More On Vaccine/Autism Connection
Thanks to Jonathan for sending this incredible piece of journalism, delineating the corrupt machinations of the government and scientists. As usual I have embellished it with other appropriate links in the body. CG
-----------------------Chris,
There is an excellent article on the connection between autism and the thimerosal (mercury) preservative in vaccines, by Robert F Kennedy, Jr., in the current issue of Rolling Stone simultaneous with publication in Salon. The article is available online at: www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7395411. Please send this link to your lists and friends, relatives, acquaintances, co-workers, legislators, and your Congressfolks. RFK Jr. will also be on ABC TV on World News Tonight on Wed, June 15th, and Good Morning America on Thursday June 16th. This is big news. The truth about autism and vaccines is finally becoming known.
Regards,
Jonathan
-----------------------------..."Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic," his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report.....
..."According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants --in one case, within hours of birth -- the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children....
....Dr. John Clements, vaccines adviser at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study "should not have been done at all" and warned that the results "will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled."...
....The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government's vaccine-related documents...
...Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines -- and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible...
..."The CDC is guilty of incompetence and gross negligence," says Mark Blaxill, vice president of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned about the role of mercury in medicines. "The damage caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It's bigger than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than anything you've ever seen.""...
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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.
The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants -- in one case, within hours of birth -- the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.
Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. "You can play with this all you want," Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results "are statistically significant." Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting's first day, was even more alarmed. "My gut feeling?" he said. "Forgive this personal comment -- I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on."
But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry's bottom line. "We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits," said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. "This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country." Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that "given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let's say, less responsible hands." Dr. John Clements, vaccines adviser at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study "should not have been done at all" and warned that the results "will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled."
In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children's health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out" the chemical's link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten's findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.
Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants -- but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some American vaccines -- including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to eleven-year-olds.
The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government's vaccine-related documents -- including the Simpsonwood transcripts -- and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. The measure was repealed by Congress in 2003 -- but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. "The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists," says Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist.
Even many conservatives are shocked by the government's effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, oversaw a three-year investigation of thimerosal after his grandson was diagnosed with autism. "Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic," his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report. "This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin." The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to act, the committee added, out of "institutional malfeasance for self protection" and "misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry."
The story of how government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public is a chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power and greed. I was drawn into the controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and environmentalist who has spent years working on issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers of autistic children who were absolutely convinced that their kids had been injured by vaccines. Privately, I was skeptical.
I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source, and I certainly understood the government's need to reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, who criticized his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. "Why should we scare people about immunization," Waxman pointed out at one hearing, "until we know the facts?"
It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying the leading scientific research and talking with many of the nation's pre-eminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real. Five of my own children are members of the Thimerosal Generation -- those born between 1989 and 2003 -- who received heavy doses of mercury from vaccines. "The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage," Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. "Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in twenty-five years of nursing I have never seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our children."
More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among eleven children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931.
Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They argue that the increase is a result of better diagnosis -- a theory that seems questionable at best, given that most of the new cases of autism are clustered within a single generation of children. "If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis," scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world's authorities on mercury toxicity, "then where are all the twenty-year-old autistics?" Other researchers point out that Americans are exposed to a greater cumulative "load" of mercury than ever before, from contaminated fish to dental fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines may be only part of a much larger problem. It's a concern that certainly deserves far more attention than it has received -- but it overlooks the fact that the mercury concentrations in vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our children.
What is most striking is the lengths to which many of the leading detectives have gone to ignore -- and cover up -- the evidence against thimerosal. From the very beginning, the scientific case against the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The preservative, which is used to stem fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury, a potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines -- and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children's vaccines twenty years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.
"You couldn't even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe," says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. "It's just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage."
Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage -- and even death -- in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to twenty-two patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected -- a fact Lilly didn't bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal's safety "did not check with ours." Half the dogs Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines became sick, leading researchers there to declare the preservative "unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs."
In the decades that followed, the evidence against thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it "poison." In 1967, a study in Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly's own studies discerned that thimerosal was "toxic to tissue cells" in concentrations as low as one part per million -- 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as "nontoxic" and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants. In 1977, ten babies at a Toronto hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords.
