Comabting Autism Act - Call to Action!!!!!!

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Dear Group:

I need some guidance. There have been a few meetings to put together

a research proposal under the established Comabating Autism Act as a

guided means of providing funding for research into autism, and all

kinds of areas concerning services, insurance, causes, and

treatments. This meeting was open for the public to call in and

listen to live, which I did.

I have not been able to sleep since the last meeting on Janurary 14,

2009. First of all, the prior meeting got pretty heated when the

idea of vaccine research came up. This meeting consists of about 10

or 12 people representing governmental agencies like the CDC, and

about 6 members representing the public and private organizations.

The public and private got out-voted consistently due to inherantly

there being more members that represent governmental agencies who

also have ties to vaccines. As a matter of fact, the meeting went

quite smoothly, unless public opinions were discussed or vaccines

were discussed.

Of the 3 meetings I listened to, about 50% of the time was spent on

the topic of " let's not include vaccine research " , mostly by

officials representing the CDC. What bothers me is the great lengths

that were put into trying to avoid vaccine research. If one has

nothing to hide, then what would you care if vaccine research were

included amongst the many other areas of research, after all it was

mentioned that 900 million dollars were to be awarded. Surely, one

could fit vaccines in there somewhere. But to go to such an extent

to avoid it, makes me feel very uneasy.

What should we do? I think we need to get our Congress to listen to

the tapes of the meeting. They will see the obvious bias and denial

of public input and tremendous amount of effort and deceit used to

get vaccine research out of the proposal. I say deciet because they

said they did not have time to look at any more public input ideas to

finish the proposal. But then they went back and spent a

considerable amount of time re-writing the proposal to eliminate

vaccines. Thus, it was clear that they only had time to do what they

wanted, get the vaccine research out of the proposal, as if it was

their only goal. I feel so uncomfortable about listening to all this

take place. Do you think we can get our Congress members to listen

to the January 14th IACC meeting tapes? Any ideas on what to do?

Heidi N