“Just Coincidence?”
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Indeed, for me, personally, there were many bits and pieces in my world that had finally fallen into place… the first dominos in the horrible chain reaction I had once only known, as “autism” certainly seemed to have the potential to topple so much more than “autism”…
So much now seemed to be explained by my theory of little or no communication among the various parts of the brain and magnified communication within specific areas. There had been so many parallels found among so many disorders… so many times that one disorder appeared to help explain another, so many times, I had found myself asking:
“Was all this – just coincidence”?
Autism…previously called “childhood schizophrenia”… schizophrenia… previously called “dementia praecox”… Alzheimer’s… previously called “dementia praecox”… Emil Kraepelin… most closely associated with work on schizophrenia and bi-polar… Alois Alzheimer’s… Emil Kraepelin’s protégé… a symptomatic to clinical (prognosis) approach to mental illness classification… renaming of disorders based on “age of onset”… the brain – not a constant - … known to undergo major changes over life… mercury…known to cause neural degeneration… mercury…testosterone… known to increase mercury toxicity… estrogen… known to decrease mercury toxicity…mercury… known to suppress lithium levels… lithium used to treat bi-polar… mercury… known to be more damaging to immature cells… the cerebellum… known to be the most immature part of the brain at birth… taking twenty years to reach maturity…believed to be more impacted by environmental factors… the cerebellum… the very part of the brain that appeared most impacted in autism… mercury… known to be more damaging to immature cells… brain reorganization and pruning normally occurring with the onset of puberty…gray matter thickening normally occurring with the onset of puberty… mercury… known to be more damaging to immature cells… immature gray matter cells that should be thickening during adolescence…showing devastating loss in teenagers with schizophrenia…losing gray matter cells when they should be developing them until age twenty or so… early twenties… the peak for the diagnosis of schizophrenia in males…mercury… known to be more damaging to immature cells… hippocampus (formation of new memories) cells now known to generate throughout late stages of life… immature cells more devastated by mercury… the hippocampus… that area hardest hit in Alzheimer’s… mercury… known to devastate neural connections… neurofibrillary tangles… tied to mercury… neurofibrillary tangles… tied to aluminum… seizures… epilepsy… not genetic… the short circuiting of the brain… improper neural connections… seizures… known to develop in children with autism at puberty onset… the very time when the brain is known to reorganize…seizures… delusions… psychic seizures… explaining so much of what we see in delusions and schizophrenia… psychic seizures… “schizophrenia-like”… seizures… cell death…seizures… improper neural connections…seizures… vitamin B6 deficiency… one of the only things believed to either cause or magnify seizures… vitamin B6… in abnormally low levels in autism… vitamin B deficiencies… also found in Alzheimer’s… B6… known to be involved in demyelination of peripheral nerves… B6… involved in proper functioning of neurotransmitters… B6… involved in heme deficiency… B6… found so helpful in children with autism…B6… involved in raising glucose levels… B6… involved in the production of epinephrine (also known as adrenalin) – a muscle stimulant… children with autism - seemingly constantly “hyperactive”… B6… stored primarily in muscles… exercise believed to be helpful in “preventing” Alzheimer’s… B6… tied to production of epinephrine that was used up during times of stress… the life of a child with autism – a life for so many of seemingly almost constant stress… epinephrine… also associated with fatty acid levels… fatty acid levels abnormally low in autism, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia… B6… involved in insulin production… insulin… necessary for glucose metabolism… glucose… virtually the brain’s only source of energy… B6 metabolized in the liver… B6 stored in the liver and muscles… B6… known to be necessary for the production of hemoglobin… B6… so deficient in children with autism… B6… doses of up to 25,000% daily requirement given to children with autism… B6… known to promote iron excretion… heme deficiency… involved in detrimental effects to mitochondria function… heme deficiency… heme deficiency… associated with aluminum toxicity… heme deficiency… involved in stimulating oxidative stress by activating nitric oxide synthase… oxidative stress… known to be helped by vitamin E… vitamin E… believed helpful in autism, Alzheiemer’s and schizophrenia… oxidative stress… heme deficiency… involved in altering amyloid proteins… heme deficiency… involved in zinc and iron homeostasis… heme deficiency… involved in metabolic changes… heme deficiency… associated with nitric oxide synthase… nitric oxide synthase… associated with the cerebellum… the cerebellum… most damaged in autism… heme… hemoglobin… blood… sulfur… found in blood, enzymes, proteins and antibodies… mercury… known to “love sulfur”… vaccines… laced with mercury… mercury… up to one hundred times safe levels given to children by age two… iron… known to help viruses grow… viruses… believed to possibly lodge in the brain and/or weaken glial cells… glial cells… the brain’s scaffolding… iron… known to lodge in the brain… ALD… Adrenoleukodystrophy … a disorder involving brain myelin… myelin… known