August 24 DC Protest - Vaccine-Autism Activists Join In

August 24 DC Protest - Vaccine-Autism Activists Join In

by Evelyn Pringle

http://www.opednews.com

Activist attending the 3 day protest in Washington DC this month have
one thing in common. They want to raise awareness of the fact that the
pharmaceutical industry has knowingly injured Americans with dangerous
products to increase profits and the nation's regulatory agencies have
aided and abetted them.

Since the discovery in recent years of cover-ups by the FDA and drug
makers, involving injuries caused by drugs such as Prozac and Vioxx,
the similar pattern of cover-ups of injuries caused by the nation's
vaccine program should come as no surprise.

During the 1990s, as the number of vaccines on the Federal
Immunization
Schedule nearly tripled, and vaccination rates soared to nearly 95%
for
five year olds, the number of kids diagnosed with autism and other
neurological disorders skyrocketed.

And, there is only one commonality in all the injured children - they
received vaccines that contained the mercury-based preservative
thimerosal.

Vaccines are the only product whose use is mandated in all 50 states,
requiring children to be vaccinated before entering day care
facilities
and schools. According to a 1999 report by the General Accounting
Office, an estimated 12 million vaccinations are given to children
each
year in the US.

During the 1990s, some 40 million children were vaccinated. Since the
government literally forced children to be vaccinated with thimerosal
for decades, it now has an obligation to find a cure for the epidemic
of autism and other related disorders and to hold the vaccine-makers
financially responsible for the damage caused by their products.

The country is in the midst of the worst man-made epidemic in history.
Twenty years ago, autism only affected one in 10,000 children.
However,
the Autism Autoimmunity Project reports that the disorder strikes 1 in
150 (or 1 in 68 families) today.

In dealing with this epidemic, the first order of business has to be
to
find a way to force the government to ban thimerosal in all vaccines.
Most unsuspecting people do not realize that thimerosal is still
contained in some products, such as flu vaccines.

In addition, even though thimerosal has been removed from most
vaccines
in the US, drug companies are still knowingly injecting thimerosal
into
millions of children all over the world each year. The global market
for vaccines is still a goldmine. For instance, UNICEF, the World
Health Organization's parent body, buys 40% of all vaccines used in
developing countries, and Merck is its sole supplier. Merck makes
Recombivax HB, a Hepatitis B vaccine that contains thimerosal. Eli
Lilly invented thimerosal, and it has licensing agreements with drug
companies in 40 countries that make the product.

The EPA recommends ingesting no more than 0.1 micrograms of mercury,
and the FDA recommends no more than 0.4 micrograms per day for
pregnant
women, nursing mothers, and small children, which amounts to a
recommendation that they eat no more than 12 ounces of tuna per week,
because the EPA says, "mercury consumed by a pregnant or nursing woman
or by a young child can harm the developing brain and nervous system."

Yet the government still recommends that children aged 6 to 23 months
and pregnant women get the flu vaccine with its 25 micrograms of
mercury which amounts to 250 times the safety limit for mercury intake
set by the EPA for fish-eaters.

During the late 1980s and 1990s, while approving new vaccines and
adding them to the childhood immunization schedule, the government
agencies responsible for drug safety, failed to add up the cumulative
amounts of mercury that a child would receive in shots during one
doctor visit, or over the course of the full vaccine schedule.

In 1999, while conducting a review of all mercury containing products,
the regulatory agencies finally got around to looking at vaccines and
discovered that the mercury being injected into children through
vaccines vastly exceeded the guidelines set by the Environmental
Protection Agency.

Professor Lynn Adams, of Radford University, a speech-language
pathologist who specializes in autism, said that in1999, a study
determined that the average child received 33 doses of 10 different
vaccines by the age 5.

