Love the article and the comments posted.
I have always found it interesting when a parent decides they want to decline the jab, that pediatricians don't offer up titers for those that have been previoulsy immunized. They are so concerned for the safety and well being of our children. From my understanding and I may be incorrect here, immunity is obtained 90%of the time on one jab.
So, the parent that was concerned regarding the MMR, because they had only had one jab-I would ask for titers.

thanks Willie. Yeah, that's what pisses me off is that they have taken away the illnesses from CHILDREN (when the consequences appear to be more benign)and now they could get a disease as an adult which could be worse. It isn.t a good trade off in my mind. I sure as hell won't be giving my kids hep b or any other vaccines. I was only concerned about the mumps re. possible sterility. Thanks alot for answering.

OK OK, I have it!! According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's website: Encephalopathy is a term for any diffuse disease of the brain that alters brain function or structure. Encephalopathy may be caused by infectious agent (bacteria, virus, or prion) metabolic or mitochondrial dysfunction, brain tumor or increased pressure in the skull, prolonged exposure to toxic elements (including solvents, drugs, radiation, paints, industrial chemical and certain metals), chronic progressive trauma, poor nutrition or lack of oxygen or blood flow to the brain. THE HALLMARK OF ENCEPHALOPATHY IS AN ALTERED MENTAL STATE. Depending on the type and severity of encephalopathy, common neurological symptoms are: Progressive loss of memory and cognitive ability, subtle personality changes, inability to concentrate, lethargy, and progressive loss of consciousness. Other neurological symptoms may include myoclonus (involuntary twitching of a muscle or group of muscles) nystagmus (rapid, involuntary eye movement), tremor, muscle atrophy and weakness, dementia, seizures and LOSS OF ABILITY TO SWALLOW OR SPEAK. Blood tests, spinal fluid examination, imaging studies, electroencephalograms and other similar diagnostic studies may be used to differentiate the various causes of encephaolopathy.

I think our children have been misclassified. They should all have an encephalopathy diagnosis, perhaps the ICD9 codes should be used in conjuction with the "autism" diagnosis: 348.3 Encephalopathy, not elsewhere classified or 349.82 Toxic encephalopathy. By the way where is the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke when it comes to all the tidal wave of children with autism?? Didn't they notice the obvious brain damage and encephalopathy going on in our children? What do they have to say?

Autism = Encephalopathy = Brain Damage

Becky H-A, I totally concur with your point about the disservice the AAP and the pharma industry is doing in terms of public health. THey have really fucked up with trust and vaccinations. Many of the "safety studies" are crap, there is no regard for individual circumstances-premature babies, babies who may have allergies or immune vulnerabilities, they have added too many stupid, gratuitous ones to the schedule (like chicken pox and rota virus, hep b for babies!), dangerous ingredients (aluminum in Gardasil) and yet I still wonder if there may be some diseases for which I want my child protected. They really have fucked up. It reminds me of my oldest child's orthodontic treatment. In the middle somewhere I realized I had to kind of "micro-manage" it since the ortho was f'g up. One day I just had to say to him, "no!, sit her up (instead of lying her down in that ridiculous position) and just look at her. It doesn't look right." Of course it wasn't and he had to change his game plan. You like to think that these guys know what they are doing but it really is a bit of a guessing game. Even though with orthodontic they can ascertain things like jaw growth by looking at the size of the hands etc. they really don't do this in practice. Same with the vaccines. They have some ways to do it more safely, carefully but yet they don't tend to do this unless they are forced. It really is at a crisis point.

Well done, JB! The more we hear people with vested interests -- money, power, position -- telling us to "move along, nothing to see here," the more we must question why they are telling us that flawed, incomplete, and clumsily manipulated "science" should close a debate. The only vested interest most of us have is our children. On behalf of those interests, we continue to question and demand the truth.

Well done JB and all other concerned US citizens, parents and families. The world is waking up at last to the concept of potential and actual vaccine damage.

JB says: 'I would advocate an immediate move to the current vaccine schedule of Denmark or Sweden with a far more cautious approach to vaccinating introduced: only one shot per visit, no shots while on antibiotics, delaying shots if any adverse reactions happen, etc.'

The Scottish Daily Mail published my letter on this same subject of advocating caution when administering vaccines. It is only common sense; so called 'herd immunity', means treating our precious children like cattle instead of individual human beings. Unfortunately, my letter was not published in the English or Welsh editions of the Mail.

Dr Wakefield only ever advocated caution until more PROPER CLINICAL research was carried out into MMR adverse reactions and a POSSIBLE link with bowel disease and autism.

Nick's Mom #1, your description of "negative, venomous spittle" from vaccine injury deniers is right on the money. And if history repeats itself, vaccine policy makers will counterintuitively conclude from the Pediatrics report that they haven't lied, bullied or threatened parents enough. So much for product improvement.