as “white matter”… myelin… made by oligodentrocytes cells… oligodentrocytes cells… those cells in the brain believed to be richest in iron receptors… iron… toxic at three grams… known to induce severe poisoning in two year old at one gram… prenatal vitamins… “fortified”/loaded with iron… baby formulas and foods… fortified with iron…foods… fortified with iron… breastmilk… containing only 1/2 of a milligram per liter of breastmilk… infant diets… providing potentially up to 70 milligrams of iron per day from baby foods and formulas… iron requirement for an infant… only .8 or less than 1 milligrams per day… iron overload… the cessation of menstrual flow during pregnancy… an extra source of iron for the pregnant mother… menstrual flow cessation… providing the mother an extra 14 – 28 mg of iron per month… prenatal vitamins… providing more than an additional 5 g of iron during pregnancy alone… the body… having no good way to “flush iron”… extra iron… excreted by the body only through the casting off of cells, hair/nail growth, bleeding, or… the passing of extra iron to an unborn child… iron… metabolized in the liver… iron overload… hemochromatosis… a disorder involving the inability of the body to rid itself of excess iron… another “supposedly genetic disorder”… exploding in incidence… hemochromatosis… often misdiagnosed… mistaken for diabetes with no one ever suspecting iron overload… hemochromatosis… associated with cancer of the liver – an organ known to regenerate itself… an organ that could lose eighty to ninety percent of its function before one went into liver failure… hemochromatosis… another “sleeping genetic disorder” – like Alzheimer’s – manifesting itself only in late stages of life… iron overload… something that could be “genetic” or not… because there were, after all, cases of “non genetic” iron overload and iron overload of “undetermined etiology” according to the Merck Manual…of course, also according to the Merck Manual:
“Finding these mutations does not explain the pathophysiologic mechanism of the increased Fe [iron] absorption. Increased Fe [iron] absorption from the GI tract appears to cause the overload…[end of quote – Merck Manual, available online at the following website: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section11/chapter128/128a.htmemphasis added].
iron overload… another mutation failing to explain “the cause” of the disorder… iron overload… clearly associated with metabolic dysfunction… iron overload… associated with cancer of the liver… cancer…mutation of cells… iron overload in autism… in Alzheimer’s… iron… known to accumulate in the liver and heart as well as other major organs… iron overload… known to be somehow associated with insulin levels in conditions known as “insulin resistance-associated iron overload”… iron… known to impact insulin levels… insulin… known to impact iron levels… iron… no good way for the body to rid itself of it… iron… in excess… toxic… passed from the mother to her unborn child… fetal blood… 50% of fetal blood flowing directly through the liver while the child is still in the womb… iron overload… fetal blood… produced in the liver… anemia… resulting in cancer when cancer cells move to the bone marrow… iron overlaod… associated with cancer of the liver… the liver… where blood is produced in the unborn child prior to blood production functions moving to the bone marrow… aluminum… known to accumulate primarily in the bones, kidneys, brain and muscles… aluminum… known to bind to transferrin… transferrin…the iron transport protein in the blood…iron… schizophrenia… associated with hookworms… hookworms… associated with iron deficiency anemia… parasites… known to thrive on iron… parasites… iron… so closely associated with Down Syndrome… so closely associated with Alzheimer’s… Alzheimer’s and beta amyloid… both associated with chromosome 21… chromosome 21… associated with Down Syndrome… Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s… both iron overload disorders… so closely paralleling autism… a Down Syndrome and autism “dual diagnosis” – no longer rare… Down Syndrome… a “genetic” disorder where an entire chromosome duplicates itself… Down Syndrome… generally not considered “hereditary”… Down Syndrome… associated with an “enzyme not working or being out of balance”… an enzyme called superoxide dismutase (SOD)… an enzyme known to combine with iron to create “more damage” to chromosomes and cells… SOD… known to increase with high iron diets… prenatal vitamins… loaded with iron… iron… known to modulate insulin… Down Syndrome… associated with a high incidence of diabetes… Down Syndrome…associated with hypomethylation… hypomethylation… associated with a higher incidence of “mutations”… Down Syndrome… associated with a higher incidence of leukemia (a mutation in the blood)… leukemia… cancer of the blood… superoxide dismutatse (SOD) associated with many forms of cancer… leukemia… heme… part of the blood… heme deficiency… associated with lack of vitamin B6… hemoglobin… produced in the unborn child’s liver… an immature liver… iron overload… believed to possibly lead to amyloid deposits…amyloid deposits… found in the brain of those with Alzheimer’s… heme deficiency… known to alter amyloid proteins… amyloid deposits… found also in the pancreas of those with type 2 diabetes… amyloid deposits… the pancreas… insulin…a hormone… hormones… so sensitive they are measured in parts per trillion… mercury… known to impact hormones… insulin… known to impact iron levels… iron levels… known to impact insulin levels… insulin… produced in the pancreas by beta cells… insulin… also having functions within the