Nonprofit organizations’ tax forms are public records. One can find them on many sites, and most nonprofits even host them on their own website. I was looking over the 2012 tax form for the National Vaccine Information Center recently and found something very interesting. The NVIC is one of the organizations that continues to push the failed idea that vaccines cause autism. This idea has caused a great deal of harm in the autism communities, but we get to be their hammer against vaccines.
The NVIC has a “vaccine ingredient calculator” or VIC (The NVIC Vaccine Ingredient Calculator: A disingenuous deceptive instrument of vaccine fear mongering).
Lately I’ve seen a lot of social media chatter where vaccine antagonistic people and groups are claiming that any opposition they see is being coordinated by “twitter bots”. Programs designed to create tweets.
So, imagine my response when I saw this on the NVIC 2012 tax form (click to enlarge):
Yes, the NVIC created a “Tweet Machine” which produced 8,760 tweets in one year. That’s one an hour over a 365 day year.
I am assuming that is this Twitter account.
See how they are still pounding the old, failed “autism is mercury poisoning” idea? That idea led to many kids being subjected to unnecessary chelation and other alternative treatments that range from useless to harmful.
Also, they want a stop to robocalls. Because that’s on topic for a vaccine discussion. And not at all ironic given the NVIC’s “Tweet Machine”
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By Matt Carey
Left Brain Right Brain 
Oh, that’s a special kind of splendid.
Fantastic discovery Matt.
Bex x
There is a special, pointy, Amazon Arrow Frog-poisoned place in hell for Barbara Lowe Fisher (or whatever her real name is; it varies in her IRS 990 filings). What a human Peroquat.
Full disclosure: not a bot; so don’t even play that.