Quotes re Offit Paul Offit defending vaccines is like
Charles Manson arguing the merits of
religious cults, and reporters and gossip
columnists across the country are Googling
away and learning about the extreme
conflicts, Congressional reprimands, vaccine
patents, paid spokesperson gigs, and
underhanded book deals that characterize
Offit's dealings.[July 2008] The
Parasites Thank You, Amanda Peet
''I had no clue about the pivotal role they both had played in deceiving the
public about thimerosal safety. Both of them spoke to me willingly. Offit
expressed admiration for my father, which is an effective way to butter me up. I
asked them both the obvious question: "Why do we advise pregnant women to steer
clear of fish because of neurotoxic mercury and yet inject much larger doses of
mercury into pregnant women and babies?" They both repeated to me the thread
worn industry canard that the "Ethyl
mercury in vaccines is not as dangerous as the methyl mercury in fish" which
everyone admits is highly neurotoxic. Offit explained to me that ethyl mercury
wasn't toxic because it leaves the human body so quickly.
By then, I'd read Burbacher's monkey studies which confirmed
Offit's assertion that the ethyl mercury from vaccines rapidly left the blood.
But, Burbacher had shown the ethyl mercury was not being excreted from the body
as Offit implied during our telephone conversation. Instead, it was going
directly into the brain, where it rapidly metabolized into highly toxic
inorganic mercury, and then lodged there, creating inflammation and brain
damage. Burbacher had shown that inorganic mercury remains in the brain for
years. Instead of being evidence of its safety, as Offit represented, ethyl
mercury's penchant for disappearing quickly from the blood was testimony to its
extreme peril; it was disappearing due to the ease with which it crossed the
blood-brain barrier! Ethyl mercury used in vaccines was both far more persistent
and far more toxic than the methyl mercury found in fish. The Guzzi study, in
2012, showed the ethyl mercury was 50 times as toxic to cells. When I mentioned
the Burbacher study to Stratton and Offit, they both went silent. It was obvious
that they were aware of the study. THEY BOTH KNEW that science had
refuted what they were telling me. They were accustomed to talking to
journalists who seem to have an allergy to reading science and were content to
parrot their reassurances.'' [2016 Dec]
Mercury, Vaccines and the CDC's Worst Nightmare By Rita Shreffler
''In a single day, I had spoken to the two top advocates
for the use of thimerosal in vaccines and I caught them both lying. A few days
later, I heard Offit repeat his "good mercury/bad mercury" fib during an
interview on NPR. I thought to myself, "This man is a thorough charlatan, a
snake oil salesman and he has everyone flimflammed." That made me angry. After
that, I learned that he was also venal. Well, my original assumption was
that he was lying in service to the vaccine program. I later learned that
vaccines were a lavishly profitable enterprise for Dr. Offit.
He is on permanent retainer to Merck to "right vaccine
wrongs". And, both Merck and the CDC have rewarded his service with
extraordinarily lucrative opportunities. In 1999, the CDC allowed him to sit on
the committee that voted the rotavirus vaccine onto the schedule, even though he
was working on his own rotavirus patent. Electing not to recuse himself, he cast
his vote to add rotavirus to the schedule. That version of the rotavirus vaccine
caused so many agonizing childhood deaths from intussusception that the CDC had
to withdraw it a year later, making room for Offit's version, a turn of events
that made him a vaccine tycoon. His rotavirus vaccine patent sold for $182
million; his cut was at least $29 million. When I learned about this caper and
his other money schemes, I just thought, "Well, he's a hoodlum."
It's disturbing because the media treats him like a deity.
And, like all bullies, he's a coward. He dismisses women who question him as
superstitious hysterics. He lobs vicious bombs at the mothers of vaccine-injured
children from the editorial pages and national TV shows which give him a
platform for his poison. But, he refuses to debate me or anyone else who knows
what they are talking about.
I don't feel competent to psychoanalyze Offit. It's hard to look
into another person's mind. And Offit's brain has got to be a really dark and
scary zip code where I don't really want to spend time. In his defense, we all
have some capacity for self-deception and it's possible that Offit is as gifted
at deceiving himself as he is at deceiving the public. Upton Sinclair observed
that, "It's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it." But I do think it's more likely that he
knows that what he's saying is dishonest. For years, he claimed Bill Thompson's
2004 study was "the definitive proof" of thimerosal safety. He's been silent
about that since Thompson disavowed his own study. That suggests a purposeful
mendacity. Like a lot of other people, Offit seems to have made the self-serving
calculation that all of the dead and damaged children are just collateral
damage—unfortunate sacrifices in a program that serves the greater good.
