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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP

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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP

By L. Blaylock, M.D.

www.russelblaylockmd.com

I was asked to write a paper on some of the newer

mechanisms of vaccine damage to the nervous

system, but in the interim I came across an

incredible document that should blow the lid off

the cover-up being engineered by the

pharmaceutical companies in conjunction with powerful governmental agencies.

It all started when a friend of mind sent me a

copy of a letter from Congressman Weldon,

M.D. to the director of the CDC, Dr L.

Gerberding, in which he alludes to a study by a

Doctor Verstraeten, then representing the

CDC, on the connection between infant exposure to

thimerosal-containing vaccines and

neurodevelopmental injury. In this shocking

letter Congressman Weldon referrers to Dr.

Verstraeten's study which looked at the data from

the Vaccine Safety Datalink and found a

significant correlation between thimerosal

exposure via vaccines and several

neurodevelopmental disorders including tics,

speech and language delays, and possibly to ADD.

Congressman Weldon questions the CDC director as

to why, following this meeting, Dr. Verstraeten

published his results, almost four years later,

in the journal Pediatrics to show just the

opposite, that is, that there was no correlation

to any neurodevelopmental problems related to

thimerosal exposure in infants. In this letter,

Congressman Weldon refers to a report of the

minutes of this meeting held in Georgia, which

exposes some incredible statements by the

" experts " making up this study group. The group's

purpose was to evaluate and discuss Dr.

Verstraeten's results and data and make

recommendation that would eventually lead to

possible alterations in the existing vaccine policy.

I contacted Congressman Weldon's legislative

assistant and he kindly sent me a complete copy

of this report. Now, as usual in these cases, the

government did not give up this report willingly,

it required a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit

to pry it loose. Having read the report twice and

having carefully analyzed it; I can see why they

did not want any outsiders to see it. It is a

bombshell, as you shall see. In this analysis, I

will not only describe and discuss this report,

but also will frequently quote their words

directly and supply the exact page number so others can see for themselves.

The official title of the meeting was the

" Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink

Information. " . This conference, held on June

7-8, 2000 at Simpsonwood Retreat Center,

Norcross, Georgia, assembled 51 scientists and

physicians of which five represented vaccine

manufacturers. These included Kline

Beecham, Merck, Wyeth, North American Vaccine and Aventis Pasteur.

During this conference, these scientists focused

on the study of the Datalink material, whose main

author was Dr. Verstraesten who identified

himself as working at the National Immunization

Program of the CDC. It was discovered by

Congressman Weldon that Dr. Verstraeten left the

CDC shortly after this conference to work for

GlaxoKline in Belgium which manufacturers

vaccines, a recurring pattern that has been given

the name a " revolving door " It is also

interesting to note that GlaxoKline was

involved in several lawsuits over complications secondary to their vaccines.

To start off the meeting, Dr. Bernier,

Associate Director for Science in the National

Immunization Program (CDC), related some

pertinent history. He stated that Congressional

action in 1997 required that the FDA review

mercury being used in drugs and biologics

(vaccines). In meeting this order, the FDA called

for information from the manufacturers of

vaccines and drugs. He notes that a group of

European regulators and manufacturers met on

April 1999 and noted the situation but made no

recommendations or changes. In other words it was all for show.

At this point Dr. Bernier made an incredible

statement (page 12). He said, " In the United

States there was a growing recognition that

cumulative exposure may exceed some of the

guidelines. " By guidelines, he is referring to

guidelines for mercury exposure safety levels set

by several regulatory agencies. The three

guidelines were set by the ATSDR, the FDA and the

EPA. The most consistently violated safety

guideline was that set by the EPA. He further

explains that he is referring to children being

exposed to thimerosal in vaccines.

Based on this realization that they were

violating safety guidelines he says, this then

" resulted in a joint statement of the Public

Health Service (PHS) and the American Academy of

Pediatrics (AAP) in July of last year (1999),

which stated that as a long term goal, it was

desirable to remove mercury from vaccines because

it was a potentially preventable source of exposure. " (Page 12)

As an aside, one has to wonder, where was the

Public Health Service and American Academy of

Pediatrics during all the years of mercury use in

vaccines and why didn't they know that, number

one, they were exceeding regulatory safety levels

and second, why weren't they aware of the

extensive literature showing deleterious effects

on the developing nervous system of babies? As we

shall see even these " experts " seem to be cloudy on the mercury literature.

Dr. Bernier notes that in August 1999 a public

workshop was held at Bethesda in the Lister

Auditorium by the National Vaccine Advisory Group

and the Interagency Working Group on Vaccines to

consider thimerosal risk in vaccine use. And

based on what was discussed in that conference,

thimerosal was removed from the hepatitis B

vaccine (HepB). It is interesting to note that

the media took very little interest in what was

learned at that meeting and it may have been a

secret meeting as well. As we shall see, there is

a reason why they struggle to keep the contents

of all these meetings secret from the public.

He then notes on page 13 that on October 1999 the

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

(ACIP) " looked this situation over again and did

not express a preference for any of the vaccines

that were thimerosal free. " In this discussion he

further notes that the ACIP concluded that the

thimerosal-containing vaccines could be used but

the " long-term goal " is to try to remove thimerosal as soon as possible.

Now, we need to stop and think about what has

transpired here. We have an important group here;

the ACIP that essential plays a role in vaccine

policy that affects tens of millions of children

every year. And, we have evidence from the

Thimerosal meeting in 1999 that the potential for

serious injury to the infant's brain is so

serious that a recommendation for removal becomes

policy. In addition, they are all fully aware

that tiny babies are receiving mercury doses that

exceed even EPA safety limits, yet all they can

say is that we must " try to remove thimerosal as

soon as possible " . Do they not worry about the

tens of millions of babies that will continue

receiving thimerosal-containing vaccines until

they can get around to stopping the use of thimerosal?

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It should also be noted that it is a misnomer to

say " removal of thimerosal " since they are not

removing anything. They just plan to stop adding

it to future vaccines once they use up existing

stocks, which entails millions of doses. And,

incredibly, the government allows them to do it.

Even more incredibly, the American Academy of

Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family

Practice similarly endorse this insane policy. In

fact, they specifically state that children

should continue to receive the

thimerosal-containing vaccines until new

thimerosal-free vaccine can be manufactured at

the will of the manufacturers. Are they afraid

that there will be a sudden diphtheria epidemic in America or tetanus epidemic?

The most obvious solution was to use only

single-dose vials, which requires no

preservative. So, why don't they use them? Oh,

they exclaim, it would add to the cost of the

vaccine. Of course, we are only talking about a

few dollars per vaccine at most, certainly worth

the health of your child's brain and future. They

could use some of the hundreds of millions of

dollars they waste on vaccine promotion every

year to cover these cost for the poor. Yet, that

would cut into some fat-cat's budget and we can't have that.

