Lace at Finding the Truth has an interesting breakdown of the Vitamin k shot given at birth. Apparently there is a potential link to Leukemia.
Apparently one of the ingredients in the shot is Sodium hydroxide or "Lye". Drain cleaner in baby shots. Nice.
She notes that there is some safer alternatives, oral Vitamin K9 given at a much lower dose over 5 weeks. Also a nursing mom's Vitamin K supplementation of vitamin K will pass through the breast milk to the baby. And apparently formula has plenty.
April 9, 2008
The Green Our Vaccines Rally and March with Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey
UPDATE: Photos of the rally can be seen Here:
Green Our Vaccines
Join our family on June 4th, 2008 in Washington DC!
Get all the details on the TACA web site.
Green Our Vaccines
Join our family on June 4th, 2008 in Washington DC!
Get all the details on the TACA web site.
Autism Parents Need A Seat At The Vaccine Table
This week I have been complaining that the actual 'vaccine debate' only began on the Larry King show last week. This is just another example of the closed debate that health authorities have where they ignore the points that parent want to make and keep from having to answer the questions parents are asking.
Call the NVAC and tell them it is time to deal with the problems and it is time to give us a seat at the table so that the real debate can continue where it counts.
From Safeminds:
UPDATE:
From Kelli Ann Davis:
My Letter:
Dr. Gellin, Dr. Birkhead and Mr. Salmon,
I am an autism blogger and autism mom who has been harshly critical of HHS and CDC for their actions and inactions in the vaccine/autism story.
It is my understanding that you are considering adding Mark Blaxill as an addition to the Vaccine Safety Working Group.
I cannot encourage you strongly enough to take this action.
Mr. Blaxill is a bright and distinguished member of our community. His addition to the process of vaccine safety would go a long way toward rebuilding the trust that parents like me have lost in HHS.
I would love to be able to tell my readers that HHS is beginning to take vaccine safety seriously by seating someone at the table who will ask the hard questions that are needed to ensure the health and safety of American children.
Sincerely,
Ginger Taylor, M.S.
AdventuresInAutism.com
Call the NVAC and tell them it is time to deal with the problems and it is time to give us a seat at the table so that the real debate can continue where it counts.
From Safeminds:
Consumer Representation Squashed at Upcoming National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) Safety Group Meeting
The National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC), Vaccine Safety Working Group (VSWG) will meet for the first time on April 11, 2008 in Washington DC. The autism community's vaccine safety concerns are not represented within this panel.
The charter for NVAC calls for participation by representatives from "parent organizations concerned with immunization." In light of the recent VICP award to the Poling family, and other similar cases being discovered, as well as the continued growing concern regarding the autism vaccine link, SafeMinds has requested of NVAC, without response, an expansion of the current consumer representation of this group to include one of SafeMinds Directors (Dr. Vicky Debold, or Mr. Mark Blaxill) to more accurately balance and diversify views essential to the task of this workgroup.
Currently, adequate consumer representation with regard to vaccines and their safety is trumped by the over-representation by those with a financial stake in increased vaccination (industry and providers) and with a bias in favor of traditional population-based immunization policy.
SafeMinds continues to advocate for the following in order to protect our children from harm.
* A comprehensive study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations, or alternatively vaccinated populations is needed to accurately determine harm from mercury in vaccines and other toxicants. The Amish are one such group and there are others.
* · Vaccine studies must be conducted by individuals free from conflicts of interest with the vaccine industry and public health officials whose livelihood depends on vaccine promotion.
* The vaccine schedule must be tested for safety in terms of multiple vaccines being given during one visit and the overall number of vaccines in use for long-term adverse effects - it has never been done and should be integral to vaccine safety monitoring.
* Greater consumer representation within the work group and specific consumer representation of the autism vaccine concerns by SafeMinds Directors Dr. Vicky Debold and Mr. Mark Blaxill.
TAKE ACTION NOW - REQUEST THAT THE AUTISM-VACCINE CONCERNS HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE!
Concerns can be sent to the following NVAC representatives. All requests should be copied to Dan Salmon to be a part of the official record for the April meeting and must be submitted by 4pm EST on April 9th.
CONTACT
Guthrie S. Birkhead, MD MPH
Chairman, NVAC
sxc17@health.state.ny.us; fax 518 486-1455
Bruce G. Gellin, MD, MPH
Executive Secretary, NVAC
bruce.gellin@hhs.gov; fax 202-690-7560
Daniel Salmon,
Vaccine Safety Specialist
daniel.salmon@hhs.gov
UPDATE:
From Kelli Ann Davis:
Posted by: "Kelli Ann Davis" kellianndavis@hotmail.com
Wed Apr 9, 2008 10:45 am (PDT)
Just got out of a meeting this morning with Dan Salmon, Bruce Gellin and Dr. Raub (Secretary Leavitt's Science Advisor) on this issue.
As a result of on-going communications over the past 5 weeks, the Panel now consists of a section entitled "Interacting with the Public" and includes Barbara Loe Fisher, Peter Bell, Lisa Randall (Voices for Vaccines) and Catherine Morris (Keystone -- Business focused on Public Engagement strategies)
There is also an hour segment after this panel's presentations for public comment.
During my meeting today, I made know my specific desire to have Mark Blaxill be a part of the Vaccine Safety Working Group.
Dr. Gellin assured me that the composition of the committee is not "set in stone" and that they are looking for feedback during this meeting to get an overall view of the requests that come in regards to specific suggests for the addition of public members to the Working Group.
I would strongly suggest that people call and ask for Mark's addition to the Working Group.
I will be first up during public comment time and I plan on reiterating my request for Mark once again.
Bottom Line: They know this is important in the wake of the Hannah Poling case and are open to our suggestions.
Kelli
My Letter:
Dr. Gellin, Dr. Birkhead and Mr. Salmon,
I am an autism blogger and autism mom who has been harshly critical of HHS and CDC for their actions and inactions in the vaccine/autism story.
It is my understanding that you are considering adding Mark Blaxill as an addition to the Vaccine Safety Working Group.
I cannot encourage you strongly enough to take this action.
Mr. Blaxill is a bright and distinguished member of our community. His addition to the process of vaccine safety would go a long way toward rebuilding the trust that parents like me have lost in HHS.
I would love to be able to tell my readers that HHS is beginning to take vaccine safety seriously by seating someone at the table who will ask the hard questions that are needed to ensure the health and safety of American children.
Sincerely,
Ginger Taylor, M.S.
AdventuresInAutism.com
April 7, 2008
The American Academy of Pediatrics Shows Up in Autism Treatment
The Defeat Autism Now! Conference was last weekend and the big news was not that Jenny McCarthy showed up, but that the American Academy of Pediatrics showed up.
After years of inaction and obfuscation, this was action number two taken by the AAP in just one week.
AAP not only showed up, from what I can put together, they really listened. They saw that the doctors presenting were their doctors and that the families in the audience were their patients. They got that the research and the interventions had a solid base and that medical approach to treating what is currently diagnosed as ‘autism’ has already begun with out them. They got that it is time for them to begin investing in what we have started.
I hear that they understand the multisystem failure that is going on in our kids and the multi system approach that is needed to address it.
I think they got a taste of how wrong it has been that parents complaints to, and questions of, doctors have been treated with such hostility, and that doctors who spoke up for our children were ostracized.
… and I got the feeling that they might even have been a little impressed with the way that our community has taken back an entire arena of medicine from drug companies and insurance companies and hospital systems and all other things big medicine.
The first step in building bridges, real relationships, is to show up and listen. They have done that.
But now comes the hard part for the AAP… what to do with that information. They know it is real, they know that we are on the level, and they know that the treatments are working. Can they take that and do what really needs to be done, no matter where the trail leads?
Are they ready to announce that vaccines are the big trigger? I don’t think so. I would be surprised if they were ready to do that yet. Vaccination changed their profession dramatically, and for the better, and to come to terms with the fact that it has crossed the line and gone too far… to admit out loud that they have caused so much damage… that will be very difficult. Not just for the AAP body as a whole, but for each individual pediatrician.
Are they ready to start participating in real research with us? I think they very well might be on treatment options, but good vaccine research, a real vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study? That is the million dollar question.
In this Age of Autism (to borrow from Dan Olmsted), where parents like me have been burned and burned hard, action talks and bullshit walks. We watch every move that docs make and judge carefully who is really looking out for the best interests of our vulnerable children, and who is looking out for their own interests.
I have, in no way, hidden my contempt for the actions of the AAP over the last decade for what they have and have not done in the autism epidemic, and for the potential disaster that will take place if in fact David Tayloe does take charge of this body.
But the current leadership of the AAP has gotten my attention with their actions in the last week. I think that they are in a rare moment in time where a state of flux is occurring, and there is a possibility of them turning a corner and making a real attempt to redeem themselves.
Voices that are usually squelched are being heard.
I think this is a fragile window. Failing to continue to move forward with real action, and assuming that reverting to bullshit public statements will placate autism moms and dads, would start closing that window quickly. The reign of David Tayloe would kill it stone dead.
I have a few words of advice for the AAP if they are concerned with stopping the slide of public trust and keeping the vaccine program from crumbling:
1. Say goodbye to your ego.
If you got into this business to be treated like the big guy and want to stay the big guy, then you will only get in the way of bringing our children back. If you can get past yourself, you will start to see beautiful stories of healing in families that have been devastated. You have the chance to become a part of something amazing that is happening in families who were told that their child was no longer functional and should be put away. Choose to see life return even at the expense of your pride (and your Mercedes and your vacations).
2. Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. No matter what happens, no matter the fall out, no matter the shame. You have one chance here to clean out the cancer that is the lies that have been told to American parents by the CDC about vaccine safety. If you take this time to CYA, then you won’t get another chance.
3. Find a nice, dignified excuse to set David Tayloe aside as the next AAP president and choose someone of integrity and character like Jay Gordon who will treat vaccine injury with seriousness and the intricacies human body with humility. I personally won’t listen to any doctor who listens to David Tayloe.
4. Actually participate in real vaccine debate. When what passes for a debate only includes those whose livelihood depends on vaccination continuing, it is not a real debate.
What has been referred to as the ‘vaccine debate’ for the last four years since the IOM decision has looked like this: A panel of doctors from the CDC, AAP, IOM, NIH, HHS having mutual admiration society catered by GSK while congratulating themselves on eradicating polio and rubella, inside a building owned by a hospital that is owned by an insurance company that is owned by Merck, while parents and the doctors who listen to them and heal their children are locked outside banging on the door trying to get in.
None of the parents’ points, complaints or questions are addressed, and if one does manage to get in, she is told to sit down or is escorted from the building.
Literally.
Registered nurse, Lyn Redwood, one of the first mercury moms, a very smart, dignified and soft spoken woman who had testified before congress, when attending a CDC public meeting, asked why the committee would not state a preference for pregnant women to get thimerosal free vaccines. She was told to sit down.
When CDC held a press conference on vaccines in 2005, we went to the HHS building in DC, but weren’t allowed in the room to ask questions. Parents were escorted to a ‘holding area’ with a TV so we could watch it remotely. Lyn was there with us.
Later, we tried to talk directly to pediatricians. Generation Rescue, a brand new organization at the time, rented a booth at the 2005 AAP convention in DC, and Lyn and her husband, physician Tommy Redwood, were among the parents there to share with your doctors.
Our message was printed on a large banner that stretched across the back of the room, “Autism is Preventable and Treatable”. When we arrived, The Redwoods, along with other parents who had been raising valid and responsible questions about the vaccine program, were prevented by security from entering the building to work at the booth.
The most heart breaking thing about that fear based, controlling decision, was that Lyn’s recovered son was also turned away from the building. His name was actually printed on the list given to us as to who would not be allowed to man the booth. Pediatricians from around the world had a chance to meet and interact with a recovered child face to face three years ago. The pictures I brought of Chandler were paltry replacement for a real live talking boy, but you locked him out.
If you want to build faith with us, then a good sign that you are ready to take responsibility for your actions would be to apologize to the "DC 7" Scott Bono, Laura Bono, Lyn Redwood, Tommy Redwood MD, Will Redwood (now 14 years old), Wendy Fournier and John Gilmore.
And then continue the REAL vaccine/autism debate that begun on Larry King last week. Get a hall in DC, a really big one, and let’s face each other and slog through all the research and records and deal with this. You are gonna get yelled at, just like Jenny yelled at Karp, you are gonna see a lot of tears, you are going to have to eat a lot of crow and it will all be on the record. But that is what it is going to take to put humpty dumpty back together.
5. Apologize for harming our children, not treating the injury and not listening to parents when they tried to tell you about vaccine regression and recovery.
We know that you were lied to. We know that you have to depend on the CDC to give you guidance. We know that they have orchestrated this nightmare charade.
But you did not meet your ethical obligations to proof them. Your leadership continues to hold out crap studies like Verstaeten, Denmark and Fombonne to disprove the vaccine autism link. You need to remove your stamp of approval from them, admit that they don’t prove what people have claimed that they prove, and join us in asking that they be retracted. If you do that there is still a chance to salvage something.
You have serious culpability here, but we know that you are not the source of the big lie.
6. Clean up this mess. Take action now. If you try to play the ‘death by committee’ game like the IOM did, parents will start tuning you out at the first mention of the words ‘task force’.
You have to start with this: Autism treatment is not a top down operation like other approaches to defeating an illness you are used to. If you could have understood it the way we have illnesses like rubella, you would have by now. If it could be tackled the way HIV was, then the Autism Speaks modus operandi would have yielded results, but it hasn’t.
Autism, or ‘Autisms’ as successful practitioners have come to define it, is not one thing, and is extremely complicated. So you can’t start with the ‘disease’ and then apply lessons to the child. You have to start with the individual child to get to the ‘disease’
It is a varied syndrome and our kids pick a la cart from a long list of physical problems.
Get a copy of Bryan Jepson’s book, Changing the Course of Autism in the hands of every one of your members.
Tell them to call their patients who are diagnosed with autism into the office for a long sit down to find out what parents have been trying with them, what is working and what is not. Have them listen to the child’s whole story, a COMPLETE history of all that has happened since before conception. They will learn huge amounts of information doing this.
Walk into the DAN! docs offices and start putting eyeballs on our kids. Physically examine them and start testing.
Get DAN! docs to hold training sessions all over the country for AAP members.
Invite local parents to speak to your pediatricians and tell them what they know. We are not doctors but we are experts on our children.
(You wanna be really smart? Do what the smart DAN! docs do. Encourage your docs to find the brightest autism mom in town who is treating her child, the one that the other mom’s call with questions, and hire her as their research assistant and parent liaison. They are plowing through the research every day, they live in an autism lab, and they talk to all the other researcher moms every day.
They are expert medical investigators.
Take advantage of them.)
And when your members start reporting the things that they are seeing to you, listen to them and coordinate that information.
Bottom up, bottom up, bottom up.
7. What ever you do, you better do it with the doctors we already trust.
8. What ever you do, go where the results are. Your work towards recovering our kids should not include learning from people who have not contributed to the recovery of a child with autism. Look for the people who are bringing children back and find out what they are doing.
And if you give people who still aren’t sure that there is even an actual increase in the rate a seat at the table, you will just be wasting our time. This is about discussion and cooperation that leads to action, not pontificating and lecturing in order to hear yourself talk. If they are interested in genetics or counting heads, then leave them to their business. Their business is not the business of treatment, and this is about treatment.
9. Whatever you do, you have to offer total and complete transparency about everything.
10. And whatever you do, please understand, you have to do it fast.
With our autistic children, we have a window of time, starting when their injury happens, to heal them. That clock starts the minute we get a diagnosis and we work like madmen to heal our children before that window begins to close.
Now you are in our shoes. You have been given the diagnosis, that parents were right and that you have lost them. You have a window of opportunity to heal that broken relationship before that window starts to come down hard and fast.
I hope you understand that you have to work smart, work quick and work from our organizational model, not yours, to keep that window from slamming shut on you.
And I hope you understand that the window will start falling hard and fast on June 4th.
Because if you are not with us in Washington, we will know that what you have done this week is bullshit.
UPDATE: Katie Wright comments:
"It was great that the AAP finally showed to a DAN! conference. Jenny McCarthy had to shame them into it, but it is good they came. Dr. Cooper did not just walk in and out he sat through several presentations over three days. I told Dr. Cooper that the AAP needs to get up to speed- NOW. There is no time to waste, they need to send TEAMS of physicians to DAN! and Autism One. If they want to start earning the respect, rather than the ire of the parent community, the AAP should start booking those hotel rooms in Chicago now. They can also make inexpensive and easy changes by updating the website so their autism information can reflect 2008, not 1998. The AAP has much to prove to our families, let's hope they take on this challenge."
After years of inaction and obfuscation, this was action number two taken by the AAP in just one week.
AAP not only showed up, from what I can put together, they really listened. They saw that the doctors presenting were their doctors and that the families in the audience were their patients. They got that the research and the interventions had a solid base and that medical approach to treating what is currently diagnosed as ‘autism’ has already begun with out them. They got that it is time for them to begin investing in what we have started.
I hear that they understand the multisystem failure that is going on in our kids and the multi system approach that is needed to address it.
I think they got a taste of how wrong it has been that parents complaints to, and questions of, doctors have been treated with such hostility, and that doctors who spoke up for our children were ostracized.
… and I got the feeling that they might even have been a little impressed with the way that our community has taken back an entire arena of medicine from drug companies and insurance companies and hospital systems and all other things big medicine.
The first step in building bridges, real relationships, is to show up and listen. They have done that.
But now comes the hard part for the AAP… what to do with that information. They know it is real, they know that we are on the level, and they know that the treatments are working. Can they take that and do what really needs to be done, no matter where the trail leads?
Are they ready to announce that vaccines are the big trigger? I don’t think so. I would be surprised if they were ready to do that yet. Vaccination changed their profession dramatically, and for the better, and to come to terms with the fact that it has crossed the line and gone too far… to admit out loud that they have caused so much damage… that will be very difficult. Not just for the AAP body as a whole, but for each individual pediatrician.
Are they ready to start participating in real research with us? I think they very well might be on treatment options, but good vaccine research, a real vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study? That is the million dollar question.
In this Age of Autism (to borrow from Dan Olmsted), where parents like me have been burned and burned hard, action talks and bullshit walks. We watch every move that docs make and judge carefully who is really looking out for the best interests of our vulnerable children, and who is looking out for their own interests.
I have, in no way, hidden my contempt for the actions of the AAP over the last decade for what they have and have not done in the autism epidemic, and for the potential disaster that will take place if in fact David Tayloe does take charge of this body.
But the current leadership of the AAP has gotten my attention with their actions in the last week. I think that they are in a rare moment in time where a state of flux is occurring, and there is a possibility of them turning a corner and making a real attempt to redeem themselves.
