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The Public Relations Machine for the Vaccine Complex
Richard Gale and Gary Null
Lew
Rockwell.com
Monday, Oct 19th, 2009
One hard lesson we should have learned after
Wall Street’s collapse and the government’s handling
of the bailout is that there is no reason, whatsoever, for us
to sacrifice our good faith and trust in former bankers who
now run the Treasury and Federal Reserve. And now as the flu
season gets ready to kick off amidst much fanfare and predictions
of doom due to a new H1N1 influenza virus, there is emerging
sufficient information to raise very serious doubts whether
our nation’s health authorities are truly serving the
public health instead of commercial interests.
If the flu season goes according to schedule, the vaccine industrial
complex will be poised to join Wall Street for record year rip-off
profits. We will also likely witness huge Pharma executive bonuses
and perhaps gold-plated toilets. Even if the CDC statisticians’
crystal ball used to forecast rampant swine flu infections turns
into a complete bust – which would only be one more added
to many other failed flu predictions back to 1976 – it
will nevertheless be a very profitable failure as was the economic
collapse for the banking cartel. The vaccine industry has now
received orders in the range of 3 billion doses during the course
of the coming flu season. The World Health Organization would
like to vaccinate two thirds (4 billion) of the global community,
and the US alone is spending $2 billion to stockpile the nation
with upwards to 250 million doses.
In the US, such profits could never be accomplished without
a dynamic, marketing initiative to convince Americans that vaccines
will keep them protected and alive. And what better public relations
machine for the vaccine complex, and all its supporters in health
insurance and professional medical institutions, than our very
own Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Health
and Human Services. Even better, our tax dollars are there to
pay for it all. We pay for the comfort in knowing that the CDC’s
disinformation campaign will continue to scare us over the major
networks and the New York Times. We can also assure vaccine
makers that once and for all they are protected from liability
in the event of serious flu vaccine injuries.
Nevertheless, the government has a lot of vaccine vials to distribute,
therefore, the CDC needs to sustain the fiction of numerous
elderly dying in nursing homes, unvaccinated pregnant moms and
children facing life threatening complications, and scores of
sick and dead burnt into our national subconscious. It is all
part of the CDC’s script to get citizens rushing to their
doctors and Wal-Marts to be vaccinated.
Peter Doshi, while at Harvard in the mid-2000s, published a
devastating study in the British Medical Journal that systematically
unveils the flawed predictive science used to publicize our
health agencies’ influenza statistics and mortality rates.
His analysis shook up enough health authorities to warrant twelve
scientists from the CDC and National Institutes of Health to
unsuccessfully take him on. Now at MIT, Doshi continues his
analysis of a century’s worth of influenza mortality data
and government manipulation of influenza data, such as the annual
figure of 36,000 influenza deaths we hear and read repeatedly.[1]
Although this magical number was for all practical purposes
alchemically conjured up via mathematical modeling back in 2003,
it continues to be the most holy number in the CDC’s PR
vocabulary every flu season. Doshi draws the conclusion, published
in the American Journal of Public Health, that commercial interests
are playing the role of science in both industry and government.[2]
Deconstruction of the CDC’s cherry-picked science and
a growing anti-vaccination community are just some of the obstacles
health authorities face. Therefore, no public relations strategy
can have a solid multimedia punch on American citizens without
opinion leaders serving as the gnomes for the vaccine complex
and our heavily invested government health agencies, which are
about to be buried in millions of purchased vaccine vials eager
for distribution. This effort requires shock troopers, such
as the pro-vaccine prophet Dr. Paul Offit, the creator of the
rotavirus vaccine and a staunch critic against any scientist
who discovers an association between vaccines and severe neurological
disorders. Dr. Offit is on record for an audacious comment that
children can tolerate 100,000 vaccinations (yes, you read that
number correctly).[3]
However, during this particular flu season, government health
officials’ may have a more difficult time convincing Americans
to be vaccinated for swine flu if recent polls are reliable
indicators. The latest Consumers Union poll released on September
30 shows almost two-thirds of parents will withhold vaccinating
their children; fifty percent of respondents’ rationale
is that the vaccine has not been tested thoroughly for safety.[4]
A poll of pregnant mothers conducted by the internet parent
support group Mumsnet.com indicates women are turning more suspicious
about the flu vaccine’s true efficacy and safety. The
survey of 1500 respondents found only 6 percent of pregnant
women “definitely” taking the shot, while 48 percent
said they “definitely” wouldn’t. A parallel
poll revealed only 5 percent would definitely vaccinate their
children.[5] A more recent San Francisco Chronicle survey finds
54 percent saying the H1N1 flu is nothing to be worried about.[6]
A separate study conducted by Harvard’s School of Public
Health showed that among the 41 percent who would not get the
shot, 44 percent of parents are uncertain they would allow their
children to receive it. Aside from many who expressed a fear
of the vaccine’s side effects, the poll found 31 percent
expressing a distrust in our public health officials providing
accurate information on vaccine safety.[7] Therefore, expect
an aggressive government public relations campaign during the
coming weeks and even months, while our tax dollars are spent
on 250 million shots that independent epidemiological evidence
is showing may be ineffective at best, and dangerous at worst.
