Video Information
Vaccines can be extremely harmful to your health. The "Vaccine Zombie" song and music video features dancing zombie characters singing about the side effects of vaccination. Lyrics, downloadable MP3 files, ringtones and more are available at http://www.vaccinezombie.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
EXCERPT:
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs; CAS number 1336-36-3 ) are a class of organic compounds with 1 to 10 chlorine atoms attached to biphenyl, which is a molecule composed of two benzene rings. The chemical formula for PCBs is C12H10-xClx. PCBs were widely used for many applications, especially as dielectric fluids in transformers, capacitors, and coolants. Due to PCB's toxicity and classification as a persistent organic pollutant, PCB production was banned by the United States Congress in 1979 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001. Concerns about the toxicity of PCBs are largely based on compounds within this group which share a structural similarity and toxic mode of action with dioxin. Toxic effects such as endocrine disruption and neurotoxicity are also associated with other compounds within the group.
http://www.thenaturalrecoveryplan.com/articles/Toxins-in-the-oceans.html
Toxins in the Oceans
This video of a talk by the marine biology Professor Stephen Palumbi brings home the devastating effect of toxins in the oceans on the food pyramid which bio-concentrates and bio-accumulates toxins up the food chain.
Click to watch Professor Palumbi talk (16 mins)
This means that animals such as dolphins which are at the top of the food chain become repositories for toxins such as PCBs and mercury which are stored in the animal's body fat.
The dolphin mothers then unwittingly pass on the stored toxins in their breast milk to their calves resulting in up to 60% of the first born calves dying as a result. Subsequent calves survive because the mother has effectively had the opportunity to detoxify into her first born.
In Japan, he found that much of the meat labelled as whale meat was, in fact, dolphin meat and whilst this is a tragedy for the dolphins who are supposed to be a protected species, it is also a disaster for the humans who are inadvertently eating meat that may contain up to 400X the permitted amount of toxins allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
This may be a particular human tragedy if the consumer is either pregnant or breastfeeding as the toxins are passed directly to the developing embryo or baby.
Professor Palumbi also talks about how toxins promote the growth of various pathogens in the oceans.
These statistics are very much borne out by the statistics in humans. First, there is a very high miscarriage rate believed to be about 70%. Second, there is also a higher incidence of many disorders including Down's syndrome and autism in children born to older mothers who have had longer to accumulate a significant toxin burden. Finally, the oldest child is more likely to be affected by autism and this is especially the case with boys who are 4 times more likely to be autistic. This is thought to be due to the interaction between testosterone and mercury and other toxins which potentiates the effect of the toxin.
Further resources
Click the appropriate link to view a series of videos about autism and toxicity: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 or click to view more related videos.
Alternatively, click to read articles entitled Dolphin Therapy and Mercury Contamination: Which Tuna? or for a video about getting the benefits of omega 3 oils without the contaminants.
Toxins in the oceans: Article summary
This short article links to a video of a talk by Stephen Palumbi, a professor of marine biology, who relates the devastating effects of toxin bio-accumulation and bio-concentration up the food pyramid in the oceans. Dolphins, who are at the top of this pyramid unwittingly pass their toxin load to their first calf in their breastmilk resulting in up to 60% of first born calves dying. This has direct implications and parallels for humans who are also top of the food chain.
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/04/mercury-testost.html
April 21, 2008
MERCURY, TESTOSTERONE AND AUTISM - A REALLY BIG IDEA!
By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University Research Center created a firestorm of controversy a few years ago with his claim that autism was the result of an “extreme male brain”.
Dr. Mark Geier and his son David believe Baron-Cohen may be exactly right. I recently spoke with David Geier about these issues.
According to David Geier, the father-son team first became interested in this question after viewing a poster in which Dr. Boyd Haley showed how the addition of even a small amount of testosterone greatly enhanced the destructive power of mercury.
Through the work of Dr. Jill James, the Geiers were aware that people with autism had significantly lower levels of glutathione. In their investigations the Geiers found that testosterone blocks the body’s ability to make glutathione and that mercury binds to glutathione, thus inactivating whatever stores the body may already have.
According to the Geiers mercury also raises testosterone levels, while dramatically lowering glutathione. At special risk would be those individuals who have a family history of low estrogen and high testosterone. The Geiers' theory might tie together several disparate findings and give hope for those children who have not fully recovered through bio-medical interventions.
