Re: Private Practice [This is ABC-TVs mea culpa re: last year's Eli Stone debut]

[Guest guest]

ALL:

Almost one year ago, the following was released by Barbara Loe Fisher

at NVIC. ABC took serious mainstream medical establishment heat over

refusing to pre-emptively cancel the " Eli Stone " episode.

Last night's " Private Practice " airing was their mea culpa -- nothing

more; nothing less. Now they can sleep well at night knowing they've

shown " both sides " . [Puke]

A few years ago, I read one of the most piercing and best counter-

arguments ever, to the scare tactic style tripe routinely promulgated

by the vaccine nazi's [CDC, AAP, AMA, Public Health Departments,

etc...]. They've done this so much for so long now that they might

actually believe it themselves. I'm talking about how they take

relatively benign childhood illnesses of the past, like measles and

chicken pox, are sell them as serious deadly diseases.

What I read a few years back were selected excerpts from medical

school textbooks. The selected text was descriptions of measles and

chicken pox. They used one textbook from before mass vaccination was

mandated, and another from after mass vaccination was mandated. They

stood these two up side-by-side, exposing the truly vulgar

manipulation done. Within a matter of just a few years, crucially

those few years right around the implementation of mass vaccination,

measles and chicken pox morphed into almost unrecognizably different

disorders in terms of their severity. If I hadn't seen it myself I

wouldn't have believed it. It was stark.

I will look for that reference and post it if and when I find it. If

anyone else has seen it, please feel free to beat me to the punch.

The earlier poster had it right. Deaths from measles in developed

nations, by the time the vaccine was sold to the masses in 1963, were

almost unheard of. And in the rare deaths that were recorded, it was

by no means certain that the measles virus itself was the killer.

Encephalitic reactions to the vaccine do occur. I have no doubt that

those occurred due to the wild virus infection too. But hundreds of

deaths per year caused by measles in the US, as was stated

on " Private Practice " last night? That simply isn't true.

Tim

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NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter January 30, 2008

U.S. Doctors Club ABC-TV Show on Autism & Vaccines by Barbara Loe

Fisher

I sighed with recognition when I learned that the leadership of the

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had written a letter and issued

a press release on Jan. 25 calling on ABC-TV to cancel tomorrow's

premiere episode of a fictional drama about a family whose child

regresses into autism after vaccination. On the same day, the

American Medical Association (AMA) called on ABC to " mitigate the

harm this episode may do " such as re-writing the script.

The CDC-funded Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) also piled on ABC-

TV, urging doctors to put pressure on the network to cancel the

broadcast while seven former directors of the CDC maintained in a

Jan. 29 March of Dimes press release that " The implication that

vaccinations cause autism is irresponsible and counter productive. "

This latest coordinated attempt by physician leaders of America's

medical establishment to muzzle the media's exploration of vaccine

risk issues that have been making headlines for nearly three decades

is reminiscent of the coordinated denials of vaccine risks by these

same physician leaders in April 1982 when NBC-TV broadcast the

documentary " DPT: Vaccine Roulette. " It was a landmark documentary

which earned television journalist Lea an Emmy and initiated

a public dialogue that would change the course of medical history.

In 1982, when the NBC-TV documentary exposed the dangers of DPT

vaccine, physician leaders in the AAP, AMA, CDC and other medical

organizations joined together to discredit and everyone

associated with the broadcast. An article in the July 1982 Journal of

the American Medical Association (JAMA) labeled the NBC-TV

documentary " biased, histrionic and inaccurate " and even " amoral and

psychopathic. "

Foege, M.D., then director of the CDC and one of the seven

former CDC directors who endorsed the March of Dimes press release

now criticizing ABC-TV for airing a fictional episode about vaccines

and autism, in 1982 declared that the NBC- TV report about DPT

vaccine risks was " an unbalanced view - bias, in my view, and

inaccuracies to carry its destructive message.....not an example of

responsible journalism. "

