[NVIC] Mom Slam Dunks AAP Docs on Larry King

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Mom Slam Dunks AAP Docs on Larry

King

by Barbara Loe

Fisher

In what can only be described as a brilliant turn last night on

Larry King Live, young celebrity Mom McCarthy stood her ground

with a defiant " anecdotal evidence IS scientific evidence " in

calling on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to back away from

one- size-fits-all vaccine policies that recommend all babies get dozens

of doses of vaccines. Describing what happened to her son, who suffered

convulsions and nearly died after a round of vaccinations and then

regressed into autism, was accompanied by her pediatrician, Jay

Gordon, M.D., and journalist Kirby in a face-off with AAP

pediatricians Harvey Karp, M.D. and Tayloe, Jr. M.D.. It was a

ground- breaking television debate about vaccine risks that highlighted

the soft underbelly of a medical community unwilling to deal with the

reality that regressive autism is part of the vaccine injury

spectrum.

Watching talk about how she recovered her son from autism using

diet and alternative healing therapies while resolutely rejecting the

tired old platitudes offered up by the two pediatricians trying to defend

the indefensible vaccine schedule promoted by the AAP, I smiled as I

remembered how it was when I was a young Mom in the 1980's and 1990's and

debated doctors on TV. Those were the days when the vast majority of

Americans had no idea vaccines could brain injure children and the U.S.

media was often bullied by AAP and CDC officials into downplaying reports

by mothers that their children died or were brain damaged after

vaccination.

The AAP and CDC leadership have essentially joined with the

pharmaceutical industry and stuck their heads in the sand for three

decades, refusing to take action even though parents and a few courageous

doctors have repeatedly come to the table at the CDC, FDA, NIH and

Institute of Medicine and pleaded with them to responsibly investigate

the clear pattern of regression into poor health after vaccination that

so many children are suffering. Pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers

have hidden behind the protection offered by the National Childhood

Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which Congress gave to them as a gift in an

exchange that was supposed to make the vaccine system safer and more

trustworthy.

The sad truth is that the public trust has been betrayed by those

operating a mass vaccination system now crumbling precisely because there

was a refusal to listen to the calls by mothers of vaccine injured

children to take constructive action in the 1980's and 1990's.

Today, those responsible for the betrayal of the public trust will be

forced to deal with a new generation of Moms, exemplified by

McCarthy, who are not starting from ground zero like we did. These Moms

are holding their broken children in their arms and looking back in anger

and disgust at the long, tragic history of denials by those operating the

mass vaccination system. This generation of mothers and fathers, many of

whom will spend a lifetime trying to heal their vaccine injured children,

are standing on a platform of knowledge built brick by brick by those who

have gone before and shouting: " It ends here and now with

me. "

During the Larry King show, announced that she and Jim Carrey will

be leading a march for autism awareness in Washington, D.C. on June 4.

For more information, go to 's page on the Generation Rescue website

at

http://generationrescue.org/vaccines.html

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" In light

of the recent Hannah Poling decision, in which the federal court conceded

that vaccines could have contributed to her autism, we think the tide is

finally turning in the direction of parents like us who have been

shouting concerns from our rooftops for years. Autism is a debilitating

disorder, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, is suffered by 1 in 150 kids, making it more common than

childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined. Recently, England and

Ireland reported that autism is affecting one in 58 individuals. Is it

any wonder that autism has become many new parents' No. 1 fear? We've met

some of the most amazing moms and dads who are forging their own path to

prevention and recovery. When our son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism we

were lucky enough to benefit from their knowledge and experience. Evan

has been healed to a great extent by many breakthroughs that, while

perhaps not scientifically proven, have definitely helped Evan and many

other children who are recovering from autism. " -

McCarthy and Jim Carrey, CNN - Larry King (April 2, 2008)

http://www.cn n.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/index.

html#cnnSTCVideo

McCarthy: My son's

recovery from autism

Actress McCarthy believes that

vaccines could have contributed to her son's

autism.

by McCarthy and

Jim Carrey

Special to CNN

Editor's note: McCarthy and Jim Carrey are actors and parents

actively involved in autism-related causes. McCarthy is the author of the

book " Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing

Autism. "

(CNN) -- In light of the recent Hannah Poling decision, in which

the federal court conceded that vaccines could have contributed to her

autism, we think the tide is finally turning in the direction of parents

like us who have been shouting concerns from our rooftops for

years.