A known side-effect of high testosterone is precocious puberty, or the early development of adult features in children. When the Geiers went looking for signs of precocious puberty in the autistic children in their clinic they found it in approximately 80% of their patients.
According to the Breast Cancer Fund, over the past forty years the age of puberty in girls has dropped one to two years. The Geiers believe this is a population-wide effect of mercury from the vaccines. When the Geiers tested seventy children with autism for abnormal testosterone levels they found results outside the normal range in approximately one-quarter to one-third of their patients.
Curiously, the affected girls seemed to have even higher testosterone levels than the affected boys, leading the Geiers to conclude that was necessary to overcome the naturally protective effects of estrogen.
The testosterone molecule is also the perfect shape so that when it is combined with mercury the mercury will be tightly bound to the testosterone, making it impossible to remove from the body with chelators.
Let me say that again.
Testosterone binds with mercury, thus rendering it invulnerable to chelators. The chelators can then only pick up the free-floating heavy metals. If true, this is extremely important revelation.
Fortunately, traditional medicine has made tremendous inroads in moderating abnormal hormone levels. The drug Lupron has been used for many years to lower testosterone and has an excellent safety record according to the Geiers, with many people remaining on it for five to ten years. It is the treatment of choice among medical professionals for precocious puberty.
The Geiers theorized that if they were able to temporarily turn off testosterone production with lupron, they might be able to release these trapped stores of mercury.
In a discussion with a fellow medical professional the Geiers were curious as to whether anybody had tested what increased testosterone would do to normally developing children. The medical professional told them that testosterone shots were routinely done for boys who have undescended testes. Perhaps it’s not surprising, but during the course of the therapy the boys exhibit obsessive-compulsive traits, and near-autistic like tendencies which fade in the months following the end of treatment.
The Geiers claim to have treated more than two hundred patients with a combination of lupron until the point at which testosterone levels normalize, then DMSA to chelate out any remaining mercury. According to David Geier, there have been tremendous changes, “almost like a light switch” as these children make rapid improvements.
Treatment of children with autism by lupron seems to have some unique characteristics. Normally, a single injection of lupron is enough to bring down testosterone levels to normal levels, but when children with autism are administered lupron their testosterone levels often go up. At first it was theorized that this represented lupron resistance, although the makers of the drug when contacted by the Geiers claimed to have never heard of such a result.
For lack of a better description, it seemed as if the bodies of children with autism were “stuffed” with testosterone and as the body’s natural production of testosterone was temporarily interrupted it came pouring out of the body’s hidden stores. A modified lupron protocol was then created, with testing of testosterone levels guiding more frequent administration of the drug until testosterone levels are normalized.
The Geiers have found that the best results are achieved when patients are given a slow-release shot, and a daily injection.
The earliest patient was Wesley Sykes, whose mother is the Reverend Lisa Sykes of the Christ United Methodist Church in Richmond, Virginia. Three years ago, when Wesley was nine-years-old the Geiers told her about this idea. Besides being non-verbal, nine-year-old Wesley was having erections in the shower, masturbating, sporting peach fuzz, and had a two-inch growth spurt which Lisa had attributed to his good health. After talking with the Geiers it became clear to Lisa that Wesley was experiencing precocious puberty.
Working in concert with Dr. Mary Megson, it was discovered that Wesley did indeed have high testosterone levels.
As the first patient the Geiers were surprised to find that a lupron shot which should have taken Wesley’s testosterone levels from 25 to 0, only reduced it to 18. During that time, though, there were significant changes in Wesley, such as reduced hyperactivity, being able to swing on a swing, and beginning verbalizations. Consistent testing of testosterone levels guided the Geiers in how often to administer the lupron.
In an interview with Reverand Sykes which can be found on the internet, she recounted how she and the Geiers came to the conclusion that the testosterone had “bonded to mercury and soaked into his tissues.”
In the same interview Sykes recounts how the age of puberty in the United States has dropped two years, while in Scandinavian countries which demanded thimerosal-free vaccines in 1991, there has been no drop in the age of puberty.
The identification of testosterone with mercury retention might also explain another one of the long-standing mysteries of autism, namely why so many children with autism develop seizures in adolescence.
