Stomping Through A Medical Minefield

Research:
Indicator 2.8a: Would you describe [child name]'s Autism or ASD as mild, moderate or severe? (details -- national level data only).

99.0% never had or currently do not have Autism, Asperger???s, PDD, other ASD.

0.5% have mild Autism, 0.4%'s Autism is moderate, and only 0.2%'s is severe.

WHY ARE WE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE AETIOLOGY, WHEN WE COULD MORE EASILY FIND A MEDICINE THAT TAKES SOME OF THE SENSITIVITY (thereby removing the pains that I believe make severe autism severe), SO THAT THEY CAN AT LEAST BE EDUCATED? I know better than to hope for jobs; THOSE chances are 15%.

http://www.nschdata.org/DataQuery/DataQueryResults.aspx

The face of a true pig......I was wondering what this monster looked like. Yes he looks like a child killer to me. Why don't we give him 100,000 doses of gardasil. Well actually imay only take a couple of injections to kill him. How the hell does he look at himself in the mirror. Knowing that he is destroying peoples lives. I think everyone at Merck, The CDC and The FDA should be subjects of their own clinical studies How about it offit. Go Poison yourself.

Oh, but what about Bonnie Offit? If she sticks with the "facts" what about the fact that she was on a commerical last summer for Merck promoting Gardasil for BOYS and it is not even FDA approved. Sure, Paul and Bonnie are ONLY trying to help THEMSELVES GET RICH!

Aw, poor Dr. Offit. All that money "like winning the lottery", and no thanks for all the "good" he thinks he is doing! That guy is a scam and should be right there in court along with the pharmaceutical companies once the truth comes to light. There's been no proven negative..... so we keep looking. Educate before you vaccinate.

'It is not easy, however, to trump human experience with science.'

Science IS human experience, in large quantities, measured objectively. But an individual will often over-value his own experience (or the alleged experience of a celebrity or media celebrity) over that of millions of others. It's stupid and irrational, but that's how it is. That's why irresponsible and scientifically illiterate news coverage is such a problem.

The powerful thing about science is that if you distrust the source of a study, you can look at the methodology and confirm that it's sound. There's no room for attacks based on who funded a study. That's solely the refuge of someone who can't provide actual evidence to refute the (peer-reviewed and vetted by numerous organizations of differing interests) data and analysis.

The vaccine's-cause-Ausism movement seem to have convinced a lot of people that the data are on their side--that science backs them up. That's scary, because it takes very little effort to see that's clearly not the case. Somehow, they've also shifted the burden of proof in an absurd manner. Perhaps we should stop wearing glasses until we have irrefutable, conclusive, unfunded (WTF?) studies proving they don't cause asthma?

Some anti-science like global warming deniers have a few scientifically valid points. Not so with the new McCarthyites. It's astonishing how prevalent this nonsense has become, thanks largely to a few media outlets refusing to do their homework, and a seeming general lack of scientific training in the journalist community (and the public at large).

Also, as to those studies that Dr. Offit mentions.... almost ALL of them were supported by funds from the pharmaceutical industry.... so I don't believe them! Until they get that money connection (which could be used to coerce the people doing the study to change the results, which has been PROVEN to have been done with some studies)...... I'm not going to trust those studies, and no one else should either.

Dr. Offit does selective research. That's what it comes down to. If I want to get a study with results that says the sky is red and the ocean is yellow, I can tweak a study that way. There is too much influence and bias in most of the studies because everyone sets out to prove that vaccines are indeed safe. I still have not seen a study that shows that the entire CDC vaccination schedule is safe for infants and toddlers. Why does the public not deserve at least that much instead of accusatory remarks for trying to protect the worlds' children? Some cases of autism are caused by vaccines and some are not. Let's figure this out already and stop hurting children as a result of our desire for easy, convenient solutions for everything in our modern lifestyles.

Children injured by vaccines are left to twist slowly in the wind. The CDC offers no medical treatments, no research into vaccine injury prevention. No doctors come to your home and examine your child. Instead you're told that regression and illness after shots is a coincidence.

So parents see their children hurting and start reading hours a day. They become educated about immunology, biochemistry, physiology, nutrition. They find some progressive physicians and try antivirals, nutritional supplements, anti-inflammatories, chelation -- and they watch their children get better. Again, they're told by mainstream medicine, i.e. vaccine sellers, that this is merely coincidence.

