HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023_01_28 AHuenke_Vaccines and autism_Reply2From:Annette HuenkeTo:Berry, Allison
Cc:Board of HealthSubject:Re: Allison Berry refutes the "godmother of vaccines" claim clinical trials have not shown vaccines do not cause autism
Date:Saturday, January 28, 2023 2:55:37 PM
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Dear Dr. Berry:
How does one twist the word NO? Time and again, Edwards replies “No” to the question "were the clinical trials designed to rule out that the vaccinecauses autism?” Her words need no twisting. Unequivocally, her answer was NO.
One thing Dr. Edwards has been consistent at is earning millions of dollars over decades as a paid consultant and speaker for Pfizer, Merck and many otherpharmaceutical corporations. In fact, she hid those associations —
"in her July 2020 presentation to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), titled COVID‑19 Vaccine Safety Considerations, theconflict conveniently was never disclosed despite the fact that she had been on a COVID-19 DSMB for over 3 months at that point!” [source]
Dishonest much?
“Stoking animosity?” That’s a curious term, given that I simply offered video of her deposition. The “one instance” I gave you was hardly “less thanclear” because she “was under extreme pressure” — she was under oath. She was crystal clear. She knows full well that one word of doubt about vaccineswill end her lucrative career as a consultant, thus she would only confess that under oath.
You accuse me of confirmation bias as though you are not infected by it. Your blinders are so effective, Allison Berry, you refuse to be concerned thatPfizer, Merck et al. have been criminally convicted for data manipulation and fraud to the tune of many billions of dollars (and their products are still beingmandated.) That is not in dispute. It wasn’t an amorphous org called Pfizer or Merck who enabled that corruption, it was their scientists and corporatehonchos — and our government. The pathetic fines levied are simply the cost of doing business. Nobody goes to jail.
You could give a hoot that journal editors Richard Horton (Lancet) and Marcia Angell (NEJM) have said in no uncertain terms that the journals you trust (Iwould argue they are pre-paid to play) are not trust-worthy. Your “pre-existing viewpoint” renders you unable to consider that the mis/disinformation iscoming from the medical system.
Finally, offering a study by Frank DeStefano as proof that vaccines do not cause autism only weakened your argument. He was, after all, the lead scientiston the study he ordered thrown in the trash by the CDC scientists who wrote it because it did indeed show a significant increase in autism in a subset ofblack children who received the MMR jab.
"The third whistleblower -- a senior CDC scientist named William Thompson -- only indirectly blew the whistle on Merck. He more blew it onhimself and colleagues at the CDC who participated in a 2004 study involving the MMR vaccine. Here, the allegations involve a cover-up ofdata pointing to high rates of autism in African-American boys after they were vaccinated with MMR. In what could be high-profile Househearings before Congressman Posey's Science Committee -- hearings made all the more explosive given the introduction of race into themix -- Merck could find itself under unprecedented scrutiny.” [source]
William Thompson’s statement follows. He gave Congressman Bill Posey 10,000 pages of their scientific research, but the House — as corrupt as theCDC and pharma companies themselves — have made sure that will never see the light of day. More inconvenient truths...
best regards,Annette (me/myself/I)
On Jan 27, 2023, at 1:33 PM, Berry, Allison <allison.berry@clallamcountywa.gov> wrote:
Dear Ms. Huenke,
As is unfortunately commonly the case with your communications, you are twisting Dr. Edwards’s words to support your pre-existingviewpoint, and then stoking animosity based on that initial, I would argue, intentional misunderstanding. Dr. Edwards has been consistentlyclear that all available evidence demonstrates no association between autism and vaccination. You have found one instance where underextreme 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 data and 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 those data: 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 thatdata. I encourage you to move more towards 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 BOH regarding the recent deposition of Dr. KathrynEdwards, co-editor of what is widely known in the medical community as the vaccine bible — Plotkin’s Vaccines. According toher 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 the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule did not prove thatvaccines do not cause autism.
My suggestion to Allison Berry was that the research on the covid jabs is in a similar position. It cannot be said that they are safe,because the research has not been 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 the most renown vaccinologists in the world. Shereplied that "the purported risk of autism related to vaccines that actually has been very heavily studied. We've been looking at thatdata consistently because there was that initial report that raised concerns about autism related to vaccines. And because of that,we've continued to look at it and dig into that data. And we have not found that association. And people have been looking, it's notbecause we're not looking, it just doesn't exist."
I am not sure who “we” is in her response, but Dr. Kathryn Edwards’ “we” says the research has not been done to prove thatvaccines do not cause autism. Perhaps our confident young PHO should send the data she references to Dr. Edwards and sort herout, so that the next time Edwards is deposed she won’t commit perjury.
While you’re at it, Dr. Berry, I’d like to see that data, too.
sincerely, Annette Huenke