New Information on How Mercury Causes Neurological Disorders in Childeren

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Angry Parents and Advocacy Groups Demand that the EPA Release the

Original Children's Health Report Delayed Nine Months by White House.

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NEW YORK TIMES SAY REPORT GIVES NEW

INFORMATION ON HOW MERCURY CAUSES NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN.

 

Washington, DC - Sources say the not-yet-released Children's Health

Report conducted by the EPA is actually a revised second draft.

Parents, already upset by the report's nine-month delay from the

White House, are now fuming over the apparent watered-down version

set to hit the public this afternoon.

 

Last Friday, an article in the Wall Street Journal stated the EPA

report warns that emissions of mercury by coal-fired power plants

and other sources poses an increasing health danger to children. In

a similar article, the New York Times said that the EPA report, the

federal government's second comprehensive assessment on children's

health that weighs environmental and biological factors, was delayed

nine months at the request of the White House.

 

The EPA report is said to be a " benchmark for the government to deal

with the hazards of mercury, which scientists have linked to

developmental I.Q. deficits and motor skill dysfunction, and which

is suspected to play a role in attention deficit disorder and

autism. " Sources say it was the mercury portion of the report that

caused the most dispute and subsequent delay, and that the OMB,

headed up by former Eli Lilly executive Mitch Daniels, and the

OSTP made " numerous changes " to the already-edited second draft of

the report.

 

Last October, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged the Bush

Administration to release the EPA report. A press release from

Senator Boxer's office states, " OMB requested the document from EPA

in June even though it contains no policy, regulatory, or spending

recommendations, and it has yet to be released. " In her letters to

OMB Director Mitch Daniels and EPA Administrator Christine Todd

Whitman, Senator Boxer said, " I question whether it is appropriate

for a scientific document on children's health to be singled out by

OMB for review by non-scientists. If the review results in major

changes to the scientific findings, it will set a dangerous precedent

that will have a chilling effect on legitimate scientific inquiries

and policy analyses not just at EPA, but across all federal

agencies. "

 

Senator Boxer asked the report be released publicly by November 15

which never happened. It is believed that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-

NY) had the same request last month.

 

Parents of children who developed neurological problems after

receiving the vaccine preservative ethyl mercury Thimerosal feel

this is just another shameless tactic by the White House to suppress

evidence linking mercury-containing vaccines to autism. Just this

month congress repealed a provision quietly slipped into the

Homeland Security Bill that granted legal protection to vaccine-

makers from Thimerosal litigation. Lori McIlwain, mother of a child

with autism, says, " Senator Frist, Mitch Daniels and the Bush

Administration are going to do whatever it takes to make this problem

go away---even if it means children will go another nine months

without relief from the effects of mercury. "

 

Parents are demanding the original report be released immediately.

 

To learn more about the evidence supporting a connection between

mercury and autism, visit www.momsonamissionforautism.org,

www.safeminds.org, www.altcorp.com, and

www.autismautoimmunityproject.org.

 

For more information contact:

 

Lori McIlwain

 

lmcilwain

 

919-468-6455

 

Sandy Mintz

http://www.vaccinationnews.com

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm

 

" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell Phillips

(1811-1884),

paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

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Thanks, Misty.

 

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Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:30 AM

New Information on How Mercury Causes

Neurological Disorders in Childeren

 

 

> Angry Parents and Advocacy Groups Demand that the EPA Release the

> Original Children's Health Report Delayed Nine Months by White House.

>

> WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NEW YORK TIMES SAY REPORT GIVES NEW

> INFORMATION ON HOW MERCURY CAUSES NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN.

>

> Washington, DC - Sources say the not-yet-released Children's Health

> Report conducted by the EPA is actually a revised second draft.

> Parents, already upset by the report's nine-month delay from the

> White House, are now fuming over the apparent watered-down version

> set to hit the public this afternoon.

>

> Last Friday, an article in the Wall Street Journal stated the EPA

> report warns that emissions of mercury by coal-fired power plants

> and other sources poses an increasing health danger to children. In

> a similar article, the New York Times said that the EPA report, the

> federal government's second comprehensive assessment on children's

> health that weighs environmental and biological factors, was delayed

> nine months at the request of the White House.

>

> The EPA report is said to be a " benchmark for the government to deal

> with the hazards of mercury, which scientists have linked to

> developmental I.Q. deficits and motor skill dysfunction, and which

> is suspected to play a role in attention deficit disorder and

> autism. " Sources say it was the mercury portion of the report that

> caused the most dispute and subsequent delay, and that the OMB,

> headed up by former Eli Lilly executive Mitch Daniels, and the

> OSTP made " numerous changes " to the already-edited second draft of

> the report.

>

> Last October, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged the Bush

> Administration to release the EPA report. A press release from

> Senator Boxer's office states, " OMB requested the document from EPA

> in June even though it contains no policy, regulatory, or spending

> recommendations, and it has yet to be released. " In her letters to

> OMB Director Mitch Daniels and EPA Administrator Christine Todd

> Whitman, Senator Boxer said, " I question whether it is appropriate

> for a scientific document on children's health to be singled out by

> OMB for review by non-scientists. If the review results in major

> changes to the scientific findings, it will set a dangerous precedent

> that will have a chilling effect on legitimate scientific inquiries

> and policy analyses not just at EPA, but across all federal

> agencies. "

>

> Senator Boxer asked the report be released publicly by November 15

> which never happened. It is believed that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-

> NY) had the same request last month.

>

> Parents of children who developed neurological problems after

> receiving the vaccine preservative ethyl mercury Thimerosal feel

> this is just another shameless tactic by the White House to suppress

> evidence linking mercury-containing vaccines to autism. Just this

> month congress repealed a provision quietly slipped into the

> Homeland Security Bill that granted legal protection to vaccine-

> makers from Thimerosal litigation. Lori McIlwain, mother of a child

> with autism, says, " Senator Frist, Mitch Daniels and the Bush

> Administration are going to do whatever it takes to make this problem

> go away---even if it means children will go another nine months

> without relief from the effects of mercury. "

>

> Parents are demanding the original report be released immediately.

>

> To learn more about the evidence supporting a connection between

> mercury and autism, visit www.momsonamissionforautism.org,

> www.safeminds.org, www.altcorp.com, and

> www.autismautoimmunityproject.org.

>

> For more information contact:

>

> Lori McIlwain

>

> lmcilwain

>

> 919-468-6455

>

> Sandy Mintz

> http://www.vaccinationnews.com

> http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm

>

> " Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell Phillips

> (1811-1884),

> paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

>

> http://www.909shot.com

> http://www.redflagsweekly.com

>

>

>

>