It was disclosed that thimerosal was in all

influenza vaccines, DPT (and most DtaP) vaccines and all HepB vaccines.

As they begin to concentrate on the problem at

hand we first begin to learn that the greatest

problem with the meeting is that, they know

virtually nothing about what they are doing. On

page 15, for example, they admit that there is

very little pharmacokinetic data on ethylmercury,

the form of mercury in thimerosal. In fact they

say there is no data on excretion, the data on

toxicity is sparse, yet it is recognized to cause

hypersensitivity, it can cause neurological

problems and even death, and it is known to

easily pass the blood-brain barrier and the placental barrier.

Therefore, what they are admitting is that we

have a form of mercury that has been used in

vaccines since the 1930s and no one has bothered

to study the effects on biological systems,

especially the brains of infants. Their defense

throughout this conference is " we just don't know

the effects of ethylmercury " . As a solution, they

resort to studies on methylmercury, because there

are thousands of studies on this form of mercury.

The major source of this form is seafood consumption.

It takes them awhile to get the two forms of

mercury straight, since for several pages of the

report they say methylmercury is in thimerosal

rather than ethylmercury. They can be forgiven

for this. On page 16, Dr. , an

immunologist and pediatrician at the University

of Colorado School of Medicine and the National

Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory

Medicine, notes that he would like to see the

incorporation of wide margins of safety, that is

3 to 10-fold margins of safety to " account for

data uncertainties. " What he means is that there

are so many things we do not know about this

toxin that we had better use very wide margins of

safety. For most substances the FDA uses a 100-fold margin of safety.

The reason for this, which they do not mention,

is that in a society of hundreds of millions of

people there are groups of people who are much

more sensitive to the toxin than others. For

instance, the elderly, the chronically ill, the

nutritionally deficient, small babies, premature

babies, those on certain medications and inborn

defects in detoxification, just to name a few. In

fact, in this study they excluded premature

babies and low birth weight babies from the main

study, some of which had the highest mercury

levels, because they would be hard to study and

because they had the most developmental problems,

possibly related to the mercury.

On page 16 as well, Dr. makes an

incredible statement, one that defines the

problem we have in this country with the

promoters of these vaccines. He states, " As an

aside, we found a cultural difference between

vaccinologist and environmental health people in

that many of us in the vaccine arena have never

thought about uncertainty factors before. We tend

to be relatively concrete in our thinking. " Then

he says, " One of the big cultural events in that

meeting ---was when Dr. son repetitively

pointed out to us that we just didn't get it

about uncertainty, and he was actually quite right. "

This is an incredible admission. First, what is a

vaccinologist? Do you go to school to learn to be

one? How many years of residency training are

required to be a vaccinologist? Are there board

exams? It's a stupid term used to describe people

who are obsessed with vaccines, not that they

actually study the effects of the vaccines, as we

shall see throughout this meeting. Most important

is the admission by Dr. that he and his

fellow " vaccinologist " are so blinded by their

obsession with forcing vaccines on society that

they never even considered that there might be

factors involved that could greatly affect human

health, the so-called " uncertain ties " . Further,

that he and his fellow " vaccinologists " like to

think in concrete terms-that is, they are very

narrow in their thinking and wear blinders that

prevent them from seeing the numerous problems

occurring with large numbers of vaccinations in

infants and children. Their goal in life is to

vaccinate as many people as possible with an ever-growing number of vaccines.

On page 17 his " concrete thinking " once again

takes over. He refers to the Bethesda meeting on

Thimerosal safety issues and says, " there was no

evidence of a problem, only a theoretical concern

that young infants' developing brains were being

exposed to an organomercurial. " Of course, as I

shall point out later, it is a lot more than a

" theoretical concern " . He then continues by

saying, " We agree that while there was no

evidence of a problem the increasing number of

vaccine injections given to infants was

increasing the theoretical mercury exposure risk. "

It's hard to conceive of a true scientist not

seeing the incredible irony of these statements.

The medical literature is abound with studies on

the deleterious effects of mercury on numerous

enzymes, mitochondrial energy production,

synaptic function, dendritic retraction,

neurotubule dissolution and excitotoxicity, yet,

he sees only a " theoretical risk " associated with

an ever increasing addition of

thimerosal-containing vaccines. It is also

important to note that these geniuses never even

saw a problem in the first place, it was pressure

from outside scientists, parents of affected

children and groups representing them that

pointed out the problem. They were, in essence,

reacting to pressure from outside the

" vaccinologist club " and not discovering

internally that a problem " might " exist.

In fact, if these outside groups had not become

involved these " vaccinologists " would have

continued to add more and more mercury-containing

vaccines to the list of required vaccines. Only

when the problem became so obvious, that is of

epidemic proportion (close to that now) and the

legal profession became involved would they have

even noticed there was a problem. This is a

recurring theme in the government's regulatory

agencies, as witnessed with fluoride, aspartame,

MSG, dioxin and pesticides issues.

It is also interesting that Dr. did admit

that the greatest risk was among low birth weight

infants and premature infants. Now why would that

be if there existed such a large margin of safety

with mercury used in vaccines? Could just a few

pounds of body weight make such a dramatic

difference? In fact, it does but it also means

that normal birth weight children, especially

those near the low range of normal birth weight,

are also in greater danger. It also would mean

that children receiving doses of mercury higher

than the 75 ug in this study would be at high

risk as well because their dose, based on body

weight, would be comparable to that of the low

birth weight child receiving the lower dose. This

is never even considered by these " vaccinologist

experts " who decide policy for your children.

Now this next statement should shock everyone,

but especially the poor who in any way think that

these " vaccinologists " experts have their best

interest in mind. Dr. says on page 17,

" We agree that it would be desirable to remove

mercury from U.S. licensed vaccines, but we did

not agree that this was a universal

recommendation that we would make because of the

issue concerning preservatives for delivering

vaccines to other countries, particularly

developing countries, in the absence of hard data

that implied that there was in fact a problem. "

So, here you have it. The data is convincing

enough that the American Academy of Pediatrics

and the American Academy of Family Practice, as

well as the regulatory agencies and the CDC along

with these organizations all recommend its

removal as quickly as possible because of

concerns of adverse effects of mercury on brain

development, but not for the children in the

developing countries. I thought the whole idea of

child health programs in the United States

directed toward the developing world was to give

poor children a better chance in an increasingly

competitive world. This policy being advocated

would increase the neurodevelopmental problems

seen in poor children (also in this country) of

developing countries, impairing their ability to

learn and develop competitive minds. Remember,

there was a representative of the World Health

Organization (WHO), Dr. Clements, serving on

this panel of " experts " . He never challenged this

statement made by Dr. .