By 1999, the FDA definitely knew about the accumulative dangers of
thimerosal to our children. We know this because the staff for Rep Dan
Burton (R-Ill) obtained an internal FDA e-mail written on June 29,
1999, by former FDA scientist Peter Patriarca, that specifically
discussed the dangers when offering a "pros and cons" assessment of a
statement on thimerosal about to be released by the FDA, and listed
the
questions and accusations that would inevitably be lodged against the
FDA after its release. He said people are bound to question:

(1) FDA being `asleep at the switch' for decades, by allowing a
potentially hazardous compound to remain in many childhood vaccines,
and not forcing manufacturers to exclude it from new products. (2)
various advisory bodies aggressive recommendations for use. (3) the
dose of ethyl mercury was not generated by `rocket science':
conversion
of the % of thimerosal to actual ug [micrograms] of mercury involves
9th grade algebra. (4) What took the FDA so long to do the
calculations? (5) Why didn't CDC and the advisory bodies do these
calculations while rapidly expanding the childhood immunization
schedule?

The fact is that the FDA and CDC knew children were being poisoned and
they kept the information hidden and allowed it to continue. "Because
the FDA chose not to recall thimerosal-containing vaccines in 1999,"
the April 2003, House Committee on Government Reform report concludes,
"in addition to all of those already injured, 8,000 children a day
continued to be placed at risk for overdose for at least an additional
two years."

There's also no doubt that the drug companies knew of the dangers more
than 30 years ago. In 1972, Lilly received an article that confirmed
that thimerosal had caused 6 deaths when too much of it had been used,
which said: "The symptoms and clinical course of the 6 patients
suggests subacute mercury poisoning."

In an October 12, 1979 memo, Merck scientists discussed the "potential
problem" of having mercury in its flu and meningococcal vaccines, as
well as the Hepatitis B vaccine that was under development and asked:
"Should a program of replacement be initiated now to guard against any
spontaneous rally to avoid its (thimerosal) use in injectables?"

Last fall, the LA Times released a 1991 internal memo from Merck, that
proves the company knew back then that the overuse of mercury in
vaccines posed a dangerous health threat to children. The memo noted
that 6-month-old children who received their shots on schedule would
get a mercury dose up to 87 times higher than guidelines for the
maximum daily consumption of mercury from fish.

Using state by state statistics produced by the Department of
Education, to compare the increase in cases of autism over a 12-year
period between 1992-93 and 2003-04, reveals horrendous results. In
Ohio, in 1992-93 there were only 22 cases of autism, in 2003-04 there
were 5146 cases. In Illinois, there were only 5 cases twelve years
ago,
while there were 6005 in 2003-04. Mississippi had no cases of autism
12
years ago, but had 622 in 2003-04. Wisconsin had 18 cases in 1992-93
and 3259 in 2003-04.

We are on the verge of the biggest welfare disaster that his country
has ever seen. Eighty percent of the autistic children in the US are
under the age of 17. In a few short years, the states will be forced
to
provide support for an overwhelming number of disabled adults. "The
costs will be in the trillions," according to Ann Dachel, a special
education teacher and the mother of a boy with autism and a daughter
who developed epilepsy after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine.

On February 15, 2005, the GAO, released a report titled, "Special
Education Children With Autism," that revealed that the number of
children ages 6 through 21 diagnosed with autism who receiving special
ed services has increased by more than 500% over the past 10 years,
from under 20,000 in 1993 to almost 120,000 in 2002.

The cost of educating this number of autistic kids will be enormous.
The Department of Education spends about $53 billion a year on K-12
education. If it provides $60,000 per year to educate each of the
currently identified school-age autistic children nationwide, the
price
tag will be over $7 billion a year, or about 13% of the Department's
entire budget. And by the end of each year, the cost will be even
higher due to the increased number of autistic kids entering the
system
each year.

In the absence of a cure and drug company accountability, local tax
payers will be forced to carry the life-long load of educating and
caring for a generation of injured people and state and local taxes
will go through the roof.

The CDC and FDA policy decisions regarding vaccine approval and safety
recommendations are made through physician advisory panels whose
members often have financial relationships with the very same drug
companies that they are supposed to regulate.

For example, during a congressional hearing on potential conflicts of
interests at the FDA, it was revealed that 60% of the advisory board
members who voted to approve the poisonous rotavirus vaccine had
financial ties to the drug companies manufacturing the vaccine. The
committee also discovered that half of the CDC members had ties to the
rotavirus makers.

If parents are expected to trust the government's approval process,
they have a right to know that the vaccines they are forced to inject
into their children have been approved based on the best scientific
advice available, without the undue influence of pharma money being
funneled to scientists, politicians, and officials within the
regulatory agencies.