liver… the liver and the pancreas… forming from similar and adjacent cells in the unborn child… the pancreas… insulin production… an explosion in type 2 diabetes… Eli Lilly… the world’s largest producer of insulin… Eli Lilly… the first company to put mercury in vaccines…Eli Lilly… George Bush, Sr. on Board of Directors… George Bush, Sr… former CIA director… CIA… MKultra… mind control experiments… thought control… Eli Lilly… also apparently involved in MKultra…mental illness victims used in MKultra… mental illness… fragmented thoughts… loss of the “self”… lost in autism… schizophrenia… Alzheimer’s… disorders associated with mercury… insulin… a hormone… hormones… impacted by mercury… hormones… having functions in the liver and pancreas… two organs known to develop from similar, adjacent tissues during embryonic development…the liver…the major detoxifying organ in the body… known to regenerate itself… able to be 80-90% impaired before liver failure occurs… and yet, so impaired in children with autism… the pancreas…beta cells… found in the pancreas and failing to produce insulin in those with gestational diabetes… insulin… known to impact the maturation of lungs in the unborn child… gestational diabetes… an immune system response… iron overload… iron… known to modulate insulin levels… insulin having functions in the liver… insulin… known to modulate glucose levels… Zachary’s little glucose bottle… insulin… iron… lactoferrin… found in breastmilk and in bile…bile… the liver… not mature until at least 6 months of age… lactoferrin… low in children with autism… lactoferrin… high in the spinal fluid of persons with Alzheimer’s… high lactoferrin levels believed to be an immune system response… gestational diabetes… an immune system response… diagnosed around 26 to 28 weeks of gestation… 2 alpha + 2 gamma fetal blood switching to 2 alpha + 2 beta blood at 28 weeks…”the switch” in fetal blood known to be delayed by the mother’s insulin levels… the “switch’ in fetal blood also associated with hypomethylation… 28 weeks… the very time when the lungs undergo major changes in the unborn child… insulin… tied to lung formation in the unborn child… high insulin levels in the mother tied to the delay of lung formation in the unborn child… collapsed lungs often associated with premature or preterm infants… oxidative stress… lack of oxygen…oxygen… carried by the blood… blood… hemoglobin… heme… made of iron and unconjugated bilirubin… globin… made of beta cells… globin… responsible for immune system functions… Rh factor incompatibility… an immune system response involving IgD… IgD found almost exclusively in the membrane of b cells… a decrease in b cell function known to be associated with mercury toxicity… b cells… in the unborn child… produced in the liver… b cells… known also as beta cells that produce insulin in the pancreas… b cells… also cells found in the bone marrow… b cells… associated with white blood cells in the blood… white blood cells… associated with immune system responses… the switch in fetal blood… delayed in mothers with gestational diabetes… “the switch”…involving the globin part of the blood and “2 beta proteins”… b cells… involving changes in the young child that could last until approximately age two – the time when so many children show first signs of autism… b cells… known to produce antibodies and thus an important part of the immune system… b cells… associated later with bone marrow… bone marrow… associated with blood… blood associated with leukemia…Rh factor incompatibility… Rhogam given at 28 weeks… Rh factor incompatibility… associated with jaundice in a newborn… jaundice… a sign of a liver problem… bilirubin… now believed to be the most powerful antioxidant known to man…bilirubin… now known to protect the body and brain from oxidative stress due to free radicals… bilirubin… normally constantly being released by the breakdown of red blood cells… bilirubin… somehow associated with hydrogen peroxide… hydrogen peroxide… known to be a major cause of damage in Down Syndrome… Down Syndrome… an iron disorder associated with SOD… SOD… known to be impacted by iron levels… bilirubin… known to help the body rid itself of excess iron…bilirubin… produced in the liver and stored as bile… bilirubin… in excess causing gallstones… jaundice and gallstones… an indication of excess bilirubin… bilirubin… an indication of an immune system response…an indication of a problem… lactoferrin… found in breastmilk… binds to iron… lactoferrin… produced in the liver…blood in unborn children… first produced in the liver… red blood cells…produced in the liver… heme… iron plus unconjugated bilirubin… jaundice…the liver… fetal blood flow… 50% of fetal blood flowing directly through the liver… fetal blood… normally up to 50% higher concentration of hemoglobin than maternal blood… fetal blood… known to have a greater affinity for oxygen… oxygen… combined with iron… known to cause “oxidation” or “rust”… fetal blood… the switch to “beta” blood… at 28 – 34 weeks… Rh incompatibility… Rh factor… a protein located in red blood cells…Rhogam at 28 weeks… gestational diabetes… occurring in late pregnancy between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation… and an immune system disorder and indication of future type 2 diabetes…lactoferrin…can enhance iron availability…lactoferrin… able to bind to free iron… heme… made of iron plus unconjugated bilirubin… extra red blood cells broken down at birth releasing iron and bilirubin… bilirubin… associated with “jaundice”… jaundice… a liver dysfunction indicator…jaundice… an immune system response in a child… an indication of something