Believing vaccines are safe because Big Pharma says so is just as stupid as believing cigarettes are safe because Big Tobacco says so

(NaturalNews) (Story by Tony Cartalucci-LD, republished from Land Destroyer Report) Big-Pharma Vaccines Deemed "Safe" by Big-Pharma Funded "Study"

(Tony Cartalucci - LD) - RT's article, "Vaccines don't cause autism, complications extremely rare -- study,"^[1] states that:

There is no evidence that immunizing vaccinations cause autism while any complications arising from their administration to children are extremely rare, new analysis comprised of 67 research studies has discovered.

"There is strong evidence that MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine is not associated with autism,"the study's results said.

RT cites a "Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics" study titled, "Safety of Vaccines Used for Routine Immunization of US Children: A Systematic Review,"^[2] which claims:

We found evidence that some vaccines are associated with serious AEs [adverse effects]; however, these events are extremely rare and must be weighed against the protective benefits that vaccines provide.

The report's conclusions are hardly convincing. But what's more troubling, is the immense conflict of interest from which the report itself was written. The authors include Margaret A. Maglione, Lopamudra Das, Laura Raaen, Alexandria Smith, Ramya Chari, Sydne Newberry, Roberta Shanman, Tanja Perry, and Courtney Gidengil, all of the corporate-funded think tank, RAND Corporation.

While the report itself was funded by the US government, the RAND Corporation from which its authors were drawn is funded by the very corporations (.PDF page 70)^[3] that manufacture various vaccines, including the MMR vaccine which was the primary focus of the report. Big-pharma sponsors of RAND include GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck - that latter of which is listed by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC)^[4] specifically as the manufacturer of the MMR vaccine.

Merck has also directly and openly funded other studies put out by RAND (here^[5] and here^[6]). RAND's other big-pharma sponsor, GSK, has been recently exposed amid a global multi-billion dollar bribing scandal^[7] where it was paying off doctors to endorse and distribute their products.

With Pediatrics' report exposed as - at the very least - an irresponsible, unethical exercise in research, and at worst, corporate propaganda masquerading as a scientific paper, those considering whether or not to have vaccines manufactured by deceitful pharmaceutical monopolies injected into their bodies, have an added incentive to hold off and search for alternatives.

While the science of vaccinations may be sound, the corporations that have monopolized their manufacturing and distribution are demonstrably dishonest and criminal. The debate is not necessarily whether the process of vaccinating is good or bad, but why criminal enterprises have monopolized that process and what can be done to stop them. As with everything else corporate monopolies do, there is a hidden agenda behind the drive to whitewash and promote big-pharma's vaccines - an agenda that may transcend mere profits and demands additional scrutiny. If commentators want to assign blame upon anyone for creating public distrust in vaccines, it should be upon big-pharma itself.

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Sources:

[1] http://rt.com

[2] http://pediatrics.aappublications.org^[PDF]

[3] http://www.rand.org^[PDF]

[4] http://www.cdc.gov

[5] http://www.rand.org

[6] http://www.mcanonline.org

[7] http://journal-neo.org