In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the agency considered banning it from animal vaccines. But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for hepatitis B within twenty-four hours of birth, and two-month-old infants would be immunized for haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis.
The drug industry knew the additional vaccines posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccine programs, warned the company that six-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, "especially when used on infants and children," noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. "The best way to go," he added, "is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives."
For Merck and other drug companies, however, the obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses, which require additional protection because they are more easily contaminated by multiple needle entries. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for international agencies to distribute them to impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced with this "cost consideration," Merck ignored Hilleman's warnings, and government officials continued to push more and more thimerosal-based vaccines for children. Before 1989, American preschoolers received only three vaccinations -- for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of twenty-two immunizations by the time they reached first grade.
As the number of vaccines increased, the rate of autism among children exploded. During the 1990s, 40 million children were injected with thimerosal-based vaccines, receiving unprecedented levels of mercury during a period critical for brain development. Despite the well-documented dangers of thimerosal, it appears that no one bothered to add up the cumulative dose of mercury that children would receive from the mandated vaccines. "What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?" Peter Patriarca, director of viral products for the agency, asked in an e-mail to the CDC in 1999. "Why didn't CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded the childhood immunization schedule?"
But by that time, the damage was done. Infants who received all their vaccines, plus boosters, by the age of six months were being injected with levels of ethylmercury 187 times greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies -- including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health -- suggest that ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain longer than methylmercury.
Officials responsible for childhood immunizations insist that the additional vaccines were necessary to protect infants from disease and that thimerosal is still essential in developing nations, which, they often claim, cannot afford the single-dose vials that don't require a preservative. Dr. Paul Offit, one of CDC's top vaccine advisers, told me, "I think if we really have an influenza pandemic -- and certainly we will in the next twenty years, because we always do -- there's no way on God's earth that we immunize 280 million people with single-dose vials. There has to be multidose vials."
But while public-health officials may have been well-intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee's chair, was a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers and shares a patent on a measles vaccine with Merck, which also manufactures the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a researcher for the vaccine companies and received honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the hepatitis B vaccine.
Indeed, in the tight circle of scientists who work on vaccines, such conflicts of interest are common. Rep. Burton says that the CDC "routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on intellectual advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines," even though they have "interests in the products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased oversight." The House Government Reform Committee discovered that four of the eight CDC advisers who approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine laced with thimerosal "had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine."
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Offit, who shares a patent on the vaccine, acknowledged to me that he "would make money" if his vote to approve it eventually leads to a marketable product. But he dismissed my suggestion that a scientist's direct financial stake in CDC approval might bias his judgment. "It provides no conflict for me," he insists. "I have simply been informed by the process, not corrupted by it. When I sat around that table, my sole intent was trying to make recommendations that best benefited the children in this country. It's offensive to say that physicians and public-health people are in the pocket of industry and thus are making decisions that they know are unsafe for children. It's just not the way it works."
Other vaccine scientists and regulators gave me similar assurances. Like Offit, they view themselves as enlightened guardians of children's health, proud of their "partnerships" with pharmaceutical companies, immune to the seductions of personal profit, besieged by irrational activists whose anti-vaccine campaigns are endangering children's health. They are often resentful of questioning. "Science," says Offit, "is best left to scientists."
Still, some government officials were alarmed by the apparent conflicts of interest. In his e-mail to CDC administrators in 1999, Paul Patriarca of the FDA blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby vaccines. "I'm not sure there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at the switch re: thimerosal until now," Patriarca wrote. The close ties between regulatory officials and the pharmaceutical industry, he added, "will also raise questions about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use" of thimerosal in child vaccines.
If federal regulators and government scientists failed to grasp the potential risks of thimerosal over the years, no one could claim ignorance after the secret meeting at Simpsonwood. But rather than conduct more studies to test the link to autism and other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics over science. The agency turned its database on childhood vaccines -- which had been developed largely at taxpayer expense -- over to a private agency, America's Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it could not be used for additional research. It also instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC "wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe," Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001. "We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect" of thimerosal exposure. According to transcripts of the meeting, the committee's chief staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM would conclude that the evidence was "inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation" between thimerosal and autism. That, she added, was the result "Walt wants" -- a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program for the CDC.
