I am aware this is not the most important matter in this tripe of a statement, but it's annoyed me anyway: it is not "England's General Medical Council", but the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom.

Hello To All I am speaking from two prospectives one from a mother who didn't vaccinate and also from a person who works in
alternative health care services that has decades of experience in finding and working on
those of us with environmental toxicity. My children had a huge advantage over others in my opinion as they were dubbed (gifted)possible
advantage because of not being vaccinated? At least they did not have that lifelong burden to carry. I have personally talked to and shared the pain of those parents who have lost
their children to vaccine injury. Also recently saw an 18 mo. old with admitted vaccine injury. ( Received the prepared multiple vaccine for another child and immediately went into seizure.) So, while facts and figures are being thrown around. Our
loved ones are being injured unnecessarily. With the promotion of people who are NOT IN THE TRENCHES with the resulting suffering.
Why don't we just stop it and FIND OUT FIRST!
If anybody believes that we have chemical deficiences in our body. Where are the receptor sites? Is there a receptor site in the body for MERCURY? Why did our ancestors LIVE without all these chemicals? Do chemicals, heavy metals, foreign tissues introduced into the blood stream of children with undeveloped immune systems really strengthen the immune systems? What about the toxic loads we all deal with everyday. Could this be adding to it? Is there a cumilitive build up. Was the liver ( which does most of the work of detoxifying the body) designed to
filter out these designer chemicals? STOP PLAYING AROUND WITH PEOPLES LIVES. THERE ARE
healthier ways to deal with infection!!!

I am glad that Dr Wakefield has been exposed at last. I believe that autism is purely genetic. MMR cannot cause autism. If a child has autism after injections, it is just coincidence. Autism was there already and would have shown up eventually.

I should like to add that despite my son having so-called ‘learning difficulties’, despite his being unable to speak or be accepted by a school until he was about 10 years old, despite when he was small being referred to by a consultant as a ‘write-off’, despite my being told to stop sacrificing myself and to ‘put him in an institution and forget him’, eventually he progressed so well that he was able to attend University and graduated in computer science. I still have the letter from the education authority saying he could not be educated because of his ‘disability of mind’. I meant to frame it one day!

At the time of my son’s diagnosis the following thoughts popped into my head, as the medical people looked so solemn:

They told me you were Different - Autistic
I told them I was optimistic
How could they know
I love you so
Because you are - DIFFERENT!

Sarah

The GMC has a much real legitimacy as a lynch mob - a show trial in which the defence was never heard:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/feb02_4/c644#231147

The description of the GMC as a "kangaroo court" reveals how little the authors really know about science.

Unsurprising, considering the fact that the same pair advocate homeopathy.

The fact that a scientist may be generally respected and widely published in no way guarantees the quality of every report they produce. None of the arguments in the above article convince me that there is any merit in the view that Wakefield is in some way being "silenced".

I wonder whether these ill-informed and unqualified (although doubtless well-meaning) celebrities have any idea of the harm they do to their cause by making such allegations.

Has anyone ever spoken with Evan's Dad or paternal grandparents about the child they saw growing up ? I just wondered if their view is the same as Evan's mother.

Dear friends, I think you have some agent provocateurs among those posting their comments.

Sincerely, Viera Scheibner.

Hi, Dana--

I'm so impressed with your daughter's decision. Bryan Jepson's *Changing the Course of Autism* and Jenny McCarthy & Jerry Kartzinel's *Healing and Preventing Autism* come to mind right away. You might also search PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) for articles on autism, like the Hannah Poling case (in Journal of Child Neurology, written up, I believe, by Andrew Zimmerman).

I think your daughter will want to talk about the biological plausibility of vaccine-induced autism, as well as looking at the numbers (to show that there has been an increase) and at the vaccine schedule itself (which you can probably find online, or in Deirdre Imus's book *Growing Up Green*).