Voices that are usually squelched are being heard.
I think this is a fragile window. Failing to continue to move forward with real action, and assuming that reverting to bullshit public statements will placate autism moms and dads, would start closing that window quickly. The reign of David Tayloe would kill it stone dead.
I have a few words of advice for the AAP if they are concerned with stopping the slide of public trust and keeping the vaccine program from crumbling:
1. Say goodbye to your ego.
If you got into this business to be treated like the big guy and want to stay the big guy, then you will only get in the way of bringing our children back. If you can get past yourself, you will start to see beautiful stories of healing in families that have been devastated. You have the chance to become a part of something amazing that is happening in families who were told that their child was no longer functional and should be put away. Choose to see life return even at the expense of your pride (and your Mercedes and your vacations).
2. Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. No matter what happens, no matter the fall out, no matter the shame. You have one chance here to clean out the cancer that is the lies that have been told to American parents by the CDC about vaccine safety. If you take this time to CYA, then you won’t get another chance.
3. Find a nice, dignified excuse to set David Tayloe aside as the next AAP president and choose someone of integrity and character like Jay Gordon who will treat vaccine injury with seriousness and the intricacies human body with humility. I personally won’t listen to any doctor who listens to David Tayloe.
4. Actually participate in real vaccine debate. When what passes for a debate only includes those whose livelihood depends on vaccination continuing, it is not a real debate.
What has been referred to as the ‘vaccine debate’ for the last four years since the IOM decision has looked like this: A panel of doctors from the CDC, AAP, IOM, NIH, HHS having mutual admiration society catered by GSK while congratulating themselves on eradicating polio and rubella, inside a building owned by a hospital that is owned by an insurance company that is owned by Merck, while parents and the doctors who listen to them and heal their children are locked outside banging on the door trying to get in.
None of the parents’ points, complaints or questions are addressed, and if one does manage to get in, she is told to sit down or is escorted from the building.
Literally.
Registered nurse, Lyn Redwood, one of the first mercury moms, a very smart, dignified and soft spoken woman who had testified before congress, when attending a CDC public meeting, asked why the committee would not state a preference for pregnant women to get thimerosal free vaccines. She was told to sit down.
When CDC held a press conference on vaccines in 2005, we went to the HHS building in DC, but weren’t allowed in the room to ask questions. Parents were escorted to a ‘holding area’ with a TV so we could watch it remotely. Lyn was there with us.
Later, we tried to talk directly to pediatricians. Generation Rescue, a brand new organization at the time, rented a booth at the 2005 AAP convention in DC, and Lyn and her husband, physician Tommy Redwood, were among the parents there to share with your doctors.
Our message was printed on a large banner that stretched across the back of the room, “Autism is Preventable and Treatable”. When we arrived, The Redwoods, along with other parents who had been raising valid and responsible questions about the vaccine program, were prevented by security from entering the building to work at the booth.
The most heart breaking thing about that fear based, controlling decision, was that Lyn’s recovered son was also turned away from the building. His name was actually printed on the list given to us as to who would not be allowed to man the booth. Pediatricians from around the world had a chance to meet and interact with a recovered child face to face three years ago. The pictures I brought of Chandler were paltry replacement for a real live talking boy, but you locked him out.
If you want to build faith with us, then a good sign that you are ready to take responsibility for your actions would be to apologize to the "DC 7" Scott Bono, Laura Bono, Lyn Redwood, Tommy Redwood MD, Will Redwood (now 14 years old), Wendy Fournier and John Gilmore.
And then continue the REAL vaccine/autism debate that begun on Larry King last week. Get a hall in DC, a really big one, and let’s face each other and slog through all the research and records and deal with this. You are gonna get yelled at, just like Jenny yelled at Karp, you are gonna see a lot of tears, you are going to have to eat a lot of crow and it will all be on the record. But that is what it is going to take to put humpty dumpty back together.
5. Apologize for harming our children, not treating the injury and not listening to parents when they tried to tell you about vaccine regression and recovery.
We know that you were lied to. We know that you have to depend on the CDC to give you guidance. We know that they have orchestrated this nightmare charade.
But you did not meet your ethical obligations to proof them. Your leadership continues to hold out crap studies like Verstaeten, Denmark and Fombonne to disprove the vaccine autism link. You need to remove your stamp of approval from them, admit that they don’t prove what people have claimed that they prove, and join us in asking that they be retracted. If you do that there is still a chance to salvage something.
You have serious culpability here, but we know that you are not the source of the big lie.
6. Clean up this mess. Take action now. If you try to play the ‘death by committee’ game like the IOM did, parents will start tuning you out at the first mention of the words ‘task force’.
You have to start with this: Autism treatment is not a top down operation like other approaches to defeating an illness you are used to. If you could have understood it the way we have illnesses like rubella, you would have by now. If it could be tackled the way HIV was, then the Autism Speaks modus operandi would have yielded results, but it hasn’t.
Autism, or ‘Autisms’ as successful practitioners have come to define it, is not one thing, and is extremely complicated. So you can’t start with the ‘disease’ and then apply lessons to the child. You have to start with the individual child to get to the ‘disease’
It is a varied syndrome and our kids pick a la cart from a long list of physical problems.
Get a copy of Bryan Jepson’s book, Changing the Course of Autism in the hands of every one of your members.
Tell them to call their patients who are diagnosed with autism into the office for a long sit down to find out what parents have been trying with them, what is working and what is not. Have them listen to the child’s whole story, a COMPLETE history of all that has happened since before conception. They will learn huge amounts of information doing this.
Walk into the DAN! docs offices and start putting eyeballs on our kids. Physically examine them and start testing.
Get DAN! docs to hold training sessions all over the country for AAP members.
Invite local parents to speak to your pediatricians and tell them what they know. We are not doctors but we are experts on our children.
(You wanna be really smart? Do what the smart DAN! docs do. Encourage your docs to find the brightest autism mom in town who is treating her child, the one that the other mom’s call with questions, and hire her as their research assistant and parent liaison. They are plowing through the research every day, they live in an autism lab, and they talk to all the other researcher moms every day.
They are expert medical investigators.
Take advantage of them.)
And when your members start reporting the things that they are seeing to you, listen to them and coordinate that information.
Bottom up, bottom up, bottom up.
7. What ever you do, you better do it with the doctors we already trust.
8. What ever you do, go where the results are. Your work towards recovering our kids should not include learning from people who have not contributed to the recovery of a child with autism. Look for the people who are bringing children back and find out what they are doing.
And if you give people who still aren’t sure that there is even an actual increase in the rate a seat at the table, you will just be wasting our time. This is about discussion and cooperation that leads to action, not pontificating and lecturing in order to hear yourself talk. If they are interested in genetics or counting heads, then leave them to their business. Their business is not the business of treatment, and this is about treatment.
9. Whatever you do, you have to offer total and complete transparency about everything.
10. And whatever you do, please understand, you have to do it fast.
With our autistic children, we have a window of time, starting when their injury happens, to heal them. That clock starts the minute we get a diagnosis and we work like madmen to heal our children before that window begins to close.
Now you are in our shoes. You have been given the diagnosis, that parents were right and that you have lost them. You have a window of opportunity to heal that broken relationship before that window starts to come down hard and fast.
I hope you understand that you have to work smart, work quick and work from our organizational model, not yours, to keep that window from slamming shut on you.
And I hope you understand that the window will start falling hard and fast on June 4th.
Because if you are not with us in Washington, we will know that what you have done this week is bullshit.
UPDATE: Katie Wright comments:
"It was great that the AAP finally showed to a DAN! conference. Jenny McCarthy had to shame them into it, but it is good they came. Dr. Cooper did not just walk in and out he sat through several presentations over three days. I told Dr. Cooper that the AAP needs to get up to speed- NOW. There is no time to waste, they need to send TEAMS of physicians to DAN! and Autism One. If they want to start earning the respect, rather than the ire of the parent community, the AAP should start booking those hotel rooms in Chicago now. They can also make inexpensive and easy changes by updating the website so their autism information can reflect 2008, not 1998. The AAP has much to prove to our families, let's hope they take on this challenge."
April 5, 2008
David Kirby is About To Hit CDC Again, With A Triple Punch This Time
David Kirby, the man who has dug up more on the vaccine scandal than anyone, has yet again given the heads up to everyone that the hits to the CDC's 'no link' claims just keep on commin'.
Now I can tell you that as you are reading this now, the CDC, the DOJ and HHS has already read this. They are on the internet autism lists, and they read this blog and the others who write about the vaccine autism link.
So to you, our health authorities, and especially to those of you visiting from in side the CDC building:
It is time to end the charade. Vaccines plunge children into autism. It is proven. The legal precedent has been set. The research is in. It is on paper. The word is out. "The Debate Is Over".
Because you insist on allowing this plainly untrue 'no link' statement insanity to continue unchallenged, you are destroying the vaccine program, and more importantly you are continuing decimate lives of children and their families world wide.
So, CDC employee who got into your line of work to IMPROVE people's health, and I am talking to the people doing the real work because this message clearly has been lost on your leadership, stop the hemorrhaging. Stop propping up these foolish leaders who think parents are so dumb that they will watch Hannah Poling win a million dollar judgment for her vaccine induced autism and then swallow CDC claims that there is no link between vaccines and autism.
Salvage the integrity of your profession by acting with integrity.
Blow the whistle.
Call the Atlanta Journal Constitution and start talking on the record.
