Film: Shots in the Dark

Made a film about the vaccine injured, including our community. It was made by the Film Board of Canada, but has not been released, and it is reported that the Canadian Prime Minister does not want it released.

It was posted on You Tube last fall. I am not sure how I missed this until now.

Shots in the Dark

CDC Vaccine Recommendations in Childhood Hits 70.. count 'um... 70 Doses!

Ding! Ding! Ding! America wins a prize!!!

CDC wants your child to have 70 vaccines by the time they are 18 years old!

70!

...50 of those are before the age of 6, and 37 of those are before the age of 18 months.

CDC is blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to vaccine injury and resistance to over vaccination.

Today the ACIP recommended a 5th dose of the 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine for those kids who only received the 7 valent version, which is essentially every child alive because that was the only version given until this year.

They are also recommending an additional flu shot this fall for any child who did not get the H1N1 last year.

I was a Navy brat, born in 1969, and the US Government vaccinated the hell out of me. I look at my shot record and it looks like they vaccinated me every time we moved. Just in case. (I got six polio shots!)

Yet my grand total until age 18 was 29 doses of vaccine. And my babies "need' 70?

Actually, come to think of it... how did I ever survive with less than half the vaccines that a child 'needs' today?!

Has anyone ever calculated the costs of those 70 vaccines? I wonder how much each child is worth to pharma as a vaccine receptacle?

We Finally Get a Vaxxed v. Unvaxxed Study, Vaccinated Primates Have Brain Changes Seen In Autism

We finally get a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study. No... no actual children yet, but infant rhesus macaque monkeys.



And no wonder main stream medicine doesn't want vaccine studies with an actual baseline (completely unvaccinated), because the results are dramatic.

The infant primates vaccinated according to the US vaccine schedule (equivalent to their size/development rate, pre 2002 shots WITH full doses of mercury) showed the same brain changes found in children with autism. The amygdala, the fear and anxiety center, did not mature properly in the vaccinated group, and those differences did not appear until AFTER the 12 month vaccines were given.

The abstract:

Influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth and opioid
ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study

Acta Neurobiol Exp 2010, 70: 147–164
©2010 by Polish Neuroscience Society - PTBUN, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Laura Hewitson1,2,*, Brian J. Lopresti3, Carol Stott4, N. Scott Mason3 and Jaime Tomko1

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;
2Thoughtful House Center for Children, Austin, TX, USA; 3Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4Independent Chartered Scientist, Cambridge, UK;
*Email: lch1@pitt.edu

This longitudinal, case-control pilot study examined amygdala growth in rhesus macaque infants receiving the complete US childhood vaccine schedule (1994-1999). Longitudinal structural and functional neuroimaging was undertaken to examine central effects of the vaccine regimen on the developing brain. Vaccine-exposed and saline-injected control infants underwent MRI and PET imaging at approximately 4 and 6 months of age, representing two specific timeframes within the vaccination schedule. Volumetric analyses showed that exposed animals did not undergo the maturational changes over time in amygdala volume that was observed in unexposed animals. After controlling for left amygdala volume, the binding of the opioid antagonist [11C]diprenorphine (DPN) in exposed animals remained relatively constant over time, compared with unexposed animals, in which a significant decrease in [11C]DPN binding occurred. These results suggest that maturational changes in amygdala volume and the binding capacity of [11C]DPN in the amygdala was significantly altered in infant macaques receiving the vaccine schedule. The macaque infant is a relevant animal model in which to investigate specific environmental exposures and structural/functional neuroimaging during neurodevelopment.

Key Words: rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, non-human primates, animal model, neuroimaging, PET, MRI, amygdala, opioids, ethyl mercury, thimerosal, neurotoxicity

The full paper: Hewitson et. al.

The editorial written by the editor of the journal, who says:

An alarming finding is reported by Hewitson and coworkers showing that, in infant monkeys that were immunized, the amygdala does not show the normal pattern of maturation but is hypertrophied. Although these are only preliminary data, given the well-known role of the amygdala in generation of fear and other negative emotions, they support the possibility that there is a link between early immunization and the etiology of autism.

Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted's discussion of the paper: New Study Shows Vaccines Cause Brain Changes Found in Autism

It should be noted that in the spring of 2008, The American Academy of Pediatrics was informed of this study. At the conclusion of the DAN conference in Cherry Hill, NJ in April of 2008, Dr. Jerry Kartzinel personally discussed it with Dr. Louis Cooper who was there representing the AAP. Cooper skirted the issue, acting as if he was concerned with the cost of the study, and Kartzinel replied that the study was fully funded and underway. Cooper was clearly not comfortable with the discussion of the study, and changed the subject. In their discussion of what Cooper had seen at the conference and how to proceed with some sort of partnership between ARI and AAP, Cooper had already stated to Kartzinel:

"I’m concerned about immunization policy and how you protect immunization."

To my knowledge, AAP never got back to anyone on their input into, or involvement with, this primate study. Note that the study was not published by Pediatrics, where it belongs, as it is AAP's journal and AAP is Pharma's main vaccine distributor. I am sure they want this buried as deep as is possible.

I am interested to see what AAP's public comment will be on this. If there is one.

AAP's (@ameracadpeds)twitter page can be found here: http://twitter.com/ameracadpeds

Feel free to call this post to their attention.

Gulf Oil Spill Science Experiment On All Says Biologist

Gardasil May Cause Cervical Cancer

Awesome, right?

From the Examiner:

Warning, Gardasil may cause increased risk of cervical cancer
June 30, 10:34 Norma Erickson

Buyer beware: Gardasil, given under the wrong conditions, may increase the risk of cervical cancer.

Would you consent to giving your child a vaccine that caused an increased risk of cancer? That may be exactly what you are doing when you consent to Gardasil.

According to Information the manufacturer of this vaccine presented to the FDA prior to approval, if a person has already been exposed to HPV 16 or 18 prior to injection Gardasil increases the risk of precancerous lesions, or worse, by 44.6%. (See VRBPAC Background document, bottom of page 13) This documentation was presented on the 18th of May 2006.

That statement bears repeating, if you have been exposed to HPV 16 or 18 prior to injection and take the vaccine, you increase your risk of precancerous lesions, or worse, by 44.6%.

Is this information advertised? No! This information was actually presented to the FDA by Merck. It came from their own safety trials. The FDA did not respond by recommending screening for HPV prior to vaccination. The FDA did not even demand a warning be included in the package insert....

The Autism Rate is 3.5% in Israel? WTF!

UPDATE: This article was written carelessly... 3.5% was the rate of IVF in the general population... NOT autism. It should read: "a significantly higher number than the 3.5% IVF rate in the general Israeli population." Thanks Michelle.

But as the autism rate in the Minnesota Somali population is 1 in 28 and CDC, two years later, still can't find the time to go study them, and no one seems disturbed by that phenom... I don't think that my incredulousness over the blaze attitude with which dramatic changes in autism rates are met is unwarranted.

We have got to wake up..

Original Post: Talk about burying the lead!

This article on the high autism rate among IVF children in Israel (more than ten percent) almost casually mentions that autism, in the general population there is 3.5%! That is 1 in 29 children!

IVF Linked to Autism, Israeli Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (June 30, 2010) — The first "test tube baby" was born in 1978. With advances in reproductive science, an estimated one percent of all American babies are now born each year through in vitro fertilization (IVF). But IVF and other assisted fertility treatments may be solving one problem by creating another, suggests new evidence from Tel Aviv University.

In a recent study, Dr. Ditza Zachor of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine reported a strong link between IVF and mild to moderate cases of autism. Her findings were presented last month at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia.

According to her research at the Autism Center at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Israel, which Dr. Zachor directs, 10.5% of 461 children diagnosed with a disorder on the autism spectrum were conceived using IVF, a significantly higher number than the 3.5% autism rate in the general Israeli population.

Where does this number come from? And why is this not on the front page of every newspaper in the world! A disorder that was only documented 70 years ago, when only 11 children in the world could be found by the father of child psychiatry over the course of 8 years, is now the dx of between 1 and 3.5 percent of the industrialized world? What the Fuck?!!!

The UK number is 1 in 60. The published US number is 1 in 90, but that is for 12 year olds, I don't even know what the rate is for my son's birth cohort in 2002, and I hear that in the halls of government the number 1 in 60 is being batted around as the real number in the US as well!

Last fall, the 09.09.09 campaign that the National Autism Association put on asked the question... when was autism going to be considered urgent.. it has gone from 1 in 250 to 1 in 90 since my son was diagnosed six years ago... NAA asked, does it have to get to 1 in 20 before people get upset and actually do something?

