Selling False Security



Earlier this year the mainstream media blamed an outbreak of mumps on so-called "anti-vaxxers." The mob sharpened their pitchforks as they angrily pointed fingers at concerned parents and doctors who had the gall to question the validity of the weak, side-effect-riddled shots.

Well, it looks like they should have been blaming the drug's manufacturer, Merck, for the spread instead. While the Big Pharma giant's MMR II (measles, mumps, and rubella) shots are supposed to protect kids from mumps, it turns out they might not do anything of the sort.

Even worse, it appears that the drug company may have been well aware that they were selling a false sense of security to parents.

A whistleblower lawsuit filed a few years back is now inching its way to trial. And it alleges that for at least 16 years Merck knew that their vaccine was junk and worked to keep it a secret, even falsifying vaccine test results and data to keep the truth from getting out.

Two Merck scientists say they witnessed the company's scheme firsthand. In the whistleblower lawsuit against the company, lab scientists Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski describe how Merck faked mumps vaccine tests and tried to pressure them into joining in the fraud.

And they claim that deception is continuing today.

The mumps vaccine was developed in the late 1960s by Merck. In 1971, the drug company entered into a contract with the U.S. government to be the sole manufacturer of a mumps vaccine. As part of the deal, Merck believed it would remain the exclusive provider of the vaccine as long as its shot continued to be 95 percent effective.

But even then company's own scientists predicted that the strain would lose its effectiveness over time, and new vaccines would need to be developed.

That's where whistleblower virologists Krahling and Wlochowski come in.

They claim that since at least 1999 Merck has known that the vaccine is no longer anywhere close to 95 percent effective against mumps, and that the company still won't share how well the shots really work.

According to the suit filed against Merck, the company even reportedly changed its methodology and improperly spiked blood samples with animal antibodies to try to artificially boost its numbers.

When Krahling and Wlochowski secretly audited those tests and found that the results seemed to have been faked, they complained to upper management. They say they were told that the scheme was part of a "business decision," and they were advised to get on board. The evidence of the cooked numbers was reportedly destroyed.

But Krahling and Wlochowski didn't give up, they even contacted the FDA. But the agency refused to act, according to the scientists. Merck was allowed to continue trotting out millions of doses of its ineffective vaccine.

Since then, there have been three major mumps outbreaks involving thousands of children -- many of whom HAD BEEN VACCINATED.

Merck isn't just withholding this vital information from our government. They're keeping it from the millions of parents being asked each year to trust the vaccine to protect their kids.

So instead of scapegoating innocent parents who have legitimate concerns about the sometimes serious side effects of this questionable vaccine -- side effects that can include high fevers, seizures, rash, loss of appetite and even, ironically, measles -- it's time to train those pitchforks on the REAL villain in this story, Merck.

Yours in good health,

Bob Reagan

Sources:
Merck accused of stonewalling over effectiveness of mumps vaccine
(blogs.wsj.com)


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