Intellectual Prostitution
International Medical Veritas Association

     John Swinton, New York Times editor, in a speech before the New York Press Club in 1953 said, "We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."[1] Gardiner Harris and Anahad O’Connor of the New York Times, who published On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research near the end of June,[2] seem to fit this description. Harris, O’Connor and the Times clearly have come out on the side of the pharmaceutical companies and medical officials who are actively supporting the mercury poisoning of a generation of young children.

     It was a surprise then to find The Boston Globe’s July 1^st  printing of Kennedy’s accusations because The New York Times owns the Boston Globe. Kennedy said in the Globe, “Government officials who continue to champion Thimerosal should recognize that this is not just a theoretical exercise in bureaucratic face-saving. Their wrong-headed defense of Thimerosal safety in the face of overwhelming science is discouraging testing of promising treatments which may be effective. They also cannot escape responsibility for their failure to warn international health agencies and governments who, based upon American assurances, are now injecting the developing world's children with this brain-killing chemical.”

     Kennedy is exposing a broad based cover-up that involves senior members of the medical establishment. When the truth comes out people will be shocked at how far the denial and cover-up actually goes. For example the medical establishment has been bragging that they have taken 98 percent of the thimerosal/mercury out of the childhood immunization schedule in the United States. Yet according Scott J. Bloch at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel “thimerosal/mercury is still present in childhood vaccines, contrary to statements made by HHS agencies, HHS Office of Investigations and the American Academy of Pediatrics. According to the information provided, vaccines containing 25 mcg of mercury and carrying expiration dates of 2005, continue to be produced and administered.”[3]

     On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research shows clearly that the New York Times subscribes to the medical paradigm of lies by joining wholeheartedly in attacking the sound science that sustains over and over that thimerosal is a neurological poison you would not want to give your worst enemy. It’s interesting that the Times essay titles the piece with the word research but stumbles badly by not including peer-reviewed research papers on the harmful effects of thimerosal and nothing on the science of mercury toxicity. “In addition, the article contains numerous disturbing errors of fact, omissions of fact, and a consistent bias which call into question the credibility and motivation of the authors,” says SafeMinds, one of the largest organizations in the area of autism research.

    If we dig just a little we find the owners of these reporters, the men and woman who pull the strings at the Times, the very ones who make others dance. Henry B. Schacht was elected to the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company in 1999. Mr. Schacht served on the boards of Alcoa and Johnson & Johnson.  Raul E. Cesan was also elected to the Board of the Times in 1999. Cesan served as president and chief operating officer of the Schering-Plough Corporation from 1998 until 2001, culminating a 24-year career at Schering Laboratories, in the U.S. pharmaceutical marketing arm. Ellen R. Marram came to the Time’s Board in 1998 having left the Tropicana Beverage Group, served as president and chief executive officer of the Nabisco Biscuit Company, and also serves on the board of directors of Eli Lilly and Company.

     The authors of this inexcusable attack on tens of thousands of parents of autistic spectrum children believe in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics, who have all largely dismissed the notion that thimerosal causes or contributes to the autism pandemic in any way. They and these organizations delude the world with easily manipulated epidemiological studies that claim to have found no link between a strong neurological poison and an endemic neurological disease. Clearly there are people who believe we are supposed to trust our children’s lives with these organizations and studies. It’s obvious that legislators around the country on a state level do not - with New York and Delaware recently passing anti-thimerosal laws. Also the governor of Missouri just signed an anti-thimerosal bill into law.

   Mr. Fumento's, of the Hudson Institute, recently published essays on thimerosal, like many of the others, were bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical industry so one should read his and many of the current articles proclaiming the safety of known poisons with salt.  His and others, who try to sustain the outlandish assertion that it is safe to inject mercury into babies, are more understandable when we look at the money trails that lead to their doors. The Hudson Institute is nothing more than a pro-industry front group supported by industry dollars.  Columnist John Chuckman appropriately describes such organizations as, "phony institutes where ideologue propagandists pose as academics [into which] money gushes like blood from opened arteries to support meaningless advertising's suffocation of genuine debate." In science and medicine this process of throwing wing nuts into the debate of issues like thimerosal is indecent because it allows medical treatments to deliberately harm and kill children. This kind of intellectual prostitution, which is funded by large businesses and major foundations, is purposely designed to protect corporate interests, not medical truth nor our children. When it comes to the Thimerosal debate and Fumento’s opinion it is not a coincidence that the Hudson Institute is based in Indianapolis, home of Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical giant that holds the patent on Thimerosal, the mercury-containing preservative in question.

     One of the members of Hudson's Board of Trustees included former vice president Dan Quayle, of Indiana whose family owns a significant interest in Eli Lilly. Mitch Daniels, the Republican Governor of Indiana, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President G.W. Bush, was a senior vice president of Eli Lilly, and also a chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute. Intellectual prostitution follows a pattern in medical science. If a company needs "research" to support a position, organizations like The Hudson Institute "produce" research and white papers that magically support an industry's claim, no matter how outrageous.

    Most people understand that children should not receive something as toxic as mercury. Even people with minimal education can comprehend you will damage children by injecting mercury into them, but not so according to medical officials and reporters from the NY Times. In reality the best minds that medical education can produce today actually believe that a powerful poison like organic mercury is not a poison and thus is safe to inject into newborn infants. It’s back to the Middle Ages and the world is flat again, that is what power and money has done to medicine today. So we find no surprise hearing Dr. Wharton saying in the Times, “There is no scientific evidence vaccinations cause autism. Numerous studies suggest there is no link between the two.”