According to Reverend Sykes, it might be because their already high testosterone levels are pushed from “the stratosphere into orbit” by the additional testosterone production which accompanies the change to adulthood. The high testosterone produces seizures and aggressive behavior.
Now twelve years old, Wesley is reported by his mother to be extremely calm, typing with a keyboard, affectionate and interactive. In addition, the inappropriate sexual behavior vanished and with his keyboard he seems to have a fairly good grasp of his emotions and what is happening around him.
When a therapist was late for a session, he became agitated and when she later questioned him he was why he was upset he typed back, "I miss u." Another time he did not seem to be interested in a computer game suggested by his therapist and wrote to her, "This sucks."
While his receptive language is excellent, his verbal language opened in brief windows during the lupron treatments, but did not remain. They are continuing with the therapy as his porphyrin tests indicate some mercury still remains in his body.
Personal Thoughts
I believe this may be an enormous advance in our understanding, while giving hope to those children who have not received the full benefits of a chelation protocol. In short, why do some children recover and others seem to hit a wall beyond which they don't improve?
Other physicians, like Dr. Jeff Bradstreet are looking at the usage of other medications, like spironolactone as a hormone modulator. There may be other ways to moderate testosterone levels in autistic children if indeed they are shown to be abnormal.
In a previous column I recounted how a hormone test showed my daughter to have high testosterone levels and our doctor is looking to treat it first with supplements because she likes to be conservative.
I am heartened by the claim of David Geier that this is something you can get any endocrinologist to test, and if the testosterone level comes back high, lupron is their treatment of choice.
The only caveat is the understanding that children with autism are not likely to respond in a normal fashion so there needs to be more frequent monitoring of hormone levels.
This is a really big idea. Wouldn't it be great if this turned out to be another big piece in the struggle to get all our children back?
If you’d like to view interviews with either the Geiers or Reverend Lisa Sykes click HERE.
Kent Heckenlively is Legal Editor of Age of Autism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geier
EXCERPT:
Mark R. Geier (born 1948, Washington, D.C.) is a self-employed American geneticist and physician, and a controversial professional witness who has testified in more than 90 cases regarding injury or illness caused by vaccines.[1][2] Geier is a founding associate member of the American College of Medical Genetics. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 10 years, and previously was an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) from 1979–1982 and an assistant research professor, department of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD) from 1981-1984.
Geier and his son, David Geier, are frequently cited by proponents of the claim that vaccines cause autism. Geier's credibility as an expert witness has been questioned in several court cases. In 2003, a judge ruled that Geier presented himself as an expert witness in "areas for which he has no training, expertise and experience."[1] In other cases in which Geier has testified, judges have labeled his testimony "intellectually dishonest," "not reliable" and "wholly unqualified."[1] Another judge wrote that Geier "may be clever, but he is not credible."[3]
Geier's scientific work has also been criticized; when the Institute of Medicine reviewed vaccine safety in 2004, it dismissed Geier's work as seriously flawed, "uninterpretable", and marred by incorrect use of scientific terms.[1] In 2003, the American Academy of Pediatrics criticized one of Geier's studies, which claimed a link between vaccines and autism, as containing "numerous conceptual and scientific flaws, omissions of fact, inaccuracies, and misstatements."[4] New Scientist reported that the institutional review board which approved some of Geier's experiments with autistic children was located at Geier's business address and included Geier, his son and wife, a business partner of Geier's, and a plaintiff's lawyer involved in vaccine lititgation.[5] In January 2007, a paper by the Geiers was retracted by the journal Autoimmunity Reviews.[2]
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CDC+Scandal+Emerges+--+Study+Attempts+Cover+Up+of+Autism-Mercury+Link...-a0109578845
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. study looking at Vaccine Safety Datalink The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse side effects of vaccines. (VSD VSD
abbr.
ventricular septal defect) data, published today in Pediatrics, is believed to contain fraudulent scientific data. The study reports no statistically-significant link between autism, ADHD Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Definition
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder characterized by distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsive behaviors, and the inability to remain focused on tasks or , and developmental delays and the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosal thimerosal /thi·mero·sal/ (thi-mer´o-sal) an organomercurial antiseptic that is antifungal and bacteriostatic for many nonsporulating bacteria, used as a topical antiinfective and as a pharmaceutical preservative. . All of these disorders were found in the CDC's original investigation and have been removed.
