The CDC versus The MOM – a Case Study in Ignoring the Evidence in Autism

By Dan Olmsted

One of the highlights of being out and about talking about our new book (“The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine and a Man-made Epidemic,” co-authored with Mark Blaxill) has been meeting so many people who have followed our reporting and posts over many years – and have tried to bring concerns about mercury to the attention of public health officials and the media. Our main purpose in writing and promoting the book is to share what we think is powerful evidence that mercury is a major player in the autism epidemic – in effect, to help empower a critically important social movement seeking urgent reform. So connecting with others engaged in the same mission is tremendously gratifying and energizing.

One such person is Megan Allen of Meadowbrook, Pa., who we met when we spoke to a TACA group in Newtown Square. Afterwards, she forwarded me some correspondence she had five years ago with the CDC that is worth sharing in detail, because it shows how coldly resistant, and for how long, the agency has been to anything that counters its party line – that putting mercury in vaccines for babies and pregnant women is a really good thing, that the definitive data is in, and that people who think otherwise are an annoyance to be swatted away as brusquely as possible, not citizens with first-hand observations and fresh ideas that deserve serious consideration.

Megan has twin boys, now 12, who are on the autism spectrum, and two other children, a boy age 14 and a girl age 8. She is a bureaucratic mercury-in-medicine defender’s worst nightmare. She has a BS in Childhood Studies, and her husband, Justin, has a Master’s Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology and is a patent attorney. As Megan explained to me, “It wasn't until reading an article in Mothering Magazine on Thimerosal in 2002 that we first began to question the safety of vaccines. In fact, I even called one of my best friends ‘crazy’ in the late 90's when we both had our first babies, and she decided to keep him from getting any shots whatsoever. Now, we have gone in the opposite direction and will not allow our kids to receive a vaccination until we see adequate data that they are safe. For now, at least while they are minors, that means ‘never.’”

The e-mails Megan sent me are from January 2006 when, based on her own concerns about the safety of mercury in vaccines, she wrote the CDC to tell them about articles I had written in 2005. That’s when I started The Age of Autism column at United Press International. In that first year, in retrospect, I covered a lot of territory, identifying the first child ever diagnosed with autism and describing his remarkable recovery after being treated with gold salts for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis – a fact lost to medical history and still studiously ignored by the medical industry and its pharma-dependent media allies. Also – and this is what Megan focused on – I had begun looking for autism in communities like the Amish, the Homefirst family medical practice in Chicago, and the home-schooled. There seemed to be less autism, and one fact that was inescapable was these populations were also less vaccinated.

My unofficial and low-powered research didn’t prove anything, but it did raise interesting questions and provoked a pretty strong reaction among those who were concerned that the big increase in mercury-containing vaccines in the 1990s was the trigger for the huge rise in autism cases at the same time.

This, among other things, is what Megan tried to call to the CDC’s attention. On Jan. 14, 2006, she e-mailed the information office at the National Immunization Program as follows:

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Hello,

I am interested in the CDC's opinion as to why large populations of unvaccinated children (ie Amish children) do not have the estimated 1 in 166 with an autistic spectrum disorder, which is the rate found in the current population of children in the USA today?

I would also like to know what the CDC's response is to a recent study done which compares the effects of methylmercury and ethylmercury (contained in thimerosal) on the brains of infant primates? (http://dx.doi.org -- doi: 10.1289/ehp.7712 )

I appreciate any response you can provide me regarding these two issues. My identical twin boys suffer from PDD-NOS, and we are pursuing the troubling fact that they may have elevated & toxic levels of mercury in their bodies.

Thank you,

Megan Allen

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On January 17, she received the following response, in toto:

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I am not familiar with data regarding the incidence of ASD among the Amish so I cannot comment on this issue.

Monkeys are not humans. We rely on epidemiologic data generated from populations of humans to generate our recommendations, and studies on humans have not demonstrated an association between thimerosal in vaccines and any neurologic or developmental disorder.

William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH

National Immunization Program

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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I said “in toto” because I didn’t want anyone to think I was leaving off the usual pleasantries here – such as “thank you for your inquiry,” or “I am sorry to hear about your sons’ disorder” or  “Dear Ms. Allen,” or “Sincerely.”

But to get to the breaking news: Monkeys are not humans. Really? This is annoying on so many levels, starting with the fact that vaccines are in fact tested by pharmaceutical companies – although never in toto – on primates. (When they WERE tested in toto on primates by privately funded research, they results looked a lot like autistic behaviors, but that’s another story.)

