Happy Fucking Autism Awareness Day

As is my tradition, since getting so fucking fed up with all this "Autism Awareness While Rome Burns" crap, I am merely reposting my blogs from April 2 in years pas to illustrate that the rate climbs, society falls apart, and the establishment wants you to be fine with that.  Giant load of horse droppings, this.

Oh yeah... the autism rate is 1 in 50 now.  But no worries.  Have a blue light bulb.

(Yeah... I don't bother removing the curse words any more.  This is so fucked up.)


Post from 2012:

Light it up blue!

So how * many years are we going to do this?

Hey America!  1 in 88 of your children is disabled for life (up 23% from two years ago, but no worries, just better diagnosing!)... they will cost a few million each to raise and care for, few will marry or have fulfilling careers, they will be bullied by peers, neglected by school systems, abused by caregivers and sexually assaulted by predators when you turn your back.  Many will die from seizures, anaphylaxis, drownings, accidents, negligent homicides and be murdered long before their time, and at best, they still won't be able to fully communicate with you, the parent, who longs to have a close relationship with your baby.

They will struggle every day in ways I never will.

Most of this is, of course, entirely preventable, as CDC, AAP, HHS, AS et. al. knows * full well that this is an environmentally caused epidemic, as autism didn't even exist in the medical literature before the 1940s, but instead of actually facing that there is a society altering problem... a course of history altering problem...

Lets  * Celebrate * Autism Day And Make Things * Blue!  

('Cause Autism Speaks needs some more cash for their * Park Avenue offices... the economy has been rough on them you know... Geri Dawson had her * salary cut from $640,000 to $435,000 for her super intense job of looking very busy and important while NOT * curing autism.)

So * sick of this garbage.  Off to celebrate this * day at a * IEP.  Pretty sure that everyone in the room will be wearing party hats and telling me how thrilled they are that my child has autism, what with autism being something to celebrate and all...

* feel free to mentally reinsert the curse words that I removed before publishing.  I am angry.

Just reposing my column from last year:

World Autism Awareness Day: Autism Exists, Let's Celebrate? Even Though It's Killing our Children?

April 2, 2011

My regular readers already know how I feel about Autism Awarness Day/Month. Everyone is aware already, how about actually doing something about it? No... instead let's just wear blue and do nothing. Except, of course, give money to Autism Speaks. Their party budget is getting low and Geri Dawson has horses to feed.*

Anne Dachel makes the case yet again this year:

I have a hard time each year with AUTISM AWARENESS DAY/MONTH. This is the Fourth Annual International Autism Awareness Day. How long are we going to pretend that all this autism is normal and acceptable? Seriously, how bad do the numbers have to get?

A number of stories out in the news calling for the public to "celebrate" the day. Today is World Autism Awareness Day by Kristina Chew "Today, April 2, is the fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day, during which 'autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events.' "

Pueblo Chieftain: Blue balloons raise autism awareness, "The baby blue balloons that Jonah and his classmates at Beulah Heights Elementary School released were to celebrate the beginning of National Autism Awareness Month. The event is celebrated each April, while the World Autism Awareness Day is today."

Sioux Falls Argus Leader: 5 questions: Shedding light on autism, "The falls will be colored blue by lights in support of the Autism Speaks' global Light It Up Blue campaign to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day and Autism Awareness Month."

Lufkin Daily News: Peavy students working to raise autism awareness, "Because of the prominence of the disorder in boys, blue is the official color for autism awareness and the reason the entire Peavy campus was encouraged to don the color Friday to celebrate Autism Awareness Month."

Berkshires.com: Diversity Takes Center Stage in the Berkshires, "'We have so many people supporting this committee right now,' said MaryLee Daniels, director of the Berkshire office of the Department of Developmental Services, and committee member.

"BFAIR, BCArc, the list goes on as to how many organizations support this initiative. We especially want people to join us in celebrating three different months of diversity. Of course, last month was Black History month. This month is Developmental Disabilities month and next month is Autism Awareness month. We have so much to celebrate here."

What is there to celebrate?

Lots of stories are about lighting things up in blue for autism awareness. Lots of them talk about autism being a developmental disorder affecting one percent of children whose cause is unknown. This is done without any alarm or demand for answers. We have been conditioned to accept autism as the perpetual mystery.

As the parent of a son in his 20’s with autism, I’ve had several decades of experts knowing nothing about this disorder. Is this to be the epidemic without a cause?

Looming in the background is the reality of what autism is doing to us. As I listen to the dire predictions about the hard economic times we're in and the need for austerity, I have to ask how in the world we're going to address the needs of the generation of children with autism about to descend on America as adults.

Dr. Thomas Insel is the wet blanket in all this celebration, acceptance, and awareness of autism.

He's the head of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee created by Congress to deal with with the disorder and he says that 80 percent of Americans with autism are under the age of 18. He's warned us we have to prepare for a million dependent adults "who may be in need of significant services." The IACC now calls autism "a national health emergency."

Maybe a better name for April 2 is World Autism Emergency Day.

Anne Dachel
Media editor: Age of Autism

Anne is right. And I gotta wonder, exactly how long this PR BS is going to continue.

And the biomed community isn't even being remotely polite about this any more. These are the two images that are being passed around on facebook today:





Last year I began a new blog. Lives Lost to Autism. I got more than a little bit sick of the blatant fear mongering of death by diseases that are NOT killing Americans, like measles, while the deaths of our children caused by their autism go unlamented and ignored by health authorities.

Last year 10 children died of Pertussis and the response was a national campaign to get people vaccinated (both adults and children), new state vaccine mandates are being pushed through, and the press on it has been everywhere. Last year at least 27 children and adults died as a direct result of autism, and unless you are in the autism community, or one of these deaths happened in your town, you probably never knew it. Even then, it is always an isolated incident, yes? (There were 41 reported deaths following the pertussis vaccine last year, but that is a whole other story.)