CDC - Control Data Corporation
VSD
ventricular septal defect.
VSD Ventricular septal defect, see there; also virtually safe dose
Today's Washington Times reports that U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL), a physician, said in a letter to Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the CDC, "I have reviewed the article and have serious reservations about the four-year evolution and conclusions of this study." And, "I found a disturbing pattern which merits a thorough, open, timely, and independent review by researchers outside of the CDC, HHS HHS Department of Health and Human Services. , the vaccine industry, and others with a conflict of interest in vaccine related issues."
Dr. Tom Verstraeten, the lead investigator in the original study and author of the current article, is employed by vaccine-manufacturer giant GlaxoSmithKline, although the current article fails to disclose the clear conflict of interest.
The original February 2000 version of the VSD study, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), found that exposure to just three mercury- containing vaccines within the first three months of life could make children nearly two and one half times more likely to develop autism than children not exposed. The symptoms of autism mimic those of mercury poisoning.
A CDC meeting was held in June 2000 to discuss the original study's findings. Transcripts, also obtained through FOIA, reveal CDC researchers and others conspiring to deliberately deceive the American people by minimizing the ill-affects of thimerosal.
Dr. Robert Brent, of Thomas Jefferson University and the Dupont Hospital for Children said, " ... we are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits if they were initiated and I am concerned."
Dr. Tom Verstraeten said, "...we have found statistically significant relationships between the exposures and outcomes for these different exposures and outcomes..." Also, "But one thing that is for sure, there is certainly an under-ascertainment of all of these because some of the children are just not old enough to be diagnosed."
Bill Weil, M.D., representing the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), said, "You can play with this all you want. [The numbers] are linear. They are statistically significant."
When discussing data manipulation, Dr. Philip Rhodes, a statistician at the CDC and co-author of both studies said, "So you can push, I can pull. But there has been substantial movement from this very highly significant result down to a fairly marginal result."
Dr. Mark Geier and MedCon, Inc. President, David Geier, are independent researchers, who at the behest of the U.S. Congress have analyzed the VSD data. They found an overwhelming epidemiological confirmation of a direct link between thimerosal and autism. In fact, the researchers found that the risk is comparable to smoking and lung cancer. Their study will be published in December in the peer-reviewed journal, Expert Review of Vaccines.
A study published this summer in a peer-reviewed journal by Dr. Jeff Bradstreet found mercury concentrations were significantly higher in children with autism vs. normal controls.
Another recent study published by independent researchers analyzed the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (VAERS,) a cooperative program of the CDC and FDA. This study found children were six times more likely to have autism after thimerosal-containing vaccines than children not exposed.
A July 2003 UPI Report found, after a four-month investigation, a web of close ties between the agency and the companies that make vaccines.
For copies of studies, data manipulation analysis, and CDC Meeting transcripts, visit http://www.momsonamissionforautism.com/
According to the Geiers mercury also raises testosterone levels, while dramatically lowering glutathione. At special risk would be those individuals who have a family history of low estrogen and high testosterone. The Geiers' theory might tie together several disparate findings and give hope for those children who have not fully recovered through bio-medical interventions.
A known side-effect of high testosterone is precocious puberty, or the early development of adult features in children. When the Geiers went looking for signs of precocious puberty in the autistic children in their clinic they found it in approximately 80% of their patients.
According to the Breast Cancer Fund, over the past forty years the age of puberty in girls has dropped one to two years. The Geiers believe this is a population-wide effect of mercury from the vaccines. When the Geiers tested seventy children with autism for abnormal testosterone levels they found results outside the normal range in approximately one-quarter to one-third of their patients.
Curiously, the affected girls seemed to have even higher testosterone levels than the affected boys, leading the Geiers to conclude that was necessary to overcome the naturally protective effects of estrogen.
The testosterone molecule is also the perfect shape so that when it is combined with mercury the mercury will be tightly bound to the testosterone, making it impossible to remove from the body with chelators.
Let me say that again.
Testosterone binds with mercury, thus rendering it invulnerable to chelators. The chelators can then only pick up the free-floating heavy metals. If true, this is extremely important revelation.
