Andrew Wakefield MB.BS., is an academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London in 1981. He qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and trained as a gastrointestinal surgeon with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Traveling Fellowship to study small-intestinal transplantation in Toronto. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in the U.K. in 2001. Wakefield has published over 140 original scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.
In 1995, as an academic physician working in a London teaching hospital, he was contacted by the parent of an autistic child with stomach issues. He soon learned from several other parents with autistic behaviors, that their children’s regressive behavior immediately followed an MMR vaccine. He started investigating a possible role between gastrointestinal issues, the MMR vaccine, and neurological injury in children. In pursuit of this possible link, Dr. Wakefield participated in a study of twelve children with both stomach and developmental issues. The ensuing report, written with twelve other authors would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of Medicine.
Wakefield has defended the paper, his medical and personal ethics and his findings in his national bestselling book, “Callous Disregard,” as well as in several video interviews.
More recently, on appeal, the English High Court overturned the allegations made against the senior authors of the Lancet paper and Wakefield’s colleague Professor John Walker-Smith was reinstated and exonerated.
Wakefield is the only one of the 13 co-authors barred from practicing medicine. He lost his country, his career, and his medical license. He considers these losses a small price to pay for the privilege of working with affected families.
Since moving to Austin, Texas, he co-founded the Autism Media Channel with Polly Tommey with the goal of countering the pharmaceutical marketing and advertising juggernaut and the biased corporate-owned media with their own media. Together they produced the award-winning documentary, “Who Killed Alex Spourdalkis?,” which was Wakefield’s directorial debut.
Wakefield continues to fight back on behalf of affected children, winning numerous awards and has released a second non-fiction book, Waging War on The Autistic Child. This is due to come out in paperback form Skyhorse Publishing with a brand new chapter on the CDC whistleblower story. Wakefield has interviewed with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes, Matt Lauer at NBC, and on CNN, ABC’s Good Morning America, the BBC, and multiple other networks and radio stations worldwide. He has also published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications and spoken internationally on autism and vaccines. His story and his exoneration have been featured in Dr. David Lewis’ book Science for Sale and are the subjects of a feature documentary to be released by Miranda Bailey’s Ambush Entertainment
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Aimee Gardner, Director of Rhode Island against mandatory HPV vaccinations.
We talk about why this issue is important to her, what it has meant to the people of Rhode Island regarding having their exemptions potentially removed in regards to the HPV vaccine, the risks associated with the vaccine, and the best way to prevent cervical cancer.
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Brian S. Hooker, PhD, PE, was formerly a bioengineer and the team leader for the High Throughput Biology Team and Operations Manager of the DOE Genomics: Genomes to Life (GTL) Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Hooker also is credited as a co-inventor for five patents.
In 1985, Dr. Hooker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. He earned his masters of science degree in 1988 and his doctorate in 1990, both in biochemical engineering, from Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. Hooker formerly managed applied plant and fungal molecular biology research projects, including development of plant-based biosensors and transgenic production systems for human pharmaceutical proteins and industrial enzymes at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where systems biology researchers are focused on understanding gene and protein networks involved in individual cell signaling, communication between cells in communities, and cellular metabolic pathways. Hooker has also been involved in research on microbial kinetics and transport mathematical modeling, design, development, and support for biological destruction of chlorinated organic hydrocarbons, development of tP4 transgenic plant protein production platform technology, and development of the RT3D bioremediation/natural attenuation software package.
He left PNNL in 2009, and was hired as an associate professor at Simpson University in Redding, CA where he specializes in biology and chemistry. Simpson University is a private Christian University of liberal arts and professional studies offering undergraduate, graduate and teaching credential programs.
Hooker is well known for his concerns regarding vaccine safety and the conflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His son, Steve, is vaccine-injured. Hooker is a board member at Focus Autism, an organization which believes in the “ongoing cover-up of the vaccine/autism link.”
In 2013, biologist Dr. Brian Hooker received a call from a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who led the agency’s 2004 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and its link to autism.
The scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that the CDC had omitted crucial data in their final report that revealed a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. Over several months, Dr. Hooker records the phone calls made to him by Dr. Thompson who provides the confidential data destroyed by his colleagues at the CDC. This information is featured in the film, VaxXed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe.
Gwen Olsen is the author of the award-winning book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher. She is also a contributing author to three books, Drugging Our Children by Dr. Sharna Olfman et al, Doctor of the Futureby Dan Yachter, D.C., and the Maximized Living Makeover Manualby Dr. Ben Lerner et al. Gwen has also published health-related articles in the Well Being Journal, Natural News, and the Health News Digest.
