HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023_01_27 AHuenke_Vaccines and autism_ReplyFrom:Berry, Allison
To:Annette Huenke
Cc:Board of Health
Subject:Re: Allison Berry refutes the "godmother of vaccines" claim clinical trials have not shown vaccines do not causeautism
Date:Friday, January 27, 2023 1:30:41 PM
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Dear Ms. Huenke,
As is unfortunately commonly the case with your communications, you are twisting Dr.
Edwards’s words to support your pre-existing viewpoint, and then stoking animosity based onthat initial, I would argue, intentional misunderstanding. Dr. Edwards has been consistently
clear that all available evidence demonstrates no association between autism and vaccination.You have found one instance where under extreme pressure she was less clear in that
communication and have chosen to ignore the rest of her work.
There is no daylight between our positions. We have both reviewed the existing extensive dataand have concluded with the rest of the medical community that there is no association
between vaccination and autism.
Here is just one such paper reviewing some of thosedata: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30986133/
There is an important difference between rigorous review of data and spreading
misinformation and disinformation in full rejection of that data. I encourage you to move moretowards the former and away from the latter.
All the best,
Allison Berry, MD MPH (she/they)
Clallam & Jefferson County Health Officerallison.berry@clallamcountywa.gov
On Jan 27, 2023, at 12:33 PM, Annette Huenke <amh@olympus.net> wrote:
At the January 19, 2023 JeffCo Board of Health meeting, I addressed the BOHregarding the recent deposition of Dr. Kathryn Edwards, co-editor of what is
widely known in the medical community as the vaccine bible — Plotkin’s
Vaccines. According to her alma mater, "Dr. Edwards is an internationally-recognized expert in vaccinology, with numerous publications in the fields ofpertussis, pneumococcus, and influenza.” I related that Dr. Edwards reluctantly admitted that the clinical trials for theCDC’s childhood vaccine schedule did not prove that vaccines do not causeautism.
My suggestion to Allison Berry was that the research on the covid jabs is in asimilar position. It cannot be said that they are safe, because the research has notbeen done (honestly) to prove that. We are still in the thick of the clinical trial.
Allison Berry, ten years out of university, appears to know more than one of themost renown vaccinologists in the world. She replied that "the purported risk ofautism related to vaccines that actually has been very heavily studied. We've beenlooking at that data consistently because there was that initial report that raisedconcerns about autism related to vaccines. And because of that, we've continuedto look at it and dig into that data. And we have not found that association. Andpeople have been looking, it's not because we're not looking, it just doesn't exist."
I am not sure who “we” is in her response, but Dr. Kathryn Edwards’ “we” saysthe research has not been done to prove that vaccines do not cause autism.Perhaps our confident young PHO should send the data she references to Dr.Edwards and sort her out, so that the next time Edwards is deposed she won’tcommit perjury.
While you’re at it, Dr. Berry, I’d like to see that data, too.
sincerely, Annette Huenke