Evelyn Pringle
epringle05 @yahoo.com

(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an
investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government)

Having a protest doesn't make something true.

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
nk.net...
Having a protest doesn't make something true.

Jeff

The protest is because the below things ARE true.

August 24 DC Protest - Vaccine-Autism Activists Join In


by Evelyn Pringle


http://www.opednews.com


Activist attending the 3 day protest in Washington DC this month have
one thing in common. They want to raise awareness of the fact that the
pharmaceutical industry has knowingly injured Americans with dangerous
products to increase profits and the nation's regulatory agencies have
aided and abetted them.


Since the discovery in recent years of cover-ups by the FDA and drug
makers, involving injuries caused by drugs such as Prozac and Vioxx,
the similar pattern of cover-ups of injuries caused by the nation's
vaccine program should come as no surprise.


During the 1990s, as the number of vaccines on the Federal
Immunization
Schedule nearly tripled, and vaccination rates soared to nearly 95%
for
five year olds, the number of kids diagnosed with autism and other
neurological disorders skyrocketed.


And, there is only one commonality in all the injured children - they
received vaccines that contained the mercury-based preservative
thimerosal.


Vaccines are the only product whose use is mandated in all 50 states,
requiring children to be vaccinated before entering day care
facilities
and schools. According to a 1999 report by the General Accounting
Office, an estimated 12 million vaccinations are given to children
each
year in the US.


During the 1990s, some 40 million children were vaccinated. Since the
government literally forced children to be vaccinated with thimerosal
for decades, it now has an obligation to find a cure for the epidemic
of autism and other related disorders and to hold the vaccine-makers
financially responsible for the damage caused by their products.


The country is in the midst of the worst man-made epidemic in history.
Twenty years ago, autism only affected one in 10,000 children.
However,
the Autism Autoimmunity Project reports that the disorder strikes 1 in
150 (or 1 in 68 families) today.


In dealing with this epidemic, the first order of business has to be
to
find a way to force the government to ban thimerosal in all vaccines.
Most unsuspecting people do not realize that thimerosal is still
contained in some products, such as flu vaccines.


In addition, even though thimerosal has been removed from most
vaccines
in the US, drug companies are still knowingly injecting thimerosal
into
millions of children all over the world each year. The global market
for vaccines is still a goldmine. For instance, UNICEF, the World
Health Organization's parent body, buys 40% of all vaccines used in
developing countries, and Merck is its sole supplier. Merck makes
Recombivax HB, a Hepatitis B vaccine that contains thimerosal. Eli
Lilly invented thimerosal, and it has licensing agreements with drug
companies in 40 countries that make the product.


The EPA recommends ingesting no more than 0.1 micrograms of mercury,
and the FDA recommends no more than 0.4 micrograms per day for
pregnant
women, nursing mothers, and small children, which amounts to a
recommendation that they eat no more than 12 ounces of tuna per week,
because the EPA says, "mercury consumed by a pregnant or nursing woman
or by a young child can harm the developing brain and nervous system."


Yet the government still recommends that children aged 6 to 23 months
and pregnant women get the flu vaccine with its 25 micrograms of
mercury which amounts to 250 times the safety limit for mercury intake
set by the EPA for fish-eaters.


During the late 1980s and 1990s, while approving new vaccines and
adding them to the childhood immunization schedule, the government
agencies responsible for drug safety, failed to add up the cumulative
amounts of mercury that a child would receive in shots during one
doctor visit, or over the course of the full vaccine schedule.


In 1999, while conducting a review of all mercury containing products,
the regulatory agencies finally got around to looking at vaccines and
discovered that the mercury being injected into children through
vaccines vastly exceeded the guidelines set by the Environmental
Protection Agency.


Professor Lynn Adams, of Radford University, a speech-language
pathologist who specializes in autism, said that in1999, a study
determined that the average child received 33 doses of 10 different
vaccines by the age 5.


