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string(16572) "Wow what a great day we had yesterday!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aquaholicsurf.com/themed/aquaholics/img/promo-smV-nanci.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.aquaholicsurf.com/themed/aquaholics/img/promo-smV-nanci.jpg" /></a></div>Nanci Grenier Boutet owns the <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/">Aquaholics Surf Shop</a> in Kennebunk, Maine and has a heart for our kids. So three times in the Summer, the third Tuesday of June, July and August, she gives a big shout out to all the local surfers to come to Kennebunk Beach and take our special little ones surfing on their <a href="http://www.aquaholicsurf.com/blog/view/115">Special Surfer Night</a>. <br /><br />We went yesterday for the first time, Chandler surfed until he was a Popsicle, and loved every minute of it. 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All my pictures from the day will be posted <a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/surf/index.htm">here</a>, and anyone connected with the event has my permission to download and use them in any way they like (as long as it is respectful to those in the images, of course). If anyone connected with the event would like hi res images, contact me at <a href="mailto:mail@adventuresinautism.com">mail@adventuresinautism.com</a><br /><br />These are the best pics of the day. Fog rolled in at the end, so those are not as clear, but as you can see... a good time was had by all.<br /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/01.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/02.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/03.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Webster</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/04.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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He got up several times and clearly is on his way to really surfing</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/38.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/39.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/40.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture of the day! Don't know who is happier, Stephen for surfing so well, or his friend when he sees Stephen!</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/41.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little girl was so precious. Every time I saw her, just huge grins while being out on the water. It was infectious.</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/42.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/43.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/44.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/45.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the fog was rolling in, I ran down to the end of the beach to catch these two. Biggest shredders of the day.</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/46.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/47.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think that this might be my favorite. Levi Wiley, God bless him, is working his butt off to make Zeke happy, and that joyful face is the big pay off.</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/48.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/49.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you for being there for our kids.</td></tr></tbody></table>News piece on Nanci's program: <a href="http://www.wmur.com/chroniclevideo/24606545/index.html">http://www.wmur.com/chroniclevideo/24606545/index.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-5179410009081263579?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(7236) "<blockquote>cid:_1_0E51C98C0E51C4D00074D2AC8825777D<br />OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS<br />1250 BELLFLOWER BLVD. * LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 90840-0116 * 562/985-4134 FAX 562/985-8109<br /><br />PRESS RELEASE<br /><br /><br /><br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />August 12, 2010<br />F2010-024<br /><br /><br />Cal State Long Beach Biochemist's Research Supports Premise That<br />Chemical Plasticizers May Contribute to Autism and Alzheimer's Disease<br /><br /><br /><br />Who knew that brine shrimp—the tiny creatures popularly known as “Sea-Monkeys”—could reveal problems with chemicals found in plastics or even contribute to potential treatments for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism?<br /><br />Roger Acey, a professor of biochemistry at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and students in his lab have been studying the biology and genetics of embryonic development, using brine shrimp, Artemia salina, as a biological model. He is particularly interested in how environmental contaminants affect development.<br /><br />“I think all baby boomers understand Sea-Monkeys,” Acey explained. “As kids, you could order them from suppliers advertising in comic books and grow them at home.” Artemia have long been used in scientific research and remain popular in science education at school and home. The shrimp grow up to three-quarters of an inch long and can live for some time once hatched.<br /><br />Acey’s lab initially looked at how exposing the shrimp to toxic metals like copper, mercury, cadmium, etc., could affect their development. While continuing this successful work, which led to discovery of a shrimp protein that can capture metals, Acey took his ongoing research with Artemia in another direction.<br /><br />“We began looking at plasticizers and how they might affect embryonic development,” he said. “We started looking at phthalate esters—compounds that give plastic bottles their malleability. They’re found in PVC (polyvinyl chloride), blood bags, plastic tubing, cosmetics and children’s toys, and are well known environmental contaminants. They have been reported to be teratogens (causing birth defects), carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are compounds that resemble the structure of estrogens and mimic the activity of these hormones. There are examples of populations of fish that are essentially all female due to phthalate ester contamination. Most recently, phthalate esters have been implicated in Type II diabetes.<br /><br />“We made a series of phthalate esters (phthalates) with increasing the carbon chain lengths and started looking at the effect of these compounds on developing shrimp,” he continued. “Diethyl and dimethyl are non-toxic; di-n-propyl was slightly toxic; but di-n-butyl (DBP), which is the most commonly found phthalate, turns out to be the most toxic.”<br /><br />As the shrimp develop, they produce an enzyme that metabolizes the DBP, he said. “At first, we called the enzyme DBPase. As soon as the shrimp hatch and begin to develop, DPBase activity increases dramatically. If you expose the shrimp to phthalate during the early period of development, they died. If you expose the shrimp to the phthalate later in development, the compound is no longer toxic. The idea is that there is a well-defined period of development when the embryos are sensitive to the phthalate. Therefore, we began looking for a specific biochemical event that was impacted by the DBP.” He has since identified DBPase as butyrylcholinesterase.<br /><br />He noted that the shrimp were being affected by DBP at the point where their nervous system was beginning to develop, adding that shrimp have a cholinergic nervous system similar to humans in that they both use a chemical neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. <br /><br />He and his students have since used umbilical cord stem cells to study the role of butyrylcholinesterase in developing neurons and the effect of DBP. “After the stem cells are activated and begin to develop into a neuron, the DBP becomes toxic. We think what is happening is that the DBP prevents the butyrylcholinesterase from performing its normal biological function. We’re currently in the process of determining the exact function of the enzyme," Acey said.<br /><br />Acey is interested in how plasticizers might be connected to the dramatic rise in autism and Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study has shown that rat fetuses exposed to DBP develop symptoms characteristic of autism. "If you think about it, this suggests compounds that interact with butyrylcholinesterase could induce neurological problems,” he said.<br /><br />That led him to consider another plasticizer, bisphenol A, commonly called BPA, which is being widely studied for its possible toxicity. Acey’s group has shown that BPA is an inhibitor of butyrylcholinesterase. “Again, the concern is that since this compound interacts with butyrylcholinesterase, it may have a pronounced effect on neuron development,” he said. Acey believes every effort should be made to prevent exposure of pregnant women and infants to these types of compounds.<br /><br />“Interestingly, the level of brain butyrylcholinesterase is significantly increased in Alzheimer’s patients,” he said. Current therapeutics used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease target butyrylcholinesterase, so he and CSULB Professor Ken Nakayama are collaborating on further examining the biochemistry of this enzyme and its possible connections to Alzheimer’s disease.<br /><br />“Dr. Nakayama, an organic chemist, had a series of compounds he wanted tested on an enzyme from bacteria,” Acey said. “I suggested we test his compounds on butyrylcholinesterase. The results of the experiments revealed that the compounds are potent inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase and, as such, are potential therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s patients lose their cognitive functions as a result of the decrease in the level of a specific neurotransmitter. Compounds that inhibit butyrylcholinesterase result in an increase in the level of neurotransmitters —the compounds responsible for memory— and the patients begin to recover their memory.”<br /><br />They’ve applied for a patent for the compounds and are preparing to write a grant proposal to fund further studies to demonstrate whether the compounds can cross the blood-brain barrier. Acey remarked that some autistic children are responding to certain Alzheimer’s drugs, so the hope is that these compounds might someday be the basis for new medications to treat both conditions.<br /><br />Acey’s research has been funded by grants from CSULB, the March of Dimes, the National Institutes of Health, and the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB).<br /><br />To learn more about Acey’s research, visit http://chemistry.csulb.edu/roger-acey.html.<br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-873378256225282789?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(11035) "This week I started another blog. <a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/">Lives Lost to Autism</a>. It has stirred <a href="http://injectingsense.blogspot.com/2010/08/lost-lives-criminal-indifference-and.html">up</a> <a href="http://autismjabberwocky.blogspot.com/2010/08/jabberwocky-of-day-dont-speak-ill-of.html">some</a> <a href="http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2010/08/autism-dangers-result-in-lives-lost-to.html">discussion</a>, so I thought I would address it here.<br /><br />Five years ago I got into a discussion with some in the autism community on the neurodiversity side of things on whether or not it was wrong to try to 'cure' children with autism if it changed their personality. I argued that a) if getting poisons/bacteria/viruses out and getting nutrients/oxygen in, making the individual more healthy, changes some personality traits, then those traits were not a part of the real personality anyway, b) that improving health CANNOT make them into someone that they are not and c) even if it did fundamentally change someone's personality, it was worth it in the end because autism is a threat to the individual who has it, and even to some of the people that surround them.