doctors showed that they didn't even know there were federal guidelines.

Maine Doctors Submit Testimony Showing That They Are Not Qualified to Advise Patients on Vaccination

Let the doctors themselves tell you how much they were taught about vaccines in medical school:

6. Yes you ARE anti-vaccine!

No. Talking about vaccine risk and vaccine injury does not make one anti-vaccine, and more than talking about the serious side effects that some people have from antibiotics makes one anti-antibiotic.

Here the Department of Heath and Human Services discusses many of the serious adverse reactions some have to vaccines, including death. This does not make HHS anti-vaccine.

The US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Table of Injuries

7. “Did you know that this theory was caused by ONE dude in I believe Europe who made this claim with no scientific evidence. And to this day there is no evidenced them being linked?”

No, The Theory of Vaccine Induced Autism Did Not Begin With Andrew Wakefield.

The first paper to link the two was the first paper on autism, by Leo Kanner in 1943. The idea was discussed for decades, to the point that in 1991 the Institute of Medicine was including it in their reports on vaccine safety funded by the National Institutes of Health, published by the National Academy of Sciences and edited by none other than Harvard's Harvey Fineberg... seven years before the Wakefield paper.

And again, as shown above, there are now more than a hundred papers discussing the link. Yet the public has been sold the lie that there is just ONE retracted paper by this ONE guy who came up with the whole thing that has been “debunked.” Details on the 75 year continuous history of vaccine-autism discussion in the medical literature here:

No, The Theory of Vaccine Induced Autism Did Not Begin With Andrew Wakefield.

8. "But I know someone who has autism and was never vaccinated, so you fail!"

There are several genetic and environmental causes of autism. Vaccination is merely ONE of the environmental causes. They also include medications taken during pregnancy, medications administered in childhood, and contaminants in the food, air and water.  There are unvaccinated children with autism.

9. "But I got all the vaccines and am not autistic."

Not everyone who eats a peanut goes into anaphylaxis. Nor does everyone who gets a bee sting or takes penicillin.  But some do.

It is the same with vaccines.  Not everyone will have a vaccine adverse reaction, but some do.

Spend some time reading the adverse reactions of each vaccine, and what contraindications each shot has, that can help predict who will have a bad reaction ahead of time.

The Institute for Vaccine Safety, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 
Package Inserts and Manufacturers for some US Licensed Vaccines and Immunoglobulins.

10. "Well then why don't you just shut up and sue them?"

This is a very, very good question. Kudos. I wish I had asked it before my kids were vaccinated.

In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that was eventually interpreted by the Supreme Court, which barred those injured by vaccines, or families of loved ones killed by vaccines, to file lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies that made the dangerous vaccines.

At the same time, Congress declared all FDA approved vaccines, "Unavoidably Unsafe" which means it cannot be made safe for it's intended use.

Then Pharma started a campaign to declare that "Vaccines Are Safe," and to mandate them for first school children, then medical professionals, then those dependant on social services, and soon for everyone. Based on the claim that "vaccines are safe" even though they are "unavoidably unsafe."

You think that this would be an easy law suit to win, but again, no family has be able to get into a civil court and have a jury hear any vaccine injury case in more than 30 years. It is a mess.

So to those who are vaccinating. Buyer Beware. Do your homework first. Thousands of families like ours have learned the hard way. Once you have a vaccine injury, you are on your own.

11. "Why does that number keep changing?  It was 130-something. Then 149, 150, 151...Every time you posted this the number has been different.  You having a go?

I have been compiling this list for 11 years, it started with 18 papers.  Every time I add a new paper ScribD changes the link.  You are just seeing copies of the old link. The current list in 151. I already have more to add, but have not done so yet, so you will likely come across higher numbers, and the science behind vaccine autism causation is growing rapidly.  By contrast, there has not been a paper that failed to find an association between vaccines and autism since 2015 according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/151-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link


12."You are not a good person."

As a Calvinist, I have no rebuttal to offer you.

13. “Fuck you.  You're an idiot.”

Your contempt has been noted. Thank you for your input.

I am still grateful that the Vaccine Autism Bunny and his ratio has brought us together. I know that this hit you the hard way, but I still hope you are able to glean a little something from this discussion, even if it is only that it is not as straight forward a matter as you initially thought it was.

14. "Shut up."

I can't. I have a duty to warn.