.....Offit's moral Donnybrook is his absolutist defense of the industry position
that all vaccines are always safe for all people and that the safety of
thimerosal is unassailable. That approach has unnecessarily damaged vulnerable
subgroups that could easily have been protected and sacrificed millions of kids,
not for the greater good but for the bottom line. As the vaccine industry's lead
pitchman for thimerosal, Offit's been extraordinarily successful at crafting a
persuasive alternative to fact-based reality and selling it like a carnival
barker. He has made himself the high priest of the weird dogma that it's somehow
safe to inject mercury into babies.''
[2016 Dec] Mercury, Vaccines and
the CDC's Worst Nightmare By Rita Shreffler
[2015 Sept] Vaccine profiteer Paul Offit admits to fabricating lies about
vaccine safety advocates Offit reportedly made up a fictitious
conversation he had with Seidel, painting her as a threatening and unreasonable
person in an attempt to tarnish her reputation. This conversation never actually
happened, of course, and Offit later settled a libel accusation, agreeing to
issue an apology, correct the "error" in his book, and make a donation to an
autism charity.
Offit states that "Subsequent studies of hundreds of thousands of children
showed that the risk of permanent brain damage was the same in children who had
not received the vaccine as in those who had." FACT: Of all the vaccines
which have been routinely used by children in the past century, the brain
damaging effects of the pertussis (whooping cough) portion of DPT vaccine is
among the most well documented in the scientific literature.
[2007 NVIC] Myths and Facts
''A June 3, Boston
Globe OpEd authored by Paul Offit, M.D. is littered with factual errors that
perpetuate pharmaceutical industry-created myths, which have been used for two
decades to persuade Congress to pass laws shielding vaccine makers from
liability for vaccine injuries and deaths, while giving drug companies huge
financial incentives to develop vaccines and lobby for vaccine mandates. Offit
blames parents of DPT vaccine injured children seeking financial support for
their children for driving drug companies out of the vaccine business. He does
this even though he knows perfectly well there are more drug companies producing
childhood vaccines today than in 1982.
Offit also blames parents of vaccine injured children for
vaccine shortages even though he knows the main causes for vaccine shortages
rest with the vaccine manufacturers themselves: production problems affecting
distribution, incomplete compliance with FDA standards, and inaccurate
predictions for public demand for a vaccine.
Offit further attempts to rewrite medical history by alleging
that DPT vaccine does not cause brain damage. He does this even though he knows
(1) the largest case controlled study ever conducted to investigate causes of
brain damage in children, the 1981
British National
Childhood Encephalopathy Study, concluded that the pertussis (whooping
cough) portion of DPT vaccine causes acute brain inflammation and permanent
brain damage; and (2) the Institute of Medicine agreed with that conclusion in
1994.'' [2007 NVIC]
Myths and Facts
OK, let me be clear: I think Paul Offit is a blowhard liar, a vaccine
profiteer and apologist, and every time he opens his mouth he disrespects my
son. When the final chapter is finally written on this man-made autism epidemic,
I will do everything within my power to ensure that Offit is remembered by
history as one of the most sinister, dishonest, well-funded talking heads pharma
ever produced, and that his efforts served to afflict so many children with
autism who may otherwise have avoided it. In one of the most absurd
snowjobs ever put on the media, Offit, a doctor who has never seen a patient
with autism, never treated autism, and never published a study about autism, is
somehow considered to be an expert on autism. Given his status as a
multi-millionaire vaccine patent holder who has had much of his career supported
by Merck, this isn’t just absurd, it’s highway robbery, and yet the media
persists, and rarely even mentions Offit’s Mount Everest-sized pile of
conflicts.
