McCarthy's pediatrician will be speaking at the rally and wants input!

[Guest guest]

This was posted by McCarthy's pediatrician on the " Green our

Vaccine " Rally message board. I thought it was worth forwarding here.

It is an invitation to make our voices heard...

Daphna

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From Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP ( and Evan's Doc) Off Topic

Posted by: " Jay Gordon " jay@... jngmd

Fri May 30, 2008 11:04 pm (PDT)

Hello--

I will be speaking at the rally.

Some of you may know me from ³Larry King² or the Fox News piece or

the PBS

vaccine story last week.

I am a pediatrician in private practice and I do not have a DAN or

other

type of autism specialist pediatric practice. I care for many

children on

the spectrum and have had an intense interest in vaccines for a long

time.

I will be up there representing you and I¹d like your opinions about

what

you¹d like the media to hear. Because the list can be clogged by ³off

topic² posts right now, please email me privately at:

jaydrjaygordon (DOT) com

Below is a post I just sent to a heavily-used moms¹ web board. I

though you

might be interested. I truly look forward to seeing you all next week

and

meeting as many of you as possible.

All My Best,

Jay

(THIS WAS POSTED THIS EVENING TO A LOS ANGELES MOMS¹ BOARD IN

RESPONSE TO A

POST FROM AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE DOC/MOTHER)

I feel I must respond to this post. Caitlin contributes excellent

information to [this group] but I respectfully disagree with what

she¹s

written below.

Yes, the number of ³antigens² might be less, but the cumulative

amount of

aluminum in vaccines is vastly higher than it¹s ever been before.

Aluminum

damages human brain cells and is used as an ³adjuvant² or irritant to

allow

the manufacturer to use less of the antigen itself. That is, a

pertussis

vaccine might have less ³pertussis² protein than before but it has a

more

irritant and there are quite a few more vaccines than in past years

with

more added every couple years.

Children in the 1960s received dozens fewer vaccines than children in

2008.

The infant immune system is immature and every doctor knows that we

treat

sick babies completely differently than we treat sick toddlers partly

because they just can¹t respond as well to infection and CAN truly be

overwhelmed by an infection which might not have caused big trouble

in a

three-year-old or in an adult.

The immune system confronts many organisms, as Caitlin correctly

points out,

but it responds to them with antibodies and ³inactivating² defenses

in the

mouth, the nose, the throat, the bronchi. Vaccines are injected

directly

into muscle or under the skin with the intent of getting the viral or

bacterial response directly in the blood stream. We completely bypass

the

body¹s first lines of defense. Vaccines can overwhelm the immune

system¹s

ability to respond safely. This amazing unscientific approach has

never

been well enough evaluated in the decades-long history of vaccination.

³Science-based² is a catch phrase which loses a lot of it¹s meaning

when you

realize that the scientists ( Infectious Diseases Society of America)

to

whom Caitlin refer are sponsored by the manufacturers of vaccines.

Their

conferences, lunches, speakers¹ fees, airline tickets and much more

are

funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Have a look at their home page,

their ³Career Development and Funding Opportunities² page, their

³Research

Awards² page, or the countless pages of advertisements for vaccines

in the

journals. Science? Maybe. Unbiased science? Not even close.

Dr. Bernadine Healy, the former head of the National Institutes of

Health

(NIH) has broken ranks with the her fellow scientists in the

discussion

about vaccines causing or increasing the incidence of autism:

Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of

Health,

and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her

colleagues on

the vaccine-autism question.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is

still

open.

" I think that the public health officials have been too quick to

dismiss the

hypothesis as irrational, " Healy said.

" But public health officials have been saying they know, they've been

implying to the public there's enough evidence and they know it's not

causal, " Attkisson said.

" I think you can't say that, " Healy said. " You can't say that. "

http://www.cbsnews. com/stories/ 2008/05/12/ cbsnews_investig

ates/main4086809 .s

html?source= mostpop_story

Here¹s what I¹ve got, Caitlin, nearly 30 years of watching tens of

thousands

of children receive hundreds of thousands of vaccines. Countless

emails,

second opinion consultations and phone calls about children who

appear to

have been damaged by vaccines. Dozens of other doctors calling or

emailing

me because they know I¹ll listen to their stories about strange and

tragic

vaccine reactions and no one else will. Yes, children still get

illnesses

which vaccines could have prevented but I track these for hours every

day

and the number of illnesses pales in comparison to the number of

children

damaged by the current vaccine schedule. We can do much better but it

will

cost time and pharmaceutical manufacturers¹ time and money. Right

now, they

have little or no respect for parents and children.

This is the only area of medicine where we deny side effects.

