Private Practice and Vaccine Freedom Tipping Point

[Guest guest]

Dear PROVE Friends:

The other day, I received a very touching phone call from a Colorado dad of a

seriously vaccine injured 17 year old young man.  He felt all alone and was

outraged at the recent episode of the TV series Private Practice on ABC where

the story portrayed a doctor forcibly vaccinating a child who was the sibling of

an autistic child against the mother¢s wishes with the very vaccine (MMR) that

the mother believed caused the child¢s autism because the other unvaccinated

sibling had measles.  They portrayed the mother horribly and they very

unrealistically had the infected child die (the death rate for children in the

US from measles prior to vaccination was about one out of every 10,000 cases).  

He wanted to know what he could do besides writing to ABC (which he did) so I

encouraged him to write something quick to share with you what his family has

been through.  I am adding it below.  He has offered his phone number and email

to talk to other parents trying to figure out what to do about vaccines so he

can share with them what happened to his child.

I did not watch this show, but many have and were infuriated by it.  NVIC did a

write up as well which I will attach below.

Read Ronnie¢s story and pass it on to friends to warn them to stay away from

doctors trying to force or coerce them to vaccinate when they are merely trying

to learn and make informed decisions about their children¢s health.  This is

what can unfortunately happen sometimes when doctors don¢t listen to parents

concerns.  If any of the people from ABC on our email list see this, please make

sure your supervisors get this.

Sincerely,

Dawn , PROVE

 

Hello. My name is Ronnie. I am the father of an angel here on earth. was

born on May 17, 1991 a normal baby with a smile that would light up the world.

Two weeks after 's dpt vaccine he had a seizure. The doctor's told my wife

and I that is was just a one time thing that it may never happen again. 

had 24 seizures in one day.  We had no idea what was wrong with our baby boy. We

asked the doctor could it be from the vaccines. No he said they are safe get

that out of your head now it must be something in the family - yeah right. Time

went on and no one could tell us what was wrong with our son. BY this time

was having 80 seizures a day. At 10 months old, I had last seen my son's smile.

I never heard him call me daddy or see him walk. How and why did this happen to

me please someone tell me. 8 years later we got the words it was from the dpt.

It was too late to file a claim and too late to save my son. Today, at 17,

is happy, I

hope.  He still has seizures, he is only 42 pounds and the size of a 5 year

old. I will never get to buy my son his first car or see him get married or have

his own child, but I will always get to hold him in my arms and say daddy loves

his Angel.

God blessed us with a baby girl she will be 9 on Jan 27th. She¢s a very healthy

girl with long blond hair.  We did not vaccine her at all. I know, very scary -

not.

The other night, I was watching a show on ABC called PRIVATE PRATICE and I got

so upset at what I had seen.  A mother with an autistic child being done very

wrong by a doctor for not vaccinating her other kids after what had happen to

her first child. Everyone needs to watch this show and tell the world this is

wrong. Thanks for reading my story pass it on. If anyone would like to talk or

just cry call me anytime. Thanks Ronnie 1-303-972-8022 one4eric@...

 

.....

Mel /Associated Press

PROTEST Hundreds objected to the mandated flu vaccinations

2009: The Vaccine Freedom Tipping Point

by Barbara Loe Fisher

Last night the nighttime medical soap opera, " Private Practice, " on ABC-TV

demonized parents of children with MMR-vaccine related autism for refusing to

vaccinate normal siblings while glorifying doctors forcibly vaccinating children

without parental consent. The segment entitled " Contamination " left the viewer

with the impression that every child who gets measles will die and that MMR

vaccine poses no risks whatsoever to any child. It was a cheap shot at parents

with vaccine injured children trying to protect their healthy children from

vaccine injury and yet another wake-up call for Americans, who understand the

importance of voluntary, informed consent to taking any pharmaceutical product

or undergoing any medical procedure that can injure and kill.

As 2008 ended and the New Year began, evidence that the " Tipping Point " in the

27-year old vaccine safety and informed consent movement has arrived is becoming

more apparent. There is the escalating rhetoric and hyperbole being spewed by

the evangelistic pediatrician from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who

called for doctors to be burned at the stake for the heresy of individualizing

CDC and AAP vaccine use guidelines. In a brilliant letter to Pediatrics, it was

a parent of a vaccine injured child, neurologist Jon Poling, M.D., who pointed

out why sophomoric errors in logic and misunderstanding of the scientific method

invalidated the claims of Offit. Soon Dr. Poling was joined by others

speaking out in defense of pediatricians like Bob Sears, M.D., who are wisely

advocating that doctors and parents engage in shared vaccine decision-making for

children.