going horribly wrong… the immature liver of unborn children and infants… not producing bile until six months of age… “breastmilk jaundice”… Rh incompatibility… associated with “jaundice”… bilirubin… known to help the body rid itself of excess iron… iron … lactoferrin… found in breastmilk… lactoferrin… known to bind to dna… breastmilk known to prevent diabetes…prenatal vitamins… extra iron… iron known to accumulate in the pancreas and causing diabetes… beta… in the blood…insulin produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas… beta cells… fetal blood… switching to alpha+beta at 28 weeks… T cells – so necessary to a functioning immune system… T cells in the immune system of the unborn child first appearing at 14 weeks… reaching normal levels only at 30 – 32 weeks gestation… t cells… beta cells… beta-amyloid found in the pancreas of type 2 diabetics…and in the brain of persons with Alzheimer’s…. iron… known to accumulate in the liver… fetal blood… 50% flowing to the liver first… fetal blood… having an affinity for oxygen… anemia… known to exist in children with autism who suffer from iron overload… anemia… a disorder involving oxygen levels and iron… oxygen plus iron equals “rust”… hemochromatosis… a disorder involving the inability of the body to rid itself of iron and the “rusting” of organs…oxidative stress… the liver… cancer of the liver associated with iron… fetal blood…having 50% more hemoglobin than that of the mother… fetal blood… first produced – in the liver… anemia… resulting from cancer cells migrating to the bone marrow… anemia… a condition associated with iron and liver dysfunction… the liver in the unborn child… producing hemoglobin… blood… anemia… associated with the breakdown of red blood cells… excess red blood cells… broken down in the infant at birth… “Rh factor incompatibility”… possibly leading to dangerously low blood counts in the unborn child… an unborn child…an infant… so fragile…yet, their livers so clearly assaulted by excess iron and toxins… the liver of the infant… assaulted with toxins almost from birth via vaccines… over and over and over… assaulted with mercury… assaulted with aluminum… assaulted with iron… assaulted with other toxins… an immature liver… possibly already in distress from iron overload… and now, facing additional distress via vaccines… lactoferrin… a known antiviral and antibacterial agent… lactoferrin…found in the bile… bile… not produced in infants until six months of age and therefore, not available to the infant unless breastfed… lactoferrin levels… low in children with autism… yet found in elevated levels in the spinal fluid of those with Alzheimer’s and believed to be an immune system reaction… lactoferrin… an antibacterial and antiviral agent… not available to infants unless breastfed… viruses… viruses thriving on iron… iron… allowing viruses to grow and multiply…viruses… the MMR…3 live viruses given at once… viruses – possibly interacting with one another and lodging in the brain… the blood brain barrier… not fully formed until six months of age… the blood brain barrier… known to increase in permeability with excess nitric oxide levels… nitric oxide… known to bind to iron… nitric oxide… known to lead to cell death in excess levels… nitric oxide… associated with nitric oxide synthase… nitric oxide synthase… found in high concentration in the cerebellum… the cerebellum… that very part of the brain so damaged in children with autism… iron… binding to nitric oxide and lactoferrin… lactoferrin… an antiviral and antibacterial agent… not available to infants… iron overload… lactoferrin… iron… found in high levels in basal ganglia of persons with Alzheimer’s and in high levels in substantia nigra of persons with Parkinson’s – believed to be another “iron overload” related disorder…the basal ganglia…known to be more mature in girls than boys at birth… boys… a more immature brain at birth… males… generally less able to rid themselves of iron than girls … the menstrual flow… not available to males… not available to women during pregnancy… iron overload… iron… binding to nitric oxide… nitric oxide… known to form with “electric sparks”… seizures… considered “short circuiting” in the brain… the brain… an “electric” organ… nitric oxide… known to form in high temperatures… fevers… associated with vaccinations… nitric oxide… known to increase brain barrier permeability… viruses… believed to lodge in the brain… the brain… undergoing tremendous change over time… the brain… known to reorganize and prune itself with the onset of puberty… gray matter development… in a back to front wave occurring with the onset of puberty… gray matter loss in schizophrenia… in a back to front wave occurring with the onset of puberty… white matter… rich in iron receptors… white matter development… in a front to back wave… white matter development… exhibiting a tremendous growth spurt between ages 3 to 6… white matter… rich in iron receptors… white matter… now believed to be among the first parts of the brain impacted in Alzheimer’s… brain development changes over time… in autism… in schizophrenia… in Alzheimer’s… the cerebellum… taking twenty years to reach maturity… most impacted in autism… the cerebellum… believed to be influenced more by environmental factors as opposed to “genetic” factors… the cerebellum… having cells among the most immature of all at birth… mercury… known to impact immature cells the most… schizophrenia… tremendous gray matter loss at a time when gray matter should be thickening and creating new cells… mercury… known to impact immature cells… Alzheimer’s… showing the greatest impact in the hippocampus… the