The Disinformation Dozen

The following people have been identified as being responsible for 65% of the anti-vaccine and health misinformation circulating on social media. On Facebook, they account for up to 73% of misleading vaccine propaganda. On Twitter, their names are referenced on 17% of anti-vaccine tweets. Meet the Disinformation Dozen.

1. Joseph Mercola
2. Robert F. Kennedy Jnr
3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger
4. Sherri Tenpenny
5. Rizza Islam
6. Rashid Buttar
7. Erin Elizabeth
8. Sayer Ji and Kelly Brogan
9. Christiane Northrup
10. Ben Tapper
11. Kevin Jenkins
12. Clay Clark

These names (with the exception of Clay Clark, who Medika has added for reasons you’ll see below) are listed on a report issued by The Center for Countering Digital Hate,(CCDH), a not-for-profit NGO that seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation. You can access the full report here and this article comprises much of the report. They are, with the possible exception of Kennedy, grifters par excellence.

The report reveals that just twelve individuals and their organizations are responsible for the bulk of anti-vaxx content shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter. The majority of the Disinformation Dozen remain on major social media platforms, despite repeated violations of their terms of service. We’ll summarize each of the names listed with a brief explanation as to why these individuals pose a real and present danger to public health. Where individuals are linked to existing Medika articles, we’ve referenced those articles by linking the names.

In addition to the named individuals listed above, their business or websites pose an equal or greater threat to public health. A sample of these are shown below and these websites multiply like viruses, with more springing up every day.

• Children’s Health Defense (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) 
• Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) (Del Bigtree)
• National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) (Barbara Loe Fisher, Joseph Mercola)
• Organic Consumers Association (OCA) (Joseph Mercola)
• Millions Against Medical Mandates

How did the CCDH narrow down its list?

The individuals above were selected because they have large numbers of followers, produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content, or have seen rapid growth of their social media accounts in the last two months. According to the report:

Analysis of a sample of anti-vaccine content that was shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter a total of 812,000 times between 1 February and 16 March 2021 shows that 65 percent of anti-vaccine content is attributable to the individuals named above. Despite repeatedly violating Facebook, Instagram and Twitter’s terms of service agreements, nine of the Disinformation Dozen remain on all three platforms, while just three have been comprehensively removed from just one platform. 

This is the product of a series of failures from social media platforms: 

• Research conducted by CCDH last year has shown that platforms fail to act on 95 percent of the Covid and vaccine misinformation reported to them. 
• CCDH’s recent report, Malgorithm, uncovered evidence that Instagram’s algorithm actively recommends similar misinformation. 
• Tracking of 425 anti-vaccine accounts by CCDH shows that their total following across platforms now stood at 59.2 million in December, an increase of 877,000 more than they had in June. 
• CCDH’s ongoing tracking shows that the 20 anti-vaxxers with the largest followings account for over two-thirds of this total cross-platform following of 59.2 million. 
• Analysis of anti-vaccine content posted to Facebook over 689,000 times in the last two months shows that up to 73 percent of that content originates with members of the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers. 
• Facebook’s own internal analysis of vaccine-hesitant content on its platform is likely to underestimate the influence of leading anti-vaxxers by failing to address the ultimate source of this content, and by the recorded failure of its algorithms to identify content concerning vaccines.
• Analysis of over 120,000 anti-vaccine tweets collected in the last two months shows that up to 17 percent feature the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

Who are the Disinformation Dozen?

If you’re not familiar with the names above, these brief bio’s will help you develop a clearer understanding of the names listed and their places in the anti-vaxx community.

1. Joseph Mercola

We’ve previously listed Mercola on Medika’s Quack scale and he’s been consistently selling his version of quackery for far longer than most, allowing him to build up an impressive social media following of misled converts. 

His ridiculous suggestions widely shared on Facebook include 

• Hydrogen Peroxide can successfully treat most viral respiratory illnesses, including coronavirus — FALSE
• The same number of people died on average in 2020 that died the previous year, so the coronavirus deaths are a hoax — FALSE
• Forced vaccinations are part of a plan to reset the global economy — FALSE

Mercola has been peddling dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines for years. His combined personal social media accounts have around 3.6 million followers. At the time of writing, Mercola still enjoys active social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

2. Robert F Kennedy Jnr

Trained as a layer, Kennedy enjoyed early public successes against large chemical corporations guilty of chemically contaminating our environment and knowingly poisoning their communities and customers. His early career boasts many admirable achievements and he was one of the original eco-warriors.