For those who had devoted their lives to promoting vaccination, the revelations about thimerosal threatened to undermine everything they had worked for. "We've got a dragon by the tail here," said Dr. Michael Kaback, another committee member. "The more negative that [our] presentation is, the less likely people are to use vaccination, immunization -- and we know what the results of that will be. We are kind of caught in a trap. How we work our way out of the trap, I think is the charge."
Even in public, federal officials made it clear that their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to dispel doubts about vaccines. "Four current studies are taking place to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal," Dr. Gordon Douglas, then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health, assured a Princeton University gathering in May 2001. "In order to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to assure parents of safety." Douglas formerly served as president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored warnings about thimerosal's risks.
In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather than reviewing the large body of literature describing the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining European countries, where children received much smaller doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study included children too young to have been diagnosed with autism and overlooked others who showed signs of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and -- in a startling position for a scientific body -- recommended that no further research be conducted.
The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no one. Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from Florida who serves on the House Government Reform Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying it relied on a handful of studies that were "fatally flawed" by "poor design" and failed to represent "all the available scientific and medical research." CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth, Weldon told me, because "an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who would want to make that conclusion about themselves?"
See also: MMR AND AUTISM: The link really has been established
Under pressure from congress, parents and a few of its own panel members, the Institute of Medicine reluctantly convened a second panel to review the findings of the first. In February, the new panel, composed of different scientists, criticized the earlier panel for its lack of transparency and urged the CDC to make its vaccine database available to the public.
So far, though, only two scientists have managed to gain access. Dr. Mark Geier, president of the Genetics Center of America, and his son, David, spent a year battling to obtain the medical records from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a powerful correlation between thimerosal and neurological damage in children. One study, which compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born between 1990 and 1996, found a "very significant relationship" between autism and vaccines. Another study of educational performance found that kids who received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with autism and more than three times as likely to suffer from speech disorders and mental retardation. Another soon-to-be published study shows that autism rates are in decline following the recent elimination of thimerosal from most vaccines.
As the federal government worked to prevent scientists from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies himself. Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines -- the kind of population that scientists typically use as a "control" in experiments -- Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three -- including one child adopted from outside the Amish community -- had received their vaccines.
See also: Only Vaccinated Amish Children Are Autistic
At the state level, many officials have also conducted in-depth reviews of thimerosal. While the Institute of Medicine was busy whitewashing the risks, the Iowa legislature was carefully combing through all of the available scientific and biological data. "After three years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient credible research to show a link between mercury and the increased incidences in autism," says state Sen. Ken Veenstra, a Republican who oversaw the investigation. "The fact that Iowa's 700 percent increase in autism began in the 1990s, right after more and more vaccines were added to the children's vaccine schedules, is solid evidence alone." Last year, Iowa became the first state to ban mercury in vaccines, followed by California. Similar bans are now under consideration in thirty-two other states.
But instead of following suit, the FDA continues to allow manufacturers to include thimerosal in scores of over-the-counter medications as well as steroids and injected collagen. Even more alarming, the government continues to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries -- some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown prior to the introduction of thimerosal by U.S. drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua and other developing countries that are now using thimerosal-laced vaccines. The World Health Organization continues to insist thimerosal is safe, but it promises to keep the possibility that it is linked to neurological disorders "under review."
I devoted time to study this issue because I believe that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed. If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine. "The CDC is guilty of incompetence and gross negligence," says Mark Blaxill, vice president of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned about the role of mercury in medicines. "The damage caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It's bigger than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than anything you've ever seen."
It's hard to calculate the damage to our country -- and to the international efforts to eradicate epidemic diseases -- if Third World nations come to believe that America's most heralded foreign-aid initiative is poisoning their children. It's not difficult to predict how this scenario will be interpreted by America's enemies abroad. The scientists and researchers -- many of them sincere, even idealistic -- who are participating in efforts to hide the science on thimerosal claim that they are trying to advance the lofty goal of protecting children in developing nations from disease pandemics. They are badly misguided. Their failure to come clean on thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt our country and the world's poorest populations.
