Turn Outrage into Action - Monday, September 29th

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Please participate in this protest!!!!!!!!!!!

> Turn Outrage into Action - Monday, September 29th

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> As many of you have no doubt heard, this past week the National

> Institute of Mental Health, part of the NIH, halted a study of

> chelation as a therapy for autism. (Those unfamiliar with the study,

> click here:

> http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/09/17/autism.chelation.ap/index.html )

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> Though the study as outlined lacked the supplementation and labs

> necessary to ensure the safety of the participants and accuracy of the

> results, the cancellation is a setback not just for those parents

> considering chelation, but for all of us who suspect a connection

> between vaccinations and the underlying set of immune, digestive and

> neurological ailments that cumulatively contribute to autism.

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> As an act of protest, I propose an orchestrated effort to demonstrate

> our collective outrage as parents, caregivers, relatives, therapists

> and physicians. While most political protests are limited by the

> time, travel and other financial burdens of participation, I have an

> idea that will hopefully allow for anyone to be involved.

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> I propose shutting down the National Institutes of Health phone system

> for an entire day.

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> The morning of Monday, September 29th starting at 8:00am EST, I

> encourage everyone to call the NIH main incoming line and demand to

> speak to the person responsible for halting the study. (They will

> probably end up eventually transferring you to public relations or a

> dead-drop voicemail box, but your nonspecific request will keep them

> on the line longer trying to figure out where to send you.) The longer

> you stay on the line, the more calls pile up behind you. Be polite,

> but firm. Do not hang up. If they hang up, call back. If you get a

> busy signal, that means the protest is working. Keep calling.

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> Once you get through and are inevitably transferred, feel free to

> state your concerns and tell you child's story: how they changed after

> vaccination, lost speech, ran a fever, broke out in measles, whatever

> the case. If you've already chelated your child, explain the

> differences you've seen — or tell the story of other children you

> know, students you teach, patients you have in your care if you are a

> therapist or physician. You can also simply read the statement

> attached below, personalizing it to your point of view.

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> Once you finally get through to a person or voicemail extension and

> have spoken your piece, wait five minutes and do it again. They may

> transfer you to the same person or extension, but you may also get to

> make your case to someone new. Do this throughout the day as often as

> you can until 5:00pm EST.

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> Next, send your story or the prepared statement below to the major

> news outlets listed also starting at 8:00am EST. The goal here is to

> inundate the networks' email servers. Unlike phone systems, enterprise

> email servers typically are configured to automatically identify large

> quantities of identical email as spam. For that reason, I have not

> suggested a subject line for the email and encourage everyone to

> personalize their emails with their stories and opinions in addition

> to the prepared statement. Doing so will help keep the email servers

> from disregarding the messages and allow more to make it through.

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> Unfortunately, some news networks have limited email contact to

> website forms only. Log on to these sites at the links below to email

> them as soon after 8:00am EST as possible.

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> Is this form of protest legal? Absolutely.

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> Telephone protests are increasingly common and, as the emails are

> individually generated, they do not qualify as spam. Therefore, if the

> calls and emails crash their phone systems and email servers or

> prevent incoming and outgoing calls and emails, so be it. As concerned

> citizens, the Constitution protects the right for a " redress of

> grievances " , and by extension, agencies of our government. The emails

> simply inform the major media of these grievances that they may cover

> them objectively. Advertising dollars ensure the pharmaceutical

> industry has their position heard. We just have to try a bit harder to

> make sure our side is represented.

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> Please pass this information on to fellow parents, caregivers,

> relatives, therapists and physicians. Repost it on other forums, but

> do not presume everyone reads the same websites or forums, or follows

> them regularly enough not to miss this call to action. Personal

> contact can't hurt — spread the word. I can also be contacted directly

> by groups wanting to coordinate or media outlets for comment on this

> and future efforts.

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> I used to work as a journalist before our son's diagnosis, so I know

> how this game is played. Even as an insider, getting a message through

> is difficult. One angry parent is easier to ignore than hundreds,

> hopefully thousands, whose phone calls and email overwhelm a

> government agency and the major news networks for an entire day.

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> Every one of us can make a difference. Based on the success of this

> campaign, other such protests will be organized to demand answers and

> accountability for the autism epidemic.

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> A safe, legitimate study of chelation is overdue. Prevention and

> recovery are our shared goal. Demand change by taking action.

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>

> J.R. McMillan

> mail (at) jrmcmillan (dot) com

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> Monday, September 29th from 8:00am EST to 5:00pm EST

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> Call the NIH at 301-496-4000.