Which makes what has become of him, al the more painful. His focus gradually shifted to big pharma and his clear vision has been clouded by an obsession with healthcare conspiracies and anti-vaxx rhetoric. In many ways, he may have been one of the original victims to buy into a complex web of lies and deceit. Many now view him as the unofficial, uncrowned “king” of the anti-vaxx movement, and the reach and influence he exerts through his website, Children’s Health Defense, would support this view.

In Kennedy’s case, his misguided and misleading exertions are not necessarily spawned by a desire to grift but may be seated in a deeply subverted view of actual science and medical fact. His background suggests he would view any large corporation as suspect, including pharma and government. Irrelevant of his motivation, he poses a real and present danger to public health. His Children’s Health Defense offers a welcoming platform to many of the names on this list, to further their propaganda, expand their reach and further enrich themselves at the cost of public health and safety.

A recent film made by Kennedy on Black healthcare displays all the tactics of anti-vaxx propaganda and appropriates black culture to promote Kenedy’s agenda. We discussed this move at length here.

3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger

Ty and Charlene Bollinger are anti-vax entrepreneurs who run a network of accounts that market books and DVDs about vaccines, cancer, and COVID-19. In 2020 they launched the United Medical Freedom Super PAC ahead of last year’s United States elections. 

The Bollingers have promoted the conspiracy theory that Bill Gates plans to inject everyone with microchips as part of a vaccination program.

The Bollingers have also posted content that violates platform standards on election misinformation. As with almost every name on this list, their ties to the Republican party are undeniable. The pair are extremely talented alternate health charlatans profiting handsomely from the disinformation they spread. At the time of writing, they still enjoy active social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

4. Sherri Tenpenny

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is an osteopath physician who spreads anti-vaccine sentiment and false claims about the safety and efficacy of masks via her social media channels. While her Facebook account has been removed, her Twitter and Instagram are still intact. One of her most recent claims related to the covid vaccine.

“Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly,” Tenpenny said in the video, which has nearly 1 million views. “But a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases, 42 days to maybe a year out.”

This is of course complete nonsense. you can read an article here that debunks this ridiculous statement. In the video, Tenpenny refers to the covid vaccine as deadly and a bioweapon. She is a licensed osteopath based in suburban Cleveland and the author of “Saying No To Vaccines: A Resource Guide for All Ages.” She runs an alternative health clinic and has previously claimed vaccines cause autism. 

On 23 June 2020 Sherri Tenpenny tweeted that the longer you wear a mask, the more unhealthy you get. Tenpenny alleged that masks suppress your immune system.https://medika.life/media/4fa458bd9d888e08c17eb721712bb898

5. Rizza Islam

Rizza Islam’s anti-vaccine posts aim to spread vaccine hesitancy amongst African Americans. While Facebook removed Rizza Islam’s Facebook Page in February, he continues to post anti-vaccine messages from his Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Islam intentionally discourages fellow African Americans from being vaccinated. His dangerous rhetoric contributes to the increased risk of death this sector of the population faces from the coronavirus. His Twitter account is a carefully managed stream of vaccine misinformation, focusing on the covid vaccine. Every person he turns away from the vaccine is a potential death at his hand in a community he claims to serve. 

He’s no stranger to manipulating healthcare for his own profit. In 2015 the executive director of World Literacy Crusade (WLC), then Hanan Islam, Ronnie Steven Islam (AKA Rizza Islam), and Hanan’s adult children were arrested for Medi-Cal fraud and insurance fraud for billing for a detox program. The Compton, Californian offices of the WLC housed a drug detox program using “dry heat sweat therapy.

This Jan 4 article explains what’s awaiting a very deserving con artist. Hanan and Rizza Islam get trial date for $4 million Medi-Cal fraud at Scientology rehab. At a pretrial conference, the trial was set for May 20 in the case, which seeks felony convictions against Hanan Islam, 61, and three of her children, including her son Ronnie “Rizza” Islam, 30. If you’re an African American, Rizza Islam is not your friend. 

