From the Editor: Deep Pockets

Pfizer spent $248 million -- a cool quarter billion -- on advertising in the first quarter of 2013. That's a lot of insurance against Big Media getting too aggressive.

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Release from Autism Speaks: Robert H. Ring, Ph.D., a respected autism and neurodevelopmental disorders researcher and executive, has been named Chief Science Officer of Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization.

Ring, who is currently Autism Speaks' vice president of translational research, has devoted his entire career to improving the lives of people affected by mental health disorders, with specific focus on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) during the last seven years.  He replaces Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D.

"Dr. Ring knows how important it is to put science into action, to have the research we support work for the community and make a real difference in people's lives," said Liz Feld, President of Autism Speaks. "His appointment is an exciting moment for Autism Speaks as we continue to push the boundaries of autism research."

"This is a time of unprecedented progress and opportunity in the field of autism research, and Autism Speaks will continue to play a pivotal role as a catalyst for innovation," said Ring. "As Chief Science Officer of Autism Speaks, I have the responsibility of ensuring that our scientific work is always focused on delivering meaningful results for people with ASD and their families.  I can't think of a more exciting or urgent challenge."

As Chief Science Officer, Ring will lead Autism Speaks initiatives including the full genome sequencing collaboration with BGI and the Autism Tissue Program and its integration into the recently announced Autism BrainNet. Ring  joined Autism Speaks in June of 2011 and  has been responsible for the development and implementation of the organization’s expanding translational research portfolio, which is focused on moving biological science “from bench to bedside” – or from laboratory experiments into clinical trials – with the goal of improving outcomes for individuals with ASD. Ring also serves as President of Delivering Scientific Innovation for Autism (DELSIA), a venture philanthropy arm that is working beyond the science to catalyze scientific breakthroughs and innovations in technology into the development of products that will improve the quality of life and health for individuals with autism.

"We thank Dr. Dawson for all she has done for Autism Speaks," said Bob Wright, co-founder of Autism Speaks. "Her vision helped establish our position as a critical driver of autism research here in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Ring has done tremendous work developing our translational research portfolio. He is the ideal person to build on our success and lead Autism Speaks' autism research efforts as we seek to further elevate the impact it can have for our families."

"I am so grateful to Bob and Suzanne Wright and my colleagues at Autism Speaks, who have literally changed the landscape in autism science and advocacy," said Dawson, who has been appointed as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of the Duke University Center on Autism Diagnosis and Treatment. "It has been a privilege to work with this remarkable team for the past five and half years. Rob Ring’s expertise will help ensure that our science investments continue to bring real benefit for individuals with autism and their families.”

Prior to joining Autism Speaks, Ring served as senior director and head of the Autism Research Unit at Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development. There he led the first research group in the history of the pharmaceutical industry focused specifically on the discovery and development of medicines for neurodevelopmental disorders. Ring also served on its executive leadership team for neuroscience and played an instrumental role in shaping the development of Pfizer’s strategy for autism spectrum disorders.

Ring earned a B.A. double major in both Fine Art and Biology from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology from the City of Hope National Medical Center in Southern California. He holds adjunct faculty appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York) and Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine (Philadelphia).

About Autism
Autism is a general term used to describe a group of complex developmental brain disorders – autism spectrum disorders – caused by a combination of genes and environmental influences. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by communication difficulties, social and behavioral challenges, as well as repetitive behaviors. An estimated one in 88 children in the U.S. is on the autism spectrum – a 78 percent increase in six years that is only partly explained by improved diagnosis.

About Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks is the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization. It is dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Suzanne and Bob Wright, the grandparents of a child with autism. Mr. Wright is the former vice chairman of General Electric and chief executive officer of NBC and NBC Universal. Since its inception, Autism Speaks has committed more than $195 million to research and developing innovative resources for families. Each year Walk Now for Autism Speaks events are held in more than 95 cities across North America. On the global front, Autism Speaks has established partnerships and related activities in more than 40 countries on 5 continents to foster international research, services and awareness. To learn more about Autism Speaks, please visitwww.AutismSpeaks.org.

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From Slate's Laura Helmuth, one for the ages: "Thimerosal is a mercury compound, which sounds scary, but mercury comes in many forms that behave differently in the body, and this isn't the dangerous kind."

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From the online mag: "Slate doesn't give equal time to creationists, and given the overwhelming evidence, we would never publish a story claiming that vaccines cause autism."

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Our Contributing Editor Dan Burns on a Congressional office visit: "I called on Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Dallas office today seeking her support for HR 1757, the Vaccine Safety Study Act. Congresswoman Johnson is a nurse by trade and has a reputation in Texas as children's health advocate. She’s a ranking member of the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and (as I know from previous conversations) she is strongly networked with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

I had an appointment to discuss HR 1757 with one of her staffers, J. Collin Chlebak, Director of Constituent Services, and had sent him link to Olmsted et al “How Mercury Triggered The Age of Autism.” Before I arrived, Collin had watched the video and researched the bill. His first question -- "Why do you think Secretary Sebelius has taken the position she has taken on vaccines?" -- seemed a bit chilly and signaled to me that I was not on friendly ground. My answer, "She is misinformed and has turned her back on us," did not warm the atmosphere.

Collin said, "The bill is in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the Subcommittee on Health. It has only two supporters in Congress, Bill Posey and Carolyn B. Maloney. Two out of 435 is not good odds. Your focus at this point should be on the subcommittee. I’ll alert Congresswoman Johnson, but with no one else supporting the bill, getting it to the floor of the House is going to be … tough. It was not a cozy meeting. On the positive side, Collin had done his homework, and he promised to forward the video link to Johnson’s health staffer in DC. Like Posey said, this is going to be a long fight. But we’ve made a start."

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Common sense and clarity from Kendra Pettengill, commenting on the Stanford blather about causation (keep reading): "Multiple causes of multiple Autisms is just another agenda to let vaccines off the hook. Like better diagnosis or diagnostic substitution. It just doesn't add up. How about Ocham's Razor, "the simplest solution is probably it." Since the epidemic really started with the birth cohort in the early 90's, we are talking about an epidemic that occurred in a matter of 20 years. A blink of an eye in evolutionary time. And they are asking us to believe that multiple factors all reached the damaging point at exactly the same time, and despite all these multiple causes, they all simultaneously caused a condition in children so similar that they are all diagnosed with the exact same disorder. And while there may be variations along a spectrum they are similar enough to be under the same umbrella. Multiple causations or multiple inputs of toxins, chemicals, or other potential causes would cause unique disorders and they would not have happened all within a period of 20 years. This is beyond comprehension and definitely would not correlate to any science known to man today. 25 years ago Oregon had 6 children known to have Autism and receiving services. Now we have hit 9,000. The odds that multiple causations all converged at the ultimate toxic tipping point in the span of only 25 years, yet causing the same diagnosable and similar disorder in thousands of children in such a short period of time is unprecedented and really about as easy to believe as "vaccine injuries are 1 in a million." When you add in the skyrocketing numbers with other neurodevelopental disorders you see the craziness of this conjecture. I put multiple causes in the same category with unicorns and fairy dust. And when you look at identical percentage rates of increase in every single state in the U.S., well then you are stretchting the fabric of probability even further. We all breath different qualities of air, drink different water, eat different foods, are exposed to different toxins, pesticides, medical interventions, etc., so we know it has to be something that is exactly the same, across the U.S., an identical exposure for nearly every single child in this huge geographical nation. Multiple causations is a pipe dream for the pharmaceuticals and allows them to claim ignorance and potentially that only a few odd cases will eventually be linked to vaccines. Ocham's razor would tell us that if vaccines are causing Autism in some, it is most probably the culprit for the entire epidemic."

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One day I'm for Michele Bachmann, the next for Bobby Kennedy Jr. Why don't my politics make any sense? Is it because all I care about is stopping autism? I guess!

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Please watch How Mercury Triggered the Age of Autism. Share it with family and friends, and anyone in medicine, government and the media who can help get the job done -- removing mercury from vaccines worldwide. Thanks!

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Great comment from John Gilmore of Autism Action Network on NY Times story on DSM-V:  "This is to be expected from the Times. If anything the New York Times sees itself as the stentorian voice of the secular credentialed elites. Essentially there is an immense schism going on in psychiatry. And the Times doesn't know how to report on that. Especially in psychiatry, given that much of the New York Times ecosystem adopted Freudian thought as a secular substitute for religion with psychiatrists as a new priesthood. Think Woody Allen.

"But in the big picture the decision by the NIMH is a catastrophe of the first order for the APA and psychiatry. Insell is saying that psychiatry has to enter the evidence-based world. For a profession that is a belief system based on faith posing as science this move is an existential threat.

"Allen Frances predicted that the APA would lose ownership of 'mental illness' as a result of the blatant toadying to pharma, the greed obvious in the attempt to define as many life situations as possible as diagnosable conditions treatable with psychotropic drugs, and the evident sloppiness and lack of supporting evidence in the new 'disorders' added to the DSM-5. Frances was right. Psychiatry as we know it is done. They self-immolated.

The sooner the self-serving, pharma retail clerks we call psychiatry are ejected from the lives of people with autism the better off we will all be. And the TImes continues to lose money year after year. 