Fortunately, traditional medicine has made tremendous inroads in moderating abnormal hormone levels. The drug Lupron has been used for many years to lower testosterone and has an excellent safety record according to the Geiers, with many people remaining on it for five to ten years. It is the treatment of choice among medical professionals for precocious puberty.
The Geiers theorized that if they were able to temporarily turn off testosterone production with lupron, they might be able to release these trapped stores of mercury.
In a discussion with a fellow medical professional the Geiers were curious as to whether anybody had tested what increased testosterone would do to normally developing children. The medical professional told them that testosterone shots were routinely done for boys who have undescended testes. Perhaps it’s not surprising, but during the course of the therapy the boys exhibit obsessive-compulsive traits, and near-autistic like tendencies which fade in the months following the end of treatment.
The Geiers claim to have treated more than two hundred patients with a combination of lupron until the point at which testosterone levels normalize, then DMSA to chelate out any remaining mercury. According to David Geier, there have been tremendous changes, “almost like a light switch” as these children make rapid improvements.
Treatment of children with autism by lupron seems to have some unique characteristics. Normally, a single injection of lupron is enough to bring down testosterone levels to normal levels, but when children with autism are administered lupron their testosterone levels often go up. At first it was theorized that this represented lupron resistance, although the makers of the drug when contacted by the Geiers claimed to have never heard of such a result.
For lack of a better description, it seemed as if the bodies of children with autism were “stuffed” with testosterone and as the body’s natural production of testosterone was temporarily interrupted it came pouring out of the body’s hidden stores. A modified lupron protocol was then created, with testing of testosterone levels guiding more frequent administration of the drug until testosterone levels are normalized.
The Geiers have found that the best results are achieved when patients are given a slow-release shot, and a daily injection.
The earliest patient was Wesley Sykes, whose mother is the Reverend Lisa Sykes of the Christ United Methodist Church in Richmond, Virginia. Three years ago, when Wesley was nine-years-old the Geiers told her about this idea. Besides being non-verbal, nine-year-old Wesley was having erections in the shower, masturbating, sporting peach fuzz, and had a two-inch growth spurt which Lisa had attributed to his good health. After talking with the Geiers it became clear to Lisa that Wesley was experiencing precocious puberty.
Working in concert with Dr. Mary Megson, it was discovered that Wesley did indeed have high testosterone levels.
As the first patient the Geiers were surprised to find that a lupron shot which should have taken Wesley’s testosterone levels from 25 to 0, only reduced it to 18. During that time, though, there were significant changes in Wesley, such as reduced hyperactivity, being able to swing on a swing, and beginning verbalizations. Consistent testing of testosterone levels guided the Geiers in how often to administer the lupron.
In an interview with Reverand Sykes which can be found on the internet, she recounted how she and the Geiers came to the conclusion that the testosterone had “bonded to mercury and soaked into his tissues.”
In the same interview Sykes recounts how the age of puberty in the United States has dropped two years, while in Scandinavian countries which demanded thimerosal-free vaccines in 1991, there has been no drop in the age of puberty.
The identification of testosterone with mercury retention might also explain another one of the long-standing mysteries of autism, namely why so many children with autism develop seizures in adolescence.
According to Reverend Sykes, it might be because their already high testosterone levels are pushed from “the stratosphere into orbit” by the additional testosterone production which accompanies the change to adulthood. The high testosterone produces seizures and aggressive behavior.
Now twelve years old, Wesley is reported by his mother to be extremely calm, typing with a keyboard, affectionate and interactive. In addition, the inappropriate sexual behavior vanished and with his keyboard he seems to have a fairly good grasp of his emotions and what is happening around him.
When a therapist was late for a session, he became agitated and when she later questioned him he was why he was upset he typed back, "I miss u." Another time he did not seem to be interested in a computer game suggested by his therapist and wrote to her, "This sucks."
While his receptive language is excellent, his verbal language opened in brief windows during the lupron treatments, but did not remain. They are continuing with the therapy as his porphyrin tests indicate some mercury still remains in his body.
Personal Thoughts
I believe this may be an enormous advance in our understanding, while giving hope to those children who have not received the full benefits of a chelation protocol. In short, why do some children recover and others seem to hit a wall beyond which they don't improve?
Other physicians, like Dr. Jeff Bradstreet are looking at the usage of other medications, like spironolactone as a hormone modulator. There may be other ways to moderate testosterone levels in autistic children if indeed they are shown to be abnormal.