And those 27 autism deaths are only the ones who came across my google alerts for "autism deaths" or "autism died" or "autism drowning." The test I use on how to include them is basically, "would this have happened to this this person was neurotypical?" Who knows how many more went unreported or didn't get picked up by google. I would love to quote an actual statistic on how often autism kills, or how their incidence of premature death compares to the general population, but no public health agency cares enough to track this.

But insurance companies, whose bottom lines are effected by deaths and actually need to know if autism is deadly, won't sell life insurance policies on children with autism younger than 10, because it is not a good risk for them. See the problem there?

Our precious ones drowned, were murdered by caretakers and loved ones, were shot by police, suffocated while being restrained, were hit by cars, burned to death in fires, died from neglect and were killed by seizures. A few of them even killed others during their own melt downs.

Bryan Nevins, age 20, died because, on a hot day, he could not simply open the door of a van and get out. His institutional caretaker was on her cell phone and forgot about him for five hours. She is in jail now.

Autism kills and our government could not give less of a damn.

Autism Speaks doesn't seem to want to make that point that autism kills more than whooping cough, because then the public might actually begin to see this as a public health emergency and demand results... and then were would AS be? The party financing would dry up. Better for them to let autism linger and keep sucking up cash from suckers as they pretend to do something about it. Autism Speaks has found quite the cash cow.

(Speaking of... Guidestar finally posted AS's 2009 tax returns... they took in 45.5 million, and less than a quarter of it went to grants to do what the purported purpose of the org is, "Autism Speaks (AS) funds research into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure for autism. AS raises public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society. AS aims to bring the autism community together to urge government and the provate sector to take action to address this urgent global health crisis." Of the whole list, "autism awareness" is the only thing that I think they actually have accomplished since their inception.)

And HHS's admissions that yes, vaccines CAN AND DO CAUSE AUTISM would mean that HHS has been able to do something about this FOR YEARS and has not done it. It means that those vaccine cases can be avoided by screening for mitochondrial disorders, autoimmunity and toxicity, and treated early on if doctors were actually taught that "vaccine induced encephalopathy" exists and if recognized and treated immediately that it may minimize or even prevent many cases of autism from developing.

And that might also mean that the people who have been sitting on this information for years, and decades, might suffer some consequences.

But AS has decided to ignore HHS's own claims of vaccine autism causation and openly declared that everyone should stop talking about the vaccine autism link.

Better that we just "wear blue" because dealing with all that ugliness would just be too ugly.

This is my post on "Autism Awareness" from 2008 entitled, "Insensitive Jerk Makes a Good Point". Nick sees all the signs that tell him that Autism is everywhere, but tells him nothing about what to do about it. And this was three years ago. I should try to track Nick down and see if he has figured out what he can do about it yet.

HAPPY PHONY, BS, ARCHAIC, DESCRIPTION OF BEHAVIORS DIAGNOSIS THAT TELLS US NOTHING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON MEDICALLY SO WE CAN KEEP IGNORING THE TOXIC CAUSES OF WHATEVER THE HELL IT REALLY IS WHILE IT CONTINUES TO KILL PEOPLE CELEBRATION DAY!

Make sure you wear blue, write a check to AS, vaccinate your baby, give him a dose of Tylenol, feed him GMO's and then go back to sleep. They experts are handling it for you.


Insensitive Jerk Makes a Good Point
By Ginger Taylor, Adventures In Autism
APRIL 13, 2008

Last week Nick Jameson, college smart ass, wrote a piece on his reaction to the autism awareness campaign currently under way. One currently struggling with autism might be put off by his callousness until one remembers that he is only 22 and that we were all pretty much insensitive smart asses at 22.

I would encourage all to allow Nick a chance to grow and check back with him in 10 years or so when he is expecting his first child and see if maturity has tempered his stance.

But what is useful from Nick, random college punk, is this reaction:

For example, what is the purpose of putting up a billboard that is telling me a child is born with autism every 20 minutes? What can I possibly do other than sit in my car and mutter to myself, “Well that sucks.” Maybe if there was a cure or even ways to help prevent autism, it might make more sense to have a billboard. Then it would reinforce concepts in people’s head that they could apply later like “only you could prevent forest fires” or “don’t eat cheese before noon.” But frankly, all this billboard is really saying is, “Beware, autistic people are everywhere,” and I’m sure that isn’t the message they want to get across. We already know autism exists; give us something we can work with. If the autism front wants to put us through a year of sappy ads and TV specials, than at least make it worth the time and money and headache. Teach us something. I was on my way to New York City this weekend and every toll booth was littered with autism propaganda. Did I learn anything? No. There are more intelligent ways to get out a message to the public.

Does Nick know that there are successful treatments available? Does Nick know that there are some kids who are completely recover from autism? Does Nick know that there are things that he can do to prevent his own children (should he ever become soft hearted enough for a woman to agree to marry and/or procreate with him) from slipping in to autism?

Apparently not. And that is the fault of the media who won't report the whole story.

So our young Nick has made a great point. One that parents like me have been trying to make for years now. "Autism Exists" is a message that everyone got a few years back now. But the important message, "Autism is Treatable and Preventable" is one that the media will not share with him.

What is it going to take for them to tell the whole story?

In ten years, when Nick is expecting, will he have heard this message from the media? Or, like us, will he hear it from another parent on the playground after Nick Jr. is diagnosed with autism?

Addendum: Autism Speaks had a huge chance this month to get the treatment message out and yet again, they are screwing children by with holding the important message. They certainly have the cash to do it.