European polls indicate that our neighbors on the other side
of the great pond are less nervous about the H1N1 strain’s
severity and far more suspicious towards health officials’
rationale for hyping dire warnings of swine flu’s dangers.
In France, Le Figaro conducted a poll of 12,050 people showing
69 percent will refuse the vaccination. In a separate French
survey, one third of 4,752 doctors, nurses and healthcare workers
surveyed would not be inoculated.[8] Twenty-nine percent of
Germans surveyed said they would refuse it “under any
circumstance” and an additional 33 percent would likely
refuse it. In the region of Bavaria and Baden Wurttemburg, only
10 percent of those polled said they would submit their arms
to injection. In the UK, a couple polls reported in the Daily
Mail last August, showed half of family physicians and a third
of UK nurses do not want the swine flu vaccination. Seventy-one
percent do not believe the vaccine has been tested enough for
safety and the swine flu is much milder than health authorities
are saying.
During the course of the CDC’s media war to push forward
the vaccine industry’s greed for profit, science and reflective
caution are being sacrificed. An important peer-reviewed study
appearing in the June 2009 issue of Toxicological and Environmental
Chemistry shows a causal relationship between the amounts of
ethylmercury (thimerosal) found in inoculations for infants,
when administered to monkeys, and cellular toxicity resulting
in mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired oxidative reduction activity
and degeneration and death in neuronal and fetal cells.[9] These
are all indicative signs found in some ASD. But health officials
prefer to ignore such results. For the future health of American
children, the study’s findings arrive at a bad time when
a recent Harvard study now reports autistic spectrum disorders
(ASD) has risen to 1 in 91 people compared to the earlier 1
in 150 estimate. But since the study was sponsored by the CDC,
the press release makes no indication that just maybe the over-vaccination
of children with dozens of injections by the age of 5 years
might be a causal factor behind this national epidemic of ASD
and other neurological disorders.
During the course of interviewing many parents of autistic
children for our documentaries Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made
in the USA, the personal stories we filmed repeatedly were that
of a once perfectly healthy and joyful child who, shortly after
a vaccination or a series of injections, simply vanished from
normality. However, national health policy today seems to have
almost legislated by divine decree that there is no relationship
between vaccine ingredients and autism. Besides, further independent
research and first-hand personal stories would only interfere
with the propaganda machine and the CDC’s “Seven
Step Recipe for Generating Interest In, and Demand for, Flu
Vaccination.”
Peter Doshi first brought public attention to the CDC’s
PR influenza strategy known as the Seven Step Recipe. Glen Nowak,
now the Director of the CDC’s Media Relations, outlined
a concise public relations template while serving as the communications
spokesperson for the National Immunization Program. Speaking
at the 2004 National Influenza Vaccine Summit, he presented
the CDC’s seven steps. After a careful review of Nowak’s
Powerpoint presentation we discover a very detailed and concerted
PR and multimedia campaign that includes the following (quotes
are from CDC’s materials):
To encourage the belief that influenza infection can “occur
among people for whom influenza is not generally perceived to
cause serious complications (e.g., children, healthy adults,
healthy seniors).” In other words, promote flu vaccination
to those who don’t really need it.
In order to “foster the demand for flu vaccinations”
the CDC should target “medical experts and public health
authorities publicly (e.g., via media) [to] state concern and
alarm (and predict dire outcomes) – and urge influenza
vaccination.”
By focusing on the message of dire health threats and human
casualties upon those who don’t really need to be vaccinated,
the CDC will reach its milestone of “framing of the flu
season in terms that motivate behavior (e.g., as “very
severe,” “more severe than last or past years,”
“deadly”).”
Throughout the flu season, the campaign would continue issuing
reports “from health officials and media” to emphasize
that “influenza is causing severe illness and/or affecting
lots of people – helping foster the perception that many
people are susceptible to a bad case of influenza.”
Of course, no marketing strategy is thorough without images.
Ergo another ingredient in the recipe is to use “visible/tangible
examples of the seriousness of the illness (e.g., pictures of
children, families of those affected coming forward) and people
getting vaccinated (the first to motivate, the latter to reinforce).”
The CDC’s “key points” indicate we are now
in that critical timeframe for the CDC to distribute materials
to “a variety of partners.” This includes aggressively
disseminating all medical reports, studies and PR spins to the
soporific media and corporate-funded medical associations to
support the government’s mass vaccination efforts. Come
November, we will begin to see reports on “pediatric deaths”
due to influenza – although Dr. Martin Meltzer, a CDC
expert in health economics, has stated “almost nobody
dies of the flu” and “deaths [are] associated with
flu, but not necessarily caused by flu.”[10] Apparently,
the folks over in the various CDC departments and our different
federal health agencies don’t communicate with each other
very well.