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Columbia Journalism Review says, "But it was the work of two veteran journalists, not Kennedy’s shameful piece, that really kept the story simmering. In February 2005, St. Martin’s Press published Evidence of Harm by journalist David Kirby, in which Kirby didn’t reach any specific conclusions about a link but presented a litany of parental suspicions that suggested one. And that winter, Dan Olmsted, a senior editor at United Press International, turned out a series called “Age of Autism,” for which he conducted an admittedly unscientific survey that found lower autism rates among ostensibly unvaccinated Amish communities (other studies found that vaccination rates are high in those communities). Few newspapers picked up Olmsted’s articles, but they got the attention of Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York. In March 2006, Maloney held a briefing at the National Press Club, where she cited Olmsted’s work as her motivation for drafting legislation that would compel the federal government to study autism rates in unvaccinated populations.

 

"Maloney’s bill went nowhere, but Kirby and Olmsted went on to build their careers around the idea that a link exists in some children. Olmsted launched Age of Autism inNovember 2007, branding it the “Daily Web Newspaper of the Autism Epidemic”; it continues to be one of the most popular sites for those who doubt, or are concerned about, the safety of vaccines."

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Washington Post profiles Sharyl Attkisson of CBS and her gutsy coverage from Fast and Furious to Benghazi to yes, vaccines. Second to last paragraph: "Some of Attkisson's most controversial reporting hasn't been about politics at all. She has been widely criticized within medical research circles for a series starting in 2002 about research linking childhood vaccinations to the rise in autism. The stories have been denounced in some circles as 'fear-mongering.' Attkisson is, typically, unbowed. 'I stand behind it,' she says. 'It's some of the best work I've ever done. My only regret is we haven't done more.'"

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Suicide rate soars, but coverage omits the fact that many drugs, from statins to mefloquine to antidepressants, can trigger suicide -- those ads warn they may trigger "suicidal thoughts and actions" ... because they can and they do.

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NYT Mag: "Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer -- Has raising awareness become more important than saving lives?" OK class, compare and contrast with Autism Awareness Month.

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In The Mail in 2006, then-candidate David Cameron said Brits ought to have the option of single-jab measles vaccines. All about choice, don't you know. A good conservative position -- unless Andy adopts it!

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The much-maligned chelation study has shown signs of an unexpected benefit for heart patients. Now, wHgy the Hgeck would cHgelation Hgelp someone with Hgeart problems?

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This comment by SteveCA7, on a SkyNews article bashing Andy Wakefield, shows why vaccine injury unites victims of MMR, Gardasil, and much more: "Lies, damned lies and more lies. The Department of Health tells everyone that this and other vaccines are safe. They may be safe for the majority but they are certainly not safe for everyone. You only need to look at their own medicine guides on the NHS Choices website (just Google 'Medicines a - z' and look up MMR vaccine). Like all vaccines it tells you that this vaccine is not suitable for everyone and that some people must never have it. It tells you that many side effects can be serious. Virtually all serious side effects are auto-immune reactions.

"Our daughter had the first dose of MMR and immediately developed full blown measles, was then admitted to an isolation ward with suspect meningitis and then a cervical lymph node developed the size of a golf ball which was eventually removed by surgery. We chose not to have the second dose.

"Two years ago we declined the opportunity for her to have the HPV vaccine but were reassured by the School Nurse that it was nothing like the MMR and quite safe (as she was told by the DoH). Within the hour she was so unwell that my wife was called to collect her from school. She was constantly cold, flu-like and couldn't stay awake. After a few weeks she was sleeping 20 - 23 hours a day. After 2 months of this she then went into a coma-like sleep for 13 weeks. She has missed almost 2 years of school. Unbelievably, not only do the DoH and NHS insist that it is sheer coincidence but they then reported us to Social Services and the local Safeguarding Board blaming us for fabricated and induced illness (FII).

"If only they would be open and honest and follow their own safety rules and then at least admit it for the unfortunate few and try to help them. It is an utter disgrace.

"The DoH may have discredited Dr Andrew Wakefield here in the UK (I won't say this is by dirty tricks or my comment will be removed again) but the courts in the USA and Italy have agreed that the MMR vaccine has caused autism."

Comments

[Bob Moffitt]

At first I did not know what "translational research" meant .. but .. now I see it means "bringing to market" the drugs that Ring has been developing for Phizer. Where better to do that "marketing" than Austism Speaks .. the premier "marketing of Autism Awareness" organization?

Knowing that .. I think this "appointment" of Ring .. a former valued employee of Phizer's research and development program .. as Autism Speaks' vice president of translational research .. makes a lot of sense if you are Phizer. Therefore .. I think it only fair that Phizer pay most of Ring's Autism Speak's salary .. since he will be "carrying their water" .. in his new assignment.

Isn't life great when YOU are the one who gets to enjoy the "revolving door" opportunities between industry and regulators? We can now include Autism Speaks as another "revolving door" through which these people have opportunities other.. more discerning scientists .. lack.

[John Stone]

My own feeling is that Robert Ring does not have Dawson's winsome charm. Ring it will be recalled was instrumental in putting together "a pre-competitive consortium" linking Autism Speaks with Pfizer, Lilly (!!!), Roche, Novartis and Janssen (I suppose you might call it a "ring") - a project which was excitedly being announced by AS simultaneously with the apparent discovery of a universal autism rate of 1 in 38 based on an uncompleted survey in S Korea. Below is my letter in BMJ Rapid Responses last year:-

http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3502/rr/588110

When autism becomes good news 5 June 2012

A particular concern is population screening projects for autism as a potential target group for newly developed psychiatric drugs.

A Time Magazine article last year [1] publicised a pilot screening project for autism, funded by US charity Autism Speaks, that had taken place in the Korean city of Goyang and apparently discovered an incidence among school children of 1 in 38. Lead author Dr Young Shin Kim was apparently not perturbed by the numbers:

“Kim stresses that the results of her study shouldn't alarm parents into thinking that autism has suddenly exploded in schools. "It doesn't mean there is an increase in new cases," she says. "We just didn't know how to find them and diagnose them. Now we know there are kids with social problems who are not being treated, and we know how to help them."”

Time reported:

“The researchers say they would expect to see similarly high rates of autism emerge in the U.S. and elsewhere if the same data collection strategy were used. "The kids picked up in Korea, many had never been recognized in medical records as having autism," says Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer for Autism Speaks. "That's what needs to be done, that kind of broad screening."”

However, the magazine did not report was that 67% of the screened-positive children seem to have pulled out before the study was completed [2]:

"For the 1,214 sampled screen-positive students, 869 parents (72%) consented to participate in the full assessment. Of these, 286 (33%) completed full assessments. Of those who completed the assessment, 201 (70%) were confirmed to have ASDs (autistic disorder, N=101; other ASDs, N=100), yielding a crude prevalence for any ASD of 0.36% (autistic disorder, 0.18%; other ASDs, 0.18%)."

What the report also did not disclose was that appointment that very same week of Robert H Ring to Autism Speaks:

"Robert H. Ring, previously a Pfizer senior director, will join Autism Speaks in Princeton, N.J., on June 1 in the newly created position of vice president of translational research. His focus will be on helping move drug experimentation from laboratories to clinical trials, "with the goal of improving outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorders," according to the nonprofit organization." [3]

While still at Pfizer Ring stated:

“This is a real opportunity to really make a difference for a huge unmet need using expertise we’ve acquired over a number of years. In fact we’re working right now to build a pre-competitive consortium amongst our competitors, including Lilly, Roche, Novartis, Janssen, and trying to agree that this is an important population to be developing medicines for…” [4]

This led to an announcement of a partnership between Autism Speaks, Roche and King's College, London earlier this year [5].

[1] Alice Park, 'South Korean Study Suggests Rate of Autism May Be Underestimated' http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/09/korean-study-suggests-rate-of-auti...

[2] Kim YS, Leventhal BL, Koh YJ, Fombonne E, Laska E, Lim EC, Cheon KA, Kim SJ, Kim YK, Lee H, Song DH, Grinker RR., 'Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in a total population sample.' Am J Psychiatry. 2011 Sep;168(9):904-12. Epub 2011 May 9.

[3] Lee Howard, 'Past Pfizer autism unit chief to join major advocacy group
By Lee Howard' 12 May 2011, http://www.theday.com/article/20110512/BIZ02/305129344/-1/BIZ

[4] Pfizer News, 'Autism research unit at Pfizer to address autism spectrum disorders'

[5] 'Unprecedented Academic-Industry Collaboration Seeks New Drugs and Novel Treatments for Autism', http://www.autismspeaks.org/about-us/press-releases/research-academic-in...

Competing interests: Autistic son

[Garbo]

Ooooh...so where is Geri Dawson going?

[Benedetta]

I have to agree with the last part

"It’s also time the rest of us stopped scaring ourselves to death about the trace amounts of chemicals in our everyday lives, of which by the standards of our grandparents or great-grandparents, are pretty damn good."

Yeah, I have been there for 30 years too - thinking we were the rare birds-- why did we have immediate reactions to the vaccines; what in the environment make us unable to take them. What does it matter fast or slow - we are not rare.

[nhokkanen]

Regardless of one's feelings about religion, for Slate to shut the door on (1) actual vaccine/autism evidence, and (2) possibility, is the antithesis of science. So much of our world and universe remains to be learned.