/End 2008 article

*Ok... I actually have no idea if Geri Dawson has horses, but I do know she lives on a ranch or a farm or something, so horses... not out of the question really.

More Public Relations Nonsense Sold To You As "Science."

DeStefano has offered up another crap study (I think just to defend Paul Offit's "100,000 vaccines at once are safe for an infant" garbage) and I have decided to use it appropriately. Let's all do this just to make a point on what utter uselessness is getting published and accepted by the medical profession.

Step 1 - Print out the study

Step 2 - Take your child to your local Pediatrician, and tell them that based on the study, you are now ready to start vaccinating your child again.

Step 3 - When the nurse enters with the shot, tell her you don't want the whole thing, just the antigens in the shot. Not the adjuvants, preservatives, growth mediums, antibiotics, soaps, proprietary mystery secret sauce, etc... Since that is what the study says is not causing autism.

Step 4 - Watch the doctor and nurse, say, "Ummmm... what?" and then try to figure out what the hell is wrong with you.

Step 5 - Explain why this is a totally inapplicable and crapulent "study." Explain that the antigens are at the bottom of the list of suspects for autism causation.  Ask why they didn't just do the vaxxed v. unvaxxed study that the FDA asked for in 1981 and that parents have been demanding for decades, because it certainly would have been a lot simpler and cheaper than doing this piece of irrelevant mush.

I'm sure much more patient and thoughtful analysis of this thing are coming, (you know, one that might point out that this compared vaxxed kids to vaxxed kids, that they did the thing backward, that there was no actual control group, that they could have saved some cash and just counted the number of shots kids had in a given time period... little things like that) but I was so annoyed by it that I didn't have the patience to give it that much thought. Will post links here when they become available.

Update:

First out of the gate is Brian Hooker:  Can We Trust the CDC Claim that There is No Link Between Vaccines and Autism?

Testimony on Maine LD 672 An Act Relating to Exemption from Immunization for Schoolchildren

Below is my written testimony on LD 672 An Act Relating to Exemption from Immunization for Schoolchildren, urging the state of Maine to provide parents with true informed consent in vaccination.

Vaccine information given to parents does not represent true informed consent.

1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Vaccine Injury Compensation Act or VICA) http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/authorizinglegislation.pdf:

- Declares all FDA approved vaccines, "Unavoidably Unsafe," which means that they cannot be made safe for their intended use.

"The House Energy and Commerce Committee Report accompanying the Vaccine Act, H. R. Rep. No. 99–908, pt. 1 (1986) (hereinafter 1986 Report), explains in relevant part:

     “ Subsection (b)—Unavoidable Adverse Side Effects; Direct Warnings .—This provision sets forth the principle contained in Comment K of Section 402A of the Restatement of Torts (Second) that a vaccine manufacturer should not be liable for injuries or deaths resulting from unavoidable side effects even though the vaccine was properly prepared and accompanied by proper directions and warnings.

     “The Committee has set forth Comment K in this bill because it intends that the principle in Comment K regarding ‘unavoidably unsafe’ products, i.e., those products which in the present state of human skill and knowledge cannot be made safe, apply to the vaccines covered in the bill and that such products not be the subject of liability in the tort system.” Id. , at 25–26."

 - Justice Sotomayor , with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting, RUSSELL BRUESEWITZ, et al ., PETITIONERS v. WYETH LLC, 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-152.ZD.html

- Provides blanket liability protection for all involved in vaccine design, production and distribution when injury or death from vaccine occurs.

- Provides that CDC Vaccine Information Sheets (VIS sheets) be provided to patients or their parents before any vaccine is administered so that they have informed consent.  http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/

- Establishes the HRSA Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, designed to be a compassionate program with a low burden of proof to provide for vaccine induce injury and death quickly (with in one year) to maintain confidence in the vaccine program. http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

27 years later the consequences of this well intended law have been devastating untold numbers of families, including mine.

1) The number of vaccines administered has skyrocketed:

• When Pharmaceutical companies realized that they had a product line for which the could not be held liable for injury and death, and that governments would market for them via school mandates, they poured considerable resources into R&D for vaccines and aggressively began to market those vaccines to HHS. 
  
  
  
  
• As a result, the Childhood vaccine schedule, unchanged for nearly 20 years, began to become inflated beginning in 1988, and is now almost three times what it was when the law was passed.
  
  
  
  
• If I were to have a child today, that baby would receive more doses of vaccine by the time it was six months old than I did by the time I went to college.
  
  
  
  
• The current vaccine schedule is untested as a whole, vaccines are recommended in combinations for which there is no safety testing, and doses are being added every year. 

2)  The HRSA Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has become a farce.

• Claims were supposed to be processed and paid with in a year, however families languish in the program for ten years or more with out a ruling, reducing pay outs when the injured die before a ruling is made (as death can be capped at $250,000)
  
  
• An arbitrary three year statute of limitations prevents many from being able to take advantage of the program, as most families are never told that a medical condition for which a child (or adult) is being treated may be a vaccine injury and must find out on their own.
  
  
• The VICP which was supposed to be a non-adversarial process is extremely aggressive with families.  DOJ acts as the government's defense council and often treat parents seeking compensation as if they are criminals during hearings.
  
  
• Hearings are secret and petitioners may not bring anyone other than their lawyer into the proceedings.
  
  
• Families council are paid by VICP, so when lawyers are too aggressive in fighting for families, they are 'punished.'  Their billable hours are disputed, the disputes can go on for months or years, and when the fees are settled, VICP may take many more years to actually pay them.  Attny burnout is high and it is difficult to find anyone to take these cases any more.  I don't know of one in Maine who takes VICP cases.
  
