Hi,
The article is really nice, but we have to think how we can solve this problem for elementary schools. Thanks for such a nice post.

i second that "hell yes!"
i can feel our day is coming. i can feel it!

I have this bumper sticker on my car. Actually I have two of them. One says ‘CDC poisons children’ and has a clipart picture of a syringe. The one on the other side of my bumper has a picture of a pea pod, and it says ‘Autism Speaks and pharma-peas in a toxic pod.’

When I read that Alison had resigned from Autism Speaks, I was inclined to think about taking the pea pod bumper sticker off. I wasn’t sure if I should, but I went outside and picked around the edges of it. Unfortunately what I found is that in minus zero degree weather, bumper stickers come off of your car in little itsy bitsy brittle flakes, if at all.

I remember a few years ago, when I still had the Wall Street Journal delivered, seeing a story on the front page in which Alison Singer was quoted as saying something to the effect of “the only thing that parents of children with autism do wrong is they have bad genes.” There was quite an outcry from the autism=vaccine damage community, and an apology was issued by Ms. Singer. It wasn’t posted though on the front page of the WSJ, it was a one sentence apology on the AS website, and I don’t know how long it was up but when I looked again a week or two later it was all gone.

What matters to me most isn’t what Autism Speaks says on their website. They take in more money, I believe, for autism, than any other autism charity organization. What do they do with that money? What is the public face of AS? I don’t believe their website is the whole story, or even a large part of the story.

I’ve seen Autism Speaks spots on my cable channels, many of them, in recent months. I suppose they’d be called public service announcements. Yes, they’re publicly doing a grand job of raising awareness. But there is STILL never any mention of vaccines, or even of environmental damage.

So AS, as an organization, is claiming now, on their site, that they’ve gotten with the program, they’ve seen the light. They know, now, that autism is environmental and that it’s probably vaccines and that we’ve been right all along and it should be looked into. But the thing that still has me bothered is this—they are saying this to us. And that’s good. But they’re preaching to choir. Imagine the good that could have been done if they’d taken their dollars and, in the last few years, said the same things to the PUBLIC.

It’s hard for me to imagine that in the last year, Alison’s views have been unknown by those around her, and vice versa. JenB asked “was it AS’s intent to say one thing and act another?” It looks to me like it was.

I can’t fathom why she’s come out publicly with her views right now. I can’t fathom why she’s split with Autism Speaks, although somewhat less publicly, now. I know it’s no coincidence, but I don’t quite know what it means.

Look at what we’ve seen in the main stream media in recent weeks. Newsweek, Discover Magazine, ABC Private Practice’s ‘Contamination’ episode. Basically it’s been the SOS we’ve seen all along. Perhaps even a bit worse.

IE. .. ‘Alison singer—autism hero’. Omg. Somebody pinch me and wake me up.

I can’t help but wonder if some of the money to pay for some of this type of main steam media coverage has come from AS.

Anyway, I’m thinking it might just be fortuitious that my bumper sticker is adamantly opposed to coming off just yet.

Time will tell.

What's the evidence that she was fired and who is your source for this information?

biomedmom:
Got any room at that toilet bowl? I'm sickened by this. These people are, I can't put it into words because monster, Hitler, disgusting...just aren't strong enough words.

I just read Katie Wright's comments to the Newsweek story and I have to say that I am very distressed to learn that, apparently, Singer sabatoged funding for families whose childrens' ASD was not genetic, because her family's ASD is? I feel for the 1-5% whose are purely genetic, but what about the rest of us 95-99% whose ASD is laboratory proven NOT genetic?

This explains A LOT, not the least of which is the crap that was the AS message boards.

I have to go throw up now.

Hogwash SS.

When a human being is injected with toxins in vaccines, when pregnant women and babies and childred are injected with toxins in vaccines, very bad things happen. It's NOT a coincidence. It is not complicated. It is cause and effect. It is in the toxins' material safety data sheets.

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2 ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste. http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in the Hepatitis B vaccine, administered at birth in the U.S., from 1990-2001.

50,000 ppb Mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTaP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 4 times each in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current "preservative" level mercury in multi-dose flu (94% of supply), meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi- dose vials.

