Re: More *organized medicine* so-call PROOF of Safety See the truth


"Mark Probert" <mark.probert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:32a95fd8-ea29-49ae-8f24-3e8cbda0e20f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jp7ZD1RFVm7yOzgaB04Ra4dY_ZuQD95UKPPG0

Study adds to evidence of vaccine safety
By CARLA K. JOHNSON – 5 hours ago

CHICAGO (AP) — A new study from Italy adds to a mountain of evidence
that a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines doesn't
hurt children, offering more reassurance to parents.

In the early 1990s, thousands of healthy Italian babies in a study of
whooping cough vaccines got two different amounts of the preservative
thimerosal (pronounced thih-MEHR'-uh-sawl) from all their routine
shots.

Ten years later, 1,403 of those children took a battery of brain
function tests. Researchers found small differences in only two of 24
measurements and those "might be attributable to chance," they wrote
in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics, which was released
Monday.

Only one case of autism was found, and that was in the group that got
the lower level of thimerosal.

Autism is a complex disorder featuring repetitive behaviors and poor
social interaction and communication skills. Scientists generally
believe genetics plays a role in causing the disorder; a theory that
thimerosal is to blame has been repeatedly discounted in scientific
studies.

"Put together with the evidence of all the other studies, this tells
us there is no reason to worry about the effect of thimerosal in
vaccines," said the new study's lead author, Dr. Alberto Tozzi of
Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome.

The debate over thimerosal and autism has been much stronger in the
United States than in Italy, Tozzi said. But the researchers
recognized a chance to examine the issue by going back to the children
who had taken part in the 1990s whooping cough research.

Randomization sets the new study apart. The random assignment of
children rules out the chance that factors other than thimerosal, such
as education or poverty, caused the results.

Thimerosal, used in some vaccines to prevent the growth of bacteria
and fungus, hasn't been in U.S. childhood vaccines since 2001, except
for certain flu shots. Italy and other European nations began removing
it in 1999. U.S. health officials recommended the removal of
thimerosal as a precaution and to reduce the overall exposure of
children to mercury.

Safety regulations still require multi-dose vials of vaccines to
contain some type of preservative to prevent the spread of infection
from contaminated vials.

The study, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, drew praise from outside experts.

"It's yet another well done, peer-reviewed research study that has
demonstrated there is no risk of any neurodevelopmental outcomes
associated with thimerosal in vaccines," said epidemiologist Jennifer
Pinto-Martin of the University of Pennsylvania.

"This becomes the fourth study to look for subtle signs of mercury
toxicity and show the answer was 'no,'" said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of
infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the
author of a book on autism research and the co-inventor of a rotavirus
vaccine.

Tozzi said comparing children with no exposure to thimerosal could
have improved the study. "However, if thimerosal were a cause of harm,
it is likely that this effect would increase with the administered
dose," he said.

The children received either 62.5 micrograms or 137.5 micrograms of
ethyl mercury from all their shots during their first year of life.
Thimerosal breaks down as ethyl mercury in the body. Before the
reduction of thimerosal in the United States, the maximum exposure for
infants was 187.5 micrograms of ethyl mercury.

The researchers found the children in both groups scored, on average,
in the normal range on 11 tests of memory, attention, motor skills and
other brain functions.

Those 11 tests included 24 measured outcomes. Small, but statistical
differences were found for only two of those areas, and only for
girls. The girls with higher exposure scored worse on a finger-tapping
test with their dominant hands, and on a vocabulary test in which they
were asked to name common objects.

There was no difference in boys on those outcomes or others.
Researchers also found no difference in tic disorders. And the one
autism case found in the lower-intake group was likely a chance
finding, Tozzi said.

Pediatrics *Organized medicine*

Do you get an annual Flu Shot?

One of the most dramatic contributors to our chemical load is vaccinations. There is growing controversy surrounding this topic. Many questions have not been answered to the satisfaction of vaccination.

http://intentionmethod.blogspot.com/2008/04/chemical-stress-part-1.html

Chemical Stress Part 1
Because this is the most hidden form of stress (and most misunderstood), we will spend a large amount of time here in an attempt to bring awareness to this topic. Knowledge is power and avoiding or at least being conscious of chemical stress can greatly affect our overall health.

