Sad attempts to try TRASHING of NVIC

[from the disbarred lawyer...with 22 counts of professional misconduct]

http://www.909shot.com/About.htm

.. . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will
to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today,
there will be no limit on what individual freedoms the State can take away
in the name of the greater good tomorrow."
- Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder NVIC


ABOUT NVIC

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a national, non-profit
educational organization founded in 1982. Located in Vienna, Virginia, NVIC
is the oldest and largest parent-led organization advocating reformation of
the mass vaccination system and is responsible for launching the vaccine
safety movement in America in the early 1980's.

OUR MISSION

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is dedicated to the
prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. NVIC
provides assistance to parents whose children have suffered vaccine
reactions; promotes research to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness as
well as to identify factors which place individuals at high risk for
suffering vaccine reactions; and monitors vaccine research, development,
policy-making and legislation. NVIC supports the right of citizens to
exercise informed consent and make educated, independent vaccination
decisions for themselves and their children.

Barbara Loe Fisher is Co-Founder and President of the National Vaccine
Information Center.

Kathi Williams is Co-Founder, Vice President and Director of NVIC.



HISTORY OF NVIC

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a national, non-profit
educational organization founded in 1982 by parents whose children were
injured or died following vaccine reactions. Located in Vienna, Virginia,
this charitable organization is dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and
deaths through public education and defending the human right to informed
consent to vaccination. NVIC receives no corporate, federal or state grants
and survives entirely on memberships and donations made by individuals for
information that is researched, produced and made available to the public.

NVIC provides assistance to parents whose children have suffered vaccine
reactions; promotes research to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness as
well as to identify factors which place individuals at high risk for
suffering vaccine reactions; and serves as a consumer "watchdog" by
monitoring vaccine research, development, policymaking and legislation. NVIC
supports the right of citizens to make educated, independent vaccination
decisions for themselves and their children.

The oldest and largest national organization advocating that vaccine safety
reforms be instituted in the mass vaccination system and that Americans be
free to make informed vaccination choices, NVIC's co-founders worked with
federal legislators to help create and pass the National Childhood Vaccine
Injury Act of 1986. This law set up a vaccine injury compensation program
and included legal requirements for vaccine providers to: (1) provide
benefit and risk information to parents before children are vaccinated; (2)
keep written records of vaccine manufacturer names and lot numbers for each
vaccination given; and (3) report adverse events following vaccination to
the government. The law also preserved the right for vaccine injured persons
to bring a lawsuit in the court system if federal compensation is denied or
is not sufficient. By 2004, the U.S. Court of Claims had awarded over 1,200
vaccine victims $1.5 billion dollars for their catastrophic vaccine
injuries.

NVIC's co-founders have represented consumers on vaccine advisory committees
such as the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, the National Vaccine
Advisory Committee and the Institute of Medicine's Vaccine Safety Forum. In
1989, the organization held an International Scientific Workshop attended by
eminent epidemiologists, neuroimmunologists, molecular biologists,
bacteriologists and neuropathologists to evaluate the neurological
complications of pertussis and the whole cell pertussis vaccine. In 1996,
NVIC realized a major goal when, after 14 years of public advocacy work, the
FDA finally licensed a purified pertussis vaccine (DTaP vaccine) for
American babies.

In 1997, NVIC held the First International Public Conference on Vaccination,
which brought together more than 500 doctors, scientists, health officials,
lawyers, ethicists, journalists and parents from 34 states and five
countries to the US Capitol to present new scientific data about vaccines
and diseases and discuss the biological mechanism of vaccine-induced injury,
death and chronic illness. NVIC held major medical conferences in 2000 and
2002.

NVIC is working for wider recognition that well-designed, independent,
on-going scientific investigation must be conducted to define the biological
mechanism of vaccine injury and death and evaluate the chronic, long-term
effects of multiple vaccination on individuals and the public health. NVIC
is calling for government funding of independent researchers to investigate
the reported links between vaccines and neurological and autoimmune
disorders, including learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder,
autism, asthma, diabetes, otitis media, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Crohn's
disease (intestinal disorders), chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid
arthritis, Alzheimer's, cancer, AIDS, Gulf War syndrome, personality
disorders and other autoimmune and brain dysfunction which has been
associated with vaccination.

NVIC also supports the institution of an independent public oversight
mechanism to monitor vaccine research, development, regulation, policymaking
and promotion by federal and state public health agencies and as well as
independent, non-governmental monitoring of adverse events associated with
vaccination.