  
• Special Masters have openly bragged in front of families that they are pleased at how quickly and how often they are able to dispense with cases.
  
  
• Families who "win" their cases do not receive money outright, but it is placed in an account for them, and they must apply to use the funds (the program has actually turned down requests, for example, when one little girl grew out of her wheelchair, the family requested a new one.  VICP turned the request down, saying they had already purchased her a wheel chair.)
  
  
• There is no prescient and rulings can contradict each other.
  
  
• Most importantly, when the program rules that a vaccine has caused an illness, disorder or disability, THAT INFORMATION IS NOT ADDED TO THE VIS SHEETS GIVEN TO PARENTS AND PATIENTS AT THE TIME OF VACCINATION.
  
  

3)  Parents and patients are NOT given informed consent as VICA (and LD 672 An Act Relating to Exemption from Immunization for Schoolchildren) intends

A) In the case of the condition that is commonly diagnosed as "Autism":

1. While many public health agencies either give the impression or outright state that vaccines do not cause autism, research into the VICP has found 83 autism cases that were paid by the program under the diagnosis of "Vaccine Encephalopathy," the medical term for brain damage. (http://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions)

This was approximately 40% of the sample of VICP Encephalopathy cases that were examined.  If this percentage holds true for the entire 1300+ cases paid by the program, VICP may have paid as many as 500 "autism" cases.

2.  The VICP Vaccine Injury Table actually lists the condition commonly known as "autism" as a outcome of the MMR and DTaP vaccine, but refers to it as "decreased level of consciousness/reduced consciousness."

Refer to Vaccine Injury Table and compare to the information provide to parents on the  DTaP VIS Sheet:

Parents are never told to look for  "decreased or absent eye contact," or told that it is a symptom of vaccine induced brain damage.
3.  HRSA has outright admitted that vaccines can cause the condition that is diagnosed as "autism."

When this legal maneuvering came to light after CNN aired a press conference given by The Poling family about their autistic daughter's VICP ruling, a reporter submitted a question to HRSA asking if this was an admission that vaccines can cause autism.  This is the statement that was issued by the Obama Administration (emphasis mine):

"From: Bowman, David (HRSA) [mailto:DBowman@hrsa.gov]

Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:22 PM

To: 'dkirby@nyc.rr.com'

Subject: HRSA Statement

David,

In response to your most recent inquiry, HRSA has the following

statement:

The government has never compensated, nor has it ever been ordered to

compensate, any case based on a determination that autism was actually

caused by vaccines. We have compensated cases in which children

exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy

may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms

including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.

Some children who have been compensated for vaccine injuries may have

shown signs of autism before the decision to compensate, or may

ultimately end up with autism or autistic symptoms, but we do not track

cases on this basis.

Regards,

David Bowman

Office of Communications

Health Resources and Services Administration

301-443-3376"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-david-kirby/vaccine-court-autism-deba_b_169673.html

Subsequently, other families began to share their VICP rulings with the public.  One such case was that of Bailey Banks, where the wording of the ruling left no question of wavering on the issue:

"The Court found that Bailey's ADEM was both caused-in-fact and proximately caused by his vaccination. It is well-understood that the vaccination at issue can cause ADEM, and the Court found, based upon a full reading and hearing of the pertinent facts in this case, that it did actually cause the ADEM. Furthermore, Bailey's ADEM was severe enough to cause lasting, residual damage, and retarded his developmental progress, which fits under the generalized heading of Pervasive Developmental Delay, or PDD [an autism spectrum disorder]. The Court found that Bailey would not have suffered this delay but for the administration of the MMR vaccine, and that this chain of causation was... a proximate sequence of cause and effect leading inexorably from vaccination to Pervasive Developmental Delay." http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/BANKS_CASE.pdf

4.  The vast majority of research into the vaccine/autism link DOES find an association between vaccines and what is known as "autism."

I have attached 60 published papers to that effect in the appendix.

5.  Sanofi Pasteur now lists autism as a reported outcome on the vaccine package insert of their DTaP vaccine "Tripedia," and has since 2005. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM101580.pdf

DESPITE THIS AND MUCH MORE... PARENTS ARE NOT INFORMED THAT AUTISM IS AN OUTCOME THAT THEIR CHILD MAY HAVE FROM VACCINES

B)  Despite the fact that HRSA has ruled that the Hepatitis B vaccine can cause the deadly conditions of Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus, parents are not informed of this on the CDC VIS sheets:

VICP ruled in the case of Tambra Harris, that the deadly illness "she had suffered as a result of receiving a hepatitis B vaccination was systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)."  (Note that ruling took ten years)
 - Louonia Denice Harris, Administratrix of the Estate of Tambra Harris, V. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, No. 01-499V, March 23, 2011, http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/CAMPBELL-SMITH.HARRIS032311.pdf

"Entitlement; Hep B vaccine; two months later, Devic's Disease (a variant of MS) then death."

- JANE DOE/29, Personal Representative of the Estate of DECEDENT, V. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, No. [redacted]V, January 16, 2009, http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/MILLMAN.DOE012109B_0.pdf

Despite this, CDC's web site claims the following:

"Numerous studies have evaluated a possible relationship between hepatitis B vaccination and multiple sclerosis (MS). The weight of the available scientific evidence does not support the suggestion that hepatitis B vaccine causes or worsens MS."

This leads is to an important question...

Why would HHS not want to disclose accurate risk information to parents? 

C)  HHS does not disclose that it is the patent holder on the HPV vaccine, and receives royalty checks on every dose of Merck's Gardasil and GSK's Cervarix.

HHS owns the patent through NIH, licenses the vaccine through FDA, recommends the vaccine through CDC, and is its own judge in vaccine injury cases through HRSA.

