Kennedy Challenges Journalists to

Balanced Discussion About Vaccine

Safety
On February 15, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chairman of The World Mercury
Project, founded in November, 2016 held a press conference at The National
Press Club in Washington D.C., calling for an open and honest discussion about
vaccine safety. Actor Robert De Niro, whose son has autism, was also in
attendance.

During that press conference, Kennedy challenged journalists to do their job

rather than simply regurgitate vaccine industry propaganda.

He also offered $100,000 to anyone who can find a published study indexed in
PubMed proving mercury levels in vaccines are harmless for infants and
developing fetuses at the levels given. As reported by Epoch Times: 1

"Kennedy said he's spent years watching the press repeat what public health
officials say without critically questioning or citing primary sources and thus the
press has failed as watchdog for the vaccine industry.

'We are going to offer a $100,000 reward, it's called The 100K Challenge, to any
journalist or anybody else who can point to a single existing study that says that
it is safe to inject mercury into babies and pregnant women at the levels that we
are currently injecting them with the flu vaccine' "

Vaccine Shills Coming Out of the Woodwork

Ironically, articles arbitrarily defending the mercury preservative thimerosal 2 in

vaccines are being published without producing much, if anything, in terms of
evidence that it is safe to inject children and pregnant women with mercury in any
amount. Take Kate Feldman's piece in the New York Daily News:3

"Robert De Niro and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are looking for proof that vaccines are
safe, despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines are safe. An FDA study in
1999 found that thimerosal posed no harm except for hypersensitivity.

The CDC also provided research that shows no link between thimerosal and
autism."
Aside from not providing a single reference or link to the CDC studies in question
so that interested parties might follow up on them, Feldman fails in her
journalistic duty by not addressing a single argument brought forth by the other
side and there are many to choose from.

This is typical of mainstream media, carelessly defending the safety of vaccines

without addressing the evidence that has been accumulating for a long time
suggesting otherwise. This includes:

Whistleblowers who claim scientific fraud was committed to reach a conclusion about vaccine safe
2014, William Thompson, a senior CDC scientist, confessed he conspired with colleagues to cover
between MMR vaccine and autism among African American boys.

According to Thompson, they eliminated the incriminating data in order to vanish the link. Accordin
journalist Sharyl Attkisson, the CDC has blocked Thompson from testifying in a medical malpractic
behalf of a teenage boy who allegedly developed autism following vaccination.

Kennedy is one of the legal representatives in this case. The father is now suing the CDC in an att
agency to allow Thompson to testify.4

Kennedy and others have also brought forth evidence showing data manipulation was used to rea
conclusion of safety (see more below).

The U.S. government has sealed vaccine injury compensation case results where autism was in fa
inflammation, vaccine-induced fever and immune stimulation. 5

The fact that the FDA set the limit on the amount of aluminum allowed in vaccines (as an adjuvant
safety studies but rather on the amount required to boost vaccine effectiveness or the fact that m
studies use improper placebos, meaning placebos that may be toxic rather than inert, thereby hidin
adverse effects of the vaccine.

Aluminum as an adjuvant has in fact never been tested for safety. It was and still is ASSUMED to b
there's plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise.

Biochemist Lucija Tomljenovic, Ph.D., has published a number of papers 6 7 8 9 10 that suggest alumin
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vaccines may be causing harm.

Statistical correlations showing that countries where children get the largest number of vaccination
rates compared to countries that do not vaccinate children with as many vaccines.

Tomljenovic discusses these findings in my 2015 interview with her. In the U.S., there's also a sign
the last three decades between the number of vaccines and autism rates.

Brand new research published on January 19, 2017, concluding there's "a significant relationship"
exposure from thimerosal-containing vaccines and the subsequent risk of emotional disturbance, 11
obtained from the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database.

As noted by Attkisson, Dr. Frank DeStefano, director of the CDC Immunization Safety Office has v
that vaccines "might" trigger autism, albeit "rarely," 12 adding, "It's hard to predict who those children

This is an important admission that strikes at the heart of the matter and reveals a significant probl

By not having any reliable way to screen children for risk factors that might predispose them to vac
removing personal choice to boot, children are quite literally sacrificed "for the greater good."

But ask any parent of a vaccine damaged child whether it's a price worth paying when it's YOUR c
whole other perspective.

Thimerosal Safety and Vaccine Safety Are Not the Same Things

While Kennedy appears primarily focused on the potential role of thimerosal in

causing vaccine damage, researchers have presented a number of other
potential mechanisms of vaccine harm, including the long acknowledged ability of
vaccines to cause brain inflammation (encephalitis/encephalopathy), the toxic
effects of aluminum adjuvants and other toxic vaccine ingredients, and the
hazards of immune overstimulation by virtually any means.

For example, pertussis toxin13 and live measles virus,14 can cause brain
inflammation and permanent brain damage regardless of thimerosal.

