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Vaccinations: Deadly Immunity
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In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session — only private invitations to fifty-two attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly “embargoed.” There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left.
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| Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage — and even death — in both animals and humans. | |
The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency’s massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines — thimerosal — appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. “I was actually stunned by what I saw,” Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants — in one case, within hours of birth — the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.
Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. “You can play with this all you want,” Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results “are statistically significant.” Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting’s first day, was even more alarmed. “My gut feeling?” he said. “Forgive this personal comment — I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on.”
But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry’s bottom line. “We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits,” said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. “This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country.” Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that “given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let’s say, less responsible hands.” Dr. John Clements, vaccines advisor at the World Health Organization, declared that “perhaps this study should not have been done at all.” He added that “the research results have to be handled,” warning that the study “will be taken by others and will be used in other ways beyond the control of this group.”
In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children’s health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to “rule out” the chemical’s link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten’s findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been “lost” and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.
Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants — but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some American vaccines — including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to eleven-year-olds.
The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government’s vaccine-related documents — including the Simpsonwood transcripts — and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the “Eli Lilly Protection Act” into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. The measure was repealed by Congress in 2003 — but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. “The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists,” says Dean Rosen, health policy adviser to Frist.
Even many conservatives are shocked by the government’s effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, oversaw a three-year investigation of thimerosal after his grandson was diagnosed with autism. “Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic,” his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report. “This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin.” The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to act, the committee added, out of “institutional malfeasance for self protection” and “misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”
The story of how government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public is a chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power and greed. I was drawn into the controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and environmentalist who has spent years working on issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers of autistic children who were absolutely convinced that their kids had been injured by vaccines. Privately, I was skeptical.
I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source, and I certainly understood the government’s need to reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, who criticized his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. “Why should we scare people about immunization,” Waxman pointed out at one hearing, “until we know the facts?”
It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying the leading scientific research and talking with many of the nation’s pre-eminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real. Five of my own children are members of the Thimerosal Generation — those born between 1989 and 2003 — who received heavy doses of mercury from vaccines. “The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage,” Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. “Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in twenty-five years of nursing I have never seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our children.”
More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among eleven children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931.
Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They argue that the increase is a result of better diagnosis — a theory that seems questionable at best, given that most of the new cases of autism are clustered within a single generation of children. “If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis,” scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world’s authorities on mercury toxicity, “then where are all the twenty-year-old autistics?” Other researchers point out that Americans are exposed to a greater cumulative “load” of mercury than ever before, from contaminated fish to dental fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines may be only part of a much larger problem. It’s a concern that certainly deserves far more attention than it has received — but it overlooks the fact that the mercury concentrations in vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our children.
What is most striking is the lengths to which many of the leading detectives have gone to ignore — and cover up — the evidence against thimerosal. From the very beginning, the scientific case against the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The preservative, which is used to stem fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury, a potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines — and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children’s vaccines twenty years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.
“You couldn’t even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe,” says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. “It’s just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage.”
Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage — and even death — in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to twenty-two patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected — a fact Lilly didn’t bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal’s safety “did not check with ours.” Half the dogs Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines became sick, leading researchers there to declare the preservative “unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs.”
In the decades that followed, the evidence against thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it “poison.” In 1967, a study in Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly’s own studies discerned that thimerosal was “toxic to tissue cells” in concentrations as low as one part per million — 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as “nontoxic” and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants. In 1977, ten babies at a Toronto hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords.
In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the agency considered banning it from animal vaccines. But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for hepatitis B within twenty-four hours of birth, and two-month-old infants would be immunized for haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis.
The drug industry knew the additional vaccines posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck’s vaccine programs, warned the company that six-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, “especially when used on infants and children,” noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. “The best way to go,” he added, “is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives.”
For Merck and other drug companies, however, the obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses, which require additional protection because they are more easily contaminated by multiple needle entries. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for international agencies to distribute them to impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced with this “cost consideration,” Merck ignored Hilleman’s warnings, and government officials continued to push more and more thimerosal-based vaccines for children. Before 1989, American preschoolers received eleven vaccinations — for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of twenty-two immunizations by the time they reached first grade.
As the number of vaccines increased, the rate of autism among children exploded. During the 1990s, 40 million children were injected with thimerosal-based vaccines, receiving unprecedented levels of mercury during a period critical for brain development. Despite the well-documented dangers of thimerosal, it appears that no one bothered to add up the cumulative dose of mercury that children would receive from the mandated vaccines. “What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?” Peter Patriarca, director of viral products for the agency, asked in an e-mail to the CDC in 1999. “Why didn’t CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded the childhood immunization schedule?”
But by that time, the damage was done. At two months, when the infant brain is still at a critical stage of development, infants routinely received three inoculations that contained a total of 62.5 micrograms of ethylmercury — a level 99 times greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies — including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health — suggest that ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain longer than methylmercury.
Officials responsible for childhood immunizations insist that the additional vaccines were necessary to protect infants from disease and that thimerosal is still essential in developing nations, which, they often claim, cannot afford the single-dose vials that don’t require a preservative. Dr. Paul Offit, one of CDC’s top vaccine advisers, told me, “I think if we really have an influenza pandemic — and certainly we will in the next twenty years, because we always do — there’s no way on God’s earth that we immunize 280 million people with single-dose vials. There has to be multidose vials.”
But while public-health officials may have been well-intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee’s chair, was a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers and was part of a team that developed the measles vaccine and brought it to licensure in 1963. Dr. Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a researcher for the vaccine companies and received honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the hepatitis B vaccine.
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Offit, who shares a patent on one of the vaccines, acknowledged to me that he “would make money” if his vote eventually leads to a marketable product. But he dismissed my suggestion that a scientist’s direct financial stake in CDC approval might bias his judgment. “It provides no conflict for me,” he insists. “I have simply been informed by the process, not corrupted by it. When I sat around that table, my sole intent was trying to make recommendations that best benefited the children in this country. It’s offensive to say that physicians and public-health people are in the pocket of industry and thus are making decisions that they know are unsafe for children. It’s just not the way it works.”
