Re: TOMORROW Tues 8/3/10: U.S Senate committee hearing on enviro causes of autism

[Guest guest]

Is there a way we can listen in? Will the hearing be televised or can we

listen on-line? I would love to listen in on this one.

Haven

[Guest guest]

You can go to the EPW’s webpage and it’ll be streamed live on-line when

the hearing starts.

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Subcommittee on Children’s Health hearing entitled, " State of Research

on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related

Neurodevelopment Disorders. "

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

10:00 AM EDT

EPW Hearing Room - 406 Dirksen

On 8/2/10 2:16 PM, Haven DeLay wrote:

>

> Is there a way we can listen in? Will the hearing be televised or can we

> listen on-line? I would love to listen in on this one.

>

> Haven

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Sallie,

Thanks! Are they not taking public input? usually when they have such

hearings they allow you to write and submit testimony.

Haven

[Guest guest]

Apparently no public input for this one.

On 8/2/10 8:28 PM, Haven DeLay wrote:

>

> Sallie,

>

> Thanks! Are they not taking public input? usually when they have such

> hearings they allow you to write and submit testimony.

>

> Haven

>

[Guest guest]

This was great. They found a dr. named Bruce Lanphear who told us that autism

was caused by mothers smoking and lead. Too bad nobody asked him why we didn't

have any autism before there were warning labels on cigarettes and lots more

mothers smoked.

>

>

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>

> Subcommittee on Children’s Health hearing entitled, " State of Research

> on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related

> Neurodevelopment Disorders. "

> Tuesday, August 3, 2010

> 10:00 AM EDT

> EPW Hearing Room - 406 Dirksen

>

>

> Subcommittee members: Amy Klobuchar (Chairman), Tom Udall, Jeff Merkley,

> Arlen Specter, Lamar (Ranking Member), Vitter

>

> Witnesses

>

> Opening Remarks

>

> Panel 1

>

> Dr. Anastas

> Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development

> United States Environmental Protection Agency

> Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.

> Director, National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> National Toxicology Program

> National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and

> Human Services

>

> Panel 2

> Issac N. Pessah Ph.D.

> Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary

> Medicine, Director, UC Children’s Center for Environmental Health

> and Disease Prevention

> University of California, , Department of Molecular Biosciences

> Bruce P. Lanphear MD, MPH

> Senior Scientist, Child & Family Research Institute, Professor, Simon

> Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Adjunct Professor, Cincinnati

> Children's Hospital Medical Center

> Moen

> Parent

>

>

> Senators to review research on autism's enviro causes

> Environment and Energy Daily

> August 2, 2010

>

> Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E & E reporter

>

> The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will meet tomorrow

> to probe the state of research into the environmental causes of autism

> and other neurodevelopment disorders.

>

> The Children's Health Subcommittee will hear from U.S. EPA and

> National Institutes of Health officials on the progress of federally

> funded work into the causes of autism and other development disorders of

> the brain.

>

> It is likely that the hearing will be a step toward reauthorizing the

> 2006 Combating Autism Act, which is set to expire in 2011.

>

> Autism is thought to result from a combination of genetic and

> environmental factors. While the interaction of genes and mutations is

> somewhat known by now, little work has been done on potential

> environmental risk factors. There are likely to be many disparate causes

> leading to autism.

>

> The incidence of autism spectrum disorders, or ASDs, is increasing in

> the United States , with one in every 110 children affected. Rates of

> attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, in children are also

> rising -- nearly 4.5 million children between 3 and 17 years of age have

> it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

>

> The subpanel will hear from Isaac Pessah, director of the University

> of California , , Children's Center for Environmental Health and

> Disease Prevention, which has received $7.5 million from EPA since 2007

> for research to investigate possible environmental causes.

>

> UC is working on a project called MARBLES (Markers of Autism

> Risk in Babies -- Learning Early Signs) to identify early predictors of

> autism, whether genetic, environmental or immunologic. According to the

> project proposal submitted to EPA, the project will look at whether

> autistic children are differently exposed to metals, pesticides,

> polybrominated diphenylethers and other chemicals.

