Who’s Who at the MAHA Institute Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury Round Table
Can you guess why the MAHA Institute thinks that there such an “epidemic of vaccine injuries” that they needed to hold a round table event to discuss the problem?
It is mostly because these kinds of folks think that anything and everything that happens after you get a vaccine is a vaccine injury, whether it is minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years later.
Who’s Who at the MAHA Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury Round Table
And you can tell that this MAHA massive epidemic of vaccine injury round table isn’t something to take serious simply by looking at the speakers.
It is a who’s who of the modern anti-vaccine movement!
The Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury (MEVI) Round Table speakers include:
Mark Gorton - he is the President of the MAHA Institute, has pushed anti-vaccine folks “to be more boldly anti-vax,” helped “bankroll Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group,” and claims to have a very close family member who was disabled by the COVID vaccines.
Del Bigtree - he is the CEO of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and is the guy who wants his kids to get measles and pertussis.
Mary Holland - she is the CEO of Children’s Health Defense, the organization that RFK Jr started
Toby Rogers - now associated with the Brownstone Institute, he has a PhD in economics, but thinks he is an expert on vaccines because his partner’s son was diagnosed with autism. He believes that this is the end of the vaccine era.
Brian Hooker - he is the Chief Scientific Officer of Children’s Health Defense, co-wrote an anti-vaccine book with RFK Jr, was behind the whole CDC Whistleblower thing, and believes that his son was injured by a vaccine with thimerosal - he had developmental delays but regressed after developing a prolonged fever after his 15 month vaccines (DPT and Hib).
John Leake - Vice President of the McCullough Foundation, who used to write true crime books before becoming associated with Peter McCullough
Nicolas Hulscher - associated with the McCullough Foundation and regularly pushes out misinformation about vaccines, especially COVID vaccines, including many pre-prints
Wafik El-Deiry - an Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University who pushes the myth that vaccines are associated with turbo cancer
Kevin McKernan - a microbiologist and founder of Medicinal Genomics, he pushes the idea that COVID vaccines can permanently alter your DNA.
Maria Gutschi - a clinical pharmacist, she believes that COVID vaccines are “process‑defined supramolecular expression systems” that can lead to genetic changes, a risk of cancer, immune reactions, and other risks - ideas that have no support when you look at the evidence.
Lawrence Palevsky - he is a holistic pediatrician who hasn’t even offered vaccines to his patients since 2002 (so much for vaccine choice…) and has long claimed that the measles outbreak in New York was a hoax
Joel “Gator” Warsh - an integrative pediatrician that is trying to become the next Bob Sears, even self-publishing what he seems to think is a middle of the road book about vaccines, but which most would likely label as anti-vaccine…
Dr. Joel “Gator” Warsh tries to scare parents into thinking that their six month old baby might get six shots at the same time, even though the rotavirus vaccine isn’t a shot and few kids would actually need the RSV, flu, and COVID vaccines at the same time. Elizabeth Mumper - former CEO of the Rimland Center for Integrative Medicine, she is considered to be a longtime anti-vaccine activist that claims that she can prevent autism
That’s quite a panel!
So what did they talk about?
Exactly what you would have expected that they would talk about.
It included all of the anti-vaccine talking points that we are used to, including that:
everything is a vaccine injury, including food allergies, asthma, arthritis, eczema, type 1 diabetes, autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, tics, epilepsy, celiac disease, hay fever, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, Hashimoto’s disease, Crohns, and IBD - studies have actually shown that these are not associated with vaccines.
autism rates are correlated with vaccine doses - there are many other, better explanations for why more kids are getting diagnosed with autism other than vaccines
vaccinated vs unvaccinated studies show that vaccinated kids have higher rates of autism and other chronic diseases - legitimate studies of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated kids simply show that unvaccinated kids get more vaccine preventable diseases. They aren’t any healthier though.
the Henry Ford study linked childhood vaccines to chronic diseases - instead, anti-vaccine groups simply misrepresent the results from a draft of the study. Del Bigtree even turned the ‘study’ into a documentary called ‘An Inconvenient Study!’
vaccines aren’t necessary because vaccine preventable diseases aren’t that bad and improvements in medicine would save most children who get sick - this is not true, just look at how many kids died during the large 1989-1991 measles outbreaks
vaccines didn’t decrease diseases because scarlet fever decreased without a vaccine - this is a silly analogy. For one thing, we did have scarlet fever vaccines, even though they weren’t commonly used. But mostly, we still see scarlet fever, it is just caused by less virulent strains of strep bacteria, so isn’t deadly, at least in the United States.
smallpox vaccines didn’t eliminate smallpox - this is a ridiculous idea. In the end, it was the method of isolation and ring vaccination that helped to finally eradicate smallpox.