It also needs to be appreciated that children in

developing countries are at a much greater risk

of complications from vaccinations and from

mercury toxicity than children in developed

countries. This is because of poor nutrition,

concomitant parasitic and bacterial infections

and a high incidence of low birth weight in these

children. We are now witnessing a disaster in

African countries caused by the use of older live

virus polio vaccines that has now produced an

epidemic of vaccine related polio, that is, polio

caused by the vaccine itself. In, fact, in some

African countries, polio was not seen until the vaccine was introduced.

The WHO and the " vaccinologist experts " from this

country now justify a continued polio vaccination

program with this dangerous vaccine on the basis

that now that they have created the epidemic of

polio, they cannot stop the program. In a recent

article it was pointed out that this is the most

deranged reasoning, since more vaccines will mean

more vaccine-related cases of polio. But then,

" vaccinologist " have difficulty with these

" uncertainties " . ( JT. A developing country

perspective on vaccine-associated paralytic

poliomyelitis. Bulletin WHO 2004; 82: 53-58. See

commentary by D.M. Salisbury at the end of the article.)

Then he again emphasizes the philosophy that the

health of children is secondary to " the program "

when he says, " We saw some compelling data that

delaying the birth dose of HepB vaccine would

lead to significant disease burden as a

consequence of missed opportunity to immunize.

" This implies that our children would be

endangered from the risk of hepatitis B should

the vaccine program stop vaccinating newborns with the HepB vaccine.

In fact, this statement is not based on any risk

to U.S. children at all and he makes that plain

when he states, " that the potential impact on

countries that have 10% to 15% newborn hepatitis

B exposure risk was very distressing to

consider. " (page 18) In other words the risk is

not to normal U.S. children but to children in

developing countries. In fact, hepatitis B is not

a risk until the teenage years and after in this

country. The only at-risk group among children is

with children born to drug using parents; mothers

infected with hepatitis B or HIV infected

parents. The reason for vaccinating the newborns

is to capture them before they can escape the

" vaccinologist's " vaccine program.

This is a tactic often used to scare mothers into

having their children vaccinated. For example,

they say that if children are not vaccinated

against measles millions of children could die

during a measles epidemic. They know this is

nonsense. What they are using is examples taken

from developing countries with poor nutrition and

poor immune function in which such epidemic death

can occur. In the United States we would not see

this because of better nutrition, better health

facilities and better sanitation. In fact, most

deaths seen when measles outbreaks occur in the

United States occur either in children in which

vaccination was contraindicated, the vaccine did

not work or in children with chronic, immune-suppressing diseases.

In fact, in most studies these children catching

the measles or other childhood diseases have been

either fully immunized or partially immunized.

The big secret among " vaccinologists " is that

anywhere from 20 to 50% of children are not

resistant to the diseases for which they have been immunized.

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Also on page 18, Dr. tells the committee

that it was Dr. Walt Orenstein who " asked the

most provocative question which introduced a

great deal of discussion. That was, should we try

to seek neurodevelopmental outcomes from children

exposed to varying doses of mercury by utilizing

the Vaccine Safety Datalink data from one or more sites. " (page 18).

I take from this no one had ever even thought of

looking at the data that had just been sitting

there all these years un-reviewed. Children could

have been dropping like flies or suffering from

terrible neurodevelopmental defects caused by the

vaccine program and no one in the government

would have known. In fact, that is exactly what

the data suggested was happening, at least as regards neurodevelopmental delays

We should also appreciate that the government

sponsored two conferences on the possible role of

metals, aluminum and mercury, being use in

vaccines without any change in vaccine policy

occurring after the meetings. These meetings were

held a year before this meeting and before any

examination of the data which was being held

tightly by the CDC, (which was denied to other

independent, highly qualified researchers). I

will talk more about what was discussed in the

aluminum conference later. It is very important

and is only briefly referred to in this

conference for a very good reason. If the public

knew what was discussed at the aluminum meeting

no one would ever get a vaccination using the

presently manufactured types of vaccines again.

Despite what was discussed in the aluminum

meeting and the scientific literature on the

neurotoxicity of aluminum, Dr. makes the

following remark; " Aluminum salts have a very

wide margin of safety. Aluminum and mercury are

often simultaneously administered to infants,

both at the same site and at different sites. "

Also on page 20, he states, " However, we also

learned that there is absolutely no data,

including animal data, about the potential for

synergy, additively or antagonism, all of which

can occur in binary metal mixtures… "

It is important her to appreciate a frequently

used deception by those who are trying to defend

an indefensible practice. They use the very same

language just quoted, that is, that there is no

data to show, etc, etc. They intend it to convey

the idea that the issue has been looked at and

studied thoroughly and no toxicity was found. In

truth, it means that no one has looked at this

possibility and there have been no studies that

would give us an answer one way or the other.

In fact, we know that aluminum is a significant

neurotoxin and that it shares many common

mechanisms with mercury as a neurotoxin. For

example, they are both toxic to neuronal

neurotubules, interfere with antioxidant enzymes,

poison DNA repair enzymes, interfere with

mitochondrial energy production, block the

glutamate reuptake proteins (GLT-1 and GLAST),

bind to DNA, and interfere with neuronal membrane

function. Toxins that share toxic mechanisms are

almost always additive and frequently synergistic

in their toxicity. So, Dr. 's statement is sheer nonsense.

A significant number of studies have shown that

both of these metals play a significant role in

all of the neurodegenerative disorders. It is

also important to remember, both of these metals

accumulate in the brain and spinal cord. This

makes them accumulative toxins and therefore much

more dangerous than rapidly excreted toxins.

To jump ahead, on page 23 Dr, Tom Sinks,

Associate Director for Science at the National

Center for Environmental Health at the CDC and

the Acting Division Director for Division of

Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities and

Health, ask, " I wonder is there a particular

health outcome that is related to aluminum salts

that may have anything that we are looking at

today? " Dr. Meyers, Acting Director of the

National Vaccine Program Office, answers, " No, I

don't believe there are any particular health

concerns that was raised. " This is after an

aluminum conference held the previous year that

did indeed find significant health concerns and

an extensive scientific literature showing aluminum to be of great concern.

On page 24 Dr. Weil, a pediatrician

representing the Committee on Environmental

Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics,

brings some sense to the discussion by reminding

them that, " there are just a host of

neurodevelopmental data that would suggest that

we've got a serious problem. The earlier we go,

the more serious the problem. " Here he means that

the further back you go during the child's brain

development, the more likely the damage to the

infant. I must give him credit; at least he

briefly recognized that a significant amount of

brain development does take place later. He also

reminds his colloquies that aluminum produced

severe dementia and death in dialysis cases. He

concludes by saying, " To think there isn't some

possible problem here is unreal. " (page 25).

Not to let it end there, Dr. Meyers adds, " We

held the aluminum meeting in conjunction with the

metal ions in biology and medicine meeting, we

were quick to point out that in the absence of

data we didn't know about additive or inhibitory

activities. " Once again we see the " no data "

ploy. There is abundant data on the deleterious

effects of aluminum on the brain, a significant

portion of which came out in that very meeting.