THIMEROSAL Hazard symbol: T+ = Very toxic
Criteria: Inhalation, swallowing, or absorption through the skin in very small amounts can cause considerable damage to health, and may sometimes be lethal. In the event of serious evidence of severe, possibly irreversible damage to health by single, repeated, or prolonged absorption. Precaution: All contact with the human body must be avoided. If you feel unwell, seek medical advice immediately!

Symptoms of exposure to this class of compounds includes aphthous stomatitis, catarrhal gingivitis, nausea, liquid stools, pain, liver dis- order, injury to the cardiovascular system and hematopoietic system, deafness and ataxia. Exposure may be fatal. Headache, paresthesia of the tongue, lips, fingers and toes, other non-specific dysfunctions, metallic taste, slight gastrointestinal disturbances, excessive flatus and diarrhea may occur. Acute poisoning may cause gastrointestinal irritation and renal failure. Early signs of severe poisoning include fine tremors of extended hands, loss of side vision, slight loss of coordination in the eyes, speech, writing and gait, inability to stand or carry out voluntary movements, occasional muscle atrophy and flexure contractures, generalized myoclonic movements, difficulty under- standing ordinary speech, irritability and bad temper progressing to mania, stupor, coma, mental retardation in children, skin irritation, blisters and dermatitis [173]. Other symptoms include chorea, athetosis, tremors, convul- sions, pain and numbness in the extremities, nephritis, salivation, loosening of the teeth, blue line on the gums, anxiety, mental depression, insomnia, hallucinations and central nervous system effects [301]. Exposure may also cause irritation of the eyes, mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract [269].

Singer is so ignorant. Just because she has other family members with autism then everyone else is wrong about vaccines? How could Autism Speaks have kept her for so long? Talk about narrow minded.

Where would you like to see the research money go?
I think the genetics work has the potential to point us toward important answers. When we can determine which proteins are associated with various genes we can start to understand the mechanism of action that causes autism. Once you understand the mechanism of action, you can start to look for targeted therapies. I would also focus on prenatal exposures. What is a mom exposed to during pregnancy with regard to hormones or maybe medications or even pesticides? Or what's happening in the environment? During flu season, people are more prone to infections so we should look at the incidence of viral infections, flu, hormonal fluctuations and toxins in the environment for both mother and baby.

How is your daughter doing now?
Jodie has benefited tremendously from applied behavioral analysis therapy. She has learned to have some actual communicative speech. She's able to make her wants and needs known. That's really a breakthrough. For three years, she was in private school that focused intensively on language. She gained enough skills to be in a special class in a public middle school. She's not mainstreamed, but she's able to be in that large environment. So she's making great progress.

What do you think caused your daughter's autism?
Jodie had difficulties from the day she was born. She cried constantly, she had difficulty feeding, difficulty sleeping. She was diagnosed in the first few days as having "failure to thrive." I also have a brother diagnosed with autism. He's 44. My first cousin has a son diagnosed with autism. I strongly believe that there is a genetic component.

What do you say to the families who believe their child's autism was triggered by vaccines?
It's very hard because people feel very strongly and love their families so much. But not all opinions are created equal. Some are based on fact and science and some are not. Do you remember when Jenny McCarthy went on Oprah? She said she doesn't need science. Her science is at home and his name is Evan. That's not science.

Here's another story. A few weeks ago, Jodie went to the pediatrician. She had Tdap [tetanus-diptheria-pertussis] vaccine, a flu shot and a vaccine against meningitis. The next day her teacher remarked to me that Jodie was much more attentive and participated in class much more than usual. Her gym teacher said that for the fist time Jodie was able to compete in an obstacle course. Should I start pontificating that vaccines are a great treatment for autism? Of course not, that's not science. That's called coincidence.

Amazing how one person can end up doing more harm than good. I would not trade places with her. Maybe it is not too late for her to open her mind and see all sides of the issue. I can't imagine that this is what she imagined when she started down this road. If she really is aligning herself against the majority well then God bless her, she is going to need it.