The more that parents read, they learn that the CDC's highly vaunted epidemiology is tainted by skewed statistics ordered by people who've left an incriminating trail of FOIA documents (www dot PutChildrenFirst dot org). They see the financial intertwining of pharmaceuticals and physicians' trade organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Ultimately, though, parents sadly see that the many good people networked in health care professions are not thinking outside the box. They hurriedly read the same CDC bullet points from press releases, and hope that someone further up the information chain is doing his or her job. If only they'd look... they'd see that no one is.

It should not be so difficult to get good people to listen to parents' vaccine injury reports. People who administer vaccines must stop being mesmerized by the mantra "the risks outweigh the benefits." Each "risk" is equivalent to an injured child.

The number of injured children is increasing. The myriad costs are rising exponentially. Our nation's economy cannot support this, much less individual families already stressed -- some to the breaking point (e.g. Ryan & Kyle Dutter).

The problem is not that autism is a mystery -- the problem is that most people don't like the answer. A product intended to improve health is having the opposite effect in many children.

Why won't the CDC listen to this reasonable statement, and learn why vaccine injury occurs so it can be prevented?

Here is a wonderful article on theis topic.

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/thimerosal.php

Oops, couple corrections. I did this from memory. The correct spelling is thimerosal and it is ethylmercury, not methylmercury. Sorry!

Autism isn't genetic. There was never a case of it before the 1940's, after hundreds of years of medical science. If it were genetic it would have shown up before then. However, people???s reaction to mercury is and anyone who looks at the toxicity tables for symptoms to mercury poisoning will see that they are almost a perfect match for autism and to a smaller extent ADHD.

Thimerasol is mercury. It was put in vaccines from the 1930's until 2002. There is a correlation in the abrupt increase in autism starting in the 1970's when the number of vaccines children receive was doubled by the government. There is nothing on the EPA website for toxicity levels for methyl mercury (Thimerasol) but for ethyl mercury it has been shown that children were receiving far higher levels than was safely recommended and that was before the EPA reduced their guidelines by half recently. When you tie that in to the levels of mercury already spewed into our environment by dirty coal plants (billions of tons every year, to the point where mercury warnings were implemented for fishermen and pregnant women) it is entirely possible that the chemicals used as preservatives in these multi dose vaccines did play a part. Statistical correlations put it high on the list of things to research.

Besides, how do you test for this exactly? You test things in vitro and in utero, meaning in a petri dish and with animal studies. How do you tell if a mouse has ADHD? Like to see it. The point is that this is something that parents need to be aware of. There are alternative vaccines that do not contain Thimerasol and should be aware of them and ask for them. I personally do not believe it is the vaccine itself that causes the problem but the preservatives used in it to kill off any contaminating biological organisms.

The truth is that there is no safe level of mercury to inject into a child???s bloodstream, period. Mercury has been known as a toxic and poisonous heavy metal for hundreds of years and parents should be aware of it when they get their government mandated shots. That way they are informed enough to ask for mercury free vaccines and flu shots. Ask your doctor.

Brianna88,

Of course Offit means antigens but he deliberately uses the word vaccines. I believe he does this so parents will think giving 9 different vaccines in one visit is A-OK. Imagine, 10,000 x the aluminum, thimerosal, MSG and all the other ingredients in vaccines. My son could not withstand the onslaught of the DTaP, MMR, Hib and Polio that he had in one visit. 10,000 of anything? As if! And what exactly would Paul Offit know about treating children with autism? He should stick to what he knows.

For pete's sake man, we don't threaten your life. I think your dung, but I don't want to kill you. I think your a liar, but I don't think you deserve to die. Now get it right. The Green Vaccine Movement is not about killing Dr. Paul Offit. Just shut your mouth, stop talking, we are not listening. The protesters are non violent. I have'nt heard of anyone taking a weapon to these protests. We are just concerned parents who want our voices heard. Stop calling us stupid. Stop saying we don't understand science. That we are mistaken. Well, if you had a child like thousands of us do, and you had to watch them, you would know the pain, and suffering of these children.You would understand the science of passion to find out whta is causing this reaction. We are not just pointing fingers at you to make your life miserable. We raelly believe there is something to what we are saying Instaed of tearing us down, help us build up our children. Stop. stop. stop, and think about what your doing before you continue to slander us.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18762240
According to this study, and the package insert to Rotateq.
Paul Offits vaccine should not even be used in autistic children!