- R.F.Kennedy Jr. - Attorney, Author, Thimerosal: The pharmaceutical industry was able to use its influence over FDA to get FDA to waive the rule that once prohibited pharmaceutical companies from doing direct consumer advertising of their products. That loophole has given the pharmaceutical industry extraordinary control over the American media. The pharmaceutical companies typically spend about $9 billion a year on media buys.
- J.B.Handley - Author, How to End the Autism Epidemic: You can't report on American television without making sure it's ok with pharma.
- R.F.Kennedy Jr. - Attorney, Author, Thimerosal: Congress has been purchased by the pharmaceutical companies. This is an industry that spends more on lobbying than any other industry, double the next largest lobbyist, which is the oil and gas industry.
- Efthimios Parasidis - Ass.Prof. of Law & Public Health, Ohio State University: [on the Salk/Younger inactivated Polio vaccine distributed by Cutter in the 1950s] In fact, over 200,000 American Children were administered a defective polio vaccine. Approximately 40,000 children contracted polio, 200 were paralyzed, and 10 died. It turns out that Cutter knew that many of the vaccines were defective. This caused a polio epidemic amongst the families and communities where the children received a defective vaccine.
- Wife: Up from 24 vaccine doses by age 18 in '86 to 72 now.
- Husband: There are legal mandates for child safety seats. But no one argues the government should assume the manufacturer's liability for *those*.
- Mike Hugo - Plaintiff's Attorney in Vaccine Injury Litigation: In the early days of litigation, we were able to get a favorable result for I would say pretty much 100% of the people we represented, because they always settled the case at the same juncture of litigation, of the discovery. That told me, as an attorney, that if they're willing to pay, there's something that I don't know about it.
- [on what's commonly, not quite correctly, called the "Vaccine Court"]
- Chief Special Master Vowell, U.S.Court of Federal Claims: We don't apply the rules of evidence that directly.
- Husband: No judge, no jury, no right to discovery.
- Chief Special Master Vowell, U.S.Court of Federal Claims: Our hearings are all closed to the public.
- Husband: A 'Special Master' appointed by the defendant, our government?
- R.F.Kennedy Jr. - Attorney, Author, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: When Congress passed the Vaccine Act, they knew that they'd removed from the manufacturers any incentive to make vaccines safe. So they took that responsibility and they put it firmly in the lap of the Department of Health and Human Services. One of the key requirements of the act was that HHS monitor vaccine safety and make a report on it every two years to Congress. In 2018, we sued HHS under the Freedom of Information Law, and they were unable to produce a single one of these reports.
- Jim Moody - Public Interest Attorney: [referring to placebo-controlled safety-studies] That is done with every other medical product or device. In 2009 we actually had $16 million set aside in the budget for research to do the study. And CDC was so angry at the risk this posed to the vaccine program that at the next meeting of this research committee they brought it up again, and in an illegal re-vote they took away the money.
- J.B.Handley - Author, How to End the Autism Epidemic: The only way you're really gonna know how much damage vaccines are causing is to look at people who receive the vaccines and people who haven't received the vaccines, look at vaccinated children versus unvaccinated children.
- Jim Moody - Public Interest Attorney: Thompson and colleagues did find a strong signal of autism causation in these two groups, which was of course unacceptable to CDC.
- Barbara Loe Fisher - Author, DPT: A Shot in the Dark: They won't do it. They will not compare the health of children who were not getting vaccinated against the children who are receiving all the vaccines according to the federal schedule.
- Brian Hooker, PhD - Professor of Biology: Dr. Thompson tried to warn the director of CDC at that time, because he knew he was publishing fraudulent data. Not only was he replaced in the 2004 Institute of Medicine meeting by his supervisor Dr. Frank DeStefano, who proceeded to show the fraudulent data, but he was threatened with firing and he was told to seek psychiatric help because of his moment of clarity.
- Brian Hooker, PhD - Professor of Biology: Two findings were buried by the CDC. The first was what we call the African-American effect. The second was a group of children who received their MMR shot in time and then regressed into autism.