No, The Theory of Vaccine Induced Autism Did Not Begin With Andrew Wakefield

“The story of how vaccines came to be questioned as a cause of autism dates back to the 1990s. In 1995, a group of British researchers published a cohort study in the Lancet showing that individuals who had been vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) were more likely to have bowel disease than individuals who had not received MMR. One of these researchers was gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, MD, who went on to further study a possible link between the vaccine and bowel disease by speculating that persistent infection with vaccine virus caused disruption of the intestinal tissue that in turn led to bowel disease and neuropsychiatric disease (specifically, autism). ” - The History of Vaccines, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.  

No.

The story of how vaccines came to be questioned as a cause of autism dates back to the first paper describing autism in 1943.

1943

In his disorder defining paper "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," published in Nervous Child in 1943, Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins University included the first report of vaccine induced autistic regression. In Kanner's case series describing the first 11 children documented to have the disorder, case number 3, “Richard M.” is reported by his mother to have begun his developmental regression following a smallpox vaccination.  From the paper:

“Case 3. Richard M. was referred to the Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 5, 1941, at 3 years, 3 months of age, with the complaint of deafness because he did not talk and did not respond to questions.” 

“Following smallpox vaccination at 12 months, he had an attack of diarrhea and fever, from which he recovered in somewhat less than a week.”

“In September, 1940, the mother, in commenting on Richard's failure to talk, remarked in her notes: I can't be sure just when he stopped the imitation of words sounds.  It seems that he has gone backward mentally gradually for the last two years.”

The time line of Richard M, according to the paper, is thus:

November 1937 – Born

November 1938 – Vaccinated with Smallpox vaccine

September 1940 – Mother reports developmental regression beginning approximately two years previously, the autumn of 1938.

February 1941 – Referred to Hopkins for evaluation, and in 1943, becomes the third child to be described as autistic by Leo Kanner in his disorder defining paper, the first paper published on autism, 55 years before Wakefield.

Yet Wakefield et. al. Included parental reports of vaccine induced regression in their 1998 paper, “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” in the Lancet in 1998, and are credited (or blamed) with originating the discussion on vaccine induced autism.

Despite the fact that the 55 year old discussion had been developed, published on, and the subject of official HHS inquiries before anyone ever knew the name Wakefield.

In the 40s and 50s, the Freudians were in command of the narrative on childhood mental health, and maternal rejection of the child was asserted as the source of the rare disorder.  This until Bernard Rimland, Ph. D. ended the supremacy of the unfounded and misogynistic theory, and began the era of medical investigation into the origins of autism in the 1960s.

1976

In March of 1976, in Germany,  Eggers published, “Autistic Syndrome (Kanner) and Vaccination Against Smallpox” wherein he described that:

“3-4 weeks following an otherwise uncomplicated first vaccination against smallpox a boy, then aged 15 months and last seen at the age of 5 1/2 years, gradually developed a complete Kanner syndrome. The question whether vaccination and early infantile autism might be connected is being discussed. A causal relationship is considered extremely unlikely. But vaccination is recognized as having a starter function for the onset of autism.”

1988

From the first time I heard the name “Wakefield” in the media in the early 2000s, I had always known that the story that Wakefield kicked off the suspicion that vaccines may cause autism in 1998 was bogus, because the first time I heard the theory was in an undergraduate psychology class during my 88-89 year at George Mason University.  During a very short discussion on the rare childhood developmental disorder called “Autism” that Dustin Hoffman had in that movie Rainman, our professor noted that it might be cause by vaccines.  I made a mental note of that and decided to look into it when I had kids someday.


1991

By the opening of the 1990s the vaccine-autism causation discussion was so widespread that the Institute of Medicine was including it in their reports on vaccine safety funded by the National Institutes of Health, published by the National Academy of Sciences and edited by none other than Harvard's Harvey Fineberg:

“Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines: A Report of the Committee to Review the Adverse Consequences of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines.
Editors
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Review the Adverse Consequences of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines; Howson CP, Howe CJ, Fineberg HV, editors.
Source
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1991.
The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health.
Excerpt
Parents have come to depend on vaccines to protect their children from a variety of diseases. Some evidence suggests, however, that vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) and rubella (German measles) is, in a small number of cases, associated with increased risk of serious illness. This book examines the controversy over the evidence and offers a comprehensively documented assessment of the risk of illness following immunization with vaccines against pertussis and rubella. Based on extensive review of the evidence from epidemiologic studies, case histories, studies in animals, and other sources of information, the book examines: The relation of pertussis vaccines to a number of serious adverse events, including encephalopathy and other central nervous system disorders, sudden infant death syndrome, autism, Guillain-Barre syndrome, learning disabilities, and Reye syndrome. The relation of rubella vaccines to arthritis, various neuropathies, and thrombocytopenic purpura. The volume, which includes a description of the committee's methods for evaluating evidence and directions for future research, will be important reading for public health officials, pediatricians, researchers, and concerned parents.
Copyright © 1991 by the National Academy of Sciences.”

