“When science serves state power, and the state serves the corporate world, each becomes corrupt and corrupting, and society moves one step closer to a repetition of medicine’s darkest time.” - Professor Paddy Rawlinson
In the 2018 Spring/Summer edition of The Vaccine Choice Journal, VCC co-founder and journal editor Edda West featured an article entitled, “Immunity and Impunity: Corruption in the State-Pharma Nexus” by Professor Paddy Rawlinson, PhD.
Both Professor Rawlinson’s article and Edda’s editorial highlight important history to the subject Edda references as “Medical Tyranny”. Links have been provided to the original 2018 Spring/Summer edition of The Vaccine Choice Journal to allow the reading of both the article and the editorial.
What becomes clear in reviewing the 2018 edition is that the tyranny we experienced during COVID is not new, but rather an extension of tyrannical policies of our governments and public health agencies.
Read Edda West’s editorial (page 5) and Professor Rawlinson’s article (page 1).
“We the people pay an enormous price for policies driven by corporate interests.” - Edda West
Professor Rawlinson’s feature article reprinted in this issue of the Vaccine Choice Journal provides sobering insight into the unholy alliance between the pharmaceutical industry and government. The shift toward mandatory vaccination policies, the repression of criticism of these policies, the quashing of all debate on vaccine safety, and the trampling of the basic human right to decide what goes into our bodies is made possible by ‘neoliberal’ modes of government that serve to silence critics, thereby “protecting the activities of the state and pharmaceutical industry from independent scrutiny.”(1)
as mechanisms of control, “stymieing open debate and independent inquiry around the safety and efficacy of vaccines.”(1) Policies are created to “preserving and enhancing mechanisms of the market”. (1) In other words, government policies are made based on what’s good for industry, rather than what’s good for the people.
The vaccine Industry conducts the studies needed to license their products with little to no oversight by government regulators. The industry is embraced by the government as a private sector partner or “stakeholder” wielding enormous influence and power in steering public health policies, sponsoring pro-vaccine ‘think tanks’, immunization conferences, and legislation that restricts exemption rights while increasing vaccine uptake.
pay an enormous price for policies driven by corporate interests. The greater the corporate influence, the higher the risk of authoritarian political systems that stifle dissent and marginalize questioning voices, which is where we find ourselves today. Censorship of the vaccine debate has intensified to the point where a strict media blackout prevents all critical news on vaccine risks and the plight of the vaccine injured from reaching the public. Complicit are thought police giants, Google and Facebook, whose newly developed algorithms block ease of access to forbidden dissenting research on vaccines. Read Edda West’s full editorial (page 5) in the 2018 Spring/Summer edition of the Vaccine Choice Journal. (Please note that links within this archival pdf are not accessible.)