Call Congressman Dan Burton and tell him you are ready to tell congress what is really going on inside the CDC and what they really know about vaccine injury.
In case you cannot recognize it below, what follows is the handwriting on the wall.
There is still time to address this responsibly before we start seeing large scale numbers of children with vaccine preventable illnesses, but that window is closing as parents are beginning to choose to completely abandon the vaccine program because they know their government is lying to them.
It is time to end this now.
Now I can tell you that as you are reading this now, the CDC, the DOJ and HHS has already read this. They are on the internet autism lists, and they read this blog and the others who write about the vaccine autism link.
So to you, our health authorities, and especially to those of you visiting from in side the CDC building:
It is time to end the charade. Vaccines plunge children into autism. It is proven. The legal precedent has been set. The research is in. It is on paper. The word is out. "The Debate Is Over".
Because you insist on allowing this plainly untrue 'no link' statement insanity to continue unchallenged, you are destroying the vaccine program, and more importantly you are continuing decimate lives of children and their families world wide.
So, CDC employee who got into your line of work to IMPROVE people's health, and I am talking to the people doing the real work because this message clearly has been lost on your leadership, stop the hemorrhaging. Stop propping up these foolish leaders who think parents are so dumb that they will watch Hannah Poling win a million dollar judgment for her vaccine induced autism and then swallow CDC claims that there is no link between vaccines and autism.
Salvage the integrity of your profession by acting with integrity.
Blow the whistle.
Call the Atlanta Journal Constitution and start talking on the record.
Call Congressman Dan Burton and tell him you are ready to tell congress what is really going on inside the CDC and what they really know about vaccine injury.
In case you cannot recognize it below, what follows is the handwriting on the wall.
There is still time to address this responsibly before we start seeing large scale numbers of children with vaccine preventable illnesses, but that window is closing as parents are beginning to choose to completely abandon the vaccine program because they know their government is lying to them.
It is time to end this now.
Hello all
Just a little heads up to my friends – and especially, non-friends – that I am working on THREE new stories – all of them bombshells.
I expect the first one to break early this week – It involves new documents received through FOIA that are nothing short of shocking – and I am not shocked by much anymore. I hope the AJC will run it.
The second one might break by the end of the week, or early the following week. When it is announced, it will keep certain government folks up nights, worrying, if not speed-dialing their attorneys.
Finally, the third piece of news might be a few weeks away, but it is also rather nuclear. It has to do with the many more Hannah Poling carbon copies out there – and the impact this will have on future court cases, not to mention public opinion.
Polings Prove, Once Again, That Paul Offit Does Not Have A Clue
I am at the DAN! conference and this morning one speaker said, "Thank God for the Hannah Poling case". She was met with a big round of applause from the audience.
Vaccines, Autism and Our Daughter, Hannah
Jon Poling and Terry Poling
The New York Times
April 5, 2008
Re: “Inoculated Against Facts,” by Paul A. Offit (Op-Ed, March 31):
Our daughter, Hannah, developed normally until receiving nine vaccines at once. She immediately developed a fever and encephalopathy, deteriorating into what was diagnosed, based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M. IV, as autism.
The federal government, not an “unusual court,” made the concession. The decision wasn’t “careless,” as your subheading called it. It was based on a thorough review of Hannah’s records by Health and Human Services doctors.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program does rely on a “preponderance of evidence” standard, which Hannah’s case met. It doesn’t necessarily compensate families “quickly, generously and fairly.” We filed our claim six years ago, pain and suffering are capped at $250,000, and Hannah has yet to receive compensation.
Dr. Offit’s assertion that “even five vaccines at once would not place an unusually high burden on a child’s immune system” is theory and risky practice for a toddler’s developing brain. No one knows if Hannah’s mitochondrial dysfunction existed before receiving vaccines. Dr. Offit’s claim that Hannah had “already weakened cells” is unfounded.
We support a safe vaccination program against critical infectious diseases. We need straight facts, serious science and speedy answers on these important issues.
Jon Poling
Terry Poling
Athens, Ga., April 3, 2008
April 4, 2008
Katie Wright Takes On Autism Speaks
Katie Wright has officially taken to task the organization that was inspired by her son.
Her message to Autism Speaks is basically the same message that autism moms have been offering to the 'big guys' who say they are looking for a cure for autism for years now:
Put up or shut up.
Her message to Autism Speaks is basically the same message that autism moms have been offering to the 'big guys' who say they are looking for a cure for autism for years now:
Put up or shut up.
Did HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Say: "We know it's the mercury"?
Dan Olmsted reports a rumor.
I say let's get those congressional hearings underway and find out EXACTLY who knows what.
UPDATE: Welcome Orac readers! While you are here, I would like to invite you to take a moment and look at some of the research that supports the connection between vaccines and autism here: "No Evidence of Any Link"
Watch the video of Julie Gerberding, the head of the CDC admitting on CNN that vaccines DO trigger autism in a vulnerable subset of the population here: Julie Gerberding Admits on CNN that Vaccines can Trigger Autism
And read about my beautiful son, his regression into autism, and his on going recovery from autism via medical intervention here: Chandler
If you are interesting in exploring the details of why we are so insistent that vaccines are one of the most common triggers of autism, please don't hesitate to contact me directly at mail@adventuresinautism.com so that i can direct you to helpful resources.
Thank you for visiting!
Ginger Taylor, M.S.
I say let's get those congressional hearings underway and find out EXACTLY who knows what.
UPDATE: Welcome Orac readers! While you are here, I would like to invite you to take a moment and look at some of the research that supports the connection between vaccines and autism here: "No Evidence of Any Link"
Watch the video of Julie Gerberding, the head of the CDC admitting on CNN that vaccines DO trigger autism in a vulnerable subset of the population here: Julie Gerberding Admits on CNN that Vaccines can Trigger Autism
And read about my beautiful son, his regression into autism, and his on going recovery from autism via medical intervention here: Chandler
If you are interesting in exploring the details of why we are so insistent that vaccines are one of the most common triggers of autism, please don't hesitate to contact me directly at mail@adventuresinautism.com so that i can direct you to helpful resources.
Thank you for visiting!
Ginger Taylor, M.S.
David Kirby: CDC Has Lost Control of the Autism Argument
CDC Has Lost Control of the Autism Argument
David Kirby
Huffington Post
April 3, 2007
On Wednesday, CNN's Larry King hosted Jenny McCarthy, myself, and several others to discuss the growing evidence of a link between childhood vaccines and autism. The CDC refused to send someone to appear on the show. Instead, on Thursday, the agency issued a statement meant to reassure the American public that all vaccines are safe for all kids.
But the CDC statement only served to show how out of touch the Administration of George (Really? Gas costs 4 dollars?) Bush really is.
A recent government decision to award nine-year-old Hannah Poling taxpayer dollars for her multiple vaccine-induced autism, has left parents anxious and alarmed, especially when their own kid has a pending appointment to receive 5 or more vaccines in one sitting (Hannah had 9 at once).
So the CDC now issues a written statement meant to soothe jittery parents, by saying that "the recommended vaccine schedule is flexible." Such decisions, the friendly announcement said, "are best made in consultation with the child's doctor, and parents shouldn't be reluctant to have such discussions."
Of course parents shouldn't be reluctant to have this discussion, but they are. I get nasty emails from some pediatricians, and the number-one complaint I get from them is that, because of people like me, they must now "waste" (their word, not mine) precious billing hours talking to layperson parents about vaccine science.
These doctors' hostility is palpable, (and they hopefully represent a minority of pediatricians). And while I cannot imagine ever consulting anyone of such temperament for medical care in the first place, many parents are simply cowed into silence. For them, the CDC suggestion to ask vaccine safety questions at a well-baby visit is laughable, if not risible.
Interestingly, after years of being told that autism is purely genetic, and not some environmentally triggered epidemic, parents now learn that the CDC has begun a massive investigation, called the SEED study, to look at "genetic, environmental and hormonal factors, as well as selected mercury exposures," that cause autism
This is encouraging news, though one can assume that thimerosal is not among those mercury exposures that have been "selected" for study.
But the real problem here is the track record and credibility of the CDC to continue conducting any vaccine safety studies at all. This is not helped when the CDC continues to issue statements such as:
"Top scientists -- with the open-mindedness that characterizes good science -- planned and conducted the highest-quality, large-scale (vaccine safety) studies. No links to autism have been found."
Now, I have no doubt that CDC officials believe these truly were the "highest quality" studies available. But but many scientists, including some who authored the studies, disagree. They say many of the studies were flawed and/or inconclusive.
THE US STUDY
The flagship study was a four-year analysis by the CDC of a large US database called the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). This study, published in the journal Pediatrics, was authored by Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, a visiting researcher from Belgium.
The final, published version of the study found no evidence of a link between thimerosal in vaccines and autism, though earlier analyses - discovered through the Freedom of Information Act - showed remarkable correlations.
At the time, the CDC called it one of the highest quality studies of its kind ever conducted.
But in 2006, Congress asked the National Institutes of Health to convene a special panel to investigate the quality and usefulness of the VSD database - and by extension, the Verstraeten study itself - as a means of investigating such a link.
The panel determined that there were "several serious problems" with the database and the study, including many "weaknesses" and "limitations" that could render certain analyses "uninformative and potentially misleading. "
The NIH Panel was "concerned" about how autism diagnoses were made and recorded by HMOs who take part in the database, and questioned if the HMOs had adequate services for autism families, who might seek care elsewhere. Panelists said these and other problems likely led to an "under-ascertainment" of autism cases in the HMOs.
