Citiraj:
Colleen Boyle was there to represent the Centers for Disease Control. After stumbling through her prepared statement in which she denied any connection between autism and vaccines, Boyle stated the present incidence to be "12 in 10,000." Burton then stopped her cold by asking her one simple question: did she think it was a conflict of interest for the same people who were funded by the vaccine manufacturers to be on the Advisory Board, making decisions about which vaccines should be given to American children. Boyle was dumbfounded; speechless. Burton repeated the question. Still no answer. Boyle's mute portrayal of the career bureaucrat spoke volumes about the whole House of Cards. Burton had asked The Question that was never asked.
Equally inept and ill-prepared was Deborah Hirtz, MD, representing the National Institutes of Health. Losing her place in her written statement, Hirtz actually forgot what she was saying, and it seemed obvious she had not written it herself. Finally, she just barely managed to put across what she was sent there to say - that there could be no connection between vaccines and Autism, but that the NIH was "looking into it."
Looking into it. The NIH has already spent up to $40 million per year of taxpayer money "looking into it." (Hirtz) Their answer, after 5 years: It needs further study. The performance of these representatives from the two government agencies who have almost sovereign power in the area of vaccines was frightening - their indifference, their lack of information, their condescension, and their low level of intelligence. They gave no sign of having understood one word of the critically important breakthrough research that had just been so brilliantly expounded by Drs. Megson, O'Leary, and Wakefield. This is what power looks like - people who have been in their position so long that they know they don't have to justify themselves to anyone lower down on the food chain.