Some other articles you should be able to find online (either through PubMed or otherwise): (1) Mady Hornig of Columbia University gave mercury to mice, which then developed autism. (2) Catherine DeSoto and Robert Hitlan of the University of Northern Iowa analyzed a data set involving hair and blood levels of mercury in autistic and neurotypical children, and found a statistically significant relationship between blood levels of mercury and diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. (3) Research firm SurveyUSA undertook a telephone survey at the behest of advocacy group Generation Rescue, and found vaccinated boys born from 1990 to 1996 to be more than twice as likely to have autism as their never-vaccinated counterparts.

Best of luck to you and your daughter.

@Maggie - Yep :-)

Does it make any sense that some parent would vaccinate their first child out the wazoo, and then "just happen" to NOT vaccinate their second child?

I love "keep in mind getting one of the vaccine-preventable diseases could kill a child..." bullshit. Oh really? Gosh, how irresponsible you were supposedly not vaccinating your second child, right? What was the logic there?

Ridiculous, made-up nonsense. People that pose as autism parents are the lowest form.

I like it when shills pose as parents and claim vaccines didn't harm their kids. It's much more effective than name calling. But, still obvious to most of us.

@Marcia Brown

I'd be happy to buy the book for you. Can you set up a public wish list on Amazon? Call it something obvious, like Marcia's Jenny McCarthy Wish List. I'll search for it using your name (Marcia Brown), and I'll send you the book. That way, you won't have to show your address to a stranger :-) Just post another comment letting me know what you ended up calling the wish list, if that's OK.

Best wishes to you and your son.

my name is marcia. i have a 10 yr. old boy who has autism. i've heard alot about jennys book. things have not been easy for us the past couple of years. just bad luck i guess. was wondering if anyone might have a used book for cheap?

jim you my favourite actor.Thank you!

Melissa,

The rise in the most disabling form of autism is what is causing most of the uproar, as well, the regressive form of autism coinciding with bowel disease onset has been a fairly recent development (within the past 20 years). Yes, doctors are probably diagnosing patients more often with the higher functioning form, but not with the % increase as the two other forms.

I don't understand how the rise of vaccines coincides with the rise of Autism, because 30 years ago my son wouldn't be considered Autistic, but in 2010 he is. He is 2.5 yrs old and is classified under the Autism Spectrum Disorder, but at the higher functioning.

30 yrs ago they would have passed him by, but not now. The doctors have broadened the definition, and now he is included as having Autism.

I'm just saying their is more to the story than the rise of vaccines. The definition for Autism has broadened, which means more kids will be diagnosed as such.

Would it be offensive for me to say that Wakefield had a conflict of interest and profited from his conclusion.

Would you take agin me if I told you that his research was repeated and no causal link was found.

These are not opinions, they are facts.

The GMC took umbrage because of his (undisclosed) business dealings, not his science.

Hi all again,
Sorry to those i have offended, was not my intention. My point was that there are simply medications being used out there (in response to jessica's earlier comment) - I didn't actually say I was in favour of them or that they should be taken by children with autism- I agree in that pumping people full of pills isn't the answer!

Yes, I realise the use of vitamins by Lee Silsby, my earlier comment was merely there as I thought it was slightly ironic them advertising considering the situation between vaccines and autism (and the resulting implications this research could have). Not one point did I say it was wrong to be using vitamins either - clearly there was a misunderstanding here.

Sorry again to those I have offended, perhaps it would be best if I now just signed off and left this conversation before it spirals out of control!
Regards,
Jon (med student)

My entire family, for three generations (that I can track), is blessed with high functioning Aspergers. I say "blessed" because different mindedness is not an affliction or illness.

We all agree that our guts and immune systems also work differently - hence the very real health problems we face in navigating our way through foodstuffs, vaccines and medications which are variously loaded with chemicals that we are best to avoid.

NZ has a high incidence of Autism and Aspergers. As an agricultural, island nation, over the years we have had more than our fair share of pest sprays applied indiscriminately to pastures and produce alike. Add an historically very sturdy vaccination programme and you have problems for everyone. However, I don't see these things as causal factors in Autism or Aspergers. But I do bleieve they sure as bad eggs make life suck for us.