"Of course, a quarter of the population actively denies evolution as well."

Well Cookie Man, I believe one of the cornerstones of "evolution" is the THEORY that nature SOMEHOW decides to "spontaneouly" build itself UP over time, and we SOMEHOW "evolve" to a more complicated state of being.

Look around you. "Wear and tear" (translation: breakdown) is the NATURAL state of being....we are DYING from the day we are born.

THAT is a fact, Jack.

Got Science? (translation: You better stick to milk and cookies -- more in line with your "scientific" observational skills)

Great post! Thank you for showing this.

Those trying to discredit parents who have legitimate vaccine safety concerns mischaracterize parents as “being afraid” of vaccines. They use the term "fear" to try and mislead the public into thinking that these parental concerns are somehow irrational, trivial, or not based on credible information.

Vaccine evangelists have been hitting it hard falsely accusing educated and informed parents as being afraid of vaccines. You can do your own internet search for many examples, but you won’t want to miss where they pull out all of the stops in their Wired Magazine article An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All.

The good news is, as this study (Parental Vaccine Safety Concerns in 2009) illustrates, it isn’t working and parents aren’t buying it.

Here is an example outside of vaccination for the benefit of those so enamored with vaccines that they can’t see their flaws and can’t comprehend what I am saying. I am not afraid of high fructose corn syrup or MSG. As an educated consumer, I choose not to feed these to myself or my family. Why? Because their performance for supporting health is not up to my standards. In other words, their benefits are not worth the risk.

The same applies to my view, and I firmly believe from experience, many other parents' views, on vaccines. Parents love their kids and want the best for them. If parents are losing confidence in vaccines, it is not because they are more afraid than they used to be. It is because they are becoming educated and informed, and the benefits claimed are not worth the risk of the harm the vaccines can cause.

Here’s the bottom line take home message to anyone who really wants to understand what is going on: the standards of the vaccine industry and the government regulatory bodies are not high enough for a growing number of educated parents. Thank GOD that we live in a country where parents who care about their children get to have higher safety standards than the government or vaccine industry.

Parents aren’t afraid – they just simply aren’t buying into the propaganda job by the “fear” slingers because no amount of “education” will undue the fact that just about everybody now knows somebody whose life has been irreparably harmed due to vaccine reactions. Bad vaccine reactions happen far too often.

That does not make parents afraid; it makes them know they want better for their children.

Kathy B,

Here in Minnesota we have the ability for school districts to offer autism services to kids if they meet standards slightly less than DSM-IV, which is good because I do not think meurologists could keep up with the number of older kids (born before 2003) that are now showing symptoms of autism.

But becuase it is an educational diagnosis, we are told these kids are not really autistic, they just apparently get serrvices they don't need, or something implied like that. Most families can't afford the diagnosis, and it is important to note that any of those "higher functioning" kids, ones that might not have recieved an official diagnosis, still have significant deficts.

In Minnesota we have an average rate of 1 in 70 kids between 6 and 17 receiving services under the autism dignosis. This rate is based on easy to access information from the IDEA with the birth rates from Mn Vital Statistics being the denominator.

Boys in this age group are 1 in 38.

Yes, thats what I said, 1 in 38.

If the Minnesota Department of Health or the Minnesota media are alarmed, they are certainly keeping very quiet about it.

Are you alarmed?

Here's my simple question, they don't find the rise in autism disturbing in the least? That a "genetic" disorder has risen over two thousand percent? AAP, you have your heads in the sand, and or, you maybe are running into the "scared shitless" category, because finally, finally, you are being found out for what you are, an organization tied to pharmaceutical interests, non copability, and frankly, your afraid that most parents will forego vaccines and walk over to a naturopath, and really show you, that unvaccinated children don't get autism, and, the vaccinated do. Look at Dr Einsteins practice, thousands upond thousands, and no autism? You are being found out, don't look at that man behind the curtain, well guess what, toto has unraveled your world, and I hope they do with impunity.

I AM A PARENT VOLUNTEER. Proud volunteer.

Another excellent post, J.B. - thank you! We ARE winning this war of truth, one person at a time.

At my son's OT appointment on Monday, one of the other therapists asked if I would answer a couple of questions (knowing that my son was vaccine-injured). One hour later, we were still talking, and she had taken several small pages of notes. Both of her daughters just had babies, and are desperate for the truth about vaccine safety (or lack thereof).

They had already talked to their doctors, and had read up extensively on the subject. But they (and their mother) knew they were still not getting the whole truth.

Here's to the "umpteen thousand courageous, undaunted, and selfless volunteer parents..." who grab every opportunity to educate people on this subject. Our experiences carry more weight than anything mainstream medicine has to offer, and other parents know that.

