good find!

That being said, let me stir the pot just a little bit here...

As you all are most likely aware, I firmly believe that vaccine damage is an aggravating factor in autism, if it is not the absolute trigger. I believe that Rimland and others are exactly correct to draw parallels between autism and mercury poisoning, and that the use of thimerosal will be found to be the source of much of the LD's that have dramatically risen over the last 60 years. I also firmly believe that MMR is the triggering event for many of the children with autism today, and that pertussis (the killer) is so very bad that it needs to have a very long, very critical look by people who do not receive kick-back from the makers of it.

That being said, I would like to state further that I do not believe that ALL vaccinations are bad. Despite the problems associated with them, both the small pox program and the polio program have been successful (once they listened to Salk and abandonned the live virus version). With these diseases, the cold hard numbers will speak for themselves; death by both down dramatically, people crippled by polio also down tremendously. The small pox program was so sub=ccessful that wild small pox is gone (for now anyway) and children are no longer jabbed for it).

Does this mean that these jabs were risk-free? Absolutley not! As pointed out from several diffeent sources, nearly ALL cases of polio in our country occur now as a result of the vaccine. But even still, the numbers are much better overall with the vax than they would have been if it had never been.

The trouble here is the all or nothing mindset so many people have, pro or con. As with nearly all debates, the two extreme positions are both inaccurate, and the truth lies somewhere in the grey area in the middle.

Just as we cannot allow the FDA/CDC to just run roughshod over the truth, and mandate ever increasing numbers of jabs, we also cannot allow those who sit on the opposite extreme to convince us to abandon the vaccination program entirely. Just as when the SSRI's prove to be the wrong medication, we cannot quit vaccination cold turkey, or the wild strains of the various diseases will slap us with a vengeance and we run the very serious and very real risk of largescale epidemics among the babies left completely unprotected. (Remember that while nursing babies enjoy the protection of mother's antibodies for the diseases she caught and survived, the immunity that vax give you often do not last until adulthood, let alone protect the newborn.) This is why measles, for instance, is now caught by young children, infants and toddlers, when historically it was a childhood disease.

So we sit in a very ugly position, of having to weed out those vax for which the danger clearly outweighs the risk in not vaccinating. Of course, before we can get to that point, we need to clearly understand the truth surrounding those risks, and not use tainted data and opinions shrouded as fact, as we get third-party from the vaccine makers thru the Federal regulators.

What compounds this exponentially is the level of dis-information so many pediatricians have. Doctors are very smart people; they couldn't have survived all that Latin and organic chemistry without being so. But doctors are very often very naive too. Many are so very smart that they lack common sense, and also they often seem incapable of really understanding things that so many of us take for granted, like basic human nature. When the AAP or the AMA issue a statement calling vaccines the greatest thing since sliced white bread, without ever having done a speck of personal research to confirm what they read, far too many doctors accept this at face value. I am reminded of the Congressional hearings, where Burton grilled the spokeswoman from the FDA about the regulators being actually on the payroll of the drug-makers, or else receiving millions from them to fund their (the FDA's) budget. This woman could not understand why this would be a conflict of interest. (I wish I had been on that panel as well, I thinnk I could have explained it so she could understand; what do you call it when the people whose job it is to regulate laws accept money from the people they are supposed to regulate, as in a cop taking money from a pimp to not run his girls in.)

Certainly the use of thimerosal was not simply an error, but a case of gross negligence, a decision made that went against all scientific evidence about the nature of mercuric compounds, and which they made and enforced without a single study to back them up. This is a crime against humanity, period. Now we have a voluntary arrangement where the pharmaceuticals agree to not use it as a preservative any longer (although that does not mean they will no longer use it as a component of the manufacturing process). This is a very good first step, and I predict that 8 years from now, after all tainted stocks have been depleted, and no American children get thimerosal as part of their rights of passage from infancy to childhood, the number of a great many LD's shall dramatically fall. Time will prove this right or wrong.

The second step is to evaluate which of the current jabs hold an equal or greater risk than not jabbing. Most obvious is pertussis (the killer), but also potentially HepB and Prevnar as well. If Hep B is primarily a disease contracted by sharing drug needles or unprotected sodomy, why don't we withhold giving it to newborns, whose immuno systems are not up to the task, and give it to older children who are in a better position tosuvive the jab? (The answer is convenience of the CDC; the babies are right there at the time, mothers can often be bullshitted into giving verbal consent by scare tactics, and if we had time to think about the nature Hep B, many children would never get the jab at all.)

The third step is to spread out those jabs which hold the greatest chance of complications from over load, namely the MMR. It is completely illogical that we vaccinate against these because of the danger they pose when contracted naturally within a short time frame, and yet we introduce all three simultaneously in one shot. By breaking these down and sreading them out, we will reduce the chance of complications. the rational that coverage would suffer is also a fallacious argument; there are more jabs to be had AFTER the recommended 12-15 mos. for the MMR, so the parents will be coming back in to the office regardless.

Finally, we need to learn the difference between necessary immunizations for health reasons, and jabs that are done as a matter of convenience. Varicella falls under this. The CDC uses the scare tactics of 100 deaths per year attributable to chicken pox, but they do not tell you the break down between babies, children adults and the elderly, they do not corelate other aggravating factors that exist, such as compromised immunosystems, living in less than optimum conditions, and other diseases that may also be present at the time. Here, because it suits their propoganda, they use muddy stats to support what would otherwise be a losing position.

As we start into this new millenia, we stand in a strange position of "saving" our babies from more and more diseases, only to find they now have life-long debillitating illnesses (asthma, diabetes) or LD's which can be as crippling to the victims as the diseases we prevent (ADHD, autism). We cannot truly evaluate this, however until the propogation of lies is stopped, and an honest system of testing, reporting and regulation is established.

The truth is out there, and we may live long enough to see it come to light. But when we are shown the truth, we must accept it regardless of our own opinions, even as we expect the pushers at the CDC to own up to their own mistakes.