Re: Senator Dodd on Imus this morning - VAERS

June 22, 2005

Senator Dodd also mentioned the " vaccine safety databank. " I believe

he's refering to the VAERS database. (He mentioned that the IOM had

complained about it.) He stated that " they " are sending a letter to

the CDC to see if they can " put some heat " on this issue.

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> I was blown away by him. Imus didn't even bring up the thimerosal

issue. Dodd did it himself and went on a bit of a rant himself.

He had obviously been briefed for the show extremely well. He said

he was very impressed by the Kennedy Jr. article and said he

is going to push for senate hearings on this.

June 22, 2005

: There are two databases in play: VAERS = Vaccine Adverse Event

Reporting System, and has been accessible to qualified researchers

for a number of years. The Geiers have done epidemiological studies

with it confirming a strong correlation between thimerosal and ASD's.

Dodd was most likely referring to (and I heard him this morning too)

to the VSD = Vaccine Safety Datalink, which used to be controlled by

the CDC, was funded mainly by taxpayer dollars, and was the basis of

the Verstatten Generation Zero analysis that sparked the Simpsonwood

meeting.

Since Simpsonwood, only one pair of independent researchers have

been allowed access to the VSD--the Geiers--and that was done

because of Congressional pressure from Weldon. The Geiers were

extremely restricted in what they could do; nonetheless, their

published study contradicted the CDC's/Verstatten report which

showed no correlation.

An IOM follow up meeting to its March 2004 " no link-spend money

elsewhere " report took the CDC to task for not allowing independent

access and urged the VSD to be opened to qualified researchers under

conditions that would protect the confidentiality of the HMO

patients whose records make up the database.

The openning of the VSD to independent, neutral third-party

verification has been one of the main talking points by Kirby

in his appearances. He's used it masterfully (like a surgeon's

skilled scalpel?) and no one from CDC, FDA or AAP have been able to

offer any sensible response to his challenge. Their failure to do so

has fueled the " cover up " ideation.

One last fact: the datasets on which the published CDC/Verstatten

study based its conclusions have gone missing and are suspected to

have been destroyed. In either case, the missing datasets constitute

a violation of a Federal document protection act, and that is why

the IOM recommended that some CDC folks retain legal representation.

Davey's Dad

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> > I was blown away by him. Imus didn't even bring up the

thimerosal

> issue. Dodd did it himself and went on a bit of a rant himself.

> He had obviously been briefed for the show extremely well. He said

> he was very impressed by the Kennedy Jr. article and said he

> is going to push for senate hearings on this.

June 22, 2005