Binstock points out flawed CDC mercury study

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Just to clarify - Binstock is one of the authors of Autism: A

Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning. She is here addressing ANOTHER study

that is flawed....

Sheri

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June 20, 2000

Alert on Flawed Mercury Study /Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning

[From Binstock, autism researcher.]

On June 21-22, 2000, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices (ACIP) will be meeting in Atlanta. Vaccine-preservative Thimerosal

and its ethylmercury is on the agenda, as is the whitewash " study " hastily

prepared as RL et al, whose authors include a primary participant in

early-infant injections of ethylmercury -- eg, the early hepB.

Letters to the ACIP have been prepared by each of the

vaccinal-mercury/autism co-authors.

Mine is herein below (with a few typos corrected). If you'd like a .doc

format of the letter, please write me off-list and I'll e-send you a copy.

This post may be shared and reposted into other lists.

Perhaps a reporter or several can be encouraged to attend the Atlanta

conference, especially a reporter willing to peruse letters from the

autism/mercury co-authors plus from Owens, as well as listening (with

a critical ear) to CDC pronouncements of the whitewash sort.

Members, ex officios, and liaisons June 19, 2000

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Centers for Disease Control; Atlanta GA USA

Fr: Binstock

Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy

Box 1788; Estes Park CO 80517 USA

aspergerian@...

re: vaccinal ethylmercury, RL et al study, EPA’s recommended mercury

level

I am a co-author of Bernard et al, a paper which identifies vaccinal

ethylmercury as etiologically significant in autism and other

neurodevelopmental syndromes [see accompanying article]. (1). Today I

comment upon the neurologic effects of thimerosal in vaccines given to

infants, toddlers, and elderly individuals during the last 60 years.

1. As you know, thimerosal is a vaccine preservative which is 49.7%

ethylmercury, a substance whose toxicity is similar to that of methylmercury

(2). As a result, and according to data in hundreds of published studies, a

preponderance of evidence indicates that (a) thimerosal causes neurologic

damage in susceptible infants and toddlers, and ( the increasing rate of

autism during the last three decades (3) is likely to have been caused by

physicians who injected ethylmercury during vaccinations (1).

2. Since our paper was made public in early April, a CDC group led by

L. has enacted a large-scale thimerosal-study and has

distributed two summary versions (3-4). I would like to thank Dr. and

his co-authors for initiating their study and would like to emphasize that

the et al study contains several major errors. Furthermore, if and as

et al correct those errors, the et al data demonstrate that,

indeed, thimerosal injected into infants and toddlers is causing neurologic

problems such as autism and ADHD in susceptible individuals.

3. In 1997, the EPA offered a guideline for a “safe” level of organic

mercury and based that level on fetal effects via Iraqi mothers who had

ingested grain containing methylmercury. Importantly, and this is a very

important point, the EPA’s “safe” level is too high and does not take into

account the fact that organic-mercury toxicity has a dose-effects

distribution whereby -- at low doses such as those in vaccines -- only a

small percentage of individuals will be affected. To protect susceptible

infants and toddlers and to correctly evaluate neurologic damage in children

already diagnosed with neurologic problems, the EPA’s recommended level for

organic mercury must be lowered.

4. A primary flaw in current versions of et al arises from their

use of the EPA “safe” level as a basis for interpreting Vaccine Safety Link

data (4-5). Importantly -- and this too is a very important point -- if

et al correct their model in accord with a lower safe-limit for

ethylmercury, so as to account for bolus doses and susceptibility factors,

then the data in et al are highly consistent with a conclusion that

thimerosal-induced neurologic effects have resulted in autism-spectrum and

associated disorders.

In closing, I offer three points:

First: My co-authors and I are preparing a detailed critique of flaws

in the first two drafts of RL et al and shall share them with Dr.

and his colleagues as soon as possible so that an article they might

submit (eg, to the journal Pediatrics) can be corrected before submission

and publication.

Second: As established in the initial Bernard et al review (1) and as

further documented in a condensed version I have submitted to our group and

provided to the ATSDR’s Mike Allred and to the ACIP’s Gloria Kovach: For a

number of genetic and non-genetic reasons, some infants and toddlers have

increased susceptibility to organic mercury compounds. As a result, the EPA’

s “safe” limit is dangerously high and ought be lowered.

