Update: for Part-2, click here)
There is a group of anonymous scientists at
the US Centers for Disease Control—they call themselves the Spider
Group—Scientists Preserving Integrity, Diligence and Ethics in Research. They
have penned a letter to the CDC’s chief of staff, Carmen S. Villar:
Here is the explosive accusation they make:
“We are a group of scientists at CDC that
are very concerned about the current state of ethics at our agency. It appears
that our mission is being influenced and shaped by outside parties and rogue
interests. It seems that our mission and Congressional intent for our agency is
being circumvented by some of our leaders. What concerns us most, is that it is
becoming the norm and not the rare exception.”
“Some senior management officials at CDC
are clearly aware and even condone these behaviors. Others see it and turn the
other way. Some staff are intimidated and pressed to do things they know are
not right.”
“We have representatives from across the
agency that witness this unacceptable behavior. It occurs at all levels and in
all of our respective units. These questionable and unethical practices
threaten to undermine our credibility and reputation as a trusted leader in
public health.”
I have written at length about another
whistleblower at the CDC, William Thompson, a long-time researcher who, in
August of 2014, confessed in writing to
massive fraud (archive here). He admitted that, in a study on the
safety of the MMR vaccine, he and his colleagues literally threw vital sheets
of data into a garbage can. The study then gave a free pass to the vaccine,
claiming it had no connection to autism—when in fact it did. Thompson is the
subject of the film, Vaxxed (trailer).
Now with this letter, we see that other
scientists at the CDC are blowing the lid off internal corruption at their
Agency.
If, in fact, President-elect Trump gives
the green light for an independent investigation of the CDC, as press outlets are now reporting, and
if he appoints Robert Kennedy Jr. to head up that panel, as Kennedy claims, we
are going to see a large number of hidden facts emerge from the secretive halls
of the CDC.
Because this Spider Group is anonymous, I
wanted to make sure their letter is real. I contacted reporter Carey
Gillam (twitter), who has been covering the story. I
received this reply: “I was able to authenticate the letter by contacting CDC’s
public affairs office and asking them directly about it after I received it
from internal CDC sources.”
You can read the full Spider Group’s letter
here at US Right
To Know. (More on the letter by Carey Gillam here.)
And now I write a letter to them, so they
can deepen their investigation.
Dear Spider Group:
I commend you on making an important start.
You’re on the right road. As a reporter who has covered the CDC for many years,
I offer you three suggestions. This short list is by no means exhaustive. I’m
just pointing to a few areas where your own research will yield very rich and
fertile results.
ONE: SWINE FLU FRAUD.
Let me take you back to the late summer of
2009, and the Swine Flu epidemic, which was hyped to the sky by the CDC. The
Agency was calling for all Americans to take the Swine Flu vaccine. Remember?
The problem was, the CDC was concealing a
scandal.
At the time, star CBS investigative
reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, was working on a Swine Flu story. She discovered
that the CDC had secretly stopped counting cases of the illness—while, of
course, continuing to warn Americans about its unchecked spread.
The CDC’s main job is counting cases and
reporting the numbers.
What was the Agency up to?
Here is an excerpt from my 2014 interview
with Sharyl Attkisson:
Rappoport: In 2009, you spearheaded
coverage of the so-called Swine Flu pandemic. You discovered that, in the
summer of 2009, the Centers for Disease Control, ignoring their federal
mandate, [secretly] stopped counting Swine Flu cases in America. Yet they
continued to stir up fear about the “pandemic,” without having any real measure
of its impact. Wasn’t that another investigation of yours that was shut down?
Wasn’t there more to find out?
Attkisson: The implications of the story
were even worse than that. We discovered through our FOI efforts that before
the CDC mysteriously stopped counting Swine Flu cases, they had learned that
almost none of the cases they had counted as Swine Flu was, in fact, Swine Flu
or any sort of flu at all! The interest in the story from one [CBS] executive
was very enthusiastic. He said it was “the most original story” he’d seen on
the whole Swine Flu epidemic. But others pushed to stop it and, in the end, no
broadcast wanted to touch it. We aired numerous stories pumping up the idea of
an epidemic, but not the one that would shed original, new light on all the
hype. It was fair, accurate, legally approved and a heck of a story. With the
CDC keeping the true Swine Flu stats secret, it meant that many in the public
took and gave their children an experimental vaccine that may not have been
necessary.
—end of interview excerpt—
It was routine for doctors all over America
to send blood samples from patients they’d diagnosed with Swine Flu, or the
“most likely” Swine Flu patients, to labs for testing. And overwhelmingly,
those samples were coming back with the result: not Swine Flu, not any kind of
flu.
That was the big secret. That’s what the
CDC was hiding. That’s why they stopped reporting Swine Flu case numbers.
That’s what Attkisson had discovered. That’s why she was shut down.
