IOM Accountability/ Dr.Yazbak's letter

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Friends and Members of REAACH:

Below is a personal note to you

from Dr. Yazbak, one of the most respected doctors and

researchers in our community.

We fully endorse and support his request that the report from the

IOM committee meeting of February 9th, 2004, (which came out in

May) be retracted, and a new

committee be reconvened to address the issue. This report is a step

back, and we should absolutely not tolerate its findings

.. Following are links to Dr.. Yazbak's letter to Mr. Fineberg.

http://www.taap.info/Fineberg.pdf

Also for 1 week http://www.redflagsdaily.com/yazbak/2005_may16.html

We ask those of you involved in

groups and organizations to support this effort. At this point,

that may be a letter from your organization to

Mr. Fineberg and the IOM, and a news alert on your websites.

Perhaps in the future a petition will develop; we will keep you

posted on what we hear. Thank you for

your consideration, and gratitude to Dr,. Yazbak for pursuing yet

another travesty of justice.

Suzanne Messina REAACH

Appeal to the Autism Community

Dear Parents, Grandparents and Friends of children with autism,

The possibility that Thimerosal and MMR vaccination play any role in

Regressive Autism has been denied and ruled out by a special

committee of the Institute of Medicine at a meeting on February 9,

2004.

In their report, the committee members essentially said that the

epidemic of regressive autism we are facing is due to other factors

and that further research into a vaccine link should not be

encouraged nor supported.

I hope that you will agree to endorse and second my request to

President Fineberg of the IOM to retract the report in question,

form a new committee under a new Chairperson and reconvene meetings

on the subject.

I also ask you to please convince your groups and associations to

use their strong influence to support this effort.

Your help is urgently needed.

You can encourage research in the environmental, biological and

immune causes of Regressive Autism or you can do nothing and watch

as we lose another generation.

Thank you.

F. E. Yazbak

(Theo's Grandfather)