Slate's vaccines-are-100%-perfect bloggers dodge any evidence not supportive of their insular and misanthropic worldview. They defend a set of ethereal ideals out of step with reality, while autism advocates defend living, breathing families and honest ethics.

How crazy it is that government and industry can attempt to drown truth in a sea of corrupt science, while Slate, Salon and other repeaters in the pro-pharma cabal cheer them on instead of offering life preservers.

[Jen]

I hope someone is filming what is happening in Gouro with respect to Menafrivac. Even if people try and characterize it as "psychogenic" or mass hysteria, it would help to see that children were/are actually paralyzed.

[jen]

Bill Gates and Menafrivac is on Huffpo now. Check it out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/meningitis-vaccine-bill-gates_n_3398557.html

[Dan E. Burns]

After days of reflection ... if you're prepared to be a minority of one, be happy that the subcommittee has two. Siri, send a note to the grandkids: "I was there at the beginning" (two, four, eight, sixteen ...).

[Garbo]

Nobody in Congress was concerned about GMO contamination of US wheat crops until foreign countries started banning imports. I fear that Congress likewise is going to be an utter waste of time, space and money on the vaccine issue. When the tipping point comes, it will be because foreign researchers, and their governments which are far more financially invested in their citizens' long-term healthcare costs, finally wake up and decide that the US vaccine schedule is a dangerous atrocity and ultimately not cost-effective. The only thing that will right this ship is market forces, because Congresspersons and their staffers are too dim, too greedy, or too unconcerned with the future of our country to uncover and speak the truth.

[Jeannette Bishop]

It's disturbing that meeting opened with an appeal the the "authority" of an unelected bureaucrat.

I personally think the state of health of our highly vaccinated children could be held up as the poster child of what happens when Constitutional checks and balances designed to protect individual rights from all forms of tyranny are removed.

And lately I'm of the mind that it is unconstitutional for HHS to exist generally. Healthcare is one of many issues the Constitution left to the states or more local provinces, if those elected governmental bodies felt so inclined, but personally I would prefer healthcare decisions and responsibility to be left to the most local sovereignty of the individual or the parents of a child and the responsibility for representations of safety to be left in the hands of those recommending a product. IMO the federal government should be protecting the individual's right to not be forced to take a risk for the "greater good" and to seek redress in court if harmed without informed consent.

The centralized unelected concentration of legislating, executive, and in the case of vaccines, judicial powers that reside in HHS agencies has given powerful groups like the pharmaceutical industry and other elitist organizations a channel to buy monopoly and research agendas, corrupt "regulation," buy legislation.

I want to say that as congress (with the signature of a POTUS and seemingly the acquiescence of the SCOTUS) created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, the disastrous results are their responsibility, but as we elect congress, it is ultimately our/the public's responsibility. So here we are, a minority, trying to get congress to just simply look at the results of the experiment of nearly two decades of vaccination without the constitutional protections.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/health#members

Some of those who legislated away the protection of our children's rights back in 1986 are still in congress. We have allowed the assumption of more and more powers at the federal level in the name of caring, or to "do something" about problems that come up, which attracts the funding that buys our representatives who want to keep their political "careers," and we are either unwilling or perhaps now unable to hold our federal representatives accountable.

(One would think that congressional members such as Waxman should be confident, even eager, to evaluate the overall effects of his necessary, beneficial, unconstitutional legislation. I'm tempted to suggest that representatives reluctant to support this unprecedented research are in actuality anti-vaccine at heart, but even if that is not the case, clearly they do not respect the right of informed consent for their constituents.)

I think we will have to get the majority or at least a very large number of the U.S. population on board with Congressman Posey's bill to even see a vote. Can we do that?

And I'm somewhat concerned that this legislation directs our captured HHS to study this. I'm wondering if we could on a parallel front to seek donations for such a study from more independent researchers. Eighty-nine percent of parents said they want vaccine safety research top priority (which says something about our health agencies who are not acting on that and about who controls congress as well). Would a good percentage of parents be willing to help fund such research on top of paying their taxes? If parents could fund their own research, I think it would give congress incentive to do their own, though I'm not sure that part would be a good thing.

[White Rose]

To support families of vaccine-injured children and demand accountability for those being responsible for the tragedies, please visit the link below right now and sign the petition to ‘Lift the ban shielding drug companies from lawsuits for vaccine-related injuries or deaths.’

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/383/907/145/lift-the-ban-shielding-drug-companies-from-lawsuits-for-vaccine-related-injuries-or-deaths/

[Benedetta]

Dan;
That is what I have been seeing when I contact my two -- Hal Rogers thinks that all can be fixed in our tiny, wee area of the country -- if only we have enough stiff laws of buying all over the counter meds, piling bodies into prisons, and making us pay for manual drug test everytime we go to visit our doctor.Just get tougher with us on that darn War On Drugs stuff.

My other actually had polio so you can imagine his views about vaccines - beside he is too busy being the minority leader to fool with something as riduculous as vaccine saftey.

It has already been a long fight.

Beside all of that:
They already have had a Congressman Burton - one of their own that this has actually happened to.

They don't believe Burton?

The whole thing is chilling.

Meanwhile; I would like to know the stats of just my small, wee area of the country - of how many - oh say 30 year olds - not 8 year old that have some kind of mental illness.

[healthforchildren]

In google "news" right now:

Channing Tatum says he will never medicate his new daughter for learning disabilities--

Celebs are catching on and (hopefully) speaking out...

[Carol]

I'm a Democrat disgusted at MSNBC's coverage of Michele Bachmann's comment about retardation caused by HPV vaccine. Matthews and his cohort just thought that was hilarious.

Bachmann was merely relating what a mother had told her so in actuality Matthews was ridiculing the mother of an injured daughter. And guess what, Chris? This is a definition of "retardation" from a medical dictionary: Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. Was the girl under 18? Did she regress after vaccination? Who looks like a moron now?

I haven't been able to watch MSNBC since.

The mother who spoke to Bachmann about her daughter would be a great get for an AoA interview.

[John Stone]

Otto

No, the article by Peter Doshi is excellent but BMJ have always been somewhat schizophrenic about these matters. Doshi and Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration have often been given space to voice their concerns about the flu vaccine scam, while Jefferson seems have been a long term associate of BMJ editor, Fiona Godlee, having worked on publishing projects together. Why Cochrane brush over the blatant anomalies of MMR but is dissident on the flu fraud is an interesting question. One thing that I notice is that Jefferson's name is absent from the 2012 Cochrane review of MMR although it is just an update of the 2005 review, in which he is listed as author. Presumably he is distancing himself.

[ottoschnaut]

Dear AoA Friends:

The BMJ article marketing disease marketing vaccines

has generated some amazing Rapid Responses. here is a sample:

http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3037/rr/646092

"It is notable that P. Doshi mentioned only two cases of side effects of flu vaccination. In reality the sporadic side effects are quite numerous, but because of their 'flu-like' nature they are not reported.

In Russia the vaccines produced locally (side effect of the support to national businesses) are bought by Government for 'free" vaccination.

Children in schools and kindergartens are the most prevalent subjects forced to be vaccinated for free. Almost every year in one or another region of Russia the vaccination is stopped because of the reports of the mass suffering of children from the side effects of vaccination. Usually the specific series of vaccines are recalled.

The pressure on physicians to use the already prepaid vaccines is so strong, that they fill the patients' records with false statements of vaccination. We know about this accidents, because from time to time here and there the criminal cases are opened against these physicians.

Competing interests: None declared"

This is remarkable indeed to read on the BMJ Rapid Responses website. Has the wormed at last turned?

[barbara j]

Yep, Benedetta, I've had bad experiences with them all. My Kawasaki girl had a bad reaction long before her KD with dtp. Later with her TD we were told to report it to the health department, who didn't send forms, they suggested her 104 for seven days temp was "all over body inflammation". My son, not the one on the spectrum had very similar symptoms of mercury poisoning after his second round. Vaccines are dangerous, across the board, yet because there are so many problems with them leaving no ONE issue, we as parents are pushed aside , while they claim we are moving the target. They all are targets , inherently dangerous, and causing great harm.

[Benedetta]

To confuse you more Barbara J. The pertussis part of the DPT is known to cause vaccine reactions all by it's self.

And through out the DPT vaccine use, they have changed the pertusis part of the vaccines a lot, and incidents of vaccine injuries waxes and wanes, accordingly.

And the reason that they gave way back in the 80s of putting all three of these together; the D, the P, the T - together is that they use each other to get more of an immune response - than they do all by themselves.

My son reacted to the DPT shot, but he later received the DT shot and he did okay. He did okay on the MMR too.

And the mumps part of the vaccine is another thing that they change a lot, just like the P in the DPT.

There is so much that it is impossible to know what is going on.

I see from the AL conference that what exactly happened to my husband was described exactly. So I could think it was aluminium.

One thing I know - the whole vaccine thing is to get the immune system to respond, and it is responding by inflammation.

Recently they found that with in the hypothalamus there is a pathway that that causes inflammation.

[Barry]

For all we know, every vaccine contains mercury. The amount is probably a whole lot higher than what they're telling us, and it probably even varies from vaccine lot to vaccine lot. If you think about it, that'd be a pretty easy way to throw people off the trail.