polio vaccines didn’t help control polio because polio was actually caused by DDT and other pesticides - another ridiculous idea. The use of DDT does not in any way correlate with cases of polio.
the flu shot makes it more likely that you will get the flu and increases your risk of Alzheimer’s - not true, flu shots neither increase your risk of getting the flu or developing Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, studies have found a reduced risk of Alzhiemer’s disease in those getting a flu shot!
the flu is not very serious - tell that to the 289 kids who died with the flu last year!
the COVID vaccine increased your risk of getting COVID - not true.
the childhood vaccination schedule should be eliminated and all vaccines be removed from the market and until they are, vaccination should be delayed until children are four to five years old - this is a very dangerous idea! It would lead to many people getting sick unnecessarily, many hospitalizations, and many deaths.
measles, Hib, meningococcal disease, pertussis, diphtheria, pneumococcal disease, and other vaccine preventable diseases are phantom plagues that are no longer fatal - not true. These vaccine preventable diseases would all still be big killers if they were allowed to return.
parents have been forced to vaccinate their kids - not true. Mandates do not equal forced vaccination.
that Peter Aaby’s DPT study showed children were dying at 5x the rate if they got the DTP vaccine vs. those that did not - Del Bigtree doesn’t tell you that Peter Aaby’s original studies were known to be flawed, that Peter Aaby did a repeat study that came to the opposite conclusion, nor does he mention that there are now diphtheria epidemics killing hundreds of unvaccinated kids in this region of Africa that Aaby studied!
that vaccines aren’t tested in double-blind placebo-based studies before they are licensed - of course, they are talking about their placebo pyramid scheme! Instead, know that all vaccines on the current schedule are well tested, including double-blind placebo controlled studies and many even included a saline placebo.
that vaccines are never tested for safety, only to see if the vaccine produced antibodies - not true. Vaccines are well tested for safety, including long-term safety, which have helped us to know that vaccines are not causing long-term health problems.
that the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act led to a gold rush, moving us from 11 to 72 vaccines - not true. The vaccine schedule changed very little after the passage of the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act.
that childhood chronic illness and developmental disability prevalence grew to 54% because of the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act - not true. The idea that 54% of kids have a chronic disease comes from anti-vaccine influencers mischaracterizing a 2011 report that actually concluded that the great majority of parents consider their kids to be in excellent or very good health!
that Harvard Medical School tested the VAERS system and found that VAERS was capturing less than 1% of vaccine injuries - not true. Their Harvard Medical School VAERS study is actually a report conducted at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. Plus, it looked at all possible reactions, including minor reactions, and wasn’t even finished.
that no major medical organization or any regulatory agency in the world would ever do or publish the results of a vaccinated vs unvaccinated study - except all of the vaccinated vs unvaccinates studies that have been done, such as at the Robert Koch-Institut in Berlin, where the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) study was done in 2011 and found that “vaccinated children and unvaccinated children differed substantially only in terms of the lifetime prevalence of vaccine preventable diseases,” but “none of the often anticipated health differences—such as allergies and the number of infections—were observed in vaccinated and unvaccinated subjects aged 1–17 years.”
that there are benefits to having measles and mumps, including a lower risk of atherosclerosis and cancer, leading to 5 to 7,000 people being saved every year by not getting a measles vaccine because they didn’t die from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a 50% reduction in ovarian cancer - none of this is true. The only benefit is lifelong immunity, but you have to survive having measles and mumps to earn that immunity.
that COVID was like a bad flu season - not true. Just ask the parents of the thousands of kids who died with COVID.
that Hannah Poling got compensated for having autism - not true. Hannah Poling was compensated “because she had an existing encephalopathy (presumably on the basis of a mitochondrial enzyme defect) and because worsening of an existing encephalopathy following measles-containing vaccine is a compensible injury, Hannah Poling was compensated.”
“they” know that vaccines cause autism because the vaccine inserts list speech delays, tics, seizures, encephalitis, and brain swelling as adverse events - not true. ‘They’ just don’t understand how to read the vaccine inserts.
that “it’s absolutely common knowledge that the COVID shots did not stop transmission or infection” -not true. COVID vaccines can block both infection and transmission, they just can’t do it 100% of the time and preventing transmission wasn’t looked at in the initial clinical trials. Studies did show though that those who were vaccinated were less likely to get others sick and less likely to get sick.
that vaccines are unsafe and ineffective and they cost lives - not true. Many studies show that vaccines are safe, effective, and save lives.
that vaccines manufacturers asked for liability protection because they knew their vaccines were unsafe - not true. The need for liability protection came in the face of an onslaught of frivolous lawsuits.
