The
medical establishment agrees that the children with autism are ill but does not offer treatments based on the scientific evidence.
- The
recently AAP released Autism Toolkit for pediatricians begins to talks
about children being sick but have no recommendations about treatment.
- AAP Autism Toolkit Illness Quotes:
- “Surveys published in the GI literature have stated
that gastrointestinal problems, such as chronic constipation or
diarrhea, occur in 9% to 85% of children with ASDs”
- "Radiographic [x-ray] evidence of constipation has been found to be more common in children with ASDs than in controls with
abdominal pain (36% vs 10%)”
- “In some cases, there may be an identifiable
etiology such as obstructive sleep apnea or gastroesophageal reflux.”
- AAP admits that many families are treating their
children through outside means.
- “Use of CAM [Complimentary and Alternative
Medicine] is common in children with ASDs: 33% - 92% of families
admit trying it.”
- The AAP is biased towards drugs
- Quite often medications are suggested by the AAP
after one study of effectiveness. Today we have more than 500 studies on
using diet, vitamin supplementation, inflammatory strategies, anti-infection
strategies and other strategies to help children with autism.
- We suspect another reason may have to do with the
fact that these therapies are also helping ADHD, Asthma, Eczema and other forms
of chronic illness which are a primary means of revenue to the pharmaceutical
industry.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC
Consistently use scare tactics and manipulation to influence the public to
continue to use vaccines.
- Examples we have been directly involved with
includes:
Manipulation In AAP’s
letter to ABC asking for the cancellation of the entertainment television show
Eli Stone
because an episode was going to air about a vaccine
court case where a child was injured by the Flu Vaccine, the president of AAP
wrote, “If
ABC persists in airing the show, the AAP urges the network to include a
disclaimer emphasizing: No mercury is used as a preservative in routinely
offered vaccines. And No scientific link exists between vaccines and autism.”
The Letter
- At
the time of the letter there were four vaccines that contained mercury.
This was a manipulation attempt by the AAP to have ABC put a disclaimer mercury
that was completely UNTRUE.
- After
we addressed the CEO of the AAP directly, in person, by phone and by letter and
met with the leadership of AAP who stated they were aware of this issue, no
mention of the truth was ever released to the public or to ABC.
Our Letter to the AAP About Their Eli Stone Letter to
ABC
From: Stan Kurtz
[president-elect, Generation Rescue]
To: AAP Leadership
[sent via email and confirmed as received by phone]
Re:
Key Reasons that some people in the community are in an uproar over the AAP
Letter About Eli Stone –and suggestions about how to improve AAP / Parent
Relations.
Date:
2/19/08
First, let me say
that I am not an “it’s all about vaccines” person. If autism were purely a vaccine induced condition all children with autism would be vaccinated and
that is not the case. The medical literature points to several
environmental toxins and infections, which seem to be involved and I suspect
there are other environmental issues, individual immune status, pre-existing
infections and toxins and genetic susceptibilities that play a role as
well.
Second, my number
one personal goal is to help encourage the AAP to treat children with autism
and advocate for the development of the safest methods to protect them from
disease. Advocacy for treatment is completely separate from making
vaccines safer. Most of us who advocate for treatment understand that we
are talking about treating autism(s) and there are many ways for children to
get autism and many of them do not include the suspicion of vaccines.
Treatment of
children with autism has nothing to do with vaccines so please do not let my suggestions
about Eli Stone and AAP position on vaccines interfere with our efforts to work
together on getting children with autism treated with safe, effective and
evidence-based therapies.
My goal in this
letter is to review some of the issues that have upset a large number of
families and to make suggestions about how the AAP can move forward in better
harmony with parents.
My vision is for
all of children to be safely protected from disease and for all children with
autism to be treated by their pediatrician.
Eli
Stone and Vaccine Issues
1.) The US
Department of Health and Human Services has conceded that vaccines can
contribute to autism.