These guys aren't exactly ambassadors for the truth. And really, is anyone even bothering to verify the truthfulness of those vaccine ingredient lists ???

[barbara j]

I put it on facebook, already have a comment concerning "measles vaccines", and asked how mercury plays into it. This is the problem, we know that vaccines are the major contributors to autism, however, we don't know ,or do we?, what part mercury plays. Would vaccines containing mercury interact with viruses present in the community, such as coxsackie, as well as with those injected as in mmr, varicella, and others? A kind of synergy between toxic metals and live pathogens , some naturally occurring , some injected? Would aluminum as an adjuvant exponentially increase the virulence of otherwise benign community wide diseases as well as those in the vial? If no one can answer these questions would it be fair to say we are risking our children's lives with vaccines that represent unknown dangers?

[barbara j]

Oh no, I understood exactly what you meant, and I thank you Jeannette, and you Benedetta for taking the time to offer your ideas. I like what you both had to say, you both gave me a little more of an understanding of who this teacher is, and the idea of moral reciprocity in the "golden rule" is one I may suggest he considers before doing this to another child.
I made a mistake today, watched "Bully" for the first time, and see that our educators have little to nothing to offer on the subject and often contribute to a bad situation. Training is direly needed. The bully isn't always on the school yard, he's up there holding the yardstick as well..and this needs to be fixed.

[Jeannette Bishop]

@barbara j: Sorry for the typos/grammar problems earlier. I hope I made some sense. I'm a little afraid to try to clarify and likely trip over my thoughts some more.

[Jeannette Bishop]

barbara j,

I hope something can be worked out to temper all this, especially for your son. I know after years of piano lessons, band and choir in junior high, and a little in high school, then some attempt to become more proficient musically in college, I came out with the near conviction that there was some kind of link between full-time musical employment (devotion might be a better word) and increased likelihood of having an "interesting" personality traits, but that may be an artifact of my limited other-worldly experience and my own not-quite-normal personality.

I can't get into this teacher's head, but I wonder if in his mind he assumed the experience would be as negative for the audience and the performers also and he was thought it was going to sound to him. It's sometimes very painful for the performer if they know they are really falling down in a performance, but maybe this teacher has not considered his students and the audience might be less aware of how the particular selection is supposed to sound and more able to enjoy it than he is?

Then, there is also, sometimes, a rather religious perfection-oriented culture in performance that this teacher may be trying to "live up to" or possibly just all he knows.

[Benedetta]

I wonder Barbara J, if this can be overcome?
We have talented people that are so into their subject.
I wonder if we could somehow make everything we approach - every subject - the very first rule is to; "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - would help?

Iknow my son will fel sorry for people easily, and he feels sorry for animals a great deal too. So I know it is not an empathy problem at all.

[Benedetta]

I think Barbara J; it has to do with obsessive compulsive behavior. I am not sure of course.

I think they get wrapped up in what is perfection or "the rules."
It is sort of ALL or Nothing with them!
They are obsessed with knowing all the rules (of one subject).
Example for us was in selling watermelons we raised - I was not concerned about the money, but one customer short changed my son .50 cents -- and gratefully my son did not say anything to this customer, but he came to me and told me with all the righteous indignation that - well - it was more than fifty cents deserved!!!

So here we have a dilemma; People that are obsessed with rules, but probably don't have the judgement to follow social rules.

I wonder if this young music teacher could be talked to without getting into a confrontation?
Perhaps his parents could be told and then they could tell him, they don't take criticism very well at all and it is best to come from those that they know love them.

[barbara j]

Thanks Benedetta, I have felt so sorry for him all week that I've been "frozen". He's literal himself, and that word "disgrace" used as an adjective to describe him has hurt. I've been the first one to deny that our kids have a problem with empathy, I've seen empathy at work, I've seen the kids comfort one another, and I don't believe ASD has among the criteria a lack of empathy. Empathy isn't learned, I've seen ten month old babies crawl to pat a crying peer,it's felt. When we say, "say your sorry", "treat others the way you want to be treated", we aren't teaching empathy, we are just making it more clear, aren't we? I don't really think this man meant to be cruel, I don't know what to think, as I hate to think he is an example of what so many have stereotyped as Autism = no empathy. For the most part I don't believe this is true, but now I know it "can" be . Is it missing in our kids in higher numbers than in NT kids, or is it's absence part of the damage across the board touching all vaccinated, whether they qualify as ASD or not? selfish/selfless ...hasn't this been part of being human forever? I'm really confused, I don't like how I feel about this vaccine damaged young man, it's calling for more empathy than I have! Maybe empathy doesn't exist, maybe it is just a social skill, like telling white lies? Again, I don't know..

[Benedetta]

Gee Barbara J.
I am sorry for your little guy.
Such is the reality of peole with autism. What is this country going to do?

[barbara j]

Help , please, I'm finding myself on the other side. My son performs each year with his class in the spring music show at school. Usually the less talented, most of them, sing in a group. This year, our school hired an Aspergers music teacher, and while he's very talented, he has his quirks. This year he broke the class up into small groups, giving them no background music to hold a beat, had them get up and suffer through fairly modern difficult pieces. My son's group wasn't star quality , for certain, but they had their little hearts in it. When it came time for them to walk on stage, he put his hand up, said he decided they would be a "disgrace",as their selection was "just not going to work". He then sent them into the audience to sit with their parents and grandparents who had come to enjoy them enjoying themselves. My son, who always takes these things on with joy, came to his seat, thoroughly stabbed in the heart, as was I. To be excluded , to not take part, after anticipation ..our hearts all broke for him and the other three little guys. He's been so well loved in this school, this is something no one ever expected. His little face was red, as he sat quietly fighting back tears. This can't be fixed. One grandmother wrote a note to the principal, hoping she would tell the music teacher these are children and have more value than the holding of a note, she said the principal said she will not pursue this. I hoped to approach the archdiocese, yet she's a board member. Yes, I'm on the other side, and it's something I had never considered, yet as our children grow up , they take their ASD issues into their employment. He btw was made aware , one father jumped out of his chair, ran to him, and said, "you just broke my son's heart" who in the hell do you think you are"..I thought this man was going to punch him, and I almost hoped he would.

[no-vac]

Is this what the medical and political establishment is preparing for vaccine-damaged children now?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-politician-we-should-kill-disabled-children-like-we-kill-deformed-lambs

[Benedetta]

Linda sorry for the mistakes, I hope you understood what I was saying. I get rather distracted by other things when I am blogging.

[Benedetta]

Linda;
Mothers that claim their kids have never been vaccinated.

Well; in real life I have only met a grandmother (she was my son's therapist) that made that claim about her grandson that had autism. She said her daughter had her kids at home and was postive that her son would have been worse if vaccinated. The rest I met on line.

One time on a Kawasakis website - why a mother had not vaccinated and I asked if she had been vaccinted. To my surprise; she came back and said as a teenager had received a Hep B and had passed out minutes after taking it.

So, yes - I think there are people out there that are guessing and have good intentions. I also think there is a lot riding on the public not catching on to what is going on.

[Jeannette Bishop]

Next from our Center of Disease Control:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57585018/cdc-finds-mental-health-woes-in-one-in-five-u.s-kids/

Are they going to try to blame all this on psychiatry's unscientific methods to avoid liability? Do the TPTB want to further compromise the 2nd amendment protection, and I think all other constitutional protections, so badly it will have to be accepted as a real, but of course "mysterious" problem that is the new "terrorist" threat? Will they try to just normalize all of this? I guess I'll bet they'll go for all at the same time, if they can.

[Linda]

Benedetta, I agree with you. If kids were exposed to no other toxins and were injected with a toxin loaded immune system inflaming vaccine(s), I think there would/could still be a reaction. Other toxins could and probably do play some role though, could set up greater susceptibility and weakness. While I believe the parents who report that their children became ill after vaccines (mine included), there are those parents who claim that their children became autistic without having been vaccinated. Is it because the mother ate lots of Round up ready soy, corn and sugar beets (aka sugar in lots of processed foods), or because she was exposed to the spray or because she lives on or near a golf course (sprayed more heavily than farms - that perfect weedless green comes from lots of chemicals)? Is Alzheimers the result of vaccines on top of Round-up and other disruptive chemical exposure?

Then, reading what Garbo commented on the AOA Columbia Journalism Review article about MITs relationship with Pharma makes me wonder. I'm positive that Jeffrey Smith isn't implicating GMOs in order to vindicate vaccines. He's sincere. I believe the scientist on the video is sincere also. But it would be interesting to see who funds her research. It is entirely possible that Pharma is attempting to divert blame and attention away from itself by helping her to focus on Monsanto. But that still wouldn't necessarily discredit her findings.

[Benedetta]

Linda,
I think that everything the farmers raises crop wise our kids cannot eat because most crops esp cereal crops are high in carbohydrates. They have damaged the hypothalamus which regulates blood sugar just like those lab rats I use to read about years ago.

I took my kids in for a shot and before there was round up my kids reacted.

Just saying.

[Linda]

The takeaway here too is that, even if you don't believe that Round-up played role in the development of your child's autism, there is good reason to avoid the chemical and foods containing it, especially if your child is already suffering from gut problems.