<br /><br />To illustrate my point, I planned to spend two months posting the stories where someone with autism was put in danger or killed as a result of their autism, stories that I had avoided like the plague because they truly crippled me with misery (my boy is a runner). I didn't last two months, but there were enough stories to illustrate my point in a few weeks, with members of the ND community even calling many to my attention things that I had not seen, so I cut it short int order to avoid the pain of the stories themselves.<br /><br />The series can be found here: <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/search/label/Autism%20is%20Dangerous">Autism is Dangerous</a><br /><br />The discussion was primarily between myself Wade Rankin and Kevin Leitch. You can read everyone's input there. Kevin didn't think it was a problem with me writing about it at the time, didn't have a problem with Kathleen Seidel keeping track of autism victims, has not had a problem with all the ND bloggers that discuss the tragic ends that those with autism meet, but he does not like it that I am doing it now. Which is also odd because, as Wade points out, Kevin came down on both of us for not immediately picking up the Katie McCaron story. (I guess I am damned if I do and damned if I don't.) I have read his criticism and think that his fundamental point, that autism is not a killer, is just flat out wrong... as demonstrated by the fact that... well the fact that the blog illustrates in the first place. That autism directly kills a lot of people. <br /><br />Last weekend 12 year old <a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/2010/08/west-philadelphia-pennsylvania-12-year.html">Frank Marasco</a> was pulled from his burning home. He promptly ran back inside, back up to the second floor and died. If he did not have autism, he would have had the good sense to stay out of the house. So yes... autism killed him. <br /><br />Autism kills the children who wander away from safety and drown. Autism killed our <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/05/ashley-brock-2002-2008.html">Ashley Brock</a>.<br /><br />Autism killed <a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/2010/08/felony-charges-filed-in-heat-death-of.html">Bryan Nevins.</a> He died simply because he could not open a car door and get out of a hot car.<br /><br />When I wrote the initial series, Chandler was then three. He is now eight. After Ashley's death, it hit so close to home I knew I could not ignore these stories any more and I have learned to stomach these stories a little better (though not much as Web kept popping his head in my office this week and asking, "mommy, why are you crying"). Mostly because the stories are increasing in number and brutality, and they are not effecting autism policy other than a few local police departments (God bless them) that are putting in tracking systems.<br /><br />The horrible fact is that autism makes the world a very dangerous place for people like my son. Threats from with in and from with out. I was handed another tearful reminder of this last year as my father, being the responsible grandfather that he was, decided to take out life insurance policies for my boys. He called to tell me that he had taken a policy out for Webster, but that he could not get a policy issued for Chandler until he was ten years old. Because he had autism. <br /><br />Because insurance companies, whose bottom line depends on making good bets, have these things called actuarial tables, which tell them who is likely to live and who is more likely to die. And our kids, until they are ten years old, are not a good bet for the insurance company. <br /><br />But this does not enter into autism policy at all. I have not read anywhere, from any official source, that our children are at high risk for premature death. It is time for that to change.<br /><br />Three things inspired me to finally do it. The first was reading that five children had died of pertussis this year, thus triggering 'epidemic' status. Autism killed five children in April alone (autism awareness month) but the health authorities continue to yawn when our kids die. Are their lives not worth as much as those who die from viral illness?<br /><br />The second was someone commenting on facebook that this has been the 'summer of death'. The emotional crush of these stories that keep coming and coming has been heavy in the past few months. So I finally decided if I am going to feel like crap from all this death, I might as well try to put it to good use.<br /><br />The third was a conversation with another autism mom about her super fun experience. She got a call from her son's school that her son was missing. They were on the playground, there was a cloudburst, and everyone, including the aid that was supposed to be watching her son, ran inside. It took several minutes in the class room before they realized that he was missing. The boy was found, hiding in the woods sobbing, and the special ed director acted like this was no big deal. <br /><br />Now parents can send this link to irresponsible educators, oblivious health professionals, clueless policy makers, insensitive family members and anyone who does not quite get just what kind of risk our kids are in when they have autism.<br /><br />The government does not even track, in any way, how many children die (or kill others) as a result of having autism and becoming victims of their associated medical conditions, the drugs that are being used to treat them, their own lack of a sense of danger, threats from other people who can do them harm, or combinations of these factors.<br /><br />And as I began collecting stories this week, I began realizing that there are so many more stories than any of us though were out there. It will build slowly and we will work backward, but send stories that you come across and we will get them all up eventually.<br /><br />In deciding which stories to include, we basically ask the question, "if this person didn't have autism and its accompanying medical conditions, would the incident that took their life have occurred". <br /><br />Other parents have come forward to help me keep this archive, which is good because doing this is miserable and there is no way I could keep it up on my own. At some point I just stopped reading the stories and was cutting and pasting like a zombie. Thanks to those who have stepped forward.<br /><br />Bottom line, it is long past time for the autism community to face this. If we can't, then there is no way the policy makers will. <br /><br />And to those who don't like the blog, or see autism as a blessing... I understand where you are coming from, but I am sorry... I am just not with you on it. <br /><br />People with autism a <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/04/autism-in-gods-economy-least-of-these.html">precious</a>. But autism sucks.<br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Causes of Death in Autism<br />Robert M. Shavelle, David J. Strauss and Jane Pickett<br /><br />Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders<br />Volume 31, Number 6, 569-576, DOI: 10.1023/A:1013247011483<br /><br />Abstract<br />The objective of this study was to determine which causes of death are more frequent in persons with autism, and by how much, compared with the general population. Subjects were 13,111 ambulatory Californians with autism, followed between 1983 and 1997. The units of study were person-years, each linked to the subject''s age, sex, and cause of death (if any) for the specific year. Observed numbers of cause-specific deaths were compared with numbers expected according to general population mortality rates. Standardized mortality rates (SMRs) were computed for each mental retardation level. <b>Elevated death rates were observed for several causes, including seizures and accidents such as suffocation and drowning; elevated mortality due to respiratory disease was observed among persons with severe mental retardation. Overall, excess mortality was especially marked for persons with severe mental retardation, but life expectancy is reduced even for persons who are fully ambulatory and who have only mild mental retardation.</b><br /><br /><br />Autism. 2008 Jul;12(4):403-14.<br />Mortality and causes of death in autism spectrum disorders: an update.<br /><br />Mouridsen SE, Brønnum-Hansen H, Rich B, Isager T.<br /><br />Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. sem01@bbh.hosp.dk<br />Abstract<br /><br />This study compared mortality among Danish citizens with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) with that of the general population. A clinical cohort of 341 Danish individuals with variants of ASD, previously followed over the period 1960-93, now on average 43 years of age, were updated with respect to mortality and causes of death. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated for various times after diagnosis. <b>In all, 26 persons with ASD had died, whereas the expected number of deaths was 13.5. Thus the mortality risk among those with ASD was nearly twice that of the general population.</b> The SMR was particularly high in females. The excess mortality risk has remained unchanged since our first study in 1993. Eight of the 26 deaths were associated with epilepsy and four died from epilepsy. 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string(1353) "<blockquote><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20686434">Pediatr Infect Dis J</a>. 2010 Aug 3. [Epub ahead of print]<br />ADVERSE NEUROLOGIC REACTIONS AFTER BOTH DOSES OF PANDEMIC H1N1 INFLUENZA VACCINE WITH OPTIC NEURITIS AND DEMYELINATION.<br /><br />Lapphra K, Huh L, Scheifele DW.<br /><br />From the *Vaccine Evaluation Center, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children' Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and daggerDivision of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<br />Abstract<br /><br />When a neurologic condition develops after vaccination of a patient, the causal relationship is difficult to determine. We report an unusual case in which neurologic signs occurred in a previously healthy child after both doses of H1N1 2009 influenza vaccine, culminating in bilateral optic neuritis and disseminated encephalomyelitis. A causal association is more likely with repeated injury following influenza vaccination.<br /><br />PMID: 20686434 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-6673440872192683173?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1248) "Someone came across the 1983 US recommended vaccine schedule on the CDC's web site:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.adventuresinautism.com/images/schedule1983s.jpg"><br /><br />23 doses of vaccine, birth to 18 years old.<br /><br />Today our kids <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/07/cdc-vaccine-recommendations-in.html">are supposed to get</a> 70 doses.<br /><br />What has changed? Where was the mass death of children to justify more than tripling the number of vaccines children get?<br /><br />No mass deaths, just the 1985 vaccine act that gave vaccine makers immunity from killing and maiming children, and and a corrupt ACIP.<br /><br />And as a reminder of the massive scale of this malpractice, there is no testing, none, that tells us what giving children this vaccine schedule (or any vaccine schedule we have ever had) does to our children. <br /><br />This in the Age of Autism, where 1 in six children have a developmental disability or delay, where autoimmune and neurological disorders are rampant.<br /><br />Malpractice.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-2988154828621619436?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1683) "Wow... so I am watching this hearing, and I can't believe I am watching a hearing in the US Congress. <br /><br />The horse is out of the barn. I don't know how Offit/Orac/Snyderman et. al. are gonna get it back in.<br /><br />Autism is environmental. You heard it in congress. Barbara Boxer even learned the word "epigenetics".