(Posted Jan 01, 2001)
posted by Chris Gupta on Thursday June 16 2005
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May 28, 2008Bills C-51 & C-52 Example letters
Here are a couple of letters that you can adapt and paste in the left hand side of Health Canada Abuse site to send to your representatives. Here is an extract from the site:
Harper & Cabinet Ministers
Standing Committee of Health
Canadian Senators
Canadian Members of Parliament
Conservative MPs
Liberal MPs
NDP MPs
BLOC MPs
Independent MPs The current Status for Bill C-51 is here and for C-52 is here.
Chris Gupta
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Note:To make this more effective try to do all: write, fax, email*, print out the petition and send it by snail mail, and/or telephone your representative directly and don't forget to be persistent! Clearly emphasizing the extreme importance to you in your note. Many MPs like mine often state that they are not able to study the issue and rely on party line supported by some regulatory body or such. Please ensure you state as your elected represent it is their duty to represent you. Ambiguity needs to be avoided at all cost. Please be creative, articulate and direct to the point. Send follow up letter and/or fax, phone and keep demanding a response on how and what they will actually do to mitigate concerns outlined. CG
------------------------------------------Dear Sue, (Barnes.S@parl.gc.ca)
From what are the Natural Health Product Regulations, Bills C-51 and C-52 actually protecting us?
They clearly target Natural Health Products (NHP), such as Dietary Food Supplements / Holistic Traditional Health Care Products, regardless of origin. Health Canada is currently denying approvals for more than half of the perfectly safe nutritional products it has reviewed. Implementation of C-51 will criminalize their sale and use to an unprecedented degree. We will not even be allowed to give a product to anyone, as this is now considered tantamount to making a sale and this includes parents giving the product to their children.
The excuse that the use of NHP to prevent the use of "proper medical care" and are being used to scam the public is absurd -- coming as it does from those who create a swath of drug-induced "iatrogenic" disease and death. Not to mention Health Canada's failure to protect Canadians from such a system.
People would not be turning to non-drug and "non-standard" health solutions -- if the essentially-free, publicly-insured "proper medical care" really worked. It's because of the medical system's failure to cure "chronic" disease and the massive adverse reactions and deaths that Canadians are voting with their pocketbooks for other approaches.
From the point of view of the patients (aka consumers), it is the medical-drug system that is not safe and effective. It's little better than an expensive scam, as all it does is create and manage diseases, instead of preventing and/or curing them! So why does Health Canada continually choose to ignore the daily carnage from "proper medical care" system?On March 9, 2005 in Parliament, MP Colin Carrie stated that just allergies from peanuts alone result in approximately 5 to 10 deaths in Canada each year. By comparison, since 1960 not one death in Canada has been attributed to a natural health product. Nothing else -- not food, and certainly not pharmaceuticals -- can brag of such a safety record!
So where is the the government's evidence-based data of death and adverse reactions to justify the extreme federal interventions showing harm? It is not ordinary citizens who are clamouring and demanding protection from safe and effective nutrients, but the "competitors" who are selling unsafe and intolerable products -- such as cancer drugs so horrific that an eleven-year-old boy is unable to endure a repetition of the treatment and begs to be allowed to die in peace.
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January 14, 2008Dr. Carley's comments to PBS re: Autism, ADHD, Vaccinations...
"ADD & ADHD are primarily a result of vaccinations"
Further to: Vaccines Often The Cause of "Multiple Sclerosis & Other DEMYELINATING Diseases" here is another excellent response to junk health PBS programs of late.
"All are sponsored by the same cabal* who brought you this disease via the nutrient depleted, addictive and toxic chemical added processed foods; surgeries; and last but not least the supposed magic of generally toxic vaccines and drugs."
Extracted from: PBS' Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America - More Pabulum For The Masses
Chris Gupta
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From: Rukshana Engineer
Date: Jan 13, 2008 9:31 PM
Subject: VIDS (Vaccine Induced Diseases) Expert, Dr. Carley's comments to PBS re. . . .Just thought I'd share with you the comments forwarded to PBS by Dr. Carley. I'm sure it will be the first time that these researched challenged producers have seen the term VIDS!