Autism is a debilitating disorder, which according to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, is suffered by 1 in 150 kids, making it

more common than childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined. Recently,

England and Ireland reported that autism is affecting one in 58

individuals.

Is it any wonder that autism has become many new parents' No. 1 fear?

We've met some of the most amazing moms and dads who are forging their

own path to prevention and recovery. When our son, Evan, was diagnosed

with autism we were lucky enough to benefit from their knowledge and

experience. Evan has been healed to a great extent by many breakthroughs

that, while perhaps not scientifically proven, have definitely helped

Evan and many other children who are recovering from autism.

There are some who wonder what we mean when we say " recovering "

from autism. They confuse the word recover with cure. While you may not

be able to cure an injury caused in a terrible car accident, you can

recover; you can regain many skills that you once lost. In the case of

autism, we think there are treatments that often bring about such

healing, so that the observable symptoms of the condition no longer

exist. Even though we may no longer see any symptoms of autism, we can't

say a child is " cured " because we do not know what they would

have been like had they never been injured.

We believe what helped Evan recover was starting a gluten-free,

casein-free diet, vitamin supplementation, detox of metals, and

anti-fungals for yeast overgrowth that plagued his intestines. Once

Evan's neurological function was recovered through these medical

treatments, speech therapy and applied behavior analysis helped him

quickly learn the skills he could not learn while he was frozen in

autism. After we implemented these therapies for one year, the state

re-evaluated Evan for further services. They spent five minutes with Evan

and said, " What happened? We've never seen a recovery like

this. "

Evan is now 5 years old and what might surprise a lot of you is that

we've never been contacted by a single member of the CDC, the American

Academy of Pediatrics, or any other health authority to evaluate and

understand how Evan recovered from autism. When Evan meets doctors and

neurologists, to this day they tell us he was misdiagnosed -- that he

never had autism to begin with. It's as if they are wired to believe that

children can't recover from autism.

So where's the cavalry? Where are all the doctors beating down our door

to take a closer look at Evan? We think we know why they haven't arrived.

Most of the parents we've met who have recovered their child from autism

as we did (and we have met many) blame vaccines for their child's autism.

We think our health authorities don't want to open this can of worms, so

they don't even look or listen. While there is strong debate on this

topic, many parents of recovered children will tell you they didn't treat

their child for autism; they treated them for vaccine injury.

Many people aren't aware that in the 1980s our children received only 10

vaccines by age 5, whereas today they are given 36 immunizations, most of

them by age 2. With billions of pharmaceutical dollars, could it be

possible that the vaccine program is becoming more of a profit engine

then a means of prevention?

We believe autism is an environmental illness. Vaccines are not the only

environmental trigger, but we do think they play a major role. If we are

going to solve this problem and finally start to reverse the rate of

autism, we need to consider changing the vaccine schedule, reducing the

number of shots given and removing certain ingredients that could be

toxic to some children.

We take into account that some children have reactions to medicines like

penicillin, for example, yet when it comes to vaccines we are operating

as if our kids have a universal tolerance for them. We are acting like

ONE SIZE FITS ALL. That is, at the very least, a huge

improbability.

Even if the CDC is not convinced of a link between vaccines and autism,

changing the vaccine schedule should be seriously considered as a

precautionary measure. (If you would like to see some ideas for

alternative schedules, check out

http://generationrescue.org.)

We wish to state, very clearly, that we are not against all vaccines, but

we do believe there is strong evidence to suggest that some of the

ingredients may be hazardous and that our children are being given too

many, too soon!

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