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From JB HandleyWe're pleased to announce a full-page Ad, featured today in the NewsSection of USA Today (right across from the editorial page!):http://www.generati <http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/070626.pdf>onrescue.org/pdf/070626.pdfhttp://www.rescuepo<http://www.rescuepost.com/rescue_post/2007/09/america-meet-ou.html>st.com/rescue_post/2007/09/america-meet-ou.htmlSeptember 25, 2007America, Meet Our Unvaccinated Kids, Version 2.0Jb_handley_photoBy J.B. HandleyBack in June, we released what we felt was an astonishing data set for thefirst ever study comparing the rates of ADHD, autism, and asthma betweenvaccinated children and unvaccinated children. Our conclusion was weighty:“We surveyed over 9,000 boys in California and Oregon and found thatvaccinated boys had a 155% greater chance of having a neurological disorderlike ADHD or autism than unvaccinated boys."And, the mainstream media wouldn’t touch it.Cynics will say this is because our survey was only a “phone surveyâ€despite the fact that phone surveys are reported in the news every day, anddespite the fact that the CDC uses a phone survey to establish theprevalence of…autism!!As the Director of the CDC’s two phone surveys on autism noted: "theconsistency of prevalence estimates across the two surveys supports highreliability or reproducibility of parental report of autism and reliabilityis one important component of validity."Were we blacked out? Was our story too hot for the mainstream media tohandle? Perhaps, we’ll never know for sure. That said, we got plenty ofcoverage and heard from places like UPI reporter Dan Olmsted, Daily Kos,and NewsMax.com, to name a few.Fast forward to September, and the climate for listening to the parents haschanged, perhaps permanently, thanks to Jenny McCarthy.So, we ran our Ad again today, the one describing the survey results, butthis time we ran it in USA Today.With that as background, America please meet our unvaccinated kids:For the first time ever, we know something about them that may help ourkids.Yup, they live right down the street from you, they are 5.6% of thepopulation, and they have less asthma, less ADHD, and less autism than ourkids seem to have. At least according to our survey.Do we expect you to believe us? Not really. Not if you’re a member of themainstream media or the mainstream medical establishment. But, we reallyhope you will look at our data. Because today, unlike the CDC, we aremaking all of our data public simultaneously with the release of oursurvey. Crunch away, and decide for yourself.We followed a very straightforward process, so anyone can retrace oursteps. We told a market research firm what we wanted to know. They designeda questionnaire they felt would get us an answer. We approved thequestionnaire. They ran the survey and sent us the data, which you can nowaccess. Decide for yourself.Some of the numbers really jump out, particularly amongst the boys. A “RiskRatio†is a way to compare prevalence, so that if 10% of vax kids and 5% ofunvax kids have ADHD, the Risk Ratio is 2.0, or a 100% difference. RiskRatios above 2.0 tend to be allowed in a court of law to show correlation.We found many Risk Ratios well in excess of 2.0, and some higher than 4.0,the equivalent of a 300% difference.Decide for yourself.Have we proved anything today? Yes and no. We’ve proved that unvaccinatedkids are easy to find, and that a straightforward survey yielded somedisturbing results. What we haven’t done is design a study with enoughscale and controls to be published in a first-tier, peer-reviewed journal.But, we’ve certainly highlighted the screaming need for such a study tohappen.So, now what?Everyone should send an email to Dan Olmsted and thank him for his Age ofAutism series from UPI. He’s the one who asked about unvaccinated kidsfirst, and asked it loudest. He even asked Julie Gerberding, CDC Director.He just kept on asking it until we got so tired thinking about what anobvious question it was that we did something about it.Our data should be scrutinized, analyzed, challenged, and debated by anyand everyone in the autism community who cares to do so. (If you want acopy of the Excel spreadsheet with the primary data in it, email us and wewill send it to you.)Everyone and their grandmother needs to cajole their Congressperson to jumpon the bandwagon and support Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's bill to studyunvaccinated children.This incredibly brave Congresswoman from New York said in a press releasein June: “What is ultimately needed to resolve this issue one way or theother is a comprehensive national study comparing outcomes betweenvaccinated and unvaccinated children. As the most scientifically advancedcountry in the world, we should be jumping at the chance to conduct acomprehensive national study to resolve the questions that have beenraised. Parents deserve answers, and children deserve no less thanabsolutely certainty and safety.â€The autism community should pull together and fund our own independentstudy, in addition to the Maloney bill, to gather as much data as quicklyas possible. Autism Speaks, with the biggest war chest, should take thisopportunity to fund or lead the funding for such a study, and help put thisissue to rest once and for all. It would be a great opportunity for them torepair a badly burned bridge with many of us, and I hope they jump at thechance. The study must be run by researchers who have no history in thisfight, on either side of the argument, and it must have the scale andcontrols to achieve wide acceptance through journal publication.As for me, nothing much changes. My son is getting better, and we think theroad map drawn by considering him “vaccine injured†is why. Knowing causeis so incredibly important to figuring out how to help and treat our kids,and I’m grateful for the pioneers who have been demanding answers foryears. My wife and I hope, in some small way, that this survey moves thingsforward, and creates a deafening demand from parents for more answers. Now.J.B. Handley is co-founder of Generation Rescue.TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www.typepad. <http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2465202/21881883>com/t/trackback/2465202/21881883See what's new at AOL.com and Make AOL Your Homepage.