re: IOM Meeting Testimony - an important summary of CDC's scientific fraud re: thimerosal's adverse effects

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The second paragraph in item 2 is especially damning! The findings of

thimerosal's neurologic damage in Verstraeten et al 2000 would have been

much higher had the CDC not " ...specifically excluded those with zero

exposure, allowing children with 25 mcg. to be considered the control

group. "

Must we feel that an armed posse ought to arrest the instigators and

promulgators of the CDC's scientific fraud and their pharmco-loyal

allies in Congress, White House, and " regulatory " agencies?

Congratulations to NAA for its cogent, important presentation to the IOM.

Fournier wrote:

> The Institute of Medicine held a meeting yesterday in Washington, DC as

>part of its Review of the National Immunization Program's Research

>Procedures and Data Sharing Program. NAA attended the meeting and submitted

>the following testimony.

>

> For more information, please visit:

>http://www.iom.edu/project.asp?id=21144.

>

> The meeting agenda and presentations are posted here:

>http://www.iom.edu/subpage.asp?id=22810

>

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> National Autism Association - Submitted Testimony - Oct. 21, 2004

>

> We'd like to start with a quote from F. Kennedy. Please listen to

>it carefully. It is speaking to each of you. " Dante once said that the

>hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral

>crisis maintain their neutrality. "

>

> First of all we'd like to thank you for your time and thought that will

>go into your decision. It is our belief that all of you have been thrown

>into a decision that is a political one. In these days, where politics and

>religion are meshed, politics and science are meshed and politics and

>industry are meshed, this panel and your charge were predictable.

>

> So, here you are with a job to do. It is our hope, as scientists, that

>you will side with science, the information it brings and the truth and

>reality that only true science can deliver.

>

> 1. You've been asked by the CDC to not allow open access to the Vaccine

>Safety Datalink, a tax payer funded database. We believe it is to hide a

>terrible secret, a horrible secret, the mass poisoning of thousands of

>children in the last 20 years due to mercury from thimerosal in their

>vaccines.

>

> We beg of you as parents, grandparents, friends and fellow human beings

>to find a way to allow the truth to come out. As we said in our first

>statement here on August 23rd, 2004, any computer programmer worth his/her

>salt can take out any of the privacy information found on the files and

>allow professional, qualified, independent and non-partisan scientists to

>look at the data and glean from it the necessary information the nation

>needs. We hope you see the sheer simplicity of this and create the practical

>procedures to be able to do this for the world.

>

> 2. You've been asked not to allow preliminary studies (such as the

>Verstraeten Study) to be considered as evidence in a court of law. Why? Such

>a strange request don't you think? What happened in the Verstraeten Study is

>that as the CDC researchers looked at thimerosal exposure in children, first

>looking at children with zero exposure vs. children who had exposure to

>thimerosal they found an 11 relative risk. Eleven. That was November 1999

>and I might add only months after the government publicly stated that they

>had inadvertently allowed children to be exposed to too much bolus and

>cumulative mercury in their vaccines.

>

> Another version of the study was completed in Feb. 2000. This study

>specifically excluded those with zero exposure, allowing children with 25

>mcg. to be considered the control group. There were a few other

>manipulations of the data to bring down the Relative Risk-- stratifications,

>etc. that we won't go into here due to time. The relative risk of this study

>version was 2.48 for autism and thimerosal exposure. Still not low enough to

>be acquitted in a court of law.

>

> How do we know about these studies? Through the Freedom of Information

>Act. I'd like to submit these studies into the presentation materials for

>the panel.

>

> Now, fast forward to June 2000. The CDC sat around a table at

>Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, GA and decided the fate of your

>children and grandchildren while making sure theirs didn't get poisoned.