This gives HHS a powerful reason not to investigate Gardasil injury cases like Jenny Tetlock's.

In Conclusion:

The current VIS sheets DO NOT provide informed consent to parents in making vaccine decisions, and giving them to parents does not serve the stated intent of LD 672 "An Act Relating to Exemption from Immunization for Schoolchildren" to "provide to a parent of the child information about the benefits and risks of immunization..."

The Canary Party urges the State of Maine to engage in a thorough and critical examination of the CDC recommended vaccine schedule and undertake a dramatic overhaul of state vaccine policy and recommendations based in the information that has come to light on true vaccine risks in the last decade.

Vaccine policy should not be based merely on the reduction of communicable disease levels, but on overall health outcomes for children, including the true increased risk of autoimmune and neurological disorders that may be caused by an overaggressive and inappropriate vaccine schedule.

Electronic copies of this presentation and all documents can be found at:

Appendix

Research supporting the argument that vaccine induced brain injury can cause autism

1. Metabolic biomarkers of increased oxidative stress and impaired methylation capacity in children with autism

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 80, No. 6, 1611-1617, December 2004

2. Porphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder: Implications for environmental toxicity

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2006

3.  Vaccine Safety Study as an Interesting Case of "Over-Matching"

M. Catherine DeSoto and Robert T. Hitlan, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA

4. Uncoupling of ATP-mediated Calcium Signaling and Dysregulated IL-6 Secretion in Dendritic Cells by Nanomolar Thimerosal

Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2006.

5.  Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure

Entropy, November 7, 2012

6. Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Methylmercury or Vaccines Containing Thimerosal

Environmental Health Perspectives, Aug 2005.

7. Increases in the number of reactive glia in the visual cortex of Macaca fascicularis following subclinical long-term methyl mercury exposure.

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 1994

8. Neuroglial Activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Autism

Annals of Neurology, Feb 2005.

9. Autism: A Brain Disorder, or A Disorder That Affects the Brain?

Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2005

10.  Activation of Methionine Synthase by Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and Dopamine: a Target for Neurodevelopmental Toxins and Thimerosal

Molecular Psychiatry, July 2004.

11. Validation of the Phenomenon of Autistic Regression Using Home Videotapes

Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005 


12. Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 22, No. 11, 1308-1311 (2007)


13. Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism

Journal of Child Neurology / Volume 21, Number 2, February 2006


14. Oxidative Stress in Autism: Elevated Cerebellar 3-nitrotyrosine Levels

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4 (2): 73-84, 2008


15. Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive Abnormality

The Neuroscientist, Volume 11, Number 5, 2005.


16. Evidence of Toxicity, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Insult in Autism

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Nov-Dec 2006.


17. Oxidative Stress in Autism

Pathophysiology, 2006.


18. Thimerosal Neurotoxicity is Associated with Glutathione Depletion: Protection with Glutathione Precursors

Neurotoxicology, Jan 2005.


19. Aluminum adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor neuron death in mice

Neuromolecular Medicine, 2007


20. Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas

Health & Place, 2006


21. Autism Spectrum Disorders in Relation to Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the SF Bay Area

Environmental Health Perspectives – Vol. 114 No. 9, September, 2006


22. A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic Encephalopathies Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of Regressive Autistic Disorder

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2007


23. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and blood mercury level: a case-control study in chinese children

Neuropediatrics, August 2006 - P.R. Kong [Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong].


24. The Changing Prevalence of Autism In California 

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2003


25. Mitochondrial Energy-Deficient Endophenotype in Autism

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4 (2): 198-207, 2008


26. Bridging from Cells to Cognition in Autism Pathophysiology: Biological
Pathways to Defective Brain Function and Plasticity

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4 (2): 167-176, 2008


27. Heavy-Metal Toxicity—With Emphasis on Mercury

John Neustadt, ND, and Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD


28. Evidence of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism and Implications for Treatment

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4 (2): 208-217, 2008


29. Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence

Health & Place, 2008


30. Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorder in Portugal: prevalence, clinical characterization, and medical conditions

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007


31. Thimerosal induces neuronal cell apoptosis by causing cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor release from mitochondria.

International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2006


32. Mitochondrial mediated thimerosal-induced apoptosis in a human neuroblastoma cell line (SK-N-SH).

Neurotoxicology. 2005 


33. Possible Immunological Disorders in Autism: Concomitant Autoimmunity and Immune Tolerance 

The Egyptian Journal of Immunology, 2006 


34. Vaccines and Autism: What do Epidemiological Studies Really Tell Us

Coalition for SafeMinds

35. Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopmental disorders: An assessment of computerized medical records in the Vaccine Safety Datalink.

Young HA, Geier DA, Geier MR.


36. Glutathione, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration


Eur J Biochem. 2000 Aug;267(16):4904-11.



37. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1-9 years

Journal Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, Volume 90, Issue 5 September 2008 , pages 997 - 1008


38. Induction of metallothionein in mouse cerebellum and cerebrum with low-dose thimerosal injection.

Cell Biology and Toxicology. 2009 Apr 9. [Epub ahead of print]


39. Mercury induces inflammatory mediator release from human mast cells

Journal of Neuroinflammation 2010, 7:20 doi:10.1186/1742-2094-7-20


40. 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 Polish Neuroscience Society - PTBUN, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology


41. Cultured lymphocytes from autistic children and non-autistic siblings up-regulate heat shock protein RNA in response to thimerosal challenge.

Neurotoxicology. 2006 Sep;27(5):685-92. Epub 2006 Jun 16.


42. Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism

Annals of Epidemiology , Vol. 19, No. 9 ABSTRACTS (ACE), September 2009: 651-680, 
p. 659 


43. Neonatal administration of a vaccine preservative, thimerosal, produces lasting impairment of nociception and apparent activation of opioid system in rats.

Brain Res. 2009 Dec 8;1301:143-51. Epub 2009 Sep 9.


44. Sorting out the spinning of autism: heavy metals and the question of incidence

Acta Neurobiol Exp 2010, 70: 165–176


45. Urinary Porphyrin Excretion in Neurotypical and Autistic Children

Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Oct;118(10):1450-7. Epub 2010 Jun 24.

 46. Mitochondrial dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication 25 January 2011;doi: 10.1038/mp.2010.136


47. Sensitization effect of thimerosal is mediated in vitro via reactive oxygen species and calcium signaling.

Toxicology. 2010 July - August;274(1-3):1-9. Epub 2010 May 10.

Migdal C, Foggia L, Tailhardat M, Courtellemont P, Haftek M, Serres M.


50. Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review

Journal of Immunotoxicology, January-March 2011, Vol. 8, No. 1 , Pages 68-79


51. A Positive Association found between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination uptake across the U.S. Population

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: Current Issues
Volume 74, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 903 - 916


52. Ancestry of pink disease (infantile acrodynia) identified as a risk factor for autism spectrum disorders.

J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2011 Sep 15;74(18):1185-94.
Shandley K, Austin DW.


53. Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?

J Inorg Biochem. 2011 Nov;105(11):1489-99. Epub 2011 Aug 23.
Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA.


54. Lasting neuropathological changes in rat brain after intermittent neonatal administration of thimerosal.


55.  Hepatitis B vaccine induces apoptotic death in Hepa1-6 cells

Apoptosis. 2012 Jan 17.  Hamza H, Cao J, Li X, Li C, Zhu M, Zhao S.


56.  Risk Factors for Autistic Regression: Results of an Ambispective Cohort Study.

J Child Neurol. 2012 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]


57.  Adverse events following 12 and 18 month vaccinations: a population-based, self-controlled case series analysis.

PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e27897. Epub 2011 Dec 12.


58.  Administration of thimerosal to infant rats increases overflow of glutamate and aspartate in the prefrontal cortex: protective role of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.

Neurochem Res. 2012 Feb;37(2):436-47. Epub 2011 Oct 21.


59.  Neonatal Administration of Thimerosal Causes Persistent Changes in Mu Opioid Receptors in the Rat Brain

Neurochem Res. 2010 November; 35(11): 1840–1847.

60.  Unanswered Questions: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury

Pace Environmental Law Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2011

Jimmie's aha moment commercial:Mutual of Omaha tries to save cash by convincing parents to neglect their children's medical needs

So this is two years old, and apparently didn't make the rounds, but it is so bad I just have to call your attention to it. 

And insurance company trying to convince families to accept your child with autism just the way they are... SO WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR CHILD'S MEDICAL TREATMENT, OF COURSE!  

UN FREAKING BELIEVABLE!

Can you imagine:

"My name is Jimmie, and this is my aha moment.  My four year old son was diagnosed with food allergies, gut dysbiosis, brain inflammation and a mitochondrial disorder that causes brain dysfunction. As a dad you have all these goals and dreams and hopes for your son.  And you are faced with the knowledge that he may be dependent on you for the rest of his life.  I had to first realize that there's nothing wrong with him the way he is.  Its the world who views him differently.  I love him.  My son is fine just the way he is."

Insert PANDAS, Diabetes, Self-injurious Behavior, OCD, ADD, Learning Disabilities, Asthma or any disorder in the neuroimmune family.  The world just needs to accept those kids the way they are.  Cause insurance companies don't wanna pay for them!

Jimmie... dude... you have been used!

HT: Anne Dachel

Children with Autism Have Some Messed Up Metals

Sci Rep. 2013;3:1199. doi: 10.1038/srep01199. Epub 2013 Feb 4.

Estimation of autistic children by metallomics analysis.
Yasuda H, Kobayashi M, Yasuda Y, Tsutsui T.

Source
La Belle Vie Research Laboratory, 8-4 Nihonbashi-Tomizawacho , Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract
Clarification of the pathogenesis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders is one of the challenges today. In this study, we examine scalp hair concentrations of 26 trace elements for 1,967 children with autistic disorders (1,553 males and 414 females). Five-hundred and eighty-four (29.7%), 347 (17.6%) and 114 (5.8%) subjects was found deficient in zinc, magnesium and calcium, respectively, and 2.0% or less in the other essential metals. The incidence rate of mineral deficiency was highly observed in infants aged 0-3 year-old. In contrast, 339 (17.2%), 168 (8.5%) and 94 (4.8%) individuals was found suffering from high burden of aluminium, cadmium and lead, and 2.8% or less from mercury and arsenic burden. These findings suggest that infantile zinc- and magnesium-deficiency and/or toxic metal burdens may epigenetically play principal roles as environmental factors in autistic disorders and that metallomics approach may lead to early screening and prevention of the neurodevelopment disorders.

PMID:
    23383369
    [PubMed - in process]

The Autism Epidemic and The Broken Window Fallacy

At the behest of a good friend, I am currently reading "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt (because who wants to spend that much time in lessons in economics) and I am struck by the parallels between bad economic policy and bad medical policy.  I firmly believe that once you see corruption in a system that is close to you, that you are a part of, then it become difficult not to see it in all the systems you come in contact with, if, of course, you are willing to deal with so much harsh reality all at once.  Such has been my experience in... well every system I see since having my rose colored glasses ripped off after Chandler regressed.

I am also struck at how parsimonious and cogent Hazlitt is in his lesson in economics.  Only made more impressive as he wrote the lesson in 1946, yet so applicable is it that, but for the lofty language, one would think it was written yesterday.