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:40:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Thank you for your urgent wake up call to humanity and . . .This is what I sent; let me know if it actually gets posted:
ADD & ADHD are primarily a result of vaccinations; and the skyrocketing number of autoimmune diseases and cancer are also caused by the corruption in the immune system caused by direct inoculation of viruses and the tissues on which they are cultured as well as a cocktail of harmful chemicals as explained in my paper "Inoculations; the true weapons of mass destruction" that can be accessed at www.drcarley.com. Obviously, poor nutrition is also directly involved in causing hyperactivity; sugar is an addictive drug.
For young children who have not even developed their brains to be put on psychotropic chemicals which purport to treat a "chemical imbalance" is the height of lunacy, and exhibit A as to how the pharma cartels continue to poison the population. Is ADD due to a Ritalin deficiency? Obviously not.
The American public is one of the sickest on this planet, with escalating chronic disease and death secondary to medical "treatment". There are natural solutions to all diseases, which is why our "representatives" in the district of criminals have passed Codex legislation, and are incrementally trying to make nutritional supplements in therapeutic doses available only by prescription. The pharma cartels completely control medical education; and any physician who steps out of the box and actually heals people is attacked by what has become a medical mafia.
Rebecca Carley, MD
Court Qualified expert in VIDS (Vaccine Induced Diseases)
www.drcarley.comListen to "What's Ailing America?" every Thursday night at 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM EST) on www.bbsradio.com; click on "BBS station 2"
"Inoculations are the true weapons of mass destruction, causing an epidemic of genocide" Rebecca Carley, MD Court Qualified Expert in vaccine Induced Diseases
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FBI DirectorAll TRUTH passes through 3 stages:
1st - it is ridiculed
2nd - it is violently opposed
3rd - it is accepted as SELF EVIDENT
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On 1/13/08, Rukshana Engineer wrote:
Dear Dr. Carley,
As someone who awoke to vaccine weapon of mass deception about 13 years ago, I cannot thank you enough for being a beacon of truth and courage in a sea of manipulation and lies.
Dr. Carley, I know you must be exceedingly busy but given your credentials I do hope that you can find a bit of time to submit your comments to the www.pbs.org re. their Frontline Show recently entitled 'The Medicated Child'. (Re. drugging "biopolar children" etc.) Needless to say none of the causes of neurlogical problems was addressed. Though I wrote in discussing vaccines as well as excitotoxins etc., I think someone introduced with your credentials will get a lot more attention from the producers than myself. Yes, we know that these people rarely think out of the box and are heavily invested in the vaccine dogma. Still, I think it's valuable or them to receive as many e-mails as possible re. vaccines. If you could pass this on to others willing to submit comments, it would be most appreciated.Thank you for your valuable time and for your powerful work taking on the criminal vaccine pushers!
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Rukshana
posted by Chris Gupta on Monday January 14 2008
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May 29, 2007Re: Vaccines
At 02:16 PM 29/05/2007, you wrote:
Why do you lump all vaccines together as a category that is dangerous rather than treating them as individual cases? Is that a good way to find out if vaccines are dangerous in your opinion? Also, why would you trust eyewitness accounts rather than treat them with a well needed grain of salt? If I found eyewitness accounts that contradicted your opinion would you just as easily change your mind about the 1918 flu or are you going to be selective again, fooling yourself into actually being less intelligent? If you are a faculty member it wasn't achieved through critical analysis of any subject related to the natural sciences obviously. Your opinions are of similar value to someone who believes that the earth is 6,000 years old. Your knowledge of the world is clearly created by authority of the source not reason and analysis and testing. The latter isn't fool proof and today their are more sophisticated ways of reasoning. However, that would be a good start.Matthew Fuller
----------------------Thanks Matthew, for the feedback. I can understand your ire and concern, however, think it may be misplaced. In that all the things you are accusing me off should well be applicable to the mainstream medicine rather than someone like me. Unlike the vaccine pushers I do not get paid for a rigorous scientific approach that you suggest that I be mindful off and/or do. This job squarely falls under the auspicious of those whose job is exactly what you are asking me to do. This is what you find:
"off label applications of already inadequate and generally toxic drugs are being used villy nilly and the importance of nutrition is shoved under the rug while trials conducted on select populations are extrapolated to the untrialed populations including children and the elderly. Animal studies with totally different metabolisms are used as basis for humans without any human trials. The standards of testing from lab to lab differ often with no oversight. When only 6% of the drug advertising material is supported by evidence yet highly efficacious and often non palliative solutions based on nutrition, Orthomolecular, Oxidative and Electro medicine are routinely ignored while thousands continue to die and suffer. Any fool can see that majority of the diseases are due to a lack of nutrients. Yet the medical system behaves as though we have a deficiency of drugs. Not too bright - unless there are other agendas?"