As noted by Tomljenovic, it's important to realize that autism is not just a brain
disorder; it's also an immune system disorder. She calls it an immune system
brain disorder, as the two systems are connected. In my 2015 interview with her,
she said:
"You cannot influence the immune system at the periphery without changing
something in the brain. Most of us know that from experience, because when
you get the flu, your brain doesn't function very well It's a neuroendocrine axis
basically, the immune system at the periphery and the central nervous system
talk to each other.

If you increase an immune response artificially at the periphery, you are going to
mess up the brain. They've done that artificially using what they call viral and
bacterial mimics. I thought, 'Oh, that [is] like antigens in vaccines,' because that's
exactly what's being used. Commonly in this type of research strong adjuvants
are added to exaggerate the immune response ...

There is a huge body of research that shows if you overstimulate the immune
system at the periphery, especially in the critical stage of early development, you
are going to influence the brain in a negative way, and by doing so, you can
create irreversible damage. This is research that is rarely discussed, because it
really shows that there is reason to question the safety of the burden of vaccines
given to infants."

Other Potentially Harmful Vaccine-Related Factors

So, while I hope Kennedy's passion and determination will further a more open
public dialogue on, and scientific investigation into, vaccine safety, I believe it's a
mistake to single out or focus all of the attention on thimerosal. Examples of
other vaccine ingredients and factors related to vaccination that may be harmful
to health include:

Lack of research into the safety of the CDC's recommended childhood

vaccine schedule that subjects infants and young children to 50 doses of 14
vaccines during the first six years of life, starting on the day of birth,
including receipt of six to 10 vaccines on the same day.15
Failure of one-size-fits-all vaccine policies and laws to acknowledge
increased individual susceptibility to harm from vaccination that include
genetic, biological and environmental high-risk factors often not identified,
or dismissed as unimportant, by doctors and other vaccine providers. 16
Research showing an increase in death following receipt of inactivated
vaccines. Aluminum adjuvants might be a factor, but it appears inactivated
vaccines may also program your immune system in a way that decreases
your body's ability to fight off disease later. To learn more about this, please
follow the hyperlink provided.
The gut-brain axis and the compelling synergy between compromised gut
flora and autism, where vaccines can act as a trigger. To learn more, please
see the hyperlinks, as I've written about this on previous occasions.
 The association between autism increases and the introduction of
vaccines using human fetal cell lines and retroviral contaminants. 17
The potential for DNA fragments in vaccines to produce an exaggerated
and potentially lethal immune response.18

My point is that vaccine safety is not merely an issue of answering the question
"does thimerosal cause autism?" Even if thimerosal is removed from every single
vaccine or is unequivocally exonerated as completely harmless, the issue of
whether or not vaccines are safe in the long term would still remain, because
there are so many other potential hazards and unanswered questions involved.

Thimerosal preservatives are not present in live virus vaccines such as MMR,
and thimerosal amounts were substantially reduced or eliminated in most
inactivated vaccines after the FDA and EPA told vaccine manufacturers in 1999
to remove mercury from childhood vaccines, yet vaccine damage, including the
unexplained increase in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders among
children, is still a pressing reality.

At present, thimerosal is primarily found in varying amounts in some inactivated

influenza and meningococcal vaccines, and certain tetanus-containing vaccines
(T, Td/DT).19

Moreover, vaccine safety is not simply a matter of proving or disproving the link
between vaccines in general and autism specifically. There are many other,
potentially severe side effects, including immune system dysfunction, that can
lead to or exacerbate any number of health problems. Veterinary scientists have
even noted increasing rates of autoimmune problems in dogs following
vaccination.

So even if the thimerosal and autism issues were both resolved, the question of
whether it's wise public health policy and safe to administer 69 doses of vaccines
between birth and age 18 to every child, without exception, would still remain.

Can You Trust FDA and CDC Assurances of Safety?

Kennedy recently co-wrote an article in which he released documents revealing

that officials at the FDA and CDC "knew that infant vaccines were exposing
American children to mercury far in excess of all federal safety guidelines since
1999."20According to Kennedy:

"[T[he regulators realized that a [6]-month-old infant who received thimerosal-

preserved vaccines following the recommended CDC vaccine schedule would
have received a jaw dropping 187.5 micrograms of mercury
There was no point in time from birth to approximately 16 [to] 18 months of age
that infants were below the EPA guidelines for allowable mercury exposure. In
fact, according to the models, blood-and-body burden levels of mercury peaked
at [6] months of age at a shockingly high level of 120ng/liter. To put this in
perspective, the CDC classifies mercury poisoning as blood levels of mercury
greater than 10 ng/L."

The reason you've never heard about this is because the FDA concealed it with a
statistical trick. By averaging the mercury exposure over a period of six months,
the spikes in mercury on the days of vaccination disappeared. Voila by
massaging the way the data is reported the effect went from being 12 times over
the level of mercury poisoning to being of no consequence. As noted by Ke