The fact that Atkinson was “unfamiliar” with the Amish reporting doesn’t hurt my feelings, but the lack of interest in finding out anything about it is certainly telling.

Megan Allen followed up with another e-mail:

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Dear Dr. Atkinson,

Here is the article which investigates the question as to why Amish communities do not exhibit comparable rates of ASD's compared to the current data of children afflicted with ASD in the USA: [article here]

My question: are there plans to look in to this phenomenon?

Thank you,

Megan Allen

(mother to identical twins with PDD-NOS, born 11/7/98, and fully vaccinated, symptoms appearing @ 15 mos of age, developmentally normal/advanced until that point)

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Dr. Atkinson replied:  “Thank you for the information. Although it makes interesting reading a report by a UPI reporter doesn't exactly carry the weight of a scientific study. There are many reasons why the Amish are different than non-Amish populations. Vaccines are only one.”

Once again: Really? Not only are monkeys not people, but a UPI story “doesn’t exactly carry the weight of a scientific study”! True enough, but dripping with condescension, I’d call that. But then came something revealing – the Amish are indeed different from populations that might have a higher rate of autism and – to turn Atkinson’s dismissive formulation into something actually useful – “vaccines are … one” such difference.

Megan responded thusly:

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Dr. Atkinson.

 I appreciate your continuing this dialog with me. In addition to the Amish

population, there is another known group of children in Chicago, IL who are allegedly not experiencing ASD's anywhere near the rate of 1 in 166 -according to state Education Department data, thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with Amish children: they have never been vaccinated and they don't have autism.

According to "Age of Autism" by Dan Olmsted, "Homefirst has five offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors. 'We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines,' said Dr Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973."

Olmsted reports that "the autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to state Education Department data." Evelyn Pringle, who has researched Olmsted's findings says, "In treating a population of 30,000 to 35,000 children, this would logically mean that Homefirst should have  seen at least 120 autistic children over the years but the clinic has seen none."

I am interested to hear your response to this data. Could you please let me know of any studies that are currently being conducted through the CDC comparing non-vaccinated children with vaccinated children?

I live in a small town, where word of assumed vaccine reactions spread quickly. This has led to a large pocket of unvaccinated children over the last 10 years or so in this community. I suspect Bryn Athyn, PA is not alone in its ability to produce a reasonable number of children to be included in a randomized, controlled study - or a retrospective case-control study, if thimerosal has now been eliminated from all vaccines but the Flu shot. I am under the impression that many countries continue to give their children thimerosal-containing vaccines, could these populations be utilized in a trial?

I am not a scientist, though my husband is a molecular/cellular biologist who has conducted several studies while working on his thesis (Malaria). Is there any way that we could help gather data for preliminary findings for our hypothesis that there are more children with ASD's who were vaccinated with vaccines containing thimerosal, than children who did not receive bolus injections of ethyl mercury?

Thank you,

Megan

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To which Dr. Atkinson replied: “This is an extremely complex issue that requires large populations, very good records, and very careful chronic disease epidemiology. This has already been done in several very large, well designed and conducted studies. I have attached the papers. None of the investigations has found an association.”

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To which Megan replied:

Thank you for the information. Thimerosal Containing Vaccines and Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Critical Review of Published Data admits there is not enough evidence to confirm or deny a causal relationship between vaccines and ASD's. More studies are needed. The study I alerted you to in my initial email regarding a recent study (2005) conducted on monkeys was an attempt to bring your attention to the fact that there IS new data showing that despite the shorter half-life of methyl mercury compared to that of ethyl mercury, the latter has a stronger affinity for binding to brain matter and other tissues. This is a very significant finding - despite the fact that the data comes from tests performed on primates. Non human primates have been used *extensively* in previous studies of MeHg toxicokinetics and developmental neurotoxicity, which I assume have been the basis for conclusions made about this metal and its effect in the human body, studied supported and cited by the CDC, am I wrong?

As for the articles you provided, I am still wondering why the CDC isn't further pursuing the safety concerns of the public in regards to thimerosal. In the same paper I cited above, it states that "the Institute of Medicine has evaluated this issue and concluded that the evidence is insufficient to accept or reject a causal relationship between exposure to thimerosal and neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD)." The paper goes on to say that to conduct randomized, controlled trials to test the hypothesis that

vaccines have a causal relationship with autism would "not be possible."

