The Obfuscation of The Iatrogenic Autism Epidemic

john · medicine forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 186

"As a pediatrician, who has been in practice for over two decades, I find it
more than a little insulting as well as disturbing to have someone say that
these children were always there. ..... For years the vaccine division at
the CDC and others have said the reason for the dramatic increase in autism
is due to "better diagnosing" and "greater awareness." They have encouraged
those like Paul Shattuck to manufacture uncertainty. .... There are no
studies that have found the previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic
individuals among older Americans. They simply aren't there. We need to
address the real reason for the alarming autism rate. No more secrets or
truth-spinning. This is not a faux epidemiological epidemic, nor an
infectious epidemic, nor a genetic epidemic (as there are no genetic
epidemics). That leaves an epidemic linked to some sort of exposure. "

The Obfuscation of The Iatrogenic Autism Epidemic
Kenneth P Stoller, Pediatrician, International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc., in
the current Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics. (5 May
2006)Pediatrician, Post peer-review letter.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/117/4/1028

UW-Madison researcher Paul Shattuck concludes that special
International Hyperbaric education figures being used are "faulty and do not
substantiate such a claim" (that there is an autism epidemic). Paul Shattuck
seems to be saying that all the reported autistic children have always been
here, they were just called something else. (Paul T. Shattuck: The
Contribution of Diagnostic Substitution to the Growing article
Administrative Prevalence of Autism in US Special Education, Pediatrics
2006; 117: 1028-1037)
As a pediatrician, who has been in practice for over two decades, I
find it more than a little insulting as well as disturbing to have someone
say that these children were always there. As a scientist, I find the
current approach to the autism epidemic - "The Emperor's New Clothes"
approach - to be deeply disturbing. For years the vaccine division at the
CDC and others have said the reason for the dramatic increase in autism is
due to "better diagnosing" and "greater awareness." They have encouraged
those like Paul Shattuck to manufacture uncertainty. Nevertheless, with
eighty percent of autistic Americans under the age of 18, we will see,
clothes and all, a dramatic impact on Social Security in coming years as
these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that have found
the previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older
Americans. They simply aren't there.
We need to address the real reason for the alarming autism rate. No
more secrets or truth-spinning. This is not a faux epidemiological epidemic,
nor an infectious epidemic, nor a genetic epidemic (as there are no genetic
epidemics). That leaves an epidemic linked to some sort of exposure. Now,
the increase of autism has been linked to the increase in mercury exposure
through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally, through
increased parenteral exposure to ethylmercurithiosalicate.
No controlled, randomized study regarding the safety of amalgam or
ethylmercurithiosalicate exists.
A recent study, using infant Macaca fascicularis primates exposed to
injected ethylmercury or those exposed to equal amounts of ingested
methylmercury, showed that ethylmercuy was retained twice as much inorganic
mercury in their brains in comparison to the methylmercury exposed primates.
(Burbacher T, et al. Comparison of blood and brain mercury levels in infant
monkeys exposed to methylmercury or vaccines containing thimerosal.
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005 Aug:113( Cool