NVIC continues to represent the vaccine safety concerns of families with
vaccine-injured children as well as those who want to protect their children
from vaccine injury. Most importantly, NVIC defends the human right of all
people to make informed, voluntary decisions about medical interventions
which can cause injury or death, including vaccination.

Since 1982, NVIC has provided information about diseases and vaccines to
hundreds of thousands of parents, health care providers and other
individuals who have contacted our organization. We hope the information
provided to you in this web site will help you make an informed vaccination
decision for yourself or for someone you care about.




http://www.909shot.com/Loe_Fisher/blf0804vsd.htm

Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-founder & President
National Vaccine Information Center
August 23, 2004

Institute of Medicine Committee of NIP's Procedures
and Data Sharing Program
Keck Center of the National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
My name is Barbara Loe Fisher. I am the mother of a DPT vaccine injured son
and co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a
national, non-profit organization founded by parents of vaccine injured
children in 1982 and dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths
through public education. It was more than two decades ago that parents of
vaccine injured children launched a national, grassroots movement to
institute safety reforms in America's mass vaccination system, which began
in 1985 with the publishing of DPT: A Shot in the Dark followed by passage
of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act signed into law by President
Reagan in 1986 and highlighted by not only the licensing of the acellular
DTaP vaccine for babies in 1996 and the replacement of live oral polio
vaccine with inactivated polio vaccine in 1999, but now with an expanding
public awareness that the ever increasing numbers of vaccines recommended by
government health officials over the past quarter century are associated
with increases in chronic disease and disability, including learning
disabilities, attention deficit disorder, autism, asthma and diabetes.

With heightened public awareness that many of the world's most highly
vaccinated children are contracting far fewer infections in childhood but
are growing up chronically ill with various kinds of brain and immune system
dysfunction, there is careful scrutiny by parents of the science and public
policy which supports the mass use of multiple vaccines by all children. And
this increased parental scrutiny of vaccine science and policy has resulted
in a significant number of parents, whose once healthy children regressed
after vaccination, questioning and publicly criticizing the quality and
integrity of that science and policy. And with that public questioning and
criticism, has come a massive, coordinated defense by the health care
professionals, institutions and corporations who operate the nation's mass
vaccination program. At stake: the public trust and confidence that what
public health officials and doctors tell them is true about the safety and
effectiveness of vaccines is, in fact, true.

Trust is a fragile, almost indefinable commodity. Trust is what we do when
we believe in something or someone enough to take a risk. It often requires
a leap of faith quite separate from the numbers used to come up with
statistical benefit and risk analyses. Trust, once lost, is very hard to
regain. And so, for institutions and corporations to keep the public trust
they must behave and respond to public questions and criticism in ways that
reinforce and instill confidence in the truthfulness and integrity of what
they are saying and doing, particularly when the lives and health of
children are involved.

The responsibility, then, for ensuring public faith in the mass vaccination
system lies with those operating the mass vaccination system and not with
those who are questioning the integrity of it. Blaming the victim is not an
option here, not if the crisis of faith in the system is going to be
effectively addressed and solved.

I would like to examine, then, the basis for the eroding trust in the mass
vaccination system as it applies to the subject at hand: the ethics and
procedures that government is using to share data contained in a government
operated vaccine risk assessment database known as the Vaccine Safety
Datalink. But before I go to the VSD specifically, I want to review a few
facts which precede this IOM Committee meeting and have led to a climate of
distrust which prompted six parent groups to hold a press conference outside
this building this morning. There is a fear by many parents of children with
vaccine associated autism that this IOM Committee has been assembled at the
request of government to continue to deny the public access to government
held data about vaccine risks and to use the conclusions of this Committee
to deny parents of vaccine injured children compensation in the federal
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

What is the basis of this fear?

SLIDE: D.A. Henderson, M.D., on DPT Vaccine Reactions:
" We do not find evidence of any long term brain damage, none at all.
We do not see evidence of seizure disorders."
-Transcript of NBC "NOW Show", March 2, 1994

First: There is a long history of denial by government health officials that
vaccines cause brain injury, immune system dysfunction and death as
evidenced by congressional testimony and public statements by federal health
officials beginning in the early 1980's, when they vigorously opposed the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 created by Congress; when they
rewrote the definition for brain injury in 1995 to help them fight every
vaccine injury claim in the no-fault federal Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program and now as they join with industry in the Brighton Collaboration,
which is further re-writing the definition of what qualifies as a vaccine
reaction leading to permanent injury. This pattern of denial of vaccine
risks is most clearly manifested in the refusal by federal health agencies
to fund or conduct vaccine risk research into the biological mechanisms for
vaccine injury and death in order to develop pathological profiles to
separate out what is and is not vaccine-induced as well as identify genetic
and other high risk factors to screen out the biologically vulnerable.
Instead, the CDC relies almost exclusively on closed government databases as
well as methodologically flawed epidemiological studies using retrospective
case analyses of old medical records to come up with key vaccine risk
assessment conclusions that almost always deny any association between
vaccines and significant health problems.

