From The Editor
New Australian study shows SEVEN TIMES risk of autism in grandchildren of survivors of Pink Disease (mercury poisoning via teething powders etc.). This is what genetic susceptibility to autism is all about -- sensitivity to mercury, inability to excrete it.
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Recommended Tylenol dose for adults is lowered. Too much of that stuff can be dangerous by damaging liver, which neutralizes toxins. Might be a good idea to look at its effect on kids after vaccination, eh?
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In USA Today interview, NIH Chief Collins touts "universal" flu shot, says Alzheimer's may really be caused by inflammation. C'mon, chief, connect the dots!
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China tells journos: "Do not investigate the cause" of the bullet train crash. That approach sounds familiar -- oh wait, it's the same as Secretary of Health and Human Censorship Kathleen Sebelius.
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New report shows deaths from chickenpox have plunged due to new vaccine. But for the sake of completeness, shouldn't there also be stats on the spike in shingles, which is painful and can kill? (And why doesn't Britain use it?)
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From Michael Belkin's Refusers Newsroom (We love you, man!): "It never occurs to medical morons that the reason so many people have allergies to milk, eggs, peanuts, etc. in the first place is because vaccines contain those trace ingredients – and they get mixed up in the hyper-immune response triggered by adjuvants and antigens in the vaccines. Vaccines are training people to be allergic. This is incredibly obvious, but not to the robo-vaccination crowd. Duh.
"It never ceases to amaze me that health-conscious parents who pore over food ingredient labels would blindly inject vaccines into their kids without having the slightest idea what vaccines are made of, or of the toxic ingredients they contain.
"Food allergies have skyrocketed since the vaccine schedule was tripled several decades ago. So-called experts shrug their shoulders and consider food allergies to be normal. It’s not difficult to be more intelligent and informed about vaccines than your average doctor."
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Tweet-tweet: Let's hear it for the Canary Party!
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Published in written parliamentary questions today: "Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will assess the adequacy of the police investigation into the activities commissioned by The Sunday Times of the freelance journalist Mr Brian Deer in relation to the acquisition of children's medical records and information from (a) the Royal Free Hospital and (b) other sources between 2003 and 2005."
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Hey, we made the Guardian, which calls us part of the "anti-vaccine brigade" that thinks there's linkage between James Murdoch, his role at GSK, and the way the Wakefield saga was reported. A culture of influence? Crazy, man!
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I get the feeling that "Extremely well in every possible way" -- Rupert Murdoch's description of News Corp.'s hacking-crisis response -- is going to become a catch-phrase for clueless complacency.
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So the cops, hip-deep in the Murdoch scandal, arrest Rebekah Brooks right before her testimony to Parliament. Now she probably can't/won't testify. Who's running the joint? Not the police chief -- HE just quit.
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Reuters: "GlaxoSmithKline, Britain's biggest drugmaker, said James Murdoch continued to serve as a non-executive director, and it would watch investigations into the phone-hacking scandal engulfing his family's newspaper business."
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Pharma-driven Time Rag says: "What drives autism? Environment may be just as important as genes." Nice try hanging onto the old-time paradigm, guys -- but that new study shows Environment holds the key. (Nice vaccine ad too, p. 37)
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Sharing this comment from Gatogorra, a smart contrast to the "many autisms/many causes" convenient reasoning of medical establishment: Autism is too specific a disorder to be caused by "anything/everything" and the central culprits would have to be something rather ubiquitous and things likely to occur together. Occasionally there may be new wrinkles-- autism caused by a rare drug intervention, etc. But the rare wrinkle would logically also turn out to have overlapping toxic mechanisms with the causes responsible for most of the epidemic. Antidepressants are a great case in point, though I believe what the research found was that antidepressants are a "facilitator", much like Tylenol-- probably not the direct cause.
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Former British PM Gordon Brown says London Times hacked, used false identities to get confidential information on his sick child. Where is this all going to end?
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There they go again: Autism Speaks Official Blog says new twin study points to "pre-natal risk factors." No, it doesn't. It suggests pre- or post-natal shared environmental risk before autism onset. Get with it!
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About time, from BBC: "Mr Cameron said ... the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) would be scrapped, adding: 'I believe we need a new system entirely.'" Actually, self-policing would be best.
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Mississippi, with tough vaccination rules, is the fattest state, new study shows. Also-tough West Virginia is number 3. Good health and lotsa shots don't necessarily go together.
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Murdoch shuts down News of the World paper, but only after the truth is dragged out by others. What else is a company that hacks the voice-mail of a missing girl capable of? Just wondering.
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Wise words from our UK Editor John Stone: The genetic model for autism is operating on a very expensive life support machine, with hundreds of completely useless gene scientists and psychiatrists threatened with well deserved loss of income and employment.
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Wikipedia bio: "Though most mainstream experts think autism is a genetic disorder and that reported increases are due to changes in diagnostic practices, Olmsted thinks the increases are due to environmental factors and that the genetics is mostly secondary." Yep.
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Pigs fly at The New York Times: "Autism Study Finds Link to Environment," says the article on Page 11A. Of course, they immediately call attention to "conditions in the womb," including anti-depressants.
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I just have to share this incredible story from one of my favorite new Web sites, fearlessrevolution.com. Scroll down and click on Accept the Invitation. It's about how a guy biking to work starts out by talking to another man on a bike at a red light and ends up a few minutes later sharing the final moments of a dying man as his "last new friend." If that sounds grim, it's not. We are all invited to share each other's lives in meaningful and unexpected ways and what matters is accepting the invitation.
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It's the first Fourth of July for the Canary Party -- independence from the self-dealing medical industry, and justice for all. Proud member since 2011.
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A Nightmare, from WTSP.com: "Largo, Florida - Police called out to a domestic disturbance Thursday say they were forced to shoot and kill an 18-year-old man armed with a knife. ..." He had Asperger's, WTSP reported.
My interview with Jon Rappaport on Progessive Radio Network included a question about the Canary Party. There's a lot of interest out there and a real chance to seize the moment and fight back. Let's do it!
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National Catholic Reporter says "California's Catholic bishops have urged Catholics in their state to contact lawmakers and ask them to vote against a bill removing parental rights to a teen vaccination against sexually transmitted diseases."
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$20 billion a year for air-conditioning in Afghanistan? Less than $1 billion over 5 years for autism? That's enough to make you hot under the collar no matter what the temperature.
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This is an absolute must-read from Joan Campbell: Here is my site which you will find all the vaccine injuries that have been sent to me. ... Please add your voice ... http://www.followingvaccinations.com/
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Farewell, Columbo. I started writing about Peter Falk's TV detective as a journalistic paragon way back in the 1970s. He taught me to put people in positions where the guilty and innocent act differently. Boy, do they!