By 1999, the FDA definitely knew about the accumulative dangers of
thimerosal to our children. We know this because the staff for Rep Dan
Burton (R-Ill) obtained an internal FDA e-mail written on June 29,
1999, by former FDA scientist Peter Patriarca, that specifically
discussed the dangers when offering a "pros and cons" assessment of a
statement on thimerosal about to be released by the FDA, and listed
the
questions and accusations that would inevitably be lodged against the
FDA after its release. He said people are bound to question:


(1) FDA being `asleep at the switch' for decades, by allowing a
potentially hazardous compound to remain in many childhood vaccines,
and not forcing manufacturers to exclude it from new products. (2)
various advisory bodies aggressive recommendations for use. (3) the
dose of ethyl mercury was not generated by `rocket science':
conversion
of the % of thimerosal to actual ug [micrograms] of mercury involves
9th grade algebra. (4) What took the FDA so long to do the
calculations? (5) Why didn't CDC and the advisory bodies do these
calculations while rapidly expanding the childhood immunization
schedule?


The fact is that the FDA and CDC knew children were being poisoned and
they kept the information hidden and allowed it to continue. "Because
the FDA chose not to recall thimerosal-containing vaccines in 1999,"
the April 2003, House Committee on Government Reform report concludes,
"in addition to all of those already injured, 8,000 children a day
continued to be placed at risk for overdose for at least an additional
two years."


There's also no doubt that the drug companies knew of the dangers more
than 30 years ago. In 1972, Lilly received an article that confirmed
that thimerosal had caused 6 deaths when too much of it had been used,
which said: "The symptoms and clinical course of the 6 patients
suggests subacute mercury poisoning."


In an October 12, 1979 memo, Merck scientists discussed the "potential
problem" of having mercury in its flu and meningococcal vaccines, as
well as the Hepatitis B vaccine that was under development and asked:
"Should a program of replacement be initiated now to guard against any
spontaneous rally to avoid its (thimerosal) use in injectables?"


Last fall, the LA Times released a 1991 internal memo from Merck, that
proves the company knew back then that the overuse of mercury in
vaccines posed a dangerous health threat to children. The memo noted
that 6-month-old children who received their shots on schedule would
get a mercury dose up to 87 times higher than guidelines for the
maximum daily consumption of mercury from fish.


Using state by state statistics produced by the Department of
Education, to compare the increase in cases of autism over a 12-year
period between 1992-93 and 2003-04, reveals horrendous results. In
Ohio, in 1992-93 there were only 22 cases of autism, in 2003-04 there
were 5146 cases. In Illinois, there were only 5 cases twelve years
ago,
while there were 6005 in 2003-04. Mississippi had no cases of autism
12
years ago, but had 622 in 2003-04. Wisconsin had 18 cases in 1992-93
and 3259 in 2003-04.


We are on the verge of the biggest welfare disaster that his country
has ever seen. Eighty percent of the autistic children in the US are
under the age of 17. In a few short years, the states will be forced
to
provide support for an overwhelming number of disabled adults. "The
costs will be in the trillions," according to Ann Dachel, a special
education teacher and the mother of a boy with autism and a daughter
who developed epilepsy after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine.


On February 15, 2005, the GAO, released a report titled, "Special
Education Children With Autism," that revealed that the number of
children ages 6 through 21 diagnosed with autism who receiving special
ed services has increased by more than 500% over the past 10 years,
from under 20,000 in 1993 to almost 120,000 in 2002.


The cost of educating this number of autistic kids will be enormous.
The Department of Education spends about $53 billion a year on K-12
education. If it provides $60,000 per year to educate each of the
currently identified school-age autistic children nationwide, the
price
tag will be over $7 billion a year, or about 13% of the Department's
entire budget. And by the end of each year, the cost will be even
higher due to the increased number of autistic kids entering the
system
each year.


In the absence of a cure and drug company accountability, local tax
payers will be forced to carry the life-long load of educating and
caring for a generation of injured people and state and local taxes
will go through the roof.


The CDC and FDA policy decisions regarding vaccine approval and safety
recommendations are made through physician advisory panels whose
members often have financial relationships with the very same drug
companies that they are supposed to regulate.


For example, during a congressional hearing on potential conflicts of
interests at the FDA, it was revealed that 60% of the advisory board
members who voted to approve the poisonous rotavirus vaccine had
financial ties to the drug companies manufacturing the vaccine. The
committee also discovered that half of the CDC members had ties to the
rotavirus makers.


