LES INCOMPETANTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP
By K. Paul Stoller, M.D.

02/26/2008

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/02/aap-fellow-resi.html?cid=104990550#comments

   "Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age,
to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the
authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that
be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all
will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that
they are so." ----Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50,
1953

As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find
the AAP's approach to the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing.

Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason for
all the notice given to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they
were put on notice at the CDC's Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the
mercury in the preservative Thimerosal was causing speech delays and
learning disabilities, they obfuscated and hide that information. They never
made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal eliminated from vaccines
and almost a decade later joined in the protest against a fictitious TV show
(Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine.   Out of
132 million doses of the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season,
8 million doses are Thimerosal free. That means 94% contain the full amount
of Thimerosal.

If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flu
shot recommendations, the baby/fetus would have received six flu shots with
the full amount of Thimerosal by the year 2005.

Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not contain
Thimerosal, but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the
only ones who know whether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise)
actually are mercury free are the manufacturers themselves.

Vaccines with "trace" amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain less
than 1 microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml
is the same as 2 ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms
per liter is parts per billion [ppb]2)

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells
(Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water
(http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al.,
Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste
(http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis B
vaccine vials, administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.

50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP and
Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990's to children
at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current "preservative" level mercury in
multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines.

For years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have said
the reason for the dramatic increase in autism is due to "better diagnosing"
and "greater awareness." They have encouraged those like the AAP to
manufacture uncertainty by publishing articles that were less than truthful.
The AAP shamefully played along, perhaps encouraged by the largesse of
vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP's yearly
budget.

There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autistic Americans
under the age of 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on
Social Security in coming years as these children become dependent adults.
There are no studies that have found the previously undiagnosed or
misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older Americans. They simply aren't
there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.

As there are no genetic epidemics, which leaves an epidemic linked to some
sort of exposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the
increase in mercury exposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam
and additionally, through increased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal - no
controlled, randomized study regarding the safety of amalgam or Thimerosal
exists.

A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents
Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health
and the Environment's Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative)
concludes that environmental contaminants are an important cause of learning
and developmental disabilities.

Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions
(required for the correct expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters),
which further adversely affects growth factor derived development of the
brain and attention abilities. Phospholipid methylation, which is crucial
for attention, is impaired in autistic and attention deficit hyperactivity
disorders.

In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had described a
7.6 to 11.4 fold increase of autism risk in children at one month, with the
highest mercury exposure levels compared to children with no exposure. In
four subsequent separate generations of the analysis, which involve the
exclusion of children with no Thimerosal exposure and less than two polio
vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared.  This is what was
published by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know the
truth?

Again, they were presented at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, a
meeting that was illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a
meeting together with representatives of private industry (all the vaccine
manufacturers were represented at this meeting) without opening the meeting
to the public.

Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients suffering
from meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term
effects, as all of the patients in this "study" died. Even if follow-up had
been possible, damage to the developing brains of very young children would
have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe and the medical
community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use was simply
continued. The federal government has never tested the type of mercury in
vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best,
at worse it is an example that we have left consensus reality to be created
by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the junk scientists they employ.

How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active
participant in this skullduggery is beyond reason - is even beyond greed.
They have remained silent as mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported
and used in all third world and second world countries.

We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and
self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated
the junk science that has covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a
considerable cost to science, the public, and our very way of life in this
country. Is it stretch to realize that by putting our collective heads in
the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for the
destruction of our very civilization?

Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven't pediatricians come
forward to demand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to
advocate for the treatment of these children before it is too late?  Why are
they not at the front of the line protesting the amounts of mercury allowed
to come out of coal-fired power plants? Why aren't they leading the charge
to stop the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings that are placed in the
mouths of young children and pregnant women?

The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell
about environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally
disabled citizens did less than remain silent because they have become arms
of the very corporations that profit from selling and distributing poisons.
Just look who sits on the FDA's Scientific Advisory Boards - the conflicts
of interest are so glaring as to suggest that the FDA has become a trade arm
of big pharma.

Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government has
quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.3
Pediatricians will no longer be able to hide behind the skirts of "Standard
of Care" if they are giving autistic children heavy-metal laden vaccines.
That is only one step away from giving vaccines and making normal children
autistic.

The AAP should proactively be bringing in risk management specialists and be
proactive towards how this could affect pediatricians in  civil litigation
for following the CDC recommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of
any type of neurodevelopmental delay in a child. This is what they are
afraid of and this is what the law of attraction will bring in upon the AAP
and the minions of those that just followed the recommendations and drank
the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.

For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party to
the damage that is being done to the world's children by sending in my dues
for a third decade. It is a token protest, but it has to begin with someone.

1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80

2 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v1

3
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

K. Paul Stoller, MD is the President of International Hyperbaric Medical
Assoc and Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.