Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team
recently launched The
World Mercury Project, whose mission is to raise public
awareness of the sources and dangers of mercury, help treat those
who have been personally affected by mercury exposure, and push for
safe and responsible removal of mercury in all consumer projects and
industrial processes.
The group highlights the fact that
mercury is the second most toxic element on Earth and can cause
inflammation in brain tissue. That inflammation has been connected
to autism, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and other
ailments.
Not long ago, Kennedy announced a $100,000
challenge aimed at putting an end to the inclusion of mercury in
vaccines administered in the U.S and globally. He held a live press
conference at the National Press Club, bringing along with him a
wide array of research showing the dangers of mercury in isolation
and as an adjuvant in vaccines.
Vaccine safety continues to gain
awareness, and more and more parents are
choosing not to vaccinate their children, despite fierce push
backs from government health authorities and much of the public as
well.
Could we be seeing the same thing
that happened with Genetically Modified Foods? Documents were made
public via a federal lawsuit that showed corruption within the FDA
and a campaign aimed at misleading scientists about the dangers
associated with GMO foods. There are even disturbing revelations on
this matter from released Wikileaks cables. You can read more about
this, and find links to the documents, in
an article we published that goes into more detail.
The question here to ask is, have
doctors and health regulation agencies been lied to about the
dangers associated with certain vaccine adjuvants?
A lot of information out there suggests that this is exactly
what is happening. What’s more, Dr. William Thompson, a longtime
senior CDC scientist who published some of the most commonly cited
pro-vaccine studies — studies that showed absolutely no link between
the MMR vaccine and autism (Thompson,
et al. 2007, Price,
et al. 2010, Destefano,
et al. 2004) — recently came out and revealed that the CDC had
destroyed data and falsified this research.
Kennedy represented Thompson, and
you can read more about the details of the case in
this article we recently published.
Kennedy recently sat down in an
interview with
Healthline about his concerns:
Healthline: Why is
this issue so important to you?
Kennedy: I was litigating and
managing around 30 cases against coal-fired power
plants, principally focusing on mercury emissions. I
had learned a lot about mercury toxicity. I was
going around the country speaking on the issue and I
began running into women who would tell me that if I
was truly interested in mercury exposures to
children that I needed to look at thimerosal in
vaccines … As I began reading the science, I was
struck by the huge delta between what the actual
science said and how it was being presented by the
press and the public health regulators … It made me
angry that they were continuing the practice of
injecting children with neurotoxins.
Healthline: It seems that there
is an element in here of fighting against big
business. It seems that you could compare this to
what the sugar and the tobacco industry did with
science.
Kennedy: Sugar, tobacco, the
carbon industry. They all did this.
Healthline: Do you see a
similarity here?
Kennedy: It’s very similar. This
is really almost identical to the global warming
debate because you have all the independent science
… saying there is an effect. In other words, that
carbon is warming the globe and with
neurodevelopment disorders [that] mercury in
vaccines are causing [them]. Then you have a small
[amount] of industry-created science … that
purportedly exonerates thimerosal and is really
designed and written by industry scientists … and it
appears on the CDC’s website. But the science is
weak and fraudulent … We brought to our press
conference 321 studies … 240 studies on neurological
effects other than autism and 81 studies indicating
a link to autism. We could not find a single study
that says thimerosal was safe … What the CDC tells
you is not science. What The New York Times reports
is not science. And what your doctor tells you is
not science … If you look at [studies] done by
research scientists you will find a mountain of
studies that support my position and very, very few
studies that dispute me.
Healthline: What about vaccines
in general? Would you agree that the vast majority
of science says vaccines in general are safe?
Kennedy: It’s not my expertise.
I don’t think there is any study you can do that
would say that particular thing. I think you’d have
to look vaccine by vaccine.
Healthline: It seems your main concern is
the flu shot, which is given to children and pregnant woman. Is
that your focus?
Kennedy: It’s being given to children at 6
months and it’s being given to pregnant women. So, today the
exposure a child suffers is probably the greatest in history. If
you give a flu shot to a woman who is one or two months
pregnant, that child could be getting thousands of times of
exposure levels to mercury.
Healthline: You’re talking about a pretty
big cover-up or conspiracy here. Do you really think those
agencies are in cahoots? That there’s all this corruption within
the industry? Because that’s what it would take to pull this
off?
Kennedy: The CDC has systemically [within
its vaccine branch] ordered its scientists to destroy data, to
manipulate data, to massage it, to dump it in garbage cans [if
it uncovers] links between development diseases and vaccines. Do
I think everyone at the CDC is corrupt? Of course not. There is
a tiny handful of corrupt scientists and leaders … The rest of
the public health community is not part of any conspiracy, but
it has [become part of] the orthodoxy. It’s the same as the
pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church … There was a tiny
handful of corrupt priests, but the entire church — the bishops,
the cardinals, the Vatican, and the other priests — and the
prosecutors and the press and the police … told themselves it
was more important to protect the institution even though it was
injuring the children it was supposed to be protecting. The
scandal and silence went on for years before it was exposed.
Healthline: Why would this handful [of CDC
employees] do this?
Kennedy: [When information on thimerosal
reached CDC officials] they said that if we come clean about
this, not only are we going to get sued, but the vaccine
companies are going to get sued, and they won’t be able to make
any vaccines. I think there was a worry … that if they told the
truth, that the American people would lose faith and the
institution would be so badly injured that maybe it would create
even bigger problems with public health … It’s not completely
selfish … There was a genuine concern that this could destroy
the whole program and they had to clean it up.
Healthline: Are you worried at all that some
of the antivaccination campaigns … could do just that? That they
could harm the overall vaccine industry and cause harm to public
health?
Kennedy: I don’t see how they can do that
because Congress has now passed a law that makes it virtually
impossible to sue a vaccine company.
Healthline:
Taking this a little broader, do you worry at all that some of
the vaccine safety concerns from people might feed into the
antiscience mood that seems to be building in the country and
that includes climate change?
Kennedy: I’m
trying to fight that trend and get people to pay attention to
real science. There’s so much scientific illiteracy, especially
in the press. The press doesn’t read science … They just parrot
what the CDC tells them. Is there any other arena where the
press thinks it’s OK to just parrot what a government official
tells them?
Healthline:
There’s something folks on the other side have said … They think
a lot of this is fueled by parents who understandably just want
an answer, just something to blame, for their kids’ autism. What
would be your response to that?
Kennedy: They
are dismissing the stories of tens of thousands that saw the
same thing happen to their children … What are the chances they
all made up the same story? … If this is not caused by mercury,
then find out what it is and get rid of it.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/03/23/a-qa-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr-about-vaccine-safety
