Vaccine Doctor Given at Least $30 Million Dollars to Push Vaccines

Vaccine Doctor Given at Least $30 Million Dollars to Push Vaccines







Thanks to Joseph Mercola, DO (medical doctor)

Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia earned at
least $29 million as part of a $182-million sale by the hospital of its
worldwide royalty interest in the Merck Rotateq vaccine. The amount of
income distributed to Offit could be as high as $46 million. Offit has
refused to say how much he made from the vaccine.

The high price placed on the patents raises concerns over Offit’s use
of his former position on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP) to help create the market for rotavirus vaccine —
effectively, to vote himself rich.

Offit’s claim to a share of the profits from Rotateq revenues is based
on his role as a listed inventor on the cluster of patents that protect
Merck’s vaccine. Paul Offit had a great personal interest in Rotateq’s
commercial success, and more than any other individual in the world he
found himself in a position to directly influence that success.

Unlike most other patented products, the market for mandated childhood
vaccines is created by the recommendation of an appointed body, ACIP.
From 1998 to 2003, Offit served as a member of ACIP.(1)

If you want to read a fascinating expose of this doctor read the recent Philadelphia Magazine expose on him.
Dr. Paul Offit, or as he is also known Paul “For Profit” Offit, is a
fairly well-known and frequent commentator in favor of vaccinations who
dismisses many vaccine risks and promotes vaccine mandates. But he is
not just a doctor who believes that vaccinations save lives. Far from
it.

Dr. Offit is also a listed inventor on a cluster of patents that
protect Merck’s Rotateq vaccine and share the title “Rotavirus
Reassortant Vaccine.” They include four granted U.S. patents —
US5626851, US5750109, US6113910 and US6290968 — and two granted European
patents — EP323708 and EP493575.

He is also the recipient of a $350,000 grant from Merck for the
vaccine’s development, a consultant to Merck Pharmaceuticals and, the
icing on the cake, previously served as a member of The Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
ACIP is a 15-member panel of immunization experts, selected by the
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They
provide advice and guidelines to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) on vaccine-preventable diseases.

As a member of the ACIP from 1998 to 2003, Dr. Offit was involved in
CDC recommendations about giving rotavirus vaccine to babies. He voted
“yes” three times out of four on issues pertaining to the ACIP’s
rotavirus use recommendation (including, voting for his own vaccine to
be included in the immunization schedule).

To clarify, Dr. Offit voted for the FIRST Rotashield vaccine
manufactured by Wyeth (monkey-human hybrid virus) approved by ACIP in
1998 to be given to all babies. He abstained from the vote in 1999 to
recommend that Rotashield be removed from the market. He did not vote
for the Merck Rotateq vaccine (cow-human hybrid virus) to be recommended
for use in all babies — he was prevented under ACIP/government rules
from voting to recommend a product he had a personal financial stake in.
Now, as a result of Merck’s rotavirus vaccine being added to the CDC’s
childhood vaccination schedule, the value of Dr. Offit’s stake in the
vaccine has skyrocketed.

Why Isn’t This ILLEGAL?????
Though he has declined to say exactly how much he has gained
personally, Age of Autism reports that Dr. Offit earned at least $29
million, and perhaps as much as $55 million, as part of a $182-million
sale by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia of its worldwide royalty
interest in the Merck Rotateq vaccine.

Of course, all of this begs the question, can someone’s vote on an
“independent” safety board be trusted when there is $30 million at
stake? Would Dr. Offit, or anyone for that matter, truly be an unbiased
voice of safety? Or would they be swayed by this hidden motivation?

It’s a rhetorical question but I think the answer speaks for itself.
Especially when you consider that Dr. Offit is also the doctor who made
the infamous and incomprehensible statement, “an infant can safely
receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once.”

Always Look for Hidden Motivations

It is understandable that most people would like to believe the words
of respected leaders in the health field. Unfortunately, doing so is
often very naive.

It’s not enough to look at the obvious credentials of your
spokespeople, whether they’re pro- or anti- an issue or hold a
prestigious degree. Today, you also have to consider the hidden
motivations behind their recommendations. Where is their loyalty? Who
pays for their lifestyle? Where is their money coming from?

It’s very sad to say, but some of the most trusted voices in defense of
vaccine safety are nothing more than paid shills for the industry. As
CBS News reported last year, these include:

• The American Academy of Pediatrics, to whom the vaccine industry
  gives millions for conferences, grants, medical education classes and
  even to help build their headquarters.
  
• Every Child By Two, a group that promotes early immunization for all
  children and admits they receive money from the vaccine industry — but
  won’t say how much.
  
• Dr. Paul Offit, who in addition to the monies described above holds
  in a $1.5-million research chair at Children’s Hospital, funded by
  Merck.
  

Why You Should Stay Educated About Vaccine Issues
Clearly the above listed “trusted” health care groups cannot really be
trusted for an unbiased opinion. Not while they are busy accepting
untold amounts of money from the vaccine makers.

So, then, what other choice do you have but to seek out the truth for yourself?

The good news is that there are still trustworthy sources of
information out there, and one of the best is The National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC), the American vaccine safety watchdog.
Exploring the information on this site, as well as on the many pages of
Mercola.com, will help you to get educated.

The site was founded by vaccine-educated parents and is run by longtime
vaccine safety and informed consent advocate Barbara Loe Fisher. To
the best of my knowledge Dr. Offit has repeatedly refused to debate her
in public. Likely he knows she would win that debate because he
doesn’t have half a leg to stand on.

More parents are clearly opposed to the “mandatory” vaccine laws and
understand that vaccinations are not the heavily promoted miracle
cure-all that will keep their children from getting sick. Instead, they
are seeing the truth: that vaccines carry the risk of serious side
effects such as crippling neurological damage like autism and even
death.

Let me be clear that I’m not anti-vaccine, but rather pro-vaccine
safety. I believe it is extremely important to have the right to choose —
to be allowed to make informed consent decisions about what you want
to inject into your child, and yourself, and when.

The current U.S. immunization schedule calls for children to get 48
doses of 14 vaccines by the time they’re just 6 years old. By age 18,
federal public health officials say they should have gotten a total of
69 doses of 16 vaccines from day of birth to age 18.

Public health officials have NEVER proven that it is indeed safe to
inject this number and volume of vaccines into infants, children,
pre-adolescents and teenagers. What’s more, they cannot explain why,
concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an
explosion of neurological and immune system disorders in American
children.

But perhaps more disclosures like the article above, where we learn
that a key proponent of vaccine safety is being made rich off of his
recommendations, will shed some light on why the U.S. vaccine schedule
just keeps growing ever larger.


So please do the health of your children a
favor. Seek out a knowledgeable health care practitioner who is aware
of the conflict of interest surrounding public health policy, and
chooses to make educated decisions based on solid information, and your
child’s health and safety, rather than on the promise of a future
payoff.

Source:-

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