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Attack on Mothers

64 Comments | Posted June 19, 2007 | 06:51 PM (EST)
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The poisonous public attacks on Katie Wright this week--for revealing
that her autistic son Christian (grandson of NBC Chair Bob Wright),
has recovered significant function after chelation treatments to
remove mercury -- surprised many observers unfamiliar with the
acrimonious debate over the mercury-based vaccine preservative
Thimerosal. But the patronizing attacks on the mothers of autistic
children who have organized to oppose this brain-killing poison is one
of the most persistent tactics employed by those defending Thimerosal
against the barrage of scientific evidence linking it to the epidemic
of pediatric neurological disorders, including autism. Mothers of
autistics are routinely dismissed as irrational, hysterical, or as a
newspaper editor told me last week, "desperate to find the reason for
their children's illnesses," and therefore, overwrought and
disconnected.

But my experience with these women is inconsistent with those
patronizing assessments. Over the past two years I've met or
communicated with several hundred of these women. Instead of a
desperate mob of irrational hysterics, I've found the anti-Thimerosal
activists for the most part to be calm, grounded and extraordinarily
patient. As a group, they are highly educated. Many of them are
doctors, nurses, schoolteachers, pharmacists, psychologists, Ph.D.s
and other professionals. Many of them approached the link skeptically
and only through dispassionate and diligent investigation became
convinced that Thimerosal-laced vaccines destroyed their children's
brains. As a group they have sat through hundreds of meetings and
scientific conferences, and studied research papers and medical tests.
They have networked with each other at meetings and on the Web. Along
the way they have stoically endured the abuse routinely heaped upon
them by the vaccine industry and public health authorities and casual
dismissal by reporters and editors too lazy to do their jobs.

Many of these women tell a story virtually identical to Katie Wright's
-- I have now heard or seen this grim chronology recounted hundreds of
times in conversations, e-mails and letters from mothers: At 2-1/2
years old, Christian Wright exceeded all milestones. He had 1,000
words, was toilet-trained, and enjoyed excellent social relations with
his brother and others. Then his pediatrician gave him
Thimerosal-laced vaccines. He cried all night, developed a fever and,
over the coming months, this smart, healthy child disappeared.
Christian lost the ability to speak, to interact with family members,
to make eye contact or to point a finger. He is no longer toilet
trained. He engaged in stereotypical behavior--screaming,
head-banging, biting and uncontrolled aggression, and suffers
continuously the agonizing pain of gastrointestinal inflammation.

After hearing that story a couple dozen times, a rational person might
do some more investigation. That's when one encounters the
overwhelming science -- hundreds of research studies from dozens of
countries showing the undeniable connection between mercury and
Thimerosal and a wide range of neurological illnesses. In response to
the overwhelming science, CDC and the pharmaceutical industry ginned
up four European studies designed to disguise the link between autism
and Thimerosal. Their purpose was to provide plausible deniability for
the consequences of their awful decision to allow brain-killing
mercury to be injected into our youngest children. Those deliberately
deceptive and fatally flawed studies were authored by vaccine industry
consultants and paid for by Thimerosal producers and published largely
in compromised journals that neglected to disclose the myriad
conflicts of their authors in violation of standard peer-review
ethics. As I've shown elsewhere [see www.robertfkennedyjr.com], these
studies were borderline fraud, using statistical deceptions to mislead
the public and regulatory community.

The CDC and IOM base their defense of Thimerosal on these flimsy
studies, their own formidable reputations, and their faith that
journalists won't take the time to critically read the science. The
bureaucrats are simultaneously using their influence, energies and
clout to derail, defund and suppress any scientific study that may
verify the link between Thimerosal and brain disorders. (These would
include epidemiological studies comparing the records of vaccinated
children with those of unvaccinated populations like the Amish or
home-schooled kids who appear to enjoy dramatically reduced levels of
autism and other neurological disorders.) The federal agencies have
refused to release the massive public health information accumulated
in their Vaccine Safety Database (VSD) apparently to keep independent
scientists from reviewing evidence that could prove the link. They are
also muzzling or blackballing scientists who want to conduct such
studies.

Ironically, it is the same voices that once blamed autism on "bad
parenting," and "uninvolved" moms that are now faulting these mothers
for being too involved.

Due to this campaign of obfuscation and public deception,
Thimerosal-based vaccines continue to sicken millions of children
around the world and potential treatments -- like the chelation that
benefited Christian Wright -- are kept out of the hands of the
mainstream doctors now treating autistic kids with less effective
tools. Like thousands of other mothers of autistic children, Katie
Wright knows what sickened her child. Her efforts to spare other
families this catastrophe, deployed with a cool head and calm
demeanor, are truly heroic. Maybe it's time we all started listening.
Maybe it's time to start respecting and honoring the maternal
instincts and hard work of Katie and her fellow mothers by
aggressively funding the studies that might verify or dispute them.