Dr. also quotes Dr. son, who

identifies himself as associated with the mercury

program at the University of Rochester, as saying

that delaying the HepB vaccine for 6 months or so

would not affect the mercury burden. (page 20).

He makes the correct conclusion when he says, " I

would have thought that the difference was in the

timing. That is you are protecting the first six

months of the developing central nervous system. "

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Hallelujah, for a brief moment I thought that

they had stumbled on one of the most basic

concepts in neurotoxicology. Then Dr. Meyers

dashed my hopes by saying that single, separated

doses would not affect blood levels at all. At

this juncture, we need a little enlightenment. It

is important to appreciate that mercury is a fat

soluble metal. That is, it is stored in the

body's fat. The brain contains 60% fat and

therefore is a common site for mercury storage.

Now, they establish in this discussion that about

half of methylmercury is excreted over several

months when ingested. A recent study found that

ethylmercury has a half-life of 7 days.

Even so, a significant proportion of the mercury

will enter the brain (it has been shown to easily

pass through the blood-brain barrier) where it is

stored in the phospholipids (fats). With each new

dose, and remember these children are receiving

as many as 22 doses of these vaccines, another

increment is added to the brain storage depot.

This is why we call mercury an accumulative

poison. They never once, not once, mention this

vital fact throughout the entire conference. Not

once. Moreover, they do so for a good reason, it

gives the unwary, those not trained in

neuroscience, assurance that all that matters here is blood levels.

In fact, on page 163, Dr. Brent, A

developmental biologist and pediatrician at the

Jefferson University and Dupont Hospital

for Children, says that we don't have data

showing accumulation and " that with the multiple

exposures you get an increasing level, and we

don't know whether that is true or not. " He

redeems himself somewhat by pointing out that

some of the damage is irreversible and with each

dose more irreversible damage occurs and in that way it is accumulative.

On page 21 Dr. son makes the

incredible statement implying that he knows of no

studies that shows exposure to mercury after

birth or at six months would have deleterious

effects. Dr. Isabelle Rapin, a neurologist for

children at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,

follows up by saying that " I am not an expert on

mercury in infancy " but she knows it can affect

the nerves (peripheral nervous system). So, here

is one of our experts admitting that she knows

little about the effects of mercury on the

infant. My question is-Why is she here? Dr. Rapin

is a neurologist for children at Albert Einstein

College of Medicine who stated that she has a

keen interest in developmental disorders, in

particular those involving language and autism,

yet she knows little about the effects of mercury on the infant brain.

This conference is concerned with the effects of

mercury in the form of thimerosal on infant brain

development, yet throughout this conference our

experts, especially the " vaccinologists " seem to

know little about mercury except limited

literature that shows no toxic effects except at

very high levels. None of the well known experts

were invited, such as Dr. Aschner from Bowman

Grey School of Medicine or Dr. Haley Boyd, who

has done extensive work on the toxic effects of

low concentrations on the CNS. They were not

invited because they would be harmful to the true

objective of this meeting, and that was to exonerate mercury in vaccines.

Several times throughout this conference, Dr.

Brent reminds everyone that the most sensitive

period for the developing brain is during the

early stages of pregnancy. In fact, he pinpoints

the 8th to 18th week as the period of

neuromaturation. In fact, the most rapid period

of brain maturation, synaptic development and

brain pathway development is during the last

three months of pregnancy continuing until two

years after birth. This is often referred to as

the " brain growth spurt " . This is also not

mentioned once in this conference, again because

if mothers knew that their child's brain was busy

developing for up to two years after birth they

would be less likely to accept this safety of

mercury nonsense these " vaccinologists " proclaim.

The brain develops over 100 trillion synaptic

connections and tens of trillions of dendritic

connections during this highly sensitive period.

Both dendrites and synapses are very sensitive,

even to very low doses of mercury and other

toxins. It has also been shown that subtoxic

doses of mercury can block the glutamate

transport proteins that play such a vital role in

protecting the brain against excitotoxicity.

Compelling studies indicate that damage to this

protective system plays a major role in most of

the neurodegenerative diseases and abnormal brain development as well.

Recent studies have shown that glutamate

accumulates in the brains of autistic children,

yet these experts seem to be unconcerned about a

substance (mercury) that is very powerful in triggering brain excitotoxicity.

It is also interesting to see how many times Dr.

Brent emphasizes that we do not know the

threshold for mercury toxicity for the developing

brain. Again, that is not true-we do know and the

Journal of Neurotoxicology states that anything

above 10ug is neurotoxic. The WHO in fact states

that there is no safe level of mercury.

On page 164 Dr. , Associate Professor

of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University

of Washington, makes a very important

observation. He points out that in a population

like the United States you have individuals with

varying levels of mercury from other causes

(diet, living near coal burning facilities, etc.)

and by vaccinating everyone you raise those with

the highest levels even higher and bring those

with median levels into a category of higher

levels. The " vaccinologists " with their problem

of " concrete thinking " cannot seem to appreciate

the fact that not everyone is the same. That is,

they fail to see these " uncertainties " .

To further emphasize this point lets take a

farming family who lives within three miles of a

coal-burning electrical plant. Since they also

live near the ocean they eat seafood daily. The

fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides used on

the crops contain appreciable levels of mercury.

The coal-burning electrical plant emits high

levels of mercury in the air they breathe daily

and the seafood they consume has levels of

mercury higher than EPA safety standards. This

means that any babies born to these people will have very high mercury levels.

Once born, they are given numerous vaccines

containing even more mercury, thereby adding

significantly to their already high mercury

burden. Are these " vaccinologists " trying to

convince us that these children don't matter and

that they are to be sacrificed at the alter of the " vaccine policy " ?

Recent studies by neurotoxicologists have

observed that as our ability to detect subtle

toxic effects improves, especially on behavior

and other neurological functions, we lower the

level of acceptable exposure. In fact, Dr, Sinks

brings up that exact point, using lead as an

example. He notes that as our neurobehavioral

testing improved, we lowered the acceptable dose

considerably and continue to do so. Dr.

had the audacity to add, " The smarter we get,

the lower the threshold. " Yet, neither he, nor

the other participants seem to be getting any smarter concerning this issue.

Dr. Chen, Chief of Vaccine Safety and

Development at the National Immunization Program

at the CDC, then reveals why they refuse to act

on this issue, he says, " the issue is that it is

impossible, unethical to leave kids unimmunized,

so you will never, ever resolve that issue. So

then we have to refer back from that. " (page 169)

In essence, immunization of the kids takes

precedence over safety concerns with the vaccines

themselves. If the problem of vaccine toxicity

cannot be solved, he seems to be saying, then we

must accept that some kids will be harmed by the vaccines.