Third: If L. et al consider bolus-dose effects and

susceptibility-factors and then revise their model accordingly, then their

conclusion will state that the Vaccine Safety Datalink data are consistent

with thimerosal’s neurologic impairment of children. Safe chelation

therapies ought be initiated in affected children; delay in initiating such

therapies will potentiate increased neurotoxicity in susceptible children

whose brains already contain vaccinal ethylmercury from thimerosal.

Sincerely, Binstock

1. Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning. Bernard S, Enayati A,

H, Redwood L. Binstock T; April 3, 2000; revised May 17, 2000; originally

distributed via webpage of Cure Autism Now! Foundation,

www.canfoundation.org

2. Suzuki T, Takemoto TI, Kashiwazaki H, Miyama T. Metabolic fate of

ethylmercury salts in man and animal. Ch 12, p209-233 in: Mercury,

Mercurials, and Mercaptans. MW, son TW, editors; C.

, Springfield, 1973.

3. Yazbak FE. Autism `99, a national emergency. Internet publication 1999.

http://www.garynull.com/documents/autism_99.htm

4. RL, Verstraeten T, Gu D, DeStefano F, RS, Chen RT. Infant

exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines and risk for subsequent

neurologic and renal disease. AAP Conference webpage, May 2000.

5. RL, Verstraeten T, DeStefano F, Gu D, Pless R, Chen R, Black S,

Shinefield H, Wise R, Ball L, Braun M. Risk of neurologic and renal

impairment associated with Thimerosal-containing vaccines. Study summary

with partial-data and statistics as presented to Bernard et al and others by

Myers, MD, CDC offices in WashDC, June 15, 2000.

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Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning

[study by Sallie Bernard, Albert Enayati, B.S., Ch.E., M.S.M.E., Heidi

, Binstock, Lyn Redwood, R.N., M.S.N., C.R.N.P., Woody McGinnis,

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http://tlredwood.home.mindspring.com/mercurypoison.htm

ABSTRACT

Autism is a neurodevelopmental syndrome characterized by impairments

in social relatedness, language, and communication, a need for routine and

sameness, abnormal movements, and sensory dysfunction. Mercury is a toxic

metal that can exist as a pure element or in a variety of inorganic and

organic forms and can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and other

behavioral dysfunctions.

The characteristics of autism and mercury poisoning, derived from a

review of medical literature, have been found, upon comparison, to be

strikingly similar. The characteristics of both disorders are summarized in

the following table and fully elucidated in the body of this document. The p

arallels between the two diseases are so close that it would be unreasonable

to assume that the similarities occur by chance.

We claim that autism is a form of mercury poisoning, based on

similarities of characteristics and on the known exposure to mercury of the

majority of US children. The exposure route is childhood vaccines, most of

which contain thimerosal, a preservative comprised of 50% ethylmercury by

weight. The amount of mercury a typical child under two years receives from

vaccinations equates to 3.53 x 1017 atoms (353,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, or

237.5 micrograms), most of which is not excreted and goes directly to the

brain. The amount is known to exceed federal safety standards, but is still

considered a “low” level, such that only a small percentage of exposed

individuals will exhibit signs of toxicity.

Affected individuals are those genetically prone to mercury

sensitivity, which is consistent with the observed high heritability rate of

autism. Furthermore, the timing of mercury exposure via vaccines coincides

with the emergence of autistic symptoms. Moreover, mercury has been detected

in urine, hair, and blood samples from autistic children, and parental

reports, though limited at this date, indicate significant improvement in

symptoms with administration of standard heavy metal chelators. Thus, the

four agreed-upon criteria used by clinicians to diagnose mercury poisoning –

i.e., observable symptoms, known exposure at the time of symptom onset,

detectable levels in biologic samples, and improvement with chelation - have

been met for autism.

The phenotypic expression of mercury poisoning varies by a host of

factors – including type of mercury given, method of administration, rate

and level of dose, individual genotype, and age of patient – so that each

variation in factors has created in the past a slightly different

manifestation of the disease – Mad Hatter’s disease, Minamata disease, and

acrodynia, for example. The pathology arising from the set of

mercury-related variables involved in autism – intermittent bolus doses of

ethylmercury injected into genetically susceptible infants and toddlers –

has never been reported before in medical literature. Thus we argue that

autism represents a unique form of mercury poisoning not heretofore

described. Our findings have widespread implications for the affected

population of autistic individuals, for other unexplained disorders with

symptoms similar to heavy metal intoxication, and for childhood vaccination

programs.

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