BOYD HALEY LETS 'EM HAVE IT

(Editor's Note: Boyd Haley, the University of Kentucky chemistry professor and all-around troublemaker for those who deserve it most, weighs in on one of our favorite topics: The need to study the autism rate in never-vaccinated kids. Haley begins his commentary by citing the Poling case and the bogus focus on her "mitochondrial disorder."

We quote Boyd in more depth on that topic in "Hannah Poling and Rachel Carson," below this post. If Boyd did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.)

The attempt by the CDC and AAP to promote the concept that thimerosal containing vaccines are safe for all but those with "underlying mitochondrial disorder" is similar to the previous attempt to label autism as a genetic disorder.  This attempt is geared to place research funds into areas other than looking at vaccines in general and thimerosal in specific as the cause for the recent increase in autism.

We need to push for academic funding to do an epidemiological study not controlled by the CDC or AAP on the diseases and illnesses between the vaccinated and non-vaccinated populations.  The CDC and AAP refuse to do this for reasons unknown, but most likely fear of the facts that may be found which may even involve more than autism causation --- like whether or not the flu vaccines work, or any possible relationship between early vaccines and asthma rates.

It appears as if no governmental agency or body can understand the importance of the vaccinated versus non-vaccinated study to the welfare of our children and the overall cost of encompassing medical treatments in the USA.  However, in my opinion, the CDC is impeding this due to the fear of a handful of bureaucrats who  played an important role in implementing the CDC mandated vaccine program.  In my opinion, the AAP does not support such a study due to the implications that forcing patients to follow the CDC mandate through pediatric programs has caused a major epidemic in our children and the loss of financial benefits presented by a forced well baby visits system.

What I am proposing, along with many others, regarding the study of vaccinated versus non-vaccinated populations represents straight-forward scientific logic.  The fact that the major medical agencies and associations refuse to do this and insist on spending millions on genetic or mitochondrial disorder research suggests a force is working hard to prevent such a study -- perhaps because they already know the answer.  I would heartily promise to quite hammering vaccines if a reliable USA-located academic institution was assigned the task to evaluate the vaccinated versus non-vaccinated populations and found no harmful effects of our vaccination program.  The recent report from Manitoba, Canada, on an approximate 5% versus 16% asthma rate on adolescents receiving thimerosal containing DPT at 4 months versus 2 months of age, respectively, tells us that there is a lot about the various aspects of the mandated vaccine program that science does not understand at this time.  A comprehensive study of the vaccinated versus the non-vaccinated followed by the design of global monitoring of identified "vaccine risk factors" would provide the basis of implementing a much safer vaccine program.

Everyone should be aware of the fact that most of the epidemiological studies routinely quoted by the CDC, AAP and others as showing no connection between vaccines with thimerosal and autism were funded by the CDC, done by non-USA citizens, mostly done in Europe by individuals involved in producing thimerosal containing vaccines and on populations where the autism rate was more than 13 times less than in the USA.  Interestingly, three of the epidemiological studies most quoted by pediatricians as proving thimerosal safety actually showed that thimerosal removal led to an increase in autism; in one, this increase was about 20 fold.  To report that decreasing exposure to a potent neurotoxin like thimerosal increased any specific neurological disease is ridiculous.  Perhaps this is why the countries where the data was collected (Denmark, Sweden, England) and the reports filed have not followed the conclusion of the authors and still maintain thimerosal removal from pediatric vaccines.  In my opinion, only our CDC and AAP give any scientific credence to the obviously low quality epidemiological studies done by these Danish, Swedish and English researchers who had obvious vested interests in the outcome.  Again, this begs the question why our government does not fund a major epidemiological study on vaccinated versus non-vaccinated American children done by a prestigious American university!

I can only imagine the embarrassment to some professional groups when the American public finally finds out that the autism epidemic was brought to light through considerable efforts by the mothers and fathers of autistic children, and not the government agencies or medical organizations that should have been in the forefront of recognizing this disaster.  Where was the CDC, AAP, AMA, our neurological associations, etc. when the epidemic was in its early stages?  I was involved in the autism issue starting in 1998 because of parents of autistic children, and what I distinctly remember was a flat denial by many of our aforementioned medical groups that an autism epidemic even existed.  The very fact that we are having the CDC, who in my opinion caused the autistic epidemic through their mandated vaccine program which was not evaluated for safety, still involved in determining the cause of the autism epidemic is a failure of our government and our national medical programs.  During the upcoming elections we have the opportunity to use our voting privileges to elect officials that will push for a complete evaluation of our national vaccine program.  I strongly suggest that making foundation research based on vaccinated versus non-vaccinated populations regarding the autism/vaccine safety concern should be a major campaign issue.

Comments

[Tedd Koren, DC]

I like the idea of bringing this to the politicians. They control the money to the CDC/FDA etc. That may be the only way they'll get to listen to reason.

[Shirley Adams]

Great job Dr. Haley! I don't think any of the immunizations are safe, just google "Dr. Rebecca Carley" and scroll down to "Immunizations Weapons of Mass Destruction".

My daughter went from perfectly normal in 1988 to severely autistic in 1990 after receiving 5 immunizations in one day.

[Sandy Gottstein]

Thank you, once again, Professor Haley for EVERYTHING you do and say.

As you and many others know, I have been calling for such studies since the late 1980s. What no one knows is that I had a conversation with a Congressman (now deceased) about 5 years ago, when I explained that such studies had never been done, and he expressed absolute disbelief. (By that I mean he didn't believe me.) He said that it was Science 101 and that Congress would never have approved the vaccines had they not believed (as he still did) that such studies had been done.

We all know he was wrong. Now let's get busy organzing a grass roots effort to get such a study done. People like Boyd Haley, Dan Olmsted and David Kirby cannot get this to happen without our help.

[Sorsha]

Thank you for continuing to speak for us. The comparison study is the only answer. I would like to see all of the national autism groups pool their resources and allow Generation Rescue to commision a nationwide study.

[Craig Willoughby]

What an excellent article! Its a simple and logical way to prove whether or not a connection exists. If the study were to find a connection, then we could focus on the real culprit. However, if there were a connection (and we all know there is one), then we can focus on finding ways to safely vaccinate our children. In addition, we could look at ways to possibly cure our children, because, as everyone knows, the way to find a cure to any disease is to first find the cause. The CDC, FDA, AAP, IOM, AMA, and the ABCDEFG don't want this to happen because they already know the cause. So, they use misleading language and their own "studies" to point the finger elsewhere, and then say that they don't want to look at the thimerosal connection because its a waste of time (I mean, after all, they have "proven" it is safe...(and in the immortal words of Wayne Campbell from Wayne's World, "Yeah...and monkeys might fly out of my butt")).

[Jeanne]

Well done Mr. Haley!