<br /><br /><center><object id='cspan-video-player' classid='clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0' align='middle' height='500' width='410'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'/><param name='movie' value='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=294878-1'/><param name='quality' value='high'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=229731&style=full'/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=294878-1' base='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=229731&style=full' align='middle' height='500' width='410'></embed></object></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-6927242468086452307?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(3597) "Kathleen Sebelius gave an interview to Moms Rising, and was asked some vaccine questions. Fran Drescher was present and asked her about spacing out vaccines:<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KlDdF-l4Iyg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KlDdF-l4Iyg&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Fran never got her answer, so no... the administration is not interested in opening up a discussion on spacing out vaccines. But it is curious that Ms. Sebelius claimed that vaccines are constantly being tested for efficacy and safety. Both individually and in combination.<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />Because there is no study into the four shots (seven vaccines) that my son received at 18 months when he regressed into autism. My understanding of the process is that they do test for efficacy, but not so much for safety, and very rarely to they test combinations of vaccines for either.<br /><br />And of course there is no study that looks of the safety of the complete schedule in any way. <br /><br />The vaccine studies that they actually do are small and don't follow kids for very long. I was horrified to learn that the safety study on the Hepatitis B vaccine that Chandler reacted to when he was a new born only followed children for THREE DAYS. <br /><br />And of course these tests almost never include a true placebo group. Merely one version of a vaccine compared to another version of a vaccine or adjuvant.<br /><br />Although it was good to hear it straight from the horses mouth that the vaccine schedule is what it is partly due to convenience. Gotta get as many shots in as many kids as possible when they are in the office! Brain damage be damned.<br /><br />I came across an interesting movie quote in the NYT today. From a piece on the International AIDS Conference:<br /><br /><blockquote>In a lovely ironic touch, the conference hall is only a few steps from the Ferris wheel in the Orson Welles film noir classic set in postwar Vienna, “The Third Man.” On it, a cynical dealer of counterfeit drugs tells his pursuer to look down at the people below and says: “Victims? Don’t be melodramatic.... Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?”</blockquote><br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8i47-QBL4Qo&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8i47-QBL4Qo&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />All that "constant testing" is not so much concerned with our particular little dots.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.adventuresinautism.com/images/firebaby.jpg"></center><br /><br />This is my little dot. His fevers, crying and constipation started three days after his first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine. I never could find a safety test that covered him.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-206582486769715742?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1975) "Over the course of the last year, Polly Tommy has proved her self, as I have previously mentioned, to have <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/01/down-with-bullies-in-britain.html">balls of steel</a>. When threatened with having her magazine shut down if she did not fall in line with Big Brother and stop talking about those brilliant vaccines (Vaccines Are Safe, Vaccines Save Lives ® ™ PharmaCo, Inc.), and that evil Andy Wakefield (who wants children do die from measles even though he recommended the measles vaccine???) like a good little subject of the queen, she refused. Instead she went public with their threats, moved her magazine to the colonies, where the huddled masses yearning to breathe free come, and free speech is beloved, and is now upping the ante by starting her own media channel.<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bW9CHb16bFc&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bW9CHb16bFc&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Polly has graciously offered me a show on the channel, and I am really tempted, but as I have also recently co-founded the Center for Personal Rights to advocate for informed consent and parental choice in vaccination, I think i am over my limit on commitment. However, I have decided to become a contributor and will be having pieces there from time to time when I am able.<br /><br />And Kudos to the Tommy's for standing up and for bridging the autism communities across The Pond.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-4706477715227540620?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(4723) "<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/mercury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/mercury.jpg" /></a></div>At the beginning of last years <strike>pharma fund raiser</strike> "pandemic", I wrote a <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/10/dangers-of-mercury-in-h1n1-vaccine.html">lengthy piece</a> reminding readers just how bad mercury really is to humans, and just how high the mercury content in the H1N1 flu shot was. These are the same vaccines that public heath officials keep referring to has having 'trace amounts' of mercury. I noted that they were so mercury toxic that they were classified as hazardous material and by law must be disposed of according to hazmat rules.<br /><br />Now on the other side of the disease that <strike>killed ninety thousand Americans</strike> was the <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html">mildest flu</a> in recorded history, more than $260 million dollars worth of vaccine, at least 40 million doses, are being disposed of accordingly. Being burnt in hazmat processing facilities with mercury scrubbers to keep this neurotoxin out of our environment.<br /><br />Which again begs the question.... When we work so hard to keep mercury out of our waterways, WHY ARE WE PUTTING THIS POISON INTO OUR BABIES ON PURPOSE!!!!! IT IS ACTUAL HAZARDOUS MATERIAL!!! IT KILLS BRAIN CELLS!!! IT CAUSES MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS!!!!<br /><br />Now I am going to be up all night worrying that the poor guy that has to burn all these vaccines is going to end up with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFkyPv1jtU">Minamata Disease</a>.<br /><br />From Occupational Health and Safety Magazine:<br /><br /><blockquote>Service Will Incinerate Unused H1N1 Vaccine<br /><a href="http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/07/23/service-will-incinerate-unused-h1n1-vaccine.aspx?admgarea=news">Jul 23, 2010</a><br /><br />Clean Harbors, based in Norwell, Mass., is offering the service to health care providers because multiple doses of the vaccine contain enough mercury-based Thimerosal to be treated as a hazardous waste.<br /><br />Clean Harbors of Norwell, Mass., now offers H1N1 Vaccination Incineration Services that will profile, collect, and dispose of unused 2009 H1N1 vaccine for health care customers nationwide. Multiple doses of the vaccine contain enough mercury-based Thimerosal to be treated by EPA as a hazardous waste and will be incinerated. Vaccine dated at the end of 2008 and early 2009 is now at the end of its shelf life and must be disposed, according to the company.<br /><br />The HHS declaration of a 2009 H1N1 Public Health Emergency expired on June 23.<br /><br />"We have seen many customers in various states looking for our H1N1 disposal capabilities," John C. Kelsey, the company's vice president, Healthcare Services, said in a July 22 e-mailed reply to questions about the service. "We wanted to announce it to the larger community as we are growing our customer count related to Healthcare Services. We have done a good amount of work in this area with vaccines through our hospital Pharmaceutical Waste programs."<br /><br />He said the cost varies but is "generally the same pricing as other materials requiring hazardous waste incineration. The vaccine doses are in inventory and will be shipped via DOT packages for proper disposal," Kelsey added. "We are seeing multiple truckloads per week of the vaccine now and cannot align total amounts but we do expect the need to occur from many locations as the normal pathway for outdated items."<br />OLFA North America<br /><br />Unused vaccine doses normally are returned through Reverse Distributors, but these have no value and thus must be disposed as a waste, he said, continuing, "It is good that PHER funds can be used to reimburse organizations for the disposal process."<br /><br />CDC mandates proper disposal of H1N1 vaccines and allows Public Health Emergency Response (PHER) funds to be available for the disposal. Health care providers interested in the service can call 888-304-7035, e-mail healthcareservices@cleanharbors.com, or visit www.cleanharbors.com/healthcare.</blockquote><br />There is a saying in our community....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Giving Mercury to Children on Purpose is Stupid</b></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-7212037199506544797?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1750) "Ding! Ding! Ding! America wins a prize!!!<br /><br />CDC wants your child to have 70 vaccines by the time they are 18 years old! <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>70!</b></span></div><br />...50 of those are before the age of 6, and 37 of those are before the age of 18 months.<br /><br />CDC is blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to vaccine injury and resistance to over vaccination.<br /><br />Today the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/vac-PCV13-hcp-faqs.htm">ACIP recommended</a> a 5th dose of the 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine for those kids who only received the 7 valent version, which is essentially every child alive because that was the only version given until this year.<br /><br />They are also recommending an <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/downloads/resolutions/0610influenza-508.pdf">additional</a> flu shot this fall for any child who did not get the H1N1 last year.<br /><br />I was a Navy brat, born in 1969, and the US Government vaccinated the hell out of me. I look at my shot record and it looks like they vaccinated me every time we moved. Just in case. (I got six polio shots!)<br /><br />Yet my grand total until age 18 was 29 doses of vaccine. And my babies "need' 70?<br /><br />Actually, come to think of it... how did I ever survive with less than half the vaccines that a child 'needs' today?! <br /><br />Has anyone ever calculated the costs of those 70 vaccines? I wonder how much each child is worth to pharma as a vaccine receptacle?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-3855449168912389772?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(5666) "We finally get a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study. No... no actual children yet, but infant rhesus macaque monkeys.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.monroegallery.com/showcase/images/HM_RhesusMonkey1.jpg"></center> <br /><br />And no wonder main stream medicine doesn't want vaccine studies with an actual baseline (completely unvaccinated), because the results are dramatic. <br /><br />The infant primates vaccinated according to the US vaccine schedule (equivalent to their size/development rate, pre 2002 shots WITH full doses of mercury) showed the same brain changes found in children with autism. The amygdala, the fear and anxiety center, did not mature properly in the vaccinated group, and those differences did not appear until AFTER the 12 month vaccines were given.