1998

Andrew Wakefield, according to the current false narrative and revisionist history pushed by mainstream medicine and their media partners, magically erases 55 years of history and discovers the vaccine-autism causation theory for the first time, in much the same way that Christopher Columbus “discovered” the Americas, half a millennium or so after the Vikings had made my home state of Maine a vacation spot.

He did what Kanner did in 1943.  Took patient histories, and including parental reports in a paper.


CURRENT YEAR

The scientific record on vaccine autism causation began with the scientific record on autism, and extends to today.  The vaccine industry narriative that Wakefield was the beginning and end of the plausabilty of vaccine induced autism theory is an absurd lie.  Read the record for yourself:

151 Research Papers Supporting Vaccine/Autism Causation

Ginger Taylor, MS

Mainstream research has found that vaccines and their ingredients can cause the underlying medical conditions that committed physicians and researchers are commonly finding in children who have been given an autism diagnosis. These conditions include gastrointestinal damage, immune system impairment, chronic infections, mitochondrial disorders, autoimmune conditions, neurological regression, glial cell activation, interleukin-6 secretion dysregulation, brain inflammation, damage to the blood–brain barrier, seizures, synaptic dysfunction, dendritic cell dysfunction, mercury poisoning, aluminum toxicity, gene activation and alteration, glutathione depletion, impaired methylation, oxidative stress, impaired thioredoxin regulation, mineral deficiencies, impairment of the opioid system, endocrine dysfunction, cellular apoptosis, and other disorders.

Caviat emptor.

A Letter to the Vaccine Developer Who Just Bought the LA Times UPDATE 6/30/18: (and then immediately went after Bob Sears)

June 11, 2018, Fiercebiotech: Soon-Shiong planning to take cancer vaccine subsidiary public: report

"Billionaire healthcare mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong hopes to take public later this year one of his companies that is spearheading development of a cocktail of biologics as a vaccine aimed at multiple facets of cancer, according to an interview with Reuters..."

June 18, 2018, Breitbart: Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong Takes over L.A. Times, Declares War on ‘Fake News’

"Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire who earned his fortune in the biotech field, will officially take full control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune on Monday when the $500 million sale is completed and Soon-Shiong becomes executive chairman of the California News Group...   He added:
I believe that fake news is the cancer of our times and social media the vehicles for metastasis. Institutions like The Times and the Union-Tribune are more vital than ever. They must be bastions of editorial integrity and independence if they are to protect our democracy and provide an antidote to disinformation. We will continue our papers’ dedication to truth, integrity, journalistic independence, and storytelling that engages, informs, educates and inspires with care and compassion."

Update:  Well that didn't take long. The LAT has put doctors on notice that writing medical exemptions will get them in trouble with the medical board.  The article actually admits that the ruling will have a chilling effect on doctors, and quotes a woman celebrating that fact.

Missing from the story is the disclosure that the paper is owned by a vaccine developer, which would be done if the LAT were a, bastion of editorial integrity and independence."
June 29, 2018: LA Times: California doctor critical of vaccines is punished for exempting 2-year-old boy from all childhood immunizations

"In a decision that could signal how California’s fierce vaccine debates will play out in the coming years, the Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines... “It’s not a trivial decision, it’s not a slap on the hand,” said UC Hastings law professor Dorit Reiss. “It really is strongly limiting his ability to practice … he’s a doctor under supervision now.”"

Subject:	The LAT and its history of irresponsible science journalism
Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:35:11 -0400
From:	Ginger Taylor <mail@adventuresinautism.com>
To:	Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive Chairman, LA Times <Patrick.Soon-Shiong@latimes.com>, Norman Pearlstine, Executive Editor, LA Times <Norman.Pearlstine@latimes.com>, Nicholas Goldberg, Editor of the Editorial Pages, LA Times <Nicholas.Goldberg@latimes.com>, Karen Kaplan, Science and Medicine Editor, LA Times <Karen.Kaplan@latimes.com>

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and The Management of the LA Times,
Today I read about the change in ownership of the LA Times, and Dr. Soon-Shiong's commitment to leaving behind the era of fake news so that the paper may become a "bastion of editorial integrity and independence."  I am writing to offer you a starting point for where that change may begin.  I encourage you to humbly examine the paper's previous lack of integrity in science journalism, so that it may be repented of, to lead to a new course of honest reporting.
My faith in mainstream media "science journalism" ended in 2009 because of the LA Times, the abysmal and juvenile reporting they were publishing on very serious vaccine safety issues, and the appalling exchange I had with their science writers and editors on their "fake news."  It resulted in a, widely circulated, in-depth piece on the bad faith of the paper, and in science reporting in general.  At the time I cautioned that the course the paper was on would only lead to the complete loss of public trust on these matters, and we have seen that come to fruition in this era.

