The Vaccine Hard Sell at Pediatrics

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The Vaccine Hard Sell at Pediatrics

Managing Editor's Note: Mike Wagnitz submitted this letter to Pediatrics. They

declined to run it, as it their right.  We decided to run it. As is our

right. Dr. Offit is pushing harder than a mother delivering triplets to convince

moms and dads that anyone who speaks in favor of vaccine safety is wrong.

Including Dr. Bob Sears, a pediatric voice of reason whom we have been happy to

welcome to Age of Autism. You can read his post, Smart Vaccine Decisions for

Families with Autism (HERE).  Sorry, Dr. Offit. No sale..

A Shot of Reality

By Wagnitz, B.S.

 

As a chemist with 27 years of experience evaluating material for heavy metals, I

find it unfortunate that the journal Pediatrics has allowed Dr. Offit to

repeat misinformation  regarding the use of neurotoxic metals in vaccines. He

scolds Dr. Bob Sears for not giving the proper scientific credit to the paper,

" Weight of Evidence Against Thimerosal Causing Neuropsychological Deficits " (1),

published in the NEJM.  Let's take a look at the quality of this paper starting

with the impartiality of the authors:

Dr. - the lead investigator - is a former employee of Merck.

Dr. Marcy has received consulting fees from Merck, Sanofi Pasteur,

GlaxoKline, and MedImmune.

Dr. received grant money from Wyeth, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoKline,

and Novartis. He received lecture fees from Sanofi Pasteur and consulting fees

from Wyeth and Abbott. Currently, he is a consultant to the FDA Vaccines and

Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

Dr. Lieu is a consultant to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices.

Dr. Black receives consulting fees from MedImmune, GlaxoKline, Novartis,

and Merck, and grant support from MedImmune, GlaxoKline, Aventis, Merck,

and Novartis.

Dr. receives consulting fees from Merck and grant support from Merck and

GlaxoKline.

(The above information was included in the fine print of the published article)

The article states that any child with a preexisting neurological condition was

eliminated from the study. Isn't this what the study was supposed to examine,

whether thimerosal causes neurological damage? These preexisting conditions

included encephalitis and meningitis. The possibility that thimerosal might

cause these conditions was eliminated from consideration.

 

Children were eliminated for other reasons from the study. One group excluded

was children whose birth weight was under 2,500 grams, or 5.5 pounds. The number

of  babies eliminated because of this was not reported. Babies of this weight

are not rare and they are not excluded from any  vaccine. In fact, in a study

published last year in Pediatrics, it was shown that low weight babies had a

much higher rate of autism (2). In the end, only about 30% of the original study

participants remained. The authors seemed to weed out anyone who didn't fit

their desired conclusion. Offit says (and I quote), " It is hard to imagine a

better conceived, better designed study on the subtle effects of mercury

poisoning " . No Offit, it's hard to imagine a better conceived and better

designed study to obfuscate the issue concerning the safety of thimerosal.

Offit tells us how aluminum in babies formula and breast milk dwarfs the amount

in vaccines. What he doesn't explain is that aluminum is only dangerous once

it's in the bloodstream. Aluminum is not absorbed through the gut. It is 100%

absorbed through vaccination. He ignores the paper published in 2007 linking

aluminum in vaccines to Gulf War Syndrome (3) . If it can harm healthy, adult,

combat ready soldiers, at a lower dose per body weight, what is it doing to

newborns?

Here is one subject Offit never touches; multi-dose vaccine vials, including

current versions of the flu, tetanus and meningococcal vaccines, contain 50,000

ug/l of Hg, a level 250 times higher than what the EPA classifies as hazardous

waste (4). All these vaccines are recommended for children. Primates exposed to

injected ethylmercury from vaccines, as opposed to equal doses of ingested

methylmercury, end up with twice as much Hg++ deposited in the brain (5). This

form remains permanently trapped and has been identified as the primary toxic

agent in degenerative brain diseases (6). State of the art research has shown us

that autism is a degenerative brain disease (7).

Parents understand the difference between truthful information from honest,

caring professionals like Dr. Bob Sears and the aggressive, bullying tactics

that Offit and others are trying to sell them. The cat is out of the bag and

it's not going back in.

(1) WW, Price C, Goodson B, et al. Early thimerosal exposure and

neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years. N Engl J Med. 2007;357 (13):1281

–1292

(2) Limperopoulos C, Bassan H,  Sullivan NR, et al. Positive Screening for

Autism in Ex-preterm Infants: Prevalence and Risk Factors Pediatrics 2008; 121:

758-765

(3) Petrik MS, Wong MC, Tabata RC, Garry RF, Shaw CA. Aluminum [vaccine]

adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor neuron death in mice.

Neuromolecular Med. 2007;9(1):83-100.

(4)http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/mercury/regs.htm

(5) Burbacher T, Shen D, Liberato N, Grant K, Cernichiari E, son T. 2005.

Comparison of blood and brain mercury levels in infant monkeys exposed to

methylmercury or vaccines containing thimerosal. Environmental Health

Perspectives. 113:1015-1021

(6) ton J, Body R, Bolender R, Mottet N, Vahter M, Burbacher T 1996.

Changes in the number of astrocytes and microglia in the thalamus of the monkey

Macaca fascicularis following long-term subclinical methylmercury exposure.

Neurotoxicology 17:127-138

(7) Vargus DL, Nascimbene C, Krishnan C, Zimmerman AW, Pardo Ca. 2005 Neuroglial

activation and neuroinflamation in the brain of patients with autism. ls of

Neurology 57:67-81.

Conflict of Interest: Father of a vaccine injured child 

 

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