Dr.Jay Gordon speaks out ! please read-Jeanna

[Guest guest]

Fri May 30, 2008 11:04 pm (PDT) Hello--

I will be speaking at the rally.

Some of you may know me from ³Larry King² or the Fox News piece or the PBS

vaccine story last week.

I am a pediatrician in private practice and I do not have a DAN or other

type of autism specialist pediatric practice. I care for many children on

the spectrum and have had an intense interest in vaccines for a long time.

I will be up there representing you and I¹d like your opinions about what

you¹d like the media to hear. Because the list can be clogged by ³off

topic² posts right now, please email me privately at: jaydrjaygordon (DOT) com

Below is a post I just sent to a heavily-used moms¹ web board. I though you

might be interested. I truly look forward to seeing you all next week and

meeting as many of you as possible.

All My Best,

Jay

(THIS WAS POSTED THIS EVENING TO A LOS ANGELES MoMS¹ BOARD IN RESPONSE TO A

POST FROM AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE DOC/MOTHER)

I feel I must respond to this post. Caitlin contributes excellent

information to [this group] but I respectfully disagree with what she¹s

written below.

Yes, the number of ³antigens² might be less, but the cumulative amount of

aluminum in vaccines is vastly higher than it¹s ever been before. Aluminum

damages human brain cells and is used as an ³adjuvant² or irritant to allow

the manufacturer to use less of the antigen itself. That is, a pertussis

vaccine might have less ³pertussis² protein than before but it has a more

irritant and there are quite a few more vaccines than in past years with

more added every couple years.

Children in the 1960s received dozens fewer vaccines than children in 2008.

The infant immune system is immature and every doctor knows that we treat

sick babies completely differently than we treat sick toddlers partly

because they just can¹t respond as well to infection and CAN truly be

overwhelmed by an infection which might not have caused big trouble in a

three-year-old or in an adult.

The immune system confronts many organisms, as Caitlin correctly points out,

but it responds to them with antibodies and ³inactivating² defenses in the

mouth, the nose, the throat, the bronchi. Vaccines are injected directly

into muscle or under the skin with the intent of getting the viral or

bacterial response directly in the blood stream. We completely bypass the

body¹s first lines of defense. Vaccines can overwhelm the immune system¹s

ability to respond safely. This amazing unscientific approach has never

been well enough evaluated in the decades-long history of vaccination.

³Science-based² is a catch phrase which loses a lot of it¹s meaning when you

realize that the scientists ( Infectious Diseases Society of America) to

whom Caitlin refer are sponsored by the manufacturers of v accines. Their

conferences, lunches, speakers¹ fees, airline tickets and much more are

funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Have a look at their home page,

their ³Career Development and Funding Opportunities² page, their ³Research

Awards² page, or the countless pages of advertisements for vaccines in the

journals. Science? Maybe. Unbiased science? Not even close.

Dr. Bernadine Healy, the former head of the National Institutes of Health

(NIH) has broken ranks with the her fellow scientists in the discussion

about vaccines causing or increasing the incidence of autism:

Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health,

and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on

the vaccine-autism question.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still

open.

" I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the

hypothesis as irrational, " Healy said.

" But public health officials have been saying they know, they've been

implying to the public there's enough evidence and they know it's not

causal, " Attkisson said.

" I think you can't say that, " Healy said. " You can't say that. "

http://www.cbsnews. com/stories/ 2008/05/12/ cbsnews_investig ates/main4086809

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Here¹s what I¹ve got, Caitlin, nearly 30 years of watching tens of thousands

of children receive hundreds of thousands of vaccines. Countless emails,

second opinion consultations and phone calls about children who appear to

have been damaged by vaccines. Dozens of other doctors calling or emailing

me because they know I¹ll listen to their stories about strange and tragic

vaccine reactions and no one else will. Yes, children still get illnesses

which vaccines could have prevented but I track these for hours every day

and the number of illnesses pales in comparison to the number of children

damaged by the current vaccine schedule. We can do much better but it will

cost time and pharmaceutical manufacturers¹ time and money. Right now, they

have little or no respect for parents and children.

This is the only area of medicine where we deny side effects. Amoxicillin

for a UTI? I apologize for the possible rash, diarrhea, cramps and the

often inevitable yeast infection.

Six vaccines given to a ten pound baby girl? Doctors tell you before the

shots that their are no side effects and that the seizures, deaths and

autism are not proven and are undoubtedly coincidental.

This is the only area of medicine where your six-week-old baby and I, a 180

pound man, get the same dose of a medication. For instance, the polio

vaccine. This is absurd medicine and might be dangerous. My exposure to

aluminum‹or to a full ³old time² dose of 25 micrograms of mercury from the

flu shot or the tetanus shot‹is bad enough, but giving a seven year old

child whose weight is less than one-third my own is dangerous.

Most web sites which discuss the negative aspects of vaccines are just as

biased as the sites sponsored by the industry. This one has a lot of good

information‹certainl y from the ³vaccines aren¹t safe enough² point of

view‹

and it is far less biased.

Before those six vaccines at each of the first few visits, ask yourself,

³does this feel like the right thing to do to my baby?² Your answer to

yourself is more valuable than your doctor¹s opinion about your one

supremely important child. Consider both, but value your instincts above

all else.

Best,

Jay