It is my understanding that Dr. Soon-Shiong is in the vaccine industry himself, and unfortunately we have seen how that kind of conflict of interest in media ownership results in bias, so I am dubious that the LAT will make the changes needed to conduct earnest, objective reporting on these issues.  However, if the California News Group is serious about developing integrity and demonstrating that they are independent from industry influence, then this is the place to start:
Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Lori Kozlowski, Rosie Mestel, Thomas Maugh, David Gorski, Virginia Hughes, Science Journalists, The Dying of the LA Times and an Angry Autism Mom
Ginger Taylor
Adventures In AutismFacebookTwitterVaccine Epidemic

Update:
Yeah, so apparently they were not interested in responding.  Instead:

Step 1. Become a billionaire vaccine developer.
Step 2. Buy the LA Times and claim to bring integrity back to news
Step 3. Go after Bob Sears and make all doctors fear punishment for writing vaccine exemptions.
Step 4.  Profit. (more.)

All over the course of 18 days

Subject:	You missed an important disclosure
Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:29:49 -0400
From:	Ginger Taylor
To:	soumya.karlamangla@latimes.com

Vaccine developer Patrick Shoon-Sheon bought the LA Times this month, with the promise that it should become a, 'bastion of editorial integrity and independence."

Yet your LAT article on Dr. Sears, that celebrates the chilling effect that the ruling will have on physicians writing medical exemptions, fails to disclose that the newspaper is own by a vaccine developer in the process of taking his vaccine products public.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-letter-to-vaccine-developer-who-just.html

--

Ginger Taylor, MS

-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject: Re: The LAT and its history of irresponsible science journalism

Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:46:20 -0400

From: Ginger Taylor 

To: Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive Chairman, LA Times <Patrick.Soon-Shiong@latimes.com>, Norman Pearlstine, Executive Editor, LA Times <Norman.Pearlstine@latimes.com>, Nicholas Goldberg, Editor of the Editorial Pages, LA Times <Nicholas.Goldberg@latimes.com>, Karen Kaplan, Science and Medicine Editor, LA Times <Karen.Kaplan@latimes.com>

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and The Management of the LA Times,

Only ten days ago I wrote to you on your commitment to make the LAT a, 'bastion of editorial integrity and independence," and urged you to start by correcting the errant and irresponsible reporting that the paper has published on vaccine issues.

Yet your LAT article today on Dr. Sears, that celebrates the chilling effect that the ruling will have on physicians writing medical exemptions, fails to even disclose that the newspaper is own by a vaccine developer in the process of taking his vaccine products public.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-letter-to-vaccine-developer-who-just.html

I call on the paper to either disclose the serious conflict of interest on this and all vaccine related articles, or publicly withdraw the "integrity" claim.

Ginger Taylor

On 6/20/2018 2:35 PM, Ginger Taylor wrote:

> Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and The Management of the LA Times,

>

> Today I read about the change in ownership of the LA Times, and Dr. Soon-Shiong's commitment to leaving behind the era of fake news so that the paper may become a "bastion of editorial integrity and independence."  I am writing to offer you a starting point for where that change may begin.  I encourage you to humbly examine the paper's previous lack of integrity in science journalism, so that it may be repented of, to lead to a new course of honest reporting.

> My faith in mainstream media "science journalism" ended in 2009 because of the LA Times, the abysmal and juvenile reporting they were publishing on very serious vaccine safety issues, and the appalling exchange I had with their science writers and editors on their "fake news."  It resulted in a, widely circulated, in-depth piece on the bad faith of the paper, and in science reporting in general.  At the time I cautioned that the course the paper was on would only lead to the complete loss of public trust on these matters, and we have seen that come to fruition in this era. 

