Anne,

Paul Thomas is an Oregon Pediatrician who testified before the Oregon Senate Committee on Healthcare, on Bill SB22. He stated, in part: "that in his practice he currently has over 1000 kids at least 3 years old, and there are no new cases of autism, while nationally, his peers in pediatric care are seeing 1 out of 50 children on the autism spectrum." He uses a modified vaccination schedule, tailored to each child.

Now, there are "91,915 physicians in the US (as of 2011) who identified themselves as a pediatrician, pediatric medical subspecialist, pediatric surgical specialist, or other pediatric-focused physician." Does anyone believe Dr. Thomas is the only Pediatrician in this group who keeps records of vaccinations and any symptoms that follow? If, as alleged by Dr. Thompson (CDC), the CDC study actually showed substantially higher risks for autism from the MMR vaccine (for specific timing intervals) for two sub-groups (African-American, Isolated Autism), wouldn't these effects show up in the records of a Pediatrician with a substantial practice who follows the recommended CDC schedule, or part of a group practice?

Anne, you don't need to 'ask the Doctors'; the Doctors have spoken! By their collective silence, they have expressed their priorities. Congress has spoken; the mainstream media have spoken; the Federal 'health' bureaucracy has spoken; the Pharmaceutical companies have spoken. All the above, and associated stakeholders, have spoken. You may not like the message, but they have conveyed it loud and clear.

Whoever becomes President would face strong resistance from the vast majority of the above groups for any change related to vaccinations. I see no chance of ANY President promoting an agenda with such unified opposition. The President could not even use the 'bully pulpit' to alter vaccine recommendations unless the Directors of the CDC, FDA, NIH, etc, were squarely behind him/her. They would have to be the spokespeople for any altered recommendations; none of the present MAJOR candidates would have the medical credibility to convince the American people. How would potential Directors of the FDA and NIH ever get confirmed by the Senate if they had such alternative views on vaccination?

Finally, to return to Dr. Thomas. His allegation that his modified recommendations/schedule does not result in autism should not be interpreted that vaccines are safe. There are myriad diseases and symptoms that can result from vaccines; autism is allegedly only one of many. And, the long-term effects of these vaccines have had minimal research. As I have shown in some postings, there are studies in the biomedical literature showing intermediate adverse effects of vaccines (a few years out), but almost nothing truly long-term. And, even of these few studies, how many have been manipulated similar to how the CDC study was allegedly manipulated? The short and long-term safety of vaccines has not been demonstrated, and until adequate independent objective research has been performed to ascertain the level of safety, we are presently conducting a massive unjustified global experiment with our health.

@Linda1

You really ought not have to be a "queen" .. to demand the .. "common sense" .. examination of the consequences of receiving a vaccine ..

All anyone .. most especially .. well qualified .. CDC and FDA "scientists" .. would have to do .. is conduct a "RETROSPECTIVE" study of anyone .. under the age of six .. who was diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disorder .. autism, allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile type 1 diabetes .. on and on ... to ascertain if there was a "significant increase" in chronic autoimmune disorders of those fully vaccinated .. under six years of age ... toddlers?

Instead .. these 'well paid" .. scientific "charlatans" .. insist they cannot conduct "prospective" study .. comparing "vaccinated to unvaccinated" children .. because it would be "unethical" to "deny" children vaccinations in order to "create" the "unvaccinated" children they need to conduct the study.

AND THE BAND PLAYS ON AND ON .. AND .. ON ....

Hey y'all, just saw this on Google news: Thomas Insel is going to work for Google. Is this great news or what?!!! (that he'll no longer be over the IACC, presumably)

Speaking of whistleblowers, you might want to jump over to HuffPo to read the horrific story of how Risperdal came to be a (disastrous) first line treatment for autism.

That's actually a great idea to ask more and more of these pharma mouthpieces their opinion on some of these things because they won't really even want to answer or want anything on record due to how stupid they'll look etc.

On you go guy's phone congress if that's all you do this week ,that's superb, brilliant. It affects America first then what happens in America affects the world..we owe ya!

Thanks

MMR RIP