6. Rashid Buttar

Rashid Buttar is an American osteopathic physician from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is an ardent conspiracy theorist known for videos posted to his YouTube channel. Buttar claims that COVID-19 tests have living microorganisms (discouraging people from getting government-approved tests) and that Covid vaccines cause infertility

In an early 2020 video, after warning that corrupt government leaders would seize on the crisis to enact authoritarian rule, Buttar — a widely discredited osteopath — directed viewers to his website, where he sells information packages that cost up to $450. Only there, he claims, can he share the “real truth” in its entirety. Buttar is a grifter, a con artist, not a particularly good one, with a healthcare spin. A popular QAnon Instagram page reposted one of his videos with the caption “Coronavirus Was Man-Made.” 

While Buttar’s scam may not be as sophisticated as many of his more practiced colleagues on this list, he is nonetheless hugely disruptive to public health. At the time of writing, Buttar still enjoys active social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

7. Erin Elizabeth

Erin Elizabeth is the partner of Joseph Mercola (surprise, surprise). She runs Health Nut News, a prominent ‘alternative health’ website with affiliated newsletter and social media accounts.

She has posted an antisemitic conspiracy theory about the Rothschilds to her Instagram account, connected Bill Gates to wild vaccine plots, suggested the influenza vaccine makes you chronically ill. She actively supports Mercola and they are, not unlike the Bollingers, representative of a new element emerging from the alternate health sector, the “Power-Con Couples”. Healthcare Bonnie and Clyde’s but they aren’t robbing banks, they’re threatening your health.

Her social media accounts remain active on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

8. Sayer Ji and Kelly Brogan

Another “Power-Con Couple” with a slight difference. The only real danger here is Brogan. Her partner, Sayer Ji, is the joke on the list. If you want to take health advice from an unqualified supplement salesman, then you pretty much get what you deserve. His philosophy degree is as far away from healthcare as the sun is from the moon.

Sayer Ji runs a popular alternative health website, GreenMedInfo.com, and affiliated social media accounts that promote pseudoscience and anti-vaccine misinformation. Despite his GreenMedInfo accounts being removed by Twitter and Instagram, it is still available on Facebook. 

Kelly Brogan on the other hand is a cold, calculating medical charlatan. You can read more about her on Medika’s Quack Scale and her abusive relationship with past patients. She now claims to practice “holistic psychiatry” and sells a range of books and courses from her website. In a widely viewed video in March 2020, Kelly Brogan claimed that “there is potentially no such thing as the coronavirus” because “it’s not possible to prove that any given pathogen has induced death.” 

A post on Kelly Brogan’s website titled “Why We Stay Asleep When Covid-19 Is Trying to Wake Us Up” cites a number of COVID conspiracy theories, including that the pandemic was planned. CrowdTangle analytics show it has been shared on Facebook nearly 11,000 times.

9. Christiane Northrup

Our favorite Covid kook. Christiane Northrup offers up theories so wild and unbelievable, they’re actually entertaining. If she didn’t pose such a serious risk to public health, we’d be encouraging her to take her show on the road. 

We’ve written about Christiane Northrup on Medika’s Quack Scale and she doesn’t shy away from insanity when attacking the covid vaccines, dragging fetal cells, 5G cell towers, and tracking chips out in the same breath. The only thing more amazing than Northrup’s crazed theories is the fact that anyone would even consider them. She makes baseless claims that vaccines cause an 800% increase in chronic illness and that getting vaccinated will allow governments and organizations to somehow track you.

She’s a sought-after guest on alternate health podcasts and “news” channels, appearing with Thrivetime’s, Clay Clark in his latest anti-vaxx, anti-covid effort, the “Health and Freedom Project”, a Republican based disinformation campaign with ties to QAnon, designed to destabilize a Democrat-led American government. Her social media accounts remain active on all three platforms, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

10. Ben Tapper

Ben Tapper is a chiropractor with a growing following on social media. He has routinely posted COVID disinformation and spoken out against masking. Although he is fond of introducing himself as a doctor, he is not a medical doctor. In fact, some doubt exists as to his actual qualification.

Apparently, chiropractic students are now doing courses in virology and molecular biology and have a broad knowledge of nutrition and chemical interactions when they qualify. Oh no wait, that’s not actually true. In fact, they aren’t doctors at all and their courses focus on the mechanistic treatment of pulled muscles, and aches and pains supposedly initiated by poor spinal alignment. Their manipulation techniques apparently extend beyond just treating patients.