> It is my understanding that Dr. Soon-Shiong is in the vaccine industry himself, and unfortunately we have seen how that kind of conflict of interest in media ownership results in bias, so I am dubious that the LAT will make the changes needed to conduct earnest, objective reporting on these issues.  However, if the California News Group is serious about developing integrity and demonstrating that they are independent from industry influence, then this is the place to start:

> Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Lori Kozlowski, Rosie Mestel, Thomas Maugh, David Gorski, Virginia Hughes, Science Journalists, The Dying of the LA Times and an Angry Autism Mom

> Ginger Taylor

More on Patrick Soon-Shiong's "integrity" problems:

 March 6, 2017 Stat News: How the world’s richest doctor gave away millions — then steered the cash back to his company

"For months, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong would continue to reap praise for his generosity in publicity put out by the university. Not mentioned in any of the tributes: $10 million of his donation would be sent right back to one of his companies. And the contract for his gift was worded in a way that left the University of Utah with no other choice..."

March 6, 2017, Fortune: Biotech Billionaire Accused of Funneling Donations Back to Companies

"But several tax lawyers had a very different take on the donation’s structure. “They’re laundering the funds through the University of Utah,” said one of the experts, Marc Owens, adding that “I think that this transaction was deliberately structured to attempt to disguise self-dealing.”

April 9, 2017, Politico: How Washington’s favorite cancer fighter helps himself: Patrick Soon-Shiong is a philanthropist and a businessman. But a prime target of his philanthropy is his businesses.

"A POLITICO investigation found that the majority of its expenditures flow to businesses and not-for-profits controlled by Soon-Shiong himself, and the majority of its grants have gone to entities that have business deals with his for-profit firms...
The POLITICO investigation found that:
• Of the nearly $59.6 million in foundation expenditures between its founding in 2010 and 2015, the most recent year for which records are available, over 70 percent have gone to Soon-Shiong-affiliated not-for-profits and for-profits, along with entities that do business with his for-profit firms.
• Six employees of Soon-Shiong’s for-profit companies were also paid by the foundation, which raises questions of whether the foundation is covering overhead for his for-profit firms, according to tax specialists.
• The foundation contributed $3 million out of a total of $12 million donated by Soon-Shiong-controlled entities to a University of Utah program to map the genomes of 1,000 state residents. University officials say they let Soon-Shiong’s entities write the grant specifications. The specifications gave a major advantage to his for-profit firms, which got the $10 million gene-mapping contract.
• Soon-Shiong-controlled charities gave a total of $15 million — including $10 million from the NantHealth Foundation — to a fund that benefited Phoenix Children’s Hospital, which concluded a pair of deals with Soon-Shiong’s for-profit companies for many millions of dollars."

October 17, 2017 , Salt Lake Tribune: Hughes questions whether University of Utah had a ‘Cinderella-slippered’ deal when it directed donation money back to donor's company

"U. faculty failed to go through a competitive bidding process before awarding $10 million gene-sequencing contract to lab owned by billionaire donor Patrick Soon-Shiong."

No wonder he decided to start buying newspapers. 

I Should Have Warned More Families About Fetal Cell Line Use in Vaccines

I have done something very wrong for a very long time. 

When I learned that some vaccines were made from aborted fetal cells, and still contained those children's biological material, I was so upset that I shut it out of my mind and work and life.

I pretended in my heart to unknow what I knew, and not say it out loud so I would not have to know it is true.

And I didn't include it in many of the warnings to parents when I was offering them information to give them greater informed consent on vaccination.  People whose religion or world view may have precluded them from getting such shots.

I didn't even tell all my fellow Christians.

That was wrong.  And it was done out of fear.  Because I didn't want to deal with the horrid truth that I had administered these things to my children, and had administered them given to me. 

So here I repent.  I am sorry.  Everyone is due that information and I didn't give it to everyone. 

So I won't leave that out any more just because it is upsetting.  Because it is so upsetting.

If you were one of the parents I should have warned, I am sorry.

The Maine Vaccine Consumer Protection Act

This week in sex scandals:

Charlie Rose

Russell Simmons

Danny Masterson

Gary Goddard accused by Anthony Edwards 

https://twitter.com/anopensecret

https://medium.com/@anthonyedwards/yes-mom-there-is-something-wrong-f2bcf56434b9

USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar

John Conyers

Congress has "paid out $17 million for 264 settlements," these are kept SECRET from taxpayers.

Call to #UnsealTheDeals

#ChurchToo

What's happening in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?

In short: King Salmon has put his 32 year old son Muhammad in charge of everything, and he is modernizing KSA, letting women drive, making friends with Israel, and scooping up corrupt billionaire princes.