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The Texas Tribune, via OneClick: "Children on Medicaid under the age of three would not be prescribed powerful anti-psychotic drugs without a special authorization," under new state rules. As my mother would say: Oh, joy!
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As the school year ends, I keep hearing reports that each year sees fewer autistic children, less severely affected, in early grades. Let's ask the CDC -- oh, wait, the latest figures we have are kids born in 1998!
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Department of Homeland Security wants to test anthrax vaccine on children. If you think that's a good idea, I have a cache of WMD's from Iraq I'd like to sell you.
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Gotta share Adriana's Facebook comment re Jake's post: "In fact, tobacco science probably should have been called 'vaccine science' since vax spinmeistering and victim blaming predated it. You have to read this."
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Call me simple-minded, but if I were looking for chemicals that caused autism, I'd start with the ones specially engineered to attack brains. You know, like, pesticides. Rinsing is good, but is it enough?
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USA Today calls vaccine link to autism a "myth" on front page, in big type. Inside, there's huge spread on nightmare of "preventable measles" epidemics. This is the conventional media wisdom now.
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Good for Doctors Without Borders (from cbs.com) for going after Bill Gates' $4 billion vaccine boondoggle: "But the initiative has its doubters. Daniel Berman, a vaccines expert at Doctors Without Borders, said it was exciting so much money had been pledged towards saving lives. But he questioned whether the millions of taxpayer dollars would be spent properly.
"Why are we lining the pockets of big pharma like this?" Berman asked. "That just screams conflict of interest and corporate welfare to us."
A 2009 study published in the journal "The Lancet" showed dozens of developing countries exaggerated figures on vaccination rates, allowing them to get more money from the alliance. Researchers said these countries immunized half as many children as they claimed.
Other experts warned that donating vaccines to countries with broken health systems might mean they just end up sitting in warehouses.
"We need to be mindful of the fact that investment in vaccines is not the magic answer to global health issues such as pneumonia and diarrhea," said Sophie Harman, a public health expert at City University in London. "Without proper funding commitments to health infrastructure...any investment in vaccines will be redundant."
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Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20070997-10391704.html#ixzz1PGA9PVpH
Our friend Barbara Mullarkey from Illinois copied us on this letter to the editor she wrote: Formaldehyde is finally listed as cancer-causing by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its 12th Report on Carcinogens which includes 240 listings.
This report neglects to mention 30 vaccines which contain formaldehyde, ranging from DTaP (diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, DT (diphtheria-tetanus) and influenza (flu) to Hib haemophilus b, HepA&B (hepatitis A & B), IPV (inactivated polio) and meningococcal. (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/b/excipient-table-1.pdf)
Is formaldehyde the reason many vaccine package inserts state:
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no evaluation for cancer-causing potential
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no animal reproduction studies”
Scientific expertise for the Report on Carcinogens came from Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For our children's sake, could government scientists assess safety of all vaccine ingredients like aluminum, fetal bovine serum, monosodium glutamate (MSG), phenol, sucrose, thimerosal (49.6% mercury) and yeast?
Parents deserve safety research of each vaccine ingredient, singly, combines in one vaccine and cumulatively in nine possible injected vaccines.
Could questionable ingredients, like formaldehyde, be the reason 11,938 (67.36%) Oak Parkers voted for full vaccine ingredient disclosure on November 2, 2010's advisory referendum?
From Barbara Alexander Mullarkey
President Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition
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Much-hyped Minnesota measles outbreak is declared over (23 cases, recovered). Much-ignored Minnesota autism epidemic is not. (Just ask the Somalis -- 1 in 28 kids, most disabled for life.)
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Gene-crazed Dr. Manny of Fox News writes: "As you all know, I deliver babies for a living, and also run one of the largest obstetrical units in country, so I get a lot of feedback from families whose children were delivered with autism." None so blind ...
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The other day I was watching the ABC evening news. They set up the lead story, about a tornado in Worcester, Mass., by asking whether tornadoes were suddenly attacking big cities, and whether they could even take down a skyscraper. It was a scary question -- asked relentlessly in the build-up to the show -- and watching that incredible video of the tornado sucking up river water and heading downtown, after a spring of violent outbreaks nationwide, it certainly seemed worth asking.
The answer, though, was a pretty quick no, and no. Tornadoes were not suddenly attacking cities -- if anything, urban sprawl was encroaching more and more into tornado territory, simply offering more land mass to be attacked (though this had nothing to do with an old central city like Worcester.) And no, a tornado wouldn't take down a skyscraper. It would break a lot of glass, but that would be it.
This is what journalism does a lot of these days -- ask a question that turns out not to be very interesting but goes well with spectacular video and a one-minute segment. The most dispiriting words on TV news these days are "We've been looking into this story all day," as if a whole day is a spectacular amount of time to devote to a topic and can be expected to deliver the truth.
To take a more serious case: Back when I was writing about how a malaria drug was causing soldiers to kill themselves and their wives, I remember Peter Jennings did the story on the Fort Bragg murder-suicides on the ABC evening news by posing the question: Is there something about the new War on Terror that was causing highly trained soldiers to become violent? Well, no, in fact, there wasn't -- Afghanistan happened to be a malarial country, and the drug the Army invented and rushed sloppily to market happened to create homicidal rage and suicidal ideation. The military and the CDC "investigated" (a/k/a covered up their own malfeasance), and the media bought their B.S. and never asked the really interesting question. They asked the obvious and wrong one, and then dropped it for the Next Big Thing.
There IS a really big and scary question that the media is failing to ask: Is there a new kind of tornado of chronic and developmental illness attacking America's children? (Shorter version: Why are so many children sick?) And, is this epidemic widespread and serious enough to damage an entire generation -- to, in effect, knock down a skyscraper?
The answer to these questions is yes, and yes -- in other words, it's a real a story. And a really scary one. Let's hope for some Film at 11.
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An obvious point (you would think!) about autism is that such a wide-spectrum disorder is unlikely to be solely genetic. A new study makes that point beautifully: "It cannot be disputed that genetics is likely to play an important role in the development of autism. However, it also appears unlikely that genetic features will take the form of common variants with large and independent main effects. And, in fact, among the genome-wide scans published to date, very few loci have reached genome-wide significance (and none has been replicated). Failed replication likely reflects a complex polygenetic and poly-environment web that contributes various traits to the autism spectrum, not necessarily through one sequential pathway." Thanks to Laurette Janak for pointing out the article, "On the Complex Relationship Between Genes and Environment in the Etiology of Autism," by Stephanie M. Engel and Julie L. Daniels, in the July issue of Epidemiology.