<br /><br />The abstract:<br /><br /><blockquote>Influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth and opioid<br />ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study<br /><br />Acta Neurobiol Exp 2010, 70: 147–164<br />©2010 by Polish Neuroscience Society - PTBUN, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology<br /><br />Laura Hewitson1,2,*, Brian J. Lopresti3, Carol Stott4, N. Scott Mason3 and Jaime Tomko1<br /><br />1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;<br />2Thoughtful House Center for Children, Austin, TX, USA; 3Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of<br />Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4Independent Chartered Scientist, Cambridge, UK;<br />*Email: lch1@pitt.edu<br /><br />This longitudinal, case-control pilot study examined amygdala growth in rhesus macaque infants receiving the complete US childhood vaccine schedule (1994-1999). Longitudinal structural and functional neuroimaging was undertaken to examine central effects of the vaccine regimen on the developing brain. Vaccine-exposed and saline-injected control infants underwent MRI and PET imaging at approximately 4 and 6 months of age, representing two specific timeframes within the vaccination schedule. 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The macaque infant is a relevant animal model in which to investigate specific environmental exposures and structural/functional neuroimaging during neurodevelopment.<br /><br />Key Words: rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, non-human primates, animal model, neuroimaging, PET, MRI, amygdala, opioids, ethyl mercury, thimerosal, neurotoxicity</blockquote><br />The full paper: <a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/Hewitsonetal2010.pdf">Hewitson et. al.</a><br /><br />The <a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/HewitsonEditorial.pdf">editorial</a> written by the editor of the journal, who says:<br /><br /><blockquote>An alarming finding is reported by Hewitson and coworkers showing that, in infant monkeys that were immunized, the amygdala does not show the normal pattern of maturation but is hypertrophied. Although these are only preliminary data, given the well-known role of the amygdala in generation of fear and other negative emotions, they support the possibility that there is a link between early immunization and the etiology of autism.</blockquote><br />Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted's discussion of the paper: <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/07/new-study-shows-vaccines-cause-brain-changes-found-in-autism.html">New Study Shows Vaccines Cause Brain Changes Found in Autism</a><br /><br />It should be noted that in the <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/04/american-academy-of-pediatrics-shows-up.html">spring of 2008</a>, The American Academy of Pediatrics was informed of this study. At the conclusion of the DAN conference in Cherry Hill, NJ in April of 2008, Dr. Jerry Kartzinel personally discussed it with Dr. Louis Cooper who was there representing the AAP. Cooper skirted the issue, acting as if he was concerned with the cost of the study, and Kartzinel replied that the study was fully funded and underway. Cooper was clearly not comfortable with the discussion of the study, and changed the subject. In their discussion of what Cooper had seen at the conference and how to proceed with some sort of partnership between ARI and AAP, Cooper had already stated to Kartzinel:<br /><blockquote>"I’m concerned about immunization policy and how you protect immunization."</blockquote><br />To my knowledge, AAP never got back to anyone on their input into, or involvement with, this primate study. Note that the study was not published by Pediatrics, where it belongs, as it is AAP's journal and AAP is Pharma's main vaccine distributor. I am sure they want this buried as deep as is possible.<br /><br />I am interested to see what AAP's public comment will be on this. 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string(1649) "Awesome, right?<br /><br />From the Examiner:<br /><br /><blockquote>Warning, Gardasil may cause increased risk of cervical cancer<br />June 30, 10:34 <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-40801-Vaccines-Examiner~y2010m6d30-Warning-Gardasil-may-cause-increased-risk-of-cervical-cancer">Norma Erickson</a><br /><br />Buyer beware: Gardasil, given under the wrong conditions, may increase the risk of cervical cancer.<br /><br />Would you consent to giving your child a vaccine that caused an increased risk of cancer? That may be exactly what you are doing when you consent to Gardasil.<br /><br />According to Information the manufacturer of this vaccine presented to the FDA prior to approval, if a person has already been exposed to HPV 16 or 18 prior to injection Gardasil increases the risk of precancerous lesions, or worse, by 44.6%. (See VRBPAC Background document, bottom of page 13) This documentation was presented on the 18th of May 2006.<br /><br />That statement bears repeating,<b> if you have been exposed to HPV 16 or 18 prior to injection and take the vaccine, you increase your risk of precancerous lesions, or worse, by 44.6%</b>.<br /><br />Is this information advertised? No! This information was actually presented to the FDA by Merck. It came from their own safety trials. The FDA did not respond by recommending screening for HPV prior to vaccination. The FDA did not even demand a warning be included in the package insert....</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-5105479432320862722?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(4238) "UPDATE: This article was written carelessly... 3.5% was the rate of IVF in the general population... NOT autism. It should read: "<span style="font-weight:bold;">a significantly higher number than the 3.5% IVF rate in the general Israeli population</span>." Thanks <a href="http://imfar.confex.com/imfar/2010/webprogram/Paper6471.html">Michelle</a>.<br /><br />But as the autism rate in the Minnesota Somali population is 1 in 28 and CDC, two years later, still can't find the time to go study them, and no one seems disturbed by that phenom... I don't think that my incredulousness over the blaze attitude with which dramatic changes in autism rates are met is unwarranted.<br /><br />We have got to wake up..<br /><br />Original Post: Talk about burying the lead!<br /><br />This article on the high autism rate among IVF children in Israel (more than ten percent) almost casually mentions that autism, in the general population there is 3.5%! That is 1 in 29 children!<br /><br /><blockquote>IVF Linked to Autism, Israeli Study Suggests<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100614122026.htm">ScienceDaily</a> (June 30, 2010) — The first "test tube baby" was born in 1978. With advances in reproductive science, an estimated one percent of all American babies are now born each year through in vitro fertilization (IVF). But IVF and other assisted fertility treatments may be solving one problem by creating another, suggests new evidence from Tel Aviv University.<br /><br />In a recent study, Dr. Ditza Zachor of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine reported a strong link between IVF and mild to moderate cases of autism. Her findings were presented last month at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia.<br /><br />According to her research at the Autism Center at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Israel, which Dr. Zachor directs, 10.5% of 461 children diagnosed with a disorder on the autism spectrum were conceived using IVF, <b>a significantly higher number than the 3.5% autism rate in the general Israeli population</b>.</blockquote><br />Where does this number come from? And why is this not on the front page of every newspaper in the world! A disorder that was only documented 70 years ago, when only 11 children in the world could be found by the father of child psychiatry over the course of 8 years, is now the dx of between 1 and 3.5 percent of the industrialized world? What the Fuck?!!! <br /><br />The UK number is 1 in 60. The published US number is 1 in 90, but that is for 12 year olds, I don't even know what the rate is for my son's birth cohort in 2002, and I hear that in the halls of government the number 1 in 60 is being batted around as the real number in the US as well!<br /><br />Last fall, the 09.09.09 campaign that the National Autism Association put on asked the question... when was autism going to be considered urgent.. it has gone from 1 in 250 to 1 in 90 since my son was diagnosed six years ago... NAA asked, does it have to get to 1 in 20 before people get upset and actually do something?<br /><br />APPARENTLY NOT EVEN THAT HIGH A RATE WILL CAUSE ALARM!!! A 1 in 29 rate is buried in Science Daily?! I reiterate... WHAT THE FUCK!!<br /><br />I can't help asking the question... are we seeing the beginning of the downfall of the human race? Remember the beginning of Shaun Of The Dead, how our hero was drifting through London not noticing that society was falling down around him? Is that happening here? What is happening?! Why is no one freaking out?!<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4DVAsmrwdtQ&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4DVAsmrwdtQ&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-6362205574109368893?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(6182) "The Combatting Autism Act of 2006 expires in 2011. <strike>Corporate fat cats</strike>, <strike>autism monopoly</strike>, <strike>charitable organization</strike>, 503c3 Corporation Autism Speaks, has already written a full bill and submitted a bill to Senator Dodd's office. <br /><br />What's that.... AS went ahead and put in a whole dang bill with out the input of the greater autism community? Shocked to the core am I.<br /><br />Once again, AS, while claiming to represent the autism universe, tiptoes behind the back of our community to write legislation that will dramatically impact your family and mine. Autism Speaks <strike>corporate shark</strike> Exec VP Peter Bell (former worldwide marketing manager of the Johnson & Johnson drug Risperdal, you know, that drug that gives our boys breasts) has brought those same wholesome, forthright values of pharma marketing to the world of autism. *<br /><br />I sent the following request to AS yesterday:<br /><br /><blockquote>Subject: Request for a copy of your Reauthorization of CAA bill<br />Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:57 -0400<br />From: Ginger Taylor <ginger@adventuresinautism.com><br />To: Peter Bell <pbell@autismspeaks.org>, Geri Dawson <gdawson@autismspeaks.org>, Mark Roithmayr <mroithmayr@autismspeaks.org><br /><br /><br />Peter, Mark and Geri,<br /><br />It is my understanding that Autism Speaks has drafted a CAA reauthorization bill and submitted it to Senator Dodd.<br /><br />Previously, despite claiming to be a big tent organization, Autism Speaks has used their position to circumvent the larger autism community in order to achieve their own agenda. I see this as yet another bad faith move to bypass autism families to get a new CAA that favors AS and its narrow goals.<br /><br />Will you release the current copy of the CAA bill that you are working on for Dodd? Will you be inviting other autism orgs like NAA, SafeMinds, Autism Action Network, ARI and TACA to offer input on this bill? Will random autism families or adults with autism be able to collaborate on this, or is the fate of hundreds of thousands of people effected by autism in the hands of three or four people at AS who are just about consolidating their power and protecting their unjustifiably large salaries?<br /><br />AS is charitable org that raises millions of dollars by claiming to represent the autism community. As such, I believe it is incumbent upon you to be transparent in your CAA dealings and release this draft to the autism community (as it will effect ALL of the autism community). Any refusal to share the bill that AS has already submitted to Dodd should be viewed as highly suspect at best.