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Aaron Siri’s rebuttal:

https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/what-the-casual-cruelty-of-dr-paul

Dr. Offit, there are uncomfortable truths, such as vaccine makers and developers have zero liability for their products. Vaccines are a modern medical marvel, but the sheer amount of immune manipulation of a baby is unconscionable and irrational. I have two autistic boys, both having terrible reactions to their 6-month vaccines, after which I told my pediatrician that they seemed like different babies. And was that normal? I wasn’t looking for anything. I trusted. I was a dutiful mother who let my babies be pin cushions because I believed it was the right thing to do. But I actually sacrificed their lives on the altar of public health, and I may never forgive myself.

RFK always points out that he’s not against vaccines. But they have run amok. They have lost their purpose and become a religion rather than a science.

And they can be dangerous - and more dangerous for some than others - and we continuously lie to parents that ALL shots are necessary. And safe.

Well, too many of us know that was a lie now. We don’t need charts or studies or people in white coats to tell us anymore. We live in the hell it created.

The practice of immunization was always dangerous. And maybe that is a risk worth taking in the case of some illnesses. But we need to stop lying that it was ever perfectly safe.

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Mike H.'s avatar

I am extremely disappointed that Dr. Paul Offit, a man I once respected, chose to gaslight, obfuscate and confuse his followers. As a recent Substack article by Dr. Vinay Prasad outlined, in order for public health agencies to regain the trust of the public they need to actually test the safety of all the vaccines in current use and any new vaccines using the following protocol: 1) Make pharmaceutical companies conduct trials with three groups; one group getting the active ingredient (attenuated virus, mRNA, etc.), one group getting the older vaccine or the adjuvants used in the new vaccine, and a third group receiving physiological saline. This is the only proper way to test for vaccine safety. 2) Actively follow the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups for at least several years to see if any long term problems develop.

I ran the Ecotoxicology Laboratory at the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for a number of years before I retired. According to US EPA protocols in the Federal Register, we tested whole municipal and industrial effluents for toxicity by exposing one group of larval fish, daphnia and other organisms (this is analogous to the group receiving mRNA COVID vaccine). We also tested the upstream dilution water for toxicity using another group of test organisms (this is analogous to the older vaccine or adjuvant group). We always tested a third group using the water that the organisms were reared in (by definition nontoxic and analogous to using physiological saline in a vaccine trial). This let us definitively determine that the organisms used in the test were healthy and whether the effluent and/or the upstream dilution water were detrimental to the health of the test organisms. If the use of truly inert placebos are required by law to protect fish in a stream, it seems that we should require their use in studies of vaccines that will be injected into the general public, including children.

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