Other vaccine scientists and regulators gave me similar assurances. Like Offit, they view themselves as enlightened guardians of children’s health, proud of their “partnerships” with pharmaceutical companies, immune to the seductions of personal profit, besieged by irrational activists whose anti-vaccine campaigns are endangering children’s health. They are often resentful of questioning. “Science,” says Offit, “is best left to scientists.”
Still, some government officials were alarmed by the apparent conflicts of interest. In his e-mail to CDC administrators in 1999, Paul Patriarca of the FDA blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby vaccines. “I’m not sure there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at the switch re: thimerosal until now,” Patriarca wrote. The close ties between regulatory officials and the pharmaceutical industry, he added, “will also raise questions about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use” of thimerosal in child vaccines.
If federal regulators and government scientists failed to grasp the potential risks of thimerosal over the years, no one could claim ignorance after the secret meeting at Simpsonwood. But rather than conduct more studies to test the link to autism and other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics over science. The agency turned its database on childhood vaccines — which had been developed largely at taxpayer expense — over to a private agency, America’s Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it could not be used for additional research. It also instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC “wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe,” Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM’s Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001. “We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect” of thimerosal exposure. According to transcripts of the meeting, the committee’s chief staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM would conclude that the evidence was “inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation” between thimerosal and autism. That, she added, was the result “Walt wants” — a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program for the CDC.
For those who had devoted their lives to promoting vaccination, the revelations about thimerosal threatened to undermine everything they had worked for. “We’ve got a dragon by the tail here,” said Dr. Michael Kaback, another committee member. “The more negative that [our] presentation is, the less likely people are to use vaccination, immunization — and we know what the results of that will be. We are kind of caught in a trap. How we work our way out of the trap, I think is the charge.”
Even in public, federal officials made it clear that their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to dispel doubts about vaccines. “Four current studies are taking place to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal,” Dr. Gordon Douglas, then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health, assured a Princeton University gathering in May 2001. “In order to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to assure parents of safety.” Douglas formerly served as president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored warnings about thimerosal’s risks.
In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather than reviewing the large body of literature describing the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining European countries, where children received much smaller doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study included children too young to have been diagnosed with autism and overlooked others who showed signs of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and — in a startling position for a scientific body — recommended that no further research be conducted.
The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no one. Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from Florida who serves on the House Government Reform Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying it relied on a handful of studies that were “fatally flawed” by “poor design” and failed to represent “all the available scientific and medical research.” CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth, Weldon told me, because “an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who would want to make that conclusion about themselves?”
Under pressure from Congress and parents, the Institute of Medicine convened another panel to address continuing concerns about the Vaccine Safety Datalink Data Sharing program. In February, the new panel, composed of different scientists, criticized the way the VSD had been used in the Verstraeten study, and urged the CDC to make its vaccine database available to the public.
So far, though, only two scientists have managed to gain access. Dr. Mark Geier, president of the Genetics Center of America, and his son, David, spent a year battling to obtain the medical records from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a powerful correlation between thimerosal and neurological damage in children. One study, which compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born between 1990 and 1996, found a “very significant relationship” between autism and vaccines. Another study of educational performance found that kids who received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with autism and more than three times as likely to suffer from speech disorders and mental retardation. Another soon-to-be published study shows that autism rates are in decline following the recent elimination of thimerosal from most vaccines.
As the federal government worked to prevent scientists from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies himself. Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines — the kind of population that scientists typically use as a “control” in experiments — Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three — including one child adopted from outside the Amish community — had received their vaccines.
At the state level, many officials have also conducted in-depth reviews of thimerosal. While the Institute of Medicine was busy whitewashing the risks, the Iowa legislature was carefully combing through all of the available scientific and biological data. “After three years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient credible research to show a link between mercury and the increased incidences in autism,” says state Sen. Ken Veenstra, a Republican who oversaw the investigation. “The fact that Iowa’s 700 percent increase in autism began in the 1990s, right after more and more vaccines were added to the children’s vaccine schedules, is solid evidence alone.” Last year, Iowa became the first state to ban mercury in vaccines, followed by California. Similar bans are now under consideration in thirty-two other states.
But instead of following suit, the FDA continues to allow manufacturers to include thimerosal in scores of over-the-counter medications as well as steroids and injected collagen. Even more alarming, the government continues to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries — some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown prior to the introduction of thimerosal by U.S. drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua and other developing countries that are now using thimerosal-laced vaccines. The World Health Organization continues to insist thimerosal is safe, but it promises to keep the possibility that it is linked to neurological disorders “under review.”
I devoted time to study this issue because I believe that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed. If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine. “The CDC is guilty of incompetence and gross negligence,” says Mark Blaxill, vice president of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned about the role of mercury in medicines. “The damage caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It’s bigger than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than anything you’ve ever seen.”
It’s hard to calculate the damage to our country — and to the international efforts to eradicate epidemic diseases — if Third World nations come to believe that America’s most heralded foreign-aid initiative is poisoning their children. It’s not difficult to predict how this scenario will be interpreted by America’s enemies abroad. The scientists and researchers — many of them sincere, even idealistic — who are participating in efforts to hide the science on thimerosal claim that they are trying to advance the lofty goal of protecting children in developing nations from disease pandemics. They are badly misguided. Their failure to come clean on thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt our country and the world’s poorest populations.
Global Research comments: This story has been updated to correct several inaccuracies in the original, published version. As originally reported, American preschoolers received only three vaccinations before 1989, but the article failed to note that they were innoculated a total of eleven times with those vaccines, including boosters. The article also misstated the level of ethylmercury received by infants injected with all their shots by the age of six months. It was 187 micrograms – an amount forty percent, not 187 times, greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methylmercury. Finally, because of an editing error, the article misstated the contents of the rotavirus vaccine approved by the CDC. It did not contain thimerosal. Salon and Rolling Stone regret the errors.
