Jeffrey Peter Joseph Utz-notkidsdoc"Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Where is the evidence that mercury causes autism?
>
> Correct, there is none.
>
> Jeff
Blatant lie. The evidence and studies have been posted over and over.
"Ilena Rose" <BIA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> News from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
> http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
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>
> EXCERPT: CDC officials conducted at least five separate analyses of
> the data over a four-year period from 1999-2003. The first analysis
> showed that children exposed to the most thimerosal by one month of
> age had extremely high relative risks for a number of outcomes,
> compared with children who got little or no mercury: The relative risk
> for ADHD was 8.29 times higher, for autism, it was 7.62 times higher,
> ADD, 6.38 times higher, tics, 5.65 times, and speech and language
> delays were 2.09 more likely among kids who got the most mercury.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Bravo to David Kirby and all vaccination awareness activists!
>
> To see him insulted by disbarred S****-oil attorneys and cor****ate
> lobbyists ... tells so much about their level of desperation. They
> profit from selling the Vaccination industry propaganda. Watching them
> stumble about as their cover-up uncovers is quite pitiful.
>
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/S****-oil.htm
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
>
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/cdc-vaccine-study-design_b_108398.html
>
> CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has delivered a potentially
> explosive re****t to the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in
> which she admits to a startling string of errors in the design and
> methods used in the CDC's landmark 2003 study that found no link
> between mercury in vaccines and autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics.
>
> Gerberding was responding to a 2006 re****t from the National Institute
> of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which concluded that the
> CDC's flag****p thimerosal safety study was riddled with "several areas
> of weaknesses" that combined to "reduce the usefulness" of the study.
>
> "CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote in an undated mea culpa to
> Congress, (provided to me through a Capital Hill staffer) adding that
> her agency "does not plan to use" the database in question, the
> Vaccine Safety Datalink, (VSD) for any future "ecological studies" of
> autism.
>
> In fact, Gerberding's re****t said, any continued use of the VSD for
> similar ecological studies of vaccines and autism "would be
> uninformative and potentially misleading."
>
> Ecological vaccine studies are large, epidemiological analyses of
> risks and trends using computerized data from large populations -- in
> this case children enrolled at several big HMOs -- without ever
> examining a single patient in person.
> CDC officials conducted at least five separate analyses of the data
> over a four-year period from 1999-2003. The first analysis showed that
> children exposed to the most thimerosal by one month of age had
> extremely high relative risks for a number of outcomes, compared with
> children who got little or no mercury: The relative risk for ADHD was
> 8.29 times higher, for autism, it was 7.62 times higher, ADD, 6.38
> times higher, tics, 5.65 times, and speech and language delays were
> 2.09 more likely among kids who got the most mercury.
>
> Over time, however, all of these risks declined into statistical
> insignificance, statistical inconsistency or else outright oblivion:
> The relative risk for autism plummeted from 7.62 in the first
> analysis, to 2.48 in the second version, to 1.69 in the third round,
> to 1.52 in the fourth, and down to nothing at all in the fifth, final,
> and published analysis printed in the Journal Pediatrics in November
> of 2003.
>
> Vaccine officials attributed the steady drop to the elimination of
> "statistical noise" from the data through due diligence and the
> endeavor for excellence in governmental statistical analysis.
>
> Indeed, the VSD study was the main pillar of a hugely influential 2004
> re****t by the Institute of Medicine, which also concluded that there
> was no evidence of link between mercury, vaccines and autism.
> To this day, public health officials routinely point to five "large
> epidemiological studies" representing the "highest quality science,"
> none of which found any link to thimerosal.
>
> In fact, the American VSD study has long been held up as the best and
> brightest of them all (the others were in Sweden, the UK, and two in
> Denmark). And this reputation has stuck in the minds of medicine and
> the media.
>
> Curiously though, even the study's lead author -- Dr. Thomas
> Verstraeten, an employee of vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline -- protested
> that the VSD study "found no evidence against an association, as a
> negative study would. In fact, he said that additional study was
> needed, which "is the conclusion to which a neutral study must come."
> That's when Congress stepped in.
