Dr. Boyd Haley Vs. Bernadine Healy, M.D.

[Guest guest]

 

Link to Dr. Healy's essay follows Dr. Boyd Haley's response to her essay:

RESPONSE FROM DR. BOYD HALEY

To All: I really like Dr. Healy and nothing I am going to say should be taken as

a negative regarding her. I appreciate that the genetic causation for autism was

somewhat dismissed. However, her comment that we haven’t the foggiest

notion as to what environmental exposure that causes autism is one that I cannot

agree with. The medical establishment just refuses to look at the logic and

science behind the possible causations of this epidemic. They place their faith

on “the 2004 IOM and CDC comments†which said vaccines/thimerosal

are not causal. The opinion of the CDC, the 2004 IOM committee and the AAP today

are most dependent on 4-5 epidemiological studies done by non-Americans (and

vaccine manufacturer employees) and mostly (4 of 5) on foreign data bases where

the exposure to vaccines were not as much, nor as early, as in the USA. It is

amazing to me, that with an epidemic of such importance to our country’s

future, that the

CDC has gotten by without one epidemiological study done by Americans at a

prestigious USA institution and done on a USA cohort group. This is a failure of

our federal government and the agencies that are supposed to protect American

citizens.

Below are my rationale (not exclusive to me) for pointing directly to thimerosal

in vaccines as the major cause of the increase (but not the only contributor).

1. The toxin has to be one that affects boys more than girls.

2. The toxin exposure has to occur before 2-3 years of age, including in utero

time (excludes most exposures from eats, drinking and drugs).

3. The toxin had to increase in the time frame of 1988-90.

4. The toxin had to increase in all 50 states at the same time (follow the US

Dept. of Education Individuals with Disabilities Act data).

5. The toxin had to be able to cause the pleotypic toxic effects as evidenced by

the multiple biochemical abnormalities observed in autism by direct or secondary

effect mechanisms. Some examples would be low glutathione levels (Dr. ),

aberrant methylation (Dr. Deth), low sulfate levels (Dr. Waring), abnormal

urinary porphyrin profiles (Dr. Nataf), low Molybdeum levels, elevated neopterin

levels (Dr. Nataf), etc.

I would strongly suggest that elevated mercury exposure via thimerosal is the

only causal factor as it can explain explicitly all of the 5 items above.

First, mercury is the only relevant toxin that I know of that is dramatically

more toxic to males than females. The published research show enhancement of

thimerosal (mercury) toxicity by testosterone (male hormone) and protection by

estrogen (female hormone). This appears to be the one piece of information the

opposition does not want to directly address.

Second, the CDC mandated vaccine program, which exposed day old infants to

levels of mercury that would be EPA safe if they weighed 275 pounds, was started

about 1988 and in all states. Plus, the USA has gone from being a “low

infant mortality’ country to where we now stand at #41 on the

international infant mortality list. If indeed the vaccines against infectious

diseases are working and has lowered death rates to these diseases, just exactly

what causes of death has caused the increased high rate of our infants dying

today? Have we traded measles, mumps and hepatitis for more lethal illnesses?

Without a doubt, our current vaccine policy has not made our infants healthier

than they were before, and this strongly implies our vaccines and the vaccine

program today is not as safe nor effective as it could be.

Third, I and others can mechanistically explain the abnormal biochemistry and

tissue damage seen in autistic children as being caused by inhibition of

specifically mercury sensitive enzymes or pathways. This is not rocket science,

it is rudimentary basic biological/biochemical science----and it is being

ignored by physician administrators who lead our state and federal health

departments and our vaccine development programs. Maybe their education is

lacking in this area.

Place into this mix the studies made available to our 2004 IOM committee and

later publications that show autistics have a higher mercury body burden and

poorer mercury excretion abilities than neuro-typical children, the lack of

autism in non-vaccinated or lesser vaccinated children (the Amish as presented

by Dan Olmsted), the increase in asthma rates with earlier vaccinations from the

Mannitoba study, and many other relevant studies and you get the idea we do not

have honesty or integrity in the medical establishment and government agencies

that have been assigned to protect our population from infectious diseases.

I agree with Dr. Healy that we need to work together and I think all of the

“anti’thimerosal in vaccines†researchers would agree with

this. But how do you get such research funded when the decision makers in this

area continually push to fund more “studies to identify the genetic causes

of autism†and have not, to date that I know of, funded one good study

which allows an independent group to look at vaccine/thimerosal causation? It is

hard to be agreeable when you are excluded from the important decision making

discussions.

Boyd E. Haley, PhD

Professor Emeritus

University of Kentucky

Chemistry Department

The Vaccines-Autism War: Détente NeededApril 14, 2009 01:54 PM ET | Bernadine

Healy, M.D.

http://health.usnews.com/blogs/heart-to-heart/2009/04/14/the-vaccines-autism-war\

-dtente-needed.html

 

Love, Gabby. :0)

http://stemcellforautism.blogspot.com/

 

" I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had

some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin. " ~ Jerry Newport

 

 

[Guest guest]

I heard Dr Boyd Haley speak at the recent UK Treating Autism Conference and

I was certainly impressed by his presentation not least by the fact that

here is a man who has suffered repercussions because his research findings

were so unacceptable to some that his funding grants dried up!