Extracted from: Re: Feedback On Your Website
Do you really think that mainstream medicine evidence is really good scientific practice? See:
The Meningococcal Gold Rush - Pushing the Vaccine Agenda
Since you asked, here is some stuff right out of the mainstream texts clearly indicating how and why vaccines are known even to them to be dangerous:
Vaccines Often The Cause of "Multiple Sclerosis & Other DEMYELINATING Diseases"
Yet you and many professionals are totally oblivious - why?
If they are so safe and effective why this?
CODE RED Alert - U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And Drugs
and why the petition?
Petition - Show us the Vaccine Data
"The strange thing is that most of us will ignore massive side effects and deaths form conventional medicine but will not tolerate the slightest problem with alternative approaches"
Extracted from: Opinion of the Quackwatch site
My personal opinions are just that opinions and are not directives for others to follow. Rather they are simply fodder for thought and nothing more. Secondly those who have done their homework will quickly understand that vaccines are hardly the panacea that they have been made out to be. If you like please try to at least read some contrary information such as in the link below before swallowing the self serving mainstream junk science continually pushed on the unsuspecting. Then ask them for some real evidence of the efficacy of all the vaccines and other procedures they push. Given the lack of rigour in medical science in general how are you going to decipher the good from the bad?
Chris Gupta
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May 18, 2007Improving Lung Function (COPD) - Oxygenation Benefits
Here are some very simple ways to improve lung function. There are many benefits to Oxygenating the body all the way from disease prevention to more energy. Not to mention a calmer disposition a hallmark of meditation. In particular, improving lung function for those with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Asthma, Emphysema it can be a matter of life and death
Insufficient Oxygen means insufficient biological energy that can result in anything from mild fatigue to life threatening disease. Dr Otto Warburg, twice Nobel Laureate, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1931 for discovering the cause of cancer. He said: "Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes, but there is only one prime cause. Summary: the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the normal oxygen respiration of the body cells by an anaerobic (i.e. lacking in Oxygen) cell respiration." In other words, the growth of cancer cells is initiated by a relative lack of Oxygen. Further lack of Oxygen can force the heart to compensate a most dangerous situation for an ailing heart....
Most of us tend to emphasize the inhalation phase of breathing and tend to neglect the exhalation phase. This deprives the lungs of their full potential to effectively exchange oxygen with carbon dioxide. Breathing exercises enforce good habits where the full range of lung function is used. Consequently, the body gets the oxygen it needs, this not only feels better, but provides more energy. In fact Yoga and other meditation methods often use techniques to enhance breathing. Hence exhaling deeply forces us to breath deeper thus increasing oxygen uptake exactly what we need!
A device similar to Spirometer discussed in "Breathing Training" below but far superior is the PowerLung. This as discussed above not only exercises inhalation muscles but also the exhalation ones thus, enhancing deeper breathing. A brief history of the device is here.
See also:
The effects of respiratory muscle training on older females.
Mark L. Watsford, Aron J. Murphy, Matthew J. Pine, Aaron J. Coutts. Human Performance Laboratory, University of Technology, Sydney.Resveratrol mist (a chemical found in red wine, grapes, olive oil) may have various health benefits, including possible protection of the lungs.
