My own idea of autism is that many chemicals can take away the brain of which mercury in the form of thimerosal injections into muscle and occasionally simply direct into the blood in inevitable cock ups, from conception to six months of age is a big factor, showing the fallibility of man.

Replacing mercury by other neurotoxins to inject in even larger amounts is not the best way forward.

We need to look at why we get a disorder not trying to prove why we can't get health problems by injecting neurotoxins at earlier ages and in larger amounts and then using others to obfuscate what they have done.

But for Dr Wakefield's paper there is a different problem. Why take away paper showing his personal views of autism children with a gut damaged? Why indeed.

First some authors took away the unprinted hypothesis or conclusion of Dr Wakefield but not the facts published. 9 or so gave way to powerful dark forces which said to them retract or BE PUNISHED. Not one retracted and said the results were wrong. Except a later certain Chadwick whose name wasn't on the paper and found results which proved he was not capable of much except moaning rather loudly and noticeably with a less endearing manner than others.

So the question is why, why, why; was it so important to burn the "books"; the knowledge and what a whole team discovered 12 years ago about autism children doubling over in pain and finding surprise, surprise, a diseased or damaged gut?

Anyone or everyone who were part of the "team" to destroy factual knowledge are like every other such attempt to destroy knowledge and progress. Examples occur from all parts of the world and over the whole history of man.

Simply put, we are in the 21st century subjected a DICTATORSHIP in the medical world of USA and the UK where not only knowledge is destroyed but FALSITIES, LIES and OBFUSCATION are the tools of the medico-legal world.

Far too many people pay lip service to these people who direct our thoughts and make any but those ARMED with facts quiver, waver and fall in line behind the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.

Dollars have NO BRAINS.

Knowledge tells us that:

Brain destroying toxins always are and will be BRAIN DESTROYERS.

And the allergy and anaphylaxis od repeat vaccines likewise cannot be paid off by unsolicited payouts to all and sundry.

And the burning of books means entry and return to the

DARK AGES

The numbers given in Dr. Yazbak's article seem to indicate that the measles rate decreased after 1998. However, if this is true, why was measles declared endemic to the United Kingdom?

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=18919

While I agree with Theodora that infectious disease is certainly an issue for humanity, it does not seem to me that discontinuing vaccination would help us. The more hosts a bacteria/virus/parasite infects, the more possibilities it has to evolve into a more virulent strain (that's why overusage of antibiotics allowed these new drug-resistant strains to emerge).

My two daughters both received single measles vaccinations as toddlers in the late 1960's. The younger one had a bad dose of measles two years later, which left her with scarring in her eyes and very susceptible to chest infections like pneumonia.
At the time, I was told by medical friends that the 'wild' measles had probably 'mutated' in response to the measles vaccination, which was introduced in the UK around 1967-1968 and routinely administered to infants at around 18 months old. This mutation caused the 'wild' measles to become far more virulent than it had been before. No one could explain why my younger daughter's measles vaccination did not 'take', but I strongly suspect that the vaccine had been stored inappropriately by the staff at the 'baby clinic' she attended.
There is a great deal of statistical evidence that, prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine, the wild measles strains were becoming weaker anyway and less likely to cause any long term problems. I remember children in the 1950's as being far healthier than children today. Yes, we all caught childhood infections, including measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox. They meant time off school and some TLC from our mums!!The REAL killers, polio, diptheria and tuberculosis were still rife. Our parents were grateful for us to be immunised against these illnesses and smallpox.

Thank you Dr Yazbak for your continuing support for Dr Wakefield and his colleagues and your well presented and well reasoned articles. One day THEY will HAVE to listen!!

Jen

Deathly silence followed Ed Yazbak's review of the evidence of Eric Fombonne and Stephen Bustin in the Cedillo case.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/11/how-reliable-were-eric-fombonne-and-stephen-bustin.html

Nothing from Orac, nothing from Sullivan, nothing from Deer (nothing, for that matter, from Fombonne or Bustin)!!!

John

Hi Benedetta,

Good point. The report says nothing about the vaccination status of the 17 year-old who died, so presumably he/she was vaccinated (they would have lept at if he/she hadn't been).

Another very interesting related point is that in the HPA data for measles cases they don't give a breakdown of vaccinated vs unvaccinated, they just have the criterion of "recently vaccinated", in which it is seen that the majority of cases are not "recently vaccinated", so you are right that in these case infection may have been deferred to an age when the disease was riskier (a clear negative effect of vaccination). However, it isn't clear that the dead young person actually had measles.

Furthermore, "recently vaccinated" is a subjective and vague term.

Another vulnerable group will be infants less than the age of one who no longer get maternal anti-bodies. It would be very easy to claim that these were not vaccinated or not recently vaccinated as well.

This is all highly indicative of the way the HPA assemble misleading data.

John

They make it up as they go along. Our health officials are to the pharmaceutical industry what our treasury officials are to banks.

I would just like to retrieve the note I placed in JABS Forum in consultation with Ed Yazbak about the 2008 UK 'measles death' :-

http://www.jabs.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2169

'To return to something I mentioned in passing last week. The report of a death in the UK from measles is anomalous:

'"The first death from acute measles infection since 2006 has been reported. A 17 year old with underlying congenital immunodeficiency was admitted to hospital with respiratory distress and pneumonia on 20 April following contact with a case of measles. The patient deteriorated and was transferred to ITU a week later with respiratory failure, but subsequently died (five weeks later). Serum samples and nasopharyngeal aspirates taken at various times have confirmed that the patient had infection with a strain identical to the measles strain (MVs/Enfield.GBR/14.07 genotype D4) that has now been circulating in the UK for over a year." [1]

'The 17 year old does not seem to have had "clinical measles". They kept testing him to show viral serum reactions but they do not mention that he had measles (clinically).

'They cannot argue that he had an "overwhelming viremia" and died BEFORE he developed measles because the incubation period of measles is 2-3 weeks and he lived over 5 weeks. Pharyngeal aspirates confirm the presence of the virus but not that the patient has the disease. A positive serum test would only be significant if there was a 4-fold increase in titer [2], but if this was the case you might expect that the HPA would mention it, whereas they only record the presence of the virus...'

[1] http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpr/archives/2008/news2508.htm#meas0508

[2] http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/98vol24/dr2405ea.html#a