Is it too early for an “I told you so!”???

I was cooking dinner tonight, as I always do, and the phone rang. It was my mother-in-law on the other end calling to tell us the news she had heard about a law suit against vaccine makers in Federal Court. She told us that the family won their law suit. They had exposed their 19 month old child to multiple vaccines only to see the child’s normal development regress into autism. There was no explanation for this other than the vaccines. I decided to look into it on the net and surprisingly enough, there was little news about it. The following excerpt is from an AOL news web page, posted by one of its users:

“In November the US Government conceded that a little girl’s autism was brought on by her vaccines and she will be paid out of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. Her case was one of the first three test cases chosen to put the vaccine/autism theory under the microscope at the Vaccine Omnibus Hearings. This is only the first of 4,900 cases before the Federal vaccine court to get a decision.

The case was supposed to go to trial this coming May, but instead settled and subsequently sealed by the court, who claimed that it was for the protection of the child’s privacy. Except that the family has waved their right to privacy and apparently wants the fact of the case and the ruling known.

Journalist David Kirby obtained the court documents and published them last week. The family of the girl is planning a press conference this week in Atlanta some time.

No major US news outlets have run the story on the bombshell court ruling, and in fact in the past week several ‘experts’ have been in the news repeating the now legally false claim that there is no link between vaccines and autism. ABC News looked at doing a story on the government court concession, it but then didn’t.

So what we have here is the government and the medical community publicly telling parents that vaccines have no relationship to autism while privately admitting the link and paying damages to a family for vaccine induced autism. And apparently hoping that no one will notice.”

So, that being said… why is there still such a hard nosed approach to the whole autism-vaccine link? Yes, vaccine manufacturers are making the effort to manufacture vaccines that are free of preservatives such as mercury and thimerisol, however what you may not know is that they still use thimerisol during the manufacturing process and attempt to “wash” it out of the vaccine post-production. An independent test was conducted on 4 vaccines from Merck claiming to be thimerisol and mercury free, only to find that 3 out of the 4 tested positive for mercury! What the hell is going on and why is this being allowed to happen?? Does no one regulate these companies so that they are actually doing what they are claiming to do? Where is the FDA in all of this? Shouldn’t a government organization, charged with deeming medicine safe for the general public’s use, be on top of this and regulating it, even to the point of random tests to ensure product quality and purity?

I eagerly await the press conference that the family will be holding in the coming weeks. I look forward to hearing their story and can only hope that it enlightens more people as to the plight of families such as theirs, such as mine, such as countless others worldwide, who live with a loved one or loved ones with Autism.

One final note which comes from an Autism message board that my wife is a part of. One mother of an autistic child wrote on there that she finds the behavior of the vaccine manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies deplorable because they seem to be sitting on their hands during this whole debate, not fully researching causes and treatments. But, she continues, that if there WAS a vaccine or medication that would cure autism, they’d be all over it like a pig on shit (I’m paraphrasing here!!). There’s no money to be made in researching a disease that you have inadvertently helped to turn into an epidemic. But because there is no way for profit to be made from treating autism, it has not been deemed an epidemic. Polio, small pox: there were “epidemics” that affected 1 in 1000 people. Autism only affects 1 in 150, or over 6.5 times as many as polio or small pox did. But autism isn’t an epidemic… Couldn’t possibly be.

I’ll leave you with this question to ponder: are you aware that there are no cases of regressive autism (normal development and then regression in functioning) before the 1980s? And are you also aware of the timing of the change to the immunization schedule in the United States? I’ll let you take a guess on that one….

Update: here is a link to the press conference and video footage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23508982/