The US Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS, the government agency that oversees the FDA
and the CDC) has recently conceded that Thimerosal (50% mercury) containing
vaccines administered to a child significantly contributed to the child's
regressive autism spectrum disorder in one of the first cases (of thousands) in
federal vaccine court. (10)
This case determination,
similar to the story line of Eli Stone, shows that (according to HHS) vaccines
have been linked to autism. The community knows about this case and when
the AAP spoke out against Eli Stone it looked to some like they were just
trying to cover up a fictional television story that was actually based one
family’s truth.
2.) AAPs position
about mercury in vaccines is not accurate.
In the letter to
ABC the AAP wrote: "No mercury is used as a preservative in routinely
offered childhood vaccinations."
Mercury is still in
16 vaccines including 5 pediatric vaccines such as 3 flu shots, the HEP-B and
the DtaP.
At best, this is
similar to saying:
"No caffeine
is used in coffee as a preservative."
It is in there,
just not as a preservative. Parents are not concerned if mercury is in
there as an adjuvant, or as manufacturing residue, or as an inexpensive
antibacterial –they just want to know if it is in there. Not stating that
mercury is in 5 vaccines used for pediatrics is considered, by many, as deceitful.
What could have
been written is something like “Mercury has been removed from many routinely
offered childhood vaccines.” Or “Childhood mercury exposure from vaccines has
been reduce by 65%”
The Truth About
Mercury In Vaccines
According the FDA's website outlining
vaccine administration for children (1) there is up to 300 picograms of mercury
in the DtaP shot (Tripedia
by Sanofi Pasteur, listed as the third item from the FDA website screen shot
below)
and 25,000 picograms of mercury in one of the
pediatric flu shots (Fluzone by Sanofi Pasteur)
and another pediatric flu shot has 12,500
picograms of mercury (Fluvirin by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Ltd)
and a third pediatric flu shot by the same company under
the same name is said to be preservative free but has trace amounts of
mercury. The exact amount does not have to be published if they are under
100 picograms but in this case but trace amounts of mercury are higher
than trace amounts allowed in orally ingested items but in this case is
being injected in a child. How toxic this is may be debatable, but what
is not debatable is that there is still some mercury in the vaccine.
Additionally the Hep-B vaccine has up to
500 picograms of mercury (Published in table 2 outside the pediatric section in
of the FDA document but labeled for use for "pediatric/adolescent"
use). This vaccine is used in pediatrics as well.
If I was
responsible for public relations and messaging for AAP I would be concerned
that saying there is no mercury in vaccines would cause a liability to the AAP
if the child gets hurt by the mercury in the vaccine.
A family was recently awarded
millions of dollars in one of the first cases in federal vaccine court related
to vaccines and autism. That is just one case. (It is not publicly
known but there are 12 other cases.) I do not believe the AAP wants this type
of liability for inaccuracies or not telling the entire truth about vaccines.
According to the
FDA, other mercury containing vaccines (some of them used in children and
pregnant or perspective mothers) include the DT vaccine (two of them by Sanofi
Pasteur, Inc.), the DtaP vaccine (Tripedia2 Sanofi Pasteur, Inc), two TD
vaccines (Mass Public Health and Sanofi Pasteur), the TT (Sanofi Pasteur), the
Hep B (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals), the Hep A/Hep B, (GlaxoSmithKline
Biologicals), the Japanese Encephalitis (Research Foundation for Microbial
Diseases of Osaka University), and the Meningococcal (Sanofi Pasteur) (1)
In summary, there
are 16 vaccines with mercury including 5 commonly used in pediatrics and
all of them commonly used multiple times throughout the lifetime of the
individual.
Many of these vaccines are
also injected into perspective mothers who, studies show, can pass mercury down
to the child through both her umbilical cord and mother’s milk.
Pregnant women and
breast-feeding women are also marketed the flu shots and that mercury can be
considered a pediatric exposure (at least prenatal) since it is passed to the
gestating or breast fed child.
