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by Tim
O'Shea, DC
This article is excerpted from Dr. O'Shea's forthcoming
third edition of the Sanctity of Human Blood.
Perhaps one of the most shocking pieces ever to appear on television
this past April: a six-hour taping of a Congressional investigation
into the relationship between vaccines and autism among American
children. This footage appeared on C-SPAN and was then archived
on their website for a entire month.
On April 6, 2000 Rep. Dan Burton convened the Congressional
hearing in which parents repeatedly told similar stories - how
their normally developing babies, after MMR or DPT vaccinations,
began displaying autistic behaviors, conditions that are often permanent.
Happy, bright children were suddenly losing their abilities to
learn, communicate or even recognize their parents.
Amazing testimony was given by experts
in the field of autism:
Mary Megson,MD,
Explained how autism has gone from being rare (about one incident
per 10,000 children in 1978), to epidemic proportions in 2000 AD:
one case in every 300-500 children in
many areas!
Megson's research has shown total deficiency of vitamin A in almost
all autistic children.
What depletes the body of vitamin A at
15 months?
The MMR vaccine.
In addition, Megson found that pertussis toxin from the DPT shot
disrupted a certain protein that is necessary for retinal formation.
This would account for the prevalence of night-blindness and loss
of 3D vision so common among autistics.
John O'Leary,PhD
A world-class researcher and molecular biologist from Ireland,
using state-of-the-art sequencing technology, showed how he had
found the measles virus in the gut of 96%
of autistic children, compared to 6.6% in normal children.
This virus did not come from the natural disease, but from the
measles vaccine.
Dr. O'Leary found measles virus present in 75% of children with
Crohn's disease. Crohn's has traditionally been an intestinal disease
of adults, following years of dietary abuse. Its appearance in children
is a new event, and Dr. O'Leary's work points to the measles virus
from vaccines as the likely cause.
V. Singh, MDM
A specialist from Utah State who has studied over 400 cases of
autism, found that these children had experienced an autoimmune
episode, in which their own bodies had been made to attack the linings
of their nervous systems. Dr. Singh characterized the epidemic as
a "hyperimmune response to the measles virus."
He stated that 55% of the families said
that autism appeared soon after an MMR shot, and that 33% of families
said it appeared soon after a DPT shot.
Such neurologic damage is a well-established side-effect of the
mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde used in these vaccines.
Andrew Wakefield, MD
A brilliant researcher from the UK, noted an almost 100% incidence
of "lymphoid nodular hyperplasia" or swollen lumps throughout
the intestinal tissue of autistics. Such a condition is rare in
normal children. Intestinal pathology is characteristic of the autistic
child, and the condition generally follows soon after the MMR shot.
Dr. Wakefield explained that as the fragile, newborn intestine
cannot function because of its swollen condition, undigested toxins
from vaccines and drugs are allowed to get into the liver, which
is also in a formative stage.
Liver pathology is very common among autistics. Wakefield's hypothesis
is that these same "undegraded toxins," having not been
halted by the intestine or the liver, as normally happens, that
these toxins are then free to attack the nervous system, and that
autism may well be the result.
Kathy Pratt, PhD
Director of the Indiana Center for Autism, stated that 1 in 400
children in Indiana were autistic! With 500,000
cases reported in the U.S., Dr. Pratt stated that autism
is now more common than Down's syndrome. Dr. Pratt points out that
autism presently may disqualify a person for medical coverage for
other, unrelated conditions.
Michael Goldberg, MD
A California pediatrician and researcher, explained how it was
impossible to have an epidemic based solely on genetics. That's
the standard excuse the CDC and the NIH have been using to explain
how autism has grown from 1 in 10,000
to 1 in 300 in just 22 years.
Seeing the American democratic system in action in a live Congressional
hearing, it soon becomes apparent how the control of information
operates, even in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence that
we may well be poisoning our own children!
Colleen Boyle was there to represent the Centers for Disease Control.
After stumbling through her prepared statement in which she denied
any connection between autism and vaccines, Boyle stated the present
incidence to be "12 in 10,000." Burton then stopped her
cold by asking her one simple question:
Did she think it was a conflict of interest
for the same people who were funded by the vaccine manufacturers
to be on the advisory board making decisions about which vaccines
should be given to American children?