The panel also cited many problems with the Verstraeten study design. It warned that a "large proportion, around 25%, of births were excluded from the analysis." Panelists wrote that these same children "may represent a susceptible population whose removal from the analysis might unintentionally reduce the ability to detect an effect of thimerosal."
Other "serious problems" were the facts that there was no consideration of pre-natal thimerosal exposures from immune globulin, or "other vaccinations given during pregnancy," (i.e., flu shot), and no accounting for, "the cumulative exposure to organic mercurials through diet or other environmental sources. "
The NIH panel determined that these problems, "reduce the usefulness" of the VSD to prove or disprove a link between thimerosal and autism.
Shortly thereafter, panel chair Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Professor of Public Health at U.C. Davis School of Medicine, told Dan Olmsted (formerly) of UPI that the VSD study "was not the last word... things need to be looked at again, perhaps with different methodology."
And Verstraeten himself said the study proved nothing. In a letter to Pediatrics, he wrote that, "We found no evidence against an association, as a negative study would. On the contrary, additional study is recommended, which is the conclusion to which a neutral study must come."
THE DENMARK STUDIES
Two studies conducted in Denmark are always referred to by the CDC and others when trying to defend the injection of organic mercury into the systems of newborn babies and infants. These are among the best of the "highest quality" studies, we are told, that show no link between vaccines and autism.
The main Denmark study reported that the removal of mercury from vaccines was followed by a sharp increase in reported autism cases. But the authors admitted that much of this increase was possibly due to a major change in the way Denmark counted its autism cases during the study period (switching from inpatient diagnosed cases only, or about 13% of the total, to cases diagnosed in inpatient AND outpatient settings, or 100% of the total).
The CDC touts the high quality of the study, even though the authors cautioned in the study itself that "methodological limitations" - such as the exponential expansion of patients (due to counting both inpatient AND outpatient cases) -- "may have spuriously increased the apparent number of autism cases."
Adding insult to understatement, Dr. Hertz-Piccotto said that, as bad as the VSD study was, the Denmark papers were even worse. "Some studies are stronger than others," she said. "The Verstraeten study was an improvement on other studies, including the two in Denmark, both of which had serious weaknesses in their designs."
THE IOM REPORTS
In 2004, a committee of the Institute of Medicine reviewed the US, Denmark and a few other similar studies (whose methodology have been questioned in other venues including my book, "Evidence of Harm").
The IOM committee relied almost exclusively on large population studies (epidemiology), and virtually ignored the growing body of evidence emerging from clinical, animal and test tube studies from the fields of toxicology, immunology and other scientific disciplines.
(Interestingly, the US Federal Court system has determined that epidemiology alone is "insufficient" when trying to disprove a link between exposures and outcomes in an individual).
The committee concluded that the evidence did not support a vaccine link to autism. But it added that, "We cannot rule out, based on the epidemiology, the possibility that vaccines contribute to autism in some small subset," something that parents have been saying all along.
Finally, in 2005, another panel of the IOM criticized the CDC for a "lack of transparency" in its vaccine safety programs, particularly the VSD database. The IOM panel report noted that a CDC official had testified that some of the original datasets in the Verstraeten study, "had not been archived in a standard manner," and, "may not allow all the re-analyses that one might want to do, or in fact may not be available at all."
This same IOM committee, citing the Federal Information Quality Act, which makes it a felony to intentionally lose or destroy any publicly funded records, recommended that vaccine officials at the CDC's National Immunization Program "seek legal advice."
And despite all of this (and more) the CDC wants us to believe that these studies represent the "highest quality" analyses available.
The leadership of CDC Director Julie Gerberding has been replete with crushing morale depletion, embarrassing media coverage, congressional investigations into Katrina trailers, and a general sense of an agency in decline.
Sadly, the words "CDC" and "highest quality" can rarely be used in the same sentence anymore.
David Kirby
Huffington Post
April 3, 2007
On Wednesday, CNN's Larry King hosted Jenny McCarthy, myself, and several others to discuss the growing evidence of a link between childhood vaccines and autism. The CDC refused to send someone to appear on the show. Instead, on Thursday, the agency issued a statement meant to reassure the American public that all vaccines are safe for all kids.
But the CDC statement only served to show how out of touch the Administration of George (Really? Gas costs 4 dollars?) Bush really is.
A recent government decision to award nine-year-old Hannah Poling taxpayer dollars for her multiple vaccine-induced autism, has left parents anxious and alarmed, especially when their own kid has a pending appointment to receive 5 or more vaccines in one sitting (Hannah had 9 at once).
So the CDC now issues a written statement meant to soothe jittery parents, by saying that "the recommended vaccine schedule is flexible." Such decisions, the friendly announcement said, "are best made in consultation with the child's doctor, and parents shouldn't be reluctant to have such discussions."
Of course parents shouldn't be reluctant to have this discussion, but they are. I get nasty emails from some pediatricians, and the number-one complaint I get from them is that, because of people like me, they must now "waste" (their word, not mine) precious billing hours talking to layperson parents about vaccine science.
These doctors' hostility is palpable, (and they hopefully represent a minority of pediatricians). And while I cannot imagine ever consulting anyone of such temperament for medical care in the first place, many parents are simply cowed into silence. For them, the CDC suggestion to ask vaccine safety questions at a well-baby visit is laughable, if not risible.
Interestingly, after years of being told that autism is purely genetic, and not some environmentally triggered epidemic, parents now learn that the CDC has begun a massive investigation, called the SEED study, to look at "genetic, environmental and hormonal factors, as well as selected mercury exposures," that cause autism
This is encouraging news, though one can assume that thimerosal is not among those mercury exposures that have been "selected" for study.
But the real problem here is the track record and credibility of the CDC to continue conducting any vaccine safety studies at all. This is not helped when the CDC continues to issue statements such as:
"Top scientists -- with the open-mindedness that characterizes good science -- planned and conducted the highest-quality, large-scale (vaccine safety) studies. No links to autism have been found."
Now, I have no doubt that CDC officials believe these truly were the "highest quality" studies available. But but many scientists, including some who authored the studies, disagree. They say many of the studies were flawed and/or inconclusive.
THE US STUDY
The flagship study was a four-year analysis by the CDC of a large US database called the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). This study, published in the journal Pediatrics, was authored by Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, a visiting researcher from Belgium.
The final, published version of the study found no evidence of a link between thimerosal in vaccines and autism, though earlier analyses - discovered through the Freedom of Information Act - showed remarkable correlations.
At the time, the CDC called it one of the highest quality studies of its kind ever conducted.
But in 2006, Congress asked the National Institutes of Health to convene a special panel to investigate the quality and usefulness of the VSD database - and by extension, the Verstraeten study itself - as a means of investigating such a link.
The panel determined that there were "several serious problems" with the database and the study, including many "weaknesses" and "limitations" that could render certain analyses "uninformative and potentially misleading. "
The NIH Panel was "concerned" about how autism diagnoses were made and recorded by HMOs who take part in the database, and questioned if the HMOs had adequate services for autism families, who might seek care elsewhere. Panelists said these and other problems likely led to an "under-ascertainment" of autism cases in the HMOs.
The panel also cited many problems with the Verstraeten study design. It warned that a "large proportion, around 25%, of births were excluded from the analysis." Panelists wrote that these same children "may represent a susceptible population whose removal from the analysis might unintentionally reduce the ability to detect an effect of thimerosal."
Other "serious problems" were the facts that there was no consideration of pre-natal thimerosal exposures from immune globulin, or "other vaccinations given during pregnancy," (i.e., flu shot), and no accounting for, "the cumulative exposure to organic mercurials through diet or other environmental sources. "
The NIH panel determined that these problems, "reduce the usefulness" of the VSD to prove or disprove a link between thimerosal and autism.
Shortly thereafter, panel chair Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Professor of Public Health at U.C. Davis School of Medicine, told Dan Olmsted (formerly) of UPI that the VSD study "was not the last word... things need to be looked at again, perhaps with different methodology."
And Verstraeten himself said the study proved nothing. In a letter to Pediatrics, he wrote that, "We found no evidence against an association, as a negative study would. On the contrary, additional study is recommended, which is the conclusion to which a neutral study must come."
THE DENMARK STUDIES
Two studies conducted in Denmark are always referred to by the CDC and others when trying to defend the injection of organic mercury into the systems of newborn babies and infants. These are among the best of the "highest quality" studies, we are told, that show no link between vaccines and autism.
The main Denmark study reported that the removal of mercury from vaccines was followed by a sharp increase in reported autism cases. But the authors admitted that much of this increase was possibly due to a major change in the way Denmark counted its autism cases during the study period (switching from inpatient diagnosed cases only, or about 13% of the total, to cases diagnosed in inpatient AND outpatient settings, or 100% of the total).
The CDC touts the high quality of the study, even though the authors cautioned in the study itself that "methodological limitations" - such as the exponential expansion of patients (due to counting both inpatient AND outpatient cases) -- "may have spuriously increased the apparent number of autism cases."
Adding insult to understatement, Dr. Hertz-Piccotto said that, as bad as the VSD study was, the Denmark papers were even worse. "Some studies are stronger than others," she said. "The Verstraeten study was an improvement on other studies, including the two in Denmark, both of which had serious weaknesses in their designs."
THE IOM REPORTS
In 2004, a committee of the Institute of Medicine reviewed the US, Denmark and a few other similar studies (whose methodology have been questioned in other venues including my book, "Evidence of Harm").