Hazlitt's basic lesson in economics has merely two points:

1.  That bad economic policy stems from pressing agendas that benefit one group, but do not consider the outcomes for other groups (usually pushed through by moneyed/powerful interests that "will hire the best buyable minds to devote their whole time presenting its case.")

2.  That bad economic policy stems from short term thinking and ignores the long term consequences of such policies.

So at this point you can see where I am going with this, so I won't insult you by a lengthy explanation, but merely say:

1.  PHARMA

2.  "Good news, Dr. Gerberding... measles cases are down.  Sure 18% of children are permanently disabled or delayed, half of children are suffering from autoimmune/chronic illness and more than 1% have this neurological condition called, "Autism" that didn't exist 70 years ago and that we know is caused by vaccines, but hey... less easily treatable measles!!

The point comes shining through... both the economy and the human body are complex systems with mega trillions of working parts, and when we become so arrogant to believe we can understand, control and conquer them with out consequence .. well there are serious consequences to that serious lack of humility and wisdom.

He writes that, "therefore, the whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."

I have never had an economist reduce me to tears before.

But it is when we get to Hazlitt's application of that lesson that it becomes truly difficult for me.  He
shares Frédéric Bastiat's broken window illustration to point out how short sighted economists can be.

A young hoodlum, say, heaves a brick through the window of a baker’s shop. The shopkeeper runs out furious, but the boy is gone. A crowd gathers, and begins to stare with quiet satisfaction at the gaping hole in the window and the shattered glass over the bread and pies. After a while the crowd feels the need for philosophic reflection. And several of its members are almost certain to remind each other or the baker that, after all, the misfortune has its bright side. It will make business for some glazier. As they begin to think of this they elaborate upon it. How much does a new plate glass window cost? Fifty dollars? That will be quite a sum. After all, if windows were never broken, what would happen to the glass business? Then, of course, the thing is endless. The glazier will have $50 more to spend with other merchants, and these in turn will have $50 more to spend with still other merchants, and so ad infinitum. The smashed window will go on providing money and employment in ever-widening circles. The logical conclusion from all this would be, if the crowd drew it, that the little hoodlum who threw the brick, far from being a public menace, was a public benefactor.

Now let us take another look. The crowd is at least right in its first conclusion. This little act of vandalism will in the first instance mean more business for some glazier. The glazier will be no more unhappy to learn of the incident than an undertaker to learn of a death. But the shopkeeper will be out $50 that he was planning to spend for a  new suit. Because he has had to replace a window, he will have to go without the suit (or some equivalent need or luxury). Instead of having a window and $50 he now has merely a window. Or, as he was planning to buy the suit that very afternoon, instead of having both a window and a suit he must be content with the window and no suit.  If we think of him as a part of the community, the community has lost a new suit that might otherwise have come into being, and is just that much poorer.

The glazier’s gain of business, in short, is merely the tailor’s loss of business. No new employment” has been added. The people in the crowd were thinking only of two parties to the ransaction, the baker and the glazier. They had forgotten the potential third party involved, the tailor. They forgot him precisely because he will not now enter the scene. They will see the new window in the next day or two. They will never see the extra suit, precisely because it will never be made. They see only what is immediately visible to the eye.

The "broken window theory" will be immediately recognizable to any Fifth Element fans, as it is used by Gary Oldman's villain character, "Zorg," to justify his being in league with an entity that wants to destroy the planet, to Sir Ian Holm's priestly character, Father Vito Cornelius.  This scene contrasts the character and motivations of the two men, showing one to be a heartless (and sociopathic) pragmatist out for his own gain, and the other to be one who cares about the lives of people, even "Loving his enemy," when the evil man's life momentarily falls into his hands.



To subscribers to the broken window theory, war is good, natural disasters are "stimulus", disease is profit and shattered lives are economic opportunities.

The broken window story is hard for me, first, because my son is the young hoodlum who has broken the window.  Several windows in fact.  If you drive by our house, you will note that the windows on either side of our door are broken.  One side held together with duct tape, and the other is boarded up on the bottom.  If you sand in our back yard, you will note that the garage windows are boarded up.  They were casualties of Chandler's 2008/2009 "I apparently love the cool sound of breaking glass" phase.  We fixed the window panes in the basement, my bedroom and our office, because... well... don't wanna look completely white trash and all, but left the ones that were most vulnerable to re-assault as they were, vowing to fix them once he got past the fixation.  I suppose now it would be safe to fix them this summer.  But then again what autism family has extra money to fix broken windows?

But I will never forget the panic of chasing him from room to room as he held a large glass juice bottle and tried to throw it any window he could get close to.  Or the anger at those who did this to him, when I heard a crash and ran into the entry way to see him reach out to grab the large shards left in the window frame and slice his fingers open before I could grab him.  Or the hart failure I experienced the following morning when I was scared shitless awake by the sound Chandler throwing a chunk of metal at a different pane in the same window in the entry, and begging God to let me fly down the stairs to stop him before he opened up an artery.

But the hardest thing about reading the broken window theory is knowing that to many out there, Chandler is the broken window and Dr. Julie Gerberding is the hoodlum turned "public benefactor."  That our children are an economic opportunity that has opened up a 137 billion dollar per year industry (that Pharma is rushing to make bank off of with more psych meds).  That Autism Speaks represents that they serve our families, when in truth Bernie Marcus set it up to funnel private and corporate donations back to the CDC and the CDC Foundation to fund CDC research for a condition unrepentantly caused by the CDC.