[Linda]

That link that I gave to the glyphosate/autism interview doesn't go to the video (sorry). Here's the Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MP1I0cAsE2E#!

Benedetta,

Please understand that I am not in any way saying that vaccines aren't a primary cause of autism and other childhood diseases. But I think it is a mistake not to listen to all sincere scientists (emphasis on the word sincere). This MIT scientist has important information. She links the action of glycophosphate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Round-up, to a lot of what happens in autistic children. She explains that Monsanto claimed that Round-up was harmless to humans because Round-up kills plants by affecting a pathway that humans don't have. But she says that our gut bacteria DO have that pathway and are adversely affected, especially the beneficial bacteria. She says that the bacteria in our bodies out number our own cells by 10 to 1. She explains how this brings about gut dysbiosis, leaky gut, affects the immune system, the brain, micronutrients, vitamin D metabolism, etc. At times during the interview, she reminds me of what Dr. Wakefield has said. It could be that they are both uncovering the same thing and there isn't one cause - that there are stronger and weaker toxins, other synergistic factors, timing, dose, a toxic load, and individual biology and ability to detoxify.

We should listen. It could be that in some cases, not necessarily all, that vaccines are the final blow in a succession of insults. Just as one example, the severity of illness may partially or wholly depend on a child's prenatal and postnatal EMF exposure (the Amish don't vaccinate, but they also don't use much electricity). It is known that electromagnetic fields affect human biology. The disagreement has been over whether those effects are harmful or not. But who is keeping track of which kids are being born into and grow up in a high EMF environment? Who is keeping track of which kids are living under high tension wires? No one.

With respect to chemicals, it's true, when we and our older children were growing up, there was no Round-up, but I can't say if there weren't similar chemicals or combinations of chemicals in use, and it's not like we grew up in a toxin free world (Chlordane, DDT, etc.)

Many people don't realize that Round-up has been so heavily used that it is pervasive in the environment whether one has ever personally applied it or not. It's in our air, water, and more now than ever, it's in our food. As the scientist explains on the video, farmers used to apply Round-up before planting to kill weeds, then they would plant their crops and couldn't apply more Round-up to kill subsequent weed growth because the Round-up would kill the crops. But Monsanto genetically modified the crops (corn, soy, canola, sugar beet) so that the crops wouldn't die if Round-up is sprayed on them. So the farmers douse the food crops with this stuff. Unexpectedly, resistant weeds have developed, leading to even more Round-up application. The plants soak it up and either it is fed to animals that humans eat, or it is eaten by humans directly. More than 75% of processed foods sold in the US have genetically modified ingredients. Even some of the major brands of infant formula are made with GM ingredients. There are other ways that foods are genetically modified other than to be able to be sprayed with Round-up.

I'm not going to worry about taking the spotlight off of vaccines. I don't think that is what's happening here. Time and careful analysis may show that this scientist has missed the mark in some ways, but we need to be open to all possibilities.

[Benedetta]

Linda;
I told Barbara J. this -- and I hope I did not hurt her feelings because I adore her and her comments, even her child like mine also had full blown Kawasakis. But I disagreed with her on this glyphosate business. She too posted something about glyphosate less than a month ago.


I think she, and you; as well as I (in the past) are looking for the extra reason of why our kids reacted to vaccines while other "seemly" did okay.

First of all -- all my friends and acquaintance's kids have since grown up -- and I see now that they did not for the most part escape. Depression in teens were too often over looked as just a phase teens go through, and manias were often not recognized for what they were (I know this for I have witnessed with my own daughter and all the kids her age) .

My friends and acquaintance's kids are in their 20s and so many became drug addicts, and many are in prison or dead. They came from good and stable homes. It looks to me like it is just a very few that got away with the vaccines.

But back to glyphosate and here is the scoop on that one with my own personal view. My children way back in the 80s reacted to their DPT shots. [ glyphosate had not even been invented yet, or was not even being used at that time!]

Again I repeat:

[ glyphosate had not even been invented yet, or was not even being used!]

That is right; is was way before there was such thing as Round Up, or even Cross Bow (another herbicide).

AND If it was Round Up- then "ALL" The farmers and their families that sprays long, huge fence lines-- to hold cattle in -- or spray fields for corn and soy beans-- then it would be 100 percent of those families most affected. Not in the suburbs with a little spraying around a few trees.

This synergy effect is an attempt to water down what has been done with the vaccines.

I know it is hard to look at our kids with epilepsy and all their immune problems, fine motor skills damaaged, not speaking or speaking late, and all their cognitive problems and compare them to other kids that also had vaccines and not think synergy???

I too have done that. Example: - we had "deep well" water so we gave our kids fluoride drops. I thought on that one too. It could be fluoride drops and the aluminum and mercury in the vaccines. But then what about all the kids that drank fluoride water from the city.

What I did not think on enough --- and now I am --was all the extra tetanus shots and tick shots my husband had in his late teens as he was working his way through college with the forest department, plus he had a few accidents and they gave him more tetanus shots. At age 27 he had yet another tetanus "DPT" shot at work and passed out seizing at home.

The text books in college (although they taught a lot of stuff that was WRONG) did say that the immune system is also inherited from the Father as well as the mother! I find that extraordinary!

I also did not think enough about my own extra vaccines in my late teens and 20s. I had one of the three series of Swine flu shots .

The next year I had a tetanus (DPTP shot) when I took a job with the federal forestry reclaiming strip mines. It was shortly after that - I had my first ever yeast infection. I also felt very unfocussed.

I was damaged then - it damaged my endocrine system - I just did not know it.

There were other signs along the way of a sick endocrine system, that I ignored. A few things while carrying my first child - that I thought were no big deals -- like not going into labor even into my 10 month, and they had to induce labor, or depression coming out of no where two months after I had my first child. Ignored - Just like having a thyroid problem at a young age.
Yet; the medical profession don't seem one bit curious about an epidemic of thyroid disease or diabetes.

Linda; I just don't want you to go down this same road as I did wondering about - was it something else besides the vaccines .

[Linda]

Not sure where to put this, but this is significant - from Institute For Responsible Technology (the site has a video with excerpts including one specifically about autism):

Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide—Featuring the Darth Vader Chemical

It was “supposed” to be harmless to humans and animals—the perfect weed killer. Now a groundbreaking article just published in the journal Entropy points to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, and more specifically its active ingredient glyphosate, as devastating—possibly “the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in Westernized societies.”

That’s right. The herbicide sprayed on most of the world’s genetically engineered crops—and gets soaked into the food portion—is now linked to “autism… gastrointestinal issues such as inflammatory bowel disease, chronic diarrhea, colitis and Crohn’s disease, obesity, cardiovascular disease, depression, cancer, cachexia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and ALS, among others.”

Enjoy this videotaped guided tour of Jeffrey Smith interviewing co-author Stephanie Seneff, PhD, who is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. If you’ve already bogged down trying to work your way through the thick biochemistry jargon in the paper, this user-friendly but in-depth interview will give you great relief and insight.
Watch the full interview (and excerpts) below

(at link http://action.responsibletechnology.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=11129)

[Carol]

Good read: "Tobacco Science and the Thimerosal Scandal" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/docs/ThimerosalScandalFINAL.PDF

There are some broken links in the footnotes--to nomercury.org, for instance.

[nhokkanen]

What a hoot that CJR's Brainard views pro-vaccine/autism writing as a career builder....

Columns written by callow college students reflect (1) their limited post-teen life experience, and (2) directions from teachers and advisors. For an honest assessment of vaccines and autism, give me a parent who's experienced the downside.

With the autism rate now 1 in 50, I wonder how many Columbia journalism grads have ended up with vaccine-injured children in the last twenty years.

As per Dr. Campbell, studies aren't going to show an association between vaccines and an arbitrary bundle of observed abberant behaviors. However various studies DO show links to physical damage such as encephalopathy, seizures, tics, gastrointestinal disorders, autoimmunity, etc. ad nauseam.

[Carol]

http://www.autismhelpforyou.com/HG%20IN%20VACCINES%20-%20Simpsonwood%20-%20Internet%20File.pdf

"There is DTP and HIB [that exists] in a combination. It's called Tetramune. This vaccine contains 25 micrograms of ethylmercury, so it's only half of what the children get than when they get DTP and HIB separate [50 micrograms]....This combination [DTP-HIB] was used only in one HMO, at Northern California Kaiser. In Group Health they don't use it. In Northern California Kaiser, the large majority of children received the combination vaccine....This is what happens when we separate the two HMOs. What is important to notice is first of all, the overall incidence rates between the two HMOs differ substantially for some of the outcomes. We have a much higher rate of speed [speech delay] at Group Health compared to Northern California Kaiser. For attention deficit disorder, that number is not as high.....However, among prematures that becomes significant and we get relative risks up to two and three whereby the ones who got more Thimerosal are at higher risk than the ones who got the combination vaccines, so about 25 micrograms less Thimerosal. However the number of children in this analysis is quite small and that result is quite sensitive to small numbers."

[White Rose]

Dr Campbell , hundreds of thousands (if not millions)of parents are reporting something is wrong with vaccine and medicine basically says to us "fek you lot, you are wrong" .
Can't you see smthg has gone badly wrong ?