The IOM committee relied almost exclusively on large population studies (epidemiology), and virtually ignored the growing body of evidence emerging from clinical, animal and test tube studies from the fields of toxicology, immunology and other scientific disciplines.
(Interestingly, the US Federal Court system has determined that epidemiology alone is "insufficient" when trying to disprove a link between exposures and outcomes in an individual).
The committee concluded that the evidence did not support a vaccine link to autism. But it added that, "We cannot rule out, based on the epidemiology, the possibility that vaccines contribute to autism in some small subset," something that parents have been saying all along.
Finally, in 2005, another panel of the IOM criticized the CDC for a "lack of transparency" in its vaccine safety programs, particularly the VSD database. The IOM panel report noted that a CDC official had testified that some of the original datasets in the Verstraeten study, "had not been archived in a standard manner," and, "may not allow all the re-analyses that one might want to do, or in fact may not be available at all."
This same IOM committee, citing the Federal Information Quality Act, which makes it a felony to intentionally lose or destroy any publicly funded records, recommended that vaccine officials at the CDC's National Immunization Program "seek legal advice."
And despite all of this (and more) the CDC wants us to believe that these studies represent the "highest quality" analyses available.
The leadership of CDC Director Julie Gerberding has been replete with crushing morale depletion, embarrassing media coverage, congressional investigations into Katrina trailers, and a general sense of an agency in decline.
Sadly, the words "CDC" and "highest quality" can rarely be used in the same sentence anymore.
April 2, 2008
Jenny McCarthy and David Kirby on Larry King
Tonight was another hallmark in the national vaccine/autism debate.
Never before has there been REAL debate.
A pissed off autism mom, a smart investigative journalist asking the hard question, an experienced pediatrician frustrated with his own profession, all face to face with hard core denial doctors like Harvey Karp and my pal David Tayloe who does not believe that vaccine injury even exists, and does not know how to read vaccine safety package inserts.
I have never seen David Kirby, usually the mellow, middle ground man, calling for more study, and 'let's see where things go', be so passionate. "The Debate Is Over"!
The very mature and measured Jon Poling could only shake his head at the AAP doctors misinformation.
Jay Gordon was clearly working hard to hold back his annoyance with his own AAP's party line and their lack of ability to reason beyond "vaccines good... make public health good...", to the varying health needs of individual children.
I have to guess that the Kirton's were booked on the show to make the 'genetics' point, and I have to wonder if they were disappointed when John Kirton said the word, "vaccines".
And then there is Jenny... shouting "Bullshit"!
And then there is my husband and me, jumping up and down in our living room!!!!
NOW the main event has started!
I want 10 more shows like this, but with fewer guest and with Larry asking questions that progress the debate a little better. ("Why do you keep having children?" Seriously Larry?)
Let me say outright, I cannot imagine for the life of me why the AAP has chosen David Tayloe as their new chief. He is a PR nightmare for them! In the current climate, when every day more and more parents quit vaccinating all together, choosing a dinosaur like Tayloe who is stuck in the 1950's polio epidemic, and who does not seem to notice that the threats to children's health have dramatically changed in the last half century, is just plain stupid.
I am going to say something here... and it will be the most harsh thing I have ever said about anyone on this blog before, but it needs to be said.
Dr. Tayloe said that in his practice that has seen 100,000 patients that he has never referred one person to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. If he has never seen a serious vaccine injury, it is not because he has not come across one, it is because he has his head up his ass.
Tayloe is just dangerous.
This man has GOT to be removed from the position that he has been elected to before he takes office. I would take Karp in a second over this guy. Karp was wrong, but he wasn't crazy person saying insane things with a smile wrong.
Jay Gordon gives me hope that there are doctors out their who recognize that we have gone to far with vaccines and it is time to re-examine.
RISE UP WISE AND COMPETENT PEDIATRICIANS EVERYWHERE! RISE UP! Who do you want to take recommendations from, Jay Gordon, or David "The Dinosaur" Tayloe?
I know I am biased, way biased, but our guys won and the other guys just looked foolish.
Question of the evening goes to David Kirby who exposed the AAP docs for the close minded relics that they are:
David Kirby: "There is a bill in congress to study vaccinated v. unvaccinated populations in this country. Doctor would you support that legislation?"
David Tayloe: "Please allow me to talk around the answer by saying something politically correct but not going on record for supporting the legislation."
Jenny McCarthy: "Will you support the vaccinated v. unvaccinated study?"
David Tayloe: "We support lots of things, like flowers, and lemon drops and My Little Pony."
Yeah... they don't support that legislation.
The quote of the evening goes to David Tayloe who, when Jenny pointed to the chart of 36 vaccines and asked, "Do we really need ALL of these?", nodded his head and replied, and this is really great... listen to this:
"They're recommended!"
Well Doctor Tayloe... if 12 guys in Atlanta who tell mom's with good questions like, "Why don't you make a recommendation for pregnant women to receive only thimerosal free flu shots?", to sit down and stop asking questions in public vaccine policy meetings designed to let the public ask questions, then dammit... that is good enough for me! Bring on the vaccines!
36 Vaccines! It's Recommended!
(Check this space for more footage when I get around to it.)
[UPDATE: OMG! Turns out the Vaccine Injury Compensation Court exists in part due to the 3.5 million dollar malpractice suit that Dr. David Tayloe lost in 1985 when a child he gave the DPT shot to magically got permanent brain injury!! That Asshole just got on TV and implied that he had never SEEN a vaccine injury in his practice!!!
Here is what he said:
Tayloe: "I have yet to see a patient who I sent to the compensation program because I thought they had a permanent injury. Extremely rare."
He lost 3.5 million dollar lawsuit, apparently one of the biggest awards ever, the year before the vaccine court was created!
And then BRAGGS about not sending any other children to the injury program?!
And having a court force him for giving a shot to a kid who could not handle it was still not enough to teach him the lesson that not all vaccines are safe for every child, because he went on the Today show and said that ALL VACCINES ARE SAFE FOR EVERY CHILD!!!!
AAP you have lost your collective mind putting this man in charge!? Are you kidding me!!!! I think I am gonna have an aneurysm.
[More UPDATES: Gotten more information that this may have been Tayloe's father David Tayloe Sr. Which would make David Tayloe Jr. a little less evil, but sill evil. I am trying to confirm details but I am traveling today and only have like 10 more minutes of wifi.]
[YET MORE UPDATES: Thanks for your patience as I got reconnected after a day of travel. I got an email from someone Tayloe went to med school with that says this was his father. In thinking about where to adjust my judgmentalism meter, I think that I will retract my declaration that he is an asshole, and say that he is a dangerous, foolish man.
A jury told his own father that he was more than three million dollars worth of wrong for administering a shot that plunged a boy into brain damage, and he learned nothing from it, continuing to claim that 'all vaccines are safe for every child', and that there is no such thing as serious vaccine injury. (or maybe, but barely ever, as his statement last week was that there was not "any relationship between vaccines and permanent injury", and this week he has downgraded his stance to "extremely rare".) Even though it was not directly his, he should still know better because of his father's legacy.]
Info on David Tayloe's Malpractice Suit [HT: Kevin Barry]:
Never before has there been REAL debate.
A pissed off autism mom, a smart investigative journalist asking the hard question, an experienced pediatrician frustrated with his own profession, all face to face with hard core denial doctors like Harvey Karp and my pal David Tayloe who does not believe that vaccine injury even exists, and does not know how to read vaccine safety package inserts.
I have never seen David Kirby, usually the mellow, middle ground man, calling for more study, and 'let's see where things go', be so passionate. "The Debate Is Over"!
The very mature and measured Jon Poling could only shake his head at the AAP doctors misinformation.
Jay Gordon was clearly working hard to hold back his annoyance with his own AAP's party line and their lack of ability to reason beyond "vaccines good... make public health good...", to the varying health needs of individual children.
I have to guess that the Kirton's were booked on the show to make the 'genetics' point, and I have to wonder if they were disappointed when John Kirton said the word, "vaccines".
And then there is Jenny... shouting "Bullshit"!
And then there is my husband and me, jumping up and down in our living room!!!!
NOW the main event has started!
I want 10 more shows like this, but with fewer guest and with Larry asking questions that progress the debate a little better. ("Why do you keep having children?" Seriously Larry?)
Let me say outright, I cannot imagine for the life of me why the AAP has chosen David Tayloe as their new chief. He is a PR nightmare for them! In the current climate, when every day more and more parents quit vaccinating all together, choosing a dinosaur like Tayloe who is stuck in the 1950's polio epidemic, and who does not seem to notice that the threats to children's health have dramatically changed in the last half century, is just plain stupid.
I am going to say something here... and it will be the most harsh thing I have ever said about anyone on this blog before, but it needs to be said.
Dr. Tayloe said that in his practice that has seen 100,000 patients that he has never referred one person to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. If he has never seen a serious vaccine injury, it is not because he has not come across one, it is because he has his head up his ass.
Tayloe is just dangerous.
This man has GOT to be removed from the position that he has been elected to before he takes office. I would take Karp in a second over this guy. Karp was wrong, but he wasn't crazy person saying insane things with a smile wrong.
Jay Gordon gives me hope that there are doctors out their who recognize that we have gone to far with vaccines and it is time to re-examine.
RISE UP WISE AND COMPETENT PEDIATRICIANS EVERYWHERE! RISE UP! Who do you want to take recommendations from, Jay Gordon, or David "The Dinosaur" Tayloe?