APPARENTLY NOT EVEN THAT HIGH A RATE WILL CAUSE ALARM!!! A 1 in 29 rate is buried in Science Daily?! I reiterate... WHAT THE FUCK!!

I can't help asking the question... are we seeing the beginning of the downfall of the human race? Remember the beginning of Shaun Of The Dead, how our hero was drifting through London not noticing that society was falling down around him? Is that happening here? What is happening?! Why is no one freaking out?!

$260 Million Wasted on H1N1 Vaccine

Millions of vaccine doses to be burned
by MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA — About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash.

"It's a lot, by historical standards," said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and review for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The outdated vaccine, some of which expired Wednesday, will be incinerated. The amount, as much as four times the usual leftover seasonal flu vaccine, likely sets a record. And that's not even all of it.

About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the U.S. public will have gone to waste.

Federal officials defended the huge purchase as a necessary risk in the face of a never-before-seen virus. Many health experts had feared the new flu could be the deadly global epidemic they had long warned about, but it ended up killing fewer people than seasonal flu....

Hundreds of millions wasted on 'just in case' while the very real autism epidemic... yawn...

So angry.

Another Bad Faith Move by Autism Speaks On National Legislation

The Combatting Autism Act of 2006 expires in 2011. Corporate fat cats, autism monopoly, charitable organization, 503c3 Corporation Autism Speaks, has already written a full bill and submitted a bill to Senator Dodd's office.

What's that.... AS went ahead and put in a whole dang bill with out the input of the greater autism community? Shocked to the core am I.

Once again, AS, while claiming to represent the autism universe, tiptoes behind the back of our community to write legislation that will dramatically impact your family and mine. Autism Speaks corporate shark Exec VP Peter Bell (former worldwide marketing manager of the Johnson & Johnson drug Risperdal, you know, that drug that gives our boys breasts) has brought those same wholesome, forthright values of pharma marketing to the world of autism. *

I sent the following request to AS yesterday:

Subject: Request for a copy of your Reauthorization of CAA bill
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:57 -0400
From: Ginger Taylor
To: Peter Bell , Geri Dawson , Mark Roithmayr


Peter, Mark and Geri,

It is my understanding that Autism Speaks has drafted a CAA reauthorization bill and submitted it to Senator Dodd.

Previously, despite claiming to be a big tent organization, Autism Speaks has used their position to circumvent the larger autism community in order to achieve their own agenda. I see this as yet another bad faith move to bypass autism families to get a new CAA that favors AS and its narrow goals.

Will you release the current copy of the CAA bill that you are working on for Dodd? Will you be inviting other autism orgs like NAA, SafeMinds, Autism Action Network, ARI and TACA to offer input on this bill? Will random autism families or adults with autism be able to collaborate on this, or is the fate of hundreds of thousands of people effected by autism in the hands of three or four people at AS who are just about consolidating their power and protecting their unjustifiably large salaries?

AS is charitable org that raises millions of dollars by claiming to represent the autism community. As such, I believe it is incumbent upon you to be transparent in your CAA dealings and release this draft to the autism community (as it will effect ALL of the autism community). Any refusal to share the bill that AS has already submitted to Dodd should be viewed as highly suspect at best.

If you choose not to release this immediately, then please provide a reason for the back door negotiations being kept secret from those whom you claim to be serving. I plan to write a piece either way on Monday afternoon.

Additionally... please forward me a copy of your 2009 990 as it is not listed on Guidestar and I don't see a copy of it on your web site.

No response.

I can only imagine that it has the very best interests of those with autism in mind, even thought the bill they just pushed through in NY, to the loud opposition of others in the autism community, and to the cheers of the insurance industry, is already hurting our kids. John Gilmore of Autism Action Network made this comment on their recent NY activities:

"In NY Autism Speaks turned a new corner, in that they are now backing legislation that will take away what little health care coverage we have and effectively slam the door shut to access in the future. We have already received a report from a parent in Westchester county who was told by his insurance company that because of the new law (the Governor hasn't even signed it yet) payments for speech and OT will be discontinued. This is exactly what we said would happen."

Does AS work for people with autism, or are they a front for insurance groups and pharma? Did AS actually write the text or were the insurance or pharma lobby party to its creation? Does it include vaccine research? I think we all know the answer to that last question.

I encourage you to call whatever autism group you belong to, large or small, and ask them what the plan is for getting a good bill to the floor.