Many of the parent groups would like the AAP to advocate
for the safe removal of mercury from any vaccine that can cause a pediatric
exposure.
Basically, children
are still exposed to mercury from vaccines. Mercury has never been safety
tested in vaccines and it still is the second worst neurotoxin known to man.
Parents would
prefer that AAP statements about vaccines and mercury are truthful. I do
not understand why the AAP would deceive the community about mercury in
vaccines.
5.) There was never
a recall on mercury containing vaccines. Old vaccines are arguably still
on the shelves. If a child gets injured from an old mercury containing
vaccine after reading your letter to ABC the AAP may be liable.
What I would
suggest is a statement like, “Today there are only 5 pediatric vaccines
licensed to contain Thimerosal.”
6.) The verbiage
"no scientific evidence linking vaccines to autism" is not
accurate. The statement excludes anecdotes (which are evidence) and
ignores unpopular scientific studies. Just because the studies that do
link vaccines to autism and/or illness are not popular, it does not mean they
do not exist. By saying there is no evidence is something between very
biased and deceitful also puts AAP at risk.
An accurate
statement might be, “A majority of the published scientific literature does not
support a link between vaccines and autism.” This is the sentence the CDC
used while Jenny was on Oprah. It allows for the fact that some
scientific evidence exists.
If your advisors
truly stated there is no scientific evidence, I would consider different
advisors. If they are trying to stretch the truth and it just makes the
vaccine concerned community angry.
Pediatricians and
anecdotal beliefs about vaccines
Some pediatricians
might argue there is a history of mercury safety because it has been in
vaccines for so long, but that does not prove it’s safe through scientific
study. That might be considered scientific evidence (anecdotes) but not
scientific study.
I find it
interesting that the AAP may say that vaccines are safe based on anecdotes
while at the same time criticizing parents for anecdotal evidence about diets
and vitamins helping (and at times recovering) children with
autism. With the new evidence about how diets help ADHD, it seems
that the more AAP criticizes parent anecdotes the more they may have to
apologize as the science continues to support parent observations.
Besides the older
human studies that link vaccines to autism that may be unpopular my some at the
AAP, there are more recent scientific studies that link vaccines and mercury
to brain damage in primates (3 – Burbacker Ph.D., University of Washington)
mice (4 – Horning Ph.D., Columbia University), and it would be hard not to at
least say vaccines may have played a role in the recent human autopsy study
where Harvard scientists found oxidative damage and a 68.2% increase in mercury
in the brains of children with autism compared to controls (5).
Additionally there is the recent publication that showed there is more mercury
in the blood of children diagnosed with autism compared to controls (11).
The sooner toxins
are removed from vaccines, the sooner people will look else where. If I
were a strategist at the AAP, I would be advocating for mercury and other
toxins to be removed from vaccines while publicly pointing to how harmful
mercury and other toxins in the environment are. I would not
choose to stand in front of the bullet of possible problems with vaccines, I
would work to deflect it.
In reality, no
formal studies have been conducted by anyone to see if vaccines cause autism,
so I would think the AAP would shy away from saying vaccines do not cause harm
and leave that to the CDC or the FDA.
Does the AAP want
the liability of inaccurate statements like the ones made in the ABC letter?
Realistically, as
the truth about the good and the bad about vaccines comes out and how the
public was only told the good things --people will be upset at the folks who
did not tell the balanced truth. Let that be the CDC and the FDA.
If it is the AAP it will add to the breakdown of trust between parents and
pediatricians. I would consider staying on the side of the children by
advocating for safer vaccines and stating the balanced and accurate
truth.
How about saying,
“Vaccine technology is not perfect, but vaccines save lives and we are
continually working with the pharmaceutical companies and the CDC to make them
as safe as they can be for all children.”
I suspect the AAP
holds back the whole truth about vaccines in order to keep people vaccinating.
There needs to be a way for people to vaccinate and also put pressure on
vaccine makers to make safer vaccines. By not actively advocating for
safer vaccines and independent safety studies the AAP is enabling the problem
by covering up parent reports that should be pushed to the vaccine makers.
