REPEAT The American Prospect Online: AUTISM, ABC, AND ROBERT KENNEDY ABC Will RUn Story

[Guest guest]

QUOTE: " ...Now, according to the Huffington Post, ABC seems to have

reversed themselves and will run the story. "

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/06/index.html#006822

AUTISM, ABC, AND ROBERT KENNEDY. Rolling Stone and Salon have a blockbuster

piece by F. Kennedy Jr. on the conspiracy to cover up links between

the mercury-based vaccine additive thimerosal and the uptick in autism

rates in children born between 1989 and 2003.

Based on documents he obtained from a secret meeting convened by the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and attended by representatives

from the FDA and all the major vaccine manufacturers, Kennedy reports on

how a core group of scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and politicians

have tried to keep the public misinformed on the science behind thimersoal

research:

The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss

a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a

host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young

children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had

analyzed the agency’s massive database containing the medical records of

100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines –

thimerosal – appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism

and a host of other neurological disorders among children. “I was

actually stunned by what I saw,†Verstraeten told those assembled at

Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate

a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder,

hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had

recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be

given to extremely young infants – in one case, within hours of birth –

the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one

in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.

But it gets worse. As the parents of autistic children began suing vaccine

manufacturers, their allies on the Hill, most notably Dr. Bill Frist, rose

to defend the pharmaceutical industry from these meddlesome parents.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in

contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to

immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been

filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist

has tried to seal all of the government’s vaccine-related documents –

including the Simpsonwood transcripts – and shield Eli Lilly, the

developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist

quietly slipped a rider known as the “Eli Lilly Protection Act†into a

homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and

bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. The measure was repealed

by Congress in 2003 – but earlier this year, Frist slipped another

provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to

children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders.

The bill to which Kennedy refers is the “Protecting America From the War

on Terror Act 2005,†introduced by Judd Gregg in January and cosponsored

by Frist. As I reported back in February, this industry-friendly bill also

contains provisions (collectively known as BioShield II) that would shield

vaccine manufacturers who make bioterror countermeasures from punitive

lawsuits. This despite the fact that, as with the questions surrounding

autism and thimerosal, the government has had an awfully hard time owning

up to the fact that the anthrax vaccine poses a health risk to those forced

to take it.

While Kennedy’s piece is interesting on its own, so too is the burgeoning

controversy surrounding its publication. According to a source very close

to the story, ABC News -- which had exclusive rights to the piece -- was

ready to run with it on 20/20 on Wednesday, and Nightline and Good Morning

America on Thursday. According to my source, all three pieces were ready to

air but were killed at the last minute by someone at the highest level of

ABC News. My source speculates that someone from the CDC may have warned

ABC News that the story would cause a panic, with parents en masse refusing

their infant’s inoculations and causing a resurgence of childhood diseases.

Now, according to the Huffington Post, ABC seems to have reversed

themselves and will run the story. I'm told the Associated Press will have

an article out on Monday, as well. Hopefully the content of Kennedy's

investigation won't get lost in the emerging media story. The CDC does not

come off looking like fair arbiters of scientific research, to say the

least, and it's hard to see their actions as anything but a massive cover-up.

--Mark Leon Goldberg

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