     One scientist, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that the pharmaceutical companies deliberately hide the side effects. They create small studies with research designs that make sure that serious side effects, which are almost always present, show up as being statistically insignificant. When the results are so bad that even outright manipulations do not hide the problems, “typically a company is not going to publish the study at all.” In reality the studies cited these days are clearly not worth a damn. “Clever use of deceptive data by the study authors allowed the CDC to make the case that thimerosal was not linked to autism,” wrote Kennedy in USA Today. He also said that, “The once sterling reputations of agencies such as the CDC, FDA and the IOM have been badly damaged,” for this as well as for conducting secret meetings with the clear defrauding the American public and the world of the true damages being done by thimerosal.

Several principal authors of the four European studies the CDCP primarily
 relies on to defend thimerosal have close ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
Those connections weren't disclosed, in violation of peer-review ethics.
 The CDC was aware of those facts, encouraged the studies and lobbied to
 get them published. Those studies are all catastrophically flawed. 
                                                                              Robert F Kennedy Jr.[4]

     Today’s medical officials are living an illusion thinking they are basing their medical concepts and decisions on science. Epidemiological studies are proving to be outright deliberate manipulations to show what the authors or the studies financial backers want to have said. There are so many entryways into scientific distortions, with conflicts of interests leading the way, that science can no longer recognize epidemiological studies as science. Most of the studies used by the pharmaceutical companies are proving to be documents of medical terrorism, documents created from studies deliberately designed to ignore the fact that their drugs and vaccines will kill or seriously harm people.

    "It's really terrifying, the scientific illiteracy that supports these suspicions [that mercury can cause autism]," said Dr. Marie McCormick, chairwoman of an Institute of Medicine panel that examined the controversy in February 2004. McCormick will hopefully be held liable in a court of law one day for her role in a “paid for” cover up instigated on behalf of the CDC. It is clear that the CDC paid the IOM to review the thimerosal issue to defend the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies from law suits already totaling into the billions of dollars. When finally proven, this amounts to an obstruction of justice and that is a federal crime.

Something terrible has happened to a generation of children.
                                                                                            SafeMinds

    Men and women like McCormick would rather see the entire country go down the drain and millions of children and their families suffer than admit that their medical views are distorted or that their medical judgment is totally corrupted by conflicts of interests that have enslaved their hearts, minds and souls. People like McCormick are betting our children’s lives on their belief in a corrupt medical and scientific system that stands on a series of fatally flawed epidemiological studies. McCormick tends to speak out of both sides of her mouth saying, “The committee accepts that under certain conditions, infections and heavy metals, including thimerosal, can injure the nervous system.” This statement directly contradicts what the IOM said in their report in 2004. We should never expect rationality from medical officials about thimerosal’s safety when the thimerosal manufacturers themselves admit it’s dangerous, because it is; and of course you will see the skull and bones poison symbol on all shipping containers of thimerosal. One will find that same skulls and bones label on dental amalgam also yet we find the FDA dental branch saying it’s safe. Mercury’s use in dentistry and medicine is a huge subject on tragedy.

     "There can't be a connection between autism and vaccines because of the possible consequences of such a finding," said Paul Offit at the April 2000 government reform committee’s first meeting on autism and vaccines run by Dan Burton. This statement of Offit tips us off to the reason the United States government is engaging in illegal cover-up activities on this issue and why the news media will deliberately deceive the public. The consequences of the findings are so significant and terrible in their scope that it is impossible for them to come clean because fortunes will be lost and many people will lose their lily white images of being medical saviors - ending up in jail instead. Dr. Offit has been one of the principle proponents of thimerosal-laced vaccines and recently told Robert Kennedy that he believed it was a mistake to precipitously remove thimerosal from vaccines. Offit is a prime example of a modern day medical doctor turned medical criminal. Doctors like him are either outright lying criminals or they are suffering from a form of medical insanity that just cannot comprehend why poisoning children with thimerosal is an obscene idea.

    Offit said to Kennedy recently, “It’s a mistake to say that physicians and public health people are in the pocket of industry and thus are making decisions that they know are unsafe for children, Bobby. It’s just not the way it works. It isn’t. It couldn’t because when people are given the kind of responsibility that happens at the CDC they can’t do that. That’s why they don’t do that.”[5] Certainly his own conflicts of interest are present as owner of a patent on the rotavirus vaccine which was quickly pulled from the market because of its alarming danger to children. A man easily is blind to his own motivations and how those motivations can be subverted and Offit, if innocent of malicious intent, is certainly guilty of being blind, deaf and dumb to a host of issues important for a man in his position to know and understand.

    On November 5, 1996, The Times published "Ban on Medical Experiments Without Consent Is Relaxed," which begins with the words: "For the first time in a half century, new Federal regulations allow investigators to enroll patients in some medical research studies without their consent." The article went on to say: "Even the most ardent supporters of the new regulations say they understand the seriousness of what they have done. They have repealed a principle that dates back to the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors after World War II." By defending the poisoning of the young the New York Times has compromised itself severely. Perhaps they realized this after the publication of On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research. Perhaps that is why they approved the editorial in the Boston Globe by Kennedy.

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
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[1] John Swinton "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/chapter14.htm

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/25/science/25autism.html?

[3] http://www.osc.gov/documents/press/2004/pr04_07.htm

[4] USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-07-05-oppose_x.htm

[5] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. telephone interview with Dr. Paul Offit, May 4, 2005