Best of Age of Autism: Paul Offit and the Original Sin
It is not the liberty of Dr. Offit, or any manufacturer researcher or
government public health official, or any MD, to decide for you what is an
acceptable level of risk for your child. Indeed – vis-a-vis vaccines, the
industry shows nothing but disdain, for the truth and for the health of our
kids, and cannot be trusted. Our focus must be on warning others of the palpable
threat of vaccination, as the ground force to ultimately break the cartel’s hold
– politically, economically and socially – completely. Research. Educate.
We’re on our own.[2014]
A Pox On Their Arrogance and Their Dark Motivations by Shawn Siegel
I have offered on
several occasions by recorded delivery and mail to debate Dr. Offit in public at
any time in any place of his choosing and that he has never taken me up on. And
I don't suppose that he is going to. Let's
just characterize Dr. Offit's sense of proportion and
due diligence in what he says. For example, in his book about false prophets,
Autism and False Prophets, he claimed that I had made the recommendation to
use single vaccines in the UK in February 1998 when the single vaccines were not
available. They were. I would not have made the recommendation had they not
been. If you Google that. If you put in 'withdrawal
single vaccines UK' into Google, the first website
that comes up gives you the precise date on which they were withdrawn in the
fall of that year; six months beyond what I had said. That is all Dr. Offit had
to do to check his facts. That was all he had to do.He did not do it. Instead, he decided to go into his book, go into print
and defame me by suggesting that I would make a recommendation which was in
effect unethical. So that is a measure if you like of Dr. Offit's
application to the task at hand.
[2010 April] Andrew Wakefield Interview by Dr
Mercola
Now we come to your specific question about the use of 10,000 which I think
he's now revised to a hundred thousand vaccine
antigens on one day. This is based upon a theoretical study that he did looking
at the sort of genetic variability of the genes responsible for antibody
production and saying, well, based upon the number that we have available; we
should be able to produce this number of antibodies. That is an entirely
theoretical mathematical piece of jiggery pokery. It has absolutely nothing
whatsoever to do with the real world and it's bizarre
that he would go out there and say that. That really, really worries me from a
safety standpoint. If you just take for example, MMR
and you add in the varicella vaccine, the chickenpox vaccine, MMRV as ProQuad
what happens is you double the rate of convulsions as an adverse reaction. So
just adding one and not 999,000 but just one extra vaccine in, you double the
rate of an adverse, a potentially serious adverse reaction. To the extent that
that ProQuad vaccine had to be withdrawn. So the notion that you could give a
child a hundred thousand vaccine antigens on one day is utter nonsense. And what
is extraordinary, what is telling I suppose is that no other immunologist or
vaccinologist or any other person with any credible standing has stood behind
Dr. Offit and said yes, you can go for it.
[2010 April] Andrew Wakefield Interview by Dr
Mercola
It appears Paul Offit joined the ACIP to ensure he could influence the
approval of the Rotavirus vaccine, from which he would later benefit greatly
when his own version of rotavirus vaccine was approved. Not surprisingly, Paul
Offit voted yes on every action he could relating to the approval of Wyeth's
vaccine. But, when the vaccine was being pulled from the market, Offit abstained. [2009 Jan] Dr. Paul
Offit: Fox in a Henhouse, the ACIP Years (1998-2003) By J.B. Handley
"There are two reasons why people perpetuate a lie,
even if they are not the original creators of it. Some do it out of ignorance or
carelessness. Others do it deliberately with full knowledge. Sometimes it is
difficult to determine whether facts are falsified deliberately or out of
ignorance. Whatever the case, it is important to set the record straight when
distortion of facts perpetuate a lie, especially when the lives of human beings
are at stake.....Paul Offit attempts to rewrite
history when he argues that the DPT vaccine does not cause brain inflammation
and permanent brain injury in some children....Offit
is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts. We have only ourselves
to blame when we believe everything he says." -
At Risk: Truth About Vaccines, Lawsuits & Shortages by
Barbara Loe Fisher
[Nov 2007]
Dissecting A Thimerosal Studyby Heidi Stevenson So, the expert quoted has made a statement that
has nothing to do with the study and he holds a patent on a dangerous vaccine
being pushed on tiny babies for a disease that holds almost no risk if they're
healthy. Is this the sort of person whose opinion on the issue—especially
considering the fact that his statement has nothing to do with the study in
question—is worthwhile?