If parents are expected to trust the government's approval process,
they have a right to know that the vaccines they are forced to inject
into their children have been approved based on the best scientific
advice available, without the undue influence of pharma money being
funneled to scientists, politicians, and officials within the
regulatory agencies.


Evelyn Pringle
epringle05 @yahoo.com


(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an
investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government)

"LadyLollipop" wrote in message
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"Jeff" wrote in message
nk.net...
Having a protest doesn't make something true.

Jeff

The protest is because the below things ARE true.

Incorrect. The protest is because of what they think is true.

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
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"LadyLollipop" wrote in message
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"Jeff" wrote in message
nk.net...
Having a protest doesn't make something true.

Jeff

The protest is because the below things ARE true.

Incorrect. The protest is because of what they think is true.

Jeff

Do prove they are not true.

Actually, the latest issue of New Scientist makes a very convincing
case, based on epidemioglogical work, that thimerosol has absolutely
nothing to do with the incidence of autism (there is also a website,
www.NewScientist.com). The reason they had a feature on autism is that
here in Europe, a very large number of people are just as convinced
that autism is being caused not by Thimerosol, but by the MMR vaccine -
which has also been shown not to be the case. The change in the number
of people being diagnosed is apparently down to the criteria used for
diagnosis. Perhaps being too close to the issue makes it more
difficult to be objective? Here, panic among the general public caused
MMR vaccination rates to drop significantly, which has actually
endangered lives - a very sad consequence of understandable fears,
possibly worsened by inaccurate or alarmist media coverage.

LadyLollipop wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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"LadyLollipop" wrote in message
news:KmrMe.255104$x96.38948@attbi_s72...

"Jeff" wrote in message
hlink.net...

Having a protest doesn't make something true.

Jeff

The protest is because the below things ARE true.

Incorrect. The protest is because of what they think is true.

Jeff


Do prove they are not true.


Do prove that they are true. You made the affirmative statement:

"The protest is because the below things ARE true."

Now, prove it.

Phibius wrote:
Actually, the latest issue of New Scientist makes a very convincing
case, based on epidemioglogical work, that thimerosol has absolutely
nothing to do with the incidence of autism (there is also a website,
www.NewScientist.com). The reason they had a feature on autism is that
here in Europe, a very large number of people are just as convinced
that autism is being caused not by Thimerosol, but by the MMR vaccine -
which has also been shown not to be the case. The change in the number
of people being diagnosed is apparently down to the criteria used for
diagnosis. Perhaps being too close to the issue makes it more
difficult to be objective? Here, panic among the general public caused
MMR vaccination rates to drop significantly, which has actually
endangered lives - a very sad consequence of understandable fears,
possibly worsened by inaccurate or alarmist media coverage.


Thanks for your perspective fromn continental Europe.

Jan, will, however, reject anything that does not confirm her firmly
held beliefs. She will dismiss any article or study that refutes her as
being part of *organized medicine* a term she refuses to define.

"Phibius" wrote in message
oups.com...
Actually, the latest issue of New Scientist makes a very convincing
case, based on epidemioglogical work, that thimerosol has absolutely
nothing to do with the incidence of autism (there is also a website,
www.NewScientist.com). The reason they had a feature on autism is that
here in Europe, a very large number of people are just as convinced
that autism is being caused not by Thimerosol, but by the MMR vaccine -
which has also been shown not to be the case. The change in the number
of people being diagnosed is apparently down to the criteria used for
diagnosis. Perhaps being too close to the issue makes it more
difficult to be objective? Here, panic among the general public caused
MMR vaccination rates to drop significantly, which has actually
endangered lives - a very sad consequence of understandable fears,
possibly worsened by inaccurate or alarmist media coverage.

Who would publish NewScientist.com??

Just one quick look,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The autism epidemic that never was

What?!?!

That would be a LIE!

To continue reading this article, subscribe to New Scientist. Get 4 issues
of New Scientist magazine and instant access to all online content for only
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"Jeff" wrote in message
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Having a protest doesn't make something true.

Jeff

The protest is because the below things ARE true.

Incorrect. The protest is because of what they think is true.

Jeff


Do prove they are not true.
Do prove that they are true. You made the affirmative statement:

"The protest is because the below things ARE true."

Now, prove it.

For the HARD HEADED , it is proven in the article!