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- Brian Hooker, PhD - Professor of Biology: I have performed the study that the CDC did not perform. I have compared health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The health outcomes that we studied included developmental delays, asthma, ear infection, and gastrointestinal issues. I studied approximately 2000 children, of whom 31% were unvaccinated by one year of age, and I compared those with the remaining 69% who had been vaccinated. It clearly demonstrates that vaccinated children had worse health outcomes compared to unvaccinated children. The children that got the most vaccines and got vaccinated earlier were at the greatest risk for all of these adverse health outcomes. And this *demands* further study.
- R.F.Kennedy Jr. - Attorney, Author, Thimerosal: The vaccine industry at the beginning of the 1980s was a $270 million industry. Today it's a $52 billion industry. the WHO says that it will be a $100 billion industry by 2025. And that all of that is because of the gold rush that was ignited when they passed VICA.
- [VICA - National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act]
- Del Bigtree - Producer of Vaxxed, Host of Highwire: That box in your house is really just a pharma advertising machine that has some entertainment to keep you attached while they feed you this mantra that you cannot live without pharma.
- Del Bigtree - Producer of Vaxxed, Host of Highwire: We wanted the vaccine issue to be in the mouths of the people. It's the only way we're ever gonna change this, because the politicians are already bought.
- Mike Hugo - Plaintiff's Attorney in Vaccine Injury Litigation: [on the DPT whole-cell vaccine] The reason they didn't pursue the safer vaccine came down to - I'd like to say dollars and cents, but I can't; I'd like to say cents, but I can't. I'd have to say less than a cent per dose to make it safer. And they were unwilling to cut into their profit margin.
- Mike Hugo - Plaintiff's Attorney in Vaccine Injury Litigation: As we fought for more documents, they would settle the cases very quickly.
- Husband: [on the Simian Virus SV40, reading from a study, incredulous] Between 1955 and 1963, over 98 million Americans were administered polio vaccines widely contaminated with this cancer-causing virus.
- Dr. Bobby Young - Microbiologist: The doctor knows this is mandated by regulation. So he has no choice. And indeed, the parent has no choice.
- Wife: Martin asked what we're gonna do about vaccination.
- Husband: That's a no-brainer. Babies need their shots.
- Wife: And what about me? They vaccinate pregnant women, too, now.
- Husband: What? That doesn't seem right.
- Wife: Do you still think it's a no-brainer?
- Barbara Loe Fisher - Author, DPT: A Shot in the Dark: Most of these lawsuits would be settled on the courthouse steps by the companies before they got to a jury trial. And as a condition of doing that settlement all the court records were sealed from the public view.
- [as shown by Lederle's documents handed over, very reluctantly, on court order in Clara Morgan Shackil vs Lederle Laboratories]
- Wife: Concerns about brain damage from the original pertussis vaccines date back to the 1930s. Even 50 years later they admitted that what they knew about the basic biology of pertussis was "abysmal".
- Mary Holland - Attorney, Author, Vaccine Epidemic & The HPV Vaccine on Trial: In the early 90s, in the wake of the '86 act, the vaccine schedule ramped up dramatically, and there were more and more vaccine injuries. And the name given to that injury was 'autism'.
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- Wife: We're gonna have a baby!
- Wife: Of those who came in contact with vaccinated children, 113 were paralyzed and five died.
- Patrick Tierney - Medical Historian, Author, Darkness in El Dorado: [by the 1960] It had become a national *political* priority to promote vaccines and to squelch bad news about vaccines. And that was everywhere and it involved every vaccine.
- Patrick Tierney - Medical Historian, Author, Darkness in El Dorado: It had become very important for American foreign policy that people have faith in vaccines. And we know that from documents that were declassified in the last year of the Obama administration, showing that the CIA had decided by 1954 that vaccine programs could be a way to enhance American influence throughout the world, and also to keep up American technology in bio weapons.
- Barbara Loe Fisher - Author, DPT: A Shot in the Dark: People would be *outraged* if they really knew how much the producers don't know about what vaccines do in the body. And how much they're covering up about what vaccines do in the body.
- Wife: They could at least *delay* the MMR.
- Husband: What? And *admit* there's a problem?
- Husband: Why don't we see anything of this in the news?
- Wife: Vaccine injury is real, always was. And there's another side, *over four billion* paid out by our government for damages.
- Husband: Well, protection comes at a cost.
- Wife: What about the victims?
- Husband: Wait, did you just say that *the government* paid out?