>

> The work is a corollary to a long-term study called CHARGE in which UC

> researchers are casting a wide net to catch possible environmental

> contributors in a group of 2- to 5-year-old autistic children. They are

> screening for pesticides, metals, flame retardant compounds, viruses and

> bacteria and pharmaceuticals.

>

> UC and other groups are also receiving money from NIH's National

> Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and National Toxicology

> Program, and the subcommittee will hear from the program's director,

> Birnbaum.

>

> NIH is funding a study together with the nonprofit Autism Speaks that

> is enrolling mothers who already have one autistic child and are again

> pregnant to study exposures during fetal development.

>

> The annual cost of caring for people with autism is $35 billion,

> according to Geraldine Dawson, chief scientific officer at Autism Speaks.

>

> NIH has provided nearly $225 million for research, which Dawsom called

> miniscule. The funding comes from the Combating Autism Act, which

> authorized $7 billion for autism-related work including screening,

> education, intervention and research.

>

> " President Obama has listed autism as one of three health concerns to

> be combated in the United States , " Dawson said. " The current act is a

> step in the right direction, but due to the magnitude of the public

> health challenge that autism presents, we need a great deal more funding. "

>

> The rate of children with the disease has risen by 600 percent in the

> last decade, a number so dramatic it cannot be explained solely by

> better diagnosis, Dawson said.

>

> Schedule: The hearing is tomorrow at 10 a.m. in 406 Dirksen.

>

> Witnesses: Anastas, assistant administrator of the Office of

> Research and Development, U.S. EPA; Birnbaum, NIH's director of

> the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and National

> Toxicology Program; Isaac Pessah, director of the UC Children's

> Center for Environmental Health and Disease Prevention; Bruce Lanphear,

> senior scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute; and

> Moen, parent.

>

[Guest guest]

Lanphear is a good guy. For a long time and against many odds, he has

been main proponent of harm from very low levels of lead and interaction

between low levels of different substances. He was giving examples from

ADHD and lead and smoking because that is the focus of his center and

his research. That doesn't reflect his point of view on other substances

and autism. If his center were funded by NIEHS/EPA to do autism work,

he'd move the science forward.

On 8/3/10 10:29 AM, juan.optimus wrote:

>

> This was great. They found a dr. named Bruce Lanphear who told us that

> autism was caused by mothers smoking and lead. Too bad nobody asked

> him why we didn't have any autism before there were warning labels on

> cigarettes and lots more mothers smoked.

>

>

> >

> >

>

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> >

> > Subcommittee on Children’s Health hearing entitled, " State of

> Research

> > on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related

> > Neurodevelopment Disorders. "

> > Tuesday, August 3, 2010

> > 10:00 AM EDT

> > EPW Hearing Room - 406 Dirksen

> >

> >

> > Subcommittee members: Amy Klobuchar (Chairman), Tom Udall, Jeff

> Merkley,

> > Arlen Specter, Lamar (Ranking Member), Vitter

> >

> > Witnesses

> >

> > Opening Remarks

> >

> > Panel 1

> >

> > Dr. Anastas

> > Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development

> > United States Environmental Protection Agency

> > Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.

> > Director, National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> > National Toxicology Program

> > National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and

> > Human Services

> >

> > Panel 2

> > Issac N. Pessah Ph.D.

> > Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary

> > Medicine, Director, UC Children’s Center for Environmental

> Health

> > and Disease Prevention

> > University of California, , Department of Molecular Biosciences

> > Bruce P. Lanphear MD, MPH

> > Senior Scientist, Child & Family Research Institute, Professor, Simon

> > Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Adjunct Professor, Cincinnati

> > Children's Hospital Medical Center

> > Moen

> > Parent

> >

> >

> > Senators to review research on autism's enviro causes

> > Environment and Energy Daily

> > August 2, 2010

> >

> > Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E & E reporter

> >

> > The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will meet tomorrow

> > to probe the state of research into the environmental causes of autism

> > and other neurodevelopment disorders.