In 1983, a year after the documentary aired, reporter

explained " The AAP put out the word the day we did our story that the

story was inaccurate and not to worry. When a reporter calls a local

doctor or hospital or medical center, he speaks to doctors who have

been told by the AAP and AMA not to worry. To my knowledge,

pediatricians in this country have heard absolutely nothing from the

AAP on DPT since then. " (quoted in DPT: A Shot in the Dark)

Three years later, the U.S. Congress would acknowledge the reality of

DPT and other vaccine brain injury and death by passing the National

Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. This societal acknowledgement

was followed by the publishing, in 1991 and 1994, of four reports by

the Institute of Medicine that DPT vaccine can cause brain

inflammation and permanent brain damage and that other childhood

vaccines can cause varying degrees of brain and immune system

dysfunction, as well as death. In 1996, after parents of vaccine

injured children had lobbied industry and government for 14 years,

the FDA licensed a purified DTaP vaccine for babies.

To the credit of the owners and management of ABC-TV, the network has

so far refused to cancel the premiere episode of Eli Stone that

features a family struggling with issues familiar to parents whose

children regress into autism after vaccination. Since 1982, Americans

have depended on members of the Fourth Estate to illuminate for the

public the scientific, medical, economic, political, social and

ethical issues involved in the vaccine safety and informed consent

debate. Hopefully, ABC-TV and all print and broadcast media outlets

will hold the line against this latest threat to freedom of thought

and expression by a medical community determined to silence people

crying out for recognition and help for their vaccine injured

children.

Parents deserve more from the pediatricians and doctors, who they

entrust with their children's lives, than denials, hostility and

disrespect. They deserve to have their questions about vaccination

answered honestly; their concerns about vaccine risks taken

seriously; and their children treated with the same compassion that

doctors would treat their own children. They expect that, when their

children regress after vaccination into poor health, pediatricians

will leave no stone unturned, including exploring the possibility

that vaccine(s) played a role in their child's development of autism,

learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes,

arthritis, intestinal bowel disorders and many other kinds of brain

and immune system dysfunction.

Mothers and fathers expect that - whether or not mercury

preservatives in vaccines have or have not been " proven " to be the

cause of the autism epidemic - that pediatricians and all doctors

would instinctively adhere to the " First do no harm " precautionary

principle and support the immediate removal of a known neurotoxin

from vaccines they inject into babies. Parents do not expect doctors

to collectively stick their heads in the sand and turn away from

their responsibility to find out why the biggest epidemic of chronic

disease and disability among children in the history of our nation is

associated with the more than doubling of the numbers of vaccines

doctors give to them in the first few years of life.

In 1983, when pediatrician leaders of the AAP Redbook Committee met

with co-founders of the National Vaccine Information Center to

discuss DPT vaccine brain injuries, I begged them to take seriously

the reports by parents that their children were regressing

physically, mentally and emotionally after vaccination so that steps

could be taken to minimize the risks. I warned them that " a system

that will not bend will break. "

In 2008, after 26 years of waiting for pediatricians to open their

eyes and realize that leaders in the AAP, AMA, and CDC have betrayed

their trust by denying the truth about vaccine risks, parents are

taking matters into their own hands. If the mass vaccination system

breaks, the blame can be put squarely at the feet of doctors who have

waited too long to stand up and say " The lie stops here and now with

me. "

ABC-TV CONTACT INFORMATION:

Nichols

Senior Vice President of Entertainment Communications for " Eli Stone "

Email: .Nichols@...

Phone: (818) 460-5267

Charissa Gilmore

Vice President of Media Relations for " Eli Stone "

Email: Charissa.Gilmore@...

Phone: (818) 460-7950

" ABC said on Monday it would include a disclaimer about the plot line

of the debut episode of the drama " Eli Stone, " which links childhood

vaccines to autism, and direct viewers to a government Web site that

discredits such a link. The decision follows a call by the American

Academy of Pediatrics for ABC to cancel the opening episode of " Eli

Stone, " which is scheduled to be broadcast at 10 p.m. Thursday. " -

Wyatt, New York Times (January 29, 2008)