Story in a bit less short: https://twitter.com/GingerTaylor/status/934143797650427904

MBS: https://twitter.com/robamajed9/status/934180647995928583

Alwaleed bin Talal: https://twitter.com/adjunctprofessr/status/930293270969769984

Owns: parts of Apple, Citigroup, more of Twitter than Jack does, The top four floors of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, donated as much as 25M to the Clinton Foundation and may have helped get Obama into Harvard.

Also this: http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/04/22/michael-jackson-was-in-business-with-one-of-the-x-men-pedophile-defendants

And, oh yeah... this: https://twitter.com/2ndfor1st/status/932853104252395520?s=04

Professor conducted back-alley herpes vaccine trial at Illinois hotels – report
https://www.rt.com/usa/410686-herpes-vaccine-trial-hotels/

The Maine Vaccine Consumer Protection Act:

http://mainevaxchoice.org/2017/11/11/welcome-vaxxed-atlanta/

Alex Azar is a TERRIBLE HHS Nominee

Vaxxed Atlanta

Civil rights museum.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155520285303387&set=a.78583868386.79535.526473386&type=3&theater

Twitter Fights!
Dr. Eve Switzer should be made to testify to this in court.

https://twitter.com/GingerTaylor/status/930836589177122817

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155524198753387&set=a.459412648386.243426.526473386&type=3&theater

The scandals continue:

Sylvester Stallone

Roy Moore

Al Franken

Jennifer Larson's Al Franken office story

New Rule Change Makes Vaccine Court More Petitioner Friendly

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rule-change-makes-vaccine-court-064702035.html

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Shoulder Injury Cases

Vaccinations and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568997217301349

"Conclusion: This study suggests that vaccinations are related to increased risks of SLE and RA."

Rob Schneider is back!

https://youtu.be/MlnssseIo1k?t=1m21s

Alex Azar

Master of the revolving door.

From AAN:

- Former chief lobbyist and President of the US division of drug company Eli Lilly, which was the primary manufacturer of thimerosal

- Prior to employment at Eli Lilly, under George W. Bush, Azar was general counsel and later deputy secretary of HHS at the time the decision was made to give an expedited efficacy and safety review to Gardasil,

- As the lead attorney for HHS, Azar participated in the Autism Omnibus Proceeding that denied more than 5000 claims of vaccine injury

- While the head of Eli Lily in the US, Azar was also on the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Association, a trade and lobbying association for manufacturers of biological products including drugs, vaccines and GMOs. 

- Dude Who Tripled Price of Insulin Nominated to Regulate Price of Insulin

https://other98.com/alex-azar-insulin-trump/amp/

AAN Action Alert” http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=79149626&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]

But what about Trump's promise?

Reminder, he never promised us anything, publicly or privately

Obamacare repeal first

Of course, he may be fired in six months.

Psalm 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

THE BMJ SAID WHAT??? Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Lobbying.

The NVIC State Vaccine Legislation in America 2015-2017 Report and Interview,  What the Media, Medical Trade and Pharma Do Not Want You to Know  is now available online. This comprehensive report is a valuable reference as we move into the 2018 legislative session!  

http://www.nvic.org/nvic-vaccine-news/october-2017/state-vaccine-legislation-in-america-2015-2017.aspx

New York City school shut down when toddler dies after eating grilled cheese, pray for Elijah Silvera and his family.  Our children are not “fine."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/09/new-york-city-school-shut-down-after-toddler-dies-after-eating-grilled-cheese.html