hippocampus… that part of the brain associated with memories… the hippocampus… known to develop new cells well into later life… new cells… impacted most by mercury… the Simpsonwood meeting… clearly indicating that attendees were aware of the potential dangers of mercury… clearly indicating that mercury’s effects were known to be more severe the younger the cells… the Puerto Rico meeting on aluminum… clearly indicating that aluminum was believed to be as dangerous as mercury… aluminum and mercury… both extremely dangerous in and of themselves… aluminum and mercury… when combined… increasing to unknown toxicities… aluminum and mercury… combined in vaccines… the FDA… the agency approving vaccines… the FDA… performing no studies on the safety of mercury in over 80 years… the FDA… considering aluminum to be generally “safe”… the FDA… failing completely to regulate aluminum… the FDA… setting no standards whatsoever in terms of limiting the use of aluminum… aluminum… a known gene mutant… aluminum… found in everything from vaccines to foods to drugs to ointments… aluminum… a known gene mutant… cancer… a gene mutation… the FDA… an organization responsible for the safety of consumers… the FDA… failing in its duties to inform consumers of the dangers of mercury and aluminum… the FDA… apparently also failing to properly regulate iron content given to women via prenatal vitamins and to children via infant foods and baby formulas… iron overload… mercury… aluminum… viruses… autism… fragmented thoughts… schizophrenia… fragmented thoughts… Alzheimer’s… fragmented thoughts… mercury… known to devastate neural connections… mercury… found in childhood vaccines and most adult shots including flu, pneumonia, tetanus, etc…aluminum… a known gene mutant… also found in childhood vaccinations and adult shots… mutations… cancer… brain cancer in children was up 30% and leukemia, up 10%… cancer of the brain…the brain … where metals were known to accumulate… leukemia… cancer of the blood… Down Syndrome associated with Alzheimer’s… chromosome 21… the chromosome that associated with beta-amyloid… chromosome 21… Down Syndrome… associated with a high incidence of leukemia… Down Syndrome brain… resembling the Alzheimer’s brain by age 35… Down Syndrome plus autism – together – increasing in incidence… maternal dna… known to mutate more readily… dna repair – hindered by oxidative stress… oxidation by hydrogen peroxide… somehow connected to bilirubin… hydrogen peroxide… very much associated with Down Syndrome… Down Syndrome… a disorder with an extra chromosome… casein kinase 1 tied to dna repair… casein kinase 1… also associated with meiosis/mitosis (cell division) … casein kinase 1… known to be involved in dopamine regulation functions… casein… a milk protein known to inhibit iron absorption…casein kinase 1… at 30 times normal levels in Alzheimer’s brain… aluminum… mercury… iron… viruses… autism… schizophrenia… Alzheimer’s… the list of parallels… over 160 parallels between autism and Alzheimer’s… over 140 parallels already between autism and schizophrenia… and still researching…autism… schizophrenia… Alzheimer’s… tremendous brain damage… brain damage… MRIs showing brain damage in sociopaths involved in violent crimes… jails… overloaded… convincts… repeat offenders… crime… exploding… crime… brain damage… crime… emotions in the temporal lobe… control of emotions in the frontal lobe… apparent lack of communication among the various parts of the brain in autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s… levels of consciousness impacted in these disorders… conscious verses subconscious processing… functions involving the thalamus and basal ganglia… the control of thoughts and activities… associated with the basal ganglia and the cerebellum… both impacted in autism… autism… epidemic… schizophrenia… epidemic… Alzheimer’s… epidemic… diabetes… epidemic… hemochromatosis… epidemic… so much… epidemic… and…- the scientifically impossible - “genetic epidemic”… autism… schizophrenia… Alzheimer’s… neural degeneration… different in brain development stages… but having same histories… same symptoms… same medical issues… same behavioral issues… same social issues… same… same… same… same… same… same…same… same… same… same… same…same… with vaccine studies lasting but a few days to a few weeks – at best… and studies on iron supplementation during pregnancy “almost non-existent”!
Was all this “just coincidence”? Just thought I’d ask! As I considered all this, I could not help but remember words I had read in a report now circulating in the autism community – a report relating to a meeting that had occurred in 2000, a meeting attended by those in our highest healthcare institutions – a meeting now known as “The Simpsonwood Meeting” in the autism community. This report had also been provided to several key legislators as well as to several members of the press.
This report had been given to two groups – the organization of the US Autism Ambassador, Autism Awakening (http://www.autismawakening.com), as well as the organization known as SafeMinds (http://www.safeminds.org/). Upon reading this report, the US Autism Ambassador, LD Wedewer, immediately determined this report’s contents justified providing this information to Dan Burton and The Committee For Government Reform as official, written testimony submitted on behalf of the public for the December 10th, 2002 Government Reform Hearings on vaccinations. As such, this report was now considered “public record” and it certainly had become a well-discussed issue in the autism community, with many parents now having copies of this compelling report.
