Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋

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Nonpartisan Investigative Journalist. 5 Emmys, Murrow. RTs may be interesting/silly/wrong. I follow facts, not the crowd. Order "Follow the Science" today.

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2008 was an interesting year for vaccines. That's the year the formerly-sealed case of Hannah Poling leaked to the public. (I later reported on the case for CBS News. I'll link to that in this thread...

SummaryIn 2008, the U.S. government secretly settled a vaccine-autism case with the Poling family for millions while publicly denying any vaccine-autism link, and fired its own expert witness Dr. Andrew Zimmerman when he concluded vaccines could cause autism. Around the same time, Merck discontinued individual vaccine doses in the U.S. after parents began choosing to separate shots rather than use the combined MMR vaccine.Sep 2, 20262 tweets♥ 5.3K

Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋@SharylAttkisson

This was only the beginning. Eleven years later, I'm still litigating at my own expense, the DOJ is still defending the guilty at taxpayer expense. Nothing seems to change. Aug. 7, 2013 (See link in t...

SummaryA person shares their experience of an 11-year legal battle at personal expense against government defendants, while the DOJ continues defending them with taxpayer money. They express frustration that despite years of litigation, systemic issues remain unchanged.Apr 11, 20244 tweets♥ 2.2K