This small technical issue doesn’t however stop an inordinately large amount of chiropractors from advising on everything from virology to pandemics and cancer cures. Tapper is the perfect example of someone way out of his depth. Here is an article that debunks a lot of nonsense Tapper sprouted about PCR tests (under the false guise of being a medical doctor) while addressing a city council in the USA.

At the time of writing, all Tapper’s social media accounts remain active on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

11. Kevin Jenkins

Another black man hell-bent on harming his fellow African Americans by spreading lies about the dangers of Covid and the Covid vaccine. 

Kevin Jenkins is an anti-vaccine activist with a growing social media presence who has appeared at public events with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Jenkins has called vaccines a “conspiracy” to “wipe out” black people and is a co-founder of the Freedom Airway & Freedom Travel Alliance, a company founded in late 2020 to help its members travel around the world without observing any masking, quarantining, vaccination, or other pandemic control measures.

In a now-deleted Facebook Live from DC on January 6th, Kevin Jenkins stands on stage and tells the crowd that Black people are being targeted with the vaccine. “They are spending a trillion dollars to convince you [the Black Community] that it’s ok to kill yourselves [with the COVID vaccine].” Jenkins has also claimed that the Black community is being targeted for experimentation with the vaccine.

All Jenkins’ social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram remain active.

12. Clay Clark

Clay Clark was not originally included in the original Disinformation Dozen. Medika feels this is a massive oversight and we’ve rectified it here. 

We’ve left the best for last and judging by the photo below, you may want to make sure your children are tucked up tight in bed. Clay Clark has officially embedded himself with his fellow Republican anti-vaxx, democracy denying, covid doubting, Qanon supporters, and sympathizers.

The presenter of Thrivetime now actively promotes quacks, covid conspirators, and a host of other radical Republicans directly from the front page of the Thrivetime website. It’s worrying that people with profiles like Clark’s feel comfortable enough to come out in such a public show of support for these radical elements, such is their confidence in their growing power base and if ever there as a wake-up call to moderate and sane Republicans, Clark represents this call.

A link on the front page of Thrivetime takes you directly to Christiane Northrup discussing fetal cells and tracking devices in the covid vaccines, both repeatedly disproven statements. One of the sites he links to is called timetofreeamerica.com with possibly the largest collection of anti-covid propaganda we’ve comes across. It also includes false claims on 2020 election fraud, a popular Trumpian narrative.

Gates is shown as an orchestrator of world domination and every other imaginable covid conspiracy is wheeled out, including the disgraced Judy Mikovitz. The scariest part of all this, as if it could get any worse, isn’t the collection of fake and misleading, misquoted and appropriated science, it is Clark’s clear attempt at garnering himself a power base for his political aspirations. He intends to do this by ingratiating himself with an ever-expanding radical segment within the Republican party.

He’s hosting conferences, which he has inappropriately labeled “Health and Freedom” conferences and we wrote extensively about them here. They are nothing more than an embarrassingly public display of the collapse of the mainstream Republican party, eroded from within by Clark and the cancerous elements he represents. He isn’t grifting for money, it’s power he’s after.

Speakers at the first event included Andrew Wakefield, Christiane Northrup, Simone Gold, and a smorgasbord of conspiracy theorists, covid doubters, and general health disinformation experts. Clark is actively mixing alternate health and anti-vaxx propaganda with seditionist rhetoric and election fraud conspiracies. 

Clearly, he feels this base is growing sufficiently within the Republican party to justify coming out of the closet. Make no mistake, Clark isn’t a believer. He’s merely a skilled manipulator who’s seen an opportunity he can exploit for his own benefit. He enjoys a large public following and all his social media accounts remain active. Don’t forget to vote for him when you see the ticket.

What can you do to stop the Disinformation Dozen?

There are actually a few really simple actions you can take to deplatform these individuals. Despite this list having been provided by a congressional body to the implicated social media companies well over a month ago, most of the accounts above still remain active.

Report these accounts whenever you come across them, report individual posts, and ensure the owners of platforms like Twitter and Facebook are continuously made are of their responsibility to protect the public against disinformation.

If you’re a mainstream Republican that values democracy and the rule of law, express your outrage to your local Republican office. Question why these elements are allowed to persist and thrive within your party. Act now or you may find yourself looking for a new political homeland in the not too distant future. 

