FDA & CDC Smear Respected Independent Scientists and Researchers/FDA Censorship

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FDA & CDC Smear Respected Independent Scientists and

Researchers/FDA Censorship

Sat, 6 Aug 2005 16:31:53 +0100

 

 

 

 

http://onlinejournal.com/health/080305Pringle/080305pringle.html

 

FDA & CDC Smear Respected Independent Scientists and Researchers

 

By Evelyn Pringle

Online Journal Contributing Writer

August 3, 2005

 

 

" In their public statements, officials within the Food and

Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), are

always claiming that researchers and scientists who conduct studies not

funded by drug companies or the government are making unfounded claims

about a link between thimerosal-laced vaccines and autism, and other

neurological disorders, which they claim could lead to reduced vaccine

coverage, resulting in preventable outbreaks of disease affecting the

entire planet.

 

I say cut the crap.

 

Think about it. Why would so many highly respected scientists, researchers

and physicians go to such great lengths to concoct bogus studies and issue

false reports, in essence putting their professional reputations on the

line, if their was no connection? I want these officials to do two things.

First I want them to give me one good reason why these professionals would

make this up, and two, I want them to give me one logical alternative

theory for the current epidemic of disorders.

 

Lets look at a few of these experts.

 

Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet, is a practicing physician who treats children with

autism and other brain-damage disorders. While in the Air Force, he was

trained in toxicology and environmental health. His duties as an officer

included the responsibility for military personnel who had exposure to a

wide variety of toxins, including mercury.

 

Dr. Bradstreet has evaluated well over 2,000 children with neurological

disorders. He also directs a school for children with neurodevelopmental

disorders where his responsibilities include supervising occupational

therapists, speech and language pathologists, and applied behavioral

analysts.

 

Dr. Bradstreet is a Harvard Certified Medical Education Instructor in

autism and has written three peer reviewed papers regarding the

relationship of thimerosal, developmental disorders and biological markers

for mercury-susceptibility.

 

In addition, he has conducted research regarding these disorders and has

worked with some of the most highly respected professionals in the

country,

including Dr. Jane El-Dahr of the Tulane University Medical Center; Dr.

V.K. Singh of the Utah State University Biotechnology Center; the

University of Michigan Department of Pharmacology; Dr. Vas Aposhian of the

University of Arizona; Dr. Anne Connolly of the Washington University

Hospital; Dr. Walter Spitzer of McGill University; the Department of

Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Dr. Jim Adams of the

University of Arizona; and Dr. Jill James, a former FDA researcher, now

with the University of Arkansas, Department of Pediatrics.

 

Apparently the FDA, CDC, and vaccine makers expect us to believe that this

long line of highly respected professionals from universities all over the

country somehow got together and conspired to conduct fraudulent research

for decades and then authored thousands of false reports and other papers.

 

I do not buy it. What would be the payoff?

 

Dr. Mark Geier is a medical doctor who holds a Ph.D in genetics and is

board-certified in medical genetics and forensic medicine. He was a

researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years and was

previously a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied

vaccines

for more than 30 years and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on

vaccine safety, efficacy, contamination and policy.

 

He was instrumental in convincing officials to switch from the whole-cell

Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine to the safer version (DTaP). In

fact, he wrote the article, The True Story of Pertussis Vaccination: A

Sordid Legacy which, in 2002, won the first annual Stanley W. Jackson

award for the best paper published in the Journal of the History of

Medicine and Allied Sciences during the period of 2000 to 2002.

 

Dr. Geier has made several presentations to the Institute of Medicine on

the adverse effects of vaccines including one on thimerosal in 2004.

He and

his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have ever

been permitted to study the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database of

the CDC.

 

Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an

investigative

journalist focused on exposing corruption.

 

 

FDA Censorship: Freedom on Trial

 

 

It may come as a surprise to you, but the federal Food and Drug

Administration prohibits makers of foods and dietary ingredients from

informing you of the effects those substances have on disease. Most of

us know that water treats dehydration and that prune juice treats

chronic constipation, but if bottled water or prune juice sellers were

to tell you that, they would be violating federal law and could go to

jail. If those companies were to send you scientific articles on water

curing dehydration or prune juice relieving chronic constipation, that

too would violate federal law.

 

Telling you that saw palmetto extract may reduce symptoms of mild

benign prostatic hyperplasia (an enlarged prostate) or that

glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may reduce cartilage deterioration

and thereby lessen the risk of osteoarthritis or that calcium may

reduce the risk of colon cancer can land the makers of those dietary

ingredients in jail. Although those statements are backed by credible

scientific evidence and could relieve the pain and suffering of

millions, telling you that truth on the label of, or in advertising

for, a dietary supplement or food product violates federal law.

 

You may be aware that folic acid reduces neural tube defect births

(e.g., spina bifida). In September of 1992 the Public Health Service

recommended that all women of child-bearing age (before pregnancy)

consume .4 mg of folic acid daily to reduce their risk of neural tube

defect births. The risk reduction can be as great as 40% to 80%.

Despite the PHS recommendation, FDA banned the claim for years, even

refusing to comply with a court order compelling the agency to allow a

claim that .8 mg of folic acid in a dietary supplement was superior in

its effectiveness to a lesser amount in foods. Congress found FDA's

suppression of the folic acid/neural tube defect claim indefensible,

explaining that it contributed to preventable neural tube defect

births each year the ban remained in place.

 

You may wonder if our First Amendment still means what it says. The

First Amendment to our Constitution protects Americans' rights to tell

the truth and to receive truthful information. Like a throwback to the

Fifteenth Century Courts of Star Chamber, the FDA blocks access to the

truth. It censors health information every day and by doing so it not

only violates all of our rights, it also sacrifices the lives and

health of those who, if fully informed, could avoid certain

catastrophic diseases or could lessen the severity of them.

 

If you believe as we do that freedom is too precious to permit its

loss to go unchallenged, that a government that denies its people

freedom distrusts its people, and that a people deprived of basic

health information is a people less apt to succeed in the struggle for

health and longevity, you should contact us, make a $25 non-tax

deductible contribution to on-going litigation against FDA censorship,

and receive in return a video, Freedom on Trial, that documents the

history of a remarkable struggle for freedom.

 

 

Please send your name and address along with a check for $25 (payable

to __________________) to: ________________[NAME AND ADDRESS]. In

return, we will send you the dvd Freedom on Trial by Hollywood

Producer Ray Schwartz.

 

See also: New Flash Presentation of The Timeline of Vitamin Destruction

from Bill Sardi here.

 

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