(LifeSiteNews) — Health and nutrition expert and famous YouTuber Dr. Eric Berg has pointed out a major problem with childhood vaccines.
In a recent video on his YouTube channel with over 13.7 million subscribers, Berg criticized that childhood vaccines are not tested like other drugs. Typically, studies use a placebo group, i.e., a group of people who do not receive the drug, to compare the outcomes of those given the drug to those who did not receive it. However, childhood vaccine studies do not use a placebo group.
“Normally, when you study a drug, you compare it with a placebo, so that way you can truly test the side effects of something, but that is not how they test children’s vaccines,” Berg explained.
”What they’ll do is they’ll test an active vaccine with another active vaccine,” he continued. “So this so-called placebo control is not really a true placebo control because it’s not inert.”
“ It’s an active vaccine with something called an adjuvant. This is something they add to vaccines to create more of an immune reaction. And the big one that they’ve been using for a long time is aluminum.”
To illustrate the issue, Berg compared the vaccine studies to a fictional whiskey study: “ If I were to test the safety studies on whiskey, of course I’d want to test that against water, right?”
“ But what if I tested whiskey against bourbon?”
“ I look at the side effects of each. So whiskey will create a fatty liver, inflammation, liver cirrhosis, all sorts of other problems like dementia, etc.”
“ So if I were to tell you, ‘Well, the bourbon had roughly about the same side effects as the whiskey, so it’s not any worse.’ That would be considered safe.”
Accordingly, Berg warned that when you hear childhood vaccines have been “tested for safety” and they are “safe and effective,” it may be misleading, considering the testing process.
The argument that pharmaceutical companies and regulators make to justify not giving a placebo is that it would be harmful to deprive children of something that could save their lives.
“ My question is: how can you really, truly test the safety and effectiveness of something if you are looking at the relative safety of an active vaccine to another active vaccine with adjuvants?”
“That just muddies the water to this whole ‘safe and effective’ claim that you keep hearing over, and over, and over again,” he stated.
Berg criticized the WHO and the CDC for claiming to be the purveyors of “the truth” on health-related issues while they have “potential conflicts of interest” and are influenced by Big Pharma.
“ The CDC actually has patents and certain vaccines; they get royalties,” he noted.
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Berg noted that several drugs that were deemed “safe and effective” later turned out to have very severe side effects.
”I’ll give you a few Vioxx: 60,000 excess deaths. Paxil was considered safe and effective until they found out it really spiked self-harm incidents, and that company who actually had Paxil was sued for $3 billion,” he noted.
Berg said that the raw data of many studies commissioned by Big Pharma is often kept confidential, and only the summaries are published, showing a lack of transparency.
He also said that “87 percent of all Big Pharma-sponsored studies are unpublished.”
“ If a study doesn’t turn out the way they want it, they don’t have to publish it,” he said. “Potentially, they could actually just publish the positive studies, the ones that turn out good for that particular drug.”
“New health guidelines are based on that; how doctors perform medicine is based on that data,” he noted.
Berg did not cite his source for the statement that 87 percent of Big Pharma-sponsored studies remain unpublished, but his statement might be based on a 2015 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which states that only 13.4 percent of drug trials reported results within a year after trial completion, meaning that almost 87 percent of trials did not report results. According to the article, 38.3 percent of the trials reported results within the five-year study period. Regardless of the exact number, it appears that the majority of drug trials that are commissioned never get published.
Berg said that many of the organizations attacking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are “astroturfed” organizations, i.e., groups that appear to be grassroots movements but are really founded by big business or political interest groups.
He named “Citizens for Patient Safety,” “Partnership to Protect Patient Health,” “America’s Action Network,” and “Doctors for America” as examples of these astroturfed organizations.
“They will say that ‘RFK is not a doctor. He’s not fit to be in charge of HHS.’”
“He’s just an attorney that went after corrupt Big Pharma corporations and sued them for billions of dollars.”
“Hello? Uh, isn’t that what we need?” Berg asked.
“So my viewpoint is we don’t really have a science problem. We never did. We have an ethics problem,” he concluded.
Eric Berg has a doctorate in chiropractic studies and has maintained a private practice for over 30 years. Later in life, he started focusing on public health education and became an associate professor at Howard University. He launched his YouTube channel in 2008, where he has published more than 6,000 videos on various health-related topics.
