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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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0:00.0 | Did you know a single 1983 law lets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention receive unconditional gifts from corporations, |
0:09.0 | paving the way for almost a billion dollars in private money to flow quietly into the agency's foundation? |
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0:26.5 | at Mercola.com for the latest health insights. Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular |
0:32.1 | wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster and today we're examining how that funding pipeline reshapes what you hear about vaccines |
0:38.8 | and public health. Beside me is Alara Sky, ready to unpack the evidence behind the CDC's |
0:44.9 | credibility gap. Congress never meant the CDC Foundation to become a professional money laundering hub. |
0:50.5 | Yet internal whistleblowers now say corporate donors steer research priorities, public messaging, |
0:57.1 | and even the recommendations that shape your family's vaccine schedule. |
1:01.2 | Coca-Cola loan funneled more than a million dollars into the foundation and then received CDC |
1:06.3 | help to fight World Health Organization sugar reduction efforts. A pesticide trade group paid $60,000 for a study portraying its products as safe. |
1:16.6 | Money well spent from its perspective. |
1:18.6 | Those patterns align with a 2016 anonymous letter from CDC scientists |
1:24.6 | who warned of a climate of disregard, where data were massaged to impress Congress. |
1:30.7 | They described screening figures for a women's health program being quietly cooked, so funding |
1:35.6 | would keep flowing. A similar script shows up in vaccine policy. Advisory Committee on Immunization |
1:42.0 | Practices members were long- long allowed financial ties to manufacturers. |
1:46.8 | Until recently, most members had conflicts, and, not surprisingly, the panel almost never rejected a vaccine presented by industry. |
1:55.8 | When corporate influence fails to close the deal, emotional testimony sometimes seals it. |
2:03.2 | Parents describing tragic infections convinced ACIP to add infant flu shots, despite flu deaths in that age group averaging around 100 a year |
2:10.5 | and significant reported vaccine complications. Meanwhile, evidence of vaccine-linked harm rarely sees daylight inside these meetings. |
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