An earlier version of this story stated that the Institute of Medicine convened a second panel to review the work of the Immunization Safety Review Committee that had found no evidence of a link between thimerosal and autism. In fact, the IOM convened the second panel to address continuing concerns about the Vaccine Safety Datalink Data Sharing program, including those raised by critics of the IOM’s earlier work. But the panel was not charged with reviewing the committee’s findings. The story also inadvertently omitted a word and transposed two sentences in a quote by Dr. John Clements, and incorrectly stated that Dr. Sam Katz held a patent with Merck on the measles vaccine. In fact, Dr. Katz was part of a team that developed the vaccine and brought it to licensure, but he never held the patent. Salon and Rolling Stone regret the errors.
CLARIFICATION: After publication of this story, Salon and Rolling Stone corrected an error that misstated the level of ethylmercury received by infants injected with all their shots by the age of six months. It was 187 micrograms ? an amount forty percent, not 187 times, greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methylmercury. At the time of the correction, we were aware that the comparison itself was flawed, but as journalists we considered it more appropriate to state the correct figure rather than replace it with another number entirely.
Since that earlier correction, however, it has become clear from responses to the article that the forty-percent number, while accurate, is misleading. It measures the total mercury load an infant received from vaccines during the first six months, calculates the daily average received based on average body weight, and then compares that number to the EPA daily limit. But infants did not receive the vaccines as a ?daily average? ? they received massive doses on a single day, through multiple shots. As the story states, these single-day doses exceeded the EPA limit by as much as 99 times. Based on the misunderstanding, and to avoid further confusion, we have amended the story to eliminate the forty-percent figure.
Correction: The story misattributed a quote to Andy Olson, former legislative counsel to Senator Bill Frist. The comment was made by Dean Rosen, health policy adviser to the senator. Rolling Stone and Salon.com regret the error.
Kennedy Report Sparks Controversy
“Deadly Immunity,” our story about the link between mercury in vaccines and the dramatic rise in autism among children [RS 977/978], sparked intense reaction from the medical establishment and several leading news organizations. The story, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — part of an ongoing collaboration with Salon.com — documented the government’s efforts to conceal alarming data about the dangers of vaccines.
What is most striking is the lengths to which major media outlets have gone to disparage the story and to calm public fears — even in the face of the questionable science on the subject. In a segment on World News Tonight titled “A Closer Look,” ABC pointed out that Kennedy is “not a scientist or a doctor” and dismissed his extensive evidence as nothing more than “a few scientific studies.” The network also trotted out its medical editor, Dr. Timothy Johnson, to praise the “impeccably impartial Institute of Medicine” and to again state that Kennedy is not a scientist.
The New York Times, in a front-page story on the subject, devoted only one line to Kennedy’s article, which it said accused public-health officials and drugmakers of “conspiring” to hide the data on autism — a word that our story neither used nor implied. (The Wall Street Journal, in an op-ed attacking the article, was even more misleading, using the word “conspiracy” four times.) The Times then went on, for more than a full page, to portray concerns over vaccines as nothing more than the misguided fears of parents who suffer from “scientific illiteracy,” unable to understand the medical studies that prove immunizations to be safe. It depicted studies reviewed by the Institute of Medicine as definitive without even bothering to address the host of serious questions raised about their validity: conflicting diagnoses of autism, mixed-up data from HMOs and research skewed to exclude many sick kids.
Rolling Stone and Salon fact-checked the article thoroughly before publication, insisting on primary documentation for every statement in the story, and posted links to the most significant materials online to enable readers to judge for themselves. The final article contained six errors. These ranged from inadvertently transposing a quote and confusing a drug license for a patent to relying on a figure that incorrectly calculated an infant’s exposure to mercury over six months, rather than citing the even more dangerous amount injected on a single day. (The mistakes were corrected online as soon as they were discovered and can be viewed in detail at both RollingStone.com and Salon.com.)
It is important to note, however, that none of the mistakes weaken the primary point of the story. The government’s own records show that it has failed to do the science necessary to put to rest reasonable concerns about vaccines. If the scientists had simply done their job rather than covering their tracks, there would be no controversy today. Instead, the government cannot even provide a definitive figure of the number of cases of autism among American children — a number obviously critical to any serious scientific investigation — and yet expects the public to believe that it has ruled out any link between vaccines and an illness it does not even track.
“Science,” as one doctor in our story insisted, “is best left to scientists.” But when the scientists fail to do their job, resorting to closed-door meetings and rigged studies, others in society have not only a right but a moral obligation to question their work. In the coming years, further research may indeed demonstrate that mercury in vaccines is not responsible for the rise in autism. For now, though, we can only raise a very real and legitimate alarm — and hope that the government’s well-documented mishandling of its own research did not needlessly jeopardize the health of hundreds of thousands of children.
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July 26th, 2009 at 8:41 am
tHE WHYMAN…thx for reporting…this is clearly showing the fact that antivirus companies are censoring my website…maybe you should use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer too…that may allow you to visit my blog maybe.
censored31 Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Anyway…soon or later if they block this forum on infowars we need to organise ourselves…i suggest twitter…join me on :
http://twitter.com/Censored31
rik thomas Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
this story is why alex calls the NWO complete scum. everyone is in the fight of their lives.
censored31 Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Gary, absolutely right…however in some parts of the world in the winter time their isn’t enough sunlight…that’s when the flu arise.
censored31 Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:28 am
The Whyman…Norton Antivirus is censoring me…i guess you have that one…:)
censored31 Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Norton AntiVirus is A Virus and is vulnirable.
