If Wakefield promoted MMR
We live in tough times. With your imagination, you could picture a carbon copy of Al Capone sitting in all of the top offices of government, and also sitting in all of the top positions in corrupt companies. In the Batman films, the city of Gotham is depicted as being corrupt. Those enforcing the rules and regulations are often the top criminals.
Even people who once spoke truth and defended those in harm’s way may one day become shills for the Establishment — if leverage over them can be found or created. Andrew Wakefield is one of the first hero trailblazers to consistently speak out against institutionalized corruption. He found problems associated with MMR shots.
If, tomorrow, he went on TV and starting singing the praises of MMR vaccines, then it would be good to question whether he had become compromised by the system. Again it helps to visualize Al Capone in a regulatory role, or running a corporation powerful enough to find or create leverage over people.
There is a researcher on Substack, Eric Topol, who promotes COVID shots in the popular press. He at least appears to be a corporate shill because of all the promotion, but it wasn’t always that way. Topol was the among the first to courageously speak out against the drug, Vioxx, as a cause of heart issues.
He once spoke truth and defended those in harm’s way.
Another researcher, Adrian Martineau, used to communicate the effectiveness of vitamin D for acute respiratory infections, but that is no longer the case. However, the most disturbing turn of events is when it is not just an individual researcher who turns against either their earlier work or earlier motivations, but an entire society.
As a case in point, look at the recent change in guidelines from the Endocrine Society:
The key phrase at bottom is that “you don’t need any additional vitamin D [beyond the Dietary Reference Intake] if you don’t have risk factors.” That advice is almost a diametric opposite to the advice that the Endocrine Society gave before regarding vitamin D. That Dietary Reference Intake level (~600 IU) doesn’t even come close:
What made them change their minds all-of-a-sudden? Was there a recent “change in management” at the Endocrine Society? The recent guideline of 600 IU is a long way from the prior guideline of at least 1500 IU. It’s not even half as much. They now advise against even general testing for your levels of vitamin D!
Wait … what?
That’s right. I didn’t stutter. They are even advising against regular testing. That’s like Pfizer and Moderna unblinding their trials so that the contrast of the treatment group out to a control group cannot be utilized for objective evaluation of the harm:benefit profile of their products. If you stop measuring something, you can’t know.
When living in tough times, people have to be vigilant regarding hostile takeovers of positive movements. Though it’d be hard, imagine RFK Jr. extolling the virtues of the dangerous herbicide, glyphosate.
If, tomorrow, he went on TV to tell us to buy more of it, then we’d know that something was up. People don’t change convicted opinions without an explanation. The 4 main ways people are “gotten to” are by brainwashing, bribery, bullying, and blackmail. The bad guys already know this, but the rest of us need to remain wary.
Bad people too often rule during tough times. Vigilance is required.
Reference
[Eric Topol fighting Big Business to keep people out of harm’s way] — Mukherjee D, Nissen SE, Topol EJ. Risk of cardiovascular events associated with selective COX-2 inhibitors. JAMA. 2001 Aug 22-29;286(8):954-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.286.8.954. PMID: 11509060. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11509060/
[Eric Topol siding with Big Business regarding the best way through COVID] — https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-04/covid-2024-flu-virus-vaccine
[Adrian Martineau communicating the benefit of vitamin D] — Martineau AR, Jolliffe DA, Hooper RL, Greenberg L, Aloia JF, Bergman P, Dubnov-Raz G, Esposito S, Ganmaa D, Ginde AA, Goodall EC, Grant CC, Griffiths CJ, Janssens W, Laaksi I, Manaseki-Holland S, Mauger D, Murdoch DR, Neale R, Rees JR, Simpson S Jr, Stelmach I, Kumar GT, Urashima M, Camargo CA Jr. Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. BMJ. 2017 Feb 15;356:i6583. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i6583. PMID: 28202713; PMCID: PMC5310969. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28202713/
[Adrian Martineau questioning the benefit of vitamin D] — Martineau AR. Vitamin D in the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. Proc Nutr Soc. 2023 May;82(2):200-207. doi: 10.1017/S0029665122002798. Epub 2022 Nov 11. PMID: 36366796. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36366796/
[Endocrine Society telling you to get much more of vitamin D (at least 1500 IU daily)] — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441912/
[Endocrine Society telling you ‘not to’ get much more of vitamin D (~600 IU)] — https://endocrinenews.endocrine.org/to-d-or-not-to-d-what-questions-does-the-latest-endocrine-society-guideline-answer-about-vitamin-d-supplements/