Experts Weigh in On US Government's Vaccine Injury Ruling

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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/571496

I could not find a place on the Medscape page to

respond to the above article, so I am sending my

comments to you. Perhaps you will follow this story

up, especially in pressing for the full background

information in this case before we simply allow people

who are threatened by Hannah's award to sweep it under

the rug.

" A news release from the US Health Resources and

Services Administration (HRSA) states that while the

government cannot publicly disclose details of a

specific case without the consent of the individuals

involved, it " has reviewed the scientific information

concerning the allegation that vaccines cause autism

and has found no credible evidence to support the

claim. "

And whose consent is lacking to make public the

details? The Polings? After they have held press

conferences, conducted interviews and made an

appearance on Larry King? Hmmmm...

Could it be HRSA that refuses consent? After all, the

US govt. stands to lose big should the details of

Hannah's experience prove to be more common than the 1

in a million the vaccinologists are so desperate for

us to believe.

" According to Bregman, MD, chair of the committee

on developmental disabilities of the American

Psychiatric Association (APA), it is known that this

child has a rare underlying mitochondrial condition

and received a number of vaccines at once, which is

also atypical, and subsequently developed autismlike

symptoms. "

The truth is, we do not know how many people have

mitochondrial disorders, especially in the

sub-population of autistics. According to experts in

the field there are over a hundred of these

conditions, and genetic tests are only available for a

couple dozen. Further more, the only study of its

kind conducted in Portugal found 5 out of 69 autistic

children had mitochondrial disorders.

And the statement that multiple vaccines are not given

at once is also false. The is a far more common

happening than many people realise, as the number of

shots a child is expected to get went from 10 in the

early 80's to three dozen in 2006. A child will

receive 4 or more shots on their 2 mo visit, their 4

mo visit, their 6 mo visit and again when they are

12-15 mo and it is time for their MMR.

And Hannah was most certainly auitistic. She was

diagnosed as such by a leading expert at

Kennedy-Krieger Institute, a neuroilogist who also

happens to teach at Hopkins. To try and divert

attention from this by dismissing her state of being

as " having autistic like behaviors " is a poor attempt

at the same sleight of hand a carny will use when

pocketing a coin to make it disappear.

" " When someone in his [McCain's] position makes those

kinds of strong statements, it is such a misuse of

power. "

No, that is not abuse of power. Whether or not it is

a foolish statement, misplaced concern, populist

grandstanding or even (as some would opine) an act of

sedition is fair game for armchair debates. Abuse of

power is when people find themselves in positions of

public trust and shift the focus of their efforts from

serving their clients to enriching themselves. Such

as the personnel at the CDC and FDA, who enjoy

employment in the only regulatory agency for whom

standards of conflict of interest are routinely

waived, who are permitted to partner with the

industries they are suppose to monitor, and who place

far stronger efforts at damage-control PR than they do

in disseminating the cutting edge research which

exposes the underside of the products they promote.

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