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The link led to a new website, set up by Robert F Kennedy Jnr (RFKJ), and featured a new film they’ve just finished shooting. The site and film is laughably entitled Medical Racism, the New Apartheid. To save you the effort of registering, you can watch the video here. Sadly, despite all their apparent production skills, the video format doesn’t support playback on an iPhone.

The website compares racism in medicine to new apartheid and features a poorly produced hour-long expose on mostly, you guessed it, vaccines. No surprise, if you know RFKJ. He lives to discredit vaccines and the majority of his social media posts, marketing, and appearances are driven by this agenda. He has, during the course of his crusade, befriended anyone he feels can further his cause, quite literally anyone.

It would appear that he has now run out of compatriots and has instead tried to co-opt, in one fell swoop, every single African American. In fact, he’s extended his reach now to incorporate every single person in possession of black, brown, or dark skin. It is the most outrageous act of appropriation by a white person in living memory, and deserves an award, if only for the sheer audacity and bare-faced cheek of it.

Many will see through this movie and be able to identify the agenda and the appropriation. For those of you who cannot, perhaps because the video strikes a chord, plays to your anger, or reminds you of your own situation. this post will explain why Robert F Kennedy Jnr is as toxic to African Americans as he is to healthcare.

Apartheid

Let’s start here as the name of the site and the video scream it out. Medical racism, the new apartheid. Appropriating the term ‘apartheid’ for his latest pet project shows that neither RFKJ nor his Muslim, White, and token African American producers truly understand what they are dealing with.

Apartheid was a term used by the late Hendrik Verwoerd in the fifties and late sixties to describe a new policy of racial segregation, which his minority white government enforced in South Africa. It extended to everything. A person of color growing up in South Africa wasn’t able to attend universities, vote, climb on buses, eat in restaurants, sit on certain beaches, or enter toilets or buildings and amenities earmarked as WHITE ONLY. People of color were forcibly relocated from their homes to new areas.

There was a simple logic that sat behind Verwoerd’s policy. Unlike the American settlers that had managed to all but destroy the indigenous people they encountered on arrival, Dutch, English, and German settlers to South Africa had encountered black people in numbers so vast, they had no option other than to try and manage them. Apartheid was seen as the ultimate solution. A limitless, faceless workforce.

Outnumbered ten to one, allowing the majority (Black South Africans) access to democracy, education and other privileges seemed on the surface to be tantamount to political suicide. Apartheid was a control mechanism. Ring fence the masses and keep them under constant aggressive surveillance and subjugation. Probably up there as one of the worst ideas in history, it was doomed to failure and was eventually replaced in 1994 with democratic rule under Nelson Mandela. It is worth noting that many entrenched legacies of apartheid are still evident in South African culture.

So now, you should be clear on what apartheid is. It is a societal mechanism employed by a corrupt minority government to enslave and suppress the majority. It is and was unique to South Africa, who in their own way, overcame it in the most spectacular, peaceful reversal of power in modern history.

Apartheid was not specific to black people, although they suffered disproportionately. It targeted all non-white races in South Africa, including Asians, Indians, and others. America faces a completely different set of issues that are, for the most part, steeped in pure racism and the mistaken belief in the superiority of the white ruling caste.

African Americans and their plight

The discussion around culture-based care in medicine is nuanced and complex. It exists for various reasons, most of which are rooted in deep generational racial prejudices. It is almost irreparable as long as the individuals creating policy still hold these views, and many do. The opinions an individual espouses in public and the beliefs they hold in private are often at odds.

This racism extends from the top down and permeates care. A nurse with a dislike for Asian, African American, or Hispanic patients is less likely to pay attention to their needs and unfortunately, clusters of this racist-based care tend to converge. I’ve written about this at length here and even discussed how the data and diagnostic care systems we develop can exacerbate these racial or cultural biases. It’s a problem that needs fixing. Urgently.

We do this by continuously highlighting issues of individual care. Examples that cannot be unseen or unheard. Statistics prove the case for inequitable healthcare in America, but statistics is a poor tool in the information war. Data are impersonal and unrelatable for most. We care about people and we react to fellow human’s strife. This is how we reverse generations of racism in healthcare.

Vacccines

We do not do it by attacking vaccines and hitching our wagon to the anti-vaxxers. I am going to discuss this at length so you understand why this is a flawed and dangerous path to follow,

Vaccines work. They are incredibly effective at reducing very dangerous diseases and conditions that affect us as humans. I am going to compare them to an assault rifle for the purpose of creating an analogy. We all know the havoc one of these weapons can create in the hands of deluded individuals with agendas, and yet, in the hands of a skilled and disciplined soldier, these assault rifles serve as one of the most effective tools we have invented to ensure peace. 