> In 2005, a group of Senators and Representatives headed by Sen. Joe
> Lieberman wrote to the NIEHS (an agency of the National Institutes of
> Health) saying that many parents no longer trusted the CDC to conduct
> independent minded studies of its own vaccine program. Lieberman et al
> asked NIEHS to review the CDC's work on the vaccine database and
> re****t back with critiques and suggestions.
>
> The final NIEHS re****t was a serious and thoughtful critique of where
> the CDC went wrong in its design, conduct and analysis of the study.
> The NIEHS panel "identified several serious problems," with the CDC's
> effort, criticism to which the agency had not responded -- until now.
>
> In her letter to the House Appropriations Committee, the CDC Director
> responded directly to many -- though not all -- of the most im****tant
> criticisms and recommendations contained in the NIEHS panel re****t.
>
> For example, the NIEHS had criticized CDC for failing to account for
> other mercury exposures, including maternal sources from flu shots and
> immune globulin, as well as mercury in food and the environment.
>
> "CDC acknowledges this concern and recognizes this limitation," the
> Gerberding reply says.
>
> The NIEHS also took CDC to task for eliminating 25% of the study
> population for a variety of reasons, even though this represented, "a
> susceptible population whose removal from the analysis might
> unintentionally reduce the ability to detect an effect of thimerosal."
> This strict entry criteria likely led to an "under-ascertainment" of
> autism cases, the NIEHS re****ted.
>
> "CDC concurs," Gerberding wrote, again noting that its study design
> was "not appropriate for studying this vaccine safety topic. The data
> are intended for administrative purposes and may not be predictive of
> the outcomes studied."
>
> Another serious problem was that the HMOs changed the way they tracked
> and recorded autism diagnoses over time, including during the period
> when vaccine mercury levels were in decline. Such changes could
> "affect the observed rate of autism and could confound or distort
> trends in autism rates," the NIEHS warned.
>
> "CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote again, "that conducting an
> ecologic analysis using VSD administrative data to address potential
> associations between thimerosal exposure and risk of ASD is not
> useful."
>
> Read that sentence one more time. The head of the CDC is saying that
> its most powerful and convincing piece of exonerating evidence for
> thimerosal is, in effect, "useless."
>
> I hope everyone will read it, including the recommendations to make
> the VSD better, and the CDC's agreement with all of the suggestions.
>
> As questionable at the US thimerosal study was, "it was an improvement
> on other studies, including the two in Denmark, both of which had
> serious weaknesses in their designs," Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto,
> Professor of Public Health at UC Davis Medical School and Chair of the
> NIEHS panel, told re****ter Dan Olmsted at UPI.
>
> That leaves very little for the CDC to go on in terms of proving that
> thimerosal and autism are not associated in any way.
> Yes, there is always the study of disability services data from
> California -- which seem to be rising among the youngest cohorts of
> kids, who presumably received little or no mercury because thimerosal
> was largely removed from childhood shots.
>
> But California is an "ecological study" with problems of its own.
>
> "Although (this) information is often used by media and research
> entities to develop statistics and draw conclusions, some of these
> findings may misrepresent the quarterly figures," cautions the website
> of the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS).
> "Increases in the number of persons re****ted from one quarter to the
> next do not necessarily represent persons who are new to the DDS
> system."
>
> Even the CDC admits that "there are several limitations" with linking
> a VSD study design with the California data, Gerberding wrote to
> Congress, because, among other things, California only counts "persons
> who were referred to and/or voluntarily entered" the disability
> system."
>
> It will be interesting to see how the House Committee -- and the
> mainstream media -- react to this rather breathtaking confession by
> the CDC, which does seem to want to conduct the best vaccine-autism
> science possible (see Gerberding's replies to NIEHS recommendations
> for improving the VSD: CDC officials are currently conducting in-
> depth follow up studies with VSD patients).
>
> As the waning months of the Bush administration get underway, I can't
> help but wonder if a little housecleaning might be going on at some of
> our top health agencies.
>
> (And on that note, please see my blog about the upcoming
> HHS/FDA/CDC/NIH workshop on autism triggers in mitochondrial disorders
> (ie, Hannah Poling and her five vaccines).
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