Attendees at the Simpsonwood meeting, on June 7-8, 2000 at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, Georgia, convened by the Center for Disease Control. The CDC’s National Immunization Program (NIP) Report, produced based on information from this meeting was entitled: Scientific Review Of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information. Note that this meeting was convened by CDC’s NIP Director, Dr. Walter Orenstein and included 51 attendees – among whom were:
Representing the Vaccine Industry: Harry Guess, M.D., , Chief of Epidemiology Jo White, M.D., North American Vacccine, Clinical Dev. & Research Barbara Howe, M.D., Smith, Kline-Beecham, Clinical Research Group, Mike Blum, M.D., Wyeth, Safety and Surveillance for Vaccine Development
Although many more attended, other names included:
Roger Bernier, Ph.D., CDC’s associate director for science
Robert Brent, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University and Dupont Hospital for Children, Developmental Biologist and Pediatrician
Vito Caserta, M.D., Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccine Injury Compensation Program’s Chief Medical Officer
Bob Chen, M.D., CDC’s Chief of Vaccine Safety and Development, National Immunization Program
Tom Clarkson, M.D., University of Rochester, New York, Mercury program
John Clements, World Health Organization (WHO) representing expanded program on immunization
Bob Davis, M.D., University of Washington, Associate Professor Of Pediatrics And Epidemiology
Bill Egan, Ph.D., FDA’s Center for Biologics, Evaluation & Research
David Johnson, M.D., Michigan State Public Health Officer, Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Dick Johnston, M.D., University of Colorado School Of Medicine and National Jewish Center
For Immunology And Respiratory Medicine, Immunologist And Pediatrician
Loren Koller, D.V.M., Oregon State University College Of Veterinary Medicine, Pathologist, Immunotoxicologist
Martin Meyers, M.D., CDC’s Acting Director, National Immunization Program
Walter Orenstein, M.D. CDC’s Director, National Immunization Program
Isabelle Rapin, M.D., Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, Neurologist For Children
Tom Verstraeten, M.D., CDC’s National Immunization Program presently employeed by Glaxo-Welcome, vaccine company
Bill Weil, M.D., retired pediatrician, representing American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP)
A few of the comments made at that meeting included the following – again, I quote – emphasis added:
Dr. Weil, pg. 24: “One, up until this last discussion we have been talking about chronic exposure. I think it’s clear to me anyway that we are talking about a problem that is probably more related to bolus acute exposures, and we also need to know that the migration problems and some of the other developmental problems in the central nervous system go on for quite a period after birth. But from all of the other studies of toxic substances, the earlier you work with the central nervous system, the more likely you are to run into a sensitive period for one of these effects, so that moving from one month or one day of birth to six months of birth changes enormously the potential for toxicity. There are just a host of neurodevelopmental data that would suggest that we’ve got a serious problem. The earlier we go, the more serious the problem.”
“The second point I could make is that in relationship to aluminum, being a nephrologist for a long time, the potential for aluminum and central nervous system toxicity was established by dialysis data. To think there isn’t some possible problem here is unreal.”
Dr. Verstraeten, pg. 40: “…we have found statistically significant relationships between the exposure and outcomes for these different exposures and outcomes. First, for two months of age, an unspecified developmental delay, which has its own specific ICD9 code. Exposure at three months of age, Tics. Exposure at six months of age, an attention deficit disorder. Exposure at one, three and six months of age, language and speech delays which are two separate ICD9 codes. Exposures at one, three and six months of age, the entire category of neurodevelopmental delays, which includes all of these plus a number of other disorders."
Dr. Bernier, pg. 113: "We have asked you to keep this information confidential. We do have a plan for discussing these data at the upcoming meeting of the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices on June 21 and June 22. At that time CDC plans to make a public release of this information, so I think it would serve all of our interests best if we could continue to consider these data. The ACIP work group will be considering also. If we could consider these data in a certain protected environment. So we are asking people who have a great job protecting this information up until now, to continue to do that until the time of the ACIP meeting. So to basically consider this embargoed information.
Note: If this information was supposed to be released to the public three years ago, where was it? To my knowledge, all we saw from the CDC was denial when it came to any link relating to vaccines and neurological damage!
Dr. Keller, pgs. 116 & 118: "…we know the developing neurologic system is more sensitive than one that is fully developed…"
Dr. Verstraeten, pg. 161: "Personally, I have three hypotheses. My first hypothesis is it is parental bias. The children that are more likely to be vaccinated are more likely to be picked and diagnosed. Second hypothesis, I don't know. There is a bias that I have not recognized, and nobody has yet told me about it. Third hypothesis. It's true, it's Thimerosal. Those are my hypotheses."
Note: In other words, what this appeared to be saying was 1) either parents made it up, 2) either we at the CDC made it up, or 3) it’s true - it is thimerosal. Well, as a parent of a child with autism, all I could say was good luck proving hypothesis 1) or 2) – and that appeared to leave only hypothesis 3).
Dr. Verstraeten, pg. 162: "When I saw this, and I went back through the literature, I was actually stunned by what I saw because I thought it is plausible. First of all there is the Faeroe study, which I think people have dismissed too easily, and there is a new article in the same Journal that was presented here, the Journal of Pediatrics, where they have looked at PCB. They have looked at other contaminants in seafood and they have adjusted for that, and still mercury comes out. That is one point. Another point is that in many of the studies with animals, it turned out that there is quite a different result depending on the dose of mercury. Depending on the route of exposure and depending on the age at which the animals, it turned out that there is quite a different result depending on the dose of mercury. Depending on the route of exposure and depending on the age at which the animals were exposed. Now, I don't know how much you can extrapolate that from animals to humans, but that tells me mercury at one month of age is not the same as mercury at three months, at 12 months, prenatal mercury, later mercury. There is a whole range of plausible outcomes from mercury. On top of that, I think that we cannot so easily compare the U.S. population to Faeroe or Seychelles populations. We have different mean levels of exposure. We are comparing high to high I the Seychelles, high to high in the Faeroe and low to low in the U.S., so I am not sure how easily you can transpose one finding to another one. So basically to me that leaves all the options open, and that means I can not exclude such a possible effect."
