JOHN McCAIN ENTERS THE AUTISM WARS
This is from the ABC News blog: See the blog and leave comments HERE.
February 29, 2008 7:11 PM
At a town hall meeting Friday in Texas, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declared that "there's strong evidence" that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that was once in many childhood vaccines, is responsible for the increased diagnoses of autism in the U.S. -- a position in stark contrast with the view of the medical establishment.
McCain was responding to a question from the mother of a boy with autism, who asked about a recent story that the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program had issued a judgment in favor of an unnamed child whose family claimed regressive encephalopathy and symptoms of autism were caused by thimerosal.
"We've been waiting for years for kind of a responsible answer to this question, and are hoping that you can help us out there," the woman said.
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Editor's Note: Age of Autism reader and mom Monica Bice got in touch with ABC to complain about Dr. Timothy Johnson's statement that studies have been conducted on vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated children to determine whether vaccines cause autism. First, read the response from Audrey Grayson of ABC. Then read what Monica answered back. And many thanks to Monica for obtaining this very useful information and sharing it with us. Perhaps others would like to let ABC know they still don't have their facts straight.
Check out this fabulous idea! The Autism Society of America and Mead Westvaco Corp. have teamed up to create a new product, a Cambridge brand planner to geared to autism. From the ASA press release:
ARI founder Dr. Bernard Rimland, who also founded the Autism Society of America, was the man who dispelled the refrigerator mother theory of autism. The current ARI newsletter speaks to the current state of care/services for adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome. Today's problem is going to be tomorrow's catastrophe as the tens of thousands of children with autism grow into adulthood, into a society that is ill-equipped to care for and respect them.
NIXA, Mo., Feb 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- This week Citi-Mobile launched a new mobile billboard campaign to raise awareness about the autism epidemic. The advertising company generously donated their mobile billboards to the National Autism Association (NAA), a nonprofit autism organization dedicated to advocacy, family assistance, and cutting-edge research.
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Boy, The New York Times has no problem going after Big Pharma when it comes to drugs.
KYODO, Japan, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Japanese government is bracing for a flood of damage suits from hundreds of people who contracted hepatitis B through mandatory childhood vaccinations.
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The New York Times ran a piece on Sunday titled:
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Did the CDC withhold information about toxicity in the Great Lakes region for "fear of alarming the public?" Who are they, our Mommy????
PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - French authorities have opened a formal investigation into two managers from drugs groups GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and Sanofi Pasteur over a vaccination campaign in the 1990s, a judicial source said late on Thursday.
As a follow-up to the incredible Combating Autism From Within series on KOMU-TV, Columbia, MO (See the series
Attorney General Mike McGrath has sued two national pharmaceutical companies and accused them of manufacturing certain prescription drugs that were “in defective condition and unreasonably dangerous.”
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"...it is generally accepted in the relevant scientific community that autism is genetic in origin except in rare instances of prenatal exposures to certain substances at defined periods during pregnancy."
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