> >

> > The Children's Health Subcommittee will hear from U.S. EPA and

> > National Institutes of Health officials on the progress of federally

> > funded work into the causes of autism and other development

> disorders of

> > the brain.

> >

> > It is likely that the hearing will be a step toward reauthorizing the

> > 2006 Combating Autism Act, which is set to expire in 2011.

> >

> > Autism is thought to result from a combination of genetic and

> > environmental factors. While the interaction of genes and mutations is

> > somewhat known by now, little work has been done on potential

> > environmental risk factors. There are likely to be many disparate

> causes

> > leading to autism.

> >

> > The incidence of autism spectrum disorders, or ASDs, is increasing in

> > the United States , with one in every 110 children affected. Rates of

> > attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, in children are also

> > rising -- nearly 4.5 million children between 3 and 17 years of age

> have

> > it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

> >

> > The subpanel will hear from Isaac Pessah, director of the University

> > of California , , Children's Center for Environmental Health and

> > Disease Prevention, which has received $7.5 million from EPA since 2007

> > for research to investigate possible environmental causes.

> >

> > UC is working on a project called MARBLES (Markers of Autism

> > Risk in Babies -- Learning Early Signs) to identify early predictors of

> > autism, whether genetic, environmental or immunologic. According to the

> > project proposal submitted to EPA, the project will look at whether

> > autistic children are differently exposed to metals, pesticides,

> > polybrominated diphenylethers and other chemicals.

> >

> > The work is a corollary to a long-term study called CHARGE in which UC

> > researchers are casting a wide net to catch possible

> environmental

> > contributors in a group of 2- to 5-year-old autistic children. They are

> > screening for pesticides, metals, flame retardant compounds, viruses

> and

> > bacteria and pharmaceuticals.

> >

> > UC and other groups are also receiving money from NIH's National

> > Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and National Toxicology

> > Program, and the subcommittee will hear from the program's director,

> > Birnbaum.

> >

> > NIH is funding a study together with the nonprofit Autism Speaks that

> > is enrolling mothers who already have one autistic child and are again

> > pregnant to study exposures during fetal development.

> >

> > The annual cost of caring for people with autism is $35 billion,

> > according to Geraldine Dawson, chief scientific officer at Autism

> Speaks.

> >

> > NIH has provided nearly $225 million for research, which Dawsom called

> > miniscule. The funding comes from the Combating Autism Act, which

> > authorized $7 billion for autism-related work including screening,

> > education, intervention and research.

> >

> > " President Obama has listed autism as one of three health concerns to

> > be combated in the United States , " Dawson said. " The current act is a

> > step in the right direction, but due to the magnitude of the public

> > health challenge that autism presents, we need a great deal more

> funding. "

> >

> > The rate of children with the disease has risen by 600 percent in the

> > last decade, a number so dramatic it cannot be explained solely by

> > better diagnosis, Dawson said.

> >

> > Schedule: The hearing is tomorrow at 10 a.m. in 406 Dirksen.

> >

> > Witnesses: Anastas, assistant administrator of the Office of

> > Research and Development, U.S. EPA; Birnbaum, NIH's director of

> > the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> National

> > Toxicology Program; Isaac Pessah, director of the UC Children's

> > Center for Environmental Health and Disease Prevention; Bruce Lanphear,

> > senior scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute; and

> > Moen, parent.

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

Lanphear's opinions on smoking are just plain stupid. There was no such thing

as ADD when lots of women smoked. There was also no such thing as ADD when

everyone had lead paint in their homes. The cause of ADD is mercury, not lead

and cigarettes. Just more BS from a Congressional committee. At least two of

the Senators in that meeting also voted against auditing the Federal Reserve.

