For those who may have an interest:
http://www.autismhelpforyou.com/simpsonwood.pdf
This is the transcript obtained under FOIA of the Simpsonwood meeting, which took place in June 2000 to discuss the preliminary finding of Ver Straetten, a researcher employed by the CDC to study the question of thimerosal (ethyl mercury) used as a preservative in many vaccines. A group of parents, researchers and PhD’s had raised this question during the period of 1996-1999, which culminated in the 2nd of 5 hearings Rep Dan Burton (R-IN) hosted on the topic of vaccines and autism. The FDA had to admit then that they had no data about the safety of using thimerosal, which subsequently led to the Ver Straetten study commissioned by the CDC. After he finished his initial study (which found a direct corelation between the number of thimerosal shots and likelihood of developing autism) Ver Straetten left the CDC to take a job with one of the primary manufacturers of vaccines in their European division. The CDC did not release his study, calling it “phase 1” and instead gathered additional data from a very dubious source, which was not keyed directly into answer the studies primary questions, and use the additional patient records to “dilute” the results of the “phase 1” study so that the association between thimerosal and autism became weak enough to brush aside.
http://www.autismhelpforyou.com/Aluminum%20-%201%20of%202.pdf
http://www.autismhelpforyou.com/Aluminum%20-%202%20of%202.pdf
Before Simpsonwood was the Puerto Rico Conference which looked at the use of aluminum adjuvants (added to “boost” the immuno response of the body to imperfectvaccine components). Despite the known dangers of aluminum, it continues to be used today in many vaccines, most notoriously in the DTwP and DTaP. One very important fact that is mentioned several times during the course of the 2 day conference is that most metals have a relatively high degree of reactivity (when compared to non-metals) and that aluminum in particular has an intensifying effect upon other metals, meaning that the danager aluminum or mercury may pose in their own rights is far less than the danger they pose when they “tag-team”. Despite what is known, the end conclusion of this workshop was that it would be too inconvenient to the manufacturer to have them reformulate their products without the aluminum adjuvants.
These are very serious charges to level against our public health officials, all the more so because clinical research is exposing the dangers as more than trivial and the actions of the management of the CDC, FDA, NIH and IOM have placed us in a very ugly position of having our public health compromised by their lies and misleading conduct. Although those who worship at the altar of vaccinology (or profit from same) commonly exxagerate the danger of the diseases they proport to erradicat, neither measles nor polio is a benign disease like chickenpox, and tho the deaths attributable to either have been grossly distorted, the crippling affect of both is not something to trifle with, having left literally tens of thousands in the first half of the last century crippled or mentally retarded. Likewise rubella, although of little consequence to the children and even adults who caught it, was very dangerous to the unborn who were exposed in utero and subsequently developed congenital blindness or deafness. It is a criminal act on the part of our regulators to jeopardize these three vaccines with their misuse of science geared more towards damage control than improving the safety of vaccines.