> Read or personalize the statement below.

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> Email the prepared statement and include your personal comments.

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> nihinfo (at) od.nih (dot) gov

> nightly (at) nbc (dot) com

> dateline (at) nbcuni (dot) com

> health (at) msnbc (dot) com

> letters (at) msnbc (dot) com

> primetime (at) abc (dot) com

> 2020 (at) abc (dot) com

> nightline (at) abc (dot) com

> feedback (at) abcnews.go (dot) com

> foxnewsonline (at) foxnews (dot) com

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> Networks with email forms on their websites:

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> http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form.sound.off.html

> http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml

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> As the parent (caregiver, relative, therapist, physician) of a

> vaccine-injured child with autism, I was outraged to hear the NIMH

> halted the first study investigating the possible benefits of

> chelation as a biomedical therapy.

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> While the study itself was flawed at several levels, the continued

> research had the promise of finally yielding quantitative evidence

> that many children with autism suffer from related heavy metal

> poisoning, often resulting from vaccine preservatives. Chelation has

> been approved in the US for cases of lead poisoning but has been used

> off-label by tens of thousands parents to successfully remove other

> toxic metals from children with autism. This application requires

> physician supervision as well as supplementation and regular labs to

> ensure levels of beneficial metals are not depleted in the process.

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> It should come as no surprise to parents who have recovered their

> children from autism that the NIMH tests as implemented did pose

> serious risks by ignoring the need for additional organ support and

> beneficial metal supplementation. At best, it demonstrates the

> organization's limited understanding of the chelation process. At

> worst, it suggests yet another example of a government reluctant to

> investigate the possibility that increased exposure to mercury and

> aluminum vaccine preservatives has resulted in the dramatic rise in

> the incidence of autism among a growing population of immune

> compromised children.

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> While the NIMH paints the claims of parents whose children have made

> dramatic progress following chelation as " fringe theory " and

> " anecdotal evidence " , the safety of Thimerosal itself is far more

> dubious and untested. To date, the only human studies of Thimerosal's

> safety were conducted at the Indianapolis City Hospital in 1930. In

> the midst of a meningococcal meningitis outbreak, Eli Lilly seized the

> opportunity to test mercury as a vaccine preservative on twenty-two

> patients. Thimerosal was deemed safe for human use after none of the

> patients died immediately after injection, despite the fact that all

> died within two months, preventing any follow up.

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> The absence of legitimate scientific protocols demonstrated by testing

> a potentially lethal drug on the terminally ill brings into question

> the conclusion of safety reached by the preservative's manufacturer.

> By that measure, the NIMH's claim that it would be unethical to test a

> life-changing treatment for autism based on their own sabotaged

> methodology is both disingenuous and hypocritical. The CDC, FDA and

> pharmaceutical industry have in fact been experimenting on children

> with toxic levels of mercury and other metals-based preservatives for

> nearly eighty years.

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> Use of chelation for the removal of mercury has been branded as

> " quackery " by agencies and individuals who deem the use of Thimerosal

> completely safe. The origin of the term " quack " actually comes from

> the German word for mercury, quacksalber, and dates back to the

> fourteenth century. Doctors of the day who used mercury to treat

> syphilis killed many patients immediately while others slowly suffered

> the neurological effects of mercury poisoning. Ironically, the term

> historically reserved for physicians who used mercury despite the

> known risks has more recently been used to malign the growing number

> of physicians using chelation to remove mercury from injured children.

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> While the perpetuated myth is that Thimerosal and other harmful

> preservatives have been removed from childhood vaccinations, the truth

> is that it has simply been added elsewhere. The recommendation of flu

> vaccinations for infants, toddlers and expectant mothers actually

> increases the amount of mercury children receive by school age.

> Likewise, as a full recall of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations was

> never issued, the remaining stock continued to be used years later.

> More than 30 million American children have been given toxic levels of

> mercury exceeding the safety limits the EPA demands of tap water and

> the FDA allows in food. Yet, the mainstream media remains painfully

> silent as pharmaceutical advertising comprises an ever-increasing

> share of their operating budgets.

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> As parents, caregivers, physicians and therapists, we demand an

> independent clinical trial of chelation as a therapy for autism. As

> American citizens we demand independent government and media

> investigations into the actions of vaccine manufacturers and federal

> agencies and their efforts to distort and discredit studies to

> determine a link between the rising rate of vaccination and the rising

> rate of autism.

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> Failure to act will result in greater demonstrations of public

> protest, network and advertiser boycotts and harsher measures should

> they be required.

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