I highly [question] this remark, as I know many other medical professionals do - given the thousands of children not vaccinated in this country over the last several years I do not think it would be impossible to find enough subjects for at least a retrospective study in our country, let alone populations around the world who do not currently vaccinate their infants. I also do not think it would be too difficult to consider confounding factors, as any good study could. This paper admits that epidemiologic studies reviewed that support an association are "of poor quality and cannot be interpreted" or  "demonstrated significant design flaws that invalidate their conclusions."

Have these studies been dissected by a second, third, fourth party, or reconducted?

Dr. Atkinson, as a parent of twins with ASD, I am doing what any parent would do - questioning the safety of the many injections of ethyl

mercury they received from birth through toddlerhood. I have no choice but to try to get to the bottom of why they were perfectly normal children until they were about 15 months of age, the typical age that most parents of these kids notice regression or behavioral anomalies. I am sure you understand that it is imperative for us to know the facts behind the effects of thimerosal, if one, it is the cause of their ASD, and two, if there is to be anything done to help my boys. All I am asking is for the CDC to investigate this issue without conflicted interests, with sincere intention of finding out what's really going on here, not continuing to placate the public with insufficient  information.

Thank you,

Megan Allen

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To which Dr. Atkinson responded one last time: “In our opinion the issue has been sufficiently investigated. Further research into this issue will probably be done but I doubt that CDC will do it. What is needed more is continued investigation into the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of ASD which will almost certainly be more useful than continuing to investigate a putative link to a preservative that is no longer used in childhood vaccines.”

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Oh Lord, wrong on so many levels, including the not-just-ongoing but ramped-up use of mercury-containing flu shots for infants and pregnant women, and the fact the CDC was still investigating thimerosal (their whitewashed ABT study came out the day before our book did in September, weirdly enough).

But why belabor the five-year-old stock answers from a CDC  epidemiologist? Three reasons. One, this correspondence creates a record. It shows that the relevant officials were made aware five years ago of several concerning facts, including reporting that suggested a much lower rate of autism in less vaccinated populations, and that the agency chose to fall back on its own jury-rigged epidemiology rather than confront this evidence. And creating a record is important – if you read the litigation about thimerosal in vaccine court and elsewhere, you’ll see that parents’ attorneys are very careful to show when and how Eli Lilly, its manufacturer, was apprised of new studies and data raising red flags about it, but chose to ignore the information. Ultimately, that record will haunt them.

I did a similar thing on a much smaller scale in 2007 after the Baltimore City Paper published my piece on the first cases of autism linking them to ethyl mercury (thimerosal); The 6,000-word article told the story of Case 3 and how his father had been working with an ethyl mercury fungicide at the time his son was born. Subsequently, Mark Blaxill and I identified seven of the original 11 cases reported in the landmark paper by Leo Kanner in 1943, and found connections to the same compound in several more cases. That became the basis for our book.

In 2007, at a meeting on autism and the environment in Washington, I handed a copy of my recently published article directly to both Tom Insel, head of the National Institute of Mental Health, and William Raub, the HHS Secretary’s science advisor. I simply wanted to make sure they were both aware of these links to the early cases. Call it hubris, but I hope it was more than that: I really felt an obligation to present what I thought was relevant evidence to the people who were in a position to do something about it. I didn’t want to hear years later a comment similar to the one Atkinson made to Megan – that they weren’t aware of any such information and thus were obviously in no position to comment, let alone to act.

Secondly, and despite Atkinson’s disingenuous claim about thimerosal not being in childhood vaccines, both the use of mercury – and the autism epidemic – have rolled merrily along. Mercury in shots given to pregnant women is a particular abomination, and it depends on the kinds of reassurances Atkinson provided in 2006.

What are the real world consequences? Well, last year on the CDC’s flu Web site, it provided answers to “key questions” from Dr. Atkinson. (You’ve got to love this narcissistic made-up question: “We're glad that CDC has made a universal influenza vaccination recommendation to vaccinate everyone 6 months and older. Would you tell us how this came about?”)

Here are the two key questions and answers from Atkinson:

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Is influenza vaccine recommended for pregnant women?

Yes. It is especially important to vaccinate pregnant women because of their increased risk for influenza-related complications. An increased risk of severe influenza infection was also observed in postpartum women (those delivered within the previous 2 weeks) during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic. Vaccination can occur in any trimester, including the first. Only inactivated (injectable or TIV) vaccine should be given to pregnant women.

