ABC cancels planned Kennedy interviews on next week's newshows

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Saw this column which confirms our suspicions that Big Pharma is controlling the media on the Thimerasol story. It's time to contact ABC about tjheir "editorial/financial" decision!

F. Kennedy Jr's Story on Thimerosalby who killed jfk? Thursday, Jun. 16, 2005 at 7:13 PM

When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data -- and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/06/abc-bosses-tell-abc-news-.html ABC corporate executives at the network's highest levels ordered three interviews with Kennedy Jr. pulled from ABC News programming. The interviews all centered around Mr. Kennedy's investigation of thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, used in vaccines given to children and believed to be responsible for increasing cases of neurological diseases including autism. Mr. Kennedy's interviews were slated for prime shows ABC World News Tonight, 20/20, and Good Morning America. Salon.com and Rolling Stone Magazine have exclusive rights to Mr. Kennedy’s article and they embargoed his story on other networks because of his arrangement with ABC. Mr. Kennedy’s article was published today only in Rolling Stone and on Salon.com. The article links the CDC, FDA and Bill Frist to major drug companies, including GlaxoKline, Merck, Wyeth, and Aventis Pasteur that continued to include thimerosal in their vaccines despite studies showing the damage – and death – it caused in humans. In the 1990s the CDC and FDA recommended three additional children's vaccines laced with thimerosal, totaling twenty two federally recommended immunizations. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 from pharmaceutical companies, tacked on the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" as a rider to a 2002 homeland security bill. The protection act was later repealed by Congress after a public outcry. Senator Frist is making another attempt to harbor big pharmaceuticals from families with infected children. He is appropriating the war on terror again by attaching a provision to the "Protecting America in the War On Terror" bill introduced to Congress this past January. A 2001 Emory University Study watched ABC, CBS, and NBC in the Atlanta area for one week and found 907 advertisements for over-the-counter drugs and 428 advertisements for prescription drugs.

Salon Magazine: A thimerosal resource guide

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosal_links/print.html

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A thimerosal resource guideSalon's syllabus of source documents, related articles and links to advocacy organizations.

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June 16, 2005 | Source documents

Transcripts (full file is 11.8 MB) and a shorter transcript excerpt from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's conference on thimerosal at the Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga.

E-mails from within the CDC that include discussion of thimerosal studies.

Letter from former CDC epidemiologist Verstraeten to the journal Pediatrics regarding the CDC's studies of a possible correlation between thimerosal and neurological disorders.

Transcripts of congressional committee hearings on thimerosal.

Memo from major vaccine manufacturer Merck regarding thimerosal's use in vaccines.

Statement from the World Health Organization regarding the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines.

Recommendation by the Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee, dated October 1, 2001, that "full consideration be given by appropriate professional societies and government agencies to removing thimerosal from vaccines administered to infants, children, or pregnant women in the United States."

Report by the Institute of Medicine, dated May 17, 2004, rejecting a causal link between thimerosal and autism.

Analyses of vaccine safety data by Dr. Mark Geier and Geier.

Related articles

"The Age of Autism" (series), by Dan Olmsted (United Press International, January-June 2005)

"Autism in a Needle?" by Annette Fuentes (In These Times, Nov. 11, 2003)

"Autism, Vaccine Link Considered," by Mark (United Press International, May 2003)

"Evidence of Harm," by Kirby (St. 's Press, April 2005)

"Missing the Mercury Menace," by Neil Munro (National Journal, Jan. 3, 2004)

"The Rise Against Mercury," by Bridges (SEED, Spring 2004)

"Toxic Tipping Point," by Rock (Mother , March/April 2004)

"Upping the Autism Ante," by Neil Munro (National Journal, Jan. 3, 2004)

"The Vaccine Conflict," by Mark (Washington Free Press, July 2003)

"Vaccines May Fuel Autism Epidemic," by O'Meara (Insight on the News, June 9, 2003)

Advocacy organizations

The Autism Society of America was founded in 1965 by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. Its mission is to promote lifelong access and opportunity for all individuals within the autism spectrum, and their families, to be fully participating, included members of their community.

NoMercury.org was founded by the parents of a child diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome after repeated exposure to thimerosal. Its aim is to educate policymakers, physicians and the public about the dangers associated with the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. The site features peer-reviewed articles and government documents on clinical and toxicological evidence and the political and financial aspects of public health policymaking.

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