"It's an explosive story and we're covering it from every angle," Chris Matthews said of Weinergate. (Bulletin: 1 in 535 Congressmen misbehaves!) How about MSNBC covering autism from every angle, too?
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It is now 30 years since AIDS was first described, in a CDC weekly report. The commonalities with the autism epidemic are worth noting. This is not my idea but one expressed to me several years ago by a leading biomed doctor. She said autism was, at least in many of her patients, an acquired immune dysregulation syndrome, and she was concerned that, for some of them, it looked progressive and potentially fatal.
That is not a cheerful thought, and much can be done, has been done, and increasingly will be done to change that outlook, but horrendous GI disease, seizures, and "comorbid" autoimmune problems like asthma, diabetes, and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis are extremely dangerous and debilitating. On our book tour, I stayed with a family whose autistic child had an asthma attack and had to lay on the floor of the bathroom while his mother gave him medicine. He wheezed terribly in his sleep. One of the 11 children in Leo Kanner's original case series suffered severe seizures and died at 29 in his sleep. Another, Case 1, had a near-fatal attack of JRA when he was "going on 14." So nearly 20 percent of the first cases had life-threatening conditions before the age of 30. Others had feeding problems in infancy that amounted to failure-to-thrive and could have killed them.
This does not even get to the issues of wandering, drowning because of an affinity for water, etc. Also, like AIDS, autism is defined as a syndrome, and its spectrum of manifestations have obscured its common roots for far too long, allowed idiotic and harmful theories of causation to proliferate, and brought out the worst in government leaders and medical bureaucracies. Both epidemics have been perpetuated when they could and should have been contained.
And despite specious arguments to the contrary, both had a beginning in recent history; the eldest child in Kanner's series, Virginia S., was born in 1931 (the first year mercury was used in vaccines, not coincidentally). That effectively makes 2011 the 80th year of the age of autism, the span of just one lifetime. As with AIDS, that is quite recent -- and far too long.
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Weird: In E. coli outbreak, symptoms include neurological problems like seizures, coma and confusion. Yet it's an intestinal bug. A mind-gut connection? That's vaguely familiar ...
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Nice to wave buh-BYE to biased, retrograde NY Times mercury booster Bill Keller. On autism's cause, maybe Jill Abramson will be better (like Sotomayor and Ginsburg in Bruesewitz).
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Oh, never mind: "Pneumonia jabs for the over-65s are to be scrapped by the Government because they do not save lives," Britain's Daily Mail reports. (Thanks to One Click.)
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I'm in Chicago till Tuesday. This morning's Sun-Times has a letter to the editor on mercury exposure: "If the hundreds of people who turned out to a recent public hearing in Chicago was any indication, Illinoisians are very well aware of the threats posed by mercury, and they support the Environmental Protection agency taking action to correct the problem.
"Right now, coal-fired power plants are the singled largest source of mercury, arsenic and acid gases in the United States -- spewing thousands of pounds of mercury and other toxic air pollution every year. ...
"Fortunately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a clean-air standard to drastically cut mercury and other toxic air pollution from power plants.
"This rule will protect Illinois' kids -- and all Illinoisians -- from toxic mercury pollution from power plants.
"As Illinoisians, we should stand up for Illinois kids and support EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Rule."
Catherine Krasner, field organizer, Environment Illinois.
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It's great to see so many friends at Autism One.
@ Maurine
If FICO can predict who is going to comply with their doctors prescriptions .. then FICO can also predict which doctors and pediatricians are failing to comply with VAERS request to report all .. even suspected .. adverse events following vaccinations.
Since less than 10% of doctors reportedly comply as requested by VAERS .. a FICO system to monitor and repeatedly remind the 90% of doctors who don't .. they better begin doing so .. or .. else.
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | July 29, 2011 at 05:15 PM
Has anyone seen the new medical FICO system-now up and runnin? It will score you on how well you take your prescribed medicine, much like a credit card score.They say it will improve drug effectiveness and lower health care costs. HAHAHA.
I am really feeling sick. Maurine
first, I imagine the pharmacy will call to say you haven't got your refill yet and then the pill police will be knocking at your door.
Posted by: Maurine Meleck | July 29, 2011 at 08:56 AM
Media Scholar--
Right--so the lives "saved" by Varivax and the short-lived MMRV are a best-case scenario for the vaccines. I just meant: if we have half a billion dollars a year to spend, surely we can save more than 100 lives, or save lives without costing any.
How about a chauffeur for 1000 repeat DUI offenders? Surely that will save 100+ lives over the course of a year. Or perhaps free prep school tuition for the younger siblings of gang members? Or free housing + food for 1000 homeless people? You could do some real good with half a billion dollars a year, without giving autism to the son of bensmyson, or killing anyone.
The idea that Varivax is a success is a pretty hard sell. Chickenpox-related mortality just wasn't a problem prior to 1995, and trying to pretend that it was is hard, even for the Trib.
Posted by: Theresa O | July 27, 2011 at 11:37 PM
the Guardian, which calls us part of the "anti-vaccine brigade"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/jul/18/1
The dolly in the comments suggesting it was impossible for the Sunday Times to run so much so fast indicates to me he, she, or shim is in the wrong kind of publishing.
Posted by: Media Scholar | July 27, 2011 at 11:00 PM
Published in written parliamentary questions today: "Bob Published in written parliamentary questions today: Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will assess the adequacy of the police investigation into the activities commissioned by The Sunday Times of the freelance journalist Mr Brian Deer in relation to the acquisition of children's medical records and information from (a) the Royal Free Hospital and (b) other sources between 2003 and 2005."
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Bump.
Did you more appropriately mean [buried] in written parliamentary questions today:
Posted by: Media Scholar | July 27, 2011 at 10:10 PM
Theresa O.
Chicken Pox....
The validity of death reporting has to be suspect since so few states require Chicken Pox cases notification.
Introduce the vaccine and stop reporting the illness is the equivalent of the CDC telling states to stop dissecting their Swine Flu scamdemic. Or the US Senate telling the CDC to stop counting Autism in the middle of an epidemic of Autism.
Breakthrough cases, those caused by Varicella vaccine, for example, can be over-looked and/or obfuscated by either unintentional or deliberate means to keep the statistical success of the vaccine up.
How many Chicken Pox deaths were re-labeled as flu, flu-like illness, upper-respiratory illness etc. to protect the vaccine program?
And what about the costs involved in treating all the infantile febrile seizure cases caused by the MMRV. Who knows how many children that killed?