Can thimerosal-containing vaccine be given to pregnant women?

Yes, unless you live in a state that has enacted legislation restricting use in pregnant women. There is no scientific evidence that thimerosal in vaccines, including influenza vaccines, is a cause of adverse events, unless the patient has a systemic allergy to thimerosal

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Finally, this correspondence shows why the CDC – and by extension, any agency of HHS or even the federal government, in toto – is unsuited to address the concerns raised by Megan Allen (concerns shared, the latest polls show, by increasing percentages of Americans). The CDC did take vaccine safety surveillance away from the National Immunization Program, but it still resides comfortably within the CDC. The phemomena of captive agencies is well-known, as recent events from the Gulf Oil Spill to the snark hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have established. Let’s ask Julie Gerberding, head of the CDC – oh, wait, no, she’s now head of vaccines at Merck, the company whose chief vaccine researcher warned internally in 1991 that there was too much mercury in childhood vaccines, but never told anyone.

So thanks to Megan Allen and so many others who have been telling the medical industry for years that they need to start behaving like advocates for children’s health, not bunker-mates in an agency whose initials might as well stand for Captured by Drug Companies. We’re with you all the way.

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Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.

Comments

[John Stone]

Michael Schachter

"If you think the worldwide economy is in bad shape, has anyone considered what would happen to the worldwide economy if the truth were known about the effects of vaccines and prescription drugs?"

I believe a terrible burden would be removed. Of course, the truth is known, just not acknowledged.

[MA]

The article that I refer to was published in Mothering Magazine's Nov/Dec 2002 issue. Its used as a reference here, in this chronological list of ignored findings regarding the neurotoxic effects of ethylmercury: http://www.ndaccess.com/EatingAlive/Page_DetailPrint.asp?PageID=22&CommentID=32

[Michael B Schachter MD, CNS]

If you think the worldwide economy is in bad shape, has anyone considered what would happen to the worldwide economy if the truth were known about the effects of vaccines and prescription drugs?

[Benedetta]

Teresa Conrick
I know it is only a few days till Christmas and I should be up beat and all but just because his emails was exposed here don't mean judgment and justice will be coming his way.

I have been rather depressed to find out that James Cherry an old CDC guard of the DPT shot from as far back as the 70's is still at the CDC - still has power - still walking, talking, ordering, making lots of money, still has power, is still be listened to, is still being interviewed for his opinion, still has nice clothes on his back, still lives in a nice house, will have a nice pension, lots of money in the bank. I find that very depressing.

I asked my husband to look upon this face of the devil, and my husband said he had no desire to see the scumb bag, because it was tooo close to Christmas to fill his heart for of hate and loathing.

[Teresa Conrick]

This is such a great example of what makes our community so unique and powerful. We are not going to allow the "William L. Atkinson's", who are condescending, dishonest, defensive, secretive, unscientific, and generally "continuing to placate the public with insufficient information," stop the march of time -- the time for health and healing, truth and justice, and the reality regarding the age of autism. These people and the agencies that they are supposedly navigating for our SAFETY need to be held accountable, and we are just the folks to keep reminding them often. Thanks, Dan and big thanks to Megan, too!

[Rachel]

“It wasn't until reading an article in Mothering Magazine on Thimerosal in 2002 that we first began to question the safety of vaccines."

That was the very same article that solved the puzzle of my son's regression into autism that I wrote about here at AoA two years ago: http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/10/flu-shot-nightm.html.

Also, in their book, Dan and Mark talk about how thimerosal (combined with viruses) initially depresses the immune system, but then ater a period of time overactivates the immune system--that was certainly true in our case.

[Taximom]

Every time one of these doctors or reporters or pharm industry shills bleats "it's not worth continuing to investigate a putative link to a preservative that is no longer used in childhood vaccines," we must SHOUT:

THAT PRESERVATIVE *WAS* USED IN CHILDHOOD VACCINES FOR SEVERAL YEARS AFTER IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY "TAKEN OUT" BECAUSE THE VACCINE COMPANIES CONTINUED TO SELL AND DISTRIBUTE THOSE THIMEROSAL-PRESERVED VACCINES, AND PEDIATRICIANS CONTINUED TO USE THEM FOR AS LONG AS THEIR SHELF LIFE WAS GOOD."

THEN, we can add that now pregnant women, children, and infants as young as 6 months are also given 1 or even 2 mercury-preserved flu shots.