But it gets even worse.
Because about three weeks after Attkisson’s
findings were published on the CBS News website, the CDC, obviously in a panic,
decided to double down. If one lie is exposed, tell an even bigger one. A much
bigger one.
Here, from a November 12, 2009, WebMD
article is the CDC’s response: “Shockingly, 14 million to 34 million U.S.
residents — the CDC’s best guess is 22 million — came down with H1N1 swine flu
by Oct. 17 [2009].” (“22 million cases of Swine Flu in US,” by Daniel J.
DeNoon).
Are your eyeballs popping? They should be.
In the summer of 2009, the CDC secretly
stops counting Swine Flu cases in America, because the overwhelming percentage
of lab tests from likely Swine Flu patients shows no sign of Swine Flu or any
other kind of flu.
There is no Swine Flu epidemic.
Then, the CDC estimates there are 22
MILLION cases of Swine Flu in the US.
TWO: THE CDC BUYS MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF
VACCINES AND, AT THE SAME TIME, HEADS UP RESEARCH ON THE SAFETY OF VACCINES.
EXPLOSIVE STRUCTURAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
If you wanted to buy a product, and the
main source of research on the product was the company selling it, would you
automatically assume the product was safe and effective?
But you see, that’s the just the beginning
of the problem. Suppose the company’s research was cited thousands of times in
the press, as the authoritative standard of proof—and anyone who disputed that
research was labeled a conspiracy theorist and a quack and a danger to the
community and an anti-science lunatic.
Would you begin to suspect the company had
some awesome media connections? Would you suspect some very powerful people
were backing the company?
This is exactly the situation that exists
at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Read these two quotes:
“The government’s Vaccine for Children
Program (a CDC organization) purchases vaccines for about 50 percent of
children in the U.S.” (The Atlantic, February 10, 2015)
“The CDC currently spends over $4 billion
purchasing vaccines [annually] from drug makers…” (Health Impact News, October
24, 2016)
However, the CDC is also the gold standard
for research on the safety and efficacy of vaccines. It turns out an unending
stream of studies on these subjects. And the results of those studies are
dutifully reported in the mainstream press.
Do you think, under any circumstances, the
CDC would publish data showing vaccines are ineffective and dangerous? They’d
be cutting their own throats.
“Well, we spend $4 billion a year buying
vaccines from drug companies, but guess what? These vaccines are often
dangerous…”
Every time you read about a CDC study on
vaccines, keep this obvious (and clearly illegal) conflict of interest in mind.
THREE: MASSIVE OVERESTIMATE OF FLU DEATHS
IN THE US, IN ORDER TO PUSH THE FLU VACCINE.
In December of 2005, the British Medical
Journal (online) published a shocking report by Peter Doshi, which created
tremors through the halls of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), where “the
experts” used to tell the press that 36,000 people in the US die every year
from the flu.
Here is a quote from Doshi’s report, “Are
US flu death figures more PR than science?” (BMJ 2005; 331:1412):
“[According to CDC statistics], ‘influenza
and pneumonia’ took 62,034 lives in 2001—61,777 of which were attributable to
pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was the flu virus positively
identified.”
Boom.
You see, the CDC has created one overall
category that combines both flu and pneumonia deaths. Why do they do this?
Because they disingenuously assume that the pneumonia deaths are complications
stemming from the flu.
This is an absurd assumption. Pneumonia has
a number of causes.
But even worse, in all the flu and
pneumonia deaths, only 18 revealed the presence of an influenza virus.
Therefore, the CDC could not say, with
assurance, that more than 18 people died of influenza in 2001. Not 36,000
deaths. 18 deaths.
Doshi continued his assessment of published
CDC flu-death statistics: “Between 1979 and 2001, [CDC] data show an average of
1348 [flu] deaths per year (range 257 to 3006).” These figures refer to flu
separated out from pneumonia.
This death toll is obviously far lower than
the parroted 36,000 figure.
However, when you add the sensible
condition that lab tests have to actually find the flu virus in patients, the
numbers of flu deaths plummet even further.
In other words, it’s all promotion and
hype.
“Well, uh, we say that 36,000 people die
from the flu every year in the US. But actually, it’s closer to 20. However, we
can’t admit that, because if we did, we’d be exposing our gigantic psyop. The
whole campaign to scare people into getting a flu shot would have about the
same effect as warning people to carry iron umbrellas, in case toasters fall
out of upper-story windows…and, by the way, we’d be put in prison for fraud.”
The CDC must turn out a steady stream of
outrageous lies about the need for vaccines. If they didn’t, they’d have no way
to justify the billions of dollars they spend every year buying the vaccines
from drug companies.
So, Spider Group, don’t stop now. Deepen
your probe. Become true heroes for honest research, expose the deep roots of
corruption in your Agency, and do the right thing for the American people
you’re sworn to serve.