Just goes to prove how woefully, pathetically unaware of their own ignorance med students are. That was a really, really, really stupid comment Jon. We all know what Lee Silsby sells, Jon, and more importantly WHY. You don't. You don't know the research, and you don't have the experience.

If Jon is a "med student" I'm a body double for J Lo....

Kim

Dr Shinya the inventor of the colonoscope and Dr Young have had many experiences with bowel and blood related disease that affects the whole body here is one example from Dr Young http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-doctor-told-us-there-was-no-cure.html

R. Krensal;
Immunity to disease is passed on to our offspring at least for a short time, and mother's milk extends the length of time that a baby maintains that immunity. Which we all know. But let us turn that around; it is not an immunity to a disease that is passed on but how the immune system is reacting to something.

Even father's immune system amazingly is passed on to his offspring!!!! IT is documented in text books.

My daughter had Kawasaki's when she was little, Sed rates were very high for a decade at least. She recently decided she wanted to be a nurse and work in a psych hosptial with adolescent boys. She was required to take the Hep B vaccine - all three of them. Shortly after her last third vaccine she became very stiff and sick. Her sed rates are high again, indicating high inflammation of the blood vessels. Do you think if she decides to have a child right now that that child could run a risk of having an immune system that will make her baby have strokes (since newborns are so prone to them anyway). Maybe in about 10 years the sed rates go down - but is her immune system really okay, less dangerous over time to her children???? I fear that will will not be.

One more thing that needs to be researched, but since there is no such thing as vaccines injuries then of course there is not need for this research (I am being snarky here)

If older women causes autism (that is older women having children) how do you explain me? My mother was 21 years old when she had me! Which is very young. Yet here I am, still on the Spectrum, a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome.

As for the stress argument I've seen around, I call bulls*&t! Think to the women who had to live durring the pioneer days! Talk about stress! Far as I know, none of thier children had autism, or even Asperger's.

Try again!

*rant over...blush*

One witness to this I might put aside. Even two could be concindence. Millions of parents saying the same thing however? Come on! This is not rocket science!

Here's the link to the online version of SF Chron's insane, error-filled anonymous vaccine editorial featuring a picture of Jenny McCarthy. Comment there and provide a little education for Chronicle readers.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/EDP11BRJOD.DTL

Oh, I am most definitely impressed with Jenny. She asked for, and received help and guidance from parents in the autism community. She made a promise to God that if He helped Evan recover, she would not turn her backs on OUR children, and she would spread the word that kids CAN and DO get better with proper treatment. She kept her promise, and has been a strong voice in our community ever since.

Some people talk the talk, but Jenny defintely walks the walk. That is why so many people love her. It has nothing to do with her celebrity or beauty. It is her heart and tenacity that we admire so much.

Today's (2-7-2010) San Francisco Sunday Chronicle has an anonymous editorial hailing the GMC decision and flogging the same old talking points. But, get this, in the middle of the editorial is a picture of Jenny McCarthy so that you'll think that she wrote it--at least briefly.

It's one of the most outrageous pieces of propaganda I've ever seen.

I find it interesting that this site is sponsored by a company which makes autism medication - surely if the results of the research shows that autism is related to the vaccine, autism cases will go down alongside the profits of the pharmaceutical company!
-Jon (med student)

Has anyone read the findings of Dr. Andrew Moulden? He is also trying to inform the world about this issue - that vaccines are devastating to our health. He has brain imaging and photographs to show the affects, before and after, of vaccines. He says he can show the damage happening real time. Essentially, what is occurring are small strokes and we all having a breaking point. Very compelling. He is working so hard at trying to spread his message also.

