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BearCub777's avatar

As a parent who has researched this topic to the best of my non-trained-scientist ability for the last 28 years due to a reaction my first child had to a vaccine....I tire of Paul Offit. Boy am I tired. Exhausted that he keeps popping up with crap like this, actually. And I am deeply grateful for doctors like you, Dr. Setty, who are willing to come back to science, ask questions, and engage in critical thinking. Thank you.

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Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH's avatar

Thanx Dr. Setty...Paul Offit is showing "bad faith" by claiming that 10 specific studies do not show that the vaccine cause autism, but like you Dr. Setty emphasize, NONE of these studies were actually testing for safety....they were testing for efficacy.

A specialist like Dr. Offit KNOWS that he is being questionably honest.

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James Rintoul's avatar

If Dr. Paul Offit thinks he can simply spout any amount of bullshit without the mighty Hammer of Madhava coming down...

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Renrah's avatar

Voting Himself Rich: CDC Vaccine Adviser Made $29 Million Or More After Using Role to Create Market

One of the biggest vaccine grifters of all time apparently. How many children's lives and their families have been forever ruined because of this shill ?

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Bridget Cresto's avatar

Thank you for replying. Non medical people like me need ALL the information. If one is not a doctor it’s hard to know what questions to ask.

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DrLatusDextro's avatar

Nice systematic analysis, thank you. Now let's précis it ;-)

"Follow the money."

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Sane Francisco's avatar

Thank you for calling out this charlatan using scientific observation, logic and common sense!

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MSB's avatar

One way to tell this whole thing is a scam is to understand that in the nearly 40 years since the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, there’s been no effort to improve either the safety or efficacy of vaccines. The only effort seen is the one to vastly increase the number of vaccines on the childhood schedule. Also, when Offit suggests anyone questioning the safety/efficacy of vaccines is a grifter, he joins the many vaccine-promoters in projecting the huge OTT profit grift of pharma (which he is himself a huge beneficiary of) on the rest of us, including suffering parents of vaccine-injured children. Diabolical is the only word for it!

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Dan's avatar

Anyone that is pro vaccines is pro poisonous injections. This guy is programmed, mind controlled and or working for the vaccine industry.

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The Underdog's avatar

Perhaps we could solve this by injecting Offit with the mercury he is begging for?

In relation to his book "bad advice" (which is an apt descriptor for the harmful batshit ideology he presents), I present "Raking in the cash" or 'Why You Can't Trust Medical Advice On Vaccines':

https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/why-you-cant-trust-medical-advice

(Spoiler alert: they all profiteer off of it, including the scumbag Offit who is peddling his nonsense book for profit. Ask him if he'd like to donate any of his stuff for free like we do. Bet you he says no.)

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Ellen's avatar

I just read "Your Local Epidemiologist's take / propaganda about the Voices of the Vaccine Injured today ... so frustrating, but not surprising. When people are injured by vaccines, groups like CHD listen to them, respect them, help them. So then, anyone associated with CHD is branded for life with "cooties". And when they speak, the narrative believers associate them with a "history of anti-vaccine misinformation", and no one takes them seriously, or they stick to the certainty that nothing is risk-free, but harm is rare, and, not always causal. Of course.

Starting to listen to the senate hearing now. Ugh, Blumenthal with a poster of propaganda headlines about measles. (Likelihood he'll advise parents to stock up with a nebulizer and Budesonide and Vitamin A and other things known to treat measles? - zero.)

But we all are conditioned to not take certain people seriously. And to recoil when we hear words like "safe and effective" - Blumenthal still using those tired, meaningless words.

Hearing people like Paul Offit quoted, anywhere, means something should not be trusted, or at best should be greeted with much skepticism. (Because for good reason, Paul Offit, etc, has shown they have no loyalty to truth, and for good reason, CHD has shown they are deserving of trust.)

And the vaccine religion trains people to immediately discount anything from anywhere associated with anyone who has criticized vaccines.

Cooties ... ( https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/information-permaculture-and-cooties )

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Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

YLE is the prime example of how a well intending, mediocre scientist can be completely hoodwinked by group think. I’m sure she has never asked herself how she would know if harms are happening

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Leonie Wynne's avatar

Mercury stays in the body for generations. It is very, very difficult to purge out of the body. I’ve known this for at least 40 years. Had a good friend who was a doctor who has now passed🥺

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Bravo!!! 👏👏👏

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Crixcyon's avatar

No thanks...vaccines already have enough poisons in them. In fact, they are 100% poisons. You cannot abide any of these pretend health creatures.

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