Dr. Brent makes the statement that he knows of no

known genetic susceptibility data on mercury and

therefore assumes there is a fixed threshold of

toxicity. That is, that everyone is susceptible

to the same dose of mercury and there are no

genetically hypersensitive groups of people. In

fact, a recent study found just such a genetic

susceptibility in mice. In this study they found

that mice susceptible to autoimmunity developed

neurotoxic effects to their hippocampus,

including excitotoxicity, not seen in other

strains of mice. They even hypothesize that the

same may be true in humans, since familial

autoimmunity increases the likelihood of autism

in offspring. (Hornig M, Chian D, Lipkin WI.

Neurotoxic effects of postnatal thimerosal are

mouse strain dependent. Mol Psychiatry 2004; (in press).

For the next quotation you need a little

discussion to be able to appreciate the meaning.

They are discussing the fact that in Dr.

Verstraeten study frightening correlations were

found between the higher doses of thimerosal and

problems with neurodevelopment, including ADD and

autism. The problem with the study was that there

were so few children who had received no

thimerosal-containing vaccines that a true

control group could not be used. Instead they had

to use children getting 12.5ug of mercury as the

control and some even wanted to use the control

dose as 37.5ug. So the controls had mercury

levels that could indeed cause neurodevelopmental

problems. Even with this basic flaw, a strong

positive correlation was found between the dose

of mercury given and these neurodevelopmental problems.

It was proposed that they compare a group of

children receiving non-thimerosal vaccines to

those who had. In fact, we later learn that they

had a large group of children who could have been

used as a thimerosal-free control. It seems that

for two years before this conference the Bethesda

Naval Hospital had been using only

thimerosal-free vaccines to immunize the

children. They knew this and I would assume

someone would have told Dr. Verstraeten of this

important fact before he did his study.

So, now to the quote. Dr. Braun responds to the

idea of starting a new study using such

thimerosal-free controls by saying, " Sure we will

have the answer in five years. The question is

what can we do now with the data we have? " (page

170). Well, we have the answer to that, they

simply covered this study up, declare that

thimerosal is of no concern and continued the

unaltered policy. That is, they can suggest the

pharmaceutical manufacturers of vaccines remove

the thimerosal but not make it mandatory or

examining the vaccine to make sure they have removed it.

Lets us take a small peak at just how much we can

trust the pharmaceutical manufacturers to do the

right thing. Several reports of major violations

of vaccine manufacturing policy have been cited

by the regulatory agencies. This includes

obtaining plasma donations without taking

adequate histories on donors as to disease

exposures and previous health problems, poor

record keeping on these donors, improper

procedures and improper handing of specimens.

That these are not minor violations is emphasized

by the discovery that a woman with variant Mad

Cow Disease was allowed to given plasma to be

used in vaccines in England. In fact, it was

learned only after the contaminated plasma was

pooled and used to make millions of doses of

vaccines that her disease was discovered. British

health officials told the millions of vaccinated

not to worry, since we have no idea if it will really spread the disease.

Contamination of vaccines is a major concern in

this country as well, as these regulatory

violations make plain. It is also important to

note that no fines were given, just warnings.

Conclusions by the study group

At the end of the conference, a poll was taken

asking two questions. One was, Do you think that

there is sufficient data to make a causal

connection between the use of

thimerosal-containing vaccines and

neurodevelopmental delays? Second, do you think

further study is called for based on this study?

First, let us see some of the comments on the

question of doing further studies. Dr.

Stehr-Green, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

at the University of Washington School of Public

Health and Community Medicine, who voted yes,

gave as his reason, " The implications are so

profound these should be examined further " . (page

180) Meanwhile, Dr. Brent interjects his concern

that the lawyers will get hold of this

information and begin filing lawsuits. He says,

" They want business and this could potentially be

a lot of business. " (Page 191)

Dr. Loren Koller, Pathologist and

Immunotoxicologist at the College of Veterinary

Medicine, Oregon State University, is to be

congratulated in that he recognized that more is

involved in the vaccine effects than just

ethylmercury. (page 192). He mentions aluminum

and even the viral agents beings used as other

possibilities. This is especially important in

the face of Dr. RK Gherardi's identification of

macrophagic myofascitis, a condition causing

profound weakness and multiple neurological

syndromes, one of which closely resembled

multiple sclerosis. Both human studies and animal

studies have shown a strong causal relationship

to the aluminum hydroxide or aluminum phosphate

used as a vaccine adjuvants. More than 200 cases

have been identified in European countries and

the United States and has been described as an " emerging condition " .

Here are some of the neurological problems seen

with the use of aluminum hydroxide and aluminum

phosphate in vaccines. In two children aged 3 and

5, doctors at the All Children's Hospital in St.

sburg, Florida described chronic intestinal

pseudo-obstruction, urinary retention and other

findings indicative of a generalized loss of

autonomic nervous system function (diffuse

dysautonomia). The 3-year old had developmental

delay and hypotonia (loss of muscle tone). A

biopsy of the children's vaccine injection site

disclosed elevated aluminum levels.

In a study of some 92 patients suffering from

this emerging syndrome, eight developed a

full-blown demyelinating CNS disorder (multiple

sclerosis). [Authier FJ, Cherin P, et al. Central

nervous system disease in patients with

macrophagic myofasciitis. Brain 2001; 124:

974-983. ] This included sensory and motor

symptoms, visual loss, bladder dysfunction,

cerebellar signs (loss of balance and

coordination) and cognitive (thinking) and behavioral disorders.

Dr. Gherardi, the French physician who first

described the condition in 1998, has collected

over 200 proven cases, One third of these

developed an autoimmune disease, such as multiple

sclerosis. Of critical importance is his finding

that even in the absence of obvious autoimmune

disease there is evidence of chronic immune

stimulation caused by the injected aluminum,

known to be a very powerful immune adjuvant.

The reason this is so important is that there is

overwhelming evidence that chronic immune

activation in the brain (activation of microglial

cells in the brain) is a major cause of damage in

numerous degenerative brain disorders, from

multiple sclerosis to the classic

neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease,

Parkinson's and ALS). In fact, I have presented

evidence that chronic immune activation of CNS

microglia is a major cause of autism, attention

deficit disorder and Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Gherardi emphasizes that once the aluminum is

injected into the muscle, the immune activation

persists for years. In addition, we must consider

the effect of the aluminum that travels to the

brain itself. Numerous studies have shown harmful

effects when aluminum accumulates in the brain. A

growing amount of evidence points to high brain

aluminum levels as a major contributor to

Alzheimer's disease and possibly Parkinson's

disease and ALS (Lou Geherig's disease). This may

also explain the 10X increase in Alzheimer's

disease in those receiving the flu vaccine 5

years in a row. (Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, in press,

Journal of Clinical Investigation). It is also

interesting to note that a recent study found

that aluminum phosphate produced 3X the blood

level of aluminum, as did aluminum hydroxide.