More info on a better one and how to secure your pc explained to you in a video:
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birgit Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 6:33 am
PROOF that Thymerisol DAMAGES brains, right here with some of the comments posted.
dkgriffith75 Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Ben Raines 2012
OPERATION OVERWATCH NLE09 Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 3:27 am
NLE 09 STARTS TOMMOROW GET THE WORD OUT BY POSTING ON YOU TUBE WHATS GOING ON IN YOUR AREA KNOWLEDGE IS POWER TITLE YOUR VID OPERATION OVERWATCH
GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS
EG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf6vJuJdo18
interdimensional cowboy Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 4:35 am
*****Show this to your idiot friends and family*****deadly vaccines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
kebcreation Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Obviously they already know mercury is dangerous..gosh injecting it? That is insane. I have 2 granddaughters with autism both always up to date on shots. Then I have another 3 year old granddaughter who had none til recently and she is smart as a whip. Whereas my other two autistic ones have serious problems emotionally and physically and yes I believe the shots caused these things and if it were to get out that this is so they could not keep up with the lawsuits. Of course they want to press health care reform where it is run by them so they and the scientist will not be accountable to the subjects. They have taken out the human aspect in their trials and are using real time trials on real time people. Studies my @ss they can make up any old data for their BS files. They are responsible for a lot of children’s right of a normal life by injecting them with toxins. Hopefully someone will put an end to this because some people have no idea and no educated choice. School administrators ought to be aware of this throughout the land maybe some with a conscience would forfeit that extra government funding they get for enforcing it as necessary. The schools also get extra for each riddalin student and the list goes on. The ramifications of this plot are enormous to a researcher.
Sam Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Americans are medicated to the point they can’ t rationalize…thank you chemtrails
Malone Ducklo Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
there certainly is something going on makes us unnaturally tired and apathetic. i got to pump myself up just to give a shit these days. if it is not already too late to act against “The Elite”, it will be soon.
revolution! Im ready!!! Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I feel like my brain does not cooperate sometimes… Oh the wonderful world of mind control. I try to kick out the governmental oppressive thoughts, and rationalize. I realize that the time is coming for me and mine to stand up for what is ours. But if its too late, I am ready to camp out and hide…
July 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Yet another reason to keep my body away from anything unnatural…
An European Voize Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
too late for that, sorry!
July 25th, 2009 at 10:34 am
I’m putting an article in the local newspaper ( public forum) to tell people of the 1976 vaccine and tell them not to get it this time. Stay away from ones that have gotten the shot.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:38 am
the more i read about this , the more i begin to realize how widespread the traitors are.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am
So on the news i just saw at the bottom of the screen “10,000 new cases of swine flu in the UK” “pharmacies low in stock amid swine flu scare.”
JaneTheCarpenter Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Don’t worry, it bull s..t!!! 35,000 people die every year from the avreage every day flu, in America. I’m not taking the N1H1 flu shot!! I’ll take my chances with out it. This is just another way to get control of the sheepeople. I think we should have all the evil one’s test it for us!!!!! Greed is the root of ALL EVIL!!
MAD DOG Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I’M NOT WORRIED
I HAVE PLENTY OF PLASTIC AND DUCT TAPE
HA HA HA
July 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Its ok to let your children get vaccinated. Take the shots. They wont kill you…YET LOL. These tyrants are going to pay for their deadly experimental illnesses. Resist at all costs. These people are going to kill 85% with these concoctions. If you die trying to resist, well that is a good death in Gods eyes. Stand up for what is right.
J Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Tyranny Resistor said:
Its ok to let your children get vaccinated. Take the shots. They wont kill you…YET LOL. These tyrants are going to pay for their deadly experimental illnesses. Resist at all costs. These people are going to kill 85% with these concoctions. If you die trying to resist, well that is a good death in Gods eyes. Stand up for what is right.
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I totally agree dude! This flu won’t kill us, “big brother” will.
My kids, my wife, my family… none of us will take this poison! If we happen to die from the flu, then we do, atleast we didn’t voluntarily take poison.
Everyone FIGHT the vaccines! I have religious (documented) exemption, so they will try to put us in a “quarantine center.”
Yeah & I bet the front gate will have the words “Your work will set you free” on them!
Seems like alot of history is repeating itself.
2012 can’t come fast enough though, then we would all be on the same side.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I really never cared for Kennedy , But I have to say I think Mr. Kennedy 100% right ! I think we need to stand behind his facts he has presented ………… Shots are big money makers and they do Kill :
Go Kennedy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
osuredleg Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I agree about Kennedy, being a conservative/Libertarian myself. However, I did hear him speak years ago when I was in college regarding clean water and other environmental issues, and I think that he actually does care about these things, although he has been misguided on some issues just like the rest of the ignorant masses have (myself inlcuded until I woke up). Do remember, though, that his uncle and father both were assassinated trying to take back this country from the banks and military-industrial complex. JFK was really the last “true” President, and see what happened when he tried to actaully BE the President: they murdered his ass! Same with RFK! Much evidence suggests that JFK Jr. was murdered becasue he was becoming very political and thinking of running for office, and had started looking seriously into his father’s killing. This is why Obama isn’t real, because he’s too mush of a wuss to be a real President for WE the PEOPLE and tell the banks to shove it up their backsides. Anyway, I believe Kennedy is correct and if the media weren’t baought and paid for, his family name and political clout could help inform plenty of people who disregard us “conspiracy nutballs.”
birgit Reply:
July 27th, 2009 at 8:12 am
my thoughts exactly…
Obamush… whats in a name?
Pat Riot smells New World Odor Reply:
July 27th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Careful, we know what happened to the other 3 Kennedys….
July 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am
YEEEEHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!
July 25th, 2009 at 10:56 am
How To Get Enough Vitamin D and protect yourself against the flu? Take 5,000 IU per day for three months,
http://censored31.skynetblogs.be
Gary Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Lay out in the sun. Your body makes Vitamin D from sunlight. About twenty minute in direct sunlight per day is all the exposure you need to get your daily requirement for Vitamin D.
mARK Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
But i’m afraid to go outside…
The Whyman Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
This is true. Also, it is a strange irony that many maladies that people -often office dwellers- suffer from is directly associated with lack of vitamin D.
It is ironic then that these same sunblocks that are supposed to be preventing certain forms of cancer are actually making us sicker and according to some studies (I could dig them up if needed) could well be a contributing factor.
BA Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Virus on this web site
The Whyman Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Ah. It IS a virus after all…
July 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am
It is time for some intrepid and brave lawyers to launch a class action law suit against the pharmaceutical companies, as well as Government agencies.
This kind of law suit is the very thing, if well publisized, could lead to a societal revolution.