They found the cause of AIDs in a few months they found treatment in a few years, 15 years after the surge in Autism they have no clue what causes autism and no clue how to treat it.
They claim that have spent millions looking under every rock for a cause and treatment.
The only thing they know after years of supposed research is that autism is not vaccine related and cannot be treated biomedically.
They will not look at vaccines as a potential cause(because they already have and did not like the results).
We now have additional confirmation by their actions,inactions and propaganda in this area to know that autism must be related to vaccines

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So - was she fired? Or did she get a better job (from Big Pharma?)?

If it was the latter, there still isn't hope for Autism Speaks because it still isn't calling the shots on anything that would be of significance to the biomed autism community.

"The question has been asked and answered" is a talking point. Somebody is giving them out to coordinate the campaign, and obviously the field soldiers are parroting them.

To think that Singer's resignation and subsequent public statements were not choreographed would be grossly naive these days.

Actually I disagree with calling Ms. Singer a "media whore." A google search of her name turns up precious little. She hasn't inserted herself into the limelight at all, despite her high profile job with AS. That's not a defense of her, simply my opinion of use of the term "media whore" which is more appropriate for Paul Offit.

The narcissism of these crazy Offit proponents never ceases to amaze me. Alison Singer is yet another puppet to the puppeteer(s), another pod under the bed (see Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and another stooge.

Her ridiculous and offensive rationale of not voting for the vaccine research had to do with money?! It was reported that this research would cost $16 million, less than two percent of the available funds of $940 million, so her reasoning is without merit. Her grandiose and absurd part in this saga is maybe a foreshadowing of things to come -- the hungry lie becoming bigger, morphing into other lies until the fabricators have no shred of truth and no supporters.

My appreciation to Autism Speaks for doing the right thing!

It just amazes me that this "it's only the gene theory" is still being reported again and again. More and more previously mainstream doctors are writing books about "the revolution in the medical field that is similar to the earth is flat theory" like drhyman.com. His website and his new book Ultraprevention are right on.

He himself experienced "broken brain" after being poisoned by mercury amalgams and mercury laden air not to mention the vaccines I'm sure he received as a health care provider. He lays out the cascade of health issues related to toxicity and how you can help the body repair. He explains that one third to one half of the population has inadequate detox genes, so Allison and Offit better be prepared for a whole society of "broken brains".

His site has some great recipes. I also read Food and Wine that buckwheat is the latest trend food. That right there says a lot.

To follow-up Stagmom's thought further, the neurodiverse crowd who want to take pride in their autism need to understand that once the susceptibility genes (not causative genes) are all discovered, it will be a recipe for mass abortions with a nice clean $1000 gene chip sold by biotech firms to expecting parents. In the endgame of this cabal with Offit and Singer, the neurodiverse have been allied, then children with these "defects" (R. Jenkins AAP term) will be eliminated Nazi style!!!!!!!!!!

Harvey Karp "KARP: Which disease do you want your child to get?" Larry King april 2, 2008
IMO "Any of them but Autism"

She will rear her ugly head, mark my words.....at ECBT. The simple fact that they issued the press release, which costs money, mind you, indicates to me that she will pop up there in some highly-paid pharmaceutical position.

They'll tout her as "look, here's a mom of a child with autism who doesn't believe the vaccine theory..."

The AAP and physicians all over the world will hail her as a hero. She will be well-loved in that community, but hated in ours.

TAKE BACK AUTISM SPEAKS FROM NAAR.

Christina, it would appear that there is a symbiosis between then. Ms Singer has a child with autism and a brother with autism and appears to be fully invested in the genetics theory that removes all responsibility for the autism. Dr. Offit's quest is to make certain vaccines, his life's work, are never implicated in any injury, most of all, autism. Wyeth is a corporation and as such, needs all of its products to sell well to survive. I'd call it a cabal. A parasitic pairing.

And for the Neurodiversity component of the autism world, Singer is no hero, after having declared that statement about her daughter and a bridge. (That statement horrified me equally.) They should continue to be gravely concerned as the push goes on for prenatal testing, the ultimate goal of genetics research in general. Alison Singer will likely continue to support genetics research in an effort to keep vaccines off the table - and the slippery slope to aborting fetuses who have a possibility of becoming autistic will turn into Mt. Everest. No, instead of finding out what's triggering that possible genetics and preventing the autism, allowing the baby to be born and develop into a very smart, highly productive member of society, her life's work will lead to a slew of new stems cells, ready to harvest....