<br /><br />If you choose not to release this immediately, then please provide a reason for the back door negotiations being kept secret from those whom you claim to be serving. I plan to write a piece either way on Monday afternoon.<br /><br />Additionally... please forward me a copy of your 2009 990 as it is not listed on Guidestar and I don't see a copy of it on your web site.</blockquote><br />No response.<br /><br />I can only imagine that it has the very best interests of those with autism in mind, even thought the bill they just pushed through in NY, to the loud opposition of others in the autism community, and to the cheers of the insurance industry, is already hurting our kids. John Gilmore of Autism Action Network made this comment on their recent NY activities:<br /><br /><blockquote>"In NY Autism Speaks turned a new corner, in that they are now backing legislation that will take away what little health care coverage we have and effectively slam the door shut to access in the future. We have already received a report from a parent in Westchester county who was told by his insurance company that because of the new law (the Governor hasn't even signed it yet) payments for speech and OT will be discontinued. This is exactly what we said would happen."</blockquote><br /><br />Does AS work for people with autism, or are they a front for insurance groups and pharma? Did AS actually write the text or were the insurance or pharma lobby party to its creation? Does it include vaccine research? I think we all know the answer to that last question.<br /><br />I encourage you to call whatever autism group you belong to, large or small, and ask them what the plan is for getting a good bill to the floor.<br /><br />I would also encourage you to stop giving $$ to Autism Speaks. They are starting to seem to me more like those charities portrayed in the American classic, "Death to Smoochy", rather than one that actually improves the lives of the people whose faces adorn their fund raising posters, and whose difficult stories make them so many millions.<br /><br />And if you are in NY, you might wanna call the governors office and ask him not to sign AS's anti child, pro-insurance company "autism" bill.<br /><br />With that I will re run this little ditty that someone put together from their 2008 tax form about where their millions go.<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6S-9yQrsras&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6S-9yQrsras&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />*Update:<br /><br />I am told that Peter never worked on risperdal, but that he worked on analgesics like tylenol and motrin. 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string(16572) "Wow what a great day we had yesterday!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aquaholicsurf.com/themed/aquaholics/img/promo-smV-nanci.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.aquaholicsurf.com/themed/aquaholics/img/promo-smV-nanci.jpg" /></a></div>Nanci Grenier Boutet owns the <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/">Aquaholics Surf Shop</a> in Kennebunk, Maine and has a heart for our kids. So three times in the Summer, the third Tuesday of June, July and August, she gives a big shout out to all the local surfers to come to Kennebunk Beach and take our special little ones surfing on their <a href="http://www.aquaholicsurf.com/blog/view/115">Special Surfer Night</a>. <br /><br />We went yesterday for the first time, Chandler surfed until he was a Popsicle, and loved every minute of it. 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He got up several times and clearly is on his way to really surfing</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/38.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/39.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/40.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture of the day! Don't know who is happier, Stephen for surfing so well, or his friend when he sees Stephen!</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/41.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little girl was so precious. Every time I saw her, just huge grins while being out on the water. It was infectious.</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/42.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/43.jpg" width="700" /><br /><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/44.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/45.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the fog was rolling in, I ran down to the end of the beach to catch these two. Biggest shredders of the day.</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/46.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/47.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think that this might be my favorite. Levi Wiley, God bless him, is working his butt off to make Zeke happy, and that joyful face is the big pay off.</td></tr></tbody></table><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/48.jpg" width="700" /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="465" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/aquaholics/49.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you for being there for our kids.</td></tr></tbody></table>News piece on Nanci's program: <a href="http://www.wmur.com/chroniclevideo/24606545/index.html">http://www.wmur.com/chroniclevideo/24606545/index.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-5179410009081263579?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(7236) "<blockquote>cid:_1_0E51C98C0E51C4D00074D2AC8825777D<br />OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS<br />1250 BELLFLOWER BLVD. * LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 90840-0116 * 562/985-4134 FAX 562/985-8109<br /><br />PRESS RELEASE<br /><br /><br /><br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />August 12, 2010<br />F2010-024<br /><br /><br />Cal State Long Beach Biochemist's Research Supports Premise That<br />Chemical Plasticizers May Contribute to Autism and Alzheimer's Disease<br /><br /><br /><br />Who knew that brine shrimp—the tiny creatures popularly known as “Sea-Monkeys”—could reveal problems with chemicals found in plastics or even contribute to potential treatments for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism?<br /><br />Roger Acey, a professor of biochemistry at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and students in his lab have been studying the biology and genetics of embryonic development, using brine shrimp, Artemia salina, as a biological model. He is particularly interested in how environmental contaminants affect development.<br /><br />“I think all baby boomers understand Sea-Monkeys,” Acey explained. “As kids, you could order them from suppliers advertising in comic books and grow them at home.” Artemia have long been used in scientific research and remain popular in science education at school and home. The shrimp grow up to three-quarters of an inch long and can live for some time once hatched.<br /><br />Acey’s lab initially looked at how exposing the shrimp to toxic metals like copper, mercury, cadmium, etc., could affect their development. While continuing this successful work, which led to discovery of a shrimp protein that can capture metals, Acey took his ongoing research with Artemia in another direction.<br /><br />“We began looking at plasticizers and how they might affect embryonic development,” he said. “We started looking at phthalate esters—compounds that give plastic bottles their malleability. They’re found in PVC (polyvinyl chloride), blood bags, plastic tubing, cosmetics and children’s toys, and are well known environmental contaminants. They have been reported to be teratogens (causing birth defects), carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are compounds that resemble the structure of estrogens and mimic the activity of these hormones. There are examples of populations of fish that are essentially all female due to phthalate ester contamination. Most recently, phthalate esters have been implicated in Type II diabetes.<br /><br />“We made a series of phthalate esters (phthalates) with increasing the carbon chain lengths and started looking at the effect of these compounds on developing shrimp,” he continued. “Diethyl and dimethyl are non-toxic; di-n-propyl was slightly toxic; but di-n-butyl (DBP), which is the most commonly found phthalate, turns out to be the most toxic.”<br /><br />As the shrimp develop, they produce an enzyme that metabolizes the DBP, he said. “At first, we called the enzyme DBPase. As soon as the shrimp hatch and begin to develop, DPBase activity increases dramatically. If you expose the shrimp to phthalate during the early period of development, they died. If you expose the shrimp to the phthalate later in development, the compound is no longer toxic. The idea is that there is a well-defined period of development when the embryos are sensitive to the phthalate. Therefore, we began looking for a specific biochemical event that was impacted by the DBP.” He has since identified DBPase as butyrylcholinesterase.<br /><br />He noted that the shrimp were being affected by DBP at the point where their nervous system was beginning to develop, adding that shrimp have a cholinergic nervous system similar to humans in that they both use a chemical neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. <br /><br />He and his students have since used umbilical cord stem cells to study the role of butyrylcholinesterase in developing neurons and the effect of DBP. “After the stem cells are activated and begin to develop into a neuron, the DBP becomes toxic. We think what is happening is that the DBP prevents the butyrylcholinesterase from performing its normal biological function. We’re currently in the process of determining the exact function of the enzyme," Acey said.<br /><br />Acey is interested in how plasticizers might be connected to the dramatic rise in autism and Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study has shown that rat fetuses exposed to DBP develop symptoms characteristic of autism. "If you think about it, this suggests compounds that interact with butyrylcholinesterase could induce neurological problems,” he said.<br /><br />That led him to consider another plasticizer, bisphenol A, commonly called BPA, which is being widely studied for its possible toxicity. Acey’s group has shown that BPA is an inhibitor of butyrylcholinesterase. “Again, the concern is that since this compound interacts with butyrylcholinesterase, it may have a pronounced effect on neuron development,” he said. Acey believes every effort should be made to prevent exposure of pregnant women and infants to these types of compounds.<br /><br />“Interestingly, the level of brain butyrylcholinesterase is significantly increased in Alzheimer’s patients,” he said. Current therapeutics used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease target butyrylcholinesterase, so he and CSULB Professor Ken Nakayama are collaborating on further examining the biochemistry of this enzyme and its possible connections to Alzheimer’s disease.<br /><br />“Dr. Nakayama, an organic chemist, had a series of compounds he wanted tested on an enzyme from bacteria,” Acey said. “I suggested we test his compounds on butyrylcholinesterase. The results of the experiments revealed that the compounds are potent inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase and, as such, are potential therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s patients lose their cognitive functions as a result of the decrease in the level of a specific neurotransmitter. Compounds that inhibit butyrylcholinesterase result in an increase in the level of neurotransmitters —the compounds responsible for memory— and the patients begin to recover their memory.”