Posted by: Media Scholar | July 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Re: chickenpox... The absolute reduction in fatalities is infinitesimal, particularly when we're talking about a nation of 280 million people.
From the Chicago Tribune: "Yet the actual numbers of chicken pox-related deaths are small—about 105 deaths between 1990-94, compared with 14 deaths in 2007. The authors note that cutting down on sick days and medical expenses and care is 'the major benefit' of the program."
Given that the cost of a shot of Varivax is $67.08 (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/cdc-vac-price-list.htm) and that there are approximately 4,019,280 children born every year (data from 2002: http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aabirthrate.htm), the cost of the chickenpox vaccination program (for shots alone, not nurse / doctor costs) is nearly 270 MILLION DOLLARS per year. (Oh, and that's with only one dose per kid. Two doses have been recommended by the CDC since 2006, making the cost $540 million per year.)
Surely we can save more than 100 lives per year if we spend $270 million per year for more than a decade. How about buying a brand-new car with anti-lock brakes for selected at-risk families?
(Not to mention that I'm not sure what the confidence interval is for 105 as an expected number of deaths per year...)
Not to mention that the "medical care" I got when I had the chickenpox was a week of staying home from school and watching *I Love Lucy.* No money spent there! (I was thirteen, so my mom didn't even need to take the day off work.)
So where's the benefit? Pretty hard to find, for a program that has cost us around half a billion dollars a year since 2006.
Posted by: Theresa O | July 27, 2011 at 02:01 PM
New report shows deaths from chickenpox have plunged due to new vaccine. But for the sake of completeness, shouldn't there also be stats on the spike in shingles, which is painful and can kill? (And why doesn't Britain use it?)
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Most US states have policies against Chicken Pox as a reportable illness. It has nothing to do with the introduction of a Chicken Pox vaccine and everything to do with the fact cases of the illness are common and deaths are rare.
Look what happened in Ohio in 2006 some 11 years into the Chicken Pox vaccine program.
http://www.odh.ohio.gov/ASSETS/921FCAE98FE54AFBB96891501874ACFF/05_09.pdf
9502 cases. Wow! Call Sunday Times! Call Citizen Deer! Call Paul Offit! We had a sizzling Chicken Pox pandemic.
Posted by: Media Scholar | July 27, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Thanks Jen B and Bob for the mention and the link to Charles Richet's .. 1913.
It was a great read!
But I do not understand what he means at the end of his speech that anaphylaxis shock is important to protect the species as a whole, so it is best that these individuals do react and die.
Did he give a good speech and then at the end - just rambled and it was the best he could do to end his speech or was it some deep meaning that I could not catch on to?
Posted by: Benedetta | July 25, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Here is Charles Richet's .. 1913 .. Nobel Prize Award winning speech on "anaphlyaxis" .. wherein Richet clearly states that each individual inherits an immune system as unique to that individual .. as are their "fingerprints and DNA".
http://tinyurl.com/3eey7p
Aside from allergies caused by vaccine ingredients .. how about the equally ludicrious suggestion the reason children in the US suffer asthma in such great numbers .. is because "our homes are too clean". Apparently, the CDC would have us believe there would be far less asthma among American children if their "homes were dirtier".
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | July 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM
In Heather Fraser's "The History of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic," the research into causes of peanut allergy looks a lot like elaborate dancing around the bush, trying to find a way to minimize the allergies that WILL occur mainly from the one source that seems be held as essential, perhaps even more essential, than the breath of life itself.
The ignorance, if it is ignorance, that doesn't suspect vaccination in food allergies has to be trained or conditioned--at least that's as far as I can see. When I first read a comment that indicated that all the top food allergies also happened to be foods used in vaccine manufacturing, I wondered, but reading about Richet's research on anaphylaxis I realized allergy caused by injection is a fundamentally established principle, and in vaccination, it is also often an adjuvanted principle.
Is anaphylaxis too established or too fundamental to really be taught in medical school?
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop | July 23, 2011 at 11:56 PM
I wonder if it's would be worthwhile for someone to submit all these situations where Deer is clearly violating laws to some of the lawyers who are questioning the Murdochs? Maybe those lawyers would be happy to have more ammunition against Murdoch (who would do his best to blame Deere, but it doesn't matter who gets blamed, Deer or Murdoch, as long as everyone finally understands that Deere's work was bogus, not to mention criminal.
Seems to me, this is the best possible moment; it will not get any better.
Posted by: Taximom | July 23, 2011 at 03:30 PM
http://www.realtor.com/property-detail/777-Vedado-Way-NE_Atlanta_GA_30308_e5e74403?source=web
777 Vedado Way, NE Atlanta 30308
Propery Details from Realtor.com
Posted by: Realtor | July 20, 2011 at 04:32 AM
Where is Brian Deer now, why isn't he being interviewed on Fox News now to help clarify how he obtained records of the children in the MMr study?
Posted by: victor pavlovic | July 19, 2011 at 02:52 PM
Taximom (and Jake): I posted the comment (below) a while ago on one of John Stone's articles... Maybe someone can complain to ICANN about Mr. Deer (although I'm not sure what good it would do).
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Doing a bit more digging into Brian Deer's internet registry of his webpage, it appears that he has a bogus phone number posted (212-212-2121), so the Vedado Way address is probably bull****, too. Maybe he was visiting the CDC and copied down a random address from the neighborhood and used it on his registry.
It might interest you to know that this posting of incorrect information is in violation of the law: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/advisory-10may02.htm
In fact, ICANN does "Require registrants to agree that willfully submitting inaccurate contact details (or failing to respond within 15 days to an inquiry regarding accuracy) shall be a basis for cancellation of the registration"
Maybe it's time for some intrepid reporter to contact ICANN and get that information corrected ;-)
http://wdprs.internic.net/
Posted by: Theresa O | July 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Media Scholar, please let Jake Crosby know what you have observed about Deer's website being registered in Atlanta, in the neighborhood of the CDC.
That really is very interesting. Why would Deer--who has always lived in the UK--register his website in the US at all, let alone in the neighborhood of the CDC?
Jake? Jake, have you seen this?!
Posted by: Taximom | July 19, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Wow! I'm not used to learning something new about vaccines and vaccine related issues from the media lately (excluding AoA of course). Is that Salem-News story, "Murdoch and Vaccines" on the right "IN THE NEWS" column actual MSM reporting or is it kind of like reading Harry Potter's interview about the night Cedric Diggory died and Voldemort returns in "The Quibbler?"
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop | July 17, 2011 at 11:56 PM
I just read that Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by the police and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has resigned.
