The worst part is that if you listen to their conversation, it seems that it's not retirement which is the thing that bothers him, since he said to Del Bigtree that coming under fire wouldn't scare him because he was close to retirement anyway. Instead it's the nature of the retirement that bothers him and that it wouldn't be comfy enough for him at this point in time.
Edited convo:
Zervos: "I'd like to just, you know, finish out my work doing international work."
Bigtree: "You said 'I'm all about the data and I'm about to retire anyway', that's literally what you said. So your energy's definitely changed on that..."
Zervos dabbing mouth: "Energy's changing."
It's an exchange at 1h09m8s in the docu. What does late career 'international work' mean for a doc like this? Guess he's saying he doesn't want to be cut out of the NGO gravy train? Can't be part of Bill Gates' great schemes to vaxx the third world if you're a famous antivaxxer, after all.
since he said to Del Bigtree that coming under fire wouldn't scare him because he was close to retirement anyway.
He said that before the study right? When he still believed that it would prove his beliefs correct.
If you dare to touch the medical dogmas you're not simply going to get fired. You'll be ostracized entirely. You'll become a pariah. And that is if you manage to withstand the pressure that's going to come down on you trying to force you to retract what you found. I didn't get the impression that it was about the money for him. I do think he's simply scared and his principles aren't strong enough to overcome his weakness. Though I might be wrong.
Even for Paul Offit and Stanley Plotkin it probably is only partially about the money and partially about feeling the need to poison wells in a more sophisticated way. It sure is funny how 'every single time' actually means every single time.
The worst part is that if you listen to their conversation, it seems that it's not retirement which is the thing that bothers him, since he said to Del Bigtree that coming under fire wouldn't scare him because he was close to retirement anyway. Instead it's the nature of the retirement that bothers him and that it wouldn't be comfy enough for him at this point in time.
Edited convo:
It's an exchange at 1h09m8s in the docu. What does late career 'international work' mean for a doc like this? Guess he's saying he doesn't want to be cut out of the NGO gravy train? Can't be part of Bill Gates' great schemes to vaxx the third world if you're a famous antivaxxer, after all.
He said that before the study right? When he still believed that it would prove his beliefs correct.
If you dare to touch the medical dogmas you're not simply going to get fired. You'll be ostracized entirely. You'll become a pariah. And that is if you manage to withstand the pressure that's going to come down on you trying to force you to retract what you found. I didn't get the impression that it was about the money for him. I do think he's simply scared and his principles aren't strong enough to overcome his weakness. Though I might be wrong.
Even for Paul Offit and Stanley Plotkin it probably is only partially about the money and partially about feeling the need to poison wells in a more sophisticated way. It sure is funny how 'every single time' actually means every single time.