Then there was the stern reminder to parents from militant New Jersey health

officials that babies must get flu shots by January 2009 or face being kicked

out of daycare and pre-school. Parents living in the state with the most vaccine

mandates (41 doses of 13 vaccines), especially those with children already

suffering with health problems, are trying to protect their children from

further damage but have no recourse because New Jersey state law only allows

restrictive medical and religious exemptions. Vaccine educated parents are

writing letters to legislators urging them to pass a conscientious belief

exemption to vaccination.

After a Dec. 14 legislative roundtable discussion at Stony Brook University with

proponents for and against addition of a philosophical exemption to New York

vaccine laws, vaccine educated parents are urging that letters be written to

legislators (New York Assembly at http://assembly.stat e.ny.us/ and New York

Senate at http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehom epage.nsf/senators?OpenForm )

and also to New York Governor Paterson, Executive Chamber, State Capitol,

Albany, NY 12224 in support of the exemption.

Merck rang in the New Year trying to pump up sales of the reactive Gardasil

vaccine by asking the FDA to open up the young boy market, while Prevnar-maker

Wyeth is making a bid to become the world's most profitable vaccine

manufacturer. The Jan. 1 voluntary moratorium by drug companies on giving

doctors free pens and trinkets is a token drop in the bucket compared to the big

bucks Big Pharma will spend in 2009 to keep doctors convincing Americans that

the only way they can stay healthy is to consume more and more drugs and

vaccines.

But then came a breath of fresh air this week when the formidable M.I.N.D.

Institute at UC- published an epidemiological study confirming that the

autism epidemic that has emerged during the past three decades is not due to

genetics or " better counting " but is likely caused by environmental co-factors.

2009 is off to a contentious, challenging and promising start. Like all social

movements that advocate reform of institutions stubbornly resistant to change,

the way is not easy and change does not come quickly or without sacrifice. The

three-decade U.S. vaccine safety and informed consent movement is approaching

its final and most important stage: the fight for freedom of choice. As several

hundred vaccines are being developed and tested in several thousand clinical

trials around the world and drug companies are jockeying for market-share

positions, doctors are trying harder to convince Americans that 69 doses of 16

vaccines given to children between birth and age 18 will keep America healthy.

The argument that more vaccination will equal better health is an argument that

is getting harder to make as one in two Americans suffers from chronic disease

and America plummets to 39th in infant mortality while 25 percent of all

children are suffering with learning disabilities, ADHD, severe allergies,

autism, asthma, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disorder, rheumatoid arthritis and

other chronic immune and brain disorders. The question that doctors and public

health officials fear most is:

WHY IS THE MOST HIGHLY VACCINATED CHILD POPULATION IN THE WORLD SO SICK AND

DISABLED?

Until that question is answered by doctors and public health officials, there

aren't enough daytime or evening soap operas, bogus news reports and poorly

conducted studies claiming that vaccines are totally safe, or threats by vaccine

patent holders and doctors shouting " coincidence " every time another child

regresses into chronic poor health after vaccination to keep the tipping point

from tipping.

Happy New Year!

" Sears' book, published in October 2007 as part of the Sears Parenting Library,

has already sold more than40,000 copies and has moved into the top 100 on the

Amazon.com bestseller list. The popularity of Sears' book centers in part on 2

schedules, called alternative and selective, that offer parents a way to avoid

giving their children several vaccines at one time. Sears' book is unique.

Unlike typical antivaccine books, he offers a middle ground, allowing parents to

act on their fears without completely abandoning vaccines. Unfortunately, Sears

sounds many antivaccine messages....At the heart of the problem with Sears'

schedules is the fact that, at the very least, they will increase the time

during which children are susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases. If more

parents insist on Sears' vaccine schedules, then fewer children will be

protected, with the inevitable consequence of continued or worsening outbreaks

of vaccine-preventable diseases. In

an effort to protect children from harm, Sears' book will likely put more in

harm's way. " - Offit, Pediatrics (December 29, 2008)

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cg i/content/full/123/1/e164

" In their assault on Dr. Sears, Offit and Moser confuse scientific methodology.