I know I am biased, way biased, but our guys won and the other guys just looked foolish.
Question of the evening goes to David Kirby who exposed the AAP docs for the close minded relics that they are:
David Kirby: "There is a bill in congress to study vaccinated v. unvaccinated populations in this country. Doctor would you support that legislation?"
David Tayloe: "Please allow me to talk around the answer by saying something politically correct but not going on record for supporting the legislation."
Jenny McCarthy: "Will you support the vaccinated v. unvaccinated study?"
David Tayloe: "We support lots of things, like flowers, and lemon drops and My Little Pony."
Yeah... they don't support that legislation.
The quote of the evening goes to David Tayloe who, when Jenny pointed to the chart of 36 vaccines and asked, "Do we really need ALL of these?", nodded his head and replied, and this is really great... listen to this:
"They're recommended!"
Well Doctor Tayloe... if 12 guys in Atlanta who tell mom's with good questions like, "Why don't you make a recommendation for pregnant women to receive only thimerosal free flu shots?", to sit down and stop asking questions in public vaccine policy meetings designed to let the public ask questions, then dammit... that is good enough for me! Bring on the vaccines!
36 Vaccines! It's Recommended!
(Check this space for more footage when I get around to it.)
[UPDATE: OMG! Turns out the Vaccine Injury Compensation Court exists in part due to the 3.5 million dollar malpractice suit that Dr. David Tayloe lost in 1985 when a child he gave the DPT shot to magically got permanent brain injury!! That Asshole just got on TV and implied that he had never SEEN a vaccine injury in his practice!!!
Here is what he said:
Tayloe: "I have yet to see a patient who I sent to the compensation program because I thought they had a permanent injury. Extremely rare."
He lost 3.5 million dollar lawsuit, apparently one of the biggest awards ever, the year before the vaccine court was created!
And then BRAGGS about not sending any other children to the injury program?!
And having a court force him for giving a shot to a kid who could not handle it was still not enough to teach him the lesson that not all vaccines are safe for every child, because he went on the Today show and said that ALL VACCINES ARE SAFE FOR EVERY CHILD!!!!
AAP you have lost your collective mind putting this man in charge!? Are you kidding me!!!! I think I am gonna have an aneurysm.
[More UPDATES: Gotten more information that this may have been Tayloe's father David Tayloe Sr. Which would make David Tayloe Jr. a little less evil, but sill evil. I am trying to confirm details but I am traveling today and only have like 10 more minutes of wifi.]
[YET MORE UPDATES: Thanks for your patience as I got reconnected after a day of travel. I got an email from someone Tayloe went to med school with that says this was his father. In thinking about where to adjust my judgmentalism meter, I think that I will retract my declaration that he is an asshole, and say that he is a dangerous, foolish man.
A jury told his own father that he was more than three million dollars worth of wrong for administering a shot that plunged a boy into brain damage, and he learned nothing from it, continuing to claim that 'all vaccines are safe for every child', and that there is no such thing as serious vaccine injury. (or maybe, but barely ever, as his statement last week was that there was not "any relationship between vaccines and permanent injury", and this week he has downgraded his stance to "extremely rare".) Even though it was not directly his, he should still know better because of his father's legacy.]
Info on David Tayloe's Malpractice Suit [HT: Kevin Barry]:
Medical Malpractice/Negligent Administration of the DPT Vaccine
$3,500,000 Jury Verdict, May 1, 1985
The Minor Plaintiff, Bernard Forehand, Jr., was seriously injured when the Defendant Pediatrician's Nurse failed to communicate to the Defendant Pediatrician, David Tayloe that the Minor Plaintiff had an adverse reaction to the first vaccination shot. The administration of the second shot left the Minor Plaintiff with a significant brain injury. The Defendant Pediatrician, David Tayloe, who at that time was the President of the National Pediatric Association, strenuously fought this case all the way to a jury verdict. On May 1, 1985, the jury handed down what was at that time the largest jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in the State of North Carolina, in the sum of 3.5 million dollars.
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Following is a newsletter article that I (Barbara Loe Fisher) wrote in the summer of 1985 on the Forehand lawsuit:
"In May, a North Carolina jury in the Wilmington U.S. District Court decided that David Tayloe, M.D. and T. Frank Stallings, M.D., of Washington Pediatrics, P.A., were guilty of medical malpractice in the pertussis vaccine-induced brain damage suffered by Beau Forehand, Jr. The child was awarded $3.5 million in compensatory damages by the jury but the judge overturned the verdict and it was appealed.
It was the highest medical malpractice award in North Carolina history. Beau was represented by attorneys Anne Werum Lambright and Richard Polling of the Charleston West Virginia firm of Preiser and Wilson. The defense claimed that the two doctors were following the vaccination guidelines contained in the American Academy of Pediatrics 1970's "Red Book" which was in effect at the time Beau Forehand received his first DPT shot in January of 1974.
Beau reacted to his first short with a 103 degree fever and inconsolable crying, which his mother reported to the doctors. Six weeks later, Beau had a febrile seizure and was hospitalized. However, despite the reaction to his first shot and the subsequent seizure, he was given another DPT shot even though he had a cold and a slight fever at the time of the second vaccination. Within three hours of his second DPT shot he went into a major seizure and has had an uncontrolled seizure disorder ever since. He was left with severe mental retardation.
The 1970 RedBook did not list inconsolable crying, a fever of 103 degrees, a history of convulsions or a cold at the time of vaccination as contraindications to the pertussis vaccine. Attorney Lambright stated that the jury's verdict in the case sent a clear message to physicians that "The American Academy of Pediatrics Red Book should not be used as the sole guide to contraindications or adverse reactions to vaccines. The basic premise in the Forehand case is that doctors have to use their common sense, medical training, skill, knowledge and experience to make appropriate determinations for vaccination on a case by case basis."
If the jury's verdict is upheld on appeal, the Forehand case will be an important precedent-setting case. It would mean that individual physicians are responsible for obtaining knowledge and making decisions about the advisability of vaccination in individual cases which go beyond automatic reliance on the recommendations listed by the AAP or the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Examples of additional information available to physicians are the vaccine manufacturer's product inserts included in vaccine packages. which historically have listed more contraindications than those listed by either the AAP or ACIP, and the more than 40 years of scientific literature on the subject."
In a Winter 1986 newsletter, I wrote:
"On September 18, 1986, Forehand V. Tayloe and Stallings was settled for $1.1 million in North Carolina. A North Carolina jury had concluded that two pediatricians were negligent in the pertussis vaccine induced brain damage of Beau Forehand, Jr. and had awarded the boy and his parents $3.3 million. The judge overturned the verdict and the case was appealed on behalf of Beau by the law firm of Preiser and Wilson, of Charleston, West Virginia, before the Sept. 18 settlement ended the lawsuit."
BRIEF VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION SYSTEM (VICP) BACKGROUND:
The Forehand settlement was one of a series of DPT vaccine malpractice cases against negligent physicians, as well as a few high profile punitive damage awards for DPT vaccine brain damage that went against vaccine manufacturers between 1981-1985 which persuaded Congress that both drug companies making vaccines and doctors giving vaccines should be protected from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths. The vaccine manufacturers threatened to leave the country with no vaccine if they did not get protection. Doctors threatened to stop giving vaccines if they weren't protected. Both doctors and the companies wanted a federal compensation system that banned all vaccine injury lawsuits for all time. We fought for protection of the right to access the civil justice system to sue companies or doctors if the child was turned down for federal compensation or offered too little or if it could be proved the vaccine manufacturer engaged in criminal fraud or gross negligence in the manufacture the vaccine or the doctor did the same in administering the vaccine.
I hope this is helpful.
Best,
Barbara Loe Fisher
April 1, 2008
The American Academy of Pediatrics to Work With Defeat Autism Now in Treating Autistic Children!
This a day I have long been praying for! I cannot express the joy that I have right now!
After years of lip service someone finally did something real!
This is not the end of the war, but it is D-Day invasion. I think it will be marked as the day that changed the direction of the autism epidemic.
Now that the AAP has given their members permission to explore these treatments that are working so well, they are going to get see first hand and be a part of the joy that happens when a little piece of a sick child returns.
I think that I am almost as excited for the pediatricians as I am for the autism community!
If any pediatrician any where, at any time, wants to know anything about my son's story, his regression, his diagnosis, his symptoms, his vaccine reaction, his treatment, his recovery, what worked and what hasn't, what we want to try, what research I have read, ANYTHING, from conception to what happened just now... I will be THRILLED to share with you!
If you are a doc reading this... and you want to start finding out about biomedical treatment, start here:
When my son was diagnosed at age two, he had lost all speech except for two words, neither of which were 'mommy' or 'daddy', and lost all eye contact.
Last Sunday in church, after 4 years worth of medical interventions, he held the door for me for the first time and said, "Here mom, I'll open the door for you"!
And for any docs that are looking for something to do this weekend, come to the DAN! conference in Cherry Hill, NJ on Friday!
UPDATE: April 14th, 2008
AAP has removed one of the paragraph from their press release. Evidence of an internal struggle? The removed paragraph is in bold below.
After years of lip service someone finally did something real!
This is not the end of the war, but it is D-Day invasion. I think it will be marked as the day that changed the direction of the autism epidemic.
Now that the AAP has given their members permission to explore these treatments that are working so well, they are going to get see first hand and be a part of the joy that happens when a little piece of a sick child returns.
I think that I am almost as excited for the pediatricians as I am for the autism community!