The solution to America’s gun problem is to simply outlaw private ownership of the weapons, not to try and ban the manufacture of assault rifles. Any tool in the wrong hands or wielded for the wrong reasons can potentially prove fatal. The same is true of vaccines. We can not build a sustainable, healthy population without the use of vaccines. Numerous problems beset this market, and I’ll address these further in the article.

First of all though, below, a few statements to kick us off, statements made in the film that I want to highlight. These are statements made that are based on partial truths and these apply directly to vaccines. I’ll post these as subheadings with a discussion below each point.

Young black children’s physiology responds badly to vaccines

This needs to be qualified. It is not true across all instances of vaccination and only occurs in some children, but at a rate that definitely warrants immediate and focused attention. To be clear, the term ‘badly’ is incorrect. The children that do react aggressively to vaccination tend to have overly active immune responses and these affect them to varying degrees. 

It is widely accepted that African American children tend to exhibit a stronger immune reaction to vaccines and there is an incredibly simple solution to the emerging data on this. Reduce dosage strengths. It’s that simple. 

If necessary, look to reverting to the administration of individual vaccines rather than combined vaccines. At this point it is is about restoring public confidence in the vaccine process and showing a willingness to address public concerns, which would go a long way to alleviating any future problems. 

It took only a few deaths from blood clots to have the Astra Zeneca vaccine halted while data was analyzed. Our children are most certainly our most valuable and vulnerable patients and deserve as much if not more attention.

Vaccines cause autism in black children

Every child that develops autism, be they black, white, or green, has been vaccinated. It’s the age-old issue of causation and correlation. These children are also all drink milk, eat food and wear diapers. Is plastic contamination in diapers a cause of autism or possibly a diet-based ingredient? It could be. If you’re going to examine vaccines as a cause of autism, then by extension you also need to discount all the other shared exposure we subject our babies to.

Could a heightened immune response to receiving three different types of vaccine in one shot be exacerbated in African American children? I cannot discount this possibility as it has not been disproven beyond clinical doubt by research. The fact, however, that white children, Asian children, and other demographics also develop autism, would tend to indicate that if there is a problem, it isn’t down to the African American’s aggressive immune system.

This isn’t simply an open and closed debate. Wiggle room exists in both directions. plausible wiggle room and the only way to remove this permanently is by way of open, transparent, and independent clinical trials.

Vaccines trials are used to experiment on black children.

True, but they’re also used to experiment on almost every other culture, race, and age demographic. This isn’t a racist thing to be confused with the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, it simply about economics and accountability. Unethical vaccine developers will look for the markets that offer the least resistance, where regulation is lax, and where government officials and regulators can be bought off cheaply. 

Every country is guilty of this to varing degrees and it is directly related to price, Poorer areas like Africa, India, Asia and South America will always attract unethical research. If these countries were occupied primarily by white skinned people, the shoe would now be on the other foot. It is not, however, every vaccine and it isn’t every developer that is guilty of these practices. It is a handful of unethical companies driven by profit and a complete disregard for human life.

Mass sterilization fears and fiction

There can be no arguing the logic of mass global sterilization. It’s a strategy that may be the only real way we have of preventing a species-wide extinction and is, therefore, a believable and tempting rabbit hole to fall into. It is however nothing more than that. Have companies experimented with sterilizing groups under the guise of vaccine research? Almost certainly. It offers the perfect cover and a few have been caught redhanded.

There is however a world of difference between a public, approved vaccine and those utilized in trials. Any ingredient designed to cause infertility would be discovered, at multiple points along the approval process and subsequently, in later quality assessments. 

Many vaccines are routinely pulled from shelves and tested by independent firms and regulatory bodies. This is, however, also an issue that also needs to be firmly addressed before we become embedded in mRNA vaccines, a technology that is far more difficult and costly to monitor and check.

What else does the film touch on?

It focuses on incidents like Tuskegee, to give racial context to the discussion, and then launches straight into autism and vaccines, RFKJ’s true colors showing within minutes of the opening scenes. Really important issues within black healthcare that have far higher precedence in terms of deaths and cultural impact are glanced over, most are not addressed.