Need your work on robots financed?  Put the word "autism" in your research grant and your department can be funded for another year.  Don't worry if it silly, or ineffective or doesn't improves the lives of people whose CNS is on fire, all you have to do is, "Think its a good area to explore."  Hell... make your DNA research about autism, and you can get funded for decades with out ever coming up with a treatment or even replaceable results!

This year I talked to a Mother Warrior/Medical Professional who attended a hospital board meeting where the CEO, not considering that it was an open meeting, lamented their low profits to the audience, and opined that what they really needed was a good epidemic.

And of course, the master of doing nothing about autism, the man who has managed to look busy for six years while getting paid to allow the autism rate to double, Thomas Insel.

Insel heads the Federal Government's Autism efforts, fully admits that greater than 80% of autism cases are environmental, and yet wasted more than SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS on genetic and non-environmental research.  Can we come to any other conclusion than Insel and Zorg hold the same economic theory and contempt for humanity?

Boy... that $700 million + sure has funded a lot of busy work in the name of servicing those broken windows.  No autism preventions of course.  And no treatments.  We need those windows to keep breaking and stay broken.  Industry and the economy depend on it, right?

But the Grand Prize has to go to the APA, for DSM 5, which will make every person in this country diagnosable with a mental illness and "treatable" via psych meds with horrible and sometimes deadly "side effects."  What could possibly go wrong there?




So to rephrase:

1.  That bad medical policy stems from pressing agendas that benefit one group, but do not consider the outcomes for other groups (usually pushed through by moneyed/powerful interests that "will hire the best buyable minds to devote their whole time presenting its case.")

2.  That bad medical policy stems from short term thinking and ignores the long term consequences of such policies.

Props to Henry Hazlitt for making bad theory and practice so easy to see.  I highly recommend the quick read.  Free PDF can be found here.

Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure

Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure

Entropy, November 7, 2012

Stephanie Seneff, Robert M. Davidson and Jingjing Liu

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA,  Internal Medicine Group Practice, PhyNet, Inc., Longview, TX 75604, USA

Abstract: Autism is a condition characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, associated with compromised immune function. The incidence is alarmingly on the rise, and environmental factors are increasingly suspected to play a role. This paper investigates word frequency patterns in the U.S. CDC Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database. Our results provide strong evidence supporting a link between autism and the aluminum in vaccines. A literature review showing toxicity of aluminum in human physiology offers further support. Mentions of autism in VAERS increased steadily at the end of the last century, during a period when mercury was being phased out, while aluminum adjuvant burden was being increased. Using standard log-likelihood ratio techniques, we identify several signs and symptoms that are significantly more prevalent in vaccine reports after 2000, including cellulitis, seizure, depression, fatigue, pain and death, which are also significantly associated with aluminum-containing vaccines. We propose that children with the autism diagnosis are especially vulnerable to toxic metals such as aluminum and mercury due to insufficient serum sulfate and glutathione. A strong correlation between autism and the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine is also observed, which may be partially explained via an increased sensitivity to acetaminophen administered to control fever.

Vaccine Epidemic Out in Paperback

Well turns out our little book was in demand, so we have issued it in paperback.  It is updated and expanded.  Some great new material in there.  And my chapter on the government shenanigans on the vaccine autism question is updated.  A little preview below:

Vaccines and Autism

The current CDC web site offers this response to the question, “Do vaccines cause autism spectrum disorders?”

“A: [There are] many studies that have looked at whether there is a relationship between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). To date, the studies continue to show that vaccines are not [sic] associated with ASDs.”^[i]

This statement does not accurately depict the state of vaccine safety science today. While some studies do not find evidence of an association between vaccines, heavy metal components such as thimerosal, and autism, many do. The peer-reviewed meta-analysis released by DeSoto and Hitlan, addressed in Chapter 7 (“An Urgent Call for More Research), found that 74 percent of the relevant studies support an association between autism and heavy metals such as thimerosal and autism.

Contrary to the CDC’s statement, there are now approximately 60 studies that support the autism-vaccine causation theory.^[ii] However, parents, attempting to make fully informed decisions about vaccinating their children, who Google “Do vaccines cause autism spectrum disorders?" will see the page containing the CDC's inaccurate claim as the first search result that is returned to them. The trust those parents have that the government is giving them accurate information is misplaced.

            In early 2012, in preparation for the paperback version of Vaccine Epidemic, CDC was contacted directly to ascertain their current stance on vaccine autism causation.  Thomas W. Skinner of the Centers for Disease Control, Office of the Director, Office of the Associate Director for Communication responded:

“Subject:          Re: MI-Normal-Book author-Autism/Vaccine

Date:   Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:32:40 +0000

From:   Skinner, Thomas W. (CDC/OD/OADC) <tws3@cdc.gov>

To:       'ginger@adventuresinautism.com'

            Autism presents difficult challenges for thousands of families across the United States.  Scientists do not know what causes autism.  However, very thorough studies conducted by some of the world’s brightest scientists simply do not point to an association between vaccines and autism.  Hopefully additional research will someday provide answers as to what is the cause or causes of autism.”

            Because this statement is inconsistent with current research, I sent Mr. Skinner a follow-up email, in which I brought to his attention a list of sixty studies (listed in Appendix) that point to an association between vaccines and autism.   I had three inquiries:  1) the list of studies that "do not point to an association between vaccines and autism; " 2) the reasons for the CDC’s failure to mention any of the studies that point to an association between vaccines and autism; and 3) the  person or panel responsible for approving his statement.

            No reply was forthcoming from the CDC as of the publication of this edition.

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^[i]  http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/topics.html, Page last reviewed: May 13, 2010, Page last updated: May 13, 2010

^[ii] Ginger Taylor “No Evidence of Any Link,” AdventuresInAutism.com, June 14^th, 2007, accessed May 1st, 2012, http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html