Boyle was dumfounded and speechless. Burton repeated the question.
Still no answer. Boyle's mute portrayal of the career bureaucrat
spoke volumes.
Equally inept and ill-prepared was Deborah Hirtz, MD, representing
the National Institutes of Health. Losing her place in her written
statement, Hirtz forgot what she was saying, and it seemed obvious
she had not written it. Finally, she just barely managed to put
across what she was sent there to say - that there could be no connection
between vaccines and autism, but that the NIH was "looking
into it."
The NIH has already spent some $40 million per year of taxpayer
money "looking into it." (Hirtz) Their answer: It needs
further study. The performance of these representatives from the
two government agencies who have almost sovereign power in the area
of vaccines was frightening - their indifference; lack of information;
condescension; and low level of intelligence.
They gave no sign of having understood one word of the critically
important breakthrough research that had just been so brilliantly
expounded by Drs. Megson, O'Leary, and Wakefield. This is what power
looks like - people who have been in their position so long that
they know they don't have to justify themselves to anyone lower
down on the food chain.
Government agencies have the same answer to every problem: more
committees; more money; more study; and more meetings. Meanwhile,
22 years have gone by, and all these people say is "we don't
know."
After 22 years and $100 million, we don't
know the incidence, the cause or the cure for autism. But we'll
definitely "look into it." And, oh yes, it's definitely
"not vaccines."
This is the thinking that passes as logic. The key point here that
no one seems to be pointing out is that research should be done
before mandating a vaccine into the bloodstream of American
children! You don't just start mass-injecting something into a population
and then stand back and defy independent scientists to prove it
isn't safe! That's exactly what we've done here.
As a nation, as a government, and as parents, Americans should
be very certain, beyond a reasonable doubt, that any substance being
injected into an unformed little nervous system is absolutely safe
and does no harm. That should be the minimum requirement.
Drs. Wakefield, O'Leary, and Megson have shown startling results
from some of the only scientific research on autism and vaccines
in the entire world that has not been funded by the vaccine manufacturers.
This research also shows a high likelihood that MMR and DPT vaccines
may cause permanent intestinal destruction, liver damage, and autism.
It presents a very plausible hypothesis for the horrific increase
of autism since 1978. So, until we know for certain if they're right,
why are the vaccines not suspended?
Researcher Gary Null's pert answer comes swimming to the surface;
"It's the money, stupid." By the end of the hearing, Burton's
room was polarized into three groups:
- those who were convinced of a connection
between autism and vaccines
- those who admitted the possibility
- those who angrily denied the possibility,
affronted that anyone would question their "scientific"
opinions
It was amusing to see which people in the room were trying to discover
the truth, and which were trying their best to cover it up.
Despite Burton's heroic efforts to bring these matters into public
view, it's an uphill struggle. The big money's on the side of vaccines.
Big money controls research, the press, "scientific" journals,
and politicians. Seeing all these forces clash together in one room
in just six hours has been the most instructive display of confusing
the issues perhaps since the OJ trial.
Watching a live congressional hearing like this, it soon becomes
clear that for them, the real priority isn't necessarily finding
the truth, but rather showing who's really in charge here. The viewer
begins to understand how autism could have gone from being unknown
in 1978 to being a household word in just 22 years with so little
fanfare.
The researchers who have unlimited funding may 'prove' whatever
they wish, get it published in the best journals, which are heavily
advertised in by the drug companies, and then refuse to respond
to valid objections, because they know that those opposing points
of view will probably not be published.
Despite these formidable obstacles, doubts are creeping into the
overall public "consciousness" from many different directions
about the safety of vaccines. At one in 500, the
fact of autism as an epidemic can no longer be covered up.
The work of Wakefield, O'Leary, and Megson is going to be very
difficult to explain away. The massive advertising campaign about
the safety of vaccines in the popular media, which is certain to
be stepped up in the next few months, is going to look very hollow
in the light of clean, unbiased research that is not funded by parties
who stand to make billions from certain predetermined results.
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