Even more dangerous than not having an understanding of science, is the

presumption that one does " grasp the scientific method. " Actually, in designing

an epidemiological study, one must have a good estimate of the effect size, in

order to determine the power of a study. Offit misuses the statistical term

'power' to suggest that this allows one to " reject or not to reject the null

hypothesis. " This is incorrect.....As physicians we took an oath to 'first do no

harm' to our individual patients. Dr. Sears offers a pro-vaccine individualized

approach to childhood immunization that acknowledges the risks, benefits, and

uncertainties of this medical intervention. Dr. Sears should be applauded for

his efforts to provide safe vaccination alternatives to his patients, given the

void of randomized controlled trials to support continued growth of the current

CDC/AAP schedule. Rather

than personal attacks, let's turn to science to provide the answers. The

enormous public benefit of vaccination cannot be used to stifle open discourse

on critical vaccine safety issues. One size does not fit all. " - Jon Poling,

Pediatrics (January 2, 2009) http://pediatrics.aappublications.or

g/cgi/eletters/123/1/e164#39891

" The state's new law requiring young children attending licensed pre-school and

child care centers to get flu vaccinations will be tested this week when

thousands of children return to classrooms and playrooms after the long holiday

break. New Jersey, the first state in the nation to require flu shots for young

schoolchildren, set a Dec. 31 deadline for parents to obtain flu vaccinations

for their children. It was part of a new policy requiring a total of four

additional immunizations for schoolchildren over the objections of some parents

who worry about possible risks from vaccinations. The requirement applies to

children between 6 months and 5 years who are attending licensed day care and

preschool programs. " - Derrick Henry, New York Times (January 4, 2009)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/ 04/nyregion/new-jersey/04flunj.html?

_r=1 & ref=education

" Merck filed last month for approval from the Food and Drug Administration for

the use of its drug Gardasil by males between the ages 9 to 26, CNBC has

confirmed. Since 2006, Gardasil has been approved as a means of preventing

cervical and other types of cancer in girls and women. Males carry and transmit

the sexually-transmitted virus HPV, which is the leading cause of cervical

cancer. Gardasil, a vaccine against HPV, has been a blockbuster product for

Merck , but sales growth for the drug has slowed. Approval for boys and older

women could help reinvigorate that.... " - Mike Huckman, CNBC-TV (January 5,

2009) http://www.cnbc.com/id/28506419/

" Wyeth may become one of the world's biggest vaccine makers with the acquisition

of Crucell NV, a Dutch developer of medicines against AIDS, rabies, and Ebola.

The drugmaker is in talks to buy Crucell, based in Leiden, Netherlands, for

$1.35 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal....Wyeth Chief

Executive Officer Bernard Poussot has focused the company's research on

vaccines, a dependable source of sales for drugmakers because they don't lose

patent protection and are often purchased by governments. Poussot turned Wyeth's

pneumonia vaccine Prevnar into its second best-selling product with $2.4 billion

in 2007 revenue.... " - Pettypiece, Bloomberg News January 8, 2009

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?

pid=20601087 & sid=as4rY9TI49Yo & refer=worldwide#

" Starting Jan. 1, the pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary

moratorium on the kind of branded goodies - Viagra pens, Zoloft soap dispensers,

Lipitor mugs - that were meant to foster good will and, some would say,

encourage doctors to prescribe more of the drugs. No longer will Merck furnish

doctors with purplish adhesive bandages advertising Gardasil, a vaccine against

the human papillomavirus....But some critics said the code did not go far enough

to address the influence of drug marketing on the practice of medicine. The

guidelines, for example, still permit drug makers to underwrite free lunches for

doctors and their staffs or to sponsor dinners for doctors at restaurants, as

long as the meals are accompanied by educational presentations....The industry

code also permits drug makers to pay doctors as consultants " based on fair

market value " - which critics say means that companies can continue to pay

individual doctors tens of thousands of

dollars or more a year. " We have arrived at a point in the history of medicine

in America where doctors have deep, deep financial ties with the drug makers and

marketers, " said Allan Coukell, the director of policy for the Prescription

Project, a nonprofit group in Boston working to promote evidence-based medicine.

" Financial entanglements at all the levels have the potential to influence

prescribing in a way that is not good. " - Natasha Singer, New York Times

(December 31, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/ 12/31/business/31drug.html?

partner=rss & emc=rss

" It is time to focus on environmental causes for the rapid rise in autism, a

leading researcher said Thursday, after her study concluded that such factors as

earlier diagnosis and families moving to California cannot fully explain a

dramatic seven- to eightfold increase in the state since the early 1990s. " With

no evidence of a leveling off, the possibility of a true increase in incidence

deserves serious consideration, " states the study, published in the January

issue of the journal Epidemiology.... Rick Rollens, the father of an autistic

child and co-founder of the M.I.N.D. Institute, agreed.. " This is a definitive

study that should once and for all put the proverbial nail in the coffin of

those who have been denying the existence of an autism epidemic, " he said. " The

sooner that people recognize the significance of this crisis, the sooner we'll

be on our way in trying to address the needs of the children and families, "

Rollens said. " - Sandy Kleffman,

Contra Costa Times (January 9, 2009) http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci

_11411611?source=rss

 

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