And pregnant women are given those flu shots AGAINST the manufacturer's recommendation, as per the package insert, and children are given those flu shots AGAINST all evidence that it is ineffective.

[Taximom]

Nicole, my son was given 2 vaccines when he was 4 hours old, AGAINST MY WRITTEN REQUEST FOR NO VACCINES, AND WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. The nurses vaccinated him while I was taking a shower, 4 hours after I gave birth.

Don't be so quick to assume your son did not receive vaccines. Even if you had a home birth, I have heard many tales of nurses carrying a baby off "to get his weight and height," and vaccinating the baby on the sly, thinking that they are doing something good.

[lisa]

To Nicole M.,

You say your autistic child is unvaccinated, and that you received no vaccinations yourself for more than a decade before you became pregnant.

As is so often the case with cases like yours, people (including myself) will read your comment and wonder immediately whether you had exposure to mercury from any other source(s), namely mercury fillings, consumption of large quantities of tuna or other mercury-rich fish, or proximity to a coal mine. Although you certainly are not obligated to reply, it would be great if you you did so. I am particularly interested to know whether you had a large number of fillings and, if so, whether you received those fillings after 1970. The reason that year interests me is because the composition of dental amalgams changed around that time, to become what are now often referred to as "high-copper" amalgams. They still contain 50 percent liquid mercury, but the remaining half of the filling contains a larger amount of copper than previous amalgams. No one knows for certain whether they are more toxic, but some speculate that they are, which if true might help explain the timing of the autism epidemic (in addition to the vaccines).

I had a mouth full of these high-copper amalgams removed last year after developing a strong copper taste in my mouth and, along with it, a whole host of neurologic and GI problems. One year later, I am happy to report that the neuropathy is nearly all gone and my stomach, though not totally healed, is much better (although I am continuing to follow the GFCF diet for now because it made such a huge difference for my digestion and I'm afraid of regressing).

[Benedetta]

Nicole M.
A decade is a long time!
Why did you not receive any vaccines for over a decade?
Was it because you reacted to a vaccine and then stopped?

My daughter had Kawasaki disease at 2 years old. But for years, and years, and years she kept having stiffness, tummy aches, fevers. At 14 I thought she might be getting better, untill the school made sure that she had a tetanus shot (AKA - probably another DPT shot) after that she would not stop bleeding with her monthly (gyno - said it was an immature pituartary gland - well it was mature between the 6th grade and the end of her Freshman year! Depression deepened too. Another decade went by with no vaccines, but she still was not really totally better????? Then of course here came more vaccines.

It could very well be - a decade is not long enough. Scary isn't it?

[HFAmomto3HFAgirls]

Nicole. Do you have amalgam fillings? Did you have any placed right before, during pregnancy or during breastfeeding?

[Nicole M.]

I never had my son vaccinated, nor did I receive any vaccinations for over a decade before I became pregnant. Yet my 7 year-old son has non-verbal autism. I'm not telling you this to help out the evil pharma industry, but to say, hey, don't make the quest for answers ALL about vaccines.

[Son in Recovery]

I'm so glad to see that our community has many attempts to warn, inform and teach our government. This will be great evidence when the you know what hits the fan - which will hopefully be in my life time.

[patrons99]

Moderator: Help! I’m so sorry. There’s systematic posting glitch to my last three @ J Harris comments. One LAST try, then I promise, I’ll call it a day. I’ve eliminated ALL of the links this time.

@ J Harris - It’s not a “mistake” by CDC, WHO, FDA, and ADA. It’s FRAUD, plain and simple, and it’s carefully orchestrated. We are delusional if we believe that they are not acting in concert and by agreement.

Just read the package insert for one of this year's influenza virus vaccines. It acknowledges the presence of thimerosal in both the pre-filled syringes (<1 microgram mercury per dose) and multidose vials (25 micrograms mercury per dose).

If any of this year's marketed vaccines has one of the new "super" adjuvants, saponin, aluminum, or mercury, in the “placebo” arm of the pivotal NDA studies, of course the safety profile would appear to be "non-inferior". The comparison would have been "rigged" to be non-inferior. Just look at how Merck gained expedited market approval from FDA for Gardasil. They “poisoned the placebo” in several of the pivotal studies upon which FDA granted market approval. Similarly, if any marketed vaccine is used as an active control, the comparison would have been “rigged” to be non-inferior. A true placebo control arm is now a rarity in pivotal studies upon which FDA grants marketing approval for new vaccines. A true placebo control is essential to support safety. Anything less than a true placebo control arm is scientific FRAUD.