This position may needlessly
put some children at risk of vaccine injury.
By only telling the
good side about vaccines, and then saying they don’t have mercury, and there is
no scientific evidence they cause autism, you are also taking on liability of
vaccine injury or autism that may be, at times and in certain kids, triggered
by mercury and/or other potentially toxic ingredients in vaccines.
The Department of
Health and Human Services already conceded one of the first 4800 vaccine cases
here in the US. The MMR case in the UK is still ongoing.
I believe the AAP
should be quietly talking to vaccine makers to get them to make vaccines safer
(work to replace toxic ingredients like mercury, aluminum, antifreeze and
formaldehyde) and start talking to the CDC and FDA about vaccine safety
studies.
7.) Today’s
vaccines are not perfect.
Vaccines have been
scientifically linked to cause chronic illness. A recent study published this
month in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology said that out of 11,531
children studied, the ones who simply delayed the DtaP vaccines had half the
risk of getting asthma compared to the ones who followed the routine
schedule. (7) More vaccine studies like this are soon to be
published in the next few months.
It might be a good
time to push the responsibility for vaccine safety on the CDC and FDA and be on
the side of “let’s keep vaccinating (at least for critical diseases) while
working with pharmaceutical companies to make vaccines as safe as possible for
all children.”
8.) Vaccine mercury
is not the “safer mercury,” for humans.
Studies show that
ethylmercury can be methylated into methylmercury in the human body. The
data goes back to 1974 where organic mercury was shown to be methylated into
methyl mercury by e-coli, strep, staph, and yeasts commonly found in stool (8)
and often found in greater rates in children with autism.
Rather than just
supporting genetic studies, which have not been directly causal, it may make
sense to support studies that look at GI flora or immune status studies to help
determine who may be susceptible to vaccine injury and who might benefit from
treatment prior to vaccination. Tests like these are readily available.
Many parents also
work to on ways to lower a child’s vaccine toxicity risk by improving good
bacteria and lessening the bad bacteria that can methylate mercury and
interfere with immune regulation and detoxification.
Additionally,
studies show raised levels of ethyl and methyl mercury in the saliva of people
with amalgam fillings, another link to how amounts of one type of mercury in
the human body (possibly through bacterial methylation) can raise levels of
both types of mercury (9). I raise this point in case to address the
folks that say vaccine mercury is “a safer” mercury. Evidence suggests
that in the human body there may be no such thing as a safe type of mercury.
9.) Studies on the
effectiveness of the flu shot are mixed.
Regarding the flu
shot, which was the basis of the Eli Stone episode, there are several
scientific studies that show that the flu shot is not effective for fighting
the flu. Many parents are thinking, why would the AAP push the risk of a
mercury when the studies on flu shot effectiveness are mixed?
10.) There are no
safety studies published about vaccines.
If I were taking
responsibility for the safety of vaccines and there was mounting evidence of
concern about chronic illness and autism and there were no safety studies, I
would be concerned. I would not want the risk of possible harm to fall on
the AAP. I would be advocating for all agencies and the pharmaceutical
companies to be working to make sure vaccines are the safest they can be.
11.) Most parents
are not “anti-vaccine,” they are “pro safe-vaccines for all children.”
The community hates
when parents say, “It appears that a vaccine may have injured my child” and the
response back is “mercury does not cause autism.”
Parents are not
just concerned about mercury, they are concerned about the safety of
vaccines for their individual child. Its not that they are
“anti-vaccine.” Just about every parent wants safe protection for their
children from disease and vaccines are not safe for all children.
The community wants
the AAP to advocate for the safest vaccines possible for all children.
Saying parents are “anti-vaccine” is not accurate, and continues to be
inflammatory. Stating parents are anti-vaccine and mercury does not cause
autism just upsets the community and demonstrates that the AAP is not listening
or understanding parent concerns.