That tells us they will never admit the truth about thimerosal either.

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> > >

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> > >

> > > Subcommittee on Children’s Health hearing entitled, " State of

> > Research

> > > on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related

> > > Neurodevelopment Disorders. "

> > > Tuesday, August 3, 2010

> > > 10:00 AM EDT

> > > EPW Hearing Room - 406 Dirksen

> > >

> > >

> > > Subcommittee members: Amy Klobuchar (Chairman), Tom Udall, Jeff

> > Merkley,

> > > Arlen Specter, Lamar (Ranking Member), Vitter

> > >

> > > Witnesses

> > >

> > > Opening Remarks

> > >

> > > Panel 1

> > >

> > > Dr. Anastas

> > > Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development

> > > United States Environmental Protection Agency

> > > Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.

> > > Director, National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> > > National Toxicology Program

> > > National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and

> > > Human Services

> > >

> > > Panel 2

> > > Issac N. Pessah Ph.D.

> > > Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary

> > > Medicine, Director, UC Children’s Center for Environmental

> > Health

> > > and Disease Prevention

> > > University of California, , Department of Molecular Biosciences

> > > Bruce P. Lanphear MD, MPH

> > > Senior Scientist, Child & Family Research Institute, Professor, Simon

> > > Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Adjunct Professor, Cincinnati

> > > Children's Hospital Medical Center

> > > Moen

> > > Parent

> > >

> > >

> > > Senators to review research on autism's enviro causes

> > > Environment and Energy Daily

> > > August 2, 2010

> > >

> > > Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E & E reporter

> > >

> > > The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will meet tomorrow

> > > to probe the state of research into the environmental causes of autism

> > > and other neurodevelopment disorders.

> > >

> > > The Children's Health Subcommittee will hear from U.S. EPA and

> > > National Institutes of Health officials on the progress of federally

> > > funded work into the causes of autism and other development

> > disorders of

> > > the brain.

> > >

> > > It is likely that the hearing will be a step toward reauthorizing the

> > > 2006 Combating Autism Act, which is set to expire in 2011.

> > >

> > > Autism is thought to result from a combination of genetic and

> > > environmental factors. While the interaction of genes and mutations is

> > > somewhat known by now, little work has been done on potential

> > > environmental risk factors. There are likely to be many disparate

> > causes

> > > leading to autism.

> > >

> > > The incidence of autism spectrum disorders, or ASDs, is increasing in

> > > the United States , with one in every 110 children affected. Rates of

> > > attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, in children are also

> > > rising -- nearly 4.5 million children between 3 and 17 years of age

> > have

> > > it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

> > >

> > > The subpanel will hear from Isaac Pessah, director of the University

> > > of California , , Children's Center for Environmental Health and

> > > Disease Prevention, which has received $7.5 million from EPA since 2007

> > > for research to investigate possible environmental causes.

> > >

> > > UC is working on a project called MARBLES (Markers of Autism

> > > Risk in Babies -- Learning Early Signs) to identify early predictors of

> > > autism, whether genetic, environmental or immunologic. According to the

> > > project proposal submitted to EPA, the project will look at whether

> > > autistic children are differently exposed to metals, pesticides,

> > > polybrominated diphenylethers and other chemicals.

> > >

> > > The work is a corollary to a long-term study called CHARGE in which UC

> > > researchers are casting a wide net to catch possible

> > environmental

> > > contributors in a group of 2- to 5-year-old autistic children. They are

> > > screening for pesticides, metals, flame retardant compounds, viruses

> > and

> > > bacteria and pharmaceuticals.

> > >

> > > UC and other groups are also receiving money from NIH's National

> > > Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and National Toxicology

> > > Program, and the subcommittee will hear from the program's director,

> > > Birnbaum.

> > >

> > > NIH is funding a study together with the nonprofit Autism Speaks that

> > > is enrolling mothers who already have one autistic child and are again

> > > pregnant to study exposures during fetal development.