These package inserts need to be sliced, diced, and dissected, in order to be fully understood and in order to make an informed choice. INFORMED CONSENT should be the bedrock principle for any invasive medical procedure, especially in all areas of preventive health.

The ADA also has “blood on their hands”.

To call them “silver fillings” or “silver amalgams” is FRAUD, plain and simple. It’s intended to deceive. We are victims of mercury poisoning. The mercury in the vaccine schedules and mercury amalgam dentistry is poisoning us. Just add aluminum from the vaccine schedules to the mix, and the mercury toxicity is likely to be ca. 100 times more toxic. This is called synergistic toxicity or toxic synergy. The toxicity is cumulative with each subsequent inoculation and with each subsequent mercury amalgam filling.

"A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there." – Quoted from a letter by Donald Miller, M.D. Professor of Surgery, University of Washington

“Currently, dental amalgams are composed of 43% to 54% by weight of mercury and the remaining powder is made up of mainly silver (ca 20-35%) (2) and some tin, copper (ca. 10%) and zinc (ca 2%).” – wikipedia

[patrons99]

Moderator: Help! I’m so sorry. There’s systematic posting glitch to my last two @ J Harris comments. One more try, then I promise, I’ll call it a day. I’ve eliminated the wikipedia link in the hope of resolving the problem. Here's how the comment was intended:

@ J Harris - It’s not a “mistake” by CDC, WHO, FDA, and ADA. It’s FRAUD, plain and simple, and it’s carefully orchestrated. We are delusional if we believe that they are not acting in concert and by agreement.

Just read the package insert for one of this year's influenza virus vaccines. It acknowledges the presence of thimerosal in both the pre-filled syringes (http://mercurytalk.com/Stories/FreyaKoss/Freya%20Koss.pdf

To call them “silver fillings” or “silver amalgams” is FRAUD, plain and simple. It’s intended to deceive. We are victims of mercury poisoning. The mercury in the vaccine schedules and mercury amalgam dentistry is poisoning us. Just add aluminum from the vaccine schedules to the mix, and the mercury toxicity is likely to be ca. 100 times more toxic. This is called synergistic toxicity or toxic synergy. The toxicity is cumulative with each subsequent inoculation and with each subsequent mercury amalgam filling.

“Synergistic Toxicity”

http://www.sailhome.org/Concerns/BodyBurden/Synergistic.html

"A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there." – Quoted from a letter by Donald Miller, M.D. Professor of Surgery, University of Washington

“Currently, dental amalgams are composed of 43% to 54% by weight of mercury and the remaining powder is made up of mainly silver (ca 20-35%) (2) and some tin, copper (ca. 10%) and zinc (ca 2%).” – see wikipedia

[patrons99]

@ J Harris - please accept my apology for a significant posting "glitch" with my last comment. It should have read:

It’s not a “mistake” by CDC, WHO, FDA, and ADA. It’s FRAUD, plain and simple, and it’s carefully orchestrated. We are delusional if we believe that they are not acting in concert and by agreement.

Just read the package insert for one of this year's influenza virus vaccines. It acknowledges the presence of thimerosal in both the pre-filled syringes (http://mercurytalk.com/Stories/FreyaKoss/Freya%20Koss.pdf

To call them “silver fillings” or “silver amalgams” is FRAUD, plain and simple. It’s intended to deceive. We are victims of mercury poisoning. The mercury in the vaccine schedules and mercury amalgam dentistry is poisoning us. Just add aluminum from the vaccine schedules to the mix, and the mercury toxicity is likely to be ca. 100 times more toxic. This is called synergistic toxicity or toxic synergy. The toxicity is cumulative with each subsequent inoculation and with each subsequent mercury amalgam filling.

“Synergistic Toxicity”

http://www.sailhome.org/Concerns/BodyBurden/Synergistic.html

"A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there."

Quoted from a letter by Donald Miller, M.D. Professor of Surgery, University of Washington

“Currently, dental amalgams are composed of 43% to 54% by weight of mercury and the remaining powder is made up of mainly silver (ca 20-35%) (2) and some tin, copper (ca. 10%) and zinc (ca 2%).”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_%28dentistry%29

[J Harris]

Moderator: Could you repost this and delete the previous one? I fixed the links.