>Listen to this quote by Dr. Dick ston, Immunologist and Pediatrician at

>the University of Colorado School of Medicine and National Jewish Center for

>Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, when speaking about his new grandson

>born that morning:

>

> " I do not want (my) grandson to get a Thimerosal containing vaccine

>until we know better what is going on. It will probably take a long time. "

>Then he said, " In the meantime, and I know there are probably implications

>for this internationally, but in the meantime I think I want that grandson

>to only be given Thimerosal-free vaccines. "

>

> Here is another quote from the Simpsonwood Retreat regarding the

>manipulation of data. This quote is especially hurtful to me because my son

>did indeed get a separate DPT shot and a separate HIB shot before they were

>combined. Because this group produced so many autistic children, they

>decided to delete it from the final figures to lower the relative risk. Here

>is a quote from Dr. , Statistician in the National

>Immunization Program at the CDC:

>

> " The other thing that happens at NCK (HMO) is that even a year or two

>years after the policy change has been made and all kids are supposedly

>receiving the combination, there is an odd, small group of kids that

>supposedly receives separate DTP and Hib (note: with more thimerosal) and an

>unusually high percentage of those kids are outcomes. "

>

> Dr. goes on to explain why he dropped this higher outcome from

>the group as well as other manipulations of the data and finishes one page

>later by saying, " there has been substantial movement from this very highly

>significant result down to a fairly marginal result. "

>

> We'd like to submit a copy of the Simpsonwood Transcript obtained

>through FOIA for presentation. Again, for the record, the Simpsonwood

>Retreat was June 2000.

>

> Although the parents of mercury poisoned and ADHD children gave the

>studies to the media, Congress and others for scrutiny, not much was heard

>about these studies from the CDC for a long time.

>

> The principal author, Verstraeten, went on to work for the large

>vaccine manufacturer, Glaxo--Kline, a company that would be impacted

>negatively if the relative risk of thimerosal to autism was to stay high.

>Therefore there is a tremendous conflict of interest with Verstraeten

>finishing this study. Yet, that is exactly what happened.

>

> In November 2003, some four years after the initial study, another

>version of this same study was published in the Pediatrics Journal. But, it

>doesn't have the 11 Relative Risk of thimerosal exposure and autism outcomes

>from November 1999. It doesn't even have the 2.48 Relative Risk from the

>February 2000 version. Remarkably, this version says that in fact,

>thimerosal, 50% of which is ethylmercury, a known neurotoxin, is actually

>protective against autism! This is the study the CDC wants you to allow in a

>court of law. It doesn't take scientists like you to understand why.

>

> We'd like to also submit the Verstraeten November 2003 version of the

>study into presentation materials for the committee.

>

> We implore you to be champions for true science, for the parents and

>vaccine injured children. We request open access to the VSD and we want all

>versions of the Verstraeten study allowed into a court of law so that the

>court can see the progression of these studies and come to conclusions on

>what these manipulations mean.

>

> What are the implications of your decision? In short, truth, justice and

>critically needed research.

>

> Truth - If we don't know what happened we can't prevent it from

>happening in the future. Learning from history separates the ignorant

>society from the learned society. Let us be the latter - for all of our

>futures.

>

> Justice - There are close to 5000 cases of mercury poisoned children

>(misdiagnosed as autistic) sitting in the Vaccine Court at the Department of

>Health and Human Services - the majority of which have been there for over

>two years. Your decision of whether or not to allow this critical evidence

>will determine the future of these children. Parents are going bankrupt,

>divorcing and sending their children to institutions because they can't pay

>for critically needed therapy and detoxification medical procedures. It is a

>travesty. You can be part of the problem or part of the solution.

>

> Research - Short and simple. If this mass poisoning is swept under the

>rug, the research to bring these kids back from the depths of poisoning in

>the safest most efficient way will never happen. We will continue to chelate

>and get heavy metals out in the best ways we know how but what if we miss

>something? For now, the damage is done. As taxpayers, we can pay for

>research now or for institutions later. But, if the NIH dedicates millions

>of dollars to solving this problem, can these young Americans live full

>lives? This is the " What if " question we want you to dream about with us.

>

> You hold the public trust in your able hands. Thank you for listening

>and for your consideration.

>

> Respectfully submitted,

> The National Autism Association

>

> Think Autism. Think Cure.

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