Hopefully .. it will only be a matter of time before GlaxoSmithKline throws James Murdoch from their corrupt sleigh .. in a desperate attempt to avoid the hungary wolves snapping at their heels.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | July 17, 2011 at 06:07 PM
Yes, and it is indeed curious that Deer’s website has apparently been registered at 777 Vedado Way, NE Atlanta 30308, in the neighbourhood of the Centers for Disease Control since 1 June 2000
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Are your suspicions bigger than a bread box?
Posted by: Media Scholar | July 17, 2011 at 04:40 PM
Perhaps someone in a suddenly energized, hopefully now vigilant media .. will finally investigate the curious events that allowed Brian Deer to successfully discredit and destroy the professional career and reputation of Dr. Andrew Wakefield?
It ought not be that hard to determine if Mr. Deer's original 2004 "investigation" was instigated by a Sunday Times editor who told him that he needed "something big on the MMR shot".
Or .. the odd coincidental timing .. six days after James Murdoch's appointment in February 2009 as non-executive director of MMR manufacturer Glax0SmithKline ... the Sunday Times unleashing a new load of flawed allegations against Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer, followed by overkill columns in the Times of London by David Aaronovitch.
Perhaps the investigation can begin by questioning how Mr. Deer came to possess private medical records of Dr. Wakefield's patients .. when Dr. Wakefield himself did not have access to them?
Trust me .. there is no greater urgency .. in the US or the UK .. than investigating whether the media, politicians and public health officials may have conspired to corrupt the PUBLIC HEALTH.
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | July 16, 2011 at 08:10 AM
The Times says, "environment may be as important as genes." It might be funny to guess some other headlines in the near future, like, "The monkey study wasn't so far off the money," or "hep b shots for babies may not be as important as previously thought, based on new data," etc. etc. Oh the'y're coming. Trust.
Posted by: Jen | July 15, 2011 at 04:32 PM
This evening, as part of the revelations of newspapers hacking into private phones, Gordon Brown has said he is 'shocked' that the media illegally got hold of his children's medical records.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14112097
He has clearly known about it ever since the stories on his children were published years ago, but was too intimidated by the press to confront them despite being a government leader.
Is it any wonder Brian Deer has never been investigated for divulging confidential patient information?
Posted by: GH | July 11, 2011 at 06:33 PM
Thanks, Bayareamom.
Posted by: Twyla | July 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM
Is "Vaccination News" page blocked by vaccine terrorists from pharma?
When I try to open this web site, I get a blank page. I wonder if other people get the same and I worry that this page has been blocked by the depopulation by vaccination agencies. Any info?
Posted by: veritas | July 11, 2011 at 09:23 AM
Re: Autism Speaks Official Blog (sometimes I wish I didn't tend to acronymize things in my mind)
"Get with it!" seems to be the ongoing message they are not getting (but changing the blog title wouldn't be my first recommendation, nor the 2nd, nor the 3rd...though it would be on my list).
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop (JenB) | July 10, 2011 at 01:32 AM
Thank you, Bayareamom, and all, for this information. I'm aiming to raise one daughter healthier in young adulthood than I was, and one, if not more, at least as well. I still have a ways to go, so thanks very much for the help.
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop (JenB) | July 10, 2011 at 01:06 AM
Twyla,
In California, the Director of the California Department of Health DOES have the authority to exclude exempted students (those of whom use their philosophical exemptions and/or their medical exemptions), in the case of an outbreak. State law gives him the authority to do so.
Given the above, it is not up to local school district officials to determine when or if, exempted students are sent home. If you are aware of some parents being told by local school district officials that their students need to be sent home during an outbreak, those parents should contact the state public health department to determine when/if their students may be sent home, when there is an outbreak.
Posted by: Bayareamom | July 09, 2011 at 03:41 PM
Bayareamom -
Something I have heard of lately that concerns me is that apparently some schools are telling parents to agree that their child be kept out of school in the event of an outbreak of vaccine-preventable disease for which the student is not vaccinated. Is that legal?
Posted by: Twyla | July 09, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Jeanette,
I am the California State Director for the National Vaccine Information Center. Unfortunately, there are no regulatory provisions within our vaccine statute which requires school district official to outright inform parents as to their right to the use of either our medical exemption (if valid), or our philosophical exemption. However, the law does state that should any parent 'know' to ask about their right to the use of our exemptions, said school official is to inform the parent about any exemption information. Also, parents in California may also write a 'letter of statement,' simply stating they are philosophically opposed to vaccinations - date and sign the letter and make sure it is placed within their student's school records.
Also, no where within our statute does it state that parents may be intimidated, coerced or otherwise intimidated, into ANY VACCINE MANDATE, including this most recent pertussis booster mandate. California's exemption process was NEVER intended to be an adversarial process, but I have found that many California school district officials are not either aware of our statute which allows for these two exemptions, and/or they inject their own bias into the process and create their own 'policies,' in lieu of following the law.
Posted by: Bayareamom | July 08, 2011 at 11:44 PM
Re Mississippi's obesity rates:
I'm pretty much a couch potato here, not exactly an overweight one, but I don't think I get much out of what I eat in general, storage or otherwise, and I'm always hungry. My daughter with ASD doesn't know when to stop eating either, and has to be monitored, unless she manages to go beyond the time for a meal without eating and that's when she seems to forget about food.
It bothers me that being fat is treated so much as a willpower issue, and now a poor parenting issue with the obesity epidemic, and also blamed for the health conditions that seem to be linked, when it could be they are co-morbid issues with the cause(s) actually not getting attention. I've watched a very active family member undergo what seems to be an irreversible metabolic change and huge weight gain on one "anti" depressant. She's still active, now off that particular "medication," but no weight loss, and now the industry still makes money off of "helping" her even more, paid for in great part by the diminishing number of "serfs" still healthy enough to work and able to pay taxes.
How many other iatrogenic sources are also involved in the obesity epidemic and therefore probably also causing much of the associated health problems? Adjuvanted thimerosal seems to be at least one good suspect for research.
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop (JenB) | July 08, 2011 at 01:55 PM
I heard the report of which was the fattest in the nation and it was Miss.
I have a sister-in-law living down there she has two twins with autism, another son with bipolar.
She has a friend that has five kids all with serious problems including a daughter with mild autism. Small world or a lot of 'em?
Is it so hard to figure that vaccines injuried kids problems have been linked to acqirued mitrochondria cytopathy (fansy name for metabolism problems); with all the talk over the years of metabolism - a good one and you are thin, and a bad one and you are fat. This is not a far stretch. The first lady has made obesity her project - well stop talking about changing the food pyramid to a sections on a plate and really do something about the vaccins.