Hmm, William Atkinson, William Atkinson – where have I seen this name before? Oh, yes – last month, when I emailed the CDC.

To: cdcinfo@cdc.gov
From: J. Harris
Subject: CDC Website Inquiry
Date: Fri, Nov 12, 2010

I found a very serious mistake of fact on your website, which requires immediate correction. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm "All routinely recommended pediatric vaccines manufactured for the U.S. market contain no thimerosal or only trace amounts." This is clearly false, as an annual flu vaccine is routinely recommended for all children starting at 6 months old. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/downloads/child/2010/10_0-6yrs-schedule-pr.pdf According to the package inserts, which can be found here, http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093833.htm most of the flu vaccines (including those for babies and children) contain the full amount of mercury (25 mcg per 0.5 mL dose). A "trace" amount of mercury in a vaccine is defined as 0.3 mcg. 25 mcg is over 81 times that amount. Please correct this information immediately.
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To: jharris
From: NIPINFO@cdc.gov
Subject: Influenza vaccine gp
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010

This is not a mistake. Reduced and thimerosal free influenza vaccine is available in the United States in both pediatric and adult formulations.

William Atkinson, MD, MPH
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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To: NIPINFO (CDC)
From: J. Harris
Subject: RE: Influenza vaccine gp
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010

It is a mistake. The word, "All" is used. You need to add, "except for most influenza vaccines." Other CDC webpages say, "except for some influenza vaccines," but the word "most" is more correct. Did you know the only mercury free/reduced mercury flu shot available for children under 3 years old is the Fluzone pre-filled syringe? How many pediatric Fluzone pre-filled syringes are out there this year? I'll ask you again: Please correct the mistake immediately. Thank you.
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To: jharris
From: NIPINFO@cdc.gov
Subject: Influenza vaccine gp
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010

I only know that the total number of mercury free/reduced mercury flu doses available (information given to us from the manufacturers) is 74 million. Not all of this is the pediatric Fluzone pre-filled syringes. Unless a state law prohibits this, doses of influenza vaccine administered should be based on the age of licensure and not whether or not the dose contains thimerosal, since we know thimerosal is not harmful.

Andrew Kroger M.D., M.P.H.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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To: nipinfo@cdc.gov
From: jharris
Subject: RE: Influenza vaccine gp
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010

Whether or not you "know" thimerosal is not harmful, has no bearing on whether you should say it is absent/reduced in "All" routinely recommended pediatric vaccines manufactured for the U.S. when obviously it is NOT.

Please correct the mistake on the website that I originally alerted you to on November 12. Thank you.
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To: nipinfo@cdc.gov
From: jharris
Subject: RE: Influenza vaccine gp
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010

I haven't heard back regarding my 3rd request for the CDC to correct the wording. Is my assumption correct that you will not be doing so?
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NO FURTHER REPLIES WERE RECEIVED.

Note: In my first email, I mistakenly wrote “81 times that amount” instead of the correct “83 times that amount.”

[patrons99]

J Harris - It’s not a “mistake” by CDC, WHO, FDA, and ADA. It’s FRAUD, plain and simple, and it’s carefully orchestrated. We are delusional if we believe that they are not acting in concert and by agreement.

Just read the package insert for one of this year's influenza virus vaccines. It acknowledges the presence of thimerosal in both the pre-filled syringes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_%28dentistry%29
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“Looking for the Silver Lining”

http://mercurytalk.com/Stories/FreyaKoss/Freya%20Koss.pdf

To call them “silver fillings” or “silver amalgams” is FRAUD, plain and simple. It’s intended to deceive. We are victims of mercury poisoning. The mercury in the vaccine schedules and mercury amalgam dentistry is poisoning us. Just add aluminum from the vaccine schedules to the mix, and the mercury toxicity is likely to be ca. 100 times more toxic. This is called synergistic toxicity or toxic synergy. The toxicity is cumulative with each subsequent inoculation and with each subsequent mercury amalgam filling.
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“Synergistic Toxicity”

http://www.sailhome.org/Concerns/BodyBurden/Synergistic.html

"A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there."

Quoted from a letter by Donald Miller, M.D. Professor of Surgery, University of Washington
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“Do Drug Companies Secretly Favor a World Flu Pandemic?” by Dr Joseph Mercola on July 28, 2009.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/28/What-are-the-Dangers-of-Mandatory-Swine-Flu-Vaccination.aspx

[Sarah]

J Harris

I'm amazed they replied the first time but at least you got a reply. I emailed the CDC months ago. I asked them to do more public education on autism. no response. I sent them another email at to whether they had done any studies on the vaccine schedule. Still no response.