I would also encourage you to stop giving $$ to Autism Speaks. They are starting to seem to me more like those charities portrayed in the American classic, "Death to Smoochy", rather than one that actually improves the lives of the people whose faces adorn their fund raising posters, and whose difficult stories make them so many millions.

And if you are in NY, you might wanna call the governors office and ask him not to sign AS's anti child, pro-insurance company "autism" bill.

With that I will re run this little ditty that someone put together from their 2008 tax form about where their millions go.



*Update:

I am told that Peter never worked on risperdal, but that he worked on analgesics like tylenol and motrin. Which of course is much bigger problem as Tylenol is believed to be a player in autism causation as it impairs liver function... the liver function that might be needed by a baby who has just been vaccinated with aluminum or mercury containing vaccines to process said chemicals out of the body before they can cause neurological or immune disorders.

Vaccine Aluminum Associated With Brain Damage

Do you think that this is a study that might should maybe have been brought to our attention last year by public health?

Long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminum hydroxide is associated with chronic cognitive dysfunction.

J Inorg Biochem. 2009 Nov;103(11):1571-8. Epub 2009 Aug 20.

Couette M, Boisse MF, Maison P, Brugieres P, Cesaro P, Chevalier X, Gherardi RK, Bachoud-Levi AC, Authier FJ.

INSERM, Unite U955, Team 1, Creteil F-94010, France.
Abstract

Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) is an emerging condition, characterized by specific muscle lesions assessing long-term persistence of aluminum hydroxide within macrophages at the site of previous immunization. Affected patients mainly complain of arthromyalgias, chronic fatigue, and cognitive difficulties. We designed a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests to prospectively delineate MMF-associated cognitive dysfunction (MACD). Compared to control patients with arthritis and chronic pain, MMF patients had pronounced and specific cognitive impairment. MACD mainly affected (i) both visual and verbal memory; (ii) executive functions, including attention, working memory, and planning; and (iii) left ear extinction at dichotic listening test. Cognitive deficits did not correlate with pain, fatigue, depression, or disease duration. Pathophysiological mechanisms underlying MACD remain to be determined. In conclusion, long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminum hydroxide within the body assessed by MMF is associated with cognitive dysfunction, not solely due to chronic pain, fatigue and depression.

PMID: 19748679 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Publication Types, MeSH Terms, Substances

FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change

Because what we need is less oversight of pharma shenanigans in vaccine manufacturing? So much corruption.

From NVIC:

FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change

by Barbara Loe Fisher

This past spring, the FDA took a hands-off approach to Merck's admission that DNA from a lethal pig virus is contaminating doses of RotaTeq vaccine being swallowed by millions of newborn babies. Now the agency responsible for making sure pharmaceutical products do not hurt people is proposing a Rule Change to give one staff employee the sole authority to allow "exceptions or alternatives" when drug companies want to change vaccine ingredients, such as preservatives (like thimerosal) or adjuvants (like aluminum) or the amount of residual protein and antibiotics in vaccines.

June 28 Deadline for Public Comment

The FDA's proposed change to Requirements for Constituent Materials was quietly published in The Federal Register on March 30 and the deadline for public comment is only days away - on Monday, June 28.

The FDA is arguing that the rule change is necessary to "reduce burdens on industry" and to provide "greater flexibility and reduced regulatory requirements." It gives one FDA staff Director the power to give drug companies the green light to "employ advances in science and technology as they become available" when companies want to make new vaccines really fast and get more bang for the buck.

Will There Be ANY Checks & Balances?

If the proposed Rule Change is put into effect, a vaccine manufacturer could request a change in the content or amount of vaccine ingredients by simply writing a "brief statement describing the basis for the request and supporting data" as part of the original license application or for a pending or approved application. There is no information about how much scientific evidence the drug companies will have to submit to prove the new ingredients are safe; or whether the FDA's Vaccine Advisory Committee will be able to review that evidence; or whether the American public will have a chance to comment before vaccine ingredients are changed.

This does not look like the transparency, public participation and collaboration in government that President Obama said he supports. It removes the checks and balances necessary for good government.

Could Warehoused Squalene Be Quickly Approved?

