2 more AAP rally thank yous; Dr. Ayoub's rally speech

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>From: " Medlin " <angelamedlin@...>

There are 2 very important thank yous I forgot to mention in my rally post

from last night:

Thank you Sara DiFucci and McDonough for your inspirational speeches

at the rally. You both did a fantastic job and I am sorry I did not

mention this on my first post (my post was sent after little sleep).

Also, I wanted to forward Dr. Ayoub's excellent rally speech (a must read):

Dr. Ayoub's speech...............................

I thought I would share with you some of my personal experiences with the

American Academy of Pediatrics.

My experience with lobbying for safer vaccine laws in Illinois and

Massachusetts gave me some insight into the heart and soul of the AAP. As

most of you know, after joining the Public Health Service in a joint

statement in 1999 supporting the immediate removal of Thimerosal from

vaccines, the AAP has in effect, completely reversed its precautionary

position by 1) endorsing and promoting the expansion of routine influenza

vaccinations to pregnant women, infants and young children without a stated

preference to Thimerosal-free formulas, 2) joined Public health departments

in strongly opposing state and federal legislation that would prohibit the

use of Thimerosal, 3) oppose legislative requirements that would require

informed consent before Thimerosal containing vaccines are administered, 4)

failed to notify its own pediatrician members to preferentially deliver

Thimerosal-free shots even after state bans such as th e one in Illinois

were signed into law and 6) has consistently mislead legislators,

journalists, parents and professionals by adhering to the outright lie that

all mercury in childhood vaccines, have been removed or reduced to trace

amounts when in fact, children today adhering to the flu vaccine schedule

will be receiving well over 50% of the total dose given before 2000, a

dosage that is likely to continue to increase with further adjustments to

the doses and target ages of flu vaccine recipients. It is perplexing that

the AAP has so strongly endorsed these new flu vaccine recommendations yet

overlooked the glaring fact that the greatest threat to the supply of the

influenza vaccine is not State Thimerosal bans, but ironically is the

vaccine industry's ill advisable reliance upon mercury as a preservative.

Not only are there numerous scientific reports from decades ago that

concluded thimerosal was an ineffective and toxic preservative, but as

recently a s 2004, Thimerosal again failed after the bacterial

contamination of Chiron's 2004 flu vaccine stockpile--- the largest scale

contamination of any pharmaceutical product in history. This failure

resulted in the temporary loss of over half of the US flu vaccine supply.

It has become painfully obvious that the silence of the AAP and public

health officials to demand a better preservative or use of nonpreserved

single dose preparations clearly and unequivocally indicated that these

agencies are incapable and uninterested in making sound healthcare policies

for Americans. Is it any wonder that the US infant morality rates rank a

dismal 32nd of 33 industrial nations worldwide according to a recent Save

the Children Survey. This statistic speaks volumes and no one in that

building should be proud of this statistic or the utter deplorable

situation we have with escalating incidences of a multitude of chronic

illness.

The AAP has played an important role in perpetuating the misconception that

current research refutes the thimerosal-autism link. Three key papers have

been published in the AAP trade journal PEDIATRICS-Madsen (Danish

epidemiological study); The Verstaraetn study, of Simpsonwood fame, and

Fombonne (Quebec epidemiological study) The editor-in-chief Dr Jerald Lucey

received numerous, substantiated criticisms of each of these studies, but

has created an effective roadblock in disallowing any criticisms to be

published in the letter-to the editor section of the journal. His response

to thoughtful and reasonable criticisms has been unprofessional, illogical

and insulting. My own letter to Lucey criticizing the Fombonne study was

not even allowed to be published on the less publically visible online

forum, even though we had obtained a copy of the Fombonne database and

vaccine records from, several parents proving Fombon ne's work fraudulent.

Why would the organization most influential in pediatric healthcare in

America turn its back to our concerns and pleas? That is not a challenging

question. The AAP reports annual revenues of about $70 million, but only

1/4th comes from membership dues. Their website lists extensive corporate

donors, none more generous than the vaccine makers. Their journal

PEDIATRICS generates about $10,000 per page for a drug ad, translating into

$200,000 monthly. Even more money is generated for reprint orders, often 6

figures, that are distributed to pediatricians without of course the

criticisms.

When I attended the AAP's National Convention in Wash DC. In 2005, I

attended as many talks I could one of 2 topics that interested me-diagnosis

and treatment of learning disabilities and 2) vaccine safety. From the

meeting brochure I made the following observations:

First, 16 speakers contributed to 18 lectures in these categories.

According to the AAP's meeting brochure and my own knowledge of the

presenters, 15 of 16 speakers had strong connections to the pharmaceutical

industry, including the CDC. One Harvard physician claimed 42 different

financial arrangements with 14 different Pharmaceutical companies! My when

does he find the time to vaccinate anyone?

It is no wonder that the message delivered by AAP and industry influenced

professionslas to attending pediatricians was crystal clear: THERE IS NO

VACCINE LINK!

Let me conclude by making the obvious conclusions about how I feel about

the AAP. The politically correct statement would be to say that key

individuals from within this organization have gone to great extents to

obscure the vaccine-autism connection and by doing so are protecting

profits and liability for one of the world's largest and dangerous

industries. In reality, let me be blunt and politically incorrect. The AAP

leadership knows very well that vaccines cause autism. We need not waste

anymore efforts in trying to educating them, we need to indict them. They

may me morally bankrupt, but they are not stupid. They have lied to

legislators, they have lied to journalists, they have lied to

Pediatricians, and worse of all, they have lied to you and your children.

The theme at the 2005 annual meeting was a celebration of " 75 years of

caring " . It was not clear exactly what they cared most about, their

corporate sponsors or protecting their leadership status over our nations'

pediatricians. One thing is abundantly clear, the don't give a damn about

scientific truth and they don't give a damn about you or your children. I

hope the autism community continues to move forward and expose all those

involved who have put millions of children in harm's way.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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