[patrons99]

Here’s an off-topic comment, but time may be running short in Russia.

Why has Alexander Goncharov disappeared? Is he still alive?

“Alexander Goncharov, a Russian activist who has been exposing the globalists eugenics program and in particular a vaccination program set to begin in 2011 has disappeared after recently receiving a serious threat to his life.”

Can the world do anything to help save the children? Real question, folks. Looks like there may not be much time to act. This sounds like a jab which is worse than merely an anti-fertility vaccine. Is it also an immunodeficiency jab which is intended to CAUSE immune deficiency? Could a similar scenario take place elsewhere in the world? In the U.S.? In the U.K.? Mexico? Nicaragua? Iraq?

“Russian activist disappears after exposing vaccination plans for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus”

http://info-wars.org/2010/11/07/russian-activist-disappears-after-exposing-vaccination-plans-for-russia-ukraine-and-belarus/

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread627664/pg1

“The rapid stimulation of immunity by the introduction of "young" immune system, and then, within 2-5 years of its sharp decline, without makeup, "a young immunity" to zero, ie inability to fight off any infektsii.sayt DBR “

“Rockefeller-Funded Anti-Fertility Vaccine Coordinated by WHO” by Jurriaan Maessen on September 4, 2010.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20906

[John Stone]

Of course, it is exactly the same across national boundaries: state repression and bureaucratic expedience masquerading as science. They invent their own reality - with one flimsy study after another - to fit the policy. What is striking is the inflexible tone: these people cannot discuss anything. That's another reason why it is not science.

[Sarah]

"...an agency whose initials might as well stand for Captured by Drug Companies"

Exactly.. the drug companies have imbedded their people in key positions in the government. Government approval boards at the CDC and FDA are stacked with drug company loyalists many of whom have COIs with the industry. They are entrenched.

The fox is not just guarding the coop, he's in the coop disguised as a chicken.

[Benedetta]

Oh yes; that sounds like the CDC I have come to know, over the last three decades.

I don't think we have our best--est, and bright--est working there. We do however have our most-est over educated working there. Educated in what- though?---They so need to be forced to go on a survival trip up the Appalachian trial and observe real nature, since they ain't got a clue how the world of living things really work. They do however seem to understand the political blame something else game, so that must be what they got educated in.

[mary]

Yeah, they already know but I think it's great that parents continue corresponding because it eats away at their guilt. It is stunning how many people are willingly and knowlingly taking part in the poisoning of our children.

[Mark]

Bob
Wikileaks have already stated that Big Pharma are in their sights

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4443021/wikileaks-targets-big-pharma/

[Theresa O]

Great article, Dan--and great work, Megan. Trying to convince the CDC to study vaccine risks may be a losing battle, but every article about it is an article that a new mom may read.

These are interesting times for the mercury debate (if it can be called that). It looks as if the FDA is considering whether mercury in the mouth is a good idea. I'm not particularly encouraged by what the agency has said so far (because apparently they've never heard of the precautionary principle), but I guess you never know: http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=rst&pag=dis&ItemID=306441&wf=725

In any case, more articles about mercury and its health implications mean more people waking up and doing their own reading about the issues. Thanks, Dan, for keeping this issue out there.

[A Friend]

Atkinson's second sentence speaks volumes.

"Monkeys are not humans".

He might as well have said. "Shut up, you ignorant turd".

Great job, Megan. Anyone can tell that you were the "real" professional and he was/is well... an ignorant turd.

[Bob Moffitt]

Like Martin Luther King .. I also have a dream .. that sometime in the NEAR future .. all closely guarded data, information and correspondence .. between public health agencies and vaccine industry officials .. will be made public for all to see.

Admittedly .. there are many who believe Wikileaks release of classified information regarding "State secrets" should be prosecuted as a criminal act .. but .. I suspect there would be far less people calling for criminal prosecution if the "secrets" being released provided clear and convincing evidence that federal regulatory agencies had failed to protect the people from the very industries they are supposed to regulate.

In any event .. the mere fact that Wikileaks was able to publicly release "secret" information must weigh heavily on the minds of many within federal protection agencies as they put their head on the pillow each and every night.

[Alison MacNeil]

Wow - Megan, you are such a smart, strong mom and advocate. Loved this, in toto.