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UnInformed Consent
Monday -  March 15, 2004 12:00AM
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http://www.universityofhealth.net/PR/3304PRUSNOMHearing.htm

Experts Warn Officials -

Massive Mercury Exposure in Vaccines/Amalgam Fillings Linked To
Epidemic
Levels of Autism and Neurological Disease.  
Allege Enormous Conflicts of Interest - Cover-up.

For Complete In-Depth Coverage and Stats of US National Academy of
Sciences
Continuing Investigation.
http://www.universityofhealth.net/NAS/NAS%20Roster.htm  <=== Go here
to see
video of experts and Congressman Weldon's address about Dr. Wakefield.

UNINFORMED CONSENT, WA DC - Hot accusations of whom to blame swam
amongst
rumors that the US National Academy of Sciences nearly canceled their
hearing because of threats.  NAS staff carefully heeled media
cameramen and
a daylong pressure cooker of expert testimony began.  

The Immunization Safety Review Committee, (ISRC), for the National
Institute of Medicine, (NOM), under the US National Academy of
Sciences,
(NAS), heard testimony from 15 experts in a day long "Safety Review"
on
mercury levels in vaccines/dental amalgam and links to epidemic levels
of
autism.  http://www.iom.edu/subpage.asp?id=18065  

Whether the CDC, (Centers for Disease Control), (and a fraternity of
other
government agencies charged with public safety oversight of
pharmaceuticals
and medical practices), have acted in the best interests of
pharmaceutical
cartels instead of the public is at the core.

This was the ninth and the latest in a series of hearings that began
in
January of 2001 on vaccine safety.  Although in July of 2001, the ISRC
called for the, "removal of thimerosal from vaccines as a
precautionary
step in the effort to minimize children's exposure to mercury", no
action
has been taken to heed their recommendation.  (See recommendation)
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309076366/html/75.html#pagetop  .  

Fears that failure to act may have maimed an entire generation of
children
was clearly the primarily focus on the minds of most throughout the
hearing.

While opening remarks from the IRSC Chair, Dr. Marie McCormick,
defended
the committee's knowledge and commitment by showing the audience a 6
inch
binder of collected data stating the information was "copied on both
sides
and that the committee has read them.  Believe me, they have read
them."
http://www.streamload.com/UIC/McCormick.rm  (See video of McCormick),
an
irascible US Congressman Dave Weldon, (R-FL), also a physician,
chastised
the CDC's lack of cooperation.  Weldon stated the CDC have "erected
excessive barriers and have imposed severe limits on access to this
data"
to researchers and others in congressional investigations over the
past two
years, http://www.streamload.com/UIC/weldon.rm     (See video of
Weldon),
http://www.autismcanada.org/News/Weldon.pdf (Text of Weldon address)

The audience consisted of a virtual plethora of powerful interests,
included media, journalists, world acclaimed experts, congressional
representatives, representatives of the FDA, CDC, NIH, ADA, corporate
pharmaceutical executives, a diverse infusion of the dental community
and
parents of autistic children, some of them physicians themselves.  

Many of the presentations were of peer-reviewed studies presented by
their
own authors.  Each were required to disclose any possible conflicts of
interest in the way of outside funding that might be interpreted as
influencing the outcome of their research and reflect on their
credibility.
(See video clips of each expert and disclosures)
http://www.universityofhealth.net/NAS/NAS%20Roster.htm

Commonly connected were experts who had no conflicts of interest, all
visibly shaken that current practices have exposed an entire
generation to
a dangerous level of the powerful neurotoxin mercury without
consideration
of the bio accumulative consequences.  Some even chastised themselves
for
their own failure to act sooner when waves of parents of autistic
children
begged them to listen.  (See video clips of each expert and
disclosures)
http://www.universityofhealth.net/NAS/NAS%20Roster.htm

One expert, Dr. Marc Geier, a physician, board certified geneticist
and
vaccine researcher, has been doing research for over 30 years.  Geier
has
published in over 30 different peer-reviewed publications has been
investigating vaccine safety, including the CDC's own Vaccine Adverse
Effects Reporting System, (VAERS), for Congress.    Geier told the
committee,  "This society is going to be in big trouble - we cannot
have a
whole generation of people damaged the way this is happening."   Geier
went
on to say vaccine manufacturers have begun to mislabel vaccines so
that the
thimerosal cannot be tracked.  "I must say I'm a little bit
embarrassed to
stand here and listen to Verstraeten's work being presented after what
they
said at Simpsonwood,"  (referring to an ad hoc meeting at the
Simpsonwood
Meeting Center in Atlanta in 2000 discussing what to do about
Verstraeten's
original and alarming findings). " This is NOT a scientific issue.
This is
about as proven issue as we're ever going to see.  What's occurring
here is
a cover-up under the guise of protecting the vaccine program."

After discussing various studies and presenting some compelling
studies of
his own, Dr. Boyd Haley, PhD, Chemistry Chair at the University of
Kentucky
stated he was "baffled how there can be such different results from
people
using the same database," To which one IRS committee member retorted,
"Are
you implying the epidemiologists lied?"  Haley responded,  "I'm
implying
that some epidemiologists lied, yes."

Only four of six of those with succinct conflicts of interest with
funding
from pharmaceutical interests could represent that they found no
problem
with the powerful additive, mercury.  The remaining two had unclear
but
likely conflicts of interests and rescinded an opinion. (See video
clips
and stats of experts and disclosures)
http://www.universityofhealth.net/NAS/NAS%20Roster.htm

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