Sebelius Asks Media to Censor Autism Debate

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March 16, 2010

Sebelius Asks Media to Censor Autism Debate

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" There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a

variety of problems, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We (the

office of the President of the Health and Human Services Administration) have

reached out to media outlets to try to get them not to give the views of these

people equal weight in their reporting. "

That's right. Kathleen Sebelius, the President of the HHS, has asked newspapers,

magazines, television journalists, who knows who else- specifically NOT to

listen to parents and scientists in the autism community, not to respect their

concerns, not to take seriously the condition of chronically ill children with

autism and to disregard a growing body of evidence questioning the safety of our

infant and toddler's immunization schedule. If I have got anything wrong I would

love to hear a tape or see a transcripts of these media " outreaches. "

Pretty frightening stuff. Thank you to Jake Crosby who uncovered this frank and

disturbing exchange between Arthur (autism is not so bad and there is no

increase anyway) and Ms. Sebelius.

I am taking Ms. Sebelius at her word. Ms. Sebelius has unilaterally that she

knows that every single American parent who saw their child regress post

vaccination or experience a severe adverse reaction is wrong and she knows

better. Ms. Sebelius has ordered, suggested, beseeched, implored (?) American

journalists NOT " give these people (anyone concerned with vaccine safety) equal

weight in their reporting " because she has decided by informal governmental

decree that the debate is closed?

Sounds like something that would happen in a communist dictatorship, right? Was

there a similar decree when " citizen dissidents " questioned the safety of

hormone replacement therapy for women? Was the media instructed to ignore those

nuisances who were suspicious of a long denied link between hormone therapy and

breast cancer? Did the HHS order a first amendment crackdown of those

trouble-making women who had long complained that Fibromalgia was a real disease

and not a psychosomatic condition. Menaces everywhere who dared to question

medical authorities! They must be silenced! You have got to be kidding.

Sebelius boasts that she holds an H1N1 meeting every single day but cannot find

the time to attend one IACC meeting or meet with any autism organizations. Well,

not exactly, apparently Ms. Sebelius is personal friends with Ms. Alison Singer,

leader a vaccine marketing/ autism org financed in part by Dr. Offit.

Newsflash Ms. Seblius: 1 in 100 American children, and rising, have autism and

this is a much bigger deal than H1N1. One in four American parents do not think

vaccines are safe for their children. At least half of all families affected by

autism believe too many vaccines too soon triggered their child's autism.

Hundreds of thousands of parents saw their child regress post multiple

vaccinations. Sebelius' answer to this massive crisis of confidence is media

censorship?

Hmmmm...Censorship has a long and illustrious history- of not working.

Thankfully, we live in a democracy with a free press. So I don't know what is

worse, the fact Sebelius asked that journalists censor the autism debate or the

fact that they did.

While I have not read few reasoned, balanced or well written pieces of

journalism on the subject of autism and vaccines I have read a host of spoon fed

press releases masquerading as " news " stories about supposedly important autism

research. Journalists from " Time " , " Newsweek " , " The New York Times " , online

health resources etc. have reported in depth on such " breakthroughs " as a recent

Univ of Florida study concluding that " maternal sensitivity " is a good thing for

autistic children, or Kennedy Krieger's incredible finding that autistic kids

have bad handwriting (amazing, I know!) or the Children's Hospital of Boston

study which found that married cousins from the Middle East who marry are more

likely to produce autistic kids. I know, stop the presses, a cure is within

sight!

In this embarrassing interview with Arthur Ms. Sebelius asserts all the

science is a closed book. At the top of the list of the science of vaccine

safety studies are the definitive 2001 and 2003 " Pediatrics " articles. While the

media has kept us front row center in the breaking developments regarding ASD

kids with bad handwriting, journalists have neglected to report on perhaps one

of the most striking recent events concerning the subject of autism research.

The lead author of the two most frequently cited " vaccines do not trigger

autism " articles are Dr. Poul Thorsen. Well, well, well. this week we learned

that Thorsen has absconded with approximately $2 million of CDC research money

and is the target of an international police manhunt. We also learned that the

Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark, where Thorsen was employed when conducting the studies

(naturally in close cooperation w/ the CDC) has released a letter detailing

Thorsen's recently uncovered crimes. These crimes include but are not limited

to: theft, forgery and assorted serious breaches of ethical norms.

Apparently Thorsen was a very, very busy scientist. He was simultaneously and

secretly employed at the Univ of Aarhus, Emory University, Drexel University and

as a " visiting scientist at the CDC. " Emory and Drexel have, some might say,

inappropriately close relationships with the CDC. There appears to be very

little room for independent or unbiased science at these research centers. All

three are heavily invested in denying any relationships between vaccines and

autism. The CDC owns numerous vaccine patents and Emory and Drexel receive

tremendous financial support from vaccine companies.

Hmmmm.I know some of you might be thinking " Emory University is in the news a

lot lately! " Yes, Emory has been in the news a great deal thanks to the amazing

anti- corruption work of Senator Grassley. Ms. Sebelius should dump

Arthur and have a conversation with someone who is actually doing

something to restore public confidence in our health systems by the fighting the

fraud and greed inherent at places like Emory. Grassley is conducting an

investigation a pervasive pattern of corruption among Emory researchers who fail

to disclose significant financial conflicts of interest in the outcomes of the

research they conduct. Isn't it interesting that Thorsen found a second home

there?

Thorsen was working hard for everyone's benefit: him own, his employers,

pharmaceutical companies- everyone's benefit, that is, except the public's. The

health and safety of American kids being administered the world's most

aggressive infant vaccine schedule was last on his list. Thorsen was also

employed as a consultant on the official revisions of the all-important DMS V.

Thorsen was advising how to count and classify autism cases. It is absolutely

frightening that a wanted felon has such an enormous and pervasive influence on

the lives of our children.

So I am trying to get this straight Ms. Sebelius. Help me out here. We should

take lying thieves with no interest in operating in the public's interest at

their word but the media should ignore parents and legitimate scientists who

question the validity of vaccine science research performed by alleged

criminals? I'm really confused!

Wouldn't it be great if Sebelius lifted her fatwa on vaccine research reporting

and someone discovered what this creep Thorsen was actually up to at Drexel and

Emory? Why was Thorsen a " visiting scientist at the CDC " at the same time?

Apparently the CDC has known about this theft (of our money) for some time but

has chosen to remain silent. I wonder why? How likely is it that Thorsen was the

only scientist involved in what appears to be a massive and long term scheme to

manipulate and forge scientific documents? Is it true that Madsen, Thorsen's

co-author of the Danish studies is also under investigation? Most importantly,

why should the public believe that a thief and a liar with no ethical standards

would be honest and scrupulous in his research? I shudder at the thought of

Thorsen recounting " the facts " of his studies to students while asserting, as he

frequently did, that " absolutely no more vaccine/ autism research is warranted. "

Now there's a guarantee you can take to the bank. Oops, maybe a bank Thorsen

hasn't robbed.

is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.

VIC (Vaccine Information Coalition)

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