SLIDE: AUTISM A.L.A.R.M.
1 out of 6 children are diagnosed with a developmental disorder and/or
behavioral problem;
1 in 166 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder

Second: This year government health officials and the American Academy of
Pediatrics put out an Autism Alarm to the public announcing that 1 in 6
children in America have been diagnosed with a developmental disorder or
behavioral problem and 1 in 166 children has been diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder, which represents a stunning 200 to 7,000 percent increase
in autism in every state over the past two decades.

Third: More and more parents are reporting that their healthy children are
regressing into autism following vaccination and there nearly 5,000 autism
vaccine injury cases pending in the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers
the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program; and

Fourth: Research conducted by independent non-government, non-industry
academic researchers at major universities are finding that vaccines can
cause brain and immune system damage leading to neurodevelopmental disorders
such as autism; and

SLIDE: Thimerosal Containing Vaccines and Health Problems
Unpublished VSD Data
· stammering
· tics
· sleep disorders
· eating disorders
· emotional disturbances
· attention deficit disorder
· speech and language disorders
· coordination problems
· seizures
· autism
· other significant health problems


Fifth: Parents, Congress and the Institute of Medicine have evidence that
the government's own vaccine risk assessment database, the Vaccine Safety
Datalink, detected a statistically significant association between
thimerosal containing vaccines and developmental and behavior disorders,
including stammering, tics, sleep disorders, eating disorders, emotional
disturbances, attention deficit disorder, speech and language disorders,
coordination problems, seizures, autism, and other health problems but this
information was withheld from the public; and

SLIDE: Institute of Medicine Report on Autism and Vaccines

".the Committee concludes that the evidence favors rejection of a causal
relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism...

The Committee concludes that the evidence favors rejection of a causal
relationship between MMR vaccine and autism.

The Committee does not consider a significant investment of studies of the
theoretical vaccine-autism connection to be useful at this time."
- Institute of Medicine
- May 18, 2004

Sixth: Despite government and independent scientific evidence that vaccines
are associated with autism, in May 2004 the Institute of Medicine issued a
report denying thimerosal or MMR vaccine can cause autism. The IOM called
for a halt to funding of research into vaccine associated autism stating
that "The Committee does not consider a significant investment of studies of
the theoretical vaccine-autism connection to be useful at this time."

SLIDE: U.S. Court of Claims Relies on IOM Reports

"I find it quite appropriate to utilize the 2004 IOM Report as a tool for
identifying the items of evidence that are available concerning the general
issue of whether MMR vaccines cause autism..the Institute of Medicine seems
clearly to be an appropriate source of expert assistance for a special
master in a Vaccine Act proceeding..I note that during the 15-year history
of the Vaccine Act, special masters have consistently referred to and relied
upon [those] reports of the Institute of Medicine."
- July 16, 2004 Special Master Ruling in the U.S. Court of Claims
In Claims for Vaccine Injuries Resulting in Autism Spectrum
Disorder or Similar Neurodevelopmental Disorder

The US Court of Claims relies heavily upon IOM's vaccine risk assessment
conclusions in denying or awarding compensation to vaccine injured children.
Shortly after the 2004 IOM report on vaccines and autism was issued, one
U.S. Special Master stated "I find it quite appropriate to utilize the 2004
IOM report as a tool for identifying the items of evidence that are
available concerning the general issue of whether MMR vaccines cause
autism..the Institute of Medicine seems clearly to be an appropriate source
of expert assistance for a special master in a Vaccine Act proceeding.I note
that during the 15-year history of the Vaccine Act, special master have
consistently referred to and relied upon those reports of the Institute of
Medicine."

Within the next year, the U.S. Court of Claims will conduct an Omnibus
hearing on whether nearly 5,000 cases of alleged vaccine induced autism
associated with mercury in vaccines will be allowed to proceed.

Is it a coincidence that the Department of Health and Human Services, which
is the defendant in the U.S. Court of Claims, has quickly called for the IOM
to assemble a Committee to consider if, who, when and why the public can
have access to a closed government vaccine risk assessment database that
already has been used by government health officials and the IOM to tell the
public there is no association between vaccine mercury preservatives and
autism?