In fact medicine decides to increase the vaccine load , year after year , US is smthg like 45 vaccines per child , and yet the UK is only 25 per child , why the disparity ?
I'm all up for this mandatory vaccine malarkey , but mandatory vaccines straight off the shelf for all doctors and their families , all politicians and their families , all major leaders like Melinda Gates family and all of the super rich ....I'd mandatory vaccinate the damn lot of you for the effin crimes you are committing against us .

By the way look up the tragic case of Zeda Pingel for actual photograhphic proof of neurological damage but no doubt medicine will claim it was a lightning bolt (or a really rare event ). Well Gardasil has killed up to 200 young girls outright and maimed 25,000 others (source Vaers Db). Why did Dianne Harper blow the whistle on the Mercky waters of Gardasil ? Why is Merck in trouble over falsifying data over its Mumps vaccines (again 2 whistleblowers) ....its dishonesty after dishonesty with the precious effin vaccines . You know where medicine can shove its vaccines ? dont ya .

[Linda]

Dr. Campbell, I apologize that I don't have time this morning to find the specific links for you, but the research is there. A quick search came up with this link which has several links to autism research:
http://vran.org/autism/. Also, check out NVIC, the International Medical Council on Vaccination http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/tag/medical-doctors-against-vaccines/, The Greater Good: http://www.greatergoodmovie.org/learn-more/links/, Dr. Andrew Wakefield: http://www.callous-disregard.com/research.htm. That's just what comes to mind. I'm sure that others can point to many other sources and specific articles.

Off the top of my head, I know there is at least one study where primates given the same vaccines as human infants according to the CDC schedule developed autism like symptoms. Also, in the past year there were 3 court cases, one in Italy and two in the US, where the respective governments conceded that MMR caused autism in three children. There have been many more in prior years, Hannah Poling being one (her father was a pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins) http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/03/06/vaccines.autism/index.html.

Please spend the time to go through the literature. You will have to wade through some heavy propaganda, but if you look, it's all there.

[White Rose]

Dr Campbell , what is far easier to talk about is the 21 research studies by Poul Thorsen saying vaccines are completely unrelated to the condition of autism .
Oh , sorry , all those pieces of evidence lie in tatters now that it turns out Poul Thorsen decided to steal $2m of the research funds and go on the run and yet more amazingly is how authorities (& interpol) are unable to trace him ?

The danish company SSI sponsored (a vaccine manufacturer)evidence that vaccines dont cause autism but this lies in tatters and this was the evidence that was flouted in our faces for many years saying vaccines are safe.

Why does Dr Paul Offit say a simple vaccine versus unvaccinated study should never be completed ? that would be a basic simple study that would satisfy all concerned .In fact many people I know have already performed this study , vaccinated kids with massive health issues and then we learned , the next children were protected from everything vaccine , perfect health .... is this what Mr Offit is afraid of ?

Why are treatments that aim to detoxify metals from infants blocked by the authorities and vaccines are fast tracked with little or no safety testing ?

How can you explain the recovered children ? The children treated for metals poisoning , the lucky ones , who get better ?

Dr Campbell , some are saying the rate of autism in the US\UK could be running as high as 1 in 25 , so why dont you , if you are so sure you are correct and that I am wrong , keep yourself and all family fully up to date with all the recommended vaccines . And trust me , you will see what we are all complaining about soon enough .

[Hera]

Dr Campbell; can you show me one study on autism/vaccines that actually captures the current rate of autism cases?

We know autism in the general population is 1 in 50.

Studies that purport to be general population studies therefore can be easily checked to see if they can capture autism cases.

It scares me that some scientists and doctors don't even seem to read the studies beyond the abstract, because I am sure they are intelligent enough to see an obvious flaw like that if they did.

Find me just one with a rate of 1 in 50 ..Please...

[Bob Moffitt]

I was very surprised to read a public confession by the "editor" of the Columbia Journalism Review wherein he proudly admits preferring "censorship" rather than "fair and balanced" reporting of competing opinions and theories that question the "safety" of US vaccines and the policies by which they are recommended, approved and administered.

Unfortunately, history is replete with examples of the great harm done when "fair and balanced" reporting is ignored in favor of "advocacy journalism".

Remember the media's breathless reporting on the enormous stores of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?

Remember how those raising serious questions regarding Iraq's phantom weapons of mass destruction were readily denounced as "unpatriotic" by main-stream outlets that had become nothing more than "advocates for invading Iraq"?

It seems some people never learn ....

[Benedetta]

Now Barry; this has been established long ago.
My professor at the Univerisity told us that vaccines are safe because they just are.

Case closed!

[Barry]

Can some one show me one study that finds a significant association to vaccines to autism? Thank you.

**************

Can you show us one study that provides irrefutable scientific proof, that ANY vaccine is safe and effective? And then explain to us why whatever you provide, should be considered as irrefutable scientific proof?

Thank you

[Dr. Campbell]

Can some one show me one study that finds a significant association to vaccines to autism? Thank you.

[Elaine Hill]

A wise person once said to me "friends come and go, but enemies accumulate". What this means is that once you've made an enemy, they are your enemy for life. Jake, please think about this before you go on sending out these nasty-grams. And that applies to nasty-grams and harassing behavior aimed at people on the other side of the autism-vaccine debate too. Keep this up, and you will have no supporters anywhere. You are an adult now, and you should try to act like one, which means taking responsibility for your actions.

[White Rose]

I'll always support a person like Jake (see You Tube to see why). What I witnessed first hand with my child was a crime of Nazi proportions , and people have talked about dignified protests to me . I'll never understand that . Our governments are sponsoring a legalised poisoning of our children , they are censoring all news\media around the subject , and they are accelerating the Hg\Al program . The field of vaccines and autism is the greatest crime and dishonesty of the last 40 years and is being perpetrated on a worldwide\one world government basis .
It just isnt the time for fine wine and good manners in my eyes . We have the science , we have the facts , we have the people and yet somehow , someway , we are no where .
How can that be ? If we have to have a schism to promote our hopes of success and ultimately to begin prosecutions of the guilty parties , then so be it . I for one , refuse to be placated on the issues of vaccine poisoning , its a non negotiable position , the industrialised poisoning of our children is simply unacceptable .
I dont want compensation , I refuse to interact with the Govt vaccine injury compensation groups , I want prosecutions and I want villification of the guilty parties . Dismemberment of the all companies involved .
I want to see this genocidal enterprise dismantled , I want the truth aired for everyone to see . Good manners and politeness are all very well but its justice I want .

[Linda]

If anyone took credit for Theresa's work, it would be Theresa's place to say so.

You all need to sit down and talk - in person. This is the Age of Autism, dedicated to the autism community. Figure out if or how much autism is impacting this crisis, and go from there to work through it. As difficult as this is, you, of all people, should be willing and able to understand.

[Jake Crosby]

Teresa,

Dan being editor of AoA is to the Canary Party what the editor of Pravda is to the Communist Party; I will never respect that, and you shouldn't either.

Sad Dad,

I feel sorry for your son that he has such an apologist of dishonesty and censorship for a father. Sad indeed.

I suppose commenting on this thread any further is pointless as Dan and Mark are probably getting supporters to load it with agreeable comments while anyone who dares support me on here will get censored. So I won't.

[Elaine Hill]

Jake,

The Age of Autism has long had a policy of moderation. It says so right above the comment box! Articles that you wrote also had comments moderated, and publication refused. One can argue that this policy is misguided, and that no censorship should occur, but that's not what you are saying. You seem to be arguing that because you are special, all your comments should be automatically approved.

Dan has every right to refuse to publish your comments if he finds them insulting.

[Sad Dad]

Jake I'm disappointed. You gave me hope for my son. No more. You called your boss a liar and threatened a screen shot to hold him hostage? Unreal.

[Teresa Conrick]

Jake,

Dan is the editor. What he thinks is important and that has to be respected. Airing your angry feelings on FB or here does not solve your issues and does make it hard to trust that you will be objective, as you have so much negative emotion, and it comes out as accusatory or sarcastic and not always accurate.

You may not intend for that, but that is what has been happening.

[Carol]

Life is about minimizing regrets. When I heard Jack Donaghy say that on 30 Rock, it hit me like a ton of bricks. That's something I should have said to myself every time I decided to make an enemy. Pretty soon you have enemies bouncing around you and you don't even know why. Life becomes chaotic. The second law of thermodynamics applies to friendship too.

[Jake Crosby]

Teresa and Sylvia,

My point was simply that just because multiple people were working on finding that Kanner case, that that didn't change the fact that it was Teresa's discovery and she should be the one to take the credit for that discovery. I never said I doubted Teresa and insisted I didn't.

However, Dan listing me as contributing while rejecting my pieces without reading them is lying, period. I want to be a part of this team; if I didn't I would've requested my name be removed and I hadn't. The problem is that AoA is not even considering my stuff because I complained on Facebook about my own comment critical of a sponsor getting censored. So yeah, I've been better; once upon a time AoA actually considered my contributions - not anymore.

[Sylvia]

I concur with Teresa's post. I hate to see people I care about and respect having their disagreements publicly dragged through the mud. This will only serve to delight our enemies - no good will come of it.

[Teresa Conrick -To Jake]

Dear Jake,

I have stood by watching your comments here and on FB cast such a negative an incorrect light of people I respect and care about. I also care about you.