The words “allergy” and “anaphylaxis” were created to describe vaccine-injury

http://smartvax.org/2011/04/29/allergy-and-anaphylaxis-history/

Lead Story, Background:
British Medical Journal and Brian Deer lied about Andrew Wakefield
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347
The Pathological Optimist
http://thepathologicaloptimistfilm.com
Who is AAP? A doctors union. Just like BMJ:
New AAP President Shows Us His Priorities, And It Is Not The Health of American Children
American Academy of Pediatrics, was asked the following question:
The unofficial vaccine educators: are CDC funded non-profits sufficiently independent?
Key messages
• Industry funded non-profit organizations are an important provider of vaccine related information for the public and health professionals
• CDC also funds advocacy groups that campaign for influenza vaccination mandates for healthcare workers and for the removal of non-medical philosophical and religious exemptions for families of schoolchildren
• The complex public-private funding of vaccine advocacy groups lacks sufficient transparency and raises questions about whether such sources can independently assess official vaccination policy
The gist:
- Vaccine compulsion have always been controversial.
- They promote themselves as sources of reliable information on vaccines, but hey also receive funding from both vaccine manufacturers and the CDC.
- Education or lobbying? Officially, the CDC is neutral on vaccine mandates, 14 and the agency steers clear of directly influencing state law, telling The BMJ: “CDC’s policy is to not take positions on state-specific legislation.”
BMJ asked IAC, AAP, ECBT and CDC to disclose the money going from CDC and Pharma to these "independent" orgs!
- Mintzes told The BMJ that “these groups are so strongly pro-vaccination that the public is getting a one sided message that all vaccines are created equal and vaccination is an important public health strategy, regardless of the circumstances.
- Ended with:
“My head is spinning listening to this description of the tangled relationships—should we call them co-dependencies?—of these entities,” Schwitzer said. Independence is about being free “from outside control or support.” “An antonym for independence is reliance,” he said. IAC, ECBT, and AAP are “certainly not financially independent. And it would appear they are also not philosophically and intellectually independent, which is just as important—if not more so—in this discussion.” Ensuring such independence seems an essential first step for any organization that wants to seriously respond to public concerns about the safety of childhood vaccines."
P.S.
"Box 2: Mommy blogging for the CDC Like many commercial companies, the CDC sees marketing potential in “mommy blogging.” In 2015, it recognized the power of “online influencers, including mommy bloggers, [for] get[ting] the word out about the benefits of flu vaccination for families.” And last year, it came close to purchasing the services of a marketing company that specializes in mommy blogging made to order. The company, Megan Media, posted a sign-up sheet for “CDC Vaccination Awareness Paid Blogging Opportunity” on the internet: “We are looking for Moms with kids under the age of 2 years old (or who can reach that audience) who want to raise awareness around childhood vaccinations,” the ad read. “Please fill in the form below if you are interested and feel free to forward this on to any other influencers you may know who would be interested in spreading the word!” Megan Media trades in what the advertising world is calling “influencer marketing,” predicated on the idea that consumers themselves can be powerful marketers, sometimes in excess of traditional advertising. According to a McKinsey report, “marketing-induced consumer-to-consumer word of mouth generates more than twice the sales of paid advertising.” 27 Ultimately however, CDC decided against it. “In the end, we did not use nor did we pay Megan Media, instead choosing to use internal resources to get the information to parents and others.”

Sharyl Attkisson CBS 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Hw-Q23S_s

Who is Peter Doshi?

http://faculty.rx.umaryland.edu/pdoshi/

Cochrane Collaboration

http://www.cochrane.org/

Breaking the Seal on Drug Research

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/business/breaking-the-seal-on-drug-research.html

“...one of the most influential voices in medical research today.”

Peter Doshi -- Lessons from Tamiflu experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3PsTd5Bg0

Who wants my data and what are they going to do with it?- Peter Doshi, PhD, MA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aC2hS23B8

Influenza vaccines: time for a rethink.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23553143

Who is the BMJ?

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-aap-president-shows-us-his.html

'Tayloe said that he intends to focus on 5 main areas this coming year -- "Medicaid payments, vaccine financing issues, fair payment of pediatricians, retail-based health clinics and funding medical students' education.” 

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/03/aap-president-tells-giant-easily.html

"Do you believe that all vaccines should be used on every child?"

His response:

"Yes. I think any of the vaccines we have today have been tested and proven to be safe, and the credible studies don't show any relationship between vaccines and permanent injury.

Who is the CDC?  A vaccine patent holder”

Examining RFK Jr.'s claim that the CDC “Owns over 20 vaccine patents.”

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/examining-rfk-jrs-claim-cdc-owns-over-20-vaccine-patents

http://vaccinesafetycommission.org/pdfs/bmj.j5104.full.pdf

- In 2015, a US federal advisory committee warned that public confidence in vaccines cannot be taken for granted,5 and some prominent vaccine advocacy organizations are pushing for greater compulsion. But are these groups—which present themselves as reliable sources of information—providing the public with independent information?

- Every Child By Two, Immunization Action Coalition, and the American Academy of Pediatrics all advocated for removing the ability to opt out.

- Spotty disclosure: BMJ asked IAC, AAP, ECBT and CDC to disclose the money going from CDC and Pharma to these "independent" orgs and they would not give them much info. But here is the important point:

- Independent information on vaccine policy? The orgs recommendations always "harmmonize."

WE DID THAT!

https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies/posts/10153847532973387

What can we do now?  Help Lori!

https://gogetfunding.com/support-loris-parental-rights-for-vaccine-choice/

Livestream Vaxxed Atlanta

http://Anugetsreal.com/register

The Ian Lipkin Sexual Harassment Scandal at Columbia Autism/CFS Research Lab

The dominos continue to fall!