If any pediatrician any where, at any time, wants to know anything about my son's story, his regression, his diagnosis, his symptoms, his vaccine reaction, his treatment, his recovery, what worked and what hasn't, what we want to try, what research I have read, ANYTHING, from conception to what happened just now... I will be THRILLED to share with you!
If you are a doc reading this... and you want to start finding out about biomedical treatment, start here:
When my son was diagnosed at age two, he had lost all speech except for two words, neither of which were 'mommy' or 'daddy', and lost all eye contact.
Last Sunday in church, after 4 years worth of medical interventions, he held the door for me for the first time and said, "Here mom, I'll open the door for you"!
And for any docs that are looking for something to do this weekend, come to the DAN! conference in Cherry Hill, NJ on Friday!
UPDATE: April 14th, 2008
AAP has removed one of the paragraph from their press release. Evidence of an internal struggle? The removed paragraph is in bold below.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS RECOGNIZES WORLD AUTISM DAY
For release: APRIL 1, 2008
AAP media contacts: Susan Stevens Martin Debbie Linchesky
847-434-7131 847-434-7084
ssmartin@aap.org dlinchesky@aap.org
CHICAGO – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports World Autism Day (April 2) as a way to bring together groups that are committed to finding the causes of, and successful treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorders, which now affect an estimated 1 in 150 children in the United States. Thousands of children, parents and families are coping with what can be a devastating diagnosis with lifelong consequences.
Pediatricians care for children with autism and their families every day. They are passionate advocates on behalf of these families and recognize that autism is a significant challenge to the health of the nation’s children. Pediatricians emphasize that early diagnosis is critical. The AAP promotes regular screening for autism at the appropriate well-child visits, as well as treatments tailored to meet the needs of an individual child. In 2007, the AAP published the Autism Toolkit, which includes clinical guidance to help pediatricians identify and manage children with autism, to refer them to therapeutic services, and to provide parents with information and resources. The AAP also offers a host of resources for parents on its Web site, www.aap.org.
“We know many parents are searching for answers,” said AAP President Renee R. Jenkins, MD, FAAP. “The AAP has supported research into the causes of autism and will continue to do so.” Pediatrics, the Academy’s peer-reviewed, scientific journal, has included dozens of studies on the associated factors, management and impact of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
The AAP recognizes the best way to address the needs of children with autism and children overall is through a partnership among pediatricians, parents and researchers. The AAP has met with leaders of advocacy groups, such as Autism Speaks and the Autism Society of America, which include parents of children with autism. Most recently, the AAP met with representatives of Defeat Autism Now! (a program of the Autism Research Institute) in an effort to facilitate communication between pediatricians, parents and researchers about the diagnosis and treatment of children with autism. All advocates for these children agree that further research is needed regarding causes as well as safe and effective treatment.
“We are pleased the AAP reached out recently to Defeat Autism Now! in order to better understand the treatments and interventions that we have found beneficial to children with autism,” said Stan Kurtz, executive council member of Defeat Autism Now! “We are full of hope that this is the beginning of a thoughtful partnership that will further explore factors that might cause or contribute to autism, as well as examine safe and effective treatment approaches for families coping with this condition.”
[removed paragraph:]
“Autism is a challenge for pediatricians, their patients and families. By working together, we stand the best chance of helping these children to realize their full potential,” Dr. Jenkins said. “The Academy is committed to working with researchers and treatment groups like Defeat Autism Now! to get closer to finding answers to the multiple causes of autism and determining effective therapies.”
For more information about autism, visit www.aap.org.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.
The Autism Research Institute (ARI) is a non-profit organization established in 1967 that fosters scientific research on autism triggers as well as diagnostic, treatment, and prevention methods. Through its Defeat Autism Now! program, ARI provides research-based information to parents, clinicians, and researchers worldwide, through its Web site (autism.com), call center, parent groups, conferences, science-based publications, and think tanks. (Press Contact: Autism Research Institute; email: lisa@autism.com)
March 31, 2008
Julie Gerberding Admits on CNN that Vaccines can Trigger Autism
This weekend Julie Gerberding, the head of the CDC, appeared on Dr. Sanjay Gupta's show, House Call, and explained that vaccines can trigger autism in a vulnerable subset of children. This is the claim that parents like me have been making since at least the 80's, and have been dismissed and even mocked for making it.
But no one in the main stream media seems to have noticed. Not even CNN. Not even Dr. Gupta who was sitting right in front of her.
[Video updated 4/2/08]
Apparently, if you dress in soft pink and speak in dulcet, reassuring tones, you can indict yourself in the biggest international health crisis of the times and not even your interviewer will notice.
It is time for Dr. Gerberding to be forced to give cogent answers to the difficult questions that it is her responsibility to truthfully address. From all I have seen, it will take an act of Congress to do it.
I am joining Hannah Poling's parents in calling for the immediate release of the Poling case documents, and calling for congressional hearings into the autism cases in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
This obfuscation and double speak must end.
*For more on this interview, read these:
An Invitation to Julie Gerberding to Help Her Find the Missing Information on Autism
Wait! Did Julie Gerberding Just Admit that Vaccines Trigger Autism!?
But no one in the main stream media seems to have noticed. Not even CNN. Not even Dr. Gupta who was sitting right in front of her.
[Video updated 4/2/08]
Apparently, if you dress in soft pink and speak in dulcet, reassuring tones, you can indict yourself in the biggest international health crisis of the times and not even your interviewer will notice.
It is time for Dr. Gerberding to be forced to give cogent answers to the difficult questions that it is her responsibility to truthfully address. From all I have seen, it will take an act of Congress to do it.
I am joining Hannah Poling's parents in calling for the immediate release of the Poling case documents, and calling for congressional hearings into the autism cases in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
This obfuscation and double speak must end.
*For more on this interview, read these:
An Invitation to Julie Gerberding to Help Her Find the Missing Information on Autism
Wait! Did Julie Gerberding Just Admit that Vaccines Trigger Autism!?
March 30, 2008
Ken Stoller Files Complaint Against Anne Schuchat
Dr. Kenneth Stoller has filed a complaint with the CDC over Dr. Anne Schuchat's response to David Kirby's piece in the AJC.
The CDC has two months to reply. I will let you know what they say:
HT: Heather King
The CDC has two months to reply. I will let you know what they say:
Requestor Information
REQUEST ID NUMBER: E74979213
CURRENT STATUS: New
REQUEST MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE: 5/24/2008
Last Name: Stoller
First Name: Kenneth
Organizational Affiliation:
Best Way to Contact Requestor: E-Mail
E-Mail Address: info@hbotnm.com
Daytime Phone Number:
Address: 404 Brunn School Rd #D Santa Fe, NM 87505
Type of Disseminated Information: Other
Other Information:
Vaccines' benefits outweigh dangers http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/03/25/vaccinesed_0326.html Autism claim shouldn't deter parents By ANNE SCHUCHAT
Request Information
Description of Information:
"the best science indicates that there is no association between vaccines and autism. As part of our efforts to foster understanding of autism."
Specific Reason(s) why Information does not Comply with OMB, HHS or CDC Guidelines:
The best science is not what the CDC relies on to make the above statement and this is a complete misrepresentation of the truth in this matter. As I have pointed out before, there had been no epidemiological study in the USA between the vaccinated and non-vaccinated populations. The supposed "best science" quoted by the CDC and now Dr.SCHUCHAT as showing no connection between vaccines with thimerosal and autism were funded by the CDC, done by non-USA citizens, mostly done in Europe by individuals involved in producing thimerosal containing vaccines and on populations where the autism rate was more than 13 times less than in the USA. Interestingly, three of the epidemiological studies most quoted by pediatricians as proving thimerosal safety actually showed that thimerosal removal lead to an increase in autism, in one this increase was about 20 fold. To report that decreasing exposure to a potent neurotoxin like thimerosal decreased any specific neurological disease is ridiculous. Perhaps this is why the countries where the data was collected (Denmark, Sweden, England) and the reports filed have not followed the conclusion of the authors and still maintain thimerosal removal from pediatric vaccines. Only the CDC gives any scientific credence to the obviously low quality epidemiological studies done by these Danish, Swedish and English researchers who had obvious vested interests in the outcome.
Requestor's Recommendation for Correction:
The constant mantra of the "best science" does not show a connection without any consideration being taken for know toxicity issues, known (as in the scientific literature showing various heavy metals cause mitochondrial dysfunction) must stop if there is to be anything left of the vaccine program in a few short years. Then, implement a non CDC controlled study of vaccinated versus non-vaccinated populations - this represents straight-forward scientific logic. The fact that the major medical agencies and associations refuse to do this and insist on spending millions on genetic research suggests a force is working hard to prevent such a study----perhaps because the answer is already know (Simpsonwood CDC meeting June 2000). A reliable USA located academic institution needs to be assigned the task to evaluate the vaccinated versus non-vaccinated populations. The recent report from Mannitoba, Canada on an approximate 5% versus 16% asthma rate on adolescents receiving thimerosal containing DPT at 4 months versus 2 months of age, respectively, tells us that there is a lot about the various aspects of the mandated vaccine program that science does not understand at this time. A comprehensive study of the vaccinated versus the non-vaccinated followed by the design of global monitoring of identified "vaccine risk factors" would provide the basis of implementing a much safer vaccine program.
How Were You (the requestor) Affected by the Information?
I am a pediatrician and misinformation about the vaccine program and vaccine safety by the CDC affects me directly.
HT: Heather King
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