It is unfortunate that most of the public are of the opinion that their
physician has an in-depth knowledge of how the body works. For example, most
parents assume that the pediatrician understands the immune system and therefore
knows all about vaccine effects. Nothing could be further from the truth. In
most medical schools, the basic sciences are taught during the first year.
Medical students, in general, hate the basic sciences and see them as useless to
the practice of medicine. Kevin worse, there are certain subjects that receive
little or no coverage in medical education. Many people are aware that nutrition
rarely receives any attention i n the curriculum. Yet, of the basic sciences, it
is immunology that gets little more than a footnote.
As you will discover in this book, even people making
decisions concerning the vaccines your child will receive have admitted they
know little or nothing concerning immunology. This is appalling. Anyone with
even a basic understanding of immunology or having read the available research
on the effects of excessive vaccination on the developing brain, would know that
the present crowded vaccine schedule is extremely destructive to the child's
brain. Likewise, there seems to be little concern as to the effects of multiple
immunizations on the developing child's immune system. Pediatricians and public
health authorities are of the opinion that they can give an unlimited number of
vaccines to babies and small children without risk. Our neuroscience proves this
is insane. Almost every year, these vaccine enthusiasts add another set of
vaccines to the schedule, despite the growing list of neurological and other
health disasters occurring in our children.
Vaccine
Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller. (Preface)
"Many, many people are under mind control and have been working for
them for years - men and women who are dentists, attorneys,
stockbrokers, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, politicians,
bankers, corporate heads, engineers, newspaper editors or owners,
nurses, teachers, principals, etc. etc. etc. And all these programmed
people are used to further "the cause," each placed in strategic
positions for use by the Council.The
technology available is so advanced that most people couldn't even dream
of it. It far surpasses anything yet seen on sci-fi movies or read about
in books -- total automation, even of people."---Thanks
for the Memories by Brice Taylor
Offit bollocks/lies quotes:
The whooping cough vaccine didn't cause permanent brain damage (see:
"In fact, Dr. Offit's studies show that in theory, healthy infants could
safely get up to 100,000 vaccines at once." [Ref]
"I
think questioning vaccines is perfectly reasonable. But I thinkthat when one looks at the data, and sees that vax are safe and effectiveand...still...says, 'Well, I think there's a conspiracy to sell vaccines'
or'I think my doctor's
lying to me,' I think that's
when you cross some sortof critical line," says Offit.
"What I'm asking is that people trust theirexperts.
And that's sort of a hard thing to politically accept."(CBS) 60 MinutesOctober 20, 2004
"If they were
willing to look at all the studies that were done with
vaccines, they would find that they are, I think without question, thesafest, best-tested thing we put into our bodies," says Offit. "I thinktheyhave a better safety record than vitamins.
(CBS) 60 MinutesOctober 20, 2004
[Draw dropping lie that one. No
one has found any safety study over 2 weeks for MMR, and that was done by the
maker, and $1 Billion in compensation to vaccine victims, when at the most only
1 in 4 get compensated, certainly well under 10% of vaccine reactions ever get
reported. I'd love to see a list of vitamin victims under professional (doctor)supervision, like the vaccine victims.]
"If they were willing to look at all the studies that
were done with vaccines, they would find that they are, I
think without question, the safest, best-tested thing we put
into our bodies. I think they have a better
safety record than
vitamins." (60
Minutes, October 20, 2004)
"I think without question the
smallpox vaccine has severe
adverse events that occur at a rate far greater than any
of the other vaccines that we use today. Which means that
the
smallpox vaccine, is I think, without question, our
least safe vaccine. But it is absolutely safe if one defines
'safe' as benefits outweigh risks in a situation where the
disease is present. When the disease isn't present, then one
only is frankly aware of the risks, because there are no
benefits." (PBS,
2002)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec02/offit_smallpox.html
"...there was some very poor research done in
England by a
surgeon named
Andrew Wakefield. His findings have not been reproduced
by anyone who has tried. It was bad science that,
unfortunately, got a lot of press." (May 25, 2001)
"There has been a fair amount of study
which I think has clearly shown that the disease is at least
– or at least has a genetic basis.......So
that sort of takes out the environmental influenza and just looks at genetics I
think and has – and there has been study after study that has shown that there's
at the very least a genetic."--- [March 2006] Paul Offit Briefs Media On Vaccine Safety
Concerns