You recently accused both Dan and Mark to "stealing" Virginia, that I had found her and she was solely "mine." The three of us have been working together for years -- late nights, on the phone, emails, and miles of google. It is a shared labor of love in trying to locate these lost Kanner children. When I posted that, you still continued to doubt me and kept putting them both down. I think I finally had you see the correct truth, but it seems to be a pattern now, that you don't believe the people you have trusted and cared about for years.

Please stop using your passion and energy in this way. Bashing Dan or Mark or the posts here on Aoa has never been your style and makes me think you do not want to to be a part of our team. That makes me sad. There are no lies from Dan or anyone here on AoA. When I asked you how you were doing, you said that you have been better. I am concerned.

[barbara j]

Twenty two vets commit suicide each day. Let's consider this as horrific,as well, 220 or more babies are born each day that will go on to develop autism as "acceptable" collateral damage in a criminal vaccination program!!
an edit to correct number...

[Jake Crosby]

Just to clarify my earlier comment:

I called Dan Olmsted a Canary Party Propagandist rather than a journalist (which he hasn't been for nearly six years anyway) after he censored a comment of mine criticizing Canary Party's latest press release; his reasoning was that my comment was "picayune." After I expressed my concerns about this on Facebook, he retaliated against me by censoring all my future contributions to AoA, despite still listing me as a contributing editor. Asked why he continues to do so, he simply requested that I let him know if I want my name removed. He'd rather keep lying to his readers that I'm still a contributing editor then simply remove my name himself; that's how dishonest he is. Though lying is in Dan's nature, that doesn't mean readers deserve to be lied to. As long as I'm still listed as contributing editor, I will expect AoA to run my contributions without prejudice. I hope readers will expect the same as well.

See here for background details:
https://www.facebook.com/jacob.l.crosby/posts/3408725171944

PS: I'm taking a screenshot of this comment so it will appear elsewhere if not here; the only good censoring this comment will do is further prove my point that AoA has no journalistic standards and merely lets sponsorship determine what runs and what doesn't run.

[barbara j]

Twenty two vets commit suicide each day. Let's consider this as horrific,as well, 2,200 or more babies are born each day that will go on to develop autism as "acceptable" collateral damage in a criminal vaccination program!!

[Benedetta]

Barry;
I could not get your first link but the second link is fantastic.

It says toward the end of that article

"Gary Smith's theory questions the received wisdom that when a person gets ill, the inflammation that occurs around the infected area helps it to heal. He claims that, in reality, inflammation prevents the body from recognising a foreign substance and therefore serves as a hiding place for invaders. The inflammation occurs when at-risk cells produce receptors called All (known as angiotensin II type I receptors). He says that while At1 has a balancing receptor, At2, which is supposed to switch off the inflammation, in most diseases this does not happen.
"Cancer has been described as the wound that never heals," he says. "All successful cancers are surrounded by inflammation. Commonly this is thought to be the body's reaction to try to fight the cancer, but this is not the case.
"The inflammation is not the body trying to fight the infection. It is actually the virus or bacteria deliberately causing inflammation in order to hide from the immune system [author's emphasis]." (14)

How much money did President Obama put toward cancer research? It maybe possible to win this thing?

[Garbo]

President Obama: "For those who are victims...I've got their backs, I will support them, we're not going to tolerate this stuff and there will be accountability.... I have communicated this to the Secretary...we're going to communicate this again to folks up and down the chain...I expect consequences. If we find out somebody's engaging in this stuff, they've got to be held accountable: prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged -- period."

Imagine if he were talking about the coverup of vaccine safety and autism, instead of sexual assault in the military. Which do you suppose has more victims?

[Benedetta]

Jeannette Bishop, If your take on Tom Insels postion is correct -- and as a matter of fact I think you got it exactly right -- it is not just autism the DSM-V is working with after all - but a ton of other stuff- after all the guy that went into the "BatMan" showing and all the other public shootings are all really just the tip of the iceberg on the increase in mental illness. So attack the new manual for the increase by claiming that it is just making definitions and those definations are really bad ones. Where is the biological pathways.
Is that now what they ask of us when we say our kids had a vaccine reaction. How did they get so clever to ask us biological pathways when we notice they are not talking?

Well since the excellant sheep article and we are talking about animals -- here is a 2008 article on mad farmers after mandatory vaccination fo Scotland Cattle.

http://www.meetup.com/westonaprice-london/messages/boards/thread/7885130

It was the second vaccine that caused the problem in this herd and as proof the owner said the one that was going for sale and did not receive the vaccine is still okay.

[Barry]

"...Maybe not on above topic, but if Hg & Al containing vaccines aren't looking so good for sheep, are we going to continue cavalierly injecting infants with as many or more doses?

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12026-013-8404-0

Some groups had 100% studied effect:

http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-05-01/up-to-100-vaccinated-sheep-contract-chronic-neurological-syndrome-study/......"

**************

The following report is titled " The Science of Vaccine Damage". According to a research team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine..... dogs are faring too much better

http://www.drcarley.com/Science_of_vaccine_damage.pdf

[Jeannette Bishop]

Sharyl Attkisson is about the only reason I go to CBS for news lately. If she is leaving CBS, I hope she finds a venue independent of the mega-corporations. I don't know where that would be, but there is, I think, a growing market for such.

@Benedetta, the more I read Insel's statement, the more I wonder if it's not unrelated to the NYT link, more take that we are diagnosing too "willy-nilly" perhaps? The news is reporting from the parent survey(s) increases in adhd, autism, mental disorders in general. In addition, I'm wondering if they are expecting more mental health havoc with this generation, now supposed to be assuming the responsibilities of adulthood ... Maybe I'm too cynical, but I wonder if they just want to cut ties with all past counts of diagnoses and try to prevent further outcry for "environmental" considerations? I'm pretty sure they can't distort the data enough with some of these conditions to avoid implicating themselves if they feel the political need to do "autism-vaccine-like" research...

@Jilly Ann Beret, maybe these veterinarian/ranching research projects will lead to better vaccine safety for our children, and we can just eliminate our "human" health agencies? I wonder at the seemingly small levels of Al, and particularly the Hg. I would think it can't be a "preservative" level, which might suggest its in there for immune effects that so many pretend, regarding infant vaccination, do not happen.

@Jen, thanks also for your kind words, though I don't have much personal experience with adults diagnosed post pharmaceuticals. Maybe that info was posted by Adrianna?

[healthforchildren]

"The researchers report that the vaccinated lambs exhibited different behaviors, including 'an array of nervous clinical symptoms', which worsened as time went on. They demonstrated periods of 'depression with reluctance to move, light stupor and tendency to collapse when handling.' These periods of stupor and little movement alternated with 'periods of excitement and abnormally stimulated behavior.'..."

Wow!! That is what happened to my 15 mos. old son after receiving two Hg vaccines in 2003! This is almost word for word how I described his behavior when I later wrote about his autism and recovery. Dan and Mark's book also describes this alternating syndrome in the Age of Autism book. Interesting how much it also resembles the main symptoms of Bipolar Disorder which has seen a reported 8,000 percent increase in children over the last decade.

[Jen]

Wow, those poor Spanish sheep! I guess Dr.s Tomljenovitch/Shaw weren't surprised!

[Jake Crosby]

Sharyl Attkisson=Real Journalist

Dan Olmsted=Canary Party Propagandist

[Jen]

Jeanette, the NIMH's decision not to support DSM research is very interesting! I wonder if *some of it could be related to the uproar over autism diagnostic changes. I really liked your point (can't remember where) about adults with autism perhaps being diagnosed incorrectly as a result of many years on some of the SSRI's etc.

[Benedetta]

So reading the link - I can see why you are confused.

On one hand I say well good for Tom Insel, and what has gotten into him to tell The DMS -5 it needs to stop putting definitions on basically behavior and get to more biological cause.

But then I don't think Tom Insel means environmental damages as much as he means genetic problems???

Is that right?

I am not sure - it sounded like he was going one way and then at the end it sounded like he was meaning something different. Either way- it says he had some sharp words for the DSM-V. But he is a politician first and what ever second -- so I would like to know what sharp words he used?

[Angus Files]

Blow me over as well Jersey Guy... how it got on air? ..they must be asking themselves..

Angus

[JerseyGuy]

I'm pleasantly astonished that the Washington Post allowed Sharyl Attkisson to speak her mind -- and without the usual disclaimer that the vaccine-autism link has been "debunked". How did that slip past the censors? I'm not a great fan of Fox either, but if CBS won't allow her to report on autism and Fox will, then I say any port in a storm.

[Carol]

I've read that Attkisson might be leaving CBS. Please don't go to Fox.

[Jeannette Bishop]

Not sure where to post these links, but the first article has me wondering if this apparent ADHD diagnosis and even drug use back-tracking, at least in words, could be solely driven by desire to forestall a public inquiry into the increase? Does this smack of fear/awareness that a vaccine connection is a little too non-obscurable through research?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/health/more-diagnoses-of-hyperactivity-causing-concern.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

And I'm not sure what this means...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-nimh-withdraws-support-dsm-5

[Jilly Ann Beret]

Thank you Jeanette bishop , brilliant links to the condition in sheep ASIA .
The evidence is once again irrefutable , unless of course you are lying through your teeth , as the governments are about vaccine safety .

