Re: The LYING Wakefield and Thimerosal!


"Mark Probert" <mark.probert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1706ced3-9fd2-415d-a3fb-d2b73b38c76e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jun 29, 3:08 pm, Peter Parry <pe...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:25:42 -0700 (PDT), Citizen Jimserac

<Jimse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>" No, they did not, and the reason was quite simple (I keep it simple
>for simpletons). There was no need to. Thimerosal removal was based on
>the concerns that there would be a decrease in uptake, like that in
>England caused by the corrupt and lying Wakefield, which would cause a
>resurgence of the diseases. In England, that did happen, and the CDC &
>FDA were justly concerned. "

>Does anyone know what this is about before I start
>googling?

Andrew Wakefield, a Canadian trained surgeon, was employed as a reader
in experimental gastroenterology at London's Royal Free Hospital. He
was lead author on a 1998 study which reported bowel symptoms and the
presence of measles virus in a selected sample of twelve vaccinated
children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and other
disabilities. Although it was not mentioned in the study Wakefield
called a press conference at which he announced, rather to the
surprise of his co-authors, that the cause of autism was possibly MMR
and individual vaccines rather than MMR should be given.

The inevitable furore caused a significant drop in MMR uptake.
Subsequently it was revealed that Wakefield was being paid large sums
by solicitors for parents in the process of suing the manufacturers of
MMR vaccine and the children concerned were children of some of those
parents. He had also patented a "safer" single measles virus vaccine
a short time before the report was published.

10 of the reports 13 authors subsequently withdrew their names from
the study and the Lancet, which had published the study, withdrew it
when they became aware of the conflict of interest.

Later it was proven that actually no measles virus had been detected
during the study so its conclusions were unjustified. The samples
used for tests carried out by Dr O'Leary in Dublin were contaminated
in his laboratory (which has since closed) and this contamination
mislead the researchers.

In his study Wakefield also suppressed evidence from Dr. Stephen
Bustin, probably the worlds leading expert on work of the type carried
out at O'Learys commercial laboratory, which showed an absence of
measles virus in gut samples he analysed for Wakefield. Only after
Bustins negative findings did Wakefield use O'Leary (who was also
carrying out work for the same solicitors paying Wakefield).

In 2001 Wakefield resigned from the Royal Free and moved to America
where he worked at the self-styled International Child Development
Resource Center in Melbourne, Florida, as "director of research".
ICDRC sell various "nutritional supplements" which "supports brain
health at a cellular level" as treatments for autism.

Subsequently he participated in starting the Thoughtful House Center
for Children in Texas where he is currently Executive Director, still
selling "nutritional supplements" and earning considerably more than
he ever did in London.

He is currently subject to and part way through a disciplinary hearing
by the UK General Medical Council for suppressing and falsifying data
in his study as well as mistreating the children in the initial study.

Good summary, Peter. You negelcted to mention that Wakefield was told
that the samples had been contaminated, and theefore useless, before
he had the press conference, but, went ahead anyway with it.

Further, Jimmy is none too bright, and I do not know if he realizes
that 'solicitor' is the English version of 'lawyer'.

Wakefield also admitted that he paid kids for samples.

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/facts­heets/thimerosalqa.htm

Infectious Diseases (NIAID); The American Academy of Pediatrics; and vaccine
manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be reduced or eliminated in
vaccines as a precautionary measure and to reduce exposure to mercury from
all sources. This decision was based on the various Federal guidelines for
methyl mercury exposure and the assumption that the health risks from methyl
and ethyl mercury were the same. More research is needed to determine if the
guidelines for methyl mercury are also appropriate guidelines for
thimerosal. NIAID thimerosal research focuses on better understanding what
happens to thimerosal once it is introduced in the body and how this
compares to current knowledge of methyl mercury pathways.