Thanks for the big picture JB. It reminds me that we are getting somewhere. I think the number of parents refusing to vaccinated their kids is far higher than the CC admits. The present system is incapable of change. It wil only change when it collapses, like the Soviet Union. When 25% plus of moms just say no it's over for them. Not that that will do our children any good but it will stem the violence being done.

The next step is when parents "vote with their pocketbooks" It's one thing for 1 in 4 people to suspect vaccines cause autism and quite another for them to go against their doctor's advice and stop paying for vaccines or participating in free clinics. Only when people reject the recommendations will the "autism community" get their due respect.

Thank you JB and all of the warrior parents who put themselves out there in the public's eye to teach the world about the terrible injustice that has been perpetrated against our children, with a warning for theirs.

The public health sector is scratching their heads over why their efforts to rescue the vaccination program are failing and why our efforts have gained so much ground. When one considers the increasing numbers of vaccine injured, brain-damaged children and the increasing numbers of people who witnessed this damage (family, friends, neighbors) our efforts are multiplied. People became convinced even more when they saw how hard we have to work and the unbelievable sacrifices we have to make to help our children because most doctors have turned their backs on our obviously sick children and withheld medical treatment. The CDC, AAP etc can't compensate anymore by relying on their professional reputations. Doctors created this environment of suspicion and distrust. They traded their trust and reputations to protect a product over a child. Instead, they could have been heroes.

The choice has become between 1) having your child vaccinated and being abandoned by your doctor to watch your child suffer horribly or die when he/she has a severe adverse reaction or 2)choosing to not vaccinate and having access to medical treatment when your child gets sick and being treated with interest and compassion.

I was naive about the doctor/patient relationship. Knowing what I know now, I know what choice I'd have made differently.

Sadly, as long as the Vaccine Holy Warriors continue to practice Ego-based Medicine, this will continue. I say let them continue to dig their own graves. Dorkski has done more to damage his own credibility than any of us possibly could.

Don't worry about Mr. Keebler, there's just a dash of carbon monoxide in his hollow tree today. Sometimes we let trolls and even elves into AoA for a visit. KIM

Thanks, JB.

And Happy St. Patrick's Day.

I would be very surprised if the Supreme Court did the right thing this time. I think their vote to allow unlimited corporate campaign contributions-- despite 80% of the public being dead against such a move-- was a preview. And I think there will be even less dissent on this.

But unless martial law is enacted forcing compliance to whatever vaccine they come up for next year's "what-the-f***-pandemic" scare, the public is less and less likely to go along with it. Pharma's going to have to concoct, say, a new strain of measles and seed the wind with it from light planes in some kind of dystopian paranoid nightmare maneuver if they want to drum up a repeat of last year's pandemic panic. The public is getting inured.

I think vaccine makers, the pharma lobby and its pet regulatory agencies can stand up and take a bow for wrecking public trust in the very concept of vaccines and in the health authorities. With all the money, time and aggression that was spent trying to crush dissent, some enterprising group of scientists could have come up with safer, cleaner vaccine technology by now. Instead the public has little to turn to as a true alternative.

So I agree with Ginger that we're going to have to get serious about defending civil rights while trying to put forward positive options to the current vaccine schedule as a way to corral health authorities and industry into a better direction.
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JB, Thank you! I have spent the last NINE years of blood, sweat and tears trying to recover my son from the fateful day in November 2001 when he received 8 vaccines in one day. Within 2 weeks he stopped smiling, looking at us, talking, and started having explosive diarrhea and head banging. No doctor would believe us. Nobody could offer help or solutions. The past NINE years have included a lot of self education, reading books, seeing doctors who were practicing autism medicine underground for fear of losing their license, and the biggest lack of acknowledgement that I have ever witnessed in my lifetime by our government, AMA, AAP and CDC that does not want to deal with this tidal wave for fear it will cause the public to stop vaccinating altogether. I cannot even imagine how much time and money has been spent by them trying to restore public confidence in vaccines. But now, in addition to autism we have AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF SICK KIDS: ADD/ADHD, allergies, asthma, schizophrenia, dyslexia, childhood cancer, diabetes. 1 in 3 American children are sick. Are they listening? Maybe. Are they creating strategic imperatives? Well if you call IACC and NVAC strategic committees, then yes. Are they linking strategic imperatives to critical actions? No! I honestly don't think many of our government officials would survive a day in the corporate world where if they don't get results they get fired.

JB, when I was listening to my every-weekend chelated "autistic" child blabber on the other day, I got tears in my eyes, thinking that if I hadn't read Jenny's book, who knows if I'd be hearing this...