For a comprehensive look at the importance and benefits a read: "Flood Your Body With Oxygen Therapy for Our Polluted World" by "Mr. Oxygen" Ed McCabe
Chris Gupta
Note: Many articles regarding COPD on the web recommend vaccinations to prevent complications from lung infections. Contrary to the popular belief the flu vaccine can actually weaken the immune system and make you more predisposed to the illness.
The flu vaccine, whether in the shot or nasal form, is worthless at best and should be avoided. Not only are they loaded with toxic chemicals including mercury and aluminum, but many people come down with the flu shortly after receiving the shot. This is because it actually weakens the immune system, making the person more predisposed to the illness.
Launching a immune response among immune compromised will have the opposite effect particular in the an venerable groups such as the elderly and/or those who are nutritionally compromised
For more see: Should You Get The Flu Shot?
See also: Vaccines Often The Cause of "Multiple Sclerosis & Other DEMYELINATING Diseases"
CG
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Breathing Exercises
Pursed-Lip Breathing. A technique called pursed-lip breathing can help improve lung function before starting activities. It takes about 10 minutes. When first learning the technique, the patient should lie flat on a bed with his or her head on a pillow. Later, the technique can be performed while walking or enduring any activity requiring extra air.
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posted by Chris Gupta on Friday May 18 2007
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Bills C-51 & C-52 Example letters
May 28, 2008Dr. Carley's comments to PBS re: Autism, ADHD, Vaccinations...
January 14, 2008Re: Vaccines
May 29, 2007Improving Lung Function (COPD) - Oxygenation Benefits
May 18, 2007Vaccines Often The Cause of "Multiple Sclerosis & Other DEMYELINATING Diseases"
March 27, 2007The Flu: 1918 And Now
September 04, 2006Free Flu Vaccine - Fails To Reduce Cases: Waste Of Money In Ontario Since 2000
May 10, 2006Chickenpox Vaccine Doesn't Work
January 26, 2006Re: CDC-vaccinations DELAY ONLY ALLOWED IF....
January 18, 2006Questions About Avian Flu Or Any Expending Pandemic
November 28, 2005CODE RED Alert - U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And Drugs
October 19, 2005Vaccine Mongering - Will Government Experimentation Cause An Avian Flu Epidemic?
October 13, 2005More On Vaccine/Autism Connection
June 16, 2005Only Vaccinated Amish Children Are Autistic
April 22, 2005The Meningococcal Gold Rush - Pushing the Vaccine Agenda
March 01, 2005SARS Vaccine Linked To Liver Damage In Ferret Study
January 14, 2005Autism-Mercury Defence Restored by Nutritional Interventions
January 04, 2005TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT VACCINATIONS
November 23, 2004Court Rules-No Forced Anthrax Vaccination
October 29, 2004Evidence Based Flu Vaccine - You Jest?
October 28, 2004Meningococcal Disease at 10 to 13 Year Lows - Yet The Vaccine Propaganda Continues
October 27, 2004VACCINE FOR MENINGITIS?
October 13, 2004Vaccine Shenanigans - Meningococcal Disease
October 12, 2004DR. COLETTE HARMAN ON HEPATITIS B VACCINE
September 30, 2004Cod Liver Oil to Heal Autism (Vaccinations)
September 20, 2004SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN DENMARK
September 15, 2004MMR AND AUTISM: The link really has been established
September 14, 2004Petition - Show us the Vaccine Data
September 09, 2004Vaccine Data Leads to a Shocking Discovery
February 26, 2004Disease Reduction & Medicine
February 18, 2004Safe Vaccine Lawsuit? Hmm...
December 16, 2003Canned tuna or canned poison?
December 14, 2003Medical Liars - Vaccines
December 12, 2003Operation Cure.all -- Whose Cure?
December 11, 2003HAZARDS OF THE FLU VACCINE
December 10, 2003Drugs Do Not Work On Most Patients
December 09, 2003Re: Canadian Vaccine Laws
December 03, 2003Canadian Vaccine Laws
November 29, 2003FluMist vaccine
August 27, 2003"Uncle" says, "it´s good for you!"
August 04, 2003UPI Investigates: The vaccine conflict
August 03, 2003
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