This next comment was my personal favorite…
Dr. Johnson, pg. 198: "This association leads me to favor a recommendation that infants up to two years old not be immunized with Thimerosal containing vaccines if suitable alternative preparations are available. I do not believe the diagnoses justifies compensation in the Vaccine Compensation Program at this point. I deal with causality, it seems pretty clear to me that the data are not sufficient one way or the other. My gut feeling? It worries me enough. Forgive this personal comment, but I got called out a eight o'clock for an emergency call and my daughter-in-law delivered a son by C-section. Our first male in the line of the next generation, and I do not want that grandson to get a Thimerosal containing vaccine until we know better what is going on. It will probably take a long time. In the meantime, and I know there are probably implications for this internationally, but in the meantime I think I want that grandson to only be given Thimerosal-free vaccines."
What this was telling me was that persons who were privy to this information were choosing not to have their “lineage” immunized with these mercury-laced vaccines, but they were perfectly fine with allowing my child – and thousands more each day - to get those mercury and aluminum-laced immunizations.
Dr. Weil, pg. 207: "The number of dose related relationships are linear and statistically significant. You can play with this all you want. They are linear. They are statistically significant. The positive relationships are those that one might expect from the Faroe Islands studies. They are also related to those data we do have on experimental animal data and similar to the neurodevelopmental tox data on other substances, so that I think you can't accept that this is out of the ordinary. It isn't out of the ordinary."
In other words… “Houston… we have a problem!”… or should that be “Washington… we have a problem”… but, it looked like they “already very much knew that”!
Dr. Weil, pg. 208: "The rise in the frequency of neurobehavioral disorders whether it is ascertainment or real, is not too bad. It is much too graphic. We don't see that kind of genetic change in 30 years."
In other words… you can not explain these statistics by “genetics”!
Dr. Caserta, pg. 234: "One of the things I learned at the Aluminum Conference in Puerto Rico that was tied into the metal lines in biology and medicine that I never really understood before, is the interactive effect of different metals when they are together in the same organism. It is not the same as when they are alone, and I think it would be foolish for us not to include aluminum as part of our thinking with this."
Given aluminum was a known gene mutant, I, too, would very much agree with that statement!
Dr. Clements, pg 247- 249: "I am really concerned that we have taken off like a boat going down one arm of the mangrove swamp at high speed, when in fact there was not enough discussion really early on about which was the boat should go at all. And I really want to risk offending everyone in the room by saying that perhaps this study should not have been done at all, because the outcome of it could have, to some extent, been predicted, and we have all reached this point now, in my opinion, where we are left hanging, even though I hear the majority of consultants say to the Board that they are not convinced there is a causality direct link between Thimerosal and various neurological outcomes."
What this appeared to be saying, in my opinion, was that persons involved in vaccination programs had to be very careful not to do studies that would prove parents were correct – after all, it appeared “outcomes could have been predicted”. How very interesting indeed!
Dr. Clements, pg 247- 249 continued: " I know how we handle it from here is extremely problematic. The ACIP is going to depend on comments from this group in order to move forward into policy, and I have been advised that whatever I say should not move into the policy area because that is not the point of this meeting. But nonetheless, we know from many experiences in history that the pure scientist has done research because of pure science. But that pure science has resulted in splitting the atom or some other process which is completely beyond the power of the scientists who did the research to control it. And what we have here is people who have, for every best reason in the world, pursued a direction of research. But there is not the point at which the research results have to be handled, and even if this committee decides that there is no association and that information gets out, the work that has been done and through the freedom of information that will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. And I am very concerned about that as I suspect it already too late to do anything regardless of any professional body and what they say."
This next comment was another one of my favorites… the old “I have objectives to meet so let me proceed blindly even though there are concerns here”!
Dr. Clements, pg 247- 249 continued: "My mandate as I sit here in this group is to make sure at the end of the day the 100,000,000 are immunized with DTP, Hepatitis B and if possible Hib, this year, next year and for many years to come, and that will have to be with Thimerosal containing vaccines unless a miracle occurs and an alternative is found quickly and is tried and found to be safe."
"So I leave you with the challenge that I am very concerned that this has gotten this far, and that having got this far, how you present in a concerted voice the information to the ACIP in a way they will be able to handle it and not get exposed to the traps which are out there in public relations. My message would be that any other study, and I like the study that has just been described here very much. I think it makes a lot of sense, but it has to be thought through. What are the potential outcomes and how will you handle it? How will it be presented to a public and media that is hungry for selecting the information they want to use for whatever means they in store for them?"
Again, this appeared to be saying, “let us be very careful of what studies we do because they certainly could come back to bite us”!
Dr. Clements, pg 247- 249 continued: "…but I wonder how on earth you are going to handle it from here."