August 24 DC Protest - Vaccine-Autism Activists Join In


by Evelyn Pringle


http://www.opednews.com


Activist attending the 3 day protest in Washington DC this month have
one thing in common. They want to raise awareness of the fact that the
pharmaceutical industry has knowingly injured Americans with dangerous
products to increase profits and the nation's regulatory agencies have
aided and abetted them.


Since the discovery in recent years of cover-ups by the FDA and drug
makers, involving injuries caused by drugs such as Prozac and Vioxx,
the similar pattern of cover-ups of injuries caused by the nation's
vaccine program should come as no surprise.


During the 1990s, as the number of vaccines on the Federal
Immunization
Schedule nearly tripled, and vaccination rates soared to nearly 95%
for
five year olds, the number of kids diagnosed with autism and other
neurological disorders skyrocketed.


And, there is only one commonality in all the injured children - they
received vaccines that contained the mercury-based preservative
thimerosal.


Vaccines are the only product whose use is mandated in all 50 states,
requiring children to be vaccinated before entering day care
facilities
and schools. According to a 1999 report by the General Accounting
Office, an estimated 12 million vaccinations are given to children
each
year in the US.


During the 1990s, some 40 million children were vaccinated. Since the
government literally forced children to be vaccinated with thimerosal
for decades, it now has an obligation to find a cure for the epidemic
of autism and other related disorders and to hold the vaccine-makers
financially responsible for the damage caused by their products.


The country is in the midst of the worst man-made epidemic in history.
Twenty years ago, autism only affected one in 10,000 children.
However,
the Autism Autoimmunity Project reports that the disorder strikes 1 in
150 (or 1 in 68 families) today.


In dealing with this epidemic, the first order of business has to be
to
find a way to force the government to ban thimerosal in all vaccines.
Most unsuspecting people do not realize that thimerosal is still
contained in some products, such as flu vaccines.


In addition, even though thimerosal has been removed from most
vaccines
in the US, drug companies are still knowingly injecting thimerosal
into
millions of children all over the world each year. The global market
for vaccines is still a goldmine. For instance, UNICEF, the World
Health Organization's parent body, buys 40% of all vaccines used in
developing countries, and Merck is its sole supplier. Merck makes
Recombivax HB, a Hepatitis B vaccine that contains thimerosal. Eli
Lilly invented thimerosal, and it has licensing agreements with drug
companies in 40 countries that make the product.


The EPA recommends ingesting no more than 0.1 micrograms of mercury,
and the FDA recommends no more than 0.4 micrograms per day for
pregnant
women, nursing mothers, and small children, which amounts to a
recommendation that they eat no more than 12 ounces of tuna per week,
because the EPA says, "mercury consumed by a pregnant or nursing woman
or by a young child can harm the developing brain and nervous system."


Yet the government still recommends that children aged 6 to 23 months
and pregnant women get the flu vaccine with its 25 micrograms of
mercury which amounts to 250 times the safety limit for mercury intake
set by the EPA for fish-eaters.


During the late 1980s and 1990s, while approving new vaccines and
adding them to the childhood immunization schedule, the government
agencies responsible for drug safety, failed to add up the cumulative
amounts of mercury that a child would receive in shots during one
doctor visit, or over the course of the full vaccine schedule.


In 1999, while conducting a review of all mercury containing products,
the regulatory agencies finally got around to looking at vaccines and
discovered that the mercury being injected into children through
vaccines vastly exceeded the guidelines set by the Environmental
Protection Agency.


Professor Lynn Adams, of Radford University, a speech-language
pathologist who specializes in autism, said that in1999, a study
determined that the average child received 33 doses of 10 different
vaccines by the age 5.


By 1999, the FDA definitely knew about the accumulative dangers of
thimerosal to our children. We know this because the staff for Rep Dan
Burton (R-Ill) obtained an internal FDA e-mail written on June 29,
1999, by former FDA scientist Peter Patriarca, that specifically
discussed the dangers when offering a "pros and cons" assessment of a
statement on thimerosal about to be released by the FDA, and listed
the
questions and accusations that would inevitably be lodged against the
FDA after its release. He said people are bound to question:


(1) FDA being `asleep at the switch' for decades, by allowing a
potentially hazardous compound to remain in many childhood vaccines,
and not forcing manufacturers to exclude it from new products. (2)
various advisory bodies aggressive recommendations for use. (3) the
dose of ethyl mercury was not generated by `rocket science':
conversion
of the % of thimerosal to actual ug [micrograms] of mercury involves
9th grade algebra. (4) What took the FDA so long to do the
calculations? (5) Why didn't CDC and the advisory bodies do these
calculations while rapidly expanding the childhood immunization
schedule?