http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news473.html

Thursday July 8 5:49 PM ET
Mercury to be removed from vaccines
NEW YORK, Jul 08 (Reuters Health) -- The US Public Health Service (PHS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have asked vaccine manufacturers to phase out a mercury-containing preservative that has been used in some vaccines since the 1940s.
The preservative, thimerosal, has not been shown to harm children, but some infants under age 6 months may be exposed to mercury levels in excess of federal guidelines with the current recommended immunization schedule. However, ``children who have received thimerosal-containing vaccines do not need to be tested for mercury exposure,'' according to a joint AAP/PHS statement.
Health officials advise parents to continue their children's immunization programs, because the risk of not immunizing children far outweighs the small risk posed by thimerosal.
``Terrible childhood diseases like whooping cough, bacterial meningitis, polio and diphtheria are waiting for us to let our guard down,'' according to a statement issued by Dr. David Satcher, the US. Surgeon General. ``The risk of devastating childhood diseases from failure to vaccinate far outweighs the minimal, if any, risk of exposure to cumulative levels of mercury in vaccines.''
The joint AAP/PHS statement on thimerosal in vaccines appears in the July 9th Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the weekly publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Stories from the MMWR are available at the CDC website, www.cdc.gov.
The report's authors note that European regulatory community reached similar conclusions earlier this year.
In a statement, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) note that while there is currently ``no clinical evidence that the use of thimerosal has caused adverse health consequences, there is general consensus that it would be preferable to eliminate thimerosal from vaccines whenever possible. The vaccine industry is working closely with FDA and other government agencies to meet this objective.''

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The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a critique of the Geiers'

paper on thimerosal. It can be accessed at

http://www.cispimmunize.org/pro/pdf/Geiersummary.pdf .

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Safe Minds Commentary on AAP Critique of Geier & Geier Thimerosal Paper





The American Academy of Pediatrics negative response to the Geier &

Geier article linking thimerosal in DTPs to autism and speech disorders

(http://www.cispimmunize.org/pro/pdf/Geiersummary.pdf) is not surprising

given the AAP's central role in promoting childhood immunizations. In

an effort to clear thimerosal in vaccines of any role in

neurodevelopmental disorders when studies establishing thimerosal's

safety do not exist, the AAP relies on a number of distortions and

inaccuracies. Many points made in the response would need to be answered

by Drs. Geier & Geier, but several should be addressed immediately.



(a) The AAP paper asserts that the VAERS data base is only valid for

hypothesis generation. If so, then at the very least the Geiers' paper

should be viewed by the AAP as advancing a strong hypothesis. If they

were truly unbiased, the AAP should be asking for follow up controlled

trials to be initiated immediately to see if the hypothesis is true

rather than dismissing it out of hand. Moreover, it is the AAP's own

members who do such a poor job of reporting adverse events to VAERS. If

the AAP were sincerely interested in vaccine safety investigations, they

could improve the quality of VAERS dramatically by requiring their

members to report.



(b) The AAP paper says "(Note: neither the original preliminary VSD

study of thimerosal and neurodevelopmental disorders nor any of the

follow-up expanded studies identified a "signal" indicating any

association between thimerosal and autism.)" This is simply not true.

The first VSD analysis gave a relative risk for autism of 2.48. The VSD

thimerosal study protocol, written by the authors before results were

in, clearly states that a RR higher than 2.0, even if not statistically

significant, constitutes a signal which should be investigated in a

phase II study that would confirm or not confirm the association. This

phase II study has never been initiated by CDC. In fact, there are no

"expanded" VSD studies - the CDC merely divided up the data sets from

the HMOs studied, which resulted in insufficient numbers of cases to

reach statistical significance for any given HMO.



(c) The AAP says: "Research to date involving refined, controlled

studies in large populations of patients has failed to demonstrate any

association between vaccines that may have used thimerosal as a

preservative and neurodevelopmental disorders including autism." Again,

this statement is false. There are no large controlled studies which

have investigated thimerosal and developmental disorders. (The VSD

analysis was a retrospective cohort study.)



(d) The AAP critique explains that any study on this topic "must be

published in respected and widely read journals because of the great

general interest today in vaccine safety." Yet they go on to cite the

recently published review by Nelson and Bauman in their own newsletter

which they assert "casts doubt on the biologic plausibility of symptom

similarities between mercury poisoning and autism." The Nelson and

Bauman commentary was an invited article and was not subjected to peer

review.



