OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP ON THE MERCURY ISSUE.

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http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/02/aap-fellow-resi.html?cid=104990550#comments02/26/2008LES INCOMPETANTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAPBy K. Paul Stoller, M.D."Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, toproduce the sortof character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities considerdesirable, and any seriouscriticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.Even if all aremiserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government willtell them thatthey are so."-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I findthe AAP'sapproach to the autism epidemic to be deeply

disturbing.Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason forall the noticegiven to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put onnotice at theCDC's Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the mercury in the preservativeThimerosalwas causing speech delays and learning disabilities, they obfuscated andhide thatinformation. They never made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosaleliminatedfrom vaccines and almost a decade later joined in the protest against afictitious TV show(Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine.Out of 132million doses ofthe worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season, 8 million doses areThimerosalfree. That means 94% contain the full amount of Thimerosal.If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flushotrecommendations, the baby/fetus would have

received six flu shots with thefull amountof Thimerosal by the year 2005.Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not containThimerosal,but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the only oneswho knowwhether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise) actually aremercury free are themanufacturers themselves.Vaccines with "trace" amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain lessthan 1microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml is thesame as 2ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms per liter isparts per billion[ppb]2)0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells(Parran et al.,Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water(http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al.,Neuroreport 2001;12: 733-37).200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste(http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis Bvaccine vials,administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP andHaemophilus Bvaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6,12 and 18 monthsof age. Current "preservative" level mercury in multi-dose flu,meningococcal and tetanus(7 and older) vaccines.For

years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have saidthe reason forthe dramatic increase in autism is due to "better diagnosing" and "greaterawareness."They have encouraged those like the AAP to manufacture uncertainty bypublishing articlesthat were less than truthful. The AAP shamefully played along, perhapsencouraged by thelargesse of vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP'syearly budget.There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autisticAmericans under the ageof 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on Social Securityin coming yearsas these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that havefound thepreviously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among olderAmericans. Theysimply aren't there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.As there are no genetic

epidemics, which leaves an epidemic linked to somesort ofexposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the increase inmercuryexposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally,throughincreased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal - no controlled, randomizedstudy regardingthe safety of amalgam or Thimerosal exists..A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental AgentsAssociatedwith Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health and theEnvironment'sLearning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative) concludes thatenvironmentalcontaminants are an important cause of learning and developmentaldisabilities.Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions(required for thecorrect expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters), which furtheradversely affectsgrowth factor derived

development of the brain and attention abilities.Phospholipidmethylation, which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic andattention deficithyperactivity disorders.In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had describeda 7.6 to 11.4 foldincrease of autism risk in children at one month, with the highest mercuryexposure levelscompared to children with no exposure. In four subsequent separategenerations of theanalysis, which involve the exclusion of children with no Thimerosalexposure and lessthan two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared. This iswhat waspublished by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know thetruth?Again, they were presented at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, ameeting thatwas illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a meetingtogether withrepresentatives of private

industry (all the vaccine manufacturers wererepresented at thismeeting) without opening the meeting to the public.Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patientssuffering frommeningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-termeffects, as all of thepatients in this "study" died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damageto thedeveloping brains of very young children would have remained an unknown.Eli Lilly said itwas safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of theFDA, its use wassimply continued. The federal government has never tested the type ofmercury invaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best,at worse it is anexample that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars,thieves, cheats,killers, and the junk scientists they employ.How it came to pass the AAP joined

these rogues and became an activeparticipant in thisskullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remainedsilent asmercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third worldand secondworld countries.We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies andself-aggrandizingbehavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated the junk sciencethat hascovered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost toscience, the public,and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that byputting our collectiveheads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible forthe destructionof our very civilization?Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven't pediatricians comeforward todemand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to advocatefor thetreatment of

these children before it is too late? Why are they not at thefront of the lineprotesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of coal-fired powerplants? Whyaren't they leading the charge to stop the use of mercury amalgam dentalfillings that areplaced in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell aboutenvironmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabledcitizens did lessthan remain silent because they have become arms of the very corporationsthat profitfrom selling and distributing poisons. Just look who sits on the FDA'sScientific AdvisoryBoards – the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to suggest that theFDA has become atrade arm of big pharma.Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government hasquietly conceded avaccine-autism case in the Court

of Federal Claims.3 Pediatricians will nolonger be ableto hide behind the skirts of "Standard of Care" if they are giving autisticchildren heavy-metal laden vaccines. That is only one step away from giving vaccines andmaking normalchildren autistic.The AAP should proactively be bringing in risk management specialists andbe proactivetowards how this could affect pediatricians in civil litigation forfollowing the CDCrecommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of any type ofneurodevelopmentaldelay in a child. This is what they are afraid of and this is what the lawof attraction willbring in upon the AAP and the minions of those that just followed therecommendationsand drank the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party tothe damage that isbeing done to the world's children by sending in my

dues for a thirddecade. It is a tokenprotest, but it has to begin with someone.1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.802 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v13 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.htmlK. Paul Stoller, MD is the President of International Hyperbaric MedicalAssoc and MedicalDirector of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.

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