Posted by: Benedetta | July 08, 2011 at 08:01 AM
Jeannette, if you or another close family member have had a documented reaction to a vaccine, I would think you might be able to get the doctor who documented that reaction to sign off on an exemption.
Vaccines have NEVER been tested on people with family history of high risk for vaccine reaction; those people are always excluded from safety studies.
Posted by: Taximom | July 05, 2011 at 06:56 PM
JenB, I sure shared you twisted stomach feeling, when, a couple of months ago I was asked to accompany the special needs kids for their shots at school. It was MMR boosters and Gardasil (an especially tough sell for me!). My "A" who has autism was especially frightened of the shot. Honestly, it seemed that he just had a bad feeling for the whole idea of it, not just that it would be a prick of a needle. He questioned needing it and even looked at the form and wanted to see the signature of his parent- he thought she signed the refusal portion but in fact, she had given permission. I felt sick to my stomach, wondering if this was why he struggles with so many sensory and some cognitive issues. I tried to reassure him and then went to the teacher and told her she could ask me to do anything but that and I had to leave. I wanted to ask the nurses what they knew about vaccine "safety" studies but just left and felt utterly helpless.
Posted by: Jen | July 05, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Donna L.,
Thanks also. The religion I belong to is rather supportive of vaccination publicly, though probably not supportive of injuring the vulnerable, but that's what medical exemptions are for right? The on-paper existence of these exemptions seems to be mainly to lull most into complacency. Sometimes it feels like we have to stay in this state, and pray they don't remove the philosophical exemption and that we can avoid any individuals with a know-better-than-you-how-to-care-for-your-child mindset.
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop (JenB) | July 02, 2011 at 06:30 PM
JenB,
We had a medical exemption written by our doctor for my son, and the school nurse sent it to the Public Health Dept. (Illionios) and it was refused/declined. In the mountain of paperwork I received from the Health Dept., you basically would have to prove that your child had had a life-threatening reaction to each and every vaccine which you were refusing. I wrote up a religious exemption instead, and the school and Health Dept. accepted that.
If you can listen to any of Dr. Mayer Eisenstein's archived talks on writing exemption letters, they are very helpful. He also discusses the difficulties with obtaining medical exemptions.
Posted by: Donna L. | July 02, 2011 at 09:52 AM
Taximom,
Thanks. I can't say the daughter in question ever had a vaccine reaction. I'm not even sure I could convince most peds that my daughter on the spectrum suffered vaccine reactions with the multiple, rather subtle, regressions that she underwent. Do you know if family history is ever used as a reason for a medical exemption?
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop (JenB) | July 02, 2011 at 12:21 AM
Jeannette, see if you can find a pediatrician to give your daughter a medical exemption, BEFORE they do away with philosophical exemptions. If she has ever had a reaction to a vaccine, she has a legitimate medical reason to avoid further vaccines.
Posted by: Taximom | July 01, 2011 at 05:29 PM
I want to comment re the California law that is sailing through our state legislature, but ... words fail...
And then today, my daughters and I spent about an hour while enrolling one of them in a summer high school program listening to repeated phone calls to parents telling them their child "cannot come in after Monday" if they have not had the Tdap booster ...
I was wondering if this was going to be a complication for daughter to make up some important classes, particularly when the person we were meeting with just said that to someone on the phone before asking my daughter if she had gotten "her Tdap." I said she has a philosophical exemption on file and immediately get something like "oh, well that's ok then"...on with business... it actually also made me a little angry that was it. I don't know, maybe it made me angry that I had to sit there with a twisted stomach anyhow, particularly knowing what so many children they are now struggling to teach are dealing with probably caused by or contributed to by vaccine exposures and knowing how little we know about whether such a campaign will have any honest positive effect on whooping cough rates or adverse outcomes.
I do not like the way I had to learn about vaccine adverse effects. I wonder if the school system would act as diligently to help healthcare agencies provide informed consent as required by law on vaccine adverse affects...
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop (JenB) | June 29, 2011 at 07:57 PM
Jake
Yes, and now, of course, they are pulling the funding from UC Davis to look into these matters.
http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-the-national-institutes-of-health-54-of-american-children-suffer-from-chronic-heal.html
John
Posted by: John Stone | June 24, 2011 at 07:43 AM
I have suspected for a long time that public health officials deliberately created at least a three year time lapse between issuing their reports on autism statistics .. to put some distance between the removal of thimerosal and any decrease that followed.
In my opinion .. since the day of the now infamous Simpsonwood meeting .. public health officials have engaged in a long term strategy to avoid any responsibility for their unconscionable failure to calculate the dangerous amount of mercury they exposed the children born in or around 1999.
Should rates continue to decrease each school year .. trust me .. public health officials will NEVER admit the decrease is due to the removal of thimerosal .. instead .. they will claim credit for "better diagnosing and early intervention".
It is an old strategy .. proven highly successful over decades .. think Agent Orange .. DELAY, DENY AND HOPE THEY DIE.
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | June 24, 2011 at 06:34 AM
This is what is going on where I live. As a matter of fact, this year the last group and the largest group of severly affected autistic children left elementary school. The middle schools are completely unprepated for this group of children. They are scrambling around trying to set up six new classrooms in the middle school. I've had two well placed people in special ed confess to me that the 12 year olds are the real wave of severe autism. They could no longer keep the secret that they have NO middle school classrooms for 52 new middle schoolers. The year prior only 3 autistic children entered middle school and were hidden away in a special education school. So, several autistic children sit without any middle school classrooms for next year. 1999 was a bad year to be born.
Posted by: Mary | June 22, 2011 at 05:22 PM
John Jones,
I have no idea why you addressed a post to me, but I'll bite:
I have a friend who suffered a severe concussion from an automobile accident. She and I are certainly comparing the person she is today (migraines, vestibular problems, vision problems, auditory processing disorder, exhaustion (probably due to sleeping problems), and worst of all, cognitive problems) with the person she was before the accident (active, energetic, intelligent). We don't think that there is "another person inside." We realize that the accident caused brain damage, and drastically changed her. She and I both hope that she will return to "her normal self." As she is an adult, she is certainly aware that she is not currently "her normal self," and that the accident caused brain damage.
Clearly, she is impaired. Are you suggesting that she has no right to compare herself to how she was before the accident, when she was NOT impaired? Are you suggesting that she should consider that her identity is ONLY who she is now that she is impaired, and that she should not make every effort to conquer those impairments?
Obviously, she should make every effort to recover.
It's the same for those children whose autism was caused by vaccine-induced brain damage. Their parents can and SHOULD make every effort to recover them.