(e) In what appears to be a Freudian slip, the AAP says "the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, American Academy of Pediatrics, National

Institutes of Health, and US Public Health Service have continued to

investigate this issue to put theoretic concerns about this

mercury-containing compound to rest." It is hoped that these agencies

would be investigating this issue to find out the truth, not to lay the

issue to rest. The fact that these agencies have every reason to conduct

research with a hidden agenda is the reason why investigations of

thimerosal and vaccine safety need to be conducted by unbiased

researchers with no conflicts of interest.



(f) The AAP does admit that "Comparing the occurrence of late onset,

chronic conditions like autism by using acute vaccine reactions like

fever, pain, and vomiting...as controls makes no sense as a measure of

relative adverse event rates." Given that late onset, chronic conditions

are very different from immediate, acute ones, perhaps the AAP could

voice support for requiring vaccine safety trials by manufacturers to

extend beyond the current practice of 60 days and to include monitoring

of chronic conditions. Then parents might have more confidence in the

never-ending assurances by the public health authorities that vaccines

are indeed safe.



Sallie Bernard

Safe Minds



http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari/vaccine/thimerosalreferences.htm



The Vaccine-Autism Connection - Part I (Thimerosal)
Read and download an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file

BERNARD RIMLAND, Ph.D., Director

April, 2004

Partial list of studies linking thimerosal to Autism

The Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued a statement asserting that "the available scientific evidence has not shown thimerosal-containing vaccines to be harmful." Their statement is false. Following are some of the scientific studies that demonstrate thimerosal, a mercury-containing substance that is used as a preservative, to be harmful and to be a highly probably causal factor in autism. Note that these studies are consistently ignored in the medical establishment's publications claiming that there is no evidence for vaccine-caused autism.

Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T. Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Med. Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71. PMID: 11339848

Geier DA, Geier MR. An assessment of the impact of thimerosal on childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. Pediatr Rehabil. 2003 Apr-Jun;6(2):97-102. PMID: 14534046

Geier MR, Geier DA. Neurodevelopmental disorders after thimerosal-containing vaccines: a brief communication. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2003 Jun;228(6):660-4. PMID: 12773696

Geier & Geier. Parents' worries about thimerosal in vaccines are well founded! http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/112/6/1394

David Baskin, M.D. et al. Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, caspase-3 activation, membrane damage, and cell death in cultured human neurons and fibroblasts. Toxicol Sci. 2003 Aug;74(2):361-8. Epub 2003 May 28. PMID: 12773768

Mady Hornig, M.D Etiologic factors and pathogenesis of autism: evidence from clinical studies and animal models. IOM presentation, Feb 9 2004 Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19108

Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. Effects of Mercury on Methionine Synthase: Implications for Disordered Methylation in Autism DAN! 2003 Philadelphia - paper

Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. A Link Between Thimerosal and the Brain: Can Vaccines Affect Central Nervous System Function? Molecular Psychiatry 2004, Volume 9.

Vojdani A, Pangborn JB et al. Infections, toxic chemicals and dietary peptides binding to lymphocyte receptors and tissue enzymes are major instigators of autoimmunity in autism. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2003 Sep-Dec;16(3):189-99. PMID: 14611720

Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. A Case-control Study of Mercury Burden in Children with Autistic Disorders and Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Children with Regressive Autism. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004
Slides: http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3793/4705/17047/18065.aspx

Valsamakis A et al. style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Altered virulence of vaccine strains of measles virus after prolonged style='mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>replication in human tissue. J Virol. 1999 73(10): 8791-7. PMID 10482633 http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/73/10/8791.pdf

The CDC's original findings before the CDC began to manipulate the data, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act: High risk values for thimerosal injections and a range of neurologic problems, including ADHD, tics, language problems, and autism. http://factsformedia.com/factsformedia/thimerosalstudy.pdf

Excerpts from CDC's in-house conference: Thimerosal sequelae http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/IOM%20Simpsonwood%20in%20bold.pdf

Congressman, Dr. Weldon's letter to the CDC director, available at: http://momsonamissionforautism.org/Autism_Central/Dr_Weldon_Responds.shtml

Institute of Medicine presentation of Congressman Dave Weldon, M.D.
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/Weldon.pdf

Geier MR, Geier DA. Autism and thimerosal-containing vaccines: analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004.
Slides: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18392
Audio: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19120

David Baskin, M.D. Relation of Neurotoxic Effects of Thimerosal to Autism. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004.
Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19124



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