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America, Meet Our Unvaccinated Kids, Version 2.0 Posted by: " MCC-FHC "

email@... mccfhc Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:16 pm (PST) The full page

advertisement below appeared Tuesday, 25 September 2007 in USA Today. It is

sponsored by Generation Rescue. Below the ad is an essay by J. B. Handley of

Generation Rescue from the GR blog, which gives further detail on the message

they are promoting.

http://www.rescuepost.com/rescue_post/2007/09/generation-re-1.html

COMMENTARY

America, Meet Our Unvaccinated Kids, Version 2.0

By J.B. Handley

Back in June, we released what we felt was an astonishing data set for the first

ever study comparing the rates of ADHD, autism, and asthma between vaccinated

children and unvaccinated children. Our conclusion was weighty:

" We surveyed over 9,000 boys in California and Oregon and found that vaccinated

boys had a 155% greater chance of having a neurological disorder like ADHD or

autism than unvaccinated boys. "

And, the mainstream media wouldn't touch it.

Cynics will say this is because our survey was only a " phone survey " despite the

fact that phone surveys are reported in the news every day, and despite the fact

that the CDC uses a phone survey to establish the prevalence of.autism!!

As the Director of the CDC's two phone surveys on autism noted: " the consistency

of prevalence estimates across the two surveys supports high reliability or

reproducibility of parental report of autism and reliability is one important

component of validity. "

Were we blacked out? Was our story too hot for the mainstream media to handle?

Perhaps, we'll never know for sure. That said, we got plenty of coverage and

heard from places like UPI reporter Dan Olmsted, Daily Kos, and NewsMax.com, to

name a few.

Fast forward to September, and the climate for listening to the parents has

changed, perhaps permanently, thanks to McCarthy.

So, we ran our Ad again today, the one describing the survey results, but this

time we ran it in USA Today.

With that as background, America please meet our unvaccinated kids:

For the first time ever, we know something about them that may help our kids.

Yup, they live right down the street from you, they are 5.6% of the population,

and they have less asthma, less ADHD, and less autism than our kids seem to

have. At least according to our survey.

Do we expect you to believe us? Not really. Not if you're a member of the

mainstream media or the mainstream medical establishment. But, we really hope

you will look at our data. Because today, unlike the CDC, we are making all of

our data public simultaneously with the release of our survey. Crunch away, and

decide for yourself.

We followed a very straightforward process, so anyone can retrace our steps. We

told a market research firm what we wanted to know. They designed a

questionnaire they felt would get us an answer. We approved the questionnaire.

They ran the survey and sent us the data, which you can now access. Decide for

yourself.

Some of the numbers really jump out, particularly amongst the boys. A " Risk

Ratio " is a way to compare prevalence, so that if 10% of vax kids and 5% of

unvax kids have ADHD, the Risk Ratio is 2.0, or a 100% difference. Risk Ratios

above 2.0 tend to be allowed in a court of law to show correlation. We found

many Risk Ratios well in excess of 2.0, and some higher than 4.0, the equivalent

of a 300% difference.

Decide for yourself.

Have we proved anything today? Yes and no. We've proved that unvaccinated kids

are easy to find, and that a straightforward survey yielded some disturbing

results. What we haven't done is design a study with enough scale and controls

to be published in a first-tier, peer- reviewed journal. But, we've certainly

highlighted the screaming need for such a study to happen.

So, now what?

Everyone should send an email to Dan Olmsted and thank him for his Age of Autism

series from UPI. He's the one who asked about unvaccinated kids first, and asked

it loudest. He even asked Gerberding, CDC Director. He just kept on asking

it until we got so tired thinking about what an obvious question it was that we

did something about it.

Our data should be scrutinized, analyzed, challenged, and debated by any and

everyone in the autism community who cares to do so. (If you want a copy of the

Excel spreadsheet with the primary data in it, email us and we will send it to

you.)

Everyone and their grandmother needs to cajole their Congressperson to jump on

the bandwagon and support Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's bill to study

unvaccinated children.

This incredibly brave Congresswoman from New York said in a press release in

June: " What is ultimately needed to resolve this issue one way or the other is a

comprehensive national study comparing outcomes between vaccinated and

unvaccinated children. As the most scientifically advanced country in the world,

we should be jumping at the chance to conduct a comprehensive national study to

resolve the questions that have been raised.

Parents deserve answers, and children deserve no less than absolutely certainty

and safety. "

The autism community should pull together and fund our own independent study, in

addition to the Maloney bill, to gather as much data as quickly as possible.

Autism Speaks, with the biggest war chest, should take this opportunity to fund

or lead the funding for such a study, and help put this issue to rest once and

for all. It would be a great opportunity for them to repair a badly burned

bridge with many of us, and I hope they jump at the chance. The study must be

run by researchers who have no history in this fight, on either side of the

argument, and it must have the scale and controls to achieve wide acceptance

through journal publication.

As for me, nothing much changes. My son is getting better, and we think the road

map drawn by considering him " vaccine injured " is why. Knowing cause is so

incredibly important to figuring out how to help and treat our kids, and I'm

grateful for the pioneers who have been demanding answers for years. My wife and

I hope, in some small way, that this survey moves things forward, and creates a

deafening demand from parents for more answers. Now.

J.B. Handley is co-founder of Generation Rescue.

.. . .

DISCUSSION FORUM HEATS UP AS

VACCINE LINK TO AUTISM QUESTION SPREADS

An Evidence of Harm email discussion list has been created in response to the

growing interest in the environmental causes of autism. Now almost 2,000

subscribers. Subscribe here: EOHarm/

AUTISM IS TREATABLE.

Consult these sources:

.. Autism Research Institute (ARI): http://www.autism.com/

.. ARI's Toll-free Autism Resource Call Center:1-866-366-3361

.. Generation Rescue: http://www.generationrescue.org/

.. UK - Autism Treatment Trust: http://www.autismtrust.org.uk/

.. UK - Treating Autism: http://www.treatingautism.com/

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