Oh--you didn't know vaccines could cause brain damage? There are 1400 cases of vaccine-induced brain damage that were admitted and compensated by "Vaccine Court." A majority of those cases of vaccine-induced brain damage include autism.
Posted by: Taximom | June 21, 2011 at 04:53 PM
I want to hope that despite continual efforts to push the envelope of goes with vaccination, that the public at least has reached it's limit and the health authorities will have to catch on, but sometimes it seems like they have a really absurd vaccine in use, like Hep B at birth, to make the rest seem more benign by comparison. Anthrax vax for children? Are they trying to make the Hep B vaccine look good?
Posted by: JenB | June 21, 2011 at 03:44 PM
Any health official who thinks testing Anthrax vax on children is a good idea should be required to read "Vaccine A" by Gary Matsumoto. To create "contingency" plans that would allow them to "test" the vaccine in an "emergency" situation presents a too-tempting pretext for such an emergency to suddenly arise. It's straight out of the DOD playbook used in the Gulf Wars. As Matsumoto's book pointed out, the anthrax vax is weak and ineffective, requiring multiple doses over time with strong adjuvants (aluminum or squalene) to generate immunity. It led to many autoimmune disorders in healthy grown men. It is not geared toward being useful in an emergency situation; if there were a real emergency, rapid treatment with antibiotics would be the only recourse. Our children shouldn't be made conscripts in a military experiment.
Posted by: Garbo | June 21, 2011 at 01:54 PM
I read John Jones comment last night and I started to ask him to restate what he said because me being unsophiscated, back country, hillbilly did not understand.
But I see that John Stone was not sure either, so maybe John Jones also has a communication problem?
Posted by: Benedetta | June 21, 2011 at 09:55 AM
John Jones
Still playing logical/semantic games? OK, I thought (wishing to set aside the issue of causality) that "impairment" was fairly neutral, but if you don't like it try "deficits". I notice you do not have any difficulty with the concept "learning difficulty". Nor, presumably is it politically incorrect to try and help people with "learning difficulties" to overcome them as best they can.
Anyhow, I would point out that you are only splitting hairs and that you are infact making a different point from the one one you started out with. To say someone has an impairment does not predicate that there is some alternative person inside - straw argument - only that they may in some way be in need of special care and attention. Of course, if you are maintaining a different ideological standpoint that in no cases are such deficits the result of damage, I don't know how you know, and I don't know why you didn't say so before.
Posted by: John Stone | June 20, 2011 at 09:46 PM
Taximom 5,
Autists declare that there is a more real, better person inside when they declare that the "autistic" are impaired. Impairment is a comparison, but people are who they are, identity is independent of any comparison. We can qualify a person, but once we start qualifying, or making value judgements on who they are, then the comparison is ours. It is not a property of the person compaired. But a comparison with what, or who? The comparison in this case is made between who the person is, and the better person who we believe they ought to be.
Trying to single certain people out by talking about causes for who they are is irrelevant, for if we believe that brain "causes" mind then we can't single anyone out.
We construct a spurious causal relationship between what are mere synonyms or definitions when we say 'autistic people have difficulty communicating' - there are not two things here - autism and communication difficulties, there is only one thing - communication difficulty.
And that is all we are entitled to say about certain people - that we have communication difficulties with them. Anything else, any quasi-physical, chamaeleonic addition like "autism", comes after that fact. A person's identity provides the ground for talking about comparisons like "impairment". Identity isn't itself a comparison, like "impaired".
If we want to improve future lives, then we mustn't lose our concept of an individual's autonomy and its independence from comparitive judgements like "impairment".
Posted by: John Jones | June 20, 2011 at 07:41 PM
WRT anthrax vaccines for children, a Geier study has found an abnormally high rate of joint problems in recipients, which the DoD have acknowledged (and dismissed as unimportant). There are currently 1212 VAERS reports of arthritis or arthralgia or joint pain, from about two million vaccinated with at least some of the series of five shots, which, using the rule of thumb of less than 10% of adverse events being reported to VAERS, suggests a rate of at least 0.5% in anthrax vaccine recipients.
Most of those recipients are young adults in their physical prime, goodness knows what it would do to children.
Posted by: GH | June 20, 2011 at 04:26 PM
I've seen many posts here about cartoons showing measles as a normal nuisance of a disease. I thought someone might be able to find the episode from the US TV series, "E.R.," which shows a mother bringing a severely ill child in with measles. The mother admits that she did not vax the child because she was worried about the risk of autism, the doctors sneer at this ridiculous belief of hers, and, of course the child dies, and the mother's stupidity is blamed.
The clear point of this episode is to spread vaccine propaganda. The implication is that every unvaxed child will eventually catch measles, that absolutely every child exposed to measles will obviously die from it, and that measles is a disease that will kill all who are not vaccinated for it.
I vaguely recall a similar theme on a "Law & Order" episode, where a mother was convicted of wrongful death for not vaccinating her child.
Indoctrination starts with cartoons aimed at kids, but continues with fear-mongering aimed at adults, disguised as entertainment.
Posted by: Taximom5 | June 20, 2011 at 08:21 AM
John Jones
It is fairly obvious that textbook autism is a sub-category of cognitive impairment - it doesn't predicate that there is someone else inside. The problem is not that such impairements don't exist but that they are only defined in a circular way. It says nothing about cause, related health problems, possible recovery or alleviation of symptoms, useful adaptations of environment.
Also, although certain kinds of facilitated communication may be controversial (and off-textbook), autistic people often have difficulties communicating and expressing themselves, it does not mean they have nothing to communicate or express.
Although plenty of people are disatisfied with official resolution of what autism is and how it is defined, to pretend that there isn't a problem is just playing semantic games.
Posted by: John Stone | June 20, 2011 at 06:58 AM
My immediate instinct is to say that there is no such thing as autism - but I can't even find a coherent description of "it".
I worked with people with learning difficulties for 7 years. Only once did I ever hear the word "autism" used, and it made no more sense then as it does now.
Think about it. The selective belief that there is a real, better person inside someone else - which is what the autist cult believes in, is demeaning, an outrage against the person.
Posted by: John Jones | June 20, 2011 at 05:48 AM
It has to be much more complicated than brain damaging chemicals. You have to look for the elaborate gene mutating mechanisms responsible for a condition that we are sure has always been with us at the current rate, whatever that is, that we are now so skilled at identifying, even though we only just named it less than a century ago and until recently most didn't know what it was and many still don't even though at least one study suggests a 2.5% prevalence. A gene-based mechanism that evades natural deselection despite it's tendency to attack the brain, particularly the abilities to speak, interact, process sensory input, and remain calm under such stress, and also despite it's associated doubled risk of death as a youth in the developed world alone. We're not sure about the life expectancy of adults with this condition because we are having trouble finding as many, but now that we're identifying it so well in our young we will be able to track and hopefully find ways to improve their quality of life, which so many adults on the spectrum must now be mutely lacking, because there is so much more demand from parents for services for autism than there used to be now that we know autism is at least as prevalent as 1 to 2, or maybe even 3 percent of the population.
