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Bryan's avatar

Ha ha - when the CDC was pushing big-pharma's agenda, CDC was 'the science' and no one could deviate, but now ? Kennedy is 100% right in his response. Remove the legal indemnity and see how keen doctors are to follow AAP's recommendations.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

So true.

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Steve Kirsch's avatar

Looking forward to seeing the vaccine record level data supporting the recommendations!

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

I wonder how many people actually analysed it — probably none.

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Julian Gillespie's avatar

thank you Dr Demasi,

a name change is needed .. so we have transparency and can all call a spade a spade

.. I will go first

American Pharmaceutical Academy — Pediatrics Division

.. when top donors are the manufacturers, ‘independent’ schedules need conflict-of-interest labels

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

How about the Association for Abusing Paediatrics (AAP) — these evil people actually recommend the aggressive use of Ozempic for weight loss in children as young as 12. Do they actually hate kids?

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CMaryG's avatar

Wow

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Margaret Allison's avatar

Keep ringing the bell until the clapper breaks! Maryanne!!

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

I will, thanks Margaret ;-)

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Henry Engelking's avatar

It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

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krishna e bera's avatar

What evidence did AAP cite for its Covid19 gene therapy recommendation for babies? I thought there wasnt any.

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krishna e bera's avatar

That chart showed some contraindications and precautions but no data on efficacy that can be used to weigh risks vs benefits. Ie, there was no evidence of benefits.

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Dr Ah Kahn Syed's avatar

It's time that every penny that ends up in the accounts of NGOs, charities and government officer accounts from any corporation or institution is declared fully.

The network of clandestine payments we are uncovering is shocking including offshore accounts in the Cayman islands, the same technique used to launder money in relation to the NSW Northern Beaches hospital scandal.

It's just the tip of the iceberg and the "declared" payments from pharma seem to be there to distract from the much bigger pot of undeclared payments, like the billions funnelled to Shots Heard in order to threaten people like you and me.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

For sure. People underestimate just how insidious this funding is—how far it stretches, and the lengths drug companies go to dream up new ways of bribing doctors, knowingly or not, just to boost their bottom line.

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Joseph's avatar

It's reassuring to know the boosters really are boosting.

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JB watching TV's avatar

Voracious Voices of Venomous Vax Violate Vows of Virtue for Venal Votes

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

oh, that's a good one!

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

Very good.

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Dr. K's avatar

Marianne, the AAP is by far the worst of the "professional" societies...really an embarrassment to those of us who practice in other specialties. It should be noted that for many practices, fifty percent (50%)(!)(!) of total practice revenue is related to vaccines and vaccination.

So the AAP is not only bought directly by Pharma, but also in its position as a cartel to protect the grift of its members. So its economic choices (nothing having to do with children, parents, or patients) essentially drive everything else. Nothing they are saying is a surprise, but everything they are saying is revolting.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Yes, the AAP is the pits. The media piled on RFK for calling out incentivised medicine. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annoyed me just as much, taking money while relentlessly pushing Covid vaccination for all pregnant women — without a skerrick of clinical trial data. Absolutely contemptible.

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CMaryG's avatar

And with medicine advertising big dollars, the media reports are so tainted. I heard Kennedy aims to stop medicine advertising. Australia & other Western countries could guide him there.

Do big pharma supply teddy bears with Pfizer logo caps to the hapless toddlers of America??

In Australia US BIG PHARMA has to get an ABN to do political donations and be in the board of Medicines Australia but over there the big pharma can integrate seamlessly as they are truely American apart from a little bit in the Cayman Islands.

Ethically failing babies and toddlers..

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Quizitive's avatar

Spot-on.

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The Real Dr. Steven Horvitz's avatar

Wow.

Favorite quote here.

“The deeper problem is that the AAP is not a neutral guardian of child health. It is a lobbying arm entangled with corporate sponsors, issuing pronouncements that align with donor interests while ignoring the families it claims to represent.”

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

It’s pull your hair out frustrating to live in a world where you have sought out the truth about the hidden pathways of pharma funding. Discussions with people or doctors about the criminal behaviour of esteemed institutions fall on deaf ears. Last Thursday my close friend’s husband cautioned me about going down the rabbit hole. In other words I’m not believed. Even the neuro ophthalmologist I see told me that any pharma funding would have to be disclosed. The propaganda has been a raving success. I’ve tried to educate my son about the childhood shots which didn’t go well, it ended up in him tearing a strip off me which took me aback. It’s like we live in a different world altogether, it’s so very frustrating. Unfortunately, most countries follow recommendations coming out of the U.S. and with the thorough smearing of RFK JR, people won’t believe him even if they taken the time to read what’s going on.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

We’re at a stage where simply acknowledging that Kennedy raises a fair point gets you thrown into the dustbin.

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Terry's avatar

When are you going to start your yt channel? It would give you wider coverage.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

*sigh* … I can’t start without some help. It’s just me in the office doing it all right now … *sigh again* ...

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Critical Thinker's avatar

...just making sure none of us own shares in those big pharma companies, right?? You wouldn't want to be a hypocrite and be earning dividends off the back of these 'peoplekind'. Dr David Martin has some great testimony on the National Citizens Inquiry regarding 'the money trail'. Unfortunately can't find an attorney general with any cajones

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Nope, not me!

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Jac's avatar

🙏great articles this month

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Thank you Jan

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John Rees's avatar

Sadly, each time one comments on the articles you kindly write Maryanne, the theme is always the same. It always comes down to following the money, and never supporting the patient.

If I recall correctly, in your recent interview with the Senator, he mentioned the money paediatricians received from BigPharma for providing vaccines for children and babies. So there is one of the answers - the greed of the clinician, is more paramount that the hippocratic oath to which they "honourably" assigned themselves.

The profits made by BigPharma are so obscene, enabling them to pay what are effectively massive bribes to clinicians, that they all seem unable to resist the scale of the money offered.

If clinicians and particularly those associated to the care of children are content to discard their morality to feather their financial pensions instead, then there is little hope of a healthcare redemption, in favour of the patient, until the financial incentives are totally and utterly removed.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Indeed, follow the money, and you’ll find the answer. What a sad state of affairs.

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