The fact is that the FDA and CDC knew children were being poisoned and
they kept the information hidden and allowed it to continue. "Because
the FDA chose not to recall thimerosal-containing vaccines in 1999,"
the April 2003, House Committee on Government Reform report concludes,
"in addition to all of those already injured, 8,000 children a day
continued to be placed at risk for overdose for at least an additional
two years."


There's also no doubt that the drug companies knew of the dangers more
than 30 years ago. In 1972, Lilly received an article that confirmed
that thimerosal had caused 6 deaths when too much of it had been used,
which said: "The symptoms and clinical course of the 6 patients
suggests subacute mercury poisoning."


In an October 12, 1979 memo, Merck scientists discussed the "potential
problem" of having mercury in its flu and meningococcal vaccines, as
well as the Hepatitis B vaccine that was under development and asked:
"Should a program of replacement be initiated now to guard against any
spontaneous rally to avoid its (thimerosal) use in injectables?"


Last fall, the LA Times released a 1991 internal memo from Merck, that
proves the company knew back then that the overuse of mercury in
vaccines posed a dangerous health threat to children. The memo noted
that 6-month-old children who received their shots on schedule would
get a mercury dose up to 87 times higher than guidelines for the
maximum daily consumption of mercury from fish.


Using state by state statistics produced by the Department of
Education, to compare the increase in cases of autism over a 12-year
period between 1992-93 and 2003-04, reveals horrendous results. In
Ohio, in 1992-93 there were only 22 cases of autism, in 2003-04 there
were 5146 cases. In Illinois, there were only 5 cases twelve years
ago,
while there were 6005 in 2003-04. Mississippi had no cases of autism
12
years ago, but had 622 in 2003-04. Wisconsin had 18 cases in 1992-93
and 3259 in 2003-04.


We are on the verge of the biggest welfare disaster that his country
has ever seen. Eighty percent of the autistic children in the US are
under the age of 17. In a few short years, the states will be forced
to
provide support for an overwhelming number of disabled adults. "The
costs will be in the trillions," according to Ann Dachel, a special
education teacher and the mother of a boy with autism and a daughter
who developed epilepsy after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine.


On February 15, 2005, the GAO, released a report titled, "Special
Education Children With Autism," that revealed that the number of
children ages 6 through 21 diagnosed with autism who receiving special
ed services has increased by more than 500% over the past 10 years,
from under 20,000 in 1993 to almost 120,000 in 2002.


The cost of educating this number of autistic kids will be enormous.
The Department of Education spends about $53 billion a year on K-12
education. If it provides $60,000 per year to educate each of the
currently identified school-age autistic children nationwide, the
price
tag will be over $7 billion a year, or about 13% of the Department's
entire budget. And by the end of each year, the cost will be even
higher due to the increased number of autistic kids entering the
system
each year.


In the absence of a cure and drug company accountability, local tax
payers will be forced to carry the life-long load of educating and
caring for a generation of injured people and state and local taxes
will go through the roof.


The CDC and FDA policy decisions regarding vaccine approval and safety
recommendations are made through physician advisory panels whose
members often have financial relationships with the very same drug
companies that they are supposed to regulate.


For example, during a congressional hearing on potential conflicts of
interests at the FDA, it was revealed that 60% of the advisory board
members who voted to approve the poisonous rotavirus vaccine had
financial ties to the drug companies manufacturing the vaccine. The
committee also discovered that half of the CDC members had ties to the
rotavirus makers.


If parents are expected to trust the government's approval process,
they have a right to know that the vaccines they are forced to inject
into their children have been approved based on the best scientific
advice available, without the undue influence of pharma money being
funneled to scientists, politicians, and officials within the
regulatory agencies.


Evelyn Pringle
epringle05 @yahoo.com


(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an
investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government)