In a previous column I recounted how a hormone test showed my daughter to have high testosterone levels and our doctor is looking to treat it first with supplements because she likes to be conservative.
I am heartened by the claim of David Geier that this is something you can get any endocrinologist to test, and if the testosterone level comes back high, lupron is their treatment of choice.
The only caveat is the understanding that children with autism are not likely to respond in a normal fashion so there needs to be more frequent monitoring of hormone levels.
This is a really big idea. Wouldn't it be great if this turned out to be another big piece in the struggle to get all our children back?
If you’d like to view interviews with either the Geiers or Reverend Lisa Sykes click HERE.
Kent Heckenlively is Legal Editor of Age of Autism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geier
EXCERPT:
Mark R. Geier (born 1948, Washington, D.C.) is a self-employed American geneticist and physician, and a controversial professional witness who has testified in more than 90 cases regarding injury or illness caused by vaccines.[1][2] Geier is a founding associate member of the American College of Medical Genetics. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 10 years, and previously was an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) from 1979–1982 and an assistant research professor, department of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD) from 1981-1984.
Geier and his son, David Geier, are frequently cited by proponents of the claim that vaccines cause autism. Geier's credibility as an expert witness has been questioned in several court cases. In 2003, a judge ruled that Geier presented himself as an expert witness in "areas for which he has no training, expertise and experience."[1] In other cases in which Geier has testified, judges have labeled his testimony "intellectually dishonest," "not reliable" and "wholly unqualified."[1] Another judge wrote that Geier "may be clever, but he is not credible."[3]
Geier's scientific work has also been criticized; when the Institute of Medicine reviewed vaccine safety in 2004, it dismissed Geier's work as seriously flawed, "uninterpretable", and marred by incorrect use of scientific terms.[1] In 2003, the American Academy of Pediatrics criticized one of Geier's studies, which claimed a link between vaccines and autism, as containing "numerous conceptual and scientific flaws, omissions of fact, inaccuracies, and misstatements."[4] New Scientist reported that the institutional review board which approved some of Geier's experiments with autistic children was located at Geier's business address and included Geier, his son and wife, a business partner of Geier's, and a plaintiff's lawyer involved in vaccine lititgation.[5] In January 2007, a paper by the Geiers was retracted by the journal Autoimmunity Reviews.[2]
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CDC+Scandal+Emerges+--+Study+Attempts+Cover+Up+of+Autism-Mercury+Link...-a0109578845
CDC Scandal Emerges -- Study Attempts Cover Up of Autism-Mercury Link - Congressman Dave Weldon, M.D., Asks CDC for Investigation; ORIGINAL CDC Study found 'increasing risks of neurologic developmental disorders with increasing cumulative exposure to thimerosal...' Now, third revision of same study finds no link.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. study looking at Vaccine Safety Datalink The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse side effects of vaccines. (VSD VSD
abbr.
ventricular septal defect) data, published today in Pediatrics, is believed to contain fraudulent scientific data. The study reports no statistically-significant link between autism, ADHD Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Definition
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder characterized by distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsive behaviors, and the inability to remain focused on tasks or , and developmental delays and the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosal thimerosal /thi·mero·sal/ (thi-mer´o-sal) an organomercurial antiseptic that is antifungal and bacteriostatic for many nonsporulating bacteria, used as a topical antiinfective and as a pharmaceutical preservative. . All of these disorders were found in the CDC's original investigation and have been removed.
CDC - Control Data Corporation
VSD
ventricular septal defect.
VSD Ventricular septal defect, see there; also virtually safe dose
Today's Washington Times reports that U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL), a physician, said in a letter to Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the CDC, "I have reviewed the article and have serious reservations about the four-year evolution and conclusions of this study." And, "I found a disturbing pattern which merits a thorough, open, timely, and independent review by researchers outside of the CDC, HHS HHS Department of Health and Human Services. , the vaccine industry, and others with a conflict of interest in vaccine related issues."
Dr. Tom Verstraeten, the lead investigator in the original study and author of the current article, is employed by vaccine-manufacturer giant GlaxoSmithKline, although the current article fails to disclose the clear conflict of interest.
The original February 2000 version of the VSD study, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), found that exposure to just three mercury- containing vaccines within the first three months of life could make children nearly two and one half times more likely to develop autism than children not exposed. The symptoms of autism mimic those of mercury poisoning.