<br /><br />They’ve applied for a patent for the compounds and are preparing to write a grant proposal to fund further studies to demonstrate whether the compounds can cross the blood-brain barrier. Acey remarked that some autistic children are responding to certain Alzheimer’s drugs, so the hope is that these compounds might someday be the basis for new medications to treat both conditions.<br /><br />Acey’s research has been funded by grants from CSULB, the March of Dimes, the National Institutes of Health, and the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB).<br /><br />To learn more about Acey’s research, visit http://chemistry.csulb.edu/roger-acey.html.<br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-873378256225282789?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(11035) "This week I started another blog. <a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/">Lives Lost to Autism</a>. It has stirred <a href="http://injectingsense.blogspot.com/2010/08/lost-lives-criminal-indifference-and.html">up</a> <a href="http://autismjabberwocky.blogspot.com/2010/08/jabberwocky-of-day-dont-speak-ill-of.html">some</a> <a href="http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2010/08/autism-dangers-result-in-lives-lost-to.html">discussion</a>, so I thought I would address it here.<br /><br />Five years ago I got into a discussion with some in the autism community on the neurodiversity side of things on whether or not it was wrong to try to 'cure' children with autism if it changed their personality. I argued that a) if getting poisons/bacteria/viruses out and getting nutrients/oxygen in, making the individual more healthy, changes some personality traits, then those traits were not a part of the real personality anyway, b) that improving health CANNOT make them into someone that they are not and c) even if it did fundamentally change someone's personality, it was worth it in the end because autism is a threat to the individual who has it, and even to some of the people that surround them.<br /><br />To illustrate my point, I planned to spend two months posting the stories where someone with autism was put in danger or killed as a result of their autism, stories that I had avoided like the plague because they truly crippled me with misery (my boy is a runner). I didn't last two months, but there were enough stories to illustrate my point in a few weeks, with members of the ND community even calling many to my attention things that I had not seen, so I cut it short int order to avoid the pain of the stories themselves.<br /><br />The series can be found here: <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/search/label/Autism%20is%20Dangerous">Autism is Dangerous</a><br /><br />The discussion was primarily between myself Wade Rankin and Kevin Leitch. You can read everyone's input there. Kevin didn't think it was a problem with me writing about it at the time, didn't have a problem with Kathleen Seidel keeping track of autism victims, has not had a problem with all the ND bloggers that discuss the tragic ends that those with autism meet, but he does not like it that I am doing it now. Which is also odd because, as Wade points out, Kevin came down on both of us for not immediately picking up the Katie McCaron story. (I guess I am damned if I do and damned if I don't.) I have read his criticism and think that his fundamental point, that autism is not a killer, is just flat out wrong... as demonstrated by the fact that... well the fact that the blog illustrates in the first place. That autism directly kills a lot of people. <br /><br />Last weekend 12 year old <a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/2010/08/west-philadelphia-pennsylvania-12-year.html">Frank Marasco</a> was pulled from his burning home. He promptly ran back inside, back up to the second floor and died. If he did not have autism, he would have had the good sense to stay out of the house. So yes... autism killed him. <br /><br />Autism kills the children who wander away from safety and drown. Autism killed our <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/05/ashley-brock-2002-2008.html">Ashley Brock</a>.<br /><br />Autism killed <a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/2010/08/felony-charges-filed-in-heat-death-of.html">Bryan Nevins.</a> He died simply because he could not open a car door and get out of a hot car.<br /><br />When I wrote the initial series, Chandler was then three. He is now eight. After Ashley's death, it hit so close to home I knew I could not ignore these stories any more and I have learned to stomach these stories a little better (though not much as Web kept popping his head in my office this week and asking, "mommy, why are you crying"). Mostly because the stories are increasing in number and brutality, and they are not effecting autism policy other than a few local police departments (God bless them) that are putting in tracking systems.<br /><br />The horrible fact is that autism makes the world a very dangerous place for people like my son. Threats from with in and from with out. I was handed another tearful reminder of this last year as my father, being the responsible grandfather that he was, decided to take out life insurance policies for my boys. He called to tell me that he had taken a policy out for Webster, but that he could not get a policy issued for Chandler until he was ten years old. Because he had autism. <br /><br />Because insurance companies, whose bottom line depends on making good bets, have these things called actuarial tables, which tell them who is likely to live and who is more likely to die. And our kids, until they are ten years old, are not a good bet for the insurance company. <br /><br />But this does not enter into autism policy at all. I have not read anywhere, from any official source, that our children are at high risk for premature death. It is time for that to change.<br /><br />Three things inspired me to finally do it. The first was reading that five children had died of pertussis this year, thus triggering 'epidemic' status. Autism killed five children in April alone (autism awareness month) but the health authorities continue to yawn when our kids die. Are their lives not worth as much as those who die from viral illness?<br /><br />The second was someone commenting on facebook that this has been the 'summer of death'. The emotional crush of these stories that keep coming and coming has been heavy in the past few months. So I finally decided if I am going to feel like crap from all this death, I might as well try to put it to good use.<br /><br />The third was a conversation with another autism mom about her super fun experience. She got a call from her son's school that her son was missing. They were on the playground, there was a cloudburst, and everyone, including the aid that was supposed to be watching her son, ran inside. It took several minutes in the class room before they realized that he was missing. The boy was found, hiding in the woods sobbing, and the special ed director acted like this was no big deal. <br /><br />Now parents can send this link to irresponsible educators, oblivious health professionals, clueless policy makers, insensitive family members and anyone who does not quite get just what kind of risk our kids are in when they have autism.<br /><br />The government does not even track, in any way, how many children die (or kill others) as a result of having autism and becoming victims of their associated medical conditions, the drugs that are being used to treat them, their own lack of a sense of danger, threats from other people who can do them harm, or combinations of these factors.<br /><br />And as I began collecting stories this week, I began realizing that there are so many more stories than any of us though were out there. It will build slowly and we will work backward, but send stories that you come across and we will get them all up eventually.<br /><br />In deciding which stories to include, we basically ask the question, "if this person didn't have autism and its accompanying medical conditions, would the incident that took their life have occurred". <br /><br />Other parents have come forward to help me keep this archive, which is good because doing this is miserable and there is no way I could keep it up on my own. At some point I just stopped reading the stories and was cutting and pasting like a zombie. Thanks to those who have stepped forward.<br /><br />Bottom line, it is long past time for the autism community to face this. If we can't, then there is no way the policy makers will. <br /><br />And to those who don't like the blog, or see autism as a blessing... I understand where you are coming from, but I am sorry... I am just not with you on it. <br /><br />People with autism a <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/04/autism-in-gods-economy-least-of-these.html">precious</a>. But autism sucks.<br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Causes of Death in Autism<br />Robert M. Shavelle, David J. Strauss and Jane Pickett<br /><br />Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders<br />Volume 31, Number 6, 569-576, DOI: 10.1023/A:1013247011483<br /><br />Abstract<br />The objective of this study was to determine which causes of death are more frequent in persons with autism, and by how much, compared with the general population. Subjects were 13,111 ambulatory Californians with autism, followed between 1983 and 1997. The units of study were person-years, each linked to the subject''s age, sex, and cause of death (if any) for the specific year. Observed numbers of cause-specific deaths were compared with numbers expected according to general population mortality rates. Standardized mortality rates (SMRs) were computed for each mental retardation level. <b>Elevated death rates were observed for several causes, including seizures and accidents such as suffocation and drowning; elevated mortality due to respiratory disease was observed among persons with severe mental retardation. Overall, excess mortality was especially marked for persons with severe mental retardation, but life expectancy is reduced even for persons who are fully ambulatory and who have only mild mental retardation.</b><br /><br /><br />Autism. 2008 Jul;12(4):403-14.<br />Mortality and causes of death in autism spectrum disorders: an update.<br /><br />Mouridsen SE, Brønnum-Hansen H, Rich B, Isager T.<br /><br />Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. sem01@bbh.hosp.dk<br />Abstract<br /><br />This study compared mortality among Danish citizens with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) with that of the general population. A clinical cohort of 341 Danish individuals with variants of ASD, previously followed over the period 1960-93, now on average 43 years of age, were updated with respect to mortality and causes of death. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated for various times after diagnosis. <b>In all, 26 persons with ASD had died, whereas the expected number of deaths was 13.5. Thus the mortality risk among those with ASD was nearly twice that of the general population.</b> The SMR was particularly high in females. The excess mortality risk has remained unchanged since our first study in 1993. Eight of the 26 deaths were associated with epilepsy and four died from epilepsy. 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string(1248) "Someone came across the 1983 US recommended vaccine schedule on the CDC's web site:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.adventuresinautism.com/images/schedule1983s.jpg"><br /><br />23 doses of vaccine, birth to 18 years old.<br /><br />Today our kids <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/07/cdc-vaccine-recommendations-in.html">are supposed to get</a> 70 doses.<br /><br />What has changed? Where was the mass death of children to justify more than tripling the number of vaccines children get?<br /><br />No mass deaths, just the 1985 vaccine act that gave vaccine makers immunity from killing and maiming children, and and a corrupt ACIP.