As a society, our chemical load has increased tremendously over the last 50 to 100 years. This type of stress bombards us each and every day and can originate from a variety of sources like our environment, nature, vaccinations, drugs/medications (legal & illegal), personal hygiene products and our food.

Our environment adds to our tension levels in a number of ways. There are toxins in our air and drinking water that cause us stress when we ingest them. Drinking water, unless distilled or purified, will increase your chemical load with each sip. For example, chlorine & fluoride are commonly added to our water supply. Chlorine, which is used to help sanitize the water, kills the good bacteria in our digestive tract and also reacts to other substances in the water to become toxins that have been linked to asthma & various forms of cancer. Fluoride, which is added to supposedly help fight tooth decay, is a poison in the same class as the deadly arsenic and cyanide. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - categorizes fluoride as "a drinking water contaminant" which may be linked to osteoporosis, cancer and a higher infant mortality rate. Finland, Germany, France, Sweden and The Netherlands have all banned fluoridation in their water supply due to its dangers and lack of evidence of its effectiveness to actually help tooth decay.

Many cities and counties are now using reclaimed water for use by their population, which has created a number of problems. Recent headlines pointed out the fact that traces of prescription drugs were found in the water supply of many urban areas. Also, it is not unusual for bacteria linked to feces, like E-Coli, to be found in our tap water.

Other ecological stressors include the effects of increasing radiation levels from the sun, which have been measured for years. Extreme environmental conditions, like heat & cold, can cause major problems (heat stroke & frost bite). Also, due to technological advances, a negative effect on us has been created from electro-magnetic radiation (from cell phones, radio waves, microwaves, etc.), which is constantly in our immediate surroundings.

Anyone who suffers from seasonal allergies is well aware that nature can be a major cause of our chemical stress. By dispersing pollen to create hay fever during “allergy season”, nature can cause an incredibly uncomfortable response for some. Also, the sting or bite of an insect or animal may cause a slight negative reaction for some while it can be extremely dangerous for others (anaphylactic shock, Rabies, Lyme Disease, etc.).


http://intentionmethod.blogspot.com/2008/04/chemical-stress-part-2.html

Chemical Stress Part 2
Do you get an annual Flu Shot? One of the most dramatic contributors to our chemical load is vaccinations. There is growing controversy surrounding this topic. Many questions have not been answered to the satisfaction of vaccination critics. For example: Are they safe? What are the long-term effects of mass vaccination to our society? Do they actually work to prevent disease?

The 2007 immunization schedule put out by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), called for 68 vaccine injections to be given to all children by the age of 18 (36 of which are to be administered by the age of 18 months). These shots were not designed to cause us harm, however, often times they do. A quick look at some of the components of these injections will make it clear how these negative responses are possible. Here is a partial ingredient list for the majority of shots that are routinely given to our population:

· Formaldehyde: A carcinogenic embalming fluid according to the 2007 Physicians Desk Reference (PDR). May cause nerve, liver and kidney damage.
· Antifreeze (phenol-phenoxyethanol): Neuro-toxin that also affects the liver and kidneys.
· Mercury (thimerosal): One of the most poisonous substances known. Can cause permanent nerve damage and autoimmune disorders.
· Aluminum: Potent neurotoxin that causes brain damage and is linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
· Ammonium sulfate: Suspected gastrointestinal and/or liver toxin, neurotoxin and respiratory irritant.
· Polysorbate 80: Known to cause cancer in animals.
· Glutaraldehyde: Caused birth defects in animal experiments.
· MSG (monosodium glutamate): Neurotoxin that many people have mild to severe allergies to.
· Human & Animal DNA & Cells: This is the active part of the vaccine according to the 2007 PDR. Includes lung cells of aborted human fetus, human blood, infected human cells, kidneys of African green monkeys, infected animal cells from monkey, pig, calf, canary, rabbit, chicken and guinea pig.

