Peet and Wyeth Front Group......

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Be aware of this and do what you can to refute it. Shame on the mother

with the autistic child who is on the member list for this group.

See actual article and photo:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/08/every-child-by.html

They are going to try to use the precedence that we have a measles

epidemic in the US now due to us not vaccinating. Offit works for

Wyeth and now so does .

This is a million dollar a year organization to push vaccines.

It gets my blood boiling! These money grabbing vultures.

Every Child By Two: A Front Group for Wyeth

Every_child_by_two_photoManaging Editor's Note: That's a photo of the

board of Every Child By Two, you can click HERE to see a larger photo

and a list of the members and their affiliations.

By J.B. Handley

17 years ago, in 1991, the DTP Vaccine was under fire for the high

rate of autism, brain injury and death it was causing in children.

Lawsuits were mounting. In fact, DTP was why Congress created the 1986

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the first place. As Barbara Loe

Fisher, co-author of A Shot In the Dark, a book chronicling the

problems with DPT, said, " it is important to note that the vast

majority of vaccine injury awards in the VICP have been for children

suffering DPT vaccine brain injuries and deaths…of all the vaccines

which have been routinely used by children in the past century, the

brain damaging effects of the pertussis (whooping cough) portion of

DPT vaccine is among the most well documented in the scientific

literature. "

On the firing line was Lederle Laboratories of Wayne, NJ, one of the

largest manufacturers of DTP vaccine at the time. A spokesperson for

Lederle was charged with working the press to try and defend DTP,

mercury, and vaccines in general--he was the Offit of his time.

This spokesperson, in January 1991, was quoted in the New York Times

saying, " Any chemical product, because it is a chemical substance,

does produce some side effects. The current vaccine [DTP], as far as

we are concerned, is a very safe and efficacious vaccine. "

As we all know, the DTP vaccine was soon replaced with DTaP because of

safety concerns.

So what, you say?

Well, there's more to the story. In 1994, Wyeth bought Lederle

Laboratories and the Lederle spokesperson--the Offit of his

time—went with Lederle to the new owner, Wyeth.

This spokesperson, Craig Engesser, he still works for Wyeth, his job

title today is Senior Director, Professional Affairs.

And, he sits on the Board of Every Child By Two.

When I watched CBS rip apart the conflicts (HERE) that vaccine

promoters and vaccine makers have, I was left with a nagging question:

who the hell is Every Child By Two? Yes, I knew Peet was their

new spokesperson. I knew Offit had recently joined their board.

But, who the hell were they?

Doing some research, it turns out these " Special Interest

Dot-Orgs " —SIDs for short—are nothing new. Unfortunately, the 501©3

code of the IRS is very vague on what constitutes a non-profit

organization and there are very few disclosure requirements for

funding sources any public filings nonprofits have to make. As an

example, if you wanted to find out where Generation Rescue gets its

funding, you wouldn't be able to. No filing requirements exist.

As you might expect, drug companies have taken full advantage of this

murky area. To my surprise, the press has been covering this story for

years, just not specific to vaccines. In a 2005 expose titled, " A

little too cozy? Not-for-profits may have undisclosed funding ties to

for-profit drug companies " , Sacramento Bee reporters Dorsey Griffith

and Steve Wiegand went after the practice:

" The public may be getting hoodwinked because they may think these

nonprofits are independent, " said Borochoff, president of the

American Institute of Philanthropy, a watchdog group that provides

information about nonprofits. " But how can they do it independently if

they are paid by the drug companies? "

Borochoff and other critics say that even the best-intentioned

advocacy groups can ignite public fears about conditions that may not

be medical problems, divert attention from more serious health issues

and put pressure on doctors to prescribe medications that may not be

necessary.

While some of these advocacy organizations begin as true grass-roots

associations that later come to rely on financing from the

pharmaceutical industry, others sprout directly from drug company seed

money. And some are hybrids.

A Boston Globe investigation in 2007 revealed similar concerns:

But little attention has been paid to smaller nonprofits, especially

patient groups that are largely funded by the drug industry. Public

Citizen's Lurie, who testifies frequently before FDA panels,

noticed a shift as public hearings " were becoming contaminated by

people who didn't represent the public in any way. They represented

particular moneyed interests. " Lurie, deputy director of the consumer

advocacy organization's health research group, said, " It's a fair

question: Who represents patients and how they come to call

themselves " patient representatives?

In 221 advisory committee meetings scrutinized, 32 of 44 speakers

representing patients said they had received funding from a company

that would be affected by the FDA's decision, according to a recent

journal article that Lurie coauthored about conflicts of interest on

FDA advisory panels.

And, The Philadelphia Inquirer also posted an investigative piece on

the practice saying, " Although patients seldom know it, many patient

groups and drug companies maintain close, multimillion-dollar

relationships while disclosing limited or no details about the ties. "

The Inquirer also explained that the money to support these nonprofits

often comes " from the companies' marketing or sales divisions, not

charity offices, company and nonprofit officials said. "

Wow. Of course, none of us are surprised. Back to Every Child By Two.

In the CBS Evening News piece on the APP, Offit, and Every Child

By Two, CBS was unable to provide any details on ECBT's ties to

vaccine manufacturers beyond a confirmation from the organization that

they did take money from vaccine companies. But, it's right there in

black & white, it just takes a little digging.

First, a little background. By nonprofit standards, ECBT is a rat-shit

organization. With a grand total of 3 employees, a tiny office suite

in a crummy Washington D.C. neighborhood, and an annual budget under

$1 million, they are a blip on the radar screen. As usual, the devil

is in the details.

Let's look first at their total revenues for the last 3 years (we only

have numbers through 2006. Numbers for 2007 will probably be public in

October):

Every Child By Two, Total Revenues:

2006: $752, 631

2005: $836,690

2004:$485,155

Within ECBT's revenues is a long-term contract they have had with

Public Health Solutions, another SIDs which is a front for the NY

Department of Health. This is effectively a long-term government

contract that ECBT has had for years. Focusing on 2006 and removing

this piece of their revenues, ECBT looks like this:

Every Child By Two, Total Revenues, excluding PHS:

2006: $513,011

So, the question is, where did the half million bucks come from? If

you looked at their 2004 Form 990, you would never know. If you looked

at their 2005 Form 990, you would never know, either. But, in 2006

something changed. Either a new accounting firm, a new accountant, a

request from the IRS, I don't know. I just know the form is longer and

has more disclosure. On Page 23, in black & white, it reads:

" Wyeth Vaccine: Ensure all children from birth to Age 2 are fully

immunized. "

And, how much did Wyeth give ECBT?

Wyeth gave $350,769. That's 68% of their non-contract revenue and 48%

of their total revenue. From one company. A vaccine manufacturer named

Wyeth. And Craig Engesser, a Wyeth spokesperson, has been on the board

of ECBT for as long as I can track it. He even served as the

organization's treasurer!

Every Child By Two. Peet. Offit. Craig Engesser. Wyeth.

Lederle. DTP. Rat-shit.

J.B. Handley is co-founder of Generation Rescue and Managing Editor of

Age of Autism.