Many parents of vaccine injured children don't think it is a coincidence,
just like they don't think it is a coincidence when a healthy child goes in
for vaccinations and then regresses physically, mentally and emotionally and
becomes a totally different child. What government health officials are
saying is true about vaccine safety conflicts with what parents have
experienced with their own children in real life.

Parents want someone, other than corporations selling vaccines or government
officials developing, regulating, making policy for and promoting mass use
of vaccines, or doctors getting grant money from industry or government, to
confirm the truth about vaccine risks. Because the hallmark of good science
is replication and the hallmark of good government is transparency, the
public has good reason to be appalled at the description of the lengths to
which CDC officials have gone to deny independent vaccine safety researchers
Mark and David Geier access to vaccine risk information in the
publicly-funded Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). This kind of behavior on the
part of government health officials does not give the public reason to trust
what government has said is true about the safety of vaccines. If there is
nothing to hide, why are CDC officials going to such great lengths to keep
their own data, which they say exonerates vaccines from playing any role in
autism, hidden?

There is unpublished data from the VSD which indicates that, in addition to
autism, there are other relationships between vaccination and chronic health
problems which have been kept hidden from the public, including a
relationship between bowel blockage and oral polio vaccine, vaccines and
diabetes, among other serious health problems. In 2001, VSD data was used by
the CDC to publish an article in the medical literature denying that
seizures following DPT and MMR vaccine are associated with permanent brain
injury. At that point, we put out a national press release calling for full
public access to the VSD, something our organization had been calling for
since the late 1990's and Congressman Burton had called for in his
congressional hearings and his staff worked on for two years. Even though
the VSD published data in that 2001 study showed an elevated risk of
seizures following both those vaccinations, even though 25 children in the
study were left with neurodevelopmental deficits, even though the CDC never
compared the health of those children with those who never had a seizure or
who were never vaccinated, the message that was sent to the media and
doctors and the public was that it doesn't matter if your child has a
seizure after vaccination, keep on vaccinating.

Well, more than 50 years of evidence in the medical literature and 22 years
of operating a Vaccine Reaction Registry at the National Vaccine Information
Center tells us that it does matter if you vaccinate a child who has
seizures following vaccination. Because if you keep on vaccinating in the
face of seizures you have a very good chance of ending up with a severely
brain damaged child who drools and twitches and can't learn to read or write
or go to the bathroom without help or grow up to drive a car and go to
college and get a job and be a productive member of society. So what is done
with the data in the VSD matters a lot in terms of what is done to children
in real life all over this country.

SLIDE: VSD Unpublished Data Finds Autism-Thimerosal Link

"This analysis suggests that in our study population, the risks of tics,
ADD, language and speech delays and developmental delays in general may be
increased by exposures to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines during
the first six months of life. Confirmation of these findings in a different
population and further quantification of the dose response effect are
needed."
- CDC Unpublished findings
VSD Database
Year: 2000

CDC officials looking at the VSD data in the year 2000 concluded in an
unpublished report that "this analysis suggests that in our study
population, the risks of tics, ADD, language and speech delays and
developmental delays in general may be increased by exposures to mercury
from Thimerosal-containing vaccines during the first six months of life.
Confirmation of these findings in a different population and further
quantification of the dose response effect are needed."

CDC officials, then, appear to be well aware that the hallmark of good
science is replication.

SLIDE: "The CDC recognizes the importance of data sharing when questions
are raised regarding a particular study's design and methodology...the CDC
has developed a data sharing process designed to allow an independent
researcher to replicate or conduct a modified analysis of a previous VSD
study, while maintaining the confidential nature of the data."
- Roger Bernier, M.D., Associate Director for Science
National Immunization Program
Testimony in Congress: 2002

Roger Bernier, associate director for science at the CDC's National
Immunization Program stated in congressional testimony in 2002 that "The CDC
recognizes the importance of data sharing when questions are raised
regarding a particular study's design and methodology." He went on to
reassure U.S. House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton that
"the CDC has developed a data sharing process designed to allow an
independent researcher to replicate or conduct a modified analysis of a
previous VSD study, while maintaining the confidential nature of the data."

Well, then, what is the problem? Let the data sharing begin!