Drugs, both legal & illegal, can lead to an enormous amount of stress on us. The failed “War on Drugs” has been officially going on since the early 1980’s & the risks of doing drugs has been embedded into most of us for many years now. The risk of alcohol and tobacco use is also well known due to increased education & awareness over the last few decades.

Prescription and over-the-counter medications absolutely raise our overall chemical load as well. Thanks to all of the television ads that must verbalize the long list of possible negative reactions caused by each specific drug, these negative side effects from taking medications are now just beginning to gain recognition.

Personal hygiene products can be a large source of chemical stress. Do you use hairspray, hair gel, shampoo, hand & body soap? How about make-up, perfume, cologne, shaving cream and after shave lotion? Look at the ingredient list of these daily personal products and you will learn that you are absorbing some chemicals that you probably were not aware of. For example, most deodorants and antiperspirants contain a wide range of harsh chemicals including aluminum. Most toothpaste also contains fluoride (and you probably rinse with fluoridated water). Start reading labels on these types of products & educate yourself about what you are being exposed to.


http://theresma.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80EE15D075B65A13!361.entry

June 20
CDC Admits Thimerosal Safety Study Flawed
.... so basically, you can't trust anything they've said about how safe thimerosal is, or vaccines are. They've been doing the bidding of Big Pharma all along, in addition to their own pathological quest to vaccinate everyone against everything as soon after birth as possible (as if there is no other way to prevent diseases, and as if vaccines are harmless).

Click through the link to read David Kirby's piece on the Huffington Post.

Quote

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/cdc-vaccine-study-design_b_108398.html

CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has delivered a potentially explosive report to the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in which she admits to a startling string of errors in the design and methods used in the CDC's landmark 2003 study that found no link between mercury in vaccines and autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics.

Gerberding was responding to a 2006 report from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which concluded that the CDC's flagship thimerosal safety study was riddled with "several areas of weaknesses" that combined to "reduce the usefulness" of the study.

"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote in an undated mea culpa to Congress, (provided to me through a Capitol Hill staffer) adding that her agency "does not plan to use" the database in question, the Vaccine Safety Datalink, (VSD) for any future "ecological studies" of autism.

In fact, Gerberding's report said, any continued use of the VSD for similar ecological studies of vaccines and autism "would be uninformative and potentially misleading."

Ecological vaccine studies are large, epidemiological analyses of risks and trends using computerized data from large populations -- in this case children enrolled at several big HMOs -- without ever examining a single patient in person.

CDC officials conducted at least five separate analyses of the data over a four-year period from 1999-2003. The first analysis showed that children exposed to the most thimerosal by one month of age had extremely high relative risks for a number of outcomes, compared with children who got little or no mercury: The relative risk for ADHD was 8.29 times higher, for autism, it was 7.62 times higher, ADD, 6.38 times higher, tics, 5.65 times, and speech and language delays were 2.09 more likely among kids who got the most mercury.

Over time, however, all of these risks declined into statistical insignificance, statistical inconsistency or else outright oblivion: The relative risk for autism plummeted from 7.62 in the first analysis, to 2.48 in the second version, to 1.69 in the third round, to 1.52 in the fourth, and down to nothing at all in the fifth, final, and published analysis printed in the Journal Pediatrics in November of 2003.

Vaccine officials attributed the steady drop to the elimination of "statistical noise" from the data through due diligence and the endeavor for excellence in governmental statistical analysis.

Indeed, the VSD study was the main pillar of a hugely influential 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine, which also concluded that there was no evidence of link between mercury, vaccines and autism.

To this day, public health officials routinely point to five "large epidemiological studies" representing the "highest quality science," none of which found any link to thimerosal.

In fact, the American VSD study has long been held up as the best and brightest of them all (the others were in Sweden, the UK, and two in Denmark). And this reputation has stuck in the minds of medicine and the media.

Curiously though, even the study's lead author -- Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, an employee of vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline -- protested that the VSD study "found no evidence against an association, as a negative study would. In fact, he said that additional study was needed, which "is the conclusion to which a neutral study must come."

That's when Congress stepped in.

