Merck, Huff Po, Vaxxed: the censorship connection
by Jon Rappoport
May 13, 2016
http://bit.ly/1Tbh1jO

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ONE: Recently, long-time blogger/columnist for the Huffington Post, Lance Simmens, wrote an article in which he made positive comments about the film, Vaxxed (trailer).

Simmens didn’t state that the MMR vaccine causes autism. He pointed out that Vaxxed is about a CDC whistleblower who admits to giving the MMR a free pass, who admits that he and his colleagues hid data that would have shown a connection between the vaccine and autism.

So Simmens wrote that Vaxxed is an important film, and the issue it raises needs to be investigated.

TWO: Huffington Post censored Simmens’ article. His account with Huff Po was blocked without explanation. He was shut out from posting more articles. Finally, someone named Stuart at Huff Po wrote him an absurd and irrelevant “explanation”:

“Hi Lance, we’re going to have to pass on your latest post because it violates a long-standing policy we have against disseminating conspiracy theories and inaccurate medical information. In the case of your post specifically, it presents as credible a widely known and debunked hoax that vaccines cause autism. Please bear in mind that we reserve the right to remove any content from our site for any reason, and at any time.”

THREE: The Huffington Post is owned by Verizon.

FOUR: On the Board of Verizon sits a man named Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley.

FIVE: Kley was chairman of the executive board and chief executive officer of Merck KGaA until April 2016.

SIX: Merck manufactures the MMR vaccine, the subject of Vaxxed.

Got it?

But wait. There’s more.

In 2004, the CDC whistleblower featured in Vaxxed, Dr. William Thompson, alerted the head of the CDC, Julie Gerberding, that he had troubling and sensitive data in his hands about the MMR vaccine. Of course, Thompson was referring to the vaccine-autism connection.

Gerberding never replied to Thompson, who was about to make his findings public at a major conference. However, Thompson’s presentation was canceled.

Fast forward to 2009. Gerberding leaves the CDC. Later, she becomes the president of the vaccine division at Merck. Merck manufactures the MMR vaccine.

Nice work if she could get it, and she could.