<br /><br />And as a reminder of the massive scale of this malpractice, there is no testing, none, that tells us what giving children this vaccine schedule (or any vaccine schedule we have ever had) does to our children. <br /><br />This in the Age of Autism, where 1 in six children have a developmental disability or delay, where autoimmune and neurological disorders are rampant.<br /><br />Malpractice.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-2988154828621619436?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1683) "Wow... so I am watching this hearing, and I can't believe I am watching a hearing in the US Congress. <br /><br />The horse is out of the barn. I don't know how Offit/Orac/Snyderman et. al. are gonna get it back in.<br /><br />Autism is environmental. You heard it in congress. Barbara Boxer even learned the word "epigenetics".<br /><br /><center><object id='cspan-video-player' classid='clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0' align='middle' height='500' width='410'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'/><param name='movie' value='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=294878-1'/><param name='quality' value='high'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=229731&style=full'/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=294878-1' base='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=229731&style=full' align='middle' height='500' width='410'></embed></object></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-6927242468086452307?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(3597) "Kathleen Sebelius gave an interview to Moms Rising, and was asked some vaccine questions. Fran Drescher was present and asked her about spacing out vaccines:<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KlDdF-l4Iyg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KlDdF-l4Iyg&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Fran never got her answer, so no... the administration is not interested in opening up a discussion on spacing out vaccines. But it is curious that Ms. Sebelius claimed that vaccines are constantly being tested for efficacy and safety. Both individually and in combination.<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />Because there is no study into the four shots (seven vaccines) that my son received at 18 months when he regressed into autism. My understanding of the process is that they do test for efficacy, but not so much for safety, and very rarely to they test combinations of vaccines for either.<br /><br />And of course there is no study that looks of the safety of the complete schedule in any way. <br /><br />The vaccine studies that they actually do are small and don't follow kids for very long. I was horrified to learn that the safety study on the Hepatitis B vaccine that Chandler reacted to when he was a new born only followed children for THREE DAYS. <br /><br />And of course these tests almost never include a true placebo group. Merely one version of a vaccine compared to another version of a vaccine or adjuvant.<br /><br />Although it was good to hear it straight from the horses mouth that the vaccine schedule is what it is partly due to convenience. Gotta get as many shots in as many kids as possible when they are in the office! Brain damage be damned.<br /><br />I came across an interesting movie quote in the NYT today. From a piece on the International AIDS Conference:<br /><br /><blockquote>In a lovely ironic touch, the conference hall is only a few steps from the Ferris wheel in the Orson Welles film noir classic set in postwar Vienna, “The Third Man.” On it, a cynical dealer of counterfeit drugs tells his pursuer to look down at the people below and says: “Victims? Don’t be melodramatic.... Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?”</blockquote><br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8i47-QBL4Qo&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8i47-QBL4Qo&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />All that "constant testing" is not so much concerned with our particular little dots.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.adventuresinautism.com/images/firebaby.jpg"></center><br /><br />This is my little dot. His fevers, crying and constipation started three days after his first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine. I never could find a safety test that covered him.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-206582486769715742?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1975) "Over the course of the last year, Polly Tommy has proved her self, as I have previously mentioned, to have <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/01/down-with-bullies-in-britain.html">balls of steel</a>. When threatened with having her magazine shut down if she did not fall in line with Big Brother and stop talking about those brilliant vaccines (Vaccines Are Safe, Vaccines Save Lives ® ™ PharmaCo, Inc.), and that evil Andy Wakefield (who wants children do die from measles even though he recommended the measles vaccine???) like a good little subject of the queen, she refused. Instead she went public with their threats, moved her magazine to the colonies, where the huddled masses yearning to breathe free come, and free speech is beloved, and is now upping the ante by starting her own media channel.<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bW9CHb16bFc&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bW9CHb16bFc&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Polly has graciously offered me a show on the channel, and I am really tempted, but as I have also recently co-founded the Center for Personal Rights to advocate for informed consent and parental choice in vaccination, I think i am over my limit on commitment. However, I have decided to become a contributor and will be having pieces there from time to time when I am able.<br /><br />And Kudos to the Tommy's for standing up and for bridging the autism communities across The Pond.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-4706477715227540620?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(4723) "<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/mercury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/mercury.jpg" /></a></div>At the beginning of last years <strike>pharma fund raiser</strike> "pandemic", I wrote a <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/10/dangers-of-mercury-in-h1n1-vaccine.html">lengthy piece</a> reminding readers just how bad mercury really is to humans, and just how high the mercury content in the H1N1 flu shot was. These are the same vaccines that public heath officials keep referring to has having 'trace amounts' of mercury. I noted that they were so mercury toxic that they were classified as hazardous material and by law must be disposed of according to hazmat rules.<br /><br />Now on the other side of the disease that <strike>killed ninety thousand Americans</strike> was the <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html">mildest flu</a> in recorded history, more than $260 million dollars worth of vaccine, at least 40 million doses, are being disposed of accordingly. Being burnt in hazmat processing facilities with mercury scrubbers to keep this neurotoxin out of our environment.<br /><br />Which again begs the question.... When we work so hard to keep mercury out of our waterways, WHY ARE WE PUTTING THIS POISON INTO OUR BABIES ON PURPOSE!!!!! IT IS ACTUAL HAZARDOUS MATERIAL!!! IT KILLS BRAIN CELLS!!! IT CAUSES MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS!!!!<br /><br />Now I am going to be up all night worrying that the poor guy that has to burn all these vaccines is going to end up with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFkyPv1jtU">Minamata Disease</a>.<br /><br />From Occupational Health and Safety Magazine:<br /><br /><blockquote>Service Will Incinerate Unused H1N1 Vaccine<br /><a href="http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/07/23/service-will-incinerate-unused-h1n1-vaccine.aspx?admgarea=news">Jul 23, 2010</a><br /><br />Clean Harbors, based in Norwell, Mass., is offering the service to health care providers because multiple doses of the vaccine contain enough mercury-based Thimerosal to be treated as a hazardous waste.<br /><br />Clean Harbors of Norwell, Mass., now offers H1N1 Vaccination Incineration Services that will profile, collect, and dispose of unused 2009 H1N1 vaccine for health care customers nationwide. Multiple doses of the vaccine contain enough mercury-based Thimerosal to be treated by EPA as a hazardous waste and will be incinerated. Vaccine dated at the end of 2008 and early 2009 is now at the end of its shelf life and must be disposed, according to the company.<br /><br />The HHS declaration of a 2009 H1N1 Public Health Emergency expired on June 23.<br /><br />"We have seen many customers in various states looking for our H1N1 disposal capabilities," John C. Kelsey, the company's vice president, Healthcare Services, said in a July 22 e-mailed reply to questions about the service. "We wanted to announce it to the larger community as we are growing our customer count related to Healthcare Services. We have done a good amount of work in this area with vaccines through our hospital Pharmaceutical Waste programs."<br /><br />He said the cost varies but is "generally the same pricing as other materials requiring hazardous waste incineration. The vaccine doses are in inventory and will be shipped via DOT packages for proper disposal," Kelsey added. "We are seeing multiple truckloads per week of the vaccine now and cannot align total amounts but we do expect the need to occur from many locations as the normal pathway for outdated items."<br />OLFA North America<br /><br />Unused vaccine doses normally are returned through Reverse Distributors, but these have no value and thus must be disposed as a waste, he said, continuing, "It is good that PHER funds can be used to reimburse organizations for the disposal process."<br /><br />CDC mandates proper disposal of H1N1 vaccines and allows Public Health Emergency Response (PHER) funds to be available for the disposal. Health care providers interested in the service can call 888-304-7035, e-mail healthcareservices@cleanharbors.com, or visit www.cleanharbors.com/healthcare.</blockquote><br />There is a saying in our community....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Giving Mercury to Children on Purpose is Stupid</b></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-7212037199506544797?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(2942) "<blockquote>Treatment for Toxic Vaccine Exposure, from Russell Blaylock, M.D.<br /><br />The Following was composed by Dr. Russell Blaylock as a method to reduce autoimmune reactions to the flu vaccines only. Do not use this if you have the flu itself. These are just general observations and not medical advice. You should work with your doctor for a specific program.Treatment for Toxic Vaccine Exposure<br /><br />1. Place a cold compress on the site of the injection immediately after the injection and continue this as often as possible for at least two days. If symptoms of fever, irritability, fatigue or flu-like symptoms reoccur -- continue the cold compresses until they abate. A cold shower or bath will also help.<br /><br />2. Take fish oils -- I recommend the Norwegian fish oil made by Carlson Labs -- it has the correct balance of EPA and DHA to reduce the cytokine storm. The dose is one tablespoon a day -- if severe symptoms develop -- two tablespoons a day until well and then switch to one tablespoon a day. Children -- one teaspoon a day.<br /><br />3. Curcumin, quercetin, ferulic acid and ellagic acid as a mixture -- the first two must be mixed with extravirgin olive in one teaspoon. Take the mix three times a day (500 mg of each)<br /><br />4. Vitamin E (natural form) 400 IU a day (high in gamma-E)<br /><br />5. Vitamin C 1000 mg four times a day<br /><br />6. Astaxanthin 4 mg a day<br /><br />7. Zinc 20 mg a day for one week then 5 mg a day<br /><br />8. Avoid all immune stimulating supplements (mushroom extracts, whey protein) except beta-glucan -- it has been shown to reduce inflammation, microglial activation and has a reduced risk of aggravating autoimmunity, while increasing antiviral cellular immunity.