Donna Brazille throws Hillary, Obama and DWS under the bus

Tony Podesta resigns from his own company as he and his bro are investigated for illegally lobbying for Russia

Closed media:

Gawker

Gothamist

Science Blogs - https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies/videos/10155481481048387/

Teen Vogue - https://www.teenvogue.com/story/anal-sex-what-you-need-to-know

Magazine targeted to girls as young as 12:

“If they had texted this information to a minor, they would have been arrested.”

More big names fall like stones this week:

Brett Ratner, even I knew he was a creep

Kevin Spacey was outed and his show was canceled in days.

Alec Baldwin issued a mia cupla, we can do better statement today.

NPR's top editor Michael Oreskes was ousted after 2 women accused him of sexual harassment.

Mark Halperin, a contributor at MSNBC

British Defense Minister Michael Fallon is stepping down from his post, citing allegations "about my previous misconduct." 

Ian Lipkin

“Anti-Vaccination Lunacy Won’t Stop 

ROBERT DE NIRO MADE THE RIGHT CALL IN PULLING ‘VAXXED’ FROM HIS FILM FESTIVAL. BUT THE BOGUS MESSAGE ROLLS ON.”

https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/wsj-040416.pdf

Lawsuit at Columbia University roils prominent chronic fatigue syndrome research lab

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/lawsuit-columbia-university-roils-prominent-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-research-lab

“ In the lawsuit, filed on 15 May in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hornig alleges that Lipkin for years has discriminated against her on the basis of sex and created a hostile work environment, violating U.S. and New York civil rights laws. In particular, it alleges that Lipkin took credit for Hornig’s work; diverted or misused funds, thus delaying the publication of Hornig’s research results; undermined her relationships with external collaborators and potential donors; and improperly added himself as principal investigator to grants.”

“The lawsuit also suggests Hornig and Lipkin disagreed on what some of the lab’s data supported. At one point in 2016, according to the lawsuit, “Lipkin kept insisting on capturing a particular message from work [on an autism/prenatal acetaminophen study] which did not appear to be supported by the data.”

Why is Lipkin still employed at Columbia?

https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/wil2001

It's not cute any more.

Biological plausibility of the gut-brain axis in autism.

Abstract

Organic abnormalities with neuroinflammatory and psychiatric consequences involving abnormal kynurenine and purine metabolism, neurotransmitter and cytokine imbalances, and altered levels of nutrients and metabolites are noted in autism, and many of these abnormalities-specifically including increased intestinal permeability, microbial metabolites, and heightened serum levels of endotoxin-originate from the gut.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29090837/

Lori Matheson, the second mom to be attacked by Judge Karen McDonald in divorce proceedings for not vaccinating her child is fundraising. 

https://gogetfunding.com/support-loris-parental-rights-for-vaccine-choice/

Dr James "Jack" Lyons-Weiller PhD is following these cases closely, keep an eye on him for more, and for his new show on this channel.

Dan Bustllos, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor of BIOETHICS at University of Washington Bothell

https://www.uwb.edu/nhs/facultyandstaff/faculty/dbustillos

Spoke on vaccines, claimed there was violence and arrests at the Houston #Vaxxed event in September, Bernadette Pajer was there, and Sheila Ealey is pissed.

http://calendar.washington.edu/bothell/124219742/TheVaccineControversyUncoveringtheHumanStoriestoFosterHealthierConversations

A little footage of the “violence.”

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=546932452304634&id=355613604769854&hc_location=ufi

Sheila's post on it

https://www.facebook.com/sheila.ealey/posts/10213289757252675?pnref=story

Wanna ask CDC some questions? Here is your chance!

Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPDs): Update 2017

Session I: Viral VPDs - November 28, 2017 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET

Session II: Bacterial VPDs - December 5, 2017 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET

These live, interactive sessions will provide updates for VPD surveillance, case investigation, and outbreak control. Both sessions will feature a question and answer segment in which participants can address questions to the presenters.

Goal: To enhance the surveillance of VPDs.

https://www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/surveillance/

God's message to you:

‘Do not fear, for I am with you;

Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,

Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

Isaiah 41:10

CDC's message to you:

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Choose one.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214488116181515&set=a.1783213024949.2103086.1378174673&type=3&theater

http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/E9B963EDB28645C5ABCC22467120662D.ashx

http://mainevaxchoice.org/2017/01/21/narrative-inquiry-in-bioethics-families-are-under-no-obligation-to-put-their-children-at-risk-by-participating-in-the-corrupt-current-us-national-immunization-program/