This lucid and compelling article appeared in HSI Alert, a useful on-line publication. It offers a look at some of the nonsense purveyed by proponents of vaccination – despite the clear dangers of vaccines and the in spite of of the data or the dangers.
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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Posted by: “D.L. Bullock” d.l.bullock@sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:45 am (PST)
Dear Reader,
The vaccine crazies are out in force again. Hide your children!
Seriously ? hide your children.
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Vast wasteland
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) apparently doesn’t want you to
watch anything on television that runs contrary to their position in the
autism/vaccine debate.
AAP officials seem to believe that any bad news about vaccines ? even if
it’s in a completely fictional setting, such as a kooky comedy/drama ?
will prompt parents to refuse vaccines for their children.
The AAP recently attempted to goad ABC into self-censorship with an open
letter that implored ABC executives to cancel the premiere of “Eli
Stone” ? a new show that featured a subplot about a vaccine lawsuit. A
single mom, represented by lawyer and title character Eli, sues a drug
maker for producing a vaccine with a mercury-based preservative that was
given to her healthy son just before he displayed the first symptoms of
autism.
Happily, ABC execs didn’t cave (although I expect they thoroughly
enjoyed the free publicity), so I watched the show, and it was fun. Not
only did the mom win, she won big ($5.2 million), AND the drug company
executives and their smug top-dollar lawyers were completely humiliated.
In other words, it was a total fantasy.
A couple of days before the airing of the Eli Stone premiere, the AAP
issued a heavy- handed press release that included this ominous curse
(which is most effective when spoken in an overly-theatrical voice,
preferably in an echo chamber): “If parents watch this program and
choose to deny their children immunizations, ABC will share in the
responsibility for the suffering and deaths that occur as a result.”
Cue lightning effects and rolling thunder. The AAP has spoken!
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Hiding in plain sight
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The AAP press release also notes that no scientific link as been found
between vaccines and autism. And that’s primarily because organizations
like the AAP refuse to recognize existing evidence.
For instance, a 2003 study published in the Journal of the American
Association of Physicians and Surgeons examined extensive vaccination
data. Results showed that kids who receive just three vaccines
containing the preservative thimerosal are 27 times more likely to
develop autism compared to children who get vaccines with no thimerosal.
(Thimerosal breaks down into ethyl mercury in the body, and this is the
suspected culprit that triggers autism.)
So please ? enough with the nonsense that there’s no evidence. If you
WANT evidence, it’s there. It isn’t the ultimate evidence and it isn’t
the Last Word in this debate, but it’s there.
The mindset of “I see nothing” is evident in a new study that appears in
the current issue of Pediatrics ? the official journal of the AAP.
Researchers at the University of Rochester traveled to Argentina where
thimerosal is still used in vaccines for kids.
Researchers drew blood from more than 200 infants before and after
vaccination. Results showed that mercury levels were highest right after
the children received the vaccine, and then returned to normal within a
few weeks. This is offered as some kind of vindication of thimerosal
because mercury levels were lower than expected and dropped much faster
than expected.
But these results beg two glaringly obvious questions 1) How much
mercury might it take to trigger autism? No one knows. And 2): How long
might mercury need to be in the blood stream to trigger autism? An hour?
A year? No one knows.
The authors of the study also admit they don’t know what happened to the
mercury once it left the blood. No mercury turned up in the urine, and
the mercury content in stool samples spiked at first, but then dropped
much more slowly than mercury in the blood.
So where’s the mercury? The bones? The brain? The liver? The immune
system? All of the above? No one knows.
In addition, this study focused on one vaccination. But when U.S. kids
were getting vaccines that contained thimerosal, they routinely received
multiple shots given over a period of several years.
And here’s the best part of this thimerosal “vindication”: An Associated
Press article about the study notes that the lead author “received
research grants and served as a consultant to several vaccine makers,
but said there was no industry involvement in the new study.”
Right. In other words, any notion that this is anywhere close to a Last
Word in the autism/vaccine debate is completely out the window.