<br /><br />9. Take a multivitamin/mineral daily (one without iron -- Extend Core)<br /><br />10. Magnesium citrate/malate 500 mg of elemental magnesium two capsules three times a day<br /><br />11. Vitamin D3:<br /><br />All Children -- 5000 IU a day for two weeks after vaccine then 2000 IU a day thereafter<br /><br />Adults -- 20,000 IU a day after vaccine for two weeks then 10,000 IU a day thereafter<br /><br />Take 500 mg to 1000 mg of calcium citrate a day for adults and 250 mg a day for children under age 12 years.<br /><br />12. Avoid all mercury-containing seafood<br /><br />13. Avoid omega-6 oils (corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, canola and peanut oils)<br /><br />14. Blenderize parsley and celery and drink 8 ounces twice a day<br /><br />15. Take Jatoba tea extract (add 20 drops in on cup of tea) one day before the vaccine and the twice a day thereafter. (you can get it at http://www.iherb.com/Amazon-Therapeutics-Jatoba-1-oz-30-ml/14429?at=0) It is inexpensive.<br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-2656400758385377513?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(986) "Made a film about the vaccine injured, including our community. It was made by the Film Board of Canada, but has not been released, and it is reported that the Canadian Prime Minister does not want it released.<br /><br />It was posted on You Tube last fall. I am not sure how I missed this until now.<br /><br />Shots in the Dark<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/0D3AB5A540B25E93&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/0D3AB5A540B25E93&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-1448971848055597009?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(1750) "Ding! Ding! Ding! America wins a prize!!!<br /><br />CDC wants your child to have 70 vaccines by the time they are 18 years old! <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>70!</b></span></div><br />...50 of those are before the age of 6, and 37 of those are before the age of 18 months.<br /><br />CDC is blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to vaccine injury and resistance to over vaccination.<br /><br />Today the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/vac-PCV13-hcp-faqs.htm">ACIP recommended</a> a 5th dose of the 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine for those kids who only received the 7 valent version, which is essentially every child alive because that was the only version given until this year.<br /><br />They are also recommending an <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/downloads/resolutions/0610influenza-508.pdf">additional</a> flu shot this fall for any child who did not get the H1N1 last year.<br /><br />I was a Navy brat, born in 1969, and the US Government vaccinated the hell out of me. I look at my shot record and it looks like they vaccinated me every time we moved. Just in case. (I got six polio shots!)<br /><br />Yet my grand total until age 18 was 29 doses of vaccine. And my babies "need' 70?<br /><br />Actually, come to think of it... how did I ever survive with less than half the vaccines that a child 'needs' today?! <br /><br />Has anyone ever calculated the costs of those 70 vaccines? I wonder how much each child is worth to pharma as a vaccine receptacle?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-3855449168912389772?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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string(5666) "We finally get a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study. No... no actual children yet, but infant rhesus macaque monkeys.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.monroegallery.com/showcase/images/HM_RhesusMonkey1.jpg"></center> <br /><br />And no wonder main stream medicine doesn't want vaccine studies with an actual baseline (completely unvaccinated), because the results are dramatic. <br /><br />The infant primates vaccinated according to the US vaccine schedule (equivalent to their size/development rate, pre 2002 shots WITH full doses of mercury) showed the same brain changes found in children with autism. 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Although these are only preliminary data, given the well-known role of the amygdala in generation of fear and other negative emotions, they support the possibility that there is a link between early immunization and the etiology of autism.</blockquote><br />Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted's discussion of the paper: <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/07/new-study-shows-vaccines-cause-brain-changes-found-in-autism.html">New Study Shows Vaccines Cause Brain Changes Found in Autism</a><br /><br />It should be noted that in the <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/04/american-academy-of-pediatrics-shows-up.html">spring of 2008</a>, The American Academy of Pediatrics was informed of this study. At the conclusion of the DAN conference in Cherry Hill, NJ in April of 2008, Dr. Jerry Kartzinel personally discussed it with Dr. Louis Cooper who was there representing the AAP. Cooper skirted the issue, acting as if he was concerned with the cost of the study, and Kartzinel replied that the study was fully funded and underway. Cooper was clearly not comfortable with the discussion of the study, and changed the subject. In their discussion of what Cooper had seen at the conference and how to proceed with some sort of partnership between ARI and AAP, Cooper had already stated to Kartzinel:<br /><blockquote>"I’m concerned about immunization policy and how you protect immunization."</blockquote><br />To my knowledge, AAP never got back to anyone on their input into, or involvement with, this primate study. Note that the study was not published by Pediatrics, where it belongs, as it is AAP's journal and AAP is Pharma's main vaccine distributor. I am sure they want this buried as deep as is possible.<br /><br />I am interested to see what AAP's public comment will be on this. 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string(6182) "The Combatting Autism Act of 2006 expires in 2011. <strike>Corporate fat cats</strike>, <strike>autism monopoly</strike>, <strike>charitable organization</strike>, 503c3 Corporation Autism Speaks, has already written a full bill and submitted a bill to Senator Dodd's office. <br /><br />What's that.... AS went ahead and put in a whole dang bill with out the input of the greater autism community? Shocked to the core am I.<br /><br />Once again, AS, while claiming to represent the autism universe, tiptoes behind the back of our community to write legislation that will dramatically impact your family and mine. Autism Speaks <strike>corporate shark</strike> Exec VP Peter Bell (former worldwide marketing manager of the Johnson & Johnson drug Risperdal, you know, that drug that gives our boys breasts) has brought those same wholesome, forthright values of pharma marketing to the world of autism. *<br /><br />I sent the following request to AS yesterday:<br /><br /><blockquote>Subject: Request for a copy of your Reauthorization of CAA bill<br />Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:57 -0400<br />From: Ginger Taylor <ginger@adventuresinautism.com><br />To: Peter Bell <pbell@autismspeaks.org>, Geri Dawson <gdawson@autismspeaks.org>, Mark Roithmayr <mroithmayr@autismspeaks.org><br /><br /><br />Peter, Mark and Geri,<br /><br />It is my understanding that Autism Speaks has drafted a CAA reauthorization bill and submitted it to Senator Dodd.<br /><br />Previously, despite claiming to be a big tent organization, Autism Speaks has used their position to circumvent the larger autism community in order to achieve their own agenda. I see this as yet another bad faith move to bypass autism families to get a new CAA that favors AS and its narrow goals.<br /><br />Will you release the current copy of the CAA bill that you are working on for Dodd? Will you be inviting other autism orgs like NAA, SafeMinds, Autism Action Network, ARI and TACA to offer input on this bill? Will random autism families or adults with autism be able to collaborate on this, or is the fate of hundreds of thousands of people effected by autism in the hands of three or four people at AS who are just about consolidating their power and protecting their unjustifiably large salaries?<br /><br />AS is charitable org that raises millions of dollars by claiming to represent the autism community. As such, I believe it is incumbent upon you to be transparent in your CAA dealings and release this draft to the autism community (as it will effect ALL of the autism community). Any refusal to share the bill that AS has already submitted to Dodd should be viewed as highly suspect at best.<br /><br />If you choose not to release this immediately, then please provide a reason for the back door negotiations being kept secret from those whom you claim to be serving. I plan to write a piece either way on Monday afternoon.<br /><br />Additionally... please forward me a copy of your 2009 990 as it is not listed on Guidestar and I don't see a copy of it on your web site.</blockquote><br />No response.<br /><br />I can only imagine that it has the very best interests of those with autism in mind, even thought the bill they just pushed through in NY, to the loud opposition of others in the autism community, and to the cheers of the insurance industry, is already hurting our kids. John Gilmore of Autism Action Network made this comment on their recent NY activities:<br /><br /><blockquote>"In NY Autism Speaks turned a new corner, in that they are now backing legislation that will take away what little health care coverage we have and effectively slam the door shut to access in the future. We have already received a report from a parent in Westchester county who was told by his insurance company that because of the new law (the Governor hasn't even signed it yet) payments for speech and OT will be discontinued. This is exactly what we said would happen."</blockquote><br /><br />Does AS work for people with autism, or are they a front for insurance groups and pharma? Did AS actually write the text or were the insurance or pharma lobby party to its creation? Does it include vaccine research? I think we all know the answer to that last question.<br /><br />I encourage you to call whatever autism group you belong to, large or small, and ask them what the plan is for getting a good bill to the floor.<br /><br />I would also encourage you to stop giving $$ to Autism Speaks. They are starting to seem to me more like those charities portrayed in the American classic, "Death to Smoochy", rather than one that actually improves the lives of the people whose faces adorn their fund raising posters, and whose difficult stories make them so many millions.<br /><br />And if you are in NY, you might wanna call the governors office and ask him not to sign AS's anti child, pro-insurance company "autism" bill.<br /><br />With that I will re run this little ditty that someone put together from their 2008 tax form about where their millions go.<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6S-9yQrsras&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6S-9yQrsras&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />*Update:<br /><br />I am told that Peter never worked on risperdal, but that he worked on analgesics like tylenol and motrin. Which of course is much bigger problem as Tylenol is believed to be a player in autism causation as it impairs liver function... the liver function that might be needed by a baby who has just been vaccinated with aluminum or mercury containing vaccines to process said chemicals out of the body before they can cause neurological or immune disorders.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7771487-2920758975369440902?l=adventuresinautism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"
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