More than a decade ago the Centers for Disease Control created the Vaccine
Safety Datalink and paid Health Maintenance Organizations for their
cooperation just as it is now, apparently, paying a subcontractor to handle
administration of the VSD. The multi-million dollar bill is being paid by
all Americans, just like the multi-billion dollar bill for vaccine injuries
is being paid by all Americans. What I didn't know until today, is that the
participating HMO's can sell the vaccine information they have been paid to
collect by the CDC to vaccine manufacturers.

The American government owes it to the people to be open and honest about
what it does and does not know about the association between vaccines and
chronic disease and disability. Let the people, especially independent
researchers free from financial ties to industry and financial and
ideological ties to the public health infrastructure, have access to the VSD
data to both replicate and confirm the vaccine risk assessment conclusions
of government health officials and also to conduct independent research into
reported vaccine health risks. The data is the data and if CDC officials are
right, the VSD data should confirm for independent researchers what
government has been saying all along: vaccines carry few, if any, risks to
the long term health and well being of America's children.

The National Vaccine Information Center agrees with the statement issued
today by SAFEMINDS and other parent organizations calling on the Secretary
of the Department of Health and Human Services to allow full and immediate
access to the VSD by independent researchers. We know there are many other
parents, grandparents and health care professionals in America who are not
represented by these organizations or ours who also agree. The National
Vaccine Information Center is therefore launching a national petition drive
to obtain the names of citizens around this country who want to make their
voices heard on this subject. The petition states:

SLIDE: "We call on the Secretary of Health, Tommy Thompson, to provide the
public, especially non-government, non-industry affiliated vaccine
researchers, with full, open and timely access to all government vaccine
safety monitoring data, including the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)."

Whereas,

Vaccines are given to healthy children and carry an inherent risk of injury
or death; and

Federal officials recommend vaccines for universal use and states base their
mandatory vaccination laws on those recommendations; and

National monitoring of vaccine reactions is almost non-existent because
there is no enforcement of a 1986 federal law requiring doctors to report
adverse events to the federal government; and

The vast majority of vaccine safety studies are conducted by government
health officials promoting the mandatory use of vaccines and drug companies
selling vaccines; and

The government bases its research and conclusions that licensed vaccines are
safe on unpublished data, including data contained in closed
government-operated databases, like the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), and

The hallmark of good science is replication and the hallmark of good
government is transparency;

Therefore,

We call on the Secretary of Health, Tommy Thompson, to provide the public,
especially non-government, non-industry affiliated vaccine researchers, with
full, open and timely access to all government vaccine safety monitoring
data, including the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD).

This on-line petition, called Show Us The Vaccine Data, will be on the
internet tomorrow and can be accessed through www.nvic.org/petition.htm for
all who want to sign it.

SLIDE: "The lack of adequate data regarding many of the adverse events
under study was of major concern to the committee. Presentations at public
meetings indicated that many parents and physicians share this concern..in
the course of its reviews additional obvious needs for research and
surveillance were identified."
- Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Committee
Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines
1994

In closing, it should not be forgotten that in 1991 and 1994 there was
historic acknowledgement by the Institute of Medicine, in reports
commissioned by Congress under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act,
that vaccines can cause brain and immune system dysfunction. The Institute
of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, was the first scientific body in
the world to call for more credible basic science research, as well as
epidemiological research, into how, why and how frequently vaccines leave
some individuals with chronic disease and disability. This was a
scientifically responsible and humane action to take more than a decade ago.

SLIDE: Epidemic of Chronic Illness and Disability in Children

· 1 in 6 have development delays or behavioral disorders.
· 3 million learning disabled schoolchildren
· 94,000 autistic schoolchildren
· 4 million with ADHD
· 9 million with asthma
· 300,000 have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
· 1 in 400 to 500 are diabetic

Today, we stand before you facing the stark reality that 1 in 6 American
children have development delays or behavioral disorders. 3 million children
in public schools are classified as learning disabled and 94,000 more
classified as autistic. 4 million children have been diagnosed with ADHD. 9
million children have been diagnosed with asthma. 300,000 children have
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. And 1 in 400 to 500 children is diabetic.
This certainly qualifies as an epidemic of chronic illness and disability in
children.

The American people want to know why so many highly vaccinated children are
so sick. They want and deserve an answer to that question. Openly and
honestly analyzing information on vaccine risks contained in government
databases, such as the VSD, is one place to begin. And it is up to all of
us, parents and health care professionals, government officials and industry
to continue searching for the answer to that question until we have found
it. It doesn't matter where we have to look or what we have to spend or how
many times we have to examine a biologically plausible but politically
incorrect hypothesis to find that answer. All that matters is finding the
answer because the biological integrity of our children, and our nation's
future, hangs in the balance.
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