12.) Jenny McCarthy
is not anti-vaccine, she is “Pro Treatment of Children With Autism” and “Pro
safe-Vaccines for All Children.”
By calling Jenny
McCarthy anti-vaccine, you are infuriating her. By writing a press
release asking for parents and celebrities to take the perceived opposite side
of Jenny while calling her anti-vaccine the AAP is basically just asking for a
battle against Jenny and the millions of parents who support her.
From the very
beginning, Jenny has been supportive of communication with the AAP and she has
staying personally involved in efforts to help get the children treated.
Jenny does believe
that vaccines injured her child and there is evidence of that, but she does NOT
been blaming the AAP. She has been focused on the CDC. Jenny’s main
focus on the AAP to date has been to work to treat children.
As an advisor to
Jenny, I can tell you that she was the one who called the AAP and asked to work
with you. She could have gone on the air this week and talked badly about
the AAP, and she chose not to. Instead, she reached out to the AAP to try to
connect with you and to work to get children with autism treated and to make
vaccines safer.
There have been no
measurable results from her efforts so far and with the recent press release
labeling Jenny as anti-vaccine and asking for help to fight against her has
threw her into a rage about the AAP. It seems she is another parent who
feels she is not being heard.
13.) Parents are
not just concerned about mercury.
There are many
scientifically confirmed toxins and other concerning ingredients in vaccines
including aluminum, antifreeze and formaldehyde and others and after 60 years
no one has safety tested them.
If you look at
aluminum in the medical literature you’ll fine at least 40 very concerning
studies some specifically about vaccine aluminum.
Additionally there
are no studies that look at the combination of these ingredients and the safety
of children.
When thinking about
the safety of vaccines it is important to realize that viruses lower
glutathione, the bodies best antioxidant. The body uses glutathione to
protect against mercury and aluminum and help remove these toxins before they
bind to tissue.
When there is a
study conducted on mercury or other toxins in vaccines you should also study
the affects of the multiple toxins injected during the presence of a virus (or
other infection). This is especially important considering many
injections of mercury and/or aluminum containing vaccines occur in conjunction
with viral containing or immune stimulating vaccines.
There are several
animal studies that show that heavy metals move to the brain in the presence of
a viral infection (12, 13). There are also studies that show that
children with autism do not build immunity to certain viruses like typical
children. It may be possible that if the child with an abnormal immune
status is injected with a live virus and heavy metals at the same time it may
set them up for injury compared to typical children.
It is common
knowledge not to vaccinate the children when they are sick, but the vaccination
process often activates the immune system. That process combined with
multiple neurotoxins like mercury and aluminum (and possibly the presence of
intra-body bacteria that can make metals more toxic) may be worse than just the
presence of mercury and aluminum alone.
Summary About
Vaccines and Mercury
In summary parents
want safe vaccines - greener vaccines and a more realistic vaccination schedule.
There are probably some infections that we don’t have to risk this toxic
exposure for.
The community wants
the AAP to stand up for safer vaccines for all children and wants the AAP to be
honest about mercury and other toxins and that vaccines do harm at least some
children (according to CDC VAERS data, parent reports, and the recent HHS
concession in vaccine court).
The message to the
public should not be about vaccinating vs. not vaccinating while not
disclosing all the facts about vaccines. The community wants an open
dialog about making vaccines safer for all children --today. This
requires communication between parents and the AAP (and possibly the CDC, FDA
and vaccine makers) and for the AAP to stand up for the rights of all children
being vaccinated by working to make vaccines safe for all children.
Parents continue to
say “Please make vaccines safer and get the toxins out of vaccines.” You should
stop upsetting parents by painting them as “anti-vaccine,” while at the same
time wondering why more and more parents are not trusting their pediatrician.
The fear of an
epidemic caused by people having some kind of mass panic after hearing a more
rounded truth about vaccines seems to cause AAP to avoid any open discussion
about making vaccines safer for all children… but evidence of vaccine side
effects (injury) are mounting and so is community awareness.
