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07-24-2003, 10:19 PM
I thought this was interesting to share with everyone if you haven't already read it.
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STATEMENT BY BERNARD RIMLAND, PH.D.
THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC IS REAL, AND EXCESSIVE VACCINATIONS ARE THE CAUSE
The vaccine manufacturers, the Center for Disease Control, the
FDA, and the various medical associations have failed miserably in their
duty to protect our children. Rather than acknowledge their role in
creating the immense, catastrophic rise in autism, these organizations
have resorted to denial and obfuscation. They stand to lose their
credibility, and billions of dollars in liability suits will soon reach
the courts.
As a full-time professional research scientist for 50 years, and
as a researcher in the field of autism for 45 years, I have been shocked
and chagrined by the medical establishment's ongoing efforts to
trivialize the solid and compelling evidence that faulty vaccination
policies are the root cause of the epidemic. There are many consistent
lines of evidence implicating vaccines, and no even marginally plausible
alternative hypotheses.
. As the number of childhood vaccines has increased 700%, from 3 in
the '70s to 22 in 2000, the prevalence of autism has also showed a
parallel increase of 700%..
. Late onset autism, (starting in the 2nd year), was almost unheard
of in the '50s, '60s, and '70s; today such cases outnumber early onset
cases 5 to 1, the increase paralleling the increase in required
vaccines.
. Thousands of parents report - and demonstrate with home videos --
that their children were normal and responsive until suffering an
adverse vaccine reaction. (The Autism Research Institute has been
tracking such autism-related vaccination reactions since 1967.)
. Mercury, one of the most toxic substances known, is used as a
preservative in many vaccines. Some infants have had 125 times the
maximum allowable limit of mercury injected directly into their
bloodstreams, in one day, in vaccines. (People vary enormously in their
sensitivity to mercury, because certain genes predispose to mercury
sensitivity. The highly-touted New England Journal of Medicine Danish
study failed to mention the very convenient fact that none of the Danish
children had prior exposure to mercury, since Denmark, unlike the U.S.
had, banned mercury from childhood vaccines in 1992, the year before the
birth year of the children in the study.)
. There are numerous scientific studies showing large differences
in clinical laboratory measures of blood, urine and biopsies which
compare autistic children with normal controls. Such findings, pointing
directly to vaccines as the cause of the group differences, are
conveniently overlooked by those attempting to conceal the strong
connection between the autism epidemic and excessive use of unsafe
vaccines.
The truth must - and will - emerge. It is long overdue.
Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Director, Autism Research Institute
Editor, Autism Research Review
International
Founder, Autism Society of America
BRmo
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STATEMENT BY BERNARD RIMLAND, PH.D.
THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC IS REAL, AND EXCESSIVE VACCINATIONS ARE THE CAUSE
The vaccine manufacturers, the Center for Disease Control, the
FDA, and the various medical associations have failed miserably in their
duty to protect our children. Rather than acknowledge their role in
creating the immense, catastrophic rise in autism, these organizations
have resorted to denial and obfuscation. They stand to lose their
credibility, and billions of dollars in liability suits will soon reach
the courts.
As a full-time professional research scientist for 50 years, and
as a researcher in the field of autism for 45 years, I have been shocked
and chagrined by the medical establishment's ongoing efforts to
trivialize the solid and compelling evidence that faulty vaccination
policies are the root cause of the epidemic. There are many consistent
lines of evidence implicating vaccines, and no even marginally plausible
alternative hypotheses.
. As the number of childhood vaccines has increased 700%, from 3 in
the '70s to 22 in 2000, the prevalence of autism has also showed a
parallel increase of 700%..
. Late onset autism, (starting in the 2nd year), was almost unheard
of in the '50s, '60s, and '70s; today such cases outnumber early onset
cases 5 to 1, the increase paralleling the increase in required
vaccines.
. Thousands of parents report - and demonstrate with home videos --
that their children were normal and responsive until suffering an
adverse vaccine reaction. (The Autism Research Institute has been
tracking such autism-related vaccination reactions since 1967.)
. Mercury, one of the most toxic substances known, is used as a
preservative in many vaccines. Some infants have had 125 times the
maximum allowable limit of mercury injected directly into their
bloodstreams, in one day, in vaccines. (People vary enormously in their
sensitivity to mercury, because certain genes predispose to mercury
sensitivity. The highly-touted New England Journal of Medicine Danish
study failed to mention the very convenient fact that none of the Danish
children had prior exposure to mercury, since Denmark, unlike the U.S.
had, banned mercury from childhood vaccines in 1992, the year before the
birth year of the children in the study.)
. There are numerous scientific studies showing large differences
in clinical laboratory measures of blood, urine and biopsies which
compare autistic children with normal controls. Such findings, pointing
directly to vaccines as the cause of the group differences, are
conveniently overlooked by those attempting to conceal the strong
connection between the autism epidemic and excessive use of unsafe
vaccines.
The truth must - and will - emerge. It is long overdue.
Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Director, Autism Research Institute
Editor, Autism Research Review
International
Founder, Autism Society of America
BRmo