Gwen is a passionate health activist, writer, and dynamic speaker who devotes much of her time to mental health and child advocacy. Most recently, she is the founder of the Mental Health Alchemists, and provides one-on-one health coaching services and retreats for people who want to reclaim their mental and physical health without drugs.
Gwen volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for the Travis County court system from 1995 to 2000, serving as an advocate for abused and neglected foster children in Texas. A 2007 Human Rights Award recipient, she is sought after internationally as a speaker and media resource, and has testified numerous times before Congress and the FDA.
A fifteen-year-veteran pharmaceutical rep from 1985 – 2000, Gwen worked for McNeil Pharmaceutical, Syntex Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Labs and Forest Laboratories. She was a hospital rep and specialist rep for the majority of her career, educating residents in hospital teaching settings and selling prescription drugs to doctors in obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology and psychiatry.
Gwen has a unique industry insider’s perspective of the current U.S. healthcare dilemma, and utilizes both her experience and the insight she received in her extensive sales training with Pharma to illuminate marketing trends and illustrate how current greed and conflicts of interest make the system itself the biggest health risk to American consumers.
For over a decade, Gwen has made hundreds of appearances and presentations and has been interviewed and featured on national and international television, radio, on-line and print media, documentary films, etc. She is currently featured in the award-winning documentary,Prescription Thugs.
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Dr. Guy F. Riekeman is a second generation chiropractor who has dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the cause of vitalistic health and wellness. After graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1972, Dr. Riekeman became a successful chiropractor and businessman, creating companies and seminar programs dedicated to educating the public about chiropractic care and how to facilitate personal growth, living with integrity, and achieving optimum performance. He has worked in higher education as a philosophy instructor, Vice President of Sherman College of Chiropractic, and as Chancellor of Palmer College of Chiropractic, before becoming the fourth president of Life University in Marietta, Georgia in 2004.
As a thought leader in healthcare, Dr. Riekeman campaigns tirelessly to put vitalistic healthcare at the forefront of the public consciousness. In these times of change, chiropractic is at the proverbial tipping point, as people move toward taking personal responsibility for their health and wellness choices, and seeking for alternatives to the medical model that has driven this country to become sicker and more dependent on prescription drugs.
In addition to defending and upholding the virtues of Chiropractic, Riekeman is also dedicated to expanding Chiropractic across the globe. He created the LIFEforce 1000 program, a group of dedicated chiropractors whose mission is to spread principled and vitalistic healthcare and to establish access to chiropractic care and chiropractic education for anyone in the world who wants it. He is also spearheading the first chiropractic programs in China and Italy, which will open the chiropractic door to potentially two billion people.
Since becoming president of Life University, the school has become the largest chiropractic college in the world. Under his leadership, LIFE has made significant strides in area of climate awareness and green initiatives. As a founding member of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment Circle, Life University built the first-ever, college residence to receive a gold level certification from LEED, created perhaps the most sustainable college dining hall, the Socrates Café, and replaced a series of parking lots with Lyceum Park, a vast green space in the middle of campus for lectures, concerts and philosophical programs.
Through all these efforts, Dr. Riekeman has emerged as one of the most sought-after speakers for both professional and lay audiences in the United States, as well as internationally in places such as Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Riekeman encourages every person to “Make Your Life Extraordinary” by maximizing the expression of the perfection within each and every one of us. With integrity, personal responsibility and a focus on the positive aspects of every individual and situation, Riekeman believes an extraordinary life is attainable by every person on the planet.
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Ricky Barnes has been working in film and TV for over 30 years. During much of that career, he has worked as a Director of Photography. As a Writer/Director his previous feature film, The Enquirers, was the Northwest Spotlight Feature at the Seattle International Film Festival.
He decided to product the film, 50 Cents A Dose, which is about one father revisits the medical study in which his oldest daughter participated: the study on Thimerosal (a mercury based medical product). What begins as a lighthearted rumination on parenthood, ends as a discovery of scandal, and perhaps - a nation in denial.
Ricky and I talk about the CDC whistleblower, #Vaxxed, what led him to create this film.
You can contact him at info@50centsmovie.com.
You can watch his film at:
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Dr. Marissa Heisel considered becoming a naturopath or midwifebefore ultimately deciding to become a chiropractor. After thebirth of her son, she became a doula and started training to becomea midwife. She discovered after the birth of her daughter thatmidwifery would not be a great option.
She recommitted to her Chiropractic practice and soon discoveredessential oils. She has been using them successfully in herpractice and with her family.