:1015-21.) These primates
were exposed to mercury levels at a rate equal to what children in the
United States received via standard childhood vaccines from 1991- 2003.
Cysteine and glutathione synthesis are crucial for mercury
detoxification, and are reduced in autistic children, possibly due to
epigenetic polymorphisms. (Deth, R.C.: Truth revealed: New scientific
discoveries regarding mercury in medicine and autism. Congressional
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives. Subcommittee on human
rights and wellness, Sept. 8. 2004, Waly M et al: Activation of methionine
synthase by insulin-like growth factor1 and dopamine: a target for
neurodevelopmental toxins and thimerosal. Mol. Psychiatry 9, 358-370 2004).
Therefore, autistic children have 20% lower levels of cysteine and 54%
lower levels of glutathione, which adversely affect their ability to
detoxify and excrete metals like mercury. (James, S.J. et al.: Metabolic
biomarkers of increased oxidative stress and impaired methylation capacity
in children with autism. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 80, 1611-1617 2004).This leads
to a higher concentration of free mercury in blood, which then transfers
into tissues and increases the half-life of mercury in the body, as compared
to children with normal levels of cysteine and glutathione. As was shown by
Bradstreet et al (Bradstreet, J et al.: A case control study of mercury
burden in children with autistic spectrum disorders. J. Am. Phys. Surg. 8,
76-79 2003) in a study involving 221 autistic children, vaccinated autistic
children showed about 6 fold elevation of urinary mercury than normal
controls after appropriate mobilization with the chelating agent DMSA.
Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation
reactions (required for the correct expression of DNA, RNA, and
neurotransmitters), which further adversely affects growth factor derived
development of the brain and attention abilities. Phospholipid methylation,
which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic and attention
deficit hyperactivity disorders. Ethyl mercury levels, seen ten days after
vaccination (Pichichero et al: Mercury concentrations and metabolism in
infants receiving vaccines containing thiomersal: a descriptive study.
Lancet 360, 1737-1741 2002) with ethylmercurithiosalicate doses lower than
what infants received during the 1990s, produced greater than 50% inhibition
of methylation.
In vitro studies have shown that ethylmercurithiosalicate was more
than 100-fold more potent than inorganic mercury in inhibiting such
essential methylation reactions. Inorganic mercury was found to be 10 fold
more potent than lead in inhibition of neuronal microtubule. (Stoiber, T et
al.: Disturbed microtubule function and induction of micronuclei by chelate
complexes of mercury(II). Mutat. Res. 563, 97-106 2004; Thier, R et al.:
Interaction of metal salts with cytoskeletal motor protein systems. Toxicol.
Lett. 140141, 75-81 2003). Inorganic mercury also leads to growth inhibition
and denudation of neuronal growth cones. (Leong, C.C. et al: Retrograde
degeneration of neurite membrane structural integrity of nerve growth cones
following in vitro exposure to mercury. Neuroreport 12, 733-737).
It was also shown that concentrations of ethylmercurithiosalicate,
which can occur after vaccination, induce membrane and DNA damage and
initiate apoptosis in human neurons. (Baskin, D.S. et al: Thimerosal induces
DNA breaks, caspase3 activation, membrane damage, and cell death in cultured
human neurons and fibroblasts. Toxicol. Sci. 74, 361-368 2003).
It has been estimated that about 15% of the population may show
enhanced susceptibility to mercury exposure. Levels of ethyl mercury found 8
days after vaccination leads to 50% inhibition of methionine synthase (MS).
Compounding this toxic sequelae of ethylmercurithiosalicate, neurons are
unable to synthesize cysteine, the rate limiting amino acid for glutathione
synthesis. Thus, neurons are most sensitive to mercury toxicity since
glutathione is the major intracellular agent in mercury and heavy metal
detoxification. It is known that ethylmercurithiosalicate and inorganic
mercury depletes intracellular glutathione levels, which subsequently leads
to oxidative stress, neuronal cytotoxicity and death.
In vitro studies suggest that the neurotoxicity of
ethylmercurithiosalicate is enhanced through neomycin and aluminium
hydroxide (ingredients in vaccines) and testosterone, while estrogen
decreases the toxic effects. Estrogen has been shown to decrease the
toxicity of inorganic mercury which may explain the 4 to 1 ratio of boys to
girls in autism. Lead may play a synergistic pathogenetic role in
neurodevelopment disorders and autism. Combination of lead and mercury
resulted in an increase of toxicity in vitro.
In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten et al had
described a 7.6 to 11.4 fold increase of autism risk in children at one
month, with the highest mercury exposure levels compared to children with no
exposure. In four subsequent separate generations of the analysis, which
involve the exclusion of children with no ethylmercurithiosalicate exposure
and less than two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared.
Ethylmercurithiosalicate was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22
adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up
to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients in this "study" died.
Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of very
young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe
and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its
use was simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type
of mercury in vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight
failure at best, at worse it is an example that we have left consensus
reality to be created by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the PR
junk scientists they employ.
So, here we have a real problem, autism affecting 1 in 166 or even
more - where is the public funding? Where is the public outcry? Where is the
response from academia? There isn't any! But in the case of bird flu, with
no real evidence that the H5N1 virus is a health problem for humans that do
not have the most intimate contact with birds combined with a compromised
immune system, billions of dollars have been allocated to clothe this
"Emperor."
We have troubling glimpses, in the press, of the brand-new bird-flu
containment plan the White House is laying out as detailed in an April 16
Washington Post piece by Ceci Connolly, "U.S. Plan For Flu Pandemic Revealed
Multi-Agency Proposal Awaits Bush's Approval." "...Experts project that the
next pandemic -- depending on severity and countermeasures -- could kill
210,000 to 1.9 million Americans.National Guard troops could be dispatched
to cities facing possible 'insurrection,' said Jeffrey W. Runge, chief
medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security. ...The federal
government --as well as private businesses -- should expect as much as 40
percent of its workforce to be out during a pandemic, said Bruce Gellin,
director of the National Vaccine Program Office at HHS. Some will be sick or
dead; others could be depressed or caring for a loved one or staying at home
to prevent spread of the virus. 'The problem is, you never know which 40
percent will be out,' he said."
Putting down INSURRECTIONS, no more Bills Of Rights for the duration
of the "pandemic." Chaos! Madness! Protect government workers first and
foremost. All based on ZERO scientific evidence, all this is swinging into
gear. April 15, two days before the above Washington Post article, an
article in the Tacoma Tribune by M.A. Otto. It reports on a public-health
conference in downtown Tacoma, with featured speaker, Julie Gerberding, the
head of the CDC. "'There is no evidence it will be the next pandemic,' Dr.
Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in
Atlanta, said of avian flu. There is 'no evidence it is evolving in a
direction that is becoming more transmissible to people.'" "Gerberding's
comments on bird flu contrast earlier statements from the federal government
that tended to emphasize worse-case scenarios."
So, there is no evidence of a pandemic, but thank you for the $7
billion anyway?
We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and
self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is the norm. Autism is a real
problem, not a potential problem. We have tolerated the junk science that
has covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost to
science, the public, and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch
to realize that by putting our heads in the sand about the autism epidemic
we have made it possible for the groundwork to be put in place for Marshal
Law?
Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven't pediatricians
come forward to demand the end of the use of ethylmercurithiosalicate once
and for all, and to advocate for the treatment of these children before it
is too late? Conflict of Interest: None declared.

David Wright · medicine forum Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 750

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