What can we do to help Dr. Wakefield?

the sad fact is that vaccination is based on fear - it trusts in the inability of the body to resist a virus - and a mechanistic way of looking at whole systems i.e the human body -rather than trusting the integrity of our bodies to work the way it was designed.

to assault a new borns body with toxic synthetic chemicals is part of the insanity in the first place but this insanity is considered normal - and fear dogma and propaganda exists to scare parents who are critical thinkers and sane - back into conformity at the expense of the health of their child - thus normalising autism as something that happens

we are seeing the same thing with the 'new' cancer vac Gardasil we saw the same thing with the 1970's flu vac, with the Hep B vac they couldn't sell to drug users who were the targeted audience - instead they gave it to babies all babies....that was insane - and the gullible bought it and many babies died and were injured and no admittance of any connection with the vacs has ever been acknowledged - thats strange in and of its self

the big fear is that if everyone doesn't vaccinate the world will have an outbreak of deadly virus out of control killing your children - BS what would really happen is that your child would develop a natural immunity and drug pushing pharmaceuticals would be out of business and so also would be primary health care

thank you both for writing this article and pointing out the monkey studies - what took them so long - now the world may finally begin to see what parents everywhere have intuitively felt

please people

educate before you vaccinate - our bodies are whole systems not separate mechanistic parts and I children need the healthiest start in life not one pumped full of highly toxic chemicals which has lead to further complications in later life - also still not recognized

Pediatric Nurse--

It's actually first children who are statistically more likely to be diagnosed than subsequent children who are born when mothers are, of course, older. This was first noticed by Kanner and then corroborated by current studies. This could be for two possible reasons. One supports the "body burden" theory-- pregnancy is the best chelator, after all, and earlier children get the brunt. Also, up to 50% of families who have one child who develops autism stop vaccinating subsequent children. There have been many studies which took a bite out of the "older mother" hypothesis-- it's not bearing out.

Also, Dr. Wakefield and colleagues are quite legitimately studying the effects of the vaccine schedule from 1990 through as late as 2006, when old stock of vaccines (including the HepB) was still being administered. No one has done a forensic analysis of that "old" schedule, though the potential victims of this schedule represent the wave of children currently factored as 1/110. It actually matters in retrospect what happened to them.

Studies of the effects of the old (until 2003) full-mercury Rhogam shots administered in pregnancy for Rh- women found a 50% increase in subsequent autism diagnoses for the offspring of these women. Giving full mercury flu shots in pregnancy, therefore, could be causing a similar jump. Timing is everything as they say.

Also, there are full mercury flu shots administered to infants as young as six months. I'm not sure why that isn't common knowledge. These were allowed even in states with mercury bans last year and this year where the bans were lifted for the H1N1 scare. The data can be found on the CDC website-- there are at least two full-thimerosal brands given to babies this young. Timing again.

Even if mercury in other infant shots were reduced or even absent, full mercury flu shots at six months combined with prenatal exposure to 25 mcg of thimerosal could conceivably increase the impact of mercury even beyond that which children were subjected to under the 1990's vaccine schedule. It compounds: if a child is born with damaged mitochondria due to prenatal mercury exposure, even the "trace" amounts they receive from today's schedule could have a much harder impact. Add the flu shot at 6 months and it may be lights out for many children.

No doubt prenatal exposures will be one of Dr. Wakefield's next investigations-- which is why industry seeks to stop him at all costs. They know which trees SHOULD be barked up and haven't been regarding vaccine safety research; and they know they have a scientist here who's bound to be barking in those directions eventually.

In the end, here's a few things which keep suspicions alive that vaccine mercury may play a role in the epidemic. The ethylmercury in thimerosal:

-Was in full amounts in old stock administered to children as late as 2006 (even 2007) along with the addition of full mercury flu shots.
-Stays in the brain indefinitely according to Burbacher.
-Is immunomodulatory, theoretically capable of amplifying the effects of certain viruses/collapsing the immune system-- an argument which could characterize mercury either as a facilitator to another central cause or a cause itself.
-Is capable of damaging/altering the blood-brain barrier, theoretically allowing pathogens/toxins greater access to the brain.
-Is mitochondrial toxic.
-Destroys tubulin in the brain.
-Is synergistic with testosterone, possibly accounting for higher rates of effected boys.
-Induces encephalopathy.
-Is mutagenic.
-Has never been studied for safety in pregnancy.
-Has never been independently researched in a vaccinated/unvacccinated study before now, and has still not been isolated in research studying the timed, combined impact of just ethylmercury doses given according to the current schedule or the past schedule.