Posted by: JenB | June 16, 2011 at 03:31 PM
Autism dad in Pa - I wondered the same thing when I saw the canary quote.
Posted by: Alison MacNeil | June 16, 2011 at 01:33 PM
From the USA Today article on vaccines, that you'll all find ironic:
"Measles can be like a canary in a coal mine," says the CDC's Gregory Wallace. "If there are any issues with vaccine coverage, it can first be apparent with measles."
I wonder whether the usage of this phrase was intentional.
Posted by: AutismDad in PA | June 15, 2011 at 06:00 PM
Yeah, last time I checked,clean water and basic nutrition were pretty important in fighting disease.
Posted by: Jen | June 14, 2011 at 08:50 PM
Barbara is right on target. Every column I have read that reported the HHS pronouncement that formaldehyde may be responsible for certain cancers .. contained dire warnings about everyday exposures to products containing formaldehyde that we breathe, eat or touch. Not one of the many articles I read dared mention that formaldehyde is commonly found in many childhood vaccines.
At the very least .. (wink - wink).. perhaps the HHS should mandate that vaccine manufacturers educate manufacturers of unsafe products containing formaldehyde that we breathe, eat or touch .. the miracle process THEY have used for decades to make formaldehyde safe enough to inject directly into the veins of children.
One can only wonder if the majority of the Supreme Court considers "formaldehyde" laced vaccines "unavoidable"?
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | June 14, 2011 at 06:33 AM
Dan,
I cannot find a figure for measles deaths in the U.S. for this past year or any recent year. Is that because it's extremely low - or zero?
Seth Mnookin sends twitters for all new measles cases in the U.S. I don't think he'll be sending a twitter announcing the recoveries of all 23 cases in MN.
Posted by: tweet tweet | June 13, 2011 at 03:23 PM
Benedetta,
You can try to email Dr. Manny, but I doubt you will get a response. He was on with Alisyn Camerota one weekend, so I emailed him asking if they were going to look into vaccines and environment as being a tipping point. I told him about a mom I know who has 4 children and the only child who is neurotypical is the one she didn't vaccinate; Or the father of a girl with Autism, who told me of his daughter's seizure an hour after the MMR and how she didn't speak for 2+ years after that vaccination.
One of the instructors at my daughter's special needs gymnastics class told me of all the autism children in her classes only one parent she asked did not believe vaccines played a role in their child's Autism.
I just had a mom at a family birthday party ask me how my child was doing and telling me how her daughter gets a lump at the injection site that lasts 2-3 days after every vaccination and how her daughter even threw up after one.
I recently changed pediatricians because of a disagreement over wanting to run titers on my 12 year old son before the tetanus booster. My pediatrician told me it was endangering children and unnecessarily costing insurance companies for additional blood draws. My new pediatrician told me she would like to run titers on whooping cough as well (I agreed happy she was willing to run the titers at all) and it turns out he is still immune to tetanus and pertussis!! And my insurance covered the titers (which surprised me.) It is stunning how some of the doctors are. My old pediatrician really disappointed me. He refused to have an open mind and I was right to question the vaccination procedure.
Posted by: Sandy Lopriore | June 12, 2011 at 09:59 AM
Somebody please put up an email address to Dr. Manny;
I need to ask him how come this genetic mutation is increasing?
I also wanted to ask him; since I actually witnessed my son having a stroke after his DPT shot and then when he entered school they wasted no time telling me he was PDD-NOS autism - Coincidence I guess. That our family actually has a vaccine reaction while all the rest you and the 1 out of 110 are gentic mutations weaklings? - or maybe this is the beginning of a whole new genome - Oh, the X men. Does any of your kids out there look blue and has wings.
Posted by: Benedetta | June 11, 2011 at 03:54 PM
Oh gosh! I am with you on the vaccines, I am a Canary, I really am, but the coal fire plants, I am not with you.
Coal fire plants have scrubbers in their chimneys that take out everything except carbon dioxide, the same stuff we breath out. It cost the coal fire electric companies - millions. There is little more that they can do. They do have problems with cinder and soot. They store cinders in ponds to wet them down so the wind will not blow them away. The only problems that occurred that I have every heard of happened about - Three years ago. Down in Tenn. The pond damns broke and ruined the people's home living down stream. The electric company charged us (We are part of that co-op) but each one of us, in the whole, huge area -we are way up in Kentucky two hours from the Tenn border. were charge an 100 dollars for every electric meter we owned. One neighbor couldn't get over the unfairness of that bill because in addition to his house he had a meter in his barn with just a single light bulb hooked up to it, but he still had to pay out 100 dollars.
Posted by: Benedetta | June 10, 2011 at 04:15 PM
Just a question: If autism has been proved to be genetic, as Roy Grinker states in supporting the Korean study, then why were the Korean children "diagnosed" with a questionnaire and not a blood test? Oh, that's right, it's because nobody's proven that autism is genetic. Sheesh.
Posted by: Stupid Lives | June 10, 2011 at 04:10 PM
Another similarity may be the underlying lies of the government and supposedly eminent scientists regarding the causes of both "epidemics."
See: http://www.sparks-of-light.org/Letter%20to%20Science-extrasigs1.pdf
Who can tell what is (science) truth, and what is (science) fiction, anymore?
Posted by: Truthseeker | June 06, 2011 at 09:58 AM
Regarding "Illinoisians are very well aware of the threats posed by mercury, and they support the Environmental Protection agency taking action to correct the problem."
Is this the very same EPA that wasted little time in assuring New York residents and rescue workers that the area surrounding ground zero was safe. The same EPA that former Administrator Christine Todd Whitman .. wearing a yellow hard hat .. using a bull-horn said: "Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, DC that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink."²
Let's hope and pray Illinoisians get better environmental protection than did those courageous ground zero volunteer workers .. many of them now reporting all kinds of serious medical problems thought to be directly responsible by the toxic elements they were exposed to.
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | June 01, 2011 at 06:02 AM
Great to see you too, Dan. Congrats on your -- our -- new party. Chirp chirp!
Posted by: Dan E. Burns - SavingBenBook.com | May 29, 2011 at 11:30 PM