(Flarend RE, hem SL, et al. In vivo absorption of

aluminum-containing vaccine adjuvants using 26

Al. Vaccine 1997; 15: 1314-1318.)

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Of course, in this conference, our illustrious

experts tell us that there is " no data showing an

additive or synergistic effect between mercury and aluminum " .

Dr. Rapin expressed her concern over public

opinion when this information eventually gets

out. She says (page 197), they are going to be

captured by the public and we had better make

sure that a) " We council them carefully and

that we pursue this because of the very important

public health and public implications of the

data. " Dr. adds. " the stakes are very

high… " . From this, how can one conclude anything

than the fact that at least these scientists were

extremely concerned by what was discovered by

this study examining the vaccine safety datalink

material? They were obviously terrified that the

information would leak out to the public. Stamped

in bold letters at the top of each page of the

study was the words- " DO NOT COPY OR RELEASE " and " CONFIDENTIAL " .

This is not the wording one would expect on a

clinical study of vaccine safety; rather you

would expect it on top-secret NSA or CIA files.

Why was this information being secreted? The

answer is obvious-it might endanger the vaccine

program and indict the federal regulatory

agencies for ignoring this danger for so many

years. Our society is littered with millions of

children who have been harmed in one degree or

another by this vaccine policy. In addition, let

us not forget the millions of parents who have

had to watch helplessly as their children have

been destroyed by this devastating vaccine program.

Dr. Bernier on page 198 says, " the negative

findings need to be pinned down and published " .

Why was he so insistent that the " negative

findings " be published? Because he said, " other

less responsible parties will treat this as a

signal " . By that he means, a signal of a problem

with thimerosal-containing vaccines. From this, I

assume he wants a paper that says only that

nothing was found by the study. As we shall see, he gets his wish.

In addition, on page 198, Dr. Rapin notes that a

study in California found a 300X increase in

autism following the introduction of certain

vaccines. She quickly attributes this to better

physician recognition. Two things are critical to

note at this point. She makes this assertion on

better physician recognition without any data at

all, just her wishful thinking. If someone

pointing out the dangers of vaccines were to do

that, she would scream " junk science " .

Second, Dr. Weil on page 207, attacks this

reasoning when he says, " the number of dose

related relationships are linear and

statistically significant. You can play with this

all you want. They are linear. They are

statistically significant " . In other words, how

can you argue with results that show a strong

dose/response relationship between the dose of

mercury and neurodevelopmental outcomes? The

higher the mercury levels in the children the

greater the number of neurological problems.

He continues by saying that the increase in

neurobehavioral problems is probably real. He

tells them that he works in a school system with

special education programs and " I have to say the

number of kids getting help in special education

is growing nationally and state by state at a

rate not seen before. So there is some kind of

increase. We can argue about what it is due to " . (page 207).

Dr. seems to be impressed by the findings

as well. He says on page 199, " This association

leads me to favor a recommendation that infants

up to two years old not be immunized with

thimerosal containing vaccines if suitable

alternative preparations are available " .

Incredibly, he quickly adds " I do not believe the

diagnosis justified compensation in the Vaccine

Compensation Program at this point " . It is

interesting to note that one of our experts in

attendance is Dr. Vito Caserta, the Chief Officer

for the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

At this point Dr. tells the group of his

concerns for his own grandchild. He says, (page

200) " Forgive this personal comment, but I got

called out at eight o'clock for an emergency call

and my daughter-in-law delivered a son by

c-section. Our first male in the line of the next

generation and I do not want that grandson to get

a Thimerosal containing vaccine until we know

better what is going on. It will probably take a

long time. In the meantime, and I know there are

probably implications for this internationally,

but in the meanwhile I think I want that grandson

to only be given Thimerosal-free vaccines " .

So, we have a scientist sitting on this panel

which will eventually make policy concerning all

of the children in this country, as well as other

countries, who is terrified about his new

grandson getting a thimerosal-containing vaccine

but he is not concerned enough about your child

to speak out and try to stop this insanity. He

allows a cover-up to take place after this meeting adjourns and remains silent.

It is also interesting to note that he feels the

answers will be a long time coming, but in the

mean time, his grandson will be protected. The

American Academy of Pediatrics, The American

Academy of Family Practice, the AMA, CDC and

every other organization will endorse these

vaccines and proclaim them to be safe as spring

water, but Dr, and some of the others will keep their silence.

It is only during the last day of the conference

that we learn that most of the objections

concerning the positive relationship between

thimerosal-containing vaccines and ADD and ADHA

were bogus. For example, Dr. Rapin on page 200

notes that all children in the study were below

age 6 and that ADD and ADHD are very difficult to

diagnose in pre-schoolers. She also notes that

some children were followed for only a short period.

Dr. Stein adds that in fact the average age for

diagnosis of ADHD was 4 years and 1 month. A very

difficult diagnosis to make and that the

guidelines published by the American Academy of

Pediatrics limits diagnosis to 6 to 12 year olds.

Of course, he was implying that too many were

diagnosed as ADHD. Yet, a recent study found that

the famous Denmark study that led to the

announcement by the Institute of Medicine that

there was no relationship between autism and the

MMR vaccine, used the same tactic. They cut off

the age of follow-up at age six.

It is known that many cases appear after this age

group, especially with ADD and ADHD. In fact,

most learning problems appear as the child is

called on to handle more involved intellectual

material. Therefore, the chances are they failed

to diagnose a number of cases by stopping the study too early.

Several of the participants tried to imply that

autism was a genetic disorder and therefore could

have nothing to do with vaccines. Dr. Weil put

that to rest with this comment, " We don't see

that kind of genetic change in 30 years " . In

other words, how can we suddenly see a 300%

increase in a genetically related disorder over

such a short period? It is also known that there

are two forms of autism, one that is apparent at

birth and one that develops later in childhood.

The former has not changed in incidence since

statistics have been kept; the other is epidemic.

In one interesting exchange, which ends up being

their justification for the view that mercury is

of no danger in children vaccinated with vaccines

containing thimerosal, involves two studies in

children born to mothers consuming high intakes

of mercury contaminated fish. One study reported

in the journal Neurotoxicology, examined children

living in the Republic of Seychelles. In this

study, they examined the effect of prenatal

exposure to mercury through the mother's

consumption of fish high in methylmercury,

A battery of developmental milestone tests were

done and no adverse effects were reported in the

study reported by Dr. son and co-workers,

the very same person in this conference. He never

mentions that a follow-up study of these same

children did find a positive correlation between

methylmercury exposure and poor performance on a

memory test. In a subsequent study of children

living on the Faroe Islands exposed to

methylmercury, researchers did find impairments

of neurodevelopment. This experiment was done by scientists from Japan.

Throughout the remainder of this discussion, Dr.

son and others refer to these two studies.