In a message dated 17/04/2009 16:47:30 GMT Daylight Time,

gabrieladevelbiss@... writes:

Link to Dr. Healy's essay follows Dr. Boyd Haley's response to her essay:

RESPONSE FROM DR. BOYD HALEY

To All: I really like Dr. Healy and nothing I am going to say should be

taken as a negative regarding her. I appreciate that the genetic causation

for autism was somewhat dismissed. However, her comment that we haven’t

the foggiest notion as to what environmental exposure that causes autism is

one that I cannot agree with. The medical establishment just refuses to look

at the logic and science behind the possible causations of this epidemic.

They place their faith on “the 2004 IOM and CDC comments†which

said

vaccines/thimerosal are not causal. The opinion of the CDC, the 2004 IOM

committee and the AAP today are most dependent on 4-5 epidemiological studies

done by non-Americans (and vaccine manufacturer employees) and mostly (4 of

5) on foreign data bases where the exposure to vaccines were not as much,

nor as early, as in the USA. It is amazing to me, that with an epidemic of

such importance to our country’s future, that the

CDC has gotten by without one epidemiological study done by Americans at a

prestigious USA institution and done on a USA cohort group. This is a

failure of our federal government and the agencies that are supposed to protect

American citizens.

Below are my rationale (not exclusive to me) for pointing directly to

thimerosal in vaccines as the major cause of the increase (but not the only

contributor)B

1. The toxin has to be one that affects boys more than girls.

2. The toxin exposure has to occur before 2-3 years of age, including in

utero time (excludes most exposures from eats, drinking and drugs).

3. The toxin had to increase in the time frame of 1988-90.

4. The toxin had to increase in all 50 states at the same time (follow the

US Dept. of Education Individuals with Disabilities Act data).

5. The toxin had to be able to cause the pleotypic toxic effects as

evidenced by the multiple biochemical abnormalities observed in autism by

direct

or secondary effect mechanisms. Some examples would be low glutathione

levels (Dr. ), aberrant methylation (Dr. Deth), low sulfate levels (Dr.

Waring), abnormal urinary porphyrin profiles (Dr. Nataf), low Molybdeum

levels, elevated neopterin levels (Dr. Nataf), etc.

I would strongly suggest that elevated mercury exposure via thimerosal is

the only causal factor as it can explain explicitly all of the 5 items

above.

First, mercury is the only relevant toxin that I know of that is

dramatically more toxic to males than females. The published research show

enhancement of thimerosal (mercury) toxicity by testosterone (male hormone) and

protection by estrogen (female hormone). This appears to be the one piece of

information the opposition does not want to directly address.

Second, the CDC mandated vaccine program, which exposed day old infants to

levels of mercury that would be EPA safe if they weighed 275 pounds, was

started about 1988 and in all states. Plus, the USA has gone from being a

“

low infant mortality’ country to where we now stand at #41 on the

international infant mortality list. If indeed the vaccines against infectious

diseases are working and has lowered death rates to these diseases, just

exactly what causes of death has caused the increased high rate of our infants

dying today? Have we traded measles, mumps and hepatitis for more lethal

illnesses? Without a doubt, our current vaccine policy has not made our

infants healthier than they were before, and this strongly implies our vaccines

and the vaccine program today is not as safe nor effective as it could be.

Third, I and others can mechanistically explain the abnormal biochemistry

and tissue damage seen in autistic children as being caused by inhibition

of specifically mercury sensitive enzymes or pathways. This is not rocket

science, it is rudimentary basic biological/biochemiThird, I and others can

mechanistically explain the abnormal biochemistry and tissue damage seen in

autistic children as being caused by inhibition of specifically mercury

sensitive enzymes or pathways. Th

Place into this mix the studies made available to our 2004 IOM committee

and later publications that show autistics have a higher mercury body burden

and poorer mercury excretion abilities than neuro-typical children, the

lack of autism in non-vaccinated or lesser vaccinated children (the Amish as

presented by Dan Olmsted), the increase in asthma rates with earlier

vaccinations from the Mannitoba study, and many other relevant studies and you

get the idea we do not have honesty or integrity in the medical establishment

and government agencies that have been assigned to protect our population

from infectious diseases.

I agree with Dr. Healy that we need to work together and I think all of

the “anti’thimerosal in vaccines†researchers would agree

with this.

But how do you get such research funded when the decision makers in this

area continually push to fund more “studies to identify the genetic

causes

of autism†and have not, to date that I know of, funded one good study

which allows an independent group to look at vaccine/thimerosal causation?

It is hard to be agreeable when you are excluded from the important decision

making discussions.

Boyd E. Haley, PhD

Professor Emeritus

University of Kentucky

Chemistry Department

The Vaccines-Autism War: Détente NeededApril 14, 2009 01:54 PM ET |

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(http://stemcellforautism.blogspot.com/)

" I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God

had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin. " ~ Jerry

Newport

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