Last year when federal health officials declared a pandemic H1N1 "swine flu" national emergency, drug companies put a full court press on the FDA to fast track licensure of highly reactive oil based squalene adjuvants and the use of new technology, like insect cells, to make pandemic influenza vaccines. During meetings of the FDA's Vaccine Advisory Committee, the National Vaccine Information Center opposed both the quick licensure of squalene adjuvants, which hyperstimulate the immune system and have been associated with autoimmunity, and the use of insect cells, which could be contaminated with insect viruses. Click here to watch a video, read the entire commentary with live links to 35 references and learn how YOU can take action.

ASD or Synaptic Disorder?

I'm with Harold.

Synaptic Disorder Instead Of Autism Spectrum Disorder?

"The word "Autism" has become romanticized, occasionally glorified, in public discussions of the neurological disorder. It is literally being stripped of its meaning as a diagnostic label of a mental disorder and is being turned into a different way of thinking, a way of life, a culture. Maybe it is time to start thinking about dropping the use of the term autism in the DSM, abandon the Autism Spectrum Disorder concept and replace it with a more informative, less romanticized, less politicized name ... Synaptic Disorder."

Now that we know something about all the varying things that "autism" is biologically, this 70 year old description of some strange acting kids is almost useless and a drag on the progress of finding causation and treatment. As I often say... it is as useful as diagnosing people with having "The Vapors".

Obama's "Cybersecurity" Bill

Should Obama be allowed to shut down the Internet?

The Daily Beast:

Can Obama Shut Down the Internet?
by Philip Shenon

A new bill rocketing through Congress would give the president sweeping powers to police the Web for national-security reasons. Could this be a way to block WikiLeaks?

Is cyberspace about to get censored?...

Obama can declare an "emergency" and start turning off access for up to 30 days. But what constitutes an "emergency"? Well remember the last "emergency"? That was when the mildest flu in recorded history was declared an "emergency"?

From NVIC:

Because public health is now considered a matter of national (and international) security, if this bill passes, the President could potentially block websites considered a threat to government-led "countermeasures." Like when there is a "pandemic" announced and websites like NVIC's are critical of the government's mass vaccination program.

ummm... that's me.

Hell No.

If they don't want power lines attacked, THEN GET THEM OFF THE INTERNET.

Total Votes: 313 DETAILED RESULTS
Poll courtesy of Qwanz.com

SIDS, Failure to Thrive and Autism Are Not Diseases

... they are just a description of behaviors, actions, something that is or is not happening, that is obvious to the casual observer.

Autism is merely a description of behaviors... social behaviors, physical behaviors, communication behaviors.

Failure to Thrive is also a description of things observable to the naked eye. Not growing and not hitting developmental milestones.

And of course, SIDS is just not being alive any more.

So why are they being thought of/treated like they are actual stand alone diseases?

There are no more a 'disease' than "Rapid Speech", "Jumping Up and Down" or "Turning Left".

We don't consider "Throwing Up" as a disease.

Doc: "Ma'am, your son has been diagnosed with "Upchucking". There is no scientific consensus on the cause of vomiting, so just take your son home and love him".

Mom: "Thank you Doctor, I am now going to poke you in the eye with the eraser end of this pencil to signify my contempt for your intellectual bankruptcy while posing as a medical healer. Now go find me a real doctor to help me figure out what is wrong with my child".

(replace vomit with autism and you now have glimpsed the 'autism mom' experience).

At least "Failure to Thrive" has a leg up, in that kids with it have a shot at getting a doc that will (after ruling out their Freudian suspicions that mom has "Munchhausen By Proxy") actually examine the child and look for a medical reason for the observable event.

SIDS and Autism? Not so much.

So... reminder to anyone in the medical community who has been taught to investigate vomiting, fever and rash, but to accept that SIDS and AUTISM just some magical thing that happens that we all have to accept, like Leap Year and Lady Ga Ga's career... please reprogram yourselves..

Vomiting, fever, rash, suddenly dying, not growing, suddenly not speaking, cessation of eye contact, constipation and diarrhea, seizures, loss of vision, hair falling out, loss of motor skills, loosing consciousness, inflammation, swollen glands, brittle bones and cough...

ARE ALL SYMPTOMS!

Treat them all the same... as worthy of medical investigation. And understand that when you put on that white coat, you made yourselves responsible to investigate disease processes in your patients. All disease processes. Even the ones caused by your own products and practices.

And when some medical authority teaches you to blow off symptoms and patient reports, tell him to go screw himself, because that is not why you got into medicine in the first place.

You did it to heal sick people.