The best articles I have seen in a while .
Everyone on AoA should read ........ Very important .

[Jilly Ann Beret]

Dr G medical examiner last night declared 70 per cent of the drugs deaths they see , are from prescription drugs . Just thought the figure was interesting and alarming.

[jen]

'Science as a Cash Cow' article on Huffpo is interesting. It's mainly about climate change scientists who are shocked at experiencing cuts for more money making endeavours- gee like probably pharma. This kind of reminds me of the quote somebody mentioned awhile back ab out nobody being alarmed when certain minorites were taken away until it was THEIR turn. Those scientist's need to unite. It's here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/07/science-cuts-canada_n_3228151.html

[Jeannette Bishop]

Maybe not on above topic, but if Hg & Al containing vaccines aren't looking so good for sheep, are we going to continue cavalierly injecting infants with as many or more doses?

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12026-013-8404-0

Some groups had 100% studied effect:

http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-05-01/up-to-100-vaccinated-sheep-contract-chronic-neurological-syndrome-study/

I particularly noted the paragraph on behavioral changes:

"The researchers report that the vaccinated lambs exhibited different behaviors, including 'an array of nervous clinical symptoms', which worsened as time went on. They demonstrated periods of 'depression with reluctance to move, light stupor and tendency to collapse when handling.' These periods of stupor and little movement alternated with 'periods of excitement and abnormally stimulated behavior.'..."

[Carol]

And now we learn that Singulair is associated with suicidality in children and teenagers.

[Benedetta]

And Betty;
I know the vaccines cause Kawaskis in my daughter that lead to what she has now Bipolar so yes I agree with you.

[Benedetta]

"Sunday House Call" mentioned it today on Fox News.

THe doctors on this program said they were working on a hormone that turns it off.

[Benedetta]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501131845.htm

Quote from the article:
The hypothalamus------
Over the past several years, Dr. Cai and his research colleagues showed that inflammatory changes in the hypothalamus can give rise to various components of metabolic syndrome (a combination of health problems that can lead to heart disease and diabetes).

Dr. Cai decided to study hypothalamic inflammation by focusing on a protein complex called NF-κB (nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells). "Inflammation involves hundreds of molecules, and NF-κB sits right at the center of that regulatory map," he said.

Unquote.

This is our pathway! This is what the vaccines/mercury/aluminium are triggering. This is how it all begins, This is causing vasculititis.

[Betty]

Maybe the connection with suicide and concussions has more to do with vaccines than psychotropics. There is interesting research being done on concussions and the brain protein, S100B. After a concussion, the blood brain barrier is disrupted, and S100B leaks into the blood. It can be measured, and they have found antibodies to the brain protein formed after concussion. Researchers have now found that S100B leaks into the blood with lesser head traumas that don't qualify as concussions. I hear people talk about a "one-two" descent into a chronic neurological illness after a concussion followed by vaccine(or vice-versa). Maybe vaccines (which disrupt the blood-brain barrier) increase the likelihood of problems after concussion, and concussions increase the likelihood of problems after vaccines. I wonder if S100B is elevated after vaccination in kids who will go on to develop neurological problems from the vaccine. Maybe we should test for S100B before vaccination and only vaccinate if there is none. S100B is important in neurodevelopment. Just an observation, but doesn't it seem like there is a much bigger problem these days with concussions than before vaccines? Maybe we play rougher, but I still think there is more unexpected problems.

Don't get me wrong. I definitely suspect psychotropics as contributing to suicide rates. Another interesting read is Robert Whitaker's "Anatomy of an Epidemic". My main complaint about his book is that he attributes all rise in chronic mental health conditions to psychotropics. That's a bit like saying all vaccine damage results from mercury. Oh, and I had to grit my teeth when he suggested that the rise in ADHD and Juvenile Bipolar is purely fabricated by the drug companies to sell their products. I think the rise is real and iatrogenic with pharma taking advantage of the harm they caused. Many of those psychotropics are fluoride based.

Have you ever noticed how the military keeps changing the name they give to traumatized soldiers? There's "shell shocked", Gulf War Syndrome, and, now simply "PTSD". I think they change the name so we will forget about where we were going with Gulf War Syndrome and start studying PTSD with a clean slate. Buys time.

[Bob Moffitt]

Re: Soaring suicide rates.

I recently watched a "60 Minutes" report wherein Scott Pelley stated that "22 active and retired members of the US Military are dying every day in this country". I thought he had badly misspoke .. only to be stunned to learn he actually said it right. 22 DIE EVERY DAY IN THE U.S.

Reading up on the subject leads me to conclude the rising rate of suicide nationwide is directly associated to the rising numbers of people being prescribed psychotropic (neuroleptic) drugs for a whole host of "mental issues" .. such as .. anxiety, depression, etc.

Consider the NFL and the military .. BOTH .. believe the high rate of suicides in their professions are due to CONCUSSIONS suffered during their careers. While that may be true to some extent .. it is also true that many of these men committing suicide ALSO were using prescribed psychotrophic drugs at the time of their suicide.

Peter Breggin's book "Toxic Psychiatry" .. offers a very sobbering description of the potential "brain damage" suffered when using neuroleptic drugs.

[Jeannette Bishop]

I've come across a couple of instructive pieces in the Washington Times Communities section:

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/stress-and-health-dr-lind/2013/mar/20/autism-rates-continue-rising/

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/stress-and-health-dr-lind/2013/apr/30/vaccination-not-immunity/

[Linda]

Re the war on breast cancer, I just love the lawn care pesticide trucks proudly exhibiting the big pink ribbons. Nauseating.

[wondering]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Latest+news+hunt+AIDS+vaccine+Govt+halts+study+saying+shots+arent/8294653/story.html
Yikes! Seems familiar....

[cmo]

1. Older Fathers
2. Older Grandfathers
3. Watching too much TV
4. Near major Road traffic
5. Mother was abused as a child
6. Because we saw the film Rainman , Uta Frith (a scientist with 40 years experience in the autism field)
7. Sunlight levels
8. Genetic heritable condition
9. Obese Mothers
10. Using Facebook & the internet

Can you add to my list perhaps ?

And then dont forget the comedy at one of the greatest Universities in the world , who cant manage to keep a Freezer operating :

1. The refrigerator failure at Yale of the 100 frozen autistic brains .....

NEW just today...

11. Abnormal Placenta / can cause a child to go into convulsions and regress at age 2 after nine vaccines...

[John Stone]

In 2009 I had a correspondence with a Conservative shadow minister asking whether it was still the party policy to offer separate jabs. The answer was "yes". However, when I pointed out that they were no longer manufactured by the usual sources he told me that he would get back to me - unsurprisingly, he never did. When the 2010 election came, it was not, of course, an issue. Actually, I haven't heard government ministers being very noisy about this: they seem to be leaving it all the health officials, and just perhaps some of their friends are not too pleased with them.

Incidentally, in BBC Question Time last Thursday we sa Liberal-Democrat Sarah Teather stating that it was ridiclous to blame Tony Blair for not saying whether Leo had had MMR or not. Of course, it was ridiculous that he couldn't - he was not being asked a personal matter about his child, he was being asked whether he was prepared to do what he was inflicting on citizens. If anything Teather is an even bigger hypocrite than Blair, and I don't think she fools anyone. The reality is that people in public life know what's going on, and they don't want for their children.

[White Rose]

Here I am Poking fun at all the mis-information the mainstream propagates (particularly the joke factory being run by the BBC).

Discussing the current scientific theories on Autism :

1. Older Fathers
2. Older Grandfathers
3. Watching too much TV
4. Near major Road traffic
5. Mother was abused as a child
6. Because we saw the film Rainman , Uta Frith (a scientist with 40 years experience in the autism field)
7. Sunlight levels
8. Genetic heritable condition
9. Obese Mothers
10. Using Facebook & the internet

Can you add to my list perhaps ?

And then dont forget the comedy at one of the greatest Universities in the world , who cant manage to keep a Freezer operating :

1. The refrigerator failure at Yale of the 100 frozen autistic brains .....

[Benedetta]

Guys:
What kind of chelation are we talking about here?

[Twyla]

Role of mercury toxicity in hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21806773

Accidental ethyl mercury poisoning with nervous system, skeletal muscle, and myocardium injury.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC490489/
(myocardium is heart muscle)

[cmo]

The health care system in China is quite amazing...

out of billions... they are tracking each and every H7N9 death, finding 4 year old carriers who might go on to infect others...

Sadly the DNA of the virus has been posted on the internet.

The FEAR IS THAT North Korea will load H7N9 chickens into a warhead...

Lets get that damn vaccine out.

[ChildHealthSafety]

People forget that the Courts in the US and Italy did not decide the issue. Health departments in both countries conceded in the cases on the basis of their own medical and scientific evidence that the vaccines caused autistic conditions.

It has also been confirmed by the US Health Resources Services Administration to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS and reported by her on CBS.

It has also been confirmed that vaccines cause autistic conditions by Julie Gerberding, current Merck Director of Vaccines Division, on nationwide US TV when she was Director of the US Centers for Disease Control.

These are just a few examples but these examples the bad guys have a lot of difficulty denying. So don't forget them and keep repeating them.