In 2005, a group of Senators and Representatives headed by Sen. Joe Lieberman wrote to the NIEHS (an agency of the National Institutes of Health) saying that many parents no longer trusted the CDC to conduct independent minded studies of its own vaccine program. Lieberman et al asked NIEHS to review the CDC's work on the vaccine database and report back with critiques and suggestions.

The final NIEHS report was a serious and thoughtful critique of where the CDC went wrong in its design, conduct and analysis of the study. The NIEHS panel "identified several serious problems," with the CDC's effort, criticism to which the agency had not responded -- until now.

In her letter to the House Appropriations Committee, the CDC Director responded directly to many -- though not all -- of the most important criticisms and recommendations contained in the NIEHS panel report.

For example, the NIEHS had criticized CDC for failing to account for other mercury exposures, including maternal sources from flu shots and immune globulin, as well as mercury in food and the environment.

"CDC acknowledges this concern and recognizes this limitation," the Gerberding reply says.

The NIEHS also took CDC to task for eliminating 25% of the study population for a variety of reasons, even though this represented, "a susceptible population whose removal from the analysis might unintentionally reduce the ability to detect an effect of thimerosal." This strict entry criteria likely led to an "under-ascertainment" of autism cases, the NIEHS reported.

"CDC concurs," Gerberding wrote, again noting that its study design was "not appropriate for studying this vaccine safety topic. The data are intended for administrative purposes and may not be predictive of the outcomes studied."

Another serious problem was that the HMOs changed the way they tracked and recorded autism diagnoses over time, including during the period when vaccine mercury levels were in decline. Such changes could "affect the observed rate of autism and could confound or distort trends in autism rates," the NIEHS warned.

"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote again, "that conducting an ecologic analysis using VSD administrative data to address potential associations between thimerosal exposure and risk of ASD is not useful."

Read that sentence one more time. The head of the CDC is saying that its most powerful and convincing piece of exonerating evidence for thimerosal is, in effect, "useless."

I hope everyone will read it, including the recommendations to make the VSD better, and the CDC's agreement with all of the suggestions.

As questionable at the US thimerosal study was, "it was an improvement on other studies, including the two in Denmark, both of which had serious weaknesses in their designs," Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Professor of Public Health at UC Davis Medical School and Chair of the NIEHS panel, told reporter Dan Olmsted at UPI.

That leaves very little for the CDC to go on in terms of proving that thimerosal and autism are not associated in any way.

Yes, there is always the study of disability services data from California -- which seem to be rising among the youngest cohorts of kids, who presumably received little or no mercury because thimerosal was largely removed from childhood shots.

But California is an "ecological study" with problems of its own.

"Although (this) information is often used by media and research entities to develop statistics and draw conclusions, some of these findings may misrepresent the quarterly figures," cautions the website of the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS). "Increases in the number of persons reported from one quarter to the next do not necessarily represent persons who are new to the DDS system."

Even the CDC admits that "there are several limitations" with linking a VSD study design with the California data, Gerberding wrote to Congress, because, among other things, California only counts "persons who were referred to and/or voluntarily entered" the disability system."

It will be interesting to see how the House Committee -- and the mainstream media -- react to this rather breathtaking confession by the CDC, which does seem to want to conduct the best vaccine-autism science possible (see Gerberding's replies to NIEHS recommendations for improving the VSD: CDC officials are currently conducting in- depth follow up studies with VSD patients).

As the waning months of the Bush administration get underway, I can't help but wonder if a little housecleaning might be going on at some of our top health agencies.

http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/

Read them all. Here is just a few

http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/071029_ThimerosalCausesMercuryPoisoning_XVI_RebutalToSufferTheLittleChildrenNoMore-b.pdf

http://www.jpands.org/vol11no1/geier.pdf

http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/080305_UpdtdRevu_Vaccns&Autsm_Myths&Miscncptns_DrNovllb.pdf

http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/080127_PGKsrevu_VaccinationsAreStillNeededForKids_byMegFisher_b.pdf

http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/071218_PGKrevuVaccinesAutism_MythsMisconceptionsByNovellaSb.pdf

http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/071128_Reviewof_Parentaldilema_Togetkidsimmunizedornot_b.pdf

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