Then I realized that behind Jenny, there was another hero--you, my dear.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Alison "Sinner" sold her soul to the devil. She faces that truth about herself everyday. I would not want to be in her shoes when the grim reaper comes a callin'

PRIORITIES Pharmaceutical Lobby spends Seven Hundred Twenty One Thousand Five Hundred & Eighty Three Dollars a DAY... Or put another way... $263,377,975 a year just to buy votes... $30,000,000 went just to influence elections in 2008... I wonder what the entire budget of Parent Autism Advocates is.... Mine is 5 cents... oh wait that probably should go to my past due mortgage... Smiles.

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

I think we're on the second stage right now, but the third is quickly approaching and then hopefully we won't have any new members join our club.

Even Jesus knew that using disciples was a more effective use of spreading the word than just converts.

I will continue to give our testimony.

I simply say "vaccines damaged our son. Beware"

It doesnt take more than that really. Something in the vaccines is causing problems and apparently the cases like the Polings, who they didnt want to bring up in a court, are an example.

My opinion is that this is all they have. They have brought out their big guns, used them on Andrew Wakefield and Michelle Cedillo (and our community), and it is proving to be about as effective as the Nazi's defense on D-Day. Painful to their opponent, but not even remotely stopping the tide.

This is the best they can do... Paul Offit. If they had better, if they had real answers, if they had an earnest (non absurd, real physicians with minimal and disclosed COIs) they would use them.

But they are using the fourth string team because they don't have a first string. The first string knows full well it does not have the answers and is not going to go our and make asses of themselves by making the false claims that Offit (and his side kick, Offit's ego) are willing to make.

Note that since Julie Gerberding's ridiculous handling of the Poling decision, that CDC et al has not made any public appearances to comment on this. Press release, very qualified statements on their web sites, statements from safely behind a podium in their own building, but they are not going out and perjuring themselves. They stay in the bunker and let the Offit Robot do the work for them.

I think that we need to watch for them to begin to get desperate and start pushing for forced vaccinations. Frieden has already told congress he wants to do that (just not in 2009 when he said it) We need to draw a line in the sand and say no more vaccine mandates. Do it in Chicago in May at the American Rally for Personal Rights.

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To Nick's Mom:

I completely agree. And the other huge change we need to make to our nomenclature is to stop using the word "alternative" so much when talking about the treatments we use. It makes us sound like hippies. This is not a mainstream vs. alternative issue. It is largely a treatment versus failure to treat issue. Wer are TREATING instead of IGNORING biologically based medical problems. Much of what we do is mainstream, many of the medications we use are FDA approved and well recognized as safe and effective. As for the science we are applying, it in not non-existent, but EARLY STAGE and CUTTING EDGE. The practices of most neurologists, gastroenterologists and immunologists we see should be referrred to as OUTDATED, OBSOLETE and INCONSISTENT WITH THE MOST CURRENT SCIENCE.

"Ms. Singer, who looks like she stepped out of the morgue to take each interview"
I noticed that too!

Great job!!! I called Merck yesterday regarding the MMR. I got the guy on the phone and asked if they were going to make separate vaccines again, like they had originally planned to. He told me no. (I had this info already, all of it) Then I asked him if anyone else was going to take over where they left off. He said, no that they were the only ones in the US that were making it. I asked why they would not return to the "safer" way of doing this. He said, that it science says... I cut him off. I said, well the science is wrong. He didn't seem to know what to say. So I went on to say, "In what natrual state would an 18 month old come down with measles, mumps and rubella all at the same time." He paused and then said with a sigh, "ya, I know." I wasn't done. I asked him if he realized that now that they have taken away that choice for parents, that people were just going to skip that all together. I acted as if I would have given a child the separated live viruses, but that there was no way I was falling for the 3 live viruses, let alone 4. He again said that he had to go along with what the science had found. I asked him if the "science" had done a study on vaccinated and unvaccinated children. He didn't answer. I thanked him for his time, and hung up. It really isn't just us that have figured this all out. There are many who are listening to our stories, and many of them who are not going to subject their children to this. Maybe in away, we should thank them for their stupidity.

There was a message sent to vaccine manufacturers when the infamous "Lily Rider" was inserted into the Homeland Security act under the cover of Darkness. The U.S. government was going to back them up at all costs. The feeding frenzy was on.

My dad had a saying about greedy people "feeding at the trough" - He would say it is "like one hog waits for another" - the different companies were clamoring over themselves trying to create the next big product in vaccination.

In the early 80's I worked nights cleaning the gas-electric utility offices. I remember the President of the ocmpany complaining about the bad press that nuclear power was getting - "10 years ago everybody wanted us to build plants and now we are the enemy". The problem this guy had is that he did not build nuclear power plants becuase "people wanted them" he built them because he (and others) wanted to make lots of money.

All vaccine manufacturers want is MONEY. Future health of the human race is not the first thing on their list of to do's. Well, the hogs have been fed, its now time we take these little piggies to market.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,682613,00.html

This Spiegal exposure says much about the Vaccination Scams and those in the public employ who are on the 'Take'