> > >

> > > The annual cost of caring for people with autism is $35 billion,

> > > according to Geraldine Dawson, chief scientific officer at Autism

> > Speaks.

> > >

> > > NIH has provided nearly $225 million for research, which Dawsom called

> > > miniscule. The funding comes from the Combating Autism Act, which

> > > authorized $7 billion for autism-related work including screening,

> > > education, intervention and research.

> > >

> > > " President Obama has listed autism as one of three health concerns to

> > > be combated in the United States , " Dawson said. " The current act is a

> > > step in the right direction, but due to the magnitude of the public

> > > health challenge that autism presents, we need a great deal more

> > funding. "

> > >

> > > The rate of children with the disease has risen by 600 percent in the

> > > last decade, a number so dramatic it cannot be explained solely by

> > > better diagnosis, Dawson said.

> > >

> > > Schedule: The hearing is tomorrow at 10 a.m. in 406 Dirksen.

> > >

> > > Witnesses: Anastas, assistant administrator of the Office of

> > > Research and Development, U.S. EPA; Birnbaum, NIH's director of

> > > the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> > National

> > > Toxicology Program; Isaac Pessah, director of the UC Children's

> > > Center for Environmental Health and Disease Prevention; Bruce Lanphear,

> > > senior scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute; and

> > > Moen, parent.

> > >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

There were symptoms and behaviors like ADD prior to the Surgeon General's

smoking reports in the 50s-60s. It just didn't have a name and it wasn't

common.

Mercury is not a new element and neither is lead. What the infant vaccination

schedule did was expose an entirely new and vulnerable population. Put the

whole chemical/pesticide industry in to the mix, add a pinch of sunscreen, poor

diet and antibiotics to the pot and we've got toxic soup!

I agree much of what comes from the Congressional Committee is BS, and anyone

who blames Autism on women smoking is a moron. But, it ain't just about the

Thimerosal anymore.

I think ADD is lead based over here.

Pam

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> > > >

> > > > Subcommittee on Children’s Health hearing entitled, " State of

> > > Research

> > > > on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related

> > > > Neurodevelopment Disorders. "

> > > > Tuesday, August 3, 2010

> > > > 10:00 AM EDT

> > > > EPW Hearing Room - 406 Dirksen

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > Subcommittee members: Amy Klobuchar (Chairman), Tom Udall, Jeff

> > > Merkley,

> > > > Arlen Specter, Lamar (Ranking Member), Vitter

> > > >

> > > > Witnesses

> > > >

> > > > Opening Remarks

> > > >

> > > > Panel 1

> > > >

> > > > Dr. Anastas

> > > > Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development

> > > > United States Environmental Protection Agency

> > > > Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.

> > > > Director, National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> > > > National Toxicology Program

> > > > National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and

> > > > Human Services

> > > >

> > > > Panel 2

> > > > Issac N. Pessah Ph.D.

> > > > Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary

> > > > Medicine, Director, UC Children’s Center for Environmental

> > > Health

> > > > and Disease Prevention

> > > > University of California, , Department of Molecular Biosciences

> > > > Bruce P. Lanphear MD, MPH

> > > > Senior Scientist, Child & Family Research Institute, Professor, Simon

> > > > Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Adjunct Professor, Cincinnati

> > > > Children's Hospital Medical Center

> > > > Moen

> > > > Parent

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > Senators to review research on autism's enviro causes

> > > > Environment and Energy Daily

> > > > August 2, 2010

> > > >

> > > > Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E & E reporter

> > > >

> > > > The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will meet tomorrow

> > > > to probe the state of research into the environmental causes of autism

> > > > and other neurodevelopment disorders.

> > > >

> > > > The Children's Health Subcommittee will hear from U.S. EPA and

> > > > National Institutes of Health officials on the progress of federally

> > > > funded work into the causes of autism and other development

> > > disorders of

> > > > the brain.

