"It Could Be Bad For You"

Stunning 2019 investigative report on pharma mafia resurfaces

In 2019, independent investigative journalist, Sharyl Attkisson, produced a stunning report on the U.S. government’s concealment of expert witness testimony that vaccines can and do indeed cause autism in some children.

As Attkisson wrote in related report (How a pro-vaccine doctor reopened debate about link to autism) published in The Hill on 1/13/19:

Pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Zimmerman originally served as the expert medical witness for the government, which defends vaccines in federal vaccine court. He had testified that vaccines do not cause autism in specific patients.

Dr. Zimmerman now has signed a bombshell sworn affidavit. He says that, during a group of 5,000 vaccine-autism cases being heard in court on June 15, 2007, he took aside the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers he worked for defending vaccines and told them he’d discovered “exceptions in which vaccinations could cause autism.”

“I explained that in a subset of children, vaccine-induced fever and immune stimulation did cause regressive brain disease with features of autism spectrum disorder,” Dr. Zimmerman now states. He said his opinion was based on “scientific advances” as well as his own experience with patients.

For the government and vaccine industry’s own pro-vaccine expert to have this scientific opinion stood to change everything about the vaccine-autism debate — if people were to find out.

But they didn’t.

Dr. Zimmerman goes on to say that once the DOJ lawyers learned of his position, they quickly fired him as an expert witness and kept his opinion secret from other parents and the rest of the public.

What’s worse, he says the DOJ went on to misrepresent his opinion in federal vaccine court to continue to debunk vaccine-autism claims. Records show that on June 18, 2007, a DOJ attorney to whom Dr. Zimmerman spoke told the vaccine court: “We know [Dr. Zimmerman’s] views on the issue. … There is no scientific basis for a connection” between vaccines and autism. Dr. Zimmerman now calls that “highly misleading” and says he’d told them the opposite.

Even more chilling than this report is Attkisson’s 2019 documentary on her independent show, Full Measure, in which she interviewed eleven current and former Congressmen about their experiences with pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and agents in Washington. Former Congressmen (Republican-Florida) Dr. Dave Weldon, spoke candidly about what happens to representatives who raise the issue of vaccine safety.

It would typically be in a hallway or on the street, and you know, people would come up to you and say, you know, you really need to back off on this. It could be bad for the community or bad for the country or bad for you.

Such veiled threats are the kinds of tactics described in the 2013 book, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare, by Peter Christian Gøtzsche—a Danish physician, medical researcher, and former leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.

I recommend watching Attkisson’s full expose, which I just saw posted on Twitter by the concerned and patriotic citizen, Jessica Rojas.