Amoxicillin

for a UTI? I apologize for the possible rash, diarrhea, cramps and the

often inevitable yeast infection.

Six vaccines given to a ten pound baby girl? Doctors tell you before

the

shots that their are no side effects and that the seizures, deaths and

autism are not proven and are undoubtedly coincidental.

This is the only area of medicine where your six-week-old baby and I,

a 180

pound man, get the same dose of a medication. For instance, the polio

vaccine. This is absurd medicine and might be dangerous. My exposure

to

aluminum‹or to a full ³old time² dose of 25 micrograms of mercury

from the

flu shot or the tetanus shot‹is bad enough, but giving a seven year

old

child whose weight is less than one-third my own is dangerous.

Most web sites which discuss the negative aspects of vaccines are

just as

biased as the sites sponsored by the industry. This one has a lot of

good

information‹certainl y from the ³vaccines aren¹t safe enough² point

of view‹

and it is far less biased.

Before those six vaccines at each of the first few visits, ask

yourself,

³does this feel like the right thing to do to my baby?² Your answer to

yourself is more valuable than your doctor¹s opinion about your one

supremely important child. Consider both, but value your instincts

above

all else.

Best,

Jay

Re: autism and vaccinations

Posted by: " yankeedoc03 " caitlin_reed@ post.harvard. edu yankeedoc03

Fri May 30, 2008 4:26 pm (PDT)

I'd like to respond to the idea that there are 'too many' vaccines in

the current schedule. It is not well known that although the actual

number of recommended immunizations in the standard schedule has

increased over time, there are now markedly fewer vaccine antigens

(the actual fragments of the bacterial or viral proteins used in

vaccines to induce immunity) given in immunizations today than in the

past.

Children in the 1960s received immunizations containing upwards of

3000 antigens, while the total number of antigens in current vaccines

is less than ~150. This reduction in antigens has occurred because of

improvements in vaccine design, principally of the pertussis vaccine,

and because of the elimination of antigen rich smallpox vaccine from

the schedule after the eradication of smallpox in 1977.

I am also puzzled by the popular idea that infant immune systems are

fragile and easily overwhelmed by the handful of antigens in vaccines.

In fact, newborns' immune systems are remarkably robust, and confront

thousands of bacterial and viral antigens on a daily basis from the

very moment of birth.

For more science-based information about vaccines, I recommend

perusing www.immunizationinf o.org. This is a reliable website

co-sponsored by my professional society, the Infectious Diseases

Society of America.

Infectiously and immunologically yours,

Caitlin

--

Signature Links

Jay N. Gordon, MD, FAAP, IBCLC (Emeritus)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical School

Former Senior Fellow in Pediatric Nutrition, Memorial Sloan-Kettering

Institute

http://www.drjaygor don.com

A nice place to visit, and you could live there‹best link library

around, I

think)

http://www.childcar emedia.com

Some great producers created a DVD of my 2006 vaccine seminar at the

Skirball Center

http://www.huffingt onpost.com/ jay-gordon/ i-also-was- a-medical-

whor_b_97364. h

tml

My most recent contribution to my favorite website

http://tinyurl. com/6h9kyj Fox News (8600 email questions during a

one hour

live webcast following the taped show)

http://www.webmd. com/cold- and-flu/news/ 20071204/ sinus-infection-

antibiotics-

no-help

http://www.mcw. edu/display/ router.asp? docid=12967 (An vaccination

article

in my medical school ³Alumni News²--November, 2005)

http://www.kcrw. com/news/ programs/ tp/tp050415scien ce_politics_ and

(This is a radio show about vaccines which aired 4/15/05. I was on

with two

academic vaccine experts and the author of a new book about childhood

immunizations. ))

http://www.drjaygor don.com/news/ latimes.htm

(Some recent notes on vaccines)

http://www.medicaln ewstoday. com/medicalnews. php?newsid= 55507 (The

flu shot

does not work)

http://query. nytimes.com/ gst/fullpage. html?sec= health & res=

9501E7DB1F30F931 A1

5752C0A9619C8B63

(The whooping outbreak that wasn¹t)

http://www.huffingt onpost.com/ jay-gordon/ medicine- and-politics_

b_9539.html

(Tamiflu!)

http://www.huffingt onpost.com/ theblog/ (I am the medical

blogger . . . )

http://www.cbsnews. com/stories/ 2002/10/04/ earlyshow/

living/parenting /main524

452.shtml

(Click video)

http://www.nvic. org/state- site/California. htm

THIS IS A EXCERPT OF THE STATUTE

http://www.dhs. ca.gov/ps/ dcdc/izgroup/ pdf/IMM-365D. pdf

THIS, HOWEVER, IS THE COMPLETE CALIFORNIA LAW