I believe it’s time
for the AAP to truly advocate for all children. It’s time for the AAP to
get the parents back by helping to make vaccines safer and to work to treat
children with autism.
Once open
discussions start and progress is made I am confident that the community will
be happy to also include discussions of environmental mercury and aluminum (and
other toxins), pesticides and viral and bacterial infections, mothers mercury
burden from environmental toxins prior to giving birth – all of which are
linked or associated to autism or possible child injury in the medical
literature.
Many factors play a
role in child health and the onset of autism and the more we are able to look
at each one and layout a macro framework of toxins and triggers, the less
pressure will rest on just vaccines and/or the AAP. Parents know it’s not
just the vaccines that are causing toxicity in children, its just one factor
that the community feels needs to be addressed as they move forward. The more
the AAP and other organizations stand in the way of the accurate truth being
public and improvements being made the more the community with distrust their
pediatrician and stand up against the AAP.
As parents become
more aware of the facts, AAPs future really rests on a parent/AAP partnership
demonstrating measurable efforts towards the care for all children --not just
the fortunate ones who can handle today’s vaccines (and growing environmental
factors) without injury.
14.) Most
importantly, the AAP should be treating all children, including ones with
autism.
I would strongly
suggest a strategy that puts the AAP on the side of vaccine safety AND on the
side of treating children with autism.
Open communication
is the key and I believe it starts with a plan to:
1.) Teach pediatricians
how to treat children with autism.
2.) Advocate for safer
vaccines and a safer vaccine schedule.
3.) Stop fighting with
parents and start listening to them and partnering with them.
My Suggestions:
1.) The AAP should
draft a public apology for the inaccuracies about mercury in vaccines and the
statement that no scientific evidence exists between vaccines and autism.
I can help you with this. I think the AAP would immediately benefit by
making this announcement at the rally and/or the AAP Conference.
2.) Approve the
“Treating Comorbid Conditions in Autism” workshop for the AAP conference.
This workshop does not involve vaccines in any way. There is no downside
in approving this workshop that helps physicians learn how to help children
with autism. I think this would weigh heavily in the parent community and
you need a win with them right now. If you can, you may want to make this
announcement at the rally and/or the AAP Conference.
3.) We need to put
more safe and effective treatments into the Autism Toolkit ASAP. The
meeting that you suggested this month seems like a start.
4.) The AAP should
shy away from being the mouthpiece for vaccine safety and, if anything,
carefully speak out to the pharmaceutical companies about making vaccines safe
for the greatest number of children.
5.) The AAP should
immediately stop looking at Jenny McCarthy as someone on the other side and
respond to her requests to make vaccines safer and to treat children with
autism. She represents moms who want safer vaccines and a better vaccine
schedule and she wants children with autism to be treated. She is not
anti-vaccine. Ignoring her intention and antagonizing her will only lead
to her responding against the AAP.
6.) The AAP should
stop calling parents anti-vaccine. They are parents who want safer
vaccines for all children. I believe we all want that. The AAP
should apologize to parents for lumping them into an anti-vaccine title.
In summary, I
wanted to share with you some background on why parents are concerned about
AAPs position about vaccines, mercury and autism and to guide you as to how to
resolve those issues. I still have faith that the AAP cares about the safety
and health of all children and I visualize the AAP doing the right thing for
all at this critical time for our society.
If the AAP
appropriately responds, I am committed to make sure that the community
appropriately supports the AAP.
As I stated earlier,
I am not an “it’s all about vaccines” person. I follow the medical
literature and there are many environmental issues linked to
autism. My primary focus and passion is to get children the
treatment they deserve the same way my son did. Irregardless of how this
particular communication is received, I would like to get back to our
discussion about how to bring the community closer to the AAP through safe,
effective and evidence-based treatments and I look forward to our continued
discussions and I look forward to meeting with you soon.
My best,
Stan Kurtz
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