So why should our tax dollars go towards fabricating and/or
ignoring science in order to vaccinate Americans? Nowak publicly
stated the CDC’s reasons on National Public Radio, “…
the manufacturers were telling us that they weren’t receiving
a lot of orders for vaccine for use in November or even December
… It really did look like we [CDC] needed to do something
to encourage people to get a flu shot.[11]
At this moment, we are witnessing a steady flow press releases
and articles in the media to convert Americans to the wisdom
of national health vaccination policy. The National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has issued preliminary
positive results from an uncompleted clinical trial testing
the H1N1 vaccine on children and young people between 6 months
and 17 years of age. The fact that the entire study only enrolled
70 individuals covering this age range should alone raise red
flags about any reliable conclusions after the study is completed.
Moreover, the study is specifically designed for measuring the
necessary immune response to protect youth from the swine flu.
It is not a safety study. We usually expect that sound scientific
ethics demand clinical trials to be reported after a final analysis
of research data, however, the CDC’s Seven Step Recipe
is not concerned with scientific facts, or rigorous research
protocol. It is simply part of the PR game plan to get people
vaccinated and to do it fast.
Donald McNeil, a shill for the vaccine complex writing for
the New York Times has printed two recent articles aligned with
CDC propaganda. He quotes Dr. Jay Butler, chief of the swine
flu vaccine task force at the CDC in order to relieve fears
about flu vaccine adverse effects, especially to pregnant women.
Dr. Butler said, “There are about 2,400 miscarriages a
day in the US. You’ll see things that would have happened
anyway. But the vaccine doesn’t cause miscarriages. It
also doesn’t cause auto accidents, but they happen.”[12]
I hope that is reassuring to all those expectant mothers across
the country, especially since none of the approved H1N1 vaccines
have undergone rigorous clinical safety trials on pregnant women
or the potential adverse effects of mercury-laced vaccines and
other ingredients, such as spermacide, detergent and cosmetics,
on the developing fetus. Germany on the other hand announced
it is now taking preventative measures. Agreeing that the verdict
on ethylmercury and squalene safety for children is unsettled,
Germany is requiring the vaccine industry to return to their
plants and provide adjuvant- and mercury preservative-free vaccine
lots.
McNeil’s more recent article in October 7th’s New
York Times should be read alongside the Seven Step Recipe for
a clear visual unfolding of the CDC’s PR strategy in action.
McNeil downplays the growing medical realization that the swine
flu is in all likelihood much milder than seasonal flu in order
to convince us to roll up our sleeves. Following the CDC script,
we see the picture of little 3-year-old Clayton being vaccinated,
while McNeill compares the swine flu death of an 18-year-old
Tibetan woman in China with a story of joyful young Brandon
and his 9-year-old sister gleefully surrendering their nostrils
for a blast of live-attenuated H1N1 virus.[13]
While finalizing this article, Peter Doshi replied to an email
and drew attention to an event in his Harper’s article
that should force us to pause before rolling up our sleeves.
Briefly, the 2004 flu season was a debacle for the vaccine complex
and federal health officials after 50 million doses of flu vaccine
promised by Chiron Corporation were made unavailable, therefore,
putting the health industry into a panic. In order to lessen
the frenzy previously stirred by its public fear tactics, the
CDC downgraded the flu’s urgency to “an annoying
illness”, and “stressed the protective benefits
of regular hand washing.”[14]
Now that is a national policy I can support. I would much prefer
the CDC funding Americans’ soap bills to ward off an uncertain
swine flu pandemic rather than using taxes for unsubstantiated
threats from the CDC’s national vaccine marketing campaign.
Notes
Doshi, Peter. “Viral Marketing: The Selling of the Flu
Vaccine.” Harpers Magazine. March. 2006.
“MIT grad student’s study challenges notions of
pandemic flu” MIT Tech Talk. April 16, 2008.
Kalb, Claudia. “Stomping through a medical minefield”
Newsweek. October 25, 2008.
“Majority of US parents wary of H1N1 vaccine: poll”
Reuters Health. October 1, 2009.
http://www.mumsnet.com
Allday, Erin. “Swine flu draws a shrug, field poll shows.”
SF Gate. October 6, 2009.
“Just 40 percent of adults ‘absolutely certain’
they will get H1N1 vaccine, survey finds” Science Daily.
October 2, 2009.
“Grippe A: des blouses blanches anti-vaccin” SFR,
France. September 18, 2009 info.sfr.fr/france/grippe-a-des-blouses-blanches-anti-vaccin,115335
Geier D, King P, Geier M. “Mitochondrial dysfunction,
impaired oxidative-reduction activity, degeneration, and death
in human neuronal and fetal cells induced by low level exposure
to thimerosal and other metal compounds.” Toxicology and
Environmental Chemistry. Volume 91, Issue 4, June 2009.
Manning, Anita. “Study: Annual flu death toll could be
overstated.” USA Today. December 11, 2005.
Doshi, Peter. “Are US flu death figures more PR than science?”
BMJ 2005; 331:1412 (10 December)
McNeil, Donald. “Don’t blame flu shots for all ills,
officials say” New York Times. September 28, 2009.
McNeil, Donald. “Swine flu vaccinations start as officials
attack myths.” New York Times. October 7, 2009.
Doshi, Peter. “Viral Marketing: The Selling of the Flu
Vaccine.” Harpers Magazine. March. 2006.
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