: America, Meet Our Unvaccinated Kids, Version 2.0

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We're pleased to announce a full-page Ad, featured today in the News

Section of USA Today (right across from the editorial page!):

http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/070626.pdf

America, Meet Our Unvaccinated Kids, Version 2.0

By J.B. Handley

http://www.rescuepost.com/rescue_post/2007/09/america-meet-ou.html

Back in June, we released what we felt was an astonishing data set

for

the first ever study comparing the rates of ADHD, autism, and asthma

between vaccinated children and unvaccinated children. Our

conclusion

was weighty:

?We surveyed over 9,000 boys in California and Oregon and found that

vaccinated boys had a 155% greater chance of having a neurological

disorder like ADHD or autism than unvaccinated boys. "

And, the mainstream media wouldn?t touch it.

Cynics will say this is because our survey was only a ?phone survey?

despite the fact that phone surveys are reported in the news every

day, and despite the fact that the CDC uses a phone survey to

establish the prevalence of?autism!!

As the Director of the CDC?s two phone surveys on autism noted: " the

consistency of prevalence estimates across the two surveys supports

high reliability or reproducibility of parental report of autism and

reliability is one important component of validity. "

Were we blacked out? Was our story too hot for the mainstream media

to

handle? Perhaps, we?ll never know for sure. That said, we got plenty

of coverage and heard from places like UPI reporter Dan Olmsted,

Daily

Kos, and NewsMax.com, to name a few.

Fast forward to September, and the climate for listening to the

parents has changed, perhaps permanently, thanks to McCarthy.

So, we ran our Ad again today, the one describing the survey

results,

but this time we ran it in USA Today.

With that as background, America please meet our unvaccinated kids:

For the first time ever, we know something about them that may help

our

kids.

Yup, they live right down the street from you, they are 5.6% of the

population, and they have less asthma, less ADHD, and less autism

than

our kids seem to have. At least according to our survey.

Do we expect you to believe us? Not really. Not if you?re a member

of

the mainstream media or the mainstream medical establishment. But,

we

really hope you will look at our data. Because today, unlike the

CDC,

we are making all of our data public simultaneously with the release

of our survey. Crunch away, and decide for yourself.

We followed a very straightforward process, so anyone can retrace

our

steps. We told a market research firm what we wanted to know. They

designed a questionnaire they felt would get us an answer. We

approved

the questionnaire. They ran the survey and sent us the data, which

you

can now access. Decide for yourself.

Some of the numbers really jump out, particularly amongst the boys.

A

?Risk Ratio? is a way to compare prevalence, so that if 10% of vax

kids and 5% of unvax kids have ADHD, the Risk Ratio is 2.0, or a

100%

difference. Risk Ratios above 2.0 tend to be allowed in a court of

law

to show correlation. We found many Risk Ratios well in excess of

2.0,

and some higher than 4.0, the equivalent of a 300% difference.

Decide for yourself.

Have we proved anything today? Yes and no. We?ve proved that

unvaccinated kids are easy to find, and that a straightforward

survey

yielded some disturbing results. What we haven?t done is design a

study with enough scale and controls to be published in a first-

tier,

peer-reviewed journal. But, we?ve certainly highlighted the

screaming

need for such a study to happen.

So, now what?

Everyone should send an email to Dan Olmsted and thank him for his

Age

of Autism series from UPI. He?s the one who asked about unvaccinated

kids first, and asked it loudest. He even asked Gerberding,

CDC

Director. He just kept on asking it until we got so tired thinking

about what an obvious question it was that we did something about it.

Our data should be scrutinized, analyzed, challenged, and debated by

any and everyone in the autism community who cares to do so. (If you

want a copy of the Excel spreadsheet with the primary data in it,

email us and we will send it to you.)

Everyone and their grandmother needs to cajole their Congressperson

to

jump on the bandwagon and support Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's

bill

to study unvaccinated children.

This incredibly brave Congresswoman from New York said in a press

release in June: ?What is ultimately needed to resolve this issue

one

way or the other is a comprehensive national study comparing

outcomes

between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. As the most

scientifically advanced country in the world, we should be jumping

at

the chance to conduct a comprehensive national study to resolve the

questions that have been raised. Parents deserve answers, and

children deserve no less than absolutely certainty and safety.?

The autism community should pull together and fund our own

independent

study, in addition to the Maloney bill, to gather as much data as

quickly as possible. Autism Speaks, with the biggest war chest,

should

take this opportunity to fund or lead the funding for such a study,

and help put this issue to rest once and for all. It would be a

great

opportunity for them to repair a badly burned bridge with many of

us,

and I hope they jump at the chance. The study must be run by

researchers who have no history in this fight, on either side of the

argument, and it must have the scale and controls to achieve wide

acceptance through journal publication.

As for me, nothing much changes. My son is getting better, and we

think the road map drawn by considering him ?vaccine injured? is

why.

Knowing cause is so incredibly important to figuring out how to help

and treat our kids, and I?m grateful for the pioneers who have been

demanding answers for years. My wife and I hope, in some small way,

that this survey moves things forward, and creates a deafening

demand

from parents for more answers. Now.

J.B. Handley is co-founder of Generation Rescue.