Entries for the Challenge and Our Responses

The Origins of Vaccine and Autism Myth Debunked.

Correlation is Not Causation.

Thimerosal Challenge: Lack of a Challenge-Are Vaccines Safe?

Disease That Are Coming Back Due to Not Vaccinating.

Autism: Vaccines and Fevers During Pregnancy.

Differences in mercury and its Safety.

Behind the Interest of Researchers.

The Narrative of Autism and How it Got Us to Where We are Today.

Rising Autism Rates and Thimerosal in Pregnancy.

Thimerosal History Notable Factors of Autism Victims

A student focused on the research of Andrew Wakefield regarding the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.  This particular vaccine is a live viral vaccine and does not contain (and never has) the mercury based preservative, thimerosal.  The thimerosal would kill the live virus component of the vaccines rendering it ineffective. That said, it would be informative for this student and others to get acquainted with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a government run database that records adverse vaccines events. While the government admits that the vast majority of adverse events are not captured by the database for a host of reasons, your students will find the information illuminating from a research point of view. In the database, the students will see that while we can count the number of measles deaths on one hand in the past 10 years (usually in the immune compromised), VAERS data on the MMR vaccine cites an alarming number of severe adverse events and deaths that have occurred in previously healthy children. These adverse events go way beyond benign reactions and are ones that no parent would ever want for their child when the risk of measles deaths is normally so low. SmartVax.org is a wonderful website that helps individuals weigh the risks and benefits of vaccination.

A majority of students focused on the debate regarding vaccines and autism.  Research that does not find an association with autism does not mean that thimerosal is safe. Thus, again, the rules of the challenge weren’t followed. But to help them learn, we created a document that contains the 19 studies the CDC often cite to claim thimerosal doesn’t cause autism. The students will see that while the studies have incorrect stats and many have been cited as fraudulent by one of the authors, Dr. William Thompson,  the studies still found associations with thimerosal and IQ deficits, language delay and tics (Tourette’s Syndrome is a grave neurological disorder that has increased in the past 25 years). Review the 19 studies on our website.

Another student cites that the body can handle multiple antigens. This is still not answering the challenge but as they have put time into this argument, we will explain. The antigen is just one portion of a vaccine.  Vaccines contain other ingredients. Many of those ingredients are there to preserve the vaccine from contamination, others are powerful adjuvants like aluminum designed to stimulate the immune system. Others like formaldehyde, phenols and the contaminate glyphosate are toxins that should never be injected into the human body. These ingredients often cause health issues vs. the antigens themselves.

The students should research the fact that the vaccine schedule has NEVER been testing in its entirety. Multiple vaccines (the schedule) vs. no vaccines has never been tested by the CDC, FDA or vaccine manufacturer. As this is so basic to the vaccine program, many are shocked to hear that fact. Recently however, a independent, peer-reviewed study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations was published. The study found that vaccinated children were significantly more likely to have been diagnosed with infections, allergies, and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD.

Have your students research that the vaccines are never tested against a true placebo. After a bit of research, they will find that vaccine placebos are not comprised of a true inert ingredient like saline, but rather another already approved vaccine or the adjuvant. Meaning that the MMR or HPV might be tested against a placebo that contains the powerful adjuvants but not the antigens. Or one vaccine against another. What if both vaccines/adjuvants cause headaches? The signal won’t be apparent. This exercise waters down any statistical effects and is common if one wants to alter the statistics to erase a signal.

Do your students know that vaccine safety trials set the follow-up period as just a matter of days and weeks?  This barely allows for any severe adverse events and is far too short to assess for long term health outcomes like immune system and neurological disorders that manifest over time after an initial injury.

Are your students aware that if an infant or child is harmed by a vaccine their parents are not able to file a lawsuit against the manufacture?  The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) has paid over $3.6 billion for injuries since it went into effect in 1988. This money covers the cost to help raise the child and does not include penalties for injuries like a regular court case. Plus, death due to vaccines is capped at only $250,000. The students probably understand cases like death due to the painkiller, Vioxx, and that Merck hid the bad studies and only submitting the studies to the FDA where there were no adverse events. For that scientific fraud, Merck has since paid billions in damages for Vioxx injuries and death. Are we to assume that Merck does not perform these fraudulent antics in their vaccine division? (which by the way is headed by Ex-CDC Director, Julie Gerberding). In a study called Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, the authors cite at least 83 claims paid by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that vaccines caused autism. Yet, the CDC still lies about this fact.

While some will agree that in all cases correlation does not mean causation, the evidence is strong that in some cases it does.  Here is one case where father and Johns Hopkins neurologist, Dr. Jon Polling, is interviewed by Sanjay Gupta of CNN. Dr. Poling explains how vaccines caused his child’s autism and how the government awarded the Poling’s money to provide health and care for their daughter’s lifetime care.

We thank you and the students for the submission and appreciate your time and effort. Like you, we want safe vaccinations. We offer this opinion that vaccination rates going down are actually caused by the failure of the Federal government to acknowledge the flaws in our vaccine program. And, until the policy makers address the problems systematically with sound program and science, parents will continue to refuse vaccines. Watch then National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Bernadine Healy describes this exact phenomenon and questions why the science has not been done by our vaccine program.

Enclosed is your check which we did not process. If you disagree with our review of the submission feel free to follow the appeal process on our website. We are also enclosing two items: the book, “Thimerosal, Let the Science Speak,” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the video “Trace Amounts.” I hope that you and your students will watch the movie and read the book.

Finally, this article does not address or demonstrate that Thimerosal is safe in the amounts contained in vaccines currently being administered to American children and pregnant women.