Oh, you guys give Ped Nurse a break. Imagine how many children she's had a hand in poisoning, including her own! Denial serves a purpose in some. Let her be...

kudos and many thanks to jenny and her husband for having the chutzpah to be high profile about this issue...my son received the hep b in hospital before i could take him home, even tho he was only 4 pounds 7 ounces...and it was done without my knowledge or permission...i vaccinated all my children, (the son is adopted) who are in there mid and late twenties...back then the schedule of shots was less than these days...all of them were healthy and of normal birth weights...
my adoptive son received the hep b vaccine and spent the next one full month barely conscious...wouldnt even wake long enough to feed...i still didn't get it...then when he received his first set of vaccines at three months of age, he developed seizures which were violent and immediate to the vaccination...i vowed never again to let him receive these toxic stews...and no one can convince me that they were not to blame...since then he has been diagnosed with autism, and has had gastro 8ntestinal problems...the people who most staunchly defend these shots in the dark tend to be those who benefit most from the steady flow of patients sent to receive them...drug companies, doctors and even nurses (sorry peds nurse)
had i not forbade the vaccinations of my son further, i am sure his autism would be more severe...and the g.i. problems worse as well...
if anyone asks my opinion about vaccinating their child i refer them to the wealth of imformation contrary to the statements and alleged research done by those with vested interests in the concoctions..

To Ped Nurse,

Most likely you yourself have given children any number of shots, or helped hold them down while another nurse or doctor did so. So your defense of vaccines is somewhat understandable. It would be extremely gut-wrenching to think that your actions, done with the most sincere good intentions, might possibly have harmed children rather than helping them. As a parent who held down my kids for vaccines, I too would sincerely like to believe that my kids were helped rather than harmed. Sadly I no longer have any confidence of that.

Criticizing the monkey study on the basis that thimerosal has been removed from the Hep B vaccine now and autism continues to rise indicates that you have not yet truly investigated this controversy. I sincerely hope that most kids are getting less exposure to thimerosal now than they did when my kids were babies, but there is much to suggest that is not truly the case.

It is like a shell game trying to figure out what is really going on. The thimerosal may be out of this vaccine, but not that one. It is out of (well, to be more accurate it is significantly reduced in) vaccines for infants, but it remains in vaccines given to pregnant moms. It remains in vaccines for older kids. And it remains in most of the flu vaccines which ARE given to toddlers and young children. Is the sum amount today the same or different from the mid-90's? Who can really say--the answer is unquestionably different for almost every kid, depending on which vaccines (and which formulation of each) they (and their pregnant or nursing moms) were given and when.

And then there was the "Autism Alarm" encouraging doctors to look for and diagnose autism--oddly this happened about the same time as the reduction of thimerosal in SOME vaccines. Wouldn't it be expected that greater advertising of a disorder, and instructions to doctors (who might not have had a clue before) to actively LOOK for this disorder might lead to an increase in diagnoses? That alone makes the number of diagnosed cases before and after reduction of thimerosal (in some vaccines) an invalid comparison; more diagnoses would be expected irregardless of other factors.

So saying that more diagnoses after thimerosal reduction indicates that thimerosal is not culpable is a statement based on incorrect assumptions--you can not logically draw that conclusion--all the data (both thimerosal exposure levels and diagnosis rates) have been tampered with!