When they are reminded that the Faroe study did

find neurological injury to the children, they

counter by saying that this was prenatal exposure

to mercury and not after birth as would be seen

with vaccination. The idea being that prenatally

the brain is undergoing neural formation and

development making it more vulnerable. As I have

mentioned this rapid brain growth and development

continues for two years after birth and even at

age 6 years the brain is only 80% formed.

Dr. son keeps referring to the Seychelles

study, which demonstrated that the children

reached normal neurodevelopmental milestones as

shown by a number of tests. Dr Weil points out on

page 216 that this tells us little about these

children's future brain function. He says, " I

have taken a lot of histories of kids who are in

trouble in school. The history is that

developmental milestones were normal or advanced

and they can't read at second grade, they can't

write at third grade, they can't do math in the

fourth grade and it has no relationship as far as

I can tell to the history we get of the

developmental milestones. So I think this is a

very crude measure of neurodevelopment. "

In other words, both of these studies tell us

nothing about the actual development of these

children's brain function except that they

reached the most basic of milestones. To put this

another way, your child may be able to stack

blocks, recognize shapes and have basic language

skills but later in life they could be

significantly impaired when it came to higher

math, more advanced language skills

(comprehension) and ability to compete in a very

competitive intellectual environment, like

college or advanced schooling. Their future would

be limited to the more mundane and intellectually limited jobs.

Post-natal brain development, that is from birth

to age six or seven, involves the fine tuning of

synaptic connections, dendritic development and

pathway refinement, all of which prepare the

brain for more complex thinking. These brain

elements are very sensitive to toxins and

excessive immune stimulation during this period.

This is never mentioned in this conference.

In addition, it must be remembered that the

children in these two studies were exposed only

to methylmercury and not the combined neurotoxic

effect of mercury, aluminum and excessive and

chronic activation of the brain's immune system

(microgia). This is what makes it so incredible,

that several of these " vaccinologists " and

so-called experts would express doubt about the

" biological plausibility " of thimerosal or any

vaccine component causing neurodevelopmental

problems. The medical literature is exploding

with such studies. The biological plausibility is very powerful.

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Mercury, for example, even in low concentrations,

is known to impair energy production by

mitochondrial enzymes. The brain has one of the

highest metabolic rates of any organ and

impairment of its energy supply, especially

during development, can have devastating

consequences. In addition, mercury, even in lower

concentrations, is known to damage DNA and impair

DNA repair enzymes, which again, plays a vital

role in brain development. Mercury is known to

impair neurotubule stability, even in very low

concentrations. Neurotubules are absolutely

essential to normal brain cell function. Mercury

activates microglial cells, which increases

excitotoxicity and brain free radical production

as well as lipid peroxidation, central mechanisms

in brain injury. In addition, even in doses below

that which can cause obvious cell injury, mercury

impairs the glutamate transport system, which in

turn triggers excitotoxicity, a central mechanism

in autism and other neurological disorders.

Ironically, aluminum also paralyzes this system.

On page 228, we see another admission that the

government has had no interest in demonstrating

the safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines

despite over 2000 articles showing harmful

effects of mercury. Here we see a reference to

the fact that the FDA " has a wonderful facility

in Arkansas with hundreds of thousands of

animals " available for any study needed to supply

these answers on safety. The big question to be

asked is -So, why has the government ignored the

need for research to answer these questions

concerning thimerosal safety? You will recall in

the beginning the participants of this conference

complained that there were just so few studies or

no studies concerning this " problem " .

Again, on page 229 Dr, Brent rails about the

lawsuit problem. He tells the others that he has

been involved in three lawsuits related to

vaccine injuries leading to birth defects and

concluded " If you want to see junk science, look

at those cases… " . He then complains about the

type of scientists testifying in these cases. He

adds, " But the fact is those scientist are out

there in the United States " . In essence, he

labels anyone who opposes the " official policy "

on vaccines as a junk scientist. We have seen in

the discussion who the " junk scientists " really are.

Knowing that what they have found can cause them

a great deal of problems he adds, " The

medical/legal findings in this study, causal or

not, are horrendous…. If an allegation was made

that a child's neurobehavioral findings were

caused by thimerosal-containing vaccines, you

could readily find a junk scientist who will

support the claim with 'a reasonable degree of

certainty " . On page 229 he then admits that they

are in a bad position because they have no data

for their defense. Now, who are the junk scientists?

Is a " real scientist " one who has no data, just

wishful thinking and a " feeling " that everything

will be all right? Are real scientists the ones

who omit recognized experts on the problem in

question during a conference because it might

endanger the " program " ? Or are they the ones who

make statements that they don't want their

grandson to get thimerosal-containing vaccines

until the problem is worked out, but then tell

millions of parents that the vaccines are

perfectly safe for their children and grandchildren?

Dr. Meyers on page 231 put it this way, " My own

concern, and a couple of you said it, there is an

association between vaccines and outcomes that

worries both parents and pediatricians. " He sites

other possible connections to vaccine-related

neurobehavioral and neurodevelopmental problems

including the number of vaccines being given, the

types of antigens being used and other vaccine additives.

Dr. Caserta tells the group that he attended the

aluminum conference the previous year and learned

that often metals could act differently in

biological systems than as an ion. This is

interesting in the face of the finding that

fluoride when combined to aluminum forms a

compound that can destroy numerous hippocampal

neurons at a concentration of 0.5 ppm in drinking

water. It seems that aluminum readily combines

with fluoride to form this toxic compound. With

over 60% of communities having fluoridated

drinking water this becomes a major concern.

It has also been learned that fluoroaluminum

compounds mimic the phosphate and can activate

G-proteins. G-proteins play a major role in

numerous biological systems, including endocrine,

neurotransmitters, and as cellular second

messengers. Some of the glutamate receptors are

operated by a G-protein mechanism.

Over the next ten to fifteen pages, they discuss

how to control this information so that it will

not get out and if it does how to control the

damage. On page 248 Dr. Clements has this to say:

1. " But there is now the point at which the

research results have to be handled, and even if

this committee decides that there is no

association and that information gets out, the

work has been done and through the freedom of

information that will be taken by others and will

be used in other ways beyond the control of this

group. And I am very concerned about that as I

suspect that it is already too late to do

anything regardless of any professional body and what they say. "

In other words, he wants this information kept

not only from the public but also from other

scientists and pediatricians until they can be

properly counseled. In the next statement he

spills the beans as to why he is determined that

no outsider get hold of this damaging information. He says,

1. " My mandate as I sit here in this group

is to make sure at the end of the day that

100,000,000 are immunized with DTP, Hepatitis B

and if possible Hib, this year, next year and for

many years to come, and that will have to be with

thimerosal containing vaccines unless a miracle

occurs and an alternative is found quickly and is tried and found to be safe. "

This is one of the most shocking statements I

have ever heard. In essence, he is saying, I

don't care if the vaccines are found to be

harmful and destroying the development of

children's brains, these vaccines will be given

now and forever. His only concern by his own

admission is to protect the vaccine program even

if it is not safe. Dr. Brent refers to this as an " eloquent statement " .