As I have often commented in discussions with friends, “Scientists” love to scoff at the critques of the uneducated, those that they consider intellectually stunted. Well, I don’t think we, the average citizenry, can any longer afford to blindly follow the dictates of these morally stunted, lab coat wearing boy and girl geniuses without question and vigilant scrutiny.
osuredleg Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 12:21 am
I agree about getting agressive with the lawsuits. However, we have a tough hill to climb and take given the Ececutive Orders, Patriot Act, and other bills that have been paseed since 911 that basically give the FEDGOV the “right” to do whatever they want to us…but that doesn’t mean we have to submit! FYI, there are many lawyers, engineers, doctors, microbiologists, etc., that are US…WE are just as smart as the elite are, so don’t believe that all scientists and professional believe that crap that they spew. We speak their language, and know how to refute their ridiculous claims. We just have a disadvantage as they cheat all the time and hide things – such as the reports and data that Kennedy mentioned – and we spend most of our time trying to dig up the smoking guns to implicate them and inform the (ignorant) masses. Just means that we have to work ten times harder than they do!
July 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Wow, that was a lotta words!
I only read a few of em, though, cuz I don’t get vaccines.
required Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
If you’re not going to put your feeble brain to use for reading important articles, you may as well be fuckin autistic. Go back to watching TV.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Hey folks go to http://freemanradio.com/ and take the poll
July 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Подойдя к второму обзацу необходимо будет побороть в себе желание его пропустить
The Whyman Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
“After approaching second [obzatsu] will have to overcome in itself the desire it to pass”
What does this mean?
Attero Dominatus Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 12:54 am
He meant that at first the text seems boring, but it’s worth it to overcome the
desire to skip it. Still I don’t understand why to comment in russian here.
Those who don’t understand english, won’t be able to read the article either,
so posting for russian speakers is irrelevant. Btw, your translator couldn’t
translate correctly because he made mistakes in his own language.
Russian kids got just as dumb as american ones. Sad story.
The Whyman Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 4:54 am
Thank you for the clarification.
I had to use babelfish to translate. Would you know of a superior online translator?
Attero Dominatus Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
You’re welcome. I’ve never used any online translators, mate. (Except lingvo.ru, which is just a dictionary, though very good).
And your babelfish seems to be very decent one, assuming that inintial text doesn’t contain errors.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:26 am
The sinners prayer is denying your rightousness and trusting in Christs Rightousness for your salvation.
HJB
July 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
http://video.google.com/videop.....&hl=en
New Word Order Agenda
July 25th, 2009 at 11:47 am
http://video.google.com/videop.....&hl=en
Who heads the New World Order?????? Watch Video
July 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am
In order to fight the NWO – you have to know where the instructions come from. We can’t keep saying it is the bankers. This is a religious New World Order and the bankers belong to the same religion.
http://video.google.com/videop.....&hl=en
osuredleg Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Susan
It is the bankers…they are still the same as they were 2000 years ago, though much worse and in control of much greater destructive power in this crazy world in which we now live. You see, the bankers are the money changers tha Christ threw out/off of the Temple Mount. Let me repeat that: THREW them out! So, Christ may have said to turn the other cheek to yor enemies, but when it came to the money changers/bankers that were cheating God’s people and breaking God’s laws, he was physical with them and had no problem fighting them. If people ask what would God/Jesus do, well, there is your simple answer! Don’t buy that stupid Romans 13 “misinterpretation” – I say deliberate misuse – by some ministers that Hitler used to disarm the populace and turn them into a country of automaton slaves. That is what we are becoming, but we still have just a bit of time to turn the tide and stop the evil ones. Yes, I know for whom the bankers work, the real NWO leader, and he/it has been around for a long time and is in control of the world (for now). But that doesn’t mean that we can’t or shouldn’t fight him and his minions.
sue Reply:
July 27th, 2009 at 11:42 am
“Give to God what is God’s and to Ceaser what is Ceaser’s” Question is what doesn.t belong to God. That was a statement made for those that know the truth would see the answer without the enemies of Jesus having ammo against him. They would have said he was asking people to go against the state, which he was, but not in a clear way.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:50 am
The sun can do wonders, more than just giving you vitamin D. Check out SUNGAZING.
http://collective-evolution.co.....u-vaccine/
July 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am
NOT ME, NOT MINE!!!
http://www.redvsbluepill.weebly.com
July 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Forced vaccinations ought to be the single issue we can use to break their command of sheer madness. Everyone knows that Dr, Deagle has been citing this Thimerosal as a cause of autism for the past (three + years,) on RBN & GCN-Live.
Don’t take the shot! In fact, don’t take anything further from any official claiming to have the authority to give these shots. No one I know is being forced to take Heroin, or Meth against their will.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I just found out that my great niece has autism. Mom and Dad noticed something was wrong after Mea got her 12 to 15 month shots. I am so pissed. this is just not right. All I have to say is, god will take care of those who have been complicit in this eveil doing.
Neocon Narc Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Sorry for your bad news.
These shots are what is really burgeoning down the health care of countries.
They create illness that never existed 100 years ago.
But also remember that if it is not one way, it is another like poisoning of waters, fish and animals.
The Industrialist attacks from many angles.
All it takes is the perfect combination of poisons to cause damage.
Sounds like Mea has a lot of people who really care and can make her life worthwhile despite any setbacks.
Jay Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Why don’t YOU take care of them now as G-d’s instrument? They have condemmed your kid to a lifetime of disability and likely early death. Does this not inspire you to take immediate action or are you a coward who does not protect his own? Sorry to be so blunt but it’s the truth. My prayers 2 u.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Although these events of “SS Siege Training” in what was once a free America (long, long ago) are becoming more and more common place, (hence, conditioning the weak minds, faint hearts and empty souls of cowards) it still amazes me to see the “clear as day” operations being conducted to strip all of us completely naked of freedom at all levels. Still the citizenry continues to nap beneath what they believe to be a shade tree of refuge. But little do they know (because of their complacent / ignorant nature) that the tree is an impostor strategically positioned to keep them daydreaming in the temporary comfort of shady pacification. Then the leaves begin to fall and they begin to feel the heat as they awaken to the lie. However, now it is too late, the sleepy citizenry is encircled, stripped of all humanity, but I’m sure it was worth it for some extra rest, after all,the good little sheep of this nation need to have the energy to serve their masters.