The news media is now trying to say that since the Lancet withdrew Wakefield's paper, that somehow means that the vaccine scare is over, since (they say) his paper started it. What total nonsense! I didn't read about the MMR controversy until long after I learned of the concerns about thimerosal. Bernard's paper (2000) and the Simpsonwood event (2000) are the two things that alerted my interest/concerns. The 1991 Hilleman memo and the 1979 Wyeth memo (http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/08/by-dan-olmsted.html)
far predate Wakefield--and while those may not have alarmed the public--since the public wasn't privy to them--you can bet that both increased concern in some quarters. There are books regarding questions about vaccine safety that also predate Wakefield's 1998 publication (Shot in the Dark appears to have been first published in 1987). Indeed, questions about vaccine safety actually date back to their invention.

In light of that, it seems extremely odd that the questions raised have still NOT been asked, in a very careful, well-designed transparent study of (monkeys or humans) with a REAL control group (no vaccines of any sort & no placebos that actually contain the adjuvants and other ingredients). Since the questions haven't really been asked scientifically, they are most certainly not yet answered. (If someone actually knows of any study that fits the above criteria, thousands of people, including me, are waiting for you to bring it forward for review.)

Why is it that none of the news agencies mention any of that info in their discussion of the vaccine controversy? Is it because this "retraction" is part of the giant shell game, or is it because today's journalists are too lazy or too busy or too scared to actually investigate anything before they read/rewrite/publish the news releases that Pharma, CDC, the Lancet or whoever sends them?

We should all be asking why, exactly, a study on the effects and safety of multiple (or even single) vaccines WASN'T done on monkeys LONG before they were approved for human use, let alone mandated! It might be that today's kids aren't getting exposures to thimerosal equivalent to what they received in the 90's--but MY kids got the amount that was delivered in the 90's and I want to know what the effects on monkeys of that schedule with those vaccines actually is. I wish I had thought to ask that question BEFORE I held them down, screaming.

Aluminum seems to be the choice as a replacement for thimerosal, yet some info about the safety of that is anything but reassuring. (See Neuromolecular Med. 2007;9(1):83-100. Aluminum adjuvant linked to Gulf War illness induces motor neuron death in mice.--just for starters. You might also want to consider the evidence that aluminum multiplies the toxicity of mercury.)

I think parents whose kids are subject to today's vaccine schedule ought to be demanding immediate research on the effects of today's vaccine formulations on monkeys BEFORE agreeing to allow your children to become the test subjects. And if I were a pediatric nurse, I would be demanding to see the results of such a study BEFORE agreeing to administer any more vaccines, of any sort, to any more innocent and potentially very vulnerable children.

IMO the only "callous disregard for the suffering of children" that I see is that of ALL the pediatricians, pediatric nurses, public health officials, and "skeptics" who continue to promote (and administer vaccines) WITHOUT demanding immediate research into the effects of the vaccine schedule on monkeys, and WITHOUT demanding a study comparing the health, development, and learning abilities of vaccinated versus never vaccinated children.

Until the above is complete, my kids, and I, are simply not going to roll the dice again.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for never giving up this fight for our children.

Very disturbing these "rationalizations" that pediatric nurses and special education teachers try to give for these crimes against humanity - crimes against little babies and children...

Thank you Jenny and Jim for speaking out about the well funded, propaganda driven, media campaign to vilify Wakefield. The more we all do to keep this story alive and provide the ill-informed, or uninformed with the truth, the more likely we are to create a "100th monkey" experience. The time is coming when a critical mass will "get it". Till then we all have to play our part in spreading the truth and fostering this awakening. And when it happens, enlightened folks will look back on this time "and say how did they not get that autism was caused by genetic predispositions and environmental assaults? How did they not get that they shouldn't have injected vulnerable infants with multiple toxins to supposedly protect them from illnesses? And how the hell did they not embrace the safe and effective strategies to address the underlying metabolic dysfunctions that so many of these kids had? I think we're all tired of this insane debate, but getting these kids better, spreading the truth and keeping the Wakefield story alive until his work is vindicated is what's at hand.