Mortality rates in black mothers, infant deaths at birth, access to proper care and health management, the societal impacts of poverty on developing children. Long-term impacts of lack of access to properly balanced nutrition, spiraling obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, and other emerging co-morbidities that are rooted in poverty and race. Poor health outcomes of a group that has not had equitable access to care. RFKJ does not deem these factors important enough to warrant addressing them. 

Covid is focused on in terms of the vaccine, as you would expect from Kennedy. He doesn’t care about your skin color or the real problems that lead to the health inequalities African Americans experience. He points to higher instances of covid deaths in the black communities without properly explaining why. He cares only for promoting his anti-vaccine campaign and he is using the African American as a tool to further this agenda. It is an unethical, highly objectionable, and offensive film when viewed in its proper context and if I were to have my culture appropriated to promote such rubbish, I would be up in arms.

Kennedy is in fact contributing to the problem. It isn’t simply African Americans that experience these health disparities. They are felt to varying degrees by Asian, Hispanic, and Native American communities across America. Allowing ourselves to become sidetracked from the very real problems of systemic health inequality by focusing on deluded washed-up politicians and misguided millionaires is counterintuitive to seeking workable solutions. 

We all know problems exist within healthcare. These are openly acknowledged and as the scales of racial inequality are gradually balanced in America, healthcare too will benefit. Sadly, nothing this wrong can be corrected overnight. Ask post-apartheid South Africa. Fixing things properly, to arrive at solutions that sustain all communities, irrespective of color, requires time, patience, and wisdom. Qualities that are in very short supply in Robert F Kennedy Jnr’s world.

Fundamental Vaccine Issues

There exist a number of issues surrounding vaccines that need to be addressed as a matter of urgency to restore public faith. Perhaps the most serious of these is the most insane piece of legislation ever passed relating to American Healthcare. So crazy, that it is almost impossible to image any other origin for the legislation, than the lobby groups of large pharma.

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986

Signed into law by Ronald Regan in 1996 the NCVIA does the following. It’s purpose is to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims. Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.

The legislation resulted in exactly what large Pharma had anticipated. A massive boom in the production and profitability of vaccines. They had just been handed a get-out-of-jail-free card by the US government, a carte balance to forge ahead, protected as they were, against any and all claims, and most importantly, this particular phrase. Accountability. None exists, to this day.

Now you while you can argue the necessity of this law until you’re blue in the face, you shall not contest the consequence. You cannot, in any world driven by good conscience, legally enforce a product on the public in a case where you’ve removed their right to legal recourse. It reeks of complicity and corruption. Denmark smells like roses,by comparison.

If you tell me I am legally required to vaccinate my child and then tell me I have no recourse against the manufacturer if things go wrong, this is a proposal no sane parent should be expected to accept. It is simple logic. The very fact you’ve had to legally enforce a “no accountability” clause is that there is likely to be accountability. If the product was flawless and posed no risk, why the need for the legislation? 

It’s a little like buying a Tesla and the dealer asks you to sign a waiver. The waiver says that if the wheels fall off, the engine blows up, or if you’re suddenly transported to an alternate universe, you won’t be able to sue Tesla. If you don’t sign, you won’t get the car. Sounds a little fishy, doesn’t it.

It is beyond the pale of reason that no one has legally contested enforced vaccinations in the US-based simply on this construct. It serves as a standing indictment of the power of large pharmaceutical conglomerates and the influence they wield. While I do not question the safety of individual vaccines, I seriously question the legality of enforcing them on an already weary public, and the issues surrounding the Covid vaccines have thrust this whole discussion into the spotlight as never before.

There is absolutely no transparency with regards to research into vaccine issues and appointing the FDA or CDC to act as their own watchdogs over what are essentially internal issues, also reeks of complicity and coverup. Whether these exist or not is secondary to the argument. The problem lies in creating an atmosphere that suggests the possibility. Why even go there. 

Audits and clinical trials to assess and allay vaccine based concerns should be conducted independently and overseen by auditors shileded from the sphere of influence of the FDA, CDC and large Pharma. 

Give the people clear answers and ensure they are transparent. They deserve them and so do vaccines. and please don’t conflate vaccines with race-based nonsense. We are all in the same boat, together, and if we continue to bicker, no one paddles.

With thanks to Peter M Heimlich, one of the good guys.

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