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Tim’s DVD Reviews

1986: The Act collect safety data and submit a report to Con-
Directed by Andy J. Wakefield gress every two years. HHS has never done that.
7th Chakra Films More recent attempts to obtain safety data from
vaccine makers have met with stiff resistance.
In the last year of the Obama administra- I’ve said it before, and here I go again. If they
tion, a document was declassified that spills one don’t want me to see the safety data, then I
of the CIA’s secrets. In 1954, the CIA decided already know everything I need to know. No
that we need a vaccination program to enhance sane person would want anything to do with
American influence around the world and keep companies behaving like that. I don’t want to
up American technology in bioweapons. Did be their guinea pig or cash cow.
you hear about that on CNN or Fox News? I The 1986 Act also established a vaccine
don’t think you did. compensation mechanism to handle claims of
This might raise a few red flags for some vaccine injury. Note that these claims are settled
people. It also might explain the proliferation with your dollars, collected as a tax on vac-
of vaccines with a questionable record of safety cines, not vaccine industry money. At first, this
and effectiveness. It might explain why we have system worked reasonably well. Compensation
vaccines for diseases that are not that serious. was handed out for various injuries, including
Combine this with CDC ownership of vaccine autism. That’s right—autism was recognized by
patents and a patent on an earlier version of the court as a by-product of vaccines. How did
coronavirus, and you have some interesting we get from there to now, where the CDC strenu-
food for thought. ously denies any connection between vaccines
By the 1980s, lawsuits over these shoddy and autism? Are more red flags going up yet?
vaccines threatened to destroy the vaccine Our health system pretends to know noth-
industry. The industry went to Congress with a ing about what really causes autism and doesn’t
bill to give them immunity from liability. The seem to see the issue as a very high priority.
bill was not hugely popular in Congress, and There are now millions of children and young
President Reagan even threatened to veto it, but adults with autism. Who is taking care of them? The 1986 Act
big pharma lobbyists were up to the challenge. In the vast majority of cases, their parents are established
In the end, the bill passed in 1986, thanks to taking care of them. Don’t let the TV show “The
its inclusion in other more popular legislation Good Doctor” fool you. That is not what the a vaccine

and a little political blackmail. The lobbyists average autistic person looks like. The majority compensation
argued that without the bill, there would be of autistics are completely dysfunctional. I’m not
no more vaccines—and “think of all the poor the first to wonder what is going to happen when mechanism
children who will get sick and die.” Just writing their aging parents die. If autism rates continue to handle
that almost makes me gag. That should not only to increase as they have been, we won’t even claims of
raise flags but set off neon lights and screaming need to wait that long to find out what happens.
sirens. If their vaccines were so great, why were If our medical system continues to unscien- vaccine
they being sued into bankruptcy? tifically shut down any open discussion about injury, settled
The 1986 Act effectively gave the phar- possible causes, there is little hope of a solution. with your tax
maceutical industry immunity from liability Andy Wakefield’s latest movie, 1986: The
for vaccine injuries and deaths. Although the Act, brings in a well-known example from dollars, not
legislation also stipulated certain conditions, the auto industry to illustrate what is going vaccine
these have been openly ignored, at least until on. You may remember the Ford Pinto, which industry
recently. For example, the Department of Health had the unfortunate tendency to explode when
and Human Services (HHS) was supposed to rear-ended. Ford initially decided not to fix money.

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