Another comment I also agreed with… given that now, millions of parents were realizing they had been lied to by the CDC – for at least three years now given the date of this meeting – and that quite obviously, the CDC knew immature systems were vulnerable to neurological damage from vaccines and yet, no recall of these mercury-laced vaccines occurred and hence, thousands more now faced life with neurological disorders! Again, I could not help but ask, “where was that press release that was supposed to have happened three years ago warning parents of the dangers of mercury-laced vaccines?” In my opinion, it certainly looked like we may have moved from negligence or total incompetence at the CDC into the realm of criminal acts given the CDC willfully withheld this information from the public!
Just coincidence? It now appeared the answer to that question was a resounding – no! In my opinion, I could only conclude that indeed – autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s – were - one and the same - the same disorder represented over different parts of the “life spectrum” and that there certainly appeared to be many, many other disorders that played into this as well.
Where were the subpoenas for the CDC, FDA and pharmaceutical industry given Dan Burton, a man with subpoena power had been given this information at least 6 months? Why had Dan Burton not requested an immediate recall of all mercury and aluminum laced vaccines given statements made at the Simpsonwood meeting clearly indicated there did exist a link between vaccinations and neurological disorders in children?
Given that Dan Burton was involved with so many autism organizations and sat as an honorary or actual director/member/affiliate for so many key autism organizations/coalitions, why had he not requested that they post this information on their websites for all parents to see – did Dan Burton not want all parents looking for answers to know the truth in these issues? Still – after months – no public statement on this issue of the Simpsonwood meeting – and still – no subpoenas to get to the truth! I could not help but wonder if Dan Burton was really interested in letting the truth be known in these issues. Thousands of children were still receiving mercury-laced vaccines – each day! In my opinion, the failure of Dan Burton to make these reports very public and require a recall of mercury and aluminum-laced vaccines was also moving this man into the realm of criminal negligence!
Likewise, many, many of the best known autism organizations also knew of this information and yet had failed to communicate it on their websites. As such, I could not help but think these were primarily “money grab” organizations – in my opinion, also not very interested in making the truth be known. I cautioned all families to be very careful in what organizations they chose to support. In my opinion, many presented but “an appearance” of seeking the truth – but, when given key documents such as those from the Simpsonwood and Puerto Rico meeting – they clearly had chosen to ignore or not make this information public. Why?
The moral decay of so many involved in all sides of this issue was now, more than ever, clearly evident to me! Some of the attendees at the Simpsonwood meeting had an interest in "ethics" [Excuse me while I choke] … Ethics, according to my Webster's dictionary, was defined as a discipline dealing with good and evil and with moral duty, moral principles and moral practice. It seemed to me that those in these meetings failed rather miserably in all these areas!
I was certain there were many parents who could provide "observations in ethics" to all participants who attended either the Simpsonwood or Puerto Rico meetings who had an interest in studying or researching "ethics" because, quite obviously, "saying" you were concerned about "ethics" and "doing what was ethically correct" were two very different things - weren't they! Having privileged knowledge of the dangers of mercury and aluminum and not sharing that with other parents was not only unethical, but, given the harm done to these children, again, I would argue these folks had moved into the realm of - the criminal – especially if that same information had influenced personal decisions relating to these matters! It certainly would be interesting to see the vaccination/immunization records for those attending these meetings as well as for those of their immediate family members (vaccination records for their own children and their grandchildren).
Given the CDC and government were now pushing more vaccines than ever, it was now time for society to cast its vote not only in deciding if all this was simply matter of “just coincidence”, but also in deciding what leaders could best – and most honestly - help us address these many issues!
Hundreds of millions of persons potentially impacted by all this… hundreds of millions… looking for answers…answers that appeared to be found by opening the doors of understanding – to “autism”. When my journey with autism had only started, I had no idea as to where it would take me. But, now, clearly, “autism” had implications for much more than my son and so many children just like him. In my opinion, this disorder I had once seen only as “autism” now had implications for many, many other disorders and implications in terms of many, very painful and very serious social issues as well. This disorder of autism now touched the lives of absolutely every person on the face of this planet.
Children with autism could help us understand so much, in so many areas and as such these children could move science and indeed humanity forward at lightning speed in terms of understanding so many things about man himself. Never would I have imagined that my view of so many things could be so drastically changed by my need to understand the view of the world - through the eyes of my five-year-old son – a little boy who, already – had taught me so very much! What had started out as the journey of a mother to help her son… with the help of – a husband and a daughter - had now expanded into a journey to help so many more…and, would certainly become a journey involving so many others – mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters - devastated by these disorders – as we now joined together in hopes of “Breaking The Code: Putting Pieces In Place!”
Picture of Zachary – a child with autism …
holding the hand of an elderly woman – showing initial signs of - Alzheimer’s!
There was so much suffering associated with all these disorders – so many families whose lives had been held captive by illness… so many disorders, and in my opinion - so many lies! Autism… schizophrenia… Alzheimer’s… diabetes… gestational diabetes… Rh factor incompatibility… hemochromatosis… liver failure… kidney failure… reproductive failure… miscarriages… ALD… MS… Parkinson’s… Gulf War Syndrome… bipolar…epilepsy… stroke…heart attacks… cancer… suicide… depression… jaundice… Down Syndrome and on and on and on… How could this have gotten so out of control? How could so much have gone so wrong?