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Here’s some information on the authors of the last thimerosal study, Weight of Evidence Against Thimerosal Causing Neuropsychological Deficits” which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Is this what you mean by independent studies JWW?

* Dr. Thompson - the lead investigator - is a former employee of Merck.

* Dr. Marcy has received consulting fees from Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, and MedImmune.

* Dr. Jackson received grant money from Wyeth, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis. He received lecture fees from Sanofi Pasteur and consulting fees from Wyeth and Abbott. Currently, he is a consultant to the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

* Dr. Lieu is a consultant to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

* Dr. Black receives consulting fees from MedImmune, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Merck, and grant support from MedImmune, GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis, Merck, and Novartis.

* Dr. Davis receives consulting fees from Merck and grant support from Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

The article then states, “No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.” One must wonder if it might have been easier to identify the authors that didn’t have a conflict of interest?

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10997#description

“The committee reviewed the extant published and unpublished epidemiological studies regarding causality and studies of potential biologic mechanisms by which these immunizations might cause autism. Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism finds that the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.”

But I already know what Maggy will have to say, the National Academy of Sciences is one of “them” the vast evil conspiracy of big pharama, the evil CDC, FDA, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, etc. all teaming up, constantly plotting on how to poison us with toxins.
Seriously folks, we cannot have delusional antiscience paranoid conspiracy theorists like Kennedy heading up our EPA, we can and must do better. It’s not so much that these individuals like Maggy or Kennedy reject the findings of CDC, the National Academy of Sciences, etc. They are akin to creationists and simply reject science in toto. Any organization, any study, any data regardless of the institution that show the safety and efficacy of vaccines are summarily rejected by these antivax ideologues.

Autism is simply a term from the psychiatric DSM-IV manual. It’s nothing but a smokescreen. It provides an alibi for the drug companies who added mercury to vaccines at levels 250 times higher than hazardous waste levels (based on toxicity characteristics). It provides an alibi for the CDC, FDA, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the other drug company cronies who are responsible for the safety of our children. It provides an alibi for the people who administered this poison. It provides an alibi for health insurance companies so they don’t have to pay for treatment for these sick kids. It provides an alibi for psychiatrists so they can force powerfull anti-psychotic drugs on these kids who are already terribly confused.

There will never be an identifiable cause for autism. There are though 12 published papers which identify the underlying medical condition of autism as neuroinflammatory disease. My favorite is “Neuroglial activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Autism”. Now, do you want to debate whether mercury, a known neurotoxin, added to childhood vaccines at levels 250 times higher than what the EPA identifies as hazardous waste, causes degenerative, neuroinflammatory disease? Do you want to debate whether brain damaged kids behave in a way so that some psychiatrist can label them as somewhere on the “spectrum”?

JJW, yes the psychiatrist’s are the ones holding our children hostage. Why? It’s quite obvious.

Per the IOM, biological findings are only relevant once an epidemiological relationship has been established. Which has not occurred with vaccines and autism.

Vitamin and mineral supplementation may or may not have any impact; the way to determine is to do an epidemiologic study comparing children who received it to children who did not. The evidence for benefit from supplementation in autism is scanty at best.

“Correctly interpreted statistics” are irrelevant to a child with clinically demonstrated neuroinflammatory damage, his parents, his physician, his teachers, etc.

So if children with vitamin or mineral deficiencies improve mentally and physically after vitamin or mineral supplementation, that improvement happened on the child’s “own trajectory”?

One should take the comments of isles with a grain of truth.

Many, if not most, VAERS reports are submitted by plaintiffs’ lawyers. Sound like a trustworthy database?

Children with autism learn and develop on their own trajectory. It’s troubling when parents attribute this solely to their own heroic efforts.

No one has ever pointed to a single decision or recommendation that was tainted by conflict of interest. This is a bogeyman, but the mercury moms trot it out on every occasion, because it’s all they have.

Correctly interpreted statistics do not favor the mercury moms’ argument. Unfortunately they don’t care about science, no matter how well they’ve learned to spout sciencey-sounding jargon.

Look at all the vaccine injury reports to VAERS, the NVICP, the CDC’s VSD, the Federal Omnibus Autism Proceedings. Read the expert testimony and ask — what happens to all these vaccine injury victims?

The sad truth is that children injured by vaccines are left to twist slowly in the wind.

The CDC offers no medical treatments, no research into vaccine injury prevention. No doctors come to your home and examine your child. Instead you’re told that regression and illness after shots is a coincidence.

The parents see their children hurting, so they start reading for hours a day. They become educated about immunology, biochemistry, physiology, nutrition. They find some progressive physicians and try antivirals, nutritional supplements, anti-inflammatories, chelation — and they watch their children get better. Again they’re told by mainstream medicine, i.e. vaccine sellers, that this is merely coincidence.

The more that parents read, they learn that the CDC’s highly vaunted epidemiology is tainted by skewed statistics ordered by people who’ve left an incriminating trail of FOIA documents (www dot PutChildrenFirst dot org). They see the financial intertwining of pharmaceuticals and physicians’ trade organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The problem is not that autism is a mystery — the problem is that most people don’t like the answer. A product intended to improve health is having the opposite effect in many children.

Why won’t the CDC listen to this reasonable statement, and learn why vaccine injury occurs so it can be prevented?