Ped Nurse, you said “Currently, all hepatitis vaccines manufactured for the U.S. market contain either no thimerosal or only trace amounts.”

Nonetheless, children and pregnant women are still given flu shots with thimerosal with 50 parts per million mercury. And “trace amounts” in any vaccine still amount to 2 parts per million mercury. See http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228 .

Ped Nurse, you also said “Thimerosal is neurotoxic. However, so is [are] many of our common medications if taken in excess.”

Nonetheless, the lower level of neurotoxicity of thimerosal has not been established.

Ped Nurse, consider that the CDC could have looked at the 2005 Burbacher et al paper showing mercury in the brain of infant monkeys from thimerosal and established a ZERO thimerosal policy. That same year Julie Gerberding, as head of the CDC, announced a budget of 8 BILLION DOLLARS and a staff of 15,000 people in 2005. See http://www.cdc.gov/futures/g_letter_04-21-05.htm .

But the CDC did not use that all the money and staff wisely and establish a ZERO thimerosal policy. Instead they continued to tell the public that vaccines with thimerosal were safe for children and pregnant women.

And right now do not hold your breath waiting for the CDC, still with billions of dollars and thousands of staff, to compare this Wakefield et al data to the primate study done by Burbacher et al and search for a correlation of brain injury from the higher levels of mercury in the brain.

And where is that prestigious head of the CDC today?

Ahem.

She is the new President of Merck vaccines. See http://www.merck.com/newsroom/news-release-archive/corporate/2009_1221.html and http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/12/merck_hires_gerberding_to_run.html .

So yes, of course-Jenny is impressive!

And since you are a Ped Nurse, then you can do your part and use your access to the flu shot package inserts and warn each and every parent and pregnant woman that you see about this heavy metal that kills brain cells.

S posted: "Correlation doesn't equal causation"

Have you made that very same criticism over the last 25 years everytime our public health agencies have shown graphs to indicate how "effective" their vaccines are? You know .. the graphs showing a steady, steep decline in communicable diseases AFTER the introduction of a vaccine? In fact, the entire universal childhood vaccine program is based upon the public health bureaucracies "correlation" of declining diseases being "caused" by vaccines.

However, there is a meaningful distinction between these two "graphical correlations".

Communicable diseases were in steady, steep decline for decades PRIOR to the introduction of vaccines .. due to improved sanitation, nutrition, medicines and living quarters. In fact .. if they did not tell you WHEN the vaccines were introduced .. you would not be able to determine it solely by looking at the graph .. because the diseases simply continued their steady, steep decline.

However, graphs showing a dramatic increase in chronic autoimmune disorders will correspond accordingly with graphs showing the dramatic increase in childhood vaccines in the 1980's.

Common sense suggests it is far more reasonable to believe the "correlation" between the dramatic, inexplicable INCREASE in autoimmune diseases that were far less common in ALL previous generations .. and .. at the very same time childhood vaccines were INCREASED dramatically .. may be a likely indicator the vaccines may be a CAUSATIVE contributing factor.

I reckon there are 2 reasons as to why there is more autism and other related 'disorders' now. Definately the vaccines but also that these children are sensitives that generally cannot filter out the insanity that is growing in our species, all the bullshit, lies, money, pollution/vaccines/additives etc, corruption. It is too much for their senses. They are here to get us to stop and look at life differently. Open our hearts to compassion and understanding, to slow down and stop all the bullshit materialism, to get back to nature and work together. They and their parents are true warriors changing the world.

I just realized today that I'm a Wakefield parent-- one of the later ones. I didn't get to speak in court either. My kids are recovering because of the treatment they receive at Dr. Wakefield's clinic in Austin. The improvements are unmistakably from the treatments. We'll stand by the clinic forever.

I heard Dr. Wakefield's presentation of the macaque study and clearly the early findings from the HepB phase were explosive enough for industry to do just about anything they could to shut Dr. Wakefield and colleagues down.