Yes, mankind has become a pathetic breed, lower on the list then a snail, moving at about the same speed to pick up arms and fight tyranny. The snail however, is better equipped by far, carries its shelter on its back as it travels and feeds itself from the land, a better potential soldier of liberty than most indeed. Perhaps the militia of this country need to recruit the snail, we’d stand a better chance than putting a rifle in the hand of most modern men, who are of the new and improved metro sexual classification.
That being the case, I plea with the women of this nation, to pick up arms and defend your men and children. After all, you can obviously handle more hardship and pain, that has already been proven, now you need to shoulder the burden of battle until the men get off their pampered asses and start wearing the pants again, yup, the new brand of pants, the big bad liberty brand, the pants men should have slipped on a long time ago, the ones with the larger crotch area that provide room for the man with large testicular fortitude, need I make myself any clearer. Ladies, if your man is not one of these who fit the pants, slap him upside his pin head and tell him to grow a pair and make himself useful.
For the few brave gentlemen that remain awake in this nation, we need serious leadership in every community of this country if we even stand a chance. There is zero leadership in the sectors that we need it in. Since the infrastructure for tyranny / police state “is” being launched nationwide with a view to permeate every political office / law enforcement agency in our “constitutional republic”, should we not begin a diligent recruiting of the citizenry in our communities to posture defensively and prepare to repel the oppression??? We need leaders for this, not the same ole political sweet talkers with more sell out compromise laid out on the horizon. We need real leadership that can attempt to fill the shoes of the founders of our nation and carry out the objective that is long overdue. Gentlemen, It is your duty and it is mine, what will it be. I’m sticking my head out risking my life recruiting men for this duty amidst the new breed of traitors / government trained snitches who will do everything in their power to get a noose around my neck when the showdown begins. My hope is men will do what honorable men have done throughout the ages… Come together as an effective force to fight for what is right.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiclMWy3Ns
David Icke on swine flu vaccine shots.
July 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
http://www.hallindsey.com/videos/?vid=62
July 25th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
no panic if your kids get forcebly vaccinated or you for yourself!
off course, you better try to resist!!!
but anyway
there are simple natural ways
to neutralize the effect of
these vaccins
but I cannot tell you here
I hope and pray you find it
The Whyman Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
What is preventing the use of your fingers in typing out the sequence of letters which reveal your alleged vaccine neutraliser?
M&M Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.
The Whyman Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
NSA?
Malecon Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Asshole.
The Whyman Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Non Sequitur Ad Hominem combo.
July 25th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
When things must NEED to be secret (especially things funded by the public). Doesn’t that mean there is a greater chance of evil being involved?
July 25th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
It’s just an ocean of shit out there !!!
P.S. An ocean , or an endless black hole ( of shit ) , that is the question !!!
swine flu over the cuckoo's nest Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Rockefeller shit.
Sir Baby De Porky Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 4:46 am
It ain’t that easy pal !!! If major league assholes like Rockefeller have so much influence ,
it ’s because ( besides that most people are retarded ) the collective KARMA sucks !!!
And 70% of that shitty karma is because of the systematic torture / slaughter of TRILLIONS
of animals , be it for meat or as guinea pigs in labs !!!
The remaining 30% has to come from abortions , children abuse , war crimes ( like raping ) ,
and all the rip off going on !!!
P.S. Rockefeller types are ” Rakshashas ” ( Google it !!! ) , they derive power from the
average Jo Dick’s and Betty Ding-Dong’s combined / collective sinful karma !!!
July 25th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
LOLLL
and i quote
“Talking about crap isn’t doing anything.”
“Members will be required to enter and participate in group conversation hosted in our chatroom where important issues will be discussed. We will then as a group work out ways we can better these issues whether it be bombarding a company with phone-calls, letters, e-mails or writing to senators, PM’s ect”
…..wtf? i thought talking about it crap isnt doing anything….
STOP SPAMMING EVERY ARTICLE WITH THIS
July 25th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Just let someone TRY and give my kid a needle at school or elsewhere. They touch my kid with some drug or shot and they die. Take it to da bank.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
HERE: Stream and Download ALL the best interviews and rants from the Alex Jones Show Archives:
http://alex-jones-archives.politicsfiles.info/
TODAY:
- Bob Chapman:What’s in Your Vaccine?
- Luke Rudkowski & Stewart Howe (WeAreChange):Get Active-Get Involved!!
- Gerald Celente:The Worst is Yet to Come!!
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller Threatens Luke Rudkowski!!
Backup your favorite episodes, don’t miss any!
July 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
OBAMA IS A LIAR AND A SAD HOAX,
4,000 Fort Lewis soldiers to head to Iraq later this summer.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
if the only reason that they put thimeresol into vaccines is to have it be a ‘preservative’
maybe they could just have the shelf life requirements lowered—-to where they dont need to put preservatives in vaccines—-and they just have to roll over their stock more often–
keep the multi-dose thimerol based vaccines only in case of pandemic emergency or something—
but have the non-thimeresol based vaccines be the norm worldwide—-reconfigure vaccine dispensation programs to suit —no??
okay to hell with it
July 25th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Mercury has given me a new life as I am mad as a hatter.
The Whyman Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
That would be lead as hats used to be lined with the material which would rub off into the heads of the wearers causing madness, hence the term “mad as a hatter”- And this is the reason “why”.
Mad as a Hatter Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:51 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Hatter Hat makers used mercury to to process felt that was used in hats thus suffered mercury posion. Do not believe go this site and read it for yourself.
AsMad as a Hatter Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Mercury was used in the process of felt that was used in hat thus the hat makers got mercury posion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Hatter
July 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
What are the benefits of joining your revolution…as opposed to the revolution that some other individuals have suggested?