> > > >

> > > > It is likely that the hearing will be a step toward reauthorizing the

> > > > 2006 Combating Autism Act, which is set to expire in 2011.

> > > >

> > > > Autism is thought to result from a combination of genetic and

> > > > environmental factors. While the interaction of genes and mutations is

> > > > somewhat known by now, little work has been done on potential

> > > > environmental risk factors. There are likely to be many disparate

> > > causes

> > > > leading to autism.

> > > >

> > > > The incidence of autism spectrum disorders, or ASDs, is increasing in

> > > > the United States , with one in every 110 children affected. Rates of

> > > > attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, in children are also

> > > > rising -- nearly 4.5 million children between 3 and 17 years of age

> > > have

> > > > it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

> > > >

> > > > The subpanel will hear from Isaac Pessah, director of the University

> > > > of California , , Children's Center for Environmental Health and

> > > > Disease Prevention, which has received $7.5 million from EPA since 2007

> > > > for research to investigate possible environmental causes.

> > > >

> > > > UC is working on a project called MARBLES (Markers of Autism

> > > > Risk in Babies -- Learning Early Signs) to identify early predictors of

> > > > autism, whether genetic, environmental or immunologic. According to the

> > > > project proposal submitted to EPA, the project will look at whether

> > > > autistic children are differently exposed to metals, pesticides,

> > > > polybrominated diphenylethers and other chemicals.

> > > >

> > > > The work is a corollary to a long-term study called CHARGE in which UC

> > > > researchers are casting a wide net to catch possible

> > > environmental

> > > > contributors in a group of 2- to 5-year-old autistic children. They are

> > > > screening for pesticides, metals, flame retardant compounds, viruses

> > > and

> > > > bacteria and pharmaceuticals.

> > > >

> > > > UC and other groups are also receiving money from NIH's National

> > > > Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and National Toxicology

> > > > Program, and the subcommittee will hear from the program's director,

> > > > Birnbaum.

> > > >

> > > > NIH is funding a study together with the nonprofit Autism Speaks that

> > > > is enrolling mothers who already have one autistic child and are again

> > > > pregnant to study exposures during fetal development.

> > > >

> > > > The annual cost of caring for people with autism is $35 billion,

> > > > according to Geraldine Dawson, chief scientific officer at Autism

> > > Speaks.

> > > >

> > > > NIH has provided nearly $225 million for research, which Dawsom called

> > > > miniscule. The funding comes from the Combating Autism Act, which

> > > > authorized $7 billion for autism-related work including screening,

> > > > education, intervention and research.

> > > >

> > > > " President Obama has listed autism as one of three health concerns to

> > > > be combated in the United States , " Dawson said. " The current act is a

> > > > step in the right direction, but due to the magnitude of the public

> > > > health challenge that autism presents, we need a great deal more

> > > funding. "

> > > >

> > > > The rate of children with the disease has risen by 600 percent in the

> > > > last decade, a number so dramatic it cannot be explained solely by

> > > > better diagnosis, Dawson said.

> > > >

> > > > Schedule: The hearing is tomorrow at 10 a.m. in 406 Dirksen.

> > > >

> > > > Witnesses: Anastas, assistant administrator of the Office of

> > > > Research and Development, U.S. EPA; Birnbaum, NIH's director of

> > > > the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and

> > > National

> > > > Toxicology Program; Isaac Pessah, director of the UC Children's

> > > > Center for Environmental Health and Disease Prevention; Bruce Lanphear,

> > > > senior scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute; and

> > > > Moen, parent.

> > > >

> > >

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Maybe it's grandmother's smoking! I did not smoke and I won't allow anyone

around my son who smokes. I don't even want them smoking on my property.

Now, my mother smoked --while she was pregnant with all five of us kids, and

what do you know...None of us have ADD, ADHD, nor autism, and then how

would that explain my son meeting ALL his milestones early and being

healthy UNTIL the fifteen month shots? They keep looking for a way to

explain away the truth. It is disgusting.

Haven