On page 253, we again see that these scientists

have a double standard when it comes to their

children and grandchildren. Dr. Rapin raises the

point about a loss of an IQ point caused by

thimerosal exposure. She says, " Can we measure

the IQ that accurately, that this one little

point is relevant? " Then she answers her own

question by saying, " Even in my grandchildren,

one IQ point I am going to fight about. " Yet,

they are saying in unison, in essence-TO HELL

WITH YOUR CHILDREN- to the rest of America.

It is also interesting that they bring up the

history of lead as a neurobehavioral toxin. Dr.

Weil noted that the neurotoxicologists and

regulatory agencies have lowered the acceptable

level from 10 to 5 ug. In fact, some feel that

even lower levels are neurotoxic to the

developing brain. Before the toxicologists began

to look at lead as a brain toxin in children most

" experts " assumed it was not toxic even at very

high levels. Again, it shows that " experts " can

be wrong and it is the public who pays the price.

Dr. Chen on page 256 expresses his concern about

this information reaching the public. He remarks,

" We have been privileged so far that given the

sensitivity of information, we have been able to

manage to keep it out of, lets say, less

responsible hands… " . Dr. Bernier agrees and

notes, " This information has been held fairly

tightly. " Later he calls it " embargoed

information " and " very highly protected information " .

That they knew the implications of what they had

discovered was illustrated by Dr. Chen's

statement on page 258. He says, " I think overall

there was this aura that we were engaged in

something as important as anything else we have

ever done. So I think that this was another

element to this that made this a special

meeting. " You may remember, Dr. Weil emphasized

that the data analysis left no doubt that there

was a strong correlation between

neurodevelopmental problems and exposure to

thimerosal-containing vaccines. So if they

understood the importance of this finding and

this was the most important thing they have ever

dealt with-why was this being kept from the

public? In fact, it gets even worse.

Just so you will not doubt my statement that this

audience of experts was not objective, I give you

the words of Dr. Walter Orenstein, Director of

the National Immunization Program at the CDC, on

page 259. He tells the group, " I have seen him

(Verstraeten) in audience after audience deal

with exceedingly skeptical individuals…. " .

" Exceedingly skeptical individuals " does that

sound like objective scientists who wanted to

look at the data with a clear mind or were they

scientists who were convinced before the meeting

was held that there was no danger to children

from thimerosal or any other vaccine component?

In one of the closing remarks by Dr. Bernier

(page 257) he says, " the other thing I was struck

by was the science " , meaning the science

expressed by the attendees of the meeting. Then

Dr, Orenstein adds, " I would also like to thank

Bernier who pulled off this meeting in

rather short notice.. " . Here is a meeting that

has been called one of the most important they

have ever dealt with and we learn that it was

pulled off on short notice. In addition, we were

told that the results of this meeting would lead to eventual vaccine policy.

He then has the nerve to add:

1. " In a sense this meeting addresses some of

the concerns we had last summer when we were

trying to make policy in the absence of a careful

scientific review. I think this time we have gotten it straight. "

Well, I hate to be the one to break the news, but

he didn't get it straight. There was little or no

science in this meeting; rather it was composed

of a lot of haggling and nit picking over

epidemiological methodology and statistical

minutia in an effort to discredit the data

without success. In fact, the so-called mercury

experts admitted they had to do some quick

homework to refresh their memories and learn something about the subject.

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Conclusions

This top secret meeting was held to discuss a

study done by Dr. Verstraeten and his

co-workers using Vaccine Safety Datalink data as

a project collaboration between the CDC's

National Immunization Program (NIP) and four

HMOs. The study examined the records of 110,000

children. Within the limits of the data, they did

a very through study and found the following:

1. Exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines

at one month was associated significantly with

the misery and unhappiness disorder that was dose

related. That is, the higher the child's exposure

to thimerosal the higher the incidence of the

disorder. This disorder is characterized by a

baby that cries uncontrollably and is fretful

more so than that see in normal babies.

2. Found a nearly significant increased risk

of ADD with 12.5ug exposure at one month.

3. With exposure at 3 months, they found an

increasing risk of neurodevelopmental disorders

with increasing exposure to thimerosal. This was

statistically significant. This included speech disorders.

It is important to remember that the control

group was not children without thimerosal

exposure, but rather those at 12.5ug exposure.

This means that there is a significant likelihood

that even more neurodevelopmental problems would

have been seen had they used a real control

population. No one disagreed that these findings

were significant and troubling. Yet when the

final study was published in the journal

Pediatrics Dr. Verstraeten and co-workers

reported no consistent associations were found

between thimerosal-containing vaccine exposure

and neurodevelopmental problems. In addition, he

list himself as an employee of the CDC, not

disclosing the fact that at the time the article

was accepted, he worked for GlaxoKline, a vaccine manufacturing company.

So how did they do this bit of prestidigitation?

They simply added another HMO to the data, the

Harvard Pilgrimage. Congressman Dave Weldon noted

in his letter to the CDC Director that this HMO

had been in receivership by the state of

Massachusetts because its records were in

shambles. Yet, this study was able to make the

embarrassing data from his previous study

disappear. Attempts by Congressman Weldon to

force the CDC to release the data to an

independent researcher, Dr. Mark Geier, a

researcher with impeccable credentials and widely

published in peer-reviewed journals, have failed repeatedly.

It is obvious that a massive cover-up is in

progress, as we have seen with so many other

scandals-fluoride, food-based excitotoxins,

pesticides, aluminum and now vaccines. I would

caution those critical of the present vaccine

policy not to put all their eggs in one basket,

that is, with thimerosal as being the main

culprit. There is no question that it plays a

major role, but there are other factors that are

also critical, including aluminum, fluoroaluminum

complexes, and chronic immune activation of brain microglia.

In fact, excessive, chronic microglial activation

can explain many of the effects of excessive

vaccine exposure as I point out in two recently

published articles. One property of both aluminum

and mercury is microglial activation. With

chronic microglial activation large

concentrations of excitotoxins are released as

well as neurotoxic cytokines. These have been

shown to destroy synaptic connections, dendrites

and cause abnormal pathway development in the

developing brain as well as adult brain.

In essence, too many vaccines are being given to

children during the brain's most rapid growth

period. Known toxic metals are beings used in the

vaccines that interfere with brain metabolism,

antioxidant enzymes, damage DNA and DNA repair

enzymes and trigger excitotoxicity. Removing the

mercury will help but will not solve the problem

because overactivation of the brain's immune

system will cause varying degrees of neurological

damage to the highly-vulnerable developing brain.

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was brought to their attention but they would not.)

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