A CDC meeting was held in June 2000 to discuss the original study's findings. Transcripts, also obtained through FOIA, reveal CDC researchers and others conspiring to deliberately deceive the American people by minimizing the ill-affects of thimerosal.
Dr. Robert Brent, of Thomas Jefferson University and the Dupont Hospital for Children said, " ... we are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits if they were initiated and I am concerned."
Dr. Tom Verstraeten said, "...we have found statistically significant relationships between the exposures and outcomes for these different exposures and outcomes..." Also, "But one thing that is for sure, there is certainly an under-ascertainment of all of these because some of the children are just not old enough to be diagnosed."
Bill Weil, M.D., representing the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), said, "You can play with this all you want. [The numbers] are linear. They are statistically significant."
When discussing data manipulation, Dr. Philip Rhodes, a statistician at the CDC and co-author of both studies said, "So you can push, I can pull. But there has been substantial movement from this very highly significant result down to a fairly marginal result."
Dr. Mark Geier and MedCon, Inc. President, David Geier, are independent researchers, who at the behest of the U.S. Congress have analyzed the VSD data. They found an overwhelming epidemiological confirmation of a direct link between thimerosal and autism. In fact, the researchers found that the risk is comparable to smoking and lung cancer. Their study will be published in December in the peer-reviewed journal, Expert Review of Vaccines.
A study published this summer in a peer-reviewed journal by Dr. Jeff Bradstreet found mercury concentrations were significantly higher in children with autism vs. normal controls.
Another recent study published by independent researchers analyzed the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (VAERS,) a cooperative program of the CDC and FDA. This study found children were six times more likely to have autism after thimerosal-containing vaccines than children not exposed.
A July 2003 UPI Report found, after a four-month investigation, a web of close ties between the agency and the companies that make vaccines.
For copies of studies, data manipulation analysis, and CDC Meeting transcripts, visit http://www.momsonamissionforautism.com/
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http://www.healingedge.net/store/article_kennedy_autism_investigation.html
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Autism Investigation
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover up of a mercury / autism scandal.
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session -- only private invitations to fifty-two attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly "embargoed." There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._Searle_%26_Company
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G.D. Searle & Company or just Searle was a company focusing on life sciences, specifically pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and animal health. It is now part of Pfizer.
[edit] History
Searle was founded in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1888. The founder was Gideon Daniel Searle. In 1908, the company was incorporated in Chicago. In 1941, the company established headquarters in Skokie, Illinois. It was acquired by the Monsanto Company in 1985. Pharmacia Corporation was created in April 2000 through the merger of Pharmacia & Upjohn (itself the result of the merger of Pharmacia and Upjohn) with the Monsanto Company and its G.D. Searle unit. The merged company was based in Peapack, New Jersey. Pfizer acquired Pharmacia in 2003 and retired the Searle name.Robert B. Shapiro acted as general counsel for the firm from 1979 onwards, where he went on develop Searle's aspartame product under the brand name NutraSweet. He became CEO of its NutraSweet subsidiary in 1982.
G.D. Searle & Company's chairman was William L. Searle until 1985. He was a University of Michigan graduate and Naval reservist, and was an officer in the Army Corps in the early 1950s.[1] Directors of G.D. Searle included Andre M. de Staercke, Reuben Richards, and Arthur Wood.
Donald Rumsfeld served as CEO, and then as President, of Searle between 1977 and 1985. During his tenure at Searle, Rumsfeld downsized the number of employees in the company by 60%. The resulting spike in the company's bottom-line financials earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). In 1985, he played an instrumental role in the acquisition of G.D. Searle & Company by Monsanto.
[edit] Notable products
The company manufactured prescription drugs and nuclear medicine imaging equipment. Searle is known for its release of Enovid, the first commercial oral contraceptive, in 1960. It is also known for its release of the first bulk laxative, Metamucil, in 1934; Dramamine, for motion sickness; the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex; Ambien for insomnia; and NutraSweet, an artificial sweetener, in 1965. It was released in 1981 by FDA.In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions on the use of aspartame, which enabled its use in heated and baked goods. G.D. Searle's patent on aspartame was extended in 1981 and ultimately expired in December 1992.[2]
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