July 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I was ignorant of the affects of vaccines containing mercury. I use to think that they were safe and the right thing to do. I believed in the doctors and medical proffesionals and how safe vaccines are. My children received many shots between the late 1980’s through to the 1990’s. Now 4 of my 6 children has either autism or some other brain disability thanks to the thimersol perservative. To add insult to injury. Two of my children had the type of autism that cuased them to be escapist and wanders. This led to my wife and I to child neglect charges. My search of autism and vaccines is what led me to the Infowar .com site 5-6 years ago. That is when I had woke up to how evil the pharma industry and government is.
M&M Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
So sorry for your struggles. My nephew is autistic and two of my three children had either adhd or add. My youngest had fewer shots since I began to wake up to the truth….she’s much better off than the other two.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
cencored31: I attempted to access your site until I encountered this message-
“The website at censored31.skynetblogs.be contains elements from the site user3.33391.net, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.”
Were you aware of this?
July 25th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Can u say, “BULLSHIT”. Do the President have a comment on this. I think he can use this as an example in his arguementation. I dont think I have to much more.
Maureen Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
You didn’t say crap…Do the president?…where did you go to school? and that he could use what as an arguementation? You need to be more explicit in your responses Tru!
M&M Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
No the president only responds to news of cops doing their jobs.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
She knows what she says…. healthfreedomusa.org
July 25th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
They placed a sign post right around the corner from my house, that says ” Back to School: Free, Uniform card, Haircuts, Donuts, Immunizations* Parent Guardian must be present, bring immunization card. EASTLAND ASSEMBLY OF GOD. I want back to read the sign again, but somebody took it down.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
All com. on man!
You censored that!( fcol) For cying out loud! 
Am telling my mammy on you.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
So when will this storyline be able to move past conspiracy theory to become conspiracy fact?
July 25th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
excellent observation about the YDTK,nice work KEENLY of scoping out shill who wrote spam.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Mayday, mayday, mayday, emergency post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..annel_page
Jim Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 8:31 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbB6Mcb6aO0
July 25th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Just another reason why CEOs of corps like this , Monsanto, etc., and their shareholders – should be taken-out with the political-judicial-legal-media bureaucratic system – and their assets redistributed among the people/survivors they have murdered, tortured, genocided, etc. That should also solve their deemed over-population problem.
How long can this legal murdering of famililies, men, women, and children continue? Looks like no one wants to stop the depopulation agenda.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Who needs doctors and lab tests when you can just pick up your phone.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Test.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
In the UK they have setup websites and phone hot lines to call in and get “diagnosed” with swine flu. I heard this in a discussion on CBC radio where they talked about how 100,000 new cases have been manufactured in the UK in just two weeks.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
In the UK they have setup websites and phone hot lines to call in and get “diagnosed” with s.w.i.n.e f.l.u – I heard this in a discussion on CBC radio where they talked about how 100,000 new cases have been manufactured in the UK in just two weeks.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hey folks go to http://freemanradio.com/ and take the poll
July 25th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Global Currency
Russia’s President announces that there will be a world Currency In the Future ! How Credit default swaps played a role in causing the economic crisis to create a pretext for a Centralized power including Global Currency
Please email to 10 people…..
http://posmedprod.webs.com/worldcentralbank.htm
July 26th, 2009 at 12:23 am
I like robert Kenney Jr Jr .
July 26th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Please go to http://www.thewildeast.net/jtcoyote/ and check out the patriot money bomb we’re having this week for JT Coyote. They raided his house and now greedy bankers are trying to steal it! JT’s an expert and activist in the state sovereignty movement and right now he desperately needs help!
Napoleon Van Hardridge Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 3:27 am
JT Coyote needs us! I chipped in and I work for Dollar General – Need I say more. Lmao
July 26th, 2009 at 1:12 am
“Although the risk factors for serious pandemic disease are not know definitively, risk factors such as existing cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, diabetes and cancer currently are considered risk factors for serious pandemic (H1N1) 2009 disease. Asthma and other forms of respiratory disease have been consistently reported as underlying conditions associated with an augmented risk of severe pandemic disease in several countries.
A recent report suggests obesity may be another risk factor for severe disease. Similarly, there is accumulating evidence suggesting pregnant women are at higher risk for more severe disease. A few preliminary reports also suggest increased risk of severe disease may be elevated in some minority populations, but the potential contributions of cultural, economic and social risk factors are not clear.”
http://www.who.int/csr/disease.....index.html
Malecon Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Typical WHO waffle. Next they’ll be telling us that breathing can be dangerous to your health.
July 26th, 2009 at 2:08 am
PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT….The vaccines are planned genocide!
http://www.scribd.com/full/170.....uy83anqjgp
BeHeresoon Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:08 am
it is rather interesting if you look at the pure unadultrated scum of evil that is in washington DC as well as the vile scum that has of recent months been appointed. Scum begets scum/Evil begets Evil.
The upshot to all this is,,, They lose in the end…. The Book really does have a very unhappy ending for them… pretty neat.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:55 am
These are the same kids that will be able to drive everyone off the road in a few years.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Полностью согласна!
July 26th, 2009 at 5:10 am
И придратся не к чему, а я так люблю покритиковать…
July 26th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Jesuit
July 26th, 2009 at 6:15 am
sovereign order of maltta
July 26th, 2009 at 6:31 am
An especially heinous form of slavery. Individuals who would have otherwise been healthy then return to the same medical establishment for more costly treatment. A lethal drug administration or partially lethal drugging administered by State Licensed Doctors. If these Dysfunctional preventative (premeditated) treatments were discontinued the US population would return to its previously condition and health care cost would return to a more realistic level.
New digital imaging software used to identify brain damage from Vaccine
http://censored31.skynetblogs......moulden-ba
July 26th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Why would a Kennedy care?
July 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Red Alert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pWb2LCZTs
July 26th, 2009 at 9:39 am
WTF??? This guy, EchoSierra, makes a plea for preparedness and strength among men to prepare for battle and you guys are worried about getting enough vitamin D and virus’s?? Wake the fuck up…Your vitamin d levels are the least of your worries…If your that concerned about it, built a fortress in the forest and live outside, you’ll get plenty of vitamin d. Arm yourselves to the teeth…put booby traps and landmines all around it and wait for the assholes to come get you. All you homeless out there…Watch the movie DEFIANCE…There are plenty of resources out there for you…Built a home in the forest from the wood, hunt your food, grow your crops…The more people you can gather, the stronger you’ll be and the more efficient your work will be.
