At 09:59 PM 2/14/2015, you wrote:
VICP law actually helped the vaccine industry
(and Barbara Loe Fisher of NVIC helped that to
happen even though many warned her not to) (see after next article)
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/10/congressman-hen.html
The 1986 law was really enacted to save the
existing vaccine program from collapsing.
At the time, the CDC's official schedule included
10 total vaccines that children were recommended to receive by the age of 5.
But, as the Texas article revealed (and the shot
records of most kids born in the early 80s would
corroborate) children were vaccinated with less
regularity, when they were much older, and with
even fewer vaccines than the recommended schedule.
Not one proponent of the bill advocated a need to
motivate manufacturers to create NEW vaccines or
ever cited anywhere that we were experiencing an
epidemic of diseases for which we did not yet
have vaccines this notion had nothing to do with why the bill was passed.
And yet, as we all know, the passing of the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986 was
a watershed moment for the vaccine industry,
unleashing two decades of escalating vaccine
mandates, culminating in the bloated, 36 shot
schedule we have today for kids under 5. The act
sheltered vaccine companies, and they turned
their R&D budgets back on, figured out how to
ensure they bought the bureaucrats who decided
which vaccines are added to the schedule through
the ACIP, turned vaccine development into a
profit growth engine, and the rest is history.
And yet, as we all know, the passing of the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986 was
a watershed moment for the vaccine industry,
unleashing two decades of escalating vaccine
mandates, culminating in the bloated, 36 shot
schedule we have today for kids under 5. The act
sheltered vaccine companies, and they turned
their R&D budgets back on, figured out how to
ensure they bought the bureaucrats who decided
which vaccines are added to the schedule through
the ACIP, turned vaccine development into a
profit growth engine, and the rest is history.
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From Hilary Butler (in comments section of above article)
I would refer readers here to the following:
1) Volume 3, No.1, Spring 1987 DPT News. (forerunner of what is now NVIC.)
Issue devoted to detailing the huge effort and
struggle by Jeff Schwartz and Barbara Loe Fisher,
and how they successfully countered the
opposition of President Reagan, many in the
senate, and indeed most of the pharmaceutical
companies who were opposed to the legislation.
Anyone who wants a copy, I will scan it. Email me
via the site. [I am asking her for this
again..................mine is misplaced.............Sheri]
2) I refer you to the detailed proceedings found
in the Hearing before the Committee on Labor and
Human Resources, Ninety Ninth congress, S. 827,
July 18, 1985. In the bottom left corner are the
number 52-313O. You can request this item from the Library of Congress.
In it, is detailed the FACTS that Jeff Schwartz,
Barbara Loe Fisher were not only party to the
legislation, but supported it with ardent fervour
in the face of opposition by every other
questioning individual in the country. Those
individuals included (amongst others) Marge
Grant, of Wisconsin
www.dptshots.com and Dr J Anthony Morris.
Many others, including myself from afar, not only
opposed the Bill, but wrote to Barbara Loe
Fisher, Jeff Schwartz, and others at the time
pointing out the folly of such a move.
Such was the rancour created by the unwillingness
of Barbara Loe Fisher and Jeff Swartz to listen
to anyone, that Dr Robert Mendelsohn wrote in a
letter dated June 30, 1983 to Marge Grant the following:
"...nothing can make me more dissatisfied with
the leadership of "Dissatisfied Parents Together"
than attempts on their part to cozy up to our common opposition."
I can supply scans of all documents and more, on request.
It will be interesting to see whether or not, in
the interests of the whole truth, Age of Autism publishes this response.
It is useful to remember that sometimes, in
unjustly pointing only one finger, three are pointed in an opposite direction.
Hilary Butler.
www.beyondconformity.org.nz
Sheri Nakken, former RN, MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com/ &
http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/
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