Aside from the British MMR, GSK is the maker of Enerix B-- the Hepatitis B vaccine found to carry an elevated risk of CNS inflammation-- and dozens of other vaccines.

Posted by: S | February 05, 2010 at 06:41

"This statement doesn't touch on anything I heard on NPR about how Wakefield was taking money from a lawyer suing vaccine makers? It's easy to accuse the media of getting out of hand without having a response to what they said."

It is time you begin to read instead of beliving everything you are told.

http://www.rescuepost.com/files/autismfile_us33-wakefield.pdf

And you heard it on NPR? Let see... who is a major funder of public radio....

Here in Minnesota NPR is played on MPR - Merck Public Radio.

By the way, it is also "easy to accuse" when you are afraid to use your own name.
I do not consider all anonymous comments irrelevant, just the ones where it might seem... "cowardly"?

This explains so much. Reading this makes me want t-shirts that say, "Got 14 monkeys?" on the front and on the back, "Autism isn't contagious, Ignorance is." And maybe on the sleeve they should have "www.fourteenstudies.org" and some other fun links and quotes.

Greg said:
"Pharma may employ PR methods, but there is no orchestrated puppetry that can claim control over the publication of scientific research."

It seems the former Editor-in-Chief on NEJM disagrees with you:
http://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/

Or how about this beauty from 2002 -
"The editors (NEJM) declared that they were dropping their policy stipulating that authors of review articles of medical studies could not have financial ties to drug companies whose medicines were being analyzed. The reason? The journal could no longer find enough independent experts".
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020805/newman20020725

Then there are the ghostwriters:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html

I think it is about time people like Michael Moore start working on a film that focus on these issues vaccines can and do trigger autism in some kids, just like we now know that smoking do and can cause cancer, though not everyone will get it, why can't vaccines be looked at the same way? 36 doses of vaccine shots before a child reaches 3....that is just cruel. Other first world countries like Denmark, Norway have much better sense to do about 10-14 shots before a child turns three and look at thier autism rate.....much lower than the U.S.A.

Christie@ "it's tiring seeing society constantly having to point the finger every which way to explain disorders".

Oh, so we 'accept' sick children for what they are and let them live and die in sickness. ...Or disorder is a new order in your world, and everything is hunky dory with being disabled and disordered. No need to explain or to heal, least special needs teachers have no jobs to go to. In this economic climate it must be great to know that your your market is growing, your job can only become more secure as more kids develop disorders. Lovely. Nothing to worry about or try explain.

The key to this affair has always been to try and shut the parents up - Jenny and Jim have not chosen the easy option, where many prominent people have buckled they have stood their ground and fought.

For history of this extraodinary affair in the UK this ChildHealthSafety blog is essential reading:

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/secret-british-mmr-vaccine-files-forced-open-by-legal-action/

If your child has been damaged by vaccine, neither the medical profession or your government want to hear from you. Vaccination is not a good deal, because if it goes wrong you are in the cold.

Christie,

As a teacher myself who has worked with special needs kids and watched the number of kids with autism, ADD, ADHD, and learning disabilities explode, I strongly disagree with you. Jenny is doing a great service by advocating MORE, not LESS, scientific inquiry into the cause of these disorders. It is people like you, who want to bury your head in the sand, who are standing in the way of science. For what purpose? Do you not want to help these children? Or are you just happy to have a paycheck yourself and indifferent to what will happen to these kids once their government-guaranteed education has run its course? That attitude, in my opinion, is inexcusable.

Kathy -

I agree that it could also be one vaccine. But, I am not sure that the tests you suggest would have saved my son. He is one of the lucky few with a healthy immune system, a healthy gut, and no allergies whatsoever. His IgE is normal - not hyper. He does have some metabolic oddities - but nothing extreme. What he does suffer from is brain and central nervous system damage. Probably the result of encephalitis.

GREAT JOB Jenny and Jim on exposing the ongoing corruption. Parents considering vaccination need to know and make an informed decision.