EAGLE ONE Reply:
July 27th, 2009 at 10:30 am
LEENA ECHOSIERRA IS RIGHT AND THERE ARE MANY OF US OUT HERE WHO AGREE WITH HIM AND YOU. FORM YOUR OWN GROUPS. CATALOUGE ASSETS IN THE AREA. FIND PINCH POINTS ON YOUR LOCAL ROADS. GET LOCAL MAPS. FIGURE OUT AND LOCATE THEIR DEPOT’S.
ALL THE BEST
GOOD LUCK
July 26th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Time has come people! Either we stand up to the government and coporace facist SCUM, or it’s all over!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 10:29 am
If the global agenda is wanting to encourage a massive decrease in the birth rate to prevent global cannibalistic behaviors within the next 50 years, why is the media promoting the use of artificial insemination with the intention of producing multi-birth pregnancies. Exhibit A: The possibility of the “Octomom” having her own television reality show.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Bot…
July 26th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Want proof positive that the American people are totally dumbed down to the point where they’ll take-the-shot no matter what the risk? Check out the link below on CNN. Quoting from the same:
(CNN) — Days after the U.S. government announced upcoming trials for an H1N1 flu vaccine, Saint Louis University has been inundated with phone calls and e-mails from people volunteering for the study. The university’s Center for Vaccine Development has received more than 500 responses from potential volunteers since Wednesday, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced human trials for a swine flu vaccine would begin in early August. “This response has been exceptionally strong,” Nancy Solomon, a spokeswoman for the university’s medical center, told CNN Radio. “We haven’t had that strong of a response to our call for volunteers since we conducted our small pox vaccine research after September 11.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH.....olunteers/
Need we say more? The American public is now TOTALLY dumbed down. Worry about yourself and your loved ones and don’t waste your time on the masses of dumb sheep who line up to get a death shot in a hypo needle with the US Govt’s happy approval that’s ‘it’s all OK’. Un-be-phrickin-leiveable!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
testing, testing 1234
Hey is my mike on?
not the last 3 try’s!
“IN EVERY WAY ORGANIZE NOW”
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Cisco d
July 26th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I hope everyone is aware of Jane Burgermeister’s lawsuit against Baxter AG, and our own federal government, charging them with acts of bioterrorism and intent to commit mass murder.
July 26th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Bilderburg Society. Look it up. Rockefeller, Rothchilds, Soros, and Sebelius. Eugenesists. These are not Jews.
Overlordhunter Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
No they are not jews! They are Reptilians hybirds, and they have the perfect cover to hide in plain sight!
July 26th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
“drink the blood of christian children”? Are you kidding me?
Obviously your drink of choice is kool-aid.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
ALERT ALERT ALL PATRIOTS MUST WATCH!!!!!! ALERT ALERT ALL PATRIOTS MUST WATCH!!!!!!!!!ALERT ALERT PATRIOTS MUST WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cm74KIicfc
July 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Luther (devil)
What is in matzo ball soup? Is Rockefeller a JEW?
July 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
You idiot. All Europeans are biologically jews before christianity
ritamd Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Where do you think the Europeans came from before the Caucasus mountains? Life sprang from the Nile. For Your info, we ALL CAME FROM ONE SOURCE.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
i live in amarillo, tx. 3 days ago 20 TANKS arrived by train here, fyi. also a friend of mine ran into a lady aproximately 6 days ago, her brother works for fema. she said that her brother told her that n. korea was planning on firing a nuke that would take out power in tx. i sure hope my friend is full of shit.
Napoleon Van Hardridge Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
N. Korea is own by the same ones who own the world, the only people they don’t own is just a few muslim countries – which aren’t many. It will be the satanic world leaders that own American that would have em fire a nuke at us. And, the tanks are just here to finish the job when the nukes do hit, but at the mean time their here to make sure ” through force ” that we take our vaccinations. Its like Jim Jones all over again, only on a bigger scale.
Napoleon Van Hardridge Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Besides, where ( USA ) the ones who gave em their nukes anyways.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
“Drug addicts ‘may be given priority access to swine flu vaccine’
“Drug addicts may be given priority access to the swine flu vaccine under plans being drawn up by the health authorities, it has emerged.”
Published: 5:47PM BST 26 Jul 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/hea.....ccine.html
July 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Just another example of what Alex Jones has been talking about for over a decade is finally getting the attention of everyone else. Time and time and time again Alex has proven himself to be light years ahead of the rest of the pack.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Looked at your store, not sure if digital cameras and doll collections are a good idea to purchase right now..:(
July 27th, 2009 at 9:48 am
If you are located in or near Austin, I will be hosting a group gathering in hopes of getting information out about these vaccines. Please email me for more info and place and time.
leviriley15@yahoo.com
July 27th, 2009 at 11:13 am
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm
very interesting article on vaccines and mercury, thanks for including it.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
You will see chemtrails covering the skies a month before flu season starts – this is how they spread their engineered N1H1 virus upon us. What we must do as Americans is to put a stop to these chemtrails being spayed above our heads, then they would have to found carriers for their man made virus. My spirit tells me our future looks grem.
Go to Google, and found Vaccine Nation – Director’s cut – Gary Null, Mercury Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda, and then, Vaccines and childhood Illnesses – Beyond Thimerosal – David Ayoub MD. Download these movies and burn them together by using, ConvertXDvd 3. Once burnt, use Nero to make copies and then had them out for free like me.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Colostrum is clincally proven to be 3x’s more effective than the flu vaccine. Shop http://www.newlifehealthsolutions.com for the highest quality colostrum available. Just say NO to the flu vaccine! Protect your health – NATURALLY!
August 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am
Please make copies of the first three pages of below document and give to local police. What’s good is it is compiled by ‘Police Against the New World Order’. Try to approach more seasoned officers who don’t look like s.s. http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/vk2k.shtml