Age of Autism - LES INCOMPETANTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP

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AAP = American Academy of Pediatrics

" Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients

suffering from

meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term

effects, as all of the

patients in this " study " died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage

to the

developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown.

Eli Lilly said it

was safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the

FDA, its use was

simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of

mercury in

vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best,

at worse it is an

example that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars,

thieves, cheats,

killers, and the junk scientists they employ. "

" How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active

participant in this

skullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained

silent as

mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world

and second

world countries. "

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/02/aap-fellow-resi.html?cid=104990550#comments

02/26/2008

LES INCOMPETANTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP

By K. Stoller, M.D.

" Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to

produce the sort

of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider

desirable, and any serious

criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.

Even if all are

miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will

tell them that

they are so. "

-Bertrand , The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953

As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find

the AAP's

approach to the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing.

Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason for

all the notice

given to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put on

notice at the

CDC's Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the mercury in the preservative

Thimerosal

was causing speech delays and learning disabilities, they obfuscated and

hide that

information. They never made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal

eliminated

from vaccines and almost a decade later joined in the protest against a

fictitious TV show

(Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine.Out of 132

million doses of

the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season, 8 million doses are

Thimerosal

free. That means 94% contain the full amount of Thimerosal.

If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flu

shot

recommendations, the baby/fetus would have received six flu shots with the

full amount

of Thimerosal by the year 2005.

Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not contain

Thimerosal,

but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the only ones

who know

whether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise) actually are

mercury free are the

manufacturers themselves.

Vaccines with " trace " amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain less

than 1

microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml is the

same as 2

ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms per liter is

parts per billion

[ppb]2)

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells

(Parran et al.,

Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water

(http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al.,

Neuroreport 2001;

12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste

(http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis B

vaccine vials,

administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.

50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP and

Haemophilus B

vaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6,

12 and 18 months

of age. Current " preservative " level mercury in multi-dose flu,

meningococcal and tetanus

(7 and older) vaccines.

For years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have said

the reason for

the dramatic increase in autism is due to " better diagnosing " and " greater

awareness. "

They have encouraged those like the AAP to manufacture uncertainty by

publishing articles

that were less than truthful. The AAP shamefully played along, perhaps

encouraged by the

largesse of vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP's

yearly budget.

There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autistic

Americans under the age

of 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on Social Security

in coming years

as these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that have

found the

previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older

Americans. They

simply aren't there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.

As there are no genetic epidemics, which leaves an epidemic linked to some

sort of

exposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the increase in

mercury

exposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally,

through

increased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal - no controlled, randomized

study regarding

the safety of amalgam or Thimerosal exists.

A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents

Associated

with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health and the

Environment's

Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative) concludes that

environmental

contaminants are an important cause of learning and developmental

disabilities.

Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions

(required for the

correct expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters), which further

adversely affects

growth factor derived development of the brain and attention abilities.

Phospholipid

methylation, which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic and

attention deficit

hyperactivity disorders.

In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had described

a 7.6 to 11.4 fold

increase of autism risk in children at one month, with the highest mercury

exposure levels

compared to children with no exposure. In four subsequent separate

generations of the

analysis, which involve the exclusion of children with no Thimerosal

exposure and less

than two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared. This is

what was

published by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know the

truth?

Again, they were presented at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, a

meeting that

was illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a meeting

together with

representatives of private industry (all the vaccine manufacturers were

represented at this

meeting) without opening the meeting to the public.

Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients

suffering from

meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term

effects, as all of the

patients in this " study " died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage

to the

developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown.

Eli Lilly said it

was safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the

FDA, its use was

simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of

mercury in

vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best,

at worse it is an

example that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars,

thieves, cheats,

killers, and the junk scientists they employ.

How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active

participant in this

skullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained

silent as

mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world

and second

world countries.

We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and

self-aggrandizing

behavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated the junk science

that has

covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost to

science, the public,

and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that by

putting our collective

heads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for

the destruction

of our very civilization?

Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven't pediatricians come

forward to

demand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to advocate

for the

treatment of these children before it is too late? Why are they not at the

front of the line

protesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of coal-fired power

plants? Why

aren't they leading the charge to stop the use of mercury amalgam dental

fillings that are

placed in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?

The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell about

environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabled

citizens did less

than remain silent because they have become arms of the very corporations

that profit

from selling and distributing poisons. Just look who sits on the FDA's

Scientific Advisory

Boards – the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to suggest that the

FDA has become a

trade arm of big pharma.

Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government has

quietly conceded a

vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.3 Pediatricians will no

longer be able

to hide behind the skirts of " Standard of Care " if they are giving autistic

children heavy-

metal laden vaccines. That is only one step away from giving vaccines and

making normal

children autistic.

The AAP should proactively be bringing in risk management specialists and

be proactive

towards how this could affect pediatricians in civil litigation for

following the CDC

recommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of any type of

neurodevelopmental

delay in a child. This is what they are afraid of and this is what the law

of attraction will

bring in upon the AAP and the minions of those that just followed the

recommendations

and drank the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.

For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party to

the damage that is

being done to the world's children by sending in my dues for a third

decade. It is a token

protest, but it has to begin with someone.

1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80

2 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v1

3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-

vacci_b_88323.html

K. Stoller, MD is the President of International Hyperbaric Medical

Assoc and Medical

Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.