with the granting of liability protection in 1986, they started adding shot after shot for children, and that explains the rise in autism cases - not true. There are many other factors that better explain the rise in autism cases that anti-vaccine influencers never mention.
that there is a selective process against looking at vaccines as a cause for the rise in autism cases - not true. Researchers looked at vaccines as a possible cause, just as they looked at many other factors.
that COVID vaccines are gene therapy and not vaccines - COVID vaccines do not modify our genes, so can’t be thought of as gene therapy.
the COVID vaccines caused more deaths than the number of American soldiers in every way since World War I - not true. ‘They’ get this statistic by counting each and every death during the COVID pandemic as a COVID vaccine death. These excess deaths are not associated with vaccines though.
that we have no idea what vaccines do to us long term - well, it is true that anti-vaccine influencers likely have no idea what vaccines do to us long term, but the rest of us are well aware that vaccines provide long-term immunity and have very few long-term risks
that the only way we look at vaccine safety is through VAERS - not true. VAERS is simply one component of our vaccine safety systems. It is not surprisingly that anti-vaccine influencers might only be familiar with VAERS though, as they constantly misuse and abuse VAERS reports!
that the work of Yehuda Shoenfeld shows and undeniable link between vaccines and autoimmune disease - not true. Yehuda Shoenfeld claims to have discovered a novel vaccine-associated autoimmune disease – Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA) that is dismissed by most medical experts.
that every one of the foods that children are allergic to are in vaccine and this led to an increase in food allergies - not true. Food allergies are not associated with vaccines. Just consider how peanut allergies recently decreased when we started to feed infants peanut butter!
that Celiac disease is caused by polysorbate-80 in vaccines because it can be extracted from wheat - not true. Vaccines are not associated with Celiac disease.
that a providers pay is very likely related to how many kids they vaccinate in their practice and that they might get fired if they don’t vaccinate enough kids - not true. Pediatricians are the lowest paid medical doctors and little of their pay relates to vaccines, even when any kind of incentive or bonus is available.
that transgenerational epigenetics explains why unvaccinated kids still show signs of vaccine injury, as the vaccines their parents and grandparents got can still injure them - not true. Transgenerational epigenetics has to be one of the more ridiculous ideas presented at the massive epidemic of vaccine injury round table!
that polysorbate 80 is coated with nanoparticles and can get into the brain - Larry Palevsky believes in this because he misread a study and it “scared him to death,” even more so because some vaccines contain sorbitol and he read a warning that you are no supposed to inject it because it is dangerous. - of course, there are no nanoparticles in our childhood vaccines! And sorbitol, a sugar, is safe in vaccines.
that there is a lot of primary and secondary vaccine failure - Not true.
For example, the recommended two doses of the MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles. And even when they do fail, which isn’t often, breakthrough infections are typically much milder than a natural infection!
everyone likely already has measles and other bacteria in their body, even if they have never been exposed, because our body has 400 trillion microorganisms in it, and if we get vaccinated, it can lead to autoimmune diseases - this is another one from Larry Palevsky… it is almost as silly as his comments on epigenetics and nanoparticles… Well, while we do have about 30-40 trillion bacteria in our body, they are mainly in our intestines. This is the gut microflora that people talk about. It would not include measles, pertussis, rubella, or other vaccine-preventable diseases though! Instead, these healthy gut microorganisms are like those in the probiotics you might take…
That’s a lot!
Hopefully, from these MAHA talks, you have learned of their plans to ‘convert hearts and minds’ through their use of misinformation and vaccine injury stories.
They don’t actually have any real science on their side.
They can’t even come to a consensus on which vaccine or how vaccines cause vaccine injury!
“A vaccine can be an antecedent, a trigger, or a mediator, and all kinds of other environmental factors can be any one of those three is a good way to think about it.”
Elizabeth Mumper
Just that it is always vaccines, even when it isn’t…
“The truth is on our side, the ethics is on our side, the science is on our side, and the law is on our side. Let us win.”
Mary Holland
They definitely don’t have ethics on their side, as their misinformation leads to outbreaks that sicken kids with life-threatening diseases!
And in the long run, they won’t win.
Cases of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases will continue to surge, complications and deaths will rise, and eventually people will stop listening to these anti-vaccine influencers and will get vaccinated.
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I have done cancer surveillance for a decade through the National Cancer Institute's SEER program's data, and every time I see them post about cancer epidemics and "turbo" baloney - particularly from Hulscher - who is not a "misinformer" but a liar - I immediately challenge with data that cancer rates have actually decreased for both men & women. 95% of the time they flash a photo of a study without actually citing it, so I stop their creepy videos, look up the study, and summarize exactly how they have misrepresented it. Obviously they remain undeterred. But neither am I deterred! I am always grateful for your posts.
The downloadable pdfs on their website are ridiculous!